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In Sweden a wee trick-or-treater
Upholds on a doorstep a pita.
"What are you, habibi?"
Adjusting his pipi,
He hollers... "Allahu Anita!"
"Herregud, how charmingly multicultural! Here, have some falafel!"
"Shokran, infidel. Of course, you're still awful."
"Of course we are!"
[fading pitter-patter... BANG]
[AFRICANEWS] The Human Rights Watch group has warned about the ever-increasing cases of attacks on civilians by the Islamist gangs in Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president used to be Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and was chased out in 2014. Now it's the usual army officer type guy, Captain Ibrahim Traore, running things, who's just doing a bang-up job unless he's already been deposed... .
The rights group further said that the gangs have massacred villagers, displaced people, and Christian worshipers.
They claim the group has killed at least 128 civilians across Burkina Faso since February 2024 in attacks that violate international humanitarian law and constitute war crimes.
The two main Islamic groups linked to al-Qaeda, the Support of Islam and Moslems and 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.... control large swathes of land and have been fighting with the Burkina forces since they entered the country in 2016.
''We are witnessing an incredibly concerning surge in Islamist violence in Burkina Faso. The Islamist gangs' massacres of villagers, worshipers, and displaced people are not only war crimes, but a cruel affront to human decency,'' said Ilaria Allegrozzi, senior Sahel researcher at Human Rights Watch. ''The leaders of the Islamist gangs should immediately end these deadly attacks on civilians.''
From May to July, Human Rights Watch interviewed 37 people, including 31 witnesses to attacks on civilians. Human Rights Watch wrote to the Burkina Faso justice minister on June 26 and the country's ambassador to the United States on July 30, sharing research findings and requesting responses to specific questions. The justice minister responded to Human Rights Watch on August 28.
The latest attack saw at least 100 villagers and soldiers killed in central Burkina Faso during a weekend attack on a village by al-Qaeda-linked jihadis in late August.
About half of Burkina Faso is outside of government control as the country has been ravaged by increasing jihadi attacks, encircling the capital. The jihadis linked to al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group have killed thousands and displaced more than 2 million people.
The violence contributed to two coups in 2022. Still, the military junta that promised to end the attacks has struggled to do so, even after seeking new security partnerships with Russia and other junta-led, conflict-hit countries in Africa's Sahel region ... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas... .
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[LIBYAREVIEW] Heavy and medium weapon festivities broke out inside the External Security Apparatus headquarters in the Sebaa district of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... , according to eyewitness reports.
Libya Press reported, citing witnesses, that members of the External Security forces closed the coastal road near al-Jadida Prison and directed traffic in the opposite direction to avoid the conflict area.
Libya has been in a state of political chaos since the 2011 overthrow of Muammar Qadaffy ...a proud Arab institution for 42 years, now among the dear departed, though not the dearest...> . The country is divided between two rival administrations: the Government of National Unity (GNU) based in Tripoli, and an eastern administration.
This divide has led to ongoing conflict and instability, with each side vying for control over Libya's resources and key institutions.
Efforts to bring the country together through national elections have been repeatedly delayed due to disputes over who is eligible to run for office and the lack of a unified legal framework. Libya's vast oil wealth has only deepened the divide, as control of oil fields and revenues remains a contentious issue between the East and West.
The country is also plagued by the presence of foreign mercenaries, militias, and external interference, all of which complicate efforts to build a functioning, unified government.
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[Regnum] In Tatarstan, security forces stopped the activities of a female cell of an international terrorist organization that was recruiting Russians into its ranks. This was reported on September 18 by the Public Relations Center (PRC) of the FSB of Russia.
“The territorial structure’s functionaries carried out targeted work to spread terrorist ideology on the territory of our country, based on the doctrine of creating a so-called global caliphate,” the FSB noted.
Recruitment of Russian citizens was carried out at cell meetings using covert measures
During the searches, FSB officers discovered a significant amount of extremist literature banned in Russia, communications equipment, and electronic storage devices used to conduct terrorist activities.
The investigative unit of the UFSB for the republic has opened a criminal case. Investigative actions and operational-search activities are continuing.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on September 17, the UFSB for Moscow and the Moscow Region reported the detention in the capital of a man who holds radical religious views and is suspected of financing terrorism. A criminal case was opened against the detainee under Part 1.1 of Article 205.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Assistance to terrorist activity"). The defendant was arrested.
On September 16, a resident of Nizhny Novgorod was arrested for cooperation with the terrorist group "Legion "Freedom of Russia" (a terrorist organization whose activities are prohibited in the Russian Federation). The man, on his own initiative, established contacts with the prohibited structure and carried out several tasks, during one of which he was detained by FSB officers.
The Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia has published footage of the detention of members of a female Islamist cell in Tatarstan.
In the video, security forces enter the territory of a private home and break in. They detained two women in the building. They also found and confiscated a large amount of banned extremist literature, notebooks with notes, SIM cards, flash drives, mobile phones and laptops. All of this was used by the suspects to conduct terrorist activities in Russia.
At the end of the video, the members of the secret cell board a service vehicle.
New York City — Leftist rioters have organized an anti-police direct action and are demanding free taxpayer-funded public transportation. pic.twitter.com/xyuRO3kQoo
#4
We have a legislative process for such requests. Its not always a good process. In fact its often poorly managed and tone-deaf. But it remains far superior over the "lets just create chaos and hope we get our way" process.
#5
^^ In fact the legislative process might work quite well if asshats got out of the habit of electing *grifters* to run the systems that are important to a functioning legislative process.
[GEO.TV] The Israeli army has announced it's transferring the 98th Division from Gaza to the Lebanon front, according to the Israeli military, Al Jazeera reported.
The unit, comprising 10,000 to 20,000 soldiers, will join the 36th Division under the Northern Command. This strategic move aims to bolster defenses on the northern front amid escalating tensions.
''With peak readiness on the northern front, the Israeli army decided to move the elite 98th brigade there,'' according to Israeli Army Radio. ''The brigade was originally scheduled to continue fighting in Gaza, but it was decided in recent days to transfer it north.''
Kan, the Israeli state-run broadcasting authority, noted the force left Khan Younis in southern Gaza three weeks ago to an unspecified location in the war-battered enclave.
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#3
Reagan should have destroyed them 40 years ago when they killed US Marines. No one is perfect. Still - all my life Hezbollah Terror has repeatedly made the headlines. It is apparent to me that the cancer has only metastasized ever since. Hopefully the G-d of the Old Testament shows his hand and smites their villages, their only culture is killing jews and grifting NGOs. I'm a believer a world without cancer is a better place, but some say I am too optimistic. -Cheers.
[GEO.TV] An Israeli airstrike hit the Shaheen family home in the al-Fakhoura area of the Jabalia camp in northern Gaza, claiming the lives of a husband and wife, as reported by the Shehab news agency and the Palestinian Information Center.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A pager bomb attack that left roughly 2,800 Hezbollah members and civilians injured and 12 dead in Lebanon and Syria yesterday was authored by Israel's Mossad spy agency and the IDF, several security sources claim.
The Lebanese group earlier this year ordered thousands of pagers to conduct communications after leader Hassan Nasrallah declared smartphones would be more susceptible to cyber attacks by Israeli forces.
Israeli military and intelligence personnel managed to access 5,000 pagers 'at the production level' and insert a small amount of high explosives months before they were imported to Lebanon, according to several security sources who spoke to Reuters.
'The Mossad injected a board inside of the device that has explosive material that receives a code. It's very hard to detect it through any means. Even with any device or scanner,' a Lebanese security source said.
The source claimed Hezbollah ordered the pagers from a Taiwanese company called Gold Apollo, but executives there said the devices were actually manufactured and sold under licence by BAC Consulting in Budapest, Hungary.
Elijah J. Magnier, a Brussels-based senior political risk analyst, later said he spoke with Hezbollah members who had examined pagers that failed to explode. The pagers appeared to receive a coded error message sent to all the devices that caused them to vibrate and beep for some 10 seconds. When the user pressed the pager's button to cancel the alert, the explosives were detonated - a design that would ensure the pager was being held by the user at the time of the blast to inflict maximum damage.
The months-long operation by Mossad and the IDF represents an unprecedented security breach for Hezbollah, which vowed to exact revenge on Israel and continue its support for ally Hamas amid the ongoing war in Gaza.
'The resistance will continue today, like any other day, its operations to support Gaza, its people and its resistance which is a separate path from the harsh punishment that the criminal enemy (Israel) should await in response to Tuesday's massacre,' a statement read.
A US security official today said that the attack was planned for a later date as part of an 'all-out offensive' against Hezbollah, but Israel chose to detonate the devices early amid concerns the Lebanese group had become aware of the plan.
'It was a use it or lose it moment,' the source told Axios on condition of anonymity.
The string of detonations, which began around 3:30pm local time yesterday and continued for roughly an hour, gave way to widespread panic and chaos across Beirut's southern suburbs, southern Lebanon and even in neighbouring Syria. Among the 12 people reportedly killed were two girls, aged eight and ten, and several Hezbollah fighters, as well as the son of a Lebanese MP. Iran later confirmed its ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani, sustained injuries to his face and hand.
More than 2,800 people were ultimately injured in the blasts, 300 of whom were rushed to hospital in critical condition. Early speculation in the wake of the blasts suggested an Israeli hack could have overloaded the lithium ion batteries powering the pagers, which can burn up to 590 degrees celsius (1,100 F) when ignited.
But a slew of security sources and experts have since determined the detonations were caused by an Israeli operation that disrupted the supply chain and inserted explosives into the pagers that were subsequently remotely activated by the coded error message. A former British Army bomb disposal officer explained that an explosive device has five main components: A container, a battery, a triggering device, a detonator and an explosive charge.
'A pager has three of those already,' explained the ex-officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he now works as a consultant with clients on the Middle East.
'You would only need to add the detonator and the charge.'
By the time of the attack, 'the battery was probably half-explosive and half-actual battery,' said Carlos Perez, director of security intelligence at TrustedSec.
Security camera footage shared to social media yesterday appeared to show the moment on Israel sent out its deadly message. A Hezbollah member was seen confusedly lifting his shirt up at a supermarket after his pager, concealed just above his hip, began beeping and lighting up. The device suddenly exploded, crumpling him to the floor as supermarket workers and fellow shoppers panicked and fled.
'Looking at the video, the size of the detonation is similar to that caused by an electric detonator alone or one that incorporates an extremely small, high-explosive charge,' said Sean Moorhouse, a former British Army officer and explosive ordinance disposal expert.
Initial reports suggested the pagers ordered by Hezbollah were supplied by a Taiwanese company called Gold Apollo. But executives this morning said the company had only authorised its brand on the devices, and that they were manufactured and sold by Hungary's BAC Consulting KFT.
'Apollo Gold Corporation has established a long-term private label authorisation and regional agency cooperation with BAC,' a statement read.
'According to the agreement, we authorise BAC to use our brand trademark for production sales in specific regions, but the design and manufacturing of the products are entirely handled by BAC.'
Gold Apollo chair Hsu Ching-kuang told journalists this morning that his company has had a licensing agreement with BAC for the past three years, but did not provide evidence of the contract. The CEO of BAC Consulting, Cristiana Barsony-Arcidiacono, says on her LinkedIn profile that she has worked as an advisor for various organisations including UNESCO.
She was contacted by NBC and confirmed her company worked with Gold Apollo, but added cryptically: 'I don't make the pagers. I am just the intermediate. I think you got it wrong,' before hanging up.
The AR-924 pager ordered by Hezbollah, advertised as being 'rugged,' contains a rechargeable lithium battery, according to specifications once advertised on Gold Apollo's website before it was apparently taken down Tuesday after the sabotage attack. It could receive text messages of up to 100 characters. It also claimed to have up to 85 days of battery life - a crucial factor in Lebanon, where electricity outages have been common as the tiny nation on the Mediterranean Sea has faced years of economic collapse.
Israel has killed Hamas militants in the past with booby trapped cellphones and it's widely believed to have been behind the Stuxnet computer virus attack on Iran's nuclear program in 2010.
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. Death toll from new explosions in Lebanon rises to 14
The death toll in Lebanon as a result of the second series of explosions of communication devices has risen to 14. This was reported on September 18 by the Al Mayadeen TV channel, citing data from the country's Ministry of Health.
It is noted that at least 450 people were injured.
As previously reported by the Regnum news agency, radios, mobile phones and other means of communication began to explode in Lebanon on September 18. According to the Al-Nahar TV channel, the radios were purchased together with pagers, which detonated en masse in Lebanon on September 17.
On September 18, the Hezbollah movement promised Israel a harsh response to the massacre of the Lebanese people. The movement also called retribution for the sabotage inevitable for Tel Aviv.
The American newspaper The New York Times wrote on September 17 that Israel was behind the mass detonation of pagers in Lebanon. According to the publication, the Israeli side placed explosives in a batch of pagers, which were then purchased by Hezbollah.
”Frissons all around, boys and girls! ….and others! We, the mighty New York Times, have revealed more of Israel’s secrets to the WORLD!!”
Israel's national intelligence service, Mossad, planted a small amount of explosives in 5,000 devices ordered by Hezbollah several months before the latest events, a source told Reuters.
Related from regnum.ru iPhones Experience Massive Failures After iOS Update
iPhone owners have begun to complain en masse about errors in the operation of their gadgets after the iOS 18 update. This was reported on September 17 by the American newspaper The New York Post.
According to them, the performance of the devices has dropped sharply after this. Users claim that the gadgets have started to discharge quickly, and after connecting to the power supply, the charge is replenished very slowly. Thus, the phone can
discharge up to 67% within two hours, even if it is not used, the article notes. In addition, after updating the system, many background processes are launched.
And only a few owners of such smartphones said that the update did not affect their battery charge in any way.
Repair center employees in Russia noted an increase in the number of requests for smartphone repair. In an hour, their number increased to an average of 20. Specialists noted that the most common problems are encountered by owners of models with new parts, batteries and displays: after the update, they began to overheat and break.
As reported by IA Regnum, the updated product line was shown by American Apple as part of the autumn presentation on September 9. The line consists of the standard iPhone 16, the Plus modification, as well as the flagship Pro and Pro Max.
According to the developers, the Apple 16 and Apple 16 Plus in aluminum cases are equipped with the A18 processor, which makes them 40% faster compared to the Apple 15. The phones' cameras have also been updated to 48 megapixels, battery life has been increased, and sound quality has been improved. The smartphones will use artificial intelligence technology.
Sales are scheduled to start in several countries on September 20.
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The pagers appeared to receive a coded error message sent to all the devices that caused them to vibrate and beep for some 10 seconds. When the user pressed the pager's button to cancel the alert, the explosives were detonated - a design that would ensure the pager was being held by the user at the time of the blast to inflict maximum damage.
Thinking 3 moves deep - bet there are some masterclass chess players involved.
[Ynet] According to the official updates from Lebanon, 12 people were killed when thousands of pagers exploded on Tuesday and 20 in the walkie-talkie blasts on Wednesday, but in Israel officials believe that the announced dead and injured from the pager explosions is significantly lower than reality. It is estimated that there are many dozens of dead, if not more. All of them, women & children! Puppies and kittens
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What's going to explode next?
If Mossad was feeling prankish, now that people are primed to look for them, it would only take a handful of exploding coffee pot/microwave/vending machine stories in the news to keep the media frenzy going.
[GEO.TV] The number of people killed in Lebanon in explosions on electronic devices has risen to 20 with hundreds more wounded, Al Jazeera reported.
On Tuesday, blasts from hand-held pagers, used for communication by both the Lebanese group Hezbollah and civilians to evade Israeli monitoring, left 12 dead—children among them—and injured 3,500.
On Wednesday, further attacks occurred, destroying other communication devices such as smartphones, laptops, and walkie-talkies, injuring at least 450 individuals.
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Unifil in Lebanon isn't really evil, just useless.
They were established in 1978 and part of their mission is prevent terror activities, e.g. Hezbollah firing rockets, originating in south Lebanon. What actually happens is that the Unifil vehicles drive around, take some pictures and so forth but don't have the muscle to take on Hezbollah or even the smaller groups in south Lebanon.
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[NYPOST] A second wave of blasts rocked Hezbollah on Wednesday as thousands of radios and other devices used by the terror group were detonated across 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... , security sources and witnesses said.
Additional explosions were reported throughout the capital of Beirut and in the country's south following Tuesday's massive security breach that caused Hezbollah pagers to explode, killing at least 12 people and injuring another 2,800.
At least one of the new blasts heard took place near a funeral organized by the terror group for those killed in the first wave of explosions, which Hezbollah has blamed Israel for, Rooters reported. That was a good one
Officials have yet to confirm the links between the two attacks or the exact devices that went kaboom! on Wednesday.
The AR-924 pagers that were detonated on Tuesday were all the latest models acquired by Hezbollah five months ago and allegedly manufactured in Budapest, according to a statement released by Gold Apollo — a Taiwanese firm that authorized the use of its brand on the pagers.
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...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president used to be Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and was chased out in 2014. Now it's the usual army officer type guy, Captain Ibrahim Traore, running things, who's just doing a bang-up job unless he's already been deposed...
...a proud Arab institution for 42 years, now among the dear departed, though not the dearest...>
[GEO.TV] The number of people killed in Lebanon in explosions on electronic devices has risen to 20 with hundreds more wounded, Al Jazeera reported. 
...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...
