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Police cars damages will far outrun the cost of a
Armormax’s vehicle electric shock system converts the vehicle's 12-volt battery power into a 120-volt current. Flipping a switch ensures that anyone messing around gets a serious jolt.
Or the South African vehicle car flamethrower as a means of guarding drivers against various threats. The Flamethrower blasts 6ft jets of burning gasoline to deter carjackers.
[gCaptain via Insty] gCaptain has received multiple reports that the US Navy oiler USNS Big Horn ran aground yesterday and partially flooded off the coast of Oman, leaving the Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group without its primary fuel source.
First reported on the gCaptain forum and by maritime historian Sal Mercogliano, a leaked video and photos show damage to the ship’s rudder post and water flooding into a mechanical space. US Navy vessels don’t typically transmit AIS signals, so we don’t know the exact location of the ship but a Navy source confirms she is anchored near Oman awaiting a full damage assessment.
Fortunately, no injuries or environmental damage have been reported for the ship. This is significant because the 33-year-old vessel is one of the single-hull versions of the Kaiser-class oilers.
Kaiser-class oilers, named after Henry J. Kaiser, were introduced in the 1980s and have long been the backbone of the Navy’s underway replenishment (UNREP) capabilities. These vessels refuel carrier strike groups and other naval assets at sea—a crucial task ensuring the Navy’s global reach and operational readiness. However, as single-hull tankers, they’ve been considered environmentally vulnerable since, following the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the 1990 Oil Pollution Act (OPA 90) mandated double-hull designs for commercial oil tankers.
The John Lewis-class, a modern replacement for the aging Kaiser-class, features double-hull construction, improved safety, and enhanced fuel capacity. Named after the late civil rights leader, these ships are designed to meet the Navy’s future logistical needs, reflecting a broader push to modernize the fleet and enhance operational resilience.
Compounding the problem is the fact that the Big Horn is the only oiler the Navy has in the Middle East. One shipowner told gCaptain that the Navy is scrambling to find a commercial oil tanker to take its place and deliver jet fuel to the USS Abraham Lincoln.
If the Navy resorts to using a commercial oil tanker as a temporary replacement, it would need to install a Consolidated Cargo Handling and Fueling (CONSOL) system for underway replenishment operations. This system includes specialized refueling rigs, tensioned fueling hoses, and high-capacity fuel pumps—all essential for safely transferring fuel to warships at sea. The tanker would also require robust communication and control systems to ensure precise coordination during refueling maneuvers.
This retrofitting process is no small feat. It requires significant modifications to the commercial vessel, enabling it to withstand the unique stresses and operational demands of pumping fuel while sailing at full speed. Moreover, a U.S. Merchant Marine crew trained in CONSOL UNREP procedures—a complex and high-risk operation—would need to be flown to the Middle East to supervise the operation. This adds another layer of complexity to an already challenging situation.
Commercial tankers are significantly slower than Navy oilers, which could leave the USS Abraham Lincoln more vulnerable to attack during aviation fuel loading operations.
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USNS ships typically have a civilian Captain,
Wiki cite:"United States Naval Ships are unarmed auxiliary support vessels owned by the U.S. Navy and operated in non-commissioned service by Military Sealift Command with a civilian crew. Some ships include a small military complement to carry out communication and special mission functions, or for force protection.[2]"
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General Dynamics/NAASCO San Diego just launched another and has a contract for 8 more IIRC
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I’m not a boat driver but wouldn’t you normally incur damage near the bow of the ship if you run aground moving forward. The rudder damage suggests the ship was moving backwards. Presume that being a target of opportunity by an underwater drone already officially ruled out.
[SUDANTRIBUNE] The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... has detained more than 40 military personnel and civilians in areas it controls in Khartoum, an official within the RSF's newly formed Civilian Protection Force said on Saturday.
Brigadier General Abdel Karim al-Qouni, the force's commander, told Sudan Tribune that military detainees were being tried in military prisons while civilians were referred to cop shoppes for investigation.
He said 42 people had been arrested for various crimes in the al-Sahafa suburb, south of the capital.
The RSF, led by Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti, announced the formation of the Civilian Protection Force in mid-August amid rising reports of abuses in areas under its control.
The force has also been deployed in the states of Gezira and Darfur, al-Qouni said.
However,
alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... the RSF denies its personnel are involved in any crimes, blaming ''outlaws'' and groups backed by the military intelligence of the Sudanese army.
The conflict in Sudan erupted in April between the army and the RSF, killing thousands and displacing millions.
Despite Hemetti's orders to protect civilians and facilitate humanitarian aid, reports of RSF abuses persist.
On Saturday, residents in south Khartoum reported RSF elements firing randomly and looting in the al-Inqaz neighbourhood.
Al-Qouni acknowledged the challenges faced by the force but said it was committed to providing a safe environment for civilians.
He said the force is ''military and civilian in nature'' and has ''all powers of arrest, detention and apprehension. ''
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[SUDANTRIBUNE] Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... 's ousted President Omer al-Bashir and three former bigwigs were transferred from military detention to a hospital in Merowe, Northern State, last Thursday due to their declining health, Bashir's lawyer told Sudan Tribune.
Al-Bashir, former Defence Minister Abdelrahim Mohammed Hussein and former Youth and Sports Minister Youssef Abdel Fattah, were moved from the Wadi Seidna military area in Omdurman, lawyer Mohammed Hassan al-Amin said. Former Vice President Bakri Hassan Saleh had been transferred to the same hospital three weeks prior.
The transfer followed a request by the defence team and a military group called ''Comrades-in-Arms'' after a medical report indicated the necessary treatment was unavailable at the Wadi Seidna military hospital.
Al-Amin stated that Bashir is suffering from multiple health complications related to old age, requiring treatment abroad, along with Abdel Fattah and Hussein. Saleh had a pacemaker implanted, and all require regular medical follow-up.
Al-Amin called for their release under personal guarantees, noting they were tossed into the calaboose for nearly five and a half years despite a Chief Justice's decision to release them due to military intelligence.
Bashir and other former regime leaders were moved to Kober prison in Khartoum North following his removal from power in April 2019. They escaped along with thousands of prisoners after the outbreak of war between the army and the Rapid Support Forces in April 2023.
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[SUDANTRIBUNE] At least 15 civilians, including women and kiddies, were killed and 61 others maimed on Monday when shells fired by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) struck a bustling market north of Omdurman, according to health officials.
The RSF attack marked the latest escalation in Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... 's brutal conflict, which has ravaged the capital region for months.
The paramilitary group has repeatedly targeted the Sabreen market area in recent days, drawing condemnation from residents and humanitarian groups. Monday's shelling, which hit the market and surrounding neighbourhoods, left bodies strewn amid the wreckage of stalls and shops.
''The RSF shelled the Sabreen market in Karari, which was crowded with citizens,'' said Mohammed Ibrahim, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Health in Khartoum state. He added that the corpse count was likely to rise as many of the maimed were at death's door.
The attack prompted regular Sudanese forces to close the market, which had remained a rare hub of commercial activity despite the ongoing conflict. Witnesses described scenes of panic as people fled the shelling, some carrying the maimed in their arms.
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[Regnum] A "ghost ship" with dozens of bodies was found off the coast of Senegal. This was stated in a statement by the country's Defense Ministry, published on September 23 by the Senego portal.
The previous evening, local fishermen spotted the boat drifting at sea about 70 kilometers from Dakar and reported it to the authorities. There were no living people on board.
“At the moment, the number of bodies is 30,” the military clarified.
Rescuers and medics were sent to the scene. It is noted that the bodies are badly decomposed, so it will be difficult to establish the identities of the deceased. The causes of death are being investigated.
Presumably, it was this ship that left the city of Mbour, located 90 kilometers south of Dakar, on August 13. On board were about 100 illegal migrants who hoped to get to Europe via the Canary Islands, notes the portal Afrik.com.
The publication recalled that two weeks ago another ship carrying migrants ran aground in the Mbour area, killing at least 39 people.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, in June a sailboat with migrants sank off the southern coast of Italy. A total of 34 people died, including eight children. There were 66 people on board, 26 of whom were children. Eleven migrants managed to escape, but they spent several days in the open sea without help.
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[Regnum] Law enforcement officers detained 15 people on suspicion of participating in an extremist community, Svetlana Petrenko, official representative of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, reported on September 23.
"As a result of joint activities of the Investigative Committee, the FSB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia and the Russian National Guard, the activities of members of a criminal group operating in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic were stopped. Fifteen people were detained on suspicion of committing the crime," Petrenko reported in a video message published on the agency's Telegram channel.
It is noted that a criminal case has been opened against Rezuan Kangezov, a suspect in the creation of an extremist community, under Part 1 of Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (creation of an extremist community). The other suspects are accused of participating in it (Part 2 of Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
According to the Investigative Committee, in 2023, Rezuan Kangezov organized an extremist cell in the Baksan Municipal District of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic to use violent methods of persuasion against an unlimited number of people, and to prepare and commit crimes against them based on religious hatred and enmity.
“On the instructions of the leader of the extremist community, its members subjected individuals whose behavior did not correspond to the radical extremist ideology of the members of the extremist community to physical violence and psychological pressure,” the Investigative Committee said in a statement.
Searches were conducted at the suspects’ residences, during which prohibited religious literature was confiscated, the department clarified.
Russia’s Federal Security Service ... the successor to the KGB... (FSB) said Monday that its agents arrested 15 people in the North Caucasus republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, accusing them of spreading "radical ideology" via WhatsApp.
Law enforcement officials said the individuals were "involved in the public dissemination of a radical ideology based on the rejection of traditional Islamic norms and Russian laws" and were implicated in acts of violence driven by religious hatred.
All 15 suspects, identified as Russian citizens, were arrested in the village of Islamey in Kabardino-Balkaria’s Baksan district. They face charges of "creating an turban community" and "participation in an turban community," both of which carry prison sentences of up to 10 years.
FSB video published by state media showed heavily armed security agents entering a house during the night and arresting several individuals. Investigators were seen examining weapons, including pistols, knives and a shotgun, they allegedly found inside the home.
[IsraelTimes] According to the IDF, a contractor at the Lachish training base near Beit Guvrin attempted to carry out a stabbing attack against soldiers.
A noncommissioned officer shot the assailant, the military adds.
[IsraelTimes] Channel 12 reports that the IDF recently brought several bodies out of 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... recently and checked them to see if their DNA matched that of Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... leader Yahya Sinwar.
The tests all came back negative.
The report comes amid unsubstantiated speculation that Sinwar may have been killed in recent weeks. This speculation is solely based on the Hamas leader being incommunicado for a relatively long time — something that has happened at other periods throughout the war.
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while in Israel custody in 2004, he underwent surgery by Israeli doctors (it saved his life). Undoubtedly they got the DNA then if they didn't have it before.
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[NYPOST] The Hezbollah commander overseeing the terrorists' missile unit is the latest top official slain by an Israeli airstrike as the Jewish state continues to decimate the Iran-backed terror group's leadership.
Ibrahim Kobeisi, who is accused of coordinating the missile strikes targeting northern Israel, was identified among the six people killed following an airstrike in Beirut's southern suburbs on Tuesday, IDF and Lebanese officials said.
The IDF said there were other ''key commanders'' at the apartment complex where Kobeisi was hit, with Lebanon's ministry of health confirming that at least 15 others were injured in the blast.
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Fadi Boudia, one of Hezbollah famous mouthpieces apparently hit while going live on air, No update on his situation, he was going to tell us about ongoing victories pic.twitter.com/9rEIOPfevi
[IsraelTimes] Hamas’s armed wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, says that its field commander in southern Lebanon, Mahmoud al Nader, was killed in an Israeli strike in Lebanon on Monday.
[GEO.TV] Lebanon said that 492 people, including 35 children, have been killed in Israeli strikes on the country s east and south on Monday — the deadliest day in nearly a year of cross-border clashes.
"The airstrikes have resulted in the martyrdom of 492 people, including 35 children and 58 women, and the injury of 1,645 others," Lebanon's Ministry of Public Health said in a statement.
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Leading the American effort against a ground invasion are USAF Pentagon planners hoping to add that sweet, sweet, PowerPoint slide to their Congressional Budget Request presentation that says,
[IsraelTimes] IDF says it targeted many homes where Hezbollah keeps missiles in deadliest barrages since 2006 war, urges civilians to get away; Hezbollah fires 200 rockets deep into Israel
Widespread Israeli airstrikes targeting Hezbollah in southern Lebanon killed at least 492 people Monday and injured over 1,645 more, Beirut said, as Israel cautioned that strikes against the group would expand and Lebanese civilians were warned to flee areas where the Iran-backed terror group was thought to be hiding weapons.
The IDF said the air force was targeting homes where “rockets, drones and missiles” were emplaced by Hezbollah, and repeatedly urged civilians in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley to flee from homes where such weapons were stored. It said many of the dead were Hezbollah members.
Israelis also took shelter as Hezbollah bombarded Israel with over 200 rockets on Monday alone, setting off sirens in northern Israel, near the bay metropolis of Haifa and as far south as some West Bank settlements near Tel Aviv, causing some damage but no major casualties. The barrages, which marked some of the heaviest since fighting broke out on October 8 last year, served to up the ante after the terror group bombarded northern communities with at least 150 rockets a day earlier.
In Lebanon, videos shared on social media appeared to show masses fleeing major cities, and authorities began opening schools to shelter thousands of newly displaced.
The Israel Defense Forces said it struck some 1,600 targets across Lebanon on Monday, including many homes it said housed weapons directly threatening the country, in the deadliest barrages of airstrikes since the 2006 war against Hezbollah, ratcheting up fears of a fresh outbreak of all-out conflict on the restive border.
Speaking from an underground command room at military headquarters in Tel Aviv, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel was changing the balance of power with Hezbollah, signaling Israel would no longer play defense after months of cross-border violence.
Tens of thousands of Israelis have been displaced from their homes in northern Israel since last October by relentless Hezbollah rocket fire, and Israel’s cabinet last week designated the secure return of those residents to their homes as an official aim of the current conflict.
At least 492 people were killed in the strikes and another 1,645 were wounded, Lebanon’s health ministry said, marking the deadliest day in Lebanon since Hezbollah began firing at Israel last year, drawing Israeli counterstrikes.
The dead and wounded included women and children, the ministry said. There was no immediate comment from Hezbollah on casualties within the terror group, which has suffered heavy losses in recent days.
On social media, videos showed long lines of traffic as civilians tried to reach safety, and streams of vehicles flowing out of small mountainside towns. In one video, cars could be seen queued up on a highway lined with Hezbollah and Lebanese flags as black smoke from recent airstrikes billowed in the background. In the seaside city of Sidon, all eight lanes of Rafic Hariri Boulevard were filled with cars pointed north as they sat in bumper-to-bumper traffic. In Nabatieh, a video showed a number of people in cars trying to leave town being blocked as a massive explosion erupted in front of them.
In a press conference, IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari noted that some videos of strikes depicted secondary explosions, pointing to these as evidence of Hezbollah weapons stores.
“The sights that are now seen in southern Lebanon are Hezbollah’s weapons exploding inside houses. Every home we struck, there are rockets, drones, missiles, which were intended to kill Israeli civilians,” Hagari said, urging civilians in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley to flee from homes where Hezbollah has been storing weapons.
Col. Avichay Adraee, the IDF’s Arabic-language spokesman, had given civilians two hours to leave Beqaa.
Netanyahu, who met with Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi and Air Force commander Tomer Bar, said Israel’s strikes were aimed at eliminating senior Hezbollah officials, terrorists, and missile caches.
Lebanon’s Information Minister Ziad Makary told his countrymen to ignore the warnings, noting that his office in Beirut had received a recorded message telling people to leave the building.
“This comes in the framework of the psychological war implemented by the enemy,” Makary said, urging people “not to give the matter more attention than it deserves.”
Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency also reported airstrikes on different areas, including some far from the border.
The agency said strikes hit a forested area in the central province of Byblos, about 130 kilometers (81 miles) north of the Israeli-Lebanese border, for the first time since Hezbollah began firing at Israel in October. No injuries were reported there. Israel also bombed targets in the northeastern Baalbek and Hermel regions, where a shepherd was killed and two family members were wounded, according to the news agency. It said a total of 30 people were wounded in strikes.
In Israel, sirens sounded in dozens of communities, as Hezbollah targeted the strategic industrial center of Haifa and towns across the north for a second day in a row with over 100 rockets in quick succession, according to the IDF. Sirens also sounded in West Bank settlements northeast of Tel Aviv during a volley of at least 10 rockets, the army said, seemingly marking a rare use of long-range rockets by Hezbollah.
There were no immediate reports of injuries, but some rockets were reported to have caused damage.
Some 80,000 Lebanese were thought to have already fled southern Lebanon over the last 12 months, which have seen near-daily cross-border Hezbollah rocket attacks and Israeli airstrikes. Another 60,000 people in northern Israel have been forced to evacuate their homes.
Israel has long accused Hezbollah of transforming entire communities in southern Lebanon into terror bases, with hidden rocket launchers and other infrastructure.
Monday morning saw Hagari show previously unreleased footage of Hezbollah operatives preparing to launch a cruise missile from within a civilian home in a southern Lebanon village. The building was targeted in an airstrike. The cruise missile was identified by the IDF as a Russian-made “DR-3,” which appeared to be a variant of the Tupolev Tu-143 drone, also called VR-3. The IDF said the missile was packed with some 300 kilograms of explosives and had a range of up to 200 kilometers.
An Israeli military official said Israel is focused on aerial operations and has no immediate plans for a ground operation. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity in keeping with regulations, said the strikes are aimed at curbing Hezbollah’s ability to launch more strikes into Israel.
It’s going to take a few days to blow up the claimed 200,000 rockets and missiles Hezbollah has stashed, along with the rest of the weapons cached against expanding the “resistance” into Israel.
The terror group has named 506 members who have been killed by Israel during the ongoing skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon but some also in Syria. Another 79 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier, and dozens of civilians have also been killed.
In a press conference, Hagari says the targets were largely weapons stored in homes, including “cruise missiles that can reach hundreds of kilometers, heavy rockets with a 1,000-kilogram warhead, medium-range rockets that reach a range of up to 200 kilometers, short-range rockets, and armed unmanned aerial vehicles.”
Regarding the high death toll reported in Lebanon, Hagari says “These numbers also refer to many terrorists we killed today who were near the weapons.” He says the IDF will provide its own figures at a later time.
“The IDF this morning launched a proactive offensive operation. We are taking [away] military infrastructure that Hezbollah built for 20 years. This is very significant,” Halevi says in a video distributed by the IDF, from an assessment at the military’s underground command room.
“We are striking targets, preparing the next stages… in the end, everything needs to be aimed at creating the conditions to return the [displaced] residents of the north to their homes,” he adds.
Many Shiites in Lebanon have a unique revenue stream: In their home they have a special “Rocket Launcher Room”.
They’re paid monthly rent by Hezbollah to host this launcher and be prepared to shoot rockets at Israel communities on demand.
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Of the 200k rockets that Hezbollah has, probably only 50k are long or medium range. Presumably these are the initial targets along with the launchers.
Not sure how many long range drones in Hezbollah but that's another issue. I'm sure the IDF has projects underway to use e-warfare against these drones but not sure how far along they have gotten.
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It's just not dangerous to store explosives in your home, its also when your neighbor does. I don't think that is covered by Mutual of Lebanon in your home owner's policy.
[LI] An Israeli airstrike on Monday targeted Hezbollah’s third-in-command, Ali Karaki. "Israeli security source confirms to i24NEWS that IDF strike in Beirut targeted Hezbollah’s third-in-command Ali Karaki," the Israeli TV channel reported.
Karaki, who is head of Hezbollah’s southern front, was reportedly promoted to replace Ibrahim Aqil, who, along with the entire command of the Radwan terrorist force, was eliminated last week in an Israeli airstrike.
While the IDF is still assessing the outcome of the strike, some Arab media outlets suggest that Karaki has been killed. "Sky News Arabic reported that Karaki was killed in the airstrike, which consisted of six missiles that struck the building in which he was staying," the Israeli broadcaster Arutz Sheva reported.
"Karaki is the head of Hezbollah’s so-called "Southern Front," responsible for the terror group’s military activity in south Lebanon," The Times of Israel noted. "He is a member of the Jihad Council, Hezbollah’s top military body."
The Israeli news website YNET reported:
An Israeli airstrike in the Dahieh district of Beirut on Monday evening targeted Ali Karaki, the head of Hezbollah’s southern front and the group’s third-highest-ranking official, just three days after the assassination of senior Hezbollah commander Ibrahim Aqil and several high-profile figures in the terrorist group’s elite Radwan Force.
A security source confirmed to Reuters that Karaki was the target of the strike but said his fate remains unknown. Meanwhile, Sky News Arabia reported, citing a Lebanese source, that Karaki was killed.
In a brief statement, the Israeli military said it carried out a targeted strike in Beirut. Ynet security analyst Ron Ben-Yishai noted that Karaki and Talal Hamiyah are the only remaining senior members from Hezbollah’s old military leadership following a series of recent assassinations in Beirut.
Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group says that senior leader Ali Karaki, the head of the southern front, is okay and has been moved to a safe place, after a security source told Reuters he was targeted in an Israeli strike on the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital Beirut.
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...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
