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Yemeni Army Stuns Houthis in Hajjah, Prepares for Taiz Operations
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Good morning
Team Biden knows its open-borders
plan is unpopular — so why do it?
Sunday March 14th, 2021

Lily Elsie 43d040b31413dc79663.
Provincial CID chief shot dead: Kapisa
Three Civilians Killed in Uruzgan Roadside Bomb Blast: Official
ANA, AAF operations claim 28 Taliban in Kandahar
MoD’s Plan to Merge Army Corps Sparks Reaction from MPs
11 Security Force Members Killed in Kunduz, Balkh
US resumes aid to Yemen's rebel north as famine threatens
Nashville Police Release Dramatic
Video Of Officer Involved Shooting

Posted by: Fred || 03/14/2021 08:58 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A Bloid!
Posted by: Frank G || 03/14/2021 9:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Alleluia! Alleluia!!!!
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 03/14/2021 9:05 Comments || Top||

#3  Think the sleeves might be covering up some gang tats..
Posted by: Warthog || 03/14/2021 9:38 Comments || Top||

#4  The depth of Beauty is not judge by the absents of clothing, nor by the plastering of body art displayed. But by the simple grace, style and movement of the women herself.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/14/2021 10:12 Comments || Top||

#5  Serena Williams just came to mind.
Posted by: Clem || 03/14/2021 10:25 Comments || Top||

#6  Serena is Galactus to Big Mike as Thanos
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/14/2021 11:52 Comments || Top||

#7  I see Fred has fully recovered.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 03/14/2021 13:36 Comments || Top||

#8  Welcome back, sir.
Posted by: CrankyOldYankee || 03/14/2021 14:52 Comments || Top||

#9  Way to go Fred and family.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/14/2021 15:50 Comments || Top||

#10  Lace, why does it...

Welcome back Fred!
Posted by: CrazyFool || 03/14/2021 17:54 Comments || Top||

#11  Nice bodice if you ask me. Which nobody did so I'll shut up.
Posted by: jpal || 03/14/2021 18:02 Comments || Top||

#12  What I meant to say was Mario Cuomo would hit it in a heartbeat. I have a sixth sense about these things.
Posted by: jpal || 03/14/2021 18:28 Comments || Top||

#13  You meant Andrew, or was papa a jerk, too?
Posted by: Clem || 03/14/2021 18:56 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
11 Security Force Members Killed in Kunduz, Balkh
[ToloNews] At least 11 Afghan security force members were killed in two separate attacks by the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
in the northern provinces of Kunduz and Balkh provinces on Friday night, sources said.

Sources said that six security force members were killed in a Taliban attack on an outpost in the Khan Abad district in the northern province of Kunduz on Friday night.

According to sources, five security force members were taken hostage by the Taliban.

Moreover, a security source said that five Taliban were also killed in the attack. The outpost fell to the bandidos turbans following the attack, sources said.

Officials and the Taliban so far have not commented on the attack.

Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch shot Black Bart's other gun out of his other hand......
five members of the Afghan National Army were killed and two more were maimed in a Taliban attack in Sholgara district, Balkh province, on Friday night, the head of Balkh provincial council, Mohammad Afzal Hadid, said.

He said the attack happened on an outpost in Bagh-e-Pahlawan village in the Sholgara district.

Sources said eight security forces members and six Taliban were killed in the festivities.

The sources said that the Taliban set fire to the army outpost and took two Humvee vehicles with them.

The 209 Shaheen Army Corps declined to comment on the festivities, but their front man said in a news hounds group confirmed the festivities but did not provide details on it.

The Taliban claimed that they have killed 10 soldiers and have taken two of them in the attack.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/14/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


ANA, AAF operations claim 28 Taliban in Kandahar
[KhaamaPress] The Ministry of Defense said Saturday that 28 Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
hard boyz were killed in attacks conducted by security forces and the Afghan Air Force in Kandahar province.

MoD stated that Afghan national defense and security forces backed by air support launched a clearance operation in Arghandab and Zherai districts of Kandahar province.

The operation led to the death of 28 Talibs, seven of the group’s members are also injured during the skirmish, MoD reported.

During the operation 13 cycle of violences, 13 bags of explosives, and 50 Taliban positions were targeted and destroyed by the ANA, according to the Ministry of defense.

The statement indicated that a large number of weapons and ammunition were also destroyed.

MoD added that 11 mines planted by the Taliban were also discovered and the bombs were later neutralized and many were saved from harm.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/14/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Three Civilians Killed in Uruzgan Roadside Bomb Blast: Official
[ToloNews] Three civilians, including a child, were killed after their vehicle struck a bomb placed by the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
on a roadside in a key highway in the southern province of Uruzgan on Saturday morning, an official said.

Uruzgan governor Mohammad Omar Shirzad said the earth-shattering kaboom happened in the Sorkhbait area on the outskirts of Tarinkot city, the center of the province.

Shirzad said four more, including three children and a woman who were traveling in the same vehicle, were maimed in the earth-shattering kaboom.

No group has grabbed credit for the attack.

This comes amidst a sharp increase in violence in the country despite peace efforts.

Figures by security agencies indicate that roughly 30 security force members and civilians were either killed or maimed in attacks and security incidents in 10 provinces on Thursday and Friday.

Maidan Wardak, Balkh, Herat
...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
, Ghor, Kandahar, Badghis, Kabul, Paktia and Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
witnessed security incidents in the last two days, according to security agencies.
Media outlets in the country reported that within 48 hours 30 civilians were either killed or wounded in security incidents in Maidan Wardak, Balkh, Herat, Kandahar, Ghor, Badghis, Kabul, Paktia, and Nangarhar.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/14/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Provincial CID chief shot dead: Kapisa
[KhaamaPress] Security sources in Kapisa province confirmed that Mustaqim Khan, the commander of the provincial police Criminal Investigation Department was killed by unknown button men.

Shayeq Shoresh, a front man for Kapisa police HQ told the media that the incident happened on Friday in the Qala-e-Sayed Khan area of PD1 in Mahmud-Raqi city, the capital of Kapisa province.

Gunmen sprayed the police intelligence chief with bullets as he was returning to his home after Friday prayers.

It is reported that his brother was also injured during the shooting.

Following the incident locals in the province killed two Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
attackers and hung their bodies on a tree.

Taliban on the other hand reacted to the killings of their two members and called the act inhumane and said the dead bodies of their members were insulted.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/14/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [18 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa Subsaharan
Nigerian Army: We foiled attempt to abduct Turkish students in Kaduna
Yesterday’ s report of the partially foiled kidnap attempt is here.
[Today-Nigeria] The Nigerian Army has said troops of 1 Division in Kaduna foiled the attempt to kidnap students of Ottoman Turkish International Secondary School, Rigachikun, Kaduna State.
No doubt one of the many Gulenist schools the Turkish government took over when President Erdogan turned on his former BFF Fethullen Gulen, arresting all his people that could be reached and confiscating all their possessions ditto, including most of the vast international network of private schools.
In a statement on Friday, The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Mohammed Yerima, explained that the troops protected the school.

Yerima said while the troops were protecting the school, the bandidos headed to the Federal School of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, Igabi Local Government Area of the State.

"Acting on a tip-off on the impending abduction of the school children, troops quickly mobilized to protect the school from the bandidos.

"However,
some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them...
while the troops were securing the secondary school, another distress call came that bandidos had stormed the Federal School of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, Igabi Local Government Area of the state with aim of kidnapping the staff and students. The troops swiftly moved to Afaka and decisively engaged the armed bandidos.

"The bandidos were said to have broken into the institution by breaching the perimeter fence of the school.

He said a combined team of Army, Air Force, Police and Department of State Services operatives are currently combing the forest for the bandidos.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/14/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Fulani Herdsmen (Boko Haram)


Arabia
Yemeni Army Stuns Houthis in Hajjah, Prepares for Taiz Operations
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] The Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
i military stunned the Iran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
militias in Hajjah by liberating several territories in the northwestern border province.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 03/14/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under: Houthis

#1  ...Houthis horrified in Hajjah? Holy Hannah!

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 03/14/2021 12:04 Comments || Top||

#2  I would call THE OAT SQUAD chubby cheeks.
Posted by: Dale || 03/14/2021 12:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Qat Squad (or Khat)
Posted by: Frank G || 03/14/2021 12:41 Comments || Top||

#4  The army probably attacked in the afternoon when all the Qat chewers were thoroughly doped up.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 03/14/2021 12:47 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
Federal Protective Service removed the barrier around the courthouse in Portland after the city pressured them to do so in order to return “normalcy”
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 03/14/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Communist Peoples Democrat Party of Portland are Antifa.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 03/14/2021 0:21 Comments || Top||

#2 
Remember this is the Harris / Pelosi Administration.
As we already know, ANTI-FArt along with BL"Only"M and their long list collection of Hurt Feelings Protest groups are all part of the Socialist-Democrat “normalcy”.

Therefore they need unbridled access to Federal, conservative businesses to release their "love" and understanding on during their "Peaceful" Protests.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/14/2021 5:34 Comments || Top||


Portland police detain more than 100 people during protest
[NYPOST] Portland police cracked down on protesters Friday night, detaining more than 100 people in hopes of preventing a second night of window smashing and fire-setting.Protestors had gathered in the Pearl District in downtown Portland around 8:30 p.m., but cops quickly warned anyone who blocked the streets would be arrested.
"and given a hickory shampoo. Anyone released will have a permanent limp. Go ahead..."
At around 9:20 p.m., cops said on Twitter they were setting up a perimeter around the demonstrators and detaining them.

But they said the detention was temporary and that protestors would be escorted out "one at a time."

A crowd stood outside the perimeter chanting "let them go," according to OregonLive, which also reported cops pepper-sprayed two demonstrators.

The detained protesters were released after being photographed individually by the police; it was unclear if any were charged with crimes.
If they were, they’ll be released without bond or even so much as a warning. That’s the way they swing in Portland.
Ongoing anti-police protests turned violent mostly peaceful on Thursday when rioters smashed windows near a federal court and set fires. Police responded with tear gas and smoke bombs to drive away the crowds, the outlet reported.

[PUBLISH.TWITTER]






Posted by: Fred || 03/14/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Word has it that Portland mayor was warned by Biden admin, 'clean up your act, or no money for you.'
Posted by: b || 03/14/2021 10:41 Comments || Top||

#2  /\ Their task complete, the useful idiots must now remain calm. The Biden aquarian utopia has arrived.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/14/2021 10:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Scruffy looking bunch
Posted by: badanov || 03/14/2021 13:41 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Ambani bomb threat case: NIA arrests Sachin Vaze
Yesterday the NIA was looking the former head of the Indian Mujahideen, a local auxiliary of Lashkar-e-Taiba. Who d’you suppose this assistant police inspector is connected to, dear Reader?
[OneIndia] Sachin Vaze, an assistant police inspector has been arrested by the National Investigation Agency.

"Sachin Vaze arrested in NIA In Case RC no. 01/2021/NIA/MUM under section 286, 465, 473, 506(2), 120 B of IPC, and 4(a)(b)(I) Explosive Substances Act 1908," an NIA statement read.

Vaze had denied that he was using the Scorpio which was in possession of Mansukh Hiran, a senior Maharashtra Anti- Terrorism Squad (ATS) official said on Thursday.

The ATS, which is probing Hiran's mysterious death, recorded Vaze's statement earlier this week, he said.

Hiran's wife had claimed that her husband had given the SUV to Vaze in November, which the Mumbai crime branch officer returned in the first week of February.

On February 25, the SUV was found near industrialist Mukesh Ambani's house in south Mumbai with explosives and a threat letter inside. Hiran had claimed that it had been stolen a week earlier, but the case got murky when he was found dead in a creek in Thane on March 5.

Vaze, accused by Hiran's wife of involvement in her husband's suspicious death, was shunted out of the Mumbai crime branch on Wednesday.

Meanwhile,
...back at the revival hall, Buford bit the snake and Eloise began speaking in tongues...
the Sherlocks have yet to trace the Innova car in which the man who parked the Scorpio near Ambani's house is seen leaving the spot in CCTV footage, another official said.

Vaze was on Friday transferred from the crime intelligence unit to the special branch. Teams of the ATS and NIA, which has taken over the probe have almost identified Hiran's last location from where he disappeared under mysterious circumstances.

The agencies found a face mask and several handkerchiefs on Hiren's face when his body was pulled out of creek in Thane.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/14/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Lashkar e-Taiba


Iraq
ISIS Claims Murder of Iraqi Family for Allegedly Spying for PMF
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 03/14/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Crowd Attacks Iran Coast Guard after Smuggler Shot
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 03/14/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Protests around Lebanon as Local Currency Continues to Slide
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 03/14/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah



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2Muslim Brotherhood
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1Sublime Porte
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1Govt of Pakistain Proxies
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Sun 2021-03-14
  Yemeni Army Stuns Houthis in Hajjah, Prepares for Taiz Operations
Sat 2021-03-13
  Houthis Reject US Ceasefire Plan in Yemen
Fri 2021-03-12
  Tunisia: Calls For Govt Resignation after Attack on MPs
Thu 2021-03-11
  Saudi-led coalition strikes Houthi targets around Yemen capital
Wed 2021-03-10
  Security forces gun down chief of Al-Badr without any collateral damage
Tue 2021-03-09
  January 23rd drone attack launched on Saudi capital from Iraq, likely by Kataib Hezbollah
Mon 2021-03-08
  Arab Coalition Intercepts 2 Houthi Missiles, 12 Drones
Sun 2021-03-07
  Gov. Abbott Deploys Texas National Guard, State Troopers to Counter Biden's ‘Open Border Policies'
Sat 2021-03-06
  More ballistic missile strikes on other oil markets now in northern Syria, this time near al-Bab
Fri 2021-03-05
  VP vote needed just to get House Covid-19 bill heard on Senate Floor!
Thu 2021-03-04
  an 8.0 Ouch with some 7.3's and tsunami ?
Wed 2021-03-03
  Rockets hit air base in Iraq hosting American troops, US forces say
Tue 2021-03-02
  Israel sentences senior PFLP member to two years in prison
Mon 2021-03-01
  Portland protesters smash businesses as locals scream at them to 'go home'
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