*Snicker* Saying it won’t force Allah to make it so, suggesting that Allah doesn’t love the Talibs nearly as much as they suppose.
[ToloNews] The Islamic Emirate said that they have not found any details to prove that Ayman al-Zawahiri ...Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, now the head cheese, occasionally described as the real brains of the outfit. Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's fatwa entitled World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders. Currently residing in the North Wazoo area assuming he's not dead like Mullah Omar. He lost major face when he ordered the nascent Islamic State to cease and desist and merge with the orthodox al-Qaeda spring, al-Nusra... , former leader of al-Qaeda, was killed in Afghanistan. Oh yeah? Then whose nose is this??
In August, US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family, the guy who bungled Afghanistan... in a live address announced the death of Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri.
"We have not reached a result yet. There has been no clear and decisive reason to prove that such an incident happened. It is still at a level of allegation. We have not received a satisfactory reason by the US," said Zabiullah Mujahid, Islamic Emirate’s front man.
However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... the Islamic Emirate then condemned the drone attack that took place in August, in which the US said Zawahiri was killed.
"If Zawahiri was alive, he might defend himself and prove somehow the US claim wrong," said Mohammad Hassan Haqyar, a political analyst.
Some political analysts called the death of Zawahiri a controversial issue and urged an international investigation into it.
"To be clearer to the public mind, it is better that the sides agree on an investigation by an international and professional team in this regard," said Asadullah Nadim, a political analyst.
"This is a plan of the ISI and CIA to stress their claim that Afghanistan is a sanctuary of terrorists," said Bilal Fatimi, a political analyst.
Ayman al-Zawahiri, 71, who led the al-Qaeda network after the death of founder the late Osama bin Laden ...... who is now among the dear departed, though not among the dearest...... , was born to an Egyptian family in 1951 in Cairo.
His father Mohammed, who died in 1995,
...so he didn’t live long enough to have to be ashamed at what his son became...
was a pharmacology professor at Cairo University, where Zawahiri obtained a master’s degree in surgery.
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OK, so where is Ayman's brother Mohammed. The guy we put the bounty on, had captured, had imprisoned and spent 13 years after 1999, and is now on the loose{?}.
Where is Ahmed al-Zawahiri, nephew of Mohamed al-Zawahiri? Curious people want to know.
[ShabelleMedia] The Prime Minister of Somalia Hamza Abdi Barre has paid a visit to a major military base in Lower Shabelle region as the country at war with al-Shabaab ...... the personification of Somali state failure... Barre, in the accompany of Somali army chief Gen Odowa Yusuf, security advisor and other officials visited the at Baledogle Military Airfield, to inspect Danab soldiers after a training.
The U.S. Ambassador to Somalia Larry André, included the delegation led by the premier.
In a statement, the OPM said the PM praised the fresh soldiers joined the elite military brigade for their commitment and enduring the hard-training by the American military.
The Baledogle Military Airfield serves as a drone US base and trains a highly trained Somali National Army commando force — DANAB ’Lightning Brigade’ active since inception in 2014.
The U.S. had maintained a regular presence at Baledogle until January 2020, when former President Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... ordered American forces out of the country. Since then, the U.S. has sent troops to Somalia on a rotational basis.
In Sept. 30, 2019, the U.S. military was forced to launch Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s against turbans after the troops were attacked at the Baledogle complex, which is in a desert about 60 miles northwest of the capital of Mogadishu.
A three vehicle-borne explosives and an assault by the krazed killers. All turbans were killed and one American soldier was maimed, according to the US Africa command.
The U.S. military [AFRICOM] had been making improvements to the base, including expanding the key airfield in Lower Shabelle region, bordering the seaside capital city.
Direct Translation via Google translate. Edited.
Not mentioned: that Wagner prolly won't be helpful.
[REGNUM] The growing tension in the Sahara-Sahel region, in which it is necessary to unite efforts for a more effective fight against terrorism, causes concern in Russia and Mauritania. This was stated on February 8 by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at a press conference following a meeting with Mauritanian President Mohammed Ould Ghazwani in Nouakchott.
As the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry noted, during the talks the parties discussed the problems of African countries.
“We, like our Mauritanian colleagues, are concerned about the growing tension in the Sahara-Sahel region, where it is necessary to unite efforts to more effectively combat terrorist manifestations, which have not disappeared anywhere and are even growing to some extent ,” he said.
In addition, Lavrov pointed out that during the talks they also discussed a settlement in Western Sahara, since Russia was a member of the Group of Friends of Western Sahara, which was preparing steps to implement the existing decisions of the UN Security Council.
"But now there is a pause in this issue. We consider it necessary to return to an active search for concrete steps to bring this situation out of the impasse and to promote a settlement based on the existing decisions of the UN Security Council," the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry added.
As REGNUM reported , earlier it became known that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his counterpart from Mauritania, Mohammed Salem Ould Merzoug, discussed the situation in Ukraine and the negative consequences of the crisis associated with it for African countries.
[REGNUM] Lavrov announced Mauritania's interest in participating in the Russia-Africa summit
Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Ghazwani has confirmed that he will participate in the upcoming Russia-Africa summit. This was announced on February 8 by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at a press conference in the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott.
He noted that the negotiations with Ghazvani were interesting and eventful. First of all, they discussed relations between Russia and Mauritania, agreed to strengthen ties in the economy.
“Mauritanian economic operators are interested in active participation in the Russia-Africa business forum, which will precede the second Russian-African summit ,” Lavrov said.
Recall that the Russia-Africa summit is scheduled for the end of July. It will be held in St. Petersburg. The first such summit was held in October 2019 in Sochi. It was attended by representatives of all 54 countries of the continent, including 43 heads of state.
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A absolutely superb venue for Soviet Russian expansionism, local regime change, and nation building. Please go forward, dig in and do great things Sergei.
Let Chinese President Xi know if you need shovels or shovel operators. We understand he is anxious to assist.
Wishing you the very best of luck with your Afri endeavors.
[HodhodYemenNews] The Eye Humanity Center for Rights and development strongly condemned the torture of detainee Khaled Mohammed Saleh al-Amir in the Saudi-led coalition’s intelligence prison in the city of Ma’rib.
In a statement, the center confirmed that after torturing al-Amir, he was transferred to the Authority Hospital in Ma’rib, after severe suffering from heart disease, diabetes and other diseases that he had been suffering from for three years inside a prison in Ma’rib.
The center added that the condition of the detainee was complicated by negligence and torture, and he suffered kidney failure. "He is in a clinically dead state, and no one knows at the present time the result of his critical health condition."
The statement confirmed that the Islah holy warriors arrested Brigadier General Khaled al-Amir with his son Muhammad and his nephew Bassem al-Samit in the city of Ma’rib in 2020.
The center held the coalition’s countries responsible for the crime and earlier crimes, calling for an investigation into this crime to hold coalition’s leaders and those proven to be involved in these crimes accountable.
It appealed to the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... and the Security Council to assume their responsibilities and break their shameful silence and not shirk their duties.
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Echoes of Ernest Van Den Haag.
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Overheard at the job fair...
"The Herrin folk working that mine
Are scary, not very refined,
And terribly racist
Toward scabs with black faces,
But... fortified wine!"
"Where I sign?"
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[REGNUM] After the US fled from Afghanistan, the situation in that country is not getting better, terrorist organizations are becoming more active. This was stated on February 8 by the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin , receiving the participants of the fifth multilateral meeting of the Secretaries of the Security Council and national security advisers on the Afghan issue.
Putin is also concerned about attempts to use the situation in Afghanistan to encourage non-regional states to build infrastructure in the country under the guise of combating the terrorist threat.
“Although these countries are doing nothing that would be required for a true fight against international terrorism,” Putin said.
[JustTheNews] Chief Border Patrol Agent Gloria Chavez unveiled plan during meeting with local law enforcement in Weslaco, Texas.
Roughly six weeks before she testified before Congress, Chief Border Patrol Agent Gloria Chavez held a meeting with local law enforcement in Weslaco, Texas, describing the administration’s plan to release en masse illegal foreign nationals into the U.S. when Title 42 ended.
The Biden administration sought to end Title 42, the public health authority first implemented under the Trump administration during the height of the pandemic, but Texas sued and in December a federal court prevented the administration from ending it.
Several people attending the Dec. 20 meeting recorded it and provided an audio copy to The Center Square on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation by the administration. Chavez was gone for most of the briefing to take a phone call and two other long-term Border Patrol agents gave presentations instead.
Chavez leads the Rio Grande Valley Sector in Texas, one of the most heavily trafficked areas. At the time, agents in all nine southern border sectors were encountering more than 50,000 foreign nationals at the border a week, she said.
Border Patrol agents in December were averaging taking 15,000 illegal foreign nationals into custody every day, she said, with some sectors at 150% capacity.
“There is an expectation that we will be seeing an increase in flow and parole” in the RGV Sector, she said. The sector was also receiving roughly 20 flights and eight busloads a week of illegal foreign nationals from Yuma, Arizona, and El Paso and Del Rio in Texas because its facilities can hold more people.
Border Patrol apprehensions and reported gotaways in December were the highest in U.S. history with more than 300,000, according to data obtained by The Center Square.
At the Dec. 20 meeting, one of the border agents said “everything has changed in the last two years. Over the past two years the entire landscape has changed, not only with the entries but the demographics and types of people who are exploiting the immigration process,” according to the audio recording obtained by The Center Square.
Because of the volume of people coming in, the agent said, “more folks get processed for release because we just can’t sustain it.” Holding facilities were over 100% capacity in Del Rio, El Paso, Yuma and El Centro, the agent said. Four of nine southwest border sectors were in the red, closer to 150% capacity, he said.
This includes the highest number of Cubans and Nicaraguans in custody in U.S. history, he said, asking, “How do you apprehend more Cubans than you do Mexicans?” They found that Cubans are flying to Mexico to cross the southwest border to claim asylum because when they arrive in Florida, they are deported.
“From 2021 to fiscal 2022 there are cities in Mexico where people say they are going to go to find smugglers who charge less to bring them across the Rio Grande River,” he said, noting that “Texas has the greatest traffic of gotaways.”
Single, military-age men make up 70% of illegal entries, which are harder to deal with because of safety concerns, he said. They are seeing armed individuals – 17 Border Patrol agents were assaulted last year, “the highest [number] we’ve ever seen,” he said.
By the spring, all aerostats, balloons with surveillance capabilities, won’t be operational because they are no longer being funded, he said. They’ve acted as vital “force multipliers,” he said, helping agents track gotaways and other interdiction efforts.
When the “Mexican side knows they are up,” he said, “activity drops.” With no aerostat in the air, the cartels will have greater capability to evade law enforcement.
The agent also said the “choice drug” coming through the southern border “is illicit fentanyl," with the highest volumes being seized in RGV Sector, followed by largest liquid meth seizure of 3,000 pounds last year.
In response to one participant asking who was transporting illegal foreign nationals north in buses and stopping at local gas stations in local communities and letting people out, Lozie said it was their nongovernmental organization (NGO) partners. However, he added, “There needs to be better coordination from the NGOs back to Border Patrol to let us know where they are dropping them off.” Once they are released into the U.S., there’s no tracking mechanism to know where they are.
The agent also told law enforcement that there’s “no way border patrol can get through this without you,” thanking them for being partners with BP agents. He also said the agency was “working with resiliency to deal with multiple suicides; one in Brownsville, two in Corpus and another in the Weslaco area. We’ve never seen suicides [among Border Patrol agents] at this pace before.
“If you see an agent, know an agent, give them a pat on the back, they need our support now more than ever before.”
After returning, Chavez closed the briefing by saying she was coordinating with local mayors and NGOs to move people into the U.S., saying the NGOs “are phenomenal.” She was learning of “particular areas they [the counties] want us to drop them off at,” referring to those being released into the U.S. by the Biden administration.
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CA to rest of USA: "Hold my Perrier". CA is about to make it possible for Illegal Aliens to be cops. I can't wait to be pulled over by an illegal with an axe to grind.
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[Dawn] Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Inspector General (IG) Dr Usman Anwar informed the Election Commission of Pakistain (ECP) on Wednesday that it would be a "difficult task" to hold elections in the province until a police operation against bad boys, expected to be completed in four to five months, was over.
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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.
...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family, the guy who bungled Afghanistan...
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Yes, the positive impact on recidivism is well documented. After April 19th 1928, Charlie Berger was never heard from again. 
