[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] More than four tons of cocaine has been intercepted on ships smuggling narcotics in the Caribbean during a 45-day sting operation led by the US Coast Guard, officials said.
At least 13 suspected drug smugglers from Colombia and the Dominican Republic were arrested in 11 incidents involving the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Dauntless and the HNLMS Friedland of the Royal Netherlands Navy.
The Coast Guard was unable to say where the cocaine was being smuggled to and from after it offloaded the drugs at a Miami port.
The arrests come six weeks after the Coast Guard cutter James dropped off 30 tons of cocaine and marijuana worth over $1 billion at Port Everglades in Florida.
The 54,500 pounds of cocaine and 15,800 pounds of marijuana offloaded February 17 followed months of interdictions of drug smuggling boats in the Caribbean Sea and Eastern Pacific Ocean.
Coca cultivation in Colombia in 2020 soared to 245,000 hectares (945 square miles), enough to produce 1,010 tons of cocaine, according to the White House’s latest report on harvesting trends in the Andean region.
As recently as 2014, potential production was less than half that amount. Production in Peru and Bolivia has also steadily risen.
[OneIndia] Security forces busted a terrorist hideout in a village near the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and 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 Poonch district and seized a large quantity of arms and ammunition, officials said on Monday, according to news agency PTI.
The hideout was unearthed during a joint search operation by the army and police in Noorkote village, the officials said.
They said the arms and ammunition seized from the hideout included two AK-47 assault rifles with two magazines and 63 rounds, one 223 bore AK shape gun with handgrip, its two magazines and 20 rounds and one Chinese pistol with a magazine and four rounds.
However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... no one was arrested during the operation which was carried out late Sunday evening based on a specific information, the officials said.
That op was separate. Umer Feroze, Ahmed Bilal and Waris Bhat [acquirer of the arms] were encountered circling the village to get out to catch an interstate bus. They caught the latest form of Chinese virus and wasted away before our eyes.
[OneIndia] An IIT graduate attacked two coppers with a sharp-edged weapon at a gate of the famed Gorakhnath temple and tried to barge into premises before being overpowered, Uttar Pradesh officials said on Monday terming it a "terror incident".
The attack occurred on Sunday evening at the temple which is under high security as it is frequently visited by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who is the head seer.
The accused, identified as Murtaza Abbasi, was arrested and has been sent to judicial remand for two weeks, police said and alleged that he tried to forcibly enter the temple, which was teeming with devotees during the Navratri festival, after raising the religious slogan of "Allahu Akbar".
Videos shared on social media showed the man brandishing a large sickle and roaming around on the premises, as some took cover while others threw stones at him. Soon a group a devotees along with security personnel surrounded him and pinned him to the ground.
Murtaza was earlier taken to hospital and produced in a local court on Monday. His father Munir Abbasi said Murtaza belonged to the 2015 batch of IIT-Mumbai and was a chemical engineer.
Speaking to a TV channel, he claimed that his son was mentally unstable and that this should be taken into account.
In a statement, the UP Home Department said, "The attack on police jawans at Gorakhnath temple in Gorakhpur is a part of deep conspiracy, and based on the available facts, it can be said that it was a terror incident."
ADG, Gorakhpur zone, Akhil Kumar said Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) constables Gopal Gaur and Anil Paswan were maimed as they tried to stop the accused who went to a PAC post near gate no 1 and attacked the security personnel.
The Gorakhnath temple is the highest Peeth of the Nath sect and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Adityanath is the Mahant of this Peeth.
[OneIndia] Terrorists carried out three attacks in Jammu and 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.... on Monday, leaving one CRPF personnel dead and four persons, including two workers from Bihar and a Kashmiri Pandit, injured.
Two CRPF personnel were maimed when turbans opened fire on security forces at Maisuma. They were rushed to SMHS hospital where one of them - Head Constable Vishal Kumar - succumbed to injuries while the other was undergoing treatment.
The area was cordoned off as security forces launched a search operation to track down the assailants but no arrests were made.
35-year-old Bal Krishan alias Sonu, a Kashmiri Pandit, was shot at and injured by suspected turbans at Chotigam in Shopian district late on Monday evening, officials said, adding he was taken to district hospital Shopian.
Earlier in the day, turbans opened fire on two non-local labourers in Pulwama district "Terrorists opened firing on Patleshwar Kumar and Jako Chowdhary, both residents of Bihar, at Lajoora this afternoon," the officials said.
They said the duo were rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment.
This was second attack on non-local labourers in Pulwama district in as many days. Two workers hailing from 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.... were shot at and injured in Nowpora area of the district on Sunday.
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“ This was second attack on non-local labourers” .. this will probably start occurring in the USA. People are allowed to enter the borders so that labor is cheaper. Our darker population will lose out again. The demoncrats want slaves!
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[Rudaw] Iraqi forces on Sunday said a death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... has been handed to two 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.... (ISIS) members who oversaw the fatal double suicide kaboom that shook Baghdad last year.
The two members, who were arrested earlier, were handed a death sentence by the judge, state media quoted the investigative department of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) as saying.
The two ISIS members held "sensitive and important" positions in the holy warrior group, the department added, noting that one was the assistant to the so-called leader of southern Iraq in ISIS, Abu Hassan al-Gharibawi, and the other was in charge of the group’s hostels.
At least 32 people were killed and 100 others were maimed when two jacket wallahs attacked Baghdad’s Tayaran square on January 21 last year.
The death sentence comes over a year after two ISIS members were killed, including Gharibawi, for being allegedly involved in the attack.
ISIS seized control of swaths of land in Iraq in 2014. The group was declared territorially defeated in 2017 but has continued to carry out bombings, hit-and-run attacks, and kidnappings across several provinces.
Two ISIS suspects, plotting to carry out a suicide kaboom during the month of Ramadan, were arrested in Kirkuk last month.
In its propaganda magazine on Thursday, ISIS claimed to have conducted six attacks in Iraq from March 24 to March 30, killing and injuring 10 people.
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Two ISIS turbans were killed in armed confrontations with a force from the Iraqi army in the southwest of Nineveh, the Security Media Cell (SMC) reported on Monday.
SMC said that a force from the 75th brigade of the Iraqi army's 16th division discovered a network of tunnels during a combing campaign near mount Nowayqit.
The force clashed with a group of faceless myrmidons sheltering inside, SMC said, and a jacket wallah was rubbed out in the fire exchange.
"Another suicide bomber blew himself inside a tunnel, injuring two officers and two troops," SMC added, "the Iraqi airforce carried out two Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s, killing the faceless myrmidons hiding inside the tunnels."
[IsraelTimes] Clashes continue at flashpoint Damascus Gate for third night, eight Paleostinians arrested as Ramadan tensions persist
Security forces arrested 14 East Jerusalem residents in the past three days on suspicion of planning attacks or inciting others to carry out attacks, Channel 12 news reported Monday.
The raids come following a spate of terror attacks in recent weeks. Those arrested all confessed to either planning attacks or inciting others to carry out attacks, Channel 12 said.
The report also said that police believe that they can contain festivities at the Damascus Gate entrance to Jerusalem’s Old City if they continue at the scale of the past two nights.
Despite that, festivities were reported for the third night. Police said eight Paleostinians have been detained during festivities at Damascus Gate as Paleostinians gather to celebrate Ramadan.
Police said the suspects hurled stones and other items at officers. They added that some of the rioters were also involved in unrest on Sunday night too.
"Whoever chooses to disturb the order, riot, and engage in violence of any kind, harms first and foremost the large public of worshipers, merchants, and visitors, the vast majority of whom wished to celebrate Ramadan in peace and security, while maintaining freedom of worship," police said in a statement.
"We will not allow those inciting and violent mostly peaceful margins [of society] to disrupt order. We call on the public to mark the month of Ramadan legally, obey police instructions, and avoid violence and disturbances of any kind," the statement added.
Separately, Channel 12 reported that Paleostinian Authority the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase.... told senior members of his Fatah movement to help prevent any escalation in tensions.
[IsraelTimes] Military chief Aviv Kohavi said Monday that the Israel Defense Forces had foiled nearly a dozen terror attacks in the past two weeks, amid heightened tensions following several deadly attacks, as well as gunbattles with terror group members in the West Bank.
"At least 10 terror attacks have been prevented in the past two weeks, thanks to intelligence and operations. Even at this moment, we are focused on thwarting further attacks," Kohavi said at an Air Force ceremony.
"This is the IDF’s main mission at the moment. We will act wherever, as required, and using all methods to stop terrorism," he added.
There were no details about the thwarted attacks. Israeli security forces often keep operations under wraps for months, only occasionally publicizing details when suspects are charged.
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A Ottoman Turkish drone targeted a vehicle belonging to the Syriac Military Council while accompanying a Russian patrol to Tel Tamr power station northwest of Hasakah, northeast Syria, on Sunday evening. The Syriac Military Council is an Assyrian/Syriac military organisation in Syria, part of the Syrian Democratic Forces.
"The Ottoman Turkish occupation targeted with a drone the vehicle of Orom Marogi, a member of the General Command of the Syriac Military Council, while escorting the Russian side to the Tel Tamr this evening," SDF Media Center reported.
"Marogi and the translator were maimed due to this attack," SDF media center added.
A Christian commander of the Kurdish-led forces and another person were maimed in a suspected Ottoman Turkish drone attack in northeast Syria (Rojava), the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and media outlets said.
The drone hit a car carrying a member of the general command of the Syriac Military Council, Orom Maroge, and his translator in Tel Tamir as they were heading to the town’s power station, SDF media head Farhad Shami said in a tweet.
The attack came hours after an alleged Ottoman Turkish bombardment hit Tal Tamir and Zirgan district in Hasaka province, according to a conflict monitor, without causing civilian casualties.
Ankara often targets Rojava, especially Hasaka province, killing and injuring civilians as well as security forces.
Over 700 civilians were kidnapped and 134 others were maimed in Ottoman Turkish attacks in 2021, the SDF said in January.
The region also saw 47 Ottoman Turkish ground attacks and incursion attempts as well as 89 drone offensives last year.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... has conducted three military operations in northern Syria since 2016, two of them against Kurdish fighters who Ankara considers a branch of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and a threat to its national security. It has been threatening a new offensive against Kurdish forces in Rojava in recent months.
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