[NYPOST] U.S. authorities seized about 18.5 tons of cocaine with a street value of $500 million in the eastern Pacific Ocean, the U.S. Coast Guard said on Friday.
The cocaine was taken off the Coast Guard cutter James in the Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale on Thursday after it was confiscated from 15 drug smuggling vessels in the international waters, the Coast Guard said.
Multiple U.S. Coast Guard cutters helped seize the drugs of Mexico, Central and South America, it said.
Some 49 suspects were also tossed in the slammer Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! and will be prosecuted in southern Florida, the Miami Herald reported.
Cocaine remains one of the most popular illegal drugs in the United States, where most of the world’s cocaine is consumed, according to federal officials.
"There are troubling early signs that cocaine use and availability is on the rise in the United States for the first time in nearly a decade," the U.S. State Department said in a global narcotics trade report in 2017.
Potential global cocaine output reached 1,410 tons in 2016, the highest level ever estimated, the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... said in a report on drugs and crime in 2018.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Special Forces of the Afghan Intelligence, National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS), conducted raids on five compounds of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria Khurasan (ISIS-k) in eastern 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.. province of Afghanistan.
The provincial government media office in a statement said the raids were conducted in Achin district late on Thursday night.
The statement further added at least 20 ISIS forces of Evil were killed during the raids and all five compounds of the terror group were destroyed.
According to Nangarhar governor’s office, a commander of the terror group and orchestrator of ISIS attacks was also among those killed.
The forces of Evil were involved in planning and coordinating attacks in Jalalabad city and other parts of Nangarhar province using the five compounds which were destroyed during the operation.
The NDS Special Forces and local residents did not suffer casualties during the operations, the provincial government added in its statement.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least two Talibs were killed and another hard boy was maimed in an kaboom in northeastern Kapisa province of Afghanistan.
The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan Military in the East in a statement said the incident took place in Tagab district of the province.
The statement further added that the incident took place while three Talibs who were attempting to plant an Improvised Explosive Device on a roadside.
The Talibs and other murderous Moslems including ISIS often use improvised bomb as the weapon of their choice to target the security forces and government officials.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least twenty five Talibs were killed or maimed during the Arclight airstrikes conducted in southeastern Ghazni province of Afghanistan, the Afghan Military said Saturday.
The 203rd Thunder Corps of the Afghan Military in the Southeast in a statement said the Afghan Air Force carried out airstrikes against the Talibs in Moshaki and Jarkano area of Qarabagha district, leaving at least 21 Death Eaters dead.
The statement further added that the airstrikes also left at least four Death Eaters maimed.
In the meantime, the Afghan armed forces discovered and defused two improvised bombs during Thunder-6 operations, the 203rd Thunder Corps said, adding that a suspected murderous Moslem was also placed in durance vile Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! during the same operation.
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[Al Jazeera] More than 40 people have been killed and dozens maimed in Central African Republic (CAR), in an attack on a Catholic mission sheltering 20,000 refugees, according to a regional politician.
The violence in the town of Alindao, some 300km east of the capital, Bangui, began on Thursday when Christian Death Eaters known as "Anti-balaka" killed Moslems, prompting Dire Revenge attacks.
A church was burned, forcing "thousands" of people to flee, the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... ' peacekeeping mission in the CAR (MINUSCA) said.
"We have counted 42 bodies so far, but we are still searching for others. The camp has been burned to the ground and people fled into the bush and to other IDP (internally displaced person) camps in the city," Etienne Godenaha, Alindao politician, told the Rooters news agency on Saturday.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... coup militias in Sanaa stormed on Saturday, the houses of Othman Mujali, the Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation in the Yemeni legitimate government.
Mujali who is also a member of the negotiating delegation in all rounds of consultations held since the start of the Yemeni war, told Al Arabiya English that: "The armed elements of the Houthi militias stormed on Saturday his houses in Sanaa and broke and looted their contents."
The minister said the raid is a clear message from the militias- as a member of the government’s negotiating delegation- that the pro-Iranian militias pay no attention to peace endeavors and political solutions.
In addition, Mujali linked the continuous defeats of the Houthi militias on various military fronts, with the hysteria they are experiencing, and is expressed by the arrests against the population in Hodeidah port city and by the storming of its opponents’ houses in Sanaa, and the attacks on property and economic facilities.
On Friday night, the Houthi militias targeted a number of facilities in Yemen's Hodeidah.
In a major breakthrough and during a special session on Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... at the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... Security Council, Martin Griffiths, the UN Special envoy said that the Yemeni legitimate government and the Houthis have shown a "renewed commitment" to work on a political solution and have given "firm assurances" that they will attend the Sweden talks.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Arab Coalition has confirmed that forces have intercepted and destroyed three ballistic missiles launched by the Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... militias on Marib.
Eyewitnesses said that the sound of violent kabooms shook some neighborhoods of the city as defense forces intercepted the missiles launched by the Houthi coup militias targeting residential neighborhoods in the city of Marib.
The coalition's air defenses last week intercepted two ballistic missiles fired by the militias toward the coalition headquarters in the same province.
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[DAWN] A civil judge (judicial magistrate) narrowly escaped an armed attack near Chakri Interchange on Friday night while travelling with his family from Lahore to Islamabad.
SLearned Elders of Islamn Badar, the judicial magistrate posted in Islamabad, came under attack on the Motorway at about 9.15pm. However, ars longa, vita brevis... he survived the attack.
When contacted, he told Dawn that he along with his family was heading towards Islamabad when another car in which three persons were travelling crossed his vehicle and opened fire on it.
"The car riders opened straight fire on my car, but luckily we survived," the civil judge said.
He further said that soon after the incident, he called the Motorway police and gave them the registration plate number of the attackers’ car, but they were unable to trace that car. The judicial magistrate said that he could not identify the attackers who were three in number ‐ two occupying the front seats while their accomplice was on the back seat.
Later, personnel of the Rawalpindi police reached the scene of the crime and launched an investigation.
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[DAWN] A former deputy inspector general of police was bumped off by person or persons unknown in Quetta on Saturday evening, police said.
Muhammad Naeem Kakar was walking after offering prayers at a mosque when unknown attackers opened fire on him in Junior Assistant Colony area, DIG Quetta Abdul Razzaq Cheema told DawnNewsTV.
Kakar was critically injured in the firing and breathed his last at the Combined Military Hospital.
Cheema said the assailants escaped unhurt from the site.
Police and personnel of other law enforcement agencies were quick at the spot. An investigation has been ordered into the incident.
"At this point of time, I cannot say whether it was a assassination or not," DIG Cheema said. No group has grabbed credit for the attack so far.
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[Rudaw] A Peshmerga seized by unknown persons earlier this month in Kirkuk province has been sprung, a local official confirmed.
"Farhan Mohammed, a Peshmerga, was kidnapped by some armed persons on November 2 in the village of Taqtaq, near Dubiz town. He was freed on November 16," Jasim Abdul-Rahman, head of Dubiz Council told Rudaw.
The council head did not yet have further details.
Mohammed, previously reported as named Sarhan Mohammed, was kidnapped along with a civilian, Fahmi Salih, by uniformed gunnies who attacked Taqtaq village.
Salih’s body was found the next day.
Disputes between Kurds and Arabs in Kirkuk have swelled over the past year, since the Peshmerga left and Iraqi forces took control of the disputed province. Kurds have accused the acting Arab governor of resuming the policy of Arabization and failing to control militia groups of the Hashd al-Shaabi.
ISIS has also taken advantage of security gaps between the Peshmerga and Iraqi forces in the area. Militants carry out frequent attacks on villages, especially at night.
[Rudaw] The armed wing of the PKK accused The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire.... of deliberately trying to frighten the people after three villagers were killed in a Ottoman TurkishArclight airstrike on Wednesday night.
Turkey has suffered many casualties from recent PKK activity, "therefore they conducted heavy airstrikes against civilians’ houses," the People’s Defense Forces (HPG) said in a statement on Friday.
Turkey "expresses its enmity against the Kurdish nation in this way and wants to take Dire Revenge on our people," the HPG added.
Ramazan Ahmed, Dilovan Salih, and Ismael Hassan were killed Wednesday night when they were out checking their beehives in the Amedi area of Duhok province.
Turkey frequently carries out cross-border airstrikes against alleged PKK positions in the Kurdistan Region. Locals, however, say this was the first time the area where the three were killed was targeted. They describe the region as a touristy place, popular with hikers.
The HPG said their forces were not in the area recently.
The PKK has actually decreased its activities in Duhok province since the US put multi-million dollar bounties on the heads of three the group’s leaders, according to a local official.
The HPG has vowed it will retaliate.
Relatives of the three victims have called for the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to work with Turkey to end the airstrikes.
The KRG has not yet publicly commented on the incident.
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[AnNahar] Militants have killed five Filipino soldiers and maimed 23 others in a major ambush by members of a notorious Islamist kidnap-for-ransom group, the Philippine military said Saturday.
The soldiers were searching for hostages taken by the Abu Sayyaf ...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder... group when the button men attacked them on the southern Philippine island of Jolo on Friday, regional military front man Lieutenant Colonel Gerry Besana told news hounds.
"The effort is part of our mission to rescue the remaining hostages," Besana said.
The Abu Sayyaf is a loose alliance of several hundred armed gunnies formed in the 1990s with seed money from the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now neither a strong horse nor a weak horse, but a dead horse... 's al-Qaeda network.
Friday's clash was one of the deadliest since an Abu Sayyaf faction joined other foreign and Filipino gunnies in seizing the southern Philippine city of Marawi last year, leading to a five-month battle that claimed more than 1,100 lives.
The Abu Sayyaf is now believed to hold "less than 10" hostages, Besana said.
The group is based in the strife-torn southern islands but its members began in 2016 to kidnap sailors in the waters between Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines.
The gunnies have also raided and taken hostages from resorts in the southern Philippines and neighbouring Malaysia.
Most of the hostages have been ransomed off for huge amounts of money and several had their heads chopped off, including two Canadian tourists in 2016. A Dutch birdwatcher kidnapped on a nearby island in 2012 is believed to be among those still in Abu Sayyaf's hands.
The Dutchman's Swiss colleague escaped in 2014 after grabbing a kidnapper's machete and killing him.
The soldiers who survived Friday's ambush did not see any hostages during the 90-minute clash near the town of Patikul, Besana said.
[AnNahar] Israeli forces have tried on Saturday to kidnap a shepherd from the neighborhood of Jabal al-Sadana in the Shebaa town who managed to escape the attempt, LBCI TV station said on Twitter.
The patrol confiscated 50 lovers goats belonging to the shepherd. Nice harem
The Lebanese army began contacts with UNIFIL to find out what had happened and if there was a breach of the withdrawal line, said LBCI.
We see these stories occasionally, and they never make sense. What on earth would the IDF do with a lonely, well-armed herdsman (it never seems to be a goat-girl or shepherdess) never mind an active and unhappy herd of ruminents?
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Air strikes by the US-led coalition Saturday killed 43 people, mostly civilians, in a holdout of the ISIS holy warrior group in eastern Syria, a Britannia-based monitor said.
Seventeen children were among 36 ISIS family members
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killed in Abu Husn village of Deir Ezzor province near the Iraqi border, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Another seven victims had not yet been identified as either civilians or ISIS fighters, it said.
The US-led coalition has been backing a Kurdish-Arab alliance called the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighting to expel the holy warrior from the pocket around Abu Husn.
"It’s the highest corpse count in coalition air strikes since the SDF launched its attack against the ISIS pocket" in September, Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said.
The coalition has repeatedly said it does its utmost to prevent civilian casualties.
"The avoidance of civilian casualties is our highest priority when conducting strikes against legitimate military targets with precision munitions," front man Sean Ryan told AFP this week.
ISIS overran large swathes of Syria and neighboring Iraq in 2014, proclaiming a "caliphate" in land it controlled.
But the holy warrior group has since lost most of it to various offensives in both countries.
In Syria, the group has seen its presence reduced to parts of the vast Badia desert and the pocket in Deir Ezzor.
The coalition has since 2014 acknowledged direct responsibility for over 1,100 civilian deaths in Syria and Iraq, but rights groups put the number killed much higher.
In another military development, Russia has threatened the Syrian opposition forces after they failed to meet a deadline set up by Russian and Ottoman Turkish troops to enforce a new demilitarized zone in the city of Idlib.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Syrian regime forces Saturday took back control of ISIS Lion of Islam group’s last holdout in southern Syria after months of fighting, a war monitor said.
Regime forces retook Tulul al-Safa, between the provinces of Damascus and Sweida, "after ISIS fighters withdrew from it and headed east into the Badia desert", the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Regime forces have been fighting the Death Eaters in the area since a deadly July attack on the Druze minority in Sweida province.
In recent weeks, air strikes on the Tulul al-Safa pocket had increased and hundreds of regime fighters were sent as reinforcements, the Observatory said.
The Lion of Islams’ withdrawal was likely "under a deal with the regime forces" after weeks of encirclement and air raids, Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said.
State news agency SANA reported regime forces had made "a great advance in Tulul al-Safa" and said they were combing the area for any remaining Lion of Islams.
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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.
[Al Jazeera] More than 40 people have been killed and dozens 
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