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It will be interesting to see what, if any impacts the rainfall in the NW quadrant have on the Three Gorges Daw watershed. That dam has takenabeating from the monsoons the last year or so and has slipped significantly from original footings
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...One would hope that we had some long-scheduled activities planned for today to remind the rest of the world that we may have stumbled, but we haven't fallen.
Hope.
Mike
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[Jpost] A 9/11 event sponsored by Rutgers University and San Francisco State University academic departments will feature speakers affiliated with terrorists or who have otherwise supported terrorism.
Speakers with terrorist affiliations or those who have expressed support for terrorism will be featured at a 9/11 event sponsored by Rutgers University and San Francisco State University on Saturday.
The panel, "Whose Narrative? 20 Years since September 11, 2001," will serve as a launching point for a semsester-long event that will explore, among other topics, challenging the "exceptionalization of 9/11/2001" and "legitimization of 'war on terror.'"
Speakers on Saturday will include Dr. Sami Al-Arian and Dr. Rabab Abulhadi, academics who have in the past courted controversy in their engagement with terrorists and terrorist organizations.
According to the event landing page, sponsors include SFSU’s Arab and Muslim Ethnicity and Diaspora Studies (AMED Studies) program, Rutgers' Center for Security, Race and Rights, US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, two Jewish Voice for Peace Chapters, the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), Center for Islam and Global Affairs (CIGA) and America Muslims for Palestine (AMP).
The International Legal Forum, an Israel-based NGO with a global network of over 3,500 lawyers and civil society activists in over 40 countries, uncovered the panel and has sent letters to the administrations of Rutgers and SFSU demanding the event be canceled.
"Robust free speech and academic freedom might be sacrosanct, but it is a red line and simply inexcusable for public institutions, such as SFSU and Rutgers, to sponsor and endorse this event, which effectively glorifies terror and the use of violence, by providing a platform to convicted terrorists, conspiracy theorists and purveyors of hate," Arsen Ostrovsky, Chair and CEO of The International Forum, told The Jerusalem Post. "The International Legal Forum calls upon SFSU and Rutgers to immediately and unequivocally withdraw their association with this event, which furthermore, may be in breach of US anti-terror legislation.”
Al-Arian, the director of CIGA at the Istanbul Zaim University, was indicted and struck a plea deal in 2003 over his alleged affiliation with Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ).
PIJ is designated by the US State Department as a "Foreign Terrorist Organization."
According to the Tampa Bay Times, Al-Arian admitted to conspiracy to aid a relative with PIJ links to obtain immigration benefits.
In 2006, Al-Arian refused to testify on his ties to a charity suspected of terrorism financing, the Washington Post reported at the time. Due to his civil contempt and the terms of his plea deal he was deported to Turkey in 2015.
CAIR has defended Al-Arian and characterized legal proceedings against him as "politically" motivated.
"Al-Arian has been targeted by the government for his political activity for more than a decade," CAIR said in a 2014 political statement.
Abulhadi, the senior scholar of SFSU’s AMED Studies, previously organized two panels featuring Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist Leila Khaled. Leila Khaled's infamy comes from her hijacking of airplanes and holding passengers hostage.
The September 11 terrorist attacks were conducted using hijacked airplanes to ram the World Trade Center.
Like PIJ, PFLP is a US State Department-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization.
In April, the SFSU panel "Whose Narratives? What Free Speech for Palestine?" was removed from Zoom and Youtube due to their policies on support for and promotion of terrorism.
"San Francisco State University seems to be a repeat offender when it comes to giving platforms to terrorists, a year ago having sponsored an event with notorious Palestinian hijacker Leila Khaled and now outrageously sponsoring an event marking the 20th anniversary of September 11, with speakers who have inextricable ties to terrorist organizations that have carried out attacks against American citizens and civilians around the world, including Israel," Ostrovsky told the Post.
Another speaker, Hatem Bazian of the University of California, Berkeley, and according to ILF the co-founder of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and AMP, has previously publicly called for an Intifada in the United States.
The leadership of PYM, a self-described "transnational, independent, grassroots movement of young Palestinians" and one of the event sponsors, has also called for Intifadas at a NSJP conference. PYM leaders have also called slain Hamas and PFLP fighters "martyrs" and have otherwise called for political violence.
CIGA previously held a conference with Hamas-affiliated organizations and individuals in attendance in June.
In a letter to Rutgers and SFSU, ILF refers to has argued that the event "may be in breach of United States anti-terror laws."
ILF notes that 18 U.S.C.§2339B states that it is criminal for one to "knowingly provides material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization, or attempts or conspires to do so," and that according to 18 U.S.C. §2339A “material support or resources” is defined as “[A]ny property, tangible or intangible, or service, including currency or monetary instruments or financial securities, financial services, lodging, training, expert advice or assistance, safehouses, false documentation or identification, communications equipment, facilities, weapons, lethal substances, explosives, personnel.]”
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Security of the base was handed over to the enemy. It was a recipe for disaster. Thirteen brave young people died needlessly. Those responsible are still going to their jobs and returning home to their families in Washington D.C.
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^ Well, yeah, but I bet they had to skip a couple of golf outings, or maybe cancel some 4-star restaurant restaurant reservations, what with all those meetings to coordinate messaging with the DNC. Can generals be sent to Leavenworth?
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This is grotesque and embarrassing empty blustering, akin to Bush's empty threats made in his address to Congress in September of 2001.
The West just lost the 9/11 war in the most humiliating and shameful way possible.
The truth is that if anyone should 'mess' with NYC or any other part of Western Civilization the 'consequence' will be that said Western Civilization will b*** over and spr*** the ch****.
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Fauci and Daszak, operating from the two targets of Bin Laden, Manhattan and DC, have killed a whole lot more Americans including New Yorkers than Bin Laden even dreamed of. And one of them is still lecturing us about how It's All Our Fault every time some new evidence comes to light.
[OneIndia] Its been over two decades since the 9/11 attacks in the United States. The face of terror had changed and none had witnessed an attack deadlier than that.
While India had complained on several occasions about terror emanating from Pakistain, the US took it seriously only post the 9/11 attacks. The attacks in the United States that brought down the twin towers of the World Trade Centre even had an Indian connection to it.
During the investigations on several occasions, an Indian link to the deadly attack had cropped up. Officials tell OneIndia that the main link was regarding the funding. The spotlight on the Indian link to the attack came back when an Aftab Ansari, who was part of the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen was brought back to India for his role in the abduction of a businessman and the attack on the American Centre in Kolkata.
Investigations show that Ansari was one of the persons who was in the know of the 9/11 plot and it was further alleged that he had contributed the money he had received as ransom following the abduction of the businessman.
The intelligence bureau had intercepted a call from the Alipore jail to Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... . The conversation recorded between Jawed Baluchi from Karachi and Ansari was relating to an abduction plot in India which was fortunately foiled by the police.
Roy Burman the vice chairman of Khadim shoes was kidnapped by a gang of five headed by Aftab Ansari. It was alleged that a part of the Rs 3.65 crore ransom that they had got was pumped into New York to help with the planning of the 9/11 attack. Ansari had to be deported from the UAE at the behest of the US after this link had come up.
Ansari after the abduction had stayed on in India for a year before he executed the American Centre bombing in 2002 at Kolkata. After this, he fled to the UAE before being deported to India.
Ansari however continued with his activities despite being lodged in jail. The 2014 intercept suggests that they were planning an abduction and also an attack in Delhi.
An officer with the intelligence bureau informed that the ransom amount that they were planning on demanding was around Rs 4 crore.
Inflation, donchaknow. Everything costs more a decade later.
While a part of the money was to be used for the Delhi strike, they had planned on moving some money to Pakistain.
According to a CIA dossier was partly funded by Ansari and his men. Some of the men who reported to Ansari had managed to slip out and they carried the funds to Pakistain which was used to float the Indian Mujahideen A locally recruited auxilliary of Pakistain's Lashkar-e-Taiba, designed to give a domestic patina to Pakistain's terror war against its bigger neighbor... .
[IsraelTimes] Attacker was Arab medical college director, 51; officer hit by ricochet, lightly injured; festivities reported in West Bank, but Temple Mount prayers pass peacefully
An assailant was shot as he attempted to stab coppers in Jerusalem’s Old City on Friday afternoon, and later died of his wounds, police and hospital officials said, amid heightened tension as security forces carry out an intense manhunt for six escaped Paleostinian security prisoners.
The attempted stabbing occurred at the Old City’s Council (Majlis) Gate, on the northern side of the western Temple Mount wall, police said. Video of the incident showed the assailant repeatedly trying to stab a police officer, who backed away and opened fire.
"Soon after 4 p.m., the assailant... armed with a knife arrived at the officers’ post in the Council Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem and tried to injure the forces there. A quick response by the officers and border guards, who shot up the assailant, neutralized him before he could carry out this intention," police said.
The assailant’s knife was recovered at the scene.
According to police, the assailant was a 51-year-old Arab man, a resident of East Jerusalem’s Shuafat refugee camp. The Paleostinian Authority identified him as Hazim al-Joulani, director of the al-Rayyan alternative medicine college in East Jerusalem and an expert in Chinese acupuncture. Married with children, his Facebook page said al-Joulani used to work in Israel’s Assaf Harofeh hospital outside Tel Aviv.
He was taken to the Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus at death's door with a gunshot wound in the upper body, where he later died of his wounds, the hospital said.
In surveillance footage released by police, the attacker can be seen walking down an Old City alley. When he reaches the police position, he suddenly breaks into a run toward an officer, trying to stab him. The cop can be seen backpedaling to get away before shooting the knife-wielding attacker.
A police officer was also lightly maimed in the leg, apparently, after being hit by a ricochet, police said. Medics said the injured officer, 19, sustained a light wound to the leg. He was taken to Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center for further care, according to the Magen David Adom ambulance service.
Israeli TV reports said al-Joulani was a lone-wolf attacker, not associated with a terrorist group, and that he had recently tried to take his own life amid financial difficulties.
Suicide by IDF. And it comes with a pension for the family from Palestinian Authority — that is to say Western donor — coffers.
The incident came amid heightened tensions in Jerusalem and the West Bank, following a prison break by six Paleostinian security prisoners earlier in the week, though the level of violence was lower than initially feared as of Friday afternoon.
Some 15,000 people visited the al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount for Friday prayers — often a flashpoint for festivities with Israeli security forces — but no such altercations were reported.
However, those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... many Paleostinians were seen waving spoons, an apparent nod to how the escapees tunneled out of jail.
In the West Bank, six Paleostinians were maimed by rubber bullets and 34 from tear gas inhalation during festivities with the Israel Defense Forces, according to the Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy.
[IsraelTimes] Paleostinians open fire, throw Molotov cocktails toward IDF checkpoint near Jenin; demonstrations held in a number of cities; PM said to hold security assessment
Paleostinians held demonstrations on Friday night across the West Bank, some of them violent mostly peaceful, after the Israel Police captured two of the six Paleostinian security prisoners who beat feet from jail earlier this week.
The Ynet news site reported that Prime Minister Naftali Bennett convened a number of police and military officials for an assessment of the situation in the early hours of Saturday morning, an unusual step for the religiously-observant premier to take on the Jewish Sabbath. There was no official announcement or confirmation on the matter.
Hebrew media reports said up to 1,000 demonstrators and rioters took part in protests at 11 locations across the West Bank.
Paleostinians opened fire toward Israeli troops at the Jalamah checkpoint near the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank, for the second night in a row, according to the Israeli military.
The Israeli army said up to 600 protesters gathered at the checkpoint to clash with soldiers. In addition to the gunfire, rioters set fire to tires and threw Molotov cocktails toward soldiers stationed there. The military said that it acted to disperse the demonstrators; there were no immediate reports of injuries.
The cinematic Gilboa Prison jailbreak of the six Paleostinians on Monday morning has raised tensions across the West Bank. Israeli forces have conducted wide-ranging search operations, while Paleostinian gangs have vowed Dire Revenge should the runaways come to harm.
Videos circulating on social media showed small crowds gathering in downtown Ramallah and Hebron’s al-Fawar refugee camp on Saturday night in solidarity with the two recaptured runaways. Other footage purportedly showed violent mostly peaceful disturbances at the Qalandiya checkpoint in the West Bank north of Jerusalem.
In another nighttime disturbance in the West Bank, Israeli soldiers fired at three Paleostinians at a pillbox near Hebron, wounding one. An Israeli military spokesperson said the three had thrown Molotov cocktails at troops. The soldiers responded with Ruger bullets, a smaller but still deadly form of live fire, according to the army. The three suspects fled, with Israeli search efforts ongoing.
Paleostinian media also reported festivities in Hebron’s al-Aroub refugee camp. The Israeli army did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Additionally, button men attacked the home of senior Arab Israeli police officer Jamal Hakroush in the northern Israeli city of Kafr Kanna on Friday evening. There were no injuries in the incident, although the shooting damaged the building, according to Israel Police.
It was unclear if the attack was linked to the capture of the prisoners, a police spokesperson added. Hakroush directs a unit whose directive is to fight rising crime in Arab cities and towns.
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"Aw, come on, man! We escaped fair and square."
The soldiers responded with Ruger bullets, a smaller but still deadly form of live fire
Rubber bullets? 5.something mm bullets?
Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be journalists.
Cue, goose-stepping, packing a Luger,
The Joooo, like a spookier Cukor,
As schoolchildren beg...
To be plugged in the leg
By his cute little .22 Ruger.
[IsraelTimes] Residents hear blasts; no injuries or damage reported; launch comes after capture of 2 Islamic Jihad runaways and as Qatari envoy says deal to send cash to Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,-run Strip is off
Paleostinian holy warriors 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 fired a single rocket towards Israel late Friday that was intercepted by the Iron Dome system, the army said. The rocket triggered warning sirens in the Eshkol region and local residents reported hearing several explosions. There were no reports of injuries or damage.
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[DW] Many Afghans who fled to Pakistain to escape life under a Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... regime say fear of the group's fighters marrying women and girls from their families was a major reason behind their decision to leave their homeland.
[Rudaw] Command of the US-led coalition against the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group (ISIS) was handed over to a lower rank general as the United States formally shifts its mission in Iraq from combat to advise and assist.
"It’s not terribly common that we assign a 2-star to command a CJTF [Combined Joint Task Force] headquarters with so many contributing nations. But with this transition, OIR [Operation Inherent Resolve] is no longer a common task force," commander of US Central Command, General Kenneth McKenzie, said in a blurb on Friday.
"By January 1st, it will have completed its transition from a warfighting headquarters to one focused entirely on advising and assisting our hosts in those areas where we can be most helpful," he added.
Major General John Brennan ...director of the CIA under the Obama administration. One of the deeper dwelling denizens of the Deep State, probably the guy who lit the match that launched the Russiagate coup attempt... replaced Lieutenant General Paul Calvert in a ceremony in Baghdad on Thursday. wrong Brennan
The coalition "is ready to take our advisory assistance to the next level with our able partners from the Joint Operating Center - Iraq, the ISF [Iraqi security forces] and SDF [Syrian Democratic Forces] in order to promulgate the enduring defeat of ISIS," Brennan said.
The 83-member coalition in July 2020 announced its presence in Iraq will shrink as its focus shifts to high-level advisory work. Since then it has taken several steps to make the transition. This year, the US reduced its number of troops in Iraq to 2,500, down from 5,000, a move Washington said was "consistent with Operation Inherent Resolve's transition from major combat operations." Coalition forces have also left a number of Iraqi bases, in an effort to reduce their "footprint" in the country, its spokesperson said last year.
The US-led Global Coalition was formally established in October 2014 after ISIS took control of large swathes of territories in Iraq and Syria.
Forces within Iraq are pressuring the US to withdraw. Sites housing US personnel have frequently been the target of Iran-backed militias. In late July, US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S., father of Hunter. He blames Trump for losing Afghanistan.... received Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi in Washington and announced that the US combat mission will be over by the end of the year.
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(Previously) The officer, who commanded the Delta Force raid that killed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS, is now in charge of all Green Berets. Last month, Major General John Brennan replaced Major General E. John Deedrick Jr at the helm of the 1st Special Forces Command.
The 1st Special Forces Command oversees the seven Active Duty Special Forces Groups (1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th, 10th), two National Guard Special Forces Groups (19th and 20th), two Psychological Operations Groups (4th and 8th), one Civil Affairs Brigade (95th), and one Sustainment Brigade (528th). The Command is comprised of approximately 22,000 operators, enablers and support personnel.
SOFREP has learned that Major Gen. “Bam-Bam” Brennan is an operator of great reputation and “a hell of a warfighter,” according to a JSOC source.
A former commander of the 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne), Brennan is a Whiskey 9, meaning that he has completed both the Military Free Fall and Combat Diver schools. During his time in Delta, among other assignments, he commanded B Squadron.
[Rudaw] More than 50 Kurdistan Region migrants colonists stranded in Syria will return on Friday, nearly ten days after they were sent by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... to Syria, a ministry spokesperson told Rudaw.
"We have received information that around 57 young Iraqi Kurds are in northern Syrian territory," Ali Abbas, spokesperson for Iraq’s Ministry of Migration and Displacement, told Rudaw on Friday.
His ministry coordinated with Syria, Turkey, and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) "to take those immigrants colonists out of Syria and bring them back to Iraq," via Turkey, he said.
The group had hoped to reach the United Kingdom. They were told by a smuggler to identify as Syrians in order to avoid being sent home, but in Turkey they were detained and deported to Syria. They had been stranded in Azaz, northern Aleppo province since September 1. The area is under the control of the Ottoman Turkish-backed Syrian National Army.
According to data provided to Rudaw by Summit (Lutka) Foundation for Refugee and Displaced Affairs in June, at least 26,972 Iraqi citizens have sought asylum in Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... in 2021, and five people have bit the dust on the way.
A group of more than 140 Iraqi and Kurdish immigrants colonists in Turkey sent a message to the UN’s refugee agency (UNHCR) in June saying they were forced to immigrate "due to the instability of the Kurdistan Region and Iraq in terms of security, politics and religion."
Iraqi and Kurdish migrants colonists similarly ran into trouble earlier this summer when smugglers promised them unrestricted travel into Western Europe on arrival in Belarus. Hundreds were stuck in camps in Lithuania, facing possible deportation home.
[Rudaw] At least one Ottoman Turkish soldier and several Syrian snuffies were killed in northern Syria this week by local forces in retaliation for The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... ’s recent deadly attacks on Kurdish forces and civilians in the northeast (Rojava).
The al-Bab Military Council, in a statement on Friday, said they targeted Ottoman Turkish forces and their Syrian proxies in al-Yashli village, near al-Bab city on Tuesday. The military base housed nearly 60 fighters. The al-Bab Military Council is affiliated with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). They claimed to have killed a dozen Ottoman Turkish soldiers.
"Twelve fighters from the Ottoman Turkish invading army were killed and 11 others were maimed," read the statement. They said they also "killed 10 [Syrian] mercenaries and injured 10 others in addition to the destruction of three armored vehicles, two drilling machines, a large number of buildings and fortifications, heavy weapons, and military equipment."
The Ottoman Turkish defense ministry reported the death of one soldier, Infantry Specialist Sergeant Muammer Yigit. The ministry did not give details of where he was killed, but condolence messages from government and ruling party officials indicate the soldier was killed in a rocket attack on Ottoman Turkish forces in al-Bab, with some blaming Kurdish forces of the People’s Protection Units (YPG).
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) put the number of Ottoman Turkish casualties at five: "SOHR activists have reported the death of a Ottoman Turkish soldier and wounding of another four in a rocket fire by the Kurdish forces while targeting a Ottoman Turkish base in al-Yashli village in al-Bab countryside in northeast Aleppo."
Turkey bombarded the area following the attack, according to the UK-based conflict monitor.
In recent weeks, Ottoman Turkish forces have stepped up attacks against the SDF in areas covered by 2019 ceasefires brokered by the US and Russia. The truces brought a Ottoman Turkish offensive to an end, but have been frequently violated. Several fighters and civilians have been killed.
Al-Bab was under the control of the SDF until Turkey and its Syrian proxies invaded it in late 2016. Clashes in this area are rare. Two members of the al-Bab Military Council were killed in a Ottoman Turkish rocket attack in late July, reported SOHR.
There are rumours that the Afghans were pulled off the airplanes at Mazar-e-Sharif airport and massacred on the tarmac by Taliban gunnies the other day, which would explain why only 200. But without evidence it will never be entered into the record.
[AnNahar] Evacuation flights have resumed for Westerners, but thousands of at-risk Afghans who had helped the United States are still stranded in their homeland with the U.S. Embassy shuttered, all American diplomats and troops gone and the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... now in charge.
An estimated 200 foreigners, including Americans, left Afghanistan on the commercial flight out of Kabul on Thursday with the cooperation of the Taliban. Ten U.S. citizens and 11 green-card holders made Thursday's flight.
With the United States and Taliban both insisting on travel documents that may no longer be possible to get in Afghanistan, the plight of those Afghans is testing President Joe The Big Guy Biden
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"I don't know what the issue is — is it a political issue, or they don't care about us?"
The answer is "yes". Anyone with a grain of sense and basic knowledge of Afghanistan should have known that any Afghan who provided assistance to US forces there after 9/11 was dead meat (along with family members) if/when the Taliban resumed control. Even in US controlled parts of Afghanistan after 9/12, Afghan collaborators & family were killed here & then whenever our Afghan enemies could find them. This neglect to plan ahead has many fathers going back 20 years now.
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[American Thinker] Even before his radical demands Thursday for vaccination of federal employees and those of federal contractors and large companies, President Biden was seeking to demonize the unvaxxed.
When it comes to the pandemic, only one-half of Americans are fully vaccinated. Choosing the stick over the carrot, the Biden administration has encouraged state government leaders and CEOs to sew a scarlet letter on the unvaxxed and cast them out from their social lives and sources of income. Government-sanctioned segregation appears to be making a comeback.
Erstwhile government emerita like Obama CIA director General Michael Hayden, gleefully caught up in a Twitter rant, agreed that the unvaccinated are Trump supporters who should be flown to Afghanistan and dropped amidst the Taliban. By missing recent polls showing that the largest percentage of unvaxxed within any racial group are blacks, Hayden shows an ignorance beyond expectation for a Trump-bashing, cocktail party general.
As of mid-August, almost half of New York City’s nine million residents remain unvaccinated, even two weeks after its Bolshevist mayor shut the doors to theaters, restaurants, bars, and gyms for those lacking proof of a first shot or negative test result. The Bronx Bombers have herded them into special no-vax sections of Yankee Stadium, with similar seclusions at home games of the Mets, Knicks, and Nets. Lifelong fans and season ticket holders find themselves ejected from their baseline seats and into boxed-in areas enforced with a minimum, socially distanced, capacity. Uppity Eastside restauranteurs are pressed into the role of Brownshirts serving haute cuisine, demanding masks, and turning away those who cannot produce papers. No shot, no proof, no service is now one of those hip idioms that epitomize the weaponization of the private sector to achieve government goals in Democrat-run urban strongholds.
DeBlasio, who plies politics as if Gracie Mansion overlooked the Bahia de Habana, is apparently unconcerned that his social pogrom against those lax about the vax is racial discrimination on its face. Only twenty-eight percent of black males aged 18 to 44 across the five boroughs are inoculated, an age group that comprises almost one-third of all city workers who, if they persist into mid-September, are at risk of losing their means. That’s a non sequitur to the mayor, as most Democrats in his line of work are authoritarians by way of a majority-black vote without lifting a finger to earn it.
One assumes he brought his personal share of the family’s Swiss bank accounts...
[AnNahar] Saadi Qadaffy, a son of Libya's late dictator Muammar Qadaffy ...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland and was then murdered by his indignant subjects 42 years later... who was killed in a 2011 uprising, has moved to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... after being freed from jail, the family front man said Friday.
Saadi -- the strongman's third son now aged 47 -- was known for his playboy lifestyle and briefly played as a professional footballer in Italia.
He was freed along with several other prisoners, including Qadaffy's former cabinet and intelligence chief, Ahmad Ramadan, last weekend.
Turkey's foreign ministry has refused to comment on reports that Saadi has moved to Istanbul.
But Moussa Ibrahim, a former Libyan information minister who still serves as a Qadaffy family front man, told Turkey's Haberler.com news site that Saadi was in Turkey with his family.
"Egypt said it would welcome Saadi, and so did Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... . And there was Turkey," the front man was quoted as saying.
"A common decision of all the parties involved was also in favor of Turkey, since it was easier logistically. Saadi also wanted to go to Turkey, and it was arranged."
Saadi fled to Niger following the 2011 NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... -backed uprising, but was extradited to Libya in 2014.
He was held in a Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... prison, accused of crimes committed against protesters and of the 2005 killing of Libyan football coach Bashir al-Rayani.
In April 2018, the court of appeal acquitted him of Rayani's murder.
Since the 2011 uprising, Libya has sunk into chaos, with an array of rulers and militias vying for power.
A 2020 ceasefire ended the factional fighting and paved the way for peace talks and the formation of a transitional government this March, ahead of elections set for December.
But preparations are marred by disputes over when to hold elections, what elections to hold and on what constitutional grounds.
[Breitbart] Putting food on the kitchen table has become much more expensive, squeezing household budgets at a time when many families are already stressed by the Delta variant surge hitting as kids go back to school.
Food prices rose a full percentage point in August, up from six-tenths of a point in July, defying predictions that inflation would cool off, data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed Friday. Compared with a year ago, food prices are up 12.7 percent, outpacing the overall increase of 8.3 percent in the Producer Price Index.
On an annual basis, that is the highest level of food inflation in records that go back to 2010. The monthly figure is the third-highest on record, following May 2020’s pantry-raid that emptied many grocery store shelves and February 2011.
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At my local Wally World or "Food Loin" supermarket.
Plain frozen Chicken Wings $17.99 for a 4lbs pack $4.50 a pound
Sunbeam Bread King Thin loaf was $2.45 a loaf now $3.25.
Wally World package 80/20 Hamburgers was 12 for $8.99 now 10 for $8.99
Eggs were $0.95 a dz now 1.65 a dz.
Ribeye Steak meat was $7.99lb now $14.99lb + looks to have more FAT.
Bacon was $2.49lb now $4.99lb ++
COKE products 4 months ago were 5x 6pks for $10 now 3 x 6pks for $12 ON SALE.
$1 Banquet Frozen TV dinners now $1.25
WATERMAID 20lb bag "medium grain" rice was around $8.25 now $14.49 IF you can find it.
Car gas was about $2.10 a gallon in Oct. 2020, now its $2.89+ a gallon.
I am seeing a lot of 3 for $____ and 4 for $ ____ pricing to hide the inflation.
IN OUR CASE
We are retired.
We have a fixed Income.
our SSA checks have not increased
My F-250 retirement check has not increased.
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BTW: In my South-Middle Eastern GA Area and the Outer Metro-Atlanta area, the housing market for 2 party "sales" are showing signs of slowing. In 2019-2020 I was seeing 2 party home sales from listing to offer in under 30 days. Now we are seeing 60+ days at lower selling amounts.
Don't be fooled by misleading numbers that include those Refinancing their houses for lower interest rates and payments as sales.
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Gas and diesel are fundamental to moving goods in the country. When the prices goes up, everything goes up. If they want to fight inflation and show it, go back to fracking and open new pipelines. However, you are expendable for their virtue politics and don't give a rat's ass about you.
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Lobster is cheaper than beef here in east Tennessee
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China has developed the appetite for protein and the wealth to obtain it. Not just buying the end products, they now own big chunks of the entire food chain here in the US, from field to fork....Hows that WTO decision and most favored nation trade status decision feeling decades later America?
Thoughts at random, worth every cent you paid for them.
It's hard to get worked up about all the military equipment left in Afghanistan. All that materiel was left to equip the Mighty Afghan Army, and there should have been more in the pipeline. Remember they were supposed to be able to pick up the fight on their own, with U.S. air and intel support. The Ghani government was in "peace negotiations" with he Talibs in Qatar. The Talibs were supposed to have 5,000 prisoners released, after which there was supposed to be a ceasefire, and the two sides were supposed to work out a structure for a transitional government. The U.S. was supposed to be the guarantor of the deal.
Biden broke the deal by not enforcing our end of it. U.S. troops were supposed to be out by May 31st, not 9/11, which was a technical violation—go to the two sides, get both to agree to the date change, initial, and done. Instead the firm of Winken, Blinken & Nod seems to have merely informed the Talibs of the change. The agreement was the reason we went eighteen months without any casualties.
The deal, as far as I know didn't cover U.S. contractors, the polite guise under which the CIA operates. Going by my own experience in Vietnam, there were joint intel collection operations, which should have been keeping the Afghan side aware of most things we knew about the Talibs, which would have included the addresses and phone numbers and wives' preferences in birthday chocolates of the Quetta Shura. Withdrawing the maintenance contractors, the guys who kept the aircraft flying and the radars raiding left the ANA high and dry, which was pretty much what happened in Vietnam too, when the Democrats cut the money for the South Vietnamese government and army, which up until that time had been holding its own. Bastards. At least they predictable.
The Dems expect all this to have fallen down the memory hole since it happened in an off-election year. Quick! Name something good or bad that happened in 2019! I could be wrong, but I don't think that'll happen. The blow to national pride and standing has been too severe. I think most people realize that there's no way Trump would have let it happen. If the Dems don't take a political beating it will be because people like AOC and Maxine Waters and Ilhan Omar and Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer get reelected because either their constituents like them and their opinions, or the alternative is considered too horrible, or the machine's really greased well. If we had a parliamentary system, Nancy Pelosi would be prime minister. She feels the loss. Believe it.
As I write these words, it's twenty years to the day from September 10th. That's a day after Massoud was assassinated on September 9th, and the day before September 11th, when nineteen Arabs -- fifteen of them Saudi -- boarded four planes without having their carry-on luggage x-rayed. After twenty years, we're back to a September 10th world. Sure, Afghanistan's in the news, but that's because we're leaving, not kicking the collective Pashtun butt. Expect Gary Condit and his thumbless wife to reappear any time now. Expect Michael Jackson to rise from the grave for a new and makeup-free re-release of Thriller. Expect shark attacks up and down both coasts and the surfing population of Australia to decline by half.
For most of the past twenty years, the public hasn't known what was going on in the most important aspect of its life. There were howls from the antiwar left when we went into Iraq. The public supported it because we had gone through the fourth-largest army in the world like a hot knife through butter in the Gulf War -- a war of maneuver, not a war of occupation. Bush I was heavily criticized for not pushing on to Baghdad, recall. Had Schwartzkopf (PBUH) been in charge this time around, things probably would have gone better, but not much better. We expected to win and win easily, and we did. When it did turn into a war of occupation, it went differently. No MacArthur in Tokyo equivalent was installed. We didn't catch Saddam right off the bat, we didn't catch Zarqawi out of the gate. How many of the "52 cards" did we actually nab? (Actually, most of them.) Izzat Ibrahim, who was probably the most important of them, died last October, probably of old age.
What do we have to show for the expenditure of men and money over two hard decades? The al-Qaeda hydra had its head lopped off and grew another, and then another, but with the Saudi money drying up they're still becoming anemic. ISIS is now the bigger problem. The treasury, despite the opinions of the Dems, is looking pretty depleted. Wars cost a lot of money. Troops need paid and supplied, munitions aren't free, and the Air Force sez each new Reaper drone, costs somewhere between $14 million (2008) and $32 million (2021). It costs $4,762 per hour to operate it -- a bargain, compared to a B2 bomber ($169,313). Bin Laden's objective was to break our economy, and to that extent he succeeded. The dollar's in far worse shape than it was in 2001
On the other hand, bin Laden is dead. If you're reading this, you probably aren't. The Saudis seem to have quietly given up driving Islamism and are now pretending they were on our side all along. The Paks have given up trying to pretend they're on our side. Saddam's gone. Zarqawi's gone. A succession of Chechen supremos is gone, most of them forgotten. Arafat's gone, Saleh's gone. Qadaffy's gone. Mubarak's gone, followed by Morsi. Even ben Ali's gone, and he was relatively harmless. Gone also are most of the Saudi Abu Whatsisnames and emirs and holy men who were driving Islamism. Qazi's dead, Sami's dead. Nizamuddin Shamzai is long dead. Qatar and Yusuf Qaradawi are about it. Even Morocco's Islamist government is out. We haven't spread democracy throughout the world, but we've given Islamism a pretty thorough beating.
Afghanistan is the exception. We win wars of maneuver. We know how to do that. Infantry fights battles, logistics wins them. That's why there's enough equipment remaining to equip an army. That was what it was there for. The other rule we passed on was not allowing a safe haven. The Vietnamese commies had Laos and Cambodia to withdraw to. The Taliban had Pakistain.
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After twenty years, we're back to a September 10th world.
I'd dispute that statement.
The post 9/11 creeping security theater police state is here to stay, as are Islam & Sharia which became relevant for non-Muslims in the West because of 9/11.
Also Western and specifically US deterrence has been catastrophically damaged if not annihilated by 9/11 and the weak, masochistic and confused reaction to 9/11.
If 1962 the Soviets as rational actors had Pearl Harbor and the aftermath as the relevant data point for assessing and predicting an American reaction to a serious military challenge.
In 2021 and beyond the relevant precedent is 9/11 and the subsequent military engagement that ended in a shameful defeat for the West.
A reset to a 9/10/2001 world would be eminently desirable but is unrealistic.
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If Fred is right about thrashing Islamism (#8), that'd be the best news in a while.
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A classic rant by the Rantmeister.
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In a 9/11 anniversary speech today, Boosh climbed on the "Jan 6ers and [Q]An*n people are just as bad as the Taliban and al Qaeda" bandwagon, thus completing the journey to American hating POS that he began when the neocons co-opted his original Afghan mission.
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[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] A Swiss criminal court convicted Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-Sabah, a power broker in international sports, of forgery on Friday in a trial over whether he used a bogus Kuwaiti coup plot to gain an advantage over political rivals.The sheikh had denied all the charges in the case, which has divided the Kuwaiti ruling family and prompted Sheikh Ahmad, 58, to step back from some of his public sporting roles, including membership of the International Olympic Committee.
With bowed head and clasped hands, he listened silently to his translator as the court’s president read out the 30-month sentence, half of which is to be served in jail.
He later said he would appeal against the conviction.
"I believe I am innocent," he told news hounds outside the Geneva courtroom, adding that he was "100 percent" sure he would return for the appeal.
The criminal fraud case was launched in Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... as one of the sheikh’s co-defendants was, at the time of the alleged coup plot, a Geneva-based lawyer who acted for him.
A former OPEC Secretary General and prominent ruling family member, the sheikh was one of five defendants in the trial, all of whom were convicted and one with a heftier sentence of 36 months. They were not named for legal reasons.
"We are satisfied. The court has mostly decided in our favour," said lawyer Pascal Maurer, who acted on behalf of one of the plaintiffs.
The case revolves around videos purporting to show former prime minister Sheikh Nasser al-Mohammed and the former speaker of parliament, Jassem al-Kharafi, plotting to overthrow Kuwait’s then-emir.
Prosecutors alleged that Sheikh Ahmad knew that the videos, which he passed on to Kuwaiti authorities, were fakes.
Sheikh Ahmad told the court last week he had submitted the videos to Kuwaiti authorities believing, at the time, that they were authentic.
In 2015, he publicly apologised in a statement via Kuwait TV to Sheikh Nasser, to al-Kharafi and to their families for his role in the affair, saying he had thought the videos were genuine and credible.
The September 11 attacks, often referred to as 9/11, were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the militant Islamist terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States of America on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. On that morning, four commercial airliners traveling from the northeastern United States to California were hijacked mid-flight by 19 al-Qaeda terrorists. The hijackers were organized into three groups of five hijackers and one group of four. Each group had one hijacker who had received flight training and took over control of the aircraft. Their explicit goal was to crash each plane into a prominent American building, causing mass casualties and partial or complete destruction of the targeted buildings. The first plane to hit its target was American Airlines Flight 11. It was flown into the North Tower of the World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan at 8:46 am.
Locations Impacted:
Manhattan, New York, U.S,
Arlington County, Virginia, U.S,
Stonycreek Township near, Shanksville, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Date:
September 11, 2001, 8:46 a.m. – 10:28 a.m. (EDT)
Targets:
World Trade Center, (AA 11 and UA 175),
The Pentagon (AA 77),
U.S. Capitol or White House, (UA 93, partially successful diversion from target)
Attack type:
Aircraft hijackings, Suicide attacks, Mass murder, Islamic Terrorism
Non-fatal* injuries:
25,000
*(Poster's Note - People died later as a direct/indirect result of being in the geographical areas, via chemical, biological, environmental exposures, mental health issues and other controversial exposures.)
Perpetrators:
Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Al-Qaeda
Number of participants:
19
---- Casualties of the September 11 attacks
During the September 11 attacks in 2001, 2,977 people were killed, 19 hijackers committed murder–suicide, and more than 6,000 others were injured. The immediate deaths included 265 on the four planes (including the terrorists), 2,606 in the World Trade Center and in the surrounding area, and 125 at the Pentagon. The attacks remain the deadliest terrorist act in world history.
Most of those who perished were civilians except for 344 firefighters; 71 law enforcement officers who died in the World Trade Center and on the ground in New York City; another law enforcement officer who died when United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania; 55 military personnel who died at the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia; and the 19 terrorists who died on board the four aircraft. Of the 2,977 people who died, 2,605 were U.S. citizens and 372 non-U.S. citizens (excluding the 19 perpetrators). More than 90 countries lost citizens in the attacks (use 2nd link 2 see more)
The Falling Man is a photograph taken by Associated Press photographer Richard Drew of a man falling from the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks in New York City. The subject of the image was trapped on the upper floors of the North Tower and either fell searching for safety or jumped to escape the fire and smoke.
[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] Iraqi army killed an ISIS leader in the Makhmur district of Nineveh Governorate.
A security source told Alghadeer News, “this evening, a force from the 14th Infantry Division of the Iraqi army killed the governor of the Qara Jokh area and three others in Makhmur district.”
Earlier on Friday, The spokesman for the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Major General Yahya Rasool, announced thwarting an attack and killing a terrorist near the Qara Jokh mountain range in Nineveh governorate.
Rasool said in a statement that the security forces managed to thwart an attempt to attack military units near the Qara Jokh mountain range, after a group of three terrorists was spotted through thermographic cameras trying to approach the units.
[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] Iraqi National Security Service reported on Friday, that five gunnies were arrested in Nineveh Governorate.
The Agency said in a statement that its detachments in Nineveh had arrested five ISIS members.
The gunnies were working in different positions within ISIS; one was responsible for harboring gunnies in the so-called Wilayat of al-Jazira, while another was responsible for oil imports.
The three other arrested worked in manufacturing bombs and fighters in the "Diwan al-Jund."
According to the statement, they confessed to committing crimes against l the citizens, as well as targeting the security forces during the liberation battles in the city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... .
[ToloNews] Fives days after all districts of Panjshir and the provincial center were captured by the Taliban ...Arabic for students... , a commander of the Resistance® Front on Friday in a recorded video message said the Taliban’s presence in Panjshir does not mean the end of the war.
Saleh Rigistani, the commander, said they will continue fighting the Taliban forces.
"I am sure that the Mujahideen, the resistance forces and your sons will fight to the death to defend your values and honor," he said.
"Right now, Panjshir is the center of resistance and the resistance forces are present in all the mountains," said Abdul Latif Pedram, the leader of the National Congress Party.
Registani also said the people in Panjshir are facing hunger and a lack of medicine.
The Taliban, however, said some of the opposition fighters had fled to the mountains but talks were ongoing to convince them to return to normal life.
Anaamullah Samangani, a member of the Taliban’s Cultural Commission, said Taliban forces have captured all parts of Panjshir and that the resistance forces are not there in any public way.
"They do not have a public presence; they are hidden in valleys and caves. Talks are ongoing with them, and we try to encourage them to come and lead peaceful and normal lives among their people," he said.
Although reports indicate that both sides have agreed on a three-day unofficial ceasefire, neither side has confirmed the reports.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter wished he had thought to pack sun block... Iran’s representative in the United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... called the war in Panjshir "fratricide."
A number of Panjshir residents said that people are facing numerous problems as roads leading into Panjshir are blocked and telecom services are not working.
"People do not have food. Children need power and people are living scattered in different areas," said Afsana Mohammadi, a Panjshir resident.
"Telecom services are completely cut in Panjshir and the lack of electricity is another big problem," said Abdulwasi Almas, a local news hound from Panjshir.
After the capture of Panjshir, a Taliban spokesperson said that Panjshir would have electricity and telecom services soon, and that roads would open.
[KhaamaPress] Pakistain provided its second consignment of humanitarian aid to the people of Afghanistan in Kandahar province.
As per the statement of the Pak embassy in Kabul, the consignment is comprised of food ingredients, medicines, and utensils.
It is Pakistain’s second tranche of humanitarian assistance in two days and is said to continue in Khost and Balkh provinces.
The country’s first consignment of aid was handed over to the officials of the ministry of public health in Kabul International Airport on Thursday which included 30 tonnes of medicines and food.
In the meantime, UAE’s plane loaded with tonnes of food ingredients landed in Kabul International Airport on Friday and the relief assistance was handed over to the officials of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
It is the country’s seventh consignment of humanitarian assistance since the Taliban ...Arabic for students... took over power in Afghanistan.
The tranche which includes flour, rice, and other food ingredients is donated by Afghan traders based in UAE.
Officials of IEA thanked the countries for humanitarian aids and added that all countries are welcomed to provide Afghanistan’s people with aid of such.
The aids are provided at a critical time as the UNAMA has called on the international community to provide the people of Afghanistan with relief assistance and withhold potential humanitarian crises.
Haji Obaidullah, head of the Association of Afghan Businessmen in UAE, said the UAE aid--consisting of food and medicine--will continue coming to Kabul until the end of September.
“They have coordinated this with us and soon the aid will reach the families in need,” he said.
Earlier this week Bahrain sent 30 tons of food and medicine to Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, Abdul Hadi Hamdan, who is in charge of Kabul airport, said that food, clothing and medicine provided by various countries had arrived at the airport, and he said the airport will soon become operational for civilian flights as well.
“So far, those flights that carry humanitarian aid have landed at the airport,” Hamdan said.
Meanwhile, officials of the Pakistan consulate in Kandahar say that 12 tons of food and medicine provided by Pakistan arrived in Kandahar on Friday.
[LIBYAREVIEW] Head of the United Nations Support Mission for Libya (UNSMIL), Jan Kubis stated at the Arab Leagues Foreign Ministers meeting on Thursday, that the United Nations is preparing to send the first group of ceasefire monitors to Libya.
According to a statement by UNSMIL, Kubis said that the Security Council strongly urged all member states, all Libyan parties, and all relevant actors to respect and support the full implementation of the 23 October 2020 ceasefire agreement, including the withdrawal of all mercenaries, and foreign fighters from Libya without delay.
He explained that the preparations for the deployment of an initial group of UN ceasefire monitors are underway, “the first group will deploy in the coming weeks to support the Libyan-led and Libyan-owned ceasefire monitoring mechanism (LCMM).”
“To ensure gradual buildup towards full implementation of the ceasefire agreement, the 5+5 Joint Military Commission (JMC) intends to develop an action plan for a sequenced and phased verifiable withdrawal, starting with the withdrawal of mercenaries and foreign fighters,” Kubis claimed.
“The intention is to consult this plan with the respective international partners, including Libya’s neighbours and seek their support and cooperation. We also support efforts led by Foreign Minister Al-Mangoush on the Stabilization Initiative that has similar objectives. This Libya-led and owned initiative intends to help operationalize the CFA and Berlin Conferences conclusions,” he added.
“We are also ready to support the Libya led process of DDR and SSR for the stabilization of the country and the wider region, and to work on this with Libya and international partners, including countries of the region, notably neighbours of Libya,” Kubis concluded.
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[REGNUM] New multimedia section "Heroes of tank battles. To the 75th anniversary of the Tankman's Day" was opened on its website by the Ministry of Defense of Russia. It published declassified documents about Soviet heroes-tankers, the battle at Prokhorovka and the victory of the Red Army in the Battle of Kursk.
The section contains award lists, war logs, reports, maps, albums with detailed characteristics of armored vehicles.
In July 1943, the Hitlerite command concentrated eleven tank and one motorized divisions against the Voronezh Front. The fascist invaders planned to carry out their blow on July 5 in the region of the Kursk salient.
In an operation called Citadel, they hoped to encircle and defeat Soviet troops, and then strike at the rear of the Southwestern Front and defeat it. However, these plans were not destined to come true. The published documents say that for several days the Red Army held back the powerful onslaught of the enemy, and on July 12 launched a counteroffensive.
"In the report of the Voronezh Front on the day when the largest oncoming tank battle took place in the Prokhorovka area, it was reported about stubborn battles with the advancing forces of enemy tank units, infantry, artillery and aviation. We had to fight off several enemy attacks a day with the support of a large number of tanks," the section reads.
The result of the counter-offensive in the Battle of Kursk was the liberation of Orel and Belgorod on August 5, as well as the defeat of the enemy grouping in the Oryol and Belgorod-Kharkov directions. Over the entire period of the fighting during the Battle of Kursk, the enemy lost about 500,000 people, 1,500 tanks, over 3,700 aircraft, 3,000 guns.
Tanker's Day was established 75 years ago by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of July 1, 1946 to commemorate the merits of armored and mechanized troops in defeating the Nazi invaders during the Great Patriotic War, as well as the merits of tank builders in equipping the Red Army with armored vehicles. It is celebrated on the second Sunday of September, in 2021 - September 12.
If he were a Taliban or other jihadi commando, come to commit jihad, I would commend them. But it sounds like he is Afghan Army, who would have fought for years on the side of the angels.
[NATION.PK] Armed police in the northern city of Manchester, England, have arrested an Afghan special forces commando at a hotel where he and his family had been quarantining after having arrived on an evacuation flight from Afghanistan, local media reported.
The raid, thought to have taken place in the early hours of Aug. 31 or Sept. 1, saw armed police detain the commando, according to Sky News.
No reason or statement has been released by the metropolitan police and it is unclear as to why he was arrested and detained.
Sky News reported that the commando arrived with his family in the UK on a British military evacuation and were housed in a hotel in Manchester under the current quarantine rules as Afghanistan is listed on the red list. His case, however, is not under the jurisdiction of the MI5, the UK’s top security agency.
The government has not yet released an official statement, however, a spokesperson from No 10 said: "We don't comment on individual cases."
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[REGNUM] A total of 40 foreign reconnaissance aircraft approached the state border of Russia during the week. This is reported on September 10 by the official publication of the Ministry of Defense "Krasnaya Zvezda".
Also during this period, 13 foreign drones were recorded carrying out aerial reconnaissance along the Russian borders.
It is noted that all these objects were tracked by Russian radar stations.
According to the Ministry of Defense, the air defense forces on duty did not violate the airspace of the Russian Federation.
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The "Alice: Asylum" Narrative Outline PDF is now publically accessible over on my Patreon.
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You can join in the Crowd Design process even if you aren't a Patron (though you should feel cheap and dirty if you do, I mean it's like $1 a month, come on man). Cute, Biden Come on Man.
[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] 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, a practice dating back to the heady human sacrifice days of Baal Moloch. In 2020 Hezbollahblew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate faci8lity exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that... ’s Prime Minister Najib Mikati and President Michel Aoun ...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... signed a decree forming a new government in the presence of parliament speaker Nabih Knobby Berri ...Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, head of the Amal Shiite party aligned with Hezbollah, a not very subtle sock puppet of the Medes and Persians... on Friday, the presidency said in a statement.
Lebanon had been without a government for over a year as it descended further into an economic meltdown.
The presidency said on Twitter earlier that Mikati would meet Aoun, but without saying if they had reached an agreement on a government.
One official source told Rooters a cabinet line-up Mikati would present to Aoun was promising. Political sources said there had been intensive contacts through the night to try to reach an agreement.
The failure to agree on a cabinet has left Lebanon without any effective government as the country has sunk deeper into a crisis which the World Bank has described as one of the sharpest implosions of modern times.
Mikati, a politician-businessman who was designated prime minister in July, has previously said he would seek to re-start negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) once his government was formed.
The cabinet formation has been derailed repeatedly by disagreements among political factions over the distribution of cabinet seats.
Mikati is the third prime minister-designate to attempt to form the government since the government resigned over a year ago in the aftermath of the Beirut port blast amidst the worsening economic meltdown.
Mikati was designated after Saad al-Hariri, a former prime minister, abandoned his efforts.
Aoun’s political adversaries have accused him and his political party, the Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... , of seeking effective veto power in the new government by demanding a third of the seats. Aoun has denied this repeatedly.
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[Tablet Magazine] How fear of admitting error in trusting China’s coronavirus propaganda is driving Western societies into a doom spiral
For Xi Jinping, lockdown was never about a virus. It was about sending a message: that stripped of all disguise, the illusion of virtue, competence, and commitment to human rights among the Western political class is nothing more than conformity with easily subvertible norms and institutions passed down by prior generations. As lockdown policies grind on into their 18th month, it’s increasingly difficult to disagree with him.
“Lockdowns,” the mass quarantine of both sick and healthy people, have never before been used for disease mitigation in the modern Western world. Previously, the strategy had been systematically ruled out by the pandemic plans of the World Health Organization (WHO) and by health experts of every developed nation. So how did we get here?
Mass lockdowns of entire countries as a technique for fighting disease sprung into the world’s consciousness on the order of Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), who fomented a global propaganda offensive targeting Western governments and media. Within weeks, the WHO, an organization that once devoted itself to fighting disease and which has sadly become a tool of Chinese foreign policy, promulgated lockdowns into global policy through a series of press conferences that showed a complete absence of analysis or logic.
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Leadership of con men. In the olds days they would have been called slickers. When they would work their con in a community they knew to leave before being found out. Tar and feathered would be the normal way they would be summarily relocated. Today they are politicians, Doctors, lawyers, and media. The cabal of like minded doing what they do best, skin the people but no need to worry about consequences. Obama was an obvious good example. They can go back over and over again and collect their spoils. The sheriff of Nottingham is alive and doing very well. Robin hood has been forced into hiding again.
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[REGNUM] The deputies of the parliament of Albania on September 10 elected a new speaker from their composition. It was Lindita Nicolla.
According to the Albanian news agency Telegrafi, Nicolla received the support of 79 out of 140 MPs, mostly from the ruling Socialist Party. Democrat MPs handed over cut forms in protest.
Lindita Nikola was born in Tirana in 1965. She is married to Ligor Nikola and raised a daughter named Livia.
In 2010, the politician graduated with a master's degree from Albanian University in the direction of executive power, in 1989 she received a mathematics education at the University of Tirana.
Nikola began to participate in political life in 2003. From 2003 to 2006, she served as a member of the Tirana Constituency Council, and from 2007 to 2011 and from 2011 to 2013, she chaired the Constituency Council. Since 2013, Nikola has been elected MP of the Albanian Parliament from the Tirana Constituency.
In 2013, Nikola took over as Minister of Education and Sports of Albania. The woman speaks Italian, English and French and received additional education in the United States.
[BBC] The Dallas Cowboys and Tampa Bay Buccaneers kicked off professional American football's first game of the season. But before they did, fans heard something a little different.
It started as a song to celebrate the president who emancipated America's slaves. Its writer thought little about it afterwards, but it took on a life of its own.
Now "Lift Every Voice and Sing" - a ballad widely known today as the US black national anthem - has been played at the opening game of the National Football League's (NFL) 2021 season.
The song was played after a year of racial tumult that touched almost every corner of American society, including professional sports.
Male professional leagues are dominated by young black men, and in an effort to show more solidarity with players, the NFL said it would play "Lift Every Voice and Sing" at the beginning of games this season. It's the first time the song that has meant so much to so many will regularly open American professional sports games.
[NATION.PK] Pakistain on Thursday rejected claims of Islamabad's involvement in the recent fall of Panjshir province to the Afghan Taliban ...Arabic for students... , terming them baseless allegations.Responding to questions about stories carried by certain segments of the international media alluding to Pakistain’s "involvement" in Panjshir, Foreign Office Spokesperson Asim Iftikhar categorically rejected these allegations as part of a mischievous propaganda campaign against Pakistain, the Foreign Ministry said late Thursday in a statement.
"Noting as to how part of the Indian media’s fake news had been thoroughly exposed, the spokesperson said these malicious allegations were part of a desperate attempt to malign Pakistain and to mislead the international community," it added.
The FO reiterated Pakistain’s abiding commitment to a peaceful, stable, sovereign and prosperous Afghanistan.
On Monday, the Taliban seized Panjshir, which was the last of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces not under their control, overpowering forces led by Ahmad Massoud, son of the famed anti-Taliban fighter Ahmad Shah Massoud.
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[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] The appointment of a new government in Lebanon is a “very important step” for the crisis-hit country, UN chief Antonio Guterres said Friday, wishing Prime Minister Najib Mikati “the best success.”
Guterres added of the new government that “of course it is not enough, there are many other things to be solved, but this was the basic condition for anything else to be possible.”
“I wish that he is able to bring together the different Lebanese communities and the different Lebanese political forces in order to make sure that Lebanon is able to overcome the dramatic situation it faces now,” Guterres told a press conference.
Lebanon ended a 13-month wait for a new government with the unveiling of a lineup that faces the daunting task of rescuing the country from economic meltdown.
Billionaire Mikati, Lebanon’s prime minister for the third time, made an emotional statement from the presidency vowing to leave no stone unturned in efforts to save the country from bankruptcy.
The newcomers include many technocrats but each minister was endorsed by one or several of the factions that have dominated Lebanese politics since the 1975-1990 civil war.
#Nigerian officials cut communication lines in multiple parts of #Katsina state as a crackdown on banditry in the northwest of the country spreads.https://t.co/5gQnm4PJbZ
A child was killed and his sister was wounded as a result of stray bullets fired during their father's wedding in a town in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, east #Syria.https://t.co/ucl4jAHIxv
[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] On Thursday, the Minister of Culture, Hassan Nazim, announced that its ministry is working to include 9 archaeological sites on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
The Minister of Culture, Hassan Nazim, said, "The ministry has 9 archaeological sites, and it is working to include them on the World Heritage List."
Noting that "the file of archaeological sites is a large file, and the ministry is working to list the sites one by one, as all the specific sites are important."
Meanwhile, ...back at the Senate, Odius Sepulcher called for war against the Visigoths... Nazim confirmed that "the National Archives is in Washington, and it was viewed during the last visit, accompanied by the Prime Minister to the United States, and found the archive complete," noting that "the Ministry of Culture is working to recover it in the near future."
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Let me guess: 8 George Floyd murals and a "Notorious RBG" exhibit at a middle school cafeteria in Fresno.
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Lt. Gen. Marc Sasseville and Heather Penney set out on a suicide mission to stop hijacked United Flight 93 headed to the capital on 9/11
The pilots took it upon themselves to immediately take off in their F-16s and didn't have time to arm their jet with missiles or complete a pre-flight check
'Our only choice was going to be to ram the airliner,' Penney said, adding that Sasseville took the cockpit 'to aim at the terrorists' and she 'would take the tail'
'I genuinely believed that was going to be the last time I took off. If we did it right, this would be it,' Penney said of the plan to use themselves as kamikazes
Unbeknownst to them when they took off, the passengers of Flight 93 had already fought back and drove the plane into a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania
All 44 passengers on board Flight 93 were killed in the crash-landing and it was the only hijacked plane on 9/11 not to hit its intended target
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An act of superb and sublime bravery that never should have been necessary. To cover the entire perimeter of CONUS that morning we had 14 dedicated aircraft.
Mike
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If these aircraft are on standby to protect the capitol, then why are some of them not armed at all times. Serious question for some of you who know a helluva alot more than me about these sort of things.
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If these aircraft are on standby to protect the capitol, then why are some of them not armed at all times. Exactly the same neglectful frame of mind behind the lack of preparedness by the US air defenses on Oahu 7 Dec. 1941. That day, IIRC, a Japanese reconnaissance plane flew over Pearl Harbor at 10000 feet quite a long time before the main Japanese attackers arrived. It was not spotted from below.
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[FoxNews] More than 60,000 Afghan refugees are now on U.S. soil
More than 40 Afghan refugees have been flagged by the Department of Homeland Security as potential national security threats as tens of thousands of refugees from the war-torn country are poised to resettle in the United States.
DHS flagged 44 Afghan evacuees that it deemed a risk to the United States over the past two weeks, according to records reviewed by the Washington Post.
Among 60,000 Afghan evacuees now on U.S. soil after being evacuated Aug. 17, 13 Afghans remain in custody awaiting additional screening, and another 15 have been sent back to Europe or the Middle East. Another 16 have not been cleared to travel and remain in overseas transit sites referred to as "lily pads."
Reports last week estimated 100 Afghan refugees from Afghanistan to the United States have been flagged for potential ties to terrorist organizations, including the Taliban.
The report stated that two of the flagged Afghans "raised enough concern for additional review" and are being sent to Kosovo for further review amid security concerns.
Other Afghans who fled to America and who raise security concerns will also be sent to Kosovo, according to the sources. Those sources say evaluations are underway in the Washington, D.C. area after some evacuees were found to have been previously deported from the U.S. for past criminal offenses.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News.
In addition to security concerns, the White House announced Friday that it has temporarily suspended flights bringing Afghan refugees into the country due to a measles concern.
"‘Operation Allies Welcome’ flights into the United States have been temporarily paused at the request of the [Centers for Disease Control] and out of an abundance of caution because of four diagnosed cases of measles among Afghans who recently arrived in the United States," White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki told reporters.
She said that individuals are being quarantined and that the CDC has begun full contact tracing. Additionally, all arriving Afghans are required to have a measles vaccination as a condition of entry into the U.S.
The Associated Press had previously reported that "health safety concerns" had shut down flights out of Qatar and Germany. There are nearly 10,000 evacuees at the U.S. military base in Ramstein, Germany.
Depends on what the D-10 turns out to be By Thomas Nilsen
[BarentsObserver] With the large-scale joint Russian-Belarusian military exercise Zapad 2021 (West 2021) starting, several of the best fishing grounds in the Barents Sea will be closed from September 10, the Notice to Mariners issued by the Defence Ministry in Moscow reads. Based in Murmansk, The Port Administration for Northwestern Russia is also issuing coastal warnings (PRIPs) in addition to providing coordinates for dangerous navy shootings in open waters.
The new warnings for the coming week follow an exceptionally busy August with weapons testing and navy shootings across the Barents Sea, from the Varanger fjord in the west to Novaya Zemlya in the east.
“The problem is not only that vast waters are occupied for exercises, but that the notifications come at very short notice,” says Sturla Roald, juridical advisor with the Norwegian Fishing Vessel Owners Federation.
“We experience that the exercises have increased both in scope and intensity in recent years, which means that Norwegian vessels more and more have to interrupt fishing and sail out of fish-rich areas,” he tells the Barents Observer.
This week, warnings are issued for three large areas north of the Kola Peninsula. The largest closed-off zone goes all west to the maritime borderline with Norway’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) north of the Varanger fjord.
The Barents Sea contains some of the largest fish resources in the world, including the cod stock. Norway and Russia share the marine resources and quotas for the different species are negotiated annually by the two countries’ joint Fisheries Commission. The arrangement allows for Norwegian vessels to fish in Russian waters and vice versa.
Cod, haddock, capelin, halibut and crab catches from the Barents Sea are worth billions and thousands of people are employed on the vessels and in the land-based seafood processing industry. The 2021 cod quota was set at 885,600 tons, up 20 percent from the year before.
Increased tensions
The fisheries, however, are now severely challenged by escalating military tensions between Russia and the West, at levels not seen since the last Cold War. The old saying “high north - low tensions” seems to be a quote from the past.
For Russia’s military leaders, the Barents- and White Seas are not only important exercise areas for the fast-growing numbers of new warships and submarines. The vast waters are also home to testing of new naval weapons systems. Especially those weapons that can fly long, like the new generation of sea-launched cruise missiles, the hypersonic Tsirkon and the Kalibr. The European part of Russia’s Arctic waters offers both space and long uninhabited coastlines.
More secret weapons tests include the nuclear-powered underwater drone Poseidon and the nuclear-powered Burevestnik missile. As previously reported by the Barents Observer this autumn, the closure of large areas near Novaya Zemlya was believed to be connected to Burevestnik testing. Read the rest at the link
Third World maintenance: not quite Inshallah, but close.
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[REGNUM] Five people were killed in the crash of a military Mi-24 helicopter in Côte d'Ivoire. This was reported on September 11 by Agence France-Presse.
The helicopter crew carried out a reconnaissance flight in the north of the African country, near the border with Burkina Faso. It is clarified that the helicopter lost contact with the dispatch center at about 02:00 local time. Residents of the settlement, located not far from the place where the Mi-24 crew conducted reconnaissance, said that they heard a strong explosion, which was accompanied by a glow, as if from a fire.
Rescuers who went to the site of the alleged helicopter crash found the crash site and confirmed the death of five crew members. An investigation into the causes of the plane crash is currently underway.
[LIBYAREVIEW] Parties, blocs, and political organizations in Libya have welcomed the issuance of the Libyan Parliament’s Act No. 1 of 2021, regarding the election of the President and determining his powers, describing this step as a "historic achievement."In a statement, the political parties saluted "all the efforts made by the various segments of Libyan society, its political organizations, and the international community to achieve the people’s demand to exercise their right to choose their president in a historical precedent since the time of independence."
They also stated that they would hold any electoral spoilers accountable, and called for national interests to be given priority. As well as calling for more international pressure to expel all foreign forces and mercenaries, and urged the government to create the appropriate security conditions for holding elections throughout the country, and facilitating their conduct for those living abroad.
The statement demanded the Parliament expedite the issuance of the Legislative Council election law, and for the High National Elections Commission (HNEC) to take the necessary measures to hold the concurrent legislative, and presidential elections as scheduled on 24 December.
The parties called on the Libyan people to actively participate in these elections and to exercise their right to choose their leaders, and contribute to building their future.
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New video of the remaining parts of the Iranian drone used to attack Iraqi Kurdistan. The engine is MDR-208 (or the Iranian copy Serat-1). The UAV was definitely Shahed-136 which was used before in attack to Aramco plant in Abqaiq in September 2019. pic.twitter.com/QkEk5mufy6
#Tunisia's President Kais Saied says the country will not tolerate any foreign interference as he faces rising pressure from Western governments to restore constitutional order after seizing power in July.https://t.co/FJQvDnJBNN
[YouTube] This is a short video of the Coldstream Guards playing our national anthem outside Buckingham Palace, at the request of the Queen, which still chokes me up. The UK then proceeded to lose 457 men and women fighting alongside us for 20 years. Regrettably, the current administration did not see fit to include Her Majesty's Government in the withdrawal planning, and when her Majesty's Prime Minister personally called POTUS to request an extension of the arbitrary August 31 deadline, he was essentially told to get stuffed. And this is an administration that says diplomacy is at the center of our foreign policy.
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Fixing it for you: Treasonous diplomacy is at the heart of Biden foreign policy.
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By "diplomacy" Team Biden means appeasing China, Russia, and Iran while lining their own pockets. Our national motto -- currently "In God We Trust" -- should be "10% For the Big Guy", since God and trust no longer have a place.
Famously, the Queen's first prime minister was Winston Bloody Churchill. Churchill certainly presided over his share of military disasters -- Fall of Singapore etc.-- but I suspect he would have had very special words for the Biden Bugout.
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And today it won't even play at the White House...
[CitizensJournal] dosage recommended is 200 micrograms/per Kg of weight of the person daily for two days before coming to USA or at entry point
this is for parasites but it shows the CDC is OK with this dosage
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Don't Talk !!! Shhhhhhhhhhhh.
Commissarista Nancy Pelosi & Company will be displeased, you will pay heavily should Dear Leader Bi-Den hear of this, from you...
Veee Know...Hear US... from the voices and whispers from the 20th Century Soviet Unions....
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St. Luke's Health Hospital in Huston prevented Vet of Vietnam (74) Ivermectin after family requested. So they thought it better to pull the plug. FB will not allow this posting.
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Sitting on the couch in Houston, drinking coffee, reading the paper before work. TV playing in the background. A story in the Chronicle about the Tutsis and the Hutus going at it. I was thinking that it would serve 'em all right if undead zombie Jesus and Mohamed came back and kicked their asses from one end of Africa to the other when the regular news was interrupted by a plane crashing into the World Trade Center. Seemed strange that a plane would crash into a downtown building...
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Taking my honey to the bus stop for her commute to downtown Denver. Heard on the radio someone flew a plane into the World Trade Center. We both laughed about her getting a day off as she worked in the Denver World Trade Center.
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opened the office before 6AM PST, went to the deli in our high-rise building's basement to get a sandwich just after the first hit on the TV. Waited around until the second hit and realized *oh shit!* this wasn't just an accident...
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Opening the office of the enterprise which employed me in the Mercantile Building, in San Antonio, just south of the airport. I was calling the scheduled appointments for the day, reminding them of the time and place, and the first one that I talked to that day was practically hysterical - that an airplane had crashed into the WTC, the place was on fire, and people were jumping ... I had the classical radio station on, not the news, but I switched over to the news at once.
It was a very odd, and quiet day at that office. The business itself closed two years later, in the economic reversal which followed after 9-11.
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Was at a Project Meeting in a rural community. Someone had mentioned before the meeting that a plane hit a building in New York (as that's all the local radio station had reported at the time). We all thought that was a tragic accident, until one of the meeting attendant's cellphone rang and his office filled him in on the second plane and what the target was. We found a radio and turned it on.
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Sitting in my recliner. I had submitted my paperwork for retirement, as I had reached mandatory removal date (MRD) 'old age' as defined by the Army. I went upstairs, pulled on BDU's and boots and raced up I-85 to Fort Mac and my duty station. The Interstate was packed with emergency vehicles and LE streaming into Atlanta. No one knew what would happen next. Figuring WWIII was a poor time to retire, I submitted a request to remain on active duty. I was thanked for my service and told I was no longer needed. I spent the next 12 years or so assisting the GWOT via alternate venues in a variety of locations. No regrets.
A crisp hand salute to all those who served, waited at home, or paid the ultimate price for freedom.
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Driving to work w/2 co-workers, radio down low. DJ said something about a plane hitting a ny building. Had recently finished reading ‘The Sky is Falling,’ true story of the B-25 that hit the Empire State Building. Made comment along the lines of ‘it happened again must be foggy there,’ thinking it was a light bug smasher that got lost in fog. When we got to work we saw the second hit.. everybody was zombie-like, total disbelief and shock. Only activity was the near-constant ringing of the phone on our Spares desk, with our airline customers cancelling orders by the score. Scores Manager emerged after a couple hours a complete mess, crying uncontrollably about the hundreds of thousands of dollars of sales she lost .
There was no work done that day. Or the next.
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I was attending a class at Sun Microsystems in Arlington, VA. The center manager came in and said that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. I too thought it was like when the B-25 hit the Empire State Building. Then she said another plane had hit the Pentagon. We were close enough that we could see the smoke from the Pentagon.
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As a stockbroker down South I was in my office getting ready for the market to open.
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Was on the annual family fishing trip at the Sardine Lakes, CA. Having had a decent morning of it, I was packing up my gear and heading back to he cabin. A woman passes by and mentions a plane hitting one of the Twin Towers. Once back I put on the radio to get some news and soon heard of second crash. Everyone was in shock, glued to the radios. I drove into nearest town - Graegle, as the tavern there had a TV. All of us gathered there sat silently watching news. I couldn't stay too long so returned to family and told em what I'd seen. My sister in law spent the rest of the day and the next trying to get through to her brother at the Mini Pentagon (he was Airforce Colonel at the time). They finally connected very briefly, his parting words were "don't worry, we are going to take care of this".
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I was driving to John Wayne airport to catch a flight to SFO
Got to airport and was told all flights were canceled and then I looked up at CNN and realized this was a big”oh crap” moment
Every year since then I hold my breath that some group will try to commemorate that even by making a city disappear
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Mrs. Uluque always has the TV on while she's getting ready to go in the morning. I was eating my breakfast downstairs without the TV (can't stand the morning talk/news shows). Mrs. Uluque started screaming. When I saw the first pictures I thought some kook had accidentally flown a private plane into the tower. When the second plane hit the second tower I knew better.
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I was busy at home, packing my van to take a long road trip to see my brother in Boston. I planned to drive across northern PA to the Tappan Zee bridge, and cross CT to eastern MA. I was not in the habit of checking the morning news. None called me.
To take a break from packing, I sat back in my living room recliner about 1045 EDT and turned on the TV. I was transfixed and very quickly saw the clip of the 2nd airliner hitting the WTC.
I called my brother and told him I was delaying my departure until the situation became clearer. I told him I was concerned there might have been dirty nuclear materials in one or more of the crashes & advised him to get out of Boston if the smoke plumes ran in his direction.
I called a few others, turned on my laptop and starting surfing the net intensively for news, pictures and particularly domestic and world reactions to the tragedy. I learned a lot I didn't expect to learn. I only wish I had captured every screen image and text item, but there were so many for so many days. I found my way to Rantburg that day also.
I did arrive in Boston by the Saturday after 9/11. I attended Mass at St. Paul's in Cambridge that Sunday. There was something like a funeral guest book on a stand in the lobby listing the names of the St. Paul's parishioners who had died on the planes or at the impact points. There were about a dozen, mostly airline workers.
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Was on a conference call with an IT higher-up at Port Authority of New York & New Jersey and our my VP of Sales. We were discussing the IT Security Briefing we had given them back in Fed. 2001, outlining their IT Data Centers, Continuity of Operations Plan problems (COOP).
We all hung up and started calling staff.
As I was told later, all were accounted for except 1 employee.
We found him several days later, hunkered down in a hotel room, vegetating in the dark.
One of my IT Security Team who already had a rented a car. Ride-shared it with other IT consultants fleeing south down I-95.
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I spent the morning finding out what had happened, and the afternoon wondering why our missiles were still in their silos.
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One of the most memorable things I remember occured a few days later in a Dale Carnegie public speaking class of about 100 people in Dallas, Texas.
A Muslim man got up, faced the class, looked down, wrapped his arms around himself and started weeping. Then he proceeded telling us about his young brother who just came to the US to start his new job at the World Trade Center the morning of the attack and never made it out of the towers...
The August 29 strike at a home near the Kabul airport killed 10, including 7 kids
Pentagon claimed the vehicle was 'known to be an imminent ISIS-K threat'
But driver Zemari Ahmadi, 43, was an aid worker seeking asylum in the US
Surveillance video shows him loading the trunk with water jugs, not explosives
Witnesses say he spent the day running normal errands for a US-based aid group
Pentagon claimed his movements were suspicious and tied him to ISIS-K
DoD tells DailyMail.com: 'We still believe that it prevented an imminent threat'
Fox News adds:
The New York Times says that after reviewing video evidence and interviewing more than a dozen of the driver’s friends and family members in Kabul, it has doubts about the U.S. version of events.
"Times reporting has identified the driver as Zemari Ahmadi, a longtime worker for a U.S. aid group," the report states. "The evidence suggests that his travels that day actually involved transporting colleagues to and from work. And an analysis of video feeds showed that what the military may have seen was Mr. Ahmadi and a colleague loading canisters of water into his trunk to bring home to his family."
The U.S. previously admitted that there were three civilian casualties in the strike, but the Times report says the actual number is 10. Seven of those individuals were children, including young family members of Ahmadi who relatives say had run to the car to greet him when he got home moments before the strike.
Two well-placed U.S. military sources tell Fox News that the U.S. Central Command remains confident that the strike was based on accurate intelligence that showed the person in the car had bad intent, and that an investigation is underway into how many civilians were killed.
Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark A. Milley said that a secondary explosion confirms that the Ahmadi’s car was filled with explosives. The Times report also disputes that claim.
"But an examination of the scene of the strike, conducted by the Times visual investigations team and a Times reporter the morning afterward, and followed up with a second visit four days later, found no evidence of a second, more powerful explosion," the report states.
How does the New York Times, an American news paper, have reporters on the ground, far from the relative civilization of Kabul?
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News.
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#4, you just learned how using sources you can't vet for targeting information. F6* just bit you in the ass as info warfare skill by the ISI rears its ugly head JoJo.
(* The system employed by the United States Armed Forces rates the reliability of the source as well as the information. The source reliability is rated between A (history of complete reliability) to E (history of invalid information), with F for source without sufficient history to establish reliability level. The information content is rated between 1 (confirmed) to 5 (improbable), with 6 for information whose reliability can not be evaluated.[6]
For example, a confirmed information from a reliable source has rating A1, an unknown-validity information from a new source without reputation is rated F6, an inconsistent illogical information from a known liar is E5, a confirmed information from a moderately doubtful source is C1. )
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So the news items about secondary explosions were lies also?
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There was a time when targeting required multiple source (Multi-Source) confirmation in order to be actioned. Imagery, Signals, HUMINT, and so forth. I guess if you really need to grab media headlines, Achmed's reporting is goof enuf.
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General: "Quick! We need something that will make Biden look strong and Presidential, and we need it in time for the evening news."
Drone Operator Smith: " Ahh...well, here's this car with some containers in the back. I could zap them."
General: "Whatever. Take the shot."
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Re #12: If anybody gets punished for this screw up, it will be drone operator Smith.
Not the General. Not the lawyer who approved it. Not Austin. Not Biden.
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From the other side...
A US Aid(NGO?) worker with open access to both sides, channeling information to both sides?
A Switchblade is a pretty useful tool when you need to verify your intended target.
An expensive snuff but maybe worth it to keep the cover.
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great tragedy brought a great coming together of people Indeed it did. It also disclosed (for a very short interval) other people foreign and domestic who rejoiced at the tragedy and posted this on the internet. That got scrubbed pretty thoroughly within a few weeks. But I remember...
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In his remarks today, GWBush (piss be upon him) looked to compare 9/11 to Jan 6. If that was his intent, there can be no coming together and they know it. They want what comes next.
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If anyone should know better it's W. A comment like that is a punch in the balls.
BREAKING Syrian opposition factions bombard government forces' positions in the towns of Hazarin and Malajah, south of #Idlib Governorate pic.twitter.com/p7T1qjJWyd
Follow the threads on this tweet for a review of the book and theory of Unrestricted warfare by the Chinese against the USA and others.
When COVID hit, I began hearing rumblings of a book called Unrestricted Warfare, written by 2 former Chinese Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) senior colonels & published by PLA
In short, it describes what war will look like in a post-nuclear, mutually assured destruction, age 1/17
When COVID hit, I began hearing rumblings of a book called Unrestricted Warfare, written by 2 former Chinese Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) senior colonels & published by PLA.
In short, it describes what war will look like in a post-nuclear, mutually assured destruction, age
I read the book cover to cover and I thought you might be interested in some quotes/passages I highlighted, which I encourage you to read w current events in mind.
“the media has become an immediate and integral part of warfare”
“China can pump propaganda into the American media while restricting American media’s access to the Chinese media landscape”
A non-military attack could “cause the enemy nation to fall into social panic, street riots, and a political crisis”
“The battlefield is next to you and the enemy is on the network. Only there is no smell of gunpowder or the odor of blood. However, it is war as before, because it accords with the definition of modern warfare: forcing the enemy to satisfy one’s own interests.”
Modern warfare is “impeding the enemy’s ability to wage war & to defend itself against a barrage of attacks against its economy, its civil institutions, its governmental structures, and its actual belief system”
“If one party is at war w another, & the other party does not realize it is at war, the party who knows it is at war almost always has the advantage & usually wins”(Tzu)
"social spaces such as the military, politics, economics, culture, & the psyche are also battlefields”
“The biggest difference between contemporary wars and the wars of the past is that, in contemporary wars, the overt goal and the covert goal are often two different matters
“Precisely in the same way that modern technology is changing weapons and the battlefield, it is also at the same time blurring the concept of who the war participants are. From now on, soldiers no longer have a monopoly on war.”
“a defeat on the economic front precipitates a near collapse of social & political order. The casualties resulting from the constant chaos r no less than those resulting from a regional war, & injury done to the living social organism even exceeds injury inflicted by...war”
“financial war is easily manipulated and allows for concealed actions, and is also highly destructive”
“Can special funds be set up to exert greater influence on another country’s government and legislature through lobbying?”
There are “a number of other means and methods used to fight a non-military war…[including]…psychological warfare (spreading rumors to intimidate the enemy and break down his will); …throwing markets into confusion and attacking economic order; …media warfare
(manipulating what people see and hear in order to lead public opinion along); …fabrication warfare (presenting a counterfeit appearance of real strength before the eyes of the enemy);… (not to mention the cross combining and creative use of these means and methods)”
“in all future wars, in addition to the basic method of military strikes, the force of the media will increasingly be another player in the war and will play a role comparable to that of military strikes in promoting the course of the war”
“Ever since the Vietnam War, both the military & American society have been sensitized to human casualties”
“cultural infiltration, media propaganda, formulating & applying international rules, using UN resolutions,etc belong… more & more now as standard military means”
“If we want to have victory in future wars, we must be fully prepared intellectually for this scenario, that is, to be ready to carry out a war which, affecting all areas of life of the countries involved, may be conducted in a sphere not dominated by military actions”
When at war w a powerful adversary, a country “must adjust its own financial strategy, use currency revaluation or devaluation as primary, & combine means such as getting the upper hand in public opinion & changing the rules sufficiently to make financial turbulence and economic crisis appear in the targeted country or area, weakening its overall power, including its military strength.”
If “the United States would…have suffered heavy economic losses…such an outcome would certainly be better than a military strike”
#3
...in the absence of good leadership and a commonality of community, yeah, pretty much. Dealing in an political environment of divide and conquer, is throwing a match on tinder.
#4
Pretty sure one side knows its a war and the other is lead by Obama and Bidet thinking they are "moving the arc of history towards profound victory for the oppressed" and personally making a lot of money selling that bullshit to the useful idiots here...
Unidentified gunmen killed two members of the pro-government National Defense Forces in the vicinity of the town of al-Amerea, in the middle of the Syrian Desert, while two other members were seriously wounded in the same attack.https://t.co/NtiuCnCytT
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Dashcam footage shows the moment Brevard County deputies Brian Potters and Tyler Thoman were ambushed by a gunman, prompting a shootout
Shooter Paris Wilder, 38, was left dead and Potters was severely injured
The officers were doing a routine traffic stop when Wilder jumped out of the car 'with a small stock AR-15-styled rifle' and started shooting
He then used the butt of the gun to beat Potters, prompting Thoman to use fatal force to 'eliminate the threat'
Wilder was a career criminal with 40 previous arrests and the Sheriff's Office said he was out on bond avoiding another arrest when the shooting took place
The investigation is ongoing and both deputies have been placed on paid administrative leave, which is customary in all deputy-involved shootings
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[Ynet] Spokeswoman says Yaqoub Qadiri and Mohammad al-Arida - both members of Islamic Jihad - were located near the Arab city of Nazareth; local woman alerted police after fugitives asked her for food; Palestinians in Gaza fire rockets at south shortly after capture.
Israeli security forces captured two of six Palestinian security prisoners who broke out of a high-level detention facility earlier this week, at the tail end of an intense five-day manhunt, a police spokeswoman confirmed on Friday.
The six Palestinians tunneled out of the Gilboa Prison on Monday, setting off a furious manhunt across Israel and in the West Bank. The escape has exposed major flaws in Israel's prison service and set off days of angry criticism and finger pointing.
The two escapees were captured late Friday on Mount Precipice near the Arab city of Nazareth in northern Israel, not far from where the prison they escaped from is located, the spokeswoman said in a statement.
The two fugitives were identified as Yaqoub Qadiri, 49, and Mohammad al-Arida, 39 - both members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorist group.
The pair were caught after a local resident alerted the police, telling them two "Palestinian workers" asked her for food and had earlier been rampaging through local trash containers.
The two were not armed at the time of their arrest and did not resist it. They were taken in for questioning by the Shin Bet domestic security agency.
A video circulating on social media showed Israeli police putting a man into the backseat of a police vehicle and asking the suspect for his name.
The man, wearing jeans and green T-shirt, calmly identifies himself as Qadiri and answers "yes" when asked whether he is one of the escapees. Qadiri was serving two life sentences for attempted murder and bomb planting.
Four other prisoners remain at large, including Zakaria Zubeidi - a former commander of the mainstream Fatah’s military wing, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, who was convicted in several deadly attacks and was serving a life sentence before escaping.
All of the prisoners are from the nearby city of Jenin in the West Bank and all but one belong to PIJ.
Shortly after their capture, Palestinian terrorists in Gaza, believed to be from the Islamic Jihad, fired rockets at Israeli communities near the border.
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That’s an important detail that is worth emphasizing - the police got the lead for the arrests of the 2 fugitive from a family of Israeli Arabs that called to say that two illegal residents came to ask for food https://t.co/kawjraVgnQ
Two more Palestinian security prisoners who escaped from Gilboa Prison were recaptured in the early hours of Saturday morning, including notorious terror commander Zakaria Zubeidi.
The second recaptured prisoner was named by police as Mohammed al-Arida, the younger brother of the reported mastermind of the jailbreak.
Four of the six escapees are now back in Israeli custody, as searches continued for the remaining two fugitives, Iham Kamamji and Munadil Nafiyat.
Four of the six fugitives who broke out earlier this week were in jail for life in connection with deadly attacks against Israelis. Zubeidi was in prison while on trial for two dozen crimes, including attempted murder. Another was held in administrative detention. All but Zubeidi are Islamic Jihad members.
Zubeidi and Al-Arida were detained by Israeli counter-terror police officers near the northern town of Shibli–Umm al-Ghanam. The two were captured at around 5 a.m. at a parking lot used by truck drivers.
An unnamed security official told Hebrew media that Zubeidi briefly tried to escape during the arrest operation, but was quickly overpowered.
“They found them hiding under the wheel of a truck,” Yusuf Kahili, a resident of the town, said to reporters. “I saw them. They looked scared, hungry and humiliated.”
According to Hebrew-language media reports, security officials increasingly believe the fugitives did not have outside assistance after their escape from the prison, noting none of the four were armed at the time of their capture.
The announcement of Zubeidi’s capture came after Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met with police and military officials for an assessment of the situation in northern Israel in the predawn hours of Saturday morning, an unusual step for the religiously-observant premier to take on the Jewish Sabbath.
The arrests of Zubeidi and al-Arida came just hours after two other escapees from the jailbreak were arrested in the northern town of Nazareth.
[FoxNews] Florida authorities released dash camera footage Thursday of a deputy-involved shooting that ended with a dead suspect — a man who was out on bond for drug trafficking and had multiple convictions for violent offenses, officials said Thursday.
Brevard County Sheriff’s deputies Brian Potters and Tyler Thoman were conducting a traffic stop on Aug. 30 in Melbourne, 70 miles southeast of Orlando, when they were ambushed and fired upon, Sheriff Wayne Ivey said in a video detailing the encounter.
"The attack and ambush [were] perpetrated by a violent, career criminal, with a history of 40 charges for crimes including drug trafficking, aggravated assault while discharging a firearm, battery on a law enforcement officer, and attempted first-degree felony murder," he said.
The entire incident lasted about a minute and was captured on two separate dash cameras.
Deputy Thoman is seen talking to a woman outside her vehicle about the 2-month-old baby and dog in the backseat while another vehicle occupant is leaning against the rear of the car. The suspected shooter, whose identity has not been not released, is sitting in the back seat.
When Potters asks him to exit the car, the suspect opens fire and takes cover at the front of the vehicle, putting the baby seated inside at risk, Ivey said. Potters is heard saying he was struck by gunfire around the same time the suspect appears to be wounded by return fire.
As the deputies move to the side of a police cruiser, the suspect attacks Potters from behind after his rifle jams, striking him in the head with the butt of the weapon before they both fall to the ground, Ivey said.
Thoman then fired multiple shots at the suspect, who was killed. Potters was shot in the leg and sustained head lacerations, tissue damage and bone fractures, the sheriff said.
Ivey said the two occupants standing outside had nothing to do with the ambush attack.
In total, 61 rounds were fired, he said.
"Let there be no doubt, this individual got exactly what he deserved," the sheriff said. "And to those out there that might be foolish enough to ask why we shot him so many times, the answer is simple: evil can never be dead enough."
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61 rounds were fired, which was sufficient to exterminate the problem. I am curious how many actually hit the problem. In New Orleans the answer would have been one lucky shot.
[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] The Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... killed Rohullah Azizi, brother of former Vice President of Afghanistan Amrullah Saleh, Aamaj News reported on Friday.
Sources told Aamaj that Azizi was arrested and shot on Thursday in Rokha district in Panjshir.
His brother Saleh did not flee from the country like former President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, ex-president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. When Biden abandoned the country left with a helicopter, four cars, and part of the national treasury... . He became one of the leaders of resistance against the Taliban. His exact location remains unknown.
The Taliban announced this week that Panjshir, the last stronghold of the anti-Taliban resistance movement National Resistance® Front of Afghanistan (NRF), was under the group’s control.
However, Switzerland makes more than cheese... resistance leader Ahmad Massoud insisted the fight continued and called for a national uprising.
Massoud’s calls were met with protests across the country in support of his movement.
But the Taliban outlawed the protests, and the UN said the group was violent mostly peaceful in its efforts to disperse them.
UN rights spokesperson, Ravina Shamdasani, said the Taliban responded with live ammunition, batons and whips and caused the deaths of at least four protesters.
Rohullah Azizi, brother of the former vice-president and one of the leaders of the anti-Taliban resistance front in Panjshir province was killed by the Taliban in Karukh district of Panjshir province on Friday, September 10.
His relatives confirm the news and have added that Rohullah Azizi was executed by the Taliban fighters and his body was not given to them.
Taliban has denied the news and has said that Azizi was killed during a conflict with them.
This is the second family member of the resistance front’s leaders who loses his life in Panjshir province. Earlier, Commander Abdul Wodood, the nephew of slain Ahmad Shah Masoud was killed along with the spokesperson of the front Fahim Dashti.
Taliban has denied killing both and had added that they were killed in the intra-resistance front fight.
“Wudn’t us! There they were, playing jacks and hopscotch with us as nice as could be, when all of a sudden they jest fell down dead without a sound. Strangest thing you ever saw — Allah musta been really mad at them.”
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...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...46th president of the U.S., father of Hunter. He blames Trump for losing Afghanistan....
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
[Breitbart] Putting food on the kitchen table has become much more expensive, squeezing household budgets at a time when many families are already stressed by the Delta variant surge hitting as kids go back to school.
It's hard to get worked up about all the military equipment left in Afghanistan. All that materiel was left to equip the Mighty Afghan Army, and there should have been more in the pipeline. Remember they were supposed to be able to pick up the fight on their own, with U.S. air and intel support. The Ghani government was in "peace negotiations" with he Talibs in Qatar. The Talibs were supposed to have 5,000 prisoners released, after which there was supposed to be a ceasefire, and the two sides were supposed to work out a structure for a transitional government. The U.S. was supposed to be the guarantor of the deal.
...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
...Arabic for 
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...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, a practice dating back to the heady human sacrifice days of Baal Moloch. In 2020 Hezbollahblew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate faci8lity exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that...
[LIBYAREVIEW] Parties, blocs, and political organizations in Libya have welcomed the issuance of the Libyan Parliament’s Act No. 1 of 2021, regarding the election of the President and determining his powers, describing this step as a "historic achievement."In a statement, the political parties saluted "all the efforts made by the various segments of Libyan society, its political organizations, and the international community to achieve the people’s demand to exercise their right to choose their president in a historical precedent since the time of independence."
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[Ynet] Spokeswoman says Yaqoub Qadiri and Mohammad al-Arida - both members of Islamic Jihad - were located near the Arab city of Nazareth; local woman alerted police after fugitives asked her for food; Palestinians in Gaza fire rockets at south shortly after capture.
[FoxNews] Florida authorities released dash camera footage Thursday of a deputy-involved shooting that ended with a dead suspect — a man who was out on bond for drug trafficking and had multiple convictions for violent offenses, officials said Thursday. 
...former chancellor of Kabul University, ex-president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. When Biden abandoned the country left with a helicopter, four cars, and part of the national treasury...
