"Lions Atlas" defeats Nigeria and crowns champions of Africa












The Moroccan national team won the fifth edition of the African Cup for local players in Morocco after defeating Nigeria's Eagles 4-0 in the final match at the Mohamed V stadium in Casablanca.

The match began with the pressure of the Moroccan team to the net of the Nigerian team, lost Walid Karti, the first opportunity to score in the third minute after a pass from the wing Zakaria Hadraaf, after which the assistant referee rejected the second goal in the seventh minute goal from the top scorer Ayoub al-Kaabi, The 15th minute threatened the Nigerians with an excellent tackle that hit the crossbar to keep them from reaching their ninth goal of the tournament.

Gamal Al Salami's pressure on goalkeeper Ajiboye continued in search of the goal of progress, and Ismail Al Haddad's team continued to try, while the Nigerian players were able to fortify the back line and abort the "Atlas Lions" movements while relying on the attackers.

Morocco's right-winger Mohamed Al-Nuhairi lost another shot in the 35th minute, while the Nigerian team threatened the goal of Moroccan goalkeeper Zineti more than once, before Zakaria Hadraaf succeeded in scoring A coordinated attack in the last minute of the first half.

With the start of the second half of the standoff, Nigeria's left defender Moises fell into the net after being blocked by defender Mohamed Nuhiri and his second warning and thus the dismissal in the 48th minute, completing the remaining minutes with a numerical deficit that enabled Moroccan players to extend their control of the second round .

Walid Al-Karti boosted the score for the Moroccan team by scoring the second goal in the 61st minute after Al-Qaim blocked a great goal from Ayoub Al-Kaabi before Zakaria Hadraf returned three minutes later to score the third goal. Result of confrontation.

The Moroccan players then lost many chances to the Nigerian goal, while the Eagles could not reach goalkeeper Anas Zeniti, who remained in the rest of the minutes of the second half, while scoring goals Ayoub Al Kaabi, the fourth goal in the 73rd minute after the blocker On two occasions, to achieve his ninth goal in the competition.

The last minutes of the game did not come to any new, as the friends of the leader Badr Bannon mastered the passing of the ball with the total retreat of the Nigerian team, which continued the game with broken morale, before the Gambian referee Bakari Gassama declared the match with a landslide victory for the Moroccan team, Africa for local players, as the third Arab team crowned the title after Tunisia and Libya.

The occupation army recruits women after the drop in male birth rates













An Israeli report showed that the decline in birth rates in Israel led to a reduction in the number of males who could serve in combat units, forcing the army to expand recruitment of women.

According to the report, which was prepared by commentator Amnon Lord, published by the newspaper "Israel Hume" on Saturday, the decline in birth rates since the nineties of the last century pushed the army to increase its efforts also to persuade elements of the religious movement, "Heredi" and non-Jews to volunteer in the army.

Despite the rabbis' objections to women enlisting in the army, especially in the combat units, there has been a significant increase in the number of religious girls who volunteer for military service.

The compulsory service of women choosing to serve in combat units was 32 months, such as men, while women serving in non-combat units served for 24 months.

"The shortage of male recruits has increased the importance of volunteering for women and Haredim," Lourd quoted a senior source in the army's manpower division as saying, adding that the army would increase the motivation of non-Jews to serve in the army.


He said the army's plan was to double the number of women, Haredim and non-Jews in the army within five years.

An investigation by Israel Hume recently revealed that the occupation army had to recruit more women to serve in its combat units, in response to a decline in motivation among young people to serve in these units.

According to an investigation by military commentator Yoav Limor, the recruitment cycle for the months of July-August 2017 showed that Israeli youth no longer wish to be involved in combat units, indicating that new recruits prefer to serve in units with a lower level of risk, Such as: "Air Defense Units, Home Front Command, Border Guard."

The investigation also revealed a decline in motivation to serve in elite brigades, which comprise the infantry force - Golani, Givati ​​and Nahal. He stressed that everywhere in the air defense systems, nine recruits are competing. They want to serve in the field of anti-missile missile systems, such as: "Gates, David's slingshot, iron dome, border guards and the Home Front Command."

The investigation also indicated that the motivation to volunteer in the armored corps is worse, stressing that the new recruits do not seem willing to volunteer in service in this weapon, forcing the army to force them to serve there.

According to the investigation, women constitute 35 per cent of the volunteers in the Border Guard, while 50 per cent of the total number of soldiers in the air defense systems are women.

The investigation pointed out that the Army Staff had developed a strategic plan to promote motivation among young people to volunteer in combat units and brigades, especially elite brigades in infantry, noting that it was decided that the Ministry of Education should play a role in providing programs that explain to youth the importance of engaging in combat units.

According to the new plan, it was decided to send brigade commanders and battalions to schools to lecture to students to urge them to choose combat units.

The plan takes into account the possibility of the use of senior writers and commentators as well as people who have significant follow-up on social networking sites to engage them in the campaign to promote motivation to serve in combat units.

The investigation revealed that the army leadership is considering the possibility of granting financial and moral inducements to new recruits to persuade them to join combat units.

Increasing arms deals between Israel and Abu Dhabi ... and a private plane carrying the occupation generals of the emirate












The Israeli newspaper "Maariv" revealed that the rise in the pace of military relations between Israel and Abu Dhabi. In a report published on Saturday, Yossi Melman, an intelligence commentator in the newspaper, said that both Israeli companies Elbit and Aeronetics, which specialize in the production of unmanned aerial vehicles, are currently in contact with Abu Dhabi to supply them with drones.

The report noted that Israeli businessman Avi Laiomi, who holds most of the shares of Aeronetics, has become the most influential Israeli businessman in Abu Dhabi, but that other Israeli businessman Shahar Kruvets and his Jewish partner Roland Linde also contribute to Abu Dhabi Equipment and weapons.

Milman, who quoted information from the French defense magazine AntiglesOnline, said that both Avi Laumi and Sahar Kruvets now occupy the position of Israeli businessman Matti Kokhavi, who has previously played a key role in devising and developing the security and military relationship between Abu Dhabi And Israel.

He pointed out that the special relationship between Kokhafi and the leaders of Abu Dhabi enabled his company to contract to provide the emirate with defense systems to protect its oil fields. Melman said that Kokhafi was transporting former military leaders working with him as advisers to Abu Dhabi in a private jet, pointing out that the plane was heading first to Cyprus and from there to the emirate.



General Eitan Ben Eliahu, the former commander of the air force in the occupation army, personally took a leading role in helping Kokhafi in carrying out deals between his company and Abu Dhabi. Ben Eliahu was the commander of the air force during the "Grapes of Wrath" campaign launched by the occupation army against Lebanon in 1996, a campaign that killed hundreds of Lebanese.

In the same vein, Milman said that engineers from Elbit, an Israeli firm specializing in military technology, helped Abu Dhabi to produce the B 250 aircraft, noting that the UAE had already supplied the aircraft to both the Egyptian President's regime, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Retired, Khalifa Hafter.

 According to the newspaper, Israeli engineers worked alongside engineers from South Korea, Brazil and South Africa in the aircraft industry, which was overseen by Caledus, a company owned by the UAE government.

According to Milman, Saudi Arabia has financed a deal to supply four aircraft for intelligence and warning purposes to Morocco, noting that Israel's Air Defense Company Rafael will be involved in the production of these aircraft, together with Gulfstream Aerosmith.

He pointed out that Rafael, which produces the system of defensive "slingshot" of David, will contribute to the supply of aircraft with special defense systems. Milman said Elta Israel Advanced Technologies will also supply the four aircraft with intelligence gathering equipment, eavesdropping devices, electromagnetic systems and electronic warfare devices.

Milman noted that Saudi Arabia financed the deal as a reward for Morocco for its participation in the war against the Huthis in Yemen. Melman recalled the fact that strong secret relations have been linked to Israel and Morocco since the sixties of the last century, pointing out that Israel supplied Morocco with arms, especially from the surplus equipment of the army, he said.


Milman pointed out that Israeli companies have criticized the Israeli Ministry of War because it grants certain companies the permissions to supply Arab countries with arms and equipment, pointing out that there are doubts that the Department of Arms Export Department in the Ministry prefer a few companies on an objective basis.

The Israeli media recently launched a major attack on the military monitoring apparatus, which requires the Israeli media not to be exposed to security relations between Israel and the Arab countries, especially in terms of arms sales.

 The Maariv newspaper reported recently that while military censorship imposed a blackout on arms deals between Israel and Abu Dhabi, businessman Kokhavi boasted during a seminar in Singapore that he and a team of senior security and military leaders mediated Completion of arms deals with Abu Dhabi.

The newspaper ridiculed military censorship, which justified the denial of disclosure of relations with Abu Dhabi, claiming that allowing disclosure of these relations could pose a threat to the lives of Israeli military leaders heading to the emirate, asking for a response to the oversight after Kokhavi himself to disclose the pattern of cooperation exists.

The newspaper considered that the conduct of military control over the file of the relationship with Abu Dhabi, similar to its behavior vis-à-vis the relationship with the system of Sisi in Egypt. She pointed out that censorship refuses to allow the Israeli media to be exposed to the nature of security cooperation, military and intelligence extensive between Tel Aviv and Cairo, although there are many indicators on it.

The Trump War and the FBI: Ahead of the President











US President Donald Trump is leading a battle to question the credibility of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in preparation for his innocence in investigating Russia's intervention in the 2016 US presidential election.

It is open to all odds battle, and may not end in the foreseeable future, at a time when America's constitutional crisis threatens the "Saturday Night Massacre", famed in 1973, when Richard Nixon was overthrown by justice before the resignation of office leaves, .

Even before he officially took power, the specter of the Russian investigation began to hover around the new president and his team. Trump has since regressed from the pressure on the institution, which is known for its independence from the White House.

Trump has so far attacked his ally, Justice Minister Jeff Sessions, because of his isolation from the Russian investigation, Deputy Justice Minister Rob Rosenstein, because of his appointment, Robert Muller, a special investigator, and expelled the former director of the FBI, James Komi, Andrew McCabe, who resigned this week. What Trump wants is loyalty or what he called "nepotism" in his testimony before Congress last year.

The FBI refused to present him, and Trump was informed by programmed leaks to the media that all the suspects in the investigation had been tried later. As the office publicly denied all Trump accounts about listening to Barack Obama's predecessor during the recent presidential election, and more than once, the president's request to stop the investigation with his national security adviser resigned Michael Flynn, but on the contrary, the FBI "Flynn The suspect is a collaborator in the investigation.

Trump on Friday accused Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) officials and the Justice Department of politicizing the investigations of his Democratic rivals. "Top FBI officials and investigators and the Justice Department have politicized the investigation process for Democrats and Republicans," Trump said in a tweet on his Twitter account, "it was unimaginable a short time ago," praising the work of " Oppose the officials.

As the White House probe rises, Trump, who is trying to identify empty Mueller papers, rises as the latter moves to the president. But Trump's recent tour of this battle is the worst, as it seeks to discredit the FBI and put the Republican Party in the face of an old intelligence establishment.

 The head of the intelligence committee is Republican Rep. Devin Nunes, who links the FBI and Trump, and former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, who was behind the so-called "steel file" of the Trump scandals and Moscow's influence on him. .

 The four-page "Nunez Memorandum" states that the campaign of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, who funded Steele's file during the presidential campaign, colluded with the Justice Department.

 The main objective here is to prove that there is bias from the FBI against Trump, to discredit Rosenstein, who oversees the work of the FBI, and more importantly is questioning his intentions behind Muller's appointment as a special investigator.

Most of the mass intelligence committee voted to publish the memo on Monday. For the first time, the FBI expressed its silence on administrative issues, warning in an unprecedented statement of the release of this confidential memo. Letters to the White House said newly appointed director of the FBI, Christopher Ray, could resign if published.

There is concern in the Justice Department that Trump will use a fact-finding memorandum and evidence to liquidate the account and dismiss senior officials, including Rosenstein or even Muller.

House Speaker Paul Ryan called for the memo to be published, helping to "cleanse" the FBI. The fear here is that Washington will be at the gates of the "Saturday Night Massacre" while the famous Justice Minister Nixon sacked his deputy, thus allowing the third man in the ministry, Robert Burke, to exclude the private investigator in the Watergate scandal.

Attempts to prevent the publication of the memo in Congress have not stopped. MP Adam Schiff, the highest-ranking Democrat on the intelligence committee, accused his colleague Nunez of sending a copy of the memorandum to the White House that had been agreed at the committee meeting and called for a re-vote on the resolution.

 There are also votes in the Senate, which want a vote to approve the publishing decision, which has so far been limited to the House of Representatives. The danger of publishing the memo is politicizing the US intelligence work, which is likely to be a popular skepticism, especially at the Trump base, toward FBI agents in the field who have daily contact with American citizens.

Muller asked the court this week to postpone Michael Flynn's sentence until next spring, which means the latter continues to cooperate and there are follow-up steps. While all Trump's actions give indications that he fears that Muller will reach a stage where the president is accused of obstructing justice and the conduct of the investigation.

In a recent poll for Monmouth University, 71 percent of Americans saw Trump talking to Mueller under oath, including 51 percent of Republicans. He is locked in an open battle with the FBI for any US president, especially if he is personally involved in an investigation led by the Justice Department.


 Trump's adventure will have repercussions in the next stage on the doors of the grand confrontation when the features of Muller's realization begin to appear next spring.

The future of digital currencies between record exchange rates and piracy in millions









Analysts say the phenomenon of digital currencies will not go away quickly despite a week full of events, including a piracy that led to the theft of 530 million dollars and a ban on Facebook and impose controls even in Russia, in addition to large fluctuations in exchange rates.

"The currency has collapsed several times, but it has always recovered," said Stephen Aeneis, Asia Pacific Affairs Officer for the Asia-Pacific Asia Pacific, told Agence France-Presse.

Pirates have stolen $ 530 million of virtual currency from the Quinn Chuck branch of the exchange, leading to price collapses and showing how fragile and volatile these currencies are.

The January 26 hacking operation appears to be the biggest theft of digital currencies so far, surpassing the $ 480 million stolen in 2014 from another Japanese default bank, MTGOX.

Following the theft of MTGOX, the Japanese government imposed a formal license on banking offices. Finance Minister Taro Aso, after the Queen Chuck piracy, acknowledged this week that the government should "tighten its control."

"Quinn Chuck" did not "store important things apart, I think they lack the slightest sense of knowledge or logic," he said.

Authorities have imposed censorship in South Korea, China and even Russia, where a bill was prepared last week to control the production of digital currency.

Inez says such oversight was long overdue. The current framework is "very lenient given the fragility of investors as a result of market volatility and cybercrime."

"In general, the framework of controls in Asia was very bad and he set attractive targets at the disposal of criminals," he said.

- "Essentially important" -

The imposition of controls on dealing in digital currencies was among the topics raised among the elites participating in the World Economic Forum in Davos, where British Finance Minister Philip Hammond urged governments to exercise "caution".

"We have to review the way we organize this environment before the number of eligible entanglements becomes so significant that it becomes fundamentally important in terms of the world economy," Hammond said in an interview with Bloomberg television.

Then the Internet giant Facebook intervened and banned all digital currency advertisements in an effort to counter fraudulent attempts.

All these factors have affected the price of the most popular default currency, which has recently risen to about $ 20,000 before falling back to less than half that value with large daily fluctuations in the exchange rate.

But despite the negative publicity and increasing interest from the watchdogs, the enthusiasm for these currencies has not declined. "There is growing interest after the disclosure of the piracy of Queen Chuck," Japan's digital banking bureau, Pete Flyer, told AFP.

"Many people are interested in digital currencies, and our platform has seen an increase in the number of new applications," says Ben Flyer financial officer Midori Kanimatsu.

Inies said that digital currencies "have the ability to resist," pointing out that he expected a decline in the price to about $ 6,000 "before the market returns to stability."

"Given the recent exchange patterns, I expect the next price to range between 10,000 and 15,000 as traditional traders enter markets ... and volatility declines," he said.

- "More Pick" -

Traders say there is no way to intercept technology behind virtual currencies and that even if some of these currencies remain, others will be replaced.

"There is a huge amount of new ideas," says lawyer Ken Kauai, an expert on financial controls and technology behind France's digital currency. "Piracy is taking place and people who choose this technology should be aware of the risks associated with it ... I expect dealers to become more pick- Banking ".

He suggested banks and e-commerce companies could use the more stable digital currency among them, while other currencies would be traded as alternative assets.

Investors are likely to be forced into a series of checks, including checking customers' identity or imposing an external digital audit to protect them from any security breaches similar to those used during the piracy of Queen Chuck.

Digital currency transactions are also likely to be scrutinized by tax authorities, which could lead to a decline in investment, especially if high fees are levied, analysts said.

Large-scale tracking operations of the leader of the "Dahesh" in Iraq ... Will it fall soon?










More than 200 hours of flying by Iraqi, American and British fighters as well as unmanned surveillance aircraft over the past month have been part of a plan to track down the leader of the terrorist organization, Ibrahim Awad al-Badri, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

 While a tribal leader confirmed that three parties are looking for al-Baghdadi today and the issue of killing or killing him, in case he was actually within the subject of time no more.

According to a senior Iraqi general in the Ministry of Defense, who preferred anonymity, Iraqi, American and British combat and surveillance and surveillance carried out more than 200 hours of flying in northern and western Iraq last month to track the traces of the leader of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Nearby.

"Last week, three sites were bombed on the basis of reports sent by surveillance aircraft in the Anbar desert. These sites are likely to contain important leaders from Da'ash, where terrorists have actually been killed, but not al-Baghdadi or one of his senior aides," he said.

He added that "the operations are continuing along with the program of tapping suspicious calls, and tracking and analysis of intelligence teams that travel in different formats and images in the areas of Badu and attended Anbar and Nineveh to obtain any information about Baghdadi or his aides."

The same source said reports that he had fled to areas in the Maghreb or Turkey were unreliable at the present time and could be "misleading".

In the same context, said the leader of the tribes of a prominent anti-organization in the town of Qaim near the border with Syria, "the seekers of the head of al-Baghdadi in Iraq have become many and the most important year of Iraq," as he described.

According to Sheikh Mohammed Mtaab al-Anzi, "three parties are looking for al-Baghdadi today, the US military and the Western alliance with him and Baghdad and the third year of Iraq, and this means that a supporter lost his incubator completely."

"All of us are looking for him today with reward or without reward. This man has caused plundering and plundering in Iraqi Sunni cities and provided great services to Iran that no one else can provide. The first is the annihilation of Iraqi cities that have been disobedient to Iranian influence over the past period, The Syrian regime Bashar al-Assad in his chair after it was about to disappear and succeed the revolution, "according to his saying.

He considered that the issue of his death or detention in the event that he was present in Iraq has already become the subject of no more time.


The Iraqi military reports estimate the number of elements of the current "Daqash" in Iraq about a thousand scattered elements in the form of sleeper cells within cities and others scattered in the Western Sahara and the island and the desert between Nineveh and Anbar and in areas of the mountains of Hamrin in northern Iraq.

Baghdad was able after a fierce fighting for more than 3 years and with wide Western support to break the organization of "Daash", which swept through large areas of the north and west of the country in mid-2014 from Syria, and exploited the popular movement in the provinces of the north and west to protest against the policy of former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, Characterized by sectarianism and repression and arbitrary arrests and exclusion of the sons of the Sunni component in the country.

The occupation of Iraqi cities has resulted in the death and injury of at least a quarter of a million Iraqis, more than 60 percent of them children and women. More than 100,000 soldiers, soldiers, security personnel, members of the Popular Gathering, Peshmerga and clan fighters were killed and wounded during the fighting.

Iraq also suffered huge financial losses estimated at 100 billion dollars, as well as huge destruction in more than 180 administrative units between the province and the district and the province and the town of Anbar, Nineveh, Diyala, Kirkuk, Babil, Wasit and Salahuddin, as well as the belt of the capital Baghdad, apart from the displacement of six and a half million Iraqis From their homes.

Israeli commentators: Threats to attack Lebanon aimed at deterring Iran and Russia














Israeli commentators underestimate the importance of coordinated threats by the political and military echelons in Tel Aviv to Hezbollah and the Lebanese state over allegations of building factories to produce guided missiles, pointing out that these threats do not necessarily demonstrate a genuine desire to pre-empt a strike on the party.

Some commentators in Tel Aviv argue that the chances of a confrontation with Hezbollah do not exist now because Israel realizes that Iran has not actually started launching any guided missile production plant.

Yossi Milman, an intelligence commentator for the Maariv daily, said both Israel and Hezbollah were still not involved in a military confrontation, stressing that Tel Aviv was aware that the party had not yet launched any factory to produce guided missiles.

In an article published Thursday, Milman noted that Israel has information on Iranian "plans and intentions" to build guided missile production plants in Lebanon in favor of Hezbollah in order to avoid the impact of the Israeli raids in Syria targeting the weapons stores and arms of the " Allah".



He said that according to the cease-fire agreement that ended the 2006 war, Israel should not launch raids inside Lebanon, even with the aim of thwarting the launching of a rocket factory. According to Milman, Israeli threats of a full-scale war targeting Lebanon, the state and the army are also aimed at deterring Hezbollah from launching guided missile factories.

Although Israeli military commentator Ben Caspit believes that the nature of the statements made by the political and military leaders in Tel Aviv demonstrate a willingness to prepare the Israeli public for the possibility of a confrontation against Lebanon, he sees, on the other hand, that the Israeli leadership currently prefer to invest in the field Propaganda campaigns and diplomatic moves, and later in secret intelligence operations to thwart Iran's drive to help Hezbollah produce guided missiles.

The meetings between Israeli and Russian officials, especially the recent meeting between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin, represent the spearhead of Israel's diplomatic campaign to persuade Moscow to act and not allow empowerment, Kaspet said in an analysis published by the Hebrew version of the Montour website. "Hezbollah" from getting guided missiles.

The Israeli analyst said that in his attempt to impress Putin, Netanyahu is keen to take Mossad chief Yossi Cohen and head of the Military Intelligence Division, Herzl Halevy, to present to the Russian president intelligence on the nature of the activities carried out by Iran in Lebanon and Syria, which threaten security Israeli conflict.

He said that Netanyahu was keen to launch the threat of a full-scale war in order to instill fear in Putin that Russia could lose all its achievements in the war, since the consequences of any war waged by Israel against Hezbollah and Iran would not be in the interests of Moscow's allies in Syria and Lebanon.

According to Kaspit, Tel Aviv is making great efforts to persuade the US administration to prepare to thwart the designs of Iran and Hezbollah, but all the indications show that the bet on the administration of US President Donald Trump is not yet valid.

According to the Hebrew analyst, Israel provided indications of its intention to carry out clandestine operations carried out by the army in cooperation with the intelligence agencies aimed at any project to produce guided missiles in Lebanon and touch the human forces supervising it. He said that Minister of War Avigdor Lieberman pointed out that Israel knows the people behind the project to produce guided missiles.

Kaspet said that this is the first time that Israel announced that it is working to monitor Iranian engineers and scientists who are working on the production of guided missiles, expected to be covert operations against the project and those behind him the next stage in the event of diplomatic efforts failed.

Kaspet said that if the secret operations failed to stop the rocket production project, the decision-making circles in Tel Aviv would be required to take a "serious" decision on the next stage, pointing out that Israel will have two options: either to take a decision to pre-emptive strike against " Will inevitably lead to a "catastrophic" confrontation or turn a blind eye to the project to produce guided missiles, pointing out that Israel will be "in front of two options passed by."

He explained, in the same context, that the concerns of decision makers on any decision to launch a war on Lebanon specifically is their fears that the Israeli public to see this war as a war could have been avoided. He pointed out that Israel is convinced that the third Lebanon war will also include the Syrian front, and the participation of all the "Shiite" forces located on Syrian soil.


Senior officials who worked in the Israeli military complex have warned the Netanyahu government of any possibility of a full-scale confrontation with Hezbollah because of its dangers on the home front.

The newspaper Ma'ariv recently quoted three of these officials as saying that prior to any decision to launch the war, Israel was required to evacuate half a million settlers from the Haifa area, fearing that they would be injured by the possibility of the missiles falling on the petrochemical complex in the port of Haifa.