[ZengerNews] Among the rescued are more than a dozen children, including Project Dynamo’s youngest-ever evacuee, an 11 month-old American boy.
Brief video at the link.
Months after U.S. government flights ceased, 39 American citizens and legal permanent residents were rescued by a two-man covert team, flying on a privately funded plane out of Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... -controlled Kabul.
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"Worth their weight in gold," I thought upon reading the headline. Oh well, who can keep up anymore?
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Months after U.S. government flights ceased, 39 American citizens and legal permanent residents were rescued by a two-man covert team, flying on a privately funded plane out of Taliban-controlled Kabul. The group, sponsored by the non-profit Project Dynamo, is expected to land at New York’s John F. Kennedy International airport by 9 AM on Saturday morning.
“They did encounter the Taliban, but luckily…I don’t know how far I want to get into that,” said James Judge, a spokesperson for Project Dynamo, to Zenger.
[Garowe] Æthiopian forces have recaptured several towns from Tigrayan rebels, including Kobo and Woldiya in the north, the government announced on Saturday, as fierce fighting raged in the 13-month war that has left thousands dead.
The conflict between forces loyal to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) rebel group has triggered a severe humanitarian crisis.
Mr. Abiy announced last month that he would head to the front, following which the government has claimed to have retaken several key towns.
On Saturday, the government communication service said pro-Abiy forces "have managed to fully control Sanqa, Sirinqa, as well as the cities of Woldiya, Hara, Gobiye, Robit, and Kobo."
"The enemy force which beat feet from destruction and was fleeing... is being followed by our allied forces," it said in a statement on its Facebook page.
Starting late October, the two sides have each claimed major territorial advances with several key cities apparently changing hands in the weeks since.
On Sunday, the rebels recaptured the UNESCO World Heritage site of Lalibela, 11 days after Æthiopian forces claimed to have retaken it from the TPLF.
The war broke out in November 2020 when Mr. Abiy sent troops into Æthiopia's northernmost region of Tigray to topple the TPLF, accusing them of attacking army camps.
He vowed a swift victory but the rebels mounted a shock comeback, recapturing most of Tigray by June before advancing into the neighboring regions of Afar and Amhara, where Kobo and Woldiya are located.
The fighting has displaced more than two million and driven hundreds of thousands into famine-like conditions, according to UN estimates, with reports of massacres and mass rapes by both sides.
On Friday, the UN Human Rights Council voted to send international Sherlocks to Africa's second most populous nation amid warnings of looming generalized violence, in a move slammed by Addis Ababa.
Diplomatic efforts led by the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... to try to reach a ceasefire have failed to achieve any visible breakthrough.
Fears of a rebel march on the capital prompted countries such as the United States, La Belle France, and Britannia to urge their citizens to leave Æthiopia as soon as possible, although Mr. Abiy's government has insisted the city was secure.
[Shabelle] A landmine blast took place in Jowhar, the provincial capital of the Middle Shabelle region in southern Somalia on Saturday morning.
The police said the IED struck a military vehicle packed with government troops. No group has yet claimed responsibility for the blast.
There was an immediate claim of responsibility for the attack which comes as HirShabelle state is preparing to begin the Lower House election in Jowhar shortly.
Al-Shabaab in the past carried out such attacks in the city, targeting lawmakers and regional officials.
A joint military taskforce has neutralised scores of bandidos operating within Isah Local Government Area of Sokoto State.
This is as the military’s taskforce operations launched attacks in the bandidos’s camps.
The bandidos led by Bello Turji were left scampering for safety in the wake of the raid that saw many of them killed, while others received various degrees of injuries during the shootout, Daily Post reports.
Sources in the army said the military onslaught was led by the General Officer Commanding 8th Division, Nigeria Army Headquarters, Sokoto, Major General Uwem Bassey.
It was learnt that two villages within Isa Local Gvernment Area, Satiru and Katanga, suffered series of attacks from bandidos, which resulted to the death of many community members in the axis.
It was gathered that the military operatives, however, stormed the bandidos’ hideouts between Thursday and Friday, killing many of the gunnies in the local government area.
Sources said that some of the bandidos, who survived the shootout, were seen running away from their enclave to the outskirts of Bafarawa Village
Article from Iran PressTV, so should be read with a cynical eye:
More than 50 high-ranking Saudi-backed bully boy commanders loyal to former 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 president Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi have reportedly been killed while fighting Yemeni army troops and their allies over the control of the country’s strategic oil-producing province of Ma’rib.
Yemen’s al-Khabar al-Yemeni news website, citing informed sources who preferred not to be named, reported that Ma’rib province has witnessed intense festivities between Yemeni army soldiers and fighters from Popular Committees on one side and Saudi-backed forces of Evil on the other over the past few weeks.
The report added that the Yemeni forces and their allies are slowly but steadily making progress, due to the geographical features of the region and heavy deployment of troops and military equipment by the Saudi-led coalition.
The sources highlighted that Ma’rib, al-Thaqba and al-Aswadah districts are now the scenes of pro-Hadi commanders getting killed one after another, and now fear and anxiety have increased among Saudi mercenaries as the Yemeni armed forces have launched fierce battles against them.
Al-Khabar al-Yemeni went on to say that intelligence forces of the Sana’a government have managed to infiltrate into the military and security circles of Saudi-backed Hadi loyalists, monitor all movements of commanders, and obtain sensitive information out of their meetings.
According to sources affiliated with the Saudi-led coalition, at least 53 pro-Hadi commanders have been killed in Ma’rib province in recent months.
On December 13, Major General Nasser al-Zubiani, who headed military operations for pro-Hadi forces, died while leading battles against Yemeni soldiers and fighters from the Popular Committees in the Balaq mountain range, south of Ma’rib city.
Saudi 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. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... , backed by the United States and regional allies, launched the war on Yemen in March 2015, with the goal of bringing Hadi’s government back to power and crushing the popular Ansarullah resistance movement.
The war has left hundreds of thousands of Yemenis dead, and displaced millions more. It has also destroyed Yemen’s infrastructure and spread famine and infectious diseases there.
Despite heavily-armed Saudi Arabia’s incessant bombardment of the impoverished country, the Yemeni armed forces and the Popular Committees have grown steadily in strength against the Saudi invaders and left Riyadh and its allies bogged down in the country.
[Rudaw] French boats have rescued 138 migrants colonists stranded in the Channel as they tried to reach Britannia from La Belle France on makeshift vessels, authorities said on Friday.
French authorities released a statement saying they were informed on Thursday that "many boats trying to cross the Channel were in trouble" and that two navy vessels and two lifeboats brought the migrants colonists back to shore.
Police and local authorities in northern La Belle France received the migrants colonists after their rescue.
Clandestine migrant crossings in the Channel have been a bone of contention between Britannia and La Belle France as bilateral relations deteriorated this year.
Twenty-seven migrants colonists died last month when their boat foundered near the French port of Calais, triggering a fresh round of recriminations between Gay Paree and London over policing the people smugglers behind the crossings.
From the start of 2021 until November 20, some 31,500 migrants colonists left the French coast for Britannia, with a record 1,185 migrants colonists landing on the English coast on November 11.
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[PJ] Let’s take a look at some of the non-binary creatures who will be celebrating Christmas, and perhaps a few more Christmases, in orange jumpsuits.
Salad-dodger Jacob Michael Gaines traveled from Texas to Oregon to play tough gal with federal law enforcement. He attacked a U.S. Marshal with a hammer, striking the officer three times, back in July of 2020. He pleaded guilty to assaulting a federal officer with a deadly weapon.
The judge sentenced him to 46 months in prison.
FACT-O-RAMA! Jacob Chansley, the so-called "Q Anon Shaman," got 41 months in the hoosegow and didn’t touch a soul.
It’s not a party without a 12-pack of Corona. Antifa yobbo Justin Christopher Moore was arrested last week for bringing half a case of Molotov cocktails with the intention of burning down a Seattle police station. He has yet to be sentenced. The feds usually take arson seriously.
Richard Rubalacava was sentenced Thursday to a whopping 85 months in prison (seven years) for setting fire to a Minneapolis Dollar General after he looted it. He then went on to torch a restaurant. The judge hit him with a fine of over $354,000. No word if his hair colorist was arrested for committing crimes against decency.
Nineteen-year-old Gabriel Agard-Berryhill pleaded guilty this week to tossing an incendiary device at a courthouse and causing $1,000 worth of damage. He is expected to be sentenced to time served and two years probation, which, if he is smart, and that’s a big if, should keep him out of the Antifa Olympics for a while. More at link. Comparisons to J6 detainees are sickening.
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I'm sure, just like boot camp, these pilgrims will be stripped of their facial hardware and other body staples at intake time. I'm sure the Soros-backed ACLU will sue over the "suppression of their first amendment rights" to pierced genitals and such. If I was a lifer, I'd be filing suit after suit asking someone to prove I was not at risk from their filthy lifestyle habits.
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sadly, these are only a few of the thousands that should have been arrested, prosecuted and convicted
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The Biden Junta DOJ will likely just send them to Fire Training School.
[OneIndia] An unidentified holy warrior was killed in an encounter with security forces in Harwan area of the city, police said on Sunday.
The encounter took place in the early hours of Sunday, they said.
The police said the encounter broke out after security forces launched a cordon and search operation in Harwan following specific input about the presence of Lions of Islam in the area.
They said the identity and group affiliation of the slain holy warrior was being ascertained.
[OneIndia] A special NIA court here on Friday sentenced three JMB Lions of Islam to life imprisonment and tossed in the clink Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! five others for 10 years in connection with a blast at the Bodh Gaya temple complex in 2018, an official said.
The eight Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh The JMB is said to be the youth front of Al Mujahideen, the parent organization that began working toward establishing Bangladesh as an Islamic state in the mid 1990s, which remains obscure and probably defunct today. Other organizations, such as Jama'atul Jihad, JMB, Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB), Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI), Hizbut Tawhid, Tawhidi Janata, Islami Jubo Shangha, Islami Shangha, Al Falah A'am Unnayan Shanstha and Shahadat-e al Hiqma are believed to be part of the Al Mujahideen network. The JMB at its peak was reported to contain at least 100,000 members, and an alleged 2,000-man suicide brigade, few of whom actually exploded. JMB allegedly received financial assistance from individual donors in Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Libya. Reports have claimed that funding of JMB by international NGOs like Kuwait based Society of the Revival of Islamic Heritage (RIHS) and Doulatul Kuwait, Saudi Arabia based Al Haramaine Islamic Institute and Rabita Al Alam Al Islami, Qatar Charitable Society and UAE-based Al Fuzaira and Khairul Ansar Al Khairia. The top leadership of JMB was captured in 2005 and hung in 2007, which pretty much shot their bolt.
...nowadays it appears to be connected to Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent...
Lions of Islam were convicted on December 10, the official said. Paigambar Sheikh, Ahmad Ali, Nur Alam Momin have been awarded life imprisonment, while Adil Sheikh, Dilwar Hossain, Abdul Karim, Mustafizur Rahman and Arif Hussain have been awarded 10 years rigorous imprisonment, the NIA official said.
The case was registered in February 2018 regarding planting of three IEDs in and around the Bodh Gaya temple complex premises, the official said. After investigation, a charge sheet was filed against three accused in September 2018.
A supplementary charge sheet against the remaining six accused was filed in January 2019, the NIA official said. The official added that further trial against one remaining charge-sheeted accused continues.
A group of ISIS gunnies attacked a Healthcare facility in northeast Diyala and killed his director, a security source revealed on Saturday.
The source told Shafaq News Agency that the bully boyz raided the infirmary of the Abu Karma village near al-Waqf basin, 23 kilometers to the northeast of Baquba, the governorate's capital city.
"The attack resulted in killing the director of the infirmary and burning a vehicle," the source said.
"A security force cordoned the site and started an investigation into the circumstances of the incident," it concluded.
The Kurdistan Region Security Council announced the dismantling of an ISIS cell in Erbil that was planning to launch attacks in the Region.
In a statement, the Council issued the confessions of the terrorists.
The Council said, "the cell consists of a security group that has recently formed a detachment in the city of Erbil to carry out suicide operations," noting that three jacket wallahs are working with the Cell.
The statement clarified that one of the suicide bombers went kaboom! on July 19, on the day of Arafa, the eve of Eid al-Adha ...a major Moslem holiday, marked by animal sacrifice and ritual rioting... , in Sadr City, east of Baghdad.
The statement added, "This group purchased weapons and military equipment and sent them to Baghdad to launch suicide operations."
According to the Region's Security Council, one of the cell members, Adam Suleiman Saadi Suleiman, known as "Abu Islam," said that he got to know the Organization through its media channels and that his father was a member of Ansar al-Islam.
He confessed that he agreed with a friend to form a terrorist group in Erbil under the supervision of "Saif," an ISIS emir in the "state of north Baghdad," who asked them to attract more members and suicide bombers from Erbil and carry out an operation inside the City.
As for the other element, called Muhammad Abdul Karim Saeed, known as Bilal, he said that the idea of "jihad" was born in him by following the actions of ISIS and the speeches of their leaders.
Samir Shams al-Din, the third member, said that he met a person affiliated with ISIS and told him a year ago about "jihadist thought," so he agreed to join them.
Earlier, Kurdistan's Internal Security Forces (Asayish) announced that they thwarted a series of terrorist operations targeting the Region's capital city, Erbil.
“This group bought weaponry and military equipment and were sending them to Baghdad,” KRSC wrote in a video confession of the group published on Facebook, adding that they were “planning to carry out more terrorist acts in the future.”
“They were a security group. They had set up checkpoints before in the city of Erbil and provided them with suicide bombers,” said the statement.
“One of the terrorist acts of this group is one of their suicide bombers, called Hidayat, blew himself up in Baghdad’s Sadr city” on July 19. That attack in Sadr City’s al-Wahilat market killed around 30 people.”
One of those arrested, Adam Sleman, known as Abu Islam from Erbil, said he got into “jihad” through ISIS-affiliated channels. “They trusted me; they knew my father who was in Ansar al-Islam before.”
He added that he sat down with a friend of his, Mohammed Shaaban known as Abu Hajar, who remains at large. “We sat down together to form a group inside Erbil that is affiliated with the Islamic State and works for the Islamic State.”
Multiple ISIS suspects have recently been arrested across the Kurdistan Region, including in Erbil. Last week, Kurdish counterterrorism forces conducted operations against ISIS in Erbil province, arresting two arms smugglers of the group.
A member of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) was killed on Saturday evening in festivities with ISIS Lions of Islam in Saladin Governorate.
In a statement, PMF said, "A force from the 9th Brigade of the Popular Mobilization Forces clashed with members of the terrorist remnants of ISIS, east of Saladin Governorate, which resulted in the martyrdom of one of the brigade's fighters."
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US & Israel run joint Syria operations center in Air Force HQ in Tel Aviv to coordinate strike ops, military reporter Alex Fishman says; senior defense source: cooperation on Syrian front extremely close (much of it is never publicized) https://t.co/wOv0ATRQdV
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What? The Israelis pick the targets and the Americans phone the Persians for permission?
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^ You assume some sort of diplomatic courtesy. It's probably more likely the persians get to listen to the phone calls directly and decide for themselves.
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[IsraelTimes] Suspect attacks settler near checkpoint close to Tomb of the Patriarchs; troops subdue and detain her, police say
A 38-year-old man was lightly hurt on Saturday morning when he was stabbed at a checkpoint close to the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron.
Police said the attacker, a 65-year-old woman from the nearby town of Idhna, was taken for questioning.
At that age it sounds like suicide-by-IDF or income-seeking aimed at the Palestinian Authority.
The victim, a resident of the Kiryat Arba settlement, struggled with the Paleostinian attacker before Israeli troops subdued her without opening fire, police said in a statement.
According to the Haaretz daily, when the Israeli troops approached, she threw the knife to the ground and lay down on the floor.
The Kan public broadcaster said the victim was treated on the scene for injuries to his face.
The attack occurred close to the Tomb of the Patriarchs, which is considered holy by both Jews and Moslems and is used for prayers by worshipers of both faiths. It has been a major flashpoint for violence.
The tomb is frequented by Jews during Shabbat and holidays and often under military protection.
It, and the nearby area, have been the site of numerous attacks and attempted attacks against Israelis. It is also the site of one of the worst incidents of settler violence against Paleostinians, the 1994 massacre carried out by far-right turban Baruch Goldstein, who opened fire during prayers, killing 29 people and wounding more than 100.
Saturday’s attack came amid a rise in Paleostinian terror attacks in recent weeks, with a man rubbed out on Thursday evening, and four taking place in Jerusalem alone, including a deadly shooting committed by a member of Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,.
That last was the work of Fadi Abu Shkhaydam, a Hamas leader in the Shuafat refugee camp in East Jerusalem
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
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...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. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
[Rudaw] French boats have rescued 138 
Salad-dodger Jacob Michael Gaines traveled from Texas to Oregon to play tough gal with federal law enforcement. He attacked a U.S. Marshal with a hammer, striking the officer three times, back in July of 2020. He pleaded guilty to assaulting a federal officer with a deadly weapon.
[OneIndia] An unidentified
...a major Moslem holiday, marked by animal sacrifice and ritual rioting...
