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Fred, I am not here always, and I've come to you late. Please post another front page to Betty Davis and Gary Merrill, because I knew both of them personally. I would like to relate my exposure to these Icons of American Theater and Film, all good, yet potentially so enlightening, but my time grows short on this day.
Rantburg would be exactly the perfect venue for this exclusive, Thanks Bill
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[JPost] An air strike in Ethiopia's northern region of Tigray killed 56 people and wounded at least 30 in a camp for the internally displaced, two aid workers told Reuters on Saturday, citing local authorities and eyewitness accounts.
Military spokesman Colonel Getnet Adane and government spokesman Legesse Tulu did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The government has previously denied targeting civilians in the 14-month conflict with rebellious Tigrayan forces.
Both aid workers, who asked not to be named as they are not authorized to speak to the media, said the number of dead was confirmed by the local authorities.
The aid workers sent Reuters pictures they said they had taken of the wounded in hospital, who included many children.
The strike hit the camp in the town of Dedebit, in the northwest of the region near the border with Eritrea, late on Friday night, the aid workers said.
One of the aid workers, who visited Shire Shul General Hospital where the injured were brought for treatment, said the camp hosts many old women and children.
"They told me the bombs came at midnight. It was completely dark and they couldn't escape," the aid worker said.
Ethiopian federal troops went to war with rebellious Tigrayan forces in November 2020.
Before the latest strike, at least 146 people have been killed and 213 injured in air strikes in Tigray since Oct. 18, according to a document prepared by aid agencies and shared with Reuters this week.
[REGNUM] Somali security forces repulsed an attack by bully boyz from the al-Shabaab ...... the personification of Somali state failure... terrorist group (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) and eliminated 17 terrorists, Somali national television reports.According to him, the Islamists tried to seize a city in the province of Galmudug ...a semiautonomous region in central Somalia, bordering Puntland on the north. Galmudug is not trying to obtain international recognition as a separate nation, but rather considers itself autonomous within the larger Somali federalism, for what that's worth... in central Somalia. The security forces managed to stop the terrorist attack, as well as eliminate 17 holy warriors. It is noted that the Somali army has begun to oust forces of Evil from the central and young regions of the country.
As REGNUM reported , on December 30, 2021, fighters of the al-Shabaab terrorist group (an organization whose activities are prohibited in the Russian Federation) seized the city of Balad in the state of Hirshabella in Somalia. Then the Islamists managed to take the city as a result of a series of attacks.
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[REGNUM] At least 11 non-combatants were killed in a bully boy attack in Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... . This was announced by the governor of Sanmatenga province in an official address.According to him, a group of unknown gunnies attacked the village of Ankuna. At the same time, the bully boyz deliberately attacked civilians. As a result of the attack, 11 people were killed and another was injured. Other details of the attack were not provided. Also, no reported material damage to the villagers.
As reported by IA REGNUM , on December 23, bandidos attacked the border post between Niger and Burkina Faso. It is noted that as a result of the attack, civilians and customs officers were killed, and several people were also injured of varying severity.
n a separate attack, two civilian volunteers working with the army's anti-jihadist campaign were killed at Noaka, also on Wednesday, and stores were put to the torch, the source said.
"The attacks have caused villagers to flee to the town of Kaya," the main town in the Centre-North region, the official said.
Not sure WoT is the right place for this. Additional information should clarify.
[IsraelTimes] 39-year-old Pierre Girgis, a dual US-Egyptian citizen, charged with illegally acting as unregistered agent of Egyptian government
US authorities arrested a New York man who allegedly spied on political opponents of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, the Justice Department said.
Pierre Girgis, 39, was charged in New York with acting illegally as an unregistered agent of the Egyptian government.
The department said in a statement that, acting at the direction of Egyptian officials, Girgis "tracked and obtained information regarding political opponents of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi."
Girgis, a dual US-Egyptian citizen, also made arrangements for visiting Egyptian officials, including meetings with US law enforcement, the statement said.
Encrypted messages between Girgis and Egyptian officials showed he was in contact with more than one Cairo government agency for information collection between 2014 and
2019, according to the indictment.
Could be Muslim Brotherhooders, could be ISIS contacts, could just be Egyptian politics — very likely was all of the above...
In 2017, it said, he sent information on an anti-Sissi activist and other individuals that he had obtained from the Egyptian government to US law enforcement officers.
Somebody on our side clearly knew he was connected…
He was charged under a law that makes it illegal to act as a representative of a foreign government without first registering with the Justice Department.
The department "will continue to strictly enforce foreign agent registration laws, which remain critically important to ensuring that our government is not secretly influenced by foreign governments," said US Attorney Damian Williams in a statement."
[OneIndia] The National Investigation Agency has filed a chargesheet against five operatives of the al-Qaeda in connection with a conspiracy to carry out kabooms in Uttar Pradesh.
Those charged are Museeruddin, Minhaj Ahmad, Shakeel, Mustaqeem and Mohammad Moid. Investigation revealed that accused Minhaj Ahmad was radicalized online by two Al Qaeda murderous Moslems based in 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.... He had entered into a conspiracy with them for further recruiting members for al-Qaeda affiliate AGH (Ansaar Gajwatul Hind) and for committing terrorist acts.
He recruited Museeruddin into Al Qaeda fold and involved him in the conspiracy for committing terrorist acts in UP. Museeruddin and Minhaj Ahmad procured arms, ammunitions, kaboom and conducted reconnaissance of vulnerable areas for carrying out blasts with an intention to wage war against Govt. of India. Other three accused Shakeel, Mohd. Mustaqeem and Mohammad Moid aided and abetted Minhaj and Museeruddin in procuring weapons and ammunitions, thus becoming a party in furtherance of the conspiracy.
[Rudaw] Peshmerga forces in Pirde (Altun Kupri) town, Kirkuk province came under attack late Friday, according to a commander and Kurdistan Region’s counter-terrorism forces. No casualties have been reported.
Nuri Hama Ali, a Peshmerga commander in Pirde, told Rudaw that a number of rockets were directed at Peshmerga bases in the district but none of them hit their target and did not cause any casualties.
Kurdistan Region’s counter-terrorism units also reported the attack, saying "eight Katyusha rockets landed near Fifth Front [of Peshmerga] in Pirde, Kirkuk without causing material damage or casualties."
Peshmerga ministry confirmed that the attack did not cause any losses, saying that they have launched an investigation into the incident.
Pirde district is about 40 kilometres northwest of Kirkuk. Peshmerga forces have been targeted by 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.... (ISIS) there several times late last year. Over 20 members of Peshmerga forces were killed as a result of the assaults.
A Peshmerga fighter was shot and injured by an unidentified gunman in Kirkuk on Friday.
ISIS killed two Peshmerga fighters, Khalid Hameed and Ako Karim, on October 30 in Pirde’s Zorgazraw area.
Iraqi security forces arrested seven ISIS suspects in Kirkuk on Friday, according to Security Media Cell which claimed that they "confessed" to have committed crime in Kirkuk and Anbar provinces.
[Rudaw] A Peshmerga fighter was shot and injured by an unidentified man in Kirkuk in the early hours of Friday morning, an official source confirmed to Rudaw.
"Two bullets were fired from an unknown location which slightly maimed a Peshmerga fighter," Sarkawt Chimany, a commander of the Peshmerga forces, told Rudaw following the incident which took place in the Khasa dam in Kirkuk's Kochak village.
According to Chimany, the Peshmerga fighters within the brigade are on high alert. "We fired back and sent the attackers fleeing," he said.
The village's Facebook page claims that the Peshmerga fighter was maimed by a sniper rifle.
No group has grabbed credit for the shooting yet.
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[JPost] Gunmen took to the streets of the refugee camp to protest the arrest, with some opening fire.
Palestinian security forces arrested three young Palestinians in Jenin refugee camp, including the son of Zakaria Zubeidi, one of the terrorists who escaped from Gilboa prison, Hebrew media reported early Saturday morning.
The three Palestinians reportedly resisted arrest, so police detained them by force.
Reacting to documentation of the arrest, gunmen took to the streets of the refugee camp in protest, with some opening fire. Palestinian Authority (PA) officials from Ramallah have been working with field activists in the refugee camp to calm the area, according to Haaretz.
Zakaria Zubeidi was the former Jenin chief of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, Fatah’s armed wing, and later made recent headlines after escaping prison in September along with five other terrorists by digging a tunnel. All of the inmates were eventually recaptured.
Zubeidi is reportedly a "symbol" of the Second Intifada, which erupted in September 2000, and was even praised by Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hamas and Fatah upon his escape from Gilboa prison.
Had Zubeidi returned to his home in the Jenin Refugee Camp, Israel would never have been able to recapture him, masked gunmen and political activists said in September.
Zubeidi was reportedly in close contact with several Israelis, including journalists covering Palestinian affairs, and briefed them on the latest developments in Jenin.
According to both Palestinian and Israeli sources, Zubeidi had survived at least four assassination attempts by Israel. He and his men were known to terrorize and intimidate Palestinians in the Jenin area.
In February 2019, he was arrested by the IDF and charged with carrying out at least two shooting attacks on civilian buses in the West Bank.
Another incident in Jenin last month involved the death of a 21-year-old nursing student at Arab American University, which sparked protests in which demonstrators clashed with PA security forces.
[Rudaw] Counterterrorism forces in Hasaka province, northeast Syria (Rojava) captured a suspected member of 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.... (ISIS) late Thursday. He is accused of planning a rocket attack against the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and anti-ISIS global coalition, the latter said on Friday.
"InSF HAT conducted an operation last night in Shaddadi, Syria that led to the capture of a #ISIS [Arabic acronym for ISIS] member who was planning a rocket attack against @cmoc_SDF and Coalition forces," the US-led coalition said in a tweet, referring to the Kurdish Internal Security Forces’ (Asayish) counterterrorism forces.
This follows a number of recent attacks on the SDF and coalition forces in the area.
The Coalition said in a statement on Wednesday that they were targeted earlier in the day with eight rounds of indirect fire at SDF’s military base, Green Village, which includes "a small Coalition advisory presence," in northeast Syria. It added that "the attack did not cause any casualties, but several rounds impacted inside the Coalition base and caused minor damage."
The statement also noted that the Coalition "responded swiftly and fired six rounds of artillery towards the point of origin of the attack just outside Mayadin, Syria." The Coalition claimed that Iran-backed militia groups fired on them and the SDF "from within civilian infrastructure with no regard for civilian safety."
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.
[JPost] An air strike in Ethiopia's northern region of 
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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 
