[GEO.TV] At least 32 non-combatants were killed and 63 injured in a kaboom on a popular beach in the Somali capital Mogadishu late on Friday evening, police said, an attack blamed by Somali state media on the krazed killer group al-Shabaab ... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa... It was the deadliest attack in the Horn of Africa country since twin boom-mobiles detonated near a busy market intersection in October 2022, killing at least 100 people and wounding 300 others.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility by the al Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab, which has claimed similar attacks in the past, including the car kaboom in 2022.
Police spokesperson Abdifatah Aden gave the corpse count in Friday evening's explosion at a beach restaurant.
In addition to the civilians killed, Aden said that one of the attackers had blown himself up while three others had been killed by security forces. One attacker was captured alive while one soldier was killed during the assault.
State news agency SONNA had earlier said five al-Shabaab attackers had been killed by security forces while a sixth had blown himself up during the assault.
Hassan Farah, a survivor, described the shock as the earth-shattering kaboom shattered a peaceful evening.
"I was in the restaurant sipping coffee and having a good chat with friends when I saw a big man running, in a second there was something like lightening and a huge blast," he told Rooters.
"We were covered with smoke. Inside and outside the restaurant many people were lying on the floor while others were bleeding and crying."
Videos posted on X showed bodies lying on the beach in the dark, and people running to safety.
Garowe Online reports that Al Shabaab did indeed take credit for the attack on Lido Beach..
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] In Niger, militants from the Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims (GSIM),
which has ties to Al-Qaeda (a terrorist organization banned in Russia), announced that they had taken two Russian citizens hostage. This was reported by Agence France-Presse (AFP).
The publication noted that on August 2, the militants published a video in which two alleged Russian men claimed to have been kidnapped in Mbang, in southwestern Niger.
In the video, one of the hostages, named Yurit, is said to have identified himself as a geologist born in Russia but living in Ukraine. The other, named Greg, said he had arrived in the country a month ago to work for a Russian company.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on February 10, 2023, at least 10 servicemen were killed in an attack by militants in southwestern Niger, near the border with Mali. The incident occurred near the city of Banibangu. The militants ambushed
…in Arabic Jama'a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM). Formed by the merger of Ansar Dine, the Macina Liberation Front, al-Mourabitoun and the Saharan branch of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, recent estimates of its size range from 2,000-6,000 turbans…
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Details of the attack on a British merchant vessel off the coast of Yemen have become known. It was attacked with a missile, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said in a statement on the X social network.
It is noted that the initial information about a fire on board was not confirmed. Also, no water or oil leaks were recorded.
"The vessel continues to move to the port of destination. The entire crew is safe," the Coordination Center explained.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, on August 3, a British ship was attacked 170 nautical miles southwest of Aden in Yemen.
Ansar Allah leader Abdel Malek al-Houthi said the movement had attacked a total of 162 vessels in the Red and Arabian Seas since November 2023. The attacks were carried out using ballistic and cruise missiles, as well as drones and unmanned boats.
On the night of July 20, unknown persons attacked a ship in the Red Sea off the coast of Eritrea, 64 nautical miles from Yemen. The attack was on a container ship under the flag of Liberia. As a result of two strikes, the ship received minor damage.
No ship names, which makes it difficult to identify them.
Globalism, open borders, incompatible cultures, and declining birth rates; the downside.
[Reuters] LIVERPOOL, England/BELFAST, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Violent disorder swept across several British cities on Saturday, injuring police and damaging property in the most widespread rioting in the country for 13 years, following the murder of three young girls in northwest England.
Riots involving hundreds of anti-immigration protesters have erupted in towns and cities after false information spread rapidly on social media that the suspect in Monday's knife attack at a children's dance class in Southport was a radical Muslim migrant.
Police have said the suspect, Axel Rudakubana, 17, was born in Britain but protests by anti-immigration and anti-Muslim demonstrators have continued, descending into violence, arson and looting.
Violent disorder erupted in Liverpool, Bristol, Hull and Belfast - four cities located in different corners of the UK - with scuffles breaking out and bricks and bottles thrown as anti-immigration protesters faced groups opposed to racism.
#8
Remember when the IRA was buying weapons in the US?
Perfidious Albion is perilously close to the Ozymadian future.
"I met a traveler from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
See what the Moslem colonists are doing here, even though knifeman Axel Rudakubana started it all by killing 3 little girls in Southport is of Rwandan descent — and thus has only a 2% probability of being Moslem.
[IsraelTimes] Eight injured, three police officers wounded as mob rampages through Sunderland; London police put plans in place for rival pro-Palestinian and anti-immigration protests
UK police readied Saturday for more far-right protests across England after a third night of rioting linked to misinformation about a mass stabbing that killed three maiden of tender yearss.
The violence, which has seen scores of arrests and put Britannia’s Moslem community on edge, presents the biggest challenge yet of Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s month-old premiership.
It has also put hard-right agitators linked to soccer hooliganism in the spotlight at a time when anti-immigration elements are enjoying some electoral success in British politics.
Police were gearing up for dozens of demonstrations after officers faced "serious and sustained levels of violence" during rioting in Sunderland, northeast England, on Friday night.
Eight people were arrested and three officers required hospital treatment following hours of "utterly deplorable" disturbances, Northumbria Police Chief Superintendent Helena Barron said.
Two officers remained in the hospital early Saturday, she added.
Footage broadcast by the BBC showed a mob of several hundred rampaging in Sunderland’s city center, attacking police and setting fire to at least one car and a building next to a police office.
Other images shared on social media showed balaclava-clad youths throwing bricks and other missiles as fireworks and flares were let off.
"The shocking scenes we have witnessed in Sunderland this evening are completely unacceptable," Barron said, adding the "disorder, violence and damage" seen "will not be tolerated."
The unrest followed two nights of disturbances in several English towns and cities in the wake of Monday’s frenzied knife attack in Southport, near Liverpool on England’s northwest coast.
They were fueled by false rumors on social media about the background of British-born 17-year-old suspect Axel Rudakubana, charged with several counts of murder and attempted murder over the attack at a Taylor Swift dance party.
After the violence in Southport late Tuesday, unrest rocked the northern cities of Hartlepool and Manchester as well as London 24 hours later, where 111 people were arrested outside Starmer’s Downing Street residence.
THUGS
In Southport, the mob threw bricks at a mosque, prompting hundreds of Moslem places of worship across the country to step up security amid fears of more anti-Islamic demonstrators.
Police blamed supporters of the disbanded English Defence League, an anti-Islam organization founded 15 years ago whose supporters have been linked to soccer hooliganism.
In Sunderland on Friday, rioters attacked coppers, set a cop shoppe and two cars on fire, and again targeted a mosque.
Anti-racism campaign group Hope Not Hate has identified more than 30 events planned for Saturday and Sunday.
Far-right social media channels have advertised "enough is enough" anti-immigrant rallies, and anti-facism groups have vowed to stage counter-protests.
London’s Metropolitan Police said it had a "proportionate and risk-based" plan for rival pro-Paleostinian and anti-immigration protests Saturday.
Counter protests were also expected in the central city of Nottingham while South Yorkshire police said Friday they knew of a planned protest in the town of Rotherham.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has accused "thugs" of "hijacking" the nation’s grief to "sow hatred" and pledged that anyone carrying out violent mostly peaceful acts will "face the full force of the law". He has announced new measures that will allow the sharing of intelligence, wider deployment of facial-recognition technology and criminal behavior orders to restrict troublemakers from traveling.
Labour politicians have accused Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage of stoking the trouble. At last month’s election, his anti-immigrant Reform UK party captured 14 percent of the vote — one of the largest vote shares for a far-right British party.
🚨Meanwhile in Northern Ireland
Unbelievable scenes as Protestants & Catholics put their age old difference aside & unite against Globalist controlled immigration ruining their Country pic.twitter.com/3TgZk9p9lZ
Shelton, Stoke, England — Another “Muslim patrol” armed with melee weapons have mobilized on the streets to counter right-wing protesters angry over mass migration and alleged two-tier policing. pic.twitter.com/2OKZIZDNPe
3 children were brutally murdered by a migrant and the police did nothing, so half the country has erupted into mass riots. The migrants are also throwing acid and hitting people with hammers in counter protest. The police are overwhelmed pic.twitter.com/rsTw9KckQT
#5
The police were not overwhelmed - they went full force against the indigenous Brits, sided with the migrants and went door to door searching for anyone opposing the globalist narrative. 4th and 5th Generation Civil War is joined.
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[Breitbart] An Israeli hacker group called “We Red Evils Original” (usually styled as “WeRedEvils”) took credit on Thursday for causing widespread wi-fi outages in Iran.
“In the coming minutes, we will attack Internet systems and providers in Iran. A severe blow is on the way,” the group said on the messaging app Telegram on Thursday.
Shortly after that message was posted, the Jerusalem Post found Iranian social media users complaining about Internet access going down in various parts of the country, including the capital city of Tehran.
“We successfully broke into the Iranian communications system and collected a lot of information that was passed on to the security forces in Israel,” the hackers said in a follow-up post on Telegram.
“We know there are some Iranians here who support the Revolutionary Guards, and we would like to contact them personally. Stop raising red flags and start raising a white flag,” they said.
Forbes on Friday pointed out that public networks are “patchy” in Iran at the best of times, so it is difficult to determine how extensive the wi-fi outage was and if the hackers actually caused it.
The Jerusalem Post noted that WeRedEvils “has been operating in a non-official capacity since the beginning of the Hamas war.” There is evidence to believe it is the real deal, most notably its successful attack on the electrical grid in Tehran in October 2023.
Tehran lost power for about two hours in that incident. WeRedEvils claimed it was responsible for hacking “several sensitive systems in Iran,” including “the electricity grid in Tehran and the surrounding villages.”
The group said on Telegram after the brief blackout:
We cut off their electricity, and we left tens of thousands of residents without a means of communication and electricity for two hours until this moment. This is a message from us to Iran: don’t play with fire. The next strike will be harder with many more harmed, and it will be different from the cyber attacks that you’re familiar with.
WeRedEvils also claims it knocked out the Hamas website, disrupted a Telegram channel that was triumphantly posting photos from the October 7 atrocities Hamas perpetrated against Israeli civilians, and stole “vital and sensitive software” related to Iran’s oil rigs and nuclear reactors.
In early November, WeRedEvils claimed it knocked out the Internet in Yemen to retaliate against the Iran-backed Houthi insurgents for attacking commercial vessels in the Red Sea.
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[Breitbart] The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced Sunday that soldiers had uncovered a massive smuggling tunnel underneath the border between Gaza and Egypt in the area of Rafah — where the U.S. had cautioned Israel not to go.
In a statement, the IDF and the Israel Security Agency (ISA, or Shin Bet, or Shabak) said:
Recently, IDF troops have been working to locate and destroy underground tunnel routes in the Philadelphi area, and so far, the troops have located and destroyed dozens of routes.
At the beginning of last week, in one of the operations to locate underground tunnel routes in the Philadelphi area, a three meter high tunnel was uncovered on the Philadelphi Corridor.
At this stage, the troops are continuing with the investigation and neutralization of the underground tunnel route, as well as other large-scale routes that were found.
The IDF will thoroughly destroy all the underground infrastructure on the Philadelphi Corridor and will act with determination to prevent their formation in the future.
Prior to May, the Biden administration had warned Israel not to enter Rafah, even withholding weapons to pressure Israel to stay out of the area. Israel decided to enter Rafah anyway due to its strategic importance to the war against Hamas.
IDF control of the Philadelphi Corridor, which is a road along the border, has been at stake in recent negotiations with Hamas over a hostage-ceasefire deal. Hamas and the U.S. want Israel to cede control of the corridor, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been reluctant to give it up.
Control of the corridor allows the IDF to choke Hamas’s weapons supply; Israel does not trust Egyptian or U.S. guarantees to monitor the border effectively.
Bcause clearly Egypt isn’t trustworthy and Biden’s America has not monitored effectively, regardless of what it may have seen. The Times of Israel adds this tidbit:
Dozens of tunnels have been found along the Philadelphi corridor, including at least 25 that crossed into Egypt.
#3
Media a while back reported Egyot was actively finding and destroying cross-border tunnels to a kilometer or more from the Gaza border. I know, because I posted the articles from Al Ahram.
#5
Some things never change, especially national character it seems. It seems our Israeli cousins have once again uncovered the insights of Kipling and the Empire 150 years ago.
"Now it is not good for the Christian's health to hustle the Aryan brown,
For the Christian riles, and the Aryan smiles, and he weareth the Christian down;
And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased,
And the epitaph drear: "A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East."
#6
By Allah, when push comes to shove
At the Border of Brotherly Love
There will always be peace,
Pairs of corpulent police,
And a wall between Arabs. [frees dove]
#7
Personally, I liked Ariel Sharon's idea of a canal between Israel and Gaza. It may not have been practical, but it would have ensured that there were no tunnels from Gaza into Israel.
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[Ynet] Police officer shoots assailant on the scene after suspected terrorist, a West Bank resident, stabs civilians in three locations in the city, just south of Tel Aviv; This is a breaking story.
Two Israeli non-combatants were killed and two others were maimed in a terror stabbing attack in the central city of Holon on Sunday morning, police and medics said.
The terrorist, a West Bank Paleostinian, stabbed the victims at three different locations before being rubbed out by a police officer.
"This was a complex and difficult terror attack. The casualties were at three separate locations, approximately 500 meters from each other," Magen David Adom ambulance service medics said.
A woman aged 66 was declared dead at the scene, MDA said.
She was later identified as Rina Daniv, a resident of the city. Her husband, Shimon Daniv, 68, was maimed in the attack. The couple were enjoying their daily walk in the park when attacked, the family said.
MDA said it took three of the victims to nearby Wolfson Medical Center: A man in his 70s at death's door, a man aged 68 at death's door, and a 26-year-old in moderate condition.
The critically maimed man arrived at Wolfson without vital signs, and his death was declared there, hospital officials said.
The terrorist stabbed the first victims — the Danivs — at the entrance to a park on Moshe Dayan Street. He then continued to a nearby bus stop adjacent to a gas station, where he stabbed and critically maimed the man in his 70s, who was later declared dead. The last victim, 26-year-old Yakov Libertov, was stabbed at a bus parking lot on Dan Shomron Street, according to MDA.
Speaking to the media from his hospital bed, Libertov explained he was out walking his dog on a route he takes daily through a local park, when he saw the terrorist approaching him.
However,
Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... he was not alarmed as the man was walking slowly and did not appear to be carrying a weapon, though Libertov described him as having "an angry expression."
Then, the terrorist abruptly charged at him, attacking with a knife, and stabbing Libertov in the shoulder. Libertov said the attacker was silent, not shouting anything as he carried out the assault.
Libertov was able to ward off the assailant and escape, taking his dog with him, though he suffered moderate to serious injuries with a stab wound to his shoulder and stomach. He immediately called emergency services while heading to the adjacent bus depot "because I knew there would be a lot of people there."
Drivers at the depot helped him while taking over his call to the police and explaining to officers that there had been an attack.
The terrorist was shot by an officer who arrived at the scene, police said.
He was brought to Shamir Medical Center at death's door, where his death was declared a short while later, hospital officials said.
He was identified by a security source as Amar Odeh, 34, a resident of the West Bank city of Salfit. The source said he did not have an entry permit to Israel and had no prior security-related offenses.
Police added that they were scanning the area for possible additional suspects involved in the attack.
The police officer who shot the terrorist told the media that he saw the attacker from his patrol car, and thinking he was a mugger, gave chase on foot.
"He wasn’t running so fast," the officer said. "I told him to stop, and then he rounded on me with the knife in his hand."
"As soon as I noticed the knife I pulled out the pistol and said to stop," the officer continued. "He approached me and I kept telling him to stop. He shouted something in Arabic while hiding behind a garbage bin and then I ran towards him, and then I shot him."
Tensions in Israel and the West Bank have soared since October 7, when turbans burst through 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 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... border into Israel in a Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... -led attack, killing some 1,200 people and seizing 251 hostages.
Since then, 25 Israelis, including security personnel, have been killed in Paleostinian terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank — including in Sunday’s attack. Another five members of the security forces were killed in festivities with terror operatives in the West Bank.
[IsraelTimes] First strike hit terror cell en route to carry out attack, military says; second drone strike hits operatives amid clashes in West Bank city
Nine Paleostinian button men were killed in two Israeli dronezaps near the West Bank city of Tulkarem on Saturday morning, the military and Paleostinian media said
In the first incident, the Israel Defense Forces said it had targeted a cell of Lions of Islam en route to carrying out an attack.
The strike hit a vehicle on the outskirts of Tulkarem, killing all of those inside.
According to the military, the five button men were "on their way to carry out a terrorist attack."
The IDF published footage of the strike.
Paleostinian media said that among the dead was Haitham Balidi, a commander in a local wing of Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... in Tulkarem.
Two others were identified as Abd al-Jabber al-Sabbagh and Ahmed Mahajna.
Shortly after the dronezap, Israeli troops entered Tulkarem to carry out a counterterrorism operation, the IDF said.
Amid the raid in Tulkarem, a second dronezap was carried out against a cell of button men who had shot up troops, the military said.
At least four button men were reported dead in the strike, according to Paleostinian media and Israeli military sources.
The IDF published an image of the weapons and military equipment seized from the cell.
In the past nine months, the IDF has carried out more than 55 Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in the West Bank, using drones, attack helicopters, and fighter jets.
Since October 7, troops have arrested some 4,400 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 1,850 affiliated with Hamas.
According to the Paleostinian Authority health ministry, more than 590 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed in that time. The IDF says the vast majority of them were button men killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops, or Lions of Islam carrying out attacks.
During the same period, 23 Israelis, including security personnel, have been killed in terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank. Another five members of the security forces were killed in festivities with terror operatives in the West Bank.
#3
IMO Israel should absorb all if west-bank and gaza
and expel all current residents UNLESS they publicly refute sharia law and profess kinship with current citizens of Israel.
[GEO.TV] At least 39,550 Palestinians have been killed and 91,280 injured in the Israeli military offensive on Gaza since October 7, the Gaza health ministry said in a statement on Saturday.
And if you can’t believe the Hamas health ministry, who can you believe?
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#2
"Uh, (counting on fingers) one dead Palestinians, two dead Palestinians, three dead Palestinians, many dead Palestinians, many many dead Palestinians, many many many dead Palestinians..."
"Yea, that's many many many dead Palestinians corpses."
[GEO.TV] Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... ’s civil defence agency said Israeli bombardment of a school compound in Gaza City killed at least 17 people Saturday.
"There are 17 deaders and several maimed due to Israeli shelling on Hamama school," the agency said in a statement, updating an earlier toll of 10 killed.
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[IsraelTimes] A prominent Hezbollah operative in the terror group’s so-called Southern Front unit was killed in an Israeli dronezap on Saturday in southern Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... , the IDF said.
The strike in the town of Bazourieh, near the coastal city of Tyre killed Ali Abd Ali.
The IDF said Ali was a "main terrorist in the Southern Front of the Hezbollah terror organization," and involved in planning and carrying out numerous attacks.
His killing is a "significant blow to the functioning of the Southern Front and the Hezbollah terror organization in the region," the IDF added.
The Southern Front is a Hezbollah regional unit responsible for the terror group’s activities in the entire southern Lebanon, the equivalent of a regional command.
Meanwhile, incoming rocket sirens were activated in the Western Galilee community of Matat, with at least one rocket exploding in an open area.
In a further sign of tension, Sweden said Saturday it was shutting its embassy in Beirut after urging thousands of its citizens to leave Lebanon.
“The foreign ministry has instructed its staff to leave Beirut and travel to Cyprus, and the foreign ministry is planning a temporary relocation of its embassy,” Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom told Swedish Radio.
The decision had been taken “initially for the month of August but may be extended depending on the security situation.”
“The ministry is monitoring developments closely,” he said.
According to the foreign ministry, as many as 10,000 Swedish nationals may have traveled to Lebanon this summer, defying a travel warning in place for the country since October 2023.
“I urge Swedes in Lebanon to leave the country by whichever means possible, while they still can,” he said.
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.
... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa...
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
