[NYPOST] A small plane made an emergency landing on a southern California highway — and the instructor pilot and his student passenger were arrested for smuggling drugs, according to police.
The pilot, 21-year-old Gabriel Leon Breit, called authorities around 1:45 a.m. on Thursday morning and reported that the Piper Cherokee Pathfinder was experiencing engine trouble and he would be landing on State Route 76 in Oceanside, NBC San Diego reported.
Breit and his passenger, 36-year-old Troy Othneil Smith, were uninjured and landed the craft safely — but when police arrived they saw one of the men hiding a backpack in the brush on the side of the road, Oceanside Police Assistant Chief Taurino Valdovinos said at a news conference.
Breit, a flight instructor, and Smith, his student, were detained.
Police discovered a small amount of cocaine on Smith. Another kilo of cocaine was discovered in the backpack. Both were charged with drug trafficking.
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[NYPOST] A paralegal at a New York City district attorney's office has been arrested after he attempted to make an explosive to bomb a migrant shelter located across from his apartment, according to a criminal complaint filed Thursday.
Police said Derek Klever, a 27-year-old who worked as a trial preparation assistant at the Queens District Attorney's office, had grown frustrated with partying at the Kamway Lodge in Elmhurst, a small hostel that the city has been using to temporarily house migrants colonists arriving from the U.S. southern border with Mexico.
''I know I shouldn't be doing this, but it's for Queens County,'' he said, according to the court filing.
''This is a war. I wish I had a big enough one to blow them back to Venezuela
...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south... .''
Klever confided to an unnamed acquaintance that he had purchased fireworks and was going to combine their contents with nails, gasoline and other materials to create rudimentary explosives.
''I'm not trying to kill but injure,'' he said.
''I need to teach them a lesson.''
Klever claimed he had tested a version of the homemade explosive and was considering using a drone to drop multiple bombs on the unsuspecting residents in the shelter.
Police said Klever's fianc consented to a search of the apartment earlier this week, where they recovered a BB gun in a child's bedroom and various fireworks inside a closet in a larger bedroom.
Subsequent searches turned up other bomb-making materials, including explosive substances from disassembled fireworks that had been wrapped in tin foil, long nail cartridges that were also wrapped in foil, BB pellets and green wire, according to the complaint.
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[NYPOST] One woman suffered a great loss this week after she was busted smuggling more than 700 pounds of illegal bologna across the US-Mexico border in Texas. "Concealed on/in her body"
The 43-year-old woman, who is an American citizen, tried to enter the country at the Presidio port of entry from Mexico Monday afternoon when she only declared a cooked meal during the primary inspection, according to the Customs and Border Protection.
CBP agriculture specialists called her baloney and conducted a secondary inspection of the car, finding several suitcases stuffed with 40 rolls — 748 pounds — of Mexican bologna, a prohibited meat that poses a threat to America's pork industry, officials said.
''The concern with pork products is that they have the potential to introduce foreign animal diseases that can have devastating effects to the US economy and to our agriculture industry,'' CBP Presidio Port Director Benito Reyes, Jr. said in a news release.
Have the drug cartels found a new product to replace avocados?
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[ShabelleMedia] The Somali National Army executed a significant military operation in the Awdheegle district of the Lower Shabelle region today, targeting al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... holy warriors, according to reports from local government officials.
The operation, which involved the 175th Division of the 17th Eagle Brigade and the 146th Division of the 14th October Brigade, was launched in the Jowhar-Awdheegle area, approximately 5 kilometers from Awdheegle.
The area has recently seen increased activity from al-Shabaab, with the group reportedly using the location for meetings and planning attacks against civilians.
A government blurb confirmed the success of the operation, stating that it resulted in the elimination of several al-Shabaab members, including senior officers. The release described the murderous Moslems as Khawarij, a term often used in the region to denote rebels or outlaws, particularly those following turban ideologies.
Compare and contrast the two sources, dear Reader, and decide for yourself whom to believe.
[NY Post] The US Navy intercepted a barrage of Houthi missiles and drones launched at three of its warships in the Red Sea on Thursday, US defense officials said.
The attack was one of the largest yet on US warships in the Middle East, one official told CNN.
“We did see a complex attack launched from the Houthis that ranged from cruise missiles and [drones],” deputy Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh said during a briefing.
“My understanding is that those were either engaged and shot down or failed.”
No US warships were damaged or struck in the assault, nor were any American servicemembers injured, she added.
The barrage was launched at the USS Spruance and USS Stockdale — both guided missile destroyers — and the USS Indianapolis, a littoral combat ship, as they traveled north of the Bab el-Mandeb strait.
The Houthi navy, air force and missile force launched 23 projectiles, including ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and drones, the spokesperson for the Iranian-backed rebels said.
Saree said the operation made “direct hits,” a claim Singh rejected, adding that it was unclear if the warships were the intended targets.
“Sometimes it’s hard to tell whether they’re being shot in the vicinity of a US ship or targeting another vessel. We always take measures for our self-defense, so I can’t really tell you the intended target,” she explained.
“We did what we had to do to protect our forces, and at the end of the day, no ship was hit, no damage, and no injuries to our personnel.” More from regnum.ru
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[Regnum] Yemeni Houthis from the Ansar Allah movement launched a massive attack on three US Navy destroyers, said the movement's spokesman Yahya Sari.
The strike involved 23 cruise and ballistic missiles, he said.
"The Yemeni armed forces attacked three enemy American destroyers in the Red Sea that were heading to support the Israeli enemy. The operation was carried out using 23 ballistic and cruise missiles, as well as one drone," Saria said on Al Masirah TV channel.
A Houthi spokesman also said all three destroyers had been damaged.
Earlier, Ansar Allah also announced that it had launched missile strikes on Tel Aviv and Ashkelon. Israeli media reported that the attack had been repelled. The Houthis stressed that they would continue to strike until Israel stopped its attacks on Palestine and Lebanon.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, the Israeli army (IDF) announced on September 23 that it was expanding the area of strikes against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon. IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi announced the start of a "preemptive military operation" against the Shiite movement, whose military infrastructure, according to him, has been built over the past 20 years.
Moscow strongly condemns Israel's large-scale military attacks on Lebanon, said Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova. Indiscriminate attacks that target civilians are unacceptable, Zakharova stressed.
The conflict risks spreading to the entire Middle East and drawing into the confrontation even those powers that have tried with all their might to maintain neutrality or reconcile the opponents, but neither side is still willing to give in, noted Leonid Tsukanov, a columnist for Regnum News Agency, in his article earlier.
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Moscow strongly condemns Israel's large-scale military attacks on Lebanon, said Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova. Indiscriminate attacks that target civilians are unacceptable, Zakharova stressed.
[TheSun] The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced that Friday's fighter jet blitz successfully eliminated the terror group's Secretary-General.
They said: "Hassan Nasrallah will no longer be able to terrorize the world."
And military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani added: "Hassan Nasrallah is dead."
Hezbollah also confirmed Nasrallah had been killed - and vowed to continue its fight against Israel.
Ali Karki, the Commander of Hezbollah's Southern Front, is also believed to have been killed alongside Nasrallah in the strikes on Friday.
Israel also claims to have wiped out several other Hezbollah officials including Muhammad Ali Ismail, the commander of Hezbollah's missile unit in southern Lebanon, in the blasts.
His deputy and "other senior officials" were also taken out.
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is believed to have personally signed off the attack after spies discovered Nasrallah was set to convene a meeting of his surviving leaders at his underground HQ.
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halev said "a lot of preparation" was behind the attack.
He said: "It was the right time, [we] did it in a very precise way."
Before warning Israel was set to continue with their targeted assaults across the border.
"This is not the end of our toolbox, we have to be very clear. We have more capacity going forward," Halev added.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei - one of Nasrallah's closest allies - issued a chilling message to Israel after Israel's assassination claims.
He did not mention Nasrallah - but slammed Israel for the massive blitz on Lebanon.
Khamenei said Lebanon will make Israel "regret their actions" and blasted the "shortsighted and foolish" policies of Israeli leaders.
He claimed Israel was "too small" to cause any damage to Hezbollah.
It's feared Iran could respond by targeting Israel directly, sending weapons through Iraq and Syria to Lebanon or by sending fighters to Lebanon to shore up Hezbollah, Professor Fawaz Gerges from LSE said.
The chair of contemporary Middle Eastern Studies said Israel has effectively "declared all-out war".
He told Sky News: "Benjamin Netanyahu has declared all-out war against the entire axis of resistance – including Iran.
"This is a decade-long war... Hezbollah will bide its time.
"Israel has been trying to systematically destroy the leadership structure of Hezbollah – and there are hundreds of leaders who could replace him [Hassan Nasrallah]."
Mr Gerges suggested Israel is "trying to soften that structure in preparation for a ground invasion".
IDF military spokesperson Daniel Hagari said on Friday that a "precise strike" hit Hezbollah's "central headquarters" located underneath residential buildings in Dahiyeh.
Huge 4,000lb laser and GPS-guided GBU-28 and 2,000lb Blu-109 bunker buster bombs are believed to have been deployed - burrowing up to 200ft below ground before exploding.
Images of the Lebanese suburb shows a series of huge blasts with large mushroom clouds erupting into the sky last night.
A source close to Hezbollah said the wave of strikes took out six buildings - including apartment blocks.
Thousands were forced to flee their homes as the rockets closed in.
Six people were killed along with another 91 wounded, according to preliminary data from Lebanon's health ministry.
A second round of Israeli strikes hit the same area of Beirut later in the night.
Pictures show smoking buildings early this morning following the successive blitzes.
Hezbollah has already retaliated after they fired rockets on the Israeli city of Safed - but there are no reports of casualties.
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, is set to hold an emergency meeting of the Supreme National Security Council to respond to the Israeli attacks.
Narallah's backers in Iran's embassy in Beirut said the latest massive strike on the Lebanese capital was a "dangerous, game-changing escalation".
The embassy added the strike was a “war crime" which merits "appropriate punishment"
. It comes as Israel continues to gear up for a huge ground offensive across the border and into Lebanon.
The IDF have been making plans to activate two brigades consisting of up to 10,000 soldiers for "operational missions".
This morning they announced three more battalions of reserve soldiers are also being readied up.
Tanks and military trucks were also seen being transported towards the border as an escalation drew closer.
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi already announced how his troops were planning to step up their attacks on Wednesday.
He said the barrage of airstrikes in recent days had been a tactical ploy to help the soldiers once they crossed into Lebanon.
Halevi said: "You can hear the planes above, we are attacking all day.
"This is both to prepare the ground for your possible entry and to continue degrading Hezbollah."
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Destroying the ideas of political Islamism is the only real fix.
That said, I am happy they got him. GO ISRAEL!
The enemy is the Muslim Brotherhood though and they are backed by Qatar. Qatar is biggest funder of US universities and owns al Jazeera. Lot of energy money.
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Anon1; Qatar's al-Thani began to infiltrate the USA long ago and really succeeded with the Clintons. We should close our base in Qatar that the Pentagon stupidly supported, and get the hell out of that country ASAP.
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Israel dropped 83 bunker busting 1-ton bombs against Nasrallah’s bunker.
Hezbollah is working a really negative ratio here. At the rate they’re going, they’ll be wiped out before Israel works up to a serious redecorating effort.
[IsraelTimes] House in northern city of Safed sustains direct hit, sparking fire; 68-year-old woman lightly wounded from blast; IDF jets strike several Hezbollah targets deep inside Lebanon
Hezbollah launched some 65 rockets at Israel on Friday night, hours after a major Israel Defense Forces strike in Beirut, believed to have targeted the terror group’s chief, His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...> Shortly after 10 p.m., a barrage of some 30 rockets was launched at Safed, according to the IDF, with local officials saying that at least two impacts in the northern city caused significant damage.
A 68-year-old woman was lightly maimed as a result of one of the rocket impacts in Safed, according to Magen David Adom medics. The woman sustained trauma from the blast, the medics said, adding that she was being evacuated to Ziv Hospital in the city.
A house in Safed sustained a direct hit, sparking a fire. No one was injured in the impact as the residents had evacuated to the center of the country, the Ynet news site reported, amid the ongoing rocket fire 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... . Photos and videos posted to social media showed firefighters at the scene working to control the blaze. The IDF said that some of the rockets were intercepted by air defenses.
Amid the fresh rocket fire on northern communities, the IDF said that its fighter jets struck several Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon along with others deep within the country on Friday evening, continuing a new offensive against the terror group following almost a year of daily rocket fire on Israeli border communities and military posts. The targets included rocket launchers aimed at Israel and buildings used as weapon depots, the IDF said. The campaign aims to allow residents of northern Israel to return to their homes, after a year of internal displacement beginning in the wake of Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... ’s October 7 attack on southern Israel, which was immediately followed by the start of the barrages from Hezbollah.
Earlier on Friday, Hezbollah fired multiple rocket salvos at northern Israel, resulting in at least one injury, as the IDF continued to strike targets linked to the terror group in Lebanon and Syria.
In Tiberias, a 25-year-old Israeli man was moderately maimed after shrapnel following an interception of a rocket hit him, according to MDA, while two others were lightly hurt after falling while running for shelter during the sirens.
In Haifa, some of the 10 rockets launched from Lebanon on Friday morning were intercepted, while others struck open areas, according to the military. Reports said at least one rocket landed in the sea.
No injuries were reported in the barrage on Haifa, though there were reports that some shrapnel fell in the city. A spokesperson for the Haifa Port said there was no impact or shrapnel in the area of the port itself.
The IDF also said it had shot down four drones that crossed into Israeli airspace from Lebanon off the coast, near the town of Rosh Hanikra situated just south of the border.
Also Friday, the Iran-backed Islamic Resistance® in Iraq claimed to have launched drones and cruise missiles at Israel overnight, but no sirens sounded in Israel. As of Friday afternoon, the military said it was unaware of any projectiles reaching the country from Iraq.
[IsraelTimes] Paleostinian button men in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip shot and killed an aid worker from a US based charity, firing on her car in what Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... officials claimed was a case of mistaken identity.
Other unverified reports, meanwhile, said that she was murdered by Hamas button men for refusing to turn over aid funds to the terror group.
The car in which Islam Hejazy, Gaza program manager at HEAL Paleostine, was traveling was intercepted yesterday in the area of Khan Younis in the south of the enclave.
Gunmen riding in three cars sprayed the vehicle with dozens of bullets, according to residents and the woman’s family.
"She was the mother of two small children and a humanitarian with the highest ethics and professionalism," HEAL Paleostine, posts on its Facebook page. "HEAL Paleostine is more dedicated than ever to serving Gaza, in her honor. Ceasefire now."
Her family issues a statement, saying they were told by Hamas-run government parties at the hospital where her body was taken that she was killed by mistake. Her killers, whose identity wasn’t immediately clear, had failed to identify the vehicle she was driving, they say.
There has been no immediate comment from Hamas.
"That was a bigger shock... How would an innocent soul be wasted and 90 bullets fired at her car just for mistaken identification?" the family says in a statement published by Paleostinian media.
The f'n Associated Press, via Townhall:
[Townhall] On Friday, Israel reportedly took out Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Just earlier that day, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had given a speech at the United Nations, where he called out the agency's anti-Israel bias. "I have another message for this assembly and for the world outside this hall: We are winning," he also declared as part of his speech. Despite all of the barbaric actions that Nasrallah is responsible for, the Associated Press thought he was a figure worth memorializing in a special kind of way.
"Charismatic and shrewd: A look at longtime Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah," read a Friday headline from Bassem Mroue that the Associated Press thought was appropriate to publish. Hours later, the headline reads the same, though archived versions are available.
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Rocket man… now frolicking with young goats in the sunlight meadows of paradise thanks to Netanyahu/IDF. Biden should be on his knees kissing their fingers.
[AnNahar] Israel conducted several rounds of air strikes on Hezbollah's main bastion in the southern suburbe of Beirut, sending huge clouds of smoke soaring above the densely populated area.
Friday's strikes were heard across the Mediterranean city and sparked panic in the residential area that has been Hezbollah's main stronghold for decades.
They were by far the fiercest strikes to hit Beirut's suburbs since Israel shifted its focus from 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... to 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... this week, pounding Hezbollah strongholds around the country and killing hundreds of people.
Israeli television networks reported that Hezbollah chief Sayyed ...Arabic term meaning your/his lordship. Groveling in His Exalted Presence is encouraged... His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...> was the target of the first violent mostly peaceful strike, though a source close to the group said he was "fine". "He's pining for the fjords"
Nasrallah enjoys cult status among his supporters and is the only man in Lebanon with the power to wage war or make peace, but he leads a life in hiding to avoid liquidation.
The Israeli army claimed early Saturday that its air strikes killed "Muhammad Ali Ismail, the commander of Hezbollah's missile unit in southern Lebanon, and his deputy," as well as "other bigwigs.".l
The strikes felt "like an earthquake", according to Ahmad Ahmad, who fled his house in the southern suburbs.
A teacher in her 40s, Abir Hammoud, said: "I felt like the building was going to collapse on top of me."
The strikes were followed by a second bombing hours later, which Israel's military said targeted Hezbollah weapons stored in buildings in the area, a claim the group denied.
Hezbollah started fighting Israeli troops along the Lebanon border a day after its Paleostinian ally Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... staged its unprecedented attack on Israel on October 7.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed in an address to world leaders on Friday that there would be no let-up in the battle against Hezbollah until Israel's northern border was secured.
- WARNING TO CIVILIANS -
A source close to Hezbollah said the initial wave of strikes had levelled six buildings, and according to a preliminary toll, six people were killed and 91 maimed.
Israeli military front man Daniel Hagari said the strike had targeted "the central headquarters" of Hezbollah in the southern suburbs of the city.
After the Beirut strikes, Hezbollah said it had fired more rockets into Israel "in defense of Lebanon and its people". There were no immediate reports of casualties.
The Israeli military warned civilians in parts of Hezbollah's south Beirut stronghold to evacuate the area before conducting its second bombing.
It also said it would not allow Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... to transfer weapons to its ally Hezbollah through Beirut airport -- adding that its jets were ready to intervene should any such transfers be detected.
Israel's army said the second wave of strikes had targeted Hezbollah targets in the Tyre area of southern Lebanon.
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The U.N. has repeatedly condemned this week's sharp escalation of violence in Lebanon.
"We are witnessing the deadliest period in Lebanon in a generation, and many express their fear that this is just the beginning," the U.N. humanitarian coordinator in Lebanon, Imran Riza, said.
In Israel, too, many were weary of the violence.
"It is incredibly exhausting to be in this situation. We don't really know what's going to happen, there's talk of a ground offensive or a major operation," said Lital Shmuelovich, a physiotherapy student.
U.S. 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... appealed again for a ceasefire, after a U.S.-led bid for a truce failed earlier this week.
"The path to diplomacy may seem difficult to see at this moment, but it is there, and in our judgement, it is necessary," Blinken said.
In New York, Netanyahu also addressed the war in Gaza, saying that Israel's military would continue to fight Hamas until it achieved "total victory."
Diplomats have said efforts to end the war in Gaza were key to halting the fighting in Lebanon and bringing the region back from the brink of all-out war.
But despite months of mediation efforts, a Gaza ceasefire remains elusive.
Hamas' October 7 attack resulted in the deaths of 1,205 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on Israeli official figures that include hostages killed in captivity.
Of the 251 hostages seized by bad boys, 97 are still held in Gaza, including 33 the Israeli military says are dead.
Israel's retaliatory military offensive has killed at least 41,534 people in Gaza, most of them civilians, according to figures provided by the Hamas-run territory's health ministry. The U.N. has described the figures as reliable.
- 'CHANGE THE RULES' -
The Lebanon violence has raised fears of wider turmoil in the Middle East, with Iran-backed murderous Moslems across the region vowing to keep up their fight with Israel.
Netanyahu took aim at Iran in his U.N. General Assembly address, saying: "I have a message for the tyrants of Tehran. If you strike us, we will strike you."
He added: "There is no place in Iran that the long arm of Israel cannot reach, and that's true of the entire Middle East."
Analysts have said Iran would try to resist being dragged into the conflict.
But following the Beirut strikes, Iran's embassy in Lebanon said: "This reprehensible crime... represents a dangerous escalation that changes the rules of the game."
Iran's president, Masoud Pezeshkian, later condemned the strikes, branding them a "flagrant war crime".
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CTH Israeli Commenter David=Interesting insight on the US political angle Bibi is using:
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September 28, 2024 3:59 am
Israel Update:
This is going to be a historic update! I will have some info and some images that you’re not likely to see elsewhere. I will also follow with some footage that is not very available.
But it is a special update because of the happenings, the content. I will also add some dark humor of you don’t mind.
For decades we were told by Experts and Ex-Generals that a war with Hizbollah means hundreds and even thousands of missiles on all of Israel daily. They have 150,000-200,000 missiles including many precision missiles that can hit the International Airport, the Air Force Bases, the Power Grid and water grid, and maybe even the Nuclear site.
We were told that it would be hundreds or thousands of casualties.
What just happened is going to be studied in Military schools for generations. I must say that there is a biblical aspect in my opinion. I will describe:
First Israel got Gaza to a point that they are almost defeated. I can tell it because they basically no longer firing rockets at Israel, no longer killing IDF soldiers every week, the IDF is saying that all their battalions aside for one are designated and Hezbollah has no longer the military structure but is a guerrilla force now. There is still a lot to demolish and Hamas is still able to survive by stealing the Humanitarian Aide and selling it. But we are now started to take it seriously and put an end to it. So the situation enables relatively small forces to hold the fort and get attention and Forces to Lebanon.
It started with a targeted Assassination in Beirut. The Chief of Operations who was also the Acting Chief of Staff, after the IDF eliminated the Chief of Staff not long before, was eliminated under a building with the majority of the Command of their most significant Force. The Radwan Force that was planing an invasion to Israel 10/7 style.
This was on top of quite a few other assassination of their high command.
Just when you thought it is over, the next day or so came the Beeper attack, something that was never seen before in the world.
The Mossad replaced the beepers of Hezbollah, thousands of them, and in a push of a button thousands of terrorists were killed or injured. Apparently some 1,500 terrorists will never be able to fight due to serious injuries or death. This is the lower number, could be much more.
While I was partially skeptical as to “why the ground forces are not following and using the commotion to their advantage”? I also mentioned that there may be a larger plan in motion. And there was!
The next day the Walkie Talkies, hundreds of other Hizbollah terrorists were killed or injured.
The Situation with Hezbollah started to seem dire. Almost all their Command structure was already eliminated individually and now they can’t use communications safely and Lebanon started to get a notion or a feeling of Israel being some Godly power who has access to their communications, the IDF took over the radio and started to order evacuations where needed and their cellphones would receive calls to evacuate, those who should, some image of Israel controls everything. Soon enough the humiliation of Hezbollah was apparent in the Arab world. They kept firing into Israel who was aware that they are escalating and potentially would be deadly.
Now started the Operation Northern Arrows. 1,950 munition targets were blown up in a day or two. Then followed hundred of more munitions. It seemed like the IDF knows all the locations of storages to the level of single homes which had munitions in it.
Rapid evacuation orders to residents and boom.
Now when it seemed that Hezbollah lost at least 50% of its munitions, Biden and his Globalist group of Western Nations started a massive pressure to stop. I ranted about it. For a good reason. I was also not happy that Bibi is now going to give a speech in the UN when things are heating up. When he could be facing extreme pressure from the American “enemies” who seem to represent the bad part of America. Little did I know.
Now here is what I know: Netanyahu approved a hunt on Nassrallah the Leader of Hezbollah before he flew to the US. He got a confirmation of the Intel that Nassrallah is meeting with the Highest Command of Hezbollah and Iranians under some buildings in the Daieh Neighborhood of Beirut and he approved the attack a half an hour before the speech. (The speech was very good by the way). The neighborhood had already mainly evacuated because it’s the center of Hezbollah and they know they better be moving.
Days before Bibi flew, the IDF already prepared a “Package of Assassination” which means it organized constant loaded jet fighters in the air, ready to assassinate any Hamas leaders who the Intelligence will say are available. The trip to the US was used as a misdirector. This is for sure. I also read, not fully confirmed, that it was a trap to get Nasrallah go to where he would watch the speech. If that the case then it would be an irony that Nasrallah and his high command were watching Netanyahu just before they got killed. Their last pictures before death – Bibi’s speech.
Then came the attack. And I will post the video again. There are a few reports.
A repeating report says that there were some 60 bombs dropped on the bunker.
I doubt the number but I know that there were a few bunker buster bombs dropped.
Enough to make it impossible to survive it. The bunker was under buildings. It is not broadly published but Israel has some good bunker buster bombs. The Iranian Nuclear site in Fordow is apparently close to 300 Feet underground. For that the US came up with the MOAB (Mother of All Bombs). But only the B-2 fighter cab carry it and Israel doesn’t have it.
I don’t know if Israel worked out some confidential solution but I know Israel has the
GBU – 38 that is one below the MOAB. It can penetrate some 20 feet of concrete. It’s
2.3 tone and in Israel only the F-15 of the IAF can carry it. Israel also has lower level bunker buster bombs both made in the US and made in Israel. Those are less expensive and were used on tunnels in Gaza.
Anyways, Nasrallah was apparently in there with his high command and possibly top of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. The precision was high and the number of civilians killed is apparently very small. A few buildings collapsed on the bunkers too.
Now sources from Hezbollah are saying that they lost contact with the Command and Nasrallah. And we say : “send them a beeper message”. It will take some days to dig out whatever is left in there but it is likely that Nasrallah was there.
Now as if it’s not enough today the IDF ordered an evacuation of areas in Beirut , the Shia neighborhood and said we are going to bomb strategic munitions of Hezbollah in Beirut. He was very specific where to evacuate. Then came massive attacks on Beirut from the air and Sea. I have a good video or few to see. Will follow.
Hezbollah is decimated. They have not managed to kill anyone in Israel. A few mild injuries and an Arab moderately injured. Thank you God. Your prayers are working.
And just now the Head of Hezbollah in South Syria was assassinated. He was responsible for rockets from Syria into Israel. They have no safe place to be and no safe electronics.
Hezbollah are not managing to fire significantly at Israel. They are crushed.
Now, I said it before and will repeat. The level of Intel is mind blowing. Mossad is wining this war with the IAF. I predict the ground troops will get South Lebanon up to the Litani River soon. I doubts that many Hezbollah are still there. It has been attacked for months.
The trick will be how to hold the area without bleeding and how to prevent a lengthy war of attrition. But when you hold the cards, you can set terms. Biden may have threatened Bibi against an invasion. But I think Bibi is using a window of opportunity because of the US elections. Any extreme US response will cost the DNC votes. Bibi knows US politics very well.
You may ask yourself how come the IDF messed up so bad on 10/7 and is so strong now in Lebanon? Well, we under-estimated Hamas and over-estimated Hezbollah. So the preparations for Hezbollah were much better. Also Mossad is operating in Lebanon, not much in Gaza, we have other agencies in Gaza.
#13
Does the decimation of Hezbollah present an opportunity for other domestic Lebanese groups to expel the remains of this Iranian proxy from their country? I would think the Saidi’s would want to take advantage, especially as payback for the killing of Harriri. Am I engaging in wishful thinking?
#14
Just think yesterday you were just another Hezhollah peon unworthy of a pager. Today you've been rapidly promoted to a exulted position within the organization and listing on a target list.
#16
Does the decimation of Hezbollah present an opportunity for other domestic Lebanese groups to expel the remains of this Iranian proxy from their country?
It may be wishful thinking, but it is also an opportunity. The Leb's might want some reassurance about Iranian reprisals, but this might be their best opportunity vs waiting to pick up the pieces when the entire country is flattened.
[Rudaw] Three Kurdish security force members were killed in an 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) attack in Hasaka province, northeast Syria (Rojava) on Friday.
The Asayish, an internal security force, said ISIS attacked a vehicle of theirs on the Shaddadi-al-Hol highway, but did not provide further details.
"We pledge to follow in the footsteps of the deaders who sacrificed themselves in order to achieve the principles and values of establishing freedom, justice, and dignity," read a statement from the Asayish.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a war monitor that relies on a network of local sources within Syria, said an Asayish commander was among the dead.
"The attack was followed by violent mostly peacefulfestivities between the two sides, which led to the death of three members of Asayish Forces, including a commander, because the vehicle burned after a grenade that was inside the vehicle went kaboom! when a gunshot hit it during the festivities," the UK-based observatory said.
SOHR said it had documented 203 ISIS attacks in Rojava since early this year.
[Rudaw] Northeast Syria (Rojava) has experienced an increase in the severity of attacks in September by 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) on points controlled by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a conflict monitor reported on Wednesday.
ISIS conducted more than 19 operations in SDF-held areas like Deir ez-Zor from September 1 to September 25 resulting in deaths and injuries, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported.
The SDF has been the partnered ground force in Syria of the US-led international coalition against ISIS.
Civilians additionally were targeted and had money extorted by ISIS, according to the SOHR, under the pretext of collecting 'zakat,' a payment on things like goods or property, in areas controlled by the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (DAANES).
The monitor called the developments a dangerous escalation by ISIS cells.
Control of Deir ez-Zor province, which borders Iraq, is split between the SDF and the Iran-backed Syrian regime. It is also home to many of the country’s key oilfields, such as Omar and Conoco, which the global coalition helps the SDF to control.
From the Times of Israel liveblog for September 28.
Hezbollah claims rocket attacks on northern Israel
Hezbollah claims responsibility for rocket fire earlier this morning on northern Israel, but the terror group appears to have missed its intended target. In a statement, its first today, the terror group says it launched a barrage of Fadi-1 rockets at Kibbutz Kabri in the Western Galilee.
Despite Hezbollah’s claims, no sirens sounded in Kabri this morning. 10 rockets were launched toward the Safed area this morning, and one long-range projectile landed in the central West Bank, according to the IDF.
Five more rockets were launched at areas deep within northern Israel moments before Hezbollah’s announcement, but none of them were aimed at Kabri.
New strike reported in southern Beirut
Smoke was seen rising from the Lebanese capital Beirut’s southern suburbs on Saturday after an apparent Israeli strike hit the area, a witness tells Reuters. The sound of a blast was heard across Beirut.
Top EU diplomat laments failure to ‘stop’ Netanyahu
EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell voices regret that no power, including the United States, can “stop” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying he appears determined to continue fighting in Lebanon and Gaza.
“What we do is to put all diplomatic pressure to a ceasefire, but nobody seems to be able to stop Netanyahu, neither in Gaza nor in the West Bank,” Borrell tells a small group of journalists as he attended the UN General Assembly.
Israel has repeatedly sparred with the top EU diplomat, and Foreign Minister Israel Katz recently accused him of being antisemitic.
An hour ago, the IDF directed Lebanese civilians to evacuate from several buildings in the Dahiyeh suburb of Beirut, a known Hezbollah stronghold.
Airstrikes have continued almost nonstop tonight in Lebanon following a strike that targeted Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
IDF conducts fresh wave of strikes in Beqaa Valley
The IDF tweets that it just finished conducting another series of strikes against Hezbollah sites, this time in the Beqaa Valley deep in Lebanese territory.
An hour earlier, IDF fighter jets struck other Hezbollah targets in Beirut, including munitions production sites, buildings where advanced munitions were stored and a command center, the army said.
This is the second time tonight that Col. Avichay Adraee, the IDF’s Arabic-language spokesman, is making such an announcement.
In the previous one, the IDF published maps showing which sites would be targeted. This time Adraee suffices with describing the buildings that will be hit in two separate neighborhoods.
“We will continue operating to precisely dismantle Hezbollah’s offensive capabilities. Hezbollah has strategically embedded weapons in civilian areas, putting Lebanese civilians at risk in order to harm Israeli civilians,” the IDF says in a statement.
“Our war is with Hezbollah, not the people of Lebanon,” the army adds, echoing a statement it has used when describing its operations in Gaza — that its devastating war is not with Gazan civilians, rather Hamas, which carried out the October 7 onslaught.
Muhammed Ismail, the commander of Hezbollah’s rocket and missile unit in southern Lebanon, his deputy Hussein Ismail, and other commanders were killed in the strike.
The military does not detail when or where the strike took place.
The Hezbollah rocket and missile commander was responsible for numerous attacks on Israel amid the war, including Wednesday’s ballistic missile fire at Tel Aviv, according to the IDF.
“Just this morning, the Israeli regime used several 5,000-pound bunker busters that had been gifted to them by the United States to hit residential areas in Beirut,” he tells a UN Security Council meeting on the Middle East.
“One cannot disregard the US complicity in the crime.”
Earlier this evening, the IDF said it was striking three buildings in the Dahiyeh suburb of Beirut where Hezbollah stored Iranian anti-ship missiles. Other Hezbollah sites will also be hit in the Dahiyeh, military sources say.
It comes after the military carried out massive airstrikes on Hezbollah’s main headquarters in the Dahiyeh earlier on Friday, in an attack that targeted Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah.
IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said earlier this evening that the military is still looking into the results of its strike on Hezbollah’s headquarters in Beirut, and would not be drawn on whether Nasrallah was killed. “We will update as soon as we know. Our strike was very accurate,” he said.
Until now, IDF strikes in Beirut had been “targeted assassinations” of top Hezbollah commanders. The latest strikes have been larger, and aimed at taking out infrastructure, along with top officials.
The coming days are expected to be complex, the military has assessed.
Biden orders US forces in Mideast to be adjusted ‘as necessary’
President Joe Biden has ordered US forces in the Middle East to be adjusted “as necessary,” the White House says, after Israel launched a wave of strikes in Lebanon’s capital Beirut targeting Hezbollah’s headquarters.
“He has directed the Pentagon to assess and adjust as necessary US force posture in the region to enhance deterrence, ensure force protection, and support the full range of US objectives,” the White House says in a statement.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to go ahead with his trip to the UN General Assembly despite the escalating fighting with Hezbollah “was part of a diversion” to lull Hassan Nasrallah into believing Israel wouldn’t target him while the premier was in New York, a senior Israeli official tells the Telegraph.
Nasrallah unreachable after Israeli strike — source close to terror group
Hezbollah’s head Hassan Nasrallah was unreachable following Israel’s strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs on Friday evening, a source close to the Lebanese armed group tells Reuters. Hours after the strikes, Hezbollah hasn’t made a statement on the fate of Nasrallah.
The official said Israel has vowed to dismantle Hamas' military and political regime in Gaza, but the goal in Lebanon is just to push Hezbollah away from the border with Israel. That is “not a high bar like Gaza” in terms of operational objectives, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with military briefing guidelines.
The official said that no decision has been made on whether Israel will carry out a ground operation in southern Lebanon. But he stressed that the military is training for this possibility every day and is ready to implement it.
He added that Israel still sees Resolution 1701, the United Nations-brokered resolution that ended the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah, as the best solution for lasting stability. But that the resolution must be enforced by an international force that is able to keep Hezbollah from setting up infrastructure close to the border with Israel. He said Israel’s fierce aerial bombardments this week, which killed more than 700 people in Lebanon, represent Israel’s decision to start enforcing the resolution on their own. Nicely stacked.
#6
"The gates of hell are opening"
You mean, no virgins for Nasrallah?
Just 72 mothers in law huh?
Tough.
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Lizzo sings about damn time!
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#9
Such a happy song, European Conservative. I had the excerpt, but hearing the entirety is even better. I wish I hadn’t forgotten so much Hebrew, though to be fair I never knew most of those insults.
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says that its Tuesday airstrike on Beirut, killing Ibrahim Qubaisi, the commander of Hezbollah’s rocket and missile division, also killed his deputy and another senior commander.
The strike on the Lebanese capital killed Abbas Sharafeddine, Qubaisi’s deputy, and Hussein Ezzeddine, a senior commander in the missile division, who according to the IDF was close to Hezbollah’s assassinated military chief Fuad Shukr.
A separate strike that day killed another senior operative in Hezbollah’s missile division, the IDF adds.
[JPost] Pull the weed out, roots and all. Surprised he wasn't hiding under her bed as he used to
If confirmed, Zainab’s death could have significant symbolic implications for Hezbollah, potentially influencing the group's response to the escalating conflict with Israel.
Zainab Nasrallah, the daughter of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, was reportedly killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting Hezbollah strongholds in Beirut’s southern suburbs on Friday.
Channel 12 in Israel reported her death, though there has been no official confirmation from Hezbollah or Lebanese authorities.
Zainab, known for her outspoken loyalty to Hezbollah and her family's sacrifices, had previously spoken publicly about the death of her brother, Hadi, who was killed by Israeli forces in 1997.
In a 2022 interview on Al-Manar TV, she described her family’s reaction: "When my brother Hadi was ’martyred,’ my parents did not shed a single tear," reflecting the family's pride in their path.
She noted that her mother viewed Hadi’s death as a "shortcut" to the afterlife, and the family chose to honor his sacrifice rather than mourn traditionally.
A CULTURE OF MARTYRDOM
"We are embarrassed that we have made such a small sacrifice compared to other families of martyrs," she stated, highlighting the family's conviction and commitment to Hezbollah's ideology.
Her statements underscored the public narrative that martyrdom is seen as a noble cause within her family and among Hezbollah supporters.
My city my people 😂🇮🇱 Tel Aviv
“Yalla ya Nasrallah, We will f*ck you Inshallah, We will return you to Allah, With the entire Hezbollah” pic.twitter.com/bMa6VuQwXH
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