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The June 19th near battle between USS R R and ChiComs
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Africa Horn
Al-Shabaab Advances Toward Mogadishu Amid Military Withdrawals
[Garowe] The turban group al-Shabaab
... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all ofwhich have enough problems without them...
has launched a sweeping offensive across southern and central Somalia, reclaiming key towns and reversing years of territorial losses, according to a new analysis from The Soufan Center, a U.S.-based foreign policy think tank specializing in global security.

The most recent gains occurred on July 20, when al-Shabaab fighters recaptured the towns of Sabiid and Anole in Lower Shabelle, southwest of Mogadishu. The advance followed the withdrawal of Ugandan and Somali government forces after a string of deadly suicide kabooms targeted their positions, leaving at least 20 Ugandan peacekeepers dead. The African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
Support and Stabilization Mission (AUSSOM) has yet to comment in detail on the retreat, but officials acknowledged the mounting pressure from sustained attacks by the al-Qaeda-linked hard boys.

The Soufan Center report describes a broader campaign by al-Shabaab aimed at "encircling Mogadishu" and isolating the Federal Government of Somalia (FGS). The think tank draws attention to a March 2025 liquidation attempt on President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud inside the capital as a stark example of the group’s growing operational reach.

Since launching its "Shabelle Offensive" in April, al-Shabaab has made rapid territorial gains across Hirshabelle and Galmudug
...a semiautonomous region in central Somalia, bordering Puntland on the north. Galmudug is not trying to obtain international recognition as a separate nation, but rather considers itself autonomous within the larger Somali federalism, for what that's worth...
. The group seized Moqokori, Tardo, and Gumare in July, reportedly without resistance from Somali forces or allied clan militias. Fighters were seen engaging openly with local residents and erecting checkpoints, signaling an effort to re-establish governance and taxation mechanisms.

"These advances show not just military capability, but a deliberate attempt to restore al-Shabaab’s administrative footprint," The Soufan Center noted.

The turban group now maintains control over a triangular area encompassing Moqokori, Tardo, and Buq-Aqable, a stronghold that threatens key supply lines to Bulobarde and Jalalaqsi, towns defended by Djiboutian forces. The Federal Government’s countermeasures have been limited. On July 13, Somalia’s National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) announced an Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
near Buq-Able that allegedly killed seven turbans—one of the few retaliatory actions in recent weeks.

The U.S., a key partner in Somalia’s counterterrorism efforts, has concentrated its 2025 operations on 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....
(IS) cells in 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...
. ACLED data indicates over 30 U.S. strikes in northern Somalia this year, compared to fewer than 20 against al-Shabaab, despite the group’s larger footprint and territorial momentum. Analysts suggest this strategic imbalance has allowed al-Shabaab to regroup and expand.

Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch shot Black Bart's other gun out of his other hand......
political divisions within Somalia continue to hamper security coordination. The May 2025 National Consultative Conference was boycotted by Puntland and Jubaland—two regions with substantial military capacity—over disputes with Villa Somalia. The unilateral recognition of SSC-Khaatumo as a federal member state, without broader consensus, further deepened mistrust.

"The absence of a united national front has created a vacuum al-Shabaab is exploiting," the report warns.

While the FGS claims to have recaptured over 200 locations in previous years with U.S. and Ottoman Turkish support, recent losses reveal the fragility of those gains. The Soufan Center concludes that unless Somali authorities and international partners recalibrate their security strategies, al-Shabaab will remain well-positioned to challenge state authority in the months ahead.

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Posted by: trailing wife || 07/27/2025 2025-07-27 02:33 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


Europe
Jean-Michel sued
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:

[ColonelCassad] Jean-Michel aka Brigitte Macron sued the American journalist Candice Owens, who repeatedly claimed that the first lady of France was transgender.

Owens responded harshly: she called on Brigitte Macron to pass and publish the tests to close the issue once and for all, and also said that she would still get to the bottom of it.

"I think the world deserves this. Because it turns us off at the thought of the perverts who rule us. Let me emphasize: I consider you one of them. I think you are sick all over your head and disgusting... I am fully ready for this battle, which I am entering on behalf of the whole world! I'll see you in court," said the journalist.

Earlier, the Paris court had already sentenced two women who claimed that Macron's wife was born a man to fines of 13,500 euros for defamation.

The truth about the cohabitant of the dictator Macron will come out sooner or later. They will not be able to close all their mouths. In this story, the Streisand effect has been working for a long time. The more they try to shut up, the more they talk about it.

PS. It is worth noting that earlier Trump asked Owens to stop digging up incriminating material on Jean-Michel, but she did not listen and continued to attack the fan. In principle, she is in her right, given all the questions about Macron's cohabitant. After all, it is not only a matter of gender change, but also a long-standing lie to the French people and not only.


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Posted by: badanov || 07/27/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:


Government Corruption
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino shocked to his core over FBI's recent corruption discoveries: ‘I'll never be the same'
[NYP] FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino boldly declared Saturday that he made recent discoveries about government corruption and weaponization that shocked him down to the core.

Without elaborating on what he found out, Bongino teased that investigations into those discoveries are ongoing and being done "by the book."

"What I have learned in the course of our properly predicated and necessary investigations into these aforementioned matters, has shocked me down to my core," Bongino said in a shocking announcement on X.

"We cannot run a Republic like this. I’ll never be the same after learning what I’ve learned."
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#3  I’ll get excited when someone actually tells us something. We already know it’s going to be awful.
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The Intelligence Community Needs To Be Dismantled
[Federalist] At the direction of President Barack Obama in late 2016, our intelligence agencies pulled off what can only be described as a coup and a treasonous conspiracy against President-elect Donald Trump — a conspiracy that continued throughout his entire first term in office, hobbling his presidency and thwarting the will of the American electorate.

That’s what the bombshell documents released this week by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard reveal: a criminal scheme, at the highest levels of the federal government, to deprive Trump the fruits of his electoral victory and, by extension, the American people of meaningful self-government.

At the center of this scheme was President Obama and his intelligence chiefs, who in December 2016 launched a conspiracy to prevent Trump from taking office or, failing that, to hamstring his presidency. "The evidence that we have found and that we have released directly point to President Obama leading the manufacturing of this intelligence assessment. There are multiple pieces of evidence and intelligence that confirm that fact," Gabbard said Wednesday, adding that her office has forwarded all documents to the Justice Department and FBI "to investigate the criminal implications of this."

It’s possible that those responsible for this long-running coup will face some kind of criminal prosecution and possibly conviction, but it’s highly unlikely. No one should hold their breath waiting for an Obama mugshot, as well-deserved as that might be given what he and his top officials did.
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Posted by: Besoeker || 07/27/2025 00:25 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:


John Brennan's 5 Lies That Set Russiagate In Motion
[Federalist] Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has declassified a long-buried House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) report exposing the fraud at the heart of the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) released in January 2017.

That ICA — produced by the CIA, FBI, and NSA at the behest of President Obama — claimed that Vladimir Putin helped Donald Trump win the presidency. It became a weaponized talking point, casting a shadow over Trump’s legitimacy before he even took office.

The HPSCI launched its investigation into the ICA on January 25, 2017, just days after Trump was sworn in. Then-Chairman Devin Nunes, who would later play a pivotal role in unraveling the Russiagate hoax, apparently sensed something was deeply wrong. But the committee’s investigation was met with years of stonewalling and obstruction from intelligence agencies. The report just released dates back to September 2020 but was kept from the public until now. Only now, under Gabbard’s leadership, is it finally seeing the light of day.

And it is explosive.

The report doesn’t just detail flaws in tradecraft or analytic sloppiness. It documents an intentional fraud — driven by then-CIA Director John Brennan — designed to paint Trump as a Russian asset and delegitimize his presidency.
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IDF chief says Gaza war ‘one of the most complex’ conflicts military has faced
[IsraelTimes] During rare multi-front strategic assessment with top brass, Zamir lays out new ‘defense perception,’ says ‘campaign against Iran isn’t over’

Israel’s military chief warned during a strategic assessment with the military’s top leadership on Monday that the ongoing campaign against the Hamas
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
terror group in the 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...
Strip is "one of the most complex" the Israel Defense Forces has ever faced.

During the rare "multi-front situational assessment" at the Glilot intelligence base — the first of its kind in nearly two years — IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir and top generals reviewed the operational, intelligence, and strategic picture across all fronts, the military said Tuesday, "from the close borders to the depths of the Middle East, including a systemic look from Tehran to Gaza."

The changes reflect the lessons the IDF has learned from the failures to stop the October 7, 2023, massacre and the subsequent wars that have seen the military fighting in Gaza, Leb
...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....
, and the West Bank and carrying out an extensive air campaign against 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 Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and 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 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...
rebels.

Zamir laid out his changes to the IDF’s "defense perception" to the officers, including five main components: defense via offense; security zones on every border, with the IDF standing in front of civilian communities; not ignoring enemy intentions and capabilities; recognizing that the fronts on which Israel is fighting are not similar — neither in the achievements required, the method of fighting, or the results the IDF desires — which effects the length of the campaign in each front; and strengthening the military’s capability to move from routine to emergencies and to respond to surprise attacks.

In remarks from the meeting published by the military, Zamir said that "the IDF is required to operate offensively on multiple fronts alongside vital defense in each sector and on the borders," adding that the IDF will "continue to preserve air superiority and advance the intelligence effort."

Zamir said the campaign against Hamas in Gaza "is one of the most complex the IDF has ever known."

"We have achieved very significant accomplishments, and the Southern Command continues to lead with standing army and reserve brigades in offense and defense," he said. Due to the ongoing fighting in Gaza, senior Southern Command officers joined the assessment remotely.

"We are paying a heavy price in the fighting. Today alone, we have seen this," he said, referring to two soldiers killed in separate incidents in the Strip’s south on Monday. "We will continue to act to achieve our objectives: the return of the hostages and the collapse of Hamas."

Zamir said the IDF continues to operate on multiple fronts: "We will continue to weaken and prevent strategic capabilities from Syria and Hezbollah and preserve our freedom of action. We are operating in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) and continuing to fight terror in a consistent and ongoing manner."

Regarding Iran, after last month’s 12-day war, Zamir said, "Iran and its axis remain in our sights; the campaign against Iran isn’t over," adding that 2026 would be a year focused on "preparedness, realizing achievements, returning to competency and fundamentals, and seizing operational opportunities."

Also, during the meeting, Zamir announced that the IDF would establish a new "guidance department" under the Military Colleges that would be tasked with "advancing and drawing lessons from the war and for military learning processes in general."

Zamir also told the generals that the Depth Corps, a mostly dormant shadowy multidisciplinary unit responsible for military operations beyond Israel’s borders, would undergo major changes to turn it into a headquarters responsible for "management, strategy, and command over General Staff-level deep operations and systems," especially within the so-called "second circle," meaning Iran’s proxies in Yemen, Iraq, and other areas not directly on Israel’s borders.

Zamir recently led a shuffle in the General Staff, appointing separate commanders for the Military Colleges and Depth Corps, which until now had been commanded by one general.

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Posted by: trailing wife || 07/27/2025 2025-07-27 02:27 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: Hamas



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  The June 19th near battle between USS R R and ChiComs
Sat 2025-07-26
  Hamas reports 122 Palestinians, including 83 children killed by starvation in Gaza
Fri 2025-07-25
  Houthis Hijack Israel-Linked Ship In The Red Sea
Thu 2025-07-24
  Shin Bet detained a woman accused of plotting to assassinate Prime Minister Netanyahu using an improvised explosive device
Wed 2025-07-23
  Illegal immigrants are now 'going on strike' to protest ICE raids
Tue 2025-07-22
  Syria starts evacuating Bedouin families from Sweida in bid to restore calm after more than 1260 killed
Mon 2025-07-21
  Mali: FAMa announced that over 70 terrorists were neutralized
Sun 2025-07-20
  Clashes end in Suwayda after govt forces deployment, 940 dead
Sat 2025-07-19
  Hezbollah Leader Naim Qassem: We're ready to fight — no to disarming, no to surrender.
Fri 2025-07-18
  Libya: Armed clashes reported in Najila between militia forces and Dbeibah's defense units
Thu 2025-07-17
  Israeli airstrikes hit the Syrian Presidential Palace and the Syrian General Staff HQ in Damascus
Wed 2025-07-16
  Syrian Internal security with Ministry of Defense expelled outlawed groups from Suwayda, over 100 Druze dead
Tue 2025-07-15
  At least 30 people killed in armed clashes in Syria's Sweida, says interior ministry
Mon 2025-07-14
  IDF seizes 3 tons of arms from ex-Assad regime sites
Sun 2025-07-13
  ISIS-aligned rebels kill 66 civilians in eastern Congo


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