[Garowe] To sustain the ongoing crackdown against al-Shabaab ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... , functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... , Somalia's neighboring frontline countries are set to dispatched more troops to the Horn of Africa nation, it has now emerged, in a decision which comes almost a month after a special meeting in Mogadishu, the Somalia capital.
Kenya, Æthiopia, and Djibouti leaders met in Mogadishu last month to discuss the progress in the fight against al-Shabaab, noting that there is an urgent need to send more troops to assist the country in the latest crackdown against the al-Qaeda associates who are battling to topple the fragile UN-backed federal government of Somalia.
And barely a month after the meeting, the three countries have decided to add more soldiers to the Horn of Africa nation to aid in flushing out the hard boyz who have lately lost some of their strongholds in central and southern regions following the sustained operations.
However, the man who has no enemies isn't anybody and has never done anything... soldiers will not be factored into the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Transition Mission in Somalia [ATMIS] component who are mandated to coordinate peace efforts in the country. Currently, there are close to 22,000 soldiers from ATMIS troops contributing nations who are paid by the international partners in Somalia.
This will be the first time Kenya and Djibouti are sending non-ATMIS soldiers to Somalia but previously, Æthiopia has done so. The federal republic of Æthiopia dispatched at least 1000 soldiers who were not attached to AMISOM leading to complaints from the Jubaland authorities.
Æthiopian non-ATMIS troops were accused of perpetuating atrocities in Jubaland and Southwest but the African Union never responded to the claims. In Jubaland for instance, they were accused of plotting to overthrow the regional administration at the behest of former President Mohammed Abdullahi Farmajo.
National Security Adviser Hussein Sheikh Ali told VOA the non-ATMIS troops are expected to be dispatched to the country soon but did not give the exact number. It is believed that Somalia is projecting to defeat al-Shabaab by the end of this year before ATMIS troops hand over security responsibilities to the Somali National Army [SNA].
ATMIS soldiers in Somalia are funded by stakeholders such as the United States, the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... , and the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... among others, with most countries paying them on their own budgets before getting a refund. ATMIS along with the US Africa Command has been lauded for its critical role in the al-Shabaab war.
Currently, the government troops with assistance from local militia, US Africa Command, and ATMIS have managed to liberate several strategic towns in the country, boosting efforts to secure the Horn of Africa nation from the krazed killers. al-Shabaab has been fighting since 2007, killing thousands in the process despite suffering massive losses.
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[KavkazUzel] Extrajudicial executions during the two Chechen military campaigns took place throughout Grozny, so the remains found on the outskirts of the city may belong to the victims of these executions, human rights activists Oleg Orlov and Alexander Cherkasov suggested. Examination to establish the age of the remains can be carried out even in one day, said an expert in the field of forensic medicine.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that the remains of at least 10 people were found near a dacha settlement on the outskirts of Grozny, this follows from a video posted on social networks on March 1. The authors of the video suggested that the remains belong to those killed during the Chechen campaigns. From an audio message distributed on WhatsApp, which is at the disposal of the "Caucasian Knot", it follows that the remains were discovered on the evening of February 28 outside the Andreevsky Valley in the Zavodskoy district of Grozny.
Ombudsman of Chechnya Mansur Soltaev stated on his page on the VKontakte social network that the information found in the Sheikh-Mansurovsky district of Grozny (until December 2022 - Zavodskoy district ) was unreliable, the burial was made during the years of military campaigns in the republic.
"I went to the burial site, examined it, talked with experts. Judging by the remains and some signs, this place was an old cemetery. According to archaeologists working on the site, this is one of the old cemeteries that was here around the 18th century," he pointed out late on the evening of March 1.
One day is enough to determine the age of the remains
A medical examination of the bones of a person to determine when he died can be carried out even in one day, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told at the Department of Forensic Medicine of the Medical Institute of the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia.
"The method for determining the age of human remains is somewhat subjective, but the examination is done quite quickly. Subjectivity arises when using the ultraviolet illumination technique. Experts may disagree on the criteria for determining age," a representative of the Department of Forensic Medicine explained.
According to the expert, difficulties arise when determining the age of bones more than 50 years old.
"Up to 50 years old, age is normally determined. After 50, it’s not so clear. But, of course, the difference between the remains of 20 or 200 years ago can be determined without difficulty," he stressed.
Remains may belong to victims of extrajudicial executions
Oleg Orlov, co-chairman of the Memorial Human Rights Center, said that extrajudicial executions took place throughout Grozny during both Chechen wars.
"Grozny was a battlefield several times. There were many who died during the fighting, both members of the armed formations and civilians. There were also extrajudicial executions. There were many places of illegal detention in Grozny - the so-called filtration points. Moreover, at that time there were large spaces near the factories. It was convenient to commit such crimes there," he told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
According to the human rights activist, burial places of war victims, including those who died from extrajudicial executions, are periodically found in Chechnya.
"There are many graves in which from 2-3 to several dozen people were buried. Such burials are also frequent in cemeteries. Because the corpses of tortured and killed people were thrown into cemeteries. Sometimes the inhabitants themselves found unidentified bodies and buried them in their cemeteries. Usually these unidentified they left descriptions of them, objects, clothes that they had, so that those who search could identify loved ones among the dead and buried. There are cases when people, looking for their missing relatives by visiting different cemeteries, found them by these things, which were preserved local residents. Then the remains were exhumed and reburied in family cemeteries," Orlov said.
In the area of the plant on the outskirts of Grozny, people who died under various circumstances may be buried, Alexander Cherkasov, a member of the board of the Memorial Human Rights Center, believes.
"If these are burials of the First Chechen War, then people who died from bombing and shelling were buried in this way," he said.
During the second Chechen military campaign, Russian military units were stationed in this area from the side of the ridge, and it is possible that the dead were victims of extrajudicial executions, the human rights activist believes.
"During the assault and after the assault on Grozny, the 21st Brigade of the Internal Troops and the 205th Motorized Rifle Brigade were there. They participated in the cleansing operations, during which there were mass enforced disappearances in the Staropromyslovsky district. And among those found may be the remains of those who disappeared in December 1999 - January 2000 years. But this is preliminary. An accurate result could be given by a genetic examination," Cherkasov explained.
Mass graves in Chechnya exposed the problem of identifying the remains
Alexander Cherkasov confirmed that periodically mass graves are found in Chechnya and this becomes an event in the republic.
"But every time this is a problem. Because the question of identification arises. This has not been systematically solved for more than 20 years. It is necessary to systematically search for the missing, the number of which, according to various sources, is from 3,000 to 5,000 people," Cherkasov emphasized.
Work to find the remains of people who disappeared during the military campaigns in Chechnya is too slow , local residents said on the occasion of the Day of the Missing in 2019. Methods for identifying the remains are being improved, but there is no progress in investigating the deaths of these people and similar crimes in other regions of the North Caucasus, human rights activists interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" pointed out at the time.
In 2008, a mass grave containing the remains of six people was discovered on the outskirts of Gudermes . The identity of the deceased and the date of death are unknown.
In June 2008, a mass grave dating back to the 1995 hostilities was found in Chechnya, Nurdi Nukhazhiev, then Chechen Ombudsman, said. About 800 people were buried in a mass grave on the territory adjacent to the Christian cemetery in the Leninsky district of Grozny
On December 31, 2016, it became known that the remains of 109 people who died, presumably, in the first military campaign, were brought to Chechnya from Rostov-on-Don. They were buried in two mass graves in a fresh cemetery between the settlements of Elevator and Pobedinskoye in the Grozny region of the republic.
"In total, more than 160 skeletonized remains were found there. It was assumed that this was the burial place of military personnel of the federal forces. The remains were taken to Rostov-on-Don for an examination. It turned out that only two of them were dead military personnel, and all the rest, most likely only civilians who died during the first military campaign in the republic," a representative of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent at the time.
The "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that builders in Makhachkala found the remains of 18 people on the beach near the Jami Hotel on the shore of the Caspian Sea, this became known on February 28. Bullet holes are visible on some turtles, the Baza telegram channel drew attention. The burial was made, presumably, in the 1930s, investigators said.
On the site of the Makhachkala beach, where a mass grave was found, executions were carried out in the 1930s , the scientist Said Ninalalov and the representative of the "Russian Congress of the Peoples of the Caucasus" Denga Khalidov said. This is the only burial place in Dagestan for the victims of Stalinist repressions, they suggested.
However, the authors of comments on the footage of these remains published on social networks questioned the version of scientists and investigators, suggesting that the remains belong to a much later time, especially given that well-preserved shoes are visible in the footage next to the bones.
[NPASyria] According to Ottoman Turkish media, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... ’s security forces arrested an ISIS leader in Istanbul in early February. The man, known only as ’Abu Huzaifah’, was a judge in Syria’s Raqqa, Manbij and Tel Abyad during the height of the caliphate, Ottoman Turkish police say.
Yet arrests — and, more importantly, prosecutions — against ISIS members in Turkey, especially of foreigners, is increasingly rare, says a new report by Crisis Group, a conflict research group. Crisis Group estimates that around 9.000 ISIS members from 102 countries have been deported by Ottoman Turkish authorities since 2011. Another 660 adults and 189 children are currently awaiting repatriation. But thousands more remain on the lam, or are serving prison sentences of ten years or less.
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[Gateway] A report from Fox News back in 2021 highlighted the scope of the crisis unfolding in Afghanistan as the Taliban took control of 75,000 US vehicles, 200 US aircraft, 600,000 US weapons, and $85 billion in military funding.
Much of the information included in the above list is public record. And now there are reports that US weapons abandoned in Afghanistan are showing up in other war zones.
US weapons abandoned in Afghanistan are turning up in Indian-controlled Kashmir.
Now this...
Joe Biden forced US troops to stand down even when checkpoints were attacked in Afghanistan. That might get somebody killed !
Via investigative reporter Paul Sperry.
And Joe Biden is hiding the side deals he made with the Taliban before the calamitous withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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US weapons abandoned in Afghanistan are showing up in other war zones.
If we could only figure out a way to employ the Taliban. Give them meaningful work. That's it! Arms depot managers and maintainers. Repurpose the gear for "preposition" and shipment to future client states. Bringing it back to CONUS would cost billions and those DoD morons would end up with it.
Now, to which Hajji warlord can we send the monthly sustainment checks ?
[Rudaw] Former Iraqi prime minister on Thursday warned that though defeated territorially, 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) continues to pose a threat as an ideology.
Speaking at the second annual Erbil Forum, Haider al-Abadi, stated that "ISIS as an ideology still exists. You cannot overcome an ideology with guns," referring to the fact that the jihadist group was declared militarily defeated in 2017.
"The population assumed that the threat of ISIS disappeared, but it didn't. ISIS remained dangerous until we smacked their heads in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... ," Abadi stated.
ISIS seized large swathes of Iraqi and Syrian territory in 2014 and declared a so-called "caliphate." While the group was declared territorially defeated in Iraq in 2017, it still continues to pose serious security risks through hit-and-run attacks, bombings, and abductions across several provinces.
The terror group is particularly active in the disputed territories between Erbil and Baghdad, stretching across several provinces including Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... Salahaddin, and Diyala.
Over 200 ISIS fighters were killed in Iraq in 2022, Major General Tahsin al-Khafaji, spokesperson for the Joint Operations Command, told Rudaw late December.
POLITICS AND ECONOMICS IN IRAQ
"The country requires a unified vision and we need the best people to come enact upon that vision," Abadi said when touching upon the economic and political changes Iraq faces.
"If we as a collective do not change ourselves, nobody else from the outside world will come and change us," Abadi added. "The change has to come from the ballot boxes."
Snap parliamentary elections were held last October, resulting in a victory for prominent Shia holy manMoqtada 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... . After failing to gather support to form a government, the Sadrist bloc consisting of 73 MPs resigned from parliament in June.
Months of political stalemate followed and the peak of tension between the rival Shiite factions manifested into deadly festivities in September which left at least 30 people dead, marking the worst violence the capital had witnessed in years.
"This was a political decision via a political movement, but the basic constraint was posed by the constitution," the former Iraqi premier said regarding the withdrawal of the Sadrist Movement from the Iraqi political process.
Abadi also touched upon the instability of the Iraqi dinar on the exchange market. Iraq earlier in February restored the exchange rate of the IQD-USD to 1,300 per dollar, the highest value of the dinar since 2020, amid a depreciation of the dinar leading to a surge in prices of basic goods and protests by Iraqi citizens.
"The issue of exchange rates is very dangerous. As a prime minister, I was supporting the stable exchange rate because if you decrease the exchange rate, people will benefit ... but this does not work alone," Abadi said as the Iraqi dinar oversees a devaluation.
The drop of the Iraqi dinar value was attributed to corruption, smuggling dollars out of Iraq, and pressure from the United States.
"My vision is that we should have an open market, of course this open market requires auditing and monitoring ... you need to have a monitoring system and follow up with the people who smuggle US dollars," he added.
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Looks like a set up to enrage to public against Afghan visitors. Doesn’t sound feasible to me as the refugees are not Taliban. It is most likely some government sponsored baloney like the FBI might do here. It will be multiple geo distant locations and the same poison.
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[NPASyria] The Monitoring and Documentation Department of North Press released on Wednesday its report for February, documenting the killing and injury of 503 people by different parties in the conflict across Syria with a 32 percent decline in human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... violations.
The report detected that 184 people died and 160 were maimed illegally in various ways, most concentrated in Homs and its countryside due to attacks by Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) against civilians, followed by Deir ez-Zor and Aleppo.
The number of victims of war remnants throughout Syria reached 78 people. Military casualties reached 95 dead and 61 injured.
Parties to the conflict exchanged a total of 76 attacks in different areas. The report recorded 26 Ottoman Turkish attacks, mostly centered in the town of Ain Issa north of Raqqa in addition to three attacks conducted by Israel.
The Department registered 80 arrest cases in February in several areas in Syria.
A total of 11.587 people were killed and injured due to the February 6 devastating earthquake that hit Syria, of which 4.182 were dead and 7.405 injured. It also completely destroyed 1.288 buildings and houses, and caused partial collapse of more than 3.100, and resulted in severe cracks and damages to over 16.321 buildings.
The Monitoring and Documentation Department of North Press recorded the displacement of more than 5 million people, the destruction of thousands of houses, and the declaration of four cities — Aleppo, Hama, Latakia, and Idlib — as disaster zones.
[Shafaq News] The United States imposed new sanctions on Thursday on Iranian or Iran-linked shipping and petrochecmical companies, including two shipping firms based in China, the Treasury Department's website showed.
The sanctions also target 20 shipping vessels linked to firms in China, Vietnam and the United Arab Emirates, the website showed.
The website did provide details on the new sanctions. A Treasury spokesperson referred questions to the State Department, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The sanctions were issued under a 2018 U.S. executive order that restored sanctions targeting Iran's oil, banking and transportation sectors.
The Treasury Department issued a general license authorizing limited transactions with the sanctioned vessels under what it called a "wind-down" period through June 29, a document on its website showed.
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[Rudaw] Around 3,000 of Iraq’s most dangerous bandidosturbans are currently in northeast Syria, Iraq's top military spokesperson said on Thursday.
"Around 3,000 of Iraq's most dangerous bandidosturbans are in Hasaka," Yehia Rasool, military spokesperson for the Iraqi prime minister said during a one on one discussion at Erbil Forum.
Rasool added that around 30,000 other bandidosturbans are imprisoned there as well.
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in north and east Syria (Rojava) has kept thousands of 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 prisoners following the group’s territorial defeat in Syria.
ISIS attacked al-Sina’a prison in Hasaka on January 20, 2022 with explosive-laden vehicles and other weapons. This caused over a week of intense festivities between ISIS fighters and the SDF. The prison was retaken by the SDF with the support of the global coalition against ISIS, and the recaptured prisoners were transferred to another prison.
The prison held over 4,000 ISIS prisoners, including minors, before the attack. The forces said that 121 of its fighters, prison guards and civilians as well as 374 ISIS members were killed in the festivities without confirming any alleged escapes.
Hasaka is also home to the notorious al-Hol camp, where families of ISIS members are kept.
Iraqis have made up more than half of the population of al-Hol camp in Rojava’s Hasaka province for years. The camp houses over 50,000 residents, most of which are wives and children of the ISIS fighters.
Residents of the camp were also arrested when the SDF took control of the group's last stronghold in Syria in March 2019.
Speaking of camps like al-Hol where ISIS families are kept, Rasool said that the camps "are an exemplary school to educate new generation of ISIS members that is 10 times more dangerous."
Iraq has over the past year repatriated over 700 families from al-Hol, most of which are sent through a rehabilitation process in Iraq.
The infamous camp is known for having a strong network with remaining ISIS groups on the loose, and it is often suspected to be an arena for ISIS operations.
SDF forces, in cooperation with the US-led Coalition forces has on several occasions conducted wide security operations in the camp, arresting several ISIS members.
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[An Nahar] Parliament Speaker Nabih Knobby Berri ...Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, head of the Amal Shiite party aligned with Hezbollah, a not very subtle sock puppet of the Medes and Persians... will not call for another "theatrical" session that would not elect a president.
In an interview with al-Akhbar newspaper, Berri said that he will try to break the impasse and that he will only call for a session when he senses that the parties are ready to elect, not to "waste time" and "make statements."
"Our candidate is known but their candidate is a test-tube experiment," Berri told al-Akhbar, in remarks published Thursday.
"The only two serious candidates are Franjieh and Army chief Joseph Aoun," the speaker went on to say, adding tat it is currently impossible to elect the army chief, because it needs a constitutional amendment that cannot be made within a caretaker cabinet.
The Shiite Duo MPs have cast blank votes during all the voting sessions, but their real presidential candidate is Marada leader, Suleiman Franjieh.
Like many of Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. ... 's prominent political figures, Franjieh hails from a storied dynasty.
His grandfather and namesake was president when Lebanon's 1975-1990 civil war broke out.
In 1978, his father, politician Tony Franjieh, along with his mother and sister, were murdered by rival Christian fighters while he was elsewhere in the country.
"We are trying to secure more votes for him," Berri said, explaining why the Duo hasn't officially voted for Franjieh yet. He added that the Duo is trying to convince Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... leader Jebran Bassil to vote for Franjieh.
Franjieh, a former politician and minister close to Hezbollah and a personal friend of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... , has not officially announced his candidacy, but said he was interested in the position.
His name had been touted for the presidency many times before but he never secured enough support to win.
Hezbollah and Amal back his candidacy, although Hezbollah's Christian ally the Free Patriotic Movement would not endorse him.
"The main problem in the presidential elections is inter-Maronite," Berri said, accusing the Maronites of failing to agree on a president.
"Their disagreement is over who among them would be president," he went on to say. "They all know who they don't want to become president but are failing to agree on a president, so they get confused and further complicate the presidential election."
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[An Nahar] Supermarkets in Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...a formerly French, now an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. ... have started pricing items in U.S. dollars instead of the nose-diving local currency, after a government announcement allowing the practice in a country heavily reliant on imports.
Since late 2019, Lebanon has been facing a dramatic economic crisis that has seen poverty rates climb to reach more than 80 percent of the population, according to the United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... The local currency, now officially pegged at 15,000 to the greenback, was trading Wednesday at almost 90,000 to the dollar, compared to 60,000 in late January.
An AFP photographer said a large supermarket chain in Beirut had begun displaying prices in dollars on Wednesday, while the exchange rate of 89,000 pounds was displayed on a screen at the entrance.
Domestically produced fruit and vegetables were still priced in the local currency.
"Every week, or every day even, products are becoming more and more expensive," said Susane Zeitoun, 28, who was shopping at the supermarket.
"Now I have to calculate prices into Lebanese pounds," she added.
In February, Economy Minister Amin Salaam announced that supermarkets would be able to start pricing items in dollars, while customers could pay in dollars or Lebanese pounds at the volatile market rate.
Each store would have to clearly announce the exchange rate it was using each day, he had added.
Since the start of the crisis, stores had begun to adjust their prices in pounds, sometimes daily, to keep up with the fluctuating exchange rate -- or at times pushing prices higher.
Some restaurants and clothing shops had already begun to display prices in dollars in recent months.
Shopper Sarah Rida, 37, said that "pricing items in U.S. dollars is better".
"If a product is priced at $2, we can be sure that it will stay the same and will not increase or decrease in price from one day to the next."
Lebanon is being run by a caretaker government and is also without a president, as politicians have repeatedly failed to elect a successor to Michel Aoun ...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... , whose mandate expired at the end of October.
Authorities announced in late February that customs charges would be tripled, a move that risks pushing prices up further.
The World Bank has said that Lebanon food price inflation reached 332 percent year on year in June 2022, the worst in the world.
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Anyone tell Xi and Putin who's currency they turned to as SHTF?
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.
...... Somalia's version of the 
[Gateway] A report from Fox News back in 2021 highlighted the scope of the crisis unfolding in Afghanistan as the Taliban took control of 75,000 US vehicles, 200 US aircraft, 600,000 US weapons, and $85 billion in military funding.
...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 
...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 
...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. ...
Hezbollah
