[ShabelleMedia] Tensions between Somali government forces and al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... murderous Moslems have escalated in the Sabiid area, located near Afgooye town in the Lower Shabelle region, since yesterday.
Residents in the area are living in fear, with some fleeing to Afgooye to escape the potential outbreak of combat, as a conflict between the two sides appears imminent in Sabiid, which is currently under the control of al-Shabaab. The group took over the area a week ago.
Heavy fighting ... as opposed to the more usual name-calling or slapsy... has broken out in the region on several occasions, forcing Somali government forces to withdraw after coming under intense pressure from continuous al-Shabaab attacks.
Additionally, Awdheegle, a town close to Sabiid, has witnessed significant displacement of people due to escalating tensions. This followed an attempt by Somali government forces to retake the area, which remains under al-Shabaab control.
During the month of Ramadan, al-Shabaab has intensified its operations in both Lower Shabelle and Middle Shabelle regions, successfully regaining several areas, which has dealt a significant blow to the Somali government’s authority in these regions.
[Garowe] The US military confirmed an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in Somalia’s northern state of Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... , a testament to its continued support in the fight against terrorism, with the Horn of Africa nation pushing for the elimination of terror groups that have wreaked havoc for over two decades.
In what appears to be support for Puntland regional forces, the US military targeted ISIS forces of Evil in the Cal-Miskaad mountains within the Bari region, leading to multiple deaths, the Command confirmed in a statement on X (formerly Twitter).
The operation comes about two months after President Donald Trump ...Never got invited to a P.Diddy party... announced the death of a senior ISIS commander who was eliminated following an airstrike within the northern state of Somalia.
"AFRICOM’s initial assessment is that multiple ISIS-Somalia operatives were killed and no civilians were harmed. ISIS-Somalia has proved both its will and capability to attack U.S. and partner forces. This group's malicious efforts threaten U.S. security interests," read the statement.
"AFRICOM, alongside the Federal Government of Somalia and Somali Armed Forces, continues to take action to degrade ISIS-Somalia's ability to plan and conduct attacks that threaten the U.S. homeland, our forces, and our civilians abroad."
The statement further reads that specific details about the operation will not be released to ensure continued operations security. The US is a partner in the fight against both al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... and ISIS forces of Evil within the Horn of Africa nation.
ISIS has continued to expand bases in Puntland but the recent operation dubbed Lightening has helped dislodge them from strategic locations in the Cal-Miskaad mountains. Puntland says its forces and partners have made significant gains in the war.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] At least three employees of the Water Corporation were killed and two others were maimed when the Water Authority building in al-Mansuriyah district, southeast of Hodeidah province, was targeted by Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s launched by US warplanes.
According to a local source, the US fighter jets launched three airstrikes on Tuesday evening targeting the building, killing three workers and wounding several others, all of whom were working during the Eid al-Fitr holiday.
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White House: “These Houthi strikes have been incredibly successful. Last time I was at this podium, there were more than 100 successful strikes. There have now been over 200 successful strikes -- Iran is incredibly weakened as a result of these attacks.”
[IsraelTimes] Trump promises ‘real pain’ for Iran-backed rebels, who say they used a ‘locally manufactured missile’ to shoot down 16th, $30-million MQ-9 Reaper drone since Oct. 7 attack
Yemen’s Houthi rebels claimed Tuesday that they shot down another American MQ-9 Reaper drone, even as the US kept up its campaign of intense airstrikes targeting the group.
The reported shootdown over Yemen’s contested Marib governate came as airstrikes hit around Sanaa, the country’s rebel-held capital, and Saada, a stronghold for the Houthis.
US President Donald Trump issued a new warning to both the Houthis and their main benefactor, Iran, describing the group as having “been decimated” by the campaign of strikes that began March 15.
“Many of their Fighters and Leaders are no longer with us,” Trump wrote on his social media website Truth Social.
“We hit them every day and night — Harder and harder. Their capabilities that threaten Shipping and the Region are rapidly being destroyed. Our attacks will continue until they are no longer a threat to Freedom of Navigation,” wrote Trump.
He added: “The choice for the Houthis is clear: Stop shooting at US ships, and we will stop shooting at you. Otherwise, we have only just begun, and the real pain is yet to come, for both the Houthis and their sponsors in Iran.”
HOUTHIS CLAIM THEY DOWNED ANOTHER US DRONE
The rebels claimed to have shot down a drone in Marib governorate, home to oil and gas fields still under the control of allies to Yemen’s exiled central government. Footage released on social media showed flames in the night, with a Yemeni man claiming a drone had been shot down.
Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree, a Houthi military spokesman, separately claimed to have downed the MQ-9 drone in a prerecorded video message.
Saree described the rebels targeting the drone with “a suitable locally manufactured missile.” The Houthis have surface-to-air missiles — such as the Iranian missile known as the 358 — capable of downing aircraft.
Iran denies arming the rebels, though Tehran-manufactured weaponry has been found on the battlefield and in sea shipments heading to Yemen for the Shiite Houthi rebels despite a United Nations arms embargo.
The US military acknowledged to The Associated Press being aware of reports of the downing of a Reaper, but declined to comment further.
General Atomics Reapers, which cost around $30 million apiece, can fly at altitudes over 40,000 feet (12,100 meters) and remain in the air for over 30 hours. The aircraft have been flown by both the US military and the CIA for years over Afghanistan, Iraq and now Yemen.
The Houthis claim they’ve shot down 20 MQ-9s over Yemen, 16 of which were shot down amid the rebels’ campaign over the Gaza war. The campaign began roughly a month after the war was sparked on October 7, 2023, when fellow Iran-backed group Hamas carried out an onslaught in southern Israel that killed some 1,200 people and resulted in 251 hostages.
The US military hasn’t acknowledged the total number of drones it has lost over Yemen.
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Oh, good. They are starting to hit water infrastructure.
CONFIRMED: A UWEC unhinged Professor (Chair of the English Dept) has been identified as the man who assaulted UWEC College Republicans and destroyed their table that was in support of Judge Brad Schimel for Wisconsin Supreme Court. pic.twitter.com/EHLDNSOw9w
[NYPOST] A self-confessed Elon Musk hater was filmed issuing a groveling apology after he was tracked down and confronted for allegedly carving a swastika onto a Tesla.
Chadd Ritenbaugh, 55, was slapped with a slew of charges in Pennsylvania after being confronted by the furious Tesla owner over the alleged incident outside a Planet Fitness in Doylestown, cops said.
The vehicle's camera captured a vandal parking next to the Tesla just before 9:30 a.m. March 24 before suddenly jumping out, glancing around and crouching down to mark the car.
The Tesla owner only found out when they got home and found ''scratches in the shape of a swastika'' on the side of the car, leading him to the footage of the vandal at work, police said.
It showed the suspect going to the gym, and ''Planet Fitness staff was able to identify the suspect by his membership'' after he scanned in with his card, cops said.
Before Ritenbaugh was arrested, he was filmed being confronted by the Tesla owner, who repeatedly asked if he scratched a swastika into the car with a key.
''I'm sorry, I have nothing against your car, and I have nothing against you,'' Ritenbaugh could be heard saying meekly.
''Obviously, I have something against Elon Musk,'' he said of the Tesla owner.
At one point, Ritenbaugh denied using a key to etch the markings and instead insisted he'd only used a crayon — blaming it on him being ''misguided.''
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[NYPOST] A man accused of Molotov cocktailing a Tesla dealership in Colorado is facing federal charges, Attorney General Pam Bondi said Monday.
Cooper Jo Fredrick, 24, was arrested in Plano, Texas, on suspicion of attacking a Tesla dealership on March 7 in Loveland, Colo., Bondi said.
''Let this be a warning. You can run, but you cannot hide,'' Bondi said in a video message. ''Justice is coming.''
Frederick, a resident of Fort Collins, Colo., allegedly ignited an incendiary device and hurled it at the dealership, narrowly missing several parked vehicles.
The device landed between two cars, and created a fire, Loveland police said.
“I’ve made it clear (that) if you take part in the wave of domestic terrorism against Tesla properties, we will find you, arrest you and put you behind bars,” Bondi said.
“All of these cases are a serious threat to public safety. Therefore, there will be no negotiation.”
Frederick was arrested a week after the attack. Federal prosecutors are seeking 20 years in prison, Bondi said.
In addition to the federal charges against him, Frederick is also facing local charges, including second-degree arson and possession of explosives or incendiary devices.
He is one of several suspects charged in connection with attacks on Tesla dealerships and factories in recent weeks.
The attacks appeared to center on Tesla CEO Elon Musk and his role with the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Lucy Grace Nelson, 42, also known as Justin Thomas Nelson, is also facing charges in connection with a separate Feb. 27 incident at the same Loveland dealership.
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Use of a Destructive Device is no joke.
If this keeps up, we can look forward to tons of antifa doing long prison terms.
The ATF tries to entrap gun owners into DD situations all the time.
[NYPOST] The Trump administration has deported more than 100,000 migrants since President Trump returned to the White House in January, The Post has learned.
Both ICE and CBP officials have made 113,000 arrests and carried out ''north of'' 100,000 deportations since Trump's Jan. 20 inauguration, a Department of Homeland Security official told The Post Monday.
Sources said it shows that Trump is keeping his promise to boot illegal migrants, alleged gangbangers and suspected terrorists from the United States.
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[Regnum] The United Nations (UN) has accused the Israeli army (IDF) of killing 15 medical workers and rescuers in the Gaza Strip. This was reported on March 31 by The Guardian.
Like in Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, or any other totalitarian society, one can’t achieve anything in Gaza without the approval of Hamas — not to mention that Gaza hospitals are command-and-control sites for Hamas, with rest-and-rearming sections in the tunnels below. The UN is being more than a bit disingenuous here.
"According to the UN humanitarian office, the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) and Civil Defense staff were on a rescue mission for colleagues who had been shot at earlier in the day when their clearly marked vehicles came under heavy Israeli fire in the Tel al-Sultan area of Rafah," the publication clarified.
That’s not how the IDF tells it.
The dead medical workers were later buried in a mass grave in southern Gaza, and their ambulances and the UN mission vehicle were covered with sand using a bulldozer, Jonathan Whittall, head of the UN Office of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Palestine, said. It is noted that the body of one of the doctors was found with his hands tied.
Staged by Hamas.
According to OSNA, the shooting took place on March 23, the day after the Israeli army advanced in the area near the Egyptian border. One Red Crescent worker is currently missing. The International Committee of the Red Cross said the area was considered safe and did not require further approval.
Earlier, Regnum reported that on March 29, the Israeli army launched a ground operation in the area of the city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip. As part of the operation, the IDF eliminated the infrastructure of the Palestinian group.
[IsraelTimes] IDF says troops dispersed ‘violent confrontation’ in Duma after group of Israelis torched property, assaulted residents; defense sources say 5 suspects were briefly held but escaped
A group of some 50 Israelis on Tuesday attacked homes in the northern West Bank village of Duma, with three Paleostinians reportedly injured as the settlers torched property and assaulted residents.
In a statement on the violence, the Israel Defense Forces said it received reports that dozens of Israelis entered Duma and set fire to property.
"Afterward, a violent mostly peaceful confrontation developed between Israeli civilians and Paleostinians in the area, and additional report was received regarding several Paleostinians who were maimed in the incident," the IDF said.
It said troops and coppers reached the scene and worked to "disperse the violent mostly peaceful confrontation."
"The IDF condemns incidents of this type and will continue to act with determination to maintain security and order in the region," the military added.
There were no reports of arrests in the incident. Five suspects were briefly caught by police, but defense sources said they managed to escape.
According to Paleostinian medics, the maimed Paleostinians were taken to a hospital for medical treatment.
In the West Bank, the military has undertaken large-scale counterterrorism operations that have killed hundreds of people — the vast majority of them combatants, according to the IDF — and displaced tens of thousands.
Arrests of Israelis in incidents of settler violence are extremely rare. The head of the police’s West Bank division is currently under investigation for allegedly refusing to crack down on the phenomenon to curry favor in the eyes of far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir.
Israel’s failure to prosecute near-daily incidents of settler violence led the previous White House and multiple European governments to begin sanctioning violent mostly peaceful settlers last year. US President Donald Trump ...They hit him with slander, they impeached him twice. Nancy Pelosi tore up his State of the Union address on national TV. They stole an election and put his adherents in jail. They vilified him. They couldn't crucify him, so they shot him. Still, they can't keep him down... scrapped his predecessor’s sanctions shortly after taking office in January.
[IsraelTimes] Members of the Abu Samra clan of Deir al-Balah filmed killing an alleged Hamas member in the street, as dissent against terror group grows in the Strip
Members of a prominent Gazook family in Deir al-Balah on Tuesday executed a man who they said was a Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... operative responsible for the deadly shooting of one of their relatives earlier in the day.
The button men were members of the Abu Samra clan of central 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 a rusty iron fist by Hamas with 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... . They said they killed the Hamas member after he shot their relative Abdulrahman Sha’aban Abu Samra while he was waiting in line for flour in Deir al-Balah.
Members of the family said they managed to track down the Hamas operative responsible and brought him in front of the entrance of Deir al-Balah where several relatives opened fire.
Footage of the execution was shared widely on Paleostinian social media and appeared to highlight growing fury with Hamas among Gaza civilians.
Gaza has dozens of powerful families like the Abu Samra family, who function as well-organized clans. Many do not have formal links to Hamas. They derive their power from controlling businesses and command the loyalty of hundreds or thousands of relatives. Each family has a leader, known as a mukhtar, or chieftain.
Some of the larger clans in Gaza are believed to be well-armed, and have a long history of clashing over rival interests, as well as with Hamas.
Last spring, a conflict arose between Hamas and the Doghmush clan, a powerful family in Gaza City, due to disputes over aid distribution and reports that the family was being contacted by Israel for a possible role in post-war government, an idea that Jerusalem floated at the time.
Hamas reportedly killed the leader of the clan, with reports on Arab media saying that he was "executed" in a family compound along with two others.
A wave of protests against Hamas has swept the Strip for the past week, with thousands participating cumulatively, revealing cracks in the iron grip that the terror group has over the Strip.
Participants have come under threat from Hamas and other Gaza terror groups, who have warned that they will be treated as collaborators with Israel.
A Hamas official commented on the wave of protests last week after a few days of silence from the group but insisted that the protests were directed against Israel and the ongoing war rather than against the terror group ruling the Strip.
Senior Hamas official Basem Naim told the Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... i channel al-Araby that "demonstrations are expected from people facing extermination, against war and destruction."
Despite multiple media reports, images, and videos from protests, as well as media interviews with Gazooks to the contrary, Naim claimed the rallies are being misrepresented as criticizing Hamas’s de facto regime.
The terror group has violent mostly peacefully cracked down on previous protests. However,
Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... this time, no outright intervention was apparent, which some saw as a sign of its waning power in the wake of Israel’s military campaign.
However,
Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... over the weekend, Hamas operatives kidnapped, tortured and executed a 22-year-old Paleostinian man who participated in last week’s protests against the terror group, according to his family.
Oday Nasser Al Rabay’s body was left in front of his family’s home, and on Saturday, many dozens were filmed participating in his funeral procession, shouting, "Hamas out!"
[IsraelTimes] No injuries or damage reported in rocket attack; warning comes a day after military ordered all Palestinians to leave Rafah as fighting intensifies
The Israel Defense Forces issued an evacuation order for areas in northern Gaza on Tuesday morning, shortly after a rocket was fired from the Strip toward the city of Sderot.
The rocket was successfully intercepted by air defenses, the military said, and there were no reports of injuries. Air raid sirens were set off in Sderot, Ibim and Kibbutz Or Haner.
Two hours after the rocket was fired, the IDF issued an evacuation warning for Palestinians in the city of Beit Hanoun and surrounding areas.
In a post on X, the IDF’s Arabic-language spokesman, Col. Avichay Adraee, published a map of the area that is to be evacuated, saying that it was a “final warning” before the IDF carries out strikes there.
The map also showed the IDF’s expanded buffer zone along the border with the Strip.
Israel restarted fighting in Gaza on March 18 with a series of heavy airstrikes across the Strip, two weeks after the first phase of a ceasefire-hostage release deal ended.
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Security forces in Idlib launch an operation against suspected Syrian government collaborators in Jabal al-Zawiya, detaining eight individuals. Read more: [https://t.co/UQ57EhbNXr] #Idlib#Syria#Security
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) April 1, 2025
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Cant believe (yes i can actually believe it, but damn)... Cant believe USAID was sending charity and aid to Idlib.
🚨 Breaking: Iran's 🇮🇷 IRGC Quds Force commander Gen. Esmail Qaani is confirmed safe in Israel 🇮🇱
It can now be revealed that he was an Israeli asset, providing intelligence that led to elimination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, and Hezbollah leaders Nasrallah and Safieddine. pic.twitter.com/hQhonIAeIP
Oh my goodness. This is as good as the pagers and the undercover Mossad agents openly working for the IRGC as their Mossad-hunting unit. And the spy squirrels and spy herons. My mind is blown.
UPDATE: I really, really hope this isn’t an April Fools Day joke — thanks for pointing out the possibility, 3dc.
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
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...They hit him with slander, they impeached him twice. Nancy Pelosi tore up his State of the Union address on national TV. They stole an election and put his adherents in jail. They vilified him. They couldn't crucify him, so they shot him. Still, they can't keep him down...
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
