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[KavkazUzel] Two people killed by security forces during a counter-terrorism operation in Nalchik were residents of Kabardino-Balkaria, investigators said.
As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, on April 11, during a counter-terrorism operation (CTO) in a gardening community in Nalchik, security forces killed two people. Those killed were members of a cell of an international terrorist organization and were planning sabotage and terrorist attacks in Kabardino-Balkaria, the National Anti-Terrorism Committee said. The investigator reported that a criminal case had been opened regarding an attack on the lives of security forces and illegal trafficking in weapons and explosives.
The identities of those killed have been established, said a representative of the ICR department for Kabardino-Balkaria. “These are residents of Kabardino-Balkaria born in 1997 and 2004,” TASS quotes him today.
Let us remind you that the CTO regime was canceled on the same day. Residents of Volny aul and other villages near Nalchik said that in the morning they were awakened by machine gun fire and explosions, and some residents decided not to let their children go to school.
In Kabardino-Balkaria, the CTO regime was introduced for the first time since July 3, 2021. Then the counter-terrorism operation was carried out in Nalchik and Baksan, during which security forces killed five alleged militants.
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[KavkazUzel] Security forces must comply with the principles of international law in relation to those arrested in the case of the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall and remember the presumption of innocence and the prohibition of torture, the head of the Tajik Foreign Ministry said.
Those are American laws and customs. What are the laws and customs in the former Soviet Union?
He also noted that the information campaign launched after the terrorist attack creates a negative perception of Tajiks.
As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, on March 22, armed people broke into the Crocus City Hall concert hall in Krasnogorsk near Moscow, opened fire and committed arson. The FSB classified the incident as a terrorist attack. As of April 6, 11 people were arrested on suspicion of involvement in the terrorist attack. According to official data, as of April 5, 145 people were killed in the terrorist attack. The National Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAC) stated that those detained during the counter-terrorism operation in Makhachkala and Kaspiysk were planning terrorist attacks; they were found with automatic weapons, ammunition and an improvised explosive device.
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the presumption of innocence and the prohibition of torture,
He also noted that the information campaign launched after the terrorist attack creates a negative perception of Tajiks.
So, what he's saying is that: unlike the psychotic EUropeans & feeble minded Americans; Russians understand who - or rather what - they're dealing here with.
Impressive. It only took them half a year to agree that the groups should be symbolically punished.
[IsraelTimes] Bloc says abuses by the Palestinian terrorists include ‘rape and subsequent murder of female minors, mutilation of corpses as well as genital mutilation’
The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... on Friday imposed sanctions on the armed wings of Hamas
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[IsraelTimes] After far-left politician demands arms export ban, Gabriel Attal tells him: ’You never say a word about the victims of the Hamas ...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... attack, you never talk about hostages’
French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal came to Israel’s defense during a parliamentary session on Wednesday, resoundingly condemning the Hamas terror group and its supporters when asked if Gay Paree would consider banning arms exports to Israel in light of the war in Gazoo
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[FoxNews] 'What we’ve seen time and time from the Iranian regime, is that they fail to feed their people and they put the IRGC first,' a Treasury Department official told the Senate.
The Treasury Department this week admitted that any funds sent to Iran directly go toward funding "violent" activities of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps "before it’s ever used for their people and humanitarian aid."
Sen. Tim Scott is now demanding answers from Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, after Deputy Secretary Adewale Adeyemo testified about Iran's use of humanitarian aid before the U.S. Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee on Tuesday.
Adeyemo testified in response to questions from Scott, R-S.C., about the "fungible nature of so-called humanitarian assistance."
"What we’ve seen time and time from the Iranian regime, is that they fail to feed their people and they put the IRGC first," Adeyemo said. "Any dollar they have will go towards violent activity before they deal with their people."
Adeyemo said that is "partially why almost none of the humanitarian money has been used for humanitarian purposes, because they don’t care about getting drugs and food for their people."
"In Iran, they’ve proven that any dollar they get, that they have direct access to in the country, will be used for the IRGC before it’s ever used for their people," Adeyemo added.
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see above, "Secret letters written by Hamas boss who planned October 7 attack reveal Iran paid the terror group £200million."
[Times of SD] The trouble-plagued USS Boxer has returned to San Diego after experiencing a new equipment problem during its first deployment in five years, according to media reports.
The amphibious assault ship carrying elements of the Camp Pendleton-based 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit had left April 1 but is now docked at North Island.
The U.S. Naval Institute, a nonprofit military association, said the latest problem is with the ship’s rudder and repairs will take two to three weeks.
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Tow her to South Korea. Seems they have people who know how to build ships.
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"returning to San Diego to undergo additional maintenance in support of its deployment"
Jeebus. As in, 'broken and headed for the barn, 180 degrees from the operation.'
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its first deployment in five years
So they blew off the check ride.
Nice going Navy. Too bad, Marines.
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Please tell me that USS Boxer isn't USS Barbara Boxer. FTLOG.
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Via Le Wiki: USS Boxer (LHD-4) is a Wasp-class amphibious assault ship of the United States Navy.[2] She is the sixth U.S. ship to bear the name of the original HMS Boxer, which was captured from the British during the War of 1812.
You scared me there for a second, Rex! Shades of the USS Harvey Milk, and all.
[Jpost] The prospect of Gazans crossing into Egypt from the border town of Rafah to escape a military assault would make the resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict impossible and cause an "atrocious dilemma" for the people fleeing, the UN refugee chief said on Friday.
Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR,) said "We must fervently do everything" to avoid such an outflow of the Gazan population. "Another refugee crisis from Gaza into Egypt, I can assure you... would make the resolution of the Palestinian refugee question as a consequence of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict impossible," Grandi told Reuters at UNHCR headquarters in Geneva. The masks are coming off - Globalists care nothing about "Palestinians" as people. They are just an expendable tool against the detested Jews.
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However, unconstrained inflow of people to Europe and America is supported by the same chief.
[Rudaw] Iraqi militias affiliated with Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries" embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime"s influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... on Friday renewed their threats against American interests in the region days before Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-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... i travels to Washington to meet with United States President Joe The Big Guy Biden
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Don't. Otherwise I would argue you fuckers really want to die and keep American troops there. Just smoke pot and watch and most likely the US will fully pull out.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Letters exchanged by Hamas leaders have revealed how Iran appears to have awarded at least £200 million to the Palestinian militant group since 2014.
One document, seemingly written in 2020 by a top official in Hamas' armed wing, Marwan Issa (Abu Baraa), and addressed to the group's leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar (Abu Ibrahim), showed a table of payments totalling $154 million from the Islamic Republic to Hamas coffers.
A second handwritten letter in November 2021 goes on to show the receipt of at least another $68 million and references to further expected payments.
The Israeli military, which allegedly uncovered the letters amid their operations in Gaza, told The Times they believe the documents prove Iran's systematic funding of the Hamas group prior to the October 7 attacks which prompted the outbreak of war.
They claim the money was transferred into Hamas accounts in Gaza via a complex system that sees members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds force (IRGC-QF) deliver huge sums of cash to Hamas contacts in Lebanon.
Once in Beirut, the money is squirrelled across the border by a network of money-changers using shell companies, crypto-currency, shipping transactions and various credit schemes to funnel the money to Hamas chiefs.
The documents detail how much of the money was paid directly to several top Hamas officials including Issa and Sinwar, as well as Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh and military commander Mohammed Deif, all of whom were implicated in planning the October 7 attacks on Israeli civilians.
But Israel and the US have targeted the Hamas elite and have also worked to dismantle the networks that continue to fund the Palestinian group.
Issa is believed to have died in an Israeli airstrike on March 11, according to the IDF and US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan.
And though Haniyeh is sheltering from the IDF's bombs in Qatar, three of his sons and several of his grandchildren are said to have been killed in a strike in Gaza earlier this week.
Meanwhile, Saleh al-Arouri, another Hamas official marshalling the group from Beirut who was thought to be a key link in the money-changing chain, was killed in a drone strike in January.
Then on April 1, an Israeli strike on an Iranian consulate building in Damascus, Syria, killed 13 people, including Quds force generals Mohammad Reza Zahedi and Mohammad Hadi Hajriahimi.
Zahedi is thought to have worked with al-Arouri to deliver IRGC funds to money-changers in Lebanon.
Mohammad Surur, a man said to be connected to Hezbollah facilitating payments to Hamas, was found dead near the Lebanese capital earlier this week.
For its part, the US has launched a battery of sanctions designed to cripple the money-changing network Hamas relies on to receive payments from Iran.
Financial exchanges in Gaza, an Iraqi airline and backers of Iranian-linked militias in Iraq were just some of the entities subject to economic freezes in measures announced in January by the US Treasury.
'Sanctions are just one of the many levers at our disposal when it comes to holding Iran and some of its proxies accountable,' State Department deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel told a news briefing.
The moves would have 'tangible impacts' on groups Washington blames for destabilising the Middle East, Patel said.
For example, he said, the US hoped blacklisting Iraq's Fly Baghdad airline and its chief executive would 'disrupt' the airline's alleged role in carrying supplies and personnel into Syria for the Quds Force.
To be fair, Israel adamantly does not want the thing, so it’s only fair that the Biden administration that demands it is also the one who pays for it.
[Jpost] The United States’s plan to construct a humanitarian aid pier in the Gaza Strip may exceed $200 million in cost, ABC News reported on Tuesday.
The cost of the project was leaked to the source by two unnamed officials privy to an unreleased initial estimate by the US Central Command.
The floating dock is expected to be 97 feet wide and 270 feet long. Aid will be screened in Cyprus before being transported by container ships to the floating dock. Ferries would then transport the aid to Gaza’s shores.
The minimum expected cost if at least $180 million, according to the report, but is expected to fluctuate as US officials finalize details of the project such as which countries and humanitarian organizations will involve themselves in the pier.
The report indicated that US discussions will also be held on how to protect humanitarian workers at the pier from Hamas, as the pier will operate only three miles offshore.
US MILITARY INVESTMENT
Six Army and Navy ships will also be stationed at the pier, which will involve some 1000 US military personnel. However, US troops will reportedly not be allowed to transport the aid to Gaza.
"No US boots will be on the ground," US President Joe Biden promised last month. "A temporary pier will enable a massive increase in the amount of humanitarian assistance getting into Gaza every day."
The project is reportedly scheduled to begin on May 2, allowing two million daily meals to reach Gaza.
[IsraelTimes] Officials say Palestinians weren’t interested in heeding Hamas call to rile up Al-Aqsa, where Ben Gvir was blocked from exerting influence and where Jordan played stabilizing role
In the days leading up to the holy month of Ramadan, Hamas ...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... leader Ismail Haniyeh
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Egyptian FM Sameh Shoukry have discussed 'multilateral efforts for advancing regional stability' during a phone call.
[Jpost] The haredi public must internalize that they will need to begin committing to national service, Interior Minister Moshe Arbel (Shas) said in a podcast that was published on Thursday.
The comment was rare, as ultra-Orthodox leaders have largely refrained from taking the side of increasing haredi service since a crisis over the issue broke out in February, when the defense ministry revealed that it was planning to overcome a lack of manpower by increasing mandatory and reserve duty, and not by drafting thousands of haredi men, who have enjoyed a blanket exemption.
The legal foundation for this exemption expired on March 31 and, according to a Supreme Court temporary directive on March 28, the state is now required to draft haredi men, and must provide by April a progress report on the matter. The court will hear the case of whether to make the directive permanent on June 2.
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Clearly they didn’t — or haven’t yet. The article is time-stamped 9:59 p.m. Israel time, or 3:59 p.m. ET.
[IsraelTimes] US general meets with Israeli defense brass to discuss expected Iranian retaliation for alleged Israeli strike on IRGC members; Halevi says IDF ‘ready for any scenario’.
A major retaliatory attack 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 JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... on Israel could come as soon as Friday, according to an American media report, as the top United States general in the Mideast visited for talks with the defense brass on military readiness amid the Iranian threats.
Citing two unnamed US officials, CBS reported the attack could possibly include more than 100 drones and dozens of missiles aimed at military targets inside the country, the officials said, while warning Israel would be challenged to fend off an assault of that scale.
The officials said it was possible Tehran may still opt for a smaller-magnitude strike in order to avoid a dramatic escalation.
Or, as Grom the Reflective predicts, they will do nothing directly, lest Israel’s response leaves Iran open to the mercy of its other enemies.
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[Regnum] Iranian authorities conveyed to the United States a message that if Washington intervenes in the conflict between Israel and Iran, US forces in the region will be attacked, the Axios portal reported on April 12, citing three knowledgeable American sources.
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On the Friday after 9/11/2001 the Iranians didn't dare shout "Death to America" since they were scared of how the US would react.
Since then the US, NATO and other Western countries have pursued policies that have made our enemies and potential enemies fear us less and hate us more.
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