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Ansarallah forces kill high-ranking ISIS leader in Yemen
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Good evening
Far-left state senator in Utah has released a statement after it was revealed he gave a donation for paint that was used to vandalize public property & intimidate the DA at a criminal BLM ''protest.''
Friday August 21st, 2020

Louise Brooks 364f11520a7d4f0f8c9
France says its military operation will continue in Mali
Mexico's fastest-growing drugs cartel 'Jalisco New Generation' deploys bomb drones packed with C4 explosives as it battles to dominate town and it's armed residents
Militant groups in Pakistan reunite to overthrow the government
Iran Unveils Two New Missiles
Who's who in Mali's military junta?
Iraqi PMF fends an ISIS terrorist attack
Trump On Bannon's Indictment: I Never Liked
The Idea Of A Private Outfit Trying To Build The Wall

Posted by: Fred || 08/21/2020 17:22 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  High ranking ISIS leader killed? They're a dime a dozen these days let me know when one comes back to life.
Posted by: jpal || 08/21/2020 17:39 Comments || Top||

#2  She's a little too "Addams Family" for me.
Posted by: Mercutio || 08/21/2020 18:54 Comments || Top||

#3  She looks like all my great aunts in their youth.
Posted by: Hupusoting Protector of the Hatfields2465 || 08/21/2020 21:32 Comments || Top||

#4  Magdalenians, customs thereof:
A cave-couple, truly in love
(and curious hats),
Met amidst flirting bats,
Where a kiss might be swapped for a glove.
Posted by: Slaiter Spereper5970 || 08/21/2020 21:41 Comments || Top||

#5  Flitting, dammit. Although...
Posted by: Slaiter Spereper5970 || 08/21/2020 21:43 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
4 Security Forces Killed in Nangarhar Attack
[ToloNews] At last four security forces were killed and two others were maimed in a Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
attack in eastern 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..
province on Wednesday night, said Attaullah Khogyani, a front man for provincial governor.

The incident happened in Khogyani district of the province after the Taliban attack the security forces, he said, adding that "10 Taliban were also killed in the festivities and several others were maimed."

However,
by candlelight every wench is handsome...
he did not provide more details about the festivities.

The Taliban grabbed credit for the attack.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/21/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


14 Security Force Members Killed in Taliban Attack in Takhar
[ToloNews] At least 13 public uprising forces and a border policeman were killed and six others were maimed in a Taliban
...Arabic for students...
attack in northern Takhar province on Wednesday night, a security source said.

In Khwaja Bahauddin district the Taliban attacked the public uprising forces in several areas which led to festivities that lasted for several hours, the source said.

"At least 13 public uprising forces were killed and four others were maimed," he said, adding that "a border policeman was also killed and two others were maimed in a clash with the Taliban after they came to support the public uprising forces."

Local security officials have not yet commented on the festivities.

The Taliban has not commented on the attack.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/21/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa Horn
Somali pirates hijack Panama-flagged ship : Regional Official
Business has been slow in the pirate biz of late, for some reason.
[AlAhram] Somali pirates have hijacked a Panama-flagged ship, a regional official told Rooters on Thursday, the first successful hijack since 2017.

The ship was travelling from the United Arab Emirates to Mogadishu port when it appeared to develop mechanical problems. said Musse Salah, the governor of Gardafu region in the semi-autonomous northern region of 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...
It was attacked by six pirates on Wednesday night, he said. The number and nationality of the crew was unclear but discussions were under way to free them, he said.

At the height of their power in 2011, Somali pirates launched 237 attacks off the coast of Somalia, the International Maritime Bureau says, and held hundreds of hostages.

Attacks later sharply subsided, mainly because shipping firms implemented better security protocols, including posting look-outs, sailing further away from Somalia, and hiring private security. International warships operating as part of a coalition also helped to drive down the number of attacks.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/21/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Pirates


Africa North
GNA Pays Salaries of Pro-Turkish Syrian Fighters worth $20 Million for July
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Theoretical mathematics, because the fighters aren’t being paid even half that, a fact they’ve been complaining about.
If that's a month's full pay, there'll be 10,000 Syrians in country.
Posted by: Fred || 08/21/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Muslim Brotherhood


Libyan Army deploys radars in important locations along coastal regions
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Posted by: Fred || 08/21/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

#1  Good to know where they put them.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/21/2020 13:44 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Ansarallah forces kill high-ranking ISIS leader in Yemen
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Ansarallah Movement announced on Thursday that their forces killed 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....
’s top emir in Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
.In statement released by al-Masirah TV, the Ansarallah Movement said they killed the Islamic State emir and the arrest of another leader in a powerful operation in the al-Bayada Governorate this week.

The Ansarallah forces reportedly carried out the ambush operation in the Qifah District, resulting in the killing of the ISIS emir, Abu al-Walid al-Adani.

They said their forces also killed a number of murderous Moslems from the Islamic State during the powerful operation in central Yemen this week.

They indicated, "Last Monday, the Sana’a forces were able to cleanse the areas of Hama Awaja and Hama al-Qah at the Qifah front from ISIS elements."

The Ansarallah forces have been advancing inside al-Bayda for several days, as they have managed to capture at least 80 percent of the governorate after intense festivities with the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS) and al-Qaeda.



Posted by: Fred || 08/21/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Britain
Hashem Abedi, brother of Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi has been sentenced to at least 55 years for murders of 22 people in 2017 terrorist attack
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Salman’s baby bro and bomb assistant, he was arrested for cause in Tripoli, where he was pretending to have nothing to do with that messy nonsense back home. Scion of the Manchester Libyan jihadi crowd. The parental generation ties back to the al-Qaeda-aligned Libyan Islamic Fighting Group in the 1990s, while the kids pledged to the even more romantic ISIS. Not that it makes much difference in the end — the networks overlap personnel-wise, it’s just a matter of the name on the checking account paying their expenses. And now, after snubbing the sentencing hearing yesterday, the unbelievers went and sentenced him anyway.
Posted by: Fred || 08/21/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  So about 2.5 years per death, ignoring those injured and maimed.
Posted by: gorb || 08/21/2020 0:47 Comments || Top||

#2  "On credit, at 2.5 years
To the life," mused Mahmoud, "it appears
That I'd die, should I hurry --
As would I, don't worry! --
A century or ten in arrears."
Posted by: Slaiter Spereper5970 || 08/21/2020 2:43 Comments || Top||

#3  Border "control" not doing anything that would hinder the aid money of lawyers (fav job of MPs).
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 08/21/2020 3:54 Comments || Top||

#4  Does this mean he's really out in six?
Posted by: Raj || 08/21/2020 9:50 Comments || Top||

#5  More powerful than the state. He carried out the death penalty 22 times. The state can not.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/21/2020 10:37 Comments || Top||

#6  Offer free shanks in the exercise yard
Posted by: Frank G || 08/21/2020 10:42 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Mexico's fastest-growing drugs cartel 'Jalisco New Generation' deploys bomb drones packed with C4 explosives as it battles to dominate town and it's armed residents
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Armed residents from Tepalcatepec, Michoacán, say the Jalisco New Generation Cartel used drones equipped with bombs to attack the city

  • They say two drones were recovered following a July attack

  • C4 explosives and pellets were placed inside four plastic containers

  • Each drone had two containers connected to it to cause maximum damage

  • Mexican authorities learned the cartel used the same method of attack during incidents that took place in the states of Puebla and Guanajuato in May
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/21/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: Narcos


Fifth Column
Portland catch and release
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Posted by: Fred || 08/21/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM


Portland roundup: Overnight on 19–20 Aug, hundreds of antifa blocked an intersection by a hospital in order to attack @ICEgov Portland facility. Responding officers were hit w/rocks
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Posted by: Fred || 08/21/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Rocks can kill, or maim - saw it in Intifada I.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/21/2020 7:31 Comments || Top||

#2  Would love to see someone break/mangle their hands.
Posted by: Clem || 08/21/2020 7:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Sponsored by the Mayor of Portland - and the DNC. Remember that.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/21/2020 8:28 Comments || Top||

#4  Maybe Trump should allow the Marines to guard the ICE facility. ROE is, if it throws something, shoot it. If it launches an explosive, shoot it, if it swings a club, buttstroke to the groin and then bayonet to the throat.

Oh and issue a few flamethrowers for crowd control.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 08/21/2020 13:42 Comments || Top||

#5  ROE is

Oh, different than embassy ROE?
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/21/2020 13:46 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
LeT comdr among 3 militants killed
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Posted by: Fred || 08/21/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Lashkar e-Taiba


Iraq
Riham Yaqoub, an Iraqi activist was assassinated in Iraq for expressing her opinion
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Posted by: Fred || 08/21/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq


14 ISIS terrorists arrested by Iraq security forces
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

“The intelligence agencies, in coordination with the security forces within the sectors south of Saladin, managed to arrest 14 terrorists belonging to 3 terrorist cells who were planning to launch suicide attacks and missile strikes in Samarra, against security units and citizens” source said.

The source indicated that the security forces have arrested the terrorists on the outskirts of Yathrib and Al-Ishaqi, and the villages adjacent to the Balad district.
Posted by: Fred || 08/21/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Iraqi PMF fends an ISIS terrorist attack
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Posted by: Fred || 08/21/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Video shows new laser system intercepting Gaza fire balloon
[IsraelTimes] Border Police release video of the new "Lahav Or" laser system intercepting balloon-borne incendiary objects launched toward Israel from the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip.

Yesterday, the system shot down 32 balloons carrying incendiary and explosive objects. A Border Police source is quoted saying by the Kan public broadcaster that the system has a 90 percent interception rate.

Posted by: trailing wife || 08/21/2020 00:41 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  The main technical problem is concentrating hair rays.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/21/2020 1:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Pew pew! Missile Command was a great game.
Posted by: Sluns Snore4530 || 08/21/2020 2:09 Comments || Top||

#3  ...Take that, 12th century Jihadi scum.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 08/21/2020 4:20 Comments || Top||

#4  I hope they had enough time to shoot them down while they were still over Gazoo

The UN will say it's a war crime or something along those lines, but still funny.
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 08/21/2020 11:38 Comments || Top||

#5  If you've just got one, but it at your most sensitive target area. Once you get lots, move them forward and drop the incendiaries on the Paleo's own heads.
Posted by: Nero || 08/21/2020 11:47 Comments || Top||

#6  If you could mount them on a high enough location you could shoot down and detonate the balloons before they could be launched . Poisted on their own Hetards.
Posted by: Thaith Elmeresing6163 || 08/21/2020 13:13 Comments || Top||

#7  Interesting...plenty of targeting time, plenty of burn time. Eventually, it'll be good enough to target the base of the balloon and sever the bomb load
Posted by: ptah || 08/21/2020 15:41 Comments || Top||

#8  Perps, lasers, eyes. The triangle of photons. Just sayin'.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 08/21/2020 19:19 Comments || Top||

#9  Sever the bomb load? Heck, just target the bomb and put the ensuing hilarity on YouTube.
Posted by: gorb || 08/21/2020 22:47 Comments || Top||


Massive explosions hit Gaza as Israeli warplanes strike for 10th straight night
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Israel hits Gaza for third time after major uptick in rocket fire overnight
Today, 6:58 am Israel Time
[IsraelTimes] 12 rockets fired at Israel from Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
since Thursday night, damage caused to Sderot home, as violence escalates along restive border region


Israeli warplanes carried out Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s in Gaza early Friday morning, capping off a night that saw multiple rounds of rocket launches and reprisal raids as simmering tensions threatened to break into the open.

The Israel Defense Forces said at around 6 a.m. that fighter jets and other aircraft carried out strikes on "underground infrastructure belonging to the Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, terror group."

The raid was the third of the night, after two earlier sorties targeted a cement facility used to provide materials for tunnels used by Gazook terror groups, and a site where rockets are produced.

The Shehab news outlet, which is linked to the Hamas terror group which rules the enclave, reported at least one person was injured during the strikes east of Khan Younis, in southern Gaza.

The military said the strike was in response to seven rockets fired at Israel some three hours earlier, six of which were shot down by the Iron Dome anti-missile system. Another five rockets were shot at Israel late Thursday, two of which failed to reach Israeli territory and three of which were shot down by the Iron Dome system, according to the military.

The night of fighting capped a day in which at least 42 fires were sparked by balloon-borne incendiary devices lofted from Gaza, according to the Fire and Rescue Service. A statement from the fire service said most of the blazes were small and didn’t pose any danger to people or property.

The apparent uptick in fighting late Thursday and early Friday comes amid truce efforts being brokered by Egypt.

A ceasefire in place for years, which has already been renewed several times, is bolstered by millions of dollars in financial aid from Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
to Gaza. But complaints from Hamas that Israel has failed to live up to its side of the bargain have been accompanied by sporadic flare-ups on the border.

The truce provided for permits for Gazooks to work in Israel and financing for Gaza development projects, both measures that would provide some economic relief in an impoverished territory where unemployment exceeds 50 percent.

Sources told AFP the twin issues were at the root of the latest flare-up.

A source close to Hamas said the Israeli government told the Egyptian delegation it expected a "return to calm" before considering implementation of truce provisions such as "the extension of the eastern Gaza industrial zone" and the construction of a new power line to the territory.
Posted by: Fred || 08/21/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Prob should start 1:1 balloon response.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/21/2020 13:44 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran announces seizure of UAE ship
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Iranian Foreign Ministry has announced that the United Arab Emirates regrets the incident and that it is ready to compensate for the damage.

Tehran said that it had captured a United Arab Emirates (UAE) ship and detained its crew over alleged violation of Iranian territorial waters on Monday, according to the Islamic Theocratic Republic’s state TV.

The news outlet also cited the Iranian Foreign Ministry as saying in a statement that the UAE had expressed regret over the incident and is ready to compensate for the damage.

The incident reportedly saw the UAE coasties firing at Iranian boats and killing two Iranian fishermen on Monday.

"On Monday, an Emirati ship was seized by the border guards of 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...
and its crew were detained due to illegal traffic in our country’s waters. On the same day, UAE guards rubbed out two Iranian fishermen and seized a boat [...]. The UAE has expressed regret for the incident and in a letter on Wednesday announced its readiness to pay compensation", the Iranian Foreign Ministry’s statement pointed out.

Earlier on Thursday, the Ministry reportedly said that it had summoned an UAE envoy in connection with the killing of Iranian fishermen.

The Emirates’ state-run WAM news agency, in turn, reported on Monday that that several Iranian fishing boats had allegedly entered UAE waters near Sir Bu Nair Island in the Persian Gulf.

After the vessels did not stop when ordered to do so, "rules of engagement were applied," WAM added without elaborating.

The developments came after an incident in the Gulf in late June, when 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...
’s coastguard fired warning shots at Iranian boats that refused to stop, said the country’s state news agency SPA.

Posted by: Fred || 08/21/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  That'll teach you to play nice with the Juice.
Posted by: Mercutio || 08/21/2020 8:29 Comments || Top||


Turkish-backed forces cutoff water supply to 1 million people in NE Syria
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Posted by: Fred || 08/21/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


An explosion was heard in Tehran's Mehrabad airport
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Posted by: Fred || 08/21/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Explosions in Iran are getting as common as the sun rising in the morning.
Posted by: Clem || 08/21/2020 0:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Nobody likes those damn 6AM flights.
Posted by: Sluns Gurly-Brown7484 || 08/21/2020 1:44 Comments || Top||


Iran Unveils Two New Missiles
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Posted by: Fred || 08/21/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran



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Two weeks of WOT
Fri 2020-08-21
  Ansarallah forces kill high-ranking ISIS leader in Yemen
Thu 2020-08-20
  Mali soldiers promise civilian transition after president's ouster
Wed 2020-08-19
  Ansarallah leader, who has not missed many meals, says negotiations with Saudi Arabia reached dead end, war to continue
Tue 2020-08-18
  Lebanese customs chief arrested over Beirut blast
Mon 2020-08-17
  Syrian presidency reveals conditions for direct talks with US
Sun 2020-08-16
  Erdogan accused Greece of state terrorism against Turkish/Muslim minority
Sat 2020-08-15
  Recently released ISIS terrorist beheaded his mother, father, sister & two nephews in Ain Zara Tripoli
Fri 2020-08-14
  Oman and Bahrain to follow UAE in normalizing Israel ties
Thu 2020-08-13
  Diplomatic relations between Israel and UAE
Wed 2020-08-12
  Turkish strike kills Iraqi border guards, Iraqi military says
Tue 2020-08-11
  Seattle police chief to resign following department cuts
Mon 2020-08-10
  Lebanese Prime Minister announces resignation of government
Sun 2020-08-09
  Lebanese Army evacuates protestors from government buildings
Sat 2020-08-08
  Portland mayor unleashes police on violent demonstrations
Fri 2020-08-07
  Pakistain Borrows $1 Billion from Chinese Peter To Pay Back $1 Billion Saudi Paul


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