During his inaugural address to the Labour Party conference as the Prime Minister on Tuesday, Sir Keir Starmer for the “return of the sausages” being held in Gaza before hastily correcting himself to “hostages.” The gaffe is dominating coverage of the speech, which lasted over an hour and was supposed to set the agenda for his government, elected with a large legislative majority but a small share of the popular vote on July 4.
“I call again for restraint and de-escalation at the border between Lebanon and Israel. I call again for all parties to pull back from the brink. I call again or an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, the return of the sausages,” he said.
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[GOOBJOOG NEWS] The Banadir regional court Monday delivered its ruling against four al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... Sympathizers believed to be involved in financing the group.
In his ruling, the court’s judge Salah Ali Mohamud sentenced Hassan Osman Aden to 13 years in prison and ordered him to pay a fine 20,000 dollars. He was found guilty of aiding transfer of funds to the terrorist group al-Shabaab in collusion with his wife, ex-wife and daughter.
Three women, Fadumo Hassan Osman, Amina Abudllahi Abbabur and Hasna Aweys Khasim were sentenced to serve two years jail terms each.
According to the prosecution, Hassan instructed his three co-accused to open ten bank accounts which were then used to funnel $12.6 million over a four-year period.
In his earlier defence, Hassan told the court he only had $25 only in his bank account. He further said the bank accounts held by his wife, ex-wife and daughter were opened on his instructions.
[ShabelleMedia] The Somali National Army, specifically the 9th Battalion of the 60th Division, launched a military operation early this morning targeting krazed killer positions on the outskirts of Hudur, the capital of the Bakool region.
The operation centered around Kederar-Adde, located approximately 30 kilometers northwest of Hudur.
Military officials have reported that the mission successfully inflicted significant casualties on al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... murderous Moslems. According to these sources, the operation included a brief but intense skirmish, leading to the army seizing control of a key al-Shabaab base in the area.
Tensions remain high following the operation, with reports of continued military and krazed killer activities within the Hudur district. The local population remains on edge as the situation unfolds.
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Remind me again where Mexico destroys seized narcotics and the location of their evidence warehouse complex? On the west coast of the US for example, it is "Covanta Stanislaus Inc., a subsidiary of Covanta Holding Corporation, specializing in waste-to-energy and environmental services. The company primarily provides narcotics and evidence destruction services to federal agencies through its facility in Crows Landing, California. Covanta Stanislaus leverages its specialized waste-to-energy incineration capabilities to safely and compliantly dispose of seized contraband materials, supporting law enforcement and border security operations." Rather than risk ground transport of multi-millions of seized narcotics each month, DEA loads narcotics for destruction into their own secure transport vehicles and flies them via C-130 directly into the airfield for offloading at the incineration site.
As a fun piece of obscura, consider the name Crows Landing, California, (a name derived from the US Navy use of the airfield to train enlisted pilots during WWII, and the Eagle in the enlisted sleeve rank insignia, hence "crows").
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[Regnum] The Southern District Military Court has sentenced Nazhmudin Dudiyev (included in the register of terrorists and extremists of Rosfinmonitoring) and Ibragim Donashev (included in the register of terrorists and extremists of Rosfinmonitoring), accused in the case of the terrorist attack in Chechnya in 2005. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to a representative of the court.
“The court sentenced Dudiyev to 24 years in a strict regime prison with deprivation of his military rank, and Donashev to 25 years in a strict regime prison with deprivation of his military rank,” the agency’s source said.
According to the investigation, in July 2005, Dudiev and Donashev, as part of the gang of Supyan Arsanukaev and Viskhan Zaitov, took part in the kidnapping and murder of a man, whose body was then used in a terrorist attack in the village of Znamenskoye in the Nadterechny District of Chechnya.
According to the information from the republican Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, the gang members parked a car filled with explosives near residential buildings. It also contained the body of a kidnapped man, who was dressed in a Russian military uniform. One of the accused fired at the car to attract attention. After the start of investigative and operational activities, an explosive device was detonated. As a result of the incident, 15 people were killed, and another 36 were injured to varying degrees. Law enforcement officers were among the dead and injured.
kavkaz-uzel.eu adds: Dudiev and Donashev were previously sentenced by the court to prison terms of 18 to 19 years.
Recall that Dudiev and Donashev were previously sentenced by the court to prison terms of 18 to 19 years. They were taken into custody in late November 2018 on charges of banditry, participation in an armed mutiny, and an attempt on the life of a serviceman during an attack in Chechnya in 2000.
On the night of March 1, 2000, fighters of the 6th parachute landing company of the 104th regiment of the 76th Pskov airborne division entered into battle with a detachment of field commanders Shamil Basayev
…Shamil Salmanovich Basayev, also known by his kunya "Abu Idris" and Emir Abdullah Shamil Abu-Idris (1965-2006). Basayev was a Chechen warlord in the post-Soviet Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, which after his death became the Al Qaeda-linked Caucasus Emirate. In 2015 most of the hard boys changed their allegiance to the local Islamic State affiliate, Vilayat Kavkaz, whereupon a majority chose to escape the Spetsnaz hunting them by making hijra to the caliphate in Syria. Some of his projects were the 2004 Beslan school siege and the 2002 Moscow theater hostage crisis...
and Khattab near the Chechen village of Ulus-Kert . 84 of the 90 Russian servicemen were killed, including 13 officers. Another four were wounded. The militants' losses amounted to 370 people.
Tangentially related from kavkav-uzel.eu The Museum of Abkhazia closed the exhibition with Basayev's portrait to visitors
The Russian embassy in Sukhum was outraged by a portrait of Shamil Basayev, which was displayed at an exhibition in the State Museum of Abkhazia, with the caption: "Hero of Abkhazia." The museum promised to rectify the situation and closed access to the exhibition.
Representatives of the Russian embassy stated that they considered the display of the portrait of the terrorist unacceptable and contacted the museum. The site's management promised to "correct the situation as soon as possible," the agency reported, citing embassy representatives.
As of 17:40, the websites and Telegram channels of the State Museum of Abkhazia and the Russian Embassy in Abkhazia did not contain any information about the exhibition where Basayev’s portrait was presented or its closure.
The information that the State Museum of Abkhazia has a portrait of Basayev and a photo from the exhibition was published on September 22 by the Telegram channel Hard Blog. "How Basayev performed in Abkhazia is no longer important. He has tarnished himself so much that none of his past merits can serve as an excuse for the Abkhaz side. When Heroes of the Soviet Union committed crimes, they were stripped of their titles and condemned without much thought about their past merits," the blogger wrote in a message.
Shamil Basayev was a field commander during the First Chechen War and the leader of the storming of Grozny (August 1996), the organizer of terrorist attacks and the hostage-taking in Budyonnovsk in Stavropol Krai (1995), the Dubrovka Theater Center in Moscow (2002), the school in Beslan (2004, North Ossetia), the leader of the militant invasion of Dagestan (1999), which marked the beginning of the Second Chechen War, and the attack on Nalchik (October 2005, Kabardino-Balkaria). He was killed on July 10, 2006.
Since August 1992, he took an active part in military operations in Abkhazia. He was the commander of the Gagra front and deputy minister of defense of Abkhazia. He commanded a detachment of Chechen volunteers.
In January 1993, at a joint meeting of the Presidential Council and the parliament of the Confederation of Peoples of the Caucasus, Shamil Basayev was appointed commander of the expeditionary corps of the CPC in Abkhazia. He was charged with the duties of "coordinating, uniting, directing in the right direction and controlling the incoming flow of volunteers."
In 1996, Basayev reported that during 1992-1994 he traveled three times with his "Abkhaz battalion" to the camps of the Afghan mujahideen, where he learned the tactics of guerrilla warfare. Already in 1994, the "Abkhaz battalion" and Basayev entered into military operations in Chechnya, according to the biographical information about Shamil Basayev prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".
"Kavkazsky Uzel" also wrote that relations between Abkhazia and Russia have become complicated recently. On September 4, the head of the Abkhazian Foreign Ministry announced that Russia would suspend social payments from September 1, which concern Abkhazian teachers, doctors and security forces.
Russia suspended payments because the Abkhazian authorities are not fulfilling agreements, including on investments and the so-called apartment bill, said Russian State Duma deputies Konstantin Zatulin and Alexey Chepa. The suspension of social payments to Abkhazia is related to the failure to maintain a balance of obligations between the two countries, but did not worsen relations, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
Russia's suspension of funding for Abkhazian public sector employees has not yet affected their salary payments, political analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" said on September 11. Among the reasons for this decision, they highlighted Sukhum's refusal to adopt laws important for Moscow and the failure of the Abkhazian side to fulfill its obligations under economic agreements.
The cessation of payments (we are talking about approximately 150 million rubles per year) will affect doctors, social workers and teachers, since the military, security forces and pensioners are financed under a separate agreement, emphasized Natalia Smyr, chairperson of the "Amtaa" foundation.
[Rudaw] Three people were killed and five others were rescued after a migrant boat capsized off the coast of Greece’s Samos Island, police said on Monday, with 25 others feared to be missing.
"Three bodies were pulled from the water and five people were rescued and are safe," a police official told AFP.
Peshraw Abdullah, a representative of the Returning Migrants’ Association in Greece told Rudaw that the migrant boat came from western The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... and sank near the west coast of Samos islands.
The three victims are females, Abdullah said, a woman and two girls aged 10 and 12 years old.
The Hellenic Coastguard has started search and rescue operations to find the missing individuals.
Tens of thousands of people, including some from Iraq and the Kurdistan Region, take on perilous routes toward Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... on a yearly basis in hopes of escaping endless crises, including the lack of employment, political instability, and corruption.
Abdullah said that he suspects that some of the migrants colonists on board are from the Kurdistan Region.
Around 20,000 people from Iraq and the Kurdistan Region migrated out of the country in 2023, with at least nine of them losing their lives on the dangerous and illegal smuggling routes, according to the Lutka Foundation for Refugees and Displaced Affairs.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] ICE’s Boston office would have had nobody to arrest had the border not been wide open and unvetted miscreants of all sorts not been shipped in.
NEW: In a multi day operation on Nantucket Island, ICE’s Boston office announces they arrested four illegal aliens who are charged with raping or sexually assaulting Nantucket children or residents - all of whom were released from local custody despite the serious charges.
Of note, exercise is harmful for patients with long COVID who have ME/CFS or postexertional malaise110,163 and should not be used as a treatment164,165,166; one study of people with long COVID noted that physical activity worsened the condition of 75% of patients, and less than 1% saw improvement109.
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That exercise contraindicated thingy really, really upsets cardiologists and physical therapists, who will argue that they’re supervising it and really it’s not much harder than slow stretching, honest. Also all your friends who want you to be fit again like you used to be. Also you, because exercise used to feel so very good back when it wasn’t forbidden…
Interesting article, Besoeker. Definitely unrelated, but I’ll save the link for review when I’m not supposed to be sleeping, and for sharing with Mr. Wife.
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They all look like they wouldn't have done such a thing back home knowing the locals would have zip tied them to a lamp post and be slowly murdered.
But here, hey let the freak flag fly, just get released with boodle.
Authorities in Massachusetts are moving the dozens of migrants who arrived earlier this week in Martha's Vineyard to Cape Cod.
The office for Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker announced Friday that the state's emergency management agency relocated the migrants to Joint Base Cape Cod. There, the state will provide shelter, food and other essential services, Baker said.
Baker also plans to activate 125 members of the state National Guard to assist.
Looks like Nantucket residents don't belong to the same club as Martha's Vineyard residents.
New York City, Sept. 24 — Pro-Hezbollah and pro-Hamas rioters shut down the streets of Manhattan at their latest direct action. Video by @L2FTV: pic.twitter.com/jkTUZPc50x
This will continue there until the prosecutors are required to try, convict, and jail their pet Jew-hating terrorists. Until then, enjoy the situation you enthusiastically voted for, guys.
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Pro-Hezbollah and pro-Hamasrioters supporting Genocidal Terrorists shut down the streets of Manhattan.
[Yahoo] A man who killed 10 people at a Colorado supermarket has been found guilty of murder in the 2021 attack, becoming the latest person to fail in an attempt to be acquitted by reason of insanity.
Jurors found Ahmad Alissa
...more fully Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, the ISIS-curious, Trump-hating, untreated paranoid schizophrenic known wolf whose aggressive, infidel-hating Syrian refugee family did not bother to stop him from getting guns and running amok in a Jewish grocery store just before Passover. Mr. Al Issa would have preferred to shoot up a Trump rally the previous year, but the Covid shutdown meant the scheduled rallies were cancelled. Last we heard, he was deemed incompetent to stand trial, but in the meantime he appears to have become competent enough…
guilty on Monday. As a result, instead of remaining in a state hospital for psychiatric treatment, he was sentenced to life in prison.
How about the application of sentences that are a deterrent, like a realistically applied Death Penalty?
A speedy appeals process requiring all appeals to be filed within 3 years and if the appeals fail the application of the death sentence within the next 2 years.
With a total of 5 years, for the whole process.
Instead of the current system that allows any Liberal Lawyer to milk the system for 20 to 30 years.
Then apply the death sentence in the same way the murderer did to his victim(s).
[ZeroHedge] An alarming battle between rival factions of the Sinaloa drug cartel has unfolded in northwestern Mexico, near the Biden-Harris administration's open southern border. The risk of spillover continues to increase as US Border Patrol agents recently discovered a weapons cache of shoulder-fired rocket launchers and improvised explosive devices just across from the Arizona border.
"4 RPGs and 8 IEDs along with a large amount of ammo discovered in a scout site in Mexico just across the Arizona border which butts up against the Ajo area of operation within the Tucson Sector," NewsNation's border correspondent Ali Bradley wrote on X on Monday afternoon.
Bradley said, "Border Patrol agents are being warned of the "drastic escalation" in weaponry being used on the south side of the border—According to an internal alert obtained through sources."
"The fighting within the Sinaloa cartel, spilling over the border with multiple instances of armed men showing up to the southern border in the same area fleeing into the US for safety," she added.
The eruption in violence near the border is infighting within the Sinaloa cartel, between groups known as the "Mayos" and the "Chapos". This first began when authorities arrested Joaquín Guzmán López and Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada in July.
A tsunami of violence has since been reported, with President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador blaming Zambada's arrest on the US.
Last Friday, US Ambassador Ken Salazar rejected AMLO's claim, saying, "What is being seen in Sinaloa is not the fault of the United States," adding the US cannot be held responsible for "the massacres that we see in different places."
What's clear is that cartels are quickly becoming militarized while the Biden-Harris team prided themselves with open southern borders. Meanwhile, Venezuelan prison gangs are running amok in the US, and a new bombshell hearing on Capitol Hill last week revealed Biden-Harris covered up the sharp rise in encounters with suspected terrorists on the border.
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"...the Ajo area of operation within the Tucson Sector." Just south of Bisbee, a tourist attraction. A favorite crossing site for more than three decades.
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[Rudaw] Iraqi security forces on Saturday announced the arrest of nine suspected members 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 Salahaddin province amid a countrywide spike in anti-ISIS operations, state media reported.
"The intelligence agency’s detachments specialized in combating terrorism in Salahaddin Iraqi security forces on Saturday announced the arrest of nine suspected members of the Islamic State (ISIS) in Salahaddin province amid a countrywide spike in anti-ISIS operations, state media reported.
"The intelligence agency’s detachments specialized in combating terrorism in Salahaddin were able to arrest nine wanted suspects through separate operations and high-level efforts and planning," state media said, citing a statement from Iraq’s Federal Intelligence and Investigation Agency.
They were arrested in accordance with Article Four of the Counter-Terrorism Law of 2005, which says that anyone found guilty of committing a terror offense is given a death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... , with life imprisonment given to those who assist or hide those convicted of terrorism.
"Upon investigation, they explicitly confessed to belonging to the remnants of the terrorist ISIS gangs and to carrying out many terrorist attacks in Salahaddin province," the statement added.
On Friday, three ISIS suspects were arrested by Iraqi intelligence forces in the capital Baghdad.
[Rudaw] Iraqi counterterrorism forces said on Monday they cooperated with Kurdish forces (Asayish) to arrest two "terrorists" in Sulaimani.
The Iraqi Counter Terrorism Service (ICTS) announced the arrests of "two turbans in Sulaimani province" in a statement.
The operation was carried out "in coordination and cooperation" with Kurdish security forces based in Sulaimani, according to the ICTS.
The statement provided no further details.
Iraqi and Kurdish security forces have carried out numerous joint raids against 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 recent years, primarily in Sulaimani.
The Iraqi Security Media Cell announced in late July that they had arrested 21 ISIS suspects in cooperation with Asayish forces in Sulaimani province.
[IsraelTimes] The missile fired by Hezbollah toward the Tel Aviv area was intercepted by the David’s Sling defense system, Hebrew-language media reports.
The projectile triggered sirens in the coastal city as well as multiple other towns in central Israel.
[IsraelTimes] The Iran-backed Islamic Resistance in Iraq claims responsibility for launching two drones that set off sirens in the Golan Heights overnight.
[GEO.TV] Israeli military strikes across 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 killed at least 22 Paleostinians on Tuesday, medics said, as Israeli forces battled Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... in Rafah, near the border with Egypt.
The violence in Gaza came as fighting intensified between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah across Israel's border with 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 parallel conflict that had stoked fears of an all-out war in the Middle East.
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It's like feral hogs control program you have in USA.
[Rudaw] At least one member of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) was killed when the Kurdish-led group clashed with fighters supported by Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... in Deir ez-Zor province, a UK-based conflict monitor reported on Sunday.
An SDF patrol was hit by Iran-backed forces in the town of Suwaydan with rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) and machine guns, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).
One member of the SDF was killed and another was injured, according to SOHR.
The SDF, as the partnered ground force of the US-led international coalition against 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), controls northeast Syria (Rojava).
Control of Deir ez-Zor province, which borders Iraq, is now split between the SDF and the Iran-backed Syrian regime. It is also home to many of the country’s key oilfields, such as Omar and Conoco, which the global coalition helps the SDF to control.
The areas under the control of the Syrian regime and those under the control of the SDF are separated by the banks of the Euphrates River. The area is characterized by frequent smuggling operations, due to the difference in price of goods on either side.
Pro-regime fighters frequently clash with the SDF in the strategic province.
Clashes broke out between the SDF and pro-regime forces in Deir ez-Zor on Friday, SOHR reported without providing information on casualties.
[Rudaw] At least two people were killed and three others injured during festivities between Kurdish-backed forces and Ankara-aligned factions in northern Syria’s Aleppo province, a war monitor reported on Monday.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that two Kurdish fighters were killed after being maimed in an "infiltration operation" on the Marea-Harbel axis in northern Aleppo during festivities with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... -backed factions.
Three Ottoman Turkish-backed fighters were also injured.
The pro-Kurdish Afrin Liberation Forces (HRE) are active in the area and carry out operations against Ottoman Turkish-backed factions in control of parts of northern Aleppo province.
Afrin is a Kurdish city that was taken over by Turkey and Ottoman Turkish-backed Syrian rebels in a military operation against Kurdish fighters of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) in 2018. Most of the Kurdish population fled and Ottoman Turkish authorities resettled Arabs displaced from elsewhere in Syria into their vacated homes.
The festivities come amid a recent increase in tensions in the area, with Kurdish forces increasingly clashing with Ottoman Turkish-backed rebels of the Syrian National Army (SNA) and other factions.
Last week, SOHR said that at least seven members of the Ottoman Turkish-backed Faylaq al-Sham militia group were maimed after a military vehicle was targeted with a rocket-propelled grenade, allegedly coming from the areas under the influence of Kurdish forces and the Syrian regime in northern Aleppo countryside.
Kurds have accused Turkey of taking advantage of recent festivities between some Arab tribes and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the eastern province of Deir ez-Zor, using it as an opportunity to attack Kurdish-led forces in Manbij and other areas. Manbij is located at a key crossroads in northern Syria.
Turkey considers the People’s Protection Units (YPG) in Syria, the backbone of the US-backed SDF, as an offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), an gang fighting for Kurdish rights in Turkey and designated a terrorist organization by Ankara.
[IsraelTimes] Lebanese authorities say 6 killed and 15 wounded in strike, some 560 killed since conflict spiked; IDF reservist moderately hurt by shrapnel
Intense cross-border fighting between Israel and Hezbollah continued on Tuesday, including an Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in the Lebanese capital, as the terror group fired some 300 rockets at northern Israel, setting off sirens in cities including Haifa, Safed, Nazareth, and Yokne’am as well as across the Galilee.
The target of the strike in the Dahiyeh suburb of Beirut was the head of Hezbollah’s rocket and missile division Ibrahim Qubaisi. The Israel Defense Forces said he had been killed in the attack, alongside at least two other top commanders in the terror group. Hezbollah confirmed his death hours later, releasing a statement saying Qubaisi was "martyred on the road to Jerusalem," its term for operatives killed in Israeli strikes. Qubaisi commanded Hezbollah’s various rocket and missile units, including its precision-guided missile unit, according to the military.
"Over the years and during the war, he was responsible for the launches at the Israeli home front. Qubaisi was a central source of of knowledge in the field of missiles, and was close to the senior military leadership of Hezbollah," the IDF said.
He joined Hezbollah in the 1980s, and served in several other significant roles, including a senior position in the terror group’s operations division and as the head of the Badr regional division, the IDF said. It added that Qubaisi also planned Hezbollah’s kidnapping attack in Mount Dov in 2000, in which IDF soldiers Staff Sgt. Benyamin Avraham, Staff Sgt. Adi Avitan, and Staff Sgt. Omar Sawaid were killed and kidnapped. Their bodies were returned in a prisoner exchange in 2004.
The IDF released footage of the strike.
The strike in the Dahiyeh suburb, a known Hezbollah stronghold, was the fifth Israeli attack on Beirut amid the war. At least six people were killed in the strike and 15 were maimed, according to Lebanese health officials. "An Israeli strike targeted two floors in a residential building in the Ghobeiri area," a Lebanese security source told AFP.
Hezbollah did not immediately comment on the attack.
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi said Tuesday morning following a military assessment that Israel will be further escalating its actions against Hezbollah.
"Hezbollah must not be given a break. [We must] keep working with all our might," he said in remarks provided by the IDF. "We will accelerate the offensive operations today and bolster all the arrays. The situation requires continued intensive action on all fronts."
Meanwhile,
...back at the abandoned silver mine, there was another explosion... Hezbollah continued to fire barrages of rockets deep into northern Israel, while the IDF responded with strikes on hundreds of the Iran-backed group’s sites, including residential buildings where the military said Hezbollah was hiding rockets and missiles ready for launch at Israel.
As explosions rocked both Israel and 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 dismayed international community responded with calls for de-escalation in what the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... ’s top diplomat said was close to all-out war, after almost a year of fighting that began with Hezbollah attacks in solidarity with Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... after the latter terror group’s devastating October 7 attack on Israel.
The Lebanese health ministry raised the corpse count in the IDF’s extensive airstrikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon since Monday to some 560. Another 1,835 were maimed, the ministry said. The figures do not differentiate between members of the terror group and civilians.
In Israel, an IDF reservist was moderately maimed by shrapnel during a rocket barrage at the Mount Carmel area, south of Haifa. The Magen David Adom ambulance service said it treated the 25-year-old at the scene near the Elyakim Junction and took him to a hospital. In another attack on areas east of Haifa, shrapnel from an intercepted rocket lightly maimed a 58-year-old woman, medics said. She too was taken to a hospital. Several other people have been lightly injured during the rocket attacks from falling shrapnel or as they rushed to bomb shelters after sirens went off.
Throughout the morning Hezbollah rockets fell in the Galilee Panhandle, areas east and south of Haifa, the Jezreel Valley, the Lower Galilee, and the cities of Afula and Nazareth. A barrage of 50 rockets also pounded the northern border town of Kiryat Shmona and surrounding areas. Municipal warehouses were among the locations hit in Kiryat Shmona, local authorities said. At least one building caught fire, sending thick black smoke into the air.
Dashboard footage showed the moment a rocket fired from Lebanon hit a road between Tamra and Kabul in northern Israel. There were no injuries reported.
Magen David Adom said paramedics treated a number of people hurt while running for shelter or who were suffering from severe anxiety caused by rocket sirens in communities across the north. MDA also said that one of its ambulances in the Jezreel Valley was damaged by shrapnel during a rocket attack in the early morning hours.
Police said interceptors and unspecified weaponry impacted in several areas of Nazareth and the surrounding area, causing damage.
In the afternoon, a home was damaged by a rocket in the northern town of Rosh Pina, but no injuries were caused.
As of Tuesday evening, the IDF said that some 300 rockets had been fired at northern Israel throughout the day.
IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said in an evening presser that Hezbollah planned to launch more rockets on Tuesday. "We are foiling, striking, and disrupting its attacks," he said.
"I won’t go into detail about the data on the Hezbollah capabilities [that the IDF has destroyed]. We have [this data], learning it. I will not detail it, to not endanger our intelligence and not to give the enemy clarity," Hagari said.
"While this achievement is important... Hezbollah still has more capabilities of different kinds. Our job is to take care of each of them, but first of all, we are focusing on its strategic capabilities that pose a greater risk to the Israeli home front," he added.
Hezbollah grabbed credit for the rocket attacks, claiming they were fired at several military bases and airfields. It also claimed an attack on the northern town of Gesher Haziv. It said launches had targeted a military supplies factory 60 kilometers (37 miles) into Israel with the "Fadi" series of rockets and that it also targeted the Megiddo airfield three separate times overnight. The airfield is mainly used for civilian purposes.
IDF HITS BACK
The IDF said it carried out several waves of strikes on Tuesday, targeting Hezbollah sites in the Beqaa Valley and in the south of the country. According to the military, the strikes targeted buildings where Hezbollah stored weapons, command rooms, and other infrastructure. It said that secondary blasts can be seen in footage following the strikes, "which indicate that many weapons were stored in the buildings."
On a Rooters live feed of the southern Lebanese city of Tyre, what appeared to be at least two rockets could be seen launching into the air erratically after a strike on a building.
The IDF said it was continuing to strike Hezbollah targets in an effort to destroy the terror group’s capabilities. It noted that it had bombed the Hezbollah cell that fired rockets at the Afula area overnight, destroying the launchers.
A senior Israeli Air Force officer said the airstrikes carried out over the past day against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon were the most extensive the IAF has carried out in its history. More than 1,600 Hezbollah sites, mostly homes where weapons were stored, were struck in southern Lebanon and the Beqaa Valley within a day, according to the IDF.
The senior IAF officer said the widespread airstrikes were "changing the operational situation in the north, changing the reality." He said Hezbollah had two main capabilities that it built up over decades: the elite Radwan Force and its arsenal of rockets, missiles, and drones. The top leadership of the Radwan Force, tasked with invading Israel, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Friday. Hezbollah’s rocket and drone capabilities have been targeted across Lebanon in the past day.
The official said the IAF is working to strike "all of their rocket capabilities, all of them" and that it is "very determined" to do so.
Hezbollah still has rocket capabilities, but they have been harmed significantly in the recent strikes, the official said.
The official said the IAF has worked to prevent civilian harm in the widespread strikes, and that mitigating harm to civilians is a significant part of its offensive plans. The IDF issued warnings to civilians to leave homes where Hezbollah had stored weapons, hours before launching the strikes.
The official said Hezbollah has endangered Lebanese civilians twofold: first by placing the weapons in their homes, and second by telling civilians to ignore the IDF’s evacuation calls, he says. The IDF has also assessed that many Hezbollah operatives are among the dead reported in Lebanon.
On Tuesday, the military issued new warnings to Lebanese civilians in villages where Hezbollah has stored munitions in homes, after similar warnings the previous day, saying that airstrikes against the terror group would continue.
"If you are near or in Hezbollah buildings or those used by it to store weapons, you must move away from those buildings at least one kilometer away or outside the village, immediately," Col. Avichay Adraee, the IDF’s Arabic-language front man, said on X.
"Anyone who is around Hezbollah elements is putting themselves in danger," he added.
Photos and videos on social media showed south and east Lebanon residents continuing to flee the fighting amid a mass exodus over the past few days. Images showed gridlocked traffic in a number of areas.
Some 500 people have crossed from Lebanon to war-torn Syria, a Syrian security official told AFP.
"Around 500 people crossed the border through the Qusayr and Dabousiya crossings between 4 pm (1300 GMT) and midnight" Monday, the security official told AFP, requesting anonymity to discuss sensitive matters.
In Israel, the IDF Home Front Command changed its instructions for a number of communities, and schools were closed in some towns. There were to be no in-person educational activities in the Megido area, Yokne’am Illit, Daliyat al-Karmel, and Isfiya. The Home Front Command had already canceled schools in communities from Haifa northwards.
The IDF said it targeted some 1,600 Hezbollah sites in Lebanon on Monday, largely striking homes where the terror group stored munitions. The military has said the munitions included cruise missiles, short-range heavy rockets, medium-range rockets, and explosive drones. Notably, the IDF has not yet said it has destroyed Hezbollah’s long-range rockets and precision-guided missiles.
According to official IDF assessments from before the war began last October, Hezbollah had over 200,000 rockets, mortars, and missiles. The numbers include 400 long-range rockets, hundreds of precision-guided missiles, 4,800 medium-range rockets, 65,000 short-range rockets, and 140,000 mortars.
Also according to the assessments, Hezbollah has hundreds of explosive-laden drones, around 100 anti-ship missiles, and at least 17 anti-aircraft systems.
Hezbollah has already launched over 8,000 rockets and hundreds of drones at northern Israel amid the fighting in the past 11 months.
Israel has vowed to push Hezbollah back from the border so its displaced citizens can return to their homes, saying it preferred to do so diplomatically but was willing to use force. Hezbollah has said it will keep up its attacks until there is a ceasefire 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... , but that appears increasingly elusive as the war against Hamas nears its anniversary.
They are among more than 1,500 Hezbollah targets hit in some 200 different areas of Lebanon, the military says. Most of the strikes have targeted homes where Hezbollah had stored munitions, according to the IDF.
Over 250 fighter jets have participated in the strikes, dropping some 2,000 munitions, the military adds.
The four are named as sheikhs Abdul Minam Mahna, Amin Saad, Muhammad Salah and Ali Abu Raya. Al Arabiya describes all of them collectively as “Hezbollah commanders.”
Canadian Arabic-language news website Sada Online eulogizes both Saad and Abu Raya and reports that they had served as imams in Canada. The former was reportedly the head of the Islamic Center of Hamilton, Ontario, between 2000 and 2006, while no details are provided on the latter, other than that he served the Canadian Shiite community for “many years.”
Israel’s Alma Research Center, which focuses on Lebanon and the northern front, reported in 2022 that a Hezbollah member named Ali Abu Raya was an officer in the Latin American department of Hezbollah’s foreign service. It is not clear if it is the same Hezbollah cleric who was killed yesterday.
Various unverified reports refer to Abdul Minam Mahna with the honorific title of “ayatollah,” indicating a high-ranking Shiite cleric.
[IsraelTimes] Syrian officials say that they activated air defenses amid an alleged Israeli strike on the port city of Tartus.
The officials tell Rooters that they shot down several Israeli missiles.
Syria frequently claims to have intercepted Israeli strikes, but most analysts doubt their ability to do so.
There is no comment from the IDF, which rarely comments on strikes in Syria.
The report comes as Israel has launched widespread strikes against Hezbollah in neighboring 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... Syria is a major thoroughfare for Iranian arms being sent to Hezbollah.
[GEO.TV] The Kremlin warned on Tuesday that Israeli strikes on Lebanon had the potential to completely destabilise the Middle East and widen the conflict there. But Hezbollah strikes on Israel don't. Q.E.D.
When asked about the Israeli strikes, Press Secretary of President of Russia Dmitry Peskov told reporters on a conference call: "This is an event that is potentially extremely dangerous when it comes to the expansion of the conflict, to the complete destabilisation of the region. Of course, this is of extreme concern to us."
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middle east stable? it will remain unstable so long as israel permits 'gaza' and 'west-bank' to exist. they practice a religion that denies a jew to exist.
[GEO.TV] Lebanon's Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib criticised Biden's address as "not strong, not promising" and said the US was the only country "that can really make a difference in the Middle East and with regard to Lebanon." Washington is Israel's longtime ally and biggest arms supplier.
The United States "is the key ... to our salvation," he told an event in New York City hosted by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Here's a suggestion: Surrender now, disband Hezbollah, execute all members above the rank of cannon fodder, expel all Paleostinians, expel all Persian colonists.
Do all that, and then we’ll talk about stopping the fighting.
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The United States the Great Satan "is the key ... to our salvation,"
I started saying "Even the idiots in DC won't swallow this", but stopped when I got to DC.
29 Give[a] unto the Lord, O you mighty ones,
Give unto the Lord glory and strength.
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[b]Give unto the Lord the glory [c]due to His name;
Worship the Lord in the [d]beauty of holiness.
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The voice of the Lord is over the waters;
The God of glory thunders;
The Lord is over many waters.
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The voice of the Lord is powerful;
The voice of the Lord is full of majesty.
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The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars,
Yes, the Lord splinters the cedars of Lebanon.
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He makes them also skip like a calf,
Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild ox.
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The voice of the Lord [e]divides the flames of fire.
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The voice of the Lord shakes the wilderness;
The Lord shakes the Wilderness of Kadesh.
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And strips the forests bare;
And in His temple everyone says, “Glory!”
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The Lord sat enthroned at the Flood,
And the Lord sits as King forever.
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The Lord will give strength to His people;
The Lord will bless His people with peace.
One of the top leaders of #Hezbollah was eliminated by #Israel, now the chain of command is left with Hassan Nasrallah only who fled to Karbala in #Iraq for a safe haven under the protection of the top ranking Shiite religious authority there. . pic.twitter.com/9iOYIsdY5y
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as near as I can make out, Nasrallah hasn't been anywhere near Karbala since 1991
he uses Karbala as a metaphor in some of his sermons as that is where Husayn ibn Ali (revered by the Shia) died in battle with caliph Yazid (who is followed by the Sunni).
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