[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] Starbucks is permanently closing a store in a prime Seattle location after claiming the closure earlier this year was only temporary. The location was always packed with customers, especially tourists. On Tuesday, the coffee giant told KOMO News it had shuttered the store on the corner of 1st and Pike, across from the iconic Pike Place Market.
A company spokesperson said in a statement, ''As a standard course of business, we regularly evaluate our store portfolio to determine how we can best meet our community and customers' needs and ensure partners are supported in crafting beverages in a warm and welcoming environment. We look forward to continuing to serve the community and visitors at our other nearby locations, including the original store at 1912 Pike Place and 1st and University.''
According to the outlet, the building's leasing agent Adam Hasson confirmed that Starbucks signed an early termination agreement this month on the location.
Safety concerns in the Emerald City and other Democrat-controlled municipalities were previously cited as reasons for closures when former Starbucks CEO and founder Howard Schultz told employees in 2022 that the coffee giant would be shuttering locations due to safety concerns. At the time, 5 other Seattle locations were closed down, and Schultz blamed elected leaders of the Democrat cities where the stores were closing.
"At the local state and federal level, these governments... and leaders, mayors and governors and city councils have advocated their responsibility in fighting crime & addressing mental illness," he said.
Starbucks employees in Seattle previously told The Post Millennial that they regularly dealt with people "doing drugs in bathrooms" of stores and regularly had to clean up drug paraphernalia and needle debris. They also said homeless people "wander in off the streets and harass employees and customers."
In 2020, the location was a target of protestors during the civil unrest that rocked the Emerald City in the wake of the death of Saint George Floyd ...The patron saint of Minneapolis... . Since the riots, Seattle has seen a massive surge in crime since the city council voted to defund the police in 2020.
Acting Presidential for 2 more weeks.
[Newsweek] President Joe Biden is expected to visit New Orleans next week after the horrific New Year's attack on Bourbon Street revelers.
The White House said Friday that Biden and first lady Jill Biden will go to New Orleans on Monday to "grieve with the families and community members impacted by the tragic attack."
On Thursday, Biden said he had ordered an "accelerated" investigation into the attack and praised the resilience of the people of New Orleans.
"New Orleans is a place like no other," he said. "Its history, its culture and above all its people. So I know while this person committed a terrible assault on the city, the spirit of our New Orleans will never, never, never be defeated. It always will shine forth."
He actually said all that? With his own mouth? Unprompted? Sure he did.
DETAILS ABOUT THE NEW ORLEANS ATTACK
At around 4:15 a.m. local time on Wednesday, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old U.S. Army veteran from Texas, allegedly rammed a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year's revelers on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter in what is being investigated as an act of terrorism.
The truck eventually stopped, and Jabbar allegedly opened fire on responding police officers, injuring two before being killed in a shootout with law enforcement.
An ISIS flag, weapons and multiple IED bombs were found in the suspect's rented truck. Federal officials are investigating Jabbar's potential associations with terror organizations.
The FBI currently believes Jabbar acted alone in the attack.
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Once again the subject bursts into public view, as it has done several times over the past two generations. Will Elon Musk finally be able to shame England into fixing the underlying acquiescence, or will a few be tried and jailed while the authorities carry on protecting the rapists as usual?
[IsraelTimes] Elon Musk calls for the release from prison of Tommy Robinson, one of Britain’s best known far-right agitators, in the US tech billionaire’s latest UK intervention.
In a flurry of messages on his X platform, Musk also renewed his criticism of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, highlighting that his time as chief state prosecutor in England and Wales coincided with the emergence of a child grooming scandal.
It comes after Musk, the world’s richest man and key ally of US President-elect Donald Trump, faced recent criticism over his support for Germany’s far-right AfD party.
Concerns have also emerged in Britain over claims that Musk is set to donate tens of millions of pounds to the upstart hard-right, anti-immigrant Reform UK party, led by Nigel Farage.
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Why is Tommy Robinson in a solitary confinement prison for telling the truth?
He should be freed and those who covered up this travesty should take his place in that cell. https://t.co/Dn48JLoJgR
The transcript from the Oxford grooming gang trial reads like something out of an insane right-wing fever dream. The worst part is, it was a choice. It didn't have to happen. The immigration policies of the past few decades have invited entirely avoidable horrors into our homes.
These appalling rape gang cases of girls as young as 11 shame our country. Not only do the perpetrators need to be punished. So do the authorities who turned a blind eye in the name of not inflaming "racial tensions". https://t.co/D0xG4BaoV3
[FoxNews] The suspect left two bombs near the Democratic National Committee and Republican National Committee offices on the eve of the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol
The FBI on Thursday released a new video allegedly showing the Jan. 5, 2021 suspect who planted pipe bombs outside the Democratic National Committee and Republican National Committee offices in Washington, D.C.
Why? And why now, just before Trump nominee Kash Patel takes over?
Along with the video, the FBI also revealed that the suspect is believed to be about 5-foot, 7-inches tall in an effort to elicit new tips from the public ahead of the fourth anniversary of the crime.
The FBI noted that a $500,000 reward is still available for tips that lead to an arrest.
The attempted attack occurred on the eve of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, but there is no clear link between the two events.
"Without being able to confirm the suspect’s identity, it is very hard to definitively establish motive," David Sundberg, assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Washington field office, told The Associated Press. "Therefore, it would be difficult for us to state that there is a link, although we can’t state there is not one."
Investigators aren’t even sure if the suspect is a man or a woman.
The suspect was wearing a grey hoodie, face mask, black gloves and Nike Air Max Speed Turf shoes, the FBI said, adding that fewer than 25,000 pairs of the shoes were sold between August 2018 and the time of the attack.
"Based on attire, those are probably the most remarkable or distinctive feature when it comes to clothing the suspect wore," Sundberg said. "We're hoping that somebody might recognize that."
The FBI has assessed over 600 tips, reviewed about 39,000 video files and conducted more than 1,000 interviews over the past four years.
The new video shows the suspect placing the first bomb near a bench outside the Democratic National Committee building just before 8 p.m.
The suspect then placed the second bomb in an alley behind the Republican National Committee building at around 8:16 p.m. and was last seen in surveillance footage two minutes later walking past a row of D.C. houses wearing a backpack that investigators believe they used to transport the pipe bombs.
"We still believe there is someone out there who has information they may not have realized was significant until now," the narrator of the FBI video said. "We’re asking you to come forward and share that information with the FBI."
No one was hurt in the attempted attack and the bombs were rendered safe, but the FBI said it could have been deadly.
Both Vice President Kamala Harris and then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi were near the DNC office before the first bomb was found on the afternoon of Jan. 6 and deactivated.
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Someone once showed a picture of the pipe bomb compared to a picture of an FBI dummy training pipe bomb mock-up. They exactly matched. It shows just how good the FBI modelers are where they can predict how future pipe bombs might look. That is a very high level of professionalism.
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The FBI says only 25000 pairs of those shoes were purchased but no mention how many pairs of those Nike’s were stolen.
[IsraelTimes] A Pennsylvania man who previously served in the US Army has been indicted by a grand jury on charges of attempting to support Lebanon’s Hezbollah and of making false statements to the FBI, the US Justice Department says.
Jack Danaher Molloy, 24, is a dual citizen of the US and Ireland and traveled to Lebanon and Syria in 2024 to attempt to join Hezbollah, which is designated by the US as a foreign terrorist organization, the Justice Department says in a statement.
The department says Molloy returned to the US in late 2024 and continued making attempts to join Hezbollah. He had also promoted hatred and violence against Jews, the Justice Department says, adding he was formerly enlisted as an active-duty soldier in the US Army from mid-March to late April in 2019.
That long? Golly.
Barely into boot camp
The Justice Department says Molloy lied to the FBI about his intentions to join Hezbollah when questioned upon his return to the United States in late 2024. It says he was arrested on December 6 in Chicago.
If convicted, Molloy faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison for a material support charge. For false statement charges, he faces a maximum penalty of eight years in prison, a $250,000 fine, or both. A representative of Molloy cannot immediately be contacted.
[IsraelTimes] Source tells US news site that presentation by Jake Sullivan was part of ‘prudent scenario planning,’ in case Tehran attempts dash for bomb before Trump takes office
“The president took the information like a trooper. He was very lifelike,” the unnamed, anonymous source added.
White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan recently presented US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. The man who made Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter look competent, if only by comparison.... with options for potential American strikes on Iranian nuclear sites if Tehran decides to move toward a nuclear weapon before the inauguration of Donald Trump ...They hit him with slander, they impeached him twice. Nancy Pelosi tore up his State of the Union address on national TV. They stole an election and put his adherents in jail. They vilified him. They couldn't crucify him, so they shot him. Still, they can't keep him down... later this month, according to a report on Thursday.
The presentation was made in a secret briefing several weeks ago, the Axios news site reported, citing three officials.
One of the officials said the meeting was not sparked by new intelligence and that Biden did not make a final decision.
The source said the meeting was part of "prudent scenario planning."
Another source said Biden was focused on the question of whether 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... had taken nuclear steps that create an urgent situation that would justify such a dramatic military strike a few weeks before a new president takes office.
The news site highlighted comments Sullivan made at a conference last month on Iran’s nuclear program, in which he noted the "strategic blows" the Islamic Theocratic Republic has suffered with the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, Israeli attacks on its soil and the battering of Leb ...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel... ’s Hezbollah and Hamas ..always the voice of sweet reason... 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... "You can look at the public statements of Iranian officials, which have changed in the last few months as they have been dealt these strategic blows, to raise the question: Do we have to change our doctrine at some point? The fact that that’s coming out publicly is something that has to be looked at extremely carefully," he said at the time.
The Axios report came weeks before Trump’s return to the White House, where during his first term in office he waged a "maximum pressure" campaign on Iran that included the withdrawal of the US from Iran’s 2015 nuclear pact with six major powers and reimposed harsh sanctions on Tehran. Iran, in turn, violated the pact’s nuclear limits, with moves such as rebuilding stockpiles of enriched uranium, refining it to higher fissile purity and installing advanced centrifuges to speed up output.
Indirect talks between Biden’s administration and Tehran to try to revive the pact have failed, but Trump said during his election campaign in September: "We have to make a deal because the consequences are impossible. We have to make a deal."
On Wednesday, the semi-official ISNA news agency cited Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi as saying that the next round of nuclear talks between Iran and three European countries will take place on January 13 in Geneva.
Iran held talks about its disputed nuclear program in November 2024 with Britannia, La Belle France and Germany.
Those discussions, the first since the US election, came after Tehran was angered by a European-backed resolution that accused Iran of poor cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog.
Tehran reacted to the resolution by informing the IAEA watchdog that it plans to install more uranium-enriching centrifuges at its enrichment plants.
UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi told Rooters in December that Iran is "dramatically" accelerating its enrichment of uranium to up to 60 percent purity, closer to the roughly 90% level that is weapons-grade. While Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...> ostensibly opposes the manufacturing of a nuclear weapon, Iran is enriching uranium at levels that are only relevant for the assembly of such bombs. The Islamic Theocratic Republic is dedicated to the destruction of Israel, with Jerusalem vowing not to allow the regime to build a bomb.
Biden/Obama/demostate continues the exorbitant march of building barriers to a successful Trump transition.
"Ecological succession is the process by which the mix of species and habitat in an area changes over time. Gradually, these communities replace one another until a “climax community”—like a mature forest—is reached, or until a disturbance, like a fire, occurs."
[War Zone] The Israeli Ministry of Defense has released details — and imagery — of a dramatic commando raid into Syria, which targeted an underground missile production facility, back in September. The raid, codenamed Operation Many Ways, was deemed an outstanding success, with the facility destroyed and none of the 120 Israeli special forces troops involved being injured. Until now, however, very few details of how the raid took place had emerged.
The raid was carried out on Sept. 8 by members of the Israeli Air Force (IAF), specifically its elite Shaldag unit and Unit 669. Shaldag is a clandestine outfit that specializes in long-range penetration operations, including commando-style raids. Unit 669 is tasked primarily with combat search and rescue (CSAR), a key requirement of missions carried out in or close to hostile territory.
The target of Operation Many Ways was, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) say, an Iranian-run missile manufacturing site, codenamed Deep Layer by the Israeli military — part of the Scientific Studies and Research Center (SSRC) network.
What the Israeli Ministry of Defense described as “precision-guided missiles” and long-range rockets were planned to be made at the facility and then supplied to Hezbollah in Lebanon, as well as to the Assad regime in Syria. In terms of Iranian support for Hezbollah, Deep Layer was Iran’s “flagship project,” according to the IDF.
Operation Many Ways took place when Syria was still ruled by Bashar al-Assad and before Israel launched its campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon.
After the collapse of the Assad regime in Syria, it seems that Israel has decided that it
Long section with all the details can be read at the link, adorned by lots of photos. Interesting stuff.
can publicize details of the commando raid. This will also serve as a warning of potential further operations directed against Iran and its proxies in the region. The fact that the operation demonstrated Israeli willingness and capacity to launch such raids against deeply buried and highly defended bunkers sent a signal to Iran, which is a key takeaway we highlighted when the first mention of the special operations raid emerged. While executing a similar operation against an underground target in Iran would be far more complex and risky, this has always been a real possibility and Israel has proven itself more than capable of operating within Iran’s borders.
More recently, Netanyahu spoke of a changing order in the region, with two of Iran’s key proxies there, Hamas and Hezbollah, deeply degraded and the Assad regime eliminated, stating:
“After Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Assad regime in Syria, the Houthis are almost the last remaining arm of Iran’s axis of evil. The Houthis are learning, and will learn the hard way, that those who strike Israel will pay a very heavy price for it.”
While disclosing details of Operation Many Ways, the IDF said it will “continue to act strategically and professionally with various methods and tactics to remove threats directed at the citizens of Israel.” This clearly includes special operations raids against very hardened underground facilities well beyond Israel’s borders.
[IsraelTimes] Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics says population has fallen by 160,000, with over 100,000 leaving enclave; Israel says data is ‘fabricated, inflated, and manipulated’
The population of Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with 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... has fallen 6 percent since the war with Israel began nearly 15 months ago as about 100,000 Paleostinians left the enclave, while more than 55,000 are presumed dead, according to the Paleostinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), citing Hamas ..always the voice of sweet reason... figures.
Around 45,500 Paleostinians, more than half of them women and kiddies, have been killed since the war began and another 11,000 are missing, the bureau said, citing numbers from the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry.
The Hamas figures cannot be verified and do not differentiate between civilians and fighters. Israel says it has killed some 18,000 combatants in battle as of November, 2024, and another 1,000 bandidosholy warriors inside Israel on October 7.
According to the PCBS, the population of Gaza has declined by about 160,000 during the course of the war to 2.1 million, with more than a million or 47% of the total under the age of 18. The numbers appear to assume that all of those considered missing amid the mass displacement inside the Strip are actually dead.
Six percent of the prewar population figure cited by PCBS would indicate a decline of approximately 126,000 people. The discrepancy in the figures could be due to the number of births in the Strip throughout the war, which was not provided in the data.
The figures cited by the PCBS also did not cite any natural deaths occurring over the past 15 months. According to PCBS data from earlier years, approximately 6,800 people died in Gaza in 2021, and approximately 5,500 people died in the Strip in 2020.
PCBS reported that in 2021, around 58,000 babies were born in Gaza, and the figure for 2020 was approximately 55,000. The data presented by the body this week claimed that there were approximately 60,000 pregnant women currently in the Strip, which would mean an increase in births despite the overall decline in population and ongoing grueling war.
The PCBS said some 22% of Gaza’s population currently faces catastrophic levels of acute food insecurity, according to the criteria of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, a global monitor.
Included in that 22% are some 3,500 children at risk of death due to malnutrition and lack of food, the bureau said.
It added that Israel has "raged a brutal aggression against Gaza targeting all kinds of life there; humans, buildings and vital infrastructure... entire families were erased from the civil register. There are catastrophic human and material losses."
Israel’s Foreign Ministry said the PCBS data was "fabricated, inflated, and manipulated in order to vilify Israel."
Israel has repeatedly rejected accusations of targeting civilians, saying it abides by international law and has a right to defend itself after the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, which killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took 251 hostages.
Israel has said it seeks to minimize civilian fatalities and stresses that Hamas uses Gaza’s civilians as human shields, fighting from civilian areas including homes, hospitals, schools, and mosques.
Some 83% of Gaza’s population are residing in the Israeli-designated "humanitarian zone," according to IDF assessments in July.
The zone is located in the al-Mawasi area on the southern Strip’s coast, western neighborhoods of Khan Younis, and central Gaza’s Deir al-Balah. The size of the zone has changed multiple times, amid evolving IDF operations against the Hamas terror group.
Or DNA from the gut of an ear mite. Not to go all LDS, but... given one side's commitment to kinship, bloody shirts, milking bennies, and fudging numbers, and the other side's commitment to human rights, accurate history, and various technologies of government omniscience... isn't there an opportunity for longterm bad faith cooperation here? Half-seriously? [ghost of Porky Pal: "Not by the heir of my djinny djinn djinn!"]
[IsraelTimes] Ramallah says Qatari-backed network, which lionized armed groups in northern West Bank, is inciting and misinforming public; move described as temporary, but no end-date given
The Paleostinian Authority on Wednesday ordered the temporary suspension of Al Jazeera broadcasts across the West Bank against the backdrop of the Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... i-based network’s critical coverage of Ramallah’s recent crackdown on terror groups in the territory.
"This decision comes in response to Al Jazeera’s insistence on broadcasting inciting content and reports characterized by misinformation, incitement, sedition and interference in Paleostinian internal affairs," the official PA news agency Wafa said.
In late December, Al Jazeera condemned what it said was an "incitement campaign" by PA President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....> ’s Fatah party against the network in some areas of West Bank.
"This campaign follows the network’s coverage of festivities between Paleostinian security forces and resistance fighters in Jenin," Al Jazeera said in a statement at the time, lionizing the anti-PA fighters, many of whom affiliated with the Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... and Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... terror group.
"During its coverage of the tragic events in Jenin, Al Jazeera ensured the presence of all voices, including those of the resistance fighters and the spokesperson for the Paleostinian security forces," the network claimed.
The security forces of the PA, which exercises limited control over the West Bank, have been engaged in deadly festivities with terror elements since early December, triggered by the arrests of several fighters.
They are fighting members of the Jenin Battalion, most of whom are affiliated with either PIJ or Hamas, whose October 7 onslaught on Israel triggered the ongoing 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... war.
The violence in Jenin refugee camp, a stronghold of terror groups in the northern West Bank and a frequent target of Israeli military raids, has killed 11 people including PA security personnel and civilians.
Detailing the decision, the PA’s Wafa news site said, "The [PA’s] specialized ministerial committee, comprising the ministries of culture, interior and communications, has decided to suspend broadcasts and freeze all activities of Al Jazeera satellite channel and its office in Paleostine."
"The decision also includes temporarily freezing the work of all journalists, employees, crews and affiliated channels until their legal status is rectified due to Al Jazeera’s violations of the laws and regulations in force in Paleostine," the report said.
Al Jazeera denounced Wednesday’s decision as "an attempt to discourage it from reporting spiraling events in the occupied territories."
The decision was not expected to be implemented in Hamas-run Gaza where the Paleostinian Authority does not exercise power.
Fatah said in its own statement accused the broadcaster of sowing division in "our Arab homeland in general and in Paleostine in particular." The party encouraged Paleostinians not to cooperate with the network.
An Al Jazeera employee contacted by AFP confirmed that the network’s office in Ramallah had received a suspension order on Wednesday.
Later on Wednesday, the channel aired images of what appeared to be PA security officers entering the network’s office in Ramallah and handing over the suspension orders.
Hamas condemned the decision to ban the network.
"This decision aligns with a series of recent arbitrary actions taken by the Authority to curtail public rights and freedoms and to reinforce its security grip on the Paleostinian people," the terror group said in a statement.
"We call on the Paleostinian Authority to immediately reverse this decision ... It is crucial to ensure the continuation of media coverage that exposes the occupation and supports the steadfastness of our people."
The Wednesday decision comes more than three months after Israeli forces raided the network’s office in Ramallah.
The network is already banned from broadcasting from Israel amid a long-running feud with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, which has only worsened during the ongoing war in Gaza. Israeli officials have long complained about Al Jazeera’s coverage, which they say is heavily influenced by Hamas and endangers IDF troops in Gaza.
[Rudaw] At least 21,000 people bit the dust in Syria in 2024, with more than 18,000 being civilians, including children and women, a war monitor reported on Wednesday, and 3,000 non-non-combatants were killed.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britannia-based war monitor, documented the death of 21,402 people in 2024. The monitor verified the death of over 14,000 people under torture in prisons of the former regime of Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... through official documents found in those prisons following the fall of the regime, according to a blurb by the monitor.
The monitor added that "18,223 people [civilians], including 337 children under the age of 18, and 240 women over the age of 18," were killed.
Out of the high number of civilian casualties, 14,625 were killed by torture in prisons under the previous regime. The rest were victims caught between the crossfire, bombardment, and festivities between different forces.
As the regime collapsed, chilling stories about inmates of the Sednaya prison on the outskirts of Damascus began to emerge. These stories provide a disturbing look into how the Assad family brutally treated prisoners during their decades-long rule.
The monitor also recorded the deaths of 3,179 non-civilians. Most of them were members of the former regime forces. The rest were fighters from different military factions including Islamist and rebel factions, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and affiliates, Iran-backed militias, 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), Russian soldiers, and others.
Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... (HTS) spearheaded a coalition of rebel groups in a major offensive against the Syrian army in late November, capturing major cities, including the capital Damascus, as Bashir al-Assad fled the country to Russia, ending over five decades of Baathist rule.
Rebel groups in Syria, under the supervision of HTS leader Ahmed al-Sharaa (Abu Mohammed al-Jolani), have agreed to dissolve and merge into the country’s defense ministry, the new administration announced last week.
Thousands of former Syrian soldiers have surrendered to HTS under a national reconciliation process aimed at reintegrating Assad's former forces into the new administration.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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