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Good Morning

2 More Texas Dems Who Flew To
DC Test Positive For COVID-19, Total Now 5
Tuesday July 20th, 2021

Norma-Shearer-002ba-by-ACJ-orig
Sadr city explosion is likely caused by a suicide bomber, explosives specialist says
Commander of the force in control in al-Sadr City to be arrested by order of al-Kadhimi
Turkish-trained troops graduate in Somalia amid ongoing battle
500 Civilians Maimed, Severely Injured in Kunduz in Past Month
US peace envoy visits Islamabad as Pakistan-Afghan ties sour
AANES calls on the international community to recognize it
Woman comments on police %u2018Most
Wanted' post about her, gets arrested

Posted by: Fred || 07/20/2021 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Not a trace of ink in sight.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/20/2021 11:14 Comments || Top||

#2  More exploration necessary.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 07/20/2021 12:07 Comments || Top||

#3  I never found her attractive on film. She was always presented with too stylized and a somewhat severe appearance. But some place I saw pictures of her on Charlie Chaplin's boat in the 20's. Make up free and her hair loose and genuinely full of mirth and the moment, she was utterly breathtaking.
Posted by: Cesare || 07/20/2021 15:36 Comments || Top||

#4  Blue Genealogy, or, "Mes Parents Veulent Plus Me Voir"

My mawmaw, half wop and half Cajun,
As proud of her history as Trajan,
Wears scenes from each line
Winding up to behind
And her parents enshrined... but still agin'.
Posted by: Vespasian Turkeyneck4945 || 07/20/2021 16:59 Comments || Top||

#5  Let's get one now with her hands in the air.
Posted by: jpal || 07/20/2021 18:31 Comments || Top||

#6  The Moving Pictures, or, Austerlitz & Prytania

Twas a chronicle modest and solemn
As any Napoleon's column!
When Grandfather read it
He wanted to... meditate.
"Poor Mom and Pop! How he'd maul 'em!"
Posted by: Vespasian Turkeyneck4945 || 07/20/2021 23:45 Comments || Top||


-War on Police-
Portland: Two booked into jail and charged with felony assault of an officer
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 07/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  She's just getting started on the beard, but I bet she catches up quick...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/20/2021 6:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Oh, come on, that's the first charge dropped by prosecutors. It's a joke.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/20/2021 8:10 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Afghan Shiite Fatemiyoun Division veteran killed fighting Taliban
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 07/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies


500 Civilians Maimed, Severely Injured in Kunduz in Past Month
[ToloNews] Figures by aid agencies indicate that at least 500 civilians have been maimed or in some way severely injured in the last month of fighting in the northeastern province of Kunduz. Over 130 of them are children, the report said.

The report issued by local aid agencies covers incidents between June 11 and July 17. It shows that most of the children affected in this period have been maimed or have received serious damage to a body part, particularly limbs.

"Most of them are either children or teenagers whose limbs have been amputated or they have sustained damage to the face," said Esmatullah Hotak, head of an aid organization that operates under the UN in Kunduz.

"We helped 315 families... we are monitoring others," said Najibullah Omarkhil, the acting governor of Kunduz.

Meanwhile,
...back at the argument, Jane reached into her purse for her .38...
those affected by the conflict in Kunduz in recent years gathered in the scenic provincial capital and called for an immediate end to the violence.

"We were displaced three times in the past month. Four members of our family have been maimed," said Sharifa, a displaced person in Kunduz.

"I was maimed in festivities one-and-a-half months ago. We want peace. We are tired of war," said Naqibullah, a displaced person in Kunduz.

"My limb has been cut off. We are tired of war. We want peace. We want justice," said Shah Mohammad, a resident of Imam Sahib district in Kunduz.

Figures by the government show that at least 12,000 families have been displaced in recent festivities in Kunduz.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa Subsaharan
Nigeria: Military plane shot down by bandits
[DW] A Nigerian jet has been downed in the northwest of the country. The pilot safely ejected and avoided capture.

The Nigerian air force on Monday said that one of its planes "came under intense enemy fire" from gangs with the pilot ultimately forced to bail out.

The Alpha Jet had been operating around the boundaries of Zamfara and Kaduna State when the incident happened.

Air force front man Edward Gabkwet said in a statement that the fighter jet was "returning from a successful air interdiction mission" on Sunday

"Using his survival instincts, the pilot, who came under intense ground fire from the bandidos, was able to evade them and sought refuge in nearby settlements awaiting sunset," the statement said.

The pilot, Abayomi Dairo, found his way to an army base where he was rescued after ejecting from the cockpit.

ZAMFARA STATE RIDDLED WITH VIOLENCE
A video being circulated online showed the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
taking responsibility for the attack. However,
death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate...
this turned out to be a recycled video first released in April when another Nigerian Alpha Jet was downed.

Boko Haram and its breakaway faction, 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....
West Africa Province, are probably the most famous bully boy groups battling for control of parts of northern Nigeria and neighboring countries.

Zamfara and neighboring Kaduna are among the states with a surge in criminal activities such as mass abductions of schoolchildren and armed robberies. This is often carried out by large gangs of outlaws, typically dubbed "bandidos" by the government, who operate from remote hideouts.

According to the United Nations
...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society...
Refugee Agency, nearly 2,4 million people in Nigeria and neighboring countries have been forced to flee because of terrorist groups.

Nigeria's government has become increasingly reliant on its air force to carry out missions in areas where its ground forces can no longer safely tread. Pilots have been carrying out sorties daily over Zamfara, Kaduna and Katsina states for the past two weeks, with the military reporting that they "neutralized" hundreds of bandidos.

This May, Nigeria's top military officer Ibrahim Attahiru was killed in a plane crash in bad weather on an official visit to Kaduna state.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/20/2021 00:01 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: ISWAP


Fifth Column
Portland antifa member convicted of 5 felonies including possession of a destructive device, arson and more
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 07/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Sentenced to time served and already registered to run for office.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/20/2021 6:57 Comments || Top||

#2  We're waiting to see the new 8 month baseline in play. (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/20/2021 8:09 Comments || Top||

#3  Typically possession of a destructive device is a federal crime that carries a stiff penalty, like 20 years.
Posted by: Slomorong Thraiger7030 || 07/20/2021 13:12 Comments || Top||


Iraq
ISIS attack causes several injuries in al-Anbar
[SHAFAQ] A reliable local source reported that an ISIS attack on a factory in Heet district, west of al-Anbar Governorate, caused several causalities.

The source told Shafaq News Agency, "Some ISIS turbans launched an attack on the Haji Lutfi sand factory, east of Heet district, which resulted in the death of two workers in the factory, and the injury of three others."

The source added that the maimed are at death's door, noting that the local police forces and emergency regiments are now carrying out a searching campaign in the area to arrest the perpetrators.
Posted by: Fred || 07/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


A secret document revealed a plan to target the American embassy in Baghdad during Eid al-Adha
[SHAFAQ] A secret document by intelligence revealed, on Monday, a plan to target the American embassy in Baghdad, during the days of Eid al-Adha
...a major Moslem holiday, marked by animal sacrifice and ritual rioting...
The document which is marked "secret and immediate", showed that "the Iraqi intelligence has received information that outlaw groups intend to target the Green Zone and the U.S. embassy with indirect fire, today or during the days of Eid."

The document stated that "the attack to be carried out from the Jamiya neighborhood, the Dora of Baghdad/ al-Karkh side, near the highway."

The U.S. diplomats and troops in Iraq were targeted frequently lately.

Earlier, the Global Coalition announced that at least 14 rockets hitting an Iraqi airbase hosting U.S. forces, wounding two American service members.

Washington blames such attacks on Iranian-backed groups. Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. 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. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
has not directly commented on the incidents.
Posted by: Fred || 07/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies

#1  Considering the main purpose of the DoS presence in Iraq is to liase with the Iranians in a back-channel way, who give a sh*t...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/20/2021 7:37 Comments || Top||


Iraq: Six ISIS terrorists arrested, including a suicide bomber
[SHAFAQ] The Security Media Cell announced today that the intelligence agency had arrested six suspects wanted in terrorist cases, including a jacket wallah, in Kirkuk governorate.

A statement of the cell said, "based on the defendants' confessions, it was found that they fought along with ISIS terrorist gangs, and that they were providing logistical support, including food and other items."

According to the statement, legal measures were taken against the defendants.
Posted by: Fred || 07/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Turkish bombardment causes massive fires in Duhok
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 07/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


More than 10 villages southwest of Kirkuk are now under ISIS control
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 07/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Security forces arrest an ISIS '’General Prince'' after a multi-governorate manhunt
[SHAFAQ] A force from the Iraqi National Security Services apprehended a senior ISIS terrorist after a long manhunt throughout three governorates.

A statement issued earlier today, Monday, by the Security Media Cell (SMC) said that the terrorist served in a variety of different positions in the terrorist organization, most prominently the "General Prince" to the Shamiya, Raqqa, Badiya, Saladin, and Baghdad provinces.

The arrestee confessed to orchestrating many terrorist operations against civilians and security forces, in addition to his intentions to devise terrorist plots against targets in Baghdad.
Rudaw gives his title as emir, adding:
Iraq’s National Security Service (INSS) announced on Monday the arrest of the "Emir of Baghdad", considered one of the most prominent leaders of the Islamic State (ISIS) in the capital.

The INNS published a video of the arrest and alleged confession of the accused, who joined a terrorist group known as "Ansar al-Sunna"
...a common jihadi group name meaning The Helpers of the Sunnah. The one in Iraq is more fully known as Jamaat Ansar al-Sunnah or Jaish Ansar al-Sunna. It was a coalition of smaller jihadi groups based in northern and central Iraq (controlling the cities of Fallujah, Ramadi, Samarra, and Baquba), drawing turbans from both Arab and Kurd Sunni populations to fight against the American Coalition after 2003...
in 2008, before joining ISIS in 2011.

The suspect had held several positions within the terror group, he claimed, the most important of which was the so-called Emir of Baghdad. He also served as the Emir of several other areas, including Raqqa – the terror group’s Syrian capital – and confessed that he was planning to carry out several attacks in Baghdad.

One of his main tasks was to recruit new members for the extremist group, he added.
Posted by: Fred || 07/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


A power transmission tower targeted in al-Anbar
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 07/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Commander of the force in control in al-Sadr City to be arrested by order of al-Kadhimi
[SHAFAQ] The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, instructed to arrest the commander of the force in control in al-Sadr City, following the earth-shattering kaboom that killed and maimed 20 persons.

The Security Media Cell said in a statement that the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces ordered the detention of the commander of the force in control in al-Sadr City, of the first regiment in the Fourth Brigade of the Federal Police, following the earth-shattering kaboom.

Al-Kadhimi instructed the Baghdad operations command to open an investigation to uncover the incident's circumstances, according to the statement.

Earlier today, a security source reported that 15 were killed and maimed in a kaboom that targeted al-Whailat market in Sadr City, east of Baghdad.

The source added that five were killed, including a child, and 15 others were maimed in the earth-shattering kaboom.

Posted by: Fred || 07/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq


Sadr city explosion is likely caused by a suicide bomber, explosives specialist says
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

A security source reported that the corpse count from the earth-shattering kaboom that targeted a market in Sadr City has risen to 25, along with 47 maimed, noting that it is likely that the earth-shattering kaboom was caused by a jacket wallah.

The source told Shafaq News Agency, "The explosives specialist arrived at the site of the earth-shattering kaboom, and he suspects that the earth-shattering kaboom was caused by a suicide bomber.

Earlier today, The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, instructed to arrest the commander of the force in control in al-Sadr City, following the earth-shattering kaboom that killed and maimed 20 persons.

The Security Media Cell said in a statement that the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces ordered the detention of the commander of the force in control in al-Sadr City, of the first regiment in the Fourth Brigade of the Federal Police, following the earth-shattering kaboom.

Al-Kadhimi instructed the Baghdad operations command to open an investigation to uncover the incident's circumstances, according to the statement.

A security source reported that 15 were killed and maimed in a kaboom that targeted al-Whailat market in Sadr City, east of Baghdad.

The source added that five were killed, including a child, and 15 others were maimed in the earth-shattering kaboom.
The Times of Israel adds:
Deadly blast in Sadr City, third to hit suburb this year, takes place a day before Eid al-Adha holiday, as streets busy with shoppers.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bombing, but the Islamic State group has claimed similar attacks in the area before.
Posted by: Fred || 07/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  ISIS stirring up the Shiites?
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 07/20/2021 9:44 Comments || Top||

#2  He was just walking to work, got a new job...
Posted by: ed in texas || 07/20/2021 15:12 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group shells Al-Gab valley in Hama province.
Direct Translation via Google Translate
[Rusvesna] On the night of July 20, terrorists closely associated with Turkey from the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group fired artillery shells at the villages of Jurin, Naur, Al-Barak in the Al-Gab valley in the countryside of Hama province.

A source in the Hama police department said several dozen people, including children, were killed and injured. According to eyewitnesses from the scene, up to 20 people were injured, including about 10 children.

People are taken to hospitals in the province, many of them in critical condition. The source indicated that the attacks led to a fire in a forest near the village of Naur Dzhurin and caused material damage to residential buildings.

Regnum.ru says 11 civilians were wounded in the attack
Posted by: badanov || 07/20/2021 00:33 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: al-Nusra


Multiple explosions attributed to Israeli airstrikes near Aleppo in As-Safira, Al-Nairab Airport
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]



The Times of Israel adds:
Israeli aircraft launched a number of missiles at targets near the Syrian city of Aleppo late Monday, Syrian state media said.

The official SANA news agency said that Syrian air defenses had repelled the strikes near the town of al-Safirah, southeast of Aleppo. Syrian war analysts generally dismiss the military’s regular claims of interceptions as false, empty boasts.

There were no immediate reports of casualties and damage.

The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor that has activists on the ground in Syria, said the Israeli strikes targeted weapons depots that belong to Iranian-backed militia operating the area. The group said the strikes were followed by loud explosions. The weapons depots were located inside Syrian military posts, the group said.

Video posted to social media showed a series of explosions in the area, while a video posted by SANA appeared to show a missile moving through the sky as anti-aircraft fire was directed at it.

The Israel Defense Forces did not comment on the reported strikes, in accordance with its long-standing policy to neither confirm nor deny its activities in Syria.

Aleppo is a major city in northern Syria, near its border with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
, and is an uncommon — but not unprecedented — site for reported Israeli Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s. The last reported Israeli strikes in the area were in September 2020.

The pace of attacks has slowed considerably in recent months.

The is the first reported Israeli strike on Syria since early June, when strikes targeted air force positions near the village of Khirbet al-Tin on the outskirts of Homs, as well as an arms depot belonging to the Lebanese Hezbollah terror group. The Israeli air force also hit targets in several regions of Syria, in the capital Damascus as well as in Hama and Latakia provinces. Eleven Syrian military members were reported killed in those strikes.
Posted by: Fred || 07/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria

#1  IDF strikes Lebanon in response to rocket attack on northern Israel
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/20/2021 2:11 Comments || Top||


SDF arrests ISIS terrorists in northeastern Syria
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 07/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State



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  Ghani Visits Herat to Review Security Situation
Mon 2021-07-19
  ‘967 Taliban Killed in 4 Days’ as Clashes Continue: ANDSF
Sun 2021-07-18
  Syrian President Bashar Assad is sworn in for a fourth seven-year term
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  Former Libyan PM, Al-Sarraj Purchases Vanuatu's Passport
Fri 2021-07-16
  As economic conditions worsen in Leb, angry Beirut residents attack Leb army vehicles; elsehwere, PM-designate Saad Hariri resigns
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  Taliban Control Spin Boldak Crossing in Kandahar, and beyond
Wed 2021-07-14
  '261 Taliban Killed' in Past 24 Hours: MoD
Tue 2021-07-13
  Turkmenistan deploying troops, heavy weapon on border with Afghanistan
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  Possibility of civil war in Afghanistan, sez Atta Muhammad Noor
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  Taliban claim to control 85 percent of Afghanistan
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Thu 2021-07-08
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  Haitian President Jovenel Moise assassinated in his home
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