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China’s state-run Sinopec Group has suspended talks for a major petrochemical investment and a gas marketing venture in Russia
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
New Jersey man arrested after 12-year-old nephew dies of fentanyl overdose, officials say
[CBSNEWS] A New Jersey man was arrested for allegedly causing the overdose death of his 12-year-old nephew, the Camden County Prosecutor's Office announced in a blurb. Troy Nokes, 35, is accused of directing the boy to clean drug paraphernalia that contained fentanyl prior to his death.

On January 24, local officials were notified of an unresponsive 12-year-old boy on a school bus. The school's nurse performed "life-saving measures" on the child until EMS arrived on the scene and transported him to a local hospital.

The boy died on February 1, the prosecutor's office said. Medical examiners determined fentanyl intoxication as his cause of death.
Posted by: Fred || 03/27/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Narcos


Africa North
Tunisia’s police forces have dismantled about 150 militant cells in the past six month
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

He added that some of the foreign hard boyz arrested were planning to join "Jond Kilafha," a group linked to ISIS in Libya and in the mountains on the Tunisian-Algerian border.

"Attempts of attacks targeting neighboring countries were thwarted and a cell that was planning to stab the interior minister in the south of the country was dismantled," Houssem Eddine Jbebli told news hounds.

The North African nation has been under a state of emergency since 2015, after an assault in which a number of presidential guards were killed.

Tunisian security forces have thwarted most turban plots in recent years and have become more efficient at responding to those attacks that do occur.
Practice makes perfect.
Posted by: Fred || 03/27/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in North Africa


Africa Subsaharan
Nigeria beefs up motorbike ban to beat bandits
[DW] Bandit attacks using cycle of violences have increased in northwestern Nigeria leading to the loss of lives and properties. The region has a long history of bandidos raiding villages, conducting kidnappings and stealing cattle.

An increasing number of states in Nigeria's northwest have imposed bans on the movement of cycle of violences in an attempt to tackle a recent spate of deadly attacks carried out by criminal gangs known as bandidos.

The armed bandidos typically use cycle of violences to escape after carrying out their attacks, the latest of which was in Kaduna state last Sunday where at least 34 people were killed including two soldiers.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/27/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: Banditti


Arabia
Arab Coalition says it has destroyed a weapons warehouse in vicinity of Salif Port in Yemen, pounding Hodeidah
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 03/27/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militia is ready to release all war prisoners, suspending ground operations for 3 days
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]



Posted by: Fred || 03/27/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Houthis

#1  "Hudna!"
Posted by: Frank G || 03/27/2022 13:19 Comments || Top||

#2  Sue for peace, re-arm then attack. A tactic older than Islam itself.
Posted by: jpal || 03/27/2022 16:08 Comments || Top||

#3  getting ready for Ramadan, Apr 2 or 3 this year
Posted by: Lord Garth || 03/27/2022 16:09 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Azeri armed forces have entered a zone that is the responsibility of Russian peacekeepers in the NagornoKarabakh region
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 03/27/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Ottoman Proxies


Home Front: WoT
Maine man and two teenagers who wanted to 'die fighting for Allah' are arrested for 'planning to attack Chicago mosque in the name of ISIS'
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Xavier Pelkey, 18, and two other teens conspired to attack a Chicago Shia mosque with homemade explosives in the name of ISIS, new court documents reveal

  • The recently unsealed federal filing alleges Pelkey and two unidentified teens - who weren't named because they're juveniles - used Instagram to plan the attack

  • The potential murder spree was foiled by feds last month after a search of Pelkey's apartment turned up three homemade explosive devices

  • The filing reveals that Pelkey's underage accomplices in the plot also were arrested and questioned in regard to the attack

  • The two teens, one from Chicago and the other from Kentucky, detailed the plot to feds, saying Pelkey planned to go to the city to 'commit mass murder'
Posted by: Fred || 03/27/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Devout Moslems


India-Pakistan
Militant commander gunned down in South Waziristan
[Dawn] Unknown button men killed a bad boy commander in Azam Warsak area of South Wazoo tribal district on Thursday night, police and witnesses said.

The witnesses said that attackers driving a non-custom paid car opened fire on Mr Bakhan in front of a shop in Azam Warsak, some 15 kilometres from Wana, the district headquarters of South Waziristan. He died instantly.

No group has grabbed credit for the attack.

Locals said that commander Bakhan had affiliation with the "good Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
" that had supported the government in operations against local and foreign bully boyz in South Waziristan.

Presently, they said, he had formed his own faction code-named 24 Group comprising youth of the area.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/27/2022 01:27 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Taliban/IEA

#1  Live by the militancy, die by the militancy.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/27/2022 13:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Locals said that commander Bakhan had affiliation with the “good Taliban”

There are good Taliban? By who's standards?
Posted by: jpal || 03/27/2022 16:04 Comments || Top||

#3  Like Tempura, their women are only lightly battered

/old joke
Posted by: Frank G || 03/27/2022 16:46 Comments || Top||

#4  Lobster Beirut - shelled, battered and then fried.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/27/2022 18:06 Comments || Top||


6 terrorists involved in Anarkali blast killed during exchange of fire in Sibi: ISPR
[Dawn] A soldier was martyred and six terrorists, who were linked to the blast in Lahore's Anarkali area on January 20, were killed during an exchange of fire in the general area of Nagao Mountains in 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...
's Sibi, the military's media affairs wing said on Saturday.

According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), security forces had launched an operation to apprehend Lions of Islam in Nagao Mountains after receiving information about their presence in the area.

"Once the troops started [a] clearance operation in the area, [the] Lions of Islam tried to escape from their hideout and opened fire on security forces," the ISPR said in a statement.

Six Balochistan Nationalist Army terrorists, including Naseebullah Bangalzai alias Jahangir, Pir Jan and Rakai Kalhoi, were killed in the ensuing exchange of fire, the ISPR said, adding they were involved in recent "security incidents" in Sibbi and linked to the blast in Lahore's Anarkali area on January 20.

Three people were killed and over 30 injured in the Anarkali blast, which law enforcement agencies had initially declared a gas cylinder explosion. But later investigations had confirmed that it was a kaboom

During the operation in Turbat, "a valiant son of the soil, Sepoy Nisar embraced shahadat (martyrdom) while another two soldiers got injured", the ISPR said.

According to the ISPR, arms and ammunition were seized from the Lions of Islam that they intended to use for "disrupting peace and security in the area".

"Security forces, in step with the nation, remain determined to thwart attempts at sabotaging peace, stability and progress of Balochistan," the ISPR said.

Earlier this month, security forces had killed seven Lions of Islam in Turbat's Gorchop area in Balochistan during an intelligence-based operation.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/27/2022 01:27 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Baloch Liberation Army


Iraq
ISIS cut four shepherds' heads off in Nineveh
Posted by: badanov || 03/27/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


A second attack targets a Chinese company in Iraq
Posted by: badanov || 03/27/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1 
So how long before the CCP uses this as an excuse to bring in a "Protective" contingent?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/27/2022 8:32 Comments || Top||


Security officer survives an attack on his residence in Diyala
Posted by: badanov || 03/27/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under:


Southeast Asia
Troops kill senior Abu Sayyaf leader in southern Philippines
[BenarNews] Troops killed a top-ranking Abu Sayyaf
...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder...
Radzmil Jannatul (also known as Khubayb), was killed in a clash with members of the elite Scout Rangers in the village of Baiwas on Friday afternoon.
Group leader during a shootout on the southern Philippine island of Basilan
...Basilan is a rugged, jungle-covered island in the southern Philippines. It is a known stronghold of the Abu Sayyaf, bandidos, and maybe even orcs. Most people with any sense travel with armed escorts...
, the military said Saturday.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 03/27/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Abu Sayyaf (ISIS)


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Floating back again, Turkish-backed faction abuses Afrin people
Posted by: badanov || 03/27/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:


Person lost his life in landmine explosion in Deir ez-Zor
Posted by: badanov || 03/27/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:


Two people killed in landmine explosion in Aleppo countryside
Posted by: badanov || 03/27/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:


Government, opposition exchange shelling in Syria’s northwest
Posted by: badanov || 03/27/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:


Government forces’ sites attacked by unknown gunmen in Daraa
Posted by: badanov || 03/27/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:



Who's in the News
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7Taliban/IEA
4Commies
3Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats
3Houthis
2Devout Moslems
1Govt of Iran
1Govt of Iraq
1Abu Sayyaf (ISIS)
1Human Trafficking
1Islamic State
1Narcos
1Ottoman Proxies
1Palestinian Authority
1Sublime Porte
1al-Qaeda in North Africa
1Baloch Liberation Army
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Two weeks of WOT
Sun 2022-03-27
  China’s state-run Sinopec Group has suspended talks for a major petrochemical investment and a gas marketing venture in Russia
Sat 2022-03-26
  Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu had a heart attack
Fri 2022-03-25
  United States is expected to announce plans to welcome up to 100,000 Ukrainian refugees.
Thu 2022-03-24
  Ukraine destroys Russian landing ship
Wed 2022-03-23
  Russian refineries reducing production runs as they are out of storage
Tue 2022-03-22
  Ukraine rejects Russia's demand to surrender Mariupol.
Mon 2022-03-21
  Russia tells US all diplomatic ties to be severed soon.
Sun 2022-03-20
  Elon Musk's satellites help Zelensky dominate the skies
Sat 2022-03-19
  Commander of 8th Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District: Lieutenant General Andrey Mordvichev is no more
Fri 2022-03-18
  ISIS ‘lover’ blows up aunt’s house in Baghdad for refusing his marriage proposal
Thu 2022-03-17
  Tens of thousands of Syrians enlisting to fight alongside Russia in Ukraine war
Wed 2022-03-16
  Amphibious Assault On Odesa Could Be Imminent According To Satellite Imagery
Tue 2022-03-15
  Over 500 'Repentant' Boko Haram Terrorists Graduate From Rehabilitation Camp In Gombe
Mon 2022-03-14
  War Crime of the first order. Russia burns Mariupol to the ground!
Sun 2022-03-13
  Missiles fired from Iran fall near US consulate in Erbil, Iraq
Sat 2022-03-12
  Mosque of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent shelled by Russians in Mariupol. Turkish citizens hiding inside.


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