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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Man bursts into California tea shop and sets customers alight with blowtorch and WD-40
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Brandon McGlone, 46, of Berkeley, walked into the Feng Cha Teahouse Monday night, yelling about his daughter, and tried to set several people on fire, police said

  • This came moments after he allegedly attacked diners outside a pizzeria

  • Shocking footage captured the surprise attack on the tea shop customers

  • It shows the suspect walking through the door, spraying men with WD-40 and setting their hairs alight using a blowtorch

  • Customers chased him outside and tried to detain him until cops arrived, before the suspect pulled out an ax

  • McGlone was arrested and is now facing 10 felony charges over the attacks

  • A police search of McGlone also uncovered knives including a machete, matches, lighters and several ‘Molotov cocktails'

  • Court records reveal McGlone was already wanted in connection with a domestic violence investigation from September 1
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/18/2020 09:44 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "...sprayed WD-40 on tea shop customers and set them alight with a blowtorch before vigilantes wrestled him to the ground."

BLM, drugged-up or just plain crazy. "Vigilantes?" How about just concerned and responsible citizens?
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/18/2020 10:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Utter insanity.
End this shit. End it now.
Bring it to a conclusion.
Posted by: Bubba Grumble3079 || 09/18/2020 11:21 Comments || Top||

#3  Schizophrenia? Glad the police were able to capture and subdue him without giving the Marxists a new excuse to riot.
Posted by: Glenmore || 09/18/2020 11:35 Comments || Top||

#4  Customers chased him outside and tried to detain him until cops arrived, before the suspect pulled out an ax.
McGlone was arrested and is now facing 10 felony charges over the attacks.
A police search of McGlone also uncovered knives including a machete, matches, lighters and several ‘Molotov cocktails'.


Mostly peaceful protest.
Posted by: Bobby || 09/18/2020 11:55 Comments || Top||

#5  Gromgoru type upset about people not wearing masks.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/18/2020 15:00 Comments || Top||

#6  You should go, sleep it off.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/18/2020 15:52 Comments || Top||

#7  So the guy didn't succeed. He must be rusty.
Posted by: gorb || 09/18/2020 17:23 Comments || Top||

#8  Good one gorb.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/18/2020 19:38 Comments || Top||

#9  He must be rusty.

Not with WD-40.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/18/2020 23:41 Comments || Top||


-War on Police-
Boy, 17, armed with assault rifle is arrested 'for shooting at troopers in Arizona' in third attack on police officers in a week
  • Hispanic 17-year-old boy was arrested in Phoenix for allegedly opening fire on two Arizona Department of Public Safety troopers

  • Officers returned fire and were not injured in the shooting

  • DPS is looking for getaway driver and sped away from the scene

  • Incident comes less than 48 hours after someone fired at a police officer driving a patrol car in Suffolk, Virginia

  • On Saturday, two Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies were shot and wounded while sitting in their car in Compton
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  6 days: 6 officers targeted in 3 assassination attempts in 3 cities.

Not coordinated, you say? Sir William of Occam, what say you?

Thursday's attack on troopers in Arizona took place less than 48 hours after an unknown suspect fired three rounds at a moving patrol car in Suffolk, Virginia.

The officer escaped unharmed. As of this evening, no arrests have been made in that incident.

Three days prior, two Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies were sitting in their vehicle outside the Compton Metro station when an armed suspect ran up to the cruiser and opened fire.
Posted by: Bertie Hupealet7003 || 09/18/2020 0:29 Comments || Top||

#2  Street Gangs coordinating with Antifa/BLM?
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 09/18/2020 7:28 Comments || Top||

#3  ..doubt it. Street gangs are territorial. Maybe coordinating with the same financiers and their middle men.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/18/2020 8:51 Comments || Top||

#4  Drugs for diversions?

I wouldn't be surprised by some of the funding methods of deep-state pusher groups.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/18/2020 9:42 Comments || Top||

#5  Now where did I leave that damn razor?
Posted by: Sir William || 09/18/2020 9:49 Comments || Top||

#6  What would gangs do if drugs were legal? Funny how big government is the cause of many problems.
Posted by: Clem || 09/18/2020 10:27 Comments || Top||

#7  Sir Wm (#5): Now where did I leave that damn razor?

BLM: We expropriated it for the cause -- and gave it to our Direct Action comrades with orders to use it or lose it
Posted by: Chuckles Grolush3760 || 09/18/2020 11:27 Comments || Top||

#8  NJpolice hunt for gunmen who fired at home of Camden cops, newborn
A pair of gunmen blasted a barrage of bullets this week into the Camden, NJ, home of two police officers and their newborn baby girl — in what authorities described as a “targeted” attack.

The couple and their 10-day-old baby escaped injury after the assailants opened fire on their Clinton Street home about 11:45 p.m. Tuesday, NJ.com reported.

Six of the seven bullets that struck the home made it inside – two through the front door, Camden Police Chief Joseph Wysocki said during a press conference Thursday night, the news outlet reported.
Posted by: Frank G || 09/18/2020 11:29 Comments || Top||

#9  Bet they don’t cancel his twitter account.
Posted by: Lowspark || 09/18/2020 11:37 Comments || Top||

#10  It's all the gun's fault. And Trump...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/18/2020 15:22 Comments || Top||

#11  Bush's fault, too. Oh, wait, he's buddy-buddy with the Dems now. Nevermind.
Posted by: Clem || 09/18/2020 16:39 Comments || Top||

#12  17 year old ambushing state troopers with a rifle doesn't get the 'Boy' treatment Daily Mail.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/18/2020 17:40 Comments || Top||

#13  17 is old enough to join the Army and serve in combat. "Boy" does not fit. Charge as an adult.
Posted by: Theager Borgia1057 || 09/18/2020 17:45 Comments || Top||

#14  Can't buy booze or cigarettes and can't vote. Charge as a minor.
Posted by: Clem || 09/18/2020 19:53 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Taliban attacks in Afghanistan's Nangarhar Province leave 8 Officers Killed
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa North
Abducted Egyptians in Libya Freed
[LIBYAREVIEW] Libyan security forces have managed to set free a number of Egyptian workers who had been kidnapped by human traffickers. The workers were repatriated to Egypt, according to MENA news agency.

The news agency added that the Egyptian Intelligence Service (GIS) and Libyan authorities cooperated during this operation. The Egyptian newspaper Awan Masr reported that six Egyptians were freed after being kidnapped in the region of Bani Walid, south east of Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
. Their kidnappers had demanded a ransom of 30,000 Dinars (about 5,000 USD) for each person.

In 2016, joint Egyptian-Libyan efforts led to the freeing of 23 Egyptian nationals who were kidnapped in the coastal region of Brega. Foreign workers have been subjected to kidnappings and ransoms in recent years.
Posted by: Fred || 09/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:


Libyan Army kills emir of ISIS in southern Libya
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Libyan National Army (LNA) front man, Major General Ahmed al-Mismari, announced the killing of the emir of 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....
(ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS) terrorist organization in Libya, Abu Abdullah, in a specific operation west of Sabha
...After the Libyan Civil War, Sabha grew in importance as a slave auctioning town. However, an investigation by the National Commission for Human Rights in Libya (NCHRL) revealed that while there was illegal slavery, reports were exaggerated, as slave auctions were rare and not made public. This was a great comfort to everyone but the slaves peddled in secret. The city was later seized by forces loyal to the Libyan National Army (LNA) and its leader Khalifa Haftar in January 2019, probably for its collection of MiG-25 aircraft....
.

According to Mismari, the LNA received information about an Islamic State terrorist cell in the neighborhood Kafi of Sabha, pointing out that the "116th Infantry Battalion clashed with the group in a battle that lasted seven hours straight."

He said, "The battle ended with the elimination of nine gunnies and the arrest of two women, one from Benghazi named Sana Abdul-Hadi Salem, born in 1980, the wife of the ISIS terrorist Othman al-Abbar, who was killed in the operation, and the other woman is the wife of the emir of ISIS in Libya, and she is an Egyptian named Najla Mahmoud Afifi Hussein."

The Libyan National Army front man pointed out that several other people had been arrested, including a Libyan, three Saudis, an Egyptian, a Sudanese, a Nigerian, and another from the Ivory Coast.

Previously, the Libyan National Army killed two Islamic State gunnies in southern Libya, including an Australian national, after a brief clash with the group.
Posted by: Fred || 09/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Africa Subsaharan
ISIS jihadists overrun paradise islands where Bono and Daniel Craig holiday before torching luxury villas and imposing Sharia law
  • Luxurious Indian Ocean island of Vamizi, Mozambique, has been razed by ISIS

  • Prince Albert of Monaco honeymooned there, former President of South Africa Nelson Mandela stayed there, as did footballer Christiano Ronaldo

  • Vamizi and smaller islands are today strategic bases from which the jihadists threaten liquefied natural gas reserves worth billions of pounds
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Arabia
'Israel is preparing to be enter Yemen': Ansarallah leader
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Houthis

#1  Of course if they come in and do the normal Israeli stuff - farms, schools, medical centers - they'll be pulverized by the Iranians.

Otherwise I doubt there's any interest
Posted by: Fairbanks || 09/18/2020 0:28 Comments || Top||

#2  And steal all your khat
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/18/2020 3:07 Comments || Top||

#3  nice of the Ansarallah leader to wear blue and white while making his comments
Posted by: lord garth || 09/18/2020 5:45 Comments || Top||

#4  Why would Israel want to enter that fucking shithole?
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/18/2020 8:42 Comments || Top||

#5  To steal all their khat.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/18/2020 9:16 Comments || Top||

#6  Couldn't they grow their own even better?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/18/2020 11:25 Comments || Top||

#7  From the Bee™ International desk ...????
Posted by: magpie || 09/18/2020 11:50 Comments || Top||

#8  #6 grow their own even better

Opportunity for Dorot?
Posted by: Shemble the Limpid2166 || 09/18/2020 12:28 Comments || Top||

#9  If you are going to enter Yemen, use protection. And get a penicillin shot afterwards.

Speaking of khat, given the popularity of the drug with a certain African demographic AND the growing Somali population in Minnesota, I would expect some sort of international trade to supply local demand. I've never heard mention of this on the news, so I automatically assume it exists.

Being a fresh agricultural product, I'm guessing it gets flown in from Africa as regular air freight, possibly after being shipped by land to some less obvious point of origin.
Posted by: SteveS || 09/18/2020 18:10 Comments || Top||

#10  I suspect this has something to do with recent Peace Deals, or at least hopes to get Saudi Arabia onboard.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/18/2020 22:22 Comments || Top||


Ansarallah forces score new advance to close in on strategic Yemeni city
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Ansarallah forces announce new drone attack on Saudi airport
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Fifth Column
Christopher Joseph Babb, 50, being prosecuted by the DA on charges of felony riot & more. He was arrested at the BLM-antifa riot outside Ted Wheeler's condo
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  The Liberal Socialist Democrat adoption of lawlessness for votes has backfired and there is no recovery.

To the PORTLAND Liberalized DA Office .

Way too Little and 100+ days way too late.


Where were was the DA office 99, 60, 30 and even 10 days ago? Your office was refusing to charge Violent Protesters and Looters.

The only reason for the sudden change is simple. VOTES. The LSD's polls show most of America's voters are 100 Percent Fed-up (☺) and voting TRUMP & GOP. Even record numbers of the Black, Jewish, and yes normally Democrats groups are Voting Trump. All that is left is rebellion to fight the Ballot results.

Like the MEME this morning on Woodstermann more or less said:
If you agree with the ideas of socialism, emptying of jails, abolishing bail, elimination of police, banning citizen ownership of firearms, blockading traffic, support a racist group, abortion at birth, polar bearing, rewriting the Bill of Rights, rioting and looting.Then you are a Democrat voter.



Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/18/2020 5:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Vote dems for more lawlessness and the opportunity to get your house, place of business or transport burnt, or looted!

Did they thinkkk this was a vote winner?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/18/2020 6:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Still plenty of white guilt children ready to vote twice.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/18/2020 7:33 Comments || Top||

#4  If he was doing it downtown or in front of Joe Blow's place, you think he'd still be up on charges?
Posted by: Mercutio || 09/18/2020 9:55 Comments || Top||

#5  Hey, the blonde is kinda cute.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/18/2020 10:08 Comments || Top||

#6  Have they claimed Babb is a white supremacist infiltrator into the peaceful BLM-Antifa yet?
Posted by: Glenmore || 09/18/2020 11:48 Comments || Top||

#7  While we maintain a secret vote the public are not captives...
Posted by: magpie || 09/18/2020 11:52 Comments || Top||


'Nonbinary queer' activist accused of assaulting cops with laser at Portland Antifa riot
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] A Portland self-described "proud nonbinary queer" activist is facing charges for shining a high-powered green laser directly into the eyes of cops during a violent mostly peaceful Black Lives Matter-Antifa
...the armed wing of the Democratic Party...
riot in July.

28-year-old Kason Avery O’Connor, originally known as Kourtni Aliesha Pierson,—and whose pronouns are "they" and "them"—was charged with two counts of unlawful directing of light from a laser pointer, the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office announced in a blurb on Wednesday.

O’Connor, originally from Mesquite, Texas, who also uses the aliases "Kason Ralph" and "Lucifer Avery Pierson," is accused of being at the July 13 riot where far-left demonstrators hurled rocks, glass bottles, and bricks at law enforcement outside the Portland Police Association building. The gathering was organized by various Antifa groups in Portland and was part of more than 100 days of violent mostly peaceful protests. Rioters also fired metal ball bearings using slingshots after blinding targets with paint. A construction worker was struck during the riot.

According to court documents, O’Connor was identified in the crowd assaulting officers’s eyes with an intense green laser. O’Connor reportedly expeditiously departed at a goodly pace but was compliant when police made physical contact. The suspect was booked and quickly released without bail. The former charges by police were dismissed at the arraignment.

Earlier this year, O’Connor petitioned the Mulnomah County courts for a name and legal sex change.
I'm non-binary non-practicing heterosexual (i.e., I only swing one way, and I still miss). My pronouns are "it" and "those things."
Posted by: Fred || 09/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Fry this scum bag's eyes out.
Posted by: Clem || 09/18/2020 0:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Eye fer an eye
Posted by: Kofi Hatfield1014 || 09/18/2020 0:24 Comments || Top||

#3  So what do you guys do?
I'm a plumber.
I build bridges.
I play golf.
I just launched my car into orbit around Mars.
I'm a non-binary queer.

One of these things is not like the others.
Posted by: SteveS || 09/18/2020 1:48 Comments || Top||

#4  The old-school approach was called abasination...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/18/2020 7:34 Comments || Top||

#5  Seems like a lot of non-binaries have been caught in these riots. Something in the water?
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/18/2020 10:45 Comments || Top||

#6  BPNB
BiPolar, Non-Binary
Posted by: Shager Protector of the Apes9208 || 09/18/2020 11:22 Comments || Top||


Portland catch and release
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  those pics are what coronavirus would look like if it had a human face
Posted by: Menhadden Scourge of the Weak4102 || 09/18/2020 16:10 Comments || Top||

#2  If they just release them with no bail why bother arresting them in the first place? Just let them burn and loot and let the insurance companies sort it out.
Posted by: jpal || 09/18/2020 16:28 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ cause it helps their organizers to direct them more efficiently?
Posted by: Chorong Thraimble8480 || 09/18/2020 16:36 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
France is led by 'ambitious but incapable' Macron: Erdogan
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  Blind pig finds acorn in a forest, et cetera...
Posted by: magpie || 09/18/2020 0:15 Comments || Top||

#2  Says the man who would be Sultan.
Posted by: AlanC || 09/18/2020 7:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Erdogan hitting the Yeni Raki hard, or so it seems.
Posted by: Clem || 09/18/2020 7:12 Comments || Top||

#4  I wonder if the koran copied Matthew 7:5?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/18/2020 9:44 Comments || Top||

#5  I don't like the guy, but about Macron, he is correct.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 09/18/2020 10:17 Comments || Top||

#6  Before COVID, Macron had a popularity rating in the cellar.
Posted by: Clem || 09/18/2020 10:28 Comments || Top||

#7  Macron's Mom Wife is gonna be sooo pissed
Posted by: Frank G || 09/18/2020 11:02 Comments || Top||

#8  ^^ I'd almost forgotten about that "liaison".
Posted by: Clem || 09/18/2020 11:05 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Minnesota Dem slams Ilhan Omar, says she 'doesn't belong in our party'
[NYPOST] Firebrand Rep. Ilhan Omar
...Somali-American Dem representative from Minnesota. She was apparently married to her brother and may be her own grandmaw on her mother's side...
of Minnesota appears to be rubbing some of her fellow Democrats the wrong way — with one of them declaring she shouldn’t even be in the party.

In a video obtained by The Post, fellow Minnesota Rep. Collin Peterson torched the scandal-scarred progressive politician after previously defending her controversial "Some people did something" remarks about 9/11.

"Do you have any comment as to why you defended Ilhan Omar?" an employee with the National Republican Congressional Committee asked Peterson on Capitol Hill on Thursday.

"I don’t defend her. She doesn’t belong in our party," the 16-term politician responded.

When asked to clarify himself, a COVID-19-masked Peterson repeated, "She doesn’t belong in our party," as he walked away.

Omar won a competitive primary fight in her downtown Minneapolis district by a landslide last month, but Peterson is facing a tough re-election battle in his increasingly red rural Minnesota district.

The Gopher State representatives are both members of the Minnesota Democratic—Farmer—Labor Party and have voted together on issues like police reform in the past.

It’s unclear why Omar and Peterson have fallen out but his remarks may be an attempt to distance himself from the progressive left flank of his party as he braces for a brutal challenge from GOP candidate, former Minnesota Lieutenant Governor Michelle Fischbach.

In a TV interview last April, Peterson tried to defend the Somali-born politician’s comments on the Sept. 11 terror attacks, saying: "I think she was trying to say that some people in her community feel like they’re being targeted."
Posted by: Fred || 09/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Oh? Is there another party that fits better?
Posted by: gorb || 09/18/2020 7:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Actually, you don't belong in her party. If you haven't notice, they left you. Long time past you and the Never-Trumpers form the Liberal Party of whom you really are.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/18/2020 8:40 Comments || Top||

#3  Peterson is the long-term incumbent from my (very rural) district. He's held on thru an NRA A+ rating and support for Agriculture. OTOH, since he voted for the bill that allows biological males to use the girls' room, so he may be in for a surprise.
Posted by: Mercutio || 09/18/2020 9:52 Comments || Top||

#4  She might not legally belong in the country.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/18/2020 14:45 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
US charges two Iranian nationals with stealing American intel
[NYPOST] Two Iranian nationals have been indicted on charges of hacking into US computer networks and stealing data to sell on the black market — sometimes at the behest of the Iranian government, federal prosecutors announced.

Hooman Heidarian, 30, and Mehdi Farhadi, 34, both of Hamedan, Iran, were accused Wednesday of stealing and selling hundreds of terabytes of data, including some national security intelligence, nuclear information, intellectual property and personal financial information, the Justice Department alleged in a charging announcement.

"We will not bring the rule of law to cyberspace until governments refuse to provide safe harbor for criminal hacking within their borders," Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Demers said in a statement.

"Unfortunately, our cases demonstrate that at least four nations — Iran, China, Russia and North Korea
...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche...
— will allow criminal hackers to victimize individuals and companies from around the world, as long as these hackers will also work for that country’s government — gathering information on human rights
...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...
activists, dissidents and others of intelligence interest. Today’s defendants will now learn that such service to the Iranian regime is not an asset, but a criminal yoke that they will now carry until the day they are brought to justice."

The men are on the lam, believed to be in Iran, and are wanted by the FBI.

On Wednesday, the Justice Department also unsealed charges against five Chinese nationals for their alleged hacking of over 100 companies in the US and overseas, including social media companies, universities, nonprofit organizations and think tanks, as well as activists and politicians in Hong Kong.

In its announcement, the department said the five Chinese citizens were on the lam in China.
Posted by: Fred || 09/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israel announces arrest of citizen accused of communicating with Hezbollah, IRGC
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
The statement continued: “During the month of August 2020, the so-called Yasmine Jaber (a resident of the Old City of Jerusalem who works in the National Library of Israel) was arrested for investigation, after she was suspected of being recruited for the Lebanese Hezbollah organization”

The statement read, entitled: “The recruitment of an Israeli citizen from Jerusalem by the Iranian Quds Force and the Lebanese Hezbollah was revealed,” and it also clarified that “other members of Yasmine Jaber’s acquaintances from East Jerusalem and Ramallah, who were suspected of being involved in the activities of a cell headed by Yasmine in Israel, including the so-called Tasnim al-Qadi (a resident of Ramallah, has resided in Turkey in recent years).”

Posted by: Fred || 09/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
US Treasury Targets Hezbollah Executive Council Companies and Official
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


Turkey, Russia failed to reach common position on Syria’s Idlib
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] Russia rejects Turkey's proposal to handover Syrian cities to them
[ALMASDARNEWS] Russian and Ottoman Turkish army officials met on Wednesday to discuss the situation inside Syria, where both countries currently have a large military presence.

According to a source in Damascus, the two sides discussed a number topics, including the ceasefire in the Idlib Governorate and the Ottoman Turkish presence in areas controlled by the government.

The source said The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
rejected the Russian proposal to handover their observation posts, which are currently surrounded by the Syrian Arab Army (SAA).

He added Turkey proposed a plan that would require the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to withdraw from Tal Rifa’at and Manbij in northern Aleppo and handover these towns to Ankara.

The proposed plan was rejected by the Russian delegation, as the Syrian Armed Forces are present in Tal Rifa’at and there is no security threat at either of the two towns.

Turkey has sought to take over Manbij and Tal Rifa’at since the Syrian Democratic Forces and People’s Protection Units (YPG) captured these two towns in the Aleppo Governorate.

In Tal Rifa’at, the Syrian Army and YPG have a security agreement that allows both forces to control the town.

Other than the security threat posed by Turkey and its allied Death Eaters in Tal Rifa’at, the town has been relatively safe for the locals and refugees living there.
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