#7
If this is truly just a giant Truman Show, we are due to be canceled. This is the unimaginative dreck that writers turn out once all creative plot material has been exhausted.
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#8
My mother smoked like a chimney her entire life. She was a typist in Baltimore during early WW2 and that's where she met dad, who was a dashing US sailor at the time.
PAKISTAN COUNTER TERRORISM OPERATION IN KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA RESULTS IN SEVERAL ARRESTS – Police from Doaba launched a successful counter-terrorism operation that resulted in the arrests of 4 TTP Militants near Torawari. One of those arrested was a suspected Commander. Police recovered a treasure trove of intelligence that the group had in their possession. SIM Cards, mobile phones, remote-controlled explosives, and other arms and ammunition were confiscated. The SIM cards and mobile phone recharge cards were said to have come from Afghanistan. At least some of the four militants were known to the Police and had been involved in several kidnapping and extortion scams. The men were taken without a fight and no casualties were reported on either side.
HUNDREDS OF AFGHANS RETURN FROM PAKISTAN OVER LAST THREE DAYS – News outlets affiliated with the Taliban regime have claimed that nearly 1,000 Afghans returned to Afghanistan by way of Torkham and Spin Boldak gates. It is thought that only about 100 were deported from Pakistan and the remainder were returning home after celebrating Eid al-Adha with friends and relatives.
RUMORS THAT FORMER PRESIDENT KARZAI IS UNDER PRESSURE FROM THE TALIBAN – Insiders with access to both the Taliban and former Afghan President Karzai’s staff say the Taliban have directed the leader to refute criticisms of human rights abuses or he will be added to the travel exclusion list.
NEXT 24 HOURS
TURKISH CRACKDOWN ON AFGHAN REFUGEES POSSIBLE – Reports and video have been received of Turkish police and immigration officials visiting neighborhoods in Ankara and Istanbul where many Afghan refugees have congregated. The videos depict arrests of whole families and it is not clear what violations those taken into custody were charged with. It is too early to tell how many Afghans may have been rounded up in yesterday’s operations. It is also not clear if the program is specifically directed at Afghan refugees and whether it will expand to other areas of the country. At-risk Afghans sheltering in Turkey are advised to maintain an extraordinarily low profile until the situation becomes clearer.
[Garowe] The Somali National Army [SNA] has re-ignited crackdown against al-Shabaab ...... the personification of Somali state failure... snuffies in central Somalia, just a few months after the first phase of operations against the group was concluded in HirShabelle and Galmadug states, recording huge successes for the national army.
On Saturday, heavy fighting involving the Somali National Army and clan militia against the al-Shabaab erupted in Bardhere in Beledweyne just within the Hiiraan region amid political heat following the sacking of Governor Ali Jeyte Osman, who was instrumental in clan mobilization.
The incident, it emerged, took place at least 22 kilometers south of Beledweyne, in what seems to be a new campaign to comb the region following the successful operations a few months ago. During the first phase, the Somali government had hinted, at least 3,000 snuffies were killed and several others injured.
Regional leadership had initiated a crackdown against al-Shabaab in Tabantab and Mohammed Hassan villages with the government insisting on liberating a few villages which are still under the group. al-Shabaab has lost several territories in recent weeks.
During the crackdown, sacked Hiiraan Governor Ali Jeyte Osman, who is seeking to establish an independent state for the region, led other bigwigs on the battlefield including politicians Mohammed Abduqadir Mohammed and Mohammed Abdullahi Buralle.
Also present was the commander of the 5th battalion of the 27th division of the Somali army, Mohamud Hassan Ibrahim Baakay. The leaders have been adopting the strategy of directly getting involved in the operations to motivate troops who are working to dislodge the turbans.
At least five al-Shabaab ...... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all ofwhich have enough problems without them... bully boyz were killed in fierce fighting between a joint offensive of Somali National Army and clan militia and the Death Eater group in Hiiraan region Saturday morning.
A member of the Maawisley militia who spoke to the media said they killed five bully boyz in Bero Yabal area in Bulo Burde district in Hiiraan region.
He said the joint forces attacked a gathering of al-Shabaab in the area resulting in a heavy exchange of gunfire.
It was not immediately clear whether the Allied forces suffered casualties.
[Garowe] 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... Transition Mission in Somalia [ATMIS] has killed two al-Shabaab ...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... gunnies in an ambush in southern Somalia, recovering several sophisticated weapons in the process, as the country fights to liberate several areas from the group.
The two bad boys, officials said, were killed in Beled Amin, in an attempted ambush, which would have been rather devastating. Several weapons were recovered in the process, in what the AU forces termed a "successful response" against the bad boys.
According to the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia, the forces managed to recover two sub-machine guns, six magazines, and 130 rounds of ammunition. According to locals, the gunnies have been extorting money from them illegally.
For the last seven months, the Somali National Army [SNA], ATMIS, and the US Africa Command have been waging attacks against the bad boys, killing over 3,000 in the first phase. The first phase targeted Galmadug and HirShabelle states, with several defections also achieved.
According to President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, the second phase of operations against al-Shabaab will be focusing on Jubaland and Southwest states, where Kenya Defence Forces [KDF] and Æthiopian National Defense Forces [ENDF] taking part in the crackdown.
[AlAhram] Mali has freed at least two jihadists from the Sahel affiliate 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.... group in a prisoner exchange, a security official and two politicians told AFP on Saturday.
The Sahel country's military had in recent days released Oumeya Ould Albakaye and Dadi Ould Cheghoub, both members of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara ...he succulent fruit of the union of splinter factions from Mokhtar Bekmokhtar'sal-Mourabitunes and MUJAO. Once the dust had settled and the smell of gunsmoke had dissipated, they became the Islamic State in Mali, then adopted their present clever name. They are headed by Adnan Abu Walid Saharaoui. It operates along the borders of 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... , Niger, and Mali... (ISGS), flying them from Bamako to the Gao region in the north, the security official said.
One of the politicians, an elected official in Gao, said that at least three jihadists were brought there on a military plane from Bamako.
All three sources said the operation was part of a prisoner exchange.
A fourth person, another security official, would not go so far but said a "gesture" was made "to protect the lives of our compatriots in mortal danger". He did not provide details.
Albakaye, an explosives expert, was captured by French forces in June 2022, before La Belle France withdrew its troops last year.
A security source who asked not to be named told AFP at the time that he had once been seen as a potential successor to former ISGS leader Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi, who was killed by French forces in August 2021.
A regional chief commanding the areas of Gourma in Mali and Oudalan in neighbouring Burkina Faso, he was responsible for a large number of abuses against civilians in those countries, the military said last year.
Mali has been battling a security crisis since jihadist and separatist insurgencies broke out in the north in 2012.
Anger at the government's failure to stem the violence helped spark two coups in 2020 and 2021. The ruling junta has broken ties with traditional ally La Belle France and turned towards Russia.
[LIBYAREVIEW] The Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... Criminal Court has sentenced three defendants in a human trafficking case, according to the Attorney General’s Office.
The office said in a statement that one accused was sentenced to life imprisonment, while the other two defendants were sentenced to 20 years in prison.
The statement said that the defendants "detained and tortured illegal immigrants colonists, and forced their families to pay a ransom for their release. They practiced cruel treatment against immigrant victims, and filmed them during torture in order to force their families to pay money."
Notably, the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) has detained 15 people suspected of being members of a criminal network. They are accused of transporting Syrian nationals through Libya, and other African countries into the EU.
Spanish police said on Tuesday that the group’s alleged leader, a Syrian national, was among the detainees.
According to a statement published by Europol, it coordinated the operation with law enforcement from Germany, Norway, and La Belle France.
The agency stated that the criminal group used an "unusual and expensive route" to bring its clients to the EU, charging a fee ranging from US$7,000 to $22,000 per person.
A court in the Libyan capital sentenced three people to harsh prison terms on charges of human trafficking, in the first such ruling in a North African nation where migrants colonists are routinely mistreated.
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I guess the bride got a good tax filing status and some silver items if she keeps the same pattern. The DJ may have to alter his playlist. I recommend that she throws the bouquet high and into the wind for a good result.
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[KavkazUzel] A court in Baku sentenced Mahir Azimov, a member of the Muslim Unity movement,
...also in our archives as the unregistered Movement For Muslim Unity, in Arabic as Al Tawheed. They describe themselves as a peaceful Shiite Islamic soci-political movement calling for democratic reform and religious liberties, but it’s clear from context they mean the peace that comes from submission to Khomeini Shiism and Iran. In practice they’ve been involved in the usual murder, terrorism, organized mass riots, and attempted armed insurrection, exactly on the Khomeini model...
to four years in prison after finding him guilty in a drug case. Azimov's relatives called the case fabricated, and the sentence was persecution for being a religious activist.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that relations between Iran and Azerbaijan have escalated against the backdrop of Baku's plans to implement the Zangezur corridor project through Armenia. In October-November 2022, both countries held military exercises near the border and exchanged accusations of terrorist and sabotage activities. On January 27, the Azerbaijani embassy in Tehran was attacked, the head of the security service was killed and two guards were wounded.
[AlAhram] More than 1,000 people defied a ban and on Saturday gathered in central Gay Paree for a memorial rally, with dozens of marches planned throughout La Belle France to denounce police brutality and racial profiling.
More than 3,700 people have been taken into police custody in connection with the protests since Nahel's death, including at least 1,160 minors, according to official figures.
Seven years after the death of Adama Traore, his sister had planned to lead a commemorative march north of Gay Paree in Persan and Beaumont-sur-Oise. But with tensions running high following the riots that were sparked by the June 27 police killing of 17-year-old Nahel M. of Algerian origin at a traffic stop near Gay Paree, a court ruled the chance of public disturbance was too high to allow the march to proceed.
In a video posted on Twitter, Assa Traore, Adama's older sister, denounced the decision.
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[The Nation (Pak)] An attempt to smuggle drugs worth millions of rupees failed as a drone, carrying heroin worth millions of rupees crashed in fields of Rasoolpura village in Halloki, Kahna Town area, here on Friday.
A police front man said the police and Rangers personnel reached the drone crash site after receiving information.
Station House Officer (SHO) Abdul Wahid said a large-size drone was carrying six kilograms of heroin when it crashed into the fields due to some technical fault.
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[Shafaq News] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... 's military on Saturday said it had neutralized a senior commander in the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), known as "Zafer Akagun," who had been implicated in several transborder attacks against Turkey from the Kurdistan region of Iraq.
The Ottoman Turkish authorities use the term "neutralized" to imply that the person in question was killed, injured, or captured.
According to Anadolu Agency, Ottoman Turkish Intelligence detected a group of PKK affiliates navigating the rugged terrain of Northern Iraq in late June.
Acting on this information, the Ottoman Turkish forces sprang into action, coordinating a precision operation and successfully "neutralizing" several PKK members.
Among the neutralized operatives was a prominent figure, "Zafer Akagun", codenamed "Zana Govend". Akagun had been instrumental in organizing and launching a series of attacks against the Ottoman Turkish armed forces, all originating from the Kurdistan region.
[Shafaq News] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... 's warplanes reportedly bombed sites of the anti-Ankara Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Duhok's northern district of Amadiyah on Saturday.
A source told Shafaq News Agency that the Ottoman Turkish airforces carried out a series of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on Mount Kurzar which overlooks the sub-district of Sheladze, near the Ottoman Turkish borders.
Eyewitnesses said that the vicinity of the Kavalka village in the north of Aqra was also hit by the Ottoman Turkish bombardment.
In the 2022 election, 6.7 million Israelis were eligible to vote and 4.8 million (71%) actually did. If 200,000 were protesting the judicial overhaul, that is about 4% of all voters, about as much as all the shrinking Socialist parties combined. Much like the equally “spontaneous” pussy marches after Hillary Clinton lost in 2016, in fact.
[IsraelTimes] 140K in Tel Aviv; all-night demo at Gallant’s home; Yuval Noah Harari: ’If you pass a single bill, we’ll oppose you with every non-violent mostly peaceful means we have’; doctors warn of strikes
Demonstrations were being held throughout Israel Saturday night for a 27th straight weekend against the government’s judicial shakeup plans and with temperatures rising in the national conflict over the effort to curb the powers of the justice system.
Crowd assessment company Crowd Solutions told Channel 13 it estimated that over 140,000 people were demonstrating in Tel Aviv, and tens of thousands more in other locations, based on aerial footage. Organizers claimed the total Tel Aviv numbers were closer to 180,000.
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Search and search and nothing is found on who is running Brothers in Arms and who is financing it. The Israeli media, which is almost totally Left seems incurious. Is it possible that it is the reemergence of an earlier Marxist movement? Who knows?
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That’s always a good question, Tarzan Grolump8219. I imagine that a deep search of the people named will find them connected to Movement for Quality Government in Israel — the renamed V15 (Victory in 2015) group that had aimed at unseating Bibi Netanyahu in the 2015, guided and financed to the tune of millions of dollars by the US State Department that is once again getting getting State monies and support — Antifa/Black Bloc, and the Israeli branch of the Washington, DC-based OneVoice Movement founded by pro-Israel Progressive multi-billionaire Daniel Lubetzky (the Kind company) in 2002 as an international “grassroots” front of his PeaceWorks Foundation to drive Israel to fulfill his vision for the region without him bothering to become a citizen.
[Shafaq News] The gang known as Jaish al-Adl, or the Army of Justice, has grabbed credit for the attack this morning in Zahedan, Iran, resulting in the deaths of two Iranian Internal Security Forces members.
The group stated that the attack was carried out in retaliation for the liquidation of all its attackers.
In response to the incident, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard issued a statement confirming that a "terrorist team consisting of four individuals attempted to storm Police Station No. 16 in Zahedan," located in the Sunni Musalla prayer hall.
The statement from the Revolutionary Guard commended the heroic resistance of the coppers, who successfully thwarted the blind terrorist act by eliminating all the attackers.
The public prosecutor of Zahedan verified the deaths of two members of the internal security forces during the clash with the button men. He assured the public that the situation is currently under the control of the security forces and law enforcement agencies.
Jaish al-Adl, also known as the Army of Justice, is a Salafi Islamist Death Eater organization primarily operating in southeastern Iran, with a significant concentration of Sunni Baluchis and a mostly non-existent border with Pakistain.
The group was established in 2012 by former members of Jundallah ..."Soldiers of God," a name used by two multiple separate terror outfits, one active in Iran and the other in Pakistain. Both are Sunni organizations that target Shiites. The Pak version has close relations with al-Qaeda and the Pak Talibs and is probably a false nose and mustache for Lashkar-e-Jhangvi... , a Sunni turban Death Eater group.
Jaish al-Adl is responsible for several attacks against civilians and military personnel in 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... and claims to be a separatist group fighting for the independence of Sistan and Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... Province and advocating for greater rights for the Baluch people.
Iran believes that the group is connected to al-Qaeda and maintains ties with Ansar al-Furqan,
...it’s been a thorn in the Iranian side for the past quarter century...
another Iranian Baloch Sunni gang operating within Iran.
In February 2019, Jaish al-Adl grabbed credit for a suicide kaboom that killed 27 troops in Iran's restive southeast.
In October 2022, the group declared in a video that taking up arms against the Iranian regime is permissible and that it is preparing to launch further attacks.
A group of the HTS’ General Security Apparatus assaulted a woman after she tried to prevent them from arresting her two sons in the town of al-Atarib, west of #Aleppo.https://t.co/C8GrEq5oJv
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A young man was killed after being tortured by an armed group affiliated with government forces in northern Daraa, while another man was killed after being shot by unknown gunmen in eastern #Daraa.https://t.co/UUvFNDCyJg
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[JPost] The men had said during their trial that they had been in contact with the Islamic State in neighboring Afghanistan and helped organize the attack on the Shah Cheragh shrine
...also in our archives as Shah Cherakh...
Iran executed two men
...named in our archives as Mohammad Ramiz Rashidi and Sayed Naiem Hashem Qattali from Afghanistan...
on Saturday over an attack on a Shi'ite shrine that killed at least 13 people in October and was claimed by the militant group Islamic State, Iranian state media reported on Saturday.
The two were hanged at dawn in the southern city of Shiraz, the official news agency IRNA reported.
The men had said during their trial that they had been in contact with the Islamic State in neighboring Afghanistan and helped organize the attack on the Shah Cheragh shrine in Shiraz, according to Iranian media reports.
THE ATTACK ON SHAH CHERAGH
CCTV footage broadcast on state TV showed an attacker entering the popular shrine after hiding an assault rifle in a bag and shooting as worshippers tried to flee and hide in corridors.
The gunman, identified as a citizen of Tajikistan, later died in a hospital from injuries sustained during the attack. Officials initially said 15 had been killed in the attack, but later revised the figure to 13.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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...... the personification of Somali state failure...
...... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all ofwhich have enough problems without them...
...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
...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 
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
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...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 
[JPost] The men had said during their trial that they had been in contact with the Islamic State in neighboring Afghanistan and helped organize the attack on the Shah Cheragh shrine
