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Iran foreign minister calls Trump peace plan for Middle East 'delusional'
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Afghanistan
'Afghan police officers killed in Taliban 'insider' attack
[Aljazeera] At least 11 Afghan police officers have been killed after Taliban fighters stormed a police base in northern Baghlan province, local government officials told Associated Press on Tuesday.

The fighters first overran a checkpoint near the base late on Monday, and were apparently able to breach the compound with ease because a sympathetic policeman opened a door for them.

A spokesman for the Taliban fighters, Zabiullah Mujahid, however, put the death toll at 17, adding that one officer was taken hostage. The group is known to exaggerate its claims.
Oooooohhhhh, how beautifully dry. Could the reporter have trained in British English?
The attack comes a day after Taliban claimed it shot down an American military plane in Ghazni province - a claim the US military denies.
Update from Tolo News at 2:15 pm CT:
At least nine police were killed in a Taliban attack in northern Baghlan province on Monday night, a security source confirmed on Tuesday.

Also, three policemen are missing, the source added.

The Taliban attacked a police base in Khawja Alwan in Pul-e-Khumri, the center of Baghlan, according to the source.

There are reports that 16 policemen were killed in the attack, including commanders. The Baghlan police have not yet confirmed the casualties.

The base is on the Baghlan-Samangan highway.

The Taliban took responsibility for the attack and claimed they stole police weapons and vehicles.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/28/2020 05:19 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


#IRGC-Affiliated Journalists Claim #Taliban Downed U.S. Spy Plane In #Afghanistan, Hinting At Iranian Involvement
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Additionally, the headline of the January 28 issue of the Iranian regime mouthpiece Kayhan stated: " Taliban Downs American Military Plane, Dozens Of CIA Officers Went To Hell."

S-300V4 and S-400 have a 400km range.
More than enough to shoot from Iran to Ghazni

Posted by: Fred || 01/28/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies

#1  3 bodies recovered out of 5.
RUMINT is that one of the CIA Operatives on the plane was responsible for snuffing out Solomani.
Posted by: newc || 01/28/2020 18:23 Comments || Top||

#2  "The Mirror has received reports that the CIA Iran chief of operations, Michael D'Andrea, was confirmed dead after a plane crash in Ghazni Province, Afghanistan, that killed 5 by local officials."
Posted by: newc || 01/28/2020 18:24 Comments || Top||


Africa North
#GNA militias are raining grad missiles on Gasir Bin Gashir near #Tripoli international airport
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 01/28/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Man kidnapped by GNA militias, shot 25 times in the chest
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 01/28/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

#1  Bang. Bang. Bangety bang bang.

"That should do it!'

"Naw." Bang. Bangety....
Posted by: KBK || 01/28/2020 0:25 Comments || Top||

#2  sung staccato to the manic strains of the '60s frat house dance tune "Bird, Bird.. Bird-Is-The-Word":

Bang...Bang...
Bang-bang, BANG-BANG, bang-bang bang-bang-BANG-bang...

Bang...Bang...
Bang-bang, BANG-BANG, bang-bang bang-bang-BANG-bang...
Posted by: Lex || 01/28/2020 3:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Ate the full mag did he ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/28/2020 4:54 Comments || Top||

#4  A thirty round magazine, a giggle switch and not much muzzle climb.
Posted by: Jiggs Hupiting5931 || 01/28/2020 9:45 Comments || Top||

#5  At least, he felt appreciated.
Posted by: KBK || 01/28/2020 12:21 Comments || Top||

#6  Dunno; if GNA assassinates like they fight LNA, it probably took 10 mags to get 25 hits.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/28/2020 17:24 Comments || Top||

#7  If the guy didn't die of his 25 wounds, he would surely die of plumbing poisoning.
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/28/2020 18:25 Comments || Top||

#8  Plumbum

Damned spell correct.
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/28/2020 18:27 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen admit capturing children and say they plan to release them in two months
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 01/28/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Yemen's Houthi elements occupy key route in deadly clashes
[THEBAGHDADPOST] Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
's Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
elements made gains against government troops north and east of Sanaa on Monday, seizing a strategic road in deadly fighting, loyalist military officials told AFP.

The pro-government sources said the rebels had captured the route that connects Sanaa to the provinces of Marib, to the east, and Jawf to the north.

Dozens have been killed or maimed in the fighting around Sanaa in the past 48 hours, according to these military sources, but they were not able to give precise figures.

"The Houthis are now seeking to take Hazm, the capital of Jawf province," one official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Posted by: Fred || 01/28/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Europe
More than 1,400 migrants are evicted from Paris's biggest makeshift camp as riot police and bulldozers move in
[Daily Mail]
* 600 single men and 240 families had been living in the ramshackled shanty town at Porte d'Aubervilliers
* They were ferried out of the area in a fleet of coaches that took them to 17 so-called ‘reception centres'
* The mainly Afghan, Eritrean and Libyan residents of the camp were forced out, before bulldozers moved in to destroy makeshift huts and tents

French riot police today forced more than 1400 migrants out of an illegal camp in Paris which was then destroyed.

Some 600 single men and 240 families, including many hoping to get to Britain, had been living in the shanty town at Porte d’Aubervilliers.

The camp was on the city’s ring road and close to the Gare du Nord Eurostar hub where high speed trains travel to London, and others go to the Channel ports in northern France.
Posted by: Frank G || 01/28/2020 09:46 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Varoom, varoom, clank, clank, clank.

IIIIIIIIIII

IIIIIIIIIII
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/28/2020 11:12 Comments || Top||

#2  Camp de Saints de Plats
Posted by: Lex || 01/28/2020 11:16 Comments || Top||

#3  Bulldozers, now you're getting their attention.
Posted by: jpal || 01/28/2020 11:25 Comments || Top||

#4  They’ll soon drift back, setting up the same camp in a different park. The police do this every few months. But actually send home more migrants than arrive, it will only get worse, with resulting mayhem for the lives of the native residents.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/28/2020 14:33 Comments || Top||

#5  But until they actually...

PIMF!!!
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/28/2020 14:52 Comments || Top||

#6  A re-enaction of the creation of Saint Pancake.
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 01/28/2020 14:56 Comments || Top||

#7  Operation Sainte-Crepe?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/28/2020 16:12 Comments || Top||

#8  Call me when they don't move the Muslims out before they send in the Bulldozers.
Posted by: Thaith Elmeresing6163 || 01/28/2020 17:15 Comments || Top||

#9  Operation Charles Martel
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 01/28/2020 17:50 Comments || Top||

#10  "O crapauds," so politely they say...

"Decamp, mes amis, s'il vous plais,
From your miserable Muslim Marais.
Fill our streets with your pomp
As we clean up your swamp --
Maybe take in a play or musée? --
And be back by the end of the day!"

Posted by: Sleack Flereck8847 || 01/28/2020 18:29 Comments || Top||

#11  Rename this site Sarcburg.
Reasonable discourse doesn’t exist.
Unless of course, you’re looking in a mirror to decode text TW.
Posted by: jvalentour || 01/28/2020 21:27 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Top #terrorist #militia leaders linked to #Iran
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 01/28/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies


#Iraqi students in Diyala University announce a civil disobedience in the city of #Baquba
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 01/28/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq

#1  These people have lived under insane corruption forever. How much of this is unrest due to corruption and how much is unrest driven by religion?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/28/2020 15:18 Comments || Top||


One protester was killed in Iraq’s flashpoint city of Nasiriyah
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 01/28/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq


Abu Ali Al-Basri is the new deputy commander of the #IMIS
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 01/28/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies


Muqtada Al-Sadr's Representative in #Nasiriya Leaves Sadrists, Removes Turban, Pledges Support For #Protesters
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 01/28/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies

#1  That's an interesting bit of drama. I suddenly feel like I'm watching Days of Our Lives but with turbans. Who knows, maybe it's a good thing.
Posted by: SteveS || 01/28/2020 0:32 Comments || Top||

#2  As The Stomach Turns
Posted by: Lex || 01/28/2020 2:55 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ what he said
Posted by: Mercutio || 01/28/2020 6:59 Comments || Top||

#4  Guiding Fight
As the World Burns
General Hostile
All My Caliphate
The Bold and The Combustible
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/28/2020 18:27 Comments || Top||

#5  Waxing Herby: Empire
Posted by: Sleack Flereck8847 || 01/28/2020 18:43 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Shin Bet security service busts two Israeli citizens in Hamas spy ring
[IsraelTimes] Rami Amoudi, Rajab Daka allegedly tasked with gathering intel on military installations, helping guide rocket-fire; both are Gazooks granted citizenship under family reunification.

The Shin Bet security service said Monday it foiled a Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", spy ring operating in central Israel, arresting two Israeli citizens earlier this month who allegedly provided the terror group with details about Israeli security facilities and other intelligence information.

According to the agency, the two men ‐ Rami Amoudi, 30, and Rajab Daka, 34 ‐ were recruited by the 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 Hamaswith 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...
-based terror group in October 2019 and tasked with filming security installations in central Israel, including "military bases, cop shoppes and Iron Dome battery placements."

The Shin Bet said Daka was also asked to provide the precise locations of where rockets launched from Gaza had landed during the recent bouts of fighting, apparently to help the terror group improve its accuracy.

"Hamas is continuing to cynically exploit the Erez Crossing between the Gaza Strip and Israel to promote terror in Israel," the Shin Bet said, referring to the pedestrian border crossing.

Both Amoudi and Daka are originally from the Gaza Strip, but were able to move to Israel as they have Israeli mothers.

Daka’s mother is an Arab-Israeli from the town of Lod, and Amoudi has a Jewish-Israeli mother, who helped him get the documentation necessary to move to Israel, the Shin Bet said.

A father of five, Daka received an Israeli passport in 2017 and has split his time since then between Israel and Gaza, where his children lived, the Shin Bet said. He is originally from Gaza City.

Amoudi came to live with his mother in Israel in November 2019, according to the security service. He is originally from Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, but now lives in Tel Aviv.

The two men were arrested on January 2 and were charged in a Central District Court on Monday.

The Shin Bet said "it takes a serious view of Israeli citizens who exploit their access to the Gaza Strip to promote terror activities."

During the investigation the security service also uncovered Hamas members engaged in espionage activities, among them a 32-year-old resident of Beit Lahia in the Gaza Strip, who was Daka’s controller, the organization said.
The Jerusalem Post adds:
The investigation revealed that Metcal Razi, 32, from Beit Lahiya, recruited Dacha and acted as his Hamas handler.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/28/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Militants attacked Syria’s Banias refinery near the Mediterranean coast
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 01/28/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


Syrian Army within 13km of strategic city near Aleppo border
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army’s (SAA) recent advance in eastern Idlib has put their forces within striking distance of the strategic city of Saraqib for the first time in years.

According to a field source in the Idlib Governorate, the Syrian Arab Army’s 25th Special Mission Forces Division is now within 13km of Saraqib after capturing several towns east of Ma’arat al-Nu’man in eastern Idlib.

Saraqib, which is located in northeastern Idlib, has long been a key point along the Aleppo-Idlib Highway (M-5), as it has served as a supply hub for the jihadist and Ottoman Turkish-backed rebel forces.

This latest offensive by the Syrian Arab Army has concentrated on the eastern countryside of the Idlib Governorate because this region of the country has threatened the government’s primary supply route to Aleppo.

As long as eastern Idlib remains in the hands of the jihadist forces, the Khanasser Highway, which has been under the government’s control since late 2013, will always face threats from Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
and their allies.
Posted by: Fred || 01/28/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Nusra


Security forces arrest protesters in vicinity of Lebanese parliament
[MTV.LB] Security forces arrested on Monday a number of protesters who gathered in the vicinity of the Parliament, coinciding with the state budget vote session. The detained persons are: Mahmoud Al Sayyid, Wael Al Hamad, Akrim Hojairi, Abdulla Masri, Nizar Al Foul, and Nizar Sokat Al Foul. They were taken to al-Helo barracks.
Posted by: Fred || 01/28/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Iran readies a Space Launch
[Twitter]



Posted by: 3dc || 01/28/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Catchin' up... breathing down Satan's neck, I tell ya

Posted by: Lex || 01/28/2020 3:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Q1: What's to prevent a planned re-entry over WDC?

Q2: What does it matter?
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/28/2020 12:34 Comments || Top||



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Tue 2020-01-28
  Iran foreign minister calls Trump peace plan for Middle East 'delusional'
Mon 2020-01-27
  USAF E-11A down in Taliban area.
Sun 2020-01-26
  JeM’s Kashmir chief among 3 killed in Pulwama encounter: Army
Sat 2020-01-25
  AlSadr orders his followers to withdraw from #TahrirSquare and dismantle the tents
Fri 2020-01-24
  PLA mobilized to deal with Wuhan
Thu 2020-01-23
  UN calls for strengthening international support for the Palestinians
Wed 2020-01-22
  IRGC Commander & "Soleimani Ally" Shot Dead By Masked Assassins On Motorcycle
Tue 2020-01-21
  Several civilians killed by female suicide bomber in western Chad
Mon 2020-01-20
  Iraqi counter-terrorism forces arrest high-ranking ISIS official in Fallujah
Sun 2020-01-19
  Protesters burn the Hezbollah headquarters in Iraq
Sat 2020-01-18
  Taliban open to 10-day ceasefire with US troops in Afghanistan
Fri 2020-01-17
  Iraqi police arrest ISIS religious official in eastern Mosul
Thu 2020-01-16
  Five killed as Sudan crushes revolt by security agents
Wed 2020-01-15
  Pelosi Names Impeachment Managers
Tue 2020-01-14
  Project Veritas #Expose2020 Part 1: Bernie Sanders Field Organizer Suggests Gulags to Help ‘Nazified’ Trump Voters

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