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Cutting open a dead human body is certainly not for the faint of heart. But I went to the Daily Mail article and didn't see anything new. I'm with Melania. We need the truth.
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UPittUniversity Times] The man charged with attacking two Pitt students on Aug. 30 was allegedly involved in another incident the day before involving two people from Carnegie Mellon University, according to court records.
Jarrett Buba, 52, of Pittsburgh, was arrested immediately after the incident on Aug. 30 at the Cathedral of Learning where two Jewish students were struck from behind with a green glass bottle by a man wearing a keffiyeh. One student suffered several superficial cuts to his neck, while the other, who was struck on the cheek with the bottle, was treated for a possible concussion.
Because the two students were both wearing Jewish yarmulkes and their attacker was wearing the Paleostinian-associated keffiyeh, the FBI was asked by campus police to investigate the incident as a possible hate crime. Pitt released a statement this week saying that the FBI consulted with the District Attorney’s Office, which has not filed charges related to a hate crime.
The incident involving the CMU affiliates took place around 3:30 p.m. Aug. 29 near 300 South Craig Street. The two people told CMU Police that a white male wearing a black and green tank top threw a green bottle at them, which struck a nearby car. CMU Police searched the area for the man on Aug. 29, but didn’t find him.
After the attack at the Cathedral made headlines, one of the Craig Street victims contacted CMU police and said they believed that Buba was the same person who had attacked them. After comparing surveillance video and Buba’s arrest photo, CMU Police concluded it was the same person in both incidents, the criminal complaint said.
The Craig Street incident did not involve any of the hate crime overtones of the Cathedral attack. In both incidents, the victims reported making eye contact with Buba before he attacked them, according to the criminal complaints.
A longtime friend of Buba’s told the University Times that they had never heard him express hatred toward Jews. The friend is Jewish.
Buba has been charged in the Pitt incident with two counts each of aggravated assault, simple assault, recklessly endangering another person and harassment, along with resisting arrest. He also faces attempted aggravated assault and simple assault charges in the CMU-related incident, along with recklessly endangering another person and harassment.
He was denied bail. The Tribune-Review reported that District Judge Nicholas Martini said the suspect posed a substantial risk to the victims and the community and ordered Buba to undergo a behavioral clinic evaluation while at the jail awaiting a Sept. 12 preliminary hearing.
[HodhodYemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... News] The Yemeni Armed Forces announced that the air defense forces were able to shoot down an American MQ-9 drone while it was conducting enemy reconnaissance and combat operations in the airspace of Saada Governorate, Yemen’s military front man Brigadier General Yahya Sare’e said in statement on Tuesday.
This is the second drone that our air defenses have successfully downed within 72 hours, and it is the ninth to be shot down during the battle of the Promised Conquest and Sacred Jihad battle in support of al-Aqsa Flood battle, according Yahya Sare’e.
[HodhodYemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... News] At least two female students were killed and nine others injured due to US-British aircraft bombing on the vicinity of the Umm al-Mu’minin Aisha School for Girls in the al-Jand area in the al-Taziyah District of Taiz province on Tuesday.
The stampede of female students after the American-British bombing on the school’s vicinity resulted in the martyrdom of the two students, Hamas ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... Abdullah Abdusalam, in the seventh grade, and Shaja Ahmed Dahhan, in the fifth grade, and the injury of nine others, a local source said.
Local sources in al-Jand district reported that there was no military activity in the vicinity of the school that was targeted.
#3
Nominally. Somebody's gotta teach em how to cook and clean and take a beating
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09/11/2024 9:44 Comments ||
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Have you ever seen a Muslim media report where a bombing did not kill children, or pregnant women?
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09/11/2024 9:49 Comments ||
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Children, cleaning, kitchen… maybe sewing and such, too. Also Koran — lots and lots of koran. That way they know what to think and can teach it to the next generation, their own and the neighbours’. There are those “perverse” enough to insist on, and can afford it, educating their daughters as well as their sons, so it’s important that they get the right kind of education.
The Jesuits laid out the method in their schools, which established a standard of excellence in secular subjects, and had such a strong gloss of Catholicism that the students cqme out inclined to favour the faith if not actually follow it. The Gulenists took the model and applied it so well to Islam that they had 1,000 or more schools in Turkey and around the world serving 2 million students — many on scholarship. In 2016 Turkey when President Erdogan broke with his BFF Fethullen Gullen, his government started taking them over, not just at home but elsewhere as well. We followed the process here, but Wikipedia summarizes well enough here.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] Four supporters of the Islamic State have been convicted in Bruges. The group's leader, Chechen native Abubakar S., has been sentenced to 15 years, and his wife has been sentenced to eight years. Two other members of the group have been given suspended sentences, including Abubakar S.'s brother.
As the "Caucasian Knot" reported, in May 2023, the Belgian prosecutor's office announced the arrest of seven supporters of the "Islamic State", suspected of preparing a terrorist attack. Among the suspects are people from Chechnya. In July, it became known that three people from Chechnya were arrested.
A court in Bruges has sentenced members of a group who were found guilty of preparing a terrorist attack; among those convicted are natives of Chechnya, Kommersant wrote on September 9.
Belgium has one of the largest Chechen diasporas in Europe, according to an article published on the "Caucasian Knot" entitled " How to travel to Europe and obtain refugee status."
The alleged leader of the group, Abubakar S., was sentenced to 15 years in prison, and his wife, who also took part in the group's activities, was sentenced to eight years. Two other defendants, including Abubakar S.'s brother, were given suspended sentences and fined. One defendant was acquitted.
The group rented a garage to store weapons, studied police response times, and visited specific locations for various attacks. These locations included the Jewish quarter, a gay bar, a police station, and a NATO building.
Abubakar S. is recognized as a key figure in the group, he admitted guilt. In court, he stated that he wanted to "sow fear and damage the economy" of the country. At the court hearing, according to journalists, he behaved defiantly and insulted the judge. According to Abubakar S.'s lawyer, Piteryan Dens, the convicted man was especially dissatisfied with the sentence handed down to his brother, who, as he stated, had nothing to do with the case.
Belgium has one of the largest Chechen diasporas in Europe, according to an article published on the "Caucasian Knot" entitled " How to travel to Europe and obtain refugee status."
"Caucasian Knot" wrote that Belgian law enforcement agencies detained 16 Chechens suspected of extremist activity in June 2015. After a series of terrorist attacks in Brussels on March 22, 2016, people from the North Caucasus, in particular Chechens, faced sweeping accusations of involvement in terrorism, Sasha Koulaeva, head of the Eastern Europe and Central Asia department of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), told "Caucasian Knot".
In December 2016, a court in Bruges sentenced 12 Chechens to between 15 months and 10 years in prison for recruiting fighters to fight in Syria. Another defendant in the case was acquitted.
[IsraelTimes] Suspect, 21, could face life sentence — usually 16 years in prison — for allegedly sparking fire on balcony at victim’s Copenhagen home in May
A 21-year-old man in Denmark was arrested on Tuesday for arson after allegedly setting a fire at a Jewish woman’s home in Copenhagen and faced preliminary court charges under the country’s terrorism laws that can lead to a life sentence.
Preliminary charges are one step short of formal charges and allow authorities to detain suspects during an investigation. A life sentence in Denmark usually means 16 years in prison.
The man and several other suspects who were not identified allegedly set fire to balcony furniture at the woman’s house on May 29. The blaze spread but was put out by firefighters, Danish media said, and no one was injured.
Under a court order, neither the suspect nor the victim can be named.
The incident came amid a significant uptick in antisemitic incidents in Denmark since October 7, when Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... -led bully boyz rampaged southern Israel, killing 1,200 and taking 251 hostages, mostly civilians, sparking the ongoing war in 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 an 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... Danish media at the court hearing said the man pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." through his defense attorney. No further details were available because the rest of the hearing was held behind closed doors.
The Danish Security and Intelligence Service said in a statement that the suspect was related to Loyal to Familia,
… they’re known for feuds, violence, robberies, extortion and drug sales in Copenhagen — the usual thing with a Moslem twist…
a predominantly immigrant gang in Denmark that was banned in 2021.
"It is serious if a person in Denmark becomes a target of terror because of the person’s Jewish background. It is also worrying that we again see links to LTF in terrorist cases," said Finn Borch Andersen, the head of the security agency.
"It is too early to assess whether it is an isolated case or a broader development in the terrorist threat," he added.
The Jewish Community in Denmark, in a separate statement, described the attack as "terrifying... even if no one was injured."
The security agency has warned of an "intensified terrorist threat against Jewish and Israeli targets in Denmark, especially in light of the conflict in Israel and Gaza," Borch Andersen said.
The number of antisemitic incidents registered in Denmark since October 7 has reached levels not seen since 1943, Henri Goldstein, head of the Danish Jewish community, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named in February.
"We have seen a violent mostly peaceful escalation, not least fueled by the uncontrolled spread of hatred on social media," Goldstein said, adding that in 2023, "all 121 incidents were Jew-hatred — and not ’just criticism of Israel.’"
Of the 121 incidents, 20 were death threats, "which we have not seen since the 1980s," Goldstein said, referring to threats made then against two leading figures in the Jewish community — an editor-in-chief and the chief rabbi. In lieu of the rising antisemitism, Jews in Denmark were advised not to wear Jewish symbols openly, Goldstein said.
The figures, compiled by the community’s security organization, were on par with recent reports in other European countries. Many European countries have registered a rise in reported antisemitic acts.
Top European and US envoys warned last week that fear is spreading through Jewish communities worldwide due to surging antisemitism.
"We have seen a tsunami of antisemitism really rolling across Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... and the globe," said Katharina von Schnurbein, the European Commission’s coordinator on combating antisemitism and fostering Jewish life.
"We are seeing a situation that we had hoped we would never see again," she told AFP in Geneva after a closed-door workshop at the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... last week on how to address the threat.
She pointed to the Molotov cocktailing of synagogues, Stars of David spray-painted onto houses where Jews live and Jewish students attacked on university campuses.
"I think we are now in a situation that really reminds us of the darkest days of Europe."
The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... ’s Fundamental Rights Agency said in July that according to a poll, which surveyed nearly 8,000 self-identified Jews from 13 European countries — including Denmark — 96 percent of respondents said they had encountered antisemitism in their daily lives even before the ongoing war in Gaza.
Europe’s Jewish community is facing a "rising tide of antisemitism," with the conflict in the Middle East "eroding" progress made in the fight against it, said agency director Sirpa Rautio. She added that the surge in antisemitism was jeopardizing the success of the EU’s first-ever strategy for combating the problem, adopted in 2021.
Some 37 percent of respondents said they were harassed over the past year. A total of 4% of respondents said they had experienced antisemitic physical attacks in the 12 months before the survey — double the number recorded in 2018, the last time the survey was taken.
[IsraelTimes] Demonstrators are protesting against Israel over the war with Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... , outside the venue in Philadelphia where the US presidential debate is scheduled.
Scores of people line the streets shouting: "Justice is our demand," carrying banners and flags and holding signs that read "arms embargo now."
At least two of the demonstrators wave flags of Paleostinian terror groups — one holds up a green banner for the Islamist Hamas, and the other a red flag for the Marxist Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine.
NOW: "Come November we'll remember!" - hundreds chant as they march through Philadelphia headed towards the Kamala Harris vs Donald Trump debate. pic.twitter.com/0HqVpbEaP6
[JustTheNews] A former top FBI official says he's concerned that the FBI stopped one alleged terrorism suspect targeting a Jewish center, but knowingly let another one into the U.S. eventually charged with planning to kill Trump.
Just two months apart, the FBI stopped two Pakistani men near the border. Both were on the terrorist watchlist. Both are now charged with plotting heinous crimes. But one was stopped in Canada before he crossed the border, while the other was allowed to enter for weeks despite concerns he was working with Iran to assassinate Donald Trump.
The vastly different treatment of Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, now charged with plotting to shoot up a Jewish center in New York, and Asif Raza Merchant, charged in the Trump assassination plot, has perplexed security experts, confounded members of Congress and even left a former top FBI G-man without explanation on this 23rd anniverary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
"The scenarios don’t compute," said Bassem Youssef, a decorated retired FBI counterterrorism unit chief and former whistleblower who for years ran one of the bureau's most sensitive terror-fighting tools that culled phone records looking for possible threats.
Just the News has been in constant contact in recent days with federal law enforcement officials in multiple agencies, all of whom are concerned about the disparate handling of Khan's and Merchant's cases, noting that the first diverged from protocols designed to keep terror threats outside the border while the second conformed to normal, traditional tactics.
Congress, meanwhile, has been astounded to learn that as many as 100 suspected terrorists on U.S. watchlists have been let into the country under the Biden-Harris administration.
“There's no ability to stop the terrorists when you've got a wide open border, when you're having thousands of people cross the border every day, and you don't do anything about it, the odds of one or two terrorists being in those mobs that are crossing the border pretty high," House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer told the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show Tuesday.
"And it's, in all honesty, almost impossible for a government agency to pinpoint those people once they get in,” Comer added.
Youssef, who retired from the FBI in 2016, told Just the News the disparate handling of the two cases “raises many questions," especially the FBI’s failure to keep Merchant out of the country. He added the concerns are even more troubling in light of recent reports that former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard was improperly flagged on a watchlist.
Youssef said that “the arrest of Khan seems on the surface to follow the usual protocol of cooperation between the U.S. and Canadian authorities, however, there’s no reasonable explanation for placing a former member of Congress on a Watch List unless the agency has credible intelligence that the Congresswoman poses a threat to national security."
"The fact that former Rep. Gabbard is a member of former President Trump’s transition team makes one wonder about the legitimacy of her placement on a Watch List," he added.
Youssef said the details on Merchant's case did not follow the normal protocols agents follow with terror suspects.
“With all of the above triggers in place, the only plausible explanation for the FBI granting Merchant entry in the U.S. is if he was a source of the FBI. If that was the case, then the FBI failed in vetting their source who was targeting a former president of the United States and a current presidential candidate,” Youssef said.
“On the other hand, if the FBI allowed Merchant entry to the U.S. to gather intelligence on and identify his connections with a possible terrorist network operating on U.S. soil - such an operation would have to have been approved at the highest levels of the FBI and DOJ. Additionally, Merchant would have been a target of electronic and physical surveillance," he added.
The FBI declined to comment Tuesday on these cases beyond the public court documents and press releases.
Last week, Khan, also known as Shahzeb Jadoon, was arrested for a plot to gain entry to the United States through the northern border and conduct a mass shooting at a Jewish Center in New York City, according to the Justice Department press release. Jadoon was motivated to “kill as many Jewish people as possible, all in support of ISIS,” U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Damian Williams said in a statement. Khan was not allowed into the country and Williams said he plans to seek Khan's extradition from Canada for prosecution.
Around November 2023, the government says Khan started communicating via social media and an encrypted messaging app and shared ISIS propaganda videos and literature. After coming into contact with undercover law enforcement officer, Khan said that he and a U.S.-based associate were planning to conduct a terrorist attack in the country. They eventually settled on a Jewish center in New York City. According to the DOJ, he bragged that the planned attack would be “the largest Attack on US soil since 9/11.”
On September 4, Khan attempted to cross the U.S.-Canada border, but was stopped in a small town 12 miles north of the border by Canadian law enforcement.
Immigration memos reviewed by Just the News show Khan was flagged on a terror watchlist. The database includes warnings for border patrol: “APPROACH WITH CAUTION” and “DO NOT ADVISE THIS INDIVIDUAL THAT THEY MAY BE ON A TERRORIST WATCHLIST.”
Like Khan, Merchant was also flagged in the federal database, Just the News previously reported. The immigration records from Merchant's arrival in Houston on April 13 clearly stated in bright red that he was flagged by the Department of Homeland Security(DHS) database with the identifier “WATCH LIST” and denoted as a "Lookout Qualified Person of Interest.”
Unlike Khan, the DHS and FBI permitted him to enter the country on a “significant public benefit parole” despite being flagged on a terror watchlist and recently traveling to Iran, a designated state sponsor of terror, Just the News reported last month. Neither the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services not the FBI have told the public exactly what "public benefit" Merchant purportedly offered.
“Parole based on significant public benefit includes, but is not limited to, law enforcement and national security reasons or foreign or domestic policy considerations,” the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services website says.
The FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force interviewed Merchant, fingerprinted him and inspected the contents of his electronic devices when he arrived at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport, in Houston, but then let him leave with the special parole that expired on May 11, the memos show.
Merchant was then allowed to freely move around the country until July 12. At that point, a confidential human source ascertained he had tried to line up assassins and was planning to leave the United States, the FBI said. It was at this time that he was arrested.
In the complaint against him charging him with organizing a “murder-for-hire” plot in a scheme to assassinate U.S. politicians or government officials, the DOJ and FBI said Merchant was working “on behalf of others overseas” and pointed the finger at Iran.
The revelation that Merchant was stopped at a port of entry but allowed to enter the United States, despite having terror ties, follows a report from the House Judiciary Committee that found the Biden administration’s DHS released 99 individuals on the terrorist watch list into the country between fiscal years 2021 and 2023 and has 34 others in custody who have not yet been removed.
During those years, CBP encountered individuals from 36 different countries with an active terrorist presence, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, Somalia, and Yemen, the report says.
In June, eight men from Tajikistan were arrested in coordinated sting operations across the United States because their suspected ties to the Islamic State terror group. All eight of the suspects crossed the southern border, but their criminal background checks were clean when they crossed, NBC News reported.
[IsraelTimes] Iraqi security officials say a kaboom was heard late Tuesday at a US-led coalition’s base at Baghdad airport, a day before Iran’s president was due to visit.
The Iraqi forces’s statement, published by state news agency INA, says they are unable to determine "the origin of the earth-shattering kaboom" but that air traffic is continuing normally and no flights were interrupted.
What odds that it was not the work of one of the Shiite paramilitary militias on Iran’s payroll, dear Reader?
[Rudaw] At least three 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.... (ISIS) Death Eaters were killed in an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... carried out by the Iraqi air force in Diyala province, the army announced on Friday.
Iraqi warplanes "carried out a successful airstrike using F-16 aircraft in the Hamrin Mountains within the Diyala Operations Command sector, targeting a terrorist hideout with a terrorist detachment with three elements inside," the army’s Joint Operations Command said in a statement.
All three suspected Death Eaters were killed in the strike, the statement added, and "all weapons and equipment inside the hideout were destroyed."
The strike was the second on suspected ISIS locations in the Hamrin Mountain range within a month, with a previous bombardment in late August killing another jihadist cell.
Iraq’s air force regularly pursues and targets ISIS hideouts across the country, particularly in the disputed areas.
To combat ISIS in these areas, the Iraqi government and the KRG’s Peshmerga ministry agreed in 2021 to form two joint brigades that will be under full control of Baghdad.
In late August, a joint operation by the Iraqi army and US forces in the western Anbar province killed 16 ISIS Death Eaters.
In June, at least seven ISIS members were killed in two separate airstrikes in Salahaddin, days after three ISIS members were killed in an operation in Kirkuk.
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says it carried out an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... against several Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... operatives at command rooms embedded within a mosque and a nearby building in 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 an 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... ’s Bureij a short while ago.
The command rooms at the al-Farouk mosque and an adjacent structure were used by the Hamas operatives to plan and carry out attacks against Israel and troops in Gaza, the IDF says.
To mitigate harm to civilians in the strike, the IDF says it carried out "many steps," including using precision munitions, aerial surveillance, and other intelligence.
"The Hamas terror organization systematically violates international law, brutally exploiting civilian institutions and the population as a human shield for terror activity," the military adds.
[IsraelTimes] Spokesman says other hostages being held now in airless ‘tunnels like this’; bodies of 2 Hamas terrorists killed on day tunnel was found taken for DNA testing, could be the murderers
Footage showing the inside of a tunnel in the southern 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 an 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... Strip where six Israeli hostages were murdered by Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... bandidosturbans last month and their bodies found and recovered by Israeli troops two days later, was released by the Israel Defense Forces on Tuesday.
The video showed IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari giving a tour of the claustrophobic underground passageway in Rafah’s Tel Sultan neighborhood. The tunnel was seen littered with bottles of urine, women’s clothes, and large blood stains on the ground, where the hostages were murdered.
Hostages Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Eden Yerushalmi, Ori Danino, Alex Lobanov, Carmel Gat, and Almog Sarusi were executed in the tunnel by their captors on August 29, before being discovered by troops on August 31.
Alongside the footage, the IDF released new details of the tunnel and the operation to find the bodies of the six murdered Israelis, including that they were being held only some 700 meters away from where another hostage had been rescued alive days earlier.
The tunnel where their bodies were found is a narrow 120-meter-long passageway — not tall enough to stand in without bending over — that connected parts of a large underground network in the Tel Sultan neighborhood, which according to the IDF belonged to Hamas’s Rafah Brigade.
The tunnel network was one of the largest underground complexes found by the army in Gaza to date, military sources said.
Inside the tunnel, located some 20 meters underground, the IDF found food and equipment that it assessed were used by the Hamas bandidosturbans and the Israeli hostages to survive underground for extended periods.
According to IDF sources, the supplies were enough to survive in the tunnel for at least several weeks.
Among the items found in the tunnel were dried food, water, a bucket used as a makeshift toilet, numerous bottles of urine, mattresses, and assault rifle magazines.
The video was shown to the families recently and to members of the Israeli cabinet.
"The tunnel shaft was in a children’s room, in a house," Hagari said in the video, pointing to Disney characters painted on the walls above the 20-meter-deep shaft. "Snow White and Mickey Mouse on the wall, [above] a tunnel shaft, where the hostages were murdered downstairs," he said.
"Here you see their blood on the floor. Here you see their last moments, and here they were brutally murdered," a visibly sweating Hagari said in a Hebrew-language version of the video, while inside the tunnel.
"They were here in this tunnel in horrific conditions, where there is no air to breathe, where you cannot stand. They survived, but they were murdered by terrorists," Hagari said in an English-language video.
"There are still hostages, 101, some of them are alive in the same conditions in tunnels like this in Gaza. We need to do everything we can... to bring them back home alive," he added.
The military said it did not have any concrete or real-time intelligence on the six hostages being held there in the weeks before they were murdered, but had general indications that Israeli abductees could be in the neighborhood, and therefore had operated carefully above ground and even more so underground.
After spotting Israeli forces approaching the area, the Hamas bandidosturbans guarding the six hostages decided to execute them, the terror group has hinted. Israel also believes this is what transpired.
On August 30, the IDF discovered a tunnel shaft in a children’s room in a home that had been blocked up by Hamas.
A day later, on August 31, troops finally managed to enter the tunnel using heavy machinery, where inside they discovered a locked blast door — believed to have been locked by the bandidosturbans who murdered the six hostages. Later that day, the bodies of the six were found.
By early on September 1, they were extracted and brought to Israel for identification and burial.
Also on August 30, the IDF said troops killed two Hamas button men who attempted to flee from the tunnel complex.
Their bodies were taken to Israel to run DNA testing to determine if they were the bandidosturbans who killed the six hostages. The IDF believed that at least two bandidosturbans killed the six.
Two days before the six hostages were murdered, on August 27, the IDF rescued hostage Farhan al-Qadi from a tunnel — part of the same network — located less than 700 meters away.
There was no direct passage between the tunnel where al-Qadi was found and the bodies of the six hostages, as Hamas had blocked the route. al-Qadi also did not know about the six hostages being held nearby, according to military sources.
On the night between August 27 and 28, troops exchanged fire with three Hamas button men who had attempted to flee from the major tunnel network where al-Qadi was found. All three Hamas operatives and one Israeli soldier, Staff Sgt. Amit Friedman, were killed in the exchange.
The IDF had been operating in Tel Sultan for several weeks to locate tunnel shafts as part of the major Hamas underground network in the area, one of which would later lead soldiers to the bodies of the six hostages.
NAMES LEAKED
The IDF’s Information Security Department was also investigating how the names of the six hostages were leaked on social media hours before the bodies were brought out of Gaza for identification, while the troops were still inside the tunnel.
Hagari said the leak not only affected the families who heard about the deaths of their loved ones on social media, but also endangered troops who had still been operating in the tunnel complex.
SENIOR OFFICER WOUNDED IN TUNNEL COLLAPSE
Highlighting the dangers of operating in Hamas tunnels in Gaza, Col. (res.) Golan Vach, a senior Home Front Command search and rescue officer, was maimed in a tunnel collapse in the central Gaza Strip on Tuesday.
The incident came amid efforts to investigate and demolish tunnels in the area, the IDF said.
Vach was trapped inside the tunnel and later rescued, before being taken to a hospital in Israel. He was listed in stable, pH balanced condition.
HAMAS BATTALION COMMANDER KILLED
Also on Tuesday, the IDF announced that the commander of Hamas’s Tel Sultan Battalion in the terror group’s Rafah Brigade — where the bodies of the six hostages were found — was killed in a dronezap several weeks ago.
Mahmoud Hamdan was killed alongside three company commanders in the Tel Sultan Battalion, according to the IDF.
The military said that additional strikes killed several more top commanders in the battalion, along with dozens of operatives.
The IDF said Hamdan took a "significant part" in planning the October 7 onslaught, and was involved in other attacks amid the ongoing war.
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More pictures of the tunnels should be released.
As it would enlighten, many street civilians and even a few college protesters. Many generally are cueless as to how sophisticated the tunnels are and build.
I'd bet many envision dirt walls and ceilings.
These 100's of miles of tunnels are clearly a professional construction job and not just a bunch of megalomaniac terrorists with a shovel digging their way to Israel.
Which only strengthens the growing generally accepted opinion now, that many GAZAN Adults knew of the tunnels and likely assisted in the building, or hiding in various ways.
Which makes those Gaza adults co-conspirators to Oct 7th and subsequent murders the tunnels were used for.
[IsraelTimes] Police say they foiled an attempt to smuggle some 74 handguns into Israel from Jordan yesterday via the Rabin Crossing.
The incident occurred on the same day as a deadly attack at the Allenby Bridge Crossing between the West Bank and Jordan.
Customs inspectors at the Rabin terminal, near Eilat, found 74 Glock pistols and 61 magazines inside a Mitsubishi vehicle that was trying to cross into Israel from Jordan, police say.
The driver of the car and a passenger, residents of the Bedouin town of Bir Hadaj and another Bedouin community near Yeruham, were detained.
Weapons smuggling is a constant challenge for Israel, along its long, porous eastern border with Jordan.
Israeli officials say Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... has recently made efforts to smuggle weapons to terror groups in the West Bank. Additionally, many guns smuggled into Israel are being used for underworld crime.
More on this story from Grom in comments yesterday.
[IsraelTimes] Military confirms drone strike on Muhammad Qassem al-Shaer deep inside Lebanon; Iran-backed Lebanese terror group also announces his death, but gives no details of his activities
The Israel Defense Forces on Tuesday said it killed a commander in Lebanese terror group Hezbollah’s elite Radwan force with a dronezap deep in Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah 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 dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original 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... According to the IDF, Muhammad Qassem al-Shaer was involved in many attacks on Israel. The military said his killing "is another blow to the ability of the Hezbollah terror organization to advance and carry out terror attacks from southern Lebanon against the Israeli home front on the northern border."
The IDF announcement confirmed earlier reports alleging a deadly Israeli dronezap in the Beqaa Valley.
Hezbollah also said that al-Shaer had been killed, but did not give any details of his role within the Iran-backed group.
Al-Shaer was targeted on a road near Lake Qaraoun in the Beqaa Valley, some 40 kilometers (24 miles) from the Israeli border.
The IDF published footage of the strike.
Al-Shaer’s death brings the terror group’s corpse count in IDF strikes since October to at least 434, among them several commanders in the Radwan force.
The Radwan force is believed by Israeli officials to be tasked with potentially infiltrating the country.
Earlier Tuesday, Lebanese media reported a separate alleged Israeli dronezap on an apartment in the town of Zebdine on the outskirts of the city of Nabatieh. No further details were immediately available and the IDF has not commented on that incident.
[IsraelTimes] Hezbollah rocket launchers used to fire some 45 rockets at northern Israel on Tuesday were targeted in IDF drone strikes, while Defense Minister Yoav Gallant told troops the military was in the process of shifting its attention from Gaza to Lebanon.
A barrage of 30 rockets was launched at the Mount Meron area in the afternoon, with the Israel Defense Forces reporting that some were intercepted and others struck open areas. Another 15 rockets were fired at the Western Galilee, some of which were intercepted by air defenses, the IDF added.
There were no injuries in the attacks.
The launchers were later hit in southern Lebanon’s at-Tiri and Mansouri, according to the military.
Additionally, Israeli fighter jets struck a building used by Hezbollah in Rachaf, the IDF added.
The military also confirmed that several drones were launched from Lebanon at northern Israel earlier in the evening.
Hezbollah rocket launchers used to fire some 45 rockets at northern Israel earlier today were targeted in drone strikes, the IDF says.
The launchers were hit in southern Lebanon's at-Tiri and Mansouri, according to the military.
The IDF said some of the drones were shot down, while others impacted near Kibbutz Ami’ad in the Upper Galilee. There were no injuries. Footage showed a Hezbollah drone flying over northern Israel, as sirens sounded in Rosh Pina and several other towns.
Hezbollah took responsibility for the attack, claiming to have targeted an Israeli military site.
The IDF also said fighter jets struck a Hezbollah weapons manufacturing plant in southern Lebanon’s Jouaiyya earlier in the day, along with a command room and other buildings used by the terror group in Nabatieh, Mansouri, and Kafr Kila.
Separately, the IDF said a cell of Hezbollah operatives spotted in southern Lebanon’s Houla was targeted in an airstrike.
[Rudaw] At least 15 regime soldiers have been killed in separate festivities with rebel forces in northwest Syria, a war monitor reported on Thursday, with tensions surging into increased violence.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britannia-based war monitor, reported on Wednesday that 12 regime soldiers were killed in an "infiltration operation" by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... (HTS) jihadists in northern Latakia province - the deadliest such attack since the beginning of the year.
Another operation by factions of the Ottoman Turkish-backed Syrian National Army "that reject rapprochement with the regime carried out an infiltration operation on the regime forces’ positions" in eastern Aleppo province near Manbij, killing three and injuring two people, according to the Observatory.
The festivities mark an escalation of tensions in rebel-held northwest Syria, which comprises half of Idlib province, as well as parts of Aleppo, Hama, and Latakia provinces.
They are the last rebel-held bastions in the country after President Bashir al-Assad recaptured swathes of territory since Syrians rose up against the regime March 2011, erupting into a full-scale civil war.
HTS, the former Syrian branch of al-Qaeda, is the prominent force among dozens rebel factions in the northwest. The group, which has been internationally recognized as a terror organization, controls large swathes of Idlib and parts of Aleppo, Hama, and Latakia provinces.
A ceasefire brokered by Russia and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... has been in place in northwest Syria since March 2020, but violence has recently flared in the area. This escalation coincides with rapprochement talks between Syria and Turkey.
Through the Syrian conflict, Turkey has supported rebel forces, including those with links to al-Qaeda and other Death Eater groups. Concurrently, Turkey has launched numerous operations into Syrian territory, most notably against the Kurds in Afrin in 2018, while occupying large swathes of the country’s north.
In July, Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... said that he might invite Assad to Turkey, a month after Assad told a top Russian delegation of his "openness to all initiatives related to the relationship between Syria and Turkey, which are based on the illusory sovereignty of the Syrian state over its entire territory," according to a statement from his office released at the time.
However,
we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... rapprochement talks have not been received kindly by Syrians living in Ottoman Turkish-held northern areas, who say that Ankara is betraying them. The talks also have drawn criticism from Ottoman Turkish-backed rebels for not being invited to the Damascus-Ankara normalization negotiations.
More than 13 million Syrians, half the country’s pre-war population, have been displaced since the start of the civil war, more than 6 million of whom are refugees who have fled the war-torn country, according to United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... figures. Millions of Syrians are living in Turkey.
[Rudaw] At least five Ottoman Turkish-backed bully boyz were killed in an infiltration operation by Kurdish forces near the northern Syrian city of Afrin, a war monitor reported on Saturday.
"The Afrin Liberation Forces [HRE] carried out an infiltration operation on military positions belonging to the [Syrian] National Army factions loyal to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... on the axes of Anab and Maryamin in Afrin countryside, northwest of Aleppo," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a UK-based war monitor.
Five Ottoman Turkish-backed bully boyz were killed in the festivities that ensued, according to the Observatory.
Afrin is a Kurdish city that was taken over by Turkey and Ottoman Turkish-backed Syrian rebels in a military operation against Kurdish fighters of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) in 2018. Most of the Kurdish population fled and Ottoman Turkish authorities resettled displaced Arabs from elsewhere in Syria into their vacated homes.
Turkey considers the YPG - the backbone of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) - as an offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a Kurdish group that has waged an armed insurgency against the Ottoman Turkish state for decades in the struggle for greater Kurdish rights and designated a terrorist organization by Ankara.
The HRE occasionally carries out hit-and-run attacks on Ottoman Turkish-backed forces in Afrin.
Syrians rose against the regime of President Bashir al-Assad in 2011, leading to a full-scale civil war that has claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and has left millions more in need of dire humanitarian assistance.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
