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Good Morning

6,500 accused NYC felons go
scot-free as DAs decline to prosecute
Thursday September 2nd, 2021

deborah-walley-5
Shelter for orphans, unaccompanied children to be opened in Syria's Raqqa
4 arrested for grenade attack on Kreeri Sarpanch
Senior Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani is no more
Explosions during Tuesday night's rioting at the Gaza border
Central Committee in Syria's Daraa publishes terms of agreement
Russia, Syrian government bomb Turkish-backed factions in Syria's northwest
Woman dumped backpack with suspected human remains

Posted by: Fred || 09/02/2021 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  stepped on a Lego?
Posted by: Frank G || 09/02/2021 6:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Deborah Walley was an American actress noted for playing the title role in Gidget Goes Hawaiian and in several Beach Party films.
Born: August 12, 1941, Bridgeport, Connecticut, U.S.
Died: May 10, 2001, Sedona, Arizona, U.S.
Wikipedia - IMDb





Posted by: Bubba Angeth8800 || 09/02/2021 7:32 Comments || Top||

#3  A shame she died so young. Why?
Posted by: Slats Ulerert8448 || 09/02/2021 11:41 Comments || Top||

#4  Wiki: In May 2001, Walley died of esophageal cancer at her home in Sedona, Arizona at age 59

My guess? A smoker
Posted by: Frank G || 09/02/2021 12:01 Comments || Top||

#5  Smoking will do that.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/02/2021 13:50 Comments || Top||

#6  My guess? A smoker

Should have joined the slavers.

Sorry. Obscure reference. I'll show myself out.
Posted by: badanov || 09/02/2021 14:17 Comments || Top||

#7  Slaves weren't allowed to smoke in olden times. Unless you mean smoking barbecue ribs. That was allowed.
Posted by: jpal || 09/02/2021 16:35 Comments || Top||

#8  Sorry. Obscure reference

Hmmm, now what in the Watery World could that possibly mean?
Posted by: SteveS || 09/02/2021 17:37 Comments || Top||

#9  Extremely obscure related reference: she should have joined the buccaneers.
Posted by: JHH || 09/02/2021 19:23 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Gunmen impersonating Taliban stabbed money changer in Kabul
[KhaamaPress] A number of button men who were pretending to be the Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
fighters stabbed a moneychanger in Police District eight of Kabul city.

Deputy Head of Afghanistan’s chamber of commerce Khan Jan Alokozai said that the money changer was followed from the money changing market and was then stopped and stabbed maimed.

Khan Jan Alokozai said that the moneychanger had given the bag of money to one of his friends and was carrying an empty bag when stopped by the button men.

"Since the businessmen have been disarmed and their armored cars have been taken, they are subject to armed thievery." He addressed the businessmen to be more cautious while carrying money in Kabul city.

The deputy Head said officials of the chamber will discuss the issue with the Taliban and will ask them to provide the businessmen with weapons and armored vehicles.

Though the Taliban have decreased the number of thieves by arresting nearly two thousand in the past two weeks, people across the country are asking for special uniforms for their fighters.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/02/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Taliban/IEA

#1  Impersonators, certainly not Tahlly-Bahn Two. Point. Oh!
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/02/2021 13:31 Comments || Top||


We had 'kill shot' (on airport bomber) but didn't take it? Report makes bombshell allegation
[WND] A new report on Joe Biden's Afghanistan evacuation disaster, in which Americans were abandoned to be under the thumb of the Taliban and tens of billions of dollars worth of American war equipment was turned over to the terror group, explains the military probably could have prevented the suicide bombing that killed 13 service members.

But it didn't.

According to a report at the Media Research Center-affiliated NewsBusters, the "bombshell allegation" appeared on Univision.

It explained according to former Army Green Beret and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Roger Pardo-Maurer, the Defense Department knew of the homicide bomber at Hamid Karzai International Airport and had scrambled a Predator drone that locked on the target for the kill shot.

Then drone operators were ordered to stand down.

Apparently, "in deference to negotiations with the Taliban," the report said.
Our new Taliban partners said they could handle it.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/02/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Taliban/IEA

#1  "elections have consequences..." - Oh wait...we had a selection instead. We keep wondering how they (Dems) can let this go on. In reality, I believe it's their plan all along. You've got to un-build before you can Build back Better..
Posted by: Warthog || 09/02/2021 9:32 Comments || Top||

#2  The successful suicide bombing was 26 August. assuming the Taliban were contacted, they must have approved the 27 August kill shot on a suicide platoon
Posted by: Lord Garth || 09/02/2021 11:17 Comments || Top||


Fighting Continues Between Taliban, Resistance Forces
[ToloNews] Fighting is ongoing between Taliban
...Arabic for students...
fighters and the forces of a resistance front lead by Ahmad Massoud in Panjshir province.

The Taliban confirmed that the fighting has been ongoing for two days and both sides have suffered casualties.

"Mujahideen of the Islamic Emirate were attacked from some circles in Panjshir who bluff and say they will resist. The Mujahideen reacted to the attack and as a result the other side has suffered heavy casualties," said Anaamullah Samangani, a member of the Taliban's cultural commission.

Residents at the front lines in the Nasaji-Gulbahar area, which is just outside of Panjshir valley, say the fighting resumed last night and is still ongoing.

According to locals, most of the people have fled the area.

"The fighting started at 10pm last night and is still going on," said Baba Shirin, a resident of the area.

Members of the resistance front, meanwhile, said that they pushed back the Taliban attack on Panjshir and that the Taliban has suffered heavy casualties.

"In the past 40 hours the Taliban launched some offensives on Khawak from the Andarab valley of Baghlan. From our side, there were local forces of various districts of Andarab, local forces of Panjshir as well as the ANSDF forces. They fought back very well; they defeated the Taliban on that front. The Taliban lost 40 of their personnel, another 35 of them were maimed," said Fahim Dashti, a front man of the resistance front.

The Taliban denied attacking Panjshir, saying that their forces were attacked by Massoud supporters and that they only responded to the attack.

Amid the ongoing fighting, Amir Khan Muttaqi, a Taliban leader, said on Wednesday that the talks between both sides have failed so far.

He said, however, that the Taliban still wants to resolve the issue peacefully.
Islam means surrender, after which there is peace, of a sort.
Al Ahram adds:
As the last US soldiers boarded their flight out of Afghanistan in the Kabul dark late Monday, residents of Panjshir said the Taliban had attacked the valley on two fronts -- the Khawak pass in the west, and from Shotol to the south.

"Perhaps they wanted to try their luck," NRF official Fahim Dashti said in a video posted Tuesday by the US broadcaster Voice of America's Dari language service. "By the grace of God, luck wasn't on their side."

Dashti reported seven or eight Taliban fighters were killed in Monday's clashes along with one or two resistance fighters.

The Panjshir has immense symbolic value in Afghanistan as the area that has resisted occupation by invaders.

"We defended it during the era of the Russians, the era of the British, the previous era of the Taliban we will continue to defend it," one fighter said.

Ahmad Massoud, one of the NRF's leaders, is the son of the late guerrilla commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, who was dubbed the "Lion of Panjshir" for holding out, first against Soviet and then Taliban forces.

The valley has limited entry points and its geography offers a natural military advantage defending units can use high positions to effectively target attacking forces.

ANTICIPATING ASSAULT
This week, Panjshir fighters held military training in a show of force, with men carrying heavy logs on their shoulders crossing chest-deep icy rivers.

Above their armoured vehicles and over their bases fluttered their flag, a challenge to the Taliban's white banner now hauled up across the rest of the country.

Many Afghans are terrified of a repeat of the Taliban's initial rule from 1996 to 2001, which was infamous for their treatment of girls and women, as well as a brutal justice system.

The NRF has set up machine gun nests, mortars and surveillance posts fortified with sandbags in anticipation of a Taliban assault.

Communications are difficult with the valley, with Taliban forces on three sides. Internet into Panjshir has been on and off repeatedly in recent days.
Al Arabiya adds:
Meanwhile,
...back at the buffalo wallow, Standing Buffalo watched the circling Commanches and asked himself What would Geronimo do?...
a front man for the Massoud’s resistance movement, Fahim Dashti, said the Taliban attacked from three directions over the last two nights but without achieving any progress.

"More than a dozen Taliban [fighters] have been killed and more than seven others maimed," ToloNews quoted him as saying.

The Taliban had announced two weeks ago that hundreds of their fighters were heading to Panjshir to control the province.
Khaama Press adds:
Meanwhile, the Taliban claim to have taken Shutul district of Panjshir province and have also killed ten resistance forces.

Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has also said that the fighters have seized three military tanks and some weaponry.

It comes as the Taliban has previously said their negotiations with tribal elders and religious scholars of Panjshir province have gone in vain.
Following the same script they used for all the other provinces, because the combination of bribery and threats is much easier on the cannon fodder than actually braving opposition rifles.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/02/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Taliban/IEA


Africa Subsaharan
Scores feared missing after ambush in eastern Congo
[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] Around 80 people are feared missing in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material...
after armed rebels ambushed a convoy on Wednesday and set fire to 16 vehicles, a local parliamentarian said.

Jean-Paul Ngahangondi, a member of the Ituri province’s parliament, blamed the assault on the Allied Democratic Forces
...the ADF is one of several murderous Moslem groups in NE Congo. In 2019 the U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on them for the usual reasons. They don't appear to be affiliated with al-Qaeda or Islamic State, though ISIS claims their work from time to time — they just like killing infidels....
(ADF), an Islamist hard boy group accused of killing thousands of people in recent years.

The group could not be reached for comment.

Attacks by the ADF and dozens of other gangs operating in the region have continued unabated despite the government’s declaration of martial law in Ituri and neighboring North Kivu province at the beginning of May.

The installation of army generals as provincial governors was meant to quell a surge in violence that the military largely attributes to the ADF.

But the number of civilians killed in such attacks has further increased since then, according to the Kivu Security Tracker, which maps unrest in eastern Congo.

Commenting on Wednesday’s incident, government front man Patrick Muyaya told Rooters that ADF fighters had set fire to 14 cars and two minibusses in Ituri. He did not specify the number of people injured or missing.

Ngahangondi, the local politician, criticized what he said was the army’s slow response to the attack, a frequent complaint of local people.

"The army just waits for the rebels to kill the population and only then pursues them without any positive results," he said. "We need to see the army launch a good offense against the ADF instead of playing defense every time."

Eastern Congo’s borderlands with Uganda and Rwanda have been plagued by violence since regional wars around the turn of the century in which millions of people died, mostly from hunger and disease.

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....
has claimed dozens of killings blamed on the ADF, although U.N. experts say they have not found conclusive evidence that IS has control over ADF operations.
Al Ahram adds:
Suspected jihadists killed three people and torched up to 14 vehicles on Wednesday in the DR Congo's troubled northeastern Ituri province, a Western monitoring group and local civil society and security sources said.

The attack Wednesday morning occurred near the town of Ofai, the US-based Kivu Security Tracker (KST) said on Twitter, adding that the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) were suspected to have carried it out.

It said the toll of three dead was still provisional.

The convoy was under escort by UN peacekeepers in the MONUSCO force and the Congolese army, according to a local civil society official, Dieudonne Malangayi.

The dirt road connects Ituri to North Kivu province, and security forces mount escorts to protect convoys against rebel attacks.

"The ADF rebels cut the convoy in half," Malangayi told AFP, adding that the attack left three dead while 13 vehicles were torched.

AFP viewed a video showing several vehicles burning on the road, with dwellings nearby, as armed peacekeepers patrolled all around the site of the attack.

The ADF, historically a Ugandan Islamist group, have been accused of killing thousands of civilians in both Ituri and North Kivu.
Posted by: Fred || 09/02/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Allied Democratic Forces


Gunmen abduct 73 children from school in northwest Nigeria
[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] Armed men kidnapped 73 children from a school in the northwestern Nigerian state of Zamfara in the latest mass abduction in the region, police said in a statement on Wednesday.Police said a large number of armed bandidos invaded the Government Day Secondary School in the village of Kaya in rural Zamfara state at 11:22 am local time (1022 GMT).

"The command ... has deployed search and rescue team that was mandated to work in synergy with the military to ensure the safe rescue of the kidnapped students," Zamfara police front man Mohammed Shehu said in the statement.

Armed gangs seeking ransoms have kidnapped more than 1,100 pupils in more than a dozen attacks on schools or colleges across northwest Nigeria since December 2020, adopting a tactic first used by Islamist holy warriors in the northeastern part of the West African nation.

Zamfara’s government ordered all statewide schools to close to prevent further attacks, Ibrahim Dosara, the state’s information commissioner, told Rooters by telephone. Police said they had also increased security around Kaya to prevent further attacks on the community.

A staff member at the school told Rooters by phone that the school had more than 500 children enrolled.

Zamfara is among four states in northwest Nigeria that have taken measures to try to curb the security crisis. They have banned the sale of fuel in jerry cans and the transport of firewood by truck in hope of disrupting gangs who travel by cycle of violence and camp out in forests.
Al Ahram adds:
Northwest and central states have for years been troubled by tit-for-tat attacks and community raids between nomadic herders and local farmers who clash over water and land.

But violence has escalated sharply with the emergence of large criminal gangs who steal cattle, raid and loot villages and kidnap for ransom.

Armed gangs often arrive on motorbikes during their abduction attacks and also engage in castle rustling.

They operate out of camps hidden in forests in northwest Nigeria, often raiding and abducting in one state and crossing back with their victims into another state.

This year bandidos have turned their sights on schools, seminaries and colleges across the region, herding children and students deep into forest hideouts while they negotiate ransom payments.

Many students have been released only after spending weeks or months in captivity. Dozens are still being held.

The bandidos are seeking financial gain and have no known ideological leanings, but there are growing worries among security experts and officials over their ties with jihadists fighting a 12-year war in Nigeria's northeast.
Posted by: Fred || 09/02/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Banditti


Arabia
ArabCoalition Shoots Down 4 Armed Drones over Yemen
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Posted by: Fred || 09/02/2021 02:30 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Saudi Arabia foils several attempts to smuggle amphetamine pills, khat, hashish
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] 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...
’s customs have foiled attempts of people trying to smuggle 29 tons of khat, 490 kilograms of hashish and more than 1.5 million amphetamine tablets into the Kingdom, the Ministry of Interior reported on Tuesday.The attempts were reportedly thwarted in Jizan, Tabuk and the Kingdom’s Eastern Province.

As of yet, 27 people have been accused. Twelve were Saudi residents, with eight 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...
is, four Egyptians and three Æthiopians, according to the interior ministry’s statement.

The necessary procedures have been completed and the smuggled goods handed over to the authorities, Colonel al-Qarini was reported as saying in the statement. He added that the border guards are continuing to confront all smuggling attempts with due diligence and determination.



Posted by: Fred || 09/02/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Narcos

#1  They execute lots of people for drug smuggling, and yet, people continue to take the risk. Probably several conclusions can be drawn.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/02/2021 8:10 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ Gotta keep the prices high so there's more money to be made.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/02/2021 13:53 Comments || Top||


Britain
Over 2,000 Illegal Migrants Land In Britain in First Half of August
[Breitbart] Over 2,000 illegal boat migrants colonists have successfully crossed the English Channel from La Belle France since the start of the month, putting August on pace for a record number of alien arrivals.

Last Thursday, a record 592 illegal migrants colonists arrived at the Port of Dover, eclipsing the previous daily record of 482, which was set just over a week prior. The migrant boats continued over the weekend, with another 150 landings on Sunday.

The latest crossings take the total for the month to approximately 2,049 according to calculations made by the Daily Mail. This puts August on pace to break the previous monthly record of 3,509, which was set last month.

To date, approximately 11,464 boat migrants colonists have reached British soil since the start of the year, compared to 8,410 for the entirety of 2020.

Despite constant promises and pledges from Home Secretary Priti Patel to crack down on the migrant routes, the boats have only increased in number and in size, with people smuggler gangs using larger and often unseaworthy vessels to ferry migrants colonists from the beaches of La Belle France.

Appearing on GB News on Monday morning, Brexit leader Nigel Farage predicted that the failures in Afghanistan will lead to another wave of illegal migration into Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
and ultimately the UK.

Mr Farge also predicted that the young men who comprise the overwhelming majority of illegal migrants colonists will claim to be from Afghanistan, as many already destroy their travel and identity documents prior to reaching British shores in order to make deportations more difficult.

The issue may be compounded by the fact that Defence Secretary Ben Wallace pronounced on Monday that the British government would be dropping passport requirements for asylum seekers from Afghanistan.

"If some of them are genuinely from Afghanistan, how do we know that the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
or other murderous Moslem groups aren’t using this route to get their operatives into our country," Farage questioned.

Mr Farge went on to criticise Home Secretary Priti Patel for her failures to enact meaningful change amid the growing migrant crisis.

"There is no deterrent whatsoever, the only concern anyone would have crossing the Channel would be the sea conditions," he said.

"We already have numbers that we simply can’t cope with, the four-star hotels are booked, they are running out of accommodation," the Brexiteer added.

Mr Farage has long been a proponent of adopting a similar strategy to that taken by former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott, who unilaterally sent back illegal boats to Indonesia under his Operation Sovereign Borders policy, which resulted in 900 straight days of zero illegal boat migrants colonists reaching Australia by 2017.

"There is only one way to stop this and that is to tow the boats back into Calais harbour and by doing that the French government will come to the negotiating table," Farage said.

"At the moment, we have a situation in which Macron refuses to have a summit with the British even though it is long overdue... and until the French understand that we are simply not going to put up with this any longer, it will continue," he warned.

Mr Farage has predicted that by the end of the year, some 30,000 illegal migrants colonists will have crossed the English Channel from La Belle France.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/02/2021 01:52 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Human Trafficking


Fifth Column
Yvonne ''Yvette'' Felarca, the antifa teacher who was filmed assaulting people in 2016, is connected to @NatomasUSD antifa extremist teacher Gabriel Gipe and his wife Elaine Nye
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/02/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  She was also a BAMN street commander and played a major role in The Battle of Berkeley that same year.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 09/02/2021 0:11 Comments || Top||


Sacramento antifa member and @NatomasUSD teacher Gabriel Gipe is a member of or supporter of the “Reds in Ed” communist teachers group
Follow up to yesterday’s Project Veritas report. See also here.
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Posted by: Fred || 09/02/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  NKor flag, Antifa flag, Mao portrait. No red flags apparently to anyone else working at the school, so it took a sting op to bring this out.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 09/02/2021 0:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Video cameras in classrooms are needed just as much as cameras on cops.
Posted by: Hupeth Henbane6225 || 09/02/2021 0:52 Comments || Top||

#3  "redesigned.org" They are not shy in Sacramento. They are brazen.
Check out the website before they pull it.
Posted by: Sgt.D.T. || 09/02/2021 0:52 Comments || Top||

#4  I meant "redsined.org"
Posted by: Sgt.D.T. || 09/02/2021 0:54 Comments || Top||

#5  Been going through the livestream replay of today's Natomas USD board meeting. Based on comments from the parents, this problem has been allowed to fester for some time, and this teacher may not be alone.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 09/02/2021 1:25 Comments || Top||

#6  Rex, if they went to teachers' college, they are pinkos. They also know zilch, zip & nada about the subject they're supposed to teach.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/02/2021 1:48 Comments || Top||

#7  Antifa high school teacher suspended, will be fired (Update)
Posted by: Frank G || 09/02/2021 7:53 Comments || Top||

#8  this guy was displaying like a commie peacock. you can't tell me that the school system didn't know.

sll his superiors should be fired. make commies scared again.
Posted by: Retard Strength || 09/02/2021 7:58 Comments || Top||

#9  you can't tell me that the school system didn't know.

The same could be said of the cadet at West Point. It appears they didn't clean it up, but doubled down.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/02/2021 13:49 Comments || Top||

#10  Are you now, or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party or some other similar group that would make us think you are a dumbass?
Posted by: SteveS || 09/02/2021 14:15 Comments || Top||

#11  He got caught so must be purged. Message to the rest of the staff to stay low in their communism.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/02/2021 14:17 Comments || Top||

#12  Reds in Ed; like that extended scene in Deadpool 2 glorifying Marx and his Manifesto?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/02/2021 14:49 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
4 arrested for grenade attack on Kreeri Sarpanch
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Posted by: Fred || 09/02/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistain Proxies


Senior Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani is no more
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Senior separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani passed away after a long illness in Srinagar on Wednesday night, reports said.

He was 92.

Reports said that Geelani breathed his last around 10:30 pm at his residence in Hyderpora in uptown Srinagar.

Geelani, who was suffering from multiple ailments, had been keeping unwell for the past many years.

Quoting sources, news agency KNO reported that Geelani developed serious complications on Wednesday afternoon. "He had chest congestion and breathing problems. He passed away at 10:30 PM," the report quoted the sources as having said.

Following Geelani's death, Inspector General of Police, Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
, Vijay Kumar announced that they have imposed restrictions as a "precautionary measure". "Restrictions imposed including suspension of internet services in the Valley," Kumar told ANI news agency.
One India adds:
Authorities imposed a security clampdown in Kashmir late Wednesday after the death of separatist icon Syed Ali Geelani at the age of 92.

Troops put up barbed wire and barricades on roads leading to Geelani's house in the main city of Srinagar after the family announced the death, news agency PTI reported.

Announcements were made from loudspeakers of the main mosque near Geelani's residence asking people to march towards the house.

But police said no one in the Kashmir valley would be allowed to leave their homes. Thousands of security forces were immediately deployed and mobile internet services were cut across the area.

Scores of armoured vehicles and trucks patrolled main roads in Srinagar.
Another One India writes about Mr. Geelani:
The hardliner Islamist leader had resigned from politics and Hurriyat in 2020. His exit comes after he had headed it for 17 years.

Several Kashmiri political leaders have blamed Geelani for the rise in militancy and bloodshed in Kashmir. The Hurriyat leader has called for numerous general strikes or shutdowns, in response to the deaths of unnamed suspected militants, local militants and death of civilians in Kashmir.

Reportedly, Geelani calls Islamist leader and founder of the Jamaat-e-Islami, Abul A'la Maududi as his mentor.

Syed Ali Geelani was born in a town Sopore Baramulla, North Kashmir, on 29 September 1929, was viewed as a key separatist leader in Kashmir.

He was previously a member of Jamaat-e-Islami Kashmir but later on founded Tehreek-e-Hurriyat. He has served as the chairman of All Parties Hurriyat Conference, a conglomerate of pro separatist parties in Jammu and Kashmir. He was an MLA from the Sopore constituency of Jammu and Kashmir in 1972, 1977 and in 1987.
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#1  A bit of history: Among the earliest and longest lived Muslim organization is the World Muslim Congress (Motamar Al-Alam Al-Islami) founded in Makka in 1926. Often called the World Islamic Congress, its first meeting was chaired by King Ibn Saud. Perhaps its most historically significant meeting was convened in Jerusalem in December 1931 with 130 delegates from 22 countries in attendance, during which Haj Amin al-Huseini declared that Zionism was an "agression" and calling for an economic boycott of the Jewish community in Palestine. The Congress was to be held every two or three years and it will later proclaim that after WWII it would "actively shape the agenda of the Muslim world." In fact, it also evolved into a meeting place for Muslim Brothers. The Congress met infrequently, with one general congress held in Cairo in 1937. (The Thrid Conference was held in Karachi in February 1951, with the Mufti presiding, where in effect he declared war with India over the status of Kashmir. The Fifth World Islamic Congress was held in 1962.) Until his death in 1974 the spiritual leader of the WMC was Haj Amin al-Husseini, The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem.

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Iraq
Four injured in ISIS attack near Kifri
[Rudaw] 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) Death Eaters on Tuesday night attacked a village in a disputed area near the southern Garmiyan administration, injuring four people, a Peshmerga official told Rudaw on Wednesday.

Militants launched a mortar attack on Islah village, near Kifri, injuring two women, according to commander of the Garmaser front Mahmood Sangawi. Kifri is administered by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) but is part of the swathes of territory disputed between Erbil and Baghdad.

ISIS also attacked Iraqi forces, injuring two of their ranks, Sangawi added.

ISIS takes advantage of a lack of coordination between Peshmerga and Iraqi forces in often rugged areas disputed between Erbil and Baghdad. Militants have conducted around 134 attacks in disputed territories so far this year, Secretary-General of the Ministry of Peshmerga Jabar Yawar told Rudaw on Monday, noting that most of the attacks took place in areas between Kifri and Tuz Khurmatu, as well as in eastern and western Kirkuk.

On Tuesday, the group grabbed credit for an attack on a village in southwest Kirkuk. It used rocket-propelled grenades (RPG), according to villagers, killing at least 25 cows and seven sheep and goats, and burning five cars and tractors and two houses.

Baghdad and Erbil are working to close the security gap. This summer, they established four joint coordination centres in the disputed provinces to improve their cooperation and they are in talks to create joint brigades.
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Security forces thwarted an attempt to smuggle supplies to ISIS operatives in north Salahuddin
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Israel says it thwarted smuggling of equipment for Hamas tunnels
[IsraelTimes] Israel’s Defense Ministry says it seized filtration equipment at a West Bank crossing that it believes was set to be smuggled into 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 to aid Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,’s tunnel project.

The shipment included filters, valves and instructions in Hebrew on how to assemble the equipment, the Defense Ministry says.

It was confiscated at the Tarkumiyah crossing near Hebron.

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Palestinians mourn man found shot in West Bank, blame Israel
[IsraelTimes] Hundreds of people mourn the death of a man Paleostinian health officials claim was killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank.

Raed Jadallah, 39, a resident of Beit Ur al-Tahta near Ramallah, is buried on Wednesday.

According to the official Paleostinian news agency Wafa, Jadallah was a gardener and was shot at the western entrance of his village while returning from work in Israel. The circumstances of the death were unclear, as there were no conflicts in the area when the shooting happened Tuesday night.

The Paleostinian foreign ministry described the killing as a "heinous crime" and blamed the Israeli army for Jadallah’s death. The Israeli military has not commented on the circumstances of the incident.

"They are catching us as if they are fishing," Mohammad Jadallah, Raed’s uncle, says of his nephew’s killing. "This is not acceptable."

Ibrahim Zaki, a relative of the slain man, tells Paleostine TV that Raed Jadallah did not show up to meet a friend as arranged after work. Raed’s son and the friend had heard that there had been shooting in the area near the meeting place, called his phone and went to look for him.

The friend says they followed traces of blood on the ground and found Raed’s body nearby. Zaki says it appeared that Jadallah had been shot from a hill on which the Israeli military is often located.

Jadallah was born in Jerusalem and left behind four children, according to Paleostinian television.
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Explosions during Tuesday night's rioting at the Gaza border
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran-backed Hezbollah hammered with criticism amid Lebanon's crises
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Driving back to base after firing rockets toward Israeli positions from a border area last month, a group of Hezbollah fighters was accosted by angry villagers who smashed their vehicles’ windshields and held them up briefly.

It was a rare incident of defiance that suggested many in 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...
would not tolerate provocations by the powerful group that risk triggering a new war with Israel.
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Turkey renews shelling of Syria's Tel Tamr
[NPASYRIA] On Tuesday-Wednesday night, Ottoman Turkish forces and Ottoman Turkish-backed armed Syrian factions renewed their shelling on the countryside of Tel Tamr town, northeast Syria.

Ottoman Turkish forces targeted three villages (Kozaliya, Tel al-Laban, and Umm al-Khair) in the western countryside of Tel Tamr near the M4 Highway with more than 10 shells, a source from the Tel Tamr Military Council said.

The impacts of the shelling were limited to material losses in residents’ properties, according to the source.

During the past two days, the frontlines in Tel Tamr were completely calm following three weeks of military escalation by Ottoman Turkish forces targeting villages of the towns of Tel Tamr and Zargan (Abu Rasin), northeast Syria.
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Russia, Syrian government bomb Turkish-backed factions in Syria's northwest
[NPASYRIA] On Wednesday, Russian warplanes bombed posts of Ottoman Turkish-backed armed Syrian factions in the western countryside of Idlib, northwest Syria.

Russian warplanes targeted the outskirts of the village of al-Hamama in Jisr al-Shughur, west of Idlib, with two vacuum missile strikes, military sources from the factions told North Press.

Meanwhile,
...back at the abandoned silver mine, there was another explosion...
Syrian government forces stationed in Jurin Camp targeted the villages of Sirmaniyah and Duwayr al-Akrad in Ghab Plain in the western countryside of Hama with artillery and missile, according to the sources.

Additionally, Damascus government forces artillery shelled the factions’ posts in hills of al-Kheder and Kinda town in the northern countryside of Latakia and the town of Binin, south of Idlib, the sources added.

Sources from Fateh al-Mubin Operations Room, which includes Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
(HTS) and other gangs, announced that they targeted the government’s military gatherings in the villages and towns of Na’ora, Jurin, al-Safsafah, and Shathah in the western countryside of Hama with mortars and rockets.

Additionally, they targeted the government forces’ sites in the villages and towns of Khan Shaykhun, Kafr Nabl, and Maar Shurin, south of Idlib.
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