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Thank you, Mad Eye. What a vision. Somewhere back before First Manassas I knew a guy who was a high dollar bill collector. He maintained she was the worst offender he knew, worse even than the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.
Funny guy, he looked like an anonymous extra from 'The Honeymooners' but had exquisite and discerning taste. After all the exasperation and opportunity to tire of celebrity he was thoroughly enchanted with Lollobrigida. He couldn't, perhaps wouldn't get a dime from her but enjoyed their periodic meetings immensely and had a ton of stories. He always maintained that no matter how beautiful on film, the image was nothing to her charismatic charm in person.
Put me on to the best custom boot makers I ever knew off the Plaza Mayor in Madrid, Tenorio.
As a small town fire department EMT we responded to a call to an injured person at a nearby lake to take to the hospital. The person was a big city businessman who was with his incredibly beautiful and amazingly charming wife who had a thing for fire fighters. As we transported her unconscious husband to the hospital she took the opportunity to flirt with us on a scandalous scale.
[ShabelleMedia] A suicide kaboom occurred today in the Halgan area of the Hiran region, resulting in the death and injuries of officials and citizens.
Eyewitnesses told Shabelle radio by phone that a car filled with explosives went off in Halgan during the morning rush-hour, targeting senior regional officials and military officers.
The CID Commander of Beledweyne Police Station, Jamal Ahmed Jama, and two others are confirmed to be among the fatalities.
Al-Shabaab ...... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa... has grabbed credit, saying it struck a military base with a boom-mobile.
There are also civilians who suffered wounds in the attack, as well as commercial buildings were destroyed in the earth-shattering kaboom, which was the biggest to happen in the town this year.
Al-Shabaab seems stepped up attacks in central regions, where the army is conducting operations to retake the areas still remained under the control of the krazed killers.
[ShabelleMedia] Somali defence minister Abdulkadir Mohammed Nur confirmed that SNA along with allied local clan militia seized control of the coastal town of Harerdhere in Mudug region from al-Shabaab ...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... The takeover came with no resistance after al-Shabaab pulled out from the town prior to the army’s advances.
It is yet another blow to al-Shabaab as Harerdhere was the financial and staging hub for the group over the past 15 years.
Local residents reported no fighting as troops moved in on Monday morning. al-Shabaab retreated to nearby areas in the central region which sees heavy military operations.
Early today, the troops took over Gal’ad near Harerdhere without fighting.
US military provides air assistance to SNA by carrying out dronezaps hitting al-Shabaab bases to weaken the power of the krazed killers.
Harardhere on the Indian coast once served as a pirate hub during the peak of piracy in Somalia's waters from 2008 to 2011. The fall of the town marks a big victory for the Somali government which launched an all-out offensive last year to end the al-Shabaab ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... , functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... insurgency.
Before the seizure of Harardhere, the specially trained Danab forces of the Somali military captured the village of Galcad in the east of the Galgaduud region, where al-Shabaab was in control for a long time.
[ShabelleMedia] A resident says a suspected dronezap targeted al-Shabaab ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... , functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... hideouts in the vicinity of Gal’ad town during intensified ground military operations.
The drone fired missiles on El-Hassan Ali and Bud Bud areas which are located on the outskirts of Gal’ad, a small but strategic town in the Mudug region under Galmudug ...a semiautonomous region in central Somalia, bordering Puntland on the north. Galmudug is not trying to obtain international recognition as a separate nation, but rather considers itself autonomous within the larger Somali federalism, for what that's worth... State.
The details of the casualties inflicted on the holy warriors in the targeted bases are still unclear as the remote areas are inaccessible to reach out to the witnesses for further information.
The aerial bombardment came just before the Somali troops and local clan militia took over the control of Gal’ad and the next coastal town of Harardhere, which are now fully liberated.
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] At least 10 people have been killed and dozens of others maimed in a kaboom during a service at a Protestant church in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... (DRC), according the country’s army.
The explosion killed at least 10 people and maimed 39 others, army front man Anthony Mualushay said on Sunday. Both tolls were provisional, he added.
Mualushay said the attack during the Sunday service in the city of Kasindi, on the border with Uganda, was likely carried out by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a Ugandan gang that has pledged allegiance to ISIS (ISIS).
Later on Sunday, the ISIS group claimed responsbility for the attack. The ADF, which began as an uprising in Uganda but has been based in the DRC since the late 1990s.
Survivors and witnesses said the blast severed some people’s limbs from their bodies.
[AlAhram] At least 14 people were killed in a church bombing in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo at the weekend, an army front man said Monday, raising an earlier toll of 10 dead.
On Sunday, a bomb destroyed an evangelical church in Kasindi, a town in North Kivu province on the border with Uganda.
The DRC government said the Allied Democratic Forces ...the ADF is one of several murderous Moslem groups in NE Congo. In 2019 the U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on them for the usual reasons. They don't appear to be affiliated with al-Qaeda or Islamic State, though ISIS claims their work from time to time — they just like killing infidels.... (ADF), which 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 claims as its central African affiliate, was apparently to blame.
The Islamic State later grabbed credit for the attack, according to specialist monitoring group Site Intelligence.
Antony Mualushayi, a Congolese military front man, told news hounds on Monday that 14 people had died and 63 were maimed, raising an earlier reported toll of 10 dead and 39 maimed.
Uganda's military operation in the DRC said on Sunday evening that 16 had been killed and 20 maimed.
Mualushayi said a suspected jacket wallah was among the maimed and had been transferred to the nearby town of Beni for medical care.
"We pray to God that he lives so that he can give us the information we're looking for," he said.
A Kenyan national was arrested on Monday following the attack.
Mualushayi said that several more people had been arrested and that investigations, which are in their preliminary stages, are ongoing.
"According to the information at our disposal, there are still two bombs that are in the city and we are doing the best possible to detect them," he said.
The ADF is one of the deadliest of the more than 120 gangs in eastern DRC, many of them the legacy of regional wars that flared at the turn of the century in the vast impoverished nation.
It has been accused of slaughtering thousands of Congolese civilians and carrying out kabooms in Uganda. ADF operatives have also planted bombs in towns in North Kivu in the past.
[Breitbart] A man has been arrested under anti-terror laws after a Pakistani package containing uranium was sent to an Iranian business based in Britain.
A suspect described by the press as a businessman with British citizenship — his ethnic background and whether he holds another nationality has not been disclosed as of the time of publication — has been arrested under provisions of the Terrorism Act 2006 which outlaw “making or possessing a radioactive device or possessing radioactive material with the intention of using it” to commission or perpetrate terrorist acts.
[NationalNews] Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai was charged with the murder of a man in Bournemouth after an argument over an e-scooter.
An Afghan asylum seeker accused of murdering a British man over an argument about an e-scooter has told a court his parents were killed by the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai is charged with the murder of 21-year-old Thomas Roberts outside a sandwich shop in Bournemouth in the early hours of March 12 last year.
It is alleged Mr Abdulrahimzai stabbed to death "peacemaker" Mr Roberts who intervened during a dispute over a hired Beryl scooter between the defendant and Mr Roberts' friend.
On Monday, Mr Abdulrahimzai, originally from Afghanistan, began to give evidence in his defence at Salisbury Crown Court.
He described his parents being killed when the Taliban planted bombs at his family home, as they suspected them of colluding with American forces.
"I have seen some explosions not very far away. There was an American base not far from where we lived and the Taliban would come and demand things and there would be fighting and gunshots," he told the jury.
"They used heavy weapons like rocket launchers. They planted bombs around my house, I was at my uncle’s house at the time, when I came home my parents were dead. I saw their body parts and a lot of blood."
After briefly breaking down in tears, Mr Abdulrahimzai said he was then captured and tortured by the Taliban for up to three weeks before being dumped and left for dead on the side of a road.
The jury was shown photographs of scarring all over his body which he said was caused by the torture, during which he was beaten with the butts of rifles and injured with knives.
However, corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds... a passer-by rescued him, tended to his wounds and put him back in touch with his uncle, who arranged for him to leave Afghanistan.
He first went to Serbia via Pakistain and Iran ...They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... in October 2015, before arriving in Norway with a friend he considered to be an adopted brother.
Mr Abdulrahimzai then left Norway and spent some time in Italia and Serbia. He applied for asylum in Norway, but when his application was refused in December 2019, he left out of fear of being deported to Afghanistan.
He arrived in the UK in Poole, Dorset, in the same month and told the authorities he was 16 when he was arrested, but the court has since determined that he is now 21.
Nic Lobbenberg KC, prosecuting, had earlier told the court that Mr Abdulrahimzai does not deny carrying out the stabbing using a knife he had taken with him from home, and has previously pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
He said the defendant is likely to claim he had not intended to kill Mr Roberts and his actions were a result of a "loss of control".
The jury has been shown CCTV footage of the fatal incident, which Mr Lobbenberg said "was all about a scooter, that cost this boy his life".
The defendant, who was living in Poole at the time of the incident, denies murder. The trial continues.
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[KavkazUzel] The court sentenced one of the leaders of the armed underground in Ingushetia, Ali Taziev,
...emir of Caucasus Front, the military wing of the Al Qaeda-linked Caucasus Emirate following the death of Shamil Basayev in 2006. In 2010 he voluntarily surrendered to the Ingush police; Russia claims his interrogation led to removing a great many jihadi commanders from the board...
to life imprisonment, finding him guilty of attacks on traffic police and military personnel in 2009-2010. Taziev was sentenced to life for the third time.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on April 27, 2021, the Southern Military Court in Rostov-on-Don began considering the case of one of the leaders of the armed underground, Ali Taziev, accused of attacks on traffic police and military personnel in 2009-2010 on the territory of Ingushetia. Taziev, twice sentenced to life terms, pleaded not guilty .
The Southern District Military Court today found Ali Taziev guilty of attacks on traffic police and military personnel in 2009-2010.
"The court found Taziev guilty and sentenced him to a life sentence for the totality of crimes," Interfax-South quoted the judge as saying.
Earlier, the state prosecutor requested a life sentence for Taziev. The defendant was charged with creating and leading a gang, encroachment on the life of law enforcers and military personnel, damaging other people's property in a generally dangerous way, illegal circulation of weapons and illegal manufacture of explosive devices, the agency informs.
Recall that on October 15, 2013, the court sentenced Taziev to life imprisonment on charges of leading a group of militants, which, according to investigators, blew up a bus in Nevinnomyssk in 2007, and in 2009 blew up the police department building in Ingushetia and attempted to assassinate the head of the republic, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov. On July 9, 2015, Taziev was sentenced to a second life term in the case of an attack by militants led by Shamil Basayev
...(1965-2006). Chechen warlord in the Al Qaeda-linked Caucasus Emirate (2007-2015) and its predecessor, the post-Soviet Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. In 2015 most of the hard boys changed their allegiance to the local Islamic State affiliate, Vilayat Kavkaz, whereupon a majority chose to escape the Russian hunters by moving themselves and their families to the caliphate in Syria...
"The father of the attacker had represented Shakil Afridi, the Pakistani physician who helped the CIA find al-Qaida mastermind Osama bin Laden"
[FoxNews] A gunman dressed as a lawyer shot and killed a prominent attorney inside a courtroom in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, police said.
The attacker, who was arrested at the scene, had opened fire at Abdul Latif Afridi, a former president of Pakistan’s lawyers union and a prominent figure in the community, fatally wounding him. The attack took place at the High Court in Peshawar.
The attacker, Adnan Khan, had previously accused Afridi of orchestrating the 2015 killing of his father, Samiullah Khan, who was also a lawyer, said Naeem Khan, a police officer.
It was unclear how the attacker managed to sneak into the court building with a handgun. The killing was condemned by Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, government officials, politicians and lawyers.
In a statement, Sharif expressed concern over the deteriorating security situation in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, where Peshawar is the capital. His chief rival, the party of opposition leader and former Prime Minister Imran Khan is in power in the provincial assembly.
Before his killing, Samiullah Khan, the father of the attacker, had represented Shakil Afridi, the Pakistani physician who helped the CIA find al-Qaida mastermind Osama bin Laden. Bin Laden was killed in 2011 by Navy SEALs in a raid on his hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
The physician ran a fake vaccination campaign that helped locate and identify bin Laden. The doctor and the lawyer killed on Monday are not related.
In 2012, Pakistan sentenced Shakil Afridi to 33 years in prison on charges of allegedly providing money and medical treatment to Islamic militants in a former tribal region. Afridi and his family have denied those charges.
Pakistan was outraged over being kept in the dark ahead of the SEALs operation. Washington has demanded Afridi’s release but Islamabad has resisted the demand, saying he violated Pakistani law. The doctor was never formally charged in bin Laden’s case.
The police arrested the perpetrator and identified him as Adnan Afridi. The attacker was related to the Afridi tribe, and the incident happened due to personal enmity, according to the findings of the police.
The Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire... high court bar association described the terror incident as security lapse and criticized how a gunman managed to reach the bar room, and shoot Afridi.
Following the incident, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and many high-ranking Pak politicians and public figures condemned the brutal attack on the senior lawyer and expressed their deep condolences to the family and relatives of the victim.
Afridi, 80, was sitting in the Beautiful Downtown Peshawar High Court bar room with other lawyers when the attacker shot up him, according to the police. He was rushed to Lady Reading Hospital but could not survive.
The police claimed that the attacker, identified as Adnan Samiullah Afridi, was arrested from the scene of the crime and moved to East Cantonment Police Station where a case was registered.
An officer at the cop shoppe told Dawn that the suspect had confessed to the crime and that he had killed the victim over a family feud.
‘A PROGRESSIVE VOICE NO MORE’
Afridi’s killing marks the end of an era and has left the legal fraternity and his admirers shaken.
Latif Afridi, commonly known as Latif Lala, has left behind a legacy of a decades-long struggle for civil liberties, democracy, rule of law, and the rights of people, especially those belonging to the erstwhile Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
Born in 1943, he had done his LLB from the University of Peshawar in 1968 and his career as a lawyer spanned over five decades. His election as the president of the Supreme Court ...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations... Bar Association in 2020 and multiple tenures as the president of the Peshawar High Court Bar Association is a testimony to his popularity among the lawyer community.
He had also remained the vice chairman and a member of the Pakistain Bar Council.
He was also a blunt critic of militancy in the region and often called for a clear state policy on terrorism. He was also vocal against the military’s interference in politics and termed the practice usurpation of the fundamental rights of people.
During his lifetime, Latif Lala was known for his progressive politics. During his political career, he largely remained associated with the Awami National Party founded by Abdul Wali Khan in 1986. Part of the PPP-led cabinet 2008-13. The ANP is considered left wing, advocating for secularism, democratic socialism, public sector government, and economic egalitarianism.... , with which he stayed until a few years ago. Before his death, he was a part of the National Democratic Party — a recently-formed party led by North Wazoopolitician Mohsin Dawar.
[IsraelTimes] One person treated for shock after bullet strikes kitchen window in Shaked, near Jenin; military launches manhunt for button men
Paleostinian button men fired a hail of bullets Monday evening at a settlement in the northern West Bank, causing damage to a home, the military and local officials said.
Images from the scene showed large hole punched through the kitchen window of a home in the settlement of Shaked, some 10 kilometers (six miles) west of the Paleostinian city of Jenin near Israel’s security barrier.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack by armed Paleostinian groups, although previous shootings against the settlement have been claimed by a local wing of the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... terror group.
The Samaria Regional Council said one home was damaged by the shooting. The Rescuers Without Borders emergency service said there were no physical injuries, but one person was being treated for shock following the attack.
"We will not wait for the victims. This government should order the IDF to react with severity," the council’s leader, Yossi Dagan, said in a statement.
The Israel Defense Forces said troops were dispatched to the area to search for the suspects, who expeditiously departed at a goodly pace. The bullets were fired from outside the settlement.
In a separate incident Monday night, Israeli security forces at the nearby Reihan checkpoint reported coming under gunfire from a distance, Rescuers Without Borders said. No injuries were reported.
The IDF did not immediately comment on the second reported attack.
In recent months, Paleostinian button men have repeatedly targeted military posts, troops operating along the West Bank security barrier, Israeli settlements, and civilians on the roads.
[IsraelTimes] Military says suspects hurl explosives, stones, Molotov cocktails at troops in Dheisheh refugee camp; button men also open fire at forces in Qabatiya and Nablus
A 14-year-old Paleostinian was killed during festivities with Israeli troops near the West Bank city of Bethlehem early Monday, the military and Paleostinian health officials said.
According to the Israel Defense Forces, troops entered the Dheisheh refugee camp to arrest wanted Paleostinians amid a months-long anti-terror effort, mostly in the northern West Bank, following a series of terror attacks that killed 31 people in 2022.
"Suspects threw stones, explosives, and Molotov cocktails at the forces, who responded with riot dispersal means and live fire," the IDF said in a statement.
The Paleostinian Authority health ministry said a 14-year-old boy was hit in the head by the gunfire, and described his condition as critical. The ministry later said he had died, and named him as Omar Lutfi Khamour.
No suspects were arrested in the camp according to the IDF.
The IDF said 19 Paleostinians were arrested elsewhere across the West Bank, with some violent mostly peaceful incidents.
In Qabatiya, near Jenin in the northern West Bank, the IDF said troops came under fire while arresting two wanted Paleostinians. "The troops fired at button men who fired at them," the military said, adding that suspects were hit.
Troops also came under fire in Nablus during the arrest of another two suspects, the IDF said.
In Hebron, troops detained a wanted Paleostinian and seized an M16 assault rifle, the army added.
The IDF said the 19 Paleostinians who were arrested in the West Bank over suspected terror activities were taken to be questioned by the Shin Bet security agency.
No Israeli soldiers were hurt in the overnight raids, the IDF said.
[IsraelTimes] 4 women who arrived from Germany, plus 2 men connected to one of them, arrested after large quantities of cocaine and ketamine found in their luggage at Ben Gurion Airport
“They say it’s just for personal use, Sgt. Avi.”
Police said Monday that detectives had thwarted a major drug trafficking attempt and arrested six suspects who allegedly tried to smuggle over 15 kilograms (33 pounds) of cocaine and ketamine worth millions of shekels into Israel.
Four women in their 20s, residents of central Israel, had raised cops’ suspicion while they were on a flight from Germany to Ben Gurion Airport, with detectives tracking them since their exit from the plane on Sunday night, police said in a statement Monday.
By analyzing the women’s movements during passport control and luggage retrieval, the detectives determined that they were providing illegal courier services, police said.
While inspecting the luggage of three of the suspects, officers found a large amount of suspected cocaine and ketamine hidden in shampoo containers and food supplement packages. The substances have been taken to a police lab for confirmation.
The three suspects were arrested along with a fourth woman who had been with them on the flight. She was detained outside the airport along with her boyfriend and another relative of hers on suspicion of being behind the smuggling attempt.
The four women and two men have been in detention since their arrest and were set for a remand hearing Monday.
Police added that in a separate incident over the weekend, the same unit arrested three couples and another man — seven suspects in total — who allegedly tried to smuggle over 40 liters (4 gallons) of date rape drug GBL into Israel.
Unknown attackers targeted on Monday a military vehicle of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... (HTS, formerly al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front) with an IED. The attack, which took place in the HTS-controlled Idlib, northwestern Syria, killed two Death Eaters and injured another.
A media source close to HTS said that the vehicle went kaboom! on the road to the city of Jisr al-Shughur, west of Idlib.
The injured bully boy was transported to the hospital of Jisr al-Shughur.
On January 7, an HTS bully boy was killed and another was injured when unknown button men attacked them west of Idlib region.
Tensions are rising between Hamza Division, a Turkish-backed militia, and an allied group in #Syria's #Afrin over a crucial smuggling route. https://t.co/OnSQb7sy6g
Cyber-attack targets Damascus International Airport leaving the experts scratching their heads, and causing disruption of air traffic. #Syria#Iranpic.twitter.com/IJ0P6i8jsN
Two children killed by an unknown device explosion in #Syria's #Idlib and two others reported injured in the same incident as they were looking for woods for heating. https://t.co/EoNvFE7Bdm
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.
...... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa...
...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
...... Somalia's version of the 
...... Somalia's version of the 
...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka 
...the ADF is one of several murderous Moslem groups in NE Congo. In 2019 the U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on them for the usual reasons. They don't appear to be affiliated with al-Qaeda or Islamic State, though ISIS claims their work from time to time — they just like killing infidels....
...They hate 
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire...
...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations...
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
