[Al Ahram] Libya's internationally recognised Government of National Accord (GNA) on Saturday moved fighters closer to Sirte, a gateway to Libya's main oil terminals that the GNA says it plans to recapture from the eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA).
Witnesses and GNA military commanders said a column of about 200 vehicles moved eastwards from Misrata along the Mediterranean coast towards the town of Tawergha, about a third of the way to Sirte.
The GNA recently recaptured most of the territory held by the LNA in northwest Libya, ending eastern commander Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all. Actually, he is, but slowly... 's 14-month campaign to take the capital, Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... , before the new front line solidified between Misrata and Sirte.
Backed by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... , the GNA has said it will recapture Sirte and an LNA airbase at Jufra.
But Egypt, which backs the LNA alongside the United Arab Emirates and Russia, has threatened to send troops into Libya if the GNA and Ottoman Turkish forces try to seize Sirte.
The LNA has itself sent fighters and weapons to bolster its defence of Sirte, already badly battered from earlier phases of warfare and chaos since the 2011 revolution against longtime autocrat Muammar Qadaffy ...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland and was then murdered by his indignant subjects 42 years later...
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[INTELLIGENCEBRIEFS] Mozambican military announced that its troop active in the restive Province of Cabo Delgado arrested at least fifteen members of 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.... Central Africa Province active in the northmost province. The 15 were arrested in Pemba City following an operation that was geared at arresting members of the terror organization.
Preliminary intelligence indicates that the arrested jihadists had arrived in Pemba for recon ahead of attacks by the group. The arrests are a huge milestone in the introductory counterinsurgency strategies as the members are expected to give insight into the elusive group that has been terrorizing residents of Cabo Delgado.
Additionally, the arrests are a piece of welcome good news even as the news of police and military brutality in the already affected areas rock the counterinsurgency campaign launched last month. Residents have retreated from their homes as allegations against the military and police of extortion, looting and, unwarranted arrested, assaults and intimidation continue to characterize the fight against ISCAP in Cabo Delgado.
Nonetheless, the arrest alongside the recent stipend to boost military morale announced by President Nyusi are primary steps in decapitating the violent mostly peaceful campaign by ISCAP.
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[Al Ahram] Authorities in Nigeria's northwestern Zamfara state have offered two cows for each gun surrendered to halt bloody attacks by criminal gangs, including cattle rustlers.Remote communities across the region have for years been hit hard by deadly raids from gangs of cycle of violence-riding cattle rustlers and kidnappers.
Military operations have failed to end the killings and local officials have tried repeated negotiations to broker peace.
Zamfara governor Bello Matawalle said Thursday that under the new initiative "for every rifle submitted by a repentant bandit, there would be compensation of two cows".
Matawalle said the offer of livestock was meant to convince the gangs, known as "bandidos", to disarm without cash payments that could be used to buy more arms.
There was no indication if the plan would be enough to convince them to forsake their lucractive cattle rustling and kidnapping rackets.
The unrest in northwestern Nigeria, which experts say has been spurred by overpopulation and climate change, has seen an estimated 8,000 people killed since 2011 and 200,000 flee their homes.
President Muhammadu Buhari has pledged a fresh push to end the killings after a spike in attacks in neighbouring Katsina state.
The "bandidos" mainly come from the Fulani ... a peculiarly brutal tribe of Moslem herdsmen infesting Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and probably other places that are light on law and order and heavy on tribal identity... ethnic group that has long relied principally on cattle herding.
Vigilante groups set up by local communities to defend themselves have been accused of extrajudicial killings that add to the spiral of killings.
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That's an idea. Offer sheep to the Antifa incels.
This is terrifying. Video released by the Mexican cartel and paramilitary group CJNG show the extent of militarization of their special forces. Scores of armed & kitted out fighters in standardized uniforms line a large convoy of up-armored troop transport vehicles and technicals pic.twitter.com/Kffz6UYwIX
Person wearing “press” helmet carries antifa flag at Portland riot. @ACLU_OR & several other left-wing groups suing to stop law enforcement from “targeting” media. What they all fail to admit is antifa wear fake “press” markings to assault police from closer distances. https://t.co/grhrv6xv96
Antifa rioters in Portland knock the street preacher unconscious and move him elsewhere after he wouldn’t leave the public demonstration. Video by @FromKalen: pic.twitter.com/bkpCmVryR4
Lilith Sinclair, a Portland antifa #activist & sex worker, says she is organizing for the abolition of the United States at an event outside the federal courthouse. She is applauded by the audience & joined by religious clergy. pic.twitter.com/h0XDq5AHiK
Antifa & BLM attack the front of the boarded-up federal courthouse. Whenever law enforcement responds, mayor, senators & gov calls it incitement to violence against “peaceful protesters.” Video by @FromKalen: pic.twitter.com/xaP5Vk2tko
Joseph A. Rivera, 25, is charged with felony attempt to elude by vehicle. Just yesterday he was interviewed by a local journalist where he said he was a peaceful protester who was wrongly hit with a rubber munition by police. https://t.co/oJDQil19Y7pic.twitter.com/VKDFApdgoQ
[MINNESOTA.CBSLOCAL] Gun battles, drug dealing and prostitution — that’s what neighbors in one part of north Minneapolis say they’re dealing with on a daily basis.Homicides and other violent mostly peaceful crimes are pulling police away. That’s leaving some neighborhoods feeling like they’re on their own.
The aftermath of a shoot out near Lowry and Logan Avenues in north Minneapolis has residents fed up.
"There was about 30 rounds shot," Jake, a nearby resident told WCCO.
Several homes on the block were hit. Two showed up at the hospital and are expected to recover.
"It’s 24-hour crime," Arthur Dent explained.
Neighbors call this a war zone, where crime is king.
"We’re seeing drug sales, I mean people pull up chairs and they sell it in our lawns, there is illegal gambling on the street, people selling firearm," Jake said.
"It’s prostitution, its violence against women who can’t protect themselves, we’ve had somebody sexually assaulted in our front yard," Dent explained.
Both of these men watch the violence from their homes, afraid to show their faces because they’ve been warned to stay quiet.
"Somebody got my attention with a weapon to make sure that I understood that I needed to be careful," Dent said.
Keegan Jamaal Rolenc, 28, was arrested by Minneapolis police in early February after a traffic stop yielded a 9mm semi-automatic handgun, about 40 grams of cocaine, and other evidence of drug distribution.
Rolenc has previously been convicted of several felonies, including a drive-by shooting, assaults and drug possessions.
He was charged Friday with one count each of being a felon in possession of a firearm, possession with intent to distribute cocaine, and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime.
Rolenc first met Mayor Frey in a Minneapolis Group Violence Intervention program. Frey eventually brought him into the mayor’s office as an intern, and then as a policy fellow. Frey also helped Rolenc in his quest to obtain a realtor’s license, but his criminal history shut him out.
Frey said back in February that he was "gutted" by news of Rolenc’s arrest.
For the past few weeks, people experiencing homelessness have set up tents in Powderhorn park, resulting in both community support and controversy as they seek a stable place to live amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The owner of an apartment building on the 31st block of Tenth Avenue, however, has had multiple tenants say they plan to move out because of the ongoing issues at the park.
On one occasion, a tenant sent him a video of a person — who appeared to be coming from the park — try to open car door handles in the parking lot. That same person then allegedly went up to the building and tried to open the tenant’s windows.
The landlord is suing the park board for at least $10,000 in damages, an added video security system, security patrols, repairing damage, and replacing lost tenants.
The park board said they have "acted at all times consistent with Gov. Walz’s Executive Orders and directions concerning the homeless and within the Park Board’s legal authority to govern parks.”
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It's too late for you morons to sell you homes and move away from Minneapolis now. Too late, you fools. Your only two options now are to fix it yourselves or watch it become Detroit.
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Minneapolis envies Detroit.
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In a statement published on ISIS-affiliated Amaq media outlet, the krazed killer group claimed Death Eaters "killed General Brigadier Ali Hameed Ghaydan, commander of Brigade 59 of the Iraqi Army on Ibn Sina street... in an ambush by our fighters with various weapons."
Three others were said to be killed in the attack, according to the statement.
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says its troops arrested three Paleostinians in the Jalazone refugee camp, north of Ramallah, whom it claims were planning on carrying out a terror attack.
The army says the suspects had planned an attack that would begin by them "hurling an bomb from their vehicle toward the community of Beit-El, as well as an attempted drive-by shooting."
The suspects were transferred to the Shin Bet for questioning.
[Independent] An Iranian power plant has been hit by an explosion, the country’s official news agency has reported.
There were no casualties after the blast in the central Isfahan province, according to IRNA.
It was caused by the wear and tear of a transformer, the managing director of the Isfahan power company told the news agency. unlike some of the other explosions, this one may well be non sabotage event Or Insh'Allah maintenance
Power was interrupted for two hours, he said.
There have been several explosions and fires around Iranian military, nuclear and industrial facilities since late June. there was a pipeline explosion on 18 July which was only lightly reported
Update at 9:35 a.m.EDT: There seems to be a problem accessing the tweet, but The Times of Israel reports the following with a photo at the link:
An explosion was reported in an oil pipeline in Iran Saturday, the latest in a mysterious series of blasts and blazes that have occurred throughout the country.
Several of the recent disasters have struck sensitive Iranian sites, leading to speculation that they could be part of a sabotage campaign engineered by Israel or another Tehran foe.
The latest incident occurred in a pipeline in the Ahvaz region in the south of the country, according to reports in local and social media.
Video shared on social media showed a large fire at the scene. There were no reports of casualties in the incident, and it was not immediately clear what the cause was.
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Somebody really doesn"t like Iran. Allen maybe?
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All one has to do is either vaporize or aerosolize the oil a bit (small explosion will suffice) then light it (same explosion again will suffice) and will end up with a self supporting fire with the flame evaporating the oil to sustain the flame.
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#7 Not to be picky, but that's a fire. I once saw a demo where a guy put out a fire by dumping a bucket of either crude or bunker oil on it.
So somebody set off an explosion close to or on the pipeline. Hard to figure out how an oil pipeline explodes itself. Now, maybe in the pumping station or the booster station plumbing there were vapors from a previous run of gasoline. Those might blow up. More than likely, instead of blowing up the pipeline, various valves would have been blown out. And the oil finds its way there under pressure because that's the current run. Is there still a fire? Probably not, as the vapors blew and that was all....maybe started something else on fire. But you need the aerosolizing.
In order to do that, you need an explosion ON the oil or the pipeline itself. That's a good shot, presuming an insider didn't get some shaped charge cutting line out of his lunch box.
Now, if there were storage tanks. In the old, old days, some of the oil facilities had surplus bronze napoleon cannon for putting a ball into a tank which was in danger of overpressure. Saw that in El Dorado, Kansas at their display of the prarie oil boom. Worth half a day, if you're out that way. Anyway, they didn't expect a cannon ball to be pyrophoric.
Nope. Outside influence.
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#7 Not to be picky, but that's a fire. I once saw a demo where a guy put out a fire by dumping a bucket of either crude or bunker oil on it.
So somebody set off an explosion close to or on the pipeline. Hard to figure out how an oil pipeline explodes itself. Now, maybe in the pumping station or the booster station plumbing there were vapors from a previous run of gasoline. Those might blow up. More than likely, instead of blowing up the pipeline, various valves would have been blown out. And the oil finds its way there under pressure because that's the current run. Is there still a fire? Probably not, as the vapors blew and that was all....maybe started something else on fire. But you need the aerosolizing.
In order to do that, you need an explosion ON the oil or the pipeline itself. That's a good shot, presuming an insider didn't get some shaped charge cutting line out of his lunch box.
Now, if there were storage tanks. In the old, old days, some of the oil facilities had surplus bronze napoleon cannon for putting a ball into a tank which was in danger of overpressure. Saw that in El Dorado, Kansas at their display of the prarie oil boom. Worth half a day, if you're out that way. Anyway, they didn't expect a cannon ball to be pyrophoric.
Nope. Outside influence.
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[Jpost] Tens of thousands of ISIS members, including their families, ended up detained in eastern Syria in the last several years as the SDF and the US-led Coalition forces defeated ISIS.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... ’s pro-government media is celebrating an operation by Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization that "rescued" a Moldovan woman and her four children from "bully boyz in northern Syria." In the language of Turkey’s pro-government media what this actually means is Turkey’s intelligence service apparently smuggled a woman and children out of an area in eastern Syria that is under the control of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces.
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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.
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
...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 
... a peculiarly brutal tribe of Moslem herdsmen infesting Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and probably other places that are light on law and order and heavy on tribal identity...
[MINNESOTA.CBSLOCAL] Gun battles, drug dealing and prostitution — that’s what neighbors in one part of north Minneapolis say they’re dealing with on a daily basis.Homicides and other 
[MINNESOTA.CBSLOCAL] A former policy fellow to Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey was charged Friday by the United States Attorney’s office with drug and gun crimes.
A landlord in the Powderhorn neighborhood is suing the Minneapolis Parks and Recreation Board, claiming that allowing people to live in tents in the park violates a number of already-existing ordinances.
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
