[Task & Purpose] When the national anthem began playing during a Steelers and Patriots game, Marine veteran Christian Brown stood tall even though he has no legs.
Marine veterans Christian Brown and Nick DelCampo have been close friends since they joined the Marines in 2009. They stepped on the yellow footprints at Parris Island, South Carolina, were in the same platoon when they went through infantry training, and later, were assigned to Weapons Company, 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment based at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.
On Dec. 13, 2012, during their second deployment, Brown stepped on an improvised explosive device while leading his squad on foot in Helmand province, Afghanistan. The blast took one leg above the knee, and the other, below the hip. He also lost part of his right index finger.
After Brown’s injury, and throughout his recovery, the two stayed in touch, and in late October of this year, they met up for a wounded veterans deer-hunting trip in Pennsylvania.
While in the area, the two Marine vets were offered tickets to a Steelers and Patriots football game on Oct. 23. When they arrived, they both received signed jersey’s belonging to the Steelers’ offensive tackle Alejandro "Ali" Villanueva, himself a former Army Ranger.
When the national anthem began playing, Brown stood up in his wheelchair, and DelCampo took the photo, which went viral after he posted it to Facebook on Oct. 28. Con't.
"Yeah, that was us..."
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group loyalists claimed responsibility for the suicide attack on local tribal elders in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan.
The group issued a statement in Arabic language claiming that the attack left at least 15 people dead and several others wounded.
The statement further added that the attack was carried out by the group’s fighter Salman Al-Khurasani, targeting the Pacher Agam district elders in south of Jalalabad city.
However, the local security officials said at least 4 people, all civilians, were killed in the attack and at least 6 others were wounded.
The attack in Khalis Family area of Jalalabad city on Monday afternoon came as the local tribal elders had gathered to discuss the situation of the province.
The ISIS loyalists have recently increased to their insurgency activities in the remote areas of Nangarhar including in Pacher Agam district.
The deputy house speaker of the Afghan parliament Zahir Qadir earlier warned that the terror group is attempting to establish the Khurasan Caliphate in the country.
Qadir said the loyalists of the terror group have managed to take control of a strategic area in Pacher Agam and are looking to expand foothold in the neighboring Tora Bora mountainous region, warning that the Caliphate will start taking shape if they managed to seize Tora Bora.
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Somalia National Army forces have withdrawn from Gofgadud area, 30Km from Baidoa town, the provincial capital of Bay region, residents said. They reportedly vacated the area over unknown reason.
The area was re-captured by government troops backed by forces from South-West State administration.
In an online statement, Al Shabaab said it had entered and liberated the area, shortly after the forces pulled out.
Somalia military officials were unavailable to reach on the phone for comments on the vacation made their forces.
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[PJMedia] Terrorists behind string of hotel attacks pledge allegiance to ISIS
A West African Islamist group that has participated in a string of grisly attacks aimed at foreigners across multiple countries is now officially part of ISIS, the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... said Sunday.
"The Murabitin Brigade under leadership of Abul-Walid as-Sahrawi in northern Mali pledges allegiance to Shaykh His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... and joins the Islamic State," ISIS' Amaq news agency said in a statement.
ISIS released a video in which as-Sahrawi reads a statement of allegiance, then masked fighters put their hands in team-style while reciting a pledge to al-Baghdadi. They then cheered "Allahu Akbar."
As-Sahrawi, an Algerian, pledged allegiance to ISIS last year, but it was not publicly recognized by the Islamic State. Divisions within al-Mourabitoun rendered that more of a personal declaration than speaking for the whole group. In particular, al-Mourabitoun co-founder Mokhtar Belmokhtar, also Algerian, was reportedly not on board. In December, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb announced that al-Mourabitoun was part of AQIM once again.
Al-Mourabitoun began as a merger of two jihadist groups: the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MOJWA), linked to as-Sahrawi, and Belmokhtar’s al-Mulathameen Brigade. Belmokhtar has maintained his loyalty to al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri ... Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, now the head cheese, occasionally described as the real brains of the outfit. Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's fatwa entitled World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders. Currently residing in the North Wazoo area assuming he's not dead like Mullah Omar. He lost major face when he ordered the nascent Islamic State to cease and desist and merge with the orthodx al-Qaeda spring, al-Nusra... Al-Mourabitoun and AQIM attacked the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako, Mail, last November, killing 20 including American development expert Anita Ashok Datar. In January, the two groups attacked the the Cappuccino restaurant and Splendid Hotel in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... , killing 30 including two former members of the Swiss parliament and American missionary Michael James Riddering. In March, AQIM and al-Mourabitoun again teamed up for an attack on a beach resort in Grand-Bassam, Ivory Coast, killing 18.
Meanwhile, the other branch of the Mourabitounes is also keeping itself busy:
[AnNahar] A Romanian mineworker kidnapped by an al-Qaida affiliate last year appeared in a video released Monday urging his government to secure his release as soon as possible. Iulian Ghergut, then a security officer, was taken on April 4, 2015, when five armed men attacked a manganese mine in Tambao, 220 miles (350 kilometers) northeast of Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou, officials said at the time.
Ghergut, heavily bearded and squinting slightly, says he is in good health in the video he dated September 21 of this year. Speaking in a thick accent in French, he says he thinks of his family, while pressing his family and the Romanian government itself to do everything possible to secure his release.
The clip was distributed by SITE, a group based just outside Washington that monitors extremist groups.
Ghergut was taken by Al-Murabitoun, led by one-eyed Algerian militant Mokhtar Belmokhtar. The group, which has since affiliated itself with al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, has claimed responsibility for several spectacular and bloody attacks in sub-Saharan Africa.
Kidnappings of foreigners, often for ransom, occasionally occur in Mali and Niger but not usually in Burkina Faso, a landlocked Sahel country.
There was a sharp spike in civilian dead and wounded in Libya during October with UNSMIL recording 29 people killed and 73 injured, up from seven slain and four wounded in September.
The victims, largely from shelling and airstrikes, included seven dead children and three dead women. Thirteen children were also injured.
The majority of the deaths was in Benghazi where 19 were killed and 64 injured, followed by Zawia, where five civilians have perished in recent fighting. UNSMIL warned that this figure was likely to increase as reports of other fatalities are confirmed.
In Tripoli, one of the two dead was a Tawerghan woman in a refugee camp. There were also single killings in Derna, Sorman and Sirte, in the last of which the victim was Dutch photojournalist Jeroen Oerlemans.
The Benghazi death toll was boosted by the discovery of ten handcuffed bodies on a rubbish dump at Sheibna near the social security headquarters. As the month closed a car bomb killed four and injured 18 civilians in the city’s Kish Square. Among the slain was anti-corruption activist Mohamed Bughaighis.
UNSMIL said that two women and five children died in airstrikes on Benghazi’s Ganfouda district where civilians were trapped because of fighting between the Libyan National Army and the Benghazi Revolutionaries’ Shura Council. It noted “While no one claimed responsibility for the air strikes, information received indicated that the LNA or their allies carried out the airstrikes that caused civilian casualties in Ganfouda and Derna.”.
The governor of Al-Hudaydah province in Yemen Abdulla Abu Ghaith has confirmed that more than 2.5 million people in the province, which is located on the Red Sea coast, are at risk of starvation, poverty and homelessness due to the intransigence of rebel militias and their insistence on completely restricting daily life there.
Abu Ghaith told Asharq Al-Awsat that the rebels procure more than 15 billion Yemeni riyals ($ 60 million) a month from ships and customs at the port of Al-Hudaydah. Despite this, they have imposed a suffocating blockade on the population and are preventing local, regional and international organisations from providing assistance and saving the lives of hundreds of thousands of people who are suffering from widespread famine in the province.
The matter does end there – according to the governor of Al-Hudaydah, “The rebels have imposed a financial tax and are extorting citizens in the name of supporting the war effort and the Central Bank which they financially ruined and plundered”.
Abu Ghaith revealed that the latest statistics confirm that 82 per cent of the province’s population is suffering from famine, i.e. 2,500,000 of the province’s residents are hungry, poor or homeless. He continued by saying that according to statistics from 2016, the population of Al-Hudaydah is 3,860,102. At the beginning of the coup, the province received 300,000 displaced people from other provinces, and around 20,000 people have fled from the difficult conditions and threats in Al-Hudaydah.
Abu Ghaith said that “The militia is suppressing and severely restricting life in the province” and that “If the situation is not rectified quickly and the lives of millions saved, the real disaster will be the fate of families and innocents who are worried by the famine”.
JEDDAH: UN’s special envoy for Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said Monday he would return to the region without delay to try to convince warring parties in Yemen to reach a peace deal that would end the 19-month war in Yemen.
“The dawn of peace could be near if parties decided to prioritize national interests and work on rebuilding a stable state for all people,” Ould Cheikh said on Monday.
“It is now the responsibility of the delegations to prioritize peace, rather than partisan agendas. Parties must engage in good faith,” he added.
“I briefed the UN Security Council today (Monday) on the latest developments in Yemen and challenges facing efforts to ensure the country’s return to peace. What Yemen is witnessing today contravenes the commitments made by the parties to the UN,” he said yesterday on his Twitter account.
Yemen’s President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi rejected the latest UN peace proposal, saying it “rewards the putschists” who seized power in Sanaa, while the Houthi militias said the roadmap has “fundamental flaws.”
The UN envoy stressed that he conducted consultations with the parties over the last few weeks, and presented a comprehensive and detailed roadmap to end the conflict, stressing that he roadmap is consistent with UN Security Council Resolution 2216, the GCC Initiative and the outcomes of the Yemeni National Dialogue Conference.
“The roadmap contains a set of sequenced political and security steps, conducted in parallel, which would help Yemen return to peace. It foresees the creation of military and security committees, which would supervise withdrawals and handover of weapons in Sanaa, Hodeida and Taiz,” he said.
“The committees would also be tasked with ensuring the complete end of military violence and the safety of population and state institutions. The roadmap lays out interim political arrangements, including appointment of a new vice president and the formation of a Government of National Unity,” said the envoy, adding that the international community supports the roadmap because it includes guarantees for the political representation all political groupings.
Urging the Security Council to lend its full support to the peace plan, an immediate cessation of hostilities and the release of detainees by the warring parties, Ould Cheikh said that if the warring parties in Yemen do not reach a peace agreement soon, the country could collapse, with dire consequences for the entire region.
The United Nations’ humanitarian chief Stephen O’Brien told the Security Council on Monday that 80 percent of Yemenis, some 21.2 million people, need some form of humanitarian assistance and over 2 million people, including 370,000 children, are suffering from malnutrition.
The country now has 61 confirmed and 1,700 suspected cases of cholera, O’Brien told the Security Council by telephone from Bahrain.
Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has downplayed Europe’s “red line” on press freedom and rejected remarks by the head of the European Parliament over the detention of the top staff of daily Cumhuriyet on terror charges.
He would, wouldn't he...
“Brother, we don’t care about your red line. It’s the people who draw the red line. What importance does your line have?” Yıldırım told members of his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) in a speech in parliament on Nov. 1.
"And my boss speaks for the people who draw the red line. Why, it's his hidden hand that draws the red line. His hidden hand and your blood..."
“Turkey is not a country to be brought in line with salvoes and threats. Turkey gets its power from the people and will be held accountable by the people,” Yıldırım added.
The United States and European Union both voiced concern about the move in Turkey, while European Parliament President Martin Schulz wrote on Twitter that the detentions marked the crossing of “yet another red line” against freedom of expression in the country.
“The detention of [editor] Murat Sabuncu and other Cumhuriyet journalists is yet another red-line crossed against freedom of expression in Turkey,” Schulz said.
Yıldırım accused Europeans of applying double standards on freedoms, saying they allowed propaganda by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the European Parliament.
“We have no problem with press freedom. This is what we can’t agree with our European friends. They always bring up press freedom when we take steps in our fight against terrorism,” he said, adding that they should allow the judiciary to perform its duty without interference.
Perhaps because the Euros are really, really good at understanding when someone is using the "fight against terrorism" to suppress legitimate opposition. After all, the Euros themselves have experience at this...
Police detained the editors and top staff of daily Cumhuriyet, a pillar of the country’s secularist establishment, on Oct. 31, on accusations that the newspaper’s coverage had helped precipitate a failed military coup in July.
Journalists at the paper were suspected of seeking to precipitate the coup through “subliminal messages” in their columns before it happened, the state-run Anadolu Agency said. The suspects were charged with “committing crimes on behalf of the Fethullah Terrorist Organization [FETÖ] and the PKK.”
And just try proving that your writing isn't "subliminally" influencing someone else. It's the whole point of writing, after all...
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I only "write" to make the djinns go away. Working so far.
Attacks targeting the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) will increase and the party must be careful to resist “provocations,” CHP head Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has said, after a senior party official was shot in the leg on Oct. 29.
“My deputy chair, Bülent Tezcan, was injured by a bullet. Provocations against the CHP will increase … We have to be very careful about provocations targeting us. We have to be prudent and cautious,” Kılıçdaroğlu said on Nov. 1 in a speech to his party group in parliament.
"Principles are all well and good, comrades, but let's remember we're talking about the risk of being put into a Turkish prison!"
He particularly recalled an incident in when he escaped two separate armed attacks by outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants targeting his party’s motorcade in the Şavşat district of the Black Sea province of Artvin on Aug. 25.
“A bullet has also been thrown at me during a martyr’s funeral, and one of my deputy chairs has been injured by a bullet. If a price has to be paid, it will be me who first pays that price,” Kılıçdaroğlu said.
More armed groups could appear in the post-July 15 coup attempt process, he also warned, slamming the government for imposing a “regime of chaos in the country.”
“Could there possibly be a state like this?” he added, repeating his earlier claim that the attack on Tezcan was a well-planned act.
“It was a planned attack and I am curious about the will behind it,” he said.
“They said [he was] a nationalist. But nationalists are patriots: They love their flag and they love their country. Those who act on someone else’s command and shoot someone cannot be a person of an ideal. They are prone to being exploited,” Kılıçdaroğlu added.
Tezcan was shot in his foot on Oct. 29 while he was in a restaurant in the Aegean province of Aydın. The perpetrator of the act, identified as Alparslan Sargın, was caught by police shortly after the attack.
Shot the victim in the foot? That makes Sargin a Palestinian, doesn't it?
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Turkish daily Cumhuriyet, which saw a wave of detentions targeting executives and columnists early on Oct. 31, has published reports aimed at “stirring public disorder in line with the aims of the Fethullahist Terror Organization (FETÖ),” according to the probe’s prosecutor.
The purge enters a new phase. Erdogan now shuts down the opposition media. Soon the opposition pols will have no voice. Then they too go to the Turkish prisons...
According to the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office’s probe, Cumhuriyet is accused of “committing crimes on behalf of FETÖ and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party [PKK] without being a member,” aiming to “conceal the truth with manipulation and publish stories that aimed to make Turkey ungovernable.”
Reminder, Hurriyet Daily is a pro-government mouthpiece.
The prosecutor noted that Cumhuriyet was the target of the Gülenists during the Ergenekon coup plot case, but after the December 2013 probes Ergenekon’s prosecutors were involved in daily meetings with Cumhuriyet’s then editor-in-chief Can Dündar, state-run Anadolu Agency reported on Nov. 1.
The Ergenekon case was a massive probe into hundreds of senior military personnel, journalists and politicians on charges of attempting to stage a coup against the Turkish government. It is widely believed to be a conspiracy plotted by Gülenists.
The December 2013 corruption cases targeted figures close to the government and resulted in lasting enmity between the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government and the Gülenists.
According to the probe, Cumhuriyet started “publishing articles originating from FETÖ” after the probe cases and became the “public relations” outlet of terrorist organizations.
The charges also include the daily’s articles published after the failed July 15 coup attempt, believed to have been masterminded by the Gülenists. It complained that Cumhuriyet “made the counter-terrorism operations look like wars.”
The prosecutor also claimed that Cumhuriyet described anti-coup demonstrations as being marked by “hatred,” the post-coup attempt suspensions as “purges,” and the “resistance of the people against the coup-plotting soldiers as chaos.”
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Dateline: Turkey 2026
The last remaining individual of Turkey's 75 million people was arrested today and charged with plotting to overthrow Sultan Erdogan. Said the Sultan, "That will teach those Gullenist f****rs to mess with me!"
[NYTimes] Orlando Gunman’s Wife Breaks Silence: ‘I Was Unaware’
Things finally seemed to be going better for Noor Salman and her husband, Omar Mateen. He had been accepted into a police training program and had showered her with jewelry to celebrate. He had given her permission to visit her family in California and handed her spending money for the trip. And he had stopped hitting her.
Golly.
So when Mr. Mateen told her that he would not be home for dinner the afternoon of June 11, she asked him not to go. It was Saturday — and she hoped it would be a family night. But he told her that he had to see a friend, kissing her and hugging their 3-year-old son as he left.
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The Arab makes womenfolk frantic:
His passions burn firey and antic;
He's overprotective,
Loves lies and invective,
But other than that... so romantic!
Filed under WoT: yes, this is terrorism, not just shooting at cops. These "protesters" are on public land, attempting to murder police, obstructing peace and justice, denying the rights of others, all the while shrieking and blabbering socialist/progressive nonsense. Terrorism.
Attempted murder and other charges have been filed against a Denver woman who allegedly fired three shots at North Dakota law officers during an operation to force Dakota Access pipeline protesters off private land.
Authorities say 37-year-old Red Fawn Fallis was arrested Thursday after she allegedly pulled out a .38-caliber pistol and fired three times, narrowly missing a sheriff’s deputy. Officers didn’t return fire.
Fallis also was charged Monday with preventing arrest, possession of a concealed handgun and possession of marijuana. Court records don’t list an attorney to comment on those charges. She faces up to 20 years in prison on the attempted murder charge.
Court records show Fallis was arrested twice in September during pipeline protests and pleaded not guilty to disorderly conduct and criminal trespass.
So she escalated. Who put her up to it?
Protesters at the demonstration against the Dakota Access pipeline are increasingly divided over how to stop the project. Militant younger activists are seeking more aggressive tactics, and an older crowd argues for peaceful protest centered on prayer.
Who's whispering to the 'younger activists'? Might that person be employed by the usual progressive NGOs?
The differences came to a head last week after law enforcement officers in riot gear forced hundreds of protesters off an encampment on private property. In response, some demonstrators torched three vehicles on a bridge. That created a blockade that effectively cut off easy access to the pipeline construction zone and made it harder for the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and nearby residents to get to Bismarck.
Many other protesters insist that their efforts cannot resort to law breaking. They support the threat of eviction that the main camp has issued against instigators.
Ah, the 'moderates', who can't quite bring themselves to do anything about their frisky colleagues...
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One of my high school classmates traveled from SC to hang out with 'my indigenous brothers and sisters.' two days ago. In a totally unrelated matter, she voted for Bernie in the primary, 'cuz she hates corporate greed.
[Ynet] After conquering villages in northern Iraq, ISIS spells out in great detail their system of rules; 'Pre-pubescent girls can be taken as concubines. You cannot have penetrative sex but you can still enjoy them.'
After ISIS conquered villages in northern Iraq, it spelled out in minute detail the rules of its self-proclaimed caliphate, from beard length to alms to guidelines for taking women as sex slaves.
ISIS documents and posters, obtained in villages captured by Iraqi forces, highlight a tight and comprehensive system of rule by the bully boys, who went to great lengths to explain their myrmidon philosophy.
The documents and other materials, printed with ISIS logos, were found by Rooters in offices used by the group until a few days ago. Members of the Iraqi forces told Rooters the documents originated from ISIS, although this could not be independently verified.
Iraqi security forces and Kurdish peshmerga fighters have seized several villages and towns during an offensive against the northern city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , ISIS's last stronghold in the country.
When ISIS swept through the north in 2014, it announced a self-proclaimed caliphate, which appealed to some fellow Sunnis who felt marginalized by the Shi'ite-led central government.
But that appeal faded as ISIS enforced its medieval thinking with brute force, beheading anyone deemed an opponent.
Slick, colorful posters, pamphlets and documents highlight ISIS's intense focus on dictating what it called proper Islamic behavior for the citizens of its caliphate.
Violations of its rules meant punishment such as public whipping or being hauled off to Mosul for execution, according to several villagers who recently beat feet from ISIS areas.
A green wallet-size insert lays out guidelines for how to pray properly. It shows a young boy undertaking ablutions. "Wash your feet from the direction of your toes down to your heels," it said.
Gold bracelets
A five-page pamphlet with pictures of gold bracelets, diamond rings and wheat on the front spelled out instructions on how to give alms, an obligation under Islam. Failure to do so would mean a penalty.
In the village of Shura, where seven ISIS jacket wallahs were recently rubbed out as they rushed toward Iraqi forces, murderous Moslems kept meticulous records of who had given alms. Entries showed whether an individual owned gold, property or a car. Monthly salaries were also noted.
Unlike al Qaeda, its predecessor in Iraq, ISIS made its name in the jihadi world by becoming the first bully boy group to capture significant amounts of land in the Middle East, hold it and then set up an administration.
But air strikes by a US-led coalition targeting ISIS's leaders and its sources of income have dealt a major blow to the caliphate.
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They recommend destroying your dish TV? That's hardly a winning recruiting message.
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.
Zawahiri
Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has downplayed Europe’s “red line” on press freedom and rejected remarks by the head of the European Parliament over the detention of the top staff of daily Cumhuriyet on terror charges. 
Turkish daily Cumhuriyet, which saw a wave of detentions targeting executives and columnists early on Oct. 31, has published reports aimed at “stirring public disorder in line with the aims of the Fethullahist Terror Organization (FETÖ),” according to the probe’s prosecutor.
