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Taliban's supreme leader appears, sez he's not dead
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Good Morning

Southwest pilot is heard 'telling
passengers Let's Go Brandon' at the end of flight
Monday November 1st, 2021

marjoriewoodworth99
3.8 Million Narcotic Pills Seized at Misrata Port
Libya's NOC Condemns 'Unlawful' Arrest of Board of Directors' Member
Libyan Manchester Arena Bomber's Mother Pocketed thousands in Benefits
Al-Rahi Urges Aoun, Miqati to 'Take Decisive Step' to Defuse Gulf Row
POTUS says when asked about Iran drone attack on Al-Tanf airbase says ''we are going to respond''
Kordahi Says His Resignation is 'Out of the Question'
Extradition of senior Lev Tahor
leaders to US from Guatemala approved

Posted by: Fred || 11/01/2021 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I can't help myself!
What's a wood worth?
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/01/2021 0:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Got wood (thanks to Marjorie)
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/01/2021 0:35 Comments || Top||

#3  Marjorie Woodworth was an American actress. Born in Inglewood, California, she was a drum majorette at the University of Southern California.

I'm Shocked I Tell You Shocked 😲
How Did I End Up On Rantburg?


Born: June 5, 1919, Inglewood, California
Died: August 23, 2000, Inglewood, California (101 Years Old)

Wikipedia IMDb
Posted by: Cravitle Choluck8914 || 11/01/2021 1:17 Comments || Top||

#4  Marjorie Woodworth was 81 when she died, would be 101+ today.... skidmark wood worth here --- Merrick -> Here
Posted by: Cravitle Choluck8914 || 11/01/2021 1:27 Comments || Top||

#5  MW






Posted by: Cravitle Choluck8914 || 11/01/2021 1:34 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Remains of Killed Ex-Govt Forces at Hospital: Official
[ToloNews] The remains of security forces who fought for the former government are still being held at a government hospital because they have not been identified, a top defense ministry official said on Sunday.

Addressing a gathering of family members of war victims in in the northern province of Badakhshan, the chief of staff of the army, Qari Fasihuddin, said that both the previous and current government had attempted to find the families of the victims but so far there has been no progress.

"A container is full of the physical remains of the previous government’s security forces at (Sardar Mohammad) Daud Khan hospital," he added. "The former government failed to find the families of these military personnel and the Islamic Emirate is also trying to find the families of these dead security forces to hand over the bodies."

The family members of the Islamic Emirate forces who bit the dust during the past two decades of war called on the officials of the Islamic Emirate to consider their economic situation.

"The Islamic Emirate should pay attention to the remains of those Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
families who fought during the past 20 years, and the economic challenges of the families should be solved," said, Mohammad Shafi, a resident of Badakhshan.

"The Islamic Emirate should pay attention to the orphans of the victims of the past 20 years and provide education facilities for them," said, Abdul Basir, another resident of the province.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban/IEA


Taliban arrest those who shot people at wedding function
Follow up to this report from yesterday.
[KhaamaPress] One of the spokespeople of the Taliba Bilal Karimi confirmed the arrest of three people who rubbed out and maimed more than ten people in a wedding function in eastern Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
province.

Bilal Karimi said that the people impersonated the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
fighters and utilized the Taliban’s name and added that they did not belong to them.

Three button men launched fire at people in a wedding function in the Sorkh Rod district
...also spelt Sorkhrud and Surkroad...
of eastern Nangarhar province bordering Pakistain.

The incident left two killed and ten maimed including children.

"The three button men arrested are not Taliban fighters and they had personal problems with the hosts of the wedding." Said Bilal Karimi.

It was first rumored that the Taliban fighters attacked a wedding function on Saturday, October 30 in Nangarhar province and fired at people for playing music and singing.

Music and singing song in all kinds of functions have been stopped since the Taliban takeover as they call it "Haram" illegal in Islam.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Taliban/IEA


Taliban's reclusive supreme leader appears, belying rumours of his death
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] I hate it when that happens.
Posted by: Fred || 11/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Taliban/IEA

#1  "...E's not dead, e's pining."

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 11/01/2021 2:54 Comments || Top||

#2  "He's not dead. He always smells like that"
Posted by: Frank G || 11/01/2021 7:01 Comments || Top||

#3  "I don't want to go on the cart!"
Posted by: jpal || 11/01/2021 11:51 Comments || Top||

#4  …And the Pope said he can get communion.
Posted by: Airandee || 11/01/2021 11:51 Comments || Top||

#5  Its only a matter of time, but given his occupation, it will likely be sooner, rather than later...remember breathe in and breathe out, and get a food taster while you are at it.
Posted by: Bill Spemble9061 || 11/01/2021 11:57 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Sudan coup claims its 11th civilian victim
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Sudan

#1  11th victim that they've mentioned. Lotsa others.
"Shot in the head with life ammunition"
Interesting twist.
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/01/2021 11:06 Comments || Top||


Sudanese Anti-Coup Protesters Barricade Streets
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 11/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Sudan


Africa North
Libya's NOC Condemns 'Unlawful' Arrest of Board of Directors' Member
[LIBYAREVIEW] The Libyan National Oil Corporation (NOC) condemned the "unlawful" arrest of one of its Board of Director’s, Abulgasem Shengheer, who was stopped at Maitiga Airport in Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
while returning from abroad with his family."Shengheer was arrested in an arbitrary and inappropriate manner that does not rise to the level of responsibility in dealing with a public and national figure," the NOC said in a statement on Saturday.

"A systematic war is being waged by a coalition of militias, smugglers, corrupt figures or politicians, ideologies and stakeholders, against the NOC in order to blackmail, infiltrate, politicize and redirect it from the neutral position it has maintained over the past years for the benefit all Libyans," the statement added.

The NOC called on the Presidential Council, the Government of National Unity (GNU) and the Attorney General to take all legal measures to release Shengheer.

It also called on the United Nations
...an idea whose time has gone...
(UN), Amnesia Amnesty International and human rights
...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you...
organizations to intervene immediately to urgently release the Board of Directors’ member, and to hold the kidnappers responsible for his safe return as soon as possible without conditions or restrictions.

The NOC noted "its deep concern about such repeated militia actions that follows the policy of arbitrary and unofficial arrest of public figures, which may have serious repercussions on the conduct of operations in the oil sector."

In a statement, the NOC confirmed the disappearance of two of its employees in mysterious circumstances in Tripoli. On October 18th, the NOC condemned the kidnapping of two of its employees and demanded their immediate release.

It stated that, "whatever the motives and circumstances of the disappearance, whether arrest or kidnapping, the NOC strongly condemns this action.



Posted by: Fred || 11/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


3.8 Million Narcotic Pills Seized at Misrata Port
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

The customs of the Misrata sea port announced the seizing of about 3.8 million narcotic pills on board a container coming from Malta, on Saturday.

In a statement, the port customs centre confirmed the seizing of a 40-foot container, suspected to be narcotic pills. A customs declaration was submitted and declared as "hospital beds" originating from Malta.

The statement pointed out that the contents of the entire container were unloaded and the seized quantity of drug pills suspected of being narcotic was counted. 3,820,800 pills of medicinal pills bearing the name "TAMOL-K 225" of Indian origin were found. It is known to be dangerous due to its chemical effects on the brain, causing damage to brain cells, including strokes, brain infections, extreme fatigue, weakness of the body’s muscles, agitation and nervousness, auditory and visual hallucinations, lack of awareness and other damages.

Earlier in October, the Anti-Narcotics General Administration (ANGA) arrested an Imam of a mosque in the Tajoura region, eastern Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
, on charges of illicit trafficking of narcotic pills.
Posted by: Fred || 11/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Narcos

#1  A two week supply for Tripoli.
Posted by: Bertie Crains2651 || 11/01/2021 8:45 Comments || Top||

#2  Doesn't sound like Captagon
Posted by: Frank G || 11/01/2021 10:08 Comments || Top||

#3  Tramad0l, going to Libya, PAK, AFG?
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/01/2021 10:26 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Saudi-led coalition says 218 rebels killed around Yemen’s Marib
[IsraelTimes] The Saudi-led military coalition backing the government in Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
says more than 218 Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
rebels were killed in Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s around the strategic city of Marib.

The Iran-backed Houthis rarely comment on losses, and AFP could not independently verify the toll.

"Twenty-four military vehicles were destroyed and more than 218" bully boyz were killed in strikes in the past 72 hours in al-Jawba, about 50 kilometers (30 miles) south of Marib, and al-Kassara, 30 kilometers northwest, the coalition said, according to the official Saudi Press Agency, which has since October 11 issued near-daily reports of bombing
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Europe
‘Allahu Akbar’ Yelling Man Arrested After Strangling Woman on French Street
[Breitbart] Police arrested a 31-year-old man in Nice, southern La Belle France , on Friday after witnesses saw him strangling a woman in the street.

The attack allegedly happened in downtown Nice along the Rue Trachel at around 3am on Friday, with witnesses claiming that a man had been strangling a woman on the street while yelling "Allahu Akbar!"

Police arrived at the scene and found an injured 40-year-old woman who showed signs that she had been strangled, Actu17 reports.

The victim told police that she knew the man who had assaulted her and officers located the 31-year-old suspect a short time later.

A source close to the investigation said that the suspect would only speak in Arabic and had no identity documentation or weapons on him at the time of the arrest. The victim was taken to a hospital while the police say they are looking at local CCTV footage and are investigating the circumstances of the incident.

The case comes just weeks after another man, a 26-year-old illegal migrant from Tunisia, entered the Nice Basilica while yelling in Arabic and later threatened a Roman Catholic church official and spat on the ground before he was arrested by police.

Friday marked the first anniversary of the terrorist attack that took place at the Basilica that saw three people murdered by a Tunisian migrant who had come into Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
illegally, first from Tunisia to Italia and then to La Belle France, where he carried out his attack.

In July, the Basilica saw another incident in which a 27-year-old on a terrorism watchlist had also made threats after trying to steal a donation box. "I’m going to come back, and I’m going to kill you all," the man allegedly said.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Die Versity is our strength.
Posted by: Jack Salami || 11/01/2021 4:50 Comments || Top||


Nantes, France: Hundreds of violent antifa rioted to try and stop an event by conservative author and public intellectual @ZemmourEric
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 11/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Zemmour, who hosted a television news commentary show, has been dubbed the French Tucker Carlson

Zemmour
Orban
Wilders
Carlson (or better, his copywriters)

= Time for an Internationale of the Anti-Globalists.

Ironic? Maybe, maybe not. There is a universal belief among normal, sane, non-Woke people around the globe that

- loyalties to kith & kin trump imagined obligations to strangers 10,000 Mike's away
- place matters: the community and the soil one was born into / upon shakes who one is and shall be
- good fences make good neighbors: f--k this "invite the world" nonsense
- rejection of ancestral or collective guilt: the colonial sibs of previous centuries impose no obligations, zero, on today's Euros i.e. North Americans

Most importantly, our culture and our values are GOOD IN AND OF THEMSELVES and require no apologies. Wakandan or Muslim, Hindu, Han-Confucian, Zoroastrian, Shinto, whatever values are fine for other nations, but we will preserve our Bill of Rights and limited/divided government and free culture -- and do as we f--king well please. Because it's OURS.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/01/2021 1:07 Comments || Top||

#2  damn auto-correct ...
* "10,000 Mike's" = 10,000 miles
* "shakes" = shapes who one is
* "the colonial sibs" = the colonial sins
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/01/2021 1:11 Comments || Top||

#3 
They have become what they protest.


Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/01/2021 7:23 Comments || Top||

#4  They always were what they "protest".
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/01/2021 7:46 Comments || Top||

#5  I think a lot of people are 10,000 or more mikes (micrograms) away from the typical leftist gerbalist commie scum.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/01/2021 10:17 Comments || Top||

#6  Strange how it's always the "anti"facists that riot, and not the "facists".
Posted by: ad in texas || 11/01/2021 13:38 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
@PortlandPolice turned up in numbers to surveil the antifa Halloween direct action and prevented planned mass violence
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 11/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Enough. Smash these little f---kers.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/01/2021 0:18 Comments || Top||

#2 
1st of all
Did the elected Socialist City Officials of Portland finally figure out a Mass exodus of Taxpayers meant a mass reduction in tax revenue? Or did they figure out that if any more police quit, who was going guard their butts when these animal turn on them?

2nd
If AF and BLOM actually believed their BULL $hit claims of Crazy Dangerous Racists / Fascists being everywhere.

Why would they show their butts in public?

Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/01/2021 6:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Beeman ..planned to groom children into antifa black bloc.

No doubt another one of this disgusting subversive movement's many ped0philes. = the Spirit of our Age
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/01/2021 6:53 Comments || Top||

#4  If you lived in Portland during fall, winter and spring, you can understand these people. They are clinically depressed as the sun never shines, it is cloudy, rainy and misty. They are forced to wear masks and can not go to bars and dances. I was the perfect boat sailor as I was only used to the sun for short periods of time. I settled in CO, gods country, until people from CA and OR moved in for legal drugs.
Posted by: Da Cooky || 11/01/2021 11:29 Comments || Top||

#5  If you lived in Portland during fall, winter and spring, you can understand these people. They are clinically depressed as the sun never shines, it is cloudy, rainy and misty. They are forced to wear masks and can not go to bars and dances. I was the perfect boat sailor as I was only used to the sun for short periods of time. I settled in CO, gods country, until people from CA and OR moved in for legal drugs.
Posted by: Da Cooky || 11/01/2021 11:29 Comments || Top||

#6  My sister told me that moving from "blue sky" Oklahoma to Delaware that winter was almost always dreary low hanging grey clouds. After a month or so the petty violence and homicide rates started climbing there...
Posted by: magpie || 11/01/2021 13:21 Comments || Top||


Antifa in Portland have released a flyer in support of sabotaging new city code meant to tackle illegal street takeovers by street racers and stunt drivers
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 11/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Thunderdome V1.0 coming up.
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/01/2021 11:00 Comments || Top||

#2  The world is morphing into Grand Theft Auto as we watch...
Posted by: magpie || 11/01/2021 17:55 Comments || Top||

#3  The Fast and the Furry (Us)
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/01/2021 21:20 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Encounter in Mendhar forests enters 17th day
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 11/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistain Proxies


NIA arrests two more in Kashmir in militancy case
[GREATERKASHMIR] The National Investigation Agency (NIA) Saturday arrested two more persons from Srinagar and north Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
's Sopore in a militancy related case.

According to news agency KNO, the accused Ishfaq Ahmed Wani, resident of Srinagar and Umar Bhat resident of Sopore were held in a case related to conspiracy for undertaking violent mostly peaceful bully boy acts in J&K and other major cities by cadres of Laskhar-e-Taiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM), Al Badr and their affiliates such as the Resistance® Front (TRF), and People Against Fascist Forces (PAFF).

NIA had registered the case as RC 29/2021/NIA/DLI) dated 10 October 2021 and initiated the investigation.

So far, a total of 25 accused persons have been arrested in this case by NIA.

NIA said that the preliminary investigation has revealed that arrested accused persons are bully boy associates/OGW (Over Ground Worker)
Over ground workers (OGWs) are people who help militants, or terrorists, with logistical support, cash, shelter, and other infrastructure with which armed groups and insurgency movements such as Hizbul Mujaheddin and Jaish-e-Muhammad in Jammu and Kashmir can operate....
s of various organizations and have been providing logistical and material support to the ultras.

Further Investigation in the case continues, it said.
Posted by: Fred || 11/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistain Proxies


Iraq
Turkish soldier killed in Erbil
[SHAFAQ] A Ottoman Turkish soldier perished during festivities with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in the Kurdistan Region, according to a statement by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
’s Ministry of Defense issued on Sunday.

The soldier, Islam Ciftci, succumbed to the wounds he sustained during confrontations with the PKK turbans during a mission in northern Iraq.

Attempts to resuscitate the soldier failed to transfer him to the hospital breathing, the statement added.

Since April, Turkey has carried out two intense campaigns against the PKK in the northern governorate of Duhok. The offensives are only a shred of a lifelong history of bitter conflict between Ankara and the PKK.
Posted by: Fred || 11/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


ISIS terrorist killed, two others injured in an ambush in Kirkuk
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

A holy warrior affiliated with the terrorist organization of ISIS was reportedly killed in an ambush executed by the Federal Police on Sunday.

The head of the Federal Police’s advanced headquarters in Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
Lieutenant General Ali al-Furayji, said that the Federal Police’s mechanized division killed a terrorist and injured two others in a night ambush.

The terrorist group was plotting to attack a force from the Federal Police when it stepped into the ambush.
Posted by: Fred || 11/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Three Rockets Hit near Baghdad Green Zone
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Three rockets on Sunday hit a Baghdad neighborhood near the high-security Green Zone where the U.S. embassy is located without causing any casualties, an Iraqi security official said.

"Three Katyusha rockets fell in the Mansur district of Baghdad," the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told AFP.

The rockets struck near a Red Islamic Thingy hospital, a bank and the district's water management department, the source added.

The so far unclaimed attack, the first to target the Green Zone since two rockets fired on July 29, comes as authorities conduct a recount of votes cast in an October 10 parliamentary election.

Preliminary results show the Conquest Alliance, the political arm of the Hashed al-Shaabi network of pro-Iranian militias, lost ground in the election.

Hashed leaders have vehemently contested the results and several hundred of their supporters staged a sit-in on an avenue leading to the Green Zone this month in protest.

The powerful network is fiercely opposed to the U.S. presence in Iraq.

Its leaders have repeatedly praised the rocket and drone attacks in recent months that have targeted Iraqi military bases housing U.S. troops, without claiming responsibility.

Some 2,500 U.S. troops are still deployed in Iraq. They will officially limit themselves to an "advisory" role to the Iraqi security forces from 2022.

The Green Zone also houses Iraqi government buildings.
Posted by: Fred || 11/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies

#1  Fired from Sadr City? Usual source.
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/01/2021 11:03 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Mon 2021-11-01
  Taliban's supreme leader appears, sez he's not dead
Sun 2021-10-31
  2 Killed by Gunmen at Nangarhar Wedding: Family
Sat 2021-10-30
  KSA Expels Lebanese Ambassador
Fri 2021-10-29
  Sudan Military Leader Fires 6 Diplomats who Criticized Coup
Thu 2021-10-28
  Uganda bus blast a 'suicide bomb attack'
Wed 2021-10-27
  First Israeli flight lands in Saudi Arabia
Tue 2021-10-26
  Sudan's military dissolves transitional government, arrests prime minister, in coup
Mon 2021-10-25
  17 die in Herat shootout
Sun 2021-10-24
  Erdogan tells foreign minister to expel ambassadors of 10 countries
Sat 2021-10-23
  U.S. airstrike in Syria kills senior Qaeda Abdul Hamid al-Matar
Fri 2021-10-22
  Talibs behead female volleyball player, post photos online
Thu 2021-10-21
  The Arab coalition says it killed more than 82 Houthis in airstrikes near Yemen’s strategic city of Marib
Wed 2021-10-20
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