[Breitbart] An Iranian businessman will be spending more than three years in a U.S. prison for laundering money for Mexican cartels. The man used firms along the U.S.-Mexico Border to launder illicit funds, according to court documents.
This week, 51-year-old Mohsen Mohammadi-Mohammadi went before U.S. District Judge Marina Garcia Marmolejo in Laredo, who sentenced him to 40 months for money laundering, a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced. Mohammadi pleaded guilty to the charge in December. After his sentence, he is expected to be deported.
Mohammadi worked with various individuals to launder money using a tactic called black market peso exchange, prosecutors argued, where they would trade commodities internationally so as to give cartels their funds in Mexican cash.
Court documents claim that from 2011 to 2013, Mohammadi would have associates pick up drug proceeds in U.S. cities and move them to Laredo to purchase and sell premium perfumes and other items. Prosecutors claim Mohammadi fled to Iran in 2017 after the case became public and it was not until recent travel to New York that allowed authorities to arrest him.
The use of border city perfume stores to launder cartel money is not new. In 2012, a federal judge in New York sentenced Vikram Datta to 20-years in prison for his role in using his stores in Laredo to launder money for the Sinaloa Cartel, a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office revealed. Ptosecutors claimed that from 2009 to 2011, Datta used his business to launder millions.
The national “interim” government could never be said to countenance such a thing, but sometimes local Taliban running things on the ground forget that they’re pretending to be civilized.
[AlAhram] A "number" of British nationals are being detained in Afghanistan, the UK government said Saturday, adding that it had raised the issue with the country's Taliban ...Arabic for students... authorities.
The foreign ministry's statement to AFP came a day after the Taliban released two overseas journalists who were tossed into the calaboose, including a former BBC correspondent.
"We are providing support to the families of a number of British men who have been detained in Afghanistan," the ministry said, without specifying how many British nationals were being held and by whom.
"UK officials have raised their detention with the Taliban at every opportunity, including when a delegation travelled to Kabul this week."
A British delegation led by Hugo Shorter -- the head of the UK's mission to Afghanistan but based in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... -- flew to Kabul to meet foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi earlier this week.
Shorter said he had discussed the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, as well as human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... abuses, with Taliban officials during his trip to the country.
On Friday, Western media reports said at least six British citizens were being detained in Afghanistan, including former BBC correspondent Andrew North, who was released later that day.
The Taliban authorities did not comment when contacted by AFP.
Also among British nationals detained is Peter Jouvenal, who has been held since early December, a statement released by his friends said. A journalist turned businessman, Jouvenal is also a German citizen and is married to an Afghan woman. He might have been "detained in error" as he was in Afghanistan to discuss investments in the country's mining industry, the statement said.
"He is being held without charge, and with no freedom to contact his family or lawyers," it said, adding that Jouvenal had been the cameraman for a CNN ...the organization formerly known as the Cable News Network. Now who knows what it might stand for... interview with the late al-Qaeda founder the late Osama bin Laden ...... who is now neither a strong horse nor a weak horse, but a dead horse...... in 1997 in Afghanistan.
"Before his arrest he was working openly and had frequent meetings with senior Taliban officials."
On Friday, the Taliban released North and another foreign journalist after the two were detained while on an assignment for the UN refugee agency in Afghanistan. It was unclear when they were detained but the agency said it was "relieved" that the two and their Afghan colleagues were free.
Taliban government front man Zabihullah Mujahid said they were tossed into the calaboose because they did not possess valid identity cards and documents.
[Garowe] The Kenyan security agencies beefed up security as the Somalia-based al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... , functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... forces of Evil have seemingly resumed attacks in neighboring Kenya after months of relative peace and stability, striking thrice within a week in separate incidents.
Last week, the forces of Evil killed over 10 people near Mandera, a town neighboring Somalia near the Gedo region, after targeting a passenger vehicle. This was the first attack on Kenyan soil in as many months according to police reports.
A few days later, the forces of Evil killed four people in the neighboring Wajir County just within the area where the Kenyan Defense Forces [KDF] have been conducting operations along with their American counterparts.
Yet again, the forces of Evil carried out an attack on Thursday evening in their latest wave of violence, leaving at least four people dead after a vehicle they were driving in ran over an Improvised Explosive Device [IED] in Garissa County in Kenya.
The incident happened Thursday as the vehicle, which was ferrying six persons in total, made its way to Hulugho from Masalani. The IED detonated between Bura East and Galmagala areas. The driver of the vehicle that sustained serious damage is fighting for his life in hospital while another passenger escaped with minor injuries.
The dear departed persons are said to have been from the same family. Kenyan official James Kianda said an operation had been launched to get those behind the incident. He said they suspect the bomb was set up by al-Shabaab forces of Evil operating in the area. Garissa leaders also urged residents to be more vigilant and report any suspicious persons to the authorities.
Al-Shabaab has been planting explosives on the routes used by the security agencies. They have also been targeting communication masts in their attacks. The area is near the Somalia border, and the forces of Evil usually cross at will and stage attacks before escaping back.
[Aljazeera] French forces have killed dozens of fighters in Burkina Faso linked to deadly attacks this week in neighbouring Benin whose victims included a Frenchman, the army said.
The French-led Barkhane force in the Sahel region "engaged its air intelligence capacities to locate the armed group" responsible for the attacks, before carrying out air attacks that killed 40 fighters, the army’s general command said on Saturday.
The Frenchman had been among nine people killed this week in two attacks on park rangers in the W National Park, a wildlife reserve in Benin’s remote north bordering troubled Niger and Burkina Faso.
Two roadside bombs killed five park rangers, one park official, one soldier and a French trainer on Tuesday, according to a Beninese government toll.
Two days later, another park official was killed in an explosion.
France said on Thursday it had opened an investigation as a 50-year-old citizen was among those killed in a "terrorist attack" in the park.
African Parks, the organisation running the reserve, said the Frenchman had been a "chief law enforcement instructor" there.
Benin had long been one of the more stable countries in West Africa, where fighters from al-Qaeda and ISIL (ISIS) threaten Sahel countries, but it has experienced several recent attacks.
Criminal smuggling gangs also operate along its frontier.
Posted by: Besoeker ||
02/13/2022 12:52 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[9 views]
Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in North Africa
#4
That was Macron's offer: you stand down in our backyard / en Afrique, and the Euros will give you a free hand in your neck of the woods.
If / when the more competent marchers in the State Delartment figure out a formula guaranteeing no NATO expansion and a pullback of forward-deployed NATO missiles on Russia's borders, we can arrive at a similar understanding as what Macron achieved
With doom, bold Burkinabes, looming,
Take flight before bombs begin booming!
Hold arms far outstretched
And run round as if tetched,
Making noises of vrooming and zooming!
[DW] The French army on Saturday said it killed 40 faceless myrmidons in Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... . According to a statement posted on Twitter, the faceless myrmidons were "neutralized" during a joint operation with Burkinabe armed forces. The statement went on to say that the armed "terrorist group" was responsible for two attacks in neighboring Benin.
Probably Al Qaeda. Some from the 2% of the population that is Tuareg joined forces with the Tuareg-linked branch of Al Qaeda in the Maghreb in Mali (JNIM), allowed safe haven in Burkina Faso by then-president Blaise Compaoré in exchange for keeping kinetic action across the border, but when he left office they expanded activities into the provinces along the Mali border. ISIS in the Greater Sahel, formed from a faction of AQIM’s al Mourabitoun, is much less active, while Nigeria’s Boko Haram/ISWAP mostly pursues money and weapons to take back home.
GROUP BELIEVED TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR BENIN ATTACKS
The French army said on Tuesday and Wednesday that an gang operating in the area of the W National Park led attacks on a ranger patrol and members of Benin's armed forces.
Nine people were killed, including five park rangers and a French national.
According to the French military's statement, aerial intelligence was used to locate the group after the alarm was raised. On Thursday, a column of "terrorists" traveling on cycle of violences was targeted by a drone as they crossed the border of Burkina Faso. Twelve were killed in that engagement.
Shortly after that, warplanes carried out three strikes targeting more holy warriors. "During this action more than 30 bandidosbandidos holy warriors were neutralized," the statement said.
In January, French armed forces reported that dozens of Islamist faceless myrmidons were killed in a number of engagements in northern Burkina Faso.
OPERATION BARKHANE La Belle France is leading Operation Barkhane, a multinational force battling Islamist groups in the Sahel region ... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas... . Around 5,000 French troops are joined by soldiers from Mali, Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Niger and Chad.
Last year, La Belle France's President Emmanuel Macron said his country's involvement in the operation would end in the first quarter of 2022.
The insurgency has plunged the region into chaos with a number of states experiencing political turmoil.
In January, Burkina Faso became the latest country to fall under military control, joining Mali, Guinea and Chad, where militaries toppled their countries' governments in 2021.
One of the reasons cited by the military for seizing control was growing frustration with the government's inability to contain the insurgency.
Muhammad Yusuf, a child-fighter named after Boko Haram ...the name means Western education is forbidden, They're what you get as the result of a traditional African or Islamic education... founder, has been confirmed dead.
According to a report, Yusuf was killed some days ago by a military Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... at the Bukar Mairam enclave of the rebels in Marte Local Government Area of Borno State.
Before his death, Yusuf was a commander at Bukar Mairam, holding the leadership title of Rijal Amne (Trustworthy man).
The boy’s father, Goni Maina, was the former commander (governor of the Lake Chad) of the terrorist group, the 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 West Africa.
Maina was killed in December 2020 during an air raid jointly conducted by the Nigerian Army and Air Force.
The air raid at the time also led to the elimination of more than 100 murderous Moslems including several high-ranking holy warriors’ commanders, foot soldiers and Hisbah police from the ISWAP faction, late Abubakar Shekau ...the lunatic leader of Boko Haram who has been reported dead at least eleven times, pledged his body and soul to ISIS, told his fighters to hang it up once or twice, and been fired by the Caliph and refused to step down. Last seen in 2017, sneaking into Cameroon while wearing a burka... faction and foreign mercenaries.
Yusuf’s father was appointed governor of Lake Chad in July 2020 after the reign of Amir Baba Kaka was toppled by other Boko Haram commanders.
Maina was a khadi (judge) in the terrorist group before becoming a governor.
His reign ended on December 1, 2020 when he was killed by military airstrikes.
Sources said his son, Yusuf, was appointed commander after his death.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] Six United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... (UN) aid workers were kidnapped in Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... province in southern . This was reported on February 12 by the information portal Yemen News.
UN representatives went to the province to study the humanitarian situation in Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... . When the UN staff was returning to Aden, they were seized by gunnies and taken away in an unknown direction. Together with the UN staff, the military police fighters who accompanied the UN staff for security reasons were also taken away.
Representatives of one of the tribes in the province of Abyan clarified that the kidnappers are trying to negotiate a hostage exchange for members of the group who were previously arrested by the forces of the Southern Transitional Council (STC).
In turn, the STC blames the Moslem Brüderbund (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation), which supports murderous Moslem groups based in the region, including al-Qaeda (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation), for what happened.
Earlier, REGNUM reported that Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... rebels revealed the tactics by which they managed to overcome the air defense system of 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... during the attack on the airport in Abha.
Srinagar, Feb 12: Four turbans and three of their associates were arrested in Rafiabad area of north Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... ’s Baramulla district, police claimed on Saturday.
"On receiving a specific information that al-Badr bad boy outfit is planning to carry out attacks on security forces in Sopore at several places, a joint CASO (cordon-and-serach operation) by Police, (army’s) 32 RR and 92 battalion of CRPF was launched at Rawoocha Rafiabad," news agency GNS quoted a police spokesperson saying.
Police identified the accused as Waris Tantray son of Abdul Lateef Tantray of Rawoocha Rafiabad, Amir Sultan Wani son of Mohammad Sultan Wani of Nowpora Sopore and Tariq Ahmed Bhat son of Sanaullah Bhat of Chontipora Handwara.
"During search operation three uncategorised bad boy were arrested alongwith incriminating material including arms and ammunitions," it said.
As per police, during further questioning, they revealed that they are working for last 2 years for Al -Badr "on directions of their handlers alias Yousuf Balousi of Pakistain and Khursheed of Anantnag at present Pakistain".
"They were given task to revive militancy in Rafiabad Sopore, recruitment of youth in Al - Badr tanzeem (outfit), providing logistics support to (militants), procurement and arranging weapons for new recruits etc," added police.
Police said that on their disclosure, another uncategorised bad boy Ashraf Nazir Bhat son of late Nazir Ahmed Bhat along with three associates namely Mohammad Ashraf Malik son of Mohammad Akbar Malik of Drungsoo, Mohammadd Afzal Thokar son of Abdul Aziz Thokar of Kalamabad Mawar Handwara and Shabir Ahmed Shah son of Ghulam Hassan Shah of Sherhama Mawar Handwara were arrested.
"Incriminating materials including arms and ammunition, huge amount of cash, and other war like material were also recovered from their possession," the spokesperson said, adding, "A case (FIR NO. 14/2022) under relevant sections of law has been registered in cop shoppe Dangiwacha, and further investigation is in progress."
[Dawn] An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Friday handed down two-year jail term each to four Death Eaters belonging to the banned Tahreek-e-Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... Pakistain (TTP) and Jamaat Ulema-e-Ahrar (JUA),
... JUA is a splinter group of TTP that retreats to its base in Lalpura, Nangarhar Province...
besides ordering confiscation of their properties.
ATC Judge Nasir Hussain handed down the sentence to the four men for possessing explosives which they wanted to use in attacks on sensitive installations in Bahawalpur city and Sammsatta during 2021.
The convicts — Naik Amal, Nazir Khan, Hayatullah and Lalzada — belonged to Mohmand Agency ... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in 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.. and Kunar... in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, and lived in Lahore, Muzzafargarh and other places.
According to prosecution, the four men were hiding in Hootwala village near Sammasatta with explosives and were planning to attack on April 3, 2021, sensitive installations in Bahawalpur and area around Sammsatta.
The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) personnel conducted a raid on their hideout and foiled their attempt to attack the installations, recovering explosives and illegal arms from them.
The CTD registered FIR No 9/21 under the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) against the Death Eaters that said they had also links with the TTP forces of Evil based in Afghanistan.
[Dawn] The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) late on Wednesday night arrested an employee of the Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... government for his alleged involvement in money laundering.
The accused, who was identified as Agha Sabir Hussain, was allegedly running an illegal money exchange business in Quetta for a long time. An FIR has been registered against him.
Sources said FIA had been in search of Sabir Hussain for some time. A team of the agency raided a place where he was thought to be hiding and arrested him.
The agency’s deputy director, Bashir Somroo, told Dawn that the accused had made transactions amounting to billions of rupees through Hundi and Hawala. An initial investigation revealed that he had laundered over Rs1 billion through Hundi and Hawala.
Mr Somroo said Sabir Hussain is an employee of the Services and General Administration Department of the Balochistan government. He said more arrests in the case could not be ruled out.
Meanwhile, ...back at the buffalo wallow, Standing Buffalo drew a bead on his old enemy and squeezed the trigger... in a joint operation FIA and intelligence personnel arrested a bigwig of the House Building Finance Corporation based in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... for allegedly conducting Hundi and Hawala business for Iranian intelligence, sources said.
Why would Iran need to fund jihadis in Karachi, of all places? Has this anything to do with the Hazeras, from whom they harvest cannon fodder for elsewhere?
The accused was identified as Syed Wisal Haider Naqvi. Souces said the accused allegedly arranged funds in Pakistain for the intelligence agency.
Also in Karachi, security agencies have arrested 13 people for allegedly spying for a foreign intelligence agency.
What, another one? Truly Karachi is a an equal opportunity den of iniquity!
They said officials of FIA and an intelligence agency were interrogating the arrested persons.
Shafaq News/ Iraqi military intelligence seized rockets and explosives from the remnants of the ISIS terrorist organization in the governorate of al-Anbar, Western Iraq, earlier today, Saturday.
The directorate of military intelligence said in a statement that the intelligence unit of the 10th division, in cooperation with the intelligence unit of the 38th brigade's first regiment, located an arms cache in Abu Tayban area, near al-Ramadi.
The statement said that a force dispatched to the site found 19 rockets, nine 12mm Mortar shells, and four bombs.
"The Explosive Ordnance Disposal squad accompanying the force on duty uncovered the weapons and detonated them under controlled conditions," the statement said.
In the same context, a force from the third brigade of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces-PMF) found 17 Austrian rockets and some projectiles in al-Qaim, west of al-Anbar, a PMF statement said.
The statement said that four Mortar shells and C4 explosives were uncovered and destroyed by a PMF force in the western desert in al-Anbar.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] Aircraft belonging to the Ottoman Turkish Air Force (Air Force) attacked the positions of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in northern Iraq. Anadolu Ajansi reports this on February 12, citing data from the Ottoman Turkish Ministry of National Defense.
"As part of the ongoing anti-terrorist operations of the Ottoman Turkish armed forces, two snuffies of the PKK terrorist organization were killed by air strikes in the Heftanin region, and another one was neutralized in the Sinjar region," the military department said in a statement. "The operations of the Ottoman Turkish Armed Forces will continue."
Recall that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... banned the activities of the PKK organization, whose members are fighting for the right to create their own autonomy within the state.
Posted by: badanov ||
02/13/2022 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[4 views]
Top|| File under: Sublime Porte
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – Jordan Armed forces confiscated on Friday in presence of Major General Yousef Ahmed al-Hunaiti, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Jordan Armed Forces, on the eastern military zone on Jordan-Syria borders, large amount of drugs and weapons coming from Syria.
The confiscated amounts are 9343000 pill of Captagon, 38900 tramadol pills, 7096 handful of cannabis (Hashish), 199 BKCs, 63 Kalashnikov weapons and two vehicles.
"The armed forces will use all its available capabilities, to prevent and confront infiltration and smuggling operations in order to preserve the country’s security and stability and the safety of its citizens alike," Gen.al-Hunaiti told official Jordanian news agency Petra.
"The armed forces continue to stand firmly against anyone trying to undermine the security of the Kingdom and its people through applying new rules of battling and deal with full force with any attempt of infiltration or smuggling," he added.
"If you do not deal with the issue, we will protect our borders," according Jordan-based al-Mamlaka broadcaster.
In September, al-Hunaiti received Syrian Minister of Defense Ali Ayoub in the Jordanian capital, Amman.
The two parties discussed coordination to ensure the security of the common borders between the two countries, the situation in southern Syria, combating terrorism, and joint efforts to confront cross-border smuggling.
Jordan forces thwarted a smuggling operation of over 15 million of Captagon pills in 2021 and 5.5 million in the first two weeks of 2022.
[JPost] appears to be a future evergreen storyline
They’ve not paid rent to the Israeli owners since they were reconquered in the 1967 war, so of course they’re pissy.
The clashes came shortly after MK Itamar Ben Gvir announced that he would be setting up an office in the neighborhood.
A Jewish-Israeli was moderately injured after being run over by an Arab driver in the Sheikh Jarrah-Shimon Hatzadik neighborhood of east Jerusalem on Saturday night, shortly after clashes broke out between Jews and Arabs and police in the neighborhood.
The driver told police that he had been sprayed with pepper spray and was trying to drive away when he hit the Israeli. Police are investigating the incident, but it is not considered a terrorist incident.
RAQQA, Syria (North Press) — Sheikh of albu Khamis clan of the city of Raqqa, north Syria, was maimed yesterday by unknown attackers, who fired at him in a neighborhood in Tabqa city, 55 kilometers west of Raqqa.
The attackers, who were riding a cycle of violence fired Thamer al-Hamshar in the abdomen so that he was transferred to a hospital in Raqqa city.
Sheikh al-Hamshar is maintaining a good health condition after being subjected to a surgery to retrieve the bullet, Muhannad al-Ibrahim, a nurse in Modern Hospital Medicine in Raqqa, said Saturday.
The sheikh’s health is good and he is under clinical observation after the necessary medical examinations were conducted and the surgery, the nurse told North Press.
The city of Raqqa is near-almost stable unlike other Syrian cities.
ALEPPO NORTHERN COUNTRYSIDE, Syria (North Press) — On Saturday, two Death Eaters of Ahrar al-Sham ...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014... faction were killed and another was maimed in an infighting with al-Hamza Davison in two villages of Jinderis district in the countryside of Afrin north of Aleppo.
The Ottoman Turkish-backed Ahrar al-Sham faction and al-Hamza Division are operating in areas in the northern countryside of Aleppo.
An eyewitness told North Press that intense festivities took place between the two opposition factions in two villages that administratively follow Jinderis district.
Two members of Ahrar al-Sham faction were killed and another one was maimed.
To date, the festivities are still ongoing. One military convoy of the Military Police faction in Afrin city intervened to break out the conflict, the eyewitness added.
On January 5, an infighting erupted between Death Eaters of two factions affiliated with Ottoman Turkish-backed Ahrar al-Sham, in the countryside of Afrin killing a leader and his lover companion and maimed others.
The city of Afrin and its villages, northern Syria, have been controlled by Ottoman Turkish forces and the affiliated factions since March 2018.
Since then, the region has been witnessing ongoing security chaos accompanied by infighting among Death Eaters of the Ottoman Turkish-backed factions, arrests, and kidnappings amid the factions’ disability to settle the security and spread safety.
DARAA, Syria (North Press) — On Saturday, two opposition members were deadly shot by unknown button men in the city of Tafas in the west countryside of Syria’s Daraa. Mohammed al-Zu’bi and Ibrahim al-Zu’bi were deadly shot while being present in the square of the public market, a source in the city told North Press.
"The two young men did not join the Syrian government forces following the settlement process in 2018 when the government forces reclaimed Daraa governorate," the source said.
In the same context, one person, said to be a civilian, was killed by unknown button men in the west countryside of Daraa.
Murad Mubarak al-NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... or, was deadly shot as unknown armed persons riding a cycle of violence fired directly at him on the outskirts of Masaken Galin town in the west countryside of Daraa, according to a local source.
al-NATOor was a civilian man who worked as a frmer and had never joined any military faction. He was transported to Tafas city and died of his wounds later, the source said.
Today, Mos’ab al-Bardan, an opponent figure and also a member of the Central Committee tasked to negotiate with the Syrian government in Daraa, died of his wounds.
On Thursday, unknown button men targeted al-Bardan and two of his escorts in Atman town in the central countryside of Daraa.
The Martyr Documentation Office, a local non-governmental organization that follows up the statistics of casualties and detainees in Daraa, documented 1,084 killing attempts in which 685 people, whether civilians, former fighters of the Syrian armed opposition factions who had settled their status or fighters of the Syrian government forces between the summer of 2018 and last September, were killed.
Since the second settlement process in October 2021, the Martyr Documentation Office has documented 55 killing attempts that claimed the lives of 38 persons.
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) — On Saturday, a center of the Community Protection Forces (in Kurdish, Heza Jawhri), west of the city of Amuda, north Hasakah, was bombed by a Ottoman Turkish drone.
A Ottoman Turkish drone bombed a center of the Community Protection Forces (CPF), west of Amuda, North Press reported a source from the CPF.
"One person was maimed, and he was transported to the People Hospital in Amuda," the source added.
North Press reported another security source as saying that two people were maimed in the Ottoman Turkish bombing.
No further information about the bombardment was obtained by North Press.
In a similar incident, a child lost his life on Wednesday in a Ottoman Turkish drone bombardment on the village of Bahira in the western countryside of Amuda.
Dispute between the National Defense loyal to the government forces and the government forces kills a member of the National Defense in #Syria’s #Deir_ez_Zor.https://t.co/9OcF6kmrcr
DEIR EZ-ZOR, Syria (North Press) — A member of the National Defence Forces (NDF), a pro-government faction, was killed on Saturday by government forces, as a result of a quarrel between the two parties at the backdrop of the killing of a leader in the National Defense by government forces two days ago in a town west of Deir ez-Zor, east Syria.
"A group of the NDF kidnapped the police chief of the al-Kharita cop shoppe, west of Deir ez-Zor, at the backdrop of the killing of a leader in the National Defense two days ago," a military source from the government forces in the town of al-Kharita, 25 km west of Deir ez-Zor, told North Press.
"The members of the National Defense re-targeted a convoy of a leader in the security forces of the government forces. A 30-minute clash took place between the two sides, resulting in the injury of a member of each side," the source added.
Following the incident, the town witnessed great tension. However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... the dispute ended after the intervention of Muhanna al-Fayyad, the sheikh of al-Busaraya tribe, and Firas al-Iraqi, a leader in the National Defense, after pledging the release of the captured officer.
Large areas of the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor are run by the pro-Iranian factions and the government forces.
Two days ago, a leader in the National Defense was deadly shot by government forces, as a result of an argument that turned into a clash in the town of al-Dablan in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor.
Syrian regime shelling killed six civilians including women and kiddies on Saturday in Idlib province, the country's last main opposition bastion, a war monitor said.
An AFP photographer at the scene reported seeing several bodies being taken away from a wrecked home in Maarat al-Naasan, an area close to regime-controlled territory.
"The shell fell on a civilian home," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britannia-based group with a network of sources on the ground in the war-torn country.
The monitor said two women and two children were among those killed, who were all from the same family. Many others were maimed.
The shelling had begun at around 11:30 GMT, with more shells fired intermittently afterwards, the AFP photographer said.
The Syrian regime and its ally Russia have regularly targeted hospitals and civilian areas since the start of the war in 2011, according to the Observatory.
The Idlib region bordering The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... is home to about three million people and it is one of the last pockets to oppose Damascus.
[Rudaw] A suspected Ottoman Turkish drone on Saturday targeted an area in Hasaka province, northeast Syria (Rojava), injuring at least one civilian.
The drone struck a stationary car on a road separating the sub-districts of Amuda and al-Darbasiyah, according to Hawar News Agency (ANHA).
Rojava Information Center (RIC), affiliated with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said that the injured civilian was transported to Amuda hospital.
The car was reportedly parked in front of offices of the Community Protection Forces (HPC), whom RIC describes as "a civilian neighborhood defense force."
On Tuesday, another suspected Ottoman Turkish drone struck the same area, killing a child and injuring others.
Hasaka has frequently been the location of attacks by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... , with civilians and security forces bearing the brunt of the attacks.
Several villages in northern Hasaka were targeted on Monday when Ottoman Turkish artillery shelled the area, damaging numerous buildings.
Alleged Ottoman Turkish drones around a week ago targeted a Women's Protection Units (YPJ) vehicle in al-Darbasiyah, killing one person.
According to the SDF's annual report in January, Rojava saw 47 Ottoman Turkish ground attacks and incursion attempts, as well as 89 drone offensives over the past year, killing and injuring hundreds.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...... Somalia's version of the 
[Aljazeera] French forces have killed dozens of fighters in Burkina Faso linked to deadly attacks this week in neighbouring Benin whose victims included a Frenchman, the army said.
...the name means 
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
Mohmand Agency
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
[JPost] 
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
