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She often had it written into her contracts that profile shots could only be done from he Left side. She thought that the Right side of her face was ugly.
In the rare scenes which were shot from the Right I never noticed any difference.
[GEO.TV] A key border crossing between Pakistain and Afghanistan remained closed for the fifth consecutive day due to unknown reasons despite various rounds of talks and the Afghan Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... 's agreement to reopen it, The News reported Friday.
Taliban authorities closed Torkham, the main point of transit for travellers and goods between Pakistain and landlocked Afghanistan.
The Afghan border security forces also opened fire and injured a Pak soldier at the Ayub checkpoint, located at the hilltop near the border.
A large number of passengers moved to Torkham from Pakistain and Afghanistan after they heard about the reopening of the border crossing. Long queues of passengers were seen on both sides of the border waiting outside the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) and customs offices to get their travel documents cleared but they were not allowed to proceed to their destinations after the hours-long wait.
An official, on the condition of anonymity, said that the pressure of passengers and loaded trucks had gradually increased in the past week. He said they were looking to high-ups to formally notify them of the reopening of the border.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, bullets whapped! around Butch as he tried to tie his scarf around his shoulder as a tourniquet...... members of the Tanzeem-e-Naujawanan Qabail arranged cooked food for passengers who had been stranded in Landikotal and Torkham due to the closure of the border. Most of the Afghan citizens were children and women.
Nazia Gul, 45, told The News that she had come to Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire... from 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.. with her son and husband some two weeks ago. She said her son Hasrat, 10, was sick and they had admitted him to a hospital in Peshawar.
The woman said they had been waiting for four days with her ailing son and husband in Landikotal. She urged Pakistain to allow them to return to their native country as soon as possible. Several Afghan families travelled to the Torkham border but returned to Peshawar and Landikotal to stay safe due to the cold weather at Torkham.
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[ShabelleMedia] The United States has reported conducting a new Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... against al-Shabaab ...... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa... in Somalia on Tuesday, killing seven murderous Moslems.
In a statement, the U.S. military’s Africa Command [AFRICOM] said it carried out a "collective self-defense" strike against al-Shabaab following a request from the Somali government.
The strike occurred in a remote area near Galmudug ...a semiautonomous region in central Somalia, bordering Puntland on the north. Galmudug is not trying to obtain international recognition as a separate nation, but rather considers itself autonomous within the larger Somali federalism, for what that's worth... , Somalia which is approximately 510 km northeast of Mogadishu, in support of Somali National Army engagements against al-Shabaab, AFRICOM said.
"Given the remote location of the operation, the initial assessment is that no civilians were maimed or killed," the statement said.
It will be the 6th bombing in 2023 carried out by the United States in Somalia.
Since January 20, the U.S. conducted several "collective self-defense" strikes against al-Shabaab near the town of Galcad in Galmudug, killing dozens of murderous Moslems.
Despite the operations, al-Shabaab has been conducting raids and complex attacks against Somali military camps and government installations in the capital, Mogadishu.
Somalia remains central to stability and security in all of East Africa. U.S. Africa Command’s forces train, advise, and assist partner forces to help give them the tools they need to defeat al-Shabaab, the largest and most deadly al-Qaeda network in the world.
[Garowe] The US Africa Command waged yet another Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in Somalia on Tuesday, the military has confirmed, in what would likely be a difficult year for the al-Shabaab ...... the personification of Somali state failure... hard boyz who have already lost key towns across the country following an offensive that was activated by President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud when he assumed the presidency.
Tuesday's dronezap in Somalia was the sixth this year and the third within the month of February according to statistics given by the Command. The US military resumed activities in the Horn of Africa nation last year after almost 12 months of absence following the unprecedented withdrawal in 2021 after the exit of Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and whatever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... But the pressure from Pentagon and Senate forced President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. We get to suffer the consequences. So does Afghanistan, aka Biden's Bungle... to redeploy the military to Somalia to assist "our partners in the fight against al-Shabaab". The redeployment seems to have yielded fruits given that the command has been engineering most of the operations against the hard boyz in central and southern Somalia.
The most recent airstrike was planned and executed in Galmadug state, northwest of the capital Mogadishu, at least 510 kilometers from the Central Business District of the headquarters. US Africa Command said the strike was a "collective self-defense" and came at the request of the federal government of Somalia.
Several al-Shabaab hard boyz were killed in the airstrike. The command added but insisted that there were no civilian casualties. The government of Somalia had hinted at the airstrike on Tuesday, insisting that the military was targeting senior al-Shabaab commanders following the hint by members of the public.
Al-Shabaab, who have lost key towns across the country, have reverted to cowardly attacks targeting innocent civilians and members of the armed forces but the strategy has been largely futile, given the resilience of members of the army and a backup from the clan militia across the county.
The al-Shabaab extortionists have also suffered on the financial front after the government of Somalia imposed restrictions on mobile money transfer firms which have been linked to aiding al-Shabaab's money flow.
Local business owners have also been warned against remitting taxes to the krazed killers, with those found culpable risking having their licenses canceled.
[GEO.TV] The United States has transferred two brothers from the Guantanamo Bay US detention facility in Cuba to Pakistain, bringing the total number of people held at Guantanamo down to 32, the Pentagon said on Thursday.
The Guantanamo camp was established by Republican President George W Bush in 2002 to house foreign terrorism suspects following the 2001 hijacked plane attacks on New York and the Pentagon that killed about 3,000 people.
It came to symbolise the excesses of the US "war on terror" because of harsh interrogation methods that critics have said amounted to torture.
There were 40 detainees when President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. The nincompoop who dumped Afghanistan. The copier doesdn't exist that could reelect him.... , a Democrat, took office in 2021. Biden has said he hopes to close the facility. The federal government is barred by law from transferring Guantanamo detainees to US mainland prisons.
On Thursday, the Pentagon announced the repatriation of Abdul Rabbani and Mohammed Rabbani to Pakistain.
Both were arrested in 2002. Abdul Rabbani was an al-Qaeda controller while Mohammed Rabbani was a financial and travel controller for prominent al-Qaeda leaders, according to the Pentagon's website.
"The United States appreciates the willingness of the Government of Pakistain and other partners to support ongoing US efforts focused on responsibly reducing the detainee population and ultimately closing the Guantanamo Bay facility," the Pentagon said in a statement.
A total of 32 detainees remain, of whom 18 are eligible for transfer, the Pentagon said in its statement.
Reacting to the development, Senator Mushtaq Ahmed Khan of Jamat-e-Islami welcomed their transfer to Pakistain, saying the two brothers were detained without any case.
...no case except being Al Qaeda Big Turbans, but no one objects to that nowadays.
"Another good news. Ahmed Ghulam Rabbani and Abdul Rahim Ghulam Rabbani have reached Islamabad airport after being freed from Guantanamo Bay. They were imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay for 21 years despite being innocent. There was no trial, no court proceedings, no charges against them. Congratulations on their release. Thank you Senate of Pakistain."
Update from Al Monitor at 9:50 p.m. ET — late in the day, but not worth giving you an entire article to read tomorrow, dear Reader:
Abdul Rahim Ghulam Rabbani, 55, and Mohammed Ahmed Ghulam Rabbani, 53, were captured in Karachi, Pakistan, in 2002 and held in CIA custody in Afghanistan before they were transferred to the offshore US prison in Cuba in 2004.
The brothers were born in Saudi Arabia and are ethnically Burmese.
This makes their Pakistani citizenship puzzling, but I suppose if Pakistan wants them, they all deserve to enjoy the result.
Their departure brings the remaining number of detainees at Guantanamo Bay to 32. At its peak in 2003, the prison held nearly 680 prisoners.
Shortly after taking office, the Biden administration said it planned to close the controversial detention center, which opened in 2002 and has since been used to house more than 700 foreign inmates suspected of ties to al-Qaeda or the Taliban. Earlier this month, Pakistani detainee Majid Khan was transferred to Belize following the completion of his sentence.
Intense pushback from Congress prevented former President Barack Obama from making good on a 2008 campaign promise to close Guantanamo, despite an executive order issued on his second day in office.
Former President Donald Trump signed a 2018 executive order to keep it open, citing the risk of recidivism among the prisoners. Just one detainee was released under his administration — a Saudi man who pleaded guilty to terrorism-related charges and was transferred to Saudi Arabian custody in 2018 to serve out the remainder of his sentence.
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Shoulda traded them for the Dr. who gave us Bin Laden
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^ Assuming the poor bastich is still alive...
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/\ “Are you interested in joining? The benefits are terrific. The trick is not to get killed. That's really the key to the benefit program.”
on working for the CIA
[Dawn] The military’s media affairs wing said on Thursday that it had foiled an attempt to ambush a convoy of security forces in 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... ’s Kech district, adding that eight holy warriors were killed in the follow-up operation.
According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), forces of Evil attempted to ambush a convoy of security forces on February 22 in the evening. The statement said "alert and combat ready troops foiled the cowardly attempt without any loss of life" and also commenced a follow-up operation to hunt down the forces of Evil using "ground and aviation assets".
"Resultantly, on the morning of Feb 23 (today), a suspected hideout of forces of Evil was identified in Mazaaband Range where a sanitisation operation was launched," the ISPR said.
The statement said that eight bad boyz were potted in a "heavy exchange of fire" while a large cache of arms and ammunition, including explosives, was also recovered.
"Security forces of Pakistain will continue to thwart any attempt by inimical elements, on [the] behest of hostile intelligence agencies, to disrupt hard-earned peace in the province," the ISPR said.
The development comes amid a surge in terrorist activities in the country, especially in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces, since the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban ...Arabic for students... Pakistain (TTP) ended its ceasefire with the government in November.
On February 10, two Pakistain Army soldiers were martyred after an improvised bomb (IED) went kaboom! in Balochsitan’s Kohlu area.
[IsraelTimes] Military says it hit weapons workshop and naval arms cache, in apparent response to Paleostinian reprisal launches after deadly IDF raid in Nablus Wednesday
Israeli warplanes carried out bombing raids against the Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, terror group in the 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... Strip early Thursday morning, the military said, hours after Paleostinians fired six rockets into southern Israel in an apparent Dire Revenge attack for a deadly Israeli incursion into Nablus a day earlier.
Fighter jets hit a Hamas weapons workshop in central Gaza as well as an unspecified "military site" in the northern part of the Strip used by the group to store naval weapons, the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement.
"The complex is located near a mosque, a medical clinic, a school, a hotel, and a cop shoppe. This is further proof that the Hamas terror organization places its military assets in the heart of a civilian population," the military said.
"The strike deals a serious blow to Hamas’s ability to fortify and arm itself," it added.
There were no immediate reports of injuries.
Videos shared on social media showed a large explosion at a building near the coast, and a dark plume of smoke rising above the densely populated enclave in the early morning light.
The IDF also published footage of the strikes.
The Israeli raid came in apparent response to a pre-dawn attack in which six rockets were fired at the Israeli cities of Ashkelon and Sderot and other areas near the Gaza Strip.
The military said five of the projectiles were downed by the Iron Dome anti-missile system and the last one landed in an open area.
There were no reports of damage or casualties. No Paleostinian group grabbed credit.
The attack came on the heels of a shootout in the West Bank city of Nablus Wednesday in which 11 Paleostinians were killed and over 100 injured by Israeli forces.
Paleostinian terror groups said at least six of those killed were their operatives. It was not immediately clear whether the remaining five were involved in the festivities.
Police earlier raised their alert level amid fears of a reprisal attack, and a front man for the Gaza Strip-ruling Hamas’s military wing issued a veiled threat, saying the terror group was "observing the enemy’s escalating crimes against our people in the occupied West Bank, and its patience is running out."
Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... leader Ziyad al-Nakhala called the Israeli raid a "huge crime."
"It is our duty as resistance forces to respond to this crime without hesitation," he said.
Over the past year, Gaza-based groups — notably Islamic Jihad — have launched rockets at Israel in response to members being killed or arrested in the West Bank. A potential response from the West Bank or East Jerusalem was also being anticipated.
The IDF said troops had entered Nablus on Wednesday morning to arrest Hussam Isleem, a senior member of the Lion’s Den terror group, who was allegedly the third member of a cell that killed Staff Sgt. Ido Baruch during a shooting attack in October. The other two were arrested last week.
[IsraelTimes] A Paleostinian woman attempted to stab security guards near the West Bank settlement of Ma’ale Adumim on Thursday morning and was shot, police said.
According to police, the woman approached the guards at a checkpoint at the entrance to the settlement city while brandishing a knife "in an attempt to stab them."
"The security guards fired at her and neutralized her," police said.
#Iran on Thursday directly acknowledged an accusation attributed to international inspectors that it enriched uranium to 84% purity for the first time, which would put the Islamic Republic closer than ever to weapons-grade material. pic.twitter.com/8TUwds8KwV
[Rudaw] Iran ...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979... executed two other political prisoners this week and sentenced a dual national to death as Western countries ratchet up the economic pressure on the country in response to the regime’s violent mostly peaceful crackdown on protesters.
Iran’s state media on Wednesday night said that Sarkawt (Arash) Ahmadi, a former member of Komala, leftist Kurdish armed opposition party, was executed on Wednesday morning in the Kurdish city of Kermanshah.
Ahmadi was detained in December 2020 after leaving Komala, based in the neighboring Kurdistan Region, intending to travel to Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... illegally through northwest Iran and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... , a regular route taken by thousands of migrants colonists every year. He was detained by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in the border area and was subjected to months of isolation in solitary confinement and severe torture by the forces’ interrogators. He was accused of assassinating a traffic police officer.
Iran uses execution in times of crises to intimidate the population and instill fear in the society. The authorities executed four protesters for their participation in the recent wave of protests that were sparked by the killing of Zhina (Mahsa) Amini by the morality police in Tehran in mid-September. Iran has executed 87 people in 2023 alone according to Oslo-based Iran Human Rights.
The security forces, spearheaded by the IRGC and its militia Basij, killed at least 530 protesters and maimed thousands of others. Many protesters in detention have been subjected to brutal torture to make video confessions admitting guilt.
The execution of the Kurdish political prisoner on Wednesday took place in the same week as reports by human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... organizations stating that another political prisoner from the Arab ethnic minority in southwest Iran was executed. Hossein Abiat was from Ahwaz and had been imprisoned for 11 years due to his membership of opposition groups. The authorities in Sepidar Prison in Ahwaz executed him on Monday.
Iran has come under growing pressure by the international community for its brutality against the protesters and for providing cheap drones to Russia in its aggression against Ukraine.
The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... imposed new sanctions on Monday on 32 individuals and two entities in Iran for being involved in human rights violations in the country.
Iran said on Tuesday that it sentenced a German citizen to death with Germany retaliating by expelling two employees of the Iranian embassy in Berlin.
Jamshid Sharmahd is a journalist of Iranian descent who was kidnapped from Dubai in July 2020 by agents of the ministry of intelligence and was taken to Iran after being accused of being involved in a 2008 bombing in Shiraz which killed 14 people.
Mohammad Moghimi, an Iranian human rights lawyer said on twitter that the court proceedings were ’unfair’ and the death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... is against the Iranian constitution, Sharia law, and conscience.
Kurdistan Human Rights Network, which covers the human rights violations in the Kurdish areas in western Iran, said that Ahmadi’s families were not informed prior to his execution for the last meeting as per Iranian law.
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Huh.
We give them an all expenses paid trip to a sunny resort and then a free ride home.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire...
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...46th president of the U.S. We get to suffer the consequences. So does Afghanistan, aka Biden's Bungle...
...46th president of the U.S. The nincompoop who dumped Afghanistan. The copier doesdn't exist that could reelect him....
[Dawn] The military’s media affairs wing said on Thursday that it had foiled an attempt to ambush a convoy of security forces in 
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[IsraelTimes] Military says it hit weapons workshop and naval arms cache, in apparent response to Paleostinian reprisal launches after deadly IDF raid in Nablus Wednesday
...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979...
