[JPost] Secretary of State Antony Blinken vowed on Monday after the US military completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan that the Biden administration will keep up "relentless" efforts to help Americans, Afghans and others leave the country if they choose to do so.
Speaking at the State Department, Blinken said less than 200 Americans were believed to have remained in Afghanistan.
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Yeah, I would feel so much better if I knew that Tony Blinken was trying to help me.
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Since January, some 287 Seattle cops have retired or resigned. Last year, the city's political leadership (all left-wing) cut $35.6m from the police budget after George Floyd died. The result is soaring homicides, shootings & longer response times. https://t.co/bJZNMCcWFj
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Effective 08/09/2021:
Seattle Police Headquarters public service counter will reopen for Limited In-Person Services - available by appointment only. Our precinct facilities remain closed at this time. Find out more on our closure information page.
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What fraction of the total Seattle police force quit?
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@3 not enough. Those that stay are propping up the idiots and government that support this. They all need to quit and let the population live with their decisions.
Ninety retired military generals and admirals are demanding Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley resign
Calls for resignation 'based on negligence in performing their duties primarily involving events surrounding the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan'
Also said if Milley and Austin advised against withdrawal, they should have resigned if Biden didn't take their direction in protest of his leadership
Letter's signatories include Admiral John Poindexter, who served as President Ronald Reagan's national security adviser
House Rep. Ronny Jackson, the former top White House physician to Presidents Obama and Trump, is also a signatory to the letter
Jackson has previously called into question Biden's cognitive fitness for the job and demanded that he take a test similar to the one given to Trump
Comes after a Marine Lieutenant Colonel resigned after speaking out against his leadership for not pushing back against Biden's decisions in Afghanistan
The Pentagon announced Monday the last U.S. troops left Kabul
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Saw a report elsewhere that the number is now up to 220. Of course, these are all just malcontents who are bitter about being cashiered by the Bath House regime.
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Why just 90?Ore even 220? And why only one (somewhat whacky) active duty officer (relatively junior at that?)
[AnNahar] 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... played an outsized role in U.S. efforts to evacuate tens of thousands of people from Afghanistan. Now the tiny Gulf Arab state is being asked to help shape what is next for Afghanistan because of its ties with both Washington and the Taliban ...Arabic for students... , who are in charge in Kabul.
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[PJ Media] Politico has released bombshell information, obtained through a confidential source at the Pentagon, angering top military officials. The informant gave copies of detailed notes from three conference calls to Politico that showed military brass knew that a deadly attack was coming 24 hours before the suicide bomb at Kabul airport and was unable to stop it. Politico reported:
Speaking from a secure video conference room on the third floor of the Pentagon at 8 a.m. Wednesday — or 4:30 p.m. in Kabul — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin instructed more than a dozen of the department’s top leaders around the world to make preparations for an imminent "mass casualty event," according to classified detailed notes of the gathering shared with POLITICO.
During the meeting, Gen. Mark Milley, the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned of "significant" intelligence indicating that the Islamic State’s Afghanistan affiliate, ISIS-K, was planning a "complex attack," the notes quoted him as saying.
Commanders calling in from Kabul relayed that the Abbey Gate, where American citizens had been told to gather in order to gain entrance to the airport, was "highest risk," and detailed their plans to protect the airport.
Later that day, officials on another call decided to close the Abbey Gate by that afternoon. The closing plan was stalled when it was decided to leave the gate open to allow for British allies to continue evacuating their personnel through that gate. The delay was a deadly mistake. A suicide bomber entered Abbey Gate around 6 p.m. on Thursday and detonated a bomb that killed almost 200 people, including 13 U.S. military personnel.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby had no statement to make about why the gate closure was delayed so long after the recommended deadline but did take time to criticize the press for digging into what happened leading up to the deadly attack. I’m getting to really dislike this retired admiral.
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[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] For several years, the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... ’s official front man, Zabiullah Mujahid, had avoided appearing in the media, while still racking up hundreds of thousands of followers on social media as he posted live military updates about the war and various developments.
Days after the Taliban captured Kabul, and the collapse of the US-backed government, Zabiullah appeared on television for a surprise presser live from the Afghan capital. Many sources have speculated that he will be name media minster of the Taliban’s "Islamic Emirate" that will be declared in the coming days.
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[BREITBART] French officials allegedly met with representatives of the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... in 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... on Thursday in their first official meeting since Afghanistan fell to the Islamist group.
The existence of the meeting was revealed by Taliban front man Suhail Shaheen on the social media platform Twitter on Friday.
The Islamist stated that the Taliban-declared Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) met with French envoy Francois Richier and his delegation in the Qatari capital of Doha.
"Situation of the airport was also discussed in detail," Shaheen said, adding: "The IEA delegation reiterated that every Afghan with legal documents can travel abroad and proper facilities will be provided to all Afghans for their travel after the opening of the civilian part of the Airport."
La Belle France was expected to end all evacuation operations from Kabul airport on Friday evening following the deadly terrorist attack on Thursday in which over a hundred people were killed, including 13 U.S. troops, in explosions claimed by 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.... terrorist group.
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The French had to wait until the Chinese, Russian, and Germans were through.
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Direct translation via Google Translate. Edited. By Aleksandr Kots
[KP] The Green Zone is the safest area in Afghanistan. Here are the diplomatic missions of Western states, government buildings, the presidential palace.
The quarter is surrounded by tall fences, ornate checkpoints with powerful barriers. Yesterday, everything was in full swing here - thousands of Afghans, who worked in the embassies of NATO countries, pounded the doorstep in the hope of leaving the country. In words, the Taliban, of course, declare a general amnesty, but who knows what will hit them in the head when no one can protect these people.
It's completely empty here today. There is a huge queue just to the bank office - financial institutions have finally begun to open. But in order not to bring down the frail economy with frozen accounts, the limit on cash withdrawals is set - up to $200 per week.
We brake at the main entrance to the "Green Zone." A lonely woman in a burqa knocks on the window. In her hands are laminated documents, apparently indicating that she worked for one of the Western diplomatic missions. So, she has the right to evacuate. I just spread my hands. A joint post is 50 meters away. Next to the American Humvee and the French armored car are two road police officers and a dozen Taliban. Law enforcement officers returned to service, only removing the republican flag of Afghanistan from their chevrons. A white Taliban flag now flies over the Green Zone.
The militants, as owners, are leading us along a concrete security corridor -- 10 meters wide and 5 meters high. Embassy of Saudi Arabia, France, and behind it are government buildings and the presidential palace. This corridor was once the target of their terrorist attacks. Today they claim that they are guarding Western diplomatic missions awaiting the return of diplomats.
“We are ready to ensure their safety and continue cooperation in all areas,” the bearded man near the French embassy assures me. Our leadership says that nothing threatens foreign diplomats in our country. It is necessary that they take an example from the Russian embassy, from the Russians who have remained and continue to work normally.
At the entrance of the British Embassy, a picture of the flight is read. There are containers with keys on the counter, some of them are lying on the floor. In front of the entrance there are open cells, where, apparently, mobile phones were handed over. There are badges on the floor with the names of Afghans who worked for the British.
"We do not pursue them. The gardeners still come to do their work, the bosses told us not to touch any of them," the Taliban fighter assures me.
"And if the bosses say that they are collaborators and deserve punishment," I asked.
The Talib shrugged indifferently, patting the machine gun with his hand.
Not that America opened itself up in Kabul, showing the world something unexpected. It is well known about the cynicism of her foreign policy and readiness for the sake of her interests to walk on other people's bones. But the US withdrawal from Afghanistan will go down in history. No sooner had the dust settled from the August 26 terrorist attack at the capital's airport, which killed 13 American Marines and one and a half hundred unarmed civilians, as a new explosion shook Kabul. Doubts exist as to how all 150 civilians died. Aleksandr Kots is a Russian military journalist.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A close aide of Osama bin Laden has returned to his home in Afghanistan after 20 years of US occupation just hours until American forces finish their evacuation from the war-torn country by President Joe Biden's deadline, a video purports to show.
Amin ul-Haq, a top Al Qaeda arms supplier, returned to his hometown in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province on Monday just over two weeks after the Taliban completed its lightening fast offensive to take over nearly all of the country.
Ul-Haq headed bin Laden's security when he was occupying the Tora Bora cave complex. The two men escaped together when US forces attacked the complex, according to NBC.
The Al Qaeda leader was killed by US forces in Pakistan in 2011.
In the video, a car carrying ul-Haq is seen driving through a checkpoint amid a small crowd.
At one point the car stops and ul-Haq rolls down the window. Apparent admirers crowd the vehicle's passenger side, with men taking turns grasping and even kissing the top Al Qaeda associate's hand.
Two men take a few steps forward along with the slow-moving car in order to take a next to ul-Haq.
The car is then followed by a procession of vehicles carrying heavily-armed fighters, some flying the Taliban's flag.
Ul-Haq had been a member of Hizb-i Islami Khalis, one of seven groups that fought against the Soviet Union's occupation of Afghanistan.
He was detained by Pakistan's intelligence agency in 2008 but released in 2011, according to the Daily Telegraph - roughly half a year after bin Laden was killed.
'Amin al-Haq had been arrested mistakenly, therefore, the police failed to prove any charge of his association with Osama bin Laden and the court set him free,' a security source told the outlet.
[OneIndia] The meeting between the leaders of the Jaish-e-Mohammad ...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat... and Taliban ...Arabic for students... has come under the radar of the Indian Intelligence agencies. The meeting that took place last week focused on India centric operations with the JeM seeking the help of the Taliban.
After the Taliban took over Afghanistan, several JeM faceless myrmidons were freed from jails and the concern for India is that these persons may be used to carry out strikes in India. While the Taliban is unlikely to spread its tentacles into 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.... , it could still provide support to the JeM which has its eyes focused on J&K.
The Intelligence Agencies are now focusing on social media accounts. Added to this ANI reported that the agencies are also keeping a close watch on two faceless myrmidons from Pakistain who are planning grenade attacks in Srinagar.
The Taliban following the takeover had said that Kashmir is India's internal matter and it would not interfere in it. However the JeM and Taliban share a close relationship and this was evident when it provided a safe haven during the Kandahar hijack, following which Masood Azhar ...One of the major players in Pak terrorism. In early 1994, India incarcerated him for his activities. In 1995, foreign tourists were kidnapped in Jammu and Kashmir. The kidnappers included his release among their demands. One of the hostages managed to escape but the rest were eventually killed. In 1999, he was freed by the Indian government in exchange for passengers on hijacked Indian Airlines Flight 814 that had been diverted to Kandahar. The hijackers were led by Masood Azhar's brother, Ibrahim Athar. Once he was handed over to the hijackers, they fled to Pak territory despite the fact that Islamabad had earlier stated that any of the hijackers would be jugged at the border. The Pak government had also previously indicated that Azhar would be allowed to return home since he did not face any charges there. Shortly after his release, he made a public address to an estimated 10,000 people in Karachi, firing up the rubes against America and India... was released. The JeM and Taliban are ideologically similar in nature and hence this victory of the Taliban is quite worrisome for India.
Afghansitan watchers tell OneIndia that both the Lashkar-e-Tayiba and the JeM have played a crucial role in Afghanistan and one must note that there are nearly 1,000 of their fighters who co-exist with the Taliban.
Afghanistan has been a happy hunting ground for both these terror groups. These groups have very often regrouped on the soil of Afghanistan and this is would be a concern for India.
While the Taliban has made assurances that it would not let its soil be used as safe havens for terror groups, the question is how much can it be trusted. The Lashkar-e-Tayiba and the JeM have their primary interests in Jammu and Kashmir. National security watchers tell OneIndia that the worry is that the Taliban would let Afghanistan used by these groups who have their main interests in the Valley.
While the Taliban is unlikely to send its fighters into India the worry is that terror activities may overflow into India. Chief of Defence Staff, General Bipin Rawat had said that everything that has happened in Afghanistan was anticipated. He said that only the timelines have changed and this has certainly surprised us because we were anticipating the takeover to take place a couple of months down the line. There are contingency plans in place to deal with the situation in India, he also said.
[Jpost] How Israeli weapons were used to hunt the Taliban: From drones to missiles and armored vehicles, Israeli-made weapons systems helped coalition forces against Taliban fighters.
Details of which weapons at the link.
And according to some reports, it wasn’t only Israeli weapons systems in Afghanistan.
Though Israel does not comment on foreign reports, Iranian media reported in 2019 that troops were sent to Afghanistan to collect intelligence on Iranian military movement.
According to Iran’s Tasnim news agency, Israeli troops operated out of a United States Air Force base in Shindand in the western Afghanistan province of Herat some 75 km. from the Iranian border and were collecting intelligence on Iranian movement around the Persian Gulf region.
Russia’s Sputnik News stated at the time that the Israelis were operating “under the flags of the United States and the United Arab Emirates.”
Sputnik quoted an expert on Israel as saying that the Israeli troops were operating under the framework of American forces stationed there, and that the activity was carried out with the knowledge and approval of the Afghan government.
[[IsraelTimes] Defense Minister Benny Gantz says Israel is offering an NIS 500 million ($155 million) loan to the Paleostinian Authority in order to prevent its collapse.
This arrangement allows the Israeli government to effectively circumvent a law passed in 2018 that requires it offset the payments the PA makes to Paleostinians maimed, incarcerated Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! , or killed by Israel — including avowed bandidosforces of Evil — by confiscating the same amount from the Paleostinian tax revenue that Israel collects.
The half-billion shekel loan that Israel is giving to the Paleostinian will be paid off from those confiscated funds.
Gantz’s announcement came after a meeting he held the night before with PA President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase.... , who also goes by the nom de guerre Abu Mazen. This was the first such meeting between high-level Israeli and Paleostinian officials in nearly a decade.
"I told Abu Mazen that we aren’t going anywhere and that the Paleostinians aren’t going anywhere. I went to the meeting in order to build confidence and preserve the interests of the State of Israel and the important ties we have with the Paleostinian Authority, which I believe we need to strengthen," Gantz says.
"As the Paleostinian Authority gets stronger, Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, gets weaker, and so long as it has greater governance, we will have more security and we will have to act less," he adds.
The defense minister says Israel will also recognize the status of thousands of Paleostinians currently living in the West Bank without proper documentation, most of whom came from the 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... Strip or from abroad without proper approvals over the years. This would only apply to adults and would be performed according to the relevant security protocols, his office said.
Israel was also digitizing many of its permit applications for Paleostinian in order to streamline the process and make it cheaper and easier, according to Gantz.
An additional 16,000 Paleostinians will also be permitted to work in Israel, 1,000 of them specifically in tourism, and Israel will also approve more building in Area C of the West Bank, which is under full Israeli security control, he says.
Former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu scaled back Israel's intelligence cooperation with the United States when President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. An incredibly corrupt version of Jar-Jar Binks, only well into his dotage. The dumbass who abandoned Afghanistan.... took office earlier this year.
Sources in Tel Aviv said that Naftali Bennett's government decided to cancel Netanyahu's instructions and release its information on sensitive issues, including extremism financing.
The sources noted that the Israeli National Security Council held numerous meetings with their US counterpart last week and other secret meetings with US and European officials.
They explained that the intel provided by the Israelis relates to 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... and its affiliates and all terrorist activities in the region.
The meetings also discussed the hard boy organizations in Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... and the Americas. Israel provided information about the funding of these organizations. It asserted that the "follow the money" proven has proven its effectiveness in combating these organizations, so Israel is pursuing it through high-tech means and cyber-attacks.
That changed after the election of Biden, who promised to restore the nuclear agreement with Iran, which Israel so vigorously opposed.
Netanyahu even curtailed intelligence sharing with the United States in the spring because he did not trust the Biden administration, the same old faces in slightly different places, the same old ideas, the same old graft ...knaves, footpads, and adjusters employed by the Biden Crime Family. They leave a trail of havoc everywhere they turn their attention, be it the nation's borders, the Keystone XL Pipeline, or epidemics, sometimes on purpose, most times through sheer arrogant ineptitude. They learnt this stuff in college, you know... The risk of such dependence became clear in April when Israel set off explosives at Iran's Natanz nuclear plant.
Netanyahu ordered his national security officials to reduce the information they conveyed to Washington about planned operations in Iran, US and Israeli officials said.
On the day of the attack, the Mossad gave the US less than two hours' notice, according to the officials, far too short a time for Washington to assess the operation or ask Israel to call it off.
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Arabs, whining about US depending on Israel too much. Trying to play up the rift caused by the Biden Presiduncey. Who will provide intel on muzz if not the Israelis?
'A' and 'One' all the way,
the data never failed.
From Delaware to Delhi,
Allah hoolery derailed.
"Beware they're reneged,
and Joe's face they've egged!
Don't trust them at all!"
The destitute Mustapha wailed.
A report published by the Crisis Observatory at #Lebanon’s American University of Beirut has concluded that the crisis-hit nation is entering a third mass exodus wave of #immigration.https://t.co/IpY6jwkko2
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi said Sunday he regrets that the Lebanese society has become corrupt, and called on the security services to close illegal border crossings and prevent smuggling.
Rahi was hinting at the latest security raids on hidden fuel and diesel tanks amid the severe fuel shortages that have crippled hospitals and caused long power cuts, and the tons of medicine that have been hoarded at warehouses throughout the country.
"I encourage security apparatuses to expand their raids to include every person monopolizing medicine and basic goods," he said.
The Patriarch also called on concerned security officials to close all illegal border crossings and prevent the smuggling of goods from 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, a practice dating back to the heady human sacrifice days of Baal Moloch. In 2020 Hezbollahblew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate faci8lity exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that... to Syria.
Rahi spoke during Sunday’s mass in his summer residence in Diman.
He called for expediting the formation of a rescue government that is up to the challenges, and that is neutral, non-partisan, and includes highly qualified people.
On the Aug. 4, 2020 Beirut port explosion, Rahi said he is against "politicizing or paralyzing the investigation," saying "no official should be exempted from being questioned by the judiciary over the blast."
The Patriarch said even President Michel Aoun ...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... had told the country's public prosecutor he was ready to give a statement about the earth-shattering kaboom.
"What has become with the investigation into the port explosion crime? What is the fate of the summons issued against deputies, ministers and the head of security and military apparatuses?" he asked.
Rahi was hinting to the subpoena issued by Judge Tarek Bitar for caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab after the latter failed to show up for questioning in the case.
Bitar, leading the inquiry into the huge explosion, issued requests in July to question Diab and other brass hats, including former ministers, who were charged by his predecessor with negligence over the blast.
However, women are made to be loved, not understood... the subpoena drove dismay and negative reactions from former prime ministers and Dar al-Fatwa.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, Butch cautiously raised his hat over the edge of the horse trough on the end of a stick...... Metropolitan Bishop of the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch for the Archdiocese of Beirut Elias Audi wondered in his sermon on Sunday if the concerned authorities have held accountable any of the persons who had hidden fuel tanks or illegally stored medicines.
The Bishop urged the Lebanese to be loyal and supportive to one another and to their country, saying: "Love your brethren who need you most, and do not abuse them, imitating the unjust, who only care about themselves by securing what they eat, what they drink, and what they store."
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
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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.
[JPost] Secretary of State Antony Blinken vowed on Monday after the US military completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan that the Biden administration will keep up "relentless" efforts to help Americans, Afghans and others leave the country if they choose to do so.
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A close aide of Osama bin Laden has returned to his home in Afghanistan after 20 years of US occupation just hours until American forces finish their evacuation from the war-torn country by President Joe Biden's deadline, a video purports to show..jpg "Kashmir")
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
...knaves, footpads, and 
...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 practice dating back to the heady human sacrifice days of Baal Moloch. In 2020 Hezbollahblew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate faci8lity exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that...
