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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Naperville, IL man takes hatchet to a gun fight
NAPERVILLE, Ill. (WLS) -- Naperville police released video Tuesday showing an officer shoot a man, who ran at him with a hatchet.

The shooting occurred on June 3 during a traffic stop, near Bond and McDowell.

The video shows another car pulled up, and a man got out and immediately charged at the officer with a hatchet in his hand. The officer then opened fire.

The man, identified as 28-year-old Edward Samaan, died at a hospital. The officer was not hurt.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/20/2022 05:27 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Was it a Semi-Auto Axe-15?🪓
Was the handle too long, and was the head within legal size and weight?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 06/20/2022 7:29 Comments || Top||

#2  According to his obituary, he was born in Chicago, surrounding by a large family, and buried by a Syriac Orthodox church. Very odd.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/20/2022 8:09 Comments || Top||

#3  NN2N1, the LEO recognized the weapon as a 9mm Lung Extractor. Perp was able to buy it at a weapons fair without the civilized 31 day waiting period.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 06/20/2022 11:19 Comments || Top||

#4  Perhaps the gentleman mistook the officer for a tree.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/20/2022 12:49 Comments || Top||

#5  Syriac Orthodox

So, Syrian?
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/20/2022 16:16 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Govt Retirees, Veterans Hold Protest to Demand Pensions
[ToloNews] The new government feels no responsibility for the promises made by those they conquered, unfortunately for those depending on those promises. [ToloNews] Dozens of veterans and government retirees held a protest demanding to receive their pensions on Saturday, saying that the government should not remain silent about this issue.

"It's been almost ten months that we have been asking for our pensions, which is part of the right of government officials," said Najibullah, a retired employee.

"Nobody else is available to feed me. I have no money. God knows that we borrowed 15 rupees from a store owner today, to get to the department of pensions," said Abdul Rashid, another retired employee.

"Three or four of these folks don't have the money to rent a car, and some of them even passed away from hunger," said Abdul Ahad, another retired employee.

Retirees, the majority of whom are teachers, academics, retired military people, and public workers, claim they face a range of difficulties.

"The officials deceive us every day, while a pension is our right, but it has been taken from us," said Abdul Mohammad, another retired employee.

Meanwhile,
...back at the mall, Clarissa suddenly spied Mr. Bartlett at the checkout counter. He was buying Grecian Formula!...
officials in the Ministry of Finance said last week that they had finalized a scheme for the payment of pensions for the veterans and government retirees.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/20/2022 00:01 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Taliban/IEA


Accounts Differ Over Downed Helicopter in Panjshir
[ToloNews] The Resistance® Front released photos and claimed its members had shot down a helicopter in the central province of Panjshir, but the provincial governor’s front man denied the allegations.
No, no! Certainly not!
and said that some of the imagery is old.

The Resistance® Front also claimed it had captured crew members.

"The areas are under the Islamic Emirate control. The crew has not suffered any casualties. What is being aired on social media, some of the footage is from the past," said Abubakar Seddiqqi, a front man for the provincial governor.

However,
you can observe a lot just by watching...
the Ministry of Defense said in a statement that the helicopter came under attack after an emergency landing in Arzo valley of the province.

"One day ago, a helicopter (Mi 17) which was recently repaired and was on a training flight, made an emergency landing in Arzo valley. Based on initial information, after the emergency landing, the rebels set the helicopter on fire and then left the area. The Ministry of Defense will provide further details after a complete investigation," the statement said.

Due to the lack of access to the area, TOLOnews cannot gather information about the claims.

"It is better that the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
talk about this vital issue and consider engagement and negotiations for resolving this matter. If the situation keeps going like this, undoubtedly, the situation of Afghanistan will change," said Asadullah Nadim, a military veteran.

The leader of the Resistance® Front, Ahmad Masoud, told the Al Arabiya TV Channel that the war in Afghanistan has been imposed on them.

He also said that if the Islamic Emirate changes its policies, he is ready to engage in negotiations.

War is imposed on us, this is not something that we enjoy. But we should fight because we don’t have any other option, Ahmad Masoud said.

The Islamic Emirate has not commented on Massoud's remarks.

After the fall of the former government, the negotiations between Islamic Emirate forces and Resistance® Front were conducted but the negotiations are yet to make any breakthrough.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/20/2022 00:01 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Taliban/IEA


IS claims attack on Sikh temple in Afghan capital of Kabul
Responding to yesterday’s report. See also here.
[AlAhram] The Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(IS) group grabbed credit for an attack on a Sikh temple in Afghanistan's capital of Kabul that killed at least one worshipper and maimed seven others.

IS made the claim in a statement posted on its Amaq website late Saturday. It said the assault on ``the Sikh and Hindu temple'' was in response to alleged insults made against the Prophet Muhammad, the central figure of the Islamic religion, by an Indian government official. It did not name the official.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/20/2022 00:01 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Arabia
Saudi-led forces' rape of six girls met with widespread popular anger
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The Human Rights Office, Youth Organization for Rights and Sustainable Development and the Jurists Against Aggression Initiative in Hodeidah province on Saturday condemned the crime of raping six girls in al-Juweir and al-Suwaihra areas of Hays district by the Saudi-led coalition mercenaries.

Statements issued by those organizations denounced the heinous crime committed by the US-Saudi-Emirati aggression coalition mercenaries led by the mercenary Bassam al-Mihdhar, who raped the girls in a cowardly act that contradicts all heavenly laws.

The statements noted that "this crime comes within the systematic criminal chain in which the aggression coalition seeks, through its cheap tools and agents in the occupied areas, to compensate for its failures."

The organizations’ statements condemned the United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
’ silence towards these crimes, and held it and all its organizations responsible for this crime and its repercussions on society.

They called for the formation of a neutral international investigation committee to investigate this crime and the previous crimes and rapes of women and kiddies by the aggression countries’ mercenaries.

Posted by: Fred || 06/20/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


China-Japan-Koreas
Russia is now China's biggest oil supplier after Beijing increased imports by 55% to capitalise on low prices in the wake of Western sanctions
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Oil exports from Russia to China totalled nearly 8.42million in the month of May

  • Russia displaced Saudi Arabia as China's biggest oil provider in recent months

  • Discounts of up to 30% have undermined western sanctions over Ukraine

Posted by: Skidmark || 06/20/2022 10:22 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  When you owe the bank 500K, the bank owns you.
When you owe the bank 500B, you own the bank.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/20/2022 13:07 Comments || Top||

#2  I wonder how the mullahs feel about that?
Posted by: Xyz || 06/20/2022 13:30 Comments || Top||

#3  High sulfur content Russian and Indian coal. Australian coal was best for their generation of power. Factories were designed to burn better quality coal. Now Germany is starting up their coal power plants but that is going to take a long time to produce what they need.
Posted by: Dale || 06/20/2022 14:15 Comments || Top||

#4  I'm sure the appropriate federal agencies and private foundations are already making calculations of how much our quality of life in the USA has to decline to balance out the rest of the world's carbon output.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/20/2022 14:19 Comments || Top||

#5  If we can rebuild Mogodishes...I'm certain we can sell coal to Germany.
Posted by: Thraiter Clilet8864 || 06/20/2022 19:06 Comments || Top||


Europe
Germany is 'overwhelmed' with false asylum seekers' Syrian passports as forgery experts admit they can't spot fakes
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/20/2022 10:36 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants


Government Corruption
Victoria Nuland gives Mozambique $140,000,000 to rebuild after jihad devastation
[JW] $14 million a year for ten years — $140,000,000 to rebuild after the Islamic State overran Cabo Delgado. Why is it the responsibility of the United States to repair Mozambique while the U.S. itself is in the middle of an economic crisis? And what has been done or is being done to ensure that the jihadis don’t return?

Biden’s handlers to give Mozambique $140,000,000 to rebuild after jihad devastation.

Guests at the 'White Pearl' and other coastal resorts should be well pleased.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/20/2022 05:54 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This has nothing to do with Jihad or a "Rebuild." This is about purchasing long-term access. "Rebuild" is simply a convenient cover.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/20/2022 6:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Also to keep dem big money operative Tuh-ray-zuh Heinz-Kerry happy, no doubt...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/20/2022 6:06 Comments || Top||

#3  Build-Back-Broke in Mozambiue with tax payer money? Apparatchik Nulan making decisions 10 years into the future to increase our debt even more? WTF Hell?
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/20/2022 10:08 Comments || Top||

#4  How much of that money goes back to the Democrats.
Posted by: Xyz || 06/20/2022 13:32 Comments || Top||

#5  ...well we have the Clinton dealings with Haiti as a template.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/20/2022 13:51 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
India Grants Over 100 E-Visas to the Sikh and Hindu Following the Deadly ISKP Attack on the Sikh Temple in Kabul
Responding to yesterday’s report. See also here.
[KhaamaPress] Following the incident on the Sikh congregation holy place in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, on Saturday, which left two people dead, India has determined to issue e-visas to over 100 Sikhs and Hindus in Afghanistan.

The emergency e-visas will make it easier to evacuate Sikhs and Hindus from Afghanistan, where they are in great danger due to terrorist threats, according to the Indian officials.

On Saturday morning, several explosions were reported at a Sikh temple in Kabul, preceded by a shootout between the assailants and Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
forces. The Taliban fighters, according to the sources, killed the attackers.

Moreover, the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
Khorasan Province (ISKP), aka ISIS-Khorasan, grabbed credit for the Kabul Karte Parwan Sikh temple attack.

The ISKP website on late Saturday published the picture of the assailant, named Abu Mohammad al-Tajiki, in the Sikh temple in Kabul, claiming that the attack was organized following the Indian politicians insult of Prophet Mohammad, as Dire Revenge.

While there were roughly 700 Hindus and Sikhs in Afghanistan by 2020, many families departed the country last year due to turmoil and instability and the Taliban’s seizure of the country after US forces withdrawal on August 15.

However,
it was a brave man who first ate an oyster...
according to the Indian officials, only around 150 of the religious minority, currently lives in Afghanistan, and are under "severe threat" of the terrorist groups.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/20/2022 00:01 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:


International-UN-NGOs
GPI: Iraq is the world's 7th least peaceful country
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/20/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq

#1  Guess they haven't been to Chicago.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/20/2022 16:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Or Atlanta.
Posted by: jpal || 06/20/2022 19:28 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Palestinian Authority Refuses to Hand Over Bullet That Killed Al Jazeera Journalist to Israel
[Sputnik] The Paleostinian Authority will not hand over to Israel the bullet that killed Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh last month, Paleostinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said on Sunday.

"We refuse to transfer the bullet that killed Shireen Abu Akleh, and, moreover, we demand to transfer the weapon from which the bullet was fired," Paleostinian news agency Wafa quoted Shtayyeh as saying.
"This bullet is the 5,723rd most holy site in Islam!"
On Friday, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said that the Israeli army expanded its investigation into the circumstances of the death of the journalist, and a technical specialist was included in the investigation team. The leadership of the Israeli army again asked the Paleostinian authorities to provide the bullet for an examination.

The 51-year-old Paleostinian-American journalist was shot in the head on 11 May while covering an Israeli raid in the West Bank. Reporters on the scene said they were targeted by Israeli snipers when the group was alone in the streets of Jenin and were clearly identifiable as being members of the press.

Posted by: Fred || 06/20/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [23 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Authority

#1  The release of such material might be a problem for the required meme.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 06/20/2022 7:55 Comments || Top||

#2  It's so they can avoid being issued with a bill for the bullet.
Posted by: Pholing Crererong6639 || 06/20/2022 9:51 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syrian desert monastery seeks visitors after years of war
[AlAhram] A Syrian desert monastery that was once a hub for interfaith dialogue, attracting tens of thousands, has reopened to visitors after more than a decade of war and isolation.

"We yearn for people to return. We want to see them pray and meditate with us once more, so that they may find here a space for calm, silence and contemplation," Father Jihad Youssef told AFP, his voice echoing through the dark, empty halls of the monastery he heads.

In 2010, 30,000 people visited Deir Mar Moussa al-Habashi (St Moses the Æthiopian), a 7th century monastery perched atop a barren, rocky hill about 100 kilometres (62 miles) north of Damascus.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 06/20/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:



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  Al-Shabaab foreign fighters among 70 killed in Bahdo attack
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  ISWAP Releases Names Of 23 Member Terrorists Killed By Troops
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  204 Boko Haram Fighters, Family Members ‘Surrender’ To Nigerian Troops In Borno
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  Fighting in Severodonetsk proceeds,
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  Al-Qaeda in Yemen reports death of three senior commanders
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  Ukraine’s military repels Russian forces in eastern Ukraine
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