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Afghanistan
Taliban gang-raped, shot a teenager dead in Jawzjan: Officials claim
[KhaamaPress] Security sources in the north of the country stated that the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
gang-raped and shot a 16-year-old girl to death in Jawzjan province.

209th Shaheen Corps in a released statement said the incident happened on Sunday in Darzab district of Jawzjan province.

According to the statement, Talibs kidnapped the maiden of tender years and her parents two months ago.

Residents of Qush Tapah and Darzab districts of Jawzjan have gathered in a rally to protest and staged demonstrations against the incident, the protesters demanded the release of the girl’s parents.

They also demanded that the Taliban should hand over the teenager’s body to them

Taliban have not yet commented on the incident.

Jawzjan Province is located in the north of Afghanistan and is one of the most insecure locations in the country as the Taliban has a large influence over the area.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/07/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  so they're raping girls now instead of boys....?
Posted by: Mercutio || 04/07/2021 9:30 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: Sluse Grealet9429 || 04/07/2021 14:42 Comments || Top||

#3  #1 Yea, apostates!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/07/2021 14:46 Comments || Top||

#4  Outrage after Pakistan’s Imran Khan links rape to how women dress
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/07/2021 18:58 Comments || Top||


4 Members of Local Police Killed in Taliban Attack in Nangarhar
[ToloNews] Four members of local coppers were killed in a Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
attack on a security outpost in the eastern province of Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
on Monday night, a source said on Tuesday.

The attack took place in the Ghazi Baba area in Sorkh Rod district of Nangarhar, the source said.

Local officials have not commented on the incident.

Taliban has grabbed credit for the attack.

The incident comes amidst a sharp increase in violence in the country ahead of a key conference in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
that is expected to change the direction of the Afghan peace efforts.

Figures by security officials show that at least 26 members of Afghan forces were killed and 30 more, including four civilians, were maimed in separate security incidents in six provinces in the last 24 hours.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/07/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Policeman killed, Haqqani’s sleeper cell member detained in Kabul
[KhaamaPress] In an unidentified gunmen attack on Tuesday one policeman was killed and another was injured in Kabul province.

Kabul Police told the media that the attack took place at around 08:50 am local time in the Chawk-e-Arghandi area in Paghman district of Kabul city, as gunmen opened fire at a police vehicle.

The incident is currently under police investigation, the attacked police officers were reportedly belonging to Maidan Wardak police HQ.

This comes as the National Directorate of Security in a released statement said that one of the masterminds behind the 2019 attack on Amrullah Saleh’s political party office was captured.

According to NDS Obaidullah who identified himself with fake identities like (Farooq, Bilal, and Ibrahim) was detained during a special operation in PD3 of Kabul city.

The suspected was reportedly planning to assassinate Selai Ghafar, a female advocate and civil society activist.

Obaidullah used to receive directions from Malavi Nik Mohammad, a Haqqani network leader, to carry out a suicide attack on First Vice President, Amrullah Saleh.

According to reports this insurgent sleeper cell also monitored movements of foreign forces, he currently had the order to carry out attacks on President Ghani’s convoys.

He also had received instructions to attack Abdullah Abdullah, Chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation, former NDS head Rahmatullah Nabil, civil society activists, media workers, and prominent figures in Afghanistan.

These incidents come amid escalated violence in Afghanistan, media figures indicated that at least 26 members of Afghan security forces were killed and 30 others including civilians were injured in the different incidents in the past 24 hours.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/07/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Haqqani Network


Africa North
Police Chief Kidnapped in Libya’s Zwara
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 04/07/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Africa Subsaharan
11 Boko Haram terrorists killed in northeastern Nigeria
[AA.TR] At least 11 members of the Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
terrorist group were killed in an operation conducted Monday in northeastern Nigeria.

Many other hard boyz were maimed and weapons, cycle of violences and ammunition were seized during the operation carried out by the army in the Gwoza local government area of Borno state, according to a military official who asked not to be named due to security reasons.

Boko Haram launched a bloody insurgency in 2009 in northeastern Nigeria but later spread its atrocities to neighboring Niger, Chad and Cameroon
...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there...
, prompting a military response.

More than 30,000 people have been killed and nearly 3 million displaced in a decade of Boko Haram's terrorist activities in Nigeria, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

Violence committed by Boko Haram has affected some 26 million people in the Lake Chad region and displaced 2.6 million others, according to the UN Refugee Agency.
Posted by: Fred || 04/07/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram (ISIS)


Fifth Column
'Anti-racist' group called White Lies Matter steals Jefferson Davis Memorial Chair and threatens to turn it into a TOILET
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] 'Anti-racist' group claims responsibility for theft of Jefferson Davis monument

  • Chair honoring Confederate president stolen last month in Selma, Alabama

  • Group calling itself 'White Lies Matter' claimed responsibility for March 19 theft
    What other Black Bloc groups have their members belonged to over the years? They do like to invent new organizations for each purpose, see which has legs, and drop the rest in the memory hole while recycling the cadres.
  • It is threatening to turn $500,000 monument into a 'toilet' unless demands met

  • Group wants pro-Confederate organization to hang banner bearing quote

  • Quote is from Assata Shakur, a black woman convicted of killing cop in 1973

  • United Daughters of Confederacy have until 1pm on Friday to hang the banner

  • This Friday is 156th anniversary of Confederate surrender to Union in Civil War

  • Selma police and Dallas County prosecutors confirmed theft and ransom
Posted by: Fred || 04/07/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Blackwashing White Lies, an Abridgment
"Besmirching will break our bewitchment:
Not statues but capital!
Fill it with crap! It'll
Sell the whole world on 'enrichment.'"
Posted by: Mad Eye Flemp4426 || 04/07/2021 1:19 Comments || Top||

#2  Best racket going
Nice work if yawlz kin gittit
Posted by: Crinelet Oppressor of the Munchkins3701 || 04/07/2021 12:03 Comments || Top||

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Posted by: Sluse Grealet9429 || 04/07/2021 15:08 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Maryland Shooter Identified as 38-Year-Old Navy Sailor Fantahun Woldesenbet
[GatewayPundit] There was a shooting Tuesday in Maryland near the US Army Base at Fort Detrick.

The 38-year-old suspect shot two men before he was shot dead.

One victim remains in critical condition and the other victim is being treated and will be released from the hospital tomorrow.

The shooter was identified by authorities as 38-year-old Navy Corpsman Fantahun Girma Woldesenbet.
He sounds like a New York City law firm. But really, what kind of a name is that?


"We can confirm that he is an active member of the Navy at the rank of E4," Frederick Police Chief Jason Lando said during a presser. "He resides in the city of Frederick, not on the military base and his residence is in the 100 block of Willowdale."
Fox News adds:
An active shooter emergency at a Maryland business park near Fort Detrick on Tuesday morning left two male U.S. Navy sailors maimed, with one still considered critical hours later, and the suspect, a Navy Hospital Corpsman, dead, officials said.

Woldesenbet allegedly began shooting with a rifle inside a Navy-related business at the Riverside Tech Park, causing people inside to flee, Frederick police and Fort Detrick officials said at a news conference. Frederick Police Chief Jason Lando said detectives are still trying to determine a possible motive.

Woldesenbet purportedly used a rifle in the shooting at a Navy-related facility in the office park, Lando said. No other weapons were believed to been found.

Brigadier General Michael J. Talley said Woldesenbet drove to the base after the initial shooting at the office park and sped past the gate before he could be searched. Talley said he made it about a half-mile into the installation before he was stopped at a parking lot. He then allegedly brandished his weapon at officers from the installation’s police force who had pursued him.

Talley said Sherlocks are looking at whether the shooter knew the victims, but refused to speculate, saying: "We don’t want to compromise any aspect of the investigation."

Fort Detrick is home to the military’s flagship biological defense laboratory and several federal civilian biodefense labs. About 10,000 military personnel and civilians work at the garrison, which encompasses about 1,300 acres in the city of Frederick.

Police had previously announced that they were "responding to an active shooter" on Progress Drive near Monocacy Boulevard. At approximately 8:20 a.m. local time, the shooter went into a business at the Riverside Tech park, about 4 miles from Fort Detrick, Lando said earlier Tuesday.

After the shooting, the suspect drove approximately 10 minutes to Fort Detrick, where he was killed by personnel there, officials said.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 04/07/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  We knew he was not a white guy/Trump supporter because there was no mention of race or politics in the initial reports. I'm putting my chips on "Gay Lovers Quarrel" based on nothing but whimsy.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/07/2021 1:01 Comments || Top||

#2  SteveS, this from the Daily Mail article on the subject might, or might not, impact your thinking,

Police cordoned off Woldesenbet's garden-style apartment building in Frederick City, a few miles from the site of the shooting.

A neighbor, Ava Target, said she knew Woldesenbet only by sight, and that he lived on the top floor of the apartment complex with a wife and two kids. She wasn't aware of any problems.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/07/2021 1:25 Comments || Top||

#3  And I'll take "Ethernopian politics," based on nothing but the same, but flimsier.
Posted by: Mad Eye Flemp4426 || 04/07/2021 1:29 Comments || Top||

#4  38 yo E4? Active, not reserve!
WTH!?
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 04/07/2021 1:31 Comments || Top||

#5  And I'll take "Ethernopian politics," based on nothing but the same, but flimsier.

Alrighty! Who wants "Gay Ethernopian Politics"? You can't win if you don't play.

My spider sense says a big chunk of this story missing. I can't tell if it is an unknown, or whether it is a known that cannot be mentioned. In the meantime, I'm just stuffing something silly in the gap until we actually have data. It is still early.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/07/2021 1:49 Comments || Top||

#6  Fort Detrick?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/07/2021 2:06 Comments || Top||

#7  38 yo E4? Active, not reserve!

I bet he was enamored by the Navy recruiter with wonderful tales of mandatory EO training and Constitution Day training and TARP (née SAEDA) training and wild, lamp-shade-wearing tales of Women's History Month with notional barrels of Navy rum.
Posted by: Clem || 04/07/2021 4:57 Comments || Top||

#8  Ref #6: Fort Detrick?

Yes, similar to your facility at Ness Ziona.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/07/2021 6:34 Comments || Top||

#9  ^Not exactly. The real thing is elsewhere - as far from any habitation as you can get in Israel.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/07/2021 7:49 Comments || Top||

#10  He Joined in 2012. Made E-4 in 2017. Nine years and Still only an E-4!
Posted by: Sonny Black || 04/07/2021 9:27 Comments || Top||

#11  “Christ. Seven years of college down the drain. Might as well join the f**king Peace Corps.” - (Senator) Blutarsky.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/07/2021 9:38 Comments || Top||


#13  Task & Proose has his military tecod:

The hospital corpsman who was killed at Fort Detrick, Maryland, on Tuesday after he allegedly shot two other sailors near the base had an unremarkable career in the Navy, according to his military record.

Fantahun Girma Woldesenbet, originally from Virginia, enlisted in the Navy in September 2012 and had served as a petty officer third class, or E-4, since June 2017, his Navy biography says.

Woldesenbet had been assigned to the Naval Medical Research Center at Fort Detrick since August 2019, according to his official record, which the Navy provided to Task & Purpose.

Before then, he served at Fort Sam Houston, Texas; Camp Lejeune, North Carolina; and elsewhere, his record says.

For much of his time in the Navy, Woldesenbet was going through training. He was listed as a student while at four of his eight assignments after completing recruit training.

Most recently, he was a student at Fort Sam Houston and the Navy Medicine Training Support Center in Portsmouth, Virginia, before arriving at Fort Detrick.

His record does not indicate that he went on any combat deployments or received any significant personal awards.

Woldesenbet’s military decorations include the Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, and Pistol (Marksman).
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/07/2021 10:31 Comments || Top||

#14  Alrighty! Who wants "Gay Ethernopian Politics"? You can't win if you don't play.

You know, everything about this is weird, with the obligatory radio news breathlessly "every time we turn on the news a mass shooting.." on repeat half the day, and gone by night.

Puts down a $3 bill.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/07/2021 10:50 Comments || Top||

#15  My apologies for the unnoticed typos above. Clearly I am still recovering from the second Pfizer dose plus posting so close upon awakening. PIMF!!! It’s Task & Purpose and his military record. *sigh*

Separately, according to the Tiger Droppings message board, that beautiful photo Anomalous Sources found for us is actually an Ethiopian biotech PhD of the same name (they have a link with that photo), and there’s a link to a Michael Savage post claiming to be the real photo of the very different man who is our miscreant. Interestingly, Mr. Savage spells the gentleman’s name Phantahun Girma Woldesenbet.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/07/2021 11:54 Comments || Top||

#16  Expect more attacks.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 04/07/2021 13:53 Comments || Top||

#17 
Posted by: Sluse Grealet9429 || 04/07/2021 14:47 Comments || Top||

#18  thatbeautiful photo Anomalous Sources found for us is actually an Ethiopian biotech PhD of the same name

So how about the moderators take down the photo of an innocent man so that we aren't responsible for besmirching his good name?
Posted by: Secret Master || 04/07/2021 16:39 Comments || Top||

#19  Same name, dude.
Oh, and 2+1 is NOT a mass shooting.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/07/2021 19:00 Comments || Top||

#20  @#15 - CRAP!!!!! My research capabilities seem lacking lately.

Can I blame COVID? Is there some boodle in it for me if I do?

At any rate, my most sincere apologies to all.

AS
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 04/07/2021 20:49 Comments || Top||

#21  It looks like our miscreant is a third man altogether:

.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/07/2021 20:52 Comments || Top||

#22  Mosque?
Posted by: Woodrow || 04/07/2021 21:18 Comments || Top||

#23  Anomalous Sources dear, this is typical fog of war stuff as we iterate our way to the truth. It could have been avoided if Brigadier General Michael J. Talley had just released the base’s file photo of the miscreant at yesterday’s press briefing instead of playing coy and waiting until today.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/07/2021 21:23 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iranian ship affiliated with IRGC attacked - initial report
More on this report from yesterday.
JPost's take
An Iranian cargo ship affiliated with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps was reportedly attacked off the coast of Eritrea in the Red Sea on Tuesday, according to the Saudi Al-Arabiya news outlet. The reports remained unconfirmed by any official source, but the IRGC-affiliated Tasnim news reported that the ship was damaged in an explosion caused by limpet mines on the hull of the ship.

The United States Naval Institute (USNI) reported last year that the Saviz, while officially listed as a merchant ship, was likely a covert IRGC forward base. Tasnim confirmed this on Tuesday, saying that the ship had been stationed in the Red Sea in recent years to support Iranian commandos escorting commercial vessels.

According to the USNI, as of October 2020, the ship had barely moved from its location off the coast of Yemen for three years. The report stated that the Saviz may have been used to feed intelligence to Iran and the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen for a number of purposes, including to help them carry out strikes on maritime vessels in the area, with a number of strikes in recent years blamed on Iran and the Houthis.

The vessel reportedly showed up on independent ship tracking site MarineTraffic at about 4:45 a.m. on Tuesday before dropping off the map again at 9:44 a.m., according to social media reports.

The alleged incident, if true, comes after two strikes on Israeli vessels in the region and reports of dozens of earlier strikes carried out by Israel and Iran on each other's maritime vessels in locations ranging from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf.

Late last month, an Iranian missile was reportedly fired at an Israeli ship between India and Oman, striking and damaging the ship. In February, Iran allegedly attacked the Israeli-owned cargo vessel MV Helios Ray, which was damaged by an explosion in the Gulf of Oman.

Additionally in March, Maariv, The Jerusalem Post's sister publication, reported that dozens of Iranian ships had been attacked by Israel throughout the Middle East, after The Wall Street Journal reported that a dozen Iranian oil tankers headed to Syria had been attacked by Israel.
The New York Times’ take:
An Iranian military vessel stationed in the Red Sea was damaged by an apparent Israeli mine attack on Tuesday in an escalation of the shadowy naval skirmishing that has characterized the two adversaries’ exchanges in recent years.The damage to the vessel, which Iranian media identified as the Saviz, came as progress was reported on the first day of talks to revive American participation in the 2015 nuclear agreement between 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 Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and major world powers. Israel, which regards Iran as its most potent foe, strongly opposes a restoration of that agreement, which was abandoned by the Trump administration three years ago.

Several Iranian news outlets showed images of flames and smoke billowing from a stricken vessel in the Red Sea, but the full extent of the damage or any casualties was unclear.

The Saviz, though technically classified as a cargo ship, was the first vessel deployed for military use that is known to have been attacked in the Israeli-Iranian skirmishes.

A social media account of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps said the vessel had been deployed in the Red Sea for some time to combat pirates. The Tasnim news agency, the media outlet of the Revolutionary Guards, said the Saviz had been damaged by a mine that had been attached to the vessel.

There was no official Iranian confirmation of the attack as of Tuesday night, but several Telegram social media channels operated by members of the Revolutionary Guards blamed Israel for the earth-shattering kaboom.

Israeli officials had not commented as of Tuesday night, and as a matter of policy they seldom confirm or deny responsibility for actions taken against Iran. But an American official said the Israelis had notified the United States that its forces had struck the vessel at about 7:30 a.m. local time.



Posted by: Frank G || 04/07/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Israel notifies US it attacked Iranian ship in Red Sea - report
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/07/2021 1:48 Comments || Top||

#2  That very secret notification was leaked by the New York Times.
Posted by: b || 04/07/2021 8:20 Comments || Top||

#3  More to the point, it was leaked TO the Times... by whom and in service of what goal?
Posted by: Mercutio || 04/07/2021 9:29 Comments || Top||

#4  Iran ship said to be Red Sea troop base off Yemen attacked
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/07/2021 9:38 Comments || Top||

#5  So why haven't Allah and Iran turned Israel into a lake of fire yet?
Posted by: jpal || 04/07/2021 9:55 Comments || Top||

#6  I don't think it was Israel - I think it was this guy...
Posted by: Raj || 04/07/2021 12:55 Comments || Top||

#7  4 years of Trump and the relationship with Israel was never better, peace in the Middle East was nearly at hand, and Iran was cowed and broke as the embargo and cheap US oil flooded new pathways. Now, all that is reversed, and the only difference, Bidet and the true government at the Kalorama Kompound..
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 04/07/2021 16:54 Comments || Top||

#8  Well if the US really wanted it gone, there would have been a Mk48 involved. Missiles can damage a ship to the point it sinks, eventually. Torpedoes will break its back and put it under in a hurry. Ask the General Belgrano's crew.
Posted by: These Forkbeard7574 || 04/07/2021 17:39 Comments || Top||


Iranian Rocket Shipment Enters Syria through Iraq
No doubt an Israeli Air Force attack is imminent.
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] A new arms shipment of rockets has been delivered to 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 Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
militias in Syria, said sources in the region west of the Euphrates River.

The shipment consisted of short and medium range rockets. It arrived in the Deir Ezzor countryside from an illegal border crossing with Iraq on Monday morning.

Three military vehicles, belonging to Iranian militias, and a car, belonging to the Fourth Armored Division, accompanied the shipment after it entered Syrian territories.

Sources from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said two trucks were unloaded at warehouses belonging to the Afghan Fatemiyoun Division militia in the western Deir Ezzor countryside.

The two other trucks made their way to the eastern countryside of the Raqqa province.

Local sources in Deir Ezzor said the regime’s security agencies were closely monitoring the activity of Iranian militias in the Alboukamal and al-Mayadeen regions. They were closely studying the new local recruits to the groups and locals who are collaborating with them.

Some two weeks ago, Syrian security forces arrested a resident of the town of al-Herri that is located on the Syrian-Iraqi border. He was detained in Damascus on charges of helping carry out attacks against Iranian militias in Alboukamal.

The detainee is among the most prominent collaborators with Iranian militias and is close to the regime. He is known for his smuggling operations across the border and his relations with armed factions that control eastern parts of Syria. He had also cooperated with ISIS before Iranian militias swept in their place.

Iranian militias are deployed in the Deir Ezzor countryside west of the Euphrates. The Kurdish-Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are deployed east of the river. The Iranian militias boast some 15,000 fighters from different nationalities.
Posted by: Fred || 04/07/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran



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