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Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore,
Maryland Collapses after Large Container Ship Hits it!
03/26/2024

Do it before you leave the shower room
Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Protesters clash with Jordanian police
at Israeli embassy in Amman for second day
Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IDF: Hamas gunnies destroying
Shifa - firing from ER, maternity ward
Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Hamas official targeted in Lebanon
%u2018escaped%u2019 Israeli strike %u2014 security source
Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Arab bus driver stabbed by Jewish
teen in Purim night attack in Modiin Illit
Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Shin Bet says it foiled Iranian plan
to smuggle advanced weapons to West Bank terrorists
India-Pakistan
Pakistan Navy ship rescues 8 Iranian fishermen at sea
Female influencer, 46, claims she does not have 'pedophilic tendencies' - as the six chilling words she said before raping 14-year-old boy are revealed

Posted by: Fred || 03/26/2024 || Comments || Link || [143 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 03/26/2024 15:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Kinda light on their feet.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/26/2024 23:15 Comments || Top||

#3  It’s looks like a beginner class recital, Skidmark.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/26/2024 23:33 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Resident of Dagestan sentenced to 11 years in prison for swearing oath to IS leader
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUel] The court sentenced Dagestan resident Roman Abaskuliev to 11 years in prison, recognizing him as a member of a terrorist organization.

The Southern District Military Court sentenced Dagestan resident Roman Abaskuliev to 11 years in prison, finding him guilty of participation in an illegal armed group (Part 2 of Article 208 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and in the activities of a terrorist organization (Part 2 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), Interfax reports today.

According to the court, Abaskuliev entered into correspondence with an unidentified person who introduced himself as a member of an illegal armed group and the terrorist organization "Islamic State", according to a publication posted today on the court's Telegram channel.

The court concluded that on January 30, 2023, Abaskuliev recorded an oath on his mobile phone to the leader of IS about voluntarily joining an illegal formation and terrorist organization and forwarded the audio recording to the leader of IS.

“On August 4, 2023, Abaskuliev was detained by law enforcement officers. In accordance with the court verdict, the defendant was found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment for a term of 11 years in a maximum security correctional colony with the first two years to be served in prison. The sentence does not have legal force entered into and can be appealed by the parties to the Military Court of Appeal,” the publication says.
Posted by: badanov || 03/26/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [75 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Russian concert hall attack suspects face court in Moscow
[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] Suspects in the Russian concert hall attack that left more than 130 people dead have been charged at a court in Moscow.

Moscow’s Basmanny District Court formally charged Dalerdzhon Mirzoyev, 32, Saidakrami Rachabalizoda, 30, Mukhammadsobir Faizov, 19, and Shamsidin Fariduni, 25, with committing a group terrorist attack resulting in the death of others.

The offence carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.

The court ordered that the men, all of whom are citizens of Tajikistan, be held in pre-trial custody until May 22.

The fourth, Faizov, was brought to court directly from a hospital in a wheelchair and sat with his eyes closed throughout the proceedings. He was attended by medics while in court, where he wore a hospital gown and trousers and was seen with multiple cuts.

Earlier, pictures aired by Russian state media showed the suspects, who appeared to be blinded and handcuffed, being pushed and escorted inside by men in camouflage uniforms for interrogation.

The release of those images came after footage shared by Russian-aligned Telegram channels appeared to show the violent mostly peaceful arrest of one of the suspects in a wooded area of Bryansk after apparently fleeing from an escape vehicle on the roadside.

The other three suspects appeared in court heavily bruised with swollen faces amid reports in Russian media that they were tortured during the interrogation by security services.

One suspect, Saidakrami Rachabalizoda, had a heavily bandaged ear. Russian media reported on Saturday that one of the suspects had his ear cut off during the interrogation.

Russian authorities on Sunday increased the corpse count from Friday’s massacre at the Crocus City Hall concert venue to 137. Three children were said to be among the dead.

Russia on Sunday observed a day of national mourning for victims of the attack, with flags lowered to half-mast and TV schedules updated to remove advertising and entertainment broadcasting.

The US, meanwhile, has stated that Ukraine had "no involvement whatsoever" with the terror attack and emphasised that "ISIS bears sole responsibility".

Russia has vowed to stand against "international terrorism", but has yet to blame 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....
and has claimed that the button men had links to Ukraine, where it alleges the assailants were attempting to flee to and where "a window had been prepared for them to cross the border".

The French government is raising its terror alert warning to its highest level following the shootings on Moscow, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said on Sunday after a meeting with senior security and defence officials with President Emmanuel Macron.

Mr Attal said in a post on X that the decision, which comes months before Gay Paree hosts the Olympic Games, was taken "in light of the Islamic State’s claiming responsibility for the (Moscow) attack and the threats weighing on our country".

Posted by: Fred || 03/26/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [215 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Knowing Russia, they're lucky to have lived to get to court.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 03/26/2024 0:25 Comments || Top||

#2  How many muslim moon goddess terrorists are fighting in/for Ukraine and under the CIA thumb?

Asking for Joe. He is refusing to change his diapers until the Moscow prosecutor is fired.
Posted by: Woodrow || 03/26/2024 1:06 Comments || Top||

#3  The fact that ISIS was able to upload video footage apparently recorded by the terrorists would appear to confirm that ISIS was responsible. - https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/03/disinformation-theirs-and-ours.php
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/26/2024 7:32 Comments || Top||

#4  Interesting too is that the Crocus Center has a Police Station incorporated into it, supposedly fully staffed and armed at the time.

Also videos from inside the venue show armed security guards bugging out along with the concert goers when the shooting started. Witnesses also note seeing FSB types with AK's at the doorways prior to the concert.

SWAT teams didn't arrive on site for at least an hour.

Since the Russian security system command structures are apparently very top-heavy, are we looking at another 'Parkland' situation?
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 03/26/2024 7:41 Comments || Top||

#5  Knowing Russia, they're lucky to have lived to get to court.

Judge: Is the defendant in court?
Attorney: Yes, Judge. Those three boxes on the left.


armed security guards bugging out along with the concert goers when the shooting started

Mall cops?
Posted by: SteveS || 03/26/2024 9:06 Comments || Top||

#6  They don't look well.

"security guards bugging out "
"SWAT teams didn't arrive on site for at least an hour."

Kinda like Uvalde.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/26/2024 10:34 Comments || Top||



#9  Another interesting assessment from Anders Puck Nielsen, a military analyst, based in Denmark.

Posted by: Mullah Richard || 03/26/2024 12:29 Comments || Top||

#10  The fourth, Faizov, was brought to court directly from a hospital in a wheelchair and sat with his eyes closed throughout the proceedings.

Reports are saying he was unconscious.
Posted by: Beldar Uneter3543 || 03/26/2024 12:48 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Pakistan Navy ship rescues 8 Iranian fishermen at sea
[GEO.TV] Pakistain Navy War Ship safely rescued 8 Iranian fishermen from open sea after uncontrollable fire occurred on their boat, the Pakistain Navy said in a statement on Monday.
"Help! Help! SOS! Mayday! Thursday! Over."
"Wossa motta? Over."

The distress call from the Iranian fishing boat reported massive uncontrollable fire onboard for assistance to rescue the 8-member crew abandoning the boat.
"My boat's on fire! The fire's bigger than the extinguisher! Over."
PNS YARMOOK while operating in vicinity of the unfortunate boat, immediately dashed to handle the situation. "Despite heavy fire on the vessel, PNS YARMOOK not only safely rescued all 8 crew members from the Sea but also controlled the fire onboard the blazing vessel by using its own modern firefighting equipment," it added.
"Try throwing seawater on it. Over."
Rescue and humanitarian assistance operations by the Pakistain Navy in International waters is a fine manifestation of the vigilance and professionalism of the PN.
"It ain't out yet! Over."
"We're almost there!"
"Who're youse?"
"We're the Mighty Pak Navy! We'll save the day! Over."
"Hurry! We're almost out of sea water! Over."

"Pak Navy is committed and obligated to effectively ensure Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) inline with UNCLOS while safeguarding National Maritime frontiers," read the statement.
"Huzzah! Huzzah! Over."
Posted by: Fred || 03/26/2024 2024-03-26 00:55 || Comments || Link || [117 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  So the PAKi Navy fired a warning shot and caused some secondaries. The Irani assault team took a dive.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/26/2024 10:30 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Protesters clash with Jordanian police at Israeli embassy in Amman for second day
[IsraelTimes] Jordanian police are clashing with pro-Paleostinian protesters in Amman for the second day in a row near the Israeli embassy, according to unverified reports on social media.

Videos posted online show coppers dispersing crowds of protesters.

Other footage appears to show a large crowd of pro-Paleostinian protesters marching in the direction of the Israeli embassy.

Yesterday, Jordanian riot police fired tear gas to push back hundreds of demonstrators marching on the Israeli embassy in Amman in protest of 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...
The Israeli embassy, where protesters gather daily, has long been a flashpoint of anti-Israel protests at times of turmoil in Gaza and the West Bank. Israeli ambassador Amir Weissbrod has been in Israel since leaving for security reasons in the wake of the October 7 massacre.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/26/2024 2024-03-26 02:14 || Comments || Link || [103 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Jordan asks Israel to extend water supply deal

Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 03/26/2024 9:56 Comments || Top||


IDF: Hamas gunnies destroying Shifa - firing from ER, maternity ward
[IsraelTimes] Israel rejects responsibility as terror group claims 13 patients have died because of IDF raid; Hamas admits key operatives killed, nabbed at hospital; 8 rockets fired at Ashdod

The Israel Defense Forces on Monday accused Hamas
...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
button men of firing at troops from Shifa Hospital’s emergency room, maternity and burn wards, as the terror group claimed patients were dying due to the ongoing military operation in the facility.

"Right now, Hamas and 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...
murderous Moslems are barricading themselves inside Shifa hospital wards. Hamas is destroying Shifa Hospital," IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said in an English-language video statement. "Hamas is firing from inside the Shifa emergency room and maternity ward and throwing bombs from the Shifa burn ward. Terrorists hiding around the hospital fired mortars at our forces, causing extensive damage to the hospital buildings."

The IDF said the number of confirmed members of Hamas and Paleostinian Islamic Jihad captured by troops at the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
City medical center had risen to 500, out of over 800 suspects arrested since the raid began last week.

Hamas has said that at least 13 patients have died during the ongoing IDF raid, alleging that they were deprived of medication or that their ventilators stopped working after Israeli forces cut hospital electricity, The New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...

reported.

International law stipulates that while a medical facility is a protected site in conflict, it loses that status if it is used for military activity. Israel has offered evidence Hamas uses such facilities as cover for terror purposes and says the group plunders humanitarian aid to take supplies for its fighters, depriving the civilian population.

Israel has said those arrested at Shifa include several "very significant" senior Hamas and PIJ commanders. Seemingly confirming that, an unnamed Hamas official told 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...
’s al-Akhbar newspaper that the significance of commanders from the group who were tossed into the calaboose or killed during the operation should not be underestimated.

"Nobody should underestimate the size of the infiltration carried out by the enemy army at al-Shifa Hospital, nor underestimate the importance of the figures who were arrested or executed," the source told the outlet linked to the Hezbollah terror group.

However,
if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well...
the source asserted that "the resistance dealt with the current situation and was able to reshape its ranks, given the possibility that the enemy would obtain new information as a result of the investigation of the detainees. There are indications that the resistance is still fine and that all the current losses can be absorbed and lived with."

Paleostinians living near the hospital have reported hellish conditions, including corpses in the streets, constant bombardment and the rounding up of men, who are stripped to their underwear and questioned.

In his statement, Hagari said, "170 murderous Moslems were neutralized in or around the Shifa Hospital compound while firing at our forces. The IDF apprehended hundreds of terror suspects with confirmed ties to Hamas or Islamic Jihad, making this one of the most successful operations since the start of the war."

"A large number of these murderous Moslems were involved in planning and executing the brutal massacre of October 7," he said.

Hagari said the operation "is not over."

Appearing to respond to Hamas’s accusations of mistreatment toward patients, Hagari said the IDF "operates with precision and acts with care toward the patients and medical staff inside the hospital."

"We do this because we distinguish between Hamas murderous Moslems and the civilians they are hiding behind," he said.

By contrast, he said, "I repeat: Hamas is firing mortars at Shifa Hospital. Hamas is destroying Shifa Hospital. Hamas hijacked Shifa Hospital and hides behind the sick and injured, waging war from inside Shifa Hospital."

ROCKETS AT ASHDOD
As fighting raged throughout the Gaza Strip, a barrage of eight rockets was fired from the enclave at Ashdod on Monday afternoon, with Hamas claiming responsibility for the attack.

Two of the rockets were intercepted, while the rest apparently struck open areas, the IDF said.

There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.

Rocket attacks from Gaza on Israeli towns have become rare amid Israeli gains in the war. The last time rockets were fired at Ashdod, some 25 kilometers from the Strip, was on January 14.

FIGHTING THROUGHOUT GAZA
Meanwhile,
...back at the laboratory the smoke and fumes had dispersed, to reveal an ominous sight...
the army denied some media reports Monday claiming there had been an infiltration into Israeli territory from Gaza.

"IDF forces are deployed and prepared in the area," the IDF added.

In the southern Strip, the IDF said troops killed some 20 button men during an ongoing and new offensive against Hamas in Khan Younis’s al-Amal neighborhood, led by the 98th Division.

The military said dozens of suspects were questioned by field interrogators of the Shin Bet security agency and the Military Intelligence Directorate’s Unit 504, as the IDF enabled hundreds of civilians to evacuate the al-Amal area.

In central Gaza, the IDF said the Nahal Brigade killed several terror operatives, including one who was targeted in an Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
after being spotted entering and exiting a tunnel.

Over the past day, Israeli Air Force fighter jets targeted some 50 sites across the Strip, according to the IDF. Attack helicopters and drones struck several more targets and killed some 10 button men, the army added.

Rafah, the last refuge for over a million Paleostinians on the Gaza Strip’s southern border with Egypt, was among cities that came under fire in the latest strikes.

Paleostinian medics said 30 people had been killed in the previous 24 hours in Rafah, whose population has been swollen by displaced Paleostinians escaping fighting elsewhere in Gaza after more than five months of war. The numbers cannot be independently verified.

"Every bombing that takes place in Rafah, we fear the tanks will come in. The past 24 hours were one of the worst days since we moved into Rafah," said Abu Khaled, a father of seven, who declined to give his full name for fear of reprisals.

Israeli officials have said Rafah is Hamas’s last major stronghold in Gaza, with four active battalions. It insists that a ground offensive in Rafah is crucial to the goal of eliminating Hamas and will take place after civilians are safely evacuated, but has yet to provide details on where they are meant to go.

"In Rafah, we live in fear, we are hungry, we are homeless and our future is unknown. With no ceasefire in sight, we might end up dead or displaced somewhere else, maybe north and maybe south [to Egypt]," he told Rooters via a chat app.

Dozens of Paleostinians took part in rallies and attended funerals early on Monday after an Israeli airstrike killed 18 Paleostinians in one house in Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, Paleostinian medics and witnesses said.

’UNIMAGINABLE’ SITUATION AT EUROPEAN GAZA HOSPITAL
Aid groups released a statement Monday after they visited the European Gaza Hospital near Khan Younis, where they witnessed an "unimaginable" situation in which patients with large open wounds were left untreated.

An emergency medical team organized by three aid groups spent two weeks carrying out surgeries and other care at the medical center.

The team charged that Israeli restrictions had led to shortages of medical supplies, including basics like gauze and plates and screws used to stabilize broken bones.

Israel insists that there are no limits to the amount of inspected aid whose entry into Gaza it is willing to facilitate and that the United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
is failing to keep pace, while Hamas and gangs divert assistance from civilians. The UN says aid distribution has become incredibly difficult amid the fighting.

The visiting surgeons "reported large infected open wounds on patients and having to administer emergency nutritional supplies to patients as the lack of food was jeopardizing patient treatment."

Related: Al Jazeera takes down video falsely alleging IDF rapes in Shifa Hospital
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/26/2024 2024-03-26 01:44 || Comments || Link || [222 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


#2  ^Their kids are also weapons.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 03/26/2024 4:01 Comments || Top||

#3  This is why the American Medical Society recommends not having firefights in hospitals.
Posted by: SteveS || 03/26/2024 8:28 Comments || Top||

#4  In USA, the gunfights are usually in the ER.
Posted by: Chesney Sleting4519 || 03/26/2024 11:33 Comments || Top||

#5  re #4: yeah. Usually when the gang who shot the "victim" comes in to finish the job, and the victim's homies rally to defend him.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 03/26/2024 18:02 Comments || Top||


Arab bus driver stabbed by Jewish teen in Purim night attack in Modiin Illit
[IsraelTimes] Video shows Ahmed Abu al-Hawa attacked ‘for no reason’ in Haredi West Bank settlement; suspect yet to be apprehended.
The vicious idiot yoot is spectacularly bad at it — he knifes like a little girl.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/26/2024 2024-03-26 01:09 || Comments || Link || [94 views] Top|| File under:


Shin Bet says it foiled Iranian plan to smuggle advanced weapons to West Bank terrorists
[IsraelTimes] The Shin Bet security agency reveals that it recently foiled attempts by 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...
to smuggle large shipments of advanced weapons to terror operatives in the West Bank to be used to carry out attacks on Israeli targets.

According to the Shin Bet, behind the plot was Iran’s unit 4000, the Special Operations Division of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ Intelligence Organization, headed by Jawad Ghafari, and the special operations unit of the IRGC’s Quds Force in Syria, known as unit 18840, which is subordinate to the head of Iran’s unit 840, Asghar Bakri.

The plot was uncovered by the Shin Bet and IDF during the interrogations of detained Paleostinians, who were suspected of planning terror attacks.

The investigation also revealed that a senior Fatah official, Munir Makdah, a resident of 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...
’s Ein el-Hilweh Paleostinian refugee camp, was involved in the plans, the Shin Bet says.

Makdah, according to the Shin Bet, has been known to Israel for years as "working for Hezbollah and the IRGC, and continues to try and advance terror attacks these days."

During the interrogation of the detained Paleostinian suspects, the Shin Bet says it emerged that Makdah worked to recruit West Bank Paleostinians to carry out terror attacks and smuggle in Iranian weapons, as well as fund them.

The Shin Bet says the IDF captured a "significant" amount of advanced arms from Iran that were smuggled into the West Bank, as part of the investigation into Makdah and the Iranian plot.

Among the weapons captured were two large BTB15 fragmentation bombs, five YM-2 anti-tank landmines with fuses, four M203 grenade launchers, 15 kilograms of C4 explosives, 10 kilograms of Semtex plastic explosives, 13 shoulder-launched anti-tank missiles, 15 RPG launchers, 16 RPG-7 rockets and propellent, 15 hand grenades, 33 M4 assault rifles and 50 handguns.

The Shin Bet says it and the IDF are working to locate additional Iranian weapons smuggled into the West Bank, as well as kill or capture terror cells recruited by Iranian operatives.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/26/2024 2024-03-26 01:09 || Comments || Link || [100 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


As Rafah waiting game continues, 82nd Battalion expands long fight in Khan Younis
[IsraelTimes] The Times of Israel joins engineers demolishing homes as armored forces move into new neighborhoods; unit commander forced to retract statements about Gazoo settlements

Five and a half months into the war against Hamas
...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
, the combat engineers of the 603rd Battalion have seen more fighting than most IDF soldiers see in a lifetime.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/26/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [103 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Hamas official targeted in Lebanon ‘escaped’ Israeli strike — security source
[IsraelTimes] A Hamas
...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
official allegedly targeted in an Israeli dronezap yesterday "escaped" the attempted liquidation, according to a Lebanese security source.

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...
’s official National News Agency says yesterday’s strike near the village of Souairi in the Bekaa Valley killed a Syrian civilian in his vehicle.

The security source, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
, tells AFP that the Hamas official was traveling along the same road.

"A Hamas official was targeted by the Israeli drone attack on Sunday but escaped," says the source, without naming the official.

The strike in the Souairi area, near Lebanon’s border with Syria, was the first alleged Israeli attack there in nearly six months of fighting.

Another security source says yesterday’s pre-dawn Israeli strikes maimed four people, including a Hezbollah member, in Baalbek, further north in the Bekaa Valley.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/26/2024 2024-03-26 01:12 || Comments || Link || [90 views] Top|| File under: Hamas



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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.
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