[KhaamaPress] The Afghan forces killed at least 28 Talibs during separate festivities in southern Kandahar province of Afghanistan, the security officials said.
Gen. Tadin Khan, the Police Chief of Kandahar, said the Talibs attacked security posts in Sargo area of Spin Boldak district.
He said the Afghan forces effectively responded to the attack, killing at least 16 Talibs and wounding at least 9 others.
Gen. Tadin Khan further added that the security forces killed 12 Talibs and maimed at least 7 others during a similar clash in Mirazar area of Zherai dsitrict.
The Taliban ...Arabic for students... group has not commented regarding the festivities so far.
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As with Mozambique, the local residents want badly to kill one another regardless of any immediate, visible pretext. Our mission is to get the happy Hell out maintaining only enough contact to make certain they don't get ambitious in their bloodletting.
Our foreign policy has two priorities now and only two: the stability of the Persian Gulf, and containing combatting, and detaching our supply chains from, China.
GTFO of Afgh. and find a rapprochement with Russia. United front against China. Full-court press against that (literally) pestilential nation that is trying to destroy our civilization.
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As with Mozambique, the local residents want badly to kill one another regardless of any immediate, visible pretext.
What the heck are you talking about? These people are fighting each other for the same reason that the French and Germans fought each other - to decide what culture would dominate and who would rule. Just because their differences have nothing to do with us, except for the fact that one side harbors terrorists who do things like kill thousands of Americans in that cesspool we call New York City, doesn't mean they're like children squabbling over nothing.
The big reason I support a continued presence is Afghanistan is because I don't want to have to spend nutty sums of money propping NYC up when the Taliban sponsors a terror group that nukes NYC, killing millions. 9/11 killed under 3000 people in the city, and that cost a $20b appropriation. I don't want to find out what the appropriation will be when NYC loses a million dead - the scaled up number for 1m people relative to the 9/11 aid package would be $6.6T.
Now, if we had simply gone on, after 9/11, to help the Tajiks, Uzbeks, Kyrgyz and Hazaras exterminate the male Pashtun population of Afghanistan, the Taliban would have died with them. Because we, as a nation, lacked the ruthlessness to carry out this step, and show every indication of not being ruthless enough to carry out this step in the wake of a nuclear attack sponsored by the Taliban, we kind of have to be in Afghanistan until our allied government finally squashes that movement.
[KhaamaPress] A premature explosion killed four Talibs who were busy making a bomb inside a mosque in South-eastern Ghazni province.
The provincial government in a statement said the bully boyz were busy making a bomb when the earth-shattering kaboom took place, leaving at least four bully boyz dead.
The statement further added that the incident took place in Andar district of Ghazni.
The Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... group has not commented regarding the incident so far.
The anti-government armed bully boyz including Talibs frequently use improvised bombs to target the security forces and government personnel.
However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... majority of such attacks inflict casualties or ordinary civilians while such attacks often kill or injure the Death Eaters, specifically when the explosives go off prematurely.
[KhaamaPress] Clashes in Doshi district of northern Baghlan province cut the supply of electricity to capital Kabul and other provinces, the State Utility Firm said.
Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat in a statement said the impact of a bullet severed the transmission line in Pul-e Gazook area of Doshi district which was used to transmit electricity from Uzbekistan to Kabul and other provinces.
The statement furhter added that the impact has halted the transmission of electricity to Kabul and some other provinces.
Meanwhile, ...back at the bunker, his Excellency called the chief of staff and complained that the artillery was keeping him awake... the Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat said the firm has deployed technical personnel in the area which is busy reconstructing the severed transmission line.
According to Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat, the transmission of imported electricty to Kabul and other provinces is expected to resume by Thursday evening.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan forces killed a key Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... commander, Mullah Khaliq alias Saifullah, and captured four compounds of the group during the operations in northern Balkh province.
The 209th Shaheen Corps in a statement said the Afghan forces conducted the operations in Qaland Kheli, Qarghanchi and Sayad Villages of Sholgara district of Balkh.
The statement further added that the Afghan forces fully cleared the three villages during the operations and captured four compounds of the Taliban group.
The Afghan forces also killled Mullah Khaliq alias Saifullah, one of the key commanders of Taliban during the operations, the 209th Shaheen Corps added.
The Taliban group has not commented regarding the operations so far.
#GNA terrorist militia, Muhammad al-Murtah, was killed by the Libyan Army #LNA on the axis of the airport road. All who use the #BMC Kirpi Turkish scrap have been killed or waiting. ☠️ pic.twitter.com/2aCwQiyky3
#GNA’s dead in the hub of the petrol reservoir on airport road #Tripoli 1 Rami Aleppo 2 Adnan Dabbab 3 Haytham Al-Qadiri, known as Al-Durya 4 Rabee 'Naji Al-Gharyani, Field Commander 5 Muhammad Al-Murtah, a field commander 6 Muhammad Al Thani Al-Tariqi pic.twitter.com/LXtfnUtzcv
The spokesman for the Libyan National Army (LNA), Ahmed Al-Mismari, announced that the LNA was able to arrest the terrorist, Mohammad Mohammad Sayyed, also known as Mohammad al-Sinbakhti. According to Mismari, Al-Sayyed is a dangerous terrorist no less dangerous than Hisham Al-Ashmawi.
The Libyan army spokesman confirmed that the aforementioned had been arrested in the Ghout Al-Shmal in Tripoli. The wanted terrorist is being transported to Benghazi and then likely to Egypt, where he is wanted for involvement in church bombings.
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Fathi #Bashaga : the cruption in libya is great 35 billion dollars have been drained , and 7 billion dollars stolen through fake transactions.#GNA#Libya . pic.twitter.com/KANxBrsqNl
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Speaking of corruption: Tuesday, March 17, 2020 - The Libyan Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha has agreed with the officials of Airbus in France to sign a contract for buying new helicopters for the Interior Ministry.
Destruction of the armored vehicles and tanks, and burning of those who were inside them belonging to the #GNA militias #Terrorist The Abu Salim axis, #Tripoli. #LNA
Libyan Armed Forces air patrols to secure the entire Libyan south from smuggling gangs and chase the remnants of #terrorist groups hidden deep in the desert. #LNA pic.twitter.com/hmutEEzeeo
[AnNahar] Poland's special services said Monday they had detained a Lebanese citizen with suspected ties to 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.... group who allegedly planned to launch attacks in the country.
The man, whose identity was not made public, was detained on April 16 after being deemed "a real threat to Polish internal security and to our country's citizens," according to Stanislaw Zaryn, front man for Poland's special services.
The suspect "was planning to set up a network in Poland and elsewhere in the EU that would carry out terror attacks in Western European countries," Zaryn said in a statement.
He had "family ties to faceless myrmidons belonging to the so-called Islamic State who died in battle against the coalition forces in Syria and Iraq," the statement added.
The man had apparently been in frequent touch via the internet with the Islamic State and other individuals linked to the group in EU member countries while he was staying in Poland.
The individual, who is now in a detention center for foreigners in eastern Poland, is also alleged to have provided financial support to Islamic State members in Syria.
[IsraelTimes] Palestinian assailant shot dead by troops during assault at checkpoint near Ma’ale Adumim settlement; pipe bomb found at scene.
A Border Police officer was moderately injured in a combined car-ramming and stabbing attack at a West Bank checkpoint east of Jerusalem on Wednesday morning, police said.
According to police, the Palestinian assailant rammed his van into the border guard at the “Kiyosk” checkpoint near the Ma’ale Adumim settlement, then got out of the vehicle and attacked the officer with a pair of scissors before other troops at the scene shot him dead.
A pipe bomb was also found at the scene, which police said the assailant apparently planned to throw at the troops at the checkpoint. The area was closed off until sappers could remove the explosive device.
Medics said the border guard, who was in his twenties, sustained moderate wounds in the attack. He was taken to Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center for treatment.
Graphic footage from the attack showed the Palestinian assailant accelerate his van into the Border Police officer, then get out of the vehicle and attack him with the scissors.
The border guard initially fights back against his attacker and shoves him away. The officer then runs away as other border guards at the scene are seen opening fire at the assailant.
The identity of the assailant was not immediately released.
The incident came amid a general dip in the number of terror attacks in the West Bank during the coronavirus pandemic.
Allan didn't will it into orbit
[AsiaTimes] Iran’s "Noor" (Messenger) military satellite likely did not reach orbit. The United States Air Force’s 18th Space Control Squadron said it had "tracked 2 objects, NOUR 01 (Sat Catalog No. 45529), QASED Rocket Body (45530) from a space launch originating in Iran." The Squadron, part of the new US Space Command, did not report that the satellite reached orbit.
The US has extensive space tracking capabilities. These include sophisticated radars, a system called "Space Fence" designed to provide space situational awareness, and electro-optical surveillance systems. In addition, the US has space tracking agreements with Australia, Japan, Italy, Canada, France, the South Korea and the United Kingdom. It also has agreements with the European Space Agency and Europe’s Eumetsat weather satellite organization.
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NKor launched a satellite a few years ago. It weighed about the same as this Iran object. The NKor satellite achieved a low altitude polar orbit and does seem to function.
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Eventually the Iranians will get one to work. These are essentially North Korean rockets built in Iran. The Norks successfully orbited a payload (satellite was DOA) in 2012.
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Found the probable launch site. Image date is 10/24/2014, so it's been around for awhile. Note the launch platform in lower right.
36°12'59.68" N 55°18'44.73" E
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Got it. Blue Roof at storage area
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