ninjapundit: Daily Misfortune Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Daily Misfortune Tuesday, January 5, 2016 --- ===
Month Misfortune January 2016 ---

Sometimes accidents aren't accidents. Why do so many crimes and accidents look like random unconnected attacks with no apparent cause or link to a political motive?

Headlines:

2 surrendered 2 "Military age men" Pakistan and Afghan With Terrorist Ties Caught at San Diego's southern border "Credible threat" posed by unknown Afghans and Pakistanis
Border Patrol reports bands of Gypsies crossing from Mexico seeking Canada Refugee Asylum
Afghanistan A United States Army soldier is killed and two others wounded in a joint operation with Afghan National Security Forcesin Afghanistan's southern Helmand Province. (Washington Post)
2016 Kaliachak riots Violent riots break out in Kaliachak, West Bengal, India, after political activist Kamlesh Tiwari allegedly insulted the Muslim prophet Muhammad. (Times of India)
Nimr al-Nimr
One Shia protester is killed and a child is injured by Saudi police in Al-Awamiyah, Eastern Province. (FT)
7 killed Libya militants continue to besiege the Libyan oil port of Sidra, attacking checkpoints on the road to the port, leaving seven guards dead. oil storage tank in the port was set on fire by a long-range rocket
The Islamic State, following Saudi Arabia's execution of 47 people on Saturday, threatens to destroy Saudi Arabia's Tarfiya and al-Ha'ir Prisons holding Al-Qaeda and ISIL supporters. (Reuters) (Daily Mail)
14 deaths and over 30 injured: bus catches fire in the Chinese city of Yinchuan resulting in at least . (AP via Fox News)
Ahmad Younis Kawazba (18) of the village of Sa'ir north of Hebron was shot after stabbing an Israeli soldier at a Gush Etzion checkpoint in the West Bank. The soldier was lightly wounded. Kawazba is the 6th person from Sa'ir to have died since the October 2015 surge in the Israeli-Palestine conflict.

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2 surrendered 2 "Military age men" Pakistan and Afghan With Terrorist Ties Caught at San Diego's southern border "Credible threat" posed by unknown Afghans and Pakistanis San Diego Reader By Marty Graham, Jan. 5, 2016 Among the several dozen Pakistani and Afghan men who have entered the U.S. illegally, coming into San Diego from Tijuana, two were found to have ties to terrorist groups, according to a letter (download pdf) sent by U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter to the Department of Homeland Security. Muhammad Azeem and Muktar Ahmad, both in their 20s, surrendered to U.S. Border Patrol agents in September....[matched terrorist databases]... among dozens of men — described by Border Patrol agents as “military age and carrying U.S. cash” who began entering the U.S. through a Tijuana-based human-smuggling pipeline in September...pretty unusual..2013, U.S. Customs and Border Protection detained fewer than 400 Pakistanis throughout the entire United States Between October 1, 2014, and Sept. 30, 2015, the San Diego sector of the Border Patrol detained 18 Pakistanis and 1 Afghan, according to Border Patrol statistics. Between October 1 and mid-November of last year, 2 Afghans and 22 Pakistanis reportedly surrendered to Border Patrol agents... detained more Pakistanis and Afghans in the first month of this fiscal year than we did all last year,”... begun making an effort to avoid being caught... [before assumed they would be released]... . “Afghanistan and Pakistan do not have a robust identification system — these are places where there is tremendous potential for official document and visa fraud.”
Border Patrol reports bands of Gypsies crossing from Mexico seeking Canada Refugee Asylum San Diego Reader Canada said to be their destination By Lucy D. Barker, June 14, 2013 Since 2010, more than 2200 Romanians have come into California from Mexico illegally and surrendered to the first U.S. Border Patrol agent they saw, according to Border Patrol statistics and accounts....come in groups of a dozen or so that include children, say they are families and that the women are pregnant."...groups surrender peacefully and easily — without running — and seem to seek out agents to surrender to. Agents say that some of them insist on being called “Gypsies” rather than Romanian.....were able to obtain refugee status and benefits once they arrived in Canada. But now turned away..unable to obtain travel visas directly to Canada or the U.S.; Mexico, however, will let them enter the country... once in US immigration hearing date and released,..Then they disappear...2015 over 300 have entered the U.S. from Mexico and surrendered. Last year 2014 peak year, over 800 reported Romanians up from 670 in 2011 and more than 400 in 2010. By contrast, just 37 Romanians were caught by the Border Patrol along the California border between 2005 and 2009, according to Border Patrol statistics... route from Mexico to US to Canada.... where, until recently, members of the Roma ethnic minority group could still attain refugee status.... Canadian Broadcast System has done a series of stories on Roma entering Canada illegally from the U.S. in order to seek asylum there.
War in Afghanistan (2015–present) A United States Army soldier is killed and two others wounded in a joint operation with Afghan National Security Forcesin Afghanistan's southern Helmand Province. (Washington Post)
2016 Kaliachak riots Violent riots break out in Kaliachak, West Bengal, India, after political activist Kamlesh Tiwari allegedly insulted the Muslim prophet Muhammad. (Times of India)
Nimr al-Nimr
One Shia protester is killed and a child is injured by Saudi police in Al-Awamiyah, Eastern Province. (FT)
Libyan Civil War (2014–present) Islamic State militants continue to besiege the Libyan oil port of Sidra, attacking checkpoints on the road to the port, leaving seven guards dead. The National Oil Corporation (NOC) said an oil storage tank in the port was set on fire by a long-range rocket, and that the oil tank fire started just as firefighters were close to bringing under control another blaze at an oil tank that was hit during fighting in the nearby Ra's Lanuf Refinery on Monday. (Reuters)
The Islamic State, following Saudi Arabia's execution of 47 people on Saturday, threatens to destroy Saudi Arabia's Tarfiya and al-Ha'ir Prisons holding Al-Qaeda and ISIL supporters. (Reuters) (Daily Mail)
14 deaths and over 30 injured: bus catches fire in the Chinese city of Yinchuan resulting in at least . (AP via Fox News)
Ahmad Younis Kawazba (18) of the village of Sa'ir north of Hebron was shot after stabbing an Israeli soldier at a Gush Etzion checkpoint in the West Bank. The soldier was lightly wounded. Kawazba is the 6th person from Sa'ir to have died since the October 2015 surge in the Israeli-Palestine conflict.

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Oct 12, 2015, East Bay man charged in bizarre terrorist car home molotov cocktail joker card arson rampage on his wedding party friends after divorce San Francisco Chronicle By Evan Sernoffsky Tuesday, January 5, 2016 Joshua Van Buskirk is facing arson charges. A Walnut Creek man, with an apparent vendetta against his former wedding party, went on a fiery rampage through Contra Costa County, tossing Molotov cocktails and leaving joker playing cards at the homes of his victims, police said Tuesday. The wild case all came together Christmas Eve when authorities identified 33-year-old Joshua Van Buskirk as a suspect in a string of arson fires in Antioch, Concord, and Pleasant Hill... Oct. 12 unusual truck fire.. around the time Van Buskirk and his wife were going through a divorce...gasoline on the hood and igniting it with a match, leaving joker from a deck of playing cards... Dec. 23 repeat in Antioch with card. next day 24 Molotov cocktails at a home in Concord...Churchill Drive in Concord ...Molotov cocktail burned the home’s garage door. with family sleeping inside, Marshall said... left ace of spades playing cards .. linked the victims in each of the arson fires to his wedding party.. police showed up at Van Buskirk’s home on Dec. 24, found several more Molotov cocktails and a list of more potential targets... charged on Dec. 29 with arson to an inhabited dwelling, three counts of possessing Molotov cocktails, two counts of child endangerment and three counts of arson to property. Joshua Van Buskirk 'set fire to his groomsmen's homes and cars in revenge' Daily Mail‎ January 6, 2016 Joshua Van Buskirk, 33, of Walnut Creek, California, was arrested last month in connection ...Walnut Creek arson suspect reportedly targeted groomsmen after failed marriage, left joker cards Contra Costa Times‎ -January 5, 2016 East Bay Arson Suspect Targeted Friends From Wedding Police: Suspect targeted groomsmen after failed marriage ... abc11.com January 7, 2016 Joshua Van Buskirk, 33, was arrested last month and later charged in a string of arson fires in Pleasant Hill, Antioch, and Concord. Though he ...

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