Hi there, !
Today Sun 04/07/2024 Sat 04/06/2024 Fri 04/05/2024 Thu 04/04/2024 Wed 04/03/2024 Tue 04/02/2024 Mon 04/01/2024 Archives
Rantburg
533647 articles and 1861870 comments are archived on Rantburg.

Today: 65 articles and 141 comments as of 13:09.
Post a news link    Post your own article   
Area: WoT Background    Non-WoT    Opinion    Local News    Politix   
DHS Chief Mayorkas Pressed to Answer How Terrorists Were Reportedly Freed into U.S.
Today's Headlines
Headline Comments [Views]
Page 1: WoT Operations
1 13:07 Skidmark [87] 
0 [82] 
3 19:19 Frank G [135] 
1 04:22 Skidmark [88] 
0 [79] 
4 20:25 Ululating+Platypus [179] 
0 [71] 
0 [107] 
7 17:52 Harry Spater8504 [208] 
0 [125] 
6 20:03 Procopius2k [619] 
2 09:53 Besoeker [179] 
2 12:20 Deacon+Blues [188] 
0 [150] 
0 [148] 
1 05:05 NN2N1 [134] 
Page 2: WoT Background
0 [52]
0 [64]
6 19:55 Procopius2k [165]
5 11:45 Grom the Reflective [149]
1 14:03 swksvolFF [139]
7 12:02 Elmerert Hupens2660 [206]
0 [76]
0 [134]
1 03:02 Grom the Reflective [111]
0 [94]
0 [85]
0 [75]
Page 3: Non-WoT
0 [70]
3 19:46 M. Murcek [127]
2 15:07 swksvolFF [128]
2 13:48 Procopius2k [109]
2 17:44 trailing wife [111]
0 [85]
3 13:33 NoMoreBS [106]
8 13:45 swksvolFF [193]
6 14:08 M. Murcek [173]
3 13:01 ed in texas [133]
8 15:38 Procopius2k [200]
4 09:33 SteveS [156]
11 14:55 Super Hose [249]
5 13:23 Skidmark [170]
Page 4: Opinion
0 [99]
6 20:48 Beldar+Uneter3543 [192]
Page 5: Russia-Former Soviet Union
0 [60]
2 15:42 badanov [126]
0 [60]
0 [65]
0 [61]
0 [81]
0 [64]
3 11:56 swksvolFF [135]
1 14:07 ed in texas [86]
0 [59]
0 [63]
Page 6: Politix
0 [69]
0 [60]
2 19:27 Super Hose [99]
1 07:05 Super Hose [114]
4 13:41 swksvolFF [128]
2 10:57 SteveS [101]
6 14:21 swksvolFF [187]
3 10:24 Super Hose [134]
2 10:36 Grom the Reflective [113]
5 10:32 irish+rage+boy [228]
Good Morning


Pentagon publishes a strategy
for the use of space capabilities in wars
04/04/2024

Fay Wray
Israel-Palestine-Jordan
4 police officers hurt in suspected
terror ramming in central Israel; suspect killed
Britain
London police: Attackers of UK-based
dissident Iranian journalist fled the country
Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israel beefs up air defenses, calls
up troops as Iran payback for Syria strike looms
-Lurid Crime Tales-
Feds bust three migrants after raiding
NYC home of gun-toting, drug dealing squatters
Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Two suspects arrested for preparing
a terrorist attack in Kaspiysk
Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Russian Aerospace Forces destroys two
militant bases in the mountainous regions of Syria

Posted by: Fred || 04/04/2024 || Comments || Link || [208 views] Top|| File under:

#1  She looks different than in lingerie in a giant Ape fist... Just saying
Posted by: Frank G || 04/04/2024 0:12 Comments || Top||

#2  Changed her hair color.
Posted by: Fred || 04/04/2024 0:18 Comments || Top||

#3  Oh yeah. I missed that.
Posted by: Frank G || 04/04/2024 0:42 Comments || Top||

#4  She needs an alfalfa to complete the hairdo.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/04/2024 7:02 Comments || Top||

#5  Changed her hair color.

Gigantopithecus prefer blondes.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/04/2024 7:30 Comments || Top||

#6  ...Then Something Went Wrong
For Fay Wray and King Kong
They Got Caught In A Celluloid Jam...


Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 04/04/2024 10:48 Comments || Top||

#7  Wow, MK, never saw that one coming! LOL
Anyway, Miss Wray was a brunette. The hair, like the ape, was fake.
Posted by: Harry Spater8504 || 04/04/2024 17:52 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Alleged human smuggler charged with bringing minor across border for child pornography
[POSTMILLENNIAL] An alleged smuggler has been arrested in Kentucky and charged with bringing minors across the border and producing child pornography, prompting criticism from Republican politicians who blame President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. The nincompoop who dumped Afghanistan. The copier doesdn't exist that could reelect him....
for the escalating chaos at the southern border.

Natividad Aguilera Garcia, 37, was arrested after being accused of smuggling three illegal immigrants colonists, including two children, one of whom was involved in the production of pornography. In an attempt to evade authorities, Garcia falsely claimed to be the uncle of the minor and even provided a fake birth certificate to support his claim. After doing so, the Office of Refugee Resettlement handed the child over to him.

According to a report by the Daily Mail, Garcia faces numerous charges including production and receipt of child pornography, online enticement of a minor, transportation of a minor for illicit sexual activity, encouraging illegal entry, making false statements to federal agencies, and presenting falsified documents to federal agencies. He was arraigned on Monday.

Garcia faces a minimum of 15 years in prison and a maximum of 30 years for the production charge alone, according to the United States Attorney's Office of the Eastern District of Kentucky. The indictment against Garcia stated that the scheme began in May 2021.

Republican leaders, including Representative Tom Emmer and Homeland Security Chair Mark Green, have attributed blame for incidents like these to the Biden administration, the same old faces in slightly different places, the same old ideas, the same old graft
...the collection of boodlers, grifters, hangers-on, and self-proclaimed experts affiliated with the Biden Crime Family. Entrusted with an entire nation as the result of a suspicious election, they set about happily implementing stuff they absorbed in college, all of which blew up and splattered the rest of us...
, arguing that innocent lives are suffering due to lax enforcement of immigration laws.

"Every day that their self-made border crisis continues is another day that innocent lives are put at risk," Emmer said to the Daily Mail.

Deprecated: pg_query(): Automatic fetching of PostgreSQL connection is deprecated in /var/www/html/rantburg/ajax/ngogovt.php on line 26



Deprecated: pg_query(): Automatic fetching of PostgreSQL connection is deprecated in /var/www/html/rantburg/ajax/ngogovt.php on line 39



Deprecated: pg_query(): Automatic fetching of PostgreSQL connection is deprecated in /var/www/html/rantburg/ajax/ngogovt.php on line 43

Posted by: Fred || 04/04/2024 12:19 || Comments || Link || [82 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants


Feds bust three migrants after raiding NYC home of gun-toting, drug dealing squatters
[NYPOST] Federal agents arrested three people during a Wednesday raid at the Bronx home of a group of gun-toting, drug-dealing migrant squatters — as immigration authorities moved to deport one of the crew previously busted at the troublesome house.

The Homeland Security raid came a day after The Post reported on the chaos the squatters brought with them when they took over the multifamily dwelling, ending with eight migrants colonists busted on gun and drug charges last week.

One of the men arrested Wednesday — Hector Desousa-Villalta, 24 — was featured on The Post’s front page after he allegedly flashed a pistol at someone on the property March 27, leading to a 911 call and the discovery of the squatter gang.

Two other people — Yoessy Pino Castillo, 20, and Yojairo Martinez, 42 — were also arrested by about a dozen federal agents Wednesday afternoon, law enforcement sources told The Post.

A spokesperson for the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency confirmed the raids, but wouldn’t give specific information.

Meanwhile,
...back at the game, the Babe headed for second base. He almost made it. Then Sheila slapped him....
Desousa-Villalta told The Post that he planned on getting out of the house.

"I’m moving," he said. "They tricked me into living there."

The feds might agree that Desousa-Villalta is moving, but not anywhere close — law enforcement sources told The Post that ICE plans to deport him.

The NYPD collared the group of squatters — who set up shop across the street from PS 56 on Hull Avenue in the borough’s Norwood section — after Desousa-Villalta pulled a 9 mm CZ pistol and pointed it at someone in an alley near the house, police said.

But a Bronx Criminal Court judge cut him loose alongside five others taken from the same house.

Only two — Javier Alborno and Miguel Vaamondes-Barrios — were held on bail after their hearings.

It remained unclear Wednesday why some were remanded and some were cut loose — even though they all were hit with the same charges.

Alborno was ordered held on $100,000 bail or $300,000 bond after police found him cradling a 9mm pistol under his arm and with several other firearms in an orange backpack in his possession, court papers said.

But Desousa-Villalta, who cops said also had a gun on him, was was cut loose on supervised release despite the district attorney’s request that Bowen set bail at $150,000 cash or $450,000 bond.

The evidence tying some of the other men arrested directly to the guns and drugs is stronger in some cases than others, according to a source familiar with the case.

For example, a Bronx prosecutor admitted in court that the DA’s office had no information linking Johan Cardenas Silva directly to the guns or cocaine found in the apartment, the source said. Silva was released.

A lawyer for Martinez said his client was sleeping inside a separate room in the three-bedroom apartment when the cops stormed in, the source said. Prosecutors admitted that they didn’t have evidence directly tying him to the drugs or guns either. Martinez was released as well.

The state’s Office of Court Administration wouldn’t say why the defendants were treated differently.

"We don’t comment on bail decisions except to say that in cases like these in New York, judges have discretion in making bail decisions in accordance with the law and based solely on an individualized assessment of a defendant’s risk of flight," Al Baker, the agency spokesperson, said in an email.

Regardless, the feds will likely have their hands full, even though New York City’s sanctuary policies declare that local cops can’t notify ICE when an undocumented immigrant is in jug.

Four of the squatters — Desousa-Villalta, Silva, Jefferson Orlando Abreau and Yerbin Lozado-Munoz — were previously turned away from border checkpoints because they weren’t permitted to enter the country, law enforcement sources said.

Although some of them have previous records — such as Desousa-Villalta, who allegedly shot another migrant in the leg last summer, and Javier Alborno, who has shoplifting charges in New Jersey — the squatter gang doesn’t appear to have any connections to criminal gangs overseas, law enforcement sources said.

Meanwhile,
...back at the game, the Babe headed for second base. He almost made it. Then Sheila slapped him....
an upstairs neighbor complained to The Post on Wednesday about how rowdy the group was during their stay.

"It’s a lot of people living there," the 26-year-old woman said. "I saw a lot of people coming and going. I am not sure how many people [there were]."

The ordeal started when one woman moved into the basement and started renting rooms to other people. Then she left the property, the neighbor said.

The new tenants were messy, played their music too loud and didn’t pay any bills, frustrating the landlord to no end, she added.

"They would start the music from 1 a.m., all the way until like 7 a.m.," she said. "They were playing Spanish music ... on weekdays all the way into the weekend. We could sleep. We didn’t say anything to them."

But she was happy that she and her family wouldn’t have to deal with it any longer.

"Now we’ll have some peace," she said. "We don’t have to live with that anymore.


Deprecated: pg_query(): Automatic fetching of PostgreSQL connection is deprecated in /var/www/html/rantburg/ajax/refsloc.php on line 44

Posted by: Fred || 04/04/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [188 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants


#2  They were then released without bail.
Posted by: Deacon+Blues || 04/04/2024 12:20 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Mogadishu Security Forces Foil Al-Shabaab Attack, Arresting Militants with Explosives
02/04/2024
[ShabelleMedia] The Somali National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) recently announced the successful apprehension of two al-Shabaab
... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa...
turbans in Mogadishu, thwarting their plans to carry out attacks in the city.

According to a report by NISA, the operation was conducted in collaboration with the country’s security forces, highlighting the ongoing efforts to ensure the safety and security of Mogadishu’s residents.

Equipped with explosives, the turbans were caught red-handed, intending to harm civilians and disrupt the peace in the capital. The NISA statement, however, did not specify the exact location of the operation that led to the apprehension of the al-Shabaab members carrying bombs.

Despite the ongoing threat posed by al-Shabaab, Mogadishu has seen a gradual improvement in its security situation thanks to the efforts of the Somali government and its security forces. This recent operation is a testament to the vigilance of the security forces and the support of the Somali citizens in the fight against terrorism.

Posted by: trailing wife || 04/04/2024 02:47 || Comments || Link || [88 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)

#1  Now THAT'S an arrest!
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/04/2024 4:22 Comments || Top||


Arabia
US military says it downed missile and drones launched by Houthis
[IsraelTimes] The US military says that it destroyed one inbound anti-ship ballistic missile and two drones launched by Iranian-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
s from Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
toward the Red Sea.

US Central Command says no injuries or damage was reported.

"Additionally, during this timeframe CENTCOM forces destroyed a mobile surface-to-air missile system in Houthi controlled territory," it says in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/04/2024 02:42 || Comments || Link || [79 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Two suspects arrested for preparing a terrorist attack in Kaspiysk
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] A court in Makhachkala arrested until June 1 two citizens of Tajikistan suspected of participation in a terrorist organization and illegal arms trafficking.

As the " Caucasian Knot " wrote, on March 31, three people were detained in Makhachkala and Kaspiysk during a counter-terrorism operation. The National Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAC) stated that they were planning terrorist attacks; automatic weapons, ammunition and an improvised explosive device were found on the detainees. Two of the detainees are from Central Asia, the third is from Dagestan, a source in the security forces said today.
That sounds like a Caucasus Emirate/ISIS project rather than hired heavies for Ukraine.
Four people detained during the counter-terrorism operation in Dagestan supplied money and weapons to the participants in the attack on Crocus City Hall, and also prepared a terrorist attack themselves, the FSB said on April 1. The agency distributed footage of the detention and interrogation of suspects in preparing a terrorist attack in Dagestan, during which they admitted that they planned to blow up the embankment or Victory Park in Kaspiysk.

The counter-terrorism operation (CTO) regime was introduced on March 31 in the Leninsky and Sovetsky districts of Makhachkala and in Kaspiysk, bordering Makhachkala. Before this, according to security forces, information was received about the whereabouts of armed people involved in terrorist activities. As a result of the special operation, there were no casualties among civilians and no casualties among security forces, NAC reported. The CTO regime  was canceled on the same day.

Two citizens of Tajikistan detained in Dagestan for terrorism were arrested by a court in Makhachkala until June 1, RIA Novosti reported, citing the head of the press service of the Supreme Court of the republic, Zarem Mamaev.

The investigation's petitions to select a preventive measure for two suspects of participation in the activities of a terrorist organization (Part 2 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code of Russia) and illegal trafficking in explosives (Part 4 of Article 222 of the Criminal Code of Russia) were considered today by the Sovetsky District Court of Makhachkala. 

According to the investigation and the court, “the suspects, citizens of the Republic of Tajikistan, while on the territory of the Russian Federation, joined a group that is a structural subdivision of an international terrorist organization.” The investigation suggested that no earlier than February they “illegally acquired weapons and ammunition, which they transported and stored at their place of residence - in Kaspiysk,” according to a statement on the court’s website.

The court chose a preventive measure for two suspects, born in 2000 and 2003, in the form of detention for a period of one month and 28 days, until June 1, 2024 inclusive, the court’s press service reported.
Posted by: badanov || 04/04/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [150 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Government Corruption
Illegal immigrant squatters released without bail after arrest on drug, gun charges near Bronx school
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] Six of the undocumented Democrat squatters who were arrested last week in the Bronx have been released without bail, sparking outrage and raising concerns about public safety in the neighborhood.

The eight squatters were apprehended on charges of criminal possession of a weapon, criminal possession of a controlled substance, and acting in a manner injurious to a child. On the property, located next to a school, authorities found a seven-year-old child in the basement.

Hector Desousa-Villalta, who allegedly brandished a gun on the property, was released on supervised release by a Bronx Criminal Court judge, despite the district attorney's request for bail set at $150,000 cash or $450,000 bond. Subsequently, five more squatters were released after their arraignments, according to the New York Post.

Despite the severity of the charges, the six individuals were granted release without bail, with law enforcement failing to clarify why some men were being held and others were let go.

The lack of clarity surrounding the rationale behind some individuals' release while others remain in jug, despite facing identical charges, has added to the frustration. Neighbors, who had witnessed the troubling events unfold, expressed their frustration with the entire situation.

"The landlord wanted to evict them, but the NYPD told him no," one neighbor explained to the Post.

"Deport them!" a Spanish-speaking immigrant neighbor said about the illegal immigrants colonists squatting.

The controversy in New York comes as concerns regarding squatting have prompted legislative action elsewhere, notably in Florida, where Governor Ron DeSantis
...Republican governor of Florida, stone in the shoe of the Dems and their ilk, maybe one-day president...
recently signed a law restricting so-called "Squatter's Rights."

Posted by: Fred || 04/04/2024 12:28 || Comments || Link || [87 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  Guess they weren't white.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/04/2024 13:07 Comments || Top||


DHS Chief Mayorkas Pressed to Answer How Terrorists Were Reportedly Freed into U.S.
[BREITBART] Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee are pressing Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to explain how migrants colonists on the federal government’s "Terrorist Watch List" have been reportedly released into the United States.

In a letter to Mayorkas on Wednesday, Committee Chairman Mark Green (R-TN), as well as Reps. Clay Higgins (R-LA) and August Pfluger (R-TX), who chair subcommittees, asked Mayorkas to provide them with a classified briefing on several reported cases of migrants colonists on the Terrorism Watch List getting released into the nation’s interior.

The congressmen write:

The first case involves a member of the U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization alShabaab. According to a news report, the alien was "caught illegally crossing the southern border near San Ysidro, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, on March 13, 2023;" however, he was deemed a "mismatch" and was subsequently released into the interior. Almost one year later, the Terrorist Screening Center "made a redetermination" and confirmed the alien as a terrorist member of al-Shabaab
...... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all of which have enough problems without them...
, and then Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) located and arrested him. [Emphasis added]

The second case involves a Pak man allegedly on the terrorist watch list who illegally entered the United States but was apprehended by the Border Patrol the following day. Less than two weeks later, the Terrorist Screening Center confirmed his status on the "terror watchlist;" however, ICE eventually released him through the Alternatives to Detention program. [Emphasis added]

In addition to these unanswered requests for information, we are now facing a consistent stream of cases highlighted in the news of aliens allegedly on the terrorist watchlist either being apprehended at the border or discovered in the interior. [Emphasis added]

The congressmen noted Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI
...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time...
) Director Christopher Wray’s testimony last month before the Senate Intelligence Committee where he warned he is "very concerned" over the possibility of human smuggling networks to the U.S. with ties to 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).

"The Committee is concerned with DHS’s current practices in processing and releasing known or suspected snuffies encountered at the Southwest border," the congressmen write.

Mayorkas has been accused of withholding information related to migrants colonists caught crossing the border who matched for suspects on the Terrorist Watch List.

Posted by: Fred || 04/04/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [619 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


#2  Buy ammo and mags. Oh, and ensure they fit into something useful.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 04/04/2024 4:46 Comments || Top||


#4  See - just because they want Hamas "operatives" alive & free, doesn't mean they're anti-semitic!
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 04/04/2024 13:17 Comments || Top||

#5  Probably with a month paid housing, $2000 gift card to Target, some burner phones and a gopher's phone number, and a warning to stay off of video game chat rooms.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/04/2024 14:16 Comments || Top||

#6  Talk about gambling. A 'cell' that launches a terror attack between now and November will decide without question who the next president will be. The idiots who constitute our ruling caste can't grasp that unless they have already are prepared to run a banana republic kabuki election.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/04/2024 20:03 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Five Iran Troops and a Dozen+ Sunni Jihadis die in attack at Pak-Iran border
[IsraelTimes] Jaish al-Adl group were the attackers

TEHRAN, Iran; At least five Iranian security personnel have been killed in two attacks claimed by a jihadist group in the country's southeast near Pakistan, state media reported on Thursday.

The attacks occurred in Sistan-Baluchistan province, which has for years faced unrest involving drug-smuggling gangs, rebels from the Baluchi minority, and Sunni Muslim extremists.

"Five members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the police died as martyrs during two night-time terrorist attacks against a Guards base in Rask and a police post in Chabahar," Majid Mirahmadi, vice-minister of the interior, told state TV.

General Mohammad Pakpour, who heads the Guards; land forces, said on television that 15 attackers were killed during clashes with security forces.
Posted by: lord garth || 04/04/2024 10:16 || Comments || Link || [135 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Everyone, except USG, is plotting against poor Irians!
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 04/04/2024 13:19 Comments || Top||

#2  Chabahar is hotting up. As was foretold.
Posted by: Ululating+Platypus || 04/04/2024 18:51 Comments || Top||

#3  IRB = Rantburg Nostradamus
Posted by: Frank G || 04/04/2024 19:19 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IDF names additional Hamas, PIJ commanders captured by troops in Shifa raid
[IsraelTimes] The IDF names additional senior Hamas
...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
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...
commanders captured by troops at 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’s Shifa Hospital.

During the two-week-long operation at Shifa, the IDF says soldiers managed to detain more than 500 members of terror groups, including top operatives.

The IDF says that among those captured is Ashraf Ibrahim Samur, the deputy head of the information department in Hamas’s intelligence division.

In an interrogation video released by the IDF, Samur is seen describing to Shin Bet interrogators that several Hamas units, including its intelligence division, operated out of Shifa.

Samur says that Hamas began to regroup at the hospital two days after the IDF initially left it last year. If accurate, that means that the terror group entered the hospital at the start of the seven-day truce between Israel and Hamas in late November.

Additional Hamas commanders captured at Shifa are named by the IDF as Hashem Sarsour, head of the emergency committees in East Gaza City; Mehdi Abu Hassanin, head of internal security in the Gaza City; Ibrahim Tamraz, head of police operations in Gaza City; Mahmoud Ajour, head of "policy decisions committee"; Asama al-Tata; head of the Shejaiya Brigade’s rocket unit; and Diab al-Tahar, a senior member of the emergency committees in south Gaza.

The IDF also names four more Islamic Jihad terror operatives captured at Shifa: Hassan Aki, the deputy commander of a special rocket unit; Bakr Jaabari, an assistant to the former head of Islamic Jihad’s northern Gaza region; Muhammad Mali, responsible for finances for Islamic Jihad; and Musa al-Imawi, the deputy commander of the group’s Sabrah district.



IDF: Forces in Gaza destroy Hamas infrastructure, capture or kill terror operatives

[IsraelTimes] IDF troops are continuing to battle Hamas in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis, the military says in a morning update.

The IDF says the 7th Armored Brigade located weapons in Khan Younis, while the Air Force and combat engineers destroyed Hamas infrastructure, including weapon depots, in the same area.

The Commando Brigade and Givati Brigade have been operating in the al-Amal neighborhood of Khan Younis, where over the past day the troops killed and captured numerous terror operatives, according in the IDF.

The IDF says fighter jets struck several booby-trapped buildings and tunnels in the Gaza Strip over the past day, and other aircraft hit dozens more sites, including weapon depots, rocket launchers, and buildings used by Hamas.

Posted by: trailing wife || 04/04/2024 02:10 || Comments || Link || [107 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


4 police officers hurt in suspected terror ramming in central Israel; suspect killed
[IsraelTimes] Attacker named as Waheb Sabita, 26, of Tira; family says it warned police he had suicidal intentions and had been diagnosed with ‘mental disorder’
His last gesture of support to his family — they’ll get a pension from the PA because he attacked Israelis, and the Israelis gave him the suicide he sought.
Four coppers were maimed, one of them seriously, in a suspected terror ramming near the central town of Kochav Yair, close to the Green Line, overnight Tuesday.

After striking the group of four officers near Kochav Yair Junction, the suspect drove to the nearby Eliyahu Crossing — a West Bank checkpoint — where he attempted to stab the security forces on site, who shot up him, police said.

In addition to a 23-year-old seriously maimed officer who was taken to a nearby hospital, another cop, 46, was moderately injured and two were lightly maimed, medical authorities said.

The suspected terrorist was pronounced dead at the scene, police said, adding that they had determined that the attacker had acted alone. He was named as Waheb Sabita, a 26-year-old resident of the neighboring Arab Israeli town of Tira.

The Defense Ministry published footage of the second part of the attack, at the checkpoint. The footage showed Sabita rushing at security guards at the Eliyahu Crossing with a knife, while wearing flip-flops, before being rubbed out.

In a statement, Sabita’s family said that the suspect’s brother had reported to police that Waheb was having a psychotic attack and had threatened to commit suicide 10 minutes before the attack took place.

"He was a quiet and introverted boy, who recently was diagnosed with a mental disorder and received home care," they said.

"All we are asking for today is the right to bury the body and for a factual and fair investigation to be conducted, emphasizing our criticism of the ease with which the coppers pull the trigger when it comes to Arab citizens and stressing our clear position against violence in all its forms," the family added.
In other words, they demand the report be neither factual nor fair.
While such attacks are more common in the West Bank, the overnight incident joins several that have taken place within Israel proper in recent weeks.

On Monday three people were seriously maimed in a terror knifing at a mall in the southern city of Gan Yavne, and an off-duty Israel Defense Forces officer was stabbed and lightly maimed in a terror attack at Beersheba’s central bus station.

Authorities have expressed worries that violence could ratchet upward during the Moslem holy month of Ramadan, though the past three weeks have not seen a major uptick in attacks.

Deprecated: pg_query(): Automatic fetching of PostgreSQL connection is deprecated in /var/www/html/rantburg/ajax/refsloc.php on line 44



Deprecated: pg_query(): Automatic fetching of PostgreSQL connection is deprecated in /var/www/html/rantburg/ajax/refsloc.php on line 44



Deprecated: pg_query(): Automatic fetching of PostgreSQL connection is deprecated in /var/www/html/rantburg/ajax/refsloc.php on line 44

Posted by: trailing wife || 04/04/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [125 views] Top|| File under:


Israel beefs up air defenses, calls up troops as Iran payback for Syria strike looms
[IsraelTimes] Speculation suggests Iran could attack Israel from its own territory rather than through proxies, sparking wider hostilities; Gallant says IDF prepared for every scenario

The IDF said on Wednesday that it bolstered its air defense array and had called up reservists, as the country girded for a potential Iranian response to the strike in Syria earlier this week, in which several high-ranking Iranian military officials were killed.

Both Iran
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/04/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [179 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Tne source who tracks the issue carefully, and who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Iran faced the conundrum of wanting to respond to deter further such Israeli strikes while avoiding an all-out war. "They have faced this real dilemma that if they respond they could be courting a confrontation which they clearly don’t want," (but which Israel has planned for more than twenty years).
Posted by: Huputle+Cherelet4131 || 04/04/2024 9:42 Comments || Top||

#2  "Skin it! Go ahead, skin the smoke wagon."
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/04/2024 9:53 Comments || Top||


Israel Intercepts Arms Shipment From Iran to Gaza
[Red State] On Wednesday, Fox News presented a video of an arms shipment reportedly intercepted by Israeli forces. The video was not accompanied by any narration or indeed any audio, but reportedly shows a cache of weapons and explosives headed for Hamas in Gaza, and supplied by Iran.

The video displays a wide range of arms and munitions, including mines, hand-thrown grenades, and other explosives, rocket-propelled grenade launchers (the infamous RPG-7 of Cold War infamy) what appear to be a variety of sidearms including Glock and Beretta pistols, and interestingly, what look to be AR-15 platform rifles, although whether they are the M-16/M4 version that has the full-auto or 3-shot burst capability is not discernable.

There are also displayed several M203-style grenade launchers that can be fitted to the forearm of the AR-pattern rifles.

If this cache is, as Isreal claims, coming from Iran, the appearance of what could well be American-made AR-pattern rifles, as well as what look to be Beretta and Glock sidearms - both of which are used by the U.S. military - one has to wonder if there is now a connection between Iran, the world's number one state sponsor of terrorism, and Afghanistan, where in the disastrous 2021 pullout by the U.S. military, large amounts of weapons and ammunition were left behind to fall into the hands of the Taliban.

What's concerning, given the video evidence, is the amount of mines and RPG-7 devices shown. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are currently engaged mostly in urban operations in Gaza, and both mines and RPGs present significant challenges in the urban environment.

RPGs in particular give an individual fighter the capacity to effectively strike light armored vehicles or even tanks if fired from an elevated position - a tank's armor isn't thick everywhere and the top of the tank is as thin as that armor gets.

Iran, it should be noted, has sworn to "punish" Israel for the killing of an Iranian general in Damascus on Monday.
Posted by: Frank G || 04/04/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [134 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1 
Here's a thought.
Start weapons and small 1kg PE4 EOD blocks to IRAN opposition groups in IRAN. To support those gunning for the religious fanatics in power.

Because as it stands, now only 3 groups, all former or active Government types can have a weapon.
1. Well-educated Basij members.
2. Some retired members of armed forces.
3. Only volunteers who were a former member in good standing of 1 of those organizations, and only while working with those 2 groups.

In short Tehran does not trust it's citizenry having seen several massive uprising in the streets.

OBTW Side Note:
Remember... Obama pulled support for the Iranian uprising and the opposition groups in 2009. Those uprising were attended by literately 100's of 1000's.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/04/2024 5:05 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
IRGC arms depot in Rask in Eastern Iran blown up by Balochi separatists, Cha Bahar also attacked — 8 gunnies toes up
[Twitter]


5 Iranian security officers killed in attacks in southeast

[IsraelTimes] Suspected Sunni Moslem holy warriors killed at least 5 Iranian security officers and maimed another 10 in two separate attacks on military installations in southeastern Iran, state media reports.

The attacks by holy warriors from the Jaish al-Adl group took place overnight and targeted Iranian Revolutionary Guards headquarters in Rask and Chabahar, located in the Sistan and Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
province, the reports say.

At least eight button men were killed during exchanges of fire with security forces, the media reports say.

Jaish al-Adl is an krazed killer Sunni Moslem group that operates in southeastern 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...
and the western Pak province of Balochistan.

In January, Iran targeted two bases of the group in Pakistain with missiles, prompting a rapid military riposte from Islamabad targeting what it said were separatists in Iran.



Deprecated: pg_query(): Automatic fetching of PostgreSQL connection is deprecated in /var/www/html/rantburg/ajax/refsorg.php on line 27



Deprecated: pg_query(): Automatic fetching of PostgreSQL connection is deprecated in /var/www/html/rantburg/ajax/refsorg.php on line 41



Deprecated: pg_query(): Automatic fetching of PostgreSQL connection is deprecated in /var/www/html/rantburg/ajax/refsorg.php on line 47



Deprecated: pg_query(): Automatic fetching of PostgreSQL connection is deprecated in /var/www/html/rantburg/ajax/refsorg.php on line 54



Deprecated: pg_query(): Automatic fetching of PostgreSQL connection is deprecated in /var/www/html/rantburg/ajax/refsloc.php on line 44



Deprecated: pg_query(): Automatic fetching of PostgreSQL connection is deprecated in /var/www/html/rantburg/ajax/refsorg.php on line 27



Deprecated: pg_query(): Automatic fetching of PostgreSQL connection is deprecated in /var/www/html/rantburg/ajax/refsorg.php on line 41



Deprecated: pg_query(): Automatic fetching of PostgreSQL connection is deprecated in /var/www/html/rantburg/ajax/refsorg.php on line 47



Deprecated: pg_query(): Automatic fetching of PostgreSQL connection is deprecated in /var/www/html/rantburg/ajax/refsorg.php on line 54

Posted by: 3dc || 04/04/2024 02:20 || Comments || Link || [179 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Very bad week for the Arians?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 04/04/2024 2:39 Comments || Top||

#2  UN Security Council fails to condemn strike on Iran in Syria
Diplomats say U.S., backed by France and Britain, told council colleagues that many of the facts of what happened on Monday in Damascus remained unclear; Russia claims 'double standard'

The cunning Ivans - allias, allias but they don't really want to share Syria with Iran.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 04/04/2024 2:46 Comments || Top||

#3  Suspected Sunni Moslem holy warriors
have been reading my comments to occupy chah bahar
Posted by: irish+rage+boy || 04/04/2024 10:04 Comments || Top||

#4  I hope you cleared all this with the National Association of Realtors. They don’t like to go kinetic unless they have to.
Posted by: Ululating+Platypus || 04/04/2024 20:25 Comments || Top||


IDF strikes Hezbollah posts in southern Lebanon after projectiles fired at Mount Dov
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says it carried out Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s against Hezbollah positions and infrastructure in southern 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 Kfarhamam a short while ago.

One of the posts was used to launch projectiles at the Mount Dov area earlier. The IDF says it targeted the position and the operatives behind the fire minutes after the attack.

The IDF says it also hit buildings used by Hezbollah in Blida and Aynata last night, and shelled areas near Ayta ash-Shab earlier today to "remove threats."
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/04/2024 02:11 || Comments || Link || [71 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


Russian Aerospace Forces destroys two militant bases in the mountainous regions of Syria
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed two bases of militants hiding in mountainous areas in Syria. This was announced by the Deputy Head of the Center for the Reconciliation of Warring Parties, Major General Yuri Popov.

“Strikes by the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed two bases of militants who had left the al-Tanf zone and were hiding in hard-to-reach areas of the El-Amur mountain ranges of Homs province and El-Bishri of Deir ez-Zor province,” he said during a briefing on Wednesday, 3 April.

Popov noted that over the past 24 hours in the Idlib de-escalation zone, two attacks on the positions of Syrian government troops by terrorist groups were recorded, and one more attack each in the provinces of Aleppo and Latakia.

As reported by IA Regnum, at the end of March the Center for Reconciliation of Warring Parties reported that the sabotage activity of militants in Syria had increased. According to the deputy head of the TsPVS Yuri Popov, on March 29, the Syrian armed forces repelled attacks by armed formations in the areas of Urum Es-Sughra and Kafer Nebel, destroying at least ten militants. The TsPVS called on the leadership of illegal armed groups to stop provocations.



Deprecated: pg_query(): Automatic fetching of PostgreSQL connection is deprecated in /var/www/html/rantburg/ajax/refsloc.php on line 44



Deprecated: pg_query(): Automatic fetching of PostgreSQL connection is deprecated in /var/www/html/rantburg/ajax/refsloc.php on line 44



Deprecated: pg_query(): Automatic fetching of PostgreSQL connection is deprecated in /var/www/html/rantburg/ajax/refsloc.php on line 44



Deprecated: pg_query(): Automatic fetching of PostgreSQL connection is deprecated in /var/www/html/rantburg/ajax/refsloc.php on line 44

Posted by: badanov || 04/04/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [148 views] Top|| File under:



Who's in the News
43[untagged]
5Migrants/Illegal Immigrants
4Hamas
2Hezbollah
2al-Shabaab (AQ)
2Devout Moslems
1Govt of Iran Proxies
1Houthis
1Islamic State
1Jamaat-e-Islami
1Govt of Iran
1PLO
1[untagged]

Bookmark
E-Mail Me

The Classics
The O Club
Rantburg Store
The Bloids
The Never-ending Story
Thugburg
Gulf War I
The Way We Were
Bio

Merry-Go-Blog











On Sale now!


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.
Click here for more information

Meet the Mods
In no particular order...
Steve White
Seafarious
tu3031
badanov
sherry
ryuge
GolfBravoUSMC
Bright Pebbles
trailing wife
Gloria
Fred
Besoeker
Glenmore
Frank G
3dc
Skidmark

Two weeks of WOT
Thu 2024-04-04
  DHS Chief Mayorkas Pressed to Answer How Terrorists Were Reportedly Freed into U.S.
Wed 2024-04-03
  Afghanistan condemns Israeli attack on Persian embassy
Tue 2024-04-02
  Police arrest sister of Hamas leader Haniyeh in southern Israel raid
Mon 2024-04-01
  Gallant: Captured Hamas operatives tell us Hamas is collapsing from within
Sun 2024-03-31
  Over 80 Al-Shabab militants killed in Somalia
Sat 2024-03-30
  Sudanese warplanes target RSF convoy in N. Kordofan
Fri 2024-03-29
  Troops raiding Gaza’s Shifa hospital kill senior Hamas commander
Tue 2024-03-26
   Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland Collapses after Large Container Ship Hits it!
Mon 2024-03-25
  UN Security Council passes Gaza cease-fire resolution AS US ABSTAINS
Sun 2024-03-24
  Nigerian Police Arrest Gang Leader Behind Catholic Church Attack
Sat 2024-03-23
  Attack at Moscow’s Crocus Hall Aftermath: 60 dead at rock concert, ISIS sez they dunnit
Fri 2024-03-22
  Israeli forces arrest 25 Palestinians during West Bank raids
Thu 2024-03-21
  Eight terrorists 'sent to hell' as security forces foil attack on Gwadar Port Authority colony


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.
18.117.81.240
Help keep the Burg running! Paypal:
WoT Background (12)    Non-WoT (14)    Opinion (2)    Local News (11)    Politix (10)