CRIME STATISTICS CLIMB IN URBAN AREAS – Even some pro-Taliban organizations are complaining about a surge in crime across many cities in Afghanistan. The most common complaint is robbery and many residents claim the criminal acts are now taking place in broad daylight. Many urban leaders are urging the Taliban police and military to crack down on crime.
A FORMER GENERAL ARRESTED IN KABUL – General Mohammad Ibrahim Jahadyar, a former senior leader under the previous regime was arrested by the Taliban on Sunday. The General was arrested in front of his family and no charges were presented to his family. His current whereabouts are unknown.
TALIBAN DISPERSE PLANNED WOMEN’S MARCH IN KABUL – Several women had planned to demonstrate on Monday and had assembled at the Shahr-e Naw Park in downtown Kabul. The women had brought documentation showing their qualifications and had prepared several banners and posters. The Taliban security detail destroyed the materials (including the diplomas and certificates) and dispersed the crowd before they could begin their protest. It is not clear if any violence or arrests took place.
TALIBAN SECURITY PATROL FLIPS AND KILLS 2 – A routine Taliban security patrol overturned in the Shindand District of Herat Province. 2 Taliban fighters were killed and 10 others were injured. 3 of the injured were not expected to live.
INTNL CRIMINAL COURT REOPENS INVESTIGATIONS – A panel of judges announced they had approved a request by the International Criminal Court to proceed with investigations of possible war crimes and/or human rights abuses in Afghanistan. Investigations had been put on hold while the court determined if the Taliban would carry out effective and transparent domestic investigations. Sources within the Palace claimed the news was most unwelcome by the senior leadership of the Taliban. One source said the Taliban would request advice from Iran on how to minimize any potential negative fallout from the investigation. All sources said the announcement was communicated directly to Kandahar immediately upon receipt.
CONFLICT TRACKER Zabul: The ALF claimed to have killed 2 Taliban members in an early evening attack on the Intelligence Directorate in Qalat on Saturday. In a letter posted ti their social media site, the ALF said the killings were in response to Taliban atrocities carried out against former Afghan military personnel. An explosion was reported on social media in Qalat city at the approximate time the ALF said the attack occurred. Takhar: An NRF squad conducted a raid against a Taliban checkpoint on the outskirts of Takhar city. The assault included RPG rockets and small arms. 1 Talib was confirmed to have been killed and 3 others are thought to have been wounded. Jawzjan: Taliban forces were said ti have attqcked Resistance forces encamped near Sheberghan. According to a local eyewitness, the assault failed and casualties looked heavy.
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AFGHAN ROUNDUP IN PAKISTAN – We are waiting to verify the reports coming out of Sindh Province where 100s of people were said to have been rounded up by police and are being held. Those caught in the police action were said to be in Pakistan illegally and did not possess passports. At-risk Afghans sheltering in Pakistan are encouraged to travel with their documents in their possession.
[Garowe] Somalia's military court has executed three al-Shabaab ...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... hitmen in the latest move which comes just a day after the bandidossnuffies raided downtown Mogadishu, killing over 100 people while injuring scores, in an attack that has been widely condemned globally.
The three al-Shabaab hitmen were convicted of attacking and killing 15 innocent civilians between 2018 and 2020, and their appeals were rejected by the same court. Usually, the military court gives room for appeals to the convicts as enshrined in international human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... law.
Reports indicate that the convicts were executed by the Somali National Army firing squad early on Monday in Mogadishu, the latest series of executions carried out by the government against krazed killers. Hardcore criminals in the country are usually tried and executed by the military court.
Somalia does not have a robust justice system due to decades of civil war, insecurity, and internal wrangles within the government, making it difficult for justice to be delivered. The international community has been calling for reforms in the fragile and delicate justice system in the country.
Those executed were Hassan Ali Moallim Barre who was convicted for detonating a boom-mobile in the Wadajir market in November 2018 which killed 12. Nur Ibrahim Mahad-Alle was found guilty of delivering an IED that killed Mahaas deputy mayor in 2019 and Isak Keerow Adan, a grenade thrower for killing two in Suuq Ba’ad and Weydow in 2020.
Their execution comes at the time the government has heightened operations against al-Shabaab across the country with the help of 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], the US Africa Command, and the local militia. The operation has left over 300 bandidossnuffies dead.
In return, the group which is located in interval feuds has been carrying out sporadic attacks in the country, targeting security officials, government officers, and innocent civilians. On Saturday, the group carried out the worst attack in as many months which left over 107 dead and scores injured.
Somalia is striving to defeat the bandidossnuffies who control large swathes of rural central and southern Somalia, and stakeholders have lauded President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud for his strategy to defeat the group. The president has warned locals against parting with money to al-Shabaab extortionists.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS] A local official loyal to the Saudi-led coalition survived an liquidation attempt in the areas under the control of the Islah Party in the center of Taiz city, southwest 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... Local sources reported that the director of the transportation office in the pro-coalition government in Taiz, Aref Abdullah Ahmed Numan, was shot by an unknown armed gang while he was driving his car, causing a number of casualties, without mentioning a final statistic of the accident.
The sources confirmed that the button men looted Numan’s car and took it to an unknown destination, while the maimed were taken to a hospital.
Numan was kidnapped by an armed gang in mid-February from the center of Taiz and taken to an unknown destination.
[BenarNews] Bangladesh police captured dozens of suspects after launching a crackdown in Cox’s Bazar refugee camps this weekend against armed criminal groups linked to a wave of killings targeting Rohingya, officials said Monday.
Lawlessness by armed Rohingya groups has increased in the sprawling camps amid recent unrest across the border in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, law enforcers and refugee community leaders said, with one police official even saying that Rohingya Death Eaters were using the camps as a safe haven.
At least five dozen suspects — all of them Rohingya — have been arrested since authorities began "Operation Root Out" on Friday, an official with the Armed Police Battalion (APBn) confirmed to BenarNews.
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Reports of mass arrests of Afghan citizens living illegally in Pakistan’s Sindh Province were received. Pakistani police apparently conducted a roundup of Afghan nationals who did not possess passports and are holding them in an undisclosed location.
Police were filmed beating journalists covering the Long March in Kamoke.
2 Pakistani Army soldiers were killed in a clash with Baloch separatists. 4 militants were also reportedly killed in the clash.
Pakistan Long March Day 4 – After a pause to honor a reporter who had been killed by an overturned shipping container, the march paused for the night near Punjab Sadhoke. Simultaneously, a convoy of supporters gathered at the Toll Plaza near Karachi and began moving North to join Khan’s marchers in Islamabad. Videos surfaced of Pakistani Police beating journalists with canes near Kamoke. It was unclear what the journalists had done to provoke the punishments but no serious injuries were reported from the fracas.
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PAKISTAN LONG MARCH DAY 5 – Former Prime Minister Khan plans to restart the Long March on Tuesday at 11 AM local time from Gujranwala. Based on reports of violence over the previous twenty-four hours, it is probable that more clashes between police, media and the marchers will occur and may intensify the closer the protest moves to Islamabad. At-risk Afghans are urged to continue monitoring the situation closely.
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[Shafaq News] On Monday, a joint force of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) and National Security forces foiled an ISIS attempt to target the Yathrib district of the Saladin governorate.
A PMF statement explained that the joint force seized two boom belts the hard boyz attempted to use against people in the Shehabi area, south of Samarra.
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[Shafaq News] Iraq's Counter-Terrorism Agency has apprehended a senior ISIS commander in Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... a spokesperson to the Commander-in-Chief of the Iraqi Armed Forces, Major-General Yehya Rasool, said on Monday.
The arrestee, Abu Hamza al-Mitwity, is a security commander in the so-called Wilayat of Kirkuk and a commander of the Raid team of al-Furqan force in Nineveh.
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[Shafaq News] ISIS faceless myrmidons have lost crucial supply routes in the aftermath of the redeployment the Iraqi forces underwent near al-Udhaim river, a local official said on Monday.
The administrator of al-Udhaim district told Shafaq News Agency, "ISIS members are no longer able to cross al-Udhaim river using boats. The redeployment of the Iraqi military units and al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces-PMF) at the borders of Saladin and near the under-construction bridge has made it harder for them to commute."
"Not a single security breach has been reported in the past few months," he continued, "the higher authorities are paying heed to the security gaps between Saladin and Diyala to put an end to the nocturnal attacks against the residential areas and security forces."
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[IsraelTimes] Two Paleostinian suspects detained by police after chase near northern Jordan Valley village.
Israeli security forces arrested two Paleostinian men suspected of smuggling weapons into the West Bank from Jordan on Monday morning, confiscating 25 handguns in the process, the military and police said.
According to the Israel Defense Forces and Israel Police, troops and officers spotted a suspicious man near the border in northern Jordan Valley, before he took off in a vehicle.
Following a chase by police near the Paleostinian village of Bardala, the car was stopped, and the man was arrested along with another man suspected of aiding the smuggling attempt. Two bags containing 25 handguns were found in the vehicle, police said.
Police said the pair, both West Bank Paleostinians, would appear in court Tuesday for a remand hearing.
In August, the IDF said there had been a "significant rise" in attempts to smuggle weapons into Israel and the West Bank from Jordan, counting more than 300 guns seized since the beginning of the year. In 2020 and 2021 combined, 300 firearms were seized along the eastern frontier, the IDF said.
Law enforcement officials have indicated guns smuggled in from Jordan are often sold to Arab Israelis and West Bank Paleostinians, for both criminal and terrorist purposes.
The military and police have stepped up efforts to halt smuggling attempts along the Jordanian border over the past year.
Unlike Israel’s other frontiers — with Egypt, Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady days of human sacrifice to Baal Moloch... and Syria — its border with Jordan is largely open, often without significant fencing, and is relatively unguarded, making it an easy channel for large-scale smuggling.
Authorities have increasingly sought to crack down on the spread of illegal weapons in the Arab Israeli community, which have been used to carry out a record-breaking number of murders in recent years.
According to the Abraham Initiatives, a group lobbying against violence in the Arab community, last year 125 Arabs were killed in Israel in community violence — an all-time record. Since the beginning of 2022, another 95 have been killed in incidents of violence.
[IsraelTimes] Suspect accused of providing ’support’ did not enter the Shah Cheragh mausoleum, where gun attack took place, and his alleged role is unclear
Iran ...They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... announced Monday that a suspected accomplice of the shooter who carried out a deadly attack on a Shiite Moslem shrine in Shiraz has been arrested, state news agency IRNA reported.
At least 13 people were killed Wednesday in the Shah Cheragh mausoleum in the southern city, according to a revised official toll, in an attack claimed by 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.
State media had initially given a corpse count of 15.
"The second person involved in the terrorist operation at the sacred sanctuary, who provided support, has been arrested," said local deputy governor Esmail Mohebipour, quoted by IRNA.
The suspect, arrested Sunday evening in Shiraz, had not entered the shrine, and his alleged role was not clear.
The perpetrator of the attack in Shiraz, identified by local media as Hamed Badakhshan, died of wounds sustained while he was being arrested, a local official said Saturday.
The shooting at the shrine came on the same day that thousands of people across Iran paid tribute to Mahsa Amini, 40 days after her death in police custody.
Amini, 22, died on September 16, three days after her arrest by the morality police in Tehran for allegedly breaching the country’s Islamic dress code for women.
Remarks made Thursday by President Ebrahim Raisi appeared to link the Shiraz attack, one of the country’s deadliest in years, with the protests and "riots" following Amini’s death.
In funeral processions for victims in Shiraz on Saturday, crowds rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud condemning the United States, Israel and Britannia for allegedly being "behind the riots".
During the mourning ceremony, Major General Hossein Salami, head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, urged the "limited number of youths deceived" by Iran’s enemies to put an end to the unrest.
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[IsraelTimes] Revolutionary Guards board foreign flagged vessel; official says captain and crew taken into custody, incident being investigated
A foreign-flagged oil tanker was seized by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in the Persian Gulf on Monday, with officials saying it was smuggling millions of liters of fuel, local media reported.
Chief Justice of Hormozgan Province Mojtaba Ghahremani said IRGC forces boarded the vessel and discovered it was carrying 11 million liters of oil.
The captain and crew were taken into custody while the incident is being investigated, Ghahremani said.
He did not identify the name of the ship or under which country’s flag it was sailing.
Iran’s naval forces have recently stopped a number of vessels smuggling oil in Gulf sea lanes, according to Iranian reports. The Persian Gulf is a major conduit for shipping the world’s oil.
Iran ...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979... is trying to stop widespread smuggling of oil and fuel by land and sea to Gulf states, Rooters reported. The smuggling has come as Iran’s currency has plunged under the pressure of US sanctions imposed after the collapse of Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.
Under the Trump administration, the US in 2018 pulled out of the so-called Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, which granted Iran relief from sanction in return for curbs on its nuclear program intended to prevent it producing a weapon.
The US reimposed stiff sanctions and Iran responded by dropping many of its own commitments to the pact. European-sponsored talks to revive the deal have failed to reach an agreement.
Iran’s currency, the rial, has since plummeted in value to all-time lows.
In a separate incident earlier this month, Iran’s foreign ministry said the crew of one of two Greek oil tankers seized by Iranian armed forces in May had been replaced by their company.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps seized the ships in the Gulf days after Greece said it would deliver Iranian oil it had taken from a Russian tanker to the United States.
The Russian ship, the Pegas, were tossed into the calaboose by Greece at the request of the United States, which has imposed crippling sanctions on Iran, particularly on its oil exports.
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[An Nahar] A rights group accused Syrian government forces Monday of burning bodies inside pits in an effort to make the corpses unidentifiable -- the latest in a slew of accusations of crimes by Damascus.
"This may reflect a broader practice of the Syrian government to destroy evidence of their crimes and deny the families of their victims their right to know the fates of their loved ones or receive their remains," the Washington-based Syrian Center for Justice and Accountability said in a report.
Since the start of Syria's civil in 2011 that began with the regime's brutal repression of mostly peaceful protesters, Syrian authorities have been accused of torturing detainees to death, of rape, sexual assaults and extrajudicial executions.
The NGO analyzed videos dating back to 2012 and 2013 that showed bodies burnt and transferred into mass graves in the southern province of Daraa, and crosschecked them with satellite imagery monitoring the trucks transporting the bodies.
Four videos show gunnies transporting at least 15 bodies. They documented their identities, dumped them in a pit, then poured gasoline and set them on fire.
In one of the video clips, an officer is seen photographing the faces of the dead before another one poured gasoline on the face and hands, before kicking a body into a pit and setting it on fire.
"This process is repeated for every single body in the exact same order, indicating the systematic nature of the practice and suggesting that this may not be the only time this group of officials has carried out such an operation," the NGO said.
The NGO believes that the 15 bodies belong to civilians and army defectors rubbed out by regime forces during a house raid in Daraa in December 2012.
The Centre obtained the video clips from an activist who said that he received them from an opposition group who ambushed and killed the soldiers who burned the bodies.
Reports published in The Guardian and New Lines Magazine emerged in April, revealing that regime forces allegedly killed dozens of people in the Damascus suburb of al-Tadamon in 2013.
The Guardian report included footage of a Syrian soldier appearing to order blindfolded civilians with their hands tied to run.
As soon as they bolted, soldiers appeared to riddle their bodies with bullets and they fell into a pit. Forty-one men were killed and their bodies later set on fire.
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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
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