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It was Mrs. Peel, and as far as I know, Mr. Peel was never revealed. He must have been quite the dashing badass.
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When her husband, Peter Peel, surprisingly reappears at the end of "The Forget-Me-Knot", Emma decides to leave Steed and her spy career behind. In the distant shot in which he appears, Peter Peel looks suspiciously like Steed (and was in fact played by Patrick Macnee's stunt double, Peter Weston), and like Steed, he drives a two-door convertible Bentley, albeit a contemporary model. Emma meets her replacement, Tara King (played by Linda Thorson), who enters the building as she herself is leaving and tells her that Steed likes his tea stirred "anti-clockwise". Peel would be the last of the "talented amateurs" with whom John Steed was teamed, as her successor is a neophyte professional agent.
In real life, Diana Rigg had chosen to leave the series for a number of reasons, one of which was to accept a role in the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service (similarly, her predecessor Honor Blackman departed to appear in the Bond film Goldfinger). During her first series, Rigg eventually discovered that she was being paid less than the cameramen: afterwards her salary was tripled and combined with her loyalty to Macnee, she was persuaded to come back for 25 additional episodes (including her farewell episode, which was actually shot well into the Tara King season). Eventually the arduous shooting schedules, various conflicts with the producers, the lure of film and stage roles, and a desire to challenge herself as an actress all combined in her decision to leave the show for good.[7]
After leaving the series, Rigg played a variation of the Emma Peel character in two German short films produced for the 8mm market: The Diadem and The Mini-Killers. Little behind the scenes information has surfaced, though the films themselves have survived.[8][9]
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#5
Sorry for the buzzkill, but she was in Game of Thrones before she died at 82
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Not a buzzkill, I like a badass woman! Especially one that puts one over Cersei!
PAKISTAN ARMY ENGAGES SMUGGLERS ON THE BORDER – Members of Pakistan’s Frontier Corps engaged a group of smugglers who were reputedly attempting to infiltrate the country near the Talaab security post. The fighting was over quickly and 3 of the smugglers were wounded while 2 members of the Frontier Corps also sustained injuries. A source in Rawalpindi claims that 2 of the smugglers were carrying Afghan identity cards.
UNAMA HEAD MEETS WITH THE TALIBAN FOREIGN MINISTER IN ADVANCE OF UPCOMING UN SECURITY COUNCIL MEETING – Roza Otunbayeva, the leader of the UN assistance mission to Afghanistan met with Foreign Minister Muttaqi yesterday to discuss outstanding questions that would be asked at the UN Security Council briefing scheduled for next week. A source in Kabul said that Otunbayeva mainly asked if any policy changes were anticipated and if there had been a shift in the case of women’s employment and education. Muttaqi signaled that no changes were expected and reiterated the regime’s adherence to Sharia law as the primary governing principle. Muttaqi used the time to press the UNAMA chief for inclusion in the meetings and said that the lack of Afghan voices at such meetings was not conducive to progress.
3 AFGHAN NATIONALS KILLED IN SYRIA AMBUSH – In a suspected ISIS operation, a vehicle was ambushed in the Homs District. The 3 Afghans were members of the Fatemiyoun Brigade, an Afghan Shia militia group sponsored by Iran. While no confirmation of ISIS’s involvement has been received, a spokesman for the al-Assad regime said the area has long been suspected of harboring an ISIS sleeper cell. The identities of the 3 dead Afghans have not been released.
ARMS CACHE DISCOVERED IN PAKTIA PROVINCE – A house on the outskirts of Gardez was searched on Monday and several rifles, pistols, and grenades were discovered. The owner of the house was arrested and it was not clear if he belonged to any particular faction or group. Late last week, similar searches turned up arms caches in both Baghlan and Takhar that were linked to Resistance forces.
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Parwan: The Unknown Soldiers resistance group claimed to have assassinated Abdul Hamid Anwari in the province. Another Taliban member was reportedly captured.
#3
OK, you tell us Ukraine is holding on by a shoestring. Then you tell us they have enough assets to wander down to Sudan and chase down individuals.
Can we please pick a story?
(I'm fairly sure the Ukes aren't the only people PO'ed at Wagner...)
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All serious world powers are net exporters of military gear and services. Ukraine is just trying to play in the big leagues.
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#5
Sounds like we are giving them too much money.
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[AFRICANEWS] Clashes broke out Monday evening between the Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... ese army and a tribal militia in Port Sudan (east), a city which had until now been spared from the war that has been raging for five months in Sudan, according to witnesses.
There was "an exchange of fire between the army and a militia led by Sheba Darar", a leader of the local Beja tribe, in central Port Sudan, said a witness who resides in this coastal town of the Red Sea.
Another resident reported, on condition of anonymity, a "return to calm" shortly after, with "army soldiers deployed in the area" following the removal of "checkpoints set up place by the militias.
Since April 15, the war between the army, led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhane, and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of his former deputy, Mohammed Hamdan Daglo, has been mainly concentrated in Khartoum, the capital, and in the western region of Darfur.
Port Sudan, which is home to the country's only still operational airport and where the UN has established its logistics center, had until then been spared the fighting which left thousands dead and millions displaced.
Since the end of August, this city has served as a new base for the army chief after the army headquarters in Khartoum was besieged by the RSF.
Since Port Sudan, General Burhane has made six trips abroad in what analysts see as a diplomatic effort to restore his image in the event of negotiations to end the conflict with Daglo.
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Sheba Darar, chief of the Beja, supported the army at the start of the war before rebelling against the government representatives who were moving into eastern Sudan. However, Switzerland makes more than cheese... he has not announced any alliance with the paramilitaries who form the RSF.
Other tribes in eastern Sudan have pledged their support for the army.
The conflict has claimed almost 7,500 lives, according to a conservative estimate by the NGO Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project.
Fighting has intensified in Khartoum since Saturday, setting fire to several key buildings in the center of the capital.
Witnesses in Omdourman, a suburb northwest of Khartoum, reported that the army had attacked paramilitary bases with "artillery fire".
For the third day running, the RSF attacked army headquarters in the center of the capital, while the army responded with air strikes and drones, according to the same sources.
Both sides accused each other of destroying the Justice Ministry and the Greater Nile Petroleum Oil Company Tower, a conical, glass-fronted building in Khartoum.
The RSF said the buildings were destroyed by "assassinations" by the air force, while a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, allied with General Burhane, on Monday described the fires as part of 'a "diabolical and systematic campaign by the rebel militia aimed at destroying the capital".
The warring parties have been accused by human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... activists and international organizations of targeting infrastructure and failing to protect civilians.
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#1
Wow! "Fuzzy-Wuzzy" was the term used by British soldiers for Beja warriors who were supporting the Mahdi of Sudan in the Mahdist War. The term relates to the elaborate tiffa hair style favoured by the Hadendoa tribe, a subdivision of the Beja people. The Beja people were one of several broad multi-tribal groupings."
If the Beja revolt in the east, the Nile Arab rulers of Sudan are in big trouble.
#BREAKING CNN report claims Ukrainian special services were likely behind a series of drone strikes and a ground operation directed against a Wagner-backed militia near Sudan’s capital. pic.twitter.com/mAFOsAlWFo
#2
So, Mexico is now as spineless about their southern border as the USA is about its southern border.
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09/20/2023 8:13 Comments ||
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#3
...not quite, in the Mexican equation is the graft and pay of the cartels. Here its employers who don't pay minimum wage and bureaucrats who have desk jobs to never solve the problem.
#5
The entire illegal drug bidness is awash in money and everyone from the lowliest cop in a one cop town to the patronage people in the courthouse to pretty much everyone inside the beltway is directly or indirectly cashing in. The cartels are just part of a giant misery industry.
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/\ You remember.... 'a long time ago' when illegal drugs were actually found in the White House.
On-going investigation no doubt. More to be released in 50 years.
#7
The cheap labor crowd are modern slavers. Clinton and the CIA had a statewide drug distribution network in Arkansas that got him into the WH. Why would the process have stopped?
Azerbaijani Bayraktar TB2 UCAV strikes on several trenches, shelters and military columns of the Armenian armed forces in the Karabakh. pic.twitter.com/XzdtwDEgfH
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] India said Tuesday that a weeklong battle between its soldiers and suspected rebels in Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... had ended with eight people killed.
The battle started last Wednesday when bandidosgunnies ambushed and killed two soldiers and a police officer who were patrolling the Gadole forests in the disputed territory.
Over the following days, three more soldiers were found dead after they went missing during the protracted firefight.
The Indian army deployed helicopters and drones and launched bombs into the forests while pursuing the attackers.
Police officer Vijay Kumar said two bandidosgunnies were killed in the battle including Uzair Khan, a local commander of the Pakistain-based krazed killer group Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... "We have spotted one more body of a dead krazed killer," Kumar told news hounds, adding that no more button men were on the lam.
Kashmir is divided between India and Pakistain, with both countries claiming it in full and fighting two wars over control of the Himalayan territory.
A violent mostly peaceful insurgency beginning in 1989 killed tens of thousands of people including Indian troops, bandidosgunnies and civilians.
New Delhi accuses Islamabad of supporting the rebels, claims Pakistain denies.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government stripped the Indian-administered section of Kashmir of its limited constitutional autonomy in 2019 and imposed direct rule.
Deadly battles between security forces and rebels have been less common in the years since.
Two other shootouts in Kashmir this month claimed the lives of three security forces personnel and five suspected rebels.
"There is a huge area that remains to be searched. There can be a lot of unexploded shells which will be recovered and destroyed. We appeal to the people not to go to the area," he added.
The ADGP said security forces had reports that two to three terrorists were there. "There is a possibility that the third dead body may be somewhere. It will be known after the search is complete," Kumar said.
Speaking to news hounds, Additional Director General of Police Kashmir, Vijay Kumar said the body of Uzair Khan has been retrieved from the encounter site while another body is lying there.
Responding to a question, Kumar said that they had inputs about the presence of 2-3 snuffies in the area. "Searches are underway in the area to look for the third terrorist," he said.
An Army colonel, a Major, a soldier and a DySP of Jammu and Kashmir Police were killed in the encounter which broke out last Wednesday in the Gadole area of Kokernag.
[GEO.TV] A local court in Lahore sent Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... President Parvez Elahi to Adiala jail on a 14-day judicial remand in two cases pertaining to illegal appointments.
Judicial magistrate Imran Abid announced the verdict reserved earlier in the day after all the parties made their final arguments.
As per the first information reports (FIRs), Elahi made 12 illegal recruitments in the Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Assembly on grade 17 positions and appointed Muhammad Khan Bhatti as his principal secretary by violating the law.
Upon the completion of the one-day transitory remand, the PTI president was produced before the court by the officials of Punjab's Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE). The ACE prosecutor pleaded with the court to grant them a 14-day physical remand of the PTI leader, which the court rejected.
A day earlier, Elahi found himself embroiled in yet another case, as he will now be headed to Lahore with the Punjab's ACE following an approval of their request seeking his transitory remand.
After an anti-terrorism court (ATC) ordered to send him to jail on judicial remand in the case pertaining to the attack on the Federal Judicial Complex (FJC), the Punjab ACE stepped in seeking the senior politician's remand in a new case filed in Lahore for misusing his power and position to shuffle provincial bureaucracy.
According to an FIR, Elahi has been booked under section 5/2(d)47 of the Prevention of Corruption Act (PCA) for illicitly misusing his position and power as the then-chief minister of Punjab and transferring Muhammad Khan Bhatti, an employee in a special department of the Punjab Assembly, to a principal secretary.
ATC judge Abual Hasnat Zulqarnain approved the Punjab ACE request to issue Elahi's one-day transitory remand after reserving its verdict in the wake of arguments presented by the anti-graft department.
It may be noted that Elahi was initially arrested on June 1 in a graft case, amid a crackdown on PTI in the wake of the May 9 protests. He was rearrested multiple times after this in different cases, including the two money laundering cases.
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[Shafaq News] On Tuesday, Iraqi F-16 aircraft struck ISIS hideouts in the Zaghitoun Valley in Kirkuk.
According to a statement from the Joint Operations Command, the Air Force carried out the operation following accurate intelligence and close monitoring provided by the Military Intelligence Directorate. The strike was coordinated, cooperated, and planned with the Targeting Cell of the Joint Operations Command.
The precise air strike significantly damaged the enemy's hideouts in the Zaghitoun Valley within the Kirkuk Operations District.
[IsraelTimes] IDF believes Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, stepping up provocations on frontier amid dispute with Qatar over monthly funding
According to IDF assessments, there was a low chance that the current riots would return to the form of the 2018 and 2019 border protests, but there was still a risk of an escalation.
A Paleostinian man was killed by Israeli forces during rioting on Israel’s border with the 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... Strip on Tuesday, health authorities in the territory announced.
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[IsraelTmes] Military says it used suicide drone against button men during arrest raid in northern West Bank
Four Paleostinians were killed and around 30 were maimed during festivities with the Israeli military in the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank on Tuesday evening, Paleostinian health officials said.
The Israel Defense Forces said that as troops entered the refugee camp to arrest a number of wanted Paleostinians, armed festivities broke out.
A local wing of the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... terror group said its members shot up Israeli forces and detonated bombs in the area.
Israeli troops returned fire at the button men, hitting several of them, the IDF said.
One video showed gunfire appearing to hit a minaret where shots were apparently being fired from. Try an ATGM
The IDF said it also used a Rafael SPIKE FireFly loitering munition, also known as a suicide drone, against a number of armed Paleostinians "who endangered the forces."
As troops withdrew from the refugee camp, an army vehicle was hit by a roadside kaboom, disabling it, the IDF said. It was later extracted by other forces, who also came under fire by Paleostinian button men.
The Paleostinian Authority health ministry said late Tuesday that three Paleostinians were rubbed out and around 30 others were maimed, including several seriously, amid the festivities. A fourth Paleostinian died overnight, Paleostinian media reported early Wednesday.
The men were named as Mahmoud Ali Naafi as-Saadi, 23, Mahmoud Khaled Ararawi, 24, Raafat Omar Khamaiseh, 22, and Atta Yasser Atta Musa, 29.
Images circulating online showed the men brandishing assault rifles indicating they were members of local terror groups.
No Israeli soldiers were maimed, the IDF said.
Separately, Israeli troops detained a wanted Paleostinian in the West Bank city of Tulkarem, the IDF said.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant’s offices said they were being updated on the fighting in Jenin as well as on rioting on the border with the 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... Strip.
Earlier Tuesday, a Paleostinian man was killed by Israeli forces during rioting on Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip, health authorities in the territory announced. In addition to the slain 25-year-old, another 11 Paleostinians were maimed, including one who was listed at death's door, the Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,-run health ministry said, following the third straight day of rioting on the border.
[NPASYRIA] On Thursday, unidentified button men targeted a vehicle of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... (HTS, formerly al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... front) in the town of Darat Izza, western Aleppo, northwestern Syria.
An source told North Press that "unidentified button men targeted using machineguns a vehicle of the HTS’ General Security Service (GSS) on the road between Aleppo and Darat Izza, and managed to escape."
The source added that attack resulted in the killing of a member and the injury of another, and they were taken to a hospital in the city of Dana, northern Idlib.
HTS blocked the roads leading to the scene and prevented anyone from approaching the place, with the aim of identifying the perpetrators.
This month has witnessed five similar attacks against HTS’ checkpoints, without knowing the perpetrators, raising the number of HTS’ casualties to three deaths and 10 injuries.
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