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You should have left that post.
Shows what a racist really is.
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There’s enough of his vicious nonsense scattered in the past few months of Rantburg’s archives, Cleared Cookies. He has become predictable and boring.
[ShabelleMedia] Æthiopian troops serving under the AU mission in Somalia fired mortar shells toward areas on the outskirts of Dinsor city in the Bay region, residents said.
Six mortar rounds hit al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... -controlled villages, causing unspecified casualties on local villagers, who reported hearing heavy blasts in the night as a result of the shelling/
The situation was calm on Monday morning with no statement regarding the attack from Southwest state authorities and the ATMIS command in Mogadishu.
For the past few days, al-Shabaab clashed with Æthiopian forces in the vicinity of the town which faces a blockade for over 10 years due to the presence of the AU and Somali troops.
Æthiopia has thousands of troops in Somalia serving as part 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... Transition Mission, or ATMIS, and other forces in Somalia that are there based on arrangements with the government in Mogadishu.
Last month, al-Shabaab forces of Evil attacked convoys carrying Æthiopian soldiers in Somalia’s southwestern Bakool region. Æthiopian troops have bases in Wajid and Huddur.
The ambush targeted two convoys, one traveling from the Somali town of Yeed to Wajid and the second convoy as it traveled from El Barde to the town of Huddur.
[Garowe] Two security bigshots in Somalia were seriously injured in a suspected al-Shabaab ... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all ofwhich have enough problems without them... attack in Somalia.
Shaafi Abdi Jama, the Deputy Commission of Guriel District, and Osman Hudeey, the Commander of the cop shoppe, were maimed in an attack that targeted Barujereed in Galgaduud, a region that has been prone to numerous al-Shabaab attacks for the last 16 years.
Multiple reports indicate that the two were part of the reinforcement team dispatched to salvage their colleagues who were under attack in a nearby Forward Operating Base. The al-Shabaab turbans usually attack military bases in the country as part of their strategy to destroy military hardware and kill innocent civilians.
Farah Abdi Moalim, the Guriel District Commissioner told news hounds that the attack on the army base was successfully repulsed despite security officers suffering injuries in the process. The al-Shabaab suffered immense losses in the process, authorities reported.
[Garowe] The al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... gunnies yet again raided a critical security checkpoint in Lower Shabelle, just as the country prepares for the second and perhaps final assault on the gunnies in southern Somalia, which will target Jubaland and Southwest states.
Several gunnies are believed to have died, in what has been termed as a major win in the concerted effort to beat the bad boys, who have wreaked havoc in Somalia for the last 16 years. The gunnies are fighting to topple the fragile UN-backed federal government of Somalia.
Reports indicate that the gunnies used a suicide car for the attack before opening fire indiscriminately, targeting members of the public. The al-Shabaab gunnies often go for security forces, senior government officials, and innocent civilians.
Dahir Amin Jesow, who stayed with the attacked army, stated that government and local militia forces killed several gunnies during the attack. The local militia is integral in the fight against the al-Shabaab group within central and southern regions.
"We defended ourselves against the Khawarij who attacked us, and we delivered a significant blow. We have the bad boys' bodies, which we will display to the media," said MP Jesoow.
According to the politician, a number of the Somali National Army officers also died in the process as they defended civilians. Those maimed, he added, were taken to Balligodle army base for advanced treatment, under the care of US Africa Command and the Danab Special Forces.
[AFRICANEWS] A Somali television journalist was killed in a suicide kaboom in Mogadishu on Monday evening, police said.
Abdifatah Moalim Nur Qeys, 33, who was director of Somali Cable TV, was fatally injured by the earth-shattering kaboom at a restaurant in the capital, with police confirming the attack’s perpetrators were members of turban group al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... "At around 21:00 a Khawarij [al-Shabaab] jacket wallah detonated explosives on people who were having tea outside the Blue Sky restaurant in Bondhere district," police said in a statement.
They added that four other people were maimed outside the restaurant.
Al-Shabaab, which is affiliated with al-Qaeda, immediately grabbed credit for the attack in a message on Telegram.
"MERCILESS MURDER"
In a post on the social media platform X (formely Twitter), the Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism, Daud Aweis, wrote that he was "saddened by the tragic loss of Abdifatah Moalim Nur", adding "may his extraordinary work in journalism be celebrated and remembered".
Elsewhere, reactions poured in from Nur’s colleagues across Somalia and the region.
The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) wrote in a statement that they were "deeply shaken and outraged by the senseless and brutal act that took the life of Abdifatah Moallim Nur (Qeys), a distinguished journalist".
The Union’s director, Omar Faruk Osman, decried what he said was "the tragic and merciless murder of a bright journalist, taken away from us far too soon", while the International Press Association of East Africa (IPAEA) also condemned the killing.
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[AFRICANEWS] Six soldiers and 31 "terrorists" were killed in fighting on Sunday and Monday in the Téra zone, in western Niger near 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 Nigerien Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.
"From Sunday October 15 to Monday October 16, 2023, the Defense and Security Forces (FDS) of Operation Niya on a mop-up mission had a series of festivities with terrorist elements in the Lemdou area 50 km to the north -west of Téra", explains the ministry in a blurb sent to AFP.
"Six soldiers died" and 18 others, injured, were evacuated to Niamey, specifies the military regime which came to power in a coup at the end of July.
Nigerien soldiers "reacted with bravery" by "routing the enemy" and killing "31 terrorists", he assures, a toll which could not be confirmed from an independent source.
The fighting took place in the Tillabéri region (west), in the middle of the so-called "three borders" zone between Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali , which has become a hideout for Sahelian jihadists affiliated with al-Qaeda and the EIGS.
In recent weeks, several attacks have devastated Niger in this area, destabilized by jihadists for several years.
The heaviest corpse count was recorded at the beginning of October with 29 soldiers killed in a "complex attack" by suspected jihadists northwest of Tabatol, a town near Mali.
At the end of September, 16 soldiers were killed in another attack in the town of Kandadji and in mid-August, at least 17 soldiers died near the border with Burkina.
Niger has been governed since July 26 by a military regime that came to power in a coup that overthrew elected President Mohammed Bazoum .
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[KavkazUzel] Nine children and one woman held in Syrian camps have been returned to Azerbaijan, the country’s Foreign Ministry reported.
Probably Al Hol or Hawl camp, where the Kurds have their captured ISIS wives and kiddies sequestered.
As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, Azerbaijan periodically organizes the return of its citizens from camps in Syria and Iraq. Thus, on May 18, eight children and three women returned to their homeland, three more Azerbaijani citizens were repatriated on June 1. Three women and 13 children who were held in a Syrian camp were brought to Azerbaijan on August 4.
At least 120 women from Azerbaijan still remain in Iraq, Turan agency columnist Tofig Turkel reported in early June. In November 2022, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry estimated the total number of its citizens repatriated from Syria and Iraq over the years at 409 people.
The Azerbaijani government has organized the return to their homeland of ten of its citizens who were kept in camps in Syria. Today, nine children and one woman were taken to Baku, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan reported.
According to the department, four of the returned children are complete orphans; they lost both parents.
The repatriation of ten people was organized when it was possible to establish their places of detention and confirm their identity and citizenship. After this, the prisoners were provided with passage to Turkey, where specialists sent from Azerbaijan were waiting for them. Those released were provided with primary medical and psychological assistance, the report notes.
After the repatriates received first aid, the Azerbaijani Embassy in Turkey prepared travel documents for them and provided everyone with air tickets. After returning to Baku, repatriates who became victims of armed conflict abroad will be provided with opportunities for rehabilitation and reintegration into society, the department added.
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[KavkazUzel] Residents of Dagestan gathered in the center of Makhachkala for a rally in support of Palestine, but they were dispersed by security forces, as follows from videos posted online.
As the "Caucasian Knot" reported, collective readings of prayers for Palestinian Muslims, who are in danger after a sharp escalation of the situation in Israel, were held in mosques in Chechnya today . Fighting between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement began on October 7 with hundreds of rockets fired into Israeli territory.
The Israel Defense Forces responded by launching the military operation “Iron Swords” against Hamas, after which Israel announced a blockade of the Gaza Strip: supplies of water, food, electricity, medicine, and fuel were suspended. Thousands of people died on both sides .
Residents of Dagestan tried today to hold a rally in support of Palestine in the central square of Makhachkala near the government building of the republic, Telegram channels reported today.
Photos from the central square of Makhachkala were published today by the Gorets Telegram channel. The photo shows dozens of men gathered in the square near the Lenin monument. Police officers and police cars are also visible in the photographs. According to the channel, security forces did not allow the protest to take place.
In a short video published today by the Morning of Dagestan Telegram channel, dozens of men gathered in the square around the security forces, engaging in an emotional discussion with them. One of the residents asks why they cannot perform namaz here (in the square). From another video it follows that security forces were gathered in the square, in particular, there were at least two buses with security forces walking around with batons.
By 19.30 Moscow time, the website and Telegram channel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Makhachkala did not contain information about the dispersal of the action.
Earlier, the Jewish communities of the North Caucasus republics responded to Hamas' threats. Thus, in the Jewish communities of Makhachkala and Kizlyar, a number of events were canceled due to threats from Palestinian militants.
Today, collective prayers were read in mosques in Chechnya for the Muslims of Palestine, who are in danger after a sharp escalation of the situation in Israel.
As the " Caucasian Knot " reported, hostilities between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement began on October 7 with the firing of hundreds of rockets into Israeli territory. The Israel Defense Forces responded by launching the military operation “Iron Swords” against Hamas, after which Israel announced a blockade of the Gaza Strip: supplies of water, food, electricity, medicine, and fuel were suspended. Thousands of people died on both sides.
Tahajjud prayer is an additional night prayer performed after sleep, according to the website Islam.ru.
Today, in the central mosque “Heart of Chechnya,” thousands of believers gathered to perform collective Tahajjud prayer, the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Chechnya reported in its telegram channel.
“Today at 04.25 am, Tahajjud prayers were held in the mosques of the republic,” confirmed the “Caucasian Knot” commentator jerrie.johns.
The Instagram public* “Emergency Grozny No. 1”, which supports the authorities of the republic, reported that such prayers will be held starting tonight in all major mosques in Chechnya.”
Earlier, the Mufti of the republic, Salah Mezhiev, called on local residents to gather for Tahajjud prayer for the Muslims of Palestine.
"All Muslims of the world are concerned about the fate of their brothers in Palestine, who have been subjected to severe injustice and cruelty. Our most important weapon is dua. If all Muslims turn to Allah, then our prayers will not remain unanswered. In this regard, and on the initiative of our leader Ramzan Kadyrov, I call on all residents of the republic – brothers and sisters – to gather for Tahajjud prayer,” the Grozny Inform news agency quoted Mezhiev as saying on October 16.
Let us recall that earlier the Jewish communities of the North Caucasus republics responded to the threats of Hamas. Thus, a number of events have been canceled in the Jewish communities of Makhachkala and Kizlyar due to threats from Palestinian militants. Enhanced security measures have been taken at the public Jewish cultural and educational organization "Sholom" in North Ossetia.
#2
The times keep showing random gunfire and gunshot deaths occurring at a wide variety of events with large gatherings, such as preschooler birthday parties and high school sporting events. Seems to be just a matter of time before "protestors clash" becomes "protestors shoot it out"
[FoxNews] Doing good, and hoping to do well thereby. Isn’t it interesting which side of the aisle expects their politicians to do good, and which doesn’t care that theirs are grossly corrupt?
#6
Re the in line above, the pubs don't celebrate doing good, they celebrate not getting caught. The dems don't care if they're caught and look down their noses at doing good because it takes time away from stealing.
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One minute before a rocket blew up a hospital in Gaza, Hamas announced on Telegram that they were launching their most robust weapons in the arsenal at Haifa.
No rockets reached Haifa. High probability these hit the hospital and set off secondary explosions within building. pic.twitter.com/xxfmzYxjru
— Jordan Schachtel @ dossier.today (@JordanSchachtel) October 17, 2023
Mainly, news cameras from Al Jazeera trained on the Gaza skyline to spot airstrikes, spot a rocket that detonates in the sky above the hospital area at the time of the blast (approximately 18:59) pic.twitter.com/87Fqwn28Dr
[IsraelTimes] In a briefing with news hounds, IDF spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said radar detected outgoing rocket fire at the same moment the blast at 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...
hospital occurred on Tuesday, and intercepted communications between terror groups indicating that Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... fired the rockets.
The army determined there were no air force, ground or naval attacks in the area at the time of the blast at the al-Ahli Baptist Hospital.
Hagari also shared aerial footage collected by a military drone that showed a blast that he said was inconsistent with Israeli weaponry. He said the earth-shattering kaboom occurred in the building’s parking lot.
Since the war began, the military said in a statement that roughly 450 rockets fired at Israel by terror groups had landed in Gaza, "endangering and harming the lives of Gazook residents."
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However, only hours later, a spokesperson from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a tweet on Israel's main X account that the Christian hospital in Gaza was destroyed by a Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket amid their barrage, not an Israeli missile.
#6
They never told the ramping crowd to card a woman's hide,
They never marked a man for death -- what fault of theirs he died? --
They only said "intimidate," and talked and went away --
By God, the boys that did the work were braver men than they!
#9
Isn't a hospital the ideal place for Hamas vermin to hide though?
Even if it's just random paleos, I'm okay with it. They dance for the death of every jew and cackle over every terrorist stunt. They can reap the whirlwind this time, them and their damned spawn.
#11
Face it, Hamas' genocidal focused murderous attack is plain for all to see, and have caused a massive negative image impact at least among civilized persons and nations.
BTW: (Wondering out-loud here)
Don't we see the LSD controlled US MSM using basically the same Headline every time the Obama-Biden regime screws up and tries to blame Trump and/or the Constitutional adhering Right?
British foreign minister James Cleverly said on Wednesday that "cool heads must prevail" and that too many people jumped to conclusions around a blast at a hospital in Gaza on Tuesday.
The international community "must protect innocent civilians and punish Hamas," Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto said on Wednesday, commenting on the Gaza hospital strike in which hundreds of people died.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the news of a blast at a hospital in Gaza was "horrific and absolutely unacceptable."
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Israeli Intelligence Suddenly Able To Intercept Hamas Communications
Another strange thing about Israel’s claim that its intelligence services didn’t detect preparations for the Hamas attack on October 7 is the fact that it is now releasing what it claims are intercepted conversations of Hamas fighters talking to each other about matters of high importance.
Israel has released an audio clip of two voices which it claims belong to Hamas militants speaking about the hotly disputed explosion at the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza on Tuesday. The IDF had previously told the press that it would be releasing intercepted conversations which prove Palestinian Islamic Jihad, not Israel, was responsible for the blast.
Here’s a transcript of Israel’s English translation of the dialogue:
Hamas Operative #2: I’m telling you this is the first time that we see a missile like this failing and so that’s why we are saying it belongs to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Hamas Operative #1: What?
Hamas Operative #2: They are saying it belongs to Palestinian Islamic Jihad
Hamas Operative #1: It’s from us?
#2: It looks like it
#1: Who says this?
#2: They are saying that the shrapnel from the missile is local shrapnel and not like Israeli shrapnel
#1: What are you saying (name bleeped)?
#2: But God bless, it couldn’t have found another place to explode?
#1: Nevermind, (name bleeped), yes they shot it from the cemetery behind the hospital
#2: What?
#1: They shot it coming from the cemetery behind the Al-Ma’amadani Hospital, and it misfired and fell on them
#2: There is a cemetery behind it?
#1: Yes, Al-Ma’amadani is exactly in the compound
#2: Where is it when you enter the compound?
#1: You first enter the compound and don’t go towards the city and it’s on the right side of the Al-Ma’amadani Hospital.
#2: Yes , I know it.
You can make of this transcript what you wish. I’ve seen plenty of people on the pro-Palestinian side of the debate disputing the veracity of the recording for a variety of reasons, from claiming Gazans don’t speak in the accent used in the clip to claiming Hamas fighters don’t communicate such information over the phone or without using codes for locations. But I personally am completely unqualified to make such assessments, so I’ll leave that question alone for the time being.
All I’d like to highlight at the moment is the fact that it sure is interesting how Israel suddenly claims to have all this visibility into conversations between Hamas fighters about combat operations against Israel. Where was all this eavesdropping capability while Hamas was preparing a massive assault that wound up killing over a thousand people?
It’s certainly possible that Israeli intelligence services are phenomenal at spying on Hamas communications, and it’s certainly possible that Israeli intelligence services had no idea Hamas was preparing its attack. It’s also possible that both are false. But it’s very difficult to believe they’re both true.
It’s very hard to believe that Israel had all this insight into what Hamas fighters are communicating about but somehow missed preparations for a highly sophisticated multi-pronged attack involving motorboats, drones and motorized paragliders in an area the size of Philadelphia. It’s even harder to believe it when you learn that Egyptian intelligence warned Israel of a coming attack shortly before it happened. It’s harder still when you learn that according to CNN, US officials were circulating “reporting from Israel indicating unusual activity by Hamas” on October 6. Even harder when you learn that Hamas itself was reportedly greatly surprised by how many Israelis they were able to kill and how many hostages they were able to take.
One of the many problems with the bizarre mainstream consensus that it’s fine for nations to go on a murderous rampage whenever something bad happens to them — as we saw from the US after 9/11 and are seeing again in Israel — is that it gives sociopathic intelligence agencies an obvious and undeniable incentive to let bad things happen in order to advance pre-existing agendas that can only be advanced by mass-scale military violence. Whether that’s happening in this particular case or not, it would be wise to remove this incentive by insisting on cool heads and rational responses to attacks when they occur.
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As the fog of war begins to lift, or rather the heavy layer of Hamas disinformation, it appears increasingly clear that it was not a hospital that was hit in Gaza but a hospital parking lot, that the death toll was likely in the dozens not the hundreds, and that the culprit was not the IDF but a faulty rocket fired by Islamic Jihad.
And that Hamas knew this very quickly, and nevertheless worked very quickly to disseminate the “Israel to blame” narrative.
It was right and necessary for the IDF to thoroughly investigate before Spokesman Daniel Hagari stated definitively — albeit more than three hours after the blast at Gaza’s al-Ahli hospital — that Israel was not responsible for the horrifying death and destruction there on Tuesday night, and vital, many hours later, that he held an English-briefing and released materials to underpin the Israeli account.
“They shot [the rocket] from the cemetery behind the hospital,” an alleged Hamas member tells another in a call intercepted by the IDF and released by Hagari. “And it misfired and fell on them.”
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Media "too good to check" meter pegged. Need a graphic for that.
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And that Hamas knew this very quickly, and nevertheless worked very quickly to disseminate the “Israel to blame” narrative.
It was interesting to see how many commentators on the interwebs fell for it immediately, people I would expect to be more media savvy. Humans, bah!
"Of course we know what happened who did it - it was $THE_OTHER_SIDE becuz that's just how they are, amirite?"
#29
Where was all this eavesdropping capability while Hamas was preparing a massive assault that wound up killing over a thousand people?
Firehose effect, I imagine. Having been assured via Egypt that Hamas was intent on keeping its head down for a while and rebuilding after the last round of Gaza rockets, fire balloons, and riots that resulted in rubble bouncing, Israel’s intelligence agencies were focussed on the West Bank and Iran, with more attention paid to Arab communities within Israel itself. Pretty effectively, it seems to me, because this round’s desired pincer again had to happen without West Bank or Arab-Israeli involvement, and therefore again Hezbollah is confident enough in the outcome to not shoot off their 150,000+ missiles and burst over the border from Lebanon.
Once again this could have been an existential event instead of merely extremely nasty. I blame the “anti-judicial overhaul” protestors for encouraging the timing and the level of nastiness — the world thought the Israeli government distracted and fatally weakened, so Iran pushed Hamas to go now and nastily enough to break, as they assumed, Israel’s will to fight. Goodness knows various Iranian big turbans have commented to that effect recently.
But now that Israel is paying closer attention, their version of the NSA can make use of what they were more or less ignoring before.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Pointless exercise in the fresh air and sunshine, but presumably it gives them an outlet for their other frustrations.
Thousands of Lebanese protesters, some waving Palestinian flags, gathered late into Tuesday night outside the U.S. embassy
It comes just hours after a blast at a hospital in Gaza that Hamas claims killed at least 500 people
Israel's military denied responsibility for the bombing, saying military intelligence suggested the hospital was hit by a failed Hamas rocket launch
#4
That's OK, Joey B is over there and on the job.
He'll go all 'corn pop' on them.
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Drive a bus out the gates with great fanfare, commotion and chase vehicles. Slide the real folks out in a nondescript school bus 15 minutes later. It worked in Road Warrior.
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[Regnum] Two Israeli soldiers and one civilian were injured when the Israeli city of Metula was shelled by anti-tank missiles from Lebanese territory. The press service of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reported this on October 17.
“When anti-tank missiles fired from Lebanon, the city of Metula earlier today, two IDF reservists were wounded,” the report said.
It is clarified that the wounded were sent to a medical facility for assistance, and it is added that one civilian was also slightly injured.
As Regnum reported , earlier on October 17, the IDF press service reported that the Israeli military killed four militants who were trying to enter the country from Lebanon. According to the Israeli army, the group tried to plant an explosive device at the fences on the border with Lebanon.
Later in the day, Lebanese news agency Al Wataniya said that the Israeli army again used white phosphorus ammunition in shelling border areas in southern Lebanon. According to the source, there are casualties as a result of this.
On August 15, the Israel Defense Forces reported bombing Hezbollah infrastructure in Lebanon. As the IDF press service noted, such actions were taken after the shelling of Israeli settlements and military positions from Lebanese territory.
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.
... the personification of Somali state failure...
... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all ofwhich have enough problems without them...
... the personification of Somali state failure...
...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...
