#2
I have to admire a woman depored from Spain for ruining a matador deemed a national treasure. Not at all bad for a wild tar heel girl of vastly more limited times.
[NOLA] A pedicab passenger inexplicably shot a New Orleans police officer in the face in the French Quarter on Friday afternoon, just as revelers began arriving to celebrate Halloween weekend.
The officer was maimed at about 4:25 p.m. while in his patrol vehicle near St. Philip and Royal streets. Other officers took him to a hospital rather than wait for paramedics, and police arrested the alleged gunman within minutes, Police Superintendent Shaun Ferguson said.
Ferguson said the officer was in serious but stable condition after being shot under his left eye. The bullet was lodged in the officer's skull, but the four-year veteran, whose name was not immediately released, was responsive as he walked into the hospital holding his cheek, Ferguson said.
A second officer, a 16-year veteran, was maimed by glass shards in the shooting, from a shattered window on the cruiser.
"Two of our officers were ambushed," said Ferguson, who said officers confiscated a gun that they think was used in the shooting. "This is a dark day."
Ferguson said the suspect, who had a gun holster on him, appeared to be experiencing some type of medical episode when he was captured. He said the man was taken to a hospital for evaluation, and he made clear that the arresting officers did not use any physical force on the suspect.
"I want to commend those officers for maintaining professionalism," Ferguson said.
Ferguson did not identify the suspect or specify what charges he would face. Friday night, a law enforcement source identified the suspect as Donnell Linwood Hansel, 45.
A woman who asked that her name not be published said she saw the suspected shooter flailing, screaming and trying to bite first responders who were loading him into an ambulance after his arrest.
An unknown black male later identified to me by a law enforcement source as Donnell Hassell II from Augusta, Georgia, opens fire from the back of a pedicab as it crosses the intersection in front of the fully-marked New Orleans police unit.
Sources told me that he plainly smelled of marijuana and then began “acting funny and we thought faking a seizure.” He was later transported to University Medical Center where he was later intubated. The same source stated he was suffering from symptoms that are consistent with excited delirium (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excited_delirium). At the time of writing this article he remains under a guard detail.
Sources further told me, “He has disabled vet plates on his bike … he [may be] with Psi Delta Tau military fraternity and somehow made a motorcycle club out of it, not positive yet though.”
[ToloNews] At least 900 civilians were either killed or maimed as a result of Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... violence in the last 50 days, the Ministry of Interior Affairs (MoI) said on Saturday, adding that the group conducted roughly 2,000 attacks during this period.
The Interior Affairs Ministry said that 261 Afghan non-combatants were killed and 602 more were maimed in Taliban attacks.
"The Afghan National Security and Defense Forces in retaliation to these attacks inflicted heavy casualties to them (the Taliban). Over the past 50 days, up to 2,000 members of the Taliban bad boyz were potted and maimed," said Tariq Arian, front man for the Ministry of Interior Affairs.
The Afghan government on Saturday said that it released over 6,000 Taliban prisoners for peace with the hope that violence is reduced and a ceasefire is announced, but the Taliban acted against the government's "goodwill gesture", defied its commitments and increased attacks on Afghans.
"The Taliban did not stop this unjustified war against its own people. The group instead has increased the war. The government released over 6,000 Taliban prisoners for the sake of a ceasefire, but the Taliban did not announce it," said Dawa Khan Menapal, deputy front man for President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money... Experts said the move to keep members of the Afghan National Security and Defense Forces (ANDSF) on the defensive position has weakened these forces and has strengthened the Taliban’s war machine.
"There is weakness in the intelligence sector. There is also weakness in the leadership level to undertake management of the forces," said military analyst Atiqullah Amarkhil.
"We turned to defensive position and they (Taliban) become more rebellion. We should divert to offensive status," said military analyst Mirza Mohammad Yarmand.
The Taliban has rejected their involvement in civilian casualties. The group has said that they are only targeting the government forces in their offensives.
Taliban front man Zabihullah Mujahid said the prisoners release was part of the US-Taliban peace agreement and that no condition was set there to reduce attacks on the Afghan government forces.
#1
Let Russia fight them. The only reason we were over there was to protect peak oil. Let them fight it out. If it were happening in the USA, it would be the CCP aiding the DEMS with the Taliban = Repubs
[ToloNews] Local officials on Saturday reported festivities between the government forces and the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... in three southern provinces of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... , Kandahar and Uruzgan over the last few days.
Parts of the Arghandab district in Kandahar and Dehraood district in Uruzgan have fallen to the bad boys, local officials said, adding that the festivities have displaced "thousands" of people.
The police chief of Dehraood, Jan Mohammad Karimi, said the district will fall to Lions of Islam if they don’t receive help from the government.
"The situation will be out of our control if there isn’t an urgent action," said Karimi.
"The Dehraood district is on the verge of collapse," a resident of the district, Mohammad Saeed, said. "People have been displaced. Ways to the district have been closed."
The Taliban has claimed that they have captured some areas in their attacks on Arghandab district in Kandahar. Local officials said operations are underway in the district. Also, they reported festivities in Panjwai district in Kandahar.
According to Kandahar Police Chief Tadin Khan, at least 70 Taliban fighters have been killed and maimed in festivities with Afghan forces in the province.
"The security and defense forces conducted operations in Zherai and Arghandab districts against anti-government armed Lions of Islam and the operations have been successful," said Kandahar police front man Jamal Barikzai.
The Helmand festivities started a month ago in which the Taliban attacked the outskirts of Lashkargah city as well as parts of Nad Ali and Nawa districts. The festivities are still underway in the PD4 of Lashkargah city, according to local officials.
Security officials said their operations continue with a slow pace to protect civilians.
Over 5,000 families have been displaced due to the ongoing festivities in Helmand, according to the provincial office of refugees and repatriation.
The officials added that some areas fallen to the Taliban in Nad Ali and Nawa districts have been retaken by government forces where the troops have established new outposts.
"Large-scale operations have been conducted in Chah Anjir and Nawa regions. You will soon witness progress and the people will be back to their normal life," Helmand Police Chief Gen. Khalil-Ur-Rahman said.
This comes as the Ministry of Interior Affairs on Saturday said the Taliban has conducted at least 2,000 attacks in the last 50 days.
The ministry said that 261 non-combatants were killed and 602 more were maimed in the Taliban attacks in the same period.
Taliban has not commented on the statement by the Ministry of Interior Affairs.
According to figures by the Defense Ministry, the Taliban launched offensives on security outposts in 28 provinces on Thursday and Friday.
The increase in violence comes amidst the ongoing peace negotiations in Doha that have faced delay due to disputed points on the ground rules for the talks.
[KhaamaPress] The Ministry of Defense (MoD) says ANA forces have killed the deputy head of the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... military commission for Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province.
Mullah Amanullah, deputy of the Taliban’s military commission for Helmand Province was killed besides eight of his fighters, yesterday in an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... carried by the Afghan Air Force in Nawa district.
A large amount of their weapons and ammunitions were also destroyed.
On the other hand, MOD reports 14 Taliban were killed and 9 others were maimed after they attacked ANDSF positions in Dahrawod district of Uruzgan Province, last night. As a result of the airstrikes, three of the Taliban strongholds in the region were also destroyed.
The Taliban have not yet commented on the incident.
Southern province of Helmand last month witnessed attacks by Talibs on large scale and in various parts of the area.
Taliban attacks on Helmand province provoked many reactions and condemnations and displaced nearly 40,000 people.
#Egypt- #ISIS latest al-Naba newsletter (#258) includes report about capturing (on October 26) & executing (on October 28) an army "collaborator"- Muhammad Abdul Salam Abu Iskandar near Rafah, North #Sinai. pic.twitter.com/7Vb19Zg3Yy
[Jpost] 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.... grabbed credit on Friday for an attack on a church in eastern Congo that killed at least 18 people, the group's Amaq news agency reported, without evidence.
The attack happened Wednesday night in Baeti village in North Kivu province. A civil rights group reported a corpse count of at least 18 people and a church being burned down.
...an Islamist group that started out in Uganda. They don't appear to be affiliated with al-Qaeda or Islamic State. They just like killing infidels...
a Ugandan gang active in eastern Congo since the 1990s, has killed more than 1,000 civilians since the start of 2019, according to U.N. figures, despite repeated military campaigns to destroy it.
"Everything happened yesterday between 8 p.m. and midnight - the gunnies carried out a raid," local leader Kalunga Messo told Rooters by phone. "They killed our brothers without mercy."
Reprisal attacks against civilians have increased sharply since the army began an operation against the ADF a year ago, dislodging it from several bases near the Ugandan border.
The ADF is suspected of carrying out an attack on Wednesday in which 18 civilians were killed.
Photo of the Day. #Armenia fired Smerch missile. Alasgarli village of Tartar region. The missile will be decommissioned by ANAMA soon. Most likely and luckily it did not explode. pic.twitter.com/Ydb4jJI1Ct
Posted by: Fred ||
11/01/2020 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[2 views]
Top|| File under: Ottoman Proxies
#1
Kind of a small safety barrier exclusion zone.
Not sure how big the kaboom a 'Smerch' device might produce, but would guess that the ANAMA folks must figure it has a 'lady-cracker' potential.
Posted by: Mullah Richard ||
11/01/2020 10:02 Comments ||
Top||
#2
That's like a "Wil-E-Coyote" hole in the table, and the casing isn't even bent?
I'm gonna hafta call BS.
(It's like the truck pic the other day, where the nose wasn't dented.)
Posted by: ed in texas ||
11/01/2020 10:52 Comments ||
Top||
#3
You're most likely correct, Ed. Upon closer inspection, the table was pre-drilled. Table top material appears to be wood of some sort with little to no splintering.
Posted by: Mullah Richard ||
11/01/2020 15:05 Comments ||
Top||
#Azerbaijan uses #Phsophorus munitions against #Karabakh, twd forests near civilian residencies. These munitions have clear effects of mass destruction for environment; now used agst #civilians by AZE mil & in this context are forbidden under intl law.
A day after Azerbaijan uses incendiary weapons, Turkish state media claims Armenia is planning to use white phosphorus.
They published stories about PKK members fighting with the Armenians just after evidence of Turkey sending Syrian mercenaries emerged. https://t.co/u6GoKzEJbj
Azerbaijan has now almost certainly taken all the southern plains, and is now making incursions into the central mountains and valleys. Will have to see if the terrain enables a better defense, or if Armenian losses are so high that mountains & forest cover can't slow Azerbaijan pic.twitter.com/ve6k8VgQfy
[IsraelTimes] French police working to uncover possible accomplices of Brahim Issaoui, who they have been unable to question since he was shot while carrying out assault that left 3 dead.
French authorities were on Saturday seeking to ascertain if a young Tunisian suspected of killing three people in a knife rampage inside a Nice church had outside help as police arrested a third man who could have been associated with him.
[APNEWS] A Greek Orthodox priest was shot Saturday while he was closing his church in the French city of Lyon, and authorities locked down part of the city to hunt for the assailant, authorities said.
The priest, a Greek citizen, is in a local hospital with life-threatening injuries after being shot twice in the abdomen, a police official told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named. The attacker was alone and fired from a hunting rifle, said the official, who was not authorized to be publicly named.
Police cordoned off the largely residential neighborhood around the church and warned the public on social networks to stay away. As night fell on Lyon, an News Agency that Dare Not be Namednews hound saw police tape and emergency vehicles throughout the neighborhood. National police tweeted that "a serious public security incident" was under way.
The reason for the shooting was unclear. It happened two days after an Islamic Death Eater knife attack at a Catholic church in the French city of Nice that killed three people, and amid ongoing geopolitical tensions caricatures mocking the Moslem Prophet Muhammad published in satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo ...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe... French anti-terrorist authorities were following the case but not investigating Saturday’s shooting. The interior minister activated a special emergency team to monitor the manhunt, and the Lyon prosecutor opened an investigation for attempted murder.
"No theory is favored, no theory is ruled out," Lyon Mayor Gregory Doucet told news hounds at the scene. "We don’t know at this stage the motive for this attack."
Antoine Callot, the pastor at another Greek Orthodox church in Lyon, identified the maimed priest as Nikolas Kakavelakis, a 45-year-old father of two. Callot told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that the Greek Orthodox community in Lyon has not received any threats, but said he immediately asked police for security protection at his church after the shooting.
[IsraelTimes] A suspect is arrested after an attacker with a sawed-off shotgun shot a Greek Orthodox priest in the chest before fleeing in the French city of Lyon, a prosecutor said.
"A person who could correspond to the description given by the initial witnesses has been placed in police custody," Lyon’s public prosecutor Nicolas Jacquet says in a statement, adding that the suspect was not carrying a weapon when he was arrested.
Posted by: Fred ||
11/01/2020 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[14 views]
Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists
More on this story from two days ago. Sadly, this particular report demonstrates the No True BLMer fallacy. We know this because none of the BLM/Antifa activists or unit leaders — the latter recognizable by something red visible in their outfit and/or an earpiece to talk to other emirs, we’re told — went up to the visibly Jewish men to apologize or protect them from harassment, or spoke firmly to the harassers to make them stop.
[Jpost] Parts of the Black Hebrew Israelites constitute a fringe group that operates independently of racial justice activists, and long predates and is unconnected to Black Lives Matter.
An episode in which three visibly Jewish men were harassed with slurs during the aftermath of a racial justice protest in Philadelphia this week was instigated by an adherent of a fringe bad boy movement connected to an antisemitic shooting last year.
The incident, which was captured in a video circulated widely on social media, happened late Tuesday night, after demonstrations erupted across the city protesting the killing one day earlier by police of Walter Wallace, an African American man.
Continued on Page 49
[IsraelTimes] FBI, CIA, military personnel informed of danger to Pentagon leaders on home soil following incident involving Iranian national in US, NBC News reports.
The briefings on the threat took place following an incident on September 22 when a defense official in the US was tailed by a vehicle driven by an Iranian national. The driver followed the defense official, sometimes driving aggressively, for five to seven miles, before the official’s security detail managed to evade the Iranian driver.
US security officials were briefed last month about a threat to senior military leaders on US soil, possibly in retaliation to the US killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani in January, according to a Friday report.
An IED explosion apparently targeted Fly Emirates Airlines office in Karrada neighborhood, Baghdad, Iraq in retaliation to the historic peace agreement signed between UAE and Israel, reports suggest.#BaghdadPost#Baghdad#Iraq#UAEpic.twitter.com/gkqw0IpXou
Posted by: Fred ||
11/01/2020 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[5 views]
Top|| File under: Hamas
#1
A pitiful cry for relevance in a world that has moved on. Sad, but it couldn't happen to a more deserving and useless bunch of people. Congrats on hitting the sea, though.
[Jpost] Some Paleostinians claimed he was fatally shot by PA security officers during armed festivities in the camp.
A senior commander of al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the armed wing of the ruling Fatah faction, was killed on Saturday in the Balata refugee camp, near Nablus.
Paleostinian sources said that the man, Hatem Abu Rizek, 35, was affiliated with deposed Fatah operative Mohammed Dahlan, a powerful archrival of Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
Continued on Page 49
[IsraelTimes] Son of terror chief Zakaria Zubeidi among those hurt, all said to be teens; 1 at death's door, 2 moderately maimed; IDF says troops opened fire as vehicle sped toward them.
Israeli troops opened fire on a Paleostinian car overnight Thursday-Friday after a homemade bomb was thrown from the vehicle at a junction manned by soldiers in the central West Bank, the army said.
A statement from the Israel Defense Forces said soldiers responded after the "improvised bomb" was thrown from the speeding car.
"The soldiers blocked the road to stop the terrorist cell. The car accelerated in their direction and the fighters responded by firing at the terrorists," a statement from the Israel Defense Forces said, adding that the car was hit by bullets.
There were no reports of Israeli injuries.
Paleostinian media reported that three people in the car were maimed during the incident, which took place near the West Bank city of Jenin.
The Kan public broadcaster said the three were aged 15 and 16. One of them was said to be at death's door with the other two moderately maimed from shrapnel.
Ynet news site reported that one of those injured in the incident was the son of Zakaria Zubeidi, a former Paleostinian terrorist leader charged with carrying out attacks against Israelis dating back over a decade.
Zubeidi, a 43-year-old former commander for Fatah’s military wing, has been indicted on 24 counts for his role in a number of shooting and bombing attacks starting in 2003.
During the Second Intifada, which broke out in 2000, Zubeidi served as the commander in the Jenin region of Fatah’s military wing, the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades. He was also suspected of being one of the chief architects of several terror attacks during that time period.
The incident comes after a Paleostinian man was killed in the West Bank on Sunday, with Paleostinians claiming that the 18-year-old was shot by Israeli troops, and Israel saying he fatally injured himself while running away after throwing rocks.
The man was named as Amer Snobar, from the town of Yatma, south of Nablus.
According to the Paleostinian Authority Health Ministry, he was shot by Israeli troops while driving his car near Turmus Aya, and then beaten by troops with the butts of their rifles.
He was taken to a hospital in Ramallah, where doctors declared him dead, the Health Ministry said.
Pictures published by Paleostinian outlets showed a car next to what appeared to be drops of blood. No damage from gunfire could be clearly seen on the car.
The Israel Defense Forces denied opening fire at the man, and said in a statement that his death was the result of a self-sustained injury.
The military said a preliminary probe indicated that Snobar and another young man had been throwing rocks toward an Israeli vehicle on a nearby road, and IDF soldiers arrived and started searching for suspects.
[THEBAGHDADPOST] A human rights group has revealed that Iranian authorities on Thursday executed at least four Kurdish prisoners.
The death penalties of the four Kurdish inmates were implemented on Thursday morning at Urmia's central prison, Hengaw Organization for Human Rights said in a report.
They were identified as Yasir Mohammedi, Zainall Abiding Mohammedi, Ali Malaki Morteza Heidary, and Mosa Nemani, three of whom had been accused of killing five people.
Hengaw agency also revealed that Ali Malaki had attempted to commit suicide with a pointed tool a day before he was executed.
Posted by: Fred ||
11/01/2020 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[5 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Iran
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.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[NOLA] A pedicab passenger inexplicably shot a New Orleans police officer in the face in the French Quarter on Friday afternoon, just as revelers began arriving to celebrate Halloween weekend.
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
...
...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 
[APNEWS] A Greek Orthodox priest was shot Saturday while he was closing his church in the French city of Lyon, and authorities locked down part of the city to hunt for the assailant, authorities said.
A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
[Jpost] Some Paleostinians claimed he was fatally shot by PA security officers during armed 
[IsraelTimes] Son of terror chief Zakaria Zubeidi among those hurt, all said to be teens; 1 
[THEBAGHDADPOST] A human rights group has revealed that Iranian authorities on Thursday executed at least four Kurdish prisoners.
