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Afghanistan
Drug Traffickers Busted in Kabul, Nangarhar
[KhaamaPress] At least three suspects arrested for drug trafficking charges during multiple operation the Counter Narcotic Police of Afghanistan (CNPA) carried in capital city Kabul and eastern province of 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..
, said the Ministry of Interior Affairs in a statement Sunday.

According to the statement, the CNPA carried multiple operations across Kabul and Nangarhar in combat against illegal drug dealing.

"CNPA arrested three suspects charged with drug trafficking, after CNPA carried several separate Counter-Narcotics operations in Kabul & Nangarhar provinces," said the MoIA in a tweet.

Officials did not provide further details, but said "CNPA seized 1,990 tablet-K pills, 4kg of hashish & 330kg of bang seeds."
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/14/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Narcos


Army Corps Foil IED Blast in Paktia
[KhaamaPress] The 203rd Thunder Corps stated in a blurb on Sunday that its security personnel prevented a mine explosion in Paktia.

According to the statement, a mine planted by the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
in the Sayed Karam district of Paktia province on a civilian road was discovered and safely detonated by Corp’s combat engineering battalion.

It is said that by discovering and defusing the mine, security and defense forces were able to prevent a major terrorist explosion, and save the lives of dozens of civilians.

In a similar incident in Baghlan province, ANA prevented the destruction of two bridges in Chashmai Sher

The increase in suicide kabooms in the country comes as peace talks in Doha, 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...
is ongoing. For more than eighty days, the Taliban and Afghan negotiating delegations have been negotiating peace in Doha. Despite the peace talks, the attacks have increased across the country.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/14/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Taliban Bear Heavy Loss in Kandahar Battle
[KhaamaPress] At least 51 Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
snuffies killed and further nine maimed in festivities with Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) in Kandahar province, said the Ministry of Defense in a statement Sunday.

According to the statement, the Taliban initially attacked security posts in several districts of the province, suffering heavy retaliation.

"51 Taliban were killed and 9 others were maimed in Dand, Zheria, Arghandab, Maiwand and Shah Wali Kot districts of Kandahar Prov., after they attacked ANDSF positions, yesterday," said the MoD in a tweet.

"Also, during the reciprocal attacks of ANA, 13 IEDs were discovered and defused and 4 hideouts with a large amount of weapons and ammunitions were destroyed."

Meanwhile,
...back at the comedy club, Boogie ducked another tomato...
in a separate battle in Uruzgan, officials said at least 10 Taliban killed and further 10 maimed in the province, where a large amount of Taliban weapons were also wrecked during festivities.

"10 Taliban were killed and 10 others were maimed in Dehrawood district of Urzgan province, yesterday," the MoD tweeted. "Also, a large amount of their weapons and ammunitions were destroyed during reciprocal attacks of ANA."

Taliban did not immediately comment on the incident.

MoD to Investigate Civilian Casualties in Kandahar Airstrike

[KhaamaPress] Afghan cops on Saturday conducted an Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
in Arghandab district of southern Kandahar province, the attack is said to have targeted Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
gathering.

However,
there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly...
there are conflicting reports of casualties based on the air raid.

Local residents told the media, at least seven members of a family were killed during the air raid, and the Taliban claimed at least 13 civilians including children were killed due to the bombings.

MoD, stated that it would investigate the claims of civilians casualties in the airstrike.

"A joint delegation from the 205 Atal Corps, Kandahar Police Headquarters, and Arghandab local officials is probing the issue," MoD said in a statement.

According to MoD, "Protecting the lives and property of civilians is a top priority for the Defense and Security entities,".
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/14/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Kabul: prosecutor shot dead, politico and friends kaboomed


Prosecutor Killed by Unknown Gunmen in Kabul

[ToloNews] Unknown button men shot and killed a prosecutor on Sunday morning in Kabul city, Kabul police confirmed in a statement.

The incident happened around 8:30am local time in the Kart-e-Naw area in PD8 of Kabul city, the statement said, adding that "an investigation is underway."

"The judge's name is Habibullah," it added.

However,
some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go...
the statement did not provide further details.

No group including the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
has grabbed credit for the attack.

Kabul Blast Claims 2, Hurts 2

[KhaamaPress] At least two person killed and further two maimed in an IED blast Sunday morning in PD15 of Kabul city, local police confirmed.

According to authorities, the incident took place at around 7:45 a.m. local time after a vehicle got hit by a magnetic mine at Khair Khana area of Police District 15 (PD15) in Kabul city.

The eyewitnesses said the car belongs to member of the House of Representatives, but further details are not reported.

No group or individual has immediately grabbed credit for the attack.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/14/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Africa North
Leading MB figure Hassan El-Brens referred to trial over illicit gains charges
[Al Ahram] Egypt’s Illicit Gains Authority referred on Sunday the former deputy to the governor of Alexandria and Moslem Brüderbund member Hassan El-Brens to an Alexandria criminal court on charges of making illicit gains and abuse of power.

In 2012 and 2013, El-Brens saw a sharp increase in wealth amounting to EGP 3.5 million, for which he could not cite a legitimate source, according to the Ministry of Justice’s Illicit Gains Authority.

The Authority accused El-Brens of owning liquid and movable assets, stocks and corporate bonds, cash, and a number of apartments that he could not afford on his legitimate income.

El-Brens was arrested for inciting violence in August 2013 after the ouster of late Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.

In December 2013, the Egyptian government designated the Moslem Brüderbund a terrorist organization.

In September 2018, an Alexandria criminal court sentenced El-Bren to five years in prison on charges related to illegal assembly, murder and incitement of riots.
Posted by: Fred || 12/14/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Muslim Brotherhood


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Surprise Azerbaijani offensive results in new areas added Armenian enclave in Karabakh
[ALMASDARNEWS] On Saturday, the Azerbaijani Armed Forces launched a surprise offensive in the Hadrut area of southern Karabakh, prompting an intense confrontation with the Armenian-led Artsakh Defense Army.

According to the Armenian Ministry of Defense, the Artsakh Defense Army confronted the Azerbaijani Armed Forces in Hin Tagher and Khtasberd after the former tried to advance their positions in these areas.

However,
a woman is only as old as she admits...
the Azerbaijani military’s attack was reportedly unsuccessful on Saturday, as the Artsakh Defense Army was able to hold their ground in the Hin Tagher and Khtasberd areas, despite suffering three casualties.

Following the attack by the Azerbaijani Armed Forces, the Russian peacekeeping map was updated to show the areas now inside the Armenian enclave of Karabakh, which is a setback for Baku, as it gives the Artsakh Defense Army more ground inside the region.

The Azerbaijani media later contrasted the Armenian Ministry of Defense’s statement on Saturday, claiming that the Artsakh Defense Army was the aggressor, as the latter allegedly tried to advance their positions in the area.

Saturday’s festivities marked the first time since the Moscow Agreement on November 9th that the two parties to the conflict in Karabakh have been involved in a fierce firefight in this region.

[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan accused Turkish special forces units of participating in an attack by the Azerbaijani forces, Saturday, on Armenian positions in southern Karabakh.

“Our sites near the villages of Khtsaberd and Hin Tagher were attacked by the Azerbaijani units. There is information indicating that factions of the Turkish special forces participated in the attack,” Pashinyan said during an emergency meeting to the National Security Council.

According to Pashinyan, the attack took place while the Russian peacekeepers had not yet deployed in the mentioned area. He also indicated that the clash left six wounded from the Armenian side.

For its part, Baku announced that the Azerbaijani State Security Service is engaged in a “anti-terror operation” in the Khojawand district (var. Hadrut) of the Karabakh province, against “Armenian armed formations” that are still operating in a forested area around the town of Hadrut.

On Saturday, Azerbaijan and Armenia accused one another of launching an attack in the Hadrut area, resulting in three wounded on the Armenian side.

Azerbaijan announces death of 4 soldiers during clashes with Armenian forces
[ALMASDARNEWS] On Sunday, Azerbaijan announced that 4 of its soldiers were killed and two others wounded in Karabakh, accusing the Armenian side of carrying out an unprovoked attack.

According to a joint statement of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense and State Security: “After the ceasefire was announced, the Armenian media announced, citing official circles in their country, that their armed forces were missing in the forest area. The Armenian side appealed to the leadership of the Russian peacekeepers to find them and evacuate them. ”

The statement said, “The Azerbaijani side provided all the conditions for the evacuation of the Armenian armed forces , and in difficult weather conditions, Russian peacekeepers arrived in this area, and with the help of loudspeakers, they appealed to the Armenian armed groups in the region to take the necessary measures to evacuate them, who were presented as ‘lost’ and ‘missing’, noting that the military personnel of the Russian peacekeepers acted with great responsibility and professionalism to maintain the ceasefire and evacuate the Armenian militants.

“It is clear that armed groups have not left the region, and are attacking Azerbaijani military and civilians,” the statement continued.

They added, “On November 26, 2020, 3 Azerbaijani soldiers were killed in an attack on the lands of Sur village in the Khojavind region, and two were wounded. On December 8, a soldier was killed near Hadrut village … Given the above, The Azerbaijani state security apparatus was forced to conduct an anti-terrorist operation in this region. ”

It is noteworthy to mention that Armenia announced on Saturday that the Azerbaijani army resumed its offensive near two villages in Karabakh, and in turn, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense said that the ceasefire in the region is respected.



Posted by: Fred || 12/14/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Ottoman Proxies


Fifth Column
Armed Militia Threatens Black Portlander Who Seeks Resolution to Red House Autonomous Zone
[PJMedia] Gabe Johnson,
...the African-American Marine veteran who was a BLM supporter as a matter of principle until he actually went to a BLM protest, which rather forcefully changed his mind. He sells a clothing line to raise funds for the Portland Police Chaplaincy. and now clearly is taking his advocacy to a new level...
co-founder and director of the Coalition to Save Portland, made another trip today to Portland’s Red House Autonomous Zone to try to continue the discussions he’s had in liaisons with the occupying group. He brought two guests from his attorney’s office with him to show them what’s going on at the site of the Red House. People inside the zone refused to speak with him. Johnson says the tensions inside the zone have increased "one hundred fold." He says he and his guests were quickly surrounded by what he described as armed militia members with loaded Glocks and billy clubs. The security force told him, "We could have 3,000 motherf***ers down here in a minute if they needed to."

In an exclusive interview with PJ Media, Johnson said, "We had no problems going in. They’ve had kids there, families, no issues. It wasn’t until the three of us were walking back through, just so they could kind of see what’s going on, all of a sudden some guys were yelling, why are we here? ’You need to get the f*** out of here,’ saying, ’Hey, I know who this guy is. He’s been here the last couple days.’ Quickly, we were surrounded by 12 to 16 armed militia. Armed militia is what I’m going to call them. That’s exactly what they are when you have loaded Glocks, and loaded meaning that there’s magazines in the wells."

Johnson said several of the armed security also had billy clubs or other blunt instruments, and it reminded him of being overseas in war zones when he was in the Marines. "That’s when we’re way beyond protest," he said. "This is an armed Insurrection that is on our street, intimidating anyone who doesn’t believe in their views. That is wrong. Nowhere should anyone be threatened with weapons and billy clubs in the f***ing United States."

Over the past two days, Johnson has visited Portland’s latest peaceful protest to see what’s going on and how it can be resolved peacefully. The tensions have increased beyond what he saw the past few days, leading him to believe peaceful resolution may no longer be possible.

He’s angry. "I definitely feared for my life at that point," Johnson said. "I’ve never felt this way in the United States. I’ve never been this upset ever in the last couple of years. This is a situation that really needs to be addressed. You can’t have people threatening civilians with arms on our streets and we need to call for help and end of this now. We have armed militia on the streets of Portland holding a neighborhood f***ing hostage."

It’s time to bring in the National Guard, he says. The streets of Portland have been overrun, and with the caches of weapons protesters have stockpiled, it appears the Portland Police will have difficulty clearing out this occupation without violence breaking out.

To listen to the entire interview, click here for the Behind the Curtain podcast. NOTE: Language warning. Johnson was still seething when he gave the interview.

No need for tanks — just call out the snowplow brigade.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Posted by: trailing wife || 12/14/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM


Antifa violently brawl with Trump supporters in Olympia, Wash.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 12/14/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM


Using sticks and pepper spray, a mob of masked antifa engaged in a violent fight against a man in Sacramento, Cal
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 12/14/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Good use of fire and movement by the Proud Boy in 1st video. Picking off stragglers heading back to their vehicles is Antifa's strategy of choice as they tend to get their asses stomped in straight up confrontations. Always exfil in a group.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 12/14/2020 9:48 Comments || Top||

#2  It wont be long and the direct fist fights will escalate into sniper fire.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 12/14/2020 10:13 Comments || Top||

#3  10, 9, 8, ...
Posted by: Elming Gonque9007 || 12/14/2020 10:56 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Cops just watching as Proud Boys beat the hell out of Stabbie Bro
Followup to yesterday's article.

Posted by: Ulavirong Omeager2818 || 12/14/2020 06:04 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Whichever side of the fence one is on politically, mobs are out of control dangerous.

That said, feeling a bit of schadenfreude this morning about this Antifa beatdown. These jerks have operated too long in blue areas with impunity. They are terrorists. The left has given them a pass.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/14/2020 7:27 Comments || Top||

#2  link is gone
Posted by: 746 || 12/14/2020 7:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Try this link.

Mods: Please update link if this works for you.
Posted by: Ulavirong Omeager2818 || 12/14/2020 8:00 Comments || Top||

#4  If the guy was knifing others is not self defense?
Posted by: Thorong Grundy1520 || 12/14/2020 8:42 Comments || Top||

#5  One day soon sniper fire, ambushes, and complex attacks will be taking place.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/14/2020 8:44 Comments || Top||

#6  I find it interesting that many Antifa are now dressing like the riot police.
Posted by: Ulavirong Omeager2818 || 12/14/2020 8:47 Comments || Top||

#7 
Some will say "Turn About is Fair Play".

But then other might argue given the constant physical abuses ANTI-FArt/BLOM has directed against Police and 1st responders, why should the Police rush to their aid?

Heck it could have been ANTI-FArt/BLOM setting up a Entrapment scenario to get take 2 to 4 police hostage that respond by encircling them and beating the Hell out of their Hostages/Captives.

But IF I was a COP.
While I might not run to the aid of an Felony level Attacker getting a much earned beat down...

I would eventually get there in due time before they killed the Socialist Ba$terd... Because he still has 20 to Life to serve for the Stabbings.
.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/14/2020 9:16 Comments || Top||

#8  The politically correct leftist movement unleashed their unholy BLM and Marxist Antifa kiddies on their own blue state cities. If you like boarded up store fronts and burnt down buildings then go for it.
Posted by: jpal || 12/14/2020 16:46 Comments || Top||

#9  #5 One day soon sniper fire, ambushes, and complex attacks will be taking place.

Complex logistical operations to ferry materiel, weapons etc across the country: check

Sophisticated shadow finance networks: check

Spontaneous local training events in kinetic "direct action" techniques: check

Foreign funding and support: likely already; if not then coming very soon

Coordination with foreign terror groups to gain tactical knowledge and train cadres: can't be long now ...
Posted by: Spuper Trotsky1771 || 12/14/2020 17:58 Comments || Top||

#10  "One day soon sniper fire and ambushes will be taking have already taken place" - during Obama Time as it turns out
Posted by: Sholutch Unang9312 || 12/14/2020 18:01 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
25 injured in explosion near Rawalpindi's Ganj Mandi police station
[DAILYTIMES.PK] A blast hit a market area in Rawalpindi district of Pakistain’s east Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....

province on Sunday, leaving at least 15 people injured, police sources said.The incident happened when an improvised bomb went off inside the market located near the Ganj Mandi area of Rawalpindi, police sources told Xinhua.

According to preliminary investigations, the bomb was planted in a vegetable cart by some unknown miscreants who expeditiously departed at a goodly pace afterwards.

Rescue teams, police and security forces have reached the site and shifted the injured to a nearby hospital where several persons are at death's door
Posted by: Fred || 12/14/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Iraq
Iraq puts out fire at one oil well, another flaring
[AlAhram] Iraq has put out a fire at one of two oil wells in a small nortrhern field that were set ablaze by explosives four days ago, the Oil Ministry said on Sunday.

Technical crews from the state-run North Oil Co. were still trying to extinguish a second well blazing at the Khabbaz field near the city of Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
the statement said.

Production from the roughly 25,000 barrel-per-day field was not affected, the ministry said on Wednesday.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/14/2020 01:09 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


ISIS Suicide Bomber Kills One Iraqi Officer, Injures Several near Makhmour
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 12/14/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Chanting anti-Iran slogans, Nasiriya protesters flock toward Haboubi Square
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 12/14/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Commando forces of the Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) carried out an operation in Nineveh Province and killed 42 militants of the extremist Islamic State
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 12/14/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  "One-third of Iraqi army and Federal Police brigades collapsed in June 2014, but the Counter-Terrorism Service lasted and spearheaded the counter-attack at Tikrit, Beyji, Ramadi, and eventually Mosul. The U.S.-trained Counter-Terrorism Service kept fighting because of the essential correctness of the force’s basic conception, recruitment, leadership, and training. What factors made the service so robust when the rest of Iraq’s security forces proved so brittle?
Size is a definite factor. The Counter-Terrorism Service stayed small, never exceeding around 12,500 personnel."
Posted by: b || 12/14/2020 8:31 Comments || Top||

#2  After the US left in 2011, the Iraqi military and police leadership were replaced by (more?) corrupt sectarian (read Shiite) political cronies. Troops weren't getting paid on time, vehicles not maintained and leaders were not there to lead. Ripe for the picking.
Posted by: Ulavirong Omeager2818 || 12/14/2020 8:39 Comments || Top||


At least one soldier was killed and 2 others wounded in a bomb explosion in northern Iraq's Kirkuk province
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 12/14/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Iraqi forces eliminate ISIS governor and scores of terrorist in successful operation: photos
It’s time to get serious — the Americans and the rest of the Coalition will be gone soon.
[ALMASDARNEWS] On Sunday, the Iraqi army confirmed the killing of 42 forces of Evil 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/ISIS/IS/ISIS) terrorist organization, in a military operation called "The Sweeping Torrent" south of the city of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, with the support of the International Coalition Air Force.

In a statement posted on his Twitter account, the Iraqi Armed Forces front man, Yahya Rasoul , revealed : "The Sweeping Torrent operation began, when the heroic Counter-Terrorism Service forces raided the so-called Tigris Sector, in which ISIS terrorist gangs are active in the Ain al-Jahsh area, south of Mosul."

The statement said that the Iraqi Armed Forces killed 42 terrorists, including the ISIS governor of the Tigris region and his media official, who was identified by his nom de guerre "Abu Sayyaf
...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder...
The operation also seized a large amount of weapons and money that were present in the bases of the Islamic State terrorist group.

He explained that the operation came "with air support from the aviation of the Iraqi army and the international coalition aircraft."

The Iraqi security forces continue to search, cleanse, and pursue ISIS remnants throughout the country, to ensure that the organization and its fleeing elements do not reappear.

In December 2017, Iraq announced the liberation of all its lands from the grip of the ISIS group after nearly three and a half years of confrontations with the terrorist organization, which occupied about a third of the country.

Posted by: Fred || 12/14/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IDF arrests three Gazans after they cross Israeli border
[Jpost] The IDF arrested three individuals from 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...
after they successfully infiltrated through to the Israeli side.

They did not carry any weapons and are currently being investigated
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/14/2020 04:38 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Israeli forces announce new incident at Lebanese border
[ALMASDARNEWS] On Sunday, the Israeli army announced a new security incident along the Lebanese border after four people approached the border fence.An army force reportedly had gun sex after spotting four people approaching a kibbutz near the border fence with Leb
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
In a brief statement posted on Twitter, the Israeli army said: "The army forces detected four suspects who approached the border fence earlier today."

They added, " The army forces that rushed to the scene began to implement an arrest warrant for suspects, during which they opened fire in the air, and after that, the suspects moved away from the scene."

Lebanon did not officially comment on the incident until 15:00 GMT, but a Lebanese security source told the Jordan News Agency (Petra) correspondent that "the Israeli occupation army fired today from one of its military sites in Tal al-Abbad towards a number of civilians in the two towns of Mays al-Jabal and around the two border areas. No one was hurt. "

The source added, "During the presence of a group of civilians in the area collecting scrap and firewood near one of the UNIFIL centers (peacekeepers in southern Lebanon), the Israeli army present in Tal al-Abbad opened fire to intimidate them and move a tank that was stationed in the area and immediately a patrol of the Lebanese army came and conducted an investigation with the peacekeeping group. "

Since last July, the Israeli army has maintained a state of alert on the borders with Lebanon in anticipation of an attack on its soldiers by Hezbollah, which threatened to retaliate for the killing of one of its members at the time in Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s attributed to Israel in the vicinity of Damascus International Airport.
Posted by: Fred || 12/14/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran sentences British-Iranian researcher to 9 years in jail
They’re exactly like money in the bank for the Mad Mullahs. And when normal income sources are blocked for cause, a country’s gotta do what a country’s gotta do. Though I suspect they’d be kidnapping for ransom anyway, because that’s what the Master Religion gets to do.
[Rudaw] 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...
sentenced a British-Iranian anthropologist who has studied child marriage and female genital mutilation to nine years in jail and fined him over $700,000 in cash, the semiofficial Tasnim news agency reported Sunday.

The report said Kameel Ahmady was sentenced by Iran’s Revolutionary Court on charges of cooperation with European embassies in support of promoting homosexuality, visiting Israel as a news hound for the BBC, cooperation and communication with foreign and hostile media, infiltration aimed at changing the law, and sending false reports about the country to the U.N.’s special rapporteur on human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
in Iran.

The report said Ahmady has the right to appeal within 20 days.

In October 2019, Iran acknowledged Ahmady’s arrest for suspected links to institutes affiliated with foreign intelligence services.

His wife Shafagh Rahmani and activists had announced he was detained in August that same year. At the time, the New York-based Center for Human Rights in Iran said Ahmady previously had been the target of hard-liners in Iranian media for his work "on politically sensitive topics including child marriage, LGBTQ issues and female genital mutilation."

He was released in November 2019 on bail. Sunday’s report did not say if he was still free.

Travel to Israel and homosexuality are both illegal in Iran. Offenders can face up to five years in prison for visiting Israel. Homosexuals can face the death penalty
if they commit sexual intercourse, although there have been no reports of capital punishment for homosexuality in recent years.

Ahmady is one of several dual nationals who’ve been detained by Iran over the past few years. Iran does not recognize dual citizenship.

Iran holds another British-Iranian national, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who has already served most of her five-year sentence on espionage charges. She was granted temporary release this spring and allowed to remain indefinitely at her parents’ Tehran home because of the 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...
pandemic.

Zaghari-Ratcliffe, an employee at the Thomson Rooters Foundation, the charitable arm of the news agency, was tried on charges of plotting to overthrow the Iranian government.
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Violent clashes erupt between gunmen from Rif Dimashq and Nour al Din al Zenki Movement over arrest of civilian from Zamalka
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Syrian desert in 24 hours 22 regime soldiers and ISIS members killed in violent clashes, while nearly 70 Russian airstrikes pound the region
[SYRIAHR] Syrian Observatory activists have monitored a squadron of Russian fighter jets flying over the Syrian desert since the early hours of Sunday morning, along with executing intensive strikes on ISIS positions in Aleppo-Hama-Al-Raqqah triangle. The Russian Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s coincide with fierce festivities and exchange of shelling in the same region between ISIS members on one hand, and regime forces and their proxy militias on the other. It is worth noting that the Russian jets carried out over 70 airstrikes on the Syrian desert in the past 24 hours.

Meanwhile,
...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth ordered the space pirate fleet to attack Zemblonia...
SOHR activists have documented new human losses in the intensive bombardment and violent mostly peaceful festivities in the past 24 hours, as seven regime soldiers and loyalists were killed, while ISIS lost 15 members. The corpse count is expected to rise further as there are several combatants injured, some seriously. There are also unconfirmed reports of more casualties.

Since 24th of March 2019, SOHR has documented the killing of at least 1,066 regime soldiers and loyalists of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities, including at least two Russians, and 144 Iranian-backed snuffies of non-Syrian nationalities. All were killed in attacks, bombings and ambushes by 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....
", west of Euphrates in the deserts of Deir Ezzor, Homs, and al-Suwaidaa.

Also, four civilians working in gas fields, 11 shepherds and four other people were killed and documented by SOHR in the same period, from late March 2019 until today. They were killed in attacks by ISIS cells. While 601 ISIS members were also killed in attacks and bombardment in the same period.
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At Russia's orders Regime security services release nearly 100 detainees from Daraa in 40 days
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Deir Ezzor desert NDF head new security campaign against ISIS cells
[SYRIAHR] SOHR sources have monitored the regime-backed gunnies of "National Defence Forces" (NDF) launching a new security campaign against ISIS cells in Deir Ezzor desert. A large column of tens of vehicles was seen leaving al-Mayadeen city with the aim to combing Faydat Ibn Muwayni’ area in Deir Ezzor desert.

According to SOHR sources, a landmine went kaboom! in a vehicle of the NDF while the combing the region, injuring at least three members who were taken later to al-Assad hospital in Deri Ezzor desert.

On November 28, SOHR activists monitored Russian and regime jets flying over the area al-Mayadeen desert in east Deir Ezzor countryside, executing intensive Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s on ISIS strongholds in the area. The airstrikes coincided with a new security campaign led by the regime-backed "National Defence Forces" against ISIS cells.

Meanwhile,
...back at the saw mill, Scarface Al had tied Little Nell to the log and was about to turn on the buzz saw...
regime forces and loyalists launched a similar security campaign, led by the Paleostinian al-Quds Brigade against ISIS cells in south Deir Ezzor desert.
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Turkish forces shell villages of Ain Issa countryside, as clashes erupt on frontlines
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After the arrest of a commander Al Jabha Al Shamiya puts on high alert, bringing in reinforcement to Aleppo countryside
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Turkey confirms Iran's kidnapping of former ASMLA leader Habib Chaab on its soil
[ENGLISHBETA.ALARABIYA.NET] The American "Washington Post" newspaper quoted a Ottoman Turkish intelligence official saying that 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...
had kidnapped the Ahwazi leader, Habib Chaab, known as Habib Asyud, in Istanbul, after he was kidnapped and drugged, and then transported by truck to Iran by a smuggling ring
ASMLA: The Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahwaz is an Arab nationalist group that advocates secession of Khuzestan Province from Iran to establish an Arab state.
The Ottoman Turkish official revealed to the newspaper that Iranian intelligence kidnapped Chaab after entering Istanbul on October 9, to meet with a woman named Saberin, who works for the Iranian intelligence.

Ottoman Turkish investigations found that Saberin S. I arrived a day before Chaab from Iran with a forged Iranian passport.

According to the information, before Chaab’s arrival, several kidnapping team members bought plastic wires from a computer store in Istanbul. When Chaab landed that evening, he met Saberin at a gas station in Beylikduzu, Istanbul, which was waiting for him in a truck.

According to the Ottoman Turkish intelligence official, upon his arrival at the scene, he was drugged and his hands and feet tied.

The report stated that the Ahwazi leader was transferred to Van province in eastern The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
and was handed over to a human smuggler, smuggled across the border the next day. Saberin also returned to Iran.

The security official said that Ottoman Turkish intelligence and coppers arrested 11 men, all Ottoman Turkish citizens, for their involvement in similar cases and brought them to trial on charges that include "the use of weapons, kidnapping, and deception."

The "Washington Post" reported that this kidnapping is similar to another operation carried out by Iran recently against the journalist, Ruhollah Zam, residing in La Belle France but disappeared after being lured to Iraq last year, which Tehran carried out his death sentence
...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
on Saturday.

It also referred to the liquidation of another Iranian journalist in Istanbul in 2017, Masoud Molavi Vardanjani, in an operation that Ottoman Turkish officials said was carried out under the supervision of intelligence officers working in the Iranian consulate there, according to Rooters.
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Large US convoy carrying Syrian oil leaves Syria for Iraq
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#1  Did someone say 'convoy'?
Posted by: C.W. McCall || 12/14/2020 8:07 Comments || Top||

#2  The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported that American vehicles belonging to the international coalition loaded “stolen Syrian oil” into tanks and transported them from the Hasakah countryside to Iraqi lands

Heck, doesn't everybody have American vehicles by now? Anybody see Trump driving the lead vehicle?
Posted by: Bobby || 12/14/2020 8:37 Comments || Top||

#3  How do I get me some of that stolen (i.e. Assad won't get paid) oil?
Posted by: Ulavirong Omeager2818 || 12/14/2020 8:42 Comments || Top||

#4  Politico Updated: 08/06/2020 "An American company has inked a contract with Kurdish authorities in northeastern Syria to develop and export the region’s crude oil under a secretive deal approved by the U.S. government months after President Donald Trump announced he was leaving U.S. troops to “secure the oil,” multiple people familiar with the project told POLITICO.
The agreement reached by a little-known firm helmed by politically connected former military and diplomatic officials has already angered the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad, which does not recognize the Kurdish authorities as autonomous. The Syrian Foreign Minister called the deal illegal and said it is aimed at “stealing” Syria’s crude.
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