#4
A very Merry Christmas to you all, boys! Thank God for you where ever you are and whatever your station. Be well, be safe, but above all, be MERRY for this is the birthday of all time, enjoy it and keep Him in mind.
Oh, and Death to socialists and socialism every where.
#5
I grew up in the early 60's watching The Lorretta Young Show with my mom. If I'd only known she posed for pics like this. Lorretta Young I mean not my mom.
#7
'Twas DC and nobody freaky
Was stirring, not even a squeaky.
Whoremongering geezers
And gold-digging skeezers
Were all sound asleep,
Save one nervous old creep
Who shrieked, "Jesus! These floors are sure creaky!"
[Breitbart] Interpol, a global organization linking the world’s law enforcement entities, warned in a report announced Tuesday that global terrorist organizations and "non-state actors" were attempting to take advantage of the chaos surrounding the Chinese coronavirus pandemic to become more influential.
Interpol noted that the full report was "for law enforcement use only," but in its statement on the report’s completion asserted that the organization had reason to be concerned about the benefits the pandemic may have created for terrorist organizations.
"Early in the pandemic, certain terrorist groups and other NSAs [non-state actors] used the pandemic to reinforce their power and influence, particularly among local populations, or to expand their external financial resources," Interpol warned. "The report also highlights how the impact of COVID-19 [Chinese coronavirus] on the global economy is likely to indirectly affect funding available to terrorist organizations."
Interpol stated its report also found reason to believe extreme lockdown measures implemented to prevent the spread of the virus could aid terrorist organizations by triggering "civil unrest."
"As COVID-19 cases subside in some regions and surge in others, the report underlines the critical need to monitor the reaction and response by terrorist networks, violent extremist groups, and other potentially dangerous NSAs," Interpol noted.
The Interpol public release on the report bizarrely identified "far-right supporters" in the West as a major cause of concern regarding terrorism exacerbated by the pandemic.
[KhaamaPress] Amrullah Saleh, the first vice president, said on Wednesday at 6:30 am meeting that the root cause of the increase in explosions and suicides in Kabul and other provinces is the smuggled exports of 15,000 to 20,000 tons of ammonium nitrate from Pakistain,
Goodness. That seems rather a lot...
the chemical material that plays a key role in making improvised bombs.
Saleh claimed that the explosives have been smuggled by Pakistain to the Afghan Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... in 2020 and that each ton can make up to 50 bombs.
That’s 750,000 - 1,000,000 IEDs, if I tapped the right keys on the calculator app. They must be hip deep in the things — thunderstorms must be completely overwhelmed by secondary explosions. Because of course they won’t be evenly distributed across Afghanistan’s 252,000 square miles at a rate of 4 IEDs per square mile.
According to Saleh, improvised bombs use fewer industrial kabooms, and its exports are sourced to Pakistain.
He said that most of the explosives are made of ammonium nitrate, a chemical fertilizer that has been banned in Afghanistan for decades.
"In our negotiations with the Paks, we have repeatedly mentioned the ban on the export of these materials to Afghanistan," Saleh said.
This comes in a time that the earth-shattering kaboom of magnetic mines and suicide kabooms in Kabul and other provinces of the country has escalated.
#3
No additional payment required. Merely intramural sports being played between the ISI and AF government...soon some of those kabooms will soon be sent back across the border to Pak with compliments from Kabul.
Yousuf Rasheed, FEFA Head and Activist, Killed by Gunmen
[ToloNews] Yousuf Rasheed, CEO of the Free and Fair Election Forum of Afghanistan (FEFA), was killed by unknown button men in Kabul city on Wednesday morning, his brother confirmed.
The incident happened around 8:30am local time in the Tani Koot area in PD7 of Kabul city while he was on his way to the office and button men started shooting at his vehicle, Abdul Baqi Rasheed, his brother said.
His driver was also maimed in the shooting and both were transferred to the Emergency hospital, but Yousuf Rasheed died, his brother said.
Sami, Rasheed's driver, also died later at the hospital from wounds sustained in the attack, Sami's relatives confirmed.
Yousuf Rasheed was a very popular civil society activist.
Kabul police confirmed that Rasheed has died.
No group, including the Taliban ...Arabic for students... , has immediately grabbed credit for the attack.
1 Police Officer Killed, 2 Wounded in Kabul Blast
[ToloNews] At least one police officer was killed and two more were maimed in an IED blast that targeted a police vehicle in Kabul on Wednesday morning, Kabul police confirmed in a statement.
The incident happened around 6:55am local time in Kabul’s PD12 when an IED targeted a police vehicle, it said.
However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... the statement did not provide further details.
No group including the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... has grabbed credit for the blast.
[KhaamaPress] Afghan Ministry of Defense stated on Wednesday, that 24 Taliban ...Arabic for students... were killed in Maiwand and Zherai districts of Kandahar province.
The Taliban fighters were killed before attacking ANDSF positions in the region, MoD stated the gunnies were "planning to attack" the Afghan national defense force’s positions.
Meanwhile MoD tweeted, 16 Talibs were killed and 11 others are injured as the defense forces showed retaliation over Taliban offensives in NAWA and Nad-Ali districts of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province.
According to MOD, the Taliban planted 9 IEDs on the public roads which were later discovered and defused by the ANA
MoD tweeted "9 IEDs which were placed on public roads were discovered and defused by ANA during reciprocal operation".
In a separate incident, 2 Taliban affiliated members were killed and three others were maimed in the reciprocal attacks by the Afghan cops in DOSHI district of Baghlan province on Tuesday night.
A large number of Death Eater’s ammunition and weapons were seized following the reciprocal attacks.
The same night in the Hesarak district of Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province, 5 Taliban were killed after they attacked ANDSF outposts, MoD said in a tweet.
This comes as Taliban attacks in Koh-Zor district of Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... province were repulsed by the ANA, resulting in 11 Taliban deaths and a large amount of their ammunition and weapons were also destroyed during ANA reciprocal offensives.
[KhaamaPress] A source in Dowlat Abad district of Faryab province, who did not want to be named, told Khaama Press that following two car kabooms on Dowlatabad district center, the district is now on the verge of collapse.
He added that Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... fighters attacked the Dawlat Abad district center last night with an explosive-laden vehicle, destroying most of the buildings inside the bazaar.
The source added that a three-story building of the National Army has completely collapsed, and many security members are still trapped under the rubble.
The official indicated, that the district building had also been destroyed, and only a few soldiers remain at the gate of the entrance fighting the Taliban.
He stressed that if reinforcements are not sent to the central Dawlatabad, the district would collapse in a few hours.
So far, the bodies of three ANA soldiers have been pulled from the rubble and handed over to the International Committee of the Red Thingy (ICRC), the official said.
Two nights ago, Taliban fighters attacked the district with a Humvee type of vehicle loaded with 1,500 Kg of explosives.
Faryab Governor, Naqibullah Fayeq said on Tuesday that the Taliban had attacked the market in Dowlat Abad district with 1,500 kilograms of explosives.
He added that the district had been under the Taliban siege for three years and that all means of communication with them have been blocked.
Many residential homes and hundreds of shops were destroyed in a car kaboom on the central Dawlat Abad two nights ago, killing and injuring dozens of civilians.
[Reuters via CNN] Gunmen killed more than 100 people in a dawn attack in the western Benishangul-Gumuz region of Ethiopia on Wednesday, the human rights commission said, as residents described fleeing the latest deadly assault in an area bedeviled by ethnic violence.
The attack occurred in the village of Bekoji in Bulen county in the Metekel zone, the state-run Ethiopian Human Rights Commission said in a statement, an area where multiple ethnic groups are living.
Africa's second-most populous nation has been grappling with regular outbreaks of deadly violence since Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was appointed in 2018 and accelerated democratic reforms that loosened the state's iron grip on regional rivalries.
Elections due next year have further inflamed simmering tensions over land, power and resources.
Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Thursday he had deployed forces to the western Benishangul-Gumuz region.
"The massacre of civilians in Benishangul-Gumuz region is very tragic," Abiy said on Twitter. "The government, to solve the root causes of the problem, has deployed a necessary force.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopian troops clashed with armed men involved in a deadly attack in the western Benishangul-Gumuz region, killing 42 of them and seizing bows and arrows and other weapons, state-affiliated Fana TV reported on Thursday.
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said he was sending more soldiers to secure the region bordering Sudan, the day after unidentified gunmen killed more than 100 people in a village there.
Ethiopia has been grappling with outbreaks of violence since Abiy was appointed in 2018 and accelerated democratic reforms that loosened the state’s iron grip on regional rivalries.
"The massacre of civilians in Benishangul-Gumuz region is very tragic," Abiy said on Twitter. "The government, to solve the root causes of the problem, has deployed a necessary force."
Fana TV reported the military had killed "42 anti-peace elements", without saying when the clash took place or identifying the armed men. It said the armed group had taken part in Wednesday’s attack in Bulen county, citing regional officials.
The dawn raid on the village of Bekoji killed more than 100 people, the state-run Ethiopian Human Rights Commission said. Residents told Reuters they had seen dozens of dead bodies. Medics said they treated people with gunshot and knife wounds.
A fire at a migrant center housing about 1,200 people in northwestern #Bosnia on Wednesday was probably set by migrants displeased with its temporary closure, police and a United Nations official say.https://t.co/6vJ0DT8JeY
[Jpost] Captagon is popular in the Middle East, and widespread in war-torn areas such as Syria, where conflict has fueled demand and created opportunities for producers.
Italia's financial crimes unit detailed a large-scale drug trade believed to be originating out of Syria, according to an exclusive BBC report.
During the summer, the Italian authorities said they had seized about 14 tonnes of amphetamine - 84 million pills - of the drug Captagon worth around $1 billion arriving from Syria, in what they described as the world’s single largest operation of its kind.
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[AlAhram] The court in Istanbul found the former editor-in-chief of opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet, guilty of "obtaining secret documents for espionage" and "knowingly and willingly aiding a terrorist organization without being a member"
A Ottoman Turkish court on Wednesday convicted the former editor-in-chief of opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet on espionage and terror-related charges over a 2015 news story, a verdict the exiled journalist said exemplified the pressures on Ottoman Turkish media.
The court in Istanbul found Car Dundar guilty of "obtaining secret documents for espionage" and "knowingly and willingly aiding a terrorist organization without being a member." It sentenced him to 27 1/2 years in prison.
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KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — A provincial court in Pakistan on Thursday ordered the release of a British-born Pakistani man charged in the 2002 murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl.
The Sindh High Court’s release order overturns government detention orders that Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh,
... a busy lad, the brilliant, violent Pakistani-Brit hooked up with the jihadi crowd at the London School of Economics, dropping out to join the jihadis in Bosnia — reportedly on orders from MI-6. After a break to run Al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan, he was jailed in India in 1994 for kidnapping four Western tourists in Kashmir on orders from Pakistan’s ISI. In 1999 Saeed Sheikh and two leaders of Harkat-ul-Mujahideen were traded for 155 passengers and crew of a hijacked Indian Airlines flight diverted to Kandahar, after which he wandered down to his Al Qaeda buddies in Pakistan...
the key suspect in Pearl’s slaying, should remain in custody. Sheikh was acquitted earlier this year of murdering Pearl, but has been held while Pearl’s family appeals the acquittal.
"The detention order is struck down," said Faisal Siddiqi, the family’s lawyer. He said Sheikh would be freed until the appeal is completed, but would return to prison if the family is successful in overturning the acquittal.
However, Siddiqi said the Sindh provincial government is appealing the order to release Sheikh.
Sheikh’s lawyer Mehmood A. Sheikh, with whom he is not related, called for his client’s immediate release.
#2
#1 Be a shame if something terrible happened to Mr. Sheikh.
Posted by: Besoeker
I don't understand the acquittal ... this guy confessed to assisting KSM with the "slaughter" of Pearl. Maybe, just maybe, one day we will be able to convict KSM of the murder and martyr him. If the military commissions actually have trials.
Pakistan -- Pearl was Jewish. They don't really think any crime was committed.
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#5
I don't understand the acquittal
Pakistan wants to reward him for the work, but America keeps noticing. He’s gone through several rounds of this, as revealed by a quick search of Rantburg’s archives, which I’ve added to the article.
#6
Pakistan did arrest him though...and KSM et al...back in the day.
But today is a new day and this is what we get for not having a truly functional military commissions system to try him as a war criminal. So I blame us for relying on other countries beyond the initial detention.
[IsraelTimes] Troops clash with Paleostinians while raiding West Bank home of Ahmad Abu al-Rabb, who was rubbed out after firing at cops near Temple Mount.
Israeli troops early Wednesday arrested a suspected accomplice of a Paleostinian gunman who shot at coppers in Jerusalem’s Old City.
The arrest came as soldiers raided the home of Ahmad Abu al-Rabb in the northern West Bank village of Qabatiya. al-Rabb, 17, was rubbed out by police after he opened fire Monday at officers stationed near an entrance to the Temple Mount. No cops were hit by the gunfire.
An Israel Defense Forces statement said troops also seized weaponry during the raid. No details were provided about the suspect who was arrested or his alleged involvement in the attempted attack.
The military said dozens of Paleostinians rioted in Qabatiya, blocking a road and throwing Molotov cocktails. It also said gunfire was heard in the area.
Soldiers responded with riot dispersal means, according to the statement.
The IDF said Tuesday that it was sending reinforcements to the West Bank and halting home leave for troops attached to the regional division. The soldiers will be tasked with guarding settlements and roads, the military said.
The move came after Esther Horgen, a 52-year-old mother of six, was killed late Sunday in a northern West Bank forest, after she went for a run near her home in the Tal Menashe settlement. Security forces were increasingly convinced that her death was a terror attack committed by a Paleostinian assailant, officials said on Monday afternoon. No suspects have been apprehended.
Has it occurred to anyone but me that they were better off governed by the French?
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The Lebanese Prime Minister-designate, Saad #Hariri, warns of #Lebanon's rapid collapse, stressing that the next government will take difficult and quick decisions to stop this deterioration.https://t.co/Zmayr6mltX
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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[Jpost] Captagon is popular in the Middle East, and widespread in war-torn areas such as Syria, where conflict has fueled demand and created opportunities for producers.
