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Large cyber attack against Israel conducted from Gaza, Turkey, North Africa
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Afghanistan
Mullah Baradar issues warning as U.S.-Taliban peace deal implementation faces hurdles
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/23/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa North
Turkish-backed forces vow to capture entire country
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/23/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

#1  And which country is that, exactly?
Posted by: SteveS || 05/23/2020 18:44 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Yemen's Ansarallah says forces are ready for operations against Israel
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/23/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Houthis

#1 
Posted by: Frank G || 05/23/2020 13:38 Comments || Top||

#2  How are they getting from Yemen to Israel? Drive through KSA? might get a tad dicey. Fly to ???

I've heard the IDF has some top notch AA fire.

Let me know in advance, I'll need to stock up on popcorn.
Posted by: AlanC || 05/23/2020 14:12 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Mexico receives two flights of Mexican nationals returned from US
[Jpost] Two flights of Mexican nationals who were returned from the United States arrived in Mexico City on Friday, and the 189 passengers will be sent to their states of origin, the Mexican government said.

One flight came from Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, and the other from Texas, Mexico's interior ministry said. The people were screened by US authorities for any signs of the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
before being allowed to travel
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/23/2020 04:23 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The US isn't just pushing the arrested illegals across the border now (they just come back). They're flown to Mexico City. Long walk back
Posted by: Frank G || 05/23/2020 8:46 Comments || Top||

#2  We tried flinging them back across the border with a catapult, but we just couldn't get enough range.
Also, with the greater seating capacity, an airplane gives you economy of scale.
Posted by: SteveS || 05/23/2020 8:53 Comments || Top||

#3  National distancing.
Posted by: Lex || 05/23/2020 8:56 Comments || Top||

#4  ,Ref: #2

Posted by: jpal || 05/23/2020 10:23 Comments || Top||

#5  #1 The US isn't just pushing the arrested illegals across the border now (they just come back). They're flown to Mexico City. Long walk back

Can we fly them to Uruguay?
Posted by: bbrewer126 || 05/23/2020 11:22 Comments || Top||

#6  Amigo Airlines.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/23/2020 12:13 Comments || Top||


Europe
Belgium plans to end army protection for Antwerp synagogues
[IsraelTimes] Expected move related to budget shortfalls caused by coronavirus pandemic; Jewish community says it needs ‘more, not less protection’

Belgium is planning to stop providing soldiers for security around synagogues in Antwerp.
Happy Ramadan!
The plan, which has not been finalized, would end the army’s protection in the city’s Jewish neighborhood in September. The redeployment is connected to budgetary and manpower shortfalls in Belgium, where COVID-19 has severely impacted the economy and claimed more than 9,000 lives.
One can understand their quandary, especially at a time when so much more general policing is needed.
"The Jewish community needs more, not less, protection in these difficult times," the Forum of Jewish Organizations of Phlegmish Jews wrote in a statement published Monday about the plan.
Unfortunately, y’all will have to pay for the guards yourselves, or pay for getting some of your people trained. In America they call themselves Shomrim.
Belgian troops were first posted to guard Jewish institutions in Antwerp in May 2014 after an Islamist murdered four people in a terrorist shooting at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels, located about 40 miles south of Antwerp.

Antwerp has about 100 Jewish institutions servicing a predominantly ultra-Orthodox population of 18,000 people.

In 2018, an unidentified man was filmed stealing mezuzahs from the door frames of 20 Antwerp homes days after a Jewish man and his son narrowly escaped being rammed by a passing vehicle that swerved in their direction onto the pavement while they were walking to synagogue on Shabbat. Police said there was no indication the incident was a hate crime.

In 2017, police apprehended and briefly detained a man who allegedly assaulted a ultra-Orthodox Jewish man on the street in Antwerp while shouting "Jew."
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/23/2020 03:36 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  As the risk of appearing culturally insensitive, if you need your national army to protect churches, you got problems that need to be addressed.
Posted by: SteveS || 05/23/2020 8:41 Comments || Top||

#2  /\ I cannot remember when Europe was not beset with social problems.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/23/2020 8:49 Comments || Top||

#3  True.

But maybe we need to protect our own churches - starting in Mississippi

It's starting
Posted by: Lex || 05/23/2020 8:55 Comments || Top||

#4  Fabrique Nationale is a Belgian company, n'est ce pas?
Perhaps they should, as a beta test disguised as a public service, supply the local Jewry with some of their latest offerings.
Posted by: Mercutio || 05/23/2020 10:36 Comments || Top||

#5  Bien sûr!
Posted by: Clem || 05/23/2020 10:40 Comments || Top||

#6  Warning: The Jews who take over guarding the synagogues may have different rules of engagement.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/23/2020 12:15 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Detained senior ISIS leader Qardash a 'treasure trove' of intelligence for Iraq: analyst
[Rudaw] Nasser al-Qardash, a senior ISIS leader newly transferred to Iraqi authority custody will prove to be a “treasure trove” of information on new ISIS strategy for the Iraqi government, security analyst Husham al-Hashimi told Rudaw's Sangar Abdulrahman on Thursday.

Iraq's state media reported an Iraqi intelligence announcement of Qardash's arrest in Wednesday, but Hashimi told Rudaw that the ISIS ringleader surrendered himself to the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) after the battle for the last ISIS stronghold of Baghouz, eastern Syria in March 2019. Qardash was held in Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) detention for a year before he was handed to Iraqi forces a few days ago, Hashimi said.

ISIS swept through parts of Iraq and neighboring Syria in the summer of 2014. The extremist militant group, otherwise known by their Arabic acronym Daesh, were declared territorially defeated in Iraq in December 2017, and in March 2019 in Syria, but continue to conduct deadly attacks on security forces and civilians.

According to Hashimi, between 3500-4000 active militants and 8000-9000 inactive Daesh militants are currently present in Iraq.
Key questions and answers from the interview:
Q: He was seen as a potential successor to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, so how was he arrested so easily? Why didn't he react violently when he knew he was going to be arrested like Baghdadi did, blowing himself before being detained by the Americans?

A: Qardash was arrested last year, surrendering himself after the battle of Baghouz in eastern Syria to the SDF, who handed Qardash over to the coalition forces. He was held for a year at the Haqil al-Omar prison in eastern Syria.

The Iraqi intelligence agency provided the coalition with a lot of information on Nasser Qardash, and the Iraqi intelligence agency participated in the interrogation sessions on him alongside the SDF and the coalition forces at Haqil al-Omar.

Qardash was transferred to Iraq a few days ago, after a year in Syria. Iraq is now continuing to interrogate Qardash, paving the way for researchers and psychiatrists to start getting Qardash to reveal information on Daesh, as he holds a lot of information on the group because he was its main leader in eastern Syria from 2011 to 2019.

Q: So if he was arrested in 2019, why was his detention only announced now?

A: Qardash was held in an SDF prison, under the supervision of the coalition forces - specifically the coalition's US forces. The transfer of such a Daesh leader from Syria to Iraq entails a lot of protocol and diplomatic effort.

But investigation into Qardash was continuous throughout his detention at Haqil al-Omar prison. Iraqi intelligence officers frequently visited him at the prison to interrogate him, and the Iraqis were able to force Qardash to reveal a lot of information on Daesh.

Q: With the arrest of Qardash, who will be Daesh's next leader?

A: According to local and international intelligence sources, Daesh already appointed a new leader in November 2019, which is Abu Ibrahim al-Quraishi, also known as Haji Amer Qardash or Haji Abdullah Qardash.

Daesh has alternatives, but ones that are of less value and importance than Nasser Qardash. Those who now lead the Daesh delegate committee are less powerful and skillful than Nasser Qardash.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/23/2020 03:35 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran is closely monitoring US movements, ready to strike anywhere in the world: commander
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/23/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Our drones are also monitoring your movements - remember that.
Posted by: Raj || 05/23/2020 8:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Lots of fancy insignia. Sukhomlinov Syndrome indicator?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 05/23/2020 11:23 Comments || Top||

#3  These fools can't even track their own ships with binoculars.
Posted by: bbrewer126 || 05/23/2020 11:23 Comments || Top||


Israeli Army Says Iran is Slowly Pulling Out of Syria
[AnNahar] 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 Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
is slowly pulling out of Syria in response to Israeli strikes, as well as growing domestic discontent linked to the economy and its handling of the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
pandemic, the Israeli military said Thursday.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 05/23/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Hezbollah training Syria's 1st Corps to use in future war against Israel
[Jpost] Hezbollah’s Southern Headquarters trains Syrian troops and collects intelligence on IDF.

Hezbollah is preparing the Syrian Arab Army’s 1st Corps for a future war against Israel, training its commanders and soldiers as well as deploying it for intelligence gathering against the IDF in the Golan Heights.

Following the return of regime forces to the south of the country and the rebuilding of the SAA which was decimated over the course of the ongoing civil war, the influence of Leb
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Posted by: trailing wife || 05/23/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah



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Two weeks of WOT
Sat 2020-05-23
  Large cyber attack against Israel conducted from Gaza, Turkey, North Africa
Fri 2020-05-22
  PA refuses UAE aid sent via Israel, won’t be ‘tool for normalization’ – report
Thu 2020-05-21
  Iraq security forces arrest the new ISIS leader
Wed 2020-05-20
  Abbas says the PA sees itself free of all agreements with Israel and the U.S. - including on security matters
Tue 2020-05-19
  GNA captures al-Watiyah Airbase from the LNA
Mon 2020-05-18
  Afghan president inks power-sharing deal with rival
Sun 2020-05-17
  Pak Doctor on H-1B Visa Wanted to Attack U.S. for ISIS
Sat 2020-05-16
  Tomb of Mordechai and Esther in Iran reportedly set ablaze
Fri 2020-05-15
  France: Pro-Refugee Activist Murdered by Migrant He Was Sleeping With
Thu 2020-05-14
  Nangarhar Funeral Bombing Death Toll Rises to 32
Wed 2020-05-13
  President Ghani, in light of attacks, orders Afghan forces to resume attacks on the Taliban
Tue 2020-05-12
  GNA militia evacuate their headquarters in Abuslim
Mon 2020-05-11
  Iran navy own goal in Oman Gulf exercise; 24 dead
Sun 2020-05-10
  GNA militias lines collapsing quickly
in Abuslim and Salah AlDin with a LNA advance
Sat 2020-05-09
  Houthi Yemeni Scholar Ibrahim Al-Ubeidi: Saud Clan Is a Jewish Family


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