[DHAKATRIBUNE] Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... Ameer Shafiqur Rahman said that while the Awami League led the Liberation War, the party has failed to uphold its achievements.
He remarked that more important than how the public views the Awami League is how the party views itself.
He made these comments during a question-and-answer session following a discussion with members of the Indian Media Correspondents Association Bangladesh (IMCAB) at a venue in Dhaka's Moghbazar on Tuesday afternoon.
In response to a question about former Prime Minister the loathesome Sheikh Hasina ...Bangla dynastic politician and now exiled former Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She was President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia showed such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums. That is probably because Khaleda's late husband was the Pak tool who had Mujib assassinated... 's stay in India, the Jamaat Ameer said: "After ruling the country for over 15 years, it was not befitting for her to leave the country like Lakshman Sen. Jamaat leaders never left the country; they faced the challenges head-on. Our leaders endured imprisonment and oppression but stayed in the country. They never fled."
When asked about Jamaat's current activities, Shafiqur Rahman said that the judiciary has been destroyed, and a chief justice was forced to leave the country.
There is no longer an Election Commission or electoral system in the country. The police force has become the enemy of the people instead of their friend, he added.
The Jamaat chief said an interim government must be given a reasonable amount of time to prepare for elections, and the country needs to undergo reforms. ''Our current priority is to support the families of those killed and injured in student and public uprisings.''
Jamaat issued a blurb about the IMCAB discussion, saying that their chief expressed a desire for peace and order to return to the country quickly.
He called for reforms to the constitution, administration, judiciary, and political culture.
Shafiqur Rahman emphasized that no divisions should be made based on party or religion and that Jamaat does not believe in retaliatory politics. The party respects everyone's rights.
The Jamaat Ameer also claimed that their party has been subjected to misinformation.
He said: "Whenever any incident occurred in the country, we were blamed. Even when a Member of Parliament was killed in Gaibandha, the prime minister stood in Parliament and blamed Jamaat for the murder, which was later proven false."
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[KavkazUzel] Information about the oppression of Muslims in Penal Colony No. 19 in Surovikino, where hostage-taking took place on August 23, is false, the Federal Penitentiary Service Directorate for the Volgograd Region stated, without providing evidence to support its claims.
As reported by the Caucasian Knot", on August 23, in colony No. 19 in Surovikino, four prisoners (natives of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan), declaring themselves supporters of the "Islamic State"*, took 12 people hostage. Three employees of the colony were killed, two more later died in the hospital. As a result of the assault, the participants in the seizure were killed.
In IK No. 19 in Surovikino, where the prisoners took the colony employees hostage, the living conditions are extremely poor, and provocations against Muslims are practiced, which could lead to a riot, said human rights activist Igor Nagavkin. The reason for the incident was the dehumanization of the FSIN system, human rights activist Anna Karetnikova and journalist Vyacheslav Lemkus are sure.
"There was oppression of Muslims. When they were placed in punishment cells, their Korans and rugs were taken away from them. Although according to the Constitution and laws, these items are allowed when kept in punishment cells and punishment cells," Igor Nagavkin told the "Caucasian Knot."
The Federal Penitentiary Service Administration for the Volgograd Region called the information about poor conditions in Colony No. 19 and the persecution of Muslims unreliable.
"The information posted on one of the Telegram channels that the IK-19 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for the Volgograd Region has poor conditions and provocations were staged against convicted Muslims is fake," Interfax quoted the agency's press service as saying. The publication does not provide evidence to support this claim.
The day before, the agency also denied, without providing evidence, the report that prisoners were encouraged with mobile phones and moonshine. "The information that in IK-19 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for the Volgograd Region, the employees of the institution encouraged convicts with moonshine and mobile communications is fake," TASS quoted the agency's report on August 26.
The regional department's Telegram channel did not contain any refutations as of 20:00 Moscow time.
The fact that in the colony, convicts had the opportunity to buy phones with Internet access, so they could read prohibited literature, and for exceeding the plan they could receive packages or visits, was reported on August 25 by the Telegram channel Mash. The report also says that there was a homemade moonshine still in the colony.
The hostage-taking took place at a meeting of the disciplinary commission, where cases of malicious violators are considered, among other things. The participants in the hostage-taking declared themselves supporters of the terrorist organization "Islamic State", banned in Russia by the court, according to the "Caucasian Knot" report.
The hostage-taking in Surovikino was the second in the Southern Federal District in three months. It was preceded by a similar incident that occurred in mid-June in the Rostov pretrial detention center. In both cases, the attackers declared themselves supporters of the "Islamic State"*. The details were collected by the "Caucasian Knot" in the report " Hostage Taking in the Volgograd Colony and Rostov Pretrial Detention Center in the Summer of 2024 ".
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[Regnum] The situation in the subjects of the North Caucasus Federal District remains difficult, the region continues to see a trend of increasing extremist and terrorist crimes, Secretary of the Security Council of Russia Sergei Shoigu said on August 27.
"The socio-political and operational situation in the subjects of the North Caucasus Federal District remains difficult. The district has recorded a steady trend of growth in the number of crimes of an extremist and terrorist nature," the Secretary of the Security Council said at a visiting meeting in the North Caucasus Federal District.
Shoigu recalled that in 2024 alone, terrorist attacks were committed in Karachay-Cherkessia and Dagestan, in which 21 people were killed. 18 of the dead were law enforcement officers.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on June 23, a group of armed men attacked two Orthodox churches and a traffic police post in Makhachkala and Derbent. The militants killed the rector of the church, 66-year-old Nikolai Kotelnikov, a security guard, and the head of the Dagestanskie Ogni police department, Lieutenant Colonel Mavludin Khidirnabiyev.
On June 24, the Investigative Committee reported that 19 people, including 15 law enforcement officers, were killed as a result of the terrorist attacks in Dagestan.
On April 18, the FSB reported the detention of three men in Karachay-Cherkessia on suspicion of preparing a terrorist attack on one of the government facilities. During the search, components for making a homemade explosive device and a building plan were seized from the detainees.
[Regnum] Attempts to displace secular laws and traditional Islam with radical ideology are of particular concern, said Secretary of the Russian Security Council Sergei Shoigu on August 27.
“Of particular concern are attempts to introduce into the public consciousness the possibility of using Sharia norms instead of secular laws, the displacement of traditional Islam by its radical movements, and the formation of new Salafi groups,” he said during a visiting conference in the North Caucasus Federal District.
According to him, contradictions persist within the religious communities of the North Caucasus, caused by the destructive influence of foreign radical preachers, and sometimes by the personal ambitions of individual leaders of official religious organizations.
Shoigu noted that in order to effectively counter negative trends, comprehensive preventive measures are needed that will ensure the timely identification and neutralization of threats of extremism and terrorism, as well as preventing the spread of radical ideas and preventing conflict situations in the sphere of interethnic and interfaith relations.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on August 27, the Secretary of the Security Council also stated that the situation in the subjects of the North Caucasus Federal District remains difficult, and the region continues to see a trend of increasing extremist and terrorist crimes. He recalled that in 2024 alone, terrorist attacks were committed in Karachay-Cherkessia and Dagestan, in which 21 people died.
[Breitbart] The Syrian asylum seeker suspected of killing three and injuring several others at a "festival of diversity" in Germany on Friday reportedly had a deportation order last year, but authorities failed to remove him from the country.
According to information obtained by German paper of record Die Welt, 26-year-old Issa Al H., the Syrian asylum seeker who surrendered himself to police on Saturday after the mass stabbing in Solingen, was supposed to be deported in 2023.
The attack has led to increased pressure on the leftist government coalition of Chancellor Olaf Scholz to crack down on mass migration and ramp up deportations.
The leader of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, Friedrich Merz, called for the government to begin deportations to Syria and Afghanistan, which have been halted over safety concerns, and to stop accepting asylum seekers from the countries.
"It’s enough," Merz wrote, saying: "After the terrorist act in Solingen, it should now be finally clear: it is not the knives that are the problem, but the people who run around with it... In the majority of cases, these are refugees, in the majority of the deeds, there were Islamist motives behind them."
The CDU leader also called on the government to immediately revoke residence status for any alleged asylum seeker who travels back to their home country after it was revealed that many so-called refugees from Afghanistan had vacationed in their homeland despite supposedly needing asylum from the country.
However,
a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... while the centre-right party has been out of power since the end of 2021, some have still cast blame on the party given its role, under former leader Angela Merkel ...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslem colonists... , for "opening the gates" to mass migration from the Middle East and Africa in 2015 and sparking the Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... Migrant Crisis.
The suspected terrorist had a removal date scheduled to have him sent to Bulgaria, the country where he first entered the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , and therefore, under the Dublin regulations, the country where he should have had his asylum claims processed.
However,
a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... following his deportation order, Issa Al H. disappeared from his residence in the Western German city of Paderborn. He re-appeared several months later, but rather than removing him, he was reportedly granted "subsidiary protection" for people from countries with civil wars and transferred to a refugee centre in Solingen, where Friday’s attack took place.
While the suspect was apparently not on the radar of police for holy warrior leanings, the so-called Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) grabbed credit for the attack in Solingen, claiming that it was intended as an act of Dire Revenge against "Christians" for "Moslems in Paleostine and around elsewhere."
The alleged knifeman is also reported to have shouted out the jihadist war cry "Allahu Akbar" during Friday’s attack on the diversity festival, which saw three people killed and eight others injured, including four with life-threatening wounds. The suspected terrorist is said to have specifically targeted the necks of his victims.
A judge at the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe ordered 26-year-old Issa Al H. held pending further investigation and a possible indictment after federal prosecutors said that he shared the radical ideology of the Islamic State extremist group — and was acting on those beliefs when he stabbed his victims repeatedly from behind in the head and upper body.
The suspect, wearing handcuffs and leg shackles, was taken Sunday from the police station in Solingen for the initial court appearance.
He “shares the ideology of the foreign terrorist organization Islamic State” and on the basis of his “radical Islamic convictions” decided “to kill the largest possible number of those he considers unbelievers” at the festival, the Office of the Federal Prosecutor said in a statement.
Authorities have documented seven attacks and 21 attempted or planned attacks in Western Europe since October 7, 2023. Thomas Mücke told DW. He works for the Violence Prevention Network (VPN), an organization dedicated to preventing extremism and deradicalizing violent criminals. Mücke thinks the rise is not surprising: "IS identified Western Europe as a target for attacks, obviously with the intention of spreading horror and fear and dividing society so that they can recruit even more people for their cause."
Mücke says that the perpetrators have become younger, with two-thirds of those arrested in Western Europe being teenagers. And the methods that are being used to appeal to them are also tailored to their age. "The internet plays a major role in radicalization and mobilization, as well as in recruitment."
The case of the suspect in the Solingen attack, 26-year-old Syrian Issa Al H.*, who had pledged allegiance to the "Islamic State" (IS) terror group, has highlighted how despite four major reforms in deportation law since 2015, many rejected asylum seekers are still able to fall through the cracks.
In January, the German government agreed to a raft of new measures first proposed by Interior Minister Nancy Faeser in 2023. This included extended detention periods for those slated for deportation, extended search and seizure rights for police who suspect a pending deportee to be hiding in a shared accommodation or not in possession of identification, and not informing rejected asylum seekers of their deportation date in an effort to hinder absconding. (There is an exception to the latter for minors or families with children.)
The Deportation Improvement Act also included a new rule stating that membership of a criminal organization, even if you haven't been convicted of a crime, is grounds for deportation.
The provisions of the new law regarding detention and deportation dates came into effect in February of this year, and the search and seizure provisions at the beginning of August.
In light of the changes, the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung reported in May that the official number of deportations in the first quarter of the year had risen dramatically. Some 3,566 people were deported in the first three months of 2023. In 2024, that number had climbed to 4,791, an increase of 34%.
Despite that, according to government records seen by the paper, some 7,048 planned deportations did not take place. In some cases, this is because pilots can refuse to fly deportation flights on technical grounds or because those scheduled for deportation may have serious health issues. However, in the vast majority of cases it is either because the rejected asylum seeker has disappeared or because their country of origin has not agreed to receive them.
PROTECTION OF SYRIAN NATIONALS
If people do not qualify as a refugees under the Geneva Refugee Convention, in Germany they are allowed to apply for something called "subsidiary protection" if they would be in serious danger if returned to their homeland.
Syria was removed from Germany's list of countries to which no one can deported in 2020. And in July, a court ruling on the deportation of a convicted human smuggler said that some parts of Syria are safe to return to. However, most Syrian refugees in Germany are still being granted subsidiary protection or allowed to remain under other circumstances.
Rejected asylum seekers are usually held in detention pending their deportation only if they are deemed a risk to public safety or if it is strongly suspected that they will try to flee. According to German media reports, Issa Al H. had not been flagged as either dangerous or a flight risk.
Further complicating matters in the case of the Solingen suspect were the sometimes complex and overlapping EU asylum laws. Before coming to the German city of Bielefeld and applying for asylum in 2022, Al H. had first arrived in the European Union via Bulgaria. Therefore, he should have been sent back to Bulgaria to have his asylum application processed.
However, if a person is in a second country for more than six months, the responsibility then transfers to their new location.
That deadline is extended to 18 months in the cases of people who cannot be found, during which time the authorities in their last known location are expected to carry out a search. It is not yet clear how extensive a manhunt was carried out for Al H. after it was determined that he had vanished. In any case, when authorities arrived at his accommodation in the city of Paderborn in June 2023 to send him to Bulgaria, he was nowhere to be found.
Some months later he reemerged in Germany, when he was put in the refugee home in Solingen. Due to the time elapsed, he was able to apply for asylum in Germany and was granted subsidiary protection.
LEGAL LIMBO
As of December 2023, there were 242,600 people in Germany slated for deportation. Sixty percent of them are rejected asylum seekers.
Further complicating deportation procedures in Germany is something known as the Duldung, or "tolerance" visa. People who have a Duldung live in a legal limbo where they are not immediately facing deportation because of, for example, a medical issue or because they are attending school in Germany.
People with a Duldung are usually not allowed to work and are restricted as to where they can travel. Local authorities are given the right to issue these visas on an individual basis according to need and how overwhelmed the responsible offices are. This can result in some people staying in Germany without a real residency permit for years.
As of October 2022, people who have been in Germany for five years with a Duldung and have not broken the law are now allowed to apply for an "opportunity visa" and are given 18 months to find a way of sustaining themselves. According to the authorities, pending applications for these visas are also part of the reason why some deportation orders are not carried out.
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Marching against the "far right" isn't totally insane.
The AfD has been Corbynized and is now generally pro Iran, anti Rushdie, pro Qatar, pro Erdogan, and thus also pro MB, Hamas, Hezbollah and islamization of the West.
Of course all of the above is also true for the non-"far right" parties the marchers support so the marches are indeed somewhat insane.
[FoxNews] The Biden-Harris administration has again blocked a request by Fox News to reveal the nationalities of people on the FBI terror watchlist arrested at the border by Border Patrol, citing the privacy interests of those who were encountered and arguing that it could expose law enforcement "vulnerabilities" and "tip off" terrorists.
"[Customs and Border Protection (CBP)] is committed to protecting the identity of individuals and avoiding divulging information about any individual by either direct or indirect means," the agency said in a letter to Fox. "Releasing data for a particular nationality, or nationalities, that reflect a small number of individuals could lead to identification, especially by organizations familiar with the individuals."
Fox’s Bill Melugin filed a Freedom of Information Act request in October 2023 seeking the nationalities of suspects on the FBI terror watchlist arrested at the southern border entering between ports of entry by Border Patrol.
The request sought only the nationalities of those encountered, not the names or dates of birth or any other identifying information.
In May, CBP told Fox it would not provide the information, although it acknowledged the information is maintained in the Terrorist Screening Dataset (TSDS).
The letter said then that it was applying exemptions to protect the disclosure of files that may create a "clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy" and must balance a public's right to disclosure against an individual's right to privacy.
In its letter to Fox this month, the agency doubled down on that reasoning.
"The privacy interests of third parties (being protected from public disclosure because they could conceivably be subject to harassment and annoyance in his/her private life) far outweigh whatever public interest, if any, exists in having their information released."
The agency also claimed that the release of the information would reveal investigative techniques used in processing and apprehending terrorists.
[GEOTV] Incarcerated Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) founder Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who ain't the brightest knife in the national drawer... and his wife Bushra Bibi have filed separate post-arrest bail pleas in the new Toshakhana case pertaining to a jewellery set gifted by the Saudi crown prince.
Mentioning the state and chairman National Accountability Bureau (NAB) as parties to the case, both the applications filed through Barrister Salman Safdar under Section 9(b) of NA Ordinance 1999 and Section 497 of Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) request the accountability court to grant post-arrest bail to the couple to in "interest of justice and fair play".
The development comes as both Imran and Bushra are on judicial remand in Adiala jail over the Toshakhana reference filed by the anti-graft watchdog last week.
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[GEOTV] Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday vowed to save every penny of the poor people till ''last drop of my blood'', saying that the country cannot afford that the bureaucracy and the elite enjoy luxuries at the expenses paid in taxes by poor.
''In view of the larger national interests, all ministries and institutions should take all possible decisions and initiatives that could save each penny of the nation,'' the premier said while chairing a meeting of the federal cabinet.
He said that steps were being taken, on a priority basis, to further improve governance and bring about institutional reforms in the country.
''We are introducing digitisation and smart management of institutions to modernise the country's system and harmonise it in accordance with the international requirements,'' PM Shehbaz said.
He also appreciated the decisions taken by the finance minister, minister for national food security, minister for energy and other relevant ministers and officials for ensuring uninterrupted supply of urea fertilizer for the upcoming Rabi crop.
An amount of $130 million was saved in the national exchequer by halting the import of urea and by ensuring uninterrupted gas supply to urea fertilizer units for the upcoming Rabi crop.
On the recommendations of the Ministry of Housing and Works, proposals were presented in the federal cabinet regarding the dissolution of Pakistain Public Works Department (PWD), transfer of its staff and ongoing projects to other ministries and institutions.
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[GEOTV] In response to a series of terror attacks in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... over the past few days, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday said that no dialogue could be held with the enemy, nor could a 'soft approach' be taken in dealing with them.
Addressing a meeting of the federal cabinet in Islamabad today, the prime minister said it was time to uproot terrorism and the government would provide all the available resources to the armed forces for this purpose.
''Doors of negotiations are open [only] for those who recognise the constitution and flag of Pakistain, but there is no room for terrorists,'' he maintained.
The premier said the nefarious intentions of the murderous Moslems would fail and they would be crushed. The murderous Moslems would completely be eradicated, come what may, the PM reemphasised.
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[IsraelTimes] Talks also expected at working-group level in Cairo in coming days as mediators try to close gaps; Netanyahu said to exclude top defense officials from preparatory meeting.
I imagine the generals need to present their after action report for Sunday’s preemptive attack on Hezbollah rocket/missile placements, and to discuss next steps and mid-term goals.
[IsraelTimes] Deputy AG says lack of legal framework to exempt ultra-Orthodox students from IDF service makes the financial aid illegal; drop in funding expected to have large impact on community.
And if it doesn’t at least the Israeli taxpayer won’t be funding Haredi leisure while the rest of the country goes back yet again into the fight.
[IsraelTimes] Vials enough to inoculate 1.25 million people, over half of Strip’s population, as aid groups call for weeklong truce for vaccination drive following 1st case of polio in 25 years.
Israel said it delivered 25,100 vials of the polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set. Currently the disease is only found in Pakistain and Afghanistain... vaccine to 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... via the Kerem Shalom Crossing on Sunday, as the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... has urged an inoculation campaign in the Strip following the first case of polio there in 25 years.
The vaccines will be enough to inoculate 1,255,000 people, just over half of the Strip’s population, according to COGAT, Israel’s civilian coordination agency for the Paleostinian territories, which released footage of the delivery.
COGAT said "international and local medical teams" will administer the vaccines in various locations over the coming days to children who have not yet received a dose, "as part of the routine humanitarian pauses that will allow the population to reach the medical centers where the vaccinations will be administered."
The World Health Organization and UNICEF, the UN child welfare agency, have said that fighting in Gaza must pause for at least seven days to vaccinate some 640,000 children. The agencies say the campaign will be carried out in every municipality in Gaza, with help from 2,700 workers.
COGAT has vowed a "joint effort" with the international community to combat polio in Gaza. On Friday, five trucks brought into the Strip equipment to store and transport the vaccines, COGAT said, adding that it had coordinated the delivery with UNICEF.
According to COGAT, "282,126 vials of the polio vaccine, intended for 2,821,260 vaccinators," have been brought into Gaza through Kerem Shalom since the war was sparked on October 7 with the Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... -led onslaught on southern Israel.
Before the war, 99% of Gaza’s population was vaccinated against polio. That figure is now 86%, according to the WHO.
The territory’s healthcare system has been devastated, and workers are overwhelmed. Only about a third of Gaza’s 36 hospitals and 40% of its primary healthcare facilities are functioning, according to the UN.
Speaking in Tel Aviv last week after a series of meetings with Israeli officials, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken ...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm... said Washington was working with Jerusalem in order to coordinate a vaccination plan which he said would roll out in the coming weeks.
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Why is Israel doing this? I mean, they are supposed to be committing genocide on the innocent Palestinians. I would think that if they were really committing genocide, they would be doing what they can to encourage the polio virus, along with other diseases, like cholera and COVID19.
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^ The Juices are clever and insidious
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^ Tricksy as hobbits, they are! They are only pretending to act civilized to make the Paleos look like murderous savages.
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"His murderous energy spent
After making a genocide dent
In our Land of Gazoo,
The insatiable Joo
Has still killed, of us Gazans--"
"Two millions, all cousins?"
"Two..."
[Hebrew chews pinky]
"Percent!"
[IsraelTimes] US-Israeli team working intensively for 10 months on locating Hamas leader in Gaza, report says, though one source claims Jerusalem is benefiting more from the relationship than DC
There’s always that one guy. Don’t be that guy.
Israel and the US have been cooperating for more than 10 months in the hunt for elusive Hamas ..always the voice of sweet reason... leader Yahya Sinwar, The New York Times
...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported on Sunday, detailing the intensive effort to find the architect of the October 7 invasion and slaughter in southern Israel.
Citing two dozen unnamed officials from Israel and the US, the report said the two countries — both of which classify Hamas as a terrorist organization — have jointly poured vast resources into the hunt for Sinwar, including "ground penetrating radar" supplied by the US.
However,
ars longa, vita brevis... despite the intense cooperation, which one Israeli official described to the newspaper as "priceless," another source familiar with the arrangement said it was "very lopsided," with Israel gaining far more from the US than it was sharing in return.
According to this source, the Americans have shared information leading to Hamas leaders other than Sinwar, hoping to receive reciprocated Israeli intelligence that would lead them to the remaining American hostages in Hamas captivity, but Israel has not been as forthcoming.
Be trustworthy, my dear, and you are more likely to be trusted. You can start by discontinuing all support to the anti-Bibi movement, and stop trying to protect Hamas and Hezbollah from the consequences of their actions. Well, not you, exactly, but the Harris/Biden administration altogether.
Describing the joint effort, the report says a joint Israeli-American intelligence force was set up and tasked with monitoring Sinwar’s communications, which were conducted electronically at the beginning of the war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... but have since been shifted to couriers, due to the scarcity of fuel to power generators and to evade interception.
While Sinwar was still communicating with his organization electronically, the team was able to monitor Sinwar’s calls with other Hamas officials.
During this period, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant pushed his government to okay shipments of fuel into Gaza to power cell networks needed to keep Sinwar communicating electronically, so Israel could continue eavesdropping on the Hamas leader, the New York Times reported.
Though they could not pinpoint the Hamas chief’s location, the intercepted communications allowed the teams to piece together a picture of his life in Hamas’s tunnels, including discovering that Sinwar regularly monitors Hebrew media and watches the 8 p.m. Israeli news, according to the newspaper.
Gallant initially ordered fuel supplies to Gaza cut along with other goods on October 7, arguing they would be used to bolster Hamas and would power generators to keep oxygen flowing into the group’s vast tunnel system.
In November, following heavy international pressure, the war cabinet voted to begin allowing in fuel shipments, over the objections of right-wing members of the government who have pushed to cut any aid into Gaza until all hostages are released.
Despite the shipments of fuel, Sinwar long ago stopped communicating electronically, making it much more difficult for officials and ceasefire negotiators to track him, the report noted.
The US and Israel believe Sinwar spent the first weeks of the war hiding in a tunnel under Gaza City, where the report said IDF troops found footage of Sinwar moving his family to another locale.
From Gaza City, Sinwar was believed to have moved to tunnels under Khan Younis, where he came close to being captured at the end of January but fled just before the army raided his bunker.
According to the NYT, this escape was hasty, with Sinwar leaving behind roughly a million dollars in shekels in the tunnel.
As part of its war with Hamas in Gaza, the IDF has eliminated many members of the terrorist organization’s leadership over the last 10 months. Included on the list of targets were the organization’s top three leaders, Sinwar, former political leader Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... , and Mohammad Deif.
Deif was killed in an Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in Gaza in July. Haniyeh was killed in a kaboom in Tehran at the end of the month, but Israel has not officially confirmed any involvement in the liquidation. Now, Sinwar, who replaced Haniyeh as Hamas’s political leader, is the most big shot on the list who has yet to be captured or killed.
Some sources in the NYT report believe eliminating Sinwar is the achievement Israel needs to declare that Hamas has been fully defeated, and will make Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu more amenable to ending the military campaign in Gaza.
It is unclear, however, how Sinwar’s death would affect negotiations for a hostage-for-ceasefire deal, as the report says the Hamas leader has had to okay every development in the talks in Doha and Cairo.
Given that Hamas is playing everyone for suckers while they wait for Allah, Iran, or America to step in and force Israel to surrender, the permanent absence of Mr. Sinwar from the proceedings will have very little effect. In fact, like Japan after Nagasaki and Hiroshima, his descent into Hell will likely concentrate his successors’ minds immensely.
The war in Gaza broke out on October 7 following an unprecedented surprise attack by Hamas in which hard boyz rampaged through southern Israel murdering some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking 251 hostages. The attack was widely believed to have been engineered by Sinwar, who was released from Israeli prison as part of a 2011 prisoner exchange for IDF soldier Gilad Shalit.
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not sure how good the ground penetrating radar is
I presume the USA has pretty good stuff and that it is very effective in locating un exploded ordinance. Finding tunnels more than 100' underground would be quite a bit more trouble.
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Probe by penetrator MOABS
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#8
not sure how good the ground penetrating radar is
I wonder if an oil exploration crew would have any luck using seismic methods...they can map out underground salt domes and such. Probably not used to working under mortar and small arms fire, though. However, continuous mortar fire might eliminate the need for a thumper truck.
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