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44 suspected Boko Haram jihadis found dead in Chad prison
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Good afternoon
California mayor who compared
Trump backers to KKK dies in plane crash
Sunday April 19th, 2020

Sennett-castingcall
Afghanistan: At least 20 Presidential Palace Staff test positive for coronavirus
That doesn't sound good. Have they been to Iran recently?
Hamas says will hold Israel responsible for virus outbreak in Gaza, demands medical supply
We've all seen the pictures of the Zionists shipping truckloads of viruses into the Wonderful World of Islam. And truculence is always the best way to ask for assistance
Palestinian journalist accuses CIA of using COVID-19 crisis to steal Syrian oil
Wouldn't it make more sense to use COVID-19 to steal Saudi oil? There's a lot more of it. Obviously the CIA is incompetent!
Sudanese Islamists hold 3rd protest against Hamdok government
They're demanding that the army take over, because it's guessed to be more Islamic than a secular govt
Prominent clerics are demanding the lifting of restrictions on congregational prayers at mosques in Pakistain
Prominent clerics represent the real power in Pakistain. TThe best thing would be to lift the restrictions and let the plague carry them all off
Al-Azhar says it is not permissible for Muslims to avoid fasting in the holy month of Ramadan
Maybe not mass head bonking, but you better not eat any breakfast
Brazilian Swimsuit Model Fights
Purse Snatcher in the Street Using Broom

Posted by: Fred || 04/19/2020 13:21 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Lose the socks, ladies"
Posted by: Frank G || 04/19/2020 14:08 Comments || Top||

#2  Is that Harvey Weinstein?
Posted by: Glenmore || 04/19/2020 15:11 Comments || Top||

#3  The first girl looks like Epstein material--under age.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/19/2020 17:21 Comments || Top||

#4  Hair too short. Sox too tall.
Posted by: Lex || 04/19/2020 19:08 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Afghan forces kill 6 Taliban militants, wound 2 others in Zurmat district
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan forces killed six Talibs and maimed two others during a clash in Zurmat district of South-eastern Paktiya province.

The 203rd Thunder Corps in a statement said the Afghan forces effectively responded to a Taliban
...Arabic for students...
attack in Sahak area of Zurmat district, killing at least six turbans.

The statement further added that the security forces also maimed 2 other turbans and confiscated a a vehicle belonging to turbans.

The Taliban group has not commented in this regard so far.

Paktiya is among the relatively volatile provinces in South-east of Afghanistan where Talibs have active presence in some of its remote districts.

The anti-government armed turbans often attempt to carry out attacks against the security personnel and governmental institutions in this province.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/19/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Mortar attack by Taliban kills 2 women, 1 child in Paktiya
[KhaamaPress] A mortar attack by Talibs killed three civilians in South-eastern Paktiya province of Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) said.

According to a statement released by MoD, the Talibs carried out mortar attack on Gardez city, the historic provincial capital of Paktiya province.

The statement further added that the mortar rounds landed on civilian houses in Gardez city which killed two women and child.
"Hearts and Minds, Oh brave lions of Islam!"
The Ministry of Defense also added that the attack maimed another child.

The Taliban
...Arabic for students...
group has not commented regarding the attack so far.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/19/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa Horn
Turkish BMC kirpi with a heavy payload of GNA terrorists captured by the LNA
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 04/19/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Africa North
Tawfiq Al Zadam, a GNA militia field commander of the Zliten militias is no more
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]







Ouch.

Posted by: Fred || 04/19/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

#1  "Victory is Ours!" The GNA declared. "And less diluted by the number of GNA supporters still alive at the end!"
Posted by: Frank G || 04/19/2020 0:09 Comments || Top||

#2  Goodness, I’m heartless — that’s funny, Frank G.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/19/2020 9:03 Comments || Top||


Saad Al-Gaddafi allegedly dies in prison
[ALMASDARNEWS] Major General Saad Masoud al-Qadaffy, the commander of the personal security of the former President Mu’ammarl-Qadaffy, died in his cell on Saturday after nine years in prison, despite a decision to release him last February.

According to the Libya 24 channel, Saad Qadaffy died today in his prison, despite a verdict issued for his release in 2017 and the confirmation of the verdict last February.

In May 2017, Major General Saad Masoud al-Qadaffy obtained a verdict of innocence, according to the charges attributed to him, on the basis of which he was arrested in August 2011.

Qadaffy held several security positions, the most important of which is the commander of the guard force of the late leader, and the commander of the Army Resilience Brigade, but he became famous in athletics when he was president of the al-Itihad club for several years.
"We thought he'd left last February, then we noticed that smell..."
Posted by: Fred || 04/19/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Mitiga airbase under-heavy bombardment
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 04/19/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


GNA media outlets call for people to donate blood after today’s foolish attacks
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 04/19/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

#1  LNA winning the Twitter war for sure.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/19/2020 17:14 Comments || Top||

#2  I dunno looks like jibberish to me.
Posted by: jpal || 04/19/2020 18:06 Comments || Top||


All positions Gained by the GNA attack on Tarhuna district today have been regained by LNA
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Posted by: Fred || 04/19/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

#1  "Well, THAT didn't turn out well"
Posted by: Frank G || 04/19/2020 0:15 Comments || Top||


LNA airstrike on GNA militias in Garian
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 04/19/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

#1  Gerian=Gharyan is located 80 km south of Tripoli. Gharyan is one of the largest towns in the Western Mountains. Its population was estimated as 170.000 in 2005. The noose is slowly being tightened around Tripoli.
Posted by: b || 04/19/2020 7:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Tighter nooses are what all the fashionable Arab Spring countries are wearing this year, I hear.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/19/2020 9:06 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
44 suspected Boko Haram jihadis found dead in Chad prison
[DeutscheWelle] A group of 44 suspected members of the jihadi group Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
were found dead in prison in Chad's capital city of N'Djamena on Saturday, the AFP news agency reported, citing police authorities.
I prefer the Cheap Trick version of: "Ain't that a shame"
The dead were among 58 suspected jihadis who were arrested during a recent operation against the Boko Haram carried out near Lake Chad, the country's chief prosecutor Yousssouf Tom said on national television.

"Following the fighting around Lake Chad, 58 members of Boko Haram had been taken prisoner and sent to Ndjamena for the purposes of the investigation," he said.

"On Thursday morning, their jailers told us that 44 prisoners had been found dead in their cell," Tom said.
It would be great if they were all Epsteined. Then we could have endless Gore/Florida jokes about Hanging Chads. I'll go to my room now
INITIAL SIGNS POINT TO MASS SUICIDE
An investigation to determine how they died is underway, the prosecutor said. Autopsies had already been conducted on four bodies. Coroners suspect the prisoners ingested a "deadly substance" that induced heart and breathing complications.

The 58 suspects were scheduled to go before a criminal court on Thursday.

The recent operation near Lake Chad was carried out between March 31 and April 8 in response to a large-scale attack on an army base near the lake that left 100 soldiers dead. At least 52 soldiers and 1,000 jihadists were killed in the counter-operation.

Many Boko Haram fighters have hideouts in the area around Lake Chad, where they also have access to the neighboring countries of Nigeria, Cameroon
...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there...
and Niger.

Since 2009, the jihadi group has fought to establish an Islamic state in northeast Nigeria
... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border...
. The fighting has resulted in some 35,000 deaths and displacement for over 2 million people in the region in recent years.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/19/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram (ISIS)

#1  Aw, what a shame. Not.
Posted by: Clem || 04/19/2020 0:03 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: Frank G || 04/19/2020 0:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Must be the flu.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/19/2020 0:25 Comments || Top||

#4  Compliments to the prison chef?
Posted by: Big Platypus4651 || 04/19/2020 0:50 Comments || Top||

#5  Worst ever case of suicide.
Posted by: Bubba Claing1437 || 04/19/2020 1:19 Comments || Top||

#6  Guilty as charged?
Posted by: Raj || 04/19/2020 6:06 Comments || Top||

#7  Must have hired those guys who'd been guarding Epstein.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 04/19/2020 8:32 Comments || Top||

#8  There's always a silver lining...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/19/2020 8:48 Comments || Top||

#9  How's that lockdown thingy working?
Posted by: Mercutio || 04/19/2020 9:43 Comments || Top||

#10  The governments of the rest of the world should hang their fucking heads in shame. 1000s of ISIS went free, escaping judgement altogether, walked out of prisons to take up their cause again.

Now, the UN or some other hypocrite bastards will cite that Geneva bullshit over these deaths. I salute whoever poisoned them.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 04/19/2020 10:21 Comments || Top||

#11  Tony Fauci will say it was hydroxychloroquine.
Posted by: bbrewer126 || 04/19/2020 10:58 Comments || Top||

#12  Then maybe these deaths are anecdotal? /sarc
Posted by: Clem || 04/19/2020 11:04 Comments || Top||

#13  Mohammed Fauci.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/19/2020 11:04 Comments || Top||

#14  Awwwwww - ain't that just too bad.

My heart bleeds purple p!$$ just for them. ;-)
Posted by: Barbara || 04/19/2020 11:45 Comments || Top||

#15  My heart bleeds purple p!$$ just for them. ;-)

My wife used to say that. You jus made me smile...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/19/2020 12:09 Comments || Top||

#16  Feel good story of the day!
Posted by: gorb || 04/19/2020 12:16 Comments || Top||

#17  Group therapy is effective.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/19/2020 13:16 Comments || Top||

#18  Hanging Chad counters dead who is going to count the mail in vote now for the democrats?
Posted by: Choluling and Company5384 || 04/19/2020 15:05 Comments || Top||

#19  The Jim Jones approach? Did they drink the Kool Aide?
Posted by: Bobby || 04/19/2020 16:51 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Sopore: 2 CRPF Jawans Killed In Militant Attack
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 04/19/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistain Proxies


Iraq
Two rockets land in vicinity of Chinese oil company site in Iraq
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 04/19/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies


Officer, three conscripts injured in bomb blast that targeted their patrol near #Muqdadiya region
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 04/19/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syrian military commander assassinated in Daraa
[ALMASDARNEWS] A Syrian military commander was assassinated on Saturday after he was targeted in a hit-and-run attack inside the Dara’a Governorate.

According to local sources, the commander of the 52nd Brigade in the Syrian Arab Army (SAA), Brigadier General Hamid Makhluf, and the spokesperson for the unit, Colonel Mahmoud Hamid.

The two Syrian military officers were killed in an operation carried out by button men riding a cycle of violence; they hit their vehicle in the eastern countryside of the Dara’a Governorate.

No group has grabbed credit for this latest liquidation; however, a source from the 5th Division’s headquarters in Izra’a, Dara’a, told al-Masdar that they believe the culprits were members of a Free Syrian Army
... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund...
(FSA) sleeper cell from the eastern region of the governorate.

He said these Lions of Islam have targeted the Syrian Army several times already this year, which has prompted the military to now increase their presence in the area.
Posted by: Fred || 04/19/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria



Who's in the News
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6Govt of Iran
3Taliban
3Commies
2Islamic State
2Hezbollah
2Govt of Iran Proxies
1Govt of Sudan
1Govt of Syria
1Hamas
1Sublime Porte
1Boko Haram (ISIS)
1Govt of Pakistain Proxies
1Govt of Pakistan

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  Houthi militia has sentenced four journalists to death in Yemen for ‘treason and espionage,’
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  Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun calls on international donors to provide financial assistance to the crisis-hit country
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  Iranian regime has blamed the US, Israel, and Jews for the outbreak of coronavirus in Iran,
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  Hezbollah commander assassinated in southern Lebanon

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