The lads do like to keep busy, O tremendous Effendiness. If they can’t be revolutionaries and kill and rob those they’re revoluting against, why they jest turn round and kill and rob their neighbours! Idle hands are the Devil’s playground, donchaknow, and we can’t have them playgrounding in public — it wouldn’t be decent.”
[LibyaReview] On Tuesday, the National Commission for Human Rights in Libya (NCHRL) expressed its deep concern about the escalation of crime, and organized crime reported in the cities of Sabratha and Surman.
A sharp increase in theft, looting, and armed robbery has been reported in the two cities. "This is a result of a security vacuum, the proliferation of weapons, and the control of these cities by gangs and outlaws," according to the commission.
NCHRL held the Ministry of the Interior of the Government of National Accord (GNA)
...the ineffective compromise government recognized by the UN Security Council in 2015 and by Turkey, to whom they gave huge amounts of Libya’s gold in exchange for weapons, Syrian mercenaries, and Turkish soldiers, though in the end none of it saved their bacon. Back when the GNA refused to hold elections as promised, the general of their Libyan National Army, Libyan-American Khalifa Hafter, threw up his hands and decided to unify the country himself in addition to defeating rebellious jihadi groups. Egypt is Haftar’s most open supporter, seeing him as a bulwark against the Moslem Brotherhood ...
responsible for controlling security, prosecuting the perpetrators, and combating crime.
[AnNahar] Six years after she left Ukraine to follow her husband and promises of a dignified life under 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.... group in Syria, Alime Abbasova arrived home on New Year's Day, hopeful for a fresh start.
The journey that took her from the Crimean peninsula, annexed by Russia, to the so-called Caliphate, and then to camps for IS sympathizers run by overstretched Kurdish authorities, was a miscalculation, she told AFP.
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NIZHNY NOVGOROD , February 2, 2021 , 17:04 - REGNUMIllegal workshops for the production of military weapons and ammunition have been discovered in more than ten regions of Russia. Part of the network of clandestine weapons workshops was found in the Nizhny Novgorod region. FSB officers detained Nizhny Novgorod residents suspected of involvement in the case. Nizhny Novgorod media write about this on February 2.
According to the newspaper, “illegal gunsmiths, in addition to the Nizhny Novgorod region, have also been identified in Moscow, the republics of Karelia, Komi, Mordovia, Khabarovsk and Krasnodar regions, Belgorod, Vologda, Voronezh, Kaluga, Leningrad, Moscow, Irkutsk, Rostov, Samara, Smolensk, Sverdlovsk and Tomsk regions ".
The FSB reported 43 arrested and the termination of the activities of 28 clandestine workshops for the modernization of weapons and the manufacture of ammunition.
“A 50-mm infantry mortar and a 45-mm cannon, 191 firearms of domestic and foreign production were withdrawn from the workshops. The ministry clarifies that among the seized were also machine guns "Maxim" and "RPK", 18 assault rifles ("AKM", "AKS-74U", "AK-103", "AK-104"), a special sniper rifle "Vintorez", eight submachine guns, 48 rifles and carbines, 113 pistols and revolvers, 27 mortar mines of various calibers, 45 F-1 and RGD-5 hand grenades, over 26 thousand cartridges, 34.5 kg of gunpowder and TNT , ”writes NIA Nizhny Novgorod".
HISTORY OF THE ISSUE
In Russia, the circulation of weapons is regulated by specialized legislation (the main one is the Law "On Weapons"), and its other circulation is illegal. The Criminal Code of the Russian Federation provides for liability for illegal circulation of weapons, ammunition, explosives or explosive devices. Illicit arms trafficking is one of the major factors in the growth of terrorism and organized crime in the world.
[OneIndia] 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.... Cheif Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has cautioned about Pakistain's plan to push illegal drugs and weapons into India amid the farmers' protest to cause a disturbance in the border state and demanded an investigation into the matter.
According to reports, the Punjab CM has learnt from the security forces that more illegal drugs and weapons are being pushed into India from across the border.
The chief minister stated that he has been warning the Central government for a long time that "Pakistain is trying to infiltrate". He further warned the authorities saying that Pakistain has sleeper cells which they can activate and "a disturbed Punjab suits Pakistain's policy".
"I have a hostile country on my western border. On the north of us, we have China. These two countries are going to collude. About 20 per cent of the Indian army belongs to this area," Punjab CM told news hounds.
He also said that Pakistain has been sending weapons through drones and is also trying to cause infiltration. There has been a spurt in "drone delivery" since the farmers' agitation started and "weapons, money, and heroine" have been coming in, he added.
Drones from Pakistan have been delivering weapons to Kashmir as well. Someone at the ISI must have got a large shipment of the things, and is trying to use them up.
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weapons, money, and heroine" have been coming in, he added
Either those punjabis are having the time of their lives right now, or the editors at OneIndia are just as mediocre in their quality control as any other Indian media house these days. I think it's the latter.
Also, they've always been smuggling into Punjab. It's the drug and trafficking networks protected by this Amarinder guy's politics that allow for this intrusion. He's only worried now that the jiadis and Khalistanis will get overly empowered, delivering a Leftist bastion into Right wing hands in mass panic.
The center does not interfere in any Leftist state [our blue states] because it wants things to go to hell so it can say 'we told you so' to the citizen, leveraging their dissatisfaction into political victory. But just like your GOP prudes and prunes, they too don't have the balls for all-out war on terror or crime à la Duterte.
Militarizing the border and equipping soldiers with the right gear can solve all of this. But this is a banana republic trying to posture as a progressive liberal socialist democracy, just to get investors to pour money into it. And the citizen to keep trying to add to it's GNP without asking for where the revenue goes.
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Good to know, Dron66046. Thank you for explaining.
Pakistain has been sending weapons through drones
The real reason I posted the article. There was a story or two from Kashmir during the interregnum about drone-delivered weapons there, and it’s interesting to see that the ISI is not restricting this method to just one state.
[SouthFront]The second month of 2021 began with preparations by Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) for new round of hostilities.
Kata’ib Hezbollah received short and medium range rockets through Syria, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Kata’ib Hezbollah is a key member of the PMU, actively participates in the fight against ISIS since the emergence of the group in Iraq, and is a vocal supporter of the current attempts to oust the US presence from Iraq.
At the same time, the PMU are subject to more and more frequent ISIS attacks in recent days. As the terrorists appear to be popping up all around. On January 31st, the PMU said they repelled an ISIS attack in the region of Jurf al-Sakhar in the province of Babil.
These apparent appearances by ISIS members coincide with reports by pro-Iranian sources blaming the US for airlifting them. On January 31st, in an interview with the al-Maloumeh news website, Sabah al-Akili claimed that the US military airlifts ISIS units into areas behind PMU positions in the Jurf al-Sakhar region.
So far, US President Joe Biden’s policy for the Middle East is incredibly unsurprising. Any potential withdrawals appear to be nothing more than a pipe dream. The first-ever African American Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said that the Trump Administration’s decision to withdraw was being reconsidered. Not only that, but it is likely that the deployments need to be increased.
Attacks on US supply convoys have become commonplace, all of them being blamed on the PMU. However, responsibility for the most recent attack was assumed by the Qasim Al-Jabbarin group, which does not declare its affiliation with the PMU.
With the US still leading the way for NATO in the entire region, any exit also from Afghanistan becomes more fiction than reality. This will, in turn, lead to increased Taliban activity, since the peace deal is not being honored.
US troops remaining in Syria is also indisputable, judging by the deployments that have recently taken place.
The responses to these refusals to withdraw will lead to more frequent attacks and accusations from the Axis of Resistance. The answer from the Iran-led group will be not only against the US presence, but also against its allies in the face of Israel and Saudi Arabia. Yemen’s Houthis are responsible for dealing with Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabian fighter jets continue their attacks on reported Houthi targets, but mostly civilians. The ceasefire in al-Hudaydah is not being honored. Despite the Kingdom’s best efforts, the Houthis still have the upper hand in the conflict. On January 28th, at least 150 members of the Saudi-backed forces switched sides and went over to the Ansar Allah movement (the formal name of the Houthis). Additionally, drone attacks are more frequent. The Kingdom reported that it repelled several attacks, but such reports were not as common until recently.
That is when Iran deployed brand-new loitering munitions to the Houthis, and a new group made its appearance to target Riyadh’s ambitions on the Arab Peninsula.
Tensions in the Middle East continue deepening. The advent of reports of the airlifting of terrorists is something that’s been rare since the Obama-era. It appears that the region is once again subject to this known and proven method of “diplomatic intervention.”
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There's Biden's excuse for sending troops into another meatgrinder with no real concept of victory and no ability to strike the real enemy in their own territory.
[IsraelTimes] Energy minister: Tehran would need 6 months for required enrichment before bomb development; Blinken said Iran could make enough fissile material in weeks if violations continue.
IDF chief Aviv Kohavi issued a rare public criticism of the US plans last week and said that he had ordered the military to develop operational plans for striking Iran’s nuclear program.
Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz said Tuesday that 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 JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... was a year or two away from producing a nuclear bomb, in remarks that appeared partly at odds with the US assessment.
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Tehran announced it was beginning to enrich uranium up to 20 percent — far beyond the 3.5 percent permitted under the nuclear deal, and a relatively small technical step away from the 90 percent needed for a nuclear weapon.
That is true but a little misleading. It takes a lot of electricity to spin the machines and once you have the weapon grade material, there are problems handling it and storing it.
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Israel’s Ministry of Defense announced that the Israel Missile Defense Organization and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems have completed a successful series of flight tests of a new and upgraded version of the Iron Dome missile defense system.
The test simulated advanced threats which it may face during times of conflict – whether on land or in the sea, according to a press release issued Monday by the Ministry of Defense.
The official press release also stated that the new and upgraded version of the Iron Dome is expected to be delivered to the Israeli Air Force for operational use. It will also be integrated and installed on the Navy’s Sa’ar 6 corvettes and will be central to the defense of Israel’s economic waters (EEZ).
Israel’s air force and navy both participated in the tests, which were conducted at a base in central Israel, according to the statement.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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...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 
