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Britain
MI5 'alerted to Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi 18 TIMES before suicide attack killed 22 concertgoers' inquest hears - as top lawyer warns terrorist brothers 'did not act alone'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • MI5 received alerts about terrorist Salman Abedi
    ...one of the more notable members of the Manchester Libyan jihadi crowd. The parental generation ties back to the al-Qaeda-aligned Libyan Islamic Fighting Group in the 1990s, while the kids pledged to the even more romantic ISIS. Not that it makes much difference in the end — the networks overlap personnel-wise, it’s just a matter of the name on the checking account paying their expenses...
    18 times over seven years

  • In May 2017 he killed 22 people at the Manchester Arena with a suicide bomb

  • Also identified associating with six other security service 'subjects of interest' including Abdal Raouf Abdallah
    ...left paralyzed after being shot in 2011 during the nonsense in Libya, the convicted ISIS recruiter was our lad’s BFF, according to phone records and prison visits...
  • Comes amid warning Abedi brothers 'did not act alone' and others knew of plot
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/01/2020 08:59 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Following the FBI model?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/01/2020 11:03 Comments || Top||

#2  The Russians evidently warned the US about the two Boston pressure cooker scum bags. Sigh....
Posted by: Clem || 10/01/2020 13:58 Comments || Top||

#3  One of the problems with treating terrorism as a criminal matter - you have to wait for the perps to act. That may work for bank robberies, but when it comes to mass murder, being a bit more pro-active just might be a good thing.
Posted by: SteveS || 10/01/2020 16:04 Comments || Top||

#4  Mike Flynn used to say "you must get the SOB's before the boom."
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/01/2020 16:48 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Emmanuel Macron declares support to Armenia, saying France will not accept Azerbaijani control in Nagorno-Karabakh
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 10/01/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  Eh bien, p'tit con?
You'll accept it - et l'aimeriez
Posted by: Thumper B. Hayes6726 || 10/01/2020 20:40 Comments || Top||


Only solution to recent tension between Azerbaijan, Armenia is end of illegal occupation of Nagorno-Karabakh, Presidential Spokesperson Ibrahim Kalın says
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] When they say "the only solution is..." that means "give us what we want right now."
Posted by: Fred || 10/01/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Moscow, which has a military pact with Armenia but also good ties with Azerbaijan, has offered to host negotiations
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 10/01/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Europe
Terrorism charges filed in stabbings near French newspaper
[IsraelTimes] A Pak man accused in a double stabbing outside the former Gay Paree offices of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo
...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
is handed preliminary terrorism charges.

The suspect told Sherlocks he acted out of anger over caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad recently republished by the weekly newspaper.

Investigating magistrates handed him preliminary charges of "attempted murder in relation with a terrorist enterprise," the counterterrorism prosecutor’s office says. He will remain in jug pending further investigation. Relatives and associates of the suspect were released without charge.

Counterterrorism prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard says the Pakistain-born suspect identified himself as Zaher Hassan Mahmood,
...in our archives as Zeheer Hassan Mehmood ...
25. Ricard says the assailant did not claim an affiliation with a specific bad boy group.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/01/2020 02:51 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists


Fifth Column
BLM protester who 'deliberately' plowed her car into Trump supporters and ran over a woman's head is charged with attempted murder - but claims she 'feared for her life' and was just trying to get away
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Tatiana Turner, 40, was charged with attempted murder Tuesday

  • The BLM protester drove her car into a crowd of Trump supporters in California on Saturday, running over a woman's head

  • Her attorney has claimed cops on the scene refused to help Turner when her car was surrounded by the armed counter-protesters

  • He says that Turner had asked for help and didn't mean to hit anybody when she accelerated in fear to escape

  • Orange County prosecutors argue she used her car as a deadly weapon

  • 'She positioned her vehicle to be used as a backup weapon,' said District Attorney Todd Spitzer

  • The victims have not been named but are expected to survive
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/01/2020 08:51 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Do stupid things, win stupid prizes.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/01/2020 10:52 Comments || Top||

#2  It was in a parking lot, not a roadway
Posted by: Frank G || 10/01/2020 11:10 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
NAB to summon Maulana Fazl in assets beyond means inquiry
[DAILYTIMES.PK] The chief of Jamaat-e-Ulema e Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) Maulana Fazlur Rehman
...Deobandi holy man, known as Mullah Diesel during the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty...
would be summoned to appear in National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) to narrate his side of the story about alleged corruption charges against him in assets beyond means inquiry case as required by law, said a NAB front man.Clarifying some media reports about Maulana Fazlur Rehman’s case, the front man said the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa bureau was continuing inquiry against Maulana Fazlur Rehman right now.

Earlier, NAB had asked JUI-F chief to appear before the additional director (AG) of NAB Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire...
on October 1 to answer allegations that he owned assets beyond known sources of income.

Previously, during the formation of the Pakistain Democratic Movement, Maulana Fazl and other opposition leaders had spoken up against NAB’s so-called selective accountability. Reacting to Maulana Fazlur Rehman’s statement, senior Pakistain Tehrek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Amir Mughal said that Maulana Fazlur’s threat was an open example of terrorism.

"He has been issuing fatwas in favour of corrupt rulers during his tenure. The PTI will not be intimidated by Maulana’s such statements. Maulana’s incitement of workers by sitting with Ghafoor Haideri is a failed attempt
...Curses! Foiled again!...
to intimidate the government and institutions," he said in a statement.

Furthermore, Mughal remarked Maulana will give an account of the billions of rupees of wealth and assets he has. The PTI leader added all the opposition leaders should bring the assets and current assets before coming to power before the nation.



Posted by: Fred || 10/01/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Jamaat-e-Ulema Islami


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Qatar reportedly asks US to intervene in talks to return Israelis held by Hamas
[IsraelTimes] 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...
is reportedly appealing to US administration officials to intervene in attempts to advance talks to return the bodies of Israeli soldiers and two living Israelis currently being held by Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw,.

Kan news reports that the US has not yet responded to the request. The outlet says it it not known whether the proposal was made at Hamas’s request or with its knowledge, or whether it was Qatar’s independent initiative.

Hamas is currently holding the bodies of IDF soldiers Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul, both killed in the 2014 war, as well as civilians Avera Mengistu and Hisham al-Sayed, two Israelis who entered Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
of their own accord.

According to Kan, Paleostinian sources say Qatar is interested in making progress in the stalled negotiations at the expense of Egypt, which has so far led the issue without reaching a breakthrough.

Despite the Qatari offer, Hamas is reportedly still demanding that Israel release hundreds of security prisoners as part of a comprehensive deal, including prisoners sentenced to life in prison.

A Hamas source is quoted by Kan as saying that the terrorist group has "proposed that Israel first release patients, minors and women prisoners in return for Hamas providing information to Israel on whether its captives and missing persons were alive or dead."
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/01/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Qatar (MB)


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
UN nuclear watchdog inspects second site Iran had previously barred access to
[IsraelTimes] IAEA says it took environmental samples from location following agreement last month that ended standoff over suspected activity.

The UN’s nuclear watchdog said Wednesday it had gained access to a second site 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...
where undeclared nuclear activity may have take place in the early 2000s.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 10/01/2020 02:36 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


IDF reveals two more alleged Hezbollah weapons factories
Satellite photo can be seen at the link.
[IsraelTimes] The Israel Defense Forces releases information on two additional sites in Beirut allegedly used by the Hezbollah terror group to manufacture parts for precision-guided missiles, following the revelation of one such site by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
General Assembly earlier in the evening.

One is an underground facility built beneath four seven-story apartment buildings in which 70 families live, east of Beirut’s international airport.

A church is located nearby, as is a medical center, according to the military.

The second is located under a complex of five apartment buildings in which some 50 families live. According to the IDF, the missile production facility is located approximately 90 meters from a mosque.

Israel has repeatedly warned that it will take action to prevent Hezbollah from completing its so-called precision project, an effort to convert its massive arsenal of simple rockets into highly accurate missiles, which present a far greater challenge to Israel’s air defenses and would potentially be a game-changer in the conflict with the Iran-backed militia.
Last week, what was reported to be a Hezbollah weapons stockpile blew up in Ein Qana. While the terror group has denied any casualties, it released a statement a few days later mourning a senior commander in the Lebanese terror group killed "while performing his duty."

The senior officer, Ali Najib Marwa, is rumored to have been killed in the earth-shattering kaboom, which Hezbollah has deemed "a technical error."
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/01/2020 02:31 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


Iran on Tuesday dismissed Saudi Arabia’s claim that Tehran trained a terrorist cell, which was taken down by Riyadh
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 10/01/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


-PC Follies
Students are stupid: Columbia and U of Illinois students pass powerless anti-Israel referenda


Columbia students pass university’s first-ever Israel boycott referendum

[IsraelTimes] Vote follows a federal complaint filed in December 2019 accusing the school of anti-Semitic discrimination.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 10/01/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The total turnout is much higher than 11% of Columbus undergrads. Closer to 30%.

Extremely high, actually, for a referendum that has nothing to do with typical undergraduate concerns like beer, sex, getting into medical school etc
Posted by: Omurt Sinatra7796 || 10/01/2020 0:48 Comments || Top||

#2  The total turnout is much higher than 11% of Columbus undergrads.

Whoops! You are absolutely correct, Omurt Sinatra7796. I looked at the number as the whole instead of only part of the total number of voters.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/01/2020 2:09 Comments || Top||

#3  Come 11/3 and 1/20 these referenda could outline official US government policy of a Harris/Biden administration.

Don't get cocky.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 10/01/2020 2:25 Comments || Top||

#4  ^What do you mean "could" Kemosabe?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/01/2020 2:27 Comments || Top||

#5  Open borders for Israel!
Posted by: Mr Obvious || 10/01/2020 3:57 Comments || Top||

#6  *Heh* Student governments, as well as their Model UN's, love to cast these symbolic votes. If they try to vote on something the university administration wants they get bought off (individually) or stepped on hard.
Posted by: magpie || 10/01/2020 4:17 Comments || Top||

#7  Should also boycott all the islamic countries for consistency?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/01/2020 4:20 Comments || Top||

#8  What do you mean "could" Kemosabe?

Trump might yet win.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 10/01/2020 7:25 Comments || Top||

#9  Dear federal government, please do not defund Columbia because our faculty and students are ignorant, posturing fools.

FIFY
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/01/2020 12:29 Comments || Top||

#10  #8 Wasn't "if they win" implicit in your remark?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/01/2020 13:32 Comments || Top||

#11  This time they'll probably come for the Christians before they come for the Jews.
Posted by: Matt || 10/01/2020 13:49 Comments || Top||

#12  Columbia Heil! Butt-hurt minion
Says kaddish for buried opinion,
Sees Jews overstepping;
In protest, starts schlepping
Round campus a pet Palestinian.
Posted by: Glunter the Weasel7308 || 10/01/2020 17:52 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Thu 2020-10-01
  France arrests 29 in anti-terror Syria financing sting
Wed 2020-09-30
  First debate shambles, Chris Wallace loses bigly
Tue 2020-09-29
  US moves its embassy from Baghdad to Erbil
Mon 2020-09-28
  U.S. Plans 'Full Withdrawal' From Iraqi Embassy
Sun 2020-09-27
  Azerbaijan launched a missile and aerial attack against Artsakh and Stepanakert Armenia
Sat 2020-09-26
  BLM protester in Los Angeles who shut down the road with a large mob got hit by a truck
Fri 2020-09-25
  LNA Kills ISIS 'Emir' in Southern Libya
Thu 2020-09-24
  Louisville: Two police officers shot
Wed 2020-09-23
  Canadian woman charged for sending ricin to President Trump & law enforcement agencies in Texas was previously deported
Tue 2020-09-22
  Twenty-Five Afghan policemen dead after attempt to break Taliban siege in Uruzgan
Mon 2020-09-21
  Justice Dept. brands NYC an ‘anarchist jurisdiction,'
targets federal funds
Sun 2020-09-20
  Concentrated, Deadly Ricin Sent to White House, Addressed to President Trump
Sat 2020-09-19
  Notorious RBG dead at 87
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  RBG Kicks The Bucket
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  Minnesota man charged with providing material support to Islamic State


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