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Good Afternoon

Cindy McCain: Arizona election audit is 'ludicrous'
Monday May 3rd, 2021

marie_doro-bef-aft.
3 wounded in terrorist shooting near Israeli town in Samaria
Darren Ray Stephens, 36, of Portland, was arrested on a warrant at the antifa Portland May Day riot
Troops Nab Boko Haram's Collaborators in Bulamari
President al-Assad grants general amnesty for crimes committed before May 2nd
Boko Haram terrorists attack Kanamma in Yobe
Miguel Louis Lofland, of the ''Antifa News Network,'' was at the antifa Portland May Day riot in downtown
NYPD: Jordan Burnette Arrested In
Connection With Synagogue Vandalism and Burglary

Posted by: Fred || 05/03/2021 14:17 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  flawless
Posted by: Frank G || 05/03/2021 14:22 Comments || Top||

#2  They had darkroom techniques to get that alabaster skin look l o n g before PhotoShop came along. That said, I'd imagine her photo didn't need a lot of work.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/03/2021 14:43 Comments || Top||

#3  No, this is flawless. Madhubala.


Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/03/2021 15:40 Comments || Top||

#4  Photo strikes an old Marty Robbins chord.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/03/2021 16:28 Comments || Top||

#5  Got to hand it to you Besoeker, you know how to hit the right note.
Posted by: Cesare || 05/03/2021 17:02 Comments || Top||

#6  More like...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 05/03/2021 18:51 Comments || Top||

#7  The eyes have it.

Posted by: jpal || 05/03/2021 19:03 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
3 dead, 27 injured when suspected smuggling boat capsizes off coast of Point Loma
{SDUT] Thanks Joe/Kamala
An overloaded boat crashed into a reef and broke apart off the coast of Point Loma
..that’s in San Diego, for those who share my ignorance of geography...
Sunday morning, leaving at least three people dead and more than two dozen hospitalized in what officials said was a suspected human smuggling attempt.

The boat, described as a 40-foot cabin cruiser, was spotted off the coast of Point Loma a short time before 10 a.m. near the Cabrillo National Monument, officials said.

Lifeguards and other first responders helped victims who jumped into the water from the boat, five of whom were in "CPR status," meaning they were having trouble breathing, said Jose Ysea, a spokesman with the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department.

Three people died and 27 others who suffered what Ysea described as "varying degrees of injuries" were taken to local hospitals.
Posted by: Frank G || 05/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Human Trafficking

#1  “Conditions were pretty rough — 5 to 6 feet of surf, windy, cold, the water is around 60 degrees,” San Diego lifeguard Lt. Rick Romero said.

Yep. Also sounds like the motor quit, otherwise you wouldn't want to be drifting out of control with all the big waves and reefs at the tip of Point Loma. It's not a good place to be out of control.

I'm guessing the boat was stolen because that's been known to happen in Mexico which is yet another good reason not to go there. But if the skipper owned the boat he lost his legitimacy when he tried to smuggle people into our country and so he deserves to lose the boat as well.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/03/2021 12:06 Comments || Top||

#2  Of course, the skipper might have been trying to make his way through all those big waves, high winds and reefs so his, um, passengers could go ashore. In which case he is a fool as well as a criminal. Go ahead, skipper, embrace the power of and.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/03/2021 12:22 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
3 Police Officers Killed in Taliban Attack in Zabul
[ToloNews] Three coppers were killed and two more were maimed in an attack by Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
in the southern province of Zabul on Saturday night, head of provincial council Ata Jan Haqbayan said.

The festivities happened in Qalat city, the center of Zabul, after Taliban attacked a security outpost, Haqbayan said.

Local officials said that nine Taliban were also killed during the festivities.

The festivities were lasted for several hours between the security forces and the Taliban.

Taliban has not ommented on the festivities.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Taliban Mounts 141 Attacks in 24 Hours: Sources
[ToloNews] The Taliban
...Arabic for students...
conducted 141 attacks over the last 24 hours, mostly in Uruzgan, Zabul, Kandahar, 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..
, Badakhshan and Takhar provinces, sources said.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  Spring is here, along with the ISI payments
Posted by: Frank G || 05/03/2021 8:42 Comments || Top||

#2  What a difference 100 days of Biden makes...
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 05/03/2021 11:03 Comments || Top||


US retaliates following rocket attacks on ‘Kandahar Airfield’
[KhaamaPress] After a rocket attack on Kandahar Airfield on Saturday night, US forces responded back at the bully boys.

US forces front man Colonel Sonny Leggett said that American forces conducted a "precision strike this evening, destroying additional rockets aimed at the airfield".

"Ineffective indirect" rockets hit Kandahar airfield on Saturday afternoon but no injuries were inflicted to US personnel nor there were damages caused to materials and equipment in the airfield.

"A return to violence would be one senseless & tragic. But make no mistake, we have the military means to respond forcefully to any type of attacks against the coalition & the military means to support the Afghan cops. That would be a mistake to move in that direction" Sonny Leggett acknowledged General Scott Miller’s intention to protect foreign forces.

This comes as on Saturday Zabiullah Mujahid tweeted that US presence beyond the May 1st deadline is in violation of the Doha deal signed under Trump’s administration back in February 2020, he said the group deserves the right to carry out tasks against foreign forces.

"As withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan by agreed-upon May 1st deadline has passed, this violation in principle has opened the way for IEA Mujahidin to take every counteraction it deems appropriate against the occupying forces," Mujahid stated.

"The Mujahidin of IEA (Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
) will now await what decision the leadership of Islamic Emirate takes in light of the illusory sovereignty, values and higher interests of the country, and will then take action accordingly, Allah willing," he tweeted.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:


Taliban battered, 81 killed in the past 24 hours
[KhaamaPress] Ministry of Defense in a released statement on Sunday said that the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
have suffered heavy casualties across Afghanistan in the past 24 hours.

The ministry of defense stated 81 Taliban were killed and 52 others were maimed in Kunar, Ghazni, Badghis, Balkh, Kandahar, Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
, Faryab, and Takhar provinces.

According to the Ministry of Defense, ANDSF conducted reciprocal attacks across the country in which the Taliban faced strong offensives.

MoD also stated ANDSF also discovered and defused 19 IEDs placed on the public roads by the Taliban.

Meanwhile,
...back at the palazzo, Don Smilzo looked for an avenue of escape. The only window opened a hundred feet above the moat. The nearest of the hired assassins hold a bloody axe.
The window was looking better all the time....

in a Taliban attack, three coppers were killed and two others were maimed in southern Zabul province on Saturday night.

Ata Jan Haqbayan told the media that the festivities between Afghan cops and the Taliban took place following a Taliban attack on a security outpost in Qalat city, the center of Zabul province.

Some sources indicate that nine Taliban affiliates were also killed during the skirmish.

The battle ended after several hours, local media reported.

Taliban so far did not comment on the incident.

Sources in Badakhshan province said Taliban fighters attacked a security outpost in the Warduj district of the province on Saturday night.

According to reports the incident took place in the city of Warduj district when the Taliban charged on a security checkpoint.

Reports indicate eight Afghan cops were killed and six others are injured,

On the other hand, Taliban front man Zabiullah Mujahid claimed that following the incident eight government forces were killed and 15 others were maimed.

In another security incident, a child was killed in the outskirts of Lashkargah on Saturday night, after Taliban attacked a military base.

The child was killed after a discharged bullet landed on him in the neighborhood close to the base.

So far there are no reports of Taliban and Afghan forces casualties after the festivities.

Taliban have not commented on the incident.

Moreover, security sources in Gardez said Unidentified gunnies bumped off a Tribal elder in Gardez, center of Paktia province.

Akbar’s family blamed the Taliban for murdering the tribal elder.

Taliban have not yet commented on the incident.

This comes as efforts are underway for establishing a prolonged peace and prosperity in Afghanistan, however, violence has raged in many parts of the region.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa North
At least 11 Europe-bound migrants drown off Libya coast
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Human Trafficking



Libyan Army Arrest Chadian Arm Smugglers
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Africa Subsaharan
Troops Nab Boko Haram's Collaborators in Bulamari
[PRNIGERIA] Less than 48 hours after the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru, renamed Operation ’Lafiya Dole’ (OLD) to Operation ’Hadin Kai’ for mobilizing critical stakeholders’ in the fight against Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
terrorists, residents have started providing useful information to the military in their communities. This has led to the arrest of some Boko Haram and 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....
of West Africa Province (ISWAP) supporters and collaborators in tactical operations, PRNigeria has learnt.

In one of the operations, Nigerian troops of Sector II located in Damaturu axis of Yobe, apprehended some terrorists’ collaborators, including logistic suppliers. The troops, led by one Major Daniel Chiwar, the Acting Commander of 154 Taskforce, arrested some of the suspects in their hideouts at Bulamari area of Ngamdu in Borno State.

While PRNigeria could not confirm the number of suspects so far arrested, incriminating items including huge containers of petroleum products were recovered from them.

Meanwhile,
...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth ordered the entire 614th quadrant searched. The Green Lensman must be found!...
in another development, Nigerian troops engaged a band of Boko Haram terrorists, riding several gun trucks, at Rann in the Kala Balge area of Borno State. The troops, led by Lt. Colonel Samson Olashegbe of 3 Battalion, destroyed some gun trucks and recovered others, after the encounter.
Posted by: Fred || 05/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram (ISIS)


Boko Haram terrorists attack Kanamma in Yobe
[DAILYPOST.NG] Residents of Kanamma in Yunusari Local Government Area of Yobe State are currently taking refuge in the bush as they fled their homes following an ongoing attack by Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
holy warriors.

This is coming barely 24 hours after reports claimed that the Boko Haram spiritual leader, Abubakar Shekau
...the lunatic leader of Boko Haram who has been reported dead at least eleven times, pledged his body and soul to ISIS, told his fighters to hang it up once or twice, and been fired by the Caliph and refused to step down. Last seen in 2017, sneaking into Cameroon while wearing a burka...
had appointed a new War Commander.

Kanamma is about 200klm from Damturu, the Yobe State capital in northeast Nigeria
... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border...
. It is also the birthplace of Boko Haram insurgency in the state.

According to residents, prior to the attack, the community saw some Boko Haram fighters but could not report due to fear.

Posted by: Fred || 05/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram (ISIS)


Arabia
SaudiArabia’s air defenses have intercepted a ballistic missile targeting the southern city of Najran
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Europe
Over 50 police injured, 250 detained in Berlin May Day riots
Follow up to this story from yesterday.
[AlAhram] 20 different rallies took place in Berlin and the vast majority of them were peaceful. However,
some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them...
a leftist march of 8,000 people through the city's Neukoelln and Kreuzberg neighbourhood turned violent mostly peaceful

More than 50 coppers were maimed and over 250 protesters were detained after traditional May Day rallies in Berlin turned violent mostly peaceful, the German Police Union said Sunday.

Protesters threw bottles and rocks at officers, and burned garbage containers and wooden pallets in the streets.

``We don't have any final numbers, but regarding the known more than 50 injured colleagues and more than 250 detainments, it's clear that we were far removed from a peaceful May 1,'' Stephan Kelm, Berlin's deputy chief of the police union, told German news agency dpa.

He condemned the throwing of bottles and rocks and the burning barricades on the streets, saying, ``These are clear signs that it's not about political expression but that the right to assemble was abused to commit severe crimes.``

There's a nightly curfew in most parts of Germany currently because of the high number of coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
infections. But political protests and religious gatherings are exempt from the curfew.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM


Fifth Column
Miguel Louis Lofland, of the ''Antifa News Network,'' was at the antifa Portland May Day riot in downtown
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM


Darren Ray Stephens, 36, of Portland, was arrested on a warrant at the antifa Portland May Day riot
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Gone downhill since Samantha the witch left.
Posted by: Glenmore || 05/03/2021 14:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Who keeps bailing these people out?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 05/03/2021 14:30 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ "without bail"

Which means, effectively, they were bailed out by the DA's Daddy Warbucks: George Soros
Posted by: Lumpy Sloluper1865 || 05/03/2021 15:09 Comments || Top||


Repeat violent antifa rioter who was arrested at least 4 times last year, violated pretrial release conditions by returning to riot on May Day
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  I can see it now

Judge: Young Man we have had this discussion 4 times already.

KMD: Yes, so what about it?

Judge: So I an sentencing you to 100 hrs of Community Services.

KMD: You actually doing something for the community?

KMD Lawyer to Judge: What type of services?

Judge: You work it out with the DA.

DA to Lawyer: How about handing out refreshments and bricks to the Protestors. It is starting to hot with Summer here soon the police shields are making hard to get the point across.

KMD to Lawyer: I don't know... it still sound like work.

DA: either that of Leave the state.
Posted by: NN2N! || 05/03/2021 4:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Shit. The VC have landed in Washington and marching down the Ho Chi Minh trail to Portland. Better spray the entire west coast with Agent Orange.
Posted by: Sneart Thromonter8301 || 05/03/2021 7:46 Comments || Top||

#3  And released a fifth time...
Posted by: Glenmore || 05/03/2021 14:25 Comments || Top||


Seattle: Police rushed in to arrest BLM-antifa rioters after a child was assaulted by them
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1 

Why is the Citizenry putting up with this BS?
Have they become tamed sheep>
Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/03/2021 4:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Where are the 'Molon Labe!' tattooed Rambos when you really need them? Eating skoal and fishing in Arkansas.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/03/2021 4:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Looks like they avoid streets with parked cars. Probably for good reason.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/03/2021 8:24 Comments || Top||

#4  They have some big cops easily throwing human garbage around like the bags of trash that the leftists are.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 05/03/2021 8:31 Comments || Top||

#5  Why is the Citizenry putting up with this BS?
Have they become tamed sheep?


Look at where they are doing this. All deep blue areas. They try this in a red area and they would be shot.

Yes, the citizens in those areas have been conditioned to be sheep.
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/03/2021 8:41 Comments || Top||

#6  the citizens in those areas have been conditioned to be sheep

The citizens got the government they voted for. They would be arrested and left to rot in jail while the antifa types are let go w/o bail and free to burn their house down.
Posted by: Sneart Thromonter8301 || 05/03/2021 8:47 Comments || Top||

#7  ....which per the Declaration of Independence would be justification to 'fire' the local government and erect a provisional government.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/03/2021 9:01 Comments || Top||

#8  Keep in mind that Washington State, including Seattle, is entirely vote-by-mail.
While it's highly likely the voters actually voted for this - that might not necessarily be the case.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 05/03/2021 9:01 Comments || Top||

#9  I researched the young DA in that city and what I found was he campaigned on promises to come down hard on antifa but once elected he refused to prosecute them.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 05/03/2021 16:44 Comments || Top||

#10  ^ "refused to prosecute"
Under what authority?
WTF gives these assholes the right to refuse to enforce our laws?
Posted by: Thraising Flomoting3580 || 05/03/2021 16:58 Comments || Top||

#11  ^-- Soros funding?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 05/03/2021 17:52 Comments || Top||

#12  "funding"
Posted by: KBK || 05/03/2021 19:59 Comments || Top||


Antifa in Seattle have organized another riot after their comrade who jumped on a driver’s car was arrested
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1 
The driver did basically the right time.
Just should have never slowed or stopped to start with.

I am guessing the Anti-FArt protestor must have lived?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/03/2021 4:33 Comments || Top||

#2 

Sorry about ... Been testing out a Voice to Text app. I see it needs more training for my southern draw.

The driver basically did the right thing.
But, he should have never stopped to start with.

I am guessing the Anti-FArt protestor must have been deposited further down the street WOKEN & alive?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/03/2021 7:44 Comments || Top||

#3  I'm wondering what the gubmint response would be to a distributed flyer with American flag images, Proud Boy or 3% graphics with the words 'Burn The Precinct To The Ground'
Posted by: Retard Strength || 05/03/2021 7:48 Comments || Top||

#4  I'm wondering what the gubmint response would be to a distributed flyer with American flag images, Proud Boy or 3% graphics with the words 'Burn The Precinct To The Ground'

Sheer terror, cause they know real Americans get things done.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 05/03/2021 10:19 Comments || Top||

#5 
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/03/2021 11:11 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Turkish police say top ISIL figure captured in operation
[Al Jazeera] A close aide of killed ISIS (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been caught in Istanbul.

The Afghan national, only identified by the codename ASIM, was detained in the Atasehir district on the city’s Asian side on Wednesday, an Istanbul police statement said on Sunday.

News reports of the joint operation carried out by Istanbul police and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
’s intelligence agency said the suspect had been involved in helping hide al-Baghdadi in Syria’s Idlib province after the fall of the group in 2019.

Al-Baghdadi was killed in a raid on his Syrian hideout by American special forces in October 2019.

Ottoman Turkish media published a photograph of a balding, bearded man in a light coat following the arrest and an earlier image, purportedly of the same person, showing a long-haired, heavily bearded man in military fatigues wielding a curved sword.

State-run Anadolu news agency said ASIM was suspected of organising training for ISIS while in Syria and Iraq, as well as serving on its decision-making council.

He arrived in Turkey with a false passport and identity card, Ottoman Turkish media said.

Turkey sporadically carries out raids and detains suspected ISIS members within its borders.

ISIS has carried out various attacks across Turkey, including on a nightclub in Istanbul on January 1, 2017, in which 39 people were killed, and a bombing in the city’s historic heart that killed 12 in 2016.
Al Ahram claims the code name is Basim.
Posted by: Fred || 05/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Iraq
Iraq’s interior ministry questions all police officers at a prison in Baghdad after 21 prisoners escaped
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq

#1  "we were all at lunch...in Mosul"
Posted by: Frank G || 05/03/2021 8:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Escaped you say? Twenty one of them? Oh, dear! We must start keeping better track.
Posted by: SteveS || 05/03/2021 14:11 Comments || Top||


18 Iraqis Killed in Multiple Night-Time ISIS Raids
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Eighteen Iraqis, the majority military personnel, were killed overnight Friday to Saturday in separate bully boy attacks mainly in the greater Baghdad area, security sources told AFP.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks, but they are in line with the modus operandi of the ISIS group, which still has sleeper cells in Iraq despite its territorial defeat in 2017.

One attack targeted troops in Tarmiya, an agricultural suburb 20 kilometers (12 miles) north of the Iraqi capital.

"ISIS fighters attacked an Iraqi army convoy at night and killed two officers and two soldiers," a security official said, on condition of anonymity.

Reinforcements were dispatched to the area but also came under fire, with "an officer and two soldiers" killed, the source said.

A member of tribal fighters integrated into the regular forces that were then deployed to the scene was also killed, "along with a civilian caught in the crossfire", the source added.

Further north, in the central Alton Kubre region, "six peshmerga (Kurdish fighters) were killed when ISIS group Lions of Islam attacked their military position with light arms", another security official told AFP.

Alton Kubre is a disputed area claimed by both the federal government in Baghdad and the autonomous Kurdistan authorities.

Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani called for the global US-led military coalition to fill the "security gaps" in the disputed regions.

He urged the Iraqi parliament and federal government, as well as the coalition, to speed up efforts to establish a joint force comprised of the Peshmerga and Iraqi military to address the security in the disputes regions to prevent ISIS from undermining the situation.

The group, he warned, is a threat to Kurdistan, Iraq, the region and whole world.

Another attack took place in the western desert bordering Syria, a third security source said.

"An officer and a soldier were killed in a bomb explosion while an army convoy was en route to Akashat," he said.

A soldier was also killed in a kaboom in Diyala province, which borders Baghdad to the east, according to another official, who added that two other fighters were also maimed in a separate attack.
Posted by: Fred || 05/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Unidentified missiles target Baghdad International Airport
[NPASYRIA] On Sunday, a number of unidentified missiles fell on the vicinity of Baghdad International Airport, Iraq.

"A number of missiles landed in the vicinity of Baghdad International Airport in Iraq, and no information about casualties or damage reported until this moment," local Iraqi media reported.

Up to the moment, no official party has commented on the incident, and no party has grabbed credit for the targeting.

US bases in Iraq, especially in Erbil, are exposed to missile attacks, and 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...
is unofficially accused.

In mid-February, the spokesperson for the US-led Global Coalition forces, Colonel Wayne Marotto, announced that a foreign civilian contractor had been killed and 5 civilians and an American soldier were maimed in a missile attack on Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan region of Iraq.

Yesterday, the Ministry of Peshmerga in the Kurdistan region of Iraq announced that a number of its members were martyred and maimed in an attack launched by ISIS between Kirkuk and Erbil.
Posted by: Fred || 05/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
3 wounded in terrorist shooting near Israeli town in Samaria
[IsraelNational News] A shooting was reported in central Samaria Sunday afternoon, outside of the Israeli town of Kfar Tapuah.

Initial reports indicate the attack was carried out by terrorists firing from a vehicle as it drove by Tapuah Junction. The shots were fired at Israeli civilians waiting at a bus stop.

MDA reported that three people, all said to be in their 20s, were wounded in the terrorist attack.

United Hatzlah and MDA emergency first responders were dispatched to the scene to assist IDF medical teams in treating the wounded and evacuate them to hospitals for further treatment. Two of the wounded are said to be unconscious.

One of the victims is said to be in critical condition, with a second in serious condition, while a third is in light condition.

The victims have been identified as yeshiva students from the nearby town of Itamar, just north of Kfar Tapuah.

The attack occurred at 5:54 p.m. Sunday afternoon, MDA said.

IDF forces are currently in pursuit of the terrorist, who fled the scene in their vehicle immediately after the shooting attack. At the time of the attack, IDF soldiers returned fire at the terrorist vehicle.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/03/2021 00:00 AM || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Southeast Asia
Thousands Rally Against Myanmar Junta, Calling for 'Spring Revolution'
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  All funded by Soros and islamists as far as Qatar. Unemployables, professional activists, islamists and global leftists trying to redistribute power from a centralized leadership; to recreate the standard westernized model of liberal democracy [which sounds cool only on paper, trust me].
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/03/2021 2:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Why are Islamist funders involved, Dron?
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/03/2021 3:33 Comments || Top||

#3  Myanmar Religions:
Buddhist 87.9%, Christian 6.2%, Muslim 4.3%, Animist 0.8%, Hindu 0.5%, other 0.2%, none 0.1% (2014 est.)
note: religion estimate is based on the 2014 national census, including an estimate for the non-enumerated population of Rakhine State, which is assumed to mainly affiliate with the Islamic faith; as of December 2019, Muslims probably make up less than 3% of Burma's total population due to the large outmigration of the Rohingya population since 2017
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/03/2021 3:47 Comments || Top||

#4  #2 Simply because democratic governments are easier infiltrated by secular leftists and soon islamics. If the Junta stays in power, the ummah fears soon there will be little to no islam left in a large region.

These low numbers that TW has shared, take doing by the police and military. The military junta is the one who hunts Rogingya and muslim criminals, forcing them to flee to Bangladesh and India. The selective police state they run absolutely crushes islamic angst with prejudice. If the Junta were replaced by Ms Kyi and subsequent elected leaders after her, the Rohingya will finally get their say. And then militant islam will have it's local muscle in Myanmar.

About the Rohingyas, you have to understand, the images by the BBC and CNN depict destitute hapless humans but these are beasts. Ravaging predators posing as human. If a lesser evil like the Myanmar military is required to keep the region free from jihad, so be it. But the liberals will not give in. To them the appearance of humanity is the main thing. Georgie, the UN, asshole NGOs all favour democracy and weep for the islamics.

Qatar and some rich islamist foundations in the EU routinely fund and facilitate Pro-Rohingya activism legally. But when there's a bid to replace the Junta with 'Democracy' they jump at the chance to fund the mobs too and add their locally recruited muscle to the mix. Pakistain trains not only Rohingya, but converts and radicalizes buddhist and christian youth in the region too.

One more thing, very important. Numbers of muslims in any population where they are in a minority are always under reported, so as to avoid alarming voters. If people knew there were 10% muslims suddenly, when there should be 3-4%, they would panic. So every Government of non-moslem nations takes special pains to avoid that, including lying to the people. Moslems have their ways of avoiding census and birth records and living under the radar by confounding district registers.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/03/2021 4:27 Comments || Top||

#5  *low numbers that Grom has shared
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/03/2021 4:31 Comments || Top||

#6  But the liberals will not give in. To them the appearance of humanity is the main thing.

Unless you oppose them.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/03/2021 4:34 Comments || Top||

#7  Gotta give them credit. At least they will protest. Conservative Americans are too lazy to get off their a$$. Steal and Election , meh, where is my Starbuck?
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 05/03/2021 9:50 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Lebanon detains two brothers suspected of being involved in a foiled attempt to smuggle amphetamines into SaudiArabia
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IRGC dismantles counterrevolutionary group in northwest Iran: Fars News
[ALMASDARNEWS] Iran’s Fars News Agency reported that their intelligence apparatus of the Ashura Corps of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards managed to track and dismantle the organization of the so-called "Landing Iran" organization, which is hostile to the government.

According to the Fars News report, this group sought for about 4 years to "unify the currents hostile to Tehran, around the axis of supporters of the monarchy, with funding from the Western and Saudi governments."

The agency noted that "the elements of this group worked to appear in front of the cameras in uniform of the Iranian armed forces, and to claim that they were dissidents from it, and by reading data in the virtual atmosphere to create chaos and turmoil in the country."

They said that "the intelligence apparatus of the Ashura Corps of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards managed to dismantle and direct the final blow to this hostile group, by detecting and arresting its members."

The agency said that the 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...
Landing organization seeks to "fabricate and amplify internal news" to cause dissent among the Iranian population.
Posted by: Fred || 05/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Iranian Militias Set up Rocket Launchpads West of Euphrates in Syria
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Iran-backed militias have set up rocket launchpads in the Deir Ezzor region where the missiles have been directed towards areas under the control of Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which is backed by the international coalition.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the militias have established 13 launchpads equipped with surface-to-surface Iranian-made missiles in al-Mayadeen in eastern Deir Ezzor, while nine others were placed in a barn in the Hawi al-Mayadeen area.

All the launchpads are pointed towards the eastern Euphrates region. The nearest position to the platforms is the al-Omar oil field on the opposite bank of the river.

No confirmed information has been revealed about Iran’s purpose from the move, such as whether it was planning attacks.

On April 21, reliable sources in al-Mayadeen, in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, informed the Observatory that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) transported Iranian-made missiles concealed in the al-Rahba citadel to areas under the control of Iranian militias in the eastern countryside of al-Raqqah.

The shipment was smuggled in trucks used for transporting vegetables and fruit.

Earlier, the war monitor reported that a drone attack killed a commander of of the Iran-backed militias and injured five murderous Moslems in al-Sayyal town.

The non-Syrian commander died in the attack on his home, 11 kilometers northwest of Albukamal city.

On March 22, an unidentified drone targeted oil wells in the Albukamal desert in Deir Ezzor, near the Syria-Iraq border.

According to Observatory sources, the targeted wells were restored by Iran-backed militias after they were destroyed by ISIS during its control of the area.
Posted by: Fred || 05/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies


Syrian government forces withdrew from positions in Idlib countryside
[NPASYRIA] On Sunday, dozens of members of military divisions of the Syrian government forces withdrew from Idlib countryside, northwest Syria, towards the Syrian Desert in the center of the country.

On Saturday, the government forces sent a military convoy included about 150 members from the contact points with the opposition groups south of Idlib, towards the Syrian Desert areas, a military source of the Syrian opposition told North Press.

The retreating forces belong to the Fifth Corps backed by Russia, and they withdrew from their deployment points in Ma’arat al-Nu’man and its surrounding areas, according to the source.

The convoy included about 30 military vehicles, including two tanks, five field cannons, four-wheel drive cars equipped with heavy machine guns, and military vehicles to transport soldiers, the source added.

The Syrian Desert, especially in the countryside of Hama and Homs, is witnessing continuous attacks by ISIS bandidos bandidos bully boys against the sites of the Syrian government forces and the affiliated forces in the region, which resulted in dozens of deaths and injuries.
Posted by: Fred || 05/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Turkish military targets Arab Hassan village, north of Manbij, with heavy weapons
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Asayish dismantle mine prepared for detonation in Syria's Manbij
[NPASYRIA] On Sunday, the Internal Security Forces (Asayish) said that they dismantled a mine prepared for detonation on the main road in al-Mushairfa town, east of the city of Manbij, north Syria.

On its official Facebook page, the Asayish stated that they headed to the site after receiving a report from one of their security centers about a suspicious object.

The engineering teams of the Asayish dismantled the mine and removed it without any human casualties or material damage, according to the Asayish.

Earlier on Sunday, the Ottoman Turkish forces targeted the village of Arab Hassan Saghir, north of Manbij, with medium and light weapons.

In June 2020, a landmine went kaboom! near al-Shuhada’ Roundabout in the city of Manbij, injured three people, including a member of the Asayish.

Posted by: Fred || 05/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State



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