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** Grumble! **
Down for two hours due to a "scheduled outage" by Comcast.
Posted by: Fred || 03/26/2021 03:13 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  We had collection mini outages here in middle Ga also thru-out yesterday by Comcast.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/26/2021 7:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Well, at least the server didn't go toes up.

Morning Fred! How ya doin?
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/26/2021 8:55 Comments || Top||

#3  Deduct two hours worth from the Comcast bill for this month.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/26/2021 10:41 Comments || Top||

#4  Deduct two hours worth from the Comcast bill for this month.

Yeah, that'll work.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 03/26/2021 13:48 Comments || Top||

#5  When the Burg disappeared while I was prepping the last few articles last night, Fred, I assumed you were doing something interesting under the hood.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/26/2021 18:52 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Haul of weapons man brought into Atlanta supermarket - before sharp-eyed employee called 911 after hearing someone loading weapons in the store bathroom
[Daily Mail]
  • A sharp-eyed Instacart worker is getting credit for helping officers to stop the man with half a dozen guns from roaming through Publix grocery store

  • The incident took place in Atlanta on Wednesday afternoon

  • An Instacart worker heard 'clicking sounds' and saw an AR-15 style rifle

  • The worker then alerted a manager at the store, urging him to call 911

  • Two officers managed to detain the gunman before he fired a single shot

A worker at an Atlanta grocery store heard 'clicking sounds,' and it sounded to him like someone was loading weapons inside a restroom stall, he told police. Then he saw an an 'AR-15-style rifle' leaning against the wall.

The sharp-eyed Instacart worker is getting credit for helping officers to stop the man wearing body armor and carrying a half-dozen guns from roaming through the Publix grocery store Wednesday, police said.

The new details are included in police incident reports released Thursday by Atlanta police. The man's intentions are not explained in the reports.

The worker, Charles Russell, 'heard clicking sounds from the bathroom stall,' a police report states. 'It sounded to him like someone was loading firearms.'

Russell then alerted a manager at the store, urging him to call 911.

Two Atlanta police officers arrived. One grabbed a rifle from his patrol car, put on a ballistic helmet and went into the store, where he apparently surprised the armed man as he came around the corner from the restroom.

'I immediately ordered the accused to put his hands up and don't move to which he complied,' the officer wrote in his report. 'The accused appeared to be surprised when he saw us that close to him.'

Officers then arrested Rico Marley, 22, without a shot being fired.

The pistols he had were loaded with rounds in chambers, and a revolver was also fully loaded, the officer wrote. He then looked inside Marley's bag and found a loaded AR-15-style rifle and a loaded shotgun, said the officer, who noted that the suspect was wearing body armor.
Posted by: Frank G || 03/26/2021 12:43 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yet another black white supremacist
Posted by: badanov || 03/26/2021 13:03 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ they're sneaky, those supremacists.
Better double down on FBI surveillance resources
Posted by: Grereth Johnson7072 || 03/26/2021 13:09 Comments || Top||

#3  Was his intention to film a rap video?
Posted by: Chunky Threns3935 || 03/26/2021 13:09 Comments || Top||

#4  ^--- was he holding his gun sideways?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 03/26/2021 13:24 Comments || Top||

#5  From Heavy, something that might explain Mr. Rico’s surprise at being accosted by the police:

WSB-TV added that Marley had a “weapons carry license” with him, as well. Open carry is legal in Georgia, according to the state’s legal code.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/26/2021 13:42 Comments || Top||

#6  If open carry is legal in Georgia, what laws had he broken when arrested?
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 03/26/2021 13:51 Comments || Top||

#7  Whoops! That’s Mr. Rico Marley. The ski mask he had with him is a bit odd, though.

The question will turn on whether he indeed intended to commit a felony, as charged, or whether he was being stupid about his open carry rights. And whether he is a member of that Black separatist group setting up a BLM-linked “homeland” in downtown Austin, if I recall correctly. They’re keen on open carry, too — they’d joined the effort to protect Stone Mountain, as I recall,
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/26/2021 14:00 Comments || Top||

#8  I thought that as well but you normally don't load up your arsenal in the grocery bathroom.

At least it deserves some questioning...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 03/26/2021 14:02 Comments || Top||

#9 
Again I will ask the question. During this NATIONWIDE Ammo Shortage and the likely cost of these weapon being close to $4,500. Where is a 22 y/o:
A. Finding the ammo/guns to buy.
B. Getting the $$$$ to do it?

Moving on.
Given the upper-Middle class demographics of PUBLIX and this stores Atlantic Station location.
It is kinda clear what he was likely gunning for.

Whatever the case and as far fetched as it sounds... Why are all these NUT Jobs just now doing this now under a LIBERAL / Socialist Democrat admin. It would seem these nuts would have come out of the wood work during Trump not Biden ... Unless they are trying to Help move along a rewrite of the 2nd.



Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/26/2021 14:09 Comments || Top||

#10  It began going downhill for Rico when some reported an Aim-Point zeroing in on the bananas.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/26/2021 14:10 Comments || Top||

#11  From a quick search of the archives: Orisha Land in Austin early this month. BLM-linked, Marxist, led by Grandmaster Jay and his Not Fuckin’ Around Coalition (NFAC).
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/26/2021 14:16 Comments || Top||

#12  what laws had he broken when arrested?

Possession of Firearm or Knife During a Commission of or Attempt to Commit Certain Felonies – 6 counts

Criminal Attempt to Commit a Felony – 5 counts
Posted by: Clusons Bucket7153 || 03/26/2021 14:17 Comments || Top||

#13  Eyes?

That's education and awareness, and the courage to make the decision.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/26/2021 14:59 Comments || Top||

#14  No security cameras in restrooms.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 03/26/2021 15:33 Comments || Top||

#15  Why are all these NUT Jobs just now doing this now under a LIBERAL / Socialist Democrat admin.

The Dims are soft on Felons. Especially as hard as the Dims work at allowing felons voting rights.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 03/26/2021 15:47 Comments || Top||

#16  "The man's intentions are not explained"

I can explain his "intentions." Idiots. >:-(
Posted by: Barbara || 03/26/2021 20:11 Comments || Top||

#17  There does seem to be an obsession about "intent".
Posted by: Clem || 03/26/2021 20:16 Comments || Top||

#18  According to MSN,

in 2019, Publix joined a growing list of retailers that asked customers not to carry weapons inside their stores even if it was legally permitted in the state.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/26/2021 21:45 Comments || Top||


Police have arrested & charged a suspect wanted in the homicide of a 74-year-old man in Phoenix, Ariz.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 03/26/2021 00:31 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The pics tell it all?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/26/2021 5:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Damn White Supremacists!
Posted by: Frank G || 03/26/2021 6:45 Comments || Top||

#3  In other recent shooting news:

BOULDER, Colo. - Syrian Mass murderer Al Aliwi Issa was allowed to legally buy a firearm and pass a background check just six days prior to his shooting.

Al Aliwi Issa’s Facebook profile, before being removed, was full of posts mentioning “Islamaphobia” and he greatly criticized Trump’s work to stop terrorism. The FBI is still saying a motive is not known.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/26/2021 6:47 Comments || Top||

#4  my shocked face, this is it
Posted by: Blossom Wittlesbach3196 || 03/26/2021 7:26 Comments || Top||

#5  Syrian Mass murderer Al Aliwi Issa was allowed to legally buy a firearm and pass a background check just six days prior to his shooting.

If his mental health issues were not reported, and his juvenile record was sealed, there would be nothing on record to support blocking the purchase.

The family knew about his problems, but saw no issue with him having a gun in a house where there must have been others— just with him playing with it in public. He went a-jihading with two guns, it was reported, so it seems likely he’d taken the other gun from the family stash.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/26/2021 10:25 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ dad was as angry-nutty as junior. Family of wild savages, per the neighbor quoted in DM yesterday
Posted by: Cliper the Scantily Clad1220 || 03/26/2021 11:40 Comments || Top||

#7  In my opinion islam is a political movement and should be banned.
Posted by: irish rage boy || 03/26/2021 11:43 Comments || Top||

#8  And I was assured by top men they came here as an act of love.
Posted by: Chunky Threns3935 || 03/26/2021 13:14 Comments || Top||

#9  Odds of making the network evening news? Or is anti-asian murder suddenly passe?
Posted by: Chunky Threns3935 || 03/26/2021 16:54 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Nangarhar: ANDSF Clears Road to District Cut Off for 12 Years
[ToloNews] The Afghan National Security and Defense Forces (ANDSF) have cleared 25 kilometers of mines between 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..
’s Hesarak and Sherzad districts after twelve years.

Security officials in the eastern province of Afghanistan said that the security forces launched their operations two months ago and cleared the roads of landmines and other explosives.

Hesarak district is one of the key strategic districts in Nangarhar, and borders with Laghman
...Afghan province with a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.
After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men...
, Kabul, Pashtun-infested Logar and Paktia provinces.

"There was no way to get supplies, we were not able to transfer our maimed officers and martyred ones," said Rohullah, an Afghan National Police officer.

"We were witnessing at least 50 mortars attacks daily," said Zargai Stanekzai, an officer.

Military officials in Hesarak have said that there is still the presence of Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
fighters in the outskirts of the district.

"With God’s support and with the cooperation of the people, this area has been cleared, we will establish bases and checkpoints here to ensure security," said Naseer Ahmad Sapai, the commander of the 4th Battalion of 201 Selab Army Corps.

A few months ago, two helicopters belonging to the Afghan National Army (ANA) crashed after they collided in flight.

They were transporting reinforcements to the area.

Two pilots and three others were killed in the incident.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/26/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


NDS arrests another mastermind behind ‘KU attack’
[KhaamaPress] National Directorate of Security
...the Afghan national intel agency...
has reportedly arrested several members of the ISIS group in a night operation in Achin district 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..
province on Wednesday night.

NDS’ 02 unit in a released statement on Thursday said that Hazrat Ali also famous as Abu Saeed, Azam known as Shahin Nangarhari, Hamza Khurasani, and two others suspected of collaborating with ISIS have been detained.

According to the security sources, Hazrat Ali was involved in plotting to attack Kabul University and was also in contact with ISIS leaders in Syria, Iraq, and Belgium.
Oh? Interesting that we are hearing this for the first time.
02 unit of the National Directorate of Security reported that the captured key member of ISIS Khurasan spread fear and panic among the public, He was responsible for the propaganda procedures of the group.

In addition to the arrest of the ISIS members NDS also seized two pistols, according to the statement.

In January 2021, Mohammad Adil was found guilty of criminal masterminding the attack on Kabul University is sentenced to death by the Afghan supreme court.

According to the Interior Ministry, five other collaborators of the attack were sentenced to various jail terms after being found guilty of charges of treason, transfer of kabooms, and cooperating with ISIS (ISIS).

The Interior Ministry reported, five others involved in the violent mostly peaceful act were sentenced to various jail terms, after being found guilty of transfer of kabooms, treason, and cooperation with ISIS.

Amrullah Saleh welcomed the court’s decision on Saturday and added that justice had been served.

Others were also sentenced to death, Saleh said but did not provide further explanation except that the list will be shared with media soon.

Adel is said to have been charged for kidnapping and other terrorist activities, Obaidullah is another ISIS member who is found guilty of collaborating with the group, planting IEDs, and delivery of kabooms.

Previously armed assailants had attacked Kabul University in November of 2020 in which more than 19 people were killed and 22 others were maimed.

The attack ended after six hours of harsh battle between the bandidos forces of Evil and the security forces.
After six hours of fighting on November 2, 2020, 3 button men in military-style uniforms were dead, along with 22 innocents, most of them students. While ISIS loudly claimed the attack, Afghan First Vice President Amrullah Saleh blamed the Taliban, saying that the Taliban flag was found in a box brought by the jihadis and adding that the last words they wrote on the walls of the classrooms were "long live Taliban." The Taliban denied responsibility at the time, but the first arrested mastermind, Mohammad Adel, belonged to the Haqqani Network, a Pakistan-based Taliban affiliate, and others among the plotters had multiple allegiances to Al Qaeda recruiter Hizbut Tahrir, ISIS, and the Taliban.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/26/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Four Security Force Members Killed in Badghis Blast
[ToloNews] Four security force members were killed and one more was maimed in a roadside kaboom blast in Badghis province on Wednesday evening, the provincial governor Hasamuddin Shams said.

The incident happened in Aab Kamari district of the province when a police vehicle was targeted by a roadside kaboom blast, Shams said.

No group including the Talibah has claimed reasonability for the blast.

The provincial governor said that a military operation is ongoing in the district in the past three days in which five Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
were killed and seven more were maimed.

The operation has been launched to eliminate the Taliban threats and create new security checkpoints in the district, he added.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/26/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa Horn
At least four dead after mortar fire strike in Somalia's Mogadishu
[AlAhram] There was no immediate claim of responsibility. Somalia's Islamist group al-Shabaab
...... the personification of Somali state failure...
has, in the past, conducted similar attacks on the base and airport

At least four non-combatants were killed and nine others injured in Somalia on Thursday by mortar shells that were likely targeting peacekeeping force AMISOM's base at the airport in the capital Mogadishu, witnesses told Rooters.
The mortar shells fell short of their likely target, striking homes just outside a sprawling compound that houses both the AMISOM base and airport, according to witnesses.

"As we took a break for tea, mortar shells landed...one landed on my neighbour," killing two people and injuring five others, 65-year-old Mohammed Sheikh Mohammed, an area resident, told Rooters.

Mohammed and other witnesses told Rooters they believed the mortars had been aiming for the AMISOM base, long a target of similar attacks.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility. Somalia's Islamist group al-Shabaab has, in the past, conducted similar attacks on the base and airport.

Among those killed were a man and his son, while the man's two other children, a 3-month-old girl and 4-year-old boy, and their mother were maimed.

"Immediately another shell landed on my daughter's house just in the vicinity," Mohammed said, adding his daughter was injured in the blast while her husband and their son were killed.

Government and AMISOM officials did not respond to Rooters' calls or text messages seeking comment. A police front man did not immediately provide comment.

In a news report on its website, Somali's state news agency said an attack by mortar shells had killed a man and his son and injured five others of the same family, but did not say anything about other casualties that witnesses had reported.

The al Qaeda-allied al-Shabaab has been fighting for more than ten years to try to topple Somalia's internationally backed central government and establish its own rule based on its strict interpretation of Islam's sharia law.

Somalia has been gripped by Islamist violence and lawlessness since 1991.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/26/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


Africa North
Search Continues for 60 Migrants Missing Off Libya Coast
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] The Libyan coastguard, with the help of a group of fishermen, has continued its search for roughly 60 migrants colonists, who were presumed dead after their boat caught fire off the Libyan coast during an attempted Mediterranean crossing.

Alarm Phone, a volunteer-run Mediterranean rescue hotline, said it had spoken to survivors of the March 18 incident in which the engine of the wooden boat carrying more than 100 people caught fire.

Someone on the boat initially contacted them, and they in turn alerted relevant authorities as well as the rescue vessel, Ocean Viking, and requested an immediate search for the boat in distress.

Ocean Viking started a search operation. Unfortunately, the migrants colonists were at first unable to provide an accurate GPS position.

Libyan authorities told them shortly after that 45 people had been rescued and five bodies retrieved.

However,
Switzerland makes more than cheese...
the charity said witness testimony they gathered suggested about 60 people were missing and presumed dead, AFP reported.

Survivors said that the boat’s passengers included Sudanese, Senegal
... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees...
ese, Syrians, Paks, Moroccans and Egyptians.

On March 18, Ocean Viking rescued 10 people, including three children and a baby suffering from dehydration.

Two days later, crew members of the Ocean Viking rescued more than a hundred migrants colonists.

"Ocean Viking rescued around 106 children, women and men from an overcrowded dinghy that had run into trouble in international waters around 34 nautical miles from Libya," SOS Mediterrannee tweeted.

The rescued migrants colonists included 31 men, eight women and 67 children, of whom 51 were unaccompanied.

Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch clutched at his other leg......
human traffickers in Libya continue to kidnap undocumented migrants colonists.

Brigade 444 said Tuesday that its forces had neutralized criminals in Nessma area, about 200 km from Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
They freed 85 African abductees and handed them over to the migration agency in Tripoli, it said.


Posted by: Fred || 03/26/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Human Trafficking


Mozambique: Defence Ministry Confirms Attack Against Palma
[AllAfrica] The Mozambican Defence Ministry on Thursday morning confirmed that the town of Palma, in the northern province of Cabo Delgado came under terrorist attack on Wednesday.

The brief Ministry statement said the gunnies attacked the town from three directions, and obliged residents to seek safety by fleeing into the nearby bush.

The defence and security forces, said the Ministry, "are pursuing the enemy and are working tirelessly to re-establish security and order as quickly as possible". It urged the civilian population "to remain vigilant and calm, while seeking safe spaces".

Members of the public, it continued, "should continue collaborating with the authorities by denouncing the gunnies and gunnies, so that they may be neutralised".

The Ministry added that all mobile phone communications with Palma town and district have been cut. The statement admitted that so far the government does not have information on the number of casualties or the scale of the damage.

Before communications were cut, the information reaching Maputo was that the attacks had begun at about 16.00, and that the jihadists targeted banks, shops, at least one hotel and the barracks of the Rapid Intervention Unit (UIR - the Mozambican equivalent of the riot police).

According to the independent newssheet "Carta de Mocambique", the shooting ended in the early hours of Thursday, by which time the defence forces had secured control of the town.

There are no reports of any attacks against the site on the Afungi Peninsula where a consortium headed by the French oil and gas company Total is building natural gas liquefaction plants. But Palma town is well within the Afungi security perimeter, which the Mozambican forces have pledged to defend.

It can hardly be a coincidence that the attacks came within hours of Total announcing that it is about to resume work at Afungi. Total had interrupted construction work and evacuated much of its work force after a terrorist attack on 1 January in the resettlement town of Quitunda (a new town built to house people resettled from the areas of the Afungi Peninsula where the two planned gas liquefaction plants will be built).

Since then the government and Total have worked to draw up a plan of action to strengthen security around the site, and the government has declared the area as a special security zone.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/26/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (IS-Mozambique)


Morocco: 4 arrested for links to alleged IS attack plot
[AlAhram] More than 1,000 Moroccans are believed to have joined IS between 2013 and 2017 as the organization seized territory across Syria and Iraq

Special agents in eastern Morocco on Thursday arrested four suspected 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....
-linked bully boyz who were allegedly assigned to attack a military base and other sensitive targets, the official Moroccan news agency MAP reported.
U.S. intelligence services worked closely with counterparts in the North African kingdom to dismantle the cell in Oujda, on the border with Algeria, MAP quoted a statement from Morocco's Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations as saying.

Four people ages 24-28 were arrested in separate neighborhoods in Oujda. One man was found on the roof of his home, trying to flee, according to MAP's account. The agents seized large sums of money in European currencies and the passports of the four suspects.

Authorities said the four initially planned to travel to the Sahel to join fighting there. Branches of the Islamic State group and al-Qaeda are active in the Sahel, but it was not clear whether the alleged Islamic State ties of the arrested individuals referred to a Sahel connection.

Morocco's Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations alleged an IS leader instructed them to carry out attacks in Morocco instead of traveling to the Sahel. Work to identify potential targets that included ``vital national structures, security buildings and military bases'' was in motion. according to the bureau's statement.

The prosecutor's office ordered investigations to uncover other possible bully boyz linked to the plot, the statement said.

Morocco sporadically breaks up holy warrior cells. In September, potential jacket wallahs reportedly linked to IS were arrested in four cities.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/26/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Arabia
Coalition Destroys 6 Explosives-laden Drones Launched by Houthis
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] The Coalition to Support Legitimacy in Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
said on Thursday it destroyed six explosives-laden drones launched by Yemen's Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
militias towards Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
The Coalition said the Houthis attempted to target both Najran
a city in southwestern Saudi Arabia near the border with Yemen. It is the capital of the province of the same name, a favored target of Houthi rocket forces because they can see it, so there's no math involved....
and Jazan's universities.

The Houthis also fired a ballistic missile from Sanaa which landed in the Yemeni governorate of al-Jawf, the Coalition added.
Posted by: Fred || 03/26/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Europe
Spain police bust suspected Al-Qaeda finance ring
More on this story from yesterday.
[AlAhram] Those detained were suspected of having "exploited an NGO to finance the activities of terrorist fighters," a National Police statement said

Spanish police said Thursday they had dismantled a ring suspected of financing al-Qaeda and arrested three men, including the top representative of Spain's Moslem community.

Those detained were suspected of having "exploited an NGO to finance the activities of terrorist fighters," a National Police statement said.

The organization is believed to have collected donations for orphaned children in Syria, but "a part" of the funds went instead to areas of Syria "controlled by al-Qaeda militias with the aim of supporting their fighters", it added.

"Another part of the proceeds was destined to defray the expenses of a school centre for orphaned children located in a conflict zone, whose activities were focused on the training of future mujahideen."

The head of the Islamic Commission of Spain (CIE), Mohammad Ayman Adlbi,
...alternately Aiman Adlbi, the 74-year-old doctor from Syria who was elected president of the commission last summer after the former head, Riay Tatary, died of COVID-19...
was arrested Tuesday as part of the operation and later released without charge, police and government sources said.

"I must express our confidence in the judicial administration, regardless of the suspicions, which we consider unfounded," Ayman Adlbi said in a statement released late Wednesday by the CIE.

He also voiced his "great displeasure" at being arrested when he could have easily been invited for "an interview" at the cop shoppe.

Ayman Adlbi was appointed last year to head the CIE, which represents Moslems before Spanish state bodies and oversees religious services at the country's mosques as well as Moslem education.

One of the men arrested, a treasurer of a federation which is part of the CIE, the Union of Islamic Communities of Spain, was placed in preventative detention, a judicial source said.

Police said the arrests follow a two-year investigation.

Since 2015, Spain's alert level has been held at level four out of five, indicating a high risk of an attack.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/26/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda

#1  Recognition of the Islamist movement in Spain can be traced to the meeting of radical Muslims held in Spain on 2 August 1994. An address was given by Sudan's Dr. Hassan at Turabi and titled, "Islamic Fundamentalism In The Sunna and Shia World." Turabi, Chairman of the radical Popular Arab and Islamic Conference (The Terrorist Internationale), offered a blueprint for the Islamist infiltration of Spain and the West.
Posted by: b || 03/26/2021 8:36 Comments || Top||


Germany Arrests Woman Accused of Joining ISIS
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] A German woman accused of taking her son to ISIS-controlled territory in Syria and fighting for the holy warrior group there was arrested Wednesday after landing in Berlin.

Prosecutors said that the suspect joined the terrorist group after her arrival and, together with her husband, decided to have her son — aged under 15 at the time — get firearms training at a training camp run by the group.

The son was killed in an air raid in March 2018, according to the statement.

Stefanie A. and her husband were later arrested. She is suspected of membership in a foreign terrorist organization, violating her duty of care, and a war crime, prosecutors said.

She also at some point became an ISIS bully boy, they said.

Stefanie will appear before the investigating judge on Thursday and the decision of whether or not she will be held in police custody will be taken.

Posted by: Fred || 03/26/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Fifth Column
Antifa & far-left groups in Los Angeles were responsible for preventing police from responding to a growing encampment at Echo Park
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 03/26/2021 00:35 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  You talk about domestic terrorism...
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/26/2021 11:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Warren Zevon knew it back in 1976:
I hear Mariachi static on my radio
And the tubes they glow in the dark
BUT YOU'RE THERE in Ensenada
And I'm STUCK here in Echo Park

Carmelita hold me tighter
I think I'm sinking down
And I'm all strung out on heroin
On the outskirts of town

Well, I'm sittin' here playing solitaire
With my pearl-handled deck
The county won't give me no more methadone
And they cut off your welfare check
Posted by: Frank G || 03/26/2021 14:35 Comments || Top||


Terry Joe Wilson, a Black Lives Matter activist in Boise, Idaho, was arrested over the vandalism of an Abraham Lincoln statue
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 03/26/2021 00:29 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  "We was better off as slaves!"?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/26/2021 5:36 Comments || Top||

#2  His hair style is clearly inspired by Sideshow Bob.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 03/26/2021 7:57 Comments || Top||

#3  He has the Larry Fine hair, but can he play the fiddle? Apologies to Themosticles.
Posted by: Cesare || 03/26/2021 9:09 Comments || Top||

#4  I am going to predict right now that nobody with a neck tattoo is ever going to win a Nobel Prize in any of the meaningful categories.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/26/2021 9:14 Comments || Top||

#5  Mayor of Boise is a lefty. We'll see what happens here. Frontier Justice comes to mind as the preferred correction.
Posted by: Warthog || 03/26/2021 9:44 Comments || Top||

#6  send him to Challis.
Posted by: 746 || 03/26/2021 10:53 Comments || Top||

#7  former adjunct professor at Boise State U
Posted by: Lord Garth || 03/26/2021 14:26 Comments || Top||

#8  Nice Sideshow Bob hair
Posted by: Frank G || 03/26/2021 14:34 Comments || Top||

#9  former adjunct professor at Boise State U

The mayor or Mx (one doesn’t want to assume) Wilson, Lord Garth?
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/26/2021 16:14 Comments || Top||

#10  Never mind. The Post Millennial says Wilson is the adjunct professor.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/26/2021 22:12 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas leader detained by IDF on West Bank
[Ynet] Senior West Bank Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, official Jamal al-Taweel was detained by the IDF early on Wednesday along with other of the terror groups members.

Al-Taweel was released from Israeli custody earlier this month.

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar said the arrest of his organization's activists was part of Israel's efforts to interfere with the May elections to the Paleostinian parliament.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/26/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran said to hit Israeli ship with missile in Arabian Sea
[Times of Israel] Iran reportedly fired a missile recently at an Israeli-owned ship, hitting it and causing damage, Hebrew media outlets report.

The reports say the container ship was on its way from Tanzania to India, and that the incident happened when it was in the Arabian Sea, between India and Iran.

The incident was reported to Israel’s security establishment and to the owners of the Haifa-based ship company, according to the reports.

The ship will continue to India and will undergo damage assessment.
Courtesy of Angemble Phusock7954, the Daily Mail has a map and more.
Posted by: Frank G || 03/26/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  A message for progressive humanity: prepare your usual howls about "disproportional response".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/26/2021 5:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Timing is interesting. In the middle of Israeli elections. Oddly, it could be considered a paid political contribution to Likud.
Posted by: Mercutio || 03/26/2021 8:16 Comments || Top||

#3  War.
Posted by: Shiva Protector of the Hohlraums || 03/26/2021 19:39 Comments || Top||



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