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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Florida teens go door-to-door collecting for dental work and Mother's Day
[Breitbart] Six Florida teenagers were arrested and accused of stealing an expensive Porsche automobile, $200,000 in cash, and two handguns, then blowing the money on gold teeth and expensive gifts for their mothers.

The suspects, between the ages of 14 and 16, stand accused of robbing the North Hutchinson Island, Florida, home of Brett Browning on April 27, according to the Daily Mail.

The robbery victim told police his 2014 Porsche Cayman‐valued at up to $60,000‐was missing, as well as $200,000 he had hidden in his home. The thieves also stole a 380-caliber Ruger pistol and a revolver.

The stolen Porsche was discovered near the home of one of the teens, and police reported that all six of the suspects left fingerprint evidence inside the car.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/29/2017 07:36 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  2014 Porsche Cayman‐valued at up to $60,000‐was missing, as well as $200,000 he had hidden in his home.

Yes officer, we sometimes keep a few dollars hidden behind the butter in the Frigidaire.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/29/2017 8:19 Comments || Top||

#2  The money, the gun, the vehicle.

A survivalist who wanted to get out of town fast?
Or blow money?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/29/2017 8:44 Comments || Top||

#3  A survivalist who wanted to get out of town fast? Or blow money?

Or a Congressman? (See William Jefferson, e.g.)
Posted by: Glenmore || 06/29/2017 11:13 Comments || Top||

#4  Love the headline, Besoeker. :-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/29/2017 12:21 Comments || Top||

#5  But did they take the blow?

You sure this isn't the beginning of a Miami Vice revival?
Posted by: AlanC || 06/29/2017 13:49 Comments || Top||


Multicultural dating awareness lesson goes dreadfully wrong
[NY Post] Two Florida men wanted in connection with a rape told a woman they wanted to "teach her a lesson" about dating black men, officials said.

Justin Akeen Fedrick, 27, and Keon Dellshai Gordon, 26, are accused of kidnapping and sexually battering a woman on June 22 at a Clermont home, according to the Orlando Sentinel.

Police said the victim was "hanging out" when a third suspect, Rodney Cooper, 32, forced her into a room and locked the door. Cooper kept guard while Fedrick and Gordon allegedly attacked her.

The woman said that they told her, "We’re going to teach you a lesson about dating a black man and white [women] don’t mean [expletive] in this town."

When the alleged attack was over, they told her that they would "make it ten times worse next time" if she filed a police report.

The woman was able to escape from the home and her boyfriend contacted police after receiving a text that she was "bleeding and limping."

Authorities tracked down Cooper the next day and charged him with kidnapping. He was taken into custody at Lake County Jail, where he is being held on $50,000 bond, according to court records.

Arrest warrants have been issued for the arrests of Fedrick and Gordon, both of whom are considered dangerous.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/29/2017 07:19 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  both of whom are considered dangerous

Only to unescorted females?
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/29/2017 23:22 Comments || Top||


Teen Charged With Killing Her Boyfriend During A Dumbass YouTube Stunt
[BUZZFEED] Monalisa Perez was jugged
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
on Monday night after she fatally shot her 22-year-old boyfriend, Pedro Ruiz, while the couple were recording a YouTube stunt for her vlog, according to a criminal complaint provided to BuzzFeed News.

On Wednesday, Perez was charged with second-degree manslaughter -- a felony that carries a maximum sentence of 10 years, a fine of $20,000, or both.

She was held in a regional jail in Crookston and was scheduled to be arraigned in court on Wednesday afternoon.

Perez called 911 on Monday evening to report that she accidentally shot Ruiz in the chest while they were making a YouTube video at the couple's house in Norman County.

Authorities found Ruiz with a single gunshot wound to his chest and attempted to save his life, but he died at the scene, the complaint said.

Perez, who is pregnant, told police that Ruiz wanted to make a YouTube video of her shooting a book while he was holding it, as he believed that the book would stop the bullet, according to the criminal complaint.
Had Monalisa, who is pregnant, called me (I'm not) I'da told her to have a nice cuppa chocolate and go to bed and make sure they got that pregnancy thing just right instead. If they absolutely had to go through with it, I'da told her to first try shooting a similar book to see if it worked, then maybe try it with Pedro.
Posted by: Fred || 06/29/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  When does early voting for Darwin 2017 start??
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 06/29/2017 5:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Voting has already begun and Petro Ruiz has the early lead. You can make book on that.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/29/2017 6:08 Comments || Top||

#3  Obviously they never watched Mythbusters.
Posted by: AlanC || 06/29/2017 8:01 Comments || Top||

#4  Maybe should have remembered to put the steel plate into the binding?
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 06/29/2017 8:23 Comments || Top||

#5  Perez, who is pregnant, told police that Ruiz wanted to make a YouTube video of her shooting a book while he was holding it

The pair obviously didn't try the experiment beforehand without Pedro holding the book to see if it was safe. We've got contenders for the Darwin Award.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/29/2017 9:54 Comments || Top||

#6  Too bad Pedro managed to reproduce before stupidity killed him.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/29/2017 10:22 Comments || Top||

#7  you don't know if the kid is his. Someone may have taken a shot at his girlfriend before him
Posted by: Frank G || 06/29/2017 10:57 Comments || Top||

#8  Why would he pick What Men Know About Women?
Posted by: Shipman || 06/29/2017 13:31 Comments || Top||

#9  Smart Kids Live Longer
Intelligent children tend to live longer than their less gifted peers, a new study suggests.

Scottish researchers began their study with 75,252 men and women born in 1936 — 94 percent of the Scottish population born that year — who had taken standardized intelligence tests in 1947. By 2015, they were able to confirm a cause of death for 25,979 of them; 30,464 were still living in Britain.
Posted by: Fred || 06/29/2017 14:07 Comments || Top||

#10  Desert Eagle? Nah. Gotta be suicide by girlfriend, or murder.

Uncertain regarding paternity
And dreading a wedded quaternity,
His fate turned his fancy
To bibliomancy
And redblooded, dead confraternity.

Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 06/29/2017 21:07 Comments || Top||

#11  "He knocked me up, AGAIN!"

Seems 'manslaughter stupid' has less of a toll than 'Murder 1'.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/29/2017 23:39 Comments || Top||


Destruction of Arkansas' Ten Commandments monument places spotlight on separation of church and state
[LATIMES] Maybe it's just that I'm dumb, but shouldn't it place the spotlight on serial vandalism?
Posted by: Fred || 06/29/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Which is a judicial creation. The intent was that there was neither to be a specific religion designated as the State Religion, as in Church of England or the Roman Catholic church, nor a test for public office. It was not to ban the religion of its citizenry from its halls and lands.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/29/2017 8:39 Comments || Top||

#2  The tyranny of the left rears its ugly head.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/29/2017 9:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Marxism is a religion and it tries to put itself into law just like the Bhuddist statue destroying taliban..
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 06/29/2017 10:33 Comments || Top||

#4  Clearly its a river of beer that separates church and state.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/29/2017 23:40 Comments || Top||


Arrest made after Ten Commandments monument at Arkansas Capitol toppled, shattered
[ARKANSASONLINE] A 6-foot-tall stone Ten Commandments monument installed Tuesday on the Arkansas Capitol grounds was toppled less than 24 hours later after a 32-year-old Arkansas man drove a vehicle into the statue, apparently while streaming the act live on Facebook, officials said.
If you don't agree with it, destroy it.
Chris Powell, a spokesman with the Secretary of State's Office, said he was called early Wednesday and told a man drove a vehicle through the monument. That driver — identified in an arrest report as Michael Tate Reed of Van Buren — was arrested by Capitol police shortly after, Powell said. News reports indicate Reed was previously accused of destroying a Ten Commandments monument in Oklahoma.

The Arkansas arrest report said an officer around 4:45 a.m. spotted a dark-colored vehicle "start from a stopped position and ram the Ten Commandments monument."

"I immediately exited my vehicle and placed the subject in custody," Corporal Chad Durham wrote, noting Reed was first taken to a local hospital before being booked into the Pulaski County jail.

The arrest report for Reed listed "unemployed/disabled" under occupation.

Reed, who was lodged in the jail shortly after 7:30 a.m., faces charges of defacing objects of public respect, trespassing on Capitol grounds and first-degree criminal mischief, according to the report. He was being held without bail pending an initial court appearance.

It was “absolutely” a shock to get the call about what happened, Powell said.

“We had some concerns, just because this was such a highly charged issue with some people,” Powell said.

Sen. Jason Rapert, R-Bigelow, who sponsored the 2015 law to erect the monument on state grounds, called the statue's destruction "an act of violence" and said he expects to be able to raise funds quickly to replace the display.

The senator is expected to speak more about what happened at an 11:30 a.m. news conference at the Capitol.
Posted by: Fred || 06/29/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Minority oppression of the many. My way or no way. Tolerance is just a facade for the extraction of power by activists.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/29/2017 8:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Why is it that the left/atheists are driven to force their beliefs on everyone else?
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/29/2017 9:49 Comments || Top||

#3  ...Cause they used the mistakes of one side to empower themselves. It wasn't so much an objection of those mistakes as jealously they didn't get to use the power themselves at the time.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/29/2017 10:35 Comments || Top||

#4  So, his car insurance liability coverage should pay for the replacement, right? He does have insurance, right? No?

The arrest report for Reed listed "unemployed/disabled" under occupation

Should put a stop to any unemployment/disability checks.
Posted by: Frank G || 06/29/2017 10:56 Comments || Top||

#5  For starters: yank his Driver's License and, since he used a vehicle in a felony as a weapon deny him any future license. Public Transportation for Life.
Posted by: magie || 06/29/2017 14:13 Comments || Top||

#6  "unemployed/disabled"

Sounds like he was upset about the work part of Commandment Number 4:

"You shall work six days, but on the seventh day you shall rest."
Posted by: Lionel Speaking for Boskone2927 || 06/29/2017 15:01 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Man hits a pub on his way to the bus
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/29/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  How could one resist a bar with the name Purple Turtle Bar on Gun Street? Especially after being hit by a bus.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/29/2017 9:35 Comments || Top||

#2  "I'll have a bus of your besties!"
"No, no the best of your busties!"
"No, gimme a draft."
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/29/2017 23:42 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
111 terminally ill end lives under new California law
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/29/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Down Under
Australian Police Charge Vatican Cardinal with Sechs Offenses
SYDNEY (AP) -- Australian police charged a top Vatican cardinal on Thursday with multiple counts of "historical" sexual assault offenses, a stunning decision certain to rock the highest levels of the Holy See.

Cardinal George Pell, Pope Francis' chief financial adviser and Australia's most senior Catholic, is the highest-ranking Vatican official to ever be charged in the church's long-running sexual abuse scandal. Pell said he would return to Australia to fight the charges.

Victoria state Police Deputy Commissioner Shane Patton said police have summonsed Pell to appear in an Australian court to face multiple charges of "historical sexual assault offenses," meaning offenses that generally occurred some time ago. Patton said there are multiple complainants against Pell, but gave no other details on the allegations against the cardinal. Pell was ordered to appear in Melbourne Magistrates Court on July 18.

For years, Pell has faced allegations that he mishandled cases of clergy abuse when he was archbishop of Melbourne and, later, Sydney. But more recently, Pell himself became the focus of a clergy sex abuse investigation, with Victoria detectives flying to the Vatican last year to interview the cardinal. It is unclear what allegations the charges announced Thursday relate to, but two men, now in their 40s, have said that Pell touched them inappropriately at a swimming pool in the late 1970s, when Pell was a senior priest in Melbourne.

Related: Papal adviser Cardinal Pell denies sexual abuse charges, to return to Australia
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/29/2017 02:51 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "historical hysterical sexual assault offenses,"
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/29/2017 23:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Doesn't seem to bother the media in AFG or IRQ.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/29/2017 23:37 Comments || Top||


Europe
British Navy's Advanced New Aircraft Carrier Reportedly Runs On Windows XP
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/29/2017 12:38 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  XP? so does your ATM, your bank, your hospital, retailers cash registers, most airliners, even the Internet and the cloud. It works, it's stable.
Posted by: Dopey Bumble8321 || 06/29/2017 12:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Annnnd... Actually it doesn't run on XP at all, but gotta keep the pants wetting fake news consumer engaged...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/29/2017 13:12 Comments || Top||

#3  So? It may be a kludge, but it is a stable kludge for isolated systems once debugged. There are systems that use languages like COBOL or FORTRAN because it works and there is no reason to "reinvent the wheel".
Posted by: magie || 06/29/2017 13:38 Comments || Top||

#4  stable kludge for isolated systems

And there is all you need to know. Isolated systems are unhackable over the net because they are not ON the net.

Once you pull the plug on network connectivity virtually all your problems go away..Kind of like running elections with paper ballots.
Posted by: AlanC || 06/29/2017 13:47 Comments || Top||


#6  No matter what browser I use, I can't set a link in a comment...

https://www.neowin.net/news/despite-what-you-may-have-read-the-royal-navys-new-flagship-doesnt-run-windows-xp
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/29/2017 14:31 Comments || Top||

#7  Link
Posted by: Frank G || 06/29/2017 14:42 Comments || Top||

#8  M. Murcek, next time, try putting a desription in between the >< in the link. That's a functionality the URL doodad is missing.

Example:{a href="http://Linky.linky.link"}{/a}

If you note, the part right after 'link">' should have a descriptor to describe the link as in the following: {a href="http://Linky.linky.link"}descripton of linky link{/a} which will end up looking like this with a working link: "descripton of linky link"

(Note I replaced the '< and > with { and }' in the above example so the full example will how up here.)

Hope this helps.
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 06/29/2017 17:46 Comments || Top||

#9  Definitely helpful. Thanks much...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/29/2017 19:25 Comments || Top||

#10 
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 06/29/2017 19:41 Comments || Top||

#11  Cute, Anomalous Sources.

Well described, Seeking cure -- thank you.

M. Murcek, I went into your comment and added text where you didn't have any and voila! The link appeared. It was there all along, just needed that bit of text to be visible.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/29/2017 21:15 Comments || Top||


Spanish court strikes another city’s anti-Israel resolution
[IsraelTimes] For the second time in less than a year, a high court in Spain scrapped the adoption of a boycott against Israel by a municipality.

The Superior Tribunal of Justice of Madrid in its decision last week affirmed a lower court ruling in January against the resolution last year endorsing the boycott by the city council of the Rivas Vaciamadrid suburb. The high court said the council’s adherence to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel was "discriminatory."

The court also rejected explicitly the council’s argument that its boycott resolution was anchored in UN resolutions against Israel, the pro-Israel group ACOM wrote in a statement published Tuesday about the appeal. ACOM initiated the original case against the municipality.

In October, a Spanish high court in the Asturias region declared a BDS resolution illegal and discriminatory in a suit also filed by ACOM. The group had sued the Langreo City Council over its support for BDS.

Over the past two years, pro-Israel activists have obtained dozens of rulings, legal opinions and injunctions against BDS in Spain. Some 50 Spanish municipalities have passed resolutions in recent years endorsing BDS -- more than in any other European country.

In neighboring La Belle France, promoting the BDS movement is illegal under legislation from 2003 that lists efforts to bring about the singling out of nations and their peoples as a form of hate crime. Similar legislation is being prepared in Britannia, the government said last year.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/29/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Politix
Soetoro-appointed judges dismiss Supreme Court ruling, continue blocking Trump's immigration crackdown
[Wash Times] President Trump may have won a partial victory at the Supreme Court this week, but other federal judges remain major stumbling blocks to his aggressive immigration plans, with courts from California to Michigan and Atlanta limiting his crackdown on sanctuary cities and stopping him from deporting illegal immigrants he has targeted for removal.

The judges in those deportation cases have rejected Mr. Trump’s argument that he has wide latitude to decide who gets kicked out, without having to worry about district courts second-guessing him on facts of the case.

Instead, the judges said, they get to decide their jurisdiction, and that extends to reviewing Mr. Trump’s immigration policy.

One judge in Michigan ordered the Homeland Security Department to freeze all deportation plans for about 200 Chaldean Christians arrested over the past two months and scheduled to be sent back to Iraq. Nearly every one of them has a criminal record.

A judge in Atlanta ordered the department to reinstate the temporary deportation amnesty -- known in governmentspeak as the DACA program -- for Jessica Colotl, an illegal immigrant Dreamer whose past made her a target for deportation, officials said.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/29/2017 03:18 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If we can't deport them, can we at least incarse ... encars ... throw 'em in the slammer?
Posted by: Bobby || 06/29/2017 7:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Deport the judges as well.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 06/29/2017 8:06 Comments || Top||

#3  Hmph, and I thought judges where supposed to follow and implement the law.Guess not
Posted by: chris || 06/29/2017 9:06 Comments || Top||

#4  Keep up the lawlessness assclowns and it won't be just imprisonment that you will face from the public.
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/29/2017 9:28 Comments || Top||

#5  The solution is to begin proceedings to remove them from the bench.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/29/2017 9:55 Comments || Top||

#6  I would be interested to know the background of the 200 Christians. After being arrested, they all have criminal records. Returning them to Iraq will make them one of the largest Christian groups left. Christians were executed in Iraq after we left. This whole story is a head scratcher...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 06/29/2017 10:09 Comments || Top||

#7  The solution is to begin proceedings to remove them from the bench.

And some unscheduled visits from concerned citizens couldn't hurt either.
Posted by: Crusader || 06/29/2017 10:11 Comments || Top||

#8  The Left is all in for open borders and unrestricted immigration. Why? Why is this life or death to them? It can't be as simple as importing voters. They can generate fraudulent votes in the millions.
Posted by: Iblis || 06/29/2017 10:38 Comments || Top||

#9  ...other federal judges remain major stumbling blocks to his aggressive immigration plans,

Just do what Obumble did - ignore them. It's easier to do with the recent SCOTUS decision.
Posted by: Raj || 06/29/2017 12:37 Comments || Top||

#10  Stop giving them cases to judge. Appoint a new judge down the hall who understands the law.
Posted by: Airandee || 06/29/2017 13:01 Comments || Top||

#11  I would be interested to know the background of the 200 Christians.

A few days ago someone here wrote that at least a few of them were the big boss and some henchmen of the Chaldean mafia in, I think, Detroit.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/29/2017 13:40 Comments || Top||


Van Jones: Russia is "Nothing burger"
Project Veritas lets the second shoe drop, with probably more to come.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/29/2017 00:02 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If they had any decency they would...

Wait...

Sorry. They don't. Carry on.
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/29/2017 1:06 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm reminded of a Soviet era quip about Izvestia and Pravda.

The truth is rarely the news, and the news is rarely the truth.
Posted by: phil_b || 06/29/2017 1:59 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Former Israeli PM Olmert, 71, wins early release from prison
[Reuters] Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who is serving a 27-month prison term for corruption, won parole on Thursday, one of his lawyers said.

Israel Radio reported that Olmert could be freed as early as Sunday after a parole board decided to cut his sentence by a third, a common practice in Israel for prisoners who have not committed violent crimes.

But the release might be delayed if prosecutors decide to file an appeal, Shani Eluz, an attorney for Olmert, told reporters.

"He was very excited. He was very happy," Eli Zohar, another Olmert attorney, said of the parole decision. "He hopes very much the prosecution service will not ask to delay his release."

Olmert was found guilty in 2014 of accepting bribes from real estate developers when he was Jerusalem's mayor, before his 2006-09 term as prime minister and head of a centrist political party.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/29/2017 06:43 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sorry, given the tone I though he had died.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/29/2017 23:31 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Israel's Mossad on the hunt for new spy techniques (Video)
[Reuters] Israel's Mossad intelligence agency has set up an investment fund to help development of new cloak-and-dagger know-how and is offering grants of up to 2 million shekels (about $570,000) per project to bring in new ideas.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/29/2017 06:48 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Mmmm...the robocopter gas leak detector.
Turn it loose on Nitrogen for IEDs.
Maybe a laser for ground temperature, to identify tunnels?
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/29/2017 23:25 Comments || Top||


China Turns Big Data into Big Brother - Biometric Database
[MIT Review] It was a drab, chill day in November, and the clocks were striking thirteen. As the woman passed through Hangzhou Railway Station, she moved quickly through the ticket gates--though not quickly enough to avoid detection by the transport authority, which noticed her failure to swipe the correct transit pass. It was too late. She had received a black mark on government records that would make it harder than ever for her to travel in the future.

That’s a reimagining of the introduction to George Orwell’s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. But it’s also set to become a reality for citizens of China if the government’s dream of an authoritarian big-data scheme comes to fruition.

The Wall Street Journal reports that the Chinese government is now testing systems that will be used to create digital records of citizens’ social and financial behavior. In turn, these will be used to create a so-called social credit score, which will determine whether individuals have access to services, from travel and education to loans and insurance cover. Some citizens--such as lawyers and journalists--will be more closely monitored.

Planning documents apparently describe the system as being created to "allow the trustworthy to roam everywhere under heaven while making it hard for the discredited to take a single step." The Journal claims that the system will at first log "infractions such as fare cheating, jaywalking and violating family-planning rules" but will be expanded in the future--potentially even to Internet activity.

Some aspects of the system are already in testing, but there are some challenges to implementing such a far-reaching apparatus. It’s difficult to centralize all that data, check it for accuracy, and process it, for example--let alone feed it back into the system to control everyday life. And China has data from 1.4 billion people to handle.

Related: NPR - Facial Recognition May Boost Airport Security But Raises Privacy Worries
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/29/2017 06:27 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Stalin must be green with envy.
Posted by: phil_b || 06/29/2017 6:51 Comments || Top||

#2  Stalin didn't have Google, Microsoft, Facebook.....

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin: The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/29/2017 8:41 Comments || Top||

#3  And that's newsworthy?

Posted by: Skidmark || 06/29/2017 23:34 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Thu 2017-06-29
   ISIS Number 4 and human shield deaths west of Mosul
Wed 2017-06-28
  Ottoman Turkish artillery opens fire on Kurdish forces across entire frontier in northern Aleppo
Tue 2017-06-27
  IS suicide bomber’s belt explodes, kills 12 well-wishing comrades in Diyala
Mon 2017-06-26
  High Court reinstates Trump travel ban, will hear arguments
Sun 2017-06-25
  Evolution theory to be scrapped from Turkish schoolbooks
Sat 2017-06-24
  Jihadist who threw grenade in French kosher shop gets 28 years
Fri 2017-06-23
  Philippine military: Omar Maute likely dead
Thu 2017-06-22
  BIFF Bravely Takes Hostages at Philippine School
Wed 2017-06-21
  ISIS Lord High Holy Man, al-Baghdadi confidant, killed by US-led coalition forces
Tue 2017-06-20
  Afghan forces clear strategic Tora Bora of ISIS militants: Gen. Waziri
Mon 2017-06-19
  IRGC completely dismantles terrorist group in southeast Iran: Commander
Sun 2017-06-18
  Afghan forces recapture Tora Bora in Nangarhar
Sat 2017-06-17
  Taliban rejects report on Kandahar bombing that killed UAE ambassador, diplomats
Fri 2017-06-16
  Army takes over Mosul’s Old City entrance, IS trapped
Thu 2017-06-15
  SDF capture former IS member known as Jihadi Jack

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