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ISWAP Terrorists Kill Three In Borno As @UN Chief Visits Maiduguri
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Good Morning

'MAGA is the most extreme political organization in American history': Biden warns of Republicans' 'ultra MAGA agenda' and suggests they'll ban LGBT children from classrooms if Roe v. Wade is overturned
Thursday May 5th, 2022

bettybrosmer011a
Pakistan drops further on World Press Freedom Index
Libyan Police Thwart Migrant Smuggling Attempt in Sabratha
Bomb Blast At Oil Facility In Imo Kills Two
Armed Herdsmen Attack Oyo Community, Kill Farmer Sahara Reporters
US quietly expands asylum limits while preparing to end them
Indian student enrolled in Pak, his father among 3 charge-sheeted for terror activities, spying

Posted by: Fred || 05/05/2022 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Betty, may I buy you a drink?
Posted by: DooDahMan || 05/05/2022 8:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Married? No, not tonight.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/05/2022 9:09 Comments || Top||

#3  Where did the wardrobe person brace their feet when they were cinching that belt?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/05/2022 9:23 Comments || Top||

#4  Maybe I'm still vexed by Caitlin Jenner, but that pants protrusion disturbs me. Was "Betty" once "Bob"?
Posted by: Frank G || 05/05/2022 10:29 Comments || Top||

#5  There's absolutely no truth to the rumor that she inspired a type of land mine
Posted by: Warthog || 05/05/2022 10:30 Comments || Top||

#6  God Morning? Yes, yes it is... keep it coming, Fred.
Posted by: Mercutio || 05/05/2022 12:18 Comments || Top||

#7  "A photo of Brosmer appeared in the Sears & Roebuck catalog when she was 13 years old": nothing unseemly. It was to be the beginning of a long career in modelling. She married Joe Weidner after his divorce, a Polish Jewish immigrant who made a career of selling body building equipment and nutrition supplements.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/05/2022 13:55 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Libyan Police Thwart Migrant Smuggling Attempt in Sabratha
On Wednesday, Libyan police managed to thwart the smuggling of migrants colonists in the coastal city of Sabratha, west of Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
The Sabratha Security Directorate said in a statement that a human trafficking gang was attempting to carry out an operation in the coastal city.

The migrants colonists were arrested, with their rubber boat and equipment confiscated.

"Members of the human smuggling gang fled, leaving behind five motorized vehicles at the scene of the crime," the statement added.

The police confirmed that all the seizures were referred to the Criminal Investigation Department, and the necessary measures were taken to arrest the suspects.

The European Commission claimed that its efforts to shore up the Libyan Coast Guard is based on a "do no harm" principle, and saves lives.
Posted by: Fred || 05/05/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants


Africa Subsaharan
Armed Herdsmen Attack Oyo Community, Kill Farmer Sahara Reporters


Hoodlums believed to be armed herdsmen have killed a farmer, Musa Monsuro, in the Ibarapa Central Local Government Area of Oyo State.

Monsuro was reportedly slaughtered on his cashew farm at Araromi village, Igboora, around 5pm on Monday, Punch reports.

While the reason he was killed could not be ascertained, there were reports that those behind the act were herdsmen.

Some residents explained on Tuesday that security agents were alerted and they went to the farm to pick the corpse, which was taken to a mortuary.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, Adewale Osifeso, confirmed the incident to our correspondent in a text message.

He said, "The case is undergoing investigation. You will be updated accordingly."

The killing is coming after a break of some months in killings by suspected herdsmen.

Ibarapa had been ravaged by criminal herdsmen who allegedly killed, maimed, raped residents and destroyed farmlands before Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Igboho, visited the area to warn against such acts.
Posted by: Fred || 05/05/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under: Fulani Herdsmen (Boko Haram)

#1  Herdsman Strike Back the sequel.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/05/2022 12:18 Comments || Top||

#2  I don't know whether to laugh or cry about this. When sub-Saharan herdsmen start arming themselves you know something big is coming down the pike.
Posted by: jpal || 05/05/2022 17:24 Comments || Top||


ISWAP Terrorists Kill Three In Borno As @UN Chief Visits Maiduguri
More on this story from yesterday.


At least three people have been killed by 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....
of West Africa province in Kautikari ward of Chibok Local Government Area of Borno State.

The bully boyz struck on Tuesday.

The attack occurred almost the same time as the UN Secretary-General, António Guterres
...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years...
, was visiting Borno State for an on-the-spot assessment of the level of damage done by the Boko Haram
...Nigeerian Islamist group, formerly paying homage to al-Qaeda, then, when the money ran out, to the Islamic State, and headed by nutcase Abu Bakr Shekau. Once he exploded in a gunfight with ISWAP, many in the group surrendered to the govt and others went with their new overlords. The remainder are a shell of their former selves, stmbling glassy-eyed and lonely through the Sambisa Forest and the soothing waters of Lake Chad, asking themselves What is truth?, or maybe just I wonder what's for dinner? I hope it's not rhinocerous again! ...
insurgency.

A villager said the attack started around 6pm and it got all the villagers deserting for safety in the nearby Sambisa Forest where the bully boyz camped.

"The attack started at 6:20pm this evening (Tuesday). They came on their cycle of violences and started to shoot randomly from all angles.

"The villagers ran to the bush for safety but the bush is Sambisa forest and that is where the Boko Haram Death Eaters are living. That village has been attacked more than ten times this year alone," Adamson, a handicapped from Chibok said.

"There is no other village around there except the Sambisa Forest and the people living there have never left their homes despite the attacks.

"According to what I was told by a relative who is presently hiding in the bush, the bully boyz shot one man dead in his car and then set the car ablaze with the dead body inside the vehicle.

"They also killed two others while also burning down several houses. But we cannot determine the level of damage or destruction now until in the morning when they are all back in their villages," Adamson said.

The UN Chief who visited Gubio camp immediately when he arrived in Maiduguri told Zulum that he was happy with the condition he met the IDPs and pledged to offer all necessary assistance to ensure the safe return of IDPs to their ancestral homes in line with the state government’s resettlement plan.

Posted by: Fred || 05/05/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under: ISWAP


Bomb Blast At Oil Facility In Imo Kills Two
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

The Imo State
...that’s Igbo country, sometimes known as the Biafrans. They seem to like being unhappy, possibly because they hadn’t realized those foreigners would make so much money pulling oil out of their ground ...
Police Command has confirmed that there was a kaboom at a flow station in the oil-producing community of Izombe in the Oguta Local Government Area of the state.

Confirming the incident, the Command’s spokesperson, Mike Abattam said it occurred in the early hours of Wednesday.

Abattam said the earth-shattering kaboom occurred at a facility operated by Addax Petroleum Development Nigeria Limited.

He explained that the Commissioner of Police in Imo immediately drafted the command’s anti-bomb unit, as well as some operatives of the command to the area to prevent any breakdown of law and order.

"It happened, there was a kaboom this morning at the facility but the commissioner has deployed our men to the site," NAN quoted him as saying.

An eyewitness who spoke on condition of anonymity, however, said two persons died in the earth-shattering kaboom.

He said that the two middle-aged men were the carriers of the bomb, which went kaboom! and killed them while they were trying to find their way into the flow station through the entrance.
Posted by: Fred || 05/05/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:


Fifth Column
Antifa smashed out nearly all the windows of Portland City Hall at their riot yesterday for abortion
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 05/05/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Yes, yes! Mess your own nest!

I love they're doing this to their own leftist strongholds. Especially after telling us all that we need to obey the federal government when it makes moral decisions for us.
Posted by: Blackbeard Unereck7174 || 05/05/2022 2:07 Comments || Top||

#2  It's battered wife syndrome and Portland city gummint be de wife.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/05/2022 7:01 Comments || Top||

#3 

Can someone tell me the difference between the NAZI SA's paramilitary & Democrat Party's ANTI-FA paramilitary force, in the tactics they use?

SERIOUSLY, If we want peace, quiet and societal civility in the USA once again? Then after Mid-Terms, we the People, need to demand that law and order be restored TOP <--> Down. Flushing out ALL personnel that apply Political Agenda over US Law, thus violating their OATH OF OFFICE.

Because if something is not done, the citizenry will, sooner than later, go full Bernard Goetz (NYC).

Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/05/2022 7:59 Comments || Top||

#4  /\ Because if something is not done, the citizenry will, sooner than later, go full Bernard Goetz

Or, as has been seen in the past.... be forced to migrate elsewhere.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/05/2022 8:59 Comments || Top||

#5  be it trump or mcarthy the next pres needs to clean house. thoroughly. released w/o bail! bah!
Posted by: Bill Hitler7189irish rage boy || 05/05/2022 11:55 Comments || Top||

#6  As long as nobody stole a coat rack, I don’t think this reaches the level of insurrection.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/05/2022 12:17 Comments || Top||

#7  disagree

we should keep Portland OR as example of leftist theme park/paradise
Posted by: Lord Garth || 05/05/2022 14:50 Comments || Top||

#8  "Preserve, Lord, this City of Roses
And class-versus-class mass psychosis!"
[poof!]
"Parade it each May Day
Beside its hale heyday
As Red Death, a dread diagnosis!"
Posted by: Thumper Black6925 || 05/05/2022 23:41 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Indian student enrolled in Pak, his father among 3 charge-sheeted for terror activities, spying
[OneIndia]\\The Special Investigation Agency (SIA), a unit carved out of the Jammu and Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
police has filed a charge sheet against three persons including an Indian student enrolled in a Pak university and his father for indulging in terror activities and passing across the border information about army units.

Officials said this was another example of Pakistain misusing higher studies as bait for recruitment in terror groups.
Officials said this was another example of Pakistain misusing higher studies as bait for recruitment in terror groups. Already 17 youths who had gone to Pakistain for studies, have been killed at the Line of Control while infiltrating into Kashmir, or during security forces’ encounters with terror outfits, they said.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/05/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [24 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistain Proxies


Iraq
Katyusha rocket targets Iraqi intelligence agent house in Baghdad
[Rudaw] At least one katyusha rocket targeted the house of an Iraqi intelligence agent in the early hours of Wednesday in Baghdad, according to the Iraqi Security Media Cell and country’s intelligence agency, with no human casualties reported; only material damage.

According to a statement from the federal intelligence and investigation agency, the house of Ahmed Abu Ragheef, lieutenant general in the agency, was targeted by a katyusha rocket in Baghdad’s Karrada area on Wednesday morning, in what it referred to as a "failed attempt
...Curses! Foiled again!...
"It was a failed targeting attempt, and the damages are only to the fence of the house," read the statement, adding that the site of the rocket’s launchpad has been determined, and that the perpetrators of the attack will be met with "the most severe penalties."

A statement from the Iraqi Security Media Cell on Wednesday stated that the rocket was launched from east of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/05/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IDF, police seize 10 handguns from Palestinian gun smugglers in Jordan Valley
[IsraelTimes] Three Hebron men arrested near West Bank town of al-Auja in latest gun-running operation on Jordanian border.

Israeli security forces arrested three Paleostinian men near the West Bank city of Jericho on Wednesday suspected of smuggling guns from Jordan, confiscating several handguns in the process.

According to Israel Police and the Israel Defense Forces, the two Hebron-area residents in their 30s were caught near the Paleostinian town of al-Auja and found to be in possession of 10 handguns.

Police said they suspected the two men were headed to Israel with the weapons. Law enforcement officials have previously indicated that guns smuggled in from Jordan are often sold to Arab Israelis, for both criminal and terrorist purposes.

The value of the handguns seized on Wednesday was estimated at some NIS 250,000 ($74,000), police officials said.

The three Paleostinian men were to be brought before a Beersheba court later on Wednesday for an extension of their remand.

The military and police have stepped up efforts to halt smuggling attempts along the Jordanian border in recent months, but officials have admitted that success has been limited thus far.

Unlike Israel’s other frontiers — with Egypt, Lebanon Hezbollahstan
...a formerly French, now an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. ...
and Syria — its border with Jordan is largely open, often without significant fencing, and is relatively unguarded, making it an easy channel for large-scale smuggling.

On Monday, 20 firearms apparently smuggled over the Jordanian border were seized in southern Israel. Two Paleostinians from Bethlehem were arrested.

Posted by: trailing wife || 05/05/2022 01:05 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Turkey's military and its affiliated SNA shelled villages south of Afrin in Aleppo northern countryside
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Ottoman Turkish military and its affiliated Syrian opposition armed factions, known as Syrian National Army (SNA), renewed on Wednesday shelling of villages southeast of Afrin in Aleppo northern countryside, north Syria.

The Ottoman Turkish forces, stationed in Maryamin village, shelled the village of Shawargha in Afrin countryside with tanks, a military source told North Press.

The Kurdish city of Afrin and its countryside have been under the control of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
and its affiliated factions since 2018 following a military operation called "Olive Branch".

The source added that the shelling caused material destruction of about 10 houses in the village.

About 40 villages south and southeast of Afrin in Aleppo northern countryside house Afrin IDPs who fled their homes following the Ottoman Turkish operation.

In the same context, the Ottoman Turkish military and its affiliated armed factions shelled on Wednesday evening the villages of Aqiba and Ebbin in Aleppo northern countryside.
Posted by: Fred || 05/05/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Infighting between two armed factions in Sere Kaniye (Ras al Ain), NE Syria, led to the killing of a civilian.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Armed festivities broke out yesterday between two Ottoman Turkish-backed armed factions in the Ottoman Turkish-controlled city of Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ain), northeast Syria, which resulted in the killing of a civilian.

Since October 2019, Ottoman Turkish military along with Syrian opposition armed factions, known as Syrian National Army (SNA), have occupied the city of Sere Kaniye and its countryside in north of Hasakah, and the city of Tel Abyad and its countryside in north of Raqqa, northern Syria, following a military operation called "Peace Spring".

The two factions of Ahrar al-Sharqiya and Military Police clashed in the village of Mabroukah in Sere Kaniye countryside on the background of a dispute on smuggling, a local source told North Press.

In July 2021, the US Department of Treasury sanctioned the Ottoman Turkish-backed Ahrar al-Sharqiya faction "for violations of the rights of civilians and systematic assault on the Syrian Kurds."

The festivities lasted for about an hour, which led a civilian called Thamer Tariha from al-Shaitat clan, to lose his life.
Posted by: Fred || 05/05/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Ottoman Proxies



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Thu 2022-05-05
  ISWAP Terrorists Kill Three In Borno As @UN Chief Visits Maiduguri
Wed 2022-05-04
  Oil depot on fire in occupied Makiivka
Tue 2022-05-03
  Russian Army’s Chief Of Staff Wounded In Ukraine, Other Officers Feared Killed
Mon 2022-05-02
  Russia's offensive along a broad front in Ukraine’s east has been stalling
Sun 2022-05-01
  Russia will quit the International Space Station due to economic sanctions over war in Ukraine
Sat 2022-04-30
  Nigerian Troops Killed ISWAP Commander, Dan-Buduma, Over 100 Other Terrorists
Fri 2022-04-29
  Russian Military Attacks Ukrainian Capital During UN Secretary-General's Visit
Thu 2022-04-28
  Antifa Riot in France Following Macron Victory
Wed 2022-04-27
  Putin meets UN Secretary-General in Moscow, denies hostilities in Mariupol, atrocities in Bucha
Tue 2022-04-26
  Vice President Kamala Harris tests positive for COVID-19
Mon 2022-04-25
  IDF fires dozens of shells at targets in Lebanon after rocket attack on Israel
Sun 2022-04-24
  Explosion at Nigerian illegal oil refinery kills more than 100
Sat 2022-04-23
  Russian General: Plan to Seize Ukraine's Entire Coastline
Fri 2022-04-22
  CNN: Russia replenishes forces on the front line.
Thu 2022-04-21
  Kiev reacts to proposal for ‘Easter truce’


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