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Dorothy Elizabeth Gish was an American actress of the screen and stage, as well as a director and writer. Dorothy and her older sister Lillian Gish were major movie stars of the silent era. Dorothy also had great success on the stage and was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame. Dorothy Gish was noted as a fine comedian, and many of her films were comedies.
Born:
Dorothy Elizabeth Gish,
March 11, 1898, Dayton, Ohio, U.S.
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June 04, 1968, Rapallo, Italy
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"What," I am frequently not asked, "do you have in common with Leadbelly?" Well, now I know. We've both mixed up Springtime in the Rockies and In the Evening by the Moonlight.
In the springtime in the sunshine
You could hear those Rockies ringing!
In de evening by de moonlight
You might see some Tetons singing.
[KhaamaPress] The Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... fighters shot killed a boy who was attending an engagement function in Kabul.
The boy, Faisal (in his 20s) was shot by a Taliban fighter in Police District two of the Afghan capital Kabul.
Eyewitnesses and his uncle of whom the slain Faisal was attending the wedding said, they were directed to stop for check post and they did but were shot at in the next one.
"We were returning from my engagement function and were directed to stop in a check post of the Taliban in Quwa-e-Markaz. We stopped and were searched by the Taliban and then they allowed us to go, when we went there were four other Taliban who started shooting and shot killed Faisal." Said Faisal’s Uncle.
Spokesperson of the Ministry of Interior Affairs Saeed Khostai confirmed the incident and added that two culprits have been arrested and are under investigation.
"The people were asked to stop to a check post and the Mujahideen started shooting at Faisal who was maimed and then succumbed to his wounds in hospital. Two people have been arrested in connection to the incident." Said Khostai.
People have been asking the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan to properly train their fighters and give them proper uniforms in order to be recognized and avoid incidents as such in the future.
[DW] Residents of Lalibela, home to a UN World Heritage site, said the rebels have retaken it "without firing guns." Æthiopian forces and their allies had taken control of the town less than two weeks ago.
Unknown button men on Sunday morning attacked some communities in Imo State, kidnapping two traditional rulers in the process.
It was learnt that the button men also burnt the palaces and vehicles of the traditional rulers.
The traditional rulers kidnapped by the assailants were identified as Paul Ogbu of Ihitte Ihube and Acho Ndukwe of Amagu Ihube, both from the Okigwe Local Government Area of the state.
SaharaReporters also gathered that among those kidnapped was the youth leader of Umulolo Okigwe. In the Umulolo Okigwe, the button men also attacked the country home of a community leader identified as Fabian Nwosu.
The house was also vandalised during the operation that lasted between 12 midnight and 1 am on Sunday.
A source told SaharaReporters that one of the kidnapped traditional rulers, Eze Acho Ndukwe is the Chairman of the Council of Traditional Rulers in Okigwe Local Government Area.
"He is also the CEO of Genesis Hotel in Okigwe," the source said.
Last Thursday, the traditional ruler of Atta Kingdom in the Njaba Local Government Area, Edwin Azike, was kidnapped.
His corpse was found at the market square on Friday morning.
The traditional ruler of Mbutu Ancient Kingdom, Damian Nwaigwe, was also kidnapped last Thursday.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Arab Coalition said it has carried out 35 targeted operations against the Iran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... s in Marib during the past day, resulting in the killing of more than 200 snuffies and the destruction of 21 military vehicles."We carried out three targeted operations in the western coast to support the coastal forces and protect civilians. The western coast operations targeted two military vehicles, and eliminated more than 15 terrorists," the coalition said in a series of tweets carried out by the Saudi Press Agency.
"We support the operations of the Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... i forces on the western coast in areas that are excluded from the Stockholm Agreement provisions," the coalition added.
[GREATERKASHMIR] A local krazed killer reportedly of the Jaish outfit was killed in a shootout with security forces at Baragam area of Awantipora area in south Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... 's Pulwama district on Sunday morning.
"AwantiporaEncounterUpdate: 01 unidentified terrorist killed. #Operation going on. Further details shall follow, " a police front man said.
Quoting a top police officer, news agency GNS reported that the slain JeM krazed killer has been identified as Sameer Ahmad Tantray, a local from Bargam Awantipora.
He had joined JeM outfit on 2nd November of this year and was under C- category, the officer added.
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Gunmen shoot dead a policeman guarding a #polio vaccination team in #Pakistan’s northwest in the second such killing in two days, according to police.https://t.co/3oCUkIZYuS
The attack in the province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa came a day after two men with the Pak Taliban ...Arabic for students... shot full of holes another police officer who was guarding a similar vaccination team in the same area."Two button men riding a cycle of violence opened fire on a policeman who was guarding a two-member female polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set. Currently the disease is only found in Pakistain and Afghanistain... vaccination team in the Sheikh Uttar area, killing him on the spot," Tank district police chief Sajjad Khan told AFP.
Another local police official, Amanat Ali, confirmed the incident and said the assailants had escaped.
No one has grabbed credit for the killing, but a front man for the Pak Taliban earlier claimed Saturday’s attack.
It comes after the turbans on Friday ended a ceasefire with Pakistain’s government mediated with the help of the Afghan Taliban, accusing authorities of violating the terms of the one-month truce.
No progress had been made in fresh negotiations with Pakistain’s government, according to an audio message released late on Friday by Pak Taliban leader Noor Wali Mehsud.
Prime Minister Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker, maybe not even among the top five... announced in October that the government was in talks with the group for the first time since 2014, facilitated by the Afghan Taliban, who seized power across the border in August.
The Pak Taliban -- a separate movement from Afghanistan's new leaders but which shares a common history -- plunged Pakistain into a period of horrific violence after forming in 2007.
Police guards protecting vaccination teams in Pakistain have come under attack in the past, mostly from homegrown murderous Moslems.
Pakistain is one of two countries where polio remains endemic but only one case has been reported this year after 84 in 2020, according to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative.
[SHAFAQ] Proponents of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) opted to halt the working hours in the government departments in Sinjar, south of Nineveh, in the aftermath of yesterday's Ottoman TurkishArclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... on a PKK headquarters in the district.A document issued by the Autonomous and Democratic Administration of Sinjar to "all the organizations in the north sub-district" said that it decided to suspend the work of "all government and non-government departments, organizations, and associations in Sinjar without exception starting from Sunday."
The document warned the violators of "holding the entire responsibility".
A source told Shafaq News Agency that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... 's warplanes bombarded a site of the PKK-loyal Sinjar Protection Units (YPS) in Khana Sur, Northern Sinjar.
Another source said that the attack resulted in no casualties.
PKK forces continue to station and operate in Sinjar in spite of an agreement between Baghdad and Erbil on deporting all gangs from the contested district in preparation for repatriating the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and commencing the reconstruction works.
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[SHAFAQ] al-Hashd al-Shaabi (PMF) announced locating ISIS Madhafas in Hamrin Mountains.The PMF's media department said in a statement that the forces seized five Madhafas that host ISIS turbans in Hamrin Mountains in Diyala. Madhafa translates literally as "hospitality."
Is that anything like a ribat, a fortified carivanserai where jihadis can rest and refurbish until they’re ready to take up the conquest again?
Madhafas contained logistical equipment used by the organization's elements while roaming the Hamrin Mountains," the statement added.
In the same context, the Security media cell announced in a statement that the army's aircraft destroyed two ISIS hideouts, during a combing campaign in Kirkuk.
Earlier today, a joint force from al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces-PMF) Operations Command in Diyala and Diyala's Operations Command of the Iraqi army launched a large-scale military operation to pursue ISIS remnants in the Hemrin mountains area.
The Commander of the PMF Operations in Diyala, Taleb al-Mousawi, said that the operation covers six axes in the territory between Baghdad-Kirkuk and Qara Tappa-Ain Laila roads.
"The PMF was in charge of the first, second, and sixth axes. Diyala's Operations first brigade took over the first axes, the fourth brigade covered the second, and the 23rd brigade, Nidaa Diyala, and the Special Force was in the last axis," he said, "the operation's aerial coverage was provided by the Iraqi army aircraft."
"The operation was launched per intelligence information and long-term surveillance by cameras," the PMF elaborated, "the PMF supporting forces backed the attacking forces as they advance in the axis."
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[SHAFAQ] A security source reported that festivities erupted between the Kurdistan Workers Party and the Iraqi army north of Sinjar district.
The source told Shafaq News Agency that pro-PKK elements demonstrated north of Sinjar today, and burned a vehicle belonging to the Iraqi army.
The source added that an Iraqi army force responded to the demonstrators, before festivities erupted between the army and PKK elements.
On October 9, Baghdad and Erbil reached an agreement to normalize the situation in Sinjar.
ISIS invaded Sinjar district in 2014 and committed a massacre against its residents, before the Peshmerga forces recaptured it the following year.
However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... the Iraqi army backed by al-Hashd al-Shaabi invaded the Region due to the tension between the Region and the federal government against the backdrop of the independence referendum in 2017.
Moreover, the Iraqi authorities appointed new officials in the district instead of the elected ones who left Duhok when the Iraqi forces advanced.
There are currently two local governments for Sinjar, one of which was appointed by the federal government authorities, while the second represents an elected government, which operates from Duhok governorate.
Additionally, a PKK faction was formed in the governorate, called Sinjar Protection Units, and receives salaries from the Iraqi government as a faction supported by al-Hashd.
Kurdistan workers reject repeated calls from the Region to leave the areas subjected to Ottoman Turkish attacks, which impedes the return of tens of thousands of displaced Yazidis to their homes.
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[SHAFAQ] A security source reported that skirmishes erupted between a group of people, including a group affiliated with an armed faction, resulting in two casualties in Baghdad.
The source told Shafaq News Agency that the two parties opened fire on each other.
In addition, the security forces tried to transfer the injured to the hospital, before a security force intervened and seized a vehicle containing various weapons and arrested the injured and the driver, noting that they belong to an armed faction, according to preliminary information.
He pointed out that one of the injured affiliated with the Federal Police died after arriving at the Martyr al-Sadr Hospital, while the other was admitted to the hospital.
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] Three representatives of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) were eliminated in northern Iraq and Syria by representatives of the Turkish armed forces (Armed Forces). This was announced on Sunday, December 12, by Anadolu Ajansi with reference to the Turkish Ministry of National Defense.
A statement from the Turkish defense ministry said one militant was killed by a drone strike in the Avashin region of northern Iraq. In addition, the ministry noted, Turkish special forces neutralized two militants in northern Syria.
The exact location of the military operations has not been reported.
As a reminder, the PKK is prohibited in Turkey. Members of this organization are fighting for the right to create their own autonomy within the state.
Could be jihadis of one sort or another. Could also be highly armed Arab gangsters feuding with one another, about which internecine violence the Israeli Arabs demanded Israeli authorities act to reduce. But when the Israelis do, the Arabs attack them for it. Still, there are somewhat fewer weapons in Arab houses than there used to be, so that’s something.
[IsraelTimes] Military says man shot as soldiers came under attack after conducting searches in a home where a gun was found; Paleostinians say he died of his wounds, 2 others injured
Troops conducting an arrest raid in the West Bank city of Nablus opened fire and shot a Paleostinian man who was part of a group throwing bombs at the soldiers, the military said. Paleostinian officials said the man died of his wounds.
According to the army, officers from the Border Police’s undercover unit, accompanied by IDF soldiers, searched a home in the city and arrested a resident after finding a machine gun in his possession.
As the troops left the building they came under attack from a group who threw explosives at them from a close distance, endangering their lives, the army said.
They opened fire, hitting one of the attackers, who was maimed and taken away by Paleostinian medics the army said.
Paleostinian officials said the man, identified as Jamil al-Kayyal, 31, was taken to a nearby hospital with gunshot wounds to the head and died of his wounds.
Two other Paleostinians were maimed when hit by an IDF jeep, the officials said.
No casualties were reported among the Israeli soldiers.
Israeli forces routinely carry out raids in the West Bank, often meeting resistance from local Paleostinians.
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[IsraelTimes] Incident comes after several vehicles belonging to Paleostinians were vandalized overnight near the flashpoint East Jerusalem neighborhood
A car belonging to a Jewish resident of East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood was torched Sunday night, amid rising tensions in the flashpoint area.
Security camera footage of the incident showed a masked suspect hurling a rock at the car’s back window before another tosses what appears to be a Molotov cocktail into the vehicle. A fire can then be seen in the car as the suspects run away.
According to the Walla news site, the owner has had his car set ablaze seven times since the start of the year.
The news site also reported that Molotov cocktails were thrown Sunday at homes of Jews on the outskirts of Beit Hanina, another Arab neighborhood in East Jerusalem.
“We took these houses away from you Joooos in 1948, the only win of the Five Arab Armies in that war. How dare you think that Israel’s reconquest in 1967 allows you to take back what was yours, or create legal consequences for us refusing to pay the rents laid out in the legal agreements we then signed?”
The incidents came after a group of masked suspects vandalized several cars owned by Paleostinians near Sheikh Jarrah overnight, before fleeing.
Hebrew media reports identified the vandals as Jews.
Who were responding to previous Arab attacks, etc.
There were no reports of injuries in any of the incidents, nor the arrests of any suspects in connection to Sunday’s incidents.
"We will continue to act against violence of any type, rioting or acts of vandalism in the area and in general," police said.
Last week, an Israeli Jew living in Sheikh Jarrah was stabbed as she accompanied her five children to school. Video released by police showed the attacker appeared to be a maiden of tender years.
A 14-year-old Paleostinian girl, apparently a neighbor of the victim, was arrested under suspicion of being the assailant. The teenager denied any connection to the attack, her lawyer, Mohammad Mahmoud, told The Times of Israel.
Even though there is video of her doing exactly that. No doubt Allah, one of whose names is the Father of Lies, had something to do with it.
Sheikh Jarrah, a neighborhood a 10-minute train ride away from Jerusalem’s city center, has emerged as a symbolic flashpoint in the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict. Over the past few years, a handful of Jewish nationalists have moved into the mostly Paleostinian neighborhood, mostly through complex eviction cases.
There should be some sort of consequence for not paying the agreed-upon rent for half a century...
[JPost] One of those wounded in the clashes is Zaher Jabarin, a member of Sinn Fein Hamas' "Political" Bureau.
Armed clashes broke out on Sunday between Hamas and Fatah members in the Burj al-Shemali Palestinian refugee camp in Tyre, Lebanon, Lebanese media reported.
Four were killed and at least four others were wounded, some critically, in the clashes.
They were rushed to Hiram, Jabal Amel and the Italian Lebanese hospitals.
One of those wounded in the clashes is Zaher Jabarin, a member of Hamas' Political Bureau, according to Palestinian media.
The violence broke out during the funeral of Hamas member Hamza Ibrahim Shahine, who died in Friday's explosion at the refugee camp, caused by a fire at a Hamas weapons depot.
The state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported an unspecified number of deaths from the explosion, but local media and civil defense workers on scene said there had been no fatalities.
A funeral strongly suggests someone actually was killed by the explosion…
Unknown assailants with machine guns reportedly targeted the large crowd of men and women attending the funeral at the Palestinian camp.
Probably not the dreaded Mossad…
In addition to Hamas and Fatah members, a large Hezbollah delegation also attended the funeral.
A gesture of brotherly solidarity, to be sure.
The delegation included Hassan Izz-Al-Din, who is wanted by the US government for the hijacking of TWA Flight 847 in 1985.
The clashes come as tensions between Hamas and Fatah are rising due to the Palestinian municipal elections taking place in the West Bank.
Despite Hamas' boycott of the elections, Hamas-affiliated candidates contested the elections and won seats in several councils, as some Palestinians described the results as a "major defeat" for Fatah.
It is not clear what instigated the fight, but local reports claim it was between members of the Hamas terror group and the Palestinian Fatah movement.
Hamza Shaheen was killed after an alleged Hamas weapons depot, hidden underneath a mosque in the camp, located near the port city of Tyre, exploded on Friday night.
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...mindless ferocity in a turban...
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set. Currently the disease is only found in Pakistain and Afghanistain...
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[JPost] One of those wounded in the clashes is Zaher Jabarin, a member of 
