Will it turn out that the torturers were “pretend” Talibs, or will it be only a pretend investigation followed by a pretend punishment of the real Talib perpetrators?
[KhaamaPress] The ministerial meeting of the interim cabinet of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... directed investigation of the torture of the former Member of Parliament Allah Gul Mujahid.
The acting Prime Minister of Afghanistan Muhammad Hassan Akhund directed intelligence bodies to investigate the case and bring to justice the culprits.
The decision is made after a video of Allah Gul Mujahid being tortured and ill-treated went viral on social media.
The video shows, Allah Gul Mujahid is seated hand-tightened in the trunk of the truck, surrounded by a group of Taliban affiliates who are accusing him of various crimes and felonies.
The Taliban affiliates are also seen to be mildly beating and cursing him.
Allah Gul Mujahid was reportedly arrested after he defied a warrant from the Taliban who had asked him to go to the district office of Deh Sabz district of Kabul but officials have not commented on the issue yet.
Allah Gul Mujahid was a former Mujahideen commander who was not only warning the previous government but also the Taliban.
[Garowe] At least 12 al-Shabaab ...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... bandidosLions of Islam were arrested in Baidoa on Sunday, authorities in the southern city of Somalia have confirmed, adding that the individuals are currently being probed to give more details about their discreet mission.
Baidoa is the regional administrative capital of Southwest state which has been struggling with rising numbers of bad boys, who control large swathes of rural central and southern Somalia.
Mohamud Mohammed Hassan, who is the commander of the intelligence and security agency of Southwest told state media that his forces managed to arrest the terrorist network during the operation.
"We arrested 12 al-Shabaab bandidosLions of Islam in an operation aimed at ensuring the security of Baidoa town in the Bay region. We are committed to safeguarding our people and candidates during the federal parliamentary elections," Hassan said, adding that the bandidosLions of Islam were trying to create fear and threat in Baidoa town before they were arrested by the forces.
He added: "We acted swiftly and got hold of them for further interrogation and action. We have established rules that deal with such Lions of Islam and trust me, they will be arraigned in court soonest as prescribed in the rule of law."
The al-Shabaab bandidosLions of Islam did not comment on the latest security operation in the region but this crackdown comes ahead of parliamentary election in Southwest State, further causing fears that the group may disrupt the exercise.
Al-Shabaab bandidosLions of Islam have been fighting to topple the fragile UN-backed Somalia administration for over a decade, forcing Somalia to ask for a backup from the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... and the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... . The country is still handling serious instability issues.
Bad news for communities in Borno State: ISIS “mercenaries” have traveled from Libya and Syria to northeastern Nigeria. Over 200 recently-arrived terrorists will reportedly be providing support to Boko Haram faction ISWAP. Details: https://t.co/0GvhX9DLb0
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[REGNUM] Journalist Rasha Abdullah was killed in a terrorist attack in the province of Aden in southern Yemen. This was announced on November 9 by the official representative of the Southern Transitional Council (UPC) Ali al-Katiri.
The incident took place in the city of Hormaksar. The car of Yemeni correspondent of Al-Sharq TV channel Mahmoud al-Atmi was blown up in the coastal district of Abyan. The explosion killed the correspondent's wife, Yemeni journalist Rasha Abdullah. Al-Atmi himself was seriously injured and was hospitalized in critical condition.
Representatives of the UPC, created in 2017, note that in recent weeks there has been a deterioration in the situation in the southern provinces of Yemen. So on October 30 at the airport in the city of Aden, which is called the temporary capital of Yemen, as a result of a terrorist attack, 12 people were killed. The internationally recognized interim government blamed the Ansar Allah Houthi rebels for the attack.
Earlier, IA REGNUM reported that at least 29 people were injured or died as a result of rocket attacks by the Houthis in the Al-Juba area in the Yemeni province of Marib.
[AnNahar] Polish riot police and coils of razor wire faced off Tuesday against migrants colonists, including families with young children, who were camped just across the border in Belarus, amid a tense standoff on the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... 's eastern border.
Polish authorities reported that the situation on the border was calm overnight and earlier Tuesday, but authorities said they were bracing for any possibility. Poland's Defense Ministry said Tuesday that a large group of Belarusian forces was moving toward the migrant camp.
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[Sputnik] A man armed with a knife injured a police officer in Bislett, a neighbourhood in north-central Oslo on Tuesday morning and was later rubbed out by police, local media reported, citing officials.
The officer's injuries were not critical, a front man for the local police said.
"The perpetrator launched a physical attack against the police, harming a police officer who had to fire shots in self-defence," police inspector Egil Jørgen Brekke told national broadcaster NRK.
A video has emerged online, showing a half-naked knife-wielding man attacking a person in the patrol car.
The identity of the attacker has not been revealed. The newspaper Nettavisen, however, identified the perpetrator as a 33-year-old Russian citizen, who has previously been convicted of a knife attack on an open street in Grunderløkka district in Oslo in June 2019. He was subsequently sentenced to compulsory mental health care after attempting to kill one person and threatening to kill several others with a knife. The man himself claimed that he does not remember what happened that morning, Nettavisen reported.
The police said they have no knowledge of other victims in connection with the incident in Bislett.
"None other than the police officer and the perpetrator were directly involved. We know that the message that originally went out was that the perpetrator ran after a person with a knife, but there is nothing so far that indicates that there were more injured or more victims," police inspector Egil Jørgen Brekke said at a presser, as quoted by national broadcaster NRK.
According to the police, there is currently nothing that indicates that the incident in Bislett was an act of terror.
"The motive for the action is unclear, and it is too early to conclude. We investigate broadly. The police don't rule out anything, but so far nothing indicates that terror was the motive," Egil Jørgen Brekke said, while admitting that the perpetrator was known to the police from before.
However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... Nettavisen reported that the perpetrator quoted the Moslem creed during the attack and shouted "holy shit! Allahu akbar".
That sounds like motivation to me. Unless he said it like “God bless you,” after a sneeze...
Norwegian Police Security Service PST has been informed about the case and is in dialogue with the Oslo Police District about this case, PST senior adviser Anett Aamodt told Nettavisen.
The Olso police assured that locals don't have to fear for safety after the incident.
"For us, this appears as a stand-alone act, so that there is no reason to fear for the safety of the city for others. This is a person who is known to us in the past and who has a history. Based on that, we believe that there is nothing to indicate that it is an act of terrorism," Egil Jørgen Brekke said to the press.
Barely a month ago, Danish citizen and Moslem convert Espen Andersen Bråthen was arrested for killing five people in the Norwegian town of Kongsberg. According to local media, Bråthen had converted to Islam and became subsequently radicalised. He has been known to the Norwegian police since 2017 and was described by a close friend as a "ticking bomb". Furthermore, he had several convictions, including a restraining order for death threats against family members. However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... the media largely presented him as suffering from mental illness, as he was subsequently handed over to health authorities.
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"The motive for the action is unclear, and it is too early to conclude. We investigate broadly. The police don't rule out anything, but so far nothing indicates that terror was the motive,"
Either terror, insanity or attempted suicide by cop, or all three.
[Rudaw] Ottoman TurkishArclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on Tuesday hit northern Duhok province, an official told Rudaw. The area sees frequent intense festivities between Ottoman Turkish forces and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
"It was Ottoman Turkish airstrikes" that targeted Shelaza village in the Kani Masi area, mayor Sarbast Sabri told Rudaw.
The outskirts of the village were bombed three times between 10 am and noon. "Civilians were not hit in the bombardment," Sabri said, but does not yet have information of material damage.
In April, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... launched the twin operations Claw-Lightning and Claw-Thunderbolt in northern Duhok against the PKK, an gang fighting for greater rights for Kurds in Turkey. Ankara considers it a terrorist organization and has regularly pursued the group across the border.
Civilian populations and the environment have been severely impacted by the conflict. Thousands of acres of land have been scorched, and people’s houses and livestock have been hit. Several civilians have been killed and one family in Hirore is suffering from health problems following a suspected chemical attack.
The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has repeatedly called on Turkey to respect its illusory sovereignty and for the PKK to cease using Kurdistan Region territory to launch attacks on its neighbor.
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[IsraelTimes] Terror group has sentenced 8 alleged Israeli spies in the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip to death over the past month
A Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, military court announced on Tuesday that two Gazooks had been sentenced to death for allegedly collaborating with Israel, raising the total number of death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... s for suspected Israeli spies in Gaza to eight in the past month alone.
The two accused were both sentenced to death by hanging. The Hamas military judiciary identified them as residents of Gaza City aged 57 and 46.
A third Paleostinian man was sentenced to death for drug dealing, Hamas judicial officials said in a statement. Another 11 Paleostinians were handed various prison sentences for drug trafficking and spying for Israel, although officials did not specify how many were convicted of each offense.
The Hamas terror group has ruled the Gaza Strip since 2007, when it took over the enclave in a bloody coup from its rival, the Paleostinian Authority. The Islamists have since dealt harshly with those accused of being Israeli spies.
Based on figures from the B’Tselem rights group and including the fresh cases, some 15 death sentences have been issued this year. At least one of the defendants was tried in absentia.
Hamas has sentenced over 130 people to death since 2007; in practice, it has executed some 25 people, according to B’Tselem. The international community has condemned the practice.
[JPost] The arrest follows a year-long covert operation in Israel's Arab sector.
Police officers made the single largest arrest of illegal arms dealers in Israel’s history after a year-long covert operation, the Israel Police announced on Tuesday morning.
The operation resulted in the seizure of 40 rifles, 13 pistols, two machine guns and two explosives linked to a cell phone. A total of 65 suspects from 25 different localities across Israel were arrested, among them a father and his three sons who operated a family arms dealing business.
The raid saw the use of approximately 1,000 police officers, including from the special forces and Border Police.
The operation, coined Operation Ocean, was made possible through the use of an undercover operative who had formerly been a criminal. The operative was recruited by the police in August 2020 and began his assignment in November, police said. The operative himself made 48 different arm purchases, which included 25 AR15-type rifles, one MAG machine gun, seven Kalashnikov-type rifles and 13 high-quality pistols.
"We are fighting a war to protect the daily life of all citizens of this country," OC Israel Police Northern District Assistant-Chief Shimon Lavi said in a statement on Monday morning, soon after the operation was revealed. "It is a war against the intrusion of criminal elements who try and succeed in getting their hands on public funds. It is a war against the extortion of business owners."
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"Police Commissioner Yaakov (Kobi) Shabtai said that the operation was part of a series of actions against illegal arms dealers. He said that the Police had conducted 16 arms busts and arrested 521 arms dealers since operations began. Shabtai added that the number of cases connected to arms dealing quadrupled, and that some NIS 800 million in illegal funds had been appropriated as part of a policy to “go after the money.”
[IsraelTimes] Iran ...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979... has not acknowledged releasing the Vietnamese-flagged vessel, which it captured on October 24; Ship suspected of trying to transfer sanctioned Iranian crude oil to Asia
Satellite tracking data and other signals on Wednesday suggested a Vietnamese oil tanker earlier seized by Iran had been freed by the Islamic Theocratic Republic, ending the latest maritime confrontation involving Tehran amid stalled negotiations over its tattered nuclear deal with world powers.
The Sothys left a position off Iran’s Bandar Abbas port and had reached international waters in the nearby Gulf of Oman early Wednesday, the data analyzed by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named from MarineTraffic.com showed. The vessel appeared anchored there, but there was no information about its crew.
Iran did not acknowledge releasing the vessel and its mission to the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Vietnamese officials could not be reached for comment, though its officials earlier acknowledged trying to obtain more information about the seizure from Iran.
The US Navy’s Mideast-based 5th Fleet did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Iran’s powerful paramilitary Revolutionary Guard troops on Oct. 24 took control of the MV Sothys, a vessel that analysts suspect of trying to transfer sanctioned Iranian crude oil to Asia. US forces had monitored the seizure but ultimately didn’t take action as the vessel sailed into Iranian waters.
Iran later celebrated its capture of the vessel in dramatic footage aired on state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
, the day before the 42nd anniversary of the 1979 seizure of the US Embassy in Tehran.
The Sothys had been on the radar of United Against a Nuclear Iran, a New York-based advocacy group long suspicious of the Islamic Theocratic Republic. In a letter dated Oct. 11 addressed to the Vietnam Maritime Administration, the group said its analysis of satellite photos showed the Sothys received a ship-to-ship transfer of oil in June from an oil tanker called the Oman Pride.
The USTreasury identified the Oman Pride in August as being used to transport Iranian oil as part of a smuggling scheme to enrich the Guard’s expeditionary Quds Force. That Iranian oil ends up being sold into East Asia, the Treasury alleged, without identifying a specific country.
Iran’s seizure of the Sothys would be the latest in a string of hijackings and explosions to roil the Gulf of Oman, which sits near the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf through which a fifth of all traded oil passes.
The US Navy blamed Iran for a series of limpet mine attacks on vessels that damaged tankers in 2019, as well as for a fatal drone attack on an Israeli-linked oil tanker that killed two European crew members earlier this year. Just a few months ago, Iranian hijackers stormed and briefly captured a Panama-flagged asphalt tanker off the United Arab Emirates.
Tehran denies carrying out the attacks, but a wider shadow war between Iran and the West has played out in the region’s volatile waters since then-President Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... withdrew the US from Iran’s nuclear deal in 2018 and imposed crushing sanctions on the country.
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Given Iran's constant contradicting actions, political 180's, showboating and 1950'sNorth Kora style propaganda playing around over the many years. It seems they have not fully brought several major internal groups under control yet.
[Rudaw] Three people were killed after a car was hit by a suspected Ottoman Turkish drone in Qamishli, northeast Syria (Rojava) on Tuesday, according to sources.
Hawar News Agency (ANHA), a news outlet affiliated to the Kurdish administration in Rojava, reported that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... targeted a vehicle in the al-Hilaliye district in Qamishli. ANHA had initially reported that it was a car explosion.
Three people who were on board were killed in the attack, but it is not clear if they were civilians, a local source told Rudaw English, adding that the armored vehicle belonged to a commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
Siyamend Ali, head of media for the People’s Protection Units (YPG), said in a tweet that "three people were martyred as a result of a drone attack against a vehicle in al-Hilaliya neighborhood in Qamishli by the Ottoman Turkish invading state today."
Local security forces (Asayish) said in a statement on Tuesday that three "civilians" were killed in the "Ottoman Turkish drone attack," identifying them as Yusef Gilo, Mazloum Gilo and Mohammed Gilo.
Rudaw has learnt that Mazloum Gilo is the brother of an SDF commander who was not on board when the armored vehicle was targeted. The other two are close relatives of the brothers.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said the vehicle was most likely a military one.
Ankara has neither confirmed nor denied its role in the incident.
Turkey often targets Kurdish YPG in Rojava with drones and artillery. The YPG makes up the majority of US-allied SDF in the region and several members of both forces have been killed in recent months as a result.
Three members of the SDF were killed in a Ottoman Turkish drone attack in Kobane in late October.
[AnNahar] Parts from Syrian anti-aircraft missiles fell Monday night in the northeastern Lebanese village of Sahlat al-Maa near the Syrian border, lightly wounding a woman and damaging several homes, the National News Agency said.
Syria's military said the anti-aircraft missiles were used to shoot down missiles fired by Israeli warplanes while flying over neighboring Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...In 2020 Hezbollah blew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate facility exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that. And it ain't never coming to trial... Israel carried out Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on central and western Syrian provinces, wounding two soldiers and causing material damage.
Syrian air defenses shot down most of the missiles, the Syrian military said.
The strikes came amid an increase in reported attacks by Israel on Syria in recent weeks.
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... Israel says an 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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[Sputnik] A man armed with a knife injured a police officer in 
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...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
[JPost] The arrest follows a year-long covert operation in Israel's Arab sector.
...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979...
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
...In 2020 Hezbollah blew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate facility exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that. And it ain't never coming to trial...
