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Fred wants to retire. He wants to remove himself from maintaining the server, and he wants to maintain an Emeritus status for himself. The task of maintaining the server, from the iron, to the operating system, to the server software will fall to me.
I encourage Fred to continue to do many of the things he still can for this community: his writing, his programming, his inline commentary, and his moderating. So, for as long as he can continue doing all this, he will benefit from these fundraisers.
In the background, I have been working to harden my own server for the eventual handover of Rantburg. My server currently works as a backup server for Rantburg, as well as a server for my own websites and my mail server. The plan is for my server to take over functions that his server has, once he decides when to make that happen.
When he does, he will point his name server to my server, after which there will be a brief 24 to 48 hour stretch of time while his DNS data propagates. Once complete, Rantburg will be live and hosted on 1dogstar.net.
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If 1dogstar.net cannot handle the load — though there's no reason to think that it won't — at that point I will decide to move Rantburg to a completely new server.
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All of this represented time and money which Fred happily expended to keep his project going. These are tasks that I sympathize with, when I tried to maintain a web hosting, web business using servers and bandwidth out of my own internet provider. Potentially, the hardware costs were staggering, and that is when I decided to rent my own hardware.
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I have been with this company, Server Pronto, since 2004, and they are absolutely reliable. They happen to be among the least expensive providers of dedicated servers that I am aware of. In that time, after my business failed, I continued to use the free BSD operating system for web hosting on a rented server.
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WHAT THE HELL are you doing calling people anti-Semitic who call out leftist Jewish activists, numerous Democrat Jewish Congress persons who support Biden and Kamala who are anti- Israel and anti-West Bank settlement, who refused to attend Benjamin Netanyahu's Congressional speech? I listed the names of George Soros, Schumer, etc. in that list.
Are you saying criticism of Jews who support anti-Semitism is anti-Semitic?
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Are you sure I did it, Whavick Scourge of the Apes9857? Nonetheless, you are right that there are Jews who support Jew-haters, and it is not Jew-hate to call them out for it. The issue is when the entire category of Jews are blamed for something that is actually a problem of the Progressive educated class, of which they are a small but idiotic part.
So, though it’s almost time for the midnight rollover, I most heartily apologize for misinterpreting your post.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] An explosion thundered on the beach near a hotel in the capital of Somalia, killing dozens of people, the Shabelle Media portal reported on August 2.
It is noted that the suicide bomber carried out the terrorist attack near the hotel building in the Lido beach area at approximately 19:30 Moscow time.
According to Garowe Online,
…a good source — we use them,too…
at least 20 people were killed on a beach in Mogadishu. The radical Islamist group Al-Shabaab (an organization banned in Russia) claimed responsibility for the attack.
The police arrived at the scene.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on July 14, at least five people were killed and about 20 more were injured as a result of an explosion in the capital of Somalia near a cafe where visitors were watching the final match of the European Football Championship. A car bomb was parked near a popular cafe. After the explosion, a fire broke out in the building. According to the police, a suicide bomber left the car near the cafe.
In a somber press briefing, Somali Police front man Abdifitah Adan Hassan confirmed the grim aftermath of a brutal attack that unfolded on Lido beach in Mogadishu last night.
The assault, which began with explosions, has left the nation reeling as the corpse count climbs to over 32, with an additional 63 individuals suffering injuries.
According to Hassan, the scene at the beach was chaotic as security forces engaged with the attackers. Three assailants were neutralized within a hotel, while another chose a horrifying end by detonating explosives on the beach.
The violence also claimed the life of one soldier and injured another.
In a small victory amidst the tragedy, police managed to intercept and destroy a car laden with explosives, apprehending the injured driver.
"Indeed it is evident that Christianity, however degraded and distorted by cruelty and intolerance, must always exert a modifying influence on men’s passions, and protect them from the more violent forms of fanatical fever, as we are protected from smallpox by vaccination. But the Mahommedan religion increases, instead of lessening, the fury of intolerance. It was originally propagated by the sword, and ever since its votaries have been subject, above the people of all other creeds, to this form of madness. In a moment the fruits of patient toil, the prospects of material prosperity, the fear of death itself, are flung aside.
The more emotional Pathans are powerless to resist. All rational considerations are forgotten. Seizing their weapons, they become Ghazis—as dangerous and as sensible as mad dogs: fit only to be treated as such. While the more generous spirits among the tribesmen become convulsed in an ecstasy of religious bloodthirstiness, poorer and more material souls derive additional impulses from the influence of others, the hopes of plunder and the joy of fighting.
Thus whole nations are roused to arms. Thus the Turks repel their enemies, the Arabs of the Soudan break the British squares, and the rising on the Indian frontier spreads far and wide. In each case civilisation is confronted with militant Mahommedanism. The forces of progress clash with those of reaction. The religion of blood and war is face to face with that of peace. Luckily the religion of peace is usually the better armed. —The Story of the Malakand Field Force (1898), 26-27"
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Don’t be fooled by the supposedly disarmed status- they say that of Australia, too- the English, when aroused, are an extremely formidable race, and have been for a very long time. Just ask Adolf.
Riots and unrest have broken out in a number of cities and towns across England after three young girls were murdered in a multiple stabbing at a Taylor Swift-inspired holiday club in Southport on Monday.
Demonstrators have clashed with police in the past 48 hours after violent disorder in the Merseyside town on Tuesday night. Some of the rioters have been heard shouting anti-immigration and Islamophobic slogans.
Flashpoints have broken out in the following places since Monday: MAP
Southport
Hundreds of rioters descended on the grieving seaside town on Tuesday night, barely 36 hours after a knifeman murdered three girls — Alice Dasilva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven — and injured eight other children and two adults at the Hart Space dance and yoga studio on Monday afternoon.
The riots are believed to have been encouraged by disinformation spread online about the identity and motives of the suspect, a 17-year-old boy from a nearby village, who was named on Thursday morning as Axel Rudakubana.
The teenager, who was born in Cardiff, appeared in court on Thursday charged with three counts of murder, 10 counts of attempted murder and possession of an offensive weapon. Judge Andrew Menary KC said the unrest in parts of the country after the attack was one reason why it was in the public interest for his name to be released.
More than 50 police officers were injured in the riots, which targeted a mosque just a short walk from the scene of Monday’s atrocity.
Hundreds of people took part in the disorder, which lasted for several hours, setting fire to a police van, and damaging cars, homes and businesses.
Five people have so far been arrested by Merseyside police, who said the disorder was organised by sympathisers of the far-right English Defence League, although the group has not had a regular active role in protests for years.
London
More than 100 demonstrators were arrested after clashes with officers in Whitehall on Wednesday night.
During the protest, staged under the title of Enough is Enough, fireworks and flares were let off near a statue of Winston Churchill and towards the gates of Downing Street.
The angry scenes also included loud chants of "We want our country back" and "Oh Tommy Robinson," referring to the rightwing activist whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon.
Hartlepool
A police car was set alight and a mosque came under attack as the unrest spread to Hartlepool, in the north-east of England, on Wednesday night.
Businesses had their windows smashed and police were pelted with eggs, bottles and bricks as a protest that started peacefully turned violent.
Manchester
Demonstrators turned out in large numbers outside a Holiday Inn hotel that was being used to house asylum seekers in Manchester on Wednesday night.
About 40 people, which the paper reported included children and men wearing balaclavas, gathered outside the premises in what the Manchester Evening News said "appeared to be a stand against asylum seekers currently being housed in the hotel".
Two men were arrested after police were assaulted. Crowds were reported to have hurled bottles, rocks and bricks at officers lining the streets and armed in riot gear.
Aldershot
People holding placards with slogans such as "no apartments for illegals" protested outside a hotel in Aldershot, Hampshire, on Wednesday night.
The local MP, Alex Baker, said the demonstration near the Potters International hotel had descended into "intimidating behaviour". Protesters held signs saying: "Deport them, don’t support them."
Baker shared a post on social media that said: "This incident was exacerbated by people from outside our community who came here determined to cause unrest."
Hampshire police said: "There were a smaller minority of individuals who became involved in aggressive behaviour and disorder. Police attended and the group dispersed a short while later."
Can we hope for the return, of the justly famed, English Mobb?
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When white people riot you got know you've crossed a line. Not that those in charge will change their behavior.
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In Britain "the natives are restless...
The bastards," as news hounds wait breathless
For Patriots Day
And hold haters at bay
While Mohammedan settlers molest us.
[FoxNews] Defense Secretary Gen. Luis Cresencio Sandoval did not provide exact figures on the number of casualties suffered in the attacks.
The Mexican army has confirmed that drug cartel-operated bomb-dropping drones have killed soldiers in the western state of Michoacan.
Defense Secretary Gen. Luis Cresencio Sandoval did not provide exact figures on the number of casualties suffered in the attacks, according to the Associated Press.
Sandoval stated on Friday that attacks targeted patrol units and included over 260 drone-bomb incidents in 2023 alone.
"Our personnel have suffered wounds, and some of our troops have even died" in the attacks, Sandoval said.
The Jalisco cartel, known for equipping drones with metal bomb casings, has turned the region into a warzone with IEDs, trenches, and armored vehicles.
Sandoval told the AP that the army continues to encounter far more road-side bombs than drone-dropped ones.
Mexico’s Navy also acknowledged on Friday that two military helicopter crew members died earlier this year when their chopper went down in the Pacific Ocean while chasing cocaine-smuggling boats.
Officials told the AP that the U.S. Navy had agreed to help in recovering the sunken helicopter and the crew members’ remains.
The Jalisco and Sinaloa cartels have also flooded major U.S. cities with meth and fentanyl and use violence to protect their turf, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration said in a May report.
BREAKING: Harris supporters and Illegal Aliens are turning out in MASS PROTEST in the nation’s capital to demand the “right” to vote in U.S. elections.
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I've seen mass protests, this ain't that. What it is though is a dramatic demonstration of the epic failure of our educational system to produce rational minds capable of critical thinking! Such useful idiots are the cannon fodder of revolutionary forces deeply embedded in the present-day demokrat party!
[FoxNews] A stunning backtrack Friday on the plea deal that Pentagon prosecutors agreed to with three of the terrorists behind the Sept. 11 terror attacks who were awaiting trial in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
The deal that stirred national outrage and took the death penalty off of the table has been revoked by Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III in a terse memo.
Secretary Austin III is now taking the lead on the case for 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammad,
…also in our archives as Khalid Sheikh Mohammad
Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin 'Attash, and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi.
In his order, Austin relieved the official in charge of the military commission who had signed off on the original plea deals.
"Effective immediately, in the exercise of my authority, I hereby withdraw from the three pretrial agreements that you signed on July 31, 2024," the letter from the Secretary of Defense reads.
#7
It is absurd to think that a matter of this importance wouldn't have been finally decided upon by anyone but the (de facto) president.
My guess is that the polling on this turned out much worse than expected and they decided to engage in failure theater litigation to pretend to be against the deal after they were for it.
#11
I'm not complaining about the results, but unusual events require an explanation. Here we have Lloyd Austin not only seeming to do the right thing*, but firing the gal** who was running the military tribunal. OMG! He not only criticized a woman, but fired her ass and took over himself.
So, questions:
1) Why did he do it?
2) Is this perhaps not the good thing it seems to be? What's the catch?
(hey, it's the federal government, a little paranoia is justified)
* Some would argue that strangling the perps publicly with his bare hands is the Right Thing(tm).
** Susan Escallier, a retired Army brigadier general and military lawyer who was overseeing the Guantanamo prosecutions
I’m trying to catch up on at least some of what I’ve missed while dealing with analog life stuff that will continue a bit longer, I’m afraid. All articles from Rudaw.
[IsraelTimes] Salvoes set off sirens in communities near border and around Kiryat Malachi, some 65 km from Strip; IDF confirms killing deputy head of Islamic Jihad arms manufacturing unit
Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip launched several volleys of projectiles at southern Israel on Friday, marking some of the most intensive rocket fire from the coastal enclave in weeks.
At least 19 rockets were launched from southern Gaza over a few-hour span, trigger warning sirens around the city of Kiryat Malachi — about 65 kilometers (40 miles) from the Strip’s south — and in a number of communities along the border.
There were no reports of injuries and all the rockets either landed in open areas or were downed by the Iron Dome missile defense system, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
The IDF later said it carried out drone strokes on the rocket launchers used in the attacks, destroying them.
Meanwhile, the army confirmed Friday that it had killed a senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad commander in Gaza, as fighting raged in the Strip’s south and center, while an Arabic-language report said the IDF recently killed five Hamas leaders in a tunnel under Gaza City.
Mediators in talks with Hamas have expressed dismay at Haniyeh’s killing, saying it could throw a wrench in progress toward a ceasefire-for-hostages deal. However, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has authorized Israeli negotiators to resume talks in Cairo in the coming days.
The IDF also said Friday that troops with the 162nd Division killed more than 30 gunmen in close-quarters combat and by calling in airstrikes in southern Gaza’s Rafah in the past day.
In the Netzarim Corridor in the central Gaza Strip, where the 252nd Division is deployed, reservists with the division’s Jerusalem Brigade spotted a cell of gunmen emerging from a tunnel, and called in a drone strike, according to the military.
In the same area, amid operations by the Harel Reserve Armored Brigade, an attack helicopter struck a building used as a weapons depot, the IDF added.
An Israeli airstrike killed Muhammad al-Jabari, the deputy head of a weapons manufacturing unit of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad responsible for the unit’s finances, the IDF said Friday. Palestinian media reports said al-Jabari was killed in Gaza City’s Shejaiya neighborhood.
According to the army, al-Jabari “was entrusted with the organization’s production of weapons in the northern Gaza Strip, distribution of salaries and money to the organization’s terrorists, and took an active part in the attempt to restore the organization’s rocket production capabilities and infrastructure.”
The military carried out “many steps” to mitigate harm to civilians in the strike, including using aerial surveillance and precision munitions, the IDF said.
The London-based Arabic newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat reported Friday that the IDF killed two Hamas politburo members and three military commanders in a recent airstrike on a tunnel under Gaza City.
The report, which cited Hamas sources, named those killed as political leaders Rawhi Mushtaha and Sameh al-Siraj along with three commanders from the group’s military wing, the Izz a-Din al-Qassam Brigades; Abdul Hadi Siam, Sami Odeh and Muhammad Hadid.
Mushtaha has served as de facto prime minister of the Gaza Strip and is in charge of financial affairs within the Hamas politburo. He reportedly helped establish the Hamas military wing and was arrested by Israel in 1988 before being released in 2011 as part of the Shalit prisoner swap. He is said to be a close confidant of Hamas Gaza chief Yahya Sinwar and is seen as one of the terror group’s most hawkish members.
Siraj has served in the Hamas politburo since 2021 and is also in charge of internal security within the Strip. He reportedly headed a secret intelligence unit operating out of Turkey.
The Hamas sources said the bodies of the assassinated leaders were pulled from the rubble after the most recent bombing in a complicated extraction effort that took several days. They were reportedly buried Thursday night.
According to the report, the tunnel was used by the terror group as a command and control center and has rooms for sleeping, where operatives can hide out for extended periods.
The IDF said in November that it had targeted Mushtaha and Siraj in a tunnel, but was unable to confirm their deaths.
The sources quoted by Asharq Al-Awsat said the strike on the tunnel that killed the Hamas members took place around a week and a half ago, noting the underground hideout was partially damaged in an airstrike at the beginning of the ongoing war in Gaza, sparked by the terror group’s October 7 massacre.
The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 39,000 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far, though the toll cannot be verified and does not differentiate between civilians and fighters. Israel says it has killed some 15,000 combatants in battle and some 1,000 terrorists inside Israel during the October 7 attack.
Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip stands at 331.
U.S. Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin has ordered the Deployment of the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) and the Ships of Carrier Strike Group 3 to the Middle East amid Escalating Tensions between Israel and Iran. Secretary Austin also ordered the Deployment of an additional Air... pic.twitter.com/rTED9DyVRz
… Force Squadron and Land-Based Ballistic Missile Defense Batteries to the Region, alongside several U.S. Navy Cruisers and Destroyers that are enroute to the Mediterranean.
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I wish I could be sure about what orders they have.
If only there weren’t so many Hamas & Friends tunnels, weapons caches, meeting rooms and bunk rooms, and rocket launch thingies hidden inside and underneath all those buildings — billions of dollars worth, ‘tis said.
[GEO.TV] Nearly two-thirds of the buildings in 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 have been damaged or destroyed since the Gaza war began in October, the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... said Friday.
"UNOSAT's latest damage building assessment, based on satellite imagery... reveals that 151,265 structures have been affected in the Gaza Strip," the UN Satellite Centre said.
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[IsraelTimes] A senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad commander was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, the military says, as troops continue operations in Rafah and the Netzarim Corridor.
Muhammad al-Jabari was the deputy head of an Islamic Jihad weapons manufacturing unit, and responsible for the unit’s finances, according to the IDF.
The IDF says that al-Jabari “was entrusted with the organization’s production of weapons in the northern Gaza Strip, distribution of salaries and money to the organization’s terrorists, and took an active part in the attempt to restore the organization’s rocket production capabilities and infrastructure.”
The military carried out “many steps” to mitigate harm to civilians in the strike, including using aerial surveillance and precision munitions, the IDF says.
Meanwhile, the IDF says that troops with the 162nd Division killed more than 30 gunmen in close-quarters combat and by calling in airstrikes in southern Gaza’s Rafah in the past day.
In the Netzarim Corridor in the central Gaza Strip where the 252nd Division is deployed, reservists with the division’s Jerusalem Brigade spotted a cell of gunmen emerging from a tunnel, and called in a drone strike, according to the military.
In the same area amid operations by the Harel Reserve Armored Brigade, an attack helicopter struck a building used as a weapons depot, the IDF adds.
[IsraelTimes] Israel recently assassinated two Hamas politburo leaders and three military commanders in a tunnel under Gaza City, according to sources from the terror group quoted by the London-based Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper.
According to the report, the IDF strike killed Hamas political leaders Rawhi Mushtaha and Sameh al-Siraj along with three commanders from the group’s military wing, the Izz a-Din al-Qassam Brigades; Abdul Hadi Siam, Sami Odeh and Muhammad Hadid.
Mushtaha has served as de facto prime minister of the Gaza Strip and is in charge of financial affairs within the Hamas politburo. He reportedly helped establish the Hamas military wing and was arrested by Israel in 1988 before being released in 2011 as part of the Shalit prisoner swap.
He is said to be a close confidant of Hamas Gaza chief Yahya Sinwar and is seen as one of the terror group’s most hawkish members.
Siraj has served in the Hamas politburo since 2021 and is also in charge of internal security within the Strip. He reportedly headed a secret intelligence unit operating out of Turkey.
The IDF in November said it had targeted Mushtaha and Siraj in a tunnel, but was unable to confirm their deaths.
However, the sources quoted by Asharq Al-Awsat say the strike on the tunnel that killed the Hamas members took place around a week and a half ago, noting that the underground hideout has been partially damaged in an airstrike at the beginning of the ongoing war in Gaza, sparked by the terror group’s October 7 massacre.
The report says that the tunnel was used by the terror group as a command and control center and that it has rooms for sleeping, where operatives can hide out for extended periods.
The Hamas sources say the bodies of the assassinated leaders were pulled from the rubble after the most recent bombing in a complicated extraction effort that took several days. They were reportedly buried last night.
[IsraelTimes] Interior minister says will revoke residency permit of former grand mufti of Jerusalem with history of antisemitism, past accusations of terror incitement
Police detained Al-Aqsa preacher Sheikh Ekrima Sabri on suspicion of incitement and supporting terrorism after he delivered a eulogy for slain Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh during Friday prayers.
In his sermon, the former grand mufti of Jerusalem mourned “the martyr” Haniyeh, saying: “We ask Allah to have mercy on him and place him in paradise.”
Footage on social media showed audience members chanting “Allah is great” and “with blood we shall redeem the martyr” during the imam’s sermon.
The police said it had begun investigating an “imam suspected of making inciting statements and supporting terrorism during a sermon given today at the midday prayer on the Temple Mount.”
Upon securing the state prosecutor’s approval for the probe, officers took Sabri from his East Jerusalem home for questioning at the Jerusalem District Central Investigations Unit, police said.
The statement added that another person was detained on the Temple Mount for “shouts of incitement” during the service.
Haniyeh, the head of Hamas’s Doha-based political bureau, was killed in Tehran on Wednesday. Israel has not officially commented on the assassination of Haniyeh, but Iran, which hosted Haniyeh for the inauguration of its new president, has vowed to exact revenge on Israel.
Interior Minister Moshe Arbel wrote to Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara to inform her he would revoke Sabri’s permanent residency permit.
Sabri, 85, does not hold Israeli citizenship. He lives in East Jerusalem, whose Palestinian residents hold Israeli residency permits that are relatively easy for the interior minister to revoke.
“Sabri holds a permit to reside permanently in Israel, which for many years now has not stopped him from inciting against the state, promoting antisemitism and terrorism and committing serious security crimes,” wrote Arbel, accusing the sheikh of publishing antisemitic literature, serving as a conduit for Hamas funds, and supporting terrorist acts.
The police have investigated Sabri for incitement before.
In June, he was charged with inciting terrorism for comments he made that allegedly supported an attacker who shot at guards in the West Bank settlement of Maale Adumim, killing a soldier, in October 2022.
The imam is also accused of praising a second attacker who killed three Israelis and wounded six others in an April 2022 shooting in Tel Aviv.
Sabri was appointed mufti of Jerusalem by late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in 1994. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas removed him from the post in 2006. He currently heads Jerusalem’s Supreme Muslim Council.
In writings and interviews, Sabri has cast doubt on the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust and advocated studying the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, an antisemitic tract from the early 20th century.
The Al-Aqsa Mosque compound sits on the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism. The flashpoint site is considered the third holiest in Islam and the holiest in Judaism.
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"Haniyeh, the head of Hamas’s Doha-based political bureau, was killed in Tehran on Wednesday."It is requested that once President Trump returns to power the USA close its military base in Qatar, place the al-Thani family on the DOT hit list, sanction the Clinton and Brookings operations in Qatar, and generally isolate the country. Reduce the diplomatic presence in the country. In the USA put the international Muslim Brotherhood and affiliates on the DOTreasury sanctions list. It should have been done long ago and actions will win many friends in the ME and USA in doing so.
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[JPost] The Israel Air Force eliminated 'significant' Hezbollah terrorist Ali Nazih Abed Ali of the Hezbollah Southern Front in the area of Bazouriyeh in southern Lebanon, the IDF reported on Saturday afternoon.
Ali was reportedly involved in terror activity on the border with Israel as well as in the planning and carrying out of various other terror activities.
"Abed Ali's elimination represents a significant blow to the capabilities of the Southern Front and to the Hezbollah terrorist organization in the area," the IDF stated. Video of the Kaboom at link
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As someone else here pointed out, Israel seems to be able to find these mokes at will. Makes you wonder if they could have smoked them years ago and if so, why not.
#2
Did it ever get confirmed that IRGC Commander Amir Hajizadeh was killed earlier in the week? Just a couple of newspaper articles, but never any confirmation or denial.
#3
Makes you wonder if they could have smoked them years ago and if so, why not.
Perhaps they were dissuaded by "international opinion" and all the associated baggage like trade sanctions and such. After Oct 7, the game changed and things got really real.
[JPost] Purge away!
Iran has arrested dozens of suspects in its investigation of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh’s assassination, The New York Times reported on Saturday. The arrested parties included senior intelligence officers, military officials, and staff workers at the guest house where Haniyeh was killed.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ specialized intelligence unit is reportedly running the investigations.
Haniyeh was assassinated in bed on Wednesday, shortly after attending the inauguration of Iran’s new president. Despite initial reports claiming that he had been killed by an Israeli airstrike, sources confirmed that he was killed by an explosive device smuggled into the guest house.
Israel, despite international accusations, has not claimed responsibility for the killing.
WHY IRAN IS RESORTING TO EXTREME MEASURES
Commentators have noted that the assassination of a terrorist leader on Iranian soil may be a massive blow to the regime – indicating to terrorist leaders that residing in Iran will no longer leave them immune to attack.
“The perception that Iran can neither protect its homeland nor its key allies could be fatal for the Iranian regime, because it basically signals to its foes that if they can’t topple the Islamic Republic, they can decapitate it,” Ali Vaez, the Iran director for the International Crisis Group, told the Times.
Insightful of them.
“This security breach requires different policies and strategies; it may be arresting spies if there was infiltration, or retaliation if the operation was conducted from outside the borders, or a combination of both,” Sasan Karimi, a political analyst in Tehran, told the paper.
FOCUSING THE INVESTIGATION
Investigators have reportedly searched months’ worth of surveillance footage at the guest house and are now investigating every visitor who entered the premises.
“Stock up on the mustache wax and pliers, boys — we’ve got work to do!”
In addition to surveilling the property records, sources told the Times that the investigation has also focused on Tehran’s international and domestic airports, where agents have been stationed.
Two sources claimed that Iran believed Mossad assassins were still in the country and the regime was anticipating their capture.
An anonymous IRGC official also told the Times that while he wasn’t aware of any arrests, security protocols had been completely overhauled in the past two days for senior officials. Some senior officials have been relocated, while the electronic equipment of others has been replaced.
Tehran's revenge for the attack will be "severe and (taken) at an appropriate time, place, and manner," said the statement, which blamed Israel - "the adventurous and terrorist Zionist regime" - for his death.
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29-07-2024
[Rudaw] At least two members of an Iran-backed militia were killed and three others were wounded in clashes with alleged Islamic State (ISIS) fighters in the countryside of Deir ez-Zor, eastern Syria, a war monitor reported on Monday.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said that the pro-Iran militiamen were targeted by a group of unidentified assailants, presumed to be ISIS members, while returning from a military base in al-Bukamal countryside’s Salihiya desert.
The wounded have been hospitalized and are receiving treatment, the monitor added. All five militants are Syrian nationals.
ISIS has increased its attacks in Syria in recent months, particularly in the vast expanses of desert where the group launches surprise attacks amid a security vacuum.
In May, five pro-Iran fighters were killed by an improvised explosive device (IED), blamed on ISIS.
Around 400 Syrian army soldiers and affiliated militia members have been killed in ISIS operations in the Syrian desert since the start of the year, including at least 35 pro-Iran fighters, according to SOHR.
A Convoy of Trucks carrying Weapons and Munitions from Syria to Lebanon for Iranian-Backed Forces, was Struck earlier in the Beqaa Valley of Eastern Lebanon by several Israeli Airstrikes. pic.twitter.com/5Y9geRzCGO
[IsraelTimes] Source close to Lebanese terror group tells AFP that 3 Israeli strikes targeted convoy of tanker trucks, injuring a Syrian driver
A source close to Lebanese terror group Hezbollah said late Friday that Israel carried out strikes on a convoy of trucks entering Lebanon from Syria.
“Three Israeli strikes targeted a convoy of tanker trucks on the Syrian-Lebanese border in the Hawsh al-Sayyid Ali area, injuring one Syrian driver,” the source told AFP.
It was the latest in a series of Israeli strikes in the border area, the source added. Iran-backed Hezbollah has a strong presence on both sides of the eastern stretch of the Lebanese-Syria border, where it supports the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad, and has been known to use the area to smuggle Iranian weapons into Lebanon.
Hours before the attack in Hawsh al-Sayyid Ali, media outlets in Lebanon reported an Israeli strike several miles away in the Lebanese village of Qasr.
Separate reports later said the strike targeted the Dabaa Airport in Syria.
Hezbollah has been exchanging near-daily fire with Israel since it started launching attacks from Lebanon a day after its Palestinian ally Hamas’s terror onslaught, which sparked the war in Gaza. Hezbollah has muted its attacks following the killing of its military chief Fuad Shukr in Beirut on Tuesday and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on Wednesday.
The Lebanese terror organization group claimed responsibility for five attacks on military positions in northern Israel on Friday.
Since the Hezbollah attacks began on October 8, the skirmishes in the north have resulted in 25 civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of 18 IDF soldiers and reservists. There have also been several attacks from Syria, without any injuries.
Hezbollah has named 385 members who have been killed by Israel during the ongoing clashes, mostly in Lebanon but some also in Syria. In Lebanon, another 69 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier, and dozens of civilians have been killed.
28-07-2024
[Rudaw] The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Sunday announced that its anti-terrorism units, in cooperation with the global coalition, have dismantled an Islamic State (ISIS) cell in northern Raqqa province, killing an operative and arresting another.
The SDF said in a statement that its anti-terrorism units (YAT) conducted a security operation with support from the global coalition, targeting “an ISIS terrorist cell consisting of two terrorists in al-Karamah, east of Raqqa City.
“Supported by Coalition aerial surveillance, our YAT forces raided the hideout of the terrorist cell. One of the terrorists, Abu al-Harith, refused to answer the call for safe surrender and opened fire on our forces who dealt with the situation professionally and eliminated him,” said the SDF, adding that another member, named Saad Salim al-Hamdan, was captured in the raid.
Though the jihadists no longer control any territory, they continue to pose a security risk by carrying out kidnappings, hit-and-run attacks, and bombings, and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), who control Rojava, conduct frequent operations against the group.
The SDF has increased its anti-ISIS operations in recent weeks.
On Saturday, the SDF announced that its forces killed an ISIS operative during a security operation in eastern Syria’s Deir ez-Zor province.
Rojava forces arrest 7 ISIS suspects in al-Hol camp
01-08-2024
[Rudaw] The internal security forces (Asayish) of northeast Syria (Rojava) on Thursday announced the arrest of seven suspected Islamic State (ISIS) members accused of planning terrorist operations in the notorious al-Hol camp.
Al-Hol camp in Hasakah province houses more than 40,000 people with suspected links to ISIS, most of them women and children. This number includes 21,633 Syrians and 17,022 Iraqis, according to the latest figures from the United States-led global coalition against ISIS. About another 2,000 come from other countries around the globe.
Rojava authorities have made an effort to reduce the camp's population. On Sunday, 82 families, consisting of 346 people, left the camp heading for eastern Deir ez-Zor province, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Kyrgyzstan repatriates another 22 nationals from Rojava camp
19-07-2024
[Rudaw] Kyrgyzstan’s foreign ministry announced in a statement on Friday that it had “safely” returned 22 people from the notorious al-Hol camp with the help of the United States and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
“The Kyrgyz Republic’s repatriation of 22 women and children from the al-Hol and Roj displaced persons camps in northeast Syria is the second such return of its nationals this year and the sixth repatriation overall since February 2023. We applaud the Kyrgyz Republic for its continued, exemplary action on repatriations, the only durable solution to the humanitarian and security challenges in northeast Syria,” said US State Department spokesperson Mathew Miller.
“In total, the Kyrgyz Republic has repatriated 454 of its nationals since early 2023, all in U.S. assisted operations, including 121 nationals this year, a substantial portion of the nearly 228 non-Syrian or Iraqi third country nationals returned to their countries of origin so far in 2024,” he added.
Miller also said that nearly 27,000 individuals from over 60 countries outside of Syria remain in Rojava’s al-Hol and Roj camps - “most of whom are children under the age of 12 who deserve a chance at life outside of the dire conditions of these camps.”
Al-Hol camp is located in Hasaka province.
Including Syrians, over 40,000 ISIS-linked people are kept in al-Hol, while thousands of others are held in Roj camp.
[Rudaw] A Yazidi woman and a child were rescued by Kurdish forces in northeast Syria (Rojava) on Thursday, ending a decade of captivity just days before the tenth anniversary of the Islamic State (ISIS) attack on the Yazidi heartland of Shingal.
Azize Khalil, 25, is from Shingal’s Kocho village. She raised Khunav, who was only two months old when she was kidnapped by ISIS when the group attacked Shingal in 2014. The two were rescued from the notorious al-Hol camp in Hasaka province, the Women’s Protection Units (YPJ), an all-woman force, said in a statement.
A third Yazidi mentioned by the YPJ in their statement is 24-year-old Tawaf Dawoud Chato from Gir Uzer village in Shingal. The YPJ said they captured her on the Syria-Iraq border when she was trying to escape ISIS. When interrogated by the Kurdish force, she revealed her Yazidi identity.
Chato’s freedom from ISIS captivity has previously been reported.
Hussein Qaidi, head of the Yazidi rescue office, affiliated with the Kurdistan Region Presidency, told Rudaw in June that Chato “arrived in Iraq from Western Kurdistan [Rojava] today.”
He said that Iraqi security forces were keeping her until she returned to her hometown, Shingal.
When ISIS swept through the Yazidi heartland of Shingal in August 2014, committing genocide, the group abducted 6,417 women and children who were forced into sexual slavery and labour. Many have been rescued from al-Hol that houses tens of thousands of ISIS families and supporters.
According to data provided by Qaidi’s office, at least 3,576 of the abducted Yazidis have been rescued so far.
Amnesty International said in a report on Wednesday that Yazidi survivors of ISIS atrocities have been abandoned to indefinite detention at al-Hol camp.
“The Yezidi community suffered unthinkable harm at the hands of Islamic State. Ten years after IS first launched its attack against the Yezidis, their suffering continues today, as thousands remain missing,” said Lauren Aarons, Amnesty International’s senior adviser on gender, conflict and international justice.
“Many Yezidis who were mistakenly swept up following the collapse of IS have been languishing in indefinite detention in dire and life-threatening conditions in north-east Syria. These Yezidis must now be identified, freed and provided with the ongoing support they need,” she added.
[An Nahar] A Syrian family of four were killed Thursday in an Israeli strike on their house in the southern village of Shamaa in the Tyre district.
A mother and her three children were killed as Israeli warplanes targeted their house, local media reports said. Several others were maimed in the strike.
Warplanes had earlier Thursday raided the southern border town of kfarkila, with no casualties reported.
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...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... war began in October, Hezbollah and Israel have shot it out almost daily across the border.
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[An Nahar] Hezbollah targeted Friday Israeli soldiers in the Dhaira post with artillery shells and a post in the occupied Kfarshouba Hills, as it resumed its operations against Israel, three days after Israel killed a top Hezbollah commander.
Israeli drones meanwhile raided the southern towns of Rab Tlatine and Dhaira.
Hezbollah fired overnight anti-aircraft missiles on Israeli warplanes in south 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... , forcing them to retreat beyond the border and launched rockets at northern Israel Thursday in response to a deadly Israeli strike in south Lebanon.
Thursday's attack was the first since Israel killed top commander Fouad Shukur on Tuesday evening.
The commander's killing has triggered fears of a cycle of escalation that could spark a regional war that has been narrowly avoided over the past 10 months.
The violence since October has killed at least 542 people on the Lebanese side, most of them fighters but also including 114 civilians.
At least 22 soldiers and 25 civilians have been killed on the Israeli side, including in the annexed Golan Heights.
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30-07-2024
[Rudaw] A barrage of Israeli missiles targeted several locations in the countryside of Daraa province, southwest of the country, a war monitor reported on Tuesday.
The UK-based war monitor Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said the missiles targeted Syrian air defense bases in Tal al-Jaibah, and several army and air defense positions stationed in the western countryside of the province.
Syrian anti-aircraft systems tried to intercept the missiles, according to SOHR, adding that there is no immediate information on the extent of damage.
Neither the Syrian army nor the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) has commented on the strike so far.
According to SOHR data, Tuesday's strike was Israel’s 55th on Syrian territories since the beginning of the year. The war monitor reported that said strikes destroyed around 111 targets, including weapons and ammunition depots, headquarters, centers and vehicles.
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[IsraelTimes] A senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad commander was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, the military says, as troops continue operations in Rafah and the Netzarim Corridor.
[IsraelTimes] Israel recently assassinated two Hamas politburo leaders and three military commanders in a tunnel under Gaza City, according to sources from the terror group quoted by the London-based Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper.
[JPost] The Israel Air Force eliminated 'significant' Hezbollah terrorist Ali Nazih Abed Ali of the Hezbollah Southern Front in the area of Bazouriyeh in southern Lebanon, the IDF reported on Saturday afternoon.
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