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AAaaaah ! I'm on Rantburg ....
Kathleen Hughes born Elizabeth Margaret von Gerkan November 14, 1928 is an American actress.
Hughes' uncle, F. Hugh Herbert, was a playwright who authored Kiss and Tell and The Moon Is Blue. Her desire to act was inspired by a film she saw featuring Donald O'Connor, which gave her the idea that "acting looked like fun."
Hughes was discovered in a Little Theater production in 1948. Signed to a seven-year contract with 20th Century Fox, she made 14 films for the studio. She appeared in five motion pictures for Universal Studios, including the cult film It Came From Outer Space. Released on May 27, 1953, the sci-fi feature was adapted from the writing of Ray Bradbury (Socialist). It was Universal's first entry into the 3D-film medium. Hughes co-starred with Edward G. Robinson in a 1953 crime drama, The Glass Web, and opposite Rock Hudson in an adventure film that year, The Golden Blade.
An armed 11-year-old was arrested last month after terrorizing people in Portland. The youths fired off rounds, robbed people at gunpoint, stole a car & rammed a person. The child was too young to be booked so he was released. Now he's arrested again for another spate of violence pic.twitter.com/ESiuRTDAYI
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^ "Around the time of a recorded shooting at Briarwood Mall in Ann Arbor, the boy's father was pulled over after driving the wrong way down a one-way street and exceeding 100 mph on the freeway near an Ann Arbor mall..."
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Ship him to a state that recognizes the right to self-defense. He'll either stop or be stopped.
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I have seen this in the past. I worked in DC and surrounding areas in riot years and it was the youth in this boys age range that were the most antagonistic. They came right at you. Absolutely no hesitation.
[ToloNews] Local officials from Kunduz province say that two children were killed, and five others were maimed when a mortar round went kaboom!.
Mutiullah Rohani, head of the information and culture department of Kunduz, said the mortar round went kaboom! in Chardara district.
Meanwhile, ...back at the bunker, his Excellency called a hurried meeting of his closest advisors. It was to be his last. They discussed the officers's efficiency rating system... Naeem Gul, head of Kunduz's regional hospital, said three of the injured were girls and the condition of two of the injured is critical.
Local people said the mortar round went kaboom! as the children were playing with it.
[KhaamaPress] Hamdullah Mukhles, a key and senior commander of the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... and one who entered Arg (Presidential Palace), now Prime Minister’s office for the first time on August 15 killed in Kabul’s Tuesday, November 2 attack on the hospital.
The Taliban did not say anything about his killing though, sources have confirmed that Mullavi Hamdullah Mukhlis was among dozens killed in Kabul.
Mukhlis was reportedly appointed as commander of military corps in Kabul and was one of the prominent commanders of the Taliban.
That attack that targeted Sardar Muhammad Daud Khan (400-bed) military hospital in the Afghan capital killed 25 and maimed more than 50 more.
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria-Khorasan (ISIS-K) took responsibility for the attack on Sardar Muhammad Daud Khan military hospital in the Afghan capital on Tuesday, November 2, and claimed that the attack has left tens of the Taliban fighters killed.
A Taliban spokesperson Bilal Karimi has said that three Taliban fighters, three women, and a child were killed and five people more were wounded in the attack.
Bilal Karimi has added that the Daesh (ISIS-K) fighters wanted to enter the hospital and kill civilians but the Taliban fighters prevented them and killed all five assailants.
As per reports, the group attack that was conducted on Tuesday afternoon left 22 killed and over 50 wounded.
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My recollection was that the Talibs were goimg to take care of these dudes. Doesn't look like an alliance any time soon
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They’ve been saying so almost every day since they took Kabul, Richard. I just haven't been posting the articles, as they add no new information.
After the attack on Kabul Airport, Dron66046 said ISIS-K hires out for terrorist theater as well as doing their own projects, which may be the reason the Talibs thus far have been so sanguine. In addition to the usual chest beating of a new conqueror who is still fighting unreported rear guard actions in the provinces. We haven’t heard a peep in ages from Panjshir, for instance...
[LIBYAREVIEW] On Wednesday, the Libyan Public Prosecution remanded a member of the Board of Directors of the National Oil Corporation (NOC), Abulgasem Shengheer, and two others in jug pending further investigations.In a statement, the Prosecution announced that it is conducting investigations into Shengheer, the Director of the Occupational Safety, Security, and Health Department of Akakus Oil, and an employee in charge of the Administrative Affairs Unit, over charges of obtaining illegal benefits, causing serious harm to public money, and abusing power.
The detainees were also charged with falsifying documents for personal gain.
Last week, the NOC condemned the "unlawful" arrest of Shengheer, who was stopped at 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... ’s Mitiga Airport 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," it 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 and release Shengheer.
It also called on the UN, Amnesia Amnesty International, and human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... organizations to immediately intervene and secure his release. It stated that it would hold the kidnappers responsible for his safe return.
The Corporation noted "its deep concern about such repeated militia actions that follow the policy of arbitrary and unofficial arrest of public figures, which may have serious repercussions on the conduct of operations in the oil sector."
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[An Nahar] An anti-terrorism raid in Tunisia uncovered a tunnel being dug in the vicinity of the French ambassador's residence from a house frequented by a known turban, the Interior Ministry said Wednesday.The ministry's statement did not indicate the tunnel's purpose or whether the ambassador's residence was a target.
It said anti-terrorism officials and prosecutors were investigating.
A tip-off alerted security services to suspicious activity at the house in La Marsa, a coastal suburb of the Tunisian capital, Tunis, where the French ambassador also lives, the Interior Ministry said.
A subsequent raid uncovered the tunneling. The ministry statement didn't say how close the house is to the French ambassador's residence.
A known turban is among people who frequented the house that was raided, the ministry said. It did not say if there were any arrests.
The French Embassy said it had no comment. The street outside the ambassador's residence was calm Wednesday morning.
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[An Nahar] Algeria said Wednesday three truck drivers had been killed in a bombing as they drove from Mauritania, an attack Algiers blamed on neighboring Morocco, the official APS news agency said.The reported strike comes as tensions ratchet up between Algeria and Morocco, particularly over the contested desert region of the Western Sahara.
"Three Algerians were assassinated... in a barbaric strike on their trucks," Algeria's presidency said in a statement, quoted by APS.
It reported they had been travelling between the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott and the Algerian city of Ouargla.
"Several factors indicate that the Moroccan occupation forces in the Western Sahara carried out this cowardly liquidation with a sophisticated weapon," the statement added.
The Western Sahara is 80 percent controlled by Morocco, which sees the former Spanish colony as an integral part of its own territory.
But its regional arch-rival Algeria has long hosted and supported the Polisario Front, which seeks full independence there.
The reported killings took place on Monday, but few details had emerged, and there had been no immediate comment from Rabat or Algiers.
The Algerian statement did not specify the exact location where the bombardment took place.
But Akram Kharief, editor of Algerian website Mena Defense, said that "the Algerian truckers were killed in Bir Lahlou", on a highway through the part of the Western Sahara controlled by the Polisario Front.
The Polisario in November declared a three-decade ceasefire "null and void" after Moroccan forces broke up a blockade of a highway into Mauritania, that the independence movement said was built in violation of a 1991 truce.
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[An Nahar] The Saudi-led military coalition 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... said Wednesday it has killed 145 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... s in 24 hours in air raids near Marib, the final northern stronghold of pro-government forces.
The coalition, which backs Yemen's internationally recognized government, has reported near-daily strikes over the past three weeks that it claims have now inflicted more than 2,000 lives among the Iran-backed Houthis.
But the murderous Moslems, who have for months waged an offensive against the government stronghold, rarely comment on losses, and AFP can not independently verify the tolls.
"Eighteen military vehicles have been destroyed and 145" murderous Moslems killed in the latest 24 hours, the Saudi-led coalition said in a statement published by Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... 's official SPA press agency.
The rebels were killed in raids in the Sirwah district, east of Marib city, it added.
The coalition has since October 11 issued near-daily reports of bombing around Marib, saying it has killed a total of around 2,450 murderous Moslems in the area.
The Huthis began a major push to seize the city in February and, after a lull, they renewed their offensive in September.
A pro-government military official had told AFP on Tuesday that the rebels have made "new advances amid ongoing festivities with pro-government troops".
Another loyalist official confirmed the murderous Moslems were edging closer to the city.
The Huthis said Tuesday they were on the outskirts of the city.
Yemen's civil war began in 2014 when the Huthis seized the capital Sanaa, prompting Saudi-led forces to intervene to prop up the government the following year.
Tens of thousands of people have died and millions have been displaced in what the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
[IsraelTimes] Footage has gone viral in the past 24 hours of Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important... walking with difficulty, leading to intense speculation on the state of his health.
The clip was shot on Friday, amid commemorations of 98 years since the founding of the Ottoman Turkish Republic.
His office has denied any health issues. Taking the Biden two-step?
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Surely there must be a mistake. Clearly this example of God's Children is a victim of American Racism and the Orange One's nefarious cages. Release him forthwith.
[OneIndia] National Investigation Agency sleuths have arrested a suspected terrorist of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh The JMB is said to be the youth front of Al Mujahideen, the parent organization that began working toward establishing Bangladesh as an Islamic state in the mid 1990s, which remains obscure and probably defunct today. Other organizations, such as Jama'atul Jihad, JMB, Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB), Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI), Hizbut Tawhid, Tawhidi Janata, Islami Jubo Shangha, Islami Shangha, Al Falah A'am Unnayan Shanstha and Shahadat-e al Hiqma are believed to be part of the Al Mujahideen network. The JMB at its peak was reported to contain at least 100,000 members, and an alleged 2,000-man suicide brigade, few of whom actually exploded. JMB allegedly received financial assistance from individual donors in Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Libya. Reports have claimed that funding of JMB by international NGOs like Kuwait based Society of the Revival of Islamic Heritage (RIHS) and Doulatul Kuwait, Saudi Arabia based Al Haramaine Islamic Institute and Rabita Al Alam Al Islami, Qatar Charitable Society and UAE-based Al Fuzaira and Khairul Ansar Al Khairia. The top leadership of JMB was captured in 2005 and hung in 2007, which pretty much shot their bolt. from West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district, an official said on Wednesday.
Nowadays JMB is linked to ISIS. This may change if a kewler jihadi group comes along.
Acting on a tip-off, [RING!] Cop shoppe! Sergeant Shafiq speaking! Lissen! Dis is Mahmoud da Weasel! I got a tip for youse... a team of NIA personnel conducted a search operation in the Subhasgram area on Tuesday and apprehended the Bangladeshi national, he said.
"Fake voter and Aadhaar cards have been seized from his possession. He is being interrogated. We are trying to find out how and when he entered into India," the official told PTI.
Several documents related to the terror group were seized from his possession, he added.
Two members of The PMF Explosive Ordnance Disposal squads (EOD) of al-Hashd al-Shaabi were maimed on Wednesday while pursuing ISIS gunnies in Hamrin Mountains in Diyala Governorate.
The PMF said in a statement today that the EOD detachments of the 1st Brigade cleared 5 km as part of an inspection campaign it launched in Hamrin mountain range.
Two members of the EOD were maimed in the operation.
Today morning, the Diyala Operations Command of the PMF launched a five-axis search operation to pursue ISIS gunnies in Hamrin mountain, indicating that the operation came based on accurate intelligence information.
The terror group attacked Diyala’s Miqdadiyah last week, killing 15 people and injuring 17 others. The bloody incident was followed by another offensive on Kurdish forces in Kirkuk where faceless myrmidons killed two Peshmerga. ISIS grabbed credit for both attacks.
A woman suspected of providing the Death Eater group with details about security services and forces in Salahaddin was arrested on Wednesday, the Security Media Cell said.
[SHAFAQ] The Security Media Cell announced arresting Abu Yasser, the terrorist responsible for transporting explosives for ISIS in Baghdad.
The cell said in a statement that the intelligence agency launched, today morning, security campaign to strike the most prominent ISIS den in Tarmiyah, north of Baghdad, from which terrorist operations are planned and launched.
The terrorist, Abu Yaser, was ambushed and arrested by the agency's forces.
"He admitted that there was a den that contained a pile of bombs, and after moving to check up on the place, 91 bombs prepared for detonation were found, before the den was destroyed", according to the statement.
The ISF captured a terrorist & raided a Daesh hideout containing 91 IEDs, said @SecMedCell. The ISF remains diligent in the #DefeatDaesh fight as it continues to prove it is the key to the lasting security & stability of Iraq. We will continue to #AdviseAssistEnable the ISF. https://t.co/S9Te8Nratc
[SHAFAQ] The President of Kurdistan Regional Government, Masrour Barzani, confirmed that thousands of evidence of ISIS crimes were submitted to UNITAD.
The Prime Minister's statements came following his meeting with the Special Adviser and the new head of UNITAD, according to an official statement.
PM Barzani congratulated the new head of UNITAD on assuming his position and wished him success in his duties, stressing the importance of UNITAD’s role in supporting KRG to prosecute ISIS criminals.
For his part, the head of UNITAD thanked the relevant authorities in KRG for their, "cooperation and coordination with the international investigation team into ISIS crimes."
During the meeting, it was noted that KRG handed over thousands of evidence of ISIS crimes to UNITAD, and will continue the necessary coordination with the team in this regard.
The two sides shed light on the legal and technical procedures to prosecute ISIS criminals, archiving and digitizing their crimes, and ways to enhance cooperation between the Kurdistan Region's judiciary and the federal government.
#Israel deploys new early warning system in north to boost defenses against #Iranian drones, @MaarivOnline reports; advanced IDF surveillance balloon can detect incoming threats from large distance; system is a joint US-Israel venture.
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I wasn’t sure if the balloon was newsworthy. I’m very glad to know my judgements in such matters are being backstopped by those who have a better understanding. Thank you, gentlemen.
[Rudaw] Ottoman Turkish-backed groups in northern Syria have weaponised water by building dams on a river that serves as a lifeline for communities living downstream in Kurdish-dominated areas, a report alleged Wednesday said.
New research conducted by Dutch peace-building organization PAX shows that the Syrian National Army (SNA) built three dams that cut off the vital Khabour river.
The SNA is a military group armed and funded by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... present in an area of northern Syria contiguous to the semi-autonomous northeastern region run by the Kurdish-majority Syrian Democratic Forces.
The militia that forms the SDF's backbone is considered a terrorist organization by the Ottoman Turkish government, whose military presence in northern Syria is at least partly aimed at preventing any resurgence of Kurdish separatism.
The PAX research, which includes field work and satellite imagery analysis, found that the SNA's blocking of a vital river during the region's driest summer on record was "a clear-cut example of using water as weapon of war."
It said that the building of the dams compounded the effects of a severe drought.
"The impact of the extreme heat was magnified by very limited rainfall, which meant agricultural communities had less water than ever at their time of greatest need," it said.
The imagery published by PAX shows the three dams, the first of which was completed on May 22 this year.
The Khabour is a 320-kilometre-long (200 miles) tributary of the Euphrates whose source is in Turkey but runs across much of northeastern Syria and through Hasakeh, one of the main cities in the Kurdish region.
The research estimated that thousands of households were deprived of access to water due to the building of the dams, noting that this amounted to a clear violation of international humanitarian law.
"This could be a calculated measure employed by the SNA with the intention of starving the civilian population and/or bringing about their forced displacement as a method of warfare," it said.
In its recommendations, PAX called on the international community to urge Turkey to ensure that all civilians have access to the Khabour's water.
#BREAKING: @idreesali114 reports that U.S. officials say multiple drones, believed to be Iranian, had unsafe and unprofessional interaction with the USS Essex warship in the Strait of Hormuz in the past 24 hours. #Iran#OOTT
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Murdering people with drones is the properly unsafe and professional interaction. The US government should know! Obama murdered more children than all other Nobel Peace Prize recipients put together.
[An Nahar] Israeli air strikes hit positions held by the Syrian government and its pro-Iranian allies near Damascus overnight, a war monitor said on Wednesday.It was the second Israeli attack to target areas near the capital in four days.
Syrian state news agency SANA confirmed the raids and said they caused only material damage.
"The Israeli enemy launched an aerial aggression with a number of missiles," the news agency quoted a military source as saying, naming the targeted area as Zakia.
The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the targets were army positions and arms depots belonging to Iran-backed militias.
Israel carries out raids on Syria mostly during nighttime. Wednesday's raid occurred shortly after midnight, Syria's military said.
There has been an increase in reported Israel attacks in recent weeks.
Similar strikes last week killed at least five militiamen, the Observatory said.
Israel has staged hundreds of strikes on Iran-linked military targets in Syria over the years but rarely acknowledges or discusses such operations.
Israel has acknowledged, however, that it is targeting bases of Iran-allied groups, such as Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... It is going after arms shipments believed to be bound for the group. Hizbullah is fighting on the side of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Despoiler of Deraa... 's forces in the civil war.
Israel says Iranian presence on its northern frontier is a red line, and it has repeatedly struck what it has described as Iran-linked facilities and weapons convoys destined for Hizbullah.
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[An Nahar] There will be a new attempt to convene a Cabinet session once Prime Minister Najib Miqati returns from Scotland, in which a "major official apology" will be made to Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... and the United Arab Emirates, informed political sources said.
In remarks to Kuwait’s al-Anbaa newspaper published Wednesday, the sources said the diplomatic crisis sparked by Information Minister George Kordahi’s remarks has "surpassed Kordahi to affect the entire Lebanese situation."
"President Michel Aoun ...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... and Speaker Nabih Knobby Berri ...Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, head of the Amal Shiite party aligned with Hezbollah, a not very subtle sock puppet of the Medes and Persians... have agreed to this exit, but the approval of Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... and Marada chief Suleiman Franjieh remains pending," the sources added.
The sources also said that "should this attempt also fail, Miqati will be asked to resign by the ex-PMs who nominated him for the premiership.
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[SHAFAQ] 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... seized a Vietnamese-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman last month and still holds the vessel off Bandar Abbas, two U.S. officials told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named on Wednesday.One of the officials said paramilitary Iranian Revolutionary Guard troops took control of the MV Southys on Oct. 24 at gunpoint. U.S. forces had monitored the seizure, but ultimately didn't take action as the vessel went into Iranian waters.
A motive for the seizure remains unclear. Officials in Vietnam could not be immediately reached for comment. Ship-tracking data analyzed by the AP from MarineTraffic.com showed the vessel still off Bandar Abbas on Tuesday.
The two U.S. officials spoke on condition of anonymity as the information had yet to be made public amid ongoing attempts to restart talks in Vienna with Iran over its tattered nuclear deal.
The officials spoke to AP after Iranian state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
offered a series of contradictory reports earlier Wednesday about a confrontation between the Guard and the U.S. Navy's Mideast-based 5th Fleet. It described the incident as also happening in the Gulf of Oman, with the U.S. Navy detaining the vessel and the Guard bringing it back to the Islamic Theocratic Republic.
The U.S. officials dismissed Iran's version of events. Tehran also did not provide details of the ship's name, nor any explanation of why the Navy targeted it. Iran's mission to the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
State TV later released footage showing an Iranian surveillance drone monitoring a hulking red tanker in the Gulf of Oman. Iranian commandos then rappelled onto the boat from a helicopter as small speedboats surrounded the vessel.
The Gulf of Oman sits near the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf through which a fifth of all traded oil passes.
About a year after then-President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... withdrew the U.S. from Iran’s nuclear deal in 2018 and imposed crushing sanctions, the waters of the Gulf of Oman have witnessed a series of explosions and hijackings. The U.S. Navy has accused Iran of conducting limpet mining of vessels and more recently attacking another tanker with a drone, killing a Briton and a Romanian on board.
While Iran denies carrying out the attacks, it comes amid a wider shadow war that has roiled the region.
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James Fargher wrote: "Between 1979 and 2011, there was no confirmed Iranian naval activity in the Red Sea. Iran was suspected to have supported a terrorist group which in 1984 claimed it had laid nearly 200 naval mines in the sea, but Tehran denied any involvement. In February 2011, however, a small flotilla of Iranian warships was dispatched on a mission to Syria, marking the first time that Iranian vessels had entered the Red Sea and transited the Suez Canal since the 1979 Revolution. Several months later, in July the Iranian government announced its intention to deploy one of its submarines on a patrol of the Red Sea." Etc.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important...
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
...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 
