[ToloNews] Nafisa Hijran, a member of Pashtun-infested Logar's provincial council, and her driver were maimed in a shooting on Monday morning in the province, said Pashtun-infested Logar police officials.
A gunman shot at Hijran’s vehicle in Pul-e-Alam, capital of Pashtun-infested Logar province, said Shahpoor Ahmadzai, a front man for the Pashtun-infested Logar police chief.
"Hijran is in stable, pH balanced condition and has been sent to Kabul for treatment," said Ahmadzai.
The gunman has been arrested, and "investigations are ongoing."
No group including the Taliban ...Arabic for students... has grabbed credit for the attack yet.
[ToloNews] Security sources on Monday reported a cluster of attacks by the Taliban ...Arabic for students... on multiple parts of the Baghlan-Balkh highway, a key route that connects Kabul with northern and northeastern provinces.
The sources said the festivities are ongoing in the Chashma-e-Shir area and on the outskirts of Pul-e-Khumri city, the center of Baghlan, leaving the highway closed to traffic.
The festivities started after the Taliban installed a checkpoint on Baghlan-Balkh highway in Chashma-e-Shir area and started "extorting funds from truck drivers," say sources.
Hundreds of vehicles have been stranded on both sides of the highway, according to eyewitnesses and passengers.
Ahmad, a passenger, said that women and kiddies are among those stranded on the two sides of the highway and are in a bad condition.
The commander of a highway unit, Abdul Ghani Mahmoudi, said the Taliban closed the highway after launching an attack on it.
He added that Taliban have hidden in civilians’ homes and there is a need for reinforcement troops to push the Lions of Islam back from the highway.
The Taliban has not commented on the attack so far.
[KhaamaPress] A clash broke out between security forces and the faceless myrmidons in Kabul in the early hours of Monday, leaving one terrorist dead.
The Kabul Police Headquarters in a statement said a clash broke out security forces and the faceless myrmidons in Mir Bacha Kot district of Kabul at around 2 am on Monday.
The statement further added that the clash broke out after two faceless myrmidons attacked a security check post in Sufiyan area of the district.
The security forces killed one of the faceless myrmidons and arrested another terrorist following the clash, the statement added.
The Kabul Police also added that the security forces confiscated an RPG launcher and three rockets of launcher following the clash, the statement said.
The anti-government armed bandidosbandidos bad boys including Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... have not commented regarding the incident so far.
[BigLeaguePolitics] A group of Black Lives Matter (BLM) rioters terrorized a peaceful Catholic prayer group in St. Louis on Saturday.
"Yesterday, while praying for peace and unity in our city and the protection of the Saint Louis statue, Black Lives Matter protesters started to harass, berate, and assault the Catholics that were peacefully praying. We did nothing in retaliation," Conor Martin wrote in a Twitter post documenting the violence from the left-wing thugs.
"We allowed them to spit on us, call us names, put their fingers in our faces, push us, and antagonize, but we did not retaliate. We continued to peacefully pray," he added in a subsequent tweet.
There were pictures captured of the violent display by the BLM terrorists who showed up to demonstrate their hatred of Christianity and white people with violence.
Martin announced that he will be pressing charges against the thugs and hopes they are punished for the violent assault they committed against the peaceful Catholics.
I will be pressing charges against the attackers. If you can identify anyone in these videos or pictures, please let me know. This can not stand. The police were called 6 times by others on the sidelines and never showed up. 6/8
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The videos at the link are very upsetting, but show that the Antifa/BLM thugs are trained to do a few things well — their actions follow a checklist, it seems to me.
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Sorry, but since when does voting matter? Gee, a choice between two parties. WOW! And remember when the GOP had both houses of Congreß in Clinton's term. Sure got a lot done for the betterment of the country, didn't they?
[FoxNews] 'We're not walking away from our federal facilities like police departments have in some communities,' Morgan says
Acting Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Mark Morgan asked, "Where are the local political leaders?" after violence rocked Portland, Ore., overnight, and border patrol agents were called in to assist.
"What we saw in Portland last night was criminal and we stood strong with our federal partners to resist that," Morgan told "Fox & Friends Weekend" on Sunday.
Police in Portland declared a riot around 11 p.m. local time Saturday as Independence Day marked the 38th consecutive day of civil unrest in the city.
Videos showed graffiti painted on downtown buildings and showed a fire burning as a crowd gathered.
Journalist Andy Ngo, writing on Twitter, claimed rioters were burning American flags "while shouting BLM and antifa slogans."
"These are not protesters, these are criminals who got together and organized and planned and actually brought weapons, they brought shields, they brought frozen water bottles, rocks, lasers, weapons with the intent to destroy a federal building and harm law enforcement officers," Morgan said on Sunday.
Morgan pointed out that United States Marshals, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security Investigations and the FBI has "committed a lot of resources to making sure that these individuals are arrested and prosecuted to the full extent of the law for the criminals that they are."
"We are doing a disservice to peaceful, lawful protesters when we call these individuals protesters," Morgan said. "They're not. They're criminal thugs with an agenda."
"We're going to escalate to the use of force that's needed to repel these criminals and apprehend them and prosecute them," Morgan went on to say.
He added, "We're not walking away from our federal facilities like police departments have in some communities. We're staying."
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The local leaders thought it was fun to play at revolution until things got out of hand. Now they don't know what to do.
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Actually, they move to where they think the votes might be, which usually avoids the need to do anything and keeps them in power. But it isn't working. This is a time of cognitive dissonance and realization for them.
“A social media post has resurfaced from a Black Lives Matter Toronto co-founder in which she argues that white people are ‘sub-human’ and are ‘recessive genetic defects.’” https://t.co/Y0eVGYKFio
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This is language straight out of Nazi Germany. But the moron saying it is talking about a couple hundred million well armed Americans who find her stupidity increasingly annoying.
After 37 days of violent antifa & BLM protests and a mild response from Portland Police & the city, scores of federal police and what looks like military stand outside to protect the federal courthouse. Last night, the building was attacked w/mortars. pic.twitter.com/Dniw1qS9rs
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He means fireworks, not mortars in the military sense (although that may be coming.)
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In another time and place, imagine an old VW camper with moon roof and a fixed baseplate and 81mm tube. Preplaned firing locations and 5–10 rounds of preset cheese. Shoot and scoot in about 90 seconds from first drop. Some of you may even remember the shithole it was in, but now, the mind boggles at where it might pop up. This comes out of the institutional memory of the hard boys helping the anarchists now.
Out of things to burn by the Portland federal courthouse, antifa in downtown have set a homeless person's sofa on fire. It is engulfed in flames by the former elk statue. pic.twitter.com/Ume1SyPCug
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^ That's what I've been saying for years. Erect tent cities out in the boondocks surrounded with concertina wire. Leave the armed guards outside the perimeter with orders to shoot to kill anyone who looks cross eyed at the wire.
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They'll get too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter but who the hell cares?
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A memorial to war veterans in downtown Portland is power washed almost daily following nightly vandalism by antifa and BLM extremists. pic.twitter.com/xk2qgFM2tT
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You know they do it every night and yet haven't tried to catch them in the act and hten bill them or their parents for the damages (at the very least?).
Lots of politicians proving they are unfit to lead anyone.
National Review via Instapundit
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp on Monday issued an executive order declaring a state of emergency and activating up to 1,000 National Guard members after Atlanta was wracked with violence over Independence Day weekend.
The move follows "weeks of dramatically increased violent crime and property destruction in the City of Atlanta," said Kemp, a Republican.
Over the July 4 weekend, Atlanta had eleven shootings with 31 victims, leaving five people dead, including an 8-year-old girl.
"You shot and killed a baby, and it wasn’t one shooter — there were at least two shooters," Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said at a news conference, adding that "you can’t blame" police for the high number of shootings of recent weeks.
The eight-year-old girl was shot outside a Wendy’s that was torched and became a hotspot for protests after Rayshard Brooks, a black man, was shot there by a white police officer last month.
Between May 31, the weekend after Memorial Day, until June 27, shooting incidents have doubled from 46 last year to 93 this year for that period, according to police data. Murders more than doubled from six last year to 14 this year for that period.
Multi-colour map at the link. The Turks really need to consult a designer about their colour choices.
[Rudaw] Ottoman Turkish forces have almost 40 "military points" in the Kurdistan Region, including four in Erbil, Duhok, Soran and Zakho cities, according to a map published Monday by the Ottoman Turkish presidency.
Wait — when did they set up shop inside Kurdish cities, and why are they permitted to stay there?
The Ottoman Turkish presidency’s Directorate of Communications issued a map late Monday saying it has established 37 "military points" in border areas of the Kurdistan Region and inside the cities of Erbil, Duhok, Zakho and Soran.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... began air and ground military operations in the Kurdistan Region in mid-June with the stated aim of removing suspected Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) targets from the area. So far, five civilians have been killed by Ottoman TurkishArclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s.
The map shows a Ottoman Turkish military presence in multiple locations, spreading across the Iraq-Turkey and Iraq-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 the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... border areas in the Kurdistan Region. The Ottoman Turkish army also has a base in Bashiqa, in the disputed province of Nineveh, despite multiple calls from Baghdad to withdraw from the area.
Ankara’s presence in the Kurdistan Region has grown significantly in recent decades, particularly since the 1990s.
Rizgar Ersi, a commander of the PKK, told the group’s media this week that Turkey is trying to establish "an occupation corridor" in the Kurdistan Region.
"It is trying to occupy a strip of land that is about 30 to 40 kilometres wide. If it succeeds in this, the attack will continue on a line from Qandil to Shingal and an occupation corridor will be built," he said.
Iraqi border forces in Zakho have set up five bases in "strategic" positions in order to de-escalate festivities between Ottoman Turkish forces and the PKK, as well as prevent civilian losses, a commander said on Thursday.
Hamada Dizayee, Commander of the Iraqi 1st Border Guard unit told Rudaw’s Hiwa Jamal on Monday that Turkey has asked Iraqi border forces to cooperate with them amid Ankara’s ongoing operation in the border areas, located in the Kurdistan Region
"Turkey has asked to build cooperation with us in order to secure the areas on the Iraqi-Ottoman Turkish border," Dizayee said. "We already have cooperation with the Iranian border forces to secure the areas on Iraqi-Iranian borders, and we meet every six months."
[Rudaw] Iraqi border forces and their Ottoman Turkish counterparts will cooperate to "secure" border areas between the two countries, an army commander has told Rudaw.
Hamada Dizayee, Commander of the Iraqi 1st Border Guard unit told Rudaw’s Hiwa Jamal on Monday that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... has asked Iraqi border forces to cooperate with them amid Ankara’s ongoing operation in the border areas, located in the Kurdistan Region
"Turkey has asked to build cooperation with us in order to secure the areas on the Iraqi-Ottoman Turkish border," Dizayee said. "We already have cooperation with the Iranian border forces to secure the areas on Iraqi-Iranian borders, and we meet every six months."
Turkey began fresh air and ground military operations in the Kurdistan Region in mid-June, with the stated aim of removing suspected Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) targets from the area.
Dubbed Operation Claw-Eagle, Ankara launched a set of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s across the Kurdistan Region and Nineveh province on June 15, followed by a ground operation, or Operation-Claw Tiger, on June 17.
Turkey has conducted airstrikes and ground operations against the PKK within Iraq’s borders for years, accusing the federal Iraqi government and Kurdistan Regional Government of failing to take measures against the group.
Kurds make up the majority of members of the Iraqi border forces units stationed in Dohuk province, with some Arab and Turkmen members. The force was established in 2003 and has been based in Duhok province since, according to Dizayee.
"Our only job is to monitor the borders and prevent smuggling across the border," he said.
Zebari told Rudaw on Monday that the main task of their forces is to protect the border with Turkey, in order to prevent the presence of "smugglers" between Iraq and Turkey.
"So far we have not had any issues with the PKK and the PKK has not prevented us from carrying out our duties," Zebari added.
Iraqi security analyst Husham al-Hashimi puts the number of PKK fighters in Iraq, including the Kurdistan Region, at between 8,500 and 10,000, distributed across 81 points and bases.
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Neither Baghdad (aka Tehran) or Ankara are 'best buddies' with the Kurds.
The folks in Erbil may want to watch this very closely.
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Outside of political expediency, does anybody like the Kurds?
He dead. Iraqi security analyst and Rudaw columnist Husham al-Hashimi was assassinated by unknown [*cough* Hizballah *cough*] armed groups in Baghdad on Monday night, according to Iraqi state media outlet INA.
According to state-media, Hashimi was assassinated in front of his house in Baghdad's Zayuna neighbourhood. Three gunmen ambushed Hashimi and shot him at close range as he was getting into his car, an investigator told AFP.
[THEBAGHDADPOST] The Iraqi Federal Police forces on Sunday seized a number of bombs belonging 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.... (IS) in southeast of Kirkuk.
According to the information BasNews has obtained, the federal police during an operation in Hawija (some 55 kilometers southwest Kirkuk), managed to seize a great number of unwent kaboom! bombs.
The Islamic State is believed to have hideouts in various areas of Kirkuk as the bad boy group has lately begun to regroup itself in the country.
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— The Baghdad Post (@BaghdadPostPlus) July 6, 2020
Iraqi researcher Hisham al-Hashemi who was shot dead by unknown gunmen had received death threats from #Iraq’s #Iran-backed Kata’ib Hezbollah militia about a month ago, according to an Iraqi activist.https://t.co/LKK3CuDyqt
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) July 6, 2020
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[IsraelTimes] Dozens of Paleostinians participated in a Fatah-organized protest near the town of Biddya against what residents called a "takeover" of their land, Paleostinian Authority official news agency WAFA reports.
The site of the protest, Khillet Hassan, saw a violent mostly peaceful confrontation between Paleostinians and Israelis yesterday; both parties claim that they were attacked first.
Four Israelis were lightly maimed, while two Paleostinians were shot and taken to a public hospital in Salfit for treatment. Ma’an News Agency reported one of the shooting victims had moderate wounds.
Mossad said to foil Iranian attacks on Israeli embassies
Israel’s Channel 12 news reports that the Mossad spy agency recently managed to foil planned or attempted Iranian attacks on Israeli diplomatic missions in Europe and elsewhere.https://t.co/BDDNq5guvd
[ALMASDARNEWS] On Monday, an unidentified aircraft carried out a raid on the positions of the Ottoman Turkish-backed Death Eaters in northern Syria.
According to reports from northern Syria, an unidentified aircraft, possibly belonging to the U.S. Coalition, bombed the sites belonging to the Ottoman Turkish-backed forces in the al-Raqqa Governorate.
The first Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... was said to have targeted the outskirts of Hammam al-Turkman in the countryside of Tal Abyad, which is controlled by forces loyal to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... The second airstrike targeted a neighboring area, but it caused limited damage and no casualties.
The third raid targeted the village of Abu Shakhat near al-Mabrouka in the Ras al-Ain countryside. No casualties were reported.
Since the bombings, the Ottoman Turkish-backed Death Eaters have been high alert, especially after their forces were targeted in a number of areas where they have launched attacks against the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and Syrian Arab Army (SAA).
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Unidentified aircraft takes over the ME. I wonder...
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Turkey has been mucking with Libya - definitely a zone of interest for Egypt.
Wonder if it was an Egyptian plane or that of Jordan or Saudi both stout friends of Egypt?
The militants were caught attempting to smuggle these weapons from the Homs Governorate, which borders Lebanon, to the Idlib Governorate in northwestern Syria.
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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.
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