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Respectfully to contributors 1 through 5 -- All this is called life - acting & representations of what we are doing - living - As I see it Louise Brooks - lived a life, very well lived, made ground breaking movies, had a great soul, and all the long - asked us all - "Could you, Would you, join me? - Well the times were different then --but now "I would join you -I saw you then, but I understand you now, unfortunately our times did not come together. You Louise were more lovely than you or I knew."
[Garowe] More than 19 al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... hard boyz have been killed in the latest Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in Somalia, state media reports, noting that the operation was carried out in central regions where the hard boyz have been antagonizing locals within the area.
The airstrikes were activated in Ruunnirgood and Ceeldheer districts in the Galgadud region, where the military has been active for the last two years since the declaration of total war against al-Shabaab hard boys.
The Middle Shabelle region is one of the al-Shabaab strongholds and for the last two years, several Alshabab hard boyz have been killed by security forces. The airstrikes specifically targeted the hard boys, officials said.
"In an aerial operation, a series of airstrikes targeted al-Shabaab holy warriors in the Ruunnirgood and Ceeldheer districts, spanning the Middle Shabelle and Galgaduud regions," state media reports.
"The bombings struck multiple terrorist hideouts, resulting in significant casualties among the holy warriors and the destruction of their vehicles and safe havens," the statement further read, pledging to give further details.
Although the state media did not disclose the military teams involved, more often than not, the Somali National Army conducts such operations against al-Shabaab in the presence of the US Africa Command and 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 in Somalia (ATMIS).
Both the US Africa Command and the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia have been working closely in the elimination of al-Shabaab from strategic areas. So far, several areas have been liberated from the hard boys.
The ATMIS team is set to leave by the end of this year but a new mission dubbed African Union Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM) is set to take over. The mission shall be led by Egypt, Somalia insists.
[Garowe] Security forces in Somalia have intercepted al-Shabaab ... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa... supplies in the northern parts of the country, officials said, in the latest crackdown which was conducted by the Somali National Army (SNA) stationed within the porous region in the country.
According to reports, security forces in the Mudug region intercepted a vehicle destined for al-Shabaab territories with supplies. The snuffies have been sneaking into military-active regions where operations are being undertaken by security forces.
The vehicle, loaded with food and fuel, was stopped on its way to Dumaye and Dabalo, key areas under al-Shabaab control. The driver and multiple suspects were apprehended, officials said, adding that a thorough probe has been activated.
The vehicle and suspects originated from Galkacyo, within the same region, officials added. The al-Shabaab has been fighting to take over the fragile UN-backed federal government of Somalia, but military operations have put them at bay.
Mudug's police command has initiated an investigation, with legal proceedings to follow for the detained individuals. The al-Shabaab collects taxes from business people and innocent civilians to run their operations across the country.
According to reports, the group collects up to $130 million annually with $24 million used for the purchase of weapons. The remaining amount is used to pay fighters and plan logistics for the hard boys, who control large swathes of rural central and southern regions.
[SHABELLEMEDIA] Reports confirm that mortars landed in the Hamarweyne, Wabari, and Yaqshid districts, leading to significant losses and destruction, according to the local villagers.
The sound of artillery reverberated through the capital, instilling fear among residents. However,
those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... according to a statement from the Somali Police, the earth-shattering kabooms were the result of "plastic bags prepared by al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... ," intended to create terror among the populace rather than cause direct harm.
The full extent of the casualties and damage is still under assessment, but local sources have indicated that emergency services are actively responding to the affected areas.
The attack underscores the ongoing security challenges in Somalia, where al-Shabaab continues to pose a significant threat through such tactics aimed at destabilizing the region.
[SAHARAREPORTERS] Gunmen suspected to be bandidos have killed six people and kidnapped several others, including nurses and patients, from a hospital during a late-night raid on Kallah Afogo Community, Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State.
It was gathered the incident occurred around 11:15pm on Sunday, when the assailants stormed the village, breaking into homes and taking residents captive.
Among those killed were Garkuwa Alfarma, Buhari Maidiga, Uba Auta, Yakubu Gaku, and Atabata Naallah.
One resident, who bravely pursued the attackers into the bush, was killed, with his body reportedly mutilated.
Following the Kallah attack, the bandidos targeted Bakin Pah in Maro Ward, within the same council, where they killed one more person and kidnapped six others.
Maigari Ben, a local community leader, called on security agencies to urgently increase their presence and efforts to safeguard the area and secure the release of the kidnapped victims.
However,
we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... the Kaduna State Police Command had yet to issue an official statement regarding the attack.
Meanwhile,
...back at the railroad tracks, Little Nell tried to kick her bound feet and scream post the snotty handkerchief Scarface Al had stuff into her mouth... in Kuyello, Birnin-Gwari Local Government Area, two nurses and several patients were kidnapped from a Primary Health Care Centre.
Musa Alhassan, a local vigilante, reported that the bandidos had initially targeted the nearby Government Day Secondary School around 9 a.m. on Sunday.
"When the bandidos discovered the school was empty, they shifted their focus to the healthcare centre, which was close by. They arrived at the school asking for the students, but after realising it was deserted, they stormed the healthcare centre and began kidnapping people."
The bandidos, originally seeking to abduct students, ended up taking two female nurses and an unknown number of patients, plunging the community into panic.
"They came armed with guns and machetes, dragging people out of the hospital, and we were powerless to stop them," Alhassan added.
[AFRICANEWS] A boat carrying migrants colonists capsized off the coast of Senegal ... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees... over the weekend, leaving at least four people dead and several others missing, local authorities said on Monday.
The artisanal fishing boat left the town of Mbour, nearly 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of the capital, Dakar heading to Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... on Sunday afternoon before capsizing a few miles off the coast, Amadou Diop, the district's prefect told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
Local fishermen rescued three people who were brought back to shore by naval authorities.
Senegal’s navy is looking for those missing, Diop said, adding that the exact number of passengers remained unknown.
In recent years, the number of migrants colonists leaving West Africa through Senegal has surged with many fleeing conflict, poverty and the lack of job opportunities. Most head to the Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago off the coast of West Africa, which is used as a stepping stone to continental Europe.
Since the beginning of the year, more than 22,300 people have landed on the Canary Islands, 126% more than the same period last year, according to statistics released by Spain’s Interior Ministry.
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[NEWAGEBD.NET] Members of Rapid Action Battaliom on Wednesday night arrested former Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner Asaduzzamàn Mia at Mahakhali in the capital.
RAB director for legal and media Munim Ferdous said that they arrested him at about 11:00pm.
'We will hand over him to DB (Dhaka Metropolitan Police's detective branch),' Munim added.
He is wanted in a case of custodial death.
According to the case statement, Nuruzzaman Roni was killed on January 20 in 2015 in police custody and his father filed a case with the Khilgaon cop shoppe on September 2.
The case also named 61 other people, mostly police and Awami League and its associate bodies leaders and activists.
Besides, 15-20 unnamed people were also accused in the case.
Hasina’s adviser Tawfiq-e-Elahi arrested
[NEWAGEBD] Ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s energy adviser Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury was arrested in the capital’s Gulshan area on Tuesday night.
Confirming the matter to New Age, Dhaka Metropolitan Police additional deputy commissioner for media and public relations Obaidur Rahman Shamim said that the DMP’s detective branch arrested him from the Gulshan area at about 9:45pm.
‘Several cases were filed against him. We are yet to sure that he was arrested in which case,’ Shamim added.
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[Rudaw] Two suspected members of the 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) were arrested during operations in Baghdad and Nineveh provinces, Iraqi national security forces announced on Tuesday.
The Iraqi forces said in a statement they captured Abu Anas al-Iraqi in Baghdad, and he was involved with the group’s Salahaddin cell.
"After the liberation operations concluded, the terrorist once again went to the capital of Baghdad, where he forged official documents impersonating his deceased brother," the statement added.
"He also forged a fake death certificate in his real name, but our men were watching, and he was apprehended," the Iraqi forces added.
In a separate operation in the Makhmour district of Nineveh, the security forces said they arrested Allawi Shat for working for ISIS in an administrative position in Baghdad.
[Regnum] The logistics center of the US Embassy in the capital of Iraq was attacked. This was reported on September 11 by the Iraqi information portal Shafaq News.
"A security source reported a strike on the US Embassy's logistics center located at Baghdad International Airport," the authors noted.
It is still unclear what was used in the attack: rockets or mortars.
Another strike was carried out on the headquarters of the Counter-Terrorism Agency, located near the airport.
The article did not provide information about the victims.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on the night of February 3, the United States struck 85 targets of pro-Iranian groups in Iraq and Syria. The operation followed an attack on an American base in Jordan, which killed three US servicemen.
US strikes in western Iraq's Anbar province have killed 16 people. Despite US claims that the strikes were coordinated with Iraq's leadership, Iraqi government spokesman Bassem al-Awadi said such reports were false. The Iraqi government called the strikes an act of blatant aggression, and the Syrian authorities also condemned them. The Iraqi parliament called on the government to speed up the withdrawal of Western military contingents from the country.
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[IsraelTimes] IDF strikes Hamas command center in Nuseirat school-turned-shelter, announces earlier killings of Hamas operatives who participated in Oct. 7, guarded hostage Noa Marciano
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Wednesday revealed a document he said was written by the former commander of Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... ’s Khan Younis Brigade in southern 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... , Rafa’a Salameh, and addressed to Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and his brother Muhammad, in which the commander described the "difficult situation" in which the terror group had found itself.
Salameh, a criminal mastermind of the terror group’s October 7 massacre, was killed in an Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in southern Gaza in July that also killed senior Hamas commander Muhammad Deif.
In the letter, he wrote: "Please consider the following: We maintain the remaining weapons and equipment, as we have lost 90-95 percent of our rocket capabilities; and we have lost some 60% of our personal weapons; we have lost at least 65-70% of our anti-tank launchers and rockets," according to excerpts provided and translated by the Defense Ministry.
"Most importantly," he continued, "we have lost at least 50% of our fighters between those who are martyred and maimed, and now we are left with 25%. The last 25% of our people have reached a situation where the people do not tolerate them anymore, broken on a mental or physical level."
Gallant said the document showed "a real hardship that affects Hamas and affects the most senior commanders."
Salameh "cries out for the help of the Sinwar brothers, but of course they cannot save him," Gallant said.
"Why? Because we are continuing the effort that started in October and continues step by step... and reaches all senior Hamas officials. He wrote this to the Sinwar brothers, we will get to them as well," the defense minister continued.
Yahya Sinwar is the leader of Hamas in Gaza, and is considered a criminal mastermind of the group’s October 7, 2023 attack, when thousands of gunnies invaded southern Israel from the Gaza Strip, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages, starting the ongoing war.
Sinwar was last month appointed as the head of the terror group following the July 31 liquidation of previous 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... . His brother Muhammad is a senior commander in Hamas’s military wing.
Gallant’s presentation of the document came on the same day as two Israeli soldiers were killed and several others maimed in a helicopter crash attempting to extract a third, seriously maimed soldier from the battlefield. The crash was not a result of enemy fire.
Gallant also published a video on social media Wednesday from the same facility, showing a photo of Muhammad Sinwar’s children posing in front of a depiction of the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center in the United States. The photo was discovered recently in a tunnel underneath Khan Younis, Gallant said in the video, which was posted on the 23rd anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
Meanwhile,
...back at the barn, Bossy had come up with a new idea, one that didn't involve kerosene... an Israeli airstrike Wednesday in central Gaza struck a group of Hamas operatives at a command room embedded within a former school. According to the military, Hamas was using the al-Jaouni School in Nuseirat to plan and carry out attacks against troops and Israel. The school has been serving as a shelter for displaced Gazooks.
Hospital officials reported 14 people killed, including two children, in the strike.
The IDF said it carried out "many steps," including using precision munitions, aerial surveillance and other intelligence, to limit civilian casualties in the strike.
"The Hamas terror organization systematically violates international law, brutally exploiting civilian institutions and the population as a human shield for terror activity," the military said.
In recent months, dozens of airstrikes have been carried out against Hamas sites embedded within schools and other sites used as shelters for civilians, according to the IDF.
The IDF also announced on Wednesday that recent airstrikes in Gaza had killed two Hamas gunnies who participated in the October 7 onslaught, one of whom was involved in guarding Cpl. Noa Marciano, an kidnapped soldier who was killed by Hamas at Shifa Hospital and whose body was recovered in November.
A separate dronezap recently killed Ayman Khaled Ahmed Abu al-Yahni, who the IDF said was a member of Hamas’s elite Nukhba force and was involved in attacking the Erez Crossing during the October 7 onslaught, the military announced.
[IsraelTimes] The UN Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA says six staffers were killed in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip on Wednesday, marking what it says is the highest death toll among its staff in a single incident.
There is no immediate comment to UNRWA’s statement from the Israel Defense Forces, which earlier said it struck Hamas operatives at a command room embedded within a UN school in Nuseirat that is being used as a shelter.
[GEO.TV] Israel's military offensive in the Gaza Strip has killed at least 41,084 Palestinians and wounded 95,029 since October 7, the Palestinian enclave's health ministry said on Wednesday.
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When any Government agency becomes the propaganda mouthpiece of any Political subversive group or Terrorist Group. Its credibility in reporting facts is lost.
Eg. The Palestine Health Ministry, or even the US DOJ under LSD control.
[The Times of Israel] Member of Kibbutz Dan security team suffers serious injuries in attack; Israeli drone strike kills Hezbollah member, wounds another; Air Force hits Hezbollah launch sites
An Israeli reservist soldier was maimed in a Hezbollah anti-tank guided missile attack from 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... on Wednesday, the Israel Defense Forces said.
It came as a barrage of dozens of around 100 rockets from Lebanon pounded areas in the north of the country.
The 39-year-old reservist, a member of Kibbutz Dan's local security team, was taken to Rambam Hospital in Haifa after being hit by a missile in the community.
The medical center said he was conscious and suffering shrapnel injuries. He was taken for surgery and was listed at death's door.
Meanwhile,
...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth ordered the entire 614th quadrant searched. The Green Lensman must be found!... more than 60 rockets were launched from Lebanon at northern Israel in the space of around an hour. Then in early evening, another 40 were fired.
A barrage of some 30 rockets was fired from Lebanon at the Western Galilee, impacting open areas near the community of Abirim, the IDF said. Then, another barrage of 30 rockets was fired from Lebanon at the Galilee Panhandle area, impacting open areas near Kfar Szold.
Residents of the upper and western Galilee were ordered to remain close to bomb shelters during the afternoon. There were no injuries in the rocket attacks, which apparently hit open areas.
In the second wave, the IDF said some 30 rockets were launched at the Arab al-Aramshe area, and another 10 were fired at Matat. Many of the rockets struck open areas, although some impacted Matat. There were no injuries in the attacks.
The IDF said it responded with artillery fire at a Hezbollah observation post and other targets in southern Lebanon.
The rockets and missile attack came hours after the IDF confirmed carrying out a dronezap in southern Lebanon's Mays al-Jabal, targeting two Hezbollah operatives.
One was killed and the second was maimed in the strike.
Separately, fighter jets struck a Hezbollah rocket launcher in Marimin, which had been used in previous attacks on Israel, the military said.
Another primed rocket launcher was struck in Rashaya al-Foukhar, the IDF added.
Lebanese media also reported two drone strikes in the area of Maroun al-Ras in southern Lebanon. There was no immediate comment from the IDF.
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[Rudaw] At least two suspected 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) Lions of Islam were captured in an operation carried out by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northeast Syria’s Hasaka province, the Kurdish-led force said in a statement on Monday.
An SDF counter-terrorism operation in Hasaka’s al-Arisha and Abyad villages captured Mohammed Mohammed and Hussein Musa, two ISIS Lions of Islam who "posed a significant threat, particularly through cycle of violence bombings in Hasaka," the SDF said.
The operation was carried out in cooperation with the US-led coalition against ISIS, the statement added.
"Our SDF forces reaffirm their commitment to maintaining security in the North and East Syria region. We will continue our security operations against ISIS and any other groups that threaten our region’s stability," the force said.
[An Nahar] 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... ’s Jamaa Islamiya said Monday that its military wing fired a volley of rockets at Israel’s Beit Hillel military post in the Kiryat Shmona settlement, resuming military action from Lebanon against Israel after several months of apparent suspension.
The group said its attack came after Israel escalated "its aggression against our people and villages in the South and in support of our people 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... and Paleostine as part of the national and humanitarian duties."
Several groups allied to Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... have exchanged near-daily fire with Israeli forces along Lebanon's southern border since war erupted in the Gaza Strip following Hamas's October 7 attacks on southern Israel.
The groups say they are acting in solidarity with Hamas and Paleostinians in the Gaza Strip.
Jamaa Islamiya has carried out "joint operations with Hamas" in Lebanon, according to an official from the small Sunni Moslem movement.
"All forces that operate in south Lebanon coordinate their actions," Ali Abu Yassin, head of Jamaa Islamiya's political bureau, told AFP in March.
The group announced the death of seven of its medics in an Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in south Lebanon that month and Israel has carried out drone liquidations of several of its commanders.
Mohanad Hage Ali, from the Carnegie Middle East Center, said Jamaa Islamiya was "operating as an extension of Hamas in Lebanon," describing the two movements' relationship as "organic."
Hage Ali says Jamaa Islamiya has "around 500 gunnies" but has played only a "marginal political role" in Lebanon with just one politician in the national parliament.
Jamaa Islamiya and Hamas both come from the same ideological school as the Moslem Brüderbund, a Sunni Islamist group with origins in Egypt.
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.
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... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa...
... the personification of Somali state failure...
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
...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 
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
...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...
...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 
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
