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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Memphis woman shoots up Burger King over drive-thru wait time
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Aggravated Assault
5305 Winchester Road
Report#2103012830ME

On Tuesday, March 30, 2021, Memphis Police responded to a...

Posted by Memphis Police Department est.1827 on Friday, April 2, 2021
Posted by: Fred || 04/06/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Postpartum Depression, such a terrible thing, poor dear.
Posted by: Sleresing Flinter2591 || 04/06/2021 0:30 Comments || Top||


#3  Bucket of hot grease from the fryer would've altered her belligerence (and appearance)
Posted by: Frank G || 04/06/2021 10:00 Comments || Top||

#4  would've helped with the appearance
Posted by: Chris || 04/06/2021 10:45 Comments || Top||

#5  She mad cuz she homely as a mud fence AND going bald.
Posted by: JHH || 04/06/2021 12:12 Comments || Top||

#6  Without the caption, one could guess Lightfoot.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/06/2021 12:35 Comments || Top||

#7  Whitey's fault for bringing them here.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/06/2021 17:59 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
WATCH: Armed Smuggler Arrested with 20 Migrants Locked in Horse Trailer near Border in Arizona
[Breitbart]
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/06/2021 09:44 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Human Trafficking




#4  Dereliction of duty to defend the Constitutuon and the sovereign territory of the United States.

Treason, more like
Posted by: Jomomp Shoter6267 || 04/06/2021 22:44 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
37 Taliban Killed in Ongoing Operations in Kandahar: MoD
[ToloNews] At least 37 Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
were killed and 28 more were maimed in Afghan forces operations supported by air support in Arghandab and Zherai districts in Kandahar province on Sunday, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) said in a statement on Monday.

The forces have seized 90 cycle of violences during the operation and also destroyed "a large amount of weapons" belonged to the Taliban and also cleared "Tabeen" village in Arghandab, the ministry said.

The Taliban has not commented on the operation.

On Sunday, local officials in Kandahar said that the Arghandab has been retaken from the Taliban following an operation by security forces.

Some parts of the district were under Taliban influence over the last few months, according to officials.

Mines have been planted along roads connected to the district, which will delay the return of displaced people to their homes.

The Arghandab district is close to the city of Kandahar.

"The Taliban have left here. Their bodies and vehicles have been left here," said Nazar Ali, an army commander.

"Arghandab is a populous district. We used high precision to avoid harm to the people," said Sarbuland, a commander of the special forces battalion in Kandahar.
The statement also added that the village of Tabin was cleared of the Taliban influence in Arghandab district, and ANA also reconstructed three sections of a demolished bridge by the Taliban.

The defense operations in the region resulted in the discovery and neutralization of 76 landmines planted by the Taliban.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/06/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


One Security Force Member Killed, Four Wounded in Kabul Blast
[ToloNews] One security force member was killed and four more were maimed in an IED explosion that targeted an army vehicle in Qarabagh district in Kabul on Monday morning, police said in a statement.

The incident happened at around 7:00 am local time in Sabz Sang village in Qarabagh district, police said.

"Another mine was seized and defused by the security forces team," police said.

No group including the Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
has grabbed credit for the blast.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/06/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Taliban battered across Afghanistan, 110 killed
[KhaamaPress] The Ministry of Defense says that in the past 24 hours festivities between Afghan security force members and the Talibs resulted in heavy government opposition casualties.

MoD in a released statement on Monday said that at least 110 Talibs were killed and 81 others were maimed in festivities and counter-attacks by Afghan national defense and security forces.

The released bulletin added a large number of weapons and ammunition belonging to the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
were also destroyed.

According to the Ministry of Defense, the Afghan national army discovered and defused 135 mines planted by the Taliban in different parts of the country.

The skirmishes between the Taliban and government forces took place in Ghazni, 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..
, Zabul, 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...
, Baghlan, Badakhshan, and Kandahar provinces.

The intensity of the festivities and Taliban attacks have escalated across the country.

This comes as an UN-led summit in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
aimed at finalizing peace efforts is reportedly scheduled before the May 1st deadline.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/06/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Taliban offensives claim lives of 20 Security force members: Helmand
[KhaamaPress] At least 20 soldiers have been killed in a Taliban
...Arabic for students...
attack on a security base in Nahr Siraj district of Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
province, according to reports.

A source told the media that Taliban fighters attacked a security base in Nahr Siraj district of Helmand province last night, killing at least 20 security personnel and wounding 14 others.

Helmand Police confirmed the festivities have occurred, but decline to give further details about the attack and the casualties.

A Taliban front man, Yusuf Ahmadi, tweeted that the group have attacked the base and inflicted heavy casualties on a key security outpost located in Nahr Siraj district. According to Ahmadi, the festivities took place last night in Wazirmand area of Nahr Siraj in Helmand province.

He claimed that 13 government forces were killed and 11 others were captured by the Taliban, also a government tank and 35 light and heavy weapons were taken by the group.
At least 11 members of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces were killed in two separate incidents in the southern province of Helmand on Sunday night, sources from security agencies said on Monday.

Two of the forces were killed in a car kaboom in Nawa district in Helmand, sources said.

Meanwhile, snuffies attacked a security forces outpost in Helmand-Kandahar highway on Sunday night in which nine members of Afghan forces were killed and four more were maimed, sources said.

Security officials have not commented on the two incidents.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/06/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa Horn
Puntland troops foil car bombs, kill 24 ISIS militants in operation
[Garowe] Puntland
...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion...
Security Forces have killed at least 24 hard boyz aligned with 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 by direct fire during a series of operations over the last two days in parts of Bari province.

Following a tip-off, the troops raided the base in the al-Miskaat Mountains around Balidhidin district, where ISIS used to store heavy ammunition and materials to make IEDs and boom-mobiles, according to PSF.

A video clip released by PSF showed troops blowing up two intercepted vehicles loaded with kabooms which ISIS members were planning to use in terror attacks to harm innocent civilians.

The troops recovered homemade explosives and firearms from the scene of the fighting. The ISIS fighters fled towards the semi-forest hills as PSF intensified the offensive.

The security forces of Somalia’s northeastern Federal state continue to carry out frequent operations against the ISIS group in these parts where the group has recently mobilized fighters in the hilly areas.

The ISIS hard boyz broke off from al-Shabaab
...... the personification of Somali state failure...
for 6 years and continued sporadic raids in the Bari region, where the terror groups have hideouts to train their fighters and orchestrate attacks in Puntland.

Puntland, which enjoyed relative calm for decades is now facing dual challenges facing security forces from the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab and the growing presence of fighters linked to the Islamic State.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/06/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  For a moment I thought the headline said "Portland..."
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 04/06/2021 4:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Me too

American Baghdad
Posted by: Zorba Unaise9181 || 04/06/2021 5:34 Comments || Top||


Al-Shabaab attempts to disrupt forthcoming elections in Somalia
Putting this and this from two days ago into context.
[Garowe] The al-Qaeda-affiliated Somalia-based al-Shabaab
...... the personification of Somali state failure...
snuffies have intensified attacks in the country amid a deepened electoral and political crisis that delayed the schedule of the vote.

The snuffies have briefly taken control of Barire military base, reports indicate, following fierce fighting with the Somali National Army [SNA] on Saturday morning, which left dozens of snuffies and the soldiers dead.

The fighters, however, didn't manage to take control of Awdheele town in Lower Shabelle after they were repulsed by the Gor-Gor troops, who flushed them away during the multiple attacks that lasted for several hours on Saturday morning, sources say.

The region is a known stronghold for the snuffies but lately, they have lost grip in several villages to the Somali National Army, the African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
Mission Forces in Somalia, and other allied troops, who have been working to liberate the country.

Barire, sources said, is now under full control of the al-Shabaab holy warriors, after they managed to flush out the Somali National Army troops who were manning the area. It's not clear how many people died in the process from either side of the teams.

But at Lafole, a Vehicle Born Improvised Explosive Device [VBIED] targeted troops that had been dispatched from Mogadishu for reinforcement, with the army boss Gen Odowa Yusuf Rage said to have been part of the convoy which was ambushed.

A source confirmed to Garowe Online that SNA chief General Odowa Yusuf Rage was traveling in the convoy of the reinforcement troops hit by the earth-shattering kaboom at Lafoole area while rushing to the bases in Barire and Awdhegle that came under al-Shabaab attack. The army is yet to confirm.

Somali military officials in the Lower Shabelle region reported that 100 snuffies were killed in bloody fighting in Awdhegle. al-Shabaab on its side claimed victory over the battle, saying its fighters overrun army bases, killed 47 soldiers, seized battlewagons and weapons.

The commander of the Somali infantry National Army, Gen. Bihi, who spoke about the early morning festivities between FGS troops and Al-Shabaab in the Lower Shabelle region, said that many members of the group were killed and 10 prisoners were captured alive.

Shortly after the attacks in Lower Shabelle, a bomber has let 'er rip at a restaurant in Mogadishu's Shangani area on Saturday evening, killing at least 6 people, mostly innocent youths.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/06/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


Africa North
Tunisia- on April 1, MoI, TAF & National Guard forces raided 2 locations in Kasserine Governorate:- in Jabel Mghila
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Jund Al Khilafa-Tunisia (JAK-T) appeared on the scene in 2014, when they pledged allegiance to al Baghdadi. A year later they beheaded a local shepherd for the glory of Allah and ISIS. Since then they’ve slightly improved their jihadi skillz.
Posted by: Fred || 04/06/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


ISIS photos of execution of ''Sahawat'' (pro-government Bedouin militiaman, in this case) in al-Barth, North Sinai
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 04/06/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Africa Subsaharan
Gunmen storm Nigerian prison, free more than 1,800 inmates
[France24] More than 1,800 inmates have escaped after heavily armed men attacked a prison in southwest Nigeria using explosives, prison authorities said Monday

The attackers blasted their way into the Owerri prison in Imo state, engaging guards in a gun battle, the national corrections authority said in a statement.

"I can confirm that the Imo State command of the Nigerian Correctional Service was attacked by unknown gunmen in Owerri," Imo state corrections service spokesman James Madugba told AFP, adding that the number of escaped inmates was yet to be confirmed.

"The situation is under control," he said.

The assailants arrived in pickup trucks and buses before storming the facility, the correction authority statement said.

Imo state is part of a region that has long been a hotbed for separatist groups and where tensions between federal authorities and the indigenous Igbo population are often high.

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)
...Biafra is acting up again? This is why y’all don’t have nice things, guys.
has recently been posting videos on social media of dozens of its militiamen in training.

But IPOB spokesman Emmanuel Powerful rejected any involvement in the prison attack in a statement sent to AFP, dismissing any accusations as "lies".
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/06/2021 01:51 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  In a "civilized" country, this sort of task is peacefully legislated by democrats.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/06/2021 1:55 Comments || Top||


Nigeria: Bandits Funding Boko Haram - El-Rufai
[AllAfrica] Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State says bandidos are providing funds for the 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...
sect.

When he featured as a guest on Channels Television's Sunday Politics, he said a strong link has been established between the bandidos terrorising the North West and the Boko Haram turbans in the North East.

The governor said his administration would not negotiate with bandidos.

"It has been established that the kidnapping operations (by bandidos) are substantially funding Boko Haram activities in the North East.

"The bulk of the money is going into terrorist financing; there is a branch of ISWAP called Ansar-Ur that is congregating in the forest in Birnin Gwari, led by a man and their objectives are very similar to Boko Haram, except that they are not against western education," he said.
"Boko Haram has no way of getting any money and some of them have slipped and joined the ranks of the bandidos, and together they are doing this to raise a large amount of money that are being used to fund the intensified operations of Boko Haram.

He siad there was no way Boko Haram could gather money to fund their operations in the North East without the help of bandidos in the North West.

According to the governor, a branch of 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....
in West Africa Province (ISWAP) - a splinter of the Boko Haram sect - is assembling in the forest in Birnin Gwari Local Government of Kaduna State.

He, however, stated that the leader of the group has been arrested and a lot of his commanders have been killed in military Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s.

"We insisted that these are holy warriors, they are terrorists; they are fighting the illusory sovereignty to Nigeria and we must treat them as such."

"The bulk of the money is going into terrorist financing; there is a branch of ISWAP called Ansar-Ur that is congregating in the forest in Birnin Gwari, led by a man and their objectives are very similar to Boko Haram, except that they are not against western education," he said.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/06/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram (ISIS)

#1  Nigerians are the thieves and bandits of the continent.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/06/2021 1:33 Comments || Top||


Mozambique army says town attacked by Islamic State-linked insurgents is now secure
[AlAhram] The town of Palma in northern Mozambique that was attacked by 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....
-linked Death Eaters in late March is now secure after the military killed a "significant number" of murderous Moslems and cleared one final area, an army front man said.

"We have completed the clearing (of the town). It was the only sensitive area that we needed to clear. ... It is completely safe," front man Chongo Vigidal said, in comments broadcast by state TV channel TVM late on Sunday.

Insurgents on March 24 attacked the coastal town of Palma, near natural gas projects worth $60 billion that are meant to transform Mozambique's economy. Clashes continued nearby as recently as Friday, security sources say.

Rooters has not been able to verify the accounts from Palma independently. Most means of communication with the town were cut off after the attack began.

Footage taken by TVM in Palma showed a soldier covering a body lying in the street and burned buildings.

Mozambique's defence ministry did not respond to a Rooters request for comment on Monday.

Islamic State-linked Death Eaters have been increasingly active in the surrounding province of Cabo Delgado since 2017, although it is unclear whether they have a unified aim or what specifically they are fighting for.
They appear to be one of those homegrown groups pursuing longstanding local grievances against the Powers That Be, borrowing the ideological trappings of a war against "infidels" to make themselves look more meaningful... and more terrifying. They have many names: Islamic State Central Africa Province-Mozambique (ISCAP), Ahlu Sunnah Wa-Jama (ASWJ - Adepts of the Prophetic Tradition), shorter Ansar al-Sunna (Supporters of the Tradition), and informally as Al Shabaab-Mozambique. Appearing in Mozambique in 2015 with Tanzanian leadership, they hired members of Somali Al Shabaab to teach them jihading skillz, then split into various cells. They fund themselves through heroin, contraband, the ivory trade, and the usual raiding...
Aid groups believe the latest attack displaced tens of thousands of people, many of whom fled to safety in dense forest areas nearby or by boat.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/06/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (IS-Mozambique)


Fifth Column
Randy A. Graves, 32, an antifa protester who threatened Portland Parks and Recreation Rangers with an ax, faces 28 charges. He was quickly bailed out
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 04/06/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1 
I would like this guy better if he manned up and lived up to his name. Go dig two, one for you and another for your 'cause' - Graves
Posted by: Ebbavigum Thud6177 || 04/06/2021 8:05 Comments || Top||


Malik Muhammed has been indicted over multiple charges following an FBI & ATF investigation related to the attempted murder of @PortlandPolice officers at BLM antifa riots last year
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

More courtesy of Skidmark:
Man is charged with attempted murder for throwing Molotov cocktails at police during last summer's Portland protests after he left evidence on unexploded bomb
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • A suspect has been arrested in Indianapolis relating to multiple firebomb attacks on police officers last year during Black Lives Matter protests in Portland

  • Malik Fard Muhammed, 24, was arrested in Indianapolis, Indiana on multiple warrants, including attempted murder and other charges

  • Muhammed allegedly threw a firebomb that scorched the uniform of a police officer on September 23, 2020 in Portland

  • Additionally, Muhammed was also determined to be responsible for throwing another Molotov cocktail which did not go off on September 21, 2020

  • Last summer, there were demonstrations in Portland for more than 100 days
Posted by: Fred || 04/06/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM


The Grand Turk
Turkish security forces arrest over 20 Kurdish women activists in southeastern province
The nail that protrudes is hammered down. And nobody sticks up more, to the religious Turk mind of Recep Tayip Erdogen, as secular Kurds — unless its feminist secular Kurds.
[Rudaw] Security forces in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
’s southeastern province of Diyarbakir (Amed) raided a women's foundation and houses of several of its members and a journalist early Monday, arresting at least 20 people, according to the foundation.

The reasons for the arrests are unknown.

"Around 6am, our foundation was raided by the security forces. The houses of several of our women friends were raided as well," Adalet Kaya, head of Rosa Women’s Foundation, told news hounds in Diyarbakir, adding that they are under "unlawful pressure" from the government for their recent feminist activities such as their opposition to Turkey's withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention last month.

"We as Kurdish women ... have been under attack for a year: four operations and two raids. They were all related to our activities," she said.

According to the foundation, 22 Kurdish women were arrested in Monday’s raids, mostly from Rosa - which was raided on May 22, 2020 for their alleged links to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

The PKK is an gang struggling for the increased rights of Kurds in Turkey. It is designated as a terrorist organization by Ankara.

Monday’s arrests also included Beritan Canozer, a journalist for Jinnews, which covers news on Kurdish women in Turkey. Members of the pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party
...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy, white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
(HDP) were also arrested.

Both Jinnews and Rosa are unofficially linked to the HDP, which has come under intense pressure from Ottoman Turkish government for its alleged link to the PKK in recent years.

The Coalition For Women In Journalism (CFWIJ), which advocates for the rights of women and LGBTQ journalists, condemned Canozer's arrest.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/06/2021 03:10 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Turkey Detains 10 Retired Admirals who Defended Maritime Accord
Background on the situation can be seen here.
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
detained 10 retired admirals for signing a statement supporting an 85-year-old maritime accord, and President His Enormity, 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. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
said on Monday the document went beyond freedom of expression and implied a coup.

The statement, signed by more than a hundred former high-ranking navy personnel, voiced concern that the Montreux Convention could be debated or abandoned after having played an important role in Turkey’s security and past neutrality.

Government officials responded by accusing them of conspiring against the constitutional order, and Erdogan said the statement was unacceptable given Turkey’s history of military coups.

"The duty of retired admirals is... not publishing statements about a political debate that includes an implication of a coup," Erdogan told ministers and AK Party members.

The military staged three coups between 1960-1980 and, with a statement by the National Security Council, pressured the first Islamist-led government out of power in 1997. Another coup was attempted in 2016.

"In a country that has a history full of coups and statements, it is unacceptable for 104 retired admirals to attempt such an endeavor," Erdogan said, adding Turkey remained committed to the accord but could review it in the future.

The main opposition party said the government sought to distract from more critical issues, including a shock 12% lira depreciation two weeks ago, and record daily 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...
cases. Erdogan blamed the opposition for the statement.

Montreux, signed in 1936, gives Turkey control over the Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits within its borders, and during peacetime guarantees access for civilian vessels. It also limits access of naval warships and governs foreign cargo ships.

The retired admirals defended the accord as strategically important for security, given Erdogan’s authority to withdraw from such pacts. Last month, the president suddenly ditched an international accord meant to prevent violence against women.

Prosecutors accuse the admirals of conspiring against state security, news website Haberturk said. State news agency Anadolu said four other suspects were called to report to police within three days as part of the probe.

The statement came as the government moves forward with plans to construct a massive canal connecting the Black Sea north of Istanbul to the Sea of Marmara to the south, parallel to the Bosphorus.

A Ottoman Turkish official has said Montreux would not cover the canal.

The secularist armed forces were once the dominant force in Turkey but Erdogan and his Islamist-rooted AK Party have eroded their influence since coming to power in 2002.
Al Ahram adds:
Four others were not detained because of their advanced ages, but they were asked to report to authorities within three days, Anadolu reported.

Authorities stripped the suspects of their rights to government lodgings and bodyguards, Anadolu reported, even before the investigation is concluded.

The statement was issued amid a debate over whether Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First, who withdrew The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
from a international convention to protect women last month, could also pull the country out of the 1936 Treaty of Montreux, which regulates the passage through the straits, and other international treaties.

Anadolu reported that those detained include Cem Gurdeniz, the name behind Turkey's controversial ``Blue Homeland'' doctrine, which claims vast sections of the Mediterranean and Aegean and its undersea energy deposits. The concept is at odds with Greece and Cyprus' claims in the region.

The suspects were detained at their homes in Ankara, Istanbul and Kocaeli, and were to be questioned by the chief prosecutor's office in the capital.
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Home Front: WoT
Two Yemeni men on the FBI's terror watchlist are arrested in California after illegally crossing the border just weeks after Republicans warned terrorists were entering from Mexico
Photos of the wannabe jihadis can be seen at the link.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Two Yemeni men on FBI's terror watchlist were arrested near the point of entry

  • One was stopped on January 29 and the other on March 30, both in California

  • Both were stopped by agents from El Centro Station in Calexico, California

  • Republicans have been warning that terrorists could try to enter via the border

  • Kevin McCarthy on March 15 said he was told of arrests from around the world

  • House minority leader said border agents told of detainees Yemen, Iran, Turkey

  • The U.S. does not release data on terror suspects arrested at the border

  • Analysts believe 6-20 are detained at U.S.-Mexico border every year
In January 2018, a joint report by the Homeland Security and Justice departments stated that Homeland Security had 2,554 'encounters' worldwide with people on a watch list who were trying to travel to the U.S.

Of them, 2,170 were trying to come by air, with 335 by land and the rest by sea.
Posted by: Unising Lumumba8103 || 04/06/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Devout Moslems

#1  Just simple immigrants looking for asylum...right
The older man was found with a mobile phone SIM card located underneath the insole of his shoe, CBD said.
Posted by: Frank G || 04/06/2021 6:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Who doesn't walk around with a spare SIM card in their shoe?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 04/06/2021 7:44 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Iraqi Protesters Block Entrance to Nasiriyah Oil Refinery, Cause Fuel Shortage
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Report: Iranian ship struck by missile in the Red Sea
[Ynet] Foreign media says 'Israel might have been involved' in attack on Revolutionary Guards intelligence-gathering vessel off the coast of Eritrea as both nations are believed to have been locked in a maritime shadow standoff in recent months.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/06/2021 17:37 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Just some Yemeni naval ship trying to sharpen their missile technology. Pay it no attention.
Posted by: jpal || 04/06/2021 19:31 Comments || Top||

#2  Possibly a "Domestically-produced Houthi Mine?"
Posted by: Frank G || 04/06/2021 21:29 Comments || Top||


Iran tankers with 3M barrels of crude oil head to Syria, defying US sanctions
[FoxNews] Four vessels are on their way to Baniyas oil refinery, near the Mediterranean coast.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/06/2021 12:39 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  I don't know why this wold surprise anyone.
Posted by: Chris || 04/06/2021 14:10 Comments || Top||


Satellite Images Reveal Possible New Ballistic Missile Base in Iran
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Satellite images by Capella Space reveal concrete structures and what appear to be tunnel entries in what Israeli-based The Intel Lab says might be a new ballistic missile base.
So IDF already knows. Good.
According to The Intel Lab, which describes itself as an intelligence consultancy, construction at the site began in around 2005, with two tunnels being excavated 400 metres below crest level.

The site is reported to be 28 kilometres northwest of Isfahan City Centre in central Iran.

In 2008-2009 ventilation shafts appeared on the site, and rough estimations of spoils showed that 500,000 cubic metres were excavated for the two tunnels and underground facilities, the company said.

Arched formwork and concrete production were in progress between 2011 and 2019, but with no major excavation, while between around August 2019 and the end of the year, 10 metre-high platforms were raised at each tunnel entrance and reinforced with bars of concrete.

The Intel Lab drew parallels to Sangnam-ni Missile Base in North Korea
...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche...
, saying that the objects have similar concepts, with platforms at the tunnel entrance and pads.

Last month, Fox News reported an underground ballistic missile facility in southwestern 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...
about 500 miles (approximately 805 km) from Kuwait, showing satellite images it obtained.
Posted by: Fred || 04/06/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Iran: East Azerbaijan has announced the arrest of an ''Israeli spy and several spies of the security services of different countries''
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

The Times of Israel adds:
“An Israeli spy has been arrested in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province... also other spies who were in contact with several countries’ intelligence services have been arrested as well," Iranian media quoted an Intelligence Ministry official as saying.

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...
occasionally announces the detention of people it claims are foreign spies, including for the US and Israel, without any further report on their fates.

In 2019, Iran said it arrested 17 Iranians accused of spying on the country’s nuclear and military sites for the CIA and reported that some of them had been sentenced to death.
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