The leader of California separatist group Yes California announced in a 1,600-word statement on Monday that he "intends to make Russia" his "new home" and is therefore withdrawing his petition for a "Calexit" referendum. Great. Now Dems have something they can investigate for real. I'm sure they'll get right on it.
Louis Marinelli, who has spearheaded the Calexit campaign since 2015, set up a makeshift embassy in Moscow in December in partnership with far-right Russian nationalists who enjoy Kremlin support while promoting secessionist movements in Europe.
"I have found in Russia a new happiness, a life without the albatross of frustration and resentment towards ones’ homeland, and a future detached from the partisan divisions and animosity that has thus far engulfed my entire adult life," Marinelli wrote on Monday. "Consequently, if the people of Russia would be so kind as to welcome me here on a permanent basis, I intend to make Russia my new home." Is this a fancy way of saying he found a Russian girlfriend?
He added that he will "not return to California in the forseeable future," so "it is only proper" that he withdraw the Calexit ballot initiative petition and "allow a new petition, free from ties to me and drafted by others, to be resubmitted at future date of their choosing." Since you're probablynot returning, you'll want to revoke your US citizenship so you won't have to pay double taxes.
Marinelli had been organizing the California independence referendum from Russia's fourth-largest city, Yekaterinburg, where he has lived with his wife, Anastasia, since September. Oops, I guess it wasn't a girlfriend thing. The wife was homesick and the commute to work was a bi+ch.
The F-35 Joint Strike Figher represents the US Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps' vision for the future of combat aviation, but a damning 2015 report detailed how the F-35 had lost in dogfights with F-16s and F-15s -- the very planes it was intended to replace.
Essentially it came down to energy management in the early days of the F-35's testing, according to the report.
During a dogfight, jets have to manage extreme amounts of kinetic energy while making pinpoint turns and maneuvers.
With smaller wings than some legacy fighters and an inferior thrust-to-weight ratio, the early F-35 pilots found it nearly impossible to engage with F-16s.
The report has since become a talking point for detractors of the F-35 program who say it's too expensive and not capable.
But according to retired US Marine Corps Maj. Dan Flatley, who helped design the training syllabus for F-35 dogfights, the F-35's lackluster performance against legacy jets had more to do with old habits of the pilots and a weapons system in its infancy rather than anything wrong with the F-35 concept itself.
"When you first get in the F-35 and try to fight it visually, you immediately go back to everything you knew in your legacy fighter," Flatley told Business Insider in a phone interview.
Indeed, the same report that details the F-35's losses to older jets states that the pilot himself had 2,000 flight hours in an F-15 Strike Eagle, which is a very different beast.
"If you try to fight it like a fighter it isn’t, you’re going to have terrible results," Flatley said of the F-35. Like any new weapons system, the F-35 takes some getting used to. In 2015, F-35 pilots were pulled from other fighters and introduced to a plane that fundamentally reimagined aerial warfare. A learning curve had to be covered.
Unlike dogfighters from World War II, the F-35 mainly focuses on flying undetected while using its array of fused sensors to paint a clear picture of the threat environment for miles out and to engage with targets before they're ever seen.
As exciting as dogfights are, it's been decades since a US jet engaged an enemy in a turning dogfight, and the F-35's design reflects that new reality.
"If I went out and fought an F/A-18 on day one I’d get destroyed," said Flatley. "But if you do what the jet is really good at, you can do things those other jets wouldn’t dream of."
Flatley stressed that dogfighting, where the close range diminishes the F-35's stealth and sensor fusion advantages, is certainly not the purpose of the Joint Strike Fighter, but rather it can excel in those situations in the right hands.
That's not to say the F-35 was a perfect aircraft that was simply misunderstood in 2015. Flatley said he did approach Lockheed Martin to suggest changes to the jet after its poor run against legacy aircraft.
One attribute the F-35 has that, counterintuitively, helps it in dogfights is its ability to slow down during a turn, but it was during these slow turns that pilots weren't able to control the plane how they were used to.
Basically, the engineers at Lockheed Martin built the F-35's flight controls with an incredible amount of automation, which Flatley said could make the jet "feel like it was fighting you," or "feel like the hand of god pushing you in certain directions."
Flatley and other F-35 pilots needed the ability to push their airplane right to the edge of its abilities -- almost to the point where it would fall out of the sky because it hit slow speeds at insane angles -- should they need to in a do-or-die dogfight.
"You guys are hand-holding us," Flatley told the engineers, who hadn't imagined the fighter pilot's need to push the limits of their aircraft.
"We want more authority. I want to be able to throw my nose around if I need to," said Flatley, referring to the plane's ability to point its front end at threats in order to better assess and target them.
So Lockheed Martin worked with the pilots and fixed the issues keeping them from acing dogfights, as they do now.
Since that test, the F-35's record speaks for itself. During Red Flag, the US Air Force's most realistic and challenging jet-fighter training event, the F-35 came out with a stunning 20-1 kill ratio on the legacy aircraft that had once beaten it.
Flatly, who came from an F/A-18 background, said he had to shake the old habits he formed in an aircraft that was originally conceptualized in the 1970s, but young pilots training today won't have those problems and could revolutionize the way the F-35 fights.
"The next generation, the first lieutenants that have never flown an F-18 before, those are the pilots that are going to define what the F-35 is going to do," said Flatley.
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During a dogfight, jets have to manage extreme amounts of kinetic energy... --Col. Boyd's Energy–maneuverability theory, yes. In WW2 the US pilots to dive, shoot n' disengage against the Zero ... or die.
The thing that bothers me is that the battlefield is not a dueling arena. Suppose your super-stealthy F-35 gets spotted by an enemy that wanders into the battlespace while you are trying to ace your opponent?
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"The next generation, the first lieutenants that have never flown an F-18 before, those are the pilots that are going to define what the F-35 is going to do,"
Yea, die! The first rule of air combat is to survive!
Really, go so slow in a turn, that makes them sitting ducks for any propeller war planes. The Japanese Zeros (Mitsubishi A6M) was almost unbeatable in WW2 until we finally got airplanes that can out-maneuver the Zeros. Point is the more maneuverable aircraft will almost always win, the F-35 "flying Turkey" ain't it.
Sorry Major Dan Flatley, I don't buy your explainion, it frankly smell of BS.
During a dogfight, jets have to manage extreme amounts of kinetic energy while making pinpoint turns and maneuvers.
Seriously, how does one manage kinetic energy other than throwing parts overboard? I'm thinking the guy does not understand mass as well as he think he does. Last time I checked, the laws of physics has yet to be overturned.
As exciting as dogfights are, it's been decades since a US jet engaged an enemy in a turning dogfight, and the F-35's design reflects that new reality.
Winning a dogfight is mostly being able to outturn your enemy. It's been a while since we were in any kind of dogfight. "New reality"? Anyone remember the F-111?
This article is IMO, a pathetic attempt to justify the F-35. I would have scrapped this designs after the first few prototypes. Copying the SR-71 look for the "cool" and "wow" factors does not make a decent fighter plane.
FBI Director James Comey and then-U.S. President Barack Obama relied on the hugely discredited ’BuzzFeed dossier’ to secure a FISA warrant against then-candidate Donald Trump’s team, reports CNN.
According to the outlet, U.S. officials briefed on the FBI’s Russia-Trump probe say Comey cited the dossier "in some of his briefings to members of Congress in recent weeks, as one of the sources of information the bureau has used to bolster its investigation."
As CNN goes on to state, "the dossier is a collection of memos compiled by a former British intelligence operative working for political opponents of Trump."
This is reportedly the same dossier BuzzFeed published earlier this year -- the one suggesting Russians had been supporting Donald Trump for years and had information concerning explicit pee-pee-centric encounters between Trump and prostitutes.
Ex-BuzzFeed reporter Rosie Gray ultimately published a piece in The Atlantic calling the dossier’s veracity into question.
The piece includes a comment from Trump aide Michael Cohen providing an alibi in response to allegations that he was "the ongoing secret liaison relationship between [Trump’s] campaign and the Russian leadership."
"I’ve not been to Prague, I’ve never been to Czech, I’ve not been to Russia," he said. "The story is completely inaccurate, it is fake news meant to malign Mr.Trump."
During the time frame the dossier places Cohen in Russia, he claims he was actually in a meeting with his son and a USC baseball coach. The coach confirmed this.
BuzzFeed, of course, published the dossier even when other mainstream media outlets like the Washington Post and The New York Times refused to do so, citing its unverified nature.
Now, it turns out ‐ as ZeroHedge also reports ‐ the FBI and Obama administration used the discredited report to receive a warrant against Trump team member Carter Page.
The warrant, claims ZeroHedge, "paved the way for Comey and the Obama administration to secretly monitor the Trump campaign."
ZeroHedge reports that Carter Page has responded to this latest revelation by stating, "I look forward to the Privacy Act of 1974 lawsuit that I plan to file in response to the civil rights violations by Obama administration appointees last year."
Oh dear. Looking at his Wikipedia page, one might assume that Mr. Page has both deep pockets and useful contacts. This could become amusing, though not for the targets.
"The discovery process will be of great value to the United States, as our nation hears testimony from them under oath and we receive disclosure of the documents which show what exactly was done in 2016." Never let a crisis fake news report go to waste.
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The Wikipedia page says the warrant by FISA was 90-days and renewed multiple times. So who's still renewing it? And what have they found to be able to continually do so?
Time to show your hand or fold, boys.
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We are faced with corruption in the agencies formed to ward against corruption. Ifeel it will only get worse.
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Still, mature software development methodologies, practices and tools will allow the domestic hiring of junior programmers at lower wages than what the experienced can demand.
'Time-to-Market' is more important for acquisition valuation than product stability.
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Hopefully this will curb the abuse by some companies to fire/layoff their folks and then hire an outside 'subcontractor' for various tasks.
It's illegal to fire/layoff your employee(s) and directly hire H1-B folks to replace them, so the workaround is to hire these 3rd party companies (who have no employees specifically for the required tasks and therefor can request the foreign workers with the required skillsets).
These 'Temporary Worker' companies just act as a pass-through....legally until now.
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Temp company still has to get the H1Bs too. Paper is still paper.
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Highly skilled my ass. Lowly paid would be more accurate.
I dealt with many of these types in my software consultant days and they were generally moderate at best talents. But they were also living 4 to a small apartment to cut costs to their employer (aka 3rd part sub-contractor).
It would have been better to have the companies subsidize the old CDI model for developing programmers and cut the regulations that made that such a cost prohibitive nightmare.
The New York Times bemoans Trump’s "recklessness." Ishaan Tharoor, a Washington Post blogger with the modest remit of covering the entire world, warns of the "dangers" of Trump’s policies. Even Ian Buruma, an expert on Dutch politics most famous for his bizarre attacks on the exceptionally brave Ayaan Hirsi Ali, has weighed in on Trump’s approach to North Korea: Apparently it "plays into North Korea’s hands."
And yet, the Trump approach is receiving plaudits precisely where it matters most: in South Korea.
South Korea, perhaps because its population is among the world’s oldest, remains a country dominated by print newspapers, which are highly influential. An official affiliated with the country’s dominant conservative party estimates to me that more than half of Koreans still read a daily newspaper. And those newspapers’ editorial boards have praised Trump’s North Korea policy.
The team of Trump, Tillerson, and Mattis have found in just weeks a policy that puts Pyongyang on notice, moves China closer to becoming a responsible player, but hasn’t pushed Seoul any closer to total political chaos.
After three Administrations worth of can-kicking, that’s not bad.
[FOX] Aaron Hernandez, the former New England Patriots star who was convicted of murder in 2015, killed himself in his prison cell Wednesday morning, officials said.
Hernandez, 27, was found hanging in his cell by corrections officers around 3:05 a.m. at the Souza Baranowski Correctional Center, Massachusetts Department of Correction officials said in a statement.
He was pronounced dead an hour later.
Hernandez was in a single cell in a general population housing unit and hanged himself with a bed sheet attached to his cell window. He also tried blocking his door from the inside with various items, officials said.
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On the bright side, with credit for time served, his 'life sentence' was reduced just over two years and Massachusetts tax payers finally catch a break.
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One assumes he didn't tie the proper neck-breaking knot, and did not have a long enough drop to break it anyway. An unpleasant way to die, and one he likely deeply regretted partway through.
I'm not familiar with the case -- was it really murder, or would it have been called manslaughter had he not been famous?
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What I don't understand is the suicide after he was acquitted recently in a different case. Did he think he'd be released from the first sentence or something? Did someone say something to him and really amp up the guilt?
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The guy he went to prison for murdering, he murdered because he thought the guy was going to snitch.
He was just acquitted in the double murder case that he committed the murder to avoid. So I'm sure it was the horrible irony that made him lose hope and end his life.
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Herb McCoy7309, except the snitch might have changed the course of the recent trial so its not really all that ironic.
[The Hill] Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) said on Tuesday that President Trump's frequent trips to his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida bother not only her, but other members of the Republican caucus.
"I do wish he would spend more time in Washington, D.C.," Ernst said during a town hall meeting. "That's what we have the White House for."
Since he took office, Trump has spent seven out of the last 13 weekends at his self-described "winter White House" in Palm Beach. The visits have stirred controversy, in part because of the enormous costs associated with such frequent travel.
One estimate of the weekend trips by CNN placed the cost so far above $20 million, putting Trump on track to spend more on travel in his first year in office than former President Obama spent in eight years. A 'CNN' estimate you say ?
Before becoming president, Trump frequently assailed Obama for his excessive travel and vacations, arguing that the then-president should stay in Washington to work rather than play golf on the weekends.
"I think that has been bothering not just me but some other members of our caucus," Ernst said of Trump's Mar-a-Lago trips.
POTUS appears to be fully engaged, working long hours, and getting things done. He did support your bullshi* ethanol subsidies and blended fuels mandate. You were happy with him then.
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It terrible all those K-Street hustlers have to travel down to Florida to turn their Congresscritter there visiting the southern White House for dinner.
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President Obama played on the weekends, and frequently during the week as well, in addition to his frequent vacations. President Trump works during the weekend, off-site and in casual clothes -- a big difference. Witness his recent hosting of the leader of China and his wife at Mar-a-Lago, who were charmed by the Trump grandchildren singing to them in Mandarin. Both the weekend get-away and the singing were gushed over in the Chinese press, so that counts as diplomacy, not excess overhead.
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Called one of the many Joni Ernst Iowa offices and asked the feller who answered if Ms. Ernst has abolished Zero Care or secured our borders. The feller said he would have to get answers on that. I told him the answer is no and until Ms. Ernst finally gets something done in D.C. to stop running her mouth about Trump.
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I would prefer he didn't spend a lot of time in DC and become institutionalized. (Intelligence term for an asset that spends too much time in country and starts developing too much affinity for the place he is in)
Maybe the senator should stop inhaling furious amounts of lobbyist dick in DC and get out a bit more.
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The visits have stirred controversy, in part because of the enormous costs associated with such frequent travel.
I'm willing to bet that a search of The Hill's archives would show five or less articles complaining about Obama's 'enormous' travel costs. Naturally, this is only a problem when a Republican is in office.
[Breitbart] A top Border Patrol agent and president of the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) has alleged that Border Patrol management in Montana’s Havre Sector are suspected of being corrupt and ordering miles of border unpatrolled in an intentional effort to help drug smugglers. The agent, Brandon Judd, made the shocking assertions in response to a Breitbart Texas exclusive "Officials Defy Trump’s Promises: 40 Miles of Border Ordered Unpatrolled" and were made on Breitbart News Daily on SiriusXM.
Agent Judd, as president of the NBPC, asserted:
"They [Border Patrol managers] started assigning agents to one zone instead of letting them patrol the entire border. What this did was it left 40 miles just completely open. Which then allows anybody to cross the border without being detected, without being found. Again, who knows what came across the border during that period of time: narcotics, weapons, illegal aliens and who knows from where ... this is something that we saw during the Obama-era and was something that we definitely didn’t think was going to happen in the Trump-era."
Agent Judd continued:
"I’ve been in contact with the highest levels of management and they’re looking into it. It’s believed that this is due to corruption. That management is making the decision to pull agents out of certain zones to allow contraband to come across the border ... this is being looked at that that’s what this is about."
Listen to Border Patrol Agent Judd’s interview below:
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How can the only remaining urban industry and it's democratic constituency survive if the border is closed off, not to mention the future registered voter requirements ?
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Not shocking at all. There have long been reports that some Border Patrol agents succumbed to the combination of threats and bribery to look the other way or help out -- or even were members of drug gangs who joined the Border Patrol with malice aforethought.
Cleaning that out is a never ending problem, but now they have a president who will help rather than hinder. Happy hunting, guys.
[Breitbart] It was a photo finish in the "jungle primary" special election in Georgia’s Sixth Congressional District on Tuesday to select a replacement for Rep. Tom Price (R-GA), punctuated by unusual technical reporting delays from Fulton County, the largest county in the district.
In the early hours of Wednesday morning, thirty-year-old Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff fell just short of the 50-percent-plus-one vote total he needed to avoid a June runoff with the GOP’s Karen Handel, the former Georgia Secretary of State who finished in a distant second.
CNN declared the race a runoff between Ossoff and Handel shortly after midnight.
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I like the headline over at Politico: Democrats begin to wonder:
When do we win? For all the roiling anger and energy at the grass roots, the party still fell short in Georgia and Kansas. And Democratic prospects in upcoming elections aren't promising.
[IsraelNationalNews] The United Nations on Tuesday said it was following closely the hunger strike by more than 1,000 terrorists in Israeli prisons.
"We are obviously aware of the situation and following the developments closely," said UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric, according to AFP. Just condemn Israel in advance
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When you think about it, the headline provides an apt summary of everything that is wrong with the UN. It "monitors" rather than acts, and WHAT it chooses to monitor is rarely worth the time of day.
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The United Nations could do it more effectively if someone would give them 4 or 5 hundred billion dollars for crack hookers and small children and drugs for their parties!
[Reddit] The troubling implications of the conflict in Berkley today.
I have seen quite a bit of media that has come out of Berkeley today, including watching some of a live stream, and it is very troubling.
The right was able to hold their own to a large degree against antifascists, in one of the most radical metropolitan areas in the country. They gave as good as they got, and they were able to keep a presence in the streets for hours.
Everything that we have vocalized about the Trump presidency, that it has mobilized racists and fascists, that it emboldens them, that it allows them to present their bigotry as simply another political opinion, is coming true.
In the aftermath of this event, It is time for some serious reflection. Now is not the time to sugar coat the truth, to revel in the feeling of success of a clean punch to a Nazi's face, but rather to take a step back and ask what organizational steps can take place to stop this from happening again. What tactics can we use to disrupt their events, even when there are similar numbers to our own? What differences must we put down, and alliances we need to create, in the resistance to fascism?
My thoughts are with our comrades in the Bay who were injured today. The highest level of respect to you.
Bash the Fash.
Now more than ever.
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There's nothing at stake for antifa besides their social media profiles. No one getting hauled into prison camps, no rights being infringed for them, the 'nazi' are just pretend nazis, the little rebel costumes and all that shit don't hide what everyone knows they are. They're kids, mostly weak, many female, college drop outs, many paid or doing it for college credit. You can hope for better outcomes but you can't change the fact that under it all there is no compelling message besides 'take selfies, wreck stuff'. The other side has their freedom to fight for and many of them have had years of military training to do just that.
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Hold their own? Hell, they cleaned the streets faster than a SWAT riot team. Stayed together, cooperated, grabbed antifa leaders and beat them for a few seconds then sent them on their way bloody way, and the rest of the idiots fled.
Expect more weapons to be brought in though and things to grow more violent.
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This could get really nasty. I've seen a story about the "anti-"fascists lining up knives to take and use in a scrum, the little folding ones the size of a credit card.
Now I know that the good guys will go "that's not a knife..." but then someone will go for a gun and...........
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About those little knives, AlanC -- Rantburg has the story here.
Reading the comments at the link is interesting. One hopes the anti-Antifa crowd lurk there and similar open source sites regularly as part of their observation step.
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Yeah TW that's where I read the story but my befuddled old brain couldn't remember where I'd seen it. Heck it was probably an hour or so had passed.
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If they were smart (/sarc) the antifast would ignore the 'Nazi's'. The media would certainly help them in that regard. The Berkeley police might even help in making it difficult for certain groups to get permits and such.
By going for direct confrontation they raise the visibility of the 'Nazi's' as well as expose how vile they are themselves.
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I remember seeing history documentaries showing B&W newsreels footage of the Spartacists vs. Freikorps riots in Wiemar Germany. Most of these clueless fools have no idea the havoc they are unleashing.
US Defense Secretary James Mattis is in Saudi Arabia Wednesday to reinvigorate the Riyadh-Washington alliance, with both seeing a common adversary in Iran and its "destabilizing" activities.
The United States and Saudi Arabia have a decades-old relationship based on the exchange of American security for Saudi oil.
But ties between Riyadh and Washington became increasingly frayed during the administration of US President Barack Obama.
Saudi leaders felt Obama was reluctant to get involved in the civil war in Syria and was tilting toward Riyadh's regional rival Iran. The idea that out of every 10 Muslim terrorists 9, and 99% of "soft Jihad" are supported by Saudi money, just doesn't seem to penetrate Washington.
A 39-year-old California man opened fire on Tuesday night, killing three people in the center of Fresno, California.
The shooter, Kori Ali Muhammed, had nicknamed himself the "Black Jesus."
Local police report Muhammed yelled, "Allahu akbar!" upon arrest.
According to Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer, Muhammed shot at least sixteen bullets from his gun in less than a minute, aiming at four different targets in the city center.
Dyer also noted that Muhammed shot a hotel security guard elsewhere in the city earlier this week.
"Immediately after noticing the policemen, Muhammed laid on the floor and yelled 'Allahu akbar!'" Dyer reported. "He doesn't like white people, and wants to kill as many as possible before going to jail." IMO, this belongs in WOT and not crime
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AP Changes Fresno Shooter’s Words From ‘Allahu Akbar,’ Removes Islam Reference
The MSM continues to do people a great disservice. Lazy muckers (a person who removes dirt and waste, especially from stables.) don't do much reporting at all except for the fake news.
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AP Changes Fresno Shooter’s Words From ‘Allahu Akbar,’ Removes Islam Reference.
The presstitutes who do such work should be...er..."informed" that such doings could be construed as conspiring with the enemy...and that such actions have *consequences*.
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Ahhhhh, but according to the MSM, if you don't call it terrorism, it isn't!
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It wasn't a terrorist attack. The guy just happened to follow the Muslim lifestyle, call himself a Muslim, screamed "Allahu Akbar!" after the killings, hated people who generally weren't Muslim, went after folks he thought weren't Muslim and be in contact with IS.
Instead, he has been deemed "nuts".
Oh, and that the MSM continues to spout that Muslim terrorists are categorized as "nuts" as requested by the Obumhole administration is not to be considered here.
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I agree with g(r)omgoru that this is a Homefront: WoT story, which is why the other article we have on the story is also filed on P.1, two below this one. But that post doesn't have the addition of the Daily Mail article noting that Ay Pee removed references to the Muslim character of our miscreant. Good find, g(r)omgoru -- we've got them double teamed. :-)
[AlAhram] The man Russian Sherlocks say orchestrated a suicide kaboom on the St Petersburg metro told a court on Tuesday he was an unwitting accomplice in the attack.
At a preliminary court hearing, the suspect, Abror Azimov,
...who yesterday was reported carrying a pistol and a package containing two smartphones when he was arrested...
said he had participated in the preparation of the attack, in which 14 people were killed, but only indirectly.
"I did not realise that I was helping with this act," he said, referring to the April 3 blast on the metro. "I was being given instructions."
Earlier, a state investigator told the court that Azimov had confessed to having prepared the attack, but the suspect said he had not confessed to that.
Queerly enough -- or perhaps not queerly at all -- last November we had a report that Russian authorities arrested a ten person ISIS-linked cell of Central Asians planning gun-and-bomb attacks in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
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[Ynet] the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas is not interested in riling up the region before his scheduled meeting with Trump, and in Ramallah they are convinced that only personal political interests are behind the initiators of the prisoners' protest. Thus, only about half of the Fatah members joined the strike.
The prisoners' hunger strike has only been going on for one day, but it seems that ever since it started, all Fadwa Barghouti, Marwan Barghouti's wife and representative in the outside world, has been doing is trying to explain time and again that her husband's protest is not a whim intended to serve his personal interests.
According to Barghouti's wife, the other prisoners anointed him as the leader of the strike, and her attempt to justify his actions is in response to accusations raised in recent days regarding Barghouti's motives--not only the accusations publicly issued by Israel, but those proclaimed behind closed doors in Ramallah.
The fact is that Barghouti stands nearly alone when she is addressing the Paleostinians, without any leader of repute by her side.
Comments backing up the strike were indeed received from the Paleostinian leadership, but they sounded forced and somewhat general.
Barghouti knows this and therefore demands the strikers have outside support. "The success of the strike depends on the solidarity of the people with my husband," she said.
The strike had been planned for some time, and the scheduled date was not coincidental: It bagon on Paleostinian Prisoners' Day in the West Bank and the Gazoo Strip. This explosive combination could lead to festivities and friction with the security forces, but in practice, the rallies took place in the centers of Paleostinian cities and ended in the same relative calm they had begun.
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The strike had been planned for some time, and the scheduled date was not coincidental: It bagon on Paleostinian Prisoners' Day in the West Bank and the Gazoo Strip.
I assume this submliminal reference to BACON was a cruel reminder of that delicious food and not a typo. Well Done, TW
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barghouti has criticized the PA under Arafat and under Abbas both for incompetence, corruption and violation of the human rights of Paleo dissidents
he is very unpopular with the PA ruling class
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[AnNahar] Egyptian police on Tuesday locked away Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! a man wanted for alleged involvement in twin church bombings this month claimed by 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.... group, an official said.
Acting on a tip-off, [RING!] Cop shoppe! Sergeant Shafiq speaking! Lissen! Dis is Mahmoud da Weasel! I got a tip for youse... police arrested Ali Mahmoud Mohammed Hassan,
...yesterday I was told that Egyptian names come in four parts, as we see here: personal name, father's name, grandfather's name, family name. Though in this case it looks like the family name is just another personal name...
one of 19 suspects whose names police made public after the Palm Sunday kabooms, the official said.
Two jacket wallahs attacked two churches in the cities of Tanta and Alexandria on April 9, killing 45 people in the deadliest attack on Coptic Christians in recent memory.
Hassan was arrested in the southern province of Qena, from where the two suicide bombers also came.
The interior ministry had raised a reward for information leading to the suspects' arrests to 500,000 pounds ($27,518).
The Palm Sunday bombings followed an earlier attack by a suicide bomber who detonated his explosives in a packed Cairo church in December, killing 29 people.
The Islamic State group, which claimed all three bombings, has threatened more attacks on the minority, which makes up about 10 percent of Egypt's 90 million people.
[SHABELLENEWS] At least five people were reported to have been killed, and seven maimed in mortar shells fired into homes in the Somali capital of Mogadishu on Tuesday afternoon, Witnesses said.
An Eyewitness, speaking to Radio Shabelle via phone said between 2-3 mortars struck a School in Howlwadag district, killing at least five civilians, including four children.
A mortar struck Hassan Al Qaridi primary school, killing four students and injuring seven others, according Abdullahi Barre, the school principal who spoke to Radio Shabelle.
The maimed people have been rushed to hospital by the local ambulances. Reports said there have been more mortars fired at the country’s President Palace in Mogadishu.
No group has yet claimed credit for the mortar fire in Mogadishu, which was the latest in series of attacks in the seaside capital since the election of President Farmajo in February.
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[DAWN] Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) chief Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree... , in a presser alongside Mashal Khan's father Tuesday, issued a strongly worded condemnation of the 23-year-old's lynching on what has so far proven to be a baseless accusation.
"It has become clear during the investigation that Mashal never committed blasphemy. He was framed in a conspiracy and murdered," Imran Khan said.
"As a father, I can understand what Iqbal Khan [Mashal's father] is going through. This was a cruel deed and they used the blasphemy law as an excuse."
"I want to assure his parents that I will ensure justice for his death," Imran Khan said.
"Whoever planned his murder and whoever participated in it will be punished and made an example of for future generations," the PTI chief said.
"Even if the culprits are found to be from the PTI, they will be punished. We will not discriminate along party lines in pursuing this case," Imran Khan said.
"The entire country saw [what they did]. Even animals don't behave this way," he added.
"We will take this as a lesson and make sure no one ever misuses the blasphemy law again to murder people again," he added.
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Doing away with the bullshit "blasphemy" law would be a good start. The outright mocking of anyone believing in "blaspemy" laws would be a great follow-up.
[DAWN] Senators on Monday called for amending the blasphemy law to provide for punishments to those who concoct blasphemy accusations against others and demanded a campaign against those taking the law into their hands.
Condemning the lynching of Mashal Khan, a student of Abdul Wali Khan University in Mardan, politicians stressed the need for effective steps to prevent misuse of the blasphemy law.
Talking about the blatant misuse of the law, PPP’s Farhatullah Babar said a religious scholar had proposed that accusers who levelled false accusations should suffer the same sentence as provided for a blasphemer.
He recalled how a Federal Shariat Court decision had prompted the maximum punishment for blasphemy to be increased from life imprisonment to death, reminding the house that Raja Zafarul Haq -- the current leader of the house -- was the chairman of law and justice committee at the time.
He said the committee had made some suggestions while approving the bill and called for that report to be made the basis of any further action.
"The liquidation of Mashal Khan should make us think about concrete measures to prevent the misuse of the blasphemy law; we need to revisit this law," he remarked.
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Betcha the Pakistanis started it, dear Reader, probably to cover an infiltration attempt. The odds are good the Indians will exchange gunfire with undocumented aliens within three days.
[DAWN] Two men and as many women were maimed and some houses damaged in Indian firing and shelling from across the Line of Control in different areas of Azad Jammu and Kashmire on Monday.
The first casualty was reported from Khuiratta sector in the southern Kotli district where Mohammad Shakil, 35, was injured at about 3.30am in Janjot Bahadar village.
Indian shells also landed in Charhoi sector but no casualties were reported, an official told Dawn by telephone from Kotli.
In Samahni sector, shelling started at about 8am and continued till 1pm, leaving three people injured.
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[DAWN] The United States asked Pakistain on Monday to indiscriminately fight all terrorist groups.
This message was conveyed to Pak leadership during US National Security Adviser Lt Gen H.R. McMaster’s daylong trip to Islamabad during which he met Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... , Adviser on Foreign Affairs Sartaj PrunefaceAziz ...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in good jihadis and bad jihadis as a matter of national policy... , National Security Adviser retired Lt Gen Nasser Janjua and Army Chief Gen Qamar Bajwa.
Gen McMaster is visiting the region for consultations ahead of finalisation of the Trump administration’s policy on Afghanistan.
The adviser’s visit was the first direct high-level interaction between Pakistain and the US since the new administration assumed charge in Washington.
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[DAWN] The Lahore High Court on Monday upheld death sentence of a convict and commuted other’s to life imprisonment for killing 94 people and leaving around 150 men and children injured during an attack on Ahmadis’ worship place in Model Town in 2010.
A division bench headed by Justice Sadaqat Ali Khan passed the orders on the appeal of two convicts Muavia and Abdullah challenging decision of a trial court.
During the proceedings, a deputy prosecutor general told the court that the trial court sentenced both to death for killing Ahmadis at their worship places. After hearing both sides, the court upheld death sentence to Muavia and commuted Abdullah’s to life imprisonment.
On Jan 17, 2015, an Anti-Terrorism Court sentenced to death Muavia and Abdullah for deadly attack on an Ahmadis’ worship places in 2010.
Both the convicts, on May 28, 2010, attacked two Ahmadis’ worship places in Model Town and Garhi Shahu, killing 94 people and injuring others.
The ATC had sentenced Abdullah to death on nine counts and to Muavia on seven counts. Both were also fined Rs3.3 million.
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[DAWN] The Saudi-led military coalition fighting in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... said one of its helicopters crashed in eastern Yemen on Tuesday, killing 12 Saudi officers in one of the deadliest incidents for the kingdom's troops since the war began more than two years ago.
The Black Hawk helicopter crashed in the eastern province of Marib, the coalition said, adding that it is investigating the circumstances. The incident happened as US Defense Secretary James Mattis arrived in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, to discuss the Yemen war with Saudi leaders.
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Yemen defence ministry: Helicopter "misread" air defence system, "resulted in the destruction of the aircraft before it landed".
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) reopened an important flank in eastern Homs on Tuesday, liberating the Abu Kaleh dam area amid festivities with ISIS.
Notably, the advance puts the SAA within striking distance of the abandoned Armored Battalion, a military base still controlled by ISIS not far from the strategic M20 Highway.
Today’s government offensive was a joint operation conducted by the Russian-trained 5th Legion along with elements of the SAA’s 11th and 18th divisions.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Kinnison began his slow infiltration of the sewer system... Russian choppers swarmed the skies over ISIS-held desert areas on the outskirts of Palmyra, constantly conducting sorties in the sparsely populated region.
Although stalling the highly anticipated Deir Ezzor liberation campaign, the SAA has advanced both south and north of Palmyra in recent weeks, systematically targeting weak points in ISIS’ defensive line in a bid to expand the vulnerable salient around the ancient city.
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"Wudn't us. Musta been the Ruritaneans -- they've been getting kinda antsy lately."
[SHABELLENEWS] The U.S. Africa Command (Africom) on Monday denied conducting air strikes against al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... in southwest Somalia on Saturday in which more than 100 Lions of Islam including 20 commanders were killed.
Africom, which has in the past conducted counter-terrorism Arclight airstrikes against the terror group in Somalia, said its most recent strike in the Horn of Africa nation was conducted in January.
"The U.S. military did not conduct any kind of kinetic action in that area during the timeframe referenced. The most recent U.S. strike in Somalia was conducted in January," Africom said in a statement.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A local leader of the Taliban group was killed in an ambush of the Afghan National Police (ANP) forces in eastern Nuristan province.
According to the local government officials, the Taliban murderous Moslems were ambushed late on Monday afternoon in the vicinity of Wanat Waigal district.
Provincial governor Hafiz Abdul Qayum confirmed the ambush against the Taliban murderous Moslems and said a local leader of the group was killed.
He said another two Taliban murderous Moslems who were accompanying the Taliban leader were also maimed in the ambush.
Qayum further added that the Taliban murderous Moslems managed to take away the two maimedLions of Islam but their leader’s body was left behind.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least sixteen Taliban forces of Evil including the shadow governor of the group for northeastern Takhar province were killed in an Arclight airstrike in northern Kunduz province.
The Kunduz police commandment in a statement said the Arclight airstrike was carried out late on Monday afternoon in the vicinity of Dasht-e-Archi district.
The statement further added that the forces of Evil were targeted in Pul-e-Moman area of Dasht-e-Archi, leaving Taliban’s shadow governor Qari Tayeb dead along with at least 15 murderous Moslems.
The police commandment did not elaborate further regarding the Arclight airstrike and it is year not clear if the Arclight airstrike was carried out by the Afghan Air Force or the US forces based in Afghanistan.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) personnel tossed in the calaboose Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! a top leader of the Taliban group in northern Baghlan province of Afghanistan.
The Ministry of Interior (MoI) acting front man Najib Danish confirmed that the group’s military commission chief for Baghlan was arrested during a special military operation.
He said the detained Taliban leader has been identified as Mawlavi Abdul Hai Haqyar.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least two people were tossed in the slammer Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! by the Afghan cops in northwestern Ghor province of Afghanistan as they were attempting to recruit faceless myrmidons for 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.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group.
According to the local security officials, the two individuals were arrested from the vicinity of Feroz Koh district as they were trying to visit Bala Morghab district.
Provincial police chief Ghulam Mustafa Mohsini confirmed the arrest of the two individuals for attempting to spread violence and recruit faceless myrmidons for ISIS.
He said the two individuals are originally residents of Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... and Nimroz provinces and are currently in jug of the security forces for further investigation.
Mohsini further added that the men will be referred to judicial institutions once the investigations are over.
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[DAWN] A series of kabooms at an arms depot in Spin Boldak town shook the area across the border in Afghanistan late on Monday night, officials and TV reports said.
The kabooms were said to have occurred after suspected murderous Moslems attacked the facility.
According to reports, flames could be seen from miles and the blasts were so loud that they were even heard in the border town of Chaman.
Talking to Dawn, Akbar Khan, an official in the Spin Boldak administration, said a suicide kaboom at the depot could not be ruled out.
People living near the depot started leaving the area, they said. At one time, Spin was one of the quietest and safest places in AFG.
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Residents of eastern Nangarhar province on Tuesday said Daesh radio has continued to broadcast its propaganda in the province and that every evening theradio station airs anti-government programs.
Nangarhar residents said Daesh radio programs are “horrible and disgusting”.
The radio started broadcasting a year ago, but Nangarhar residents said in the past few days all the radio has focused on is the MOAB bomb that was dropped by U.S Forces in Achin district of Nangarhar on Thursday night.
“If the radio broadcasts are not stopped, it will have negative consequences,” said Guli, a Nangarhar resident.
“Daesh radio station broadcast anti-government propaganda and it has a bad effect on the society,” said Ali Jan, another Nangarhar resident.
Security forces have regularly claimed to have targeted the radio station but according to residents the broadcasts continue.
“Although today the youths know the truth and do not listen to Daesh propaganda, but there is still the need to stop the radio station,”said Zabihullah Zmarai, a member of Nangarhar provincial council.
The Ministry of Defense (MoD) meanwhile said security forces are trying to shut down the radio station.
“We have stopped the radio propaganda three times so far, but it once again has started its propaganda from the other side of the border. We are trying to stop the radio station,” Mohammad Radmanesh, MoD deputy spokesman said.
However, sources told TOLOnews that Daesh radio is a mobile unit and the group broadcasts their programs from Mohmand Dara area which was bombed by U.S forces.
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Used to be, Army could locate a radio transmitter.
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Ten Islamic State members died when fighter jets from the U.S.-led international coalition pounded their vehicle southwest of Kirkuk, according Kurdish intelligence officials.
Kurdistan’s Counter-Terrorism Department said the strike targeted IS members boarding a vehicle on a road linking al-Riyadh and Hawija, both regions still under Islamic State control.
Those killed included Ammar (Abu Nabil) Hassan, a senior Islamic State leader which the department, however, did not identify in terms of ranking within the extremist group.
Since emerging in 2014 to proclaim a self-styled “Islamic Caliphate”, IS members have held areas in southwestern Kirkuk, where thousands of civilians had to flee the group’s rule to refugee camps in the province and neighboring cities. Local officials have repeatedly urged the government to hasten with security efforts to liberate IS-held regions in Kirkuk, but the Iraqi government is currently employing its full military power in the six-month-old campaign to retake Mosul, IS’s biggest stronghold in Iraq. It is expected that the government will launch further offensives against IS havens across Iraq once the campaign in Mosul concludes.
IS has executed dozens of civilians in Kirkuk for either attempting to flee areas under its control or for collaborating with security forces.
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) One civilian died and four others were wounded on Tuesday when a bomb blast rocked an area northwest of Baghdad, according to police sources.
Alsumaria News quoted the sources saying the explosive device was planted on the side of a road near a popular market in al-Shoala region, northwest of the capital.
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) has said that violence in the country lef 1115 casualties, excluding security members, during March. Baghdad was the second most affected province with 84 deaths and 246 injuries, according to the organization’s monthly casualty count.
While several blasts are not followed by a claim of responsibility, Islamic State militants said they had been behind some bloody explosions and attacks that hit the capital in the past months, leaving casualties among civilians and security troops.
[ARA News] The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Tuesday took over the radio station of ISIS in the city of Tabqa in Raqqa province.
“The Syrian Democratic Forces made new progress in the city of Tabqa, taking control of the ISIS radio station,” Jesper Söder, a Swedish volunteer with the Syrian Democratic Forces told ARA News.
“The areas liberated by the SDF are used by civilians who escape the ISIS terrorists. The Syrian Democratic forces cleared all mines laid by Daesh [ISIS] around and in the village of Kabbash, west of Tabqah,” he said.
The SDF fighter told ARA News that Tabqa city could be liberated soon. “Maybe in a few days it is liberated,” he said.
Until now there are still several thousands of civilians stranded in the town of Tabqa amidst continued fighting between ISIS and the SDF forces.
SDF officials said they are trying to open safe corridors to secure the civilians.
In mid March, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), with their Syrian Arab Coalition fighters, launched a multi-pronged offensive behind enemy lines to liberate the Tabqa Dam from ISIS. Apache helicopters, U.S. Marine artillery and special operation troops were part of this operation to drop SDF fighters near Tabqa city.
“The Coalition supported this offensive with air movement and logistical support, precision airstrikes, Apache helicopters in close air support, Marine artillery, and special operations advice and assistance to SDF leadership,” the US-led coalition said in a statement.
So far, ISIS is still resisting.
“We are advancing in to Tabqa area everyday. But there is really hard resistance from Daesh [ISIS],” SDF member Söder told ARA News.
“So, we thought that the operation for the Raqqa city would start in April, but Daesh have put up a hard fight. I think we should have beaten them in Tabqa already, but they have good positions to defend themselves and even from aircrafts,” Söder said, adding: “A lot of human shields are being used by Daesh [ISIS].”
Retaking Tabqa would enable the SDF forces to storm Raqqa city–the de facto capital of the ISIS self-proclaimed Caliphate.
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Dozens of the Islamic State members were either killed or wounded, late on Monday, in the Syrian province of Deir ez-Zour by air strikes conducted by the international coalition aircraft, which are believed to be carried out to target the group’s supreme leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, a Syrian activist said on Tuesday.
The Syrian activist Firas al-Alawi revealed that the international coalition aircraft carried out air strikes on Albu Kamal City, located on the Syrian-Iraqi borders.
The coalition air strikes also targeted al-Ahmar Oil Station in Hasrat town, in the rural area of Albu Kamal, and al-Labed neighborhood in the city of al-Muhasan, Alawi added.
Alawi also pointed out that the international coalition intensified its air strikes on Deir ez-Zour on the background of the news that talked about the escape of the Leader of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, from Iraq to Syria.
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(Reuters) A war monitor said air strikes, thought to be by planes from a U.S.-led military coalition, killed at least 23 people in two parts of the eastern Syrian province of Deir al-Zor on Monday.
There was no immediate comment from the coalition which has said it tries to avoid civilian deaths in its bombing campaigns against Islamic State militants in Syria and neighboring Iraq.
Jets “believed to belong to the international coalition” struck the town of al-Bukamal in the south of the province near the Iraqi border, killing three militants and 13 civilians including children, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday.
The Britain-based war monitoring group said air strikes also killed seven civilians in the town of al-Husainiyah further north along the Euphrates river.
Islamic State militants control most of Deir al-Zor province, which links territory they hold in Syria and Iraq, and parts of the provincial capital, which has the same name.
The Syrian government still controls some parts of Deir al-Zor city, including a nearby military air base, where Islamic State has besieged about 200,000 people lacking food and medicine for around two years.
Syrian government forces and their allies, backed by Russian air power, have been fighting back against Islamic State assaults in the area.
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[DailyMail] Six soldiers suffered breathing problems and another 19 were also forced to seek treatment after ISIS bully boyz launched the gas attack against the US-backed unit in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , northern Iraq. It is the second chemical attack against the Iraqi troop in two days, after an officer with the anti-terrorism unit said ISIS fired a rocket loaded with chlorine at the al-Abar neighborhood in western Mosul. Gas masks and other equipment is now being distributed to forces in case of future gas attacks.
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Is that a drop of a pin I hear from the 'international community'?
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No,
what you heard was Michael Moore clearing his throat to say:
"Bush lied! People died! Bush put the gas in Mosul! It's Bush I tell you! And Trump."
Al
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Nobody listens to Michael Moore any more. He's trying to find something to say so he'll be "relevant" (I'd say "again", but he never was before, so. . .).
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On the plus side (heh), Michael Moore is still fat.
[FREEBEACON] Federal authorities have open investigations into radical Islamic bandidosbully boyz in all 50 states, according to the Department of Homeland Security, which is warning that the threat of terrorism in the United States has reached an all time high with radicalized individuals in the country plotting to strike "each and every single day."
The FBI has "open terrorist investigations in all 50 states," according to DHS Secretary John Kelly, who disclosed on Tuesday that there have been at least 37 "ISIS-linked plots to attack our country" since 2013, a number that shows no signs of diminishing.
Kelly, in his first wide-ranging public address on the threat of terrorism in America since taking office, warned that America's borders remain wide-open and that there is evidence terror-linked individuals are exploiting these national security weaknesses and entering the United States.
"We don’t know their intentions," Kelly said during an address at George Washington University. "We don’t know why they’re here or why they’re coming. We are completely blind to what they’re capable of."
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I know their intentions. Why the hell can't the FBI figure it out?
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You can bet the Southern Poverty Law Center doesn't see radical Islamic terrorists as the problem; they think conservative ex-military white guys are the problem.
[IsraelTimes] The foiled plan sparks fears that the closing days of the election campaign could be a target for bandidosgunnies ahead of Sunday’s vote.
Police tossed in the calaboose Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! two men in Marseille Tuesday on suspicion of planning an "imminent" attack, finding guns, explosives and an Islamic State
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[Breitbart] U.S. Border Patrol agents are once again sounding the alarm about miles of border being left wide open and unsecured. Breitbart Texas exclusively obtained a document showing a Havre Sector Border Patrol manager knowingly issuing orders to leave 40 miles of Montana border open and unpatrolled. Obama holdovers in the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency are continuing with the same careless disregard in the Trump Administration that they did under former President Obama, according to Border Patrol agents. Per Havre Sector website (linked above):
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Kevin K. McAleenan - Kevin K. McAleenan became Acting Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection January 20, 2017.
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issuing orders to leave 40 miles of Montana border open
Got to leave an escape route open for all those who pledged to depart America upon the election of Trump. Particularly after they fire up the next Civil War.
Wind energy at its finest. We're not in Kansas, anymore, Toto.
[MNN] In the 1980s, a project in Spain used the sun to warm air near the ground and then funneled up to a turbine to create energy. While solar chimneys have been around for centuries, working on a scale capable of meeting larger power needs would require an incredibly tall chimney. But tornadoes are nature's chimneys in a way, so why build a chimney when you can just make a tornado?
One way to make a big vortex is power plants. Power plants generate a great deal of heat waste already, so why not harness that waste to create a tornado that will turn some turbines?
An AVE would gather up all that heat waste and use it to maintain the vortex. The inventor said this process could "increase output [of the power plant] by 10 to 20 percent, without using any additional fuel." If you're wondering how big this tornado created by a power plant would be, the answer is about 9 miles high. Most tornadoes only clock in about 5.6 miles. Oh. A man-made 'tornado'.
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Plus, no gerbils would be wormed in the creation of the Giant Spanish Suck.
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And how do they keep a nine miles high tornado in place? What are the environmental costs? Once the tornado is 'running' how do they keep the sun shining on the cylinder?
Too many things wrong with this concept, I'm thinking this is just a money trap designed to get as much money as possible with little or no return.
Rutba (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi army forces in anbar province said Tuesday they downed a drone guided by Islamic State militants at the group-held western area.
Alsumaria News quoted sources from the army’s 1st division saying that a sniper shot down the drone at the town of Rutba (310 km west of Ramadi).
The drone was carrying a camera for reconnaissance purposes, according to the sources.
Islamic State fighters have relied on drones in many attacks that killed a number of civilians and security members since a security campaign was launched against the group in October.
The incident comes hours after paramilitary forces fighting the extremist group alongside the government warned that IS was preparing for a suicide attack on the town.
IS is mobilizing fighters near Rutba, preparing for a suicide offensive against the town, said Qutri al-Obeidi, a commander at the local popular mobilization forces in Anbar.
“Security leaderships had informed the army’s air force command of the activity,” said Obeidi, adding that field commanders were closely monitoring IS’s movements.
Islamic State has maintained control over the towns of Annah, Rawa and Qaim, weswt of Anbar, since the group emerged in 2014 to proclaim a self-styled ‘Islamic Caliphate”.
There has not been an officially-declared military campaign to free IS-held regions west of Anbar, but the province’s military command launched a brief assault early January that managed to recapture some western villages before stopping again. Fighter jets from the Iraqi army and the allied U.S.-led coalition have also regularly pounded IS locations in the province.
Local officials believe Islamic State is holding thousands in those regions to use them as human shields against any future security offensive.
The Iraqi government is expected to aim at IS havens in Anbar once it is finished with eliminating the group from Mosul, its biggest bastion in Iraq.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) A security source in Anbar Province revealed that a policeman was killed by a suicide bombing, west of the province, Alsumaria News reported on Tuesday.
The source said that a suicide bomber, wearing an explosive belt, blew up himself on members of the joint security forces in al-Dulab near in al-Baghdadi area (90 km west of Ramadi).
The bombing resulted in the killing of a policeman, as well as wounding two others, the source added on condition of anonymity.
Noteworthy, al-Baghdadi area is controlled by security forces and tribal fighters, after being liberated from the Islamic State group last year. Google Map at the link
Anah (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi Army’s 7th Brigade Command announced, on Tuesday, that an air strike destroyed two booby-trapped vehicles belong to the Islamic State group, west of Anbar.
The command said in a statement that the international coalition air force carried out an air strike on a booby-trapped vehicle, driven by a terrorist, in the city of Anah (210 west of Ramadi), destroying it completely and killing its driver.
Furthermore, the international coalition conducted another air strike in the city of Rawa (230 km west of Ramadi), destroying a booby-trapped vehicle belonging to the Islamic State and killing its driver.
Meanwhile, US-led international coalition air force and Iraqi Air Force continue carrying out air strikes on the hideouts and headquarters of the Islamic State in Anah, Rawa and Qaim, west of Anbar, in preparation to liberate these cities. Google Maps at the link
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[DAWN] Hyderabad Senior Superintendent of Police Irfan Ali Baloch has said that Naureen Leghari, the second year student of MBBS at Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences (LUMHS) who had mysteriously disappeared and was incarcerated Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! two months later on Friday night in a raid on a hard boy hideout in Lahore, had divulged to her childhood friend that she had links with the hard boyIslamic 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.... group.
She told her about 10 days before leaving Hyderabad on Feb 10 that she had links with IS and wanted to "join jihad," said the SSP quoting the girl.
"I can’t share her friend’s name because she may have come under pressure now," Mr Baloch told Dawn on Monday.
Naureen’s friends and teachers at her college and the university disclosed to police that she used to discuss ’jihad’ with them. "She used to draw their attention to the situation in Syria and Afghanistan and urged them that ’we must participate in jihad," he said.
He said that he had disclosed to Naureen’s father, Prof Abdul Jabbar Leghari, that his daughter harboured bully boy tendencies but he rejected it vehemently.
"She used a different name to book a seat on an inter-city bus at its terminal in Latifabad on Feb 9 but gave her own mobile phone number. She boarded the bus to Lahore on Feb 10," he said.
"Mr Jabbar was aware of his daughter’s case but did not want to admit it," claimed the officer.
Mr Jabbar who lodged a case of his daughter’s kidnapping at Hussainabad cop shoppe confirmed at a presser on March 26 that his daughter’s ID on Instagram had been blocked in 2014-15 after she forwarded some messages about atrocities against Paleostinian Moslems.
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[Inquirer] Philippine police nabbed two men in possession of hand grenades minutes after two explosions rocked a gas station in Tacurong City and injured 15 people on Monday night. Police spokesman Raul Supiter said Waren Gani and his brother, Johari, were seen roaming around the site of the explosions carrying hand grenades after the two blasts hit.
An IED first hit the roof of the gas station’s toilet at 6:45 p.m. Bomb experts were about to cordon off the area at 7:10 p.m. when another blast hit the station, injuring nine bystanders, three soldiers and three policemen. A police official described the Tacurong explosions as a "well-planned bombing attack."
The Gani brothers admitted they were members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and could not explain why they were at the blast scene and why they were carrying explosives. Police found on the suspects' mobile phones photographs of the two carrying firearms and wearing fatigue uniforms, Supiter said.
Supiter said personnel of St. John Learning Center in Barangay New Isabela also reported receiving a bomb threat at 5:50 p.m., barely an hour before the first blast occurred. Police noted text messages circulating in the area before the blasts, warning recipients of bombing plots in key cities in South Cotabato and Sarangani provinces, and General Santos City that would be carried out supposedly by Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters to avenge
the deaths of Abu Sayyaf members in last week’s clashes in Bohol province.
Supiter noted similarities between the bombs used here with those set off in previous regional bombings. Police have been eyeing the possible role played by the BIFF, a breakaway group of the MILF, in the attack.
The blast came two weeks after an improvised bomb was set off in front of the Sultan Kudarat Electric Cooperative office, injuring eight workers.
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It's the double standard that irritates me.
On its face this is laudable in the age of made-for-TV Non-violent Protest Theater -- it streamlines the procedure. *But* in liberal bastions like Berkeley any group to the right of the Khmer Rouge will have their protest preemptively banned for 'the public good' if they used this hot-line.
in a shooting spree in downtown Fresno on Tuesday, and the suspect was wanted in connection to the Motel 6 killing last week,
...that victim was a white man, too, not at all coincidentally...
the Fresno Police Department said.
Kori Ali Muhammad, 39, shouted "Allahu Akbar" as police tackled him to the ground after the shootings which were spread over four locations, Police Chief Jerry Dyer said.
The victims appeared to be random, Dyer said.
Shot Spotter detected the first gunshots around 10:45 a.m. Muhammad shot into a PG&E vehicle killing the passenger. The driver sped away and drove to Fresno Police headquarters.
Muhammad continued walking and shot up a local resident but missed. Shortly after, he encountered another resident and shot and killed that person.
He then continued to the area of Catholic Charities where he shot and killed a person in the parking lot. Shortly after, he was apprehended without police firing a shot.
"All sixteen of these rounds were fired in less than a minute within four different locations," Dyer said.
Officers responded within one minute of the first shots.
Muhammad used a social media account -- in part -- to perpetuate an anti-white agenda.
Dyer said the men who were killed are believed to have had no connection to Muhammad. Dyer also said it was too early to tell whether terrorism was a factor.
Sudden Jihad Syndrome makes it terrorism, Chief Dyer. The question is whether our miscreant is formally a member of a jihadi organization such as ISIS or a Muslim supremacist organization such as the Muslim Brotherhood or Nation of Islam, or if perhaps he was radicalized by what he saw on the internet.
The Islamic Cultural Center in Fresno released a statement condemning the shootings.
Muhammad,who was born Cory Taylor, is a self-proclaimed rapper who goes by the nickname of 'Black Jesus'. He also goes by the name of B-God Mac Sun, and sells his 12-track album 'True Story Kori' on Amazon.
Muhammad is active on Facebook and Twitter and previously expressed his dislike of white people and anti-government sentiments in social media posts.
His father, Vincent Taylor, told the LA Times on Tuesday that his son believed there was a race was
I think that was supposed to be race war...
going on in America that he was in the midst of, and 'a battle was about to take place'.
'I'm happy he was tossed in the clink You have the right to remain silent... ,' Taylor said. 'I would hope that whatever Kori tells [police,] they take him seriously and they start following up.'
When good people have bad children. That poor man.
Muhammad's grandmother, Glenestene Taylor, said that he'd been acting strangely when he visited her on Sunday, and that he was crying. However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... she said she didn't get the impression that her grandson held hatred towards any race.
'He would say something derogatory about anybody, didn't matter about the color,' she said. 'If he didn't like what they did, he didn't like what they did no matter the color.'
The spree shooter has a length criminal record, including a dismissed felony charge of unlawful firearm possession in 2004.
Known wolf.
He was deemed mentally unfit to stand trial in 2005 after a grand jury indicted him on cocaine and firearm possession. A federal judge later declared him mentally fit in 2006 and he subsequently served 92 months in prison.
Mentally unbalanced known wolf -- he was ripe for the harvest.
Officers on the scene found rounds of 357 caliber bullets, and a speed loader for a revolver, but did not recover a murder weapon when they apprehended Muhammad.
Brian Levin, director of Cal State San Bernardino's Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, referred to Muhammad as a 'violent black supremacist'.
Sayed Ali Ghazvini, imam of the Islamic Cultural Center of Fresno, said Muhammad was not a member of his congregation and he did not recognize him.
Possibly this is true. Did anyone check with the Nation of Islam people?
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Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Airstrikes by the U.S-led coalition against Islamic State militants in Mosul killed 30 civilians as well as ten militants on Tuesday, according to municipal and security officials.
A strike by coalition fighter jets targeting a moving booby-trapped vehicle in Mosul al-Jadida district killed 30 civilians, according to Ghazwan al-Dawodi, chairman of the Nineveh province’s human rights committee, who spoke in a press statement.
Dawodi said the victims included women and children as the explosion damaged a number of houses packed with residents.
Mosul al-Jadida was the stage of an earlier deadly strike in March which killed more than 200 civilians, an incident which sparked an international outrage that prompted the United States to promise an investigation.
Also on Tuesday, coalition fighters pounded IS locations in al-Thawra, a district where Iraqi forces have been involved in intense fighting with IS over the past week, becoming closer to fully recapturing it.
The Iraqi Joint Operations Command said the strike left more than 10 militants dead, and seriously wounded Salem (Abu Qahtan) al-Othman, a senior member in charge of the group’s so-called “security committees”.
Iraqi forces recaptured eastern Mosul in January, and sat on a new offensive in February to retake the western side of the city. Google Map at the link
Mosul (IraqiNews.com) U.S.-led coalition jets have destroyed an Islamic State workshop for booby-trapping motorbikes, killing the members inside, in western Mosul, Iraqi intelligence service announced.
In a statement on Tuesday, the service said “the international coalition jets fully destroyed a workshop for booby-trapping motorbikes.”
“15 IS members, who inside the workshop, located in al-Islah al-Zeraei district, were killed,” it added.
Iraqi forces, backed by the international coalition jets launch airstrikes against IS headquarters located in the western flank of Mosul on a daily basis leaving members killed and havens destroyed.
Meanwhile, a source from police in Nineveh province declared arresting 31 IS members, including two leaders, while combing districts in central Mosul.
“Troops launched a security campaign in district of central Mosul,” Captain Mounir Hamza told BasNews. “31 IS members, including leaders from Arab countries, were arrested.”
Earlier this month, the Joint Operations Command said IS militants were only in control over 6.8 percent of territory of Iraq and that government troops were controlling 60 percent of the western side of Mosul.
In mid-October, Iraqi troops launched an offensive and gained control over eastern Mosul in January. In February, a new offensive was launched to take the western region.
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[DAWN] LAHORE: The law enforcement agencies on Monday tossed in the clink I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! a controller of the so-called 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.... (IS) murderous Moslem group late on Sunday during a combing operation in Cantonment Area.
According to sources, Umer alias Sufiyan of Multan was arrested for arranging accommodation for the hard boyz by renting apartments in different city areas.
The suspect was also involved in providing residence to Azeem alias Abu Fauji, who is still absconding. The government had announced Rs1million reward for providing any actionable information about Fauji.
Sufiyan, who was residing in Cantonment area when the law enforcement agencies took him in jug. He allegedly rented a 5marla house in Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Housing Society (near Ghazi Road) for murderous Moslems.
Ali Tariq, who was killed in an encounter, had completed his BS Electrical Engineering from a private university in 2016. The suspect was a resident of Manazir Ali Road, House No E-855, Mohalla Nadirabad-1, Ali Park, Bedian Road, Lahore Cantt.
According to sources, the suspect had come under surveillance for the first time when the law enforcement agencies detected his brother, Ahmad Ali Tariq, a medical student, for owning an internet device being used to contact the IS leaders.
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[DAWN] A new video circulating on Tuesday contains footage of scenes following the Mardan university lynching and shows a man demanding that a group of students take an oath to conceal the identity of the man who shot 23-year-old Mashal Khan.
Mashal, a student of Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, had been lynched moments before the video was made over allegations of blasphemy.
The video shows the mob involved in the lynching shouting religious slogans and congratulating each other over the brutal episode.
In the video, a man who appears to be the ringleader, Arif, is heard proclaiming that anyone who names the shooter will be considered "a blasphemer".
The following is the text of the slogans being chanted in the video:
"Congratulations, congratulations!
Silence, silence!
Whoever shot him [Mashal], don't take his [the shooter's] name
Whoever takes his [shooter's] name will commit blasphemy. If you want to file an FIR, my name is Arif"
The declaration appears to be a veiled threat to silence those who may testify against the murder and protect the main culprits.
Arif names himself and his father and states that anyone who wished to lodge a First Information Report in the case is free to nominate him for the murder.
According to university students, Arif does not attend Abdul Wali Khan University, but has been allowed on the premises on several occasions. Local media reports say he is the general secretary of the Insaf Student Federation, which is the student wing of the ruling party in KP, Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI).
An investigation into the Mardan university lynching has been initiated, but the identity of Mashal's shooter is yet to be determined.
A postmortem report of Mashal's killing states a gunshot wound was the cause of death, but also noted that the body had been subjected to serious trauma.
Meanwhile, ...back at the alley, Slats Chumbaloni was staring into a hole that was just .45 inch in diameter and was less than three feet from his face ... the administration of Abdul Wali Khan University on Tuesday suspended seven of its employees in connection with the murder of Mashal Khan.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) retained full control over Taibat al-Imam on Monday as a Syrian Arab Army (SAA) assault earlier in the day proved to be mostly probing attacks which revealed a high number of jihadist bully boyz to be entrenched inside the town ahead of the anticipated government offensive.
Subsequently, commander-in-chief Suheil al-Hassan requested the Russian Air Force to intensify its sorties on the Islamist stronghold as little to no civilians are believed to be inside Taibat al-Imam with most fleeing the volatile battlefield in advance.
Nevertheless, the Tiger Forces ‐ assisted by the 47th and 87th brigade of the SAA’s 11th Division ‐ managed to keep control of the al-Qitban checkpoint that will now be used as a launching pad for renewed assaults on Taibat al-Imam.
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[AlManar] The Yemeni army and popular committees managed on Tuesday to liberate all the Saudi-led aggression forces’ positions in Mount Al-Nar vicinity in Mocha.
The quality operation launched by the Yemeni army and popular committees claimed scores of Saudi-led mercenaries and imposed exodus on the rest of the invaders.
Yemen has been since March 26, 2015 under brutal aggression by Saudi-led coalition.
Thousands have been martyred and injured in the attack, with the vast majority of them are civilians.
Riyadh launched the attack on Yemen in a bid to restore power to fugitive ex-president Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi who is a close ally to Saudi Arabia.
[AlAhram] A policeman was killed and four others were maimed at Mount Catherine's security checkpoint late Tuesday in South Sinai after an exchange of fire with unknown holy warriors, Egypt’s ministry of interior said.
According to a statement issued by the ministry, a group of gunnies opened fire on the checkpoint on a road leading up to the Saint Catherine monastery on top of the mountain.
"The police forces exchanged fire with the gunnies until they gained control and forced the gunnies to flee," the statement added.
Egypt’s health ministry front man Khaled Megahed told Ahram Online the four injured coppers were transferred to Sharm El-Sheikh's international hospital. The body of the policeman who was killed was transferred to St. Catherine hospital.
The attack on the security checkpoint near the Saint Catherine monastery, which is one of the oldest Christian monasteries and the main tourist attraction in South Sinai, comes two weeks after the bombings of Orthodox Churches in Alexandria and Tanta killed over 45 people on Palm Sunday.
[IsraelTimes] 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.... holy warrior group has grabbed credit for an attack on an Egyptian police checkpoint near the famed Saint Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai late Tuesday which authorities said killed one policeman and maimed four.
The forces of Evil opened fire from an elevated hilltop overlooking the police checkpoint just outside the monastery, which is located in a remote desert and mountainous area in the southern part of the Sinai Peninsula, according to a statement by the Interior Ministry.
After an exchange of gunfire, the attackers expeditiously departed at a goodly pace, the ministry said, adding that some of the gunnies were maimed in the shootout.
No further details were immediately available.
According to SITE Intelligence Group, which tracks online activity of krazed killers, the IS-affiliated Amaq news agency announced that the group’s forces of Evil carried out the attack near Saint Catherine. This is the first time the IS has attacked a monastery.
It comes shortly before a planned visit by the Vatican Pope Francis to Egypt next week.
[Free Range International] Afghan Security Forces (ANSF) have apparently reached the cave complex targeted by last week’s MOAB strike. There are no western (or local) reports from the bomb site but Tolo news (Kabul based Afghan news service) reported with some specificity on the casualties from the attack.
Five days after U.S Forces dropped its most powerful conventional bomb on a system of tunnels and caves used by Daesh in the eastern province of Nangarhar, a security source told TOLOnews that the majority of insurgents killed in blast were members of Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and members of Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group.
We had a report the other day that 500 ISI personnel were killed alongside the ISIS fighters... Could these be them?
As with most new ’news’ out of Afghanistan FRI readers already knew this. But here’s something we didn’t know and it’s interesting. ANSF has had the time to identify bodies and nationalities; they found 12 Tajikistanis and 13 Indian nationals and a few Filipinos.
When I was part of Ghost Team we had Filipino’s in every province we were working as financial officers. They were excellent company, honest to a fault and kind, gentle fella’s who were not interested in weapons, war and mayhem. It’s hard to imagine ISIS Filipino’s all the way in Nangarhar province...they just don’t seem to be that kind of culture. I was once with my favorite finance officer on a road trip to Kabul when we rolled up on a hot ambush of then President Karzai’s brother and I thought "excellent get the camera in action...time for a Pulitzer" but this is how it turned out:
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Thanks for posting. Think of Freerangeinternational.com, as in keeping him funded and viewed if you can. He really cares about these people.
Really.
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how do they take dead bodies that are mangled, missing pieces, etc. and ID membership in TTP or Lashkar or decide a body is a Tajik or Indian or Filipino?
or is this just a SWAG
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When you move with those who Know, it's easier to see. Surprising result, but troubleshoot it if you can.
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how do they take dead bodies that are mangled, missing pieces, etc. and ID membership in TTP or Lashkar or decide a body is a Tajik or Indian or Filipino?
Easy, by the pattern of the stains they left behind! /sarc
In reality, difficult to do, except perhaps by the uniforms. I'm thinking it's also WAGes wether or not it's scientific WAG is debatable.
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how do they take dead bodies that are mangled, missing pieces, etc. and ID membership in TTP or Lashkar or decide a body is a Tajik or Indian or Filipino?
From what I'm gathering, what they're finding are remains in what is left of the (likely mainly collapsed) below-ground infrastructure. Most of those should be relatively intact, i.e. nothing scattered due to blast effect.
And - considering intel that indicates these Islamo-snuffy groups are highly organized, the chances that the dead are carrying documentation are greater than your garden-variety jihadi.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least sixty seven faceless myrmidons were killed during the counter-terrorism operations in various provincesof the country in the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) said Tuesday.
A statement by MoD said the operations were conducted in 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.. , Kapisa, Khost, Ghazni, Kandahar, Uruzgan, Farah, Faryab, Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... , Kunduz, Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... , Sar-e-Pul ...a city and eponymous province in northern Afghanistan, population about 500,000. Demographically it is majority Tadjik and Uzbek. There are small Pashtun, Arab, and Hazara communities, of which the Hazaras mostly don't bother anyone... and Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... provinces.
The statement further added that 17 of the Death Eaters were killed in Dasht-e-Archi district of Kunduz, 12 others were killed in Bala Murghab district of Badghis, and 12 others were killed in Nawa district of Helmand.
A senior commander of the group was also among those during the operations in Helmand, MoD said, adding that 60 Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) were also destroyed.
According to MoD, the senior Taliban leader maimed during the Helmand operations has been identified as Mullah Shahwali.
The Ministry of Defense also added that 9 Death Eaters were killed and 11 others were maimed during a separate operation conducted in Khakriz district of Kandahar.
At least 11 Taliban Death Eaters were killed during a separate operation conducted in southern Uruzgan province, MoD added.
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At least eight insurgents were killed and three others were wounded on Monday afternoon when dozens of insurgents attacked parts of Sayad district of Sar-e-Pul province from three different directions.
Sa r-e-Pul governor Mohammad Zahir Wahdat confirmed the attack and said security forces managed to push back insurgents after several hours.
Wahdat said that among those killed was Qari Khaibar, known as Moaz, a prominent Taliban commander.
According to Wahdat, one civilian was killed during the Taliban attack and four others were wounded.
Hawija (IraqiNews.com) An official in Diyala Province revealed that more than 50 members of the Islamic State group have sneaked from Hawija to al-Mutaibaija, Alsumaria News reported on Tuesday.
Mayor of al-Khalis District, Udai al-Khedran, said in a press statement that more than 50 fighters of the Islamic State group sneaked from Hawija to al-Mutaibaija, located on the borders between Diyala and Salahuddin, in the last few weeks.
Khedran also warned that al-Mutaibaija may represent a weakness to the stability of Salahuddin, Diyala and Kirkuk, due to its strategic location.
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[AnNahar] Kuwait was set to begin questioning on Tuesday of a suspected 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.... group jihadist deported from the Philippines as it remanded four relatives in jug, the emirate's media reported.
Hussein al-Dhafiri was jugged Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! in an upscale district of Manila late last month along with his Syrian wife Rahaf Zina on suspicion of being members of IS and of planning attacks in both countries.
He was deported to Kuwait on Friday to stand trial in his home country on charges of membership of a banned ...the word banned seems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organization and of plotting attacks.
His wife, whom he married after her high-ranking IS commander husband was killed in Syria, remains in jug in the Philippines pending deportation to Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... , from where she entered the islands.
Judicial authorities in Kuwait have remanded four relatives of Dhafiri in jug for 21 days pending further inquiries, al-Qabas newspaper reported.
They face similar charges to Dhafiri, the paper added.
Philippine Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre said on Thursday that Dhafiri was suspected of manufacturing explosives and of possible operational planning against Kuwait.
Washington believed he could "pose a threat to the national security of the Philippines," Aguirre added.
A statement issued by the Kuwaiti embassy in Manila on Friday said evidence was obtained by the emirate's security services that Dhafiri was "planning to carry out terroristic attacks in the State of Kuwait."
Kuwaiti courts have handed down multiple convictions on charges of IS membership or financing. Some of the defendants have been found guilty of fighting with the jihadists in Iraq or Syria. All have received lengthy jail sentences.
In June 2015, a Saudi went kaboom! in a Shiite mosque in Kuwait City, killing 26 worshipers in an attack claimed by the Sunni bandidosLions of Islam that was the deadliest in the emirate's history.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] On Monday afternoon, an Islamic State suicide bomber blasted Kurdish forward units in the newly liberated Alexandria neighborhood, killing and injuring many fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the process.
According to Amaq Agency, two SDF technicals were set alight and an additional two vehicles immobilized by the Islamic State SVBIED (vehicle-borne improvised explosive device) on SDF-held southern suburb in Tabqa city.
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[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Attorney General Jeff Sessions warned in a late Monday op-ed for USA Today that recent efforts to reform police practices have focused too much on the "small number of police who are bad actors, rather than on criminals."
"[T]oo many people believe the solution is to impose consent decrees that discourage the proactive policing that keeps our cities safe," he wrote.
Sessions has openly criticized consent decrees a means of reforming local and state police departments. This month, he called for a sweeping review of any consent decrees, which are court-binding agreements between the federal government and a police department on how to reform, that were reached before President Trump took office or that are currently being negotiated.
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[TheBlackSphere] Colored People Time is what it’s called. Hillary Clinton tried to make fun of the notion that black people run on a different clock than whites.Thus, Clemson University in South Carolina will no longer hold minority students accountable for tardiness. Instead, minorities’ culturally different “perception of time” must be tolerated.
A new faculty training program on “diversity” declares that the expectation of punctuality is racist, and not necessarily a sign of disrespect or nonchalance.
In the training, a fictional scenario features “Alejandro” setting up a meeting between two groups of foreign professors and students. The first arrives 15 minutes early, while the second is 15 minutes late. The late arriving minority is not reprimanded for his blatant disrespect.
Instead, the new normal in wackademia is to be “inclusive” by understanding that time is a culturally fluid concept.
This training essentially grants minorities another privilege – the right to be rude, and ultimately to fail in life.
Nanny State Coddlers
Bosses expect employees to be on time for work or be fired. In fact, others require punctuality as well, like dentists, loan officers, realtors, airlines, and so on. I’d like to see a black person sue an airline for not holding the plane for them. Almost every type of business transaction requires respect for other people’s time, by keeping scheduled appointments. If time had no consequence, then why do we measure it?
Clemson’s training describes perfectly the bigotry of low expectations. Training like this keeps minorities mired in poverty and government dependence. No sense teaching blacks how to perform in the real world.
University administrators now abdicate their place of authority to those who demand it based on nothing other than skin color. Reparations from white America disguised as another privilege based on race.
Elsewhere, the training claims political correctness “lead[s] to better decisions” and “decrease[s] employee turnover.”
What a fiction. Additionally, if anyone objects to political correctness, Clemson professors are told to publicly correct them.
After all, another slide warns, “freedom of speech and academic freedom are not limitless.”
No longer is the U.S. Constitution respected. Instead, Leftist contradict and mock the Constitution openly.
Neither does the “diversity” training include a diversity of opinions. Because God forbid we teach young people how to debate and reason with political, social, or religious opponents. Our government nanny can’t get votes from independent thinkers, you see.
Another direct quote reads like an Orwellian threat:
“Language that is derogatory with regard to race, sex, or other protected or emerging forms of diversity does not belong in a university that values inclusion.”
Apparently, Leftists add new entitlements based on race as their sickness evolves. The training is not required, but “strongly suggested.”
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I showed up late to lots of classes. But had to turn in the work on time and pass the class. Being late isn't a demerit, not doing the work however is.
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A new faculty training program on “diversity” declares that the expectation of punctuality is racist, and not necessarily a sign of disrespect or nonchalance or indolence.
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The clock is a Euro-Asian artifact. To expect others to use it should be considered cultural appropriation. That is a bad thing as our betters tell us.
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Its ok, bullshit like this has its own blowbacks. "CP time" is a real thing, that THEY pay for it, one way or the other. I know for a fact that certain contract offers are internally discounted when the recipient becomes aware of the "makeup" of the one submitting the offer.
Call that what you will. I prefer to think of it as "situational awareness".
[DAILYCALLER] Nevada’s Secretary of State blamed the Department of Motor Vehicles voter registration process for adding people to the state voter rolls who were not U.S. Citizens.
Nevada Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske told state DMV director, Terri Albertson in a letter Friday evening about her concerns regarding the registrations.
"It has come to our attention that when offering voter registration opportunities to customers, DMV’s employees offer voter registration materials to DMV customers whom they know to be non-citizens based upon their presentation of a Green Card for identification purposes," Cegavske wrote.
"More specifically, it is our understanding that some DMV employees have been instructed to accept registration materials from all customers, including those who present a Green Card for identification purposes...This practice must cease immediately. Please take appropriate actions, as we have reason to believe that non-citizens have unlawfully registered to vote in Nevada as a direct result of DMV’s practices. Moreover, we now have confirmed that some non-citizens illegally cast votes in the 2016 election."
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But there was no voter fraud, and that same rampant voter fraud doesn't need to be investigated.
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Then there are the other state(s) which automatically register DMV customers for the vote, as part of issuing driver's licenses, even without any action taken by the non-citizen customer. This is even more scandalous.
[Dhaka Tribune] New JMB recruiter Mahbubur Rahman Selim, who has been wanted by police for over a year, is already in Chittagong Central Jail under the alias Mahbubur Rahman Khokon.
Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) chief Deputy Inspector General Banaz Kumar Majumder told the Dhaka Tribune: "We have succeeded in locating Selim, who is in Chittagong Central Jail under the name Khokon. PBI’s Chittagong unit will plea before the court to take Selim in fresh remand, so that more information about New JMB’s finances and organizational structure may be collected."
Selim is the main associate of mid-level New JMB leader and bomb expert Lokman Ali alias Sohel Rana, who went kaboom! along with his wife and five kids at Nasirpur in Moulvibazar during Operation Hit Back on March 30.
According to the Police Bureau of Investigation, Selim was enjugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! on October 5, 2015, in a case for his part in a robbery and murder at the Shah Corporation in Chittagong. The crimes in question took place on September 24 the same year.
However, those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... law enforcement agencies have been scouring the country for the notorious myrmidon, who is suspected to be the recruiter for New JMB’s suicide squad.
While Selim was primarily in charge of recruitment for the myrmidon outfit’s suicide brigade, Sohel Rana trained the recruits in a clay house situated in the remote hills of Baishari’s Lombabil Khorolia Mora area of Bandarban, said police sources.
They added that turbans arrested or killed at the recent raids in Ashkona, Sitakunda, Sylhet, Comilla and Moulvibazar were all recruited by Selim and trained by Sohel.
Selim hails from Ichhanagar of the Karnaphuli area in Chittagong. Under order of New JMB Chittagong Coordinator Sohel, he purchased the clay-made house at Baishari for Tk1.60 lakh in 2012.
During the September 2015 robbery, Shah Corporation Manager Satya Gopal Bhowmik was killed along with two of the robbers ‐ Rafiq and Rabiul. Two other robbers, New JMB Chittagong Divisional Commander Raisul Islam Khan alias Fardin and his associate Piyas, were maimed while fleeing the scene as they detonated explosives to cover their retreat.
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[DAILYSIGNAL] State politicians want Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton’s administration to explain its apparent faith in a politically connected union despite evidence of fraud since the union won an election to represent thousands of residents who care for disabled relatives in their homes.
State Rep. Marion O’Neill, chairman of the Subcommittee on Employee Relations, plans to schedule a hearing to ask the head of Minnesota’s labor relations agency to detail how an affiliate of the Service Employees International Union recruited home caregivers and the state administered the election.
"I want to see how many [ballots] they actually did send out, and I want to see the original receipts for the mailing," O’Neill told The Daily Signal in a phone interview.
"I want to see copies of the returned ballots," she said. "I want to see who signed them and verify that those signatures are authentic, and not fabricated and not forged."
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And this facet of rampant voter fraud doesn't need to be investigated either. Because it doesn't exist.
[AlAhram] Suspected Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... murderous Moslems killed five Nigerian soldiers and injured five others in a raid on a military post in the violence-torn northeast, locals and a military officer said Tuesday.
"Our men were outgunned and outnumbered," said a military officer in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State, who asked not to be named because he was not authorised to speak about the incident.
Scores of fighters loyal to the Boko Haram faction headed by Abu Musab al-Barnawi late Monday stormed a checkpoint near Sabon Garin Kimba village about 140 kilometres (90 miles) from Maiduguri, the birthplace of Boko Haram.
"We lost five men in the fight. Five more were maimed," the military officer said.
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.... (IS) murderous Moslem group last year appointed al-Barnawi as head of Boko Haram, replacing long-time leader Abubakar Shekau ... the lunatic leader of Boko Haram who has been reported dead at least eleven times, pledged his body and soul to ISIS, told his fighters to hang it up once or twice, and been fire by the Caliph and refused to step down ... Mustapha Karimbe, a civilian assisting the military, said the Islamist murderous Moslems took military vehicles and burned three armoured cars along with makeshift sheds at the checkpoint.
"The snuffies attacked the soldiers... and remained in the village for three hours before they withdrew," said Karimbe.
This was the second attack on the same military checkpoint in under a month.
Late last month, Islamist murderous Moslems dressed in Nigerian military uniforms attacked the checkpoint and forced soldiers to withdraw before looting food and medical supplies from the village.
Boko Haram has in recent weeks intensified attacks on military targets in the northeast.
Mosul (IraqiNews.com) 16 civilians were killed on Tuesday in an attack launched by Islamic State on the boundaries of al-Thawra district, in west of Mosul, a military source said.
“An IS suicide bomber, driving a booby-trapped vehicle, attacked the military units of Counter-Terrorism Service in al-Thawra district,” Captain Khedr al-Assadi, of the CTS, told Anadolu Agency.
“Failed to reach his target and besieged, he blew up the car in one of the alleyways,” Assadi added.
“Seven men, five women and four children were killed due to the blast, two houses were destroyed in addition to four cars that were stationed near the explosion,” he added.
“The troops fully controlled the district but had not combed it yet, which delayed the raising of Iraqi flags on its buildings,” according to Assadi.
Lieutenant-General Talib Shaghati, CTS chief, was quoted earlier as saying that “the military troops keep going steadily to liberate the remaining small area of western Mosul in order to declare the city as fully-liberated one. 32 out of a total of 38 districts were combed, in addition to the strategic airport of Mosul and Ghozlani military camp.”
CTS previously announced the troops advance in districts of al-Thawra and al-Tanak.
The densely-populated city of Mosul is the second biggest Iraqi cities. IS gained controlled on it in the summer of 2014. However, Iraqi troops were able to retake the eastern side in January. A new offensive was launched in February to recapture the western part.
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[AFP] The Philippine military announced plans to create all-Muslim fighting units on Saturday as it looks to bolster efforts to tackle Islamic insurgents. Five percent of all new applications will be allocated for Muslims under the new order, military spokesman Colonel Edgard Arevalo said, adding the eventual goal was to have a dedicated brigade or division to be deployed in the nation's troubled south.
Arevalo said the Muslim quota, which reflects the proportion of the religious minority in the population, would help the army operate in areas where local people have previously viewed it with suspicion. He said, "Most of our Muslim brothers and sisters perceive the deployment of almost 100 percent Christian soldiers in their communities as invading or occupational forces," he said, adding that fellow Muslims would be more aware of religious or cultural sensitivities.
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The swampy girl, Emily Marshall, who got her clock punched at Berkeley was throwing glass bottles at people, while wearing an antifa bandana and using a false name. In other words, weapons are already routine for these morons.
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There will be blood in the streets and the left will clutch their pearls and wail and cry how violence isn't the answer and Trump is causing all of this with his hate...
all the while taking money from Soros, spreading lies and hate, paying antifa to be violent, and fulfill his dream of destroying the US.
Antifa has no choice but to escalate the violence. Their rapid defeat at Bearkly showed that the center and right are tired of being attacked and will fight back in an organized and efficient fashion. This will only lead to mostly antifa bodies lining the streets.
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The media is working feverishly on the sucker-punch narrative, but every pic clearly shows it was not, and no one is buying it. Darth has it exactly right - there is no wiggle room anymore.
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I was busy this weekend, so the video was just kind of sprung on me. First thought - that dude is coming up pretty quick on that guy's back.
*contact*
Oh, that was a girl.
My point, a uniformed participant moved aggressively into an active fight. Yup.
Now about Aunti Fa officially condoning knife and concealed weapons, to quote Egon Spangler, I think that is an extraordinarily bad idea.
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The water quality problems in our storm drains....
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She was indeed throwing bottles, and that position was specifically taken down at the beginning of the surge as many could most likely see where those bottles were coming from
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[AlAhram] A "wanted terrorist" was killed in a shootout on Tuesday morning during a police raid in the northern coastal governorate of Damietta, state-run news agency ...and if you can't believe the state-run news agency who can you believe?... MENA said, quoting a security source.
The incident occurred when police raided a krazed killer hideout in Kafr Saad village, said MENA, with one police officer injured in the resulting shootout.
The source said that the shootout began when the terrorist fired at coppers as they attempted to arrest him, forcing police to return fire.
[DAILYCALLER] Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Rep. Comrade Maxine Waters is denying ever having called for Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s impeachment, a bizarre claim since she was recorded on video just this weekend leading a crowd of activists in an "Impeach 45!" chant.
In an interview on Tuesday with MSNBC’s Craig Melvin, Waters was asked about a tweet she sent out earlier in the day saying that she was going to fight "everyday until [Trump’s] impeached."
Waters said that allegations of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government need to be investigated.
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The only ones whose opinion matters are her district voters. Posted by g(r)omgoru
A longer-term study of opinions and motives might be found in political and economic trends of the former Belgium Congo. But on second thought, I doubt such a study is actually necessary.
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.
The leader of California separatist group Yes California announced in a 1,600-word statement on Monday that he "intends to make Russia" his "new home" and is therefore withdrawing his petition for a "Calexit" referendum.
The F-35 Joint Strike Figher represents the US Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps' vision for the future of combat aviation, but a damning 2015 report detailed how the F-35 had lost in dogfights with F-16s and F-15s -- the very planes it was intended to replace.
FBI Director James Comey and then-U.S. President Barack Obama relied on the hugely discredited ’BuzzFeed dossier’ to secure a FISA warrant against then-candidate Donald Trump’s team, reports CNN.
[FOX] Aaron Hernandez, the former New England Patriots star who was convicted of murder in 2015, killed himself in his prison cell Wednesday morning, officials said.
[The Hill] Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) said on Tuesday that President Trump's frequent trips to his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida bother not only her, but other members of the Republican caucus.
[Reddit] The troubling implications of the conflict in Berkley today.
[DAWN] The United States asked Pakistain on Monday to indiscriminately fight all terrorist groups.
...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in 
[DAWN] The Lahore High Court on Monday upheld death sentence of a convict and commuted other’s to life imprisonment for killing 94 people and leaving around 150 men and children injured during an attack on Ahmadis’ worship place in Model Town in 2010.
Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A local leader of the Taliban group was killed in an ambush of the Afghan National Police (ANP) forces in eastern Nuristan province.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least sixteen Taliban 
[FREEBEACON] Federal authorities have open investigations into radical Islamic 
[IsraelTimes] The foiled plan sparks fears that the closing days of the election campaign could be a target for 
Obama holdovers in the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency are continuing with the same careless disregard in the Trump Administration that they did under former President Obama, according to Border Patrol agents.
[Inquirer] Philippine police nabbed two men in possession of hand grenades minutes after two explosions rocked a gas station in Tacurong City and injured 15 people on Monday night. Police spokesman Raul Supiter said Waren Gani and his brother, Johari, were seen roaming around the site of the explosions carrying hand grenades after the two blasts hit.
[YOURCENTRALVALLEY] Three people are dead
[DAWN] A new video circulating on Tuesday contains footage of scenes following the Mardan university lynching and shows a man demanding that a group of students take an oath to conceal the identity of the man who shot 23-year-old Mashal Khan.
[BREITBART]
[AlManar] The Yemeni army and popular committees managed on Tuesday to liberate all the Saudi-led aggression forces’ positions in Mount Al-Nar vicinity in Mocha.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least sixty seven 
[AnNahar] Kuwait was set to begin questioning on Tuesday of a suspected 
[AlAhram] Suspected 
[AFP] The Philippine military announced plans to create all-Muslim fighting units on Saturday as it looks to bolster efforts to tackle Islamic insurgents. Five percent of all new applications will be allocated for Muslims under the new order, military spokesman Colonel Edgard Arevalo said, adding the eventual goal was to have a dedicated brigade or division to be deployed in the nation's troubled south.
[DAILYCALLER] 
