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Sorry — it was the middle of the night and I forgot to append a winkie face ;-) to underline my appreciation of your cute bit of cleverness, Jaque Sproing1885.
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^ Even better book. There's an apocryphal story that when William Faulkner was writing the screen play for The Big Sleep, he could not figure out the story line to his own satisfaction, but every time he tried to talk with Chandler on the phone about it, one or both of them were too drunk to make any headway.
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A Bogart tour-de-force, the scene in the other bookstore when he puts on glasses and just turns up the brim of his hat is classic.
An I had no idea the other daughter was this charmingly put together, perhaps more so than Bacall, whose singing was NOT a highpoint in the movie..
#11
Is appears Martha Vickers has lost her knickers.
But no worry or snickers.
Just smiles of appreciation.
As I relax in the wicker.
Confounded again by loss of memory.
Where the hell did I put those blue elixirs ?
[FOX] The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department is seeking help to identify an attempted murder suspect who was recorded on a garage security camera pulling out a gun and trying to shoot a man after a botched robbery in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Sunday.
Authorities said the unidentified suspect approached the victim’s vehicle as he was parking in a garage and demanded his belongings. The victim then ran across the street, and the suspect followed closely behind, ultimately pulling out a gun and pointing it at the victim.
The homeowner narrowly escapes being shot after the suspect's gun failed to fire, police said.
Las Vegas police said the suspect then entered a nearby vehicle and fled.
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Black on White attempted armed robbery, and then the suspect goes full idiot and in frustration, attempts to murder the victim, but fails to get his weapon to function, and then runs off to his vehicle and flees the scene. What is shocking is this is a typical middle class LV suburban neighborhood.
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Once upon a time in Vegas, the law and the outfit boys would all be looking for the perp, cause that sort of thing is "bad for business" in a tourist town.
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#3 Once upon a time in Vegas, the law and the outfit boys would all be looking for the perp, cause that sort of thing is "bad for business" in a tourist town.
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This would have been 25 years ago, but there were a group of feral youts who were preying on customers, and the owners contacted said youts to see what could be done.
The youts demanded to talk to 'the man'.
Accordingly, some gentlemen from Back East came out and met the leaders of the youts some distance out of town. The youts made their demands, and the gentlemen from back east replied...kinetically.
The two survivors had their legs broken and were told that since it was such a lovely night, they could walk back. That was, until recently, the last serious problems I'd heard of there.
[North Africa Post] An armed group in Mali affiliated with al-Qaeda has claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on the country’s main Kati military base near the capital city Bamako, which it said was a response to governmental collaboration with Russian mercenaries.
Friday’s (22 July) raid on the Kati base that killed at least one soldier and wounded six others, was the first time in Mali’s decade-long rebellion that an armed group has hit a military camp so close to Bamako. The attack, which was carried out using two car bombs, saw seven assailants killed and eight were arrested, Mali’s military said.
The Katiba Macina claimed the attack in the strategic garrison town near the Malian capital, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, according to the media unit for al-Qaeda’s local affiliate, Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimeen (JNIM). JNIM, the main armed alliance in the Sahel region whose influence on the ground continues to expand, comprises a myriad of groups including the Katiba Macina and operates mainly in Mali and Burkina Faso.
Katiba Macina justified the attack by citing the presence in Mali of mercenaries from Russia’s Wagner Group,
...note that it’s the Russians this time, not America...
which began supplying hundreds of fighters last year to support the Malian military and has since been accused by human rights groups and locals of participating in massacres of civilians. The Russian government has acknowledged Wagner personnel are in Mali, but the Malian government has described them as instructors from the Russian military rather than private security contractors. Wagner has no public representation and has not commented on the accusations of human rights violations.
A spat with France triggered a pullout of French forces that have been fighting rebels in Mali for nearly a decade. The withdrawal is expected to be completed in the coming weeks.
Bandits, Fighters From Afghanistan Are Being Sponsored To Attack Nigerians – Governor Ortom Laments, Says There’s No Government In Nigeria | Sahara Reporters https://t.co/E3g4we09kvpic.twitter.com/zUyIovYygi
Could be one of the Tehrik e-Taliban groups, could be tribal feuds, could be criminals... could even just be various people in bad moods sharing the pain.
[Dawn] Unidentified gunmen killed five people over the last two days in different parts of North Waziristan tribal district, police and residents said.
Three people were killed on Monday while two were shot dead on Sunday. The killings took place in Mirali tehsil.
Witnesses said gunmen killed Firdos Khan of Khaderi village in Mirali Bazaar.
Hours later, another person identified as Azmar Ali was shot dead in the town. Later, a resident of Omreki village near Mirali was also killed.
On Sunday, unknown gunmen had killed two residents of Bannu district in Mirali.
[OneIndia] The Bengaluru police have arrested an operative of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba following a late night operation. Four persons too have been detained in connection with the same case.
The arrested person has been identified as Akthar Hussian Lashkar from Assam and the police say that he is a highly radicalised youth. The operation was carried out by the sleuths of the Central Crime Branch's (CCB) Special Wing in coordination with the Internal Security Division and Intelligence Wing.
The raid took place following a tip off about the presence of some radical elements at the BTP locality near Tilaknagar. The term comprised more than 30 personnel. While the police is yet to make any statement about the arrest, it is learnt that Akthar was working as a food delivery boy.
Sources tell OneIndia that the raids took place at 8 pm on Sunday. Akthar was residing on the third floor and claimed that he was a food delivery boy.
Currently five persons are being questioned and an FIR has been lodged with the Tilaknagar police.
The arrest comes just a month after the arrest of Talib Hussain a member of the 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... in Bengaluru. He was arrested from the Okhalipuram area and the police said that he had fled 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.... with his wife and children after the hunt for him was intensified.
Hussain had taken shelter in a Mosque in the city and would deliver sermons during the Friday prayers.
[Shafaq News] ISIS Lions of Islam were seen clearing bodies from at the borders of al-Shirqat district following an unsuccessful attempt to near a site of the 51st brigade of the Tribal Mobilization, a source revealed on Sunday.
The source told Shafaq News Agency that a group of ISIS Lions of Islam was detected moving from al-Jazeera (the Island) toward the site near the Makhoul Mount, northern Baiji.
"The Tribal Mobilization forces showered the group with projectiles and managed to kill and injure scores of them," the source added, "the corpse count from the attack was not immediately clear, but the holy warriors were seen evacuating dead and injured fighters from the field."
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dude hook up a stump grinder and mulcher to his butt hole or what?
[Shafaq News] Two members of Saraya al-Salam, the military wing of the Sadrist movement, were killed in confrontations with ISIS in Samarra, Saladin Governorate.
In a statement, al-Saraya said that Basem Shalageh and Muhannad Shehab were killed while "defencding the homeland and the sanctities from the takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... enemy (ISIS) in al-Nakhwa Street in Samarra."
Meanwhile, ...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck slipped the habañero into the roasted jalapeño... a security source told Shafaq News Agency that two members of the 314th Brigade of Saraya al-Salam Brigade were killed, and three others were maimed in the attack within the Samarra Operations Sector.
The source indicated that the Saraya killed the two terrorists.
Saraya al-Salam (Al-Salam Brigades), headed by Mustafa al-Hamidawi, is the military wing of the Sadrist Movement led by the Shiite Cleric Moqtada Tater al-Sadr ...hereditary Iraqi holy man and leader of a political movement in Iraq. He had his hereditary rival, al-Khoei, assassinated only a few hours after the holy rival's appearance out of exile in 2003. Formerly an Iranian catspaw, lately he's gagged over some of their more outlandish antics, then went back to catspawry... ; it is responsible for securing the Samarra district, which includes the shrine of two of the 12 revered Shi'ite imams.
The 2014 Mahdi Army revival confronted the US forces in Iraq.
The Brigades has been involved in the fight against ISIS in many regions of Iraq, including Samarra, Diyala, Amerli, Jurf al-Sakhar, and Ishaqi district.
After declaring victory over ISIS, former Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi decided to join the popular armed forces with the army and police formations.
The Brigades are now a part of Popular Mobilization Forces but under the direct command of al-Sadr.
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[Shafaq News] A member 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.... group has been killed while attempting to enter the Iraqi territory from Mount Makhoul, Iraq's Ministry of Defense said in a statement on Monday.
"A force from the first brigade of the Iraqi army's 91st brigade, in cooperation with a joint force from al-Hashd al-Shaabi's (Popular Mobilization Forces-PMF) 51st and 60th brigades, killed a terrorist while attempting to enter al-Jazeera from Mount Makhoul," the statement said.
In the same context, two members of the federal police have been reportedly injured in a kaboom in Wadi Chay, south of Kirkuk's district of Daquq.
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[Shafaq News] Iraq's Federal Intelligence Agency on Monday said it captured eight persons with links to the terrorist organization of ISIS in separate operations in Baghdad, Babel, and al-Anbar.
According to an official statement, the agency's teams in Baghdad traced and captured four gunnies after luring them into ambushes at the checkpoints of al-Taji, al-Ghazaliyah, and Abu Ghreib.
"A terrorist female codenamed 'Um Hussein' was also apprehended in al-Haswa area in Babel," the statement said.
"A special task force tracked a terrorist with ties to a hideout that was destroyed in al-Anbar last June has been captured in Amiriyat al-Fallujah, ... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperity or a really nice place to raise your kids... " it added.
In Maysan, two persons wanted in accordance with Article 4/Terrorism for bombing the residence of security officers had also been captured in Maysan.
"A weapon cache that belongs to the terrorist organization of ISIS was discovered in Saladin," the statement concluded.
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[Rudaw] At least three rockets targeted Khor Mor gas field, operated by the UAE-based Dana Gas in Chamchamal district of Sulaimani, the district’s mayor told Rudaw on Monday, exactly one month after a series of rocket attacks struck the field in June.
The rockets struck at around 7:50pm, Mayor of Chamchamal district Ramik Ramadhan told Rudaw’s Hemin Baban, adding that the extent of damages made due to the attack remain unclear.
Ahmed Mufti, Kurdistan Regional Government's (KRG) natural resources deputy minister, confirmed the news to Rudaw, adding that investigations into the incident have begun.
"The rockets have landed in the vicinity of the field," said Mufti, adding that "they have not resulted in any casualties."
Mufti stressed that the attack has not affected the field's work process and that gas production continues as usual.
The KRG condemned the attack later in the evening, calling on the Iraqi government to take the necessary measurements to prevent the repetition of such attacks.
"We call on the Iraqi Federal Government to take the necessary measures to limit and prevent a repetition of these terrorist attacks, which seek to destroy the security and stability of the whole of Iraq and the economic development of the Kurdistan Region," read a statement from KRG Spokesperson Jotiar Adil on Monday.
The Kurdistan Region has been facing an unprecedented number of rocket and drone attacks since the beginning of the year, mostly blamed on Iran-backed militias.
Three rockets struck the key Khor Mor gas field in a matter of four days in June, leading Dana Gas to temporarily suspended the work on one of its expansion projects. At least two contractors were maimed as a result of June’s attacks.
No parties have assumed responsibility for the attacks.
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani said in June that he was troubled by the attacks on Khor Mor, noting that additional security forces will be deployed to the area.
Khor Mor field produces 452 million standard cubic feet of gas per day, according to Dana Gas.
[IsraelTimes] Footage shows suspect hurling molotov cocktail near Migdal Oz, fleeing area; military says he was also carrying fake bomb
A Paleostinian man armed with a makeshift firearm was detained in the West Bank’s Etzion settlement bloc (Gush Etzion) on Monday afternoon, after starting a fire with a Molotov cocktail, the military said.
The Israel Defense Forces said soldiers operating near Migdal Oz were dispatched to the scene after the suspect hurled a Molotov cocktail near the settlement.
He was caught after a brief chase, and was found to be armed with a makeshift gun and a mock bomb, the IDF said.
The military published an X-ray image showing a bullet loaded into the gun.
The suspect was taken for further questioning by the Shin Bet security agency.
Footage published by Kan news showed the man hurling the Molotov cocktail and fleeing the area.
The incident came after two Paleostinians carrying Molotov cocktails were arrested near Migdal Oz by troops and local security forces on Saturday, according to local authorities.
Seven wanted Paleostinians were arrested during raids in the West Bank overnight, the IDF said Monday morning.
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) July 25, 2022
On Monday, the Autonomous Administration of North and East (AANES)
...that’s the Syrian Kurds...
handed over 146 children and women 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) from Tajikistan, to their country’s delegation.
The handover took place at the headquarters of the AANES Department of Foreign Relations in the city of Qamishli, during a presser hrld by Zubaydullo Zubaydzoda, Ambassador of the Republic of Tajikistan in Kuwait, and the co-presidency of the AANES Foreign Relations Department Fanar al-Gait.
The AANES handed over about 121 children and 25 women to the delegation, al-Gait said during the presser.
"There are citizens from more than 52 countries, therefore, an international solution is required, the AANES has provided all facilitations and appealed to these countries to end this complicated and dangerous issue," the co-presidency of the AANES Foreign Relations Department concluded.
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should have put them down
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Unknown gunmen shot and killed a member of the Palestine Liberation Army, a militia affiliated with the Syrian Government, in #Syria’s #Daraa. https://t.co/mJblZBvRkO
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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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...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed...
...hereditary Iraqi holy man and leader of a political movement in Iraq. He had his hereditary rival, al-Khoei, assassinated only a few hours after the holy rival's appearance out of exile in 2003. Formerly an Iranian catspaw, lately he's gagged over some of their more outlandish antics, then went back to catspawry...
...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 
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...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 
