[Garowe] The Somali National Army [SNA] will commence the second and perhaps the final phase of the al-Shabaab ...... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all of which have enough problems without them... crackdown during the Holy month of Ramadan, a senior security advisor has said, as the country makes serious progress in the fight against the group which controls parts of Somalia.
According to Kamal Dahir Hassan Gutale, the national security adviser to Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre, the new operation will commence immediately just days after the army solidified bases which had been liberated from the krazed killers, paving way for civilian rule.
It is estimated that over 600 people have been killed since the offensive started in July last year just immediately after Hassan Sheikh took over with several towns also liberated in the process. The Somali National Army has been getting support from US Africa Command, the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Transition Mission in Somalia and the local militia.
The new offensive comes just days after the commissioning of over 8,000 cadets who have joined the national army. The first set of 5000 soldiers was trained in Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... while 3,000 others were ushered on on Sunday from Uganda. The country is keen to increase the current force to over 30,000 from the current 18,000.
Besides the military battle, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud maintained that he is keen to push for ideological tactics by involving holy mans who are important in shaping the narrative. Also, the government is now targeting al-Shabaab's revenue sources which have sustained operations by the group.
At Kampala on Sunday, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud emphasized that the government's top priority is to reform the National Army, which serves as the foundation for the country's governance, and to achieve a swift victory in the fight against terrorism. The new recruits will be integrated into the army immediately.
Æthiopia and Egypt have also pledged to train more soldiers so that the country can easily take over security responsibilities from foreign troops from December 2024. The government has also closed down over 250 bank accounts and 70 mobile money transfer firms for claims they are funding al-Shabaab.
The second phase is still expected to focus on central parts and southern Somalia where the snuffies have gradually started losing their bases. Somalia has been unstable for the last three decades and there is general concern from members of the international community who want peace to be restored.
[SUDANTRIBUNE] The Acting Force Commander of the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... Mission in Abyei (UNISFA), Major General Benjamin Olufemi Sawyerr has denounced the presence of gangs in the area.
He was speaking during the recent celebrations to mark the transition of the mission from a single country to a multi-national peacekeeping mission tagged UNISFA Multi-National Day.
The event took place at the mission’s headquarters and was marked with a parade that involved all the components of the mission, military, UN police and civilians.
During the occasion, Sawyerr promised to continue to engage the host governments and the communities to find a lasting solution in Abyei.
He appealed to the two host governments and the communities to resume work with UNISFA to revive all mechanisms toward making peace prevail.
Sawyer said regardless of challenges faced by UNISFA, the mission has been able to get communities into dialogue to reduce unnecessary killings.
"The mission has deployed troops to carry out the protection of civilians (POC) mandate despite the challenges of manpower and equipment and the attacks on peacekeepers. Furthermore, the mission has been able to win the Hearts and Minds of the people with various types of quick impact projects (QIP)s projects and civil-military coordination (CIMIC) activities that have impacted positively the lives of the people of Abyei," he explained.
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Abyei by rights should belong to Bahr al-Ghazal, South Sudan. However, for decades the Arab transhumance herders have infringed on this land that historically was occupied by Dinka tribals. As overgrazing of herds became a problem the Arabs have pushed farther and farther south into Bahr al-Ghazal. UNISFA plans an important role, but as soon as it leaves (and eventually it will) the region will return to its former baneful existence.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] 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 Minister of Defense , Maj. Gen. Mohammed al-Atifi, said that Sanaa has the right to exercise illusory sovereignty over Yemen’s territorial waters.
During his visit to the Special Forces training camp in the Fifth Military Region on Monday, al-Atifi said that Yemeni illusory sovereignty over regional waters, ports, islands and shipping lanes is one of the constants that requires all sacrifices and the appropriate military measures to defend.
"The Red Sea was and still is a focus for foreign ambitions, foremost of which is the Zionists who are trying to find a foothold in it", the minister said.
Al-Atifi added: "We assure the Zionist enemy that its absurdity will not last long, and the Zionists’ interventions will not be accepted, and we will communicate this concept to them in the appropriate manner and in a timely manner."
Maj. Gen. al-Atifi affirmed that the armed forces have become today a feared force that have all the factors of strength, stability and qualitative combat capability, whether in the offensive or defensive battle at the various tactical, operational and strategic levels and in its various types on land, at sea and in the sky.
The minister indicated that Yemen, thanks to Allah and the wisdom of the revolutionary leadership, has taken its confident and basic steps in equal international and global relations, without diminution of national illusory sovereignty.
"We have restored the right path that preserves our dignity and independence and liberates our national will from any subordination that existed as a result of policies and practices in previous periods," he went on to say.
"Everyone, partners, teams, opponents, friends and enemies, should know well that our national decision has one source in the hands of a rational, strong and courageous leadership represented by the leader of the revolution, Sayyed Abdul-Malik al-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... , a man of stances, peace and challenges" al-Atifi added.
"We are ready to take any combat stance with solid strength, and high combat efficiency," al-Atifi said, "the aggression must only understand the nature of the stage and its requirements."
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[KavkazUzel] Security forces in Chechnya uncovered a terrorist cell and killed two militants, the republic's Interior Ministry said in a 2022 report, although Ramzan Kadyrov announced in 2021 that the armed underground in Chechnya was over.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on January 20, 2021, Ramzan Kadyrov reported that in the village of Katar-Yurt, six militants, led by Aslan Byutukaev,
... more formally known as Aslan Avgazarovich Byutukayev and to his fans as Emir Khamzat. In 2015 he transferred allegiance from Al Qaeda to ISIS as Number Three in Dokka Umarov‘s Caucasus Emirate, following which the majority of the group’s families removed themselves to the caliphate in Syria. In January, 2021 the Chechen police killed him for the last time...
who were on the federal wanted list, were killed in a special operation by security forces. "The bandit underground in the Chechen Republic is completely finished!" he said.
Aslan Byutukaev was involved in the terrorist attack at Domodedovo Airport in 2011 and in the attack of militants on Grozny on December 4, 2014, according to a biographical note about him prepared by the "Caucasian Knot."
The Ministry of Internal Affairs for Chechnya reported that 104 crimes of a terrorist nature were detected in 2022, including the liquidation of a terrorist cell and the killing of two alleged militants, Kavkaz.Realii reports today.
According to a report posted on the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Chechnya, in 2022, eight extremist and 104 terrorist crimes were detected in the republic.
"Six of which were related to the facts of providing financial assistance to members of illegal armed formations, as well as five facts of inciting residents of the republic to participate in terrorist organizations. In the course of joint activities on the territory of the republic, the activities of one autonomous terrorist cell, which included five people, were suppressed. resistance during the detention, two members of the illegal armed formations were killed," the publication on the agency's website says.
In addition, 31 people "involved in terrorist and extremist activities" were detained and "inclined to turn themselves in confession," the Interior Ministry reported.
Recall that in November 2022, the Prosecutor General's Office published data on the number of crimes registered in January-October. Most terrorist crimes were detected in Dagestan (394). In second place, by a significant margin, is Moscow (121 crimes). In Chechnya, which ranked third, 96 such crimes were registered.
[NPASyria] Leadership of a French company was involved in paying off 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.... (ISIS) during the early years of the Syrian war, a French newspaper uncovered on March 20.
Le Monde, a French daily, found that Lafarge’s leadership was involved in the company’s paying off of radical militias, including ISIS, during the early years of the Syrian War. It also found that its main security officer at the time has been falsely charged with "financing terrorism" by a French court.
The French Lafarge company, since bought up by the Swiss Holcim conglomerate, ran a cement factory around 45km southeast of Kobani in northern Syria until 2015, when it was taken over by ISIS. Lafarge paid groups operating in the region around $15.34 million to carry on its operations, with between $4.8 and 10 million going to ISIS, according to one estimate. The money "paid passage fees and ransoms and purchased raw materials taxed by various Syrian armed rebel groups," says Le Monde.
The company’s leadership since plead guilty to financing terrorism and has ongoing criminal suits for crimes against humanity (in La Belle France) and civil suits by the relatives of American military personnel killed in Syria (in the US).
The new investigation by Le Monde reveals that Lafarge hired a security officer in 2013, the Jordanian citizen Ahmed Jaludi, who worked closely with French and US intelligence during his stint in Syria. He is now accused of financing terrorism in La Belle France.
Jaludi provided foreign intelligence services with detailed maps and information on the location of Western hostages held by ISIS and other groups. The Jordanian employee also brokered the release of a number of prisoners. "Everyone benefited from my intelligence work: the coalition against the Islamic State, the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... , the NGOs. I am very proud of what I did," he says.
Le Monde’s investigation makes clear that Lafarge’s leadership at the time wanted to shift the responsibility for paying off these unsavory groups to its on-the-ground employees, including Lafarge’s truck drivers.
Jaludi vehemently rejects that he made any payments to ISIS or other groups. "I wasn’t in charge of the money. I never paid anyone or ordered any payment," he explains. "My job was simply to ensure the safety of the Lafarge plant and its employees, and to inform the coalition of developments on the ground. I believe that I was successful in my mission."
[NPAsyria] At the Syrian-Ottoman Turkish border, Syrian asylum seekers risk their lives, as they may be killed, tortured or assaulted on their way to escape armed conflict and a war that has been going on for over a decade.
Each year, dozens of Syrians lose their lives at the hands of Ottoman Turkish border guards in an attempt by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... to prevent them from entering its territories under the excuse of fighting human trafficking.
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[GEO.TV] Caretaker 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.... Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi Monday said he had given a "free hand" to the police to establish the writ of the state in the province — a move that comes in the wake of an outbreak of politically-motivated hostilities that turned a posh neighbourhood of the bustling provincial capital into a warzone.
Supporters of Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) clashed with police in Lahore last week as they attempted to arrest party chairman Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality disorders... at his home, and later with police in Islamabad as he arrived to appear before a court on Saturday.
CM Naqvi, during a presser, shared that he was, earlier, asking the law enforcement agencies to hold back but would no longer do so.
"We are also forming a JIT on the incidents that happened in the last five to seven days," said Naqvi.
"Right now it is really important to establish the writ of the state and writ of the government," said the interim CM. He added that law enforcement agencies had reached the gate of Khan’s residence twice but he called them back.
The caretaker CM said that the reason he asked them to return was that he did not want "anything to happen" that would ruin the environment or cause a loss of life.
Naqvi also shared that when the police cleared Canal Road, a cop returning from duty was attacked and an Elite Force car was attacked the same night.
"We told the coppers this morning that you can do what you want to do establish the writ of the government. If anyone challenges the police, they will break their hand," said the CM.
He added that it was not possible that the cops could continue getting a beating just because he had asked them to hold themselves back.
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[GEO.TV] Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who ain't the brightest knife in the national drawer... on Monday called upon Chief Justice of Pakistain (CJP) Umar Ata Bandial to launch a comprehensive investigation into "continuing threats" to his life and the "assault" on his Zaman Park home.
In a letter to the top judge, dated March 20 (today), the former prime minister claimed that the events of Saturday — when Khan's house was raided by the 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.... Police while he was at Islamabad Judicial Complex for his court hearing in the Toshakhana case — were evidence that a plot was afoot to assassinate him yet again.
Imran Khan, in his letter, also said that he had been consistently requesting for video link facility from courts for multiple court appearances because his "life is at risk".
"With no security provided to me and with one liquidation plot already attempted against my life in Wazirabad, I have been placing my life at risk every time I have to make a court appearance," he added.
On November 3 last year, the ousted premier — who was removed from power through a parliamentary vote — survived a life attempt during a rally in Wazirabad, Punjab.
The PTI chief further said that the events on his Saturday appearance at the Islamabad Judicial Complex lent credence to his assertions that his life was indeed at risk.
The former prime minister also wrote: "When we arrived in Islamabad and were moving towards the judicial complex, we were trapped on all sides by containers to block my arrival at the complex and before the magistrate to deliberately try and create a false situation of "no show".
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[An Nahar] Paleostinian prime minister Mohammad Shtayyeh on Monday blasted as "inflammatory" remarks made by Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich that Paleostinians do not exist.
"There are no Paleostinians, because there are no Paleostinian people," Smotrich said Sunday, quoting far-right French-Israeli activist muppet Jacques Kupfer, speaking at an event in Gay Paree according to a video circulating on social media.
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They’re Turkish catspaws. Theft and mayhem is what they do.
[NPASyria] Disaster of the Feb. 6 earthquake has given a favorable opportunity for the Ottoman Turkish-backed Syrian armed opposition factions, also known as the Syrian National Army (SNA), in areas northwest Syria, especially Afrin, to make fortune, exploiting aid meant for the people affected by the earthquake.
Recently, talks have increased about establishing temporary shelters under the pretext of housing those affected by the earthquake on transit routes on which international aid convoys travel a step many saw as another way to steal the aid since they also accommodate people who have not been affected by the quake.
Kamiran Ali, 39, a pseudonym for a resident of the town of Jindires in the west of Afrin, said the [Ottoman Turkish-backed] local council in the town, in the first days of the earthquake, hurried to establish a temporary shelter in a driving school on Jindires-Afrin route.
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Next time don’t run away to a conquering, totalitarian Islamic paradise. [NPASyria] Wives 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.... (ISIS) forces of Evil stranded in Hawl camp east of Hasakah, northeast Syria, are either waiting for their countries to repatriate them while part of them resort to smugglers to escape the hideous camp amid the international community persistent ignoring of repatriation calls.
Five years after the defeat of the so-called ISIS "caliphate" in Syria, the issue of families perceived as associated with the group, known as ISIS families, still poses considerable security, social and economic challenges to the limited-capability Kurdish-led local authority in northeast Syria.
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[An Nahar] The Maronite patriarchate in Bkirki is continuing its preparations for the "day of prayer and contemplation" that it has invited Christian MPs to attend on April 5, al-Joumhouria newspaper reported on Monday.
Bkirki hopes "the general national affairs, including the election of a president, will be discussed after the prayer and contemplation," the daily quoted unnamed sources as saying.
A delegation from the Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... -led Strong Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...a formerly French, now an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. ... bloc had informed Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday that the bloc will take part in the "prayer and contemplation day," hoping the meeting will represent "an occasion to draw lessons from Christian teachings and values in approaching all national junctures."
Most Christian blocs had also announced that they would take part in the gathering.
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[An Nahar] For Parliament Speaker Nabih Knobby Berri ...Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, head of the Amal Shiite party aligned with Hezbollah, a not very subtle sock puppet of the Medes and Persians... , nominating Marada leader Suleiman Franjieh for presidency is a matter of "life or death," Nidaa al-Watan newspaper said Monday, as it reported that Berri is holding talks with La Belle France to find a settlement that would make Franjieh president.
The daily said in another report that Gay Paree is promoting a proposal that would make Franjieh president, former Ambassador to the U.N. Nawaf Salam Prime Minister and Lebanese businessman Samir Assaf Central Bank governor.
It added that Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... and Washington insist on a president with a recovery plan, regardless of the identity of the candidate.
But since Saudi Arabia hasn't announced that it opposes the election of Franjieh, and since the Vatican is discussing the presidential file with Hezbollah, and after the China-brokered deal between Iran ...They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and KSA, Franjieh's changes have improved, the report said.
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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.
...... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all of which have enough problems without them...
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
...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 
...aka 
...a formerly French, now an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. ...
Hezbollah
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