[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Mourners flooded the streets Wednesday and Thursday to pay their respects to 29-year-old reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... Police Officer Ella French, who was killed in the line of duty.
"We'll continue to be courageous, brave, committed, and dedicated for Ella to protecting the city of Chicago," said Police Superintendent David Brown.
Processions made their way through the streets Wednesday and Thursday for her wake and funeral before fellow officers took her casket into St. Rita of Cascia Church. Over a thousand mourners poured through the streets Wednesday, and at least hundreds on Thursday.
French was shot and killed, and her partner was critically injured, in an Aug. 7 West Englewood traffic stop.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot ...the diminutive and vacuous Heronner da Mare of Chicago. When the corpse count rises she blames the guns, which are banned anyway. A racist to the bone, Lori sez that people with the same skin tone all think alike, not quite getting the implications for a city with a population less than thirty percent black... said the citizens of Chicago will always owe officers like French a debt of gratitude.
"This is a time of grief and anger and frustration, but I hope that we use this as an opportunity of reflection on how we can live, each of us, a better life from where we stand, to show leadership and support for those in our city who are most vulnerable," Lightfoot said. "We need to continue to thank our brave men and women in law enforcement, our police department, fire department, the brave dispatchers, and call takers at the Office of Emergency Management Communications."
Two brothers were charged in the shooting .
Emonte Morgan, 21, allegedly killed French and shot her partner three times, police said. Eric Morgan, 22, is accused of driving the vehicle the officers had pulled over for expired tags. Ima say different fathers sperm donors
"Traffic is the most dangerous thing being a police officer, and for that to happen to one of our own, and one of the young ones, it was extremely hurtful," added Officer Ronda Pressley, who also works in the traffic unit.
In her almost three years on the force, French patrolled some of the South Side's most violent mostly peaceful neighborhoods and earned commendations and honorable mentions.
French is the first female Chicago police officer killed in the line of duty since 1988, according to NBC Chicago, and the first to be slain in the line of duty since Lightfoot took office.
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Lots of folks here are more familiar with the TB and how they operate, but it sure looks like they are consolidating and defining command and control, and have mastered how to use the Biometrics/personnel databases they captured. If so, they night be establishing a MANPAD sites and are telling our folks on the ground that they will determine who can come to the airport for evacuation, and intend to vet each allowed departure against the databases. This allows them to define those that are deemed enemies of the state and provide them a more grim exit terminal. It also allows them to start demanding concessions and fees to permit our cits to leave. The fruits of indecision and top down management by the foolish children that are the National COmmand Authority these days.
Maj. Gen. Christopher Donahue has told his British Army counterpart, a high-ranking field-grade officer of the British army’s 22nd Special Air Service Regiment, that British operations were embarrassing the United States military in the absence of similar U.S. military operations. I understand that the British officer firmly rejected the request.
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It is impossible to overstate how awful Biden and this administration is. This tragic, avoidable debacle is the culmination of electing ignorant, arrogant fools who were given total top cover by a useless MSM.
I have heard several retired senior officers say, and I totally agree…any O-3 worth his/her salt could have planned the withdrawal and foreseen what is transpiring.
I was on a brigade level staff as a gofer O-2 in the S3. I walked away after 6 months with the basic skill set about how to plan a military operation.
If I had to guess, I’d bet that Biden and his civilian boot lickers and strap hangers that are totally responsible for the single worst operation since Little Bighorn.
Ric Grennell was on FOX this am and said the dissent memo was signed by 22 of 23 staffers in Kabul
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The cable in question arrived in Foggy Bottom through the "Dissent" channel. That was an indication that some of the rank and file in Kabul disagreed with the Washington policy. It is likely a career killer for some.
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Biden and his boot lickers are responsible. When you combine senility, dementia, stupidity, arrogance and absolute lack of wisdom…this is what happens.
[ZERO] President Biden said the U.S. has helped evacuate 13,000 people from Afghanistan since Aug. 14 and is pledging to Americans still trapped in Afghanistan: "We will get you home."
"This is one of the largest, most difficult airlifts in history and the only country in the world capable of projecting this much power on the far side of the world with this degree of precision is the United States of America," Mr. Biden said Friday in the East Room of the White House.
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Biden has no choice but to trust the Taliban. They control the ground. The Taliban leadership is allowing airlifts for now. It would be foolish to rock the boat as long as he can evacuate. Untimely it will show he has no respect for the military, NGO, evacuees, and American public by getting into the worst hostage crisis since Iran. Then he will use the crisis thru the media to distract from all his other mistakes.
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Hey media, what about the Taliban 2.0 narrative?
This is one of the largest, most difficult airlifts in history
Because nobody has done an emergency air evacuation from the middle of Asia after promising an airlift effort war could be won?
Its almost like us dumbasses, with our books and shit, were noticing flaws in this plan fifteen fucking years ago, but I guess The Managers needed to hew the ground to bear the fruit of Milley Pyrus and Lunch Vader.
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The guy stutters and stammers while trying to read his teleprompter then he turns his back on the media and walks away from them without answering any questions. No matter what their corporate bosses say, that has to piss them off.
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#11 Can you imagine if your job 24/7 was to think of good things to say about Joe Biden? That by itself would drive even the most progressive reporter over the edge. "The President didn't piss his pants today... No, that won't work... Let's go with: There is no definitive proof that the President pissed his pants today... Wait, I got it... The President candidly and forthrightly pissed his pants today, fulfilling yet another campaign pledge."
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"Is it true, Mr. Pres--"
"Kiss my fist!"
"That you're, quite understandably, pissed?"
"Yes! Hey diddle diddle... I'm calling a piddle. You, clean up this mess! Class dismissed."
[IsraelTimes] Child treated at airport hospital and later reunited with father; US military also releases series of photos of soldiers helping children of those fleeing country
A heart-breaking video showing a US Marine lifting a baby over a razor wire-topped wall at Kabul’s airport caught global attention Friday, amid the chaos of thousands trying to flee Afghanistan newly controlled by the Taliban ...Arabic for students... The video, which shows the infant, its diaper slipping off, being pulled up by one arm high above a crowd of Afghans seeking to enter the airport, took over social media nearly one week into the airlift to evacuate foreigners and Afghans from the war-torn country.
It put a tender edge on the tense evacuation, in which nearly 6,000 heavily armed US troops have taken control of the airport, while their long-time foe the Taliban patrol the streets outside and begin to exercise what many fear will be a harsh and anti-American rule.
Pentagon front man John Kirby said the Marines were told the unidentified baby was sick and were asked to help.
"The video you are talking about — the parent asked the Marines to look after the baby because the baby was ill," he told news hounds.
"So the Marine you see reaching over the wall took it to a Norwegian hospital that is at the airport. They treated the child and returned the child to the child’s father," he said.
"It was an act of compassion because there was concern about the baby."
He said he did not know who the family was, or their status — whether or not they had been accepted to immigrate to the United States under a special program for Afghans who worked for the Americans or were otherwise at high risk from the Taliban.
While the video of that act appeared to be independently filmed, the US military released several other officially approved photographs of soldiers helping out children of people hoping to escape Afghanistan.
In one, a soldier in his combat gear sits with a blanketed baby in his arms, smiling at the child like the father of a newborn, while his fellow soldiers stand nearby on alert.
[In anoth]er, two female American soldiers hold babies in their arms.
Still another depicts one of the US troops giving water to a little boy.
"This is the America we need to be," said US congressman and military veteran Peter Meijer on Twitter of the images.
The official Pentagon images stood out amid a stark lack of independently taken pictures from inside the airport, where thousands of people waited Friday amid difficult conditions to board US C-17 cargo aircraft bound for 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... In the Gulf state, they will still face days of waiting to be cleared by US immigration officials.
[AlAhram] Limbourg added that the homes of at least three other Deutsche Welle news hounds were searched by the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... in Afghanistan in recent days and weeks
German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle says the Taliban shot and killed a family member of one of their news hounds in Afghanistan and severely injured a second family member. We call them "civilians". They call them "dead". Where's the outrage? Oh, right, it's not Orange Man Bad
The broadcaster said in a statement on Thursday that Taliban fighters were looking for the Deutsche Welle news hound and searching homes in western Afghanistan. It said other family members managed to escape.
Deutsche Well says the news hound himself, whose identity was not revealed, is already based in Germany where he is also working. Deutsche Welle didn't give further details on the killed and injured family members or say where and when exactly in Afghanistan the killing took place.
The director of Deutsche Welle, Peter Limbourg, sharply condemned the killing saying that, ``the killing of a close family member of one of our journalists by the Taliban is incredible tragic and a proof for the imminent danger that all of our workers and their families are exposed to in Afghanistan.''
He added: ``The Taliban are obviously conducting organized searches for journalists in Kabul and the provinces. Time is running out.''
[KhaamaPress] Ever since the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... toppled all but Panjsher province on August 15, the fighters were engaged in their first armed conflict which erupts between them and the people uprising.
Tens of members of people armed uprising attacked the pol-e-Hesar district of northern Baghlan province and was cleared of the Taliban.
Local residents while claim two other districts- Deh Salah and Qasaan- have also been taken back from the Taliban.
If true, hopefully the start of the next defeat of the Taliban, even as they dance in triumph.
Former acting minister of defense, Bismillah Muhammadi who is now living in Panhsher province wrote on his Twitter that the people uprising has recaptured pol-e-Hesar, Bano, and Deh Salah district of Baghlan province.
Local residents have also claimed to have killed 40 Taliban fighters and maimed 15 more the Taliban have not commented on the conflict yet.
Defiant first vice President Amrullah Saleh and son of Slain Ahamad Shah Masoud have pledged to be resisting the Taliban and will never surrender to them. They said that resistance two will be commenced from Panjsher province and have asked foreign members of ANDSF to join them in the cause.
It comes as the Taliban are grabbing control of entire Afghanistan including the Afghan capital but are yet to fill the political vacuum now after six days.
Emergency Hospital Says Number of Patients in Panjshir Rising
[ToloNews] In the last 24 hours the number of maimed people arriving at Emergency Surgical Centre for War Victims in Kabul has stabilized, but the institution reported an increasing number of war-maimed patients at its health facility in Panjshir province north of Kabul.
The hospital received 37 patients, of whom only five were admitted as they were at death's door, the statement said, adding that the hospital had been extremely busy for several days and therefore the admission criteria were restricted to those with serious trauma and life-threatening injuries.
"The situation in the city seems to have improved, although unfortunately there was unrest again at the airport this morning to suppress the mass of people trying to catch a plane to leave the country. The situation is chaotic and it is difficult to understand what is really happening there. Last night, however, we heard Kalashnikov fire in our district," said Alberto Zanin, Emergency’s Medical Coordinator in Kabul.
The reduced influx of patients made it possible to return the hospital back to its regular working capacity of 100 beds. If the situation does not deteriorate, Emergency plans to widen its admission criteria imminently, the statement said.
"As far as our hospital in Anabah in the Panjshir Valley is concerned, unfortunately we have to report that admissions for war surgery are increasing and we are identifying some areas to be converted for the treatment of maimed people. The Surgical Centre for War Victims in Lashkar-Gah, on the other hand, seems to be relatively stable again," Zanin said.
Referring to the ongoing situation more generally, he said that their local colleagues remain concerned about the uncertainty and instability, "but we are confident that the new authorities will allow us to continue working in the country, which needs us more than ever at this time."
Massoud Junior readies for war while negotiating with Taliban
[THENATIONALNEWS] The leader of Afghanistan’s only region not to have fallen to the Taliban ...Arabic for students... has said he would be willing to join a Taliban government, but only if the group proved itself to be inclusive and respect the rights of all Afghans.
Ahmad Massoud, 32, leads forces in the Panjshir valley and said that war was on the cards if the group attempted an attack on his region.
In his first interview since the fall of Kabul last week, he told The National he had seen little evidence the group had changed over the past two decades.
He poured scorn on the group’s promise not to seek Dire Revenge against Afghans who had worked for the government or foreign forces.
"The pardon that the Taliban mentioned is just a sham — it is not real," he said.
"They have been going behind the doors and the houses of the people who work in the government. They are going after each individual who has worked for the government in the past 20 years."
He added the group were "telling us good things, but their actions are something different".
On the phone from his stronghold in the valley, Mr Massoud described a scene of frenzy in Panjshir as much of the rest of the country fell to the Taliban in a matter of days last week. His home province is now the only holdout.
The Afghan leader added that hundreds of Afghan commandos, members of the special forces and pilots had fled to the safety of Panjshir, which has a population of 200,000 and 20 military bases. Last I heard, Afghanistan had a population of 22 million. That was thirty years ago, and I think it was a CIA Factbook guesstimate.
"They brought hundreds of Humvees, armoured cars, and we managed to bring five helicopters. We were flying them back to Kabul to bring more soldiers here," he said on Thursday. With uncharacteristic energy, I checked with Google. 38 million and change.
They aren’t the only ones. On Wednesday, Mr Massoud’s representative said refugees have already begun to arrive from other areas of the country and are being sheltered by Panjshiri families in their homes.
For the graduate of Sandhurst and Kings College London, resisting the Taliban is a family business.
His father, Ahmad Shah Massoud, led the Northern Alliance of tribes and militia groups as it battled the Taliban in the 1990s until his liquidation by the late Osama bin Laden ...... who was laid out deader than a mackerel, right next to the mackerel...... two days before 9/11. Now, many are looking to his son as Afghanistan’s only hope against The Taliban.
Mr Massoud acknowledged that while he is in direct communication with the Taliban, he is not optimistic a war can be averted.
"Our position is very clear: if the Taliban allow the people of Afghanistan to be a part of the government and have an inclusive government, then that’s one thing," he said.
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"If the intention is to single-handedly enforce your will on the people and to enforce your own ideas on the people, then we will not accept an unjust government."
He said Panjshir was preparing for war and was ready should the Taliban attack, but the region's leaders are also pushing for peace.
"We are not after war, we are after peace, but peace has some conditions — otherwise, things will evolve into another war," he said.
Amid rumours that the Taliban may soon launch an offensive to capture Panjshir, Mr Massoud fired a stark warning to the group.
"We are telling them that as soon as war breaks out in the Panjshir valley, then there is no going back. If something happens to our people, or our soldiers, there is no going back.
[ToloNews] Family members of a number of former government officials on Thursday said their relatives have disappeared or are being held by the Taliban ...Arabic for students... since the arrival of the Taliban on Sunday.
Abdul Wali Wahidzai, the former governor of Laghman ...Afghan province with a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.
After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men... , and Lotfullah Kamram, the former police chief of the province, surrendered to the Taliban five days ago but they are still in Taliban custody, relatives said.
"The Taliban released all government officials, but Lotfullah Kamran was not released," said Abdul Ghani, a relative of Kamran.
Mohammad Hashem Ghalji, the former police chief of PD1 of Ghazni, is also missing.
"Release my father, because you have announced a general amnesty," said Mohammad Hashem Ghalji, son of Ghalji.
Afghan people have also urged the Taliban to deliver on their promises.
"The government released prisoners of Pul-e-Charkhi prison who were all members of the Taliban, but the Taliban has not released some prisoners," said Sadaqat, a resident in Kabul.
A Taliban front man said they had pardoned anyone who had worked in the military or civilian sector with the previous government.
[NYP] Disturbing footage has emerged of an Afghan police chief being executed by the Taliban — after he surrendered to the militants, according to reports.
Former BBC journalist Nasrin Nawa posted the gruesome video which appears to show Haji Mullah Achakzai, head of the police in Badghis province near Herat.
The man is seen in the clip blindfolded and kneeling before several bullets ring out and his lifeless body flops onto the ground.
[NYPOST] President Joe Biden, speaking for only the second time about Afghanistan since the Taliban seized Kabul on Sunday, also said “I have seen no question of our credibility from our allies around the world.”
The US departure, however, was condemned harshly during a UK parliament session. Armin Laschet, the conservative candidate to succeed German Chancellor Angela Merkel, called it “the biggest debacle NATO has suffered since its founding.”
US withdrawal from Afghanistan indicates occupation forces’ failure in our region: Houthihttps://t.co/45ibmawHLv
A leading member of German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslem colonists... 's center-right Union bloc called Thursday for the United States to provide funding and shelter to those fleeing Afghanistan now.
'The United States of America bear the main responsibility for the current situation,'' Markus Soeder, the governor of Bavaria, said. 'Because of their decision to leave Afghanistan, in parts overly hasty, they have the main responsibility.''
Soeder noted that the U.S. had already provided security guarantees for the evacuation of foreigners and local staff from Kabul, and should do likewise 'when it comes to providing financial support to neighboring countries, especially for UNHCR and, if necessary, also for taking in people.''
The U.N. refugee agency has said that so far most displacement following the seizure of power by the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... has been inside Afghanistan. But some officials in Germany are already warning of a repeat of the 2015 migrant crisis that saw hundreds of thousands of people from Asia and Africa come to Europe.
Soeder, who leads the Bavaria-only Christian Social Union, said fears about a fresh influx of migrants colonists should not be exploited in the campaign for Germany's upcoming national election.
'Of course it needs to be ensured that there's no uncontrolled movement of people,'' he said. 'But I also say that having no repeat of 2015 for us means no instrumentalization of the migration question ... in the election campaign.'
Soeder, who lost a bid to be the Union's candidate to succeed Merkel, was heavily criticized in 2018 for talking about the need to crack down on 'asylum tourism.''
[NEWSWEEK] The United States received permission from Germany to use Ramstein Air Base in western Germany as a temporary intermediate stop to transport Afghan refugees, Germany's foreign minister announced.
In a statement released Friday, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said that Germany and its international partners are focused on a goal to evacuate as many people from Kabul "as is possible under the very difficult circumstances," the Associated Press reported.
Western countries, including Germany, have deployed military aircraft to Afghanistan to rescue German nationals and Afghans who assisted in their military missions before the Taliban seized the country in a stunning takeover.
"We agree with all our partners on the ground that no place on our planes should remain empty," Maas said in the statement.
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For Christians refugees I would say Yes and would even help settle individual families here in GA.
But I would have to say NO for Islamic Refugees.
Because Islamic Refugees:
1. Are not as threaten by the Taliban as Christains.
2. Have historically brought with them 600+ years cultural problems.
3. Refuse to blend in and become part of the America system. Setting up their own internal community Islamic controlled processes.
4. Have repeatedly demonstrated to become sources for domestic Radical Terrorists Anti-USA breeding grounds. eg. radical Islamic religious leaders preaching death to America while enjoying the freedoms.
[Gateway] Lt. Col. Oliver North joined Sean Hannity tonight to discuss the Biden catastrophe in Afghanistan.
Oliver North told Sean Hannity that the outer perimeter at the Kabul Airport has serious problems because the Taliban now has lists of the names and phone numbers of every Afghan who has worked for our country in the last 20 years.
The evolving Afghanistan bloodbath lays at the feet of Joe Biden and the Democrats.
Lt. Colonel Oliver North: They’ve got the bank records. They got it all thanks to the embassy... It is being reported that the Taliban has captured the payroll data from the American embassy and the Kabul banks showing the names, addresses and phone numbers for locals now being hunted down. If so, an unforgivable security lapse. All that stuff is supposed to get the thermite kiss-off.
Number Five: There are 50 or more Afghan Air Force fixed wing and helicopter aircraft now safely on the ground in neighboring countries. The senior Afghan officer has appealed directly for help. I have his phone number. Is anyone going to answer his calls? If not, if you’re in the government of the United States, give me a call. I’ll give you his phone number. He’s desperate that the 500 who came out with him get somewhere safe before they are bounced out of Uzbekistan or Tajikistan or God knows where else.
Number Six. The Communist Chinese are apparently on scene working with the Taliban in ways to further disgrace the USA...
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I've heard there is a fee or billing attached, yes. Not sure of the amount. Tucker was quite interesting tonight. He centered his piece on the distancing of CNN and others on the WH staff from Plugs. Also mentioned CNN as a Klingon information agency. While I'm certainly not doubting it, I've not heard the obvious connection made openly of late. Our old friend John Brennan had little difficulty landing a senior position at CNN, so there is that.
Upshot appears to be (unspoken of course), plugs will be gone soon.
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“All passengers will need to reimburse the U.S. Government for the flight. A promissory note for the full cost of the flight, which may exceed $2000 per person, must be signed by each adult passenger before boarding,” the form stated.
Pentagon: In last 24 hours, 5,700 people evacuated from Kabul aboard 16 Air Force c-17s. That’s 356 per flight, just over max capacity and significant increase over day before.
12,700 people have now been evacuated since Aug. 14th.
US citizens were close to airport but could not cross huge crowd gathered outside ; 3 helicopters sent beyond perimeter to get them, potentially sparking conflict with Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
The US military in Afghanistan sent helicopters to rescue over 150 Americans unable to reach the Kabul airport gates, an official said Friday, in the first evidence that US forces were willing and able to go beyond the US-secured compound to help people seeking evacuation.
The news came as American officials confirmed evacuation operations from Afghanistan stalled for about seven hours Friday, because the receiving base in 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... was overflowing and could not take in evacuees.
That left thousands more Afghans already cleared to leave their country for the United States waiting at the Kabul airport.
"It was early this morning, and it lasted about six to seven hours," Major General Hank Taylor told news hounds, adding the backlog was subsequently cleared.
The US State Department has been criticized for being overly bureaucratic and not having enough staff to process thousands of Afghans seeking to come to the United States.
Evacuee accounts from Qatar describe sleeping on the floor in sweltering heat in a US aircraft hanger for three days or more, with limited facilities.
Taylor said US aircraft flew some 6,000 people, including a couple of hundred US citizens, out of Kabul in the 24 hours to early Friday, until the bottleneck halted flights.
Flights from Kabul resumed late Friday after US operations in Qatar arranged for trips for many evacuees onward to the US military base in Ramstein, Germany.
US citizens and Afghans who worked for the US forces in Afghanistan continued to attempt to get to the airport in Kabul to leave the country.
There were numerous accounts of some struggling to reach and enter the airport, some impeded by Taliban fighters who now control Kabul.
US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. We get to suffer the consequences... said Friday that US troops had to go beyond the perimeter of the airport to retrieve 169 Americans, potentially risking a conflict with the Taliban.
Pentagon Spokesman John Kirby downplayed the incident.
"They were very close to the perimeter of the airport. Very close," he said, adding later that they had been airlifted from the Baron hotel, near the airport, by three US Chinook helicopters.
The helicopters had been deployed due to concerns for the Americans’ safety in traversing a huge crowd that had gathered outside the airport’s Abbey entry gate.
"There was a large crowd established outside the Abbey Gate, a crowd that not everybody had confidence in, in terms of their ability to walk through it, and so local commanders on the scene took the initiative and flew these helicopters out there to pick them up," Kirby said.
[Garowe] In what could be a show of their presence in Somalia, the ISIS gunnies late last night captured a strategic town in Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... , a move that could ignite tough battles with security forces in the Federal State which is facing a terrorist threat.
According to reports, the ISIS fighters captured Balidhidin town in the Bari region, becoming the first city in years to fall to the murderous Moslems, whose presence in Puntland has been expanding according to analysts. The bandidosbully boyz are mostly domiciled in the Golis mountains.
During the raid, authorities said, the bandidosbully boyz killed District Commissioner Ahmed Mohammed besides injuring a civilian. It's not clear why they eliminated the commissioner but the bandidosbully boyz have often targeted security forces and senior government officials.
The fighters stormed the city at around 20:00 hours, ransacking government premises before taking over the town. Authorities in Puntland have condemned the attack which is the latest terrorist incident in the region.
But over the past months, Puntland Security Forces [PSF] have been intensifying crackdown against both al-Shabaab ...... the personification of Somali state failure... and ISIS gunnies across the state, even managing to destroy their camps besides capturing a number of them.
Dozens of the bandidosbully boyz have also been killed in the process. Particularly, the security forces have managed to eliminate imported muscle working with IS-Somalia murderous Moslems, who have been training locals in parts of Puntland according to intelligence reports.
The IS-Somalia has tried to develop a base in Puntland but they have been getting resistance from the rival al-Shabaab group. The two groups have often clashed, almost giving security forces an advantage in the fight against the murderous Moslems.
President Said Abdullahi Deni, the president of Puntland, has also signed various security pacts with other states especially Galmadug, in what will further help in the fight against violent mostly peaceful extremism within Somalia.
[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] Israeli regime forces have brutally dispersed Paleostinians taking part in several protests against the illegal Zionist settlements across the West Bank.According to reports, the Paleostine Red Islamic Thingy ambulance service said a Paleostinian man had been hit by rubber bullets and dozens of others had suffered breathing difficulties due to inhaling tear gas fired by Israeli regime forces at the protest in the village of Beit Dajan, east of Nablus, on Friday.
For several months, Beit Dajan has been witnessing festivities between Zionist troops and Paleostinians protesting in areas threatened with seizure by the Israeli regime for the expansion of the illegal settlements. At least half of the total area of Beit Dajan has so far been seized by Zionist regime for the construction of the illegal settlements.
To the south of Nablus, Israeli forces suppressed a weekly rally in the flashpoint town of Beita on Friday.
Hundreds of people performed Friday noon prayers near Sobeih Mountain and marched toward the mountain to protest against a settlement outpost that has been recently established there, but they were met with force by Israeli troops, who fired tear gas and rubber bullets at them.
Moreover, Israeli forces cracked down on a weekly protest in Kafr Qaddum, east of Qalqilya City, on Friday, using tear gas and rubber bullets. Tens of Paleostinians were maimed during the festivities.
Also on Friday, Israeli forces attacked a protest against the illegal settlements and settler violence south of the occupied West Bank city of al-Khalil, using tear gas and sound bombs, and left dozens of people suffering breathing difficulties from inhaling the toxic fumes.
Hundreds of Paleostinians as well as foreign activists took part in the protest, in the Umm al-Shaqhan Village, which is threatened with Israeli seizure, east of Yatta City.
Three Paleostinians and two pro-Paleostine foreign activists were detained by the Israelis during the protest. This report is so biased it could've been on NBC
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#Indonesia police have arrested 53 militants suspected of planning an attack on independence day this week, including alleged members of networks blamed for past attacks like the 2002 #Bali bombings, the police said on Friday.https://t.co/dsVOxo8rk8
Some of those arrested were from the group Jemaah Islamiah (JI), a jihadist network with ties to al Qaeda, or 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.... -inspired Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD), blamed for a church bombing on Sulawesi island in March, police said.
Argo Yuwono, a national police spokesperson, told news hounds the arrests had taken place across 11 provinces in the week leading up to Indonesian independence day on Tuesday.
"They went after people from the government," he said, without specifying which people.
"They wanted to use the momentum of the independence day."
Argo said police had seized weapons, ammunition, and donation boxes used to raise funds.
A resurgence in attacks has been linked to the hundreds of Indonesians that went to Syria and Iraq to fight for the Islamic State before returning.
More than 120 bully boyz have been arrested this year, said an official at the country’s counter-terrorism unit on Friday.
4 civilians killed and 3 more wounded in the Israeli airstrikes last night, mayor of Qarah tells a local radio. Syrian state media said the strikes targeted areas near Damascus and Homs.
Israeli Strikes on Syria Kill 'Four Hizbullah Fighters'
[AnNahar] Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on Syria have killed four pro-Iranian fighters allied to the Damascus regime, a Britannia-based war monitor said Friday.
Syrian state media earlier said its air defense system engaged "hostile targets" over the capital Damascus late on Thursday.
"The Israeli enemy launched an aerial attack... targeting positions near Damascus and around the city of Homs," a military source told state news agency SANA.
"Our air defense responded to the missiles and shot most of them down."
Most. Hence the dead guys and secondaries.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the Israeli missiles had targeted "arms depots and military positions" belonging to Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... ’s Hezbollah, in the Qarah area in the northwest of Damascus province, near Homs province and the Lebanese border.
The strikes killed four members of the Iran-backed group, but it was not immediately clear whether they were Syrian or Lebanese, the Britannia-based war monitor said.
Lebanese media also earlier reported two missiles had fallen in the Qalamoun region.
Syria’s air defense forces shot down 22 missiles launched by Israeli warplanes during an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... against targets in Syria, the Russian military said Friday.
Rear Adm. Vadim Kulit, head of the Russian military’s Reconciliation Center in Syria, said six Israeli fighter jets targeted facilities in the provinces of Damascus and Homs from Leb’s airspace late Thursday.
Kulit said Syrian air defense units downed 22 of the 24 missiles launched by the Israeli warplanes with Russia-supplied air defense systems Pantsyr-S and Buk-M2.
Lebanese media also reported that two missiles fell in the Qalamoun region on the rugged border between Lebanon and Syria, though it was unclear if the projectiles were from the alleged airstrikes or errant interceptors.
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Syrian air defense units downed 22 of the 24 missiles launched by the Israeli warplanes
This is how a successful air strike against a defended position works. The defenders have a certain capability to stop incoming missiles. So you bring that many missiles to saturate their defenses + a few more for some damage. Excitement and fun for everyone!
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...46th president of the U.S. We get to suffer the consequences...
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...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 
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
