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Lina Cavalieri
Italian operatic soprano (1874-1944)
Natalina "Lina" Cavalieri was an Italian operatic dramatic soprano, actress, and monologist.
The Russian Prince Alexander Bariatinsky was deeply in love with Lina, and they had an open affair, but never became husband and wife as his parents and Tsar Nicholas II himself strongly opposed this marriage
Follow-up to this story from the beginning of the month.
[NY Post] An illegal migrant wanted for murder in the Dominican Republic is accused of "horrifically" killing a family of four in upstate New York last month as firefighters made the gruesome discovery during a house call.
Julio Cesar Pimentel-Soriano, 34, allegedly used a "sharp object" to fatally stab Fraime Ubaldo, 30, Marangely Moreno-Santiago, 26, Evangeline Ubaldo-Moreno, 4, and Sebastian Ubaldo-Moreno, 2, inside their Irondequoit home on Aug. 31, according to a felony complaint viewed by WHAM.
He allegedly stabbed each victim in the neck and chest multiple times.
"Obviously, the allegations are troubling," Assistant District Attorney Perry Duckles told the outlet. "They are difficult to deal with. They are difficult to see."
"It seems like this family was very well-liked and very active in their community, so obviously my condolences go out to their family, friends, and neighbors who had to suffer through this," Assistant District Attorney Perry Duckles said.
Firefighters were called to the residence around 5:23 a.m. on Aug. 31 for multiple fires around the home before they discovered the family of four’s bodies.
Investigators determined that it was "readily apparent" their deaths were from a homicide, and not the fire.
"This was a horrific scene," Irondequoit Police Chief Scott Peters said, holding back tears at a press conference Friday. "In almost 32 years of doing this job I’ve never seen anything like it."
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I'm fast reaching the point where I think any illegal that commits any other crime in Texas should be taken to downtown Houston, have his head lopped off via guillotine, and we should then put the heads on spikes on the border wall.
[DhakaTribune] Abdul Latif, a 48-year-old shopkeeper from Lakshmipur district, is in critical condition at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) after being brutally attacked by Chhatra League and Jubo League activists.
The attack occurred during a celebratory procession following the ousting of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Latif, the sole provider for his family, was severely injured on August 6 in Bhuiyan Haat, Char Ramich Union, Ramgati upazila.
As he participated in the procession, he was targeted by a group from Chhatra League and Jubo League, who attacked him with machetes, sticks, and rods, causing severe injuries including a large wound in his abdomen.
His intestines were exposed due to the continuous assault.
Local residents who witnessed the attack helped to stabilize Latif's injuries with a cloth before he was rushed to a nearby Sadar hospital.
Due to the severity of his injuries, he was referred to DMCH and admitted at 11pm on the same day.
He underwent a lengthy surgery from 12:30am to 5:30am on August 7.
Latif's wife, Bibi Asiya, expressed her anguish, stating that the family is struggling to cope with the financial strain caused by her husband's inability to work. With Latif unable to walk and an uncertain recovery timeline, the family faces severe hardship. Their home in Lakshmipur has also been flooded, adding to their difficulties. But he had time to be in a "procession"
Asiya has appealed for financial support from the community to help her family through this challenging time.
The violence is linked to a larger political crisis involving student protests and violent clashes with political groups and law enforcement.
The recent unrest has led to widespread casualties, with over a thousand people reported killed in various incidents, including police shootings.
Following the "red movement" and "Bangla Spring," which led to significant unrest, Sheikh Hasina's government was dislodged, and a 17-member interim government led by Nobel Laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus was sworn in on August 8.
[DhakaTribune] Bangladesh Hindu Jagoron Mancha, a platform that advocates for the rights of Hindus, on Friday blocked the Shahbag intersection in Dhaka, protesting all the atrocities on the Hindus, including their torture, the destruction of houses and temples, and the burning of homes and land.
They placed the four-point demand by the blockade program.
From the demonstration, the protesters demanded immediate implementation of the 8-point demand they placed previously, alleging that the government didn't take any effective action to realise their demands.
Their major demands are: Create a minority protection committee, a ministry for the members of minority communities, increase Puja leaves, digitalize Pali and Sanskrit Education board, allocate prayer rooms in the halls and hostels of educational institutes and dormitories, and to form a Hindu Foundation.
Pradeep Kanti Dey, coordinator of Hindu Jagoron Manch, said: 'If you (government) can not provide security to the Hindu community, then tell us that we will seek security from the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... ''We are demanding the interim government to implement this demand. If not, in the future, Bangladesh Hindu Jagran Manch will be forced to coordinate with all organizations to observe strict
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[IsraelTimes] A Maryland woman was arrested today on a charge that she vandalized federal property in Washington, D.C., during protests against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress in July.
A video posted on social media showed Isabella Giordano, 20, of Towson, using red spray paint to write "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... " on a fountain in front of Union Station and spray-painting the base of two of the flagpoles in Columbus Circle, according to a US Park Police sergeant’s affidavit.
Thousands of protesters gathered in Washington on July 24 to condemn Netanyahu’s visit. A group of protesters had a permit to demonstrate in front of Union Station, but the Park Police revoked the permit after it couldn’t reach protest organizers that afternoon, the affidavit says.
Some demonstrators outside Union Station removed American flags and hoisted Paleostinian ones in their place. Others burned flags and sprayed graffiti on structures in Columbus Circle. The National Park Service estimated that it cost more than $11,000 to clean up the site and fix damages.
The Park Police said it received two tips from witnesses identifying Giordano as a suspect in the graffiti.
Giordano was scheduled to make her initial court appearance later today. She is charged with one count of willfully injuring or depredating federal property. It wasn’t immediately clear if she has an attorney.
[DailyTimesPakistain] Afghan Taliban ...Arabic for students... forces launched an unprovoked attack on Pak military posts along the Afghan border, resulting in a fierce exchange of fire.
They can’t help themselves — it’s who they are.
Security sources said that the Afghan Taliban initiated unprovoked aggression along the Pakistain-Afghanistan border, which was met with a strong response. From the morning of September 7, the Afghan Taliban began unprovoked firing with heavy weapons at Pak check-posts from the Afghan area of Plosin, near the Pakistain-Afghanistan border.
According to security sources, the unprovoked firing from the Afghan side continued until the evening of September 8 and 9. The Pakistain Army responded with a strong retaliatory fire, inflicting heavy losses on the Afghan Taliban.
So far, 16 Afghan Taliban fighters have been killed, and 27 have been maimed, while two of their tanks have also been destroyed.
Security sources have stated that any form of unprovoked aggression along the Pakistain-Afghanistan border ...also known as Pashtunistan, home of ignorance, poverty, and automatic weapons... will be met with a decisive response.
This is not the first time Afghan troops have opened fire on Pak security forces posted at the border, sources said, adding that in the past Pakistain had shared its concerns with Kabul over such incidents. They claimed that the Afghan Taliban, apart from facilitating bully boy activities inside Pakistain, were now openly attacking the forces along the international border.
Pakistain had raised its concerns with Afghanistan after the attacks.
Islamabad has also called on Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to rein in turbans and stop their support for terrorist groups that use Afghan soil to launch attacks on Pakistain.
Pakistain and Afghanistan share 18 crossing points along a 2,640-kilometer (1,640-mile) long border. The most commonly used ones are Torkham and Chaman, which frequently remain closed due to border festivities.
[Rudaw] The US army announced on Saturday that four suspected 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.... (ISIS) leaders were killed in a recent joint raid with the Iraqi security forces in western Iraq, including one responsible for the group’s all operations in the country.
The joint raid took place in Anbar province on August 29. US and Iraqi armies have provided conflicting numbers about ISIS corpse count, with the US Central Command (CENTCOM) initially putting the number at 15 and now it says 14 were killed. Iraq initially said 14 were killed but later said the number had increased to 16.
The US army said that four of them were ISIS leaders responsible for the group's operations and technical development in Iraq.
"As part of the on-going post-raid assessment, CENTCOM can confirm that four ISIS leaders were killed including: Ahmad Hamid Husayn Abd-al-Jalil al-Ithawi, responsible for all operations in Iraq, Abu Hammam, responsible for overseeing all operations in Western Iraq, Abu-’Ali al-Tunisi, responsible for overseeing technical development, and Shakir Abud Ahmad al-Issawi, responsible for overseeing military operations in Western Iraq," said CENTCOM in a statement.
"This operation targeted ISIS leaders and served to disrupt and degrade ISIS’ ability to plan, organize, and conduct attacks against Iraqi civilians, as well as U.S. citizens, allies, and partners throughout the region and beyond," it added.
The operation was centered around Anbar province’s Wadi al-Ghadaf, described by the Iraqi military as an "important den" for ISIS remnants in the country.
US Treasury had offered $5 million for info on Abu Ali Al-Tunisi; several other prominent members of terror group killed; troops seized weapons, computers, phones,10 explosive belts
Iraqi forces and American troops have killed a senior commander with the Islamic State group who was wanted by the United States, as well as several other prominent militants, Iraq’s military said on Friday.
The operation in Iraq’s western Anbar province began in late August, the Iraqi military said, and also involved members of the Iraqi National Intelligence Service and Iraq’s air force.
Among the dead was an ISIS commander from Tunisia, known as Abu Ali Al-Tunisi, for whom the US Treasury Department had offered $5 million for information. Also killed was Ahmad Hamed Zwein, the IS deputy commander in Iraq.
Despite their defeat, attacks by ISIS sleeper cells in Iraq and Syria have been on the rise over the past years, with scores of people killed or wounded.
Friday’s announcement was not the first news of the operation.
Two weeks ago, an official said that the United States military and Iraq launched a joint raid targeting suspected ISIS militants in the country’s western desert that killed at least 15 people and left seven American troops hurt.
Five of the American troops were wounded in the raid itself, while two others suffered injuries from falls during the operation. One who suffered a fall was transported out of the region, while one of the wounded was evacuated for further treatment, a US defense official said at the time, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss details of the operation that had not yet been made public.
In Friday’s announcement, the Iraqi military said the operation also confiscated weapons and computers, smart phones and 10 explosive belts. It added that 14 ISIS commanders were identified after DNA tests were conducted. It made no mention of the 15th person killed and whether that person had also been identified.
[IsraelTimes] Activists paint yellow ribbons along route, stage sit-in as police attempt to wash them off; mother of hostage warns Netanyahu that she won’t allow him to abandon her son
A group of protesters led by relatives of the Gaza hostages blocked Namir Road in Tel Aviv during a Friday demonstration calling for the Israeli government to agree to a hostage release-ceasefire deal.
No crowd estimate given, so there weren’t very many of them.
Activists descended on Namir Road early on Friday morning in order to prepare for the protest, painting large yellow ribbons — the symbol of support for the hostages — at various intervals along the route.
Similar drawings were painted on other key routes across the country, including on Highway 2, where the word “abandoned” was emblazoned above the ribbon, and on Highway 4, where the words “because of you” were painted in the same font as the logo used by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party.
On Namir Road’s Hayarkon Bridge, where the main protest was taking place, the family members fighting for the release of their loved ones chained themselves together, tethering the chain to the bridge to ensure that no traffic could pass.
Among those leading the protest was Einav Zangauker, whose son Matan Zangauker was abducted from his home in Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7.
Wrapped in chains and standing in front of a banner reading “Abandoned to their deaths,” Zangauker was joined by her daughter, Matan’s sister, Natalie, who two weeks ago was injured by mounted police during a Saturday night protest in Tel Aviv.
Bonfires were lit in the middle of the blocked road, and protesters set off colored smoke bombs in front of banners and posters accusing the government of neglecting the hostages, abducted more than 11 months ago during Hamas’s brutal October 7 invasion and massacre in southern Israel.
Footage of the demonstration showed that at one point, police officers were pushing a group of protesters increasingly close to a makeshift bonfire before other protesters stepped in, forcing them back moments before the large banner they were holding could be set alight.
Elsewhere along the protest route, dozens of demonstrators staged a sit-in, refusing to move even as police attempted to wash the painted yellow ribbons off of the road.
[IsraelTimes] Tunnels are rare in the region, where the Israeli army operates regularly to dismantle terror infrastructure
The Israel Defense Forces said Friday it had located a short underground tunnel near a hospital in the West Bank city of Tulkarem amid an ongoing counter-terrorism operation.
The tunnel had an entrance but no exit, the military said, indicating that it was still under construction.
The IDF said troops would investigate the tunnel and then destroy it.
While Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... built a vast tunnel network under 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... Strip, the dismantlement of which has been a key challenge of the ongoing war there, tunnels are rare in the West Bank, where the IDF regularly operates to demolish terror infrastructure.
The military resumed its major operation in the northern West Bank on Tuesday after a lull of a few days. The operation, dubbed "Summer Camps," was launched on August 28.
Since the operation resumed, the IDF says it has killed 10 button men in festivities and dronezaps.
Also Friday, police released footage showing members of the elite Yamam unit detaining a wanted Paleostinian in a hospital in the West Bank city of Halhul early Thursday.
The Paleostinian suspect had been maimed in an attempted boom-mobileing attack in Halhul a month ago, police and the Shin Bet said.
Since October 7, troops have arrested some 5,000 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 2,000 affiliated with Hamas.
According to the PA health ministry, more than 670 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 hard boyz carrying out attacks.
During the same period, 33 people, including Israeli security personnel, have been killed in terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank. Another six members of the security forces were killed in festivities with terror operatives in the West Bank.
[IsraelTimes] Army accuses Sufyan Jaber Abed Jawwad of being a known terror operative in the Fara’a camp, after the UN agency says he was ‘shot and killed on the roof of his home by a sniper’
The UN agency for Paleostinian refugees said Friday that one of its employees was killed this week during an Israeli raid in the West Bank.
UNRWA identified the slain employee as Sufyan Jaber Abed Jawwad, who "worked as a sanitation laborer" in the northern West Bank’s Fara’a camp and "is survived by his wife and five children."
According to UNRWA, he was "shot and killed on the roof of his home by a sniper" and that it was "the first time an UNRWA staff member has been killed in the West Bank in more than 10 years."
The Israel Defense Forces later said Jawwad was throwing explosives at troops in the camp and was a known terror operative, issuing an English language statement accusing the agency of "not telling the full story."
IDF spokesperson Nadav Shoshani said that during an operation in Fara’a, a suspect was identified hurling bombs that posed a threat to the forces operating in the area. IDF troops opened fire toward him to remove said threat, and he was killed.
"The terrorist was subsequently identified and it was discovered he is also an UNRWA employee named Sufyan Jaber Abed Jawwad. It should be noted that after receiving his details, it was found that the terrorist was known to Israeli security forces and he had been complicit in additional terrorist activities," Shoshani said.
"This is yet another example of an UNRWA employee taking active part in terrorist activities against Israel, as has been proven in several other cases in the past, including employees who participated in the October 7 massacre," he said.
In an earlier statement, the IDF said troops "conducted a 48-hour counter-terrorism operation" in the areas of Tubas, Tamun and Fara’a, killing "five armed terrorists" in an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... and a sixth in "exchanges of fire" with "a terrorist that hurled bombs."
Mourners on Friday carried Jawwad’s body through the streets of Fara’a, with his blue UN vest resting atop the Paleostinian flag that covered him. Funerals for Paleostinians killed in the airstrike were held in nearby Tubas, with images showing button men among those in attendance — including one wearing a Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... headband.
The incident came days after UNRWA said six of its staffers were killed in an Israeli strike targeting a Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... control center at a school-turned-shelter in central 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 Nuseirat, with the IDF later saying three of them were members of the terror group.
The IDF said Hamas was using the school to plan and carry out attacks against troops and Israel. The military also said that it identified nine of the 18 people reported killed in the strike as Hamas operatives, including the three UNRWA staffers.
UNRWA, which coordinates nearly all aid into Gaza, has been in crisis since Israel accused dozens of its employees of being involved in the October 7 attack.
[Breitbart] Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... 's 24 battalions have been almost completely ''shattered,'' and the terror organization has been reduced to a ''guerrilla'' force, according to Israeli government front man David Mencer in a media briefing on Thursday.
Mencer was commenting on the report Wednesday by Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant that Israeli soldiers had recovered a memorandum from a dead senior Hamas commander to Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in which he said that the terrorist group had been reduced to 25% of its former capacity, that it was running out of rockets, and that it was losing support from the Paleostinian civilian population, whose morale had been shattered by the war over time.
Hamas still holds 101 Israeli hostages, as many as 68 of whom may still be alive, and Sinwar is still hiding from Israeli forces. Yet there have been almost no rocket attacks on Israel from 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... in recent months, and residents of some of the Israeli communities that Hamas attacked on October 7 have begun to return safely to their homes. Mencer said that Hamas is still dangerous, and that the war continues, but noted that Israel had in fact made dramatic strides.
Prior to Israel entering Rafah in May — over the objections of the Biden administration, and in the face of a partial withholding of weapons shipments — Israel had destroyed 18 of Hamas's 24 battalions. The remaining six were in Rafah. Israel now appears to have destroyed or severely damaged all of the battalions, ending Hamas's ability to function, for the moment, as a unified military force, and shifting the tactics of the war toward counterinsurgency.
However,
a hangover is the wrath of grapes... as long as Hamas still holds Israeli hostages, and threatens to rearm — or to escape, with hostages, if Israeli troops leave the Philadelphi Corridor that runs along the Egyptian border — the long war will continue in Gaza.
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...Curious what - if any - percentage of the Rafah forces are being captured/surrendered.
[PJMEDIA] The United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... frenziedly condemned a new Israel Defense Forces (IDF) strike as one of Israel's ''dramatic violations of international humanitarian law.'' The problem is that the UN workers killed were also Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... terrorists.
The UN and many other organizations and governments love to emphasize that the IDF strikes schools and ''aid workers.'' What they are not telling you is that Hamas jihadis have long used schools and other ''civilian'' buildings in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... as terrorist bases and that the ''aid workers'' almost always turn out to be active terrorists. That appears to be the case once again with the IDF strike this week, where at least three UNRWA ''workers'' killed were Hamas jihadis.
UNRWA is absolutely infested with Hamas operatives, according to international human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... lawyer Hillel Neuer. As JihadWatch has noted, snuffies specifically place military targets in humanitarian zones so that, if IDF strikes, they can immediately condemn Israel. So whenever the UN starts wailing that the IDF causelessly killed their humanitarian workers while they were operating a school or shelter, always fact-check that claim. It will almost certainly turn out to be false.
According to the state of Israel, which is a more reliable source on these topics than is the Hamas-loving UN, so far the confirmed casualties in the precision strike are snuffies — including at least three UNRWA ''workers.''
UN chief António Guterres ...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years... , who lies and funds snuffies for a living, mourned, ''What's happening in Gaza is totally unacceptable. A school turned shelter for around 12,000 people was hit by Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s again today. Six of our @UNRWA colleagues are among those killed. These dramatic violations of international humanitarian law need to stop now.''
The school was reportedly not a ''humanitarian shelter'' so much as it was a Hamas base. Israel will even endanger its own men rather than kill Gazook civilians, despite the fact that the majority of Gazooks strongly support Hamas and jihad.
The state of Israel posted on X, ''IDF: Yesterday (Wednesday), with the direction of IDF and ISA intelligence, the IAF conducted a precise strike on snuffies who were operating inside a command and control center embedded within a compound that previously served as the Al Jaouni School in the area of Nuseirat in central Gaza.'' It's all too typical for Hamas to turn schools into Hamas bases.
Israel's post continued, ''Upon receiving reports claiming that local Paleostinian UNRWA workers were killed as a result of the strike, the IDF requested that the agency provide details and names of the workers, in order to thoroughly review the claim. To date, no answers have been provided by UNRWA despite repeated requests.''
But three UNRWA employees have been confirmed among the snuffies killed. The state of Israel provided a list:
Thus far, a number of Hamas snuffies were confirmed to have been eliminated in the strike, including:
1. Aysar Karadia, a terrorist in Hamas' Military Wing and Internal Security Forces.
2. Muhammad Adnan Abu Zayd, a terrorist in Hamas' Military Wing who was responsible for launching mortars at IDF troops and the State of Israel, previously served as an operative in Hamas' naval forces, and was simultaneously an UNRWA employee.
3. Bassem Majed Shaheen, the head of a terrorist cell in Hamas' Military Wing who took part in the October 7th Massacre in southern Israel.
4. Amar al-Jadili, a terrorist in Hamas' Military Wing and Internal Security Forces.
5. Akram Saber al-Ghalaydi, a terrorist in Hamas' Military Wing and Internal Security Forces.
6. Muhammad Issa Abu al-Amir, a terrorist in Hamas' Military Wing who took part in the October 7th Massacre in southern Israel.
7. Sharif Salam, a terrorist in Hamas' Military Wing.
8. Yasser Ibrahim Abu Sharar, a terrorist in Hamas' Military Wing and an operative in Hamas' emergency bureau in Nuseirat, who was simultaneously an UNRWA employee.
9. Ayad Matar, a terrorist in Hamas' Military Wing and simultaneously an UNRWA employee.
[Rudaw] At least three Iranian border guards were killed after an attack by a Sunni bad boy group in Sistan and Baluchestan province, southwest of Iran, on Thursday evening.
Mehdi Shamsabadi, Sistan and Baluchestan prosecutor, told news hounds that a group of person or persons unknown targeted the border guards while they were filling gas at a station in Mirjaveh city. Three border guards were killed and one civilian was injured.
In separate conversations with Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni and Sistan and Baluchestan Governor Mohammad Karami, Iranian Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref "emphasized the necessity of preventing the recurrence of such terrorist incidents by strengthening the borders of the country," according to the semi-official Mehr News Agency ...And if you can't believe Mehr News Agency who can you believe?... Jaish al-Adl, a Sunni bad boy group which frequently targets Iranian security forces in Sistan and Baluchestan, grabbed credit for the attack in a statement, warning that the province "is not safe for the guards of the oppressive regime."
Added for future reference: Jaish al-Adl, sometimes spelt Jaysh al-Adl, is an indigenous Balochi Salafi insurgent group based in Pakistan’s Baloch province. They regularly cross the border to attack Iranian targets. For some reason, the Iranian news media sometimes refer to the group as Jaish ul-Zalm.
Sistan and Baluchestan province, near the Pak border, is one of the only Sunni-majority provinces in the Shiite-dominated Iran. There are a number of Baluchi gangs active in the area that carry out regular bombings and suicide kabooms.
Jaish al-Adl, has carried out a number of suicide attacks on Iranian security forces, killing dozens in the border areas. The group was added to the list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations in 2019 by the administration of former US President Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... The designation was in response to a deadly attack by the group on the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which killed 27 guards near Sistan and Baluchestan’s picturesque provincial capital of Zahedan.
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We missed that story at the time, pippi — thank you. But they refer to the organization as Jaish ul-Zalm, so I went hunting for information and found this article dated last December, from Hasht e Subh Daily, a source I’ve used before:
[Rudaw] The United States army said on Friday that it had killed a suspected member of the 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.... (ISIS) in eastern Syria who was planning an attack on global coalition forces.
"On Wednesday, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) Forces killed an ISIS attack cell member in a strike in Eastern Syria. The individual was in the midst of planting an IED for a planned attack against Coalition and Partner Forces," CENTCOM said in a post on X without disclosing the exact location of the operation.
[IsraelTimes] IDF says majority of projectiles intercepted, remainder fell in open areas; Iran-backed terror group claims attack was revenge for Israeli strike in southern Lebanon a day earlier
The Hezbollah terror group fired some 20 rockets toward the northern city of Safed early Friday morning, sparking a large blaze in a nearby forest and causing minor damage to a building in another community, authorities said.
No injuries were reported in the attack claimed by the Lebanese group, which said it had targeted a military installation in Dire Revenge for a deadly strike 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... a day earlier.
The Israel Defense Forces said some 20 rockets were fired toward Safed at around 1 a.m., setting off alarms in the city and surrounding Upper Galilee towns.
The majority of rockets were intercepted, the IDF said in a statement, and the remainder fell in uninhabited areas.
Sirens in nearby areas were activated over fears of falling shrapnel from Iron Dome interceptor missiles.
No injuries were reported in the early morning barrage, the IDF said. However,
a hangover is the wrath of grapes... the rocket fire sparked a blaze in the Birya Forest, north of Safed, according to authorities.
Firefighting crews were dispatched to the scene and eventually managed to get the blaze under control, the Israel Fire and Rescue Services said shortly before 7 a.m.
A rocket fragment also caused minor damage to a building in the nearby community of Dalton, the Kan public broadcaster said, publishing a photo of a small hole punched through a structure.
Safed lies some 13 kilometers (eight miles) from the border with Lebanon, and unlike many communities nearer the frontier, the city of some 38,000 remains largely inhabited, with attacks that deep into Israel relatively uncommon.
In its statement claiming the attack, Hezbollah said that it had launched the barrage as Dire Revenge for what it said was an Israeli strike in the village of Kfarjouz on Thursday. The Iran-backed group claimed to have targeted a key air defense site north of Safed.
Sirens again sounded in Safed and nearby communities on Friday, warning of a drone attack. Footage posted to social media showed a Hezbollah drone flying over the area.
The IDF said the drone launched impacted an unspecified area in the Upper Galilee. "The target did not fall in any towns in the area," the military clarified.
Separately, two rockets were launched from Lebanon at the Misgav Am area on Friday. Both were intercepted by air defenses, the IDF said. Another rocket launched from Lebanon at Snir struck an open area. No injuries were caused in the attacks.
The last several days have seen cross-border fire appear to intensify somewhat, with Hezbollah launching around 100 rockets into Israel on Wednesday and dozens more on Thursday.
The Lebanese health ministry said on Thursday that three people were killed and three others injured in a strike on the village, located some 10 kilometers from the border with Israel. Speaking to AFP, a source close to Hezbollah confirmed that at least one of those killed was a member of the Iran-backed terror group.
Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said the strike "targeted two cycle of violences on the Nabatieh-Kfarjouz road," adding that a passing car was also hit.
The Lebanese health ministry said an "Israeli enemy strike" hit the village of Kfarjouz near Nabatieh, around 10 kilometers (six miles) from the border with Israel.
The IDF said it struck several Hezbollah sites in southern Lebanon over the course of Thursday, including buildings in Aitaroun, Marimin, Chihne and Maroum al-Ras. It also said it destroyed rocket launchers in Zibquin and Majdal Zoun, including one used in previous attacks on Israel.
Since October 8, Hezbollah-led forces have attacked Israeli communities and military posts along the border on a near-daily basis. Hezbollah has named 438 members who have been killed by Israel during the ongoing skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon but some also in Syria. Another 78 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier, and dozens of civilians have also been killed.
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
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[NY Post] An illegal migrant wanted for murder in the Dominican Republic is accused of "horrifically" killing a family of four in upstate New York last month as firefighters made the gruesome discovery during a house call. 
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...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 
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
...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 
...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...
