[KhaamaPress] The recent offer by China-based Gochin Company to invest USD 10 billion in Afghanistan’s lithium mining sector, estimated to be worth more than USD 1 trillion, is apparently a broad Chinese strategy to control country’s mineral resources, particularly, its lithium deposits which are critical global mineral supply chains. According to the Afghanistan Ministry of Mines and Petroleum, the Chinese company has also offered to invest in several other Afghan infrastructure projects, including tunnels, hydro-electric dam and highways if it is awarded the lithium mining contract.
After the Taliban ...Arabic for students... takeover of Kabul, Beijing has been looking to increase its economic footprint in Afghanistan and control its natural resources. Chinese corporations and officials have been in contact with Taliban officials to renegotiate and restart previous mining and oil contracts. Earlier, on January 6, the Taliban signed a deal with Xinjiang Central Asia Petroleum and Gas Company (CAPEIC), a contract to extract oil from the Amu Darya basin. The deal will see an investment of USD 150 million in the first year and USD 540 million over the next three years. Greater presence in Afghanistan provides China with an opportunity to strengthen its regional power and influence.
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[KavkazUzel] The sister and mother of Adam Ozdoev, who was put on the wanted list in connection with the attack on law enforcers, appealed to him to surrender to the authorities. This is at least the third appeal of the mother since Ozdoev was put on the wanted list and the second after the report of the head of Ingushetia that four alleged militants were killed during the CTO.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on April 15, the head of Ingushetia reported that during the CTO in the Malgobek region, four alleged militants were killed and two were detained, without giving their names. Officially, the death of Gurazhev and Ozdoev was not reported. At the same time, the day after Kalimatov’s report, the Ingush Telegram channels published an appeal by Amirkhan Gurazhev’s mother calling on her son to surrender, although she had already recorded a similar video message before.
On April 19, Adam Ozdoev's mother appealed to her son for the second time, urging him to surrender to the security forces.
After the shelling of a traffic police post on the border of Ingushetia and North Ossetia on the night of March 28, six residents of Ingushetia were put on the wanted list. Later, two of them, Ramazan Eldiev and Movsar Kottoev, were found dead. A counter-terrorist operation regime was introduced, but the wanted men managed to evade the security forces twice after skirmishes - on April 3 in Malgobek and on April 5 in Zyazikov-Yurt, while the security forces suffered losses both times.
On April 7, one of the wanted men, Amir Bokov, surrendered to the police, and the next day it became known that Mikail Moshkhoev had been detained. Amirkhan Gurazhev and Adam Ozdoev remained on the wanted list.
A video message from the mother and sister of Adam Ozdoev was published today in the Telegram channel ingterpol_news. In the video, an elderly woman is sitting at a table, a girl is standing behind her. The mother speaks first, then the girl.
The publication claims that relatives urged Ozdoev not to make his loved ones, especially women, suffer because of him. They turned to him with a request not to hide, but to surrender to the authorities.
The losses of security forces during the battle in Zyazikov-Yurt, including three killed and eight wounded, became the largest number of casualties per day among security officials in Ingushetia after August 2012, follows from the chronicle of armed incidents in Ingushetia, which has been maintained by the "Caucasian Knot" since 2006 . Details of a series of incidents in March-April 2023 in Ingushetia are collected in the "Caucasian Knot" report "Activation of the armed underground in Ingushetia in the spring of 2023."
[Garowe] A Somali national living in the United States has been deported over links to the al-Shabaab ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... recruitment syndicate, reports indicate, in one of the country's policies of fighting violent mostly peaceful extremism through judicial means as enshrined in the constitution and international laws.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's [ICE] Enforcement and Removal Operations [ERO] Seattle announced on May 2 that they removed Omer Abdi Mohammed, a 38-year-old Somali citizen, from the United States. This is the first major deportation of a person with al-Shabaab links.
A decade ago, Mohammed was found guilty of conspiracy to provide material support to murderous Moslems and sentenced to 12 years in prison and 20 years of supervision by the U.S. District Court District of Minnesota, making it the first major landmark case involving internal terror actors within the country.
The conviction, the US said at that time, was part of the broader "Operation Rhino" investigation, which focused on the recruitment of young Somali men to fight with al-Shabaab, a terrorist group in Somalia. The operation led to the charging of approximately 18 individuals, eight of whom were convicted, US media reported.
These individuals were not only involved in fighting with the terrorist group but also in facilitating travel, providing financial support, and participating in the recruitment process. The US policy on terrorism has significantly helped the world to block their movements and even the circulation of finances.
Early this year, the US increased bounty for individuals who may help to trace al-Shabaab's complex revenue sources which helps the group to generate over $120 million annually. While most of the money comes from taxation inform of Zakat, remittances from business owners, and ransoms, the sources are yet to be fully identified for closure.
The federal government of Somalia reported that it had closed down over 250 bank accounts and 70 mobile money transfer firms linked to the al-Shabaab financing syndicate, but the names were yet to be made public. Business owners were also warned against cooperating with the group.
On the military front, the US has been a key player, helping the country to recruit, train and equip the Danab Special Forces who are instrumental in the fight against al-Shabaab hard boys. During complex and sophisticated operations, the US Africa Command also offers aerial support through Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s against the hard boys.
[IsraelTimes] Organizers say they will block highways and intersections around the country. ’Life cannot continue as normal,’ says one protest leader
The protest movement against the government’s judicial overhaul is set to stage another "Day of Disruption" on Thursday and will conduct numerous acts of civil disobedience around the country as it seeks to reinvigorate its fight against the coalition’s radical reform agenda.
The sub rosa war of the Biden administration against Bibi Netanyahu continues, determined as they are to get their money’s worth from their payments to far left Israeli “activist” group Movement for Quality Government (MQG). MQG is the current name of Antifa’s branch in Israel for driving Bibi Netanyahu and his supporters out of politics, the most recent iteration of the Washington, DC-headquartered anti-democratic OneVoice Movement that’s been trying to remake Israel in its own image since 2092.
Although the coalition’s legislative program to remake the legal and judicial system is currently on hold, the protest movement is anxious to prevent the ardor of the protests from cooling off, fearing the coalition could resume legislation at any moment, and is seeking to ramp up its anti-government demonstrations once again.
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"Equality marches" will be held in various cities, including a march in Tel Aviv from the rabbinate offices to a local court followed by a "pink wedding," as well as "Handmaid’s Tale performances" outside the Tel Aviv and Jerusalem rabbinate offices.
Cuz nothing says "serious" quite like that
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Be ashamed if a little fauda disrupted their disruption day
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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