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The problem is, a lot of times the "authorities" put in a warrant for suspected "banned" weapons when none exists.
Other times the guy is modifying weapons to be full auto and is selling them to friend (big no-no)
I would wait to get more info, but (and I'm a big friend of law enforcement as I have a couple in my family) more than comfortable amount of cases like this are a over zealous DA trying to make a name and the gunners get over hyped and kill someone that doesn't need to be.
[Jpost] A Canadian woman and Italian man kidnapped in Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... in December 2018 have been released to the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... ' peacekeeping mission in neighboring Mali and appear to be in good health, a mission front man said on Saturday.
Edith Blais and Italian Luca Tacchetto went missing while traveling through Burkina Faso, a country where jihadist groups with links to al Qaeda and 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.... are active and have kidnapped Westerners in the past.
It is not known who was responsible for Blais and Tacchetto's kidnapping or if any ransom was paid.
UN mission front man Olivier Salgado told Rooters that the two were received by peacekeepers on Friday evening and would be handed over to Malian authorities later on Saturday.
He shared a photo of Blais and Tacchetto wearing U.N. human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... t-shirts and sweatpants. Both are grinning in the photo and appear to be healthy.
Another Canadian, Kirk Woodman, was kidnapped in January 2019 from a mining site where he was working in Burkina Faso and found dead later the same week.
Islamic State claimed to have kidnapped and killed him, but security sources told Rooters they believed he actually died during a botched attempt by a criminal gang to sell him on to another group.
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[Rudaw] MANZA, Albania ‐ In a gleaming compound built from scratch on an Albanian hillside, thousands of Iranians dedicate their waking hours to toppling the regime in Tehran 3,000 kilometers away.
They believe the end of their exile is near.
"I think this year will be very decisive," says Zohreh Akhiani, the 56-year-old mayor of "Ashraf 3", a mini-city of some 2,800 exiled Iranians from the opposition movement the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran
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[NEWS.YAHOO] Greece's first woman president began her term on Friday with a pledge to protect the country's borders and defend human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... , whilst warning Greeks to follow health rules as the country grapples with over 100 coronavirus ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... cases.
Katerina Sakellaropoulou, a 63-year-old former senior judge, said she would "walk together" with Greeks to create a "prosperous" and "cosmopolitan" future "that includes all of us."
The new head of the Greek state begins her five-year term in a terse standoff with neighbouring The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... , which has allowed tens of thousands of refugees to mass at the border.
Sakellaropoulou said Greeks had to "repulse the aggression of those who make designs on our national illusory sovereignty by making use of human pain."
The new president also insisted that Greece had a "humanitarian duty" to defend "defenceless and desperate people."
- HEED VIRUS WARNINGS -
Greece has so far announced 117 cases of the coronavirus, one of whom died on Thursday after 10 days in hospital.
Three people are in intensive care and the government has shut down schools and universities, courts, cinemas, gyms and other indoor public gathering areas for two weeks in an effort to curb the outbreak.
Sakellaropoulou urged the public to follow health warnings "to avoid spreading panic" which could tear apart the health system and harm the economy.
Sakellaropoulou took a religious oath in parliament before Archbishop Ieronymos, head of the Orthodox Church of Greece.
She placed a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier -- Greece's foremost military monument -- before heading to the presidential mansion for a handover ceremony with outgoing president Prokopis Pavlopoulos.
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[Rudaw] Thirty-three Katyusha rockets struck Taji air base and its vicinity on Saturday in a rare daytime attack, according to a statement by Iraq's Joint Operations Command released on Saturday afternoon.
Three coalition troops and two Iraqis were maimed in the rocket attack, US-led coalition spokesperson Col. Myles Caggins said on Twitter. Joint Operations Command reported the "critical injuries" of "a number" of Iraqi troops in their statement, adding that the maimed were part of the air force.
"This brutal aggression caused the injury of a number of members of the air defense, who are at death's door," read the Joint Operations Command statement.
Iraqi forces located seven platforms which rockets were fired from in the Abu Azam area near Taji, north of Baghdad, the statement said. They found and defused 24 additional missiles at the sites.
The attackers themselves are yet to be found, with the statement declaring that Joint Operations Command will take "all measures to prosecute and arrest those who carried out this act of aggression."
"We also refuse that American forces or others take any action without the approval of the Iraqi government and the commander-in-chief of the armed forces," the statement added.
The Katyusha rockets fired at the Taji air base come three days after American and British military personnel were killed in a similar attack, the deadliest to date.
The US responded Friday with air strikes on arms depots it said were used by hardline members of the Hashd al-Shaabi, a network of gangs incorporated into the Iraqi state but which Washington has blamed for rocket attacks.
Iraqi security officials said over a dozen rockets landed inside the base, some struck the coalition quarters while others fell on a runway used by Iraqi forces.
It was the 23rd such attack since late October on installations across Iraq where American troops and diplomats are based, with the latest rounds growing deadlier.
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Glad to see the recent plague hasn't dampened decades old traditions. Maybe they could scare up the odd Buddhist priest to self immolate, always a big crowd pleaser with the press.
If no compromise is accepted, there will be nothing. Politics is the art of the possible, not the perfect.
[Rudaw] At the once bustling hub of the largest anti-government protest movement in Iraq’s modern history, crowds have dwindled, and donation boxes have sprouted up. Loudspeakers resound with calls by activists for funds to keep their hard-fought revolution alive.
The six-month-old movement has faced one setback after another, from the shifting positions of a mercurial Shiite holy man to an apathetic political class and, now, fears over an outbreak of the coronavirus ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... that Iraq’s decrepit health system has struggled to contain, with nearly 93 confirmed cases and nine deaths.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Ottoman Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar gave a statement in Ankara on Friday about the conclusion of ceasefire talks with Russia. The talks held in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... came after an agreement was reached between Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... and His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... on March 5th in Moscow.
At the end of a week of negotiations, Akar said that key documents have been signed regarding the ceasefire.
"The first implementation of [the ceasefire] will be seen on the M4 highway on the fifteenth of the month with a joint patrol. Join coordination centers will then be established and activities will be managed together with these centers. Our requests and demands on this issue have been made very clear many times by our president. Our desire there, our main goal, is to make this ceasefire permanent as soon as possible," said the minister.
Although the ceasefire is said to be holding, president Erdogan has threatened further military action should it be breached.
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Ain't going to happen.
...Our desire there, our main goal, is to make this ceasefire permanent as soon as possible," said the minister.
Turkey already annexed northern Cyprus in its faux "Republic of Northern Cyprus" and everyone sees through this gambit. Syria is a lot stronger than Cyprus.
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I often wonder what they will do if the Juices are the first ones who develop an effective cure/vaccine for the Wuhan flu. Will Iran openly accept it, or would they rather die?
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Funny you should mention that, Rambler. I believe that plot point is scheduled to occur in the next act.
[Rudaw] At the heart of Syria's latest humanitarian crisis, locals call Idlib "the forgotten city", still paying the price for one day in the 1970s when the former president was pelted with tomatoes.
Seriously? Y’all think only the tomatoes of that day caused the rubblification of Idlib province? Nuts.
The city and its surroundings have suffered furious bombardments since December at the hands of Syrian forces and Russian jets, leaving hundreds dead and forcing huge numbers to flee towards the Ottoman Turkish border.
With a tentative ceasefire announced on March 6, villager Malek Haj Khalil returned to his home in Sarmin, just east of Idlib, hoping to recover a few belongings from the ruins of his house.
Hossein Salami, the current chief of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, has blamed the United States for the COVID-19 epidemic in Iran.https://t.co/NuMqNiFa7k
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...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 
[NEWS.YAHOO] Greece's first woman president began her term on Friday with a pledge to protect the country's borders and defend 
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
