[ShabelleMedia] Political infighting has undermined the counter-insurgency campaign waged by the Somali government against al-Shabaab ...... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa... over the past few months.
The offensive was announced to enter its second phase in March, expanding operations to southern regions after recapturing several strategic al-Shabaab strongholds in Hirshabelle and Galmudug ...a semiautonomous region in central Somalia, bordering Puntland on the north. Galmudug is not trying to obtain international recognition as a separate nation, but rather considers itself autonomous within the larger Somali federalism, for what that's worth... However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... the offensive has been stalled. A dispute in Hiiraan region between Hirshabelle state deputy president and the Hiiraan governor over tax collection jeopardized the support of the Hawadle clan in Hiiraan, as they claimed they did not receive payments.
The dispute further escalated as the Hirshabelle state president sacked the Hiiraan governor on 16 June. Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth ordered the entire 614th quadrant searched. The Green Lensman must be found!... factional disputes also arose in Lower Shabelle, Nugaal, and Gedo regions over local power dynamics, further complicating the political terrain.
The political disputes put a pause on the second phase of the counter-insurgency operation, and as a result, fighting between al-Shabaab and security forces has decreased in recent months (see graph below); with ACLED recording a decrease of over 50% in armed interactions since September 2022, when the operation had just launched.
However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... as ATMIS began withdrawing troops, al-Shabaab attacks against ATMIS forces continued to increase.
It is clear that al-Shabaab Lions of Islam have made use of the political disputes as an opportunity to regroup, plan, and carry out high-profile attacks.
This report examines the different political crises engulfing Somalia and their impact on al-Shabaab activities throughout the country.
[SUDANTRIBUNE] A Sudanese advocacy group has urged the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... Security Council and the Peace and Security Council of 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... to deploy monitoring teams in the Darfur region in response to a recent increase in tribal violence.
The Zalingei Resistance® Committees in Central Darfur State reported that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied Lions of Islam had taken control of the state, resulting in widespread insecurity.
In West Darfur State, festivities between the Sudanese army and RSF forces escalated into a fierce tribal conflict, rendering the city uninhabitable.
The head of the Darfur Bar Association, Salih Mahmoud, expressed disappointment with the lack of response from the international community and called for immediate action.
Mahmoud plans to submit memorandums to various bodies, including the UN Security Council, the Peace and Security Council, the African Union, and human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... organizations, reminding them of their legal, political, and moral responsibilities regarding the situation in Darfur.
The humanitarian situation in Zalingei was described as catastrophic, with the city still under siege and facing power outages, internet disruptions, and a dearth of information regarding casualties.
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“How could those ebil jooooooos be so mean to the poor jihadis!”
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The Political Bureau of Ansarullah strongly condemned on Monday the barbaric Zionist aggression against the city and camp of Jenin, which caused the killing and wounding of dozens of Paleostinians.
In a statement issued today, the Ansarullah bureau hailed the Paleostinian resistance to Zionist aggression.
The statement called on the people of the nation to take effective and serious action to confront the Zionist entity, and called on international organizations to take positions on the crimes committed by the Zionist enemy against the Paleostinian people.
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[IsraelTimes] Uptick in administrative detentions, reported by rights group HaMoked, comes as military presses on with arrest operations in West Bank amid series of terror attacks
[An Nahar] Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh will leave his post at the end of this month when his term will expire, a media report said on Monday.
"This is the conclusion of the discussions that were held prior to the Eid al-Adha ...a major Moslem holiday, marked by animal sacrifice and ritual rioting... holiday over the file of the vacant, high-ranking state posts," al-Akhbar newspaper said.
As per Leb ...an Iranian colony 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 dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of 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... ’s Code of Money and Credit, the governor post should go to the first deputy governor until the appointment of an incumbent governor. The current first deputy governor is Wassim Mansouri, who is close to the Shiite Duo.
According to al-Akhbar, Mansouri returned last week from Washington, where he met with officials from the U.S. Treasury, the U.S. Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence and other U.S. officials concerned with the banking sector in Lebanon.
"Mansouri has been quoted as saying that he sensed no U.S. objection to him assuming the governor’s missions and that it was agreed to coordinate with the relevant U.S. authorities regarding the management of the banking sector and the financial and monetary situations," the daily said.
"The U.S. officials, however, stressed to Mansouri the need to appoint an incumbent governor," al-Akhbar quoted informed sources as saying.
According to the same sources, the Americans are still in favor of allotting the governor post to former minister Camille Abousleiman, "despite his concern over accepting the mission in the absence of consensus on him, especially that he sensed in his previous tours serious reservations, not to mention that influential forces inside and outside the government have informed (caretaker PM Najib) Mikati of their rejection of him assuming this post."
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[An Nahar] A son of late Libyan leader Muammar Qadaffy ...a proud Arab institution for 42 years, now among the dear departed, though not the dearest... was taken to hospital for the third time after his health deteriorated due to a hunger strike to protest his detention without trial in Beirut, Dubai-based al-Hadath TV said.
Al-Hadath said Qadaffy was in "critical condition" after he suffered a sharp drop in his blood sugar level. He was taken to Beirut’s Hotel-Dieu de La Belle France hospital on Sunday.
Qadaffy, who started his hunger strike on June 3, was given supplements and asked to be taken back to the jail where he is held in Beirut, al-Jadeed TV said, adding that he fears for his life outside prison.
He had also been suffering back pain due to being held in a small room where he cannot move freely or exercise.
Hannibal Qadaffy has been detained in Leb ...an Iranian colony 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 dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of 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... since 2015 after he was briefly kidnapped from neighboring Syria, where he had been living as a political refugee.
He was kidnapped by Lebanese bully boyz demanding information on the whereabouts of prominent Lebanese Shiite holy man Moussa al-Sadr, who went missing in Libya 45 years ago.
Lebanese police later announced it had collected Hannibal from the northeastern city of Baalbek where he was being held. He has been detained in a Beirut jail without trial since then.
The disappearance of al-Sadr in 1978 has been a long-standing sore point in Lebanon. The holy man’s family believes he may still be alive in a Libyan prison, though most Lebanese presume al-Sadr is dead. He would be 94 years old. "He's pining for the fjords"
Al-Sadr was the founder of the Amal group, Arabic for "hope," and an acronym for the group’s Arabic name, the Lebanese Resistance® Brigades.
Most of al-Sadr’s followers are convinced that Muammar Qadaffy ordered al-Sadr killed in a dispute over Libyan payments to Lebanese militias. Libya has maintained that the holy man and his two traveling companions left 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... in 1978 on a flight to Rome and suggested he was a victim of a power struggle among Shiites.
Qadaffy was killed by opposition fighters in 2011, ending his four-decade rule of the north African country.
Hannibal Qadaffy was born two years before al-Sadr disappeared.
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He was kidnapped by Lebanese bully boyz demanding information on the whereabouts of prominent Lebanese Shiite holy man Moussa al-Sadr, who went missing in Libya 45 years ago.
Lebanese police later announced it had collected Hannibal from the northeastern city of Baalbek where he was being held. He has been detained in a Beirut jail without trial since then.
The disappearance of al-Sadr in 1978 has been a long-standing sore point in Lebanon. The holy man’s family believes he may still be alive in a Libyan prison, though most Lebanese presume al-Sadr is dead. He would be 94 years old.
...Now there's a name I've not heard in a very long time.
Sadly, though, al-Sadr is one of two types of dead:
1) Oz dead. That is; he is not only simply merely dead but truly most sincerely dead.
2) Blackadder dead. That is; he is as dead as...a great big dead thing.
Mike
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Well, third time is supposed to be a charm.
Maybe the last hospital visit.
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That’s what he gets for trying to save some cash. Should have gone to SA or Qatar. The AirB&B reviews in Lebanon are totally misleading.
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[Regnum] The actions of IS (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) in southern Syria and in the Damascus region are led by the Deputy Commander of the US Army Central Command James Melloi , according to the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), citing Director Sergei Naryshkin.
According to the service, the United States handed over to the terrorists missiles with warheads, which are stuffed with toxic substances. The militants themselves were stationed near the settlements of Hawiya and Zavria, not far from the American base at Al-Tanf.
According to Naryshkin, this place has become “a real gangster nest”, and recently a US-British “Joint Intelligence Committee” was created there, and in fact, the headquarters for controlling the actions of terrorists in southern Syria.
“It is led by the Deputy Commander of the US Central Command, James Melloy,” said the director of the Foreign Intelligence Service.
As IA Regnum reported , earlier Deputy Director of the FSB of Russia Igor Sirotkin at the High-Level Conference of the Heads of Counter-Terrorist Structures of the UN Member States said that there was a real threat that terrorists would be able to acquire means of radioactive and chemical destruction.
According to him, the problem remains all the more acute when state sponsors are involved in this, interested in destabilizing the political situation in one or another part of the world.
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...... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa...
...an Iranian colony 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 dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of 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...
