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(2019) Mexico is the main source of heroin trafficked to the US, with some 75,000 acres [more than 100 square miles) of opium poppy production in 2017.
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Karine Jean-Pierre roasted for claiming illegal immigration is down 90%: 'These people think we're stupid'
Yeah but, unfortunately, a lot of people believe her. What? You think the mainstream media will contradict her?
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Elon Musk is right. Take the exorbitant profit out of drugs. Make them all legal. Even someone wants to 'off' themselves let them do it. The solution to illegal drugs is simple.
#6
Campfire out here concluded a messy 5 years, then corrected and lesson learned.
With the stipulation that the enabling support systems - the free food, clothing, shelter, product and paraphernalia - public or private must be eliminated as well or else we end up with camps of demoralized and mentally unstable people who are comfortable inflicted violence upon themselves, inflicting violence on others.
#7
#5 The civilization just prior to the Aztec tried your suggestion. They were a shell of their former greatness when the Aztecs kicked them to the curb.
THE US PLANS TO EXTEND TEMPORARY WORK PERMITS FOR AFGHAN REFUGEES IN THE US FOR AN ADDITIONAL 2 YEARS – The Department of Homeland Security has taken a decision supported by the administration to allow Afghans in the US to extend their work permits for an additional two years. The Department chose to make the rule changes based on the inability of Congress to find a solution to those Afghans who have reached the US. Eligible Afghans can submit an application online with the US Citizenship and Immigration Service for the renewal. The program is expected to launch sometime in June and five support centers will be established across the US to assist Afghans with their immigration cases. The announcement was met with enthusiasm by many of the Afghans who were nearing the end of their temporary work visas.
TURKISH FORCES CLAIM TO HAVE KILLED THE ISIS LEADER IN SYRIA – Abu Hussain al-Qurashi, the suspected leader of the global terrorist organization, was reportedly killed in an operation by Turkish Intelligence personnel on Saturday. Details were not readily available about his death and intelligence agencies in many countries were seeking confirmation of the death.
SWITZERLAND ASSUMES PRESIDENCY OF THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL, LOOKS TO THE DOHA SUMMIT FOR A PATH FORWARD – Pascale Baeriswyl, the Swiss Ambassador to the UN, said in remarks after assuming the presidency of the council that Afghanistan represented a ‘very difficult dilemma’ and admitted it had no strategy in place to deal with the Taliban. Instead, he expressed hope that the ongoing summit in Doha would produce a durable and realistic strategy to carry things forward.
UN SECURITY COUNCIL AGREES TO ALLOW TALIBAN ENVOY TO MEET WITH CHINA AND PAKISTAN NEXT WEEK – The Taliban Foreign Minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, will be cleared to travel to Pakistan for meetings with the Foreign Ministers of both Pakistan and China. The UN Mission in Pakistan requested a temporary reprieve from a long-standing travel ban to allow him to travel. Muttaqi has been allowed to travel under similar circumstances from time to time since the Taliban came to power.
CONFLICT TRRACKER Kabul: An NRF operation took place on Sunday night, reportedly targeting Mufti Ruhollah (Taliban advisor) in the 19th Police District. Ruhollah was reportedly killed in the operation. Parwan: An NRF unit was said to have executed a rocket attack against a Taliban security outpost in Bagram district. 2 Taliban were reportedly killed and another 4 were wounded in the attack early on Monday morning.
#Sudan's army announces that it has managed to reduce the combative capabilities of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) by 45-55 percent.https://t.co/bbpmHFROMW
...trained by the US Africa Command (AFRICOM) and, if I recall correctly, Turkey since 2014...
carried a multiple military operations continued its operation to clear al-Shabaab ...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... remnants from El Ali Godle and El Ali Ahmed areas in Middle Shebelle region.
Usually spelt Middle Shabelle in our archives...
The commandos’ commanding officers said that the destroyed al-Shabaab hideouts in the areas saying they have managed to reduce the bad boy’s capacity to conduct attacks against civilians.
The operations according to the officials conducted checkup rounds targeting vehicles and houses in the newly liberated areas to ensure the turbans don’t resume attacks in the areas.
The recent military operations carried by SNA and DANAB elite forces in the lower and Middle Shabelle regions have resulted in delivering massive losses and casualties to al-shabaab terrorist group, in efforts to eliminate the turban group from the whole country.
The Federal Government of Somalia has said it has continued to build capacity of the country’s military through training and equipment to enable it better protect Somali citizens and state institutions and also expand governmental authority.
In central Somalia, federal troops supported by local fighters have been slowly seizing territories from al-Shabaab.
The current military offensive is entirely planned and executed by Somali commanders and local forces, a significant and confidence-boosting achievement.
[NYPOST] French police clashed with black-clad anarchists in Gay Paree and other big cities during trade union-organized protests against President Emmanuel Macron’s increase in the retirement age, as workers joined Labor Day rallies across Europe.
In the French capital, police were pelted with projectiles, ride-sharing bicycles were torched and bus stops smashed up just as the union-led march got underway from the central Place de la Republique.
Unrest also erupted in Lyon, where several vehicles were set ablaze and some business premises were trashed, television images showed.
In Nantes in western La Belle France, a fire blazed in front of a local administration building.
Macron last month raised the retirement age by two years to 64 despite multi-sector strikes, in a move that drove his popularity down to near the record lows seen during the "Yellow Vest" crisis of 2018-2019.
The reform has crystallized discontent against a president perceived by many as aloof and indifferent to their daily hardships, and he has been met during walkabouts by heckling and pot banging.
"The executive cannot govern without the support of its people," Sophie Binet, leader of the hard-left CGT union, said ahead of the Gay Paree protest, adding her union had not yet decided on talks with the government on other work-related matters.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... released new details Monday about its successful operation against the ISIS global chief, saying he died by setting off a boom jacket to avoid being detained.
At least he had the courage of his convictions, though he won’t have nearly as much fun in Hell as he would have had if he’d died whole instead of widely scattered.
President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... announced Sunday the death of the "suspected leader of [ISIS], codename Abu Hussein al-Qurashi".
Turkey's Anadolu state news agency gave his full name as Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi,
...that’s even worse than his nom de guerre. Does he have no personal name, something his mother or wife might call him in moments of tenderness or extreme annoyance?
saying he joined ISIS in 2013 and quickly rose through the krazed killer group's ranks.
Ottoman Turkish media also released images of a fenced-off building in the middle of a field where it said Qurashi was hiding in Syria's Afrin province.
A section of the two-story house was sheared off, apparently from blasts.
ISIS announced the death of its previous leader, Abu Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, on November 30.
Anadolu said Turkey's MIT intelligence agency conducted a four-hour operation during which it located and surrounded al-Hussein al-Husseini on Saturday.
MIT agents blasted apart a stone wall that surrounded the house, before entering it through a rear entrance and side windows.
Al-Hussein al-Husseini set off his boom jacket when he realized he was about to be captured, Anadolu said, adding that no Ottoman Turkish operatives were killed or injured.
An AFP correspondent in northern Syria said the operation had targeted an abandoned farm that was being used as an Islamic school.
All those human shields did no good when the kids went home for the weekend.
Turkey has deployed troops in northern Syria since 2020, and controls entire zones with the help of Syrian proxies.
At its height, when it controlled swathes of Iraq and Syria, the ISIS group grabbed credit for a series of attacks in Europe.
In October 2019, Washington announced it had killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in northwestern Syria, and several of the group's top commanders have since been killed in raids.
Despite having been driven out of much of the territory it once controlled, the group still launches attacks in Syria.
[News18] Abdul Jabar Shah of the banned TTP Gandapur group was killed in an intelligence-based operation in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province
Pak security forces on Monday claimed to have killed a notorious Tehrik-e-Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... Pakistain (TTP) commander who was involved in multiple attacks on law enforcement agencies and polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set. Currently the disease is only found in Pakistain and Afghanistain... teams.
Abdul Jabar Shah of the banned TTP Gandapur group was killed in an intelligence-based operation in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province bordering South Wazoo tribal district. Two Lions of Islam were also injured in the operation.
The terrorist commander was involved in attacks on law enforcement agencies, religious groups, polio teams and extortion for the TTP.
This is the second consecutive success of law enforcement agencies in the area.
The outlawed TTP has increased the attacks in recent months and has apparently become stronger since the takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban.
The holy warrior group, set up as an umbrella group of several holy warrior outfits in 2007, called off a ceasefire with the federal government and ordered its forces of Evil to stage terrorist attacks across the country.
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Ammunition was recovered after a joint team of security forces busted a militant hideout in Khari tehsil of Ramban district on Monday, officials said.
Quoting the officials, GNS reported that information was received through reliable sources regarding the presence of a cache of ammunition and other incriminating material in the far flung hilly and forested area of tehsil Khari in Ramban.
“Acting swiftly on the input, a search operation was launched by Police and SOG in the forest area and suspected hideout locations were searched during which the joint team busted and recovered ammunition from a hideout”, they said.
The recovered ammunition,as per the official include; two rifle grenades, one UBGL thrower, one wireless with antenna without battery, two IED type with wire, one detonator type with wire, seventeen AK47 cartilage, seven 9mm cartilage, one glass bottle having glycerine type liquid, one Khaki jacket and a Black leather shoe.
“A case FIR number 106/2023 under section 4 Explosive Substance act has been registered at P/S Banihal and investigation taken up”, they said.
National Investigation Agency was carrying out raids at 12 locations across Jammu and 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.... on Tuesday morning.
Quoting a top officer, news agency GNS reported that the searches were underway in Awantipora, Pulwama, Anantnag and Srinagar in the Valley while raids were also on in Jammu and Poonch districts.
The searches were carried against OGWs of different terrorist outfits in connection with a terror case, the officer added.
One India adds:
In a major crackdown, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has conducted raids at multiple locations in Jammu and Kashmir.
A source tells OneIndia that the raids are being carried out in central and south Kashmir. Raids have also been carried out in Poonch and Rajouri.
The raids are taking place just a few weeks after the Poonch attack in which five soldiers were killed. The attack is believed to have been engineered by seven to eight bandidosholy warriors on April 20.
Investigations have shown that the bandidosholy warriors hid under a culvert on the road, following which they launched the attack. The Army trucks was carrying fruits and vegetables ate the Sangiote village from Bhimber Gali for Iftar to be organised by the Rashtriya Rifles, the probe also found.
The source also said that the bandidosholy warriors carried out the attack with the support of some locals.So far over 200 persons have been questioned by the probe agencies.
While the bandidosholy warriors are still on the lam, a religious holy man was detained by the police for questioning. Molvi Manzoor from Madrassa, Markaz -Ul-Marrif was arrested from Jammu city on the suspicion that he has links with those involved in the Poonch terror attack. His name had cropped up during the questioning of the others who have been detained in connection with this case.
The police have so far detained nearly 250 persons
“Round up all the usual suspects, Sgt. Ramesh. Eid is over, so no longer any need to be sensitive.”
which seven have been formally arrested. Most others have been released after questioning.
J&K police chief, Dilbag Singh said that six bandidosholy warriors that included an entire family of one of the them colluded on the instructions of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba and provided logistic support that included arms, ammunition, grenades and cash dropped by a drone from Pakistain.
"We believe that bandidosholy warriors have been in this area for the past couple of months and they were shifting their hideouts from one place to another," Singh said.
It is also believed that the bandidosholy warriors lived in the natural caves of the jungles of Bhat Dhurian for three months.
[Dawn] Three bad boyz were potted and several apprehended in three separate intelligence-based operations (IBOs) by security forces in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa on Monday, the military’s media affairs wing said.
According to a statement issued by the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR), security forces conducted two separate IBOs in Tank and Dera Ismail Khan ... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ... on the reported presence of gunnies in these areas.
The ISPR said three terrorists, including Death Eater commander Jabbar Shah alias Shah Alam, were "sent to hell" following an intense exchange of fire during the operations while two others were maimed.
"The sanitisation of surrounding areas is being carried out to eliminate any other gunnies found in the area," the statement said, adding that the security forces of Pakistain were determined to eliminate the menace of terrorism.
Earlier this month, a "hardcore Death Eater" and founder of the banned Death Eater group Baloch National Army (BNA) was captured, according to the ISPR, who described the detainee as a "high-value target" with suspected links to hostile intelligence agencies operating against Pakistain.
"Gulzar Imam alias Shambay was apprehended after an innovatively conceived, carefully planned and meticulously executed operation, spanned over months over various geographical locations," the military’s media wing had said.
Over the past few months, the law and order situation in the country has worsened, with terrorist groups executing attacks with near impunity across the country.
In his maiden press briefing last week, ISPR Director General Maj Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry had revealed that at least 293 people were martyred and 521 were maimed in 436 terrorist incidents over the past year.
In KP, 192 people were martyred in 219 terror activities, while 80 people lost lives in 206 incidents in 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... , 14 people in five attacks in Punjab, and seven in six terrorism incidents across Sindh.
He had said that the army and law enforcement agencies carried out 8,269 intelligence-based operations during the previous year in which 1,378 suspected gunnies were apprehended and 157 were killed.
The DG ISPR had also said that overall 137 security personnel were martyred and 117 injured in anti-terror operations in the ongoing year.
[Dawn] Seven bully boys, including a key commander, were arrested in an intelligence-based operation in North Wazoo, the military’s media wing has claimed.
According to a statement by the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR), the security forces, on Monday, launched the operation in Miranshah ... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas... following intelligence information about the presence of alleged bully boys.
The arrested bully boys, including a commander Mehtab alias Lala, were affiliated with the Hafiz Gul Bahadur ...a member of the Madda Khel clan of the Uthmanzai Waziris. Educated in a Deobandi madrassa located in Multan, he is affiliated with the Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) political party. Upon the formation of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in December 2007, he was announced as the group's overall naib amir under Baitullah Mehsud, who was based in South Wazoo, but has largely distanced himself from the TTP due to rivalries with the Mehsuds and disagreements about the TTP's attacks against the Pak state.. group, ISPR said.
The Death Eaters were allegedly involved in several terror activities, including the killings of security personnel and innocent citizens, ISPR said, adding that they were wanted by the security agencies.The locals appreciated the operation and assured their support in eliminating the menace of terrorism, the statement claimed.
[IsraelTimes] Israel readies for escalation after Khader Adnan found dead; 3 projectiles fired from Gazoo, no injuries; Islamic Jihad says his death is ’lesson for generations’
A least three rockets were fired from Gaza on Tuesday morning as Israel readied for a potential escalation after a big shot of the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad terror group died in Israeli custody after an 86-day hunger strike. The Israel Defense Forces said the projectiles triggered sirens in the area around Kibbutz Sa’ad, and landed in open areas. No Iron Dome interceptor rockets were fired and there were no reports of injuries or damage.
Khader Adnan was found unresponsive in his cell in Nitzan Prison in the central city of Ramle in the pre-dawn hours of Tuesday morning. He was brought to the Shamir Medical Center outside Tel Aviv and underwent resuscitation efforts, but was declared dead at the hospital, the Prisons Service said.
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I know it is wishful thinking, but every time Israel suffers a barrage from Gaza it should make use of its many earthmovers and push the Gaza boundary inward one kilometer. If the barrages continued, sooner than later the rats would suffer claustrophobia and begin biting off their tails.
#4
Honestly, Israel should put these guys in crow cages , lined with explosives and give them a dead man switch to hold. Also if the door opens it should go boom. Put the cages along the border, let them feed and care for them until they forget to hold that switch and get their 72 white raisins.
#5
#3: if sharon could give Gaza away then Netanyahu could take it back. Impose Israeli law and take out the troublemakers. IMO most of the population would welcome non-hamas supervision. Both are descendants of Abraham and should live in brotherly existence.
Gaza and the west-bank are Israeli.
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Both are descendants of Abraham and should live in brotherly existence.
Same father, different mothers. And Ishmael never accepted that though he was the first born, because his mother was a mere concubine Isaac was the heir.
[IsraelTimes] Military says troops clash with button men in Aqabat Jabr refugee camp during arrest operation; festivities come after days of restrictions on movement amid terror warnings
A Paleostinian teenager was killed during an Israeli military raid in the Aqabat Jabr refugee camp near the West Bank city of Jericho on Monday morning, Paleostinian health officials said.
The Paleostinian Authority Health Ministry said 17-year-old Muhammad Kamal al-Lada’a was fatally shot in the head and six others were maimed amid festivities with Israeli soldiers, including three listed at death's door. Another man was reported to have been shot in Bethlehem.
The Israel Defense Forces said troops had entered the Aqabat Jabr refugee camp to arrest two wanted Paleostinians.
Amid the raid "there was an exchange of fire between gunnies and our forces," the IDF said, adding that several suspects were hit by troops’ gunfire.
The IDF said troops seized two makeshift submachine guns in the camp, including one used by a Paleostinian gunman who was shot after opening fire.
Footage published by Paleostinian media showed a convoy of military vehicles entering the camp.
The raid came amid a rise in intelligence alerts of potential terror attacks by Paleostinians in the Jericho area. Over the past week and a half, the IDF has imposed heavy restrictions on movement in and out of the West Bank city amid those concerns.
In recent months, several Paleostinians set out from Jericho and the surrounding area to carry out attacks against Israeli civilians and security forces.
The city and the adjacent Aqabat Jabr refugee camp are part of Area A of the West Bank — officially under complete Paleostinian Authority control, though the Israeli military conducts activities there.
Recent months have seen deadly festivities in Aqabat Jabr. Among the casualties were a 20-year-old Paleostinian who was rubbed out after fleeing from Israeli troops on April 24, and a 15-year-old Paleostinian who allegedly hurled Molotov cocktails at IDF forces.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s targeted the international airport in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo early Tuesday, killing one Syrian soldier and putting the airport out of commission, state media said.
Syria's state news agency SANA, citing a military official, said two civilians and five other Syrian soldiers were maimed.
There was no immediate statement from Israeli authorities on the strikes.
The airport has been a key channel for the flow of aid into the country after the Feb. 6 earthquake hit The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... and Syria, killing over 50,000 people, including more than 6,000 in Syria.
Britannia-based opposition war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the strike targeted a munitions depot by the airport. It also reported Israeli strikes at a military airport in the Aleppo countryside, though Syrian state media did not report on the matter.
In March Israel struck Aleppo’s airport on two different occasions and put it out of commission for several days.
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
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
[NYPOST] French police clashed with black-clad anarchists in 
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
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