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The lady second from the right, the one with her hand up, yeah that one, her cap's falling off her head, she just volunteered to 'scout out' a new hotel/restaurant in the area for weather delayed travelers and company layovers.
She checked in, got her room and went down to the lounge for happy hour ....
Don't know if she'll make her flight in the morning....but right now she's 'flying high'.
[ToloNews] The Afghan intelligence agency—the National Directorate Security (NDS)-- in a statement on Tuesday said that the NDS’s special operation units eliminated a "key member" of an Al Qaeda network and a "high-profile Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... commander" during an operation in Giyan district of Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... province.
"Special forces of the National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... during a targeted operation eliminated a key member of Al Qaeda network including a Taliban commander during a targeted operation in Gilan district of Paktika province," the statement said.
"Dawlat Bek Tajiki, known as Abu Mohammad al-Tajiki, a key member of Al Qaeda network for the Indian subcontinent, and Hazrat Ali, also known as Hamza, a native of Wazoo and a commander of the Taliban terrorist group, were considered among the plotters of highly complicated attacks," the statement said.
"These individuals were links between the Al Qaeda network and the Taliban terrorist group and were responsible for equipping and financing the Taliban terrorist group," the statement said.
The NDS said that the two commanders were providing advice to the Taliban for their spring offensive.
According to the NDS, the two were also responsible for financing and providing weapons and military training to the Taliban in Ghazni and Zabul provinces.
[KhaamaPress] Government officials in Paktia said three workers belonging to a police district of Gardez city were killed on Tuesday morning in an armed button men attack in the Rabat area.
A front man for the Paktia Police HQ said that a policeman, a cook, and a driver of the fourth police district in Gardez city were among the victims.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, Butch clutched at his other shoulder...... security sources in Kapisa confirmed that three Afghan national defense and security force members were killed in a clash with the Talibs.
Abdul Latif Murad, Kapisa’s governor told the media that the soldiers were killed in a Taliban ...Arabic for students... ambush in the Afghan area of Nijrab district.
Taliban have grabbed credit for the attack, saying they have killed the ANDSF members and captured one another.
Taliban front man, Zabiullah Mujahid also claimed that a large number of weapons and ammunition were also seized by the group but Murad denied the allegations. No, no! Certainly not! In a separate incident in Ghor province, a roadside kaboom blast in the Dawlatyar district of the province has killed and injured four security personnel.
Mohammad Musa Kaleem, district governor to Ghor said that an armored security humvee vehicle hit a roadside mine in the north of the district on Monday evening, killing one security force member and wounding three others.
Moreover, in Kabul, a welder named Fazel Karim was killed by unknown button men in the Qala-e-Kashif Area of PD5, suspects on the lam.
[KhaamaPress] At least 14 Taliban ...Arabic for students... holy warriors were killed and 8 others maimed during a joint operation conducted by ANDSF in the Arghandab and Panjwai districts of southern Kandahar province, the Ministry of Defense stated on Tuesday.
MoD said that Afghan national defense and security forces backed by the air force targeted Taliban in the Arghandab Panjwai district of Kandahar province.
According to MoD, 14 Taliban fighters were killed and eight others were maimed, during the ANDSF offensives three light machine guns, two AK47 rifles, one rocket launcher, some weapons and ammunition, and 2 cycle of violences belonging to the Taliban were also confiscated.
The statement added, Afghan national army discovered and defused three anti-vehicle mines placed by the Taliban for destructive purposes in Chora and Dehrawood districts of Uruzgan province, and in the Mizan district of Zabul province.
The Taliban have not yet commented on the incident.
[Garowe] Kenyan police said Tuesday they have arrested three suspects and recovered a cache of weapons during a security operation in Garissa County which borders Somalia.
Rono Bunei, northeastern regional police commander, said the three suspects were nabbed while transporting eight rifles, 2,104 bullets, and 20 liters of petrol along a busy road in the Lagdera area when they were intercepted after a four-hour chase.
Bunei said the police who were patrolling the area spotted the salon car at about 5 p.m. on Monday before the driver sped off prompting a chase which took four hours to end.
"The three suspicious occupants sped off to the bushes when being stopped. The operation was mounted to trace and arrest the occupants of the vehicle," Bunei said in Garissa.
The security described the recovery as a boost in the war on terrorism and noted that the weapons were to be used in an undisclosed terror mission in the country. The regional police commander said weapons are not Kenyan because they have not been registered in the country.
The area is near the Kenya-Somalia border and Dadaab hosts thousands of refugees, most of whom are from Somalia.
Kenya has been on a heightened vigilance due to the threat of terror posed by the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab ...... the personification of Somali state failure... Death Eaters.
Al-Shabaab holy warriors have been attacking places in the region especially in Mandera and Garissa counties in the northeast region bordering Somalia after breaching security zones, which left dozens of civilians and security officials dead and maimed.
[Garowe] Kenyan security agencies appealed to members of the public to volunteer information that may lead to the arrest and prosecution of Rashid Mwalimu who is wanted by the Anti-terrorism police.
According to a statement sent out to media houses, Mwalimu who is currently in Somalia should be considered armed and dangerous; he is a trained pilot who is on a mission to carry an aviation attack on behalf of the terror group al-Shabaab ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... Security agencies handling the matter believe he will be attempting to sneak back into the country.
Probe into his alleged involvement with the terror group uncovered that he trained as a pilot in the Philippines alongside an accomplice Cholo Abdi Abdulla who is currently in lawful custody.
Security sources say that Cholo and Mwalimu were close friends and joined al-Shabaab in 2015.
The duo trained and conducted attacks in Somalia before being sent to the Boni forest where they were selected for an aviation course based on their impressive academic credentials.
They are also said to have been close friends with the leader of the DusitD2 attack- Salim Gichunge (Faruq) and Osman Gedi (a Dusit attacker).
While Gichunge and Gedi were hand-picked for the Kenyan attack, the other pair was picked to train as pilots to subsequently be deployed to hijack airplanes.
Cholo was arrested in July 2019 in the Philippines where he had been studying aviation at the All-Ais aviation academy.
US intelligence believes Cholo who is facing six (6) counts of terrorism-related offenses arising from his activities as an al-Shabaab member, had been planning to hijack a plane and carry out a 9/11 style attack in the US.
Further, reports indicate that Cholo led security agencies to his hideout partly due to his own recklessness.
A known womanizer, Cholo accidentally let the cat out of the bag, telling his harem of his pursuits and future plans and inadvertently inviting coppers to his hideout.
Upon his arrest, his colleague Mwalimu escaped back to Somalia and according to Kenyan security agencies ’cunningly lied about what foiled their plan’.
Members have been urged to continue cooperating with the security agencies to report incidences and potentially foil any planned terror activities.
[LIBYAREVIEW] A Libyan judge has fled 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... after receiving death threats for issuing a death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... against Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Libyaand Yemen, with the Libyan versions currently most active. Tunisia's Shabaab al-Tawhid started out an Ansar al-Sharia and changed its name in early 2014. It still uses the old name now and then, probably because the stationery's not all used up and the web site hasn't expired yet... fighter, Mohammed Touati.
Hamad al-Ushaibi, a front man for the Libyan Revolutionaries Leadership Gathering has threatened to kill Judge Mohsen Busifi for the verdict against Touati.
Al-Ushaibi said in his tweet that carried Busifi’s photo: "This animal who sentenced to death a member of the Libya Shield ...a conglomerate of pro-Islamist militias deployed across Libya. It reports to the Libyan defense ministry and is organized like a real army unit. Its commander used to head a Benghazi brigade called Free Libya Martyrs... Force ...paramilitary organization formed in 2012 out of anti-Gaddafi armed groups spread throughout Libya. The Libyan parliament now designates much of the Libya Shield Force as terrorist. Elements of the Libya Shield Force were identified as linked to al-Qaeda as early as 2012.... s, is a legitimate target for the revolutionaries."
In February, the Tripoli Court of Appeals issued a verdict against Touati, ordering death by firing squad, for joining bully boy groups in the city of Benghazi.
Reports claimed that Touati received 6,500 Libyan dinars for fighting against the Libyan National Army (LNA). He was maimed twice, and received treatment in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... and Tunisia.
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[Garowe] Fierce fighting for control of Mozambique’s strategic northern town of Palma left beheaded bodies strewn in the streets Monday, with heavily armed rebels battling army, police, and a private military outfit in several locations.
Thousands were estimated to be missing from the town, which held about 70,000 people before the attack began last Wednesday.
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FRELIMO, from the Portuguese Frente de Libertação de Moçambique, is the dominant political party in Mozambique. Founded in 1962, FRELIMO began as a nationalist movement fighting for the independence of the Portuguese Overseas Province of Mozambique.
There was a half-arsed effort by US contractors funded by 'you know who' to change the course of events or keep Washington posted on battlefield trends. I'm not sure which aspect had priority, but any sort of alliance with an 'apartheid regime' would have been politically bad juju. In any event, once the Portuguese finally left, it all turned to kak. Once again, communist outcomes following predictable paths.
[PRESSTV] 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... ’s army and Popular Committees have liberated more areas from 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... -led forces in the countryside of Ma’rib, the capital of a west-central province of the same name.
The victories came about on Tuesday across the city’s western and north-western suburbs, al-Khabar al-Yemeni news website reported.
The Yemeni forces have resumed their advances against the aggressors in the province since Saturday, it said. Ever since, they have managed to take back many areas, including some parts of the province’s Sirwah District and a large number of garrisons close to the Sahn al-Jin military camp in Ma'rib.
The camp hosts the defense ministry of Yemen’s Saudi-allied former government and is hence of considerable strategic importance.
The former officials fled Yemen in 2015 amid a power struggle without staying behind and negotiating a solution. Saudi Arabia and many of its allies then invaded the impoverished country to restore power to them.
The war has so far killed tens of thousands of Yemenis and turned the entire country into the scene of the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
The Yemeni forces have, however, never laid down their arms in the face of the invaders and have, over the past months, managed to return many parts of Ma’rib to Sana’a’s control despite the constant aerial bombing of the province by the Saudi-led coalition.
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Saudi F-15 shoots down an Iranian-backed Houthi Qasef-2k (Iranian Ababil-T) suicide drone with an air-air missile.
Although the missile costs many times what the drone costs, the benefit is that it didn’t strike critical infrastructure etc.pic.twitter.com/9UkblbXemf
[AnNahar] The number of US-bound migrant children crossing the dangerous Darien jungle in Panama on foot has increased more than 15-fold in recent years and is likely to rise further during the pandemic, the UN children's agency warned on Monday.
Children accounted for just two percent of these migrants colonists in 2017 but that had risen to more than 25 percent in 2020, UNICEF said in a statement.
The Darien Gap jungle, the only land corridor between Colombia and Panama, is "one of the most dangerous routes in the world due to the mountainous terrain, wildlife and insects, as well as the presence of criminal organizations," the agency added.
Michael Yon has been reporting from there. War correspondent he may be, but he finds the gap quite upsetting.
Crossing the vast, roadless Darien Gap rainforest is the only option for US-bound migrants colonists traveling overland from South America. Most of those making the crossing are Haitians and Cubans, but there are also some Asians and Africans.
"I've seen women step out of the jungle carrying their babies in their arms after walking for more than seven days without water, food or any kind of protection," said Jean Gough, UNICEF regional director for Latin America and the Caribbean.
Over the past four years, more than 46,500 migrants colonists, including 6,240 children and adolescents, have crossed the inhospitable jungle. The number of minors increased from 109 to 1,653 between 2017 and 2020, UNICEF said.
In 2019, a peak of nearly 4,000 children made the crossing. Half of them were under five years old and many arrive injured and with serious physical and psychological problems.
Experts believe more and more migrants colonists are choosing to travel with their families, including young children and pregnant women, to avoid being deported to the different countries they pass through.
"These families are pushing their own limits and putting their lives in danger, often without realizing how much of a risk they are taking. Those who manage to eventually cross this perilous border are physically and mentally devastated," Gough added.
Migration across the dangerous jungle is likely to increase in the next months due to the economic crisis and unemployment generated by the Covid-19 pandemic, coupled with violence and climate change, UNICEF said.
[IsraelTimes] Italian businessman also charged after attempting to fake his own capture for ransom money, then being kidnapped, held in Syria for three years.
Three men have been arrested for criminal masterminding the kidnapping of two Italians who were held captive in Syria for three years, Italian police said Tuesday.
Over the course of 2016, the three who were arrested — all from the northern Brescia province — had convinced two businessmen from the area to travel to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... One of the two, Alessandro Sandrini,
...a good Italian name...
was convinced to go with the offer of faking his own kidnapping during the trip, and earn ransom money.
The other businessman, Sergio Zanotti, made the journey after being promised a business deal involving Iraqi currency.
Once in Turkey, both businessmen were captured for real near the Syrian border and taken to Syria, where they were held captive by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... , a jihadist group.
According to a police statement, the three men who were arrested had associates in Turkey who carried out the kidnapping and handed the two Italians over to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.
Zanotti left Italia in April 2016 and remained a prisoner until April 2019. Sandrini arrived in Turkey in October 2016 and was freed in May 2019.
Media reports, which quoted investigative sources, said Sandrini was charged for fraud and simulating a crime, as part of the same probe that led to Tuesday’s arrests.
Police said a third businessman was approached about making the trip to Turkey, but pulled out at the last minute, refusing to board his plane.
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] Four suspects have been arrested and charged over the violent mostly peacefulAntifa ...the armed wing of the Democratic Party... riot at the Oregon state Capitol in Salem on Sunday where black bloc Death Eaters assaulted drivers on the road with rocks, paint and pepper spray.
The "Fascist Free 503" direct action was organized on social media by Antifa groups to confront those participating in the right-wing "Freedom Rally." Antifa accounts from across the Pacific Northwest urged their comrades to prepare for violence.
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Oregon = Leaders in Revolving Door Justice System
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Rhetoric:
"Antifa is just an idea"
"People will do... what they do"
"Trump supporters are terrorists"
Reality: Society's dregs. Psychopathic hardcore violent criminals, armed with weapons and riot supplies, includingguns, bats, skateboards, umbrellas, shields and gas masks
1. An 18 year-old lifelong criminal delinquent who describes how he's "been in and out of the juvenile justice system since childhood " ... charged with felony assault of an officer and multiple counts of unlawful laser pointing
2. An "amateur gay zoophilic-themed [pr0nographer]"
3. A hardcore identity thief convicted of multiple felonies multiple times
4. (Just to round out the rogues' gallery - Bad Seed, Monster Perv, Identity Thief) we also have a Slimy Drug Dealer
The Democrats and Feorge Soros are defending and enabling these vicious scumbags. And calling us "deplorable."
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The Po-po did not intervene in any way until the one truck driver tried to defend himself - that's when they felt they needed to step in. Not before during any number of assaults by the Antifa SA. LE had better come to grips with how they're being played or they will be rightfully viewed as part of the problem.
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#1
Of course.
Just as we were told, falsely, for years that the number of illegals in this country was around 11 million - when in fact it's over 20 million, so we're now being fed numbers that are almost certainly less than half the real numbers.
This is criminal behavior from our elected officials. Failure to defend the border, the homeland and the Constitution.
#2
If it weren't for the workers here stacking up and sending money home Mexico and LA would become failed states and fall to crime, political greed and criminal enterprises...oh, wait!
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Kurdish forces said Tuesday they had arrested 53 suspected ISIS group members in a northeast Syria camp for relatives of turbans, in an anti-ISIS security operation.
The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced the launch Sunday of the sweep in al-Hol camp, which has been rocked by liquidations and breakout attempts.
Kurdish authorities have warned that the settlement, home to almost 62,000 people, is turning into an turban powder keg because of ISIS members hiding out among camp residents.
The Kurds' Asayish security forces said they had "detained 53 ISIS members, including five leaders of ISIS sleeper cells that carried out violent mostly peaceful terrorist attacks in the camp".
They had also "confiscated mobile phones as well as several laptops", the SDF-allied police unit added.
Heavily-armed Kurdish forces stood guard outside the camp as others stormed suspected hideouts inside the vast settlement, an AFP news hound said.
In some sections, residents stood outside their tents watching the anti-terrorist squad scour the area.
Al-Hol is the larger of two Kurdish-run displacement camps for relatives of ISIS hard boyz in Syria's northeast.
It holds mostly Syrians and Iraqis but also thousands from Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... and Asia suspected of family ties with ISIS fighters.
Many residents see the camp as the last vestige of the ISIS proto-state that the hard boyz declared in 2014 across large swathes of both Syria and Iraq.
Kurdish authorities have recorded more than 40 murders in al-Hol since the start of this year.
They say ISIS sympathizers are behind most of the murders, while humanitarian aid sources have said tribal disputes could be behind some of the killings.
Simand Ali, a Kurdish official, told AFP hard boyz had dug trenches in al-Hol that they used to hide prohibited electronic devices and other goods.
Those detained so far have mostly been Syrians and Iraqis, he said.
The Asayish said, in a statement about the results of the first days of the campaign it launched at dawn on Monday, that it had arrested Abu Saad al-Iraqi, whom it described as one of the leaders of ISIS, and that he worked for a long time to recruit people for the organization.
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Afghan Fatemiyoun Division, Imam Mohammad Baqer Brigade held a drill in “southeastern Syria” to mark the birthday of Imam Mahdi, or the Hidden Imam, whom Twelver Shiites believe is in occultation and will return to herald the apocalypse. pic.twitter.com/m2PAN5VvWW
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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...Arabic for 
...... the personification of Somali state failure...
...... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
FRELIMO, from the Portuguese Frente de Libertação de Moçambique, is the dominant political party in Mozambique. Founded in 1962, FRELIMO began as a nationalist movement fighting for the independence of the Portuguese Overseas Province of Mozambique.
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
...the armed wing of the Democratic Party...
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
