TikTok star Gabriel Salazar died in south Texas during a high-speed sports car escape from law enforcement. He was transporting illegal Mexican migrants. https://t.co/bup2Mom9XS
[KhaamaPress] Unknown button men killed four people in Police District three of Jalalabad City of 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 among them a well-known journalist and journalism lecturer, Sayed Maroof Sadat.
The incident happened on Saturday, October 2 and local residents say that the two others killed were the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... fighters.
Eyewitnesses say that Sadat’s son has also been critically maimed in the incidents and claim that ISIS fighters were responsible for the shooting but provincial officials have not commented on the issue yet.
As per the eyewitnesses, the shooters have boarded a Reksha taxi and started firing at people in an auto.
Sayed Maroof Sadat was a journalism graduate from Kabul University and was working as a journalist in radio "Sub Bakhair and Sham Bakhair".
He was recently assigned as media in charge of the directorate of urban development in Nangarhar province and was also working for a number of foreign media in the province.
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[NY Post] I'm sure it's Ours/OrangeManBad's fault A bomb exploded Sunday at a mosque in Afghanistan’s capital, killing a "number of civilians," according to a Taliban spokesman.
The bomb targeted the entrance of Eidgah Mosque in Kabul, the site of a memorial service for the mother of Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid. He later tweeted that the attack had claimed civilian lives.
Emergency NGO, an Italian-funded hospital in Kabul, said on Twitter that it had taken in four people who were wounded by the bombing.
The area around the mosque was on Sunday cordoned off by the Taliban.
A Taliban police commander, who spoke under the condition of anonymity, said that the attack targeted the Taliban delegation, but no group had yet claimed responsibility. But other authorities said that the mosque entrance was being prepared Sunday for a slate of public executions scheduled for Monday afternoon. According to one high-ranking official, dozens of hangings are slated to take place at the blast locations for those convicted of kidnappings and murders.
It is unclear if the capital punishments will still take place Monday. Oh! I hope so!
Taliban officials were quick to usher away onlookers and claimed they do not plan to release a statement until Monday morning.
Traffic was backed up for miles Sunday afternoon, with Taliban snipers stationed on nearby roofs and an emergency vehicle used to wash away the remnants of a bomb blast outside the mosque
Ambulances carrying the victims were rushed to Kabul’s Emergency Hospital in the Shahr-e Naw area, according to AFP.
[AlAhram] Libya's coasties Sunday intercepted a wooden boat carrying around 500 Europe-bound migrants colonists off the country's shore, the UN refugee agency said.
It marked the latest sea interception amid a surge in crossings and attempted crossings from the North African nation to European shores in recent months. It took place two days after a massive crackdown on migrants colonists in a western Libyan town that resulted in the roundup of at least 4,000 migrants colonists.
Libya has emerged as the dominant transit point for migrants colonists fleeing war and poverty in Africa and the Middle East, hoping for a better life in Europe. The trend developed after the country was plunged into chaos following the 2011 NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... -backed uprising that ousted and killed longtime dictator Muammar Qadaffy ...The late megalomaniac dictator of Libya, admired everywhere for his garish costumes, funny hats, harem of cutie bodyguards, and incoherent ravings. As far as is known, he is the only person who's ever declared jihad on Switzerland... Human traffickers have benefited from the chaos in the oil-rich nation and smuggled migrants colonists through the country's lengthy border with six nations. They then pack desperate migrants colonists into ill-equipped rubber boats in risky voyages through the perilous Central Mediterranean Sea route.
The migrants colonists from Sunday's interception were disembarked at an oil refinery point in the western town of Zawiya, a major launching point for migrants colonists, according to the UN refugee agency UNHCR. They include Sudanese, Somalis, Bengalis and Syrians, it said.
The migrants colonists were likely taken to a detention center as Libyan authorities typically do with intercepted migrants colonists.
On Saturday, the Libyan coasties intercepted around 90 migrants colonists, including eight women and three children, and returned them to 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 UN agency said. The coasties also retrieved the bodies of two migrants colonists, while 40 others remained missing at sea, the agency said.
There has been a spike in crossings and attempted crossings of the Mediterranean Sea with the goal of reaching European soil. So far this year some 44,000 people have reached Europe's shores by crossing the Central Mediterranean from Tunisia and Libya.
As of Sept. 25, more than 25,000 people had been intercepted by the EU-trained and equipped Libyan coasties this year and returned to the war-torn country, according to the UN migration agency.
Over 1,100 migrants colonists were reported dead or presumed dead off Libya in the first nine months of 2021.
#Algeria has closed its airspace to French military planes, #France’s military confirms, escalating the biggest row between the countries in years.https://t.co/qed0bqRZq3
[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] Algeria decided Saturday to recall its ambassador to La Belle France for consultations, as diplomatic tensions mount with Gay Paree.The move comes after La Belle France’s President Emmanuel Macron made critical remarks about Algeria published in French daily Le Monde in which he said the former French colony was ruled by a "political-military system."
"Algeria recalls its ambassador (Mohammed Antar-Daoud) from Gay Paree for consultations," state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
said, quoting a statement from the presidency.
It said a longer statement would follow to explain the move.
Le Monde on Saturday quoted Macron as saying Algeria has an "official history" that has been "totally re-written."
He said this history was "not based on truths" but "on a discourse of hatred towards La Belle France", according to Le Monde.
The remarks, widely picked up by Algerian media, came in a meeting earlier this week between Macron and relatives of figures from Algeria’s war of independence.
It is the second time that Algeria recalls an ambassador from La Belle France.
Algiers also recalled its ambassador in May 2020 after French media broadcast a documentary about Algeria’s pro-democracy Hirak protest movement.
Saturday’s move comes amid tense ties following a decision by Gay Paree to reduce the number of visas granted to citizens from Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia.
The Algerian foreign ministry summoned the French ambassador on Wednesday to protest the visa ruling.
La Belle France on Tuesday said it would sharply reduce the number of visas granted to people from Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia, accusing the former French colonies of not doing enough to allow illegal immigrants colonists to return.
Algeria’s foreign ministry handed "a formal protest" to French ambassador Francois Gouyette.
It called the visa reduction an "unfortunate act" that caused "confusion and ambiguity as to its motivation and its scope."
Morocco’s Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita has described the French move as "unjustified."
There has not been yet an official reaction from Tunisia.
French government front man Gabriel Attal told Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... 1 radio on Tuesday that the visa reduction decision was "unprecedented."
Gay Paree made that choice, he said, because Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia "are refusing to take back nationals who we do not want or cannot keep in La Belle France."
The radio said Macron took the decision a month ago after failed diplomatic efforts with the three North African countries.
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[AlAhram] Clashes between 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... i separatists and a rival splinter group in the southern port city of Aden killed at least 10 people including four civilians Saturday, security officials said.
The fighting has taken place in Aden's residential neighborhood of Crater, where the presidential palace and other government buildings are located, they said. It pits forces of the secessionist Southern Transitional Council against an armed religious group that was once part of the council, according to the officials.
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Two children were killed and 33 other civilians injured in #Houthi missile strikes on #Yemen's central #Marib city, the internationally recognized government's state news agency says.https://t.co/2I43crnoKQ
Overnight, antifa gathered outside the Justice Center in downtown Portland to riot after a local grand jury declined to indict an officer over the shooting of a man who brandished a replica pistol at police. Antifa shut down the street & started a fire. pic.twitter.com/Y2diuggWcJ
[JPost]And so it begins. The Juice just feint and eat popcorn. I would
Azerbaijan and Turkey will hold a military exercise in Azerbaijan near the border with Iran from Tuesday to Friday, amid heightening tensions between Iran and Azerbaijan, the Turkish Defense Ministry announced on Sunday.
The exercise, titled "Unshakable Brotherhood," is being conducted in order to "develop friendship, cooperation and coordination between the Turkish and Azerbaijani Land Forces."
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[OneIndia] The National Investigation Agency conducted searches at multiple locations in 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.... at the premises of suspected Line of Control traders.
The case was registered by the NIA in 2016. The LoC trade between India and Pakistain was started in 2008 as part of a confidence building measure between Jammu and Kashmir and Pakistain occupied Kashmir. The trade was based on barter system and third party origin goods were not allowed. The instant case is related to the large scale transfer of funds from Pakistain to India through the import of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Almonds (badam-giri) and other items via the Cross LoC Trade Facilitation Centres (TFCs) located at Salamabad, Uri, District Baramulla and Chakkan-Da-Bag, District Poonch. These funds were purportedly being used for fomenting terrorism / separatism in Jammu & Kashmir.
Investigation into the case revealed that some of the traders having excess imports were channelizing the surplus profit generated to terror organizations while others are suspected to have links / connections with proscribed terrorist organizations.
It was found that cross-border traders had been tapped by terror groups to help raise funds for terror activities in Jammu and Kashmir. Investigators were stumped to find out that terror funding continued unabated despite the decision on demonetisation wiping out the fake currency network.
The NIA has found that a food item would be imported from Pakistain at a very low price and then sold at double the amount in India. For instance, Californian almonds would be imported by the trader at Rs 350 a kilogram and then sold at Rs 700 in the Indian market. The profit Sherlocks say would be used to fund terror.
There is a select network of traders that the terror groups have tapped into to further their agenda.
These traders work under terror groups such as the Hizbul Mujahideen ...Party of Holy Warriors, founded by Muhammad Ahsan Dar in September 1989. One of the Pak sock puppets waging jihad in Indian Kashmir. It was originally organized as the armed wing of Jamaat-e-Islami. In 1990, Dar declared Hizbul as the sword arm of Jamaat. Hizbul murdered many of the pro-independence intelligentsia in Kashmir. After the organization was taken over by Syed Salahuddin Dar and several other ex-Hizb leaders were assassinated between 2001 and 2003... and the Lashkar-e-Tayiba, an NIA official informed.
The NIA has also found a list of 21 items that are being imported by traders from Pakistain at a very low cost. Out of this the highest profit margin is for the California almond which sells at double the cost in India, the NIA official also informed.
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Almonds are California's most valuable export crop. Farmers exported $4.5 billion worth to foreign countries in 2016, about 22% of the state's total agricultural exports. The majority of these exports went to the European Union, China and India.
[GREATERKASHMIR] Security forces launched a search operation in Arin forest area in the upper reaches of north Kashmir's Bandipora district on Sunday, officials said.
According to the officials, the search operation was launched this morning jointly by units of the army, paratroopers, Special Operations Group of J&K police and CRPF folowing inputs about the presence of militants in the woods.
The militants believed to be hiding in the forest area are said to be foreign with most of their local associates having been killed in recent gunfights in Bandipora.
Six militants both locals and foreigners have been killed in three gunfights since July this year in the district.
There was an article yesterday about how stupid Jared Cushner is. I'm sure if they'd tasked Stephanie Grisham she coulda done it much better.
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A plane branded with the logo of national Egyptian carrier Egyptair landed in #Israel for the first time on Sunday, a flight described as “historic” by the Israel Airports Authority.https://t.co/pldjjX6gqV
The PFLP issued a statement today affirming that the Palestinian Joint Operations Room (JOR) is unified. The statement comes after Palestinian Islamic Jihad's public opposition to the JOR statement that failed to mention one of its militants killed in the West Bank recently.
Not the greatest photoshop by Palestinian Islamic Jihad's media team depicting the 'martyrs of Saraya al-Quds - Jenin.' Their heads are... a bit off. pic.twitter.com/mHphuOLbOM
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One on the left will tilt over if he had his feet together. Second from right looks like he just smoked his first cig, it it is the best because the necklining, oh, the necklining.
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.
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A bomb exploded Sunday at a mosque in Afghanistan’s capital, killing a "number of civilians," according to a Taliban spokesman.
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...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
[GREATERKASHMIR] Security forces launched a search operation in Arin forest area in the upper reaches of north Kashmir's 
