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Over 60 Taliban, 30 Soldiers Killed in Past Day's Violent Surge
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Good Afternoon

'Biden team may partner with private
firms to surveil suspected domestic terrorists online
Tuesday May 4th, 2021

DorisHillShinyShoes
Boko Haram kills 8 people in Nigeria
At least three rockets landed in Iraq%u2019s Balad Air Base hosting US contractors
Russia sets up two new military sites in the south of Armenia near the Azeri border as an %u201Cadditional security guarantee%u201D
Syria%u2019s constitutional court says it has approved Bashar al-Assad and two other candidates to run in the upcoming presidential elections
Activists file legal complaint over alleged Lebanon corruption, money laundering
Turkey wants to improve economic relations with Egypt as it pushes to repair strained diplomatic ties
The former Democrat House Speaker for the state of Oregon was arrested and charged over human sex trafficking

Posted by: Fred || 05/04/2021 16:49 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  No white foxes were deprived of their tails in the making of that outfit. At least I hope not.
Posted by: jpal || 05/04/2021 18:19 Comments || Top||

#2  I like how you worked "foxy tail" in there.....
Posted by: Snineper Croth7083 || 05/04/2021 19:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Why, yes, Fred..... she IS wearing shoes
Posted by: Frank G || 05/04/2021 20:26 Comments || Top||

#4  Cheap beads tho
Posted by: Elmerelet Lumplump6659 || 05/04/2021 20:43 Comments || Top||

#5  Starshine on fuzzy festooned intestine of cotton candy cloudbeast... whuffo it detest us?
Posted by: Zorba Ulimble3833 || 05/04/2021 20:43 Comments || Top||

#6  They are shiny, but at least they look like shoes - not like those pots and pans hats the other day.
Posted by: SteveS || 05/04/2021 20:57 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Over 60 Taliban, 30 Soldiers Killed in Past Day's Violent Surge
[ToloNews] The country’s western area witnessed deadly attacks over the last 24 hours with over 20 army soldiers killed and many civilians maimed, according to local officials.

According to officials and sources, 20 soldiers were killed in Farah, 4 in Baghlan, 8 in Badakhshan and 5 in Herat
...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
in the last 24 hours.

Sources from Farah said that at least 20 members of the Afghan National Army were killed in a Taliban
...Arabic for students...
attack on an outpost in Bala Boluk district in Farah on Sunday night.

"It was not a base, it was an outpost for the safety of the base... The situation in other parts of Farah is under control," said Taj Mohammad Jahid, the governor of Farah.

"The outpost has been destroyed," said Dadullah Qani, head of the provincial council in Farah.

A hand grenade went kaboom! near a school for girls in the city of Farah on Monday, injuring 20 civilians and a soldier, according to local sources

Meanwhile,
...back at the shouting match, a new, even louder, voice was to be heard...
Badakhshan, Herat, Kabul, Pashtun-infested Logar, 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..
, Baghlan and Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
provinces also witnessed security incidents and Taliban attacks in the last 24 hours. In these provinces, at least 19 civilians and security forces were killed and 22 more were maimed.

"The attacks will increase but they will not achieve anything because they will increase people’s hate toward Taliban activities," said former Afghan intelligence chief Rahmatullah Nabil.

Ataullah Afghan, head of Helmand's provincial council, said the province has witnessed heavy festivities between security forces and the Taliban in the last two days, in which eight soldiers have died and 20 more have been maimed.

Afghan said that at least 10 outposts in Helmand have fallen to the Taliban over the last two days, and he reiterated that the province requires the government's full attention.

Figures by security agencies show that 164 small and large attacks by the Taliban have occurred over the last 24 hours, up from 141 on the previous day.

The Ministry of Defense in a statement said that 62 Taliban were killed and 58 more were maimed by Afghan forces defending positions in Laghman
...Afghan province with a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.
After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men...
, Ghazni, Balkh, Herat, Faryab, Farah and Badakhshan provinces in the last 24 hours.

The ministry in a separate statement said that 11 krazed killers, including 9 Taliban members and 2 al Qaeda members, were killed in Nahr-e-Siraj district in Helmand province on Sunday.

"The Taliban, by increasing violence, provides the grounds for more casualties for its members because the Afghan Defense and Security Forces are much more ready, firm and serious against the terrorist group," Defense Ministry front man Rohullah Ahmadzai said.

"We hope that the government makes better plans against the enemy so that we see an end to the bloodshed," said Amir Mohammad Khaksar, an MP from Takhar.

The increased violence coincides with US forces having started their withdrawal from the country on May 1. So far, the US has handed over one camp to Afghan forces in Helmand province.
The Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
attacked a security outpost in Bala Bolok district of Farah province on Sunday night during which six security force members were killed and after which another is missing, said Taj Mohammad Jahid, provincial governor, on Monday.

"The Taliban blew up the security outpost about 9pm last night," Jahid said. "Five soldiers escaped and moved to another outpost."

He also said that the Taliban attacked another security outpost in Farah city, capital of the province, but the security forces pushed back the attack and 10 Taliban were killed and maimed.

The Taliban has not yet commented on the attacks.

At the same time, four security force members were killed, including a commander, in a Taliban attack in Nahrin district of northern Baghlan province on Sunday night, said Mohammad Azizi, district governor.

The Taliban attacked a military unit in the district and "captured four other force members, but one who was maimed managed to escape," he said.

"The Taliban took the equipment of the security forces after the attack," he added.

The Taliban grabbed credit for the attack.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/04/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  Afghan Army putting up a good fight but where is the Afghan Air Force?

With all the force massing the Taliban are doing there should have been lots of opportunity for destroying them from the air.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 05/04/2021 9:23 Comments || Top||


ANDSF kills al-Qaeda affiliates fighting along Taliban
[KhaamaPress] The Ministry of Defense in a released statement on Monday says that two Pak members of the al-Qaeda network in the Indian subcontinent along with nine Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
murderous Moslems were killed during an operation conducted by Afghan National Defense and Security Forces in southern Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
province.

ANDSF launched the operation close to 1st and 601 highways in Nahre-Saraj district of Helmand province.

Despite claims of severing ties, these al-Qaeda members were killed along the Taliban fighters during the battle.

Moreover, security forces have killed seven Talibs and destroyed a number of weapons belonging to the group in the Qarabagh district of Ghazni province.

MoD also reported inflicting casualties on the Taliban in the Imam Saheb district of Kunduz province, in an operation ANDSF targeted a Taliban gathering in Boz-Bai and Naseri-Bai areas of the district in which four Taliban including their commander were killed and further seven others were maimed.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/04/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda


Taliban digs a tunnel to ANDSF camp, kills more than 20
[KhaamaPress] Media outlets reported that Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
captured an army base in Farah’s Bala Buluk on Sunday night.

The bully boyz have reportedly made their way tunneling inside the base. Taliban dug an underground passage leading to the base, reports indicated.

According to the provincial officials, 22 Afghan national defense and security force members including commandos were killed in the attack.

The incident happened in the Shewan area, of Bala Buluk district, following the outflank attack by the Taliban the district has fallen to the Taliban, media reported.

Its reported that 4 ANDSF members are also missing in action.

Ministry of Defense have not yet confirmed the incident.

Taliban grabbed credit for the attack.

In another incident, 13 civilians were maimed in a Taliban mine explosion in Farah province on Monday afternoon. Local officials said, at least 13 people were maimed in a Taliban IED in Farah’s city. The blast reportedly was meant to target deputy chief of Farah’s National Directorate of Security
...the Afghan national intel agency...
Moreover, four security force members including a commander were killed in a Taliban attack in Nahrin district of northern Baghlan province on Sunday night. Local sources told the media that the Taliban also captured four other security force members, but one of them who was injured escaped to safety.

Following the attack Taliban also took equipment belonging to security force members, and the group announced to be responsible for the incident.

Posted by: trailing wife || 05/04/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  Digging a tunnel into an army camp usually involves traitors, an inside job. And that's the main thing to consider when talking about Afghanistan. It's full of islam, which is so conducive to what we call treachery.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/04/2021 4:14 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Ethiopia ‘at a crossroads' amid spiraling ethnic conflict
GONDAR, Ethiopia (AP) — Aba Yosief Desta preferred not to discuss the ethnicities of victims in the widening conflicts threatening Ethiopia’s unity.

A wooden cross in hand, the Orthodox monk in yellow robes insisted that victims of massacres "have the same face."

Speaking to The Associated Press from the city of Gondar, where he manages a diocesan office, he reflected on the first known massacre of the conflict in the neighboring Tigray region. Ethiopia’s government says ethnic Amhara were killed, but ethnic Tigrayan refugees have told the AP they were also targeted.

"It’s better to say Ethiopians were killed," the bearded monk said. "If one Amhara is killed and one Tigrayan is killed, it means Ethiopians are killed." He hopes young people will shun ethnic-driven politics, which he calls "the source of all problems" in this country with more than 90 ethnic groups.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/04/2021 07:31 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The weather has not altered a great deal in the last few thousand years as well.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/04/2021 7:35 Comments || Top||

#2  He hopes young people will shun ethnic-driven politics, which he calls "the source of all problems"

Not the source of all problems, but a good many of them. We should bring him over here to lecture the Democrats.

Unfortunately, you can make a good career in politics by stoking ethnic hatred. Plus, hating people is fun. It gets the monkey brain all worked up. Expect more of the same.
Posted by: SteveS || 05/04/2021 11:59 Comments || Top||

#3  They're at the intersection of the road that leads down and the other road that leads down.
Posted by: ed in texas || 05/04/2021 15:17 Comments || Top||


Somalia: Al-Shabaab commanders sentenced to death in Puntland
[Garowe] A military court in Puntland
...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion...
, a northeastern state in Somalia, has sentenced five 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...
commanders, who were convicted of different crimes within the state and contrary to the law of Somalia and that of the federal state, the court confirmed.

Those affected in the latest landmark ruling come from the Mudug region and Ayn, which have been terror hotspots for the last couple of months. al-Shabaab does not have a strong presence in Puntland but they have been making inroads.

Although the military court did not name the five commanders, they are, however, convicted of planning and, or ordering bombings and killings in Galkayo, a town on the border of Puntland and Galmadug for the last 13 years. They were jointly convicted.

This means that the victims will have only 30 days to appeal the sentences or serve the death penalty
. Military courts are used to administer justice in Somalia given the dysfunctional judiciary, which has struggled for the last three decades.

The court has previously slapped eight other al-Shabaab Death Eaters, including big shots with the death penalty, becoming the highest number of murderous Moslems to be sentenced in Puntland for years.

Four other suspects initially accused of being murderous Moslems were acquitted. Military courts have proven effective in the country and are often used to prosecute al-Shabaab and ISIS-linked Death Eaters, who have been fighting hard to topple the weak UN-backed administration.

Elsewhere, al-Shabaab forces of Evil attacked a checkpoint on the outskirts of Baidoa on Monday morning. According to a source, The Checkpoint is located in the southeast of Baidoa, the regional administrative capital of Southwest.

"There were no casualties among the troops, and they defended themselves against the attackers," said an official who spoke to Garowe Online on condition of anonymity given that he was not authorized to conclusively speak about the attack.

Al-Shabaab has intensified its attacks on government bases in Baidoa and its surroundings during this transition period in Somalia. The country is facing a pre-election crisis after the term of President Mohammed Abdullahi Farmajo expired.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/04/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


Africa North
Libyan Red Crescent: 50 Migrants Drown Off Western Libyan Coast
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/04/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Human Trafficking


Libya's Muslim Brotherhood Organisation Becomes NGO
[LIBYAREVIEW] On Sunday, the Moslem Brüderbund organization in Libya announced that it has turned into an NGO under the name of the "Resurrection and Reform Society."

"We declare to all Libyans that, the organization has turned into an NGO called the Resurrection and Reform Society," it announced. "This step aims to revive the call of the organization to obey the middle approach, and the teachings of Islam," the statement added.

The decision was taken by the Moslems Brotherhood at its 11th convention, where it said it will spread its its message by working in various public areas across Libya. Abdel-Razak Sergen, a member of Brotherhood’s political wing, told The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
’s Anadolu Agency that group had decided that its work should "only be within Libya."

Segen added that after this decision, the organization has no connections to parties outside of the country. "It is not affiliated with the Moslem Brüderbund organization, and it is now a society that only works within the country," he explained.

Posted by: Fred || 05/04/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Muslim Brotherhood

#1  Resurrection: Muslims believe that on a day decided by Allah, and known only to Allah, life on Earth will end and Allah will destroy everything. On this day, all the people who have ever lived will be raised from the dead and will face judgement by Allah. Muslims will remain in their graves until this day: the Day of Resurrection (yawm al-Qiyamah), the Day of Judgement (yawm ad-din). the Last Hour (as-sa’a).
Posted by: Spike and Tenille5583 || 05/04/2021 10:25 Comments || Top||

#2  "Wedeclare to all Libyans that, the organization has turned into an NGO called the Resurrection and Boodle Reform Society,"
Posted by: Frank G || 05/04/2021 12:13 Comments || Top||

#3  Turf warTM?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/04/2021 13:02 Comments || Top||

#4  Just moving along the Movement-> Business-> Racket continuum.
Posted by: SteveS || 05/04/2021 13:43 Comments || Top||

#5  Muslims will remain in their graves until this day:

And it falls to others to put 'em there.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/04/2021 13:54 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Nigerian police have deployed mounted and motorbike forces in the capital Abuja
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/04/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram (ISIS)


Boko Haram kills 8 people in Nigeria
[AA.TR] At least eight people were killed in an attack by 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...
terror group in northeastern Nigeria, media reports said Sunday.

Militants from the group attacked a military base in Ajiri in Borno state, killing eight people, including a soldier, and wounding many others.

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 terror activities in Nigeria, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

Violence committed by Boko Haram has affected 26 million people in the Lake Chad region and displaced 2.6 million others, according to the UN Refugee Agency.

Posted by: Fred || 05/04/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram (ISIS)


Europe
Updated, late arriving comment to previous post 'France unveils new counterterrorism and intelligence bill'
[ahramonline] One measure will extend the use by French intelligence services of algorithms to track down extremists online, a method already being trialed since 2015 to monitor messaging apps.

The French government on Wednesday unveiled a new counterterrorism and intelligence bill aiming at better preventing attacks, notably via a greater surveillance of extremist websites.
The bill, which had been in preparation for months, was formally presented in a Cabinet meeting just days after a French police official was killed inside her police station in what authorities are investigating as a terrorist attack.

In a news conference, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said the text will strengthen French intelligence services' power to watch people's online activities.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/04/2021 07:12 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Darmanin said that it is becoming harder to track down extremists as attacks are no longer being carried out by people who previously fought in Syria or Iraq."

Of bloody course ! They did everything to prevent them from going to IRQ, SYR, etc. Result: they become extremely frustrated and fight their jihad in France.
Stupid politicians !
Posted by: Euro-respondent || 05/04/2021 7:18 Comments || Top||

#2  In a news conference, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said the text will strengthen French intelligence services' power to watch people's online activities.

Possibly of even greater concern, here as well as there.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/04/2021 7:21 Comments || Top||

#3  I have an alarm bell going off in my head.
Posted by: Sonny Black || 05/04/2021 8:44 Comments || Top||

#4  Believe me, the only thing that matters in counterterrorism is the ability to put bodies in the ground. But 'B+' for effort and good luck.

And yes, they should've let the jihaders go to 'the levant' to get bullet f#cked, and scrapped their chances for a return into France..
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/04/2021 9:46 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
BLM issues demands
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] The BLM organization has released a new series of shocking and massive demands, centered around ex-President Trump and the "peaceful" riots of the summer of 2020.

According to their list of demands, there are seven things they want to happen immediately in America:
  • Convict and ban Trump from future political office:

  • Expel Republican members of Congress who attempted to overturn the election and incited a white supremacist attack

  • Launch a full investigation into the ties between white supremacy
    ...the pernicious doctrine that laws were intended to be obeyed, that society works better when people don't pour shrieking from their places of worship every Friday for a weekend of rioting over insults real or imagined; and that cannibalism, bestiality, incest, murder, theft, rape, and similar activities are bad. A Dead White European (which invalidates his opinion) philosopher once opined that societies thrive when a person's word can be relied upon, and that a society which puts individual happiness first will invariably fail. Strangely enough, other successful societies, such as China, Japan, Korea, and those kinds of places could also be lumped with white supremacist societies, since they push the same values...

    and the Capitol Police, law enforcement, and the military

  • Permanently ban Trump from all digital media platforms

  • Defund the police

  • Don't let the coup be used as an excuse to crack down on our movement

  • Pass the BREATHE Act
For reference, the "coup" is how the organization has started referring to the Jan. 6 Capitol riots.

"We are joining Rep. Ilhan Omar
...Somali-American Dem representative from Minnesota. She was apparently married to her brother and may be her own grandmaw on her mother's side...
, Rep. Ayanna Pressley, Rep. Cori Bush, Rep. Jamaal Bowman, and others who are demanding Trump be immediately convicted in the United States Senate. Trump must also be banned from holding elected office in the future," states their first demand.

Regarding what BLM calls the "Freedom Summer":

"In response to the coup, Politicians have already introduced the Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 2021. We've seen this playbook before. These laws are used to target Black and brown communities for heightened surveillance. Republicans are already busy trying to create an equivalence between the mob on January 6th and our Freedom Summer."

Posted by: Fred || 05/04/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  I have only one demand. That all BLM supporters and all Antifa be forced forced to fight to the last idiot standing in the arena for our amusement.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 05/04/2021 0:14 Comments || Top||

#2  demanding Trump be immediately convicted

Morons. Savages.

Behold the sophisticated understanding of law which these retarded children possess.
Posted by: Waldemar Glinert5832 || 05/04/2021 2:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Macdonough's Song
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/04/2021 4:03 Comments || Top||

#4  ...The correct answer to this is to gently point out that people in Hell want ice water, but they ain't getting that either.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 05/04/2021 6:05 Comments || Top||

#5 

At the least they have outed themselves as NOT a Black Lives ONLY Matter radical group. But as a fearful arm of the Socialist Democrat Party willing to violate the US Bill Of Rights to maintain power.

What else have they inadvertently admitted based on their demands?

1. They are fearful of any Pro-American Leadership.

2. They actually are working with the Socialist-Democrats to silence and eliminate truth seeking/speaking politicians, that are investigating the Politically Organized Voter Fraud.

3. They are a Racist Anti-White and Anti-Asian based agenda political group.

4. They are scared of the facts and truth that MAGA revels, that media can't silence.

5. The Police present a major roadblock for them in accomplishing a greater Criminal Agenda and must be reduced in numbers.

6. The are trying to deflect attention from their own Illegal Coup actions.
By trying to use the actions of their own 5th Column Capital Protest incited actions.

7. Regarding the BREATHE Act. They want to honor a group of thugs, all of which were in the process of committing crimes, resisting arrest, and some even engaged in physical confrontations with police and/or attempted to kill the police office at some point .



BTW: According to the FBI Database

Of the 48 Law Enforcement Officers Feloniously Killed in 2019.
2020 figures still out and I wonder why?

28 of the Murderers were White (58.33% for a population of about 60%)
15 were Black/African American (31.25% for a population of about 14%)
and 1 was Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander.
Race was not reported for 5 of the alleged offenders.

In police confrontations, Blacks are 2.25x's as likely to murder a police officer than a White person.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/04/2021 6:06 Comments || Top||

#6  Totally shocking.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/04/2021 6:20 Comments || Top||

#7  You forgot the "give us money" part.
Posted by: Mercutio || 05/04/2021 8:44 Comments || Top||

#8  ^ exactly. This is simply a big scam.

It's Jesse Jackson and "Reverend" Al multiplied by 1,000.

The Squat. Kaepernick. Kendi. The Khan-Cullors woman who's buying up houses like it's a Monopoly board game. The "White Fragility" idiot, the "1619" loon, Tennessee Tuxedo Coates, and thousands of little grifters and opportunists around the country have lined their pockets to the tune of hundreds of millions already.

All of it based on a mountain of bullshit. Sheer lies and nonsense.

Why are we tolerating this shit?
Posted by: Lumpy Sproing8795 || 05/04/2021 8:54 Comments || Top||

#9  These are actually not demands, they could be better described as key elements of extortion.

These are honds with decades of feathers in their mouths. Chicken house rehab will be most difficult.

Posted by: Besoeker || 05/04/2021 9:07 Comments || Top||

#10  Sure thing, folks - right after you eat the corn outta my shit.
Posted by: Raj || 05/04/2021 9:32 Comments || Top||

#11  First few bullet points look like Pelosi wrote them.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 05/04/2021 15:03 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
An intruder has tried to get into the CIA headquarters in Virginia
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/04/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Looks like someone really believed the recruitment Ad.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/04/2021 5:54 Comments || Top||

#2  How did hey find out? Was the brass band the clue?
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 05/04/2021 6:09 Comments || Top||

#3  Likely scenario: A MAGA bumper sticker found on his vehicle in the agency parking lot led to an investigation. The investigation discovered numerous $20. Trump campaign contributions. In spite of decades of top performance appraisals, several successful overseas deployments, and numerous full-scope Ploy's, he was found to be deranged and unfit for duty by agency psychologists. He was subsequently placed on no-notice medial retirement. Upon returning to his office to retrieve personal items, turn-in a secure phone and weapon, he discovered his gate pass had been disabled.

NBC - Armed intruder stopped, shot by FBI agents after attempting to drive through CIA main entrance
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/04/2021 6:35 Comments || Top||

#4  I was unaware of more threats to federal facilities.
Pretty soon it will be the deranged, perhaps Neanderthal, instead of crackpots attacking the feds.
Posted by: Xyz || 05/04/2021 6:53 Comments || Top||

#5  How can we believe anything these liars put out?
Posted by: Nero Bonaparte7912 || 05/04/2021 9:13 Comments || Top||

#6  /\ Unfortunately, if you do not maintain a healthy degree of skepticism, you may not be thinking properly.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/04/2021 9:16 Comments || Top||

#7  Must have assumed a pronoun.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/04/2021 11:07 Comments || Top||

#8  forgot to check the sex box on app and apply the double bonus points duh!
Posted by: Angunter Whusonter9583 || 05/04/2021 16:13 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Four PMF members injured in an ISIS attack in Kirkuk
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

The source told Shafaq News agency that ISIS terrorists attacked this evening a security post belonging to the 16th Brigade of al-Hashd in Daquq district, before they clashed with the attackers and forced them to retreat.

Yesterday, Operatives from the terrorist organization of ISIS launched an attack on Iraqi security forces in the south of Kirkuk.

An informed security source told Shafaq News Agency that the Federal Police forces repelled an ISIS attack in al-Rashad sub-district, South of Kirkuk.

The frequency of ISIS attacks has increased drastically over the past few days.
Posted by: Fred || 05/04/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


At least three rockets landed in Iraq’s Balad Air Base hosting US contractors
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Palestinian media reports several injuries due to an accidental explosion inside a militant site near Khan Yunis
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/04/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
IRGC dismantles counterrevolutionary group in northwest Iran: Fars News
[AlMasdar] Iran’s Fars News Agency reported that their intelligence apparatus of the Ashura Corps of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards managed to track and dismantle the organization of the so-called "Landing Iran" organization, which is hostile to the government.

According to the Fars News report, this group sought for about 4 years to "unify the currents hostile to Tehran, around the axis of supporters of the monarchy, with funding from the Western and Saudi governments."

The agency noted that "the elements of this group worked to appear in front of the cameras in uniform of the Iranian armed forces, and to claim that they were dissidents from it, and by reading data in the virtual atmosphere to create chaos and turmoil in the country."

They said that "the intelligence apparatus of the Ashura Corps of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards managed to dismantle and direct the final blow to this hostile group, by detecting and arresting its members."

The agency said that the 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...
Landing organization seeks to "fabricate and amplify internal news" to cause dissent among the Iranian population.

Neither Saudi 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. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were, to inclid Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
nor any Western nations have commented on these allegations from Tehran.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/04/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Russian and Turkish forces carry out record long patrol in northeast Syria
[AlMasdar] On Friday, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that its forces and their Ottoman Turkish counterparts carried out a joint patrol for a record distance in northeastern Syria, as it extended more than 100 km into the al-Qamishli District of al-Hasakah.

The commander of the Russian forces convoy, Brigadier General Andrei Titov, said:

"Today a new joint Russian-Ottoman Turkish patrol was carried out from the Sharq crossing. The peculiarity of this patrol is the long distance of the route, as it included a large number of towns."

Titov added, "The patrol took place in an orderly manner, and the combination of troops and military equipment succeeded in carrying out the mission. The local residents in most of the towns welcomed the convoy."

The joint convoy covered a distance of more than 100 km in the first operation of its kind by the forces of the two countries in Syria, and included 10 towns that are not under the control of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).

60 soldiers from the forces of both countries and more than ten of military vehicles participated in the patrol, accompanied by helicopters of the Russian Aerospace Forces.

The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
has extended its control over an area that extends about 30 kilometers south from the Ottoman Turkish-Syrian border in northeastern Syria, since the launch of its military operation "Peace Spring" on October 9, 2019, against the Kurdish People’s Protection Units, which Ankara considers a terrorist and an arm of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/04/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Turkish-backed armed group arrests civilians in Syria's Afrin
[NPASYRIA] Yesterday, a Ottoman Turkish-backed armed opposition group raided a village northwest of the city of Afrin, northwestern Syria, and arrested two civilians.

"Militants of Liwa al-Waqqas gang arrested Farhaddin Hassan Ibrahim and Yasser Sa’eed Ali from the village of Hekjeh, and took them to unknown destination," a local source told North Press.

"The turbans demanded their families to pay 10,000 Ottoman Turkish lira as a ransom to release them," the source added.

The city of Afrin and its environs, northwest Syria, have been occupied by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
and its affiliated armed opposition groups since March 2018.

Areas of Syria held by Ottoman Turkish-backed gangs are witnessing arbitrary detentions and liquidations, accompanied by successive explosions amid the gangs’ inability to control security and stabilize the area.
Posted by: Fred || 05/04/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Asayish arrests ISIS leader in Syria's Deir ez-Zor countryside
[NPASYRIA] On Monday, Special Unites affiliated with the Internal Security Forces (Asayish) arrested a leader of 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....
(ISIS) during a security campaign in Sha’fah town, in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, a military source said.

The operation was carried out with the support of the US-led Global Coalition areal monitoring, the source added.

Asayish Special Unites managed to arrest "a prominent ISIS leader, who was active in recruiting sleeper cells, easing their work, and planning for liquidations," the source noted.

The eastern Deir ez-Zor countryside witnesses liquidations carried out against SDF members, employees of the civil administration, tribal figures, and civilians in the area and ISIS is accused of committing them.
Posted by: Fred || 05/04/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Clashes between local armed groups erupted in Syria's Daraa
[NPASYRIA] Clashes between local groups subject to the settlement agreement working in the Military Security apparatus of the Syrian government and the Russian-backed Fifth Corps erupted in the town of Sayda in the eastern countryside of Daraa, local sources said on Monday.

"A group of the Military Security apparatus led by Commander Imad Abu Zureik, clashed with members of the Eighth Brigade located in the town of Sayda, with light weapons, which led to injuries between the two parties," the sources added.

The source stated that "the festivities took place after the group of Imad Abu Zureik from the town of Naseeb, came to the town of Sayda to arrest one of the members of the Fifth Corps."

In a different context, an bomb was went kaboom! in a car of a former leader of the opposition groups, Abu al-Khair al-Ghubaiti, in the town of Sayda, on Monday afternoon.
Posted by: Fred || 05/04/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria



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