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Armenians Storm Capital Demanding PM Resign After Azerbaijan Victory Parade
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Afghanistan
Kabul Explosions: 1 Die in Rocket Attacks on Afghan Capital
[KhaamaPress] Rockets land in various parts of Kabul, reports indicated one person is dead and another is maimed on Saturday morning, the Ministry of Interior said.

In a second attack on the capital of Afghanistan, at least four rockets were fired near the Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai
...Former president of Aghanistan, part of the problem not part of the solution...
International Airport and Khwaja Rawash area.

Rockets landed near residential houses in the Khwaja Rawash area, killing and wounding two individuals, the Ministry of Interior stated.

Rockets were fired from Lab-e-Jar area located in the northern part of the capital, near the place where last month’s rocket attacks happened.

Some media outlets report six rockets have landed on different parts of Kabul.

Earlier, on November 21, at least 23 rockets shook Kabul, leaving eight people dead and 22 others injured.
The Jerusalem Post adds:
A Taliban
...Arabic for students...
front man said that his group was not behind the attack as they continued talks with the Afghan government's representatives to end nearly two decades of war. Security officials said it was not clear if bully boyz of Afghan affiliate 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....
, known as Islamic State Khorasan, were involved in the attack.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/13/2020 01:04 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:


Saleh: Daesh-Taliban Threatened to Turn Kabul into Shia Slaughterhouse
[KhaamaPress] Amrullah Saleh, the first vice president, says the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
-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....
has warned that if one of their members is executed, they will turn Kabul into Shia massacre ground.

Saleh on Saturday morning said, the Taliban-Islamic State has issued a warning message that if a member of the group is executed by the government, they will turn Kabul into a Shia slaughterhouse in addition to beheading all the captured hostages.

He added, that he has instructed the Kabul National Directorate of Security
...the Afghan national intel agency...
(NDS) to send a message to all networks of the captured Taliban-Islamic State in the government prisons to inform their networks that the government knows their roots.

No threat will stop our efforts to reveal Death Eaters’ true faces to the Afghan people, and I once again call on the Supreme Court to bring these perpetrators to be publicly trialed, Saleh said.

During the meeting he said, NDS has arrested another terrorist network involved in bombings, liquidations of security forces, and the gathering of tithes for the Taliban.

Hazrat Mir, son of Dadmir, is one of 5,000 pardoned prisoners of the Taliban, who returned on a killing spree of an NDS official, Amir Mohammad, in Mirbachah Kot district.

According to Saleh, the death of Fardin Amini, an Ariana News news hound, is not a terrorist act, but his family has the right to request an in-depth investigation.

If Fardin Amini’s family has secrets about the mystery of the incident, police will be forced to summon all members of his family, including women to be investigated, First VP said.

It is neither fair nor legal to decipher any murder and then charge the government, so from now on, the police will tell the truth based on the legal literature, Saleh added.

Saleh Indicated, that Malala Maiwand has been assassinated by members of the Taliban and that the silencing of society, especially women, is part of the Taliban’s strategic plans, these members are dictated by the group’s intellectual and supportive leaders from the "Akoh Rakhatak" region.

Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, bullets whapped! around Butch as he tried to tie his scarf around his shoulder as a tourniquet......
a Senior Advisor for the President of Afghanistan, Shah Hussain Murtazawi, called for calm and responsible reporting, after the first vice president warned that Taliban-Islamic State threatened to turn Kabul into a Shia slaughterhouse.

The presidential advisor tweeted, that "Taliban and ISIS are enemies of humanity and Afghanistan, we should not provoke fear among Shias in our reporting, our method of informing should be professional, and we should not help our enemies in their mental war".
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/13/2020 01:04 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Taliban Battered in Kandahar, 90 Killed
[KhaamaPress] The Ministry of Defense (MoD) on Saturday, at least 90 Taliban
...Arabic for students...
were killed in Kandahar province.

According to the statement, Afghan defense forces repelled Taliban attacks in Panjwai, Zherai, Arghandab, and Maiwand districts of Kandahar province on Friday.

It is said that 90 Taliban were killed and nine others were maimed during the festivities. Also, 15 minefields were discovered and defused by the ANA engineering team.

A number of enemy weapons and ammunition, as well as a tunnel used in terrorist attacks, was also destroyed, MoD stated.

In a sperate incident, Mohammad Naeem Wardak, a front man for the Taliban’s political office 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...
, said in a statement on his Twitter page that US troops had conducted Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s on Zherai district in Kandahar last night in defiance of a political agreement, killing 10 civilians and destroying many residential homes.

On the other hand, US forces in Afghanistan confirmed airstrike in Kandahar province but rejected the group’s claims over civilian casualties.

"A conducted a strike against armed Taliban fighters attacking an ANDSF checkpoint in Zhari district Kandahar on Dec 10. This strike in defense of the ANDSF is IAW with the US-Taliban agreement. The Taliban’s claim of civilian casualties are false," Spokesman Col Sonny Leggett tweeted.

In a separate statement, MoD said, Taliban attacked the outposts of the security forces in the Shamulzayi district of Zabul province on Friday.

It is stated that the security forces defeated the enemy and repulsed their attack.

MoD indicated, 4 Taliban were killed and 5 others were maimed in the attack, and some enemy ammunition and weapons were destroyed.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/13/2020 01:04 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  A nice start to the week.
Posted by: anymouse || 12/13/2020 23:02 Comments || Top||

#2  Yeah, baby...that calls for a drink!
Posted by: || 12/13/2020 23:12 Comments || Top||


Civilian killed in rocket strike on Afghanistan's Kabul
[ENGLISHBETA.ALARABIYA.NET] A series of rockets struck Kabul on Saturday, killing one person and wounding two, officials said, the second such attack to rock the Afghan capital in less than a month.

Violence has surged across Afghanistan in recent months, with several deadly attacks carried out in Kabul, despite the Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
and the government engaging in peace talks since September 12 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...
.

"This morning, 10 rockets were fired from the Labe Jar neighborhood of Kabul," interior ministry front man Tariq Arian told news hounds.

He said three rockets landed near Kabul airport and seven in residential areas, leaving one civilian dead and two maimed.

ISIS issued a statement claiming responsibility for the attack, saying it was targeting the military section of Kabul airport, the media monitor SITE said.

The barrage of rockets on Saturday was the second such attack in less than a month in Kabul.

On November 21, eight people were killed and 31 were maimed when 23 rockets hit the capital in an attack claimed by IS.

The holy warrior group has also claimed two brutal attacks on educational centers in the capital that killed mostly students, including one on Kabul University during which button men sprayed classrooms with bullets.

Authorities blamed the attacks on educational centers on the Haqqani network
...a branch of the Afghan Taliban, based in Pakistain. The network is a family business founded by the later Jalaluddin Haqqani...
, an affiliate of the Taliban.

Afghan Vice President Amrullah Saleh said on his Facebook page on Saturday that he had received a warning from IS that it would "transform Kabul into a slaughterhouse for Shiites" if any of the holy warrior group’s snuffies arrested by government forces were executed.

In recent months, Saleh and his aides have pushed for public trials of "terrorists" arrested in connection with deadly attacks and for those found guilty to be hanged publicly.

ISIS has regularly claimed attacks targeting the minority Shiite Hazara
...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets...
community in Afghanistan.

In a separate statement, the interior ministry said attacks such as Saturday’s were aimed at "soft targets".

"The enemies of the people of Afghanistan have intensified the violence," it said.

"But they have failed to capture districts and they have lost in the battlefields, so they have resorted to hitting at soft targets," it said.

Violence has surged amid an ongoing withdrawal of US troops as President Donald Trump
...the Nailer of NAFTA...
pushes to end America’s longest war.

In November, the Pentagon said it would pull 2,000 troops out of Afghanistan, speeding up the timeline established in a February agreement between Washington and the Taliban that envisions a full withdrawal by May 2021.

That deal also stipulates that the Taliban will not target key cities in the country, although Afghan authorities have blamed them for such attacks.
Posted by: Fred || 12/13/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Africa Subsaharan
Nigeria: Hundreds of students feared abducted by gunmen
[DW] An armed gang has stormed a secondary school in northern Nigeria, prompting a shootout with the country's military and police. Search and rescue operations are underway to find the scores of missing students.

Hundreds of students are missing after button men attacked a school in the northern Nigerian state of Katsina, police said on Saturday.

Gunmen, armed with AK-47s, attacked the Government Science secondary school in Kankara late on Friday, according to state police front man Gambo Isah.

"Search parties are working with a view to find or rescue the missing students," a police statement said.

Roughly half of the school's 800 students were missing, Rooters cited a parent and school employee as saying.

MILITARY, POLICE AND AIR FORCE EXCHANGE FIRE
President Muhammadu Buhari said in a statement that the Nigerian military had located the attackers and was exchanging fire with them in a forest, aided by the country's air force.

Police at the scene on Friday also exchanged fire with the button men, allowing some 200 students to run for safety, Isah said, adding that police would deploy additional forces to assist in search and rescue operations. One officer was shot and maimed during the exchange, police said.

Police and the military were still working to determine how many students were kidnapped and missing.

The button men are believed to belong to groups of bandidos in the troubled region and are known to carry out kidnappings for ransom. Attacks on locals by Islamist holy warriors have also become common place in northeastern parts of Nigeria.

In April 2014, jihadist group Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
kidnapped 276 girls from their school dormitory in Chibok, Borno State. About a hundred of them are still missing.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/13/2020 03:09 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:


Arabia
Saudi and UAE backed forces clash in southern Yemen as tensions flare up
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 12/13/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia


Qatari forces seize Bahraini cruiser within territorial waters amid increased tensions
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 12/13/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Qatar (MB)


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Azerbaijani forces launch attack on Armenian military post
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
For the first time since the Moscow Agreement of November 9th, the Azerbaijani Armed Forces have been accused of launching an attack on the positions of the Artsakh Defense Army (ADA) in the southern part of the Karabakh region.

According to the spokesperson for the Armenian Ministry of Defense, Shushan Stepanyan, "Azerbaijani Armed Forces attempted to attack an Armenian post in the south of Artsakh, an exchange of fire ensued, there are reports about maimed — The Defence Army."

The Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense nor their Russian counterparts have commented on these allegations from the Armenian side.

If true, however, this would be the first major ceasefire violation committed by the Azerbaijani Armed Forces since the start of the Moscow Agreement on the morning of November 10th.

Per the Moscow Agreement, the two warring parties will halt their attacks and stop their provocations in the Karabakh region, paving the way for the entry of Russian peacekeeping troops and the return of refugees to their homes.

This agreement was viewed largely as a victory for Azerbaijan, as they were able to take hold of almost all of the Karabakh region, except for the capital, Stepanakert, and its surrounding areas.


Posted by: Fred || 12/13/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Ottoman Proxies


Armenia and Azerbaijan trade accusations of new offensive in Karabakh
[ALMASDARNEWS] Azerbaijan and Armenia have traded accusations on Saturday of launching new offensives inside the Hadrut area of the Karabakh region.According to the Artsakh Defense Army (ADA), who are local forces positioned in southern Karabakh, the Azerbaijani Armed Forces launched a surprise offensive on the Hadrut area, resulting in three soldiers maimed.

"On Dec. 11, at around 08:40 pm #Azerbaijan’i Armed Forces launched an offensive attempt in the southern direction of the military positions of the #Artsakh Defense Army. As a result of skirmish 3 servicemen from the reserve personnel are maimed," they reported.

They would add: "The news circulating in the #Azerbaijan’i media that the #Artsakh Defense Forces initiated a military provocation in the direction of Hadrut, as a result of which an Azerbaijani serviceman maimed doesn’t correspond to reality."

Meanwhile,
...back at the laboratory, Igor and Oleg were discussing what the quickest way might be to deal with the monster...
the Azerbaijani media accused the Armenian forces of attempting to infiltrate across the line of contact, which, as posted above, was denied by the Artsakh Defense Army.

Today’s hostilities between the two warring parties marks the first time since the November 9th Moscow Agreement that festivities have broken out between the Azerbaijani Armed Forces and Artsakh Defense Army.

The Russian Ministry of Defense has yet to comment on the accusations from both sides; their forces are currently present in the Karabakh region.



Posted by: Fred || 12/13/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Ottoman Proxies


Armenians Storm Capital Demanding PM Resign After Azerbaijan Victory Parade
[BREITBART] Anti-government demonstrations once again took place in Armenia’s capital, Yerevan, on Friday demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan after Azerbaijan held a victory parade to celebrate its seizure of the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.While Nagorno-Karabakh is technically part of Azerbaijan, the vast majority of its population is ethnically Armenian and Baku and had not exercised control of the region since the fall of the Soviet Union. Local Armenian separatists had governed it, calling it the "Republic of Artsakh," prior to the conflict beginning in September that ended last month with a Russia-brokered peace deal.

Demonstrators rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud such as "Armenia without Nikol" and "Nikol must go" as they filled the streets of Yerevan on Friday, even after Pashinyan admitted he was "ready to discuss" the possibility of calling early parliamentary elections.

"The authorities are ready to start such discussions on the condition, as the prime minister noted, that no party threatens others," Deputy Parliamentary Speaker Alen Simonian told news hounds on Thursday.



Posted by: Fred || 12/13/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Ottoman Proxies


Europe
Greek authorities will press charges for espionage for Turkey against two Greek citizens working on the southeastern island of Rhodes
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

One of the suspects has been working aboard a ferry from Rhodes to the Greek island of Kastellorizo, just off the Ottoman Turkish coast.

The other was said to be working at the Ottoman Turkish consulate in Rhodes.

The tiny island of Kastellorizo, just two kilometers (1.2 miles) off the Ottoman Turkish coast, lies in disputed waters that have been a source of escalating tensions between The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
and Greece.

CNN
...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for...
Greece reported that the man working on the ferry was reporting the position of Greek Navy ships, and providing other information concerning Greek army forces on the islands to the other suspect.

According to the Greek police’s statement, the investigation that led to the charges ’was conducted in close cooperation with the Greek National Intelligence Service, EYP.
Posted by: Fred || 12/13/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Fifth Column
Multiple People Injured After Driver Speeds Through Black Lives Matter Protest In New York
[Daily Caller] A vehicle drove into a crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters against Immigration and Customs Enforcement detentions on Friday, the New York Post reported.

The female driver stopped the car before driving into the crowd "tossing people into the air," according to witnesses and police, the Post reported. Six people were injured but no one sustained life-threatening injuries, according to police.

"A car just ran through a group of protesters, tossing people into the air," witness Mark Apolloa said, the Post reported. One protester rolled onto the hood of the vehicle and hit the windshield before falling to the ground.

"I saw individuals that were hit with the car flying up and over it. The windshield is totally cracked," Apolloa added, the Post reported.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/13/2020 06:19 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  ....Hot Air has a different view of the situation.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 12/13/2020 9:23 Comments || Top||

#2  /\ This may be link.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/13/2020 9:25 Comments || Top||

#3  Link no work. From Hot Air:

"The driver, an unnamed 52-year-old woman from Queens, was in her car with her daughter. When they came upon the demonstration, the street was entirely blocked by the protesters and she was forced to stop.

"At that point, the “protesters” surrounded her car and began beating on the hood and the roof, threatening to break the windows of the vehicle.

"In fear for the safety of herself and her daughter, the woman hit the gas to escape from the crowd. She only traveled a short distance until she saw some police officers and pulled over. She was later taken into custody."
Posted by: Shinetle Dark Lord of the Veps9034 || 12/13/2020 9:31 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ Block the street and beat on the car you should anticipate being a hood ornament. Self defense. Dismissed
Posted by: Frank G || 12/13/2020 9:51 Comments || Top||

#5  Needs a different car horn
Posted by: Glong Angains6498 || 12/13/2020 9:56 Comments || Top||

#6  ....Hot Air

Mike, I’ve fixed the link in your comment, after Besoeker and Shinetle Dark Lord of the Veps9034 brought it to our attention.

You forgot to delete or overwrite the placeholder http:// when you pasted your URL into the link box.

And as a result of that information, I moved the article to Page 1: War on Terror, Fifth Column with an Antifa/BLM tag.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/13/2020 10:37 Comments || Top||

#7  ...Miss TW,

Thank you so much for sorting that out - as always, it's appreciated.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 12/13/2020 11:37 Comments || Top||

#8  TW. Thank you.
Posted by: Sheba Protector of the Hohlraums47 || 12/13/2020 12:41 Comments || Top||

#9  In Driver's Ed we learned that running over people is bad. But if your choices are running over the guys trying to turn you into the next Reginald Denny OR being the next Reginald Denny, then you gotta do what you gotta do. *Beep*Beep*
Posted by: SteveS || 12/13/2020 14:12 Comments || Top||

#10  She shouldn't have trusted the New York PD or any entity under Bill de Blasio.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 12/13/2020 14:18 Comments || Top||

#11  Another reason you should stay home and wear your mask! .
Posted by: Bobby || 12/13/2020 16:32 Comments || Top||

#12 

SUMMARY:
The Big Bad Black Lives Only Matter protesters
decided to take on a woman in her car and got their A$$ handed to them?


Well Played, Well Played

Buy that woman a Tank of Gas.

(as long as it is done in Self-Defense)


Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/13/2020 17:35 Comments || Top||

#13  i heard the person got extra points on their driving test due to race like civil service tests!
Posted by: One Eyed Bourbon9651 || 12/13/2020 20:06 Comments || Top||


At least four protesters stabbed during violent clashes between Proud Boys and Antifa after 15,000 Trump fans attended Million MAGA March in DC; in Washington state demonstrator shot at 'Stop the Steal' rally
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Clashes erupted between members of the Proud Boys and Black Lives Matter protesters in D.C. on Saturday night after thousands of Trump supporters gathered for the second Million MAGA March

  • Four protesters were stabbed and transported to hospital in a critical condition, cops confirmed

  • Eight people in total were taken to hospital over the course of the night, including two police officers

  • Cops made at least 23 arrests as the Proud Boys and BLM protesters fought

  • The massive pro-Trump crowd had gathered after the Supreme Court issued Trump with yet another loss on Friday night in dismissing a case filed by the Texas Attorney General to overturn results in four states

  • The 'Stop the Steal' rally was protesting with claims of voter fraud, despite courts across the country throwing out the numerous suits filed by the Trump campaign when no evidence of their allegations was found

  • Michael Flynn, the former National Security Adviser pardoned by Trump, spoke to rallygoers

  • Alex Jones and Rudy Giuliani's star witness Melissa Carone also addressed the crowd

  • Enrique Tarrio, the head of Proud Boys, revealed on social media he was also at the White House on Saturday

  • Meanwhile in Washington state, a person was shot in similar violent clashes between protests groups

  • Washington State Police declared a riot in Olympia at around 1.30pm PST

  • And in Sacramento, five cops were injured and six people arrested following violent protests


Christian Trump Supporter Attacked 3 Times by Antifa at Washington, D.C. Protest
[Breitbart] Antifa
...the armed wing of the Democratic Party...
and BLM protesters attacked a Christian Trump supporter during an event in Washington, D.C., on Saturday evening. A man wearing all black comes up behind the man and punches him in the back of the head.

A tweet by journalist Drew Hernandez shows a man walking down a sidewalk in the nation’s capital. He says "Jesus Christ is coming back" to the surrounding crowd of hecklers. Sometime later, a man wearing black bloc comes up behind him and punches him in the back of the head.

Another man attempts to pepper spray the Christian man who takes off after his attacker. After chasing the man a few yards, he turns around and comes back.

Sometime later, he is seen trying to pick up a bicycle and another attacker jumps on his back. Others in the area pull the attacker off his back.

In another incident, Antifa/BLM protesters and Trump supporters engaged in a fight outside the Capitol Hilton Hotel. The video below shows a Trump supporter being hit in the head with a megaphone by one of the Antifa protesters.

Earlier in the day, Trump supporters gathered in Freedom Plaza for the "March for Trump" rally. The crowd sang "God Bless the USA."

1 Shot in Violent Protests in Washington State
[NewsMax] Police in Olympia arrested one person Saturday afternoon following a shooting at a violent protest between two heavily armed groups near the Capital building.

The Thurston County sheriff’s office confirmed the arrest but didn’t immediately release details.

The Olympia Police Department said the person who was shot was taken to a hospital by other civilians. That person’s injuries are unknown.

Police said they are aware of several videos involving the shooting.

The two groups had opposing political views, and each side was heavily armed with rifles, handguns and clubs, and engaged in violent clashes, police said. Police arrested a person earlier in the day for a firearms violation.

“We’ve had sporadic confrontations between groups throughout the day,” said Sgt. Darren Wright of the Washington State Patrol.

About 100 law enforcement officials with Olympia Police Department, Thurston County sheriff's office and Washington State Patrol tried to keep the protest orderly. Police declared a riot early in the afternoon and told the crowds to disperse.

Officials described a chaotic, fluid situation where the two groups clashed on the streets in Olympia before moving onto the grounds of the Capital building, where they continued engaging in violence against each other. Many of the protesters wore helmets and carried shields and clubs.

“Both groups were heavily armed, including firearms,” said Lt. Paul Lower of the Olympia Police Department. “They were fighting amongst themselves, two factions with opposing political beliefs.”

Groups planning demonstrations in the city included a group that wanted COVID-19 restrictions lifted, another protesting President Donald Trump’s loss in the presidential election last month, and a Black Lives Matter counter-protest.

Police said the groups were dispersing away from the Capital and back onto city streets when the shooting occurred. Video in the aftermath of the shooting shows a person on the ground, and another with a handgun walking across a parking lot.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/13/2020 03:25 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1 

If we must fight for Justice, then so be it.

I hope and pray all Law Enforcement Officers quickly recover and ID their assailants. Because no matter whom caused their injuries. Injuring any Law Enforcement officer, 1st Responder or caregiver cannot and will not be tolerated by a civil and just society.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/13/2020 5:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Anti-left and Trump supporters who think Law Enforcement will treat them the same as ‘peaceful’ Antifa and BLM protestors are making a huge mistake. Law enforcement has ignored violence by the left, protected Antifa and at times routed Trumps supports directly into Antifa and BLM matter mobs.
Posted by: Airandee || 12/13/2020 7:58 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ Unfortunately, the same algorithm applies to the military.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/13/2020 8:05 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: Ulavirong Omeager2818 || 12/13/2020 8:22 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ caption from DM: "the suspect [ie the Antifa peep with the knife in the above photo] had his face covered. It is not known if he was taken into custody or escaped after the incident"

The Democrats, who hold power in the affected cities states and now the executive branch, have openly supported the thugs who are stabbing, stomping, and shooting normal citizens.

Democrats and their media mouthpieces have told us that killers are "peaceful protesters" and that actually peaceful citizens are violent proto-Nazis.

We cannot rely on the presumption of rule of law.
We must not expect truth and justice to prevail.
To do so would be suicidal.

Draw your own conclusions.
Posted by: Galactic Coordinator Lumumba8048 || 12/13/2020 9:44 Comments || Top||

#6  Gonna be a bloody 4 years
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 12/13/2020 10:26 Comments || Top||

#7  ^ it's already been a bloody 6 months. Blamtifa have killed over 30 people already.

The murder rate in Chicago, NYC and a dozen other US cities has soared thanks to these killers' and their Democrat and media enablers' anti-police campaigns.

The fire was lit a long time ago.

Any pushback from the Right is just matching fire with fire.
Posted by: Elmusotch Speaking for Boskone3863 || 12/13/2020 10:31 Comments || Top||

#8  Could be 1 of the tens of thousands of convicted felons the left has released from prison just for this type of attack on the right.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 12/13/2020 10:32 Comments || Top||

#9  They wear masks and carry knives and guns

They hurl Molotov cocktails and barricade building exits before throwing firebombs into those buildings, inside of which public employees are trapped

They attack elderly citizens on the steeets of Washington DC
They attack Republican officials on the streets
They harass and attack citizens dining in restaurants
They threaten to unleash mobs on the homes of citizens and their families
They unleash Twitter mobs in the thousands to call for the murder of schoolchildren whose crime is wearing a MAGA hat
They stage campaigns of slander and lies to bring down anyone who has any connection to Trump

They attack journalists
They attack and murder police
They will do whatever they can to suppress any and all exposure of their lies crimes and brutality

In all of the above they gave the passive support, and in many cases the active encouragement, of
- the national leadership of the Democrat Party
- hundreds of elected Democrat officials nationwide
- nearly the entire newsmedia, university officials and academics, and the entertainment industry
- Wall Streer and Big Tech billionaires and executives
- dark money suppliers
- open suppliers of money, human capital and expertise such as George Soros
- Chinese Communist Party agents, assets and provocateurs


... and we're supposed to turn the other cheek in the face of this onslaught?

Understood: they think we're stupid. But do they think we're suicidal as well?
Posted by: Deadeye the Elder5711 || 12/13/2020 10:46 Comments || Top||

#10  Stabbed members of the Proud Boys. Jez, they just messed up.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 12/13/2020 12:05 Comments || Top||

#11  This is the WAPO's description of the Trump supporters:

All day, the masses nodded along to falsehoods, prayed for the country and cheered beside one another without masks.

The praying part always pisses them off.
Posted by: Matt || 12/13/2020 12:07 Comments || Top||

#12  "the masses nodded along to falsehoods"

The "masses"? WTF?
They really have morphed into Pravda
Posted by: Punky Brown3008 || 12/13/2020 12:12 Comments || Top||

#13  ESfB3863: the current situation is messy. What I'm speaking of is magnitudes above what we see now.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 12/13/2020 12:25 Comments || Top||

#14  Please elaborate, RM
Posted by: Ulaper Lumumba2863 || 12/13/2020 12:39 Comments || Top||

#15  /\ Yes, the potential for armed skirmishes, ambushes, and attacks is beginning to rear it's ugly head. Not good, good at all.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/13/2020 12:39 Comments || Top||

#16  #12 "Masses" is actually a concession to the size of the crowd. The first draft said "A tiny group of snaggle-toothed snake-handling Jesus freaks who didn't even go to Harvard..."
Posted by: Matt || 12/13/2020 12:45 Comments || Top||

#17  I am sure to the folks at the Washington Post not wearing a mask is reason enough to justify stabbing someone.
Posted by: Airandee || 12/13/2020 15:13 Comments || Top||

#18  UL2863: B says it better than I, and in fewer words.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 12/13/2020 20:04 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Explosion reported in Iraqi military compounds near Baghdad airport
[ENGLISHBETA.ALARABIYA.NET] An explosion took place near Baghdad international airport on Saturday in an area housing Iraqi military compounds, but caused no damage or casualties, security sources said.

The sources said the blast was caused by an unidentified object, and that it was not clear whether it was a projectile or a planted device.
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Iraqi military college targeted in new attack
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Turkey slams Iran for using 'offensive language' against Erdogan
[ALMASDARNEWS] Ankara condemns the "offensive language" used against President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
, the Anadolu Agency reported on Saturday, citing Ottoman Turkish Presidency Communications Director Fahrettin Altun.Altun referred to the statements recently made by some Iranian officials concerning the Azerbaijani poem Erdogan recited when attending the victory parade in Baku held to mark the end of the Karabakh war. The poem refers to what Iranian Azeris call the separation of Iranian Azerbaijan, a region in northwestern Iran, from the Republic of Azerbaijan by the Aras River.

"We condemn the use of offensive language towards our president and our country over the recitation of a poem, whose meaning has been deliberately taken out of context", the newspaper quoted Altun as saying.

Meanwhile,
...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter awoke groggily, his hand still stuck in the Ming vase...
the Ottoman Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlut Cavusoglu has assured Iranian Foreign Minisiter Javad Zarif
...Persian foreign minister, Mouthpiece of Mullahs, good friend of John Kerry and similar exemplars of Merkin values...
that Turkey and President Erdogan respect Iran’s national illusory sovereignty and territorial integrity.

"Our minister said that the poem, recited by Erdogan, appeals not to Iran, but to Karabakh. Since there are diplomatic channels, through which this issue might be discussed, reckless and strong statements made 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 Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and aimed at our president are unacceptable", the source said.
Zarif slammed the recited lines on Friday as referring to "forcible separation of areas north of Aras from Iranian motherland".

According to the Ottoman Turkish Foreign Ministry, Erdogan had not been aware of "sensitivities surrounding the lines" of the poem he recited in Baku.



Posted by: Fred || 12/13/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Too bad, Yippy. How about let's you and them fight?
Posted by: Vernal Johnson4298 || 12/13/2020 11:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Next time, Sultan Erdogan, think twice before bad-mouthing Macron.
Posted by: Clem || 12/13/2020 11:45 Comments || Top||


Turkish army launches new attack in northern Syria
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Executed Iranian journalist Zam falsely promised release, not given execution notice
[ENGLISHBETA.ALARABIYA.NET] Executed Iranian journalist Ruhollah Zam was falsely promised release in a prisoner exchange by Iran’s authorities, who also gave him no notice of his execution, his father said on Saturday.

Zam, who 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 Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
had convicted of inciting violence during anti-government protests in late 2017, was executed on Saturday, state media reported. He ran Amadnews, a channel on popular messaging app Telegram which had over a million followers.

Zam’s father, Mohammad-Ali Zam, a holy man who served in senior government positions in the 1980s and 1990s, said in an Instagram post that judicial authorities had falsely promised to release his son in a prisoner exchange.

Authorities "tricked" Zam into making false confessions and statements on that basis, claiming the confessions would facilitate the supposed prisoner swap, Zam’s father wrote.

Iranian state TV aired a series of televised confessions earlier this year over his work. Iran’s state broadcaster (IRIB) has a long history of airing purported confessions that activists and rights groups say are obtained through threats and torture.

Neither Zam nor his family were given notice for his execution, Zam’s father said, adding that Zam was also not informed the Supreme Court had upheld his death sentence
...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
Zam, who had been given political asylum in La Belle France and was also based in other parts of Europe, was captured in 2019 after years in exile. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said at the time they had "trapped" Zam in a "complex operation using intelligence deception."

The IRGC did not say where the operation took place. Iranian media reported Zam was captured after travelling to Iraq.

Zam was sentenced to death in June, and his death sentence was upheld by Iran’s Supreme Court on Tuesday.

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Russian warplanes launch new strikes on jihadist stronghold in northwestern Syria
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Russian Aerospace Forces launched new Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s over the northwestern region of Syria on Saturday morning, as their warplanes targeted the jihadist stronghold of Kabani in northeastern Latakia.

According to reports from the field, the Russian warplanes bombed the positions of the Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP)
... Uighur jihadi group based in Badakshan, Afghanistan and listed under Tehrik-e-Taliban in the Al Qaeda organization table. Their Syria subsidiary currently reports to Al Nusra in the Idlib-Latakia region, where the Russians and Americans take turns shooting them — they’re on their third Number 1 in three years...
in Kabani, along with a number of points in the nearby al-Ghaab Plain.

The reports said the Russian Aerospace Forces also launched a few strikes in the Jabal al-Zawiya region,
...about 10 km from the Syrian border in Idlib province...
which is currently under the control of the jihadist rebels and their allies from the Ottoman Turkish-backed National Liberation Front
...the Turkic paramilitaries intended to replace with their native jihadi ferocity all the highly trained Turkish soldiers Sultan Erdogan I the much beloved has jailed in the last few years for not worshipping the ground he walks upon. The Uighurs and so forth who did not join Al Nusra or ISIS seem to have ended up here...
The Russian Aerospace Forces launch airstrikes from time-to-time in northwestern Syria, especially once their reconnaissance planes capture footage of jihadist movements in Latakia, Idlib and Aleppo.

Earlier this year, the Russian Aerospace Forces carried out one of their most devastating attacks since entering the Syrian conflict, as their military aircraft bombed the training camp of the Ottoman Turkish-backed Faylaq al-Sham bully boy group in northern Idlib.

This aforementioned attack by the Russian Aerospace Forces resulted in the death of over 100 Ottoman Turkish-backed bandidos bully boyz and the destruction of the training camp.
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