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Good Morning

4Chan Users Claim to Have Cracked Backup
of Hunter Biden's iPhone and Are Leaking Info
Monday July 11th, 2022

BillieDove_01
Disclose Whereabouts Of 400 Terrorism Sponsors, 800 Terror Suspects Scheduled For Arraignment, Falana-led Group Asks Buhari Governmen
In Syria, militants carried out four shellings in a day
ISWAP Terrorists Planning To Attack Christians, Targets In Nigerian Capital, Abuja, Released Kuje Jihadists To Pursue Goal
Afghan Coal Sold to Companies Linked to Pakistan Army: Analyst
Tourism Increasing in Bamiyan
Attack on Libyan Parliament Headquarters to be Investigated
Video shows gangster's girlfriend pulled knife from bag and stabbed NYC bodega worker, 61, as he defended himself in dispute over $3: Fury as store worker is charged with murder for stabbing assailant while woman walks away scot free

Posted by: Fred || 07/11/2022 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Pretty sure I have that same outfit of my mother's in a box somewhere. Wonder if it's worth anything.
Posted by: jpal || 07/11/2022 15:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Billie Dove was a pilot, poet, and painter as well as an actress. She had a three-year fling with Howard Hughes and was to be married to him but she called it off. Not a vapid Tik Tok youngster.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/11/2022 15:53 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Texas man Isaac Nformangum accused of threatening to kill Ted Cruz, other GOPers at large
[NYPOST] A man charged with threatening to kill Texas Senator Ted Cruz;
...US Senator from Texas. Republican contender for president in 2016, his stiff and abrasive manner earned him the title most hated man in the Senate. After a close win over Beto O'Rourke, who tried to out-Lastino him, he grew a beard and let his biting wit shine through. Cruz's comments have been known to leave life-threatening wounds at better than forty feet...
and other Republican congressmen is on the loose after failing to return to court.

A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Isaac Nformangum,
...full name Isaac Ambe Nformangum, which is interesting...
22, who allegedly called Cruz’s office and threatened to kill the senator "be it by a bullet to the face or by the smashing of a brick in your skull," according to a transcript of the message released by the local District Attorney’s office, Fox News reported.

Nformangum, who accused Republicans of taking away his right to vote, was due in court Friday after being released on bond July 3. His current whereabouts are unknown.

"Hello and good afternoon Senator Rafael. This is one of the many Afro-American constituents of whom you are representative of here in Texas, as you currently serve from the Senate," Nformangum said in the phone call, according to the report.
Senator Rafael? That's Cruz's father's name.
"I have just read the, uh, Texas Republican Party’s platform for this current 2022 year, uh, wherein it is apparent that your many colleagues intend ... intend to have the voting right acts repealed and not reauthorized?"

Posted by: Fred || 07/11/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ..who accused Republicans of taking away his right to vote

Usually a consequence in most states for felony conviction. Deep blue states have been removing that penalty and death as an obstruction to voting.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/11/2022 8:30 Comments || Top||

#2  ... Also removed the requirement of being a citizen, resident, or even existing.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/11/2022 9:59 Comments || Top||

#3  He does not seem like the Lex Luther type of villain. Possibly sending him a text that invites him to a high level brainstorm meeting with Michael Moore might be enough to reel him on in.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/11/2022 11:03 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
ISWAP Terrorists Planning To Attack Christians, Targets In Nigerian Capital, Abuja, Released Kuje Jihadists To Pursue Goal
Posted by: Fred || 07/11/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: ISWAP


India-Pakistan
Udaipur tailor murder: NIA arrests seventh person, close aide of main accused
[OneIndia] The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested the seventh person in connection with the brutal killing of tailor Kanhaiya Lal in Rajasthan's Udaipur last month.

Farhad Mohammad Sheikh, alias Babla, was arrested on Saturday evening, a spokesperson from the NIA said. He was a "close criminal associate" of Riaz Akhtari, one of the two main accused, and took an active part in the conspiracy to kill the tailor, the spokesperson added.

Kanhaiya Lal was killed with murdered a cleaver inside his tailoring shop on June 28 and the incident was recorded by one ot the two accused (Riaz Akhtari, who is also referred to as Riyaz Attari) on camera.

They claimed in another clip that they hacked Lal to death to avenge an alleged insult to Islam.

As the incident shocked the entire nation, the cops flung into action and they were arrested within hours of the killing. Besides the duo, against whom the evidence is a self-shot video, the security agencies nabbed two more persons -- identified Mohsin and Asif -- who are alleged to be a part of the conspiracy to spread terror amongst the public on the lam. Two more accused -- Mohammed Mohsin and Wasim -- were arrested subsequently for being part of the criminal conspiracy and helping the two main accused in carrying out recce of the tailor's shop.

The probe agencies have claimed to have found several Pak numbers on their WhatsApp accounts and said that one of the accused was part of some secret groups ostensibly meant for religious activities. In one of these groups, it was alleged that Ghouse had been asked to do "something spectacular" to avenge the insult to Islam and the officials believed that this could be the turning point where the "barbaric" act of killing the tailor could have been hatched.

They said that Mohsin's place was used for sharpening the cleaver used in the killing and Asif had helped in carrying out the recce of the tailor's shop. The NIA had on June 29 re-registered the case under the anti-terror Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act after taking it over from the Rajasthan Police.

The case was initially registered at Dhanmandi cop shoppe in Udaipur. "NIA has re-started the paperwork but haven't done much else under sections 452, 302, 153(A), 153(B), 295(A) and 34 of IPC and sections 16, 18 & 20 of UA(P) Act, 1967 against accused who have conspired, planned and committed the heinous murder...," the agency spokesperson had said.

"The accused persons had also circulated a video of the criminal act in the social media claiming responsibility for the murder in order to trigger panic and strike terror among the masses across the country," the spokesperson had said.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/11/2022 01:18 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Devout Moslems


Two suspected IS militants held in Karachi
[Dawn] Police and an intelligence agency jointly carried out a raid in Shah Latif Town and claimed to have arrested two suspects linked with the krazed killer 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.

A police spokesperson said on Saturday that the held suspects — Mohammed Naeem alias Adil and Mohammed Shakil alias Waqas — were brothers and they were taken into custody from Kohi Goth.

The spokesperson said that illegal arms, a grenade and mobile phones were recovered from their custody. During initial probe, they revealed that they were involved in "brainwashing youths and sending them to Afghanistan for militancy training". Later, the youths joined the IS and Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS).
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/11/2022 00:44 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Iraq
Cattle died after Turkey attacked areas in Iraqi Kurdistan
[Shafaq News] On Saturday, Ottoman Turkish warplanes struck a village within the Darkar district of Zakho in the Kurdistan Region.

A security source told Shafaq News Agency that the attack resulted in the death of many cattle.

It is worth noting that the Ottoman Turkish bombardment continued for two days in the border areas.

Last April, Ankara launched an action called "Operation Claw Lock," A part of its Claw operations, to "prevent terror attacks" and ensure border security following an assessment that the PKK was planning a large-scale attack.

The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
regularly launches air strikes into northern Iraq, a region where it has repeatedly sent commandos to support its offensives.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/11/2022 01:19 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  I had to read that headline at least 4 times
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 07/11/2022 9:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Turkeys are the living descendants of the Velociraptor. The last thing you want is turkeys attacking your personal 'areas'.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/11/2022 10:13 Comments || Top||

#3  Turkey terrorizes bicycle path user.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/11/2022 10:15 Comments || Top||

#4  has repeatedly sent commandos to support its offensives

And how many cows did they kill?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/11/2022 10:51 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ Cowmmandos from the 10th Milking Division. They are all about peaceful agrarian reform, man!
Posted by: SteveS || 07/11/2022 11:00 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ ohh. Well at least they lowered the... y'know... the... emissions!
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/11/2022 11:02 Comments || Top||

#7  Kinda like destroying crops, though. The villagers will have one less food source.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/11/2022 11:54 Comments || Top||

#8 
Posted by: Aca Joe || 07/11/2022 12:57 Comments || Top||

#9  a turkey once bit my sister
Posted by: 746 || 07/11/2022 13:05 Comments || Top||

#10  ^ That's what I call a little pecker.




Posted by: Dale || 07/11/2022 13:08 Comments || Top||

#11 
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/11/2022 13:12 Comments || Top||

#12 
#8
Yeah they told us.
What's your point?
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 07/11/2022 13:26 Comments || Top||

#13  Re#12 I believe he is a professional asshole.
Posted by: Chris || 07/11/2022 15:40 Comments || Top||

#14  It’s Türkiye! You ignorant Americans!

In English it's "Turkey". Different language, different pronunciation and spelling. I'd have thought someone who is multilingual would understand that.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 07/11/2022 16:25 Comments || Top||

#15  A subtle and savoury dude
And never uncultured or rude
Is our Herbie McCoy,
Full of Christmas La Choy
Only honest-to-gawd Chinese food.
Posted by: Jeremiah Glusoper2328 || 07/11/2022 17:22 Comments || Top||

#16  Multilingual: willing to lick anything
Posted by: JHH || 07/11/2022 18:12 Comments || Top||

#17  It’s Türkiye! You ignorant Americans!

Hope is not a strategy.

Now It’s Türkiye, Not Turkey, at the United Nations
[NYT] The Turkish government wants the rest of the world to use the country’s own name for itself, and lose the association with a certain bird.
June 2, 2022


We noted it here at the time. But since we think the association both merited and amusing, we’ll keep it until a new Kemal Ataturk comes along.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/11/2022 18:18 Comments || Top||

#18  Actually, that is a rib-eye wrapped with a turkey.

But I'd milk Kurdey for all its worth.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/11/2022 19:11 Comments || Top||

#19  How about Peking Duck?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/11/2022 19:19 Comments || Top||

#20  Back when I was four, I had a pet turkey big enough I would ride it like a horse. I still think live Turkey's are nasty birds. Kind of like the country and its inhabitants.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 07/11/2022 20:44 Comments || Top||

#21  Turducken
Posted by: Matt || 07/11/2022 21:19 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syrian man found killed in al-Hol camp
[Rudaw] The body of a Syrian man was found in the notorious al-Hol camp
...sometimes spelt Hawl camp, because transliteration is an art...
late Saturday, reported Syrian news outlets, believed to have been killed 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....
(ISIS) sleeper cells inside the camp.
Very probably the bad killed by the worse.
The man’s throat was slit using a sharp object, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), adding that the body was found by the Kurdish Red Islamic Thingy in al-Hol’s third section, which only houses Syrian nationals.

A source from the camp told the local North Press Agency (NPA) that the man was a displaced Syrian citizen from Deir ez-Zor, without revealing his name.

At least 25 people have been killed in al-Hol since the start of 2022, ten of which have been of Syrian nationality, according to SOHR.

At least eight people were killed in al-Hol in June.

Saeed al-Jaiashi, strategic affairs advisor at the Iraqi National Security Advisory told Rudaw’s Halabja Sadoun on Monday that Iraq has repatriated over 610 families, numbering 2600 people, from al-Hol, adding that there are currently 8,000 Iraqi families remaining in the camp.
Update from NPA Syria at 1:00 p.m. EDT:
Hawl Camp, 45 km east of the city of Hasakah, is a house for 55.829 individuals, including 28.725 Iraqis, 18.850 Syrians and 8.254 of foreign nationalities, according to the latest statistics obtained by North Press.

The body was of a Syrian IDP from the city of Deir ez-Zor, the source added.

The camp witnesses murders with different methods, most notably firearms. The management of the camp fears that the latest Turkish threats of invading areas in northern Syria would pave the way for ISIS to reorganize its ranks; North Press cited a statement by the management as saying.

Since the start of Turkish threats, with a new military operation in northern Syria, and the escalation of these threats every period, ISIS sleeper cells have been highly active, especially in Hawl Camp.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/11/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


In Syria, militants carried out four shellings in a day
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] In the Idlib de-escalation zone, militants carried out four shellings in a day. This was announced at a briefing by the deputy head of the Russian Center for the Reconciliation of Warring Parties in Syria, Captain First Rank Evgeny Gerasimov .

“Four shellings were recorded in the province of Aleppo,” Gerasimov specified.

Recall that earlier the Center reported on the aggravation of the situation in the Idlib de-escalation zone.
Posted by: badanov || 07/11/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:



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Two weeks of WOT
Mon 2022-07-11
  Fitch cuts Turkey’s debt ratings to ‘B’
Sun 2022-07-10
  Russians advancing west of Lysychansk, shelling Donetsk region, Kharkiv region, Kherson region and Mykolaiv
Sat 2022-07-09
  Photolog: We will not forget, we will not forgive: Moscow and St. Petersburg mourn for the murdered children of Donbass
Fri 2022-07-08
  Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe shot
Thu 2022-07-07
  Mass Shooting By Two Illegal Immigrants In Richmond Foiled by Tipster
Wed 2022-07-06
  Antifa 4th of July attacks in Portland, FBI finally called in
Tue 2022-07-05
  Day 2: At least 6 dead, dozens hurt in Highland Park July Fourth parade shooting
Mon 2022-07-04
  Happy 4th of July everyone!
Sun 2022-07-03
  Grenade Explosion at an Islamic Seminary in East Afghanistan Wounds Eight People
Sat 2022-07-02
  21 Terrorists Killed As Boko Haram, ISWAP Fighters Clash Again In Borno
Fri 2022-07-01
  Czech Republic to extend coal mining amid high demand
Thu 2022-06-30
  It’s over: Court finds 19 men guilty of terrorism-related charges in 2015 Paris attacks trial
Wed 2022-06-29
  Sudan's armed forces fired heavy artillery during clashes in a disputed eastern region bordering Ethiopia
Tue 2022-06-28
  At least 13 dead after Russian missiles strike Ukrainian mall crowded with 1,000 shoppers
Mon 2022-06-27
  Myanmar authorities torch more than half a billion dollars’ worth of narcotics


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