Crusader Corner: 44+ Afghan Soldiers Missing in U.S.

Pentagon Says Dozens Of Afghan Soldiers Missing In U.S.

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Now here is one you will definitely not hear about on state run media.

44 or more afghan soldiers with American military training are roaming around the United States right now illegally.

Now if you keep up with the current state of the War in Afghanistan right now (yeah there is still a War going on) you know that the type of people that populate the Afghan Military are not exactly what you would call “stable and loyal”, in fact a majority of them are insider plants loyal only to the Taliban and are just itching to do their part for their jihad against America.

Bottom line, with the Syrian refugee debacle and this combined, we have a Government who imports possible terrorist into this country and then has a habit of losing track of them.

Statistically speaking, we are ripe for another big disaster.

Stay Alert, Stay Armed and Stay Dangerous!

Modern Crime: “PutinFellas”

 Putin’s Kleptocracy and the Russian Nationalized Mafia

As deputy mayor of St. Petersburg in the 1990s, Vladimir Putin spent a lot of time with gangsters.

He collaborated with the infamous Tambov and Malyshev organized crime groups to gain control of St. Petersburg’s gambling industry.

He used his office to help launder mafia money and to arrange foreign travel for known mobsters.

And security for the Ozero dacha cooperative he co-founded with some of his former KGB pals was provided by a company run by the Tambov gang, whom Putin also helped secure a monopoly over the city’s fuel distribution network.

Putin was, in fact, an important liaison between the local government and the criminal underworld, Karen Dawisha writes in her highly acclaimed bookPutin’s Kleptocracy.

And when he moved into the Kremlin, Putin put his old mafia contacts to use as key tools of Russian statecraft.

“A significant part of Russian organised crime is organised directly from the offices of the Kremlin,” the International Business Times quoted Ben Emmerson, a prominent British attorney who represents the family of slain Russian defector Aleksandr Litvinenko, as saying.

Likewise, Russian organized crime expert Mark Galeotti noted in a recent lecture at the Hudson Institute that Putin’s Russia is “not so much a mafia state as a state with a nationalized mafia.”

Read the Remainder at Radio Free Europe

Russia’s GRU Chief Dies Unexpectedly

The Kremlin says the head of Russia’s military intelligence agency, which is known as the GRU, has died unexpectedly.

A statement posted on the Kremlin website on January 4 said that General Igor Sergun, 58, had suffered a “sudden death,” but gave no details as to the cause, timing, or circumstances. The state-run news agency TASS said he died on January 3.

The statement quoted President Vladimir Putin as giving his condolences, saying that Sergun had dedicated his “entire life…to serving the homeland and the armed forces.”

Sergun took over from General Aleksandr Shlyakhturov, who stepped down in 2011 at age 64. No replacement for Sergun was announced.

His death comes at a time when clandestine, paramilitary, and espionage agencies in Russia have taken a central role in executing key policy decisions under Putin, himself a former chief of the lead domestic spy agency, the Federal Security Service (FSB).

“Sergun was an extremely important figure in the revival of the fortunes of the GRU, an agency that was pretty much at rock bottom when he took it over at the end of 2011,” Mark Galeotti, a New York University professor and authority on Russia’s security apparatus, wrote in a blog post on January 4.

The GRU — formally subordinate to the Russian Armed Forces’ General Staff — is widely believed to have played a central role in the stealth operation to take control of Ukraine’s Crimea region in early 2014, when masked, camouflaged, armed soldiers appeared suddenly throughout the Black Sea peninsula.

Western analysts and officials believe the agency was also instrumental in coordinating and overseeing the insurgency in eastern Ukraine, where a conflict between Russian-backed separatists and government forces has killed more than 9,000 people since it erupted in April 2014.

Despite overwhelming evidence, Moscow has repeatedly denied its involvement in eastern Ukraine.

A Russian captured in Ukraine last year said he and a fellow captive were active GRU officers when they were seized, while the Russian military said they were not serving at the time.

Sergun’s position as GRU chief landed him on the sanctions lists imposed in early 2014 by both the United States and the European Union, which specifically cited his oversight of “the activity of GRU officers in eastern Ukraine.”

The sanctions imposed on Sergun were “good Western recognition for the role of GRU in this conflict,” says Michael Kofman, a Russia analyst most recently with the Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute in Washington.

The operations in both Crimea and eastern Ukraine have been characterized by what experts say is a resurgence of Soviet-style “hybrid” or “nonlinear” warfare, which employ conventional weaponry, but also stealth deployments, misinformation campaigns, and cyberwarfare to keep an adversary from knowing how to respond.

In a speech in April in Moscow, Sergun blamed the United States and its allies for the emergence of Islamic State, the radical Islamist movement whose fighters have seized parts of Iraq and Syria and recruited thousands of people from around the world.

Sergun cited the U.S. decision to supply Afghan mujahedin fighters battling Soviet armed forces in the 1980s as one cause for the emergence of Al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups.

Mosul’s Vigilante Brigades Risk It All To Take On IS

This is gonna be America in 5 Years if we keep letting Hundreds of Thousands of “refugee” muslims into this Country and eventually it all falls to Sharia Law. Sound Far Fetched? Look at the condition both socially and legally in Great Britain.-SF

Their identities are secret. They work after sundown, preferring deserted areas of the city. No one knows where they will strike next. They target different neighborhoods each time.

Their mission is simple: to kill Islamic State (IS) militants.

Their targets never vary, but their methods do. Sometimes they use snipers to take out a militant. Sometimes they plant roadside bombs and blow up cars. Sometimes they stab their victims, sometimes strangle them.

They are Mosul’s vigilante brigades, shadowy groups of civilians-turned-armed-assassins who risk their own lives to kill IS gunmen — as well as those who support them.

IS has done its best to eliminate these assassins, tracking down and killing as many of them as it can. But local people in Mosul say these anonymous resistance fighters have had an impact, that IS has covered up the killings and changed how its gunmen operate in Mosul.

Hiding Behind Beards

“Do you know why IS ordered all men [in Mosul] to grow their beards?” the young man asks with a laugh. “It’s because they don’t want to be recognized.”

The young man says he is part of an anti-IS group called the Brigades of Mosul that assassinates IS militants. He tells RFE/RL’s correspondent in Mosul that his group has taken out IS gunmen using sniper rifles. Since then, the militants have tried to disguise themselves so they blend in with the public, the young man claims.

The young man, who refuses to give his name, says he and his friends have also planted bombs in Mosul to target IS vehicles. Because of the attacks, IS militants now drive unmarked cars so they are not so visible, he claims.

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