[TribLIVE] A Pittsburgh man has been charged with a federal crime after police said he placed a backpack containing several homemade bombs in Downtown Pittsburgh on May 31.
U.S. Attorney Scott W. Brady announced Saturday that Matthew Michanowicz, 52, of the city’s Duquesne Heights neighborhood, was charged with possession of an unregistered destructive device. He was arrested Friday by Allegheny County sheriffs.
Pittsburgh police responded Monday morning to an open area at 2 PNC Plaza where PNC security personnel reported seeing a "military, green backpack" by a bicycle rack.
The police’s bomb squad found what they referred to as three suspected "homemade Molotov cocktails," identified in arrest papers filed against Michanowicz as "spent OC vapor grenades," which contained a fluid that was leaking out of at least of the devices.
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They got lucky — this Antifa idiot planned to much worse. From the article:
Authorities searched Michanowicz’s Republic Street home Thursday. They say it turned up a bundle of the same type of fuse as those on the bombs, a can of spray foam and a syringe containing a liquid whose odor was consistent with the bombs.
Investigators also allegedly found 10 more backpacks similar to the bag left Downtown.
If convicted, Michanowicz faces up to 10 years in prison and fines up to $250,000. A court date has not yet been set.
And now that they have him, tracking his connections should be informative.
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These street thugs are dangerous. Probably best that one takes ample ammo with them in case they inadvertently end up in one of these situations while traveling.
[Treehouse] It seems quite transparent what the agenda is for Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser. After giving the DC police orders to stand down; and after ending the previously declared state of emergency; and after cancelling the flow-through purchase contract where feds repay the city for national guard housing; she is now demanding that all national guard troops and security elements leave the nation’s capital city.
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Hotels? Fine. Go tactical. Set up tents & latrines in her front yard, the parks in her neighborhood, and the parking lots of every non-police DC city government facility. Be sure to run the generators day an night as well.
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She's violating the civil rights of the people targeted by the riots. She should be in federal custody awaiting trial.
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Rebirth of the weather underground as a city leadership cadre.
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Well there was crack-smoking Marion Barry, a two-time winner. He was probably more sane than Muriel is. What she is doing is totally insane and will end up badly for many.
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I thought of Marion Barry as well....hard to fathom that he appears in retrospect as the epitome of sanity compared to the wacko there now. But, we'll never know. He might have come up with something just as absurd as long as he can read the "play book".
[ABC News] GEORGETOWN COUNTY, S.C. (WPDE) — Two men wanted in an assault on a New York police officer were arrested early Friday morning in Georgetown County.
The Georgetown County Sheriff's Office says Calife Hough, 44, and Jason Velasquez, 21, both of the Bronx and both with ties to Georgetown County, were wanted for striking a NYPD officer with their vehicle after fleeing a pawn shop robbery, authorities say.
Hough was arrested in the parking lot of a local Walmart, while Velasquez was found hiding in a nearby hotel.
Both men are awaiting extradition to New York.
Georgetown Police, U.S. Marshals and NYPD officers joined in the hunt for the fugitives.
[NYPOST] The entire Buffalo police Emergency Response Team has resigned following the suspension of two officers who were caught on video shoving a 75-year-old protester to the pavement, according to reports Friday.
A total of 57 officers resigned from the emergency team in solidarity with the two suspended cops, who pushed Martin Gugino, causing him to stumble backward and crack his head on the ground, WGRZ reported.
"Fifty-seven resigned in disgust because of the treatment of two of their members, who were simply executing orders," said John Evans, president of the Buffalo Police Benevolent Association.
The special squad was created in 2016 and is deployed for mass protests or riots, the network reported.
The officers who resigned are still employed, just no longer part of the Emergency Response Team, according to WIVB.
Gugino, an activist who is well known in Buffalo, was listed in serious but stable condition.
The shocking video shows blood gushing from his head after he fell.
Gov. Andrew Sonny Cuomo said earlier Friday that the city should pursue terminating the two officers, who were suspended immediately by Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown.
Legal Insurrection posted on the story here, courtesy of charger, who commented:
Note that they resigned from the team, not the department.
Heavy.com did their usual 5 Fast Facts about Mr. Gugino here. It turns out the gentleman is a long time “peace activist” associated with the Western New York Peace Center — pro-Antifa, Communist, all the usual nonsense, active on Twitter and YouTube. Heavy has several videos of the event in question, taken from different perspectives.
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Now imagine if the bulk of the union resigned? All it takes is one a rich Soros type to offer two months pay and moving expenses to the members and a city could find itself pretty much out of business.
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"Gramps is a bleeding-head liberal Commie. (Fixed it for you.)
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OK, that crap is on gramps. They were trying to just get around him until he starts paddling that dude with his PED. That wasn't a push or shove, a mere knock it off with the paddling crap and the dude went down like a jaegermeister drunk.
As for just walked by, that isn't the lineman's job, and they got on the radio for EMT right then.
Yeah, mayor going to choose the yelp famous lipstick salesman I'd be outta there too.
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This looks like a staged fall down. I've seen these kind of staged "accidents" before. Look for an ensuing lawsuit. I wouldn't be surprised if this has happened before with this guy.
American forces conducted two Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on Taliban ...Arabic for students... fighters to foil the krazed killer group's plan to launch attacks on Afghan cops, a U.S. military front man said on Friday, in a move that could hurt the grinding of the peace processor.
The airstrikes, conducted in two different provinces, were the first since the start of the Eid ceasefire declared by the Taliban and Afghan forces last month.
Sonny Leggett, a U.S. military front man based in Afghanistan, said in a tweet that an airstrike was carried out against 25 armed Taliban fighters executing a coordinated attack on an Afghan force checkpoint in Farah province in the west. He said a second attack was conducted in Kandahar in the south.
He did not give casualty figures, and a Taliban front man refused to comment on the airstrikes, which were conducted at a time when the United States is steadily pulling its troops out of Afghanistan.
U.S. President Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... in recent weeks has restated his desire for a full military withdrawal from Afghanistan but has not set a target date, amid speculation he might make ending America's longest war part of his re-election campaign.
But Afghan security officials and European diplomats said the fighting had yet to ebb despite all parties working towards finding a political settlement to end the Afghan war.
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Reports of widespread looting and at least two revenge killings in the city of #Tarhuna as GNA aligned forces capture the city. GNA's MoI says there is a plan to secure the city, but it will be days at the very least to secure the city. #Libya
The Ottomani Tarhouna This is what this Turks mercenary wrote on the billboard. An example for the ethnic background of what’s happening in Tarhouna.@UNSMILibya
#Egypt- #ISIS latest al-Naba (#237) includes reports on 2 attacks in Central #Sinai Jabel al-Maghara. 1- May 30 incident (referencing Muhammad Fadl as LTC, not Brig. & co of 269 Bn.) :https://t.co/8svkZPYzU2 2- complex ambush (IED&small arms) on patrol with 10 casualties pic.twitter.com/fy6rUEFAUb
#UPDATE Libya's UN-recognised government announced Friday another victory in its counter-offensive against eastern-based strongman Khalifa Haftar, overrunning his last western stronghold Tarhuna, launchpad of an abortive 14-month assault on the capitalhttps://t.co/MZmae9CnVq
What, another one? Photos or ears are the usual proofs, I believe.
[NEWS.YAHOO] French forces have killed the leader of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), Algerian Abdelmalik Droukdel ... aka Abdel Wadoud, was a regional leader of the GSPC for several years before becoming the group's supremo in 2004 following the death of then-leader Nabil Sahraoui. Under Abdel Wadoud's leadership the GSPC has sought to develop itself from a largely domestic entity into a larger player on the international terror stage. In September 2006 it was announced that the GSPC had joined forces with al-Qaeda and in January 2007 the group officially changed its name to the Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb.... , in Mali, French Defence Minister Florence Parly said on Friday.
Droukdel was killed on Thursday in the northwest Mali town of Tessalit. "Many of his close associates" were also "neutralised", said Parly.
"Abdelmalik Droukdel, member of al-Qaeda's ruling committee, commanded the whole of the jihadist groups in North Africa and the Sahara" including Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal-Moslemin (JNIM) -- an umbrella group of al-Qaeda affiliates, Parly said.
AQIM stems from a group started in the late 1990s by radical Algerian Islamists, who in 2007 formally subscribed to al-Qaeda's ideology.
The group, formerly known as the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat ... now known as al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb... , has bases in northern Mali from where it regularly carries out attacks and abductions of westerners in the sub-Saharan Sahel zone.
La Belle France also claimed on Friday to have captured a leader 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 the Greater Sahara (EIGS) group, which carries out frequent attacks over Niger's western borders.
Operations against EIGS "the other great terrorist threat in the region" are continuing, said Parly.
La Belle France has over 5,000 troops deployed in its anti-jihadist Barkhane force in the Sahel region ... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas... Mali is struggling to contain an Islamist insurgency that erupted in 2012 and which has claimed thousands of military and civilian lives since.
Despite the presence of thousands of French and UN troops, the conflict has engulfed the centre of the country and spread to neighbouring Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... and Niger.
Does this mean Salmah Rizvi, the nice, multilingual lawyer, protege of Paul Soros and CAIR, will get back the deposit she put down on the bail?
[NYDAILYNEWS] Two Brooklyn lawyers accused of tossing a Molotov cocktail at an empty NYPD car during a chaotic George Floyd protest last weekend are now getting tossed into lockup themselves — for now.
Princeton grad Colinford Mattis, 32, and his alleged accomplice and fellow lawyer Urooj Rahman, 31, lost their home detention status late Friday when three federal judges ordered them returned to official custody pending a further review of their bail appeal.
Mattis and Rahman were initially granted permission to stay in their respective homes after posting $250,000 bail, and an initial attempt by federal prosecutors to get that decision overturned failed.
Prosecutors appealed again and Friday the federal panel decided to send Mattis and Rahman back into lock up while a final ruling was made.
Defense attorneys for Mattis and Rahman blasted the decision to send their clients back into federal custody — even if it might only be temporary.
“The remand of Urrooj Rahman and Colinford Mattis by the Court of Appeals is shocking and wrong,” said Federal Defenders Attorney-in-Charge Deirdre Von Dornum. “They have been at home for a week with perfect behavior, consistent with their lifetimes of law-abiding behavior.”
Courtesy of 3dc:
Whoa. Second Circuit reversed granting of bail for 2 lawyers charged in Molotov cocktail attack on NYPD. https://t.co/bX1U59kpO9
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TW. I just saw your comment regarding South Korean women. Your experienäe was very interesting. The ones I had business dealings with came to the US for college education then decided to stay in the US to start a business while single.
Your knowledge did explain why they seemed to be very intense and cautious when dealing with men in business situations which was unique and puzzling to me until now.
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Honestly, from the lofty heights of age they both look like children to me. (Probably because they are young enough to actually be my children.) I find their case highly depressing for reasons I can't quite specify. Possibly "Think of all the good things you could be doing with your lives?"
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I’m glad something I said provided unexpected illumination, Varmint Splat1454. Sheltered though I’ve been all my life, I’ve had some unusual experiences. Especially during our time in Europe with the big, multinational corporation. In part because I was the wife of a little R&D group leader tasked to the team opening up Eastern Europe after the Wall fell, while most of the other expat and local wives in my circle were married to senior vice presidents or the equivalent in their various fields. Mr. Wife’s promotions came later.
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The Iraqi National News Agency said on Friday that the Iraqi counter-terrorism forces arrested members of an ISIS sleeper cell in al-Qayyarah district of the Nineveh governorate, northern Iraq.
“The counterterrorism forces arrested a sleeper cell consisting of 6 terrorists (...) who were intending to carry out operations against the security forces and destabilize security,” the agency stated.
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[THEBAGHDADPOST] The Anti-Terrorism service on Thursday started with specific duties in separate areas of the country, under the direction of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhmi.
The front man for the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Brigadier Yahya Rasul, said in his statement that the Iraqi News Agency (INA) received, "Under the guidance of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Mustafa al-Kadhmi, and in coordination with the Joint Operations Command, Air Force Aviation, Army Aviation, and International Alliance aircraft, formations of the anti-government apparatus Terrorism, represented by the leaders of the first and second Special Operations, has specific duties in separate areas of the country.
According to reports from eastern Syria, the U.S. Coalition and Syrian Democratic Forces began their operation in conjunction with the Iraqi Army, hitting a number of hideouts belonging to the Islamic State in the Khabour River area.
The operation will attempt to clear the Islamic State zones of influence, which the terrorist group has built between the Syrian and Iraqi border.
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The region surrounding Khabour River, which helps form the Mosul Lake, should have been cleared long ago. Obviously, Kurdish forces will be the spearhead.
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: Syrian Observatory activists have documented the killing of two members, including an officer, of the regime’s “4th Division”, after being shot by unknown assailants on the road between Gharaz and Um Al-Mayaden in the eastern countryside of Daraa.
Meanwhile, two persons were found dead with marks of gunshots on their bodies in Tariq Al-Sadd neighbourhood in Daraa city. The identities of the two fatalities have yet to be known.
Since the beginning of security chaos in Daraa in early June 2019, Syrian Observatory activists have documented more than 496 attacks and assassination attempts by gunfire and detonations of IEDs, motorcycle-bombs and car-bombs. These attacks and assassinations claimed the lives of 327 persons, and they are as follows:
80 civilians, including seven women and seven children
169 regime soldiers, loyalists and collaborators with regime security services
52 fighters of the faction who struck “reconciliation and settlements” deals with the regime and became in the ranks of regime’s security branches, including former commanders
17 Syrian militiamen affiliated to the Lebanese Hezbollah and Iranian forces
Six members of the so-called 5th Corps which was established by Russia.
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[SYRIAHR] Two Ottoman Turkish soldiers were found today, one dead and the other injured. The circumstances of the incident are still unknown as to how they were targeted on the road between the cities of Idlib- Sarmin, near a Ottoman Turkish post in the area.
Yesterday, Syrian Observatory sources monitored a violent explosion on Aleppo-Latakia international highway (M4), caused by the detonation of an IED nearby Ariha. The IED went kaboom! just after the passing of a Russian-Ottoman Turkish joint patrol on the M4 highway.
After the earth-shattering kaboom, Ottoman Turkish forces were seen in the area on high alert. A joint patrol of Russian and Ottoman Turkish forces had set off yesterday from Tarnabah village to Kafr Shalaya village in rural Idlib.
This attack comes a week after the killing of a Ottoman Turkish soldier on M4. SOHR sources had reported that a Ottoman Turkish soldier died affected by the injuries he sustained in an IED explosion on Aleppo-Latakia highway, west of Jisr al-Shughour city.
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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.
[TribLIVE] A Pittsburgh man has been charged with a federal crime after police said he placed a backpack containing several homemade bombs in Downtown Pittsburgh on May 31.
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[NEWS.YAHOO] French forces have killed the leader of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), Algerian 
"Abdelmalik Droukdel, member of al-Qaeda's ruling committee, commanded the whole of the jihadist groups in North Africa and the Sahara" including Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal-
...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 
[NYDAILYNEWS] Two Brooklyn lawyers accused of tossing a Molotov cocktail at an empty NYPD car during a chaotic George Floyd protest last weekend are now getting tossed into lockup themselves — for now.
