[FoxNews] Customs and Border Protection officials are warning migrants to not cross the desert into Arizona in dangerous conditions.
The number of migrants trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally continues to rise and so does the temperature along the Southwest border. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials in Arizona are preparing for a busy summer ahead, working in triple-digit temperatures.
CBP’s Tucson Sector opened their doors Thursday to media to help warn migrants not to cross in the desert heat.
"The message is simple, don't do it. The desert is vast and it's treacherous, when you cross illegally you put your life in incredible peril. I'm telling you this not only as a Border Patrol agent, but as one who spent his entire 23-year career in Arizona. I speak from experience," said Sabri Dikman, acting deputy chief patrol agent with the Tucson Sector Border Patrol.
Alongside CBP members, representatives from the governments of Mexico and Guatemala were also present, as well as Juanita Molina, director of the Border Action Network.
"Many people die from dehydration, from exposure, but also another element of this is that we find many skeletal remains, so people pass and we don't know why," Molina said.
The Tucson sector sees its fair share of drug smuggling, human trafficking and illegal crossing, but it's not as busy as Texas. However, they do have the most migrant deaths.
"It's a fact, more migrant deaths have been reported in Arizona than anywhere else along the Southwest border," Dikman said. "I’m talking thousands of people since 1998 when I started my career."
"Tucson sector performs multiple rescue operations daily in the summer heat," he added. "We have over 250 EMT and paramedic trained agents assigned throughout our sector, as well as the Border Patrol search trauma and rescue team. We have 34 rescue beacons and 30 rescue placards deployed in remote areas where migrants are known to cross, and we are installing more daily."
Officials said they don’t expect the heat to deter anyone from coming. This is the busiest they’ve been since 2013. Across the Southwest border, the number of migrants encountered in April increased slightly to 178,622 compared to 173,383 in March, which was the highest number in 20 years. However, the number of unaccompanied minor encounters slightly decreased.
"What I hear thousands of times over these years is 'I'd rather die trying. So as much as we try to produce this message, we know that people are going to continue to cross, and what I hope from this community and from these instances is that we continue to put resources into saving those who come to our shores, saving those who cross into our desert," Molina said. "I worked in many emergency rooms where they train combat doctors, but I was completely ill-prepared to see what happened here in the desert, and the desolation, the moment where you find someone, and you know that they're unstable, and you need to get help immediately."
To help combat the issue, they’re deploying an extra flight crew with a paramedic and more portable rescue beacons so migrants in danger can call for help. For now, agents are asking migrants not to come, but if they do, call 911, or try to flag down their helicopters to get attention from border agents fast.
"There are about 18,000 square miles of desert, and mountains we cover, if a person is lost or in need of help, it's a proverbial needle in a haystack. Please stay out of the desert, lives are at stake," said Michael Montgomery, director of air operations, CBP air and marine operations Tucson Air Branch. "When calling 911 for help, stay in place, do not venture away from where you have called 911. If a helicopter is nearby, wave a shirt or another object. Make movement, you would be surprised how well people blend into the vast desert."
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[AnNahar] The United States has completed its withdrawal from Kandahar Airfield in southern Afghanistan, once the second largest military base in the country for US forces, officials said Friday.
"They have not officially handed over the base to us but I can confirm they left the base on Wednesday," said Khoja Yaya Alawi, a front man for the Afghan army in Kandahar.
"They have handed over all the facilities to Afghan forces," Massoud Pashtun, the director of Kandahar Airport, added.
An official handover is expected to take place after the Moslem holiday of Eid al-Fitr, which ends on Saturday, both officials said.
At its height, the airfield was the second largest base for US and international troops.
Kandahar province was the birthplace of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... and has in recent months seen intense festivities between turbans and Afghan forces.
The Taliban and Afghan forces are currently in the middle of a three-day ceasefire which has granted respite for Afghans across the country as they celebrate the Moslem holiday.
[ToloNews] The Pentagon has said that the United States will address the issue of threats emancipating from terrorism in Afghanistan even after the withdrawal of American forces from the country.
David Helvey, Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs, told members of US Congress Committee on Armed Services that the United States was assessing ways to combat terrorist groups in Afghanistan after the withdrawal of the US and coalition forces.
"As part of the inter-agency review of the United States’ policy in Afghanistan, the administration assesses that threat from violent mostly peaceful Death Eater organizations against the United States now emanating from Afghanistan can be addressed without a persistent United States’ military presence in that country," Helvey said.
"At the same time, we work closely with the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces and with our allies and partners to maintain counterterrorism capabilities in the region sufficient to ensure that Afghanistan cannot again become a safe haven for terrorists," he added.
But a member of the US House of Representatives said that the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... will fight until they take the power by force.
"Since May 1st, Taliban has been crystal clear about their intentions. They have launched a new offensive targeting coalition forces, Afghan soldiers and innocent civilians. On Saturday, the Taliban bombed a girls school in Kabul, killing over 50 people, most of them maiden of tender yearss. Make no mistake, they will fight until they control that country again," said Mike Rogers, a member of the US House of Representatives.
Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie was cracking himself up, but nobody else seemed to be getting the non-stop jokes... The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... has reported that western spy agencies are evaluating and courting regional leaders outside the Afghan government who might be able to provide intelligence about terrorist threats long after US forces withdraw, according to current and former American, European and Afghan officials.
Ahmad Massoud, the son of Afghanistan’s National Hero Ahmad Shah Massoud, is one of the names in the report among new allies for US in the country after the troops withdrawal.
"Among the candidates being considered today for intelligence gathering is the son of Ahmad Shah Massoud, the famed Afghan fighter who led fighters against the Soviets in the 1980s and then against the Taliban as head of the Northern Alliance the following decade. The son — Ahmad Massoud, 32 — has spent the last few years trying to revive the work of his father by assembling a coalition of militias to defend Afghanistan’s north," wrote the report.
Way to paint a target on the man’s back, guys, and show that you are not to be trusted with information.
Based on the report, top CIA officials, including William J. Burns, the agency’s director, have acknowledged that they are looking for new ways to collect information in Afghanistan once American forces are withdrawn, and their ability to gather information on terrorist activity is diminished.
Washington is more divided, and some government analysts do not think Massoud would be able to build an effective coalition.
But in the New York Times report it was writthen whether the new allies were aimed to fight the Taliban in the future.
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Britannia on Thursday imposed sanctions against Libya's Kaniyat militia, saying those who breached international law in Libya would have to face consequences.
British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said the Kaniyat militia had overseen a five-year reign of terror until 2020, torturing and murdering innocent people, according to Rooters.
"The UK has today imposed asset freezes and travel bans on the militia group and its two leaders. We will hold them accountable for these atrocities," Raab said on Twitter.
Last year, the United States unilaterally blacklisted the militia and its leader after Russia prevented a UN Security Council committee from imposing sanctions over human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... abuses by the group.
The Kaniyat, headed by members of the al-Kani family, was allied to the Libyan National Army and helped it mount a failed 14-month assault on 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... that began in April 2019.
"These new sanctions send a clear message that those responsible for serious human rights violations or breaches of international humanitarian law in Libya will face consequences," said Britannia's Middle East minister James Cleverly.
"The persistent climate of impunity in Libya must be addressed and justice provided for the victims."
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Moroccan King Mohammed VI has granted Eid al-Fitr royal pardon to 810 detainees, including prisoners of 17 Al Hoceima movement,
... Al Hirak al Chaabi, or the Popular Movement, claims to be a popular movement was started in the northern Moroccan city of Al Hoceima in October 2016. Al Hoceima is in the Amazigh-majority (Berbers) Rif region, which believes itself to have been marginalized socially and and economically since Morocco was established... possibly they mean since the 17th century, when the current Moroccan royal family beat out the Berber faction to take over from the last descendant of the previous rulers...
the Ministry of Justice revealed on Wednesday.
Among the released are 12 prisoners who were arrested over extremism and terrorism charges.
Security services arrested 17 persons during their participation in protests in the Al Hoceima province over economic and social issues between 2016 and 2017.
However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... Morocco’s Ministry of Justice said that the royal pardon took into account "family and human circumstances."
Asharq al-Awsat newspaper learned that Nasser Zefzafi (the leader of the protest movement) and Nabil Ahmajik were excluded from the pardon.
A number of local media reported that some of those pardoned had earlier received sentences up to 20 years in prison.
Up to 28 detainees had also received pardon for the remainder of their prison sentences, while around 576 detainees will have their prison sentences reduced.
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[REGNUM] In Nikolaev, the body of a local lore scientist, candidate of historical sciences Vladimir Shchukin was found . On May 14, the Commissioner for the Protection of the State Language Taras Kremen wrote about this on his page on the social network Facebook.
“Unknown malefactors interrupted the life of a talented teacher, brilliant historian, gifted researcher Vladimir Shchukin. Rest with God, teacher ... "- it was said in the message.
The police said that the body of a 67-year-old man with knife wounds and head injuries was found by neighbors on the doorstep of the victim's apartment.
The victim reportedly specialized in Holocaust studies.
“In 2018, in Nikolaev, the scientific supervisor of Shchukin's dissertation, historian Nikolai Shityuk, was killed. Volodymyr Shchukin is the co-author of the book about the Righteous Among the Worlds of Nikolaev and was killed on the day of remembrance of the Righteous of the World, ”commented the head of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee Eduard Dolinsky on his Facebook page.
As reported by IA REGNUM , earlier the writer Jonathan Lytell decided not to publish a novel about the Holocaust in Ukraine, as the Ukrainian publishing house tried to impose on him an “afterword” to the novel with a “pro-Ukrainian” point of view on this event.
#2
By the time the Nazis came along, the Soviets had already forced about 3.5 million Ukrainians to starve to death in the Holodomor. One can understand the Ukrainians seeing the Nazis as the lesser immediate evil.
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[REGNUM] Armenia has officially applied to the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) in connection with the violations committed by Azerbaijan on the border in the Syunik region (Armenia), the press service of the Armenian Defense Ministry reported on May 14.
About this and.about. Armenian Defense Minister Vagharshak Harutyunyan informed CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas during telephone conversations.
Read also: The heads of the Russian and Armenian defense ministries discussed the situation on the border with Azerbaijan
As reported IA REGNUM informs , previously Harutyunyan held a consultation on the phone with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and personally met in Yerevan with the commander of the Southern Military District of the Russian Armed Forces Alexander Dvornikov.
[DW] The far-right politician had faced allegations of kidnapping after refusing to let a group of migrants colonists disembark from a ship.
...in 2019, when he was interior minister.
But his legal battles are not over yet.
Matteo Salvini, the head of Italia's right-wing League party, should not stand trial on charges he kidnapped a group of migrants colonists at sea, a judge in the Sicilian city of Catania ruled on Friday.
The case centered on an incident in July 2019, when Salvini stopped over 100 largely Sudanese migrants colonists aboard the Gregoretti coasties ship from disembarking for six days. During that t, there was an outbreak of scabies and a suspected case of tuberculosis.
The migrants colonists were eventually allowed to leave the boat after Italia brokered a deal with other EU states.
Salvini, who was Italia's interior minister at the time of the incident, stopped the migrants colonists from leaving the ship under his so-called "closed ports" policy. He argued it was necessary to protect the country amid a surge of migrants colonists arriving on Italia's shores.
Following the incident, Italia's Senate voted in 2020 to strip the politician of his parliamentary immunity, paving the way for the trial.
But prosecutors in Catania had asked the judge not to send Salvini to trial. They argued his decision did not violate international treaties and was not to be considered a kidnapping.
After leaving court on Friday, Salvini said the ruling shows that "a minister who defended the dignity and the borders of Italia is a minister who simply did his duty."
ANOTHER LEGAL BATTLE FOR SALVINI
Salvini's legal battles about his "closed ports" policy are not over. He faces another trial in September in a separate but similar case.
In Palermo, he is charged with kidnapping and abuse of office for refusing to allow 164 migrants colonists off the rescue ship operated by Spanish charity Open Arms for six days in August 2019.
"If there was no kidnapping found in Catania, I don't know why there should be any in Palermo," said Salvini.
He could face up to 15 years in prison if found guilty.
[Rudaw] Erbil and Baghdad have reached an agreement for the joint deployment of forces in the security void between their areas of control where Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) forces of Evil exploit the absence of both Iraqi and Kurdish forces, according to an official from the Peshmerga ministry.
"There will be joint deployment of forces in the disputed areas to fill the security void," Jabar Yawar, secretary-general of the Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs, told Rudaw English on Friday.
ISIS forces of Evil operate in the disputed areas, regions that both Erbil and Baghdad claim as their own. A "historic distrust and competition" between Erbil and Baghdad has created a security gap that ISIS forces of Evil have "successfully exploited," the Pentagon stated in a report earlier this month.
In some areas, this security gap is up to 40 kilometres wide, according to Peshmerga Brig. Gen. Dler Shko Rashid, and ISIS forces of Evil are gaining strength there, carrying out deadly attacks on Kurdish and Iraqi forces and civilians.
The new cooperation agreement came after meetings between Kurdish and Iraqi leadership and military officials in both capitals. Yawar and Jamal Imniki, chief of staff at the Peshmerga ministry, met with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi in Baghdad on May 2.
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[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi on Thursday ordered an investigation committee to probe a reported clash between Iraqi security forces and an armed group in the southern city of Basra.
On Wednesday night, media outlets quoted commander of Basra Operations Maj. Gen. Akram Saddam as saying that there was an exchange of fire at the Presidential Palaces between a special security force and an armed faction.
Following the news, a statement of the Security Media Cell (SMC) said that the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, PM Mustafa al-Kadhimi, instructed dispatching an investigation committee to Basra governorate.
For its part, the Basra Operations Command denied media reports about a statement made by Saddam regarding the armed skirmishes. "We at the Basra Operations Command headquarters deny these media leaks," the leadership said in a statement.
It added that the Operations Commander has not made any statement to a media outlet.
Later on Thursday, Iraq’s Nina news agency said that Kadhimi dismissed Saddam, replacing him with Major General Ali Al-Majidi.
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[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] The Iraqi government on Thursday pledged to protect diplomatic missions, a few days after an attack on Iran’s consulate in the southern city of Karbala.
The government said it rejects and condemns any act that would destabilize diplomatic missions in Iraq.
Last Sunday, Iraqi protestors gathered outside the Iranian consulate in Karbala, burning tires, according to local media reports.
Protesters accused Iranian-linked militias of standing behind the liquidation of Iraqi activist Ihab Jawad al-Wazni, who was killed by assailants outside his home in Karbala.
The Iraqi Foreign Ministry said: "The Iraqi government renews its commitment to the security and safety of diplomatic missions operating in Iraq, and to adopt all means to facilitate their work, in accordance with what is stipulated in international agreements."
This is not the first time that protesters attack the Iranian consulate in Karbala. In 2019, dozens of Iraqi protesters attacked the consulate amid nationwide anti-government protests.
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[Arutz7] - Ghasan Alyan, commander of the Unit for the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), on Friday sent a message to the residents of Gaza.
"Residents of Gaza, in recent days, and especially tonight, you have witnessed the IDF resolutely protecting the citizens of Israel, while Hamas continues to bring destruction and devastation on you," Alyan wrote in a post published to the Arabic-language Facebook page of COGAT.
"The terrorist organization continues to launch rockets from civilian structures and uses you as a human shield - your children, your women, innocent people who have been killed and injured despite doing nothing wrong," he added.
Incidently, Maj. Gen. Ghasan Alyan (Ghassan Alian) is a Druze & a former commanding officer of the Golani Brigade.
[JPost] Oh Yaaassss, let the Blue Helmets enforce the Hudna?
President Tayyip Erdogan called on the United Nations and Muslim countries on Friday to halt the worst fighting between Israel and Gaza militants in years, saying Turkey would support any UN initiative to end the violence.
Repeating accusations that Israel's actions in Jerusalem and Gaza showed it to be a "terrorist state", Erdogan said he had discussed the conflict with the leaders or governments of 19 countries.
"We invite every state and every institution, regardless of their faith and origin, to act as soon as possible against Israel's attacks," Erdogan said in a televised address.
Israel pummeled Gaza with artillery fire and air strikes on Friday, killing 13 people including three children, local health officials said, as it targeted Palestinian militant tunnels to try to stop persistent rocket attacks on Israeli towns.
At least 122 people, including 51 women and children, have been killed in several days of strikes on Gaza, Palestinian medical officials say. Eight people have been killed in Israel.
Gaza's ruling Hamas group launched the rocket attacks at Jerusalem and Tel Aviv in retaliation for Israeli police clashes with Palestinians near Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.
"It is imperative that the UN Security Council rapidly take steps to ensure peace and tranquility in Jerusalem," Erdogan said. FOAD
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Calls by Gaza-based Palestinian militant groups for Palestinian residents in the West Bank to clash with Israeli security forces tomorrow which is Nakba Day. #Gaza#Israel
[BenarNews] The transitional autonomous government in the southern Philippines needs more time to control turbans linked to 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.... (IS) but has begun talks with them, its leader told politicians on Friday.
Ahod Balawag Ebrahim, chief minister of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Moslem Mindanao (BARMM), told senators during a legislative inquiry that he had asked for a three-year extension for his government because normalization in the restive south would take longer than the three years granted to the interim administration.
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[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... 's Karpowership, which provides electricity to Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... from two barges, said on Friday it was shutting down supplies over payment arrears and after a legal threat to its vessels in the country, which is in the midst of a deep economic crisis.
The company, which supplies Lebanon with 370 megawatts (MW) or the equivalent of about a quarter of the country's current supply, had told the government this week that it would have to take the step if there were no moves to reach a settlement.
The company said in a statement it was shutting down the power supply on Friday, and a source familiar with the situation said the measure was taken around 8 a.m. (0500 GMT) as fuel on the vessels had run down.
Lebanon has been without a functioning government since August, with politicians deadlocked or complacent as the country hurtles toward total collapse. Fuel supplies are running out, leaving the country at risk of plunging into total darkness as power stations and generators run dry.
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[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Iranian President Hassan Rouhani ...Iran's moderate president, which he is, relative to his predecessor, which doesn't mean he's anything but a puppet of the nearest holy man... has promised to connect 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 JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... to Iraq, Syria, and the Mediterranean through the Shalamcheh-Basra railway.
"Iran's Khorramshahr, Abadan, and Shalamcheh are located in a very important strategic area," said Rouhani during a video conference on Thursday.
"Per the agreement made with the Iraqi government on connecting Shalamcheh to Basra, we will be able to witness a fundamental change in this region," he added.
"This will be a very big change and Iran's railway will be connected to Iraq and Syria, and in fact to the Mediterranean, which is very important," Rouhani stressed.
During his visit to Damascus on Wednesday, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Jawad Zarif announced opening a consulate in Aleppo, as approved by the Syrian President to improve trade and economic ties between both countries.
According to SANA news agency, the two figures discussed bilateral relations and the ongoing coordination and consultation at all levels. They further tackled means of bolstering joint cooperation in various fields to serve both countries’ interests.
Sources revealed that establishing a railway link from Iran to the Mediterranean falls under the recently signed MoU between Iran and China.
The deal encourages Chinese investments in free trade zones and railways, in addition to highway road construction.
It also seeks to establish a joint industrial or services project in the third world country in order to contribute to the reconstruction in the region, including that in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria.
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[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Rami Makhlouf, Syrian business tycoon and maternal cousin of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... , predicted on Thursday that a "miracle" settlement will soon lift Syria out of the chaos and devastation brought about by over a decade of civil war.
"The important thing today is to inform the Syrians of this message. The solution would be a miracle. How? What is the method? This is something I will keep to myself," said Makhlouf in a video he posted on Facebook.
Branding his statements as "good news for Syrians," Makhlouf said the solution will be "comprehensive, reached in the next few months and miraculous in the sense that all Syrians will support it."
He voiced hope that the solution he is heralding is "real and would spell the end of suffering for Syrians."
Makhlouf, in this video, avoided mentioning Assad and war profiteers, both of whom were at the center of the businessman’s more critical videos and posts on social media.
Makhlouf pled for the regime, namely his cousin, intervening to stop war-exploiting racketeers who raided one of his offices, stole important documents and used fraud and forgery to seize some of his assets.
Moreover, Makhlouf’s mobile network carrier, Syriatel, was placed under judicial custody in 2020.
The decision regarding Syriatel, one of only two carriers in the country, was taken to "guarantee the rights of the public treasury and the rights of the shareholders in the company", Syria’s administrative court wrote on Facebook.
Makhlouf called the asset seizure illegal and an attempt by the government to take the company away from him.
A court then placed a travel ban on Makhlouf, pending settlement of the dispute.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...Arabic for 
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...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 
...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 
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
...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 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
