[ToloNews] Haji Muhammad, a police chief in police district 8 in Lashkargah, the capital of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province, was killed along with his guard by unidentified button men at a mosque near the police district headquarters on Friday afternoon, Helmand provincial governor front man Omar Zawak said.
According to Zawak, one civilian was also killed and another was maimed in the shooting.
The shooting began while people were praying at a mosque. So far, no group or individual has grabbed credit for the incident.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan forces conducted preemptive raids against Talibs in southern Kandahar province, killing at least 4 krazed killers.
The Ministry of Defense (MoD) in a statement said a group of Talibs were looking to carry out attacks against the Afghan forces in Shorabak and Miansheen districts.
The statement further added that the Afghan forces conducted preemptive raids to thwart the attacks of the krazed killers.
The security forces also maimed at least six turbans during the raids, the statement said, adding that the security forces had earlier discovered and defused 20 roadside kabooms in Miansheen, Shawalikot, Spin Boldak and Maiwand districts of Kandahar.
The Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... group has not commented in this regard so far.
[ALMARSAD.CO] Under the command of Major General Omar Abdul-Jalil in 2017, the Anti-ISIS Operations Room had launched a fierce war against both brigades involved in human trafficking, fuel smuggling, and collusion with ISIS and other terrorist organizations. Ahmed Omar Abdel Hamid al-Dabbashi, nicknamed "Al-Ammo", or "The Uncle", was top in the list of accused and wanted runaways.
On 13 April 2020, al-Ammo returned to Sabratha in an operation blessed by Fayez al-Sarraj himself against the same Anti-ISIS Operations Room led by Major General Abdul-Jalil. Worse still, al-Ammo and his bad boys, according to confirmed reports, killed two of Major General Abdul-Jalil’s sons at their homes, Ahmed (17 years old) and Ashraf (22 years old), as acts of Dire Revenge. al-Ammo then appeared in a video yesterday, feigning to be a repentant criminal and calling for the rule of the state and supporting Fayez al-Sarraj’s government. He'll be looking for safety in Turkish exile...if he makes it there
Prior to this al-Ammo appeared in one of the photos with two hard boyz from the city of Zawiya. The person one behind al-Ammo is Mahmoud Bilghaith, a member of the so-called "Libyan Revolutionaries Operations Room", led by Shabaan Hadiya al-Makani (also known as Abu Ubaida al-Zawi) and Ali Mazkour, another bad boy from Zawiya.
In another photo taken in al-Mutrad after storming the Western Intelligence headquarters and prison and the release of hundreds of dangerous prisoners, al-Ammo appeared during the preparations for the storming of Sabratha. The attack on Sabratha took place hours later, followed by a cycle of Dire Revenge acts, torching of civilian houses and state buildings, and looting of facilities, including the Security Directorate headquarters—the very same building where Fathi Bashagha assigned a new security director whilst the building was still on fire.
Al-Amou is one of the most notorious sanctioned criminals by the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... Security Council (UNSC) on charges of human trafficking. He is also liable for the deaths of thousands of migrants colonists who drowned in death boats during the period between 2012 and 2017.
Several international organizations hold al-Ammo accountable for violations against migrants colonists in a shelter centre he controlled in Sabratha under the pretext of fighting illegal migration. While he was receiving aid from the GNA and Italia, he smuggled the migrants colonists to other traffickers in exchange for money. In November 2018, Al Marsad had published an exclusive recording of what people found in that centre after al-Ammo fled the city.
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Want to bet some Iraqi politician is on the phone asking why US forces didn't fire any of the Patriot missiles they didn't want deployed in their country?
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What's the old saying about sometimes getting what you (the Iraqis) ask for?
[Jpost] Preaches at mosque with links to ISIS terrorist who killed Israeli in 2016
The Berlin authorities announced on Thursday that the Paleostinian jihaidist Ahmad Abul Baraa, a supporter of the terrorist movement al-Qaeda, was accused of fraudulently seeking $19,564 from a bank in connection with 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... crisis.
"The 46-year-old accused Ahmad A. is suspected of having used the situation of the corona crisis together with his partner to snatch a total of € 18,000 in funding from the Investitionsbank Berlin by misrepresenting the extent of a commercial activity while both actually received social benefits," the Berlin police and prosecutor’s office wrote in a joint statement.
The authorities said that Sherlocks seized money and electronic devices during a search of the rooms of the suspects as well as from a radical mosque in the district of Wedding.
The As-Sahaba mosque, where the Paleostinian Abul Baraa preaches, has been the focus of intelligence surveillance due to its connections 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.... . Berlin’s intelligence agency has documented that the As-Sahaba-mosque is a meeting place for alleged Islamists from the Salafist movement.
The authorities wrote that whether the payments should also be used to implement projects for coronavirus crisis "is the subject of ongoing investigations, which, however, due to the quick access, meant that the funds from the Investitionsbank Berlin could be completely secured."
Abul Baraa operated a shop within the mosque. In 2018, the police raided the mosque because Baraa was accused of sending money to an Islamist fighter in Syria "for purchasing military equipment to carry out terrorist criminal acts," according to prosecutors. The German-Egyptian Islamist Reda Seyam founded the mosque in 2010. Reda Seyam was charged with taking part in a terrorism attack in Bali. Reda Seyam travelled to Syria to become the education minister for the Islamic State.
Seyam was killed in Iraq in 2019.
...and found himself enjoying the myriad hospitalities of Hell instead of 72 beauteous houris and matching boys with faces like pearls immediately thereafter...
The As-Sahaba mosque is widely viewed as the most important center for radical Sunni Islam in Berlin. The Islamic state terrorist Anis Amri, who drove a truck into a Berlin Christmas market in 2016, attended the mosque. Amri’s vehicular terrorism attack murdered 12 people and injured 56 people. One of the victims was the 60-year-old Israeli woman, Dalia Elyakim. The former Berlin rapper and Islamic State fighter Dennis Cuspert also was a visitor of the As-Sahab mosque.
It sounds like it’s past time to close the mosque after picking up all the members and tracking all their connections. 80-20 Rule, donchaknow.
[Jpost] French police shot and killed on Wednesday a man who attacked coppers with a knife in the city of La Courneuve in a northern suburb of Gay Paree, a police source said.
The attack took place around 1430pm GMT when coppers were on bike patrol, the source said.
The source could not elaborate on the knife attacker's motives. "We think he said something about looking for...a snackbar?"
[NYPOST] Three alleged drug pushers were nabbed in the Bronx and their heroin and cash was seized Friday after a five-month investigation, officials said.
Two defendants, one of whom is charged with operating as a major narco, are expected to be arraigned by video Friday in Manhattan Criminal Court.
Authorities seized 11 kilos of heroin and fentanyl and $95,000 in cash. The operation was conducted by the New York Drug Enforcement Task Force and the city’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor.
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Isn't the solution to the fentanyl problem simply a matter of declaring it will be used for lethal injections and then suddenly the makers will stop allowing it to be imported into America?
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Or declare a poundweight as WMD, with execution on seizure.
On Friday, the Turkish Ministry of Defense announced the neutralization of 18 “terrorists” from members of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) with a raid carried out by Turkish warplanes in the Qandil Mountains region of northern Iraq.
The Turkish Army, from time to time, carries out operations against members of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which is banned in Turkey, and which it classifies as a terrorist organization. However, despite their claim of combating terrorists, Turkey has not received approval from Iraq to conduct such attacks within their territory.
[Rudaw] Turkey’s ambassador to Baghdad, Fatih Yildiz, was summoned by the Iraqi foreign ministry on Thursday, a day after Turkish jets attacked two suspected Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) positions in northern Iraq.
Baghdad accused Ankara of violating its airspace, but Turkish officials insisted the strikes were justified under international laws guarding the right to self-defense.
Turkish jets launched two separate strikes on Wednesday – one in the Kurdistan Region’s Rawanduz district and another near a refugee camp in Makhmour, 60 km southwest of Erbil city. Ankara claims it “neutralized” four PKK fighters in Rawanduz, while the PKK put the number at three.
In a statement, Iraq’s foreign ministry said it summoned Ambassador Yildiz on Thursday “on the background of a Turkish army fighter plane violating Iraqi airspace, and bombing a refugee camp near Makhmour that claimed the lives of two women.”
The foreign ministry did not specify whether the women were armed.
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[NY Post] The Iranian military has acquired three bomb-carrying drones capable of flying almost 1,000 miles from an altitude of up to 45,000 feet, Defense Minister Amir Hatami announced Saturday.
The drones are equipped with bombs and missiles, can fly combat missions and could monitor enemy movements "from a considerable distance," Hatami said on state television, according to Reuters.
Drones are key to Iran’s border surveillance, especially the Gulf waters around the Strait of Hormuz, which a fifth of the world’s oil supply passes through.
Tensions between Iran and the United States have run especially high since early January when the US killed top Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani in a drone strike in Baghdad. Iran fired missiles days later at bases in Iraq, where U.S. troops are stationed.
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They are not claiming to have been invented and produced in Iran? No stealth technology? Fake news.
Who really make such a drone, and who would sell it to the Mullahs?
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According to Wikipedia, the service ceiling for the F-35A is 50000 feet. So these drones won't even see them coming.
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Photoshopped, I'm sure
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That's nothing - I can shoot lightning bolts outta my ass!
[ALMASDARNEWS] A series of heavy festivities broke out this evening in the eastern countryside of the Idlib Governorate after the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and jihadist rebels traded attacks near the city of Saraqib.
According to a field source near the front-lines, the Syrian Arab Army and jihadist rebels of 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... (HTS) exchanged heavy artillery and gunfire around the al-Nayrab axis, resulting in some casualties for all parties.
The festivities reportedly broke out this evening after the jihadist rebels began gathering their fighters around the al-Nayrab axis; this prompted the Syrian Arab Army to target them with artillery.
The source from the army said the jihadist rebels continue to bring in reinforcements to the areas south of the M-4 Highway (Aleppo-Latakia Highway), which is a violation of the March 5th Moscow Agreement.
Per the agreement, all forces of Evil must withdraw six kilometers north of the M-4 Highway; however, none of these groups have left their positions, with most rejecting the Russian-Ottoman Turkish deal.
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[THEBAGHDADPOST] The Islamist militias linked with the Ottoman Turkish army recruited in the recent days two children to carry out a suicide kaboom against the Kurdish troops of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in north of Syria, a monitoring group reported on Tuesday.
According to a report by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the crisis in Syria, a The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... -backed Islamist group sent two children, aged less than 15, disguised as shepherds, to carry out a suicide attack on military gatherings of the SDF in the village of al-Kalta, west of Tal Abyad.
The report said one of the children went kaboom! before reaching the SDF target, injuring the second child in explosive vest.
The Syrian Democratic Forces in a nearby position managed to arrest the injured child and take him for treatment first.
We found 3 locations where our security fence along the Blue Line with #Lebanon was damaged tonight. We can confirm that no infiltration from Lebanon into Israel occurred.
This is a severe event. We hold the Lebanese government responsible for actions from its territory. pic.twitter.com/kC0GZiReE1
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The Blue Line is a UN Lebanon-Israel border demarcation dated 7 June 2000, made to determine if Israel had completedd its withdrawal from Lebanon. By September 2018 Israel completed 11 kilometers of a concrete barrier along its border with Lebanon. It is believed that a complete border wall to replace the chicken wire has now been funded.
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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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