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False accusations ruin lives and bring indescribable heartache. We hear a lot about rape and sexual assault victims, but rarely do we hear of the injustices and pain endured by those falsely accused of such crimes, the silent sufferers of cruelty and malice.
The confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh have brought into focus a great divide in this country between those who choose to believe any allegation a woman makes and those who value presumption of innocence when a man is accused of rape. Many of us aren’t willing to discard due process simply because feminists demand it ‐ we have experienced firsthand the devastation that follows in the wake of false accusations, particularly regarding rape, sexual assault, and molestation.
Hat tip - gCaptain
A vessel carrying 2 million barrels of Iranian oil discharged the crude into a bonded storage tank at the port of Dalian in northeast China on Monday, according to Refinitiv Eikon data and a shipping agent with knowledge of the matter.
Iran, the third-largest producer in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), is finding fewer takers for its crude ahead of U.S. sanctions on its oil exports that will go into effect on Nov. 4. The country previously held oil in storage at Dalian during the last round of sanctions in 2014 that was later sold to buyers in South Korea and India.
The very large crude carrier Dune, operated by National Iranian Tanker Co, offloaded oil into a bonded storage site at the Xingang section of the port, according to a shipping source based in Dalian, adding this was the first Iranian oil to discharge into bonded storage in nearly four years.
The tanker left the Iranian oil port at Kharg Island on Sept. 12, according to ship-tracking data.
The Xingang area is home to several tank farms including commercial and strategic reserves. China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) and Dalian Port PDA Co Ltd both operate commercial storage in the area, according to information on their company websites.
An investor relations official at Dalian Port declined to comment.
A manager at the bonded crude storage site operated by Dalian Port declined to comment whether Iranian oil were moved to the tanks, calling it the "worst time" to give any comment regarding Iranian crude because of the U.S. sanctions. I'm not sayin' nothin'.
A person at the CNPC-owned storage site who refused to identify himself when contacted by Reuters said it is "impossible" that the oil is stored there. Then his lips fell off
A spokesman for CNPC said he had no information on this matter.
An executive with the China office of National Iranian Oil Co (NIOC) declined to comment. NIOC also did not respond to an email request seeking comment if it is storing oil at Dalian.
The shipping source said there is no buyer earmarked for the cargo.
Three other NITC tankers are set to arrive in Dalian in the next week or two, the ship-tracking data shows. Some of those cargoes are also likely to end up in bonded storage as the refineries in the region, controlled by CNPC, are not equipped to process Iranian oil, said three sources at state-run Chinese refiners.
China’s Iranian oil buyers, including state-owned refiner Sinopec and state trader Zhuhai Zhenrong Corp, have shifted their cargoes to vessels owned by NITC since July to keep supplies flowing as the U.S. sanctions have been re-imposed.
Keeping oil in bonded storage gives the shipment owner the option to sell into China or to other buyers in the region.
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[Universal Hub] - A federal judge today sentenced Herzzon "Casper" Sandoval to 20 years in prison for a RICO violation - his role in encouraging the murder of a 15-year-old on Trenton Street in East Boston and two attempted murders.
Sandoval was the leader of MS-13's Eastside Loco Salvatrucha "clique" when one of his clique members tried for a promotion by murdering Irvin de Paz, 15, on Trenton Street on Sept. 20, 2015. A federal jury in Boston found him guilty of a RICO violation in February, the US Attorney's office reports.
De Paz was a member of the rival 18th Street Gang and the murder should have been enough for a promotion to "homeboy" for Julio "Animal" Martinez, but Sandoval refused to give it to him because of past supposed violations of MS-13 rules. Instead, Sandoval encouraged Martinez to do more killings, according to a federal sentencing document in the case.
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Is it large enough caliber to make a one shot stop?
.308 or 7.62x51, Sock.
At 500+ rpm there aren't many single hits.
Generally used against clusters or to break charges. Sometimes to clear vegetation.(/sarc)
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The demonstrator calls it a Mark 48 Mod 2. The article is from Military Times and was posted in the last 24 hours. It is an upgrade from a Mod 1, which was a pretty substantial redesign/upgrade of a Mod 0. This 'looks' like the main updates center on internal changes; it doesn't look all 'that' different externally (to me) from a Mod 1. But it has been a while. The Mod 1 was solid.
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So is R'burg juxtaposing articles? This one has some smack w/r/t the one above it.
[Defense News] WASHINGTON ‐ Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis has ordered the Air Force and Navy to get mission capable rates for four key tactical aircraft up above 80 percent by the end of next September, a daunting challenge given the current readiness rates of America’s fighter fleets.
In a memo issued Sept. 17 to the secretaries of the Army, Air Force and Navy, along with acquisition head Ellen Lord and acting Undersecretary for Personnel and Readiness Stephanie Barna, Mattis acknowledges "budget constraints and shortfalls in aviation squadrons across the force" have led to "systemic underperformance, overcapitalization and unrealized capacity" in the fighter fleets.
"For change to be effective and efficient, we must focus on meeting our most critical priorities first," Mattis wrote in the memo, obtained exclusively by Defense News.
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There are different types of orders for something like this. Usually they are given by desk jockys that expect all the usual red tape rules to be followed and utter failure usually results.
Then there are the ones given by warriors and they fully expect the people under them to do what they need to get the job done and damn the rules and the commander who gave the order will give everything he can to help his people get it done.
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If you don't have people, planes, tanks and ships you can use, you actually don't have a military, no matter how many pretty slides are in your PowerPoint presentation.
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did Sec Mattis just pull this number from his ***
one major problem with these orders is that when the parts suppliers know there is a 'we will pay cost++ emergency' the costs go way up and the tax payer gets the shaft
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[Richmond Times Dispatch] Washington and Lee University has decided to make changes to the names of some campus buildings after concerns from students and faculty.
On Tuesday, the Board of Trustees announced that it will rename Robinson Hall as Chavis Hall, in honor of John Chavis, the first African-American to receive a college education in the United States. He graduated from Washington Academy, the predecessor of W&L, in 1799. Also, Lee-Jackson House will be renamed Simpson Hall in honor of Pamela Hemenway Simpson, who served as an associate dean of the college and helped move to a co-ed environment in the 1980s.
The board also announced that effective immediately, it will replace portraits of Robert E. Lee and George Washington in military uniforms inside Lee Chapel with portraits of the two men in civilian clothing. The board also ordered the doors to the statue chamber in the 1883 addition to Lee Chapel to be closed during university events.
The board’s decisions were made after meeting with students and faculty last weekend and after reviewing feedback from alumni.
In a statement, J. Donald Childress, rector of the board of trustees, and William C. Dudley, university president, said, "We appreciate the seriousness and thoughtfulness with which our fellow trustees have approached these matters. On behalf of the Board, we want to express our gratitude to all of those members of the community who contributed to our deliberations, through countless letters and conversations over the summer and on campus this weekend. We are fortunate to be part of a community that cares deeply about this institution and is so dedicated to its continued success."
[IsraelTimes] UN-brokered deal will give Gazooks a few more hours of electricity a day in move authorities hope will help ease tensions in the enclave; Abbas aide threatens retaliation
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... i-bought fuel arrived at the Gazoo Strip’s only power station after entering through Israel on Tuesday in a bid to alleviate conditions in the Paleostinian enclave, a Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,front man and sources said.
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[Daily Caller] Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul on Tuesday took aim at the rhetoric employed by Sen. Cory Booker and others, accusing them of "ratcheting up the conversation" to the point where "unstable" people could commit violence.
"I fear that there’s going to be an assassination," Paul told Kentucky radio host Leland Conway. "I really worry that someone is going to be killed and that those who are ratcheting up the conversation, those who are saying ’get in their face’ ‐ they have to realize that they bear some responsibility if this elevates to violence."
"These are people that are unstable," Paul said. "We don’t want to encourage them. We have to somehow ratchet it down and say we’re not encouraging them that violence is ever OK or ever a reason or a means to try to resolve things." (RELATED: Antifa Protesters Block Portland Traffic, Nearly Start Riot During Patrick Kimmons Vigil)
Directly calling out Booker, who last July told activists to "get up in the face of some congresspeople," Paul referenced both his own assault at the hands of a neighbor as well as last year’s baseball field shooting in which Rep. Steve Scalise was wounded to show that "unstable" people can easily take things too far.
"I think what people need to realize is when people like Cory Booker say ’get up in their face’ ‐ he may think that that’s OK, but what he doesn’t realize is that for about every 1,000 people who might want to get up in your face, one of them is going to be unstable enough to commit violence," said Paul.
The Kentucky senator also pointed out the "double standard" when it comes to left and right wing violence.
"If it’s an accusation with no substantiation it’s utterly to be believed," he said, referencing the allegations against Judge Kavanaugh. "In my case it wasn’t an accusation. I actually was assaulted ... and yet the media discounted that completely because they don’t like my politics. So this just shows it’s just about politics. It really isn’t about concern or people wanting to lesson violence."
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Look at the game with Kav. Their strategy is - if I can't have it, no one can. Scorched earth. They'll shut down a very intricate system in the economy when travel is shut down during the booms and bangs. All the kings horses and all the kings men can't put Humpty back together again.
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...there is always a cadre of true believers. It's not going to be as easy as some here believe because of so many who want 'restraint'. It's not going to be successful as those on the Left think its going to be because those on the other side now know there can only be one left standing. As usual, there will be a lot of collateral damage among those who'd rather just be left alone. It will drag out. There will be no decisive battle.
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Brown shirts probably weren't very good at violence but they were good enough to intimidate the majority of unarmed civilians.
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As long as the borders remain open, there are plenty to fill their ranks. See the insurgency in Iraq, ISS, et al. The Brown Shirts included a lot of experienced fighters, not just your usual street thugs. One thing they won't lack is funding, till the usual suspects and their purse are shut down. Meanwhile, other governments may well find it convenient to dabble in an American insurgency.
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Neh, I know these people - I spent most of my adult life in academia/educational system - they're not Bolsheviks, they're careerists. Most have zilch moral or physical courage.
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^^^ They have foot soldiers that are capable of fighting, in packs. I doubt they would fare well against an angry determined opponent. As previously noted, find the money people and organizers and stuff them in a barrel.
[IsraelTimes] The Pak immigrant Shahed Hussain went undercover at a NY mosque, where he made tapes that helped convict a cell planning to attack Jews and shoot down a military planes
The owner of a limousine company involved in a crash that killed 20 people was a paid FBI informant known for his work that helped foil a series of planned terror attack, including on two synagogues.
Records show Prestige Limousine is owned by Shahed Hussain, a Pak immigrant and Albany-area businessman who began going undercover for the FBI after he ran into legal trouble. Another failed Paki business venture? Probably no connection whatsoever to the Awan Bros. car dealership in Falls Church, VA.
A stretch SUV in the company’s small fleet sped off the road and crashed in Schoharie, New York, Saturday. State and federal authorities are investigating the cause and roadworthiness of the vehicle. A lawyer for the company said the limo was safe.
In 2009, prosecutors credited Hussain with rooting out radical Moslems in an elaborate sting at a mosque in Newburgh, a city north of New York City. At trial, the jury heard testimony that Hussain was posing as a wealthy representative of a Pak terrorist organization. Living an easy cover, since that's probably what he actually was anyway.
He drove a BMW and other luxury vehicles provided by the FBI to maintain his cover. He also made hundreds of hours of video and audio tapes of the defendants picking targets and ranting against Jews. His cooperation resulted in the conviction of four men in a thwarted plot to attack synagogues and shoot down military planes.
But Hussain’s work also came under attack by defense attorneys and civil liberties groups as entrapment. They portrayed him as a master manipulator who entrapped a crew of aimless nobodies while earning $96,000 for his work. We've spent a lot of money on this project, it's time for a conviction.
Even US District Judge Colleen McMahon said at sentencing that she was not proud of the government’s role in the plot.
"I believe beyond a shadow of a doubt that there would have been no crime here except the government instigated it, planned it and brought it to fruition," McMahon said. She added, "That does not mean there was no crime."
According to his trial testimony, Hussain first entered the US in Texas with his wife and two sons in the 1990s after he was accused of murder in Pakistain. Hussain said the accusation was false and politically motivated. A Paki political refugee and alleged murderer, with a British passport arriving via Moscow.
He went to Albany, where he received asylum. In April 2003, he was working as a government translator when he pleaded guilty to a federal fraud charge for helping someone get their driver’s license illegally. Was the "someone" also a Paki intelligence agent? Delta Frequent Flier ?
He got a sentence that required no more jail time by working as an FBI informant. So he became a source to avoid prosecution. "Flipped" essentially.
Hussain was a central player in an FBI sting targeting an Albany pizza shop owner and a holy man who were convicted of money laundering and conspiring to aid a terrorist group. Both defendants said they were tricked by Hussain during the sting, which involved a business loan using money from a fictitious missile sale. Sun article in comments provides "Undercover FBI footage" of Hussain holding a rocket launcher while chatting to one of the terror suspects he helped bring down. Wall camera in adjacent room, Crest Inn Suites and Cottages ?
More recently, a botched sting involving Hussain in Pittsburgh became the subject of a documentary called "(T)error." Hussain’s role in the Newburgh case was also the subject of an HBO documentary.
In more recent years, he was the owner of a low-budget safe house motel, the Crest Inn Suites and Cottages, outside Saratoga Springs. The limo company was registered at that address.
Asked Monday about Hussain, the FBI wouldn’t comment. Neither Comey or Mueller are said to be answering their phones.
Hussain, 62, fled to the US from Pakistan in 1994 after he was arrested for murder in his homeland, the Daily Mail reports.
After his father allegedly bribed local police to let him go, Hussain left the conservative Islamic country using a British passport and he travelled to Moscow then Mexico before entering the US, claims the report.
He then reportedly applied for political asylum in America using an immigration lawyer which enabled him to get a job as a translator at the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV).
However he was arrested in 2002 by the FBI after being busted for taking part in a racket within the DMV where he would offer learner drivers guaranteed passes on their tests in exchange for a fee.
But rather than go to jail, Hussain became an informant for the Feds, recording conversations of his colleagues within the motoring organisation.
According to the Daily Mail, four years later, after filing for bankruptcy, he was able to buy a hotel in Gansevoort, which later became the Crest Inn, with money he claimed was given to him by Pakistan’s then Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
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Driver in deadly limo crash reportedly had prior drug busts
The driver in the deadly upstate limo crash was busted twice on drug charges during the past eight years — including once during a traffic stop, according to reports published at the time.
Scott Lisinicchia, then 48, was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance, unlawful possession of marijuana and an equipment violation when he was stopped while driving in Saratoga Springs on Nov. 22, 2013, The Saratogian reported the following day.
Lisinicchia was also charged with unlawful possession of marijuana in Saratoga Springs on July 2, 2010, according to the Saratogian.
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What are the chances that the FBI informant Pakistani Shahed Hussain was working undercover on the SAME CASE that Monica McLean, Christine Blasey-Ford's "beach friend" and former FBI agent, was working on in 2009?
[Washington Examiner] Mexican officials found a cross-border tunnel that started in a home in Jacume, Mexico, less than 100 yards away from the U.S. border.
After mapping the 31-feet deep and 627-feet long tunnel, U.S. officials determined that the tunnel reached 336 feet into the area in Jacumba, Calif., the Los Angeles Times reported.
U.S. Border Patrol, Homeland Security Investigations, and Drug Enforcement Administration officials determined that even though the tunnel does cross the U.S.-Mexican border, it does not have an exit yet into the U.S.
The beginnings of an exit shaft reached 15 feet but had not broken the surface.
"Sophisticated tunnels take a lot of time and money to make," said Border Patrol Agent Tekae Michael. "When we find them, they’re a pretty big deal."
Michael said that these types of tunnels are not uncommon in the area, and the tunnel was likely made to transport drugs into the U.S. from Mexico.
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They need Palestinians experts, these people dig smuggling tunnels at depths of up to 30 meters (100 feet), and reach up to 800 meters (2640 feet) in length.
[The Federalist] There is an endless buzz around Kanye West’s conversion to MAGA hats, free speech, and meetings with President Trump in the White House. Thankfully, the hosts of ABC’s "The View," who are apparently also practicing psychiatrists, were able to diagnose West’s political interests as a mental illness and "attention grab."
Their conversation on Tuesday’s show quickly diverted from the topics West intends to discuss with the president (manufacturing, prison reform, gang violence, to name a few) to discussing how West suffers from mental illness, bipolar disorder, and a family who can’t convince him he has a problem.
"If you have a family member that suffers from mental illness... you have to get inside their head, which is an impossible task, and convince them that there is a big enough problem that they need to get help, and they’re not willing to do that," host Abby Huntsman said. "If you’re Kim Kardashian, you feel for her in this moment."
Guest host Yvette Nicole Brown acknowledged that she does not know when West has been on or off his medicine, yet proceeded to explain how his meeting with the president is strictly for the attention. "This is not even about the policies at this point. He just wants the attention. It’s an attention-grab at this point and I don’t know who around him ‐ his handlers, his wife ‐ can get to him," she said.
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A form of drama that emphasizes the absurdity of human existence by employing disjointed, repetitious, and meaningless dialogue, purposeless and confusing situations, and plots that lack realistic or logical development.
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Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Megan McCain...these women are dangerous. They lie, they twist, they spin, they tell half truths and distortions every day. The really scary part is that they have an audience.
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[C-Net] Neuroscientists behind the project called it "BrainNet", a "multi-person non-invasive direct brain-to-brain interface for collaborative problem solving".
In layman's terms, researchers from the University of Washington and Carnegie Mellon University figured out a way to connect three brains (still attached to their human hosts!) and have the owners of said brains make collective choices together without speaking.
And they tested it by playing Tetris. Because of course they did.
The team used "electroencephalograms" (EEGs) to record electric impulses from two human brains and "transcranial magnetic stimulation" (TMS) to deliver information to a third brain. The end result: an interface that allowed three human subjects to collaborate and solve Tetris problems using brain-to-brain communication.
In the test, two "senders" were connected to EEG sensors and communicated to a third person, the "receiver" via a TMS helmet with the ability to send flashes directly to the brain.
The two "senders" could see the game of Tetris being played, the "receiver" could not. The goal: send a message telling the receiver to either rotate or not rotate the Tetris piece, depending on how the game was going.
In order to communicate, the senders had to stare at one of two LED lights. These two lights were flashing at different frequencies, meaning that different signals were sent from the brain depending on which light was being stared at. If the receiver received a flash from the TMS helmet, he had to rotate the block.
Incredibly, five groups of three subjects were able to successfully perform the task 81 percent of the time.
[The Hill] Attendees at President Trump's campaign rally in Iowa on Tuesday night chanted "lock her up" after the president questioned whether Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) leaked allegations of sexual misconduct against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
Trump invoked Feinstein while ticking through a series of attacks on various Democrats, including Sens. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), Cory Booker (N.J.) and Richard Blumenthal (Conn.).
"How about Sen. Feinstein? That’s another beauty," Trump said.
"'Did you leak the documents?'" he added, before portraying an exaggerated nervous denial from Feinstein.
The crowd broke into chants of "lock her up," prompting laughter from Trump.
"I think they’re talking about Feinstein," Trump said. "Can you believe it?"
[Breitbart] An internal company briefing produced by Google and leaked exclusively to Breitbart News argues that due to a variety of factors, including the election of President Trump, the "American tradition" of free speech on the internet is no longer viable.
Despite leaked video footage showing top executives declaring their intention to ensure that the rise of Trump and the populist movement is just a "blip" in history, Google has repeatedly denied that the political bias of its employees filter into its products.
But the 85-page briefing, titled "The Good Censor," admits that Google and other tech platforms now "control the majority of online conversations" and have undertaken a "shift towards censorship" in response to unwelcome political events around the world.
Examples cited in the document include the 2016 election and the rise of Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) in Germany.
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I never took Instapundit seriously when he mentioned breaking up Google and Facebook. It always seems to be snark, but now, well it may be a good idea after all.
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And on a final techno-conspiracy note...
In conjunction with Google Barging in Safe Harbors we find that EU privacy laws were enacted that allowed offshore transfer of personal data. These were then rescinded correspondent with the decommissioning of Google's barges.
[BBC] When her daughter was preschool-aged, Rebecca Spencer experienced something familiar to many parents and childminders: the power of a nap. Without it, her daughter would be giddy, grumpy, or both.
Spencer, a neuroscientist focusing on sleep at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, wanted to investigate the science behind this anecdotal experience. "The observation of a lot of people is that a napless kid is emotionally dysregulated," she says. "So that spurred us to ask this question of, ’Do naps actually do something to process emotions?’"
Research has already shown that, in general, sleep helps us make sense of emotions. Sleep plays a key role in encoding information based on experiences from the day, making sleep critical for preserving memories. And emotional memories are unique because of the way they activate the amygdala, the brain’s emotional core.
"Amygdala activation is what allows your wedding day and the funeral of your parents to be a day better remembered, more than just any other day of work," Spencer says.
[ICE] SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico ‐ U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents, working jointly with other federal, state and local law enforcement agents arrested 53 individuals Thursday for drug and illegal arms trafficking and money laundering. The arrests were part of an investigation dubbed Operation Green Mountain against members of a transnational drug trafficking organization with nexus in Mexico and Colombia operating from Las Dolores Ward in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico.
The indictments allege that since 2010, the organization purchased and sold wholesale quantities of heroin, cocaine and marijuana and that it used the United States Postal Service (USPS) to purchase and mail these drugs to and from various distributors in several states.
USPS employees were aware of the shipments of controlled substances and would hold the packages for pick-up by co-conspirators or divert them to other members of the conspiracy.
Members of the conspiracy included police officers who provided information regarding investigations of the conspirators, interfered in police investigations for the benefit of the conspirators and provided information to the conspirators on how to avoid police detection. The indictment alleges they used and leveraged their official positions as law enforcement officers in furtherance of the conspiracy. The charging document also alleges that the conspirators sold street quantity amounts of cocaine, crack and marijuana at drug points in Río Grande.
[RADIOSHABELLE] The U.S. military said on Tuesday it had killed one murderous Moslem in an air strike in southern Somalia over the weekend during a battle pitting U.S. and Somali government troops against al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... Islamist fighters.
The U.S. military’s Africa Command (Africom) said the strike had been carried out on Oct. 6 in the vicinity of Kunyo Barrow, which is north of the town of Kismayo ...a port city in the southern Lower Juba province of Somalia, at the extreme southern end of the country (assuming Somalia can be called a country). It is the commercial capital of the autonomous Jubaland region... .
"We currently assess no civilians were maimed or killed in this air strike," Africom’s statement read.
An Africom Arclight airstrike on Oct. 1, also near Kismayo in southern Somalia, killed nine murderous Moslems. (Reporting By Maggie Fick Editing by Gareth Jones)
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[NYPOST] Around 10,000 people were evacuated after a fire and explosions hit a defense ministry ammunition depot 109 miles east of the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, early Tuesday, officials said.
There was no mention of any casualties and it was not immediately clear whether the explosions were an accident or sabotage.
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...It's been my experience that Slavic explosives safety protocols are...ummm...sketchy.
The Severomorsk Disaster in 1984 pretty much wiped out the ammo reserves for the Soviet Atlantic Fleet - had they gone to war, they pretty much would have fought with what they had on the ships, there would have been no reloads. Among other things that contributed to the accident:
*Explosives quantity/distance rules were routinely violated.
*Magazine doors often could not be closed due to poor construction, and in some cases frustrated weapons crews just took the damn doors off.
*Traffic in a bomb dump is supposed to go one-way at VERY low speed limits in order to avoid the possibility of collisions. Severomorsk didn't do that (unclear as to whether or not they were ignoring policy or never had the policy in the first place) and according to the report I saw in the late 80s, two explosives laden trucks did in fact collide at a fairly good clip...right in front of one of those mags that didn't have doors.
Hilarity ensued.
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[AlAhram] Egypt’s interior ministry said "it has killed ten terrorist elements in a shoot-out during a pre-emptive raid against terrorism al-Arish in North Sinai."
In an official statement released on Tuesday, the ministry said the bad boyz were potted after security forces attempted to raid a deserted farm used as a shelter, leading to a shoot-out between both sides.
According to the statement, the intelligence gathered before the raid, which was provided by the ministry’s national security sector, showed that suspects were planning hostile actions.
Those killed were found to be in possession of three machine guns, two birdshot guns, and two bombs, as well as a large amount of ammunition.
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) The pro-government paramilitary troops have killed two Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... members, repelling an attack carried out, northeast of Diyala, a security source said on Monday.
Speaking to Almaalomah website, the source said "troops of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) managed, today, to repulse an attack by Islamic State members, carried out in the desert of Udhaim region, northeast of Diyala."
The troops, according to the source, "killed two snuffies and destroyed the vehicle they were on board."
The source denied any security danger against the region.
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Salahuddin (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Three Iraqi people were maimed Tuesday in a kaboom near a water plant in Salahuddin province, a security source was quoted as saying.
Speaking to Iraqi website Almaalomah, the source said that an explosive charge went off near a water plant in Salahuddin’s city of Baiji while a car was passing by the area.
According to the source, the kaboom left three people maimed.
"A security force rushed to the blast site and carried the maimed into a nearby hospital for treatment," added the source.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A pregnant woman was killed by a Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... sniper in al-Jawf, north of Yemen.
The Saba news agency quoted a local source as saying that a Houthi sniper shot the woman, Shafeaa Mabkhout, while she was grazing sheep in al-Hajl in al-Maslub District. The area where was killed is far from the scene of battles between Houthis and Yemeni forces.
The source added that residents rushed the woman to al-Jawf General Hospital in al-Hazm District but she died after arriving to hospital.
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[PRESSTV] Religious leaders from around the world have met in Iraq’s holy city of Karbala to speak out against religious extremism and the spread of sectarian propaganda by the Western media.
Scholars, journalists and politicians attended the Fifth Tarateel Sajjadiya International Festival, organized by Imam Hussain Holy Shrine from October 5 to 7. The festival aimed at providing a platform for hearing anti-extremism voices, Press TV reports.
Sheikh Abdul Mahdi Karbalai, the representative of Iraq’s top Shia holy man Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, was one of the keynote speakers at the conference, which included several plenary sessions.
He talked about the success of Iraqi forces in the fight against the Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... ISIS terrorist group and how Iraqis of all sects fought side by side against the terror outfit.
"As the Shia gave blood against ISIS, so did the Sunni," said Sheikh Karbalai, adding, "We have been fighting ISIS since day one. All Iraqis stood together to fight, so we could all achieve victory together."
Not long after ISIS overran Iraq in 2014, Grand Ayatollah Sistani issued a religious decree, calling on the Iraqi people to "defend the country, the honor of its citizens, and its sacred places."
The ruling, known as a fatwa, led to the formation of the pro-government Popular Mobilization Forces, also known by their Arabic name the Hashd al-Sha’abi.
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[DAWN] The members of Lahore Bar Association (LBA) on Monday locked entrance gates of sessions court for hours as protest against a suo motu ...a legal term, from the Latin. Roughly translated it means I saw what you did, you bastard... notice taken by Chief Justice of Pakistain Mian Saqib Nisar on manhandling of a policeman by lawyers.
At a general house meeting of the bar, the lawyers termed the suo motu notice taken by the chief justice a disappointing step. They announced removal of all CCTV cameras installed in and outside the courtrooms in the sessions court. They claimed that the cameras had been used for victimisation of the lawyers.
The bar’s leaders announced that next general house meeting would be held in the Supreme Court on Oct 13.
They were of the view that the policeman, who received a bashing at the sessions court, had been patronising a mafia of land-grabbers and lodging false cases against lawyers. They said the protest would continue till cancellation of cases registered against the lawyers.
The other day, Chief Justice Nisar had taken notice of assault by lawyers on a police sub-inspector after video of the incident was aired by television channels.
The chief justice had summoned IGP Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... for Oct 13 along with a report on the incident. Pakistain Bar Council Vice Chairman Ahsan Bhoon, president and general secretary of the LBA were also asked to attend the hearing.
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[PRESSTV] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has informed Russian officials that the Tel Aviv will continue to hit target inside Syria, irrespective of Moscow’s decision to deliver advanced S-300 surface-to-air missile systems to the Damascus government.
Speaking at a presser in Jerusalem al-Quds on Tuesday, Netanyahu said he had told Russian Deputy Prime Minister Maxim Akimov that Israel would continue to fight what he charged as Iran’s attempts to deepen its military presence in Syria and transfer weapons to the fighters of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement.
The Israeli prime minister added that he believed that the current dispute between Moscow and Tel Aviv over the recent downing of a Russian Il-20 reconnaissance aircraft off the coast of Syria’s western province of Latakia would be resolved.
"I think that with common sense and goodwill we can come to a solution that will allow the continuation of the good coordination between the Russian and Israeli militaries," Netanyahu said.
Netanyahu said at the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday that he would meet Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... soon to discuss coordination.
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[National Review] When the Christine Ford saga finally ended with the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, a lot of truth had distilled out, along with the evaporation of prior pretensions and misconceptions.
The Left
The hearing confirmed that the traditional JFK/Hubert Humphrey Democrat party, as once envisioned by a Bill Clinton, Gary Hart, or Jim Webb, is long kaput. In its place is being birthed a hard-left progressive movement that absorbs the ideologies and methodologies of its base and that now incorporates all sorts, from Ocasio-Cortez’s socialist hipsters to Black Lives Matters, Antifa, and Occupy Wall Street protestors.
The new progressives recently have come to believe that they gain traction by the theater of disrupting senate hearings, cornering senators in elevators, stalking them on the way to work, doxing their opponents on the Internet, and during the hearings throwing out the concept of due process. Any means is deemed permissible to enact visions of social justice, given legislative and executive power is lost for now ‐ and as if proverbially ordinary Americans who watched the televised circus might applaud the performers.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Scourge of Qusayr... passed a historical legislative decree this morning that grants all military deserters amnesty.
According to a government report, the Syrian President issued decree number 18 for 2018, which grants general amnesty for military deserters inside and outside the country and the crimes included in the Military Penalties Law issued by Legislative Decree No. 61 for 1950 and its amendments committed before October 9, 2018.
Not everyone is eligible for amnesty, as the new decree specifically leaves out people wanted for crimes against the state.
However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... if they turn themselves within the next four months (6 months for people outside the country), they will be considered for amnesty.
The legislative decree also provides general amnesty for crimes included in the law of Military Service No. 30 of 2007 and its amendments.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Syrian paratroopers have entered the battle in southern Syria this week after the army suffered heavy casualties at the hands of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) Death Eaters inside the al-Safa region.
According to a military source in Sweida city, the Syrian paratroopers landed behind enemy lines in the al-Safa region, Monday, in order to help eliminate the Islamic State’s well-fortified trenches that have proven difficult to infiltrate.
The source added that the Syrian Arab Army is now storming the Islamic State’s positions at three different axes in a bid to reach the highest peak in the al-Safa region.
The Islamic State has occupied the al-Safa region for over three years now; they were forced to retreat back to this part of the Sweida Governorate after a series of losses across southern and eastern Syria.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] One Ottoman Turkish serviceman was killed and four more people, including a civilian, were maimed in the rocket fire from Iraq’s northern areas controlled by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), the authorities of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor.... ’s southeastern Hakkari province said in a statement.
"One of our servicemen was killed as a military base, located in the regional center of Cukurca in our province, was attacked by two rockets launched from the territory of northern Iraq on October 9. Four more people were maimed, including one civilian who is at death's door. The investigation is underway," the statement read.
The Ottoman Turkish forces are involved in anti-PKK raids across the country and in northern Iraq.
Earlier in October, the Ottoman Turkish parliament approved the extension of a mandate authorizing the deployment of Ottoman Turkish troops in Iraq and Syria for one more year.
Tensions between Ankara and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), listed as a terror organization in the country, escalated in July 2015 when the ceasefire between Turkey and the PKK collapsed over a series of terror attacks which the Ottoman Turkish government holds the PKK responsible for.
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[DAWN] Indonesia on Tuesday told foreign aid workers that their help was not needed in disaster-ravaged Palu and they should go home, frustrating relief efforts after a quake-tsunami killed more than 2,000 people.
Foreign teams on the ground were told new rules barred them from searching for the dead in hard-hit parts of Palu, where thousands are missing since the Sept 28 twin disaster.
Indonesia initially refused international help but President Joko Widodo reluctantly agreed to allow in overseas aid once the picture became clearer on Sulawesi island.
Foreign aid poured into the ravaged city of Palu where authorities believe 5,000 people could be missing and 200,000 survivors desperately need food, water and other life-saving supplies.
But international search and rescue teams were prevented on Tuesday from accessing hard-hit parts of Palu, where thousands are believed to be buried underneath rubble.
Ahmed Bham from South African charity, Gift of the Givers, was told that new rules barred foreign urban search and rescue teams (USAR) from playing any part in retrieving the dead.
They were told, "all foreign USAR teams should make their way obviously back to their countries. They don't need them in Indonesia", he said.
"We've got experienced search and rescue teams here in Indonesia with really specialised equipment. I'd like to use them," he told AFP in Palu.
Their 27-strong team arrived in Palu three days ago from Johannesburg, but days of delay frustrated their wish to join the search for the dead.
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[DAWN] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... on Tuesday said it will search the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul as part of an investigation into the disappearance of a missing Saudi contributor to The Washington Post, a week after he vanished during a visit there.
The announcement came as the Post published a surveillance image of Jamal Khashoggi walking into the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, just before he disappeared.
Ottoman Turkish officials have said they fear the columnist was killed inside the premises.
Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... has called the allegations that it killed 59-year-old Khashoggi "baseless", but has offered no evidence over the past seven days to show that he ever left the building.
Tuesday's statement from the Ottoman Turkish Foreign Ministry's front man Hami Aksoy said that Saudi authorities have notified Ankara that they were "open to cooperation" and would allow the consulate building to be searched.
The ministry did not say when the premises would be searched. Officials in Saudi Arabia did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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[DAWN] An election candidate was among eight killed in a suicide kaboom in Afghanistan on Tuesday, officials said, days ahead of a parliamentary vote that holy warriors have vowed to disrupt.
Another 11 people were maimed when the attacker went kaboom! inside Saleh Mohammad Asikzai's campaign office in the southern city of Lashkar Gah, Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... provincial governor front man Omar Zhwak told AFP.
Asikzai, a young first-time candidate, was campaigning on a platform of "positive change".
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. Helmand has long been a stronghold for the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... , which was toppled from power in a US-led invasion in 2001.
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. .. condemned the attack and said Afghans who believed in democracy would not allow "terrorists" to stop the elections.
It is not clear how many people were inside the room at the time of the blast, which comes a day after the Taliban warned candidates to pull out of the "bogus" election scheduled for October 20.
Describing the polls as a "malicious American conspiracy" and urging voters to boycott them, Taliban front man Zabihullah Mujahid said the holy warriors would pull no punches to disrupt the ballot.
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[PRESSTV] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the international community should recognize as "Israeli territory" the Golan Heights, a Syrian territory which has been under the regime’s occupation for over five decades.
"Israel on the Golan Heights is a fact that the international community must recognize and as long as it depends on me, the Golan Heights will always remain under Israeli illusory sovereignty," Netanyahu said on Monday during a visit to the occupied territory.
The premier claimed that if Israel withdraws from the occupied Golan, the regime will find itself with Iran and the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah on the "shores of the Kinneret (sea of Galilee)" in the northern part of occupied territories.
Iran and Hezbollah are "trying constantly to establish a force opposite us that would operate against the Golan Heights and the Galilee," he claimed.
Israel is deeply angered by Iran’s military advisory assistance to Syrian armed forces in their operations against the terrorist groups, which have the backing of Tel Aviv and its allies.
Iran’s presence in Syria comes at the request of the government in Damascus.
Hezbollah forces have also been assisting the Syrian government on the ground to clear areas bordering Leb from terrorist groups.
Israel has been on high alert in recent days as Syrian government forces have made significant gains against foreign-backed Death Eaters near the Golan Heights.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Two of Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... militia commanders were killed during festivities with Yemeni army forces in the Baqim district, north of Saada.
According to a local news site, a field source confirmed that Houthi Commander Abdullah Yousif Hussein Thawra, was killed during a Yemeni forces attack on the militias’ locations behind the al-Udaida Mountains, northwest of the center of the Baqim district.
The source added that Thawra is one of the militias’ top commanders and headsin various battlefronts in Saada, and received training in Iran.
Another field source stated that the second Houthi commander, Abu Ali al-Nawari, was killed during the same attack by the army’s forces behind the al-Udaida Mountains.
The source added that Nawari was appointed by the Houthis 10 days ago as the commander of the so-called "quick intervention forces" in the Baqim front.
On Monday, the army launched a surprise attack on the Houthi militia’s locations, behind al-Udaida Mountains northwest of the Baqim district, during which the militias suffered several losses in Death Eaters and armed vehicles.
Media sources said that the Yemeni army was able to capture a Houthi sniper from the battalion of the special guards of the militias’ leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi during a battle to liberate Ramdan battle, behind al-Udaida Mountains in Baqim.
The source added that 18 other Death Eaters were killed by Arab Coalition air raids along with the Houthi sniper in this battle.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Ottoman Turkish security forces searched a private Saudi plane on the day that journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappeared, but did not find any trace of him, the Ottoman Turkish Anadolu agency reported on Tuesday.
A security source said that Ottoman Turkish forces then allowed the Saudi plane to take off after they did not find any evidence that Khashoggi was onboard.
The Ottoman Turkish ministry of foreign affairs had stated that Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... has provided all assistance and cooperation in the case of the missing journalist who has disappeared in Istanbul last week.
The Ottoman Turkish ministry’s spokesperson Hami Aksoy said in a statement: "Although consular premises are inviolable according to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, the receiving state can conduct an examination in these premises with the consent of the head of the diplomatic mission. The Saudi authorities have notified that they are open to cooperation in this regard and that the examination can be conducted in their consular buildings in Istanbul."
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[NYPOST] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire.... said Tuesday it will search the Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... n Consulate in Instanbul for Jamal Khashoggi as a newspaper published an image of the journalist walking into the facility just hours before he vanished.
Khashoggi is seen in a surveillance photo published by the Washington Post entering the consulate, where Ottoman Turkish officials believe he was killed earlier this month.
A front man for Turkey’s Foreign Ministry said Saudi officials have relayed to Ankara that they were "open to cooperation" and would allow the consulate to be searched.
But the ministry did not provide a timeline for when that might happen.
The surveillance image, which the newspaper said it received from a "person close to the investigation," includes an Oct. 2 time stamp of Khashoggi, 59, walking to the consulate’s main entrance.
Saudi officials have called claims that Khashoggi was killed in the consulate "baseless" but have yet to release any evidence that the writer left the building, despite repeated requests from Ottoman Turkish officials.
Turkey has not issued any proof to back up its claims.
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#1
Plausible hypothesis 1:
The Saudis brutally slaughtered a prominent dissident in a cleverly ostentatious and plausibly deniable way in order to deter any uppity subjects.
Plausible hypothesis 2:
The Turks disappeared a prominent Saudi dissident to create the impression that hypothesis 1 was true.
They did this at the behest of the Iran-Qatar-Muslim Brotherhood-Russia alliance in order to weaken the Saudi backed side in Yemen specifically and to drive a wedge between the West and the Saudis.
#3
It shouldn't be too hard to coordinate CCTV footage, shouldn't it?
That video date is under the control of rival state actors who can be assumed to prioritize their political agenda over the search for the truth.
They might, at some point, release rival video sequences pretending to show the same place at the same time showing mutually contradictory content.
All that would prove is that at least one party is lying. Unless the forger(s) made glaring technical mistakes it would be impossible to ascertain which if any is genuine.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least five Talibs were blown up by own explosives as they were placing an Improvised Explosive Device on a roadside in western Farah province of Afghanistan.
The Ministry of Interior (MoI) in a statement said the incident has taken place in the vicinity of Posht Rod district.
The statement further added that five Talibs, who were planting an Improvised Explosive Device on a roadside in Nehal Dasht village of Posht Rod, were killed after the explosives went off prematurely.
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[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] he acting Metropolitan Police commissioner locked himself in his car as he watched terrorist Khalid Masood kill one of his colleagues in Westminster because he had "no protective equipment and no radio," he has told an inquest.
Sir Craig Mackey, now deputy commissioner of Scotland Yard, said that despite witnessing Masood "purposefully" lunge at everyone in his path with a butcher’s knife, he realised that had he got out of his vehicle, he would have been a target.
Instead, he remained in his black saloon car, within the Palace of Westminster, and witnessed Masood, 52, fatally stab Pc Keith Palmer.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Ottoman Turkish security forces launched a big operation this morning to arrest several suspected members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in southeast The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... According to the state-owned Anadolu Agency, the Ottoman Turkish security forces locked away Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! at least 90 suspected members of the PKK organization in southeast Turkey.
Citing the Interior Ministry, the Anadolu report said that of the 90 arrests made in the last 12 hours, at least 80 of them were made in the Diyarbakir Province near the Syrian border.
The other arrests reportedly took place in the Mersin, Van, Sirnak, Sanliurfa, Batman and Mardin provinces.
Many terror group-related documents and digital material were seized during the operations.
The operation across eight provinces was continuing, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.
The arrests come days after President Tayyip Erdogan warned he would replace any mayors elected in next year's local elections if they were deemed to have links to terrorism.
Erdogan accuses the main pro-Kurdish party, the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), of links to the PKK. The HDP denies this and says it is unjustly targeted by the government.
More than 140 HDP members were tossed into the calaboose over several days, the party said on Sunday.
Ninety-four of 102 municipalities in Kurdish-majority cities and towns are now administered by trustees, rather than their elected mayors. Authorities removed those mayors, elected in the last municipal elections in 2014, in the security crackdown that followed an attempted military coup in 2016.
"Elections are nearing," Erdogan said at a meeting of his AK Party (AKP) over the weekend, referring to the March 2019 local vote. "If those involved with terror come out of the ballot box, we shall appoint trustees without delay."
Ottoman Turkish police detained dozens of people over alleged links to Kurdish bandidosbandidos turbans in an operation carried out in nine cities including Kurdish-majority Diyarbakir, the local prosecutor's office said Tuesday.
The police detained 90 out of 151 suspects they were seeking during the raids carried out at 183 addresses, and seized organizational documents and digital materials, the chief prosecutor's office in Diyarbakir said in a statement.
The suspects were accused of links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), designated as a terror group by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor.... and its Western allies.
Last week, eight Ottoman Turkish soldiers were killed by an improvised bomb in southeastern Turkey in an attack which the government blamed on the PKK.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] A high ranking jihadist commander was assassinated in the northwestern countryside of the Idlib Governorate on Monday, opposition activists reported.
According to the opposition activists, the military of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham , Abu Mussab al-Dureer, was killed alongside two of his associates in the northwestern countryside of Idlib this week.
The HTS commander was reportedly traveling along the Darkoush-Azmarin Road in northwest Idlib, when a group of unknown assailants opened fire on his vehicle.
Abu Mussab al-Dureer was killed instantly during the ambush and his body was later retrieved by his own faction.
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[PRESSTV] The UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, criticizes US President Donald Trump for politicizing humanitarian aid. A fresh appeal for financial support has been made by the agency's Brussels office in the light of Trump's announcement that the US is withdrawing all funding for UNRWA. Jerome Hughes reports.
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Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Four security personnel were killed and injured in an attack that took place, west of Anbar, the Iraqi Health Ministry said on Monday.
In a statement, the ministry said "a terrorist attack took place today in Hit region in Anbar, leaving two army conscripts and a paramilitary fighter killed."
The attack, according to the statement, also "left another fighter maimed."
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Several bully boyz have been killed in the latest clash between two factions of the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... group in western 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... province of Afghanistan, the local officials said.
Provincial governor’s front man Jilani Farhad confirmed the incident and said the latest clash took place between the bully boyz led by Mullah Hebatullah and Taliban’s dissident group led by Mullah Rasool.
Farhad further added that the incident has taken place in the vicinity of Guzra district of Herat and as a result at least sixteen bully boyz have been killed.
According to Farhad, at least ten bully boyz affiliated with Mullah Hebatullah group and six bully boyz loyal to Mullah Rasool were killed during the clash.
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[DAWN] A young Bulgarian man was sentenced to 40 months in jail by a Czech court on Tuesday over messages threatening terror attacks in Pakistain unless Islamabad freed a woman locked away Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! with heroin in the country earlier this year.
The regional court in Plzen, west of Prague, found 21-year-old Nikolai Simeonov Ivanov guilty of sending the threats by email and text message to a television channel and news website in Pakistain.
The threats demanded the release of a Czech woman he knew, named as Tereza H, who had been arrested in January at Lahore airport.
"If Pakistain does not free within 48 hours Tereza, arrested with nine kilos of heroin, and does not let her take a plane to the Czech Republic, terrorist attacks will take place in Pakistain," said the message, read out in court by the prosecution.
Ivanov, who has lived in Plzen since 2016, was sentenced to 40 months in prison by the court, after admitting that he had sent the messages, adding that he had not realised the consequences of the threats.
"I did not think that anyone would take my messages seriously, especially since I included my telephone number and email address," said Ivanov, whose lawyer had asked for a suspended sentence.
The Plzen court said in its ruling that Ivanov should be expelled from the Czech Republic for eight years after his sentence is served.
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[DAWN] A Lahore sessions court on Tuesday sentenced a 60-year-old man to six years in jail for sexually assaulting an 8-year-old girl.
The court also ordered the convict, Muzaffar Hussain, to pay a Rs500,000 fine.
Two years ago, a case had been registered against Hussain under Sections 367 and 376 of the Pakistain Penal Code. The sections deal with kidnapping in order to subject person to grievous hurt and rape, respectively.
Hussain, a paraplegic, was brought to court in a wheelchair. He fainted when Judge Rehmat Ali read out the court's verdict.
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[DAWN] The Taliban ...Arabic for students... on Monday directed Afghans to boycott upcoming parliamentary elections and demanded a complete withdrawal of foreign forces as the only solution to end the 17-year-old war as they ramped up attacks in strategic provinces.
The statement from the Taliban coincided with the visit of top US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, who has been appointed to lead peace efforts with the Taliban.
Khalilzad met 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. .. in Kabul to discuss ways to hold Afghan-led peace talks with the Taliban, whose 1996-2001 rule was ended by US-led troops.
"Peace is a holy process, and the US government and people are united with the Afghan government and people in this process," Khalilzad was quoted by Ghani’s office in a statement as saying.
Khalilzad, an Afghan-born former US ambassador to Afghanistan and Iraq, joined the US State Department team in September.
He is scheduled to visit Pakistain, the United Arab Emirates, Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and 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... this week as he seeks to bring the Taliban to the negotiating table. But the Taliban have repeatedly rejected offers to hold peace talks or support the polls.
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Kunstler is one Liberal worth reading. And he has his hands on a pulse. So, I have him and everything he writes on my feed. He does make you do a double take sometime. Excellent sorting of Logic.
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I believe USA, like every other country in the world, has it share of crazies. And these crazies been running free for decades - breaking things, while the rest of you been picking the pieces and fixing the broken, and treating their madness as holy.
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The looting classes only look crazy if you expect them to be doing what they are paid to do.
If you see them as establishment protection agencies then life becomes simpler.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) uncovered a large weapons cache in the eastern countryside of the Daraa Governorate this week.
According to a field journalist from al-Ikhbariya, the Syrian Arab Army uncovered this large weapons cache while combing through the towns that were previously controlled by the rebel forces.
Among the weapons found in this large cache were several hellfire cannons, MLR missiles, mortar shells, IEDs, and ammunition boxes.
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A beauty, for sure.
Geeesh, the libtards just keep on trotting out the dolts and morons. Oh, and someone give her a link about OJ Simpson's murder trial.
[NYPOST] Four people died when a massive sinkhole swallowed them in the Chinese city of Dazhou.
The ground ripped open around 2:30 p.m. Sunday in the city in Sichuan Province, leaving a 100-square-foot chasm by the time the earth settled.
Video posted to state-run social media shows the fateful moment, in which several people can be seen casually strolling through a city plaza before the ground opens and they plummet out of view.
Two victims who had recently been married died in state hospitals after being pulled from the pit, and the bodies of two other victims, a father and his son, were taken from the sinkhole Tuesday after being buried under more than 30 feet of rubble ‐ just beyond the reach of excavation equipment, CNN reported.
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[PRESSTV] Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani says the United States and the Israeli regime are the root cause of growing insecurity in the world.
Larijani made the remarks in an address to the third meeting of the speakers of the Eurasia countries' parliaments in Antalya, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor.... , on Tuesday.
He said the ongoing woes in the world are the result of the US unilateralism and called on all countries to boost their unity in the face of illegal and unilateral measures.
"Unilateral measures by powers such as the US in dealing with global issues have created great problems and challenges for the international community," the top Iranian parliamentarian said.
He added that the "selfish, unilateral and illegal" move by the US administration to withdraw from a multilateral nuclear agreement Iran signed with the P5+1 group of countries in 2015 and to re-impose cruel sanctions against the land of the Medes and the Persians showed "alarming signs" of the emergence of the threadbare dialogue of unilateralism in international relations.
US 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... announced in May that Washington was pulling out of the nuclear agreement, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which lifted nuclear-related sanctions against Tehran in exchange for restrictions on Tehran's nuclear program. The deal had been signed between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council -- the United States, Britannia, La Belle France, Russia and China -- plus Germany in 2015.
A first round of American sanctions took effect in August, targeting Iran's access to the US dollar, metals trading, coal, industrial software, and auto sector. A second round, forthcoming on November 4, will be targeting Iran’s oil sales and its Central Bank.
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[AnNahar] Saudi-led coalition air strikes in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... have killed almost 80 Huthi rebel fighters over 48 hours in the western province of Hodeida, military and medical sources said Tuesday.
The strikes on Hodeida, site of a vital port and target of a renewed coalition offensive, also left seven civilians dead, they said.
Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... intervened in Yemen at the head of a military coalition to support the government of President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi after the Huthis ousted it from the capital Sanaa and swathes of the country's north.
The coalition has used air power to oust the Iran-backed rebels from much of the country's south.
But the Huthis continue to hold Sanaa and the key Red Sea port of Hodeida.
Following the collapse of United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... -backed talks in September, the coalition announced it was relaunching an assault on Hodeida city and its port.
The port is the main conduit for aid and commodities into Yemen, which is teetering on the brink of famine.
The fighting has since eased and the coalition has focused its raids on the city limits and other parts of the surrounding province.
However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... in the past 48 hours, coalition raids have hit two farms, two rebel training camps and an area close to the city's port, according to rebel military sources.
Rescue personnel and medical sources have confirmed that 79 rebel fighters were killed and their bodies taken to hospitals in the province.
Yemen's war has left 10,000 people dead, mostly civilians, since the coalition intervened in 2015, and triggered what the U.N. has labeled the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan and U.S. forces carried out joint Arclight airstrikes on two separate gatherings of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... group in northern Faryab province of Afghanistan, leaving several turbans dead.
The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North in a statement said the airstrikes were carried out based on accurate intelligence information and coordinates.
According to 209th Shaheen Corps, the gatherings of the Talibs were targeted in Garziwan village and Islam Qala area of Sherin Tagab district.
At least 17 turbans were killed during the airstrikes on two gatherings, 209th Shaheen Corps said, adding that a commander of the group identified as Qari Rahmatullah was among those killed.
The statement by 209th Shaheen Corps also added that similar airstrikes were also carried out in Bazar Qala area of Dawlatabad district, leaving at least 11 turbans dead.
A key commander of the group identified as Qari Adbullah was among those killed, the 209th Shaheen Corps said.
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[DAWN] Bangladesh opposition leader the loathesome Khaleda Zia Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ... ‐ who was transferred from jail to hospital last weekend ‐ can no longer use her left hand, her doctor told AFP on Tuesday.
Zia, 73, was placed in durance vile Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! in February for corruption and has been on trial in a special room in the abandoned Dhaka Central Jail on additional graft charges that her supporters say are politically motivated.
On Saturday Zia, a long rival to Prime Minister the loathesome Sheikh Hasina ...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums.. , was transferred to hospital because of poor health following an order from the country's High Court.
"Her symptoms have worsened in the last few months," Abdul Jalil Chowdhury, one of the physicians at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) hospital who has since examined her, told AFP.
"She has developed deformity of left hand in the last few months due to long standing rheumatoid arthritis. She can't use her left hand," he said.
"In addition, she has developed left frozen shoulder," he said, adding Zia was also suffering from neck and back pain and she is a diabetic.
Lawyers for Zia, who was Bangladesh's prime minister from 1991-1996 and 2001-2006, had argued that the government was putting her health at risk by refusing her specialised care in prison.
When Zia ‐ who leads the Bangladesh Nationalist Party ‐ was placed in durance vile Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! in February for corruption, the sentence triggered festivities between police and thousands of BNP supporters.
She was found guilty of embezzling money intended for an orphanage.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The newly elected government in Pakistain has invited ire from religious quarters for a peculiar reason.
The government has suggested exemption of 400 units of electric power per month to mosques where prayer leaders issue edict declaring power theft as forbidden [haram] in Islam and run a campaign in Friday sermons against power theft.
The government of Prime Minister Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality problems... has come out with the novel idea to rid the country of the problem of power pilferage, which is particularly rife in the insurgency-hit tribal areas bordering Afghanistan and the rural areas in the other three provinces, causing huge revenue losses.
Though the offer is not yet implemented, it has drawn strong criticism especially from Islamic scholars who dubbed it an "open bribe" to prayer leaders.
"It is shameful that the government which came to power chanting slogans of making the country run like state of Medina, is now offering bribe to Ulema for petty causes which could have been resolved through technical means and improving management," said Mufti Mohammad Naeem, head of Jamia Binnoria.
Dr. Allama Mufti Raghib Hussain Naeemi, member of Council of Islamic Ideology and head of Jamia Naeemia Lahore, said: "Rulers must stop dragging Ulema for achieving political and administrative aims. Crimes can’t be controlled through edicts."
He was of the view that the menace of terrorism did not stop despite Islamic scholars using their platform to issue edicts against it.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] 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... ’s Attorney General Ali bin Mohsen bin Fetais al-Marri continues to make headlines.
After reports of his financial corruption and accounts at the National Bank of Kuwait were exposed, his close relationship with two al-Qaeda leaders has returned to haunt him.
General Ali al-Marri managed to get them released from US prisons and ensured freedom of movement for them going against what was recommended in treaties.
The recent attention prompted by his financial scandals made the media leading to curiosity, which has brought to the fore many neglected stories such as this Washington Post article published in 2007.
This document revealed the Attorney General’s ties with his relative, Ali Saleh Kahla al-Marri, also known as Abdul Rahman al-Qatari.
Saleh al-Marri is not any ordinary mortal. He was locked away Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! in December 2001 in the United States following the terrorist hunt after 9/11.
He admitted to being a very important member of al-Qaeda and that he had planned new attacks, including using chemical weapons.
In his personal computer, federal agents found records called "Jihad Arena or Jihad Stadium" containing information on hydrogen cyanide. During his arrest, more than 1,000 fake credit card numbers and forged identity documents were seized.
Before coming to the United States, Saleh al-Marri worked for more than 10 years as a senior officer at Qatar Islamic Bank and as a senior accountant for the Qatari government.
In addition, an investigation by the US authorities proved that Saleh had been in contact with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the criminal mastermind of the September 11 attacks. He was finally released in 2015 after 13 years in detention.
RELATIVE CONNECTION
Here comes the role of Qatar’s Attorney General Ali bin Mohsen bin Fetais al-Marri. In fact, the decision to release a relative was not an American decision, but it took place after behind the scenes diplomatic action and after lengthy negotiations conducted by a "close friend" of the Attorney General.
According to reports in the American media, Bin Fetais used all his contacts so that his relative can be released. As a last resort, thanks to this assistance, a prominent al-Qaeda member was exchanged against US citizens (a couple) who were arbitrarily detained in Doha. What justified such an exchange isn’t yet known?
Equally surprising is the fact that when he arrived in Doha, in January 2015, Saleh al-Marri received a "hero’s welcome" by the Qatari authorities. He even received a phone call from the Qatari prime minister.
Former Qatari anchor and current board member of al-Jazeera, Elham Badr, congratulated Saleh al-Marri on Twitter on the return of al-Qaeda member.
The Attorney-General also played an active role in the release of Jarallah Saleh Mohammed Kahla al-Marri in 2008.
He is the younger brother of Saleh al-Yazid, who was arrested at Guantanamo after being caught at an al-Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan.
The Attorney-General succeeded in deporting him to Qatar on the condition that Jarallah does not leave Qatar forever. However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... in violation of this agreement with the United States, Jarallah traveled and the Qataris did not inform their American counterparts.
According to a confidential memo from the US ambassador in Doha, unveiled by WikiLeaks, there was US resentment over Qatari non-compliance with the agreements reached regarding the conditions related to the release of Jarallah.
In the confidential memo, one official was identified as Qatar’s Attorney-General Ali bin Fattis al-Marri.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) resumed their field operations in the al-Safa region of southern Syria this week after repelling another attempt by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) to breakout of this area.
Led by their 3rd Crops and 10th Division, the Syrian Arab Army managed to score a new advance in the al-Safa region on Monday after an intense battle with the Islamic State bandidosforces of Evil at the northwestern and southwestern axes of this volcanic area.
The Syrian Arab Army was able to make this advance in southern Syria, despite suffering heavy casualties as a result of an ambush that was laid out by the Islamic State.
As a result of this ambush by the Islamic State, the Syrian Arab Army and National Defense Forces (NDF) suffered more than 15 casualties in the al-Safa region on Monday.
In the video below, the Syrian Arab Army can be seen advancing in this rocky part of al-Safa, despite heavy resistance from the Islamic State.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] An Iranian soldier was killed in an overnight attack by an gang near the Iraqi border, state-owned Islamic Theocratic Republic News Agency (IRNA) reported this morning.
According to IRNA, the Iranian soldier was killed when an gang attempted to infiltrate into the border-city of Marivan in the Kurdistan Province; they tried to enter from Iraq’s Suleimaniyah Governorate.
Marivan is 125 km to the west of the historic provincial capital, Sanandaj, bordering Iraqi Kurdistan. The city shares a 100-km border with Iraq’s Sulaymaniyah.
Citing the Deputy Commander of the Iranian Border Guards, IRNA said the military seized a large quantity of weapons and ammunition from the gang that was attempting to enter the country.
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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.
[Richmond Times Dispatch] Washington and Lee University has decided to make changes to the names of some campus buildings after concerns from students and faculty.
...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...
No Senator, I have never stayed at the Crest Inn Suites and Cottages. And yes, this job really has begun to suck. 
[Washington Examiner] Mexican officials found a cross-border tunnel that started in a home in Jacume, Mexico, less than 100 yards away from the U.S. border.
One would think the spoil would gain notice. 
[The Federalist] There is an endless buzz around Kanye West’s conversion to MAGA hats, free speech, and meetings with President Trump in the White House. Thankfully, the hosts of ABC’s "The View," who are apparently also practicing psychiatrists, were able to diagnose West’s political interests as a mental illness and "attention grab."
[The Hill] Attendees at President Trump's campaign rally in Iowa on Tuesday night chanted "lock her up" after the president questioned whether Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) leaked allegations of sexual misconduct against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
[Breitbart] An internal company briefing produced by Google and leaked exclusively to Breitbart News argues that due to a variety of factors, including the election of President Trump, the "American tradition" of free speech on the internet is no longer viable.
...a port city in the southern Lower Juba province of Somalia, at the extreme southern end of the country (assuming Somalia can be called a country). It is the commercial capital of the autonomous Jubaland region...
[NYPOST] Around 10,000 people were evacuated after a fire and explosions hit a defense ministry ammunition depot 109 miles east of the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, early Tuesday, officials said.
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
...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. ..
[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] he acting Metropolitan Police commissioner locked himself in his car as he watched terrorist Khalid Masood kill one of his colleagues in Westminster because he had "no protective equipment and no radio," he has told an inquest.
[DAWN] A Lahore sessions court on Tuesday sentenced a 60-year-old man to six years in jail for sexually assaulting an 8-year-old girl.
[NYPOST] Four people died when a massive sinkhole swallowed them in the Chinese city of Dazhou.
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as 
