[REDSTATE] Yesterday, a ’freelance journalist’ with the epic porn name of Thor Benson, and a Twitter bio of "Writer. Featured in @TheDailyBeast, @TheAtlantic, @RollingStone, @NBCNews, @businessinsider and elsewhere. I write about politics, tech and science," tried to up his street cred with the most stupid and goonish members of society.
First off, the real garbage person in this scenario is Benson. Any person who would walk up to a private citizen in a restaurant and berate them over their politics just to get a few "likes" on Twitter has given up the right to any claim of manhood, maturity, or common sense...and they’ve given up the right to complain if they get their ass kicked.
But then, we had the most outrageous plot twist available.
.@thedailybeast tech & science contributor Thor Benson claimed he confronted me at a New Orleans bar & made me so uncomfortable that I left. It never happened—he racially profiled & harassed another Asian man. #StopAsianHate cc: @TracyConnorhttps://t.co/FYqrRGDMl0
[AlAhram] President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi congratulated Egyptians on the anniversary of the victory of 10 Ramadan, 1393 AH — the day in the Islamic calendar that corresponded to the 6 October War against Israel in 1973.
"On this day in the blessed month of Ramadan every year, we mark the anniversary of the victories of 10 Ramadan, which remind us of the greatest meanings of redemption, sacrifice, and patriotism," El-Sisi wrote on Facebook on Monday.
"I extend my warmest congratulations and greetings to the Egyptian people on the occasion of this glorious anniversary," he added.
"I pray to God to keep Egypt proud, strong, and capable of overcoming difficulties, and to guide its people to the paths of love and peace," the president wrote.
First Lady Entissar El-Sisi also congratulated the people, saying the Armed Forces' victory on that day "will remain an inspiring lesson that reflects the Egyptian military’s genius in conquering the impossible."
Egypt won the 6 October 1973 War against Israel. The victory paved the way for the return of the occupied Sinai Peninsula to Egypt after the Camp David Peace Accords were signed with Israel in 1979.
While the state celebrates the anniversary of the war on both the Hijri and Gregorian calendars, citizens only take the annual Gregorian anniversary of the war on 6 October as a national holiday.
[AlAhram] Gunmen who carried out a high-profile attack on a train in northwest Nigeria last month have released a video showing about two dozen of the hostages they kidnapped in the assault.
The images were the first indicator of how many passengers may have been kidnapped in the brazen raid, in which eight people were killed.
In the two-minute video, around two dozen people are seen sitting in a forest area, including men and women. At least one man appears to be from Southeast Asia while at least one another appears Caucasian.
Behind them a group of button men stand in a line.
"We are the passengers who left Abuja for Kaduna on Monday on March 28, 2022. We were seized on our way," one man says in Hausa language in the video.
"Since then it is only us that knows the dire situation we are in, there are women and kiddies, there are aged people with health challenges."
AFP could not independently verify the video, which was disseminated on social media.
But the CEO of Nigeria's Bank of Agriculture, Alwan Ali-Hassan, appears in the recording.
He appeared in a previous video before he was later released in what his captors said was a goodwill gesture for the Moslem Holy month of Ramadan.
Ali-Hassan's family confirmed last week it was him in the first video and that he had been freed by his captors.
The sophisticated attack saw button men blow up the tracks to halt a train from the capital Abuja to Kaduna , Nigeria's flagship rail service.
They then opened fire on the coaches before seizing an unknown number of passengers from the train's so-called VIP section.
There has been no claim of responsibility, although the finger of blame swiftly pointed at heavily armed criminal gangs known as bandidos who have ravaged parts of northwest and central Nigeria.
But analysts said the propaganda-style format of the first video, some of the language and the use of explosives in the attack have raised worries that jihadists may have participated in the attack.
Bandit gangs go after financial gain and ransom payments and usually have no ideological or religious motives. But there is concern among local authorities and analysts over alliances with Islamist bully boys.
Nigeria's security forces are battling a 12-year jihadist insurgency in the country's northeast where Boko Haram ...Nigeerian Islamist group, formerly paying homage to al-Qaeda, then, when the money ran out, to the Islamic State, and headed by nutcase Abu Bakr Shekau. Once he exploded in a gunfight with ISWAP, many in the group surrendered to the govt and others went with their new overlords. The remainder are a shell of their former selves, stmbling glassy-eyed and lonely through the Sambisa Forest and the soothing waters of Lake Chad, asking themselves What is truth?, or maybe just I wonder what's for dinner? I hope it's not rhinocerous again! ... and 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.... West Africa Province (ISWAP) operate.
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Translation: "It be Muslims! Give us more money to fight them!"
When in reality the bandits are created when the government steals money intended for its people. But hey, more money means more to steal! It's a government official's dream!
[An Nahar] A London jury on Monday unanimously found 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.... follower Ali Harbi Ali
...Somali-Brit university drop-out and son of a former Somali high government official. After going through the government Islamic radicalization prevention program Prevent at the age of 18, followed by the more intensive Channel counter-terrorism program, he decided to murder a British politician in the name of ISIS, then settled on Sir David...
guilty of murdering UK politician David Amess in a ferocious knife attack in October last year.
Good.
"It cannot have been easy to listen to the evidence you have listened to," judge Nigel Sweeney told jurors, saying he would sentence Ali, 26, on Wednesday.
Ali had told the trial that he had no regrets about murdering father-of-five Amess after he voted in parliament for air strikes in Syria in 2014.
The court at London's Old Bailey heard that Ali stabbed Amess more than 20 times with a foot-long carving knife in Leigh-on-Sea, southeast England.
Members of Amess's family were in court as the verdict was read out, during which Ali refused to stand on religious grounds.
Ali, from north London, arranged an appointment with Amess, 69, by telling the politician's office that he was a healthcare worker and wished to talk about local issues.
Knife-wielding Ali was apprehended at the scene of the murder in a church by two coppers armed only with batons and spray.
He had sent a manifesto to family and friends to try to justify his actions around the time of the attack.
A Special NIA Court on Monday said that it will frame formal charges against Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik ...chairman of one of the two factions of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front. JKLF is a Kashmiri nationalist organization founded in Birmingham, UK in 1977. Branches weren't actually established in Kashmir for another ten years. It has the usual demands for separation of J&K from secular India so it can become an independent Islamic rathole. It seems to have no interest in Pak Kashmir breaking away to join it. In 1994 Malik renounced violence after he was released from jail and from that point he and his organization pursued peaceful means to impose their will on the region... and others on April 18 in connection with a terror funding case.
I s’pose funding terrorists is peaceful in the sense that Mr. Malik himself is not raising his hand against others...
On the last date of hearing on March 19, the court had ordered framing of charges against Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... (LeT) founder Hafiz Saeed ...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat. He is periodically placed under house arrest so it looks like the govt is doing something. Once the heat is off they let him go.... , Hizbul Mujahideen ...Party of Holy Warriors, founded by Muhammad Ahsan Dar in September 1989. One of the Pak sock puppets waging jihad in Indian Kashmir. It was originally organized as the armed wing of Jamaat-e-Islami. In 1990, Dar declared Hizbul as the sword arm of Jamaat. Hizbul murdered many of the pro-independence intelligentsia in Kashmir. After the organization was taken over by Syed Salahuddin Dar and several other ex-Hizb leaders were assassinated between 2001 and 2003... chief Syed Salahuddin ...the aging, morbidly obese chief of Hizbul Mujaheddin and the titular head of the United Jihad Council in idyllic Kashmire. Originally owned body and theoretical soul by Jamaat-e-Islami he and his organization are currently controlled by Pakistain's ISI. Salahuddin's hobbies include crocheting doilies shaped like the Taj Mahal, combing his enormous beard, and eating.... and others for hatching criminal conspiracy, waging war against the country and other unlawful activities.
Kashmiri separatist leaders, including Yasin Malik, Shabbir Shah, Masarat Alam, former MLA Rashid Engineer, businessman Zahoor Ahmad Shah Watali, Bitta Karate, Aftab Ahmad Shah, Avatar Ahmad Shah, Naeem Khan, Bashir Ahmed Bhat, alias Peer Saifullah and several others have also been framed under charges for criminal conspiracy, waging war against the country and other unlawful activities.
In the order dated March 16, the NIA special Judge Praveen Singh had said: "The above analysis reflects that the statements of witnesses and documentary evidence have connected almost all the accused with each other and to a common object of secession, to the commonality of means they were to use, their close association to terrorist/terrorist organizations under the guiding hand and funding of Pak establishment."
Notably, the court has discharged three, namely Kamran Yusuf, Javed Ahmad Bhatt and Syedah Aasiya Firdous Andrabi.
The case related to the various terrorist outfits Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Hizbul-Mujahideen (HM), 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.... Liberation Front (JKLF) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) backed by 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.... were perpetrating terrorist and secessionist activities to disturb Jammu and Kashmir.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Thousands of supporters of former Prime Minister of Pakistain Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker, maybe not even among the top five... erupted into the streets of late on Sunday, one day after the incumbent leader lost a no-confidence vote in parliament.
Supporters of Khan staged mass rallies in several cities across the country to protest the Prime Minister’s ouster.
On Sunday, Imran Khan said that his country is under a "foreign conspiracy to change the regime."
"Pakistain became an independent state in 1947; but the freedom struggle begins again today against a foreign conspiracy of regime change. It is always the people of the country who defend their illusory sovereignty and democracy," Imran Khan wrote on his Twitter account
Pakistain’s parliament voted Saturday in favour of a no-confidence vote against Prime Minister Imran Khan’s government, while the Speaker resigned ahead of the decision. Parliament is expected to vote on a new prime minister on Monday.
Imran Khan called on Paks to against what he described as "an attempt to undermine the country’s illusory sovereignty," stressing that "the efforts to isolate him reflect Washington’s indignation at its opposition to its policies in the region."
Imran Khan is known for his support for a multipolar world and his criticism of US policies in Pakistain and the wider region.
The plot to remove Imran Khan from power was hatched under US pressure, after Islamabad refused to join 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... efforts against Russia and instead signed a major economic deal with Moscow. Khan himself had furiously responded to US attempts to influence Pakistain’s foreign policy, condemning Washington and the West for trying to treat Paks as their slaves.
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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
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.
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