[Al Jazeera] The development of the Mozambique Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) Project has unfolded against the backdrop of another conflict, the same one that spurred Salama’s dash to the Afungi gate.
These combatants call themselves al-Shabaab ... Islamic thugs infesting Mozambique.. , or "the youth" in Arabic, although they have no connection to the better known group with the same name in Somalia. Somalia's are al-Qaeda, Mozambique's are ISIS.
True. But Mozambique’s hired themselves trainers in all the varied skills of jihad from Somalia’s — their name is a sentimental hearkening back to that connection. Everyone keeps insisting they’re not connected, but clearly that is untrue. Though whether they still communicate regularly or just exchange Christmas cards every few years is something I don’t know.
The rebels launched a violent mostly peaceful campaign in 2017 that has continued since. They say they are angry that Cabo Delgado’s people have been cut off from wealth and opportunity.
Al-Shabaab is notorious for its brutality, for beheadings and the abduction of women and kiddies to serve as soldiers and sex slaves, according to Amnesty International. More than 6,000 people have been killed and a million have been displaced over the past seven years.
The fighters have sworn allegiance to ISIS (ISIS), which often broadcasts its attacks.
The presence of a major gas project in Palma contributes to this web of socioeconomic and political frustrations and heightens pressure on the Mozambican army and on international troops stationed in Cabo Delgado to guard the investment.
When al-Shabaab managed to take Palma in March 2021, more than 1,190 people were killed, making it the deadliest such attack to date on the African continent.
In the aftermath, TotalEnergies declared force majeure on its project in Mozambique, enacting an ongoing suspension because of the conflict.
The Afungi site, which is not yet operational, is currently guarded by private security companies and a joint task force made up of the Mozambican military and police. Until this year, this task force had a base within the Afungi site.
The initial 2021 offensive in Palma went on for four days and is the same ambush from which Salama escaped. But the fighters continued to roam the area for several months, attacking anyone who tried to return home.
After more than a week spent looking for a way out of the town, Salama said she finally managed to leave by plane going south.
She spent a few years sheltering in a neighbouring district before returning to Palma in 2022 because she missed her home and hoped that a fragile peace might hold.
But Salama did not stay long in her village, which was slated to be part of the large gas development as resettlement continued even after TotalEnergies declared force majeure.
In 2023, she was relocated to Quitunda, where she made a permanent home in the same place where she had run during the fighting.
Conflict has taken a toll on her family in other ways. Three of her nephews disappeared when al-Shabaab attacked. She believes they were captured by the fighters.
Together, the LNG project and conflict are a "double attack" on the livelihoods of people like Salama, said Julio Bicheche of the Farmers Union Cabo Delgado.
"They had to reset their lives from being displaced, but they also had to reset due to the attack," he said. "In the eyes of the government, in the eyes of the project staff, they don’t see this. What they see are their own interests. No one is going to pay for all these losses."
[GEO.TV] Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... -affiliated media outlet al-Masirah reported that US and UK forces conducted four air raids on Kamaran Island in the Red Sea.
The Houthis, who control Yemen ...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... ’s capital Sanaa, have attacked Red Sea shipping lanes and fired missiles and drones at Israeli targets for months in support of Paleostinians 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... These operations have angered the US and Western nations. Despite ongoing bombings of Houthi targets by the US and its allies since January, the military campaign has not stopped Houthi attacks.
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U.S. Central Command appears to have begun a New Strategy for Operations against the Houthi Terrorist Group in Yemen, with a Statement today announcing that Forces had Destroyed a Total of 4 Radar Systems used by the Houthis in Western Yemen over the last 24 Hours, this is in… pic.twitter.com/dnpw2YmdYo
Wow! This is almost as good as cutting all roads leading in and out of Yemen, destroying all communications and electrical transmission towers, and sinking any boat, including fisher folk, trying to put out from Yemen. Not quite as good, but it's better than nothing.
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It would take the Eisenhower CVBG about 24 hours to literally cut the Houthis off from their suppliers. It would be dangerous, but it could be done.
[Al Jazeera] Israeli air attacks hit refugee camps in Central Gaza in the early hours of this morning, leaving several people killed and injured, our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report.
Here are the details we have so far:
An Israeli air attack on a house in Block 3 of the Bureij refugee camp has killed at least one person and wounded others.
In the Nuseirat refugee camp, at least one person was killed and others injured in attacks from Israeli warplanes.
Israeli quadcopter drones have been heard swarming in the sky over Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
[Al Jazeera] Street fighting is raging in southern Rafah’s Tal as-Sultan area with Hamas fighters attacking Israeli forces with rocket-propelled grenades and mortar rounds, days after a deadly ambush that killed eight Israeli soldiers.
Israel’s army claims to have seized control of about 60 percent of Rafah city after its seven-week ground invasion with 550 Palestinian fighters killed and 22 soldiers dead.
Israeli Troops and Armored Vehicles are claimed to have entered the Zeitoun Neighborhood in Southern Gaza City, with Heavy Fighting being reported alongside Artillery and Airstrikes. An Operation by the IDF appears to be Underway.
We knew that days ago.
[NYPOST] The Gaza-based news hound who held three Israeli hostages captive at his home worked for a US non-profit accused of "providing material support to Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... " where hard-left professor Noam Chomsky ...Intellectual and political theorist of a socialist persuasion. He is noted for being so far out in left field he can't see the shortstop on every issue he pushes... sits on the board of directors.
Abdallah Aljamal — killed by Israeli Defense Forces during the raid to free the hostages from his home in Nuseirat — was a regular correspondent for The Paleostine Chronicle, an Olympia, Washington state-based news outlet established in 1999, with sister publications in La Belle France and Italia.
Aljamal’s articles for the website lamenting the evils of war continued until just before the June 8 raid — many seemingly written while Jewish hostages taken by Hamas in their Oct. 7th terror attack were captive at his house.
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Students sue UCLA over 'Jew Exclusion Zone' "If masked agitators had excluded any other marginalized group at UCLA, Governor Newsom rightly would have sent in the National Guard immediately," law firm says.
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Congratulations to the IDF for dispatching Abdallah Aljamal and, as I understand, his family that assisted. ALL now in Hell, meeting SATAN, their maker.
Prays For
Yamam officer Ch. Insp. Arnon Zmora who was fatally wounded by the other Hamas terrorists’ protecting Aljamal’s home & hostage site.
QUESTIONS:
Will the FBI investigate "Palestine Chronicle" owners, to see if the owners were involved or funded the reporter's 7-month holding of Hostages?
Obviously, even barely keeping them alive for 7 months, cost the reporter & his family $$$$.
Then there is the question of his and his families' interaction with HAMAS to get the hostages to start with, which must also be investigated for funding.
Muhammad Mustafa Ayoub, a Rocket and Artillery Field Commander is Hezbollah’s Nasser Unit was Eliminated earlier today by an Israeli Airstrike on his Car near the Town of Selaa in Southern Lebanon. pic.twitter.com/L7lfJewrCE
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... Islamic thugs infesting Mozambique..
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
