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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Breitbart: Previously Deported Child Sex Offender
This link gives all the Breitbart articles under that tag, starting with the most recent. Finish Trump’s wall!
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/22/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants


Border Town USA: Migrants Busted in Michigan with Mexican Cartel's 20K Fentanyl Pills
[Breitbart] Police in Sterling Heights, Michigan, arrested two illegal immigrants following a vehicle pursuit. The officers found more than 20,000 fentanyl pills allegedly transported for a Mexican cartel.

Sterling Heights police attempted to stop a BMW on April 8. The driver refused to yield, Fox2 Michigan reported this week.

The chase ended when the driver pulled into a dead-end road and fled on foot. Officers arrested him not far from the vehicle.

During a search of the BMW, the officers found more than 20,000 fentanyl pills disguised as OxyContin. In addition, the officers found more than 500 grams of powdered fentanyl.

In addition to the driver, the officers also arrested a female passenger. Both allegedly told the officers they were Mexican nationals in the U.S. illegally and were working for an unidentified drug cartel, WDIV Detroit reported.

Officials estimated the street value of the drugs to be in excess of $350,000. They said there was enough fentanyl to kill “thousands of Michiganders.”

The CDC reports that fentanyl is now the leading cause of death between the ages of 18 and 45, according to Families Against Fentanyl.

In Texas, Governor Greg Abbott initiated Operation Lone Star to counter the influx of the deadly substance amid border policy shifts by the Biden Administration.

“When you look at the fact that we’ve apprehended enough fentanyl to kill every man, woman, and child in Texas, and the fact that fentanyl is the leading cause of death in the United States for people between the age of 18 and 45,” Abbott said in an exclusive interview with Breitbart in March. “In Texas, more than 1,300 people lost their lives last year because of fentanyl,” the governor added.

“The Texas Military Department said that from March 2021 through earlier this month, its troops near the border confiscated more than 1,200 pounds (540 kilograms) of fentanyl,” the governor said in an AP interview reported by Breitbart. “By comparison, federal authorities reported confiscating about 11,000 pounds (4,990 kilograms) in 2021 — still a fraction of what entered the country.”

15 Migrants Found Under Hay Bales near Border in Texas

[Breitbart] Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents and Texas Department of Public Safety troopers found a group of migrants hidden in a cattle trailer. Human smugglers packed the migrants in an un-ventilated compartment under bales of hay.

Texas DPS troopers stopped a Dodge pickup truck towing a cattle trailer filled with bales of hay, according to information obtained from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Troopers believed the trailer was equipped with a false compartment and contacted Border Patrol agents for assistance.

Border Patrol agents arrived and a K-9 alerted to the possible presence of drug or human cargo inside the trailer. A search of the trailer confirmed the presence of the hidden compartment and the presence of 13 migrants trapped inside the un-ventilated space.

The driver was allegedly bound for the Falfurrias Border Patrol checkpoint on U.S. Highway 281 in Brooks County before being stopped. “This smuggling tactic placed the migrants’ lives at further risk due to the excessive heat in the compartment and approximately one-hour travel time to the checkpoint,” officials stated.

The photos tweeted by Rio Grande Valley Sector Chief Patrol Agent Brian Hastings show the grants inside the cramped space that forced them to sit with their knees to their chest and their heads bowed over and down.

“If not for the actions of authorities, the driver would have attempted smuggling the group through a border patrol checkpoint, more than an hr drive away,” Chief Hastings stated.

DPS took custody of the driver and two other passengers who are expected to be charged with alien smuggling, officials report. The migrants, identified as citizens of Central American nations, were taken by Border Patrol agents.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/22/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Narcos

#1 
Story Summary: The results of Joe Biden handlers and the LSD's, regarding their Open Borders / Global Government Agenda.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/22/2022 6:10 Comments || Top||

#2  “Did I hear someone sneeze under there?”
Posted by: KBK || 04/22/2022 22:52 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Explosion in Mazar-e-Sharif Killed 30, Wounded 80 Shiite Worshipers
[Khaama] It's not mass murder if they're Shia and it's Ramadamaladingdong Health officials in Abu Ali Sina hospital in the Mazar-e-Sharif city of the northern Balkh province said that 30 killed and 80 wounded have been dispatched to the hospital after an explosion hit "Se Dukan" mosque in the city.

Local residents said the blast that occurred in the mosque at 12:40 PM local time targeted a Shiite Muslims mosque in the northern city.

It is still not clear how the blast took place.

The health officials have said that the number of victims is feared to increase as the statistics are preliminary.

The Afghan capital Kabul has also witnessed two blats on Thursday, April 21, 2022, that wounded two children.

Spokesperson of Kabul police Khalid Zadran said that a bomb was planted by a road in Police District 5.

The northern Kunduz province was also hit by a planted bomb that resulted in the killing of four civilians and wounding of eight more while four Taliban members died after a bomb blasted in the Khugiani district of the eastern Nangarhar province.

It comes two days after three bomb blasts in a school and educational center in Kabul killed six students and wounded 24 more.

No one has claimed responsibility for the blasts yet.
Posted by: Frank G || 04/22/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Taliban/IEA

#1  “According to R. Scott Appleby, a professor of history at the University of Notre Dame,"Shiite Muslims, who are concentrated in Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon, [believe they] had suffered the loss of divinely guided political leadership" at the time of the Imam's disappearance. Not"until the ascendancy of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1978" did they believe that they had once again begun to live under the authority of a legitimate religious figure. “
Posted by: Dino Phusing1328 || 04/22/2022 12:52 Comments || Top||


More Than 20 People Dead As IS Fighters Bomb Afghan Cities
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

At least 16 people were killed in two Afghan cities on Thursday by kabooms that were claimed by 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....
group (IS).

Since Taliban
...Arabic for students...
fighters seized control of Afghanistan last year after ousting the US-backed government, the number of bombings has fallen but the jihadist and Sunni IS has continued with attacks — often against Shiite targets.

Earlier this week, at least six people were killed in twin blasts that hit a boys’ school in a Shiite neighbourhood of Kabul.

On Thursday, 12 worshippers were killed in a blast at a Shiite mosque in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif, said Ahmad Zia Zindani, front man for the provincial public health department in Balkh.

He added that 58 people were maimed, including 32 at death's door.

Grisly images posted to social media showed victims of the attack being carried to hospital from Seh Dokan mosque.

"Blood and fear are everywhere," Zindani told AFP, adding "people were screaming" while seeking news of their relatives at the hospital.

"Many residents were also coming to donate blood," he said.

The blast occurred as worshippers were offering midday prayers during the Moslem holy month of Ramadan.

In a statement, IS said "the soldiers of the caliphate managed to get a booby-trapped bag" inside the mosque, detonating it from afar.

In a separate blast on Thursday in the city of Kunduz, at least four people were killed and 18 maimed. Police front man Obaidullah Abedi told AFP that a bicycle bomb went kaboom! near a vehicle carrying mechanics working for the Taliban.

Late on Thursday, IS claimed that attack too but said its fighters set off an bomb on a bus carrying Kunduz airport employees.
Posted by: Fred || 04/22/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Africa Horn
Somali forces kill over 10 Al-Shabab fighters in central region
[Garowe] Somalia's special forces, Danab, killed more than ten al-Shabaab
...... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa...
Lions of Islam and maimed several others during security operations carried out in the central part of the country, officials said on Thursday.

The military officials told SNA Radio that the special forces conducted a series of security operations against the holy warrior group in several villages in the Mudug region on Wednesday.

"The Danab forces launched operations against al-Shabaab in several villages including Qararow, Kalaxiran, Goryale, Dhumale, Caad, Gabdhale and Waable, among others, in the Mudug region," the military radio reported.

The government forces have intensified security operations against the al-Qaeda allied terror group to liberate regions still under the control of the group.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/22/2022 00:36 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


Africa Subsaharan
Wagner Group tried to accuse Barkhane Forces of burying civilians outside their base. French drone shows Wagner doing it.
[Twitter]
Posted by: 3dc || 04/22/2022 01:05 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  "Operation Barkhane is an ongoing anti-insurgent operation that started on 1 August 2014, and is led by the French military against Islamist groups in Africa's Sahel region. It consists of a roughly 5,000-strong French force, which is permanently headquartered in N’Djamena, the capital of Chad.' Then 'In late 2019, a so-called Wagner code of honor was revealed that lists ten commandments for Wagner's PMCs to follow. These include, among others, to protect the interests of Russia always and everywhere, to value the honor of a Russian soldier, to fight not for money, but from the principle of winning always and everywhere.'
Posted by: Dale || 04/22/2022 6:56 Comments || Top||

#2  value the honor of a Russian soldier

*snort*

The rest just sounds like an admission they're Russian pseudo-proxies.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 04/22/2022 7:36 Comments || Top||

#3  I have wondered if Russian pseudo Private MC's/SC's have drained the pool of trained career infantry in their army. That and Russia going "Transformational" by concentrating on armor/artillery/drones instead of classic Combined Arms structures -- you don't have what you don't support.
Posted by: magpie || 04/22/2022 16:43 Comments || Top||

#4  Did the Soviet Union do combined arms like we do?
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/22/2022 19:16 Comments || Top||


Amid Rising Insecurity, Nigeria Deploys 173 Troops In Guinea Bissau
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 04/22/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: ISWAP


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Resident of Dagestan is suspected of involvement in extremists
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] A 35-year-old resident of Dagestan participated in a meeting of the banned religious association "Nurdzhular,"
...apparently the Russian rendering of the Turkish expression “Nurcular,” meaning “followers of Nursi.” The reference is to Turkish Sufi Muslim theologian Said Nursi (1877–1960), who was a fierce critic of atheism and secular humanism. Russia’s Supreme Court banned the group in 2008. Russian authorities supposedly believe the organization to be banned in Turkey, and to be a tool of Turkish and American intelligence...
investigators say.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that 1,967 residents of Dagestan are on the wanted list as members of international terrorist organizations, Interior Minister Abdurashid Magomedov said at a session of the People's Assembly on March 31.

A case was initiated against a 35-year-old resident of Dagestan under the article on participation in the activities of an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). The man is suspected of involvement in the activities of the international religious association "Nurdzhular" *, reported today the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for Dagestan.

"Participation in the activities of an extremist organization" provides for up to six years deprivation freedom.

According to investigators, from 2016 to April 2017, a resident of Dagestan participated in the activities of the international religious association Nurcular,
...which has millions of followers around the globe, especially in Turkey, has been banned in Russia since 2008. They want a Turkic caliphate comprising those regions of the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Russia's North Caucasus and Volga regions...
which since April 10, 2008 has been banned by the Russian Supreme Court as extremist.

The suspect "participated in meetings to study the ideological sources of the specified extremist organization" in order to continue the illegal activities of the religious association, according to a message published today on the website of the Dagestan Department of the ICR.

Earlier, the "Caucasian Knot" also reported that, according to investigators, a 38-year-old resident of Izberbash joined the ranks of the international religious association "Nurcular" and studied extremist ideology.

Resident of Dagestan sentenced to 12 years in terrorism case

[KavkazUzel] A court in Rostov-on-Don found Magomed Ramazanov, a resident of Dagestan, guilty of preparing explosions and attacks on security forces in Makhachkala and sentenced him to 12 years in prison.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on December 25, four alleged members of a cell of the "Islamic State" terrorist organization, banned in Russia by a court, were detained in Dagestan, they were suspected of preparing an explosion and an attack on security officials. They found weapons, an explosive device and ammunition, and in their mobile phones - correspondence with coordinators from abroad. On December 28, 2020, the court decided to detain four detainees for two months.

Magomed Ramazanov, a resident of Dagestan, was accused of participating in the activities of a terrorist organization, organizing an illegal armed group and a terrorist community, preparing to commit a terrorist attack, the press service of the Southern District Military Court reported today. 

According to the investigators and the court, on December 20, Magomed Ramazanov took the oath of allegiance to the head of the Islamic State * by recording a video message on his mobile phone. On December 25, 2020, Ramazanov, together with three members of the illegal armed group he created, purchased firearms, ammunition, explosive devices, knives, which were stored in caches in the village of Agachaul and in Makhachkala.

They also developed a plan to carry out explosions on December 31, 2020 in Makhachkala, photographed and videotaped approaches to administrative buildings, made maps, indicating the objects that were supposed to be blown up, escape routes, to carry out the plan, placed the detention, the message on the Telegram channel says. court.

Ramazanov was found guilty and sentenced to 12 years in a strict regime colony and a fine of 350,000 rubles, the press service of the court said.

The date of sentencing was not specified in the message. The section "Courtwork" on the website of the Southern District Military Court is unavailable at 16.44 Moscow time. "The information is temporarily unavailable. We apologize. Try to apply later or go directly to the court," the court's website says.
Posted by: badanov || 04/22/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Fifth Column
Joseph Mahmoud Dibee has pleaded guilty in federal court in Portland to carrying out bombings
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

The Earth Liberation Front (ELF) is a militant arm of the anarcho-communist Earth First ecology movement, part of the spectrum of Black Bloc front movements that most recently includes Antifa and Black Lives Matter.
Posted by: Fred || 04/22/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Possible - Canada- Overstreet - Caribbean - Oregon - USA - California - Hawaii - South America
Posted by: Rupert Slaving4336 || 04/22/2022 18:31 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Four Military-Age Syrian Males Arrested in West Texas near Border, Says Source
[Breitbart] Border Patrol agents working the border near Eagle Pass, Texas, on Wednesday arrested four military-age Syrian migrants, a source within CBP told Breitbart Texas under the condition of anonymity. The four men attempted to sneak into the U.S. after illegally crossing the border from Coahuila, Mexico.

Human smugglers frequently move what Border Patrol calls Special Interest Aliens, migrants from nations with ties to terrorism, across the border away from large migrant group crossings, officials previously told Breitbart Texas. The large migrant groups serve as a distraction to agents who must use all available resources to process and document their apprehensions. This enables smugglers to move higher-value migrants or drugs across the unpatrolled border areas while agents are occupied.

The source told Breitbart the four Syrian men were not only of military age but are suspected to have military backgrounds.

Since the ensuing border crisis at the beginning of the Biden administration, more than 40 migrants who are listed on the terrorist watch list have been arrested as they attempted to enter the United States, according to a Fox News report. This number includes Border Patrol arrests and encounters at border crossings and other locations with CBP officers.

These numbers do not include migrants who illegally cross the border without being apprehended — what Border Patrol refers to as got-aways. In March alone, more than 62,000 migrants escaped apprehension, the Fox News report adds.

During the month of March, Border Patrol agents apprehended nearly 210,000 migrants, according to the latest Southwest Land Border Encounters Report from CBP, Breitbart reported. This includes nearly 129,000 who entered through the five Texas-based Border Patrol sectors.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/22/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists


India-Pakistan
J&K: 1 security personnel dead, 6 injured in encounter with terorrists
[OneIndia] One security personnel has died and 6 others were maimed in an encounter that broke out with gunnies at Sunjwan 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....
A counter terror operation was launched in Sunjwan area of Jammy on Friday morning.

Mukesh Singh, ADGP, Jammu Zone said that the security forces had cordoned off the area and launched a search operation. The police had received credible information about the presence of two heavily armed terrorists.

The encounter in Sunjwan took place amid heightened security arrangements in Jammu and Kashmir, two days ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's scheduled visit to Samba district, news agency PTI reported.

Additional Director General of Police of Jammu Mukesh Singh said the encounter started when the police's Special Operations Group and the CRPF launched a joint search operation in the area.

He said one security force personnel was killed and three more suffered injuries in the shootout. "The encounter is going on," he said.

A search operation was launched on a specific information about the presence of at least two heavily-armed terrorists, likely belonging to the Pakistain-based Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) outfit, in a vicinity adjacent to the sprawling Sunjwan military station to carry out a major strike in the city, the officials said.

On February 10 in 2018, three JeM gunnies stormed the Sunjwan Army camp and in the subsequent shootout, seven persons, including six soldiers, were killed. All the three gunnies were also shot full of holes.

On National Panchayati Raj Day on April 24, the prime minister is scheduled to visit Pali village, 17 km from here, to address a gathering.

This will be Modi's first visit to Jammu and Kashmir other than borders since the abrogation of the special status of erstwhile state and its bifurcation in August 2019.

He had celebrated Diwali with Army jawans on October 27, 2019 in Rajouri and on November 3, 2021 in Nowshera sector in Jammu division.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/22/2022 02:09 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Jaish-e-Mohammad


Five security men martyred in KP
[Dawn] At least five law enforcement personnel were martyred in two incidents in Khyber, Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire...
and Nowshera districts on Thursday, while four bad boyz were potted in an intelligence-based operation in Bannu.

Unidentified atta­ckers opened fire on a cop who was on duty at Akori Chowk in Nowshera district.

Three personnel of law enforcement agencies were martyred and a suspected terrorist was killed in a late-night attack on a security checkpost in the Bara area of Khyber.

According to police, some gunnies who were on foot shot up personnel of a security agency at a checkpost in Ajab Talab area of Meelward, in Akkakhel area of Khyber Agency
... the place to go if you've got an Indiana Jones hat and whip. Chock full of high adventure and treacherous Pathans. You should really train up to it, though...
, late on Wednesday night.

Meanwhile,
...back at the precinct house, Sergeant Maloney wasn't buying it. It was just too pat. The whole thing smelled phony, kind of like a dead mackeral but without the scales...
a policeman was martyred in Sarband area, a locality on the outskirts of the bucolic provincial capital, when unidentified attackers shot up a checkpost.

A police official said ASI Rahim Shah was maimed in the attack. He later died in hospital. In Bannu, four bad boyz were potted in an intelligence-based operation in a mountainous area of Ping Omerzai late on Wednesday night, said an official on Thursday.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/22/2022 02:06 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:


Iraq
Iraqi courts issue eight death sentences by hanging
[Rudaw] Two Iraqi courts issued death sentence
...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
s by hanging for eight people on Thursday, the country’s Supreme Judicial Council announced, for two separate crimes that resulted in serious injuries of at least six people and the killing of one police officer.

Four people were handed death sentences by hanging by Anbar Criminal Court on Thursday, accused of detonating a boom-mobile in the city of Ramadi, according to the statement from the council, adding that the men were working with 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....
(ISIS).

The explosion occurred in September 2020, leading to serious injuries of three members of the security forces, as well as three civilians.

In a separate case, Najaf Criminal Court sentenced four people to death by hanging on Thursday, for the killing of a police officer from Dhi Qar province in January 2021. According to the Supreme Judicial Council, the officer had been trying to buy a car from the perpetrators, and was lured by the four from Dhi Qar to Najaf, where they shot and killed him, as well as stealing money and a personal gun in his possession..

Iraq is one of the world’s top four executioners after China, Iran, and 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...
, according to Amnesia Amnesty International.

Since the rise of ISIS in 2014, thousands of people have been detained across Iraq for suspected links to terrorist groups, including ISIS, while hundreds have been executed.

At least 17 people sentenced to death for terror charges were executed in 2021, reported AFP, while Amnesty recorded 100 executions in Iraq in 2019 - a number that dropped to 45 the following year.

In March, a man was sentenced to death by hanging by Misan Criminal Court, after admitting to kidnapping a civilian and stealing his phones and an amount of money.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/22/2022 01:19 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Four ISIS members killed in Salahaddin airstrike
[Rudaw] Four 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 were killed in Salahaddin province on Thursday as a result of a calculated Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
that targeted strongholds belonging to the turban group, state media cited a statement from Iraq’s Intelligence Agency.

Iraq’s Federal Intelligence and Investigations Agency announced on Thursday the killing of four ISIS members in Baraa district of Salahaddin’s Eith area, after infiltrating an ISIS platoon that was operating in the region, according to state media.

The bully boyz were killed as a result of an airstrike conducted by Iraqi F-16 fighter aircrafts that targeted ISIS dens in the form of deserted houses in an area far from Eith, the agency said.

The offensive was carried out in a joint-effort between the agency and the targeting cell of the Joint Operations Command.

"The Intelligence Agency continues its preemptive operations to strike the strongholds of terrorist gangs to exact retribution from them and dry up their sources," state media quoted the agency’s statement as saying.

In its propaganda magazine on Thursday, ISIS claimed to have conducted 24 attacks in Iraq from April 7 to April 13, killing and injuring 31 people.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/22/2022 00:50 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Germany Reluctant Sending Weapons to Ukraine ? Why ? Poland Is the Answer !! Win Or Lose - Germany Goes along with this , DUH !! Remember World Cheered Germany Always Has Reunified Lands ? Wrong !! Anwer : 80 Years !! WW2 !! Outdaed Info - NATO -USA - & West Ignores !! Win Or Lose - Germany Must go -Along USA - Ignore West - DUH - NATO -as well !! Land Lost - Win Germany NATO - Ignore West- Hello ,USA - Lose Usual Germany - NATO - WEST Ignores - USA - Victor -Loser - Germany -Give Up Land !! see Poland eyeing THIS - Partnered With West Ignores - NATO & USA - DUH !!!????
Posted by: Waldemar Borgia1133 || 04/22/2022 20:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Answer , Outdated , See Poland Eyeing this , !! fucken Hackers !!! Library - WIFI - Fucking Bitch !!
Posted by: Waldemar Borgia1133 || 04/22/2022 20:13 Comments || Top||

#3  JOE? Izzat you?
/No. Too hard + imitation
Posted by: Frank G || 04/22/2022 22:21 Comments || Top||

#4  I suspect what we are seeing here is either automation + low-rent AI or some troll farm has outsourced to people who speak English even less than they do.

When I first encountered JOE-speak, I thought it was the output of a Markov Chain, a computer program. It took some practice to translate, but it was some insightful stuff. Insight being the magic ingredient missing here.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/22/2022 22:38 Comments || Top||


Diyala: 3 ISIS attacks thwarted in 72 hours
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Three ISIS attacks were thwarted in 72 hours, in al-Muqdadiyah and al-Udhaim districts, a security source in Diyala reported.

The Chief of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (PMF) in the northeastern bassin of the governorate, Ahmed al-Tamimi, told Shafaq News agency that the PMF, the operations commands, and the police thwarted three terrorist attacks in 72 hours, through several measures including adding security checkpoints on the Diyala and Saladin borders.

He added that ISIS murderous Moslems failed to infiltrate the Hamrin Bassin areas due to the strict security measures.

Al-Tamimi confirmed that due to its failure, the terrorist organization is planting bombs in remote areas, pointing out that huge differences have erupted between the organization's leaders, which hindered their plans to carry out attacks.

Every year, Diyala witnesses continuous terrorist attacks called the "Ramadan forays".
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Army deploys a brigade in Dhi Qar following a tribal conflict
[SHAFAQ] A large military force has been deployed in the district of al-Shatra, northern Dhi Qar, a local officer revealed on Thursday.

The Commissioner of al-Shatra, Haidar Ghaleb, told Shafaq News Agency that a brigade of the Iraqi army was deployed in the city in the aftermath of the recent security turbulence.

"The army forces are heavily deployed at the entrances of the city," he added.

"The curfew is still in force," Ghaleb said, "a tight security plan has been devised to bring those who incited the conflict to justice."
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PMF thwarts an ISIS attack in Kirkuk
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Al-Hashd al-Shaabi (PMF) thwarted an ISIS attack west of Kirkuk.

The PMF said in a statement that ISIS turbans attacked the PMF's patrol near Rubaida area, al-Rashad district, before the force responded and forced them to flee.
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Turkish military heavily bombards a village in Duhok
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Ottoman Turkish warplanes bombed sites of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Duhok, north of the Kurdistan Region, a source revealed on Thursday.

The source told Shafaq News Agency that Ottoman Turkish aircraft have been raining bombs on the PKK hideouts in the sub-district of Shiladze, Amedi.

Since 2016, Ankara has launched a trio of transborder operations against anti-Ankara parties in the Kurdistan Region and northeastern Syria: Euphrates Shield (2016), Olive Branch (2018), and Peace Spring (2019).
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israel hits targets in Gaza second time in two days
[RT] Israel has hit two targets, including a Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, weapons factory in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
strip, in an apparent retaliation for an attack on the Israeli town of Sderot from the Paleostinian enclave.

On Thursday, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said one rocket was launched from Gaza the previous night.

"In response, fighter jets attacked an underground facility producing rocket engine components. This attack will cause significant damage to the rocket production process in the Gaza Strip," the forces said in a statement.

Attempts by the Hamas-controlled enclave to take down the planes have failed, according to an IDF front man, but prompted Israel to carry out a second strike, this time targeting "a military compound used by the Hamas terrorist organization."

During the second raid, the gunshots triggered the Israeli Iron Dome air defense system, with the malfunction currently being investigated, the IDF said.

The Times of Israel, citing a medics’ statement, reported that three people had received treatment for debris-related injuries following a strike from Gaza.

Hamas responded to last night’s events by saying that it would "increase the persistence" of the Paleostinians and their commitment "to continue the struggle."

The fire exchange has apparently marked a further escalation of tensions between Israel and Gaza. In a similar episode on Tuesday, the IDF struck several targets in the Gaza strip, claiming the move was in retaliation for the rocket fired at Israel from the Paleostinian enclave — the first one in almost four months.

The incidents follow several days of violent mostly peaceful festivities at the Temple Mount complex (as referred to by the Jews) or the al-Aqsa compound (as referred by the Paleostinians), and a series of terrorist attacks in Israel in recent weeks. The compound is in east Jerusalem, which has been occupied by Israel since 1967, with the Jewish state responsible for security there.

Temple Mount is considered the holiest site in Judaism, while the al-Aqsa Mosque in the southern part of the complex is the third holiest site in Islam.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Judge Mansour orders seizure of Raja Salameh's properties
[An Nahar] Judge Nicolas Mansour, first investigating judge at the Mount Lebanon Hezbollahstan
...In 2006 unknown persons blew up Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the car he was traveling in, the road he was traveling on, and a few innocent bystanders of no account whatsoever. The person or persons unknow weren't Hezbollah, you can bet on that. Really. Even though there was an international tribunal that said it was them...
Court of Appeal, ordered on Thursday the seizure of all the assets of Riad Salameh
...Governor of Lebanon'scentral bank, Banque du Liban since April 1993. Salameh was appointed Governor by decree, approved by the Council of Ministers for a renewable term of six years. He was reappointed for four consecutive terms; in 1999, 2005, 2011 and 2017. Salameh chairs the Banque du Liban Central Council, the Higher Banking Commission, the AML/CFT Special Investigation Commission and the Capital Markets Authority. Salameh is a member of the board of governors at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and at the Arab Monetary Fund (AMF). Salameh is the longest-serving central bank governor in the world....
's brother, Raja.The memo was sent to the ministry of finance through the public prosecution.

Raja was arrested after Mount Lebanon Prosecutor Judge Ghada Aoun charged him with "facilitating money laundering."

Earlier this month, the Mount Lebanon accusatory body approved a ruling to release Raja on bail, dismissing an appeal filed by Aoun.

The accusatory body also agreed to slash the bail value from LBP 500 billion to LBP 200 billion, based on an an appeal filed by Raja's lawyer.



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