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Hundreds of Antifa Attack Conservative Free Speech Rally in San Francisco, Punch Organizer’s Teeth Out, Assault Several Others
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Good afternoon
Biden: Muslims Will Serve ‘At
Every Level' of His Administration
Sunday October 18th, 2020

guy_kibbee_101
Kadhimi announces arresting some of the elements behind the fire of the main Kurdish party's headquarters in Baghdad.
Iran issues stern warning to Europe about sending forces to Strait of Hormuz
Azerbaijan and Armenia reach temporary ceasefire in Karabakh
ICC prosecutor in Khartoum for talks on Darfur crimes
Many civilians in Artsakh remain underground in shelters after a night of heavy shelling on civilian areas
Security forces fire tear gas at the protesters at Bab Idriss Neighborhood in Beirut
Bureau looking into Hunters emails? Well, sort of.

Posted by: Fred || 10/18/2020 13:24 || Comments || Link || [336078 views] Top|| File under:

#1  1930's Hugh Hefner wannabe.
Posted by: jpal || 10/18/2020 15:54 Comments || Top||

#2  The brunettes for the win!
Posted by: Frank G || 10/18/2020 16:40 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Operation Legend: Over 5,000 Arrests Made to Reduce Violent Crimes
[AmericanGreatness] Attorney General William Barr on Wednesday announced that Operation Legend, a Trump administration initiative to combat violent mostly peaceful crime that started in July, has led to more than 5,000 arrests, according to a Department of Justice statement, The Daily Caller reports.

Since the start of the controversial operation, more than 5,000 individuals have been arrested in nine cities. Of the 5,000 approximately 1,057 have been charged with federal offenses. Approximately 568 of those defendants have been charged with firearms offenses, while approximately 411 have been charged with drug-related crimes and approximately 247 for homicide.

According to the statement, over 2,000 firearms have been seized; and nearly 22 kilos of heroin, more than 15 kilos of fentanyl (enough to deliver more than 7.5 million fatal doses), more than 130 kilos of methamphetamine, more than 28 kilos of cocaine, and more than $7.3 million in drug proceeds have been seized.

Operation Legend has reached into states such as New Mexico, Missouri, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Tennessee, and Indiana.

During a roundtable discussion with law enforcement Wednesday morning, Barr applauded the crime-fighting effort in St. Louis where Operation Legend began in August, and the city has seen a 49% decrease in homicides and rapes have decreased 38% since then, according to Barr.

The operation was named after LeGend Taliferro, a 4-year-old who was shot and killed June 29 while sleeping in his Kansas City home.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) launched "Operation Legend" with local and federal law enforcement to target violent mostly peaceful crimes, which includes investigating LeGend Taliferro’s case in this operation.

According to The Daily Caller, this year, Kansas City has seen a 40 percent increase of homicides compared to last year. President Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
promised to protect cities that have high rates of violent mostly peaceful crimes and stated "Help is on its way." Attorney General William P. Barr announced the start of the operation on July 8, 2020.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/18/2020 01:06 || Comments || Link || [336089 views] Top|| File under: Narcos

#1  Bill "Pit Bull"/"Basset Hound" Barr is just another swamp rat.
Posted by: Clem || 10/18/2020 9:38 Comments || Top||

#2  He's doing what he can. Swamp won't be drained in a day - or even a couple of years. This will take a decade at least.
Posted by: Phealet Crineng2571 || 10/18/2020 9:43 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ I would tend to disagree
Posted by: Clem || 10/18/2020 9:50 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Over 40 Schools Closed Due to Conflicts in Helmand: Official
[ToloNews] Unexpectedly, on the tenth day of fighting in all the same places they’ve been fighting the entire time.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336075 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Security Officials Foil Attempted Explosion in Laghman Province
[KhaamaPress] The Ministry of Interior (MoI) says that police forces 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...
province prevented the blast of a cycle of violence load with explosives.

The ministry said in a blurb Saturday, that gunnies had transported a cycle of violence loaded with explosives to the Alingar district of Laghman province in order to target civilians, but was seized by the security forces.

A Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
ammunition depot in Chahar Burjak district of Nimroz province was also seized, the statement reads.

The statement added, that dozens of mortar and rocket shells were recovered from the depot.

This comes as the Intra-Afghan peace negotiations are ongoing in Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
, but Afghanistan is evident to War rage and escalation amidst peace talks.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336094 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Salang Road Side Bomb Claims 3, Injures One
[KhaamaPress] Local officials in Parwan province confirm that a roadside kaboom blast in Salang district of the province killed three people, including Jamal head of the crimes department, and two of his accomplices.

Reports indicate Anti-terror Police chief for the district was also injured in the blast.

Wahida Shahkar, spokeswoman for the governor of Parwan told Khamaa Press that the incident took place at around 6:20 am this Morning in the village of Lalmah-e-Sabzak in Salang district.

Shahkar added that the blast was caused when the police Ranger vehicle collided with a roadside mine.

According to the spokeswoman for the governor of Parwan, the earth-shattering kaboom occurred when the security officials were trying to go on a mission to the village of Siahsang in Salang district.

So far, no individual or group has grabbed credit for the incident.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336089 views] Top|| File under:


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Many civilians in Artsakh remain underground in shelters after a night of heavy shelling on civilian areas
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 10/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336089 views] Top|| File under: Ottoman Proxies


Video releases by Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Defence reportedly showing drone strikes
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 10/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336076 views] Top|| File under: Ottoman Proxies


Turkey is using its army and Pakistani special forces in Karabakh: Armenian PM
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Pakistani special forces?
Elite™ Pakistani "special" forces. Arriving on a short bus
Posted by: Fred || 10/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336078 views] Top|| File under: Ottoman Proxies


Turkish-supplied drones destroyed $1 billion worth of Armenian military equipment: Aliyev
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 10/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336079 views] Top|| File under: Ottoman Proxies


Azerbaijan and Armenia reach temporary ceasefire in Karabakh
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 10/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336090 views] Top|| File under: Ottoman Proxies


Azerbaijan releases video showing destruction of Armenian S-300 system
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 10/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336079 views] Top|| File under: Ottoman Proxies


Armenian forces destroy attacking Azerbaijani military vehicles in Karabakh
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Armenian Ministry of Defense released more footage on Thursday of the Artsakh Defense Army (ADA) destroying enemy vehicles inside the Karabakh region.In the first video released by the Armenian Ministry of Defense, the Artsakh Defense Army can be seen scoring direct hits on the attacking Azerbaijani forces in the Karabakh region this week.

The Armenian Ministry of Defense reported on Thursday that the Azerbaijani forces resumed their artillery attacks against the Artsakh Defense Army on multiple axes in Karabakh.

"In the morning, the Azerbaijani Armed Forces resumed artillery fire in the northern and southeastern directions," wrote the representative of the Armenian Defense Ministry Artsrun Hovhannisyan on his official Facebook page.



Posted by: Fred || 10/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336080 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Europe
Day 3: French police make arrests after teacher beheaded in Paris suburb
Yesterday’s report can be seen here.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Police shot the attacker dead minutes after he murdered 47-year-old history teacher Samuel Paty on Friday.

Four relatives of the attacker, including a minor, were detained in the immediate aftermath of the attack in the middle-class suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, according to police sources.

Five more were detained overnight, among them two parents of pupils at the College du Bois d’Aulne where the teacher was employed.

A week ago, one man who said his daughter was in Paty’s class recorded a video shared on social media in which he branded the teacher a thug and appealed to others to "join forces and say ’stop, don’t touch our children’".

It was not clear whether the parent was one of those in police custody. It was also not immediately known if the attacker had seen the video.
The Times of Israel adds:
A history teacher beheaded in a Gay Paree suburb on Friday had been the target of online threats for having shown pupils cartoons of the Moslem prophet Mohammed in class, La Belle France’s anti-terror prosecutor said on Saturday.

The father of a schoolgirl had sought 47-year-old teacher Samuel Paty’s dismissal and launched an online call for "mobilization" against him after the lesson on freedom of expression, Jean-Francois Ricard said in a televised news conference.

Paty was decapitated outside his school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, northwest of the capital, and the killer was fatally maimed by police.

Ricard said a warrant of arrest is out for the father’s half sister, who has joined the Islamic State group’s fighters in Syria.
Ricard identified the attacker as Abdullakh A., an 18-year-old Chechen with refugee status in La Belle France. The Russian embassy in Gay Paree said the suspect was Abdullakh Anzorov, whose family had arrived in La Belle France when he was six and requested asylum.
Possibly time to withdraw that asylum, as it seems the family is not suited to living there.
Ricard said the school received threats after the class in early October, which featured the controversial caricatures — one of the prophet naked — with the girl’s father accusing Paty of disseminating "pornography".

The girl and her father lodged a criminal complaint against the teacher, who in turn filed a complaint of defamation, said Ricard.

The aggrieved father named Paty and gave the school’s address in a social media post just days before the beheading, which President Emmanuel Macron has labeled an Islamist terror attack.

The prosecutor said the attacker had been armed with a knife, an airgun and five canisters. He had fired shots at police and tried to stab them as they closed in on him.

He was shot nine times, said Ricard.

Those arrested included four close family members of Abdullakh A., and two people who had reported to police to say they had been in contact with him, said the prosecutor.

Police also arrested a friend of the schoolgirl’s father who had gone with him to see the principal to demand Paty’s dismissal.

The friend was already on the radar of French intelligence services, and Ricard said a warrant of arrest is out for the father’s half sister, who has joined 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....
group’s fighters in Syria.

The attacker himself was not known to the French intelligence services, said the prosecutor.

An investigation is underway into "murder linked to a terrorist organization".
An earlier Times of Israel article adds:
Those previously detained are all relatives including grandparents, parents and a 17-year-old brother.
Posted by: Fred || 10/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336107 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Beat em all and ship em back
Posted by: Frank G || 10/18/2020 7:32 Comments || Top||

#2  So they arrested someone for favoring Education reform, right?
Posted by: AlanC || 10/18/2020 12:14 Comments || Top||

#3  France to expel 231 suspected extremists after attack on teacher
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/18/2020 14:19 Comments || Top||

#4  Four relatives of the attacker, including a minor, were detained in the immediate aftermath of the attack in the middle-class suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, according to police sources.

Five more were detained overnight, among them two parents of pupils at the College du Bois d’Aulne where the teacher was employed.


So I guess they were known 'activists'?
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/18/2020 15:16 Comments || Top||

#5  France to expel 231 suspected extremists after attack on teacher

Oh my goodness — actual action at last! Or is this just a promise to do so in the future?
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/18/2020 15:29 Comments || Top||

#6  Mahometans want mo' "autonomy?"
Marianne, in her ennui and anomie,
Is still not a friend
Of old Prophet Duchesne
After losing her head for said enemy?
Posted by: Marilyn Peacock7183 || 10/18/2020 15:40 Comments || Top||

#7  Isn't diversity great?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/18/2020 15:41 Comments || Top||

#8  #5 Well, they whacked the perp instead of playing "due process". Maybe, they've run out of patience with Allan's hornets.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/18/2020 15:46 Comments || Top||

#9  #1: Beat Disembowel em all and ship em back. FIFY
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper || 10/18/2020 19:44 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
Hundreds of Antifa Attack Conservative Free Speech Rally in San Francisco, Punch Organizer’s Teeth Out, Assault Several Others
[RedState] I wrote earlier about radical leftists at the Woman’s March in Washington, D.C. harassing and shutting down the rally supporting Amy Coney Barrett, like the true fascist
...anybody you disagree with, damn them...
s they are.

But that wasn’t the only place that the radical leftist fascists were active on Saturday.

Conservatives gathered for a free speech rally on Saturday in the Socialist paradise of San Francisco
...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964...
, with a focus on the suppression going on from big tech for things like Twitter suppressing the NY Post Hunter Biden story.

Team Save America organizer Philip Anderson was behind the event.

But free speech was apparently too much for Antifa
...the armed wing of the Democratic Party...
. Several hundred ’counter protesters’ (in the words of the AP) surged into the area, attacking the conservatives.

You can see some of the pictures here. They apparently attacked several people including Anderson and a police officer.

Anderson was walking away, trying to protect another rally goer from the Antifa people when he was sucker-punched from behind. The Antifa person then hit him a second time, full-on in the mouth, knocking out his teeth.

Attacking a black man and calling him a racial slur. Antifa really showing that "black lives matter," right?
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/18/2020 01:37 || Comments || Link || [336159 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  So those claiming to protest FASCISM, are are using the National Socialist (NAZI) Playbook of the 1930's.

The NAZI Brownshirts are infamous for their operation outside of the LAW and their VIOLENT intimidation of opposing Political groups and the JEWISH population. The SA’s openly displayed and conducted thuggish vigilantism, independent from the prosecution by using sympathetic Prosecutors, and anti-capitalist sentiments of its leaders.

The action of the BLM, ANTI-Farts and the Nazi Brown Shirts sure mimic each other..
Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/18/2020 5:45 Comments || Top||

#2  Near the conclusion of the Declaration of Independence is a long lists of 'abuse' to include -

King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world....

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.


History doesn't exactly repeat itself but it flows more alike a river. You can judge the speed, pattern, the eddies, and the backwashes as you ride it.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/18/2020 7:02 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ I'd amend the above to "Some can judge..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/18/2020 8:02 Comments || Top||

#4  Jacobins, Brownshirts, Blackshirts, Marxists, Bolsheviks, Stalinists, Maoists, BlackBloc anarchi-communists...and jihadis. All different names for organized violent totalitarians who just want you to submit, maaaaan, so they can get on with turning you into wholly owned units of the totalitarian state where they cqn keep their boot on your neck forever.

Compared to them, mad King George III was a liberty-respecting sweetheart.
Posted by: Sonny Gliger6450 || 10/18/2020 11:45 Comments || Top||

#5  Those trying to silence American foundational goals and values have simply tried the public’s patience past the breaking point.

They should stop while they have the chance.

See, e.g., a patriot’ s warning: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1317546223146913792.html

&

https://i.rmbl.ws/s8/2/T/G/_/8/TG_8a.caa.1.mp4?u=lv8v&b=0
Posted by: cingold || 10/18/2020 12:36 Comments || Top||

#6  Anybody gonna be surprised when Antifa turns out nationwide to "protect polling places against fascists?"
Posted by: Fred || 10/18/2020 13:28 Comments || Top||

#7  What is to be done?
Posted by: Appellant To Heaven || 10/18/2020 13:57 Comments || Top||

#8  What will happen to any free speech American if Biden wins.
Posted by: 3dc || 10/18/2020 14:04 Comments || Top||

#9  ^ We'll remember it fondly.

Whether Biden wins or loses, the real fight coming up will be between old-line Democrats like Pelosi and the new "progressive" left like AOC. If Biden wins, the fighting over the spoils will be truly intense. If Biden loses, the campaign for AOC in 2024 starts the next day.
Posted by: Matt || 10/18/2020 14:22 Comments || Top||

#10  I note the published attacks happen in areas overwhelming populated by 'beta' male activists.

Guess they imagine they are protected by principles they protest.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/18/2020 15:14 Comments || Top||

#11  The guy that lost his teeth was black. And as they attacked him Antifa called him the N word.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebbereng3110 || 10/18/2020 15:14 Comments || Top||

#12  ^Can we have the surprise meter?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/18/2020 15:48 Comments || Top||

#13  If Biden loses, the campaign for AOC in 2024 starts the next day.

Kamala might have something to say about that. But Bernie really is getting too old and they don't seem to have anyone else.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/18/2020 15:49 Comments || Top||

#14  "Black Bloc" denotes racist white punks who attack non-lefty people of color. Go figure
Posted by: Sperong Lumumba6495 || 10/18/2020 16:53 Comments || Top||

#15  Who organized it, and paid for it. DOn't tell me that SFPD and the FBI didn't have assets monitoring on the periphery for vehicle tracking/identification and that no one was doing electronic collection on this. If the FBI is suspect, consider that the USMS seems more pliant to main DOJ interests. Increasingly, there are are ChiCOm fingers in this I suspect which should be of interest, even to the Deep State.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 10/18/2020 17:02 Comments || Top||

#16  the campaign for AOC in 2024 starts the next day.

Kamala might have something to say about that.


If she can’t drag him over the finish line after losing the primary herself, she’ll be dead to the party, I suspect.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/18/2020 21:40 Comments || Top||


Actor @JimBelushi was at the violent Portland BLM-antifa protest in downtown where rioters started multiple fires. He gives two thumbs up
Ass.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 10/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336101 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Whatever fame he has is all on his brother. Hope his car gets torched.
Posted by: Raj || 10/18/2020 0:16 Comments || Top||

#2  I remember when he performed for a patent dinner. He had women dancing on diner tables. A few divorces after that party.
Posted by: 3dc || 10/18/2020 2:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Kid No-Talent's really moved up in the world: Pitching for something that calls itself "Thee Danielle".. on the Sh!tter.

Must be hard days for the C-list
Posted by: Big Phomong9090 || 10/18/2020 2:58 Comments || Top||

#4  Jim Belushi Net Worth: $50 Million.
Owns a 14,000 square foot mansion in Brentwood, California for $30 million. The house, which was custom built in 2010, has six bedrooms, 11 bathrooms, a sauna, screening room, pool house and detached guest house. Belushi bought the property where the house was built for $8.3 million.

Checked his Donations ... It seem he donates time and guest appearances NOT any real amount of $$$$ to say.

Other than the occasional SNL appearance, it does not seem he is doing much and needed some camera attention.


Yep! he sure has been Anti-Capitalist in his career.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/18/2020 6:00 Comments || Top||

#5  Who?
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 10/18/2020 7:08 Comments || Top||

#6  Some people considered his brother a great talent. He had one character he played, the surly buffoon. His untimely death did what it often does, cemented his reputation somewhere north of where it actually deserved to be.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/18/2020 8:04 Comments || Top||

#7  Jim and John grew up and went to school in Wheaton Il. Where Jim's locker used to be in the old Hubble High School is now a bbq joint inside a high end supermarket. More a GPS type where as the old high-school was torn down and replaced. For some reason people noted the position before tear-down.
Posted by: 3dc || 10/18/2020 14:03 Comments || Top||

#8  the surly buffoon

The very high energy — fueled by cocaine — surly buffoon. And it killed him.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/18/2020 14:05 Comments || Top||

#9  His loss, not ours.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/18/2020 15:18 Comments || Top||

#10  I like John. Your MMV. All I ever remember Jim from is Red Heat backing up Arnold. Here John is, mimicking Joe Cocker, with Joe in on the joke

https://youtu.be/aZsOyO_lXD8
Posted by: Frank G || 10/18/2020 16:28 Comments || Top||

#11  Blues Brothers was a classic, even though the cast and crew were fueled by coke.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 10/18/2020 22:13 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Turkey intercepted Greek Foreign Minister's aircraft
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 10/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336094 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  This is turning bad. Apparently Erdogan and his government, to provide the Turks with a scapegoat for an economy in trouble, is looking for an out. Ngorno-K is not working out well; Syria has problems, as does Libya; entree in Somalia is not promising. Only militarily underpowered Greece provides a tempting target.
Posted by: Angoluling Ulealing4735 || 10/18/2020 10:55 Comments || Top||

#2  code for sausage removal from anus!
Posted by: Jiling Gravitch9209 || 10/18/2020 14:11 Comments || Top||

#3  Apparently Erdogan and his government, to provide the Turks with a scapegoat for an economy in trouble

Time-honored tradition.
Posted by: Clem || 10/18/2020 20:53 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Heavy US Military Equipment Transport Convoy Attacked In Pakistan
[KhaamaPress] A transporting convoy carrying U.S military’s equipment and armed vehicles was attacked in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa area of Pakistain on Friday.

According to reports, unknown button men attacked the carrier convoy while transporting US military vehicles and supplies from Afghanistan to Pakistain in the Bara area of ​​Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa on Friday.

The carrier convoy was reportedly attacked by unknown button men and many of the Tanks caught fire because of the festivities.

This is despite the fact that after the US-Taliban
...Arabic for students...
peace deal, the Americans are shifting all its military equipment, tanks, and other military accessories to Pakistain every day through the Torkham border.

This action also provoked reactions from the Afghan government and the public, government officials say this act is a violation of the security agreement with Afghanistan, what should remain with the Afghan defense forces are being transferred to Pakistain.

U.S officials have not yet commented based on the incident.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336141 views] Top|| File under:

#1  i thought they did not recruit fat people??
Posted by: Jiling Gravitch9209 || 10/18/2020 14:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Local drivers.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/18/2020 15:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Just another reason to pull out long ago. Nothing was going to be 'fixed' in Afghanistan till Pakland was turned into a parking lot. It should have been a done deal after OBL and the then leadership of the Telebabbies were tapped. F'ing nation building.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/18/2020 16:04 Comments || Top||

#4  Pro tip - if 20 years of blood and treasure doesn't cover the globe in democracy, probably it ain't happening...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/18/2020 17:05 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Iraqi citizen grieving after his family members were killed at the hands of Iran-backed Asa’ib Ahl Al-Haq militias in Balad district
Posted by: Fred || 10/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336091 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies


Kadhimi announces arresting some of the elements behind the fire of the main Kurdish party's headquarters in Baghdad.
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Posted by: Fred || 10/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336083 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies

#1  Arrest arsonists?
Won't happen here!
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/18/2020 15:14 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Security forces fire tear gas at the protesters at Bab Idriss Neighborhood in Beirut
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Posted by: Fred || 10/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336085 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


Northeast Syria: Turkish-backed forces cutoff water to over 1 million people
At least it isn’t high summer this time.
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Posted by: Fred || 10/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336075 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  https://syriacpress.com/blog/2020/08/28/well-project-in-hasakah-syria-begins-pumping-water-to-eastern-neighborhoods-alleviating-pressure-from-turkish-water-deprivation-campaign/Hasakah and the surrounding countryside have suffered from water shortages for several months due to frequent water outages at the Alouk station and the intentionally reduced flow of the Euphrates River.
To reduce Euphrates River water without agreement with Iraq is an act of war.
Posted by: Angoluling Ulealing4735 || 10/18/2020 10:51 Comments || Top||


Five ex-FSA commanders assassinated in southern Syria
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Posted by: Fred || 10/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336076 views] Top|| File under: Ottoman Proxies



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