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LNA Kills ISIS 'Emir' in Southern Libya
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Afghanistan
Afghan security forces have killed 65 Taliban militants during an intense battle in eastern Afghanistan
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
  • Paktika police spokesman Shah Mohammad Arian: In the clash, 65 Taliban fighters were killed and 35 others were wounded

  • The violence came a day after the Taliban said they had killed 28 Afghan paramilitary policemen in Uruzgan in southern Afghanistan

The latest bloodshed came late Wednesday after the Taliban stormed a military headquarters building in the Wazi Khwa district of Paktika province.

“The fighting lasted several hours and in a retaliatory attack by the Afghan forces, the Taliban suffered heavy casualties,” Paktika police spokesman Shah Mohammad Arian told AFP.

“In the clash, 65 Taliban fighters were killed and 35 others were wounded. Unfortunately, three police forces were martyred and six others wounded.”
Posted by: Fred || 09/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  Sounds like they dont have the same ROE we did. Probably no lawyers in the Afghani Security Forces.
Posted by: Theager Borgia1057 || 09/25/2020 0:06 Comments || Top||

#2  Handcuffs seem awfully loose.
Posted by: gorb || 09/25/2020 0:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Handcuffs seem awfully loose.

Its almost as if they want them to "escape" while they have their AK's at the ready.
Posted by: Theager Borgia1057 || 09/25/2020 0:12 Comments || Top||

#4  Just a fight between two gangs of drug dealers.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB || 09/25/2020 5:47 Comments || Top||

#5  Grom, just like Chicago...
Posted by: Glenmore || 09/25/2020 10:14 Comments || Top||

#6  ^And even worse marksmanship.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/25/2020 10:29 Comments || Top||


Five drug traffickers arrested & 160kg of hashish confiscated during several Counter-Narcotics operations
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Narcos


Africa North
Egypt- 4 prisoners on death row (likely militants/jihadists) and 3 police officers were reportedly killed during a failed attempted escape
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Muslim Brotherhood


LNA Kills ISIS 'Emir' in Southern Libya
[LIBYAREVIEW] On Monday, the Spokesman for the Libyan National Army (LNA), Major General Ahmed al-Mismari announced the killing of an ’emir’ of 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....
(IS) in southern Libya.He said that the IS leader was killed during an ambush operation, by LNA forces in the Abd al-Kafi neighbourhood of Sebha, on 14 September. al-Mismari had previously announced that the man was believed to be the leader of IS in Libya, known as Abu Abdullah al-Libi.

After the investigation was completed, and another IS operative was arrested in the Ghadwa area, al-Mismari confirmed the killed assailant was Abu Moaz al-Iraqi, also known as Abu Abdullah al-Iraqi. He is thought to be the leader of IS in North Africa,
Whoa — impressive!
the LNA front man said. al-Mismari pointed out that al-Iraqi entered Libya on 12 September 2014, alongside Abdulaziz Al-Anbari, with forged Libyan passports through The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
At the time, al-Anbari was an emir of IS in Libya. Abu Abdullah was assigned as an assistant to him by ISIS leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. al-Iraqi became the leader of the terrorist organization, after the LNA killed al-Anbari in the eastern city of Derna in 2015. The investigation revealed his identity as Abdullah al-Rabai, an Iraqi Kurd. al-Mismari explained that the Emir of IS in Libya, was killed in a 7-hour battle with LNA forces.
Posted by: Fred || 09/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Every time an emir of the Islamic State gets assassinated Mohammad rapes one of his child brides.
Posted by: jpal || 09/25/2020 17:02 Comments || Top||

#2  Quite a deal, ambush with 7 hours + to work.

I'd spread the rumor that Erdogon held them out to dry as a negotiating tactic.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/25/2020 22:41 Comments || Top||


Turkey Sent Nearly 18,000 Syrian Mercenaries to Libya
And how many will live to go elsewhere afterward?
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  Think of Libya as "flypaper"
Posted by: Mercutio || 09/25/2020 7:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Help me! Help me!
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/25/2020 14:21 Comments || Top||

#3  That's one way to avoid paying the help.
Posted by: Charles || 09/25/2020 15:03 Comments || Top||

#4  Traditionally, what we call today Libya was a staging point to pinch transit from the Eastern Mediterranean to the Western Mediterranean.

From that point, transit from Southern Mediterranean to Northern Mediterranean.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/25/2020 22:36 Comments || Top||


Protesters Block Tripoli Roads with Burning Tires over Frequent Power Cuts
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Muslim Brotherhood

#1  Tires don't use much power.
They should be burning toasters and TVs.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/25/2020 10:56 Comments || Top||


Britain
UK Police officer is shot dead INSIDE police station (in multicultural croydon)
[DailyMail] Firearms suspect, 23, who shot dead police sergeant doing Covid check INSIDE police station was on Prevent's 'potential terror threat' list - as Scotland Yard faces questions about how weapon was missed
  • The sergeant was shot at 2.15am this morning by man at Croydon custody centre in South London

  • Officers and paramedics treated officer at the scene before he was taken to hospital and died

  • Incident marks first time a police officer has been shot and killed on duty since September 2012

  • Unnamed man is tenth police officer to have been killed in the line of duty in the past decade
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/25/2020 06:36 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  aren't guns against the law in GB
Posted by: 746 || 09/25/2020 10:26 Comments || Top||

#2  A hothead jihadi of Croydon,
Inflamed by an infidel hoyden:
"Rejected? By Gawd,
I shall see PC Plod!
What a prejudiced place I'm deployed in!"
Posted by: Ulemp Whurt7876 || 09/25/2020 12:09 Comments || Top||

#3  But he shot the officer point-blank - allegedly in the chest - at about 2.15am this morning following his arrest on suspicion of possessing ammunition

I... I can't believe this is a thing. This Officer is dead, and the shooter turned gun on himself, critical condition. All because they found some Ammo on him. Not the gun, just some of the ammo.
Posted by: Charles || 09/25/2020 15:14 Comments || Top||


Europe
Suspect arrested after knife attack outside Charlie Hebdo's former office in Paris
[France24] French prosecutors have opened a terrorism investigation after two people were wounded in a knife attack in Paris on Friday near the former offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. The suspected perpetrator, as well as six other men, have been taken into custody.

Two victims were seriously injured, the Paris police department said. The main suspect was caught and taken into custody almost immediately after the attack, along with another man whose links to the suspected perpetrator is currently being investigated. Later Friday, police also detained five other men who were apprehended as officers searched a home in the Paris suburbs believed to belong to the main suspect.

France’s counterterrorism prosecutor said authorities suspect a terrorist motive because of the place and timing of the stabbings: in front of the building where Charlie Hebdo was based until the Islamic extremist attack on its cartoonists and at a time when suspects in the 2015 attack are on trial across town.

Prosecutor Jean-François Ricard said that the chief suspect in Friday’s stabbings was arrested, along with another person. Ricard said the assailant did not know the people who were stabbed, two workers in a documentary production company who had stepped outside for a cigarette break.

The suspects’ identities have not been released, and it is unclear exactly what prompted the attack. An investigation was opened into “attempted murder in relation with a terrorist enterprise”, according to an official at the terrorism prosecutor’s office.

‘LOOKS IMPROVISED’
Citing corroborative sources close to the investigation, FRANCE 24’s terror expert Wassim Nasr said that the main suspect has confessed to the attack and is an 18-year-old man of Pakistani origin. He is not believed to have been known to police previously.

“We don’t know much about him because up to this point, no [terror] organisation has claimed the attack,” said Nasr.

Nasr said the second suspect, who is being probed for his links to the Pakistani man and who several news outlets have identified as an Algerian national, is expected to be released shortly.

Another five men, born between 1983 and 1996, were seized in the Paris suburb of Pantin on Friday evening as police searched what they believe is the main suspect’s home.

Nasr said the attack indeed seemed symbolic and that it may have been triggered by Charlie Hebdo’s decision in September to republish the controversial cartoons, including of Prophet Mohammed, that led to the deadly attack at the weekly´s offices in 2015. Many Muslims consider is blasphemous to depict the prophet.

“Not only did al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula issue statements calling for [new] attacks (…) but many voices in the Muslim world spoke out against the republication of those cartoons,” he said.

No terror organisation has yet claimed the attack, and according to Nasr, several details point to it being improvised and having been organised only by the main suspect.

“Look at the details of this attack: it was carried out with a butcher´s knife, it doesn’t look like the attacks that were prepared by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and perpetrated by the Karachi brothers back in 2015.”

Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/25/2020 08:40 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists



At least four people are stabbed near the former offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • A man and a woman were seriously wounded with a meat cleaver in Paris today

  • The attack took place near the site of the 2015 Charlie Hebdo terror rampage

  • Two men have been arrested including an 18-year-old Pakistani 'main attacker' called Ali, who is known to the police, while the second man was described as a 33-year-old Algerian

  • Ali, who had arrived in France as a minor claiming political asylum

  • Suspected accomplices in Charlie Hebdo attack are currently on trial in Paris

  • Terror police have taken up the case because of location and timing during trial

  • Police have arrested two men - a 'main perpetrator' and another suspect - after one was spotted with blood dripping from his clothes near the Opera Bastille and another was stopped at a Metro station.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/25/2020 08:10 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Funny how French people getting stabbed to death by Islamics barely makes the news anymore. It used to be major headline material on Drudge.
Posted by: jpal || 09/25/2020 17:43 Comments || Top||


Paris: 4 wounded in knife attack near ex-Charlie Hebdo site
Jihadis or just criminals? 24 hour rule
[San Diego U-T] Four people were wounded in a knife attack Friday near the former offices of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris, and two assailants are on the run, police said.

Associated Press reporters at the scene saw police flooding into the neighborhood in eastern Paris, near the Richard Lenoir subway station.

Police are "actively hunting" for the perpetrators and have cordoned off the area including the former Charlie Hebdo offices after a suspect package was noticed nearby, according to a police offical.
Suspect package and stabbings linked?
The motive for the attack is unclear, and it is not clear whether it is linked to Charlie Hebdo, which moved its activities out of the area after Islamic extremists attacked its editorial offices in 2015, killing 12 people.
Posted by: Frank G || 09/25/2020 08:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Funny how French people getting stabbed to death by Islamics barely makes the news anymore. It used to be major headline material on Drudge.
Posted by: jpal || 09/25/2020 17:45 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
For all who believe the police are on ‘our side...‘
[ZH] The driver of a white Toyota Prius who had carefully weaved through a BLM protest was heckled, chased down by a black pick-up truck leading the protests, and then assaulted on Thursday night. The driver was then arrested.

"It wasn’t traveling at a fast speed — it was inching forward, trying to get past, and that upset people," said photojournalist Christian Monterrosa.

People in the crowd began striking the car’s windows and doors, the news footage shows. After the Prius cleared the crowd, a black pickup truck with several people sitting in the bed gave chase, accelerated ahead of the Prius and pulled to an abrupt halt. A man got out of the truck and, according to the footage, appeared to try to pull the driver out of the Prius.

The Prius reversed and collided with a green Mustang convertible, which was associated with the protest, according to the LAPD. A person got out of the convertible and began striking the Prius with a flagpole, the footage shows, and another person arrived on a skateboard, which he used to smash the Prius’ windshield. The motorist drove off but was detained a few blocks away by the LAPD. No one was injured in the incident, according to police. -Los Angeles Times
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/25/2020 11:10 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  You want anarchy, you just might get it. Can't trust the police, and you certainly can't trust the politicians (from whom the police take their orders/guidance). So, people have to take matters into their own hands. But that's the trick (to the glee of the politicians). Taking matters into one's own hands shows the politicians the "lawlessness" perpetrated by those deemed as "the enemy" by the mayor's office, the governor's office, or by whomever. A vicious cycle that may not end well.
Posted by: Clem || 09/25/2020 12:29 Comments || Top||

#2  Well, what would you do as the police? The rioters won't attack if they see the police stopped him. They have to get a statement. It should work out in the guy's favor I would think.
Posted by: gorb || 09/25/2020 12:46 Comments || Top||

#3  And the guy didn't try to settle the whole thing on the spot like some other demographics might given that the arresting officers might or might not know the whole story.

Seems like the reporter may be trying to sow more discord among those who don't slow down to think about what may be going on.
Posted by: gorb || 09/25/2020 12:52 Comments || Top||

#4  I'ma stay outta town after 5 pm, me...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/25/2020 12:54 Comments || Top||

#5  #BackTheBlue?

#DoesTheBlueBackUs?
Posted by: charger || 09/25/2020 13:26 Comments || Top||

#6  I would think so.
Posted by: gorb || 09/25/2020 14:08 Comments || Top||

#7  Why guess?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/25/2020 14:18 Comments || Top||

#8  What would Michelle Malkin say?

Or that woman in Ohio who got tased for not wearing a mask out of doors?
Posted by: charger || 09/25/2020 14:34 Comments || Top||

#9  I back the police.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebbereng3110 || 09/25/2020 14:38 Comments || Top||

#10  The alternative is much much worse.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebbereng3110 || 09/25/2020 14:39 Comments || Top||

#11  All decisions aren't binary. It isn't a matter of the good side vs the bad side, it's an on balance equation.

On balance is the social order better with police? Yes. On balance do I avoid them whenever at all possible without appearing suspicious? Yes.
Posted by: Cesare || 09/25/2020 15:19 Comments || Top||

#12  The alternative is much much worse.

Getting hit in the head with a baton or tased, or shot, I don't think it hurts less if the person doing it to you is not "authorized."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/25/2020 15:19 Comments || Top||

#13  Is there only one alternative?
Posted by: charger || 09/25/2020 15:27 Comments || Top||

#14  Looks to me like detained for their own protection. Likely the Prius was unsafe to drive.

This article confirms the stories about chasers going after escapees.

I had heard of chasing to harass, cause and accident, follow home, and/or get license plate for doxxing.

First I'd heard of getting boxed.

I know we're talking Prius vs. Truck large enough to have passengers in the bed, these people have decided they are out to hurt you - perhaps a little bump to the back on or behind the tire as it passes. Bonus points for doing so while the truck is coming about into your lane.

The problem begins when the driver doesn't commit to GTFO, the hesitation after clearing the crowd to go Full Escape allows the chasers to catch up.

They have to chase you. The bikes will catch you. Nobody is coming to save you.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/25/2020 16:08 Comments || Top||

#15  Reports say the driver was later released.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/25/2020 18:07 Comments || Top||

#16  Police answer to politicians. Like the FBI answered to Barry.
Posted by: Speng Snaviting6874 || 09/25/2020 18:51 Comments || Top||

#17  Driver was "detained", not charged nor arrested, in order to get the driver away from the riot that was forming.

No need for the conspiratorial suspicions in this case. Stop fear mongering before you get the whole story.
Posted by: Theager Borgia1057 || 09/25/2020 21:49 Comments || Top||

#18  Exactly.

I get it, it looked a bit heavy after the police get involved, but they don't know the driver from a Fraggle, and even good people will be a bit hyped up.

I'd secure the scene the same way.

If they police had not got involved, the motorcycle would have harassed and tailed until more vehicles could get involved. I would put money down that Blamtifa had vehicles designated to catch squirters for lack of a better word, and I don't mean that as a disparaging word but as a synonym for survivor.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/25/2020 21:59 Comments || Top||

#19  Police Chiefs are political appointees and, therefore, tend to fluff their betters. Too many throne sniffers who cannot be trusted to support their personnel or charges.

Sheriffs are horses of a different color - they are elected officials who answer to the voters.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 09/25/2020 22:17 Comments || Top||


Two men are accused of 'Netflix-worthy terror plot' to bomb Trump Tower and other targets in US in support of ISIS
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Two men have been arrested on accusations of plotting a 'Netflix-worthy' terrorist attack on New York City.

Jaylyn Christopher Molina, of San Antonio, Texas, and Kristopher Sean Matthews, 34, from Eglin, South Carolina, were arrested on Monday - Molina in Texas, Matthews in Tennessee.

The FBI intercepted their communications, according to court documents obtained by KSAT, which showed them planning an attack in the name of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

Matthews allegedly suggested it would be better to attack government centers rather than places like 'malls where innocent children are'.

He suggested targeting Trump Tower and the New York Stock Exchange - hoping the sites would give the pair 'rock star status, baby'.

He said he thought a series attacks across the U.S. 'could be Netflix worthy.'

The two men also allegedly discussed the possibility of traveling overseas to join ISIS.

Molina refers to himself as 'Abdur Rahim', according to the criminal complaint, while Matthews calls himself 'Ali Jibreel'.

Both men faces a charge of conspiracy to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, Fox News reported.

Matthews is believed to be the originator of the plot, having last year used an encrypted chat service to find an ISIS supporter outside the U.S. who would help him travel to Syria and recruit additional ISIS supporters.

In April Molina joined the chat, and began communicating with Matthews, soon posting a manual on how to train with an AK-47.
Posted by: Uloter Ebbomolet9368 || 09/25/2020 10:44 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Netflix worthy? Does that mean kiddie pr0n was involved?
Posted by: gorb || 09/25/2020 12:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Does that mean kiddie pr0n was involved?

Poss angry leftist Amish.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/25/2020 13:06 Comments || Top||

#3  Season 2 of the Obama Chronicles?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/25/2020 16:10 Comments || Top||

#4  #1 - late Snark O' The Day entry
Posted by: Frank G || 09/25/2020 17:03 Comments || Top||


LA: Shocking moment a pickup truck hits a female BLM protester and then drives OVER her, almost striking a medic trying to attend to her before speeding off
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Protesters and drivers clashed in two incidents in Hollywood Thursday night

  • In one shocking incident, a pickup truck driver was seen plowing into a female Black Lives Matter protester and then driving over her

  • Separate footage showed demonstrators surrounding the car moments earlier and trying to open driver’s door

  • LAPD chopper followed the driver and detained him but then let him go

  • The second encounter saw a car driving through a crowd of protesters and being chased down and attacked by people in another vehicle

  • Demonstrations continued nationwide in the wake of the grand jury decision to not bring murder charges against cops involved in Breonna Taylor's death
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/25/2020 08:18 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  What was the shocking part? That the driver didn't put it in reverse and make sure the "medic" was down, too?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 09/25/2020 8:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Gee, I had a mom that said "don't play in the streets" cause you stood a chance of meeting a large moving object that weighed more than you.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/25/2020 9:15 Comments || Top||

#3  looking like thay truck driver had "had Enough"
Posted by: 746 || 09/25/2020 10:20 Comments || Top||

#4  that
Posted by: 746 || 09/25/2020 10:20 Comments || Top||

#5  Like how street blockers are making the football symbol for personal foul. But they were offside first. So offsetting penalties, repeat run down.
Posted by: Uloter Ebbomolet9368 || 09/25/2020 10:34 Comments || Top||

#6  What was the shocking part?

Bumper.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/25/2020 10:55 Comments || Top||

#7  Surrounding individual automobiles with random occupants with loud demands is not protesting and neither are they protesters. It is an angry mob and they should expect to be treated that way. Thus far I'd say the only shocking dimension is the restraint American motorists have shown.
Posted by: Cesare || 09/25/2020 11:26 Comments || Top||

#8  Good citizens need to get out there and warn drivers of upcoming protests and suggest detours because city officials aren’t gonna do it.
Posted by: Rjschwarz || 09/25/2020 11:47 Comments || Top||

#9  It's all fun and games until they realize it's ... real.
Posted by: gorb || 09/25/2020 13:22 Comments || Top||

#10  Revolutions cause blood to be spilled-- including that of the revolutionaries. Gee, who'da thunk it?
Posted by: Blinky Ebbinelet6425 || 09/25/2020 13:37 Comments || Top||

#11  One of the probems with being an anarchist is that you can't complain when other people break the law. As demonstrated by Paul Newman here.
Posted by: Matt || 09/25/2020 13:57 Comments || Top||

#12  "Medic," huh? You won't mind being a blood donor, then. Right?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/25/2020 14:23 Comments || Top||

#13  My Mom said exactly the same as Procopius2K's in #2.
Posted by: Tom || 09/25/2020 15:48 Comments || Top||

#14  Plows into? Looks like the truck was doing its best to get around when Les Emmerson jumped into the truck.

Good work by the truck driver to di di mau.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/25/2020 17:27 Comments || Top||


Eugene, Ore.: BLM-antifa rioters vandalized Johnson Hall at @uoregon with messages calling for abolishment of campus police
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  University of Oregon - Profile, Rankings and Data | US News ... www.usnews.com University of Oregon is ranked #103 in National Universities. Oregon: Composed of academic has-been and never-will-be. Its social sciences overloaded with Marxists. Its student body loaded with moronic Californians.
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Posted by: b || 09/25/2020 7:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Its student body loaded with moronic Californians.

Tautology?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/25/2020 8:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Just got the alumni magazine from my university; full of nothing but BLM, institutional racism, and abolish police articles. They don't even ask me for money anymore.
Posted by: Glenmore || 09/25/2020 10:20 Comments || Top||

#4  CWRU doesn't even send me an alumni mag. Maybe because I never contributed, maybe because the "development" office is shitty at following grads around the country. I'm a satisfied customer either way...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/25/2020 16:32 Comments || Top||

#5  Many years ago I told my university to stop contacting me about alumni stuff. One phone call from them was quite fortuitous. They wanted money all the while they were building an arena/pavilion and using eminent domain to drum out local businesses to build. Spoiler alert: this arena is a white elephant now. They never did nor ever will get one thin dime from me. And I can't imagine nowadays the BLM blather spewed in their alumni association rags.
Posted by: Clem || 09/25/2020 16:45 Comments || Top||


St. Louis, Mo.: The police headquarters was set on fire by rioters. BLM
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM


Portland catch and release
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  "Arrested for the fourth time and released without bail."

In other words, the rule of law is deader than a doornail in Portland. Do whatever you want, and there are no consequences. I am genuinely surprised.
Posted by: Tom || 09/25/2020 15:51 Comments || Top||


Seattle: Antifa rioters assault a cop who was knocked to the ground from his bicycle. A person then uses a metal bat to strike him on the head
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Why didn’t that guy draw his sidearm and shoot that batweilding POS?
Posted by: Rob06 || 09/25/2020 0:29 Comments || Top||

#2  Didn't want rioters to know they weren't issued bullets.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/25/2020 7:51 Comments || Top||

#3  The officer showed more restraint than the situation demanded. If he did act and shot someone who deserved it, the left-wing street thugs would have him lynched in the MSM. The bought DAs in these areas would charge him.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/25/2020 11:02 Comments || Top||

#4  The attack with the bat was as clear a case of attempted murder of a police officer as one could ever see. Had the bat struck just below the helmet that would have been a lifetime as a paraplegic. Get that bastard !
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 09/25/2020 12:12 Comments || Top||

#5  Guy was tail end charlie of a convoy escaping an envelopment and got dismounted, possible a cone thrown under him and/or kicked into that yellow pole structure.

Ninja smoke and GTFO. Even saved the bike.

NoMoreBS, I think they would have just left him there to die. The convoy seemed unaware Charlie got separated and would have been outside Blamtifa's perimeter, they were too few in number to perform a rescue even if Charlie could be located.

Shoot, as amped up as the ambush group was, Charlie could have been stripped for trophies.

Consider Mendoza's intent, Charlie is lucky to get out of there with only a headache.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/25/2020 16:28 Comments || Top||

#6  Guy was tail end charlie of a convoy escaping an envelopment

Don't be last, don't be first, and NEVER volunteer.
-- Sun Tzu or some old guy or something
Posted by: SteveS || 09/25/2020 17:23 Comments || Top||


Larynzo Johnson is in police custody on suspicion of shooting two Louisville Metro police officers overnight at the BlackLivesMatter riot. He's charged with wanton endangerment & assault of a police officer
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Posted by: Fred || 09/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Why not attempted murder?
Posted by: gorb || 09/25/2020 0:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Can always "up" the charges
Posted by: Frank G || 09/25/2020 5:11 Comments || Top||

#3  ^But won't
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB || 09/25/2020 5:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Time for a GO-AMMO-ME Website.

or

maybe Ammo Sites and Dealers could mimic what retailers are doing to us for the coin shortage.

ROUND IT UP.

Where if you buy 500+ rounds of ammo they
ROUND IT UP and donate 50 rounds directly to the Police Officer, Home owner and/or Business owner that helped civilization by culling the Rioting / Looting Herd.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/25/2020 6:14 Comments || Top||


Portland: miscreants rearrested with federal holds
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Posted by: Fred || 09/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM


Seattle: Rioter lays in the street to try and stop the police from moving in on bicycles. One officer rides over him anyway
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  The guy wasn't hurt, it's ridiculous.
Posted by: gorb || 09/25/2020 0:23 Comments || Top||

#2  I laughed.

You have to watch closely, but you can see the cop does walk the bike over the idiot lying in the road.

Maybe I'm overthinking this, but if you don't want to get run over, stay off the street. Most of us learn this as children.
Posted by: SteveS || 09/25/2020 7:08 Comments || Top||

#3  Need snow tires, with spikes.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/25/2020 11:00 Comments || Top||


Louisville tonight: BLM rioters are already smashing property
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Posted by: Fred || 09/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  From a law enforcement contact who wishes to remain unnamed:

.....she was more then an associate, she managed the books of an illegal drug operation. You know how the old saying goes, you play with fire you will get burned, she played and latterly got burned.

no innocent person here except the police! read the facts. she assisted with his drug deals and money. should have answered the door and let them in. her fault... A little background information on Breanna is as follows: She was an EMT who was fired for stealing drugs and selling them through Boyfriend. She knew exactly what she was doing!!!!!

Excuse me….but her boyfriend shot first. She was the direct contact for another criminal and had bailed him out numerous times. She may have been innocent the night she died but overall…No! The police should not be criminalized for doing their job.

The cops fired back, in defense, and the “innocent” woman was caught in the crossfire. SHE put herself in that situation. SHE is not innocent. She was complicate in drug dealing or, at the very least, being with and associating with someone who was dealing drugs. She lost her innocence the moment she entered that home, NOT when the cops came.

Yes, it is horrible that she died, but she put herself in that situation.

Why is it that no one takes responsibility for their actions anymore? Are you saying anyone can do anything they want and no matter the outcome, they have no responsibility?

You are playing one side of the issue and feigning ignorance and you know, damn well, she is not “innocent”, by any stretch of the imagination.


Posted by: Besoeker || 09/25/2020 0:48 Comments || Top||

#2  It doesn't matter if she was a saint - it's Gallio time.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB || 09/25/2020 5:56 Comments || Top||

#3  Straight outta Compton the gang playbook: Let kids who can only be charged as juvie carry the gats and product. Let wimmins who have jobs in "white bread world" handle the money...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/25/2020 11:27 Comments || Top||


Portland: BLM-antifa are meeting at Arbor Lodge Park tonight in north Portland before they march to a location to attack
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Rally point + objective is within "marching distance." Enough intel for ya?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/25/2020 11:18 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Turkey transported over 300 Syrian rebels to Azerbaijan
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Home Front: Politix
Lefties at The Nation discover that (non-FBI) feds have been tracing the puppet masters behind Antifa and BLM
[AMERICANTHINKER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  May the Treasonous Puppet Master and Behind the Curtain Co-Conspirators be found, arrested and put on Federal Court House public trial.

RULE #1
NO Congressional oversight given we already know the Liberalized and Socialist-Democrat Party leadership is heavily involved.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/25/2020 6:19 Comments || Top||

#2  No doubt you are as surprised as I am that part of the Federal govt is actively doing its job.
(Yeah, I'm looking at you, FBI. BTW, Whitey Bulger says hi)
That it is the Dept of Homeland Security is all the more astonishing.
Posted by: SteveS || 09/25/2020 7:39 Comments || Top||

#3  These people (Fed Law Enforcement & Intel Community) share info and data. The "who is funding and providing logistical support" would have been the very first question. Believe me, they know.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/25/2020 7:52 Comments || Top||

#4  Yeah, what the FBI director told Congress, white supremacists.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/25/2020 9:20 Comments || Top||

#5  Last May, Posobiec (of OAN) warned that media ties to Antifa would be exposed: Now you know why so many people are freaking out today


BLM and Antifa have caused a lot of harm and deprived many citizens of their rights during the rioting. Hopefully, the puppet masters will be rounded up. Maybe they will cough up the $2 bil that it is estimated the riot damage costs.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/25/2020 11:49 Comments || Top||

#6  No doubt you are as surprised as I am that part of the Federal govt is actively doing its job.

At this point there are undoubtedly plenty of people who are thinking "that coup thing failed several times. Trump may be my boss for the next 4 or more years..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/25/2020 12:00 Comments || Top||

#7  Remember the observations a few weeks ago by a trained Army veteran regarding observing tradecraft being used to develop Order of Battle (OB) command and organizational structures during Portland riots. I think he used the screen name NCScout and noted clandestine tech like IR markers and GPS locators being used by an unknown third party. Now this citing the USMS and DHS, cutting out a penetrated FBI, and suggesting tradecraft skills worth of the Agency or the FBI SSG. Add the report of intercepts of comm systems and a reported declaration of Antifa as a terrorist organization and you can imagine the sphincter spasms across a wide range of MSM and lefty politicians today. Also, the fence sitters inside the FBI seem to be waivering and perhaps beginning to leak insurance strategies to help a Trumpian wing of the deep state.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 09/25/2020 12:35 Comments || Top||

#8  As you may have noticed, the bureau has been having very mixed results with domestic (US Person) surveillance. They may have decided to....farm this one out.




Posted by: Besoeker || 09/25/2020 12:50 Comments || Top||

#9  I don't understand why they are being so thorough. All they need to do is a arrest a bunch of them and charge them with felonies and high fines and that will be the end of it. Letting it go on a long time like they are will just make it harder to root out later.
Posted by: gorb || 09/25/2020 13:06 Comments || Top||

#10  Consider the time delay as a dangle trap, possibility to hook OCONUS players firmly. The money from overseas is in part coming from the same people who are up the connectivity matrix on the OB diagram I suspect.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 09/25/2020 13:13 Comments || Top||

#11  All they need to do is a arrest a bunch of them and charge them with felonies

I expect the 'catch and release' phase was plea bargaining and linkage building. Now some are being 'recalled' for felonies.

Hopefully, Berserker can quit teasing us[:)] and the network will be announced sometime before the election, only 5+ weeks away.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/25/2020 13:15 Comments || Top||

#12  The attempted DeepState coup was a revolution from above-- Brennan, Corey, Weissman with help from a few senior-level officials such as Strzok, Yates, et al.

But it now appears that there was and is a large cohort of lower and mid-level DS cadres who may well be pro-OrangeM.

And an equally large # may be sufficiently risk-averse that they're willing to join the Orangemen (note the recent reports of the taking out personal liability insurance policies in late 2016/early 2017).

So while the threat remains, it could be that the tide has shifted inside the FBI. One can hope.

Posted by: Slereng Craiting9547 || 09/25/2020 13:45 Comments || Top||

#13  I think the judge in Lancaster, Pa., showed us how to stop this stuff in its tracks.
Posted by: Tom || 09/25/2020 15:55 Comments || Top||

#14  Because they are breaking so many laws that just about every agency has some jurisdiction?

Hell, the number of teachers who keep getting nipped the Department of Education could make a case.

Interstate finance, interstate transportation, tax issues, highway safety, shoot the number of Rainbow people who have a tendency to camp in National Parks could involve The National Park Service.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/25/2020 22:05 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Four people killed, including two children, and more than ten others injured in car-bomb explosion in Ras al Ain countryside
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Turkish-backed factions’ trucks transport stolen items to Ras al Ain
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Turkish-backed forces launch attacks against each other and on SDF-SAA defenses
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Ottoman Turkish-backed Lions of Islam in the al-Hasakah countryside have been busy these last 24 hours, as they have launched attacks against one another, and the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and Syrian Democratic Forces.The bully boy factions, which are part of a Ottoman Turkish-backed "Syrian National Army", launched attacks on their own positions last night, when infighting broke out among the groups near the city of Ras al-’Ain.

On Thursday morning, the Ottoman Turkish-backed forces shifted their attention to the Abu Rasin region of al-Hasakah, where they launched heavy artillery on the defenses of the Syrian Army and Syrian Democratic Forces.

The attacks would continue into the afternoon, as the Ottoman Turkish-backed forces targeted not only Abu Rasin, but also, the Tal Tamr countryside, which both the Syrian Democratic Forces and Syrian Arab Army share joint control of.

Neither the Syrian Army nor the Syrian Democratic Forces responded to the ceasefire violation from the Ottoman Turkish-backed bully boys.



Posted by: Fred || 09/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


US 'smuggled' 3 dozen oil tankers from Syria: SANA
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria

#1  Sounds like a covert 'enabling' COIN mission.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/25/2020 8:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Campaign promise fulfilled.

“The only troops I have are taking the oil, they are protecting the oil.”
- Trump
Posted by: mossomo || 09/25/2020 11:35 Comments || Top||

#3  Money that ain't in ISIS or Erdogan's pocket.

Or so we can hope...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/25/2020 12:30 Comments || Top||

#4  Kurdish oil that isnt being skimmed by the central Iraqi government and Iranian goons perhaps.
Posted by: Theager Borgia1057 || 09/25/2020 14:32 Comments || Top||

#5  Ah, trucks, not ships, still impressive.

Classic strategy.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/25/2020 22:01 Comments || Top||


Russian drones guide Syrian Army attack on jihadist defenses
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Posted by: Fred || 09/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: al-Nusra



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