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Bandits Raid Another Mosque In Niger State, Shoot 15 Worshippers Dead
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Good Morning

FCC grants license for StarShip
launch to orbit. Now waiting on FAA!
Friday December 10th, 2021

JoanCollins03Prehistoric
Lebanon's public sector falls further into chaos and corruption
Lebanon%u2019s central bank sets a new rate of 8,000 Lebanese pounds to the US dollar
Dozens of Pakistani Taliban members freed as truce holds
Iraq%u2019s national security adviser says that US-led forces have ended their combat mission
Libya%u2019s upper house proposes delaying December presidential elections by two months
Deceased suspect in the Portland carjacking incident has been identified
Rapper 'Slim 400' aka Vincent Cohran killed in Inglewood, CA

Posted by: Fred || 12/10/2021 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Joan Collins? THE Joan Collins? Oh my. What terrible sins Time has wrought.
Posted by: Mercutio || 12/10/2021 8:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Gravity always wins.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/10/2021 9:08 Comments || Top||

#3  Wow!. Hot number. I prefer this version to her later years. AH, such is life.
Posted by: Dale || 12/10/2021 9:09 Comments || Top||

#4 
What terrible sins Time has wrought.

"What a world, what a world!" said the wicked witch as she dissolved.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 12/10/2021 9:20 Comments || Top||

#5  How about some pin up picks of Vietnam era.
Posted by: bman || 12/10/2021 10:50 Comments || Top||

#6  'Older' Joan Collins always looked like she had "bordello madam eyes" -- mean, mercenary and jaded about the human race. Beauty shines from within and her life evidently burned hers up.
Posted by: magpie || 12/10/2021 13:15 Comments || Top||

#7  Even at this sweet young age she looks like Trouble. "You think I don't have a knife, do you?"
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/10/2021 13:23 Comments || Top||

#8  ^-- Where would she keep it?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 12/10/2021 14:07 Comments || Top||

#9  ^You may not want to find out.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 12/10/2021 16:21 Comments || Top||

#10  There's an old joke about a farmer, his daughter, and three strangers, but this is a classier joint than the joke.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/10/2021 16:35 Comments || Top||

#11  Gravity IS persistent. She does look like trouble on wheels though.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 12/10/2021 17:01 Comments || Top||

#12  Joan was still smoking during her Dynasty days (age 48-56).
Posted by: Flatch Wittlesbach3456 || 12/10/2021 19:47 Comments || Top||

#13  A knife and its sheath in trompe l'oeil
On the thigh of Joan Collins? Oh, boy!
Sure, they'd frisk her... [sly smile]
But then, after a while,
She would strap on the actual toy!

And give it to those goggle-eyed old goats on the Burg good and proper.
Posted by: Unavimp Chusogum4170 || 12/10/2021 22:42 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Deceased suspect in the Portland carjacking incident has been identified
Yesterday’s report here.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 12/10/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

Noting, he "was" up to his chin in Tatt's.

I remembered, there have been a number of studies in correlationship between excessive Tatt's and Criminal behaviors.

Tattoo's in relationship to Crime, negative social behavior, over sexed and lacking emotional stability.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/10/2021 6:08 Comments || Top||

#2  Leviticus 19:28, “You shall not make gashes in your flesh for the dead, or incise any marks on yourselves.” Historically, scholars have often understood this as a warning against pagan practices.
Posted by: Bertie Crains2651 || 12/10/2021 8:27 Comments || Top||

#3  Tattoos do help medical examiners identify body parts when those are all remaining after unfortunate incidents like this one.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 12/10/2021 8:59 Comments || Top||

#4  He took the meme "Let's Go Brandon" a little too seriously...
Posted by: Warthog || 12/10/2021 11:22 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
India airlifts Afghan Sikhs, hindus from Kabul
[OneIndia] The Taliban
...Arabic for students...
-led government in Afghanistan is sending 114 Afghan Sikhs to India on Friday. Flight is repatriating stranded Indian citizens and distressed Afghan citizens belonging to Hindu and Sikh community along with spouses of Indian citizens in coordination with Indian World Forum.

"After their arrival, the distressed bonafide Afghan citizens will be rehabilitated by Sobti Foundation," Puneet Singh Chandhok, president, Indian World Forum said in a statement.

"It is a matter of pride that the 3 holy Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji from historical Gurdwaras in Afghanistan and Hindu religious scriptures including Ramanaya, Mahabharth and Bhagavad Gita from ancient 5th Century Asamai Mandir, Kabul are along being flown," Indian World Forum.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/10/2021 01:55 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Taliban/IEA

#1  Y'know, I would be more pleased if they'd actually lifted out some opium.

[neat Marxist pun, eh?]
Posted by: Dron66046 || 12/10/2021 14:42 Comments || Top||


No place for ISIS-K terrorists in Afghanistan: Taliban
[KhaamaPress] Deputy minister of information and culture and front man of the Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
Zabiullah Mujahid has again undermined ISIS/ISIS-K (Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
of Iraq and Syria-Khorasan branch) and added that the forces of Evil have no place in Afghanistan.

In an exclusive interview with Anadolu Agency, Zabiullah Mujahid said that 670 affiliates of ISIS-K have been arrested and 25 hideouts of the fighters were destroyed in the past three months.
Sounds impressive. Might even be partially or wholly true. Or not — there’s no way of knowing, especially if other rebels are being accused of being ISIS-K, or jihadi tourists wander into Afghanistan from other areas of operation.
Mujahid added that the safe havens were destroyed in the Afghan capital Kabul and eastern Jalalabad city of 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.

The front man added that ISIS-K is not a big threat in Afghanistan and that this was a small group that has been dismantled in Kabul and Jalalabad.

"The vacuum in Afghanistan created an opportunity for the group to carry attacks immediately after August 15. There was no communication system and security system fixed by the Taliban initially." Said Mujahid.

He accused former Afghan president Ashraf Ghani
...former chancellor of Kabul University, ex-president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. When Biden abandoned the country left with a helicopter, four cars, and part of the national treasury...
of strengthening ISIS in the north of Afghanistan in order to use them against the Taliban.

The statements come as there has been decreased in attacks by the ISIS-K in Afghanistan.

The group has carried out four major attacks in Kabul and provinces along with small-scale explosions since the Taliban takeover that killed and maimed hundreds of humans.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/10/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  I have always thought it was a "revolving door" in Afghanistan (and Pakistan): Tribal Bandits become Government Mercenaries turning into ex-Government Brigands (a 'brigand' is a mercenary turned bandit ya'know) and then losing all cohesion becoming Tribal Bandits again.
Posted by: magpie || 12/10/2021 13:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Even Muslamic bandits know you can't rob rich foreigners if you've killed or converted all of them already.
Posted by: jpal || 12/10/2021 14:21 Comments || Top||

#3  that 670 affiliates of ISIS-K have been arrested

"All misguided yoots, they're just confused about leadership, we'll straighten 'em out. And reform them into... why Ta-li-ban of course!"
Posted by: Dron66046 || 12/10/2021 14:46 Comments || Top||


Africa North
France condemns attack that killed seven U.N. peacekeepers in Mali
[ENALGHADEERTV.NET] La Belle France’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday condemned an attack that killed seven United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
peacekeepers and maimed several others in Mali on Wednesday, saying those responsible must be identified and held accountable.

Seven United Nations peacekeepers in central Mali were killed and three others seriously maimed by an improvised bomb, the U.N. mission said on Twitter..
Posted by: Fred || 12/10/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in North Africa


One person died after he set himself on fire at the headquarters of Tunisia's Ennahda Islamist party
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 12/10/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

#1  Made an ash of himself
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 12/10/2021 8:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Was it on purpose or accidently on purpose?
Posted by: Silentbrick || 12/10/2021 12:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Maybe a misplaced Iranian/Zoroastrian fire-worshipper?
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/10/2021 12:52 Comments || Top||


Libya’s upper house proposes delaying December presidential elections by two months
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 12/10/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

#1  The opposition of Libya’s Islamists to the presidential elections does not come as a surprise. For years, the Muslim Brotherhood has been pushing against polls, justifying its position by the need to hold a referendum on the constitution first.
Posted by: Bertie Crains2651 || 12/10/2021 12:10 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Nine killed in militant attack in Nigeria
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] At least nine people were killed in an attack by armed militants on a village in Niger State in central Nigeria, according to the local police press office.

The attacks reportedly took place in the village of Baare during morning prayers at a local mosque. According to preliminary information, the militants arrived on motorcycles to the mosque and opened fire on the parishioners. As a result of the shooting, nine people died, and another ten were wounded of varying severity. At present, security forces have been sent to the region to search for the attackers.

As reported by IA REGNUM , on December 8, 30 passengers of the bus were killed as a result of an arson attack by militants in the Nigerian state of Sokoto. According to the police, the militants set up an ambush on the road.
Posted by: badanov || 12/10/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: ISWAP


Suspected Herdsmen Invade Farmland, Kill Two Farmers In Adamawa
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 12/10/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Fulani Herdsmen (Boko Haram)


Troops Neutralise Several Boko Haram/ISWAP Terrorists In Borno Ambush
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Troops of Sector 1 Operation HADIN KAI (OPHK) on Wednesday neutralised three Boko Haram
...the name means Western education is forbidden, They're what you get as the result of a traditional African or Islamic education...
/Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
West Africa Province in an ambush staged at one of the terrorists' notorious crossing points along Kwadal-Agapalwa-Amuda axis in Borno State.

In a statement on Wednesday, military front man, Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu said the surprise attack was an intelligence-driven operation.

The statement read, "The troops, who were on a long range fighting patrol towards Agapalwa and Amuda villages, got wind of the rampaging activities of the turbans and laid in wait for them at the crossing point.

"In the battle that ensued, troops rained heavy fire on the terrorists, inflicting maximum casualty on them.

"After gallantly eliminating the terrorists, the troops recovered one General Purpose Machine Gun (GPMG), three Hand Grenades, 62 links of 7.62mm ammunition, one Motorcycle and three bicycles from the terrorists.

"Troops are currently exploiting further to clear the area of any escaping terrorist.

Posted by: Fred || 12/10/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram (ISIS)


Over 10 Gunmen Stormed Imo Community, Kidnapped Traditional Ruler
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Some button men on Thursday morning kidnapped Damian Nwaigwe, the traditional ruler of Mbutu ancient kingdom in the Aboh Mbaise Local Government Area of Imo State.

It was learnt that the button men were not fewer than 10 in number.

The monarch was kidnapped at his palace around 2: 30am, a community source told The Punch.

The source said, "The traditional ruler of Mbutu ancient kingdom in the Aboh Mbaise Local Government Area of Imo state, Eze Damian Nwaigwe, has been kidnapped. The respected king was kidnapped at his palace around 2.30 am, on Thursday.

"Those who kidnapped him were many. They came in vehicles and were more than 10. They barricaded his palace, shot indiscriminately until they whisked the monarch away in an already steaming vehicle.

"The palace of the king is secluded. He built his house far from where other villagers live that was why it wasn't difficult for him to have been kidnapped without any resistance from his subjects."

The incident has caused apprehension in the community, and villagers were said to have kept vigil from the time of the incident till dawn.

Police spokesperson in the state, Micheal Abattam, confirmed the kidnap of the monarch.

Abattam said the command was working to rescue the monarch alive.
Posted by: Fred || 12/10/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Banditti


Bandits Meet With Zamfara Communities Over Attacks, Abductions, Demand N10Million For Peace
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Some bandidos have reportedly demanded N10 million from some communities under their control in the Zurmi Local Government Area of Zamfara State to stop attacks.

The bandidos were said to have demanded the money after a reconciliation meeting was held between the people of the affected communities and the representatives of the gang of bandidos.

The meeting was reportedly held in a village called Kuryar Kware.
However,
there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly...
a source told Daily Post that the bandidos sought a reconciliation meeting with the people of Yanbuki and its neighbouring communities in Zurmi.

The source also said there was a recent attack by the bandidos in the Yanbuki community last Saturday during which more than 35 persons were kidnapped.

The meeting was reportedly attended by many residents of Yanbuki, and its neighbouring communities.

The source who is from Yanbuki, said "after realising that all effort to get the government and security agencies to secure the axis failed, we had no option but to accept the reconciliation meeting, and they have demanded the payment of N10 million fine for peace to reign."

The source said that the affected communities had agreed to pay the sum for their areas to be secure.

He identified the communities as Yanbuki, Tsaka, Maduba, Askawa, Ganda Samu, Dillin Fulani
... a peculiarly brutal tribe of Moslem herdsmen infesting Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and probably other places that are light on law and order and heavy on tribal identity...
and Kafan Dutsi, saying their residents were part of the meeting.

The bandidos were said to have demanded that the residents of Yanbuki village pay a ransom for the 68 persons that were kidnapped frоm the village.

"On this particular issue of payment of ransom, even the communities' members and the bandidos held meeting again on Wednesday but could not reach an agreement," the source said.

However,
there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly...
a man from the village who spoke on condition of anonymity for security reasons, said he was asked to pay N1,000.

The villager said residents of Yanbuki village were levied individually.

But the state information commissioner, Hon. Ibrahim Magaji Dosara, said the state government was not aware that a fine was imposed on the people of Yanbuki community.

He, however, assured that he would investigate the substance of the claim.

He admitted that the government was aware of the plight of Yanbuki community members regarding the incessant attacks on the village by the bandidos.

"Even recently, security agencies came to their rescue on the threats they are undergoing. But we are not aware that they were asked to pay a N10 million fine. We cannot confirm the substance of the claim now until we investigate it.

"On the allegation that the people of Yanbuki village were neglected by the government despite the threat, they are facing from the bandidos, did they inform you that recently the vehicles of security agencies were attacked and set ablaze by the bandidos, so if they are neglected, how did security vehicles get burnt? I think that issue of saying they were abandoned by the government does not arise."
Posted by: Fred || 12/10/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Banditti


Gunmen Break Into Homes, Abduct Eight, Kill Housewife In Abuja
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

A housewife simply identified as Salamatu has been reportedly rubbed out while eight other residents were kidnapped by button men at Piri community in the Kwali Area Council of Abuja.

It was learnt that the kidnappers stormed the community between Tuesday and Wednesday.

According to Daily Trust, a resident, Yakubu Saidu, said the kidnappers first invaded two houses and whisked away two persons amid sporadic gunshots.

According to Yakubu, the kidnappers targeted a car dealer identified as Sadauna but since they could not get him, they went away with two of his brothers, on Tuesday night.

They were said to have returned to the community on Wednesday when Salamatu was killed.

The dear departed, who was the senior wife of Yusuf Maigunwa, a yam seller in Kwali, attempted to escape through the back door when she was rubbed out.

"The husband of the dear departed woman was at home when the kidnappers came, but they couldn’t locate where he was hiding, as they whisked away his second wife and two others inside the house.

"Some gangs of the kidnappers, who positioned themselves at strategic places within the community, invaded two houses and whisked away three residents.

"The late woman have been buried in accordance with Islamic rites," he added.
Posted by: Fred || 12/10/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Banditti


Bandits Raid Another Mosque In Niger State, Shoot 15 Worshippers Dead
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Gunmen suspected to be bandits have invaded Maza-Kuka in Ba’are village, Mashegu Local Government Area of Niger State, killing no fewer than 15 persons in a mosque.

The villagers were performing their early morning prayers on Thursday when the gunmen invaded the village in large numbers and attacked the villagers.

The gunmen reportedly arrived on motorcycles and went straight into the mosque shooting sporadically resulting in the death of residents.

An eyewitness said the community was taken unawares by the bandits who left many dead and many others injured.

The Niger State Commissioner of Police, Monday Bala Kuryas, confirmed the incident.

Kuryas however said nine people were killed in the attack.

He stressed that security agencies would continue to discharge their responsibility of protecting lives and properties of Nigerlites and Nigerians while calling for credible intelligence from public.

“The Niger State Police Command has already drafted security personnel to the affected area to further safeguard lives and properties in that community,” the police boss said.

The incident is coming a few months after some worshippers were killed in a mosque at Mazukaka village in Mashegu LGA of the state.
Posted by: Fred || 12/10/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Banditti

#1  Sunni or Shi’ites - Saudi Arabia or Iran
Posted by: Kofi Spaing3074 || 12/10/2021 18:11 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Yemeni Minister Urges Stance from Lebanon after 'Hizbullah Commander' Killed
[An Nahar] 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...
military commander and expert Akram al-Sayyed has died in artillery shelling 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...
’s Marib governorate, Yemeni Information, Culture and Tourism Minister Muammar al-Aryani has said, describing the development as "a painful blow to Tehran’s regime and its sectarian militias.""Al-Sayyed, 35, had entered Yemen in August 2017 among a host of Lions of Islam belonging to Hizbullah, and on December 3 he was sent with a number of Hizbullah experts to the fronts of southern Marib to lead operations and implement Iran’s scheme of escalating the magnitude of confrontations in the governorate," Aryani said in a social media post.

He added: "The terrorist was killed alongside Huthi militia commander Abu Ashraf al-Asadi and eight members of the militia, while his body was evacuated in an ambulance to the al-Jouba area before being transferred to the Saada governorate, where the bodies of dozens of Iran
...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979...
and Hizbullah experts and fighters are being buried in full secrecy."

The Yemeni minister accordingly called on the Lebanese government and people to "take a decisive stance over Hizbullah’s continued interference in the Yemeni affairs and its involvement in the shelling of cities and villages and the death of Yemenis."

He also called on the international community, the U.N. and the permanent members of the U.N. Security Council to "condemn this blatant interference which is undermining the efforts of pacification and peacemaking in Yemen," while urging them to "toughen the sanctions against Hizbullah’s leaders."



Posted by: Fred || 12/10/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


Caribbean-Latin America
Mexico truck crash: At least 53 Biden replacement people killed as trailer overturns
[BBC] At least 53 people have been killed and dozens more injured after the truck they were being transported in crashed in southern Mexico, authorities say.

Over 100 people, said to be migrants from Central America, were crammed into the truck's trailer when it rolled and hit a bridge in the state of Chiapas.

Pictures from the crash scene show victims strewn across the road next to the overturned truck.

There were also rows of what appeared to be bodies covered in white sheets.

It is one of the worst accidents of its kind in Mexico, with at least 58 people injured, some seriously, said Luis Manuel Garcia, head of the Chiapas civil protection agency.

He said the victims included men, women and children. Their nationalities have not been confirmed, but local officials said most of the people on board were migrants from Honduras and Guatemala.

The truck was reportedly speeding when it flipped on a sharp bend and hit a pedestrian bridge on a main road leading to the Chiapas state capital Tuxtla Gutiérrez.

Chiapas, which neighbours Guatamala, is a major transit point for undocumented migrants.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/10/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Human Trafficking

#1  Biden and Harris are responsible for this needless carnage.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/10/2021 0:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Carnage in Mexico. Carnage in Waukesha. Carnage in dozens of US cities.

Biden, Harris, all the sick Open Borders and BLM-supporting individuals' hands are covered in the blood of innocent victims of their wicked policies
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/10/2021 2:26 Comments || Top||

#3  What happened to all the "these are God's children" blather?

Funny how, whenever these poor miserable people suffer the consequences of this cynical shitshow staged by our moronic elites for blatantly political purposes -- being raped by other illegals, dying on their journey through the desert or roasting or being burned to death in their coyotes' modern version of slave ships -- when these wretched souls suffer, all we hear from our elites is ... silence.

F--k Biden and his White-Veep and Mayorkas and the Ferret.
Damn them to hell. God save the poor souls destroyed by our leaders' cynical incompetence. R.I.P.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/10/2021 13:03 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Baku says an Azerbaijani soldier has been killed near the border with Armenia
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 12/10/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Ottoman Proxies


Europe
Eric Zemmour Attacked at First Campaign Rally, 39 Antifa Extremists Arrested, Molotov Cocktails Seized
From a few days ago, but is information only hinted at elsewhere.
[Breitbart] French conservative presidential candidate Eric Zemmour held his first campaign rally over the weekend but the event was marred when he was assaulted by a crowd member, while 39 Antifa
...the armed wing of the Democratic Party...
bully boyz were arrested allegedly armed with weapons and acid at the venue.

The conservative writer and television pundit was attacked shortly before his speech in Villepinte on Sunday by a member of the audience who attempted to get his arms around the neck of Zemmour before security was able to subdue him.

Zemmour himself was left with an injured wrist due to the altercation and given nine days of Temporary Incapacity for Work (ITT), according to a report from the French broadcaster BFMTV.

The alleged assailant taken into custody for premeditated violence was identified in the French press as 27-year-old Valentin Abdelmajid B.
not exactly a-%— his name redacted in line with normal French privacy rules — from Colombes.

The 27-year-old was not the only one arrested at the rally on Sunday. At least 39 far-left Antifa bully boyz were taken into custody by police at the event, with reports that some of the bully boyz were armed with Molotov cocktails and "bottles of acid". A total of 11 Molotov cocktails are reported to have been found by police.

That bully boyz would take acid to a political event has been denounced by establishment politicians on French national television.

Antifa has previously targeted Zemmour events, including an event in late October that led Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša to describe Antifa as an international terrorist group.

"Antifa is a global terrorist organization. Supported by the capital of financial speculators forging profits at the expense of the chaos caused by the operation," Janša said.

Earlier last week, Antifa social media accounts had called on bully boyz to disrupt Zemmour’s rally, and in Villepinte.

Despite the attack on himself, Zemmour gave a speech to the estimated 10,000 or more people who attended the event and announced the creation of his political party Reconquest, which some have noted could be a reference to the Spanish Reconquista, which saw Christians drive out Islamic rulers who had invaded the Iberian peninsula centuries before.

Zemmour’s campaign manager has been revealed to be a decorated French Army general, Général Bertrand de la Chesnais, a commander of the French Legion of Honour.

During his speech, Zemmour stated that he would bring immigration levels to zero and would also look to pull La Belle France from the integrated military command of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
The campaign rally is the first for Zemmour, who announced his formal election campaign last week in a video in which he described the "third-worldisation" of La Belle France and described how many French felt like strangers in their own country.

"You have not moved and yet you have the feeling of no longer being at home. You feel like a stranger in your country. You are exiles from within," he said and added, "the third-worldisation of our people and our country impoverishes them as much as it dislocates them."

Zemmour also mentioned the theory of the Great Replacement, a theory describing radical demographic shifts in Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
and elsewhere that was coined by French writer Renaud Camus.

Polls have shown that as many as half of the French public believes in the Great Replacement theory, which asserts that elites in business and politics view people as interchangeable things.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/10/2021 02:20 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Four-star general, former major general of the army, Bertrand de la Chesnais.
A seasoned organizer Head of the list in Carpentras in the Vaucluse in the last municipal elections of a list supported by the RN and the PCD, General de la Chesnais is a seasoned organizer. When he was number two in the army, he was in charge of heavy and very technical missions, such as the creation and deployment of the sentinel operation, after the 2015 attacks. But also the renewal and modernization of the army equipment. He is a man who knows how to talk to politicians, he was in very close contact with the office of Minister of Defense Jean-Yves Le Drian when he was in office. General de la Chesnais is also close to the former chief of staff of the armed forces, Pierre de Villiers.
Posted by: Bertie Crains2651 || 12/10/2021 8:23 Comments || Top||

#2  But the FBI swears Antifa is not an "organization". They're just international LARPers who all just happen to shop at the same Nazi memorabilia shop.
Posted by: Mercutio || 12/10/2021 8:45 Comments || Top||

#3  Like Trump, Zemmour is pissing off all the right people.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/10/2021 12:07 Comments || Top||

#4  The French saw this decades ago. Read Jean Raspail's "Le Camp Des Saints"
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/10/2021 12:10 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Dozens of Pakistani Taliban members freed as truce holds
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Authorities have released up to 100 Pak Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
prisoners as part of a truce with the bully boy group, sources on both sides said on Thursday.
I think we can all envision the amount of good that will come of this.
Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) -- a separate movement that shares a common history with the Afghan Taliban -- plunged the country into a period of horrific violence after forming in 2007.
TTP was a merger of a bunch of other murderous groups and the violence was pretty horrific before 2007.
Seven years after the military cracked down on the movement, Islamabad is trying to quell a TTP comeback linked to the victory of the Afghan Taliban across the border.
As long as they have sanctuaries on the other side of the border, Pakistain has a problem.
The two sides have been engaged in talks, with a one-month truce that was due to end on December 9 extended, the sources said.
The Talibs were engaged in talks with the Afghan government too. That certainly worked out well.
"Up to 100 Taliban fighters have been released during the last 10 to 15 days, they are low-level fighters and will remain under observation," said a government official based in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire...
, a city close to the remote tribal areas near the Afghan border where the TTP are active.

A security official in the city also confirmed the releases, from several prisons in the northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, and added that they would not be moved to Afghanistan.

A senior Taliban commander based in eastern Afghanistan told AFP that the release was important as a confidence-building measure.

"The TTP leadership has shown its willingness to increase the ceasefire for an indefinite period," the Taliban commander told AFP by phone and added that "talks with the Pak officials would continue."

The two government officials who spoke to AFP also confirmed the extension of the truce.

Pak Prime Minister Imran Khan
...aka The Great Khan, who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker, maybe not even among the top five...
announced in October that the government was in talks with the TTP for the first time since 2014, facilitated by Afghanistan’s new leaders who seized power in August.

The talks have angered many within Pakistain, who remember the brutal attacks -- including on schools, hotels, churches and markets -- which killed around 70,000 people, according to successive governments.

This year the TTP claimed 32 attacks in August, 37 in September and 24 in October -- the highest monthly totals for at least five years, according to their own published data, which Pak officials say is usually exaggerated.

Across all of 2020, when the United States first pledged to start withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan, it claimed 149 assaults -- three times more than in 2019.

Thousands of TTP fighters are believed to be in Afghanistan, mostly in the rugged eastern highlands neighboring Pakistain, where they sought shelter after the 2014 crackdown.

Made up mostly of ethnic Pashtuns, like the Afghan Taliban, it carried out hundreds of suicide and kabooms and kidnappings across the country for years before being crushed by a massive military operation.

Posted by: Fred || 12/10/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [20 views] Top|| File under: Pak Taliban (TTP)

#1  they are low-level fighters and will remain under observation

Dang! Those pesky low level fighters! Always shootin' you in the balls.

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Iraq
Five terrorists were arrested in Kirkuk and Baghdad
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Directorate of Counter-Terrorism Agency reported that a military commander of ISIS had been arrested in Kirkuk Governorate.

The Agency said in brief on Thursday, "We arrested a terrorist commander, affiliated with ISIS gangs, along with his assistant, on the outskirts of Kirkuk Governorate."

In the same context, the Iraqi Security Media Cell reported that it had arrested three wanted bully boyz by the provisions of Article (4 / terrorism) for their affiliation with ISIS.

On Wednesday, Iraq's Security Media Cell announced a new joint military operation east of Kirkuk Governorate between Erbil and Baghdad.

In a statement, the Cell said, "to dry up the sources of terrorism, to chase ISIS elements and to clear the lands, the Joint Operations Command in Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
the third and fourth axes of the Peshmerga and the Counter-Terrorism Service, launched a joint security operation in eastern Kirkuk Governorate."

Earlier, The Peshmerga and Iraqi forces launched military operations to pursue ISIS members. An official told Shafaq News Agency that brigades of the Peshmerga forces and the Iraqi army carried out military operations to "comb" and "clean" large areas of the Kifri and Kolgo axis adjacent to the disputed areas.

In addition, the Assistant Commander of the Qara Tapa, Hemrin axis of the Peshmerga, Maj. Gen. Muhammad Rostom confirmed to our Agency that these operations of the initial encounter include combing the areas extending from the outskirts of Kifri to the outskirts of Tuz Khurmatu, and in coordination with the army and Counter-terrorism forces He indicated that the operations were launched from five axes concentrated in the areas that witnessed terrorist attacks.

An attack by ISIS turbans on a village in northern Iraq on Friday killed three villagers and 10 Kurdish soldiers. The attack took place in the Makhmour region, a hotbed for the terrorist organization activity that sees regular attacks against Kurdish forces, Iraqi forces, and civilians.

In a separate attack on Sunday, ISIS killed four Peshmerga soldiers and a civilian and maimed six other people when attacking Qara Salem village in northern Iraq.
Posted by: Fred || 12/10/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Three Turkish soldiers killed in operations in Kurdistan
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Three Ottoman Turkish soldiers were killed in an attack by Kurdish Lions of Islam during cross-border operations in the Kurdistan Region on Thursday, the Ottoman Turkish Defence Ministry said, adding six of the Lions of Islam were "neutralised".

"Targets identified in the region were struck in an air operation and six Lions of Islam were neutralised according to initial indications. Operations in the region are continuing," the ministry said.

"Neutralised" is commonly used to mean killed.

The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
's operations in Iraq target the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) murderous Moslem group, which has bases there and which is designated a terrorist group by Turkey, the United States and European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
The group launched an insurgency in southeast Turkey in 1984 in which more than 40,000 people have been killed.
Rudaw adds:
Ottoman Turkish defense ministry announced Thursday the death of three of its soldiers in an attack carried out by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the Kurdistan Region. However,
nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits...
the Kurdish group claimed they killed at least eight soldiers in an extensive military activity.

People's Defence Forces (HPG), PKK's armed wing, said in a statement on Thursday that its fighters began attacking Ottoman Turkish military bases in the Zap area on five sides at 2pm on Wednesday, lasting until early Thursday.

"As a result of this victorious activity, several invaders were punished. Our forces closely observed the dead bodies of eight invaders," is said, adding that they were able to confiscate two M-16 rifles, projectiles, BKC and other military equipment.
Posted by: Fred || 12/10/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Asayish forces dismantle an ISIS sleeper cell in al-Sulaymaniyah
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

The Asayish directorate announced today dismantling an ISIS cell in al-Sulaymaniyah that was trying to carry out attacks in Kurdistan Region.

The directorate said in a statement that a wide security campaign was launched, during which members of an ISIS sleeper cell were arrested in Halabja.

The forces also seized ammunition, weapons, and kabooms that the forces of Evil intended to use in their terrorist plans.
Posted by: Fred || 12/10/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Iraq’s national security adviser says that US-led forces have ended their combat mission
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 12/10/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israeli woman stabbed in apparent E. J’lem terror attack; Palestinian girl arrested
[IsraelTimes] Assault takes place as victim is walking with her kids near flashpoint Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood where she lives; suspect is 14-year-old neighbor

An Israeli woman who was walking with her five young children, including one in a stroller, was stabbed in the back and lightly maimed at the entrance to the flashpoint Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem in a suspected terror attack on Wednesday morning, police said.

Police officers arrested a teenage Paleostinian girl suspected of carrying out the attack a short time later at her neighborhood school. Her father and mother were also detained for interrogation, as well as another student, a teacher, and the school’s principal.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/10/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Bassil Slams Labor Minister Decision to Allow Palestinians to Work in Lebanon
[An Nahar] Free Patriotic Movement
Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic...
head Jebran Bassil tweeted Thursday that the decision by the labor minister to allow Paleostinians and the unregistered individuals to practice dozens of professions is "illegal.""The decision violates the Labor Law and the Constitution," Bassil said.

"It is veiled naturalization and it is rejected," the MP added.

Bassil called on the labor syndicates to reject it before the State Council, and on the Lebanese to refuse to comply with it.

"This is unacceptable and we will not allow stealing the jobs from the Lebanese in such circumstances," Bassil decried.

Labor Minister Mostafa Bayram later affirmed that "the decision is not against the law," and that he has taken it based on his "powers" as a minister.

He said that "the ethical aspect and the economical benefit are the two motives for the decision," stressing that "the humanitarian side was one of the main motives."



Posted by: Fred || 12/10/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah



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