[Breitbart] Three people are dead in a rollover crash in West Texas involving a suspected human smuggling vehicle being pursued by police. Four others are reported to be seriously injured and were transported to area hospitals.
Texas Department of Public Safety Spokesman Lt. Chris Olivarez told Breitbart Texas the driver of a stolen Chevrolet pickup truck lost control of the vehicle and rolled several times. The crash left three people dead at the scene. Four others are reportedly injured.
The crash occurred in the pre-dawn hours Tuesday morning after Texas DPS troopers attempted to stop the vehicle suspected of hauling smuggled migrants. DPS officials confirmed the truck was stolen. The crash occurred on U.S. Highway 57 about four miles east of La Pryor in Zavala County.
“This matches all the profiles we see in regards to human smuggling activities,” Lt. Oliverez told Breitbart. The driver failed to yield to the trooper’s emergency lights and crashed after attempting to pass another vehicle on the righthand shoulder. He lost control of the truck carrying seven people crossing the highway and rolled multiple times.
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While most watched the Superbowl… Another busy weekend for the Del Rio Sector, Friday – Sunday: - Over 3,400 apprehensions - 27 Smuggling cases totaling 142 arrests - 24 Rescues pic.twitter.com/QVGIz93JCZ
— Chief Patrol Agent Jason D. Owens (@USBPChiefDRT) February 14, 2022
[Garowe] al-Shabaab ...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... gunnies continued with their onslaught in Somalia, targeting innocent civilians and security forces, despite solid efforts to reclaim the country from the terror group which has been dominant for over a decade.
A top security official said at least four people were killed on Monday after a rickshaw they were traveling in hit an Improvised Explosive Device [IED] in Jowhar city of Southern Somalia on Monday.
The official who spoke in condition of anonymity to the media added that the incident took place at Hansholey village in the regional administrative capital of Hirshabelle in the Middle Shabelle region.
Military personnel, the official added, usually frequent the road thus the gunnies were probably targeting them. The al-Shabaab controls large swathes of rural central and southern Somalia according to reports by the US Africa Command.
A roadside bomb planted by militants from the Islamic State-backed faction of Boko Haram, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), formerly known as Jamā'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihād has killed two civilian in Dikwa Local Government Area of Borno.
Sahara Reporters learnt that the terrorists planted the improvised explosive device (IED) on the road to ambush the convoy of Governor Babagana Zulum travelling to Gamboru.
Zulum and some top government officials were on a working visit to the community to supervise the distribution of relief materials to Internally Displaced Persons (IDP).
The deceased, both members of the Civilian JTF, loaded in an Izuzu van, were heading to Gamboru from Dikwa, when the incident happened.
In 2020, Zulum’s convoy was attacked thrice by the terror group.
Since the death of JAS leader, Abubakar Shekau, ISWAP has been consolidating its grip in locations around Lake Chad.
In 2021, it appointed Wali Sani Shuwaram, a 45-year-old as the new Leader (Wali) of ISWAP in Lake Chad.
The sect’s membership has swollen with the defection of hundreds of Boko Haram fighters under Shekau.
The terror group has caused over 100,000 deaths and displaced millions of individuals mainly in Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe states.
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[REGNUM] At least two civilians have died as a result of an attack by militants of the Boko Haram terrorist group (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) in the Far North region of Cameroon, Xinhua reports, citing security sources.
It is reported that the terrorists attacked in the village of Gabua in the Koza region. According to preliminary data, the militants broke into the home of a respected local resident and killed him, as well as his son. The identity of the dead has not yet been released. The terrorists also robbed several houses in another settlement, but there were no deaths as a result of the attack.
As REGNUM reported , on February 16, 2021, the Cameroon army eliminated four terrorists from the Boko Haram group (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) in the Far North region of the country. It was noted that the terrorists were engaged in looting in abandoned houses on the border with Nigeria.
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[Rudaw] Two Ottoman Turkish journalists convicted of violating The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... 's state secrets law were released late on Tuesday the very same day they returned to prison after losing an appeal against their jail sentences, their lawyer told AFP.
The 2020 trial concerned a news report alleging that a Ottoman Turkish intelligence officer was killed in Libya after Ankara provided support to the UN-recognised government in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... In September that year, the Istanbul court sentenced Aydin Keser, Ferhat Celik and Murat Agirel -- who works for the Yenicag daily -- to four years and eight months in jail each on charges of violating the Ottoman Turkish Intelligence Agency (MIT) law.
It sentenced then OdaTV editor-in-chief Baris Pehlivan and news hound Hulya Kilinc to three years and nine months each on the same charges.
Agirel and Pehlivan tweeted on Tuesday that they were returning to prison.
"A third time... We're here, we're going... Goodbye for now," Pehlivan tweeted, with a selfie in front of what appeared to be Istanbul's main Caglayan courthouse.
"I am going to prison again because I called the sons who were martyred for the homeland deaders," Agirel tweeted.
"People who cannot deny anything I have written until now think they can silence me with injustice," he added.
Hours later, the pair were released from prison, their lawyer Huseyin Ersoz told AFP.
"And freedom has come. Just now!" the lawyer also tweeted, sharing a picture with the freed journalists.
Ottoman Turkish media said Kilinc, who was nabbed You have the right to remain silent... Tuesday in the western province of Manisa after undergoing a health check, was also expected to walk free.
Turkey comes under frequent criticism from rights defenders, who say Ankara undermines media freedom by jailing journalists and shutting down critical media outlets.
Reporters Without Borders placed Turkey 153rd out of 180 nations on its Press Freedom Index for 2021.
Three journalists convicted of violating The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... ’s state secrets law return to prison after losing an appeal against their jail sentences.
Agirel and Pehlivan tweet that they are returning to prison.
"A third time... We’re here, we’re going... Goodbye for now," Pehlivan tweets alongside a selfie in front of what appears to be Istanbul’s main Caglayan courthouse.
"I am going to prison again because I called the sons who were martyred for the homeland deaders," Agirel tweets. "People who cannot deny anything I have written until now think they can silence me with injustice," he adds.
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[Dawn] Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... police rounded up on Tuesday 10 more primary suspects in the case of lynching of a man over blasphemy ...the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence to a deity, or sacred objects, or toward something considered sacred or inviolable. Some religions consider it to be a crime. In Pakistain you can commit blasphemy by looking cross-eyed at a Koran... allegations in a village of Punjab's Khanewal district last week.
According to a statement issued by the Punjab police spokesperson, the recent arrests have taken the number of total detained suspects in the case to 112, among whom 31 are primary suspects.
The statement said the arrests were made in raids on different locations.
Initially, police had arrested 85 suspects, after Prime Minister Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight... had taken notice of the incident, and took six more into custody on Monday.
All the arrested suspects would be presented before an anti-terrorism court in Multan ...Home of the Multan Sultans... today (Tuesday), the police statement said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the secret hideout, Scarface Al sneeringly put his proposition to little Nell... "the Punjab IGP (inspector general of police) has directed the Multan RPO (regional police officer) and Khanewal DPO (district police officer) to personally monitor the case's probe," the statement read.
THE INCIDENT
The lynching incident had taken place on Saturday in Khanewal's Jungle Dera village, when a middle-aged man was stoned to death by a mob over alleged desecration of the Holy Koran.
The first information report of the incident, a copy of which is available with Dawn.com, was registered at Tulamba cop shoppe on the complaint of police officer Munawwar Hussain under Sections 148 (rioting, armed with deadly weapon), 149 (unlawful assembly of people), 186 (obstructing public servant in discharge of public functions), 302 (intentional murder) and 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty) of the Pakistain Penal Code and Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act.
The FIR stated that when police officials reached the village, a man accused of burning the Holy Koran was found tied up with ropes and being subjected to violence by a large mob.
The FIR said the police tried to placate the crowd but to no avail, adding that the 33 identified suspects and around 200-300 others eventually killed the man after beating him with rods, sticks and bricks.
"The suspects hung his body from a tree which spread immense fear," the FIR said, adding that the body was recovered after much effort and taken for a postmortem examination.
The FIR said the coppers were also subjected to violence by the suspects due to which a sub-inspector suffered injuries and required medical treatment.
Shafaq News/ On Tuesday, a joint Iraqi force killed ISIS members in the Hemrin Mountains in Saladin Governorate.
The Security Media Cell said that the air forces struck intensively an ISIS hideout which resulted in the death of two terrorists.
In 2017, Iraq declared final victory over ISIS after Iraqi forces drove its last remnants from the country, the militant group captured about a third of Iraq's territory.
The war has had a devastating impact on the areas previously controlled by the militants. About 3.2 million people remain displaced.
Yet, ISIS still has sleeper cells in several Iraqi Governorates.
Recently, the terrorist organization has become more active, as sleeper cells target civilians and security forces, especially in the governorates of Kirkuk, Saladin, and Diyala, known as "the Triangle of Death."
[IsraelTimes] IDF says soldiers fired on dozens of Paleostinians who approached army tower, throwing stones; Paleostinian witness disputes IDF account: ’These weren’t really festivities’.
A Paleostinian man was rubbed out by Israeli soldiers near Nabi Saleh, a small town northwest of Ramallah, the Paleostinian Authority Health Ministry said on Tuesday. The man was identified as Nihad Amin al-Barghouti, a resident of nearby Kufr Ein in his 20s. al-Barghouti previously served a term in Israeli jail for security offenses, according to Paleostinian media.
The Israeli military said in a statement that troops had fired on "dozens of Paleostinians" who approached a reinforced army post next to Nabi Saleh and threw stones at soldiers. The soldiers "responded with riot dispersal means and suspect arrest procedure, which included live fire," the Israeli army said in a statement.
"A report has been received about the death of a Paleostinian. The matter is being examined," the army concluded.
But a Paleostinian witness who spoke to The Times of Israel rejected that account. According to the witness, whose house overlooks the military observation tower, only a handful of Paleostinians — "four or five" approached the tower.
"These weren’t really festivities. The small group approached the tower. The soldiers descended from the tower and then they started firing — just one shot," said the witness, who spoke on condition of anonymity, fearing reprisal.
"Afterwards, we went down to try to offer him first aid, but he had already lost consciousness," the witness said.
When asked whether the Paleostinians threw stones, the witness did not deny it. But they why it was necessary for the soldiers to descend from the tower in the first place.
"If they’d stayed in the tower, it was reinforced, they would have been in no danger. This proves that the intention was to kill. These were young kids — [al-Barghouti] was the oldest of them," the witness said.
Al-Barghouti’s death comes as tensions between Israel and the Paleostinians have risen across the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Clashes have erupted for the past several nights in the flashpoint East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. Dozens of Paleostinians and right-wing Israelis have faced off, with police arresting some and firing sound grenades and high-pressure water to disperse the gatherings.
Sheikh Jarrah has become one of Jerusalem’s tensest neighborhoods. Far-right Jewish nationalists have sought to evict Paleostinian residents in legal battles that helped touch off violence between Israel and the Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, terror group last May. Paleostinians in Sheikh Jarrah have recently been protesting the pending eviction of the Salem family. The eleven Paleostinians are set to be evicted by Jerusalem city councilmember Yonatan Yosef as early as March.
Far-right Israeli politician Itamar Ben Gvir has set up a temporary "office" in the neighborhood, further stoking tensions. Ben Gvir said he was protesting the insecurity felt by Jewish Israelis living in Sheikh Jarrah, following the Molotov cocktailing of a home where a Jewish family lived. Two suspects were arrested earlier this week in connection with the Friday attack.
On Tuesday, Israeli troops raided al-Quds University in Abu Dis to break up a protest against the Sheikh Jarrah evictions. In video from the scene, students and faculty could be seen running for cover as tear gas canisters arced through the air inside the campus.
The Israeli army did not respond to a request for comment on the Abu Dis incident.
[IsraelTimes] Abdul Jabbar Jarrar, a top member of the terror group, has been detained repeatedly by Israel over the years.
Israeli security forces arrested a top Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, official in the northern West Bank city of Jenin in a predawn raid on Tuesday, the Israeli military said.
Abdul-Jabbar Jarrar was detained by Israeli forces after they searched his home, Paleostinian media reported. (formerly Lew Alcindor Jarrar)
According to Paleostinian outlets, the raid to arrest Jarrar was conducted by Israeli forces, some of them in disguise.
Presumably disguised as not-Israeli forces...
That was not immediately confirmed by the Israel Defense Forces.
The IDF confirmed arresting Jarrar, but would not comment further on the raid.
Jarrar has been arrested by Israeli forces several times in recent years for his activities in the Hamas terror group. According to Paleostinian media, he was arrested in November 2020, in May 2018, and in October 2015. After the 2015 arrest, he was held without formal charges under administrative detention for nearly two years.
The overnight arrest raid came amid heightened tensions in the West Bank, after Israeli troops rubbed out a three-person al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade cell that Israel said carried out a number of shooting attacks against Israeli military positions in the West Bank in the weeks prior.
Israeli troops arrested 19 other Paleostinian suspects in raids across the West Bank overnight, the military said on Tuesday.
The killing of the three Death Eaters sparked outrage among Paleostinians, as well as in the Paleostinian Authority, which threatened to halt security cooperation with Israel over the affair.
Earlier this week, Israeli troops clashed with Paleostinians, killing one of them, in Silat al-Harithiya in the northern West Bank as they entered the village to demolish a floor of a home in which terror suspect Mahmoud Jaradat lived.
In a statement, the Israeli military said that troops had come under fire and that "soldiers fired at several armed [Paleostinians] who they identified at the scene." According to the Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy, four Paleostinians were maimed during the festivities.
Assassinations, mostly by anonymous persons, prevail in #Syria’s #Daraa. The majority of the targeted people are former members of the Syrian opposition factions https://t.co/aHY66GHm6f
DARAA, Syria (North Press) – On Tuesday, anonymous gunmen shot dead a paramedic in Syria’s southern city of Daraa.
Wasim al-Hamad, was targeted with bullets in Eastern Ghariyah, a local source told North Press.
Al-Hamad hailed from Mihaja town in Daraa countryside. Earlier, he worked as a nurse in several field hospitals in the city. Then, he settled his status when the Syrian government forces controlled Daraa and worked in a hospital as well as in a pharmacy in Basra al-Sham city in the east countryside of Daraa.
In the same context, local people of al-Muzayrib town, in the western countryside of Daraa, found, on Monday, body of a man identified as Bashar Ji’arah who was a former member of the Islamic State (ISIS) organization.
Hours earlier, unknown gunmen killed the young man Ahmed Abduraouf Rashdan on the road connecting Tafas city to al-Muzayrib.
Assassinations, mostly by anonymous persons, prevail in Daraa. The majority of the targeted people are former members of the Syrian opposition factions who had settled their status under the settlement process.
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.
AFRIN, Syria (North Press) – One person of the Turkish-controlled region of Afrin, northern Syria, was killed yesterday evening in explosion of a landmine between south of the region.
The 52-year-old Mustafa Arab was killed in the explosion of a landmine between Kimar and Soghana villages in Sherawa district, south of Afrin, special source told North Press.
The vicinity of the two villages is planted with landmines, the source added saying, “Turkish intelligence and Turkish-backed opposition factions plant landmines to prevent Afrin residents getting out.”
The city of Afrin and its villages, northern Syria, have been controlled by Turkish forces and the affiliated factions since March 2018.
Since then, the region has been witnessing ongoing security chaos accompanied by infighting among militants of the Turkish-backed factions, arrests, and kidnappings amid the factions’ disability to settle the security and spread safety.
AZAZ, Syria (North Press) – On Tuesday, one young man and a child were injured as an IED placed inside a garbage bin detonated in the middle of Azaz city in the northern countryside of Aleppo, north Syria.
The IED blew up near the transportation facility, which is run by the local council of Azaz, an eyewitness told North Press.
The young man and the child had minor injuries.
As a consequence, military forces were deployed in the city and the checkpoints increased the checking process, the eyewitness said.
On January 13, one member of the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) was killed and two other fighters were injured as an IED detonated in their vehicle in Azaz.
Since July 2012, Azaz and the surrounding villages, north of Aleppo, have been under the control of the Turkish-backed Syrian armed opposition factions. Successive bombings and kidnapping take place frequently in the city amid inability of the Syrian opposition factions to control security.
DEIR EZ-ZOR, Syria (North Press) – On Tuesday, an ISIS militant was killed and another was wounded in a clash with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, east Syria.
A military source from the SDF in the town of al-Zar, 35 km east of Deir ez-Zor, told North Press that the Deir ez-Zor Military Council fighters clashed with ISIS militants who tried to target an SDF military point in the town of al-Zar in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor.
The one-hour long attack resulted in the killing of an ISIS militant and the injury of another, the source added.
“The gunmen were the ones who had attacked a military point of the Deir ez-Zor Military Council forces on February 10, which resulted in the killing of five SDF members,” the source added.
ISIS, through media outlets close to it, claimed the attack on the military point in the town of al-Shuhail and issued a statement about the operation.
Two days ago, two SDF members were wounded in an attack with automatic weapons that targeted their car near al-Attal roundabout in the town of al-Shuhail in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor.
Reporting Omar Abdulrahman
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ALEPPO NORTHERN COUTNRYSIDE, Syria (North Press) – A child was injured on Tuesday evening when the Turkish forces and the affiliated armed opposition factions bombed the center of the city of Tel Rifaat in the northern countryside of Aleppo with several missiles.
The 8-year-old child, Zilan Arif Qassim, was injured due to the Turkish indiscriminate shelling while heading towards the basements to escape the shelling. She was transported to Fafin Hospital.
On Tuesday afternoon, the center of the city of Tel Rifaat and its surroundings were hit with about 20 missiles by the Turkish forces, resulting in the injury of 5 children as well as causing material damage to civilians’ property.
Several villages in the northern countryside of Aleppo were bombed by the Turkish forces and opposition factions supported by them on Tuesday evening.
The town of Tel Rifaat, which embraces a part of IDPs of Afrin, has been threatened with invasion by Turkey and its loyal factions since residents of Afrin fled their areas and headed towards the northern countryside of Aleppo amidst the successive shelling that the town is witnessing.
Syrian government forces accompanied by Russian forces are running the town of Tel Rifaat and its vicinities, where their posts have been deployed since 2018
A Syrian army soldier has died and 11 others have been wounded after an #explosivedevice planted in a military transport bus goes off in #Damascus, the state media reports.https://t.co/K5z05hHeBN
A Syrian army soldier was killed, and 11 others were wounded when an explosive device planted in a military transport bus went off in Damascus on Tuesday, state media reported, quoting a military source.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for what was a rare bombing in the Syrian capital and which the report said happened at 7:25 a.m., the report said.
A decade of conflict in Syria has killed hundreds of thousands of people and left the country fractured.
However, attacks in Damascus have been rare since the army crushed rebel enclaves around the city with backing from Russia and Iran-backed forces in 2018. Helped by his allies, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad now controls most of the country.
A bomb attack on an army bus in Damascus on October 20 killed at least 14 people
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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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
...Home of the Multan Sultans...
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[IsraelTimes] Abdul Jabbar Jarrar, a top member of the terror group, has been detained repeatedly by Israel over the years.
