#1
You know there are literally hundreds if not thousands of employers out there desperate to get employees who are punctual, hard working, dependable, with a work ethic. They're paying sign on bonuses. They usually work 'normal' hours.
#2
I could point and spin in a circle and all points are towards somebody looking to hire a person who is punctual and attentive and understands a chain of command structure, as well as how to interact on a personal level.
Especially true for non-office people and/or tool handy.
Me, personally, looking for someone interested in front office and/or back installation. Another organization I know is actively seeking people like this. Talking lifetime opportunity with growth minded business in good communities and schools, plus plenty of outdoors and rec available.
Want to learn to shoot bow, know a dude who hit a rattler in the head at 40 yards. Want to learn a skill, plenty of tradesmen looking for someone just like you. Solid VFW organizations. Be able to walk when you are 50. Stuff like that.
#3
Get wild. Find a place to live out here where parents who had horses with their kids, and their kids have gone off to ranch their piece of land, and they will have a horse or two but facilities for more. Hell, they may even pitch in on your horse if you do the horse chores, show you the ropes after 40 years of experience. 9 to 5 it, do the horse chores, then hit your MMO with your buddies. Be able to talk about something real instead of the IKEA to head shop lifestyle.
Need that adrenaline? Join the volunteer fire. Its all fun and games until you are toe to toe with a 5000 acre/hour (or more) fire and its heading towards someone's house. You may even know that person.
And that is just lifestyle in 100 miles from here. There are mountain, desert, forest, lakeside communities everywhere doing this.
#4
The only power they have is voluntary compliance.As companies like GM and Ford downsize to be competitive.They purge the skilled workforce for the unskilled and undisciplined. Simply to cut overhead while giving themselves exorbitant bonuses. This story we have seen before many times. So our military is also compromised. They will do damage. They will fail but they will never win as the power of desires is as an opiate of failures.
#5
They must see what the last 6 months of operational planning has accomplished, and that with the current heads nobody gets promoted until all the gays and trans get promoted first. Endless HR meetings. A snitch environment to work in, being taught The Log Train is a tranny show instead of beans and bullets, and if you don't show you are a hater and called into the office, get on little behavior sticker on your profile.
Pisses me off just reading about it. They show they don't care about the troops with this move, they can't even plan a dinner menu but they will sure take advantage of a plate put before them. Nah, take on the vax either way, looks like shit.
[CBC] Prime minister makes pledge as Biden asks Pentagon for plans to adjust withdrawal timeline if necessary.
Canada will remain in Afghanistan beyond the Aug. 31 date set for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the country to help evacuate more Canadians and eligible Afghans if the security situation permits, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said today.
Now for the small print.
A PMO spokesman later clarified that the prospect of Canadian Forces' remaining in Kabul beyond Aug. 31 is contingent on the extension of the U.S. military presence, and that Canada would not remain in Afghanistan after the U.S. pulled out its troops.
#3
80,000 "interpreters' for 2,500 troops. Um. Okey...
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#2, It's pretty clear that Jen Psaki doesn't want to talk about it. From the DailyWire:
REPOTER: Okay. Say after the withdrawal is done, it’s declared, it’s done, everyone’s out, if one U.S. citizen was suddenly discovered saying, “Hey, I really want to get out and I’m stuck,” who knows where, somewhere in Afghanistan or in Kabul, he’s got any problem, would this trigger a diplomatic, military, all hands on deck type thing to get to that person out, whatever the date?
PSAKI: Our commitment continues to be to U.S. citizens. If they want to leave, we will help get them out.
REPORTER: No matter of what the date?
PSAKI: Again, we expect there could be some, but I’m not going to get into it further.
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In other words, Joe Biden is basically telling the thousand of UuS citizens who may be trapped, “see ya, sucks to be you”.
Note at last count only about 5000 us citizens had been evacuated.
[Blaze] A leaked cable from the U.S. Department of State detailing the number of American citizens who have been successfully rescued from Afghanistan in recent weeks raises serious questions about the Biden administration's handling of evacuation efforts.
What are the details? Biden administration officials have been inexplicably vague regarding both the number of Americans that have been evacuated and the number that remain stranded within the Taliban-controlled country, saying only that "several thousand" have been pulled out.
It turns out, their refusal to offer specifics may be due to the fact that their evacuation efforts have been largely unsuccessful.
According to a State Department cable — which was obtained by Politico national security reporter Alex Ward — as of Monday night, only 4,407 American citizens have made it onto outbound flights from Kabul since the evacuation operation began on Aug. 14.
#1
Inexplicable to some possibly, but surely as designed. Accountability requires some sort of metrics. Without accurate metrics, there is no method of accounting, or accountability.
#2
Magic numbers, always meant to be fluid. Goalposts moving, etc.
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If they can't tell you how many crossed the southern 'border' last week, how would you expect them to know what they're going half way around the world?
#4
But they can overbook their commercial flights here in the US and toss you if your mask doesn't fit correctly.
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We're in "...If a tree falls in the forest..." territory here. If they leave thousands of Americans behind but nobody from the Administration admits it (and God knows the media will lose their interest in this story at some point)...did they really leave thousands of Americans behind?
#6
How did a couple thousand troops need 32,000 "interpreters?"
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^ Americans of all sorts threw a lot of money around in Afghanistan. The Americans who were throwing the money didn't care because it wasn't their money. And they certainly didn't think about consequences.
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Who are all those "Americans" and why were they there in the first place?
#9
As best I can put it together, the current truth is that (1) the August 31 deadline is no longer a deadline like it was just yesterday and (2) "as many as" 1,500 Americans remain in Afghanistan. That comes from Al-Graudian's live feed here. You get the impression that the regime runs a focus group every couple of hours and adjusts the truth according to the focus group results.
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#UPDATE: Multiple reports stating that the #US has begun its withdraw from #Kabul#Afghanistan and that the gates to the airfield will be closed as early as tonight.
A long list of flights chartered for Afghan evacuees today has been forced to depart almost empty as access into the airport has been effectively cut off -- in part by the #Taliban, but also US Marines who appear to have orders to cease traffic and/or only allow U.S. citizens in.
“UK-US relations are about to enter their lowest point since Suez,” one senior MP said. “The special relationship is very, very damaged.” A minister added: “Biden’s America seems to have chosen to back off just when it was obvious only they could step up.” https://t.co/e59SjCeTeO
Other items in cable: • 128 planned flights in the next 48 hours • Approx 13,000 people inside HKIA • Denmark won’t temp host US SIVs • Cyprus will host evacuees in the “low hundreds” for 30-60 days • Netherlands to take 2k people for 60 days
US official on #s diff: DOD #s "include coalition and charter flights, which they help facilitate." State "numbers to date have not, as [State] does not play a role in these operations" & DOD #s "include contractors, US direct hires, & other USG personnel" while State doesn't
US airlift from Afghanistan records busiest day yet: 20,000-plus flown out
[IsraelTimes] The US military pulls off its biggest day of evacuation flights from Afghanistan since the operation began. But deadly violence that has blocked many desperate evacuees from entering Kabul’s airport persists, and the Taliban signals they might soon seek to shut down the airlifts.
About 21,600 people were flown safely out of Taliban-held Afghanistan in the 24-hour period that ended early Tuesday, the White House says. That compares with about 16,000 the previous day.
Thirty-seven US military flights — 32 C-17s and 5 C-130s — carried about 12,700 evacuees. An additional 8,900 people flew out aboard 57 flights by US allies.
Pentagon chief spokesman John Kirby said Monday the faster pace of evacuation was partly due to coordination with Taliban commanders on getting evacuees into the airport.
“Thus far, and going forward, it does require constant coordination and deconfliction with the Taliban,” Kirby said. “What we’ve seen is, this deconfliction has worked well in terms of allowing access and flow as well as reducing the overall size of the crowds just outside the airport.”
"Rep. Seth Moulton, a Democrat from Massachusetts, and Rep. Peter Meijer, a Republican from Michigan, who underwent a secret trip to Kabul to witness the situation at the airport for themselves, challenged President Biden and claimed that 'we won't get everyone out on time'. "
Pelosi has to be livid about that. One part of the regime strategy is to control the flow of information from Kabul. Another part is to push into the headlines any non-Kabul issue ("Squirrel!").
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Yes, thx Matt. I keep seeing the statement "60,000 rescued." A media talking point? Stats for a soon to be awarded Nobel Peace Prize ?
[Garowe] The Jubaland Security Forces [JSF] repelled an al-Shabaab ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... attack over the weekend, in what could be one of the most progressive gains for the regional security officers in the recent months, which gives hope in the fight against the krazed killers.
According to military sources, the snuffies were planning an assault at Kudha in the Lower Juba region, but they were dealt a massive blow when the security forces responded immediately after an alert.
The Jubaland Security Forces were aided by the Somali National Army [SNA] which also guards the region. At least 60 al-Shabaab snuffies died on spot, with several others suffering immense injuries, according to a senior military official.
Major Daud Abukar, who is the SNA commander in the region, said the snuffies wanted to run over two military bases. He said that they faced hard times in attacking the military, which was seemingly prepared to face the krazed killers.
In a separate operation, two major al-Shabaab commanders were killed, according to the Somali National Army official. Those killed included Ali Kamiil and Xanbaleey, the Somali National Army said in a tweet.
"SNA Troops conducted an operation earlier today against al-Shabaab Terrorists. We received intelligence that the bully boyz were grouped up outside of Sabiid and Canoole. Our brave soldiers killed 60 bully boyz along with their commanders, notably Ali Kamiil and Xanbaleey," SNA said.
For the last several months, the SNA force has been conducting operations across the country, killing over 600 snuffies within the same period. This comes days before the official exit of AMISOM troops from the Horn of Africa nation.
Al-Shabaab has been fighting to topple the fragile UN-backed Somalia administration for the last 14 years. Although the snuffies have managed to seize a number of towns, they have, however, suffered heavy defeats in recent weeks.
[Garowe] A man convicted of financing the IS-Somalia bandidosturbans was on Monday slapped with 15-year imprisonment by a military court, following mounting evidence which was produced throughout his trial in the Somali capital, Mogadishu.
Abdirizak Mohammed Abdi Jimale was ordered to serve the next 15 years behind bars for his role as a money launderer for IS-Somalia, becoming the first major IS-Somalia convict in recent months, according to government records.
Documents provided in court established that Abdirizak Mohammed Abdi Jimale transferred $400,000 through a company called Heeryo Trading Enterprise between 2019 and 2020 to individuals suspected to be working for IS-Somalia in the war-torn nation.
The money was received by Ugandan and Æthiopian nationals in South Africa, court documents further stated, noting that it was specifically meant to facilitate terrorism. Military courts in the country have often proved to be efficient in trying terrorism-related cases.
Reports indicate that Somalia's spy agency, NISA arrested Jimale in March 2021. During his arrest, he was found to be in possession of $19,000, which he couldn't immediately explain the use, thus leading to his incarceration.
According to the court records, before joining ISIS in 2016, Jimale had been a member of al-Shabaab ...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... , the more dominant Islamist bully boy faction in the region. Jimale was maimed in 2011 while fighting for al-Shabaab against the transitional federal government of President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed.
He is believed to be one of few individuals who defected from al-Shabaab to IS-Somalia. Apparently, the two bad boy groups do not work together due to ideological differences and missions in the country.
While al-Shabaab is dominant in central and southern Somalia, the IS-Somalia is confined to the Golis mountains of 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... in northern Somalia where they have little influence. In recent months, both the Somali National Army [SNA] and the Puntland Security Forces [PSF] have managed to destroy IS-Somalia hideouts in Somalia.
Military courts are often used to try individuals accused of terrorism in Somalia and have managed to preside over hundreds of cases. The bandidosturbans are fighting to topple the fragile UN-backed Somalia administration, which is yet to stabilize due to a host of internal challenges.
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The Jimale family is notorious in Somalia, as is the Barakat companies they founded in Somalia and Dubai. Name: LI 2: AHMED 3: NUR 4: JIM'ALE (script): علي احمد نور جمالي Title: Sheikh Designation: DOB: 1954 POB: Somalia Passport, United Arab Emirates, and renewed 24 Jan. 2008/ Other information: Associated with Al-Itihaad Al-Islamiya (AIAI) Profession: Accountant and businessman. Father’s name is Ali Jumale, Founder of the Barakaat network of companies including the Barakaat Group of Companies.
[Garowe] The Somali National Army [SNA] have announced repelling an al-Shabaab ...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... attack in a military base within Amaara town of Mudug region in Central Somalia, in the latest victory against the bad boys, who are keen to topple the government.
For the last couple of months, the SNA soldiers have been carrying out operations in Central Somalia, in a move that is aimed at neutralizing the bad boys, who have been controlling large swathes of rural central and southern Somalia.
The officials of the 21st Division of the SNA Force said that they had inflicted heavy casualties on the bad boys. The military, however, did not give an exact number of gunnies who were killed in the attack.
But independent reports from central Somalia say al-Shabaab gunnies have retaken the town of Amaara after the dawn attack on government forces stationed there. The reports have been vehemently denied by the government, which insists al-Shabaab suffered losses.
The attack started with SVBIED, casualties have been reported. Federal and regional forces captured the town from the gunnies earlier this month, in an operation that was spearheaded by the Chief of Defense Forces, General Odowaa Yusuf Rageh.
Al-Shabaab has been targeting innocent civilians, security forces, and government officials in their attacks. There have been significant gains in the fight against the gunnies with over 700 of them killed from May to August this year according to military sources.
The SNA troops are trying to regain control of the country which has largely depended on AMISOM troops for security. The AMISOM team is scheduled to leave in December but there have been efforts to have them stay in the country for a little bit longer.
[AlAhram]... The Moroccan navy has rescued more than 400 migrants colonists since Thursday, after their makeshift boats ran into trouble on the dangerous sea crossing to Europe, state media reported.
The 438 migrants colonists, most of them from sub-Saharan Africa, were given first aid before being taken to the nearest Moroccan port, an officer told the state-run MAP news agency late Monday.
MAP also reported that Moroccan authorities on Sunday intercepted 58 migrants colonists, including 11 women, off Laayoune in Western Sahara.
Also from sub-Saharan Africa, these migrants colonists had attempted to cross to the Canary Islands, it said.
Earlier this month, a merchant ship rescued 33 migrants colonists who had spent two weeks adrift in the Atlantic Ocean en route for the Canary Islands. Fourteen fellow migrants colonistsbit the dust.
Migrant arrivals on the Spanish archipelago have surged since late 2019 when increased patrols in the Mediterranean dramatically reduced crossings there.
At its shortest, the sea crossing from the Moroccan coast is around 100 kilometres (65 miles), but strong currents make it very dangerous.
The vessels used are often overcrowded and in poor condition, adding to the risks.
In the first six months of this year, a total of 2,087 migrants colonists died trying to reach Spain, according to Caminando Fronteras, a Spanish NGO that monitors migrant flows.
[DW] Rwandan forces have driven out Islamist turbans in Mozambique's gas-rich Cabo Delgado province. Their success underlines the failure of Mozambique's army, but some observers want Rwanda to say when they will leave.
On August 9, the Rwandan military announced it had taken the strategically important northern Mozambican port of Mocimboa da Praia from al-Shabaab ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... hard boys. The Kigali daily New Times quoted Brigadier-General Pascal Muhizi as saying the Rwandan army had chased out the al-Shabaab fighters.
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An official working at USCENTCOM sent the memo the same day that US flights were temporarily halted because of overcrowding at the Qatar base
Al Udeid Air Base outside of Doha has a capacity of roughly 10,000 people
Officials described the location as a desert with nothing else around
Doha embassy staff reportedly claim Afghans are 'in a living nightmare'
The leaked memo comes as the Biden administration touts increased evacuation numbers out of Kabul, after wide criticism of the president's handling of it
One anonymous official accused the White House and State Department of 'inadequate forethought and contingency planning' over conditions at the base
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More: The Defense Department’s Automated Biometric Identification System has flagged up to 100 of the 7,000 Afghans evacuated as prospective recipients of Special Immigration Visas as potential matches to intelligence agency watch lists, @DefenseOne has learned
Security screeners at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... have detected that at least one of the Afghans who was evacuated from Kabul Airport has potential ties to ISIS, a U.S. official confirmed to Defense One.
Moreover, the Defense Department’s Automated Biometric Identification System has flagged up to 100 of the 7,000 Afghans evacuated as prospective recipients of Special Immigration Visas as potential matches to intelligence agency watch lists, a second official said.
At least 6,000 fleeing Afghans have been evacuated to Al Udeid and thousands more have been flown to other temporary staging bases throughout the Middle East and Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... by U.S. military aircraft. At those bases, Customs and Border Patrol screeners are checking evacuees’ IDs and biometric data against law enforcement databases, the first official said.
Ultimately, thousands of those Afghans will come to the United States, where they will be initially housed at several military bases, such as Fort Bliss in Texas, Fort McCoy in Wisconsin and Fort Lee in Virginia.
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More: The Defense Department’s Automated Biometric Identification System has flagged up to 100 of the 7,000 Afghans evacuated as prospective recipients of Special Immigration Visas as potential matches to intelligence agency watch lists, @DefenseOne has learned
...1.43% of 7k seems a tad, oh, I dunno, low.
Mike
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So, just like invaders in Texas, Arizona, et al.
#4
What if all these "refugees" had put their efforts into changing the places they are now trying to leave for the better. Easy to say, sure, but for most of them "plan A" was always to come to Uncle Sugar's 24/7 Strip Club, where the milk and honey flow free as long as you are not an eeeeevil white person.
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Like start some mini Iran or spread some f*cking disease
- One in a Million, Guns n Roses
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but for most of them "plan A" was always to come to Uncle Sugar's 24/7 Strip Club
[IsraelTimes] Iranian aviation organization says evacuation flight stopped in Mashhad for refueling, has since landed in Kyiv.
Ukraine’s deputy foreign minister reportedly claimed on Tuesday that a Ukrainian plane that was taking part in evacuation efforts of its citizens from Afghanistan was hijacked and flown to Iran, but the claim was later denied by the country’s Foreign Ministry.
"Last Sunday, our plane was hijacked by other people. On Tuesday, the plane was practically stolen from us, it flew into 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 JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... with an unidentified group of passengers onboard instead of airlifting Ukrainians," Yevgeny Yenin said, according to the Russian TASS news agency.
"Our next three evacuation attempts were also not successful because our people could not get into the airport," he was said to add.
Yenin claimed the hijackers were armed, according to the Russian report.
But Iran’s aviation organization rejected the report, and said the plane had stopped in Mashhad overnight for refueling.
Shortly after, Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement asserting that no plane had been hijacked.
"There are no hijacked Ukrainian planes in Kabul or elsewhere. The information about the ’hijacked plane’ that is being circulated by some media outlets is not true," the ministry’s spokesperson, Oleg Nikolenko, told the local RBC news agency.
The plane has since landed in Kyiv.
A military transport plane from Afghanistan with 83 people onboard, including journalists, activists, and Afghan women and kiddies, arrived in Kyiv on Sunday, Rooters reported.
The Ukrainian presidential office said around one hundred Ukrainians are still waiting to be evacuated from Afghanistan following the Taliban ...Arabic for students... takeover last week.
[AlAhram] The UN refugee agency on Tuesday urged Poland to take in a group of migrants colonists believed to be from Iraq and Afghanistan who have been stranded on the border with Belarus for more than two weeks.
Thousands of migrants colonists -- mostly from the Middle East -- have crossed the border from Belarus into the eastern EU states of Latvia, Lithuania and Poland in recent months. Build a wall....
Brussels believes the influx is being deliberately engineered by the regime in Minsk in retaliation against EU sanctions -- an accusation that Belarus denies -- and Poland has called it a "hybrid attack" on the bloc.
Poland has said it will not allow the migrants colonists in, with Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki saying that this would be giving in to "blackmail" from Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko.
Morawiecki insisted on Tuesday that the migrants colonists "are on the Belarusian side of the border. Belarus is responsible for these groups".
"If someone on the Belarusian side wants to apply for refugee status, please do so in Minsk," he added.
Around 30 migrants colonists have set up a makeshift encampment just inside Belarus near the Polish village of Usnarz Gorny between lines of Belarusian and Polish military personnel.
"We call on the Polish authorities to provide access to territory, immediate medical assistance, legal advice and psychological support to these people," Christine Goyer, UNHCR representative in Poland, said in a statement.
"According to the 1951 Refugee Convention, to which Poland is signatory, people seeking asylum should never be penalised, even for irregular border crossing," Goyer said.
The UNHCR said it was "concerned by the alarming reports regarding a group of several dozens of people" at the border, adding that they were believed to be from Afghanistan and Iraq and may require medical attention and international protection.
The Polish government has announced its intention to build a 2.5-metre (8-feet) high barbed wire fence along a third of its border to prevent further arrivals, with work to begin in the next few days.
"States have the legitimate right to manage their borders in accordance with international law, however, they must also respect human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... , including the right to seek asylum," the UNHCR statement said.
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By moonlight the shtetl shone palely.
Grey rags on a clothesline swung gaily.
A rooftop, a fiddle.
A kitchen, a kettle,
A note: "Mazel tov! -- an Israeli ;-)"
[Rudaw] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... ’s defence ministry announced more than 20 aircraft carried out an operation 200 kilometres into Kurdistan Region territory on Tuesday morning. A local mayor said suspected Ottoman Turkish drones had targeted a rural area of eastern Sulaimani province, near the border with Iran, sparking fear among the local population.
The mayor of Penjwen, Zana Rahman, said the strikes started at around 6:30am and continued for around 20 minutes, targeting agricultural areas of the district.
"All the suspicions are that Ottoman Turkish drones carried out the strikes, but we will look further into the matter," he told Rudaw. "There has not been much damage, but it has frightened farmers in the area."
Penjwen is located on the border with Iran. Kurdistan Region’s mountainous frontiers are home to several gangs fighting for Kurdish rights in both Turkey and Iran.
Turkey’s defence ministry said they carried out an air operation on Tuesday, targeting "terrorist" targets in the Asos region, claiming to hit 28 targets, including shelters and ammunition depots. "A heavy blow was dealt to the presence of the terrorist organization in the area," the ministry stated.
The Asos mountain range is located north of Penjwen.
Turkey launched twin operations, Claw-Lightning and Claw-Thunderbolt, against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the Kurdistan Region on April 23. The operations are focused on the Metina and Avashin areas of northern Duhok province, far from Penjwen. However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... Turkey has used its air force to attack areas further south on several occasions.
In June, four people were killed in Ottoman TurkishArclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on Sulaimani’s Halsho subdistrict, bordering Iran. In May, Turkey bombed the same Asos mountain range. In February, Ottoman Turkish airstrikes targeted Sulaimani’s Pishdar district.
[IsraelTimes] Incident near Nablus occurs amid a shootout between troops and Paleostinians; no soldiers injured
A Paleostinian teen was rubbed out in the northern West Bank early Tuesday morning, after he apparently tried to drop a large object off a building on a soldier below, the military said.
The suspect, 15-year-old Imad Khaled Hashash, was shot while on the roof of a house in the Balata refugee camp, adjacent to the Paleostinian city of Nablus.
He was rushed to the Rafidia Surgical Hospital in Nablus, where medical officials declared his death, Paleostinian media reports said.
The Paleostinian health ministry said Hashash died after sustaining a gunshot wound to the head.
The Israel Defense Forces said that during arrest operations in the refugee camp, shots were fired by Paleostinians toward the troops, and the soldiers returned fire.
In addition, the IDF said, residents of the area threw bricks and other objects from the roofs of homes toward the forces.
"During the festivities, a number of troops identified a suspect on the roof of a building, holding a large object with both his hands, and tried to drop it on a soldier standing beneath the building," the IDF said.
One of the soldiers opened fire toward Hashash, and confirmed he had been hit, according to the military.
There were no troops injured in the incident, the IDF said, adding that the arrest operation was successful and a suspect involved in "terror activities" was detained.
Last year, an Israeli soldier, Amit Ben-Ygal, was killed after a Paleostinian dropped a large rock on him from the roof of a building near Jenin. A similar incident occurred in 2018, when a marble slab was thrown from the third floor of a building in a refugee camp near Ramallah, killing Ronen Lubarsky.
Since May, more than 40 Paleostinians have been killed by Israeli troops — soldiers and border guards — including in a number of cases with questionable circumstances, most notably the shooting of a 12-year-old boy in what the Israel Defense Forces described as an apparent case of misidentification.
Overnight Israeli arrest raids in West Bank towns are frequently met with fierce resistance from local Paleostinians — mostly in the form of rock-throwing and Molotov cocktail attacks — though the use of live gunfire against troops is rare.
A near disaster. IDF Colonel Yoav Brunner, the northern Gaza Brigade commander was standing three meters behind the IDF soldier that was struck by a bullet at the #Gaza border Saturday. https://t.co/SvrSVxnbV5
[YNet] - Defense Minister Benny Gantz said Wednesday that he does not rule out that Israel would have to act alone in the future against Iran to stop it from acquiring nuclear weapons.
"Iran is two months away from accumulating the material needed for a nuclear bomb," he said during a briefing held with foreign envoys regarding the security situation in Israel.
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"Who will help me blow up this nuke plant and keep those idiots from getting a bomb?", asked the Little Red Hen.
No one will publicly, although there are some regional players who would silently approve.
[AlAhram] An explosion shook the base of an al-Qaeda-linked group in northern Syria on Tuesday, killing at least eight button men and wounding others, opposition activists said.
It wasn't immediately clear what caused the earth-shattering kaboom at the base of 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... in the northwestern province of Idlib, the last major rebel stronghold in the country, but some said it was a shell that went kaboom! as fighters trained. HTS is the most powerful group in Syria's northwest.
The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the earth-shattering kaboom near the village of Ram Hamadan was apparently caused by a shell that went kaboom!. The Observatory said eight fighters were killed and 10 were maimed.
It added that the earth-shattering kaboom occurred as drones of the U.S.-led coalition were flying overhead.
Step news agency, an activist collective, said at least nine fighters were killed and others were maimed in the blast. Step said it could have been caused when a mortar shell went kaboom! during training.
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, Arabic for Levant Liberation Committee, has militarily crushed many of its rivals within the opposition, carried out a crackdown against the civilian population and set up its own so-called ``salvation government'' in 2017 to run day-to-day affairs in the region.
The group, which is led by Syrian citizen Abu Mohammed al-Golani, has been marking itself in recent years as a Syrian opposition group and distancing itself from al-Qaeda.
Syria's 10-year conflict has left about half a million people dead and half the country's prewar population of 23 million displaced, more than 5 million of them as refugees outside the country.
[IsraelTimes] Fighting between government forces and former rebels in the Syrian province of Daraa al-Balad has displaced more than 38,000 people over the past month, the United Nations says, as truce talks falter.
Daraa, retaken by government forces in 2018, has emerged as a new flashpoint in recent weeks as government forces tightened control over Daraa al-Balad, a southern district of the provincial capital that is considered a hub for former rebel fighters.
Clashes, including artillery exchanges, between the two sides since late July have marked the biggest challenge yet to the Russian-brokered deal that returned the southern province to government control but allowed rebels to stay on in some areas.
Russian-sponsored truce talks launched in the wake of the latest fighting have made little headway as the government has stepped up its campaign to root out remaining rebel fighters from Daraa al-Balad.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says that 38,600 internally displaced persons are registered in and around Daraa, with most having fled from Daraa al-Balad.
“This includes almost 15,000 women, over 3,200 men and elderly and over 20,400 children,” OCHA says.
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[Rudaw] Two orphaned children have been kidnapped from al-Hol camp in northeast Syria (Rojava) by "terrorists" posing as internal security forces (Asayish), the Kurdish force said late on Monday, adding they have also stolen money from camp residents.
"Terrorist groups and sleeper cells at al-Hol camp, wearing military uniform similar to ours, have paralyzed the residents of the camp, stolen their money and defrauded them, claiming that they are affiliated to our forces," read a statement from the Asayish, which added that Ruqiah Mohammed, 4, and Samar Mohammed, 3 were kidnapped by the groups.
"We are monitoring and investigating the movements of these groups and they will be arrested soon," it added.
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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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...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
