[FoxNews] Nicoson, a member of the 82nd Airborne Division, faced seven charges, including failure to obey an order and reckless endangerment.
An 82nd Airborne Division soldier was totally acquitted Friday evening during a court-martial after facing a series of charges stemming from a deadly gunfight in Syria in 2020.
"He was fully acquitted of all the allegations," said Phillip Stackhouse, the civilian defense attorney representing Sgt. 1st Class Robert Nicoson, in a statement to the Army Times.
"Sergeant First Class Nicoson, and his family, continue to be humbled and thankful to those that have supported him and stood by his side," he continued, after the military hearing at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
Nicoson was initially charged with two counts of failure to obey an order, two counts of reckless endangerment, one count of communicating threats, and three counts of obstructing justice for his role in a deadly firefight that took place Aug. 17, 2020, near the northeastern Syrian town of Qamishli.
The firefight started when Nicoson’s patrol sought passage through a pro-regime checkpoint and was initially blocked from doing so. After a discussion through translators, the U.S. forces were allowed passage before they were met with small arms fire, according to a report by Task & Purpose.
Nicoson’s unit, the 82nd Airborne Division’s Blackhorse Troop, 1st Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, returned fire, killing one Syrian soldier. No U.S. soldiers were injured or killed in the 10-minute incident.
Onlookers captured the firefight on video, but its start was not recorded.
In the months following the firefight, an Army Criminal Investigation Division inquiry determined Nicoson was at fault.
On Friday, the jury — composed of two lieutenant colonels and six command sergeants major — cleared Nicoson of any wrongdoing and a motion to clear him of an eighth charge was granted during the evidence phase, according to the report.
"The trial lasted for a week and over 20 witnesses were called to the stand to provide testimony to a combat experienced panel," Stackhouse added in an email to Army Times. "After just over 2-hours of deliberations, the panel president delivered the verdict in open court."
Lt. Col. Brett Lea, a spokesman for the 82nd Airborne Division, confirmed the acquittal to the Army Times, but did not otherwise comment on its outcome.
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...I'm glad he was acquitted, but he should take a couple days then start polishing up his resume. Like I said the other day, DoD is not fond of defiance, and even less fond of it when the defiant win.
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"After just over 2-hours of deliberations..
Oh noes! We're taking fire. Quick, let's call a time-out and deliberate for a couple hours to decide on the correct course of action.
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Used to be the Army had places like Guam or the Panama Canal Zone that they would stash people like this. Too annoying to the Stateside REMFs and you could always "Break Glass When Needed For War" store them for hostilities.
[Garowe] Somalia-based al-Shabaab ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... , functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... faceless myrmidons on Friday targeted members of the Somali National Army [SNA] in central Somalia, in an attack that comes amid ongoing political instability in the Horn of Africa nation.
Officials said at least two members of SNA's Danab brigade were killed and nine others maimed after a kaboom targeted a military convoy in Dhusumareb, the regional administrative capital of Galmadug state.
A top military general told news hounds that the military convoy was hit by a landmine while traveling between the town of Guriel and Dhusamareb. The two towns have been a center of focus for al-Shabaab on the last several occasions.
"The military convoy belonged to Danab commandos, and we understand the attack was an improvised bomb [IED] planted near the road, killing soldiers," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... because he is not authorized to speak to the media.
Mohammed Deeq Abdi, a local journalist, told Anadolu Agency that nine maimed soldiers were admitted to a hospital in Dhusamareb. Of the maimed soldiers, reports indicate, four sustained serious injuries.
In their proxy media outlets, the al-Qaeda linked group, al-Shabaab, claimed the attack leftover 15 soldiers dead. However, ars longa, vita brevis... the reports could not be independently verified by Garowe Online.
Elsewhere, on Friday, Galmudug ...a semiautonomous region in central Somalia, bordering Puntland on the north. Galmudug is not trying to obtain international recognition as a separate nation, but rather considers itself autonomous within the larger Somali federalism, for what that's worth... regional soldiers repulsed an al-Shabaab attack on the town of Bahdo in the same region. Somali national TV reported that 17 bad boyz were potted in the retaliatory attack, citing military commanders as saying.
Further, the Somali National Army on Friday also announced killing at least five al-Shabaab faceless myrmidons in the Middle Shabelle region. The operation was executed by the Special Forces from Danab unit, who are trained by the US Africa Command.
"Gambole is one of al-Shabaab's strongholds in the Middle Shabelle region. A heavy shootout erupted during the operation, but our commandos killed many al-Shabaab terrorists, including five senior commanders," a military official said.
Col. Ahmed Abdullahi Nur, commander of the 16th Danab Commandos, also confirmed the operation and the killing of al-Shabaab operatives.
Nur said operations against the terrorist group, which has been fighting against the Somali government and African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Mission to Somalia [AMISOM] forces since 2007, will continue until all territories in the Middle Shabelle region are back under government control.
[AlAhram] Gunmen known in northwest Nigeria as "bandidos" killed at least 140 people in multiple raids this week, four residents told AFP Saturday, but there was no official confirmation.
Clashes between herders and farmers over access to land has plagued northwest and central Nigeria for years, with some groups evolving into criminal gangs who now terrorise local communities.
"We buried a total of 143 people killed by the bandidos in the attacks," said Balarabe Alhaji, a community leader in one of the affected villages in Zamfara state.
Hundreds of cycle of violence-riding button men rampaged through ten villages in Anka and Bukkuyum districts on Wednesday through Thursday, shooting residents and looting and burning homes, locals said.
Officials and security agencies have not yet commented on the attacks.
Babandi Hamidu, a resident of Kurfa Danya village said the murderous Moslems were shooting "anyone on sight".
"More than 140 people were buried across the ten villages and the search for more bodies is ongoing because many people are unaccounted for," Hamidu said.
Idi Musa, a resident of another village, Kurfa Danya, said "the corpse count is huge. We are talking of around 150 people killed by the bandidos."
The bandidos also stole "around 2,000 cattle," Musa added.
Another resident who only gave his first name Babangida gave a similar account.
All four sources said they were present at burials in their respective villages.
On Wednesday, the Nigerian government officially labelled bandidos as terrorists, to bring tougher sanctions against convicted button men, their informants and supporters.
In the official gazette, the government said activities of Yan Bindiga and Yan Ta'adda -- meaning bandidos in the local Hausa language -- were "acts of terrorism".
"We labelled them terrorists... we are going to deal with them as such," President Muhammadu Buhari told Nigerian TV this week.
The 79-year-old former army general is also battling a more than decade long jihadist insurgency in the northeast.
About 200 bodies have been recovered and buried after gunmen suspected to be bandits invaded different communities in Anka and Bukkuyum local government areas of Zamfara State.
Some of the communities are Barayar Zaki, Wanu, Rafin Gero, Laho, Lallaho, Kurfar Danya, Dutsin Dan Ajiya, Tungar Geza, Kewaye and Tungar Na More.
SaharaReporters gathered that over 200 corpses have been recovered from bushes as some of the people were caught unawares on their farmlands.
In Kurfad Danye alone, sources said about 140 bodies of vigilante members were buried on Friday.
The bandits, who were about 300 and armed with sophisticated weapons, had on Wednesday stormed the communities on motorcycles and started firing sporadic gunshot.
The terrorists also destroyed valuables, abducted and displaced several persons, including women and children in the affected communities.
Deadly attacks have raged across Zamfara State where banditry had thrived.
Farming and herding communities in the state have long been terrorised by gangs, who raid villages, steal cattle and kidnap residents for ransom.
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[REGNUM] At least five people were killed in an anti-personnel mine explosion in Shabwa province in northern 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... , Xinhua News Agency reported, citing a source in Yemeni military circles.
According to him, the mines were planted by the 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... rebels before their retreat from the region. Explosives technicians are now working in the area and are trying to find other ammunition. Earlier, a large-scale military operation began in the Shabwa province, during which government troops intend to oust the Houthis.
As reported by IA REGNUM , on December 30, 2021, the Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... n Air Force attacked the positions of the Houthis in the Shabwa province. It was noted that these strikes were delivered before the military operation to liberate the Ain, Bayhan and Asilan regions.
A 29-year-old convicted rapist has avoided deportation back to Afghanistan
Ibrahim Ahmadi was stripped of refugee status when jailed for preying on a sleeping woman in Glasgow
Has now won right to remain in UK after judges decided he might incur the anger of the hardline Taliban Where’d they get that idea? S3x jihad against unbelievers is one of the old standards, very popular for those who made hegira to the West.
[AlAhram] At least 11 Colombian coppers were maimed in an attack against their truck using explosives in the southwestern city of Cali, President Ivan Duque said Saturday.
At least 11 Colombian coppers were maimed in an attack against their truck using explosives in the southwestern city of Cali, President Ivan Duque said Saturday.
The truck was badly damaged in the blast. No civilians were reported injured.
"We condemn the cowardly terrorist attack against members of the Mobile Anti-Riot Squad," in the city's Puerto Rellena area, Duque said on Twitter.
"We sympathize with the 11 uniformed officers maimed in the attack, 3 of them seriously," added the conservative president, who did not give details about the alleged perpetrator.
Cali's security undersecretary Jimmy Dranguet told AFP it was an attack "with explosives."
With 2.2 million inhabitants, Cali is the third-largest city in Colombia and one of the most violent mostly peaceful in Latin America.
It is in one of the biggest coca cultivation areas in Colombia, the world's largest cocaine producer.
Colombia is officially at peace after signing a pact with the FARC guerrilla group in 2016 to end more than a half-century of armed conflict.
But it has seen a flare-up of violence in recent months due to fighting over territory and resources by dissident guerrillas, the ELN rebel group, paramilitary forces and narco mobs.
[NATION.PK] Armenian forces fired on Azerbaijani army positions across the border on Saturday, Baku announced.
The Armenian troops stationed in the Yukhari Shorja area fired automatic grenade launchers and large-caliber weapons at about 1.50 p.m. local time (0950GMT) in the direction of the Kalbajar region on the Azerbaijani side, said a statement by Azerbaijan's Defense Ministry.
"As a result of the retaliatory actions undertaken by the Azerbaijan Army Units, the opposing side was suppressed," the ministry said, reporting no losses of personnel or military equipment.
"Currently, the situation in this direction is stable, the Azerbaijan Army Units control the operational situation," it added.
Relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia have been tense since 1991, when the Armenian military occupied Nagorno-Karabakh, also known as Upper Karabakh, a territory internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan, and seven adjacent regions.
Clashes erupted in September 2020, and during the six-week war, Azerbaijan liberated several cities and nearly 300 settlements and villages.
The 44-day conflict ended in November 2020 in a Russia-brokered deal that saw Armenia cede swathes of territory it had occupied for nearly three decades.
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[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] A man in black bloc behaving suspiciously near a right-wing rally outside the Pinellas County Courthouse in Florida on Jan. 6 was apprehended by deputies after he tried fleeing on foot. Garrett James Smith, 22, was arrested and found carrying an active pipe bomb, Antifa ...the armed wing of the Democratic Party... propaganda and a written document on what to bring for his direct action. He had recently returned from Portland ...a formerly lovely city in Oregon, governed by an unholy alliance of communists, anarchists, and incompetents. In 2017 the city was named as the fifth most business-friendly in the nation. It took only three years for the city to degenerate to the point where it became a national embarrassment, with antifa and Black Lives Matter bullying taxpayers and occasionally shooting one as an example to the others... , Ore.
"He was running fast, he was running away from something," Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said at a presser on Friday.
Smith was purportedly targeting dozens of the attendees of a rally protesting the treatment of Jan. 6 suspects on the one-year anniversary of the U.S. Capitol riot.
A search of Smith's home he shares with his parents in Oldsmar, Fla. revealed more explosives, tape and nails for use in grenades. Smith’s "direct action" checklist included a drawing of an umbrella, a symbol adopted by Antifa forces of Evil for their frequent use of black umbrellas to shield one another from cameras while they commit acts of violence or vandalism. The helmet found in his backpack during his arrest had the Antifa "iron front" symbol painted on it.
The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office displayed evidence obtained from Antifa bombing suspect Garrett Smith
Sheriff Gualtieri said that Smith is refusing to cooperate in the investigation.
Smith has been charged with three counts of making, possessing or discharging a destructive device, in addition to a charge of loitering and prowling. He does not have a prior criminal history. His bail is set at over $300,000.
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Can anarchists also be white supremacists?
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That mug looks like a cartoon. Gee, ya think he's a sociopath?
By now any good facial recognition software should be able to predict Antifart tendencies with five 9's quality
[NATION.PK] At least three people have been killed and three others including the brother of the former chief minister of Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... have sustained serious wounds after their convoy was attacked in Sibi city of the province.
According to police, the incident occurred at the Loni Road area when faceless myrmidons opened fire on a vehicle, killing three people and injuring the same.
Brother of Nawab Ghous Bakhsh Barozai, the ex-interim Chief Minister of Balochistan, was also among the injured as police said that Nawabzada Baru Khan Barozai has sustained critical wounds and was shifted to hospital for medical care.
"The attackers were hiding nearby and waiting for the vehicle," the police said.
Balochistan province has seen attacks on paramilitaries and others previously and recently a group of externally sponsored Lions of Islam have opened fire onto a check post of security forces established in general area Tump, Balochistan to prevent the movement of these Lions of Islam into built-up areas.
According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), security forces responded with all available weapons, in which Lions of Islam suffered heavy losses.
Two soldiers have sacrificed their lives fighting valiantly during the engagement. The martyred soldiers include Sepoy Naseeb Ullah, a resident of Kharan and Sepoy Insha Allah, a resident of Lakki Marwat.
The ISPR spokesperson said, "It is reminded that Pakistain’s security forces remain determined to defeat acts of cowardly terrorists, aimed at disrupting peace, stability and progress of Balochistan."
[NATION.PK] Garden Police filed a case about recovery of 20 hand grenades stuffed in a shopper found in a garbage dump.
Police yesterday claimed to have foiled a terrorism bid in the city.
Garden cop shoppe has registered the case under the explosives and anti-terrorism law.
The grenades were kept hidden with an intention to use them in a terrorism act, according to the FIR registered with sub-inspector Malik Rasheed as complainant.
"A KMC inspector informed on phone about presence of hand grenades at the garbage dump," according to the FIR. "20 hand grenades were found from the garbage dump, one of them was without number," according to the first information report.
Unknown bully boyz have been named in the case.
SSP City Sarfaraz Nawaz yesterday said that they have recovered a shopper carrying 20 hand grenades from a garbage dump in the Dhobi Ghat area of Garden.
"Bomb Disposal Squad is currently involved in defusing the bombs and clearing the area," he said and added that a heavy contingent of police has been deployed to the area to avert any untoward incident.
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Iraqi security forces neutralized a jacket wallah during a security operation in the north of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, a statement by Baghdad's Operations Command said on Saturday.
According to the statement, a joint force from the sixth Infantry division's 59th brigade and the Commandos of Baghdad Operations Command raided an ISIS hideout in northern Baghdad in response to intelligence information.
"The Joint force managed to kill a terrorist and defuse an explosive vest he wore," the statement added, "the operation is still underway."
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[SHAFAQ] A force affiliated with the Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq movement stormed a square downtown the city of al-Kout in Wasit after a group of demonstrators attempted to prevent the movement proponents of organizing a commemoration of Qassem Soleimani , the commander of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Quds force, and the deputy commander of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces-PMF), Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.
The commemoration ceremonials were scheduled to take place in the same square the demonstrators gathered in.
Eyewitnesses told Shafaq News Agency that the armed force deployed live bullets to disperse the demonstrators who torched tires on the roads and inside the square.
According to the security source, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... , some "150 to 200 demonstrators" stormed the ceremony in the Iraqi city of Kut, some 160 kilometres (100 miles) southeast of Baghdad.
The protesters tried to "prevent" the commemoration, moving in just before it was due to begin and tearing down portraits of Soleimani and Muhandis, he said.
"Members of an armed faction opened fire and maimed two demonstrators," the source said, without giving further details.
Sajjad Salem, an independent member of parliament linked to an anti-government protest movement that began in October 2019, posted a video on Facebook showing gunnies in a square, with gunshots ringing out.
Salem said the video showed shots being fired by members of the Asaib Ahl al-Haq force, a key component of the Hashed.
The commemoration was suspended and security forces have deployed heavily though Kut, an AFP news hound said.
Detractors of the Hashed accuse it of acting on behalf of Iran, which wields considerable cross-border influence in Iraq, and accuse it of crushing the protests that began in 2019.
Five Iraqi soldiers were maimed in festivities between the Iraqi army and an ISIS terrorist group in al-Tarmiyah, north of Baghdad, earlier today, Saturday.
A source told Shafaq News Agency that the armed confrontations are underway until the moment.
[SHAFAQ] Iraqi security forces reportedly apprehended a prominent member of the terrorist organization of ISIS in al-Anbar on Sunday.
A source told Shafaq News Agency that Iraqi security forces ambushed the wanted terrorist who was spotted inside Fallujah and arrested him.
"The arrestee participated in many terrorist operations against civilians and security forces when ISIS took over major parts of al-Anbar in 2014," the source added, "security forces are investigating with him to locate other members of a sleeper cell he belongs to."
[SHAFAQ] Iraqi military intelligence seized a huge cache of bombs buried underground in Nineveh, the Security Media Cell reported on Saturday.
Guided by accurate intelligence information, a military force unearthed 113 Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), 64 detonators, two Austrian rockets, among other equipment, hid underground in al-Samariyah village in Nineveh.
The Explosive Ordnance Disposal squad carried out a controlled explosion to destroy the seizures.
On Saturday, the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) foiled an ISIS attack on the outskirts of al-Azim district, north of Diyala Governorate.
A commander in PMF's "Nida'a Diyala " Brigade, Fattah al-Azzawi, told Shafaq News Agency, "ISIS elements attacked security points of the Popular Forces and the Iraqi Army, in Albu Bakr village, northwest of al-Azim."
He added, "the Army and the PMF clashed with the Lions of Islam and forced them to flee towards the border areas with Saladin."
"The situation is now under control," he affirmed.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella went down under the weight of the custard... a security source told our Agency that the attack maimed two Iraqi soldiers.
Al-Azim district is exposed to frequent attacks on the borders of Saladin due to security gaps and the lack of military reinforcements.
Thousands of families were displaced from al-Azim, al-Saadiya, Jalawla, North Miqdadiyah, and East Mansuriya in 2014 during the ISIS invasion.
In 2017, Iraq declared final victory over ISIS after Iraqi forces drove its last remnants from the country, three years after the Death Eater group captured about a third of Iraq's territory.
Yet, ISIS still has sleeper cells in several Iraqi Governorates.
[SHAFAQ] Iran ...They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... imposed sanctions on United States individuals for their involvement in the liquidation of the Commander of the Quds Forces, Qasem Soleimani.
On Saturday, Iran's Foreign Ministry stated that the sanctioned individuals include Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, US Central Command (CENTCOM) Commander Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., and former National Security Adviser Robert C. O'Brien.
"The individuals on the list of sanctions participated in the decision-making, planning, organization, financing, support, as well as in the leadership or implementation of the terrorist act," the ministry explained.
Soleimani, head of an elite overseas unit of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, was killed along with Iraqi leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis on January 3, 2020, in a U.S. dronezap on his convoy at Baghdad airport.
Washington had accused Soleimani of criminal masterminding attacks by Iranian-aligned "militias" on U.S. forces in the region. His killing took U.S.-Iranian hostilities into uncharted waters and stoked concern about a major conflagration.
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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.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] A man in black bloc behaving suspiciously near a right-wing rally outside the Pinellas County Courthouse in Florida on Jan. 6 was apprehended by deputies after he tried fleeing on foot. Garrett James Smith, 22, was arrested and found carrying an active pipe bomb, 
[SHAFAQ] Iraqi security forces reportedly apprehended a prominent member of the terrorist organization of ISIS in al-
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