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Good morning
Epstein had his own office, phone line at Harvard
Sunday May 3rd, 2020

Marilyn-Miller-111b-Sally-by-ACJ-rwk
Video shows pickup full of Erdoğan’s dead mercenaries
Not good advertising for a career in the Erdoğan Escadrille
Syria: ''Homeland Army'' loots civilians' properties
That's why they have civilians in the first place. If they didn't own consumer goods they'd draft the lot of them
India reports three Army personnel, one militant killed in Handwara encounter
Paks will issue a routine denial. Probably won't even make the news. Wednesday there'll be another shootout.
Mossad provided Germany intelligence ahead of decision to ban Hezbollah
Finding the warehouse full of ammonium nitrate did the convincing, Mossad did the locating
Iranian forces accused of throwing 57 Afghans into river, killing at least 23 of them
Cheaper than paying them their wages
Daniel Pearl's parents move SC to reverse acquittals of four accused
It's a well-established principle of Pak jurisprudence that nobody cares if an infidel's head gets chopped off
Boots installs safe spaces inside its pharmacies

Posted by: Fred || 05/03/2020 12:19 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well knock me over with a feather!
(Please.)
Posted by: Lex || 05/03/2020 14:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Looks like real fur. Hope Peta doesn't see it.
Posted by: jpal || 05/03/2020 17:09 Comments || Top||

#3  Number one or number two?
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/03/2020 17:20 Comments || Top||

#4  headgear doubles as a ceiling fan blade duster
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 05/03/2020 21:39 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
11 Afghan soldiers suffer casualties while repelling a Taliban attack in Balkh
[KhaamaPress] At least eleven Afghan soldiers suffered casualties during a clash in northern Balkh province of Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defense said.

According to a statement released by defense ministry, the Talibs attacked the security posts in Balkh province late on Thursday night.

The statement further added that the Afghan forces responded to the attack and inflicted heavy casualties on Talibs while repelling the attack.

However,
those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things...
the defense ministry said 6 Afghan soldiers bit the dust during the festivities and 5 others sustained injuries.

The Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
group has not commented in this regard so far.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/03/2020 03:27 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Nangarhar: Taliban commander Bashar, comrades killed after murdering 2 local soldiers
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan forces killed a Taliban
...Arabic for students...
commanders and his two comrades by conducting a retaliatory raid in response to an attack which led to the murder of local soldiers.

The 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..
Governor’s Office in a statement said the Taliban commander, Bashar, killed two Afghan Local Army soldiers in Bati Kot district late on Friday night.

The statement further added that the Afghan forces conducted a retaliatory raid, killing Bashar and his two comrades.

The Taliban group has not commented regarding the incident so far.

This comes as numerous incidents involving festivities between the Afghan forces and Talibs have been reported in various provinces during the recent days.

The incidents took place amid ongoing efforts to find a negotiated political settlement to end the conflict.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/03/2020 03:27 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Kabul Police arrest 6 who had destroyed electricity transmission tower in Kabul
[KhaamaPress] The police forces in Kabul arrested six gunnies who destroyed an electricity transmission tower in capital Kabul last week.

The Ministry of Interior (MoI) in a statement said the Kabul police forces arrested the six suspects during a raid which they conducted last night.

The statement further added that the suspects planned to carry out another attack on security posts in Mir Bacha Kot district at around 11 pm local time.

The group was led by Gul Padshah, the shadow district chief of Taliban
...Arabic for students...
group for Qarabagh district of Kabul, the Ministry of Interior added.

The Taliban group has not commented in this regard so far.

The anti-government armed gunnies destroyed a transmission tower in capital Kabul late on Sunday night and disrupted the supply of electricity to the capital.

The gunnies had earlier destroyed a transmission tower in northern Baghlan province few days ago which halted the supply of electricity to Kabul and some other provinces.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/03/2020 03:27 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Explosion close to a prison leaves 3 dead in Laghman province of Afghanistan
It’s been a while since we’ve had an exploding Cycle of Violence...
[KhaamaPress] An explosion took place close to a prison in eastern Laghman
...Afghan province with a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.
After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men...
province of Afghanistan leaving at least three dead, the local officials said.

Asadullah Dawlatzai, a spokesperson for the provincial government, said a bomb went kaboom! close to a prison in Mehtarlam city earlier today.

According to Dawlatzai, the explosives were placed in a bike which went off as the head of the prison was crossing the area.

He also added that the earth-shattering kaboom killed 3 civilians and maimed 4 others.

No individual or group including Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
has so far grabbed credit for the incident.

Laghman is among the relatively calm provinces in East of Afghanistan but the anti-government armed gunnies including Taliban are active in some of its remote districts where they often attempt to carry out terrorist related activities.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/03/2020 03:27 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Africa North
EAF & Egyptian Army are reportedly conducting heavy artillery and airstrikes on alleged ISIS positions in Sinai
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  What does artillery do to tunnels?
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/03/2020 17:21 Comments || Top||


Video shows pickup full of Erdoğan’s dead mercenaries
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1 
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/03/2020 15:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Bury them with rashers of bacon. Is bacon even sold anywhere in the ME?
Posted by: jpal || 05/03/2020 16:06 Comments || Top||


LNA forces have managed to shoot down a #Turkish #TB2 over Araada #Tripoli
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


More than 28 of #Erdogan’s Syrians terrorist mercenaries ( fighting for the multinational force of the expired #GNA ) have been killed by the #LNA in the past 2 hours
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  It's cost effective if they are welshing on the death benefits.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/03/2020 6:16 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
India reports three Army personnel, one militant killed in Handwara encounter
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistain Proxies


Iraq
Multiple casualties in ISIS attack on Iraqi PMF forces in Samarra
[Rudaw] 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) turbans carried out multiple attacks against Iraqi forces overnight in Saladin province, killing 10 members of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF).

"Six fighters were martyred by live ammunition from ISIS [ISIS] terrorist members in Makishifiya area in the late hours of last night," said the Iraqi Security Media Cell in a statement at midday on Saturday. Another four were killed elsewhere in the Samarra area.

"Hashd al-Shaabi is facing several attacks from different fronts on its security points in Samarra vicinity," the PMF’s media tweeted in the early hours of Saturday morning. Hashd al-Shaabi is an Arabic name for the PMF.

Militants attacked the PMF at five different locations causing "great loss," the force stated.

Samarra is located 125 kilometres north of Baghdad in Saladin province.

The PMF also reported they blew up a "pick up vehicle which was carrying a group of ISIS [ISIS] fighters and was trying to attack a security point in Makishifiya."
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/03/2020 03:36 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  It's like watching basketball... don't much care who wins.
Posted by: Mercutio || 05/03/2020 11:32 Comments || Top||

#2  from a strategic point of view we should encourage whoever is losing to keep fighting; help keep the Syrian civil war as bloody as possible, encourage the various intra conflicts between jihadist elements in Libya, etc.

from a humanitarian point of view, no
Posted by: lord garth || 05/03/2020 11:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Something to be said for an entire society who can turn a hobby into a vocation. We should be alright, as long as we keep our distance.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/03/2020 11:42 Comments || Top||


IRGC proposes to Baghdad government to allow Iranian elements to enter into Samarra to assist the Mahdi Army in controlling the city
[TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Samarra is a mostly Sunni city with many Shia monuments and shrines
Posted by: lord garth || 05/03/2020 10:20 Comments || Top||

#2  So civilians are expendable
Posted by: Frank G || 05/03/2020 10:22 Comments || Top||

#3  I seem to remember the Iraqis whined about their sovereignty a lot whenever American troops showed up.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/03/2020 10:31 Comments || Top||

#4  Well, the folks who said invading Iraq would just eventually lead to Iran taking it over are wearing their "I told you so" smirks.
Posted by: Mercutio || 05/03/2020 11:31 Comments || Top||

#5  Let them sort it out. A good cause does not necessarily equate to a wise, long-term investment.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/03/2020 11:34 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iranian forces accused of throwing 57 Afghans into river, killing at least 23 of them
[KhaamaPress] Some of the Afghan migrants colonists have accused the Iranian forces, border guards, of throwing 57 people into a river which resulting in to the killing of at least 23 of them, it has been reported.

Certain of the survivors of the incident have claimed that the Iranian border guards initially arrested the migrants colonists from a bordering region and later threw them in to Harirod River.

According to reports, the incident took place earlier last week as the migrants colonists were on their way to Iran, apparently for work opportunities.

The local officials in 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...
have not commented regarding the involvement of the Iranian border guards in the incident but confirm that the public health authorities have received the dead bodies of several people who had apparently drowned.

Meanwhile,
...back at the hoedown, the fiddler suddenly struck a sour note. The dancing stopped abruptly. Everyone looked at Bob...
the acting minister of foreign affairs Mohammad Haneef Atmar has reportedly appointed a delegation to thoroughly investigate the incident.

This is not the first reports emerge regarding the alleged torture and killing of Afghan migrants colonists by the Iranian border guards but numerous such incidents have been reported during the past several years.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/03/2020 03:27 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists


Armed fight erupts among Turkish-backed factions in Al_Bab, following dispute over smuggling operations
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Syria: ''Homeland Army'' loots civilians' properties
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


New tribal fight erupts in western #Al_Suwaida
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


‘National Army’ factions recover all headquarters captured recently by #Jaysh and #Ahrar_Al_Sharqiyyah
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

"#Ahrar_Al_Sharqiyyah" assaults person for "smoking in public’ and not ‘observing Ramadan"
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Unknown assailants assassinate ‘collaborator’ with Air-force Intelligence branch in #Daraa
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


Regime forces and Turkish-backed factions loot public and civilian properties in Abu_Rasin and Tal_Tamr
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Regime shelling interrupts calm prevailing in the "de-escalation zone"
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria



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  Multiple gunshots fired from N. Korea
hit S. Korean DMZ guard post
Sat 2020-05-02
  Trial begins in Denmark of man accused of attack plot for Iran
Fri 2020-05-01
  Southern Transitional Council declares self rule in Yemen
Thu 2020-04-30
  German government bans Hezbollah — Interior Ministry
Wed 2020-04-29
  El Salvador's President Takes On The Country's Gangs Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
Tue 2020-04-28
  Haftar declares himself a ruler of Libya
Mon 2020-04-27
  Pakistan to keep Mosques open during Ramadan
Sun 2020-04-26
  GNA Refuses Operation IRINI Because It Will Disrupt Arms Supplies From Turkey
Sat 2020-04-25
  North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un again rumored to be dead
Fri 2020-04-24
  Poland Detains Lebanese Man Suspected of 'Planning Attacks'
Thu 2020-04-23
  Afrin: Kurdish population more than halved since 2018 offensive
Wed 2020-04-22
  Trump says he's ordered Navy to destroy
Iranian boats should they harass U.S. ships
Tue 2020-04-21
  North Korea's Kim Jong Un in grave danger
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Mon 2020-04-20
  U.S. crude falls below $15 a barrel, down more than 20%
Sun 2020-04-19
  44 suspected Boko Haram jihadis found dead in Chad prison


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