#5
"In a world ruled by cruel you-know-who
Where the slavers have Amazons--"
"BOOO!"
[a supremacist West
sneers and puffs up her chest
as their general in Woman King II]
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One Al-Shabaab militant killed and another arrested by the Danaab Commandos and local forces. The militants were trying to plant an improvised explosive device on the road between Janay-Abdalla and Bulo-Gudud. pic.twitter.com/4TVw9NKJBj
Ethiopia’s Council of Ministers is declaring a state of emergency in the country’s Amhara region after authorities pleaded for help as clashes intensify there between regional forces and the military.
The prime minister’s office announced the decision on Friday after the region’s leader said regular law enforcement was no longer able to contain the violence. The declaration needs approval from Parliament, The Associated Press said.
“The threat the activity is imposing on national security and public peace is increasing day by day,” the declaration said, noting severe economic damage as well and blaming “armed extremist groups.”
Ethiopia’s second most populous region has been gripped by instability since April, when federal authorities moved to disarm Amhara’s security forces following the end of the devastating two-year war in the neighboring Tigray region. Authorities last year also tried to dismantle the informal Amhara militia known as Fano.
This week, residents have reported fighting across the Amhara region as militia members attacked army units and protesters blocked roads. Flights to two popular tourist towns, Lalibela and Gondar, have been suspended. Internet access has been affected.
A state of emergency likely means restrictions on movement and increased powers of detention.
[HodhodYemenNews] Forces in the 170th Air Defense Brigade loyal to the Saudi-led coalition looted a car belonging to an industrial detergent factory in Taiz province, southwestern Yemen.
According to local residents, the coalition recruits in the 170th Air Defense Brigade hijacked two days ago a car owned by the Al-Sulaihi detergent factory with its driver while he was parking the car near the factory in the Al-Karama area of Al-Mudhaffar district.
The sources explained that the recruits released the driver, while the car was transferred to an unknown destination.
The factory officials called on the competent authorities to work in order to get back the stolen car and ensure the safety of companies and workers in the city of Taiz.
The city of Taiz has been witnessing a major breakdown of security in which killings and looting have escalated, the latest of which was the assassination of UN official Muayad Hamidi in the city of Al-Turbah.
[HodhodYemenNews] Three al-Qaeda members were killed in clashes with the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) factions in Abyan province, southern Yemen, pro-STC media sources reported on Thursday.
According to the sources, “Hurayrah al-Abini, Hakim al-Sana’ani, and another named Abu Quraish were killed in the attack launched by the organization’s elements on the positions of the STC in al-Dhiq site in Omran valley, east of Modiyah district, leaving 5 dead, including the operations staff officer of the First Battalion in the Third Brigade, Adnan Abdo Ahmed Al-Waalani, and wounding 5 others.”
Activists loyal to the STC published on Thursday a picture of the al-Qaeda dead, whom they said were killed in the confrontations in Omran Valley in Modiyah last Monday.
Hundreds of STC faction members have been killed or injured since the announcement of the “Siham Al-Sharq” operation in Abyan against al-Qaeda and Islah Party militants in mid-August of last year, when the factions grabbed control of the city of Ataq, the center of Shabwah province.
[HodhodYemenNews] Unidentified gunmen bombed during the early hours of Thursday the ironically named
Safer oil facility in Ma’rib province with a number of mortar shells.
Informed sources reported that three mortar shells exploded inside the Safer facility without clarification from the facility management about the damage caused or the party behind the bombing.
The sources indicated that the mortar shells landed near critical sites in the oil and gas facility.
The tribes of Wadi Obeida possess various medium and heavy weapons, with the support of the Saudi-led coalition, to fuel conflicts among them.
It is noteworthy that al-Qaeda members are spreading in the areas under the coalition authorities in the Wadi Obeida valley, where they are fighting in their ranks against the Sanaa forces on the Ma’rib front.
Germany arrests a Syrian man accused of crimes against humanity and war crimes including torture and enslavement. #Syriahttps://t.co/Un8bP2pcW2
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) August 4, 2023
German authorities arrested on Thursday a Syrian man in charge of Tadamon massacre in Damascus, Syria’s capital, in 2013.
The man, called Ahmad H, is accused of crimes against humanity and war crimes including torture and enslavement, German prosecutors said in a statement on Thursday.
Ahmad was leading a pro-government militia in Tadamon, when the massacre took place in 2013 that resulted in the killing of about 40 people. The massacre was filmed by its perpetrators and revealed by The Guardian last year.
In April 2022, The Guardian published a report that showed members of the Syrian Military Intelligence Branch 227 were shown firing at blindfolded, unarmed civilians in Tadamon, a residential neighborhood in the Syrian capital of Damascus. The video showed 41 people being murdered by an intelligence officer called Amjad Yusef.
In March, the US Department of State issued a decision in which it barred Yusef from entering US territory. The decision barred Yusef, his wife, and close family members from entering US territory. "Yusef’s war crimes serves as a sobering reminder for why countries should not normalize relations with the Assad regime absent enduring progress towards a political resolution," said Antony Blinken, US Secretary of State, in an accompanying statement.
The suspect, Ahmad H, is the first person to be detained in connection with crimes in Tadamon, The Guardian reported. "He was a local leader of the Shabiha, a pro-regime paramilitary group tasked with suppressing political opponents. The group is accused of regularly detaining civilians at checkpoints in Tadamon, whom they tortured, extorted or forced into labour, prosecutors said."
According to the British newspaper, 27 extremely graphic videos of Shabiha and Syrian soldiers carrying out massacres and disposing of dozens bodies in the neighbourhood were leaked from a Syrian government laptop to two academics based in Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... in 2019.
The academics are Prof. Ugur Üngör, from the University of Amsterdam’s Institute of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and the researcher Annsar Shahoud identified many of the perpetrators in the videos, including Amjad Yusef.
Ahmad H, understood by The Guardian to be an associate of Yusuf, is accused of "personally participating in the abuse of civilians in various occasions", the prosecutors said.
With the outbreak of the Syrian conflict in 2011, hundreds of thousands of Syrians fled their country to Germany. Among the refugees, there were several pro-government officers and leaders.
Last year, Germany sentenced Anwar Raslan, ex-colonel of the Syrian Intelligence, to life in prison for crimes against humanity for his part in murdering 58 detainees, raping others, and torturing about 4,000 prisoners.
Also, Alaa Mousa, a doctor who worked at a military intelligence prison in the Syrian city of Homs from April 2011 until late 2012, was accused of torturing and killing inmates at a government-run prison and two military hospitals, German prosecutors said last year. He is accused of killing one person and 18 counts of torture, as well as causing serious physical and psychological harm to others. The doctor has been in pretrial detention in Germany since his arrest in June 2020.
German police have arrested a Syrian man on suspicion of crimes against humanity during his time leading a pro-Assad militia in the early stages of the Syrian civil war.
The suspect, identified only as Ahmad H., was arrested in Bremen on Wednesday, prosecutors said a day later.
Prosecutors said the suspect was the leader of a militia loyal to Syrian leader Bashir al-Assad in the Damascus suburb of Tadamon from 2012 to 2015. They said the militia ran checkpoints where "people were arrested arbitrarily so that they or their family members could be extorted for money, committed to forced labor or tortured."
In one incident, the suspect is alleged to have hit an arrested man in the face and ordered fellow militia members to "brutally torment" him for hours with plastic pipes.
In another incident, the suspect and other militia members allegedly beat and kicked a civilian at a checkpoint, slamming the civilian's head into the pavement and then tying him up before he was taken away by the militia.
Prosecutors also pointed to two alleged incidents where the suspect is said to have arrested a group of 25-30 people and forced them to spend a day carrying sandbags to a nearby front line, where they worked under fire without food or water and were beaten.
The militia also worked with a military intelligence wing that executed at least 47 people in the area, prosecutors said.
On Thursday, a judge remanded the suspect in jug pending a possible indictment.
Although the alleged crimes against humanity were committed in Syria and no German citizens were involved, Germany's principle of "universal jurisdiction" means prosecutors can still pursue cases of serious crimes committed abroad, no matter who perpetrated them or who the victims were. In 2022, this led to the first conviction of a senior Syrian official for crimes against humanity.
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#1
So, 10 years later...
If 'those people' could get their shit together the world would be in a big hurt.
If 'our people' could get their shit together the world would still be in a big hurt.
Three soldiers were killed in the ongoing Kulgam encounter on Friday, the Army said.
The encounter started Friday evening after 34 Rashtriya Rifles and J&K Police started searches in the Halan forest area in the upper reaches of Kulgam district.
The contact was established after the bandidosholy warriors shot up the joint search party of Police and RR.
"Operation Halan #Kulgam: On specific inputs regarding the presence of bandidosholy warriors in the higher reaches of Halan in Kulgam, operations launched by security forces on Friday. In exchange of firing with terrorists, three personnel sustained injuries and later succumbed. Search operations are continuing. #Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... @adgpi @NorthernComd_IA@JmuKmrPolice," Chinar Corps-Indian Army said in a tweet late Friday evening.
Earlier, the three soldiers were critically injured and shifted to 92 Base Hospital here where they gave up the ghost.
Earlier, in the day Police said that the encounter had started.
"#Encounter has started at high reaches of Halan forest area of #Kulgam district. Army and Kulgam Police are on the job. Further details shall follow," Kashmir Zone Police tweeted soon after the encounter broke out in the area.
In another tweet, Police said that three soldiers were maimed and they have been evacuated for treatment. "#Kulgam Encounter Update: Three soldiers got injured in the #encounter. They are being evacuated to hospital for treatment. Search in the area intensifies. Further details shall follow @JmuKmrPolice," Police said in another tweet.
The spot of encounter is difficult due to the rugged terrain.
"It is in dense forests and dark there," Additional Director General of Police, Kashmir, Vijay Kumar said.
He said the cordon had been tightened and searches had been intensified.
The encounter in Kulgam broke after recovery of a missing soldier by Police on Thursday from an orchard in Chawalgam area of Kulgam district. Police and Army recovered the soldier after six days of intense joint searches.
Srinagar Police arrested three terrorist associates linked with proscribed terror outfit TRF, offshoot of proscribed terror outfit LeT in Natipora area of Srinagar, a statement by police said.
It said that acting on specific intelligence, a small team of Srinagar police at a checkpoint established at Harnabal Natipora arrested three terrorist associates linked with proscribed terrorist outfit TRF. They have been identified as Imran Ahmad Najar son of Late Abdul Rehman Najar resident of Bulbul Bagh Baramulla, Waseem Ahmad Matta son of Tariq Ahmad Matta resident of Qamarwari Srinagar and Wakeel Ahmad Bhat son of Nazir Ahmad Bhat resident of Pazalpora Bijbehara.
"From their possession, police recovered 03 hand grenades, 10 pistol rounds, 25 AK-47 rounds and other incriminating materials, " it said.
The police claimed that Wakeel Ahmad Bhat was earlier an active terrorist linked with proscribed terrorist outfit ISJK & was lodged in jail for two years and was released recently from Central Jail on bail. During preliminary investigation, it came to fore that the trio had collected the explosive substances and ammunition from active Lions of Islam of TRF for carrying terrorist activities in Srinagar city, thereby averted a terror threat, it said.
Subsequently, a case FIR number 46/23 under section 3/4 Explosive Act, 7/25 Arms Act, 18, 23, 39 UAPA Act was registered at Police Station Chanapora and investigation has been set into motion.
Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... Police on Thursday detained a terrorist associate under Public Safety Act(PSA) in Kishtwar.
Police said that in order to ensure public safety and safeguard national security, the Kishtwar Police, as a preventive measure, detained Abdul Karim Butt, a resident of Badhat Saroor, tehsil Drabshalla in district Kishtwar under PSA. He happens to be brother of hardcore HM A++ category bad boy namely Jahangir Saroori.
Mr. Saroori was a district commander of Hizb ul Mujahideen (HM), the militant wing of Jamaat i-Islami on Pakistan’s ISI payroll for the purpose of conquering Indian Kashmir, so it seems safe to assume that Mr. Butt is likewise involved with HM.
Quoting a top police officer, news agency Kashmir Scroll reported that the detained bad boy associate was previously involved in anti national activities and accordingly was booked under provisions of UAPA Act and is facing trial in NIA court.
The officer said that the person's current activities are prejudicial to the security of the country and his free movements in the society also create circumstances to radicalise youth.Accordingly, the subject has been detained under PSA and lodged at District Jail Kishtwar.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) is conducting raids at various places in the Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... , in connection with terror links and terror funding cases, officials said on Friday. The raids are part of an ongoing investigation into the raising of funds for sponsoring terrorist activities, they said.
More details about the raids are awaited.
Earlier, the NIA on Tuesday conducted widespread searches in four districts of the Valley in the NGO terror funding case relating to raising funds for sponsoring terrorist activities.
Extensive raids were conducted at seven locations in Srinagar, Budgam, Kupwara and Pulwama districts, at the premises of Trusts and individuals associated with Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Societies (JKCCS), an NGO involved in raising funds for banned terrorist organizations, the NIA said.
Appearing in 2000 in Srinagar, it is beloved in international rights NGO circles, like Amnesty International and the UN.
[Dawn] A senior officer of Levies force and four others were maimed in a kaboom in the Mazai Adha area of Qila Abdullah, a district bordering Afghanistan, on Thursday evening.
Officials said unidentified gunnies attached the bomb to the roof of a Levies vehicle which went off when Risaldar Major Mohammad Nasim was travelling in it along with other people. All the five people suffered injuries while the vehicle was damaged.
Levies and FC personnel reached the site of the incident and shifted the injured to the district hospital Qila Abdullah. Later, the injured were moved to the Trauma Centre at Civil Hospital, Quetta.
Levies officials said the bomb was kept in a bag, adding that investigation into the incident was under way.
[Shafaq News] The Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) reported on Friday the successful apprehension of eight holy warriors through operations conducted in various regions of the country.
According to the official statement, CTS swiftly executed an operation in the capital, Baghdad, arresting two holy warriors in the Dora area.
In a targeted operation in Diyala, one individual affiliated with ISIS was apprehended.
The statement further highlighted the coordinated efforts with the Counter-terrorism Regiment in al-Sulaymaniyah, leading to the arrest of two terrorists.
Additionally, another terrorist was captured in Kirkuk along the road to al-Sulaymaniyah. In al-Anbar, CTS successfully arrested a terrorist and his father, linked to ISIS.
In the desert of Hatra, near djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , the CTS acted on precise intelligence, neutralizing a cave and four tunnels that served as weapons and equipment storage for ISIS.
Furthermore, CTS accomplished its mission by locating a weapons cache in Diyala's Jallula sub-district. The CTS seized the weapons and explosives, and the damaged ones were safely detonated, ensuring the safe return of our forces.
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[Shafaq News] An bomb targeted an energy transmission tower in Diyala province on Friday.
According to a security source, the incident occurred in the Mouradia area, situated approximately 15 kilometers southwest of Baquba, resulting in significant damage to the tower.
The source indicated that faceless myrmidons detonated the bomb, leading to the destruction of the electricity transmission tower, and a security force promptly arrived at the scene and launched an investigation to uncover the circumstances surrounding the incident.
This attack marks the first in Diyala province this summer. However, the way to a man's heart remains through his stomach... the Iraqi Ministry of Electricity confirmed several incidents, including attacks, technical malfunctions, and fires, targeting power towers across several regions, including Saladin, Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... Wasit, and Basra. These assaults resulted in complete power line disconnections and subsequent shutdowns of the electrical grid.
As Iraqi cities grapple with record-breaking temperatures and water scarcity, the power crisis adds to citizens' burden.
[Shafaq News] The Federal Police reported on Friday the apprehention of a wanted individual affiliated with ISIS, known as "Abu Ru'ya," in al-Jihad neighborhood of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
According to today's statement by the Federal Police, the operation was carried out after receiving information confirming that the terrorist was one of the wanted individuals listed in the database, bearing an identification number that proves his association with ISIS.
He was also identified as one of the organizers of ISIS' financial support. He had fled to one of the neighboring countries during the liberation operations.
The statement further noted that the security forces, with the support of intelligence efforts, were monitoring his return and were able to arrest him and hand him over to the relevant authorities for appropriate legal action.
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[Rudaw] The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced that four of its fighters were killed as a result of a Ottoman Turkishdronezap in northeast Syria (Rojava) on Thursday evening.
The Ottoman Turkish drone targeted a vehicle carrying six members of the Kurdish-led forces on the road to Hermi Shekho village, 10 kilometers west of Qamishli, killing four of the fighters and wounding the other two, according to a statement from the SDF.
The statement claimed that the fighters "were heading home for their monthly vacation" when the strike occurred.
Ankara frequently targets the SDF and its Kurdish backbone the People’s Protection Units (YPG) in Syria on the grounds that they have links with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and pose a threat to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
[Rudaw] The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Friday refuted a Ottoman Turkish defense ministry claim that they killed five of the Kurdish-led force in an operation in northeast Syria (Rojava).
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... ’s defense ministry issued a statement that its army had killed five SDF fighters in an area along the border that the Ottoman Turkish army and its Syrian proxies seized control of during its 2019 "Peace Spring" operation.
"According to the Ministry of Defense of the occupying Ottoman Turkish state, today while our forces were preparing for the attack in the Serekaniye - Girespi region, five of our fighters were martyred. On this day, no attack attempt was made by our forces on the occupied area. Their claim is not true," the SDF tweeted hours after the Ottoman Turkish statement.
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— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) August 4, 2023
Two Death Eaters of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... (HTS, formerly al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front) were killed and another was maimed on Friday due to mutual shelling with Syrian government forces in northwest Syria.
An exclusive source told North Press that two HTS Death Eaters were killed as a result of targeting their vehicle in the town of al-Bara in Idlib Governorate by the government forces.
The source said a civilian was maimed during a shelling by the government forces on the positions of the HTS and the Ottoman Turkish-backed armed opposition factions, known as the Syrian National Army (SNA), in the village of Kherbet al-Naqous, west of Hama Governorate.
Also, the government forces shelled the SNA positions in the town of al-Nayrab and Sarmin, east of Idlib. However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... another shelling targeted the factions’ position in the village of Kafr Noran and al-Atareb, west of Aleppo, according to the source.
The source pointed out that the HTS responded to the shelling on the government forces’ positions in Regiment 46 and Urum al-Kubra in the west of Aleppo, Kafr Nabel in the south of Idlib, and Saraqib in the east.
The HTS, rebranded in 2017, controls the city of Idlib and western Aleppo Governorate, under the guise of the Salvation Government.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
by Emad Almarshahi
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...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
