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[Regnum] The Taliban movement (the organization is under UN sanctions for terrorist activities) has banned male citizens of Afghanistan from wearing jeans and fashionable haircuts, the American newspaper The Washington Post (WP) reports.
It is noted that the prohibitive measures came into force at the end of August. According to the newspaper, the ban is aimed at preventing the imitation of "non-Muslims" in behavior. Along with this, men were banned from cutting their beards shorter than a fist and wearing jeans.
The newspaper also notes that the bans came as an "unexpected surprise" to men in Afghanistan.
Then they’re fools. Totalitarians gotta total.
"If men had shown themselves, we could have found ourselves in a different situation now. Now everyone is growing beards because we don't want to be interrogated, humiliated," the newspaper quotes the resident as saying.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, in 2022, the Taliban banned men and women from visiting restaurants and parks together in the Afghan city of Herat. Thus, men and women are allowed to visit public parks only on different days. Women are recommended to go there on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, the rest of the week are intended for men.
[ShabelleMedia] A military fat merchantman said to be from Egypt docked at Mogadishu’s port on Sunday, delivering what officials describe as the largest shipment of heavy artillery and anti-tank weapons to Somalia since the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... lifted its arms embargo in December 2023.
This significant military aid, part of a broader defense pact between Egypt and Somalia, underscores Cairo’s deepening military engagement in the Horn of Africa amidst escalating regional tensions.
The shipment, which included field guns and armored personnel carriers, was offloaded under tight security, with the port temporarily closed to commercial traffic to facilitate the transfer. This move follows a series of high-level diplomatic exchanges, culminating in a defense agreement aimed at enhancing Somalia’s defense capabilities against internal threats like al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... and potentially positioning Egypt strategically against the backdrop of its disputes with Æthiopia, particularly over the Grand Æthiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).
Egypt’s military aid to Somalia is not only a response to Somalia’s need for military hardware to combat insurgency but also reflects Cairo’s strategic interests in countering Æthiopia’s influence in the region. Æthiopia, which has been a key player in Somalia’s security landscape, has expressed concerns over the military buildup, viewing it as a potential destabilizing factor in the Horn of Africa.
Somalia’s Defense Minister, in a statement, emphasized the country’s sovereign right to determine its alliances, suggesting that the military aid from Egypt is part of Somalia’s broader strategy to independently secure its national interests. This comes at a time when Somalia has been navigating complex regional dynamics, including disputes over Æthiopia’s agreement with Somaliland ...Republic of Somaliland is an unrecognised sovereign state in the Horn of Africa, recognised internationally as a de jure part of Somalia. It is located in the southern coast of the Gulf of Aden with approximately 5.7 million residents as of 2021. The capital and largest city is Hargeisa. The government regards itself as the successor state to British Somaliland, which united from 1960 to 1991 with the Trust Territory of Somaliland (the former Italian Somaliland) to form the Somali Republic. Under the Siad Barre regime, Somaliadestroyed ninety percent of Hargeisa Per international law, once you're in, you gotta stay in, no matter how bad it smells.... , which has raised alarms in Mogadishu over territorial integrity.
The deployment of Egyptian military personnel and equipment to Somalia, as observed in recent weeks, signals a significant shift in the regional power dynamics. While Egypt aims to bolster its strategic position, potentially as a counterbalance to Æthiopia’s regional maneuvers, the move has raised eyebrows among regional analysts who fear an escalation in tensions.
Æthiopia, through its diplomatic channels, has indicated that it will not stand by while external actors, like Egypt, potentially destabilize the region. The Æthiopian government has highlighted its historical role in Somalia’s stability, particularly in combating terrorism, and warned against actions that could lead to conflict.
This development marks a pivotal moment in the geopolitics of the Horn of Africa, where historical rivalries, resource conflicts, and security concerns intersect. The influx of Egyptian military aid into Somalia could either stabilize the region by strengthening Somalia’s fight against al-Shabaab or exacerbate existing tensions, depending on how regional actors perceive and react to this strategic shift.
As of now, the international community, including the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... , is closely monitoring the situation, advocating for dialogue and de-escalation to prevent any unintended consequences from this military aid transfer.
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[Regnum] The American nuclear aircraft carrier Harry Truman left the base in Norfolk, Virginia, and headed to the Middle East at the head of a strike group, according to a press release from the US Navy.
"The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman departed Norfolk Naval Station Sept. 23 for a scheduled deployment," the command said in a statement.
It is specified that the ship is heading to the Red Sea against the backdrop of the return from the region of the "Dwight Eisenhower", which has been in the Middle East since 2023.
The Harry Truman will be accompanied by two destroyers and a guided missile cruiser. An Italian Navy frigate is also expected to join the strike group. There's usually a sub attached as well
Earlier, Regnum news agency reported that the American aircraft carrier Dwight Eisenhower, which is in the Red Sea to counter attacks by Yemeni Houthis, will leave the region.
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin decided not to extend its mission for the third time. Then journalists from the USNI News portal suggested that the ship would be replaced by another aircraft carrier, the Harry Truman.
On June 2, Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saria reported that Yemen's Ansar Allah movement had struck the USS Dwight Eisenhower and a US destroyer. The Houthis used naval forces, missile units and drones to do so.
The US Navy refueling tanker USNS Big Horn was damaged after colliding with an unidentified object in the Arabian Sea, Business Insider reported on September 24.
No one was hurt in the incident, and the vessel was towed to the nearest port in Oman. It is noted that the tanker collided with a "stationary" object.
"A US Navy fuel ship deployed to the Middle East was damaged on Monday, apparently after crashing into something," a source familiar with the matter told the publication.
According to him, the tanker-refueler plays an important role in the US operations in the region.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, earlier on September 24 it was reported that the American nuclear aircraft carrier Harry Truman left the base in Norfolk, Virginia, and headed to the Middle East at the head of a strike group. The ship is heading to the Red Sea against the backdrop of the return from the region of the Dwight Eisenhower, which has been in the Middle East since 2023. Harry Truman will be accompanied by two destroyers and a missile cruiser.
On June 2, Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saria said Yemen's Ansar Allah movement had struck the USS Dwight Eisenhower and a US destroyer. The Houthis used naval forces, missile units and drones.
[FoxNews] Chris Oliver tells 'Fox & Friends First' he saw 'hardly any' crossings when Trump was in office
Chris Oliver's property in Fort Covington, New York has become an unintended gateway for a stream of illegal immigrants crossing the Canadian border into the United States, leaving him dismayed and wondering if the problem will ever be resolved.
He told "Fox & Friends First" he "absolutely" blames "border czar" Kamala Harris and President Biden for the issue.
"You have no control over it. You don't know who these people are. Not everybody is a good person," Oliver said on Wednesday.
Video footage captured the scene: dozens of migrants crossing his property.
"They've got 13,000 in the last six months… I feel they've caught 50%. That's probably a good reading. It's hard to say how many people actually have come across," he said, elaborating on the urgency of the crisis.
"They had a guy up in Ormstown not too far away from us, get arrested. He was planning an ISIS-style attack in New York City. That was just recently. That same night, I still had people come across my cameras. That should be stopped."
With most attention focused on the massive influx of migrants crossing the southern border, northern border crossers rarely see the national spotlight.
Yet, under the Biden-Harris administration, northern border encounters have climbed over 100,000 each year since 2022, with the number gradually inching closer to 200,000, according to CBP data.
The most staggering jump in numbers came between 2021 (at 19,661) and 2022 (at 109,535).
[IsraelTimes] Officials say Islamic Revolutionary Guard breached major Swedish text messaging company, sent out 15,000 messages aiming to ‘destabilize’ country
Swedish authorities accused 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... on Tuesday of being responsible for thousands of text messages that were sent to people in the Scandinavian country calling for Dire Revenge over the burnings of Islam’s holy book in 2023.
Officials in Stockholm claimed that Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guards carried out "a data breach" and managed to send "some 15,000 text messages in Swedish" over the string of public burnings of the Koran.
Senior prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist said that a preliminary investigation, carried out by Sweden’s SAPO domestic security agency, showed that "it was the Iranian state via the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, IRGC, that carried out a data breach at a Swedish company that runs a major SMS service."
The Swedish company was not named. There was no immediate comment from Iranian authorities on the accusations from Sweden.
In August 2023, Swedish media reported that a large number of people in Sweden had received text messages in Swedish calling for Dire Revenge against people who were burning the Koran. Ljungqvist said the sender of the messages was "a group calling itself the Anzu team."
Swedish broadcaster SVT published a photo of a text message saying that "those who desecrated the Koran must have their work covered in ashes" and calling Swedes "demons."
The protests were held under the freedom of speech act, which is protected under the Swedish constitution. The rallies were approved by police. However,
there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... the incidents left Sweden torn between its commitment to free speech and its respect for religious minorities.
In a separate statement, SAPO’s operational manager Fredrik Hallström said the text messages’ intent was to also "paint the image of Sweden as an Islamophobic country and create division in society."
He accused "foreign powers" of seeking to "exploit vulnerabilities" and said they were "now acting more and more aggressively, and this is a development that is likely to escalate." He did not name any specific country.
Meanwhile,
...back at the pound, the little lost dog had finished eating the rat terrier... Sweden’s justice minister, Gunnar Strömmer, told Swedish news agency TT "that a state actor, in this case Iran, according to [SAPO’s) assessment is behind an action that aims to destabilize Sweden or increase polarization in our country, is of course very serious."
There is no law in Sweden specifically prohibiting the burning or desecration of the Koran or other religious texts. Like many Western countries, Sweden doesn’t have any blasphemy ...the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence to a deity, or sacred objects, or toward something considered sacred or inviolable. Some religions consider it to be a crime. In Pakistain you can commit blasphemy by looking cross-eyed at a Koran... laws.
"Since the actors are acting for a foreign power, in this case Iran, we make the assessment that the conditions for prosecution abroad or extradition to Sweden are lacking for the persons suspected of being behind the breach, "Ljungqvist said.
Ljungqvist, who is with Sweden’s top prosecution authority, said that although the preliminary investigation has been closed, it "does not mean that the suspected hackers have been completely written off," and that the probe could be reopened.
In August last year, SAPO raised its threat level to four on a scale of five after a series of protests that included Koran burning ...One of the basic tenets of Islam is that once a Koran has been printed it is expected to last for all time, no matter how old, ratty, and smelly other, lesser holy books may become. Should it actually become necessary to put a Koran out of its misery there is a ritual that includes extensive charivari, featuring long drawn-wailing and head bonking, ritual wife beating, and the sacrifice of dozens of women's noses and pubic lips. When the actual disposal has been completed there is a prescribed period of celebratory gun sex with the expectation of a minimum of two hundred casualties. Should actual infidels dispose of a Koran, Islamic custom calls for three weeks of rioting and a minimum of three dozen dead, which is a holdover from the days of Moloch worship.... s had made the country a "prioritized target."
Relations between Sweden and several Middle Eastern countries were strained by the protests which were concentrated over the summer of 2023. Iraqi protesters stormed the Swedish embassy in Baghdad twice in July of that year, starting fires within the compound on the second occasion. The Swedish government condemned the desecrations while noting the country’s constitutionally protected freedom of speech and assembly laws.
Sweden and Iran’s relations in particular have also been strained in recent years, with one of the main sticking points being Sweden’s arrest and conviction of Hamid Noury. Noury, an Iranian former prisons official, was arrested at Stockholm airport in November 2019 and sentenced to life in prison in July 2022 for his role in mass killings in Iranian jails in 1988. In June, the countries announced a prisoner swap in which Noury was released in Sweden in exchange for a European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... diplomat and a second Swede. The two Swedes were EU diplomat Johan Floderus and Saeed Azizi, a Swedish national arrested in Iran in November 2023.
Floderus had meanwhile been held in Iran since April 2022, accused of espionage, for which he risked a death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... .
In May, SAPO also said that Iran was recruiting Swedish criminal gang members, some of them children, as proxies to commit "acts of violence" against Israeli and other interests in Sweden.
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[GEO.TV] Israel's defence minister accused UN Secretary-General 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... of failing to prevent Hezbollah attacks on Israel after the UN chief said 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... was becoming a "nightmare" like 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... following Israeli air strikes.
"Mr Secretary General, the nightmare you speak of, is in fact a reality," Yoav Gallant said in a response to Guterres on X, adding "the reality is that Hezbollah has taken Lebanon hostage, and the UN is neither acknowledging their actions, nor fulfilling its fundamental obligation -- preventing Hezbollah attacks and demanding the implementation of Resolution 1701".
It came after Guterres told the UN General Assembly in New York: "Gaza is a non-stop nightmare that threatens to take the entire region with it. Look no further than Lebanon".
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Summary: victims of the Oct 7 atrocity are suing UNRWA; the USA is siding with UNRWA
[NYSun] While the Department of Justice has been working overtime to pierce President Trump’s immunity, Attorney General Garland’s lawyers are busy seeking to establish immunity for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency from a lawsuit by the victims of the massacre of Jews on October 7.
That stunning stand is emerging in filings in federal court in the Southern District of New York, where Hamas’s victims are seeking some quantum of justice. The suit, brought this summer by 101 victims of Palestinian Arab terror, seeks a billion dollars from UNRWA and its leaders, including the current commissioner-general, Philippe Lazarrini.
#3
Fine, they can have immunity from civil prosecution but as they are war criminals under the Geneva conventions and as illegal combatants and their supporters, may be summarily executed at leisure.
The Biden administration: always standing at Israel’s back.
[IsraelTimes] The US has reportedly warned Israel not to target the sovereign infrastructure of Lebanon as it tackles Hezbollah across the border.
Two days ago, US officials told their Israeli counterparts that they support the IDF’s actions targeting Hezbollah while warning that the US “red line” was that Israel not “knowingly and deliberately” do anything that leads to all-out war, Channel 12 reports.
Now, it says, the US has “sharpened” that message and is telling Israel “under no circumstances” to harm the infrastructure and/or assets of the sovereign state of Lebanon. The US has told Israel to “distinguish as far as possible” between Hezbollah and Lebanon, the report says.
#5
^The point is, TW, if it wasn't intercepted - it'd hit a civilian target. But, to Arab (or leftist) mind - intention trumps results. (that's why they get along so well).
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...Republic of Somaliland is an unrecognised sovereign state in the Horn of Africa, recognised internationally as a de jure part of Somalia. It is located in the southern coast of the Gulf of Aden with approximately 5.7 million residents as of 2021. The capital and largest city is Hargeisa. The government regards itself as the successor state to British Somaliland, which united from 1960 to 1991 with the Trust Territory of Somaliland (the former Italian Somaliland) to form the Somali Republic. Under the Siad Barre regime, Somaliadestroyed ninety percent of Hargeisa Per international law, once you're in, you gotta stay in, no matter how bad it smells....
...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 
[Twitchy] 
...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...
