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Al-Qaeda claims responsibility for burning alive three southern Yemeni separatist prisoners
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RFK Jr. will challenge Biden for
the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination
Thursday April 6th, 2023

DianaDors_00001
Police detain several people seeking
to carry out animal sacrifice at Temple Mount
Iran claims it foiled drone
attack on defense facility in Isfahan
Iran%u2019s supreme leader: Israel%u2019s
demise coming faster than I expected
Soldier lightly injured by gunfire
during operation in West Bank village
Turkey closes airspace to flights
to and from Iraq%u2019s Sulaymaniyah: Report
Iraq Claims Responsibility for Killing
Prominent ISIS Leader, Contradicting US Account
Florida woman found with 24 pipe bombs
pleads guilty to avoid jail, focus on mental health

Posted by: Fred || 04/06/2023 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Now there's an "Open Dors" policy I can support.
Posted by: Mercutio || 04/06/2023 10:24 Comments || Top||

#2  My father (WWII Vet) told me she was his favorite pin up girl. Also said don't tell Mom.

Posted by: jpal || 04/06/2023 15:43 Comments || Top||

#3  Her cups runneth over.
Posted by: Fred || 04/06/2023 18:59 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Gunmen Suspected To Be Herdsmen Raid Kogi Community, Kill Living Faith Church Pastor
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 04/06/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [12 views] Top|| File under: Fulani Herdsmen (Boko Haram)

#1  Another muslim killer? Take out his mosque.
Posted by: Woodrow || 04/06/2023 21:24 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Al-Qaeda claims responsibility for burning alive three southern Yemeni separatist prisoners
by Emad Almarshahi

[HODHODYEMENNEWS] Al-Qaeda terrorist has announced its responsibility for executing three prisoners of armed factions backed by the UAE in Abyan province, southern Yemen, by burning them alive.

This came through a statement issued Monday by the terrorist organisation, along with horrific pictures and videos of the executions of the prisoners.

The pictures showed three fighters of the pro-UAE Southern Transitional Council (STC) being shackled before being burned alive.

The statement confirmed that the three conscripts were captured in an armed ambush inside a site of the STC militia in central Abyan.

Websites affiliated with the STC revealed the names of the three conscripts who were burned, namely Bashar Mahfoudh Saif, Arian Fadhl Saleh and Muhammed Hassan al-Kabsh.

Posted by: badanov || 04/06/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [18 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula

#1  Nice people
Posted by: Elminens Chusorong3648 || 04/06/2023 7:07 Comments || Top||

#2  That's the Al Qaeda we know and love.
Posted by: mossomo || 04/06/2023 12:44 Comments || Top||

#3  'Tweren't Mormons."
Posted by: Cesare || 04/06/2023 14:08 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Clashes begin in Ingushetia in the CTO zone
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] Clashes are taking place in the zone of the counter-terrorist operation (CTO) in the Malgobek district of Ingushetia. This was announced on April 6 by a source in law enforcement agencies of the region in an interview with RIA Novosti.

It is specified that in the village of Zyazikov-Yurt in the Malgobek district, a group of militants began a shootout with security forces. According to preliminary data, the militants were blocked in one of the households.

Unidentified persons attacked the Volga-14 traffic police post in the Malgobek district on the border of Ingushetia and North Ossetia and wounded two police officers, after which they fled.

On the afternoon of April 3, in the Malgobek district, a clash occurred between a group of intruders and police officers, one of the policemen was injured. From 20:00 Moscow time on April 3, the CTO regime operates on the territory of the Malgobek district.

Earlier, REGNUM reported that in the Malgobek district of Ingushetia, law enforcement officers found the body of one of the alleged defendants in the attack on the Volga-14 traffic police post.

More from regnum.ru
Body of suspected terrorist found in Ingushetia
In Ingushetia, the body of an alleged participant in the attack on a traffic police post was found

In the Malgobek district of Ingushetia, law enforcement officers found the body of one of the alleged defendants in the attack on the Volga-14 traffic police post. This was reported to journalists on April 5 in the press service of the FSB in the region.

"As a result of operational-search activities carried out as part of the counter-terrorist operation, the FSB of Russia for the republic, together with the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Ingushetia, found the corpse of an unidentified man in an abandoned house in the rural settlement of Aki-Yurt, Malgobek district, outwardly similar to Kottoev M.A.- G . Born in 1997," the message says.

Earlier, Kottoev was put on the wanted list on suspicion of planning terrorist crimes.

Weapons were found next to the dead man's body: a 7.62 mm Kalashnikov assault rifle, a GP-25 underbarrel grenade launcher with ammunition, and F-1 grenades.

Currently, the search is on for the remaining participants in the gangster attack on the police.

From Kavkaz Uzel, which adds
Body of the second of the group of militants was found in Ingushetia

Sources in law enforcement agencies reported on April 4 that cars were found that were used by residents of Ingushetia who were put on the wanted list, as well as weapons caches. Telegram channels informed that the uncle of Movsar Kottoev hid the fugitives on a farm in Malgobek. Movsar Kottoev's father disowned him in a video message posted on April 4 .

More:
The body of the second of the wanted residents of Ingushetia was found today in an abandoned house in the village of Akki-Yurt, the Ingushetia newspaper reported, citing an informed source. "During the inspection of the territory of the Malgobek district, where the CTO regime was introduced from 20:00 on April 3, the corpse of a man was found in an abandoned house. According to preliminary data, a self-explosion occurred. Perhaps a grenade that was in the unloading vest of the wanted person exploded," the source said.

Security officials believe that this is about Movsar Kottoev, and others put on the wanted list may be located near the place where Kottoev's body was found, the publication says. 

Information that the body of Movsar Kottoev was found in Ingushetia was also published today by the Sapa Kavkaz and News_Ingushetii Telegram channels. And the ingterpol_news Telegram channel posted a photo, allegedly from the place of Kottoev's death. In the picture, the body of a man lies face down, next to him against the wall is a machine gun. The "Caucasian Knot" cannot confirm the date and place where this picture was taken.

Posted by: badanov || 04/06/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [10 views] Top|| File under:


India-Pakistan
8 terrorists killed, soldier martyred in South Waziristan IBO: ISPR
[Dawn] Eight bad boyz were potted and a soldier was martyred during an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in the Shinwarsak area of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s South Wazoo district, the military’s media affairs wing said on Wednesday.

According to a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), an intense exchange of fire took place between security personnel and gunnies during the operation.

"Own troops effectively engaged the terrorists’ location and eight terrorists, including terrorist commander Jan Muhammad alias Chargh, were sent to hell," the statement said.

It added that 31-year-old Sepoy Hamid Rasool, a resident of Rawalpindi district, was martyred during the shootout with the gunnies while another four security personnel, including two officers, were maimed.

The ISPR said weapons and ammunition were seized from the slain terrorists, who remained actively involved in terror activities against security forces and the killing of innocent citizens.

"Security forces of Pakistain are determined to eliminate the menace of terrorism and such sacrifices of our brave soldiers further strengthen our resolve," the statement added.

On March 21, a brigadier from the Inter-Services Intelligence
...the Pak military intelligence agency that controls the military -- heads of ISI typically get promoted into the Chief of Army Staff position. It serves as a general command center for favored turban groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, tries to influence the politix of neighboring countries, and carries out a (usually) low-level war against India in Kashmir...
was martyred during an encounter with "hardcore terrorists" in South Waziristan’s Angoor Adda while three soldiers embraced martyrdom and three bad boyz were potted during an exchange of fire in Dera Ismail Khan
... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ...
district.

On March 10, five bad boyz were potted by security forces in IBOs carried out in North and South Waziristan.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/06/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [14 views] Top|| File under:


Police begin probe as two personnel martyred in Kohat militant attack
[Dawn] The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa police have begun an investigation into the martyrdom of two Kohat coppers in Monday night bully boy attack.

Also, an official of the traffic police was martyred in a gun attack in Lower Dir district, while a bully boy was killed and two injured in a police crackdown in Dera Ismail Khan
... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ...
district.

SHO of Kohat’s Mohammad Riaz Shaheed cop shoppe Islamuddin told Dawn that police personnel Ayaz and Qasim were attacked by holy warriors on the Bannu Road in Mirozai area on Monday night when they’re on the way to the Abu Bakar and Hamza mosques to perform security duty for taraveeh prayers.

He said the bullets fired by the attackers pierced the helmets and bulletproof vests worn by the coppers.

The SHO said funeral prayers for the dear departed were offered at the police lines on Tuesday.

Provincial police chief Akhtar Hayat Khan Gandapur formed a two-member committee to probe the bully boy attack.

A notification issued by the Central Police Office said a fact-finding committee comprising DSP (Logistics) at the CPO Sanaullah and sub-inspector Safdar Khan would look into the attack and submit its report within a week.

It added that the committee would visit the place of crime, ascertain the kind of weapons used to kill police personnel, and examine the helmets and jackets issued to the dear departed.

It will check what "security gadgets" the two police personnel received from the department for permanent and temporary use.

Meanwhile,
...back at the comedy club, Boogie sadly admitted that he was a better peeping Tom than he was a comedian...
a motorcyclist shot a traffic police constable dead in the Talash Bazaar of Lower Dir district and fled.

The police identified the dear departed as Bakht Zamin, a 35-year-old resident of Ouch Sharqi, and said he was attacked while performing duty at a busy intersection.

They said they had started the paperwork but haven't done much else and started a search for the gunman.

Local SHO Tauhid Khan told Dawn that Bakht Zamin was a victim of assassination.

The dear departed’s family claimed that it had no enmity.

Also, the Dera Ismail Khan police said it killed a bully boy group’s member and injured others in a pre-dawn operation in the Kot Essa area in the wee hours of Tuesday.

The operation was launched by the provincial police’s Albarq Unit at 3am in the jurisdiction of the Daraban cop shoppe on a tip-off about the presence of bully boy commander Mazhar Gandapur.

The police said bully boy Ansar Abbas, a resident of Kot Essa area, was killed in an exchange of fire with police, while other members of the bully boy group, including its commander Mazhar Gandapur, fled.

District police officer Rauf Qaiserani toldDawnthat Mazhar Gandapur and another bully boy were believed to be maimed by the police gunfire.

He said the sub-machine guns snatched from the police were also seized along other unlicensed arms.

Last month, a police constable was killed and two others injured by the same bully boy group in the area.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/06/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [8 views] Top|| File under: Pak Taliban (TTP)


Security Forces bust hideout, recover huge cache of ammunition in Ramban
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/06/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [10 views] Top|| File under:


Police re-Arrest LeT associates who escaped custody in Baramulla
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/06/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11 views] Top|| File under: Lashkar e-Taiba


Iraq
Iraq Claims Responsibility for Killing Prominent ISIS Leader, Contradicting US Account
Responding to this story from yesterday.
[Shafaq News] Iraq's National Intelligence Service grabbed credit for killing Khaled Ahmed al-Jubouri,
...more fully and with alternate spellings Khalid Aydd Ahmad al-Jabouri...
a prominent ISIS leader, denying the American story that a US operation in Syria killed the terrorist.

According to the Agency, al-Jubouri, also known as Yacoub al-Muhajir, allegedly planned terrorist attacks in European countries.

The Intelligence Service said it targeted him in Syria's Idlib province after an arrest warrant had been issued against him.

The statement claimed that al-Jubouri, who had previously been a member of al-Qaeda, was a prominent figure in ISIS, holding positions such as military official for areas outside Nineveh, a security official in the state of eastern and northern Nineveh, and governor of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
(in ISIS terms).

The official Iraqi statement came after the US Central Command had previously grabbed credit for killing al-Jubouri in the northern countryside of Idlib.

The US Central Command statement asserted that no non-combatants were killed or injured in operation.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/06/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [10 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Somebody's keeping score.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/06/2023 15:39 Comments || Top||

#2  "It was us who done it!"
Posted by: jpal || 04/06/2023 15:49 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Lebanon fires massive barrage of rockets into Israel's North on Passover
[JPost] Curiously, I'd figured Hezbollah, but:
According to initial security assessments, Hamas terror cells based in southern Lebanon were responsible for the rocket barrage, carried out in response to violent clashes in al-Aqsa.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/06/2023 08:55 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [6 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Rockets launched at Israel from Gaza during Passover feast
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/06/2023 8:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Feliz Ramadan everybody!
Posted by: jpal || 04/06/2023 15:24 Comments || Top||

#3  undo ariel sharons error. Take Gaza. Clean it out.
Posted by: irish rage boy || 04/06/2023 17:24 Comments || Top||

#4  "Israeli apartheid!" cries Gaza.
[in Arabic: "Viva la Raza!"]
"Is that why you're shoeless,
Blue, clueless, Hindoo-less,
And Joo-less?"
- Ali al-Murtaza
Posted by: Fester Sleting8127 || 04/06/2023 20:33 Comments || Top||


Soldier lightly injured by gunfire during operation in West Bank village
[IsraelTimes] Serviceman taken to hospital as army searches for button men; incident comes as tensions flare on Passover Eve, with festivities at Temple Mount, rocket fire from 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...
An Israel Defense Forces soldier was lightly maimed by gunfire during an operation near the West Bank city of Hebron early Wednesday morning, as Israeli-Paleostinian tensions spiked during Ramadan and ahead of the start of Passover.

Troops returned fire, and the soldier was treated for his wounds at th scene in the village of Beit Ummar, the military said. He was then taken to Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center.

The military said it was searching for the assailants.

Rioting subsequently broke out in the village, with several Paleostinians lighting tires and throwing rocks and explosives at troops.

The Islamic holy month of Ramadan, which this year once again coincides with the Jewish festival of Passover, is known to be a period of high tensions between Israeli forces and Paleostinians. Tens of thousands of worshipers visit al-Aqsa, Islam’s third holiest site, throughout the month, regularly leading to a spike in tensions with Israel and violence.

Last week, the IDF announced it would impose a closure on the West Bank, set to take effect at 5 p.m. Wednesday, with crossing points closed to Paleostinians on the first and last days of the Passover holiday. Gaza border crossings will also close.

Such closures are standard practice during festivals and holidays. The military says they are a preventative measure against attacks in periods of increased tension.

The closure will last until Saturday, April 8. A second closure will begin on April 11 and last until April 12.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/06/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [18 views] Top|| File under:


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Militants attempted to break through in Syria
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] Deputy head of the TsPVS Gurinov: militants tried to break into the territory controlled by the Syrian government

Two members of the Syrian army died as a result of an attempt to break through in Syria by militants of the terrorist group "Islamic Party of Turkestan" (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation), Rear Admiral Oleg, deputy head of the Russian Center for the Reconciliation of Warring Parties (CPVS) in Syria, told reporters on April 5 Gurinov.

The terrorists attacked in the area of ​​the settlement of Kavkaba (Idlib province) and tried to penetrate into the territory controlled by Damascus. Four more Syrian soldiers were injured.

The militant attack was repulsed. Destroyed nine terrorists.

As REGNUM reported , on April 4, the Central Command (CENTCOM) of the US Armed Forces announced the elimination in Syria of one of the leaders of the Islamic State terrorist group (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation). It was destroyed in an air strike.
Posted by: badanov || 04/06/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [16 views] Top|| File under:


Iran claims it foiled drone attack on defense facility in Isfahan
[IsraelTimes] Authorities say no damage caused to facility; incident comes as Israel appears to step up activities against Iranian interests in Syria

Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
has claimed to thwart a dronezap on a defense complex in the central city of Isfahan, according to the semi-official Tasnim news agency.

The Wednesday report said a drone approached the Amir al-Momenin complex on Tuesday night when it was shot down by air defenses. No damage was caused to the facility, Tasnim reported.

Iran has blamed Israel for attacks on its territory, including the killings of some of its nuclear scientists and damage to nuclear installations in recent years.

Iranian authorities reported an "unsuccessful" drone attack on January 28 that targeted a defense ministry "workshop complex," also in Isfahan. In February, Iran’s envoy to the United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
accused Israel of being behind the attack.

Israel appears to have stepped up its activity in Syria in recent weeks, targeting Iranian and Hezbollah activity in the nation.

Damascus warned Israel that its recent activity risked dragging the region toward "total escalation," after a fourth Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
in Syria attributed to Israel was carried out within the span of a week early Tuesday morning. Two Syrian civilians were reportedly killed in the attack.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/06/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [23 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran



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