[ToloNews] Residents of Panjshir have expressed concerns over the settlement of military personnel in residential areas including private houses, educational centers and mosques.
They called on the caretaker government to shift the military departments to different areas.
"They are settled in schools, mosques and seminaries. We call on them to go to the check posts and settle there," said Mohammad Mudeer Mudabir, a resident of Shatal district of Panjshir.
"We have this request: that the military commands should go to the checkpoints and outposts and let the people do their business in calmness," said Imamuddin, a resident of Parian district in Panjshir.
A local official said that distinguished places have been allocated for military personnel and that many of them have been shifted to these outposts.
However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... an official said that there are still some military personnel who are settled in residential areas.
"There are some particular areas and due to cold weather, they were settled in the mosques. Their centers have been built now and we will relocate them," said Rohullah Shahamat, deputy governor of Panjshir.
According to the military veterans, the presence of military units in private areas and educational centers has caused panic among the people and the government should provide proper facilities for the military.
"The Defense Ministry and other security units should leave the residential areas, schools, mosques and seminaries as soon as possible," said Sadiq Shinwari, a military veteran.
The residents of Panjshir also said that many school compounds in Panjshir are being used as military bases and that the students have been deprived of their schools for nearly two years.
UN CLARIFIES REMARKS – The United Nations was forced to clarify comments made by the Deputy Secretary General recently which caused some angst among many in the international community. The comments suggested the UN was planning to put the recognition issue on the agenda of a meeting in Doha scheduled from 1-2 May. The UN has since announced the meeting will not focus on recognition and admitted that only member states had any authority to recognize the Taliban. For its part, the United States has flatly rejected any talk about recognition at the meeting. There is still some confusion regarding recent UN statements which suggest it may pull out completely from Afghanistan in May if the gender bans are not rescinded by Kandahar. However, the UNICEF Chief went on the record Thursday and affirmed that his organization was not planning on a cessation of activities. Clearly, the dysfunction illustrates a messaging problem and likely indicates a lack of a general strategy for dealing with the Taliban going forward.
POSSIBLE TROUBLE IN THE BANKING SECTOR – A source in Kabul said that concern was growing over the possibility that several private banks have grossly overstated deposits and may be facing issues with their cash reserves. The business sector has lobbied for months to increase the daily limit for withdrawals and the banks seemingly relented but businessmen and citizens alike continue to report that banks are not allowing them to withdraw their funds. It should be mentioned that the banking sector has long been considered suspect in Afghanistan (well before the Taliban returned) and multiple rumors circulated at the end of 2021 that huge amounts had been transferred out of the country and may have been absconded with. The Afghan currency has made steady gains against the dollar over the past three months but a banking sector scandal could present major challenges to an already fragile economy. It was not clear if an investigation was underway and, if so, whether any details would be made public.
DEATH TOLL FROM TORKHAM LANDSLIDE RISES TO 6 – Work continues at the site of the landslide near Torkham Gate and rescue crews received heavy equipment from Islamabad to help shift the rocks and boulders that swept over a line of transport trucks. A Pakistani Army Official announced that 6 bodies had been recovered so far but that over twenty-five people have yet to be accounted for.
NO OFFICIAL DATE FOR EID AL FITR FROM TALIBAN YET – Saudi Arabia announced it would commence celebrations on 21 April. Pakistan has decreed the 22nd will be the official start of its celebrations. As of publication, the Taliban had yet to announce the Eid Al Fitr date for the country. It is thought that many among the Shiaa community intend to begin on the 22nd.
TALIBAN HAS BANNED A WASHINGTON POST JOURNALIST FROM THE COUNTRY – Susannah George, the paper’s bureau chief for Afghanistan and Pakistan, was informed yesterday that she was no longer allowed to visit Afghanistan. Her visa has not been renewed and despite lobbying by the Washington Post, the Taliban stated on 20 April that it would not hear any further appeals.
THE NATIONAL RESISTANCE FRONT RELEASES EID AL-FITR DECLARATION – A statement released on the official Twitter account for the NRF reiterates the movement’s plan to continue the fight against the Taliban and discounts the possibility that dialogue with the regime can achieve peace.
Follow up to this announcement from yesterday, when Al Shabaab claimed to have killed 50 Somali soldiers.
[Garowe] The Somali National Army [SNA] on Wednesday repulsed an al-Shabaab ...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... attack at a military base North of Mogadishu, state media confirmed, in what comes amid ongoing military operations in the country.
State media said the attack was repulsed in Budbud village within the fragile Galgaduud in central Somalia, where the Lions of Islam have been trying to expand their territory following sustained military attacks. The military has been trying to gain more access to central regions in the ongoing operations.
The al-Shabaab Lions of Islam suffered heavy casualties during the fierce shootout with the military teams, senior SNA officers told the state media. Until now, the exact number of the Lions of Islam who were killed by the military is yet to be established but some unconfirmed reports say dozens of people were killed.
"The National Armed Forces and locals repulsed an attempted attack by al-Shabaab murderous Moslems on an army base near Budbud village in Galgadud region, on Wednesday. Terrorists suffered heavy casualties, SNA officials told State Media," the government media reported later on Wednesday.
Eyewitnesses termed the attack as "complex" with the Lions of Islam targeting a military base situated in the region. Budbud is one of several villages captured by government forces within the last few days as they move deep into 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... state ahead of the planned second phase of operations against the murderous Moslems.
Al-Shabaab claims "overrunning" the camp, killing soldiers and seizing vehicles, a claim that is yet to be independently verified. The Lions of Islam often thrive on propaganda whenever they are on the receiving end and in most recent battles, the national army with the help of international partners has managed to tame them.
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[REGNUM] In the Stavropol Territory, on April 20, FSB officers detained a supporter of the Islamic State terrorist organization. According to the intelligence service, he was preparing a terrorist act at a facility with a mass stay of people in Mineralnye Vody. This was reported in the Center for Public Relations of the FSB.
The detainee was seized components and striking elements for the manufacture of an improvised explosive device, as well as means of secret communication with the emissaries of the "Islamic state" in the Middle East region.
"On the territory of the Stavropol Territory, the unlawful activities of a citizen of the Russian Federation, a supporter of the banned international terrorist organization ISIS, were discovered and suppressed," the report said.
The FSB clarified that the suspect, at the direction of foreign emissaries, planned to commit a terrorist attack "on one of the objects of mass stay of people." A criminal case has been initiated against the detainee for preparing for a terrorist attack.
As REGNUM reported, on April 17, the FSB announced that it had stopped the activities of one of the leaders of the ISIS. It has been established that a Tajik citizen planned terrorist attacks in several Russian cities.
According to the intelligence services, the detainee created a cell of a terrorist organization to carry out sabotage and terrorist attacks in Moscow, the Moscow region and Novosibirsk using improvised explosive devices. He had to put them into action in crowded places, including Russian Railways facilities.
Twice, according to the security forces, supporters of the Islamic State terrorist organization were detained, on October 28, 2022, the FSB reported on the detention of supporters of Ukrainian radical organizations. Among the targets of the terrorists, the security forces named an administrative facility, a police department and a transport infrastructure facility.
The closed nature of the FSB does not allow verifying the authenticity of the reports about the three terrorist attacks that were thwarted in the Stavropol Territory, but the security forces are obviously interested in demonstrating the importance of their work against the backdrop of the military operation, analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" pointed out.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] More Black Bloc anarcho-communist syndicate viciousness.
An eco-mob dubbed the 'Tyre Extinguishers' has returned to the United States, to Boston’s Beacon Hill neighboehood
The group deflates the tires on SUVs because they are 'more likely to kill people'
The climate zealots previously claimed they will 'never be caught' after vandalizing New York and striking nine countries in one night
Since its founding in March 2022, the group has claimed to have deflated over 10,000 SUV tires.
When the group hit New York last year, an anonymous representative for the vandals told DailyMail.com: 'We will be striking in major cities all across America as autonomous groups are formed to take action.'
#1
Applying their own defining terminology to their crime.
By destroying the 43+ tires and printing the leaflets. They have caused a collection Supply Chain carbon impact related issues from start to finish.
Starting with all the steps to collection raw materials needed to make tires, steps in manufacturing replacement tires, delivery of the finished product, installation of the replacement(s) and safe disposal and handling of the discarded vandalized tires.
PLUS, it may not be just 43 tires, as some vehicle owners will replace 2 or all 4 to match, look and ride properly.
In short, these Eco-IDIOTS have themselves, just impacted the environment 5 to 10 x's more that the vehicle owners.
#2
Just when you think the 'road hazard warranty', homeowners or auto insurance will pay for those $200+ tires, read the small print about damage incurred due to acts of terror.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Don’t start none, won’t be none. But he started something, and now he’s dead. I guess he won’t be learning from that experience...
Manuel Paez Teran, 26, was shot and killed by Atlanta police on January 18 during an operation to clear a protest site dubbed 'Cop City'
Teran and his colleagues built a tent encampment on the site of a proposed police training camp to protect the woodland and stop the disruption
An autopsy obtained on Wednesday by Axios showed Teran was shot 57 times, while seated, with no gunpowder residue on his hands: police say he shot first ...he was shot while trespassing — illegal occupation of property, if not something more interesting.
#7
"Additionally, mortar style fireworks, multiple edged weapons, pellet rifles, gas masks, and a blow torch were recovered."
Fuck around and find out.
Spook a cop, get killed.
Everyone gets a ribbon, doesnt always win you first place - and the point being is that there area losers in life, and this dude was one.
[GreaterKashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... ] Five soldiers were charred to death after snuffies attacked their vehicle with grenades in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday, army said.
In a statement, the army’s Northern Command said that an army vehicle moving between Bhimber Gali and Poonch in the Rajauri sector was fired on by unidentified snuffies at about 3 pm.
The statement said that the vehicle caught fire due to "likely" use of grenades by terrorists, who took advantage of heavy rains and low visibility in the area.
"Five personnel of the Rashtriya Rifles Unit deployed for Counter Terrorist operations, in this area, have unfortunately bit the dust in the incident," it said.
Another seriously injured soldier was evacuated immediately to the Army Hospital at Rajauri and is under treatment, added the statement.
"Operations are in progress to locate the perpetrators," the statement said further. "Further details are being ascertained."
According to sources, the Incident was carried out by the terror organization People’s Anti-Fascist Front (PAFF), which receives funding from Jaish, reported by India today.
Search operation continues in Rajouri, Poonch to hunt down terrorists https://t.co/OI8vGu6bh1
[OneIndia] Seven terrorists were involved in the attack on the Indian Army soldiers, which took place in Poonch Jammu and Kashmir, the preliminary probe has shown.
Sources tell OneIndia that the terrorists had fired at the vehicle from all sides and had used rocket-propelled grenades. The investigation into the incident continues, while a massive search operation has been launched to nab the terrorists involved in the attack.
While a Jaish-e-Mohammad ...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat... backed group has grabbed credit for the attack, Sherlocks are also not ruling out the possibility of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba being involved in the same. The source cited above said that the holy warriors may have escaped into the dense forests and hence the search operation is tougher.
Another official said that the holy warriors took advantage of the rainy conditions and poor visibility to carry out the attack.
The attack took place on a day when it was confirmed that Pakistain minister Bilawal Baby Bhutto Zardari ...Pak dynastic politician, son of Benazir Bhutto and grandon of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. As far as is known, Bilawal has no particular talents other than being pretty and being able to memorize political slogans, but he had the good luck to be born into the right family and he hasn't been assassinated yet... would be attending the G20 meet in India. This development also comes in the wake of Pakistain asking all G20 members, particularly to its all-weather friend China to boycott the event.
According to the Intelligence agencies, the attack was specifically planned and timed to create panic ahead of the G20 event. The terrorist group has done a thorough reconnaissance before staging the attack. The official cited above said that it is clear that this was planned to reign havoc in the Valley and disrupt India's plans of holding such a big summit. The aim of the Pakistain establishment was clear and that it wanted to instigate violence in Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... ahead of the event.
"The 'People's Anti-Fascist Front (PAFF)' emerged in the year 2019 as a proxy outfit of Jaish-e-Mohammed, a proscribed terrorist organisation listed at serial number 6 of the First Schedule under the UAPA Act," the MHA notification reads. "The People's Anti-Fascist Front (PAFF) regularly issues threats to Indian security forces, political leaders, civilians working in Jammu and Kashmir from other states along with other organisations is involved in conspiring proactively, physically and in social media, to undertake violent terrorist acts in Jammu and Kashmir as well as other major cities in India is indulging in radicalisation," the MHA also said.
[IsraelTimes] Bedouin man in his 50s detained after trying to bring Glock and SIG Sauer pistols across border into Israel, south of the Dead Sea
Israeli security forces arrested a Bedouin Israeli man suspected of smuggling weapons into Israel from Jordan overnight, confiscating 63 handguns, the military and police said Thursday morning.
According to the Israel Police, the Magen anti-smuggling unit had been running an undercover investigation of a smuggling ring involved in bringing firearms over the border into Israel.
Police officers and troops in the Israel Defense Forces had been operating along the border in recent weeks to ambush members of the ring during smuggling attempts.
Early on Thursday, forces identified a suspicious vehicle driving near the border, just south of the Dead Sea, police said.
Magen officers, Border Police officers, and IDF troops pursued the suspicious vehicle and eventually caught up with it in the northern Arava region of southern Israel.
The driver, a man in his 50s from a Bedouin village in the Yeruham area, was arrested by troops and officers, and the 63 Glock and SIG Sauer handguns he was carrying in three bag were seized, police said.
The bust was one of the largest-ever foiled smuggling attempts from Jordan. In all of 2022, around 500 firearms were seized by Israeli forces on the Jordanian border.
Law enforcement officials have indicated that 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, and have begun to report some success.
Unlike Israel’s other frontiers — with Egypt, Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... and Syria — the border with Jordan is largely open, often without significant fencing, and guarding is limited, 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.
[IsraelTimes] The Israel Defense Forces says troops detained 17 wanted Paleostinians during overnight arrest raids across the West Bank, including six in the Dheisheh refugee camp near Bethlehem.
The IDF says that during the operation in Dheisheh, Paleostinians hurled explosives, Molotov cocktails and stones at troops, who responded with riot dispersal means and live fire in the air.
One soldier is lightly hurt after being hit by a rock, the IDF says. He was taken to a hospital for further treatment.
The 17 suspects are handed over to the Shin Bet for further questioning.
[Shafaq News] Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) on Thursday announced a successful dismantling of an armed cell affiliated with the "Army of Justice" group
...a.k.a. Jaish al-ʿAdl, it appeared in 2012 as a successor to the Salafist Balochi independence group Jundullah (Soldiers of God), which operates on both sides of the Pak-Iranian border but was based in Pakistan. The Pak branch has close relations with al-Qaeda and the Pak Talibs and is probably a false nose and mustache for Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, while the Iranian branch hangs out with Ansar Al-Furqan (Sistan-Balochistan) and Al Nusra (Syria), concentrates on attacking Iranian soldiers and police, and for some reason went after the Taliban in Afghanistan in early 2019...
and the subsequent arrest of multiple members in the southeastern provinces of Sistan and Baluchestan.
Iran's official news agency, IRNA, today quoted an IRGC blurb detailing the intelligence and security operations conducted by the elite Quds Force that ultimately "effectively neutralized the terrorist cell".
"The military forces confiscated an arsenal of 154 assorted weapons employed by the cell members in their nefarious schemes to execute terrorist attacks within Iran's borders," the statement said.
The blurb said the Sistan and Baluchestan Public Security Police managed to dismantle a network of weapon-traffickers under their jurisdiction.
The perpetrators had been clandestinely transporting a diverse range of arms into the country, it continued. "In total, 70 distinct types of weapons were uncovered, and the culprits were subsequently apprehended."
[Rudaw] The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Wednesday announced the arrest of a former 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... (ISIS) leader near Deir ez-Zor, accusing him of transporting ammunition and money to the active cells of the group.
The SDF said in a statement late Wednesday that it carried out a security operation against an unnamed former leader of ISIS who is also the head of the group’s active cells in the region.
"The operation took place in the town of Jadeed Bakara, with the support of air surveillance from the global coalition, where the leader, who was active in transporting weapons, bombs, ammunition and money to the cells of the organization in the Deir ez-Zor region and north and east Syria, was arrested. He was also active in drawing up attack plans for the cells he leads," read the statement.
The SDF has recently carried out several raids against ISIS in eastern Syria.
On Saturday, the force said it arrested an ISIS operative, Mohammed al-Sayid, in the same province.
US Central Command said on Monday that its forces killed an ISIS big shot, Abd-al-Hadi Mahmud al-Haji Ali who was an "operational planner responsible for planning terror attacks in the Middle East and Europe."
Two ISIS operatives were also killed in the operation which took place in northern Syria. '
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[Rudaw] Ten more girls’ schools 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... were attacked with chemicals on Thursday, according to a human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... monitor, with Amnesia Amnesty International appealing to Tehran to allow an independent investigation into the attacks that have sickened thousands of schoolgirls since November.
More than 50 students were taken to hospital in Urmia, West Azerbaijan province after chemical attacks on three schools, reported human rights monitor Hengaw. Schools in Tehran province, Hamedan, Dezful, Saqqaz, and Ardabil were also attacked.
Reports of mass poisonings at girls’ schools around the country began to emerge last November. According to Amnesia Amnesty International, 13,000 school girls have received medical care after attacks on their schools that caused shortness of breath, numbness, and difficulty walking. One girl has reportedly died.
Authorities at first suppressed or denied the reports for weeks before a criminal investigation was opened in February. More than 100 people have since been arrested.
Iranian authorities "have failed to release any information to the families and the public about the result of investigations into chemical gases used to poison schoolgirls, to hold perpetrators to account, and to take adequate measures to protect schoolgirls from widespread attacks," Amnesty said on Wednesday, appealing to Tehran to grant the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... access to investigate the attacks.
The attacks appear to be related to protests that broke out in September after the death of a Kurdish woman in jug for allegedly violating Iran’s strict dress code. Women and girls led protests against the mandatory hijab, removing their headscarves in schools and public places and chanting "Jin, Jiyan, Azadi [Woman, Life, Freedom]".
UN human rights experts in March said they feared the attacks "are orchestrated to punish girls for their involvement in the movement - Women, Life, Freedom, and for expressing their opposition to mandatory hijab and voicing their demands for equality."
In a crackdown on headscarf violations, authorities have installed cameras in public places and on Sunday police announced they had closed more than 150 businesses in 24 hours for not respecting the dress code, AFP reported.
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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