[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Did we kill him? Was he 'vaxed'?
US Navy SEAL legend Douglas 'Mike' Day died on Monday from unknown causes
Day was famous for surviving a 2007 firefight in Iraq where he was shot 27 times by terrorists, before killing his four attackers and then walking to safety
After 21 years in the Navy he retired in 2010 to advocate for military veterans
[ToloNews] Local officials said that a campaign to destroy poppy fields has started in Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... that will be conducted in each village in the province by Islamic Emirate forces.
The campaign begins at a time when poppy fields’ harvest season is approaching.
"Our operation is underway and hundreds of acres of land have been cleared of poppy in different districts," said Hayatullah Rouhani, head of the counter narcotics department of Herat.
Special Forces accompany the employees of the counter-narcotics office to ensure the security of the campaign to destroy poppy fields, officials said.
"We will accompany the employees of the counter-narcotics department in Herat province," said Mohammad Asif Mohammadi, head of the special force of the counter-narcotics office.
Meanwhile, ...back at the alley, Slats Chumbaloni was staring into a hole that was just .45 inch in diameter and was less than three feet from his heavily sweating face ... farmers called on the government to help them by providing alternative crops for poppy cultivation.
"We asked the government to help us with alternative crops for poppy," said Ghulam Mohammad, a farmer.
Besides Herat, the campaign is being conducted in Ghor, Badghis, Nimroz and Farah provinces. It is expected that poppy fields in the west of the country will be destroyed ahead of the harvest season.
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Considering that we were eliminating 10% of the poppy fields every year 15 years ago, this can only mean that they're making more Afghanistan. (Shudder)
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[ToloNews] The chief of staff of the Islamic Emirate, Qari Fasihuddin Fitrat, criticized the United States for violating Afghanistan’s airspace.
In an interview with RTA, Fitrat noted that the current Afghan government will manage the country's airspace in a better way in the future.
"Even though it was a term in the agreement, it has been violated many times, and even though the US side has been informed, it is violated many times," Fitrat noted.
"It is very difficult for the Taliban ...Arabic for students... government to defend the airspace of Afghanistan because the planes and drones that fly in the airspace of Afghanistan are from some very advanced countries," said Asadullah Nadim, a military expert.
The chief of staff said that efforts will be made to make the forces of the Ministry of Defense more professional.
Qari Fasihuddin Fitrat further stated that the number of army troops will increase from 150,000 to 200,000 in the future.
"We have decided to increase the size of the army, God willing, in the following year, from 150,000 to 170,000 and gradually increase the number of troops to 200,000," Fitrat said.
"Afghanistan should at least have an army in proportion to our neighbors and in proportion to our population, an army that has an air force, artillery, ground troops, and air defense forces," said Sarwar Niazi, a military expert.
Military training was one of the most costly sectors over the previous 20 years. The 350,000-member force of the previous government was disbanded after the collapse of that government.
[Garowe] The al-Shabaab ...... the personification of Somali state failure... extortion racket continues to expand, despite efforts by the federal government of Somalia to destroy channels that are used by the group, which still controls large swathes of rural central and southern Somalia but has since lost a sizeable portion following the latest operation.
A study done by the Africa Center of Strategic Studies notes that the group has been doing formal banking necessitating the recent action by the government of Somalia to implement Anti-Money-Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Act in 2016 which requires financial institutions to report transactions that exceed $10,000.
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Somalia has done little, and little can be done, to reduce the importance of hawaldars -- the traditional money-managers that exist outside of banking channels and who handle most grey money.
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[KavkazUzel] The Court of Appeal upheld the verdict of Ibragim Mankiev, a resident of Ingushetia, sentenced to 14 years in prison in a case of banditry, murder and illegal possession of weapons. Mankiev's relatives have previously stated that he was tortured, and the case itself attracted the attention of human rights activists.
As the "Caucasian Knot" reported, on October 27, 2022, it became known that the Supreme Court of North Ossetia sentenced Ibragim Mankiev, a resident of Ingushetia, to 14 years in prison, finding him guilty of banditry, murders and illegal possession of weapons. Human rights activists drew attention to the persecution of Mankiev after information about his abduction and torture in Egypt.
On November 25, 2009, Egyptian human rights activists stated that, according to their information, Russian citizen Ibragim Mankiev, who is imprisoned by the State Security Agency of the Arab Republic of Egypt, was subjected to torture .
The Court of Appeal ruled on the Mankiev case on February 21, but it became known only today.
The Third Court of Appeal in Sochi upheld the verdict in the case of Ibragim Mankiev, Fortanga reported today.
Mankiev's lawyer stated in his appeal that the court's verdict was excessively harsh. He also noted significant violations of the criminal procedure law. The defense pointed out that the acting department for combating organized crime of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia had earlier noted in his letter that Mankiev was not a member of the gang. But the Supreme Court of North Ossetia refused to add this letter to the case as evidence, reported Kavkaz. Realii*.
According to investigators, in 2005-2006, Ibragim Mankiev was one of the leaders of a militant group operating in Ingushetia and North Ossetia.
That would be the Caucasian Front, which subsequently became part of the Al Qaeda-aligned Caucasus Emirate...
The investigation believes that members of this gang are involved in the murders of police officers.
Security officials believe that in order to avoid responsibility, Mankiev left for Egypt in 2006, after which he was put on the international wanted list. In January 2022, he was detained in Nazran.
No comments were received from Ibragim Mankiev or his representatives.
Recall that in November 2009, Ibragim Mankiev's brother Moussa announced his abduction in Alexandria (Egypt). In December of the same year, Ibragim Mankiyev's wife wrote a letter to Mikhail Saakashvili , who was then president of Georgia, with a request to "protect" her husband. According to her, the persecution of Ibragim is due to the fact that he was an imam in one of the mosques in North Ossetia.
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[KavkazUzel] Teip Bokovykh
...teips are Chechen and Ingush tribal organizations or clans, self-identified through descent from a common ancestor or geographic location...
issued an appeal calling for any information about Amir Bokov, who was put on the wanted list in a terrorism case after an attack on a traffic police post on the border of Ingushetia and North Ossetia. Bokov's relatives are combing the forest area and urging him to surrender over the loudspeaker.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that two law enforcers were wounded as a result of an armed attack on a traffic police post "Volga-24" located on the border of Ingushetia and North Ossetia. According to doctors, the wounded security forces are in a stable condition, there is no threat to their lives.
On March 30, the FSB Directorate for Ingushetia announced the search for four residents of Ingushetia, Mikail Moshkhoev, Ramazan Eldiev, Amir Bokov and Amirkhan Gurazhev, in connection with the preparation of terrorist acts. Law enforcement sources said they were also suspected of involvement in the attack on the traffic police post, and Ramazan Eldiyev was found dead.
The Telegram channel "Search of Ingushetia" on March 28 published a video in which Ingush families report the disappearance of their relatives. The first part of the video shows a recording of three elderly men, one of them says. "Yesterday, after the evening prayer, our relative, a young man named Mikail Akhmedovich Moshkhoev, drove out of the house in a car (nine) at number 481.
There is no information about his whereabouts to this day. If anyone knows where he is, or saw him after the time we have noted, we kindly ask you to inform us urgently," the "Caucasian Knot" translated the man's words. The date the recording was made is not shown on the video. In the second part of the video, the relatives of Amir Bokov made a statement. "My cousin Bokov Amir Bagaudinovich and his friends left the other day, no one knows where,
In Ingushetia, Amir Bokov's relatives are combing the forest, using loudspeakers and urging him to leave the forest and surrender, the PE Kavkaz Telegram channel reported today.
As follows from the video attached to the publication, two SUVs are standing on a country road in the middle of the forest, one of the men, who is not visible in the recording, can be heard speaking into the loudspeaker. At least six men are present at the scene. In the last frames of the video, they are walking towards the cars along a country road.
Similar videos about the search for Amir Bokov by relatives, filmed from other angles, were posted on the Telegram channels News_Ingushetii Official and The Magas Times on March 29. The "Caucasian Knot" cannot verify where and when these footage was taken.
On March 29, members of the Bokov teip published an appeal calling for any information about their relative. “People abducted our boyfriend, Bokov. Bokov Badruddin’s son Amir. We appeal to everyone who knows anything, help us with information about him,” Fortanga translated the words of one of the men in the video.
Another man in the video asked residents of Ingushetia to help search for Amir, claiming that the family knew who "took" him. "We ask the residents of the republic, and all people, to help us find our man alive or dead in this holy month ( Ramadan - approx. "Caucasian Knot" ).
And specifically from those who abducted our man 2-3 years ago, we know these people and we ask them to respond and help us. We do not blame them, but we ask them to be responsive," his words are translated in the Telegram channel of the publication.
Another member of the teip asked to "return" Amir. “We don’t think that you will bring him, of course. But we ask you to give us information, we would deal with our man ourselves,” the translation of his words is given in the same publication.
The attack on the traffic police post took place on the border of the two republics, but on the territory of North Ossetia. "The attack was carried out on a police post located on the territory of North Ossetia at the intersection of the Nazran-Kantyshevo and Malgobek-Maiskoye highways," the investigative department of the ICR for North Ossetia said.
In the message of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Ingushetia, it is said that "Volga-14 post", located near the village of Kantyshevo, Nazranovsky district of Ingushetia, was fired from machine guns. The Ministry of Internal Affairs for Ingushetia also published a video of a fired traffic police post on its website. It follows from this video that the checkpoint is indeed located at the crossroads of the Nazran-Kantyshevo and Malgobek-Maiskoye highways, next to a mosque, a gas station, and a building materials store.
According to the Yandex.Maps service, the traffic police post is located (coordinates 43.217256, 44.697542) on the territory of North Ossetia.
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Don’t libs often say bad things about the phallic nature of most guns. Shouldn’t most of those folks be arguing against anyone, especially their group having guns?
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[IsraelTimes] The United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... ’ top court has rejected Tehran’s legal bid to free up some $2 billion in Iranian central bank assets frozen by US authorities to be paid in compensation to victims of a 1983 bombing in Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... and other attacks linked to Iran.
In a 10-5 majority ruling, the International Court of Justice says it doesn’t have jurisdiction to rule on the Iranian claim linked to the central Markazi Bank.
In a complex, 67-page judgment, the world court finds that some other US moves to seize assets of Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and Iranians in the United States breached a 1955 treaty between the countries and say they should negotiate compensation. If they fail to reach a number, they will have to return to the Hague-based court for a ruling.
But the largest part of the case focused on Bank Markazi, and its frozen assets of $1.75 billion in bonds, plus accumulated interest, that are held in a Citibank account in New York. The court says that it doesn’t have jurisdiction based on the 1955 Treaty of Amity.
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[IsraelTimes] Minister announced plan to speed up licensing in wake of deadly shooting outside Jerusalem synagogue; gun range owner: ’Even those who didn’t want one realized they needed one’.
On January 27, a Paleostinian rubbed out seven people outside a synagogue before being killed by police in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Neve Yaakov.
Israel’s police commissioner responded to the attack by calling on those eligible to carry a firearm to do so, and in the days that followed Ben-Gvir, head of the extreme-right Otzma Yehudit party, said he would speed up licensing.
The synagogue attack was "an excellent example of the necessity and importance of civilians armed with guns," the National Security Ministry said, while lamenting a massive backlog in license applications. At the time, more than 17,000 applications were still being processed.
Ben-Gvir said it was his "duty to expedite the process and dramatically cut the bureaucracy," ordering official working hours increased to boost monthly license clearances from 2,000 to 10,000.
Former military officers were also exempted from requiring an interview as part of the process, a temporary measure which is set to expire in May.
Attacks and security incidents traditionally increase interest in gun licenses, an Israeli official told AFP, without providing further details on the recent hike in new applications.
[IsraelTimes] Pair accused of crying ’Death to Arabs,’ hurling rocks at car, attacking occupants with axe; police minister meets families of settlers accused of separate attack, voices support
Two Israeli settlers were charged with terror offenses on Thursday for attacking Paleostinians in the West Bank town of Huwara with an axe and stones earlier this month, law enforcement officials said.
According to the Shin Bet security agency, Hanoch Rabin, 25, from the illegal Givat Ronen outpost, and Raz Giron, 21, from the hardline settlement of Yitzhar, were detained by police on March 13 over the attack a week earlier on March 6.
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[Rudaw] The Pentagon press secretary said on Thursday that the US air forces killed eight pro-Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... forces of Evil in eastern Syria during a recent strike, adding that the attack was aimed at protecting US troops in the country.
A US contractor was killed and six others were maimed when a dronezap targeted a Coalition base near northeast Syria's Hasaka city on March 23. The drone was of Iranian origin, according to the Pentagon. In retaliation, American forces launched Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s against groups affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) based in eastern Syria.
"We now assess that eight forces of Evil were killed in our strikes against two IRGC Quds facilities near Deir ez-Zor by US Air Force F15E Fighters," said Pentagon Press Secretary Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder during a press briefing.
He added that the "precision strikes" were taken to protect and defend US forces.
The spokesperson also said that the six US personnel maimed are in stable, pH balanced condition.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) had reported the airstrike killed 19 people - 16 pro-Iran fighters and three Syrian soldiers.
US Central Command (CENTCOM) said they were prepared for additional attacks by Iran, but Washington was not looking for war.
About a thousand US troops stationed in Syria are part of an international coalition that has fought alongside the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) against ISIS.
Attacks on US forces in Syria are often attributed to Iran-backed militias and factions, but have never been claimed.
Earlier, US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin ...retired Army four-star general under the Biden administration, 28th United States Secretary of Defense. He is the first African American to serve in the position. As is usually the case with the first black anything appointed for his melanin content,he is a political general to the core. He was appointed as the first Black commander of CENTCOM by President Barack Obama where he went along to get along. He retired from the armed services in 2016 and joined the boards of Raytheon Technologies, Nucor, Tenet Healthcare, and Auburn University. On December 7, 2020, he was nominated for defense secretary by then-President-elect Joe Biden. He was confirmed by the United States Senate by a vote of 93–2 and has no regrets on the utterly botched withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan.... said that Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and its proxies had attacked US targets on 83 occasions since President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Obama's prototype Kamala Harris... entered the White House in January 2021. Austin made his comment during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing in Washington.
"Iran and its proxy forces have launched 83 attacks against US troops in Iraq and Syria since President Joe Biden took office," he explained. "The US military has carried out four major operations against Iranian-backed groups."
It is worth mentioning that Iran and the United States have been involved in a complex and often adversarial relationship in Syria.
Iran has been a key ally of the Syrian government since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011, providing significant military, financial, and logistical support to the Syrian government and its armed forces.
The United States, on the other hand, has pursued a policy of supporting anti-government forces in Syria and seeking to weaken Iran's influence in the country.
This has led to several direct and indirect confrontations between US and Iranian forces in Syria, including incidents involving Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s and festivities between US-backed troops and militias.
[NPASYRIA] The Washington-based Al-Monitor said on Thursday that the US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff advocated on Wednesday that the US should respond more “forcefully” to recent attacks on the latter’s bases in northeast Syria by targeting Iran’s Quds Forces.
US General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told members of Congress that the US should target the Quds Force “harshly” in order to deter future rocket and drone attacks by Iranian-backed militias on US troops in Syria and Iraq
On March 23, a US contractor was killed, and five other service members and another contractor were wounded when a suspected Iranian drone struck a facility on a base of the US-led Global Coalition in northeast Syria, the Pentagon said.
Milley told members of the Senate’s Armed Services committee during a hearing on Wednesday that some of the Iranian-backed militias are “much more aggressive than others.”
In response to a question on what steps the US can take to proactively deter future attacks, the US top general said that the US plans to “harshly” target Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and specifically the Quds Forces, which a designated terrorist organization.
The US Central Command attacked with “precision airstrikes” against facilities in eastern Syria used by militias affiliated with IRGC, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said.
Thirteen militants of the Iranian militias were killed and wounded, sources told North Press.
General Michael Erik Kurilla, CENTCOM commander, said the drone attack “was another in a series of attacks on our troops and partner forces.”
“The various Shia militia groups — we know who they are — [we should be] letting them know that we will respond affirmatively and forcefully if they attack our troops,” Milley said.
He stressed that Iran’s main goal is “to drive the United States out of both Iraq and Syria.”
The top general noted that the US intelligence community continues to believe that the IRGC aims to solidify its arc of influence over Shia proxy militias stretching across Iraq and Syria to Lebanon.
“Their archenemy obviously is Israel, and they [Iran] want to be the dominant power in the region,” Milley stated.
On March 24, the US President Joe Biden, while on a visit to Canada, pledged to “act forcefully” to protect his troops against Iranian-backed attacks.
Biden stressed that the US “does not seek conflict with Iran but is prepared to act forcefully to protect our people.”
There are roughly 900 US troops are involved in aerial surveillance, coordinating the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), civilian aid provision, tribal engagement, as well as medical evacuations of SDF troops in northeast Syria
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...... the personification of Somali state failure...
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
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