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Every morning recently I get the following when I try to open Rantburg:
This site can’t be reached
rantburg.com’s DNS address could not be found. Diagnosing the problem.
DNS_PROBE_POSSIBLE
It takes several retries before I can finally load the page. I hate to sound paranoid but is there a real problem or is my service provider playing games?
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
06/03/2025 12:16 Comments ||
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#6
I can’t speak to the computer/internet side of things, Abu Uluque, but while I am definitely not having a first thing in the morning access issue, there is from time to time during the day a moment where it takes more than one try to open the Burg using my backstage, moderator access. Sometimes something about POSTGRES (?), sometimes 404 something… I’ve been assuming that’s the result of either the site backing itself up or heavier than usual attacks from outside. Fred and badanov have long taken hardening this place very seriously indeed, and of course the Burg has long garnered attention from interesting parties, some of whom definitely have not appreciated our balanced approach to certain world activities… not to mention decidedly unbalanced approach to other ones. ;-)
I’m sure you understand far better than I the meaning of what I wrote. It’s all a black box to me.
[ShabelleMedia] The United States military carried out two air strikes targeting ISIS turbans in Somalia late last week, U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) said Sunday, amid ongoing efforts to counter krazed killer threats in the Horn of Africa.
The strikes took place on May 31 and June 1, 2025, approximately 72 kilometers south of the port city of Bosaso in the semi-autonomous 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... region, AFRICOM confirmed in a statement.
While no casualty figures were disclosed, the command underscored the persistent threat posed by ISIS-Somalia, noting the group’s "demonstrated ability and willingness to attack U.S. forces."
"These strikes were conducted to disrupt and degrade ISIS-Somalia’s operational capacity in a remote area known to be a hub for the group," the statement added.
AFRICOM said initial assessments indicated no civilian casualties and that the strikes were carried out in coordination with the Federal Government of Somalia.
The operations mark the latest in a series of U.S. military actions aimed at supporting Somali and regional forces in countering krazed killer groups, including both ISIS and the larger al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... insurgency.
ISIS-Somalia, though significantly smaller than al-Shabaab, maintains a foothold in parts of northeastern Somalia and has grabbed credit for a series of assassinations and bombings in recent years.
— Sahara Reporters (@SaharaReporters) June 2, 2025
An al-Qaeda linked group has grabbed credit for an attack in the Malian town of Boulikessi that killed over 30 soldiers on Sunday and led to the seizure of an army base.
Jama'a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Moslemin (JNIM) said its fighters overran the military camp in a coordinated assault.
Sources quoted by Rooters reported that more than 30 soldiers were killed, though the Malian authorities have not yet confirmed the casualty figure.
In a statement reacting to the attack, the Malian army said it "reacted vigorously" before it "withdrew", suggesting a tactical retreat.
"Many men fought, some until their last breath, to defend the Malian nation," the army added.
A local source told Rooters that JNIM "cleared the camp" and left many casualties. Unverified videos seen by the agency showed dozens of bully boyz invading the base, with one clip reportedly showing fighters stepping on corpses.
On Monday, JNIM said it launched another offensive in the historic city of Timbuktu, targeting a military airport and Russian mercenaries. Residents reported hearing gunfire and explosions as the assault unfolded.
Military and security sources told AFP that they were "fighting back" but admitted the bully boyz were "everywhere in the city". A local official said the attackers arrived "with a vehicle packed with explosives" that detonated near the army camp.
Timbuktu, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, was captured by Islamist bully boyz in 2012 but was later recaptured.
However,
a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... the city has remained under threat in recent years.
The back-to-back attacks have highlighted the worsening security situation in Mali and across the wider Sahel region ... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas... They came shortly after the United States Africa Command warned of increased jihadist activity aimed at gaining access to West Africa’s coastline.
Speaking at a presser on Friday, US Africom commander Gen Michael Langley said, "These groups gaining access to the coast will significantly boost their capacity for smuggling and arms trafficking."
Rooters reports that more than 400 soldiers have been killed by bully boyz since the start of last month in Mali, Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president used to be Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and was chased out in 2014. Now it's the usual army officer type guy, Captain Ibrahim Traore, running things, who's just doing a bang-up job unless he's already been deposed... , and Niger.
— Sahara Reporters (@SaharaReporters) June 2, 2025
A Nigerian military fighter jet has mistakenly struck and killed about 20 men of a vigilante group during an operation targeting bandidos in Garin Mani, a village in the Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara State.
Inshallah.
The tragic incident occurred after armed bandidos attacked the village, killing several residents and abducting over 50 others, mostly farmers who were working on their fields.
Eyewitnesses said the attackers stormed the area on cycle of violences around noon, shooting indiscriminately and causing widespread panic.
In response, local vigilante groups mobilised and began chasing the fleeing assailants.
However,
if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... a military aircraft deployed to the scene allegedly misidentified the vigilantes as bandidos and launched Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on them.
"We were pursuing the bandidos when we saw the fighter jet approaching," one of the vigilantes told BBC Hausa.
"It flew very low and started bombing us. Some of us survived by pretending we had been hit. When the jet left, we got up and fled to safety."
Another resident, who spoke on condition of anonymity, confirmed the incident and expressed disappointment over the lack of communication from the military.
"We understand it was an unfortunate mistake, but the military should acknowledge what happened and reach out to the victims’ families," he said.
He also appealed to the government to deploy additional troops to the area, as the bandidos had threatened to return.
This is not the first time such an incident has occurred. In January, an airstrike mistakenly killed 16 people, including vigilantes, in Tungar Kara, also in Zamfara.
Similarly, in December last year, 10 residents of Gidan Bisa in Sokoto State were killed in a misdirected airstrike.
As of the time of filing this report, the Nigerian military has yet to issue an official statement on the latest incident.
[IsraelTimes] Latest attack from Yemen causes no damage or injuries; alerts send millions to bomb shelters; Iran-backed group claims to target Ben Gurion Airport
Israeli air defenses intercepted a ballistic missile launched at the country by the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen on Monday night, the military said, in what has become an almost daily occurrence.
The missile set off sirens shortly before 9 p.m. across central Israel, the Jerusalem area, several West Bank settlements, and some areas in southern Israel, sending millions to bomb shelters.
Preceding the sirens by about three minutes, an early warning was issued by the Home Front Command to residents, alerting them of the long-range missile attack via a push notification on their phones.
There were no reports of injuries or damage in the attack, which marked the fourth from Yemen in the past week and the ninth in two weeks.
Footage posted to social media showed the aftermath of the missile interception, with burning shrapnel falling from the sky.
The Houthis took responsibility for Monday’s missile fire, claiming to have targeted Ben Gurion Airport.
A missile attack a day earlier also targeted the airport near Tel Aviv, the Houthis claimed. The IDF said Sunday that the projectile was intercepted, and there were no reports of damage.
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[KavkazUzel] An unemployed resident of Astrakhan has been detained on suspicion of transferring cryptocurrency to a member of a terrorist organization operating in Syria.
"Kavkazsky Uzel" wrote that in April the Southern District Military Court fined an Astrakhan resident for calls for terrorist activity and extremism. According to the investigation and the court, the man published posts on social networks justifying the terrorist act in Beslan.
The man, detained on suspicion of financing militants, was born in Astrakhan in 2001 and is unemployed. The investigation established that the suspect transferred funds in cryptocurrency to a citizen of one of the Asian republics, who is allegedly involved in the activities of international terrorist organizations in Syria.
A criminal case has been opened against the Astrakhan resident for aiding terrorist activity, he has been detained. The suspect has confessed, the Astrakhan online publication "A24" reported with reference to the regional FSB department.
"Kavkazsky Uzel" also previously wrote about raids by security forces in Muslim gathering places in Astrakhan. Thus, in June 2024, after an attack by militants in Dagestan, security forces blocked the exits from the Red Mosque at the Bolshiye Isady market in Astrakhan and checked the documents of those gathered. A raid was conducted at the mosque to identify violators of immigration laws, the Ministry of Internal Affairs said. In addition, several dozen Muslims were taken to police stations without explanation on November 27, 2020, after prayer in an Astrakhan mosque. Muslims were offended that such checks were carried out in mosques during Friday prayer.
🚨BREAKING: ICE announces its largest-ever targeted operation, which led to the arrest of nearly 1,500 illegal aliens in Massachusetts throughout the month of May. pic.twitter.com/wDrtM5H62L
[IsraelTimes] Media outlets in Gaza report that hospitals in Gaza have received several people killed or injured after being hit by gunfire while waiting for humanitarian aid at a newly opened distribution center in Rafah. Some websites affiliated with the Hamas terror group report that 15 people were killed.
There is no confirmation of the reports.
The claims come after two days of similar reports out of Rafah, with 31 people reported killed early Sunday and three more on Monday, according to Hamas, eyewitnesses and aid groups.
The IDF and the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which runs the assistance distribution site, have denied that shootings occurred in the area during those hours, though a military official said warning shots were fired at individuals about a kilometer away early Sunday and again on Monday. According to the Red Cross, 179 people wounded by gunfire and shrapnel were brought to a field hospital it operates in Rafah Sunday morning, and 50 more on Monday morning.
[IsraelTimes] A Palestinian suspect who allegedly was planning to throw rocks at a highway in the West Bank was shot by Israeli troops a short while ago, the military says.
Troops of the 636th Combat Intelligence Collection Unit had spotted the suspect near the village of Sinjil as he was attempting to hurl stones on a nearby road, the military says.
The IDF says the suspect threw two bottles with “dangerous material” in them at the forces, and the soldiers returned fire.
[IsraelTimes] Palestinian reports say Israeli attacks across the Strip killed at least 27 people, including three near US- and Israel-backed aid distribution site
The Israel Defense Forces said Monday it had expanded its ground offensive against Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... 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 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... over the past day, as attacks across the Strip were said to kill some 27 Paleostinians, including three near a US- and Israel-backed aid distribution site in Rafah.
"In the past day, troops expanded the ground maneuver, eliminated gunnies and destroyed many weapons depots and terror infrastructure sites, above and below ground," the IDF said. The statement added that the air force hit dozens of targets, including cells of terror operatives, buildings used by terror groups, tunnels, weapons depots, and other infrastructure.
The announcement came after IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir instructed the army on Sunday to begin operating in new areas in Gaza. The military has said it seeks to seize 75% of the Strip in the renewed offensive launched last month.
Paleostinian media reported overnight that Israeli ground forces were approaching southern Gaza’s Khan Younis. IDF troops were said to demolish the rear wall of the city’s European Hospital after advancing toward the hospital over the past day. The military, in response to a query by The Times of Israel, denied that troops were operating within the European Hospital compound.
A May 13 Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... targeted a Hamas tunnel system that ran underneath the hospital, killing the terror group’s leader in Gaza, Muhammad Sinwar, and two other senior commanders in its military wing. The IDF confirmed Saturday that Sinwar was killed in the strike, which killed at least 28 people, according to Hamas’s civil defense agency. Hamas’s figures cannot be independently verified and do not distinguish between civilians and combatants.
Sinwar had taken over from his slain brother Yahya, who criminal masterminded the Hamas onslaught of October 7, 2023, which killed some 1,200 people in southern Israel and saw 251 taken hostage, sparking the war in Gaza. Israel killed Yahya Sinwar in October 2024.
Israel has accused Hamas of using Gaza’s civilians as human shields and of embedding itself in civilian infrastructure, including homes, hospitals, schools and mosques. The IDF says it takes steps to mitigate civilian harm, including by use of evacuation warnings, precision munitions, aerial surveillance, and other intelligence.
On Monday afternoon, the military carried out a strike against what it said was a Hamas command center embedded within a school sheltering displaced Paleostinians in central Gaza’s Deir al-Balah. The IDF said that the command center was being used by Hamas operatives to plan and carry out attacks against troops and Israeli civilians.
According to Paleostinian media, at least four people were killed in the strike on the al-Aishiya school.
WAFA, the Paleostinian Authority’s official news agency, reported another person killed in an Israeli dronezap in Khan Younis, and five others killed in a fighter jet strike on a family home in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City, in the Strip’s north.
The Hamas civil defense agency said an Israeli strike on a family home in the northern town of Jabalia killed 14 people, including six children and three women. A front man for the agency said the strike hit a family home and there were "more than 20 missing individuals still under the rubble."
The IDF confirmed to the Times of Israel that it had carried out strikes in Jabalia, but declined to provide further details on the targets.
The military had last week instructed the entire Jabalia area, as well as other towns in the Strip’s north and several Gaza City neighborhoods, to evacuate westward.
Another strike early Monday hit a mosque in Deir al-Balah. The military told The Times of Israel that it had targeted terror infrastructure in the area, and that it had warned civilians to evacuate the site ahead of the airstrikes.
AID GROUP DENIES KILLINGS NEAR DISTRIBUTION SITE
Hamas’s media office said IDF gunfire early Monday killed three people and maimed 35 near an aid distribution site operated by the US-based Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which Washington and Jerusalem have promoted as a way to circumvent Hamas in the distribution of aid.
The tolls could not immediately be verified. GHF said the distribution went on without incident, with "21 truckloads of food... totaling 18,720 boxes" handed out during the site’s opening hours, from 5 a.m. to 7 a.m.
The IDF said it was aware of the reports of casualties and was investigating the incident. According to the military, troops had opened fire on Paleostinian "suspects who approached forces" overnight, around a kilometer (0.6 miles) away from the distribution site, hours before it was set to open to hand out food to Gazooks.
The GHF has warned Paleostinians in its announcements that the aid sites open no earlier than 5 a.m., and that approaching the area beforehand could be dangerous due to Israeli military activity.
The IDF said it was letting GHF operate "independently to distribute aid to Gaza residents and prevent it from reaching the Hamas terror organization." The military also accused Hamas of doing "everything it can to prevent the success" of the new aid distribution system, which commenced operations last week.
"Hamas is a brutal terror organization that starves the population and puts it in danger to preserve its rule in the Gaza Strip," the army said.
GHF has accused Hamas of fabricating previous accounts of chaos and gunfire around distribution sites, which are located in Israeli military zones.
"Despite several inaccurate and, in some cases, blatantly false news reports, there have been no injuries nor fatalities during the first full week of GHF operations," the agency said Monday morning.
Over the past week, the agency said, it has distributed 5.8 million meals at three distribution sites in southern and central Gaza. But GHF’s classification of meals is based on boxes of dry food products that still require cooking equipment or community kitchens, which are very limited throughout the Strip after nearly 20 months of devastating conflict.
The IDF has acknowledged firing warning shots on previous occasions outside the distribution centers, including on Sunday, when troops fired at Paleostinians about a kilometer away from an aid site, hours before it was set to open.
The early Sunday gunfire killed 31 people, according to Hamas health authorities and eyewitnesses, though GHF denied the reports and released some 15 minutes of footage that purported to show the distribution had proceeded without incident. The military said troops "did not fire at civilians while they were near or within the humanitarian aid distribution site."
[IsraelTimes] The IDF orders Palestinians in a new area of southern Gaza’s Khan Younis to evacuate, as the military expands its ground offensive against Hamas.
The IDF’s Arabic-language spokesperson, Col. Avichay Adraee, posts a map on X showing several blocks in western Khan Younis that are to be evacuated. The neighborhood was not included in the IDF’s previous warnings for Khan Younis.
Civilians are called to head westward toward the Maswasi area on the coast.
“The IDF will operate with great force in the areas where you are present,” Adraee warns.
[NAHARNET] Leb ...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. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration.... 's health ministry has said that Israeli strikes on the country's south killed two people, as the Israeli army said it targeted Hezbollah members in the latest raids despite a ceasefire.
The ministry said an "Israeli enemy" strike targeted a cycle of violence in Arnoun, a village in the Nabatiyeh region about five kilometers from the Israeli border, killing one person.
It said another person was killed in an Israeli raid that "targeted a vehicle on the Debl road" in the Bint Jbeil district.
Another strike on a car in nearby Beit Leef maimed one person, the ministry said.
The Israeli military said in a statement that its forces "struck and eliminated a terrorist in Hezbollah's anti-tank array" in the Arnoun area.
It later said its forces killed an operative from "Hezbollah's artillery array" in the Aita al-Shaab area, near the village of Debl.
Photos circulated on social media of the car of Mohammad Srour who was targeted in the strike. In the photo, Srour, a father, was carrying bread, a cooking pot and a baby swing.
Israel has continued to strike Lebanon despite the November 27 ceasefire that sought to end more than a year of hostilities -- including two months of open war -- with Hezbollah, which emerged severely weakened.
On Thursday, two people were killed in Israeli strikes on the south, and another died in a raid on Saturday.
Under the truce, Hezbollah fighters were to withdraw north of the Litani River, about 30 kilometers from the border, and dismantle their military posts to the south.
Israel was to pull all its troops from Lebanon but has maintained five positions it deems "strategic" along the frontier.
The Lebanese army has been deploying in the south and dismantling Hezbollah infrastructure there.
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[NAHARNET] Lebanese security forces have arrested Hezbollah member Mahmoud Ayoub in the Nabatieh district town of Harouf on charges of collaborating with Israeli intelligence services, sources told al-Arabiya's al-Hadath channel on Monday.
Ayoub is ''the financial director of the (Hezbollah-affiliated) Ragheb Harb Hospital'' in the Nabatieh district, the sources said.
''Mahmoud Ayoub was arrested by the Internal Security Forces' Information Branch in coordination with Hezbollah,'' the sources added.
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
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president used to be Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and was chased out in 2014. Now it's the usual army officer type guy, Captain Ibrahim Traore, running things, who's just doing a bang-up job unless he's already been deposed...
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..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
...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. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration....
