[ShabelleMedia] The cabinet has appointed a new commander of the police force as Somalia is reforming its security and military sectors before taking over the AU troops.
This sounds more like a gendarmerie than regular police, if I am reading it correctly.
General Sulub Ahmed will take over from Gen Abdi Hassan Hijar, who led the police for nearly 4 years. The appointment was made by the cabinet during the weekly meeting.
The new police commissioner was the deputy aviation minister before being named to the post. The move has been expected since the election of May 15 last year.
Somali president Hassan Sheikh is also set to appoint a military commander amidst a massive offensive to flush out al-Shabaab ...... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all of which have enough problems without them... from the entire nation.
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Part of the staying power of some of these groups is that there is weak security through our entire regions of Africa. Bad actors from Rwanda base across a border and continue their bad acting.
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[NYPOST] The ISIS-inspired terrorist who killed eight people by ramming into them with a truck on a West Side Highway bike path in 2017 was convicted on all counts by a Manhattan federal jury Thursday.
The panel’s conviction of Sayfullo Saipov,
...the Uzbeck lone wolf from Paterson, NJ, where he lived next to the Omar Mosque. He rented a truck for the purpose of running over as many people as possible while screaming “Allahu akhbar,” though he only managed to kill eight for ISIS and wound 12 more despite also crashing into a school bus. He came to the U.S. under President George HW Bush’s Diversity Immigrant Visa program in 2010, one of millions of Uzbeks to take advantage of the offer...
34, on 28 counts paves the way for the death penalty phase of the trial to begin — when jurors will decide whether he should be put to death for the murderous rampage.
The panel of three women and nine men deliberated for about six hours before returning the verdict to Judge Vernon Broderick.
An easy one, unexpectedly.
The death penalty phase of the trial is tentatively scheduled to begin on Feb. 6.
Saipov, an immigrant originally from Uzbekistan, did not show emotion as Broderick’s courtroom deputy read the verdict aloud.
The terrorist, sporting a long, black beard and wearing a black suit, sat at the far end of the defense table, listening to a translation of the verdict that was beamed into headphones he was wearing.
Over the course of the two-week trial, victims who survived the attack described the horrific and violent mostly peaceful scene after Saipov, driving a rented flatbed truck, plowed into as many people as he could in Lower Manhattan on the afternoon of Halloween that year.
Family members described from the witness stand how they watched as loved ones struck by the madman were left bloodied on the bike path and ultimately died from their injuries.
One victim who was killed, Ann-Laure Decadt, had been riding a rented bike with family members who traveled from their native Belgium for a New York vacation to celebrate a number of milestone birthdays.
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Aid to restore one or more villages in a controlled way subject to audit has always made sense for me. The funds instead end up getting transferred to NGOs often of Soros type. There is no accounting for where the money went nor is their evidence of any benefit for the people who were supposed to receive aid. They need concrete for house foundations and plumbing and instead some of the money goes to grants for abortions, sterilizations or gender reassignments while the bulk of the money ends up in a stateside campaign for a consultant feeding frenzy.
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[BenarNews] With a new Malaysian controller in place to restart Deep South peace talks as early as next month, the Thai government’s top negotiator traveled on Wednesday to Pattani province where he admitted that the process could be more inclusive.
Gen. Wanlop Rugsanaoh, who heads the Thai panel in the negotiations, told about 200 attendees at a Pattani forum that Zulkifli Zainal Abidin, 65, a retired Malaysian armed forces chief, would be the new broker of talks between Thailand and Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN)
...the largest group in the Thai insurgency in the southern Thai provinces that make up the old Patani sultanate...
See also here for the activities of the folks who stayed behind.
[An Nahar] The director of the Security and Safety Dept. at Beirut’s port, who was released from detention Wednesday at State Prosecutor Ghassan Oueidat’s order, has arrived in the United States.
“Curly-toed slippers, don’t fail me now!”
A dual American-Lebanese citizen, the director, Mohammed Ziad al-Ouf, was among 17 port case detainees freed on Wednesday in a move disputed by the lead investigative judge in the case Judge Tarek Bitar.
Al-Ouf’s lawyer Sakher al-Hashem said the suspended director has "arrived in the United States, and will not return to Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...In 2020 Hezbollah blew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate facility exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that. And it ain't never coming to trial... A judicial official said that the United States had lobbied for his release.
Al-Ouf traveled despite the fact that Oueidat had slapped travel bans on all the released detainees. Some media reports meanwhile said that al-Ouf left the country before the issuance of the travel bans.
Nizar Zakka, President of the U.S.-based Hostage Aid Worldwide, tweeted that al-Ouf has been "freed from unlawful detention in Lebanon for more than 2 years."
He "will finally be reunited with his family!", Zakka added, thanking U.S. Special Presidential Envoy Roger Carstens, the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Hostage Aid Worldwide and "everyone who helped" secure al-Ouf’s release.
Speaking to al-Jadeed TV, Zakka said al-Ouf traveled to carry out medical checkups in the United States and will return to Lebanon.
"He didn’t want to travel. He wanted to stay (in Lebanon) but he was pressured to go do his medical checkups," Zakka added, clarifying that the checkups were requested by the U.S. government seeing as this is the routine procedure for those freed from "arbitrary detention."
Asked about the travel ban issued by Oueidat, Zakka said he did not know about such an order and that al-Ouf "traveled normally" through Beirut’s airport.
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The best part of Lebanese news is when they present conflicting and mutually exclusive accounts of what happened and projections about the future. Ghassan is not going back versus he is going back is presented nearly in the same paragraph.
Realistically, Ghassan should probably stay in the US as it sounds like he has an ironclad J6 alibi. J6 participation seems like it may be the only activity that you can engage in within the US that will land you in detention for an indeterminate period of time. Ghassan should be good going forward as long as he manages to never meet or support DJT.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all of which have enough problems without them...
[NYPOST] The ISIS-inspired terrorist who killed eight people by ramming into them with a truck on a West Side Highway bike path in 2017 was convicted on all counts by a Manhattan federal jury Thursday.
