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Good Morning

Battle for Henderson Field - Pacific War #48 DOCUMENTARY
Thursday October 20th, 2022

Susan Oliver-24
On the upcoming escalation
Armed Forces of Ukraine tried
again to land troops near the ZNPP
Perspective from the Breakaway Republics:
Invasion of Ukraine: October 19th, 2022
Russian Perspective: Operation to Denazify
Ukraine: Operational Brief October 19th (updated)
Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion
of Ukraine: October 19th, 2022
Video: Ukrainian partisans sow
death and destruction behind enemy lines
Texas man gets no jail time for beating
girlfriend, killing their unborn child: report

Posted by: Fred || 10/20/2022 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ah yes .. the green Orion slave girl. as a 13-year old boy, I found her .... intriguing.

Susan Oliver had a huge fear of flying and became an expert pilot to overcome it. Beauty, brains and guts.
Posted by: Warthog || 10/20/2022 9:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Poor girl had to film that over and over because the Desilu color correctors kept fixing the green tone to make it more flesh-tone.
Posted by: ruprecht || 10/20/2022 9:26 Comments || Top||

#3  "A colorful battle for fame
Was lost when the court heard our claim
On her birthday. That suit,"
Groaned the small greasy fruit,
"Is how 'Oliver green' got its name."
Posted by: Marilyn Chitch7363 || 10/20/2022 17:57 Comments || Top||

#4  She flew fast planes and smoked ciggies until they killed her, had no use for men.

I have respect and then some.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/20/2022 18:09 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
LAX passenger is caught trying to smuggle 12,000 fentanyl pills through airport in Whoppers, SweeTARTS and Skittles wrappers
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Los Angeles County sheriffs on Wednesday announced that the passenger was stopped at LAX airport with dozens of what appeared to be candy boxes

  • Inside the investigators found 12,000 suspected fentanyl pills: the passenger fled, but has been identified, police said

  • Fentanyl remains the most deadly drug in the United States, and last was responsible for 66 percent of the 107,622 drug poisoning deaths last year

  • In the first eight months of this year more fentanyl has been seized than in the entire year of 2021: three times as much has been seized than in 2020

  • The DEA are warning that cartels are using colorful and enticing new packaging to try and get younger people hooked on the highly-dangerous drug
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/20/2022 05:12 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [4 views] Top|| File under: Narcos

#1  -looks through Whoppers...through SweeTarts...-

"Sir, Skittles are illegal in the EU."

"Sheeeeiitt I"m outta here!" zoom.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/20/2022 10:45 Comments || Top||

#2  The DEA are warning that cartels are using colorful and enticing new packaging to try and get younger people hooked on the highly-dangerous drug

Sure, because the 12-and-under demographic has so much disposable income.
Posted by: SteveS || 10/20/2022 10:52 Comments || Top||

#3  They sell it cheap.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/20/2022 11:47 Comments || Top||

#4  ...at least until they get you hooked.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/20/2022 11:47 Comments || Top||

#5  ...or until the kids die.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/20/2022 11:48 Comments || Top||

#6  Make them eat their wares.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/20/2022 12:29 Comments || Top||

#7  The first dose is free....
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/20/2022 12:35 Comments || Top||

#8  ...The Whoppers should have been the giveaway - no normal person would eat those things. ;)

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 10/20/2022 13:04 Comments || Top||

#9  Goobers ♪♫ Raisinettes ♪♫...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/20/2022 13:23 Comments || Top||

#10  crazyfool don't buy into that bullshit, in all the years when I did drugs there was never a free anything.
Posted by: Chris || 10/20/2022 14:15 Comments || Top||

#11  Make them eat their wares.

Yep. Whatever you try to smuggle in, you consume all at once. If you live, you get to go to a soft jail.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/20/2022 15:58 Comments || Top||

#12  If you live, you get to go to a soft jail run on the D-ticket in Pennsylvania.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/20/2022 16:41 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Arizona fires back at Biden admin's demand it remove shipping containers filling gaps at border
Two more weeks!
[FoxNews] The administration of Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey is pushing back against a demand by the Biden administration that it take down a number of shipping containers it has used to plug a gap in the incomplete border wall, saying that border states "cannot rely on the federal government to ensure its security."

"The myriad of federal agencies that claim jurisdiction on the southern border but do nothing to prevent the public nuisance caused by illegal immigration and criminal activity that exploits the open border is quite frustrating to those that live, work and recreate on that border and in our state," Allen Clark, director of Arizona’s Department of Emergency and Military Affairs, said in a letter to the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Reclamation, obtained by Fox News Digital.

The bureau had written to Gov. Ducey’s office last week, arguing that the move in August to fill nearly 4,000 feet of gaps in the border wall with shipping containers topped with razor wire is illegal. Ducey had announced the filling of the gaps in early August.

The construction consisted of 60 double-stacked shipping containers, welded shut and topped with four feet of razor wire. His office said that it is 22 feet tall and weighs nearly 9,000 lbs.

"Arizona has had enough," Ducey said in a statement at the time. "We can’t wait any longer.

In its letter, the Bureau of Reclamation states that Arizona placed containers on lands within the vicinity of the Morelos Dam and also on land that is part of the Cocopah Indian Tribe’s West Reservation. It also said that the placement interferes with a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) project to fill the gaps, and calls on Arizona to stop further construction and assist in removing the containers.

"The unauthorized placement of those containers constitutes a violation of federal law and is a trespass against the United States. That trespass is harming federal lands and resources and impeding Reclamation’s ability to perform its mission," the letter, reported by 12News, stated.

A spokesperson for the Bureau told Fox News Digital that the bureau's priority is to ensure the integrity of the water delivery infrastructure and the safety of its workforce in order to maintain operational readiness.

The letter, which comes more than two months after Ducey’s office sealed the gap, was issued just as CBP put out a notice of its own plan to close the gaps near the Morelos Dam.

That notification says that the gaps will be filled instead with "a combination of temporary mesh fencing and mechanized bollard vehicle gates that allow for access to the riverside of the barrier." According to the CBP notice, construction of that temporary replacement would not begin until "early 2023."

In its searing response to the Bureau of Reclamation’s letter, Arizona hit out at what it said was a "lack of coordination" from federal agencies that means that states like Arizona "cannot rely on the federal government to ensure its security."

Clark said Arizona disagrees with the feds’ claim that Arizona has trespassed against the U.S., arguing that the regulation in question provides an exemption for federal and state employees when carrying out official duties.

"Moreover, 43 C.F.R. Part 429.4(c)(8) provides that "activities authorized under other Federal statutes or regulations" are not subject to regulation," he wrote. "Since, the U.S. Constitution provides for the protection of the states (Article IV, section 4) and specifically reserves the right of states to defend themselves (Article 1, section 10), the regulation you cite does not prohibit Arizona’s actions."

Arizona says it is "committed to working with all our federal partners" but adds that federal officials have said that border construction was set to begin since December 2021.

"However, to date, Arizona has not seen any action by the federal government to do so and was therefore required to take its own action. For this reason, the containers will remain in place until specific details regarding construction are provided," Clark says.

The back-and-forth between Arizona and the Biden administration comes as states are increasingly taking matters related to illegal immigration and border security into their own hands amid what they say is a vacuum left by the feds.

Arizona is one of a number of states, along with Florida and Texas, that has been transporting migrants north to cities like Washington, D.C., in an effort to draw attention to the border crisis and relieve their overwhelmed communities.

"Sadly, the federal government doesn't seem to be acting either with a sense of urgency or in good faith to deal with this problem." Ducey spokesman C.J. Karamargin told Fox News Digital.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/20/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [13 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  "...a trespass against the United States."

Uh, could you repeat that, please?
Posted by: DooDahMan || 10/20/2022 3:48 Comments || Top||

#2  F 'em. Make the Bureau remove them. It'll take til next year to put out a contract and in the meantime it shows what the Biden regime is up to
Posted by: Frank G || 10/20/2022 7:51 Comments || Top||

#3 
The bureau had written to Gov. Ducey’s office last week, arguing that the move in August to fill nearly 4,000 feet of gaps in the border wall with shipping containers topped with razor wire is illegal.

The governor is repelling an invasion. Who ever signed the letter might not realize they have 'aided and abetted' that hostile invasion. There is a part of the Constitution that covers that.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/20/2022 8:16 Comments || Top||

#4  I wonder how many shipping containers it would take to build a wall around Washington, DC.
Posted by: SteveS || 10/20/2022 10:15 Comments || Top||

#5  "Come and take them"

And video the whole thing.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/20/2022 10:19 Comments || Top||

#6  I'm with Frank, instead of a nicely written letter Ducey should have gotten on tv and told the entire administration to go fuck themselves in those exact words.
Posted by: Chris || 10/20/2022 12:18 Comments || Top||

#7  Gangster Federal Government. Filthy Skanks.
Posted by: Whavising Gray7162 || 10/20/2022 21:45 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Two blasts kill over 20 in central Somalia
[ShabelleMedia] At least 21 people were killed in two separate bombings in the central Hirshabelle state of Somalia, officials said.

A powerful boom-mobile went kaboom! in Jalalaqsi town when soldiers operating a security checkpoint intercepted a vehicle. The checkpoint is near local government buildings and a military base belonging to 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...
peacekeepers from Djibouti.

"At around 2:30 p.m., a vehicle arrived at the checkpoint, one of the soldiers collecting taxation pointed a gun and stopped it," said Mire Hussein Siyad, deputy district commissioner of Jalalaqsi.

"When the gun was pointed at [it], the vehicle went kaboom!," Siyad told VOA Somali.

He said Wednesday’s explosion killed at least 15 people, including the town’s two civilian leaders, Mayor Adan Mohammed Isse and Mohammed Nur Agajof Dabaashe, the district commissioner. Dabaashe was recently replaced as Jalalaqsi commissioner, but he had not handed over responsibility yet, Siyad said.

Other victims included soldiers at the checkpoints and civilians including street vendors. The explosion destroyed a building near the checkpoint where the local officials were based. Siyad said two AU peacekeepers were maimed in the attack.

Siyad said the target was the town’s main bridge.

Meanwhile,
...back at the palazzo, Don Smilzo looked for an avenue of escape. The only window opened a hundred feet above the moat. The nearest of the hired assassins hold a bloody axe.
The window was looking better all the time....

six other people including four non-combatants were killed a separate explosion, when a three-wheeled cycle of violence with explosives attached, struck the Bulobarde town bridge. The important bridge links Somalia’s south and central regions. Pictures taken by the witnesses show the earth-shattering kaboom partially damaged the bridge.

The district commissioner of Bulobarde, Ahmed Mahad Nur, told VOA Somali that two men riding the cycle of violence drove it onto the bridge. He said one of the men jumped off before the earth-shattering kaboom while the second one detonated the explosive-laden cycle of violence and died in the blast.

Nur said the man who jumped was shot and killed by security forces. He said troops seized two other cycle of violences laden with explosives.

The officials said the two explosions were coordinated and intended to destroy the two bridges.

"They wanted to bring down the two bridges at the same time," Siyad said.

"It’s the most crucial bridge between the central and southern regions," said Nur.

Nur vowed the local government will rebuild the damaged bridge.

The al-Shabaab
...... the personification of Somali state failure...
bad boy group immediately grabbed credit for the two attacks.

Bulobarde and Jalalaqsi in the Hiran region (Hirshabelle state) have been the focal point of efforts to mobilize the local population against al-Shabaab.

Somali army spokesperson General Abdullahi Ali Anod on Tuesday reported that government forces and local fighters are completing preparations for new operations against al-Shabaab in Hirshabelle, and in Southwest, 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...
and Jubaland states. He said the operations could start within a "week or weeks."

Al-Shabaab has threatened clans mobilizing against them with violence.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/20/2022 01:14 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [2 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


Somali troops take villages from Al-Shabaab
[ShabelleMedia] The government forces have wrestled control of a number of villages from the al-Shabaab
...... the personification of Somali state failure...
following an operation assisted by local militia.

Early on Wednesday morning, the troops moved into Warkulan, Bakajeh, Galef, War-Isse, Qordhere, and Jilabley located on Jowhar-Raga-El highway in the Middle Shabelle region.

Al-Shabaab turbans left the areas before the arrival of the SNA, and there was no confrontation during the takeover, which took place in a peaceful manner.

Somali soldiers along with allied militia are making efforts to dislodge al-Shabaab from the remaining areas under its control. The government claims victory over the current war.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/20/2022 01:14 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [4 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


Somalia: US reveals Al-Shabaab's weapons trafficking network
[Garowe] After exposing a number of al-Shabaab
...... the personification of Somali state failure...
financiers, the US Department of Treasury has revealed tactics used by the al-Qaeda-linked group to traffic weapons, in what could assist Somalia and neighboring countries to tame the krazed killers, who control large swathes of rural central and southern Somalia.

According to the department, investigations indicate that one Mohammed Hussein Salad, Ahmed Hasan Ali Sulaiman Mataan, and Mohammed Ali Badaas are part of an al-Shabaab smuggling and weapons trafficking network in Yemen
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/20/2022 01:14 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


Arabia
Violent explosion hits Balhaf oil facility in Yemen
This is why they can’t have nice things.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] A violent mostly peaceful explosion on Wednesday rocked Balhaf facility, in the oil-rich province of Shabwah, southeastern 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...
This was reported by Yemen News Portal, based on testimonies of local sources.

According to the source, a kaboom believed to be caused by a drone crash near the Balhaf facility, noting that the plane took off from the Ruwaik border area of Ma’rib, which is under the control of the Islah factions.

It was not immediately clear whether the attack was aimed at the facility or just a warning message to the French company operating there. It is also not yet confirmed who was behind the attack.

The attack comes amid rapid developments in Yemen, the latest of which was the decision to relocate the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC)’s militia stationed in Mukalla to protect the facility, not to mention the repeated threats from Sanaa to foreign companies operating in the oil and gas fields
Posted by: Fred || 10/20/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [12 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


UAE-backed mercenaries abduct tribal sheikh in Lahj province
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] A tribal sheikh and a military officer in the Islah party, with their companions, were kidnapped in Tur Al Baha area, west of UAE militia-held restive Lahj
... a Yemeni governate located in the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula. It is the stomping grounds on the southern secessionist al-Harak movement
province.

Media sources confirmed that the button men from al-Sabiha area kidnapped the sheikh Abdo Mohammed al-Mikhlafi and Wajdi Fahd Hamoud al-Mikhlafi, an officer in the Protection Forces, and a number of their companions, on Monday in al-Baha area, while they were returning to Taiz from Aden city.

Al-Mikhlafi was assigned by one of the security leaders of Islah in Taiz, to go to Aden to resolve the dispute in the case of the killing of one of al-Sabiha’s sons in Taiz, the sources added.

Earlier, al-Sabiha tribes demanded those accused of killing one of their sons to be handed over in exchange for the release of al-Mikhlafi and his lover companions.
Posted by: Fred || 10/20/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [12 views] Top|| File under: Muslim Brotherhood


Child killed and four civilians injured in Taiz bomb attack
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] A little girl was killed and four others were maimed on Wednesday when an bomb went off in a military vehicle in center of Taiz city, southwest 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...
Informed sources said that unidentified button men detonated an bomb in a military vehicle of Islah Party bully boyz in Qubbat al-Ma’swar area, which was parking in front of a restaurant. As a result, a girl was killed and four others, including a woman and a child, who happened to pass from the street at the moment of the earth-shattering kaboom.


The sources confirmed that the girl died as a result of being hit by a fatal shrapnel in the head, while the maimed were taken to a hospital.

The explosion occurred after a number of Islah button men entered the restaurant to eat lunch, without injuring any of them, the sources added.

The number of terrorist bombings with improvised bombs increased with the UAE’s tendency to control the areas under the control of Islah in al-Hujariyah and the city of Taiz.
Posted by: Fred || 10/20/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [9 views] Top|| File under: Muslim Brotherhood


Saudi-led coalition forces evacuate separatist camps in Hadhramaut
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The government loyal to Saudi-led coalition began on Wednesday evacuating the last of the Southern Transitional Council (STC)’s brigades from Hadhramaut province,

This is coinciding with the escalation of tribal demands for the exit of those forces stationed west of Mukalla city.

A military committee affiliated with the Ministry of Defense in the pro-coalition government arrived at "Barashid" Camp.

Southern media, quoting sources in the defense ministry of the pro-coalition government, reported that the committee informed the brigade leadership to prepare to move to the neighboring province of Shabwa.

This move came two days after a demonstration by "Al-Hamom" tribes, the largest tribes of the Hadhramaut coast, to demand the exit of the brigade.

The brigade’s exit stated that it was done with the STC’s approval to pressure the removal of the forces of the First Military District stationed in the oil-rich province, whose exit the tribes require in return for the exit of the Barashid Brigade.

Posted by: Fred || 10/20/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [9 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Fifth Column
Isabel Araujo, a trans Antifa leader in Portland, is organizing a direct action to shut down women's rights activist Kellie-Jay Keen on her speaking visit


Alternate headline: Another fake woman demands real women submit to his superiority.
Posted by: Fred || 10/20/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [9 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Oh look! An albino ork!
Posted by: Dron66046 || 10/20/2022 3:54 Comments || Top||

#2  ...What in the name of Myra Breckinridge is that?...

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 10/20/2022 6:47 Comments || Top||

#3  It's a deep one from Lovecraft.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 10/20/2022 9:43 Comments || Top||

#4  What a flawed deeply unhappy POS
Posted by: Frank G || 10/20/2022 10:38 Comments || Top||

#5  Tucked the nose ring LOL.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/20/2022 10:42 Comments || Top||

#6  I'm picturing a tiny red laser dot on that shiny forehead. Hey, don't judge me!
Posted by: SteveS || 10/20/2022 10:49 Comments || Top||

#7  Oh look! An albino ork!

According to Rings of Power, all orks now are light/white skinned misshapen monstrosities with random piercings and flairs.

'old up, wate a'second...
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/20/2022 11:11 Comments || Top||

#8  I'm picturing a tiny red laser dot on that shiny forehead

Ha ha. I imagined an axe or cleaver, crudely dividing his face, making a -clink- at the stupid nose ring.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 10/20/2022 11:21 Comments || Top||

#9  Why do they all look like a wanna be punk Stay-Puft marshmellow men?
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/20/2022 11:45 Comments || Top||

#10  I imagined an axe or cleaver, crudely dividing his face, making a -clink- at the stupid nose ring.
I love a story with a happy ending...
Posted by: bman911 || 10/20/2022 12:58 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
IED defused in north Kashmir's Handwara
Posted by: Fred || 10/20/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [7 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistain Proxies

#1  Defusing is too dangerous. Blow in place.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 10/20/2022 21:17 Comments || Top||

#2  They're waiting for the dog to pee on it?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 10/20/2022 23:33 Comments || Top||


NIA files chargesheet against 12 accused in Sunjwan attack
Posted by: Fred || 10/20/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [7 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistain Proxies


Iraq
PKK supporters attack UN office in Qamishli
[Rudaw] Supporters of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Qamishli, northeast Syria (Rojava) attacked the United Nations
...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
office in the city during demonstrations over The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
’s alleged usage of chemical substances against the PKK fighters in the Kurdistan Region’s mountainous areas, sources told Rudaw.

PKK has claimed several times that the Ottoman Turkish army has carried out chemical attacks against its fighters in the Kurdistan Region’s mountainous areas in recent months. The Kurdish group on Tuesday identified 17 of its fighters whom it claimed were killed during these attacks.

PKK supporters have held rallies around the world, including Rojava, to protest the alleged chemical attacks.

Revolutionary Youths and the Youth Council of the Democratic Union Party, which are affiliated to PKK, held protests in front of the UN office in Qamishli on Wednesday, calling on the organization to take action against Ankara for the alleged chemical attacks. Later, they stormed the building, two eyewitnesses told Rudaw on the condition of anonymity.

PYD is the ruling party in Rojava.

As seen in the photos submitted to Rudaw, the building of the office was partially damaged and some people stepped on a removed billboard which read ’World Health Organization."

Neither Kurdish officials nor the UN has commented on the incident.

The Revolutionary Youth has carried out attacks against the offices of the opposition Kurdish National Council (ENKS) several times and has been accused of abducting young people to forcibly recruit them in the ranks of local security forces.

PKK is an gang struggling for the increased rights of Kurds in Turkey. Ankara has listed the group as a terrorist organization.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/20/2022 01:56 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [5 views] Top|| File under:


Unknown missile lands in Halabja
[Shafaq News] A missile landed yesterday night north of Khormal town of Halabja, in the Kurdistan Region.

Yesterday night, residents of Khormal heard the loud sound of a kaboom without knowing the reason behind it.

The Asayish forces announced today, Wednesday, that the rocket was located after eight hours of searching.
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One killed, eight injured in a serial bomb attack in Garmyan
[Shafaq News] A security officer perished in a series of explosions that targeted a force on the outskirts of Iraqi Kurdistan's Garmyan, the Asayish directorate said in a statement on Wednesday.

The statement said that a Commandos force was struck by a series of roadside kaboom blasts while on duty near the territories of Belkana and Zeinana in Garmyan.

The attack, according to the statement, killed Lt. Zouheir Mohammed and injured the head of the Kurdistan region's Commandos force, Akam Omar, and seven of his underlings.
At least one member of the Kurdish Peshmerga commando forces was killed and eight others were maimed in a suspected 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....
(ISIS) IED attack on Wednesday.

The force was in the midst of an anti-ISIS operation in Garmiyan administration’s Qum Palik village when their vehicle hit an IED.

Rudaw understands that among the maimed is commander of the force Akam Omar and his personal guard was killed in the attack.

Omar was transferred to a hospital in Sulaimani by helicopter, where he is receiving treatment for his wound, according to Rudaw’s news hound on the ground.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/20/2022 01:55 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [5 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Six ISIS militants caught leaving Iraq in al-Sulaymaniyah
[Shafaq News] The Counter-Terrorism Agency of al-Sulaymaniyah on Wednesday said it had apprehended a group of senior ISIS Lions of Islam attempting to leave Iraq.

The Security Media Cell (SMC) said that al-Sulaymaniyah Counter-Terrorism body, in cooperation with the Joint Operations Command (JOC), halted the attempt of six persons to cross the borders.

The arrestees, according to the statement, are wanted in accordance with Article 4/Terrorism.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/20/2022 01:55 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


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IDF soldiers arrest 12 wanted Palestinians in West Bank amid ongoing unrest
[IsraelTimes] Footage shows convoy of military vehicles coming under rock attack in Ramallah area; Paleostinian shot after allegedly hurling Molotov cocktails at troops

Israeli troops operated extensively throughout the West Bank in the predawn hours of Wednesday morning, arresting 12 wanted Paleostinians, the military said.

The Israel Defense Forces launched major arrest operations after a series of Paleostinian attacks that killed 19 people earlier this year. Another Israeli woman was killed in a suspected attack last month, and another four soldiers have been killed in the West Bank in attacks and during the arrest operations.

Footage circulated online showed Paleostinians hurling stones, cinderblocks, and other heavy objects at a convoy of Israeli military vehicles in the town of al-Bireh near Ramallah.

The IDF did not confirm if any arrests were made in the Paleostinian city.

In the village of Abu Dis on the outskirts of Jerusalem, the IDF said troops detained four Paleostinians over suspected involvement in terror activities, and another suspect in the Aida refugee camp near Bethlehem.

In Nablus as troops arrested a wanted Paleostinian, sounds of gunfire were heard in the area, the military said.

The 12 suspects were taken to be questioned by the Shin Bet security agency.

The military said no troops were hurt during the overnight raids.

In a separate raid on Tuesday afternoon, Border Police said officers arrested a member of the Lion’s Den gang in a Paleostinian town near Nablus.

According to a police front man, Suhaib Akef Jamil Shtayyeh was detained by undercover troops in a store in the town of Salem.

Police said Shtayyeh was suspected of being a member of the Lion’s Den terror squad, which has grabbed credit for numerous shooting attacks in the Nablus area in recent months. Shtayyeh was also transferred to the Shin Bet for further questioning.

He is the brother of Musab Shtayyeh, a wanted Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, man who was arrested by the Paleostinian Authority last month, and had also been tied to Lion’s Den.
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Battalion commander and soldiers attacked by Jewish rioters - Israeli reports
[JPost] It's wrong when the Paleos do it, same as when the settlers do it
Agreed.
Violent riots took place tonight in Huwara and at the Tapuah Junction, where four IDF soldiers were sprayed with gas.

According to reports, the commander of a Paratrooper battalion and combat soldiers were attacked and injured by Jewish rioters in Huwara. The forces were attacked with gas spraying when they were trying to disperse the riot, during which stones were thrown at Palestinian vehicles.

It was also reported that rioters sprayed gas at two other combat soldiers later at the Tapuah junction.
Posted by: Frank G || 10/20/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Not a good trend. They must have been exhibiting their displeasure at having to share space with paleos. What's rioty about that? Not cool.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 10/20/2022 3:56 Comments || Top||


'Justice was done' - Family of slain IDF soldier after killer shot dead in second attack
[JPost] Udai Tamimi killed IDF solder Noa Lazar last week. On Wednesday, after 11 days on the run, he tried to kill another Israeli and was stopped.

The manhunt for the Shuafat checkpoint killer came to an end on Wednesday night when he was shot dead in a failed shooting attack at the entrance to Ma’aleh Adumim, south of the Israeli capital.

The terrorist, east Jerusalem resident 22-year-old Udai Tamimi, arrived at the entrance to the West Bank city and opened fire at nearby security personnel. According to United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Akiva Skolnick, the terrorist was killed by returning fire from the guards. A grenade and knife were found on his person.

"Two highly experienced security guards that were at the checkpoint at the city entrance neutralized the terrorist immediately, with bravery and a lot of resourcefulness and without fear."
Ma’aleh Adumim mayor Benny Kashriel

The shooter was responsible for the killing of 18-year-old Military Police officer Noa Lazar on October 8 when he opened fire at a checkpoint near the Jerusalem neighborhood of Shuafat . A 30-year-old security guard remains in intensive care, sedated and on a ventilator. A third person, a soldier, was also injured.

For 11 days, security forces had been searching for Tamimi. Israel Police, Shin Bet and Border Police had arrested several people suspected of aiding the terrorist on Monday night, seizing weapon parts, cartridges and vests.

Lazar's family thanked security forces for their work after the attack at Ma’aleh Adumim.
Posted by: Frank G || 10/20/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Not exactly. Tamimi's home must be razed.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 10/20/2022 8:14 Comments || Top||

#2  he was shot dead in a failed shooting attack


What's failed about that?
Posted by: AlanC || 10/20/2022 14:47 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Deep South rebel abducted, tortured, and killed, BRN says
[BenarNews] A severely bruised body found floating in a river along the Thai-Malay border belongs to a Deep South holy warrior who went missing after allegedly being kidnapped last month, the BRN rebel group said Wednesday, warning that the killing might harm peace talks with Thailand.

The man whose body was discovered in the Kolok River was a member of the military wing of Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN, or the National Revolutionary Front),
...the largest group in the Thai insurgency in the southern Thai provinces that make up the old Patani sultanate...
the group’s chief peace negotiator confirmed to BenarNews.

Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/20/2022 01:14 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11 views] Top|| File under: Thai Insurgency


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Days after taking control over Syria's Afrin, HTS begins an arrest campaign against those refusing its presence in the region


Posted by: Fred || 10/20/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [6 views] Top|| File under: Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (al-Nusra)



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