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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Antifa Antifada roundup

We're only losing to these people because they're protected from on high.

They're Verbal Kint without the "being Keyser Soze" part.

Poster: charger

Gateway Pundit: WHAT A JOKE: After Antifa and Black Lives Matter RIOT AND LOOT Across America ‐ FBI Sends Out Memo Warning White Supremacists Pose Greatest Risk of Violence
Heckuva job, Barr-ie.

Just in case you were wondering what the Feebs were doing about this situation.

Poster: charger

Poster: Fred

Poster: Fred

CrossFit founder ousted after backlash over tweet on George Floyd
[IsraelTines] The founder and CEO of CrossFit is stepping down after his tweet about George Floyd sparked a social media backlash and a wave of affiliated gyms cut ties with the company. Some 1,250 gyms have now severed links with CrossFit, according to industry blog Morning Chalk Up. An anonymously curated Google spreadsheet lists hundreds of CrossFit affiliates with links to their social media accounts, with most saying they have cut ties, or are considering doing so.

Reebok also dropped its affiliation with CrossFit this week.

Greg Glassman says on CrossFit Inc.’s website late Tuesday that he will retire. Glassman had apologized earlier for tweets that sparked online outrage by connecting Floyd, an African American man who died at the hands of the Minneapolis police, and the coronavirus pandemic in a tweet. He says he had made a mistake and should have been more sensitive, but denied being racist.

Glassman’s exit may have been sealed after BuzzFeed posted a Zoom call he held with some CrossFit affiliates in which Glassman reportedly said: “We’re not mourning for George Floyd — I don’t think me or any of my staff are.” Buzzfeed said it received the recording through its anonymous tip line.

The Zoom call took place hours before Glassman made a glib response on Twitter to a post by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, a health research group, which said, “Racism is a public health issue.”

“ It’s FLOYD-19,” he replied Saturday, and in a second tweet criticized the group’s “failed” quarantine model and accused it of attempting to “model a solution to racism.”
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/11/2020 00:09 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Antifa

#1  Note the title, all you sillies from yesterday. I did it just for you.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/11/2020 0:10 Comments || Top||

#2  ^😎
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/11/2020 0:56 Comments || Top||

#3  "Gateway Pundit: WHAT A JOKE: After Antifa and Black Lives Matter RIOT AND LOOT Across America ‐ FBI Sends Out Memo Warning White Supremacists Pose Greatest Risk of Violence"

The are calling white people who protect their businesses and homes white supremacist's.
Posted by: Crins Throlusing3119 || 06/11/2020 1:20 Comments || Top||

#4  #Antifa militants have taken over & created an “autonomous zone” in city w/their own rules.

Just cut their water & electricity. Stop all food tracks going there.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/11/2020 1:36 Comments || Top||

#5  The Antifa Antifada is rather obviously sponsored by deep state types.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 06/11/2020 4:25 Comments || Top||

#6  Did "Acme" drop off bricks last night?
Posted by: 3dc || 06/11/2020 5:17 Comments || Top||

#7  Despite the mass looting and violence by the left Chris Wray’s FBI sent out a memo warning white supremacists pose the greatest risk of violence.
What a disgrace.


Agreed, a huge disgrace. Unless Wray is a head fake, he has shown his arse once again as a deep state apparatchick. I would imagine both Trump and Barr have him in their sights to take care of this as soon as possible (after the election). In the meantime, all efforts should go into re-election of Trump, taking the House and keeping the Senate.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/11/2020 7:13 Comments || Top||

#8  Antifa (toss in BLM too), aside from being cowardly punks are the new Bolsheviks.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/11/2020 7:43 Comments || Top||

#9  Wray is part of the problem, possibly a very large part. I cannot believe this has gone unnoticed by the Orange Man.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/11/2020 7:45 Comments || Top||

#10  I understand Lord of the Antiflies is being filmed in Seattle.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/11/2020 12:02 Comments || Top||

#11  ...posse comitatus my ass. Insurrection nullifies prohibition of use of army forces. See - Battle of Oxford.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/11/2020 15:40 Comments || Top||

#12  I understand Lord of the Antiflies is being filmed in Seattle.

We may have a Snark of the Day right there.
Posted by: SteveS || 06/11/2020 15:50 Comments || Top||

#13  Antifa are white supremacists.

All white, destroyed black neighborhoods and businesses. Klan would be proud.
Posted by: Rjschwarz || 06/11/2020 16:23 Comments || Top||

#14 
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 06/11/2020 16:49 Comments || Top||

#15  Don't rescue them. They put up fences. Let em stand and contain. Get it good and hard
Posted by: Frank G || 06/11/2020 18:34 Comments || Top||

#16  ^ Top notch
Posted by: Frank G || 06/11/2020 18:35 Comments || Top||

#17  #14
Posted by: Frank G || 06/11/2020 18:36 Comments || Top||

#18  I didn't bother posting it last night but twitter posted about a bee keeper in Janesville Wisconsin that cops stopped from releasing a trailer full of beehives on a protest...
Posted by: 3dc || 06/11/2020 18:36 Comments || Top||

#19  *To be fair, I came across something similar at the AOS comments.

Chaz sounds like the name of an 80s douche bag villian.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/11/2020 18:47 Comments || Top||

#20  The Bono's mislabelled Bonobo
Posted by: Frank G || 06/11/2020 18:53 Comments || Top||

#21  Cher's daughter turned tranboi calls itself Chaz.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/11/2020 19:32 Comments || Top||

#22  I'm with Frank and those who want to let Chaz stew in their own vomit for a week or two at least.
Posted by: lord garth || 06/11/2020 20:44 Comments || Top||


-War on Police-
San-Jose Police Fire Rubber Bullets At Protest, Hitting Their Own Racial Bias Trainer In The Testicle…
[WeaselZippers] A black community activist who trained San Jose police recruits on implicit bias for three years was shot in a testicle by a rubber bullet during a recent protest,
...what an interesting experience he’s had. Definitely an accident — after three years of training together, they must simply love him...
prompting the city’s mayor to say that more needs to be done to confront police brutality — but that defunding police will only undermine those efforts.

Derrick Sanderlin, a 27-year-old community organizer, suffered potentially permanent injuries by a rubber bullet at a May 29 protest demonstration, the mayor’s office said in a press release Monday.

Sanderlin, who knows San Jose Police Chief Eddie Garcia personally, said he was disheartened to see how officers were treating protesters. Video captured by KABC-TV’s news helicopter overhead purportedly showed the moments an officer fired a riot gun at Sanderlin, who had approached with his hands up.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/11/2020 01:18 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  doesn't sound like an accident to me.
Posted by: Crins Throlusing3119 || 06/11/2020 1:22 Comments || Top||

#2  One ball Derrick.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/11/2020 2:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Good shooting!
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 06/11/2020 4:23 Comments || Top||

#4  It's sexist or glandist to assume Derrick has testicles.
Just kidding, we know no testicles applies to these protestors.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 06/11/2020 6:54 Comments || Top||

#5  Some cop won't be buying his own beer for the rest of the year....

...and wasn't there a lyric in the Mikado about "Let the punishment fit the crime..."?
Posted by: Mercutio || 06/11/2020 6:56 Comments || Top||

#6  Is "One-Hung-Low" Derrick Sanderlin Chinese? The Karma God must be satisfied. Schadenfreude?
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/11/2020 7:17 Comments || Top||

#7  I don't think he endeared himself with the police.

Nice shooting.
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/11/2020 8:53 Comments || Top||

#8  One would need a heart (and stones) of stone not to laugh.
Posted by: SteveS || 06/11/2020 9:35 Comments || Top||

#9  (Col.Bogey March)
Derrick has only got one ball
DeBlasio's got two
But very small
Inslee's
Got something similar
And Mayor Wheeler
Has no balls at all.
Posted by: Matt || 06/11/2020 9:38 Comments || Top||

#10  Was the guy who shot him ‘of color’?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 06/11/2020 10:13 Comments || Top||

#11  Derrick Sanderlin, a 27-year-old community organizer

So was our "magical mulatto muslim liar n'thief". All I needed to know.
Posted by: Woodrow || 06/11/2020 10:45 Comments || Top||

#12  Should have shot twice.
Posted by: Ulavish Tingle6468 || 06/11/2020 11:52 Comments || Top||

#13  To hit that they hit, I guess these cops been kneeling as well
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/11/2020 11:55 Comments || Top||

#14  Suck em up buttercup
Posted by: KBK || 06/11/2020 12:01 Comments || Top||

#15  Now, Daniel Tenderloin.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/11/2020 16:27 Comments || Top||

#16  Nuts
Posted by: bbrewer126 || 06/11/2020 16:36 Comments || Top||

#17  Too many joules applied to his jewels...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/11/2020 17:40 Comments || Top||

#18  With a hint of average velocity.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 06/11/2020 19:27 Comments || Top||

#19  Ya gets no bread with one meat ball.
Posted by: Ry Cooder || 06/11/2020 20:31 Comments || Top||

#20  Ya gets no bread with one meat ball.

A classic reference. Well played, Mr Cooder!
Posted by: SteveS || 06/11/2020 21:14 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Freed Taliban Prisoners Eye Return to the Battlefield
[AnNahar] Afghan authorities are opening prison doors for thousands of Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
inmates in a high-risk gambit to ensure the turban group begin peace talks with Kabul.

Security concerns are mounting as many of the newly liberated fighters say they are ready to resume their holy war.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/11/2020 03:01 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa North
Turkey says Haftar may have fled Libya—Defense Minister Akar’s statement
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 06/11/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Salah al-Din area of Tripoli witnesses armed clashes between Syrian Terrorist mercenaries and GNA militias
Fratricidal activities? Clearly Turkey is not keeping them busy enough.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/11/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


LNA airstrike successfully destroyed GNA Operations Room, in Misrata
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/11/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

#1  Once upon a time, when there were foreign correspondents working for a dozen American newspapers, curious journalists would hotfoot it to the world's hellholes to tell an ignorant world what combatants were up to. Today there are few foreign correspondents and still fewer curious journalists, but there are still lots of hellholes and combatants.
You can't play the Libya game without a scorecard, but it seems no one is publishing scorecards.
Posted by: b || 06/11/2020 8:35 Comments || Top||


GNA militias have pulled back 90km West of Sirte after being bombarded Day & night by the falcons of the LNA
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/11/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


11 GNA / Turkey Syrian mercenaries were killed when their bus was targeted by the LNA
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/11/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Egyptian Army commander inspects readiness of military along Libyan border
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 06/11/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Turkey rejects Egypt’s peace agreement in Libya because it ‘saves’ Haftar
[ALMASDARNEWS] Ottoman Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu stressed Ankara’s rejection of the "Cairo Declaration" for a settlement in Libya, describing it as an attempt to save Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar
...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all. Actually, he is, but slowly...
after the losses he suffered on the battlefield.

"The endeavor for a declared ceasefire in Cairo is dead in its infancy. If a ceasefire is to be signed, it should be across a platform that brings all the parties together," he told the Hurriyet newspaper on Wednesday.

"We do not see the call for a ceasefire to save Haftar as pure or we can believe it," he continued.

He stressed that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
will continue to hold talks with all parties concerned to reach a solution in Libya, stressing that this solution requires the consent of both parties.

Ottoman Turkish 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...
and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
discussed the situation in Libya during a phone call on Monday.

Erdogan said they had agreed on "some issues" related to Libya, and that the Government of National Accord would continue to fight to wrest control of the coastal city of Sirte and the Jafra Airbase, which is further away to the south.

Posted by: Fred || 06/11/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  Remember when they (and pal McCain) rejected Russian peace initiative because it saved Assad?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/11/2020 11:57 Comments || Top||


Europe
Denmark Calls in Saudi Envoy over Terror Plot
[AnNahar] The Saudi ambassador was summoned to the Danish foreign ministry on Wednesday after terrorism charges were laid against three leaders of an Iranian Arab separatist group based in Denmark.

They are suspected of having received funds from Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
Danish police said they were prosecuting "three people for financing and promoting terrorism in Iran, including in collaboration with a Saudi intelligence service".

"We will not accept such activities under any circumstances and our ambassador in Riyadh has repeated the same message directly to the Saudi authorities," Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod said in a statement, in which he deplored "new very serious charges."

The trio, all living in Denmark and members of ASMLA (Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahvaz), have been facing prosecution since February for spying for Saudi intelligence.

According to Danish intelligence service PET, they worked for Riyadh between 2012 and 2018.

They are also alleged to have been the target of a planned attack on Danish soil in the autumn of 2018 which Copenhagen believes was sponsored by the Iranian regime in retaliation for the killing of 24 people in Ahvaz, southwestern Iran, in September 2018.

Tehran has formally denied the attack plan in Denmark.

Shia 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...
regularly accuses Saudi Arabia as well as the United States and Israel of supporting the separatist groups.

Sunni Saudi Arabia is the Islamic Theocratic Republic's main rival in the Middle East.

"It is completely unacceptable that foreign countries and their intelligence services bring their conflicts to Denmark and that Denmark is used as a starting point to finance and support terrorism," said PET director Finn Borch Andersen in a statement.

ASMLA is based in Denmark and the Netherlands, according to the Dutch authorities.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/11/2020 03:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia

#1 
Posted by: 3dc || 06/11/2020 5:31 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Greek Navy intercepts Turkish ship en route to Libya
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/11/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1 
Posted by: 3dc || 06/11/2020 5:30 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Pakistan police kill Islamist wanted for Canadian's murder
[Jpost] Journalist Beverly Giesbrecht ran ’Jihad Unspun’ website, seen as sympathetic to Taliban
...Arabic for students...
.

Security forces in Pakistain have killed the alleged criminal mastermind of the kidnapping and murder of a Canadian woman journalist.

Law enforcement agents conducting a joint intelligence-based operation on Tuesday night in a hilly area of the Bannu District, in Southern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province, killed Amin Shah in an exchange of gunfire after he refused to surrender, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Police Inspector General Sanaullah Abbasi said.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/11/2020 03:52 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Iraq
Powerful explosion rocks Baghdad’s Green Zone after missile lands near US embassy
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Iraqi Security Media Cell announced a short time ago, that missiles targeted the Green Zone in central Baghdad and that the sirens sounded from the American embassy.

They that a Katyusha missile landed in the Green Zone in Baghdad, without any significant losses.

The media wing indicated that the missile landed near the People’s Stadium, "east of the capital."

Al-Sumaria TV quoted a security source as saying that "the Green Zone in central Baghdad was targeted by a Katyusha missile ."

They added that "a Katyusha missile landed today in the Green Zone in central Baghdad , which resulted in material damage without any casualties."

Al-Sumaria added that "a security force surrounded the place, while a siren sounded from the American embassy."

It is noteworthy to mention that the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, which includes government buildings and foreign diplomatic missions, has been recently exposed to a series of attacks by Katyusha rockets.
Posted by: Fred || 06/11/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran appears to build fake aircraft carrier as tensions with US grow
[Fox News] Iran appears to have built a fake aircraft carrier off its southern coast for potential live-fire drills amid ongoing tensions with the U.S., satellite images showed Tuesday.
"By Allan, we will destroy our plywood replica!"
The apparent mock-up resembles the Nimitz-class carriers that the U.S. Navy routinely sails into the Persian Gulf from the Strait of Hormuz, where 20 percent of all the world's oil passes through.

While not yet acknowledged by Iranian officials, the replica's appearance suggests Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard is preparing an encore of a similar mock-sinking it conducted in 2015.

The replica's appearance comes as Iran announced Tuesday it will execute a man it accused of sharing details on the movements of the Guard's Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in a U.S.-authorized drone strike in Baghdad earlier this year.

The replica carries 16 mock-ups of fighter jets on its deck, according to satellite photos taken by Maxar Technologies. The vessel appears to be some 650 feet long and 160 feet wide.

The mock-up, which defense and intelligence analysts first noticed in January, resembles a similar one used in February 2015 during a military exercise called "Great Prophet 9." During that drill, Iran swarmed the fake aircraft carrier with speedboats firing machine guns and rockets. Surface-to-sea missiles later targeted and destroyed the fake carrier.
Posted by: Frank G || 06/11/2020 06:57 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  And here I was thinking this story was going to be about how Iran would be claiming they had built an aircraft carrier. Oh well, maybe next month.
Posted by: Vernal Hatrick || 06/11/2020 8:43 Comments || Top||

#2  Plywood doesn't fire back, just sayin'.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 06/11/2020 9:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Time to bomb it with wooden bombs.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 06/11/2020 10:09 Comments || Top||

#4  "During that drill, Iran swarmed the fake aircraft carrier with speedboats firing machine guns and rockets"
1. All the machine guns in Iran wouldn't do anything to a carrier other than chip the paint.
2. Carriers never travel alone. They are surrounded by cruisers and destroyers who would leave the speed boats as a pile of floating splinters.
3. The first time an Iranian vessel fires on an American warship, all of Iran's naval ports disappear in a cloud of smoke.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 06/11/2020 12:58 Comments || Top||

#5  Or they could be planning to use something we don't know about and are trying to headfake us into believing this is their plan. I call horsepoop.
Posted by: gorb || 06/11/2020 16:29 Comments || Top||


Turkish-backed groups set fire to farmers’ crops in the countryside of Tel_Tamr, north of Hasakah
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/11/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  V.C. knew better. Let them harvest it - then steel it.
Posted by: bman || 06/11/2020 16:10 Comments || Top||

#2  I guess this means they're preparing to withdraw
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/11/2020 16:12 Comments || Top||


Manbij Military Council spokesman Shervan Darwish survives assassination attempt
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/11/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


SDF announced the end of the first phase of the joint Deterrence of Terrorism operation
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/11/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


HTS recruits masked women to face Russian-Turkish patrols
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/11/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: al-Nusra


Syrian Army launches counter-offensive against jihadists in northwest Hama
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/11/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


Palestinian-led forces take the fight to ISIS in Syrian desert region
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Paleostinian-led Jerusalem Brigade (Liwaa al-Quds
...the Jerusalem Brigade is a Paleostinian-Syrian pro-Government group that operates in Aleppo, formed in 2013. The group is composed of predominately Sunni Paleostinians from the al-Nayrab district as well as the former refugee camp Handarat. It is believed to be the largest Assadist auxilliary force operating in storied Aleppo....
) has been conducting a wide-scale combing operation against 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....
(ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS) in the vast Syrian desert region recently.

Backed by the Syrian Arab Army (SAA), the Jerusalem Brigade has been eliminating Islamic State hideouts and dens, while also clearing areas believed to harbor Islamic State sleeper cells in the Badiya al-Sham region between the governorates of Homs, Damascus, and Deir Ezzor.

Thus far, the operation has proven successful, as the Jerusalem Brigade has forced the Islamic State turbans to either surrender themselves, fight, or flee further into this vast desert region.

In a video released by the Paleostinian-led group this week, they can be seen blowing up ISIS bases and attacking the terrorist group throughout the Badiya al-Sham region.
Posted by: Fred || 06/11/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Go ISIS! Go!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/11/2020 1:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Sounds like a real "Let's you and him fight it out".

Can they both lose?
Posted by: AlanC || 06/11/2020 7:56 Comments || Top||

#3  Popcorn sale just went up 37%.
Posted by: Woodrow || 06/11/2020 10:47 Comments || Top||

#4  It's hard to resist a spirited game of Calvinball.
Posted by: SteveS || 06/11/2020 13:10 Comments || Top||

#5  I wish them both success.
Posted by: gorb || 06/11/2020 16:31 Comments || Top||



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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.
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Two weeks of WOT
Thu 2020-06-11
  Greek Navy intercepts Turkish ship en route to Libya
Wed 2020-06-10
  Turkey sends missile frigate to Libyan coast
Tue 2020-06-09
  North Korea says it will sever
inter-Korean hotlines with South Korea
Mon 2020-06-08
  Egyptian M1 Abrams tank column heading to the border with Libya
Sun 2020-06-07
  Former Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Ramadan Shallah
finally moves on to a warmer place
Sat 2020-06-06
  French forces kill Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb leader Abdelmalik Droukdel
Fri 2020-06-05
  US says Alaska man laundered nearly $1B for Iran through UAE
Thu 2020-06-04
  LA mayor cuts $150m from cops' budget and gives it to communities of color instead
Wed 2020-06-03
  Turkish ship delivers tanks to Libya amid mass build up: LNA
Tue 2020-06-02
  Small groups now canvassing LEOs' neighborhoods,
'threatening to burn down our homes and kill our families'
Mon 2020-06-01
  Son of Minnesota's attorney general: 'I hereby declare, officially, my support for ANTIFA'
Sun 2020-05-31
  As American Cities Burn, Trump Declares 'ANTIFA' a Terrorist Group
Sat 2020-05-30
  SpaceX makes history, launches NASA astronauts into space from US soil for the first time since 2011
Fri 2020-05-29
  SpaceX SN-4 BLOWS up at 1:49 PM Local time in Boca Chica Tx
Thu 2020-05-28
  Afghan Nation Calls for Continued
Ceasefire, Violence Down 80 Percent


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