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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Truck hauling Starbucks products on I-5 also had 126 pounds of meth
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/29/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Narcos

#1  That's fitting since Meth is a white man's drug and Starbucks is the white man's coffee. If Starbucks had learned anything from this last week they would be smuggling in crack instead.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 04/29/2018 1:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Great. Another drug Starbuck's can overcharge for.
Posted by: Waldemar Angock1604 || 04/29/2018 3:33 Comments || Top||

#3  If it's Starbucks, it must taste like tree bark & mud.
Posted by: Raj || 04/29/2018 7:30 Comments || Top||

#4  Carfentanil - the equal opportunity to die drug, suitable for diverse populations.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 04/29/2018 19:32 Comments || Top||

#5  Starbucks is cheaper than Ducalax!
Posted by: Omomoper Bumble1395 || 04/29/2018 20:19 Comments || Top||


-War on Police-
Police Officers killed in the line of duty in 2018
[FoxNews] Since the start of 2018, at least 34 law enforcement officers across the U.S. have died while on duty -- with 22 of the deaths caused by gunfire.

Roughly 135 cops died in 2016, making it the deadliest year for police officers in at least five years, Fox News has determined. While there were fewer deaths in 2017, the numbers weren’t much better: A total of 129 officers died last year. And 46 of those deaths were caused by gunfire.

Read on for a look at officers who have died in the line of duty so far this year.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/29/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Afghanistan
35 Taliban Killed In US Airstrikes In Balkh
[ToloNews] Afghanistan National Army (ANA) officials on Saturday said 35 Taliban
...Arabic for students...
fighters were killed and 40 others had been maimed in US Arclight airstrikes in Chahar Bolak district in northern Balkh province.

Mohammad Hanif Rezaye, front man for 209 Shaheen Military Corps in Balkh, said the airstrikes were carried out on Saturday in close cooperation with the Afghan commandos and lasted 40 minutes.

The airstrikes targeted Arzankar village in Chahar Bolak district. Commandos then launched operations and cleared the village of Taliban, Rezaye said.

According to Rezaye, a Taliban stronghold and dozens of their weapons were destroyed in the airstrikes.

A week ago a clearing operation was launched to maintain security of vulnerable areas in Chahar Bolak district and the operation is ongoing.

Balkh governor Mohammad Ishaq Rahgozar and former governor Atta Mohammad Noor also participated in the operation.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/29/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  Cluster bombs? We can only hope.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 04/29/2018 0:42 Comments || Top||


Taliban seize Afghan district centre, attack army base
[AlAhram] Taliban
...Arabic for students...
fighters seized a district centre in northern Afghanistan on Saturday, while a bomb at an army base in the southern province of Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
killed at least five people.

The latest violence came as bandidos murderous Moslems pushed ahead with a spring offensive.

Fighters captured the governor's house and police headquarters in Aq Tapa, in the Qala-e Zal district of Kunduz province and Afghan government forces were fighting to drive them out, said Sayed Assadullah Sadat, a provincial council member.

The Taliban's main front man Zabihullah Mujahid said fighters had captured a police headquarters, 10 security check posts and a market in Qala-e Zal, north of Kunduz city.

At the other end of the country, in Helmand, bandidos murderous Moslems launched a vehicle kaboom on a military base in Nad Ali district, killing four civilians and a soldier, according to a statement from the provincial governor's office.

The Taliban announced the official start of their annual spring offensive this week, continuing the heavy fighting seen across Afghanistan recently as warmer weather has set in.

Last year, the United States announced a more aggressive strategy with stepped up air strikes and more assistance to Afghan government forces fighting the insurgency, drawing a defiant response from the Taliban, who said they would target American forces in the spring campaign.

The fighting may threaten preparations for parliamentary and district council elections planned in October.

In the eastern province of Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
, a rocket fired by Taliban fighters hit a house in the Hoodi area of Goshta district on Friday night. Five non-combatants were killed and three were maimed.

Attaullah Khogyani, the provincial front man for Nangarhar, said three women were among those killed and two women and a child were maimed in the attack. Assessments of the size of Taliban territorial control vary but the Pentagon estimates that 56 percent of the country is under government control, while a BBC survey this year estimated the bandidos murderous Moslems were active in 70 percent of Afghanistan.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/29/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Clash among Afghan forces and Taliban leaves 15 dead, wounded in Herat
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least fifteen people were killed or maimed during a clash between the Afghan forces and the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
holy warriors in western Herat
...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
province of Afghanistan.

According to the local officials, the incident took place late on Friday night in the vicinity of Shindand district.

The officials further added that the clash has left at least eight members of the Taliban group dead.

Provincial governor’s front man Jilani Farhad confirmed that eight Death Eaters were killed and seven others were maimed during the overnight clash in the vicinity of Shindand.

Farhad further added that the clash broke out after a large of Taliban holy warriors wanted to launch coordinated attack on security posts in this district.

He said preliminary reports indicate that the Death Eaters had arrived from Zir Koh district of Farah province to participate in the attack.

Posted by: Fred || 04/29/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa Horn
Car Bomb In Somali Capital Leaves At Least Two People Wounded
[RADIOSHABELLE] At least two people are reported to have been maimed in a boom-mobile kaboom in the heart of the Somali capital Mogadishu on Saturday morning.

The blast, according to the eyewitnesses the blast occurred near UNICEF office in the capital’s Waberi district, injuring two people.

The incident took place as the security forces were searching a suspicious vehicle said to be belonging a government employee whose identity has not been released so far.

No group has yet grabbed credit for the attack, which becomes the latest in such bombings in the city over the past few months.

Somali security troops sealed off the scene following the attack and launched an investigation into the bomb kaboom.

Al-Shabaab
... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia...
often carries out similar attacks in Mogadishu targeting government offices, military barracks, and the popular hotels frequented by MPs and Somali officials.

Posted by: Fred || 04/29/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


At Least Six People Killed In A Suicide Blast In Galkayo Town
[RADIOSHABELLE] A witness says six people, including two senior army officials, were confirmed dead and 10 others injured in a deadly suicide kaboom in central Somalia on Saturday morning.

The bomber targeted troops in the town of Galkayo, killing Col Abdihukun Abdullahi, known as [Horeeye] and another official identified as Abdiqani Ahmed.

Late Abdullahi was the commander of the newly formed joint forces tasked with the city’s security by Somali federal government.

A local Police officer told Radio Shabelle that four more soldiers were also killed in the attack that has destroyed the volatile town in Mudug region.
Posted by: Fred || 04/29/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


Seven Soldiers Killed In Blast Targeting Jubbaland Troops Near Dhobley
[RADIOSHABELLE] At least seven soldiers belonging to Jubbaland state have been killed and several maimed in a landmine blast near the border town of Dhobley on Saturday, residents said.

The blast which has resulted from a remote-controlled roadside kaboom struck regional forces travelling in a military convoy at Degamo village, located on the outskirts of the town.

The state forces engaged in a heavy shootout with the attackers said to be Al-Shabaab
... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
faceless myrmidons following the kaboom that left seven soldiers dead, according to the sources.

Jubbaland administration is yet to comment on the attack which comes amid an increase of Al-Shabaab ambush attacks against Somali and African forces in the country.

Posted by: Fred || 04/29/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


Al-Shabaab Claims Responsibility For The Deadly Blast In Galkayo
[RADIOSHABELLE] Al-Shabaab
...the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
said it is behind a suicide kaboom in Galkayo city, the regional capital of Mudug province in central Somalia which killed at least 6 people.

In a statement, Al-Shabaab said it killed five senior military commanders after a bomber blew up himself in a busy restaurant in the divided town.

The blast occurred after a man with boom jacket detonated the explosives among officers and soldiers sipping tea in the cafe early on Saturday morning.

Abdihukun Abdullahi, the commander of the joint forces which has been recently formed to secure the town of Galkayo was among the dead, while nearly ten have sustained injuries.

Posted by: Fred || 04/29/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


Suicide Bomber Kills Army Officers in Somalia
[AAWSAT] A jacket wallah went kaboom! in a military camp in the Somali town of Galkayo on Saturday, killing four officers, officials said, an attack claimed by the al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab group.

The camp houses a force made up of soldiers from the country's semi-autonomous regions of Puntland
...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion...
and Galmudug
...a semiautonomous region in central Somalia, bordering Puntland on the north. Galmudug is not trying to obtain international recognition as a separate nation, but rather considers itself autonomous within the larger Somali federalism, for what that's worth...
who have been integrated into the federal army under efforts to unite the fractured country.

The dead included a military commander and two colonels, Galkayo's mayor, Hirsi Yusuf Barre, told Rooters.

"The corpse count may rise," police officer Abdirahman Haji said.

Shabaab’s military operation front man, Abdiasis Abu Musab, said the hard boy group killed five people in the attack.
Posted by: Fred || 04/29/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


Africa North
Egypt's Court of Cassation upholds death sentence for 6 people in 2013 Minya police station storming case
More soon-to-be dead and jailed Muslim Brotherhooders, and good riddance to them.
[AlAhram] Egypt's Court of Cassation upheld a final death sentence Saturday handed down to six people for crimes relating to the storming of a cop shoppe in Upper Egypt's Minya in 2013.

The court also uphold jail sentences for 59 people, acquitting 47 others in the 2013 case, which included various acts of violence, including murder, as well as setting Matay Police Station on fire.

The sentences are final and cannot be appealed.

In August 2017, Minya Criminal Court handed down 12 death sentences and 119 life terms for crimes relating to the storming of the cop shoppe.

The deputy chief of the cop shoppe was killed in the violence.

The defendants in the Minya case were initially charged with murder, attempted murder, rioting, illegal assembly, disturbing the public peace, and damaging public and private property.

The incident followed the forced dispersal of mass sit-ins in Cairo's Rabaa El-Adawiya and El-Nahda squares in August 2013 following the ouster of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi amid mass protests against Moslem Brüderbund rule.

Following the dispersal, angry rioters stormed cop shoppes and burned a number of churches in various locations across Egypt.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/29/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Muslim Brotherhood


Suspected jihadists kill 40 Tuaregs in north Mali: Governor
[AlAhram] Suspected jihadists killed 40 ethnic Tuaregs, including women and kiddies, in two attacks in northern Mali's Menaka region, the regional governor said on Saturday.

Menaka governor Daouda Maiga said the attacks happened in the remote desert villages of Awakassa on Friday and Anderanboucane, a day earlier.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/29/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So what profit is it to the jihadis to kill Tuaregs?
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 04/29/2018 0:01 Comments || Top||


Two Libyan ex-Guantanamo inmates vanish upon returning home
The Libyan take on this story from a few days ago.
[Libya Observer] New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...

reported Monday that after a traumatic journey, the Libyans, who were inmates in Guantanamo and transferred to Senegal
... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees...
for permanent stay, apparently fell into the hands of a hard-line militia leader who has been accused of prisoner abuse ‐ and then they vanished.

Sources believe that Special Deterrence Force, which is controlling Mitiga airport in Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
and runs notorious detentions in a military base nearby the airport, tossed in the clink
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
Omar Abu Bakr and Salim Ghrebi when their Libyan Airlines plane touched down coming from Tunisia.

The Intercept reported on April 01 that former Libyan Guantanamo detainees, who were released in 2016 and sent to Senegal as part of the deal made by the US State Department, were facing deportation to Libya.

According to The Intercept, Abu Bakr and his lover companion were afraid for their lives in Libya, where there is lack of security and chaos.

"If the US government told me two years ago that I would remain in Senegal temporarily, only to be sent to Libya after two years, regardless of the situation in Libya, I would have refused resettlement in Senegal. I would have even chosen to remain at Guantánamo over torture and death in a dungeon in Libya." Abu Bakr told The Intercept.

Posted by: Fred || 04/29/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda

#1  This is really sad to read on a serene Sunday morning...
Posted by: Raj || 04/29/2018 7:29 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Two Suspected Terrorists Shot Dead in Kampala
[All Africa] The Uganda Police Force in a joint operation with sister security agencies has early this morning conducted an operation at Usafi mosque in Kisenyi and other locations in and around Kampala, shooting dead two suspected terrorists.

Emilian Kayima, the police spokesperson in a brief statement said that "a sizeable number of suspects involved in acts of terrorism and radicalization were tossed in the calaboose
Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
He added that women and kiddies who had been held hostage were successfully rescued.

"In the operation, two of the armed suspects were rubbed out as they attacked the officers in the operation," said.
Posted by: Fred || 04/29/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Salafists


Arabia
Yemeni forces: Senior Islamic State leader killed in south
[AlAhram] Yemeni security forces said they killed a senior Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
commander in a gunbattle in the southern city of Aden on Saturday, dealing a blow to the group’s powerful 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. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
branch.

Saleh Nasser Fadhl al-Bakshi held the title of "Prince" for the Aden area in the myrmidon group’s Yemen affiliate, which has killed hundreds of people, mostly security forces in the country’s south, in years of bombing and shooting attacks.

Counterterrorism forces surrounded al-Bakhshi in a building, according to a statement on the Aden police Facebook page, when he and fellow Lions of Islam refused to surrender.

In the ensuing shootout, one of the counter-terrorism force members was killed along with al-Bakshi, whose bloodied corpse was displayed in a picture accompanying the police statement.

Three of his comrades were tossed in the slammer
Please don't kill me!
, it added.

Islamic State gained a foothold in Yemen late in 2014 as the country collapsed into civil war between the armed Houthi
...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 Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. 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 ...
movement and the internationally recognized government, opening a security vacuum and sparking Saudi-led military intervention.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/29/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Saudi-led strike 'kills dozens' of Yemen rebels
[DAWN] A Saudi-led coalition air strike has killed dozens of Yemeni rebels including two commanders, state media said on Saturday, in another blow to the forces of Evil following the liquidation of their political chief.

The Houthi
...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 Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. 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 ...
rebels staged a public funeral on Saturday for Saleh al-Sammad, head of their Supreme Political Council and effectively the turbans' second-in-command, who was killed last week in an air raid claimed by Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
and its allies.

His funeral came hours after Saudi Arabia's state-run al-Ekhbariya television said two high-ranking forces of Evil were among more than 50 Houthis killed in a new strike overnight in the capital Sanaa.
Posted by: Fred || 04/29/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Saudi Arabia Downs 4 Houthi Missiles
[AAWSAT] Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
on Saturday intercepted four ballistic missiles fired by Yemen’s Houthi
...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 Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. 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 ...
militias, the Coalition to Restore Legitimacy 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. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
said.

The missiles were headed towards the city of Jazan in southern Saudi Arabia, according to the Arab Coalition statement, which was carried by the state-run Saudi Press Agency (SPA).

No casualties were reported, the statement added.

Coalition front man Col. Turki al-Maliki reiterated that the attack proves Iran’s continued support to the Houthis in clear violation of UN resolutions.

Saudi air defenses made a similar interception on Friday when Houthis filed a ballistic missile on the city of Najran
a city in southwestern Saudi Arabia near the border with Yemen. It is the capital of Najran Province and a favored target of Houthirocket forces....
in a deliberate act to target civilian and populated areas.
Posted by: Fred || 04/29/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Houthis

#1  I sure hope Raytheon is getting a lot of worthwhile data back from these encounters, assuming PAC-3 was the system used.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/29/2018 14:14 Comments || Top||


Leaked Messages Confirm Qatar Paid Billions for Extremist Shi’ite Militias
[AAWSAT] Leaked text documents and messages confirmed that 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...
paid over a billion dollars to Lion of Islam Shi’ite militias in Syria and Iraq, said a Washington Post report on Saturday.

"The Syrians, ’Hezbollah’-Leb, the Iraqi Hezbollah-- all want money, and this is their chance," Zayed bin Saeed al-Khayareen, Qatar's ambassador to Iraq and chief negotiator in the hostage affair, wrote in a message. "All of them are thieves."

The message was sent last year in wake of the abduction of 25 Qatari citizens by Iraqi kidnappers. Qatar had kicked off secret talks to ensure their release. The bargaining however turned into a kind of group shakedown, the official said, with a half-dozen militias and foreign governments jostling to squeeze cash from Doha.

Confidential documents confirmed that Qatar indeed paid these Lion of Islam Iran-backed groups, including the Lebanese "Hezbollah" and Iraqi Hezbollah.

After much fretting and grousing, Qatari officials consented to payments totaling at least $275 million to free nine members of the royal family and 16 other Qatari nationals kidnapped during a hunting trip in southern Iraq, according to copies of the intercepted communications obtained by The Washington Post.

The secret records reveal for the first time that the payment plan allocated an additional $150 million in cash for individuals and groups acting as intermediaries, although they have long been regarded by US officials as sponsors of international terrorism. These include Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Iraqi Hezbollah, a group linked to numerous lethal attacks on American troops during the Iraq War, the records show.

The payments were part of a larger deal that would involve the Iranian, Iraqi and Ottoman Turkish governments, as well as Leb's "Hezbollah" and at least two Syrian opposition groups, including the al-Qaeda affiliated al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ...
Front, reported the Post.

The total sum demanded for the return of the hostages at times climbed as high as $1 billion, although it is not clear from the documents exactly how much money ultimately changed hands.

Qatar, which acknowledged receiving help from multiple countries in securing the hostages' release last year, has consistently denied reports that it paid terrorist organizations as part of the deal.

The leaked documents show senior Qatari diplomats appearing to sign off on a series of side payments ranging from $5 to $50 million to Iranian and Iraqi officials and paramilitary leaders, with $25 million earmarked for an Iraqi Hezbollah boss and $50 million set aside for "Qassem," an apparent reference to Qassem Soleimani
, the leader of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and a key participant in the hostage deal.
Posted by: Fred || 04/29/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Qatar (MB)


Bangladesh
Showdown at Kakrail mosque
[Dhaka Tribune] Another round of conflict took place at Kakrail mosque on Saturday between the supporters of Indian Tabligh Jamaat
...the missionary arm of the Deobandi (Salafist) movement in the Indian subcontinent, “The Outreach Society” is estimated by various parties to have between 12million and 150million members worldwide, and to be a solid contributor of men and money to the various jihadi organizations that we follow here at Rantburg...
leader Maulana Muhammad Saad Al Kandhalvi and their opponents.

As the situation escalated, police had to be deployed and the fighting parties were evicted from the mosque by the law enforcement, HM Azimul Haque, additional commissioner of police (Ramna Zone), said.

He said the police will take steps to mediate the matter by making both parties sit down for a peaceful dialogue.

According to Zunayed Siddique, who is aligned with the Tabligh Jamaat, their opposition apparently occupied the mosque with the assistance of Qawmi madrasah students.

There have been reports of attacks on Kandhalvi’s supporters, reports UNB.

Saad Kandhalvi is one of the major leaders of Tabligh Jamaat, which is the largest organization of Sunni Muslims in the subcontinent. Last year, Saad made several remarks which angered his peers, particularly among the Bangladesh chapter, which led to thousands protesting against his attendance in the Bishwa Ijtema this year.

Hefazat-e-Islam is one of Kandhalvi’s biggest opposition in Bangladesh over his comments about the Sunnah and the Quran and his declaration of the being the sole head of the Tabligh Jamaat body.

During the previous altercation, the home minister had to personally intervene to resolve the situation before it escalated further.
Posted by: Fred || 04/29/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Tablighi Jamaat


China-Japan-Koreas
'Eradicate the tumours': Chinese civilians drive Xinjiang crackdown
In which the Uighurs get it. A follow up to this report from February. Probably the events described herein are connected to the actions of the Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP) (also known as the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM)), a Uighur jihadi group fighting alongside al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan whose heart’s desire is a caliphate back home in Xinjiang, though the article does not mention them.
[SinoDaily] The civilian group descended on the village under government instructions to "win the people's hearts", but it also had a darker mission: identifying and punishing threats to the Chinese state.

Four months after the Communist Party sent the "work team" to Akeqie Kanle, a fifth of its adult population -- over 100 people -- had disappeared into detention and re-education centres.

The team -- comprising staff from a regional university -- was among more than 10,000 such groups that poured into rural Xinjiang last year as part of the government's battle against separatism and "religious extremism" in the region, home to several Muslim ethnic minority groups.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: 746 || 04/29/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Boy, would the Left love to do something like this in America to conservatives. Mandatory re-education, eradicating religion, eliminating those extremists who believe in the Constitution.
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 04/29/2018 5:00 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
2 Hazara men shot dead in fourth 'targeted' attack this month in Quetta
[DAWN] Two shopkeepers belonging to the Shia Hazara
...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets...
community were killed in a drive-by shooting in Quetta on Saturday, police said.

According to police, person or persons unknown shot up an electronics shop in Quetta's Jamaluddin Afghani Road area, killing two Hazara men on the spot.

The assailants managed to escape unhurt from the scene after the attack, while the bodies of the dear departed ‐ identified as Jaffar and Muhammad Ali ‐ were shifted to the Civil Hospital in Quetta.

A police officer who requested anonymity said the attack appeared to be an incident of assassination.

Police and personnel of other law enforcement agencies reached the site as an investigation into the incident went underway. No group has so far grabbed credit for the attack.

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Campers from Dera Ismail Khan shot dead in tribal area
[DAWN] Gunmen fatally shot three local tourists and their driver in a tribal region along the Afghanistan border, an official said Saturday.

Ikhlaq Bangash, deputy administrator in South Wazoo, said a group of tourists from Dera Ismail Khan
... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ...
were camping in the Momi Karam area when the button men struck on Friday night.

Bangash said the attackers torched the camp after shooting the tourists and fleeing.

No group immediately grabbed credit, but forces of Evil have long operated along the mostly non-existent border.

According to Mohammad Alam, a local police officer, the assailants escaped on cycle of violences. He said police were looking for the attackers.

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Iraq
Iraqi civilian wounded in bomb blast south of Baghdad
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) An Iraqi civilian was maimed on Saturday when an bomb went of south of the capital, Baghdad, a police source was quoted saying.

Alsumaria News quoted the source saying that a bomb fitted beneath a civilian-owned vehicle went kaboom! while passing through Arab Jabbour, south of Baghdad, leaving the driver with injuries.
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Gaza briefs: 3 arrested for cutting fence, another incendiary kite sets fire to another field


3 Palestinians arrested trying to cross Gaza border fence

[Ynet] Three Paleostinians were nabbed
Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
by the IDF after attempting to cross the Gazoo Strip border fence in the center of the strip. One of them was found in possession of a knife used to cut the fence. The three were taken in for questioning.

Incendiary kite from Gaza sets fire to wheat field in Israel

[Ynet] A wheat field in the Shaar HaNegev Regional Council was set on fire by an incendiary kite flown from the Gazoo Strip into Israel on Saturday. No one was hurt, but a lot of damage was caused to the field.
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#1  The can't go biblical Samson style using foxes with burning tails?
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Russia, Turkey, Iran Hold Syria Talks
[AnNahar] Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Saturday hosted his Iranian and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
counterparts for talks on Syria in the wake of an alleged chemical attack that has exposed differences between the three powers.

The three nations have been attempting to find a political solution to the Syrian conflict at talks that started last year in Astana, Kazakhstan, in competition with the US and UN-backed Geneva initiative.
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