[FoxNews] Former Minnesota police officer found guilty on all charges in the death of Daunte Wright.
The jury has found former Minneapolis-area police Officer Kim Potter guilty of first and second degree manslaughter charges in the April 2021 death of Daunte Wright.
Kim Potter, 49, could face a maximum sentence of 15 years for the first-degree manslaughter charge, while the second-degree charge carries a maximum sentence of 10 years.
Judge Regina Chu ordered Potter to be taken into custody and held without bail. She also praised the jurors as "heroes of the judicial system." The judge rejected a request from the defense team that Potter be allowed to remain out on $100,000 bail before sentencing. They argued that it's Christmas season and Potter is a devout Catholic, but prosecutors noted that Potter's family had moved out of state.
The jury, comprised of six men and six women, had spent over 27 hours deliberating.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said outside the courthouse that "we have a degree of accountability for Daunte’s death," but that he also felt for Potter.
"She is going from being an esteemed member of the community, an honored member of a noble profession, to being convicted of a serious crime," Ellison said. "I don’t wish that on anyone, but it was our responsibility as the prosecutor, as ministers of justice, to pursue justice wherever it led, and the jury found the facts."
Potter had 26 years of experience as a police officer on April 11 when she says she mistook her handgun for her Taser and fatally wounded 20-year-old Wright.
The 26-year police veteran and other officers, including a trainee, were attempting to arrest Wright when he tried to get back into his vehicle, video shows.
The officers had attempted to stop Wright and then tried to detain him after learning of a warrant for his arrest. Wright, 20, can be seen in a police video climbing back into the driver’s seat of a vehicle as the officers scuffle with him.
In Potter’s body camera footage from the shooting, she can be heard yelling, "I’ll tase you!" and "Taser! Taser! Taser!" before firing her handgun.
She can then be heard saying, "I grabbed the wrong f------ gun," followed by: "Holy s---, I just shot him."
Judge Chu scheduled Potter to be sentenced on Feb. 18. She faces up to 15 years in prison for the first-degree manslaughter charge and up to 10 years in prison for the second-degree manslaughter charge.
The prosecution has said they'll seek an upward departure from sentencing guidelines due to aggravating factors, arguing that Potter's actions were a danger to others and that she abused her authority as a police officer.
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If you don't have mixed feelings about this, you aren't looking at it very closely.
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I don't have mixed feelings about it (I'll give her the benefit of the doubt) but I'll pass on what my roomie said about it (he's got 43 years in on a local police force) - 'there's no way you go to pull your service weapon and not know the difference between it being a gun or a taser'.
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The way to avoid accidents is not by being careful, but by arranging things so they can't be done wrong. The original formulation of Murphy's Law was "If there is a way to do it wrong, somebody will".
The f**k-up here was wearing both the taser and the gun on the same side which created the possibility of grabbing the wrong one. It is easy to win a round of "Taser? or Gun?" with both weapons laying on the table. But this was real life, in the heat of the moment, with the perp trying to drive off with 2 officers hanging out of the car. I suspect Officer Potter's hand was much more familiar with drawing her gun than her taser.
The prosecution has said they'll seek an upward departure from sentencing guidelines due to aggravating factors, arguing that Potter's actions were a danger to others and that she abused her authority as a police officer.
That is Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (bees pee upon him) playing to the cheap seats. Just more fodder for the race war.
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I'm done with 'less than lethal'. Remove all of it. If you resist, you get shot, you stop getting shot when you stop resisting.
We also need to bring back the three strikes law but it needs to be 3 strikes and you get hauled out behind the court house, tied to a stake and 4 guys with AA-12's loaded with Frag-12 rounds turn you into confetti.
[Garowe] Fighting has reportedly stopped in Bosaso, the commercial capital of Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... state, in what could now pave way for dialogue to end the standoff at PSF, which had been going on since last month after the dismissal of the security agency's director.
For the better part of Tuesday, forces loyal to former Puntland Security Forces [PSF] director Mohammed Osman Diano engaged in a shootout with troops under the Puntland government that claimed the lives of several people and displacement.
Reports from the seaside city indicate that fighting between the two parties has stopped on Wednesday night but the number of casualties still remains unknown. Hundreds of residents of the town flee to neighboring areas on Tuesday.
Prior to the ceasefire, efforts were underway to end the ongoing fighting in Bossaso. Last night, the President of Puntland Said Abdullahi Deni spoke by telephone with a number of civil society organizations and politicians, including former Presidents over the matter.
Sources say the talks between the Puntland government and the former PSF Director will begin in the coming hours and are expected to be mediated by some Puntland elders and religious leaders.
Deni left Baidoa on Tuesday for Garowe after fighting intensified in Bosaso but it's not clear if he had intentions of visiting the coastal city. After intensive meetings, sources told Garowe Online, both sides pledged to agree with a ceasefire for the sake of stability.
The former Somali Prime Minister Omar Sharmarke wrote on his Twitter account that the fighting should end and Puntland should do better after 23 years. He has been pushing for stability in the country for the last couple of years.
The ceasefire was announced by Abdisamad Gallan, the security minister of the Puntland government who said they are ready for talks with the sacked PSF director. This came after efforts by local traditional elders and religious leaders.
The US-backed PSF forces have been integral in the fight against al-Shabaab ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... , functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... and ISIS in the Bari region.
The government communication service said the "gallant Æthiopian Defence Forces and the Amhara region security forces after sweeping the enemy force... have captured Alamata city", indicating that fighting would continue.
"The Æthiopian National Defence Forces and the Amhara region security forces which are... destroying the fleeing terrorist clique are marching on Abergele," the government said, referring to a district in Tigray.
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[BREITBART] Jihadist Fulani ... a peculiarly brutal tribe of Moslem herdsmen infesting Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and probably other places that are light on law and order and heavy on tribal identity... murderous Moslems killed at least 45 largely Christian Tiv farmers in central Nigeria’s Nasarawa state in recent days, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari confirmed Tuesday.
Buhari’s front man issued a statement on his behalf on December 21 expressing the president’s "grief over the heart-wrenching murder of 45 farmers and scores injured following renewed hostilities in ... Nasarawa State."
Armed Fulani herdsmen launched attacks on Nasarawa farmers of the Tiv ethnic group from December 17 through December 19. The violence ensued over the recent killing of a Fulani kinsman in Nasarawa, which the cattle herders blamed on local Tiv farmers, according to Agence La Belle France-Presse (AFP).
Buhari denounced the 48 hours of bloodshed as "senseless and barbaric" in his statement Tuesday. He said his administration would "leave no stone unturned" in bringing the perpetrators "to justice."
President Buhari is himself a member of the Fulani ethnic group and a Moslem. Observers of Nigeria’s worsening Fulani holy warrior crisis have criticized Buhari for his failure to meaningfully curb the largely Moslem group’s attacks on predominantly Christian farmers.
"In 2015, President Muhammadu Buhari .. came to power, and the situation went from bad to worse," Salihu Musa Umar — the founder of Africa’s Farmers and Herders Initiative for Peace and Development — told AFP on April 28.
"Many farmers have accused Buhari’s government of bias — or worse, of stoking the violence for political gain," the news agency noted at the time.
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#3: what is to become of cities like chicagp and minneapolis, and DC? In 2023 it is likely that the house and senate go !dem, that biden and harris are impeached and the speaker (mcarthy?) becomes president. But what of these places where lawlessness prevails? we should stop using 'dem' and 'gop' and refer to ourselves as we believe. Some good words have been sh*t-canned... Liberal, Progressive, Racist, Gay, etc. I can see the government changing but what changes the people.
[IsraelTimes] Sailors boarding fishing vessel find 1,400 Kalashnikov-style rifles and 226,600 rounds of ammunition
The US Navy said it seized a large cache of assault rifles and ammunition being smuggled by a fishing ship from Iran ...The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both... likely bound for war-ravaged Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... US Navy patrol ships discovered the weapons aboard what the Navy described as a stateless fishing vessel in an operation that began on Monday in the northern reaches of the Arabian Sea off Oman and Pakistain. Sailors boarded the vessel and found 1,400 Kalashnikov-style rifles and 226,600 rounds of ammunition, as well five Yemeni crew members.
It’s just the latest interdiction amid the grinding war in Yemen that pits Iran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... rebels against a Saudi-led military coalition. Western nations and UN experts repeatedly have accused Iran of smuggling illicit weapons and technology into Yemen over the years, fueling the civil war and enabling the Houthis to fire missiles and drones into neighboring 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... Iran denies arming the Houthis despite evidence to the contrary.
In an unusually pointed move, the statement late Wednesday from the Navy’s Bahrain-based 5th Fleet blamed Iran for sending the weapons, saying the boat was sailing along a route "historically used to traffic weapons unlawfully to the Houthis in Yemen."
"The direct or indirect supply, sale or transfer of weapons to the Houthis violates UN Security Council Resolutions and US sanctions," the statement added.
Iran’s mission to the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the interception.
US Navy patrol ships transferred the confiscated weapons to the guided-missile destroyer USS O’Kane before sinking the fishing vessel because of the "hazard" it posed to commercial shipping. It said the Yemeni crew would be repatriated.
American seizures of arms bound for Yemen’s war, typically Kalashnikov rifles, machine guns and rocket-propelled grenade launchers, began in 2016 and have continued intermittently. Yemen is awash with small arms that have been smuggled into poorly controlled ports over years of conflict.
The Navy’s 5th fleet said it has confiscated some 8,700 illicit weapons so far this year across the 2.5 million-square-mile area it patrols, including the strategically important Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
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[KavkazUzel] A military court in Rostov-on-Don today sentenced Ali Yakhyaev, a native of Chechnya, to five years in a strict regime colony, having found him guilty of trying to go to Syria to participate in a terrorist organization.
Ali Yakhyaev, a 25-year-old native of the village of Kakadoy, Itum-Kalinsky district of Chechnya, was accused of attempting to participate in a terrorist organization (part 1 of Article 30 - part 2 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code of Russia) and an attempt to participate in an illegal armed group (Part 1 of Article 30 - Part 2 of Article 208 Of the Criminal Code of Russia). The maximum punishment under these articles provides for up to 20 and up to 15 years in prison, respectively.
"It was established that in 2019 the defendant, using his personal mobile phone, registered in one of the social networks to search for a person who would help him get into Syria to join the ranks of an illegal armed group. He entered into a correspondence with a member."
"The defendant saved up money and found air tickets for March 2021, which he informed the member of the organization, but was detained by law enforcement officers," the press service of the Southern District Military Court told the" Caucasian Knot "correspondent.
"In accordance with the verdict of the court, the defendant was found guilty and he was sentenced to imprisonment for a term of 5 years in a strict regime correctional colony, with serving the first three years in prison."
"Yakhyaev pleaded guilty. The verdict did not enter into legal force and can be appealed parties in the Military Court of Appeal," the press service said.
The "Caucasian Knot" has not yet received any comments from Ali Yakhyaev and his representatives regarding the decision of the court.
The criminal case against Yakhyaev was submitted to the court on September 20, the process took six sessions, it follows from the file on the website of the Southern District Military Court.
A 25-year-old resident of the village of Prigorodnoye, Ali Yakhyaev, who "was detained in early January because of a comment on social networks" was mentioned in a message from the Telegram channel 1ADAT.
[Rudaw] The fate of dozens of migrants colonists from a boat that is believed to have sunk due to a technical failure in the Aegean Sea on Tuesday evening is unknown, a Greek coasties said on Wednesday, with a Kurdish migrant activist telling Rudaw that he had evidence to suggest most of those on board were Kurds.
In the past seven years over 633,000 people from the Kurdistan Region and Iraq have migrated abroad.
"The survivors made it onto a dinghy that was tethered to the boat. Only two of them were wearing life jackets," coastiesfront man Nikos Kokkalas told the Greek state-run ERT television, AP reported on Wednesday.
The coasties added that the dead body of one unidentified man was recovered on Wednesday, and that 12 people have so far been rescued and transported to Santorini Island, with all believed to be from Iraq.
"We always presume the worst-case scenario, in this case that 50 people were on the boat," Kokkalas said, as he explained how the search and rescue operation began on Tuesday night when the Greek coasties received information that the engine on a vessel carrying migrants colonists had failed. If the coasties’s estimate proves correct it leaves at least 37 missing.
Ranj Peshdari, a Kurdish migrant activist, in an interview with Rudaw TV on Wednesday has given a higher estimate of the number of migrants colonists on the boat. He said "more than 70 migrants colonists" were on the boat en route to Italia, of which "more than 60" were Kurds, some of whom made contact with him on Tuesday night to tell him that their boat was leaking.
"[The] last time they called me they were still in the water and hung up the phone with a lot of shouting," Peshdari added.
The International Federation of Iraqi Refugees (IFIR) told Rudaw on Wednesday that the identities of those on board were not yet revealed. According to Hiwa Khidir, head of IFIR in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... , the boat sank in the Aegean Sea between Turkey’s Izmir and Athens.
Kurdish migrants colonists have suffered a catastrophic fate this year. A boat carrying 33 migrants colonists, most of them Kurds, capsized in the English Channel on November 24, in what the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has called the "worst disaster on record" in the Channel.
There are only two known survivors of the disaster, including a Kurd from the Region. Bodies of the sixteen identified Iraqi Kurds are to be returned to the Kurdistan Region on Friday, following the return of the body of Sirwan Alipour, an Iranian Kurd, to Tehran on Monday.
Thousands of other Kurds have traveled to Belarus in recent months with the help of Kurdish smugglers, hoping to reach western Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... in a search for jobs and opportunities they feel they cannot access at home where unemployment is high and political tensions, corruption, and instability leave them with little hope for their future.
According to data provided to Rudaw in October by the head of Summit (Lutka) Foundation for Refugee and Displaced Affairs Ari Jalal, in the past seven years over 633,000 people from the Kurdistan Region and Iraq have migrated abroad. Of them, over 260 have died on the way; a number that has significantly increased in recent months.
[Al Ahram] Greek authorities ramped up a major sea-and-air search and rescue operation in the Aegean Sea on Wednesday after a migrant smuggling vessel sank, leaving at least three people dead and dozens reported missing.
The coasties said 12 people, all believed to be from Iraq, were rescued from an inflatable dinghy off the island of Folegandros in the southern Cyclades, 180 kilometers (112 miles) southeast of Athens.
The 11 men and one woman were taken to a hospital on the nearby island of Santorini as a precaution.
The bodies of three faceless myrmidons were recovered from the sea.
The survivors said they had been on a larger boat that took on water and sank overnight. Most said there were originally 32 people on the boat, but one told authorities there were about 50.
The coasties said a navy frigate joined four coasties vessels, 8 merchant ships, three smaller private vessels, three military helicopters and a military transport plane taking part in the search and rescue operation as night approached.
``The survivors made it onto a dinghy that was tethered to the (bigger) vessel. Only two of them were wearing life jackets,'' Coast Guard front man Nikos Kokkalas told state-run ERT television. ``We always presume the worst-case scenario, in this case that 50 people were on the boat.''
The coasties said the operation began Tuesday night after it received information that a vessel carrying migrants colonists had suffered engine failure and later began taking on water south of Folegandros.
Greece is one of the most popular routes into the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... for people fleeing conflict and poverty in Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Most attempt to cross in dinghies from the Ottoman Turkish shore to the nearby eastern Aegean Greek islands.
But with increased patrols and allegations of summary deportations back to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey Turkey" valign=top style='float:right;;padding:5px;border:0px solid silver;' />...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... for those who arrive, many have been attempting lengthier routes on larger vessels. Folegandros, one of the southern islands in the Cyclades, is not along a usual route for migrant smugglers.
Other vessels have bypassed the Greek islands and headed directly from Turkey to Italia.
An #American diplomat working for the U.S. consulate in #Lebanon has been arrested in #Turkey on suspicion of selling a fake passport for $10,000 to a Syrian national, Turkey's state news agency said on Wednesday.https://t.co/s6VXhcWyrR
An American diplomat working for the U.S. consulate in Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...The land area formerly occupied by the state of Lebanon, before that Phoenicia... has been arrested in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... on suspicion of selling a fake passport for $10,000 to a Syrian national, Turkey’s state news agency said on Wednesday.
According to Turkey’s Anadolu Agency, which cited a statement from the Istanbul Security Directorate, the diplomat and the Syrian national were arrested after the latter allegedly tried to travel to Germany using the passport, which had been issued to the diplomat, from Istanbul International Airport on Nov. 11.
The statement said that security camera footage of the individuals showed the two meeting at the airport and exchanging clothes with one another, per Anadolu Agency.
The police said they had video evidence of the diplomat handing over the diplomatic passport, which had been identified as suspicious at passport control, Rooters reported.
Anadolu Agency reported that $10,000 was allegedly found in an envelope along with a passport in the diplomat’s name — who was identified by his initials, D.J.K. — after coppers conducted a body search, per the statement from the Istanbul Security Directorate.
The diplomat was locked away Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! following the incident and remains in detention. The Syrian man was released pending a possible trial for falsifying documents, according to Anadolu Agency.
The news agency added that while foreign diplomats usually have immunity from prosecution, they are subject to prosecution and punishment in countries where they are not accredited. Since the U.S. diplomat was accredited in Lebanon — and not Turkey — he is liable to face prosecution per the country’s laws.
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Diplomatic immunity? We doan need no stinkin' diplomatic immunity.
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Anadolu Agency reported that $10,000 was allegedly found in an envelope along with a passport in the diplomat’s name
Personal Meet (PM) caught on video goes bad. $10,000. not paid to source as intended. US "Diplomat" cooling his heels in Turkish prison, not sent packing as in persona non grata (PNG). Chief of Station pounds desk, shakes head. Farm integrates video in current class curriculum under pi** poor tradcraft.
Prospective source and family now enjoying dinner and night out with the Director, Turkish National Security Service.
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State is saying he’s a private AmCit and NOT a USG employee. Klingon NOC op gone pear shaped?
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Anadolu Agency is not the independent news organization it was before President Erdogan stepped up to all-but-sultan. We haven’t looked at their website for years — since they got serious about rounding up military and accused Gulenists after Erdogan claimed there was an attempted coup.
[Rudaw] 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) snuffies attacked the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF, or Hashd al-Shaabi) in Salahaddin province late Wednesday, killing two fighters, the pro-Iran ...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979... Shiite group said in a statement.
Hashd said in the statement that ISIS attacked their forces in al-Fathah district of Salahaddin, killing two of its fighters and injuring four others "during confrontations."
"A force from the [Hashd] brigade carried out a security operation to pursue the terrorist organization's cells following its latest attack," it added.
In its propaganda magazine on Thursday, ISIS claimed to have conducted 9 attacks in Iraq from December 9 to December 15, killing and injuring 25 people.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli army says Paleostinian shot at them from passing vehicle as soldiers entered city to search for suspects; Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, praises attack.
A Paleostinian gunman shot up Israeli troops Wednesday night from a passing car as they entered the outskirts of Ramallah, the Israeli army said. The soldiers returned fire, killing the assailant.
According to the military, Israeli soldiers entered the city’s al-Bireh neighborhood to detain several Paleostinians who had approached the boundaries of the nearby settlement of Psagot.
During the search, the gunman opened fire. The soldiers shot back, wounding him. The man, identified as 26-year-old Mohammad Issa Abbas, later perished in a Ramallah hospital, the Paleostinian Authority health ministry said.
It was not clear whether the gunman was connected to the suspects sought by the soldiers. No Israeli soldiers were maimed, according to the army.
Recent weeks have seen an uptick in Paleostinian attacks against Israeli soldiers and civilians. At least nine incidents have taken place over the past month and a half, many of them in Jerusalem.
Hamas officials were quick to praise the reported attack on Wednesday night, pledging that more would soon follow. The terror group did not claim Issa as a member, however.
"The occupation must expect more such responses of resistance," Hussein Abu Kweik, a senior figure in the group’s West Bank division, told official Hamas television.
Abu Kweik added that the coming days would be "pregnant" with "resistance activities."
"Our people will not wave the flag of surrender and will continue to resist by every means," Abu Kweik said.
[Rudaw] At least three civilians, including a mother and a daughter, were killed and a few children were maimed by Ottoman Turkish shelling in northeast Syria (Rojava) on Tuesday night, the Kurdish-led Syrian forces said hours following the attack.
The Ottoman Turkish army attacked the villages of Zarkan district in Hasaka province, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said.
The shelling led to the death of three people, including a 60-year-old mother and her 30-year-old daughter, the SDF said noting that four others were left injured.
Among the injuries were three children, it added.
The corpse count rose to four on Wednesday after an old man, who was brutally maimed in the attack, lost his life, according to Hawar News Agency (ANHA).
Local media outlets also confirmed the news of the attack, with North Press Agency (NPA) raising the toll of injuries to ten people. The internal security forces (Asayish) on Tuesday said the Ottoman Turkish offensives targeting areas in north of Hasaka are "an attempt to displace the residents," reported NPA.
The SDF and the Ottoman Turkish forces clashed in Hasaka's Tal Tamer on Wednesnday when Ankara launched a ground attack in Um al- Kif village, said ANHA.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... has not yet commented on the recent attacks.
Ankara has previously launched offensives in the districts.
Two people were killed in Ottoman Turkish bombardment in Zarkan on August 17. Days later, Turkey carried out an aerial attack on Tel Tamer’s Military Council base, killing four members of the SDF, including Sosin Birhat, who was known for her bravery in the fight 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.... (ISIS).
Turkey has conducted three military operations in northern Syria since 2016, two of them against Kurdish fighters who Ankara considers a branch of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and a threat to its national security.
It has been threatening a new offensive against Kurdish forces in Rojava in the recent months.
SDF General Commander Mazloum Abdi on Friday said Turkey is unable to undertake another "military adventure" against Rojava due to internal issues and international pressure.
Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important... in October said he had "no patience" with Kurdish forces in Tal Rifaat, a pocket of territory in the northern Aleppo countryside.
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