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A Russian couple were detained by Mexican law enforcement in Tijuana, Baja California with $587,550 in cash with them
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Good Morning

Layoffs: Companies copy others
'in almost mindless imitation,' professor says
Friday December 9th, 2022

New York circa 1921. A lady and her phonograph._n8i65eA0Ft1r9jvdwo1_500
Russian Perspective: Operation to Denazify
Ukraine: Operational Brief December 8th (updated)
Muslim Unity activist arrested in Azerbaijan
Siloviki reported on the detention
of one of the ISIS leaders in Tbilisi
Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion
of Ukraine: December 8th, 2022
Chronology of the war in Ukraine:
Thursday, December 8 (updated)
Perspective from the Breakaway Republics:
Invasion of Ukraine: December 8th, 2022
North Carolina deputies and FBI have 'active warrants' and are seeking suspects for power station gun attack that left 45,000 in the dark

Posted by: Fred || 12/09/2022 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That's a nice ankle.
Posted by: Slolush Sholulet5459 || 12/09/2022 4:27 Comments || Top||

#2  "Wanna dance?"
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/09/2022 9:48 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/09/2022 9:51 Comments || Top||

#4  I think we had one like that.... the phonograph, not the ankle plus attachments.
Posted by: Mercutio || 12/09/2022 11:47 Comments || Top||

#5  What that phonograph did is now done by your cellphone with much better fidelity. Smaller, lighter, and probably cheaper (factoring in inflation - dollar vs gold).
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/09/2022 12:51 Comments || Top||

#6  Misses the anticipatory prelude though.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/09/2022 19:02 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
North Carolina deputies and FBI have 'active warrants' and are seeking suspects for power station gun attack that left 45,000 in the dark
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Moore County Sheriff's Office and Bureau agents announced they have 'active warrants' and are looking to find a 'suspect or suspects'

  • Saturday's gun attack at a substation in Moore County, North Carolina, left 45,000 without power

  • An LGBTQ nonprofit in North Carolina had set up a drag show at the Sunrise Theater in Southern Pines on Saturday night

  • FBI are probing if the power was taken out to stop the drag show from occurring
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/09/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Since the FBI Leadership has jumped in using the TRANS Show angle.

I have to ask were any FBI or DC or LSD family in the show.☺

Side Note: I still feel the rank and file of the FBI are good and lawful. It is the Leadership that needs flushing to regain its place as the Best Law Enforcement agency staff in the world.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/09/2022 7:24 Comments || Top||

#2  So they're leading with anti LGBTLMNOP narrative based on someone was planning to have a drag show so that MUST be why the locals are getting all supremacy-like. Sheesh.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 12/09/2022 8:06 Comments || Top||

#3  Until and unless the rank file FBI starts arresting their bosses and their owners, I will continue to assume they are all traitors and part of the criminal enterprise known as the democrats.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 12/09/2022 9:06 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ Those people have insider knowledge of how the game is played. They won't do anything you will read about in the news, but the doing is probably already happening.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/09/2022 9:13 Comments || Top||

#5  The article has updated since it was posted. Key point:

It was initially claimed online that the attack may have been to prevent a local drag queen story hour from taking place, but no evidence has emerged to support that claim.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/09/2022 9:42 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ Well. Punishing the innocent to stop the guilty is a dem gummint impulse.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/09/2022 9:46 Comments || Top||

#7  It is my sense from open source reporting and personal observations that the infestation of the Federal government began in earnest under the Magic Kenyan and Holder. Key agencies like DHS, DoJ, FBI, CIA, NSA and Treasury were a particular focus. Over time, my sense is that the rot has spread increasingly downwards, so now, even the mid-level grades are deeply penetrated and political. Decent entrants still come onboard, but mid career, they learn to play the game or move on. The rot is the worst in major field offices located in deep blue urban areas.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 12/09/2022 11:23 Comments || Top||

#8  On the sunny side, they at least have their priorities straight. The very thought that somebody undertook a well planned and executed act of sabotage, hypothetically against Madame Lazonga and the boys is enough to make any loyal citizen's blood boil.

Them 'aire 45,000 can of course go pound sand. What need of evidence when they have the advantage of mind reading?
Posted by: Cesare || 12/09/2022 11:42 Comments || Top||

#9  Ref #7: That's the 'worst case scenario NoMoBS. I usually go with worst case. Upward adjustments are generally more pleasant.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/09/2022 11:45 Comments || Top||

#10  EVERY interaction I have had has been with ‘rank and file’ and has resulted in my deep and abiding distrust of them.

They lie and threaten, and undermine national security as easily as they breathe. Not a fan.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 12/09/2022 11:56 Comments || Top||

#11  #5 Key point TW is that they immediately jumped to that conclusion with zero proof. How/why did they get there? Could it be they were aware of and surveiling the show just in case there was an "incident"? Very interested in those "active warrants" (round up the usual suspects).
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 12/09/2022 12:37 Comments || Top||

#12  Key point TW is that they immediately jumped to that conclusion script
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/09/2022 13:12 Comments || Top||

#13  Writer of the article probably wrote the comment.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/09/2022 13:58 Comments || Top||

#14  was there a Ray Epps sighting?
Posted by: Regular joe || 12/09/2022 18:12 Comments || Top||

#15  they immediately jumped to that conclusion with zero proof.

Fair enough. I’m glad you lot think of such things — it completely didn’t occur to me.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/09/2022 20:04 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Daily Evacuation Brief December 9, 2022
[AfghanDigest] LAST 24 HOURS
  • CLASH BETWEEN IRANIAN AND TALIBAN BORDER SECURITY FORCES – Iranian officials confirmed that 1 Iranian border guard was killed in a clash with Taliban border security forces. Iranian news sites said the fighting involved ‘bandits’ from Afghanistan but Afghan sources were adamant the scuffle involved both country’s border forces.

  • US REITERATES IT WILL INTERVENE IF TERROR GROUPS OPERATE IN AFGHANISTAN – In a blunt warning to the regime, a US spokesman said that President Biden will not hesitate to take action if terror groups seek safe haven in the country. He went on to say that the overall objective would be to halt terrorist attacks against Pakistan.

  • UPDATE ABOUT NRF TARGETED ATTACK IN TAKHAR – The ambush of a Taliban intelligence chief in Rostaq succeeded in wounding Qari Abdullah and 1 of his bodyguards was killed. A second report has alleged that Abdullah was also killed in the attack but confirmation has not yet been received.

  • MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR CLAIMS TO HAVE ARRESTED 5 ISIS-K MEMBERS – The 5 detainees were allegedly involved in the killing of Rahimullah Haqqani. GDI agents released videos of the men’s confessions on their social media accounts.

  • PUBLIC FLOGGINGS INCREASE – As expected, Provinces around the country have begun to announce public spectacles of Sharia punishments. In the wake of the recent public execution, several Provinces scheduled events around the country. Parwan publicly flogged 27 people (10 of which were women) and released a video of the punishments being carried out.


CONFLICT TRACKER
Helmand: Sources reported that a team from the NLF killed 2 Taliban security forces personnel in Lashkargah for continually harassing the local population. No further information was available.

NEXT 24 HOURS: No Current Threats Reported
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/09/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Taliban/IEA


Africa Horn
Somali army repels Al-Shabaab attack in Hiran region
[ShabelleMedia] Heavy fighting
... as opposed to the more usual name-calling or slapsy...
took place on Thursday morning in the area of ​​Beerhani, on the western side of the city of Beledweyne in the capital of the Hiraan region.

The battle between the SNA and al-Shabaab
...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
came after bandidos forces of Evil attacked the army base in the area where both sides exchanged heavy and small weapons that lasted for hours.

The army officers said that they defended themselves from the attack and that the warring parties suffered casualties, although it cannot be officially confirmed.

There are operations against al-Shabaab in the Hiran region by the army in cooperation with the local people, who gained control of dozens of villages since August.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/09/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


Africa Subsaharan
Congo M23 rebels have killed at least 131 people, inflicted 'unspeakable violence' against civilians
[FoxNews] United Nations investigation says 60 were abducted, 22 women were raped.

Arbitrarily shooting, stabbing, raping, and abducting people, rebels in eastern Congo have killed at least 131 people and inflicted "unspeakable violence" against civilians, says a new U.N. report.

The M23 rebel group
...also known as the Congolese Revolutionary Army. The Tutsi group was founded in 2012 as a Rwandan sock puppet, which no doubt seemed a good idea at the time, but in less than a year the Congolese army defeated them, and then Rwanda publicly stepped back in response to international pressure. Recently M23 has started acting up again, possibly again at Rwandan instigation...
killed men, women and children in two villages in Congo's Rutshuru territory in North Kivu province last month, according to a preliminary investigation by the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office in Congo and MONUSCO, the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the country.

The investigation, based on interviews with 52 victims and witnesses, details a brutal campaign of killings, rapes, kidnappings and looting in Kishishe and Bambo villages, between November 29 and 30 by the rebels. At least 60 people were abducted, 22 women and girls raped, property looted and houses burned, says the report.

The killings were among the latest in clashes between the rebels and a coalition of armed civilian protection militia, which have been fighting each other in eastern Congo for more than a year, since M23 rebels resurfaced after being dormant for nearly a decade.

The M23 rose to prominence 10 years ago when its fighters seized Goma, the largest city in Congo’s east, which sits along the border with Rwanda. The group derives its name from a March 23 peace deal in 2009, which it accuses the government of not implementing.

After the attacks rebels prevented survivors from leaving ransacked villages and allegedly buried bodies of victims in what might have been an attempt to destroy evidence, said the U.N. report. Due to security constraints investigators were unable to access the villages speaking to survivors and witnesses at a U.N. peacekeeping base in a nearby town where people had sought refuge.

The report comes amid a spate of tit-for-tat accusations by both groups accusing the other of atrocities. While a cease-fire was agreed to last month, analysts say the new attacks could lead to further violence.

"Despite M23’s recent statements expressing willingness to withdraw, the group’s attacks against civilians could potentially indicate an escalation of the conflict, and are likely to lead to further violence between M23 and other armed groups, some of whom have also committed violations. Civilians, as always, will pay the price," said Daniel Levine-Spound a researcher focused on Congo with the Center for Civilians in Conflict.

M23 did not immediately respond to the findings of the U.N.'s investigation but has previously dismissed similar accusations as propaganda. It said that is committed to abiding by the cease-fire agreed to in Angola in November. Speaking to The Associated Press by phone, Lawrence Kanyuka, the rebel group’s political spokeman asserted that M23 is entitled to defend itself if attacked.

However, the group has gained ground in recent weeks, inching close to Goma and expanding into Masisi, increases in their territory that make it hard to believe the rebels are only acting in self-defense.

"When you look at how much terrain they’ve gained since October it’s hard to believe that argument that they’re just defending themselves," said Eliora Henzler, coordinator for the Kivu Security Tracker. "The problem is that it’s still not clear to us what they want. It’s difficult to understand what they see as an end game."

The violence is exacerbating a dire humanitarian crisis in eastern Congo. Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced, living in squalid conditions in damp schools, churches and stadiums. Locals want the Congolese government to do more to stem the violence, but say they won't support negotiations with a group as brutal as M23.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/09/2022 08:21 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Tut, tut, Tutsi... goodbye.
Posted by: Mercutio || 12/09/2022 11:48 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Siloviki reported on the detention of one of the ISIS leaders in Tbilisi
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] A native of the Pankisi Gorge, Tsiskara Tokhosashvili, known as Emir Isa, was detained at the Tbilisi airport, the Georgian Security Service reported today. The security forces consider him the head of one of the IS units.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that Caesar Tokhosashvili, a native of Pankisi, whom the security forces consider to be the deputy of the Amir of the terrorist organization "Islamic State" Abu Umar al-Shishani
...real name Tarkhan Tayumurazovich Batirashvili, known by his nom de guerre Abu Omar al-Shishani. A Georgian-Chechen convert who worked his way up to senior ISIS military commander and member of the Shura council, he went for jihad after a stint as a sergeant in the Georgian Army. He was killed in Iraq’s Saladin province in 2016, aged 30, after a busy and eventful life...
banned in Russia by the court, was detained in Kiev in December 2019 and extradited to Tbilisi in May 2020. 

Umar al-Shishani's deputy was detained in Kiev, where he lived in a private house, and  placed under extradition arrest . A portrait examination confirmed that the detainee is one of the wanted leaders of the Islamic State, the SBU reported in November 2019.

A citizen of Georgia, Tsiskara Tokhosashvili, was detained at the Tbilisi airport, the State Security Service (SSS) of Georgia reported today.

According to the investigation, in 2015 Tokhosashvili left Georgia and joined the Islamic State*. In the Middle East, he became known as "Emir Isa" and quickly became a powerful figure in IS.

"He took an active part in terrorist activities and the conduct of hostilities in Syria and Iraq. For some time he led one of the units of a terrorist organization in the conflict zone," Interpress news quoted the agency as saying today.

Tokhosashvili faces 10 to 17 years in prison. The case against him was initiated under the article on joining a foreign terrorist organization and complicity in terrorist activities.

His brother, Tsezar Tokhosashvili, known in the Islamic State as Al Bara Shishani, is already serving his sentence in Georgia. The Tokhosashvili brothers are from the village of Omalo in the Pankisi Gorge of Georgia, where ethnic Chechen-Kists live, Novosti Georgia reported today.
Posted by: badanov || 12/09/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Muslim Unity activist arrested in Azerbaijan
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] Member of the Muslim Unity Movement (MMU)
...also in our archives as the unregistered Movement for Muslim Unity — no doubt an artifact of the translation — they describe themselves as a peaceful Shiite Islamic socio-political movement that calls for democratic reform and religious liberties, but it’s clear from context that they they mean the peace that comes from submission to Khomeini Shiism...
Mirtofig Huseynov has been arrested for three months on drug trafficking charges. Huseynov is being prosecuted on trumped-up charges, his father and associates said.

As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote Mirtofig Huseynov, a member of the Muslim Unity Movement (MMU), was detained on the evening of December 6 at a bus stop near the January 20 metro station, the activist's father Mirjalal Huseynov said. Family members by noon on December 7 were unable to clarify his fate. The DME
...what’s that?
called the detention a continuation of a new wave of persecution of activists of the organization.

On November 23, Shahin Gadirli, a member of the Muslim Unity Movement (MMU), was detained by security forces at a bus stop on his way home from work. His relatives were informed of his detention only on 26 November. He was charged with involvement in drug trafficking on a large scale, the court sent him into custody for four months.

The DME called the case of Gadirli fabricated, considering it a provocation against the organization. Shahin Gadirli is the tenth Muslim Unity member to be held in prison, including the organization's leader Taleh Bagirzade,
...also known as Bagirov, in his youth the Azerbaijani Shiite studied theology in Iran, then came home to found the Movement for Muslim Unity, translatable as Al Tawheed. He was sentenced to 20 years for murder, terrorism, organization of mass riots, illegal possession of weapons, and attempted forcible seizure of power, because he led the festivities. Authorities accused him and the Muslim Unity Movement of planning an armed insurrection against the state, claiming they’d thrown Molotov cocktails and opened fire on the police officers during a 2017 raid, in their interpretation of Khomeinism...
the DME reported.

On December 2, the Court of Appeal upheld him. Samir Babaev, a member of the DME, was detained on December 2 in the Mashtaga settlement, and on December 1, another member of the movement, Nijat Aliyev, was detained in the Masazir settlement, he was taken away in an unknown direction. The DME considered the detentions of Aliyev and Babayev unfounded. On December 6, it became known that Babayev and Aliyev were charged with  drug trafficking.

The whereabouts of Mirtofig Huseynov became known only on the evening of December 7, his father Mirjalal Huseynov said.

"It turned out that my son was detained and taken to the 22nd police station of the Nasimi district. There he was charged under article 234.4.3 (drug trafficking) of the Criminal Code of Azerbaijan. Yesterday (December 7) he was brought to the Nasimi district court, which made a decision about arrest for three months. That is, for such a period he will remain in custody while the investigation is going on. He has already been sent to the pre-trial detention center of Kurdakhany (SIZO-1 of the Penitentiary Service - Note of the "Caucasian Knot"). We do not believe in this accusation. My son is far from drugs, he is a believer," Mirjalal Huseynov told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
How does he feel about captagon, the fuel of ISIS and everyone else in Iraq, Syria, and the lands about them? The Koran forbids alcohol, not mood altering substances in general — else the whirling dervishes would have to give up spinning until dizzy .
DME spokesman Abulfaz Bunyadov also questioned the credibility of the charges against Mirtofig Huseynov.

“Drug charges are often used against believers, and in particular members of the DME. Since November 23 alone, four DME activists have been arrested on this charge. It is obvious that these cases are fabricated. Detentions and arrests occur in violation of the law. relatives, they are not given the opportunity to invite a lawyer of their choice. This also happened with Mirtofig Huseynov. The charges in connection with drugs are ridiculous. Our activists are accused not even of using or possessing drugs, but of trafficking, and on a large scale. The question is, if they such drug dealers, why are they engaged in low-paid, low-skilled labor?All this is a new wave of pressure on Muslim Unity," Bunyadov told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

He noted that the DME will try to involve a lawyer with an independent civil position in the defense of Mirtofig Huseynov to challenge the arrest.

The Nasimi District Court of Baku confirmed the information about the arrest of Mirtofig Huseynov, but refrained from commenting, noting that the defense has the right to appeal.

Article 234.4.3 (illegal manufacture, production, acquisition, storage, transportation, shipment or sale of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances) of the Criminal Code of Azerbaijan provides for punishment in the form of imprisonment from 5 to 12 years.

On January 25, 2017, the leader of the Muslim Unity movement, Taleh Bagirzade, and 17 of his supporters were sentenced to terms of 10 to 20 years on charges of organizing riots after a security operation in November 2015, which resulted in the death of seven people, including two policemen, says the reference of the "Caucasian Knot" "

The defendants complained of torture and pleaded not guilty. Azerbaijani human rights activists recognized the defendants in the Nardaran case as political prisoners. Subsequently, some of the convicts  were released on  pardon and the end of their term.
Posted by: badanov || 12/09/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies


Home Front: WoT
A Russian couple were detained by Mexican law enforcement in Tijuana, Baja California with $587,550 in cash with them
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 12/09/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [20 views] Top|| File under: Human Trafficking

#1  "$587,550 in cash???"

"We really like tacos."

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 12/09/2022 4:33 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ I can relate
Posted by: Frank G || 12/09/2022 6:54 Comments || Top||

#3 

Must have been cash they use this election. ☺
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/09/2022 7:18 Comments || Top||

#4  I thought cash was king.

Obviously this couple didn't have the right amigos.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 12/09/2022 7:20 Comments || Top||

#5  Mmmmmm..... tacos.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/09/2022 8:53 Comments || Top||

#6  Arrested on Taco Tuesday?
Posted by: Frank G || 12/09/2022 10:00 Comments || Top||

#7  After they were detained, they left with $400,000.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 12/09/2022 10:49 Comments || Top||

#8  Hmmmm. They must be infrastructure.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/09/2022 11:59 Comments || Top||

#9  Escape russia for a new life in the USA or in Mexico to hire bad people to do bad things inside the USA?
Posted by: ruprecht || 12/09/2022 15:21 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Gazan laborer arrested in Israel as Hamas spy, Shin Bet says
[IsraelTimes] Agency says Saber Abu Thabat provided interrogators with ’vast amount of information’ on terror group’s operations and military sites

Israeli security forces have arrested a Paleostinian man 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 on suspicion that he spied in Israel on behalf of the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, terror group, the Shin Bet security service said Thursday.

The agency said that Saber Mahmoud Yosef Abu Thabat, 28, from the central Gazook city of Deir al Balah, had a permit to enter Israel for work. He was arrested in early November and an indictment against him is expected to be filed at the Beersheba District Court in the coming days, leading the Shin Bet to release information about the case.

According to the Shin Bet, Abu Thabat was recruited by Hamas to "gather intelligence and carry out missions in Israel."

The agency said he held several meetings with his Hamas operators on the Paleostinian side of the Erez border crossing before crossing into Israel to allegedly spy for the group.

The Shin Bet accused the Hamas operators of instructing Abu Thabat to collect and reveal personal information on Shin Bet agents, as well as scout out strategic sites in Israel.

"As part of his interrogation, and due to his activity in Hamas and the knowledge he was exposed to, a vast amount of information was obtained about the operating methods of Hamas’s intelligence mechanisms, including the identity of operators, locations of tunnels, weapon stockpiles, and military locations from which the organization operates," the Shin Bet said.

The agency said Abu Thabat was aware he was using his permit to spy for the terror group.

The case comes amid an ongoing debate in Israel about allowing large numbers of Paleostinians from the Gaza Strip into Israel to work, a move that the army has historically supported as a stabilizing measure by boosting the Gazook economy, and the Shin Bet has generally opposed, fearing that it would be abused by Hamas or other terror groups to carry out and coordinate attacks against Israeli targets.

Israel recently raised the quota of work permits for Gazook Paleostinians to 17,000.

"The Shin Bet views any direction of terrorist activity and espionage from the Gaza Strip with great severity, and will continue to work together with the Israel Police and the IDF in order to locate and thwart in advance any hostile activity by all parties operating on behalf of Hamas," the agency said in a statement on Thursday.

The Shin Bet noted that last week it revealed it had arrested another Gazook laborer, accused of planning a bombing attack on a bus in southern Israel on behalf of the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
terror group.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/09/2022 01:14 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Palestinian teen shot dead by Israeli troops during alleged stone-throwing attack
[IsraelTimes] PA Health Ministry says four others maimed in incident near village of Aboud; Diaa al-Rimawi, 16, is fifth Paleostinian fatality by Israeli fire within a day

A Paleostinian teenager who allegedly hurled stones at passing Israeli motorists in the central West Bank was rubbed out by Israeli troops on Thursday afternoon, authorities said.

The fatality marked the fifth Paleostinian killed by Israeli forces in raids or attacks in the previous 24 hours, adding to a corpse count that has risen significantly during a months-long anti-terror offensive in the West Bank.

The Israel Defense Forces said several suspects had been hurling rocks and containers of paint at Israeli cars driving on Route 465 near the village of Aboud, northwest of Ramallah.

"IDF soldiers conducting routine activity in the area... shot at the suspects," the military said, adding that "targets were hit."

The Paleostinian Authority Health Ministry said 16-year-old Diaa Muhammad Shafiq al-Rimawi was killed. His body was taken by the Israeli army, it said.

The ministry said a second Paleostinian was seriously hurt in the incident and taken by Israeli soldiers to a hospital in Israel, while another three were in stable, pH balanced condition at a hospital in Ramallah.

A military official confirmed that the suspect’s body was being held by Israel and that a second person had been transported to a hospital with serious injuries.

The IDF said the suspects "endangered the lives of passersby." There were no immediate reports of Israelis hurt, or cars damaged, in stone-throwing incidents in the area.

The incident came hours after Israeli troops killed three button men during an early Thursday morning raid in the city of Jenin.

On Wednesday afternoon, a gunman who opened fire on a military post in the central West Bank was also shot and killed.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/09/2022 01:12 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  FAFO
Posted by: Frank G || 12/09/2022 7:37 Comments || Top||

#2  What does FAFO stand for, Frank G?
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/09/2022 16:55 Comments || Top||

#3  #2 What does FAFO stand for, Frank G?

Fucked around, found out.
Posted by: badanov || 12/09/2022 17:11 Comments || Top||

#4  What a long way to say consequences. Pungent and emotionally satisfying, though. Thank you for translating, badanov — my vocabulary has grown in all sorts of interesting directions since I found the Burg.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/09/2022 19:57 Comments || Top||

#5  Bad's got it - I thought it was previously used/explained, TW. ;-)

It applies all the time, shorthand for "Actions have consequences"
Posted by: Frank G || 12/09/2022 20:13 Comments || Top||

#6  Very probably I am the only one here who didn’t immediately recognize the term, Frank G. I grew up with a dearth of useful Anglo-Saxonisms, as both my parents learnt English as adults... and British English before the American version. When Mama first went to work at the VA hospital as an occupational therapist, her husband wrote out a vocabulary list for her with the medical Latin translations, but that list was mever shared with me. So I continue learning, one word or phrase at a time.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/09/2022 23:09 Comments || Top||


Arab Israeli gets 15 years in prison for shooting at cops during May 2021 riots
[IsraelTimes] Mohammed Mahdi Agbaria also found guilty of throwing roofing tiles at officers who came to arrest him; judges call his actions ’an attempt to carry out a coup by armed force’

An Arab man from northern Israel was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in prison after being convicted for his role in riots last May that featured some of the worst inter-ethnic violence in the country’s history.

According to a statement from the State Attorney’s Office, Mohammed Mahdi Agbaria confessed to shooting a pistol at police during rioting near the city of Umm al-Fahm due to his belief that "Israeli security forces were harming the holiness of the al-Aqsa Mosque" atop the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City.

He was also found guilty of hurling tiles from the roof of his home at the officers who later came to arrest him, striking one of them in the head.

Agbaria, a married 36-year-old father of two, was convicted by the Haifa District Court of attempted murder, illegal gun possession, assault and other offensives.

Along with the 15-year prison term, he received a suspended sentence of 51 months and was ordered to pay a fine of NIS 10,000.

In the ruling, the judges said that Agbaria acted out of "a nationalistic and ideological motive." They added that "miraculously" no one was injured by his actions, which they termed "acts of defiance" against the government.

"[His actions] constitute an attempt to carry out a coup by armed force," the judges wrote, explaining that they were therefore handing him a stiffer sentence.

The ruling came weeks after another Arab Israeli man was sentenced to 10 years in prison for taking part in a mob assault on a Jewish resident of Acre during the May 2021 riots that left the victim with life-threatening and permanent injuries.

The riots in Acre and outside Umm al-Fahm were part of a series of violent mostly peaceful inter-communal disturbances, particularly in Israel’s mixed Jewish-Arab cities, that took place in the days following the outbreak of conflict between Israel and Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, in 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...
on May 10, 2021.
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Iran executes first prisoner known to have been arrested during protests
[IsraelTimes] State-run news says Mohsen Shekari, accused of blocking street and attacking policeman with machete, was found guilty of ’waging war against God’.

Iran
...They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
said Thursday it executed a prisoner convicted for a crime allegedly committed during the country’s ongoing nationwide protests, the first such death penalty
carried out by Tehran.

The execution comes as other detainees also face a possible death penalty for their involvement in the protests, which began first as an outcry against Iran’s morality police and have expanded into one of the most serious challenges to Iran’s theocracy since its 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Activists warn others could be put to death as well soon since activist muppets say at least a dozen people so far have received death sentence
...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
s over their involvement in the demonstrations.

The "execution of #MohsenShekari must be me with STRONG reactions otherwise we will be facing daily executions of protesters," wrote Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, the director of the Oslo-based activist muppet group Iran Human Rights. "This execution must have rapid practical consequences internationally."

Iran’s Mizan news agency reported the execution. It accused the man of blocking a street and attacking a security force member with a machete in Tehran.

The Mizan news agency, run by the country’s judiciary, identified the executed man as Mohsen Shekari. It said he had been convicted in Tehran’s Revolutionary Court, which typically holds closed-door cases that have been internationally criticized in other cases for not allowing those on trial to pick their own lawyers or even see the evidence against them.

Mizan said Shekari had been arrested September 25, then convicted November 20 on the charge of "moharebeh," a Farsi word meaning "waging war against God." That charge has been levied against others in the decades since 1979 and carries the death penalty.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/09/2022 02:02 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Jan 6 committee and its deep state henchmen look on enviously.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/09/2022 7:14 Comments || Top||

#2 

Wondering out loud.

Could the LSD's are seeing this, and contemplating how they do the same thing to at least a few Jan. 6th protesters. As a warning, that only Anti-MAGA protests are OK in DC.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/09/2022 7:16 Comments || Top||

#3  If only this person had been as peaceful as Antifa/BLM....
Posted by: DooDahMan || 12/09/2022 7:19 Comments || Top||


#5  Given the well-below replacement birthrate Iran has been experiencing, reducing the birthrate even further strikes me as unwise….
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/09/2022 16:54 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ All totalitarians are anti human at the core.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/09/2022 17:09 Comments || Top||



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