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Good Morning

How President Biden's advanced age, neurological issues, heart condition and past history of cancer all put the 79-year-old in the severe risk category for COVID
Friday July 22nd, 2022

DorisHill_ShinyShoes
Narcotics, arms trafficking from
Sri Lanka: NIA raids at 22 places in Tamil Nadu
Terror attacks in J&K down since
2018; Maoist violence reduced by 77%: Centre
Mali expels UN peacekeeping mission spokesman
Srinagar : NIA conducts raids
Strong explosions being reported. Qudssaya neighbourhood in the cities northwest and Damascus International Airport being reported as possible impact areas %u2014 %u2018twas Israel again, of course
California alleged drug traffickers in massive fentanyl bust no shows in court after release on cashless bail
California alleged drug traffickers in massive fentanyl bust no shows in court after release on cashless bail

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#1  Those Gamz!
Posted by: Jay-Dubya || 07/22/2022 11:34 Comments || Top||

#2  The clouds, why do they hate us?
Posted by: jpal || 07/22/2022 12:18 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Panic In Niger State Communities Over Fresh Attack By Terrorists
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Terrorists on Thursday morning invaded some communities around Kamapani Waya in the Kontagora local government area of Niger State.

The villagers were put on alert while some were urging the women and kiddies to go and hide.

Some cows were taken away to be hidden.

Vehicles coming from Minna had to stop to avoid getting into the crossfire, The Nation reports.

But military troops have been mobilised to the road.

Some of the military troops were seen after Kamapani Waya as they directed motorists. Others also entered the communities to engage the terrorists.
Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram (ISIS)


Terrorists Kill Four Mobile Policemen, Three Others In President Buhari’s Home State
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Gunmen suspected to be bandidos have killed four mobile coppers and three civilians at Gatikawa community, Kankara Local Government Area of Katsina State.

SaharaReporters gathered that the incident occurred on Wednesday evening.

The coppers stationed at a checkpoint in the community were on special duty from Kano State Command.

Katsina, despite being the home state of President Muhammadu Buhari, has witnessed sporadic attacks by bandidos and kidnappers that have claimed the lives of many.

Over 2000 people have been reportedly killed by the button men in Jibia, Kankara, Dutsinma, Musawa, Danmusa and Safana local government areas of the state in the last one year.

The latest incident is coming a few weeks after murderous Moslems killed the Area Commander of the Dutsin Ma Police Area command in the state, Aminu Umar.

Umar, an Assistant Police Commissioner, was killed alongside one other officer.
Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Banditti


Britain
Channel migrants landed in Britain with GUNS: Asylum-seekers triggered alerts on security databases and later vanished... and others were ARMED, scathing official report by borders watchdog reveals
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Migrants security databases alerts have been allowed to vanish, a report warned

  • They are among scores to flee hotels without fingerprints or photographs taken

  • According to the report, some of the arrivals from the Channel were armed with guns or other weapons

Related: Hundreds of Channel migrants have fled hotels and could be ANYWHERE: Inspector condemns 'clearly overwhelmed' Home Office and blasts it over 'inexcusably awful' security failures including letting criminal or national security suspects disappear

Posted by: Skidmark || 07/22/2022 07:25 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  Made me wonder what is coming across US borders.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/22/2022 9:19 Comments || Top||


#3  Not to worry. Since guns are apparently illegal in GB, I'm sure they'll turn them in.
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/22/2022 11:10 Comments || Top||

#4  The Experts say this strengthens your society dontchyaknow?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/22/2022 11:28 Comments || Top||

#5  They didn't cross state lines, they crossed national borders. Where's the screeching and weeping from the media?

Rittenhouse at least was not in the country illegally...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/22/2022 11:32 Comments || Top||

#6  Diversity is our strength!
Posted by: Sgt.D.T. || 07/22/2022 16:31 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Srinagar : NIA conducts raids
National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday carried out searches at multiple places in the recovery of arms in Chanpora area of city in the month of May."Today (20.07.2022), NIA conducted searches at nine locations in 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....
(4 in Srinagar District and 5 in Pulwama District) in the case related to the conspiracy of carrying out terror activities in and around Srinagar, in which four accused persons were arrested and 15 Pistols, 30 Magazines, 300 rounds and one Scorpio vehicle were seized," NIA said here. "The case was registered initially in PS- Chanapora, Srinagar as FIR no 31/2022 and was re-registered by NIA on 18.06.2022."

The searches, probe agency said were conducted today at the premises of accused and suspects in the case have led to the recovery and seizure of digital devices and other incriminating materials.

Further investigations in the case are in progress, it added.

Notably, 15 pistols, apparently amassed for assassinations, were recovered from a terrorist module in area of Srinagar in last week of May.

"Two local hybrid bully boyz of the 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...
’s (LeT) The Resistance® Front (TRF) were arrested (in Srinagar). Incriminating materials, arms and ammunition have been recovered. An investigation is going on. It is a big success for the police," Inspector General of Police Vijay Kumar had said soon after the recovery of pistols.



Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistain Proxies

#1  Thank Gawd for a bunch of Mahmuds. The weasel, remember? Some sell out to us, some are actually just afraid their wards are too incompetent to get away with it.

There was this old lady who called up to inquire once, what the punishment would be for helping some fools cross over with bombs and stuff. Because her son was involved in something like it.

The station officer, a bright chap, said, "Why, nothing! We'll just slap this silliness out of him an' send 'im home, lady."

She gave them the details of their plan and they caught a truck full of grenades, ammo, walkies, cells, IED making stuff...

And they did send the stupid bastard home, but with the fright of his life.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/22/2022 2:49 Comments || Top||

#2  "Why, nothing!

Cashless bail
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/22/2022 5:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Mahmoud the Weasel has a large family in need of braces, piano lessons, and dowries (or bride prices). Once he reached the age to dandle grandkiddies in his knee, he passed the trade on to his sons, sons-in-law, and nephews, all of whom were notable for their large ears and sensitive hearing.

I’m very glad to know he and they are not a figment of my imagination.

That loving mother is precious. May there be many more like her in the years to come.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/22/2022 21:43 Comments || Top||


Narcotics, arms trafficking from Sri Lanka: NIA raids at 22 places in Tamil Nadu
[OneIndia] The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday conducted searches at 22 locations in Tamil Nadu in connection with operations of narco mafia of Sri Lanka operating in collusion with Pakistain-based drug and gun runner Haji Salim for the revival of LTTE, the agency said in a statement.

NIA conducted searches at the premises of the accused and suspects in Chennai, Thiruppur, Chengalpatty and Thuruchirapally districts. Sri Lankan drug mafia is being operated by C Bunashekharan alias Guna and Pushparajah alias Pookutti Kanna in association with Haji Salim, drug and arms supplier based in Pakistain, the NIA said.

These drugs and arms traffickers have been working for the revival of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and to further its violent mostly peaceful activities, the NIA added.

It had started the paperwork but haven't done much else on July 8 on the basis of intelligence gathered by it. "The searches conducted today have led to recovery and seizure of digital devices and various incriminating documents," the agency said.

Further investigations in the case are in progress.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/22/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Narcos


Iraq
Iranian border guard killed near the Region's borders
Posted by: badanov || 07/22/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Local official in Basra survives assassination attempt
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One day after the Zakho attack.. Turkish aircraft attack Duhok again
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
12 arrested in West Bank operation, violent clashes reported in Ramallah, Jenin
[IsraelTimes] No Israeli or Paleostinian casualties reported; IDF seizes vehicles used for ’domestic terrorism’; operation follows arrests of Jewish settlers trying to establish new outputs

Israeli security forces arrested 12 Paleostinian suspects throughout the West Bank overnight Thursday, with violent mostly peaceful confrontations reported in some areas.

As part of the arrest operation, Israeli troops entered the towns of Huwara, Salem, Bir Zayt, al-Yamun and Einabus among others to arrest individuals suspected of involvement in terrorist activity, the Israeli military said.

Paleostinian rioters confronted Israeli forces operating in Jenin and Ramallah, throwing Molotov cocktails and hurling rocks toward them.

Israeli forces responded by opening fire on the assailants.

In the village of al-Mughayyir in the northern West Bank Israeli troops seized illegal weapons. Two suspects who assaulted the troops during the operation were arrested.

In the nearby village of Deir Abu Mash’al, troops arrested two suspects and confiscated a vehicle "used for domestic terrorism," the military said.

No Israeli or Paleostinian casualties were reported in the operation.

Overall, 12 suspects were arrested and taken in for questioning.

Tensions in the West Bank have risen in recent days as thousands of right-wing Israeli activist muppets flocked Wednesday to various sites across the West Bank in an effort to establish six new illegal outposts in the territory.

Organized by the radical settler organization Nachala, the initiative is believed to have drawn some 10,000 individuals, although this figure could not be independently verified.

Five ultra-nationalist activist muppets were arrested late Wednesday and early Thursday.

On Sunday, Israeli troops clashed with Paleostinian button men during an early morning raid in the northern West Bank city of Tubas. It came following a brief pause in arrest operations in the West Bank, amid US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Being a self-defined foreign policy whiz kid means never having to say you're sorry...
’s two-day trip to the region. The US president departed from the country on Friday.

It was thought the IDF wished to avoid any major confrontation during the visit.

Tensions have remained high, as Israeli security forces stepped up operations in the West Bank following a deadly wave of terror attacks against Israelis that left 19 people dead earlier this year.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/22/2022 02:20 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


After 16 years, Israel arrests Fatah-linked terrorist for killing of IDF soldier
[IsraelTimes] Alam al-Ra’i, 42, held for firing at Israelis near Nablus in April; during probe Shin Bet finds he was part of cell that set off 2006 bomb that killed Staff Sgt. Osher Damari

The Shin Bet security agency revealed Thursday that it had arrested a Paleostinian member of the mostly dormant Tanzim terror group who was allegedly responsible for a 2006 kaboom that killed an Israeli soldier.

Alam al-Ra’i, 42, a resident of Nablus, was arrested for at least two shooting attacks at Israelis near Joseph’s Tomb on the outskirts of the West Bank city and in other areas nearby in April, the Shin Bet said.

During his interrogation, the Shin Bet found al-Ra’i was part of a cell that set off a bomb during a raid in Nablus on July 17, 2006, killing Staff Sgt. Osher Damari, 20, and wounding several other soldiers.

The Shin Bet said al-Ra’i was responsible for several more attacks against Israeli soldiers between 2005 and 2007, while part of the same Tanzim cell, and in later years committed dozens more shootings and explosive attacks, some of which maimed troops.

The April shooting attacks near Nablus were directed by a terror operative 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, according to the Shin Bet. al-Ra’i received payment for working to recruit others and committing the attacks, the agency said.

An indictment against al-Ra’i, charging him with "numerous serious security offenses, with above all the murder of the soldier Osher Damari" was to be filed later Thursday, the Shin Bet said.

Tanzim, an armed militia founded in 1995 and loosely affiliated with the Paleostinian Authority’s ruling Fatah party, was a key player in violent mostly peaceful demonstrations at the start of the Second Intifada in 2000. Its leader then was Marwan Barghouti, who is serving five life terms in jail for orchestrating deadly terror attacks.

While the group has not been blamed for any major attacks in almost two decades, Israel said it arrested its leader in 2016.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/22/2022 02:20 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Fatah

#1  GOod
Posted by: Tiny Jeater6933 || 07/22/2022 5:50 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
AANES Hands Over 11 Russian ISIS Children To Their Country
[NPASYRIA] The Department of Foreign Relations of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) handed over on Thursday 11 Russian children of 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) to an official delegation from Russia.

The delegation was headed by Elena Alexandrov, assistant to the office of Maria Lvova Belova, Russia’s Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights.

During the handover, Alexandrov said that the Russian government would continue its efforts to "bring back all the [Russian] children in the camps, during the coming period."

Recently, the AANES has handed over 16 women and 35 children from ISIS families to a French delegation.

In the first half of 2022, the AANES handed over 116 ISIS children and 41 women from the mothers of these children to foreign delegations, according to statistics by the Department of Foreign Relations of the AANES in Qamishli.

Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Aleppo, Turkish-backed Malik Shah armed faction announced leaving the formation of the Third Legion in the Turkish-backed SNA and joining Hayat Thaeroon for Liberation.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Ottoman Proxies


Two members of the Self-Defense Forces injured in assault conducted by gunmen believed to be ISIS cells
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Strong explosions being reported. Qudssaya neighbourhood in the cities northwest and Damascus International Airport being reported as possible impact areas — ‘twas Israel again, of course
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Syria says Israeli airstrikes near Damascus kill 3 soldiers, wound 7

[IsraelTimes] Damage reported in suburb of Sayyidah Zaynab, near Syrian capital

Israeli fighter jets launched a series of Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s on areas near the Syrian capital Damascus shortly after midnight on Friday, killing three soldiers and wounding seven others, Syria’s official state media reported.

Heavy explosions were heard over both the Syrian capital and northern Israel, according to local reports.

The state-run broadcaster SANA, citing a military source, said most of the missiles launched from over the Golan Heights were intercepted.
Most. That’s like close, which only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades, or so I’ve been told.
The Syrian military claims to shoot down incoming missiles after nearly every alleged Israeli strike, an assertion Israeli military officials and civilian defense analysts largely dismiss as empty boasts.

The military source also said damage was caused to the sites that were hit, without elaborating on the extent or the nature of the targets.

A site in the southern Damascus suburb of Sayyidah Zaynab was damaged, according to local media reports and images circulated on social media.

SANA reported the casualties in the airstrikes without specifying the ranks and identities of the killed and maimed.

There was no comment from the Israel Defense Forces, which does not comment on individual strikes, except for those in retaliation to specific attacks against Israel.
Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria

#1  most of the missiles launched from over the Golan Heights were intercepted... by the ground, near or on top of the targets because of this thing called gravity, 100% chance of interception gravity has shown, you see.
Posted by: magpie || 07/22/2022 9:44 Comments || Top||

#2  That’s like close, which only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades, or so I’ve been told.
Well, and mortar strikes of course.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/22/2022 12:17 Comments || Top||

#3  Given that physics is a branch of philosophy, magpie...

Close also counts in kissing, Skidmark. If we’re going to extend the list, might as well go all the way, right?
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/22/2022 21:22 Comments || Top||



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  Fitch downgrades Pakistan's outlook from stable to negative
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  Iran brags it has the 'technical means' to produce nuclear bomb'
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