[Breitbart] Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced the deployment of the state’s National Guard and State Troopers to respond to the growing border crisis.
Governor Abbott announced Operation Lone Star "to combat the smuggling of people and drugs into Texas" on Saturday. The operation will integrate the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) with the National Guard, Abbott said. He is ordering the deployment of air, ground, marine, and tactical border security assets to high threat areas.
"The crisis at our southern border continues to escalate because of Biden Administration policies that refuse to secure the border and invite illegal immigration," the governor said in a written statement Saturday evening. "Texas supports legal immigration but will not be an accomplice to the open border policies that cause, rather than prevent, a humanitarian crisis in our state and endanger the lives of Texans. We will surge the resources and law enforcement personnel needed to confront this crisis."
It seems there still a few Conservative Politicians with a Titanium pair.
$10 is being sent directly to Governor Abbott
for his future campaign plans .... NOT a cent to the RNC until it censors the Blue-Rhinos pretending to be an (R) that voted for Trumps Impeachment.
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I thought that during the first Obama administration the courts said that states were not allowed to enforce Federal laws - especially on immigration.
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Too bad every "normal" act by a governor will be jumped on by the MSM as that'll be one less bit of time to "cover" Grandma Killer's cat scratch fever.
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Texas should buy up or use legal power to obtain a 10 foot strip of land across the entire border with Mexico, and then pass a felony trespassing law with 5 year mandatory incarceration requirements for violating.
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" Then sue in federal court." AS IF such a lawsuit will be given any consideration whatsoever by a federal court. The fed courts are part of this problem, started with their selection of BuyDung? as President.
[KhaamaPress] Sayed Mohammad Sadat, head of NDS prosecutors’ office along with three others were reportedly killed in a kaboom near the provincial Police HQ in Lashkargah city of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... Province.
Helmand police front man Mohammad Zaman Hamdard confirmed the incident to the media but did not provide further details.
On the other hand, a number of media outlets reported that the earth-shattering kaboom took place near the Helmand Police headquarters.
According to reports eight people including a woman were also injured in the attack.
No individual or group has grabbed credit for the attack.
This comes as Hashim Hamdard, a tribal elder was killed in an IED blast in the Jangal Bagh area in PD7 of Jalalabad city in Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province.
The incident happened at around 7:00 am on Saturday morning, local officials told the media.
[KhaamaPress] At least 25 Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... were killed and 36 others were maimed in Arghandab and Panjwai districts of Kandahar Province, the Ministry of Defense tweeted on Saturday.
According to MoD, the Taliban fighters were killed during Afghan National Army’s operation in the region.
13 IEDs planted by the Taliban to target soldiers and civilians were also discovered and defused by the Afghan National Army personnel.
This comes as 7 members of Afghan government forces were killed and four others were maimed in a clash with the Taliban in Chimtal district of Balkh Province on Friday night, local officials told media.
According to reports, the festivities occurred when the Taliban stormed an Afghan army outpost in Lab-e-Nahr village in Chimatal district.
At least five Talibs including their designated deputy district governor for Chaharbolak district in Balkh were killed.
Reinforcements have been sent to the area and the Taliban have been pushed back from the area.
[The Hill] At least 20 people are dead and 30 others wounded after a car bomb ripped through a popular restaurant in Somalia’s capital of Mogadishu late Friday night.
A rickshaw carrying the explosives was detonated outside the popular Luul Yemeni restaurant near the city’s port, according to Reuters, which cited an emergency services official in reporting the number of casualties.
"So far we have carried 20 dead people and 30 injured from the blast scene," Abdulkadir Aden, founder of AAMIN Ambulance services, told the outlet.
Gunfire was heard following the explosion.
The al-Shabaab terrorist group, which controls rural areas of southern Somalia and has been known to strike the city, took responsibility for the attack, according to CNN.
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The al-Shabaab terrorist group, which controls rural areas of southern Somalia and has been known to strike the city, took responsibility for the attack, according to CNN.
The al-Shabaab and CNN. Longtime partners in the war on sanity.
[Garowe] Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... security forces responded to the al-Shabaab ...... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa... raid in Bosaso main prison by carrying out several operations in the outskirts of the town, just at the same time when regional leader Said Abdullahi Deni visited the region, following the attack.
Thursday's raid at the central prison was one of the most successful al-Shabaab operations in Puntland, a state which is rather peaceful, and where it's difficult to have al-Shabaab turbans control some sections. Puntland is a state in northern Somalia.
Security forces told Garowe Online that at least 20 al-Shabaab turbans were killed in the outskirts of the port town following an offensive that was informed by the raid. Earlier on, at least four turbans were captured alive and will be interrogated by the security forces.
Details obtained by Garowe Online also indicate that the turbans were overpowered when they tried to attack security forces. Officials displayed dozens of people believed to be prisoners who had been freed by the al-Shabaab holy warriors.
One of the inmates recaptured reportedly said that the turbans made away with some prisoners. The holy warriors, who confirmed the attack at the prison, had claimed that they targeted freeing a number of fighters who were at the facility in Central prison.
Bari Regional Police chief Hussein Ali Mohamud had told news hounds that Death Eaters attacked Bossaso jail and we're "repulsed" by security guards. He said inmates were re-arrested, adding that security forces were still doing investigations over the incident.
Deni visited the region moments after the attack and was donned in military gear, an indication that his administration was ready to pursue the attackers and take swift actions against them. While Puntland has been registering terror attacks, they are however random and inconsistent given that the turbans are extremely few in the state.
Reports showed that the turbans used complex attacks with sources telling local news hounds turbans entered the prison. The al-Shabaab claimed to release 400 inmates, but no independent corroboration yet, but the photos published by Puntland officials indicate that a number of prisoners escaped.
The military in Somalia's semi-autonomous state of Puntland have recaptured 87 out of hundreds of prisoners who escaped on Friday after Islamist group al Shabaab fighters stormed a jail and freed them, according a statement from the military.
On Friday al Shabaab said they had freed 400 prisoners
...possibly that number was an exaggeration...
in a raid on the main prison in Bosaso, Puntland's largest commercial city, in the early hours of Friday.
Seven Puntland military soldiers were also killed in the assault.
"We attacked al Shabaab militants that had attacked Bosaso central cell (prison)," Puntland military said in a statement.
"In this operation in the hilly areas outside Bosaso, we also recaptured the prisoners."
Mohamed Abdi, a soldier in Puntland's military separately told Reuters 87 prisoners had been recaptured and added some of the recaptured prisoners were members of al Shabaab while others belonged to Islamic State.
In the statement, Puntland's military said they had killed 20 al Shabaab fighters and captured four alive in a battle to free the prisoners.
[LibyaReview] A record shipment of cannabis worth around $37 million US dollars en route to Libya was seized, Niger’s anti-drugs trafficking agency reported on Friday.
The police seized 17 tonnes of cannabis, in a shipment originating from Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... and bound for Libya on Tuesday.
The drugs had passed through the Togolese port of Lome before being transported by truck north to Niamey, two border crossings away.
He pointed out that the traffickers had planned to transport the drugs in trucks to Libya via the desert town of Agadez, a hub for smuggling goods and migrants colonists across the Saharan desert.
"Police have arrested 11 Nigeriens and two Algerians in Niamey and Agadez in connection with the case," the statement concluded.
[AnNahar] Fierce fighting between 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... i pro-government forces and Iran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... s has killed at least 90 combatants on both sides in the past 24 hours, government military sources said Saturday.
The Iranian catspaws launched an offensive last month to seize Marib, the last stronghold in northern Yemen of pro-government forces who are backed by a Saudi-led military coalition.
The festivities in the oil-rich province left 32 dead among government forces and loyalist tribes, while 58 Houthis were killed in coalition air strikes, the sources told AFP.
They said heavy festivities broke out on six fronts as government forces were able to counter attacks by the Huthis who managed to advance only on the Kassara front northwest of Marib city.
The fighting also left dozens of people maimed, the sources added.
The loss of Marib would be a huge blow for the Yemeni government, but would also threaten catastrophe for civilians, including hundreds of thousands of displaced people sheltering in desolate camps in the surrounding desert.
It would also be a major setback for Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , which has been the target of increasingly frequent Huthi missile attacks in recent weeks.
Shrapnel from Huthi drones intercepted by the Saudis on Friday maimed two civilians, including a 10-year-old, in the southwest of the kingdom, the official SPA news agency reported.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday urged the Huthis to halt their offensive in Marib, as he announced $191 million in aid at a donors' conference.
"Aid alone will not end the conflict. We can only end the humanitarian crisis in Yemen by ending the war... so the United States is reinvigorating our diplomatic efforts to end the war," he said.
The United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... had sought to raise $3.85 billion from more than 100 governments and donors, but only $1.7 billion was offered.
All politics is local, and in Bangladesh it appears international relations are also a branch of local politics.
[DhakaTribune] Over one-and-a-half years into the incident, police have finally pressed charges against nine people including a local Chhatra League ... the student wing of the Bangla Awami League ... leader Naimul Hasan, for attacking the motorcade of former US ambassador Marcia Bernicat in Dhaka.
The detective branch of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) submitted the chargesheet to the court of Dhaka’s Chief Metropolitan Magistrate of late, media reports revealed, quoting DMP Deputy Commissioner Md Zafar Hossain.
Bernicat, the chargesheet said, had had dinner at the house of eminent citizen Badiul Alam Majumdar in Mohammadpur at the night of August 4, 2018. As she came out of there and was heading home around 11pm, a group of armed people in cycle of violences attacked her motorcade.
They pounced on two members of her protocol team when the latter approached the attackers to obstruct them. After that, the attackers struck two cars with sticks when those were leaving the scene, causing Badiul to file a case in this regard.
Led by Naimul, the rest of the accused — leaders and activists of local unit Awami League and its affiliate organizations — launched the attack by pelting brick chips, on the suspicion that an anti-government conspiracy was already, or being hatched.
They also chased the motorcade of the then US ambassador. The attackers also threw stones at Badiul’s home and damaged window shields, threatening him and his family members with life.
The others charged in the case are Firoz Mahmud, Mir Amjad Hossain, Shahidul Alam Khan, Tanha alias Mujahid, Saju Islam, Rajibul Islam, Md Siam and Oli Ahmed.
[DhakaTribune] The police said the arrestees were supporters of outlawed Hijbut Tahrir and they had been carrying out anti-state conspiracies for a long time
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested three members reportedly of the banned outfit, Hijbut Tahrir,
...the Dhaka Tribune’s spelling of Hizb-ut-Tahrir...
from Dhaka’s Sutrapur area on Thursday night, police informed Saturday.
The arrestees were identified as Atikur Rahaman, Maksudur Rahaman, and SM Shojib.
Police personnel recovered five books written by Syed Abul A’la Maududi, a monthly report consisting of 11 pages, an annual report of 2019-2020 session consisting of 24 pages, a spiral binding book of 45 pages, and a notepad from their possession.
Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Sutrapur cop shoppe Muhammad Mamunur Rahaman on Saturday confirmed the news and said they were arrested during an operation conducted in the DIT Market area of Sutrapur thana at around 08:45 pm on Thursday.
He said the arrestees were supporters of outlawed Hijbut Tahrir and they had been carrying out anti-state conspiracies for a long time.
A case has been filed with the Sutrapur Police Station in this connection, the OC further added.
Earlier, the Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested three suspected members of banned bad boy outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami Bangladesh (HuJI Founded in 1984 by Fazlur Rehman Khalil and Qari Saifullah Aktar. The Bangla branch was established in 1992 with assistance from Osama bin Laden. Recruits come mostly from Deobandi madrassahs. HuJI and Fazlur Rehman Khalil are signators of bin Laden's declaration of war on civilization. -B) from Dhaka’s Sayedabad area on Thursday.
[DhakaTribune] The suspects belong to a banned Islamist outfit, says the Anti-Terrorism Unit
Police in Dhaka have arrested five people for their suspected involvement with a banned bully boy outfit.
The Anti-Terrorism Unit (ATU) made the arrests during raids at the Farmgate and Mohammadpur areas in Dhaka.
Suspects Sheikh Kamal Hossain, Sohel Rana, AB Ahmed Pajlu, Khalequzzaman and Maniruzzaman belong to the group ’Allah'r Dal’.
ATU Superintendent of Police (SP) Md Aslam Khan told the media that Kamal and Shohel were held from Farmgate’s Tezturi Bazar neighbourhood on Wednesday evening.
Kamal is the outfit's second-in-command, he said before adding that the rest were arrested during raids at Sher-e-Bangla Road area in Katasur later the same night.
During the raids, 12 mobile phone sets, some credit cards, receipts of inmates and Tk37,062 were seized from their possession.
Afterwards, an anti-terrorism case was filed in this connection.
Allah'r Dal was formed in 1995 under the leadership of Matin Mehedi alias Mominul Islam, and in late 2004, the outfit merged with banned bully boy organization Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB).
On November 5, 2019, the government banned Allahr Dal, describing it as a threat to public safety.
[EpochTimes] New York coppers on Friday made four arrests after supporters of former President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... clashed with counter-protesters in the borough of Manhattan.
Trump supporters marched on Fifth Avenue near Trump Tower carrying "Trump 2024" banners in an event billed as the "Trump Save America Flag Unfurling."
Video footage showed over 100 supporters turning out for the event.
One participant told Right Side Broadcasting Network that the event was a rally for Trump. "Trump 2024 baby! Yeah!" he said.
The event was protested by another group, who the network alleged were linked to the far-left Antifa ...the armed wing of the Democratic Party... and Black Lives Matter.
The counter-protesters grabbed a huge banner Trump supporters were carrying and a struggle ensued, according to video footage captured by independent news hound Ford Fischer.
So the counter-protesters were the ones causing trouble.
NYPD officers arrested two of the counter-protesters, one of whom claimed a Trump supporter used a racial slur.
The NYPD said later in the day that officers were "attempting to prevent a clash between anti-police protesters and pro-Trump protesters."
While doing so, "multiple officers were faced with violent mostly peaceful actions resulting with one officer currently being treated at a hospital for suspected bleach being thrown in his eyes," the department added.
Four arrests were made for various crimes, including assaults on coppers and weapons possession.
"Violent actions will not be tolerated from those who claim to be ’peaceful protesters,'" police said in a statement.
Officials declined to answer on Saturday when The Epoch Times asked if any of those arrested were confirmed to be with a certain group.
Following the arrests, counter-protesters continued confronting supporters, including one who told a woman to "fight me."
"Frankly, sometimes I cover two-sided events where arguing etc. leads to some finding of common ground. Other than a few shared moments collectively ripping on Governor Cuomo, today was a lot of fighting words and not a lot of common ground," Fischer said in a tweet.
[DailyTimes.pk] A vehicle carrying Pak construction workers hit a roadside kaboom in a remote area in southwestern 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... province on Friday, killing five laborers and wounding two soldiers who were escorting them, a government official said.
No one grabbed credit for the attack, and Zahid Shah, a deputy commissioner in the district of Sibi where the bombing happened said they were still investigating. Troops often escort laborers in the volatile southwestern Pakistain for security reasons.
Balochistan has been the scene of a long-running insurgency by Baluch separatist groups such as the Balochistan Liberation Front and the Balochistan Liberation Army, which for decades have attacked government forces to press their demands for independence. The region also has bad boy groups that stage regular attacks.
[Ynet] At least three Palestinians killed on Sunday in explosion on fishing boat in Gaza on Sunday in attack some local media outlets attribute to Israel.
A military source from #Syria’s armed opposition said that the military reinforcements that the Turkish forces have recently brought to the de-escalation zone are “defensive reinforcements, and it is not their mission to monitor.”https://t.co/JRZAep56Ap
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de-escalation zone has about a dozen different armed groups of which at least 4 are Al Q affiliates and 2 are ISIS aligned, then there are a few militia that are Turkish allies, a few that are remnants of the old pre-2011 Syrian army and a few that are allied with Assad
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Government forces targeted residential neighborhoods in the city of Ariha, located in the de-escalation zone in the southern countryside of #Idlib, with artillery and missile shells.https://t.co/GbHckW9XZq
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[AlAhram] The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a series of strikes launched from Russian warships and by allied Syrian government forces hit the makeshift refineries in Aleppo province on Friday night.
Missile strikes on makeshift oil refineries in northern Syria killed four people and injured more than 20 others, a war monitor said Saturday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a series of strikes launched from Russian warships and by allied Syrian government forces hit the makeshift refineries in Aleppo province on Friday night, causing a massive blaze in the area controlled by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... and its Syrian rebel proxies.
The Britannia-based monitor "documented the deaths of four people, while 24 others sustained various injuries and burns" in the attacks near the town of Jarablus.
At least one Syrian rebel was among the dead, said Observatory head Rami Abdul Rahman.
Rescue workers spent hours trying to extinguish the fire which spread to about 30 oil tankers, according to the war monitor.
Oil installations in Turkey-controlled parts of Aleppo have come under repeated attack in recent months although Moscow and the Syrian regime have not grabbed credit.
The Observatory reported two such missile attacks last month.
In January, unidentified drones also hit oil refineries in Ottoman Turkish-held areas of Aleppo, causing a large fire, according to the Observatory.
Syria's war has killed more than 387,000 people and displaced millions since starting in 2011 with a brutal repression of anti-government protests.
It later evolved into a complex conflict involving jihadists and foreign powers.
Northern neighbour Turkey has seized control of several regions inside Syria in military campaigns against 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 and Kurdish fighters since 2016.
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
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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.
[Breitbart] Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced the deployment of the state’s National Guard and State Troopers to respond to the growing border crisis.
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa...
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
...the armed wing of the Democratic Party...
[Ynet] At least three Palestinians killed on Sunday in explosion on fishing boat in Gaza on Sunday in attack some local media outlets attribute to Israel.
...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 
