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Russia bombing aid destined for Gaza, British intelligence claims The strikes on ports in Ukraine have reportedly delayed transport to the Gaza enclave, where Palestinian civilians have reportedly suffered a humanitarian crisis as a result of the war against Hamas.
So, Ukrainians sending "humanitarian aid" to Gaza?
Any secondary explosions? (Asking for a friend)
[ShabelleMedia] Æthiopia’s authorities have sentenced 60 members of the Somalia-based bully boy group al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... to prison terms of between 2.5 and 18 years, following their arrest after crossing into Æthiopia from Somalia.
The bully boys, captured during a July 2022 operation in Æthiopia’s Afdheer region, were part of a broader scheme to establish a foothold in the country’s Somali region, exploiting perceived security gaps.
Æthiopian Federal Police confirmed that two senior al-Shabaab figures among the group received life sentences, while the rest faced varying terms reflective of their involvement in the organization’s activities.
Furthermore, investigations continue into 95 other suspects linked to al-Shabaab, highlighting Æthiopia’s resolute stand against terrorism as it seeks to maintain stability in the Horn of Africa, a region long plagued by bully boy activities.
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[Regnum] The Shiite military-political movement Ansar Allah (Houthis), which rules northern Yemen, announced the first strike using a hypersonic missile on an Israeli military base in Tel Aviv.
"The Yemeni armed forces carried out a high-quality military operation against the Israeli enemy's military base in the east of the occupied Jaffa region using the Palestine-2 hypersonic ballistic missile," Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saria said in a statement on his Telegram channel.
According to Saria, the launched missile “successfully reached its targets, bypassing American and Israeli interception systems.” He also called the attack on the Israeli military base part of the “fifth stage of escalation” in the confrontation with Israel.
On October 21, Regnum reported that at least three people were killed and more than 10 were wounded in an Israeli air strike in southern Beirut. The strikes were believed to have targeted the outskirts of Beirut, where the Shiite organization Hezbollah was based and its supporters lived.
On October 19, the Israeli army attacked a Hezbollah intelligence command center in the Lebanese capital. The IDF emphasized that the military targets were located under residential buildings in central Beirut.
On September 23, the IDF launched a "preemptive" offensive against Hezbollah, which is based in Lebanon. Chief of Staff Herzi Halevy explained that the Israeli military is also preparing for the next stages of the conflict, which he promised to talk about later.
[Rudaw] Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani on Tuesday announced the killing of the so-called "Iraq Governor" 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) along with eight big shots of the group, as Baghdad tightens the noose around jihadist remnants in the country.
"I congratulate our honorable people on the killing of the so-called (Iraq Governor) in the terrorist organization ISIS and 8 of the organization’s big shots in a heroic and qualitative operation," Sudani said on X.
The Iraqi army operation targeted ISIS bases in the Hamrin Mountains, a hotbed for jihadist activity and part of territories disputed between the federal Iraqi government and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) - where the majority of anti-ISIS campaigns in the country take place.
[IsraelTimes] Cpl. Shai Gilboa photographed providing medical assistance to a Palestinian woman injured in the face by Hamas gunfire while trying to get to a designated safe zone
Civilians 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 a rusty 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... are being shot by Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... holy warriors while trying to evacuate from Jabaliya in the north of the Strip amid a renewed IDF offensive, an Israeli paramedic charged in an interview Monday, after she was photographed providing medical treatment to a Paleostinian woman suffering from wounds to the face.
Cpl. Shai Gilboa, who is serving as a paramedic in the IDF’s 9th Battalion, told Channel 12 that a photograph of her tending to a woman with an injury on her lower face was the result of Hamas’s attempts to prevent civilians from heeding Israeli orders to evacuate to designated safe zones as fighting rages anew across northern Gaza.
"Our battalion went into action to exert as much military pressure as possible on Hamas terrorists, who held the civilian population in the area and forbade them from evacuating to a safe area," Gilboa recounted.
During the operation, she said, holy warriors in the area had opened fire and maimed some of the Gazooks who were trying to flee.
"The maimed came to us and we provided them with first aid in the field, which mostly entailed stopping the bleeding," she said.
From there, she explained, they were evacuated from the area and directed toward "local medical forces" in the area for further treatment.
She said that while her battalion’s primary objective is to "fight against and subdue" Hamas activity in northern Gaza, they are also determined to evacuate as much of the civilian population to safety as possible.
Asked whether the civilians speak to the troops, and what the relationship is between the Israeli forces and the Paleostinians in the war-torn areas they are sent to operate in, Gilboa admitted that the language barrier was one of several reasons that interactions tended to be limited.
"But they smile at us, they wave goodbye at us," she said, "they curse Hamas in front of us."
"Not only are they not afraid of us, a lot of them are on our side," she added.
The IDF said earlier this week that hundreds of Paleostinian civilians have listened to calls for them to evacuate Jabaliya in recent days amid a renewed IDF offensive aimed at preventing Hamas from regrouping in the area.
The evacuations were taking place despite the Hamas-run interior ministry ordering civilians earlier this month to ignore the instructions to relocate to other safer areas in the Strip, because "the occupation is conducting continued bombing and killing every day in the areas it claims to be safe."
The terror organization further accused Israel of carrying out an intentional "massacre against the civilians" in Jabaliya as a way to punish them for refusing to leave their homes.
Reports of Hamas harming civilians trying to flee to safer areas of Gaza are not new, and the IDF has for years accused the terror group of using human shields and embedding its operatives deep within the civilian population to protect itself amid fighting with Israel, and says that it seeks to avoid civilian casualties.
According to a joint IDF and Shin Bet statement, the command post embedded within the Abu Hussein School was being used by the terror operatives to plan and carry out attacks against Israel and troops in Gaza.
The IDF and Shin Bet name 18 members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad killed in the strike.
Palestinian media reported 24 dead and 150 wounded in the strike.
The statement says the operatives were behind rocket fire on Israel, and were planning additional attacks in recent days. The army says it worked to mitigate civilian harm in the strike, including by using a precision munition, aerial surveillance, and other intelligence.
IDF: 3 Hezbollah regional unit commanders killed in airstrikes in recent days
[IsraelTimes] Three Hezbollah regional unit commanders were killed in Israeli airstrikes in the past two days, the IDF says. According to the military, strikes carried out by fighter jets in the previous 48 hours targeted and killed the commanders of Hezbollah’s Jibchit, Jouaiyya and Qana areas. The commanders were responsible for rocket and missile fire on Israeli towns from their respective areas, the IDF says.
Meanwhile, in the past day alone, the military says that some 70 Hezbollah operatives were killed in airstrikes and ground operations in southern Lebanon. Troops also located and destroyed tunnels and caches of weapons, the IDF adds.
Dozens of terror suspects detained in northern Gaza, says IDF
[IsraelTimes] Dozens of suspected terror operatives have been detained by Israeli troops amid an ongoing operation in northern Gaza’s Jabaliya, the IDF says. The suspects were detained as the army ordered Palestinian civilians to evacuate the area, where heavy fighting is taking place.
In the past day, the IDF says troops killed numerous gunmen and seized weapons during the operation in Jabaliya.
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For Hamas such behavior is legitimate and no reason to feel shame.
Hamas and other theocratic totalitarians are not formally committed to the survival or the welfare of even a part of the population under their control, unlike the big totalitarian movements of the 20th century.
Humans are slaves and tools of Allah and Hamas are the enforcers of Allah's will. They are for Allah to use as he sees fit.
[IsraelTimes] A million Israelis spend an hour in shelters as IDF chases UAV; Beirut hospital tries to prove no Hezbollah cash bunker is inside, as army gives directions to hard-to-find bunker
Two Israeli reservists were killed and three others were maimed on Tuesday, as the Israeli military battled Hezbollah in Leb ...an Iranian satrapy until recently 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 the Iran-backed terror group fired dozens of projectiles at north Israel, with a drone infiltration sending a million people to bomb shelters for an hour.
One of the slain soldiers — named as Maj. (res.) Aviram Hariv, 42, the deputy commander of the Alon Brigade’s 9308th Battalion, from Dolev — was killed during fighting in southern Lebanon.
Another — named as Master Sgt. (res.) Saar Eliad Navarsky, 27, of the 7338th "Adirim" Artillery Regiment’s 508th Battalion, from Tel Aviv — was killed in a rocket barrage on northern Israel.
Three other soldiers of the artillery battalion were seriously maimed in the rocket barrage, the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement.
Ten rockets were launched from Lebanon at the Neot Mordechai area in the Galilee Panhandle amid the attack.
In the afternoon, a separate barrage of some 30 rockets was launched from Lebanon at the Upper and Western Galilee, the IDF said.
The Magen David Adom ambulance service said glass shards lightly injured a 32-year-old man. He was taken to a hospital.
The military said some rockets were intercepted, and impacts were identified in the area.
Hezbollah fired at least 65 rockets at Israel on Tuesday, including at central Israel in the morning.
In the evening, sirens warning of a suspected drone infiltration sounded along Israel’s northern coast, sending around a million Israelis into shelters. The IDF Home Front Command said the incident ended after over an hour.
The IDF said the drone was launched from Lebanon and likely impacted an open area, although it hadn’t located it.
According to the military, the drone was first spotted near Rosh Hanikra, and it was tracked as it flew toward the Yokne’am area, amid attempts to intercept it.
From there, the Israeli Air Force lost contact with the drone, but the Home Front Command continued to activate sirens in several towns based on the predicted south-bound route of the drone, including in Haifa and the Krayot area and as far south as Zichron Yaakov and Harish.
Hezbollah later claimed it launched attack drones at an Israeli military base south of the coastal city of Haifa, with the group also saying it fired on a total of five Israeli tanks inside Lebanese territory and two across the border in Israel’s north.
There was no Israeli confirmation of such attacks.
JOURNALISTS TOUR BEIRUT HOSPITAL ALLEGEDLY HIDING HEZBOLLAH BUNKER
Also Tuesday, the Lebanese Sahel Hospital in Beirut’s southern suburbs opened its doors to journalists for an unrestricted tour after the IDF claimed that a Hezbollah cash bunker is located beneath it.
The IDF had ordered that the hospital be evacuated Monday night along with other sites across Beirut that wound up being struck during a series of air raids.
Journalists who toured Sahel said they saw no evidence of a Hezbollah cash bunker.
But the IDF’s Arabic spokesperson issued a tweet addressed to those touring Sahel hospital, offering specific directions for where the bunker is located, "according to the information available to us."
"We would like to emphasize that the entrance may be hidden using various means that may make it difficult to find," the spokesperson added.
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Meanwhile,
...back at the barn, Bossy was furiously chewing her cud and thinking... the Israeli fighter jets continued to pursue Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon, striking around a dozen command rooms near Tyre, the military said.
The IDF said some of the command rooms belonged to Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force.
Israel accused Hezbollah of placing its command centers and other infrastructure within civilian areas of Lebanon.
The IDF said it took steps to mitigate civilian harm in the strikes, including using precision munitions and issuing evacuation warnings in advance.
The IDF also released drone footage showing members of the Radwan Force being targeted in an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in southern Lebanon.
Using a drone, soldiers of the 55th Reserve Paratroopers Brigade spotted the two operatives, who were seen armed with an RPG and an assault rifle. The soldiers returned fire, hitting the Radwan members.
The paratroopers then directed an airstrike against the building where the operatives were holed up, killing them, the IDF said.
Additionally, Lebanon’s health ministry said Tuesday that at least 18 people had been killed in an Israeli strike near the Rafic Hariri Hospital, Lebanon’s biggest public health facility, located a few kilometers from the city center.
The IDF said early Tuesday that it did not target the hospital but, rather, struck a Hezbollah terror target.
The United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said he was "appalled" by the strike, demanding a "prompt and thorough investigation."
"The fundamental principles of international humanitarian law concerning the protection of civilians must be respected."
Touting Israel’s operations, the chief of the IDF Northern Command, Maj. Gen. Ori Gordin said that Hezbollah’s defensive forces have been defeated in every area that troops have so far operated in.
"Since we started [Operation] Northern Arrows, we have dealt a very serious blow to Hezbollah’s command and control. Most of [Hezbollah’s] brigade commanders have already been [eliminated] for the third time," Gordin said during a visit to southern Lebanon this week, in a video distributed by the IDF.
"All the defensive areas we attacked have been defeated. We are determined to reach every [tunnel] shaft, every underground site, every stockpile of weapons," he added.
HEZBOLLAH STOPS PRESS CONFERENCE DUE TO IDF EVACUATION ORDER
Also Tuesday, a Hezbollah front man acknowledged that some of the group’s operatives were captured by the Israeli army, without giving numbers, adding that Israel "bears responsibility" for their lives.
Spokesman Mohammed Afif also called on the International Committee of the Red Thingy to ascertain their safety, before he was forced to interrupt the presser after the IDF’s Arabic language front man Avichay Adraee issued an evacuation order for residents of the area.
Afif was filmed as he hastily wrapped up his speech and got up to leave the stage while his assistants removed the microphones. As he left, he was heard saying: "The bombing does not scare us, nor the threats. Our will is firm and our determination is strong."
Later, an News Agency that Dare Not be Named photographer captured the exact moments of an IDF airstrike at the building in Beirut where the presser had been held.
Channel 12 news reported that a Hezbollah bunker holding weapons was located underneath.
At least 63 people were killed in Israeli strikes on Lebanon over the last day, bringing the total corpse count to 2,530, the Lebanese government said Tuesday, while not differentiating between civilians and combatants.
[IsraelTimes] Hezbollah has yet to announce death of Hashem Safieddine, who was targeted in Beirut as he met with terror group’s intel chief and other top commanders.
The IDF on Tuesday announced that top Hezbollah official Hashem Safieddine was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Beirut earlier this month.
Safieddine, the head of Hezbollah’s executive council, was presumed to be the successor of Hassan Nasrallah following his assassination in late September.
According to the military, Safieddine was killed alongside the head of the Lebanese terror group’s intelligence division, Hussein Ali Hazima, during the strike on October 4.
The strike had targeted Hezbollah’s underground intelligence headquarters in Beirut, which the army says was “in the heart of a civilian population” in the Lebanese capital’s southern suburb, known as Dahiyeh.
The IDF says that more than 25 members of Hezbollah’s intelligence division were at the headquarters when the strike was carried out, including other top commanders.
Safieddine had been out of contact since the strike, but only on Tuesday the IDF said it could confirm his death. Hezbollah has not yet announced his death.
“We reached [Hassan] Nasrallah, his replacement, and most of Hezbollah’s leadership. We will know how to reach anyone who threatens the security of Israel’s citizens,” IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi said in remarks provided by the military.
Safieddine, whom the US State Department designated as a terrorist in 2017, was a cousin of Nasrallah and, like him, was a cleric who wore the black turban denoting ostensible descent from Islam’s Prophet Mohammed. Grey-bearded and bespectacled, Safieddine bore a striking resemblance to Nasrallah, but was several years his junior, aged in his late 50s or early 60s.
[Ynet] Another day of intense fighting in northern Israel unfolded as rockets were fired from Lebanon, and the IDF responded with airstrikes on multiple targets, including villages along the border and sites in Beirut's Shia-majority Dahieh district and Tyre.
The military reported that a building in Dahieh, a Hezbollah stronghold, was demolished using a single precision bomb after intelligence confirmed it housed terrorist infrastructure.
Overnight, Israeli Air Force jets, guided by military intelligence, targeted weapons production and storage sites, as well as Hezbollah command centers hidden within civilian buildings in Dahieh.
Following an IDF warning of imminent strikes in Tyre, Lebanese civil defense teams evacuated an entire neighborhood. Hezbollah-affiliated Al-Akhbar reported that Lebanese authorities closed roads leading to the city after receiving Israel’s warning. Quelle difference from Gaza!
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IDF taking down Hezbollah towers in Beirut right now Now you see it. Now you don’t!! pic.twitter.com/d74rZ7dUrE
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On a completely different but exactly the same subject...
This is very active earthquake zone. Remembering Turkey's last big one, would a building to code collapse like that?
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[Rudaw] The Israeli army said on Monday it killed a Lebanese Hezbollah official in Syria responsible for the group’s finances, less than a month after taking down his predecessor.
The unidentified man led Hezbollah’s Unit 4400, which is "responsible for the transfers and the amount of funds" to the group through Iran’s oil sales in cooperation with Syria, Israeli army spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said in a statement.
Unit 4400 of Hezbollah is accused of transporting Iranian oil through Syria, which is then sold in Leb ...an Iranian satrapy until recently 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... to the worth of "tens of millions of dollars," Hagari said.
Syrian state media also reported an Israeli strike on the Mazzeh neighborhood of Damascus, labeling the casualties as "civilians."
"At around 5:17 pm today, the Israeli enemy launched an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... targeting a civilian car in the residential neighborhood of Mazzeh in Damascus, which led to the martyrdom of two civilians and the injury of three others," Syria’s state-run SANA news agency said, citing a military source.
Unit 4400 was previously managed by Mohammed Jaafar Ksir, known as Sheikh Salah, who "managed the terrorist organization’s main source of income for years, until we eliminated him in a assassination in Beirut in early October," according to Hagari.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britannia-based war monitor, said a non-Syrian man "and his lover companion were killed as a result of an Israeli strike on a car in the Mazzeh neighborhood."
The Observatory said the men were attending a memorial ceremony for Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... leader Yahya Sinwar, killed by Israel last week 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 a rusty 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... .
[Rudaw] Two members of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) were maimed by shelling from unknown attackers in Syria’s eastern province of Deir ez-Zor on Tuesday, according to a UK-based conflict monitor.
An unidentified local gang fired two artillery rounds on SDF positions in northern areas of Deir ez-Zor, reported the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), detailing that two SDF members were maimed.
"The injured members were taken to the hospital for treatment," added SOHR that relies on a network of sources within Syria.
The SDF has not commented on the incident and no group has grabbed credit.
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) and pro-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... militia groups often carry out attacks in the province on the SDF, the partnered local force of the US-led international anti-ISIS coalition.
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.
There is a history of tense relations between the SDF and some Arab tribes in the province. Some anti-SDF groups have claimed that the Kurdish-led force is targeting Arabs, which the SDF has rejected.
Following a request yesterday by the Director of the Al-Sahel General Hospital, who called on Reporters to come to the Hospital for a Tour to prove that a Hezbollah Bunker was not beneath the Hospital; a Large Group of Lebanese Reporters arrived at the Hospital this morning, but… pic.twitter.com/TksK8bojCi
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... the personification of Somali state failure...
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
...an Iranian satrapy until recently 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...
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
...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 
