[WFB ht Insty] "austere religious scholar"
Following Hassan Nasrallah's death at the hands of an Israeli airstrike, mainstream media outlets portrayed the now-former Hezbollah leader as an erudite "father figure," a "moral compass," a "savior," and a "roly-poly figure" who "empowered" Lebanon's "downtrodden."
The vast majority failed to mention that he was brutal terrorist leader who killed scores of Americans, Israelis, and innocent civilians across the Middle East.
Nasrallah rose to the top of the terror organization in February 1992. A month later, Hezbollah operatives killed 29 people in a suicide bombing attack on the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires. The terror group's subsequent 1994 attack on the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires killed 85.
In 1983, one year after Nasrallah helped found Hezbollah, the terror organization murdered 32 Lebanese, 17 Americans, and 14 visitors in its bombing of the U.S. embassy in Beirut. The attack's planners became commanders under Nasrallah, who died a rich man, carrying a net worth of $250 million thanks mostly to illicit drug smuggling.
Most of those details were left out of lengthy obituaries published in the Washington Post, New York Times, and Associated Press.
The Post lauded Nasrallah's "folksy yet articulate manner" and described the terrorist as a "savior" among his followers. The Times billed Nasrallah as a "charismatic religious and political leader and military strategist who had dedicated his life to ’resistance,’ or the fight against Israel." The AP lamented the Jewish state's dangerous "escalation" in killing Nasrallah and called him a "charismatic and shrewd strategist."
The Washington Free Beacon compiled a roundup of passages from the three obituaries:
Hasan Nasrallah, Hezbollah leader and force in Middle East, is killed (Washington Post)
"Hasan Nasrallah, a Shiite cleric who oversaw the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah for decades and became one of the most powerful and divisive leaders in the Middle East, revered by his followers as a savior and condemned by his foes as a terrorist, died Sept. 27 in Beirut."
"Among his followers, Mr. Nasrallah was seen as a father figure, a moral compass and a political guide. He was lauded as the man who empowered Lebanon’s once downtrodden and impoverished Shiite community and protected it from Israeli incursions by turning Hezbollah into a formidable deterrent force."
"Wearing the black turban that signifies descent from the prophet Muhammad, he delivered advice on topics ranging from complicated regional events to personal hygiene during the covid pandemic, sometimes speaking for hours without notes, always in the folksy yet articulate manner that established him as a skilled orator."
"The death of his 18-year-old son, Hadi, in a battle with Israel in 1997 burnished Mr. Nasrallah’s leadership credentials, establishing him as a man who had shared in the suffering of those battling the Israeli occupation."
"He and his wife, Fatima Yassin, are believed to have had four other children. A list of survivors was not immediately available."
Hassan Nasrallah, Who Led Hezbollah for Decades, Killed at 64 (New York Times)
"In Lebanon, Mr. Nasrallah enjoyed tremendous devotion from Hezbollah’s Shiite Muslim base, who saw in him a charismatic religious and political leader and military strategist who had dedicated his life to 'resistance,' or the fight against Israel and American influence in the Middle East."
"He came across as less dour than most Shiite clerics, partly because of his roly-poly figure, a slight lisp and a propensity to crack jokes. He never pushed hard-line Islamic rules, like veils for women in the neighborhoods that Hezbollah controls."
"He could be by turns avuncular and menacing."
"In his broadcasts, Mr. Nasrallah always appeared tranquil, assured, sincere and well informed, in command of both the facts and the situation, utterly dedicated to his cause and to his men. He was aloof yet tried to lend his secretive, heavily armed organization an air of transparency by sharing battlefield details." (This passage, which can be viewed here, appears to have been removed.)
"He was known to have read the autobiographies of Israel’s prime ministers. He had long called for the liberation of Jerusalem and referred to Israel as 'the Zionist entity,' maintaining that all Jewish immigrants should return to their countries of origin and that there should be one Palestine with equality for Muslims, Jews and Christians."
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah transformed the militant group into a potent regional force (Associated Press)
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Here in ME we say "every dog will get his (what's coming to it) one day.".
[Hoodline] Over 700 soldiers from the Tennessee Army National Guard's 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment are set to leave their home state for a deployment in the Middle East this Saturday. These service members, specifically from the regiment's 2nd Squadron, will spend a few weeks at Fort Bliss, Texas for final preparations before heading to Kuwait.
So not an unexpected “Drop your life and go” thing.
Their year-long commitment is in support of Operation Spartan Shield, a strategic operation within U.S. Central Command's purview. Lt. Col. Jason Tomberlin, the Task Force commander, spoke on their readiness, "Our servicemembers have spent the last year conducting rigorous training and preparing to deploy in support of Operation Spartan Shield," he said, emphasizing that they will accomplish their mission with "dignity and honor."
The deployment reflects the U.S. military's continuing role in building partnerships and promoting self-reliance in the Middle East. By maintaining a military presence, conducting exercises, and fostering defense relationships, the Tennessee soldiers aim to strengthen regional security.
Before their departure, local communities in Cookeville, Crossville, Gordonsville, and Morrison, will honor these men and women with departure ceremonies, a chance for families and friends to acknowledge the soldiers' upcoming service. The 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment, the largest Tennessee unit and one of few such National Guard brigades nationwide, finds its home base in Knoxville.
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I imagine this is part of the deployment Defense Secretary Austin ordered yesterday to remind Iran to keep their heads down and not attack Americans when they’re really mad at Israel.
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The TN Army National Guard deployment has been planned for at least six months and probably closer to more than a year. It was their turn in the deployment rotation. I have no doubt that there are plenty of other TN ANG units available, most with military specialties more suited to the horrible events going on in TN.
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Change "has been planned for at least six months and probably closer to more than a year" to "has been planned for at least 2 years and probably closer to 3-5 years."
He's dead now. That sounds pretty broken.
[GEO.TV] The Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... movement in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... on Saturday mourned the death of 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...> , its ally in an Iran-backed alliance opposing Israel, in an Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in Beirut.
"The resistance will not be broken, and the Jihadist spirit of the Mujahideen brothers in 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... and on all fronts of support will grow stronger and bigger," the group said in a statement.
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Pickings were kind of thin this week, as my attention was elsewhere and the miscreants are gearing up for the big 10/7 anniversary blow-out. Or possibly they’re all staying away from electronic devices, just in case.
Brandeis head quits after no-confidence vote citing budget crisis, anti-Israel protests
[IsraelTimes] Ronald Liebowitz to step down Nov. 1; in motion calling for non-binding vote, faculty take particular issue with historically Jewish university’s decision last year to ban Students for Justice in Palestine after student senate defeated resolution condemning Hamas.
Students for Justice in Palestine plans 'Week of Rage' on anniversary of Oct. 7 attacks
[CampusReform] The National Students for Justice in Palestine is planning a nationwide 'Week of Rage' on college campuses, beginning on the one-year anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks against the Jewish state. The Week of Rage is scheduled to last from Oct. 7–Oct. 11 to mark what the group calls 'a year of genocide in Gaza.'
More on this story from August. Robert Spencer gets us a name and background.
[PJMedia] Muhyyee-Ud-din Abdul-Rahman is eighteen years old, and like many young men his age, he had big dreams. Abdul-Rahman wanted to become a bombmaker for jihad groups, and he researched the Philadelphia Pride parade and the Army-Navy game as potential targets. His father, a prominent far-left lawyer, had no comment, but one has to wonder: did this young man learn at home that this kind of behavior was acceptable?
The News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported that Abdul-Rahman was nothing if not enterprising: he "conducted at least 12 tests on homemade bombs near his family’s home before he was arrested and was close to being able to detonate devices with a blast radius of several hundred yards."
Robert Listenbee, Philadelphia’s First Assistant District Attorney, adds that the would-be jihadi "had a scholarship to attend college as a wrestler and decided he wanted to become a bomb maker. He wanted to leave America and go to Syria to join a terrorist group. He developed bombs in his home and tested those bombs 12 to 20 times in his backyard and in the woods nearby. Some of the bomb-making parts were found in his trash before he was arrested."
As Abdul-Rahman was doing all this, it is extremely unlikely that his parents didn’t notice: "detectives found Abdul-Rahman was collecting materials to make explosives at his parents’ [home]."
Abdul-Rahman wanted make bombs for two jihad terror groups: Katibat al Tawhid wal Jihad (KTJ),
…made up of Turkic types: Uzbeks/Tajiks/Uighurs and based in Syria’s Idlib province — nothing at all to do with the spoilt kid of a Moslem African-American politician….
which is an al-Qaeda affiliate, and Hay’at Tahrir al Sham (HTS). He did not, however, intend to use his bomb-making skills only in Syria. CBS News notes that he was "was searching online for potential targets in the Philadelphia area, specifically the Philly Pride March and the Army-Navy game. He allegedly was also looking into targeting local power plants and domestic military bases."
How far has the apple fallen from the tree? Muhyyee-Ud-din Abdul-Rahman is the son of Qawi Abdul-Rahman, a prominent Philadelphia criminal defense attorney who ran in May 2023 for a seat as a Philadelphia Common Pleas Court judge. In a "vote for ten" election, Abdul-Rahman finished fourteenth, with 3.88% of the vote.
According to the Rantburg archives, Pops is a lawyer, wannabe judge so he could put his thumb on the scales for his people, father of three teenagers, loudly proud to be a child of the US Air Force and the Philadelphia projects — but he lives in the intersection of activist Islam and Black Lives Matter...
In a campaign video, Abdul-Rahman wears a djellaba, a flowing robe that is common in North Africa but usually worn in America only by Moslems who are extremely devout. His forehead also sports a superbly prominent zebiba, a dark mark caused by performing the repeated prostrations that are called for in Islamic prayer, and that is generally understood to be a sign of extraordinary piety.
Journalist Victor Fiorillo of Philly Mag reported back in Aug. 2023 that he contacted Qawi Abdul-Rahman to ask him about his son, and found the renowned attorney extremely bellicose: "You wanna find out what I’m really about?" Qawi Abdul-Rahman asked Fiorillo. "Text or call me one more time, and you’ll find out what I’m really about."
Qawi Abdul-Rahman has insisted, however, that he had little or no knowledge of what his son had been up to. He said he was "shocked and devastated" by his son’s arrest, adding, "I didn’t see it coming at all. At all. I go to court because I want people to know that Moslems are out here doing things in the community, for the community. I’m an American like everyone else."
Of course. Qawi Abdul-Rahman’s judge campaign page features another video that proclaims that "Black Judges Matter." In that video, he complains of judges who don’t give him and his clients the same attention and care they give to his "white counterparts." He complained about judges and court staff "looking at us as if we don’t belong."
Philadelphia officials are insisting that their young terror suspect was "radicalized on the Internet" and that his plans had nothing to do with Islam, but is anyone there looking into the possibility that his determination to strike against America arose from sources closer to home?
🚨Teen Radicalized Online Plots Bomb Attacks on Targets in the Philadelphia Area 🚨
An 18-year-old from West Philadelphia, Muhyyee-ud-din Abdul-Rahman, has been charged with plotting bomb attacks, including targeting the Philly Pride Parade and infrastructure sites like military… pic.twitter.com/xfce0lcd4V
[Rudaw] Shahab Bashar spends hours every day working on a 12-acre farm in Lincoln, Nebraska where he improves his English and plants the vegetables that he grew up eating in his hometown of Shingal. He is one of thousands of Yazidis who are calling the American city home. They are establishing a new Yazidi heartland in the heart of middle America.
Bashar had to flee his Shingal home in northwestern Iraq a decade ago in the face 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) assault. Despite the eventual liberation of the district, he could not see a stable future there and chose Lincoln as a more fertile land to plant the seed of hope.
He used to work as a translator for the United States army and then as a teacher before the brutal ISIS attack in 2014.
"Before ISIS came, I had a stable life, working at a laboratory and teaching at a school close to my home," Bashar reminisced with deep sorrow in his voice. "We enjoyed our lives."
Like many others fleeing the radical group, he spent a week on top of the nearby Mount Shingal, suffering under the intense August sun with limited food and water and the constant fear of ISIS. He then lived in an internally displaced persons (IDP) camp in Sulaimani province until returning to Shingal in 2016.
Bashar tried to resume his life as a school teacher. He received funds from various non-governmental organizations to run the school and tried to start a new life in his hometown.
"I opened the school and started from scratch," Bashar recounted.
But Shingal was not the same. The infrastructure was in ruins, various gangs were moving in, and most of the Yazidi population had not returned. Restoring the normality that he knew before ISIS was inconceivable.
ISIS committed genocide in Shingal. The terror group kidnapped 6,417 women and kiddies, forcing a large number of them into sexual slavery and labor. So far, 3,581 have been rescued, Hussein Qaidi, head of the Office for Rescuing Abducted Yazidis, which is affiliated with the Kurdistan Region Presidency, told Rudaw in August.
According to unofficial figures from Qaidi, between 120,000 and 130,000 Yazidis have left Iraq since ISIS swept through Shingal. Iraq has failed to provide the community with protection and prosperity and a huge number of Yazidis no longer consider the country home.
Bashar had been reluctant to make such a life-changing move, but finally decided that his best chance of creating a home again lay outside of the country.
The journey in pursuit of a better life was somewhat easier for those who had worked with the US army during the 2003 invasion of Iraq and for those sponsored by European countries, but many Yazidis had to take irregular routes, putting their fate at the mercy of the waves of the sea and snow-covered forests in search for a better life.
Lincoln, Nebraska, already home to thousands of Yazidis, became the favorite choice for those who used to work for the American army and were fleeing ISIS atrocities. Bashar was one of them.
He arrived in Lincoln along with his wife and daughter in 2017. The couple had two more daughters born in the US. In 2018, he joined Community Crops, a non-profit organization that supports local agriculture. He began working as a translator but soon found an unexpected love for farming. Today, he is responsible for 12 acres of farmland, in addition to providing translation services for Yazidi farmers.
"When I first came here, it was really difficult as I could not speak good English and I had to work at a factory for three to four months and also worked at markets," Bashar said, stating that the Yazidi Cultural Center helped him improve his English and join Community Crops.
"I joined this job to improve my English. Then I started to love nature and soil and wanted to help my community to find the right seeds of vegetables we could not find in USA markets," he told Rudaw English.
In addition to wanting to grow the familiar vegetables that are part of the northern Iraqi diet, Bashar wished that Nebraska’s plains had mountains like Shingal.
Bashar’s success story has been widely featured in US media. He has given many interviews about the tragedy he witnessed in Shingal and the start of a new life in Lincoln.
"We are a small Shingal here. We are building it and we have our freedom to talk and work and feel we are not second class, we feel we are home," he said.
Lincoln is home to the largest community of Yazidis in the US, numbering about 3,500, according to unofficial figures Rudaw English obtained from the Yazidi Cultural Center - the most prominent Yazidi center helping immigrants colonists start new lives in the US and integrate into the American community. The center is affiliated with the non-profit organization Yazda.
Ahmed Mastto, the director of the center, told Rudaw English that they offer Yazidis translation services and help them find jobs. The American government has been financially supporting the center since its establishment in 2017.
Bashar also works as a translator at the center.
The first Yazidi family is believed to have moved to the city in the late nineties. They faced many challenges, primarily when learning English and finding jobs. Those who fled ISIS atrocities struggled with the additional challenge of overcoming the trauma they experienced.
Mastto was in the town of Khanasor, on the north side of Mount Shingal, when ISIS attacked. He was displaced to a camp in Duhok’s Zakho district before moving to the US along with his wife and four children in 2016. Working as a translator for the US army in 2004 paved his path of immigration to Nebraska.
His aunt and her family were kidnapped by ISIS. She was able to escape, but her husband and their son remain missing.
Asked why he chose to live in Lincoln, Mastto replied, "because the largest Yazidi community is here and we practice our religion freely and we do whatever we did back in Shingal."
He said Yazidis are also treated with a lot of respect by the local community.
Lincoln Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird told Rudaw English that they are "proud" to host the largest Yazidi community in the US.
"In Lincoln, Nebraska, we are proud to be home to the largest community of Yazidi refugees in the United States. Through years of collaborative efforts by local organizations and individuals, we have created strategies to ensure that refugees are fully included in our community's economic, social, civic, and cultural life," she said.
"We believe that, by fostering a welcoming and inclusive community, we create new opportunities for everyone in our capital city," added the mayor.
She visited Bashar and other Yazidi farmers in 2021.
Community Crops has helped Yazidis wanting to farm.
"Our nonprofit program has worked with New American families from all over the world in our garden program for many years. Many Yazidi were gardeners with us. As they asked for more and more land and we learned more about their backgrounds, we realized this community had many experienced farmers that might want to create new farm businesses here in Nebraska. From this, the Yazidi Farmers Project was born," Megan McGuffey, Community Crops program coordinator, told Rudaw English.
Bashar has been working with them as a translator and interpreter since the early days of the project. It was through this program that he and his wife decided to become farmers.
Bashar has become "an integral part" of the organization, McGuffey said.
About ten Yazidis have participated in the Yazidi Farmers Project over several years.
Bashar said farmers from Shingal grow vegetables in large quantities, including several types of produce that are new to Lincoln markets such as varieties of pepper, eggplant, and cutting celery.
"We are trying to help farmers to sell their vegetables through Yazidi markets or Arab markets. We are building our relationship to sell to other American markets too," he said.
McGuffey said that although farming requires extremely hard work and marketing the products is a challenge, Yazidi farmers have "shown real resilience in pursuing their farm business dreams."
Some of the Yazidis, who used to farm on Mount Shingal before the ISIS attack, have transferred their experience to Lincoln.
"The knowledge and skill of the Yazidi farmers we work with is impressive. They are constantly experimenting to improve their farms and are always willing to learn new skills and ideas to improve their farm businesses," McGuffey said, adding that a "bright" future awaits them.
Murad Ismail, a prominent Yazidi activist, told Rudaw English that the United States is one of the most hospitable countries and that American people respect Yazidi faith and culture, "something we lacked in our environment back home."
He recently visited Bashar and other Yazidi farmers and was impressed by their work. He explained why most Yazidis prefer Lincoln to other American cities.
"The main reason people settled here is that when the first group of Yazidis came in the '90s, they were Yazidi Iraqis who became refugees in Syria. A group of them settled in Lincoln randomly by the resettlement agency; others were sent to other states, but the Lincoln group became a kind of attraction for them. Lincoln makes sense as it is a small town, easier to live in than big cities, and it's economically doing well too. When new Yazidis arrived after 2007, it was natural for them to come to Lincoln because a large community was already here," he stated.
He explained that preservation of the Yazidi culture and faith is one of the advantages of living where there is an existing community.
"There are weddings here every month, Yazidis have a cemetery where they bury their dead, and people come together all the time. In many ways, they have recreated the life they once had," said Ismail, who co-founded Yazda.
There are challenges as well, he noted, including how much Yazidis can integrate into American society and accept American norms.
Khalida Shamo was only a baby when ISIS attacked her home in Shingal. Her family fled and moved to Nebraska when she turned four.
Now 16, Shamo told Nebraska Public Media on the tenth anniversary of the genocide that she teaches her school peers about the massacre.
"It was really scary. Even though it didn’t impact me directly, it still did because it was my family... It’s hard hearing your grandma cry over the phone because she doesn’t want to leave the place that she grew up in," she said.
Her grandmother finally joined them in the US, but her grandfather chose to stay in Shingal.
Matthew Miller, spokesperson for the US State Department, said on the tenth anniversary of the genocide on August 3 that the survivors "bear the painful scars" of that catastrophic day.
"We urge continued implementation of the Yezidi Survivors’ Law and full application of the security, reconstruction, and administrative provisions of the 2020 Sinjar Agreement, in consultation with the communities that call Sinjar home," he said in a statement.
Iraq’s parliament passed the Yazidi Survivors Bill in 2021, after it languished in the legislature for two years. It offers reparations to the survivors of ISIS, but implementation has been criticized as flawed.
"Implementation of the law will need to be focused comprehensively supporting & sustainably reintegrating survivors," Nadia Murad, one of the survivors of the genocide said in a post on X (then Twitter). She is a prominent Yazidi activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
The 2020 agreement Miller referred to was signed between the Iraqi government and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in a bid to normalize the situation in Shingal, especially its security. Both sides have accused the other of not implementing it.
The presence of several gangs, including ones linked to Baghdad and Erbil, has hindered efforts to restore life in the town, making many Yazidis sheltering in the Kurdistan Region reluctant to return to their homes, despite pressure from the Iraqi government.
Bashar still considers Shingal his home, but does not plan to return.
"I see Lincoln as my second home after Shingal," he said, adding that he prefers living in Lincoln. "I have a normal life now."
He hopes for better lives for his relatives who have chosen to remain in Shingal or have not yet had a chance to leave.
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I'd expect no less from a true son of Adam. He sounds more American than many Americans.
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When I first moved to Texas, I was amused to see refrigerator magnets and cross stitch pieces saying "I wasn't born in Texas, but I got here as quick as I could". After living there for a while, I came to understand the sentiment.
There are a lot of Americans living out there in the world. Not all of them have gotten here yet.
Nobody outside Pakistan cares about your posturing, and precious few within it.
[GEO.TV] Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...Assembly of Islamic Clergy, or JUI, is a Pak Deobandi (Hanafi) political party. There are two main branches, one led by Maulana Fazlur Rahman, and one that was led by Maulana Samiul Haq. Fazl is active in Pak politix and Sami spent more time running his madrassah until his secretary rubbed him out in a jealous rage. Both branches sponsor branches of the Taliban, though with plausible deniability... (JUI-F) Chief Maulana Fazal ur Rehman has denounced the killing of Hezbollah leader His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...> as an act of terrorism.
Condemning the killing of Hezbollah leader, Fazal said: ''Hassan Nasrullah's life is a struggle against Israel. The martyrdom of Hasan Nasrullah will strengthen the resistance against Israel.''
Rally from Shah Khorasan to Ali Raza Imam Bargah on MA Jinnah Road was carried out as the road to Jama Cloth was closed for traffic, according to the traffic police.
The police also informed that traffic was being diverted from Numaish Chowrangi to Lines area.
Moreover, rallies from Ancholi Imam Bargah to Shahrah-e-Pakistan and Gulistan society to Jamali bridge also took place.
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"(JUI-F) Chief Maulana Fazal ur Rehman has denounced the killing of Hezbollah leader His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah..." the Maulana [religious leader] has been making news since 1990, when at a meeting in Lahore he publicly supported Osama Bin Laden. He is rather like the Pakistani answer to Reverand Al Sharpton.
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[GEO.TV] Geo News correspondent, Haider Sherazi, covering the Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... 's (PTI) planned protest in Rawalpindi, was beaten up by the local police and taken into custody.
Sherazi was covering the former ruling party's protest at Islamabad toll plaza, where the PTI workers and supporters clashed with the police.
The journalist introduced himself to the charged cops many times, however, they kept beating him up along with other journalists and snatched their mobile phones.
Sherazi received wounds on his face and head due to the police torture.
The journalists were beaten up by the on-duty police officials when they filmed PTI protesters who opened a blocked route after resisting the cops.
Speaking to Geo News, Inspector General (IG) Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Usman Anwar assured that the issue of police maltreatment of the journalists would be addressed.
Pointing towards festivities between PTI workers and police teams, Anwar said that the incident might have occurred due to the prevailing tense situation in Rawalpindi.
He added that he has contacted the city police officer (CPO) Rawalpindi to resolve the issue at the earliest.
Following the Punjab police chief's directives, CPO Rawalpindi Khalid Hamdani ordered the suspension of the officials involved in torturing the journalists.
He vowed that the police department would address the grievances of the journalists who were subjected to torture.
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[IsraelTimes] Norway and Saudi Arabia co-host a conference attended by 90 countries on sidelines of UN General Assembly to accelerate statehood, bolster two-state solution
Norway’s last effort in this direction, so highly trumpeted at the time, was such a dismal failure that they insist on doing it again. Joy.
European, Arab and Islamic nations have launched an initiative to strengthen support for a Paleostinian state and its institutions, and prepare for a future after 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... and escalating conflict in Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled (until yesterday) 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... , Norway’s foreign minister said Friday.
Espen Barth Eide told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that "there is a growing consensus in the international community from Western countries, from Arab countries, from the Global South, that we need to establish a Paleostinian Authority, a Paleostinian government, a Paleostinian state — and the Paleostinian state has to be recognized."
Eide said many issues need to be addressed, including the security interests of Israel and the Paleostinians, recognition and normalization of relations after decades of conflict and the demobilization of Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... as a military group.
"These are pieces of a bigger puzzle," Norway’s chief diplomat said. "And you can’t just come in there with one of these pieces, because it only works if all the pieces are laid in place."
But even if the puzzle is completed, it’s unlikely to gain traction with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has long been opposed to a Paleostinian state. Israel also argues that pushing ahead with such a move now would be a reward for terror in the wake of the October 7 massacre by Hamas that killed some 1,200 people and took 251 hostages.
Still, Eide believes that after decades of failed or stalled negotiations, "we need to take a new approach" to achieving an independent Paleostinian state.
To accelerate work on these issues, Eide said almost 90 countries attended a meeting Thursday on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly’s current gathering of world leaders. He and Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat Frational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start... ’s foreign minister co-chaired the session to launch "The Global Alliance for the Implementation of a Paleostinian State and a Two-State Solution."
"We have to see how we can come out of this deadlock and try to use this deep crisis also as an opportunity to move forward," Eide told a UN Security Council meeting on Gaza later Friday.
Norway is the guarantor of the 1993 Oslo Accords, hailed as a breakthrough in the decades-long conflict between Arabs and Jews, which created the Paleostinian Authority and set up self-rule areas in the Paleostinian Authority. Eide said more than 30 years later, Israel’s "occupation" is continuing, and there are no negotiations leading to a final settlement and an independent Paleostinian state — which led to Norway’s decision in May to recognize a Paleostinian state.
Now, 149 of the UN’s 193 member nations have recognized a Paleostinian state. Eide urged all countries "to contribute to universal recognition" and strengthen Paleostinian institutions so they live up to the expectations of people in the West Bank and are prepared to return to Gaza: "We want one Paleostine, not different Paleostines," he said.
Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan al-Saud told the UN Security Council on Friday that his country, the joint Islamic-Arab ministerial committee, Norway and the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... launched the alliance "because we feel responsible to act to change the reality of the conflict without delay."
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell urged all countries to take practical measures "to bring about the free Paleostine next to a secure Israel."
Borrell said on X that the first meetings of the alliance would be in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and Brussels.
Borrell asked rhetorically of anyone who opposes a two-state solution: What is the solution, and can it be implemented? He stressed that work on this initiative will move ahead quickly.
Eide said this new effort is built on the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative, "but updated to today’s reality."
The 2002 initiative, endorsed by the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... and the 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation, offered Israel normalized relations in exchange for a full withdrawal from territories captured in 1967.
He said efforts started long ago to build the institutions of a Paleostinian state.
"It’s difficult," Eide said. "Their hands are tied in many ways. We’re seeing an increasing amount of illegal settlements and settle violence."
"But still, there is an embryonic institution there that we have to strengthen," he said.
Eide said he chaired a meeting Thursday of the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee for the Building of Paleostinian Institutions, with the United States, Canada, the EU and many Mideast and European countries contributing.
"None of these tools will solve the problem on their own, and we never pretended that, but we’re trying to build a body of instruments that will take us forward to a peaceful settlement," Eide said. "And I am convinced it will happen here."
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They had that chance in 1948 but instead launched with their Arab allies a war of destruction against Israel, which has been going on since with various interruptions.
Turkey's Erdogan condemns Israeli attacks in Lebanon, calls for UN action to stop them The UN, of course, is noted for stopping stuff.
[GEO.TV] Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday condemned Israel's recent attacks in Lebanon as part of what he called an Israeli policy of "genocide, occupation, and invasion", urging the UN Security Council and other bodies to stop Israel.
The Hezbollah group said on Saturday its leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, has been killed, confirming his death after the Israeli military said it had eliminated him in an airstrike in Beirut the day before.
The Friday attack on Hezbollah's south Beirut stronghold that killed the Iran-backed group's leader was a "shameful attack" and "a crime that shows the Zionist entity has crossed all the red lines", Sudani said in a statement, calling Nasrallah "a martyr on the path of the righteous".
Hamas condemns Nasrallah's killing as 'cowardly terrorist act'
[GEO.TV] Hamas on Saturday condemned the killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah after the Lebanon-based group confirmed his death in an Israeli strike on south Beirut a day earlier.
"We condemn in the strongest terms this barbaric Zionist aggression and targeting of residential buildings... and we consider it a cowardly terrorist act," the group said in a statement, offering "condolences, and solidarity with the brothers in Hezbollah and the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon on the martyrdom of... Nasrallah". Quite unlike the brave murder of 1200 Israelis...
The Times of Israel collected reports and tweets of people rejoicing over Nasrallah’s death here.
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That is a paraphrase of a comment in the Babylonian Talmud. It appears first in Tractate Berachtot 58 and later with slight changes in two other places.
The context is that this is the duty of an individual. How it applies to communities or a nation is discussed in later commentaries. For example Maimonides discusses at length the conditions under which a town may defend itself on the sabbath.
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[GEO.TV] Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant was holding talks late on Saturday on possibly expanding Israel's military offensive on its northern front, his office said in a statement.
"Minister of Defence Yoav Gallant is currently conducting an operational situation assessment regarding the expansion of IDF (Israel Defence Forces) activities in the northern arena," his office said.
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[REGNUM] On the afternoon of September 27, Israel launched a massive strike on the Dahya district, a Shiite suburb of Beirut where Tel Aviv believes Hezbollah's underground headquarters are located.
Two-ton bombs that could pierce concrete were dropped on a block of high-rise buildings, under which the movement's leadership was allegedly located. The attack killed about 700 people.
The strike on the Beirut suburb was the first time since the Second Lebanon Campaign (2006) that the Israeli leadership identified residential buildings as a target rather than classifying them as “collateral damage.”
Israel explains this by following the “Dahya doctrine,” which implies a disproportionately destructive strike on the enemy’s infrastructure in response to every hostile attack.
This time, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) managed to maximize the response to the repeated shelling of Israeli territory by striking the entire top brass of Hezbollah - at a time when a meeting was taking place at the movement's headquarters on further operations against the Israelis.
In addition to Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah, the raid also killed Ali Karaki, commander of the Southern Front, whose units were supposed to bear the first brunt of the Israeli ground operation in Lebanon.
The high probability of Nasrallah and his associates being killed is indicated, in particular, by the fact that the Secretary General's daughter Zeinab, who often accompanied her father during military operations, was identified among the bodies recovered from the rubble in the Dahya region.
Tehran reacted painfully to the incident, immediately convening a meeting of the Supreme National Security Council under the leadership of the country's spiritual leader Ali Khamenei. Although the Iranian press continues to actively disseminate information that the Hezbollah Secretary General was not injured as a result of the Israeli attack and "is in a safe place."
However, exactly the same wording was used in the first hours after the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in a plane crash.
Apparently, Tehran was also caught off guard by the Israeli operation. At least, there have been no clear statements about retaliatory actions from the Iranian authorities. "In addition" to the unavenged head of the Hamas politburo Ismail Haniyeh, there will probably be talk of "retaliation" for Nasrallah.
The rest of the “Axis of Resistance” also refrained from making any assessments, apparently not wanting to conflict with official Tehran.
ALMOST WITHOUT GUIDANCE
In the weeks since Israel's combined attacks on Hezbollah, which began with a high-profile "pager attack," Israel has succeeded in significantly changing the balance of power in the conflict.
The movement was clearly not ready for a consistent and methodical hunt for its key commanders, considering Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statements about the “inevitability of retribution” to be another game for the public.
The IDF's information materials report that the Israeli armed forces have succeeded in effectively decapitating Hezbollah and disrupting the system of command and control of key units that had been built up over the years.
Thus, after the strike on Nasrallah’s underground bunker, only one commander allegedly remained in the movement’s chain of command: the commander of the Badr special forces, Abu Ali Rida, who is responsible for the “second line of defense” between the Litani River and the city of Saida.
However, his status is also disputed by a number of Israeli officers who believe that Ali Rida was killed in a "pager attack," but Hezbollah is unwilling to publicly acknowledge this information.
The Israeli operation, which received the telling name "New World Order", dealt a serious blow to Hezbollah's combat capability and also significantly brought closer the start of the ground phase of the operation in the Israeli-Lebanese border area. Even if Nasrallah managed to survive, the death of Karaki very inopportunely exposed the southern borders of the movement's defense line, which the IDF will not fail to take advantage of.
THE US IS "NOT IN THE KNOW"
Despite the fact that the US and Israel have closely coordinated on security issues for many years, and Tel Aviv uses American satellite infrastructure for some intelligence operations, Washington was once again among the last to learn about the “Lebanese adventure.”
The Israeli military leadership allegedly notified the Pentagon of its actions when the aircraft had already entered Lebanese airspace. Moreover, the real target of the strike was not advertised by the Israelis until information emerged about the “high probability” of eliminating Nasrallah.
The likelihood that the US really was not aware of Israel's plans is not very high. Especially since Prime Minister Netanyahu gave the order to strike Dahya while in New York, having previously communicated closely with high-ranking US officials in the corridors of the UN.
Given the general sentiments of the American administration, the issues of the IDF’s further actions in the Lebanese direction could not fail to be touched upon during these conversations.
Washington's feigned ignorance is easily explained. It allows the US to position the Israelis' actions as "exclusively independent" (even if they contradict the White House's general line) and not to violate its obligations as the guarantor of the settlement.
The United States continues to adhere to this tactic today: the Pentagon and the White House continue to demonstratively dissuade Israel from conducting a ground operation in Lebanon, calling it “the wrong step,” but Tel Aviv is unlikely to abandon these plans.
Moreover, it would be an unaffordable luxury for the Israeli General Staff not to take advantage of the “tactical confusion” that arose after the attack on Dahya, allowing Hezbollah to recover from the shock.
In this regard, there is a possibility that the White House and the Pentagon will once again learn about the Israeli sortie “at the last moment,” but for some reason will be completely prepared for it.
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He is just pissed the guys they having been paying for 40 years who were sitting in the bunker could not get out. Was a big waste of money in my opinion
#4
Got his fat arse chewed for having an intelligence gap. "Two State Solution" in the ditch again.....where it belongs.
Netanyahu, Gallant and company have a limited window remaining to take care of business. If Harris makes it to the WH, the military aid and intel will likely be terminated on Day-1. It is what it is.
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/\ No "notification" required on that one, it was purely a business decision.
USI using a Polio Vaccine program as a surveillance cover? Paki Doctor/Intel Asset disappears, never to be heard from again? Most heavily radar covered border in that part of the world and nobody saw anything? JSOC on the ground for 45 minutes, no Paki jets scambled. Extraction (less one helo) goes without a hitch? Obama soon to be re-elected following raid? OBL family members also extracted, status unknown.
[Rudaw] 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... on Saturday received the remains of 98 soldiers killed during the brutal eight-year war with Iraq in the 1980s, state media announced.
"The remains of the bodies of 98 Iranian deaders of Iraq’s imposed war on Iran (1980-88) were transported to the country through the Shalamcheh International Border Crossing in southwest Iran," Iran’s state IRNA news agency said.
The bodies will be transported to Iran’s southwestern city of Ahvaz en route to Tehran, said Mohammed Baqerzadeh, head of the Iranian committee responsible for recovering bodies of the Iran-Iraq war soldiers.
The soldiers were killed during numerous battles fought in the southern Iraqi provinces of Maysan and Basra.
Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s Baathist Iraq and the newly-formed Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran fought a devastating war more than three decades ago, from 1980 to 1988, during which about one million lives from each side were lost.
Tehran and Baghdad in 2008 signed an agreement under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Thingy (ICRC) regarding the exchange of information and handing over remains of missing persons during the war. The remains of hundreds of soldiers have been returned since then.
Please express some strong language on my behalf, dear Reader. I lack the vocabulary, a clear fault in my education.
[IsraelTimes] US State Department orders some employees at Beirut embassy to leave Lebanon amid escalating tensions following assassination.
US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. We get to suffer the consequences... on Saturday welcomed Israel’s liquidation of Hezbollah leader His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...> as bringing a "measure of justice" for his many victims, but called for diplomatic agreements to end the fighting in 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... and 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... "Hassan Nasrallah and the terrorist group he led, Hezbollah, were responsible for killing hundreds of Americans over a four-decade reign of terror. His death from an Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... is a measure of justice for his many victims, including thousands of Americans, Israelis, and Lebanese civilians," Biden said in a statement.
He noted that the Friday strike on Hezbollah’s headquarters in Beirut that killed Nasrallah was a response to the terror group’s decision to open up a "northern front" against Israel after Hamas ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... ’s October 7 onslaught.
"The United States fully supports Israel’s right to defend itself against Hezbollah, Hamas, the Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... s, and any other Iranian-supported terrorist groups," Biden stressed, adding that he had directed Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday to bolster the US military’s force posture in the Middle East in order to deter 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... from further escalation.
"Ultimately, our aim is to de-escalate the ongoing conflicts in both Gaza and Lebanon through diplomatic means," the US president asserted, referencing the efforts to reach a ceasefire and hostage release deal for Gaza and an agreement that would allow civilians in south Lebanon and northern Israel to return to their homes.
Notably, he didn’t explicitly refer to the 21-day ceasefire initiative for Lebanon that he announced on Wednesday, which has all but fallen apart.
Some reports in Hebrew media Friday had indicated there was anger in Washington at Israel for carrying out the strike that killed Nasrallah since the Americans were attempting to secure a ceasefire agreement for Lebanon.
"It is time for these deals to close, for the threats to Israel to be removed, and for the broader Middle East region to gain greater stability," Biden concluded.
US Vice President Kamala Harris What can be, unburdened by what has been echoed Biden’s sentiment that Nasrallah’s killing brought a measure of justice for "countless innocent people in Lebanon, Israel, Syria, and around the world."
Harris added that she had an "unwavering commitment" to Israel’s security and would "always support Israel’s right to defend itself against Iran and Iran-backed terrorist groups."
However,
man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... she also said that she and Biden "do not want to see conflict in the Middle East escalate into a broader regional war" and were working on a diplomatic solution.
"Diplomacy remains the best path forward to protect civilians and achieve lasting stability in the region," she argued.
US House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, echoed the praise for Nasrallah’s killing, saying it ended his "reign of bloodshed, oppression, and terror," but rejected their call for a diplomatic solution.
"A puppet of the Iranian regime, [Nasrallah] was one of the most brutal Death Eaters on the planet, and a coward who hid behind women and kiddies to carry out his attacks. Thanks to the brave men and women of the Israeli military, justice was delivered for Israeli victims of his heinous crimes, their families, and the United States. The world is better off without him," he wrote.
Johnson also called on the "Biden-Harris administration to end its counter-productive calls for a ceasefire and its ongoing diplomatic pressure campaign against Israel."
"Nasrallah’s death is a major step forward for the Middle East, and today’s victory for peace and security should be used to reassert America’s ironclad support for Israel as it fights for its very right to exist," he concluded.
Nasrallah’s killing came at the end of an intense week of Israeli strikes on Hezbollah targets in Lebanon in which the IDF killed the vast majority of the terrorist organization’s top leadership.
Following the liquidation, the US Department of State ordered some employees at its embassy in Beirut and their eligible family members on Saturday to leave Lebanon amid escalating tensions.
"US Embassy Beirut personnel are restricted from personal travel without advance permission," the State Department said in a statement. "Additional travel restrictions may be imposed on US personnel under Chief of Mission security responsibility, with little to no notice due to increased security issues or threats."
UK reiterates call for immediate ceasefire in Lebanon
[GEO.TV] British Foreign Secretary David Lammy said he had spoken with Lebanon's Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Saturday, following an Israeli airstrike on Beirut which killed Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.
"We agreed on the need for an immediate ceasefire to bring an end to the bloodshed. A diplomatic solution is the only way to restore security and stability for the Lebanese and Israeli people," Lammy said. Ohferwgawdsake. Dipshits like Nasrallah start wars. Militaries like Israel's end them. Diplomacy extends the agony. Ask any Tamil Tiger.
In a statement following a call with Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot also calls on Hezbollah and Iran to refrain from any action that could destabilize the region further, after Israel yesterday assassinated the Lebanon-based terror group’s chief, Hassan Nasrallah.
What else does danger do?
[GEO.TV] Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati said on Saturday that his country was facing the threat of danger, after an Israeli airstrike the previous day killed the head of powerful Lebanese armed group Hassan Nasrallah.
Mikati was speaking at an emergency cabinet meeting that he convened upon returning from the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Mikati also announced that all state-run institutions would be closed on Monday.
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Businessman bio: Najib Mikati was born on November 24, 1955, in Tripoli, Lebanon. He comes from a prominent Sunni Muslim family in the city. Mikati graduated from the American University of Beirut in 1980 with an MBA degree. He also attended summer school programs at Harvard and INSEAD.
Read more at: https://www.goodreturns.in/najib-mikati-net-worth-and-biography-blnr1001.html
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Hey Najib, if you Sunnis & Moronites & Druse weren't such pussies ...
[GEO.TV] Hashem Safieddine, a potential successor to his slain cousin His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...> , is one of Hezbollah's most prominent figures and has deep religious and family ties to the Iran.
Safieddine bears a striking resemblance to his charismatic maternal cousin Nasrallah but is several years his junior, aged in his late 50s or early 60s.
A source close to Hezbollah, requesting anonymity as they were not authorised to speak to the media, said the grey-bearded, bespectacled Safieddine was the "most likely" candidate for the party's top job.
The United States and Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat Frational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start... put Safieddine, who is a member of Hezbollah's powerful decision-making Shura Council, on their respective lists of designated "terrorists" in 2017.
The US Treasury described him as "a big shot" in Hezbollah and "a key member" of its executive.
While Hezbollah deputy chief Naim Qassem ... the Grand Vizier of the Hezbullies... automatically takes over the Hezbollah leadership after Nasrallah's death, the Shura Council must meet to elect a new secretary-general.
Safieddine has strong ties with 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... after undertaking religious studies in the holy city of Qom.
Like Nasrallah, Safieddine wears the black turban denoting ostensible descent from Islam’s Prophet Mohammed.
Safieddine’s public statements often reflect Hezbollah’s alignment with the Palestinian cause.
Nasrallah “started tailoring positions for him within a variety of different councils within Lebanese Hezbollah. Some of them were more opaque than others. They’ve had him come, go out and speak,” said Phillip Smyth, an expert who studies Iran-backed Shiite terrorist organizations.
Safieddine’s family ties and a physical resemblance to Nasrallah, as well as his religious status as a descendant of Mohammed, would all count in his favor.
He has also been vocal in his criticism of US policy. In response to American pressure on Hezbollah, he stated in 2017, “This mentally impeded, crazy US administration headed by [Donald] Trump will not be able to harm the resistance.”
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Reference the 'Black Turbin'; historically families have paid big money to genealogists to 'prove' their relationship to the Prophet Muhamad. In places like Egypt, Sudan and Libya it is a racket that has survived for years.
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Per Islamic sayings Mohammad had no sons but one daughter, Fatima. Fatima married Ali, the first Iman of Shia (assasinated in about 661) and had two sons, Hasen (the 2nd Iman either poisoned or died of disease in about 680) and Husayn (the 3rd Iman died in battle about 680).
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Mohammad had no sons but one daughter, Fatima
Failure. Allah's wishes.
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