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First choice 4th from the left bottom row.
2nd choice first from the left top row. She looks like she discovered someone cut the cheese and it amuses her.
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Except for hair color the 2nd from the right in back could be my wife's grandmother. She hung out with Cecil B. and a bunch of H'wood types in the '30s. Got pictures of her with Clark Gable.
[ToloNews] At least 13 members of public uprising forces were killed in a Taliban ...Arabic for students... attack on their outpost on the outskirts of Qala-e-Naw city, the center of Badghis province, on Thursday evening, a provincial council member Bahauddin Qadesi said, adding that 10 members of the public uprising forces are missing.
Security officials confirmed the incident but did not confirm the casualties.
The Taliban captured the outpost with the help of infiltrators within the public uprising forces, said Shir Aqa Alokozai, a security officer at Badghis police headquarters.
[ToloNews] Figures shown to TOLOnews from security officials and government sources reveal that 98 members of the Afghan copsbit the dust n Taliban ...Arabic for students... attacks in 14 provinces from April 18 to April 24.
At least 70 others have been maimed and more than 10 security force members are missing, according to the sources.
Analysts say the increase in violence is a result of uncertainty and delays in the grinding of the peace processor as well as the arrival of the spring fighting season.
The provinces of Badghis, Kunduz, Takhar, Nimroz, Faryab, Maidan Wardak, Sar-e-Pul ...a city and eponymous province in northern Afghanistan, population about 500,000. Demographically it is majority Tadjik and Uzbek. There are small Pashtun, Arab, and Hazara communities, of which the Hazaras mostly don't bother anyone... , Pashtun-infested Logar, Samangan, Uruzgan, Balkh, Ghazni, Kandahar and Zabul witnessed attacks by the Taliban in last seven days.
The following data was collected by TOLOnews in last seven days:
Badghis — 15 killed, 6 maimed
Kunduz — 5 killed, 2 maimed
Takhar — 19 killed, 5 maimed
Nimroz — 6 killed, 5 maimed
Maidan Wardak — 3 killed
Sar-e-Pul — 11 killed, 24 maimed
Pashtun-infested Logar — 8 killed, 3 maimed
Samangan — 2 killed
Uruzgan — 9 killed, 2 maimed
Balkh — 9 killed, 5 maimed
Ghazni — one killed, 4 maimed
Kandahar — 4 killed, seven maimed
Zabul — one killed
The last attack was on Thursday evening in the western province of Badghis during which 13 members of the public uprising forces were killed, according to a member of the provincial council, who said 10 other forces are missing.
The public uprising forces are operating under the Ministry of Interior Affairs.
"We are concerned about security. Our champion soldiers have been sacrificed for political tensions," said Atta Jan Haq Bayan, head of the Zabul provincial council, referring to the ongoing political rift between Afghan politicians over the nation's leadership.
Takhar province, in northwestern Afghanistan, has witnessed 13 attacks by the Taliban so far this month, according to security officials, who said 30 security force members and six non-combatants were killed in these attacks while 50 soldiers have been maimed.
"Taliban usually use people’s houses as a shield," said Khalil Asir, a front man for the Takhar police.
The Ministry of Defense confirmed the high casualties sustained by the security forces in recent weeks. Without providing a number, the MoD said the Taliban has also suffered a high corpse count during this period.
"The Taliban has conducted their attacks in different parts of the country over the last week and they have been responded to by the security and defense forces of Afghanistan within the framework of the 'active defense' mode, in which heavy casualties have been imposed by the enemy," said Rohullah Ahmadzai, the Defense Ministry’s front man.
This comes as the Taliban on Thursday rejected a call by President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money... for ceasefire during the month of Ramadhan.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan forces killed 9 Talibs, maimed 5 others and arrested 2 more during the operations in three provinces of the country.
The 203rd Thunder Corps in a statement said the Afghan forces repulsed a Taliban ...Arabic for students... attack on security posts in Qarabagh district, killing 6 gunnies and confiscating a PKM machine gun and an Ak-47 assault rifle.
The statement further added that the Afghan forces killed 2 Talibs and maimed 2 others during a separate operation in Chagari area located in the outskirts of Ghazni city.
The 203rd Thunder Corps also added that the Afghan forces killed another murderous Moslem and maimed 3 more during an operation in Azra district of Pashtun-infested Logar province.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, Butch shot Black Bart's knife out of his hand...... the Afghan forces arrested two Talibs and 5 other suspected gunnies during an operation in Aryoub Zazai district of Paktiya province, the 203rd Thunder Corps said.
The Taliban group has not commented regarding the operations so far.
Private jet #DAUWE Flight from Moscow - Caracas yesterday is now heading back. While they were here another private jet used by Libyan warlord Haftar flew in & out of Caracas from Africa. Very curious when taken together. pic.twitter.com/hPXQ1slDYk
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Picking up some marching powder. For the boys back home.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
04/25/2020 8:33 Comments ||
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Qhat is not cutting it?
Posted by: Alaska Paul ||
04/25/2020 11:01 Comments ||
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If khat was so swell, it would be in huge demand outside the hell hole zone...
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
04/25/2020 11:24 Comments ||
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Come out to the coast desert, we'll get together, have a few laughs,
Posted by: Whiskey Mike ||
04/25/2020 13:24 Comments ||
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If khat was so swell,
Khat is chewed as a fresh—preferred, which leads to transport and supply issues — or dried leaf so has a short shelf life. And like overgrown chewing tobacco, there are the problems of the large lump tucked in one’s cheek and the continuous need to spit. So it’s not one of your attractive mind-altering substances.
#8
Two different twitter sources on this today. See also here. Usually I stack them in one post or delete the duplicate but I didn’t catch it last night.
Libyan Airforce under GNA renewed drone strikes on Watiya airbase this evening killing at least four militants and destroying a number of military vehicles pic.twitter.com/lTj3LjCP9r
The signals were recorded in GQRX (linux) from an Airspy-R2 & converted to an IQ .wav file for easier replay & decode w/ UZ7HO_HS-Soundmodem on a Windows PC. The doppler comparison app is 'STRF' from @cgbassahttps://t.co/5Ea6fcPBiE
[SYRIAHR] The confiscation of civilians’ property on the basis of religion, faith or different attitude towards the Syrian revolution in different geographical areas, is an unjustifiable crime.
Christians in Idlib province face the injustice of jihadist organizations and violations by Islamic factions, in terms of applying "Islamic Sharia law" to members of different religious communities. Islamic factions are clamping down on them and imposing levies "Jizya" in order to force them to leave their homes to regime-controlled areas.
Idlib has been administrated ad by different Islamic factions, from "Al-Fateh Army" to the "Salvation Government", the civilian wing of HTS.
HTS has clamped down on the Christians of Idlib city, pursuing the landlords and occupants of their properties. The office of "Christians’ properties" of HTS, which considers as spoils, has notified tenants to check with the administrative offices, to renew the contracts and set new terms, including raising the rents of houses and shops.
These factions have informed the tenants that the office responsible for the spoils has the right to rent, acquire and dispose of property at any time, as the interest may require.
Moreover, HTS also prohibits civilians of the Christian community who have fled their homes to appoint someone to change a ruling made by the Sharia courts regarding their property, as the properties are non-negotiable, as they consider them private property.
Similarly for the civilians of the Christian community in western countryside of Idlib, in the city of Jisr al-Shughour and the villages and towns of Ya’aqubiya, al-Qunaya, al-Jadida, al-Ghassania and Halauz, where HTS and the office of the spoils, are disposing of properties in order to support the fighters’ families.
The issue of the property of Christian families remains under the control of radical groups of Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... Organization despite their attempts to change their policies to exploit the Syrian people’s revolution.
[SYRIAHR] Reliable sources have informed the Syrian Observatory that "Al-Jabha al-Shamiyyah" attempted to arrest the head of "Tal Abyad Council" in the northern countryside of al-Raqqah yesterday, but several factions, battalions and people of the area interfered preventing the Ottoman Turkish-backed faction from doing so.
Observatory sources said that the Ottoman Turkish-backed "Military Police" kidnapped four civilians from Katouf village in the western countryside of Ras al-Ain (Sere Kaniye) yesterday.
The kidnapped people were taken to unknown destination, while the reasons behind kidnapping them were unknown.
This incident was a part of practices by Ottoman Turkish forces and their proxies to clamp down on civilians in areas held by "Peace Spring" factions.
Yesterday, SOHR sources reported that Ottoman Turkish intelligence released (Sheikh Onaizan), one of the most prominent tribe elders in al-Raqqah province, less than 24 hours after arresting him in Mushayrifat al-Sheikh Ahmed in Tal Abyad countryside.
For his part, the Sheikh thanked media outlets which participated in exerting pressure on Ottoman Turkish authorities to release him. According to the Sheikh, Ottoman Turkish forces accused him of dealing with Syria Democratic Forces, and he responded to these allegations saying that he had no ties with SDF or any other parties.
It is noteworthy that SOHR and other media outlets exerted pressure attempting to force Ottoman Turkish authorities to release the old Sheikh.
#UPDATE: Possible strike impact noted in satellite images by @planetlabs posted by @AuroraIntel near As-Sukhnah in east Syria. This is in addition to 9 possible strikes on a military base north of Palmyra. Looks like April 20th strikes were quite large.
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
dominated Mexico for six years.
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.
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