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Twenty-Five Afghan policemen dead after attempt to break Taliban siege in Uruzgan
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Good morning
Seattle hires an ex-pimp to be its “Street Czar”
Tuesday September 22nd, 2020

Betty Davis 1930-001
Lebanon's Supreme Islamic Council responds to Maronite Patriarch's criticism of Shiite leadership
Trump signs order to sanction entities, persons who assist Iran’s weapons trade
Al-Qaeda, Boko Haram Recruiting Nigerians — President Akufo-Addo
Cameroonian soldiers jailed for killing women and children
Boko Haram Kills Top Nigerian Army Commander
Azerbaijani soldier killed in border clash with Armenian military
'Playboy' Prince Andrew 'was obsessed with redheads and slept with at least dozen beautiful women procured for him by pedophile friend Jeffrey Epstein', bombshell new book claims

Posted by: Fred || 09/22/2020 11:42 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Whoah, she has "Betty Davis" eyes! Is that a coincidence, or what?
Posted by: SteveS || 09/22/2020 12:10 Comments || Top||

#2  It's like she's looking right through me.
Posted by: jpal || 09/22/2020 12:41 Comments || Top||

#3  Now...is that a heart shaped face, or what.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/22/2020 13:09 Comments || Top||

#4 

Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes
Posted by: Woodrow || 09/22/2020 13:57 Comments || Top||

#5  Not much boob to side.
Posted by: KBK || 09/22/2020 14:30 Comments || Top||

#6  Or what?
Posted by: Shusotch Wheque6264 || 09/22/2020 15:17 Comments || Top||

#7  "She's got Marty Feldman eyes"
Posted by: Frank G || 09/22/2020 15:40 Comments || Top||

#8  Frank wins the internet for today
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/22/2020 22:11 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Twenty-Five Afghan policemen dead after attempt to break Taliban siege in Uruzgan
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Posted by: Fred || 09/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  Why police?
Posted by: Woodrow || 09/22/2020 13:55 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Anti-government protesters in Egypt take to streets in at least 16 different locations Sunday, call on President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi to resign
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Posted by: Fred || 09/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Muslim Brotherhood

#1  MB agitators spurred on by Turkey?
Posted by: Frank G || 09/22/2020 7:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Aunti-Eg
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/22/2020 13:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Pretty convenient timing.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/22/2020 16:07 Comments || Top||


Two different sources told Agenzia nova Libya's PM Sarraj made surprese visit in Turkey
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Posted by: Fred || 09/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  Paying homage to the Sultan.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/22/2020 11:21 Comments || Top||


LNA sources claim the 116 bn. & 128 bde. arrested an ISIS militant in Ghadduwah
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Africa Subsaharan
Boko Haram Kills Top Nigerian Army Commander
[NAIJANEWS] The 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...
terrorist group has on Monday, 21st September, killed a top commander of the Nigerian Army in Borno State.

It was gathered that the Army Commander, identified as Colonel DC Bako lost his life to an ambush set up by the Boko Haram fighters according to a report by Humangle.

Until his unfortunate death on Monday morning, Bako was the Commander, 25 Task Force Brigade fighting the snuffies in Borno State.

Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch clutched at his leg. Son of a Breech! he exclaimed with feeling......
Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State has alleged that the Boko Haram gunnies are now recruiting children to prosecute their acts of terrorism.

The Governor stated that unemployment was the reason Boko Haram snuffies are able to recruit idle youths.

Zulum made this known last week Thursday while receiving a committee of members of the House Of Representatives at his office in Maiduguri.

Speaking at the meeting, Governor Zulum warned that the situation may worsen if there is no quick intervention.

According to the Borno governor, the number of able-bodied people residing in the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps left with nothing to do is an indicator of the impending problems.
Posted by: Fred || 09/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram (ISIS)


Al-Qaeda, Boko Haram Recruiting Nigerians — President Akufo-Addo
[NAIJANEWS] al-Qaeda and 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...
are taking advantage of the poverty in North-Eastern Nigeria to conduct fresh recruitment, Ghana President, Nana Akufo-Addo has revealed.

He made this known on Monday during a visit to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission in Abuja.

Akufo-Addo has said the Death Eaters were also making inroads in the Lake Chad Basin, Mali and the Greater Sahel.

"This is most worrying, because surrogates of al-Qaeda in the Sahel and Boko Haram faceless myrmidons operating around the Lake Chad Basin, the two most active terrorist groups in West Africa, are exploiting the unacceptable levels of poverty in these areas, in the recruitment and indoctrination of youth," he said.

The Ghanaian president called for a strong regional approach to contain the growing threats of terrorist and turban activities.

"’You will recall that, on 12th September 2019, ECOWAS organised, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other...
, an Extraordinary Summit on Eradication of Terrorism in ECOWAS. Following the summit, a 2020 to 2024 Plan of Action was adopted by the 56th Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government in December 2019, in Abuja. To this end, one billion dollars (US$1 billion) was programmed for the financing of activities in the Action Plan. We have to intensify our efforts to ensure that the Plan of Action is well-financed, with a view to ridding our community of terrorism," he added.
Posted by: Fred || 09/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda


Cameroonian soldiers jailed for killing women and children
[KFGO] Four Cameroon
...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there...
ian soldiers received 10-year prison sentences on Monday for the killing of two women and two children in an incident that sparked international outcry, their lawyers said.

They and three other soldiers were arrested after a video surfaced on social media in July 2018 showing uniformed men levelling rifles and firing at the victims, one of whom had a baby strapped to her back.

The video was one of several to emerge in recent years of alleged atrocities by Cameroonian forces during operations against Islamist 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...
gunnies in the north and Anglophone separatists in the west.

The trial started in January and has been conducted behind closed doors. On Monday, the court found three of the soldiers guilty of murder, while their commander Etienne Fabassou was found guilty of complicity in murder, according to his lawyer Sylvestre Mbeng.

All four were given ten years.

Another soldier received a two-year sentence for violating orders, while two others were found not guilty on all counts and released, Mbeng told Rooters.

Under Cameroonian law, some of the defendants could have faced the death penalty
, although Cameroon has not executed anyone since 1997.
well, not officially, but at least 4 were...
Mbeng said Fabassou would likely appeal the verdict as witnesses gave contradictory accounts of whether he gave the order to shoot.

Government and army officials initially dismissed the video as "fake news".

But the soldiers' eventual arrest and prosecution were welcomed by activists, including Amnesia Amnesty International, who accuse government soldiers of repeatedly engaging in torture and extra-judicial killings in the far north.
Posted by: Fred || 09/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram (ISIS)


Caribbean-Latin America
US sanctions Venezuela’s Maduro over UN arms embargo on Iran
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Where would Maduro find the money to pay for anything?
Posted by: magpie || 09/22/2020 11:03 Comments || Top||

#2  You saying the US didn't have sanctions on Maduro already? This must be just eyewash.
Posted by: jpal || 09/22/2020 13:12 Comments || Top||

#3  The Nazi gold shipped to Russia for safekeeping.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/22/2020 13:13 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Azerbaijani soldier killed in border clash with Armenian military
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Posted by: Fred || 09/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Fifth Column
BLM-antifa rioters in north Portland (North Mississippi Ave.) are shooting paintball rounds at someone’s home
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Posted by: Fred || 09/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Meat's back on the menu, (girlie-)boyz
Posted by: Black Charlie McGurque8131 || 09/22/2020 3:27 Comments || Top||

#2  I really get the feeling that certain parties using Antifa for cover are desperate to provoke some normal person into raising the black flag and start cutting throats.

They think this will 'inspire' more of their ilk and rise up. What they fail to realize is that when they get enough normal folks to raise that flag, they will no longer care what goes on as they will be receiving their just rewards in the hot place.

Attacking someone's family, threatening them with harm, these are lines you cross at your peril.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 09/22/2020 10:35 Comments || Top||

#3  If it's ok for police to shoot in this situation, it should be ok for a citizen to shoot. One of those paintball guns could be real, you know.
Posted by: gorb || 09/22/2020 18:27 Comments || Top||


BLM-antifa activists have resumed rioting in Portland after a brief hiatus
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Posted by: Fred || 09/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  PeeWee, MadDog, Ethel, Mark of Cain: all my friends are here!
Posted by: Bill Peacock9454 || 09/22/2020 0:26 Comments || Top||

#2  So, the breathless reports that someone flipped a switch at the DNC commit central and the rioters went quietly back in the box was just so much bullscrit...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/22/2020 1:08 Comments || Top||

#3  Commie central
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/22/2020 1:08 Comments || Top||

#4  they would look great in a mass grave
Posted by: 746 || 09/22/2020 1:27 Comments || Top||

#5  I, like many, have suggested stronger, even a lethal response to the most dangerous Rioters-Looters applied was needed.

In passing discussions at a Local Gun Show over the weekend. A key point became clear the police & fed's are showing warranted restraint.

The question always moved to WHY?

The general consensus was that likely the Riot Organizers actually want to have a deadly riot/protest for Media & Political reasons just before the election.

Now stop and think of all the ways a few mixed in with Protesting Sheep have employed so far:
Sling shots, Homemade M-80's, Binary Chemical bombs, strings of 4 to 5 firecrackers, fire bombs, Glass bottles, rocks, sniper shootings, Paint balls, lasers, Scooters, Inert but Re-worked training grenades, Swarming Police or NG positions and more.

Looking back on this. I have admit it seems the Riot Leadership likely wants a Deadly confrontation and are pushing Fed's, Police, Citizens and NG's for a Headline grabbing:

____ Kills Group of Peaceful Protestors
Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/22/2020 6:55 Comments || Top||

#6  Totally agree with you, NN2N1. To the point that I figure if they can't get a 'legitimate' retaliatory 'atrocity' in the next few weeks, they'll have a few of their operatives don police or NG uniforms and do the killing themselves.
Posted by: Glenmore || 09/22/2020 10:01 Comments || Top||

#7  Send them to GTMO.
Posted by: Cluper and Company4908 || 09/22/2020 10:16 Comments || Top||

#8  Sling shots, Homemade M-80's, Binary Chemical bombs, strings of 4 to 5 firecrackers, fire bombs, Glass bottles, rocks, sniper shootings, Paint balls, lasers, Scooters, Inert but Re-worked training grenades, Swarming Police or NG positions and more.

Trampolines.
Ah'm looking for those mini-trampolines to bounce the rioters over police lines.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/22/2020 13:17 Comments || Top||

#9  So, the breathless reports that someone flipped a switch at the DNC commit central and the rioters went quietly back in the box was just so much bullscrit...

That's sure what it looked like to me last week, MM. Of course we may be looking at the 'uncontrollable' elements, similar to deadly man-made viruses that escape from a lab somewhere.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 09/22/2020 15:38 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Turkey announces readiness to cooperate with Egypt, Israel in energy field
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  Why would Egypt and Israel need Turkey?
Posted by: Mad Eye Angonter1301 || 09/22/2020 5:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Turkish lira dive bombing?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/22/2020 7:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Interesting. Something scared Turkey. Perhaps its growing isolation in both Europe and the Middle East.
Posted by: b || 09/22/2020 8:55 Comments || Top||

#4  Erdogon may be starting to realize that being the neighborhood a$$hole may not bring goodwill, but don’t count on it.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 09/22/2020 11:38 Comments || Top||

#5  Erdogon may be starting to realize the energy pipes from Russia go both ways.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/22/2020 13:12 Comments || Top||


Turkey warns Armenia to 'stop playing with fire'
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  I am waiting for the dress saber that Erdogan is rattling at ALL of his neighbors to break.
Posted by: magpie || 09/22/2020 1:13 Comments || Top||

#2  the 'you're playing with fire' threat must be in the koran, because it's a real go-to for the mohammedans
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 09/22/2020 10:22 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
ICE removed 39 detainees to Somalia. Nearly all had criminal histories, including murder, assault with a dangerous weapon, rape, solicitation of a minor
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Any married to Ilhan Omar?
Posted by: Fred || 09/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  I'll ask the Elephant Jackass in the room question.

Why does anyone support and/or vote to elect a Open Borders Socialist Democrat Globalists?

Seriously, given all reams of documented proof from what has happened in EU, with its own failed open borders agenda.

It only took 1 generation for those arriving from a counter-culture countries with NO requirement to assimilate (common language, civil manners, same laws and etc..). To lead to massive disruptions in a generally once civil, culturally behaved and peaceful collection of European societies.

EG. London population demographics have changed 180 degrees under 25 years. They now have a Mayor, pushing a Islamic Agenda. Finally the English People saw the issues and voted for Brit-Ex. Now the UK Elite Leadership are fighting it tooth and nail because it impacts their greater Global Power and $$$$$$$.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/22/2020 7:24 Comments || Top||

#2  How many Any married to Ilhan Omar?
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/22/2020 9:35 Comments || Top||

#3  Kalergi Plan.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/22/2020 9:48 Comments || Top||

#4  Hopeful for Omar to be in this group. Alas.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/22/2020 10:24 Comments || Top||

#5  #1, I'm afraid the only answer to your question is that Trump writes tweets that hurt the feelings of the overly sensitive.
Posted by: Tom || 09/22/2020 11:54 Comments || Top||

#6 
Posted by: Shomotch Lumplump3327 || 09/22/2020 12:40 Comments || Top||



Iraq
Four IS Militants Killed in Operation North of Baghdad
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Kirkuk: Village of Kakai Minorities Comes under Attack
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State



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1Arab Spring
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1Govt of Syria
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1Moslem Colonists
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Two weeks of WOT
Tue 2020-09-22
  Twenty-Five Afghan policemen dead after attempt to break Taliban siege in Uruzgan
Mon 2020-09-21
  Justice Dept. brands NYC an ‘anarchist jurisdiction,'
targets federal funds
Sun 2020-09-20
  Concentrated, Deadly Ricin Sent to White House, Addressed to President Trump
Sat 2020-09-19
  Notorious RBG dead at 87
Fri 2020-09-18
  RBG Kicks The Bucket
Thu 2020-09-17
  Minnesota man charged with providing material support to Islamic State
Wed 2020-09-16
  Bloomberg: Libya’s PM Al-Sarraj will Resign
Tue 2020-09-15
  Airstrikes kill “Huras_al_Din” commander in Idlib city
Mon 2020-09-14
  Police Shooting of Suspect Charging Officer Armed with A Knife Sets Off Rioting In Lancaster Pennsylvania.
Sun 2020-09-13
  Erdogan: My entire nation is an army and we're not afraid to sacrifice martyrs
Sat 2020-09-12
  Antifa have called off their planned Friday night direct action (DA) riot in Portland
Fri 2020-09-11
  Nineteen Years. Never Forget.
Thu 2020-09-10
  Donald Trump nominated for 2021 Nobel Peace Prize
Wed 2020-09-09
  Centcom: ‘The US has decided to reduce our troop presence in Iraq from about 5,200 to 3,000 troops during this month’
Tue 2020-09-08
  Turkish lira has hit a record low against the dollar

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