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10 Killed In Shooting At Colorado Supermarket by ISIS sympathizer
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Good morning
Biden Team Preparing Up to $3
Trillion in New Spending for the Economy
Tuesday March 23rd, 2021

KettiGallian(UnderthePampasMoon)_02
Border Patrol in Rio Grande Valley considering releasing illegal crossers into US without court date
Woman headed to NYC protests against anti-Asian violence punched and bloodied by bigot who stomps her sign calling for peace
'Kill the Bill' riot against proposed protest law leaves 20 cops injured
Teen girl assaulted by antifa outside the state Capitol grounds in Olympia, Wash. during a @TPUSA event
Progressive Labour MP refuses to condemn the violent far-left rioters in Bristol
Smugglers embedding criminals with families to cross border, Texas troopers say
10 Killed In Shooting At Colorado Supermarket

Posted by: Fred || 03/23/2021 01:19 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Ketti Gallian




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#2 



Last Photo " After The Coffee Kicked In "
Posted by: Rupert Snavilet3159 || 03/23/2021 8:02 Comments || Top||

#3  Another believing her own marketing.
Posted by: Flinelet Uloluque5964 || 03/23/2021 15:50 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Smugglers embedding criminals with families to cross border, Texas troopers say
[WashingtonExaminer] Human traffickers are sneaking hardened criminals across the U.S.-Mexico border by embedding them with families, according to Texas troopers.

A Texas Department of Public Safety officer deployed to the border recently pulled over an adult man and a 14-year-old girl in Starr County and discovered the man was a fugitive wanted by law enforcement for sexual assault. Both had just come over the border illegally. The girl was not related to him, and it's likely they were paired up to cross the border together.

"That kind of thing is being ignored right now by the media. They’re focused on families and children, but there's more to it," the DPS spokesman told the Washington Examiner.

In February, the Border Patrol encountered nearly 100,000 people who illegally attempted to cross into the United States from Mexico, including nearly 10,000 children without parents and 20,000 families. The concern for federal and state authorities is that the same smugglers pushing people across are using single children as props for adults because it may increase their chances of being released into the U.S. rather than being returned to Mexico. Sixty percent of families encountered last month were not returned to Mexico, according to federal data.
Posted by: Marilyn Shuck1783 || 03/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Human Trafficking


-Great Cultural Revolution
Woman headed to NYC protests against anti-Asian violence punched and bloodied by bigot who stomps her sign calling for peace
[NYDAILYNEWS] A woman on her way to massive Manhattan protests against anti-Asian violence became the victim of a hate crime herself when she was punched and bloodied by a man who stomped her sign calling for peace, police said Monday.

The woman was on Astor Place in the East Village when a stranger asked for her sign, which read "Hate Has No Peace," about 11:35 a.m. Sunday, police said. Protesters were flooding into rallies in Union Square Park and Columbus Park in Chinatown, as shown on the front page of Monday’s Daily News.

The man tried to stuff the sign in a garbage can then threw it on the ground and stomped on it.

When the woman asked why he was doing that he punched her twice in the face, police said.

As he ran off, she gave chase but sprained her ankle. Still, she was able to record cellphone video showing his bearded face before he covered it with a mask.

The suspect can be seen turning back and saying something before he escaped into the Astor Place subway station.

Medics took the 39-year-old victim, who is Asian, to Lenox Health Greenwich Village for a cut lip.

The attack, under investigation by the NYPD Hate Crime Task Force, is the latest in a string of assaults against Asian people across the city.

The suspect is about 6 feet tall and 200 pounds. He was wearing a red 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...
Bulls hoodie and a black baseball cap and carrying a green backpack.
The victim is from China; she came to America for her accounting degree, then worked in Hong Kong before returning to the US in 2012. Her husband is currently somewhere in China, suggesting a strong connection. The assailant appears to be Black. Twenty-two attacks on Asians have thus far been reported to police in New York City in 2021, most of which were not done by white supremacists, so there’s that.

'I came here to f--- up Asians'

[NYDAILYNEWS] A 54-year-old woman was slammed in the face with a metal pipe by a stranger on a Lower East Side street who yelled, "I came here to f--- up Asians," police sources said Monday.The victim, who is Asian, was walking near Grand St. and Ludlow St. near Chinatown when the bigot screamed the crazed threat and bashed her with the pipe about 4:45 p.m. Sunday.

The blow left a cut across her nose. She was taken to Mount Sinai Beth Israel in stable, pH balanced condition.

Cops arrested suspect Elias Guerrero, 38, a short time later not far from the scene. He was charged with assault as a hate crime, resisting arrest, harassment, and weapon possession.

Guerrero has four prior arrests, all from 2017, on low level charges, including turnstile jumping and resisting arrest.

The attack took place blocks from a separate attack involving another Asian woman who was slugged at Astor Place and Cooper Square about 11:35 a.m., cops said.

The attacker punched the woman twice in the face after stomping on a sign she was carrying that said "Hate has no peace." That victim was on her way to Sunday’s massive Manhattan march against anti-Asian violence.
Posted by: Fred || 03/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A White Hispanic White Supremacist?

Cops arrested suspect Elias Guerrero, 38, [and] charged [him] with assault as a hate crime, resisting arrest, harassment, and weapon possession. Guerrero has four prior arrests, all from 2017, on low level charges, including turnstile jumping and resisting arrest.
Posted by: Elmoluger Jaise7479 || 03/23/2021 2:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Hey C'mon! I've got more neanderthal genes than 75% of 23 and me subscribers! WE don't do this idiocy; and we're mostly northern European!
Posted by: Thrinerong Prince of the Slytherins7458 || 03/23/2021 14:34 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Efforts underway to detain Alipoor: MoD
[KhaamaPress] Local militia commander Abdul Ghani Alipoor’s
...sometimes identified as simply Alipur or Commander Shamshir (Commander Sword), he was an emir of the fighting wing of Hizb-e-Wahdat-e-Islami Afghanistan (the Islamic Unity Party of Afghanistan, Hezb-e Wahdat for short), founded as one of the Shiite anti-Soviet mujahedin groups in the 1980s with some support from Iran, eventually becoming the movement of the Hazera. But it was defeated militarily by the Taliban, then fell apart as a political movement a decade ago. So when the Taliban came rampaging through without any response from Afghan national government forces, Alipur gave up being a simple but well-armed bus driver and assembled an effective Hazara resistance/self defense group, which eventually grew and spread across the nearby provinces. Once again the national government is making its displeasure with this situation known...
central base was reportedly captured by the Afghan national defense and security forces.

In an operation in Behsud district of Maidan Wardak, ANDSF launched an operation to detain Alipoor who is blamed to have shot down an ANA helicopter (Mi-17) last Wednesday in which 9 security force members including chopper’s pilots were killed.

Reports indicate that defense forces have entered the commanding premises of Alipoor’s base in the region.

The intensified festivities between the local militias and the government force members have so far left 12 individuals loyal to Alipoor dead.

According to MoD, a large number of explosives, weapons, and ammunition belonging to Alipoor were also seized during the ANDSF operation.

Ministry of Defense also indicated that security forces in Behsud district are working actively to capture and detain Alipoor.

MoD claimed that there is enough evidence to indicate that Alipoor and his men are involved in shooting down the ANA helicopter.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:


Defense Ministry: Charkh District Under Govt Forces Control
[ToloNews] The Defense Ministry on Monday said that due to "the demands of residents, government forces shifted the Charkh district governor's office to another area from a place that was near a school."

The ministry added that the district is "fully under the control of government forces" and that the claims on the fall of Charkh district are not true.

Earlier, sources said that the Charkh district in Pashtun-infested Logar — almost 90 kilometers east of Kabul — has fallen to the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
after a clash with security forces on Sunday night.

There are no numbers available about possible casualties, but another source said the forces made a "tactical retreat" from the district.

The Taliban claims to have captured the center of Charkh district, including the police headquarters and the district governor's compound.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa North
Gunmen on motorbikes raid Niger villages, kill at least 137
[Aljazeera] Attackers on motorbikes have raided several villages in southwestern Niger, killing at least 137 people in the bloodiest violence to hit the country in years, the government said.

The gunmen on Sunday attacked the villages of Intazayene, Bakorat and Wistane, located near the border with Mali, shooting "at everything which moved", according to a local official.

On Monday, the government said the attacks had left 137 people dead. Local officials have previously given a death toll of at least 60.

"In treating civilian populations systematically as targets now, these armed bandits have gone a step further into horror and brutality," government spokesman Zakaria Abdourahamane said in a statement read on public television.

The coordinated raids underscore the greatest challenge facing Mohamed Bazoum, Niger’s new president whose election victory in a runoff vote last month was confirmed on Sunday by the country’s top court.

Niger, the world’s poorest nation according to the United Nations’ development rankings for 189 countries, is struggling with armed campaigns that have spilled over from Mali and Nigeria, killing hundreds of people and displacing nearly half a million others.

The three villages attacked on Sunday are located in the arid Tahoua region, abutting the Tillaberi border area, a hotspot of the conflict plaguing the western portion of the Sahel for much of the past 10 and is also fuelled by fighters linked to al-Qaeda and ISIL (ISIS).
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/23/2021 02:29 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Looks like they need gun control laws. Or maybe a Second Amendment.
Posted by: Bobby || 03/23/2021 15:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Have they not started building a wall yet? I mean a wall with anti-troop mines and napalm flame throwers and a moat. Southwestern Nigerians need to step up the pace if they want to survive.
Posted by: jpal || 03/23/2021 19:21 Comments || Top||


Britain
'Kill the Bill' riot against proposed protest law leaves 20 cops injured
[NYPOST] Thousands of Britons rioted into the early hours Monday against plans to give UK police new powers to crackdown on protests — leaving 20 cops injured, including one with a punctured lung, officials said.

At least 5,000 people initially joined afternoon protests in Bristol against the planned legislation, BristolLive said, with many carrying placards that condemned a feared "police state" and "dictatorship."

The so-called "Kill the Bill" protests then turned violent mostly peaceful when "several thousand" people descended on a police precinct in the southwest England city — sparking a fiery
...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob...
riot raged for hours, the local outlet said.

After rioters attempted to push over a police van, officers were caught on two fronts, the outlet said — with police vehicles also getting torched and the precinct’s windows smashed. Some in the mob even managed to get onto the station’s roof and throw rocks at officers, BristolLive said.

Local police called in reinforcements from surrounding areas and used pepper spray and police dogs to push back against the rioters, the outlet said.
Posted by: Fred || 03/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM


Fifth Column
Teen girl assaulted by antifa outside the state Capitol grounds in Olympia, Wash. during a @TPUSA event
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 03/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  I'd ask the state police one question. "What if that was your daughter?"
Posted by: Warthog || 03/23/2021 9:29 Comments || Top||

#2  But Joy Behar says ANTIFA doesn't exist. Xao Bi-Den says it's just an idea. I'd like to see one of these "ideas" confront them face-to-face.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 03/23/2021 10:17 Comments || Top||

#3  State troopers watched but did not intervene.

There are police officers then there are deadbeats aka pigs. Apparently TPUSA Olympia has no real men on staff either.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 03/23/2021 11:42 Comments || Top||

#4  " I vas chust following orders . "
Posted by: Phinetch Wherese4624 || 03/23/2021 14:12 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Turkey: 3,780 liters of bootleg alcohol seized
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 03/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  Bootleg hooch in those plastic jugs?
Posted by: Heavy G || 03/23/2021 11:08 Comments || Top||


Former HDP co-chair sentenced to 3-and-half years in prison for insulting Turkish president
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 03/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1 
"We threw Turkey out of the Arab World because of People like Him. Go Back to Europe, to where you came from Eardogin", said Mufti Haram

Posted by: Jogum Bucket6504 || 03/23/2021 9:27 Comments || Top||


Tens of Thousands of Turkish Kurds Protest over Repression
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] لإens of thousands of people gathered in the city of Diyarbakir in southeast The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
on Sunday to celebrate the Kurdish New Year and protest against the repression of a pro-Kurdish opposition party.

But this year the normal New Year festivities ran alongside a major protest in the Kurdish-majority city, coming just days after a Ottoman Turkish prosecutor asked the Constitutional Court to shut down the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), parliament’s third-largest group.

Just hours before the event, Ottoman Turkish authorities briefly detained prominent pro-Kurdish opposition MP Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu, who had refused to leave parliament for several days after his seat was revoked.

"The HDP is the people and the people are here!" the crowd in Diyarbakir chanted, waving flags in the party’s colors.

If the HDP is banned "another party will replace it, it won’t change anything" Yusuf Celik, one of the protesters, told AFP.

"The Kurds, those who have honor, will support this cause to the death," he added.

"One party wants to ban another party in order to stay in power, that’s not normal, or humane. No one can accept that," said fellow protester Mursel Bakir.

The repression of the HDP also figured high in the celebrations to mark the Kurdish New Year in Istanbul Saturday.
Posted by: Fred || 03/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Home Front: WoT
10 Killed In Shooting At Colorado Supermarket UPDATE: by ISIS sympathizer
[News9] BOULDER, Colorado - A shooting at a Colorado supermarket killed 10 people Monday, including a police officer, and a suspect was in custody, authorities said.

Boulder police Cmdr. Kerry Yamaguchi said at a news conference that the suspect was being treated but didn’t give more details on the shooting or how many people were killed. A short time later, police said 10 people including a police officer were killed.

Officers escorted a shirtless man with blood running down his leg out of the store in handcuffs but authorities would not say if that was the suspect.

Boulder County District Attorney Michael Dougherty said authorities know how many people were killed and suggested they are not releasing the number because they need to notify families of the victims.
More at the link
Update at 11:45 a.m. ET, with thanks to M. Murcek and Jan:
Police on Tuesday identified a 21-year-old man as the suspect in the killing of 10 people at a Boulder, Colorado, supermarket.

Suspect Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa was from Arvada, Colorado, and had lived most of his life in the U.S., said Boulder County District Attorney Michael Dougherty. He was undergoing treatment at a hospital and was expected to be booked into the county jail later Tuesday, Dougherty said.
Moved to Page 1: War on Terror Operations, Homefront: WoT.
Posted by: badanov || 03/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [18 views] Top|| File under: Devout Moslems

#1  1. Blamed on white supremacy
2. blamed on "assault weapons"
3. More gun control
4. More government surveillance over us
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/23/2021 0:05 Comments || Top||

#2  And, prior to all this news:
Boulder becomes epicenter of fight against criminal justice reform
Employees harassed to the point of quitting. Windows broken. Merchandise stolen. And, again and again, the perpetrators free to return to the scenes of their crime.

At Tuesday’s city council meeting, a half-dozen speakers during the open comment period shared story after story of how crime had impacted their downtown businesses...
SB21-62 was introduced in the Colorado Senate in February; it passed 3-2 out of the Senate Judiciary Committee earlier this month. It has two significant parts; the first would effectively end cash bail for misdemeanors and other non-violent crimes...
Part of the problem with public perception of SB62 stems from ACLU assertions that COVID-related jail closures have not correlated with an increase in crime. The group maintains that, statewide, crime has remained relatively flat.

Local law enforcement have major issues with that data. Their own suggests precipitous increases in property and violent crimes...
Posted by: Thineger Sproing6704 || 03/23/2021 1:05 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ your link returns error msg, 'URL can't be shown'
Posted by: Slutch Phavitch5971 || 03/23/2021 1:14 Comments || Top||

#4  /\ Please try this link.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/23/2021 1:40 Comments || Top||

#5  Boulder, CO
#1 in Best Places to Live for Quality of Life
Posted by: Thineger Sproing6704 || 03/23/2021 2:01 Comments || Top||

#6  /\ Please try this link.

You’re good, Besoeker!
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/23/2021 2:08 Comments || Top||

#7  Boulder's about as left-wing as a white mountain city can get.

Wonder how they're going to pin this one on Trump and White Supremacy
Posted by: Cherese Flurong2617 || 03/23/2021 2:16 Comments || Top||

#8  /\ "Residual Trumpism"
Posted by: Bobby || 03/23/2021 7:44 Comments || Top||

#9  Wonder how they're going to pin this one on Trump and White Supremacy

Images show a stocky, bearded, balding and barefoot white looking guy being led away by the police. They'll find a way.

Posted by: Mullah Richard || 03/23/2021 7:57 Comments || Top||

#10  no wounded?
May say something about shooting experience.
Posted by: Xyz || 03/23/2021 9:06 Comments || Top||

#11  stocky, bearded, balding and barefoot

Barefoot suggests nutter or drugs to me, but lets await official reports.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/23/2021 10:28 Comments || Top||

#12  The Daily Mail has video and photos: Not just barefoot, but wearing only his beard and dark boxer briefs while there is still snow on the ground. No name or reason why he was shooting people yet.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/23/2021 10:40 Comments || Top||

#13  shooter identified as al-muzz 21-year-old Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/23/2021 11:19 Comments || Top||

#14  ^If the guy in the pic 21, I'm Chief Rabbi of Israel. Chief Sephardic Rabbi.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/23/2021 11:30 Comments || Top||

#15  Prosobiac just tweeted: Biden has been briefed the Colorado shooter had ISIS sympathies, per WH official
His name Ahmad Al-Issa notice how they didn't release his name until today.
Posted by: Jan || 03/23/2021 11:37 Comments || Top||

#16  Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa was the shooter, according to FOX News. Guess this need to be moved to WOT....
Posted by: 49 Pan || 03/23/2021 11:47 Comments || Top||

#17  61 days. That's didn't take long before Democrats are in power and domestic islamic terrorism restarts.

Maybe the NBC News will reclassify Alissa as a white devil hispanic transsexual.
Posted by: Sheba Phavimble6636 || 03/23/2021 11:47 Comments || Top||

#18  They are more interested in pushing gun control using this shooting instead of uncovering more info on shooter. Hickenlooper yesterday started in on gun control before victims names were even known.
If only one person in that store had a concealed carry they could have taken him out.
Ahmad from Syria, could he have been upset with Bidens attack on Syria a few short weeks ago?
Posted by: Jan || 03/23/2021 11:51 Comments || Top||

#19  Moved to War on Terror. I also set this as today’s headline, replacing Daniel Pearl’s killer moving back to a Pakistani safehouse.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/23/2021 11:51 Comments || Top||

#20  From the Daily Beast, linked by M. Murcek’s NY Post article:

Ali Aliwi Alissa, the suspect’s 34-year-old brother, told The Daily Beast that authorities searched his house all night after the shooting.

Alissa described his brother as “very anti-social” and paranoid, adding that, in high school, he would describe “being chased, someone is behind him, someone is looking for him.”

“When he was having lunch with my sister in a restaurant, he said, ‘People are in the parking lot, they are looking for me.’ She went out, and there was no one. We didn’t know what was going on in his head,” Alissa said, admitting that he believes his brother is mentally ill.


That sounds like paranoid schizophrenia to me,

Could the police have stripped him if they feared a suicide belt?
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/23/2021 12:01 Comments || Top||

#21  We have a Democrat in the White House so Operation Chaos is back. They'll be shooting up brothels, grocery stores, schools, any target rich environment. The more casualties, the better to bring about a ban on AR-15s and other weapons with high capacity magazines but also to justify more restrictions on your rights and freedom.

But how did an obvious nut job like Ahmad get his hands on such a weapon anyway? Somebody drop the ball somewhere along the line? Hmmm? Like, accidentally on purpose?

We need an investigation!
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/23/2021 12:03 Comments || Top||

#22  Hated Trump and supported ISIS.

Press will still spin this as Trump's fault and he dog whistled a white supremist.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/23/2021 12:05 Comments || Top||

#23  I call BS
They had no information and then now all of the sudden they have all this info from his brother of his mental illness?
Not covering his links to ISIS and being from Syria?
IMHO they want to push crazy instead of links to ISIS for gun control.
Obviously all shooters like this are crazy but to not report his connections to ISIS is a big part to exclude to push their favored narrative.
Posted by: Jan || 03/23/2021 12:12 Comments || Top||

#24  Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec·2m 1374393217844580365

Early information from a national security agency suggests Boulder shooter planned to target the Trump rally in Colorado Springs, Feb 2020, but decided to wait until the next one on March 13 in Denver but it was cancelled due to COVID, per WH official
Posted by: Sheba Phavimble6636 || 03/23/2021 12:15 Comments || Top||

#25  Early information from a national security agency suggests Boulder shooter planned to target the Trump rally in Colorado Springs, Feb 2020, but decided to wait until the next one on March 13 in Denver but it was cancelled due to COVID, per WH official

That is not paranoid schizophrenia, that is 100% pure Islamic Jihad.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 03/23/2021 12:21 Comments || Top||

#26  Sheba,
Holy crap, I was at that Colorado Springs Trump Rally!

Posted by: Jan || 03/23/2021 12:25 Comments || Top||

#27  Boulder shooter planned to target the Trump rally in Colorado Springs, Feb 2020

Sudden Jihad Syndrome it is, then. I suppose we should be grateful that the lockdown prevented such attractive large gatherings, resulting in only ten innocents being murdered when he couldn’t wait any longer.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/23/2021 12:26 Comments || Top||

#28  @#12 - SOP for police to strip him down for SVEST.
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 03/23/2021 12:29 Comments || Top||

#29  I searched the miscreant’s name, and the first thing that popped up was a brand new Wikipedia page. It looks like the authorities were not thinking a mere nutter:

Up to fifteen different agencies responded to the incident, including the Jefferson County SWAT, the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and local police departments.[20] A fire department ladder truck was used to get a SWAT team onto the roof.[21] At least three medical helicopters were summoned to a staging area at nearby Fairview High School.

The article is all in on nutter instead of jihadi, quoting the Daily Beast article quoting the brother, and nothing about the family being immigrants from Syria.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/23/2021 12:32 Comments || Top||

#30  Way too much to recap here, but there's a hit parade of lefties messing their pants on twitter being pointed up by multiple posts at Rantingly. Lefties were of course sure it Whitey shooting the place up, now they have pivoted to gun grabbing narrative. As far as the shooter? "Nothing to see here - now..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/23/2021 12:38 Comments || Top||

#31  the FBI

...guess he was on their 'radar' like Hasan and the Boston duel.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/23/2021 13:04 Comments || Top||

#32  It’s tough being a lefty when reality is so very real, M.

Going back to the Daily Mail article I linked in comment #12, while they are holding the line at only identifying the miscreant as unadorned Ahmad Alissa, they give the very quick timeline of events:

TIMELINE AND 911 DISPATCH CALLS
2.49pm: Police scanners pick up first reports of the shooting.

The frantic callers describe a white gunman firing at people in the parking lot.

2.59pm: Officer Eric Talley, one of the first on the scene, is killed

3.04pm: SWAT teams arrive.

They find two people dead in the parking lot and one at the entrance of the store

Over the radio scanner, cops are heard yelling: 'Shooter inside! He just shot at us twice!'

Another said: 'Officer down inside the building'

3.21pm: Police stop reporting that they're being shot at.

It is around this time that the man is seen being led out of the store in boxer shorts


Were the fifteen agencies expecting problems? Half an hour from first call to resolution is almost unbelievable.

Separately, the Sun is on our boy like tan on brown rice, with lots of happy photos from before The Day. Key bits:

THE alleged Boulder shooter was reportedly paranoid and posted about racist Islamophobes before "killing 10 people."

Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, 21, has been charged after rampaging through a grocery store with an AR-15-style rifle, leaving 10 dead.

According to a Facebook page, that appeared to be Ahmad's, he was "born in Syria 1999" before he "came to the USA in 2002."

The 21-year-old would post regularly on Facebook, including sharing the hashtag "NeedAGirlfriend" and sharing memes about video games.

He also made a claim that "racist Islamophobic people" were "hacking my phone" and stopping him from having a "normal life."

Ahmad also shared a video that's caption claimed it showed a "corrections officer turn off his body cam before repeatedly punching an inmate with a mental health condition," which he caption: "This is not okay."

His school, Arvada West High School, confirmed to The Sun that Alissa was a student from March 2015 until he graduated in May 2018.

"Jeffco Public Schools and the Board of Education are saddened by the tragic event that took place in Boulder," the school said.

"We share the heartbreak of the families, coworkers, and friends of the victims and of the Colorado community that again faces another senseless act of violence."

NBC’s Pete Williams said on MSNBC that his federal sources said there is no indication that the shooting was an act of terror or a hate crime.

Herold said that the suspect Alissa from Arvada suffered a "through and through" wound to his leg and officials confirmed that he was in hospital before being brought to jail later today.

Witnesses said a man in tactical gear was silent as he carefully picked off his victims with a rifle in the parking lot before moving inside the store.

“He just came in and started shooting,” one shopper told The Denver Post.

Another said the gunman “let off a couple of shots, then was silent, and then he let off a couple more. He wasn’t spraying.”

He said: “I probably heard 30 shots. It was just pop, pop, pop, pop, pop.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/23/2021 13:08 Comments || Top||

#33  Whoops! Premature postulation. The Sun
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/23/2021 13:11 Comments || Top||

#34  Denver Post:

In 2017, Alissa, then 18, attacked a classmate at Arvada West High School, according to an affidavit filed in the case. He punched the classmate in the head without warning, and when the boy fell to the ground, Alissa continued to punch him. The classmate suffered bruises and cuts to his head, according to the affidavit.

Witnesses told police they didn’t see or hear any reason for Alissa to attack the classmate. Alissa told officers that the classmate “had made fun of him and called him racial names weeks earlier,” according to the affidavit.

He was convicted of misdemeanor assault in 2018 and was sentenced to two months of probation and 48 hours of community service.

Arvada Police Detective Dave Snelling confirmed Tuesday the local department had at least two interactions with Alissa over the past several years including a case of criminal mischief. The details on that case were not immediately available.

Snelling would not say whether local police had received any warnings or complaints about Alissa recently, however, and instead deferred the question to the FBI.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/23/2021 13:16 Comments || Top||

#35  It’s tough being a lefty when reality is so very real

Not snark, per se, but TW gets my vote for concise and trenchant observation of the day.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/23/2021 13:19 Comments || Top||

#36  Not fit the "white supremacist terror" narrative?

No prob. Biden will now order US flags to be raised to the finial again. Sorry for the confusion.
Posted by: Sheremp Tingle4789 || 03/23/2021 13:26 Comments || Top||

#37  #31 the FBI
...guess he was on their 'radar' like Hasan and the Boston duo


Any smart jihadi now understands the best way to dupe our FBI these days is to pay a beard to go kidnap Gaga's dogs
Posted by: Sholuck Whusosing2436 || 03/23/2021 13:33 Comments || Top||

#38  That is not paranoid schizophrenia, that is 100% pure Islamic Jihad.

Both can result in the same behaviour, Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589. And schizophrenia can lead to conversion to Islam, or concentration on the violent jihad side of things, which recommends the same actions the illness demands.

We see the same problem among Black Bloc shock troops — currently calling themselves Antifa and Black Lives Matter. Many visibly suffer from disordered thinking, and an overlapping set are habitually criminal in their behaviour, including spouse and child abuse, mugging, fighting, theft, and destruction. All behaviours resulting from uncontrolled impulses.

SOP for police to strip him down for SVEST.

My learning for today, Bankok Billy.

Hated Trump and supported ISIS.

I suppose if he wanted to shoot up a Trump rally last February, hating Trump is a reasonable assumption, DarthVader. It occurs to me to wonder why he didn’t transfer his need to kill to an Antifa “mostly peaceful” riot during the lockdown year — lots of people closely packed in the dark would have led to a much larger death toll and a delayed response before the police dared become involved.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/23/2021 13:37 Comments || Top||

#39  When are we going to see Congress act against "incitement" of such people by irresponsible media outlets and political figures?
/s
Posted by: Fat Bob Phinese9942 || 03/23/2021 13:39 Comments || Top||

#40  Biden says he “won’t speculate” as to what happened in Colorado.

That all but confirms it’s Islamic terrorism.

H/T Raheem Kassam
Posted by: Jan || 03/23/2021 13:54 Comments || Top||

#41  Sleeper?
Posted by: Angstrom || 03/23/2021 13:57 Comments || Top||

#42  So is Nancy going to deploy the National Guard around the grocery store?
Posted by: Matt || 03/23/2021 14:05 Comments || Top||

#43  “American”

Posted by: trailing wife || 03/23/2021 14:14 Comments || Top||

#44  Didn't Mayorka say just last week that Jihadi terror was over?
Posted by: Unosh Hupinelet8756 || 03/23/2021 14:19 Comments || Top||

#45  or like Byron's savage Assyrian:

The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,
And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold;
And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea,
When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Posted by: Cluter Crerese9063 || 03/23/2021 14:20 Comments || Top||

#46  Wonder what Pres. Harris will do? Maybe she'll surprise and unleash her nasty prosecutor inner-b!tch. Or maybe not.
Posted by: Wholulet Ebboluling9496 || 03/23/2021 14:22 Comments || Top||

#47  That is not paranoid schizophrenia, that is 100% pure Islamic Jihad.
Sure is hard to tell the difference.
Posted by: Glenmore || 03/23/2021 14:30 Comments || Top||

#48  He was convicted of misdemeanor assault in 2018 and was sentenced to two months of probation and 48 hours of community service.

Again I ask, how in the hell did he get his hands on an assault rifle?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/23/2021 14:34 Comments || Top||

#49  Unexpectedly: President Joe Biden mulls executive actions on gun violence
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/23/2021 14:39 Comments || Top||

#50  So a nutter/muzzie in the commie stronghold of Boulder can get a gun - one that it appears was a EBR (Evil Black Rifle) and manage to kill 10 and wound none (??? nobody except maybe a trained sniper is that deadly, even with a rifle, without going around for kill shots) in a grocery store. Are Boulder grocery stores gun free zones? Does no one there get concerned with muzzies running around with EBRs - would not want to profile...? Does no one in said store have means or will to shoot back? Around here I would estimate 10% of the people in our grocery store (non gun-free zone) would be ready and willing to defend.
Posted by: Glenmore || 03/23/2021 14:41 Comments || Top||

#51  No witnesses (so far) have claimed he yelled Allah Akbar or any of the common sayings which leads me to believe he was a nut who happened to be Muslim and not a jihadi.
Posted by: ruprecht || 03/23/2021 15:51 Comments || Top||

#52  I saw a movie a few years ago where only the police and the government had guns - Shindler’s List.
Posted by: Bobby || 03/23/2021 15:57 Comments || Top||

#53  Known wolf. From the Sun article linked above:

Law enforcement officials also told the outlet [the New York Times] that Ahmad was known by the FBI because he was linked to another individual under investigation by the bureau.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/23/2021 16:37 Comments || Top||

#54  Immigrant family. M.E..
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 03/23/2021 16:37 Comments || Top||

#55  Does anyone have a source link to his ISIS views?
Posted by: Woodrow || 03/23/2021 16:58 Comments || Top||

#56  ruprecht, if he did, I lack the confidence it would be reported, especially if they are going to push the Guns Make People Crazy angle.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/23/2021 17:07 Comments || Top||

#57  All the victims were white.
All this racial black and white garbage needs to stop, is it possible people watching CNN hates whites due to their reporting?
Posted by: Jan || 03/23/2021 17:30 Comments || Top||

#58  Biden sez executive order to immediately ban numerous types of weapons being crafted.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 03/23/2021 17:45 Comments || Top||

#59  executive order to immediately ban numerous types of weapons

Federal lawsuits immediately to follow. It won’t stand.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/23/2021 18:18 Comments || Top||

#60  Was his weapon semiautomatic, or full semiautomatic?

Inquiring minds wanna know.
Posted by: badanov || 03/23/2021 19:08 Comments || Top||

#61 
Posted by: badanov || 03/23/2021 19:09 Comments || Top||

#62  Somewhat related re: national security.

N. Korea Fires Short-Range Missiles, Challenging Biden
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 03/23/2021 19:19 Comments || Top||

#63  Again I ask, how in the hell did he get his hands on an assault rifle?

Read it again -- MISDEMEANOR assault. Not a felony, not prohibited.

Now, if the two of them had been lovers, that would have been a domestic abuse case, THEN he'd have been prohibited.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 03/23/2021 20:12 Comments || Top||

#64  N. Korea Fires Short-Range Missiles, Challenging Biden

Meh. Musk is on course to out-range them this week.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 03/23/2021 20:13 Comments || Top||

#65  #60 - Snark O' The Day - Moderator Division
Posted by: Frank G || 03/23/2021 21:26 Comments || Top||

#66  Lucky AOC was able to get out alive.
Posted by: Slappy || 03/23/2021 22:51 Comments || Top||

#67  If Biden talks gun control the GOP should respond with questions about FBI background checks because something doesn't add up. His brother says he's crazy and yet he still got weapons recently?
Posted by: ruprecht || 03/23/2021 23:12 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
NIA charges Hizbul’s gun-runners who were sustaining political-terrorist nexus in J&K
[OneIndia] The National Investigation Agency has filed a chargesheet against two gun-runners and a financier of the Hizbul Mujahideen
...Party of Holy Warriors, founded by Muhammad Ahsan Dar in September 1989. One of the Pak sock puppets waging jihad in Indian Kashmir. It was originally organized as the armed wing of Jamaat-e-Islami. In 1990, Dar declared Hizbul as the sword arm of Jamaat. Hizbul murdered many of the pro-independence intelligentsia in Kashmir. After the organization was taken over by Syed Salahuddin Dar and several other ex-Hizb leaders were assassinated between 2001 and 2003...
. Those chargesheeted are Shaheen Ahmad Lone, Tafazul Hussain and Waheed-ur-Rahman Para.

The case was registered following the arrest of two Hizbul Mujahideen operatives, Syed Naveed Mushtaq, the then District Commander of HM for the district Shopian and Ganderbal and Rafi Ahmad Rather along with one serving DSP of J&K Police. Devender Singh and Advocate Irfan Shafi Mir, near al-Stop Naka, Qazigund while they were travelling from Srinagar to Jammu in the i20 car owned and driven by accused Advocate Irfan Shafi Mir.

Investigation has revealed that chargesheeted accused Shaheen Ahmad Lone and Tafazul Hussain Parimoo were involved in gun running from across the LoC for the forces of Evil of banned terrorist organizations Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) and Lashkar-e-Tayiba.

They were also channelizing funds to the forces of Evil for sustaining terrorist activities in J&K at the behest of handlers located in Pakistain. Investigation has also revealed that chargesheeted accused Waheed-ur-Rahman Para was part of the conspiracy for raising and transferring of terror funds to Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) forces of Evil for procurement of terrorist hardware and was also a crucial player in sustaining political-separatist-terrorist nexus in J&K.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/23/2021 03:27 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistain Proxies


Iraq
Iranian-backed militias are now killing Colonels in Iraq's intelligence agency
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 03/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iranian Proxy Militia Opens New Recruitment Center in Aleppo, Syria
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Syrian opposition media outlets are reporting that the Iranian proxy militia, Kataib al-Imam Ali, has opened a new recruitment center at the heart of the regime-run northern city of Aleppo.

Establishing the drafting center took place with consent from the Syrian regime, said local sources.

Javad al-Ghaffari, a prominent Iranian leader who is based in Aleppo, had met with officials at the Defense Ministry headquarters in Damascus to discuss and approve the operation.

All those willing to join the militia, including army defectors and dodgers of compulsory military service, will be accepted, sources predicted. Regime forces will drop their pursuit of anyone drafted into the Iranian militia, even if they are ex-soldiers wanted for decamping or citizens accused of draft evasion.

For Syrian youth living under dire security and economic circumstances, the offer is very tempting.

Syria's opposition Eye of Euphrates news network published a report revealing the details of the terms and conditions involving registration in Kataib al-Imam Ali.

According to the report, enrolled fighters will receive a monthly salary of $200 if they were married, and $150 if they were single.

They will be deployed to outposts near their home addresses and have to log in 20 days of service each month.

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...
has sought strengthening the presence of its proxies in Syria against the backdrop of a Russian orientation to downsize the role played by Iran-backed militias in war-torn country.

It is worth noting that Iran has trained about 70,000 fighters that formed 128 regiments in Syria.

Russia, after intervening in Syria in 2015, sought to weaken Iran-aligned guerrillas by reinforcing regime forces and forming army divisions for local volunteers.

Iran, however, pushed forward with its recruitment agenda in Syria, forming militias that included foreign mercenaries, members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and fighters from the 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...
-based Hezbollah militia.
Posted by: Fred || 03/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies


Strikes on Northwest Syria Kill 1 Person, Cause Wide Damage
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Airstrikes on several locations in northwest Syria near the border with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
have killed at least one person and set afire several trucks used to distribute aid, opposition activists and a paramedic group said Monday.

The late Sunday attacks angered Turkey, which had asked Russia to secure an immediate end to the strikes, Turkey’s Defense Ministry said, adding that Ottoman Turkish troops had been placed on alert.

Turkey and Russia support rival parties in Syria’s 10-year conflict. The countries reached a deal last March that stopped a Russian-backed government offensive on the northwestern Idlib province, the last major opposition stronghold in war-torn Syria.

Opposition activists claimed that Russian warplanes carried out the attacks near the Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey late Sunday, hours after regime artillery shelling hit a major hospital in a opposition-controlled town in northwestern Syria.

Six patients, including a child, were killed. Medical staff were maimed, forcing the facility to shut its doors, The News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported.

The Bab al-Hawa border crossing is a main point from which aid is brought to opposition-held parts of northwest Syria.

Idlib-based journalist Salwa Abdul-Rahman said one of the strikes hit an area near the town of Sarmada, setting afire trucks used by aid workers to distribute assistance.

"The targeted locations were civilian with no military presence," she said.

One person was killed in the strikes, according to the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor, and the opposition’s Syrian Civil Defense, also known as White Helmets.

The civil defense said that in addition to the trucks, the strikes targeted a cement factory. The truck fires were put under control hours later.

An AP video from the area showed about a dozen trucks on fire as civil defense members sprayed them with water.

Turkey’s Defense Ministry blamed Syrian regime forces for the attack, saying it left several people maimed.

Related: UN Official: Airstrikes on NW Syria Border Area Worrying

Posted by: Fred || 03/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria



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