“We call on the Libyan authorities to urgently launch a credible investigation into this killing, and bring the perpetrators to justice”...#Libya#LibyaReviewhttps://t.co/RjEfkn0jEG
In the months and years to come, the Armenian antiquities of Karabakh will be labeled as Albanian, in a state-sponsored campaign to erase them from popular memory.
It is not enough the people have been cleansed. You have to erase all traces of their heritage.
[AnNahar] German federal prosecutors on Wednesday said they had charged a German woman with crimes against humanity allegedly committed while she was living in Syria as a member of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... jihadist group.
The suspect, identified only as Nurten J.
...all we know about her is that she emigrated to ISIS in Syria in 2015 with her child for the express purpose of becoming one of their harridans. There she married a man arrived from Germany, and with him had several more little future jihadis for ISIS. What became of the unknown sperm donor is unknown, but she was captured and imprisoned by the SDF, escaped to Turkey, and was captured and sent back to Germany to be arrested...
who has several children, was arrested in Frankfurt in July and is accused of crimes related to the persecution of the Yazidi minority in territory controlled by IS.
[Breitbart] Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz announced on Wednesday that his government will be creating new laws to prosecute those who propagate political Islamic ideologies.
The Austrian leader took to Twitter to announce Wednesday that the government would be creating a new criminal offence called "political Islam" to prosecute those who "create a breeding ground" for radical Islamic terrorism.
"In the fight against political Islam, we will create a criminal offence called ’political Islam’ in order to be able to take action against those who are not terrorists themselves, but who create the breeding ground for it," Kurz said.
In a subsequent Tweet, the Austrian chancellor said that there could be further closures of radical mosques, the introduction of a register for imams, and said that "measures will be taken to drain financial flows for terrorist financing."
I’m impressed.
The move comes after Kurz called on the European Union to combat the problem of radical Islamic ideologies following last week’s terrorist attack in Vienna that saw the deaths of four people killed by a radical Islamic gunman in the heart of the Austrian capital.
"Now, it is important that we resolutely continue the fight. Not only against Islamist terrorism but also against the ideological basis behind it — that is, against political Islam and radical Islamism," Kurz said last week.
[Washington Examiner] The Pentagon reportedly hired retired Army Col. Douglas Macgregor, an advocate of getting troops out of Afghanistan, as a senior adviser to acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller.
Macgregor's experience "will be used to assist in the continued implementation of the President's national security priorities," Axios reported, citing a Pentagon spokesman.
Macgregor said that he would advise the president to move troops out of Afghanistan "as soon as possible" during a 2019 interview with Fox News's Tucker Carlson. The retired colonel also said that talking to the Taliban was "unnecessary" and that the U.S. Embassy should be removed from Kabul.
"The nations in the region have an interest in the place," he said. "They want to have to deal with it. Let them deal with it."
Macgregor advised a similar approach for Syria.
Miller was hired after President Trump suddenly fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Monday.
Trump has expressed his desire to have all troops pulled out of Afghanistan by Christmas. With Joe Biden the apparent president-elect of the United States, it is unclear whether the president will move forward with such a plan.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is working to expand the state’s Stand Your Ground law with "anti-mob" legislation that would allow citizens to shoot suspected looters.
DeSantis drafted the "anti-mob legislation," according to the Miami Herald, following months of looting and rioting stemming from anti-police protests over the death of George Floyd and other similar deaths. Armed citizens would be able to shoot suspected looters or anyone who engages in "criminal mischief" that disrupts a business.
The legislation would work to prevent "violent mostly peaceful and disorderly assemblies" and expand "forcible felonies" under Florida’s self-defense law by allowing the use of force on those whose violence leads to the "interruption or impairment" of a business and looting, according to the Miami Herald.
The law would reportedly also give immunity to drivers who unintentionally hurt or kill protesters blocking traffic, and it would make protests that disrupt the community by blocking traffic a third-degree felony.
[LI] Assured by the mainstream media coverage declaring Democratic candidate Joe Biden winner of the U.S. presidential race, Iran-backed terrorist groups in Iraq feel emboldened.
The prospect of President Donald Trump leaving the White House, as portrayed by the U.S. and world media, comes as a relief to Iraq-based pro-Iranian terror militias.
"Trump’s era was a very negative one, a period of demolition," a spokesman for the leading Iran-sponsored Iraqi terrorist group Kataeb Hezbollah said.
The Iranian regime is equally upbeat in its statements about a possible Biden-Harris administration, hoping to revive the Obama-era appeasement policies.
If the mainstream media and the Biden-Harris camp have their way, the Tehran and pro-Iran terrorist groups may have a good reason to rejoice. A Democrat-led administration will likely undo President Donald Trump’s legacy on Iran, lifting economic sanctions and ending the campaign of maximum pressure against the world’s biggest sponsor of terrorism and its Islamist proxies across the Middle East.
#UPDATE: Germany has officially handed over the first of four Sa’ar-6-class missile corvettes to the Israeli Navy. They will be equipped with weaponry and systems to defend Israel’s offshore energy infrastructure once they arrive in Israel in early December.
[Jpost] The new corvette was built with asymmetric warfare in mind as missile ships must contend with threats from the shore.
The Israel Navy is gearing up to receive its next generation of missile ships, the Sa’ar 6-class corvette, which for the coming decades will defend the country’s strategic maritime assets from enemies such as Hezbollah.
On Wednesday, the Israel Navy formally received the INS Magen, hoisting the Israeli flag on the ship during a ceremony held at the Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems shipyard in Kiel, Germany, and attended by Navy commander V.-Adm. Eli Sharvit and other bigwigs.
The INS Magen along with the other new vessels, Sharvit said at the ceremony, "are excellent, precise, optimal and versatile ships" that will protect Israel’s strategic assets in its economic waters.
They "are armed with the best defensive and offensive combat systems that are at the forefront of world military technology," Sharvit added.
Built in Kiel, Germany, by Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems, the first of the six ships, the INS Magen, is expected to reach Israel’s shores by early December and will become operational in the next year or two. Three others, INS Oz, INS Atzma’ut and INS Nitzahon, will follow, with the last expected to arrive by the end of 2021.
The Israel Navy is comprised of patrol units, submarines (Shayetet 7), special naval forces (Shayetet 13) and missile boats (Shayetet 3). The new ships, which will give the navy a total of 15 missile ships together with the aging Sa’ar 5-class missile ships that are close to 30 years old, will be the backbone of the fleet.
Although the navy is relatively small compared to other IDF corps, it is tasked with protecting Israel’s largest strategic depth, some 44,000 sq.km. of sea area, both below and above the surface, almost double Israel’s land mass. It also guards strategic infrastructure such as the natural gas rigs, protects commercial shipping lanes, which bring in 98% of Israel’s imports, and it takes part in missions far from the country’s shores.
To Israel’s north, Hezbollah has stockpiled an estimated arsenal of 130,000-150,000 missiles and rockets which are intended to strike at the civilian home front and at strategic infrastructure such as the gas production rigs and at naval and commercial vessels in Israeli shipping lanes.
Hezbollah leader His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... has made clear that the gas rigs are targets for the group should another war break out, but with the arrival of the new warships, fitted with new advanced technology, the navy aims to thwart those threats.
Unlike the Sa’ar 5-class ships which were not designed to deal with incoming aerial threats, the Sa’ar 6 was built to confront exactly those situations. The Sa’ar 6 motto, The Jerusalem Post was told, is "zero hits."
Although the military does not foresee an imminent war with Hezbollah, the navy doesn’t distinguish between preserving the security of the country and preparing for war, and it constantly prepares in exercises.
The Sa’ar 6 vessels are part of the IDF’s new multidimensional warfare strategy that is a key part of the IDF’s Momentum multiyear plan to quickly and efficiently defeat the enemy.
Simple, straightforward, achievable — exactly what a military’s plan should be.
Under the plan, all branches of the military will be interconnected and will work together to increase the number of enemy targets destroyed — mostly by the air force — and aid ground forces on the front lines.
Should a war break out, at least two Sa’ar 6 ships will be deployed to protect the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and gas rigs, while the rest of the fleet would assist ground forces by bombarding enemy troops and weapons systems that could target both the home front and gas rigs, while simultaneously destroying any aerial targets fired toward maritime assets and naval vessels.
In 2006, during the Second Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... War, Hezbollah struck the INS Hanit Sa’ar 5-class corvette with a Chinese-made C-802 anti-ship missile, and four sailors were killed. It was a devastating shock for the defense establishment and is still deeply ingrained in the navy’s memory.
That attack made the navy realize that the enemy was fighting from the shore and it brought about a change in concept.
The Sa’ar 6 was built with this new thinking in mind, knowing that the enemy fights asymmetrically and that the missile ships can deal with threats from the shore and be interconnected with both ground and air forces to detect and destroy threats.
The new 90-meter-long, 2,000-ton ships have a maximum speed of 24 knots with a range of 2,500 nautical miles. Though not much longer than the Sa’ar 5, they have been built to better handle rough seas and can stay out for longer.
They will be covered in close to 300 static radar arrays that can detect incoming aerial threats that can then be shot down by either the two Iron Dome (Naval Dome) missile interceptors for rockets, or two Barak-8 batteries to shoot down incoming cruise and ballistic missiles.
In addition to interception missile defense systems, the ships will also have 16 anti-ship missiles, one 76-mm. Oto Melara Super Rapid main gun, two Typhoon 25-mm. remote weapon stations, and two 324-mm. torpedo launchers for MK54 lightweight torpedoes.
The amount of firepower on the ship is phenomenal for its size.
Each will also be outfitted with cyber and electronic warfare systems and Elta’s EL/M-2248 MF-STAR active electronically scanned array radar capable of tracking both air and surface targets.
And for the first time, the ships will be able to house female crew members, who will make up 25% of the ship’s company. They will be assisted by unmanned aerial vehicles and an upgraded landing pad for Israel’s newest naval helicopters.
Speaking to The Jerusalem Post in a recent interview on board the INS Lahav, a Sa’ar 5 corvette, during a patrol to the Leviathan gas rig, R.-Adm. Eyal Harel, the head of IDF Naval Operations, said that the new ships have been custom-made for Israel’s needs.
"We are securing the entire EEZ, and so with all the threats in this region, we need the new ships with all their advanced weapons systems," he said. "We have to be dynamic in protecting our assets."
"It’s just better, it’s newer, it’s faster, it’s more complicated, but it’s tailor-made for this mission."
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Israel should have them delivered to Cherborg, France. And then run off with them in the middle of the night. Just for tradition's sake.
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Built in Kiel, Germany, by Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems.
How soon we forget!
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Is stup+idity or ignorance the definition of a journalist?
"Unlike the Sa’ar 5-class ships which were not designed to deal with incoming aerial threats, the Sa’ar 6 was built to confront exactly those situations."
[AnNahar] Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium is now more than 12 times the limit set down in a 2015 deal with world powers, the U.N.'s nuclear agency reported on Wednesday.
An ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report seen by AFP said that as of 2 November "Iran's total enriched uranium stockpile... was 2442.9 kg."
The limit in the 2015 deal was set at 300 kilograms (661 pounds) of enriched uranium in a particular compound form, which is the equivalent of 202.8 kg of uranium in non-compound form.
They’d better hope he doesn’t win enough recounts to go for a second round.
[AlAhram] The leader of Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... 's Hezbollah said on Wednesday he was pleased about "the humiliating downfall" of U.S. President Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... but urged regional allies to be on alert for any U.S. or Israeli "folly" during the rest of his term in office.
Sayyed His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... , in a televised speech, described Trump's administration as "among the worst, if not the worst" in the United States, but said that the new U.S. president would not alter Washington's pro-Israel policy in the Middle East.
The Iran-backed Hezbollah leader Nasrallah is on TV warning of the risk of war with the US in the next 2 months. “The Republican Party, the far-right and Israel....what they couldn’t do in four years, can they do it in two months?” BUT...
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...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
[Washington Examiner] The Pentagon reportedly hired retired Army Col. Douglas Macgregor, an advocate of getting troops out of Afghanistan, as a senior adviser to acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller.
Little wonder they're 'cheering.' Unmarked, midnight 'Obama Deal' money train to Tehran likely to be resumed under a Biden administration. 
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
