So called 'Sanctuary City' crime.
[ICE Newsroom] SAN FRANCISCO ‐ Fourteen Bay Area members of the 19th Street Sureños gang, and the associated 16th Street Sureños gang, have been charged in a federal indictment with a variety of offenses, including racketeering and murder, following a two-year probe by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the San Francisco Police Department.
Thirteen of the defendants were taken into custody during a joint law enforcement operation Wednesday in San Francisco and Daly City. HSI special agents and investigators from the San Francisco Police Department, aided by the U.S. Secret Service and Daly City Police Department, arrested all of the named defendants except Alberto Torres, who is expected to be taken into custody shortly.
"This is the third major racketeering case against members of a criminal street gang here in the Bay Area stemming from a probe by Homeland Security Investigations," said Clark Settles, special agent in charge of HSI San Francisco. "This week’s arrests are the culmination of a long-term investigation by HSI special agents and investigators from the San Francisco Police Department. Together, we are sending a message to these dangerous street gangs about the consequences of using violence and fear to further their criminal enterprise."
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The headline gave me the crude impression that the illegals who had made it to Texas were departing for further inland by chopper. Who writes this stuff?
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The office of California Gov. Jerry Brown did not respond to questions about whether it would deploy troops.
Send the Marines to California's border. It's not very far from Camp Pendleton.
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...a little technicality. Posse Comitatus specifies the Army not the Navy. The Corps is part of the Navy. The writers never envisioned a Marine Corps this size.
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All these dem governors will say that everything is fine and and that there is no problem with illegal immigation. So in their minds they think that President Trump is using the border issue as a political diversion, and calling up the NG is a political ploy. It is the mentality we have to deal with people that want to change the fundamentals of this country.
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At least four senior local leaders of the Taliban group were killed during an operation of the Afghan Intelligence, National Directorate of Security (NDS), operatives in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan.
The provincial government media office in a statement said the militants were killed during an operation in Bati Kot district and as a result five militants were also arrested.
The statement further added that the NDS operatives conducted a Special Operation in Chahar Dehi area of the district, leaving four dead and three others wounded.
According to the governor’s office, the local Taliban leaders killed in the operation have been identified as Tur Dil alias Mullah Tur, Pacha, Mohammad Shafiq alias Sanga, and Muskin.
Another local Taliban leader was also arrested along with three militants during the operation, the statement added.
The militants arrested by the NDS operatives have been identified as Shakirullah alis Qari Shakir, Sangar Kochi, Rahmanullah, Ewaz Khan and Bilal.
According to the provincial government, at least two other suspects were also arrested during another operation in connection to having links with the militants in the same area.
The anti-government armed militant groups including Taliban insurgents have not commented regarding the report so far.
Local officials in Logar province claimed that at least 30 schools were closed by the Taliban in Charkh district in reaction to a government forces’ operation against the militant group in the area.
Up to 12,000 students, including 2,500 girls, were deprived of education after closer of the schools, Salim Saleh, spokesman for Logar governor, said Friday.
He added that the Taliban closed the schools in Charkh district after some of their members were killed and wounded in a night raid by government forces this week.
“Armed oppositions have closed 30 schools, including 10 high schools, in Charkh (district) after one of their commanders was killed in a night raid by government forces,” he said.
He said government is in contact with tribal elders and religious scholars in the district and that the schools will be reopened in the coming week.
Head of Logar Provincial Council, Hasibullah Stanekzai, said Taliban has warned Charkh elders to avoid meeting government officials for reopening the schools.
“The 01 Unit (of government forces) conducted an operation last night in which a Taliban commander was killed, a mosque and some houses were damaged,” Stanikzai said.
He said Taliban has ordered their members to close the schools in reaction to the operation.
“Thousands of students were deprived of education after closure of the schools. We call on the central government to reopen the schools as soon as possible,” said Matiullah Sroor, a civil society activist in Logar.
The provincial education department meanwhile said efforts are underway to reopen the schools with the help of locals.
“The number of closed schools in Charkh (district) is 30 schools. At least 12,000 students have been deprived of education following the closure of the schools, and meanwhile, 300 education officials have remained at home,” Shahpoor Arab, a spokesman for Logar Education Directorate said.
Meanwhile, a Taliban spokesman has said that the group closed the schools at least four days ago when a schoolteacher was killed in a night raid by government forces.
The spokesman said the group is trying to overcome the problem.
At least two Afghan National Army (ANA) force members were killed and three others wounded after a group of Taliban militants attacked their outpost in Sar-e-Pul province, an army official said.
The wounded soldiers were taken to a military facility and they are in good health condition, said Mohammad Hanif Rezaee, a spokesman for Shaheen 209 Military Corps in Balkh province.
Meanwhile, he said that 14 Taliban militants were killed in the Air Force airstrikes in Sheram village in Sar-e-Pul province.
Reports indicate that Taliban has taken few military vehicles with them following the attack. However, Rezaee rejected such reports.
He said Taliban has escaped from the area following the clashes.
[AlAhram] The U.S. military said on Friday it had killed three snuffies after launching an air strike in Somalia against al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... , a murderous Moslem Islamist group allied with al Qaeda.
The military's Africa Command (Africom) said they carried out the strike on April 5 near the town of Jilib, about 230 miles (370 km) southwest of Mogadishu.
"In coordination with the Federal Government of Somalia, U.S. Forces conducted an air strike against al-Shabaab snuffies near Jilib ... killing three faceless myrmidons and destroying one vehicle with a mounted heavy machine gun," it said in a statement.
Washington has expanded its operations in the Horn of Africa country after President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... eased combat rules last year.
Since withdrawing from the capital Mogadishu in 2011, al-Shabaab lost control of most of Somalia's cities and towns. But they retain a strong presence in regions outside the capital.
On Friday, one soldier was killed by a murderous Moslem who attacked a checkpoint in Mogadishu. A boom-mobile in the same place injured two other soldiers.
Fresh clashes erupted on Wednesday night between fighters from Derna Shura Council and Khalif Haftar-loyal Omar Mukhtar Operations Room in eastern LIbya.
Sources from the Shura Council said they conducted a surprise attack on Aldahar Alhamar in southern Derna Andy killed two Operarion Dignity militia fighters.
Meanwhile, the Omar Mukhtar Operations Room said the attack took them by surprise and continued until Thursday morning.
Derna has been encrilcled by Haftar’s forces for about two years with intermittent artillery and air attacks every now and then.
NAJRAN, April 6 (Saba) - The missile force of the army and popular committees fired a ballistic missile of the type Bader-1 on Qwat al- Wageb camp in Najran, a military official told Saba on Friday.
The missile hit its target, leaving losses in the enemy ranks and its military equipment, said the official.
TAIZ, April 6 (Saba) - The heroes of the army and popular committees on Friday carried out a military operation on the sites of Saudi-paid mercenaries in the area of Abar in Taiz province, a military official told Saba.
The military operation resulted in defeating the mercenaries in the number of the locations in Abar area, said the official.
Furthermore, many of the aggression casualties over the unique military operation.
MEDI, April 6 (Saba) - The heroes of the army and popular committees repulsed a wide infiltration attempt of the aggression forces in Medi front line and inflicted them dozens of casualties, a military official told Saba on Thursday.
The army and popular committees broke a wide infiltration attempt of the aggression forces toward the farms and stores in Medi front line, said the official.
Dozens of Sudanese and mercenaries were killed and injured, destroyed four vehicles for the invaders and destroyed the fifth one during repulsing the infiltration.
Meanwhile, the aggression warplane launched 15 airstrikes to support the infiltration on Medi without making any progress.
[DAWN] Students protesting Indian rule in Indian Kashmire clashed with government forces on Thursday after authorities reopened schools following the recent killing of Kashmiris.
Indian forces fired tear-gas to stop students from marching at several colleges in Srinagar. The students chanted anti-India slogans and marched on the streets while demanding an end to Indian rule in the region.
Clashes also erupted in other parts of India-held Kashmire as students hurled rocks at police and paramilitary soldiers. They also burned a police bunker in Srinagar.
Some students were reportedly injured in the festivities.
The students were protesting the killing 17 Kashmiris at the hands of Indian troops on Sunday. At least three Indian soldiers were also killed in the violence, which was followed by a security clampdown and a strike called by Hurriyat leaders.
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HAJIN, India: Police say anti-India militants have stormed two homes in the past few days in one Kashmiri town, dragging away two men and killing both of them. One was shot. The other was beheaded.
While killings by government forces regularly trigger bloody protests against Indian rule, the silence in Hajjin over the men’s deaths reflect the complicated reactions, tangled in fear and loyalty, when villagers accused of being informers are targeted by militants.
Many militants come from places like Hajjin, and most Kashmiris support, at least generally, the rebels’ goals.
No one in Hajjin would speak openly about what happened to the men, fearing reprisals from both sides in Kashmir’s decades-old fight. But neighbors say both had been warned earlier by militants to stop working with government soldiers.
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[Rudaw] ERBIL, Kurdistan Region ‐ As The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s ground operations against the PKK continue in the northern areas of the Kurdistan Region, Ottoman Turkish troops have intensified their bombardments and artillery shells, stationing soldiers on top of eight mountains in the past day.
The mountains are located in Sidakan, in northern Erbil province, overlooking Barazgir and Dooramolk plains. With the capture of these mountain peaks, Turkey has now entered 20 kilometers deep into the Kurdistan Region.
Faris Rasul, the chieftain of the Shapan village in Sidakan, told Rudaw that from last night until 2 p.m. on Friday, Turkey constantly bombed the area and later deployed soldiers atop the peaks of Mounts Shapan, Dilan, Kawet, Bane, Chiasor, Alakan and Chiyanaya.
Ottoman Turkish troops are a hill away from Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) forces in Sidakan, a Rudaw correspondent reported on Friday night.
There is no history of PDKI clashing with the Ottoman Turkish military, but several other armed Kurdish political groups from Iran who are opposed to the Islamic Theocratic Republic are also in the area.
Sidakan is 90 kilometers northeast of Erbil city and in Soran district.
Ottoman Turkish army began a ground offensive against alleged PKK positions in the Kurdistan Region on March 10. By the end of the month they had pushed 10 kilometers across the international border.
According to information Rudaw has obtained, the Ottoman Turkish troops have been making roads to the peaks of the mountains as it stations its forces.
The continued Ottoman Turkish attacks have forced a large number of villagers to flee their houses.
Ihsan Chalabi, Sidakan town mayor also told Rudaw "over the past 24 hours, the Ottoman Turkish army has advanced 6 kilometers into the Kurdistan Region territories."
"Advances are ongoing on a daily basis," he added.
Both the PKK and the Ottoman Turkish army have claimed they have killed the other’s forces, but they aren’t self-reporting their own casualties.
Turkey regularly bombs border areas in the Kurdistan Region, where the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has its headquarters in Qandil.
Ankara accelerated its operations in March, spreading into other areas along the border. They have threatened to go to the Yezidi homeland Shingal, if Baghdad does not remove the foreign presence.
"We do not ask for permission from anyone, nor do we look into anyone’s eyes for all this," said Ottoman Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey... said on Sunday.
"You may hear new goals at any moment," he added.
KRG Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani was asked about Turkey’s violations of the Kurdistan Region.
"As the Kurdistan Region, we have a principle. Our principle is that the territories of the Kurdistan Region must in no way be used to attack, to cause violence against our neighbors. This policy as a principle stands the same for Turkey, Iran or Syria," Barzani said.
"We do not accept, nor do we allow the Kurdistan Region of Iraq to be used to cause violence in those countries."
The Kurdish premier said his government has tried on many occasions to convince the PKK to stop attacking Turkey from within the Kurdistan Region, but that such efforts "unfortunately" failed.
"It is not acceptable for the PKK to launch military operations from the territories of Kurdistan, and then return to the Kurdistan Region," he said.
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has fought sometimes armed struggle against the Ottoman Turkish state off and on for nearly 40 years. They seek greater political, cultural, and minority rights for the people of Turkey.
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Diyala (IraqiNews.com) Joint security forces have killed three Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... Lions of Islam in an operation, northeast of Baquba, a source from Diyala province said on Friday.
"Joint troops of the army and the mobilization forces killed three IS members near Hamreen lake, northeast of Baquba," the source told AlSumaria News.
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[DAWN] Israeli troops killed seven men on Friday in the second mass protest in as many weeks along Gazoo's volatile border, as Paleostinians torched piles of tires to create a smoke screen to block the view of snipers.
Friday's deaths brought to 29 the number of Paleostinians killed by Israeli fire over the past week, including 23 protesters.
Gazoo's Health Ministry said 1,070 people were maimed on Friday, including 293 by live fire. It said 25 of those maimed were at death's door. Among those hurt were 12 women and 48 minors, the ministry added.
Israel's army has faced criticism over its use of live fire, but it has warned open-fire rules will remain unchanged to stop damage to the border fence, infiltrations and attacks.
On Friday, Israel's military said in a statement that "approximately 10,000 Paleostinians have been rioting in five locations along the border with the Gazoo Strip".
It added that "several attempts have been made to damage and cross the security fence under the cover of the smokescreen created by the burning tires that the rioters ignited".
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Play stupid games, win stupid prizes
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[IsraelTimes] As night falls after second 'March of Return,' with corpse count said at 9, Israel claims Gazoo's rulers cynically sent kids out ahead; PA condemns killing of 'peaceful' protesters.
As night fell on the second successive Friday’s Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,-backed "March of Return" at the Gazoo border, the Israeli army said it had managed to frustrate what it called the terror group’s "manipulative" efforts to breach the border fence and carry out acts of terrorism under the cover of a public protest.
The Paleostinian Authority meanwhile said it "strongly condemned" the killing of "peaceful" protesters in Gazoo.
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As the conflict in Syria continues to evolve, the U.S. government is re-examining what its future presence in the country might look like and for how long. In the meantime, American troops there are settling into increasingly more established forward outposts with improved defenses, including the futuristic-looking Advanced Mortar Protection System, or AMPS.
Earlier in April 2018, Kurdish media reported that U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, a group also known as the SDF that predominantly consists of Kurds, had established two new operating sites near the strategic city of Manbij in northern Syria. Subsequent images and video showed that American special operations forces were also present and had brought mine-resistant trucks, Humvees, and other vehicles with them, as well as heavy weapons, including .50 caliber machine guns, automatic 40mm grenade launchers, and the AMPS.
In Syria, where battle lines and the allegiances of certain groups can change rapidly, having the mortars in place gives American troops and their partners significant firepower in the event that they come under attack. It’s no surprise that the forces in Manbij, who are now concerned about a new Turkish-backed intervention, have decided to move the weapons into place to help guard their positions.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and Jaish al-Islam ...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful... are currently involved in a violent battle for the strategic town of Douma in the northern part of the East Ghouta region.
Led by their Tiger Forces and Elite Republican Guard, the Syrian Arab Army has advanced further into the Douma Orchards, seizing several points that were under the control of Jaish al-Islam for years.
The Syrian Army is now attempting to seize all of the ground under the control of Jaish al-Islam in the Douma Orchards.
While their ground forces advance, the Syrian Arab Air Force (SyAAF) is heavily bombarding Douma in an effort to force Jaish al-Islam back to the negotiations table.
A military source in Damascus told al-Masdar tonight that Jaish al-Islam has sent reinforcements to this front and will likely launch a big counter-assault soon.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] A group calling themselves "The Popular Resistance Forces of East Syria" have claimed a new attack against the U.S. Coalition in the al-Raqqa Governorate tonight.
According to the group’s statement, their fighters targeted the U.S. military base at the French Lavarage Cement Factory that is located in the northern part of the al-Raqqa Governorate.
The group then claimed that they targeted the base with surface-to-surface missiles, while vowing to continue their attacks against the U.S. Coalition until they leave Syria.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Shiite militia, Liwaa al-Baqir, announced through their official Facebook page on Friday that they will be starting a military operation in eastern Syria.
The Iranian-supplied militia stated that this operation will concentrate on eastern Syria, with a strong emphasis on the US-controlled areas in the Deir Ezzor Governorate.
Recently, Liwaa al-Baqir received new military supplies from Iran, which will likely be used to cross the Euphrates River to fight the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in eastern Deir Ezzor.
Liwaa al-Baqir is considered one of the most powerful groups in the Aleppo Governorate, boasting thousands of members from the predominately Shiite towns of al-Zahra’a and Nubl.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
At least four senior local leaders of the Taliban group were killed during an operation of the Afghan Intelligence, National Directorate of Security (NDS), operatives in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan.
the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
[DAWN] Students protesting Indian rule in Indian 
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
[DAWN] Israeli troops killed seven men on Friday in the second mass protest in as many weeks along 
[IsraelTimes] As night falls after second 'March of Return,' with 
...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful...
