Protestors on @ICEgov property just pulled down the American flag and replaced it with the Mexican flag. The group by the doors is growing. Though most protestors are still on the street. pic.twitter.com/X2waaFMEOW
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?? Toxic saliva, maybe? A man hold about 5 quarts, and I think you have to lose about 2 before it gets acutely dangerous. A cow's a bit bigger, it'd need more than 2 quarts of ticks...
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Self-cloning Humans that suck animals' blood dry?
I think that's been done.
[Fox News] President Trump notched a win on Friday in a federal appeals court, which upheld a Department of Justice method for cracking down on sanctuary cities.
In a 2-1 decision that overturns a nationwide injunction, the DOJ is now allowed to give preferential treatment for community policing grants to cities that don't defy federal immigration enforcement.
"The department is pleased that the court recognized the lawful authority of the administration to provide favorable treatment when awarding discretionary law enforcement grants to jurisdictions that assist in enforcing federal immigration laws," the DOJ said in a statement.
While the Trump administration has faced numerous obstacles in cutting funding to sanctuary cities, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals appears to make an exception for the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) grant program, which is meant to help cities hire more police officers.
Other factors in the program's "points" system include the hiring of veterans, and the occurrence of school shootings within a jurisdiction. In 2017, the DOJ under then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions implemented points that benefit non-sanctuary cities.
Judges Sandra Ikuta and Jay Bybee, who ruled in the DOJ's favor, were appointees of President George W. Bush.
"Cooperation relating to enforcement of federal immigration law is in pursuit of the general welfare, and meets the low bar of being germane to the federal interest in providing the funding to 'address crime and disorder problems, and otherwise ... enhance public safety,'" Ikuta stated.
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It's actually a good thing. Xinjiang I mean. The Chinese are smart, if pig headed. I wish every country had the guts to do this. I wish America had had the guts to do the same after 9/11.
China's Xinjiang policy was not born in a vacuum of experience, or at the table of some good 'ol boys pondering about how to obtain funds from local builders by awarding contracts for contained shelters. It was a response to brutal attacks on a populace their State apparently values. In comparison with China, the response to islamism and in western nations is not worth jack shit.
I don't wish the common citizens of the chinese mainland or those of nearby regions ill the India-China volatility and economic tussles notwithstanding , and am glad they've kept these demons contained.
Knowing what we all know about muslim communities set free and given 'rights' in our lands, I greatly appreciate their policy and wish their other muslim/uighur containment projects Godspeed.
Many in my own govt feel that we should encourage human rights groups and support vociferous mudslinging of the CPC to set free the deadly uighur; then we can wait and watch them suffer like other countries with acute terminal islamosarcoma Neat, eh ?. I refuse to think like that. We cannot wreak havoc on innocent masses just to obtain economic advantage from the destabilization of their State. No, the muslim must be universally contained, converted, or exterminated. It is the only way to protect the liberties of peoples that have persevered, fought and travailed through history to survive up to the current century.
I also think it's hypocritical to whine about China's treatment of uighurs while cheering whenever a sasquatch in Yemen or 10 in Afghanistan go toes up. The uighurs are tribals, ferocious, deadly bastards with their own feral laws and a facade of culture to show the world. They have survived under one of the most repressive regimes in history, only by tact and duplicity. There is a whirlwind of classically islamic angst waiting to be let loose upon unsuspecting, law-abiding, industrious and innocent populations.
The fucking UN and humanist organizations calling for human rights for these prospective serial stabbers, rapists and terrorists have no locus standi in this matter, when they have yet to reach consensus on a simple binary - whether they serve the mandates granted by their own indigenous, law abiding populations or the ingrate criminal masses they allow into their countries. Then they can preach about rights.
WOW. WOW. this is the first-ever image of a circumplanetary disk, the belt of gas & dust that forms planets & moon systems.
you can see the star in the very center, & 2 smudges that are newly-formed planets. the outer planet has the disk, right in the throes of planet formation pic.twitter.com/IfSw7EIP2z
[SpaceNews] Lin Xiqiang, deputy director of the China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO), stated that the space lab was functioning normally and would continue experiments and Earth observation until deorbiting in or after July 2019.
My twin, Voyager 2, fired up trajectory correction thrusters for the first time since the Neptune flyby in '89 and they worked like a champ. They'll be used to point the spacecraft for the foreseeable future. https://t.co/4qlHg6irQUpic.twitter.com/B0PRTB0gtX
#Geographical factors weigh heavily on a system's usefulness, with mountainous features able to block the systems' sensors. A low-flying target can take advantage of geographical features to avoid an #S400 interception for longer than a high-flying target. https://t.co/Jnwn3vAEcUpic.twitter.com/MgWgPjakvP
[Unz Review] Readers ask me about the Epstein case. Are Ann Coulter, Giraldi and others correct that the Lolita Express was a possible Mossad operation to create blackmail files on political leaders, women included. I have no way of knowing. I posted articles from others to stimulate thought, not to take a position.
At this point in time, my view is that Epstein, whether innocent or guilty, is likely to get off, because the information, if it is correct, is on Western political leaders, none of whom wants it to come out and neither does Israel as the blackmail potential of the information would be lost. That makes a lot of political power for a mere US Attorney to go up against.
Moreover, MeTwo and the other crazed anti-male "feminist" movements prefer to see the pedophile scandal, if such is a fact, as "what men do." They don’t want any politics to take the blame, and certainly not Israel. It is heterosexual men who are to blame. The position of the idiot feminists to make this a war against men will contribute a lot to Epstein’s escape from justice if once again the case against him goes nowhere.
If the blackmail theory sounds far-fetched, it’s worth keeping in mind that it was also floated by one of Epstein’s victims, Virginia Roberts Giuffre. “Epstein … also got girls for Epstein’s friends and acquaintances. Epstein specifically told me that the reason for him doing this was so that they would ‘owe him,’ they would ‘be in his pocket,’ and he would ‘have something on them,’” she said in a court affidavit, according to the investigative series in the Miami Herald that brought the case back to the public’s attention late last year.
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Good spellcatch Dron. Usually only takes btwn 24-48 hrs to begin assigning blame to Israel. I was shocked it took so long. Notice if you will, the intelligence service not mentioned.
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A Mossad op...
Surely you realize that Mossad, CIA, MI6, and all the rest are perfectly willing to farm stuff like this out to contractors. Creates a firewall and keeps your hands clean and all that.
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OK, my problem with this, in a nutshell, is thus: from what I've heard from news reports, Epstein's Corporation, whatever it was called, was too _empty_. Either Epstein wasn't an intelligence asset, or the intelligence agencies have sunk a lot since their heyday. (I know, I know, "Embrace the healing power of 'and'").
The business has no real physical assets or operations for any intelligence operations they may be running to blend in with.
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When someone has something to his, another will exploit it. Nexium was developed as a blackmail organization, that was the base for retaining members. This I believe is different. This was fairly open to the elite and most knew and ignored, not unlike Weinstein's women. I don't think Mossad would be running it, but in their research on our political class, I would be naïve to believe they did not have the data on them, as I assume the Chinese, Britts and Russians have. Its just too easy to get.
He will go to jail, he will probably die in prison, shanked by an inmate. Those that have not been exposed yet will slither on by. But Clinton, both of them, Dershowitz, and possibly Obama will get dragged into this and destroyed. If they get Dershowitz on charges he will tell all.
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Something to hide.. sorry guys.
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I hope you're right, 49 Pan. ,sarc. Any chance the Rooshans are involved? If the Dems are gonna drag Trump into this, they'll have to check out the Rooshans!
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For you reading plasure:
https://genesiustimes.com/hillary-clinton-expresses-shock-and-sadness-for-jeffrey-epsteins-upcoming-suicide/
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[Washington Examiner] President Trump is reportedly thinking about pushing out Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and has held informal meetings with people who could replace him.
Trump has been weighing replacing the 76-year-old Coats for months, according to Fox News. Possible replacements include former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford and Fred Fleitz, who served as national security adviser John Bolton’s chief of staff.
Trump discussed the possibility with Fleitz in February but did not officially offer him the job. It isn’t clear how many other people are being considered or who they are. Trump was upset with Coats after he appeared critical of the president’s relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin during an interview with NBC’s Andrea Mitchell last year. Last year? He'd have moved faster than this. The dude's 76. If you don't have a succession planned, you're failing
[Huffpoo] Tyrus, a Fox News contributor and a host on the network’s subscription streaming service, Fox Nation, sent lewd and inappropriate text messages to his now-former Fox Nation co-host, Britt McHenry, according to four sources familiar with the texts’ contents.
The messages, which have not previously been reported, include texts in which Tyrus said to McHenry: "Just pull your boobs out now why don’t you. Just grin and bare it" and "keep being negative and I’ll send you another dick pic."
In June, The Daily Beast reported that Tyrus was pulled off the show he co-hosted with McHenry, after McHenry complained to the network about him.
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[SD Reader] In spite of testimony that a half dozen Navy SEAL witnesses who agreed to testify against Navy Special Operations Chief Ed Gallagher were offered permits to carry concealed weapons, only one permit has been issued.
Then-Special Operator First Class, now-Chief Petty Officer Craig Miller, who made the first formal complaints against Gallagher months after the deployment ended, got his permit in April.
(The sheriff’s department did not provide information about the brand and type of weapon Miller has permission to carry. The official Special Warfare military-issued handgun is the German-made Sig Sauer P226, but a Navy spokeswoman said that "military issue weapons are for military use only.")
The offer to carry concealed weapons came out in testimony during the court martial.
Miller was the first to complain to his command about Gallagher, months after the team returned from deployment.
The sheriff's department disputes that the permit was offered, saying that all who seek such a permit must apply and qualify ‐ the department does not offer them.
Many of the witnesses were not offered the opportunity to apply for concealed weapon permits, sources close to the case say, but the Navy command did offer to issue military protective orders that bar Gallagher from being near or contact with them. Several witnesses are said to have accepted the protective orders.
Asked for more information about the concealed weapon permit program, the department's communications Lt. Justin White decided the question is a public records request that will receive a response "in the statutorily prescribed time period." The department's 2017 annual report indicates the department approved 2,065 permits to carry in San Diego County that year.
Attempts to contact the SEAL witnesses' attorney Brian Ferguson gather the response that he is out of pocket and could not respond.
Testimony during the court martial indicated that Capt. Conor MacMahon and Navy investigator Joe Warpinski offered the permits to some if not all the SEALs who agreed to testify against Gallagher – an offer confirmed by Gallagher's attorney, Timothy Parlatore.
"What's the best way to get the loyalty of a SEAL who's getting cold feet about testifying? Offer him a permit to carry," Parlatore said.
McMahon was part of the original prosecution team whose lead prosecutor was removed after it became clear that he'd gone ahead with a clandestine effort to track emails to and from the defense team after the military judge hearing the matter directed the prosecutor to the U.S. Attorney's office where he was told he couldn't get a warrant to spy on the defense lawyers.
Lawyers for Miller did not respond to messages Tuesday and Wednesday.
During Parlatore's cross-examination of Miller, the lawyer skewered the newly minted Spec Ops chief for being one of a dozen or so current and former SEALs who'd paid the village volunteer police department in Lake Arthur, New Mexico for police officer badge and credentials that included a weapon permit valid throughout the U.S. An investigation of the Lake Arthur badges and guns by a New Mexico television station found about 100 "reserve officers," most of whom do not live in the state.
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Nasrallah with a map: •We can strike any point in Israel from any point in Lebanon, even southern-most tip of Eilat •We can saturate with missiles Israeli coastal strip/major cities//nuke & chemical plants •We have full deterrence against Israel in Lebanon as a result pic.twitter.com/xgLrxLagAa
Nasrallah sends praise to Yemen's Houthi leader Abdulmalek Al Houthi over his latest speech. Abdulmalek is well known for copying Nasrallah in his public appearances and mannerisms.
Nasrallah on @realDonaldTrump aborted Iran strike: Iran informed US through 3rd party that if strike occurs, Iran will respond directly on US interests, not through proxy. When message reached Trump, he backed down to avert direct confrontation
[Jpost] Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defense Systems signed a $100 million contract with KRAS (Kalyani Rafael Advanced Systems Ltd. India), to manufacture and supply 1,000 Barak 8/ MRSAM missile kits for the Indian Army and Air Force.
In keeping with its commitment to Make-in-India, KRAS is a joint venture between Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. and Kalyani Strategic Systems.
The joint venture was established with the vision of manufacturing weapon systems required by the Indian Defense Forces, as well as for the export market. KRAS is expected to ramp up its employees to 300 technical experts by 2023.
The MR-SAM system, jointly developed by India’s Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) in close collaboration with Israel’s Israel Aircraft Industry (IAI), is a land-based configuration of the long-range surface-to-air missile (LRSAM) or Barak-8 naval air defense system.
Each MR-SAM system includes a command and control system, tracking radar, missiles and mobile launcher systems. The missiles, which can be fired in single or ripple firing modes from a vertical position, are launched in canister configuration, and the launcher will have eight canistered missiles in two stacks.
Brig.-Gen. (res.) EVP Pini Yungman, head of Rafael’s air defense systems division, emphasized KRAS’s commitment to the operational readiness of the Indian army and Indian air force, saying that "we at Rafael are proud of our role ‐ not only in KRAS ‐ but also of our participation in Make-in-India, and our strong relationship with the vibrant talent across India’s defense industries."
"This order is a testimony to the capabilities that exist in the country and how they can be utilized to truly achieve the aim of ’Make-in-India’," said Baba Kalyani, chairman of the Kalyani Group.
[Free Beacon] Democratic lawmakers in the Congressional Black Caucus expressed anger over Justice Democrats attempting to oust black lawmakers in the primaries, saying the group's strategy is "a bunch of B.S."
Justice Democrats, a progressive group aligned with freshman representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.), is publicly backing primary challengers to several CBC members, including Reps. William Lacy Clay (Mo.) and Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.). Reps. Yvette Clarke (N.Y.), Joyce Beatty (Ohio), Emanuel Cleaver (Mo.) and Anthony Brown (D-Md.) have also expressed concerns about potentially being targeted in future weeks and months, according to the Hill.
Rep. Gregory Meeks, a senior CBC member and Queens Democratic Party boss, told the Hill it "seems strange" that "social Democrats seem to be targeting members of the Congressional Black Caucus, individuals who have stood and fought to make sure that African Americans are included and part of this process."
"I don't know what that agenda is, but if they want to come after members of the Black Caucus, it's two ways," Meeks said.
Clay, who has represented his district since 2001, said it's "insulting" to the intelligence of voters in Missouri for Justice Democrats to target him.
It’s 1:03 a.m. EDT and I’m already tired of your nonsense, Mr. McCoy. If you are able to behave like a gentleman you may try again on Sunday, but today nothing you post will be allowed to stay up.
— trailing wife for the moderators
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Police in Washington state say an armed man was shot and killed early Saturday after trying to attack a local Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center.
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He was armed with a long gun and was throwing incendiary devices. AOC's idiotic hot war revolution against the sovereignty of this US has begun. Incarcerate the tramp.
[Breitbart] Authorities said that an unnamed car thief was beaten to death by the father of the children who were still in the car when he stole it.
At around 9 p.m. on Thursday night in Philadelphia, a 25-year-old woman drove her child ‐ and both of her boyfriend’s children ‐ to the pizza place where her partner worked. She left the kids in the car and went inside, whereupon a 54-year-old man jumped into the car and sped away.
The aforementioned boyfriend charged out of the restaurant and after the car. When it was blocked by traffic, he caught up and dragged the would-be abductor from the vehicle. He and other bystanders then assaulted the man. Emergency medical services responded to the scene and took the thief to Temple University Hospital. But just after 10 p.m., he was declared dead.
Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small told local NBC affiliate WCAU that the woman and her boyfriend were taken into custody, where they cooperated fully with law enforcement officers. According to Small, both the homicide unit and the District Attorney’s Office must now determine whether the father will be charged.
Fortunately, none of the children ‐ all between the ages of seven months and five years ‐ were harmed.
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I hope he's not charged with anything. This is exactly what people should do. The bystanders too are to be commended. The bastard Erik Hood,54 had 30 Yupp prior arrests. Also, Hood had managed to get free from the hero father and was caught by a mob who proceeded beat his ass to death.
What a tale of social fraternity, people. If this ain't brotherhood, I don't know what is. The law should quietly acquiesce and learn humility here.
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Kidnapping a child should carry the death penalty. No matter how it comes about, so if you carjack someone's car and there are kids in the back, there should be a date of execution in their future.
"But we can't have people doing this!"
(See - we got to protect our phoney baloney jobs)
Long past the time to look hard in the mirror and come to the possibility the rubes believe you are no longer willing to give them justice. It's all ritual rather than function.
[Breitbart] U.S. Virgin Islands Sen. Oakland Benta, a St. Croix Democrat who previously served as the island’s chief of police, is speaking out in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News about billionaire Democrat donor Jeffrey Epstein and demanding wide-ranging investigations in the territory into Epstein’s and others’ alleged "widespread corruption."
"There is widespread corruption within the territory that needs to be addressed and looked at with fresh eyes," Benta said in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News on Thursday.
In the wake of fresh charges in New York City brought against Epstein, Benta says the authorities in the U.S. Virgin Islands both locally and federally need to probe into more potential crimes that may have been committed. A career law enforcement official who was chief of police in St. Croix for many years before his election to the territory’s legislature, Benta is concerned there may have been both federal and local crimes committed with regard to trafficking minors for the purposes of illicit sex acts.
"Being an investigator as well, and understanding the dynamics, the police department now needs to work with its federal partners very closely because we have interstate trafficking across state lines of minors," Benta told Breitbart News. "If you move across state lines, that is a trafficking offense. At the end of the day, there are so many souls that have been placed in these positions that don’t have the wherewithal or the assistance and they’re saying ’please help.’ Now we can actually encourage them to come forward because they know that justice will be served once it is brought to the correct ears here in the territory. Now, there is a belief and a trust that services will be rendered and justice will be served based on who they speak to within the territory."
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The investigations need to happen in DC and NYC.
It is a near-certainty that he has several very wealthy and very powerful powerful figures in the Democratic party - most likely drawn from the web of people involved in the Clinton Foundation, and quite possibly the Big Dawg himself - under his thumb.
Let's see the flight logs. And then start examining the video footage from the many cameras he had installed throughout his orgy lairs.
[Huffpoo] Despite public outcry, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) re-signed a proclamation Thursday declaring July 13 as Nathan Bedford Forrest Day in the state, honoring the Ku Klux Klan grand wizard and former Confederate general.
Each year, according to state law, the governor is supposed to sign six such proclamations for days of observation, three of which are in honor of the Confederacy, according to The Tennessean. Though they’re mostly symbolic, the governor says he signs them out of a sense of duty.
"I signed the bill because the law requires that I do that and I haven’t looked at changing that law," Lee told The Tennessean on Thursday.
His decision was roundly panned by the media. New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie tweeted: "Very cool that Tennessee has a day honoring a confederate war criminal and founder of America’s oldest and deadliest terrorist group."
"I signed the bill because the law requires that I do that and I haven’t looked at changing that law," Lee told The Tennessean
Forrest is known to history as a bloodthirsty slave trader and the KKK’s very first grand wizard. In 1864, he led Confederate soldiers to commit what’s known as the Fort Pillow Massacre, according to The Washington Post. Three hundred Union soldiers, including 200 black soldiers, were murdered there, often at point-blank range.
Residents have been petitioning to remove two statues of Forrest ― including a bust from the state Capitol ― for years. But Lee defends Confederate monuments and the Ku Klux Klan as "part of our history."
Earlier this year, Lee told The Tennessean that "The Ku Klux Klan is a part of our history that we’re not proud of in Tennessee, and we need to be reminded of that and make certain that we don’t forget it. So I wouldn’t advocate to remove that."
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Good. The best way to deal with black apologetics and 'woke' correctness is to say "fuck you" in the face of those gasping and hawing, and go on with work. No one needs to feel guilty today of slavery or apartheid relegated to history.
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I suppose all those 'outraged' also want to have Senator Robert C. Byrd stricken from the roles of the Congress?
As late as 1946, Byrd wrote to the Klan’s Grand Wizard stating, “The Klan is needed today as never before, and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia and in every state in the nation.” Linky
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Russian tourist who attempted to smuggle a drugged orangutan out of Indonesia in his suitcase was sentenced to a year in prison on Thursday after claiming that he wanted to keep the animal as a pet.
Judges also ordered Andrei Zhestkov to pay a $700 fine or serve two additional months in prison.
The 28-year-old was detained at Bali’s Denpasar airport in March while passing through a security screening before his flight to Russia.
Suspicious officers stopped him and opened his luggage to find a two-year-old male orangutan sleeping inside a rattan basket.
Officials believed Zhestkov drugged the ape with allergy pills before putting it inside the basket which also contained baby formula and blankets.
Police also found two live geckos and five lizards inside the suitcase. Zhestkov told authorities that the protected species was gifted by his friend, another Russian tourist who bought the primate for $3,000 from a street market in Java.
He claimed his friend, who has since left Indonesia, convinced him he could bring home the orangutan as a pet.
Orangutans are a critically endangered species, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, with only about 100,000 remaining worldwide.
Plantation workers and villagers in Indonesia often consider the apes to be pests and sometimes attack them, while poachers capture the animals to sell as pets. A string of fatal attacks on the apes has been blamed on farmers and hunters.
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I should think the poor creature was safer in Mr. Zhestkov's custody, but the world is crazy.
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I can think of a large number of celebrities, politicians or sports figures I'd nominate to hold down the picture for the "drugged orangutan" entry.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Members of a murderous Moslem cell linked to the banned Moslem Brüderbund group have been arrested in Kuwait, the interior ministry there said on Friday.
Those arrested were wanted by Egyptian authorities and some of them had been sentenced to 15 years behind bars in their home country, the ministry added in its statement.
Members of the group had fled from Egypt to Kuwait, but were arrested in different places in the country.
During interrogations, they admitted to carrying out terrorist operations in Egypt, the ministry said, according to the official Kuwaiti news agency KUNA.
The interior ministry further said that investigations were proceeding to determine their accomplices, and warned that it would "crack down ruthlessly against saboteurs."
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[DAWN] The police high-ups have recommended to the authorities for judicial inquiry into the death of a rape suspect in the lockup of the Akbari Gate cop shoppe in the wee hours of Thursday.
The police department requested officially for the judicial inquiry after the rape suspect, Zeeshan (30), was found hanged in the police lockup. His parents alleged he was killed by the police during interrogation.
During initial inquiries, the senior coppers had claimed that Zeeshan did away with himself in the lockup, where four other suspects were also detained.
They claimed Zeeshan went to the washroom of the lockup and took the extreme step in the wee hours when the suspects were asleep.
Zeeshan’s parents, relatives and other residents of the locality took to the street later, when they came to know about his death in jug.
They had surrounded the cop shoppe, blocked the roads and lodged strong protest, throwing traffic out of gear for a couple of hours.
They said that a team from the Akbari Gate police had arrested Zeeshan after a local resident Qazafi alleged that he raped his minor son.
During interrogation, they alleged, the police tortured him to death and then declared it suicide to save their skin.
However, you can observe a lot just by watching... the Lahore SSP (operations) rejected the allegation, saying the CCTV camera installed at the cop shoppe and the four suspects detained in other cases were "witness to the incident".
He said the suspect was a habitual criminal as had also sexually assaulted many other children in the area.
Even then, he said, the police had written a letter to the authorities concerned for a judicial inquiry into the incident to find out the cause of Zeeshan’s death.
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[KhaamaPress] The security forces conducted a series of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in four provinces killing at least 11 holy warriors including a fighter of ISIS Khurasan terrorist group.
The military officials said Friday that an airstrike destroyed a Vehicle-borne Improvised Explosive Device in Khanabad district of Kunduz.
The officials further added that the security forces conducted airstrikes in Obeh district 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... which killed 5 Talibs.
Furthermore, the security forces conducted an airstrike in Azrah district of Pashtun-infested Logar killing 5 Talibs and wounding another Death Eater.
The officials also added that an airstrike killed a murderous Moslem of ISIS Khurasan terrorist group in Khugyani district of 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.. The anti-government armed elements have not commented regarding the airstrikes.
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[RADIOSHABELLE] Somalia’s military says it executed three men convicted of carrying out a deadly attack on a hotel in the capital in 2017.
A statement issued by the military said the three were rubbed out by a firing squad at a police academy in Mogadishu Wednesday.
The men were convicted of participating in an assault on Nasa-Hablod hotel which killed 18 people and maimed 47 others in October 2017.
The three were members of Somalia’s al-Shabaab ...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... Islamic holy warrior rebels and were arrested during the attack on the hotel.
Somalia’s homegrown holy warrior group, al-Shabaab, is allied to al-Qaeda. The rebels were pushed out of the capital, several years ago, but they continue to operate in the countryside and frequently carry out violent attacks on hotels in Mogadishu.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Britannia will soon be "slapped in the face" for the capture of an Iranian supertanker last week, Iranian state TV quoted a holy man as saying on Friday, amid heightened tension between Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and the West in the Gulf.
"Iran’s strong establishment will soon slap Britannia in the face for daring to seize the Iranian oil tanker," holy man Kazem Sedighi told worshippers during Tehran’s Friday prayer sermon, TV reported.
Earlier Iran called on Britannia to immediately release the oil tanker that British Royal Marines seized last week on suspicion it was breaking Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an sanctions by taking oil to Syria.
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I for one am most impressed with the Royal Navy. For all their Government's attempts to reduce the Navy to a ball of chalk, they really did live up to their rep. God save the queen.
[Federal Observer] A 232 Year History of our fight against Islam & why it is no longer taught in our public schools...
When Thomas Jefferson saw there was no negotiating with Muslims, he formed what is now the Marines (sea going soldiers). These Marines were attached to U. S. Merchant vessels. When the Muslims attacked U.S. merchant vessels they were repulsed by armed soldiers, but there is more.
The Marines followed the Muslims back to their villages and killed every man, woman, and child in the village.
It didn’t take long for the Muslims to leave U.S. Merchant vessels alone.
English and French merchant vessels started running up our flag when entering the Mediterranean to secure safe travel.
Why the Marine Hymn contains the verse, "To the Shores of Tripoli ".
This is very interesting and a must read piece of our history. It points out where we may be heading.
Most Americans are unaware of the fact that over two hundred years ago the United States had declared war on Islam, and Thomas Jefferson led the charge!
At the height of the 18th century, Muslim pirates (the "Barbary Pirates") were the terror of the Mediterranean and a large area of the North Atlantic.
They attacked every ship in sight, and held the crews for exorbitant ransoms. Those taken hostage were subjected to barbaric treatment and wrote heart-breaking letters home, begging their governments and families to pay whatever their Mohammedan captors demanded.
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Most Americans are unaware of the fact that over two hundred years ago the United States had declared war on Islam, and Thomas Jefferson led the charge!
Without a declaration of war! That's not what our founding fathers intended.....ah, oh, wait, never mind.
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Only a matter of time before Jefferson's name and legacy on monuments and tender is challenged, because it ... sniff... hurts the sentiments of 'American muslims'.
The Democratic Party which he founded and the city of Charlottesville where sits the university he founded have already begun the process of turning one of America's Olympian leaders into a non-person.
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November 10th, 1775, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was the founding of the USMC, a bit before Jefferson’s Presidency. I’m curious about the sources Regarding arming merchantmen and wholesale pursuit and extreme prejudicial terminations. I was taught about LT Presley O’Bannon but not the other assertions.
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Tun's Tavern, known to every Marine I've ever met. Jefferson knew there could be no "peace" with Islam, and responded to them appropriately. A few scheduled sunrises in the Muddled East would do wonders for whirled peas. We need to develop interstellar spaceflight, and ensure every Muslim and Muslim sympathizer gets a one-way ticket to a new world. Preferably in the Lesser Magellanic Cloud.
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[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Special Forces inflicted heavy casualties on Talibs during the operations in Ghor, Wardak and Paktiya provinces.
The military officials said Friday that the Afghan Special Forces killed 10 Talibs during an operation in Shakrak district of Ghor province.
The officials further added that the Special Forces also destroyed a small cache of weapons during the same operation.
Furthermore, the Special Forces killed 2 Talibs and detained 5 others in Sayyidabad distrit of Wardak province.
The officials also added that the Special Forces killed 2 Talibs and destroyed a weapons cache and 3 roadisde bombs in Zurmat district of Paktiya province.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, Butch clutched at his leg. Son of a Breech! he exclaimed with feeling...... the officials said the Special forces conducted a raid on a large methamphetamine drug facility in Bakwah district of Farah province.
According to military officials, the Special Forces destroyed 3,600 lbs Processed Oman, 8,400 lbs Lye, 1,131 gallons Hydrochloric Acid, 400 gallons Acetone, 10 kg Heroine and 132 kg Crystal Meth during the raid.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) recently carried out a counter-offensive against the jihadist rebels in northwestern Hama, seizing the town of Hamamiyat after a fierce battle with the bully boys.
Hamamiyat was initially captured by the jihadist rebels on Wednesday, but the Syrian Army’s counter-offensive on Thursday would put an end to Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... ’s progress in the northwestern countryside of the Hama Governorate.
Following the capture of Hamamiyat, the Syrian Arab Army was filmed gathering inside the town.
The reason for the gathering is not necessarily known; however, there have been rumors of an imminent Syrian Arab Army attack in the coming days.
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[Libya Observer] The Presidential Council (PC) has stated that the insurrectionist forces which came from al-Rajma - in reference to Haftar's militias- had provoked tribal conflicts in Murzuq, south Libya, by spreading sedition among its people.
A statement released by the PC on Thursday condemned the hostile acts committed by Haftar's militias against the local people, holding the forces that claim control over the city and the southern region, the responsibility for such practices.
It also called on the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... Mission in Libya and the international community to investigate these acts to hold the perpetrators and those behind them accountable.
"The PC had made efforts to establish social peace between the social and cultural components of the southern region, however, the efforts were hampered by sedition acts committed by Haftar's forces," the PC added.
Many were killed in Murzuq as a result of the festivities that break out from time to time amongst its community since the entry of Haftar's forces to the town about months ago.
Haftar's militias had supported the opponents of the Tabu tribe in the region, causing huge social fracture between the tribes, according to local sources.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Two earthquakes shook the Puget Sound region in Washington state early Friday morning, with the temblors felt into British Columbia and across the Cascade Mountains into the eastern part of the state.
There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.
The US Geological Survey reports that a 4.6 magnitude earthquake rattled the Three Lakes area, about 40 miles (64 kilometers) northeast of Seattle. That was followed minutes later by a 3.5 magnitude aftershock near the city of Monroe, some 30 miles (48 kilometers) northeast of Seattle.
The initial jolt was recorded at 2:51 a.m. Friday.
The state Department of Transportation said the agency would be inspecting bridges, but had no reports of damage.
The USGS said it received reports of people feeling the shaking from Vancouver to near Wenatchee, Washington.
The Northwest is especially prone to earthquakes. The most recent large one to shake the Seattle area occurred in 2001, when a 6.8 magnitude quake happened just north of Olympia, Washington. That quake caused some injuries and widespread damage, including to the air traffic control tower at Sea-Tac Airport.
Further south along the Pacific coast, a magnitude 4.9 aftershock of last week’s Southern Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, earthquakes was felt widely in the region on Friday morning. There have been thousands of aftershocks of the magnitude 6.4 earthquake on July 4 and the 7.1 quake that occurred the next day.
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Somebody wake up Mt Hood? All volcanos are extinct until they errupt again.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Leb’s Hezbollah has cut down its forces in Syria as fighting died down though it still has fighters all over the country, its leader said on Friday. and the checks from their Iranian Masters are diminishing
"There are no regions in Syria that we have fully emptied out, but there is no need for the numbers to stay the same," His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... said in an interview with Hezbollah’s al-Manar TV. "We have reduced the forces based on the needs of the current situation."
The heavily armed, Iran-backed group has played a vital role in helping Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... ’s military reclaim much of Syria.
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[BBC] At least seven people have been killed in an attack on a hotel in southern Somalia, officials and survivors say.
They say a suicide bomber rammed a car with explosives into the Asasey hotel in the port of Kismayo, and gunmen then stormed the building.
Regional politicians and clan elders were inside the hotel. Among those killed were popular TV journalist Hodan Naleyeh and her husband, reports say.
The Islamist group Al Shabab later said it carried out Friday's attack.
It was not immediately clear whether the attackers were still in the building.
Security official Abdi Dhuhul told AFP that a former local administration minister and a lawmaker were among the dead.
Local media outlets and a Somali journalists association said that Hodan Naleyeh - a Canadian-Somali who had reportedly recently returned to the country - and her husband Farid were among those killed in the attack.
Hodan Naleyeh had set up a popular online TV channel covering Somalia as well as life in the Somali diaspora.
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More than two dozen people were killed in an attack on a hotel in Somalia, local authorities said Saturday.
A prominent Canadian-Somali journalist and several foreigners were among 26 dead after Somali forces ended an all-night siege on the hotel in the southern port city of Kismayo, officials said.
Those killed include three Kenyans, three Tanzanians, two Americans, one Canadian and one Briton, said Ahmed Madobe, the president of Jubbaland regional state which controls Kismayo.
Fifty-six people, including two Chinese, were injured in the hotel attack, he told reporters.
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Spam copping is not a Frank G specialty, Mr. McCoy. If your only intention is to start a flame war, there is no reason whatsoever for the rest of us to put up with you peeing on the carpet. Nor will any articles you submit be published until you choose to behave like a gentleman.
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I would suggest a 'Herb special' logo or watermark be designed for Mr.McCoy's posts.
After all, he's American (even if severely pink blooded) and deserves your great 1st right. Only if he abuses or is being ungallant would he get the smoky function. Just an idea.
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Who amongst us doesn't enjoy a good piss party every now and again?
And - I'm with Dron - let Herb post and speak. While I (and especially Frank G!) don't always agree with him, he's got the right to say it. Let the fur fly!
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Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Y’all will notice that Rantburg is not a federal institution established by laws passed in Congress. It is a private effort, established by Fred using his own funds and extensive efforts, with additional donations from many Rantburgers. We are guests in Fred’s living room, and those who abuse that hospitality are not welcome.
Herb McCoy was abusive in his first post shortly after midnight, and got worse in each of his posts thereafter. He is entitled to his opinions, certainly. But those opinions he aired in the wee minutes of the day were more suited to a blog of his own, paid for by his own efforts. I do not have the energy to deal with his unamusing trollery, and refuse to do so any longer. When he is willing to engage thoughtfully instead of acting like a door-slamming pre-teen, he will be welcome back.
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I can only speculate what set off the kerfuffle in #1, however...
Rantburg may be the only site on the entire interwebs where I make a point of reading all the comments. Most places, comment threads degenerate into name-calling, stale talking-points repeated over and over, and attempts to "own" the other side. Boring! And childish.
Even though I'm really smart and generally right about pretty much everything, I'm willing to entertain alternative and even contradictory theories on current events. Who knows, I might learn something! But I have zero interesting in name-calling, insults and long-discredited talking points.
Comments here are all over the map - insightful analysis, background info from those who know or were there (the infamous Rantburg U!), clever snark, poetry of varying quality, and general silliness. Good stuff! If it takes some moderation to preserve that, then I am most grateful to those doing the work, as well as to our host who makes the whole mess possible. Thanks!
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Of course, if somebody's being an utter asshole, and uses words that besmirch the reputation of our fine gatherings, he/she/it must be dealt with as the barbecue chef sees fit.
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Thank you all for your support. I do not like doing such things, but sometimes a sharp swat on the behind is necessary to fix the attention, and sometimes a time out is needed. Shipman spent a memorable six months finding Roadside America when he aimed here, but subsequently agreed it helped him re-center himself. And some — after several tries — have never been allowed to return, much as we fondly remember what they were like before running amok.
More than 20 people have been killed or are missing due to landslides and floods as monsoon rains lashed Nepal, the government said.https://t.co/yLELaLTnMG
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] At least 10 non-combatants were killed Friday in Syrian regime Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in the country’s northwest, including three children, a war monitor said. Another 45 civilians were maimed in the strikes across the bad boy-held Idlib region, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Those killed included three people in Idlib city, which until Friday had been spared strikes by the regime and its Russian ally since they stepped up bombardment of the region more than two months ago.
"It’s the first time that the raids hit the centre of Idlib, after being confined until now to its suburbs," said Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman.
Last month a civilian was killed in an airstrike on the outskirts of the regional capital, considered the stronghold of Syria’s former al-Qaeda affiliate Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... (HTS). The group in January took full administrative control of the Idlib region, home to three million people, although other bad boy groups and rebel factions are also present.
Russian and regime aircraft have ramped up strikes on Idlib since the end of April, killing more than 580 civilians. Rebel and bad boy fire has killed 45 civilians over the same period, according to Observatory figures.
Friday’s airstrikes hit residential buildings in one of the city’s largest squares, Sabaa Bahrat, an AFP photographer said. Ambulances were dispatched to the scene to tend to the victims, he added.
Meanwhile in neighbouring Hama province, six children were maimed by opposition fire in the regime-held area of Karnaz.
Fierce festivities have raged in the northern sliver of Hama province in recent days, with at least 22 fighters killed Friday, according to the Observatory.
At least 10 regime fighters and a dozen snuffies and allied rebels were killed in the battle near the village of Hamameyat and its strategic hilltop.
Regime forces retook the area in the north of Hama province overnight into Friday after relentless fighting, according to the Britannia-based war monitor.
The latest figures bring to more than 120 the number of fighters killed since Wednesday evening, when Hamameyat was seized by rebels and bad boys.
The recent uptick in violence has forced 330,000 people to flee their homes, according to the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... Syria’s war has killed more than 370,000 people and displaced millions since it started in 2011 with a brutal crackdown on anti-government protests.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... is attempting to turn Hama and Idlib into a neverending war zone as the latest bully boy offensives have tried to change the front‐lines in these governorates, Syrian military expert Haytham Hassoun told the Arabic‐language version of Sputnik News on Friday.
"During the past weeks, gangs have been carrying out successive attacks in order to change the lines of contact and control over its geography."
"But after these groups were able to achieve several gains, the Syrian Arab Army contained these attacks and turned them into a battle of attrition against these terrorist groups. The Syrian Army managed to inflict heavy losses among these terrorists," he told Radio Sputnik .
Hassoun said that "overthe past few hours, the Syrian Air Force has begun targeting the headquarters of the leadership and the launching sites of terrorist groups supported by the Ottoman Turkish occupation forces."
"The balance of power is now in the interest of the Syrian Arab Army, but it is about the political goal and what Turkey wants by turning this region into a continuous arena of operations. They seek to control new sites through repeated attacks, especially ones that occurred in the past days in the eastern Latakia countryside."
Previously, the Fars News Agency of Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... made a similar claim about Turkey’s intentions and with their upcoming operations east of the Euphrates, it appears that this alleged plan might come to fruition.
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[AnNahar] Shops in central Gay Paree were looted and a woman was killed in a high-speed car crash in southern La Belle France in what the government slammed Friday as "unacceptable" unrest following a key victory for Algeria's national football team.
Fans of the Algerian team flocked to the Champs-Elysees in central Gay Paree and the Vieux Port area in Marseille late Thursday after their side defeated Ivory Coast on penalties to reach the semi finals of the Africa Cup of Nations.
Two stores near the Champs-Elysees in Gay Paree were looted, including a cycle of violence shop where people took helmets, gloves and even bikes, an AFP journalist said.
Police used tear gas to disperse thousands of people who had gathered in Gay Paree. The same measures were used to scatter crowds in Marseille.
"The damage and incidents last night on the sidelines of the celebrations... are unacceptable," Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said in a tweet.
"I hail the actions of the security forces in Gay Paree and across the country to maintain order and contain the excesses," he added.
In total, 43 people were detained.
In the southern city of Montpellier, an Algerian football supporter celebrating his team's win lost control of his car and ran over a family, killing a woman and seriously injuring her baby, a security official said.
The 21-year-old man was driving at high speed in the Mosson neighbourhood, the official said. The driver was taken into police custody.
The woman was walking with her one-year-old baby and 17-year-old daughter when the accident happened.
The baby suffered traumatic injuries and was rushed to hospital. The 17-year-old had a slight ankle injury.
Algeria, the favourites in this year's Africa Cup of Nations, defeated the Ivory Coast 4-3 on penalties in the Egyptian city of Suez to set up a semi-final showdown with Nigeria.
Gay Paree and Marseille are home to large minority communities of Algerian origin. Football celebrations, with supporters brandishing large national flags, have on occasion been a source of tensions.
The far-right National Rally party said in a statement the incidents marked a "rejection of La Belle France" and urged authorities to ban access to the Champs-Elysees for the Algeria-Nigeria match on Sunday evening.
[KhaamaPress] A jacket wallah detonated his explosives in a wedding party in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province killing or wounding at least 20 people.
The Governor’s Office in a statement said a suicide bomber targeted a wedding ceremony in Pacher Agam district at around 8:30am local time.
The statement further added that the suicide bomber targeted the wedding party of one of the relatives of Malik Tor, one of the tribal elders of Pacher Agam.
Furthermore, the Nangarhar Governor’s Office said the attack killed six people and maimed 14 others.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella went down under the weight of the custard... the Governor’s Office said the earth-shattering kaboom killed the tribal elder Malik Tor and a child.
The Governor’s Office also added that the health condition of a number of maimed civilians has been reported as critical and there are fears the corpse count could further rise.
The provincial governor’s front man says the suicide kaboom at the wedding ceremony was carried out by a child.
The blast happened in Pachir Aw Agam district of Nangarhar when the guests were gradually gathering to celebrate the wedding ceremony, Khogyani said.
Khogyani said that the suicide kaboom was carried out by a minor.
He said the wedding ceremony was from the nephew of the head of the public uprising forces in the district who was the target of the earth-shattering kaboom and lost his life in this incident.
The Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... in a statement said the group has no involvement in the incident.
ISISgrabbed credit for the attack.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Surging US oil output will outpace sluggish global demand and lead to a large stocks build around the world in the next nine months, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Friday.
The forecasts appear to predict the need for producer club OPEC and its allies to reduce production to balance the market despite extending their existing pact, forecasting a fall in demand for OPEC crude to only 28 million barrels per day (bpd) in early 2020.
"Market tightness is not an issue for the time being and any rebalancing seems to have moved further into the future," the IEA said in its monthly report.
"Clearly, this presents a major challenge to those who have taken on the task of market management," it added, referring to the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and producer allies such as Russia.
The demand for OPEC crude oil in early 2020 could fall to only 28 million bpd, it added, with non-OPEC expansion in 2020 rising by 2.1 million bpd - a full 2 million bpd of which is expected to come from the United States.
At current OPEC output levels of 30 million bpd, the IEA predicted that global oil stocks could rise by 136 million barrels by the end of the first quarter of 2020.
Maintaining its forecasts for oil demand for the rest of 2019 and 2020, the Gay Paree-based agency cited expected improvement in US-China trade relations and US economic growth as encouraging. However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... it also flagged weakness in Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an manufacturing and slower growth in Indian energy consumption.
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With Venezuela, Mexico and Canada producing less oil, US output is the name of the game in the western hemisphere.
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Totally unacceptable. Tie them up, get their biometrics, confiscate their electronics, and send them all to West Africa via airmail with only the clothes on their backs. Let them find their own way home from the airport. If you can’t behave properly, you don’t deserve to be allowed to stay.
[AlAhram] Hundreds of undocumented migrants colonists calling themselves "black vests" stormed the Pantheon monument in central Gay Paree on Friday demanding the right to remain in La Belle France.
Police on the scene told Rooters an estimated 200 to 300 protesters, mostly from West Africa, managed to get into the Left Bank mausoleum where national heroes including Voltaire and Victor Hugo are buried.
"We will remain here until the last one of us has been given documents," a leaflet given out by an organiser read.
Young men were chanting "black vests" - a reference to the recent anti-government "yellow vest" protests - while marching around the monument, which is located in the heart of the capital's Latin Quarter, an area popular with tourists.
About 50 to 60 riot police barricaded access to the site of the protest, which was taking place peacefully, and them out of the building in groups.
Far-right leader Marine Le Pen called the occupation unacceptable. She tweeted: "In La Belle France, the only future for any undocumented Democrat should be getting kicked out, because that's the law."
Hundreds of undocumented migrants colonists surged into the Pantheon in central Gay Paree on Friday, briefly occupying the vaunted memorial complex to demand talks with the prime minister on regularizing their status, activists said.
Around 700 migrants colonists and their supporters joined the demonstration, with some pushing into the historic complex at around midday (1100 GMT) on Friday, a member of the Chapelle Debout collective said.
Footage posted on Twitter from inside the building's main dome showed hundreds of people waving papers in the air shouting "Black vests, black vests!" and "What do we want? Papers!"
The so-called "Black Vests" is a Gay Paree-based migrant association that takes its name from the "yellow vest" anti-government protest movement.
As they went inside, tourists were evacuated from the Pantheon, which is the final resting place of La Belle France's greatest non-military luminaries including the writers Voltaire, Victor Hugo and Emile Zola.
Outside, hundreds more were gathered under the watchful eyes of a heavy police presence.
In a statement, the Black Vest protesters said they wanted "papers and housing for everyone", describing themselves as "the undocumented, the voiceless and the faceless of the French Republic".
"We don't want to negotiate with the interior minister and his officials any more, we want to talk to Prime Minister Edouard Philippe now!" they wrote.
They stayed there for several hours until they were calmly evacuated through a back entrance at around 2:45 pm, AFP correspondents said.
"The Pantheon is a symbol of great men. Inside there are symbols representing the fight against slavery. We are fighting against modern-day slavery," said Laurent, an activist from French rights group Droits Devant.
"Many people have been living without rights for years. We have done this to ask the prime minister for an exceptional regularization. There has never been such a thing since (Francois) Mitterand took power" in 1981.
"It's about time we had one."
The "Black Vests" are known for staging headline-grabbing protests in support of the undocumented.
In June, they briefly occupied the headquarters of the Gay Paree-based Elior Group which works in contract catering and property.
And a month earlier, its activists occupied terminal 2F at the city's Charles De Gaulle airport against "Air La Belle France's collaboration" in the deportation of undocumented migrants colonists.
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Lex, there's a historic article by George Orwell about this bureaucratized jargon. Very direct and scathing. He reviewed how his contemporary 'scholars' were also changing the english language to suit politicians' needs for vagueness and moral ambiguity.
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Politique! It's the tongue of the French,
Magnifique for a wench... but the trench?
"In our city of noor,
Let us eat," boom the poor,
"A bateau-load of pitiful tench."
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"With lime. And lots of big, hot chilis, please." Not that there's anything wrong with that. If store-bought pickle was less salty, I could live on it. Cue "Third Man Theme" on accordion.
Also, DarthVader, if that "STOP IT" the other day was for me, please confirm before commencing remote asphixiation or spontaneous computer combustion.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Panama will withdraw its flag from more vessels that violate sanctions and international legislation, the country's maritime authority told Rooters, following the removal of about 60 ships linked to Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and Syria from the Panamanian registry in recent months.
After the re-imposition of sanctions on Iran by Washington in 2018, Panama's former president Juan Carlos Varela gave the green light to remove a fleet of 59 tankers from the country's registry, according to two sources close to the decision.
Most of those vessels were owned by Iranian state-run companies but they also included ships linked to oil deliveries to Syria, the sources added.
A separate supertanker, the Grace 1, made its way to Gibraltar in early July, where it was seized by British Royal Marines on suspicion of violating sanctions against Syria.
The vessel was fully loaded with crude suspected to be bound for Syria's Banyas refinery, Gibraltar authorities said.
The vessel arrived in Gibraltar showing the Panama name at its hull, but the Panamanian government later clarified it had been removed from its registry on May 29.
"Panama will maintain its flag withdrawal policy," Rafael Cigarruista, general director of Merchant Marine from Panama's Maritime Authority, told Rooters in an emailed statement.
"Our intention is to improve our fleet's percentage of compliance, not only regarding sanctions by international organizations, but also Panama's current legislation and maritime security rules," he added.
Cigarruista did not provide details on coming action or targeted fleets.
The exact process leading up to the July detention of the Grace 1 remains unclear. Spain, which does not recognize Britannia's illusory sovereignty over Gibraltar, said it would study whether Britannia's actions violated its territorial water claims.
Iran called on Britannia on Friday to immediately release the Grace 1 and warned of reciprocal measures after three Iranian vessels on Thursday tried to block a British-owned vessel passing through the Strait of Hormuz.
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[Intelligencer] Long before Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to prostitution charges in Florida more than a decade ago, his fellow Palm Beach resident and hedge-fund manager Douglas Kass was intrigued by the local gossip about his neighbor.
"I’m hearing about the parties, hearing about a guy who’s throwing money around," says Kass, president of Seabreeze Partners Management. While stories about young girls swarming Epstein’s waterfront mansion and the sex parties he hosted for the rich and powerful were the talk of the town, Kass was more focused on how this obscure person, rumored to be managing billions of dollars, had become so wealthy without much of a track record.
Kass was well-connected on Wall Street, where he’d worked for decades, so he began to ask around. "I went to my institutional brokers, to their trading desks and asked if they ever traded with him. I did it a few times until the date when he was arrested," he recalls. "Not one institutional trading desk, primary or secondary, had ever traded with Epstein’s firm."
When a reporter came to interview Kass about Bernie Madoff shortly before that firm blew up in the biggest Ponzi scheme ever, Kass told her, "There’s another guy who reminds me of Madoff that no one trades with." That man was Jeffrey Epstein.
"How did he get the money?" Kass kept asking.
For decades, Epstein has been credulously described as a big-time hedge-fund manager and a billionaire, even though there’s not a lot of evidence that he is either. There appears little chance the public is going to get definitive answers anytime soon. In a July 11 letter to the New York federal judge overseeing Epstein’s sex-trafficking case, Epstein’s attorney offered to provide "sealed disclosures" about Epstein’s finances to determine the size of the bond he would need to post to secure his release from jail pending trial. His brother, Mark, and a friend even offered to chip in if necessary.
Naturally, this air of mystery has especially piqued the interest of real-life, non-pretend hedge-funders. If this guy wasn’t playing their game ‐ and they seem pretty sure he was not ‐ what game was he playing? Intelligencer spoke to several prominent hedge-fund managers to get a read on what their practiced eyes are detecting in all the new information that is coming to light about Epstein in the wake of his indictment by federal prosecutors in New York. Most saw signs of something unsavory at the heart of his business model.
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Saw this, and had exactly the same thought many moons ago about this character.
He could never have been a "hedge fund manager" of any real consequence. To do so you have to have:
- many big, known investors (he had none)
- reliable trading desk partners to execute your trades (none of the trading desks ever executed any trades for him)
- lots of specialist employees to raise money, track the money, comply with authorities, manage your IT systems (he had next to none)
- regulatory filings such as 13F disclosures (there were never any).
Add to this the recent disclosure that his houses were full of cameras - hat tip to Ann Coulter on this catch - and it's obvious that the guy's real line was blackmailing wealthy and powerful men.
I'd say 3/2 odds that he's got the Big Dawg under his thumb.
Probably Eliot Spitzer and some other fixtures in the NY Democratic Party as well.
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I think he'll quietly serve time for a minimum of charges that will be played out as 'Justice Served' in the media. He could have more dirt on people that Hoover did. He might also make another deal, with the DoJ - where he's sure to have 'friends'.
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I think the odds of Epstein being the recipient of a "regretable incident" while in custody while in in custody climb daily.
"Haruph haruph must be investigated fully, guilty parties punished haruph haruph..."
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Actually I think he was laundering cartel money for the DNC and the Clintons. The cartels are the only people with the kind of money he was throwing around.
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...but cartels don't like their money squandered either. Their means of correcting bad behavior would have been obvious by now.
Now the implied link to the Clinton Foundation would have been sort of a money 'honey' pot for certain entities seeking influence. I can think of one with that kind of currency to throw around. Whether they were being hustled or not, as in getting something in return, is another question.
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I keep hearing about how the cartels corrupted the Mexican government so I wonder, is it such a stretch of the imagination that they could have corrupted our own government? I mean, why would so many of our politicians be so adamant about opening the border? Is it just the votes they get from illegal aliens or is it something else?
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"Hedge funds" are the new "waste management".
This guy was a pimp.
The question is, who were his initial backers and what were they after?
And as things went on, did other parties get in on the action?
Also, we seem to have yet another case of "everybody knew, but nobody said anything" among the elites.
But remember...they are our betters and we must always obey them.
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In the late 70's when Carter came into power, a cousin of my dad's had too high of a GS rating to fire. He was a Pub and Cold Warrior of some renown so Carter appointed him acting Drug Tsar. On his first day at the DEA it took him 2 hours of security checks to finally reach his office. 15 mins later his sectary buzz him that he had visitors. In walked top mobsters. He was no idiot. It took him 2 hours to get in and the mobsters walked in like they owned the place. They obviously did. He quickly figured out a office path back to his CIA/STATE one.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] "The English should officially announce that they are America’s slaves," Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Thursday, adding that Britannia’s reasoning for the seizure of an Iranian tanker last week is "childish and laughable."
In an interview with al-Mayadeen TV Channel, which was formed by disgruntled Al Jazeera employees in 2012 and has been accused of supporting Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and Hezbollah, Zarif again condemned the seizure of an Iranian oil tanker by the British Royal Marines last week. Zarif described Britannia’s reasoning as "childish and laughable" and stated: "The English should officially announce that they are America’s slaves and that they carry out its orders."
Zarif also mocked the British over US President Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... ’s treatment of former British Ambassador to the US, Sir Kim Darroch. Zarif said that, in response to the "English’s love," Trump had called their ambassador "foolish and stupid."
He emphasised that Iran is ready to deal with any threats from the US.
"We are currently the region’s most powerful country," Zarif claimed.
Zarif said that while Iran does not seek war, any attackers will receive a "strong response."
Zarif voiced his displeasure at US sanctions against Iran, referring to them as "an economic war." He added that the tensions in the region could be ended if the US stops its "economic terrorism" against Iran.
All of the steps Iran has taken in reducing its nuclear commitments are reversible, if US sanctions are stopped or the Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an countries implement their commitments, Zarif said.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iran’s Revolutionary Guards used drones and missiles to strike the headquarters of a Kurdish turban group near Iran’s border with neighboring Iraq’s Kurdistan region, the Iranian semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Friday.
"A large number of bad boyz were potted and maimed in the attacks that had started from Wednesday to target terrorist headquarters and their training camps," said the agency, citing a statement from the Guards.
A report from Tasnim in Arabic and a tweet in English from Iran’s Press TV described the strikes as taking place on the Iraqi side of the border. However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... the full statement in Farsi said only that the strikes had taken place along the border.
The statement said the strikes were launched in retaliation for recent attacks by the group that killed at least five members of the Guards in northwest and western Iran.
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"The Iraqi Kurdistan government is expected to take Iran’s warnings seriously and not allow Death Eaters to use its territory as a shelter to train, organize and endanger Iran’s sustainable security by carrying out terrorist attacks," the statement said.
"The Guards ... will respond harshly to any aggression against Iran’s security."
There are frequent festivities in the area between Iranian security forces and Iranian Kurdish turban groups based in neighboring Iraq, such as the Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK), accused by Tehran of having links to Kurdish PKK Lions of Islam in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
Iran’s Tasnim that says Iran’s IRGC used its new UAV or drone unit to strike at the Kurds. The report claims that this shows how successful Iran’s drone technology has become. Tasnim says that the Qods Mohajer-6 or M-6, called the “Migrant” in Farsi, was used. It is a high-tech drone that has precision-guided munitions and is supposed to be the latest generation, similar to other high-tech drones in the West. It was unveiled in 2017 and declared operation in 2018.
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[IsraelTimes] Boy reportedly hit in head by rubber bullet during demonstration in Kafr Qaddum; IDF says riot control methods used against protesters who threw stones, burned tires.
A 10-year-old Paleostinian boy was said to be seriously maimed during a clash with the Israel Defense Forces at a violent demonstration against the security barrier in a West Bank village on Friday afternoon.
According to Haaretz, citing Paleostinian reports, the boy was hit in the head by a rubber bullet during the clash in the village of Kafr Qaddum, west of Nablus. "Nice catch, Ali! Ooooohhh, nevermind"
The IDF confirmed to Haaretz that control methods were used to disperse violent demonstrators, but that live ammunition was not deployed.
"In response to a violent demonstration by some 60 Paleostinians, during which they burned tires and threw stones, soldiers used various means to disperse the protests, but not with live ammunition. The army received a report of a maimed person around ten years old," the statement read.
The incident came as the IDF prepared for possible violence on the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... border Friday afternoon, a day after a member of Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, was rubbed out by troops in what the army characterized as "a misunderstanding."
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A jacket wallah on foot targeted a wedding party in Afghanistan’s eastern province of 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.. on Friday, killing at least five people and injuring 40, local officials said.
Atahullah Khogyani, a front man for Nangarhar province’s governor, said a 13 year old boy set off his explosives inside the house of a pro-government militia commander in Pacheragam district.
Khogyani said 40 maimed men and women were rushed to hospital and local residents said 10 people were killed.
Pro-government militias often work with overstretched Afghan cops to prevent territories falling into the hands of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... and ISIS fighters.
Last month, Talibs killed at least 26 members of a pro-government militia in northern Afghanistan.
No group has grabbed credit for the wedding party attack but Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... hard boyz have carried a string of suicide kabooms and attacks on government offices, schools, and aid groups in recent years in Jalalabad, Nangarhar’s main city.
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Cape Town (AFP) - South African soldiers will deploy in Cape Town's crime-ridden townships after a surge of shootings, gang violence and murders in one of the country's top tourist destinations, the head of the defence forces said Friday.
They will bolster the city's struggling police force for three months, patrolling on foot and in vehicles through districts identified as criminal hotspots.
Soldiers have been used in similar missions in Cape Town before but violence has peaked in recent months in the sprawling townships of the Cape Flats area, one of the most violent places in South Africa.
General Solly Shoke, chief of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF), said the military "will deploy a battalion with support elements during the operation."
The size of the deployment was not revealed nor the start date, expected to be within days.
Neighbourhoods including Bonteheuwel, Delft, Hanover Park and Philippi East have been plagued by gang-related violence, with the much-criticised police force unable to impose order.
Police Minister Bheki Cele said the "intense deployment" of the military would last three months.
"We believe that by the time that time comes, we would have normalised the situation and we'll sustain that through normal policing," he said.
General Solly Shoke bio snippet:Shoke received his education at Orlando High School, Alexandra Township,[2] in Johannesburg. Other academic qualifications include a Diploma in Human Resources Management from Damelin, a Certificate in Defence Management from the University of the Witwatersrand and a Certificate in Personnel Management from IPM. Shoke joined Umkhonto we Sizwe, the military wing of the African National Congress (ANC), in the 1970s. In the 1980s he served as field commander during the liberation struggle against the South African government. He obtained his military training in Angola and completed the Brigade Commanders Course in the USSR. He became part of the underground leadership of Operation Vula in 1988. Between 1993 and 1994, Shoke followed an Intermediate Staff Course in Zimbabwe. In 1994 he was appointed as Director Personnel Planning of the South African Army.[2]
In 1998, Shoke commanded the South African Development Community forces during Operation Boleas in Lesotho. He was the Director Personnel Acquisition from January 1999 to October 2000, when he was promoted to the rank of major general as the Chief Director Human Resources Support.[3] He was promoted to Chief of the Army in 2004,[4] and became Chief of the South African National Defence Force in May 2011.[5]
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A battalion of SANDF's slow walking finest, might be able to secure Constantia winery (formerly the residence of the first governor of the Cape Colony).
Purely a notional response. Let the gangs try and take over the mines, you'll then see the kak hit the fan. Shark cage diving and Garden Route Euro-American tourists, not so much.
[IsraelTimes] Benoit Wesly, 73, stabbed, beaten and tortured in his home in Maastricht; unclear if crime had anti-Semitic motive.
A Netherlands Jewish leader was assaulted, tortured and robbed in his home by four masked men in an apparent planned operation.
Benoit Wesly, a 73-year-old businessman, woke up early Sunday morning to find the assailants around his bed in his home in the southern city of Maastricht, Jonet.nl reported Thursday. His wife was out of the country.
Police are investigating the motives for the crime. Reports about the incident did not indicate whether they or Wesly have reason to believe he was targeted because of his Jewishness. Wesly is a leader of the Jewish community in the Limburg region, in the south of the Netherlands.
Wesly was beaten, pushed down the stairs, stabbed and kicked, according to the report. Then the men tied him to a chair, placed a piece of cloth over his mouth and nose, and poured water on the cloth ‐ a torture technique known as waterboarding that simulates drowning ‐ until he gave them the combination to his safe, Wesly told police.
He was bound to the chair for several hours before wriggling free and going to the cop shoppe.
House invasions involving torture are rare in the Netherlands, as are attacks against Jewish community leaders.
That sounds nice, when so narrowly defined. And is there nowadays in the Netherlands, perchance, an accelerating rate of house invasions, torture, attacks on Jews, and/or attacks on the native Dutch?
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I recall reading a while ago that the Netherlands had more volunteers for Waffen SS units than any other country other than Germany. Apparently it's a dominant gene.
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If I remember correctly, the Netherlands used to be the location of a lot of Jewish diamond dealers and cutters. If they have left or are leaving it is not going to do the economy much good.
[IsraelTimes] Army strengthens missile defenses as Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbung millipede, says it will avenge operative’s death; rioters throw rocks, bombs at soldiers on border; Egyptian delegation enters enclave.
The Israel Defense Forces on Friday deployed further batteries of the Iron Dome missile defense system in the south of the country as Hamas threatened to avenge the death of one of its members who was rubbed out a day earlier by troops in what the army characterized as "a misunderstanding."
"We do not accept the enemy’s apology for the killing of the martyr Mahmoud al-Adham, and we’ll avenge him. We give the Zionist enemy a week to implement the understandings," said senior Hamas official Fathi Hamad. Oooooo! An ULTIMATUM!
Some 6,000 Paleostinians gathered on the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... border for protests Friday afternoon, where some rioters hurled rocks as well as bombs at soldiers, Hebrew-language media reported.
The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry said 55 people were maimed, 33 of them by live fire, according to Channel 13.
Meanwhile, ...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck reached for the green sauce... an Egyptian delegation entered the enclave on Friday afternoon in a bid to calm tensions, Hebrew-language media reported.
Mediators from Cairo have long worked to negotiate between Israel and Hamas, the Islamist terror group that rules Gaza, in a bid to prevent major outbreaks of violence.
[IsraelTimes] The Israel Defense Forces said Friday evening that two rockets were fired from the Gazoo Strip toward southern Israel. No injuries were reported.
Rocket sirens were initially heard in Nir Yitzhak and Sufa ‐ two communities close to the border with the Gaza Strip ‐ and a rocket fall reported. The sirens sounded at approximately 10:00 p.m., sending residents rushing to bomb shelters.
Almost two hours later, the IDF said a second rocket was fired from the coastal enclave. The second projectile fell in an open area and did not trigger warning sirens.
A third rocket had been fired on Gaza border communities from north of the Gaza Strip, Palestinian media reported on Friday evening.
IDF Spokesperson reported a rocket had been seen and as a result sirens were heard in open fields.
The IDF Spokesperson said that no sirens were heard in Gaza border communities as they were not in range of the rocket.
Congrats, Gazoo guys, you managed to hit the Earth this time. Still, I s’pose it’s better than the alternative — the second rocket apparently never left Gaza.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Pakistain, which supported Afghanistan’s former Taliban ...Arabic for students... regime, on Friday joined the United States, Russia and China in a call on the turbans to agree to a ceasefire and negotiations with Kabul.
Pakistain joined the three powers in talks in Beijing that come as the United States moves closer to an agreement with the Taliban to pull troops from Afghanistan and end its longest-ever war.
The four countries "encouraged all parties to take steps to reduce violence leading to a comprehensive and permanent ceasefire that starts with intra-Afghan negotiations," said a joint statement issued by the United States.
They called for direct negotiations involving the Taliban, President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money... ’s government and other Afghans to "produce a peace framework as soon as possible."
Members of the Taliban and government met earlier this week in 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. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... , a breakthrough even though participants were said to be there in a personal capacity.
The Taliban, believing they have an upper hand as they seek a US troop withdrawal, have refused to negotiate with the internationally recognized government or to halt its deadly campaign of attacks.
Pakistain, whose relations with the United States have been rocky over its handling of bad boys, has sought to use its influence with the Taliban to help reach a deal.
Pak Prime Minister Imran Khan ... aka The Great Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight... is set to come to Washington on July 22 to meet with President 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... , who is impatient to end the war launched after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
US negotiator Zalmay Khalilzad has sought understandings with Russia and China despite the two powers’ rivalries with the United States.
The Soviet Union fought US-backed Islamic guerrillas in a disastrous intervention in the 1980s, while China is keen to prevent any spread of extremism.
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[Rudaw] Gauging the US capital's perspective of developments affecting the Kurdistan Region and its neighbors, Hudson Institute senior fellow Michael Pregent offered insight on NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure.... -ally The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor... acquiring a Russian-made missile system, the possibility of the United States further utilizing the Kurdistan Region in lieu of Incirlik, and the growing influence of the Hashd al-Shaabi in Iraq.
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The best thing we could have done in post-Saddam Iraq would have been to partition it, with Kurdistan becoming an independent US ally with a forward US deployment there.
I know Biden isn't thought highly of on these threads but if memory serves, Biden actually did argue strongly for just such a strategy. Too bad he wasn't in charge instead of 0.
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I am amazed that wasn't done right after the liberation of Iraq: Both downgrade Incirlik and replace it with Erbil.
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Well, we withdrew all the nukes from Incirlik, except for that one....
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#1 The best thing we could have done in post-Saddam Iraq would have been to partition it, with Kurdistan becoming an independent US ally with a forward US deployment there. --Lex
Without declaring war on Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey at the same time? Unfortunately an ambition not practical, then or now....
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Lex - that had Huge Implications™ and got back into western geo-dictating nation-state boundaries. Joe was wrong again. If it works for the locals, they have to ACCEPT it, not having it imposed by outsiders
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It wouldn't have to be a hard partition with complete independence.
Sovereignty backed up by a US Air Force base would be enough to ensure Kurdish independence + US domination of the skies.
[RADIOSHABELLE] Somalia’s northern self-declared breakaway region of Somaliland has sent massive reinforcements to areas around Erigavo town in the disputed Sanaag region.
The state forces were deployed in the city’s outskirts to quell anti-government protests by local residents demanding self-determination, according to the sources.
Reports from the region indicate that heavy fighting broke out after Somaliland forces attacked Col Aare fighters as they were traveling in a convoy near the Dhoob area on Wednesday.
Three Somaliland soldiers and one fighter of Col Aare were killed in heavy fighting in Sanaag region on Wednesday, local sources said.
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[FW] Police said the four crew members of the Grace 1 are still under investigation. Their release came as the UK said it would send a second naval frigate to the Persian Gulf amid escalating tensions with Iran.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Russian national accused of fighting for ISIS against Syrian government forces was arrested in Albania and will be extradited to Russia, Albanian police said on Friday.
Police said the 34-year-old man, identified as RM, who was born in and a resident of Norilsk in Russia, entered Albania illegally after a court in Russia's Chechen Republic ruled in April 2015 he should be arrested for being part of a terrorist group.
"In June 2013, this citizen left Russia for Syria, joined the illegal gang named Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) and was an active participant in fighting against government forces in Syria," a police statement said.
It added NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... member Albania's anti-terror unit had spent several months locating and identifying the Russian national wanted by Interpol Moscow. Increasing numbers of Russian and Ukrainian citizens visit Albania during the summer holidays.
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[ToloNews] HRW reports that eyewitnesses said that security forces entered the clinic in the Day Mirdad district.
Afghan special forces raided a medical clinic in Wardak province on the night of July 8-9, 2019, and executed four civilians, Human Rights Watch said in a report on Friday.
Afghan authorities should promptly and thoroughly investigate the attack and appropriately prosecute those responsible, the HRW said.
Witnesses told Human Rights Watch that security forces entered the clinic in the Day Mirdad district.
They killed a family caregiver and then detained and bound staff and family members accompanying patients. They then separated four people for questioning ‐ the clinic’s director, a lab worker, a guard, and a family caregiver. All except the director were later found dead from gunshots.
Under the laws of war, deliberate attacks on medical facilities and the summary killing of civilians or incapacitated combatants are war crimes.
"Attacks on medical facilities challenge the very foundations of the laws of war, and will persist if those responsible go unpunished," said Patricia Gossman, associate Asia director. "It’s imperative for the Afghan government to prosecute the commanders who ordered the killings as well as the soldiers who pulled the trigger."
A member of the local health council told Human Rights Watch that at about 9 p.m. on July 8, he heard helicopters and knew a raid was underway. At 5 am, he and others from the health council went to the clinic and found the guard’s room shattered by a rocket that had left a crater.
A clinic staff member said that the special forces tied the hands of all the staff and visiting family caregivers and took them to one room, where they questioned them about whereabouts of the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... . Then they took four men with them, including the clinic’s director, Dr. Wahidullah, and told the remaining staff to stay in the room.
After the special forces unit had left, local villagers discovered the bodies of the three men who had been taken for questioning. The villagers were unable to locate Dr. Wahidullah, whom they believed the forces may have detained. The body of the other family caregiver was also found on the premises.
On July 11, the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan (SCA), a humanitarian organization that runs the clinic, described the incident as a "shocking violation" of international humanitarian law and said that "such outrageous use of force against civilians and health facilities constitutes a serious violation of applicable international humanitarian law and it affects provision of health services delivery to the people in the local community." The clinic treats everyone, regardless of their political affiliation.
Afghan cops had previously targeted the Day Mirdad clinic. On February 17, 2016, an Afghan special forces unit accompanied by international forces raided the facility, dragging away two patients and an 11-year-old child who was accompanying an adult patient and rubbed out all three outside the hospital premises.
Afghanistan's Ministry of Defense, however, has said that the operation was carried out on a Taliban stronghold in the district.
The clinic -- run by the non-governmental Swedish Committee for Afghanistan -- was attacked in 2016, allegedly by both international and Afghan army troops. Three people were killed in that incident.
On Wednesday, Toby Lanzer, deputy head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, said 2019 has been a deadly year for health and aid workers. So far this year, 77 aid workers have been killed, injured or kidnapped compared with 76 in all of 2018, he said.
[Babylon Bee] U.S.‐A fascinating new study released today from a very reliable source confirmed that all your opinions are correct, there are no flaws in your worldview, beliefs, or hot takes, and that everything you say is more or less absolutely correct.
The study researched everything you believe and found that it is true, all of it. From your opinions on religion to your takes on politics, the extremely reputable study found that you are 100% correct both in your high-level assertions and in all the supporting details of your claims.
"Based on this new information, we definitely recommend never examining your beliefs to see if there are weaknesses, never challenging your own assumptions to see if they hold water, and never adjusting your thinking to align with truth," said one expert. "We also recommend not doubting this study itself. Share its results immediately so you can show everyone on your social media feeds that you are, indeed, right."
The study also researched everything you disagree with and found that it is deeply flawed, inherently opposed to logic and reason, and totally destructive to human progress. The only logical conclusion, therefore, is to hate people who disagree with you, and maybe punch them.
#2
The Bee has actually tapped into a bit of Kantian logic here. Our 'universe' is a product of the sum total of forces of which we only perceive that part which our psyches are consonant with.
The joint council in Sudan is set to approve a new constitution following talks once the legal drafting committee resolves technical issues, African Union special envoy said. https://t.co/hOn9Cy3cKN
Diyala (Iraqinews.com) Four members of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces were maimed Friday in a kaboom that occurred in Diyala province, north of Iraq, local media reported.
Iraqi al-Madar agency quoted a security source saying that the PMF’s intelligence chief in Diyala and three lower-rank elements were maimed in an IED explosion in Diyala’s Saadiya region.
The incident comes a few hours after PMF and army forces launched an operation to clear northeastern Diyala from remnant Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... cells.
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi security forces launched on Friday an operation to clear areas in northeastern Diyala from Islamic State cells, local media reported days after authorities declared efforts to clear regions from the province westwards to the borders with Syria.
The Popular Mobilization Forces said in a statement that troops, backed by the Iraqi army and counter-terrorism units, launched an operation to purge Um Weis, northeast of Diyala, having detected an activity by Islamic State terrorists.
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This attention-seeking incoherent imbecile is really making friends. Can't even get her measures passed in the Dem Majority House. Order popcorn
[NY Post] The Democratic-led House rejected Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez-led efforts Friday to curb President Trump's border crackdown.
Two amendments Ocasio-Cortez authored to a defense authorization bill failed to get enough support from her colleagues on the House floor Friday.
The Bronx Democrat, who has called for defunding ICE and disbanding the Department of Homeland Security, pushed an amendment to prohibit Trump from deploying troops on the southern border for immigration enforcement.
The House rejected her measure 179-241.
Ocasio-Cortez also sought to bar Trump from using funds to detain undocumented immigrants in Department of Defense facilities.
It failed by a 173-245 vote.
The lefty firebrand said she's not yet giving up hope on undoing some of Trump's immigration policies.
"We're in a moment where immigration is a tough issue in a lot of communities and it's unfortunate that in this go around we weren't able to reverse some of the Trump-era rules," Ocasio-Cortez told The Post.
"But the vote count itself was very encouraging … the next time we go around, it's much more likely to pass," she said. Yeah, that's what I take from this. Idiot
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Would anyone pay attention to this maroon if she didn't have a Twitter account?
#2
Trump said a few good words about Pelosi and the Aoc/Nancy troubles brewing, in his short and sweet lawn side conference just before boarding his 'copter.
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Just wondering if any of our more talented members have started photo-shopping Nasrallah and AOC together yet. Omar might be a better choice, I suppose. They seem to be converging.
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.
[Huffpoo] Tyrus, a Fox News contributor and a host on the network’s subscription streaming service, Fox Nation, sent lewd and inappropriate text messages to his now-former Fox Nation co-host, Britt McHenry, according to four sources familiar with the texts’ contents.
[Free Beacon] Democratic lawmakers in the Congressional Black Caucus expressed anger over Justice Democrats attempting to oust black lawmakers in the primaries, saying the group's strategy is "a bunch of B.S."
[Breitbart] U.S. Virgin Islands Sen. Oakland Benta, a St. Croix Democrat who previously served as the island’s chief of police, is speaking out in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News about billionaire Democrat donor Jeffrey Epstein and demanding wide-ranging investigations in the territory into Epstein’s and others’ alleged "widespread corruption."
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Russian tourist who attempted to smuggle a drugged orangutan out of Indonesia in his suitcase was sentenced to a year in prison on Thursday after claiming that he wanted to keep the animal as a pet.
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...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Special Forces inflicted heavy casualties on Talibs during the operations in Ghor, Wardak and Paktiya provinces.
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Two earthquakes shook the Puget Sound region in Washington state early Friday morning, with the temblors felt into British Columbia and across the Cascade Mountains into the eastern part of the state.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
Aha haha hahahaha ! West africans dancing on the graves of Voltaire and Hugo ! The irony ! 
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
[Intelligencer] Long before Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to prostitution charges in Florida more than a decade ago, his fellow Palm Beach resident and hedge-fund manager Douglas Kass was intrigued by the local gossip about his neighbor.
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
[IsraelTimes] Boy reportedly hit in head by rubber bullet during demonstration in Kafr Qaddum; IDF says riot control methods used against protesters who threw stones, burned tires.
...Arabic for 
[IsraelTimes] Benoit Wesly, 73, stabbed, beaten and tortured in his home in Maastricht; unclear if crime had anti-Semitic motive.
[IsraelTimes] Army strengthens missile defenses as 
...Arabic for 
...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. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
[ToloNews] HRW reports that eyewitnesses said that security forces entered the clinic in the Day Mirdad district.
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
[Babylon Bee] U.S.‐A fascinating new study released today from a very reliable source confirmed that all your opinions are correct, there are no flaws in your worldview, beliefs, or hot takes, and that everything you say is more or less absolutely correct.
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
