#5
"A knockout!" Massaging his chin,
"She can block! She can kick! She can spin!
It's on air that she walks...
But can kill with that boxing
She learned from those jocks at Shaolin."
#7
Revenge, it is said, is a cold dish
One not to be served a la Goldfish
But a dame wot does headlocks
Is not to be fed lox--
For to taste of that bagel's a bold wish
#Sudan's General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan ordered the release of four ministers detained since he led a military power grab last week, state-run television says.https://t.co/fQMqRGssAh
[LIBYAREVIEW] Libya’s Attorney General has issued a decision to arrest the former mayor of Brega municipality, pending investigations into the embezzlement of public funds.The Office of the Attorney General said in a statement that the evidence to indict the former Libyan official is "clear."
"The accused embezzled sums of money estimated at about one million Libyan dinars. He also assumed a false name when managing the account of the Brega municipality at the Sahara Bank. The Chief Prosecutor at the Attorney General’s Office has begun an investigation into the case," the statement noted.
On Wednesday, the Libyan Public Prosecution remanded a member of the Board of Directors of the National Oil Corporation (NOC), Abulgasem Shengheer, and two others in jug pending further investigations.
In a statement, the Prosecution announced that it is conducting investigations into Shengheer, the Director of the Occupational Safety, Security, and Health Department of Akakus Oil, and an employee in charge of the Administrative Affairs Unit, over charges of obtaining illegal benefits, causing serious harm to public money, and abusing power.
The detainees were also charged with falsifying documents for personal gain.
[LIBYAREVIEW] The German newspaper, Der Spiegel reported grave human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... violations taking place 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... ’s migrant detention centers.The report quoted a 22-year-old migrant from Mali, claiming that young women were pulled aside by guards after dinner to rape them.
This is why it’s a bad idea to wander through Third World countries unprotected.
"After the women in the Shara al-Zawiya internment camp had finished their rice, the guards would show up and pull them outside. One would hold a weapon to their breasts, as the other raped them. Sometimes, a third guard would film the attack," she told Der Spiegel.
She stated that she had spent four months in the detention center in Tripoli, together with more than 170 women and 20 children who were hoping to make their way to Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... via Libya. The Malian national only managed to escape, after her parents paid the equivalent of 1,000 euros in ransom.
Shara al-Zawiya is one of almost 30 such camps in Libya. Officially, they are run by the Libyan Interior Ministry’s Department for Combatting Illegal Immigration — originally intended to address the migration crisis. In reality, they are run by local militias.
She added that they were only served food once a day, with the guards distributing Tetra packs of juice along with the food. Those wanting water had to drink out of the toilets.
"After eating, I regularly felt tired and dizzy and believe that drugs were added to the meals of some of the women to make them more compliant. The guards did whatever they wanted with them," she claimed.
Girls aged 15-18 have been telling NGO’s that guards at the camp had raped them. Two of the women reportedly attempted to commit suicide as a result. She noted that she watched as guards mercilessly beat a pregnant woman, who went on to suffer a miscarriage.
In 2012, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that refugees may not be sent back to Libya. For years, EU member states, particularly Italia, had been supporting the Libyan authorities to return rescued migrants colonists to Tripoli. After the ruling was issued, that approach was no longer possible.
The EU has provided ships and training, and invested millions into the Libyan Coast Guard, in order to stop the flow of migrants colonists to Europe.
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Libya’s Anti-Illegal Migration Agency has repatriated 163 Nigerian migrants colonists, including women and kiddies through 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... ’s Mitiga International Airport.
The agency said in a statement that the repatriation was carried out by the Interior Ministry and the Office of the Attorney General in coordination with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), as part of the voluntary return program for migrants colonists. A medical examination and COVID-19 tests were conducted for the travellers.
Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) confirmed that the migrants colonists arrived in the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA) in Ikeja, Lagos.
The NEMA coordinator said five of the returnees were found to have health-issues after screening by Port Health officials, according to Nigeria’s news website ’The Nation’.
Notably, the Sahara Reporters news agency stated that a number of Nigerians in Libya have requested help after government officials raided their homes during an immigration crackdown.
In a video shared by Igbere TV, a Nigerian woman who claimed she lives in Tripoli accused the Libyan government of sending security operatives to break into the houses of migrants colonists and arrest them.
She pleaded with the Nigerian government to come to their rescue:
"We need the help of the Nigerian government. Look at what they are doing to us. They will just break into the houses of Nigerians, Ghanaians, and other African nationals, they arrest you and dump you inside prison. They also arrested pregnant women and their children and dumped them inside prison. The Nigerian government should come to our rescue, please. If it was that they arrested these people and they deported them to Nigeria or their respective countries, it would have been better, but they don’t do that. For three days now, we haven’t left our houses, we are scared, please help us," she claimed.
#2
The "Magic Dirt" theory strikes again.
(If there's a wealthy, productive place anywhere, it can't be because of the people or the society, it's gotta be the dirt they're standing on. Let's go There.)
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Steve - I agree. I would have thought the hotel owners and others involved in the tourist trade would have made "arrangements" to protect them from this sort of thing.
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Somebody had a difference of opinion as to who was gonna load the drug mules this week.
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It's a shame about Mexico. They have some very attractive destinations. But I ain't going.
I think it's as much our fault as it is theirs. Our phony "War on Drugs" should have been for real and the border should have been secured. But, with that much money at stake, I guess it was too much to expect from our politicians.
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Lot of Unofficial Business conducted there too.
Soldiers of the Mexican Army, the National Guard and agents of the Attorney General's Office of Mexico detained Armando N., alias "El Inge," leader of the Pacific cartel in Sinaloa, Mexico.
The raid was conducted on October 28, but was not reported until Thursday. Along with apprehending "El Inge," agents confiscated 118 kilograms of fentanyl paste, a narcotic opioid, and a laboratory used to produce the synthetic drug.
The haul of fentanyl is thought to be worth around $48 million at current street value, which would make it the largest seizure of its kind to date. Securing the lab, however, was of equal importance.
The Mexican National Defense agency believed the laboratory capable of producing 70 kilograms of fentanyl paste each month. Each kilogram of fentanyl paste can produce up to a million normal doses. The scale of the operation led the agency to believe its distribution footprint was international.
[Rudaw] A Belgian court on Thursday reduced from 12 to 10 months a police officer's suspended sentence for fatally shooting a Kurdish toddler during a chase of a van carrying migrants.
Two-year-old Mawda was fatally wounded by a shot to the head in May 2018 as police chased a van being driven across Belgium by traffickers taking migrants from the continent to Britain.
The high-profile tragedy caused a scandal in Belgium and, for rights activists, became a symbol of the dangers posed by the "criminalisation" of irregular migration.
Victor-Manuel Jacinto Goncalves, 49, was in February found guilty of involuntary homicide for opening fire on the vehicle and handed a one-year suspended sentence and a 400-euro fine. On Thursday, an appeals court reduced his suspended sentence to 10 months but upheld the fine.
The officer insisted he intended to shoot out a tyre to halt the van, but his car swerved violently and the bullet went astray.
His lawyer demanded a full acquittal on appeal.
But campaign group Justice4Mawda said an acquittal would send a "disastrous message on the total impunity" for police using unwarranted violence.
Mawda's parents, who left Iraq in 2015 and had intended to head to Britain, settled in Belgium after her death, granted leave to remain on humanitarian grounds.
The case drew attention from celebrities -- including Pink Floyd singer-songwriter Roger Waters and film director Ken Loach -- who demanded justice for the toddler.
Cooperation between French and Belgian services was also placed in the spotlight during the original trial.
When the migrants' van set off from northern France in May 2018, French investigators had placed a GPS tracker on board.
But Belgian police did not know it was already under surveillance when they tried to intercept the traffickers on a motorway south of Brussels.
[SHAFAQ] An official security source reported that three unidentified gunnies assassinated an engineer working in a government department, east of Baghdad.
The source told Shafaq News agency that the gunnies ambushed the victim while he was leaving work.
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I tell you Ahmed, he must eliminated, flushed from our wassa system, he is the engineer, who caused all the problems in my home 🏡 ... he is a dirty man.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli troops shot a suspected Israeli smuggler and lightly injured him during an apparent attempt to bring drugs across the border from Egypt into Israel earlier today, the military says.
According to the Israel Defense Forces, soldiers monitoring surveillance cameras spotted the alleged drug smuggling attempt and dispatched troops to the scene.
“During the effort to thwart the smuggling, one of the smugglers who was driving his car accelerated toward them and endangered their lives,” the military says. “The troops began a process of arresting the suspect, including firing into the air and at the vehicle’s wheels. As a result of the gunfire, one of the suspects was injured in his leg and taken for medical treatment in mild condition.”
Though the IDF is tasked with preventing smuggling along the Israeli-Egyptian border, the military typically strives to avoid direct confrontation with Israeli drug smugglers, leaving that to the police.
The military says it is investigating today’s incident.
#Iran has doubled its stock of enriched uranium in less than a month, Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi says weeks ahead of the resumption of talks with the #US and Western allies to revive the abandoned 2015 nuclear deal.https://t.co/xxirffSTOC
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 JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... has doubled its stock of enriched uranium in less than a month, Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI) front man Behrouz Kamalvandi said weeks ahead of the resumption of talks with the US and Western allies to revive the abandoned 2015 nuclear deal.
"Our stock is now more than 210 kilograms of uranium enriched to 20 percent, and Iran has 25 kilograms at 60 percent, a level that no country apart from those with nuclear weapons are capable of producing," state news agency IRNA quoted Kamalvandi as saying.
The head of AEOI, Mohammed Eslami had said in October that Iran has more than 120 kilograms of 20-percent enriched uranium.
Under the abandoned 2015 nuclear deal, Iran was only allowed to enrich uranium up to 3.67 percent, way below the 90 percent required for weapons-grade uranium.
Thousands gather on streets in #Iran for the anniversary of the 1979 seizure of the #US Embassy, chanting “Death to America" and "Death to #Israel," and burning American and Israeli flags.https://t.co/V5TOPsR6au
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.
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
[Rudaw] A Belgian court on Thursday reduced from 12 to 10 months a police officer's suspended sentence for fatally shooting a Kurdish toddler during a chase of a van carrying migrants.
...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 
