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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Violent carjackings are up an astronomical 537 percent in Minneapolis this November compared to November of 2019
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Posted by: Fred || 12/04/2020 00:15 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  How to destroy an American city!in less than a year
Posted by: Flaise Hupack9902 || 12/04/2020 1:00 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
U.S. to Keep Satellite, Large Bases in Afghanistan
[KhaamaPress] Amid the approval of troops drawdown in Afghanistan, America will keep two Large military bases in the country.

Head of US Joint Chiefs of staff, General Mark Milley said on Wednesday, that U.S. will also keep two satellite bases in the country.

America will remain in the country assisting and training Afghan cops, and carry out counterterrorism operations against IS-K, 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....
Khorasan.

This comes as Finland decided to withdraw Finnish troops out of Afghanistan, reducing two thirds of its troops in the country.

The Country will reduce their troops from 60 currently active soldiers to 20 soldiers in Afghanistan, Finnish Defense Forces stated.

Earlier, Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller said that U.S. will reduce troops from more than 4,500 troops to 2,500 in Afghanistan.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/04/2020 08:12 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Pardoned Prisoner Busted for Relaunching Terrorists Activities
[KhaamaPress] First Vice President Amrullah Saleh announced the arrest of a Haqqani affiliated member by the National Directorate of Security
...the Afghan national intel agency...
Saleh said on Thursday the suspect is called "Shera Ahmad" and is one of the people who was released from prison as part of thee peace deal with the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
holy warriors.

He added that after his release from prison, the detained murderous Moslem planned for a catastrophe, but fortunately was busted before his chaotic plans.

According to Saleh seven Taliban fighters were brought to justice in the past 24 hours in a series of security operations.

"Another terrorist was arrested who had infiltrated inside Security personnel in Samangan prison," Saleh said.

In a separate incident, ANP detained nine people on charges of robbery and drug trafficking in Daikundi, Laghman
...Afghan province with a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.
After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men...
and Panjshir provinces.

These individuals were detained during several separate raids, whose cases have been referred to the judicial organs for further processing.

In an MoD operation 85 Talibs were killed in attacks on security outposts in Zherai, Dand, and Maroof districts of Kandahar province.

The attacks by the Taliban were repelled by the government.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/04/2020 00:22 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Haqqani Network


Officials Torch 510kgs Hashish in Logar
[KhaamaPress] Counter Narcotic Police of Afghanistan (CNPA) has torched some 500 kilograms of drugs after discovering them during an operation in Agha district of Pashtun-infested Logar province, said the Ministry of Interior Affairs on Thursday.

"Afghan Counter-Narcotics Special Operation Police launched a special operation in Mohammad Agha district of Pashtun-infested Logar province," said the MoIA in a tweet.

Officials did not provide further details on whether or not any suspect has been comprehended, but said the special unit has seized at least 510 kilograms of hashish before burning them to ashes.

"As a result, 510kg of hashish seized and torched in the area," the tweet added.

On Sunday, the Counter Narcotic Police of Afghanistan (CNPA) in a joint operation with Afghan Air Forces (AAF) seized at least 8,000 kilograms of drugs in Dara-e-Ghoran of Khoshi district in the province.

The narcotic drugs were all torched after discovering it during the operation.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/04/2020 00:22 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Narcos

#1  Dude!
Posted by: Frank G || 12/04/2020 6:17 Comments || Top||

#2  My first thought too, Frank.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 12/04/2020 7:47 Comments || Top||


3 NDS Personnel Killed in Paktia Blast
[ToloNews] At least 3 members of the National Directorate of Security
...the Afghan national intel agency...
(NDS) were killed and 19 civilians were maimed in a blast that targeted a security patrol in Gardez city, local officials in the eastern province said on Thursday.

Abdul Rahman Mangal, a front man for the provincial governor, said that the incident resulted from a boom-mobile that targeted a joint patrol of the Afghan cops in Gardez.

He said that heavy losses and damages were caused to markets and businesses in the area.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Taliban Increase Presence on Kabul-Jalalabad Highway: Drivers
[ToloNews] Passengers and drivers traveling on the Kabul-Jalalabad highway on Thursday expressed deep concern over what they see as a rising security threat and the growing presence of the Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
.

They said that the Taliban have established checkpoints on the highway.

The passengers said that the Taliban also frequently attack those cars allegedly carrying government servants.

Meanwhile,
...back at the dirigible, the gondola was dangling by a single thread of rope.

Jack! Cynthia cried. I just realized I'm afraid of heights! I don't even like high heels!...

residents in the Sarobi district of Kabul have said that the Taliban exist in several villages of the district and sometimes the murderous Moslems shoot at the cars passing on the highway.

"Yesterday there was fighting on the highway, fighting breaks out three or four times a week," said Naseer Agha, a driver.

"We have two vulnerable areas here from which the murderous Moslems try to pose threats, foreign intelligence is also involved in security issues," said Hazratullah, the district governor of Sarobi.

"Problems exist in Tangi and Mahipar areas, threats have also had an impact on hotel business and bazars," said Baseer, a resident in Sarobi.

The Interior Ministry meanwhile said that the Taliban have no strong presence in Kabul districts. The Ministry pledge to fix the security issues on the highway very soon.

"The security forces have a strong presence on the route, we will not allow the Taliban to disrupt law and order," said Tariq Aryan, a front man for the Ministry of Defense.

Kabul-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..
highway once was one of the safest highways in the country. But drivers and passengers on the highway have said that the presence of Taliban on the route has created major concerns for the people.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa North
British troops arrive in Mali to join UN peacekeeping mission
[Jpost] Hundreds of British troops have arrived in Mali to join the United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
peacekeeping mission there, which is the world's deadliest, UK officials said on Thursday.

Britannia already has three Chinook helicopters and 100 personnel in a logistics role in West Africa's Sahel region
... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas...
to support La Belle France's Barkhane operation against Islamist bandidos turbans linked to al Qaeda and 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....
The UK mission to the United Nations said the latest deployment, which was first announced in July 2019, would "provide a highly specialised reconnaissance capability" to the 14,000-strong mission, known by its French acronym MINUSMA.

Most of the troops, who will be based in the northern city of Gao, have already arrived in Mali and the remainder will arrive by next Tuesday, it said in a statement.

"This deployment is a demonstration of our firm commitment to peacekeeping and the importance we place on improving security in the Sahel by protecting local communities," said Defence Secretary Ben Wallace.

MINUSMA was created in 2013 after La Belle France intervened to drive back jihadist fighters who had seized Mali's desert north and were advancing southward.

The mission has recorded 227 fatalities since then, making it the deadliest of the UN's more than dozen peacekeeping missions.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/04/2020 08:10 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in North Africa


UNSMIL Condemns Brutal Attack against School Children in Libya
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Posted by: Fred || 12/04/2020 00:22 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Algeria- 3 militants killed in 2 separate ANP operations near El-Ancer, Jijel Province & on the border of Skikda Province
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Posted by: Fred || 12/04/2020 00:07 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in North Africa


Poor soul scrapping a Luna M ballistic missile in Misrata with a disc grinder apparently,and then got himself 💥Kaboomed💥
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Posted by: Fred || 12/04/2020 00:06 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Muslim Brotherhood

#1  Shessh. If all it takes is an angle grinder, we never would have bothered with all that Star Wars/SM-3 stuff.
Posted by: SteveS || 12/04/2020 12:05 Comments || Top||


ISIS claim sniper attack that killed a soldier south of Bir al-Abd, IED targeting military bulldozer near Rafah, North Sinai
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Posted by: Fred || 12/04/2020 00:03 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Arabia
Yemen coalition intercepts explosive drone launched by Houthis - state TV
[Jpost] The Saudi-led coalition fighting 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...
said early on Friday it intercepted and destroyed an explosive-laden drone launched by the Iran-aligned 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...
movement towards the kingdom, Saudi state TV reported.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/04/2020 08:12 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Azerbaijan says 2,783 soldiers killed in Nagorno-Karabakh fighting
[AlAhram] Fresh festivities between Armenia and Azerbaijan broke out in late September, persisting despite efforts by La Belle France, Russia and the United States to broker ceasefires

Azerbaijan said Thursday that nearly 2,800 of its soldiers were killed in recent fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh, the first details it has released of military losses in weeks of festivities with Armenian forces.
The defence ministry in Baku said in a statement that "2,783 servicemen of the Azerbaijani armed forces were killed in the patriotic war," adding that 100 more soldiers were missing.

Yerevan had earlier announced that 2,317 Armenian troops died during the conflict, which also claimed the lives of at least 93 Azerbaijani and 50 Armenian civilians.

The ethnic Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh broke away from Azerbaijan in a war in the early 1990s that left some 30,000 people dead and displaced many Azerbaijanis that used to live there.

Fresh festivities between Armenia and Azerbaijan broke out in late September, persisting despite efforts by La Belle France, Russia and the United States to broker ceasefires.

Armenia and Azerbaijan signed a Moscow-brokered peace deal on November 9 after Baku's army overwhelmed separatist forces and threatened to advance on Karabakh's main city Stepanakert.

Under the agreement, Armenia lost control of seven districts that it seized around Karabakh during the 1990s war.

Nearly 2,000 Russian peacekeepers have deployed between the two sides and along the Lachin corridor, a 60-kilometre (35-mile) route through the district that connects Stepanakert to Armenia.

Up to 90,000 people -- some 60 percent of the population -- fled the disputed Karabakh region during the fighting.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/04/2020 00:16 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Fifth Column
John Johnson aka Leonard Lorenzo Patrick, founder of Portland BLM-antifa kitchen Riot Ribs, was arrested & charged w/a felony in relation to a hit & run
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Posted by: Fred || 12/04/2020 00:17 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Pick them off, one by one, like the Brits leaving Afghanistan in 1842.
Posted by: anymouse || 12/04/2020 8:02 Comments || Top||

#2  Riot Ribs

Arson looting murder meth ... and now cannibalism?
Posted by: Varmint and Company9315 || 12/04/2020 12:29 Comments || Top||


Ex-Washington state Democrat campaigner among two charged over terrorist attack
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] Two suspected bully boy far-left activists in Washington state have been federally charged for a terrorist attack following an FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force investigation into dozens of attempts to derail trains.

Ellen Brennan Reiche, 27, and Samantha La Belle Frances Brooks, 23, were arrested over the weekend by federal authorities in Bellingham, Wash. and charged with committing a terrorist attack on a railroad facility.

According to the criminal complaint, Reiche and Brooks were placing wired devices known as "shunts" over BNSF Railway tracks in the middle of the night on Nov. 28. The wires are capable of disrupting a train’s electrical signal and cause it to erroneously brake.

"Depending on the location, the shunt may also interfere with the proper operation of crossing gates at railroad/traffic intersections, causing the gates to allow vehicular traffic across the tracks even when a train is oncoming," wrote the officer assigned in the Seattle Division of the FBI in the affidavit.

The two suspects were caught by a Whatcom County deputy. Reiche was carrying a bag that contained gloves, supplies and tools needed to make the wired devices. The insulated copper wire Reiche was carrying was similar to what was used in 41 other attacks on the railway this year, including an incident on Oct. 11 where a train carrying combustible material was decoupled from the engine after riding over a shunt.

Reiche was parked nearby at the time of the duo’s arrest and their vehicle has a sticker on the back with the text "INDIGENOUS LAND" over a map of the entire United States.

Posted by: Fred || 12/04/2020 00:12 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  But all the violence is coming from the right. Right?
Posted by: Angeresing Gonque4190 || 12/04/2020 1:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Reiche’s Career: According to her LinkedIn page, Ellen Reiche works as a mentor for Wild Whatcom, which engages children and their families in year-round nature programs.
She’s also worked as a naturalist for Outer Island Excursions in Anacortes Washington, as a ski instructor..., and as a deputy field organizer for Washington State Democrats.
Posted by: b || 12/04/2020 8:15 Comments || Top||

#3  Potential agenda ?

Additionally, Reiche is a radical queer and environmental activist who co-founded the Bellingham Lesbian Collective. They are a co-host on “The L World” lesbian-themed podcast.Reiche and Brooks made their first court appearance on Monday and have been released on pre-trial. Their next court date is scheduled for Dec. 14. The case is being prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Washington. If convicted, they face up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.



Posted by: Besoeker || 12/04/2020 8:25 Comments || Top||


Two indicted over arson attacks and attempt to set Portland cop on fire at Antifa riot
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] Two accused Portland rioters are facing a slew of new felony charges stemming from a Black Lives Matter-Antifa
...the armed wing of the Democratic Party...
riot where an officer was nearly set on fire by a thrown incendiary device.

The Multnomah County District Attorney’s office announced on Wednesday a grand jury has indicted Cyan Waters Bass, 21, and Hannah Karin Lilly, also 21, for their alleged roles in a violent mostly peaceful riot outside the Justice Center on Sept. 23 where Molotov cocktails were thrown. The riot was organized in response to a Kentucky grand jury’s decision to pursue a lesser charge in the police-involved death of Breonna Taylor in Louisville.

Bass, of Portland, is accused of throwing a "destructive device" toward a law enforcement officer. It failed to explode. He was re-arrested on Tuesday and is charged with two counts of felony arson, felony attempted arson, two counts of felony criminal mischief, felony attempted assault, felony unlawful possession of a destructive device, felony riot, felony unlawful use of a weapon and one misdemeanor count of attempted assault of a public safety officer.

Posted by: Fred || 12/04/2020 00:09 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM


The Grand Turk
German tourist complains about Turkey and calls Erdogan an a-hole after getting into a fight at Antalya Airport's baggage claim. Faces 8 years in Turkish prison
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Posted by: Fred || 12/04/2020 00:30 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Iraq
Security troops firing teargas bombs in Sulaimaniya to disperse protesters demonstrating against delayed salaries
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Posted by: Fred || 12/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq


Engineers resume the sit-in staged in Allawi region, Baghdad province demanding employment
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Posted by: Fred || 12/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq

#1  Unemployed "engineers" due to falling demand for Improvised Explosive Devices?
Posted by: SteveS || 12/04/2020 11:19 Comments || Top||

#2  How long before they are recruited for H1-B visas?
Posted by: Ulavirong Omeager2818 || 12/04/2020 12:22 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IDF detains man who crossed from Gaza into Israel
[Jpost] IDF forces detained a Paleostinian man who crossed 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...
into Israel near Be’eri on Thursday morning, according to Walla News. The man was unarmed and was detained by the IDF for questioning.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/04/2020 08:12 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Hezbollah drone crossed into Israel during IDF exercise - report
[Jpost] A Hezbollah unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), sent to spy in Israeli territory, crossed the northern border into Israel during a recent IDF exercise, according to Ynet News who cited media sources identified with Hezbollah.

The report also stated that the IDF exercise was focused on preventing UAV's from crossing the border. The IDF held a large-scale multi-front exercise at the end of October, simulating war with Hezbollah and dubbed "Lethal Arrow."
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/04/2020 08:12 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


Iran trying to attack Israelis in neighboring countries, NSC warns
[JP] Israelis visiting countries neighboring Iran could be targets for terrorist attacks, the National Security Council warned in a rare public statement on Thursday.

"In light of the threats heard recently from Iranian factors, and in light of past involvement in Iranians in terrorist attacks on various countries, there is a concern Iran will try to act in this way against Israeli destinations," the NSC cautioned.

The notice came almost a week after the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the scientist at the head of Iran's nuclear program and an officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Iranian officials have blamed Israel for the killing and have threatened to retaliate.

Among the countries close to Iran that the NSC said could be Iranian targets are Georgia, Azerbaijan, the Kurdistan region of Iraq, as well as the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, with which Israel recently established diplomatic relations. The NSC also listed the Middle East and Africa more broadly as possible zones in which Iran could attack Israelis.

Iran and its proxies have been responsible for numerous terrorist attacks on Israelis and Jews abroad, such as the bombing of the AMIA Jewish Center in Buenos Aires in 1994, which killed 85 people, and the 2012 attacks on Israeli diplomats in Thailand, Georgia and India.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/04/2020 03:01 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  And if there's a trustworthy source of information that would never lie, it's the US intelligence community. Gosh, Iran is such a threat that we have to pre-emptively invade and take them out first? Huh, where have I heard this before? Iraq? Afghanistan? Syria? Every war we've been in since Vietnam?

Here's the director of national intelligence lying four different times about his lies to Congress. Under oath. For which he should be in prison today. Baseball player Miguel Tejada went to prison for lying to Congress about steroid use, a far less serious crime.
Posted by: Sheger Thromotch7944 || 12/04/2020 5:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Yeah, Sheger Thromoth - those are Joos and MIC cosplayers threatening "Death to America" and "Death to Israel". Also perform in killings and terror attacks.

Pffffft
Posted by: Frank G || 12/04/2020 9:49 Comments || Top||

#3  Another joke (and travesty of justice)--Congress getting involved in baseball. And the DNI lying multiple times to Congress. Nothing wrong with this picture? This place is pathetic.
Posted by: Clem || 12/04/2020 10:33 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Soldier dies in Turkish-controlled north Syria: Ministry
[AlAhram] A Ottoman Turkish soldier was killed in Ottoman Turkish-controlled northern Syria on Thursday during festivities with Kurdish militia forces deemed "terrorists" by Ankara, the defence ministry tweeted.

"One fellow heroic soldier fell martyr in festivities" as fighters from the People's Protection Units (YPG) militia sought to infiltrate the Afrin region, the ministry said.

Ankara sees the YPG as an extension of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which is waging an insurgency in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor...
Turkey and its Syrian proxies control several pockets of territory on Syria's side of the border following three military incursions since 2016 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....
group (IS) and the YPG.

In 2018, Ottoman Turkish forces and their Syrian auxiliaries ousted the Kurdish militia from the Afrin region, about 30 kilometres (20 miles) from the border, during Operation Olive Branch.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/04/2020 00:16 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Daraa Several agents of General Intelligence branch injured in IED explosion
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Posted by: Fred || 12/04/2020 00:16 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


Regime forces arrest 15 young males in Deir Ezzor, driving them to military service
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Posted by: Fred || 12/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


Unknown assailants storm building in northern Aleppo, and Turkish-backed factions seize vehicle intended to be detonated near Azaz
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Posted by: Fred || 12/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


“Salvation Government” informs Syrian residents to check with its real estate office, exempting foreigners
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Posted by: Fred || 12/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


“De-escalation zone'' Rebels target regime forces in Aleppo countryside, and regime forces renew shelling Idlib countryside
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Posted by: Fred || 12/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Over 25 Russian airstrikes target ISIS positions, as Russian-backed militiamen comb the area
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Posted by: Fred || 12/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Turkish-backed factions’ violations Al Hamza Division storms village in Ras al Ain countryside
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Posted by: Fred || 12/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


US imposes fresh Iran-related sanctions, blacklisting Shahid Meisami Group
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US sanctions Iranian group allegedly involved in chemical weapons research

[IsraelTimes] The US Treasury Department sanctions an Iranian entity and its director for alleged involvement in chemical weapons
...have not been used since WWI except for in Iraq, by the late, unlamented Saddam Hussein and in Syria, but really, honest, not by the Syrian government. And in Germany in WWII, but that was against civilians. Lots of them, just one of many reasons Hitler's also late and unlamented...
research for Iran.

"Iran’s development of weapons of mass destruction is a threat to the security of its neighbors and the world," Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says in a statement. "The United States will continue to counter any efforts by the Iranian regime to develop chemical weapons that may be used by the regime or its proxy groups to advance their malign agenda."

As a result of the sanctions, any US assets belonging to Shahid Meisami Group and Mehran Babri will be frozen and American nationals are generally barred from dealings with them.

The Treasury Department says the group is linked to the Iranian Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research, which is already under US sanctions.

The announcement of the sanctions comes as US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
tightens the screws on 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...
before leaving office.
Posted by: Fred || 12/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran



Who's in the News
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9Sublime Porte
4Antifa/BLM
3Govt of Iran
2Govt of Iraq
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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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