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-War on Police-
Ex Felon Arrested in Phil post kidnapping; no fatalities
[FoxNews] Philly drug bust fails as 12 fat guys stand behind 6 fat guys and 2 crash on the way

At least six Philadelphia police officers were shot, reportedly grazed in the head, in an ongoing shootout in the city's Nicetown neighborhood on Wednesday afternoon that has been unfolding for almost three hours.

Three officers were rushed to Temple University Hospital, officials told Fox 29.

Three other officers were taken to Einstein Hospital, at least one of them was shot in the arm. All six officers were in stable condition and being treated for non-life threatening injuries.
Update as of 10:15 a.m. EDT:
The suspect linked to Wednesday's five hour standoff in Philadelphia surrendered to authorities just after midnight Thursday, exiting the residence with his hands in the air and with a police light shining on him, surrounded by a cloud of tear gas.

The dramatic shootout in Philadelphia stretched on for hours as six officers were shot -- and two officers and three hostages were later freed, apparently unhurt.

The suspect was identified by unnamed police sources as Maurice Hill, 36, of Philadelphia. Hill has a long record of gun-related convictions and of attempting to evade arrest, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported

Ross said two officers with the Narcotics Strike Force were serving a warrant at the multifamily home -- in what may have been a drug-related offense -- when things "went awry almost immediately," and the shooter opened fire at the home. The two officers were barricaded in separate rooms with several hostages.

Related: 3CBS Philly - Crowd Taunts Philadelphia Police Officers, Laugh At Them In Midst Of Gunfire During Standoff In Nicetown-Tioga
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/15/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336152 views] Top|| File under: Narcos

#1  "Nicetown" - got it.

The part of Philly where, "while Philadelphia police officers were dealing with a gunman who shot six of their own during a standoff at a home in the Nicetown-Tioga section, cops also had to deal with being taunted by some bystanders. CBS3’s Alexandria Hoff reports a crowd of people laughed and yelled at officers in the midst of gunfire during a standoff on
Wednesday...."

F--- those BLM idiots.
They have undermined police in every city in this country, from New York to Philadelphia and Baltimore and St Louis and across the nation.
BLM morons have blood on their hands.
Posted by: Lex || 08/15/2019 2:06 Comments || Top||


#3  Mayor Frank Rizzo takes on the media.

"You're a real crumb, creap, lush coward."
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/15/2019 2:29 Comments || Top||

#4  "12 fat guys stand behind 6 fat guys and 2 crash on the way"

I have no idea what this headline means. Is this some kind of slang spoken by only one person?
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 08/15/2019 2:39 Comments || Top||

#5  suggest change in headline to

"Ex Felon Arrested in Phil post kidnapping; no fatalities"
Done. Previous headline moved to the highlighted first line in the body.
Posted by: lord garth || 08/15/2019 2:53 Comments || Top||

#6 
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/15/2019 4:51 Comments || Top||

#7  Once a felon ALWAYS a felon.
Posted by: Uleck Spererong9442 || 08/15/2019 6:52 Comments || Top||

#8  Let me just check rate of recidivism -

National Statistics on Recidivism. Property offenders were the most likely to be rearrested, with 82.1 percent of released property offenders arrested for a new crime compared with 76.9 percent of drug offenders, 73.6 percent of public order offenders and 71.3 percent of violent offenders.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/15/2019 7:43 Comments || Top||

#9  Re. #8, Procopius2k.

Those percentages are just about right.

For four years, I worked in a Jail ministry in tennessee that was able to flip those statistics so that of the 80 or so prisoners we recommended for release, only 15-20% returned to Jail. We had a lot of cooperation between the Warden, the officers in charge, another Jail Ministry that had connections with numerous employers willing to take prisoners, and one of the Municipal Judges (I testified during a release hearing that he was holding, and when I mentioned our Jail ministry, he was all ears, and thanked me from the Bench for all our work.)

Mind you, we were VERY selective in whom we recommended, looking for evidence of real change rather than blind leftist-liberal adherence to "ideals" (that later became Social Justice thinking).

Good times. VERY good times.
Posted by: Ptah || 08/15/2019 13:00 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Al-Shabab militants kill 50 soldiers in attack on Somalia military base
[ARABNEWS] The Islamist krazed killer group al-Shabaab
...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
claimed to have killed at least 50 soldiers in a double car-bomb and gun attack on Wednesday on a military base in Somalia.

Civilians were also killed in the crossfire in an hour-long gunbattle at the base in Awdheegle, 70 km southwest of the capital, Mogadishu.

"We heard two huge blasts and gunfire from the direction of the military base. I saw several soldiers running away to escape but we cannot know how many were killed," Awdheegle resident Aden Abdullahi said.

Halima Farah, a shopkeeper, said government troops were in control of the town after the attack. "We believe both the Lions of Islam and government suffered great loss of life, but we cannot see their casualties. Stray bullets killed people in their homes."

Al-Shabaab, which is linked to al-Qaeda, said it had killed 50 soldiers and lost only two of its members who drove the boom-mobiles. Army vehicles were also burned, it said.

However,
some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go...
the Somali army’s operations commander Gen. Yusuf Rageh Odowa said his forces had repelled the krazed killers, and that many of the attackers’ corpses lay at the scene while others were captured.

"After the blasts they tried to attack the army defenses but were defeated. We are still pursuing them. Some soldiers sustained minor injuries from blast shrapnel but nothing major," he said.

Capt. Hussein Ali, a military officer from a nearby town, said soldiers behind sandbags had stopped the boom-mobiles from reaching the base by firing to detonate them.

"There are casualties from al-Shabaab and government forces, but we have no exact figure," he said.

Wednesday’s attack followed last week’s recapture by government forces of most of Awdheegle district. al-Shabaab was forced out of Mogadishu in 2011 and has since lost most of its other strongholds.

However,
some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go...
the attack has renewed the focus on the krazed killers’ links with Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
. Evidence emerged this month that Doha colluded in al-Shabaab attacks in Somalia targeting the assets of other Gulf states.

A phone conversation between Khalifa Kayed al-Muhanadi, a Qatari businessman close to Qatar’s emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, and Hassan bin Hamza Hashem, the Qatari ambassador to Somalia, revealed Doha’s involvement in al-Shabaab terrorism in the port of Bosaso, which is operated by the Dubai company DP World.

"The bombings and killings, we know who is behind them," al-Muhanadi told the envoy. "Our friends were behind the last bombings."

Posted by: Fred || 08/15/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336150 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


Africa North
Female suicide bomber kills six in Chad: Army officer
[AlAhram] Ajacket wallah'> exploding trollop female suicide bomber killed six people after blowing herself up in western Chad early Wednesday, a senior army officer said, in an attack attributed to Nigeria's Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
jihadists.

"Six people died, including a soldier," in the attack in Kaiga-Kindjiria district, said the source, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
. A local NGO confirmed the account.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/15/2019 01:51 || Comments || Link || [336091 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram (ISIS)

#1  Burqa? Check. Hump? Check. Shoot!
Posted by: Frank g || 08/15/2019 11:00 Comments || Top||

#2  That explains this.



"Warning : Big-breasted Burqa Woman will be shot."
Posted by: Dron66046 || 08/15/2019 11:48 Comments || Top||

#3  Only six? Come on babes you can do better!



Posted by: jpal || 08/15/2019 15:58 Comments || Top||


#Algeria | Students Protest for 25th Week Demanding 'Regime Change, Democracy’
[TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 08/15/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336080 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

#1  Oh, please! Not another Arab Spring!
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/15/2019 10:54 Comments || Top||

#2  They think democracy means sharia law for everyone.
Posted by: jpal || 08/15/2019 18:41 Comments || Top||


Europe
Two Swedes Suspected in Danish Tax Agency Blast
[AnNahar] Police said Wednesday two Swedes were suspected of being behind a powerful explosion that rocked Denmark's tax agency last week, damaging the building's exterior but causing no serious injuries.
Would they be Swedes or “Swedes”?
A 22-year-old was arrested in Sweden on Tuesday, Copenhagen police told a presser while a second suspect, aged 23, was still on the lam.

"We have raided several addresses in Sweden. We've seized the car we believe was used by the perpetrators," inspector Jorgen Bergen Skov said.

The August 6 blast smashed windows and tore apart the front of the building in Copenhagen's Osterbro neighbourhood.

One person was hit by flying fragments and sought treatment at a hospital. Two people were inside the agency at the time of the earth-shattering kaboom but escaped injury.

Police said analysis showed industrial explosives were used in the blast.
...which we were told means gang activity, and gang activity probably means Muslim colonists.
Three days later, another explosion rocked a cop shoppe in the nearby Norrebro neighbourhood, also causing damage to the building's exterior but no injuries.

However,
if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well...
"there is nothing that indicates that" the two blasts were linked, Skov told news hounds.
The Local - Sweden adds:
One man, aged 22, was arrested in Swedish city Malmö
...a once lovely city now overflowing with Muslim colonists being multicultural at all the natives within reach, particularly those of female or Jewish persuasion...
on Tuesday and will be extradited to Denmark. Once he reaches Copenhagen he will appear for preliminary court proceedings, which the prosecution will request take place behind closed doors.

Swedish newspaper Kvällsposten reports the 22-year-old has no previous criminal convictions in the country.

The second man, a 23-year-old, is yet to be detained but an international arrest warrant for him has been issued, Skov said.

Posted by: trailing wife || 08/15/2019 02:14 || Comments || Link || [336117 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Since when do Muslims hate the tax bureau?
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 08/15/2019 2:41 Comments || Top||

#2  The smart money goes with "Swedes"...
Posted by: Raj || 08/15/2019 5:35 Comments || Top||

#3  Shariah 101. Muslims must not pay taxes to infidels.
Posted by: Angairong Flavigum3253 || 08/15/2019 5:40 Comments || Top||

#4  The Abdul solution - Blow up the tax agency building ?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 08/15/2019 5:43 Comments || Top||

#5  "Swedes" = "People born somewhere else but holding passports issued by the government of Sweden."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/15/2019 8:30 Comments || Top||

#6  Abdul Bloody Hand and Muhammad Skull Splitter?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/15/2019 11:29 Comments || Top||

#7  If I were the Swedes I'd start worrying about access to fall out shelters , iodine pills , and hand guns. Sooner or later someone with nukes is going to spank them.
Posted by: Snavimble Bucket1794 || 08/15/2019 13:31 Comments || Top||

#8  Muslim politician Abid Raja calls the Norway (anti-islanimalic) Alliance and SIAN "traitors"
Posted by: Woodrow || 08/15/2019 13:55 Comments || Top||

#9  'Swedes' yah right!

Posted by: jpal || 08/15/2019 15:13 Comments || Top||


3 Iraqi Refugees Charged in Germany over Bomb Attack Plot
[AAWSAT] German federal prosecutors said they have charged three Iraqi refugees with planning an Death Eater bombing.

Prosecutors said Wednesday Shahin F. and Hersh F. are accused of preparing an act of violence and Sarkawt N. of aiding them.

Their last names were not given in line with German privacy laws.

Prosecutors said they were planning "an Death Eater attack" but since they have not been linked to a specific organization, they do not face terrorism charges.

They allegedly ordered a detonator from Britannia but never received it after authorities there arrested their contact, said The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.

After being unable to afford an illegal firearm, they decided to carry out an attack using a truck bomb, and Shahin F. began taking driving theory classes.

All were arrested in January after having been under observation for some time.
Posted by: Fred || 08/15/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336107 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists


Iraq
Iraq foils Islamic State scheme to attack Kirkuk village during Eidul Adha
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) ‐ A pro-government force said on Wednesday that a plot 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....
hard boyz to spoil Iraqis’ celebration of Eidul Adha (Greater Bairam) was foiled in the oil-rich province of Kirkuk.

In a press statement, a copy of which was obtained by Iraqi website Alforat News, the paramilitary Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) said that a plot by the Islamic State bad boy group to storm a village in Hawija district, in Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
was successfully foiled during Eidul Adha holiday.

"A PMF member was killed while repelling the IS attack on the village," added the statement.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/15/2019 00:14 || Comments || Link || [336092 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Iraq anti-terrorism troops kill 10 IS militants, capture 5 others in Anbar
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Iraqi security forces killed on Wednesday 10 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....
snuffies and arrested five others during a counter-terrorism operation in Anbar province.

In a statement carried by Al Ahd News website, the Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service said that its troops have carried out a military operation based on intelligence information to arrest IS snuffies in Ar Rutbah and Wadi Hauran districts in Anbar.

The operation, according to the statement, "resulted in the killing of 10 Islamic State krazed killers, beside five arrests."
Rudaw adds:
"As the First Tactical Unit from the Counter-Terrorism Service, and in coordination with the [US-led] coalition's airpower, we carried out [operations] in Wadi Hauran desert areas in Rutba, western Anbar," read a statement from the ICTS on Tuesday.

Wadi Hauran is on the outskirts of the town of Rutba, 420 kilometers from Baghdad.

The overnight operation was launched following the collection of "accurate intelligence," and used "multiple air strikes" to "track down the remnants of the ISIS terrorist gangs," the statement added.

Two of the ten gunnies killed were wearing boom belts, and several hideouts were destroyed, the statement detailed.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/15/2019 00:14 || Comments || Link || [336166 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


In photos: Damage in Base Falcon after blast on Monday
Not that the Israelis are admitting to anything...
Baghdad (IraqiNews) Photos were published by Alsumaria News, on Wednesday, showing the great damage inflicted on Base Falcon, after the earth-shattering kaboom of munitions warehouse on Monday.

Two days ago, a source in the Ministry of Health informed that one person was killed, while 29 others were maimed due to the earth-shattering kaboom of munitions warehouse in Base Falcon, in southern Baghdad, Alalaam News reported.

Meanwhile,
...back at the pie fight, Bella went down under the weight of the custard...
front man for the Ministry of Interior, Gen. Saad Maan, said that 13 persons were maimed in a kaboom in Base Falcon in Dawra area, in southern Baghdad.

He further explained that the earth-shattering kaboom injured two members of the Iraqi Federal Police and four members of al-Hashd al-Shaabi.

Later on Monday, Baghdad Operations Command announced controlling the earth-shattering kaboom, while called the citizens to inform the security forces if they found any unwent kaboom! projectiles.

In a press statement, the Command said, "Under the direct supervision of the Commander of Baghdad operations, the competent teams were able to fully control the earth-shattering kaboom in the base, and roads now are fully opened."

Satellite firm says images of bombed Iraqi site indicate it was hit in airstrike
See photo at link.
[IsraelTimes] Israel’s ImageSat International releases pictures of weapons depot in southern Baghdad controlled by a pro-Iranian militia; attack has been blamed on Israel.

ImageSat International said that damage characteristics identified from the photos show "it is probable that the blast was caused by an Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
, followed by secondary explosions of the explosives stored in the depot."
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/15/2019 00:14 || Comments || Link || [336084 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas’s Gaza chief says terror group coordinating with Islamic Jihad
[IsraelTimes] The head of Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip, Yahya Sinwar, says a six-hour long meeting that included Hamas’s and 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...
’s political and military leaderships took place a few days ago.

"We were discussing the details of the resistance project and arrangements and preparations for liberation and return and responding to aggression," he says, speaking to members of the Dahdouh family in Gaza.

The comments come amid a Hamas outreach campaign that has seen Hamas leaders visiting families throughout the territory in recent days.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/15/2019 02:14 || Comments || Link || [336092 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
British-Iranian academic arrested in Iran amid tanker tensions
Those Western hostages somehow just keep piling up... It’s completely inexplicable, truly it is.
[Rudaw] Kameel Ahmady, a dual British-Iranian national living in Tehran, was arrested and taken into custody on Sunday, according to his wife and human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
activists.

Ahmady, a social anthropologist who studied at the London School of Economics (LSE), was taken by security forces on August 10, his wife Shafaq Rahmani told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN).

KHRN said Ahmady’s house and car were search repeatedly and some of his belongings confiscated. Rahmani told BBC Persian they took away some documents and Ahmady’s ID card.

He has reportedly been given a one-month detention order and is being held at the notorious Evin Prison.

The reason for his arrest was not specified and it is not known where he is being held. Neither British nor Iranian officials have confirmed the arrest.

"They have not provided any information about the reason for the arrest or the charges against Kameel," Rahmani wrote on Instagram.

Ahmady’s research covered topics including female genital mutilation (FGM), child marriage, and ethnic minority rights ‐ all sensitive topics in religiously conservative Iran.

According to KHRN he had been living in the Iranian capital for several years.

The arrest comes at a sensitive time in UK-Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
relations after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp (IRGC) seized a British-flagged vessel in the Strait of Hormuz July 19 in retaliation for the detention of an Iranian vessel in the Strait of Gibraltar on July 4.

Another British-Iranian duel national, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, has been held by Iranian authorities since 2016 accused of spying.

Iran does not recognize dual citizenship and regularly accuses those with foreign ties of espionage.

According to KHRN, Ahmadi last year won the World Peace Foundation’s Literature and Humanities Award at America’s George Washington University for his research.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/15/2019 00:14 || Comments || Link || [336095 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Clashes between pro-govt forces, rebels kill 59 in Syria; al Nusra claims shot down, captured pilot
[DAWN] Clashes between regime loyalists and murderous Moslems in rebel-held northwest Syria killed 59 combatants on Tuesday, a war monitor said.

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), a jihadist group led by Syria’s former Al Qaeda affiliate, has since January controlled most of Idlib province as well as parts of neighbouring Hama, Aleppo and Latakia provinces. Several other armed rebel groups also operate in the region.

Fighting in southern Idlib and rural Latakia on Tuesday claimed the lives of 29 pro-government forces as well as 30 jihadists and allied rebels, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

It came as regime warplanes pummelled the Idlib region with air strikes, killing three civilians in the town of Khan Sheikhoun, the Britannia-based monitor added.

Regime forces and anti-government fighters have been caught in fierce battles in the region for days, as the former presses with an advance toward a strip straddling the Hama and Idlib governorates.

On Sunday, regime forces seized the town of al-Habeet in Idlib’s southern countryside, in their first major ground advance in the province since an escalation on the jihadist-dominated enclave more than three months ago.

The region was supposed to be protected from a massive government offensive by a Ottoman Turkish-Russian buffer zone deal struck last September.

But it has come under increasing bombardment by Damascus and its backer Moscow since the end of April that has killed 816 civilians, according to the Observatory.

Syrian opposition shoots down regime warplane over Idlib

[Rudaw] Syrian opposition fighters on Wednesday shot down a regime warplane over the northwest province of Idlib, according to a war monitor.

Opposition fighters captured the pilot, who ejected from the Sukhoi 22 jet near the strategically important opposition-held town of Khan Sheikhoun, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said.

Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the jihadist group in control of Idlib, did not say how the jet was shot down, but SOHR said heavy machine guns were used.

Syrian state news is yet to confirm the incident.

Posted by: Fred || 08/15/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336095 views] Top|| File under: al-Nusra


#Syria Opposition Confirms #Iran’s Participation in Southern #Idlib Battles
[TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 08/15/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336073 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Iran supported militias

not IRG
Posted by: lord garth || 08/15/2019 2:22 Comments || Top||


Report Accuses 2 #Lebanese Companies of Smuggling #Iranian Oil to #Syria
[TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 08/15/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336079 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria



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Wed 2019-08-07
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Tue 2019-08-06
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Mon 2019-08-05
  Indian Kashmir Dissolved.
Sun 2019-08-04
  Special Forces arrest Taliban fighter disguised in women’s dress
Sat 2019-08-03
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Fri 2019-08-02
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Thu 2019-08-01
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