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Good Morning

Cardi B Says She Is 'Starting To
Hate America' After Congressman Criticizes Her
Tuesday April 27th, 2021

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%u2018Soon%u2019 additional 7,000 Taliban detainees will be released: Stanikzai
16 Wounded as Rocket Hits Kunar Governor's Compound
Talibs leave Paktika police chief toes up
Taliban battered in Maidan Wardak, civilian casualties reported
Afghanistan: 19 Killed in Violence in Less Than 24 Hours
%u2018Pak-Afghan Army%u2019 clashed in Spin Boldak, Kandahar
NYPD detective is attacked as he probes robbery: NYC police union blames De Blasio for soaring crime as shootings rocket by 257% and man is shot dead after asking a stranger if he is 'ok'

Posted by: Fred || 04/27/2021 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Compare and contrast to picture of "I hate America" Farti B. above.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/27/2021 13:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Wholesome is better than slutty any day.
Posted by: jpal || 04/27/2021 18:24 Comments || Top||

#3  And not a tat in sight.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/27/2021 19:49 Comments || Top||

#4  A garter might have livened things up a little but who am I to complain.
Posted by: jpal || 04/27/2021 20:04 Comments || Top||


-War on Police-
Nashville Community Oversight Board to investigate deadly Metro Police shooting
[WSMV] Nashville's Community Oversight Board says they will conduct their own investigation into Saturday morning's deadly officer-involved shooting to determine if Metro Police policy and procedures were followed.

Metro Police Officer Christopher Royer is currently on administrative assignment after he shot and killed a knife-wielding man on Clarksville Pike Saturday morning.

MNPD's Don Aaron said the shooting happened after Officer Royer pulled over a white Mercedes after running a license plate check and discovering the plate was registered to a 1998 green Chevrolet.

Aaron said the driver of the Mercedes presented no issues, but "the passenger however, immediately got out of the Mercedes with two large butcher knives, one in each hand, and began running around erratically."

At one point the man is seen on Royer's body camera footage attempting to enter the MNPD squad car.

Officer Royer yells repeatedly to the man to drop the knives. The man is seen in the body camera footage turning toward Royer and charging him before the officer fires three shots.

The Community Oversight Board says they were given a briefing of the shooting on the scene early Saturday morning and reviewed the body camera footage at Metro Police headquarters.

Chief John Drake and MNPD-COB Liaison Captain Carlos Lara provided updates to COB Sherlocks.

Chief Drake said during a presser he believed Officer Royer "did everything he could" and "was left with no choice" but to fire his weapon.
Posted by: Fred || 04/27/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, if you're going to have a community oversight board, this IS the kind of thing you'd expect for them to do.
Posted by: Mercutio || 04/27/2021 8:42 Comments || Top||


#3  ^ Understandable disgust. I see a dress I wanna see curves in it, not body hair. Goes for wimmin too.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 04/27/2021 11:48 Comments || Top||

#4  #2"We're Scots, sir! MacKickyouintheballs clan"
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/27/2021 16:07 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Afghanistan: 19 Killed in Violence in Less Than 24 Hours
[ToloNewsJ Data collected by TOLOnews shows that 19 civilians and security force members were killed and 32 more were maimed in security incidents--including Taliban
...Arabic for students...
attacks in eight provinces--in less than 24 hours.

Samiullah Zare, an army officer, was killed on Sunday evening when he was attacked by unknown gunnies in Dasht-e-Barchi area in Kabul’s District 18. He was carrying cash obtained from selling his home and was attacked when he returned from the property dealer's office.

The thieves took over 1 million Afs from him, Zare’s relatives said.

"We call on the government to ensure justice and follow this case. We want the perpetrators to be arrested and sentenced," said Mahdi Muhebi, brother of Samiullah Zare.

"The government authorities have lost the ability to feel the death of our youth as they are killed every day," said Naqibullah Frotan, Zare's cousin.

Besides Kabul, the provinces of Herat
...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
, Pashtun-infested Logar, 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..
, Paktika
...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo...
, Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
, Kandahar and Kunar also witnessed security incidents, including a assassination, a bomb explosion and Taliban attacks in which 15 members of Afghan forces and three non-combatants were killed and 12 security forces and 21 civilians were maimed.

"The fighting between the government and the Taliban has intensified once again and the civilians are sacrificed," said Khan Mohammad Wardak, an MP.

"It seems that armed opponents have no will for peace and violence is increasing day-by-day," said Mohammadullah Batash, an MP.

The Defense Ministry said that 106 Taliban fighters were killed and 48 more were maimed in Afghan forces operations in the last 24 hours.

"The Taliban has not reduced violence during Ramadan and they have continued their attacks against the people," Defense Ministry front man Rohullah Ahmadzai said. "The defense and security forces have thwarted many attacks by the Taliban and have inflicted heavy losses on them."
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/27/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  Wow! Worse than Chicago.
Posted by: Glenmore || 04/27/2021 15:47 Comments || Top||


Taliban battered in Maidan Wardak, civilian casualties reported
[KhaamaPress] The Ministry of Defense in a released statement on Monday said, at least 21 Talibs were killed in the Jalriz district of Maidan Wardak province.

Fawad Aman, deputy front man for the Ministry of Defense tweeted that Afghan national defense and security forces targeted Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
fighters in an operation in the Jalriz district of Maidan Wardak province on Sunday.

During the operation at least 21 Taliban fighters were killed, Aman said in a tweet.

Some weapons and ammunition belonging to the Taliban were also destroyed during the operation.

Taliban have not yet commented on the incident.

Meanwhile,
...back at the Senate, Odius Sepulcher called for war against the Visigoths...
seven public protection forces were killed in a Taliban ambush at Mes Aynak (copper mine) on Sunday.

According to reports at least seven public protection force members were killed during the Taliban attack in Pashtun-infested Logar province.

Local officials told the media that the incident took place at around 2:00 pm local time in the Sayed Abad area of Mohammad Agha district.

A Ranger-type vehicle was targeted during the Taliban ambush, the public protection force members were responsible for the protection of the copper mine.

It is reported that three other members of this unit were maimed in the attack.

Moreover, Sharifullah Hotak, a provincial council member on Sunday told the media that eight members of a family were killed in an Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
in Zorlang village of Jalriz district.

He added in another incident four members of one family were killed when a mortar hit their house in Sayed Abad district.

Three people are reported maimed when a Mortar shell landed in a residential area
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/27/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Talibs leave Paktika police chief toes up
[KhaamaPress] Security sources in Paktika
...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo...
province said Abdul Karim, police chief for Waza Khwa district was killed in a Taliban
...Arabic for students...
attack.

Shah Mohammad Arian, front man for Paktika Police HQ told the media that the incident happened in Waza Khwa district on Sunday evening.

The commander was ambushed while he was supplying police checkpoints in the Marjan area of the region.

Arian said no harm was reached to other security force members during the attack, but the Taliban have claimed that in addition to killing the Waza Khwa police chief two of his bodyguards were also maimed during the festivities.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/27/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


16 Wounded as Rocket Hits Kunar Governor's Compound
[ToloNews] At least 16 people were maimed after a rocket landed at Kunar governor's office in the city of Asadabad on Monday morning, Iqbal Saeed, provincial governor, said.

The incident happened in the city of Asadabad, the center of Kunar, where an event on the Holy Koran competition was underway, Saeed said.

He said that most of those maimed are students.

Security officials have not commented on the incident.

No group has grabbed credit for the rocket attack.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/27/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


‘Soon’ additional 7,000 Taliban detainees will be released: Stanikzai
[KhaamaPress] Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanekzai, deputy head of the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
’s political office in Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
says 7,000 prisoners will soon be released from the Afghan government’s prisons.

He tweeted on Sunday that in addition to the release of 7,000 Taliban detainees, Taliban leaders will also be removed from the UN’s blacklist.

Although Stanikzai did not elaborate further on his claim, reports indicate that the group has made the request for prisoners’ swap before halt in peace talks and delay of US/NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants...
troops withdrawal from Afghanistan.

SoonThe Taliban leaders name will be removed from black list.And 7000 Taliban prisoners will be released
— Sher Mohammad Abbas(ستانکزي) (@StanikzaiSher) April 25, 2021
Previously Hamdullah Mohib, National Security Advisor, referring to the reported demand of the Taliban to release more of the group’s detainees said the Taliban should ensure the Afghan government that they are not demanding the release of narcos.

He urged the Taliban to not call for further release of the prisoners.

First Vice President Amrullah Saleh, also had said that the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Afghanistan does not have any plans to release additional Taliban prisoners.

He criticized the release of more than 5,000 Talibs saying "it was a wrong move" and a mistake.

Saleh claimed that the released holy warriors had rejoined the Taliban on battlefields despite their commitment with the Afghan government for not returning back to war. Saleh also stressed that the Afghan government would not make the same mistake again and would not release the remaining Taliban prisoners.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/27/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


‘Pak-Afghan Army’ clashed in Spin Boldak, Kandahar
[KhaamaPress] Spin Boldak border has reportedly been closed to traffic following festivities between Afghan and Pak forces.

Yahya Alawi, a front man to 205th Atal Corps told the media that the festivities took place in the village of Loghman near the Afghanistan and Pakistain border in Spin Boldak.

The festivities continued from 9:00 am Monday morning until 10:20 am before noon, a government employee is reportedly maimed in the skirmish.

A dispute went violent mostly peaceful when Pak military wanted to install barb wire inside the Afghan soil.

Number of Pak casualties were not yet reported.

Meanwhile security sources in Kandahar said that the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
have destroyed a bridge belonging to Delhi dam

According to the officials the incident happened on Sunday in Shah-Walikot district of Kandahar province.

Taliban destroyed the bridge by detonating mines, the bridge used to connect the Dam to the city, Taliban has not yet commented on the incident.

This comes as Abdul Ghani Noori, a former district governor for Golran district, NDS chief for the district, and a soldier were killed when their vehicle hit a roadside kaboom.

In another security incident unknown button men killed a police officer in the city of Firuzkuh in Ghor province.

The incident happened on Monday afternoon, near policeman’s house, security officials said.

The motive behind the attack is still unknown, and an investigation is underway into the incident.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/27/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Africa North
Burkina Faso: Foreign NGO workers go missing after ambush
[DW] Security sources say an anti-poaching patrol accompanied by Western journalists was targeted by armed attackers. Those missing are believed to include Spanish and Irish citizens.

Four people are missing in 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...
following an armed ambush on an anti-poaching patrol on Monday. Local officials also said three other people were maimed in the attack.

WHAT DO WE KNOW SO FAR?
The missing included two Spanish citizens and an Irish national, along with a member of the Burkinabe armed forces. The three Europeans were reportedly working for a NGO dedicated to protecting the environment.

The attack occurred during the daytime in the Fada N'Gourma-Pama area in eastern Burkina Faso. In addition to the NGO workers, the patrol group also consisted of soldiers, forest rangers and foreign journalists.

No group has yet claimed responsiblity for the kidnapping. Authorities are conducting a search for the missing people.

The Spanish Foreign Ministry has not yet commented on the kidnapping, but the Irish Foreign Ministry said it "was aware of the reports and is liasing closely with international partners regarding the situation on the ground."

WHAT'S THE SECURITY SITUATION IN BURKINA FASO?
Burkina Faso faces a precarious security situation due to the presence of jihadist groups such as al-Qaeda and 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....
" (IS) in the Sahel region
... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas...
. Burkina Faso, one of the world's poorest countries, borders Mali, which has faced an armed insurgency since 2012.

Armed groups frequently cross the mostly non-existent border between Mali and Burkina Faso to conduct raids, with Burkina Faso also serving as a hub for weapons trafficking. According to the Geneva Center for Security Sector Governance, Burkina Faso's security forces are poorly equipped and lack the operational capacity to effectively keep the country safe from external threats.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/27/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:


Nine people executed in Egypt over Kerdasa police killings in 2013
The process most definitely being the punishment, by the time they were hanged — Egyptian soldiers generally not being sharpshooters — they were no doubt grateful the ordeal was over.
[AlAhram] The retrial followed a 2014 mass trial that saw preliminary death sentence
...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
s against 183 people


Nine people were executed on Monday over their involvement in an attack on Giza’s Kerdasa cop shoppe in August 2013 that killed several coppers, sources said.

The execution was carried out at Wadi al-Natrun prison in the early hours of Monday.

Monday’s execution comes nearly three years after Egypt’s Court of Cassation upheld death sentences against 20 defendants after a Cairo Criminal Court sentenced the defendants to death in a retrial in 2017.

Prosecutors charged the defendants with storming the Kerdasa cop shoppe in Giza on 14 August 2013, killing 12 coppers and two civilians and mutilating their bodies, attempting to murder 10 other coppers and destroying the cop shoppe.

The defendants were also charged with torching several police vehicles and being in possession of heavy firearms during the attack.

The attack on the station followed the forced dispersal of sit-ins in support of late ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi in Cairo in August 2013.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/27/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Muslim Brotherhood

#1 

Maybe we could borrow the Egypt Court System manual for a few weeks?

Because, their Arrest to Trial to Verdict to Sentence Execution is under 7 years?

While in the USA we seem to have a Arrest to Conviction to Execution cycle that runs 15 to 25 years.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/27/2021 6:13 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
31 Nigerian soldiers killed as ISIS-aligned extremists ambush convoy
[AlMasdar] At least 31 Nigerian soldiers were killed when ISIS-aligned forces of Evil ambushed a military convoy escorting weapons and overran a base in northeast Nigeria
... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border...
’s Borno state, military sources told AFP on Monday.

Fighters from 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....
West Africa Province (ISWAP) attacked the convoy on Sunday in the town of Mainok outside the regional capital Maiduguri, killing troops and seizing weapons before storming a nearby base, the two sources said.

The attack was the deadliest this year against Nigeria’s army which has been battling a decade-long bully boy insurgency in the region that has killed 36,000 people and displaced around two million from their homes.

"We lost 31 soldiers, including their commander who was a lieutenant colonel, in the ambush by the terrorists," a military officer said about the attack which happened around 1100 GMT.

The convoy was transporting weapons to Maiduguri when it came under attack, said a second military source who gave a similar toll.

"The gunnies came in several trucks, including four MRAPs (Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles), and engaged the convoy in a fierce battle," the second source said.

The faceless myrmidons struck the convoy with rocket-propelled grenades and overwhelmed soldiers, leading to the "colossal loss" of troops, he said.

The forces of Evil seized weapons and two MRAPs in the attack before descending on the base outside the town, the two sources said. The forces of Evil overran the base and partially burnt it along with several military vehicles.

Mainok, 50 kilometers (30 miles) from Maiduguri, has been repeatedly targeted by bully boys.

ISWAP split from the mainstream Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
faction in 2016 and rose to become a dominant force in the northeast.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/27/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram (ISIS)


Nigeria: Boko Haram Fighters Still Occupying Geidam - LG Chairman
[AllAfrica] Damaturu — The Chairman of Geidam Local Government Area of Yobe State, Hon. Ali Kolo yesterday raised the alarm that Geidam was still very much infiltrated by Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
fighters.

This is coming as Mainok, a town on Damaturu-Maiduguri highway was invaded yesterday by the krazed killers, killing unspecified number of soldiers.

Reliable sources told THISDAY that some group of murderous Moslems engaged troops in a shootout at their base in Mainok community of Konduga Local Government Area of Borno State at about 3pm yesterday.

They said the murderous Moslems stormed the military base with the intention of sacking soldiers and looting arms and ammunitions.

The sources said the murderous Moslems however met their match in the soldiers who stood their ground, repelling the attack with heavy casualties on both sides.

PR Nigeria reported that the Nigerian military recorded casualties after an attack by ISWAP/Boko Haram forces of Evil in Mainok community.

The report could not confirm when the casualty was recorded after it had early reported that the troops of the Nigerian military in Nigerian Air Force (NAF) attack jets, yesterday foiled an attack by Boko Haram terrorists

The ISWAP and Boko Haram elements, PRNigeria gathered, rode on dozen gun trucks, and attempted to dislodge a military base, after invading the community.

"They had attempted to overtake and dislodge a military base through Dogon Karfe in Mainok, but met stiff resistance from the dogged ground troops before the arrival of NAF Jets," a military source said.

He added that some forces of Evil are currently trapped inside Minok town for fear of air strikes.

According to the source, the NAF jets which could not rain missiles on the krazed killers, have been hovering in the air for hours to avoid collateral damage.

Meanwhile,
...back at the pie fight, Bella grabbed the cocoanut cream...
speaking on the situation in Geidam, Kolo said 72 hours after his town was invaded by Boko Haram, thousands of his people were still trapped and had been infiltrated by the sect members.

He lamented that the murderous Moslems slaughtered two people yesterday morning, including a teacher with Kawuri Primary School, Mallam Baba Tazira.

He decried that over 2,000 people who were displaced in the invasion were currently taking refuge in neighbouring Yunusari Local Government Area.

He said he had wanted to go to Geidam to assess the situation but was held back by the news that the town was still under the total control of Boko Haram.

He said there was no truth in the report by the military that the attack had been repelled.

He expressed shock over the military's statement on Saturday that "the attack has been repelled with 21 casualties from the side of the terrorists".
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/27/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram (ISIS)


Europe
Spain: 17 migrants found dead off Canary Islands
[DW] The migrants colonists on the boat were all sub-Saharan Africans, rescue officials say. Three survivors have been transferred to a hospital on Tenerife.

Spain's coasties has found 17 dead migrants colonists on a boat off the Canary Islands, the country's local emergency services announced on Monday.

Three survivors, two men and one woman, were transferred by military helicopter to a hospital on Tenerife.

"The three had hypothermia but were otherwise in good shape," a spokeswoman for Spain's local emergency services said.

The boat was first spotted by an Air Force plane, about 265 nautical miles from El Hierro.

A spokeswoman from Spain's maritime rescue service said that all migrants colonists on the boat were sub-Saharan Africans. It wasn't immediately clear where the migrants colonists had come from.

MIGRANT ARRIVALS IN THE CANARY ISLANDS INCREASING
The number of migrants colonists crossing the Atlantic from Africa to the Canary Islands is rising, despite the dangers involved.

About 3,400 people arrived in the Canary Islands from January 1 to March 31.

This incident follows another one south of El Hierro earlier this month. Four people were found dead in a makeshift boat with 23 migrants colonists on board.

On Sunday, 100 migrants colonists tried to reach the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from Morocco.
...a thing that happens regularly, Ceuta being separated only by a barb wire-topped fence from Morocco.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/27/2021 00:12 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Human Trafficking

#1  Once we finish crapping up the West badly enough they'll decide the migration benefits are not worth the risk.
Posted by: Glenmore || 04/27/2021 15:51 Comments || Top||


Italy: Police arrest 30 Nigerians suspected of being part of a gang known for carrying out rape, mutilation and ritual murders
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 04/27/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Devout Moslems

#1  They tried to silently open a chapter near New Delhi some years ago. If not the axe, they were some Nigerian gang, with their own mumbo jumbo and decals on cars etc. Around 40+ of them had to take refuge in a local police station, while hundreds of Africans wept and whined for safety from killer hordes of citizens across India for months. Some of their respective governments offered to pay to fly them back and insisted we 'protect them from harm' until then. There was an exodus of expired visas and illegals in the hundreds. Another time, in Mumbai, several were lynched and beaten to pulp by citizen defenders and local gangs before some could be salvaged and put on planes.

The kingpins come in as NGO types, madames often showing pregnant bellies and cheaply purchased Indian husbands, men as pious preachers or scholars; with their rights groups and paid sympathizers supervising their stay in India. They purchase the local cops [everyone here is saleable, just stuff bills into a face and the chap is yours] and hire the best legal aid. The MO for muscle is to take up a college course, come in under student exchange programs, get accommodation, call in his cousins. Then begin to sell drugs, extort and rob, sell p☼rn☼graphy, groom and enslave locals. And it's always Nigerians; folks from other African countries are always law abiding, peaceful people. Usually christians, economic refugees or just here to get an education, treatment or whatever.

The cure for African criminals here is always simple. The deeply 'rayciss' Asian majority, who still knows what's what and has never really believed in shit like equal rights for all homo sapiens. They hunt entire communities down, make them beg for police to come collect them. As long as the Indian citizen is sufficiently domineering about territory, even the political class [who would rather go the American way] has to step back and see the lynchings through with teary eyes.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 04/27/2021 10:27 Comments || Top||


#3  Skidmark, I'd do the same, and I have the wild pigs.
Posted by: Glenmore || 04/27/2021 15:56 Comments || Top||

#4  #2 A$$holes. Should've killed him and fed the body to the pigs - no body, no crime.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/27/2021 16:03 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
Three men from the Philadelphia area have been federally indicted over their alleged involvement in setting off explosives inside businesses during BLM rioting
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 04/27/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  They were mostly peaceful explosions, as reported by Humpty Stelter.
Posted by: Tyranysaurus Ulomolet3546 || 04/27/2021 4:25 Comments || Top||

#2 

For any charges to have been made ....
I guessing the business owners were major Socialist-Democrat Mayor and/or DA donors?

Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/27/2021 6:06 Comments || Top||

#3  The defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty! They were all released without bail and will be required to appear in court in 9 months. One of the males is transgendered and pregnant.
Posted by: Muggsy Thud2393 || 04/27/2021 14:19 Comments || Top||


Portland Antifa members Katrina Walker, Jacob Andrew Camello and Crystal Monique Miranda now being prosecuted for multiple felonies during Antifa riots
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 04/27/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1 

What Happened?
Did Portland get a NEW DA or what?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/27/2021 6:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Are they human?
Posted by: Dacama || 04/27/2021 6:58 Comments || Top||

#3  What Happened?
Did Portland get a NEW DA or what?

Posted by NN2N1 2021-04-27 06:03|| 2021-04-27 06:03||


...What happened is that the BrownBlackshirts decided they liked tearing shiat up and didn't stop on cue. And to paraphrase Mel Brooks, someobody might be about to lose their phoney baloney job.

Mike

Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 04/27/2021 8:36 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ about that vaccine.....
Posted by: Mercutio || 04/27/2021 8:43 Comments || Top||

#5  Prev post in re: #2 (Mike snuck in while I was typing with 2 fingers)
Posted by: Mercutio || 04/27/2021 8:44 Comments || Top||

#6  They are no longer useful so they will be discarded.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/27/2021 9:39 Comments || Top||

#7  ^#2


Yes, These individuals are human, but they were likely dropped on their heads as small children, hence they could qualify for an insanity defence based on mental defect.
Posted by: Wheremp Chavigum9022 || 04/27/2021 11:21 Comments || Top||

#8  #6 I see, in another post, that DHS is going to purge ideologically unreliable. Somebody has to replace them.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/27/2021 13:27 Comments || Top||

#9  ^ It is also the old saying that the first revolutionaries will be the first shot. Those that started it are troublemakers and will be the first liquidated by the new powers that be.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/27/2021 15:17 Comments || Top||

#10  ^Only some of them are gender confused punks - (IMO) the operation is too smoothly run not to have fairly competent cadres.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/27/2021 16:00 Comments || Top||

#11  Whatever they were, they have over a year experience and are not afraid to cut the dead wood.

Nevermind the ones who date back to Obama@Furgeson.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/27/2021 16:49 Comments || Top||

#12  These out of thousands. Token bull shit.
Posted by: Woodrow || 04/27/2021 21:49 Comments || Top||


Iraq
ISIS terrorist apprehended in Baghdad, six villages cleared in Nineveh, 5 PMF men kaboomed
[SHAFAQ] The Military Intelligence Directorate announced on Monday arresting an ISIS terrorist trying to enter the capital, Baghdad, and the security forces and al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces-PMF) cleared six villages in Nineveh Governorate.

The Military Intelligence service said in a statement received by Shafaq News Agency, "The detachments of the Intelligence in the 11th Division, the Intelligence of the Third Infantry Brigade 44, and a joint force, in coordination with the Intelligence Department of Baghdad Operations Command, arrested a terrorist in al-Shaab checkpoint, Baghdad, trying to enter the capital from al-Miqdadiya, Diyala Governorate."

According to the statement, the arrestee is wanted by the Judiciary in accordance with the provisions of Article 4/Terrorism.

For its part, the PMF Media office announced in a statement received by Shafaq News Agency that a joint force from the 33rd Brigade, the Nineveh Operations Command, and the Iraqi army units, launched this morning an operation to clear the villages of the southwest of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
"The operations were launched from nine axes, three by the 33rd Brigade PMF and six by the army," the statement said.

The statement revealed that the operation ended with clearing the villages of al-Lazaa, al-Husayniyyah, al-Dabaga, al-Salam, Jabal Nuwaitit, and Sheikh Yunus, indicating that the forces found bombs that were safely disposed of by the Explosive Ordnance Disposal squad of the brigade.

Iraq arrests a prominent ISIS member in Nineveh
[SHAFAQ] Military Intelligence in Nineveh Governorate arrested on Monday a prominent terrorist in the southeast of the governorate.

The Intelligence Directorate said in a statement "based on intelligence, a joint force arrested the so-called Abu Islam in Makhmur district in Nineveh, who is responsible for delivering weapons and explosives to ISIS terrorist cells."

One PMF militant killed and four injured near Mosul
[Rudaw] A militia member was killed and four others were maimed in an improvised bomb (IED) explosion near djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, according to Iraq’s security media cell.

The IED went kaboom! when members of the Popular Mobilization Forces’s (PMF or Hashd al-Shaabi in Arabic) Brigade 33 or Waad Allah Forces were carrying out a raid in pursuit of Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) group remnants southwest of Mosul, notes a statement from the cell released on Telegram.

ISIS has attacked PMF forces several times this year — particularly in territories disputed by Erbil and Baghdad, where ISIS sleeper cells thrive.

ISIS claimed in its weekly propaganda newspaper al-Naba, that it had conducted 39 operations in Iraq from April 15 to 21, killing and injuring 69 people, including PMF fighters.

The PMF took part in the territorial defeat of ISIS in Iraq in late 2017, but its role in Iraq has increasingly been called into question. PMF units close to Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
are widely accused of abducting and killing opponents and are believed to be responsible for some of the deadly rocket attacks targeting US and coalition personnel stationed at bases across Iraq.
Posted by: Fred || 04/27/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


ISIS sniper injures seven QRF officers in Northeastern Diyala, Khanaqin mayor toes up
[SHAFAQ] Seven officers of the Quick Reaction Forces (QRF) sustained varying injuries in a security operation in Abi Saida sub-district, Northeast of Diyala.

A source told Shafaq News Agency that the seven officers were hit by rifle bullets fired from a distance by an ISIS sniper during a combing operation in Shekhi village in abi Saida, 30 kilometers to the northeast of Baquba.

The security operations, according to the source, was launched this morning per year the instructions of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces and the Minister of Interior in the aftermath of the double attack that took place in al-Abbara sub-district, 15 kilometers to the northeast of Baquba, which resulted in 11 victims, injured and dead, among civilians and security forces.

An official of QRF succumbed to the wounds he sustained in an IED blast in al-Waqf strip between the sub-districts of Abi Saida and al-Abbara, 25 kilometers to the northeast of Baquba.

The source told Shafaq News Agency that the earth-shattering kaboom resulted in two victims of the QRF, including a first lieutenant in the Intelligence of the second brigade's first regiment.

The source added, "four fighters of the QRF sustained critical injuries, and they are receiving medical care."

The Security Media Cell said in a blurb that QRF squads in Diyala launched a swooping operation in abi Saida sub-district, where they destroyed seven hideouts and detonated five double bombs.

The cell's statement said that Explosive Ordnance Disposal squads detonated nine dens for explosives manufacturing and two others for storage.

[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 04/27/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Turkish Army clashes in PKK fighters in Duhok
[SHAFAQ] Violent festivities erupted, on Monday, between the Ottoman Turkish army and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Duhok governorate, Kurdistan.

The festivities that took place in the Baruch Mountain and Kamerki areas, south of Kani Masi district, north of Dohuk governorate led to power cut supply in the villages of the District.

Kurdish border villages and mountains have been a target for Ottoman Turkish air and artillery strikes pursuing that it target fighters opposing them, and these operations resulted in casualties and material damage.

The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
is taking its decades-old conflict with Kurdish bully boyz deep into northern Iraq, establishing military bases and deploying armed military drones against the fighters in their mountain strongholds.
Posted by: Fred || 04/27/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


ISIS kills an Official in Khanaqin
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 04/27/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israel gave an ultimatum to Hamas that if rocket fire from Gaza continues it will respond with a wide military strike
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 04/27/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Explosive-laden balloons launched towards Israel
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 04/27/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Southeast Asia
5 People Die in Spate of Violence in Thai Deep South
[BenarNews] Five people have died in a spate of violence in Thailand’s insurgency-ridden Deep South, including three members of a family slain when attackers sprayed their truck with bullets and then set it aflame in Pattani province, army officials said.

Officials claimed the gruesome attack was in retaliation for the killing of a suspected holy warrior and the arrest of two others in an encounter in Narathiwat two days earlier.

Officers said the Saturday attack took place in Sai Buri district, and the victims were identified as a businessman, Suporn Kittiprapanan, 58, his daughter Jiraporn, 26, and his nephew Santipattana Kittiprapanan, also 26.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/27/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Thai Insurgency

#1  Haven't heard much lately about this particular jihad.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/27/2021 12:22 Comments || Top||

#2  It’s been going on for a long time, Abu Uluque. The nationalistic independence effort in the territory of the Pattani Sultanate dates back to World War II or something like that, but the jihad really took off in 2001. Ryuge covered it for us for years, then after he left I covered the beat.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/27/2021 15:02 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Asayish finds depot for manufacturing explosives in Syria's Raqqa
[NPASYRIA] Internal Security Forces (Asayish) that its forces found, on Sunday, a depot for manufacturing and storage of explosive shells and bombs in the town of al-Karama, east of Raqqa.

The official Asayish website reported that the depot belongs to ISIS.

It added that the depot contained improvised bombs, mortar shells, homemade rockets, and stuffing small missiles.

The Asayish imposed a security cordon around the depot site, after which the kabooms were seized and transported to places designated for remnants of war and remnants of the military operations that Raqqa witnessed.

On April 2, an Asayish member was killed and another was maimed in a mine explosion targeting a funeral procession for a formerly killed member in the town of al-Karama.
Posted by: Fred || 04/27/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Ban on motorbike movement issued in Syria's east Deir ez-Zor
[NPASYRIA] On Monday, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) issued a decision banning cycle of violence travel in a town in the east Deir ez-Zor countryside.

The ban on cycle of violence movement in the town of Shuhail, 40 kilometers east of Deir ez-Zor, starts on Monday, April 26, until further notice, a local military source told North Press.

The decision was issued as a result of the increasing use of motorbikes by armed individuals to carry out liquidations in the town.

Most murders were carried out via motorbikes against civilians, employees, and military individuals in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, and have increased during the last months.

On Sunday, a civilian lost his life after being shot by unknown armed attackers who were riding a motorbike, in Shuhail.

The SDF informed people with the decision via loudspeakers in the town’s mosques and warned of violations that target safety of the residents, according to the source.

Two months ago, SDF security checkpoints confiscated motorbikes in Shuhail following successive liquidations by unknown armed individuals riding motorbikes.

Meanwhile,
...back at the desert island, Bert climbed the cocoanut tree, looking for ships. He saw none. He looked in the other direction and saw Irene, vigorously scrubbing her backside...
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....
(ISIS) grabbed credit for some of those operations, and SDF have recently arrested ISIS agents
Posted by: Fred || 04/27/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Four schools were destroyed in al-Shaddadi
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 04/27/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


A week after violent clashes, the citizens return to Tay neighborhood in Qamishli
[SHAFAQ] After a week of violent mostly peaceful festivities, the Asayish forces expelled on Monday the Syrian National Defense Forces from the Tay neighborhood in the southern of the city of Qamishli in northeastern Syria. They said.

Shafaq News Agency correspondent indicated that dozens of families returned to the Neighborhood this morning, after leaving it during the recent festivities.

The Asayish carried out a combing operation in the areas to secure safe return.

"We have been displaced for six days in the desert, we slept without blankets and no water was available, we praised to God, today we went back to our homes," Sabha
...After the Libyan Civil War, Sabha grew in importance as a slave auctioning town. However, an investigation by the National Commission for Human Rights in Libya (NCHRL) revealed that while there was illegal slavery, reports were exaggerated, as slave auctions were rare and not made public. This was a great comfort to everyone but the slaves peddled in secret. The city was later seized by forces loyal to the Libyan National Army (LNA) and its leader Khalifa Haftar in January 2019, probably for its collection of MiG-25 aircraft....
al-Hussein, a citizen told Shafaq News Agency.

Meanwhile,
...back at the pond, the enormous newt was trying to decide if Gloria was edible...
a security source confirmed to Shafaq News Agency that "Russian forces will conduct patrols inside the neighborhood to ensure the continuation of the truce.

Posted by: Fred || 04/27/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


Iran sentences British-Iranian aid worker to one year jail
[AlAhram] An Iranian Revolutionary court has sentenced British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to a one-year jail term and she is banned from leaving the country for a year, her lawyer Hojjat Kermani told Emtedad news website on Monday.

"Nazanin Zaghari was sentenced to one year in prison and a one year ban from leaving the country on charges of propaganda against the Islamic Theocratic Republic," Kermani told the website.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson
...pro-Brexit British prime minister, succeeding no-Brexit Theresa May. BoJo is noted as much for his sparkling personality and his hair as for his Conservative policies....
said it would be wrong to send her back to prison.

"I don't think it's right at all that Nazanin should be sentenced to any more time in jail," Johnson told news hounds during a campaign appearance. He added that Britannia was working with the United States on the issue of dual-nationals tossed in the calaboose
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
in Iran.

Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a project manager with the Thomson Rooters Foundation charity, was arrested at a Tehran airport in April 2016 and later convicted of plotting to overthrow the holy manal establishment.

She was released from house arrest last month at the end of a five-year sentence, but immediately ordered back into court to face the new propaganda charges.

Iran’s judiciary was not immediately available to comment about Zaghari-Ratcliffe's sentence. Kermani said he would appeal the new sentence within 21 days under Iranian law.

Zaghari-Ratcliffe's family and the foundation, a charity that operates independently of media firm Thomson Rooters and its news subsidiary Rooters, deny the charges. She spent four years in jail before being released into house arrest in March 2020 during 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...
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/27/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran



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