Breaking: After more than eight hours at the hostage-taking standoff at a Wells Fargo bank in St. Cloud, Minn., FBI officers rushed in & apprehended the black male suspect alive. pic.twitter.com/lmIDR3TQMg
[FoxNews] More than two dozen people were recovered from a big rig that was stopped near San Antonio, including one person who was taken to a hospital, a police official in Texas said.
A passerby called police Thursday to report a suspicious semitruck along Interstate 10, east of San Antonio, Lt. Jesse Salame told reporters. A San Antonio Park police officer initiated a traffic stop.
As the officer approached the vehicle, the back door swung open and several people ran out, Salame said. Authorities made contact with 29 of the people who had been in the semitruck.
One person was taken to the hospital to be treated for dehydration, San Antonio Fire Department spokesperson Joe Arrington said.
The traffic stop is being investigated for possible human smuggling, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement told KSAT-TV in a statement.
The driver of the truck, described only as a 49-year-old, was taken into custody, Salame said.
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[ToloNews] Households and businesses in Afghanistan’s capital have been hit by blackouts after electricity pylons in the north of the city were blown up early on Friday morning, the main power utility, Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS), said.
DABS said the incident happened in Mirzakhil village in Kalakan district of Kabul at around 4:45 am on Friday in which two power pylons that transmit imported 220 kilovolts of power from Uzbekistan to Kabul were destroyed and a third pylon was partly damaged.
DABS said that bomb has been placed near another power pylon in the area, but a team from the Afghan army is in the area to defuse the bomb.
The company said that its workers will be sent to the area once the area is safe.
[ToloNews] Security forces are advancing in Baghlan where commando forces have arrived to help other troops in the battle against the Taliban ...Arabic for students... in the northern province, the Ministry of Defense said on Friday.
Shafiullah Mohammadi, a special forces commander in Baghlan, said the security forces have "pushed back" Taliban attacks in Baghlan-e-Markazi district and Dahana-e-Ghori area on the outskirts of Pul-e-Khumri city.
The Defense Ministry said that the new commando forces deployed to Baghlan have been stationed in Pul-e-Khumri city and have started clearance operations in areas under Taliban influence.
"The enemy has had 100 casualties in the fight against the national police, the NDS, and the army forces. Their casualties have increased with the arrival of the commando forces last night and the operation will continue," Mohammadi said.
The commando forces commander said he assures the people of Afghanistan, especially the Baghlan residents, that "security forces are fully ready to defend the people against any threats."
Local officials and residents have said that the highways connecting Baghlan with Takhar and Kunduz provinces in northern and northeastern Afghanistan have been closed to traffic for the last two days due to recent festivities. Officials said civilians are traveling through subways that are mostly under Taliban influence.
[ToloNews] Heavy fighting ... as opposed to the more usual name-calling or slapsy... is underway in several fronts across Afghanistan after Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... launched attacks on the Afghan cops’ security outposts in various regions of Ghazni, Maidan Wardak, Laghman ...Afghan province with a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.
After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men... , Baghlan and Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... provinces over the last 24 hours.
In the latest wave of violent mostly peaceful incident, Taliban stormed two security outposts in Arezo village on the outskirts of Ghazni city, killing at least 16 security force members and injuring three more.
In Maidan Wardak province, local officials have confirmed that in Maidan Shar city, three soldiers apparently associated with the Taliban opened fire and killed ten soldiers and then fled to a Taliban-controlled area along their military equipment.
The Afghan Ministry of Defense said that the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) have dealt major blows to the Taliban during the recent spate of violence in various parts of the country.
"Heavy casualties were inflicted to the enemy particularly in Helmand, Baghlan, Ghazni, Maidan Wardak and Kandahar provinces. The security forces are crushing forces of Evil with more strength than ever before," said Rohullah Ahmadzai, front man for the Ministry of Defense.
Ahmadzai said that the ANDSF stormed a gathering of high-profile Taliban members in Bolan area outside Lashkargah city and killed a key Taliban commander and maimed their shadow governors.
"At least six security force members were martyred following their resistance against the Taliban in Arezo village of Ghazni, three more solders were maimed. Likewise, 12 other (soldiers) were taken hostage by the Taliban. In the second outpost, no resistance occurred and eight soldiers surrendered to the Taliban," said Hassan Reza Yousufi, member of Ghazni provincial council.
"It is not right that the government evacuate outposts or districts and deploy in the center of the cities. We should take the war from the centers to the districts and to the remote areas," said Khan Agha Rezayee, the head of parliament’s internal security commission.
In western Afghanistan, at least 23 Taliban fighters were killed and 27 others were maimed after the Afghan Air Force targeted a gathering of local Taliban commanders in Bala Buluk district of the province, local officials said.
Farah governor Taj Mohammad Jahid said that the air strike was carried out on Friday in Shewan village of Bala Buluk.
Taliban has also claimed that their fighters fired several missiles on a security base in the area.
"The Taliban once again proved their dark face. They massacred the hostages," said Dadullah Qane, the head of Farah provincial council.
Good. It’s about time they stopped pussyfooting around this.
[PREMIUMTIMESNG] The Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami, said on Friday, that ongoing investigations have revealed many highly placed Nigerians and businessmen involved in financing terrorism.
Mr Malami, who doubles as the Minister of Justice, said the ’strongly’ suspected financiers were already being profiled for prosecution.
The minister, who disclosed this while fielding questions from State House news hounds in Abuja, said investigations revealing the activities of the suspected terrorism financiers were triggered by a recent conviction of some Nigerians in the United Arab Emirate (UAE) for funding 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... This is coming amid heightened attacks by Boko Haram, non-state actors and other perpetrators of violent mostly peaceful crimes in different parts of the country.
Daily Trust earlier in November 2020 reported how an appellate court in Abu Dhabi, UAE, affirmed the conviction of six Nigerians funding the dreaded terrorist group.
The newspaper also reported in April that dozens of persons had been arrested by security agencies in an ongoing nationwide crackdown on the suspected financiers and collaborations.
’WIDER INVESTIGATIONS AFTER UAE CASE’
Confirming the reports on Friday, Mr Malami said the Nigerian government embarked on "a wider and far-reaching investigations" into terrorism financing after the conviction of Boko Haram financiers in UAE.
He said, "I’m happy to report that arriving from the wider coverage investigation that has been conducted in Nigeria, a number of people, both institutional and otherwise, were found to be culpable.
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[PMNEWSNIGERIA] 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... and ISWAP turbans on the prowl in Nigeria are several steps ahead of government security agencies and surveillance systems.
In a shocking revelation, Halilu Shaba, the Director-General of the National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) Who knew?
set the turbans have become sophisticated in their operations.
He said waves received by the agency from remote areas show the bandidos no longer use Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) phones, but walkie-talkie. Range? we don't need no steenking range!
Shaba said NASRDA is at present ill-equipped to monitor the bandidos because of inadequate satellite and other facilities..
He spoke on Wednesday in an interview with journalists in Abuja after an interactive meeting with staff of the agency.
"The Satellite is not static where the insurgency is taking place. That is why one satellite is not adequate. What Nigeria has are some two satellites doing two different things.
"We have a High-Resolution imaging satellite and Medium Resolution imaging satellite.
"The activities of the bandidos could be when the satellite was away from Nigerian borders, so that is why we are advocating for more satellites for Nigeria," he said.
Shaba, therefore, called for collaboration between the agency and security agencies in the country in the area of information sharing, especially when planning to launch attacks on the criminal elements.
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[PJ] Portland’s revolutionaries from Black Lives Matter and antifa took over a busy street at noon on Wednesday and pulled guns on drivers who dared try to dart past the mob. The groups were holding a rally for a gangland shooter who was killed by police in 2018. That shooting was ruled justified (more below).
The chaotic scene included guns being drawn on white drivers by the multiracial BLM and antifa protesters and one driver drew his own weapon in reply. Someone deployed pepper spray.
A driver was reportedly beaten and held against his will, another had his back window destroyed and shots of some sort were fired by the AK-47- and AR-15-wielding terrorists. Multiple sharp sounds were heard followed by the sound of whooshing air after the militants flattened the tires of a car the gun-wielding crowd had forced to stop. The man was "aided" to the sidewalk, as a live-streamer put it (see the video below).
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Are Antifa/BLM sponsors in government trying to terrorize local property owners into selling their houses cheaply by raising the specter of the neighborhood falling under warlord rule for a couple of weeks?
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This is armed insurrection, and should be put down hard. Throw these people in prison, or kill them in the streets. That is the only choice they are leaving us.
They attempt to stop me, Im shooting at anyone threatening my life until either I stop moving, or they do.
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USP, are you a resident of Portland or just another keyboard warrior?
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Ref #2: Are Antifa/BLM sponsors in government trying to terrorize local property owners into selling their houses cheaply by raising the specter of the neighborhood falling under warlord rule for a couple of weeks?
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CF: there were no arrests. Police did not respond in anyway except to release a statement. As such, all should expect more of the same. It won't matter who starts the shooting - BLM won't get the blame.
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Apparently the same situation occurred in Texas. Police were on the scene and did nothing except to protect the BLM terrorists from irate Texans. Again, BLM will not get the blame when the shooting starts.
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Rex, what situation are you talking about in TX? Was it the downtown Austin BLM fascist street rally last year where one of them pointed an AK at an off duty Army Sgt Uber driver and got to personally meet Karl Marx?
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SC1921: Different event. Gun drawn in this incident was a pistol, drawn point blank against motorist who exited vehicle to confront the terrorists. Same motorist then dressed down LE on the scene who were doing nothing. I could find no reference in video or comments as to locale.
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True, but I expect the first incident will be idiots shooting idiots. The um..more professional type of incidents will occur after that.
The "Three men in a truck, one pulling security/driver with two in the bed using long guns laying down aimed fire at any armed terrorists from 200-300 meters for 30 seconds" will come after Bubba and 4 of his buddies roll up in a massive dualie and open fire from the truck bed. Least that's how I see it playing out.
Plano is a nice suburb of Dallas — trailing daughter #2 lives there. It’s legally a city for taxation purposes, or perhaps because they prefer a mayor to a town council. When td#2 and her new husband moved there in 2015, house prices were increasing 10% per month, and house buyers were putting in offers on multiple properties at above asking price, sight unseen.
I notice that the protest is tiny, and the policeman is protecting the protesters instead of clearing the main roads so that traffic can flow.
From Silentbrick’s Breitbart article:
The Texas Legislature is currently considering legislation to make blocking a roadway a state jail felony if the protester blocks passage of an emergency vehicle or the entrance to a hospital, the Texas Tribune reported.
The bill, HB-9, passed out of the Texas House of Representatives by a vote of 90-55 and headed to the Senate for consideration.
The bill from the Texas legislature comes in response to an incident in California last year where two deputies were shot and protesters blocked the entrance to the hospital, the Tribune explained.
The bill, if passed, will provide a sentence of up to six months in State Jail. It also includes a minimum of ten days in jail regardless of previous criminal history.
It seems to me that blocking the roads when protesting is what ought to be illegal, but one step at a time.
Today, armed #BLM protesters in Portland shut down the road. They beat up this older man & stole his gun. Additionally, the rioters smashed out windows of another vehicle. One person was transported to hospital. Police made no arrests. #antifapic.twitter.com/FS5guM41ap
At the armed #BLM march this afternoon in north Portland that intimidated a residential area, the extremists smashed up an occupied car on the road. Attacks on drivers by rioters is commonplace in Portland. pic.twitter.com/WZVralIFMq
[Finance.yahoo] Top U.S. fuel pipeline operator Colonial Pipeline has shut its entire network after a cyber attack, the company said in a statement on Friday.
Colonial's network supplies fuel from U.S refiners on the Gulf Coast to the populous eastern and southern United States. The company transports 2.5 million barrels per day of gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and other refined products through 5,500 miles (8,850 km) of pipelines.
Colonial Pipeline says it transports 45% of East Coast fuel supply.
The company learned of the attack on Friday and took systems offline to contain the threat, it said in the statement. That action has temporarily halted operations and affected some of its IT systems, it said.
The company has engaged a third-party cybersecurity firm to launch an investigation, and Colonial has contacted law enforcement and other federal agencies, it said.
Colonial did not give further details or say for how long its pipelines would be shut.
Reuters reported earlier on Friday that Colonial had shut its main gasoline and distillate lines.
During the trading session on Friday, Gulf Coast cash prices for gasoline and diesel edged lower.
Both gasoline and diesel futures on the New York Mercantile Exchange rose more than crude prices during the day. Gasoline futures gained 0.6% to settle at $2.1269 a gallon, while diesel futures rose 1.1% to settle at $2.0106 a gallon.
Longer-term price effects will depend on the amount of time that the lines are shut. If barrels are not able to make it onto the lines, Gulf Coast prices could weaken further, while prices in New York Harbor could rise, one market participant said.
Colonial significantly shut down its gasoline and distillate lines during Hurricane Harvey, which hit the Gulf Coast in 2017.
During that time, spot Gulf Coast gasoline prices rose to a five-year high, while diesel prices rose to around a four-year high.
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Still uninformed as to how / why / where an oil pipeline can be affected by a cyber attack.
In a related vein, a story popped up on the internet where some kind of a think tank speculated that a days-long regional shutdown of the US electric grid during a major heatwave could lead to 1000s of heat-related deaths among the populace. Something very like that happened in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
I'm sure we have our "top men" working on scenarios like these. NOT.
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/\ Still uninformed as to how / why / where an oil pipeline can be affected by a cyber attack.
Oil tank farms and pumping stations are, for the most part, now computerized.
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Oil tank farms and pumping stations are, for the most part, now computerized I get that part of it. My lawn mower is computerized now. But it has zero connection to the internet or any other network.
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Ref #5: Apologies, I should have also added these facilities are generally operated remotely.
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The word for today is: SCADA - Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition is the use of hardare/software systems to remotely monitor and operate industrial facilities. Like pipelines.
Once upon a time, when the world was new and you could get VC funding just by appending "on the Internet" to your business plan, I applied for a job with a pipeline company looking to put their SCADA systems on the Internet. At the time, on-line access seemed bold and a bit dangerous. I'm sure they have the bugs out of it by now...
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Oil tank farms and pumping stations are, for the most part, now computerized
The Industrial Internet. Each piece is connected to the internet and continually sends telemetry information. Running Speed, Temperature, RPM, Flow, pressures, etc... It enables centralised deep monitoring of the equipment to prevent outages. Machine Learning app notices that a certain piece of equipment fails soon after it starts running over a certain RPM - or this other connected item runs a certain way. It can make changes (reduce flow for example) or schedule preventive maintenance _before_ the item fails and causes other problems.
I'm sure a pipeline has hundreds, if not thousands of valves, gages, and such to manage the flow of the oil. Managing it all is probably very complicated.
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The soposited hackers are claimed to have affected the pipeline juntion point located in the area near I20 SC EXIT 4. There It runs North & South for East coast users. Gas on metro Atlanta area is up 60cents a gallon and about 15 cents cents middle Sc/Ga area.
Btw this is same pipeline that broke about 6+ years back and gas got hard to get for 2 weeks.
Channel 2 Action News learned that agents who were tracking a drug shipment from overseas made an even more dangerous discovery.
Channel 2′s Mark Winne was on Captain Drive, where DEA agents and U.S. Postal Inspectors showed up with a search warrant for drugs -- but found evidence of another kind of danger, potential bomb-making materials.
DEA Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jae Chung said when agents found evidence of bomb-making, they had to back off and call in other agencies.
“When our agents made entry into the house to execute the warrant, during their search, they discovered what they believed was bomb-making material,” Chung said. “So they paused and they contacted the ATF and the DeKalb County Police Department bomb squad.”
Chung said DeKalb Fire Rescue responded as well as officers from local police departments. Experts began a careful, drawn-out process to find out just what they had. Any explosive danger had to be investigated before the drug investigation could go any further.
Agents said they found a number of different kinds of chemicals.
“Right now, they are still in the process of collecting that evidence, so that will be determined later on,” Chung said. “It’s not something that we see every day, but it does happen. We’re obviously very concerned for public safety.”
It was hard to determine at the scene who was working the drug case and who was there to investigate the possible drug angle.
“We’re trying to determine from a drug investigation standpoint whether or not this individual was a much larger distributor within the region in receiving large amounts of shipments from overseas and possibly distributing it throughout the local area as well as the southeast.”
One person was taken into custody.
“We do have one suspect in custody, but unfortunately we can’t get into a lot of details about who he is and what he’s done,” Chung said.
The suspect was taken to the DeKalb County jail, where he is facing drug charges. It’s unclear how many charges he will face.
A hazardous materials clean-up crew will go through the home.
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Links are all busted and I’m finding no mention in the local news. I live here and haven’t heard a thing, other than when some kid walked into a Publix not too long ago armed to the teeth, was arrested and then radio silence as afar as follow up.
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Sorry looks like the links work now... still wonder what happened to that Publix kid...
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Channel 2′s Mark Winne was just happened to be on Captain Drive
Guess I need to move the diesel and fertilizer out of my barn.
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I fixed the link between your first and second comments, Lionel Lover of the Swedes2268 — thank you for the heads up. NN2N1 is working his way up the learning curve, as we all must.
NN2N1, please paste the URL into the source box, not a description of where you found it. All I did was take it from WSB-TV for Initial reports and paste it where it belonged — the easiest fix I’ve done in a while. :-)
Some added info....
Some of my Security sources in Metro-A says the bomb(s) were Styrofoam container(s) wrapped with BB's and filled with a binary explosive and detonator.
So the guy may have been looking at doing something on much bigger human scale.
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You have to wonder how many F-16s might somehow migrate to join the remaining F-14 fleet in Iran. All sorts of things get misplaced and sold in the Middle East.
[IsraelTimes] Arab Israelis and Paleostinians in the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip were expected to hold mass protests on Saturday in the wake of Friday’s festivities in Jerusalem between Paleostinians and the Israel Police, in which some 200 Paleostinians and 17 officers were maimed.
The Arab High Follow-Up Committee, a body that represents Arab Israelis, called for protests in Arab towns and cities across the country in response to the violence.
And in Gaza, the Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede, terror group’s official media outlet said Gaza-based groups were calling for demonstrations near Gaza’s border fence with Israel on Saturday in protest of Israeli actions in Jerusalem.
The Israeli Committee called for "support of Jerusalem and its people" in the face of "the bloody terrorist aggression against al-Aqsa Mosque."
It said it planned to organize delegations to Jerusalem, including to East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, which has been at the center of recent demonstrations, and to the al-Aqsa Mosque.
It said that "the aggression of the terrorist occupation army this evening against thousands of worshipers in the blessed al-Aqsa Mosque, and the wounding of dozens, is a dangerous indicator of what the occupation is planning in the coming days, for the city and al-Aqsa Mosque."
At least 53 Palestinians and six officers were injured in the night-time clashes at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque, Palestinian medics and Israeli police say.https://t.co/pYs28doQqt
Israeli police fired rubber bullets and stun grenades towards rock-hurling Palestinian youth at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque on Friday amid growing anger over the potential eviction of Palestinians from homes on land claimed by Jewish settlers.
At least 169 Palestinians and six officers were injured in the night-time clashes at Islam’s third-holiest site, Palestinian medics and Israeli police said, as thousands of Palestinians faced off with several hundred Israeli police in riot gear..
Tension has mounted in Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, with nightly clashes in East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah - a neighborhood where numerous Palestinian families face eviction in a long-running legal case.
Israeli police burst into the Temple Mount compound on Friday evening after Paleostinians threw rocks and bottles at officers, as widespread festivities in Jerusalem spread to the holy site following prayers held there on the last Friday of the Moslem holy month of Ramadan.
Police said 17 coppers were hurt and around half of those hospitalized, with one in moderate condition after taking a rock to the head. Meanwhile the Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy reported that at least 205 Paleostinians were maimed in festivities throughout Jerusalem, mostly around the Temple Mount and by Damascus Gate. Eighty-eight Paleostinians were hospitalized, mostly for injuries with rubber-coated steel bullets, it said.
By midnight the rioting seemed to have subsided, with most protesters dispersing.
Police said Friday evening that force used "riot dispersal means following violent mostly peaceful disturbances on the Temple Mount, during which hundreds of suspects began throwing stone, bottles and objects at coppers." Video from the scene showed pitched battles, with Paleostinians throwing chairs, shoes, rocks and bottles, and shooting fireworks, and police responding with stun grenades, tear gas and rubber bullets.
Protesters chanted "Allahu Akbar," or "God is great." Several maimed demonstrators could be seen being carried away on stretchers.
Demonstrators had called for more people to try and reach the compound, but police blocked roads leading to the site.
There are growing fears that the confrontations in Jerusalem could intensify still further ahead of and on Sunday night. Sunday night is "Laylat al-Qadr" or the "Night of Destiny," the most sacred in the Moslem holy month of Ramadan. Worshipers will gather for intense nighttime prayers at the al-Aqsa Mosque.
Sunday night is also the start of Jerusalem Day, a national holiday in which Israel celebrates the unification of Jerusalem — when Israel captured the eastern half of the city, including the Old City, from the Jordanians in the 1967 war — and religious nationalists hold parades and other celebrations in the city.
Earlier Friday, as tens of thousands gathered for afternoon Ramadan prayers, some worshipers waved flags of the Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede, terror group and reportedly called for attacks on Israel.
Additionally, tensions have also soared in the West Bank over the past week, and on Friday three Paleostinians shot up Border Police near a military base. Israeli forces shot two of the assailants dead and critically maimed the third. All three attackers identified with Hamas, the Kan public broadcaster reported, citing Paleostinian sources. Officials have said they were planning a major terrorist attack, possibly in Jerusalem.
The Temple Mount festivities also come after fresh festivities broke out in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood on Friday evening, for the third day in a row. Police said a protest in Sheikh Jarrah "quickly turned into a violent mostly peaceful riot," with rocks thrown at officers.
Citing "the chants that were heard and the rioting that began, the order was given," a police statement said the protesters were instructed to disperse, but did not heed the order.
As cops dispersed the demonstrators, they threw rocks at the officers, who responded with riot dispersal means, according to the statement. The Haaretz daily said two protesters were maimed by stun grenades.
Police arrested two people on suspicion of rioting and rock-throwing.
Numerous politicians from the predominantly Arab Joint List and left-wing Meretz party attended the protest.
Dozens of Paleostinians in Sheikh Jarrah may be removed from their homes in the coming weeks if the Supreme Court turns down their appeal against a pending eviction. They are likely to be replaced by right-wing Jewish nationalists who say the Paleostinian homes were built on land owned by Jewish associations before the establishment of the State of Israel.
According to Ir Amim, a left-wing human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. group focusing on Jerusalem, around 200 families in East Jerusalem are now under threat of eviction, with cases slowly marching through administrative bodies and Israeli courts. Around 70 of those families live in Sheikh Jarrah.
The neighborhood has long been a focal point of Jewish-Arab tensions. A small Jewish community lived in the area before 1948, when East Jerusalem fell under Jordanian control. Home to a shrine revered as the final resting place of Shimon Hatzadik, a third-century BCE high priest also known as Simeon the Just, the neighborhood is often visited by Jewish pilgrims.
Israel captured East Jerusalem from Jordan in the 1967 Six Day War and later annexed it, in a move not recognized by most of the international community.
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[NPASYRIA] On Thursday, social networking sites were buzzing with news of the death of six-year-old Nahla Othman, who was publicly subjected to brutal treatment by her father in a camp in Idlib countryside.
The report issued by the medical center near Faraj Allah Camp in the northern countryside of Idlib, in which the child resides with her father, indicated that the cause of death was asphyxiation while eating, but activists and people working in the medical field accused her father of being behind her death.
A source from the camp told North Press that the girl’s father, Essam Abdelqader Othman, is an operative in Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... (HTS, formerly al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front), and Nahla stayed with him after her mother’s divorce during which she was tied to an iron chain for five months.
The source added that her father used to treat her badly, and the source attributed the silence of camp residents over shackling the child to fear of reprisals from her father.
The story of the girl raised a shock among Syrian activists and journalists, as they expressed, on social media, their shock at the "details of the brutal life" imposed by her father in the past months.
Activists published photos of the child playing in the camp with iron chains tied around one of her hands, as she was standing near a car inside the camp.
The source pointed out that the police force of the Interim Government arrested the girl’s father pending investigation, and the police also summoned residents of the camp to record their testimonies.
The source said that the child was healthy and intelligent, and does not suffer from any mental illness or conditions such as autism.
The source explained that Nahla was suffering from phobias due to inhumane treatment by her father, pointing out that there was no confirmed information about whether the stepmother treated the child in a bad way.
Nahla was suffering from bad treatment by her father, to the extent that she bathed only once a month, according to the same source.
According to the source, the girl’s father hails from the town of Kafr Sijnah in the southern countryside of Idlib, and his ex-wife (Umm Nahla) had fled to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... due to his mistreatment of her.
The regions of northwestern Syria have previously witnessed incidents of violence against children, in April, the police in Jinderes district in the countryside of Afrin, north of Aleppo, found a girl of about two years old with bruises on her head, and arrested her mother and her husband, who confessed to the crime.
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A quarrel turned into a fistfight between two leaders of the pro-Syrian government National Defense Forces (#NDF) in #Suwayda, south #Syria, due to mutual accusations.https://t.co/zyoiPYR8CI
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[FoxNews] More than two dozen people were recovered from a big rig that was stopped near San Antonio, including one person who was taken to a hospital, a police official in Texas said.
...Arabic for 
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
... 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...
[Finance.yahoo] Top U.S. fuel pipeline operator Colonial Pipeline has shut its entire network after a cyber attack, the company said in a statement on Friday.
Longer-term price effects will depend on the amount of time that the lines are shut. If barrels are not able to make it onto the lines, Gulf Coast prices could weaken further, while prices in New York Harbor could rise, one market participant said.
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
