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Russian General: Plan to Seize Ukraine's Entire Coastline
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Afghanistan
IS Claims Responsibility for Explosions across Afghanistan
[KhaamaPress] Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(IS) in a statement has grabbed credit for the earth-shattering kabooms in four different Afghan cities that killed over 40 civilians and maimed more than eighty more, India Today reported.

The IS in their statement said that explosives were set in a bag inside the mosque in Mazar-e-Sharif and were blown up from afar.

The explosion that targeted Shiite Moslems in She Dokan mosque killed at least 37 and maimed more than 80 more.

In another explosion in the northern Kunduz province, four people were killed and eight more maimed after a planted bomb went kaboom! near a car of mechanics working for the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
In the capital Kabul, two planted bombs maimed two children while that in the eastern Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
province killed four Taliban members.
One India adds:
Earlier Thursday, a roadside bomb exploded near a boys school in the Afghan capital of Kabul, injuring two children in the city's predominately Shiite neighbourhood of Dasht-e-Barchi.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/23/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Victims of Balkh Mosque Attack Buried on Friday
Follow up to yesterday’s reports here and here.
[ToloNews] The bodies of the victims of the attack on the mosque in Mazar-e-Sharif in Balkh province were buried on Friday.

One of the victims was a street vendor.

Shir Ahmad, 55, was working on the streets of the city of Mazar-e-Sharif as a vendor to feed his family.

He left a family of seven behind.

"He was working as a street vendor. He went to pray and was martyred there," said Abdul Ghafor, a relative of Shir Ahmad.

The participants at Shir Ahmad’s funeral said that they have buried four corpses who were killed in the attack in this graveyard.

"(All) of them were young people. They were aged 25 to 30 and each of them left children behind," said Amanullah, a brother of Shir Ahmad.

Sources said that 31 people were killed and 87 others were maimed in the blast.

"I have buried 17 corpses with my own hands," said Sayed Sadeq, a resident of Mazar-e-Sharif.

The residents of Mazar-e-Sharif said that many people who were killed were young adults aged 20 to 25.

"We have four deaders. One of them left two children," said Ismail, a resident of Mazar-e-Sharif.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/23/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Africa Subsaharan
How Wema Bank Top Officials Used Redeemed Church Pastor’s Account For N1.7billion Money Laundering, Fraud
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 04/23/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Slim Pickens, well east of the Pecos:
"Two fufus with salsa and Bac-Os!"
The gal ridin' pillion:
"That couple of billion's
A pretty dull weekend in Lagos."
Posted by: Glaviter Hupomock6465 || 04/23/2022 2:40 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ *Golf clap*
Posted by: Frank G || 04/23/2022 7:50 Comments || Top||


Shiites Demand Lifting Of Travel Ban On Leader, El-Zakzaky, Wife
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, big turban of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), which Nigeria declared a terror group in 2019, was previously the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Nigeria. He converted to Shi'ism after a visit to Iran, becoming a fiery Iranian sock puppet. Like the Muslim Brotherhood, IMN’s spinoffs, including Boko Haram/ISWAP, are much more violent.
Posted by: Fred || 04/23/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Islamic Movement of Nigeria (Iran)


The Grand Turk
Jailed Turkish activist's marathon show trial nears verdict
[Rudaw] One of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
's most famous prisoners will appear before court Friday for what could be his final hearing in a case that has come to define Ankara's uneasy ties with the West.

Gay Paree-born activist and philanthropist Osman Kavala was a relative unknown when he was detained on his arrival at Istanbul's airport from a trip to a cultural centre in the Ottoman Turkish city of Gaziantep in October 2017.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 04/23/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


India-Pakistan
ISIS threat for Faisalabad
[DW] On Thursday, police in Faisalabad
...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after...
, in Pakistain's Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....

province, issued a threat warning to residents of the country's third-largest city. "It has been learned," police said, "that IS-K planned to carry out terrorist activities in Faisalabad." Authorities advised citizens to "exercise extreme vigilance," though gave no further details.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/23/2022 00:07 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Lone-wolf Palestinian terrorists show private gripes now top ideology, say analysts
[IsraelTimes] Ex-officer in Israeli military intelligence says young Paleostinians are fed up with ’the ideologies and the high politics’ and are thus turning to ’individual efforts’

Recent deadly attacks by Paleostinians have shown a shift in the dynamics of terrorism in the West Bank, as armed factions play less of a role and individual grievances trump ideology, analysts say.

At a bustling market in the Paleostinian political headquarters of Ramallah, customers clamor to get their hands on the latest hot trend. This season, it is T-shirts printed with an M-16 rifle. Clothing store manager Ahmed Abu Hamza said he has sold 12,000 of the shirts in the past week.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 04/23/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Authority

#1  I have to feed my family. I will become a terrorist! If I die, my family will be fed. If I live I might get to marry my first cousin. This will ensure that more low intelligence terrorists are created. You westerners are so lucky, you just have to go to bar. I have to raid my neighbors barn.
Posted by: Papa Cooky || 04/23/2022 12:57 Comments || Top||

#2  Down at the barn they're saying "Here comes that baaaaaaaaad man..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/23/2022 13:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Individualism be damned. I would suggest paying no heed to sociology experts and people who have to go do PhDs to understand Paleostinians. They'll gradually have you believe that you are responsible for their poverty and that by empowering moslems you'll be doing yourselves a favour. You won't.

Just kill as many as you can under whatever pretext you can think of. Outsource the killing to radical Jewish groups and such for a really consistent score. Keep killing them for a year at least. Arm and train more and more factions of free radical anti-moslems.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 04/23/2022 14:40 Comments || Top||

#4  A worthy rant.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/23/2022 15:37 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Report accuses Iran of sending port blast nitrates to Beirut
[AnNahar] 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...
sent to Beirut the hundreds of tons of ammonium nitrate that detonated in August 2020 at the port of Beirut causing the world's biggest non-nuclear explosion, according to a report by the Saudi-owned al-Arabiya's al-Hadath TV.
So this might be true, or someone might have literally dreamed it up last night.
Al-Hadath said it has learned from unnamed sources that Iran had sent the shipment to the ports of Poti and Batumi in Georgia through Azerbaijan, then to Madagascar instead of Beirut in an attempt to "cover-up" the transfer.

From Madagascar the shipment arrived to "its main destination, the port of Beirut, where Hizbullah
...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
stored the ammonium nitrate along with rockets," al-Hadath said.

"Some quantity of the ammonium nitrate was smuggled to Syria, another was used to make rockets," the report added.

The report stressed the Iranian presence in Azerbaijan, accusing Iran of forming a Shiite militia there, called Huseynyun. It also said that Iran's intelligence agencies heavily control the ports of Poti and Batumi in Georgia.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/23/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran



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2Banditti
1Islamic Movement of Nigeria (Iran)
1Devout Moslems
1Moslem Colonists
1Fulani Herdsmen (Boko Haram)
1Govt of Iran
1Palestinian Authority

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Sat 2022-04-23
  Russian General: Plan to Seize Ukraine's Entire Coastline
Fri 2022-04-22
  CNN: Russia replenishes forces on the front line.
Thu 2022-04-21
  Kiev reacts to proposal for ‘Easter truce’
Wed 2022-04-20
  Republican governors deploy 'strike force' to secure border amid surge in migrants
Tue 2022-04-19
  Ukraine:It's on again!
Mon 2022-04-18
  Joint military force from Nigeria, Niger and Cameroon says it has killed more than 100 insurgents
Sun 2022-04-17
  Pakistan Attacks TTP in Kunar, Khost Causing Dozens of Casualties
Sat 2022-04-16
  Fugitive drugs lord wanted in 200 countries is CAUGHT after his model girlfriend posted a photo of them together on Facebook
Fri 2022-04-15
  Plateau Attacks: 106 People Buried, More Bodies Still Being Found, Says Council Chairman
Thu 2022-04-14
  Ukraine sinks Black Sea Fleet flagship Moskva
Wed 2022-04-13
  Lebanese queue for bread amid wheat shortages
Tue 2022-04-12
  ShehbazSharif elected as new Prime Minister of Pakistan
Mon 2022-04-11
  Eight-mile long Russian convoy snakes towards Ukrainian east
Sun 2022-04-10
  Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan ousted in assembly no-confidence vote
Sat 2022-04-09
  Stash of assault rifles, body armor, passports with multiple visas, and sham uniforms found in penthouse of 'fake' Homeland agents


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