🇺🇸 — JUST IN: An FBI agent has reportedly been involved in a shooting aboard a train at a station near the Walter Reed National Military Medical Centre, Maryland this morning, according to NBC reporter Tom Lynch. One person was transported to the hospital.
[SUDANTRIBUNE] The U.S. officially lifted its designation of Sudan as a state sponsor of terror on Monday, the Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said.
"Today, Sudan’s designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism is officially rescinded. This represents a fundamental change in our bilateral relationship toward greater collaboration and support for Sudan’s historic democratic transition," said Pompeo following an announcement made by the U.S. embassy in Khartoum in the early morning of Monday.
"This achievement was made possible by the efforts of Sudan’s civilian-led transitional government to chart a bold new course away from the legacy of the Bashir regime and, in particular, to meet the statutory and policy criteria for rescission," he further said.
U.S. President Trump sent the notification to the Congress on October 26 following an agreement by Khartoum to normalize relations with Israel and depositing $335 million for the settlement with families of the terror victims.
The notification of delisting triggered a 45-day period in which Congress could have overridden the decision.
The decision enables Khartoum to engage in talks with the international financial institutions over debt relief and to borrow money for development projects.
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🇮🇷🇸🇦 — NEWS: The Arab Coalition announces that its forces have intercepted and destroyed an explosives-laden drone launched by the Iran-backed Houthi militia towards Saudi Arabia.
[THEBAGHDADPOST] The United States on Tuesday designated the Bahrain-based Saraya al-Mukhtar group as a terrorist organization, accusing it of being backed by 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 JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and of having plotted attacks against U.S. personnel in the Gulf Arab state.
The move, which comes amid a slew of sanctions announced by Washington as President Donald Trump ...the Nailer of NAFTA... ’s term nears a close, designates Saraya al-Mukhtar, a marginal group operating underground, as a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist". Most of the group’s members are in jail or in Iran.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Saraya al-Mukhtar, or Mukhtar Brigades, was designated for "posing a significant risk of committing acts of terrorism that threaten the national security and foreign policy of the United States".
"The group has plotted attacks against U.S. personnel in Bahrain and has offered cash rewards for the liquidation of Bahraini officials," Pompeo said in a statement.
Tuesday’s action freezes any of the group’s U.S. assets and generally bars Americans from dealing with it.
Pompeo also accused the group of having received financial and logistical support from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which controls a business empire as well as elite armed and intelligence forces in Iran.
The IRGC is blacklisted by Washington.
The foreign ministry in Bahrain, which hosts the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet as a regional security bulwark against Iran, issued a statement welcoming the move as an important step "in combating malign acts and intentions of this terrorist group".
In 2011, members of Bahrain’s Shi’ite Moslem majority staged major protests against its Sunni Moslem royal family inspired by the so-called Arab Spring of that year. The unrest was crushed with the help of Soddy 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. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and the United Arab Emirates.
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After serving as COMUSNAVCENT flagship for 21 years La Salle departed Bahrain for the last time 10 April 1993. She was overhauled in Philadelphia and reassigned to the Sixth Fleet as flagship. When La Salle departed, the NAVCENT staff moved into a trailer village prepared by the ASU-SWA Public Works Department. The admiral and his staff no longer needed a flagship, for COMUSNAVCENT intended to remain ashore in Bahrain permanently.
[and you should see the place now!]
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[THEGUARDIAN] Two elderly men who had their heads chopped off by Azerbaijani forces in videos widely shared on messaging apps have been identified, confirming two of the bloodiest atrocities of the recent war in Nagorno-Karabakh. How Islamic. Allahu Snackbar!
The ethnic Armenian men were non-combatants, people in their respective villages said. Both had their heads chopped off by men in the uniforms of the Azerbaijani armed forces. The short, gruesome videos of the killings are among the worst of a torrent of footage portraying abuse, torture and murder that has continued to emerge more than a month after a Russian-brokered ceasefire came into force.
The villagers’ testimony in interviews with the Guardian corroborates identifications by a human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... ombudsman for the Armenian-backed local government and two prominent Armenian human rights lawyers preparing a criminal case relating to the murders.
The Guardian also confirmed one of the victim’s identities with a relative, and reviewed a passport application photograph that strongly resembles the other victim.
In videos posted online on 22 November and 3 December, men in uniforms consistent with those of the Azerbaijani military hold down and decapitate a man using a knife. One then places the severed head on a dead animal. "This is how we get Dire Revenge — by cutting off heads," a voice says off camera.
Two residents of the village of Madatashen, in Nagorno-Karabakh, identified the victim as Genadi Petrosyan, 69, who had moved to the village in the late 1980s from the city of Sumgait, in Azerbaijan.
Gayane Petrosyan (no relation), the head of the local school, lived directly across from Petrosyan’s modest, two-room house. She said his father had helped install the village’s electrical system, and he had shown her pictures of a son who had moved to Russia with his ex-wife.
She said of one of the videos: "I could clearly see his face and I could recognise that it was him." The Guardian has also seen a photograph of Petrosyan that closely resembles the victim in the video.
Genadi Petrosyan, who lived alone, resisted leaving the village as Azerbaijani forces closed in. When a neighbour tried to drive him away, he got out of the car and walked home.
Eduard Hayrapetyan, the village head, said he had known Petrosyan for more than three decades and considered him a close friend of his family’s. He received his last call from Petrosyan on the morning of 28 October, to say he had seen enemy forces in the village. Then, after weeks of silence, the video emerged.
"I feel great sorrow that I took him away from the village and then he came back and this happened," Hayrapetyan said. "I just can’t find my place."
Artak Beglaryan, a human rights ombudsman for the local Armenian-backed government, said Petrosyan had been identified by combing 35 missing persons reports for the region and then contacting acquaintances, who confirmed his identity.
He called for greater efforts by the international community to investigate war crimes from the conflict. "Western countries have kept silent and they haven’t taken practical steps," he said. "They have the duties and levers to speak about this ... we don’t see any results, we don’t see any process from them."
Siranush Sahakyan, a human rights lawyer, also confirmed Petrosyan’s identity and said she and a colleague, Artak Zeynalyan, had prepared a criminal investigation into the murder.
"Emotionally, it is hard to watch the videos. From a professional perspective, it can be very useful evidence," Sahakyan said, cautioning that they had to carefully vet videos to make sure they were not faked.
Amnesia Amnesty International has called on Armenia and Azerbaijan to investigate videos of the decapitations and desecrations of corpses. The organization has used digital verification techniques to authenticate the footage reviewed in this article, as well as footage of the murder of an Azerbaijani border guard who had his throat cut. Other videos show soldiers desecrating the bodies of enemy fighters.
While both sides have been implicated, online channels are increasingly dominated by videos of Armenian soldiers and civilians being abused by advancing Azerbaijani troops.
New revelations of torture and abuse mean that for many the violence continues even long after the war was halted. "Armenians and Azerbaijanis are watching those videos day in and day out, and every day there is a new video which is sending a new wave of assault on the public and public sensibilities," said Tanya Lokshina, a researcher for Human Rights Watch, which prepared a painstaking report on abuses against Armenian prisoners of war, released early this month. "That trauma also results in increased levels of hatred. Even now when the active stage of the fighting is over."
Some of the most gruesome and widely watched videos have also been some of the most difficult to confirm. A video posted on a Telegram channel on 7 December showed two soldiers in uniforms consistent with the Azerbaijani military pinning down an elderly man near a tree. Another soldier passes a knife to one of the attackers, who begins slicing at the victim’s neck. The victim’s head begins to separate from the neck before the video ends.
Three residents of the village of Azokh identified the victim in this video as Yuri Asryan, a reclusive 82-year-old who had refused to leave the village on 20 October as Azerbaijani forces approached.
"He didn’t communicate with others very much. He just refused to leave," said Georgi Avesyan, the longtime head of the village until 2019 and one of the people who identified Asryan. He said it was possible Asryan did not fully understand what was happening.
Azerbaijani forces entered the village days later and it has remained under Baku’s control under the ceasefire agreement signed on 9 November.
There was no news of Asryan’s fate until a 29-second video appeared last week on social networks, including Telegram channels that traffic in gory footage from the conflict.
Araik Azumanyan, the current head of the village, said: "I received calls from many people from the village, and even people who had moved from the village to Armenia many years ago saying it looked like [Asryan] in the video."
A third villager who recognised Asryan said: "I felt terrible after watching it, my blood pressure was high, I couldn’t compose myself for a week after seeing that."
Beglaryan, the human rights ombudsman, and Sahakyan, the human rights lawyer, also confirmed Asryan’s identity. His closest relative, an elderly sister who occasionally visited him, knows that Asryan has died but has not seen the video. Asryan’s niece also confirmed to the Guardian that it was him in the video
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It is a pity they can't have a vicious little war without descending savagery.
A Portland restaurant owner critical of antifa’s mass vandalism on Sandy Blvd. had his business burned down shortly after making the comments. Now investigators are saying the fire was an arson attack. This is the surveillance video: pic.twitter.com/4sgOdbL3GO
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got to give her a head start at making it to the new CHAZ where she'll become all the rage
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Though I don't think arson is beyond ANTIFA, I would not assume it is not a case of 'Jewish lightning' - restaurants are being bankrupted everywhere and this would make a possible case to get an insurance cut-loss, if the policy allowed.
Ngo exclusive report: Richard Tyler Hunsinger, a militant antifa activist, has been arrested following a months-long FBI domestic terrorism investigation into the attempted nail bombing of an ICE office in Atlanta. https://t.co/8lvylpgc5S
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Peaceful protest
Note that this was not Portland or Seattle but Atlanta. This vicious creep is from the D.C. Area. So Antifa's now coordinating nationally - prob'y internationally as well
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Wait, you're saying the FBI did actual FBI stuff?
Go on, pull the other one!
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If I had to guess, I'd say the investigation was a product of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) and local law enforcement. At some point a tactical hand-off probably took place. The GBI has a history of discreetly remaining behind the scenes.
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There was a story circulating on the left that ICE was forcing women to undergo surgeries; that supposedly took place in Atlanta. That's likely why the clown tried to bomb the office in Atlanta.
I'd rate the story's believability by noting it came out this summer and the MSM didn't pick it up as a cudgel to beat Trump.
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Far-left extremists put a guillotine on the roof of the @PortlandPolice Association building. This office has been attacked and set on fire multiple times by antifa during riots this year. pic.twitter.com/toxQCvqSTW
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Yes the Far-left Extremists are a good part of the problem. But it really is the whole in Socialist-Democrat Party and its OPEN willingness to get in bed with these ANTI-USA fringe elements.
The Socialist-Democrat Party knew that BLOM & ANTI-FArt were violating the Civil Rights of millions. Yet somehow denied, with Media Approval no less; the Rioting, Looting, pillaging mom and pop middle class businesses, threatening and assaulting of ANYONE opposing them.
This was the price the Socialist-Democrat Party and DC Deep State Elite willingly paid to Steal The Vote in order to remove Trump as a threat to their easy street way of life.
BTW: The Socialist-Democrat Party now holds the US record of violating the most civil rights in US Political History. With OVER 76 Millions US Citizens having had their Civil Voting Rights nullified.
[THEBAGHDADPOST] Iraqi security forces on Monday captured a woman in Kirkuk who had served in senior ranks of the ISIS once the jihadist group was in control of the region.
Kirkuk Police Spokesperson Amer Nouri said that the woman had been arrested during an operation in Zaab subdistrict of Hawija, southwest of Kirkuk.
"She was previously in church of ISIS’s financial affairs in Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... " Amer said.
Without revealing the identity of the woman, the Police spokesperson said she she had married twice during the ISIS reign, both with senior ISIS leaders.
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🇵🇰🇮🇱 — BREAKING: Sources tell Belaaz that a delegation from Pakistan, a country which has no ties with Israel, has secretly visited in Tel Aviv, Israel last month.
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They are encouraged by the Israeli support to the Azeri islamist army, which the ISI supported too. But Pakistan don't have oil or gas. They have nothing to give, except maybe a promise to forget their Paleostinian friends.
[THEBAGHDADPOST] Israel’s Defense Ministry said Tuesday it conducted a series of successful live fire drills with its multi-range missile-defense system, providing protection against threats posed by arch-enemy 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 JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and its proxies along Israel’s northern and southern borders.
Defense officials said it was the first time they have conducted an integrated test bringing together the various components of the country’s "multilayer" missile defense. They are the "Arrow," which intercepts long-range missiles; "David’s Sling," meant to shoot down medium-range missiles; and the "Iron Dome," which has been used for years to defend against incoming rocket fire from the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip.
Moshe Patel, head of Israel’s Middle Defense Organization, said the drill "demonstrated a multi-layered approach to dealing with threats" that incorporates all three systems.
"Using this approach, a variety of threats may be identified and intercepted via full coordination and interoperability between the systems," he said.
Israel faces a wide range of rocket and missile threats from Paleostinian bandidosbully boyz in Gaza, from the Iranian-backed Shiite hard boy group Hezbollah in neighboring Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... , and from Iran. Officials have expressed concerns about Iran’s development of long-range weapons and what they say are Hezbollah attempts to import or develop guided missiles capable of striking virtually anywhere in Israel with great precision.
Brig. Gen. Ran Kochav, head of the Israeli Air Force’s air defense program, said the drill had simulated a series of threats and involved complex human and computerized decision making. He said it was a major accomplishment to intercept a cruise missile, which he said are tricky targets because of their speed, altitude and maneuverability.
"What was special with this test is that it was a live drill dealing with a concrete scenario. You can understand the geopolitical situation in the Middle East has changed," he said. "It advances us operationally and technologically, and allows us to absorb these advanced systems into the air force, carry out evaluation and training and knowledge so that we can get better."
Israel has developed the various missile defenses in conjunction with the United States. Tuesday’s drill was conducted with the US Missile Defense Agency, officials said.
The test was conducted over the Mediterranean Sea and tested the systems’ capability to intercept a range of aerial targets from drones to larger and longer range ballistic missiles.
Pini Yungman, head of the air and missile defense division at state-owned Israeli defense contractor Rafael, said the results were "magnificent" and "all the targets were destroyed in all the tests, and no threat, no target remained in the air after the interception."
Patel said it was too early to begin selling these weapons systems to Israel’s new allies in the Middle East — the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. "This is something that can be considered potentially in the future."
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The best missile defense system would be a mushroom cloud over Tehran.
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[THEBAGHDADPOST] The Trump administration for the first time on Monday formally blamed 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 JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... for the presumed death of retired FBI agent Robert Levinson, publicly identifying two Iranian intelligence officers believed responsible for his abduction and imposing sanctions against them.
Levinson disappeared in Iran under mysterious circumstances more than a decade ago, and though US diplomats and Sherlocks have long said they thought he was taken by Iranian government agents, Monday’s announcement in the final weeks of the Trump administration was the most definitive assignment of blame to date.
The announcement is the latest in a series of tough actions the Trump administration has taken toward Iran as it works to cement an aggressive posture that may complicate any efforts by incoming President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...Candidate for president in 2020. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant... and his national security team to radically change course once they take office next month. US officials preemptively made clear Monday that no deal with Iran should be finalized without providing for the release of Americans who remain detained there.
Besides calling out two high-ranking intelligence officers by name, US officials also said the Iranian regime sanctioned the plot that led to Levinson’s abduction and lied for years about its involvement in his disappearance through disinformation campaigns aimed at deflecting responsibility and covering up the government’s role.
"The abduction of Mr. Levinson in Iran is an outrageous example of the Iranian regime’s willingness to commit unjust acts," Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement.
The Iranian intelligence officers, Mohammad Baseri and Ahmad Khazai, are alleged to have been involved in Levinson’s abduction and probable death.
Under the sanctions, any property or assets they hold in the US would be frozen. Though it’s unlikely they have bank accounts in the US, the sanctions could also limit their movements or financial dealing outside Iran. The men have met with intelligence officials from other countries and also led delegations, US officials say.
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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.
...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 
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
...Candidate for president in 2020. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call 
