When culture wars are not stopped, the next stage is lurid crime. See here.
[Townhall] The home of an Ultra-Orthodox rabbi in Monsey, New York, was the scene of a violent knife attack Saturday night that has reportedly left several people injured. According to reports, a man entered the home around 10 p.m. during a Hanukkah party and began stabbing people before fleeing the scene in a vehicle. At the time of this reporting, the suspected attacker was still at large.
The Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs Council for the Hudson Valley region tweeted reports about the incident. According to the reports, five people were treated for stab wounds after being transported to nearby hospitals. One of the victims was reportedly stabbed at least six times.
The New York Police Department is currently investigating multiple attacks that took place this past week that were possibly motivated by anti-Semitism.
Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted that many Jewish families in New York City have close ties to Monsey and said he has longtime friend who are now "fearful to show outward signs of their Jewish faith."
The attack occurred in the small, predominantly Jewish hamlet of Monsey, New York, at about 10pm Saturday
The suspect was identified as 37-year-old African-American Thomas Grafton
...update from g(r)omgoru’s link: his name is actually Grafton E. Thomas...
of Wurtsboro ...a known wolf who has a small but bushy beard in the photo at the link, so may or may not be a Lion of Islam...
Grafton allegedly stormed into the home of Rabbi Chaim Leibush Rottenberg, where roughly 60 people had gathered for a candle-lighting ceremony for the seventh night of Hannukah
Witnesses said the suspect wildly swung a large knife, stabbing five before he was chased out of the home
He then tried to enter the neighboring Congregation Netzach Yisrael-Kosson synagogue before fleeing in a Nissan Sentra
NYPD officers arrested the suspect 30 miles away in Harlem about two hours later
State troopers were later seen marching Grafton out of the precinct in handcuffs before transporting him back to Rockland County, where he faces five counts of attempted murder and one count of burglary
Local Hasidic community officials said the five victims, all Hasidic, were hospitalized, two in critical condition
Governor Andrew Cuomo branded the incident an act of domestic terrorism on Sunday morning
The Guardian Angels, a private, unarmed crime-prevention group, said it would start patrolling New York City's Brooklyn borough on Sunday following a series of anti-Semitic attacks.
Curtis Sliwa, who founded the organization in 1979 in New York City, said the patrols would start at noon in the Crown Heights neighborhood and expand to Williamsburg and Borough Park later in the day.
Sliwa said local leaders of the Lubavitch Hasidic movement asked for his group's help, and he believes Guardian Angels patrols will halt the violence.
"We’re a visual deterrence in our red berets and our red satin jackets," he said. "Nobody’s going to commit an attack when we're around."
If they do, he said, "We’ll physically restrain the persons responsible, make a citizen's arrest, and hold them until the police arrive."
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I believe those were different attacks, but they were indeed quickly released without having to post bail. So much white supremacy, so little time to track it all
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They had to turn him loose to re up his National Knife Owners Association membership.
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Obviously one of those white supremacists the Left keeps warning the Jewish community about.
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They don't have to release suspects without bail if serious bodily injury is involved, and besides, this is Rockland, not NYC, so I would be surprised if Grafton gets easy bail.
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I hope they're looking at his accounts, or his parents' accounts. I feel it may be a mercenary action. This and the one before it by those 'black hebrew' thingies.
[ToloNews] On Friday at least 10 members of the Afghan Army died in an attack on their outpost by the Taliban ...Arabic for students... in Sangin district, Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province, the 215 Maiwand Corps confirmed in a statement, saying also that four troops were maimed.
Around 16 army troops were stationed at the outpost, according to the statement.
Sources said the faceless myrmidons dug a tunnel to the outpost, detonated some explosives and then attacked the installation.
The Taliban staged a complex attack that killed at least 10 Afghan soldiers in the southern Helmand province, an Afghan official said Saturday.
A powerful explosion first hit an army checkpoint late Friday, followed by an hourslong gunbattle, said Omar Zwak, a spokesman for the provincial governor. The attack also wounded four soldiers, he said.
Taliban spokesman Qari Yusouf Ahmadi claimed the insurgents also seized weapons and ammunition. The insurgents have a strong presence in Helmand province, especially in Sangin district where the attack took place.
The Taliban have increased their attacks in recent days against Afghan army bases and checkpoints across different provinces.
A similar attack killed six Afghan soldiers on Thursday, when a suicide bomber detonated his car laden with explosives outside an army compound in the northern Balkh province. Militants then stormed the compound. The Taliban quickly claimed responsibility for the attack.
[THEBAGHDADPOST] Algeria’s President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Saturday named a university professor and former diplomat as prime minister as he builds a new government to handle political unrest and a looming economic challenge.
Abdelaziz Djerad, 65, served in the administration of a previous president in the 1990s, but was sidelined by president Abdelaziz Bouteflika ...10th president-for-life of Algeria. He was elected in 1999 and served on his third or four terms. When he announced for the fifth, or maybe it was the sixth, visibly doddering, a grateful nation rose up in its wrath and threw him out... , who was ousted in April after two decades as head of state.
The massive street protest movement that prompted Bouteflika to step down regarded Tebboune’s election this month as illegitimate and it seems unlikely to accept any government he appoints.
The protesters rejected any election that took place while the military stayed involved in politics and Bouteflika-era figures retained powerful positions.
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[Ynet] The Islamic State claimed responsibility on Friday for an attack on a military outpost in Burkina Faso on Tuesday.
Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) issued a statement saying one of its members drove into the base in northern Soum Province and set off a bomb in the car that exploded, leaving many dead and injured.
A ballistic missile attack ripped through a military parade for a #Yemeni southern separatist group killing at least six troops and three children, a spokesman said Sunday.#BaghdadPosthttps://t.co/liCM1ZmNeo
To exit the mideast tar baby, go home, and enjoy 3% economic growth + 3.5% unemployment + the opportunity to rebuild the domestic manufacturing and industrial base after 30 years of globalist madness.
[Dawn] A FEW days ago, the Punjab counterterrorism force and a military intelligence agency smashed a ‘media cell’ of Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent in Gujranwala. The cell was being used by the militant group to plan and finance its terrorist operations, and communicate and propagate its message through social media tools. The group, which was being watched by the two agencies for quite some time, had recently relocated to the city from Karachi to avoid action against its operators. The raiding team has arrested five trained members of the group and recovered a large number of laptops carrying encrypted data for communication with senior leaders based in Afghanistan, mobile phones and files containing banned content, cash, suicide jackets, explosives and weapons. The action has helped the authorities avert an attack by the militant organisation against law-enforcement agencies in Punjab. This action against AQIS is being referred to as the most significant development against militants operating out of Punjab in the last two years.
The action taken against militant groups under the National Action Plan during the last few years has made them halt their terror activities. But a couple of recent incidents in Lahore — whose coverage in the media was apparently suppressed by the authorities — demonstrate that the pause could be temporary. The latest action against AQIS underscores the reality that militant groups may be down but are still not out. That eliminates any room, if indeed it exists, for complacency on the part of the agencies tasked with eradicating militancy and terrorist financing in the country. Their job has become even more important after the placement of Pakistan on the grey list of the Financial Action Task Force. At the last FATF plenary, Pakistan narrowly escaped being blacklisted, which would have meant depressing consequences for its economic future. The FATF has warned that Pakistan could be downgraded further in February unless it makes significant progress on meeting the global anti-money laundering and counterterrorism financing standards. The IMF has again cautioned that Pakistan’s failure to implement global AML/CTF standards could cause the promised capital inflows to freeze up and jeopardise the Fund’s current programme. Pakistan can avoid this hazard only by effectively and swiftly plugging holes in the country’s AML/CTF regime, taking action against the militants, and producing enough evidence to have them convicted in a court of law. The sooner the government acknowledges the challenges publicly, the better it will be for the country.
Iraqi army has announced the launch of the 8th phase of a massive military operation dubbed “Victory” on Sunday which aims at clearing the suspected areas of the presence of the ISIS terrorists.
Today’s operation covers a vast area in different provinces, including Nineveh, Salahaddin, Diyala, and Kirkuk.
Yehia Rasool, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Defense said on his Twitter that scores of ISIS tunnels and other military hardware were destroyed since early morning today, multiple jihadists were killed and vast areas were cleared.
“Our forces found a tunnel in Salahaddin province and they detonated two explosive devices there where five IS suicide bombers were killed,” Rasool wrote on Twitter.
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#BREAKIN Air Strikes, possibly drone attacks, in Iraq's Qaim kill elements from Iran-backed Kataib Hezbollah, two days after the US said the Shiite group may be involved in the rocket attacks against an Iraqi base that killed a US civilian and injured several others#BaghdadPostpic.twitter.com/7bMyo9FWIo
[THEBAGHDADPOST] On Thursday, the Iraqi al-Binaa Alliance accused the country’s president, Barham Salih, of "violating the constitution and perjury," and called on parliament to take legal measures against him in light of the accusations.
Earlier on Thursday, Salih apologised for assigning al-Binaa candidate and current governor of Basra, Asaad al-Eidani, to form the new government, and stated that he prefers resignation over appointing a candidate who does not possess the support of the demonstrators.
Al-Binaa Alliance is led by two Shia political personalities known for their close ties to Iran, namely former prime minister and leader of the State of Law Coalition, Nouri al-Maliki, and leader of the Conquest Alliance, Hadi al-Amiri.
Al-Binaa Alliance indicated in a statement: "As the largest parliamentary bloc, strong evidence, which we adopted in nominating our candidate to the president of the republic, who has pledged to assign him (Al-Eidani) to form the government."
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[THEBAGHDADPOST] A group 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.... members recently killed a family of five at a false checkpoint on the Kirkuk ‐ Tikrit ...birthplace of Saddam Hussein... main road, security sources said.
Colonel Muamer Murtadha, Head of the Rashad sub-district in Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... told local media that "ISIS members established a fake security checkpoint on the road, stopped the family’s car, and opened fire on them, killing all five, including a woman."
Murtadha also explained that three more cars passed through the checkpoint and suffered damages when fired upon. The gang escaped before security forces arrived, he added.
The location of the incident falls within the authority of the commander of the Salahuddin governorate’s security forces, who launched a search operation to secure the area following the attack.
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Protesters broke into Iraq’s southern Nassiriya oilfield and forced employees to cut off electricity from its control station, taking the field offline until further notice.#BaghdadPost#Iraq#FreeIraqhttps://t.co/C7WIeLmfCd
The oilfield produces 90,000 barrels a day (bpd) of crude. As they forced its closure, protesters chanted “no homeland, no oil,” the sources said, in which they mean to say “if we do not have a homeland, we do not have oil”.
The phrase “we want a homeland” has been the slogan of the protests which have gripped Iraq since October 1.
The incident marks the first time protesters have shut an entire oilfield, though they have blocked entrances to refineries and ports in the past. Iraq’s economy depends on oil exports which make up more than 90 percent of revenues for OPEC’s second largest producer. No foreign companies operate at the oilfield.
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Washington recently promised “a decisive US response” to a growing number of unclaimed attacks on its interests in Iraq, which it blames on pro-Iran factions.https://t.co/FCjPjEe5XQ
[Ynet] A senior Iraqi official told Al-Khura, a U.S.-based Arab language news site, on Saturday that a pro-Iranian militia has begun hiding ballistic missiles - such as those previously smuggled into Iran - through dispersal in residential areas in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.
According to Al-Khura, one of the aides of Iranian Quds Force commander Qassem Suleimani, who oversees Hezbollah-Iraqi regiments, has ordered it to empty the missile warehouses it recently received from Iran. Warehouses found at the bases of the organization.
It was also reported that the aide ordered the militia to disperse the missiles in populated areas of Baghdad, using civilian trucks.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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...10th president-for-life of Algeria. He was elected in 1999 and served on his third or four terms. When he announced for the fifth, or maybe it was the sixth, visibly doddering, a grateful nation rose up in its wrath and threw him out...
...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 
