[Chicago Tribune] A 17-year-old boy was killed and two other teens, 14 and 17, were shot over three hours in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... overnight, police said.
The teen who died was found in the intersection of 36th Street and Marshfield Avenue in the McKinley Park neighborhood around 12:15 a.m. Friday after officers nearby heard gunfire, police said.
The boy had been shot twice, one of the wounds to his head, police said.
About 20 minutes earlier, another 17-year-old boy was shot in the 1500 block of West Superior Street in the West Town neighborhood, police said.
The boy was taken to Stroger Hospital in good condition. The teen told police he heard shots and then felt pain.
Earlier Thursday night, a 14-year-old boy was taken to Little Company of Mary Hospital by a relative with a gunshot wound to the leg, police said.
The boy was shot in the 8600 block of South Carpenter Street and was in good condition, police said.
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Presumable shot by a white Hispanic while out getting Skittles.
[DAILYCALLER] After a Daily Caller investigation revealed a State Department employee steered $52 million dollars of taxpayer money to a phony firm she ran with her husband, the corrupt couple pleaded guilty to several felony charges this August and now face a maximum penalty of 30 years imprisonment each.
The Fairfax News reports Kathleen McGrade and Brian Collinsworth pleaded guilty August 2nd to "major fraud against the government, conspiracy to launder monetary instruments, and engaging in unlawful monetary transactions." They will be sentenced on Nov. 8, 2013.
"Defendants McGrade and Collinsworth -- now convicted felons -- defrauded and stole from the American people, plain and simple," said U.S. Attorney Neil H. MacBride. "We, along with our law enforcement partners, are committed to ferreting out and prosecuting those that destroy the integrity of the government contracting process."
In 2006, McGrade and Collinsworth married each other without telling the State Department, where McGrade worked as a contract negotiator. They both started a construction company, the Sterling Royale Group, and McGrade quickly obtained a State Department contract enabling SRG to do work at embassies without disclosing her family ties to the company. Collinsworth was SRG's VP while McGrade's daughter from a previous marriage, Jennifer Herring, was its president and CEO.
From 2008 to 2011, McGrade used her job at the State Department to steer 17 government contracts to SRG worth a total of $52 million. Both McGrade and Collinsworth lied about their married status after they underwent State Department security clearances.
But in 2011, a Daily Caller investigation revealed their marriage and the State Department promptly ended McGrade's employment. Collinsworth denied his personal relationship to McGrade, but TheDC found his Myspace page in which he stated he was "happily married to my beautiful wife of one year, Kathy."
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After a Daily Caller investigation revealed a State Department employee steered $52 million dollars of taxpayer money to a phony firm she ran with her husband
Wowser! Journalism like in the olden days. Back before it became synonymous with being the media arm of the State.
[An Nahar] Police released a video Thursday showing a speeding motorcyclist crashing into a bear on a Canadian highway, as a warning to distracted drivers -- and wildlife.
The video shows the motorcycle taking off and accelerating to 140 kilometers per hour in less than 20 seconds on Highway 7 near Hope, British Columbia.
A young black bear that appears to have been spooked by a train running parallel to the road suddenly darts into view and collides with the bike.
Police said in a statement that the driver was focused on his speedometer as part of a stunt and failed to see the bear until the last minute.
He ended up with non-life-threatening injuries while the bear walked away.
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[SPACE] The sun fired off an intense solar storm at Earth Wednesday (Aug. 21) -- the second in two days -- hurtling billions of tons of charged particles at our planet, but should not pose a threat to people on the ground, NASA says.
The solar eruption, called a coronal mass ejection, occurred yesterday at 1:24 a.m. EDT (0524 GMT) and sent charged particles streaking outward at 380 miles per second. That's just over 1.3 million mph (2.2 million km/h). The solar fallout from the sun storm is expected to reach Earth within the next three days.
"These particles cannot travel through the atmosphere to harm humans on Earth, but they can affect electronic systems in satellites and on the ground," NASA officials explained in a statement. [Solar Max Photos: Sun Storms of 2013]
Wednesday's solar storm erupted just 21 hours after another powerful coronal mass ejection (NASA calls them CMEs) on Tuesday (Aug. 20). That solar tempest also sent billions of tons of solar particles on their way to Earth.
"Earth-directed CMEs can cause a space weather phenomenon called a geomagnetic storm, which occurs when they funnel energy into Earth's magnetic envelope, the magnetosphere, for an extended period of time," NASA officials said in a description of Wednesday's solar eruption. "The CME's magnetic fields peel back the outermost layers of Earth's fields changing their very shape. In the past, geomagnetic storms caused by CMEs of this strength have usually been mild."
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Man, I can't remember the last time I had a mass ejection. I wonder how Sol feels.
[An Nahar] U.S. doctors say they're stunned by a man who revived 45 minutes after his heart stopped beating and he was declared dead.
Doctors say presumed-dead diesel mechanic Tony Yahle was being prepared by nurses to be seen by his family when he began to show signs of life. They say he fully awoke at the hospital five days later.
The 37-year-old Ohio resident's cardiologist, Dr. Raja Nazir, says he's been a topic of discussion among doctors.
The Dayton Daily Newson Tuesday reported teenager Lawrence Yahle says he spoke to his father as he lay dead and told him he wasn't going to die that day. The teen says his father revived shortly after. He says he "went from hopeless to hope in an instant."
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Well he IS a diesel mechanic, so the emergency heart compressions must have been enough to restart the engine. No need for a spark.
[NEWS-JOURNALONLINE] Starting Jan. 1, Bert Fish Medical Center will no longer hire tobacco users, joining two other local hospitals in telling smokers not to apply.
Applicants will be tested for a nicotine byproduct and sign an agreement to remain tobacco-free during their employment with the New Smyrna Beach public hospital. The prohibition doesn't apply to volunteers, medical staff or Bert Fish's roughly 700 employees who were hired before the implementation date.
"We are in the health care business, and we should be a role model," said Nancy Evolga, executive director of human resources for the 112-bed hospital. "There is 50 years of data that says tobacco use is bad."
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so is alcohol, and both are legal. Nobody that works at that medical center should be allowed to drink or eat above 2000 cal/day. Regular testing at homes and surveillance on private time are required. Right, Nancy? We should start with you. The camera team will be at your house today
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Shirley, you jest. But just you wait -- in the immortal words of Cap'n Redlegs Terrell -- "Doin' right ain't got no end."
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The Housing Authority doesn't seem to want to budge, though - Chairman Stephen Karp and Executive Director Melinda Harvey say that making an exception to the rule - implemented about 18 months ago - isn't going to happen.
Sounds like Chairman Stephen Karp is on a power trip - unwilling to even compromise. He's basically saying he has to show the residents who's 'BOSS'.
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It's probably a "no pets" facility, so the residents can't even fling dog turds at the bastard.
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"... ever notice how the gov always looses records that might cost them money?"
Yep - that's why I got my complete medical record (which, miraculously, I had, upon retirement) and camped over the unit copy machine, duplicating every single page of a medical record in which there was nothing much astonishing save exposure to asbestos in the late 1980s in a Quonset hut at an airbase in Spain, which had probably been intended to be a temporary building but was on it's third to fourth decade of service. Yeah, I sat in the radio studio for three or four years, probably breathed in whatever asbestos there was.
Yes, I copied my medical records ... and yes, the chronic cough I have now is likely due to the notorious cedar pollen of South Texas. But yes, I have a copy of those records. Just in case.
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The American Legion was referring to a 13-part section of Part 4, Chapter 76 of the Internal Revenue Manual pertaining to veterans organizations.
At least they're publishing the specs now; they didn't do that when targeting the 501(c)(4) groups a few years ago.
If a post is unable or not willing to turn over this personal information, its possible they could face a fine of $1,000 per day, Moran continued.
It's probably a penalty, not a fine (I'm not aware that the IRS assesses 'fines'). Also, penalties are waivable, especially first-time penalties. Would it surprise you that the specs on this type of penalty waiver are NOT published in the Internal Revenue Manual (or elsewhere in a single document that I could find, after an hour on the phone w/ the IRS)?
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peaking of service records - every notice how the gov always looses records that might cost them money? Nuclear test military, Agent Orange exposure military, most WW-II vets, Gulf War Syndrome period vets... records lost all then most WW-II records were lost in 1969. They don't even have names of the bronze and silver star award folks from WW-II. So if they can verify the Am Legion service records... maybe they didn't lose the records and are guilty of fraud!
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Its like asking one of the gay rights groups to prove each member is really gay with a play by play record of every sex act of each member or have to pay a $1000/Day fine. Of course we know Lois and her IRS friends would never do so to such a key Democratic cohort.
Apparently a big push is starting in Pennsylvania for "common sense gun control laws". A bus tour is set to go to 25 states to pressure congressmen to impose even greater constrictions on firearms. Without a doubt part of the Democratic Party's drive to retake the House in 2014.
KeyBanc Capital is reporting that gun manufacturers' stock may be ready to fall this fall. It appears that supply is finally catching up to demand. Unfortunately the fascist impulses of antigunners is intensifying.
New York is touting its latest victory against illegal guns, by luring criminals into selling illegally obtained guns. The mix is about what you'd expect. Every one of the guns were illegally obtained, 90 percent were stolen, the rest acquired through straw purchases. Maybe we need common sense cop control.
Rantburg's summary for arms and ammunition:
Pistol Ammo
.45 caliber, 230 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ventura Munitions, Wolf Polyperformance steel cased, .37 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1000 rounds: BluCore Shooting Center, P&G Performance, .36 per round
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 grain, From Last Week: +.01 each
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Munire, Tulammo, steel cased, .31 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1000 rounds: LAX Ammunition, reloaded, .28 per round (w/ ammo can)
9mm Parabellum, 115 grain, From Last Week: +.01 each
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Munire, Tulammo, steel cased, .28 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1000 rounds: Georgia Arms, Canned Heat, .25 per round
.357 Magnum, 158 grain, From Last Week:-.01 each
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammunition to Go, Sellier & Bellot SP .48 per round
Cheapest, Bulk: None
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 grain, From Last Week: -.11 each
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Bud's Gun Shop, Tulammo, steel cased .30 per round
Cheapest Bulk 260 rounds: Sportsman Guide, Wolf, steel cased, .35 per round
.308 NATO 145 grain, From Last Week: -.01 each
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammo Ace, Brown bear, .65 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Wideners, Prvi Partizan steel cased, .70 per round
7.62x39 AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: -.01 each
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Selway Armory, Wolf WPA, steel core and case, .26 per round
Cheapest, Bulk, 500 rounds: Selway Armory, Brown Bear, steel core and case, .26 per round
Cheapest, Brass casing: Ventura Munitions, Fiocchi, .54 per round
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged
Cheapest, 50 rounds: AmmoFast, Eley Target, .10 per round
Cheapest, Bulk, 500 rounds: Tactical Raleigh, CCI Target, .14 per round
Guns for Private Sale
Rifles
.223/5.56mm (AR Pattern Semiautomatic) Average price: $1,100 Last Week Avg: $889
California: DPMS: $900
Texas: Bushmaster CAR-15: $800
New York: Undisclosed Model, Preban: $1,500
Maryland: Bushmaster: $1,300
Florida: Bushmaster Varminter: $1,000
.308 NATO (AR-10 Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $1,539 Last Week Avg: $1,410
California: Sig Sauer 716: $1,200
Texas: Sig Sauer: $1,050
New York: Magnum Research: $1,250 (Same Gun)
Maryland: DPMS LR-308B: $2,500
Florida: DPMS: $1,695
7.62x39mm (AK Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $729 Last Week Avg: $833
California: Saiga: $600
Texas: Saiga: $700
New York: Saiga : $895
Maryland: Romanian WASR: $800 (Same Gun)
Florida: FN Herstal S.A.: $650
7.62x54mm (Dragunov Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $1,475 Last Week Avg: $1,425
California: Romak PSL: $1,650 (Same Gun)
Texas: None
New York: None
Maryland: None
Florida: Romak PSL: $1,300
Pistols
.45 caliber ACP (M1911 Pattern Semiautomatic Pistol) Average Price: $569 Last Week Avg: $810
California: Colt Series 70, : $650
Texas: High Standard, $475
New York: Colt Commander, $620
Maryland: Remington 1911, $650
Florida: Rock Island Armory: $450
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com and BorderlandBeat.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com
[NYT Technology] If surveillance from government intelligence agencies has you concerned, now you can at least follow them back -- if only on Tumblr. Sorry, I'm a few kilometers beyond "concerned".
On Wednesday, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence started a Tumblr blog about the work of the nation's intelligence community, called IC On The Record. Off the record, appears to be a one-stop place where our betters can get on the same sheet of music.
Created in response to President Champ's move to both defend the country's intelligence-gathering practices and to create a "hub for further transparency," the site includes official statements, declassified documents, testimony, interviews and fact sheets. The office represents 17 different intelligence agencies, including the N.S.A., the C.I.A., the F.B.I. and military intelligence units.
So far, the site's most prominent release has been an 85-page ruling by the former chief judge of the FISA court, Judge John D. Bates, who "sharply rebuked the National Security Agency in 2001
2001? Wasn't that an awfully long time ago?
That's safe, you see. By 2023 we'll get the FISA reports for .. 2002...
for repeatedly misleading the court that oversees its surveillance on domestic soil," as reported in The New York Times.
But its appearance on a blogging platform that is more commonly used by 20-somethings to share GIFs and other snippets of pop culture (or for pornography) surprised many. Nothing surprises me anymore, not even a blog sans a comments section.
[OMANOBSERVER] Tunisia's opposition coalition yesterday rejected proposals by the ruling party for ending a month-long political crisis, saying their offer to enter talks on a government of technocrats was insufficient.
"All negotiations without the (immediate) dissolution of the government are a waste of time," said Taieb Baccouche, a representative of the National Salvation Front.
He was speaking after meeting members of the UGTT trade union confederation, which has been mediating between the two sides and which forwarded the ruling Ennahda party's proposals.
Jilani Hammami, another NSF representative, described Ennahda's proposals, the details of which were not communicated to the press, as ambiguous.
Ennahda indicated on Thursday, for the first time since the start of the crisis triggered by the liquidation of opposition MP Mohamed Brahmi, that it might agree to the resignation of the coalition government which it heads.
But the party stressed that a "national dialogue" bringing together supporters and opponents of the ruling coalition needed to take place first.
"We are going to keep up the pressure for the goverment's dissolution, we have a plan to step up the mobilisation on the ground," Hammami said.
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[OMANOBSERVER] United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... troops in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... went into action yesterday to battle M23 fighters after at least four non-combatants were killed in festivities near the flashpoint city of Goma, a UN front man said.
Late on Thursday, shells hit the outskirts of Goma, killing a woman and a child, and a rocket struck the nearby village of Kanyaruchinya, killing two and injuring nine others.
The civilians were victims of fighting that has erupted sporadically since mid-July between M23 and the regular army in a region 20 kilometres north of Goma, a city of one million people, ending a truce of about two months.
Military front man Prosper Basse told UN-sponsored Radio Okapi that troops of the UN mission in the country (MONUSCO) were "henceforth engaged alongside the FARDC (regular army)" to deal with the threat.
South African artillery forces in a new UN intervention brigade, authorised in March to take the offensive against armed movements, destroyed a myrmidon T55 tank stationed near Kibati, about 20 kilometres from Goma, according to the UN.
President Jacob Zuma of South Africa, which has committed 1,345 men to the UN brigade, met in Luanda yesterday with DR Congo President Joseph Kabila and Angola's Jose Eduardo dos Santos to discuss the insurgency.
Dos Santos said the instability threatened "the peace and security of the whole region".
Three months ago, MONUSCO declared a protection zone with a perimeter of 30 kilometres around Goma and the nearby strategic town of Sake "to prevent this sort of atrocity by M23 against civilian populations", front man Basse said.
M23 issued a statement accusing the regular army and an ethnic Hutu movement based in the region, the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), of dropping "several bombs on Rubavu district in... Rwanda and central Goma to get Rwanda and MONUSCO involved in the war".
Congolese army front man Lieutenant-Colonel Olivier Hamuli said on Radio Kivu One that it was "impossible" that M23 shells could "reach Goma because its positions are too distant".
A Congolese military source said that the fighting on the frontlines near the villages of Mutaho and Kibati began yesterday morning, but the sector had since calmed down.
M23 is made up of Congolese Tutsi former fighters who were integrated into the army following a 2009 peace accord. They mutinied in April 2012 saying the agreement was never fully respected by the Kinshasa government.
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[OMANOBSERVER] Colombia's FARC group said yesterday it was putting peace talks on pause to examine a government proposal that any peace agreement must be submitted to a national referendum.
President Juan Manuel Santos announced on Thursday he was submitting legislation to Congress that would require a referendum on any peace agreement reached with the leftist fighters.
"In light of this new circumstance, the FARC's peace delegation has decided to make a pause in the talks to center itself exclusively on the implications of the government proposal," FARC negotiator Pablo Catatumbo said, reading from a statement.
The government and fighters have been holding peace talks in the Cuban capital Havana since November, with the aim of ending Latin America's longest insurgency.
Santos said that in the event of a peace deal, Colombians should vote on it when the country goes to either legislative elections or presidential elections.
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[An Nahar] Azerbaijani troops rubbed out one Armenian soldier and maimed another along the volatile border between the two countries, the defense ministry in Yerevan said on Friday.
Private Norair Petrosyan was killed in the incident on Armenia's south-western border with the autonomous Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhichevan, said defense ministry front man Artsrun Hovannisyan.
"This latest provocation from the Azerbaijani side is intended to destabilize the situation and will not go unanswered," Hovannisyan said.
Armenia and Azerbaijan are locked in a festering decades-long feud over the breakaway region of Nagorny Karabakh.
Armenia-backed separatists seized Nagorny Karabakh from Azerbaijan in a 1990s war that killed 30,000 people.
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[An Nahar] A man injured 11 people by throwing a hand grenade into a cafe in Bosnia after he had been barred from entering, police said Friday.
The victims of the incident, which took place in Kozarska Dubica, central Bosnia, were hospitalized but their lives were not in danger, police spokeswoman Marija Markanovic said.
The man who threw the grenade was injured and also ended up in hospital.
It was reported by local media that earlier during the evening he had been turned away by the cafe owners because he was drunk and was also known for "violent behavior in the past".
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[Dawn] Assistant political agent of Landi Kotal Tayyab Abdullah on Wednesday administered physical punishment to a group of khasadar ...a rural policeman in Pakistain or India... personnel over failure to provide him with the sought-after protocol on time, it is learned.
Officials of the local administration told Dawn that APA Tayyab Abdullah called a protocol party of the khasadar force to escort him from Karkhano checkpost in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. to Landi Kotal but the latter failed to show up on time due to the massive repair work and traffic jams on Peshawar-Torkham Road.They said the delayed arrival of the khasadar personnel from Landi Kotal infuriated Tayyab Abdullah, who, on return to Landi Kotal, asked the khasadar personnel in question to take several rounds of the FC ground inside the army camp and gave sticks to others to punish those not following his orders.
The officials said the APA also ordered the tying up of a khasadar solider to the official jeep before asking the driver to drag him around the ground over failure to take rounds of the ground due to illness.
A khasadar man, who is witness to the incident, said the APA had no authority to mete out inhuman and humiliating treatment to the personnel.
He said khasadar personnel were bound by duty to provide escort to their officials at Prang Sam checkpost only after their entry to Landi Kotal tehsil from Jamrud.
"Karkhano checkpost doesn't fall in our territorial jurisdiction and even the political agent can't call khasadar personnel from Landi Kotal," he said.
The khasadar man said the incident would demoralise the entire force, which had rendered valuable services and sacrifices against gunnies and had a tough duty.
Though APA Tayyab Abdullah was not available for version on the incident, it is learned that he wants the affected khasadar to forget about it.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Chicago Tribune] A 17-year-old boy was killed and two other teens, 14 and 17, were shot over three hours in 
[DAILYCALLER] After a Daily Caller investigation revealed a State Department employee steered $52 million dollars of taxpayer money to a phony firm she ran with her husband, the corrupt couple pleaded guilty to several felony charges this August and now face a maximum penalty of 30 years imprisonment each.
[An Nahar] Police released a video Thursday showing a speeding motorcyclist crashing into a bear on a Canadian highway, as a warning to distracted drivers -- and wildlife.
[SPACE] The sun fired off an intense solar storm at Earth Wednesday (Aug. 21) -- the second in two days -- hurtling billions of tons of charged particles at our planet, but should not pose a threat to people on the ground, NASA says.
[NEWS-JOURNALONLINE] Starting Jan. 1, Bert Fish Medical Center will no longer hire tobacco users, joining two other local hospitals in telling smokers not to apply.
[An Nahar] Azerbaijani troops 
