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Good Morning

Buttigieg fires back at the Fox News host for saying he was 'trying to figure out how to breastfeed'
Sunday October 17th, 2021

josephine_dunn_1500
Saudi-led coalition says killed 160 Houthis in battle for Marib
Day 2: Kandahar Mosque Attack Victims Buried: 63 toes up thus far, and 83 maimed
Kam Air, Ariana, PIA to resume flights from Kabul to Pakistan, border crossings still closed, int%u2019l charity orgs. step back
More escapes from Afghanistan: boy and girl football players, girls robotic team get out
Bangladesh: Muslims March in Dhaka, Clash with Police after Friday Prayers, 2 More Hindus Toes Up Saturday
UN: Over 7,000 forcibly evicted from Las Anod, north of Somalia
Kenyan mob LYNCH 'bloodthirsty vampire'
child-killer after he escaped from prison

Posted by: Fred || 10/17/2021 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Mary Josephine Dunn was an American stage and film actress of the 1920s and 1930s.

Born: Mary Josephine Dunn, May 1, 1906, New York City, U.S.
Died: February 03, 1983, Thousand Oaks, California, U.S.

Years active: 1920–1938

Wikipedia - MJD - JD - IMDb
Posted by: Harry Slusose3786 || 10/17/2021 12:02 Comments || Top||

#2  MJD - JD







Posted by: Harry Slusose3786 || 10/17/2021 12:07 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
NYPDHateCrimes unit is seeking a person of interest in an arson attack on a Jewish school. On 14 Oct., a woman dumped gasoline at the institution in Brooklyn and set it ablaze
[YOUTUBE]
Posted by: Fred || 10/17/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Clearly a white supremacist, albeit of the Wakandan persuasion
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 10/17/2021 5:58 Comments || Top||

#2  How did American coastal cities become such a haven for Nazis?
Posted by: badanov || 10/17/2021 6:38 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ Difficult to 'hide in plain sight' in rural America.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/17/2021 7:05 Comments || Top||

#4  The link is to a music video, not a news item.
Posted by: Omomolet Phutch9064 || 10/17/2021 8:05 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ fixed
Posted by: Frank G || 10/17/2021 9:41 Comments || Top||

#6  Wow so bold, "a possible bias crime". Something like this at the NCAA HQ would mobilize Seal Team 6.
Posted by: jack salami || 10/17/2021 10:44 Comments || Top||

#7  Did Seal Team 6 get vaxed?
Posted by: bman || 10/17/2021 11:52 Comments || Top||

#8  ^ yes but with seal dewormer
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 10/17/2021 11:54 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Day 2: Kandahar Mosque Attack Victims Buried: 63 toes up thus far, and 83 maimed
Yesterday’s report of the attack can be seen here.
[ToloNews] Victims of Friday’s attack on a mosque in Kandahar
...the spiritual heartland of the Taliban, so a double insult to their Islamic Emirate 2.0...
were buried in groups on Saturday.

People said the number of victims has risen to nearly 50 people and 90 injured.

ISIS has grabbed credit for Friday's attacks.

According to locals, this was the first ISIS attack on the Shia community in Kandahar.

Following the earth-shattering kabooms, a number of Kandahar Sunni people rushed into hospitals to donate blood to those injured in the attack. They said no group can create discord among them based on religious lines.

The Kandahar police chief meanwhile said they are working to arrest those behind the attack.

Eyewitnesses said four button men first opened fire on the mosque’s guards and one of them were killed by the guards but three of them entered the mosque and deronated their explosives.
Another Tolo News article lists those who condemned the attacks, adding:
Eyewitnesses said three back-to-back explosions hit Imam Bargah Fatimeyah mosque, one of the largest mosques in Kandahar city during the Friday prayers.

According to eyewitnesses, three men equipped with guns and explosives first opened fire on the worshippers and then exploded their explosives at three different parts of the mosque.

Daesh has claimed responsibility for the attack.
In the wake of the explosions, Kandahar police chief Maulvi Mehmood said security for the mosque had been provided by guards from the Shia community but that following the "brutal attack" the Taliban would take charge of its protection.

Witnesses spoke of gunfire alongside the explosions, and a security guard assigned to protect the mosque said three of his comrades had been shot as the bombers fought their way in.

Sayed Rohullah told AFP: "It was the Friday prayer time, and when we were preparing I heard shots. Two people had entered the mosque.

"They had opened fire on the guards and in response the guards had also opened fire on them. One of them committed a suicide blast inside the mosque."
And from Khaama Press:
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in its Telegram channel confirmed on Saturday, October 16 that the attack and twin blasts were carried out by them.

Khorasan branch of ISIS in their statement said that two of their suicide bombers conducted the attack on a Shite mosque in Kandahar province on Friday killing and wounding over 150 worshipers.

The statement of ISIS-K reads that the first suicide bomber detonated his explosives in the hallway of the mosque and others did it inside the mosque where hundreds of people had gathered to perform Friday prayer.

It was first said that there were three suicide bombers who shot the security guards of the mosque and then entered the mosque and detonated their explosive vests.

As per local health officials, the number of people killed rose to 63, and those who were wounded increased to 83.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/17/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


More escapes from Afghanistan: boy and girl football players, girls robotic team get out

Hundred Afghan male and female footballers leave Afghanistan
[KhaamaPress] Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
’s foreign ministry in a statement confirmed that hundred Afghan male and female football players along with their families left Kabul for the country.

Deputy foreign minister and spokesperson of the ministry Lolwah Rashid al-Khater confirmed that news and said that it was the eighth flight of Qatar from Kabul.

The flight from Kabul to Qatar carried 357 people among them, 20 Afghan female footballers.

The flight is said to be conducted after coordination and agreement between Qatar and FIFA.

Earlier, FIFA had said that they are striving to evacuate other Afghan athletes.

The Qatar Airline’s this flight is rumored to be a flight with the most number of passengers after the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
takeover in which New Zealand citizens were also boarded.

Afghan Girls' Robotic Team Competes From Qatar
The Afghan girls' robotic team displayed three new robots in a virtual competition held by the First Global Challenge.

[ToloNews] Following the collapse of the former government on August 15, the members of the Afghan girls robotics team left the country for Qatar. The girls said they will continue to work in order to bring pride to Afghanistan and to show the world the capability of Afghan girls.

Sumaia Faroqi, the leader of the robotic team, said: "This year, as in past years, we attended the First Global Challenge. We are happy that we produced three different robots in three different sections."

The girls said that although they have left the country, they still will continue to show their strength and ability to the world and to gain pride and achievement for their country.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/17/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Taliban/IEA


Africa North
Attorney General Identifies Officer who Killed Migrant in Libya
[LIBYAREVIEW] The Libyan Public Prosecution decided to imprison three Libyans for detaining migrants colonists and treating them in a degrading manner, the Attorney General’s Office said in a statement on Friday.The statement indicated that the Attorney General ordered urgent investigations to reveal the circumstances of the death of a migrant in the Ghout al-Shaal shelter center on October 8th, in Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
Eyewitnesses told the Prosecution that they saw a security guard quarrel with a migrant in the shelter, due to the violence and beating up of one of his sons. The migrant died after being hit with an iron-bar on his head, according to the Public Prosecution report.

The prosecution’s investigations resulted in the identification of the perpetrator of the migrant’s murder in the shelter, and an arrest warrant was issued for him. The statement did not mention the name or the rank of the perpetrator.

The Attorney General’s Office denied the International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) report that four migrants colonists were killed during those events, describing the statements as false.

On the 6th of October, 500 migrants colonists managed to escape from the Gheriyan centre and were chased by guards who opened fire using live ammunition.

The United Nations
...an idea whose time has gone...
(UN) has repeatedly condemned the inhuman conditions in Libya’s detention centres in which migrants colonists and refugees are held in severely overcrowded facilities with limitations on access to life-saving humanitarian assistance.



Posted by: Fred || 10/17/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Libya Resumes Repatriation of Migrants
[LIBYAREVIEW] On Saturday, the Reform and Rehabilitation institution of Ain Zara, located in southern Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
, announced the repatriation of a number of migrants colonists, as part of a voluntary deportation programme.In a statement, the institution explained that the deportation process included 9 inmates of Egyptian nationality, and 4 inmates of Sudanese nationality, who were deported through the Mitiga International Airport port.

The repatriation of those migrants colonists comes amid severe international criticism against the background of reports of abuses and violations committed by the Libyan authorities against immigrants colonists and the suspension of voluntary deportation programme organised by the United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

The Voluntary Humanitarian Return program, run by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), arranges the return of immigrants colonists stranded in Libya to their homeland.

Libya has become a preferred point of departure for thousands of immigrants colonists who attempt to cross the Mediterranean Sea to reach European shores.

According to the IOM, more than 18,000 immigrants colonists have been rescued at sea and returned to Libya so far in 2021.

Thousands have recently been detained in the most inhumane way, thousands crammed into hot and dirty jails without food, water and shelter. The refugees that were detained include many women and kiddies.

Armed forces in Tripoli began a series of mass arrests a week ago, detaining more than 5,000 people in overcrowded detention centres as aid and rights groups voiced alarm.

On Friday, guards in a centre killed at least 6 migrants colonists there as the overcrowding led to chaos, the IOM said.



Posted by: Fred || 10/17/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants


Arabia
Saudi-led coalition says killed 160 Houthis in battle for Marib
[AlAhram] The Saudi-led coalition supporting 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...
's government said Saturday it had killed 160 Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
rebels in strikes south of the strategic city of Marib, where loyalists say rebels have made advances.

"We carried out 32 strikes... in Abdiya over the past 24 hours," the coalition said, cited by the official Saudi Press Agency, adding that "11 military vehicles were destroyed and more than 160 terrorist elements eliminated".

The rebels rarely comment on losses and the toll could not be independently verified by AFP.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/17/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Britain
British Court Rejects Appeal of 'Libyan' Reading Attacker
[LIBYAREVIEW] Libyan asylum seeker, Khairi Saadallah
... who’d been released early from prison just two weeks before running amok, complete with a diagnoses of post-traumatic stress disorder and paranoid schizophrenia — for which he refused to take medication. He’d arrived in England as a tourist in 2012, then was given asylum because he liked to drink and party; at some point he even converted to Christianity long enough to get a related tattoo, but clearly he never mastered the turn the other cheek bit. MI-5 took an interest in 2019 when it looked like he planned to go a-jihading abroad, but they concluded he was not serious. It was only after the murders that it was revealed that Mr. Saadallah was the proud owner of a GNA [Libya] militia identity card...
who stabbed three people to death in 2020, has been denied permission to appeal his life sentence by a British court.
Given the arc of his life, I’d not let him try either.
Saadallah, 27 years, stabbed three men in Forbury Gardens in Reading, UK. He was sentenced in January, after admitting to the murders and three attempted murders.

The British Court of Appeal ruled there was "no substance" to Saadallah’s criticisms towards the judge who sentenced him, according to the BBC.

Saadallah’s lawyer, Rossano Scamardella had suggested the degree of premeditation and level of ideology did not reach the threshold for the life sentence. "We say the judge erred in that respect," Scamardella told the court.
Agreed. He should have been summarily executed following the verdict of guilt.
He added that the judge should have given a life sentence with a minimum prison term, and argued the attacks were not terror-related.

But the judge, Lord Burnett said the court has concluded there is no substance in any of the criticisms made of the judge’s conclusions.

"We are satisfied that the judge’s approach cannot be faulted, and there is no basis for suggesting that the whole-life order was wrong in principle or manifestly excessive," Lord Burnett said in his ruling.

He added that Saadallah’s planning and premeditation was "clearly substantial," and rejected the argument that he was suffering from mental illnesses at the time of the attack.
Posted by: Fred || 10/17/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Devout Moslems


Day 2: Terror suspect in murder of British MP David Amess identified
BLUF: The should-have-been-known wolf may have been inspired by Al Shabaab. Yesterday he murdered, today London properties connected to him are being searched by police, Brits mourn, and the vile Anjem Choudary reared up on his hind legs to approve of the murder.
[IsraelTimes] Ali Harbi Ali, 25, a British citizen and the son of a former Somali government official, was arrested at the scene of the crime; was not previously known to the British security forces

The suspect being held by UK police on suspicion of the terrorist murder of MP David Amess is named Ali Harbi Ali, British media reported on Saturday evening.

Local reports said the suspect is a 25-year-old British citizen with Somali heritage, who is not thought to have been previously known to the security services.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/17/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Devout Moslems

#1 
ALI hummmm!
Muslim.....hummm!
Murders an Anglo-saxion leader.
who would have guess that could happen?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/17/2021 14:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Muslims are terrible at hiding their viciousness. Like rattlesnakes they scream do mess with me I'm dangerous.
Posted by: jpal || 10/17/2021 17:14 Comments || Top||

#3  Had the victim been a downstairs person, the incident would have gone unreported.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/17/2021 17:21 Comments || Top||

#4  As British, Ali, as a lurcher,
He shrank not from murder... but perjury?
"By Allah, I swear
That I surely was there...
To perform my constituent surgery."
Posted by: Enver Jump9501 || 10/17/2021 20:07 Comments || Top||

#5  What do you mean by downstairs person, Besoeker?
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/17/2021 21:50 Comments || Top||


Dozens of migrants land on beach in Kent
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Dozens of migrants have landed in Kent today after crossing the Channel in dinghies and were immediately detained by officers.

Three dinghies made their way to British shores, two of which were escorted by the RNLI and border patrol to Dungeness and the third was returned to Dover.

Upon their arrival, the group of around 60 migrants were immediately detained by police stationed on the beach.
Posted by: Fred || 10/17/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants


India-Pakistan
Srinagar non-resident killed: Bihar-based 'Gol guppa' seller's family mourns his death
[OneIndia] The parents of the 30-year-old-man who was rubbed out by a terrorist in Srinagar on Saturday are mourning the shocking death of their son.

The father of Arbind Kumar Sah said that he had gone to Srinagar three months ago. He was selling 'gol gappas' with the hope to earn enough money to improve the lives of his poverty-stricken family back home.

However,
death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate...
that dream of the Bihar man was shattered as he was killed by forces of Evil who showered bullets at him near his handcart outside a park in the Eidgah area of the city.

Eyewitnesses said a pistol-borne Death Eater stopped near Sah's vending cart and shot him from point-blank range, killing him on the spot. Sah would sell 'gol gappas' every evening to strollers who came to the park and had made a few friends among them.

"He was a hardworking man. He had dreams of getting his family out of poverty back in Bihar. But that dream has died today," a middle-aged resident who did not want to be named said.

"His business was brisk. He was a likeable man, maybe that's why he had good business. He would often talk about his folks and poverty in his hometown," the resident added.

In the last two weeks, a total of nine civilians, including two teachers and a prominent Kashmiri pandit, have been killed in the valley and five out of eight were Hindus which clearly indicates that the forces of Evil are targeting Hindus and outsiders.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/17/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistain Proxies


Security forces raid terror hideout, recover ammunition dump
[OneIndia] Security forces have busted a hideout and recovered arms and ammunition in Jammu and 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....
's Reasi district, officials said on Friday.

On a tip-off, a search operation was carried out in Rahwali Nari of Mahore tehsil in the district on Thursday, they said, adding a hideout where arms and ammunition was dumped was busted, PTI reported.

One AK-47 rifle, one magazine, cartridges of AK-47, an under barrel grenade launcher (UBGL), hand grenades and a walkie-talkie were recovered, the officials said.

A case in this regard was registered at cop shoppe Mahore and investigation set in, they said. It is the second recovery of arms and ammunition in two weeks after an IED was found in the Mahore area.

Reasi senior police officer Shailender Singh said timely action of security forces has thwarted attempts of anti-national elements to carry out attacks in the area.

Terrorists are hell-bent to disturb peace and communal harmony in the region south of Pir Panjal, he said.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/17/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


LeT commander Umar Khanday among two militants killed in Pampore gunfight
[GREATERKASHMIR] A Lashkar commander is among two Lions of Islam killed in a shootout with security forces at Drangbal area of Pampore in south 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....
's Pulwama district on Saturday.

"Pampore Encounter Update: 02 bully boyz killed. #Incriminating materials including arms & ammunition recovered.

Search going on. Further details shall follow, " a police front man said.

Police identified the slain LeT commander as Umar Mushtaq Khanday it said killed two cops Mohammad Yousuf and Suhail Ahmad at Baghat area of uptown Srinagar on February 19.

The identity of the second hard boy killed in today's shootout was not immediately known. The shootout broke out in the early hours today after security forces cordoned the area following a tip off about the presence of Lions of Islam there.
One India names the second dead turban as Suhail, adding:
Earlier the police had said that Khanday a top Lashkar-e-Tayiba commander has been trapped during an operation in Pulwama. He was named among the top ten terrorists by the police along with Salim Parray, Yousuf Kantroo, Abbas Sheikh, Reyaz Shetergund, Farooq Nali, Zubair Wani and Ashraf Molvi, Saqib Manzoor and Wakeel Shah.
Another One India article notes:
Following civilian killings, J&K police gunned down 13 terrorists in 9 encounters.
Posted by: Fred || 10/17/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Lashkar e-Taiba


Brother of arrested militant ‘kidnapped’ in south Kashmir’s Pulwama rescued
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Police on Saturday said that the brother of recently arrested murderous Moslem kidnapped by unknown button men from his residence at Nikloora area of south 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....
’s Pulwama district on Saturday has been rescued.

News agency GNS while quoting a police brass hat reported that some pistol borne persons barged inside the house of Shakeel Ahmad Sofi, son of Ghulam Mohammad and took him along with them.

Shakeel was later rescued by a team of Pulwama police during searches launched shortly after the incident, the officer said.

Shakeel’s brother Shamim Ahmad Sofi was held along with a pistol and ammunition in orchards of Nikloora village on October 1. As per police, Shahmim was associated with a Lashkar-e-Taiba
...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI...
.
Posted by: Fred || 10/17/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistain Proxies


Poonch gunfight: Bodies of missing JCO, soldier recovered; toll 4
[GREATERKASHMIR] With the recovery of bodies of missing JCO and a soldier, the number of army men killed in Thursday’s shootout between security forces and turbans has mounted to four, officials said today.The shootout broke out on Thursday evening after the security forces launched a search operation in Bhata Dhurian village following inputs about the presence of murderous Moslems. In the shootout, two soldiers were killed while two others, including a Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO), were reported missing.

"Both the bodies were retrieved on Saturday evening and have now been brought to Primary Health Center Bhata Dhurian for post-mortem examination," an official confirmed to Greater 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....
An army front man identified the slain soldiers as Subedar Ajay Singh and Naik Harendra Singh. He said the bodies of the duo were recovered in the densely forested area of Nar Khas in Mendhar. The duo, he said, was part of the search operations launched to pursue the hiding murderous Moslems.

The front man said that the communication with the duo was disrupted during a fierce shootout with the turbans on 14th Oct 2021.

He said that the search operation launched in the area to pursue the turbans entered third day today with local sources confirming that gunfire was heard in the woods.

Sources said that army used heavy weaponry to target a gorge where turbans could be hiding.

They added that villages including Bhata Dhurian, Nar forest area, Sanjiote are under tight cordon but there are no immediate reports of any murderous Moslem killing so far.

Meanwhile,
...back at the Senate, the partisans of Honorius went for their knives and the partisans of Stilicho went for the doors...
an anti-militancy operation which is going on in Chamrer and Dehra Ki Gali forest area on the boundary of Rajouri and Poonch entered sixth consecutive day on Saturday.

In this encounter, five army personnel including a Junior Commissioned Officer were killed after a search team came under fire from turbans in dense Chamrer forest.


Posted by: Fred || 10/17/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistain Proxies


Iraq
No casualties in airstrike on Erbil’s Choman mountains: mayor
[Rudaw] A suspected Ottoman Turkish Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
targeted Erbil’s eastern border with Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
on Friday. No casualties have been reported, according to a local mayor.

The airstrike happened at around 10:40 in the morning in Choman district’s Balayan valley.

The mayor of Qasre town, Shakhawan Warti, told Rudaw the strike was carried out by a Ottoman Turkish drone and no casualties were reported.

Strikes were also reported near Pishdar, north of Dukan Lake.

The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
frequently carries out cross-border ground and air offensives against alleged positions of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), an gang fighting for greater rights for Kurds in Turkey that has bases in the Kurdistan Region. Ankara considers it a terrorist organization. In April, Turkey launched the twin operations Claw-Lightning and Claw-Thunderbolt against the PKK in northern Duhok.

Iran also targets Kurdish opposition groups within the Kurdistan Region’s borders. Kurdish opposition parties have struggled for decades to secure the rights of Kurds within Iran. From the mid-1990s until 2015, the parties based in the Kurdistan Region generally stayed away from clashing with Iranian security forces, but since early 2015 these groups have deployed units to mountainous areas close to the Iran border. From there they have sent units inside Iran and clashed with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and other security forces.

Iran last month attacked the border areas of Choman, Sidakan, and Haji Omran on several occasions, targeting alleged Kurdish opposition group bases.

There have been more than 400 military incursions into the Kurdistan Region so far this year, endangering innocent civilians, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) coordinator for international advocacy Dindar Zebari said on September 22, without naming any nation or group.

Civilian populations and the environment have been severely damaged by the Turkey-PKK conflict. Several people have been killed, thousands of acres of land have been scorched, and people’s houses and livestock have been hit.

The KRG has repeatedly called on both Iran and Turkey to respect its illusory sovereignty and for the Kurdish groups to cease using Kurdistan Region territory to launch attacks on its neighbors.
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Olde Tyme Religion
Bangladesh: Muslims March in Dhaka, Clash with Police after Friday Prayers, 2 More Hindus Toes Up Saturday
[BenarNews] Rock-throwing protesters and police clashed in Bangladesh’s capital as thousands of Moslems erupted into the streets after Friday prayers to express anger over an online video showing the alleged desecration of the Koran at a Hindu festival site, during a third day of inter-communal violence in the country.

In other developments on Friday, a Hindu man was killed in an attack by a Moslem mob in southeastern Bangladesh as venues hosting the annual Durga Puja festival were vandalized throughout the nation in response to the alleged desecration. At least five coppers and scores of people were also reported injured in violence on Friday — a day after four people were shot and killed during related protests.

"Over 2,000 Moslem devotees brought out a procession after Jummah prayers" at Baitul Mukarram, the national mosque, Sazzadur Rahman, deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, told BenarNews.
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Southeast Asia
Thailand Ends 17-Day Security Op in Deep South Swamp
[BenarNews] Military personnel have successfully ended a 17-day operation to flush out suspected separatist bandidos turbans from a 35-acre swamp in Thailand’s Deep South, officials said Friday.

The operation led to the deaths of four government security personnel and six suspects, officials said, even as residents around the marshland in Narathiwat province praised the dead alleged bandidos turbans as "deaders" to the separatist cause.

A joint force of soldiers and police ended the search operation in the area in and around Hutaelueyo, a village in Bacho district, after they found no more threats, said Col. Kiatisak Neewong, front man for the military’s regional command (ISOC-4), said
Continued on Page 49
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#1  We have a swamp they can secure.
Posted by: Slats Ulerert8448 || 10/17/2021 14:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Trump should've trademarked Orange Man because it's going to be used in blaming him for stuff for many years to come.
Posted by: jpal || 10/17/2021 17:05 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
UK-Iranian woman accused of spying loses appeal on 2nd Iran jail term
No point in more than a token pretense that this is anything other than a hostage situation.
[IsraelTimes] After 5 years in prison, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 43, sentenced to another year imprisonment for spreading ’propaganda’.

British-Iranian mother Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has lost an appeal against a second jail term in Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
after spending more than five years in detention, her supporters said on Saturday.

The 43-year-old project manager, who lived in London with her husband and now seven-year-old daughter, has been held in Iran since 2016 and served a five-year sentence.

In late April, she was sentenced to another year’s imprisonment and banned from leaving the country for a further 12 months.

Nazanin’s Iranian lawyer was told in a phone call on Saturday that "the appeal on her second case failed," according to the #Free Nazanin Twitter account run by her supporters.

The judge made the ruling without a court hearing, it said, adding that so far there is no summons date for her return to prison.

Iran has not issued any official statement, following its usual practice.

Zaghari-Ratcliffe is one of a number of Western passport holders being held by Iran in what rights groups condemn as a policy of hostage-taking aimed at winning concessions from foreign powers.

The project manager for the Thomson Rooters Foundation, the data firm’s philanthropic arm, was arrested in April 2016 while visiting family.

She was convicted of plotting to overthrow the regime, a charge she strenuously denied.

She completed that sentence in March this year, only to be slapped with a fresh one-year jail term for "propaganda against the system."

The United Kingdom’s then-foreign minister Dominic Raab condemned the second sentence, saying that Iran’s treatment of Zaghari-Ratcliffe amounted to torture and she was being held unlawfully.

Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been living with her parents in Tehran while her appeal was underway, barred from leaving the country.

Her husband and daughter last month took part in a protest organized by Amnesia Amnesty International near the Houses of Parliament to mark her 2,000th day in detention.
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Syria Accuses Israel of Assassinating Official Near Golan Heights
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Salah lived in the Mas’ada village in the Golan before he was arrested for trying to kidnap an IDF soldier in 1985 and sentenced to 12 years in prison. He was released in 1998, crossed the border to Syria and was voted into the Syrian Parliament a few years later, where he dealt with Golan affairs and Syrian citizens living in the Golan, according to a report from Walla.

According to N12, Salah spent four years as the representative of the Golan in the Syrian Parliament and then became head of the office that keeps track of Syrian citizens who still live in the Golan.

Beeri told the Post that Salah was considered a Syrian intelligence activist who was involved in recruiting sources in Israel.

The alleged liquidation comes several days after Israel was accused of carrying out Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s in Syria as part of the IDF’s war-between-wars campaign to prevent Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and Hezbollah from entrenching themselves on the Golan Heights in order to open an additional front against the Jewish state.

Israel has in the past been accused of carrying out attacks against individuals who were involved in terrorist activity on the Golan Heights.
The Times of Israel adds:
In recent years, he has served in Syrian intelligence, still focusing on the country’s efforts to regain the Golan Heights, which were captured by Israel in 1967 and effectively annexed by Jerusalem in 1981.

As-Saleh has in the past worked to recruit people from Majdal Shams — a town whose residents generally do not take Israeli citizenship and who often still identify with Damascus — to serve as assets of the Syrian government and gather intelligence in Israel.

Syria Accuses Israel of Assassinating Official Near Golan Heights
[NYTIMES] The Syrian government on Saturday accused Israel of assassinating a high-ranking Syrian official who spent 12 years in an Israeli prison on terrorism charges before serving decades in the Syrian government.

The official, Midhat Saleh, who was responsible for overseeing the strategic Golan Heights boundary, was shot and killed by an apparent sniper while inside Syria near the shared border between the two countries.
They see you when you’re sleeping,
they know when you’re awake...
*Pew pew pew!* [thump]
In a statement announcing his death, Syria’s Presidency of the Council of Ministers said Mr. Saleh was "targeted by the Israeli enemy with bursts of treacherous bullets while returning to his home."

Mr. Saleh, a member of the Druse religious minority, served 12 years in an Israeli prison on charges of using mines and explosives with the intention of killing Israeli civilians and soldiers.
Not at all a nice man, then — his death being no loss to Humanity.
Posted by: Fred || 10/17/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies

#1  "targeted by the Israeli enemy with bursts of treacherous bullets while returning to his home."

Heh, targeted with "treacherous bullets" I admit to being unfamiliar with that particular brand. But it seems a bit disingenuous to declare war on a country and not expect them to fight back, at least a little bit. *pew pew pew*, indeed!
Posted by: SteveS || 10/17/2021 23:19 Comments || Top||

#2  :-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/17/2021 23:40 Comments || Top||


Two Turkish soldiers killed in Syria’s Idlib: monitor
[Rudaw] Two Ottoman Turkish soldiers were killed and four injured in a roadside explosion in rebel-held northwest Syria on Friday, according to a conflict monitor. Ankara has not immediately reported on the incident.

"Two Ottoman Turkish soldiers were killed and four others were maimed due to an IED [improvised bomb] explosion which targeted a Ottoman Turkish military convoy near Kafriya-Maarrat Masrin junction on Idlib-Bab al-Hawa road to the north of Idlib city," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported.

Ottoman Turkish forces quickly brought in reinforcements to the area on the road linking the border town of Bab al-Hawa with Idlib city, according to North Press Agency.

Photos of the incident show a mangled armoured vehicle.

Ottoman Turkish media and the country’s defence ministry have not reported the attack that was claimed by Ansar Abi Bakir al-Sadiq brigade, a Syrian militia group that has carried out several attacks against Ottoman Turkish forces in Idlib. The group claimed that a number of soldiers were killed and injured in addition to the destruction of military vehicles.

The militia, an obscure group that announced itself a year ago when they claimed an attack on a Ottoman Turkish military base in Idlib, has killed six Ottoman Turkish soldiers in the rebel-held province in the past month, according to the Syrian Observatory.

The deadly blast on Friday took place less than 24 hours after a member of the Ansar Abi Bakir al-Sadiq brigade was arrested in Idlib, accused of planting explosives, according to the Syrian Observatory.

The brigade later denied any connection with the man who was arrested.

The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
has not specifically accused the Ansar Abi Bakir al-Sadiq brigade of attacks against its forces.

Ankara backs anti-regime forces in Idlib province and it has carried out three military operations with Syrian militias in the north of the country. It is now threatening another offensive.

Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important...
said on Monday that their forces were targeted by Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), which makes up most of the US-allied Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), in Azaz, northwest Syria. Two Ottoman Turkish coppers were killed in the missile attack, according to Turkey’s defense ministry.

The SDF has denied any involvement in the attack, but Erdogan renewed threats of a new military offensive against Kurdish forces in northeast Syria (Rojava).

Two unnamed Ottoman Turkish officials told Rooters on Friday that Turkey is making preparations for a possible attack against Kurdish fighters in the Tal Rifaat area north of Aleppo if Ankara’s talks with Russia and US fail.
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