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Iraqi forces launch 'large scale' anti-ISIS air and ground operation in Salahaddin
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Good morning
Trump denies Biden victory, promises legal action
Monday November 9th, 2020

MarilynMonroe_11_01
UNSMIL says detention of easterners by Tripoli-based gunmen aims to undermine settlement
Ethiopia Moves to Replace Tigray Govt As Conflict Spirals
Catalogue of Failures Behind Growing Humanitarian Crisis in Northern Mozambique
Hariga Port prepares to ship one million barrels of crude oil
Tripoli Protection Force rejects the visit of Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha to Egypt
Italy’s Foreign Ministry says Italian fishermen are detained by local militias in eastern Libya
Chief of the New York Police Department's Equal Employment Opportunity Division accused of posting racist and anti-Semitic comments.

Posted by: Fred || 11/09/2020 09:25 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You mean she WASN'T a natural blonde?!?
Posted by: Mercutio || 11/09/2020 10:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Somethings are natural, somethings are not.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/09/2020 16:28 Comments || Top||

#3  That picture is cringeworthy and not flattering at all.
MM was a dark blonde.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 11/09/2020 16:58 Comments || Top||

#4  Fire that photographer

ugly hat
ugly pose
weird leering expression
amateur backdrop
legs photographed in most unflattering arrangement
Posted by: Cleting Unotle4713 || 11/09/2020 17:01 Comments || Top||

#5  You guys are super critical. You must not have spent much time hanging around sleazy bars.

I thought she had a come-hither look and looked rather sexy.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/09/2020 17:45 Comments || Top||

#6  Nicely arranged if you ask me. Although I'd have tossed a nice Indian blanket over the sawhorse.
Posted by: jpal || 11/09/2020 17:47 Comments || Top||

#7  Insert Farmer's Daughter joke here.
Posted by: Thusoting Big Foot1716 || 11/09/2020 18:03 Comments || Top||

#8  Didn't they say she had six toes on one foot?
Posted by: Clem || 11/09/2020 18:20 Comments || Top||

#9  I had something to say but then I forgot it. Good night people, may you sleep til the sun wakes you up tomorrow.
Posted by: jpal || 11/09/2020 21:44 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Eight Civilians Killed in Ghazni Mortar Attack: Official
[ToloNews] At least eight non-combatants were killed and seven more were maimed after three mortars hit near residential houses in Naw Abad area in the city of Ghazni this evening, the provincial police front man Wahidullah Juma said.

He said that the incident happened when the first mortar "shelled by the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
" hit a house in the area and that the two others hit the area when the people gathered to help those affected.

He said that nine children and four women are among those killed and maimed in the incident.

Taliban has not commented on the statement.

This comes as violence has increased in many parts of the country despite the ongoing efforts to begin direct talks with the Taliban in 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...
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/09/2020 02:40 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Taliban Battered in Helmand, 6 Nabbed
[KhaamaPress] At least four Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
bandidos murderous Moslems were killed and further five maimed in a battle with Afghan National Army in Nadali district of Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
province, said the Ministry of Defense in a statement Sunday.

Security forces also arrested six members of the Taliban terrorist group, according to the statement.

"4 Taliban were killed, 5 were maimed and 6 others were arrested by ANA in Nadali district of Helmand Prov. during reciprocal operations last night," said MoD in a tweet.

Meanwhile,
...back at the mall, Clarissa spent the day shopping for new underwear. Tonight was going to be a special occasion...
the authorities seized a number of arms and ammunition, including some military equipment, during the operation.

"Additionally, a large amount of their weapons and ammunitions were seized," the tweet added. "These TB had gathered to plan attacks on ANDSF positions."

Meanwhile,
...back at the mall, Clarissa spent the day shopping for new underwear. Tonight was going to be a special occasion...
the MoD said at least "5 Taliban were killed and 4 others were maimed in Marja district of Helmand" Province, where "a large amount of their weapons and ammunitions were seized and several of their vehicles were destroyed as a result of the operations."
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/09/2020 02:40 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  That calls for a drink!
Posted by: Clem || 11/09/2020 18:16 Comments || Top||

#2  What gave 'em away the curly toed slipper or the Korans?
Posted by: jpal || 11/09/2020 19:35 Comments || Top||


Four Soldiers Killed in Taliban Attacks in Baghlan: Sources
[ToloNews] At least four security forces members were killed and six more were maimed in Taliban
...Arabic for students...
attacks in different areas in the northern province of Baghlan in the last 24 hours, security sources said on Sunday.

The attacks took place on security outposts in Baghlan-e-Markazi and Nahrin districts as well as on the outskirts of Pul-e-Khumri city, the center of Baghlan, the sources said.

"Two of the soldiers maimed in Nahrin district are at death's door but have not been taken the provincial hospital as the Taliban has closed the highway (leading to the center of the province)," a local official said who wished not to be named due to security reasons. "We need air transport to transfer the maimed."

Farid Khan Sayedkhili, a local army commander, said security forces have suffered casualties but added that "10 Taliban members were also killed or maimed in the festivities."

Sayedkhili said the Taliban attack "has been pushed back and the forces are ready to respond." The commander did not more details on the security forces casualties.

So far, the Taliban has not commented on the attacks.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/09/2020 02:40 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa North
Libya Capital Receives 23 Thousand Tonnes of Gasoline
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Posted by: Fred || 11/09/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Italy’s Foreign Ministry says Italian fishermen are detained by local militias in eastern Libya
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Posted by: Fred || 11/09/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Azeris Fire Eight Long-Range Missiles At Apartment Buildings & Other Civilian Areas In Stepanakert
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Posted by: Fred || 11/09/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Ottoman Proxies


Armenia denies Azerbaijani claims about Shushi, battle continues
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Posted by: Fred || 11/09/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Ottoman Proxies


Europe
Two men arrested in Switzerland over possible links to a deadly attack in Vienna on November 2
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The two men arrested in the Swiss town of Winterthur near Zurich last week over possible links to an holy warrior shooting attack in Vienna on November 2
...that would be Kujtim Fejzulai, 22, the dual Macedonian-Austrian citizen of Albanian ethnicity who ran around a few blocks of Jewish Vienna in a fake bomb vest shooting at people for nine whole minutes before the police shot him down like a rabid dog ...
visited the attacker in July and he may have visited the Zurich region, Swiss media reported on Sunday.

The reports shed a further spotlight on the once prominent industrial center near Zurich, where officials say a now-shuttered mosque attracted preachers who espoused "hate speech." A man dubbed the "Emir of Winterthur” was sentenced to 50 months in jail in September for recruiting for ISIS holy warrior group.
That is very probably the unnamed Ethiopian imam of the An’Nur mosque, about whom no more is revealed by a cursory search of Rantburg’s archives ...
Swiss newspaper NZZ am Sonntag said the two men, aged 18 and 24, travelled to Vienna between July 16 and July 20 to meet the future attacker in an unknown location, citing "two well-informed people."

The paper also said the gunman, who was rubbed out by police after killing four people in the center of the Austrian capital, may have travelled to the canton of Zurich at some point between July 21 and November 2, citing the same two unnamed sources, which it did not specify further.

The SonntagsZeitung newspaper said the two men had visited the Vienna attacker this summer in his flat, without citing sources. "It is still completely unclear whether the two men simply visited the Vienna terrorist or whether they can be linked to the attack," the paper said.

Swiss authorities have said the two men were "obviously friends" of the attacker and had met in person, but did not say when.
Posted by: Fred || 11/09/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  There seems to be a huge amount of lone wolves who arrived on boats all working together.

Luckily the EUSSR told us we were totally deluded to think immigration of muslim males was a terrorism and crime risk.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/09/2020 2:01 Comments || Top||


Three men go on trial at Spain’s top criminal court for facilitating twin attacks in 2017 that killed 16 in Barcelona
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Posted by: Fred || 11/09/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Fifth Column
Oregon State Police arrested four far-left activists at the BLM-antifa protest at the state capitol
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Posted by: Fred || 11/09/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  ... and were then immediately released on their own personal recognizance, right?
Posted by: Raj || 11/09/2020 8:40 Comments || Top||

#2  But I don't see any recognizance ....
Posted by: gorb || 11/09/2020 18:30 Comments || Top||


A man was shot dead at Seattle's former CHAZ early Sunday morning after a victory street celebration for Joe Biden
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Posted by: Fred || 11/09/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM


BLM Protesters Crash Biden Party, Call Out White Liberals as Drunken ‘F**king Fools'
[Breitbart] BLM protesters marched into Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, D.C., on Saturday night and criticized "white liberals" who celebrated "Biden winning this election."

BLM marchers took to the streets of DC on Saturday night, shouting "Burn it down, Burn it down," Breitbart News reported. As they made their way into Black Lives Matter Plaza near the White House, they became increasingly critical of the evening’s earlier celebrations.

"For all of you f—ng journalists, for all of you white liberals who have been celebrating, getting drunk off your asses about Biden winning this election, you are all a bunch of f—ng fools!" one man can be heard yelling on a bull horn, journalist Andy Ngo tweeted.

"You are using this plaza as a tourist attraction," he continued, "You are all acting like this is f**king Disney World. This is not f**king Disney World."

"You will not colonize this space," he told the Biden supporters who previously partied on the plaza. "We will not have it here."

He continued chastising the Biden supporters and said BLM is not going anywhere.

"We are still gonna be here protesting, fighting, advocating for our Blacks, for our Brown, indigenous, queer, non-binary, people who have been killed by police," the man concluded.

Another man took the bull horn and told the Biden supporters to go home.

"This isn’t over," he began. "you were not here much. You shouldn’t be out here right now."

"Go home," he told the Biden supporters. "Unless you are with this movement, go home. It’s not a party. We’ll be back. Don’t worry."
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 11/09/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  For those that remember my comments on the general historical parallels between the German Nationalist Socialist Party (Nazi's 1920's to 1945) and the US Nationalist Socialist Party (LSD's 2007-202#).

Here we have another one.
Nazi Germany 1930's SA vs SS and etc..
SA (brown shirt leaders purged

US National Socialists (2007-202#)
Biden/Anti-FA (SS) vs. Marxist BLM (SA's/Brown shirts)

Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/09/2020 8:06 Comments || Top||

#2  BLM protesters marched into Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, D.C., on Saturday night and criticized "white liberals" who celebrated "Biden winning this election."

So one group of white liberals is harassing another group of white liberals? Have at it!
Posted by: Raj || 11/09/2020 8:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Come on, people. You seriously don't know the difference between leftists and liberals?

How do you tell the difference between liberals and leftists? Easy. Liberals believe in freedom of speech. They might disagree with what you say but will defend to the death your right to say it.

Leftists, on the other hand, freely use censorship as a weapon of first resort. Their own positions are so weak that if people are allowed to point out the many problems, they would collapse.

The left hijacked the label liberal, something they have never been. After they ruined and destroyed the meaning they moved on to "progressive". Leftists hate liberals, just ask them. "Liberals get the bullet too" is a common catchphrase, referring to the executions they plan after their revolution succeeds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlIjMJBSnRE
Posted by: Jaiger Sleath7993 || 11/09/2020 9:27 Comments || Top||

#4  Traditionally the Left has hated liberals even more than they hate conservatives.
Posted by: Lemuel Snerelet3695 || 11/09/2020 9:34 Comments || Top||

#5  And they are going to find out that Blamtifa isn't some har har political ploy.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/09/2020 11:04 Comments || Top||

#6  Need to expand that left/liberal divide.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/09/2020 14:21 Comments || Top||

#7  And they thought blm and antifa were on their side.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 11/09/2020 17:59 Comments || Top||

#8  Sounds like a threat. What are they gonna do about it?
Posted by: Thusoting Big Foot1716 || 11/09/2020 18:04 Comments || Top||

#9  US National Socialists (2007-202#)
Biden/Anti-FA (SS) vs. Marxist BLM (SA's/Brown shirts)


Except they both are equally extrusions of the ancient anarcho-communist syndicate descended from the Stalinists who used to fight the fascists all up and down the streets of Europe and England back in the day, more recently known as Occupy Wall Street — and they trade people back and forth between the various named groups like jihadis do.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/09/2020 18:05 Comments || Top||

#10  As Hayek said, notice how it is the socialists fighting among each other, fighting for each other's socialist heart and mind. You don't see social democrats or classic liberals fighting against each other or against the socialists. BTW, Mussolini was a Commie pinko at one time.
Posted by: Clem || 11/09/2020 18:10 Comments || Top||

#11  #8 Sounds like a threat. What are they gonna do about it?
Posted by Thusoting Big Foot1716


Blame Trump
Posted by: Frank G || 11/09/2020 19:42 Comments || Top||

#12  When Mao came to the conclusion that the Red Guard posed a threat to the party, he sent the PLA in to eliminate them. Just saying.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/09/2020 20:12 Comments || Top||

#13  Brietbart has been reporting about infighting for a few days now. Boone noticed but I hem until it errupted into this.
Posted by: Angeater Omick2705 || 11/09/2020 22:27 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
A fierce gunbattle on Sunday left four Indian soldiers and three ''freedom fighters'' dead in Indian-occupied Kashmir
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

A fierce gunbattle on Sunday left four Indian soldiers and three freedom fighters dead in Indian-occupied Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
, Indian media reported.

The fighting in Kupwara district started at around 1:00 am after the paramilitary soldiers spotted the fighters around 2 miles into India’s side of the Line of Control, said Indian army spokesperson Col Rajesh Kalia.

The army rushed troop reinforcements in after the first three hours of exchange of gunfire killed one Indian paramilitary soldier and one fighter, Kalia said.

Fighting resumed after a lull of several hours, killing three Indian soldiers and injuring another two, he said, adding that two more fighters were killed before the firing subsided.
Posted by: Fred || 11/09/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistain Proxies


Iraq
Iraqi forces launch 'large scale' anti-ISIS air and ground operation in Salahaddin
[Rudaw] Iraq's army and air force have begun a "large scale" operation to clear remnants of 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) from part of Salahaddin province in the north of the country, Iraqi Security Media Cell announced on Sunday.

Iraqi army troops were deployed to the mountain ranges of Makhoul and Khanuka in the north of the province on Sunday morning, the Cell said in a statement.

Ordered by commander in chief Mustafa al-Kadhimi, who is also prime minister of Iraq, the operation will be conducted with cooperation from federal police, parts of the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF, also known as Hashd al-Shaabi), as well as air support from the US-led anti-ISIS coalition, the statement added.

"Air force jets and Global Coalition warplanes conducted a series of strikes on terrorist targets in the Khanuka and Makhoul mountain ranges," Iraqi Security Media Cell said on Twitter on Sunday.

The Cell said in a tweet on Saturday that strikes on Khanuka were conducted by Iraq's F-16 jets on ISIS targets, with Coalition supervision.

Salahaddin province is home to the air bases of al-Qayyarra, where Iraq's F-16 jets are stationed, and Balad. Both were handed over by the US-led coalition to Iraqi security force control earlier this year. The province also contains part of a stretch of territory disputed by Erbil and Baghdad.

ISIS said in its weekly al-Naba newsletter released on Thursday that it had conducted six operations in Salahaddin province in the week of October 29—November 4. Salahaddin was the second most frequently attacked province in Iraq after Diyala, where ISIS conducted ten attacks that same week, according to the newsletter.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/09/2020 04:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Islamic State attack in near Baghdad kills 11
[IsraelTimes] An 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....
group attack on a lookout point west of Baghdad manned by a state-sponsored tribal force left 11 people dead late Sunday, security sources and medics told AFP.

The jihadists threw grenades and fired on the tribal Hashed forces stationed at al-Radwaniyah, on the southern outskirts of the Iraqi capital, near the Baghdad airport.

"IS attacked the monitoring tower, killing five members of the tribal Hashed and six local people who had come to help repel the attack," a security source said.

A medic confirmed the toll to AFP, and said eight maimed were transferred to a hospital in central Baghdad.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility from IS.

The coalition has significantly drawn down its troops this year, consolidating them to three main bases in Baghdad, Ain al-Asad in the west and Arbil in the north.

But IS’s sleeper cells have continued to wage hit-and-run attacks on security forces and state infrastructure, particularly in desert areas where troops are stretched thin.

Attacks with such high tolls and so close to the capital have been rare, however.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/09/2020 04:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


The medical staff in Dhi Qar province stage an open-ended strike due to delay in disbursing wages
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Posted by: Fred || 11/09/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq


Employees of Dhi Qar oil refinery raise banners during their protests to voice demands of disbursing wages
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Posted by: Fred || 11/09/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq


Protesters in Nasiriya close the provincial building, set up tents outside, demanding dismissal of Governor Nadhim al-Wa’eli
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Posted by: Fred || 11/09/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israeli gov’t approves establishment of new town in Gaza periphery
[IsraelTimes] The cabinet green-lights a plan to build a new town in the region adjacent to 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.

The new town has been tentatively named Hanun and will include hundreds of homes, according to Hebrew-language media reports.
The longer the Palestinians take to sign a peace treaty, the less land there will be to negotiate for. In brief, land for not-peace.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/09/2020 04:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


IDF: Palestinian attempts to stab troops near Hebron, is shot
[IsraelTimes] A Paleostinian man attempted to stab soldiers outside a refugee camp near the southern West Bank city of Hebron on Sunday morning, the military said.

Troops at the scene shot up the suspect, injuring him. His condition was not immediately known.

No Israeli soldiers were maimed in the attack, the Israel Defense Forces said.

The attempted stabbing occurred outside the al-Fawwar refugee camp southwest of Hebron.

Footage of the incident was quickly shared on Paleostinian social media, showing the moments just before the suspect was shot.

In the video (above), the man can be seen holding what appears to be a knife while surrounded by soldiers armed with guns. The view of the incident is then obstructed as the sound of gunshots are heard.

"The assailant arrived to the scene in a car, got out of the vehicle and began advancing toward the IDF soldiers with a knife drawn in an attempt to stab the soldiers who were reinforcing the roadways," the military said in a statement.

"The soldiers called for the assailant to halt and conducted the procedure for arresting a suspect. After he did not adhere to their calls, they fired at him in order to neutralize him," the IDF said.

The suspect was taken to Beersheba’s Soroka Medical Center for treatment.

He was identified by Paleostinian officials as a 41-year-old resident of the nearby town of Duma.

The attempted attack came amid an uptick in violence in the West Bank in recent weeks, with an increasing number of rock-throwing attacks and Molotov cocktailings along highways in the West Bank.

Last Wednesday, a member of the Paleostinian Authority’s security services shot up troops in the northern West Bank, missing them, before he was rubbed out by Israeli forces.

Though not unprecedented, it is highly unusual for members of Paleostinian security forces, which often coordinate closely with the IDF and other Israeli defense agencies, to carry out attacks against Israeli troops and civilians.

According to the official Paleostinian Authority outlet WAFA, Bilal Adnan Rawajbeh, 29, was a legal adviser with the rank of captain in the Paleostinian Preventative Security Forces, one of the PA’s most powerful intelligence organizations.

WAFA accused the Israeli troops of firing at him "at point blank range... while he was passing through the checkpoint." The PA official news source called his death "an execution."

The IDF staunchly denied this account, saying Rawajbeh had shot up the Golani Brigade soldiers from inside his vehicle at a junction south of Nablus.

"The car with the assailant came from the city, turned left at the roundabout, and opened fire toward the [soldier’s] position. The commander of the troops responded quickly and fired his weapon. Immediately afterward, two soldiers at the bus stop ran over and joined the incident, opening fire at the assailant. The assailant was struck by a number of bullets," said Lt. Col. Shahar Barkai, the commander of the soldiers’ unit, the Golani Brigade’s Barak Battalion.

The incident came days after Israeli troops opened fire on a Paleostinian car after a homemade bomb was thrown from the vehicle at a junction manned by soldiers in the central West Bank, the army said.

"The soldiers blocked the road to stop the terrorist cell. The car accelerated in their direction and the fighters responded by firing at the terrorists," a statement from the IDF said, adding that the car was hit by bullets.

Paleostinian media reported that three people in the car were maimed during the incident, which took place overnight Thursday near the West Bank city of Jenin.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/09/2020 04:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syrian army clashes with Dara’a fighters near Israel and Jordan
[Jpost] Reports of artillery and that "local krazed killer groups from the western village of Dara’a deployed near Tafas" leaves questions about who is in control.

Tensions boiled over in Syria’s southern Dara’a province on Sunday as the Syrian army reportedly sent its 4th division on a sweep of towns and villages after several Syrian soldiers were killed. Much remains unclear in the areas of southern Syria that abut the Golan and also Jordan, an area that was retaken by the Syrian regime in 2018 but remains restive.

Reports by pro-Syrian regime social media said that several Syrian soldiers had been killed and even "beheaded."
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/09/2020 04:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


HTS arrests and tortures director of refugee camp near Syria-Turkey border
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SOHR sources have reported that a group of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
’s security services arrested the director of "Al-Ma’had al-Zera’i" refugee camp (the Agricultural Institute camp) in Harem city near the border with Iskenderun region. The camp’s director was arrested after altercation with the "Emir" (senior commander) of Harem, since the "Emir" accused him of "embezzling funds allocated to displaced people". It is worth noting that the director was tortured before he was released later following mediation by commanders in HTS and tribes’ elders form the area.

On November 1, Observatory activists monitored deployment of HTS security services in Darat Azza city in west Aleppo countryside, along with besieging the headquarters of the 4th Brigade of the "National Army" in Ashrafiyeh neighbourhood. According to Observatory sources, HTS entered and controlled the headquarters by force, while the members stationed in the headquarters were expelled.
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