The unnamed bad boy comes from a self-eliminating family: Pop got it in a suicide boom mobile, and three brothers exploded, probably out of pure meanness
[TWITTER] At a press conference on Saturday, Minnesota leaders said that the majority of those being destructive during the protests about George Floyd's death in the Twin Cities were from out of state, and that officials have begun contact tracing arrestees. Later, the US president Tweeted, "It’s ANTIFA and the Radical Left. Don’t lay the blame on others!"
Courtesy of Mercutio, DISRN has more on the declaration here. And PJ Media adds:
As PJ Media contributor Victoria Taft noted two years back, the Department of Homeland Security already considers antifa a form of domestic terrorism. In 2017, Politico reported that “the Department of Homeland Security formally classified their activities as ‘domestic terrorist violence,’ according to interviews and confidential law enforcement documents obtained by POLITICO.”
Even so, a formal declaration is arguably warranted following the devastation in recent days. Lamenting the riots, looting, and arson should not be a partisan or racial issue, as black citizens and business owners have broken into tears after witnessing the devastation in their communities and the destruction of their livelihoods.
As of Sunday morning, police had arrested nearly 1,400 people in 17 U.S. cities since Thursday. Governors in at least nine states have activated their states’ National Guards to respond to riots: Minnesota, Ohio, Georgia, Colorado, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Texas, Utah, and Washington State. In another five more, governors have said they planned to activate the National Guard.
As the United States was leaving lockdowns imposed to fight the coronavirus, cities across the country have enforced a new limited kind of lockdown to prevent the destruction. Cities across the country set curfews to stem the violence, including: Minneapolis, Chicago, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Denver, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Cleveland, Columbus, Portland, Miami, Milwaukee, Salt Lake City, and Rochester.
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Mercutio, while you are philosophically correct that these are the actions of a terrorist network, I moved your article to cluster with the rest of the articles on the subject. Fred has now weighed in on the subject, and for the duration all articles on the Antifa insurgency are to be filed Page 1: War on Terror, Lurid Crime Tales. This may change again, depending on who is discovered to be behind and involved.
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The riot in La Mesa last night was a little too close to home for me. Let's put it this way: It was close enough to be scary. Last I looked, admittedly a while ago but I think it's still true, La Mesa is an affluent, predominantly white, white-collar bedroom community. Ostensibly the protest was about a black man who was arrested on Wednesday at the Grossmont Trolley Station in La Mesa. The complaint seems to be that a La Mesa cop was too rough. I've spent enough time on the trolley to see a lot of colorful characters hanging out at trolley stations and wished many times for a greater police presence. Fact is, the trolley is dirty and dangerous.
So thousands of people who may or may not have seen a video clip of some shoving were outraged enough to shut down I-8 and try to burn the La Mesa police headquarters. I don't believe any of those protesters/rioters live in La Mesa. I've been to La Mesa many times and those people didn't look like La Mesans to me. But they weren't black either so I figured, having seen videos of Antifa in action, that these people, some of them anyway, were Antifa. I was skeptical about their concern about racism and for the black guy who was arrested. This was not a sincere, legitimate protest of local community members about racism. It was a riot that was carefully coordinated with other riots across the country. I think their goal is to destabilize our country.
I guess my point is that if they can invade La Mesa, they could have invaded my town just as easily. Nobody got killed. I don't think any shots were fired. But rocks were thrown, windows were broken and graffiti was sprayed. It could have spiraled out of control. So, yeah, I'd classify it as terrorism.
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See my comment #8 here - my Mom was literally shaking, she said
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Nkw we can get down to some serious busunesd. Good hunting - no bag limit!
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PIMF
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That Minnesota AG Ellison...another real "winner". So, he's the AG of the state but he is complaining about an "endemic problem" within the Minneapolis Police Department. Uh, so, Ellison, you did NOTHING about it?
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It's already been done, apparently: "Department of Homeland Security has reportedly been warning about growing threat of violence between left-wing anarchists and right-wing nationalists since early 2016."
"US security officials have classified the left-wing group Antifa as "domestic terrorists", confidential documents have revealed."
"Federal law enforcement actions will be directed at apprehending and charging the violent radical agitators who have hijacked peaceful protest and are engaged in violations of federal law.
To identify criminal organizers and instigators, and to coordinate federal resources with our state and local partners, federal law enforcement is using our existing network of 56 regional FBI Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTF)."
Some will say that Mr. Trump does not have the authority to declare Antifa a "Terrorist Group," but declaring them to be a "Domestic Terrorist Group" is a horse of a different color.
#14
I wonder if the 'Black' community understands they're expendable to the hard Left's agenda, which is power by any means necessary. It's all for the revolution baby! Chumps.
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Fecking shame of it is that the FBI, whome we desperately need to be functional against internal threats such as these, has been wasting time talent and resources on political targets thanks to Holder, Lerner, McCabe, and others in the Obama administrations. The domestic terror tracking withered while political targeting occupied the bulk of high level FBI and DOJ attention.
I wonder if we can demand the head of the FBI to resign over this massive failure of his agency? I have the perfect "temporary" replacement in mind.
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It appears that, once Antifa has been declared a Terrorist Group, and their attacks the acts of a terrorist group, Prez can declare a National Emergency and enactment of the Insurrection Act.
Nota bene: the rest of Skidmark’s Antifa riot articles have been collected here with our gratitude for the quiet work he does collecting such things for us every day.
— trailing wife for the moderators at 1:49 p.m. EDT
#5
Can't sell a Mercedes, vin numbers will give away the stolen nature. Cops should be looking out for Mercedes crossing the Mexican border in the next few weeks.
#2
It's been my expierience in 25 years of horse riding in parades and other equine events a horse will not intentially step on a horse. The footing is too unstable and the horse doesn't want to fall.
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Look at the video. She wasn’t trampled and stood up immediately after, apparently unharmed. It appears the horse actually side-stepped (kind of hopped sideways) to avoid stepping on her. At worse she walked right in front of a moving horse. Generally a bad idea as the horse weighs several times your weight.
[LegalInsurrection] Pallets of bricks are appearing in the riot zones, and there are reports of professional agitators, including antifa, showing up in cities across the nation.
BREAKING: tonight’s Dallas riot was pre-planned
Organizers were directing the crowd where to go
They had pallets of 100 bricks ready for rioters
They were yelling to the crowd "go left, there are 100 bricks on the corner over there"
This wasn’t random chaos
More info to come NYPost just now: Trump to issue EO declaring Antifa a Terrorist Organization
"When I was in Ferguson for [the Justice Department] or with the Obama administration after the [Michael] Brown shooting, we saw that there were terrorist groups, organizations in Pakistan and elsewhere who were setting up false Twitter accounts and setting, having... two sides with conversation, basically alienate each other going forward,"
What are the odds that a local incident like this involving one nobody would trigger simultaneous, almost identical, violent action in dozens of US cities?
Many of these cities have no recorded police shootings of unarmed black men whatsoever. Dallas doesn't have bad relations between police and the black population. San Jose doesn't even have many black people at all.
Why would anyone in a city that has no history of unrest suddenly have not protests but mass violent action?
This could only be the result of pre-existing organization, coordinated across state lines.
Fits the Anti-Riot Act (18 US Code Section 2101) definition of "inciting or participating in or carrying on a riot or committing any act of violence in furtherance of a riot."
Let's see whether we still have a functioning FBI.
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an EO declaring Antifa a domestic terrorist org has been considered
the problem with this is that providing aid to domestic terror groups is not a crime (although providing aid to foreign terror groups is a crime, hence criminal penalties for people who seek to aid ISIS)
this requires competent legislation which is a problem because the House of Rep
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The state will do nothing. The fed will do nothing. It’s getting to be time.
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/\ Agree, a bit too late. Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon was on Fox this morning saying that "if the rioters had jobs they wouldn't have time to be rioting." (paraphrase)
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The problem with that Garth is that a D president would use it to shut down the NRA, Heritage Foundation and maybe even the RNC. Just have to have a trigger and the media hyping up the White Supremist angle...
#10
Actually there's a smidgen of truth behind his (clumsily-expressed, soundbite-ish) notion.
Take a population of emotionally-unstable, high-strung urban 20- and 30-somethings who have little to do, lock them inside for two months, give them social media accounts where they can wallow in Twitter-slime for 14 hours a day, and of course you'll get festivities as soon as there's a pretext + nice weather.
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Mercutio, while you are philosophically correct that these are the actions of a terrorist network, I moved your article to cluster with the rest of the articles on the subject. Fred has now weighed in on the subject, and for the duration all articles on the Antifa insurgency are to be filed Page 1: War on Terror, Lurid Crime Tales. This may change again, depending on who is discovered to be behind and involved.
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one of the good things about a legislative action is that it gets Congress on record - it would be interesting to see how many Democrats would vote to prevent an Antifa designation
another is that it can limit designation to specified criteria so it is more difficult for progressives to misuse it
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"WITH" autocorrect ducks
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Follow the money.
FYI, there are reports of the discovery or pre-positioned caches of oil and gasoline filled bottles, cloth strips, and lighters that "rioters" are being directed to, near specific target buildings.
This is a guerilla war. All enemies Foreign and Domestic. Time to start attacking ANTIFA head on, go after their funding, go after their cyber infrastructure, and go after the individuals with long jail sentences for the foot soldiers, and Treason with Execution for the leaders.
Arm the local black citizens and let them form their own 2nd Amendment self-defense militia against these goons. Hell, deputize them in some areas where the police cannot operate easily.
Its time. Start bleeding Antifa to death, figuratively and literally.
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Other 3 fired Minneapolis cops in George Floyd case keep low profile
[NYPOST] As frightening riots spread all over the country Friday night, two of the three Minneapolis coppers present at the fatal arrest of George Floyd last week have left town. The third is keeping a low profile, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported.
Details are sketchy about the three since their social media pages have been deleted and their phones turned off or disconnected.
A lawyer for Tou Thao, 34, who was filmed watching as police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on 46-year-old Floyd’s neck while he pleaded that he couldn’t breathe, said he is no longer in Minnesota.
J Alexander Kueng, 26, one of the two first officers at the scene who helped pin down Floyd, who was unarmed and handcuffed, is reportedly staying with family in Minneapolis. Officer Thomas K. Lane, 37, has left the city and didn’t tell anyone where he was going, a relative said Friday, according to the Tribune.
Chauvin, 44, was arrested Friday and charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter, Hennepin County officials said. His bail was set at $500,000. Chauvin was fired this week, along with the other three cops. Charges against Thao, Kueng and Lane are anticipated but Hennepin County District Attorney Mike Freeman declined to speculate what they would be.
Attorneys for Kellie Chauvin said Friday that she is seeking the "dissolution of her marriage" to Chauvin.
"She is devastated by Mr. Floyd’s death," a statement on behalf of Kellie Chauvin and her family read. "Her utmost sympathy lies with his family, his loved ones and with everyone who is grieving."
"She has filed for dissolution of her marriage," the letter continued.
Kellie Chauvin doesn’t have any children from her current marriage, the letter said, and it was not clear how long the couple have been married.
Derek Chauvin was arrested and charged Friday in connection with Floyd’s death, which has prompted nationwide protests that have turned violent in a number of cities. He faces 3rd-degree murder and manslaughter charges.
Video uploaded to Twitter shows the rabble-rousers descending on the iconic breakfast chain before an ad hoc group decision was made to leave it alone.
"Not the Waffle House," several protesters cried, with others shouting, "No, no."
Another man said, "Protesters decide to leave Waffle House alone. Atlanta is amazing."
It was a rare bright spot during a night of otherwise consistent chaos and arson, particularly of small and local businesses. The riots were ignited after George Floyd was killed at the hands of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin on Monday. Chauvin has since been fired and charged with third-degree murder.
While they spared the Waffle House, the CNN Center wasn’t as lucky, with protesters storming the building, throwing rocks and spray-painting the iconic logo.
The comment came during an early morning press conference Saturday in which Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and members of the law enforcement community laid out plans for containing the destruction that has spread through much of the Twin Cities.
When asked by a reporter if Walz was aware of rumors that white supremacists had joined some of the looting he said based on "my suspicions and what I've seen on this, yes." Not BLM, Antifa? And the winner of POS award is, Walz.
"It gets worse than that," he added. "The cartels, who are wondering if there was a break in their drug transmissions, are trying to take advantage of the chaos. That's why this situation is on a federal level."
Walz added that he is working closely with the federal government to gather intelligence on who is participating in the destruction and whether they belong to organized groups.
Protesters sprayed with tear gas in La Mesa (nextdoor to San Diego) after police vehicle vandalized
SAN DIEGO COUNTY, Calif. — Protesters at La Mesa Police Department headquarters were sprayed with tear gas Saturday evening after hours of protesting at the building and around La Mesa. News 8 video shows windows were broken and words were spray-painted on walls and signage at La Mesa City Hall.
Tear gas was deployed around 6 p.m. after a police armored vehicle was vandalized with rocks being thrown and the BearCat was spray painted.
Earlier in the day, an estimated 1,000 protesters blocked Interstate 8 in both directions near La Mesa in East County San Diego on Saturday to demonstrate against a police officer who detained a black man earlier this week.
About 2:30 p.m., the crowd initially took over the La Mesa Police Department parking lot to protest an officer who detained a man at the Grossmont Transit Center Wednesday. The man was arrested on suspicion of assaulting an officer and the encounter was videotaped and appeared on social media.
The protesters chanted "black lives matter" and carried signs such as "no justice, no peace," as they marched down University Avenue.
At first, the group was stopped when they tried to get on I-8 at the Baltimore Drive entrance by California Highway Patrol officers. But soon after, the protesters broke through the CHP line and continued marching eastbound on the freeway.
The CHP then halted traffic on I-8 eastbound and when protesters began marching on the westbound side, traffic was then halted on that side of the freeway.
About 4:30 p.m., CHP officers wearing face shields stood in a line across the freeway and squared off with protesters, some wearing face shields. A protester with a bullhorn appeared to be asking the crowd to back away from the officers, which they did. The protesters then left one side of the freeway and climbed over the center divider to get on the other side.
Around 5:30 things got violent. The demonstrators started throwing rocks at an armored vehicle and through the windows of La Mesa Police HQ.
At 6:45 police announced the protest as an unlawful assembly and started announcing via helicopter that demonstrators would start being arrested if they do not disperse.
Later in the day, protesters started smashing windows at La Mesa City Hall.
Saturday's protest follows a Memorial Day incident in Minneapolis when a police officer, Derek Chauvin, was videotaped pinning George Floyd to the ground with his knee on his neck, which eventually led to Floyd's death. Chauvin was arrested and charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter on Friday.
Outrage over Floyd's death built across the country and many protests have turned into rioting.
La Mesa officials said they are launching an outside investigation into the Wednesday incident. It all looks a little too well planned and choreographed for my nose. Smells like not just one but a whole lotta rats. A lotta white folks in the crowed and I'd bet dollars to donuts they are NOT from La Mesa. I can tell you that La Mesa is a small city with a police department that might have looked like an easy target for professional trouble makers. There were some very bad boys throwing rocks at the police armored vehicle and they were not black. But, last I heard, the sheriff's department was there to help. This article will most likely be updated by the time it shows up on Rantburg. It was still a volatile situation when I changed the channel.
Mike Erlandson, a former chairman of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer Labor Party, said he watched with his 15-year-old daughter in Minnesota this week as a man spray-painted on a wall, “F--k the white people from the suburbs.”
“I do think that, particularly if this continues, the [congressional] districts like Dean Phillips’ district or Angie Craig’s district that right now I would say are relatively safe for the Democratic incumbent, could be very much in play,” he said. “Both of those districts will be decided in large part by suburban women voters, and it would be hard for me to imagine those people aren’t watching this scared, like everybody else, for their family and for their children.”
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This is most certainly Antifa at work. No way that this particular incident could trigger simultaneous violent actions in dozens of US cities. George Floyd wasn't a national figure like Martin Luther King. He was a local figure whose death would normally have set off local unrest.
Only a national organization capable of spontaneous coordination across state lines could have organized violent action in Oakland NYC Atlanta LA Detroit Denver DC San Jose Indianapolis Dallas La Mesa
#14
Why would anyone in San Jose riot over this? 60% of the population is Asian or Latino; only 2% is black and they aren't concentrated anywhere. There is no history at all of police brutality vs blacks.
Ditto for Columbus Ohio, Denver, La Mesa etc.
Also, why would Dallas suddenly be seeing mass violence? Dallas doesn't have bad relations between their police and the black population.
How is it possible that these vastly different cities, across the US, suddenly are convulsed with the same degree, type and duration of mass violence -- unless it was coordinated nationally?
#17
know how they have a sex offender database and a sex offender has to speak to all their neighbors when they move to a new place (at least according to Big Lebowski). I'd be happy to have every looter/rioter added to a White Supremisct group database and have them have to explain to any new neighbors for the rest of their lives.
That might even be better than having them serve time.
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San Jose State university was being watched by CA State Patrol this whole time? Why? A significant number of their students are of the ethnic backgrounds that support the PLO or Hamas.
Think about that.
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I've said all along that the constant pressure for violence from the national media would lead to bloodshed. I didn't quite expect this, but it doesn't surprise me. And I also wouldn't be surprised to find China's and Soros' fingerprints all over it.
The next time they set up to block a highway, give them five minutes to disperse, then set up a MA-deuce and take them out. So far, these idiots have never paid a price for their bad behavior. That needs to end. If it does, so will the bad behavior. This kind of crap is what happens when children are never taught limits.
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I wouldn't be surprised if Soros suddenly passed due to some 'accidental' mix of his medicines.
[NYPOST] Anti-cop rage over the police-custody death of George Floyd boiled over in Brooklyn on Friday night — with an NYPD van being set on fire in Fort Greene Park and hundreds of protesters trying to surround the 88th precinct in Clinton Hill before being rebuffed by a massive police mobilization.
In all, some 200 people were arrested Friday and early Saturday in separate, heated protests in Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn, sources told The Post.
It was 9:30 p.m. when the empty police van was set ablaze in Fort Greene Park.
A crowd of some 3,000 protesters had converged on the Barclays Center in Prospect Heights hours earlier, with police releasing chemical mace as the demonstration grew unruly and began throwing objects at cops.
And still earlier in the day, in Lower Manhattan, at least 30 protesters were busted, including a man who allegedly punched an NYPD sergeant in the head with brass knuckles.
The brass knuckles-wielding man allegedly walloped the sergeant as crowds massed at around 4 p.m. near Centre and Leonard streets.
At the Barclays Center, thousands of angry protesters chanted, "They’re killing us!" and "F—k those pigs" while holding signs that read, "NYPD KKK." At one point, the crowd roared at the sound of fireworks going off.
Police sprayed mace on protesters after several in attendance began throwing things, police sources said. Cops were caught on camera beating several protestors with batons as onlookers screamed.
Assemblywoman Diana Richardson (D-Brooklyn) said she was sprayed by mace while trying to peacefully protest at the arena, home to the Brooklyn Nets. (In 2016 she was charged with beating her son with a broomstick)
"This is uncalled for," Richardson told a WNYC news hound afterward. "I would never be in a position to be like this. I’m actually out here to make sure the peace is [kept]."
Samantha Shader, 27, was arrested Friday night for allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at an NYPD cruiser in Crown Heights, Brooklyn
The cocktail did not explode and there were no reports of injury; she allegedly bit an officer as he tried to arrest her
She is now facing four counts of attempted murder; her sister, Darian, is also facing charges for trying to interfere in Samantha's arrest
3,000 protesters took to the streets of Brooklyn Friday night as part of nationwide demonstrations over the death of black man George Floyd
Around 200 were arrested; NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea says 'countless' officers were injured; one had their teeth knocked out and several are in the ER
"As a former NYPD lieutenant, I refer back to me being a practitioner in New York City and the many instances we had -- what we referred to as paid agitators," he told Fox News' Arthel Neville on Saturday.
"These were people who were paid by specific groups to come in and quote, unquote, raise a level of anarchy -- throwing things, just creating somewhat of a miscreant society ... We knew who a lot these people were. because you would see them at one demonstration. Then a week later you would see the same demonstrator or agitator protesting all over again. They knew nothing nor cared anything about what the actual event was involved around."
There was some argument about whether the young woman was moving toward or away from the officer at the time of the push, as some tried to claim that this brutal assault on an unarmed woman was somehow justified.
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The victim was hospitalized with injuries.
Both the cop shown in the video and his commanding officer (whom some reporters claimed can be seen standing nearby) have been tentatively identified on twitter, and an online campaign for the officer to be fired and face assault charges has begun.
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Re: Cuomo, if he had been a guard at Auschwitz with a death toll like he gave the old folks homes, he would have been hunted for the remainder of his life for his crimes. Think Adolf Eichmann. What way is he more moral than Eichmann?
On Saturday, a military spokesman for the Egyptian forces reported that five soldiers were killed and wounded during raids carried out by the Egyptian Army in North Sinai.
A statement by the Egyptian Armed Forces indicated that two officers, a non-commissioned officer and two soldiers from the Egyptian Armed Forces were killed and injured during the operations.
The Egyptian Army declared, “19 terrorists were killed during military strikes carried out last week against sites used by armed groups.”
He added that “based on intelligence information stating that there are penitential elements in several dens in the vicinity of the cities of Bir al-Abd and Sheikh Zuwayed and Rafah in North Sinai, two specific operations were carried out, the first of which resulted in the killing of 3 high-risk takfiri individuals, who were found in possession of automatic weapons and ammunition, hand grenades and (RPG). ”
The Air Force also carried out a number of intensive strikes at several locations, resulting in the killing of 16 terrorist elements.
The Egyptian forces stated that “they targeted and destroyed two SUVs, and a warehouse containing a large amount of explosive devices and logistical support. The Border Guard forces also managed to seize a number of smugglers with a large amount of weapons and ammunition in various calibers, and a number of four-wheel drive vehicles.”
The Egyptian forces said that they “seized large quantities of hashish and the banjo plant hidden inside a number of cars, in addition to a car carrying amounts of money amounting to 200 thousand dollars by the tunnel of the martyr Ahmed Hamdi, which is located below the Suez Canal.”
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This is wisam Bin Hamid . A #ISIS terrorist whom is one of those responsible for killing the US ambassador and n #Benghazi 2012 He was killed by the #LNA and now all his followers are fighting for the #GNA in#Tripoli.pic.twitter.com/f0m0u4rlXB
Libyan Army kills leader of Turkish-backed Syrian militant group
[ALMASDARNEWS] The leader of the Turkish-backed Syrian “Sultan Murad Brigade” organization, Murad Abu Hamoud Al-Azizi, was killed in clashes in the Libyan capital, according to what the Military Information Division of the Libyan National Army announced via Facebook.
In a brief statement, the division said that Al-Azizi was killed in clashes at the airport road hub in the capital, Tripoli.
In turn, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday that it had documented the killing of 13 fighters among mercenaries from the Syrian factions loyal to the Turkish government in Libya during the past days, noting that a new batch of mercenaries present in the Turkish camps had been transferred to Libya, where the number of Syrian mercenaries in Libya is about 11,200.
Since the Turkish-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) forces captured the Al-Watiyah Airbase near the Tunisian border, the two warring parties in the northwestern part of the country have been deadlocked in a fierce battle around the capital city.
Both sides have reported gains over the last week, but it has been hard to confirm these advances due to the absence of video footage and photos.
The Libyan armed forces #LNA have gained full control of the Ramla axis after a very violent battles against the terrorists of the #GNApic.twitter.com/MfCGITfy14
According to the GNA’s official Facebook page, their forces scored a big advance south of Tripoli, capturing several sites along the Ramleh axis.
The leadership of the “Burqan Fury” operation confirmed on its Facebook page, Saturday, that its Mahjoub brigade were “advancing strongly” at the Ramleh axis and the vicinity of Tripoli Airport, noting that those forces took control of two cars equipped with weapons and destroyed six others and forced the Libyan Army to withdraw from several areas.
The Libyan National Army did not release any official data on the developments in the region.
The conflict erupted between the forces of the Al-Wefaq government (GNA) that emanated from the internationally recognized Skhirat Agreement, backed by Turkey, and the Libyan National Army that controls the eastern part of the country in April of last year, when the latter began pushing towards the capital to wrest control of it. Fred
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[BBC] Gunmen on motorbikes fired into the crowded market in Kompienga town in the middle of the day on Saturday, eyewitnesses were quoted as saying by local media.
It is unclear who was behind the attack.
Burkina Faso has seen a sharp rise in jihadist violence and inter-communal clashes in recent months.
The country where it's too dangerous to go to school
'We're raising our daughter as Christian and Muslim'
The violence has forced hundreds of thousand of people to flee their homes.
On Friday at least 15 people were killed when suspected Islamist militants attacked a convoy of traders in the north, near the border with Mali.
[Rudaw] A father and son were killed in a Ottoman TurkishArclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in Duhok province on Saturday morning, a family member of the dear departed has told Rudaw.
Officials said two were killed when the Ottoman Turkish air force struck suspected Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) positions in the Deralok sub-district of Amedi, close to the border with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... . The attack took place at 09:30 am, according to Rudaw news hound Nasir Ali.
The father - who Ali reported was a retired Peshmerga - was out farming ancestral land with his son "to make ends meet for their families" in times of economic difficulty, relative Khalil Nerway told Rudaw.
"The bodies have not yet been returned as it's difficult to access the site of the bombing," Nerway said.
Another person was injured in the bombing, he added.
"We have not yet seen the maimed, but we are told that his health is stable."
Turkey's defense ministry claimed the strike killed PKK fighters in the area, not civilians.
Air forces "neutralized two members of the PKK terrorist organization in the Avasin region of northern Iraq," the ministry said in a Saturday morning statement, adding that the alleged PKK fighters were "identified by means of "reconnaissance and surveillance" - terms often used in reference to drone operations.
Both the PKK and Ottoman Turkish forces have had military bases in Duhok province for decades.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Interior announced on Friday, the arrest of a terrorist commander from a family that carried out multiple attacks in Iraq.
"During a successful qualitative security operation, the intelligence and counter-terrorism directorate of Baghdad, working within the Intelligence Agency of the Ministry of the Interior, managed to arrest an ISIS terrorist leader in the Baghdad belt, and he was previously injured in the events of liberating djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... ," said a blurb issued by the Directorate.
According to the Directorate, "the arrest process took place after the formation of a specialized work team that was able to reach two bombs ready for detonation in the Saidat area."
They pointed out that "the terrorist was intending to use them in his criminal operations," stating that "according to the available information, his family are terrorists, as he has three brothers who blew themselves up in Mosul and his father detonated a boom-mobile in the Arab Jabour area south of Baghdad."
The Directorate confirmed that it had "taken legal measures against him duly and the two packages were cleared without a slight accident."
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[IsraelTimes] Israeli troops on Friday thwarted an attempted car-ramming attack in the northern West Bank, shooting the assailant, the military said. There were no injuries to the soldiers.
The terror suspect was shot and "neutralized" by troops while trying to run them over near the Halamish settlement, the Israel Defense Forces said without giving further details.
Hebrew media reports said the driver, a Paleostinian, was killed.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli police banned several East Jerusalem Paleostinian activists, including a controversial preacher, from the al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount compound as the mosque prepares to reopen this Sunday, according to Paleostinian media reports.
There was no immediate comment from Israeli police.
The Islamic Waqf, which administers the al-Aqsa Mosque, closed the mosque and the Dome of the Rock on March 15 in order to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
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[Ynet] The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that five pro-Iranian militants were killed in an anonymous attack carried out today in the Albukamal region, citing "reliable sources."
According to the report, around noon, an unknown fighter jet attacked three military vehicles belonging to Iranian militias, which were carrying heavy machine guns.
The identity of the passengers in the vehicle was not disclosed, but it was stated that they were not Syrian.
The Iranian border guards announced on Friday that three of its soldiers were killed in an armed clash in the northwestern district of Sardasht.
The social aide to the border guards in West Azerbaijan province, Colonel Muhammad Fakry, said that these three soldiers were killed by “bad guys” while they were implementing a border patrol, vowing to reveal the details of the incident later.
For years, Iran has faced Kurdish separatists using bases in the Kurdistan region of Iraq to launch attacks on the territory of the Islamic Republic.
These separatist factions are often associated with the PJAK, a group that is associated with the Turkey-based Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[NYPOST] Rioters in Atlanta decided to spare a local Waffle House, amid an otherwise uninterrupted rampage through the city Friday evening.
[Fox9] Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said he is aware of unconfirmed reports that gangs of white supremacists are taking advantage of the anarchy unfolding in Minneapolis to create more chaos.
[NYPOST] Anti-cop rage over the police-custody death of George Floyd boiled over in Brooklyn on Friday night — with an NYPD van being set on fire in Fort Greene Park and hundreds of protesters trying to surround the 88th precinct in Clinton Hill before being rebuffed by a massive police mobilization.
The Tripoli-based Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA) forces have achieved a new advance near the capital city after clashing with the Libyan National Army (LNA).
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