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#21 Post by PHXPhlyer » Thu Mar 04, 2021 3:50 pm

Not only in Effrika.
"Merica" too, just no cows...


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AP Exclusive: 13 people killed in crash west of Yuma came through border hole

At least 13 people were killed in a crash near Imperial, California just west of Yuma Tuesday morning. (CBS News)

HOLTVILLE, CA (AP) — Thirteen people killed in one of the deadliest border crashes on record were among 44 people who entered the U.S. through a hole cut into Southern California's border fence with Mexico, the Border Patrol said Wednesday.

Gregory Bovino, the agency’s El Centro sector chief, told The Associated Press that surveillance video showed a Ford Expedition and Chevrolet Suburban drive through the opening early Tuesday. It’s believed they were part of a migrant smuggling operation.

The Suburban carried 19 people, and it caught fire after entering the U.S. All escaped the vehicle and were taken into custody by Border Patrol agents.

The Expedition crammed with 25 people continued on, and a tractor-trailer struck it a short time later. Ten of the 13 killed have been identified as Mexican citizens. The rest of those in the SUV and the truck driver survived.

The Border Patrol said its agents were not pursuing the vehicle before the crash. The opening in the fence was about 30 miles (48 kilometers) east of the crash in the heart of California’s Imperial Valley, a major farming region.

It was made of steel bollards that were built before former President Donald Trump blanketed much of the border with taller barriers that go deeper into the ground.

“Human smugglers have proven time and again they have little regard for human life,” Bovino said. “Those who may be contemplating crossing the border illegally should pause to think of the dangers that all too often end in tragedy, tragedies our Border Patrol Agents and first responders are unfortunately very familiar with.”

Seats in the Expedition had been removed except for those for the driver and front passenger, said Omar Watson, chief of the California Highway Patrol's border division.

The cause of Tuesday's collision wasn't yet known, authorities said. The SUV is built to hold eight people safely, but smugglers are known to pack people into vehicles in extremely unsafe conditions to maximize their profits.

The crash happened during the height of the harvest in the agricultural region that provides much of the lettuce, onions, broccoli and winter vegetables to U.S. supermarkets. The community of Holtville where the crash occurred is a no-stoplight town with a gazebo in its large central square and calls itself the world's carrot capital.

The area became a major route for illegal border crossings in the late 1990s after heightened enforcement in San Diego pushed migrants to more remote areas. Many crossed the All-American Canal, an aqueduct that runs along the border and unleashes Colorado River water to farms through a vast network of canals.

Barely a mile from the crash, there is a cemetery with rows of unmarked bricks that is a burial ground for migrants who died crossing the border.

In 2001, John Hunter founded Water Station, a volunteer group that leaves jugs of water in giant plastic drums for dehydrated migrants.

“I was trying to figure out how to stop the deaths,” said Hunter, whose brother Duncan strongly advocated for border wall construction as a congressman.

Illegal crossings in the area fell sharply in the mid-2000s but the area has remained a draw for migrants and was a priority for wall construction under former President Donald Trump. His administration's first wall project was in Calexico.

When police arrived at the crash site about 125 miles (200 kilometers) east of San Diego, some passengers were trying to crawl out of the crumpled SUV. Others were wandering around the nearby fields. The big rig’s front end was pushed into the SUV’s left side and two empty trailers were jackknifed behind it.

“It was a pretty chaotic scene,” Watson said.

Passengers in the SUV ranged in age from 15 to 53 and were a mix of men and women, officials said. The driver was from Mexicali, Mexico, just across the border, and was among those killed. The 68-year-old driver of the big rig, who is from the nearby California community of El Centro, was hospitalized with moderate injuries.

The passengers’ injuries ranged from minor to severe and included fractures and head trauma. They were being cared for at several hospitals. One person was treated and released.

The crash occurred around 6:15 a.m. under a clear, sunny sky at an intersection just outside Holtville, about 11 miles (18 kilometers) north of the border. Authorities said the tractor-trailer was heading north on a highway when the SUV pulled in front of it from a road with a stop sign.

A California Highway Patrol report said the SUV entered an intersection directly in front of the big rig, which hit the left side of the SUV. Both vehicles came to a halt on a dirt shoulder.

It’s not clear if the SUV ran a stop sign or had stopped before entering the highway. Speeds also weren't yet known.

The speed limit for tractor-trailers on the highway is 55 mph (89 kph), according to California Highway Patrol Officer Jake Sanchez. The other road also has a 55 mph speed limit.

A 1997 Ford Expedition can carry a maximum payload of 2,000 pounds. If it had 25 people inside, that would easily exceed the payload limit, taxing the brakes and making it tougher to steer the vehicle, said Frank Borris, former head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Office of Defects Investigation.

“You’re going to have extended stopping distances, delayed reactions to steering inputs and potential overreaction to any type of high-speed lane change,” said Borris, who now runs a safety consulting business.

SUVs of that age tended to be top-heavy even when not carrying a lot of weight, Borris said.

“With all of that payload above the vehicle’s center of gravity, it’s going to make it even more unstable,” he said.

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#22 Post by k3k3 » Thu Mar 04, 2021 11:30 pm

According to the BBC port Elizabeth in South Africa is to be given an indigenous name starting with Gge.... with the Gg being pronounced as a click.

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#23 Post by Undried Plum » Thu Mar 04, 2021 11:36 pm

k3k3 wrote:
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Port Elizabeth in South Africa is to be given an indigenous name starting with Gge.... with the Gg being pronounced as a click.
That's going to be right bugger for reflectives on R/T.

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#24 Post by Woody » Fri Mar 05, 2021 8:37 am

//Hui !Gaeb
is apparently the proposal for Cape Town :((
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#25 Post by ian16th » Fri Mar 05, 2021 9:32 am

k3k3 wrote:
Thu Mar 04, 2021 11:30 pm
According to the BBC port Elizabeth in South Africa is to be given an indigenous name starting with Gge.... with the Gg being pronounced as a click.

Try booking a flight...
Is this going to be any better or worse than the time that international transfer pax at Jan Smuts/Joburg Intl/ORTambo missed their SAA flight to Port Elizabeth because the PA announcements had referred to the flight to 'Pee Ee'!

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#26 Post by Ex-Ascot » Sat Mar 06, 2021 10:05 am

Don't think I have posted this before.

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#27 Post by llondel » Sun Mar 07, 2021 5:48 am

Ex-Ascot wrote:
Sat Mar 06, 2021 10:05 am
Don't think I have posted this before.

One could argue that he was the smart one, or the foreman.

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#28 Post by bob2s » Sun Mar 07, 2021 6:19 am

One could argue that he was the smart one, or the foreman.
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Or the other option, he is thick as two short planks

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#29 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Sun Mar 07, 2021 7:44 am

ian16th wrote:
Fri Mar 05, 2021 9:32 am
k3k3 wrote:
Thu Mar 04, 2021 11:30 pm
According to the BBC port Elizabeth in South Africa is to be given an indigenous name starting with Gge.... with the Gg being pronounced as a click.

Try booking a flight...
Is this going to be any better or worse than the time that international transfer pax at Jan Smuts/Joburg Intl/ORTambo missed their SAA flight to Port Elizabeth because the PA announcements had referred to the flight to 'Pee Ee'!

Not a joke.
Bloody furriners.. everybody knows Pee Ee is Port Elizabeth, in the same way as Joeys is Johannesburg... =))
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#30 Post by Ex-Ascot » Sun Mar 07, 2021 9:08 am

bob2s wrote:
Sun Mar 07, 2021 6:19 am
One could argue that he was the smart one, or the foreman.
Or the other option, he is thick as two short planks
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llondel, he is giving it his best effort. Bob is right we are talking extremely thick here.
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#31 Post by Ex-Ascot » Sun Mar 07, 2021 9:11 am

Not sure where this is but there are two NRs in the background. The question is how the hell did they get her out?
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#32 Post by PHXPhlyer » Sun Mar 07, 2021 3:40 pm

I see no groceries in the cart. :-?
Is she eating everything? :-o :ymdevil:

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#33 Post by Alisoncc » Sun Mar 07, 2021 11:40 pm

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Bloody furriners.. everybody knows Pee Ee is Port Elizabeth, in the same way as Joeys is Johannesburg... =))

My favourite was LM. Magnificent seafood to be had there.
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#34 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Mon Mar 08, 2021 4:13 am

Alisoncc wrote:
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TheGreenGoblin wrote:
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Bloody furriners.. everybody knows Pee Ee is Port Elizabeth, in the same way as Joeys is Johannesburg... =))

My favourite was LM. Magnificent seafood to be had there.
LM was a great place to go, as you say, especially if you went to the right seafood restaurant (of which there were many), but muggins here managed to get food poisoned in LM once. Not much fun, took weeks to get properly better. Mozambique is still a nice place to go to but, although might argue that too many Vaalies have settled, or have holiday houses on the coast there, and things are getting militarilyy hot in the far north again.
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#35 Post by Alisoncc » Mon Mar 08, 2021 4:34 am

TheGreenGoblin wrote:
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things are getting military hot in the far north again.
Are the pork and cheese pulling out again? Didn't know they had gone back. ;)))
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#36 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Mon Mar 08, 2021 5:40 am

Alisoncc wrote:
Mon Mar 08, 2021 4:34 am
TheGreenGoblin wrote:
Mon Mar 08, 2021 4:13 am
things are getting military hot in the far north again.
Are the pork and cheese pulling out again? Didn't know they had gone back. ;)))
Quavash, paw pawsh and banash...

The Portuguese girls were very pretty mind... =))

Sadly oil has reared its ugly head and the Muslim fanatics from the north have appeared in the area with various other interested parties such as Russia' "Wagnerian" mercenaries, not to mention every gold digger, freeloader, and chancers like the CIA turning the place into the proverbial hell hole.

https://theowp.org/crisis_index/norther ... Mozambique.
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#37 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Sun Mar 28, 2021 4:52 am

TheGreenGoblin wrote:
Mon Mar 08, 2021 5:40 am

Sadly oil has reared its ugly head and the Muslim fanatics from the north have appeared in the area with various other interested parties such as Russia' "Wagnerian" mercenaries, not to mention every gold digger, freeloader, and chancers like the CIA turning the place into the proverbial hell hole.

https://theowp.org/crisis_index/norther ... Mozambique.
Islamist militants seized control of a town in northern Mozambique, killing several people including at least one foreign worker, near a huge gas project involving France’s Total and other energy companies, security sources said on Saturday.

Militants raided the town of Palma in the northern province of Cabo Delgado on Wednesday, forcing nearly 200 people including foreign gas workers to be evacuated from a hotel where they had sought refuge.

Some people were killed, including a South African, in an ambush during the rescue operation led by the military, security sources and some surviving workers said, though details were not immediately available on their numbers or nationalities.

Local media reported at least seven workers were killed during the ambush. The government has not given an update on the attack since Thursday.

The militant attack on Palma was the closest yet to the gas project in a three-year Islamist insurgency across Mozambique’s north.

“Government forces have withdrawn from Palma so the town has been taken,” one security source said. Another source confirmed militants had taken the town though fighting in the area was ongoing.

Palma is about six miles (10km) from the liquified natural gas project located on the Afungi peninsula on the Indian Ocean coast near the Tanzania border. Jihadist militants staged the surprise raid, sending terrified residents into nearby forests, while gas and government workers sought shelter at the Amarula Palma hotel. The defence ministry spokesman, Omar Saranga, urged people to “remain calm and follow the rescue instructions given by the authorities”.

Several other people were killed, witnesses and a rights group said.

About 80 people were taken away from the hotel in military trucks on Friday, but some of the vehicles were ambushed, an official from a private security firm involved in the rescue operation, said. “The 17-car convoy with people rescued from Amarula (hotel) was attacked soon after it left. Some have been killed but many managed to escape,” the source said.

Those remaining in the hotel went to nearby military barracks on the beachfront and were ferried out on boats to an undisclosed location, the source said. “At first it was thought they had been killed ... They were around 100 people,” the source added.

Mobile phone communication with Palma has been disrupted since the assault began.

A South African government source told AFP in Johannesburg that one South African national had been killed in the violence.

The attack came hours after Total, the principal investor in the £14.5bn 16.9bn euro) gas project, said it was gradually resuming work, after it had suspended all construction work in January due to a spate of attacks.

Six other international firms including ExxonMobil are also present in the region.

“The scale and intensity of the attack on Palma required meticulous planning, suggesting that group used a lull in the fighting during rainy season in the first the months of 2021 to prepare a concentrated high-profile attack,” said Alexandre Raymakers, senior Africa Analyst at the UK-based risk intelligence firm Verisk Maplecroft.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack yet, but recently some assaults have increasingly been claimed by the Islamic State Central Africa Province, affiliated with the Islamic State group.

The extremists fighters have since October 2017 raided villages and towns across Mozambique’s north, causing almost 700,000 people to flee their homes. The violence has left at least 2,600 people dead, half of them civilians, according to the US-based data collecting agency Armed Conflict Location and Event Data.

Speaking on the phone on Friday evening after he was evacuated to Afungi, one worker said most of the town had been destroyed and “many people are dead”.

Human Rights Watch said witnesses had spoken of seeing “bodies on the streets and residents fleeing after the … fighters fired indiscriminately at people and buildings”.

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#39 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Sat Jul 03, 2021 12:47 am

A deep dive into the issues in why Cabo Delgado in Mozambique could become Africa’s next jihadist frontier...

https://www.defenceweb.co.za/featured/f ... -frontier/
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#40 Post by ian16th » Sat Jul 03, 2021 1:32 pm

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