[FoxNews] Georgia police said similar searches have turned up methamphetamine and marijuana, but this was the first time they found fentanyl
Authorities in Georgia discovered nearly 600 grams of fentanyl worth $172,000 on Thursday.
The Hall County Sheriff’s Office says the concealed package was discovered during a routine check for narcotics by the K9 unit at a Gainesville package delivery hub.
"The K9 was taking part in an open-air search of packages arriving at the delivery hub when he alerted on a package from California being shipped to Oakwood." The Hall County Sheriff's Office said in a post.
Inside the package were 575 grams of fentanyl in tablet form, deputies say, worth about $172,500.
At this time, police have not identified the sender or the recipient of the package.
No arrests have been made.
In the past, deputies say they have pinpointed methamphetamine and marijuana attempting to be shipped from delivery businesses within the county, however, this is the first packaged that has been found containing fentanyl.
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I have mixed feelings about this.
YES! I am overjoyed they found the Illegal Drugs and use the same process to stop explosives from getting on to Airplanes and / or for stopping other harmful actions.
But conducting massive blanket, at will, Warrantless Searches or Searches without Probable Cause bothers me. Knowing, how a Government toe in the door increases to wider adapted use over time.
Hell, We are already seeing Gov. SWAT Team raiding houses because a person knew a person, that knew a person and supports MAGA.
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They need a warrant to open first class mail (if they want any admissible evidence). That which is classified as commercial/bulk does not derive the same protection.
BUS BOMBED IN KABUL – Early Saturday morning, a blast targeted a bus in West Kabul (Dewan Begi neighborhood) and several people were injured. The device was hidden in a flowerpot near a bus stop. No group has claimed responsibility and no other details are known about the incident.
BAMYAN HOME SEARCHES RESTRICTED – Governor Mawlawi Abdullah Sarhadi in Bamyan issued an edict that no houses will be searched without a ‘security permission letter’ in the Province, effective immediately. Afghanistan observers believe similar edicts will be issued in other Provinces. However, Provinces, where Resistance forces are operating, are not expected to enforce such measures. The searches of homes by Taliban security forces have been a constant point of contention between even pro-Taliban citizens and the regime. Whether the Taliban security forces will follow the Governor’s proclamation remains to be seen.
GLOBAL PROTEST STAGED – Online organizers of the ‘Stop Hazara Genocide’ campaign has coordinated protests in 91 cities around the world starting today (8 October) and concluding on Sunday. The World Council of Hazaras has sanctioned the events and expressed their hope they would bring attention to the issues facing Hazara communities in Afghanistan.
EDUCATION LEADER ARRESTED – The Taliban were witnessed taking Qambar Salari, the head of the Jangan education center in Daikundi, into custody. Salari has been a vocal proponent of women’s rights. According to a source in the Ministry of the Interior, Salari had been accused of promoting participation in an online social media campaign (Stop Hazara Genocide). His whereabouts and disposition are currently unknown.
CONFLICT TRACKER: Khost: A NRF strike force attacked the Taliban base at the Garez area of the province. A total of 7 casualties were confirmed but the number of those killed was undetermined. Taliban air units were used to transport the wounded.
NEXT 24 HOURS
INCREASED SOCIAL MEDIA MONITORING – As news of globally coordinated protests against terrorism and oppression made its way into the Palace in Kabul, the Ministry of the Interior called in the two special cells created to monitor social media. They hope to single out dissidents and potential troublemakers within Afghanistan and in surrounding countries. The units will be active over the coming week and will likely be conducting online surveillance of posts tied to the protests. At-risk Afghans are encouraged to maintain a low profile on their social media feeds to avoid unnecessary attention and possible arrest throughout the coming week.
[ShabelleMedia] Somali military claims to have killed a senior al-Shabaab ...... the personification of Somali state failure... commander in Lower Shabelle region as they repulsed an attack against their base.
Mohammed Nur Shire, al-Shabaab’s ringleader in the province, and 13 others were killed by the government troops during the counter-attack, according to the state media.
The incident took place in Janale village which is under the control of the government. It lies 100KMs northwest of Mogadishu, the Somali capital.
In a separate operation, Somali troops on Friday killed 19 al-Shabaab members near Bal’ad district in Middle Shabelle region, about 30Kms north of Mogadishu.
The bandidosholy warriors lost control over vast swathes of Galmudug ...a semiautonomous region in central Somalia, bordering Puntland on the north. Galmudug is not trying to obtain international recognition as a separate nation, but rather considers itself autonomous within the larger Somali federalism, for what that's worth... , Southwest, and Hirshabelle States to the Somali army backed by the local residents taking part in the war since last month.
[AlAhram] As dawn breaks over the Mediterranean, Tunisian coastguards intercept a flimsy craft packed with migrants colonists, bringing their dream of reaching Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... to an end -- for now.
"This is your final warning: stop!" an officer shouts.
Some two dozen migrants colonists, wearing inflated inner tubes as makeshift life preservers, look downcast as they realise the game is up.
But Fatim, an 18-year-old from the Ivory Coast who spent a year working as a cleaner in Tunis to raise 1,250 euros in smugglers' fees, says she will try again.
She sobs as she clambers from the rusty home-made vessel onto the coastguards' modest speedboat.
"I don't want to stay in Tunisia," she says. "Life here is hard."
The North African country, just 130 kilometres (80 miles) from Italia's Lampedusa island, has long been a launchpad for people fleeing violence and poverty across the continent and seeking refuge in Europe.
In May last year Tunis signed a deal with Rome, which agreed to supply economic aid in exchange for Tunisian efforts to stem clandestine migration.
But while the Tunisian authorities intercept thousands of migrants colonists a year, most are released once they are back on Tunisian soil, where few want to stay.
"If I found another boat I'd leave again straight away -- I'll never give up," said Guinean migrant Ali, 20, after he was released at Sfax port.
In just one night early this week, the coastguard intercepted 130 African migrants colonists, including children and babies, on four craft attempting the crossing from the central region of Sfax.
Idia Sow, a 26-year-old Guinean suffering the after-effects of a stroke, said she had paid smugglers 1,560 euros for places for herself and her three-month-old baby on an inflatable boat headed for Lampedusa.
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The migrants colonists are taken back to the port in the lovely provincial capital of the same name, their details are recorded -- and then they are released.
Officials say the coastguard lacks the resources to halt the flow.
"We're in a vicious cycle. We make enormous efforts to stop these migrants colonists, but in the end they're released and then we find them trying again," said the patrol's commander, Colonel Major Brahim Fahmi.
Hours earlier, AFP journalists saw coppers brandishing batons and pistols clear more than 100 migrants colonists from an area of scrubland 30 kilometres (18 miles) along the coast from Sfax.
Some said they had been waiting two weeks for boats.
"This summer we hit a record of more than 17,000 migrants colonists (intercepted off Sfax), almost double the figure in recent years," said coastguard official Saber Younsi.
"This our role," he said. "We have to keep doing it, but there's been a worrying evolution."
The demand has created one of the few thriving new industries in Tunisia: clandestine boat manufacture.
Younsi said new smuggling networks were emerging to cash in on the surging market, with demand also coming from Tunisians who have given up hope of finding decent jobs and in some cases are emigrating as entire families.
As he spoke at Sfax port, Younsi was surrounded by piles of hundreds of captured migrant boats.
According to official figures, more than 22,500 migrants colonists have been intercepted off the Tunisian coast since the start of the year, around half of them from sub-Saharan Africa.
Some 536 people, mostly Tunisians, have been arrested on suspicion of people smuggling.
Younsi said the authorities were struggling with limited means.
"If the same trend continues, we'll hit a point where this phenomenon gets out of control," he said.
Watch: #Spain's police say they have broken up a gang suspected of smuggling Albanian migrants, including minors, into #Britain hidden as stowaways in dangerous conditions aboard ferries and merchant ships.https://t.co/YGaDMe8FuYpic.twitter.com/VImR7r7lIs
18 Syrians from the city of #Kobani, east of Aleppo, died while they were on their way to Europe after their boat sank off the Algerian coast. #Syriahttps://t.co/MGCkVFD3uf
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If they’re from Kobani, the odds seem high that they’re Kurds.
[NPASYRIA] A Ottoman Turkish military base located in the sub district of Zelikan in Nineveh Governorate, northern Iraqi, was targeted by several rockets on Saturday. casualties were reported.
Shafaq News cited a source as saying that "Three rockets reportedly landed in the vicinity of a Ottoman Turkish base in Duhok’s village of Bashiqa, the head of the Zelikan sub-district."
"The rockets missed their target and landed in the vicinity of the base," Shafaq News added.
An gang named as Liwa Ahrar al-Iraq (Free People of Iraq Brigade or LAI), grabbed credit for the attack.
No casualties have been reported.
The LAI said in a statement, "The base was targeted with four BM-21 Grad rockets ...Soviet-developed 122-mm rockets, usually launched from trucks. Newer versions are reported to have a range of up to 30 km.... in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... The attacks came "to avenge the deaders of Iraq and to deter the Ottoman Turkish occupation and its criminal practices," LAI statement added.
LAI noted that the strikes would not stop until all Ottoman Turkish forces leave Iraq.
The Iraqi factions have escalated their attacks against the Ottoman Turkish bases present in Iraq since the Ottoman Turkish shelling of a tourist resort in Duhok Governorate last July, killing and wounding about 40 people, including children.
On June 20, the LAI announced that it had carried out four rocket strikes and two drone attacks on a Ottoman Turkish base in Zelikan.
[IsraelTimes] Police say cop lightly hurt after Paleostinians began throwing rocks and bottles at officers amid procession at Old City’s Damascus Gate
Several Paleostinians were arrested and a cop was injured in festivities Saturday in East Jerusalem, according to police.
The scuffles broke out during a procession in Jerusalem’s Old City to mark the Islamic Prophet Muhammad’s birthday, which passed through the flashpoint Damascus Gate.
Police said a number of rioters threw rocks and bottles at officers, lightly injuring one of them. Six people were arrested.
"The Israel Police will act with zero tolerance toward rioting or violence of any type," police front man Eli Levi tweeted.
Police added that they were working to restore order.
The Red Islamic Thingy reported five Paleostinians were maimed.
[IsraelTimes] Paleostinian report says both were 17-years-old; Israeli military says it responded to explosives, gunfire while detaining suspect accused of attacks on troops in West Bank
Two Paleostinian teens were killed during an arrest operation by the Israel Defense Forces in the West Bank city of Jenin on Saturday, the Paleostinian Authority’s Health Ministry said.
The PA’s official Wafa news agency said both of the dead were 17-year-old boys.
The PA’s Health Ministry additionally reported there were 11 Paleostinians maimed in the festivities with Israeli forces. three of them seriously. There were no immediate reports of Israeli injuries.
The Israeli military said in a statement that it had arrested a suspect accused of carrying out shooting attacks on troops in the West Bank, and that festivities broke out during the operation.
The military said dozens of Paleostinians threw explosives and Molotov cocktails, as well as opening fire toward the Israeli forces.
According to the joint statement issued by the IDF and Shin Bet security agency, Israeli forces "fired at gunnies in the area," and there were a number of individuals hit. No further details were given.
The military said it had detained 25-year-old Saleh Samir Abu Zina, a member of the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... terror group who was suspected of planning and carrying out recent shooting attacks on IDF troops operating in the West Bank.
The army said in the statement that Abu Zina has been convicted twice in the past for terror activities, and was most recently released from prison in 2020.
[JPost] Two other people were injured in the attack, one seriously and one lightly.
A 22-year-old female Border Police officer was killed, and a male security guard was in serious condition after a terrorist opened fire in the direction of a security checkpoint at the entrance to the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Shuafat on Saturday evening.
A third person was lightly injured in the attack. Israeli security forces are searching for the suspects behind the shooting. The driver of the car the terrorist rode in turned himself in later in the evening, with security forces assessing that he was not involved in the attack.
Israel Police Jerusalem District Commander Superintendent Doron Turgeman stated on Saturday night that one suspect had been arrested and police were searching for three others. Two other suspects were arrested later in the night on suspicion of being involved in the attack. Searches were ongoing to find the terrorist who conducted the attack.
Female students in #Tehran chant “get lost,” according to activists, as Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi visits their university campus and condemns protesters enraged by the death of a young woman in custody.#MahsaAminihttps://t.co/uHIYCdvroM
#HTS hands over a group of #ISIS foreign detainees to Turkish intelligence at a border crossing in #Syria’s #Idlib, sparking fear in those foreign militants who joined the terrorist organization.https://t.co/3hcxqDHlP5
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Unknown attackers open fire on a military vehicle of the Syrian government forces in #Syria’s #Daraa, killing five soldiers as a result. https://t.co/bSeTCkSt6q
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[NPASYRIA] Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) arrested on Saturday a member 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.... Organization (ISIS) in a village west of Raqqa, northern Syria.
The SDF media center said in a statement that the arrested ISIS member was responsible for facilitating the movement of the organization’s sleeper cells and supplying them financially and logistically.
The SDF statement added that their forces, supported by the US-led Coalition, carried out the operation in the village of Hawi al-Hawa in Raqqa western countryside.
In the operation, the statement said, "Counterfeited documents and IDs were confiscated in addition to communication devices."
The SDF noted that it carried out large-scale operations against ISIS operatives in Deir ez-Zor, Raqqa and Hasakah Governorates, that resulted in detaining many members of the group and confiscating a lot of weapons and ammunition.
On October 2, the SDF announced that their Counter-terrorism Units had arrested an ISIS weapon supplier in a town east of Deir ez-Zor Governorate, eastern Syria.
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[REGNUM] As a result of the actions of the Turkish army in northern Syria, 26 militants of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) were destroyed. This was reported by the TRT channel on October 8 with reference to the data of the Turkish military department.
Foreign Ministry announces demarche to Canadian Ambassador to Russia.
According to him, clashes with Kurdish detachments took place in the area where the Turkish armed forces carried out "counter-terrorist operations" "Source of Peace" and "Euphrates Shield".
Recall that Ankara considers the PKK a terrorist organization. Turkey has repeatedly carried out military operations aimed at eliminating the "Kurdish threat" at its borders.
As REGNUM reported , Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan , speaking at the opening of the autumn session of the country's parliament of the 27th convocation, said that the problem of terrorism in Turkey has been reduced to zero. According to him, 526,000 refugees have voluntarily returned to the regions of northern Syria cleared of terrorists in recent years.
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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...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 
