Video report using English text, claiming ‘Coalition’ combat operations in Iraq to be ended ahead of schedule, 09DEC2021:
Same video report, but in Arabic:
Multiple pallets of munitions, including these M549A1 RA (rocket assisted) artillery rounds, were ‘divested’ (given away) to Iraqi forces at Al Asad Air Base, 06DEC2021. U.S. Army photo by Major Alexa Carlo-Hickman.
Multiple pallets of supplies at Al Asad Air Base, 06DEC2021. USA photo by Major Alexa Carlo-Hickman.
USA photo by Major Alexa Carlo-Hickman.
Iraqi officers sign for approximately 18 pallets of supplies distributed on Al Asad Air Base, 04DEC2021. USA photo by Major Alexa Carlo-Hickman.
04DEC2021, USA photo by Major Alexa Carlo-Hickman.
03DEC2021, the people of Lheban Village, in Erbil, defend themselves against a nighttime raid by so-called Islamic State:
On 10NOV2021, the U.S. military gave away yet more vehicles to Peshmerga forces at Erbil, Iraq. At least 170 vehicles were given away. U.S. Army video by Corporal Isaiah Scott:
Video report by Rudaw, 08NOV2021, explaining how small groups of so called Islamic State are scaring off Kurdish villagers in the area of Kirkuk, which is home to more than 20 oil fields:
On 01NOV2021, the U.S. Army’s Task Force Spartan revealed that expansion work is being done on Erbil Air Base. For about three months now, engineers with 806th Route Clearance Company, 111th Theater Engineer Brigade, have been improving gravel ‘parking lots’ with limestone: “The limestone is a softer stone that will break up easier and in return ‘lock in’ to itself when packed down. This creates a solid surface that can still be packed down and have a smooth top layer that vehicles will not sink into and get stuck. At the same time, it allows for drainage through the limestone that does not create a muddy surface.”-Sergeant First Class Stephen Jones, NCO in command of the project
Role 3 Hospital, Baghdad Diplomatic Support Center, U.S. Army photo by Major Andrew DeStefano.
On 20OCT2021, the U.S. Army’s Medical Logistics Command revealed that a FRAM (Forward Repair Activity-Medical) team from California was deployed to Iraq at the end of September, to repair and return to ‘operability’ medical equipment at a ‘Role 2 hospital’ on Erbil Air Base, as well as a ‘Role 3 hospital’ at the Baghdad Diplomatic Support Center, for the specific purpose of “boosting overall readiness.”
U.S. Army Photo by Staff Sergeant Jose A. Torres, Junior.
During 16-29OCT2021, Exercise Phoenix Fires was conducted near Al Asad Air Base. The purpose was to ‘hone the skills’ of Iraqi Tactical Attack Controllers (ITAC), who call in airstrikes to support ground forces. The training concluded with a live-fire exercise near Mosul Dam.
U.S. Army Phoenix Fires video explainer interview by Staff Sergeant Jose A. Torres, Junior:
Al Asad Air Base. U.S. Army photo by Specialist Clara Soria-Hernandez.
On 12OCT2021, Wisconsin Army National Guard’s 135th Medical Area Support Company conducted combat life-saving skills training for Iraqi special forces medics, as well as Iraqi air force clinic medics, on Al Asad Air Base.
U.S. Army photo by First Lieutenant James Mason.
On 11OCT2021, Task Force Spartan revealed that the 1022nd Engineer Company, 111th Theater Engineer Brigade, had engineers working on ‘vertical construction projects’ on Erbil Air Base. This is because more U.S. and Coalition personnel are operating on the air base, and it was deemed that existing structures were not safe.
Also on 11OCT2021, the U.S. Air Force revealed it had deployed Joint Expeditionary Tasked/Individual Augmentees (JET/IA) to Al Asad Air Base, to support AC-130W Stinger-2 operations. The AC-130W is a USAF Special Operation Forces gunship: “We’ve been assigned to support the AC-130W and provide them with all their logistical needs…whether that be transportation, aerial port, anything like that.”-Master Sergeant Charles Willis, Special Operation Forces and Logistics
One of the JET/IA Airman (Senior Airman Autumn Rivas), deployed for the AC-10W ops, intimated that combat action had increased when he said “You know any attacks that happen here, I would say like the other day we had to stay up all night and work all day. It hasn’t been the easiest thing. We do what we need to do to get things done, work at different paces and stagger things when they need to be staggered.”
Idaho National Laboratory photo by Meghan Fujimoto, 22OCT2021.
The U.S. Army’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency has revealed that from October 18th through the 22nd, Republic of Korea (RoK, South Korea) anti-nuclear combat team conducted training on the U.S. Navy owned Idaho National Laboratory (INL).
Learning how to use a collimator with a detector when finding a specific radiological source overwhelmed by other radiological sources. INL photo by Meghan Fujimoto.
It’s called the Nuclear Infrastructure, Assessment and Characterization Course, and is taught mainly on the INL’s Idaho Falls campus. This is, according to the U.S. Army, part of twice a year training of anti-nuclear units, this being the seventh time since 2018.
RoK NCT unit conducts decontamination of victims on INL’s Idaho Falls campus. INL photo by Meghan Fujimoto, 20OCT2021.
U.S. units are called Nuclear Disablement Teams (NDT), the RoK units are called Nuclear Characterization Teams (NCT), they have slightly different missions.
RoK NCT personnel train on how to detect a ‘suspected uranium conversion facility’ (covert uranium enrichment operation) on the INL’s Idaho Falls campus. INL photo by Meghan Fujimoto.
The U.S. NDT focus on finding and disabling nuclear facilities/weapons, while the RoK NCT include other CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear) operations.
Nuclear Infrastructure, Assessment and Disablement Course at the Idaho National Laboratory, 13-24SEP2021. Photo via INL.
Another U.S. Army NDT unit completed the Nuclear Infrastructure, Assessment and Characterization Course (NIACC) in September 2021.
Searching for the location of a large radiological source during September’s NIACC training at the INL. Photo via U.S. Army’s 20th Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosives (CBRNE) Command.
“Money always moves with a purpose. It’s fun to be able to be this close and be able to determine what that purpose is and to be able to influence it, to be able to disrupt, or inform to prevent or disrupt, an adversary’s ability to raise, use, move, or store money.”-Major Jon P. Evans, U.S. Army’s 266th Finance Support Center (based in Germany), 03NOV2021
That’s correct, the U.S. Army has launched what it calls CTF (Counter Threat Finance) operations, in Kuwait. The CTF operation is being conducted by what is called a Finance Support Center (FiSC), a typical finance unit that is normally the ‘bean counter’ of a larger Army unit.
“First is what we call fiscal preparation of the environment. We’ll go in and do an economic analysis of a country or a region and see who the key trading partners are, how much U.S. spending goes in there, look at their banking network, and just look at some other macroeconomic indicators like unemployment, inflation, levels of corruption. We use that fiscal preparation of the environment, the FPE, to develop a finance support package, and then that FSP will go into a targeting process to look at individuals or companies to either prevent them from doing business with the government or to produce other effects.”-Major Jon P. Evans, 266th Finance Support Center
An FBI agent conducts the first CTF course for National Guard personnel, 09DEC2011. Air National Guard photo by Technical Sergeant Betty Squatrito-Martin.
At the end of 2011, the DoD ordered the U.S. National Guard Bureau (NGB) to begin training for CTFs under the guise of counter-drug training. The 26 new counter threat finance personnel attended a three week training course at Joint Base Anacostia Bolling, November 29th-December 16, 2011: “This is a start to a whole new effort for the Guard. This effort that the Guardsmen are a part of helps build a skill base that I predict is going to be a growing part of what we do in the future.”-William F. Wechsler, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Counternarcotics and Global Threats
In May of 2014, National Guard Counterdrug CTF Program Manager, Captain Mesha Cichon, stated “The Counter Threat Finance career field is in its infancy, so any training our Soldiers and Airman can get to improve their skill set, is imperative.” Also, the boss of CTF at Joint Interagency Task Force South, Tammy Bowers, stated “CTF analysis is so new, we have to reach out to each other… In a few short years, we’ve developed an impressive cadre….”
Also in 2014, the DoD ordered that “a common lexicon for CTF, target nomination procedures, and guidance in defining measures of performance for CTF activities” be created regarding CTF operations globally.
Criminal Analysts Open Source Techniques training, May 2017. Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Betty Squatrito-Martin.
In May 2017, National Guard personnel attended counter-drug/CTF training (officially called Criminal Analysts Open Source Techniques) in Indiana, which focused on Social Media: “The online tools, techniques and methods we use to support law enforcement efforts are constantly evolving. We must continue to advance and train our Counterdrug members to meet this demand.”-First Sergeant Donald Cooley, criminal analyst
The Trucking and Bus Regulation is supposedly about the environmental impact of semi-trucks and busses, but there is another law known as AB5 (aka Gig Worker Law), it is the law that caused so much problems with home delivery service operations, such as Uber and Door Dash. On 05OCT2021, the Supreme Court of the United States refused to hear a challenge brought by a shipping company to California’s Assembly Bill 5 (AB5). The shipping company relies on what federal law calls ‘owner-operator’ truck drivers. There is another pending lawsuit by a different shipping company waiting to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court.
19OCT2021, Mid-West truck driver posts video showing huge warehouse with plenty of open loading docks while at the same time truckers are being told they have to wait to unload, the result creates domino effect causing truckers to miss or cancel their next pick-ups, also, trucks are being refused entry for piddly paperwork reasons. Pay attention to the amount of open/not in use loading docks at this massive warehouse/distribution center:
Federal Department of Transportation (DoT) rules governing the trucking industry basically apply to truck drivers who cross state lines (interstate commerce), truck drivers who do not only have to comply with state laws.
On 14OCT2021, the gov’na of Idaho, along with the State Police, admitted to something most of us living in Eastern/Southeastern Idaho already knew; crime is indeed up because of illegal drugs trafficked by illegal immigrants!
In fact, Gov’na Brad Little went so far as to say little ol’ city of Pocatello was the ‘Gate City’ for the illegal drugs coming from Mexico, saying there’s “an arrow going right to Pocatello”, and “Of the drug trafficking organizations investigated last year, 96% identified Mexico as the source country for drugs trafficked into the region.” (Gate City is the unofficial name for Pocatello, I say unofficial because several decades ago the residents voted on adopting the nickname and they voted against it, yet the local news media keeps using it)
During the press conference, State Police trooper Sergeant Curt Sproat said “Since 2018, the Idaho State Police forensic lab has seen a more than a 200% increase in the amount of fentanyl…” :
Blind Bat News has been following the illegal drugs/illegal immigrant debacle in The Gem State of Idaho, and the rest of the world, for the past decade:
Japan’s Type-74 battle tank was designed in the 1960s and produced in the 1970s and ’80s (during the Cold War). It is to remain active with the Japan Ground Self Defense Forces (JGSDF) until 2024.
Camp Fuji, Japan, 16JUN2021, U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Scott Aubuchon.
USMC photo by Lance Corporal Scott Aubuchon, June 2021.
USMC photo by Lance Corporal Scott Aubuchon, June 2021.
USMC photo by Lance Corporal Scott Aubuchon, June 2021.
Camp Nihonbara, November 2020, USMC photo by Lance Corporal Tyler Harmon.
Camp Nihonbara, November 2020, USMC photo by Lance Corporal Tyler Harmon.
For the first time Japanese Type 74s invaded California’s Fort Irwin, in January 2014. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Chris McCullough.
U.S. Army video of Type 74 live-fire on Fort Irwin-National Training Center (NTC), California, January 2014:
NTC, California, January 2014, U.S. army photo.
NTC, California, January 2014, U.S. army photo.
Hijudai Maneuver Area, August 2012, USMC photo.
Mitsubishi Type 74 Main Battle Tank, Ojojihara Training Area, June 2001, U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Chance W. Haworth.
Ojojihara Training Area, June 2001, USMC photo by Lance Corporal Chance W. Haworth.
It is looking more and more like the pandemic is just a power grab by a global cabal of control freaks. Incomplete list of videos and links to news reports as of 11 October 2021:
SOUTH AFRICA: Amazingly, despite the pandemic, and the fact that South Africa requires 12 months of ‘community service’ for healthcare workers, thousands of doctors, nurses, and student hygienists, have not been allowed to work!
05OCT2021, Kurdistan24’s interview of politician with British Empire’s United Kingdom explains (poorly, full of typical diplomatic rhetoric) why Kurdistan is suddenly now important (do your research to learn that after World War One the British Empire threw the Kurds under the bus when it, along with France, created the modern day Middle East):
04OCT2021, Iraqi real estate investment company called HappyLand For Investment releases video promoting massive development programs in Erbil-Kurdistan, apparently as a result of massive oil industry investments funded by foreign governments:
U.S. Army photo by Specialist Clara Soria-Hernandez.
04-06OCT2021, on Al Asad Air Base yet another U.S. taxpayer funded giveaway of weapons, ammo, and other equipment, to the Iraqi Qwat al-Khasah (Special Forces).
USA photo by Specialist Clara Soria-Hernandez.
The U.S. Department of Defense admits that for fiscal year 2021 (October 2020 to September 2021) more than $500-million worth of military stuff has been given to Iraqi military and Peshmerga! Don’t forget, these ‘divestments’ have been going on for more than a decade!
30SEP2021, Rudaw English interviews China’s envoy to Kurdistan (Erbil) as to why China is now heavily involved with Kurdistan:
29SEP2021 Kudistan24 interview with Netherlands Council General about so called Peshmerga Reforms agreed to by Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom and United States, and of course funded by the taxpayers, as well as upcoming elections in Iraq:
While the U.S. Congress debates raising the debt limit of the U.S. government (again), another nearly $20-million was given away to the Iraqi military!
U.S. Army photo by Specialist Clara Soria-Hernandez.
On 24SEP2021, $18-million worth of vehicles were given to the Iraqi Federal Intelligence and Investigation Agency, on Al Asad Air Base.
USA photo by Specialist Clara Soria-Hernandez, 24SEP2021.
WHY IS BIDEN INCREASING MILITARY OPERATIONS IN NORTHERN IRAQ?
