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Yet Another Muslim Country Joins Abraham Accords With Israel
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Afghanistan
Taliban Attack Claims 3 Security Members in Ghazni
[KhaamaPress] Officials reported on Wednesday, that three security members were killed during a clash with security forces in southern Ghazni province.

A front man for the Ghazni governor, Wahidullah Jumazada told the media, that a clash broke out between Afghan cops and the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
in Andar district last night at around 12 am.

He said the Taliban planned to detonate, two explosive-laden vehicles at an ANA security base, both vehicles were identified by the defense forces and the jacket wallah had fled the area.

He added that a local policeman was killed in another clash in the Krosai area of ​​Qarabagh district at the same time.

This comes at a time when peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban are in full swing, the battlefield in the country has escalated, and there are daily reports of casualties and insecurity across the country.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/10/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Balkh: Taliban Shot 7 Policemen Dead
[KhaamaPress] Local officials in Balkh province said, on Tuesday Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
fighters first captured and then shot seven Afghan National Police members.

Munir Ahmad Farhad, a front man for the governor of Balkh, told the media on Wednesday, that the incident took place at around 12:00 pm yesterday in Chahar Bolak district of Balkh province.

Farhad added that Taliban fighters killed the seven coppers, immediately following their capture.

Some districts in Balkh province are under threat from Taliban attacks, and the group’s fighters have launched several operations to seize these districts, but have failed in their efforts.

The northern Balkh province is one of the relatively insecure provinces in the country where Taliban fighters are present and active in various areas of the province.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/10/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa North
IS Steps up Sinai Fight with Bombs in Civilian Homes
[AnNahar] Residents of Egypt's restive North Sinai region ran for their lives when an 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....
group affiliate occupied their villages.
Back when they were affiliated with Al Qaeda, they called themselves Ansar Bayt al Maqdis/Al Qaeda in the Sinai. After they switched allegiance to ISIS, they eventually called themselves ISIS in the Sinai Province (Wilayat Sinai) and Sheikh Omar Hadid Brigade in Gaza...
Now, they are returning to find their homes booby-trapped.

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Posted by: trailing wife || 12/10/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Arabia
Saudi-led coalition in Yemen stops explosive-laden boats south of Red Sea
[Jpost] The Saudi-led coalition fighting in 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...
said on Wednesday it intercepted and destroyed two explosive-laden boats south of the Red Sea, Saudi state TV reported.

The coalition added the boats were launched by Iran-aligned 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...
s from Yemen's port city of Hodeidah, state TV said.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/10/2020 01:18 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Britain
Another 111 Boat Migrants Land in Britain Despite £28 Million Deal With France
[Breitbart] Another 111 illegal boat migrants colonists landed on British shores on Monday, a daily record for the number of illegal crossings for the month of December.

Despite Britannia agreeing to pay the French another £28 million to step up patrols of the Calais coast, migrants colonists continue to flow across the English Channel.

The previous December daily record was on Boxing day last year, according to The Telegraph, when 49 migrants colonists made the treacherous journey the day after 40 arrived on Christmas day.

BBC news hound Simon Jones said that Clandestine Channel Threat Commander Dan O’Mahoney informed him that French authorities only stopped 35 people from crossing the Channel on Monday.

"We continue to work closely with the French following our agreement to take further action to tackle illegal migration, through increasing police patrols and surveillance," O’Mahoney said.

The Daily Mail reported that the migrants colonists were brought ashore by the British Border Force cutter Vigilant after being picked up mid-Channel.

At least 5 of the 111 the migrants colonists are believed to be children, with pictures showing a baby without shoes or socks being carried ashore. The children were wrapped in blankets and life jackets, as temperatures hovered around zero degrees celsius at the Port of Dover.

Illegal crossings of the Channel typically slow in December, as rough waters and frigid temperatures make the already dangerous journey more perilous.

In October, a family of five Iranian migrants colonists, including three children, aged nine, six, and 15-months-old, drowned while attempting to sail in a small rubber boat from La Belle France.

In August, Sudanese migrant Abdulfatah Hamdallah died after drowning in the Channel, following La Belle France reportedly denying him asylum status. Initial reports falsely claimed that the migrant was 16-years-old, however, it was later revealed that he was in fact 28.

A study from the Institute of Race Relations in October found that over the past twenty years 292 illegal migrants colonists have died while attempting to clandestinely reach the UK. The deaths included those who have tried to enter by boat and by vehicles through the tunnel connecting to La Belle France.

Of the nearly 300 deaths, some 36 children bit the dust trying to make the journey.

Last month, Brexit leader Nigel Farage said that he, alongside a friend of his, saved two migrants colonists from drowning in the Channel after the migrant boat capsised.

"There is no question they wouldn’t have survived. Even if they hadn’t tipped out, one of them, I would have thought, within an hour or two, would’ve been dead of hypothermia, and probably not much longer for the other guy," Mr Farage said.

Farage went on to write last week, that the deal between UK and La Belle France will not stop the record flows of migrants colonists, arguing the only method that will put a stop to it is to turn back the boats to La Belle France, in line with the remarkably successful Operation Sovereign Borders policy in Australia.

Since 2014, some £192 million of British taxpayer money has been sent to La Belle France in order to slow the flow of illegal aliens. Yet, migration has continued to increase at a rapid pace, with over four times as many migrants colonists landing in 2020 than the year prior.

Victory For Sikh Campaigners Against Blanket ‘Asian’ Description of Child Rape Gangs
[Breitbart] The Network of Sikh Organisations (NSO) hailed the move by the Editors’ Code of Practice Committee to recommend against using the word ‘Asian’ when referring to the phenomenon of predominantly Pakistani Muslim grooming gangs in news reports.

‘What About My Daughter?’ 1,000 pop. English Village Braces for 500-Man Migrant Camp
[Breitbart] According to the Daily Echo, the Home Office is planning to construct a camp of portacabins just outside the small Hampshire village of Barton Stacey on a Ministry of Defence property that would be capable of housing 500 alleged asylum seekers. The village itself is home to only 1,000 residents, and the plans have sparked deep concern amongst the local population.

The leader of Test Valley Borough Council, Councillor Phil North likened the planned migrant camp to an “open prison”.

“An influx of 500 young men in a village with an existing population of just 1,000, would have an overwhelmingly detrimental impact. In other similar facilities this has led to an increase in anti-social behaviour and criminality,” North warned.

So far this year, approximately 8,500 illegal migrants have landed on British shores after making the perilous journey across the English Channel in small rubber boats from France.

The housing illegal migrants in small villages and towns have been a feature of the European Migrant Crisis in countries such as Germany, Italy, and Greece, leading to increased social tensions. In one notable example, a group of asylum seekers terrorised a local fair in the small German town of Steinfurt in 2018, fighting with local teenagers, harassing ride owners, and sexually molesting young women.

In 2016, a study entitled “Refugee Integration: Challenges for German Municipalities” found that many small towns in Germany were driven into enormous amounts of debt in order to provide food and shelter for migrants.

Tensions have already been rising in the former army barracks turned migrant camp in Folkestone, Kent, where migrants have complained about the supposed poor conditions in the facility, which used to house British soldiers. In November, a group of migrants attempted to break down the gates surrounding the camp, demanding that they have access to the local town.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/10/2020 02:30 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Human Trafficking

#1  What about my daughter?

That's all conveniently domesticated, forcibly pacified populations do nowadays; while their governments subject them to insecurity and lethal endangerment.

I think the proper way to make a statement is to start lynching islamic migrants. Make it a communal thing. Marry Gandhi's doctrine of 'disobedience' to guerilla defence of your societies, and instead of bracing for whatever the haajis bring, 'brace' instead for the legal backlash from your own people. Make your own country persecute you until they face the truth of what they are doing. What are they going to do? Hang thousands of taxpaying Englanders to give justice to f#cking Sudanese have-nots?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 12/10/2020 5:19 Comments || Top||

#2  Another 111 illegal boat migrants colonists landed on British shores on Monday

Easily accomplishing overnight what Hitler was unable to do in several years.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/10/2020 8:37 Comments || Top||

#3  Camp des Saints
Field of the Saints v. Field of the Apostates
Posted by: Gerthudion Hupusort6790 || 12/10/2020 22:07 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Oil wells bombed in Kirkuk
[Rudaw] Two oil wells were bombed at Kirkuk’s Khabbaz oilfield on Wednesday morning, security sources have told Rooters.

Firefighters are working to extinguish the flames at the site, which produces approximately 25,000 barrels of oil per day, oil and security sources told the news outlet.

Iraqi outlet Sumaria News also reported the bombings.

It is currently unclear who is responsible for the incident.

Security has been a constant concern in disputed areas like Kirkuk. 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....
(ISIS), despite being territorially defeated in Iraq in December 2017, has exploited security gaps between Iraqi forces and Kurdish Peshmerga in the province, with remnants carrying out numerous attacks against security forces and civilians.

Two coppers guarding the Khabbaz oilfield were killed by ISIS bandidos faceless myrmidons in 2018.

On Thursday the group's weekly propaganda newspaper al-Naba claimed the group has killed and injured at least 19 security forces in Kirkuk in the past two weeks.

An explosion in Kirkuk last month killed two members of Iraqi security forces and injured six others. The attack was later claimed by ISIS.

Members of Kirkuk’s Majlis al-Arabi (Arab Council) and Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) met with Kirkuk Governor Rakan al-Jabouri in Baghdad’s Salam Palace last week to discuss increasing security through a "united force." The meeting was led by Iraqi President Barham Salih.

"Arabs, Kurds, and Turkmen all agree that there should be a united force defending Kirkuk consisting of the people of Kirkuk themselves, and we have discussed this idea in our meeting," Hatam al-Tai, a spokesperson for the Arab Council told Rudaw English on Monday.
In a statement issued through its official channel on Telegram, Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack, though it did not provide any evidence to back up its claim.

Technical teams isolated the two burning oil wells and there was no impact on output, two sources from the state-run North Oil Company (NOC), who spoke on condition of anonymity, said.

The field produces about 25,000 barrels per day, oil officials said. The ministry said production from the two wells that were targeted did not exceed 2,000 bpd.

The ministry statement said a fire erupted at the two oil wells after explosive devices were set off half an hour apart, with one going off at 1:30 a.m. (1030 GMT) and the second at 2:00 a.m (1100 GMT).
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/10/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Police seize weapons in vehicle's trunk following car chase on road 90
Happy Hanukkah, guys!
[Jpost] Israel Police seized on Wednesday eight semi-automatic weapons and 15 handguns in the trunk of a vehicle that was recklessly driving on Route 90, N12 reported.

During routine activity in the Jordan Rift Valley, coppers noticed a suspicious vehicle driving recklessly on road 90 and ordered it to stop. The drivers ignored the officers and continued driving recklessly while ramming a police barricade. A car chase ensued and police eventually apprehended two Paleostinians in the vehicle and found a large amount of weapons in their trunk.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/10/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Heavy clashes erupt in northern Syria as Turkish forces launch wide-scale attack
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 12/10/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Turkish army completely withdraws from strategic point near Aleppo city
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 12/10/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Terror Networks
US sanctions Chinese triad boss 'Broken Tooth' Wan Kuok Koi
[DW] The US Treasury blacklisted Wan Kuok Koi — leader of the 14K triad organized crime group — and three entities owned or controlled by him. Wan had expanded his operations through China's Belt and Road initiative, it said.

The US Treasury on Wednesday slapped sanctions on a notorious Chinese organized crime figure alleging that he expanded his criminal activities across Southeast Asia through a state-backed infrastructure project.

Wan Kuok Koi, also known as "Broken Tooth," is the head of the powerful 14K triad, or organized crime group, which "engages in drug trafficking, illegal gambling, racketeering, human trafficking, and a range of other criminal activities," the Treasury said.

Treasury said that Wan, as a member of the Communist Party of China's Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, attached his criminal operations to Beijing's Belt and Road initiative, a massive infrastructure project that aims to build trade and transport links from East Asia to Europe.
Wan had built his operations in Cambodia, Myanmar, and Palau since he was released from Macau prison eight years ago, it said. The 65-year-old Chinese crime boss spent 14 years in jail over a string of murders and bombings in Macau before being released in 2012.

TIES TO BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE
The Treasury said that Wan, as a member of the Communist Party of China's Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, attached his criminal operations to Beijing's Belt and Road initiative, a massive infrastructure project that aims to build trade and transport links from East Asia to Europe.

It also blacklisted three entities headed by Wan: Cambodia-based World Hongmen History and Culture Association; the Palau China Hung-Mun Cultural Association, based in Palau and Hong Kong-based Dongmei Group which is a key investor in Myanmar's Saixigang zone.

"The 14K Triad is utilizing Broken Tooth's World Hongmen History and Culture Association as an effort to legitimize itself," the Treasury said. "The World Hongmen History and Culture Association has managed to co-opt elite figures in Malaysia and Cambodia."

The Cambodia-based association has been involved in criminal activities such as, developing and launching cryptocurrencies, dealing in real estate and casinos, and establishing a security company focused on BRI investments, it said.

The US also blacklisted Harry Varney Gboto-Nambi Sherman, a Liberian senator and head of the Liberian Senate Judiciary Committee, and Raimbek Matraimov, a former deputy of the Kyrgyz Customs Service, for his alleged involvement in a money-laundering scheme.

The sanctions seek to freeze all assets of those individuals and companies that fall under US jurisdiction and ban Americans, as well as US firms from dealing with them.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/10/2020 01:18 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Aah... Hongman Koi. Or 'Toad' as we called him here.

I remember some guys were told not to interfere with his gang's intimidation of Indian businessmen in Myanmar because he had traction with 'some American agency'. Of course it was bullshit and his people just had someone in New Delhi in the pocket.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 12/10/2020 5:58 Comments || Top||

#2  And now you can tell some guys that any traction he might have had in the past is gone, Dron64066.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/10/2020 13:42 Comments || Top||



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