I know it's a bad time of year, but the fund has gone low. It's been four months, and I admit I spent part of it on on non-essentials. Well, I guess hosting is essential, but you know what I mean.
I sincerely thank those of you who make regular monthly donations.
I have a PayPal account set up that's supposed to cover hosting, hardware purchases, and occasionally beer or strong drink. I used to have an Amazon account for those who couldn't stand PayPal, but Amazon long ago decided I wasn't a good cause and dumped me. I've looked at other approaches, but none is quite as convenient (for me, anyway) as Paypal, meaning I'm either too dumb or too impatient to navigate the sign-up process.
The server's been up for 32 days as of tonight, since the last restart. That was associated with securing it. I upgraded from Debian 8 to 9, and most of the time it just loafs along now. It's hard to believe that I haven't laid physical eyes on it since July, 2016. Inevitably it's gonna crash someday, which is going to be a pain. I've moved to Delaware, so I'm not living twenty minutes away anymore. I was replacing hardware every three years, but this one feels more solid than any other one so far. Still, I'm going to buy its successor and start sync'ing it at some point after the new year.
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Thank you for all you do to make Rantburg for us, Fred. My envelope will be in the mail after I wake up today.
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You got it. Merry and Happy to you, Fred!
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Hey Fred, have you ever looked into hosting on an Amazon EC2 instance? They are pretty easy to set up and maintain. That might save you some $ and headaches. Thanks again for all you've done! Merry Christmas!
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[ToloNews] Two attackers were also killed in clash with security forces in 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... city on Sunday night, officials said.
At least three coppers were killed in a button men attack in Herat city on Sunday night, provincial police chief Gen. Aminullah Amarkhil said on Monday.
The incident happened on Sunday night after a number of button men attacked Herat city’s PD10’s police, Amarkhil said, "two button men were killed in the shooting and a number of them were maimed in the festivities."
"The button menbeat feet from the area, but police have started search operations to find the attackers," he said.
The incident comes three days after a similar attack in Herat killed three and the button men escaped.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Special Forces ...established in 2007 with the intent of taking one conventional infantry kandak (battalion) from each of the regional ANA corps, giving them special training and equipment, and reorganizing based on the U.S. Army Rangers. Each battalion is assigned to one of the six regional corps. The commandos comprise 7% of the Afghan National Security Forces but conduct 70% to 80% of the fighting... rescued 12 civilians from a Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... prison during a raid in southern Uruzgan province, the Afghan military said Monday.
According to a statement released by Special Operations Corps, the Special Forces conducted the raid in Shaheed Hasas district.
The statement further added that the Special Forces also killed 3 Talibs, arrested 5 others and confiscated 310 kgs of opium and a cycle of violence during the raid.
The Taliban group has not commented regarding the operation so far.
Uruzgan is among the volatile provinces in South of Afghanistan where Talibs are actively operating in some of its districts and frequently carry out terrorist related activities.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] India’s foreign ministry said on Monday that 20 of its nationals had been kidnapped from an oil tanker in West African waters. “Our Mission in Abuja has taken up the matter with the Nigerian authorities, as also with the authorities of the neighboring countries,” the ministry said in a statement.
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[AnNahar] Austrian authorities have foiled a plot to carry out a series of terror attacks, including bombing one of Vienna's Christmas markets, local media reported Monday.
The plot involved three men, including a 24-year-old ringleader who had been influenced by the ideology of the so-called 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.... (IS) group, according to the APA news agency.
The main suspect is thought to have hatched a plot to target the Christmas market in front of St Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna city center between Christmas and New Year.
Other possible targets are said to have included Salzburg and locations in Germany, La Belle France and Luxembourg.
An anonymous tip-off led to the ringleader, who was already in jail following two attempts to reach Syria and join IS.
However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... the report said he was able to remain in contact with his alleged accomplices via mobile phone -- contrary to prison regulations.
Part of the plot was a plan to help the ringleader escape.
The two other suspects, aged 25 and 31, were taken into custody at the end of last week. All three men are ethnic Chechens.
While Austria has been spared the major terror attacks that have hit other Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an countries including La Belle France, Britannia and Germany in recent years, a relatively high number of Austrians have gone abroad to participate in Islamic extremism.
[AnNahar] Ottoman Turkish coroners say the British ex-soldier who helped found the Syrian White Helmets rescue group died from a fall, state media reported on Monday.
James Le Mesurier was an ex-British Army officer who set up Mayday Rescue which helped train the White Helmets, a volunteer group responding to bombings by Syrian government forces.
He was found dead on November 11 outside the Istanbul apartment building where he lived.
The autopsy report said he died due to "general body trauma linked to a fall from height," state broadcaster TRT Haber said.
No DNA belonging to another person was found.
The four-page report from the Forensic Medicine Institute said Le Mesurier suffered internal bleeding and broken bones, the private DHA news agency added.
Ottoman Turkish police are believed to be treating the death as suicide.
Local media has claimed he sought help for mental health issues and his wife, Emma Hedvig Christina Winberg, reportedly told police he had had suicidal thoughts two weeks before his death.
[ALMASDARNEWS] A Ottoman Turkish military drone has arrived at a base in northern Cyprus. The drone has been brought in to aid controversial gas exploration near the island.
Ismail Demir, the head of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor... ’s Defence Industry Directorate, said the first unarmed Ottoman Turkish drone took off from an airport in Turkey’s western province of Mugla and landed at Gecitkale airport.
The Ottoman Turkish Cypriot cabinet on Friday designated the Gecitkale airport on the island as a base for both unarmed and armed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) at the request of the Ottoman Turkish government.
Turkey began seeking oil and gas off the coast of Cyprus earlier this year. It has sent two drill ships and an exploration vessel with UAVs escorting them. In response, the Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an Union said the activities were illegal and prepared sanctions against Turkey. Ankara has said the areas in which Greek Cypriot ships are operating are located on its continental shelf or elsewhere in regions where the Ottoman Turkish Cypriot state has rights over any finds.
Cyprus has been divided since 1974. The northern third is run by a Ottoman Turkish Cypriot government and the southern two-thirds by a Greek Cypriot government. There has been debate for years about the ownership of fossil fuels in the eastern Mediterranean, which is thought to be rich in natural gas.
Turkey and Libya signed an agreement last month regarding maritime boundaries in the sea. Greece said Turkey has violated international law as a result of the deal, but Ankara said the deal asserts the country’s rights in the region.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Ottoman Turkish authorities must address shortcomings in tackling money laundering and terrorism financing or face being added to a "grey list" of countries with inadequate financial controls, according to a global money laundering watchdog.
In a report issued on Monday, the Gay Paree-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF) highlighted gaps in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... ’s efforts to prevent financing of terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
Out of 11 areas evaluated, Turkey was deemed to require major or fundamental improvements in nine. The report’s findings mean Ankara will be put under observation for a year, and could be added to the grey list if it does not make improvements.
The watchdog said Turkey should make "fundamental improvements in measures for freezing assets linked to terrorism, terrorist organizations and financiers."
Turkey had a low rate of conviction for terrorism financing, the report said, pointing to data it said was provided by authorities showing more than 6,000 people were prosecuted in 2017 but only 115 convicted.
Ankara should also improve efforts to prevent "the raising, moving and using of funds for weapons of mass destruction", the report said, adding that Turkey was slow in following up UN Security Council resolutions relating to 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 a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... Turkey says it abides by all international laws and United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... resolutions.
The report also called on Turkey to strengthen its use of financial intelligence in money laundering cases and develop a national strategy for investigating and prosecuting different types of money laundering.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The US Justice Department charged an Indonesian Tuesday with violating sanctions 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 a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... in supplying millions of dollars worth of new and refurbished aircraft parts to Iran’s blacklisted Mahan Air.
Sunakro Kuntjoro, the president-director of PT MS Aero Support, exported US-made aircraft parts to Mahan Air in violation of sanctions between 2011 and 2018, according to an indictment filed in federal court in Washington.
Kuntjoro also shipped aircraft parts to the United States for repair and then reshipped them to Iran, it said.
The indictment charged eight counts of sanctions-breaking, money laundering, and false statements against Kuntjoro, PT MS Aero Support, and two other related Indonesian companies for violating US export laws.
Kuntjoro billed Mahan millions of dollars for getting the parts refurbished in the United States, and hid Iran’s involvement by shipping the parts through Singapore, Hong Kong, and Thailand.
US sanctions and a trade embargo ban the supply of US products to Iran without specific permission from the US Treasury, which administers sanctions.
The Treasury slapped sanctions on Mahan Air in 2011 over its ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
The company, one of Iran’s leading airlines, operates several Boeing and other US-made aircraft and has reportedly struggled to keep them flying for lack of parts.
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[NYPOST] A New Jersey man has been arrested over a series of disturbing YouTube videos in which he said he wanted to kill blacks, Christians and soldiers ‐ and even burned to death a parakeet, according to authorities.
Mostafa Hussaini, 34, of Totowa, was arrested by federal agents in Florida after Miami cops were alerted to death threats made on his YouTube channel while he appeared to be staying in the Sunshine State, according to court documents.
"Imagine burning a black person, because I don’t like black people," he says in one video posted on Dec. 8, during which he poured gasoline onto an open grill in a public space, according to the documents.
"This gasoline, imagine burning some black soldiers ‐ they are going to look very black," he said in the recording, claiming to be able to "burn thousands, millions of them."
In other footage, Hussaini is seen at a car dealership bragging about how vehicles can be used in mass killings ‐ while another shows him encouraging people to carry firearms "everywhere" in Miami.
"If you have a machine gun, bring your machine gun," he says in the video, according to prosecutors.
"I don’t like blacks, Spanish, some white, but there is no whites in Miami," he added.
In another posted in October, he even burned a parakeet to death ‐ naming it "Jesus" as a symbol of the Christians he wants to kill, according to the documents.
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[AnNahar] Fresh protests rocked India on Monday as anger grew over new citizenship legislation slammed as anti-Moslem, after six people died in the northeast and up to 200 were maimed in New Delhi.
The law fast-tracks citizenship for non-Moslems from three neighbouring countries. Critics say it is part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist agenda to marginalise the 200-million strong Islamic minority.
Modi on Monday denied this, tweeting that the new law "does not affect any citizen of India of any religion", while accusing "vested interest groups" of stoking the "deeply distressing" unrest.
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A bit of a bother, but all in all a good exercise. The capital too needs purging.
So many anti-nationals and faux-secular commie lovers exposed. Hindus fighting for the right of Rohingyas and bangladeshis to come and rape them, all to please their fav communist college professors. Mercenary lobbyists and twitter attention whores chiming in from bollywood. Weed stoked trust-fund sissies and professional whiners on youtube and outside campuses.
Good to know them all. Good for their parents to be known by the taxman, the administration, the police... and by faceless mobs of ultra-nationalists.
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This guy is a lawyer practicing in the Calcutta High Court. Journalist as well. Very liberal. From his posts he clearly hates Modi and the BJP. Despite this experience he is still espousing his liberal ways. Still....
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Today is a day unlikely to be ever erased from my memory. It was the first time I found myself in the middle of a full fledged riot and experienced fear. Blood curdling fear.
I'm onboard the 12841 UP Howrah-Chennai Central Coromandel Express. At around 3:20 pm today, the train rolled into Uluberia station on the Howrah-Kharagpur section. A crowd of around 500-700 miscreants emerged from the Jummah Namaz at a mosque adjoining the station and blocked the entire railway line at a level crossing outside the station. A few of them were carrying 'Oppose CAB and NRC' posters. A massive crowd of rioters then descended on the station, young lads barely on the verge of their 20s and some as young as 7 and 8 dressed in kurta pyjamas and skullcaps armed with rods and stones. First, they shattered all the window panes of an empty rake of Humsafar Express. Then they got to our train and started to pelt it with stones. The elderly were traumatized, the children crying. A stone shattered the glass window of the adjacent coupe. My heart pounded as I heard them screaming. I saw them laughing sadistically as they poked the rods through the broken window panes to terrify the passengers. I ducked and stayed dead still. One stray stone, one swing of the rod is all it would take. The district police were nowhere to be seen. After half an hour of this torment, a huge contingent of the RPF arrived from Howrah and pushed back the miscreants with relentless lathi charging and tear gas. After a few broken legs and cracked skulls, the rioters again melted away into the slums by the railway line. When I finally emerged from the compartment after 4 hours of confinement, the station resembled a war zone. The locomotive was severely damaged and the loco pilot injured.
You read about mob violence.You watch it on TV. You even romanticise it. Till the day it happens to you. It is then you realise that every single day is a gift.
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If there was only a Muslim country nearby that these angry people to emigrate too.
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LOL. The Indian NIA are running facial recognition software on video of the riots taken by spooks against the Indian Adhaar biometric database. Some very surprised folk will be getting a morning wakeup call
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Suicidal liberals. Faux-humanists and hypocrite masochists. They won't learn. And we can't wait for them to have these experiences, because by the time they've confronted reality, it'll be too late.
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Made our morning news, which was quite vague about who was causing trouble and why. It was pointed out the Christians can be uppity and ask for preferential treatment.
The morning news does not do anything outside local stories, and even those are painful (interesting to watch an out of state moron weatherman cover sever weather when he can barely navigate outside Wichita or the Interstate System), so this story was phoned in from above and they just read script.
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A crowd of around 500-700 miscreants emerged from the Jummah Namaz at a mosque adjoining the station
Is it time to require all mosques be removed to 500 meters or more from railway stations?
Also, in my ignorance it seems to me that when rocks are thrown and iron rods poked, the rocks should be hurled back and the rods pulled away and poked at their erstwhile wielders. Cowering allows attackers to close the distance at no cost.
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rocks should be hurled back and the rods pulled away and poked at their erstwhile wielders
We are trying to move toward a modality, where every molotov shall be answered by a 125gr FMJ round sometime later. We have our Israeli brethren, all ex-duvdevan tacticians to thank for some very useful lessons too. As I said before, the longer game is to selectively disempower and ultimately domesticate, if not civilize. But 'sshhhh...' on that.
John Frum would put it better, but I'll try to explain the ground reality in my crude way. It's really the same thing as you see in America, with your illegals.
Rationale
It has been seen that truly secular and egalitarian laws cannot be implemented in a nation where the muslims are in a significant number, solely because they do not recognize national constitutions. As they grow, some of them attain to positions where they become benefactors and guardians of their criminal element, which in turn supports them in myriad ways. This criminal element loses much capability if illegal immigration is curbed, as that is a major human resource pool for them. To reduce their influence on your legislation, culture and society you have to take out their capabilities. You cannot go after lawfarers now, but you can the illegals.
The Leftists in every country see muslims as the friendly fodder to send into physical revolution, the frontlines comrades that only need a 'We are with you !' to overwhelm interior agencies and bring govts to a halt. And the leftists tend to do them similar favors. India's eastern state, mainly Bengal is a hub for illegal immigration of bangladeshi muslims. These will then find their way into other states with fake papers provided by islamists within the administration. They will be used for micro actions like social destabilization by drugs and hooch production, prostitution, p0rn and country made arms and explosives. We cannot allow that to happen. The law is nothing new, we were already 'disappearing' those caught in the act.
The north western side ? We all know about that. The 'Stain, 'nuff said.
What's happening
Here, core marxist activists and muslims are exposing themselves in a panic to reverse a law that is in essence mere window dressing. If the gummint hadn't made this such an issue featuring selective treatment, nobody would have cared. In truth very few muslims are let legally into India anyway. Christians have to be salvaged by NGOs and physically brought out by certain agencies or parties. Hindus and sikhs, most of them won't leave for their own reasons. In fact, there is still no way for people to cross safely into India except by illegal means.
Pakistain and Bangladesh cannot let persecuted refugees escape alive for they shall tell a tale of horrors that will shame the entire western world for ever shaking hands with a Paki foreign official or hiring a 'Bangladeshi American' professor. Which is why we seldom see any applications.
What's more, it is easy for paki muslims to imitate christian culture and take up fake names to infiltrate because there, bibles are in urdu and many of the prayers and mannerisms are similar. See, christians in pakistain have to always stay in the 'we are all abrahamic' zone, and most will adopt muslim names too. So it will be hard to check backgrounds. So the gummint can play the angel to the rubes all it wants, but actual implementation of this is still very iffy, and business will be as usual.
The human muslim rights boo hooers are partly right. We see ours as a secular constitution, but for centuries, unequal communal and religious laws have ruled at the grassroots level. Religious law is even recognized in the bloody constitution in places, as part of the rights. Soon, no more. For both hindus and muslims. Uniform Civil Code. The real rioting will begin then, this is just the trailer. The politicals are testing their own limits, trying their luck too soon after one major victory even.
[AlAhram] A supporter of Iraqi anti-government demonstrators was bumped off in Baghdad, a police source said Sunday, the fourth backer of the protest movement to be killed in two weeks.
Mohammed al-Doujaili, 24, was shot in the back near the Tahrir Square protest hub on Saturday night, the police source said.
Another man who was with him was maimed in the same attack, and al-Doujaili died of his wounds at a Baghdad hospital Sunday morning, relatives said.
Doujaili, who helped distribute food to protesters encamped in Tahrir Square, was buried in Baghdad's Shiite-dominated district of Sadr City.
He is the fourth protester to be killed by person or persons unknown over the past two weeks.
Father of five Ali al-Lami was shot and killed by several bullets to the head earlier this week and prominent civil society activist Fahem al-Tai was killed in a drive-by shooting in Iraq's shrine city of Karbala.
In one particularly gruesome case, the bruised body of 19-year-old Zahra Ali was found on December 2 outside her family home in Baghdad, hours after she had gone missing.
Iraq's capital and its Shiite-majority south have been gripped by more than two months of rallies against corruption, poor public services and a lack of jobs.
Around 460 people have been killed and 25,000 maimed, most of them protesters, since the youth-led rallies erupted on October 1.
Since then demonstrators in the capital and southern cities have disappeared almost daily, in most cases taken from near their homes as they returned from protests.
Protesters accuse pro-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 a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... armed factions of playing a role in the killings and abductions.
Demonstrations once again took place on Sunday in Baghdad and across the south of Iraq, where schools and public administrations remained closed, AFP correspondents said.
[Rudaw] Five Iraqi soldiers were killed and two more maimed in separate 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.... (ISIS) attacks in Diyala province on Sunday, according to the Iraqi Defense Ministry.
The ministry’s Security Media Cell said two soldiers from the army’s 5th Division were killed and another maimed when bandidosDeath Eaters fired on their base near the village of Nawfal in the Muqdadiya district of Diyala.
On the same day, ISIS bandidosDeath Eaters launched another attack on the 20th Infantry Brigade of the 5th Division’s Second Regiment in the al-Nada area of Baladroz district, "resulting in the martyrdom of three soldiers and the wounding of one officer".
ISIS has not publicly taken responsibility for the attacks.
Diyala has seen a serious uptick in ISIS activity as bandidosDeath Eaters take shelter in the Hamrin Mountains.
Remnants of the jihadist group have exploited the security vacuum between Iraqi and Peshmerga lines to resurge following their territorial defeat in Iraq in December 2017.
Outgoing Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi received a phone call on Monday from US Defense Secretary Mark Esper. They discussed the ongoing fight against ISIS and the security and stability in Iraq.
The Kurdistan Region Security Council (KRSC), which releases monthly data on holy warrior activity, says there were 50 incidents in November alone, concentrated mainly around Baghdad, djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... and Saladin, including bombings, mortar attacks, shootings, and death threats.
Resolving the disputed status of these frontier areas and bolstering security cooperation between Iraqi and Kurdish forces is widely seen as the means of preventing the ISIS resurgence.
The Kurdistan Region’s 2017 independence referendum led to a major dispute between the Iraqi government and the semiautonomous Kurdistan Region over who should control the oil-rich province of Kirkuk and other disputed areas of Diyala and Nineveh.
The dispute escalated into an Iraqi offensive against the Peshmerga. The Kurdish force, which had defended several of these areas from ISIS since 2014, withdrew to the federally recognized Kurdistan Region and some formerly ISIS-controlled areas of Nineveh, Kirkuk, and Diyala.
With both sides keen to avoid direct conflict, but unwilling to cooperation on security, a vast ungoverned space has been left for ISIS to regroup.
Outgoing Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi received a phone call on Monday from US Defense Secretary Mark Esper. They discussed the ongoing fight against ISIS and the security and stability in Iraq.
Multiple Peshmerga brigades and Garmiyan Asayesh forces were involved in a raid south of the town of Kolajo, Diyala province on Sunday, arresting ten armed ISIS suspects who had disguised themselves as farmers.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Iraqi intelligence forces, led by the 16th Division, carried out a successful operation to dismantle an 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.... (ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS) cell in the Nineveh Governorate of northwestern Iraq on Monday.
"The military intelligence penetrated and dismantled a terrorist cell and apprehends all its elements in Ayman djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... ," the Ministry of Defense said in their statement.
According to the Ministry of Defense, the intelligence forces were able to penetrate and dismantle the terrorist cell, which consisted of eight Islamic State members.
"The specific operation was carried out based on accurate intelligence information," the Ministry said, pointing out that the Military Intelligence Division detachments of the 16th Division were able to coordinate with the intelligence of the Nineveh Operations Command and the 75th Infantry Intelligence Brigade to penetrate and dismantle a terrorist cell.
"All members of the cell were wanted by the judiciary under fundamental arrest warrants, according to the provisions of Article 4 terrorism," they would add.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Iraq’s Hashd al-Sha’abi (Popular Mobilization Units) forces are currently engaged in a fierce battle with 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.... (ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS) near the city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... in the Ninawa (Nineveh) Governorate.
According to the official media wing of Hashd al-Sha’abi, their forces engaged an Islamic State terrorist contingent after the latter was caught trying to sneak through the al-Khodor Desert south of Mosul.
In a short video released from their official Twitter account, Hashd al-Sha’abi can be seen taking on the Islamic State fighters this evening
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Aleppo Governorate erupted in violence this evening when the jihadist rebels of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... (HTS) began shelling the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) areas in and around Aleppo city.
According to a local source, the jihadist rebels of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham have heavily targeted the predominately Shi’i towns of al-Zahra’a and Nubl in northern Aleppo, along with several sites inside the capital city, including the al-Khalidiyah District.
In response, the Syrian Arab Army and Elite Republican Guard have unleashed their own barrage of missiles and artillery shells on the western countryside of Aleppo, which is predominately under the control of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham.
The two sides are now trading heavy artillery along the western Aleppo front-lines, with some reports saying the Syrian Army and HTS are now trading attacks in the southern countryside of the governorate.
The Aleppo Governorate has recently experienced an increase in violence after the arrival of the Rouse the Believers jihadist coalition, which was reported to have moved their forces from rural Latakia to the Aleppo and Idlib governorates.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] A South African photojournalist was released this week after being kidnapped in northern Syria nearly three-years-ago.
According to reports, the photojournalist, Shiraaz Mohammed, was released in northern Syria after being kidnapped by unknown murderous Moslem group in northern Idlib in 2017.
"Shiraaz Mohammed is FREE. The details are sketchy but we were told that Shiraaz ’escaped’ from captivity and at some point was assisted by "friendly" people, who were very aware of his case, given the huge publicity Gift of the Givers initiated worldwide around Shiraaz’s capture. He has since been handed over to Ottoman Turkish Intelligence," The South African daily reported.
"We have informed Shiraaz’s family, Minister Naledi Pandor and Consular Services at DIRCO. All have acknowledged our messages. We now wait for the South African government to make contact with Ottoman Turkish Intelligence to bring Shiraaz home as soon as practically possible."
According to the publication, Mohammed was working as a photojournalist with the group, Gift of Givers, when he was kidnapped by a terrorist group in the town of Darkush near the Ottoman Turkish border.
"The two drivers that were captured with Mohammed were immediately released, but the South African photojournalist was kept as a bargaining tool," the publication said.
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Shiraaz Mohammed is FREE
Not to be confused with Shiraz Australian box wine which goes for about $15 US.
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