TALIBAN MAY BE PLANNING A CRACKDOWN ON THE TTP TO APPEASE PAKISTAN – The recent high-level dialogue between Pakistan and the Taliban regime in Kabul appears to have borne some fruit for Pakistan. Pakistan’s special envoy for Afghanistan, Asif Durrani, traveled to Kabul for discussions over various matters but security was clearly at the top of his list. Durani released some details of the negotiations with AMU TV and said that Taliban officials appear to now understand the importance his country has placed on halting any possible incursions from Afghanistan of TTP militants. While he did not elaborate, he did say that the Taliban intends to take concrete steps to eliminate the threat posed to Pakistan. He also announced an intention to form a standing Pakistan/Afghanistan committee that would be the main vehicle for handling disputes between the two countries where the joint border is concerned. Several temporary committees have previously been formed to handle certain situations but this new proposed body may have greater authority and more permanence than previous iterations. For their part, the Taliban will have to walk carefully as it clearly has sympathy with the TTP’s goals and most estimates put the number of armed TTP fighters in Pakistan around 5,000. Rumors and source-based information had indicated the TTP leadership was becoming disillusioned with the Taliban’s support for their cause and some leaders believed they were being sacrificed in the interests of better regional relations.
THE ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK WILL PROVIDE $400M IN HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE FUNDING – The Bank has already approved the amount and will add it to $149M in approved funds from the European Union in order to shore up aid operations in the country. The United Nations has long warned that donors have not followed through on promised commitments to provide aid and it is facing a massive shortfall in funding for the country. The additional funding is expected to buoy humanitarian support operations throughout the coming winter months.
TALIBAN WORKING ON A CONSTITUTION – The Chief Justice, Abdul Hakim Haqqani has been charged with writing a new constitution for the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and a spokesman for the Taliban claims he is finalizing details about the advisory committee that will help draft the governing document. There are not many who believe the constitution will be ratified in any type of democratic process but will be imposed on the population. Many have theorized the constitution will enshrine the bans against women’s education/work and say the deliberative process is being delayed until after some form of recognition is achieved. The question of elections has been absent in most of the international discussions about Afghanistan. Typically, in nations where a non-democratic transfer of power takes place, elections are a dominant topic. Perhaps international negotiators deem the topic premature and have chosen to discuss it after some of the more egregious policies have been moderated.
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IRANIAN POLICE ENFORCING NEW HIJAB LAW – Some reports out of Iran suggest that over 500 women have been arrested for violations of the Hijab law. A source in Tehran said that orders had come down late on Wednesday night from the Ministry of the Interior to ‘make an example’ of women who may be flaunting the law. Police and militia were advised verbally to do so in public spaces for maximum effect. The majority of the arrests have taken place in Tehran and near University campuses. At-risk Afghans in Iran are advised to observe the law so as not to draw unwanted attention to themselves. With the announcement of the passage of the stricter new Hijab laws recently, it appears likely that security forces will prioritize enforcement over the coming days.
AFGHAN WRITER FOUND DEAD IN GERMANY – Mohammad Dawood Siawash’s body was found after being reported missing for three days in Germany. German authorities have begun an investigation but it is not clear yet what may have caused his death. Siawash’s family believe he was murdered and many others among the Afghan diaspora in Germany have called on the authorities to look for potential Taliban sympathizers living in the country.
ISLAMABAD HIGH COURT WEIGHS IN ON TREATMENT OF AFGHAN REFUGEES – The court has asked the government to develop a system for Afghan refugees to voluntarily report upon arrival to the country. The High Court also issued an order prohibiting the detention of any refugee who has registered with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. In a twenty-one-page ruling, the High Court reiterated that Pakistan’s constitution grants the right of asylum. A very important point in the ruling concerns the ability of the Ministry of the Interior to issue exit permits which will enable travel to a country that has granted asylum. Many refugees have been forced to pay exorbitant fines when departing Pakistan.
AFGHAN EMBASSY IN ISLAMABAD SAYS IT IS READY TO BEGIN ISSUING PASSPORTS – The Consul General for the Embassy announced yesterday that the Embassy now had everything in place to begin issuing passports. Those who want to apply are encouraged to visit the online application portal and then wait for their appointment to visit the Embassy.
IRAN APPROVES NEW HIJAB LEGISLATION, PAVES WAY FOR IMPRISONMENT AND/OR INCREASED FINES – The bill has been debated for several months but was finally passed yesterday in Tehran. The new law will be implemented for a 3-year period in order to evaluate its feasibility. As previously reported, the law will increase fines, allow for imprisonment, ban travel, exclude from education, and a host of other penalties. The law also contains a provision aimed at those leading protests against the regime by allowing for a 5-10-year prison sentence for anyone encouraging groups to violate the dress code. Legal opinions have already lambasted the new laws as unconstitutional but the overwhelming support for it in Parlament means it will be unlikely to be challenged.
GERMAN OPPOSITION PARTIES PLAN TO CALL FOR HALT TO AFGHAN ADMISSIONS PROGRAM – The two largest opposition parties are expected to call for a halt to the current admission program and scale back the acceptance of Afghan refugees to ‘only those who have worked for the German government’. It is not clear if the parties have enough support to actually cancel the program which had established the goal of accepting 1,000 refugees per month.
CONFLICT TRACKER
Kabul: An attack by an unidentified Resistance group in the 17th Police District of Kabul reportedly claimed the lives of 3 Taliban fighters while wounding an additional 3 yesterday evening.
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RUMORS THE TALIBAN MAY BE TARGETING HAZARAS IN BAMYAN PROVINCE – Several photos and reports appeared on social media over the last twenty-four hours that showed what looks like deep trenches that have been excavated along roadways and around the town. The reports say the barriers were made to block Hazaras from entering or leaving the villages. This information has not yet been confirmed but seems to be a fairly extreme method of impeding travel and may suggest that further action is planned. There has been no explanation for the actions or what may have caused local Taliban leaders to take such drastic measures.
[AlAhram] Suspected jihadists in 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... have killed 16 civilians including four army auxiliaries, sources said Thursday, adding that around 12 "terrorists" later died in an army counter-offensive.
Twelve people died and two were maimed in Koulponsgo, in central-eastern Burkina on Tuesday, a resident said. A security source confirmed both the attack and toll.
On the same day, an "attack by terrorist groups left four dead in Sirasso" in the west, the security source said, adding they were all VDP civilian volunteers for the army.
Around a dozen "terrorists" were also killed in counter-operations by the troubled West African nation's army after Tuesday's strikes, the security source said.
The VDP, or Volunteers for the Defence of the Fatherland, is a civilian force that supports the military in the fight against the jihadists.
Burkina Faso is fighting a jihadist insurgency that swept in from neighbouring Mali in 2015.
The latest violence follows an attack last week on a camp for internally displaced people in the north of the country which left eight people dead.
More than 17,000 civilians and troops have died in jihadist attacks in Burkina Faso, according to a count by an NGO monitor called the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED).
Over two million people have also been uprooted, making it one of the worst internal displacement crises in Africa.
Anger within the Burkinabe armed forces led to a coup in January 2022, toppling elected president Roch Marc Christian Kabore.
On September 30, Kabore's nemesis, Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, was himself tossed in another putsch.
On Wednesday, the government claimed nearly 192,000 internally displaced people had returned to their homes after various regions were retaken by government forces.
Jihadist attacks continue unabated despite government claims to have wrested back territory.
The situation has been exacerbated after Burkina's former colonial ruler La Belle France withdrew troops in January following tensions with the ruling junta.
Burkina has since developed closer contacts with Russia, an ally of the junta in neighbouring Mali.
[Shafaq News] Ottoman Turkish authorities arrested five individuals of Iraqi nationality today, Friday, on charges of affiliation with ISIS in Balikesir province, located in western The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... The official Anadolu Ottoman Turkish news agency reported that the public prosecutor's office in Balikesir issued arrest warrants for six Iraqis suspected of having connections with ISIS.
It was further noted that anti-terrorism units within the Balikesir Security Directorate conducted simultaneous raids at several locations to apprehend the suspects. As a result, five of them were arrested, and digital materials were found in their possession.
One of the detainees had previously held a position within the so-called "ISIS Police" in some regions of Iraq, while another detainee received training in bomb-making within ISIS in Iraq.
According to the agency, the police are continuing their efforts to apprehend the sixth suspect.
[Shafaq News] A high-ranking security source has unveiled the commencement of a comprehensive security and intelligence initiative between Global Coalition forces and Iraqi security units aimed at dismantling clandestine ISIS strongholds in the eastern regions of Saladin Governorate.
According to the source, Iraqi security services, in conjunction with French forces operating under the umbrella of the Global Coalition in Iraqi Kurdistan, have initiated an extensive investigative and surveillance operation.
This operation involves the deployment of drones and aerial surveillance techniques to uncover concealed ISIS hideouts nestled within the hills and caves stretching across the al-Aith sector to the east of Saladin, adjacent to Kirkuk Governorate. The source said.
The discovery of covert ISIS hideouts within the eastern sectors of Saladin prompted the inception of this investigative plan. This revelation followed an incident involving French forces making a landing operation on one of these targets, which resulted in casualties and injuries among both the French forces and counter-terrorism units.
Muhammad al-Janabi, the commander of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) in Saladin, confirmed that there have been no substantial movements or activities observed by ISIS units in the eastern districts of Saladin. This assessment suggests that ISIS members have retreated to concealed hideouts to evade Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s and surprise military operations.
Al-Janabi elaborated that monitoring and combing operations are underway, with the eastern sectors of Saladin remaining under the control and coordination of the PMF, in conjunction with Saladin's security operations.
The eastern areas of Saladin are widely acknowledged as volatile zones due to their expansive geography, limited security presence, and the challenges associated with maintaining absolute control on the ground.
[Rudaw] Duhok villagers risked their lives to extinguish the flames of a fire sparked by a Ottoman Turkish bombardment earlier this week.
Ottoman Turkish forces on Tuesday bombarded Sargale village in Amedi district, targeting alleged positions of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). The bombs sparked a wildfire near the village that burned dozens of trees.
The village is part of an area that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... has declared prohibited, so authorities could not access it to help villagers extinguish the blaze. The villagers had no choice but to try to beat out the flames using tree branches. It took them five hours.
"Some of us risked our lives by going there, trying to extinguish the fire from 9am to 2pm," Sherwan Rashid, a villager, told Rudaw’s Ayub Nasri on Thursday, the day after the fire.
The ashes smouldered until midnight. "It was really difficult," said Rashid.
Frequent Ottoman Turkish bombardment of the village that is close to the border has burned some 170 dunams of forest.
The bombs also damaged houses.
"The extent of the damage to my house is so big that we are afraid living in it," said Khoshawi Salim. Deep cracks have opened up in his walls because of the earth-shattering kabooms near the village.
"There is bombardment and shelling throughout the night," he said, adding that the Ottoman Turkish army uses heavy weapons.
He has collected some shrapnel near his house.
"Thousands of dunams of land in the bordering areas... have been burned, causing grave damage to the environment of the area," said Kawa Sabri, head of Duhok’s forestry directorate.
[IsraelTimes] Paleostinians also riot along southern frontier for sixth day in row, setting off explosives on Israeli border barrier; 26 said maimed
The Israel Defense Forces carried out strikes 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 on Friday, after balloon-borne incendiary devices flown over the border by Paleostinian bandidosbandidos krazed killers sparked three fires in southern Israel, as tensions in the region heated up.
Of course they did. It’s the next step in their program.
The arson attacks came as Paleostinians have been holding near-daily riots on the Gaza border in recent weeks.
Firefighters from Fire and Rescue Services and the Jewish National Fund battled the blazes in the Eshkol Regional Council. The Fire and Rescue Services said Friday evening that all three fires were extinguished.
The fires mark the first blazes caused by incendiary balloons in two years.
Paleostinians again rioted on the Gaza border on Friday afternoon, for the sixth day in a row. There have been several other riots in recent weeks.
*Yawn* D’you suppose Qatar is impressed enough to give them a cost of living increase in donations, dear Reader?
The IDF said it had carried out dronezaps against two observation posts belonging to the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, terror group in the Gaza Strip in response to the incendiary balloons and rioting. The military said the incendiary balloons were launched from the area of the two posts.
I vote for spraying the rioters with skunk water — that’ll distract them nicely for a while. But only when the wind is blowing toward the sea.
A third Hamas post was shelled by a tank after a Paleostinian gunman shot up troops on the border amid the rioting, the IDF added. That post was located near where the gunman opened fire, the military said.
Footage from the rioting showed a gunman opening fire and an bomb being detonated on the Israeli border barrier, causing damage to the fence.
The Hamas-run health ministry in the Gaza Strip reported that 26 were maimed by Israeli fire amid the rioting.
During the riots in recent weeks, Paleostinians have been detonating bombs, setting tires on fire, trying to breach the security barrier, and opening fire at troops in a handful of cases.
The Israeli military has been responding with crowd dispersal means and live fire in some cases.
On Thursday, a Paleostinian gunman who shot up Israeli forces during rioting on the border was shot and seriously maimed by a Border Police sniper. Prob a little harsh for BLM/Green/Trans/Book/Climate protests
Israel has kept shut its sole pedestrian crossing with the Gaza Strip since September 15 in response to rioting on the border.
The closure of Erez Crossing affects 17,000 Gazooks who have permits to enter Israel for work. The Strip’s economy is harmed by the laborers being barred entry to Israel.
The rioting in recent weeks has left at least seven Paleostinians dead, according to the Hamas-run health ministry in the Gaza Strip. Six of them were killed while mishandling a makeshift bomb that was supposed to be planted on the border, while the seventh was shot by Israeli soldiers.
No IDF soldiers have been maimed in the recent riots so far.
COGAT announced Thursday morning that the crossing would continue to remain closed, following an assessment of the situation by security officials and instructions by Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi.
The crossing will likely remain closed until Tuesday morning at the earliest, after Yom Kippur, which begins Sunday night. All other crossings, including Ben Gurion Airport, will be closed during Yom Kippur.
The Erez Crossing is always closed on Saturdays, with limited access on Fridays. Gazooks cannot leave via the crossing on Fridays, but are able to reenter the Gazoo Strip during the morning hours.
Israeli officials say the crossing will remain closed as long as the riots continue.
Explosive devices detonated on the border have not caused any significant damage to the security barrier, as the riots have taken place along Israel’s older fence, rather than near the upgraded security barrier, which was built several meters into Israeli territory.
According to IDF assessments, there was a low chance that the current riots would return to the form of the 2018 and 2019 border protests, but there was still a risk of an escalation.
Gazoo has been blockaded by both Israel and Egypt for over 15 years in an attempt to contain the enclave’s Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", rulers. Israel says the tight restrictions on goods and people are necessary due to the terror group’s efforts to massively arm itself for attacks against the Jewish state.
Critics lament the blockade’s impact on ordinary Gazooks, around 50 percent of whom are unemployed, according to the Paleostinian Central Bureau of Statistics. The sky-high poverty rates make employment in Israel a highly attractive option for those lucky enough to receive permits.
In Gaza, Paleostinian workers can expect an average daily wage of about NIS 60 ($17.35). The few allowed to cross into Israel to work might get as much as NIS 400 ($115.66) per day, according to a report last year by The Times of Israel’s sister site Zman Yisrael.
Clashes broke out Saturday afternoon between the IDF and the Lebanese army near the Israel-Lebanon border after a heavy-duty vehicle illegally crossed into Israel, as per local reports.
Armed forces fired "protest dispersion" tools such as stun grenades at a tractor that crossed from the Lebanese border into Israel in the Mount Dov area after surveillance identified the vehicle.
[IsraelTimes] Military says troops entered Kafr Dan, near Jenin, to search for illegal weapons; senior Lion’s Den member detained in Nablus
A member of the Paleostinian 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... was rubbed out during festivities with Israeli troops in a northern West Bank village, the terror group and Paleostinian health officials said Friday morning.
The Paleostinian Authority health ministry said the man, identified by media reports as Abdullah Imad Abu Hassan, was fatally shot in the stomach in Kafr Dan, west of Jenin. Bet that hurt
Abu Hassan was from the nearby town of al-Yamoun. His exact age was not given.
The Paleostinian Islamic Jihad later said Abu Hassan was a member and a "fighter" in a local wing of the terror group in the Jenin area.
The Israel Defense Forces said troops entered Kafr Dan to search for illegal weapons.
Amid the raid, "suspects opened fire and hurled an bomb at the forces, who responded with live fire," the IDF said, adding that several suspects were hit.
A number of military vehicles were damaged by the gunfire and makeshift bombs, the IDF said.
In another raid overnight, the IDF, police, and the Shin Bet security agency said troops entered the West Bank city of Nablus and arrested Khaled Tubila, identified by Paleostinian media as a senior member of the local Lion’s Den terror group.
The Shin Bet said Tubila was wanted for being involved in a number of shooting attacks against Israelis in the West Bank in recent months.
Officers of the elite police Yamam counterterrorism unit surrounded Tubila’s house until he eventually turned himself in, a joint statement said.
"During the operation [in Nablus], suspects threw stones, Molotov cocktails, and explosives at the troops who responded with riot dispersal means," the military said.
According to the official Paleostinian WAFA news agency, six Paleostinians were maimed by live fire and more than 130 others were treated for tear gas inhalation during the festivities in Nablus.
The IDF said that it had detained another three wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank overnight. In the Aqabat Jabr refugee camp near Jericho, troops seized an assault rifle and a makeshift submachine gun, the IDF added.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter awoke groggily, his hand still stuck in the Ming vase... on Friday, the IDF announced that it was imposing a closure on border crossings between Israel and the West Bank during Yom Kippur this weekend. The various checkpoints would reopen Tuesday morning, following a fresh assessment.
Attempted suicide by soldier, with subsequent blood money payments to the miscreant’s family. They get less money because he failed, but every bit counts.
[IsraelTimes] Driver who hit 32-year-old civilian at Qalandiya Crossing detained; police say he is apparently suicidal
An Israeli security guard was lightly injured in a suspected car-ramming attack at the Qalandiya checkpoint north of Jerusalem on Thursday, police and medics said.
In a statement, the Israel Police said the driver who rammed into the civilian guard at Qalandiya Crossing, a 38-year-old Paleostinian from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Kafr ’Aqab, was detained at the scene by security forces.
Police said the man arrived at the checkpoint from the direction of the West Bank town of Qalandiya, after he apparently cut himself with a boxcutter.
He stopped at the checkpoint, and as a security guard approached him, the suspect accelerated suddenly, swerved from the driving lane, and hit another civilian security guard who was standing nearby, police said.
The Magen David Adom ambulance service said its medics treated the 32-year-old guard at the scene and took him to Shaare Zedek Hospital in the capital. He suffered minor injuries to his lower body, MDA said.
Police said officers found a boxcutter covered with the suspect’s blood inside the car and following an initial assessment, believed the man was suicidal.
[IsraelTimes] Police say 19-year-old Paleostinian assailant shot by another guard after attacking 26-year-old at Giv’at Hamivtar station
An Israeli security guard was lightly maimed in a terror stabbing attack at the Giv’at Hamivtar light rail station in Jerusalem on Thursday night, police and medics said.
The alleged stabber, a 19-year-old Paleostinian from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Isawiya, was shot by another security guard at the scene, police said.
The assailant was listed at death's door and taken to a hospital in the capital for treatment.
The Magen David Adom ambulance service said its medics were taking the 26-year-old guard to the Hadassah Mount Scopus Hospital for further treatment.
The guard was stabbed in his hand as he fought with the assailant. Another security officer immediately shot up the suspect, police said.
Following the attack, the light rail service was temporarily halted.
Earlier Thursday, an Israeli security guard was lightly injured in a suspected car-ramming attack at a checkpoint north of Jerusalem.
Police said the driver who rammed into the civilian guard at Qalandiya Crossing, a 38-year-old Paleostinian from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Kafr ’Aqab, was detained at the scene by security forces. He was believed by police to be suicidal.
[IsraelTimes] Iranian media says Esmail Ghaani, in charge of the Revolutionary Guards’ foreign operations, held talks on how ’to confront the military and security challenges facing Syria’
The head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force, Esmail Ghaani, has visited Syria to oversee a joint military drill, media outlets in the Islamic Theocratic Republic said.
Ghaani, appointed Quds Force commander after a US dronezap on Baghdad killed its revered leader Qassem Soleimani in 2020, met senior Syrian officials in Damascus, Tasnim news agency reported late Thursday.
They held discussions on ways to "confront the military and security challenges facing Syria" and supervised a joint Iran-Syria military exercise, Tasnim said.
Ghaani also praised Syria and Iran’s "brotherly relations" and said 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... "will stand by the Syrian people and leadership in facing its challenges," the news agency added.
The Quds Force is the foreign operations arm of Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
The United States placed it on its list of foreign terrorist organization in 2019, but Iran insists its activities abroad are an example of regional cooperation aimed at shoring up stability and blocking Western interference.
Iran has been a major ally of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... , providing him economic, political, and military support during Syria’s more than 12-year civil war.
Tehran’s support helped Damascus claw back most of the territory it lost at the start of the conflict and positioned Iran in a leading role as Assad seeks to focus on reconstruction.
Militias affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards have a heavy presence across Syria but Tehran denies sending forces to fight in Syria, saying it only has military advisers in the war-ravaged country.
The Syrian conflict has claimed more than 500,000 lives, displaced millions and ravaged the country’s infrastructure and industry.
[IsraelTimes] Islamic State member Rahmatollah Nowruzof to be executed over shooting at Shiraz’s Shah Cheragh mausoleum in August, in which 2 were killed
An Iranian court has sentenced to death a Tajik man convicted over carrying out a deadly gun attack on a Shiite Moslem shrine in August, the judiciary said Thursday.
The attack on the Shah Cheragh mausoleum in Shiraz, the capital of Fars province in Iran’s south, came less than a year after a mass shooting at the same site that was later 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.
Nine suspects — all of them foreigners — were arrested after the August 13 attack, which killed two people and maimed seven others.
The convicted attacker, identified as Rahmatollah Nowruzof from Tajikistan and described as an IS member, was handed two death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... s, the judiciary’s Mizan Online website reported.
He was convicted on charges of "moharebeh," or waging war against God, as well as "sedition and collusion against the security of the country," the website said.
Two other men were sentenced to five years in prison and deportation from the country over "participating in gatherings and collusion with the intention of disrupting the country’s security," it added.
In October 2022, a mass shooting at the shrine left 13 people dead and 30 maimed. IS later claimed the attack.
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... hanged two men in public on July 8 over the killings after their conviction for "corruption on earth, armed rebellion, and acting against national security," Mizan said at the time.
London-based rights group Amnesia Amnesty International says Iran executes more people than any other country except China and hanged at least 582 people last year, the highest number since 2015.
The Shah Cheragh mausoleum is home to the tomb of Ahmad, brother of Imam Reza — the eighth Shiite imam — and is considered the holiest site in southern Iran.
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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...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 
...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 
