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Is this a Russian ‘Barguzin’ nuke weapons train in the Ukraine?
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Home Front: WoT
Iran plotting assassination of John Bolton, others, even while Biden negotiates nuclear deal
Multitasking, And anyway, Dire Revenge is required of Allah’s Mostest Faithfullest of All.
[WashingtonExaminer] At least two Iranians belonging to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards’ covert-action Quds Force have been plotting to assassinate former national security adviser John Bolton, according to a Justice Department official with direct knowledge of the investigation.

The source tells the Washington Examiner that the department possesses indictable evidence against the Iranians but that Biden administration, the same old faces in slightly different places, the same old ideas, the same old graft
...knaves, footpads, and adjusters employed by the Biden Crime Family. They leave a trail of havoc everywhere they turn their attention, be it the nation's borders, the Keystone XL Pipeline, or epidemics, sometimes on purpose, most times through sheer arrogant ineptitude. They learnt this stuff in college, you know...
officials are resisting publicly indicting the men for fear that it could derail their drive for a nuclear deal with Iran, currently nearing completion in negotiations in Vienna, Austria. Biden’s hope is to resume the 2015 JCPOA Iran
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Posted by: trailing wife || 03/08/2022 08:19 || Comments || Link || [23 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  If they succeed, Darth Bolton will come back stronger than you can imagine. (hat tip Spielberg)
Posted by: Mercutio || 03/08/2022 12:43 Comments || Top||

#2  Too bad the Biden Brigade piss their pants every time Iran is mentioned.
Posted by: Angaiper Ulavins1210 || 03/08/2022 22:57 Comments || Top||


Pentagon says Guantanamo detainee known as '20th Hijacker' will be sent back to Saudi Arabia
[WashingtonExaminer] A Saudi man who has been a Guantanamo Bay detainee for 20 years for allegedly conspiring to take part in the Sept. 11 hijacking plot will soon be transferred back to his home country, the Pentagon announced Monday.

Mohammad Mani Ahmad al Qahtani,
...those endless Arab names with their many alternate spellings! In his case, the popular Arabian name Mohammed al-Qahtani in the Rantburg archives also appears as Mohammed al-Kahtani and Mohamed al-Kahtani. He made it to Orlando, Florida, before being deported a month before 9/11...
who is known as the "20th Hijacker,"
... yes, dear Reader, you do remember correctly: Zacarias Moussaoui is also known as the 20th Hijacker. Some people, brilliant as they are in other ways, just cannot count beyond their fingers and toes...
is being returned on the condition that he will be subject to security and humane treatment, according to the Defense Department statement.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 03/08/2022 08:13 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda

#1  To a heroes welcome!
Posted by: Chris || 03/08/2022 11:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Hard to say; the new management might just shorten him by a foot head or so.
Posted by: Mercutio || 03/08/2022 12:45 Comments || Top||

#3  Make him swim home.
Posted by: tu3031 || 03/08/2022 19:48 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IDF airs footage of drone interceptions, accuses Iran of escalating ‘UAV terror’
[IsraelTimes] Military officials see rising trend of Iranian drone activity in recent years, as Tehran aims to supply affiliate groups with thousands of aircraft

As officials in recent days have said a potential nuclear deal between Iran
...They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and world powers may be in the offing, the Israeli military on Monday published fresh allegations regarding Tehran’s drone program, including new footage of Israeli planes downing several Iranian unmanned aircraft.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 03/08/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Four Palestinians indicted for firebombing Jewish home in Sheikh Jarrah
[IsraelTimes] 3 men, 1 minor charged with throwing Molotov cocktails at residence of Tal Yushuvayev, sparking festivities in contentious East Jerusalem neighborhood

Prosecutors on Monday indicted four Paleostinians from East Jerusalem, including a minor, for the alleged Molotov cocktailing of a Jewish home in Sheikh Jarrah last month.

The Jerusalem District Prosecutor’s Office requested that the group be kept in jug until the end of the legal proceedings against them.

The suspects were arrested in the days following the attack on Tal Yushuvayev’s home, which sparked festivities in the flashpoint neighborhood after far-right MK Itamar Ben Gvir opened a makeshift office at the scene.

According to the indictment, Mu’taz Haj Mahmoud, Balal Jabari, Jamal Husseini and an unnamed minor prepared Molotov cocktails and threw them at Yushuvayev’s residence.

No injuries were reported in the fire. However,
some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves...
the house was badly damaged and police said an officer was lightly hurt from smoke inhalation after entering the home.

The indictment further alleges that the four were involved in additional arson attempts in the months preceding the incident.

In November, according to the indictment, the three tried to set fire to the same house, and in December, two of them set fire to and totally burned the Yushuvayev family’s vehicle.

In addition, in January, one of the defendants, along with another person, threw Molotov cocktails at the Yushuvayev family home, causing damage to property.

According to the indictment, they also took part in festivities in the neighborhood, during which they threw stones at Jews and fireworks at security forces.

The defendants are charged with a range of offenses, including arson, racially motivated malicious harm, terrorism, aggravated sabotage, using weapons for terroristic purposes, and attempted assault on a police officer.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/08/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under:


Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka church seeks UN probe into Easter massacre
[Dawn] The head of Sri Lanka’s Roman Catholic Church on Monday urged the United Nations
...the Oyster Bay money pit...
to investigate the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed 279 people, calling the massacre a "political plot".
The original events transpired before our eyes here. The miscreants were associated with two ISIS-associated groups: National Thowheeth Jama’ath (NTJ) (also spelt Sri Lanka Thawheed Jamaat, Tawheed Jamaath and Thowfeek Jamaath), which had not only pledged allegiance, but had gotten training from ISIS experts, and Jamathei Millathu Ibrahim (JMI).
In an address to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith demanded a mechanism to probe the attacks, which have been blamed on local Islamic radicals.

"The first impression of this massacre was that it was purely the work of a few Islamic krazed killers," Ranjith said. "However,
facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable...
subsequent investigations indicate that this massacre was part of a grand political plot."

The Church has previously suggested that the attacks, which targeted three churches and three hotels in Colombo in April 2019, helped Gotabaya Rajapaksa win the presidential elections in November the same year.

The government has not responded to the Church’s accusations.

Ranjith, who initially supported Rajapa­ksa’s election as president, said there were attempts by the government "to harass and intimidate those who clamour for justice".

Catholic priests have been summoned and questioned at length by the Criminal Investigations Department over statements critical of the slow progress in investigations. "Nearly three years after the horrendous crime, we are still in the dark as to what really happened on that Easter Sunday," the cardinal said.

His address to the UN Council came a week after meeting with the pope.

Sri Lanka is on the agenda of the UN’s top rights body at the moment for a separate reason.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/08/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Bastards. Srilanka security forces have been hard on both islamics and Catholics and their camraderie has not gone unnoticed in the island nation. The politicians have acquired strong local support against the islamic organization ACJU, and there are cases of land grabbing and encroachment on the catholic diocese already, so first they conspire together to trick the laity into 'forgiving the muslims', then they ask for this. The UN, that prized litigator for islamics around the world. Who are they going to probe, the UN? Survivors who saw the islamic blow himself up? The police, who picked up the pieces? The islamics themselves who'll say the man was either a saint or a mentally unstable person? Is a UN investigation any more credible than a nation's own investigative agency's?
Posted by: Cthulhu of Ryleh || 03/08/2022 8:30 Comments || Top||

#2  This, Cthulhu of Ryleh? All Ceylon Jamiyyathul Ulama
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/08/2022 15:52 Comments || Top||

#3  Jesus warned Christians that it would be a hard road. It's not nearly as bad yet as it will get.

But Believe for your own sake. Not to be a PR node for some Earthly principality.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/08/2022 16:39 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Top Iran nuclear negotiator flies home as talks finish line remains elusive
The end of a pointless exercise, because Iran only wanted to see how much ransom they could get while they continued to work toward workable nuclear bombs? Or only a pause in the pointless exercise, etc?
[IsraelTimes] Iran’s top diplomat at monthslong talks aimed at restoring its tattered nuclear deal with world powers has flown home for a sudden trip, a sign of the growing pressure on Tehran as the negotiations appear to be nearing their end.

Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency describes Ali Bagheri Kani’s trip late Monday as being "within the framework of the usual consultations during the talks."

However,
there's more than one way to skin a cat...
the top negotiator for the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
seems to suggest whether the talks succeeded or failed now rested with the Islamic Theocratic Republic.

"There are no longer ’expert level talks.’ Nor ’formal meetings,’" Enrique Mora wrote on Twitter, responding to comments by an Iranian analyst. "It is time, in the next few days, for political decisions to end the #ViennaTalks. The rest is noise."
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/08/2022 01:29 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Statement: SDF continues to defend NE Syria


QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – On Monday, the US-led Global Coalition forces to Defeat ISIS stressed their continued support for the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northeastern Syria, which continue to defend the region.

“We remain committed to support our SDF partners as they continue to defend NE Syria,” Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTFOIR) posted on its Facebook.

“SDF are working towards maintaining stability, protecting the people of NE Syria, and acting to provide a feeling of security and safety,” the CJTFOIR added.

The Global Coalition forces proved their close partnership with the SDF through the direct intervention in the air and on the ground during the ISIS attacks and jailbreak on al-Sina’a prison in Hasakah, northeast Syria.

The SDF, with the support of the Coalition, managed to regain control over the prison on January 25.

Meanwhile, the Global Coalition forces brought huge military reinforcements to their bases in northeastern Syria, including Bradley Fighting Vehicles.

Posted by: badanov || 03/08/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [19 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State



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  Is this a Russian ‘Barguzin’ nuke weapons train in the Ukraine?
Mon 2022-03-07
  Ukraine's Government Opens Website To Recruit Foreigners To 'International Legion'
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Sat 2022-03-05
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  Russian Maj. Gen. Andrei Sukhovetsky Tango Uniform
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  Mexican drug cartel pull mourners from a wake, shoot them
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  Putin throws MORE ground forces at Kyiv
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Sat 2022-02-26
  Day Z + 1. On the outskirts of Kiev
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  Day 2: Ukrainian Su27 jet shot down over Kyiv as capital comes under attack from 'cruise missiles', Putin's tanks move within 20 MILES of city: Zelensky rages at Biden for leaving his country 'alone', says Kremlin marked him 'target No.1' UPDATED
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  Putin attacks all over the Ukraine
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  Russian 'peacekeeper' troops enter Russian controlled east Ukraine


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