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-Lurid Crime Tales-
ICE seeks illegal immigrant in Colorado fatal hit-and-run who bonded out of jail
[FoxNews] Ivan Zamarripa-Castaneda, 26, allegedly fled the scene of the accident on Interstate 70 involving a tractor-trailer that caught on fire last week, leaving the driver to die, according to the Denver Police Department.

The 26-year-old had bond posted at $25,000, meaning he could get out of jail for $2,500 and avoid federal immigration officials until his next court date. That's because the Denver Police Department and other state agencies stopped honoring detainer orders from ICE since 2013 after courts ruled it was illegal.

The Denver Sheriff Department, which operates the jail, told Fox News last week that unless ICE gets a federal criminal warrant that Zamarripa-Castaneda could leave detention after posting bond.

ICE officials told Fox News last week they detain up to 40,000 people per day, and don't have the resources to go after every federal warrant.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/12/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Bullshit. The publicity and outrage was out about this guy. It was a deliberate attempt to keep him free from the Feds. Heads should roll, starting at the top, like Broward
Posted by: Frank G || 03/12/2018 10:14 Comments || Top||

#2  That's because the Denver Police Department and other state agencies stopped honoring detainer orders from ICE since 2013 after courts ruled it was illegal.
Actually this is a Federalism issue that has been getting more severe as the national prison population expands: the Feds are too busy/cheap($$) so they are effectively having the States pay to house their suspects, the States are doing it to the Counties, and the Counties to the Cities... Everyone wants someone else to pay for the upkeep.
There is also the whole 'Free the Pot/illegals/etc' cause du jour grandstanding by the locals...
Posted by: magpie || 03/12/2018 10:55 Comments || Top||

#3  Bunk space and chow problem? I'll go with the Trump-Chinese solution.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/12/2018 10:58 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Woman among three kidnappers arrested Afghan forces in Nangarhar
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan intelligence operatives have tossed in the slammer
Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
at least three kidnappers including a woman in eastern Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
province of Afghanistan, the local officials said Sunday.

Provincial governor’s front man Attaullah Khogyani said a 8-month-old child was also recovered from the custody of the kidnappers.

Khogyani further added that the child, Hamza, was kidnapped from a clinic belonging to Dr. Marwa in the 4th police district of Jalalabad city nearly a week ago.

He said the kidnappers of the child were arrested during an operation of the Afghan intelligence operatives in Ikmalati Base area of the city.

The kidnapped child was also recovered during the operation and was handed over to his family, Khogyani added.

This comes as criminal related incidents including kidnappings are on the rise in the key cities of the country despite efforts are underway to ensure law and order by the security forces.

This is not the first time a woman has been arrested in connection to a kidnapping case as several women have been arrested in connection to the similar incidents as well as other charges including murder, drugs smuggling, and robbery.
Posted by: Fred || 03/12/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Africa North
Cairo denies reports that 100 Egyptians were deported from Germany
This is queer... a follow up to this report from last Friday.
[AlAhram] Egypt's ambassador to Germany has denied media reports that a hundred Egyptians were deported to Cairo over violations of residency requirements, the Egyptian foreign ministry said in a statement.

According to Ambassador Badr Abdel-Ati, only nine Egyptians were deported from Germany on Thursday for violations of residency requirements.

"The nine Egyptians were deported after several months of coordination with the Egyptian embassy in Berlin and the Egyptian consulates in Frankfurt and Hamburg, as well the Egyptian authorities back in Cairo, to issue them travel documents," he said in his statement.

On Wednesday, Rooters quoted anonymous officials at Cairo International Airport as saying that a flight had landed in Cairo carrying 100 Egyptian deportees, adding that it was the first time for Germany to deport such numbers to Cairo.

Abdel-Ati added that if that flight from Cairo to Frankfurt that had on board a hundred passengers, then the majority were from the technical, media and security support teams, insisting that Egyptian deportees were not more than nine.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/12/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russia successfully tests ‘Kinzhal’ hypersonic missile system
[ALMASDARNEWS] Footage from the Russian Defence Ministry shows MiG-31 fighter jet pilots carrying out the practical training and combat launch of a missile from the latest hypersonic ’Kinzahl’ missile system, from an airfield in the Southern Military District on Saturday.

The fighter jet launched the hypersonic missile from the stratosphere, before it successfully hit its target in the range.

The launch offered confirmation on both the tactical and technical characteristics and parameters of the high-precision missile Kinzhal system.

The interceptor aircraft set off from an airfield in the Southern Military District in order to carry out pilot-combat duty training.
Posted by: Fred || 03/12/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Based on Iskander. Mini Skybolt. We gave up on that a long while back...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/12/2018 13:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Without any data on altitude, range, speed or target CEP it’s just a belly launched bottle rocket video.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/12/2018 14:54 Comments || Top||


Europe
Incoming German Minister Vows to Speed Up Migrant Repatriations
[AnNahar] German Chancellor Angela Merkel
...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslems ..
's incoming interior minister on Sunday vowed to take a tough line against convicted criminal migrants colonists and speed up repatriations of rejected asylum seekers.

Horst Seehofer, of Merkel's conservative Bavarian sister party the CSU, also promised a broader "zero-tolerance" law and order drive under their new government to be launched Wednesday.

Seehofer was long the harshest critic within Merkel's conservative bloc of her decision to open Germany's borders to a mass influx of refugees and migrants colonists since 2015.

Most of those who came across the Balkans route passed through Seehofer's southern state of Bavaria, at times more than 10,000 a day, sparking a strong backlash in the region.

In an interview with newspaper Bild am Sonntag, Seehofer said that as the new head of an expanded ministry of interior and homeland affairs, he was working on a "masterplan for speedier asylum procedures and consistent deportations."

Repatriations and deportations must be "raised significantly", he said, vowing to especially "get tougher" on those who break German law or are deemed a security threat.

"We want to remain a country that is open to the world and liberal," Seehofer said. "But when it comes to protecting the citizens, we need a strong state. I will take care of that."

Germany's mass migrant influx brought more than a million people to Europe's biggest economy, about half of them from war-torn Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.

It sparked a backlash and bolstered the rise of the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, which entered parliament last September with almost 13 percent of the vote.

Merkel's fourth-term government, a coalition with the centre-left Social Democrats that is due to be sworn in this week, has vowed to keep the annual intake of new asylum seekers below 200,000.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/12/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  After all this time he should have a masterplan worked out already. Unfortunately he has a reputation in Bavaria as a "Dampfplauderer" (talking hot air).

We'll see
Posted by: European Conservative || 03/12/2018 2:03 Comments || Top||

#2  We seen dis movie. Soylent Green(tm) is migrants!
Posted by: SteveS || 03/12/2018 2:20 Comments || Top||

#3  How's this supposed to work when they're still coming in?
Posted by: Raj || 03/12/2018 9:04 Comments || Top||

#4  Bail faster! We're sinking!
Posted by: Frank G || 03/12/2018 10:16 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
FBI Insiders Blow Whistle on Massive Las Vegas Cover Up; Agents Told Not to Investigate Key Evidence Including ISIS Terror Link to Mandalay Bay Massacre
[True Pundit] The “official” narrative you’ve been fed by the FBI and Las Vegas officials about the massacre at Mandalay Bay that claimed 58 lives is purely fiction, a polished story contrived to cover up the disturbing facts surrounding the worst mass shooting ever in the United States, according the FBI insiders and high-ranking intelligence officials.

And now, after months of corporate-infused spin by MGM Resorts and outright lies from officials in the FBI and the Las Vegas Metro Police Department, federal agents and intelligence officials are spilling the beans about what really happened on and before the Oct. 1 massacre.

“It’s a movie script that was written after the shooting to rewrite what really happened,” one FBI agent said. “The investigation is an entirely different story that we are not allowed to talk about. If we do and get caught, we get fired and probably charged (criminally).”

But why the cover up?

The answer to that is perhaps even more complicated than the revelations surrounding the shooting, which can only be explained as shocking and troubling to everyday Americans not connected to the law enforcement community and political machine that has become today’s FBI. While few if any bright Americans believed the official back story of the supposed Stephen Paddock rampage, the truth — it turns out — is even more bizarre than fiction here.

In fact, it’s downright frightening.

The FBI maintains that Stephen Paddock — the reported lone gunman — was a mystery man and his motive for killing dozens and injuring over 500 people still has not been pinpointed. Those assertions are simply untrue, FBI officials confirm. Lies. In the coming weeks, True Pundit will detail various parts of its investigation into the shooting and more importantly, paint a detailed portrait of the events leading to the shooting and Paddock’s likely accomplices and associates.

The major, shocking revelations include:
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/12/2018 11:44 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Broken link. Again.
Posted by: Herb McCoy7309 || 03/12/2018 11:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Try this
Posted by: Flease Brown3031 || 03/12/2018 12:13 Comments || Top||

#3  The article said it is likely Trump and Wray did not know about things brought out in this article. Given there are "insider FBI whistleblowers" that have spilled the beans who did the whistleblowers blow the whistle to? To the DOJ IG since they didn't to Wray or Trump? Or was it only to TP?

There have always been things about this shooting that did not square. I can understand that criminal investigations need to be protected to some degree. However, a little transparency within that boundary would help the victims, the victim's survivors and the rest of us as well.

Is TP credible? The article might be taken with some caution until more is known.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/12/2018 13:00 Comments || Top||

#4  Interesting and if true it is time to disband the FBI. At the very least, all the agencies in DC should have their headquarters moved to different states. That would really drain the swamp!
Posted by: Pliny Chomotch4212 || 03/12/2018 13:00 Comments || Top||

#5  http://www.politifact.com/personalities/true-pundit/

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/true-pundit/

Posted by: 746 || 03/12/2018 13:07 Comments || Top||

#6  Zerohedge does not have this yet. The "false flaggots" have a busy afternoon ahead...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/12/2018 13:23 Comments || Top||

#7  Posted by 746: Looks like the source TP occasionally gets it right while at other times it is in the tin foil-hat realm. I've noticed there are lot of unsubstantiated and unnamed sources in many of their articles.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/12/2018 13:59 Comments || Top||

#8  So the $200k+ payouts from the ‘crowdsourced’ fund were really indemnification bonds to preclude future civil suits.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/12/2018 14:42 Comments || Top||

#9  Begs the question -- why?
Posted by: Chumble Smith2858 || 03/12/2018 14:42 Comments || Top||

#10  Not a lot in the ‘bullet’ list that hasn’t been discussed bu the ‘burgers.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/12/2018 14:49 Comments || Top||

#11  If FBI informers are coming out I would expect them to implicate Trump somehow, perhaps he was helping feed the machine gun belt into the shooters weapon or something.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 03/12/2018 22:27 Comments || Top||

#12  "Posted by 746: Looks like the source TP occasionally gets it right while at other times it is in the tin foil-hat realm. I've noticed there are lot of unsubstantiated and unnamed sources in many of their articles."
Sounds like a pretty good description of CNN.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 03/12/2018 22:28 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Iraq's Sadr and Communist Sickle Join Forces for Election
[AnNahar] Supporters of a black-turbaned Shiite holy man are seeing red in the runup to Iraq's May elections thanks to an unprecedented alliance with the once-powerful communist party.

Populist preacher Moqtada Sadr has defied his holy manal rivals and opted to campaign for the May 12 poll alongside former enemies, Marxists who demand a secular state.

"This alliance is a first in Iraq," said Ibrahim al-Jaberi, a Sadrist official.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/12/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Commies


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Lebanon’s political power clans pass their assembly seats to the next generation
[ARABNEWS] Nine years have passed since the last election in Leb, and voters could be forgiven for being excited to see some fresh young faces standing to win seats in a Parliament dominated by aging men.

But in many cases the names, and what they stand for, are all too familiar.

Nearly a quarter of the 128 seats are expected to be passed on from an older relative to another member of the family, as the country’s politics of clans and dynasties shows little sign of fading. Of these, 19 candidates are standing for seats currently held by a father or mother.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 03/12/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:


Hezbollah Deputy Chief pledges to counter US, Israel attacks on Lebanon
[ALMASDARNEWS] The deputy chief of Leb-based Hezbollah group, Sheikh Naim Qassem
... the Grand Vizier of the Hezbullies...
, asserted that his organization would shield Leb from any US or Israeli schemes to destroy the country.

Qassem said that Hezbollah contributes to Leb’s strength and stability, and that the group is a "pillar" in the country. Contrary to reporting by the western press, Hezbollah is "an integral part of empowering institutions, shaping future, maintaining independence and preventing the [Israeli] occupying regime."

"The United States is trying to subordinate Leb [to foreigners]. Israel and America spare no efforts to attack Leb and impose sanctions on us. Hezbollah, nevertheless, is an obstacle to the implementation of such policies," he declared in the southern Lebanese city of Nabatieh on Saturday.

The official added that Hezbollah would deter any attempts at meddling in Leb’s approaching parliamentary elections slated for May, and that he hoped the polls would be representative of the entire Lebanese nation.

"America seeks to meddle in these elections in order to reduce the number of our politicians and allied political blocs," Qassem stated, quoted by broadcaster al-Manar.

Addressing supporters via a televised speech from the eastern Lebanese city of Baalbek on February 24, Hezbollah leader His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...
urged Lebanese citizens to participate in the upcoming May 6 elections.

"Voters should consider national interests when picking candidates and voting for them. People should approach the upcoming legislative polls from the perspective of fulfilling responsibilities towards the country," he stressed, adding that voters must not favor those who would hand over the country to the US, compromise oil reserves by any sort of alliance with Israel or conspire to destroy the country’s economy.
Posted by: Fred || 03/12/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah



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Mon 2018-03-12
  Syrian Army surrounds Jaysh Al-Islam stronghold in East Ghouta
Sun 2018-03-11
  First group of militants surrender arms & leave East Ghouta after Russia-brokered talks
Sat 2018-03-10
   Tuareg militias again clash with Islamic State-loyal militants in northern Mali
Fri 2018-03-09
  Mullah Fazlullah's kid killed in drone strike in Afghanistan
Thu 2018-03-08
  Accomplice of Paris attacks mastermind held in Poland
Wed 2018-03-07
  Kirkuk Klean up: 33 turbans permanently unwound
Tue 2018-03-06
  Paramilitary troops repulsed Islamic State suicide attack, north of Babel
Mon 2018-03-05
  20 Islamic State militants killed in clashes with Iraqi forces in Hawija
Sun 2018-03-04
  Teacher found guilty of grooming children to launch terror attacks in London
Sat 2018-03-03
  Mosul Clearances Continue: 30 turbans tied up or permanently unwound, ISIS chemicals concern, Saddam Hussein mass grave found
Fri 2018-03-02
  Attack underway in Burkina Faso's capital, police say
Thu 2018-03-01
  Nigerian-Cameroonian Troops Eliminate 35 Boko Haram fighters, Recover Large Weapons
Wed 2018-02-28
  US designates 'Daesh-Egypt', other ISIS affiliates as terrorist groups
Tue 2018-02-27
  Drone strike kill 3 militants, injures 3 more in Laghman province
Mon 2018-02-26
  Police arrest widow of Jemaah Islamiyah leader Marwan
Sun 2018-02-25
  UN Security Council unanimously votes in favor of Syria ceasefire resolution


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