He's 'dead' now.
[GEO.TV] An important leader of the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban ...the once and current oppressors of Afghanistan... Pakistain, Abdul Mannan alias Hakeemullah, was killed in Afghanistan's northeastern province Kunar, sources told Geo News on Wednesday.
According to the sources, the terrorist — killed in district Asadabad in Afghanistan — was a member of TTP's Malakand Shura and was involved in murder, landmine blasts in Bajaur, firing at security checkposts and extortion.
He was the right hand of TTP leader Azmatullah Mehsud, as per the sources, and played a key role in shaping terrorist operations in Bajaur.
The sources added that the terrorist had joined the TTP in 2007 and took part in several actions against security forces and innocent civilians, said sources.
Mannan's brother, Tariq alias Asad, is also related to the outlawed TTP, according to the sources.
It should be noted that TTP is the leading terrorist organization in Pakistain. Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch clutched at his leg. Son of a Breech! he exclaimed with feeling...... the hideouts of Afghan murderous Moslems are currently in Kunar, Nuristan, Paktika ...which coincidentally borders North Wazoo and Kurram Agency... , Khost and other areas of the country.
Abdul Mannan's killing comes almost a week after law enforcement agencies conducted an intelligence-based operation (IBO) foiling the bids of TTP to set up offices in Balochistan.
According to the Counterterrorism Department (CTD), intelligence agencies also detained several dangerous terrorists, including those involving high-value and most wanted targets.
Authorities revealed that among those captured include the notorious and most wanted commander of the TTP Khawarij’s Shura.
According to the preliminary investigation by the agencies, the arrested murderous Moslems have been involved in several activities against Pakistain, alongside having linkages with domestic and international terrorists.
The CTD expected that crucial information would be obtained about the secret activities of such networks within the country, as law enforcers continue to investigate the arrested people.
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[AFRICANEWS] Nine people have been killed after a fire set off explosions at a military ammunition depot in Chad's capital.
Government spokesperson Abderaman Koulamallah confirmed the news on Wednesday adding that 46 people were being treated for various injuries after the earth-shattering kabooms jolted residents from their sleep late Tuesday in the Goudji district of the capital, N'Djamena.
The explosions lit up the sky as thick smoke covered the clouds in the West African nation, setting off frantic efforts to extinguish the fire as residents fled their homes for safety.
The cause of the fire was not immediately clear, and President Mahamat Deby Itno said an investigation would be conducted.
"Peace to the souls of the victims, sincere condolences to the bereaved families and quick recovery to the injured," Deby said on Facebook. He later visited the scene of the accident as well as hospitals where the injured were being treated.
People living in the area panicked, thinking the earth-shattering kaboom was an armed attack, resident Oumar Mahamat said.
Local media reported the blasts started just before midnight as nearby buildings shook and ammunition was thrown from the depot with explosive force.
Authorities called on residents to stay out of the area, which was taken over by security forces gathering the scattered artillery shells.
Allamine Moussa, a resident, called on the government to "come to our aid urgently" after he and other residents fled their homes.
"Many families have recorded deaths and it's sad," Moussa said.
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[AFRICANEWS] Jihadi fighters who had long operated in Africa's volatile Sahel region ... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas... have settled in northwestern Nigeria after crossing from neighbouring Benin ...Benin, a French-speaking West African nation, that they put where Dahomey used to be. It is a birthplace of voodoo and zombies. In Abomey, Dahomey's former capital, the Historical Museum occupies two royal palaces with bas-reliefs recounting the kingdom’s past and a throne mounted on human skulls. To the north, Pendjari National Park offers safaris with elephants, hippos and lions and tigers and bears, oh my!... , a new report said Wednesday, the latest trend in the bad boys' movements to wealthier West African coastal nations.
The holy warriors believed to be linked to al-Qaeda have in the last year crossed over from Benin's hard-hit northern region and settled in the Kainji Lake National Park, one of Nigeria's largest which had been under security threats, according to the report by the Clingendael Institute think tank.
Residents close to the park told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that the facility, which holds one of West Africa's fast-declining lion populations, has been closed for more than a year because of security threats from gangs attacking neighbouring villages and roads.
"Before, it was like a tourism centre (but) now, people find it difficult to pass through there," said John Yerima who lives near the park in New Bussa town. "You cannot enter that road (leading to the park) now. It is dangerous seriously."
Escalating Security Situation
The security situation at the 5,300-square-kilometer (2,000-square-mile) park in Niger state and along the nearby border with Benin is "getting out of hand" and is "a much more explosive situation than we had anticipated," said Kars de Bruijne, one of the authors of the report and senior research fellow at the institute.
The "sustained presence" of the gangs in the park is the first sign of a connection between the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group-backed holy warriors in their decade-long insurgency in northern Nigeria, and al-Qaeda-linked holy warriors from the Sahel, the vast arid expanse south of the Sahara Desert, Bruijne said.
Their presence offers an opportunity for the holy warriors "to claim large-scale success" in both countries already wracked by deadly attacks in recent years, he added.
Worsening Security in the Sahel
Known as the global hot spot for violent mostly peaceful extremism, the Sahel region's worsening security crisis comes just as military coups are toppling democratic governments. As the military governments struggle to contain the violence, they are increasingly severing security with traditional partners La Belle France and the United States, and turning to Russia for support.
In northwest Nigeria, security analysts have in the past warned that the region's remote territories — where the government is largely absent but has rich mineral resources and high poverty levels — present an opportunity for expansion for jihadi groups that had operated mainly in the Sahel as well as IS, whose fighters holds sway in the Lake Chad basin.
"A link between Lake Chad and the Sahel is a major opportunity for al-Qaeda and the Islamic State to boast about their profiles as leaders of global jihad," the report said.
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London, June 19, 2024, 01:44 - IA Regnum. A merchant ship that caught fire after being attacked by unknown assailants off the coast of Yemen on June 12 appears to have sank in the Red Sea. Debris and traces of fuel were found in the water area. Details were provided by the British Maritime Trade Operations Office (UKMTO) of the British Navy.
The British maritime security company Ambrey reported an attack near the port of Hodeidah. It was established that the ship Tutor, owned by a Greek company, was hit. It was heading to India under the flag of Liberia.
After the attack, a fire started on the ship; for some time the captain reported on the situation. The ship was hit by three shells, before which it was fired upon from a small boat.
The fire was brought under control and the ship continued its journey. Three days later, the crew was evacuated from the ship.
“The vessel is presumed to have sunk,” the British Navy wrote.
As Regnum reported, the Yemeni Houthis attacked a US Navy destroyer and two commercial ships Captain Paris and Happy Condor in the Red Sea. This was stated on June 16 by the military representative of the Ansar Allah movement, Yahya Saria.
On June 13, the US Central Command said that the Houthis attacked the Verbena commercial vessel, owned by Ukraine and flying the flag of Palau, with two anti-ship missiles. The crew of the cargo ship sent a distress signal, which was responded to by the Anna Meta, whose sailors evacuated the crew of the Verbena.
The Houthis began attacks on ships associated with Israel and its allies in the fall of 2023 after the escalation of the conflict in the Middle East, in order to thus support the Palestinian Hamas movement. In January 2024, the United States and Great Britain began to launch retaliatory strikes against the positions of the Yemeni movement.
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Some ancient societies are suspected of engaging in human sacrifice at sacred sites. Purification of the ceremony often called for virgins. Maybe its time to test the old ways out?
[NEWARAB] Germany on Tuesday designated the pro-Paleostinian Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) group as an "extremist movement."
The decision came following a report last year by Germany’s domestic intelligence agency saying that the movement was suspected of extremism. The report based this on the group’s participation in anti-Israel rallies and conferences since the start of the war on Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... on 7 October.
It also highlighted BDS' founding document which calls for the liberation of all Arab lands — including Paleostine — which Israel and many of its allies claim is antisemitic and incites violence against Israel.
BDS is a nonviolent mostly peaceful Paleostinian-led movement promoting boycotts of Israeli products, withdrawal of investments from Israel, and sanctions on the country, in response to Israel's continued occupation of the West Bank, war and siege on Gaza, and oppression of the Paleostinian people.
The group describes itself as "upholding the simple principle that Paleostinians are entitled to the same rights as the rest of humanity".
Classifying the group as "extremist" will allow German authorities to monitor the movement’s activists and recruit informants within the organization, media reports said.
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[GEO.TV] A senior journalist Khalil Jibran has been killed by unidentified button men near his residence in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa's Landi Kotal town, police said Wednesday.
Jibran, who was associated with a private news channel — Khyber News — was targeted by unidentified miscreants on a cycle of violence when he was heading towards his residence with his friend Sajjad Advocate, District Police Officer (DPO) Khyber Salim Abbas said.
He detailed that the journalist’s car developed a fault near his home when the button men surrounded him, dragged him out of his vehicle and shot up him.
Jibran, who was also former president of the Landi Kotal Press Club, went titzup and Sajjad got maimed, while the culprits fled from the scene. His body was shifted to a Landi Kotal hospital for post mortem, the police officer said.
The incident took place in Mazreena area in the vicinity of Landi Kotal Police Station, he added.
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..in Rafah. Unlike in other areas of Gaza, the terror group largely abandoned its posts, with very few operatives attempting to engage Israeli forces in close quarters...
According to military assessments, Hamas's Rafah Brigade was bolstered by terror operatives who fled from northern Gaza and other parts of the Strip as the IDF first operated there. This gave the Rafah Brigade, considered by the IDF as the weakest of Hamas's brigades, considerable time and manpower to prepare itself for the looming Israeli offensive in southern Gaza.
Still, as the IDF began its operation in Rafah, the military assessed that only 2,000 terror operatives remained in the city, meaning that many had fled with the estimated 1.2 million civilians to an Israeli-designated "humanitarian zone" further north...
"I estimate that to [achieve] our next objective, which is to finish up Shaboura and Tel Sultan... we want to demolish them entirely, it will take more or less a month, at this level of intensity,"
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A charity is providing meals for Paleostinians in Khan Younis in the southern Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip, where many displaced families are sheltering.
Children gathered around big pots of food, waiting for their turn to receive the meals.
Displaced Paleostinian Feryal Al Zayat said on Wednesday (June 19) that she was thankful for the charity’s work and hoped "they develop this work further."
Some eight months into the war, there has been no sign of let up in the fighting as efforts by international mediators, backed by the United States, have so far failed to persuade Israel and Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... to agree to a ceasefire.
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According to a U.S. Defense Official, the Department of Defense is currently in Consultations with Raytheon/RTX on a possible “Emergency Transfer” of several Coyote Counter-UAS Systems as well as other Short-Range Air Defense Radars and Systems to Israel, in order to “Plug a… pic.twitter.com/RJzgCBMCJm
[NEWARAB] The reframing of the Nuseirat massacre in Gaza as an 'Israeli rescue operation' is proof that Western media doesn't care about Gazans, writes Abubaker Abed. Jimmy crack corn, bub.
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[NEWARAB] The Lebanese Hezbollah group published footage on Tuesday of the northern Israeli port city of Haifa and its environs as tensions rapidly increase following months of border conflict between the two enemies.
Hezbollah has been engaged in cross-border fighting with the Israeli military in parallel with its ferocious war on Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... .
Its publication of the footage drew a fiery ...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob... response from Israeli officials who repeated threats of all-out war against Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... . It was not clear when the video was taken.
Hezbollah chief His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...> said last November that his group had been flying surveillance drones over Haifa and the group has also sent attack drones into Israel in the last eight months.
The drone which took the footage, dubbed by Hezbollah 'Al-Hudhud' ("hoopoe") has been celebrated by the group's supporters as a major achievement.
What did the video show?
Flying at what appears to be low altitude, the nine-and-a-half-minute long video shows the airport and Haifa port and what Hezbollah-linked media said were "important" and "sensitive" military sites. Haifa is about 27 kilometres from the Lebanese border.
The video appeared to show a military industrial zone belonging to Rafael defence where Israel assembles its air defence systems such as the Iron Dome, David's Slingshot, and rocket engine depots, according to Hezbollah.
More facilities such as power stations, petrochemical refineries, Israeli Navy and civilian infrastructure are also shown.
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[NEWARAB] The Israeli army on Tuesday said plans for an offensive in Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... were "approved and validated" amid escalating cross-border violence with Hezbollah and a relative lull in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... fighting.
Israel's war on Gaza has heightened tensions across the region, with Israeli forces and Lebanon's Hezbollah exchanging fire on a near-daily basis.
"Operational plans for an offensive in Lebanon were approved and validated" as commanders met for a situational assessment, the army said in a statement.
It came after Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz threatened Hezbollah's destruction in a "total war".
The latest warnings came after Israel announced at the weekend a daily "pause" of military activity in Gaza's southernmost city of Rafah to facilitate aid flows, coinciding with the MoslemEid al-Adha ...a major Moslem holiday, marked by animal sacrifice and ritual rioting... holiday.
In central Gaza, witnesses reported gunfire and artillery shelling near the Nuseirat refugee camp, where the civil defence agency said at least 13 people were killed in two separate strikes on a family home and a commercial building.
Al-Awda hospital said it received the bodies of "six deaders and 15 maimed as a result of Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on various areas in the central and southern Gaza Strip".
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Air Assets under U.S. Central Command conducted an Airstrike in support of Operation Inherent Resolve on June 16th in Eastern Syria, which resulted in the Death of Senior ISIS Leader and Facilitator, Usamah Jamal Muhammad Ibrahim al-Janabi who is believed to have been Responsible… pic.twitter.com/qw5Ul9Az2q
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"Usamah Jamal Muhammad Ibrahim al-Janabi who is believed to have been Responsible..." I would have preferred the much more believable, "...who is known to be..."
[NEWARAB] A Syrian army officer was killed on Wednesday in an Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in the country's south, the regime's official SANA news agency reported, citing a military source.
"The Israeli enemy carried out an aggression using drones against two military positions of our armed forces in the provinces of Quneitra and Daraa," the agency said, adding the attack resulted in the death of the officer and material damage.
Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes on its northern neighbour since the outbreak of Syria's civil war, mainly targeting Syrian regime army positions and Iran-backed fighters including from Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... 's Hezbollah group.
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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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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...the once and current oppressors of Afghanistan...
[AFRICANEWS] Nine people have been killed after a fire set off explosions at a military ammunition depot in Chad's capital.
...Benin, a French-speaking West African nation, that they put where Dahomey used to be. It is a birthplace of voodoo and zombies. In Abomey, Dahomey's former capital, the Historical Museum occupies two royal palaces with bas-reliefs recounting the kingdom’s past and a throne mounted on human skulls. To the north, Pendjari National Park offers safaris with elephants, hippos and lions and tigers and bears, oh my!...
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
