Yahweh Good Allah Bad

1. Something else bothered Orlich. Yee mentioned he had studied in Damascus. Orlich wondered about a man who would go to Syria — a state sponsor of terrorism — to find God.

What do you do after  you help destroy a man’s military career and then help create a system of prisoner abuse that is then used against hundreds of prisoners?  I mean that’s a pretty good track record right there. What would you do for an encore? (See here for a complete expose. Also, take a look here and here and here and see Orlich suck up to Steve Emerson here.)

Why not put together a huge bullshit-filled KKK-like anti-Muslim briefing up on the internet? Oh, and make sure to put your name and military rank on it so that the whole world will know, as I demonstrated last week in my most recent post, that the US government is rife with anti-Muslim bigots. (Go here for the downloadable power point presentation and go here to see it in html format.)

You can read about this guy’s antics in the links below, but for your amusement, I have also drawn a few quotes from the relevant articles:

Of course the quality of language work at Guantamo was always superb as we can see from this article on how totally fucked up the government’s case was:

Another accusation, that he distributed radical literature to the detainees, was based on an erroneous translation of an Islamic symbol in Ottoman-style calligraphy.

Later on in the same expose of government malfeasance we read of more great language work being done:

Airman Al Halabi’s lawyers also made a charge of misconduct after a government translator contacted them to say that one of the prosecutors, Capt. Dennis Kaw, had discouraged her from alerting the court when she found a mistake in her translation of the Syrian government’s letter. Captain Kaw had insisted, rather improbably, that the Syrian government had given Airman Al Halabi permission in the letter to travel not only to Syria but also to Qatar; instead, the relevant word meant ”the homeland.”

And read this:

As recently as a week ago, reports suggested that at least 17 prisoners at Guantánamo Bay have been subjected to the program. But Maj. Jason Orlich, a creator of Guantánamo Bay’s “incentives” program that uses long-term sleep deprivation as a punishment for those who misbehave or fail to cooperate, testified that nearly all of the 350 to 400 prisoners held in two Guantánamo Bay prison camps were subject to the program, which entails waking the prisoners, shackling them, and moving them to a different cell along with all their belongings. Maj. Orlich was reluctant to specify the frequency of the moves, but testified that three-hour intervals “would not be abnormal.”

Maj. Orlich also revealed that the Frequent Flyer Program was Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), although it did not appear in writing in the SOPs of that time—begging the question of what other detainee treatment policies were omitted from the written records. According to Maj. Orlich, Guantánamo Bay leadership was aware that the Frequent Flyer Program was in use, and the program was a routine included in what the military calls its “daily synchronization matrix.” Maj. Orlich also said that the Frequent Flyer Program was ongoing at the time of his departure from Guantánamo Bay in April 2005, and he had never heard of any order to stop the program. This is despite previous government claims that the program had been discontinued in March 2004.

And here are some excerpts from the extremely bigoted and ignorant slide show this guy has put up on the web apparently subsequent to his tour in Guantanomo.  I wonder if he gives this briefing to other people in the military and the US government.  On the first slide of his presentation he mentions his PACOM affiliation. Maybe you all investigative journalists out there could ask PACOM if this means that they endorse his presentation.

You know it’s gonna be good when it starts off with a quote from the fraud Walid Shoebat which I will spare you. Note to Shas Party members: the  headlines in bold are mine, not from the presentation by Maj. Jason Orlich – though I can understand why people could get that confused. The quotes from the slide show are in italics.

Also, the author of the presentation states:

This  brief is based upon Extensive Research, Islamic texts, history, and lessons learned at JTF GTMO

So let’s take a look at some of the fruits of this extensive foray into Islamic texts.

Yahweh be good, Allah be bad:

Yahweh = Allah

* Yahweh is a loving Father, who, along with the Son and the Holy Spirit, is One God.

* To Muslims, the concept of a triune God is a blasphemy.

“They do blaspheme who say God is one of three…,for there is no God except one God.” Surah 5:73

.  .  .

God.” Surah 8:30 * Allah of Islam is frightening.

“It is God whom ye should more justly fear, if you believe.” Surah 9:13

Muslims are Moonies:

2 Different Spiritual Worlds

Yahweh and Allah

* Before Islam came into existence, the Sabbeans in Arabia worshipped the moon-god Allah who was married to the sun-goddess.

* Common practice to use the name of the moon-god in personal names in Muhammad’s tribe.

* Allah was a pagan deity in pre-Islamic times.

* An Allah idol was set up at the Kabah along with all the other idols of the time.

* The pagans prayed towards Mecca and the Kabah because that is where their gods were stationed.

* The idol of their moon god, Allah, was at Mecca, they prayed towards Mecca.

* The worship of the moon-god extended far beyond Allah-worship in Arabia. The entire fertile crescent was involved in moon-worship.

* The early success Islam had amongst Arab groups that had traditionally worshipped Allah, the moon-god.

* The use of the crescent moon as the symbol of Islam, and which appears on dozens of flags of Islamic nations in Asia and Africa, and surmounts minerets and mosque roofs, is a throwback to the days when Allah was worshipped as the moon-god in Mecca.

Moohammad he a bad man and Khadijah, she be a bad girl getting her daddy drunk and all.

Genesis of the Islamic Faith

570 C.E. Muhammad born in Mecca

– Both parents died before Muhammad was 6

Abandoned by Mother, Amina, and passed around, rejected and possibly abused by 2 men (Ishaq 71, 72)

– Muhammad was raised by his Grandfather Abd al-Muttalib who almost

Sacrificed Muhammad’s Father Abd-Allah in the Ka’aba while praying to Allah and

Practicing divination. (Tab VI 2,5)

– He also liked to constantly stroke/pet Muhammad. After his Grandfather’s death, his Uncle Abu Talib raised him. (Ishaq 73)

-Muhammad became a trade agent for a rich female merchant named Khadijah who was 40 years old.

Khadijah who was 15 years his senior invited Muhammad and his uncles to her home. She got her father so drunk that he married them. Her Father later regretted marrying them. His sons, Al-Qasim, Al-Tayyib and Al-Tahir died in infancy; He had Fatima (wife of Ali) and 2 other daughters. (Tab VI 49)

Mongol invaders good, resistance to them very very bad and Ibn Taymiyya is a hadith.

Ibn  Taymiya and NO TOLERANCE

PRINCIPLE:   MUSLIMS SHOULD RESIST,  FIGHT AND OVERTURN ANY  ISLAMIC GOVERNMENT THAT  DOESN’T GOVERN THE  LAND ACCORDING TO THE  ISLAMIC LAW ONLY!

PRINCIPLE:   MUSLIMS SHOULD ENFORCE  JIHAD ON ANYBODY WHOSE  BELIEFS DIFFER FROM  ISLAM, ESPECIALLY JEWS  AND CHRISTIANS.

1263 A.D. – Born  in Syrian town of Haran

Fought Mongolian invaders  of Syria  (1299-1303) and taught that Mongolians

were not true Muslims and that fellow  countrymen should not submit to their  authority.

Declared that anyone who  submitted to Mongolians, helped them or  dealt with
them was an infidel.

Taymiya acted as if he were a military leader, declaring the Muslims to be
infidels and attacking them.

Taymiya established the mind-set of NO TOLERANCE and refinforced principles that were practiced centuries earlier in the times of Muhammad.

REMEMBER: Today’s terrorism is a result of this mindset and Taymiya is one of most widely read Hadiths.

2. Yes, it’s already video time. Now the first video below is one that I found on Rick B’s site http://ww3zionism.blogspot.com/ Check his site out.

And no doubt many of you have seen it. But I’m linking to it because:

A. It is very well done. I take my hat off to the people at the Onion. They are superb.

B. Listen to the little girl’s Arabic at near the end of the video. Shows you what happens when David  Gaubatz types are teaching people Arabic.

C. It is short, so Shas Party and Tea Party members can follow it.

And now for some serious study of the gifts that Yahweh er, Allah, has bestowed upon us. Kind of makes you all want to shout out in unison الحمد لله doesn’t it?

As we all know from Peter King’s (Asshole, New York) inquisition, Shakira law made it to Nashville. Maybe that’s not so bad after all.

نشكر الله

“Manufacturing the Muslim Menace”

1. Today I just want to do a couple of things quickly.  First of all, Skulz Fontaine has been sending me some great stuff and I’ve been a bit remiss in not sharing some of these with you.  I like this one.

But of course the land theft continues, as does the killing – killing Palestinians being the Israeli national pass time.  Plus it just seems that attacking, harrasing and shooting at Palestinians is as Israeli as assaulting the USS Liberty.

2. But I want to address something else as the main topic today. What some people like to call Islamophobia – I call it what it is – Anti-Muslim Bigotry – in the United States is getting out of hand. Our country is sick and we need to understand the source of this sickness and do something about it.  One good place for you to go as you begin searching for the source is an article I’ve linked to before by Max Blumenthal. It is here. And  here’s another real interesting one.    And you should read all about David Horowitz – who pays Robert Spencer something like 132k a year to write his bullshit.  I strongly recommend you go to Loonwatch and do a search on David Horowitz.  Oh hell, I’ll do it for you.

And this brings me to:

3. But I also want to draw you attention to something else. Islamphobia is being actively supported by local, state and federal governments and law enforcement. Anti-Muslim hatemongers routinely train local, state and federal officials to hate Islam and Muslims and it looks like they get good money for it. I tell you, I am in the wrong business, but I digress.

It is very possible that these hate mongers have trained people in your community and your state and for sure some of them have been saying some real interesting bullshit to people in the federal government. I mean real wackos like Nonie Darwish and Walid Phares and Steve Coughlin.

I can hear you know, “Okay, Mantiq, prove this. How come you haven’t provided one single link under this topic whereas you are always linking everything to everything else and we can’t even finish your goddamn posts because we are running of all over hell’s half acre reading your links?

Never, fear. Your link is here. It is to a new 80-page study of this phenomenon done by Thomas Cincotta of Political Research Associates. It is entitled:

Manufacturing the Muslim Menace: Private Firms, Public Servants and the Threat to Rights and Security. It’s a nice PDF file and you can download the whole thing for free.

Here is an excerpt from the preface to the report about how effectively your public officials are being trained:

“Kill them, including the children.”

That’s how to solve the threat of violent militant Muslims?

The above quote is from what one official involved in homeland security said was how she understood the underlying theme of a speech by Walid Shoebat at an anti-terrorism training in Las Vegas in October 2010. Our investigator had turned around after Shoebat’s speech and asked the woman seated one row back what she thought was the solution offered by Shoebat.

The report focuses on three private training outfits and the loons who work for them.  They are:

A. the International Counter-Terrorism Officers Association (ICTOA)
B. Security Solutions International, LLC (SSI)
C. The Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies (CI Centre)

I like how the CI Centre (where Walid Phares plies his trade) spells centre the British way. Makes them look cool.

And the report has a section on each of the following people who work for one of the three firms mentioned above:

Mark A. Gabriel – ICTOA guest speaker
David Gaubatz – SSI guest speaker
Walid Phares – CI Centre Faculty
Clare M. Lopez – CI Centre Faculty
Tawfik Hamid – CI Centre Faculty
Stephen Coughlin – CI Centre Faculty
Nonie Darwish – CI Centre Faculty
Detective Ebrahim Ashabi – SSI Expert
Walid Shoebat – ICTOA Guest Speaker

This report is a must read and it is free. Send it to your congressmen and your state representatives and demand that your state, local and federal governments stop funding these modern-day equivalents of the Ku Klux Klan.

4. There are five million decoy Muslims in the US. They are here to trick you and then to kill you.

(I bet Shas Party members won’t get this.)

5. Shakira law spreads to MUST (Missouri University for Science and Technology)

NPR, O’Keefe and the Mooselims

1. One of our mottos here at Mantiq al-Tayr is “So many traitors, so little time” and so it has been difficult to be away from posting for the past couple of weeks. Thanks to those of you who inquired if I was okay –  I am. But sometimes what’s going on is just so depressing that it just seems like doing this is not worth it.  In order to make doing today’s post more fun for me, I’m going to do a few things differently.  Now I can hear you screaming in horror “Mantiq, you aren’t going to stop posting cool music videos with not so subtle  messages about what traitors our three branches of government are filled with are you? And you’re still going to post videos about stupid cats, right? Uh, and oh, an occasional Haife Wehbe video will still be possible, please, please.”

Don’t worry goys and girls, those things won’t be going away.

But today I thought I’d just post about totally random stuff I came across while researching stuff for future posts . Just random stuff not connected to anything.

2. Before I get started, I wanted to tell you about a dream I had. I dreamt that Michael Collins Piper and Willis Carto put on yarmulkes and set up a meeting with the folks over at National Public Radio. They sat down with one of their fundraisers who seemed to be Jewish, I think his last name was something like Stadtmiller,  and said they would like to give a large donation to NPR but that they needed to remain anonymous because their organization, Jews In Solidarity With Jonathan Pollard  (JISWJP), was really a front group for the Gush Emunim and the Jewish Defense League.  They got in good with this guy laughing and joking about what morons most Americans are and how easy it is to fool them and to get them to believe bullshit like the greatest threat to the United States is from Muslims in the USA who have taken over the major banks and all of the Seven Elevens.  Anyway, they wanted to give what they called National Pharisee Radio (they all laughed when Piper said this) lots of money but they needed it hidden from the IRS because the JDL is considered to be a terrorist organization by the Arab-owned media. The NPR guy said he’d look into it, but that it looked perfectly kosher to him since anonymous people donate to NPR all the time.  Suddenly I woke up to my alarm clock playing the theme music for All Things Considered.

3. Senator John McCain (Likud, Arizona) has bravely come out calling for the release of convicted spy and Wolf Blitzer favorite Jonathan Pollard.  McCain did so in a telephone conversation with his boss, Benjamin Netanyahu.

“The Free Pollard campaign said McCain’s about-face regarding Pollard is more proof that Netanyahu was right in publicly calling for Pollard’s freedom. Activists said, “We hope to strengthen the Prime Minister, so he will be a faithful representative of the people of Israel and seekers of justice worldwide, and will continue to do whatever he can until Pollard is set free.”

Who could argue with that? Certainly not Henry Kissinger who also supports Pollard’s release.  And Kissinger is a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, something that gives him great credibility.  More importantly, the guy who is going to beat Obama’s ass in the next election for the office of Israeli Vice President for American Affairs (IVPAA) , Mike Huckabee, strongly supports Pollard’s release:

“He has served an extraordinary length of time… it would seem now to be a matter of goodwill and a good faith gesture…for the president to release him. [Freeing Pollard] would send the right message to the rest of the world that America is not pulling back on its friendship and relationship with Israel but it is accelerating it and making sure that we are taking every step possible to solidify those bonds.”

After all, as the future IVPAA, Huckabee knows “Right now we don’t need anything that reflects that we are anything but an absolute ally of Israel.”

See Huckabee choke over his own words:

4. So,  here’s the future of Jordan. You heard it here first. Take a gander at this. Click on the pic to be able to read the words.

You can sign the petition yourself. The guy who wrote the petition, Aryeh Eldad,  is the son of an Israeli terrorist, so no doubt this petition probably reflects exactly what people like Eric Cantor and the National Jewish Democratic Council actually think.

Daddy Eldad, born Israel Schrieb, was a leader of the Stern Gang and one of the troika of its leaders that approved the murder of Count Folke  Bernadotte.

Aryeh Eldad lives in an illegal Israeli settlement on the West Bank called Kfar Adunim. He’s belongs to the most right wing political grouping in Israel, the National Union, which is fitting since his father gave the approval for the Lehi terrorists (the Stern gang) to murder Swiss diplomat Count Folke Bernadotte.   Yup, this son of a murderer is in the Israeli Knesset. Man, I bet Pantano must be thinking who it is that he has to kill to get elected to the American Knesset, but I digress.  Anyway, Aryeh, the great humanitarian that he is, proposed back in 2008 that all the Arabs of the town of al-Khalil, known to most of y’all goys and girls as Hebron, that all the Arab residents of that town be removed in order to protect the small group of Jewish crazies who occupy a portion of the town.  Sounds like the kind of a guy an American politician can support.  At least he is consistent, Jordan is Palestine and the Arabs of al-Khalil, who are well of 150 thousand in number, need to leave their homes to satisfy a few hundred crazy Jews, probably half of whom are from New York.

He did not enjoy having an Arab make an ass out of him in the Knesset back in 2008 either. Tough shit.

Raleb Majdele, the first Arab to be minister in the democratic state of Israel, really pissed off Aryeh in 2008 when he said:

“I will say my opinion. Before I am a government minister I am first and foremost a person and a citizen and a Muslim. With all due respect for the law, the law was meant to respect the religion, the person and the citizen and protect him, and not the other way around, enslave him,” he explained. “Therefore I say clearly: Al-Aksa, Al-Haram al-Sharif [as the Temple Mount is called by Muslims – ed.], cannot be under the authority of Israeli law.”

I love it. Also, on his wiki page is this cool quote, and yes I know I am digressing. But I digress.

“I fail to understand how an enlightened, sane Jew allows himself to ask a Muslim person with a different language and culture, to sing an anthem that was written for Jews only,” in reference to Hatikvah, the Israeli national anthem.

Needless to say, the loonies over at Jihad Watch hate Majadele, love Aryeh, and love even more Aryeh’s terrorist murderer father and all in one fell swoop.

Some of you might remember Aryeh’s call for the assassination of Ahmedinejad last fall.

Since he is a far right fanatical nutjob, racist, and professional hater, he’d fit right in with the US Senate and House, especially with the extremely dangerous fanatical Zionist slave republicans you goys and girls so stupidly elected this past year. What the fuck were you thinking? But I digress.

So of course it is no surprise to find that Eldad really really liked (now) convicted criminal Tom Delay, whose dealings with Jack Abramoff also involved Israel. (I am sure you are shocked.) Anyway, Delay went to Israel and you will love this quote from Wiki:

“On a 2003 trip to Israel, DeLay toured the nation and addressed members of the Knesset. His opposition to land concessions is so strong that Aryeh Eldad, the deputy of Israel’s conservative National Union party, remarked, “As I shook his hand, I told Tom DeLay that until I heard him speak, I thought I was farthest to the right in the Knesset.”^[80] Former Mossad chief Danny Yatom said “The Likud is nothing compared to this guy.”^[81]”

I think Peter King (asshole, New York), should call in Aryeh as a witness for King’s personal witch hunt against Muslims. The two have a lot in common.

There is one good thing about Aryeh though, he does NOT support calling for the release of Jonathan Pollard. Here’s why according to Pollard’s own website which is run by his second wife.

“For example, one reliable source reported to us not long ago that Eldad had ‘explained’ to him that nothing can be done to help Jonathan Pollard because it would blow the cover of another spy which Israel is currently running in Washington! Our source, a senior IDF officer (ret.) was infuriated by this fabrication. He blasted Eldad, declaring that he was restraining himself with difficulty, because Eldad richly deserved to be slapped across the face for telling such bald-faced lies to undermine support for an Israeli agent in captivity!”

Who says he’s lying? Sounds pretty credible to me. If there’s one, there’s got to be more. Oh, wait, there are more. Google it.

5. Speaking of criminals and assholes such as Delay and King, let’s talk about another couple of criminals and assholes, James O’keefe and Stan Dai. I am sure all of you remember that O’keefe is on probation for three years for screwing around with the telephones of Sen. Mary Landrieu in her New Orleans office. He, Dai and the other two blowhards involved in this thing also pled guilty and received 2 years probation.  But I guess when you are on probation, you can still be an anti-Muslim bigot. I mean, what would life be like if could not make fun of Muslims?

So O’keefe creates a fake Muslim website in the name of a fake organization. He puts just enough dumb shit on it to attract the attention of idiots like the people here who thought it was real and used it as the excuse du jour to do some good old Muslim bashing.  The fake site is still up, so now doubt more and more idiots and future Shas Party members will find it and blog about how Islam is a threat and wants to kill your grandmother and her cat.

And then O’keefe uses the site to go after a bunch of clueless morons at NPR.  My take on the rather hilarious NPR snafu is a bit different than most folks – which is of course why people read Mantiq al-Tayr.  Before I go into that take however, I want to make one thing perfectly clear:

Fuck NPR. They are an over-rated Zionist-filled bullshitting outfit that isn’t even remotely as good as the CBC – another over-rated Zionist-filled bullshitting outfit. They can take Linda Gradstein and Cookie Roberts and stick them on the Mavi Marmara dressed as Fedayeen for all I care. Hmmm, that might be a good idea, but I digress.

In fact, I’ll digress some more:

“While working in Guatemala, Sister Dianna Ortiz, a Catholic nun from New Mexico, was raped and tortured by members of a death squad until a US supervisor recognized that she was from the US.^[14] Although there was no doubt of Ortiz’s torture and ample evidence to corroborate her claims of an American supervisor, Roberts insisted that Ortiz was lying in a 1996 interview with Ortiz on the TV show “Nightline.” Roberts’ brother, Tom Boggs, working for the law firm of “Patton, Boggs, & Blow,” was paid by the Guatemalan military to promote a more positive image of the death squads and the military dictatorship in Guatemala.^[15]

So why believe anything this person has to say? Not to mention this shit, here, here, and here.

And then there is Linda Gradstein who is married to an Israeli sniper and takes lots of money from pro- Israeli organizations.  So screw NPR.

Anyway, back to my take on this.

Ultimately it is all a charade. What we have going on in the US, or what’s left of the US, is that the far right is nothing but a bunch of rich Zionist Jews and Christians who are destroying our country in the service of their own greed and in the service of Israel and the so-called left is a bunch of rich Jews and Christians most of whom are also slavishly devoted to Israel.  The two sides screw around with each other and we call this democracy.

So, Ronald Schiller, an NPR fund raising guy allows himself to get caught out agreeing to some things that most of us would say are correct. The Tea Party really is a bunch of morons and racists, the Republicans are nuts, and guess who really does own the media? It ain’t the Muslim Brotherhood.  But why would he meet with a “front” for the MB and talk about taking tons of money from it? Well, it may just be that Schiller, whose last name is not Irish, might not have been fairly portrayed.  This investigation questions the context in which he said some of the things he said.  But I think what got  him fired was not making fun of the Tea Party or the Republicans, but most likely the comment he made about ownership of the media.  BTW, he by and large did not react much when his lunch guests tried to get him to say bad stuff about Jews and Jewish ownership of the media. He pretty much played that down, but even a little acknowledgement of the truth is too much for the ADL.  So he’s gone.

But more importantly, NPR, if it survives this mess, and it will, unfortunately, will not change much even after losing two Schillers and a Weiss (that one goes back to the Juan Williams debacle). Oh, yes, NPR lost two Schillers. The head of NPR, Vivian Schiller, a Jew and the third Jew in a row to be the head of NPR had to resign as well.  But no doubt more of the same will replace them irrespective of ethnicity.

In fact, in this very good piece on the incident, Phil Weiss notes:

“My interpretation is this: NPR really does represent the blue state elite, that’s its highly-educated base, as Schiller states so frankly. So when Schiller trashes rural people or uneducated people or Christian rightwingers or Tea Party folks as racists, he’s merely representing his base, which shares those attitudes. Similarly, when he refuses to take the bait on Jews, but makes sophisticated observations, like that highly-educated Jews are disenchanted with Israel, he is again representing his base. As for his statement that Jews who own newspapers are supporting Israel, this is almost an objective observation. I bet NPR’s listenership has a high percentage of Jews, just as its reporting staff is strongly-Jewish, and so these are people Schiller knows and respects, unlike the poor shlub in Wyoming; and so he doesn’t sell them out.”

So it’s the right wing elites pissing on the left wing elites and everyone continues to watch basketball or whatever.

And no one cares that the real victims of this are the Muslims who have been used in this setup at a time when witch hunts are going on and the entire country is turning insane.  The Muslims are the victims.

And you need no further of proof of this than the fact that the ADL has demanded an apology from Ron Schiller for saying that the Jews own the media. Not a word about using the Muslims as their tool.

Okay, it’s video time.

First in honor of Peter King (Asshole, New York), we bring this favorite from the recent past.  It’s so short that both Tea and Shas Party members can follow it.

This one is also for King and his committee.

He used to be banned in Tunisia.

“All  the birds that followed the palm of my hand . . .

All the peoples’ hearts are my nationality.

So snatch my passport from me”

(English and Arabic lyrics at the youtube site for the video)

For Ali Hasan al-Jaber

Ali al-Jaber

The Angry Arab reports that Marcel Khalifa’s song “Ya Ali” was played at this man’s funeral.

BENGHAZI, Libya — An Al-Jazeera cameraman was killed in an ambush near the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Saturday, the first journalist slain in the nearly month-long conflict, the satellite station said.

Ali Hassan al-Jaber, a Qatari national, was killed and a correspondent was wounded and hospitalized in what the station described as an ambush on the crew as it returned from an assignment south of the rebel stronghold, which is deep inside opposition-held territory.

آمين