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Good morning
John Kasich - Hey, look at me, me, me. Orange Man Baaad !
Tuesday August 18th, 2020

RosalindRussell(HisGirlFriday)_01
Kabul's Shakardara District 'Cleared of Insurgents'
Egyptian envoys in Gaza in bid to ease tensions with Israel
Iraq | Al-Kadhimi dismisses security officials in Basra Province
Turkey lashes out at Armenia and 'evil alliance' in eastern Mediterranean
Israeli airstrikes hit Hamas targets near Rafah crossing in Gaza
US backs Cyprus amid friction with NATO ally Turkey in eastern Mediterranean
Anthony Weiner spotted at
Hamptons children's park with his son

Posted by: Fred || 08/18/2020 08:30 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  'Kabul'sShakardara District 'Cleared of Insurgents'

How's Portland doing with its insurgent problem?
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/18/2020 8:58 Comments || Top||

#2  No close air support.
Posted by: Fred || 08/18/2020 12:12 Comments || Top||

#3  I'm crazy about all brunettes.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/18/2020 12:13 Comments || Top||

#4  Cary Grant and Randolf Scott were rumored to be gay partners. They lived together off and on for 12 years. This is them:

Posted by: jpal || 08/18/2020 12:38 Comments || Top||

#5  Not the sort of brunettes I'm crazy about.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/18/2020 12:47 Comments || Top||

#6  You said all brunettes.
Posted by: jpal || 08/18/2020 13:09 Comments || Top||

#7  I lied.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/18/2020 13:13 Comments || Top||

#8 
Posted by: jpal || 08/18/2020 13:29 Comments || Top||

#9  jpal, you ought to check the history of Grant-Mae West relationship.
Posted by: b || 08/18/2020 13:47 Comments || Top||

#10  ^ Was that her remark about it being the best two or three minutes of her life? Take that, Rick Pitino!
Posted by: Raj || 08/18/2020 14:23 Comments || Top||

#11  My favorite was Bob Mitchum's response to being in jail over a weekend on a marijuana pinch:

"It was great. Like Palm Springs without the riff raff."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/18/2020 15:44 Comments || Top||

#12  #5 Not the sort of brunettes I'm crazy about.

...dang Mormons...
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 08/18/2020 16:50 Comments || Top||

#13  "At Bachelor Hall," she confessed,
"Those boys was obsessed with my chest.
Got into my drawers
And banged like French doors.
They're the four quickest buns in the West."

But what'd they think of your box?
"Never mind that. Did I mention trying on one of Cary's suits?"
Posted by: Rupert Cromoting1818 || 08/18/2020 22:47 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Brilliant Chicago man arrested after livestreaming crimes
[LAWOFFICER] reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
police say citizen tips led them to a man suspected of being seen in a livestream video burglarizing an ATM during overnight looting last week.

Arron Neal was arrested on charges of burglary and criminal damage to property, Police Supt. David Brown said Saturday.

Police said Neal was livestreaming when he smashed an ATM on North State Street with a hammer, Fox 32 Chicago reported.

After posting the video on YouTube, Chicago Police Department then fielded tips from viewers, which led to the suspect.

"We posted this video on our website and within 90 minutes, members of the community contacted us and solved this crime," Brown said, according to the Chicago Sun Times. "What happened downtown and on the West Side last week had nothing to do with protesting, it was criminal behavior, and it will not be tolerated in the city of Chicago."

As a result, Neal was jugged
I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece!
in lieu of $100,000 bond Saturday, the paper reported.
Posted by: Fred || 08/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Timmy Cook tole me mah data wuz private...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/18/2020 2:38 Comments || Top||


#3  ^How much longer before the decent folks rise up?^
Posted by: Jay-Dubya || 08/18/2020 12:11 Comments || Top||

#4  When decent folk no longer fear prosecution by the corrupt elite.
Posted by: Woozle Grundy1232 || 08/18/2020 12:18 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Taliban IED experts blown up by own bomb in a mosque in North of Afghanistan
[KhaamaPress] A group of Taliban
...Arabic for students...
sustained casualties as they were busy manufacturing an improvised bomb, roadside kaboom, in a mosque in North of Afghanistan.

The 209th Shaheen Corps in a statement said the incident took place in a mosque in Chahabar Bolak district of Balkh.

The statement further added that a group of 8 Taliban IED experts were busy manufacturing a bomb inside a mosque in Sikandar Khel Village.

The premature explosion caused by IED killed four Talibs and maimed at least four others, the 209th Shaheen Corps added in its statement.

According to Shaheen Corps, the earth-shattering kaboom killed Zarif son of Najmuddin, Abdul Basir son of Abdul Basir, Abu Bakar son of Talib and Habib son of Arzankar.

The explosion also destroyed a large cache of explosives and other materials which the group was using to manufacture IEDs, the statement added.

The Taliban group has not commented in this regard so far.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  Taliban IED experts amateur enthusiasts blown up
Posted by: Woozle Grundy1232 || 08/18/2020 12:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Red wire/green wire problems. Storage of explosives problems. Are these becoming common in the middle east or just Beirut and Chahabar Bolak?
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper || 08/18/2020 16:53 Comments || Top||

#3  "How was I to know Mustafa was color blind ! "
Posted by: Thaith Elmeresing6163 || 08/18/2020 18:05 Comments || Top||

#4  That calls for a drink...a double!
Posted by: Clem || 08/18/2020 18:32 Comments || Top||

#5  Yet another expert expert...
Posted by: Glenmore || 08/18/2020 18:38 Comments || Top||


'23 Taliban' Killed in Clashes in 3 Provinces: MoD
[ToloNews] At least 23 Taliban
...Arabic for students...
were killed in festivities in Badghis, Ghazni and Maidan Wardak provinces, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) and other military authorities said on Monday.

At least 17 Taliban were killed in attacks on security checkpoints in Qads district of Badghis province, the statement said, adding that seven others were maimed.

Four other Taliban were killed and one was maimed in Andar district of Ghazni province after the Taliban clashed with security forces, the 203rd Thunder Military Corps said in a statement.

Two other Taliban were killed in festivities with security forces in Jalrez district of Maidan Wardak, the statement added.

However,
it was a brave man who first ate an oyster...
neither the MoD nor 203rd Thunder Military Corps have provided details about Afghan forces casualties during the festivities.

The Taliban has not commented on the festivities.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Kabul's Shakardara District 'Cleared of Insurgents'
[ToloNews] At least five Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
were killed and two others--including a Taliban leader--were maimed during a joint security forces operation in Kabul, the Ministry of Defense said in a statement on Monday.

The operation was launched in Shakardara district and 25 bully boys, including three group leaders, were arrested. The Taliban "were causing fear in the district," the statement said, adding that "the forces will remain in the district for security."

"The forces also seized weapons during the operation," it added.

However,
it's easy to be generous with someone else's money...
the statement did not give details about security force casualties.

The Taliban has not yet commented on the operation.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Iran Paid Taliban Fighters To Attack US Assets In Afghanistan, Leading To Trump Ordering Killing Of Soleimani
[DailyCaller] Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
reportedly paid bounties to a Taliban
...Arabic for students...
-backed Haqqani terrorist network for at least six attacks carried out against U.S. forces in Afghanistan.

U.S. intelligence identified the link between Iran and Haqqani following the December 2019 suicide kaboom at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan, which killed two civilians and injured dozens more, CNN
...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for...
reported Monday morning.

Two Trump administration officials said, according to CNN, that the bounties led to President Donald Trump
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
’s decision to kill former Quds Force General Qasem Soleimani by dronezap in January. Trump cited Soleimani and Iran allegedly planning further attacks against U.S. forces in the region as a justification for killing him.
Sounds fair to me.
CNN’s report comes after U.S. intelligence reports leaked accusing Russia of paying bounties to Taliban-backed fighters for attacks against U.S. soldiers.
Who leaked, and why did they falsely accuse Russia to protect actual perpetrator Iran?
The White House said Trump did not act, arguing that there was a lack of consensus within the intelligence community (IC) over the veracity of the information.
..or is someone having a little too much fun with nearby Deep Staters?
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany told news hounds at a press briefing in June that Trump would act if the IC reached a consensus on the intelligence.

The president stated during his hour-long interview with Axios’ Jonathan Swan that he did not raise the issue during a recent phone call with Russian President 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...
The White House, National Security Council, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and Department of Defense did not return Daily Caller’s inquiries on the report by press time.

Iran reacts to Pompeo’s remarks regarding supply of weapons to Taliban by Tehran

[KhaamaPress] The Foreign Ministry of Iran reacted to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s recent remarks regarding the supply of weapons by Tehran to Taliban
...Arabic for students...
group.

Saeed Khatibzadeh, a spokesperson for Iran’s Foreign Ministry, also blamed Washington for the ongoing situation in Afghanistan, calling it an outcome of the warmongering and interventions of Washington.

He said Pompeo’s allegations are considered as blamegame and attempts to deflect public opinion in Afghanistan with regard to US aid to ISIS, according to IRNA News Agency.

Furthermore, Khatibzadeh said US has not yet give response to public opinion’s demands regarding the identity of helicopters flying in Afghan airspace and under NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
coverage to help ISIS.

Pompeo on Wednesday said Tehran continues to arm the Taliban group today.

Responding to a question regarding Russia and Tehran’s intervention in Afghanistan, Pompeo said "We’ve made clear we know the history, we know that the Russians have armed the Taliban in the past, right. We know that the Iranians continue to arm them today. So we know these facts."

"We’ve made clear to each of them our expectations, and we will do everything we need to do to protect and defend every American soldier and, for that matter, every soldier from the Czech Republic or any other country that’s part of the Resolute Support Mission to make sure that they’re safe," he said, adding that "We have done that. We did it last year, we’ll do it again this year, and we’ll do it so long as we have soldiers in Afghanistan."
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies

#1  What are the odds that Iran used some of the exact bills that were delivered on pallets by the Obama administration?
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 08/18/2020 7:03 Comments || Top||

#2  That would be like when we were arming the Afghans against the Russians?
Posted by: Elmung Hatrack5948 || 08/18/2020 11:56 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ yeah, that worked out so well.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/18/2020 19:47 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Sudan security forces fire tear gas at protesters on anniversary of power-sharing deal
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 08/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Sudan


Africa North
Libyan owned Bank ABC announced its results for the first half of this year reporting a net loss of $67 million due to major client fraud
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 08/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Muslim Brotherhood

#1  2010-12-14 Manama, Bahrain: Arab Banking Corporation (“ABC”) today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire a 49% ownership stake in Mediterranean Bank S.A.L., a Libyan bank headquartered in Benghazi, in the North East of Libya, and with branches in Tripoli and Misurata. The acquisition, which is subject to final regulatory approval from the Central Bank of Libya, is expected to close before the end of the first quarter of 2011. ABC will also manage the bank on a day-to-day basis...
Posted by: b || 08/18/2020 7:14 Comments || Top||

#2  I know Big Mo had a bee up his turban about paying interest. What was his policy on paying back the principal?
Posted by: Woozle Grundy1232 || 08/18/2020 12:24 Comments || Top||


Libyan democratically elected parliament HoR , through PM Ali Altikbali has refused any plans to create a buffer zone or demilitarize the Sirte and AlJufra Line
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 08/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas got off the plane wearing a bulletproof vest and with a small army on guard
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 08/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Muslim Brotherhood


Arabia
11 Yemen soldiers killed in clashes and rebel attack
[AlAhram] Eleven 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...
i government troops, including a senior officer, were killed in a rebel missile attack and festivities to the northeast and east of Sanaa, military and medical sources said Monday.

General Mohammed Ali-Roqn, commander of the army's 122 brigade, along with eight other soldiers were killed in battle in al-Jawf province Sunday while trying to reclaim positions lost months ago, the sources said.

The rebels also suffered casualties, the military source added without elaborating.

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...
rebels took control of the capital of the northern province of al-Jawf earlier this year -- a strategic advance that means they now threaten oil-producing Marib province.

Yemen's vice president, Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, in a statement carried by the official Saba news agency, said Roqn was killed "while conducting military operations" in al-Jawf.
May he quickly find himself precisely where he belongs, as opposed to where he fondly believed himself headed.
Two government troops were killed and four others maimed in a Houthi missile attack on a military base in Marib, east of Sanaa, a government official said.

Renewed festivities also broke out in al-Baida -- which is under nominal government control -- between loyalist forces and the Houthis, who have launched offensives against al-Qaeda snuffies in the province.

Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
...the latest incarnation of various Qaeda and Qaeda-allied groups, including the now-defunct Aden-Abyan Islamic Army that boomed the USS Cole in 2000...
-- considered by the United States as the radical group's most dangerous branch -- has carried out operations against both the Houthis and government forces..

The government and rebels have been locked in a five-year-old war that has killed tens of thousands -- triggering what the UN terms the world's worst humanitarian crisis. Fighting has carried on despite repeated calls for a ceasefire as part of global efforts to combat coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...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...
, which health agencies fear could become a disastrous outbreak in impoverished Yemen.

More than 1,800 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Yemen, including 530 deaths.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/18/2020 00:12 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Fifth Column
Seattle police release bodycam showing officers being injured by explosives during riots
[FoxNews]
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/18/2020 10:12 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Fireworks fired at Border Police in Jerusalem, suspect shot
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/18/2020 10:14 Comments || Top||

#2  !כאן זה לא אמריקה^
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/18/2020 11:21 Comments || Top||

#3  !כאן זה לא אמריקה^

I look forward to it being proved that Israeli and American Antifa have the same paymasters, g(r)omgoru.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/18/2020 14:58 Comments || Top||

#4  #3 In was a "palestinian"
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/18/2020 15:02 Comments || Top||

#5  ^In --> it
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/18/2020 15:02 Comments || Top||

#6  I believe they have a MREP program.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/18/2020 15:07 Comments || Top||

#7  One of the molotov-tossing lawyers in NYC "volunteered" with groups in the Middle East.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 08/18/2020 17:28 Comments || Top||

#8  Seattle police aren't using enough deterrent force obviously. Go ahead and play with your little friends then police department.
Posted by: jpal || 08/18/2020 19:09 Comments || Top||


Portland BLM mob beat white man unconscious after making him crash truck, and more
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Other Portland interactions:


Posted by: Fred || 08/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM


#2  Those who control the portland police WANT antifa there.

Those harmed by their malfeasance should sue.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 08/18/2020 4:11 Comments || Top||

#3  Reginald Denny unavailable for comment...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/18/2020 12:10 Comments || Top||

#4  Makes Lord of the Flies look like high tea.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/18/2020 12:13 Comments || Top||

#5  The commie perp was wearing a vest with "Security" on it. He was acting in an official capacity in Mayor Wheeler's reimagined police force. When Dems talk of replacing police with community activists, this is precisely what they have in mind.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 08/18/2020 14:46 Comments || Top||

#6  The Portland Police have (finally) named the suspect and are looking for him like so. After all, he was jaywalking.
Posted by: Matt || 08/18/2020 14:58 Comments || Top||

#7  Second look at the Blaster Auto Defense System?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/18/2020 17:29 Comments || Top||

#8  Portland police did not ID the perp, 4chan users did. Portland PD is no longer relevant.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 08/18/2020 20:14 Comments || Top||


Seattle police officer tells BLM protester, 'I'm leaving, you guys won'; 18 rioters arrested overnight
[LAWOFFICER] In a sad scene of resignation a Seattle police officer told a person believed to be a BLM protester that he planned to resign due to the civil unrest and riots.

A video circulating on social media (see below) shows the unnamed officer drive up to a protester and have a short conversation.

"You having a good day today?" says the officer through his passenger side window, which is rolled down.

"Not really, you’re around," replied the protester.

"I’m sorry for that. But just don’t worry man, cuz guess what? I’m leaving. You guys won," the officer says. "F***ing two months baby, I’m out."

"You’re about to resign?" queries the hopeful protester with a touch of excitement in his voice.

"I’m f***ing gone, bro," declared the officer.

"How you felling about that?" the protester asks, almost empathetically.

"I’m feeling great," says the officer. "I’m leaving this department. You guys won."

The conversation continues with the protester chumming up to the officer, even asking him to be interviewed (like he was going to join forces with them).

When the protester realizes the officer is not resigning due to "police brutality," but because of the onslaught occurring against officers, he suddenly turns against his "new friend."

Apparently shouting to other demonstrators, the protester says, "Hey, he said he’s tired of us. He’s gonna resign because of Black Lives Matter, not because he’s tired of the police."

Now, returning to his caustic demeanor, the protester says, "Hey, you triggered boy? You triggered? Oink, oink, ... oink, oink. F*** you and your blue life, boy."

The insulting activist then repeats the inflammatory comments a second time when the officer appears to say something about being friends. The angered protester responds, "Nah, we ain’t never gonna be friends. We’ll never see eye to eye. I don’t give a f*** if you take that badge off, you’ll never be my people."

Posted by: Fred || 08/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Where's Frank Rizzo when you need him?
Posted by: Tholuck Thiger6408 || 08/18/2020 9:01 Comments || Top||

#2  You are really going to dig the cops you get next.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/18/2020 12:44 Comments || Top||


Six BLM protesters are arrested for tearing down and defacing George Washington statue at LA City Hall
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Footage of the incident showed the bronze figure with red bands around its neck as a group pulled it to the ground in Grand Park last Thursday shortly before 7pm

  • The group are said to have changed clothes in an attempt to avoid detection

  • They 'cheered and celebrated as others vandalized...the statue', police said

  • Protesters have been tearing down statues across the country as part of anti-racism demonstrations fueled by George Floyd 's death in Minneapolis in May
Posted by: Fred || 08/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Presumably released without charges.
Posted by: Glenmore || 08/18/2020 18:37 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
US backs Cyprus amid friction with NATO ally Turkey in eastern Mediterranean
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 08/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  "Ally", huh?
Posted by: Frank G || 08/18/2020 6:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Well, I certainly feel safer.
Posted by: Fred || 08/18/2020 8:49 Comments || Top||

#3  Good. Turkey is not an ally, even though it is part of NATO.

Evacuate our base and kick 'em out.
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/18/2020 9:32 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Iraq | Al-Kadhimi dismisses security officials in Basra Province
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
The spokesman for the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Major General Yahya Rasool, said in a statement received by Alghadeer, “Based on the directives of the Prime Minister and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, dismissed the Director of National Security in Basra Governorate from his position”.

This is the second security official to be dismissed by Al-Kadhimi within few hours, after the police chief, Lieutenant General Rashid Falih, was dismissed from his position earlier today.
Posted by: Fred || 08/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq


Turkish helicopter has been shot down in northern Iraq, resulting in the death of the crew
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 08/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israeli airstrikes hit Hamas targets near Rafah crossing in Gaza
[Jpost] The attack was carried out in response to incendiary balloons sent from the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip into Israeli territory throughout the day.


Israeli aircraft carried out Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s on targets in the Gaza Strip in the pre-dawn hours of Tuesday morning, hitting Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, targets and infrastructure.

The strikes landed near the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt, according to Paleostinian reports.

"IDF fighter jets and aircraft attacked an underground infrastructure belonging to the Hamas terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip," the IDF's Spokesperson's Unit said in a statement.

The military added that the attack was carried out in response to incendiary balloons sent from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory throughout the day, in addition to consequent fires in which a children's preschool and some 150 of hectares of agricultural land were burned.

An incendiary balloon landed in front of a Sderot preschool on Monday, starting a fire in the region. While some 35 children attend the preschool on a daily basis, the building suffered structural damage, but was fortunately empty at the time and no injuries were reported, according to Maariv, The Jerusalem Post's sister publication.

Moreover, the airstrikes took place only hours after an Egyptian envoy left the Strip in an attempt to mediate in order to prevent escalation between Hamas and Israel, as well as after the Gazook balloon units threatened on Monday night to "burn everything in the Gaza envelope" on Tuesday.

Israel has launched several attacks on targets in the Hamas-controlled coastal enclave over the past week due to increasing launches of incendiary balloons from the Strip into the South, as well as rocket attacks.

On Sunday, five Israelis were maimed when Hamas fired at rockets towards southern Israel. Interceptor rocket fragments slammed into the yard of a home in Sderot, damaging the home and injuring a 58-year-old man, the IDF said in a statement at the time.Two other women were treated for shock, while another two hurt themselves while running to the bomb shelter.
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#2  Incendiary balloons start 18 fires in southern Israel
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Turkish Army comes under attack inside Idlib
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Lebanese customs chief arrested over Beirut blast
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Turkish UAV downed in Ain al-Arab Kobani in Syria
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US-led coalition clashes with Syrian regime at Qamishli checkpoint
[Rudaw] The US-led coalition denied carrying out an Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
against Syrian regime soldiers in Qamishli on Monday, saying troops engaged in "self-defence" after coming under fire near a regime checkpoint, according to an official statement.

According to the statement, coalition troops and members of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) were conducting a "routine" security patrol near Tal Az-Zahab, southeast of Qamishli in Hasaka province, when passed a pro-Syrian regime checkpoint.

"After receiving safe passage from the pro-regime forces, the patrol came under small arms fire from individuals in the vicinity of the checkpoint. Coalition troops returned fire in self-defence. The Coalition did not conduct an airstrike," the statement read.

No coalition members were maimed or killed, it added.

The statement followed reports from Syrian state media of an "airstrike" by coalition helicopters, killing at least one Syrian regime soldier and wounding two others.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported the strikes taking place after regime forces refused to let the US patrol pass, putting the regime soldier corpse count at two.

"Reliable SOHR sources have confirmed that regime checkpoint blocked a US military column in Tal al-Zahab village, south of al-Qamishli airbase in al-Hasakah countryside, which evolved to altercation between both sides," reported the SOHR Monday afternoon.

"Aircraft affiliated to the International Coalition came later and struck the checkpoint, leaving many casualties among regime soldiers stationed at the checkpoint," it added.

A video posted to Twitter on Monday afternoon purportedly shows US force fire at a Syrian army outpost.

This is the first direct military engagement between the United States and Syrian regime in recent months.

A unit from the Syrian army confronted a US military convoy in a village associated with the town of Tal Tamr in Hasaka province in July.

The US said it had "completely withdrawn" from northeastern Syria in late 2019, according to statements made by US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper. However around 600 soldiers remain across parts of the country to protect oil fields from 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), according to Rooters.

The withdrawal of US troops in early October prompted international outcry as Ottoman Turkish-backed forces invaded the areas held by the SDF since the defeat of ISIS.

Operation Peace Spring, greenlit by the decision of Commander-in-chief President Trump, saw The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor...
launch its long-expected invasion of the region.

It aimed to cleanse the area of SDF, which it sees as a terrorist group, before resettling Arab refugees from elsewhere in Syria that have fled to Turkey since 2011.
Al Ghadeer adds:
The maimed soldiers were transported to a nearby hospital for treatment, SANA reported.

Syrian newspaper al-Watan reported that one of the maimed soldiers was an officer.
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