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Houthi militia has sentenced four journalists to death in Yemen for ‘treason and espionage,’
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Good morning
Feinstein urges Trump to reverse
plan to block Iran request for $5B in IMF aid
Sunday April 12th, 2020

ann_dvorak_1605
Gunmen kill Sayed Attaullah, an Afghan Presidential Protection Security member
No telling who pulled the trigger yet, but Ghani's not the body in the bag
LNA forces have killed GNA AlQeada terrorist Muhammad bin Shaaban"
Paradise is a very warm place, ain't it, Muhammad?
GNA official : closure of water and electricity in western region due to personal differences
So it really wasn't siege tactics, it was all mustache cursing
Firefight between Syrian government forces and armed group near Qamishli
ISIS attempts resurgence under cover of coronaplague
Fighting in southern Tripoli as govt forces advance on LNA
Trying to recover lost territory
Iraq announces 39 new coronavirus cases and two new deaths
And still the "pilgrims" continue bussing in from Iran
Bakersfield coronaplague house party
goes kinetic - 94 rnds fired, 6 WIA, no fotos


Posted by: Fred || 04/12/2020 11:44 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A Blessed Easter to all. He is risen
Posted by: Frank G || 04/12/2020 11:48 Comments || Top||

#2  Mornin', Fred.
Posted by: Clem || 04/12/2020 11:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Blessed indeed.
Posted by: Sgt. D.T. || 04/12/2020 15:56 Comments || Top||

#4  What do I see? She's walking back to me!
Posted by: KBK || 04/12/2020 22:11 Comments || Top||

#5  Cigarette holder? Or stiletto?
Posted by: Lex || 04/12/2020 22:15 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
2 Guards Killed in Incident at Gardez Prison in Paktia
[ToloNews] Two prison guards were killed and two others were maimed after a number of prisoners at Gardez prison tried to revolt and escape from the facility, said the Ministry of Interior.

Two prisoners were also maimed in the incident, which is now under control, said the ministry.

Abdullah Hasrat, a front man for the Paktia governor, confirmed reports of fighting at the Gardez prison in Paktia, and said the shooting started after the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
prisoners at the facility took one police officer hostage and then started firing the weapon they had seized from the police officer.

Hasrat said that security forces arrived on the scene and the situation is under control.

Taj Mohammad Mangal, a member of Paktia provincial council, said that some high profile members of the Taliban apparently escaped as a result of the incident, but this has not been confirmed.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/12/2020 00:37 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Gunmen kill Sayed Attaullah, an Afghan Presidential Protection Security member
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Posted by: Fred || 04/12/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Africa North
Over 5,000 Syrian mercenaries are fighting in #Libya
More disease reservoirs. Yay.
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Posted by: Fred || 04/12/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  and they still can't win
Posted by: Chris || 04/12/2020 9:32 Comments || Top||

#2  does Libya withhold taxes?
Posted by: AlanC || 04/12/2020 13:42 Comments || Top||


Fighting in southern Tripoli as govt forces advance on LNA
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Posted by: Fred || 04/12/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


GNA losses today between AbuGrian and Tripoli: 37 dead 29 injured, bridge bombarded
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

AbuGrian to Sdadda bridge under heavy bombardment by the Libyan Air Force
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Posted by: Fred || 04/12/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

#1  How long before the GNA leaders flee to Turkey?
Posted by: Frank G || 04/12/2020 6:10 Comments || Top||


LNA forces have killed GNA AlQeada terrorist Muhammad bin Shaaban"
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Posted by: Fred || 04/12/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda


Arabia
Ansarallah forces shoot down enemy aircraft near Saudi border
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Ansarallah forces announced on Friday that their air defenses shot down an Arab Coalition aircraft along the Saudi border with the Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
i governorate of Sa’ada.

Citing the Ansarallah forces, the Saba News Agency reported that "the air defenses managed to shoot down a spy plane belonging to the coalition while carrying out hostile missions in the airspace of the Razih district (west of Saada)."

The Ansarallah forces did not provide additional details about the operation.

At the same time, al-Masirah TV reported that the Arab Coalition launched attacks on the Razih District of Yemen, which is a violation of the ceasefire that was recently established.

Since the start of the ceasefire, the warring parties in Yemen have accused each other of violating the ceasefire by launching attacks in different parts of the country.

The ceasefire was established on Thursday after the United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
requested a halt to the violence in Yemen, as the country faces the potential spread of the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
Posted by: Fred || 04/12/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Houthi militia has sentenced four journalists to death in Yemen for ‘treason and espionage’
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
BLUF: Nobody's ALL bad
Posted by: Fred || 04/12/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Houthis

#1  "I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are." - General William T. Sherman
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/12/2020 6:38 Comments || Top||

#2  wish we could do tat here
Posted by: Chris || 04/12/2020 9:34 Comments || Top||

#3  Who can forget Geraldo Rivera's "OPSEC lesson" from the Gulf War?
Posted by: Clem || 04/12/2020 9:50 Comments || Top||

#4  but BadOrangeMan said something mean to a 'journalist' here, that is grounds for impeachment don't you know
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 04/12/2020 10:21 Comments || Top||


Bangladesh
Bangladesh executes killer of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
[DAWN] Authorities in Bangladesh have executed a killer of the country’s independence leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, nearly 45 years after the brutal liquidation, a prison official said.

Abdul Majed, a former military captain, was hanged at the central jail at Keraniganj near the capital, Dhaka, just one minute past Saturday midnight, said Inspector General of Prisons Brig Gen A.K.M. Mustafa Kamal Pasha.

He was arrested in Dhaka on Tuesday, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said, adding that the arrest was "the biggest gift" for Bangladesh this year.

Majed had publicly announced his involvement in the liquidation and had reportedly been hiding in India for many years. He recently returned to Bangladesh.

The execution took place after President M Abdul Hamid rejected a clemency filed by Majed, seeking mercy. His wife and other family members visited him for last time on Saturday.

Majed is one of a dozen defendants whose death sentence
...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
s were upheld by the country’s Supreme Court in 2009. A trial court in 1998 had sentenced them to death for their involvement in the Aug 15, 1975, killing of Rahman and most of his family members by a group of army officials.

Posted by: Fred || 04/12/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistain Proxies

#1  Crime was 45 years ago, conviction 22 years ago, the guy was probably coming home to die anyway. Still, 4 days from cuffs to gallows? Impressive.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/12/2020 10:52 Comments || Top||

#2  The story is the guy woke up sitting in a rickshaw in the middle of Dhaka, surrounded by Bangladeshi police. Looks like a rendition operation by Indian intelligence agencies.
Posted by: John Frum || 04/12/2020 13:27 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ that works fine too.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/12/2020 14:46 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Heavy clashes reported between Indian and Pakistani armies in Kashmir
[ALMASDARNEWS] Heavy festivities were reported on Saturday between the Pak and Indian armies at the Line of Control (LoC) that separates the two countries in the disputed Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
region.

According to the official media wing of the Pak military, Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR), the Indian military deliberately targeted the border region with mortar and artillery fire.

"Indian troops resorted to unprovoked ceasefire violations during the last 24 hours using artillery and heavy mortars in Sharda, Dhudnial and Shahkot Sectors along the LOC deliberately targeting the civilian population," a statement issued by ISPR reads.

According to the ISPR, Indian forces were engaged in the "indiscriminate fire of heavy weapons, which injured four civilians, including a 15-year-old girl."

"Pakistain Army troops responded effectively with matching calibre, targeted those Indian Army posts which initiated fire," ISPR added.

The Indian Ministry of Defense has yet to issue a statement regarding today’s festivities; however, over the last five days, they have accused the Pak Armed Forces of allowing bandidos hard boyz to attack their army near the LoC.
Posted by: Fred || 04/12/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  Life goes on.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/12/2020 4:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Same as it ever was.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 04/12/2020 10:10 Comments || Top||

#3  e la nave va
Posted by: Lex || 04/12/2020 11:04 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Iraqi forces begin 2nd phase of military operation along Saudi and Jordanian borders
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Popular Mobilization Units (Hashd al-Sha’abi) and the Iraqi Army began the second phase of their military operation along the borders of Jordan and Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
on Friday.

"The second phase will focus on four main axes, as the first axis will clear the border between Iraq and Jordan with support from the second axis, which will head towards the Iraqi-Saudi border strip towards potential targets," al-Sumaria TV reported, quoting the Hashd al-Sha’abi commander, Qassem Musleh.

Musleh continued that "the second phase will focus on vital targets and areas that have not entered before, where the third and fourth axis will head towards the Houran Valley and a number of areas that are described as difficult due to their geographical nature that the enemy exploits to hide and camouflage from our forces."

The operation’s commander indicated that "the process continues in coordination with the Iraqi Army and tribal forces.

Despite the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
’s (ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS) defeat in late 2017, the group has terrorized the country with their sleeper cells, which have thrived in the desert regions of Iraq and Syria.
Posted by: Fred || 04/12/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq

#1  The main settlement in Wadi Hauran (Houran Valley) is Ar-Rutbah, an Iraqi town and seat of Ar-Rutba District. Its name means 'wet land' in Arabic because it can receive 114.3 mm of rain per year. Its total current population is 22,370 inhabitants, all of them Arabs and Sunnis.
The wadi has three dams to collect rainwater for grazing sheep and camels during the summer: the Hussayniyah dam built in the 1990s, the Rutba dam, and the Hauran barrage.
Posted by: b || 04/12/2020 9:46 Comments || Top||


Security troops arrest four 3 ISIS members in Mosul’s Old City
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 04/12/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syrian Army attacks jihadist gathering point in northern Latakia
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 04/12/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Nusra


Firefight between Syrian government forces and armed group near Qamishli
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 04/12/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria



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2Sublime Porte
1Govt of Pakistan
1Govt of Syria
1al-Nusra
1Islamic State
1Govt of Iran
1Moslem Colonists
1Govt of Pakistain Proxies

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  Houthi militia has sentenced four journalists to death in Yemen for ‘treason and espionage,’
Sat 2020-04-11
  Krakatoa volcano blows up
Fri 2020-04-10
  Iraq names its third prime minister in 10 weeks
Thu 2020-04-09
  Iraqi Prime Minister-designate Adnan Al-Zurfi withdraws his candidacy
Wed 2020-04-08
  Pakistan Scrambles to Quarantine 100,000 Who Attended Tablighi Jamaat Event
Tue 2020-04-07
  Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun calls on international donors to provide financial assistance to the crisis-hit country
Mon 2020-04-06
  Iranian regime has blamed the US, Israel, and Jews for the outbreak of coronavirus in Iran,
Sun 2020-04-05
  Hezbollah commander assassinated in southern Lebanon
Sat 2020-04-04
  China orders 200,000 body bags from Taiwan!
Fri 2020-04-03
  Iran’s Speaker Reportedly Diagnosed with Coronavirus
Thu 2020-04-02
  Pakistan court overturns conviction in death of Daniel Pearl
Wed 2020-04-01
  Trump says Iran planning 'sneak attack' on US troops in Iraq
Tue 2020-03-31
  Iran gas pipeline to Iraq blows up
Mon 2020-03-30
  Turkish military attacks Syrian Army, YPG
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  Khamenei family fears he might have Coronavirus

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