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Good Morning



President Trump orders US Marshals to remove Defiant Fed Governor Lisa Cook after she refuses to step down!
Friday 08/29/2025

1897 Minnie Ashley 3e92dd1e4e60fbe14f
Southeast Asia
Myanmar: Anti-Junta Fighters attacked
a Gym used by Junta soldiers in Shwebo.
Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Renewed Israeli airstrikes target same southern regions
Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Palestinian factions in south
Lebanon hand weapons to army
Syria-Lebanon-Iran
[Lebanese] Army's disarmament
plan to be reportedly enforced in two phases
Syria-Lebanon-Iran
UN peacekeepers discover Hezbollah bunker in south Lebanon
Africa Horn
43 emergency room volunteers killed in Khartoum
Economic News -basically good

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#1  'Dangerous combat zone' | IDF halts daily humanitarian tactical pauses in Gaza City
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 08/29/2025 5:07 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Massachusetts trans activist arrested in fatal shooting of father after school drop-off just one day after Minneapolis trans massacre
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] Police in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts say a man was killed Thursday morning after confronting another man over graffiti at a local park. It has since been discovered that the suspect in the shooting is a trans-identifying male who has a criminal record.

Authorities responded to Jordan Park at 8:47 am after a 911 caller said he was being attacked, reports WCVB. During the call, the dispatcher heard gunfire in the background, said Shrewsbury Police Chief Kevin Anderson.

''While officers were responding, dispatch advised that they could actually hear shots on the 911 call. When officers arrived, they located a victim, provided medical attention, and that victim was transported to a local hospital where, tragically, he died of his injuries,'' Anderson said.

The victim, a 57-year-old man whose name has not been released, was shot multiple times. He had just dropped off his 6-year-old child at school before encountering the suspect, Worcester County District Attorney Joe Early Jr. said.

''The gentleman who was shot was returning from (walking his 6-year-old child) to school when he interacted with the man on the bridge. It appeared that the man was doing some type of spray painting. He took a picture of the man, and that started the altercation,'' Early said.

Police later arrested the alleged shooter, identified on social media as ''Sasha Shakur'' and legally as Snehal Ansh Srivastava, outside a home at 29 Edgewater Ave around 11:45 am SWAT officers with a K-9 entered the property minutes later.

The residence was covered in graffiti with slogans including ''Free Paleostine,'' ''Free Congo,'' ''BLM,'' ''GLM,'' and ''Ganga Gardens.'' A sign in the window of the house that reads ''Sasha Shakur'' also confirms the social media account username.

Authorities described Srivastava as ''known to police,'' though no immediate charges were announced.

Law enforcement activity throughout the morning was concentrated around the Jordan Pond Walking Trail, about a third of a mile from where Srivastava was taken into custody. Police tape closed off parts of the trail and sections of shoreline, where graffiti was also visible.

Residents in the area were instructed to shelter in place until police confirmed the suspect had been located.

Shrewsbury Public Schools informed families that students and staff at the nearby Coolidge School were safe. Officials said the shooting did not involve the school and no other campuses were affected.

The shooting comes just one day after another trans person Robert Westman killed two children and injured 17 others at the Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Posted by: Fred || 08/29/2025 02:43 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [25 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM


More Trans Violence
[X]
…which started an altercation. Shakur then allegedly shot the man during the incident.

Shakur was arrested at his home, which was covered in graffiti such as "BLM, Free Palestine, and Defund the Police."

Why does this keep happening???
Posted by: Fred || 08/29/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [72 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM



Africa Horn
43 emergency room volunteers killed in Khartoum
[SUDANTRIBUNE] The Khartoum Emergency Room revealed on Tuesday that 43 of its volunteers have been killed since the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) took control of the state, which has been the most affected by the ongoing conflict.

Emergency rooms, established by volunteers after the conflict broke out on April 15, 2023, have been active in providing food and health services to millions of Sudan
...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
ese. They have also worked to expose violations committed by the warring parties.

Abd al-Rahman Darmali, a member of the Khartoum Emergency Room, told Sudan Tribune, ''The room has recorded an increase in the number of deaths among its members, reaching 43, including three female members, from the start of the war on April 15, 2023, until April 2024.''

He explained that emergency room members have been increasingly targeted recently, putting their lives at risk while performing their duties.

During their control over most of Khartoum state, before the army recaptured it last March, the Rapid Support Forces committed widespread violations against emergency room volunteers, including looting, kidnapping, and killing.

Darmali stated that the emergency rooms do not have statistics on the number of members currently held in detention.

Dozens of volunteers in emergency rooms, especially in Khartoum, have been subjected to a wide-ranging campaign of arrests, though this has not deterred them from serving communities affected by the conflict.

On August 8, the Fatihab Resistance® Committees in Omdurman called for an independent investigation into the death of volunteer Khalid al-Zubair ''Esti'' inside an army intelligence detention centre in Khartoum, following a detention that lasted nearly two years.
Posted by: Fred || 08/29/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [47 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Sudan


24 civilians killed in RSF artillery strike on El-Fasher
[SUDANTRIBUNE] At least 24 non-combatants were killed and dozens were maimed by intense artillery shelling from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in el-Fasher, the capital of Sudan
...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
's North Darfur state, doctors said on Thursday.

The city has been under its most violent mostly peaceful air and ground attacks from the RSF for more than 10 consecutive days, forcing thousands of people to flee.

A statement from the Sudan Doctors' Network said the shelling on Wednesday targeted the central market area and the Awlad al-Reef neighbourhood. ''Twenty-four people were killed and 55 others injured, including five women,'' the group said.

The doctors' network condemned what it called a ''massacre'' and a ''heinous crime,'' adding it to a series of alleged war crimes and genocide targeting unarmed civilians in el-Fasher for more than a year, amid a tight siege and severe shortages of food and medicine.

The statement described the targeting of densely populated residential areas as a ''flagrant violation of all international and humanitarian laws.''

It accused the international community, the UN Security Council, and the African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
of ''silence and inability'' to confront the crimes and called for immediate action to stop the shelling and lift the siege on the city.

As fighting intensifies, thousands of trapped residents face a severe humanitarian crisis, with shortages of food and medicine after the RSF cut off all roads into el-Fasher and blocked aid deliveries.
Posted by: Fred || 08/29/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [29 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Sudan


In Baallade Valley, several ISIS terrorists were killed.
Posted by: badanov || 08/29/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [30 views] Top|| File under:


Ukrainian PMC contractors operating in Somalia
What, precisely, are they meant to accomplish? Who are they fighting?
Bad Guys
So very helpful, my dear.
What's the benefit to Ukraine? I can't see one.
Taxable income? Is this/are these private companies or a branch of the Ukrainian army like Wagner Group became?

Posted by: badanov || 08/29/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [57 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Better the darkest heart of Africa than the Russian front.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/29/2025 1:20 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Strikes reported in Sanaa, top Houthi officials likely killed


Courtesy of Grom the Affective:
Top Houthi officials likely killed in IDF strike on Sanaa, Yemen
The IAF on Thursday attacked a group of top Houthi military officials in Sanaa who were watching the Houthi leader give a nationally televised speech.

At press time, the results of the attack were still uncertain, but there were increasing indications that the Houthis' defense minister and military chief were killed in the attack, as well as potentially others.

Defense Minister Israel Katz and IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir monitored the attack from IDF headquarters, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu following from a secure "red phone."


Clearly Allah intends Israel to be his instrument for punishing the Houthis and all who work to fulfill the will of the Mad Mullahs.



Houthi prime minister said killed in Israeli strike on Sanaa apartment yesterday
[IsraelTimes] Yemen’s Al-Jumhuriya channel reports that the prime minister of the Iran-backed Houthi rebels, Ahmed al-Rahawi, was killed in an apartment in Sanaa during the Israeli strikes yesterday.

The Aden Al-Ghad newspaper adds that Rahawi was killed along with several of his companions.

It appeared from the reports to have been a separate strike from the one yesterday that was said to have targeted 10 senior Houthi ministers, including the defense minister, as they gathered in a location outside of Sanaa to hear a planned speech by the group’s leader, Abdul Malik al-Houthi.

The outcome of that strike has yet to be made clear.
Posted by: Fred || 08/29/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [76 views] Top|| File under: Houthis

#1  It's all horrible -- Idk why all earth-dwellers cannot live and let live
-- On the other hand, on the positive side, those who died surely did so whilst doing what they loved to do, i.e., planning the murder of Israelis who trying go to work or go to school, or just go to sleep at night. So, there is that.
Posted by: Striped Zebra || 08/29/2025 1:42 Comments || Top||


Europe
Switzerland at boiling point: Fears stable country could face more riots as anger spills onto streets after spate of police-related deaths including migrant teen killed fleeing officers
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Switzerland may face more scenes of violence next week following two nights of rioting, according to one of the country's top sociologists.

Dramatic riots erupted in Lausanne, Switzerland, over the weekend after a migrant teen was killed in a scooter crash while fleeing the police.

Marvin M, a 17-year-old Swiss resident of Lausanne, was fleeing police on a stolen scooter, when he hit a garage wall and died at around 3.45am on Sunday morning, despite resuscitation attempts by emergency services.

On Sunday and Monday night, riot cops clashed with protesters who hurled Molotov cocktails as officials desperately tried to put a lid on escalating violence.

Much of the anger came from a long-standing view that police in Lausanne are systemically racist against migrants who have settled there. Marvin's death was the third death involving police in less than three months in the city, with seven in the wider Vaud region since 2016. Five of those deaths were of men originally from Africa.

This anger was only stoked after newspaper reports revealed four officers were suspended following the unearthing of racist, sexist and discriminatory messages in private WhatsApp groups.

But Sandro Cattacin, a professor of sociology at the University of Geneva, told the Daily Mail that he believes Switzerland, ordinarily seen as a beacon of stability on the continent, will see more violence in the coming days.

Cattacin warned that pressure groups may see the riots as a chance to latch on and cause their own violence: 'I expect that we will have [riots] again next week. Now you have these other groups, people related to more to more aggressive anti-capitalist positions, who say "OK, that's the moment we can have riots".

'If they arrive the weekend, then [the riots] would be more brutal, and from the police it would be more violent.'

Cattacin said he had spoken with social worker sources on the ground in Lausanne who had relayed their fears of further violence to him.

He added that the only way to dissipate the anger felt by society was to open a dialogue between the police and marginalised groups

'The question is now: is the police able to intervene in a careful way, trying to limit damages and trying in every case to begin [a discussion] with this youngsters?'

Many of the roughly 200 people who rioted were young migrants who moved to Switzerland and have felt that police in Lausanne are systemically racist against them.

So far, it seems that powerful people in the city agree with them - Lausanne Mayor Gregoire Junod said following the revelation of the WhatsApp groupchat: 'There is a systemic discrimination problem that needs to be addressed'.

A 'cultural change' is needed to prevent such abuses from happening again, he added.

Cattacin said his fears of further violence also came from Switzerland's far-right's response to the violence, condemning migration and urging the police to crack down even harder on protesters, who he accused of fannin the flames.

'A politician of the extreme right was intervening in the press the [following] day and saying that the police have to be even more aggressive regarding these young people.

'He said they are not people we want to have in this country, etcetera, etcetera.'

Police have acknowledged that a car was following the teenager who died early Sunday. But the Vaud public prosecutors' office issued a statement 'with the aim of clarifying and calming the situation'.

It said two motorists approached the teenager before police arrived at the crash site. This tended to confirm there was a 'significant distance' between the scooter and the pursuing police vehicle and 'no contact' between them, the statement added.

Officers confirmed police had been following Marvin before the crash but claimed he lost control at high speed in a 18mph zone.

Despite claims that the scooter was stolen, his family has denied that he was a thief.

His mum insisted to 24 Heures that he was innocent, while his brother wrote online: 'You should be with me, at home, in our room, which we've always shared.'

The public prosecutor of the canton of Vaud has launched a criminal investigation into the circumstances of the accident.

It was the third death in less than three months in Lausanne during a police intervention. There have been seven such deaths in the city and the wider Vaud region since 2016. Five involved men of African origin.

On Sunday night, 'around 100 young people, wearing balaclavas' gathered in the Prélaz neighborhood from 9.30pm, throwing fireworks at police, burning trash cans and damaging a bus belonging to the Lausanne transport company.

The following night, 150 to 200 people set up roadblocks using trash containers, setting them on fire, police said. Some 140 cops clashed with the rioters, who torched buses and pelted them with stones. Police also responded to the riots using tear gas and rubber bullets.

Over the past decade, Switzerland has taken in more than 200,000 refugees - many from Eritrea, Somalia, Syria and Afghanistan, alongside arrivals from other African and Muslim-majority countries.

What was once hailed as a model of compassion has instead fuelled mounting tensions, with simmering unease now spilling onto the streets.

It comes almost a year after Switzerland announced plans to cap its population to ten million as part of an immigration crackdown under plans put forward by the hard-right People's Party.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/29/2025 01:46 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [63 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  As I understand it, most Swiss males are army reservists and have athematic weapons at home.
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 08/29/2025 2:28 Comments || Top||

#2  ^athematic --> automatic (hand slipped)
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 08/29/2025 2:29 Comments || Top||

#3  Duh. I first read that as "asthmatic" anyway. [wheeze!]
Posted by: Fred || 08/29/2025 2:48 Comments || Top||


Dresden: Man arrested after tram knife attack on US citizen
[DW] A 21-year-old Syrian citizen is in investigative custody in Dresden after a young American man was stabbed in the face on a tram over the weekend in the eastern German city. New information may link him to the attack.

Dresden police and prosecutors said on Tuesday that they had arrested a 21-year-old Syrian in connection with a knife attack on a late-night tram in the city over the weekend.

He was detained in the early hours of Tuesday, police said, and was put in investigative custody on suspicion of grievous bodily harm, among other offenses.

The man in question had already been detained once before and was released soon after the incident, with no initial indication of him being directly involved in injuring a young American. But Sherlocks said new information might implicate him more directly.

Police said in a blurb that after further investigation there was now reasonable grounds to suspect that he was "involved in the knife attack against the 20-year-old American and also himself injured the victim with a dangerous object."

Tuesday's statement made no direct mention of the second suspect, originally believed to be the prime culprit behind the injuries sustained by the American man. As of Monday afternoon, authorities in the eastern German state of Saxony were still seeking him and had appealed for help from potential witnesses.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/29/2025 2025-08-29 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [51 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Mass Deportation and/or Civil War
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 08/29/2025 2:35 Comments || Top||


2 French teens charged over plot to attack synagogues, Eiffel Tower — report
[IsraelTimes] Two French teens were charged earlier this month for conspiring to carry out terror attacks on synagogues and the Eiffel Tower, Le Figaro reports.

The newspaper says the two suspects came from Arab-Muslim families and shared a fascination with the Islamic State terror group.

The two minors — aged 15 and 17 — also discussed the possibility of traveling abroad to fight and were heavy consumers of ultra-violent online content, the newspaper says.

According to the French outlet, the teens were arrested on July 29 and 30 amid an investigation that began in April. The two were charged on August 1, the newspaper says.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/29/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [25 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israel kills over 60 Palestinians since dawn today per Hamas, which claims total war death toll 62,966 and 1500 ‘homes’ destroyed in Zeitoun — plus 1 km tunnel
[GEO.TV] At least 61 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since dawn, including 19 aid seekers in Gaza Strip, Al Jazeera reported, citing sources in the occupied territory.

Gaza death toll soars to 62,966, says health ministry
[GEO.TV] Israel's war on Gaza has killed 62,966 Palestinians
…if true, a whole 3.1% of the population, less than Gaza’s roughly 2% per year growth rate…
and injured 159,266
…8%…
since October 7, 2023, Al Jazeera quoted the enclave's Health Ministry on Thursday.

At least 71 Palestinians, including 22 aid seekers, have been killed and 339 injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza in 24 hours.

The total number of aid seekers killed since May 27, when Israel introduced a new aid distribution mechanism through the US-based GHF, has reached 2,180, with more than 16,046 injured, the statement said.

Israel demolishes 1,500 homes in Gaza’s Zeitoun
…every single one of which was boobytrapped with bombs and/or a jihadi fighting point and/or the entrance to a Hamas tunnel. So it is all Hamas’s fault, justlike everything else that has happened in Gaza since Hamas took over on 14 June 2007.
[GEO.TV] Israel has demolished more than 1,500 homes in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
City since launching a ground offensive earlier this month, Gaza's Civil Defence has said.

Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson for the rescue service, told Anadolu news agency that no buildings remain standing in the southern part of the neighbourhood.

He said the Israeli army has used construction machinery alongside bomb-laden robots and quadcopter drones that drop explosives on rooftops. According to Basal, Israeli forces are destroying an average of seven sites per day, accelerating the pace of devastation.

The systematic demolitions have forced about 80 percent of Zeitoun's residents to flee, moving to western and northern parts of Gaza City in search of safety, Basal added.


IDF troops uncover and destroy kilometer-long tunnel in southern Gaza, says military


[IsraelTimes] IDF troops operating in southern Gaza’s Zeitoun area discovered and destroyed a roughly one-kilometer-long Hamas tunnel equipped with living quarters and weapons, the military says.

Soldiers from the 7th Brigade, under the 99th Division, located the underground tunnel during operations in the southern Gaza Strip. According to the IDF, the tunnel was used by Hamas operatives for military purposes.

In addition, the brigade, working alongside the Israeli Air Force, dismantled other terrorist infrastructure, seized additional weapons, and neutralized several terror operatives who allegedly posed a threat to troops in the area.
Posted by: Fred || 08/29/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [37 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Israeli military carries out more raids near Jenin, Ramallah
[GEO.TV] Israeli forces have launched several new raids in the occupied West Bank, after earlier carrying out a wave of home invasions and arrests that included targeting activists and journalists, Al Jazeera reported, citing the Wafa news agency.

The latest incursions occurred in the town of al-Yamun, near Jenin, and Jalazone camp, near Ramallah, reports Wafa.

In al-Yamun, Israeli forces raided several homes and tampered with residents' contents, while in Jalazone camp, they fired tear gas near homes, according to Wafa.

Troops seen clashing with Palestinians in Nablus Wednesday

Pictures and videos circulating online show Israeli forces operating in the West Bank city of Nablus and facing off against stone-throwing Palestinians.

Footage shows military vehicles moving through city streets, with troops appearing to fire warning shots.



Additional clips capture soldiers detaining several local residents during the operation.

The official Palestinian Authority news outlet Wafa reports that two Palestinians were treated for gunshot wounds and dozens of others were injured by tear gas and rubber bullets, citing the Red Crescent.

The reports come a day after Israeli police said security forces seized roughly NIS 1.5 million ($447,000) in “terror funds” during a raid on a currency exchange office in Ramallah that authorities said was linked to Hamas. According to the Palestinian Red Crescent, dozens were wounded in yesterday’s raid, some by live fire and others by rubber bullets or tear gas inhalation.

The IDF has not yet commented on its activity in Nablus.
Posted by: Fred || 08/29/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [38 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Southeast Asia
Myanmar: Anti-Junta Fighters attacked a Gym used by Junta soldiers in Shwebo.
Posted by: badanov || 08/29/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [41 views] Top|| File under:


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Lebanon reports 2 soldiers killed by Israeli drone that exploded after crashing
[IsraelTimes] Lebanese president says ‘army once again paying in blood the price of maintaining stability’ in the country, as 2 others hurt in 4th deadly incident amid Israel-Hezbollah truce
Blame Hezbollah for putting you in the middle of their war, guys And stop whining — it’s unbecoming for big, tough soldiers to whine.
Lebanon’s army said two personnel were killed Thursday after an Israeli drone that had crashed in the country’s south exploded, the latest deadly incident for Lebanese troops near the Israeli border.

Under a November ceasefire that sought to end more than a year of hostilities including two months of open war between Israel and Hezbollah, Lebanon’s army has been deploying in the country’s south and dismantling the Iran-backed terror group’s infrastructure there with the support of UN observers.

“While army personnel were inspecting an Israeli enemy drone after it fell in the Naqura area, it exploded, leading to the death of an officer and a soldier and wounding two other personnel,” the army said in a statement.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said in a statement that “the army is once again paying in blood the price of maintaining stability in the south.”

He said it was the fourth deadly incident for the army since it began deploying in south Lebanon after the ceasefire.

Earlier this month, six Lebanese soldiers were killed in a blast at a weapons depot near the border that a military source said belonged to Hezbollah.

IDF ‘expresses regret’ after Lebanon says two soldiers killed in Israeli drone explosion

[IsraelTimes] The IDF expresses regret for an incident yesterday in which an Israeli drone that had crashed in southern Lebanon exploded, killing and wounding several members of the Lebanese Armed Forces.

In a statement, the military says the IDF has opened a probe into the incident, which it attributes to a “technical malfunction.”

It acknowledges that following the explosion, “the IDF received reports that a number of Lebanese army soldiers were harmed.”

“The possibility that the incident was caused by an IDF weapon explosion is being examined,” the military says, adding that it “regrets the harm to Lebanese army soldiers.”

According to the military, the drone had been intended to target a Hezbollah site that the terror group was rebuilding “in violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon, and not against the Lebanese army soldiers.”

The IDF’s Arabic-language spokesman Col. Avichay Adraee issues a similar statement in Arabic on X.

The Lebanese military has said that two people were killed in the blast, including an officer, and two others were injured.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/29/2025 2025-08-29 02:03 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [43 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah

#1  Don't mess with IDF equipment!
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 08/29/2025 2:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Probably every day there are ~10-100 incidents like this, large and small, around the world -- African wars, South American wars, Asian wars, plus training accidents. When it's the IDF it makes international news.

In the US, every day, ~two people get killed just a-driving down the road, on average, in every one of the 50 states. Every day. Do you hear about it very often?
Posted by: Smokin Joe || 08/29/2025 5:11 Comments || Top||


Renewed Israeli airstrikes target same Leb southern regions
[NAHARNET] Israeli Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s on Thursday targeted the al-Zighrin area on the eastern outskirts of the Jezzine district town of al-Rihan, the National News Agency said.

The stream of the al-Khardali River was also targeted by several airstrikes in the al-Mahmoudiyeh area, NNA added.

The Israeli army claimed that the strikes had targeted ''several Hezbollah infrastructure sites and a rocket launchpad.''

Israel has repeatedly bombed the aforementioned areas since the November ceasefire came into effect.

Since the war ended with a U.S.-brokered agreement, Hezbollah officials have said the group will not discuss its disarmament until Israel withdraws from five hills it controls inside Leb
...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel...
and stops almost daily airstrikes that have killed or maimed hundreds of people, most of them Hezbollah members.

Lebanon is under U.S. pressure to disarm Hezbollah after the group fought a 14-month war with Israel and was left gravely weakened, with many of its political and military leaders killed.
Posted by: Fred || 08/29/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [50 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


Palestinian factions in south Lebanon hand weapons to army — Naharnet
[NAHARNET] Paleostinian groups in three refugee camps in south Leb
...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects....
handed over heavy weapons to the Lebanese army on Thursday, under a disarmament deal reached earlier this year, Lebanese and Paleostinian authorities said.

During a visit to Beirut in May, Paleostinian president the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....>
and Lebanese President Joseph Aoun agreed that weapons in Lebanon's Paleostinian camps would be handed over to the Lebanese authorities.

The implementation of the deal -- part of Lebanese authorities' decision to disarm all non-state groups -- began last week as Abbas's Fatah movement surrendered its weapons in south Beirut's Burj al-Barajneh camp.

The official Lebanese-Paleostinian dialogue committee said on Thursday that "heavy weapons belonging to the factions of the Paleostine Liberation Organization in the Rashidieh, al-Bass and Burj al-Shemali camps were handed over to the Lebanese army".

Abbas's Fatah is the most prominent PLO faction. Paleostinian murderous Moslem groups Hamas
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
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...
, which are allied to Lebanon's Hezbollah, are not part of the organization.

By longstanding convention, the Lebanese army stays out of the Paleostinian camps -- where Fatah, Hamas and other gangs are present -- and leaves the factions to handle security.

The statement said six truckloads of weapons were removed from Rashidieh, and one truck each from the other two locations, adding that the process would continue in the rest of Lebanon's Paleostinian camps.

In an army barracks in city of Tyre, near the Rashidieh camp, an AFP photographer saw several army trucks arriving after the handover.

In Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Abbas's front man Nabil Abu Rudeina confirmed that "the relevant Paleostinian authorities in Lebanon have handed over the second batch of Paleostine Liberation Organisation weapons" to the army in the three camps as part of the May agreement.

Lebanon hosts about 222,000 Paleostinian refugees, according to the United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
agency UNRWA.

The move to collect the Paleostinian factions' weapons comes as the Lebabese government, under heavy U.S. pressure and amid fears of expanded Israeli military action, has tasked the army with drawing up a plan to disarm Hezbollah by the end of the year.

During a year of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah thon the lamly ended with a November ceasefire, Paleostinian groups including Hamas claimed rocket fire towards Israel.
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#1  I wonder how much they'll charge Palestinians for weapons back?
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 08/29/2025 4:28 Comments || Top||


UN peacekeepers discover Hezbollah bunker in south Lebanon
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Posted by: Fred || 08/29/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [68 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah

#1  So, the United Nations has been deployed to South Lebanon for 45 years, as a peacekeeping force.

And for most of that time, attacks against Israel have occurred continuously; and preparations for more attacks against Israel have occurred continuously.

The French Peacekeepers: "Howitzers pointed at Israel? Shells? Tunnels? Caves? Sacré bleu!! How were we supposed to know?"



Posted by: Grateful Fred || 08/29/2025 2:35 Comments || Top||



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