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Ginger Rogers was an American actress, dancer, and singer during the "Golden Age" of Hollywood and is often considered an American icon. She won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her starring role in Kitty Foyle, but is best remembered for performing during the 1930s in RKO's musical films with Fred Astaire.
Born: Virginia Katherine McMath, July 16, 1911, Independence, Missouri, U.S.
Died: April 25, 1995, Rancho Mirage, California, U.S.
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First time I've seen Ginger Rogers grace the cover of the Defender-Scimitar. TCM runs a lot of her movies and they're always fun to watch. One of my all time favorite actresses.
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Thanks for the color pictures. All of her movies that they show on TCM are black and white. What a gorgeous gal.
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The fog of war is clear as mud. Day1 can be seen here.
[ToloNews] Most of victims of the suicide kaboom that targeted worshippers in a mosque in Kunduz city on Friday were buried in groups on Saturday.
That’d be the Gozar-e-Sayed Abad Mosque.
Officials said that 46 people were killed and over 143 others maimed while some members of the Shia Ulema said nearly 120 worshippers were killed and 160 others injured.
The mass burial of most of the victims took place on Saturday in Kunduz city.
Farid, a resident of Kunduz, said he has lost four relatives in the attack. "Four people have been martyred from one family," he said.
"In yesterday’s attack over 100 people were killed. My cousin was also martyred," said Baryalai, a Kunduz resident.
The suicide attack targeted a mosque belonging to the Shia religious community. Some Shia religious scholars said nearly 120 people were killed in the attack.
"As per our information about the bodies brought to cemeteries, around 120 people were martyred and around 160 others were maimed," said Imam Razavi, a religious scholar.
[KhaamaPress] 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- has claimed the responsibility for the heinous explosion in a mosque in northern Kunduz province that occurred on Friday afternoon, October 8.
ISIS in a statement that was published in Arabic said that the jacket wallah was named Muhammad
...what were the odds?
and was and Uyghur Moslem.
The blasts happened in the Shite Moslem mosque.
The ISIS statement claimed to have killed and maimed three hundred Hazara ...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets... -Shite in the earth-shattering kaboom.
The explosion that targeted worshipers who had gathered for Friday prayer in Khan Abad port of Kunduz province killed 50 and maimed over a hundred more civilians.
The Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... have condemned the incident and pledged to bring to find and punish the culprits.
ISIS-K is now the biggest threat to the people of Afghanistan and the Taliban that carries out terror attacks after the Taliban took over Afghanistan.
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#Afghanistan IS-K bomber (Muhammed al Uyghuri) that detonated his PBIED in #Kunduz, killing 40-100 in a Shiite mosque. He is noted by ISIS to be a Uyghur, framed in response to the Taliban & their relations with China. He's holding a (likely local copy) Zigana K pattern pistol. pic.twitter.com/Ard3MomTA5
[LIBYAREVIEW] Armed festivities erupted Friday night between militias affiliated with the Government of National Unity (GNU)’s Defence and Interior Ministries at the airport road in 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 festivities have raised concern for the country’s fragile ceasefire ahead of the historic nationwide elections set for December.
In a statement, the Security Directorate’s Support Force revealed that the Deputy Commander of the Force, Captain Ali al-Jabri, was killed.
It added that the festivities are still ongoing between those gunnies who want to storm the headquarters of the Security Directorate’s Support Force.
The statement pointed out that a number of other members of the Support Force were killed as a result of the attack.
The fighting sparked panic among the locals, while the government remained silent in the face of what observers described as a struggle between contending factions.
The fighting follows major festivities last month in the city of Zawiya, West of Tripoli, and smaller incidents of friction or festivities inside the capital including a shootout this week at a state institution.
Libya has witnessed little peace since the 2011 NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... -backed uprising that overthrew longtime dictator Muammar Qadaffy ...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland and was then murdered by his indignant subjects 42 years later... , and divided the country into warring eastern and western factions.
However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... they agreed on a ceasefire agreement last year. They also agreed on a new government that both sides backed. It was installed in March to prepare the country for national elections in December.
The Tripoli-based unity government has struggled to unify state institutions and prepare for elections. The eastern-based parliament rejected its budget and failed to agree on a constitutional basis for a vote.
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"Look. A goat! Let's have a BBQ and shoot out!"
(Although, cabrito...)
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [REGNUM] Colombian Franciscan nun Gloria Cecilia Narvaez, abducted in 2017 by militants of a radical group associated with Al-Qaeda, was released in Mali. This was reported on October 9 by the office of the President of the country on Twitter.
According to the office, the nun was abducted on February 7, 2017 near the Mali-Burkina Faso border by terrorists from the Masina Liberation Front extremist group. In the summer of 2018, video footage filmed by the terrorist organization Support Group for Islam and Muslims, where the nun was captured together with another hostage, French citizen Sophie Petronen, who was abducted in Mali in 2016, was leaked on the network .
What specific group of militants held Narvaes is not specified. During the entire period of the nun's stay with the militants, information about the ransom for her release was not received.
Earlier IA REGNUM reported about the death of a UN peacekeeper in Mali when an improvised explosive device was detonated.
The Al Qaeda group in the the West African portion of the Maghreb is currently known as Nusrat al-Islam — more formally Jama'a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin' (JNIM) and by the French acronym GSIM — formed by the merger of Ansar Dine, the Macina Liberation Front, Al-Mourabitoun and the Saharan branch of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. It is the official branch of Al-Qaeda in Mali.
[AnNahar] Fighting over the key 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 city of Marib has displaced around 10,000 people in the past month, the U.N. migration agency said Thursday. The festivities escalated as Yemen's Iran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... rebels intensified their push to take the lovely provincial capital from government forces.
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[DW] Most of the migrants colonists were from Haiti and they had hoped to arrive in the US but instead would now be dropped off at the Honduras frontier. The US continues to deport thousands of migrants colonists back to Haiti.
Guatemalan police said Saturday they had discovered 126 US-bound migrants colonists, mainly from Haiti, trapped inside an abandoned shipping container in the south of the country.
Residents raised the alarm after hearing screams from inside the container that was located on a trailer on the side of the road between the towns of Nueva Concepcion and Cocales.
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MIGRANTS COLONISTS?
Police officers were quickly on the scene to investigate the suspicious container.
"We heard cries and knocks coming from inside the container. We opened the doors and found inside 126 undocumented people: 106 from Haiti, 11 from Nepal and nine from Ghana," police front man Jorge Aguilar said.
The migrants colonists were hoping to get to Mexico and then onto the US when their suspected people smugglers abandoned them to their fate.
Police then gave them first aid before escorting the migrants colonists to a shelter run by the Guatemalan Migration Institute (IGM).
The migrants colonists will now be transported to the Honduras frontier where they will be handed over to the authorities as this is from where they entered Guatemala.
WHY IS THERE SUCH A FLOOD OF MIGRANTS COLONISTS?
Following political instability, an earthquake and tropical floods, Haitians have been trying to reach the United States seeking a better life.
Guatemala borders Mexico, which is the main entry point to the US by land.
On Friday, Mexican authorities detained 652 migrants colonists, 355 of them minors, who were traveling on three trucks in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas, according to officials. The majority of them were from Guetemala, and included 197 minors traveling alone.
Thousands of migrants colonists, mostly from Haiti, have been making hazardous journeys across Central America in the past months to try to give themselves and their families a better life.
Since the start of 2021, over 50 of them died as they crossed jungle terrain in the Darien Gap in Panama, on the border with Colombia, according to Panama authorities.
Even if they make it to the US most of them face deportation, with 7,500 migrants colonists returned to Haiti on 70 chartered flights in three weeks, the International Organization for Migration reported Friday.
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"most of them face deportation"
Only a european would believe this.
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So much for the agreement between France and England where France promised they would stop migrants Moslem colonists from continuing across the Channel.
[Rudaw] A group of French coppers watched dozens of migrants colonists boarding a dinghy on Friday to get across the Channel to Britannia, footage by British broadcaster Sky showed.
This time, however, unlike in most similar attempts which take place in the dead of night, the crossing happened in stark daylight.
The migrants colonists, who were said to be Iraqi Kurds, first carried a large dinghy into the sea before boarding it, while eight French coppers watched on from the beach near the village of Ambleteuse in northern La Belle France, Sky reported.
Alongside passers-by Sky's team witnessed the migrants colonists, of which there were approximately 40 including three small children, making the desperate attempt to get to the UK.
Sky reported that eight French coppers with riot shields and helmets were watching from about 100 meters away but did not get involved. They later told Sky the reason they've not reacted was that they were outnumbered.
About half an earlier, a boat carrying more migrants colonists left the same beach under the watch of the police.
One man told Sky that he had paid £2,000 (2,722 US dollars) to travel to get to the EU through Belarus, passing through Poland and Germany to get to La Belle France.
Other boats were also spotted in the sea, including a 200 euro (231 US dollars) canoe which was being steered by men who said they were from Sudan.
They were not even wearing life jackets, making their journey even more dangerous.
The French coastguard told Sky News that multiple operations to rescue the migrants colonists were taking place along the French coastline and that there were at least 20 boats attempting to cross the Channel on Friday.
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[REGNUM] Planes belonging to the Turkish Air Force (Air Force) attacked Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) positions in northern Iraq. This was announced on Saturday, October 9, by Anadolu Ajansi with reference to the Turkish Ministry of National Defense.
The Turkish defense ministry said in a statement that the military operation, during which three members of illegal armed groups were neutralized, was carried out in the Avashin region of Iraq.
"The fight against terrorists will continue " the military department noted.
As reported by IA REGNUM , on September 12, the Turkish Ministry of National Defense reported that a serviceman of the Turkish armed forces was killed in northern Iraq as a result of shelling by representatives of the PKK.
[Rudaw] A woman was killed and two others were maimed in what is believed to be a Ottoman TurkishArclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in a village near the oil-rich city of Kirkuk on Friday as hundreds of thousands of Iraqi security forces headed to the polls to cast their vote in the sixth parliamentary election since 2003.
The strike, carried out by a drone according to Kurdish officials, was launched on Friday evening targeting a vehicle in the vicinity of the village of Saydan in Qarahanjir sub-district east of Kirkuk city. This was the second strike in a week in the same area. On October 4, another suspected strike maimed two people near the city of Chamchamal on the road between Kirkuk and Sulaimani.
The person killed on Friday has not been identified yet.
"The body is mangled and therefore we can’t determine the age of the dear departed," Sharif Rahim, spokesperson for Chamchamal’s health directorate, told Rudaw on Friday. "The maimed are between 25 and 35 years of age."
Ankara has not grabbed credit but Twitter accounts close to the Ottoman Turkish military have confirmed that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... carried out an airstrike near Kirkuk on Friday.
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[DW] An ex-Israeli soldier was assaulted outside a train station in Berlin by unknown assailants, police said Saturday, calling it an antisemitic attack.
Muslim migrants colonists are known to hang around the main Berlin city center train station for the pleasure of harassing the natives — ditto for other city center train stations in Germany —but it isn’t clear from the article if this was Muslim Jew-hate, German Jew-hate, or some other group being fashionably antisemitic.
The 29-year-old man, a resident of Berlin, was wearing a pullover with the Israel Defense Forces logo when the incident took place on Friday evening.
He was approached by someone in the east of the German capital and was asked about his faith, the police said in a statement.
"Suddenly, (the attacker) sprayed irritant in his face and pushed him to the ground," they said.
The man was unable to tell whether it was a single assailant or several, who then expeditiously departed at a goodly pace.
He found help in a nearby store and was able to alert the police.
Authorities have opened an investigation into the incident on suspicion of "politically motivated bodily harm."
This week, German musician Gil Ofarim accused a Leipzig hotel of antisemitism, saying he was told to take off his Star of David pendant before being allowed to check in.
Earlier this month, antisemitic incidents were reported in the German capital during a football match between Union Berlin and Maccabi Haifa. A group of people holding Israeli flags in close proximity to the away section said they had experienced antisemitic abuse from some Union Berlin fans.
Germany has also seen a rise in antisemitic hate crimes in recent years. The latest government figures showed the number of registered cases of attacks and hate crimes hitting a new upward trend in 2020. Authorities logged 2,275 such crimes until the end of January 2021 — the highest number of antisemitic hate crimes since German police started collecting data on "politically motivated criminality" in 2001.
[Regnum] Syrian air defense, with the help of Russian Pantsir complexes, destroyed eight of the 12 missiles fired by Israeli F-16s at Syria. This was announced on October 9 by the deputy head of the Russian Center for the Reconciliation of Warring Parties (CPVS) in the SAR, Vadim Kulit.
"On October 8, at 21:33 (Moscow time), six F-16 tactical fighters of the Israeli Air Force, crossing the state border of the SAR in the Al-Tanf area, struck 12 guided missiles at the T-4 airfield (Tifor) in the province of Homs."
Kulit added that the Syrian air defense forces on duty with the help of the Russian-made Pantsir complex destroyed eight missiles.
As reported by IA REGNUM , at the end of September, the Russian military in Syria destroyed a drone of militants, which was trying to attack the Russian airbase "Khmeimim".
An Israeli missile strike on an airbase in central Syria has killed two Damascus-allied imported muscle and maimed several Syrian service personnel, a Britannia-based war monitor said on Saturday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the two foreigners were killed in the raid on the T4 airbase late Friday, but their nationality was not immediately clear.
The official Syrian news agency ... and if you can't believe the Official Syrian News Agency who can you believe? SANA earlier said that, "at around 9:00 pm (1800 GMT), the Israeli enemy... fired a volley of missiles towards the T4 military airport."
"The aggression maimed six soldiers and led to some material damage," it added.
The Observatory said the attack targeted a drone depot at the base.
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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.
...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets...
...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland and was then murdered by his indignant subjects 42 years later...
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