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She went on to star in many great films in the 20th Century and was a very pretty young lady. Her real name was Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis (R.E.D.), Born: April 5, 1908, Lowell, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died:October 6, 1989, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Resting place:Forest Lawn Memorial Park. Eighty-one years old is a long life.
I was an acquaintance of her fourth husband, Gary Merrill, who in my opinion was a very under appreciated Hollywood actor. He told me their marriage was very rocky and he joked with me, 'but with those lips, she was a hell of a kisser'.
Yes, those actors of the Hollywood System, having themselves traded back and forth between studios, will never be really understood, until they really didn't have a business life of their own.
Thanks for the memories Bettie & Gary.
Bettie's -IMDb Gary's - IMDb
[FOX] A network of "hundreds of thousands" of people, including analysts using satellite imagery to locate Taliban checkpoints surrounding the Kabul airport, are coordinating to evacuate Afghan interpreters from the country, an Afghanistan war veteran and member of the coalition told Fox News.
These interpreters, now targeted by the Taliban, were essential U.S. allies during the Afghanistan war and played roles much larger than simply acting as translators, according to Matt Zeller. The Biden administration has faced fierce criticism that the U.S. hasn’t made their evacuation more of a priority.
"These people that we’re talking about ... they were our eyes and ears on the battlefield," Zeller told Fox News. He said they’d hear Taliban communications ordering fighters to shoot the interpreters first.
"From the Taliban’s perspective, they won," Zeller, a former CIA analyst, continued. The Afghan interpreters "are the people who have been helping us to kill them over the last 20 years."
"They want revenge, they want retribution," he said. "There’s no place for these people in Afghanistan."
There’s estimated to be at least 20,000 Afghan interpreters and family members trapped in Afghanistan.
Zeller described a "digital Dunkirk" campaign working to evacuate the Afghan interpreters. He said "hundreds of thousands" of people joined the movement after just a few weeks, but that it could grow into the millions by the time it’s over.
"If you served in the Afghan war and you still care about these people, chances are you’re probably part of the digital Dunkirk," Zeller told Fox News.
He said it started as an "army of veterans" getting pinged by Afghans, but that the network has grown to include organizations for human rights, faith and political advocacy.
"It’s incredible," Zeller said. "It’s not just veterans. Literally it’s pastors, it’s my mom, it’s my relatives, people who have never served in Afghanistan ... widows, widowers, children of people who served."
"We’ve had intel analysts who have come and started doing satellite imagery analysis and actually putting together products for people where they’re mapping out Taliban checkpoints in real time using social media data" to provide safe routes to the airport, Zeller told Fox News.
The Taliban have said it would forgive any Afghans who helped the U.S. during the war. But the extremist group has established checkpoints blocking the path to the airport in Kabul, and numerous reports have indicated that they’re either recording or killing anyone they find that allied against them.
#2
The Biden administration has faced fierce criticism that the U.S. hasn’t made their evacuation more of a priority.
The US Congress deserves a majority of the criticism for this laps. They had 20 years to prepare for this eventuality and did as little as they possibly could. The Afghan interpreters & their family's lives were at risk long before the fall of Kabul.
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when, in the history of the world, have moslems forgiven anyone once they are in power?
[INDEPENDENT.CO.UK] Biden administration, the same old faces in slightly different places, the same old ideas, the same old graft ...knaves, footpads, and adjusters employed by the Biden Crime Family. They leave a trail of havoc everywhere they turn their attention, be it the nation's borders, the Keystone XL Pipeline, or epidemics, sometimes on purpose, most times through sheer arrogant ineptitude. They learnt this stuff in college, you know... under intense pressure to get those at risk out of the country
The Pentagon is to use 18 US commercial aircraft to relocate Afghan evacuees after they’ve left the country, according to reports.
According to Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby, the planes will not fly into Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, but instead will move passengers on from way stations once they’ve departed Afghanistan.
The US military will then be better able to focus on initial part of the evacuation out of Kabul, the Associated Press reported.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin asked for 18 aircraft: three each from American Airlines, Atlas Air, Delta Air Lines and Omni Air; two from Hawaiian Airlines; and four from United Airlines as he activated the initial stage of the Civil Reserve Air Fleet programme.
Intense criticism about the failure to plan adequately for evacuation has come from both sides of the aisle in the US. Republican congressman Peter Meijer of Michigan told The Guardian:
“When you’re talking to people every night who are moving from house to house because they’re being followed by the Taliban, and … we’re in exactly the situation that several months ago that we thought we would be in … and you are ignored, it tends to be frustrating,” he said, adding: “Enraging, enraging.”
Democratic congressman Seth Moulton of Massachusetts said in a statement: “For months, I have been calling on the administration to evacuate our allies immediately – not to wait for paperwork, for shaky agreements with third countries, or for time to make it look more ‘orderly.’”
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...The order has in fact gone out. Now, this next part is strictly RUMINT only, but I'm hearing noises to the effect that the airlines are giving some pushback this time.
In the end they'll do it - Uncle Sugar helped pay for those planes; that's the point of the CRAF - but they also need every seat they have in the air carrying paying passengers. It's only a comparative handful of aircraft, but it's a handful the major airlines simply can't afford right now.
Mike
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I didn't think the problem was a shortage of aircraft (we have the largest air force in the world, no?)
This reeks of desperation--throwing anything and everything up against the wall and hoping to high heaven that something sticks.
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You want your mil transports doing short haul to transfer stations for the 'civilian' craft to do the long haul. Remember all those in the West flashing their virtue about taking 'X' thousands. It's a long way to the West.
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#2 I didn't think the problem was a shortage of aircraft (we have the largest air force in the world, no?)
Not so much a shortage of aircraft as where those aircraft are heading. They'll be going to the places where we're dropping off the refugees (Qatar, Oman, etc) and taking them elsewhere on refugee-only flights. That way we've got some (though nowhere near enough) control on who's getting out, and they're going from Control Point A to Control Point B with (theoretically) folks processing them at each end and not airline crew saying 'Buh-bye' at the gate.
Likely we'll screw this up too, but it bears some resemblance to organization and planning, so we'll see.
Mike
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but it's a handful the major airlines simply can't afford right now.
It would seem there is are lots of spare long haul airliners since international air travel has cratered.
#7
Those capable of eventually getting airborne will take months to get them in flying condition let alone mission ready. Most are there for spare parts purposes.
The Populist Press headline does not appear to be supported by the tweets posted there. But the second tweet at the link is useful to us to understand the situation around the airport:
David Fox, an American in Kabul, joins @ABCNewsLive to share his experience trying to leave Afghanistan.
Omaviper Lumumba3702 posted the following about the same video last night for the midnight roll-over. I’m consolidating it here so it can be included in the discussion:
[The Last Refuge] David Fox is an American trapped in Kabul who appeared on a video report with ABC to highlight the situation faced by thousands of Americans attempting to evacuate the region. While he was describing the dangerous situation around the Kabul airport, Mr. Fox also pointed out a very serious issue. ABC buried the lead....
According to his report, the U.S. State Department responded en masse to all the people trapped in Afghanistan reaching out for help.
The U.S. Embassy consular services department sent a document with instructions to assist Americans and eligible Afghans claiming Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) status. The document looks exactly like an approved VISA document except there is no filled in name, no serial number and no barcode.
As Mr. Fox notes, the document is easily able to be forged which makes the Kabul airport situation even worse, as it is likely the people who receive this response from the consular’s office will duplicate it and share it with friends or family who can then use it in an effort to get to the United States. It seems like most of the Federal government is working for America's enemies.
The nascent Panjshir resistance has been bolstered by remnants of Afghan forces that refused to surrender and fled the Taliban takeover of the provinces of Kunduz, Badakhshan, Takhar, and Baghlan. Many of these forces regrouped in Andarab district in Baghlan. Andarab is a known hub for anti-Taliban activity. In 2011, The New York Times Magazine described Andarab as “an entirely Tajik district that is staunchly anti-Pashtun,” the ethnic group that makes up a significant portion of the Taliban.
[ToloNews] Local sources in the northern Afghan province of Baghlan on Saturday said that public uprising forces had retaken three districts from Taliban ...Arabic for students... control. The districts are Pul-e-Hesar, Banu and Deh Salah.
Sources said there are reports of heavy casualties on both sides.
This is the first instance of such fighting after the Taliban took control of Kabul following the fall of 33 out of 34 provinces.
The Taliban has not yet commented.
"With the support of God and the mujahideen, three districts were liberated, we are now moving toward Khinjan district and will clear Baghlan province soon," said Assadullah, the former police chief of Banu.
"With the help of Allah, we inflicted massive casualties to the Taliban, currently Banu district is under the control of public uprising forces," said Ghani Andarabi, the former police commander in charge of the highway in Baghlan.
Sources said that after entering Baghlan the Taliban went on house-to-house searches, which sparked the people's retaliation.
Although the Taliban officially has not commented, there are unconfirmed reports that the Taliban is preparing to retake these districts.
Desperate Crowds Gather for 7th Day at Kabul Airport
[ToloNews] Seven days after the takeover of Kabul city by the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... , thousands of Afghans continue to crowd outside Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ...One of the more egregious mistakes of the post 9-11 era... International Airport in an attempt to leave the country.
Most of the people waiting outside the airport do not have documents.
"All of the entrance gates to the airport were closed on Saturday morning because of the dangerous situation," the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported, adding that the U.S. embassy in Kabul is advising evacuees not to travel to the airport in light of "security threats."
"Because of potential security threats outside the gates at the Kabul airport," the embassy alerted on its website, "we are advising U.S. citizens to avoid traveling to the airport and to avoid airport gates at this time unless you receive individual instructions from a U.S. government representative to do so."
The active security threats come as the New York Post reported the Taliban is "now attempting to take their U.S. passports and identification orders in an attempt to stop them from leaving the country."
"I got to the gates and was about to show my passport, but the Taliban got it, and he said you are not allowed to go through and wouldn’t give it back," one Afghan American on the ground told the Post. "I was lucky a U.S. marine was right there and forced him to give it back."
Former Navy SEAL Ephraim Mattos, who works to evacuate people on the ground, also confirmed the reports to the Post.
"U.S. passports, driver’s licenses — they are confiscating those pieces of documentation from American citizens," said Mattos. "They lose proof of who they are, and this has happened on multiple occasions in multiple places":
Kabul residents speaking to TOLOnews urged those at the airport without passports or documents to not create problems for those who do have proper documents.
Sayed Jawad and his six family members who are waiting outside the Kabul airport said that despite their having passports and other documents they have not been able to enter the airport.
"The foreigners have locked the doors and there is no movement into the airport," said Sayed Jawad.
A local resident named Sadat said: "All people that you see here have a problem."
"We tell all our brothers and sisters that nothing is happening here and to stay at home," said Sediq Habibi, a resident of Kabul.
Footage broadcast by CBS showed Afghans faced with money problems after being moved to a military base.
The footage showed Afghans living without access to medical facilities and other services.
JUST IN - ISIS operating at #Kabul airport according to unconfirmed French intelligence as reported by @suddafchaudry. Pentagon's Kirby: "We’re not going to get into specific details about the threat environment."pic.twitter.com/gyLFa3cr31
350 people evacuated by Pakistani embassy in Kabul
[KhaamaPress] Pakistain embassy based in Kabul announced on Friday that they have helped around 350 people including foreigners to leave Afghanistan for Pakistain.
As per the embassy, the people were flown out in two special flights of Pakistain International Airline from Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ...A product, and probably the sole product, of the Southern Alliance... International Airport (HKIA).
Pakistain ambassador to Kabul Mansoor Ahmad Khan in a Twitter post said that the embassy had made arrangements for the passengers inside the compound of the embassy and were then flown out.
The 350 people include foreigners, Paks, and Afghans.
Pakistain is now another country after the US, La Belle France, Britannia, Spain, India, and other countries who are either helping countries evacuate their own nationals and their Afghan allies or are vacating their own nationals and Afghan colleagues.
Earlier, Pakistain had also opened a Torkham crossing-point to help stranded people cross the border into Pakistain.
Leaving Afghanistan is now one of the most challenging and difficult tasks as the HKIA is besieged by thousands of people desperate to leave Kabul.
The airport’s security is now manned by US forces who are deployed to evacuate thousands of their nationals and Afghans who have worked for them.
Indians questioned by Taliban: Evacuation soon say sources
[OneIndia] All Indians who were reportedly kidnapped by the Taliban ...Arabic for students... are safe and their documents are being processed for evacuation, local media reports said.
Earlier, local media reports said that 150 people including many Indians were captured by the Taliban a claim that the outfit's spokesperson Ahmadullah Waseq denied.
Other reports quoting Taliban sources said that the group did not abduct Indians. They were escorted to a safe gate by the Taliban, the report also said.
A few hours back, an IAF special aircraft landed in Tajikistan after evacuating 85 Indians stranded in Kabul. They will be flown back to India in an Air India flight.
Local media reports said that the Taliban had taken more than 150 people from near the Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ...A product, and probably the sole product, of the Southern Alliance... Airport in Kabul. A number of them are Afghan citizens and Afghan Sikhs. There were many Indian citizens, the reports also said.
India has so far evacuated all its embassy staff. However estimates suggest that there are 1,000 Indian citizens who remain in several cities of the country. India has been trying to locate all of them, but it proving to be a challenge as not all of them have registered themselves with the embassy.
#4
If the TB permit the airport to remain open, the evacuations can continue. If the TB closes the airport with gunfire, mortars, car bombs, shoot down an airplane, etc. things will begin to rapidly deteriorate. Whoever controls the ground, controls events. At this point we are at the mercy of the TB.
The French disaster at Dien Bien Phu turned South when use of the airstrip was eliminated.
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A senior US official said that small groups of Americans and possibly other civilians will now be given specific instructions on what to do, including movement to extraction points where they can be gathered up by special operations teams.
#7
Many years ago, SF operators using orange taxis and dressed in local attire (Hajji mufti) were able to get around in Baghdad, Iraq and vicinity at any hour.
#8
Well, ISIS doesn't care for us, the Brits, or even the Taliban... A VBIED(s) anywhere near the airport or its approaches is the worse case scenario.
Its a good thing all of the really bad actors and planners are detained in the Bagram DFIP and Pul-e-Charkhi...then again maybe not thanks to Austin and Milley's jackassery.
It is likely a race against time to stay inside the ISIS operational planning and IED prep timeline to get our folks out of the Kabul AO before they are prepared to strike.
#10
One thing I don't understand is how we're going to extract the Marines, airborne, SOF, and other mil guys we've recently sent to Kabul if we lose the ability to fly men out and supplies in. But I'm sure General Milley has thought that through.
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[APNEWS] The Russian ambassador in Kabul says the Taliban ...Arabic for students... have asked his embassy to convey their offer of a deal to a remaining pro-government holdout in northern Afghanistan. Oh. Well, in that case hang it up, mujahideen.
Ambassador Dmitry Zhirnov said on Saturday that a senior member of the Taliban’s politicianship has asked Russia to tell fighters in the Panjshir Valley that the Taliban hope to reach a political agreement to settle the situation there.
The diplomat says the Taliban claim they don’t want bloodshed in the region.
The Panjshir Valley north of Kabul, a stronghold of the Northern Alliance militias that were allied with the U.S. during the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, is the only area that hasn’t fallen to the Taliban.
Afghan government figures who have sought refuge there as Kabul and the rest of the country fell to the Taliban include Vice President Amrullah Saleh, who asserted on Twitter that he’s now the country’s rightful president, after President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, ex-president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. When Biden abandoned the country left with a helicopter, four cars, and part of the national treasury... fled to the United Arab Emirates.
Moscow, which fought a 10-year war in Afghanistan that ended with the Soviet troops’ withdrawal in 1989, has made a diplomatic comeback as a mediator during the past years, reaching out to various Afghan factions, including the Taliban.
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#1
The US should be providing aid to the all opposition groups such as the Northern Alliance and pockets of resistance and all tribal groups in opposition, immediately.
The Taliban should not be allowed to run Afghanistan as a central government.
And the US military should have contingency plans ready to retake Bagram Air Base if necessary, if things go south in Kabul, and the air base an hour to the north should be necessary to continue evacuation and to exact revenge and to aid opposition allies.
The Taliban is responsible for allowing ISIS to infiltrate and bomb the crowds trapped outside Kabul airport.
The Taliban cannot be allowed to consolidate control over the whole country.
China cannot be allowed to use Afghanistan like it uses North Korea to advance its goals in Southeast Asia against our allies there.
[FoxNews] Elite Taliban unit wearing US gear appears to mock iconic American WWII photo. Propaganda videos show Taliban fighters carrying U.S. and U.S. ally-made weapons.
A Taliban fighting unit called the Badri 313 Battalion was spotted patrolling Afghanistan with U.S.-made gear, and posting one photo appearing to mock the iconic World War II photo, Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima.
Propaganda videos posted this week on channels affiliated with the Taliban show soldiers in the little-known Badri 313 Battalion carrying U.S. and U.S. ally-made weapons and gear that appear to be stolen from allied militaries while patrolling parts of Kabul.
In one propaganda photo, members of the Badri 313 Battalion are seen hoisting a Taliban flag in a similar fashion to the six U.S. Marines who raised the U.S. flag on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945.
#5
Yeah but that doesn't make them Western warriors. It's rather fascinating to see how the Taliban decked out in mufti and carrying American weapons think they've absorbed the Western way of war. In other words the superstitious primitivism of absorbing their enemies spirit despite 1000 years of Islam
[AlAhram] An attack by suspected jihadists on a village in western Niger's troubled "three-border" region has killed 17 people, a local elected official reported Saturday.
The attack happened in the village of Theim in the Tillaberi region, at around 8:00 pm (1700 GMT) on Friday, the official told AFP.
"The toll is 17 dead and five maimed," he said.
A resident in regional capital Tillaberi said around 10 people had been killed.
Thiem is around 20 kilometers (12 miles) from three other villages where a series of attacks in May by jihadists linked to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... forced more than 11,000 inhabitants to flee.
MPs from the region called Friday for increased security measures for the area, saying that jihadists behind the wave of attacks in the vast Tillaberi region are able to operate freely in spite of strict government controls.
In one month, 98 civilians and 19 gendarmes have been killed in just three departments of the region, they said.
To combat rising attacks, Niger has declared a state of emergency, banned the movement of cycle of violences, regulated the sale of fuel and closed markets suspected of supplying gangs, they said.
The "three-borders" region is a huge territory straddling the frontiers of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... that has long been troubled by land feuds, trafficking, desertification and fragile state presence.
The vast arid region, along with central Mali, has become the worst-hit area in the jihadists' nine-year-old campaign in the Sahel.
Thousands of people have died and tens of thousands have fled their homes.
Taking ‘em out as they rear up on their hind legs.
[OneIndia] Assam police have arrested 14 people, including an MBBS student, for alleged social media posts supporting the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... takeover of Afghanistan.
They have been booked under different sections of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, IT Act and CrPC.
"We were on alert and monitoring social media for inflammatory posts," the officer said. Two people each were arrested from Kamrup Metropolitan, Barpeta, Dhubri and Karimganj districts, police said.
They were arrested from Darrang, Cachar, Hailakandi, South Salmara, Goalpara and Hojai districts.
Deputy Inspector General Violet Baruah said the Assam Police is taking stern legal action against pro-Taliban comments on social media that are harmful to national security.
"We're registering criminal cases against such persons. Please inform the police if any such thing comes to your notice," she tweeted.
[OneIndia] A worker of the Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... Apni Party was rubbed out by holy warriors in Kulgam district, officials said here. Ghulam Hassan Lone was shot at by the ultras
...no doubt they have a formal name, but I’ve no idea what it might be...
in his native Devsar area, they said, adding he was rushed to a hospital where he departed this vale of tears.
Police said they have taken cognisance of the incident.
This comes just two days after holy warriors rubbed out BJP leader Javeed Ahmad Dar in the same district. Before that, two Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... holy warriors on August 9 barged into the house of a BJP sarpanch in Anantnag district and killed him and his wife. Lone's killing also evoked widespread condemnation from mainstream political parties including the PDP, the National Conference and the People's Conference.
They’ve been busy lately in Kashmir’s Pulwama district.
JeM terrorist who killed BJP leader gunned down by security forces in Tral
[OneIndia] A Jaish-e-Mohammad ...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat... terrorist involved in the killing of a BJP leader was among the three bumped off by the security forces in an encounter that took place in Tral earlier today.
The terrorist Wakeel Shah was rubbed out by the security forces. He was involved in the killing of Rakesh Pandita, a BJP leader. Pandita, a municipal councillor of Tral in Pulwama district was killed by turbans on June 2 when he was visiting a friend Mushtaq Ahmed.
The Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... Zone Police said that the encounter took place at the upper reaches of the forest area of Nagbareen, Tral.
Officials said that the search operation turned into an encounter after the faceless myrmidons fired upon the search party of the security forces, who retaliated. "In the ensuing shootout, three turbans affiliated with JeM outfit were killed," the officials said.
3 JeM terrorists gunned down in Pulwama on Saturday
[OneIndia] Three Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) holy warriors were killed in an encounter with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district on Saturday, officials said, according to a PTI report.
Security forces launched a cordon and search operation in the upper reaches of forest area of Nagbaeran Tral in the south Kashmir district following inputs about the presence of holy warriors there, the officials said.
They said the search operation turned into an encounter after the holy warriors fired upon the search party of the security forces, who retaliated.
"In the ensuing shootout, three forces of Evil affiliated with JeM outfit were killed," the officials said.
The search operation is going on, they said.
This is the second encounter in the district in as many days.
Pulwama: 2 terrorists killed in encounter on Friday
[OneIndia] Two bandidosholy warriors were killed in an encounter with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district on Friday, officials quoted by PTI said.
Security forces launched a cordon and search operation at Khrew in Pampore area of the district following information about the presence of bandidosholy warriors there, the officials said.
They said the search operation turned into an encounter after the ultras shot up the security forces which was retaliated.
In the ensuing encounter, two bandidosholy warriors were killed, the officials said.
They said the identity and group affiliation of the slain ultras was being ascertained.
Incriminating material including arms and ammunition have been recovered from the site of the encounter, they added.
[Jpost] Please hit us! Iran enjoys the FUBAR AFG ops and stirs shit up The attacks came after an Israeli Border Police officer was critically injured along with dozens of Palestinians Saturday night during riots along the border fence.
The IDF carried out airstrikes within the Gaza Strip on Saturday night after a Border Police officer was critically injured during the riots along the border fence.
The police officer is 21-year-old St.-Sgt. Bar'el Hadariya Shmueli of Be'er Yaakov, according to Israeli media.
Dozens of Palestinians were injured in the riots, as well.
Fighter planes targeted four different sites throughout Gaza which were manufacturing and storing weapons, the IDF announced shortly after the attacks.
Machine gunfire directed at the Israeli aircraft hit Sderot houses after midnight, causing damage, according an IDF statement.
A 16-year-old Israeli civilian was lightly wounded while running to a bomb shelter, Kan reported.
Two companies from the IDF's officer training base and three teams from the Maglan commando unit have been sent to the Gaza Division, according to Army Radio.
The IDF also reinforced its Iron Dome missile-defense unit, according to Israeli media.
On Thursday, Hamas and other Palestinian factions urged Palestinians to mark the anniversary of the burning of the pulpit of al-Aqsa by heading there to “defend” it against Israeli “attacks.”
[IsraelTimes] Assailants seen trying to snatch soldier’s gun as hundreds approach fence, some hurling stones and burning tires; rally held despite Thursday deal to allow Qatar funds in. ...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...
At least 24 Paleostinians were maimed during festivities with Israeli soldiers during a march on the border fence with Israel on Saturday afternoon and evening, the Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",-run 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... Health Ministry reported.
Two Gazooks, including a 13-year-old boy, were critically maimed by Israeli bullets during the march, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.
The Israeli military said in a statement that soldiers had confronted hundreds of rioters near the border fence in the northern Strip. Alongside tear gas, soldiers used Ruger bullets, a smaller form of live fire the army deems less lethal than standard-issue rounds.
"Israel Defense Force soldiers are prepared and are utilizing riot dispersal means, as well as Ruger fire when necessary," the army said.
According to videos streamed by Paleostinian journalists on the scene, a few hundred Gazooks could be seen approaching the barrier. Some Paleostinians seemed to attempt to clamber onto the fence, while others huddled alongside a concrete barrier.
In one video widely circulated on social media, Paleostinian rioters could be seen hurling stones at an Israeli gun sticking out of a slit in the fence. At one point, some Paleostinians sought to wrest the gun away. Another Paleostinian ran over with a pistol and fired several bullets towards the opening.
Defense Minister Benny Gantz told Channel 13 news that Israel "will not accept any harm to our forces. The incidents at the fence are grave and we will respond to them."
Gaza factions had organized the Saturday protest in al-Malika Refugee Camp near the border with Israel as a part of a series of activities to pressure Israel.
"Our mobilizing masses have come to announce that the path of the Sword of Jerusalem is renewed," said senior Hamas official Khalil al-Hayya, using the terror group’s name for the May fighting between Israel and Hamas. al-Hayya serves as the group’s deputy Gaza chief.
The protest marked the first time Gazooks have conducted a daytime march toward the Gaza border since December 2019. A series of demonstrations in 2018 and 2019 — some of which saw Hamas and Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... members clash violent mostly peacefully with Israeli soldiers — left hundreds of Gazooks dead.
The demonstration took place despite a Thursday agreement that would return millions in Qatari subsidies to the Gaza Strip via the United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... . The agreement was seen as a significant breakthrough in attempts to strengthen the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
A few held slingshots, while others burned tires and rolled them towards the border, setting off clouds of smoke. But most of the demonstrators appeared to stay back, remaining a few hundred meters from the barrier dividing the enclave from Israel.
Tensions have risen between Israel and Hamas in recent weeks, as negotiations to strengthen the ceasefire appeared to hit a brick wall. On Monday, two rockets were fired at southern Israel for the first time since the May escalation, allegedly by Islamic Jihad.
For months, Israel and Hamas have held indirect negotiations to lay the terms for a new status quo. In the aftermath of May’s fighting, Israel has maintained heightened restrictions on Gaza, significantly limiting imports and exports and complicating the reconstruction of the battered enclave.
Israel also decided to block most of the millions in Qatari cash that entered the coastal enclave every month before the war. Prior to the May escalation, Israel had allowed the money to enter Gaza in exchange for quiet along its southern border.
During the recent 11-day war, Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s and Paleostinian rockets caused at least $290 million worth of damage to the Gaza Strip, international assessors reported in early July.
The Israeli government has also sought to condition any easing of restrictions on progress in talks to reach a prisoner exchange with Hamas. The terror group currently holds two Israeli civilians, as well as the bodies of two Israeli soldiers.
However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... it has slowly eased restrictions on the Strip as of late, despite an apparent lack of progress on that front, at the behest of international bodies.
Hamas hopes to swap the Israelis it holds for thousands of Paleostinian prisoners in Israeli jails. The terror group has repeatedly rejected the Israeli attempt to tie the prisoner exchange issue to Gaza’s reconstruction following the recent escalation.
The first significant progress in the ceasefire talks came on Thursday night, when the UN, Israel and Qatar announced a framework to return some of the Qatari money to Gaza. According to the agreement, the Qatari money will go through the UN before reaching banks in Gaza Strip.
The Qatari projects in the past funded fuel for Gaza’s only power plant and hospitals to shore up the enclave’s damaged healthcare system. They also brought in hundreds of millions in cash payments to 100,000 poor Gazook families and to Hamas’s civil servants. But Thursday’s agreement will only provide salaries for the poor Gazook families, not for Hamas’s employees in the enclave. And Israel and Hamas have yet to publicly conclude an agreement to ease restrictions on the enclave and allow Gazooks to fully rebuild.
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