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Osama bin Laden's ex-London spokesman is ‘freed early from 25 year US jail term because he is at high risk from Covid due to his obesity' and 'will return to the UK within weeks'
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Good morning
How I plan to survive utter
despair if Trump steals the election
Monday October 12th, 2020

anitaekberg0017
Ganja, the second largest city in Azerbaijan and far beyond the frontline, came under rocket fire by the Armenian armed forces
Pillion riding bans in Karachi over fears of target killings
Over 1,000 Afghan youth commissioned to army after training
Dozens stage attack on police station in Paris suburb
Azerbaijani Armed Forces are launching offensives in the south using armored vehicles and artillery which is being stopped by the Armenian troops
Egypt- ISIS claim two attacks in North Sinai on October 9, both near Bir al-Abd
Osama bin Laden's ex-London spokesman is ‘freed early from 25 year US jail term because he is at high risk from Covid due to his obesity' and 'will return to the UK within weeks'

Posted by: Fred || 10/12/2020 10:33 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A Keith Richards ex-squeeze...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/12/2020 10:35 Comments || Top||

#2  What a lovely...ssmle
Posted by: Frank G || 10/12/2020 10:35 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ Oops, that was Anita Pallenberg. My bad...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/12/2020 10:36 Comments || Top||

#4  Definitely a nice set of..... teeth.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/12/2020 10:40 Comments || Top||

#5  Ah needa Ekberg
Posted by: Squinty Flolugum2824 || 10/12/2020 10:42 Comments || Top||

#6  Later in life she was eligible to audition for the title in a documentary about the Wreck of the USS Macon.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 10/12/2020 12:34 Comments || Top||

#7  Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg was born on September 29, 1931 in Malmo, Sweden. Growing up with seven brothers and sisters was not an adventure, but Anita's adventure began when she was elected Miss Sweden in 1950.

Seven brothers and sisters? Swedes must breed like rabbits.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001179/
Posted by: jpal || 10/12/2020 13:25 Comments || Top||

#8  Later in life she was eligible to audition for the title in a documentary about the Wreck of the USS Macon

Did the captain of the USS Macon drive his ship up a telephone pole while he was distracted by her?
Posted by: gorb || 10/12/2020 14:39 Comments || Top||

#9  Key up the orchestra!

Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 10/12/2020 14:58 Comments || Top||

#10  jpal there isn't a whole lot to do in Sweden when you are snowed in during the long, dark winter
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 10/12/2020 19:03 Comments || Top||

#11  La Dolce Vita, indeed.
Posted by: Mercutio || 10/12/2020 19:06 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Border patrol agent's hunch pays off in second-largest methamphetamine bust ever
[FoxNews] A suspicious U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent, who decided extra scrutiny was needed for a truck that was supposed to contain a shipment of medical supplies on Friday, was responsible for discovering more than 3,100 pounds of methamphetamine, fentanyl and other illegal substances – the second-largest ever bust of its kind along the southwest border, a report said.

The drugs, which were discovered at the Otay Mesa Port of Entry, in San Diego, were found in a truck that pulled into the commercial side of the border crossing, NewsNow Las Vegas reported Sunday evening.

CPB officers, using the port’s imaging system, found suspicious materials in the rear of the trailer, the report said. The trailer was sent to the dock and a canine alerted them to the boxes inside.

The shipment was unloaded before CPB discovered 1,816 packages co-mingled with the medical supplies. Included in the haul was approximately 3,014 pounds of methamphetamine, 64 pounds of heroin, 29 pounds of fentanyl powder and almost 37 pounds of fentanyl pills, worth an estimated $7.2 million, the official said.

The driver, a 47-year-old Mexican citizen, was arrested, the report said.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/12/2020 09:36 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Narcos

#1  Seems like the appetite for this poison in the US is depressingly huge...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/12/2020 10:59 Comments || Top||

#2  No tariffs for China.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/12/2020 12:21 Comments || Top||

#3  so cspans viewers can stay awake!
Posted by: Thromort Grumble7159 || 10/12/2020 16:31 Comments || Top||

#4  I am not sure one would find "co-mingled" in the dictionary. Commingle[d] maybe.
Posted by: Clem || 10/12/2020 16:34 Comments || Top||


2 Marine veterans among conspirators charged in Michigan governor kidnap plot, former Army trainee arrested in NC
[Task&Purpose] Two Marine veterans are among the 13 men arrested over an alleged plot to kidnap the governor of Michigan, Marine Corps Times first reported.
That’s the plot led by several Trump-hating anarchists amusingly labelled as far right white nationalists.
Former Marine Daniel Harris, 22,
...we already knew about his Marine experience. He’s the security guard who supports Black Lives Matter...
and former Marine reservist Joseph Morrison, 26,
... known online as Boogaloo Bunyan, he cofounded the Wolverine Watchmen...
were among the men charged by state and federal authorities this week after law enforcement foiled an alleged scheme to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer
...Her Excellency, the dictator of Michigan, 2020 Dem VP contender...
The Marine Corps provided Task & Purpose with a statement on Sunday confirming that both Morrison and Harris are Marine veterans.

"We are aware of the circumstances surrounding the two individuals, and will assist the investigating authorities in any way we can," the Marine Corps statement says. "The serious allegations are not a reflection of the Marine Corps, do not reflect the oath every Marine takes to support and defend the constitution, and do not align with our core values of honor, courage, and commitment. "

Six men, including Harris — an 0311 Rifleman who enlisted in the Corps in June 2015 and left as a corporal in June 2019 after serving with the 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marines, at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina — were charged in federal court on Thursday with conspiring to kidnap the Whitmer in the run-up to the November elections.

According to the bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit
... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang...
Free Press, Harris allegedly discussed launching an attack on a Michigan State Police Facility before kidnapping the Whitmer, saying in an encrypted group chat that the group should, "Have one person go to her house. Knock on the door and when she answers it just cap her."

Morrison joined the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve in March 2015 and served as an MOS 1341 Engineer Equipment Mechanic with the Engineer Support Company, 6th Engineer Support Battalion, 4th Marine Logistics Group in Battle Creek, Michigan, until his Oct. 8 discharge, which was not connected to the alleged plots, according to the Marine Corps. His final rank was lance corporal.

Former soldier accused in Michigan governor kidnap plot arrested in Columbia, NC

[Post&Courier] A Michigan law enforcement investigation of a militia’s plot to kidnap that state’s governor ensnared a 21-year-old former Fort Jackson trainee who relocated from the bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit
... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang...
area to South Carolina in July.

Federal authorities arrested Paul Edward Bellar and booked him at the Alvin Glenn Detention Center in Columbia on Wednesday. That was hours after a Michigan warrant named him as a "sergeant" of the militia that law enforcement alleges had plans to violent mostly peacefully overthrow the state capitol, apprehend Gov. Gretchen Whitmer
...Her Excellency, the dictator of Michigan, 2020 Dem VP contender...
and charge her with treason.

Drawing on his military experience, Bellar was responsible for training the group — dubbed the Wolverine Watchmen — on the use of firearms, medical care and other "tactical exercises," Michigan prosecutors allege.

In a hearing before a Richland County magistrate Friday morning, Bellar waived his right to contest his extradition, a clerk for the court told The Post and Courier. His father said he had not spoken to him Friday, and it wasn’t immediately clear if he was already being moved out of the state.

In an interview with The Post and Courier, Bellar’s father denied that his son was seriously involved with the organization. Thomas Bellar acknowledged that his son attended "a couple of training sessions," but insisted he quickly severed his ties.

"He left them on very bad terms," said Thomas Bellar, who lives and works in Columbia as a property manager. "He told them they were crazy."

Thomas Bellar said his son moved in with him this summer after he couldn’t find work during the pandemic as a firearms trainer for local police departments in the Detroit area. Paul Bellar’s Michigan landlord also attempted to evict him for not paying rent on his mobile home in July, the Detroit Free Press reported.

That’s when Paul Bellar relocated to Columbia, his father said. He noted that prosecutors allege the militia’s plot set a deadline of the November election, while he insists his son left the state months earlier.

"It’s kind of hard to storm a capitol living 800 miles away," Thomas Bellar said.

Paul Bellar trained for the Army at Fort Jackson and was honorably discharged a little more than a year ago with post-traumatic stress disorder, his father said.

Michigan authorities now seek his extradition on charges of supporting a terrorist act, felony affiliation with a gang and possession of a firearm while committing a felony. Taken together, the charges could carry more than 40 years of imprisonment.

He is one of seven accused of affiliation with the militia who face state charges. Six other suspected ringleaders were arrested by the FBI and face federal charges that could result in life sentences upon conviction.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/12/2020 04:15 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  and will assist the investigating authorities in any way we can

Like recall to active duty, in the brig?
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/12/2020 18:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Great pic... she looks like Prunella DaVille.
Posted by: Mercutio || 10/12/2020 19:21 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Officials Report Heavy, Ongoing Clashes Near Helmand’s Lashkargah City, 26 Talibs Toes Up
[ToloNews] Heavy festivities happened on the outskirts of Lashkargah city in the southern province of Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
on Sunday, resulting in the fall of city police district 4 (PD4) to the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
, according a member of the provincial council. Local officials, however, said it was a tactical retreat.

The festivities are ongoing, said Omar Zwak, front man for the Helmand governor, who spoke to TOLOnews on Sunday evening.

the head of of Helmand's provincial council, Ataullah Afghan, said that some parts of the Highway 601—that connects Lashkargah city with Kandahar province—also fell to bad boys. The highway has remained closed to traffic for the last three days following festivities, according to officials and TOLOnews’ Abdullah Hamim.

Other areas that have witnessed festivities between the Afghan forces and the Taliban over the last three days include the Chah Anjir area of Lashkargah and Nad Ali district.

"Helmand's security situation is recently very concerning. The 601 Highway is closed to traffic and people are concerned," said Abdulhaq Zwakman, a civil society activist in Helmand.

"As you know, the Lashkargah security belts were attacked recently. We have shared this issue with the central government, but no measure was taken," said Abdul Wali Patyal, a civil society activist in Helmand.

Analysts said the cental government is not paying attention to the security situation in Helmand.

"There are conflicts in Helmand. The conflicts have increased amid peace negotiations. The Taliban has destroyed bridges on 601 Highway. We need support from the central government," said Bashir Ahmad Shakir, an analyst.

Helmand governor’s front man Omar Zwak said the security forces made a tactical retreat and that they will soon bring the situation under control.

"The situation in Nawa, Chah Anjir, Nad Ali, and Chah Anjir are somehow under control. Security forces are busy in maintaining the areas and their operations," Zwak said.

This comes amid the ongoing peace negotiations in Doha. Violence has increased recently amid calls by Afghan and foreign officials for an immediate reduction in violence in the country.

'26' Taliban Attackers in Helmand Killed in ANDSF Response

[ToloNews] Helmand officials said on Sunday that at least 26 Taliban fighters had been killed in recent operations by Afghan security forces in the province.

Helmand police said that he Taliban attacked Nahri Saraj, Nad Ali, Nawa and highway 601 (Highway 601 in Helmand connects Lashkargah city with the Kandahar-Herat highway) and 26 Taliban were killed in Afghan forces air strikes and ground assaults carried out in response.

Four other Taliban were also wounded in the strikes.

The Taliban has not yet commented.

According to the Helmand police, during the clashes at least four security forces were also killed, and eight others were wounded.

Meanwhile, a security source told TOLOnews that on Highway 601 a number of checkpoints fell into Taliban hands and the highway is now closed to traffic.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/12/2020 01:05 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Security Force Members Escape from Taliban Custody in Zabul
...leaving mayhem behind them, one hopes.
[ToloNews] Local officials in Zabul said that 43 people, mostly security force members, detained by the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
in Shahjoy district, escaped on Sunday and fled to government-controlled areas.

The governor of Zabul, Mohammad Nabi Ahmadzai, said the security forces had been captured by the Taliban on the highway, and he confirmed that they were able to break out from the group's detention and escape.

Ahmadzai said that 42 of the 43 people who escaped were members of the Afghan army and police.

According to local officials, the detention area is located in the Shabar area of Shahjoy district.

A number of those who escaped said they were tortured by the Taliban.

Meanwhile,
...back at the palazzo, Count Guido stepped from behind the suit of armor, rapier in hand. Ciccolini snarled and reached for his own weapon...
some members who beat feet from prison said they are ready to return to their duties.
Displaying admirable courage and they know where the Talib prison is located. One hopes to hear more from that lot.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/12/2020 01:05 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  Well done
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 10/12/2020 1:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Translation: their families paid the ransom.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/12/2020 5:48 Comments || Top||

#3  Or were permitted to "escape" because they are actually working for the Taliban?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/12/2020 7:54 Comments || Top||

#4  Or their jailers, being irregular almost-bandits, got bored and wandered off.
Posted by: magpie || 10/12/2020 11:18 Comments || Top||

#5  /\ Over rating the enemy's competence is a common intelligence failure.
Posted by: magpie || 10/12/2020 11:20 Comments || Top||


Security Officials Rescue Head of Currency Exchange Union in Balkh
[KhaamaPress] The Ministry of Interior (MoI) has announced that Abdul Qayyum, the head of the currency exchange union in Balkh province, has been released from the claws of kidnappers.

Ministry front man Tariq Arian said the head of the Balkh currency exchange union had been released in a police operation.

According to Arian, the abductee was not harmed during his stay with the kidnappers.

Arian also stated that Abdul Qayyum’s abduction case is currently being investigated.

Abdul Qayyum, was kidnapped by unknown individuals three weeks ago from the Siahgard area of ​​the third district in Mazar-e-Sharif, as he was walking from his house to attend the early morning prayers.

Earlier, a number of money changers in connection with this event in Mazar-e-Sharif protested and demanded the release of Qayyum from the clutches of the kidnappers.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/12/2020 01:05 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Mine Blast Kills 10 ASF, 3 Civilians in Sar-e-Pul
[KhaamaPress] At least 10 Afghan Security Forces and further three civilians killed after a roadside mine went off in Sar-e-Pul
...a city and eponymous province in northern Afghanistan, population about 500,000. Demographically it is majority Tadjik and Uzbek. There are small Pashtun, Arab, and Hazara communities, of which the Hazaras mostly don't bother anyone...
province of the country, according to sources

Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch shot Black Bart's other gun out of his other hand......
three Afghan Security Forces injured during the blast.

According to sources Khaama Press reached to, the incident occurred Saturday in Baghawi area of Baghlan in the province.

While forces convoy was passing the area, a Humvee vehicle hit through the mine that killed more than a dozen, including civilians, sources said.

No group or individual has immediately grabbed credit for the attack.
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Taliban Intensified War in Faryab: Governor
[KhaamaPress] Naqeebullah Fayeq, Governor of Faryab province, said the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
Lions of Islam have intensified war in the province, triggering concern among locals.

Fayeq wrote in a tweet sudnay, saying the Afghan Security Forces will defend the citizens through day and night.

"Buzbuzak [M16] is the most dangerous weapon of the Taliban, which targets our soldiers in the dark of night," he said in a tweet posting a M16 weapons. "Last night, in an ambush attack by security forces in Shirin Tagab, four Taliban were killed and one of their Buzbuzak fell into the hands of soldiers."

Faryab, in north of Afghanistan, is one of the insecure provinces, where Taliban often carry attacks against civilians, government officials and security forces.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/12/2020 01:05 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


2 Pakistani Taliban Killed in Nangarhar Drone Strikes
[KhaamaPress] Two Pak Taliban
...Arabic for students...
snuffies have been killed in a dronezap in 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.

Ataullah Khogyani, the front man for the governor of Nangarhar province, said last night two Pak Talibs were killed and their weapons and ammunition destroyed in two dronezaps at Gulga area of ​​Bandar Dara in the Achin district of the province.

No one else was injured in the Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s, Khogyani told the press.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/12/2020 01:05 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Africa North
More than 1,000 Migrants Land in Spanish Islands in 48 hrs, Said Red Cross
[AnNahar] More than a thousand illegal African migrants colonists have landed in the Spanish Canary Islands in the last 48 hours, an influx not seen in at least 10 years, according to the Red Thingy.

African migrants colonists have recently turned to the Canary Islands after agreements with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
, Morocco and Libya tightened control over the Mediterranean route to Europe's shores.

Since Thursday, 1,015 people have arrived on 37 vessels to the islands of Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, Grand Canaria and Tenerife, the last two territories laying around 300 km (190 miles) off Africa's coast.

Most of the migrants colonists, from North Africa or sub-Saharan African nations, were in good health, though some were suffering symptoms of hypothermia, a Red Thingy front man said.

All have been tested for the new coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
, the official said.

The Red Thingy said the rate of arrivals was more or less the same as in 2006, when 30,000 migrants colonists landed in the Canary Islands.

Between January and September 30, more than 6,000 migrants colonists landed in the Canaries, six times the number who arrived in the same period in 2019, according the Spanish interior ministry.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/12/2020 02:20 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Human Trafficking


Gunmen kill five villagers in central Mali
[AlAhram] At least five Malian villagers have been killed by suspected jihadists in the centre of the country where attacks and ethnic festivities have been on the rise, witnesses and local officials said on Sunday.

The attack followed the kidnapping by button men on Tuesday of around 20 people at a weekly market in the same village, Farabougou, near the central Malian town of Niono.

"The village is cut off from the country by gunnies who have blocked all access routes," said village chief Boukary Coulibaly.

Villagers trying to enter the area were ambushed, leaving five dead and fifteen maimed, he said.

Another local official said six people had been killed. A resident contacted by AFP by phone also said that six non-combatants were killed by the jihadists, and others were missing.

While the ambush was going on, another group of button men in pick-up trucks and cycle of violences rounded up cattle from Farabougou, another villager said.

An official at the security ministry said security forces were taking measures to free the village.

Mali has been struggling to end a jihadist insurgency which emerged in 2012 and has since spread into neighbouring 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...
and Niger.

Central Mali has become an epicentre of the conflict, with routine jihadist attacks, ethnic strife and tit-for-tat killings among communities.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/12/2020 01:31 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in North Africa


Tunisia says sinking leaves 2 migrants dead, many missing
[AlAhram] Two bodies were recovered and seven people rescued after a boat carrying dozens of would-be migrants colonists went down off the Tunisian coast on Sunday, the National Guard said.

"A boat carrying illegal migrants colonists was shipwrecked off Sfax... two bodies, of a woman and a baby, were found, and seven people were rescued," front man Housemeddine Jebabli told AFP.

According to initial estimates, 30 migrants colonists from sub-Saharan Africa were on board the vessel, Jebabli said, adding that a search was underway for those missing.

He did not indicate where they had departed from.

The number of would-be migrants colonists attempting to cross to Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
from Tunisia sharply from a peak in 2011.

But it began rising again in 2017, driven partly by economic woes and inequality in the North African country, almost a decade after a revolution that many hoped would bring change.

The interior ministry said Sunday it had stopped 32 attempts to cross the Mediterranean and arrested 262 people between the start of the year and mid-September. Two people were from sub-Saharan Africa.

Over the same period, 8,581 people were intercepted while trying to reach Europe by sea from Tunisia, the ministry said. They included 2,104 foreigners.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/12/2020 01:31 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Human Trafficking


Egypt- ISIS claim two attacks in North Sinai on October 9, both near Bir al-Abd
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 10/12/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Yet again I saw nothing about it in Al Ahram. One wonders who exactly it is that has a rich imaginary life.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/12/2020 13:07 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Nigeria: 12 killed in bandit attacks on northern towns
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
According to survivors, some gunmen invaded Kidandan and Kadal in the Giwa local government on Friday and Saturday, firing sporadically.

"There were about a dozen bandits. They attacked Kidandan on Friday afternoon and left three people dead. Four people were also wounded," Auwal Ibrahim, a survivor, told Anadolu Agency over phone.

Another survivor Usman Bala said the gunmen also attached his community Kadai on Saturday.

"The bandits moved to Kadai on Saturday night, the gunmen killed nine at the Kadai village and four people who were injured were in critical condition," he said.
Posted by: Fred || 10/12/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram (ISIS)

#1  Shades of the 'shutter gun'! What is that rifle - a chimera built from parts?
Posted by: magpie || 10/12/2020 11:24 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Azerbaijan using obsolete airplanes in un-manned mode to get Armenia radar to light up.
[Twitter]
Posted by: 3dc || 10/12/2020 09:09 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life,

#1  An old tactic? I've never heard of sending unmanned planes to light up a defense before. It sounds innovative to me.
Posted by: Muggsy Hapsburg5230 || 10/12/2020 10:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Single-engine biplane. Who retrofitted them for auto/remote piloting? Ima call hijinx?
Posted by: Frank G || 10/12/2020 10:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Probably not much to it if you don't need FAA approval...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/12/2020 10:52 Comments || Top||

#4  I've never heard of sending unmanned planes to light up a defense before.

I seem to remember the IDF doing this.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/12/2020 10:53 Comments || Top||

#5  The US used drones equipped with radar reflectors to activate air defenses in both Vietnam and Desert Storm.
Posted by: Ebbising Hupoth8296 || 10/12/2020 11:21 Comments || Top||

#6  ADM-160 MALD
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/12/2020 11:26 Comments || Top||

#7  Oh. A purpose-built drone, not an unmanned airplane. Carry on...
Posted by: Muggsy Hapsburg5230 || 10/12/2020 11:45 Comments || Top||

#8  There was earnest work to turn conventional aircraft into radio controlled, but I think they were used mostly as ground attack 'guided missile' operations.

Conventional aircraft have been converted to radio control as target drones to test out anti-air systems.

If someone has done this before in an actual war situation, I can't think of it and they haven't bragged about it.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/12/2020 13:37 Comments || Top||

#9  I thought about this,
Posted by: Vinegar Spolusing6485 || 10/12/2020 18:48 Comments || Top||

#10  If someone has done this before in an actual war situation

The US in WWII converted bombers into remote control suicide drones to go after hard targets. It's how Joe Kennedy Jr. was killed. Operation Aphrodite
Posted by: Ebbising Hupoth8296 || 10/12/2020 21:24 Comments || Top||

#11  Yes; I believe the Germans were playing around with the technology as well.

IIUC, the limited technology of the time didn't allow for 'wild weasel' type missions.

I'd look at late 40's to 50's for a conventional aircraft turned drone cold war tactic.

I also looked at other theaters such as Israel/Middle East, Iran/Iraq, India/Pakistan and didn't immediately come across a wild weasel conventional aircraft turned drone.

In the 60s, it seems the technology was there for purpose built drones for wild weasel missions; why I looked at not-cold-war locations.

Its clever, really, and would be no surprise if North Korea would have drone planes to cover an airborne operation.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/12/2020 23:45 Comments || Top||


Azerbaijan STILL deny they’re using Syrian jihadist mercenaries
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Azerbaijani Armed Forces are launching offensives in the south using armored vehicles and artillery which is being stopped by the Armenian troops
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Ganja, the second largest city in Azerbaijan and far beyond the frontline, came under rocket fire by the Armenian armed forces
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Europe
Dozens stage attack on police station in Paris suburb
[Jpost] "Violent attack last night on the cop shoppe of Champigny with mortar shots and various projectiles. No police officer was injured," the Gay Paree police headquarters said on Twitter.

About 40 unidentified people armed with metal bars and using fireworks as mortars tried to storm a French cop shoppe in the Gay Paree suburbs on Saturday night, officials said on Sunday.

"Violent attack last night on the cop shoppe of Champigny with mortar shots and various projectiles. No police officer was injured," the Gay Paree police headquarters said on Twitter.

The police posted a video showing a barrage of fireworks going off in the direction of the cop shoppe in Champigny-sur-Marne, about 15 km (nine miles) southeast of central Gay Paree. The armed people attempted to force entry into the station, but failed to do so.

Nobody was arrested, but images showed smashed windows at the cop shoppe and damaged cars.

The motive for the attack, the third on this cop shoppe in two years, was not immediately clear. The cop shoppe is located in a housing estate area known for drug trafficking and deemed by authorities as a high-priority district for order to be restored.
Sounds like our favourite kind of people, though they don’t say it outright. If only someone who knew the neighbourhood would happen in to tell us about the residents.
"It was an organized attack of about 40 people who wanted to do battle," Champigny Mayor Laurent Jeanne told BFM. "For a few days it has been tense with people who have a certain willingness to do battle with the police. It's anti-police sentiment. We weren't far off from a disaster."

A spate of public safety incidents across La Belle France since the end of the COVID-19 lockdown in mid-May has put the government on heightened alert for increases in crime amid the economic fallout from the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
pandemic.

President Emmanuel Macron, who faces a presidential election in less than two years, has been criticized by opponents over crime and public safety since he took power in 2017 and opinion polls show that the public see his government as weakest on those issues.
An Nahar adds:
The city's mayor, Laurent Jeanne, told BFM television the police might have been targeted in retaliation for an "incident" involving a scooter driver who was stopped by officers a few days ago, without providing details.

Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin tweeted that "these little dealers don't scare anyone, and will not discourage our anti-drug work," though police officials did not identify the attackers, and no arrests were made.

But police union officials said the attack underscored a growing threat against law enforcement in depressed suburbs of Gay Paree and other large cities.

The Champigny-sur-Marne station had already been struck by youths wielding fireworks, most recently last April, and several others across La Belle France have sustained similar attacks this year.

The assault came after two officers were attacked and shot with their own guns in a Gay Paree suburb last Wednesday, prompting renewed calls for stepped-up efforts to tackle crime and insecurity.

Tensions have long run high between police and residents in poor cities, often with large immigrant communities, where protests erupted this summer over claims of brutality and racism in their ranks.
Courtesy of Skidmark, the Fox News report, which has video:

The article also reports on a rash of swastikas spray painted on Parisian public buildings. I’ve seen elsewhere that they caught the miscreant, an unnamed gentleman from Georgia, whose population is 11% Muslim.
Update from Free West Media at 8:20 p.m.answers the earlier question:
One inhabitant told Gay Pareeian tabloid Le Gay Pareeien: "It’s no longer possible to live here, I spend as little time there as possible, there are too many youths [French euphemism for Arab and African immigrants colonists, ed.] who have nothing else to do but piss off people."

Darmanin expressed his wish to prohibit, by law, the sale to the public, on the internet, of fireworks which could be considered as "eventual weapons". For several years already these pyrotechnic devices — intended for fireworks professionals — have in fact been used as projectiles against the police or firefighters.
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#1  L'homme nouveau, ou et, les flicks

"Les rouges... et les noirs... sont ici!"
"Sans reservations? Non!" "Mais oui!"
Tres sauvages... et moderne,
They besiege the caserne
Dans le film: Fort Apache, Paree!
Posted by: Mad Eye Munster4450 || 10/12/2020 14:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Sheez... I blame anglophone.
Posted by: Mad Eye Munster4450 || 10/12/2020 14:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Your dreams must be immensely challenging, Zenobia F.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/12/2020 20:19 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
'Put these animals in jail now': Furious Trump demands FBI find those responsible for pulling down statues of Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt in Portland
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • The two statues were torn down in the space of 10 minutes in Portland last night

  • Trump raged at the 'animals' responsible and urged Portland to send for the feds

  • Protesters condemned Lincoln for his execution of 38 Native warriors in 1862

  • Roosevelt's plinth was defaced with a message blaming him for 'stolen land'
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/12/2020 10:11 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Here is the executive order against vandalizing monuments.

Can we assume this order reaches across state lines and jurisdictions and that they will put these folks in jail?
Posted by: gorb || 10/12/2020 14:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Can we assume this order reaches across state lines and jurisdictions
Yes

and that the Red DAs elected with Soros-cash will put these folks in jail?
Hell no
Posted by: Zebulon and Company5853 || 10/12/2020 15:06 Comments || Top||

#3  if these statues were not on Federal property the US Govt probably doesn't have jurisdiction
Posted by: Lord Garth || 10/12/2020 16:08 Comments || Top||

#4  I respectively submit, the US Government has jurisdiction on ALL property.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/12/2020 18:00 Comments || Top||

#5  Of course, in reality Lincoln showed mercy toward the Sioux killers who had slaughtered and raped white settlers in Minnesota in 1862. Lincoln commuted the sentences of all but 38 of the 300 killers.

For which offense against Wokery, all statues of the Great Emancipator must be treated as if they were statues of Mussolini or Hitler.
Posted by: Chusotle Unavish2527 || 10/12/2020 18:27 Comments || Top||

#6  I believe he was saying basically "Quick trying to find the elusive white supremacists and start hammering the violent, destructive, commies who are actually destroying our civil world"
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/12/2020 19:19 Comments || Top||


Portland catch and release


Courtesy of Besoeker:
Here's every Antifa goon arrested in Portland last night during their BLM anti-police protest. Notice anything they all have in common?
[NotTheBee] The Antifa dweebs were out in Portland last night, dressed in black and covered in body armor (and body odor, no doubt), and 26 of them got themselves arrested.

Just curious: Do you notice anything they all have in common?
Posted by: Fred || 10/12/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  I'm never quite sure which way a given trans is going based on the prose descriptions of such. Could we get some symbols like the old male and female symbols to clarify the situation for people like me who are slow in the morning?

That said, seems a certain type of girl can make a pretty convincing boy without much effort, whereas the other deal seems a bit harder to bring off convincingly...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/12/2020 7:01 Comments || Top||



“Charlie's not a hero. He's an attempted murderer. This needs to be removed.”
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No record of security license for Denver patriot rally shooter
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Son identifies Lee Keltner as shooting victim; suspect Matthew Dolloff was working as private security for 9News.

Denver shooting victim identified as pro-cop vet, shot in front of son: family
[FoxNews] Lee Keltner was a military veteran and grandfather.

Courtesy of Besoeker:
More on the ANTIFA affiliated NBC News9 KILLER now being held for First Degree MURDER of a Trump supporter in Denver
Everything about the fake security guard, going back to his Occupy Wall Street days, and about the pro-Antifa posture of the television station.
[Right Scoop] The Democrats and the media and the left and their pet NeverTrumps have been running around AHA!-ing over the fact that the man who shot and killed a pro-Trump mostly peaceful demonstrator in Denver yesterday was working as security for a local reporter. Their argument is that therefore it’s not an Antifa thing.

Wrong again, Fake News.

Related: Reuters - Security guard held on suspicion of murder in shooting at Denver political rallies
Posted by: Fred || 10/12/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Tweet on him:
https://twitter.com/SloanDickey/status/1315421895978897413?s=20
Posted by: 3dc || 10/12/2020 2:54 Comments || Top||

#2  It looks like in the week leading up to the Election the DemonCrats are supporting murder for all who don't vote Biden.
Posted by: 3dc || 10/12/2020 2:55 Comments || Top||

#3  On Twitter an antifa supporter wrote of the 9News reporter: Kyle would be 100% safe. Because we protect us and Kyle is one of us.
Posted by: Phuque Whereger7256 || 10/12/2020 3:03 Comments || Top||

#4  The right-thinking kid with a smile...
Or left-anarchist orcs, rank and vile?
Skill, substance, and style...
Or incompetent bile?
Black and white, almost: Kyle versus Kyle.
Posted by: Mad Eye Munster4450 || 10/12/2020 4:06 Comments || Top||

#5  So was he, or wasn't he, a Pinkerton employee?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/12/2020 5:57 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ I'd certainly expect they'd have already denied it in a hot minute if they could.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/12/2020 6:55 Comments || Top||

#7  There may not be any record of a license, but there sure as Hell is one very convincing record of him shooting that guy as he was backing away. Go ahead Denver, don't charge the plucky lad, show us all your woke credentials. I say let him go without bail.
Posted by: Cesare || 10/12/2020 7:12 Comments || Top||

#8  ^This is important because, if Pinks hired him despite lack of license & his personal history, they should face some long reaching consequences.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/12/2020 7:21 Comments || Top||

#9  Multi levels of contractual a$$ covering, no doubt...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/12/2020 9:29 Comments || Top||


#11  I'm not sure what this 9News is, but the only person in the area which looks anything like a reporter is some gal with a safety vest with "Press" stenciled onto it, and some sort of emblem; looks like typical Blamtifa Media Agent: not an official media uniform, multiple prop cameras, movement and behavior - dude gets shot and she is right there unflinching.

If shooter was there to protect a legit pencilneck with a mic and camera crew, he was some 40 yards away from that scene, which isn't bodyguarding.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/12/2020 10:59 Comments || Top||

#12  I think cingold (from yesterday at the 'Burg) has the right idea.

"IMO, best guess is 9 News Colorado probably hired Antifa scum as both security and as bait for a “news gathering” creation, & then went trolling to try to get footage of a (provoked) fight. IMO, looks like there were at least three people in on the plan:

1) the 9 News “producer,”

2) the Antifa “security,” Matt Doloff, and

3) the young man who kept trying to provoke a fight (IMO, bait) — probably also Antifa.

i think the guy who was shot and killed figured it all out and was confronting the producer, and the security drew down on him, and killed him when he used mace in response.
"

Posted by: Mullah Richard || 10/12/2020 11:44 Comments || Top||

#13  Dollof was not a Pinkerton employee, per Pinkerton, HOWEVER:
Later Sunday, the company added: “The agent is not a Pinkerton employee but rather a contractor agent from a third-party vendor. The vendor is responsible for proper licensing for all agents under their employment. It is the responsibility of the vendor to ensure any agents assigned to security projects have the required documentation execute the assignment.”
Posted by: Grort Snineter7862 || 10/12/2020 11:47 Comments || Top||

#14  It's just amazing that Channel 9 is still reporting on this event. Pro Tips: (1) Even a journalist, editor, or news executive can be an accomplice to murder (2) You have the right to remain silent, so shut the eff up.
Posted by: Matt || 10/12/2020 11:48 Comments || Top||

#15  2) You have the right to remain silent, so shut the eff up.

When a hotshot lawyer advises silence...
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/12/2020 11:57 Comments || Top||

#16  Something I have not seen discussed in regard to this incident, even on several gun blogs (or in the comments) was the shooter was pretty quick and most reports I have seen say it was a head shot, which isn't a simple thing even close up.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/12/2020 13:27 Comments || Top||

#17  Practiced and kitted.

Everyone was just kinda standing around until the shot was fired. In fact, everyone kinda seemed surprised other than the media agent and the shooter who, by training or intent, surrendered quite quickly and professionally.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/12/2020 13:52 Comments || Top||

#18  Cingold was close. 9News hired Antifa scum because they themselves are Antifa scum. Their scam appears to go out and "cover" and event. Said "security" would agitate and stir up trouble. News producers then report on violent white supremacists. 9News is nothing more than leftist agitprop operation
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 10/12/2020 14:21 Comments || Top||

#19  #15 I ain't kidding. Everyone who had any connection to the chain of events leading up to this murder needs to having a significant chat with a criminal defense attorney.
Posted by: Matt || 10/12/2020 15:19 Comments || Top||

#20  Rex Mundi that is exactly what I am seeing.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/12/2020 15:26 Comments || Top||

#21  They're getting more sophisticated.
And deadlier.
Posted by: Threper Darling of the Lutherans1530 || 10/12/2020 15:30 Comments || Top||

#22  One rather obvious question that all this raises is:

What other "news" outlets (both national and local) have similar relationships with Blamtifa?




Posted by: charger || 10/12/2020 15:49 Comments || Top||

#23  Location of video I referenced

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLVX-I11hww&feature=youtu.be

Unless you are interested in mindset and procedure, skip the prik to 1:56:00

First see Clockwork Orange at 1:56:56, she is official Blamtifa Media, with the video cameras with optical zoom, backup video recorder system, and fanny pack within which I'd guess there is a way to upload to a media center for quick production turn-around among other essential items like extra batteries, memory cards, etc.

The whole event is recorded, that can be uploaded to media center for framing and story and quickly sent to their NBC Affiliate to make the first take, especially if this was a trophy hunt as a good case could be made that it is.

charger, I'm going to guess all of them have a designated person to receive Local Blamtifa Chapter Media Representative official photo and story.

Blamtifa gets their story out, media has a plausible denial and if pressed for the full recording, "Yeah, we'll get on that, might be a day or two."

By then, hell just 30 minutes later, the lie is around the world twice with "Professional Bodyguard on assignment protecting reporter from unhinged right wing extremists gets sucker punched, bear sprayed, defends his and reporter's lives."
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/12/2020 17:12 Comments || Top||

#24  Very astute, completely plausible.

Note that all the operational / organizational elements needed to pull this off have long been in place:

1. Local and national media workers, at all levels of the media organization, who are sympathetic to Blamtifa (if not outright champions of them)

2. Sympathetic Google / YT and Twitter "fact-checkers" who can be counted on to look the other way when you publish your lies

3. Local law enforcement who will release you if caught

4. Abundant funding from dark-money and other sources
Posted by: Wholutle Barnsmell4494 || 10/12/2020 17:26 Comments || Top||


“Get the f— back you dumb f—ing c—t”
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Posted by: Fred || 10/12/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Give her something to be scared about.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/12/2020 0:08 Comments || Top||

#2  Try filming Antifa and you will most likely be assaulted.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 10/12/2020 1:39 Comments || Top||

#3  The cellphone held forehead high mode of "filming" isn't very discreet. For a lot less money you can get any number of devices that take good video without drawing attention to yourself.

Given the environment, this should be a safety consideration first and foremost...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/12/2020 7:14 Comments || Top||

#4  They're trying to provoke a response.
Posted by: gorb || 10/12/2020 10:21 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Abu Jaber, a Hamza commander appointed by Turkey to recruit and send militants to Azerbaijan, gravely injured in Jabal Barad by a bomb placed in his car
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Posted by: Fred || 10/12/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


India-Pakistan
Pakistani forces continue to violate LoC ceasefire, pound Rajouri and Poonch
[HindustanTimes] The Pak shelling in three sectors drew a quick response from the Indian army.

Pak troops on Sunday evening resorted to intense shelling along the Line of Control in Jammu and 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....
’s Poonch and Rajouri districts, escalating ceasefire violations and prompting India to retaliate in equal measure.

Defence front man Lt Col Devender Anand said Pakistain violated ceasefire in Degwar sector of Poonch at about 6.15 pm followed by similar shelling in Khari Karmarain the same district at around 6.40 pm.

"They resorted to artillery shelling prompting Indian troops to retaliate in equal measure," he added.

Col Anand said that at about 6.45 pm Pak troops also opened heavy fire in Sunderbani sector of Rajouri district.

"There also they resorted to small arms fire followed by artillery shelling. Indian army is responding befittingly in the three sectors," he said.

There were no injuries or deaths on the Indian side when reports last came in.
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#1  Wasn't Poonch the name of one of the actors on CHiPs?
Posted by: Raj || 10/12/2020 0:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Ponch was one of the main characters on CHiPs. Not sure who the actor was.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/12/2020 0:43 Comments || Top||

#3  hmmm.... co-ordination with the Han?
Posted by: Mercutio || 10/12/2020 8:43 Comments || Top||

#4  #2 Erik Estrada IIRC
Posted by: Frank G || 10/12/2020 8:55 Comments || Top||


Four militants killed in two encounters in Kashmir’s Kulgam, Pulwama
[HindustanTimes] A police spokesperson said that the Kulgam joint operation by the Army, Central Reserve Police Force and the Jammu and 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....
Police was launched on Friday night after a specific input regarding the presence of terrorists


Four murderous Moslems, including two belonging to the Jaish-e-Mohammad
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/12/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistain Proxies


Army foils Pakistan’s attempt to push arms into Kashmir, recovers four AK 74 rifles
[HindustanTimes] The troops immediately reached the location and recovered four x AK 74 rifles, eight magazines and 240 rounds concealed in two bags. The area has been cordoned off and a search is under progress, the official said.

The Army has foiled an attempt to push in arms and ammunition by Pakistain from across the Line of Control (LoC) in Keran sector of Jammu and 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....
and recovered a cache, including four AK74 rifles, officials said on Saturday.

Alert troops foiled Pakistain’s attempt to push in arms across the LoC in Keran Sector of north Kashmir’s Kupwara district, an Army official said. He said the Army noticed two-three men transporting some items in a tube tied to a rope across Kishenganga river.

The troops immediately reached the location and recovered four x AK 74 rifles, eight magazines and 240 rounds concealed in two bags. The area has been cordoned off and a search is under progress, the official said.

He said it was another attempt by Lions of Islam from Pakistain Occupied Kashmir to smuggle war-like stores, but it was successfully foiled by the quick action of alert troops.

Corps Commander of the Srinagar-based Chinar Corps Lt Gen B S Raju said there has been no change in Pakistain’s intentions.

"This morning, in the Keran sector, Pakistain tried to send across the Kishenganga river four AK74 rifles and a huge cache of ammunition in a tube, but our alert troops with the help of surveillance devices, recovered the cache. It signifies that there has been no change in Pakistain’s intentions. We will continue to foil their attempts in the future as well," Lt Gen Raju told news hounds on the sidelines of a function in Rangreth area in the outskirts of the city here.

"There have been attempts in Keran, Tangdhar, in Jammu sector and 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....

as well. The main aim is to keep the people of Kashmir involved always in terrorism. But, our resolve is to stop weapons from coming in so that there is minimal loss to the people here. We need the cooperation of the people in this so that we can stop terrorism," the Corps Commander said.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/12/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistain Proxies

#1  Eric Holder mutters "pikers..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/12/2020 8:02 Comments || Top||

#2  Kind of a weak push.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/12/2020 12:22 Comments || Top||


NIA submits charge sheet against 8 in Bhima Koregaon case
[HindustanTimes] The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday filed a charge sheet against eight people including Hany Babu, Gautam Navlakha, and 83-year-old Stan Swamy, alleging that the Bhima Koregaon violence was a "well-chalked-out strategy" for which these people were in touch with Maoist leaders through "codes".

The charge sheet also alleged that Navlakha has links with Pakistain’s spy agency — Inter-Services Intelligence
...the Pak military intelligence agency that controls the military -- heads of ISI typically get promoted into the Chief of Army Staff position. It serves as a general command center for favored turban groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, tries to influence the politix of neighboring countries, and carries out a (usually) low-level war against India in Kashmir...
The Pune Police, while conducting investigations in the case previously, contended that provocative speeches made at an Elgar Gay Pareehad event, which was allegedly funded by Maoists, triggered caste festivities near Bhima Koregaon village on January 1 in 2018, leading to the death of one person and sparking more unrest.

While the agency says Milind Teltumde is absconding, the others named in the charge sheet are in judicial custody. Other than activist Navlakha, Delhi University professor Hany Babu and holy man Swamy, the others named in the charge sheet are Goa Institute of Management professor Anand Teltumbde and three members of the Kabir Kala Manch — Jyoti Jagtap, Sagar Gorkhe and Ramesh Gaichor.
How very interesting that Pakistan’s ISI are partnering with a CCP client to go after a joint enemy.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/12/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistain Proxies


Pillion riding bans in Karachi over fears of target killings
[DAILYTIMES.PK] The Sindh government on Sunday imposed a ban on riding double, sometimes triple or quadruple for 30 days, citing reports that murders in the city can rise and further deteriorate the law and order situation in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
.A notification issued by the provincial home department maintained that the action has been taken amid rise in criminal activities in the port city.

The decision from the provincial authorities came on the request of Additional Inspector General Karachi Ghulam Nabi Memon, who conveyed his fears in a letter to the home department on October 10 saying miscreants and disgruntled elements may disturb the peace and create law and order problems in Karachi by carrying out assassinations.

The communique maintained that incidents such as lobbing of hand grenades and assassinations of law enforcement personnel as well as religious scholars have been reported in the city. "Therefore, keeping in view, he [IGP] has requested to impose a ban on the Pillion Riding for a period of one month with immediate effect," read the notification.

While condemning the killing of prominent scholar Maulana Adil Khan in Karachi, Prime Minister Imran Khan
...aka The Great Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree...
has said that for the last three months, India has been attempting to target religious scholars from both Sunni and Shia sects to create sectarian conflict across the country.



Posted by: Fred || 10/12/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
10 Palestinians reportedly wounded by gunfire in clashes with Israeli troops
[IsraelTimes] Ten Paleostinians were maimed by gunfire during violent mostly peaceful confrontations today with Israeli forces in al-Am’ari, the Paleostinian Authority’s official Wafa news agency reports.

Another two were maimed by rubber bullets, Wafa reports. Three Paleostinians in al-Am’ari, a refugee camp near the West Bank city of Ramallah, have reportedly been arrested.

The Israel Defense Forces doesn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/12/2020 03:37 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Russian helicopter disperses protest by villagers in Derik, northeast Syria, against Russian presence there
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 10/12/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


73 Syrian family members from ISIS families from Deir ez-Zor will left Hawl Camp
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 10/12/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State



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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.

Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.

Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has dominated Mexico for six years.
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