[KhaamaPress] A cycle of violence bomb went kaboom! near a mosque in Maimana city, Faryab provinces of Afghanistan, according to local people.
The explosion took place on Wednesday close to the Imam Abu Hanifa Mosque in Miamana capital city of Faryab in northern Afghanistan that at least six people, including three Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... members, were maimed in the earth-shattering kaboom, said local people.
Could be ISIS — they like blowing up mosques, whereas Northern Alliance and other rebel groups generally go after soldiers in duty to advance their civil war...
So far, no one has grabbed credit for the earth-shattering kaboom. However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... the security situation in Afghanistan has tanked over the past couple of months, causing further challenges for the interim government in Kabul.
Since August 2021, gangs 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.... of Khorasan Province-Afghan branch gained power and carried out bombings, targeting civilian citizens, Taliban officials, ethnic minorities, and foreign nations.
A hint that the Khaama Press reporter thinks ISIS-K dunnit.
Despite the ruling regime’s tremendous efforts, security in Afghanistan is still a major concern. Target killings, explosions, and suicide kabooms routinely happen in Kabul and other cities.
Shamsullah Mohammadi, head of information and culture of Faryab, says that an explosion took place at around 1:00 p.m. Wednesday, near the entrance gate of the Imam Abu Hanifa Mosque in the 3rd district of Maimana city.
According to Mohammadi no casualties were reported.
SECURITY INCIDENT AT AIRPORT, TALIBAN USE GUNFIRE TO DISPERSE CROWDS – A rumor began circulating on social media yesterday that Turkey had dispatched planes to Kabul and was interested in transporting volunteers to assist with the earthquake disaster relief effort. A crowd of Afghans descended on the airport, hoping to be evacuated to Turkey. Several groups of people stormed the gates and made it onto the airfield and the Taliban opened fire to disperse the crowd. Some local eyewitnesses claimed to have seen bullets hit some of those in the group. The Taliban released several statements dispelling the rumors. A Turkish aircraft was said to have landed at the airport but was there to evacuate some of the diplomatic staff and their families from the country.
BLAST NEAR MOSQUE IN FARYAB – An IED that had been stashed on a motorcycle was detonated during the early afternoon hours near the entrance to the Imam Abu Hanifa Mosque in Maimana City yesterday. Taliban authorities said no casualties had resulted from the explosion but local eyewitnesses said that 3 Taliban and 3 non-combatants had been injured in the blast. No group has yet claimed credit for the bombing.
CANADA IS EXPECTED TO ANNOUNCE ITS EXPANDED REFUGEE PROGRAM FOR AFGHANS IN THE COMING WEEKS – The program is focused on assisting approximately 45 Afghan interpreters and cultural advisors to bring their families to Canada. The program is expected to launch after a human-rights campaign filed by several Afghan Canadians was adjudicated in a settlement.
MOSCOW CONSULTATIONS ON AFGHANISTAN LAUNCHED YESTERDAY, TALIBAN NOT IN ATTENDANCE – The fifth meeting of national security advisors from Russia, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan began yesterday in Moscow. The focus of the meeting was to discuss security matters related to Afghanistan and the Taliban were not invited to the event. While Iran and Russia spent much of their time grinding axes with the US, they also agreed that an inclusive government and commitment to control terrorism are precursors to further engagement. The Taliban had called on Russia to invite their delegation last week but the request was denied.
Conflict Tracker Helmand: An ALM team assassinated a senior Taliban judge in an operation near Shin Nawar of the Danhar Siraj district. No ALM troops were wounded or killed in the hit-and-run attack.
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SEARCHES CONTINUE IN KABUL, AIRPORT TO TIGHTEN SECURITY – Security searches are expected to continue but will be hampered by a lack of manpower as the incident at the airport has drawn over 100 Taliban off the search details to reinforce the guard force there. Sources in the Ministry of the Interior said that Taliban leadership was incensed upon hearing the airport defenses had been overwhelmed so quickly and were looking for answers from security officials in charge of the site. One official is said to have complained that the incident will cause the world to wonder who is in control in Afghanistan. At-risk Afghans can expect more of the same over the coming days with detailed identity checks at Taliban checkpoints and house searches across the city. We do believe the airport and its surrounding neighborhoods will be the focus of searches for today.
Al Shabaab, clan warfare, political infighting, plain vanilla criminal? Lots of possibilities for mayhem in Mogadishu.
[ShabelleMedia] Gunmen have last night shot and killed MP Isak Mohammed Hassan, known as Sandheere as he left a mosque in Mogadishu after the evening prayer.
Sandheere was one of the members of the Jubaland Regional Parliament, and he previously served as the Deputy Minister of Security in Ahmed Madobe’s Kismayo ...a port city in the southern Lower Juba province of Somalia, at the extreme southern end of the country (always assuming Somalia can be called a country). It is the commercial capital of the autonomous Jubaland region.... -based administration.
The killers immediately beat feet from the scene of the crime before the arrival of the police, according to the eyewitnesses, who spoke to Radio Shabelle by phone.
In a statement, Ahmed Madobe, has expressed his condolences over the death of the politician, whom he said was killed by al-Shabaab ...... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all of which have enough problems without them... turbans in the capital city.
"The President of the Government of Jubaland, Mr. Ahmed Mohammed Islam, has sent his condolences to the relatives, members of the Parliament of Jubaland and the people of Jubaland in general for the tragic death of the MP Isak Mohammed Hassan who was shot full of holes in Mogadishu by al-Shabaab while coming out of a mosque" said the President.
In conclusion, the President of Jubaland prayed to ALLAH to bless the dear departed in paradise, his family and the people in general, and to give him patience and faith.
So far, no group has grabbed credit for the liquidation of the regional politician which comes amid war against al-Shabaab in major parts of Somalia.
[HodhodYemen ...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... News] On Tuesday, The UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) militia imposed on a suffocating siege on a site near Ma’ashiq Palace in Crater district in the port city of Aden, which is controlled by the Saudi-led coalition.
The Yemeni Press Agency learned from its sources that elements of the so-called "anti-terrorism force" led by Shalal Shaya surrounded a site where about 6 officers from Taiz were present, adding that the officers were summoned to Aden by the president of the Riyadh-formed "Presidential Council," Rashad al-Alimi.
The sources pointed out that a force loyal to al-Alimi tried to remove the officers, but Shaya’s elements rebuffed the force’s interference, threatening to blow up the situation without providing any other details on the names of the officers.
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[HodhodYemenNews] At least two non-combatants were killed and three others maimed on Tuesday as a result of Saudi bombing on the border areas of Saada province, 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... According to medical sources, two non-combatants were killed and three others were maimed in the Saudi bombing of the border district of Sheda.
The Saada border areas witness almost daily bombing by the Saudi army, which has claimed the lives of thousands of civilians and caused massive destruction to the homes and property of citizens.
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[HodhodYemenNews] A number of military commanders of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) militia, were killed on Tuesday by an attack with bombs in Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... province, southern 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... .Local sources in the province said that the chief of operations of the so-called "Fifth Support Brigade," Abdullah Sa’ad Barjeela, and the operations officer of the "First Battalion" in the Fifth Brigade, Meshaal al-Elayani, were killed when their vehicles were targeted with four bombs in al-Baqira area, east Mudiyah district.
The sources added that the earth-shattering kabooms left a number of dead and maimed among the escorts of Barjeela and al-Elayani, at the entrance to Omran Valley in the district.
It’s not clear to me whether the terrorists here are Ukrainians/supporters of Ukrainian independence or jihadis. I understand not wanting to name bad guys so as not to give their cause more attention, but it really is counterproductive for those of us trying to track what’s going on. Do you discern clues here that I am missing in my ignorance, dear Reader?
[RIA Novosti] In the Stavropol Territory, a counter-terrorist operation regime was introduced within the boundaries of the Petrovsky farm, the FSB department for the region reported.
"On February 8 at 20 o'clock <...> in order to suppress and disclose a terrorist act, a decision was made to conduct a counter-terrorist operation and introduce a CTO legal regime for the period of its implementation within the boundaries of the Petrovsky farm of the Soviet urban district," the statement says.
Does Soviet have another meaning other than the defunct communist Soviet Union?
Recently, Ukrainian sabotage attempts have become more frequent in Russia. So, at the end of December, the FSB detained a Ukrainian migrant in the North Caucasus, who, as he himself admitted, was planning to stage a terrorist attack. A few days earlier, two militants who were preparing a terrorist attack in Chegem on the instructions of the Ukrainian special services were killed in Kabardino-Balkaria.
At the end of last year, Vladimir Putin signed a law punishing up to life imprisonment for the creation of sabotage communities, financing and propaganda of sabotage.
[NYPOST] More than 3 tons of cocaine was found bobbing in the Pacific Ocean after the drugs were dropped there by an international drug-trafficking ring, New Zealand police said.
New Zealand Police Commissioner Andrew Coster said the wholesale value of the drugs was about 500 million New Zealand dollars, which is the equivalent of $316 million, and it was likely destined for Australia.
"We believe there was enough cocaine to service the Australian market for about one year, and this would be more than New Zealand would use in 30 years," he said.
Although they have made no arrests yet, police said they had dealt a financial blow to everyone from the South American producers of the cocaine to the distributors in what was New Zealand’s largest-ever drug bust.
The 3.5 tons of cocaine had been dropped at a floating transit point in 81 bales before it was intercepted by the royal navy ship HMNZS Manawanui.
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[ShabelleMedia] Three people drowned and 11 were believed to be missing in the second migrant shipwreck off Greece this week, the Greek Coast Guard said on Tuesday, as the search continued in cold and windy weather.
The Coast Guard said in a statement that 27 people were rescued in an operation that began in the early hours of Tuesday, after an inflatable rubber boat was spotted on rocks along the coast of the island of Lesbos, near The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... At least 10 people were taken to hospital, authorities said, some suffering from hypothermia as a cold weather front brought freezing temperatures and snow across many parts of Greece this week. Others were huddled in thick blankets on the side of the road as they received help by aid workers, Rooters television pictures showed.
Survivors told authorities that about 41 people were on board the dinghy that had sailed from the Ottoman Turkish coast. Two coasties vessels and a Super Puma helicopter were assisting in the search operation amid strong winds, the Coast Guard said.
State broadcaster ERT said the migrants colonists were from Syria, 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... and Somalia, citing survivors’ accounts.
Greece has long been one of the main entry points into the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... for refugees and migrants colonists from the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Most cross on inflatable boats from Turkey, a short but perilous journey during which thousands have died.
Four migrants colonists, including three children, died after their boat sank off the island of Leros in the southeastern Aegean Sea on Sunday.
[Breitbart] Swanton Sector Border Patrol agents continue to see a spike in border crossings despite temperatures falling to minus 22 degrees Fahrenheit during the past week. Recently, agents apprehended 105 migrants from eight different nations during a week-long stretch.
Swanton Sector Chief Patrol Agent Robert Garcia tweeted photos of a group of migrants apprehended after crossing the Canadian border into New York. Garcia described the migrants as part of a “snow-covered group.”
Chief Garcia reported that the recent arctic blast dropped temperatures in the region to -22 degrees. He said the migrants apprehended came to the sector’s area of responsibility from eight different countries. The chief did not disclose what nations those were.
Garcia also tweeted photos showing the illegal crossing paths into Franklin and West Berkshire, Vermont. The chief reports similar ecological damage caused by migrants discarding clothing an other debris. This is similar, on a smaller scale, to the damage caused on Texas ranches along the Rio Grande that separates Mexico and the U.S.
Swanton Sector officials report an increase in migrant apprehensions of nearly 743 percent in the first quarter of FY23 despite life-threatening weather conditions in the Canadian border region of Vermont and New York.
During the first three months of the new fiscal year, Swanton Sector agents apprehended 1,146 migrants who crossed the border from Canada into Vermont and New York, Breitbart Texas reported. This compares to 136 migrant apprehensions during the same period in FY22 — an increase of nearly 743 percent.
Agents in this sector reported increased apprehensions in each of the preceding seven months. Between May 1 and December 31, agents took 1,866 migrants into custody. This compares to the 2,004 migrants that were apprehended during FY20-22 combined.
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Not many, but given the little enforcement and the harsh conditions this time of year they are probably just a small fraction of a very motivated group.
[GreaterKashmir ...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.... ] The Centre on Wednesday informed Rajya Sabha ...After the Libyan Civil War, Sabha grew in importance as a slave auctioning town. However, an investigation by the National Commission for Human Rights in Libya (NCHRL) revealed that while there was illegal slavery, reports were exaggerated, as slave auctions were rare and not made public. This was a great comfort to everyone but the slaves peddled in secret. The city was later seized by forces loyal to the Libyan National Army (LNA) and its leader Khalifa Haftar in January 2019, probably for its collection of MiG-25 aircraft.... that 27 persons including 25 security personnel and two non-combatants were killed in bad boy attacks across Jammu since August 05, 2019.
In a written reply, Minister of State in the Ministry Of Home Affairs (MHA), Nityanand Rai, as reported by the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), said that a total of 25 security personnel including two from Jammu-one each in 2019 and 2022, two in Rajouri in 2020, five in 2021 & four in 2022, nine in Poonch in 2021, one in Ramban in 2019, one in Kishtwar in 2020 and one in Doda in 2020 were killed in bad boy attacks post August 5, 2019.
He also said two non-combatants were killed in Jammu region , which include one in Rajouri in 2021 and one in Udhampur in 2022.
He further said 48 security personnel have also been injured in bad boy attacks, which include 10 in 2019, four in 2020, 14 in 2021 and 15 in 2022 and 20 civilians have also been injured including one in 2020, nine in 2021 & 19 in 2022.
Replying to another question, the MoS Home said that the Village Defence Group Scheme, notified by the Government of J&K in the year 1995, did not envisage constitution of the Village Defence Committees (VDC).
"However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... in terms of the Scheme ibid, Village Defence Groups (VDGs) were to be constituted. Village Defence Groups, in terms of the Scheme of 1995, have already been constituted in the Districts of Poonch and Rajouri of the Jammu Division for the protection of Villages," it added.
"As per Village Defence Guards Scheme (VDGs), notified by the
Government of UT of J&K on 14.08.2022, apart from the areas/village already declared as vulnerable areas in the Scheme of 1995, any other area/village, which may be considered more vulnerable area by the law enforcement agencies, necessitating application of the Scheme ibid to such other area/village, the Government can by an order declare such other area/village as a "more vulnerable area" for the purpose of the Scheme ibid," he said
[Dawn] Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... Police’s Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on Wednesday claimed to have arrested an 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.... -linked bad boy who was "collecting donations" from Karachi to be sent to Afghanistan.
"Acting on a tip-off, [RING!] Cop shoppe! Sergeant Shafiq speaking! Lissen! Dis is Mahmoud da Weasel! I got a tip for youse... the CTD conducted a raid in the Korangi Industrial Area and detained an important commander affiliated with the global bad boy Islamic State group," the department said in a handout.
The CTD identified the suspect as an Afghan national named Abdul Malik.
It said that the suspect, who was living in Karachi for a long time, used to collect "donations" in Ramazan usually, which were then sent to the IS in Afghanistan.
During interrogation, the suspect revealed that he had been in touch with the IS’ Mulla Abdul Manan group since 2011, the CTD said.
In addition, he disclosed that he was involved in the illegal "hawala/hundi" business and had sent "millions of rupees" to Afghanistan through it, the department added.
The CTD found a 30-bore pistol on him. A cell phone was also recovered, from which "vital information" had been obtained. Forensics were also being carried out on the device.
Following the increased terrorist activities in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and 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... recently — that reached the capital as well — security forces have intensified their actions against terrorists.
The Inter-Services Public Relations said on Wednesday that 12 Tehrik-e-Taliban ...Arabic for students... bad boyz were potted in an intelligence-based operation in KP’s Lakki Marwat.
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[HodhodYemenNews] A number of prisoners in a Syrian prison escaped in the northwest of the country, taking advantage of the cracks that occurred in the walls of the facility following the devastating earthquake that occurred on Monday and claimed thousands of lives and left tens of thousands maimed in both The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... and Syria.
"Agence La Belle France-Presse" quoted a source at the prison as saying, "At least 20 people managed to escape from the prison, most of whose members are affiliated with the ISIS organization."
The prison is called "Raju" in reference to the Syrian town of Raju in which it is located, and it houses about two thousand prisoners, including about 1,300 suspected of belonging to the ISIS, according to the same source. It is run by the military police of the Syrian opposition factions, and it also houses fighters from Kurdish forces backed by Washington.
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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
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[NYPOST] More than 3 tons of cocaine was found bobbing in the Pacific Ocean after the drugs were dropped there by an international drug-trafficking ring, New Zealand police said.
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