[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] I wouldn’t have thought community policing would be part of the normal National Guard skill set, which I thought geared toward war and emergencies. But I admit to being entirely ignorant on the subject.
California Governor Gavin Newsom announced a partnership between California State Police and National Guard to disrupt fentanyl trafficking in San Francisco Fentanyl comes from Mexico, as I recall. Wouldn’t it be more efficient to send the National Guard to interdict the border between Mexico and California?
Announcement came after city officials requested state and federal help to address the problem of open-air drug dealing Why aren’t the San Francisco police taking care of problem? Oh right — San Francisco downsized their police force after forbidding them to enforce the few remaining laws.
Newsom directed the agencies to analyze drug trafficking operations and focus on dismantling fentanyl trafficking rings in key areas around the city
"But contrary to popular belief, simply calling up federal or state military members to assist during times of natural emergency or civil unrest is not necessarily the same thing as implementing martial law."
"When under the control of its state governor, National Guard functions range from limited actions during non-emergency situations to full scale law enforcement of martial law when local law enforcement officials can no longer maintain civil control."
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In this case, I bet "help" means "open any bottlenecks in distribution."
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Oh Nos, people with assault weapons on the streets of SanFran. [don't worry, they won't get ammo so the locals can relieve them of carrying that iron].
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Posse Comitatus only applies to federal military. As long as the state Guard units operate under state authority and funding, they can be employed in law enforcement activity. Even with Posse Comitatus, if the Insurrection Act is applied, federal forces can be utilized.
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Maybe the guard unit has mobile coolers and can handle transportation of the bodies out of the city. This activity will potentially help Newsom in the polls as each stiff can be fully identified in the process so that his or her voting can be made more consistent going forward at a lower cost. Voting stiffs with out of state registrations can can be cataloged for future requests for absentee ballots in potential presidential primaries.
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Fentanyl comes from Mexico, as I recall. Wouldn’t it be more efficient to send the National Guard to interdict the border between Mexico and California?
One would think so but, remember, we're talking about Newsom so it's unrealistic to expect anything he does to make sense.
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I guess they were used to clean up Tenderloin so Newsom could walk through and yuk it up for a photo shoot.
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I was the initial Counterdrug Coordinator and Commanding Officer of the California National Guard Counterdrug Program stared in 1991. A Title 32 Active Duty unit yhat at its peak had over 450 active duty soldiers and airmen supporting federal, state and local law enforcement agencies. It has existed since then and among its activities is a significant intelligence capability supporting analysis and assessment of trafficking. This is actually a positive, not an act of martial law. There are decades of expertise and skills the CNG can bring to this.
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You want to interdict fentanyl at the choke points: the border and factories that make it. Once in the cities, the drugs are quickly distributed to hundreds of thousands of gang bangers, immigrants and illegal alien dealers.
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Confucius say, "Stick under chin...
And bingo!"
"How long has it been?"
"You gonna buy plenty
Of new Chinese fenty --
One hour, you need it again."
[CBSnews] Aid workers at non-profit organizations in Afghanistan that receive financial support from the U.S. government say they're being forced to pay fees and provide services to the Taliban ...Arabic for students... . They spoke to CBS News days after the head of a U.S. government oversight office tasked with monitoring how U.S. tax dollars are spent in Afghanistan told politicians that his staff "simply do not know" the extent to which the American people may unknowingly be funding the terrorist group.
"Since the Taliban takeover, the U.S. government has sought to continue supporting the Afghan people without providing benefits for the Taliban regime," Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction (SIGAR) John F. Sopko said Wednesday in testimony to the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability. "However,
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Not squandering countless sums on preposterous schemes with less than no accountability and even less objective is a nice start. But how about not stealing peoples' money in the first place?
[KhaamaPress] The possible international recognition of the ’Taliban ...Arabic for students... administration’ will not be discussed at a meeting on Afghanistan that the U.N. has called for next month, a U.N. spokeswoman reiterated on Thursday in response to concerns and confusion made by the deputy UN chief’s remarks.
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres ...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years... is set to host a closed-door gathering in Doha on May 1-2 of special envoys on Afghanistan from various countries. On Monday, his deputy, Amina Mohammed, suggested that the gathering "could find those baby steps to put us back on the pathway to recognition."
"The Doha conference on the 1st and 2nd of May is not focusing on recognition, and we do not want any confusion about that," said deputy U.N. spokesperson Farhan Haq. "The point of discussion ... is to build a more unified consensus on the challenges at hand."
The remarks came after the Taliban extended the ban on female aid workers with U.N., which has faced massive condemnation globally.
The organization reiterated that without Afghan women workers, humanitarian aid would disrupt as most of the organization’s aid workers are female.
Since August 2021, the group has implemented suppressive policies against women as a result, isolated most of the women from the public scene, education, and work.
According to the Taliban’s rigorous interpretation of Islamic law, it protects women’s rights.
[KhaamaPress] The Taliban ...Arabic for students... has prohibited women from attending Eid celebrations in two provinces of Afghanistan before the expected large festivities throughout the country.
Two similar notifications stated that "it is forbidden for women to go out in groups during the days of Eid ul-Fitr" on Friday in the Takhar in the northeast and the Baghlan province in the north.
Only the two provinces, Takhar and Baghlan in Afghanistan, are subject to the orders.
Earlier this month, the Taliban authorities banned the entry of families and women in restaurants with gardens and green spaces in the Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... province of Afghanistan.
The authorities said the curbs were imposed due to not wearing a headscarf (Hijab) and gender mixing.
Since the Taliban retook control of the country in August 2021, women have been prohibited from working in education with local and foreign organizations, gyms, and public places.
Meanwhile, ...back at the buffalo wallow, Standing Buffalo drew a bead on his old enemy and squeezed the trigger... the de facto authorities banned female aid workers from working with the international organization in the 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 of the country.
Despite the massive condemnation, the restrictions on women’s employment with the UN continue, including the ban on girls’ education beyond the sixth grade and university.
[AMUtv] Some residents of Afghanistan’s villages claimed on Wednesday that Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... is collecting ushr from them, which is a 10 percent tax on harvests and 5 percent on land dependent on well water.
A farmer from Imam Sahib district in northern Kunduz province said Taliban has "forcedly" collected 7,000 Afs ($82) from him as ushr.
"I sold onion harvest for 70,000 Afs ($821), and I paid 7,000 as ushr. They came to my house three times and I was hiding. Finally, they took me out of home and I had to pay 7,000 as ushr," said the farmer.
A resident of Baghlan province in the north said that his household depends on farming and that he pays ushr to the Taliban.
He said that he also pays zakat, another type of charity, for his cattle.
According to him, Taliban has asked him to pay one cow for every 40, and pay 70 kilograms of wheat, onion or potatoes in exchange for 7,00 kilograms and 56 kilograms of rice for each 700 kilograms of rice he farms on his land.
Another Baghlan resident said that he paid also paid one cow for every 40 he owns.
"I have 80 cattle. Taliban took two cattle from me as Zakat and it was taken ’by force’," the resident said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio wondered: Where the hell was Chumbaloni? And where was his $600?... some residents of Paktia in the east of the country criticized the Taliban for collecting zakat from cattle owners in the province.
"Taliban used to take zakat during the republic government as well but it was not as serious as now. Now, they are too serious and they get one sheep from every 20 sheep or its equivalent," said a Paktia resident.
A business owner in Kabul who has a number of sports gyms told Amu that he pays 35,000 to 40,000 Afs as tax to the Taliban a year, 20,000 Afs for the license and 5,000 Afs for the banners.
"Previously, there was sports federation that handled the taxes to the government, but now, they have imposed 60,000 Afs as annual tax which they take 35,000 to 40,000 of that from us," he said.
Taliban did not comment on the process of collecting ushr and zakat as well as taxes. Ahmad Wali Haqmal, a Taliban front man for the Ministry of Finance and Misbahuddin Mustaen, a Taliban front man for the agriculture ministry did not respond to Amu’s calls for comment about the matter.
Taliban has imposed high taxes on all businesses over the past 19 months, something that has led to the closure of many small businesses such as shops in Kabul and other provinces.
Taliban’s ministry of finance last week reported that national revenues have increased by 37% this year, most of which have been from exports, imports and taxes.
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[REGNUM] Sudan's rapid reaction forces (special forces)
...known in English as Rapid Support Forces (RSF) ...
are ready to partially open airports to resume flights so that foreign citizens can safely evacuate from the country, according to a Sudanese special forces microblog.
The statement also says that the Rapid Reaction Forces are fully open for cooperation and coordination in order to create conditions that allow representatives of foreign diasporas and diplomatic missions to leave the African republic without hindrance.
As REGNUM reported earlier, Sudanese special forces supported a proposal for a 72-hour humanitarian ceasefire. The truce began on the morning of 21 April.
Fighting between special forces and the Sudanese army broke out on 15 April. On April 17, Sudanese army commander Abdel Fattah al-Burhan accused the Rapid Reaction Force of mutiny and announced its dissolution .
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Former Janjaweed, as has been mentioned here before. So very extra special forces, highly trained in old-fashioned PPR (pillage, plunder, and rape).
[AlAhram] Egypt and Russia are speeding up the construction of the 4.8 GW nuclear power plant at El-Dabaa, which is located 135 kilometres west of Alexandria, putting it back on schedule after initial delays due to the war in Ukraine and COVID-19.
This makes Mr. Wife exceedingly uncomfortable, remembering the inshallah approach in Egypt when he was there a generation ago. Then there is Chernobyl. And of course the Muslim Brotherhood, which briefly ruled Egypt a only decade ago, and is working toward ruling the world...
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The actual construction work on the plant, which is scheduled to conclude by the year 2030, kicked off in July 2022.
The plant is located 100 miles from Alexandria, apparently just off the road to Libya. Aside from the plant other infrastructure needed should raise cost exponentially.
[Breitbart] The government of China denied on Tuesday details in a report accusing its companies of bribing Nigerian terrorists in exchange for safe access to mineral-rich territories in the African country.
The original report, published last week by the U.K. newspaper The Times, claimed that “militant leaders” in the embattled country are openly bragging on social media about how much money they make from Chinese bribes. The videos, allegedly obtained through the firm SBM Intelligence, show Nigerian terrorists claiming that Chinese companies are comfortable paying “rent” and have become a lucrative income source for them.
It identified only one terrorist group by name as having profited from Chinese mining operations in the country: Boko Haram.
China has invested heavily in the past decade in expanding its influence throughout Africa, particularly through its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The BRI offers poor countries predatory loans through Chinese banks to be used to pay Chinese contractors to build roads, ports, and other infrastructure products. When the victim countries cannot pay back the loan, China seizes control of the projects.
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[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The Minister of Defence, Major General Muhammad al-Atifi, and the Chief of the General Staff, Major General Muhammad al-Ghamari have affirmed that 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... ’s wealth is a red line that Sana’a would defend with all its power.
In a congratulatory cable they sent to President al-Mashat on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr, al- Atifi and al-Ghamari expressed their hope that the political moves of the Omani mediation would bear positive fruits that were commensurate with the aspirations of Yemeni people.
They hoped also that the Saudi-led coalition and those it recruited to serve it would deal with these moves and efforts aimed at peace with all credibility in order to reach solutions to end the aggression, siege, and occupation.
"But if the enemy seeks to present itself as the dove of peace in order to reach partial solutions commensurate with its objectives and does not respect illusory sovereignty and does not absorb the facts on the ground, whether on the battle fronts or on the political side, then these efforts will inevitably fail miserably," they added.
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[KavkazUzel] The Court of Cassation, having considered the appeal of Khanumkyz Kulibekova, whom the court in Khasavyurt sentenced to five years in prison, returned the case for review to the prosecutor's office, recommending that the case be reclassified to a tougher article.
The Fifth Cassation Court in Pyatigorsk considered the complaint in the case of Khanumkyz Kulibekova, who was convicted on charges of intending to join an illegal armed group in Syria. Kulibekova herself denies guilt, noting that she was in Turkey and Syria in order to return home her daughter, who lived in the territory controlled by the militants, who became a widow and raised three children alone, Kavkaz.Realii reported today.
As follows from the court's decision, Kulibekova's lawyer asked to cancel the verdict, citing the fact that there was no evidence that she had taken part in an illegal armed group.
"The conclusions of the court are based on conjectures and assumptions. The court did not give a proper assessment to the testimonies of witnesses that they did not know the convicted woman and had never seen her," a fragment of the appeal is given in the court decision.
The Court of Cassation considered the evidence admissible and sufficient, but at the same time pointed out that Kulibekova's actions were incorrectly qualified as participation in an illegal armed formation, but her actions could be regarded as participation in a terrorist organization.
"Kulibekova arrived in Syria in order to join (participate in) an illegal armed formation structurally part of the Islamic State* organization," but she could not complete her intent, as she was detained by law enforcement officers and expelled from the territory of the state, the court noted and returned the case to the prosecutor's office.
Kulibekova was placed under arrest for three months, as "there are grounds to believe that she may abscond from the investigation or otherwise interfere with the proceedings," the court of cassation concluded.
The article on participation in an illegal armed formation (Part 2 of Article 208 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), under which Kulibekova was convicted, provides for 8 to 15 years in prison. Article on participation in the activities of a terrorist organization, to which the court proposed to reclassify the charge (Part 2 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), - from 10 to 20 years in prison.
The "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that the Kizilyurt District Court sentenced a resident of Dagestan to five years' imprisonment on probation, who, according to the investigation, cooked food and sewed clothes for IS militants*.
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Whew! At least that’s finally over, with nothing real accomplished.
[IsraelTimes] A Gay Paree court on Friday sentenced Lebanese-Canadian citizen Hassan Diab to life in prison in absentia for the 1980 bombing of a synagogue in which four people died.
The court followed prosecutors’ request for the maximum possible punishment against Diab, now 69 and a university professor in Canada.
Prosecutors had said in their summing-up that there was "no possible doubt" that Diab, the only suspect, was behind the attack.
In the early evening of October 3, 1980, explosives placed on a cycle of violence detonated close to a synagogue in Rue Copernic in Gay Paree’s chic 16th district, killing a student passing by on a cycle of violence, a driver, an Israeli journalist and a caretaker.
Forty-six were maimed in the blast.
The bombing was the first deadly attack against a Jewish target on French soil since World War II.
No organization ever grabbed credit but police suspected a splinter group of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine.
French intelligence in 1999 accused Diab, a sociology professor, of having made the 10-kilogramme (22-pound) bomb.
They pointed to Diab’s likeness with police sketches drawn at the time and handwriting analyses that they said confirmed him as a suspect.
They also produced a key item of evidence against him — a passport in his name, seized in Rome in 1981, with entry and exit stamps from Spain, where the attack plan was believed to have originated.
In 2014, Canada extradited Diab at the request of the French authorities.
However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... investigating judges were unable to prove his guilt conclusively during the investigation and Diab was released, leaving La Belle France for Canada a free man in 2018.
Three years later, a French court overturned the earlier decision and ordered that Diab should stand trial after all, on charges of murder, attempted murder and destruction of property in connection with a terrorist enterprise.
French authorities stopped short of issuing a new international arrest warrant for Diab, effectively leaving it up to him to attend his trial or not.
His conviction means Diab is now again the subject of an arrest warrant, which risks stoking diplomatic tensions between La Belle France and Canada after his first extradition took six years.
[Grayzone] At least two 9/11 hijackers had been recruited into a joint CIA-Saudi intelligence operation that was covered up at the highest level, according to an explosive new court filing.
A newly-released court filing raises grave questions about the relationship between Alec Station, a CIA unit set up to track Al Qaeda chief the late Osama bin Laden ...... who is now beyond all cares and woe...... and his associates, and two 9/11 hijackers leading up to the attacks, which was subject to a coverup at the highest levels of the FBI.
Obtained by SpyTalk, the filing is a 21-page declaration by Don Canestraro, a lead investigator for the Office of Military Commissions, the legal body overseeing the cases of 9/11 defendants. It summarizes classified government discovery disclosures, and private interviews he conducted with anonymous high-ranking CIA and FBI officials. Many agents who spoke to Canestraro headed up Operation Encore, the Bureau’s aborted, long-running probe into Saudi government connections to the 9/11 attack.
Despite conducting multiple lengthy interviews with a range of witnesses, producing hundreds of pages of evidence, formally investigating several Saudi officials, and launching a grand jury to probe a Riyadh-run US-based support network for the hijackers, Encore was abruptly terminated in 2016. This was purportedly due to a byzantine intra-FBI bust-up over investigative methods.
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Mark Rossini, one of the FBI agents in question, has alleged. “If we had picked up the phone and called the Bureau, I would’ve been violating the law. I…would’ve been removed from the building that day. I would’ve had my clearances suspended, and I would be gone.”
Survivors guilt. He knew what was taking place regarding the Agency agent recruitment. Telephonic notification was 'one' method, there were others. His clearance and job were more important that the lives of 3000 Americans.
Ich habe nur Befehle befolgt (I was just following orders).
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And then there was the nice Saudi passport belonging to one of the hijackers that they "found" on a NY street in perfect condition after a plane crash into an WTC office building and consequent raging inferno and building collapse.
[OneIndia] The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed a chargesheet in connection with the Coimbatore boom-mobile blast case.
An explosion had taken place near an ancient Temple in Coimbatore in October last year. A vehicle laden with an Improvised Explosive Device driven by one Jamesha Mubin had blown up in from the front of the Temple. Mubeen was killed in the blast.
The NIA's chargesheet says that Mubeen was inspired by the ideology 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... . He had also taken oath in the name of the Caliphate before he carried out the attack, an NIA official said.
The NIA also recovered a pen drive in which a video was found where Mubeen is seen declaring that he is a member of the Islamic State. He had spoken extensively about his intention to commit a suicide terror attack on the non-believers of Islam, the NIA said. He was also inspired by the sermons of Zahran Hashim, the criminal mastermind of the easter bombing that took place in Sri Lanka, the NIA said.
Further the agency also recovered hand-written notes, where Mubeen had criticised the existing democratic system. He had said that it was not in tandem with the Islamic law. He had further mentioned that he had plans of targeting government offices, district courts and public gatherings. He had also spoken of attacking local Temples and railways stations, the NIA said.
The agency that probes terror cases in India also said that the Islamic State Khorasan Province's magazine, 'Voice of Khorasan' corroborated this entire incident in an article. " A message to the inhabitants in the land occupied by cow and mice worshipping filths where the Islamic State took responsibility for the attack held in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu," read the headline of the article. The article also goes on to state that the attack was Dire Revenge to uphold the honour of their religion.
In Coimbatore blast probe, after Mosque, now forests of Islamic State in Tamil Nadu crop upIn Coimbatore blast probe, after Mosque, now forests of Islamic State in Tamil Nadu crop up
The NIA further noted that Mubeen was aided and assisted by four of his associates, who helped in arranging logistics. One of them had sourced the Maruti 800, which was used in the attack, the NIA said.
To be sure, Mubeen had failed to hit the target and the explosive went off before the incident that he had planned.
[IsraelTimes] Festival marking end of Ramadan starts for many in Israel and PA on Friday, while Shiites wait another day; Waqf says 4 million worshippers visited mosque compound over holy month.
Arab Israelis and Paleostinians joined large parts of the Moslem world in celebrating the Eid al-Fitr holiday on Friday to mark the end of the fasting month of Ramadan with tens of thousands gathering for prayers at the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.
Some 50,000 participated in pre-dawn prayers and hundreds of thousands were expected by Friday afternoon, though no figures were released by Israeli authorities. For Paleostinian Moslems, worship at the al-Aqsa Mosque — the third-holiest site in Islam — is a central part of the festival.
Israeli authorities said prayers Friday morning were largely peaceful. However, you can observe a lot just by watching... there was "still a handful of rioters who arrived to disturb and harm their fellow worshipers, to desecrate a holy place and to incite terrorism," the Foreign Ministry and police said in identical statements published with videos showing several masked youths trying to hang Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, banners from the walls, while others used ropes to scale the walls and avoid security checks.
Police said that officers entered the site briefly during prayers in order to remove a banner containing a slogan inciting violence that was hung from an arch on the compound. In the past, police waited until prayers concluded in order to remove such banners but National Security Minister reportedly scolded law enforcement for that approach earlier in the week.
Channel 12 reported that a small clash also broke out broke out at the holy site between supporters of the rival Hamas and Fatah Paleostinian movements, with screeching muppets from the latter group seeking to avenge for an incident that took place earlier in the week during which a young man waving a Fatah flag at the Temple Mount had stones and other objects thrown on him. The incident was capture on someone’s cellphone and subsequently went viral on social media.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, Butch started the buffalo stampeding...... the Waqf, the Jordanian-backed Islamic trust that administers the Al Aqsa Mosque compound on the Temple Mount announced Friday that some four million people had prayed at the site during the month of Ramadan.
The large numbers come despite accusations that Israel was restricting worship at the site and a series of festivities that sparked a surge in regional violence.
[Rudaw] Iran’s army on Friday added over 200 "strategic" domestically-made drones to its fleet during a ceremony in the capital Tehran, state media reported.
The newly-added drones "include a host of long-range drones" which are "now equipped with air-to-air and air-to-surface missiles, standoff, and smart bombs, as well as electronic warfare systems," Iran’s state IRNA news agency said, adding that such modifications will enable the drones to "accomplish special missions."
Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... started developing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, during its brutal war with Iraq in the 1980s.
The recent batch of drones are produced by Iran’s defense ministry and designed for reconnaissance and strike missions.
Last May, Iran unveiled an underground drone base in the west of the country on state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
without identifying its exact location.
In September, Tehran said it had developed a suicide drone with exclusive capabilities to strike the Israeli cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa, with the two countries being bitter rivals.
The United States on Wednesday issued new sanctions on Iran’s drone program, targeting six entities in Asia including China for supplying an Iranian company.
Combat drones were on display at a military parade in Tehran on Tuesday marking the country’s annual Army Day, attended by President Ebrahim Raisi.
Iran is accused of supplying drones that have been used by Russia to target critical infrastructure in its war against Ukraine - a charge that Tehran has repeatedly denied.
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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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...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years...
...Arabic for 
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...... who is now beyond all cares and woe......
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
