It’s Friday and Eid al-Fitr, so people have better things to do than make trouble for one another.
[AfghanDigest] LAST 24 HOURS
TORKHAM GATE LANDSLIDE RESCUE, DEATH TOLL NOW AT 7 – Rescuers recovered another body while sifting through rubble that covered over twenty trucks. 5 of the 7 who died have been confirmed as Afghan citizens. About half the trucks have been recovered. More bodies are expected as the rescue work continues.
CONTROVERSIAL SUNNI IMAM IN IRAN SAYS PROTESTS ARE A CITIZEN’S RIGHT – The remarks were made during an Eid al-Fitr sermon in Zahedan where thousands had gathered to mark the end of Ramadan. Molavi Abdul Hamid went on to say the government must release political prisoners if it wants the support of the people. After the sermon, Sunni youth assembled near a police station and threw stones at police, their vehicles, and the building itself. Many believe the protests in Iran will start anew with the crackdown on women who refuse to wear hijabs.
CONFLICT TRACKER Kandahar: A video shared by a group called the Freedom Copra depicts an IED ambush of a truck at night. The group claims to have killed the commander of the Toli Border Camp (Spin Boldak gate) and 5 of his bodyguards. The blast was reported in the Dagundi Kariz Keli area. Takhar: A clash was reported along the border in the Darqad district. The fighting reportedly resulted in the deaths of 3 Taliban members, A deputy commander named Tore Khan (a.k.a. Shakir) was said to be among those killed.
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POSSIBLE THREAT TO SECURITY CHECKPOINTS ON NORTHERN ROADS OUT OF KABUL – A source in Kabul has stated that action(s) were in the final stages to attack one (or several) of the Taliban security checkpoints along main roads leading North. The timing of the attacks is expected in the next 48 hours. It is unclear if the roads have continued to be blocked after earlier reports suggested the Taliban had closed the roads to Panjshir to all non-military traffic last week. Several eyewitness reports say that traffic was never stopped and commercial trucks continued to make the trip to Northern Provinces from Kabul. At-risk Afghans residing near these checkpoints in Northern Kabul should be prepared to shelter in place and avoid loitering near the checkpoints for the next few days.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The US Department of Defense has announced the deployment of military assets to a naval facility in Djibouti on the Gulf of Aden, in preparation for the evacuation of US embassy staff from Sudan.
Following instructions from the Pentagon, US forces were sent to "Lemonnier" Camp in Djibouti, in anticipation of the events development in Sudan, in light of fighting taking place between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces.
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Camp Lemonnier provides, operates and sustains superior service in support of combat readiness and security of ships, aircraft, detachments and personnel for regional and combatant command requirements; and enables operations in the Horn of Africa while fostering positive U.S.-African Nation relations.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] A powerful explosion rocked areas in the city of Ma’rib, northeastern 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... , which is under the control of the Islah turbans.
This was reported by Yemen News Portal, based on the testimonies of local sources.
According to the sources, an improvised bomb (IED) went off and targeted a military pickup vehicle, belonging to a senior commander of Islah murderous Moslems in the area of Kerry in al-Wadi district, east of the city of Ma’rib.
The sources added that the earth-shattering kaboom resulted in extensive damage to the vehicle and on one was onboard during the earth-shattering kaboom.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] A car went kaboom! on Thursday in the city of Mukalla, the capital of Hadhramaut province, eastern 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... This was reported by Yemen News Portal, based on the testimonies of local sources.
According to local sources, the car was parked near the fish market .
It is believed that the earth-shattering kaboom was caused by an improvised bomb (IED), which led to the burning and destruction of the vehicle, the sources said.
No casualties have been reported as the street was empty of pedestrians.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] A religious preacher was assassinated on Friday by members of the UAE-funded al-Amaliqa militia in the district of Bayhan of Shabwah province.
Sources familiar with the matter said the sheikh Abdullah al-Bani, was targeted on his car after he left the Eid al-Fitr prayer in the district.
The sources pointed out that the liquidation of al-Bani after the residents’ rejection of a preacher that the militia tried to impose on the citizens who stood with Sheikh al-Bani.
The sources confirmed that al-Bani delivered a sermon on Eid al-Fitr, in which he urged citizens to unite the ranks and reject racism, partisanship, and sectarianism that divide people.
Al-Bani was the official preacher of the area before the Emirates brought in al-Amaliqa militia from the West Coast, in the beginning of the year 2020.
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[KavkazUzel] Rustam Buluev, Ruslan Namatov and Artur Ushaev, former employees of the antiterrorist center of Chechnya, were sentenced to long terms on charges of committing a terrorist act in the village of Znamenskoye in 2005.
The "Caucasian Knot" wrote that in 2021, the case of three residents of Chechnya, accused in the case of a terrorist attack in the village of Znamenskoye, was sent to court. The defendants were charged with banditry, terrorism, encroachment on the lives of security officials, murder and attempted murder of two or more persons committed in a generally dangerous way by an organized group, illegal storage and transportation of explosive devices, and two of them were also charged with kidnapping.
On July 19, 2005, in the village of Znamenskoye, Nadterechny district of Chechnya, 15 people were killed, including a woman and two young boys, when a UAZ car filled with explosives was blown up. Another 24 local residents were injured, the security forces said at the time.
Ali Agamerzoev and Aslambek Vitrigov, natives of the Vedeno district, were detained on suspicion of involvement in the incident. Ayub Tuntuev, 29, who was later detained, was accused of organizing the attack. According to Tuntuev's testimony, the attack was ordered by Shamil Basaev ,
...also in our archives as Shamil Basayev, more formally Shamil Salmanovich Basayev, also known by his kunya "Abu Idris" and Emir Abdullah Shamil Abu-Idris (1965-2006). Chechen warlord in the post-Soviet Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, which after his death became the Al Qaeda-linked Caucasus Emirate. In 2015 most of the hard boys changed their allegiance to the local Islamic State affiliate, Vilayat Kavkaz, whereupon a majority chose to escape the Russians hunting them by making hijra to the caliphate in Syria. Some of his projects were the 2004 Beslan school siege and the 2002 Moscow theater hostage crisis. In 2003, the US State Department designated three Chechen groups affiliated with Shamil Basaev as terrorists, accusing them of receiving millions of dollars from Al Qaeda...
who promised to pay the perpetrators of this action a thousand dollars, the Chechen Interior Ministry said in August 2005.
The Southern District Military Court sentenced three former employees of the anti-terrorist center of Chechnya, Rustam Buluev, Ruslan Namatov and Artur Ushaev, accused of a terrorist attack in the village of Znamenskoye (Chechnya) in July 2005.
"Taking into account the position of the public prosecutor on the guilt of the defendants, the court sentenced them to imprisonment for a term of 21 to 24 years to be served in a strict regime colony," the press service of the Russian Prosecutor General's Office for the North Caucasus and Southern Federal Districts reported today.
The court sentenced Buluev to 21 years in prison, Namatov to 23 years in prison, and Ushaev to 24 years in prison. They will serve their sentence in a strict regime penal colony. Earlier, other participants Agamerzaev, Vitrigov and Tuntuev were sentenced to long terms of imprisonment, the Russian Investigative Committee said today.
As follows from the case file on the court website, Buluev and Namatov were accused of kidnapping, the verdict on the defendants was announced today.
Former member of the security service of the President of Chechnya, Ayub Tuntuev, was sentenced in 2008 to 24 years in prison on charges of involvement in the case of a terrorist attack in 2005 in the Chechen regional center of Znamenskoye.
In May 2016, an appeal against this sentence was filed with the ECtHR, and on June 1, 2017, it was communicated. The complaint states that on May 27, 2015, under torture, Tuntuev was forced to sign a statement in which he admitted his participation in military operations against the federal armed forces in Chechnya from 1994 to 2005 and in an armed clash in the summer of 1999 in the Botlikh region Dagestan.
In 2017, he was found guilty in the case of the attack on the Pskov paratroopers in 2000, the court, taking into account the old sentence, sentenced him to 24 years and 11 months in a strict regime colony.
Artur Ushaev was previously sentenced to 19 years in prison, and Ruslan Namatov to 18 years in the case of an attack on Pskov paratroopers.
On the night of March 1, 2000, soldiers of the sixth company of the 104th regiment of the 76th Guards Airborne Division entered into battle in Chechnya with a large detachment of Shamil Basayev and Khattab. For about a day, the company held back the onslaught of about 2,000 militants who tried to break out of the encirclement.
Then, 84 out of 90 servicemen died, 370 militants were killed. Among the reasons for the tragedy, analysts name corruption and incompetence of the command and officers, according to the information of the "Caucasian Knot" "Fight for Hill 776: how the Pskov paratroopers died."
[NYPOST] An abandoned Portland tavern burned to the ground this week in a blaze sparked by squatters who had been harassing the crime-riddled community for more than a year.
Firefighters tried in vain Wednesday to beat back flames that consumed the former Farmer’s Barn Tavern in north Portland, which neighbor Dusty McCord said was "clearly a time bomb waiting to go off."
He said squatters have been menacing the neighborhood since they besieged the bar that closed in 2018, threatening residents with guns, sometimes physically attacking them — and frequently cutting down trees to make campfires.
Portland Fire and Rescue (PF&R) said this week was the eighth time they’d been called to the building to put out blazes.
When neighbors complained to the city, McCord said officials did nothing.
"The level of negligence is breathtaking," he told the Oregonian.
"For about the last 18 months, the building has been a complete nuisance with squatters, campers," neighbor Eric Marentette told KOIN 6.
"There’s been a lot of theft."
Since Farmer’s Barn Tavern shuttered, there have been at least four fire code enforcement cases at the property, according to the Oregonian.
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Who was it that recalled the statute of arson as terrorism?
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Example of:
When the Nut's are placed in the charge of the Nut House, by the George Soros Open Society Foundation. Then implement a list of agenda items without looking at the long range ramifications.
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