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There was a story yesterday evening that they were sending B52's to arclight the airbases.
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/\ Veiled threat leaked to the media by 'top men' in Foggy Bottom and vicinity. International aid for a struggling new government must have serviceable runways to land and offload.
Please keep those stay-hehind K-Loaders serviceable, unless you worthless foks want to unload it all by hand.
Former Senator John Kerry will be arriving any day to coordinate detainee repatriation and financial compensations. Please see that suitable accommodations and transport are made available.
#5
I thought all the top level US equipment sent to Afghanistan would have remotely control 'kill switches' to disable them in these circumstances.
Guess I was wrong.
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You don't really need a remote kill switch, just a code that needs entered to keep the electronics happy once a week. Of course, for many years the PALs on all our nukes were reportedly set to 00000, so maybe that's not much of a remedy either.
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The US Embassy in Kabul has been the intelligence hub for the US's war on terror for the last 20 years but the Taliban is forcing an evacuation in 72 hours
Some staffers have already reached the Kabul international airport
Taliban has seized territories surrounding Afghanistan's capital city of Kabul and are within seven miles of the Embassy
The Biden Administration increased the number of troops from 3,000 to 5,000 to to protect staffers and CIA agents as they evacuate
The 5,000 troops include the troops already on the ground in the country
Since its creation, the Embassy has gathered intelligence that has shaped counterterrorism military actions - such as precision drone strikes
The Embassy also has been able to monitor the Taliban and Al Qaeda and prevented another 9/11-type attack
Security engineers continue to burn, shred and pulverize 20 years worth of intelligence stored on electronics and in documents
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Seems clear that TB now surrounds Kabul from North, West and South. Currently 0430 in Kabul. Sunrise in 45 minutes.
Strategic coalition aircraft continue their trips east this evening as the evacuation of #Kabul continues.
Assuming #Taliban forces continue their assault, there may very well be only a few hours of safe flight ops remaining at KBL. Window is closing... pic.twitter.com/7C4f7L4kTA
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Instructive to note that those responsible for implementing this colossal 20+ year cock up are now the last to depart. Perhaps they believed they could wicker some last minute political reprieve. Some might refer to this as 'believing your own kak.'
This was NOT a conflict won or lost by the military, it was conflict utterly pissed away by a feckless diplomatic service and corrupt intelligence community. Yes, the same unelected shadow gov't that has been running the nation for many years.
The White House current disinterest in these tragic events simply confirms their non-involvement. Quite revealing actually, why knowingly soil yourself with the failure of others? Simply send in the emergency exfiltration security force as instructed. In fact, continue to do everything as instructed.
Mafeking will not be relieved. Lord Frederick Roberts has long rested in his grave. You can stick a fork in it, it's done.
What new misadventure sponsored by our 'endless wars' Top Men in Foggy Bottom and Mclean must now await us ?
For the last 60+ years that I have lived around, worked with, supported or trained US military personnel.
But it has become clear to me that it seems the USA DOD / Congress quit fighting to quickly win foreign wars . An replaced Winning with a political agenda of how long it can run a war and spread around $$$ Billions in doing so.
As we have seen, the usual outcome is leaving a bigger mess, a better trained enemy, a re-armed now modernized enemy behind, than war started with. All while a certain privileged click makes $$ Millions, certain DOD levels enhance their retirement careers, all with the Military Industry making $$$ Billions.
Along with the big paying ($$$K) do nothing to earn it jobs. Which always seem to find their way to Political or certain Upper DOD level types, and/or their family members along with a steady indirect $$$$ flow.
#6
U.S. Embassy tells Americans to "Shelter in Place"
as in "you're focked"
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In hurricane country "shelter in place" means "You dumbass, you waited too long to evacuate".
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08/15/2021 12:39 Comments ||
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Anybody have an idea where the airhead is for the incoming security forces and the outgoing US embassy personnel, and how long that can hold before the TB get within MANPAD range? Are we facing a hostage situation as well as an epic Blackhawk Down tragedy?
#10
Bidet and the Pentagon going to be looking for a quick victory somewhere to distract. Guess all us white supremacists and domestic extremists better get ready for a bad couple weeks...
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So typical of Democrats. Another lost war or should I say conflict. They will find a way to start another conflict and spend, spend and spend. The easiest attack now would be Americans. Extra stock of Depends please for the White House.
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Number 6 is spot on. I knew a few hard men, vets turned contractors who got folks out of Kuwait City wen Saddam's people came South. This might be a bit more difficult.
[EasternHerald] Kabul has fallen. The Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... has taken the control of Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, after 9 hours of an armed battle between Afghan forces and the Taliban. This was confirmed by a source of The Eastern Herald in Kabul. Since then we are not able to communicate with our journalists in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan.
After Kabul has fallen into the hands of the Taliban, the Taliban are now searching every house in Kabul for politicians and oppositions. They have already planned to assassinate the president and other political and religious leaders who don’t accept their supremacy.
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#1
Not so much the failure of modern civilization than the success of islam. Maybe if the Afghans learned to see it this way, they'd be happier.
Seriously, if you are unwilling to shuck Allah hoolery in favour of intellectual liberty and freedom of self determination, there isn't much anybody can do for you. Islamics are expecting the modern world to build them socialist utopias while their society can continue to wallow in mohamed's slime. Anybody who can't see that and continues to throw precious resources at them is a fucking idiot.
There is all this talk of saving the earth and the climate and stuff. Anybody ever stopped to consider the costs of these airstrikes? Multimillion dollar warheads and tonnes of HEX to take out handfuls of hydra heads that grow back in a week? The costs in fuel and firepower and just the toil and suffering of men and their families who wasted their lives over there. And for what? So moslems could get a better equipped pad for their moslem festivities? How are regular afghans different, from our perspective, from the black turbans? Why must we worry about their women and their liberals, when they will neevr ackowledge the basic problem is not violence or Pakistani interference, but islam itself.
Christians are prosecuted and persecuted by the 'Democratic Government' of Afghanistan too. A moslem converting to christianity, or somebody preaching the faith can be thrown in jail arbitrarily. Hindus and sikhs were always considered non-threats as long as they do not congregate or play out their rituals. You have to have the mark of the mohameddan beast in your hand and your forehead to even have a life in the free, non-taliban AFG. Religious minorities my foot...
We could easily have free college for everyone, pay off the whole country's debts, have a border wall 100 feet tall, and a pony - for what it took to achieve this outcome. Mission accomplished, swamp creatures.
#8
the "Military Industrial Complex" would like to give a big thank you to everyone involved, esp. the U.S. taxpayers and the U.S. soldiers. Keep up the good work folks and we see y'all at the next "endless war".
As for Kabul, it sounds as though it's very far from over. We have staff on the ground and the first Marines as well with an element of the 82nd 'on the way'. Additionally it is being reported...nice operational security you got going there, that B-52's are in the air targeting Mazar-i-sharif.
So there is going to be a light brigade with small arms hoping (evidently) to peacefully evacuate our people, contra a geared up Taliban. Oh by the way, let's not allow that ArcLite raid and resultant seismic disturbance get between friends. My friends and I made better plans playing war when we were kids.
#14
Latest security alert from US Embassy in Kabul: "We are instructing U.S. citizens to shelter in place. The U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan has suspended consular operations effective immediately. Do not come to the Embassy or airport at this time."
Smoke at the Embassy as we burn files...hostages are highly likely...unless they can escape through the chaos...
#16
there is always easter island and a false flag santa invasion for scarce toy materials! cmon girls put one in the win column for the gipper! put your star bucks down now and you AO map room idiots!
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#1 Dron, good rant. But don't lose sight of how paralyzed we Americans are by the prospect of someone saying we're islamophobic. It's almost as intimidating as the prospect of being called raycisst.
#14 I keep reading about additional Marines and airborne being sent to Kabul. How are we getting them there, and, more to the point, how are we getting them out? If we lose control of the airport it's a long walk to the sea.
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08/15/2021 12:29 Comments ||
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Bush's blustering ultimatum and threat to the Taliban was rescinded semi-quietly by Powell weeks later.
What followed was an aimless, pointless but also bloody and expensive therapeutic intervention whose net result was the importation of Afghan values (and Afghans) into the West.
I'm not surprised. This is the logical consequence of the policy decisions of September/October 2001 who have never been questioned, let alone corrected.
Freedom cannot endure if Infinite Justice is abandoned.
Afghan security forces surrender Bagram air base to Taliban..The former U.S. base also serves as a prison, which held around 5,000 inmates from both the Taliban and Islamic State.
Anyone else on the 'Burg think that a real genuine Arc Strike on the enemy-held Bagram with the goal to turn it into plowed fields is not indicated?
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#24
Losing the Bagram DFIP is bad…Now the disease spreads…
Those dudes were bad when they went in…and likely some type of Abu Bakr al Bagdadi Kalifa will emerge…supported by the Taliban 5 ole Obama released. Idiots. I am sick to my stomach for the friends lost and sacrifices wasted and the tragedies on the horizon that will follow this fiasco.
"Spouses and minor children of U.S. citizens in Afghanistan who are awaiting immigrant visas should also complete this form if they wish to depart." US Embassy
#30
People will argue for years about our overall intent and strategy for Afghanistan, but there's no doubt that what is happening now is a Clusterfuck of the First Order, With Swords, Oak Leaves, and Diamonds. Our plan was to have no plan. Somewhere in the Puzzle Palace we have a contingency plan for invading Liechtenstein, but none for this.
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#31
I think the only Nation Building we should do for the Taliban is leave a recipe for the new Green Deal construction materials: Straw and Mud Bricks.
Mo would approve
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#5 "mostly peaceful" takeover - right?
Unfortunately, Snark Of The Week, heavyweight division.
#25 - It's called the sink cost fallacy, look it up. You're using it.
You put words in someone's mouth, then you booted the spelling of a basic economic concept. Great job, asswipe!
#33
#25 #24 Oh so we should go right back in there? Yeah your buddies at raytheon would love that. No more money spent on Afghanistan. Not another penny.
It's called the sink cost fallacy, look it up. You're using it.
Posted by Knuckles Slererong5344
I know not of sunk cost fallacies or the strategies of the politicians and contractors...you can look to fox news and the histories for that...we know they have sown the wind and I am afraid those that actually carry the fight will reap the whirlwind. I have two friends on the QRF right now...and I am deeply concerned for their safety. Thousands of really bad guys just across the mountain in Bagram are now out and will join the fight. And their blood is up.
#34
My son, who served in Afghanistan, is a very polite man.
Here's what he said about Biden:
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#35
WE are not the weak horse of the world leaders by any means, but by this debacle, and the enormous unrest at home over a host of Bidet policies like immigration and massive inflation induced by lunatic spending, social unrest over race hate filled events, and now this, we LOOK like the weak horse. This will embolden Jihadist's and the ChiComs and God knows whom else to test our resolve in so many ways. And they are coming here, in America, to cause the trouble, over an open border. If there was ever a time to close the door and focus on the Homeland, it is now. Re tool and re industrialize, produce energy, get past the Covid paranoia, and put people back to work. But, the morons and naive cognoscenti in DC still think we are the same Superpower we were 30 years ago. We aren't but they don't understand it on the right, and see it as a feature for Socialism on the left. If ever the Republic needed Divine Intervention, its now!
#36
Tennessee, prayers for your friends. I'm sure you've got better info than I do, but this is the best site I can find for up-to-the-minute developments. No clue how accurate it is.
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#37
Afghanistan. The unchecked nation state breeding ground/cesspool of terrorism has been restored.
#41
Long abandoned convoy of ANDSF/Dostum's militia (military vehicles abandoned on bridge) still at the bridge at Uzbekistan border zone. Looks like Uzbek authorities took in the soldiers/militiamen but didn't allow the vehicles inside.
#45
Matt, the pictures at your link of Kabul airport look about as bad as the US embassy at Saigon did if not worse. We can only hope that the US troops there can restore some sort of order until all of those people can be evacuated.
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#46
Wouldn't it be something if the next dominoes to fall turned out to be SECDEF and half the JCS?
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#47
This is the most poorly done thing I have ever seen done in my lifetime (was not alive during Saigon). I still think that this war has been lost for a long time and that we should get the heck out, but being incapable of pulling people and material out is pathetic and unforgivable.
Despite all that, I have to say that I don't really care that any of the Afghans, even the ones who "cooperated" with us, are going to die. Just can't muster the energy to care. If more Afghans had actually cooperated and not lined their pockets at our expense while labeling themselves as collaborators, then we wouldn't be in this situation.
#52
#48: New ROE - "Don't die. Use whatever means necessary"
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#53
Biden should resign.
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I have just received word that there are US contract personnel (at least one) in Kabul desperately attempting to secure a ride out of town. No surprise, I wish him well.
Their resignations should be submitted 0800 tomorrow morning, along with the Directors and Deputy Directors CIA, DIA, NSA, and Secretary of State.
That would be a good start, followed by the resignations of Joe Buy Dung? and Que Mala. However that should also have happened, but didn't, on 12 Sept 2001. It won't happen this time either.
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#56
The original 9/11 changed the entire trajectory of GW Boos's big domestic plans. May the same thing happen now to Joe.
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/\ However that should also have happened, but didn't, on 12 Sept 2001. It won't happen this time either.
Yes, Memoral Bridge should have been lined with the heads of these incompetent foks. No one was held accountable within the intelligence community, NO ONE !
As you have said Bubba, this will be no exception.
#59
Taliban victory comes after Taliban outrage over Biden breaking Trump's peace deal of US troops to be out by May 1. Biden extended departure date to September.
#60
Prayers are in order for the people at that airport and the people who tried and failed to get to the airport.
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#61
yep. I await the MSM report on what ice cream the dementia puppet ate today. "If only Biden knew"
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#36 Matt
Thank you sir for the OSINT sight. In the absence of other means I have also been checking the Afghanistan Liveuamap site to see what the foreign press and other side (TB and ISIS) has been posting on social media.
#67
White House outs faces of secret intelligence officials who were on the big screen in conference room that Biden was in conference with from Camp David, a picture the White House released late this afternoon.
#70
^ That's pretty funny, and I'm really trying to laugh.
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Say Matt, absolutely no disrespect on my part, sometimes antiquated Infantry humor is coarse. But the way things look to me there are larger forces in play which we can do little about in the moment beyond survive, regroup, and strategize.
I can't help wonder that some part of this doesn't involve an additional provocation to, well, you can probably fill in those blanks yourself.
In the end, things are as they are, troop. It's up to us to make the best of it.
#72
Breakdown:
2,000 troops from two Marine Corps infantry battalions
1,000 from one Army infantry battalion
2,000 from the 82nd
An additional 2,000 from the 82nd will stay in Kuwait as a reserve force.
Since the above info another 1000 to be committed but from what branch not sure yet. All 6000 to be in place in 48 hours. US will take over air traffic control. Looks like a very very dangerous mission.
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Bruno Maçães
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Credible report that the US is offering vast sums of cash to the Taliban in order to allow evacuations to proceed. Hope US media is on top of this story
#76
Taiwan or Ukraine right now watching all this unfold, would be terrified knowing this is how the United States will react under this administration. Rep. Mike Waltz
#83
Yupp. They've got these little minions typing away in Islamabad and London 24/7. Only the ISI recognized those words for the taliban govt if you remember.
#85
Not to be a gloom inducing duck, but I have a real bad feeling in my gut. I believe we will see a tragedy not unlike 9/11. I know the jihadist mindset. This victory is not complete for the ISI without driving the point home. They always push for that last milestone, shadowing the development of the decade with a horror for the parliaments and UNs to worry about for another.
I hope the 'Intelligence Community' is up-to-snuff.
Jalalabad, the last major city standing other than Kabul will be handed over to Taliban tomorrow without a shot being fired. The governor & tribal leaders negotiated an agreement after NDS 02 Brigade refused to surrender. The brigade has agreed to leave for Kabul. #Afghanistan
[Garowe] At least ten suspected al-Shabaab ...... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all ofwhich have enough problems without them... Death Eaters were on Thursday killed by Somali National Army [SNA] in Kismayo ...a port city in the southern Lower Juba province of Somalia, at the extreme southern end of the country (always assuming Somalia can be called a country). It is the commercial capital of the autonomous Jubaland region.... , Jubaland, it has now emerged, following an operation which was carried out as the country battles to eliminate the group.
The attack took place in Berhani, 60 km west of Kismayo, killing at least 10 al-Shabaab members and wounding at least 10 others. No member of government troops was killed or injured during the operation, military said.
"Ten al-Shabaab Death Eaters were killed and 4 hideouts destroyed in a planned security operation conducted by Somali National Army and Jubbaland’s regional forces in Berhani, Dharkay, Yaq-anole and Sariraha villages under Kismayo district on Friday," state media reported.
The attack began with a landmine targeting a convoy of troops, and the blast hit two of the convoy's vehicles. After the blasts, there was a shootout between the two sides that lasted for more than 20 minutes, reports indicate.
Jubaland has been a major hub for the Death Eaters but multiple security operations carried out by local and foreign troops have significantly reduced the threat of the group. al-Shabaab has a huge presence in Lower and Middle Jubba.
The Kenya Defense Forces [KDF] which mans most parts of Jubaland managed to liberate Kismayo, the interim capital of Jubaland, in 2012. Since then, the troops have been trying to protect the region from falling to al-Shabaab again.
[Garowe] A group of Pirates attached a vessel off Somalia's coastline, UK Maritime Trade Organization reported on its Website on Friday, in an attack that comes after months of stability along the region, which was prone to such incidents in previous years.
The incident happened about 100 nautical miles (185 km) northeast of Mogadishu, it said, without giving further details, Rooters noted, in what could give Somali authorities fresh concerns over the safety of her coastline.
For about two years, Somalia's coastline has witnessed relative stability following increased surveillance, which has boosted the economy of the country. Maritime police have been vigilant along the coast.
In 2017, pirates hijacked an Indian vessel before doing so to an Irish vessel. This led to increased security surveillance along the coastline, with a number of pirates either killed or arrested by authorities.
Last year, Somali pirates released three Iranian hostages held for five years, a maritime security official had confirmed, as conflicting reports emerged whether another ship had been seized after a three-year hiatus in hijackings.
The three Iranians are the last of the crew of the Iranian fishing vessel FV Siraj, which was captured by pirates on March 22, 2015.
"This marks the end of an era of Somali piracy and the pain and suffering of Somalia's forgotten hostages," said John Steed, the coordinator of the Hostage Support Programme, a volunteer organization based in Nairobi begun to help rescue crews abandoned by their employers.
The release was meant to mark the end of an era for Somalia's pirates, who held over 2,300 crew between 2010 and 2019.
But instead, six gunnies hijacked the Panama-flagged Aegean II late days later after it had engine problems, a regional governor in Somalia told Rooters.
Musse Salah, the governor of Gardafu in Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... , said the ship was traveling from the United Arab Emirates to Mogadishu port when pirates attacked it, in what would be the first successful hijacking since 2017.
There was 20 crew on board, said a resident in contact with the men who had seized the ship.
A regional security official said the men appeared to have links to a local militia that functioned as a police unit in the Bari region. The official asked not to be named as he was not authorized to speak to the media.
[THISDAYLIVE] No fewer than 18 persons are feared killed in Jos, Plateau State on Satuday morning following an outbreak of fresh violence along Rukuba road axis of the city. I have no idea where it is Nigeria.
THISDAY gathered that corpses numbering at least 18 were conveyed in two Hilux vans from the crisis spot to Plateau Specialist Hospital mortuary.
Though the violence has been quelled by Soldiers drafted from the Special Task Force (STF) on security, the city is still enveloped in palpable fears and tension.
In the past two days, the Irigwe youths had repeatedly announced that they were conveying the corpses of their slain members for burial in Bassa on Saturday. They had set out in a convoy for the burial on Saturday morning when violence broke out along the way at Rukuba road.
As they went with the corpses, they met some vans conveying some Fulani ... a peculiarly brutal tribe of Moslem herdsmen infesting Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and probably other places that are light on law and order and heavy on tribal identity... along their way. The Fulani reportedly claimed they were commuters from Bauchi, but the angry youths challenged them seeing that Rukuba road does not connect Bauchi highway. They suspected that they may have come to attack them at the burial ground.
The youths allegedly pounced on the Fulani, injured some and killed others before the security agents could reach the spot. The violence began to escalate before the security agents arrested it.
Reacting to the fresh violence, the Governor of the state, Simon Lalong condemned the killings, especially as it involved innocent commuters, and immediately directed security agencies to swiftly identify and arrest the perpetrators while dominating the area to restore calm.
In a statement signed by his Director of Press, Simon Macham reads in part: "Governor Simon Bako Lalong has warned trouble makers bent on fomenting trouble in Plateau State to desist as the government will not allow any form of lawlessness to disrupt the peace of the State.
"Lalong said the attacks on innocent citizens no matter their backgrounds will never be tolerated in Plateau State and those who are found to be behind such attacks will be dealt with decisively to serve as deterrence and restore public order.
"The Governor however commends security agencies for their immediate response leading to the arrest of some suspects and the restoration of calm to the area."
The Governor also commiserated with the families of those affected, and assured all law abiding citizens that security had been beefed up around the area as well as the entire metropolis to forestall further breach of the peace.
[PUNCHNG] The decision by the Borno State Government to reintegrate over 1,000 repentant 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... fighters into society has generated annoyance by some Internally Displaced Persons in the North-East.The IDPs’ anger is based on the fact that they are still languishing in pain and sorrow caused by the activities of the Boko Haram holy warriors in the North-East, particularly in Borno State, the epicentre of the insurgency.
Since its campaign to create an Islamic caliphate started around 2009, the Boko Haram sect has reportedly killed over 70,000 people and displaced about 2.5 million people, according to estimates by the International Crisis Group.
Of the displaced, at least 250,000 have reportedly left Nigeria and fled into the neighbouring countries of Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... , Chad and Niger, though Borno State has started receiving some repatriated refugees from the countries.
Military onslaught on the holy warriors has reportedly led to the deaths of many of the krazed killers, while some of them have reportedly surrendered to the army.
In the latest development on Tuesday, the Nigerian Army in a statement by its spokesperson, Onyema Nwachukwu, announced that no fewer than 1,000 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.... West Africa Province (a Boko Haram offshoot) members had laid down their arms and surrendered to the troops.
"All surrendered holy warriors will be received, processed and passed on to the relevant agencies of government for further assessment in line with extant provisions," excerpts from the statement read.
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#1
The puppet masters (Soros , Agenda 21, One world government types) are trying their hardest to get us to fight each other...and succeeding. As soon as conservatives fight back they can say.."See, I told you they we're dangerous!" Then the mass round-ups of us will commence - for the country's protection of course.
If we fight each other, we can't stand against an outside force.
They want the Balkanization of the country. Civil war is inevitable now. We're just waiting for a modern equivalent of Fort Sumpter to happen.
No body is laughing at preppers anymore. The gestalt of the situation is quite clear.
I miss Ol' Remus and his blog. Stay away from cities.
Militant "decolonize" activists toppled another statue in Canada. A statue of first prime minister Sir. John Macdonald was pulled down in Hamilton, Onatrio. pic.twitter.com/eYq3ELjZYg
[Rudaw] Iraqi forces on Saturday morning launched a large-scale security operation to clear out Islamic State (ISIS) remnants in northern Baghdad, the military’s media office announced. ISIS this summer has carried out a campaign of attacks on electricity infrastructure, contributing to power shortages that have plunged parts of central and southern Iraq into the dark.
An operation to "track down ISIS terrorists" in areas north of the capital started at 6 in the morning, the Security Media Cell tweeted. Iraq’s air force and army are being supported in the air by the global coalition against ISIS.
Four ISIS members were arrested by the Iraqi Counter Terrorism Service (ICTS) in various operations across the country, top military spokesperson Yehia Rasool announced on Friday.
Coalition spokesperson for the global coalition against ISIS Col. Wayne Marotto said Iraq’s forces are maintaining a “relentless rhythm of ops to ensure Daesh [ISIS] never resurges.”
This summer, the group has claimed dozens of attacks on the country’s electricity grid, blowing up pylons. The attacks contributed to a blackout that left millions in central and southern Iraq without power during a heat wave in July.
Iraqi forces have reported thwarting tens of attacks on the electricity towers and in an emergency security meeting on Friday, Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi ordered the establishment of a crisis cell to ensure the power grid is protected.
“The hand of terror and the parties that don’t want the good of Iraq are trying to shuffle the cards by striking the electricity transmission towers,” Kadhimi said in a tweet following the meeting, adding work to repair the damage continues.
In its propaganda magazine, ISIS claims to have carried out 134 attacks on electricity towers between June 6 and August 10. Its claimed activities have not decreased, despite Iraq’s security efforts, as the group said it carried out 33 attacks on power pylons in the last week alone.
[IsraelTimes] Explosive device set off as Beita residents mark 100 days of protests against Evyatar, which have cost at least 7 lives.
Paleostinians protesting against an illegal Israeli outpost in the West Bank on Saturday evening set fire to a Star of David combined with a swastika.
Images posted on Paleostinian media showed the makeshift construction and dozens of torches being prepared for nightly demonstrations near the West Bank town of Beita. Later, footage showed the structure set on fire.
The protests against the outpost, known as Evyatar, built on a hilltop overlooking Beita, have continued despite settlers leaving the hilltop.
Israeli authorities cut a deal with the settlers last month. In exchange for them leaving the area, the makeshift buildings they installed will remain in place, and the IDF will turn the area into a makeshift base. Over the next several months, the Defense Ministry will survey the land to determine its status and see if it can be legally transformed into a formal settlement.
In recent months, at least seven Paleostinians have been killed by Israeli troops during violent mostly peacefulfestivities near the outpost.
After dark, Paleostinian "night confusion units" would shine lasers, chant slogans, burn tires and set off makeshift bombs in an attempt to irritate the hilltop’s residents.
The tactic was borrowed from a similar strategy used by Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... -based terror groups along the border fence with Israel.
The protests on Saturday marked 100 days of demonstrations against the outpost.
Along with the swastika and Star of David, footage reportedly from Saturday’s demonstration also showed Paleostinians setting off a large bomb in the area.
There was no immediate statement from the Israel Defense Forces on Saturday’s protests.
انفجار ضخم خلال فعاليات الإرباك الليلي التي انطلقت قبل قليل قرب البؤرة الاستيطانية في بلدة بيتا جنوب نابلس. pic.twitter.com/KM9qe6oRP8
[NPASYRIA] On Saturday, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the US-led Global Coalition forces arrested a leader of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) in the western countryside of Deir ez-Zor, eastern Syria.
A military source of the SDF said that the SDF and the Global Coalition forces arrested the leader in an airdrop operation at his home.
The source added that the leader was active in planning liquidations and bombings, organizing the work of the sleeper cells and conducting contacts and communications among them.
The forces also found weapons, equipment and quantities of explosives, which he used to carry out operations and supply the sleeper cells with them.
Recently, the SDF and the Global Coalition have intensified their security operations to pursue ISIS sleeper cells in the countryside of Deir ez-Zor.
Two days ago, a leader of ISIS was arrested in the town of Abu Khashab in the northern countryside of Deir ez-Zor.
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[NPASYRIA] On Saturday, the Syrian government forces renewedtheir artillery and missile attacks on the villages and towns of the countryside of Idlib and Hama, northwest of Idlib.
The government forces bombed the towns of al-Fatira, Kansafra, Benin and Deir Sunbul in the Zawiya Mountain, south of Idlib, with heavy artillery shells and missiles, military sources from the opposition told North Press.
The government forces stationed in the Jorin Camp targeted the villages of Khirbet al-Naqous and al-Mansoura in the western countryside of Hama, the sources added.
The bombardment coincided with an intense flight of Russian drones over Idlib and the countryside of Hama and Latakia, northwest Syria, whereas no casualties were reported.
Fateh al-Mubeen Operations Room, which includes 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... (HTS, formerly al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front) and Jaish al-Izza (Army of Glory) along with the National Front for Liberation, announced the targeting of the government forces’ positions in the town of Urum al-Kubra and the Base 46, west of Aleppo, with mortars and B9 shells, according to military sources.
Earlier today, the government forces shelled posts of Ottoman Turkish-backed armed factions in the western countryside of Aleppo, wounding a mother and her child in the town of Kfar Ta’al.
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Tank. not Tanker
[Sputnik] According to the Lebanese Red Cross, 20 people have died and 79 were injured in an explosion of a fuel tanker early on Sunday in Akkar, in northern Lebanon.
The blast was said to have occurred in the Tleil area of the Akkar district. According to first reports, in particular one by Al-Arabiya, more than a hundred people were injured in the explosion.
Ambulances and law enforcement are currently at the site, delivering the injured to hospitals. As the Lebanese Red Cross tweeted, at least 22 medical divisions are responding to the explosion.
MTV Lebanon reported on Sunday morning that preliminary information showed that the fuel at the site of the explosion was being collected in preparation for it to be smuggled into Syria. Hezbollah has been accused of smuggling oil from Lebanon into Syria in the past.
In January, an explosion at a gas storage warehouse reportedly used by smugglers injured 10 people. Al-Araby Al-Jadeed reported at the time that the warehouse was owned by a person who is close with Hezbollah.
On Saturday, the Lebanese Army had announced that it was searching gas stations and confiscating hoarded fuel, as the country suffers from an oil shortage amid a worsening economic crisis.
Lebanon's Janoubia news reported that the explosion took place in fuel tanks that had been confiscated by the Lebanese Army.
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