[EpochTimes] The Republican governors of South Dakota and Iowa said in recent announcements they will be sending law enforcement personnel to the U.S.—Mexico border. It comes after the governors of Texas and Arizona asked all other states to help with the ongoing border crisis by providing additional manpower.
South Dakota and Iowa now join Florida, Nebraska, and Idaho in committing to send law enforcement to the southern border to help Texas and Arizona.
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem said late Monday that 50 South Dakota National Guard troops will be sent to the southern border.
"Tomorrow morning I’m officially announcing up to 50 National Guard troops to Texas to help secure our border," Noem announced on Twitter. "The Biden administration, the same old faces in slightly different places, the same old ideas, the same old graft
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[ToloNews] As intense fighting continues in the country, Afghan authorities on Tuesday said that over 6,000 Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... fighters, including Pak nationals, have been killed in fighting with the Afghan National Security and Defense Forces (ANDSF) over the past one month.
Ajmal Omar Shinwari, a front man for Afghan forces, on Tuesday said that another 3,400 Taliban fighters were maimed during this period. He said that the Afghan Chief of Army Staff is currently working on a plan that the government forces will use to recapture the territory lost to the Taliban.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, Butch clutched at his other leg...... the commander of the Special Operations Corps said the unit's activity has increased by 30 percent following the official start of the withdrawal of foreign forces from the country two months ago.
According to the Afghan government, over the past one month, 6,033 Taliban fighters were killed--among them 33 Pak nationals--and 3,485 Taliban fighters were maimed--among them 9 Pak nationals.
The Afghan government said the role of the Afghan Air Force (AAF) has been crucial in inflicting a major human toll on the Taliban during this period.
The Taliban, however, has rejected the claims by the Afghan government.
"Our entire force is staying in an emergency position, particularly the commandos and special operation forces," said Ajmal Omar Shinwari, a front man for the ANDSF.
"In the planning and technical fields we confronted some challenges," added Shinwari.
Afghan security officials said that during the past one month, the ANDSF air force carried out 491 attacks on Taliban positions.
"The Afghan Air Force conducted 491 Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in the past one month, in which they targeted Taliban gatherings in Faryab, Baghlan, Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... , Maidan Wardak, 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.. and Laghman ...Afghan province with a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.
After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men... provinces," said Rohullah Ahmadzai, a front man for the Afghan Ministry of Defense.
The Afghan Air Force currently has 160 aircraft, 20 of which are Russian-made.
50 are Black Hawk helicopters, four are C130s, and 26 are Mi-17 helicopters.
"In the past, the need for airstrikes was around 20 to 30 percent, but in the past two months the percentage has increased to 70 to 80 percent," said Abdul Fatah Eshaqzai, a commander of the Afghan Air Force.
The Afghan government has said that the US has pledged the delivery of another 45 helicopters and 7 e-29 helicopters to the Afghan army.
[BenarNews] Five years after holy warriors massacred 20 diners at an upscale café in Dhaka, Bangladesh law enforcers say they have succeeded in controlling terrorist activity nationwide, although online extremism remains a concern.
At least 85 suspected Death Eaters have been killed and nearly 2,500 arrested during as many as 1,060 law enforcement raids carried out since the attack, authorities have said.
Since the July 2016 attack on the Holey Artisan Bakery, the country’s drive to smash violent mostly peaceful extremism has led to hundreds of people being thrown behind bars and an increase in cyberspace monitoring, which has raised concerns about potential infringement on human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. and privacy.
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Poof, no more narco gangs.Posted by: Jiggs Trotsky5854 2021-06-30 01:41
...Wish it was that easy. I would direct your attention to California, where the legal weed program has been so well run that the state is trying to bail them out.
The problem with legal weed is that since governments gotta govern, they also gotta regulate and tax - which means that the illegal operations, unburdened by such minor concerns, will always have a price advantage.
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similar situation in Colorado
regulation has made legal pot more expensive than the illegal kind;
a big problem with private sale of marijuana is that even the regulated kind has dozens of chemicals with not well researched properties; smoking it adds dozens more chemicals
all this while the legal sale of cannabinol, a.k.a., CBD has increased from 500M in 2018 to projected 1.6 B in 2022
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The question was posited how many of those wildfires were started at illegal MJ farms?
This was all pretty well gamed before the first store opened. Part of it, is suddenly there was a lot of cover for 'doing it on your own' because normal.
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I still buy my weed illegally in Ga.. But it all comes from Cali. Cheaper buying here illegally than it is legally in Colorado.The taxes are extremely high.
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[DW] It is still unclear why Abdirahman J., a 24-year-old Somali man, fatally stabbed three women in the city of Wurzburg. DW's Johanna Rudiger first met him in 2018, when he and a friend had been attacked by thugs in eastern Germany.
The eastern German city of Chemnitz was a tinderbox in late August and early September of 2018.
News of a German-Cuban man being killed by asylum seekers from Iraq and Syria triggered anti-migration protests from the right-wing scene. These spilled over into riots, and also spawned counter-demonstrations.
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In which emigrants who never intended to return home anyway talk about how now that things have changed back home they’ll never move back.
[DW] Afghan immigrants colonists living in the German city of Hamburg are wary of the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan. They told DW that the Taliban gains have dashed their hopes of returning to their country one day.
Hamburg is home to a large community of Afghan immigrants colonists. The city's Steindamm street, which is nicknamed "small Kabul," is full of shops and restaurants owned by Afghans.
The Kabul Restaurant is usually crowded on the weekend. Many Germans and Afghans come here to enjoy authentic Afghan food. Paintings of famous places in Afghanistan remind the immigrants colonists of their home country.
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[OneIndia] The initial probe into the drone attack at the Indian Air Force station in Jammu on Sunday has indicated that the Lashkar-e-Tayiba had a hand in it. The probe also by the investigative and Intelligence agencies also found the use of highly sophisticated RDX and this is a clear indicator of the Pakistain state actors have a role to play in it.
Two bombs weighing over 2 kilograms each were dropped from a height of 150 meters and were activated by impact charge. It is however unclear where the drone could have originated from, but the initial findings on Monday found that it could have been from the Indian side itself. The agencies also do not rule out the possibility of the the drone emerging from the Pakistain side close to the border.
It has been learnt that the attack was aimed at targeting the Air Traffic Control. Two explosions were reported on Sunday. While one targeted the ATC, the other was aimed at hitting an IAF chopper.
Sources tell OneIndia that the explosive was meant to land on a chopper, but it missed the target.
The suspected drones used in Sunday's attack dropped an explosive on the roof of a building at the station. Another explosive meant to target an aircraft missed the target and went kaboom! in an open area, the source cited above said.
[OneIndia] DGP Loknath Behra earlier this week said that faceless myrmidons have chosen Kerala as their recruitment base. They target highly educated youths in the state to accomplish their agendas across the world, he also said in an interview with a news channel. He further added that faceless myrmidons recruit educated youth from Kerala and use their for unlawful activities.
This has been the trend in Kerala for several years now. It has become a happy recruitment ground for various terror groups, most recently 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.... . The modus operandi is radicalise, recruit, but do not attack. The recruited faceless myrmidons are sent across the country, where they either carry out attacks or continue recruiting more youth.
While Kerala has been termed as the state with the highest literacy rate, the fact is that the recruits are highly educated as well. It has been described as a ticking time bomb, thanks to problem of radicalisation and the very fact that the maximum number of cases of people leaving for the Islamic State have been reported from this state.
Several experts and security officials tell OneIndia that when it comes to Kerala, the key concern remains radicalisation. The state is a ticking time bomb and can explode if ignored. For now, the faceless myrmidons have chosen not to carry out major strikes in the state. However there have been several instances of illegal immigrants colonists from Bangladesh who have joined the terror ranks taking refuge in the state.
NIA officials probing the Kerala ISIS case say that the prime concern is that all those who have left for the ISIS in Afghanistan are educated. The officer says that a person by the name Shihas had played a major role in building up the module. He had managed to rope in several persons including one Nashidhul, who was initially opposed to the ideology of the ISIS.
During investigations, the NIA learnt that the brainwashing was so strong that many who did not subscribe to the view of the outfit ended up getting convinced. They are repeatedly told that as Moslems they are living on unholy land and they could lead a better life and become good Moslems only if they subscribe to the view of the ISIS.
[IsraelTimes] As Israel seeks to link post-war rebuilding in the Strip with prisoner swap, Biden administration (aka the Wilmington comorra) ...knaves, footpads, and adjusters employed by the Biden Crime Family. They leave a trail of havoc everywhere they turn their attention, be it the nation's borders, the Keystone XL Pipeline, or epidemics, sometimes on purpose, most times through sheer arrogant ineptitude. They learnt this stuff in college, you know... concerned demand will derail Cairo negotiations aimed at maintaining ceasefire.
The Biden administration opposes Israel’s desire to condition post-war reconstruction projects in Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... on the return of the bodies of the fallen IDF soldiers held by Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, two Western diplomats told The Times of Israel Monday.
In the past, Jerusalem had agreed to hold a separate series of indirect talks with Hamas — one for a prisoner exchange, and another for Gaza reconstruction and securing a long-term truce.
However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is intent on combining the two issues, with an Israeli official telling The Times of Israel that the new government won’t enable long-term rehabilitation projects as long as Hamas refuses to return the bodies of IDF soldiers Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul.
The bodies of the two Israeli servicemen have been held since the previous Gaza war in 2014. Two Israeli civilians, Abera Menginstu and Hisham al-Sayed, are also being held in the Hamas-run enclave after entering Gaza on their own accord. Their families say they suffer from mental illness.
"All plans to rehabilitate Gaza must include bringing back our boys," Israel’s Ambassador to the US and UN Gilad Erdan said Sunday at an event with American Jewish leaders.
An Israeli security delegation passed along this message last week during the first round of indirect talks held in Cairo since Bennett’s government was sworn in on June 13, according to a Western diplomat familiar with the matter.
But for Egyptian mediators well-versed in Hamas’s position, "this was a non-starter," a diplomat familiar with the negotiations said.
Hamas believes it can receive far more than humanitarian gestures in exchange for the bodies and civilians it currently holds, the diplomat said, following the 2011 prisoner swap for captive IDF soldier Gilad Shalit. That exchange saw former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu agree to release over 1,000 Paleostinian security prisoners.
The hardened position of the new Israeli government is also opposed by the Biden administration, which is concerned that a breakdown of talks will lead to renewed violence — something the US wants to avoid in order to focus on other foreign policy issues, a Western diplomat said.
[IsraelTimes] Two terror group heads said to have discussed recent fighting between Israel and Gazoo-based terror groups.
Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... and Hezbollah leader His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
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[IsraelTimes] A former Iranian minister who served as an adviser to outgoing president Hassan Rouhani ...Iran's moderate president, which he is, relative to his predecessor, which doesn't mean he's anything but a puppet of the nearest holy man... says bigwigs in Tehran should be fearing for their lives due to the "infiltration" of Israel’s Mossad spy agency, according to the London-based Persian-language Manoto news site.
That would, indeed, be sensible, especially given all the spy squirrels flooding the landscape.
According to the report, former minister of intelligence Ali Younesi has said: "Authorities of the Islamic Theocratic Republic should be concerned about their lives; the Mossad has infiltrated various parts of the country."
[AllAfrica] Today, the United States is designating Ousmane Illiassou Djibo - also known as Petit Chapori - as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) under section 1(a)(ii)(B) of Executive Order (E.O.) 13224.
As a result of this designation, U.S. persons are generally prohibited from engaging in any transactions with Djibo. His property and interests in property subject to U.S. jurisdiction are blocked.
Ousmane Illiassou Djibo, a native Nigerien, is an 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.... of Iraq and Syria in the Greater Sahara (ISIS-GS) leader operating in the Menaka Region of Mali. Djibo is a close collaborator and key lieutenant of ISIS-GS leader, Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi. Djibo directed subordinate ISIS-GS members to develop a network to kidnap or attack westerners in Niger and surrounding areas. Djibo has also taken part in numerous assaults on local forces. He led ISIS-GS fighters in the July 1, 2019 attack on the Nigerien Armed Forces (FAN) base in Inates, Tillaberi Region, Niger, and also provided the order for ISIS-GS fighters to take six Nigerien soldiers hostage during an ambush on Nigerien soldiers near Tongo Tongo on May 14, 2019.
ISIS-GS, which was designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) and SDGT in May 2018, continues to threaten the peace, security, and stability of Mali, Niger, and 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... . ISIS-GS emerged when Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi and his followers split from al-Mourabitoun, an al-Qa'ida splinter group and U.S.-designated FTO and SDGT. al-Sahrawi first pledged allegiance to ISIS in May 2015, and ISIS acknowledged the pledge in October 2016.
Today's designation notifies the U.S. public and the international community that Ousmane Illiassou Djibo is a leader of a terrorist organization. Terrorist designations expose and isolate entities and individuals, and limit their access to the U.S. financial system. Moreover, designations can assist the law enforcement activities of U.S. agencies and other governments.
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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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