[HOT AIR] One of the highlights of Thursday’s House Oversight Committee hearing featuring FBI Director James Comey was the five minute questioning at the hands of Rep. Will Hurd (R-TX).
It was an unequivocal smack-down of the Democrats on his committee and of Director Comey’s logic (or lack thereof) involved in his decision to not pursue charges against Hillary Clinton.
Reaction to Hurd’s performance was overwhelmingly enthusiastic.
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I seldom write to these fellows, but I just finished a short letter to Congressman Hurd along with a modest campaign contribution. I will post it on Monday. I wish I could deliver it in person and shake his hand.
[Reuters] Two Houston police officers fatally shot an African-American man who pointed a gun at them despite their commands that he lower his weapon, authorities said on Saturday, two days after five Dallas policemen were slain by a black military veteran.
The two Houston officers, both Hispanic, encountered a man standing in the middle of a street with a revolver around 12:40 a.m. while on a routine patrol, police spokeswoman Jodi Silva said.
The officers exited their patrol vehicle to speak to the man, who initially had the firearm pointed to the sky. The officers ordered him to lower the weapon, Silva said.
"He instead deliberately and slowly lowers his arm and allows it to come to a stop at his waist," Silva said. "Now the gun is pointed directly at officers."
Fearing for their safety and for nearby witnesses, both officers discharged their weapons, striking the man, she said. The man's motive remains unknown.
The suspect, who did not fire his gun, died at the scene. His identity was not immediately released.
The incident unfolded after police came under fire in at least three states on Thursday and Friday, as protests over police use of force against black people escalated around the country.
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Ministry of Interior informed that 14 Katyusha rockets fell near Baghdad International Airport in western Baghdad.
The source informed, “An armed group launched 14 Katyusha rockets somewhere from northwest of Baghdad, and they fell near the Baghdad International Airport. Four rockets fell at the Liberty Camp, located inside Baghdad International Airport.”
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source from the Iraqi Police revealed that three persons were killed and twelve others injured due to shelling in southern Baghdad.
According to information shared by the source, it was stated, “This evening, three mortar shells fell on an internally displaced people’s camp in al-Sayediya area of southern Baghdad. Due to this, three people were killed and twelve others injured.”
The source added, “The injured were transferred to a nearby hospital and the dead bodies to the forensic department.”
[Daily Caller] The chief of police in El Paso, Texas, labeled Black Lives Matter a "radical hate group" Friday night, blaming them for Thursday’s shooting in Dallas and calling on policymakers to take a closer look at the movement.
Greg Allen was in attendance at a news conference Friday where various leaders in the El Paso area expressed solidarity with Dallas while also trying to appeal to those who feel marginalized by a recent spate of high-profile police shootings. Allen didn’t deliver a statement at the conference, but he gave an interview to local press afterwards.
During the interview, Allen was asked to comment on an upcoming protest vigil El Paso’s Black Lives Matter group is planning to hold Sunday night. He responded by denouncing the group in remarkably harsh terms.
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Don't look for Black Lives Matter to be listed as a hate group at the Southern Poverty Law Center's web site. Don't hold your breath, it is more likely they will list the cops as a hate group (sarc.).
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Under Obama, I'm shocked BLM has not already become a Federal agency.
I strongly suspect it is a DNC agency - much like the 'New Black Panthers' and the KKK. Funded by the likes of Soros and others via various 'fund laundering' foundations like the Tides and Clinton Foundation.
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This is not and will never be the main story, but BLM anti-cop terrorism has completely overshadowed the fact that there are genuine grievances about policing in America (see e.g. civil forfeiture). Now those grievances won't be addressed. Now you are either pro-cop or pro-terror.
[PM] A new U.S. Army video shows how today's standard infantry weapon, the M4 carbine, is being updated to perform better on the battlefield. The Army is gradually converting its entire inventory of M4s to the improved M4A1 standard.
The M4 carbine is the standard issue weapon for the U.S. Army. Introduced in the early 2000s, the rifle has performed well in Iraq and Afghanistan. In a 2006 report prepared for the Pentagon, 89 percent of soldiers polled said they were satisfied with the performance of the weapon, the highest rating for all Army small arms.
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That whole "burst" thing... Like the magazine disconnectors on the old turnbolt rifles of the early 20th century. Classic peacetime beancounter and marksmanship mafia thinking.
And it only took 15 years of war to get the idiots to change their minds.
Also- note the wear & tear on the weapons in the video. This is an army that has been rode hard and put up wet.
[Wash Times] A conservative blogger who says he feared for his life during a Black Lives Matter protest Thursday night in Portland, Oregon, has been arrested after he briefly drew a handgun.
The man, identified by police as 36-year-old Michael Strickland, was at the demonstration near Pioneer Square taking pictures when he got into an argument with protesters, reported a local Fox News affiliate, which caught part of the incident on video.
Mr. Strickland pulled out a gun and held it out in front of him for a moment before putting it back in his waistband, Fox reported.
Mr. Strickland, a conservative activist who contributes to the Progressives Today blog, according to the Portland Tribune, later explained his side of the story.
"What happened was there were about 10 or 12 people that surrounded me," he told Fox. "They started pushing and shoving me. They were using their flag staffs as weapons. I’m backing up, they kept coming towards me. They kept coming towards me. That’s why I drew. ... I was outnumbered, they were pushing and shoving me. They were using their flag staffs as weapons. I was backing up, they kept coming towards me. I feared for my life because I was outnumbered and they had weapons."
Another video uploaded to YouTube by the Willamette Week shows protesters following Mr. Strickland as he backs away from them. No one is seen putting their hands or other objects on him before he pulls a gun out of a holster on his right hip and points it excitedly at several people in the crowd. He holds the gun up for about 10 seconds before re-holstering the weapon.
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He has been charged with menacing and disorderly conduct.
Simple misdemeanors in most states. I recommend he make the court appearance, pay the fine and consider himself lucky. Finding a new hobby which does not involve photographing the entitlement class might also be in order.
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How was his judgement faulty? Outnumbered, the others armed, he attempted to back off.
I'll fault him for not keeping his mouth shut, but not for fearing for his life.
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How was his judgement faulty?
He purposely put himself in a dangerous situation (probably with the intent of provoking a response.) He brought out the gun when he probably should not have used it, and almost certainly could not have done so effectively. If he HAD used it, the excrement would really have flown.
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I saw a meme about him all over Facebook today: his name and the photo of him with rifle slung across his back and a camouflage t-shirt, telling what he'd done and concluding, "He proved that it's not the Gun that kills but Evil People behind the gun. Thank you Mark"
So Mr. Hughes reaped plenty of kudos and goodwill from strangers, as well.
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Despite the planned troop reductions and Taliban gains, Gen. Votel says the military will be able to continue its counterterrorism and training of Afghan forces unabated.
The training might have to be relocated to Gowan Field , Idaho.... but it will continue 'unabated.'
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Dang, I was really worried they'd shut you guys down.
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Wouldn't put it past them.
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Nah. for the same reason the intel boys won't shut down ISIS on the net. They want to monitor 'enemy' communications. It's one of the strange twists of fate when the Reds Progressives treat you as the real enemy.
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I believe those are Aleut whale hunters Besoeker. The headpiece looks familiar. Not sure what that has to do with South Africa, Alaska is about as far away as you can get from SA.
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I believe those are Aleut whale hunters Besoeker. The headpiece looks familiar. Not sure what that has to do with South Africa, Alaska is about as far away as you can get from SA. Posted by CrazyFool
Spot on CF! Perhaps those chaps pushing along in their kayaks just wouldn't feel comfortable in Evansville. Let us just suppose for a moment that those Aleuts were meant to remain exactly where they are. Something to ponder.... or no ?
[AP] MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- The new Philippine president blamed U.S. intervention for the bloody conflicts in Iraq and other Middle Eastern countries in his latest criticism of Manila's closest security ally.
President Rodrigo Duterte suggested in a speech Friday that intrusive policy was to blame for attacks on U.S. soil, saying, "It is not that the Middle East is exporting terrorism to America, America imported terrorism."
"They forced their way to Iraq ... look at Iraq now, look what happened to Libya, look what happened to Syria," he told the Muslim community in southern Davao city in a ceremony marking the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. "People are being annihilated there including children."
The former Davao mayor has said he would be a leftist president who would chart a foreign policy not dependent on the United States.
Sure, no problem. Have at it. Good luck with the Chinese and the Moros...
He has pointed out the benefits of nurturing friendly relations with Beijing, including a Chinese offer of financing railway projects in the Philippines. The country has had frosty ties with China under Duterte's predecessor, Benigno Aquino III, who bolstered security ties with the U.S. to deter China's assertiveness in the disputed South China Sea.
[WAPO] A longtime Democratic congresswoman from Florida was indicted Friday on charges she and her chief of staff allegedly set up a fake nonprofit they used as their "personal slush fund."
It's like the Clinton Foundation but on a smaller scale and without the protection...
The 24-count indictment is a stunning piece of news, though not wholly unexpected -- she was mysteriously served a subpoena in January while eating at a Jacksonville barbecue restaurant, there was already a federal investigation into the nonprofit in question, and the House Ethics Committee had set up an investigation related to her campaign finance and commercial dealings as well.
Neither Brown nor her staff has commented on the charges. She is scheduled to appear in court Friday. Brown exhibited no intent to defraud. I blame her staff.
The indictment could shake up her reelection campaign, where she's in one of the toughest primary fights of her two-decade political career in a newly redrawn district. Here's what we know so far:
First, a little about Corrine Brown: She's been in public service since the 1980s, first serving in the Florida state legislature and then coming to Congress in 1993. She currently represents the Jacksonville area and is one of the first three African Americans to represent the state in Congress since Reconstruction, according to the Associated Press.
[Freedom Outpost] The organizer of the Dallas Black Lives Matter rally, in which four cops were murdered and numerous others injured by trained snipers, is a sodomite pro-Muslim agent. His name is Jeff Hood. In 2015, after American Christians protested an Islamic event in Dallas, this reprobate, Jeff Hood, said:
"I think that Texas Muslims are the real Christians." Jeff Hood says that he is a Baptist minister, but I believe that this is a disguise that he is using to cover his Islamic sentiments. In one statement, Hood described a conversation with a Muslim "about Islam," and of how "The beauty of the way they talked from an Islamic perspective about Jesus and the need to love all people moved me deeply. Their faith pushed me to believe again." The "Islamic perspective about Jesus"? This is the antichrist anti-Trinitarian Jesus, and he is embracing this false christ? Hood also promotes an Islamic Jesus and even states that Jesus converted to Islam. In his website, he posts a picture of Jesus dressed as a Muslim.
[Jerusalem Post] Legislation that would serve to block a sale of Boeing aircraft to Iran worth $25 billion passed the House of Representatives in a voice vote on Thursday night.
Republican members added two amendments to the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act that would prohibit US financial institutions from issuing the requisite licenses for the sale, or from offering loans to Iran for the purchases.
While this bill is unlikely to become law, the author of these two amendments, Congressman Peter Roskam (R-Illinois), said he plans to attach them to every bill he can that moves through Congress.
Significantly, Democratic members did not push back against the addition of the amendments, and some were encouraging of the effort on Thursday.
Among them is Congressman Brad Sherman (D-California), who in a June letter to the Obama administration wrote that the deal should not proceed because of inextricable ties between Iran's state-run aviation industry and its Revolutionary Guards.
Iran contends that blocking the Boeing sale would violate the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action‐ the nuclear deal clinched last year‐ and points to a provision of the JCPOA which commits the US to "allow for the sale of commercial passenger aircraft and related parts and services" for "exclusively civil aviation end-use."
But it is that last part‐ "exclusively civil aviation end-use"‐ that has some members of Congress convinced the Boeing deal can legally be halted, in compliance with the JCPOA. That's because the US Treasury Department, State Department, and intelligence agencies all assess that Iran Air and its subsidiary, Mahan Air, are complicit in illicit arms transfers to Lebanon-based terrorist organization Hezbollah or in the assistance of Syria's embattled president, Bashar Assad.
[Wash Times] Hillary Clinton wasn't "sophisticated enough" to know she was risking national security when she sent and received classified information, so it was impossible to make a criminal case against her, FBI Director James B. Comey told Congress on Thursday.
He said Mrs. Clinton, the former State Department secretary and now the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, was briefed on the State Department's policies but broke them, sending or receiving more than 100 messages that contained information that was confidential at the time she handled it. He also confirmed that she misled voters in her public explanations, and he insisted that she would have faced discipline, including potentially losing her right to see secret information, if she were still a government employee.
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But they claimed she was the smartest woman in the world and a crack lawyer and the most prepared candidate in history. and now she cannot grasp classification markings that every PFC in the Army is required to know? Seriously, this is all you've got?
[Wash Times] Sheriff Clarke, appearing on "Fox and Friends" to discuss Micah Xavier Johnson, the 25-year-old man accused of ambushing Dallas police officers at a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest, said Mr. Obama uses the bully pulpit after tragedies in ways that sow anger and resentment among the population.
"He's usually popping off at the mouth before he's been briefed or before he knows any of the facts like he did yesterday," the sheriff said regarding Mr. Obama's response to the two black men in Louisiana and Minnesota who were fatally shot by police officers.
"Without any foundation, he talked about racism and disparate treatment and people of color -- all this nonsense," the sheriff continued. "Like I said, he's armed with powerful words and he uses those words irresponsibly. It fuels this sort of anger towards the American police officer. I wish he'd knock it off."
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Sheriff David Clarke runs as a 'little d' democrat and is mostly at odds with the super-libel 'new' Dems that run the city and county. The County Supervisor (Chris Abele - a multimillionaire limousine libel of the truest sense) even ran one of his lackeys against the Sheriff, with huge monetary backing, in the last election. Sheriff Clarke didn't raise a fraction of his competitor, yet still won handily.
Lot's of Roosevelt/Truman/ Kennedy dems left in the general Milwaukee population that still want real law and order. Most of the remaining Pubs and Libertarians in the county voted for him too. That's why he keeps getting elected.
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Clarke's in Milwaukee.
A reminder I should read the article before commenting. Sorry about that.
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Interesting guy and seems to be a no B.S. straight-shooter.
Clarke has been elected three times to the Sheriff's office as a Democrat, despite not belonging to any party. This has spurred criticism from the local Democratic Party.[5]Clarke explains his choice to run as a Democrat thusly on his website:
"Like me, most people question why the Office of Sheriff is a partisan election. I have never asked a person to vote for me because I run as a Democrat. I ask them to vote for me based on my 35-year commitment to keeping citizens safe. Most voters get it when it comes to public safety. There is no Democrat or Republican way to be a sheriff. The enemy is not the opposing party; the enemy is the criminal." Wiki.
NASSAU, Bahamas (CMC): The Bahamas government Friday urged nationals to exercise caution if they intend on travelling to the United States following the shooting deaths of five police officers in Dallas on Thursday night.
The US authorities said that seven other police officers were shot and wounded as the lone sniper shot at white police officers in retaliation for the deaths of black people by police officers in recent days.
In a statement, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it had taken note of the recent tensions in some American cities over shootings of young Black males by policemen.
"We wish to advise all Bahamians travelling to the US but especially to the affected cities to exercise appropriate caution generally. In particular young males are asked to exercise extreme caution in affected cities in their interactions with the police.
"Do not be confrontational and cooperate. If there is any issue please allow consular for the Bahamas to deal with the issues. Do not get involved in political or other demonstrations under any circumstances and avoid crowds," the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
It said that as the island commemorates its 43rd anniversary of political independence from Britain this weekend "many Bahamians will no doubt use the opportunity to travel, in particular to destinations in the United States.
"While it is prudent for travellers to conduct themselves in an orderly manner at all times, in light of recent episodes of involving police officers and young black men in the United States, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Immigration wishes to advise the Bahamian Public to exercise due care and attention especially when travelling to particular cities in the United States."
[Daily Caller] A prominent Black Lives Matter activist spent Friday afternoon proposing that the work of Dallas cop-killing sniper Micah Xavier Johnson is a conspiracy designed to make the Black Lives Matter movement look bad.
The activist, A prominent Black Lives Matter activist spent Friday afternoon proposing that the work of Dallas cop-killing sniper Micah Xavier Johnson is a conspiracy designed to make the Black Lives Matter movement look bad.
The activist, Johnetta Elzie, took to Twitter to announce her theories.
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Right Johnetta, the Dallas PD shot their own people to make the BLM 'movement' look bad.
What I resent is how quickly the 'press' has labeled the shooter an Army Veteran. That sounds orchestrated to me, but I am less willing to overlook these nuances nowadays.
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I thought the Mayor and Governor's "coming together" press appearance speeches were a bit nauseating. Thankfully, they did stop short of joining hands and softly chanting 'we shall overcome.'
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Washington (CNN) Civil rights activists, including members of protest groups like Black Lives Matter, will meet at the White House Thursday with President Barack Obama.
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Copying and pasting a comment that I made yesterday on an Instapundit comment thread:
Honestly, I wonder if a lot of the black rage expressed through BLM, and the black flash violence isn't displaced anger. Black Americans were so overjoyed with having Obama elected - hey, they had arrived, with one of their own in the White House, and it was gonna be all rock candy mountains and Skittles rainbows, they were gonna have their mortgages paid, and cellphones too, and all sorts of goodies from The Man's stash! - and instead, after eight years of Obama mis-administration, they are actually worse off then ever. The job situation is cr*ppy, even cr*ppier in underclass black urban communities, schools in the inner cities are even more appalling than before, gang violence is worse than ever ... and who are they going to blame for having fallen for the blandishments of the Dem machine and a sweet-talking con-man with a sharp pants-crease, now that they have been left high and dry? Nope - can't blame themselves for being gullible suckers. Gotta blame somebody.
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Hey if still blame all white America for something that happened 150 or 50 years ago, you can suck up this one snowflake. Broad brushing works both ways.
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What happened to the other suspects who were arrested? Were they part of the shooting? Did they shoot as well? Are they still in jug or were they released? If so, why?
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It looks like several of the initial arrestees were quickly determined innocent and released. AFAICT authorities are claiming Johnson was the only shooter, though there may have been some who knew of his intentions. (Of course I have come to adopt the policy that initial reports are full of errors and later ones are full of lies.)
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Well-said, #5 Mom!
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"The media are now agitators..."
Whaddaya mean "now," #17 Tennessee?
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The left always wants to relieve their glory days. Vietnam protest become Occupy Wallstreet. Civil Rights movement becomes BLM. Of course the original versions were valid and not political theater like the modern versions.
[Daily Caller] Iowa Rep. Steve King blamed President Barack Obama on Friday for the Dallas police officer ambush which left five officers dead and seven wounded.
King tweeted, "#DallasPoliceShooting has roots in first of anti-white/cop events illuminated by Obama...Officer Crowley. There were others."
#DallasPoliceShooting has roots in first of anti-white/cop events illuminated by Obama...Officer Crowley. There were others.
In 2009, Obama held a "beer summit" at the White House after Cambridge Police Sgt. James Crowly arrested Harvard University Professor for disorderly conduct. Crowly responded to a 911 call about a burglary in progress at Gates’ house.
In in the aftermath of the arrest, Obama said, "I don’t know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts, what role race played in that. But I think it’s fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry; number two, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home, and, number three, what I think we know separate and apart from this incident is that there’s a long history in this country of African Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately."
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Who sent the message to the MSM Ministry of Truth to exploit Zimmerman and other shotting cases* to heighten racial tension just before elections to 'get the vote out'?
* but bury the volume of murders, robberies, assaults and rapes committed by and within another community.
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Well, Champ has stoked the flames of racism ever since he took office. He seldom if ever knew what was going on before he took the lectern and started hectoring and lecturing us.
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In in the aftermath of the arrest, Obama said, "I don’t know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts, what role race played in that..."
Admits that he doesn't know all the facts but passes judgement against the white cop anyway. Then he has a beer. I guess that's why we call him the Champ.
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Jessee Jackson says Trump and the Republicans are to blame? Who to believe?
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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams on Friday said that the city would be making changes to its security plan for the Republican National Convention following the sniper killings of five police officers after a protest in Dallas.
Williams declined to discuss the changes in detail...The announcement also comes just 10 days before the city is set to host tens of thousands of dignitaries and rioters protesters.
The city has repeatedly fired back against accusations that it's not prepared, and news of police departments around the country backing out of sending [sic - this sentence was not completed in the source article. Police departments outside of CLE had planned to loan staff for the duration of the convention].
The Franklin County [Ohio] sheriff said Friday that it would not be sending any deputies to help with security.
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This is a lose-lose proposition for any law enforcement organizations or personnel. They'll be damned if they do their job and damned if they don't.
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The Akron Beacon Journal has an article reviewing police coverage in CLE from area departments, and also points out that extra security will be necessary in communities outside of CLE because hotels outside of CLE will be housing attendees to the RNC.
The U.S. Secret Service and the city of Cleveland have not answered Beacon Journal questions about whether security levels are sufficient, or below original estimates. Cleveland police and city officials have publicly said 500 local law enforcement and 2,700 visiting officers from across the state will handle security for 50,000 delegates, their families and media.
[Breitbart] Selin Gören, member of the "Linksjugend Solid," a far-left German youth organization, was reportedly sexually assaulted by a refugee on January 27. After an initial false report that she had been assaulted by "foreigners and Germans alike," she revised her story before taking to Facebook to apologise for any "racism" that might be caused by the revelation that her alleged assailant was a migrant.
In her post, Gören wrote:
But what truly makes me feel sorry, are the circumstances by which the sexist and boundary-crossing acts that were inflicted on me, make it so that you [the refugee] are beset by increasing and more aggressive racism.
Local police have a matching record of a woman in her age and location reporting a sexual assault.
Gören is a left-wing activist who regularly spoke for the far-left Linksjugend Solid party, a recognized daughter party of Die Linke, an established Germant progressive party. In 2007 and 2008, both parties were noted for their far-left extremism by the Verfassungsschutz, a German government agency which monitors potential threats to German democracy.
[Breitbart] After a pair of police-involved shootings of young black men, President Barack Obama is drawing attention to the disproportionate rate at which young black men get shot or killed after coming in contact with police, but the data in Democrat-run Chicago paints a more nuanced picture that dispels liberal politicians’ promises of quick fixes.
As the news of two police involved shootings knocked Hillary Clinton’s email troubles off the front pages, President Obama released a statement lamenting the shootings saying "all Americans should be troubled" by the separate incidents where police officers shot and killed young black men. Obama’s criticism of police came only hours before five Dallas officers were killed during a Black Lives Matter protest.
"To be concerned about these issues is not political correctness. It’s just being an American," Obama insisted. "And to recognize the reality that we got some tough history and we haven’t gotten through that history yet."
But the president seems to forget all about that "being an American" when it concerns the staggering murder rates of Chicago.
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Will Champ just not shut his pie hole and leave the stage? His 15 minutes of infamy are about over. His 8 years seems like 40. Where's the hook that pulls him off the stage?
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Your polling booth.
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22nd Amendment
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Shit-fingered Midas is looking for jury nulification. The cops in the LA case will walk if heard by a judge, just like they rightly are in Baltimore.
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Baton Rouge cop allegedly Tweeted something to the effect he was going to do a Ferguson on ... ni**er.
[Rush] The war on cops has now come to Dallas, Texas. The war on police has come to Dallas, Texas. Now, after the program yesterday I interviewed Heather Mac Donald for the next issue of the Limbaugh Letter. She has a book out. She's a scholar, Manhattan Institute, and a prolific writer. And her most recent book is: The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe. Not just the cops, but particularly the cops.
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – Iraqi Army officer, Captain Amin Shikhani, informed on Tuesday that the army successfully repulsed an ISIS attack west of Makhmur. Seven ISIS fighters were also killed in the retaliatory firing, Captain Amin further said.
Sharing details about the attack, Captain Amin in a statement issued to the media, said, “Today the Iraqi army forces repelled an ISIS attack near al-Karama village west of Makhmur.”
Shikhani added, “The international coalition aviation backed the army forces in the operation,” further adding, “The operation resulted in the death of seven ISIS militants, who were gunned down by the forces.”
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – A security source in Nineveh Province announced on Wednesday that ISIS has mobilized its members after unidentified men raised the Iraqi flag in the main market of the province in central Mosul.
According to information shared by the source, it was mentioned, “ISIS has mobilized its members this evening after unidentified men raised the Iraqi flag in the main market of the province in central Mosul,” further adding, “ISIS members arrested a number of street vendors on the back of the incident. The incident is considered to be the first of its kind since ISIS took control of the city.”
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – Denizens of Mosul in Nineveh Province drew a graffiti in Arabic on public buildings across the city, expressing their rejection towards ISIS, after the latter prevented the sell of mobile phone recharge cards in the city.
MP Abdel Rahman al-Louisi, in a statement, said, “Mosul denizens drew some Arabic graffiti on public buildings across the city, expressing theirs rejection of ISIS.”
“ISIS prevented the sale of mobile phone recharge cards in the city of a Mosul due to some residents collaborating with the central government’s security forces and international coalition,” he added.
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – A local source in Nineveh Province informed on Tuesday that ISIS has banned the citizens of Mosul from praying during Eid al-Fitr. The source further informed that even the markets of the city are devoid of any glitz and glamour of Eid.
Informing in details about the ban imposed by the ISIS, the source said, “Even though tomorrow is the first day of Eid, the ISIS however has imposed a ban on Eid al-Fitr prayers on Wednesday and informed all imams and preachers of the city about this cancellation order.”
“The residents were informed about this cancellation through Diwan al-Hisba,” the source added.
This is not for the first time that ISIS has imposed this ban on Eid al-Fitr prayers in Mosul as in 2015 as well the organization issued a ban against offering prayers on the first day of Eid al-Fitr, claiming it was not part of the religion they practiced.
Moreover, in 2015, the ultra-radical group had banned the performing of Taraweeh prayers and it said that there was nothing religious about the prayers and that it were just a ‘fad’ invented by the Saudi clerics.
It may be mentioned here that since the ISIS takeover of Mosul in 2014, the organization has been imposing new rules and regulations, backed by strict punishments that include threat of death for the offenders.
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(IraqiNews.com) Kirkuk – A source from Kirkuk Province informed that joint security forces arrested eight ISIS members and recovered a cache of explosives and an explosive belt from their possession. The arrest was made towards southeast of the province.
Revealing details, the source informed, “A team of from Kirkuk police and Asayish on Tuesday arrested eight ISIS members in Binga Ali southeast of Kirkuk. The security forces also seized a taxi, two motorcycles, an explosive belt, two chlorine containers, a number of hand grenades and a gun.”
Adding further the source said, “The militants were planning to carry out subersive activities across Kirkuk.”
(IraqiNews.com) Kirkuk – A security source in Kirkuk Province stated, that air strikes southwest of Kirkuk have left with 27 casualties to ISIS.
According to information shared by the source, it was stated, “Today, a number of warplanes targeted ISIS’ legal court and Diwan al-Hisba in the center of Hawija district, killing 14 ISIS members and wounding 13 others.”
The source added, “The air strike was conducted in coordination with the intelligence services that located the ISIS members.”
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(IraqiNews.com) Diyala – An source from the National Security Service in Diyala Province revealed about seizing an explosive belt in an under construction house southwest of Baqubah.
According to information shared by the source, it was stated, “A special team of the National Security Service in coordination with Diyala Police this morning seized an explosion-ready explosive belt from inside an under construction house near Beni Saad (20 km southwest of Baqubah). The belt was dismantled and a suspect was arrested.”
The source added, “The operation was carried out based on accurate intelligence information.”
(IraqiNews.com) Diyala – A security source in Diyala Province revealed, that five persons, wanted on charges of terrorism, were arrested from several areas of the province.
According to information shared by the source, it was mentioned, “Detachments of the National Security Service and Diyala police carried out a number of raids in several areas of the province, including Baqubah, in the last few hours. During the raids five persons wanted on charges of terrorism were arrested.”
The source added, “Some of the arrested persons were members of several armed groups including ISIS.”
(IraqiNews.com) Diyala – The administration of Diyala province announced canceling Eid al-Fitr celebrations in solidarity with the victims of al-Karrada bombing that shook Baghdad on Sunday.
The Governor of Diyala Muthana al-Tamimi, in a statement issued to the media, said, “The administration of Diyala province decided to cancel the celebration of Eid al-Fitr in solidarity with the victims of al-Karrada massacre in the capital Baghdad, which claimed the lives of hundreds of innocent people.”i
Tamimi added, “Karrada massacre is a repetition of the bloody massacres that struck Diyala in the last months and resulted in about 1000 casualties.”
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(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – The commander of al-Jazeera Operations, Major General Qassim al-Mohamadi, stated that a weapons cache belonging to ISIS was destroyed and four terrorists were killed in a coalition air strike west of Ramadi.
Mohamadi said “The international coalition air force destroyed a weapons cache and a mortar detachment and killed 4 ISIS members in al-Dolab area west of Heet (70 km west of Ramadi).”
Security forces and tribal fighters presently control the Heet District after liberating it from ISIS occupation 2 months ago.
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – Anbar Operations Command informed that 76 ISIS members have been killed in the liberation battles of Zankoura northwest of Ramadi.
The commander of Anbar Operations Major General Ismail al-Mahalawi, in a statement issued to the media, said, “76 ISIS members have been killed during the liberation battles of Zankoura, northwest of Ramadi. The terrorists were killed by the security forces backed by the international coalition aviation, Iraqi Air Force and Army Aviation.”
(IraqiNews.com) Babel – Babel Operations Command announced that its borders along Anbar Province have been completely secured.
Commander of Babel Operations Major General Riyad al-Khikani in a press statement, said, “The borders between babel and Anbar towards al-Fadiliya have been completely secured,”
“The border has been reinforced with troops of the Commando Regiment and Federal Police, as well as members of al-Hashd al-Shaabi,” he added.
Khikani further said, “Security forces are controlling the area and conducted military operations in the last two months, which resulted in the arrest of eight persons. The arrested individuals were charged of terrorism.”
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – The commander of Anbar Operations Major General Ismail al-Mahalawi announced, that military operation to liberate Zankoura north of Ramadi has been launched. The operation is backed by the international coalition aviation.
Mahalawi, in a press statement, said, “This morning, troops of the army’s 16th brigade, Anbar Police Tactical regiment and the anti-terrorism forces began an operation to liberate Zankoura north of Ramadi from the ISIS control.”
“The operation is being backed by the international coalition aviation and Iraqi Army Aviation,” Mahalawi added.
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(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad ‐ The Iraqi Ministry of Oil announced that crude oil exports in the first half of the year 2016 reached 592 million barrels and that 34 international companies purchased Iraqi crude oil.
A report issued by the Ministry of Oil stated that "The total oil exports in the first half of 2016 reached 592 million and 56 thousand barrels and the monthly export rate reached 98 million and 76 thousand barrels."
The report added, "The returns of crude oil sales reached $17.7 billion US dollars."
The report also indicated that 34 global and multinational companies have purchased Iraqi crude oil.
[AlAhram] Turkish authorities have detained six more suspected members 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.... (IS) Death Eater group suspected of involvement in last week's deadly suicide and gun attacks against Istanbul's main airport, a report said Friday.
The six, all foreigners, were detained Thursday in a police raid on a house in the Basaksehir district of Istanbul on the European side of the city, the Dogan news agency reported. Their nationalities were not specified.
They would appear before a judge in an initial hearing later on Friday, it added, without giving further details.
According to Turkish media, 30 suspects including 14 foreigners have been remanded in jug on charges of involvement in the attack on June 28. The figure does not include the latest six detentions.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has blamed IS group for the June 28 gun and triple suicide kaboom at Ataturk international airport. According to Transport Minister Ahmet Arslan, 47 Turkish and foreign citizens were killed.
Authorities have said that a number of citizens of ex-USSR republics are among the suspects, raising concerns over the threat to Turkey from Islamist militancy in the Central Asia and the Northern Caucasus.
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[DAWN] German authorities have jugged ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... a Pak man accused of spying for Iran on the former head of a group that promotes German-Israeli relations.
Federal prosecutors said Thursday that the 31-year-old, identified only as Syed Mustufa H. in keeping with German privacy rules, was arrested on Tuesday in the northern city of Bremen.
They said in a statement that he was "in contact with an intelligence unit attributed to Iran," without elaborating. He is alleged to have spied on the former head of the German-Israeli Society and people close to him, among others, and handed over information to Iran in October.
The ex-head of the German-Israeli group, former politician Reinhold Robbe, told the Bild newspaper that he wasn't surprised by the alleged espionage and he "will not be intimidated."
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As Rantburg slowly returns to normal we will see bugs crop up from time to time. We will also see miscreants and spammers, and all sorts of various bad elements, and for those we request the regulars' help.
At the moment the o-club is open, but onlythrough the main page, and o-club.org name. If you have complaints about anything amiss we request you make note of them there, as they will get our attention first.
And as long as I am writing this, no TWIG this week. Too much crap being flung about to gain any sort of perspective on firearms. TWIG will return next week at its regularly scheduled time.
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday denied reports of an attempt on his life in Kenya during his African tour this week.
Netanyahu said he knew "nothing" of an liquidation attempt and said he was learning about it for the first time during a presser with Æthiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn in Addis Ababa.
"The answer is we know nothing about it because there is nothing in it," Netanyahu said.
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If there was something in it, then we'll, yes you there from the Nairobi Trio, have you a question?
Thank you Mister Prime Minister, what about the roumors?
What roumors?
The roumors about Niagara Falls sir!
Niagara Falls? Niagara Falls?
Slowly I turned...
[AnNahar] Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi sacked the head of the Baghdad security command and other brass hats after a bombing in the capital killed 292 people, his office said on Friday.
Abadi issued "an order to relieve the Baghdad Operations commander of his position," as well as removing officials responsible for intelligence and security in the capital, a statement said.
The head of the Baghdad Operations Command was Lieutenant General Abdulamir al-Shimmari.
An official in Abadi's office said the others removed were the head of interior ministry intelligence for Baghdad and the official responsible for the capital in the national security adviser's office.
Iraq's interior minister tendered his resignation after the bombing, one of the deadliest to ever hit Iraq, but the Friday statement was the first announcing that officials were fired following the attack.
A jacket wallah detonated an explosives-laden minibus in a Baghdad shopping district early on Sunday as it teemed with people ahead of the holiday marking the end of the holy Moslem fasting month of Ramadan.
The blast, which was claimed by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... jihadist group, killed 292 people.
Authorities are still working to identify those killed in the attack, but Health Minister Adila Hamoud said on Thursday that the identities of 177 bodies had yet to be determined.
The initial blast killed a limited number of people, but raging flames spread and trapped people inside shopping centers at the site that lacked emergency exits, police Major General Talib Khalil Rahi said.
Interior Minister Mohammed Ghabban submitted his resignation following the bombing, and authorities also announced new security measures, the execution of five convicts and the arrest of 40 jihadists in an apparent bid to limit the fallout from the attack.
Ghabban criticized the security system as fundamentally flawed, saying he could no longer accept responsibility for the consequences and calling for a series of changes that would ultimately increase the ministry's power.
An official in Abadi's office told AFP on Wednesday that the premier had accepted the minister's resignation, though there has been no official statement from him on the matter.
BRISTOL, Tenn. - The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has released the name of the suspect behind Thursday morning's random shooting in Bristol, TN that claimed the life of an area newspaper carrier and injured three others, including a local police officer.
The TBI says 37-year-old Lakeem Keon Scott was armed with at least two weapons, an automatic-style rifle,
Likely not an automatic, but semi-automatic, and a reporter even in Tennessee doesn't know the difference...
a pistol and a large amount of ammunition, reports CBS statation WJHL in Tennessee.
Preliminary findings indicate Scott may have targeted people and officers after being troubled by recent events involving African-Americans and law enforcement officers in other parts of the country.
Investigators spoke with Scott Friday morning.
Did they speak to him in a Turkish way with mustache wax and truncheons, or did they speak to him in a RAB way, in which we'll be reading about him tomorrow in a banana grove cotton field?
Agents say "the work to develop a thorough understanding of his motivation for this incident remains central to the ongoing investigative work."
The Federal Bureau of Investigation, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Sullivan County Sheriff's Office, and Bristol Tennessee Police Department are also assisting the TBI with this case.
Is the FBI there to help or to ensure that the crime is classified "correctly"?
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The Police Officers are genuine heroes - when ambushed, even though one was wounded, they fought back and fought back until the killer was shot down. Enough of the "gentle giant" reporting - this man killed an innocent lady, wounded two more entirely innocent folks and attacked law enforcement officers responding to protect the innocent. The facts are - this killer targeted white victims in order to provoke a police response in order to ambush them upon their arrival.
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Thefacts are - this killer targeted white victims in order to provoke a police response in order to ambush them upon their arrival.
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Which is referred to in Iraq and AFG as a 'complex attack' .... for what it's worth.
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I live about an hour from where the shootings took place. As fire as the local news stories go the style of rifle has not been released. This is speculation on the part of this "reporter".
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It was an AR style rifle and he was carrying lots of ammo.
Wouldn't this be fun to watch? Ms. Stein and Mr. Sanders could run as a ticket in either order.
If I were Mr. Trump and I truly had the money he's supposed to have, I'd be sending an aide with a large suitcase of money to Mr. Sanders and Ms. Stein, asking them to run and telling them there'd be more of where this came from...
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Wow wouldn't that be a Socialist Totalitarian Dream (STD).
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I intend to vote for Ms. Stein and yes I know and I don't give a damn. Screech RINO for the next few years, the party must be pure. Pearl Schine as it were.
Israel will lend its counter-terrorism expertise to Kenya by helping the African country build a security wall along its border with Somalia, the UK’s The Times reported on Thursday.
Nairobi is seeking assistance from the Jewish state to construct a 440-mile barricade to prevent Somali terrorists from infiltrating the country. Israel itself is in the process of building a security fence along its southern border with Jordan — expanding the fence located alongside the Sinai peninsula — and has plans to build a massive concrete wall that extends underground, to prevent terrorists from the Gaza Strip from infiltrating the country through tunnels.
The news comes amid Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s diplomatic flurry in Africa this week, which included a stop in Kenya on Tuesday.
Following a meeting with Netanyahu, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta stated, “Kenya and Israel, just like other nations in the world, are facing the challenges of terrorism and today was a great opportunity to discuss ways of dealing with the issues.”
Both leaders agreed to strengthen their intelligence cooperation, with Israel offering to share tactics it has developed to detect terror attacks in the early stages of their planning.
“If you know in advance that an attack is going to happen and can preempt it, it saves lives,” Netanyahu said. “Israel is doing this and we will share intelligence with Kenya and Africa.”
The Israeli prime minister warned that terror groups across Africa — such as ISIS and its Nigerian affiliate, Boko Haram — are gaining strength and pose a major threat not only to Africa, but to the entire world. “There is a raging crisis of terrorism,” he said. “Where Israel can help, we will.”
Over the past several years, Kenya has been victim to a spate of attacks by Somali terrorists, particularly jihadists from the Islamist Al-Shabaab group.
Kenyan officials are not the only world leaders looking to the Jewish state as an example. In February, when presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump declared that he would build a wall along the US-Mexico border, he told reporters, “You could ask Israel about walls that work.”
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Militants of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorist group fired upon a military unit in Turkey’s southeastern province of Hakkari, the Haber7 newspaper reported July 8. There are no casualties as a result of the attack.
Turkey started a large-scale operation against the PKK after the attack, according to the newspaper.
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Venezuela’s El Tiempo (link in Spanish) reports that Joe Kennedy met last Friday with Nicolás Maduro and VP Delcy Rodríguez.
Apparently Joe went to canvass for more free oil for his JOE-4-Oil Citizens Energy Corporation which used to provide free heating oil to Boston-area residents under an arrangement signed by the late Hugo Chávez.
The article does not say the result of the JOE-4-Oil/Maduro meeting. Venezuela’s oil production has been plummeting to the point that the country can not pay its drillers. More at the link
Global oil prices dropped over the week, losing sight of the key $50 dollar level, as worries about a supply glut and weak economic growth took oil to two-month lows.
Oil enjoyed a modest recovery on July 8 as bargain-hunters swooped in after prices tanked the previous day in response to U.S. commercial inventories falling by less than expected, indicating softer demand in the world’s top oil-consuming economy.
A surprisingly strong jobs report from the U.S. strongly lifted stock markets, but gave oil only a modest boost.
The U.S. benchmark West Texas Intermediate and Brent both gained around one percent on the day, trading at $45.59 and $46.85, respectively, in the late European afternoon on July 8. This, however, barely made a dent in the week’s decline, which took oil by around six percent lower from its level of over $50 a week ago.
World markets are still grappling with the aftermath of Britain’s EU exit vote and its impact on the world economy. Economic weakness translates into less demand for oil. Following the shock vote, the dollar rose, making oil more expensive for countries paying in other currencies.
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As much as it may suck for the Saudis (see my sad face!), cheap energy is a good thing. We forget how much the market price has been jacked up by OPEC.
[DAWN] As a Swiss law banning burqas came into effect in Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... 's Ticino region on Friday, enforcing a fine of over $11,000 for those who violate the law, a Moslem convert and a businessman protesting the ban were fined, The Independent reported.
The controversial law, which was voted in by a referendum, outlaws face-covering headgear.
Nora Illi and Rachid Nekkaz, prominent Moslem-rights campaigners, walked in the streets of Locarno in burqas after the rule was introduced.
Police stopped Nekkaz, a French-Algerian national, and Illi, a convert from Zurich, and fined them over $230 and $9,900 respectively.
Local government officials, while Nekkaz and Illi protested, collected signatures calling for a nationwide ban on the burqa.
The law, which originated as a people's initiative, received 65 per cent of the vote in Ticino in 2013, where the majority of the population are Roman Catholic. The law was approved by the local government in November after a parliament ruling stated that it did not contradict Swiss federal law.
Georgio Ghiringhelli, who proposed the law, said the ruling would send a message to "Islamic fundamentalists" in the country.
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[IsraelTimes] Blast that severely injured IDF officer in May was triggered by cellphone; Shin Bet finds 59 additional bombs
Three Paleostinian dentists, a nurse and one other man were tossed in the slammer Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! for allegedly carrying out a pipe kaboom that seriously injured an IDF officer at the entrance to the Paleostinian village of Hizme last month, the Shin Bet security service revealed Sunday.
On the night of May 10 -- just after the start of Israel’s Memorial Day -- the Israeli patrol was struck by an improvised bomb, composed of four pipe bombs, which exploded next to Lt. Shachar Roditi’s face, severely wounding him.
The five terror cell members were arrested in the days following the attack, the Shin Bet said, but details of the case were kept under a gag order until Sunday.
Dr. Samer Mahmoud Daoud al-Halabiyeh, a dentist from Abu Dis outside of Jerusalem, is believed to be the operation’s ringleader, who both placed and detonated the pipe bombs that hit Roditi.
During their investigation, Israeli forces also uncovered 59 additional bombs that were allegedly created in order to carry out future attacks, the Shin Bet said.
Halabiyeh, 36, told interrogators he began planning the attack in February because of the "desecration of Al-Aqsa and the Paleostinian children injured by Israel," the Shin Bet says in a statement.
Along with Halabiyeh, who is believed to have set off the bomb with his cellphone, the Shin Bet and the army’s undercover Duvdevan Unit arrested four other Paleostinians who are suspected of having helped Halabiyeh in his attack and during its aftermath, the security service says.
His brother, Dr. Daoud Shehadeh Mahmoud al-Halabiyeh, and his cousin Shadi Muhammad Ahmad Muhsen were arrested for allegedly bringing the IEDs used in the attack from Halabiyeh’s dental practice, the Shin Bet said.
Halabiyeh’s 64-year-old father, Mahmoud Aauod Shehadeh al-Halabiyeh, who works as a nurse in a local hospital, was also arrested on suspicion that he tried to remove evidence from the clinic, the security service said.
Dr. D’jana Faiz Jamil Nab’han, 36, from the Qalandiya refugee camp was also arrested for assisting Halabiyeh in his crime, though the Shin Bet did not elaborate on his role.
Israeli forces also recovered dozens of other bombs from Halabiyeh’s dental practice, which they believe were going to be used in future attacks.
Fifty-six small pipe bombs, two Molotov cocktails and a large U-shaped pipe bomb were discovered in the clinic. Some were already prepared with fuses and one was connected to a cellphone, the Shin Bet said.
"According to the assessments of professionals, these were bombs that were potentially lethal," the service said in a statement.
Lt. Roditi suffered severe wounds to the face and upper body as a result of the attack. Doctors from Jerusalem’s Hadassah Hospital operated on the young officer for over 12 hours after the attack to remove shrapnel and repair some of the damage caused by the blast.
Roditi left the hospital on May 23 to recover at home.
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Could be a perfectly valid reason for all them bombs. Maybe the Paleos fail to floss properly.
Seen Paleos from the Plaque Mines Perish
On a vaycay to NOLA, Tovarish
Through the French Quarter they strolled
And were ever too bold
In their quest for their chocolate fetish.
[IsraelTimes] Investigation follows Justice Department announcement that it won’t bring criminal charges over unsecured private email server
The State Department is reopening an internal investigation of possible mishandling of classified information by Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as The Heroine of Tuzla and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another George C. Marshall ... and top aides, officials told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named on Thursday.
Although the former secretary of state’s closest confidants have left the agency, they could still face punishment. The most serious is the loss of security clearances, which could complicate her aides’ hopes of securing top positions on her national security team if she becomes president.
The State Department started its review in January after declaring 22 emails from Clinton’s private server to be "top secret." It was suspended in April so as not to interfere with the FBI’s inquiry. State Department front man John Kirby said the probe is restarting after the Justice Department’s announcement Wednesday that it won’t bring any criminal charges.
"We will aim to be as expeditious as possible, but we will not put artificial deadlines on the process," Kirby said. "Our goal will be to be as transparent as possible about our results, while complying with our various legal obligations."
Kirby wouldn’t say anything more about the precise information officials are evaluating. But when the probe was launched almost six months ago, officials said it pertained particularly to a set of emails that were upgraded to one of the nation’s highest classification levels. One question they said they were investigating was whether any of the emails were classified at the time of transmission.
Additionally Thursday, Republican politicians said they would now ask the FBI to investigate whether Clinton lied to the committee. That announcement came in a testy hearing with FBI Director James Comey, who defended the government’s decision not to prosecute Clinton over her private email setup.
Clinton was secretary of state until early 2013. Most of her top advisers left shortly thereafter.
But Kirby said this week former officials can still face punishment. Options range from counseling and warnings to the revocation of an individual’s security clearance.
Beyond the Democratic front-runner, the probe will most likely examine confidants Cheryl Mills, Jake Sullivan and Huma Abedin -- who wrote many of the emails to their boss that the various investigations have focused on. Mills, Clinton’s chief of staff at the State Department, has been viewed as a possibility for the same job in the White House. There is speculation that Sullivan, Clinton’s former policy chief, could be national security adviser.
"There could be repercussions," Kirby told news hounds Wednesday, saying infractions identified would be kept on file. If someone’s security clearance is taken away, he said it would have an effect "assuming that individual still needed the clearance to work in another federal agency or something like that."
The State Department says it won’t identify former officials that still hold security clearances. But in an email Fox News made public earlier this year, the department described Mills as still holding a valid clearance.
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At a recent meeting of government officials whose task was to determine the most inept Government bureaucracy, the State Department representative and the FBI rep got into a fistfight.
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] The Pentagon said that ISIS Takfiir group is posing a growing threat to the United States by deploying small commercial drones armed with improvised explosives devices or spy cameras that can evade detection.
The threat led the Defense Department office charged with monitoring and countering improvised bombs to ask that Congress approve shifting $20 million to provide seed money for a counter-drone effort.
The funds would bankroll moves to "identify, acquire, integrate and conduct testing" of technologies that would "counter the effects of unmanned aerial systems and the threats they pose to US forces," according to a budget document sent to Congress last week.
It was part of a request for approval to shift $2.5 billion in defense funds approved for this year from other purposes to reflect changing needs.
In the fight against ISIS, "small and tactical unmanned aerial systems" equipped with improvised bombs, or IEDs, "pose a direct threat to US and coalition forces," according to the budget document.
"Just days after the Iraqi forces began occupying Makhmour in Ninevah Province, a video surfaced" on an ISIS web site "showing forces on the ground there, demonstrating they were using the footage in both reconnaissance and propaganda roles," Army Colonel Chris Garver, the Defense Department’s top front man in Iraq, said in an e-mail.
The Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Agency, the Pentagon office that has worked to combat improvised bombs since the 2003 Iraq war, has seen ISIS fly "quadcopters and fixed-wing type drones you can buy commercially" as "both an IED delivery system and for reconnaissance," its front man, David Small, said in an e-mail.
The commercial drones used by ISIS have weighed about 50 pounds or less, he said. He didn’t provide details on the number of attacks or resulting casualties.
In addition to using drones with full-motion video to look for attack opportunities and to monitor Iraqi Security Forces, Small said the pilotless aircraft are being used to provide target information for vehicles carrying suicide bombs.
Small said "there is a wide array of technology angles we are looking into" to defeat the drones that would be deployed within two years, if not sooner.
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I gotta drone with a camera and I think it might loft an M-80. Course range not much more than the pool four houses down.
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ya know, for $20 mil, you could hire a bunch of them outa work coal miners and their squirrel guns for some drone plinkin'
and get better/faster results
jus' sayin'
[AnNahar] Which Republican is most likely to impede Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as America's Blond Eminence and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Tallyrand ... 's race to the White House? Most would say Donald Trump, but FBI director James Comey could be the surprise obstacle on her path to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Comey, a former federal prosecutor and ex-deputy attorney general, on Tuesday offered a damning assessment of her email practices during her time at the State Department -- but did not recommend she face criminal charges.
In an explosive -- and surprise -- 15-minute speech, the towering Comey -- he stands 6'8" (two meters) tall -- gave Clinton a dressing down that is sure to reverberate until voters head to the polls in November to choose President Barack Obama That’s just how white folks will do you.... 's successor.
He reiterated those views before a congressional committee on Thursday, facing a grilling over his impartiality but remaining unflappable under pressure, and insisting the FBI's conclusions were sound.
Of course, by saying Clinton was not criminally liable, Comey did not deal a death blow to her White House hopes. But the former first lady now will face difficult questions on the campaign trail for months until election day on November 8.
It will not be easy to erase the words uttered by Comey about Clinton -- his labeling of her as "extremely careless" will certainly be used in countless Trump attack ads.
Some experts even suggest the fallout could haunt her all the way to the Oval Office if she wins the presidency.
Comey said while there was no firm evidence that Clinton's email was successfully hacked, he also said he could not rule it out, and that sophisticated cyber criminals would not have left any trace.
On Thursday, he said Clinton "should have known not to send classified information." He also blasted the State Department as having a lax security culture under her leadership.
Only time will tell how Comey's words will affect Clinton's drive for the presidency.
- Straight shooter -
Comey, who has been in his position at the Federal Bureau of Investigation since September 2013, stole the spotlight from Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who could only announce Wednesday that she was following his recommendations.
Lynch sparked controversy last week when she met Clinton's husband, former president Bill Clinton ...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of is... , on the tarmac at the Phoenix airport -- a chat that left Republicans crying foul.
The year-long probe and its unusual conclusion have reinforced the view of Comey as a straight shooter, ready to take the heat from all sides in sticky situations.
Democrats are mad at how he painted Clinton in his assessment, and surprised at how much details he offered in a process that is usually kept secret.
Republicans are angry that she will not be charged, saying it defies logic given the errors that were made.
But Comey is a smooth operator with tons of experience in government.
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For three decades, Comey has circulated in political and legal circles at the highest level, giving him the confidence to sometimes anger the country's justice department, and even the White House.
In the wake of the 2014 fatal police shooting of unarmed black teen Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, Comey raised hackles by supporting cops who were wary of fulfilling their duties, for fear of their actions being caught on video.
Many top US government careers begin in New York, and Comey is no exception -- he hails from the Manhattan suburbs. He cut his teeth as a federal prosecutor in New York and the Washington area.
In 2003, he became deputy attorney general.
The following year, he faced one of his toughest showdowns, cementing his reputation for being independent and unafraid.
Comey had become acting attorney general due to the illness of his boss John Ashcroft.
At Ashcroft's bedside, the presidential counsel to George W. Bush, Alberto Gonzales, was trying to persuade him to reauthorize a controversial warrantless eavesdropping program.
Comey -- who was against extending the program -- later revealed the incident to senators, unleashing a political firestorm.
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What Mr West said is correct but she should be in jail.
If she was indicted then the facts would be part of a formal law proceeding and no one could talk about them and it would have been drawn out past November.
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Heh. The Stupid Wing of the UniParty has been given lots of ammunition to hammer her with till the election, but as usual they'd rather play the Washington Generals in the game (its really war by other means).
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I hope he has buried the evil witches chances; there's hope and change I can believe in. However, Comey usurped the rule of law, the prosecutor's role, and the jury's decision to determine intent by electing to not just turn over the evidence to the DOJ. He probably knew that the DOJ is so politicized that they would never prosecute Hilda.
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Not enough to beat the margin of corruption come November
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I find this article interesting because it appeared in An Nahar, a Lebanese news source, picked up from the Agence France Presse news feed. In the midst of the roaring against Donald Trump occurring beyond our shores, a major news purveyor has started to openly challenge the idea of Hillary Clinton.
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She had some very harsh words for Comey but I can't find the link.
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Trump is spending no money but collecting money all the time. Clinton has a high burn rate to just keep the poll numbers close. Seems to me that sort of thing favors Trump.
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] The Syrian army launched a rocketry and artillery attack against the terrorist groups in Sabna and Rankous barrens in Qalamoun in Damascus countryside, killing or injuring many of them and destroying a number of their vehicles.
A Syrian army unit foiled an attack by ISIL terrorists on a number of military posts in Homs eastern countryside, according to SANA which added that in the neighboring Hama province, an army unit targeted gatherings and movements of ISIL terrorists near Aqareb dam in the eastern countryside.
In Aleppo northern countryside, the Syrian army and allies continued pressing the terrorists on Castello road in preparation for regaining control over it.
The Syrian army and allies had controlled militarily the only supply route to the terrorists.
Al-Manar correspondent reported that the terrorists exchanged accusations on the responsibility of their defeat, circulating rumors about their field progress in the city.
Al-Manar refuted their claims by shooting Ramousa strategic highway which the terrorists had alleged that they controlled.
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Turkish authorities detained 1,410 people trying to enter Turkey from Syria on July 7, the Turkish military said July 8.
In a statement posted on its official website, the Turkish General Staff said six other people, who were trying to cross to Syria from Turkey, were also detained. A vehicle, 11 mobile phones, two battery chargers, 10 identity cards, 3,050 dollars and 95,500 Syrian liras were seized, the statement also said.
Meanwhile, three people trying to illegally enter Turkey from Greece were also detained, according to the army.
Also on July 7, Turkey began legal proceedings against 164 people who did not fulfill legal requirements to enter the country, the statement added.
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[IsraelTimes] In crackdown on West Bank residents entering Israel illegally, Southern District Police shutters factories, confiscates vehicles
Israel Police officers from the Southern District have tossed in the calaboose Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! hundreds of Paleostinians who entered the country without legal work permits since the beginning of the year, according to new figures released Wednesday.
Police have also detained dozens of Israeli employers who hired the workers, and temporarily shuttered two factories in the south.
In light of the ongoing spate of terror attacks that have struck Israel over the past nine months, police have been cracking down on West Bank Paleostinians sneaking into Israel to work without the requisite permits, as a number of attacks have been carried out by such individuals.
"This action presents a meaningful component in thwarting terror attacks," the police said in a statement.
Since January, officers in the Southern District have arrested approximately 500 Paleostinians, along with 25 employers and 35 Israeli nationals who transported them, the department said.
Officers in the rest of the country have arrested hundreds more. In March, the Israel Police said its officers had detained some 1,200 Paleostinians who had entered Israel illegally over the course of five months.
"Indictments have been filed against the majority of the [Paleostinians] -- more than 90 percent -- for crimes related to entering Israel," the police said.
In addition, 33 vehicles have been impounded and two factories -- a chicken processing facility in Segev Shalom and a concrete block manufacturer in Tel Sheva -- were shut down for 30 days in a punitive measure under an amended law passed earlier this year that allows for harsher punishments to be meted out to those who help people enter Israel illegally.
"The decision to close a factory is serious, dramatic and grave. On the one hand, there is the growing involvement of Paleostinians who enter Israel illegally in dangerous terrorist activities that endanger public safety, while on the other hand there is the economic damage of shutting a plant that employs workers on a daily basis," police said.
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two factories -- a chicken processing facility in Segev Shalom and a concrete block manufacturer in Tel Sheva -- were shut down for 30 days in a punitive measure under an amended law passed earlier this year that allows for harsher punishments to be meted out to those who help people enter Israel illegally
The advertisement on the Telegram app is as chilling as it is incongruous: A girl for sale is "Virgin. Beautiful. 12 years old.... Her price has reached $12,500 and she will be sold soon."
The posting in Arabic appeared on an encrypted conversation along with ads for kittens, weapons and tactical gear. It was shared with The Associated Press by an activist with the minority Yazidi community, whose women and children are being held as sex slaves by the extremists.
While Daesh is losing territory in its self-styled caliphate, it is tightening its grip on the estimated 3,000 women and girls held as sex slaves. In a fusion of ancient barbaric practices and modern technology, Daesh sells the women like chattel on smart phone apps and shares databases that contain their photographs and the names of their "owners" to prevent their escape through Daesh checkpoints. The fighters are assassinating smugglers who rescue the captives, just as funds to buy the women out of slavery are drying up.
The thousands of Yazidi women and children were taken prisoner in August 2014, when Daesh fighters overran their villages in northern Iraq with the aim to eliminate the Kurdish-speaking minority because of its ancient faith. Since then, Arab and Kurdish smugglers managed to free an average of 134 people a month. But by May, a Daesh crackdown reduced those numbers to just 39 in the last six weeks, according to figures provided by the Kurdistan regional government.
Mirza Danai, founder of the German-Iraqi aid organization Luftbrucke Irak, said in the last two or three months, escape has become more difficult and dangerous.
"They register every slave, every person under their owner, and therefore if she escapes, every Daesh control or checkpoint, or security force - they know that this girl ... has escaped from this owner," he said, using the Arabic acronym for the group.
US State Department spokesman John Kirby told the AP that the US continues "to be appalled by credible reports that Daesh is trafficking in human beings, and sex slavery in particular."
"This depravity not only speaks to the degree to which Daesh cheapens life and repudiates the Islamic faith, it also strengthens our resolve to defeat them," he said.
The AP has obtained a batch of 48 head shots of the captives, smuggled out of the Daesh-controlled region by an escapee, which people familiar with them say are similar to those in the extremists' slave database and the smartphone apps.
Lamiya Aji Bashar tried to flee four times before finally escaping in March, racing to government-controlled territory with Daesh fighters in pursuit. A land mine exploded, killing her companions, 8-year-old Almas and Katherine, 20. She never learned their last names.
The explosion left Lamiya blind in her right eye, her face scarred by melted skin. Saved by the man who smuggled her out, she counts herself among the lucky.
"I managed in the end, thanks to God, I managed to get away from those infidels," the 18-year-told the AP from a bed at her uncle's home in the northern Iraqi town of Baadre. "Even if I had lost both eyes, it would have been worth it, because I have survived them."
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[AlAhram] A child was among at least 15 civilians killed in air strikes on a rebel-held town in northwestern Syria on Friday, a monitoring group said.
Around 40 people were also maimed in the strikes on the town of Darkush, near the Turkish border, which is held by Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front and allied rebel groups, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The Britannia-based monitor had no immediate word on who carried out the strikes but said it was likely to have been either the Syrian government or its ally Russia, rather than the US-led coalition.
[AlAhram] Six people were killed on Friday when a jacket wallahwent kaboom! at a mosque in Damboa, northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... , the army said, in the latest violence to hit the restive region.
Nigerian Army front man Colonel Sani Usman said the attack happened at about 5:15 am (0415 GMT) in the town of Damboa, some 90 kilometres (56 miles) southwest of the Borno state capital, Maiduguri.
He blamed the attack on "two Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... terrorists".
"The first suicide bomber targeted Damboa Central Mosque but due to stringent security measures he could not gain entry. Obviously frustrated, he went kaboom! and died near the central mosque," he added.
"However, the man who has no enemies isn't anybody and has never done anything... the second bomber veered off and gained entry into another smaller mosque and detonated the bomb, killing himself and six other worshippers and injuring one other person.
"The maimed have been evacuated to a hospital while efforts are on to clear the rubble. Troops and other security agencies have been mobilised to the area."
The attack is the latest against a mosque in northeast Nigeria and the wider Lake Chad region, as part of a campaign of violence by the Islamist group against civilian "soft" targets.
On June 27, two would-be suicide bombers were killed in Maiduguri, as they tried to target an overnight Ramadan vigil at a mosque on the Damboa Road.
Three days later, at least 10 people were killed in the town of Djakana, in northern Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... near the Nigerian border, when a suicide bomber went kaboom!.
On July 4, the Nigerian Army said it thwarted an attempted suicide kaboom by three women against people displaced by Boko Haram in Monguno, northeast of Maiduguri.
There has been a relative lull in attacks, as troops regain control of territory once held by Boko Haram, whose fighters have been pushed into remote rural areas towards Lake Chad.
Usman said suspected Boko Haram fighters also attacked the village of Gaskeri, near the sprawling internally displaced people's camp at Dalori, outside Maiduguri, on Thursday night.
"They killed three civilian vigilantes and looted foodstuffs. Troops have been mobilised and they are on the suspected terrorists' trail," he added.
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Allan is pleased
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Was ever a labor as easeful
As keeping Mohammedans peaceful?
So swiftly they slaughter
And clean up their clutter,
You won't even have a Deepfreeze-ful.
I'm beginning to wonder how much longer before Fred tells us mods to put these stories into 'Home Front WoT'...
ROSWELL, Ga. — A gunman in a passing vehicle who opened fire on a police officer on patrol in Georgia will likely be charged with aggravated assault on the officer, authorities said Friday. A suspect was apprehended after a short car chase and is in custody.
Aggravated assault? Was there a reason why he couldn't be charged with attempted murder?
The shooting happened in Roswell, a city just north of Atlanta, early Friday, just hours after a sniper attack killed five police officers in Dallas, and officers were already on edge, Roswell Det. Zachary Frommer said. 2015 booking photo for Victor Alonzo Mejia Nunez.
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The 21-year-old suspect in the Georgia shooting was being questioned by detectives Friday. Police do not know the motive. Asked whether the shooting might be related to the Texas attacks, Frommer said, "Nothing right now says that it is or isn't."
"I know detectives have been talking to him, but I don't know how much he's talking," Frommer said.
Though he's been speaking with investigators, "his cooperation has been limited," police said in a midmorning update on the case.
The suspect fired multiple shots, but none hit Officer Brian McKenzie or his patrol car, Frommer said. McKenzie is white, police said. The suspect's race was not immediately clear.
McKenzie is a member of the agency's drunken driving task force and was on a routine patrol when he came under attack, police said. The officer didn't immediately know whether the shots were fireworks or gunshots but quickly realized that "gunshots were coming his way," Frommer said.
The officer then chased the blue Ford Explorer with a Georgia license plate, which traveled through a shopping center at one point before striking a curb and median and damaging one of its tires, Frommer said. The suspect was then taken into custody.
McKenzie "jumped right into action and did a great job chasing this guy down and catching him," Frommer said.
Investigators later determined the Explorer had been stolen, police said.
Charges will likely include aggravated assault on a police officer, methamphetamine possession, reckless driving and fleeing and eluding, along with charges relating to the stolen Explorer.
Roswell is about 20 miles north of Atlanta.
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Aggravated assault? Was there a reason why he couldn't be charged with attempted murder?
well, there's that intent thing...maybe he was just "recklessly careless"
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McKenzie "jumped right into action and did a great job chasing this guy down and catching him," Frommer said.
.....but failed to properly rid society of the miscreant. Now he must be fed and housed at taxpayer expense.
Catching up on what Breitbart reported while Rantburg was down. Click on the headline above to find links to the individual stories.
Dateline July 8:
Cologne Migrant Who Licked And Groped Girls Laughs As He Walks Out of Court a Free Man
The first migrant convicted of sex offences in Cologne on New Year’s Eve has received a suspended sentence and laughed at the court as he walked free. Six months after the mass sexual assaults in Cologne on New Year’s Eve, German courts
The Migrant Crisis Is Driving German Towns And Cities Into Debt
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Iraqi officials say the death toll from an attack on a shrine north of Baghdad has risen to 37 overnight, with 62 people wounded. Police and hospital officials confirmed the death tolls.
Police said on Friday the attack on the Sayyid Mohammed shrine in Balad, 50 miles (80 kilometres) north of the Iraqi capital, began with a volley of mortar fire on Thursday night, after which a suicide bomber targeted policemen at the entrance. A second bomber entered the shrine with nine gunmen, targeting security forces and civilians inside.
Police officials say a third bomber was killed before he detonated his explosives.
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[DAWN] Saudi Arabia identified on Thursday suspects in two of the three attacks that struck the kingdom on the same day this week, including one outside the sprawling mosque where the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) is buried in the western city of Madina that killed four Saudi security troops.
In a statement released by the Interior Ministry late Thursday, authorities said the Madina bomber in Monday's apparently coordinated attacks was 26-year-old Saudi national Na'ir al-Nujiaidi al-Balawi.
Three suicide bombers behind a botched attack, also Monday, outside a Shia mosque in the eastern region of Qatif in which no civilians or police were wounded, were identified as Abdulrahman Saleh Mohammed, Ibrahim Saleh Mohammed and Abdelkarim al-Hesni, all in their early 20s.
It was not immediately clear what nationality or nationalities the three carried.
The ministry said investigations following the attacks led to the arrests of 19 suspects, seven Saudi and 12 Pakistani nationals. No other details were immediately available.
On Tuesday, Saudi Arabia identified the suicide bomber who struck outside the US Consulate in Jeddah as a Pakistani resident of the kingdom who had arrived 12 years ago to work as a driver. It named him as 34-year-old Abdullah Gulzar Khan. It said he lived in the port city with "his wife and her parents." The statement did not elaborate.
In that attack, the bomber detonated his explosives after two security guards approached him, killing himself and lightly wounding the guards, the ministry said. No consular staff were hurt. No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attacks but their nature and their apparently coordinated timing suggested the militant Islamic State (IS) group could be to blame.
Pakistan has condemned Monday's attacks in the kingdom. There are around 9 million foreigners living in Saudi Arabia, which has a total population of 30 million. Among all foreigners living in the kingdom, Pakistanis represent one of the largest groups.
The Saudi ministry said the attacker in the Madina assault set off the bomb in a parking lot after security officers became suspicious about him. Several cars caught fire and thick plumes of black smoke were seen rising from the site of the explosion as thousands crowded the streets around the mosque.
Worshippers expressed shock that such a prominent holy site could be targeted. The Prophet Muhammad's mosque was packed on Monday evening, during the final days of the Muslim holy month of Ramazan, which ended on Tuesday. Local media say the attacker was intending to strike the mosque when it was crowded with thousands gathered for the sunset prayer.
Saudi Arabia is part of the US-led coalition fighting IS in Iraq and Syria, and the militant group views its ruling monarchy as an enemy.
The kingdom has been the target of multiple attacks by the group that have killed dozens of people. In June, the Interior Ministry reported 26 terror attacks in the last two years.
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[DAWN] Chairman of US Senate's Armed Services Committee Senator John Maverick McCain ... the Senator-for-Life from Arizona, former presidential candidate and even more former foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution... on Friday said that he is deeply impressed by Pakistain Army Chief General Raheel Sharif ..Pak chief of army staff, meaning he pulls the strings on the Nawaz Sharif puppet to make it dance and sing and not do much at all.... 's leadership skills and hopes that the general continues to lead Pakistain.
In an interview with ARY News, the US senator who recently visited Pakistain said that the General Raheel is a fine leader and a man with "a good mind and good grasp over military as well as civilian matters".
"I saw him how he interacts with other officers in the army. In one meeting, he also brought the ISI chief to discuss issues with us. Our dialogue with him was regarding Pakistain's relations with Afghanistan and how we can improve ties between US and Pakistain," said McCain.
McCain, termed the situation in Wazoo agency satisfying and lauded the armed forces for clearing Miranshah ... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas... off terrorists.
"I and my fellow senators spent several hours there in Miranshah and met the military leadership. We were surprised to know that 6,000 Pak soldiers bit the dust and 16,000 were maimed, which is a very very heart breaking number," said McCain.
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At least 3 people were killed, and 10 others wounded in twin grenade blasts in Somalia’s southern port city of Marka, some 100Km south of Mogadishu on Thursday.
At least long-time readers will know where that is...
The local residents reported loud explosions followed by sustained gunshots coming from parts of the city after assailants hurled grenades at Somali army barracks.
Somali security officials in the seaside town have immediately blamed the simultaneous deadly bomb attacks on the Al Qaeda-affiliated Al Shabaab militants. Al Shabaab lost the city’s control to SNA and AU troops in 2012, barely a year after the militants were driven out of Mogadishu, the conflict-riddled Somali capital.
Meanwhile, the Somali military officers have imposed a curfew on Marka following the explosions, in an attempt to beef up the security and prevent impending attacks, reports said.
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[FoxNews] Newly obtained congressional data shows hundreds of terror plots have been stopped in the U.S. since 9/11 – mostly involving foreign-born suspects, including dozens of refugees.
The files are sure to inflame the debate over the Obama administration’s push to admit thousands more refugees from Syria and elsewhere, a proposal Donald Trump has vehemently opposed on the 2016 campaign trail.
“[T]hese data make clear that the United States not only lacks the ability to properly screen individuals prior to their arrival, but also that our nation has an unprecedented assimilation problem,” Sens. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., and Ted Cruz, R-Texas, told President Obama in a June 14 letter, obtained by FoxNews.com.
The files also give fresh insight into the true scope of the terror threat and cover a wide range of cases, including:
A Seattle man plotting to attack a U.S. military facility
An Atlantic City man using his “Revolution Muslim” site to encourage confrontations with U.S. Jewish leaders “at their homes”
An Iraq refugee arrested in January, accused of traveling to Syria to “take up arms” with terror groups
While the June 12 massacre at an Orlando gay nightclub marked the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil since 2001, the data shows America has been facing a steady stream of plots. For the period September 2001 through 2014, data shows the U.S. successfully prosecuted 580 individuals for terrorism and terror-related cases. Further, since early 2014, at least 131 individuals were identified as being implicated in terror.
Across both those groups, the senators reported that at least 40 people initially admitted to the U.S. as refugees later were convicted or implicated in terror cases.
Among the 580 convicted, they said, at least 380 were foreign-born. The top countries of origin were Pakistan, Lebanon and Somalia, as well as the Palestinian territories.
Both Sessions and Cruz sit on the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest, which compiled the terror-case information based on data from the Justice Department, news reports and other open-source information. The files were shared with FoxNews.com.
The files include dates, states of residence, countries of origin for foreign-born suspects, and reams of other details.
Specifically, they show a sharp spike in cases in 2015, largely stemming from the arrest of suspects claiming allegiance to the Islamic State. They also show a heavy concentration of cases involving suspects from California, Texas, New York and Minnesota, among other states.
The senators say the terror-case repository still is missing critical details on suspects’ immigration history, which they say the Department of Homeland Security has “failed to provide.” Immigration data the senators compiled came from other sources.
Sessions and Cruz asked the president in their letter to order the departments of Justice, Homeland Security and State to "update" and provide more detailed information. The senators have sent several letters to those departments since last year requesting immigration histories of those tied to terror.
“The administration refuses to give out the information necessary to establish a sound policy that protects Americans from terrorists,” Sessions said in a statement to Fox News.
Asked about the complaints, DHS spokeswoman Gillian M. Christensen told FoxNews.com the department “will respond to the senators’ request directly and not through the press.”
“More than 100 Congressional committees, subcommittees, caucuses, commissions and groups exercise oversight and ensure accountability of DHS and we work closely with them on a daily basis. We’ve received unprecedented requests from a number of senators and representatives for physical paper files for more than 700 aliens,” she said, adding that officials have to review each page manually for privacy and other issues.
Cruz ran unsuccessfully this year for the Republican presidential nomination. Sessions, an ardent critic of the administration’s immigration policies, is supporting presumptive GOP nominee Trump.
The allegations detailed in the subcommittee’s research pertain to a range of cases, involving suspects caught traveling or trying to travel overseas to fight, as well as suspects ensnared in controversial sting operations which civil-liberties groups including the ACLU have criticized.
In a 2014 report, Human Rights Watch said nearly half of the federal counterterror convictions at the time came from “informant-based cases,” many of them sting operations where the informants played a role in the plot.
The report said: “In some cases the Federal Bureau of Investigation may have created terrorists out of law-abiding individuals by conducting sting operations that facilitated or invented the target’s willingness to act.”
But even in some of those cases, federal agents got involved after learning of a serious suspected plot. In the case of the Seattle suspect, Abu Khalid Abdul-Latif, authorities said he approached someone in 2011 about attacking a military installation. That citizen alerted law enforcement and worked with them to capture Latif and an accomplice.
[IsraelTimes] Woman suffers minor injuries, assailant shot in leg by security; unclear how suspect crossed border, or what his motives were
An Israeli woman was injured while driving on Route 90 when her car was struck by a stone and she was allegedly attacked by a Jordanian citizen Friday morning.
Rotem Aharoni, 23, was driving on the north-south highway just south of the Sea of Galilee when her vehicle was pelted and she crashed into a guardrail.
After she came to a halt, a man leaped from the bushes and assaulted her, apparently trying to remove her from the vehicle, police said.
A passerby’s appearance on the scene prompted the suspect to flee the scene. After a nearly two-hour manhunt, a member of a nearby security detail fired on the suspect and struck him in the leg. Police then apprehended the man, who was identified as a Jordanian citizen in his mid-20s.
Aharoni suffered minor injuries and the suspect suffered moderate to serious injuries, Magen David Adom said. Both were taken to Poriya Hospital, near Tiberias, for treatment.
Israeli authorities were investigating how the assailant crossed the border into Israel. Police later said that a preliminary investigation found that the Jordanian man was mentally unstable and threw rocks at the car in a failed attempt Curses! Foiled again! to make it stop and steal it.
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.
[Reuters] Two Houston police officers fatally shot an African-American man who pointed a gun at them despite their commands that he lower his weapon, authorities said on Saturday, two days after five Dallas policemen were slain by a black military veteran.
[Daily Caller] The chief of police in El Paso, Texas, labeled Black Lives Matter a "radical hate group" Friday night, blaming them for Thursday’s shooting in Dallas and calling on policymakers to take a closer look at the movement.
New regime poster boy for 'principles.' 
[Freedom Outpost] The organizer of the Dallas Black Lives Matter rally, in which four cops were murdered and numerous others injured by trained snipers, is a sodomite pro-Muslim agent. His name is Jeff Hood. In 2015, after American Christians protested an Islamic event in Dallas, this reprobate, Jeff Hood, said:
[Wash Times] Sheriff Clarke, appearing on "Fox and Friends" to discuss Micah Xavier Johnson, the 25-year-old man accused of ambushing Dallas police officers at a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest, said Mr. Obama uses the bully pulpit after tragedies in ways that sow anger and resentment among the population.
[Breitbart] Selin Gören, member of the "Linksjugend Solid," a far-left German youth organization, was reportedly sexually assaulted by a refugee on January 27. After an initial false report that she had been assaulted by "foreigners and Germans alike," she revised her story before taking to Facebook to apologise for any "racism" that might be caused by the revelation that her alleged assailant was a migrant. 
As Rantburg slowly returns to normal we will see bugs crop up from time to time. We will also see miscreants and spammers, and all sorts of various bad elements, and for those we request the regulars' help. 
Global oil prices dropped over the week, losing sight of the key $50 dollar level, as worries about a supply glut and weak economic growth took oil to two-month lows.
[DAWN] As a Swiss law banning burqas came into effect in 
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At least 3 people were killed, and 10 others wounded in twin grenade blasts in Somalia’s southern port city of Marka, some 100Km south of Mogadishu on Thursday.
