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Good afternoon
VIDEO: Homeowner Catches Leftist Urinating
on Trump Sign, Blasts Miscreant With Paintball Gun
Tuesday September 8th, 2020

zsazsa1
Iranian air defense commander says Iran can now export drones
SDF troops kill and wound nearly 20 Turkish-backed fighters in night raid
Israeli Arab from Be'er Sheva area operated by Hamas was arrested after planning a bombing attack in a shopping center
Security forces kill five terrorists including Wasim Zakaria in North Waziristan
Afghan negotiators wait in Kabul as long-awaited peace talks face delays
Ansarallah forces claim drone attack on 'sensitive' targets at Saudi airport
Video of shootout at "The Cheetah" strip club in Atlanta

Posted by: Fred || 09/08/2020 15:03 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Green Acres city girl who was out of place. Or was the Eva?
Posted by: Vespasian Ebbereng3110 || 09/08/2020 18:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Wow. Just wow.
Posted by: Zorba Sneretch9289 || 09/08/2020 19:28 Comments || Top||

#3  Eva was the Green Acres one. And the sexier of the two if you ask me.

Posted by: jpal || 09/08/2020 19:41 Comments || Top||

#4  Nice rocks, Dahlink
Posted by: Shugum Sforza8681 || 09/08/2020 20:48 Comments || Top||

#5  The Gabor sisters where the first to be famous for being famous, and marrying well.
Posted by: Thaith Elmeresing6163 || 09/08/2020 23:00 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
'22 Taliban Killed in Faryab Clashes': MoD
[ToloNews] At least 22 Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
were killed and 24 others were maimed in festivities with security forces in the northern province of Faryab on Sunday, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) said in a statement on Monday.

No information about security force casualties was given.

The festivities occurred as the Taliban attacked Khwaja Sabz Posh and Pashtoon Kot districts, as well as parts of Maimana, the thriving provincial capital, said the statement.

"Zulfiqar, a Taliban group leader, is among the dead," said the MoD statement.

However,
some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go...
the Taliban has not commented on the attack.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/08/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  Alpine negotiations.
Posted by: Cesare || 09/08/2020 16:09 Comments || Top||


Kandahar: 10 Taliban Toes Up, 2 Civilians Kaboomed
[ToloNews] At least 10 Taliban
...Arabic for students...
were killed as thet attacked security forces in southern Kandahar on Saturday night, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) said in a statement on Sunday.

The festivities took place in Shah Wali Kot district and the "attack was pushed back by the security forces."

Security forces also destroyed four Taliban cycle of violences. it added.

The statement did not provide details about possible security force casualties in the attack.

The Taliban has not commented on the attack.

Civilian Killed in Kandahar Roadside Blast

[ToloNews] At least one civilian was killed and another was maimed in a roadside mine blast in the southern province of Kandahar on Monday morning, a local police official confirmed.

The incident occurred in Zharai district when a cycle of violence struck a roadside mine, police officials said.

The local police blame the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
for the blast, but the Taliban has not yet commented.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/08/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Ghazni: 5 Security Forces Joined Taliban
[KhaamaPress] Local sources in Ghazni Province claim 5 security forces have joined the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
due to a lack of governmental support.

A source in the region, who didn’t want to be named said, the incident took place on Saturday, in the Arezui Khord area belonging to the city.

According to the sources, the Taliban attacked a police checkpoint in Arezui Khord, while the security forces faced shortages of equipment and central command also have not cared about this matter, 5 security forces affiliated with the Taliban.

Meanwhile,
...back at the buffalo wallow, Standing Buffalo drew a bead on his old enemy and squeezed the trigger...
security officials added that during the clash Taliban had captured a number of soldiers, and the authorities are trying to free the captured troops in the hands of the murderous Moslem group.

This comes in a time that residents of Ghazni province have complained of rising insecurity and in recent days, and have been protesting against rising insecurity, assassinations, and widespread Taliban activity.

These protestors are also calling for the removal of civilian and military officials in the province.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/08/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Urozgan Blast Claims 1, wounds 1
[KhaamaPress] At least one killed and further one maimed as a landmine went off in Urozgan province, local officials confirmed.

Zergai Ebadi, spokesperson to Urozgan Governor said the incident took place last night at 11pm in the Chenarto district.

A resident of Chenarto, who was transporting a patient to the Hospital, hit through the landmine planted by Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
and collided, killing one individual, he added

Taliban have not yet shared their comments on the incident.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/08/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa Horn
Three Somali special forces killed, US officer wounded in car bomb: Somali official
[Al Ahram] Three Somali special forces soldiers were killed and a U.S. officer was seriously maimed in a boom-mobile on Monday outside the force's base in the country's south, a regional Somali government official said.

Al Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab
...... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all ofwhich have enough problems without them...
said they were behind the attack and put the number of dead at 20.

A Somali soldier was also maimed in the attack in Jana Cabdalle village, some 60 km (37 miles) from the port city of Kismayu, which is also Jubbaland region's capital.

"Two soldiers of Danab (special) forces died and two others were maimed. A U.S. officer was seriously maimed," Mohammed Ahmed Sabriye, director of communications of Jubbaland state palace told Rooters by phone.

He later said one of the maimed Danab force soldiers had subsequently died.

He said the suicide boom-mobile had went kaboom! outside the special forces base.

Al-Shabaab said it had killed U.S. personnel.

"We attacked U.S. and Somali forces called Danab in Jana Cabdalle village with a suicide boom-mobile. We killed four U.S. officers, and 16 Somali forces which they trained," Abdiasis Abu Musab, its military operation front man, said in a statement.

"We also maimed 12 Somali soldiers. We also destroyed 3 U.S. armoured vehicles.

Posted by: Fred || 09/08/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


Africa North
Tunisian Army Fire at Suspect Vehicles Illegally Crossing from Libya
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/08/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda


Turkey Transfers 450 Mercenaries from Libya to Istanbul
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/08/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Islamic State group claims responsibility for deadly Tunisia knife attack
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/08/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Turkish-backed forces seize Russian-made chopper from LNA
[ALMASDARNEWS] The “Sirte and Al-Jafrah Security and Protection Operations Room” of the Turkish-backed Government of National Accord (GNA), on Monday, said that its forces on the Zamzam axis captured a Russian-made Mi-8T helicopter belonging to the Libyan National Army (LNA).

They said in a statement published on its Facebook page that the control operation of the aircraft came as a result of a monitoring process some time ago during an emergency landing south of Abu Gurayn, and continuing to follow it until it was reached and transported.

The operations room indicated that this aircraft is used to transport ammunition and soldiers.

The deputy commander of the Zamzam axis, Ahmed bin Suwaid, in the Sirte and Jafrah Operations Room, stated that his forces, after struggling at first, were able to pull the aircraft across the difficult terrain.

He stated that “the aircraft is not 100 percent intact,” indicating that the chopper can be rehabilitated and used for civilian and military purposes, represented in transporting the wounded.
Posted by: Fred || 09/08/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  He stated that “the aircraft is not 100 percent intact,”

Did they try to fit an 18 ft chopper under a 16 ft bridge like the last time?
Posted by: Thraling Munster5941 || 09/08/2020 1:07 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Saudi Arabia sentences three to death over links to 2017 Jeddah attack
[THEBAGHDADPOST] A Saudi court has sentenced three people to death for their involvement in an attack in Jeddah when two men blew themselves up after a shootout with police, state-run Al Ekhbariya television said on Sunday.

In 2017, Saudi security forces surrounded a house in Jeddah and exchanged fire with two men with ties to 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....
, who blew themselves up.

The court convicted the three on terrorism-related charges including possessing explosives, Ekhbariya said.

The ruling said the defendants supported Islamic State and planned to kill members of the security forces, Saudi-owned Al Arabiya TV reported.

Sunni murderous Moslems have carried out many shootings and bombings in Soddy 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. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
since 2014, soon after then-Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi summoned Saudi supporters to mount attacks at home instead of abroad in wars in Syria and Iraq.

Most of the attacks targeted minority Saudi Shi’ites or state security officers and were carried out by people who had sworn allegiance to Islamic State or were claimed by the krazed killer group in online postings, Saudi authorities said.

Saudi Arabia had earlier barred its citizens from going to wage jihad (holy war) abroad, used its Sunni clergy to denounce Islamic State, imposed prison terms for supporting the group and joined U.S.-led air strikes against IS in Syria.
Posted by: Fred || 09/08/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Ansarallah forces claim drone attack on 'sensitive' targets at Saudi airport
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/08/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Saudi Arabia convicts 8 people for Jamal Khashoggi murder
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/08/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia

#1  But not the Prince! No doubt, it's Trump's fault.
Posted by: Bobby || 09/08/2020 9:28 Comments || Top||


Britain
‘Somali’ man, 27, captured in swoop on home after running amok in Birmingham with knife leaving one dead
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Suspect, 27, has now been arrested following the horrific knife attacks against several people in Birmingham

  • Neighbours claim man, who they say lives in rented semi-detached house, was Islamic 'possibly a schizophrenic'

  • Police were called to reports of a stabbing in Birmingham city centre at around 12.30am on Sunday morning

  • The horror attacks left one man dead and seven others injured whom police say were targeted at random

  • West Midlands Police say there were a number of other stabbings in the Gay Village and Snow Hill areas

Armed police today dragged the 27-year-old suspect out of his home in a dramatic 4am raid in the Selly Oak area of the city, around three miles from the scene of the frenzied attack that broke out the early hours of Sunday.

The 'terrified' man was still wearing his pyjamas when firearms officers swooped on his house and handcuffed him.

Three other people, two men and a woman, were arrested from the same address on suspicion of assisting an offender.

Now, his neighbours in the quiet cul-de-sac claim the suspect - who they say lives in a rented semi-detached house with friends - 'was mentally disturbed and possibly a schizophrenic'. Another called him an 'oddball' who spent his days riding the bus.

The random attacks which took place across 90 minutes in four areas of Birmingham city centre sparked a huge manhunt for the knifeman - as police launch an investigation into how the stabbing spree was allowed to continue for almost two hours.

A 23-year-old man was killed, while a woman, 32, and another man, 19, are in a critical condition and five others suffered less serious injuries. Horrified witnesses revealed how they saw the 'chilled' suspect stab random victims in the head and neck and, when confronted, say 'whatever'.

A witness to the stabbings described the moment he saw a woman 'stabbed in the neck' during the horror attack.

Bar owner Savvas Sfrantziz says he saw the man, who he describes as 'black, in his 20s and wearing a hoodie', stab the woman 'several times' in the neck before 'walking away'.

The Telegraph has more details of the unnamed gentleman’s route, adding this key detail:
A security guards’ chatroom sent out a description of the suspect, warning local bar owners to be vigilant.

"The suspect is described as 5ft 5 in, a male of Somalia descent, dark skinned & wearing dark clothing - a hoodie and tracksuit bottoms," it said.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/08/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Kept warm since yesterday in anticipation of the nearly inevitable...

MOST WANTED: a Brummie... from Birmingham!
His victim? Some peaceful green M&M.
Mad racist, at large,
To face serious charge
Of Mohammedophobic ad hominem!
Posted by: Winky Poodle9282 || 09/08/2020 1:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Not your best, Zenobia F, but the utter romance of a limerick kept warm just for us? Priceless!
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/08/2020 1:46 Comments || Top||


#4  One said: 'I don't know the group living in the house but my understanding is that the man arrested was mentally disturbed and possibly a schizophrenic.

Seems consistent upon one populations group (those the police seem to arrest who are not white males).
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/08/2020 6:39 Comments || Top||

#5  One lesson of defensive combat training is what damage can be done by the guy who moves first.
A five-five guy would be laughable, but he moved first.
Situational awareness is useful.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 09/08/2020 7:19 Comments || Top||


#7  Birmingham is another place whereby riot prone migrants do not obey the law and the "police" would only arrest white folk for laws broken.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/08/2020 12:13 Comments || Top||

#8  Russian Beauty Queen Attack: Britain deserves to sink beneath the waves. What a bunch of cowardly and feckless milk sops.

One lady just stands there, a guy runs up and stops. Before finally someone with some cojones jumps on the attacker. SMDH!
Posted by: Omereter Henbane8204 || 09/08/2020 13:57 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
3 tanker ships of gasoline just left Iran for Venezuela via the Suez Canal
[Twitter]


Forest Faxon Fortune Tanker
Posted by: 3dc || 09/08/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies

#1  Where's those dolphins?
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/08/2020 4:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Ships carrying gasoline from one oil producer to another?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/08/2020 4:42 Comments || Top||

#3  IIRC, Venezuela's oil is closer to tar than gasoline. And their refineries aren't working.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 09/08/2020 8:06 Comments || Top||

#4  Yes, the refineries still operating that can handle VZ heavy crude are in... Texas.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/08/2020 8:50 Comments || Top||

#5  ^Well, if Biden wins ...
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/08/2020 9:20 Comments || Top||

#6  It would be a shame if they blew up on the way.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/08/2020 10:27 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
Michigan GOP headquarters vandalized with radical anti-police statements
[Twitter]
Posted by: 3dc || 09/08/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM


#2  The infantilism at the link in the comment is cute. The infantilism in the story above, not so much...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/08/2020 7:51 Comments || Top||


Portland catch and release
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 09/08/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  These portraits are starting to make me physically ill:

Yet another Tranny, #367.
More meth-heads in birth control glasses.
Another smiling Merry Mauler.
And an honest-to-goodness anthropomorphic apple-head. (Just when you thought you'd seen it all.)

Are these creatures from Mars? What universe did they come from?
Posted by: Don Vito Prince of the Welsh7883 || 09/08/2020 1:59 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: gorb || 09/08/2020 2:21 Comments || Top||

#3  Well Don Vito, the pros aren't going to put themselves in a position to get pinched. These characters already don't fit anywhere, some by choice some grew up under power lines. They hate normal people, hate us for being productive and being happy, Hell, for having fun. All it takes is getting them in one place and a very little accellerent.
Posted by: Cesare || 09/08/2020 6:46 Comments || Top||

#4  #2..Bobby Pins, Please.
Posted by: Unosh Hupinelet8756 || 09/08/2020 8:24 Comments || Top||

#5  These characters already don't fit anywhere, some by choice some grew up under power lines

That line made me *snort*
:-)
Posted by: Frank G || 09/08/2020 10:29 Comments || Top||

#6  some grew up under power lines

It's like that ol' blues song, Born Under a Bad Line
Born under a bad line
I been down since I begin to crawl
If it wasn't for electromagnetism, I wouldn't have no charge at all.
Posted by: SteveS || 09/08/2020 14:31 Comments || Top||

#7  #6..Albert King would be proud.
Posted by: Unosh Hupinelet8756 || 09/08/2020 16:13 Comments || Top||

#8  She/Her needs a shave
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 09/08/2020 16:49 Comments || Top||


“I’m a college student, I have an education!” shouts a BLM protester to people participating in the pro-Trump caravan in Oregon City
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] "And you're not and you don't!"
Such an ignorant assumption. But it’s too cute for words that they think so.
Posted by: Fred || 09/08/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  “I’m a college student, I have an education!”

Good for you. Now work on understanding.
Posted by: gorb || 09/08/2020 2:23 Comments || Top||

#2  And that's, in the nutshell, why are they rioting - their college degrees are not worth spit.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/08/2020 4:06 Comments || Top||


#4  "I have an education!”

No, you have a degree. Not the same thing at all these days...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/08/2020 6:44 Comments || Top||

#5  An education in the Social Sciences is no education at all.
Posted by: b || 09/08/2020 8:07 Comments || Top||

#6  No, you have an indoctrination not an education.

And yes I want fries with that, you debt slave.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/08/2020 10:36 Comments || Top||

#7  An education in the Social Sciences is no education at all.

That would mean an education in Education actually has negative value education-wise. And probably induces retardation.
Posted by: SteveS || 09/08/2020 10:52 Comments || Top||

#8  An education in the Social Sciences is no education at all.

It kind of depends on how you do it. My time in that got me well versed in logic, statistics and economics. Now, career wise, not so much till I got into computers but education I got some.
Posted by: AlanC || 09/08/2020 11:04 Comments || Top||

#9  that and 5 dollars will get you a cup of coffee at Starbucks, although as an employee maybe you can get a discount
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 09/08/2020 11:15 Comments || Top||

#10  From the video it looks to me like the young lady and her friends were just trying to meet men. Flipping someone off is an unusual come-on line, but it did get the guys to pay attention to her.
Posted by: Matt || 09/08/2020 11:28 Comments || Top||

#11  although as an employee maybe you can get a discount

Do we have to calculate that ourselves? They said there would be no math.
Posted by: SteveS || 09/08/2020 11:29 Comments || Top||

#12  Only if you want to be labeled a racist.
Posted by: gorb || 09/08/2020 13:17 Comments || Top||

#13  The Wizard: Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre commodity! Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain! Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts — and with no more brains than you have. But! They have one thing you haven't got! A diploma! Therefore, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Universita Committeeatum E Pluribus Unum, I hereby confer upon you the honorary degree of Th.D.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/08/2020 16:00 Comments || Top||

#14  I call it the Scarecrow Principle. You don't need an education, all you need is a diploma.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 09/08/2020 16:39 Comments || Top||

#15  I still like the old commercial with Abraham Lincoln and the employment interviewer - "You ain't goin' nowhere without that sheepskin, fella..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/08/2020 16:48 Comments || Top||

#16  ....you dont need a brain..
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 09/08/2020 16:49 Comments || Top||

#17  ..the Donks are proving that with Uncle Joe.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/08/2020 17:25 Comments || Top||

#18  @ #15 - Oh, man, I remember that one very well!
Posted by: Clem || 09/08/2020 18:28 Comments || Top||

#19  Here's that ad. :-)
Posted by: gorb || 09/08/2020 18:34 Comments || Top||

#20  Thanks, gorb! I forgot about that babe who walks in.
Posted by: Clem || 09/08/2020 18:37 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Turkey gives IS member life in prison for 2017 New Year’s terror attack
[IsraelTimes] Albulkadir Masharipov convicted of carrying out nightclub shooting that killed 39, including 1 Israeli.

A Ottoman Turkish court on Monday sentenced an 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....
member to life in prison over the New Year’s Eve terrorist attack on a nightclub in Istanbul that left 39 people dead in 2017.

Albulkadir Masharipov of Uzbekistan was charged with membership in a terror group, murder, and attempting to overthrow the constitutional order, among other charges.

The court in Istanbul sentenced him to 40 separate life sentences.

Early on January 1, an assailant shot his way into Istanbul’s Reina nightclub where hundreds were partying to celebrate the New Year. The assailant beat feet from the scene and the Islamic State group later claimed the massacre.

Seventy-nine people were maimed. Several revelers jumped into the waters of the Bosporus to escape the attack.

Among those shot to death were 27 foreigners including citizens from 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...
, Soddy 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. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
, Israel, Iraq, and Morocco.

Lian Zaher Nasser, 19, from Tira in central Israel was one of those killed in the club, where she was celebrating the New Year with friends. One of her friends, another Tira resident, was injured in the attack.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/08/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Strategy Page
Leadership: The Man Who Would Be Sultan
https://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htlead/articles/20200905.aspx
Posted by: Sonny Black || 09/08/2020 14:39 Comments || Top||

#2  The court in Istanbul sentenced him to 40 separate life sentences.

Course LIFE in a Turkish prison...see Midnight Express.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/08/2020 15:48 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Christian is sentenced to death in Pakistan after being accused of 'blasphemy' when he refused his employer's request to convert to Islam
Asif Pervaiz, 37, has been in custody since 2013 accused of blasphemy

He claims his factory supervisor tried to convert him to Islam after he quit the job

Asif says when he refused, he was accused of sending blasphemous texts

Pakistan has strict laws which carry a death penalty for insulting Islam
Posted by: Thraling Munster5941 || 09/08/2020 13:02 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  Religion of Peace(tm)
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#2  Because Allah is such a whimpy 'god' that he can't take a few insults...
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Security forces kill five terrorists including Wasim Zakaria in North Waziristan
[DAILYTIMES.PK] The Security Forces conducted an Intelligence Based Operation (IBO) in the Mir Ali area of North Wazoo and killed a high-profile terrorist Wasim Zakaria, and his four accomplices.

Security forces conducted an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in Mir Ali where five murderous Moslems, including Zakaria, were bumped off and 10 were arrested, confirmed the ISPR.

Commander Wasim Zakaria hailed from the Haider Khel area and since September 2019, had been a criminal mastermind of 30 terrorist attacks.

"Terrorist Wasim was involved in murder activities and the martyrdom of CSS officer Zubaidullah Dawar," said the ISPR in a statement, adding that the murderous Moslem was also directly involved in attacks on security forces.

Commander Wasim Zakaria hailed from the Haider Khel area and since September 2019, had been a criminal mastermind of 30 terrorist attacks.

"Terrorist Wasim was involved in murder activities and the martyrdom of CSS officer Zubaidullah Dawar," said the ISPR in a statement, adding that the murderous Moslem was also directly involved in attacks on security forces.

He had also attacked an army convoy at Hasu Khel.

Posted by: Fred || 09/08/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Iraq
Turkey says ‘successfully completed’ anti-PKK operation in Kurdistan Region
[Rudaw] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
’s Defense Ministry announced on Saturday they "successfully completed" their Operation Claw-Tiger campaign against Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) positions in the Haftanin area of the Kurdistan Region's northern border with Turkey.

"Search and screening activities were successfully completed in Operation Claw Tiger, which was launched in Haftanin, northern Iraq, on June 16, 2020. Our hero commandos entered all the shelters, bunkers, and caves in the area and destroyed the terror lairs," read a tweet from the Defense Ministry.

Turkey claimed it "neutralized" 320 PKK fighters. The Ottoman Turkish military uses the term neutralized to denote persons killed, captured, or maimed in battle. The ministry also said their ground troops entered and destroyed 269 shelters and 53 caves belonging to the PKK, seizing the weaponry found there.

The Haftanin mountainous region lies near the city of Zakho, close to the Ottoman Turkish border in Duhok province.

The defense ministry’s announcement comes a day after Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani was in Ankara to meet Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
and Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, who said they discussed "the joint fight against PKK."

The PKK has not acknowledged Ankara-announced casualties among its own fighters, but claims to have killed several Ottoman Turkish soldiers, downed at least two helicopters, and destroyed Ottoman Turkish military and construction equipment. The PKK accused Turkey of wanting to occupy Kurdish territory.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/08/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Iraqi forces killed two ISIS leaders in Kirkuk
[TWITTER]

A spokesman for the Commander-in-Chief of the Iraqi Armed Forces announced, on Monday, that two ISIS leaders were killed in Kirkuk, while two others were arrested in Al-Fallujah.

Major General Yahya Rasool said in a statement received by Alghadeer, “a special force from the Counter-Terrorism Service carried out an operation that was based on a great intelligence effort, which resulted in the killing of two ISIS leaders while they were trying to flee, and the arrest of two others in Daquq district”.

“Another special force arrested two dangerous ISIS terrorists northeast of Fallujah”, he added.
Posted by: Fred || 09/08/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IDF apprehends woman attempting to swim from Gaza to Israel
[Jpost] The IDF apprehended a woman who was seen attempting to swim across the border from the North of Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
into Israel, according to the IDF. The suspect was unarmed and is being questioned at the scene.
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#1  Drowning is better than living in Gaza?
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#2  Hamas swim team?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/08/2020 9:01 Comments || Top||

#3  synchronized swim
Posted by: Wholusing Omoluling3662 || 09/08/2020 14:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Likely thrown off a boat in a 'honor' drowning.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/08/2020 15:47 Comments || Top||


UAE plans to send an official delegation to Israel on Sept. 22
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
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#1  And unlike Carter, they will be met at the airport.
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Israeli Arab from Be'er Sheva area operated by Hamas was arrested after planning a bombing attack in a shopping center
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
The Times of Israel adds:
The Shin Bet security service released information Monday on what it said was a foiled bomb plot involving an Israeli citizen who received training and orders from the Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", terror group in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip.

Mahmoud Makdad, 30, from the Bedouin town of Shaqib al-Salam (known in Hebrew as Segev Shalom) in the south of the country was arrested on August 15, the service said in a statement.

Nine of his family members and acquaintances were also arrested, including his brother Ahmad, 32. Most of the suspects are residents of Segev Shalom and are suspected of knowing about his plans and doing nothing, and in some cases helping to plan the attack.

The statement said indictments on serious security offenses would be filed against Mahmoud and Ahmad at the Beersheba District Court.

The son of an Israeli Bedouin mother and a father from the Gaza Strip, Mahmoud Makdad is married to a Paleostinian in the Hamas-controlled coastal enclave. His circumstances allowed him to move back and forth between Israel and Gaza under humanitarian programs that Israel grants, enabling the unification of families divided by the border. His parents were similarly able to be together due to the programs, the Shin Bet said.

Hamas was hoping to make use of Makdad’s ability to move between the Gaza Strip and Israel, the statement said..

"This is further evidence of the efforts that the military wing of Hamas is investing in establishing a terror infrastructure in Israel, as part of its systematic and broad activities against Judea and Samaria [the West Bank] and Israel," a senior Shin Bet official, not named, said in the statement.

It "testifies to the strategy that the Hamas leadership continues to lead of upsetting regional stability. This, despite and alongside the efforts for agreement that are going on all the time," he added, referring to ongoing mediation efforts between Israel and the terror group through various international parties.

According to the Shin Bet, Makdad agreed to work for Hamas in 2019. He was initially recruited to gather intelligence on sites in the southern Negev region of Israel, and then later to carry out kabooms.

Makdad began collecting intelligence, including providing information on the locations of Iron Dome anti-missile system batteries that Israel deploys to protect itself against rocket attacks from Gaza.

In recent months Makdad spent time in the Gaza Strip and before his latest return to Israel underwent training by Hamas on assembling improvised explosives, Sherlocks alleged.

Since returning to Israel in June 2020 he bought ammunition and began constructing a bomb, the statement said. He also began scouting out a location to carry out the bombing while maintaining covert contact with his handlers in the Gaza Strip,

Makdad eventually chose as his target a bus stop at the Bilu Junction, a busy site in the central region of the country, near Rehovot, that includes a large shopping mall.

His brother Ahmad was fully aware of his contact with Hamas and his intention to carry out an attack and did not take any action to prevent the bombing from happening, the statement said. Ahmad Makdad is also suspected of helping in the surveillance of Iron Dome sites.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Cyprus sends team to stop migrants fleeing Lebanon
[Al Ahram] Cyprus said Monday it will send a team to 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...
to help authorities stop boats with migrants colonists including from war-torn Syria heading for the Mediterranean island after several recent attempts.

Officials from various services will visit Lebanon "to deal in the best and most effective way with this phenomenon," Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said.

Cyprus, just 160 kilometres (100 miles) from Lebanon's coast, is so close that the deadly explosion that devastated Beirut on August 4 was heard on the island. Syria is even nearer.

Cyprus is on alert after at least five boats carrying over 150 migrants colonists were spotted off the coast of the tourist island by authorities in recent days, and the interior ministry held an emergency meeting on the situation on Monday.

Many of those on board were Syrians, as well as Lebanese. Some were permitted to disembark, but others were sent back.

Cypriot authorities chartered a boat to take a group back to Lebanon with an escort.

Lebanon, which hosts a million Syrian refugees, was already reeling from its worst economic crisis in decades before the cataclysmic explosion in the port of Beirut.

Nearby Nicosia fears becoming a magnet for those fleeing a political and economic crisis.

European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
member Cyprus and Lebanon have a "send back" agreement to discourage migrants colonists.

Cyprus has long complained it is on the frontline of the Mediterranean migration route, with the EU's highest number of first-time asylum seekers per capita of population.

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Russian Air Force unleashes powerful attack on ISIS after terrorist group launches offensive
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
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SDF troops kill and wound nearly 20 Turkish-backed fighters in night raid
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
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Government
ICE Arrests Over 2,000 Illegal Immigrants with Violent Criminal Convictions or Charges
[TENNESSEESTAR] Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested more than 2,000 illegal immigrants colonists who have criminal histories involving victims between July 13 and Aug. 20, ICE announced Monday.The immigrants colonists who are illegally living in the U.S. are subject to removal because of their previous arrests or charges connected to victims, according to ICE. Of those arrested for immigration-related charges, around 85% had pending criminal charges or previous criminal convictions.

"The aliens targeted during this operation preyed on men, women and kiddies in our communities, committing serious crimes and, at times, repeatedly hurting their victims," said Tony Pham,
...the legal immigrant now in charge of clearing out the illegal immigrants, much to the fury of the Left...
the bigwig performing the duties of ICE director.

Several of the illegal immigrants colonists who were arrested reportedly had multiple pending charges and previous criminal convictions, according to ICE. The most common charge was assault, and ICE reported 338 convictions and 386 pending assault charges among the group of immigrants colonists arrested in the recent enforcement action.

"By focusing our efforts on perpetrators of crimes against people, we’re able to remove these threats from our communities and prevent future victimization from occurring. Through our targeted enforcement efforts, we are eliminating the threat posed by these criminals, many of whom are repeat offenders," Pham said.

Other charges included domestic violence, sexual offenses including rape and assault, and various family offenses like neglect and cruelty, according to ICE.

Convictions in Colorado and Wyoming included child abuse, domestic violence strangulation, and attempted murder, according to ICE.

A 27-year-old undocumented Democrat arrested in Denver, Colorado who is a documented member of the West-Side Bloods street gang was convicted for indecent exposure-masturbation, child abuse, and was required to register as a sex offender, according to ICE.

"During this effort we focused specifically on those who may have suffered disproportionally[sic] during the pandemic," said John Fabbricatore, field director for ICE in Denver. "We specifically targeted our enforcement actions at abusers and helped victims by eliminating the threat posed by their perpetrators, and in some cases, preventing future victimization by recidivist offender."
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#1  Rioters are registered and released.
These guys the local police hold to protect from ICE?
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/08/2020 4:35 Comments || Top||



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