May your day be blessed and full of family and love
President Trump released a video address Friday in recognition of the holidays of Easter and Passover, saying that Americans "praise the Heavenly Father for the blessings of freedom and the gift of eternal life."
"During the sacred holiday of Passover, Jewish families around the world give thanks to God for liberating the Jewish people from bondage in Egypt and delivering them to the promised land of Israel," Trump said.
The 2018 week of Passover begins Friday, and Easter is Sunday.
"For Christians, we remember the suffering and death of God's only son," Trump said, "and his glorious resurrection on the third day."
"On Easter Sunday, we proclaim with joy: 'Christ is risen!' " he added. "Both of these sacred celebrations remind us that God redeems the world."
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The link goes to: "Trump: Both Easter and Passover 'remind us that God redeems the world'"
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Thank you for posting this, Frank G. I’ve been a bit distracted, what with Mr. Wife retiring at the end of the day this past Friday — I only noticed that it was almost Passover on Thursday, so I gave up on having a Seder this year. God will understand, I’m sure.
Cute, Procopius2k.
It’s unusual for the holidays to be quite so close together, given how the Jewish lunar calendar wanders — that extra month every eleven years or so makes things interesting. But that makes this year extra nice for those of us with friends’n’relations in both camps. ;-)
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After the left trotted out there anti-Trump pron stars, Mrs Trump showed class and grace hosting the kids WH Easter Egg event and accompanying the President to Easter Church Services. Clinton News Network heads were most likely exploding.
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Y’all are darlings — thank you! Besoeker, sharing the burden is the plan, though more aimed at me having more energy to play, now that he won’t have much in the way of business travel.
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You are kindness itself, Ulaigum Ebbineng7056, but the first time Mr. Wife and I hung out he made me Chinese stir fry... and he spent eleven years developing new and improved laundry detergents for markets around the world.
I’m looking forward to him cutting up a couple of pounds of chuck so I can make goulash — it’s been a while since I’ve had enough energy. And I’m very glad he’s taken over ironing and grocery shopping, as those used to be his responsibilities back when we both were in paid employment.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A group of Indian nationals who were recruited by the turbans in ISIS ranks have likely been killed in an Arclight airstrike in Afghanistan, it has been reported.
According to the Indian officials, reports regarding the killing of four ISIS recruits hailing originally from Kerala have emerged.
The police chief of Kerala Loknath Behera has told news hounds that the four individuals along with a child have likely been killed in a dronezap in Afghanistan.
He has cited preliminary reports received by the authorities and added that the reports could not be verified but investigations are underway in this regard.
The individuals had reportedly visited Syria in 2016 in a bid to take part in terrorist related activities in ISIS ranks.
This comes as counter-terrorism operations and airstrikes are underway against the terror group in a number of the provinces of Afghanistan.
The Afghan officials have in the past confirmed the killing of imported muscle among the ISIS ranks in Afghanistan but they have so far not commented regarding the killing of Indian nationals so far.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan Special Operations Forces stormed the hideouts of the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... group in southern Kandahar province of Afghanistan inflicting heavy casualties on group’s holy warriors.
Provincial Police Chief General Abdul Raziq said Saturday that the raid was conducted late on Friday night in the vicinity of Maiwand district.
Gen. Raziq further added that the Special Operations Forces stormed at least ten hideouts of the group in Sar Baghal area of the district.
According to Gen. Raziq, at least thirty faceless myrmidons were killed and at least ten others were maimed during the operation.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A top leader of a holy warrior group hailing from China was killed during the operations of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces in Northeastern Badakhshan province.
The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North said at least seven bully boyz including two Chinese nationals were killed during the operations.
The officials further added that one of the Chinese nationals killed during the operations has been identified as Mustafa who was the deputy leader of a Chinese holy warrior group.
A front man for the 209th Shaheen Corps Mohammad Hanif Rezayi confirmed that the bully boyz were killed in Jurm district.
Rezayi further added that thirteen bully boyz were also maimed during the operations but the security personnel involved in the operations have not sustained any casualty.
The local residents in Jurm district have also not sustained any casualty during the operations, the Shaheen Corps front man added.
The anti-government armed holy warrior groups including Taliban ...Arabic for students... bully boyz have not commented regarding the report so far.
Badakhshan is located in the remote part of the country in the Northeast and is among the relatively volatile provinces where the anti-government armed bully boyz are active in some of its districts and often carry out insurgency activities.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The International Criminal Court on Saturday said it has taken into custody at its detention center in the Netherlands of a Malian man accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The suspect, identified by the court as Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohammed Ag Mahmoud, was indicted for crimes allegedly committed as de-facto chief of Islamic police in Timbuktu in 2012 and 2013 including destroying cultural monuments and enforcing policies that led to sexual enslavement of women and girls.
The detention of Al Hassan is a boost for ICC prosecutors.
The only other suspect enjugged Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! in Mali’s conflict, Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi, pleaded guilty to destruction of cultural heritage for his participation in smashing mausoleums. He was sentenced to nine years in prison in 2017 after apologizing for his actions, and could appear as a witness against Al Hassan.
Landmark case Victims’ groups had been critical of the court for the limited scope of al-Mahdi’s indictment, though his case was widely viewed as a landmark because it was the first time a person has been convicted of a war crime solely for destruction of cultural artifacts.
In Al Hassan’s case, judges said prosecutors had presented enough evidence to issue an arrest warrant for crimes against humanity including "torture, rape and sexual slavery; persecution of the inhabitants of Timbuktu on religious and gender grounds; and other inhumane acts."
Al Hassan will have an initial court appearance next week at which he will be informed of the allegations outlined in his arrest warrant. He is not yet required to enter a plea.
Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said in a statement she had asked judges to issue an arrest warrant for Al Hassan on March 20, and the warrant was issued under seal on March 27. Malian and Dutch authorities cooperated in the handover.
Bensouda, who has been criticized for obtaining few convictions during her tenure, said her selection of Al Hassan for prosecution showed her commitment "to bring forward cases only guided and built on a strong evidentiary foundation."
She said it also signaled her intent "to address the untold suffering inflicted upon the Malian population and what they hold dear as a people."
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[VANGUARDNGR] Nigerian Army on Saturday said its troops killed four Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... snuffies at Malumti village in the fringes of Sambisa Forest.
President Buhari interacts with troops of HQ 1 BDE in Dansadau Zamfara State as part of the 2016 Nigerian Army Day celebration on 13th July 2016 File Photod Brig.
-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, the Deputy Director, Army Public Relations, Operation Lafiya Dole, made the disclosure in a statement in Maiduguri.
Nwachukwu stated that the snuffies were killed by troops in an ambush while trying to escape ongoing clearance exercise under "Operation Deep Punch II" on March 30.
He said the troops recovered a Toyota Land Cruiser, one AK 47 Rifle , 15 Rounds of 7. 62 mm ammunition, one magazine and 47 Jerry cans of petrol from the Death Eaters.
He added that "the snuffies were routed out of the Sambisa Forest by troops under Operation Deep Punch II, rummaging for food and logistics when they met their Waterloo.
" Nwachukwu disclosed that gallant troops deployed at a checkpoint in Muna Garage in the outskirts of Maiduguri also neutralised four jacket wallahs on Friday.
He explained that the bombers, comprising a male and three females were killed while attempting to infiltrate Maiduguri metropolis.
He noted that "the Death Eaters, attempting to infiltrate Maiduguri metropolis through Muna Zawiya area at about 9. 30 p. m. , were spotted by vigilance troops who fired shots, hitting one of them, thereby triggering simultaneous kabooms which killed all of them.
"Regrettably, 18 persons were maimed in the incident and have been evacuated for medical attention.
" According to him, troops and members of the Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) were conducting cordon and search operation in the area for any other suicide bomber lurking around.
Nwachukwu urged the public to be vigilant and report suspicious persons and activities to security agencies.
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[ENCA] Four teenage girl jacket wallahs have killed two people in multiple attacks in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... , residents said Saturday, in the latest assault since the government announced it was in ceasefire talks with Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... The suspected Boko Haram attack took place late Friday in the northeast Borno state capital of Maiduguri, the epicentre of the group's Islamist insurgency.
The girls, estimated to be between the ages of 13 and 18, attacked the Zawuya settlement on the outskirts of Maiduguri, killing two people, residents told AFP.
"We lost two people, a woman and a boy, in two of the four suicide kabooms," Zawuya resident Musa Haruna Isa said.
One of the bombers blew up while trying to scale a low mud wall outside a house that starting crumbling and detonated her boom belt, killing the boy, Isa said.
"One of them went kaboom! near an open-air mosque, injuring one person," he said, adding that another bomber "panicked from the kabooms from her colleagues and squeezed the trigger in the open, killing only herself."
However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... police said that just one person died in the attack.
"They (bombers) detonated the explosives killing themselves and one other person... 13 persons were maimed and were taken to a hospital where they are responding to treatment," Maiduguri police said in a statement.
The attack highlighted the challenge the government faces in reaching a ceasefire agreement with the fractionalised Boko Haram.
Last week, when more than 100 schoolgirls were returned to Dapchi after being kidnapped by the jihadist group, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said his government was offering amnesty to "repentant" jihadists.
But security bigshots cautioned that reaching any agreement with the group will be difficult, as it is split into competing factions with different goals.
The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... -affiliated faction reportedly in talks with the government is led by Abu Mus'ab al-Barnawi and is known for attacks on military targets, while another faction led by Abubakar Shekau ... the lunatic leader of Boko Haram who has been reported dead at least eleven times, pledged his body and soul to ISIS, told his fighters to hang it up once or twice, and been fired by the Caliph and refused to step down ... is notorious for suicide kabooms killing civilians.
Zawuya, a settlement of people displaced by Boko Haram mostly from Rann, a town on the remote northeast border with Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... , lies close to the Muna Garage area, home to some 40,000 internally displaced people.
Both camps have been repeatedly targeted by Boko Haram attacks.
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[SABANEWS.NET] US-backed, Saudi-led aggression coalition’s fighter jets waged seven raids on Hajjah province overnight, a local official told Saba on Saturday. The hostile airstrikes hit Bani Qais district in the province, leaving damage to farms and property of citizens.
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[SABANEWS.NET] At least six citizens were killed and seven others maimed in Arclight airstrikes waged by Saudi-led aggression warplanes on Saada and Hodaida provinces overnight, a military official told Saba on Saturday.
In Saada, a woman was killed in an airstrike hit Almaqash area near Saada city, while another citizen was killed due to an air raid on Tallan area of Hidan district.
Three people, including a woman and a child, were killed when the hostile fighter jets bombed their home in Ghafera area of Dhaher district, while six other citizens were maimed in six airstrikes struck Baqem district.
A child was maimed and a house was damaged due to an airstrike on Sewar al-Asfal in Bani Maeen area of Razih district, while another air raid targeted al-Qad area of the same district.
The aggression warplanes waged a raid on al-Osha area in Sahar district, another raid on al-Soh area of Kutaf district, and three others on Alaf and Al Ammar area and the agricultural arboretum.
Saudi enemy army bombed several areas in the border districts of Munabah, Razih and Sheda with rockets and artillery shells.
In Hodaida, a farmer was killed when two airstrikes struck a farm in Tuhaita district, while two airstrikes hit a citizen’s farm in Jarrah district.
The enemy’s warplanes also hit al-Zohra district of the same province two times and al-Qanawos district seven times.
In Hajjah province, the hostile aircrafts launched seven air raids on Bani Qais disrtrict, ten others Medi and Harad districts.
In Jawf province, an airstrike hit al-Maslob district.
In Najran ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , a city in southwestern Saudi Arabia near the border with Yemen. It is the capital of Najran Province and a favored target of Houthirocket forces.... region, six airstrikes targeted al-Ajasher desert and another one hit Shaja site.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Saudi air defense forces have intercepted and destroyed a Houthi ...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 Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. 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 ... ballistic missile on Saturday, which was headed towards Najran ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , a city in southwestern Saudi Arabia near the border with Yemen. It is the capital of Najran Province and a favored target of Houthirocket forces.... According to an Al Arabiya correspondent, the forces intercepted the missile at 10:20 am local Saudi time. The Arab Coalition air force also located and destroyed the missile’s platform.
Earlier, Saudi air defense forces had also intercepted on Thursday a ballistic missile fire by the Houthi militia on Jazan. The Security Council strongly condemned the launching of the missiles by the militias on Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... The Security Council affirmed that the ballistic missiles launched by the Houthi militias threaten the security of the region and expressed the concern that the militias announced their intention to target Saudi Arabia and other countries.
It urged that all member states to implement fully the arms embargo as required by Security Council resolutions, including resolution 2216.
[SABANEWS.NET] The missile force of the army and popular forces on Saturday fired a ballistic missile of Badr-1 type on Saudi National Guard’s camp in Najran region, a military official told Saba.
The official confirmed that the missile hit its target, causing losses in the enemy’s ranks and its military equipment. The Saudis, on the other hand, say they shot it down.
Could not both be true? The Saudis shot it down, then pieces of the thing hit the camp.
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[Express] A street battle between 60 men armed with machetes and metal pipes forcing a state of emergency to be declared in Duisburg.
Police were called to the Altmarkt area of the city over reports of the mass bawl. Officers used CS gas to control the brawling men.
The scores of men were also using telescopic batons in the fight in Druisburg, which is on the west of Germany.
Police said they were spat at and had objects hurled at them.
Around 50 people were locked away You have the right to remain silent... and onlookers captured the brutality in shocking photos.
Those arrested refused to explain what sparked the fight and 30 people were later released.
A police official told the newspaper Der Westen: "There are three rival groups. It may be a conflict between Turks, Lebanese and Kurds.
"Unlike with a demonstration of that size, we do not have a contact person, nobody wants to talk to the police."
He added: "The officers got the situation under control before it escalated."
Betwwen 20 to 30 people were on each side of the fight in Monday night's incident and police said the majority of those arrested were from a Lebanese background.
The police front man said similar incidents had taken place the previous night and the week before. Police are looking into whether there is a connection.
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Heaven is where the police are British, the cooks are French, the mechanics German, the lovers Italian and it's all organized by the
Swiss.
Hell is where the chefs are British, the mechanics French, the lover's Swiss, the police German and it's all organized by the Italians.
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Do the German police not have firearms, or are they not permitted to use them on Germany's new masters?
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They need a whiff of the grape, and I don't mean wine.
[Breitbart] A 22-year-old illegal Algerian immigrant was tossed in the calaboose Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! on a charge of attempted terrorism after trying to drive a stolen car into a crowd in front of the Shrine of Pompeii Basilica, only to be stopped by concrete bollards.
What an idiot. The product of a tightly braided family tree, no doubt.
The attempted attacker, 22-year-old migrant Othman Jridi, told police his motivation for the failed attack saying, "I did it in the name of Allah," Corriere del Mezzogiorno reports.
Jridi came to Italia after being expelled from La Belle France and was also told to the leave the country by the police chief of Cagliari, yet remained in in the country.
Judge Fernanda Iannone, an expert on international terrorism, agreed to allow prosecution against the failed asylum seeker to go ahead and ordered him to be put in pre-trial detention due to the severity of the crime.
The Algerian was also charged and found guilty of the two lesser offences of stealing a car and lying to public officials. According to police, after being arrested Jridi lied about his identity and gave Sherlocks the address of one of his friends rather than his own.
When police took him to the address he gave, Jridi is said to have told his friend, "You say I live here, otherwise they will arrest me," in Arabic. Judge Iannone handed down a two and a half year sentence for the minor charges and passed on all of the information to the Naples Public Prosecutor’s Office who will prosecute the terrorism charges.
A report from the Economist magazine claimed that Italia’s long-standing battle with the Mafia as well as experience in dealing with terrorism in past decades has made authorities much better equipped to deal with radical Islamic terror than many other European counterparts.
Despite the success, many in Italia are on high alert over Easter weekend including the Vatican whose security has been placed on high alert to protect the projected large crowds of pilgrims and worshippers from attack.
[TheLocal] Four Syrians have been locked away Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! in Germany on suspicion of attempted murder and arson for their alleged roles in a Molotov cocktail attack on a mosque frequented by Ottoman TurkishMoslems, police said on Thursday.
The attack in the southern city of Ulm on March 19 caused only material damage and the eight people inside the building at the time were unharmed, local police said in a joint statement with Stuttgart prosecutors.
The suspects, aged 18 to 27, were arrested on Wednesday. One of the men has already confessed to the crime, according to the statement.
The 3 am (0100 GMT) attack saw several Molotov cocktails lobbed at the building, one of which started a fire that was quickly put out by police.
Prosecutors said they suspect the attack "may have been politically motivated", but according to DPA news agency they declined to comment on reports that it was an act of retaliation over the Ottoman Turkish offensive in the Syrian enclave of Afrin.
"The investigation, including into the motive of the Syrians... is ongoing," the statement read.
Several mosques, cultural centres and shops frequented by Germany's Ottoman Turkish community have been targeted in a string of attacks in recent weeks amid tensions over The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire.... 's actions against Kurdish militia in Afrin.
The Kurdish Community in Germany group earlier this month sharply condemned the attacks as well as social media calls that were "urging Kurdish youths to employ violence against Ottoman Turkish institutions".
Germany is home to three million ethnic Turks and hundreds of thousands of Kurds.
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[Dhaka Tribune] US Customs and Border Protection said in a blurb on Friday that it incarcerated Book 'im, Mahmoud! 8 Bangladeshis this week for illegally crossing into the United States from Mexico.
The Bangladeshis were arrested in the town of Laredo south of the US state of Texas near the Gulf of Mexico. The Laredo sector Border Patrol continues to have the highest number of apprehensions of Bangladeshi nationals compared to other sectors, the release said.
The arrests reveal that agents are arresting individuals from all over the world on a daily basis, Laredo sector Assistant Chief Patrol Agent Gabriel Acosta said in the release.
US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... has vowed to crack down on illegal immigration and build a wall along the border with Mexico to prevent illegal entry in the United States.
[Rudaw] ERBIL, Kurdistan Region ‐ Hashd al-Shaabi and Iraqi army on Saturday launched an operation against ISIS sleeper cells in the west of Amirli town and Ghaza area south of Khurmatu. Three Hashd Shaabi soldiers were killed after a jacket wallah detonated.
Ali Hashimi, the spokesperson for Hashd al-Shaabi in Khurmatu, told Rudaw that an ISIS bomber went kaboom! near Hashd and Iraqi forces in the Ghaza area, killing 3 Hashd forces who residents of Amirli, and injuring 11 more from Hashd and federal police, rapid response and army.
"The area is broad and ISIS has regrouped. They should be destroyed so that they can’t destabilize the area," he said.
Amirli is 170 kilometers southeast of Erbil and just south of Tuz Khurmatu and near Suleyman Beg.
"Hashd al-Shaabi brigades on Saturday morning started a search for ISIS remnants south of Khurmatu, 80 km south of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... " read a statement from Hashd al-Shaabi paramilitaries as the operation began.
"Iraqi federal police forces and rapid response forces are taking part in the operation, supported by the army’s air forces," they added.
Officials have complained of a deteriorating security situation in Kirkuk and its surroundings.
Iraqi security forces and Iran-backed Hashd al-Shaabi took control of many of the disputed or Kurdistani areas claimed by both Baghdad and Erbil in October 2017.
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[IsraelTimes] Army publishes list of names, positions of men rubbed out during violence at the security fence; Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, acknowledges that five of them were button men from its military wing.
The Israeli military on Saturday night identified 10 of the 16 people reported killed during violent protests along the Gazoo security fence as members of Paleostinian terrorist groups, and published a list of their names and positions in the organizations.
On Friday, some 30,000 Paleostinians took part in demonstrations along the Gazoo border, during which rioters threw rocks and Molotov cocktails at Israeli troops on the other side of the fence, burned tires and scrap wood, sought to breach and damage the security fence, and in one case shot up Israeli soldiers.
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[IsraelTimes] No soldiers injured in most serious exchange capping violent day along border; IDF says shooting from inside Strip proves murderous Moslems using protests as cover to carry out attacks
Israeli tanks and planes bombed Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, sites in the Gazoo Strip Friday evening after troops came under fire amid intense day-long festivities on the border.
The Israel Defense Forces said it targeted three sites belonging to Hamas with tanks and from the air. There were no immediate reports of injuries from the attack, which came as the corpse count in festivities along the border rose to 16, according to the Hamas-run Gazoo health ministry.
The reprisal attack came after troops were shot at by two Gazooks approaching the security fence. No Israeli troops were hurt in the exchange, the IDF said.
"In response, IDF troops immediately fired according to the rules of engagement, targeting the terrorists," the IDF said in a statement. The army would not say if the two Gazook button men were hit.
The IDF said troops also fired at suspects who had infiltrated into Israeli territory from the Gazoo Strip via the security fence. The statement did not say if the suspects were still in Israeli territory.
The army earlier said troops were firing on suspects who approached the border fence and who it said it feared were using the chaos of Friday’s large demonstrations as cover to plant bombs or infiltrate into Israel.
A spokesperson said the shooting attack was "further proof that the terrorist organizations in the Gazoo Strip use these violent riots in order to camouflage terror."
The shooting attack, which came as the darkness fell Friday, came shortly after an army official said troops would remain deployed along the border amid fears of persistent attacks.
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Both worthwhile alternatives, but the melodious song of the chain gun at low altitudes accompanied by the Turbofan whine is second only to a UP4-8-8-4 at full throttle Sherman Hill to these old ears.....
but I'm up for any of them.
[IsraelTimes] Roughly 900 West Bank Paleostinians demonstrate on Land Day and in solidarity with mass 'March of Return' at Gazoo border; non-violent marches held in northern Israel
Over 60 Paleostinians were maimed in festivities with IDF troops that took place across the West Bank Friday, as Paleostinians commemorated deadly fighting over 40 years ago and gathered in solidarity with the "March of Return" demonstrations being held en masse along the Gazoo border.
The Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy reported that at least 27 Paleostinians were maimed in Land Day demonstrations held in the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and that 63 were maimed in total.
An IDF front man referred to the scattered West Bank protests, which attracted some 900 demonstrators, as small scale.
Paleostinian media reported Israeli troops firing tear gas and rubber bullets at demonstrators near Nablus and Ramallah.
According to the B’Tselem rights group,
...formed during the first intifada in 1989, this far left group of academics and political operatives is funded by George Soros, UNICEF, the EU, and a variety of other leftwing, Israel-hating charitable organizations. They are allied with various Palestinian groups to project Palestinian claims of Israeli malevolence to the world, and have gotten so bad that Prime Minister Netanyahu has informed foreign dignitaries that he will not meet with them if they also meet with B’Tselem....
an Israeli settler ran over a Paleostinian in his 20s with an all-terrain vehicle outside the village of Sarura in the South Hebron Hills.
The Paleostinian was evacuated to a nearby hospital with what appeared to be a broken leg, B’Tselem said. It was not clear if it was a deliberate attack. A front man for the IDF said the army was looking into the incident.
Dozens of Paleostinian burned tired and hurled stones and Molotov cocktails at troops near the entrance of Ramallah, according to Hebrew media reports. Protests were also reported around Hebron, Qusra and other areas of the West Bank.
The protests were a small fraction of much larger demonstrations on the Gazoo border.
Peaceful marches to commemorate Land Day were held in several Arab Galilee towns, including a mass march led by Joint (Arab) List politicians in the town of Sakhnin.
[IsraelTimes] Channel 10 reports that the Lebanese army has dispersed several dozen demonstrators donning Paleostinian flags in solidarity with the "March of Return" protest taking place along the Gazoo border.
The protesters were heading toward the Israeli town of Avivim on the northern border, but the Lebanese army managed to scatter them near the village of Maroun al Ras before they reached the fence, Channel 10 says.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Russian Aerospace Forces conducted several Arclight airstrikes over the northern countryside of Hama, yesterday, following an attack by the jihadist rebels on a Syrian Christian town.
Russian jets flying out of the Hmaymim Military Airport reportedly launched over 15 airstrikes over the northern Hama towns of Kafr Zia, Zakat, Lataminah, and Latmin, a military source told al-Masdar News.
Prior to the retaliatory strikes, the jihadist rebels launched several artillery shells towards the Syrian Christian town of Mhardeh, which agitated the Russians because they currently have forces there.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Russian Aerospace Forces unleashed a flurry of Arclight airstrikes over the western part of the Idlib Governorate, today, targeting several areas near the Ottoman Turkish border.
According to a military report from Damascus, the Russian Aerospace Forces launched a heavy barrage of airstrikes over Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham ’s positions near the key city of Jisr al-Shughour near the Latakia-The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... border.
The report added that the Russian Aerospace Forces had conducted 30+ airstrikes over the Idlib Governorate already today.
In addition to targeting Jisr al-Shughour, the Russian Aerospace Forces also struck an HTS Shari’ah Court near the town of al-Dana.
These airstrikes by the Russian Aerospace Forces come in lieu of reports that the Death Eaters in the Idlib Governorate were preparing to launch an offensive against the Syrian Army in the area.
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No respect for "Religion of Peace", these commies.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Jaish al-Islam ...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful... announced tonight that they have reached a preliminary agreement with the Russian Reconciliation Center that would allow for the latter to transport their critical maimed fighters to northern Syria.
Based on the details of the agreement, Jaish al-Islam will allow Russia to transport their maimed fighters to Idlib in exchange for an extended ceasefire inside the town of Douma.
According to a military source in Damascus, a full agreement is expected to be announced in the next 48 hours.
The source added that Jaish al-Islam is close to accepting all of the Syrian military’s terms, including their departure from Douma to northern Syria.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Demonstrations in Ahwaz province in southwest Iran continued after midnight Friday following a segment aired by the Iranian state TV that ignored the Arab origins of the city, which is mostly Arab-populated.
Protesters considered the segment an insult from the Iranian regime and part of its continued political discrimination towards them.
The protests expanded to the city of Chiban, Abadan and Machour.
Social media activists circulated videos showing demonstrators in Chiban city chanting slogans in support of the Ahwaz province.
Demonstrators in Abadan, south of the province, erupted into the streets protesting against immigrant minorities who they say are controlling resources of their province and depriving the Ahwaz Arabs of their rights.
They believe these minorities are being supported by the central government in Tehran.
An Ahwaz human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... organization denounced the arrest of 12 protesters among them three women, condemning the stifling of peaceful demonstrations and the firing of tear gas on demonstrators in the Kout Abdulla neighborhood, south of Ahwaz.
The organization also criticized the harsh measures taken by the Iranian authorities against the Arab protesters, calling for the immediate release of all detainees and to allow protesters to demonstrate their rights in peaceful gatherings.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Syrian army command said on Saturday it had regained most of the towns and villages in eastern Ghouta and was pressing its military operations in the last rebel bastion of Douma.
In a televised statement, the Syrian army front man said the weeks-long military campaign had now brought security to the Syrian capital Damascus and also secured its main links to other parts of the country, stretching north and all the way to the Iraqi border to the east.
The army command said military operations were continuing in the outskirts of the city of Douma, controlled by the Jaish al-Islam ...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful... rebel group, the last patch of eastern Ghouta still held by holy warriors.
Douma’s fall would seal the rebels’ worst defeat since 2016, driving them from their last big stronghold near the capital, and would also carry potent symbolism. The town was the main center of street protests in the Damascus suburbs against Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... ’s rule that ignited the conflict seven years ago.
The army said hundreds of rebels had been killed in the ferocious offensive. The opposition says a relentless air campaign was waged in which where the army used napalm, chlorine and incendiary bombs to demoralize rebels by targeting civilian areas.
The rebels say the indiscriminate bombing forced them to capitulate and agree to surrender deals that force them either to make peace or leave to rebel held areas after weeks of bombing and sieges that prevented food from reaching the enclaves.
The Syrian army has repeatedly said regaining control over rebel-held suburbs would stop rocket attacks on the capital.
They deny that many non-combatants were killed in bombardments that rescuers and residents say reduced whole neighborhoods to rubble in densely populated areas where at least 350,000 people lived.
Defence analysts say a major goal of the campaign was to complete a security belt around the capital.
President Assad said recently securing eastern Ghouta had foiled plots by his foreign enemies to topple him.
"The gains have been achieved after units of the army eliminated hundreds of terrorists, their headquarter and their fortifications," the army statement said.
Douma is surrounded by government forces. Tens of thousands of civilians remain in the town. The rebels there deny they are negotiating an evacuation deal and say talks with the Russian military aim to find a solution that would allow them to stay in the city under Moscow’s protection.
"Army units are continuing their combat operations to rid Douma of terrorists," the army statement said.
The Russian-backed offensive in eastern Ghouta has killed more than 1,600 civilians and thousands of maimed, rescuers said. The authorities say about 150,000 people have now been displaced from eastern Ghouta.
Thousands of people ‐ fighters, their families and other civilians ‐ have been leaving for northwestern Syria from other parts of eastern Ghouta in convoys of buses that have been given safe passage to Idlib province.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Chief of the General Staff of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) Ali Mayhoub announced that his troops established full control over “all Eastern Ghouta cities and villages in Damascus country,” during a televised address on Saturday.
“It obliterated hundreds of terrorists and destroyed their headquarters, gatherings, fortifications, weapons and machines, including factories of cannons, missiles, and different projectiles, while other units are carrying on their combating mission around Douma to save it from terrorism,” he added.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[SABANEWS.NET] US-backed, Saudi-led aggression coalition’s fighter jets waged seven raids on Hajjah province overnight, a local official told Saba on Saturday. The hostile airstrikes hit Bani Qais district in the province, leaving damage to farms and property of citizens.
[SABANEWS.NET] The missile force of the army and popular forces on Saturday fired a ballistic missile of Badr-1 type on Saudi National Guard’s camp in Najran region, a military official told Saba.
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...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful...
