[Breitbart] Border Patrol agents in Texas continue to arrest migrants attempting to avoid apprehension with the use of aerial video technology, whom would otherwise be classified as “got-aways.”
Laredo Sector Carl E. Landrum tweeted an image showing what Border Patrol agents see when Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) cameras pick up a group of migrants moving through the brush. In this incident, the agents were led to the location of 24 migrants attempting to avoid arrest.
The sUAS operators guided the agents to the migrants who placed them under arrest.
“As USBP continues to expand its use of border technology, smugglers are discovering that it is becoming harder to hide under the cover of darkness,” Chief Landrum said in the tweet.
Further west, agents in the remote Big Bend Sector utilize night vision technology to find groups of migrants wearing dark and camouflaged clothing to attempt to hide in the brush.
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I can find hundreds of illegal aliens anytime I want to in most of Southern California, Tucson or El Paso. Just set up a simple checkpoint on a major urban street and film to drive arounds.
In 1993 I was in the Commander of the CA NG CounterDrug Task Force and visiting the USBP in San Diego to discuss support to the border road, fence surveillance and cargo inspection missions. My staff and I were in civilian clothes and stopped at the Dennys next to I-5 about 3 miles north of the border at San Ysidro for breakfast. We came out after breakfast and noticed a large van in the parking lot with the doors open and pedestrians coming up from the freeway and getting in. I sent one man to get the license number of the van and a second to call the USBP (days before cellphones as common possessions). The Van took off and crashed out of the parking lot at high speed, sped through the intersection causing a multi-car accident, got onto the freeway on=ramp and crashed into the ditch. We ran up to th intersection to help those in the accidentwho might be injured, and to observe the van, announcing in English and Spanish that we had called the Sheriff and USBP. In about 5 minutes both arrived on scene and we were standing in the intersection alone, every single person in the cars had fled on foot. Every single one! This was 1993, just imagine today!
They now are in the habit of protesting, and of refusing to be contented when given what they demand. I’m pondering the thought that this should be moved to Page 3: Non-WoT as Sudan’s background steady state.
[AlAhram] A Sudanese man was rubbed out Sunday as security forces cracked down on rallies against last year's military takeover, medics said, as a UN rights expert arrived in the country.
Regular protests have rocked the northeast African country since army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan led a military takeover in October, sparking international condemnation.
But the internationals condemned the regular protests before, the ones that caused the army to kick out the civilian government, and the regular protests of the previous military government that made for that civilian government, etc.
Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Nathaniel Ikyur, in a statement said the victims were killed on Saturday at about 5:00pm when the button men laid an ambush and blocked the Lordye-Gbajimba Road.
The statement reads, "At about 5:00pm Saturday, February 19, 2022, suspected Fulani ... a peculiarly brutal tribe of Moslem herdsmen infesting Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and probably other places that are light on law and order and heavy on tribal identity... button men killed two males and a female while returning from a burial along Iordye-Gbajimba Road in Guma Local Government Area of Benue State.
"The victims were riding on a cycle of violence when they were ambushed and rubbed out by the killer herdsmen. The two went titzup from gunshot wounds while the other was brutally macheted to death.
"Soldiers attached to Operation Whirl Stroke recovered the bodies and deposited the corpses at Gbajimba General Hospital.
"Sadly, this has been the plight of Benue indigenes in the hands of Fulani herdsmen who have invaded the state in a bid to take over our ancestral lands."
The latest incident comes a few days after five persons including a father and his son, were killed by suspected armed herdsmen in an attack on Tse Udeghe community, Mbakpa Council Ward and Ahumen community in Gwer West Local Government Area of the state.
[IsraelTimes] An Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... by the Nigerian army targeting "bandidos" kills seven children and wounds five others by mistake in Niger, a local governor tells AFP.
"There was a mistake with the Nigerian strikes on the border that resulted in victims on our territory in the village of Nachade" on Friday, says Chaibou Aboubacar, the governor of the Maradi region. "The victims are 12 children, seven of them dead and five maimed."
Security analyst @Natsecjeff wrote on Twitter: “Like Afghan Taliban, TTP has also maintained good relations with many of these “tribal elders” on both sides of Durand. Tribal links with TTP + sympathy for TTP’s ideology exists here."#TTP#Taliban#Kabulhttps://t.co/JzwDydB2Jn
Pakistain has released forty-six Tehrik e Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... Pakistain (TTP) prisoners in an attempt to resume negotiations with the bad boy group according to sources privy to these developments.
Earlier, the TTP had consistently rejected Pakistain’s offer for peace, demanding more control of the tribal areas between Afghanistan and Pakistain as well as the implementation of their version of the Shariah.
The recent move to release the TTP prisoners is a move towards a permanent ceasefire and a peace agreement, The Pakistain Daily has learnt.
The TTP had significantly increased its attacks in recent times, exclusively targeting Pakistain’s security forces in contrast to Pak civilians.
This is a change from TTP’s strategy as earlier the group targetted soft targets including civilians in Pakistain.
It is believed that the recent resumption of peace negotiations come after the efforts of the tribal jirgas in Afghanistan’s Paktia and Khost province ... across the border from Miranshah, within commuting distance of Haqqani hangouts such as Datta Khel and probably within sight of Mordor. Khost is populated by six different tribes of Pashtuns, the largest probably being the Khostwal, from which it takes its name... s.
Sirajuddun Haqqani has also played an instrumental role in the attempts to establish peace between the Pak state and the TTP.
According to security analyst Faran Jeffery: "The "tribal elders" Pakistain is using to "mediate" with TTP are actually mostly TTP sympathizers. Why do you think TTP is still able to operate cells in tribal belt despite its leadership being based in Afghanistan? Most of these "tribal elders" have TTP’s best interests in mind."
FJ wrote on Twitter: "Like Afghan Taliban, TTP has also maintained good relations with many of these "tribal elders" on both sides of Durand. Tribal links with TTP + sympathy for TTP’s ideology exists here. It’s a repeat of the episode in Afghanistan, where tribal elders facilitated surrender of ANDSF."
FJ believes that the TTP’s strategy of not attacking civilians and focusing on attacks on Pakistain’s security forces has helped them gain the sympathy of many tribal elders who themselves may not have an ideal opinion of Pakistain’s security forces.
There is infiltration of dozens of Syrians and Iraqis on the border from time to time, according to security statements. #Syria#Iraqhttps://t.co/3wmFaWLyzj
On Sunday, the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) declared in a statement the capture of 22 Syrian people infiltrated to Iraqi territories.
"A well-done" ambush was set by the forces of Brigade 53 and the intelligence for those Syrian people who were captured and moved to competent authorities," the statement said.
The Iraqi authorities did not reveal the identities of those captured or their infiltration reasons.
The Syrian-Iraqi border witnesses infiltrations from time to time, according to security statements.
"There is a constant change in plans due to the situation on the border. The latest change was setting new checkpoints between Nineveh governorate and Syria to encounter infiltration," said Athir al-Ruba’i, commander of Squad 20 of the Iraqi Army.
The Iraqi security forces have not disclosed the official number of all the Syrian arrested who passed the border illegally since the beginning of the war in Syria ten years ago.
[ShafaqNews] Kurdistan's Counter-Terrorism Agency on Sunday said it handed a person with links to the terrorist organization of ISIS to the Iraqi security authorities.
A statement of the agency said that the arrestee, Ahmed Ibrahim Ahmed Jodeih, was arrested on November 17, 2021.
The agency said Jodeih, who is wanted by the federal Counter-Terrorism-Services, was handed to the Iraqi side in accordance with a Judicial warrant on February 19, 2022.
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.... also known as the Khazali Network, it’s one of the Iranian-funded Popular Mobilization Forces militias. Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq split off from the Mahdi Army in 2006...
was sentenced to death today on charges of terrorism, a reliable source reported.
The source told Shafaq News agency that the Maysan Criminal Court issued a death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... against the leader in the Asa'ib, Hassan Tiraz al-Kinani.
On February 2, Iraqi security forces captured a contract killer charged with more than 20 killings and homicides in the governorate of Maysan.
The Security Media Cell (SMC) said that the arrestee was caught in a raid orchestrated by the govenorate's Operations Command in al-Mashrah area.
A source told Shafaq News Agency that the arrestee is wanted for a long list of charges following Article 4/Terrorism, 406/Homicide, and 421/Abduction.
The arrestee, Hasan Trad Ghleim from the Sneid tribe, has more than 20 liquidations and 29 arrest warrants in his record.
The source said that Ghleim assassinated Judge Ahmed Faisal al-Saedi who refused to cooperate with him, referred his narcotics case to the criminal court, and issued an arrest warrant against him.
He also killed Lieutenant Hosam al-Alyawi who ordered a raid to his headquarters and attempted to arrest him for his involvement in the killing of the educational supervisor Hamid Nehme. Nehme refused to withdraw a case he filed against Ghleim.
The list of Ghleim's victims includes more than 20 persons, including members of the Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq movement and al-Salam companies, in addition to civil activists, tribal figures, and civilians.
Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq issued had issued a statement refuting what was circulated by social media users about Ghleim's affiliation to the Iranian-backed movement.
The movement said it endorses the security forces in their quest to fight crime and urged them to execute a full swing campaign against the criminals.
[ShafaqNews] Iraqi Security forces found today a drone that is believed to have been used in the failed attack that targeted Erbil earlier.
A source told Shafaq News agency that the drone was found in the vicinity of Diyala governorate, and might be one of the drones that were found on Feb.12.
The Iraqi air defense's radars monitored, on Feb. 12, a number of drones that flew from Iraq's eastern borders, and heading to the west.
For its part, the US-led Global Coalition confirmed, last Sunday, shooting down a drone that was heading towards the capital Erbil.
A source in the coalition told Shafaq News agency that the drone had been seized to be examined.
[ShafaqNews] Iraqi security forces on Sunday apprehended two persons with links to a kaboom that took place in the governorate of Basra, far south of Iraq.
A source told Shafaq News Agency that a force from the Basra Police Department arrested two persons from al-Khayyala in the Safwan sub-district, 50 kilometers to the west of Basra, for detonating a bomb near the bridge in the sub-district.
The suspects, who initially reported that a foreign body went kaboom! at the site, admitted responsibility for the earth-shattering kaboom upon inquiries.
“Violent festivities took place between the two factions at a military checkpoint at the entrance to the town of Qabasin near the city of al-Bab, which resulted in the injury of a member of the Civil Police, after the latter arrested two members of Ahrar al-Sham ...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014... ," a local source told North Press.
"Ahrar al-Sham mobilized its members, and sent a force to Qabasin town, in addition to the faction’s closure of the roads leading to it due to the festivities," the source added.
He pointed out that the Ahrar al-Sham faction took control of the Civil Police checkpoints in the city, amid the intervention of the Military Police in al-Bab and the leadership of the Levant Front faction to resolve the dispute between the two factions.
Since 2017, al-Bab city has been under the control of the Ottoman Turkish-backed armed Syrian factions following Operation Euphrates Shield, which was led by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... and Ottoman Turkish-backed Syrian factions.
Areas controlled by the Ottoman Turkish-backed factions have been witnessing security chaos accompanied by frequent explosions and infighting, in addition to cases of abductions and corruption amid the failure of these factions to maintain security.
During the past few days, Daraa, especially its western countryside, has witnessed a number of liquidations targeting activists opposed to the Syrian government, the last of whom was Wassim al-Hamad, head of the local council in the town of Mhajjah in the eastern countryside of Daraa.
Muhammad al-Shara’, a member of the Martyrs Documentation Office in Daraa, a local civil organization, said they documented 124 liquidations, during which 83 people were killed, 31 were maimed, and 10 people survived between the second settlement and the third settlement, i.e. from November 2021 to the end of January.
266 people with settlement cards were subjected to liquidation attempts, 183 of whom were killed and 72 maimed, while 10 others survived, since the start of the first settlement until now, he added.
Statistics obtained by North Press from the office indicate that liquidations have increased by more than 100 cases every year since 2019.
Al-Shara’ considered that the activity against the government was "unpublished, because arrest, disappearance or liquidation is often the fate of those who oppose the Assad regime, and this is what happened with a number of oppositionists, such as members of the Central Committee."
The office documented the killing of 18 members of the Central Committee after the first settlement in the summer of 2018, the last of whom was Mos’ab al-Bardan, who was assassinated on February 10, 2022.
In 2019, Daraa recorded 305 liquidations, to rise in 2020 to 411, while in 2021 it recorded 509 liquidations.
FREQUENT LIQUIDATIONS
On February 15, anonymous button menrubbed out a paramedic in Daraa. On the same day, residents of Daraa countryside found the body of a person bearing signs of gunfire.
In the same context, local people of al-Muzayrib town, in the western countryside of Daraa, found, February 14, body of a man identified as Bashar Ji’arah who was a former 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) organization, according to local sources.
Hours before that, unknown button men assassinated the young man, Ahmad Abdel Ra’ouf al-Rashdan, on the road between Tafas and al-Muzayrib towns.
Researcher and journalist Hussam al-Barm attributes the increase in liquidations to the continuation of government security services in their violations against civilians and the issuance of lists repeatedly on behalf of their opponents in order to finish them to counter all forms of opposition.
Al-Barm referred to the failure of the three settlements, which was only a means to count those who oppose the Assad regime and the Russians.
With regard to liquidations in the government held areas, which witness a heavy security presence, such as the city of Daraa, the researcher added that this is normal as the regime tries to show itself as a target to gain more sympathy of the popular incubator.
In January, unidentified button menrubbed out Zakaria Abdulrahim al-Bardan, a former member of the opposition factions, in Tafas, in the western countryside of Daraa.
According to a local source, al-Bardan obtained a settlement card in 2018, after which he moved to civil works.
IRANIAN ROLE
Activists believe that Iran ...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979... has a role in the liquidations that take place in Daraa, especially those targeting opposition members, to further consolidate its influence on the border province with Israel and Jordan.
A member of the Central Committee, who preferred not to be named, expressed his belief that the party behind the liquidations was some of "the regime’s apparatus linked to Iran and Hezbollah."
He pointed out that Iran had recruited agents from the people of Daraa to carry out liquidations against oppositionists of the government.
"Iran is also trying to have a foothold in the Syrian south, from the borders of Golan in the west to Suwayda governorate in the east, because it considers the south as a gateway to Jordan and the Gulf to facilitate drug access to them."
He believed that the security solution pursued by the government in Daraa will have counterproductive reasons, and stability will not be imposed as it continues to commit violations against civilians, whether oppositionists or others.
Since early February, the western countryside of Daraa has witnessed nearly 16 attacks and liquidation attempts, in which 13 people were killed.
In its annual report for the past year, the Martyrs Documentation Office in Daraa documented 317 liquidation operations and attempts in the western countryside of Daraa alone, representing 62.5% of the total documented operations and incidents.
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Turkish-backed factions in #Syria’s #Afrin continue terrorizing and clamping down on the remaining indigenous people in order to leave or pay royalties.https://t.co/c3vpP2Cfd3
The areas of #Syria’s #Idlib under the control of #HTS and the Turkish-backed factions are witnessing continuous killings and security chaoshttps://t.co/7pIoZTnTpq
The opposition factions’ sites in the towns of al-Fatira, Kafr Aweid, Sufuhn, al-Bara, the outskirts of Kasanfra and al-Ruwaiha in Zawiya mountain, south of Idlib, were hit with heavy artillery and missiles by the government forces, North Press reported military sources in the opposition.
"The sites of the opposition factions in the towns of Taqad, Kafr Ta’al and the outskirts of Kafr Noran, west of Aleppo, were also bombed by the government forces," the sources added.
"The government forces’ sites near the town of Jobas, east of Idlib, were hit with Katyusha rockets by al-Fateh al-Mubin Operations Room," according to the sources.
According to the sources, al-Fateh al-Mubin managed to destroy a military bulldozer and a 14.5-caliber machine gun near al- Malajah in Zawiya Mountain, using guided missiles."
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... (HTS, formerly al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front) admitted, yesterday, the presence of imported muscle or those known as "al-Muhajirin" in Idlib, northwest Syria, two days after Australia designated it as a terrorist organization.
Last week, Australia listed HTS and the Guardians of Religion on its list of outlawed terrorist organizations.
This came through a statement issued by HTS, in which it obligated the families of migrant and imported muscle to evacuate their houses in Idlib.
The HTS security services issued a warning to more than 30 families of various foreign nationalities of the necessity of evacuating their houses within a maximum period of 10 days, local sources told North Press.
HTS security forces summoned a number of members, while similar warnings were issued to the wives of detainees in HTS prisons, to evacuate their houses before the end of the specified period, without clearing the reasons, the sources added.
This step comes to pressure the fighters who work in formations outside the HTS faction, to join its ranks or leave its area of controls, according to the same sources.
The HTS is tightening the screws on members of other factions in Idlib, where it recently arrested several members and leaders of foreign nationalities, according to the residents.
Last October, HTS expelled Jund al-Sham faction, led by Moslem Abu Walid al Shishani, from Turkmen Mountain area in the northeastern countryside of Latakia, and arrested its leaders.
Two people bit the dust on Sunday evening and two others were maimed in a tribal infighting at backdrop of an old Dire Revenge issue in a town east of Deir ez-Zor, east Syria.
A tribal infighting, with light and medium machine guns, broke out between the al-Shaitat tribe men at the backdrop of an old Dire Revenge case, which resulted in the death of a young man on each side," Ahmed al-Huwaish, a resident of the town of Gharanij, 90 km east of Deir ez-Zor, told North Press.
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.... Organization (ISIS) claimed yesterday, through its social media, the killing of a person on charges of collaborating with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in a town east of Deir ez-Zor, eastern Syria.
The ISIS-related Amaq News Agency published that ISIS members targeted the young man Saleh Abdulmajid, with automatic machine guns in the town of Dhiban, east of Deir ez-Zor, on charges of dealing with the SDF, which led to his immediate death.
Two days ago, Abdulmajid was kidnapped in front of his house in the al-Latwa neighborhood in the town, only to be found dead with several gunshot wounds to the head near an abandoned room on the bank of the Euphrates River.
Recently, the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor has witnessed an increasing in liquidation attempts targeting SDF members, employees of the Autonomous Administration, tribal dignitaries and residents.
Two days ago, ISIS claimed targeting an SDF patrol in the town of Shuhail, in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, killing an SDF member and wounding another.
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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.
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...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
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Hezbollah
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang 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 
