[Garowe] An investigation into the tragic drowning of two Navy SEALs off the coast of Somalia has concluded that the incident was preventable, citing inadequate training and unclear guidance on flotation equipment. Chief Special Warfare Operator Christopher Chambers and Naval Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Nathan Ingram bit the dust during a nighttime maritime intercept operation aimed at a vessel suspected of carrying Iranian weapons to 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... The incident occurred when Chambers fell into heavy seas while attempting to board the ship, followed by Ingram, who jumped in to assist. Both SEALs, burdened by mission gear, submerged within seconds. The investigation, led by the Naval Special Warfare Command, highlighted a lack of specific buoyancy requirements and inadequate training with emergency flotation devices as key contributing factors.
A SEAL chief didn’t know this stuff??
Gen. Michael "Erik" Kurilla, the commander of U.S. Central Command, emphasized in his review that systemic issues within the training and operational guidelines were at fault. Despite successful daytime operations before the tragic night, the rushed planning and execution of the nighttime intercept under challenging sea conditions were deemed critical errors.
The SEALs involved had conducted buoyancy tests before deployment but not after boarding their ship, the USS Lewis B. Puller, which set sail in December 2023. Confusion over whether to maintain "positive" or "neutral" buoyancy during missions, as well as the lack of standardized use of the Tactical Flotation Support System, was noted in the report.
Following the incident, an extensive search and rescue operation spanned 48,600 square miles over 10 days. Still, it failed to recover the bodies of Chambers and Ingram, posthumously promoted for their service.
Recommendations from the investigation include formalizing buoyancy standards, reevaluating the necessity for fail-safe flotation devices, and enhancing the training regimen for lifesaving equipment on board Navy vessels. The report underscores the need for these measures to prevent future tragedies among the elite forces operating in high-risk environments.
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Flotation device training was probably bumped so they could cram more LGBTQ+ training. Or what we called "Watermelon school" when I was in the Navy.
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Gee, back in my old days, just to compete for going to Ranger school, involved jumping into a pool with full patrol equipment and weapons and then clearing yourself of them and get back to the surface.
[Garowe] Æthiopian troops in Somalia's Bakool region came under attack from al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... Death Eaters late Friday, triggering a fierce counter-offensive in the Wajid district, according to local sources. The initial assault on the Æthiopian military base prompted a heavy retaliation with both sides engaging in intense combat.
Witnesses reported continuous sounds of explosions and gunfire, suggesting a significant escalation in the area. In response to the ambush, Æthiopian forces launched a series of mortar attacks targeting al-Shabaab strongholds within and around Wajid.
Details on the human toll from the confrontation remain sparse, with neither the Æthiopian military nor local authorities issuing an official toll of casualties or damage. The lack of official information has fueled concerns among residents.
On Saturday, Æthiopian troops intensified their presence in Wajid, conducting sweeping operations aimed at securing the area amid fears of further attacks by al-Shabaab holy warriors. This escalation reflects Æthiopia's ongoing military support to Somalia in its fight against Islamist krazed killers.
Wajid saw large pro-Æthiopia protests last month after the Somali government announced the decision to kick Æthiopian troops out of the country in December 2024 due to Addis Ababa's sea access MoU with Somaliland ...Republic of Somaliland is an unrecognised sovereign state in the Horn of Africa, recognised internationally as a de jure part of Somalia. It is located in the southern coast of the Gulf of Aden with approximately 5.7 million residents as of 2021. The capital and largest city is Hargeisa. The government regards itself as the successor state to British Somaliland, which united from 1960 to 1991 with the Trust Territory of Somaliland (the former Italian Somaliland) to form the Somali Republic. Under the Siad Barre regime, Somaliadestroyed ninety percent of Hargeisa Per international law, once you're in, you gotta stay in, no matter how bad it smells.... . Locals say the ENDF is a close ally and wants to stay in the Bakool region.
Al-Shabaab, an krazed killer group with a strong foothold in Somalia, declared through a short message that they had successfully attacked Æthiopian forces, causing casualties and seizing military equipment. The statement, however, was vague about specifics.
Ooooohhhh, slap!
The attack in Wajid illustrates the enduring security issues in Somalia, a country plagued by instability where al-Shabaab presents a persistent challenge to peace and stability. This incident marks another chapter in the ongoing saga of confrontations that underscore the fragility of security in the Bakool region.
[SaharaReporters] Terrorists, locally dubbed as bandidos, now receive ransom through bank electronic transfer in Zamfara State, North-West, Nigeria.
SaharaReporters learnt that some of the Death Eaters were paid N2million ransom through a moniepoint virtual bank account on October 3, 2024.
A money transfer instrument seen by SaharaReporters showed that N2million was paid into a Palmpay virtual bank account number 7026353728, owned by one Musa Muhammad, believed to be a bandit in Zamfara State.
This was reported by a conflict and crisis journalist in Nigeria's Northwest, Bakatsine on his X social media handle.
Bakatsine, disclosed that after the N2 million bank transfer, the bandidos instructed that additional millions be delivered to a specified location according to a credible source.
The incident, reportedly happened in the Shinkafi Local Government Area, Zamfara State.
"Bandits in Zamfara State received ransom through bank transfer. After transferring N2million to their bank account as requested, they later instructed that additional millions be delivered to a specified location according to my source the incident happened in Shinkafi LGA, Zamfara State," Bakatsine posted.
[SaharaReporters] Senator Mohammed Ndume, representing Borno South senatorial district, has expressed concerns regarding the looting of crops by murderous Moslems in the Gwoza communities of Borno State.
Ndume on Wednesday disclosed that he had been reliably informed by village heads from the affected areas—specifically Ngoshe, Kirawa, Ashigashiya, and surrounding communities—about the dire situation facing local farmers, who are now left frustrated and hungry due to the loss of nearly half of their agricultural produce.
"Regarding the renewed Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... killings, especially targeting farmers while harvesting their crops, I was reliably informed by the village heads of the affected Gwoza communities that almost half of the crops produced by resilient farmers in Ngoshe, Kirawa, Ashigashiya, and other surrounding communities around the Mandara Mountains were looted by terrorists, leaving local farmers frustrated and hungry," he was quoted by Vanguard as saying.
Ndume, a former chairman of the Senate Committee on Army, called on the Nigerian government to enhance military capabilities by providing adequate equipment and motivation to Nigerian forces.
He noted a conversation with the Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa, who assured him of plans to deploy additional troops to Gwoza to enable farmers to protect their crops.
"The military is determined and committed to ending Boko Haram’s madness, but this cannot be possible if they are not fully equipped, armed, trained, and motivated," Ndume said.
The senator also addressed rumours circulating on social media regarding an ambush of his convoy by suspected Boko Haram terrorists, stating that he had safely returned from a condolence visit to families of those recently killed in the region.
He explained an incident from Tuesday, where his convoy, escorted by military personnel, was en route to Ngoshe when they received alarming reports of an ambush on Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... ian soldiers along the Pulka-Kirawa Road.
He said despite the threats, he and his team proceeded to Kirawa, where they offered condolences to the families affected by previous attacks.
He encouraged residents to remain resilient amidst the ongoing violence, which has seen an increase in Boko Haram activities in the area.
Ndume said the ambush on the Kirawa road targeted a Cameroonian businessman, Alhaji Kadi, who was killed alongside an unidentified woman, with several others sustaining injuries.
[SaharaReporters] No fewer than eight personnel of the Zamfara State Security Outfit popularly known as Askarawa have been killed by button men suspected to be bandidos.
It was learnt that the members of Community Protection Guards established by Governor Dauda Lawal to complement the efforts of other security agencies in the state were killed in an ambush.
The Commander of the Community Protection Guards in the state, Brigadier General Mohammed Lawal confirmed the incident to Channels TV.
He affirmed that the personnel were ambushed at their checkpoint, a few kilometers outskirt of Tsafe town, the headquarters of Tsafe Local Government Area. Adding that the personnel were deployed to the area due to the incessant abduction of travelers along the Gusau-Funtua Highway which has reduced drastically since their deployment
"When I got to know about the bandidos’ route around that area which they used to kidnap travelers, I told the Governor and we deployed the CPGs to that side, armed with two Hilux vehicles; the area is covered by mountains.
"For about two months now, they have been there, they will resume early in the morning and vacate the place around 6:30pm for other patrols. Since then, kidnappings along that axis have been reduced."
"The bandidos slept in a community around the area. In the morning when the Hilux vehicle dropped the first set to our personnel and returned to pick others, the bandidos who had already laid ambush opened fire on them and unfortunately, we lost eight of our men, and one traveller was also shot.
"As they (bandidos) are also planning, we are also planning because I just discovered another route where the bandidos block the road to kidnap people around Wanzamai. We will not relent and Insha Allah we will flush them out of this state," he said.
[SaharaReporters] At least 11 people have been killed, several injured, and multiple residents kidnapped following a series of coordinated attacks by armed bandidos on communities in the Kankara Local Government Area (LGA) of Katsina State.
It was gathered that the attacks began earlier this week and have left residents in fear and disrupted farming activities across the affected areas.
Daily Trust reports that local sources said the attacks started on Monday in Kukasheka village, where four people were killed and others maimed.
The violence escalated on Wednesday, with more casualties in different villages.
In Ammarawa, bandidos killed four people and injured one in an early morning assault, while Dan Gani village saw one fatality and the abduction of seven villagers.
Meanwhile,
...back at the secret hideout, Scarface Al sneeringly put his proposition to little Nell... in Tudu village, a woman named Saude was kidnapped during a mid-morning attack around 9 a.m.
Residents of Kankara LGA have expressed growing concerns over the lack of security and the increasing threat to their lives and livelihoods.
The bandidos’ activities have also prevented farmers from accessing their crops, deepening fears of food insecurity in the region.
However,
facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... residents explained their frustration, lamenting that banditry has made it nearly impossible to harvest their crops safely.
One resident shared a personal tragedy, recounting how his father was attacked on their farm just two days after the same group killed his brother.
Despite sustaining a severe head injury, his father passed away nine days later in the hospital.
Meanwhile,
...back at the secret hideout, Scarface Al sneeringly put his proposition to little Nell... Katsina State Police spokesperson, ASP Abubakar Sadiq Aliyu, assured that an investigation into the attacks was underway.
Kankara has been a hub of banditry for years, with Death Eaters continuing to cause havoc despite ongoing security measures. In response, the Katsina State government launched the Community Watch Corps, a local security initiative credited with reducing the frequency and scale of attacks.
However,
facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... bandidos remain undeterred, carrying out bold assaults even in broad daylight.
[IsraelTimes] UN agencies and NGOs express "grave concern" over the referral for criminal prosecution of a large number of their staff who have been "arbitrarily detained" by 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... ’s 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... rebels, and renew calls for their immediate release.
The Iran-backed Houthis have detained dozens of staff from UN and other humanitarian organizations, most of them since June, claiming they are members of a "US-Israeli spy network," a charge the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... denies.
"We are extremely concerned about the reported referral to ’criminal prosecution’ by the Huthi de facto authorities of a significant number of arbitrarily detained colleagues," says a statement signed by principals of affected UN entities and international NGOs.
The Houthi authorities have not issued any announcement in this regard.
The signatories of the statement included WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, UNESCO head Audrey Azoulay, UN human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... chief Volker Turk and Oxfam International executive director Amitabh Behar.
The Houthis have kidnapped, arbitrarily detained and tortured hundreds of civilians, including UN and NGO workers, since the start of Yemen’s civil war in 2014, according to rights groups.
In June, the Houthis detained 13 UN personnel, including six employees of the Human Rights Office, and more than 50 NGO staff plus an embassy staff member.
The Houthis claimed they had arrested "an American-Israeli spy network" operating under the cover of humanitarian organizations — allegations emphatically rejected by the UN Human Rights Office.
Two other UN human rights staff had already been detained since November 2021 and August 2023 respectively. They are all being held incommunicado.
[Jpost] The group posted pictures and videos to their Instagram in which they can be seen taking over the office of Professor Steven Prawer, and staging a sit-in.
Masked pro-Paleostine protesters wearing keffiyehs took over the office of Steven Prawer, a Jewish professor at the University of Melbourne (UMelb), Australia, on Wednesday, in an alleged protest over his academic connection to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
The group, University of Melbourne for Paleostine, posted multiple pictures and videos to their Instagram in which they can be seen invading the professor’s office and staging a sit-in. They can also be seen chanting and covering the door of his office in pro-Paleostine stickers and signs.
One sticker said "antisemitism is a crime, anti-Zionism is a duty," and the two signs read "Steven Prawer, your work will break your soul before it breaks the resistance" and "From the river to the sea, Paleostine will be free."
The group said that they discovered pro-Israel memorabilia in Prawer’s office, including a picture of a sticker for Tel Aviv University with the world Shalom [peace] on it.
In another video, a woman wearing a keffiyeh and a mask interrogates Prawer as he talks to the police outside the office. When he attempts to walk away, the woman follows him and continues to ask questions about Israel’s genocide of the Paleostinian people.
Prawer, an engineering professor and head of the UMelb Materials Institute, is the academic lead of the Jerusalem-Melbourne Joint PhD program.
This, according to the protesters, was the reason for their actions. In a poster stuck on the wall of Prawer’s office, the group wrote, "Prawer spearheads a number of research projects in collaboration with Israeli research institutes, academics, and universities, such as a recent project with the Israeli Center of Advanced Diamond Technology."
The protest was allegedly part of the group’s efforts to make the University cut its academic ties with Israeli universities, as seen in another poster.
"It is imperative that the University of Melbourne acknowledge and utilize its privilege as a settler entity to support colonized peoples and end their complicity in the Israeli colonial project and ongoing genocide of Paleostinians," the group stated.
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Muslim Brotherhood in Melbourne at Islamic Council of Victoria
Australia's most beloved TV muslim Waleed Aly on ICV board for years. He stars on The Project, ch10. He is Muslim Brotherhood aligned, propagandises their narrative, runs cover after Islamist attacks,
Waleed’s wife Susan Carland works with Mariam Veiszadeh at Islamophobia Register Australia running Muslim Brotherhood propaganda through academic reports counting self-reported stories told to their facebook page (full of lies) that they get their friends to “peer review”
These reports are used to lobby parliament and media for favourable coverage of muslims
They make Islamophobia the topic of public media discourse after every jihad attack so that islam wins as it shifts blame the from the islamist perpetrator to the victim society.
This is muslim brotherhood tactic popularised by Tariq Ramadan
On the board of IRA is the CEO of PsychCentral, a chain of psychology clinics started by Hanan Dover, an Islamist who wants the sharia and runs cover for jihadis after they shoot people by saying they are just mentally ill - like numan haider
She is so bad the AFP (federal police) blocked her from access to one jihadi teen on the grounds that she is not neutral
That is Islamophobia Register Australia
That is in Melbourne and Sydney
The Islamic Council of Victoria is so well connected with media these students know they will be praised for their actions instead of vilified as Hamas supporting racists
Now you see why i am bleating on about the Muslim Brotherhood??
Do you see what is happening here?? Only these aholes get their voice in the media and Islam is redacted from the conversation because of their persistent and funded and structured lobbying for 20 years
[IsraelTimes] Police say new measures a result of domestic security agency’s decision to raise threat level; will not be applied to all travelers
Norway is introducing temporary border checks on its frontiers with other Western European nations after the domestic security agency raised the terror threat level, police said Saturday.
The checks will apply until October 22, according to a police statement.
It cited "a challenging threat picture" and the October 8 announcement by the security agency, PST, that it was increasing Norway’s threat level from "moderate" to "high," the second-highest level on a five-tier scale.
PST pointed to an increased threat to Jewish and Israeli targets in particular.
Norway isn’t a member of the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , but the country is part of the European ID-check free travel zone known as the Schengen area. It has land borders with EU and Schengen members Sweden and Finland.
Police said that the new controls won’t involve all travelers being checked, and there’s no reason to expect delays at border crossings.
Norway raised its terror level on Tuesday after police in neighboring Denmark charged two men last week suspected of detonating hand grenades near Israel’s Copenhagen embassy, while police in Sweden are investigating a suspected shooting near the Israeli diplomatic mission in Stockholm.
Changes to security include Norwegian coppers, who are normally unarmed, now carrying guns nationwide.
Sweden in August last year raised its terrorist alert to the second-highest level after Koran burning ...One of the basic tenets of Islam is that once a Koran has been printed it is expected to last for all time, no matter how old, ratty, and smelly other, lesser holy books may become. Should it actually become necessary to put a Koran out of its misery there is a ritual that includes extensive charivari, featuring long drawn-wailing and head bonking, ritual wife beating, and the sacrifice of dozens of women's noses and pubic lips. When the actual disposal has been completed there is a prescribed period of celebratory gun sex with the expectation of a minimum of two hundred casualties. Should actual infidels dispose of a Koran, Islamic custom calls for three weeks of rioting and a minimum of three dozen dead, which is a holdover from the days of Moloch worship.... s outraged Moslems and triggered threats from jihadists. In May, its domestic security agency accused 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... of using criminal networks to target Israeli or Jewish interests in the Scandinavian country.
In Britannia, the head of Britannia’s domestic intelligence agency said Tuesday the country is facing a "staggering rise" in attempts at liquidation, sabotage, and other crimes by both Russia and Iran, as the two states recruit criminals to "do their dirty work."
Perhaps if y’all were to actually convict and imprison your criminals, instead of giving them a pat on the head and sending them home, you’d have less of an exploding rise in crimes, whaddaya think?
Despite all the press and the promises, it’s not gotten any better.
Our martyrs’: Chicago college students rally for ‘Gaza’
[CollegeFix] Pro-Palestinian activists plan to host events throughout the week at Chicago universities, with at least two specifically meant to “honor” the “martyrs” of the war on Israel.
Students for Justice in Palestine will host a “vigil” on Oct. 9 at Loyola University Chicago to “honor our martyrs.”
Students for a Democratic Society at DePaul University will host a rally on Thursday, according to an Instagram post.
A walkout and rally are also planned for this afternoon at the University of Illinois Chicago. “Join us for a powerful day of rallying, learning, and community building,” the campus SJP wrote, describing its “For Gaza We Rise” event.
Anti-Israel activists vandalize homes of UMich leadership, orgs with Israeli ties to mark Oct. 7 anniversary
[CampusReform] ‘To mark one year of genocide against the Palestinian people, an autonomous group visited the homes of two University of Michigan leaders, President Santa Ono and Chief Investment Officer Erik Lundberg,’ the tip said. ‘They also decorated the offices of the Jewish Federation of Detroit and the Michigan Israel Business Accelerator, organizations that are deeply entrenched in the apartheid state,’ it continued.
Columbia's Student Protesters Really Have Embraced Hamas
[HotAir] Hamas' goal is to kill Jews, civilian or otherwise, and drive them from the land. This is what "from the river to the sea" has always meant. Now the group which ran the Columbia protests and inspired similar protests around the country is flat out saying they support the same thing.
The increasingly revolutionary tilt of the student movement reflects an internal push among many pro-Palestinian groups to align their goals with principles known as the Thawabet, crafted by the Palestine Liberation Organization in 1977. They include the right of Palestinians to armed resistance and to self-determination on all the land from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.
Harvard: Windows Smashed, John Harvard Statue Vandalized in Act of ‘Palestinian Resistance’
[TheCrimson] An individual smashed the ground-floor windows to University Hall and covered the John Harvard statue in red paint as an “act of solidarity with the Palestinian resistance,” according to a video posted on social media. The perpetrator of the anonymous act of vandalism appeared to film themselves using a blunt object to break the windows of University Hall, which houses the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The video was published on Instagram by “Unity of Fields,” an account that does not appear to have any affiliation with Harvard. The account, which describes itself as an “anti-imperialist propaganda front bringing the war home,” wrote that the video of the vandalism at Harvard came from an “anonymous submission.”
The vandalism comes amid rising tensions on Harvard’s campus around the one-year anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks on Israel. In a statement Monday night, the Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee called on student activists to ramp up their protest activities. Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine, an unrecognized pro-Palestine group that organized the encampment in Harvard Yard last semester, denied involvement with the act of vandalism.
Unity of Fields also posted photos on X of graffiti on the campus of University of Massachusetts Amherst on Tuesday.
“Autonomous activists struck the Engineering Quad and Fine Arts Center of UMass Amherst… Expect more autonomous actions at UMass Amherst. We will not rest until war profiteers are gone, and Palestine is fully liberated,” the post stated.
After similar acts of vandalism at SUNY New Paltz on Sunday night and the City University of New York, New York Governor Kathy Hochul wrote in a post on X that the state has “offered the NYPD and CUNY support to ensure all students are safe.”
Brown University rejects anti-Israel students’ divestment proposal
[IsraelTimes] Explaining vote, board of governors says the university’s ‘mission is to discover, communicate and preserve knowledge. It’s not to adjudicate or resolve global conflicts’. Brown is a ray of light in the darkness, though it would have been more comforting if they’d moved at faster than glacial speed. Pro-Hamas Activists at Pomona College Take Over and Vandalize a Campus Building
[HotAir] Pomona College in southern California is one of five undergraduate colleges and two grad schools that make up a group called the Claremont Colleges. On Oct. 7, Pomona Divest from Apartheid (PDfA) held a student walkout with the 60+ student orgs demanding Pomona divest from weapons manufacturers, because there can be no business as usual during genocide.
After the walk out marched to Carnegie Hall where classes were being held and shoved their way in past security.
Organizers announced over megaphones that “Today this is a People’s University for Palestine,” and that demonstrators would be leaving at 4:00 P.M. Inside, students chanted while organizers handed out pamphlets. Lead organizers commandeered multiple classrooms to lead “teach-in” sessions for participants. A list of approved chants obtained by the Independent includes “Intifada intifada, LONG LIVE THE INTIFADA,” “Hey hey ho ho! iSRAEL [sic] HAS GOT TO GO,” and We don't want two states, WE WANT ‘48!”
Professors told students in the classes being disrupted that they could leave, but one Jewish student said they didn't feel safe walking through the throng of activists chanting about the Intifada. The activists also zip-tied the doors shut and blocked entrances so no one else could come in.
One professor whose office is in the building was stuck inside because the activists would not let him back into his office to get his phone. He told the Claremont Independent he was shoved by the activists and added, "People were pretty nasty for two or three hours."
Midway through those two to three hours the school put out a statement condemning the action and threatening consequences. A statement. Golly. 10 UC Irvine anti-Israel activists face charges, including refusal to disperse, resisting arrest
[CampusReform] The charges stem from a May 15 protest that took place at the school. Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said that ‘criminal activity which transcends peaceful assembly will not be tolerated.... my prosecutors are continuing to review evidence against the remaining 40 arrestees.’
National Students for Justice in Palestine celebrates glider attack in 'call to action' image
[CampusReform] The anti-Israel student group advertised the Day of Resistance with an ad that pays homage to the Hamas paraglider attack over the weekend. During the 10/7/2023 attack, reports say that Hamas militants killed at least 260 civilians who were attending the Tribe of Nova music festival.
UPenn donor who cut ties with alma mater redirects millions to Israeli universities instead: 'Unreformable'
[FoxNews] David Magerman, a venture capitalist and philanthropist, severed ties with the University of Pennsylvania over its response to antisemitism last year. His donations will support programs for English-speaking students to learn academic Hebrew and integrate into STEM degree programs in Israel. He said it's naive to believe that elite U.S. universities are "reformable."
After donating roughly $10 million over the years, Magerman said he was "ashamed" to be associated with the university. Other prominent donors followed suit. Apollo CEO Marc Rowan, who donated $50 million to UPenn in 2018, called on other donors at the time to send $1 checks with the hopes of forcing a change in leadership at the university. He urged all Jewish donors to "close their checkbooks."
Ross Stevens, founder and CEO of Stone Ridge Asset Management, pulled his donation estimated at approximately $100 million shortly thereafter, writing in a letter that the school's "permissive approach to hate speech calling for violence against Jews and laissez-faire attitude toward harassment and discrimination against Jewish students would violate any policies or rules that prohibit harassment and discrimination based on religion," Axios reported.
Magerman recently announced that he plans to reallocate the funds he previously sent to UPenn to five Israeli colleges in $1 million increments. These include Tel Aviv University, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Bar-Ilan University, and Jerusalem College of Technology.
Hedge fund billionaire Cliff Asness did the same shortly after the outbreak of the Gaza war.
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If media published their photos and called them hamas supporting racists and homophobes
Accompanied by stories of hamas executing gays and muslim brotherhood racism then they would immediately stop
[IsraelTimes] A Jewish school in Toronto was hit by gunfire Saturday for the second time this year, local police say, amid a rise in antisemitic attacks in Canada in the wake of the war in the Middle East.
No one was injured after shots were fired from a vehicle at around 4 a.m. local time at the Bais Chaya Mushka girls school, with the only damage being a broken window, according to authorities.
The school in the North York area of Toronto was targeted in a similar incident in May, and police believe the two shootings are connected.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ...hereditary prime minister of the Great White North... says he is "very disturbed" by the incident, which comes as Jewish people celebrate Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year in Judaism.
"As we wait for more details, my heart goes out to the students, staff and parents who must be terrified and hurting today," Trudeau says in a post on X.
"Antisemitism is a disgusting and dangerous form of hate — and we won’t let it stand," he adds.
According to a report published in May by Jewish organization B’nai Brith Canada, antisemitic acts more than doubled in the country between 2022 and 2023.
In November 2023, a Jewish school in Montreal was shot at twice in a single week, with no one injured.
[FoxNews] Cole Bridges provided training and guidance to purported ISIS fighters who were planning attacks
A U.S. Army soldier has been sentenced to 14 years in prison having pleaded guilty to attempting to assist the Islamic State terror group on how to ambush his fellow soldiers in the Middle East during conversations in which he believed he was speaking with a terrorist.
Cole Bridges, 24, of Stow, Ohio, was handed down the sentence after a nearly five-hour Manhattan federal court proceeding in which he surprisingly requested he be given a maximum 40-year sentence. Bridges pleaded guilty to terrorism charges in June 2023.
"Honestly, I do believe that I deserve the maximum sentence," Bridges told Judge Lewis J. Liman. "I know what I did was wrong," he said, adding he would carry "regret for as long as I live."
That’s a good starting place for the rest of his life.
Liman cited numerous facts that he said demonstrated Bridges was "not a hardened criminal" and said he had no actual communications with the Islamic State organization.
Bridges, also known as Cole Gonzales, was assigned to the Third Infantry Division in Fort Stewart, Georgia, as a cavalry scout at the time of the crime, the Justice Department said. He joined the Army in September 2019.
According to court documents, about a year before he joined the Army, Bridges began researching and consuming online propaganda promoting jihadists and their violent ideology, and began to express his support for ISIS and jihad on social media.
About a year into his service, Bridges began communicating with an FBI online covert employee (OCE), who was posing as an ISIS supporter in contact with ISIS fighters in the Middle East. During these communications, Bridges expressed his frustration with the U.S. military and his desire to aid ISIS, per the court documents.
Bridges provided training and guidance to purported ISIS fighters who were planning attacks, including advice about potential targets in New York City. He also provided the OCE with portions of a U.S. Army training manual and guidance about military combat tactics, with the understanding that the materials would be used by ISIS in future attack planning.
Bridges also began supplying the OCE with instructions for the purported ISIS fighters on how to attack U.S. forces in the Middle East, including diagramming military maneuvers intended to help ISIS fighters maximize the lethality of future attacks on U.S. troops.
He also gave advice about the best way to fortify an ISIS encampment to ambush U.S. Special Forces, including by wiring certain buildings with explosives to kill the U.S. troops.
In January 2021, Bridges provided the OCE with a video of himself in his U.S. Army body armor standing in front of a flag often used by ISIS fighters and making a gesture symbolic of support for ISIS.
Around a week later, Bridges sent a second propaganda video he narrated using a voice manipulator in support of the anticipated ambush by ISIS on U.S. troops.
Judge Liman said the 14-year sentence would deter other members of the armed forces who might want to attack the military. He said Bridges had "shown signs of remorse," including expressing relief after his arrest that he had been dealing with the FBI rather than terrorists.
Bridges, the judge added, also had not sought any materials from other soldiers that might be useful to the Islamic State organization. He said the "most chilling evidence" was Bridges’ willingness to provide the undercover agent with advice on how the terrorist group could minimize casualties in an attack.
His attorney, Sabrina Shroff, asked Friday that he be sentenced to the nearly four years he has already served behind bars and argued for leniency because Bridges was lured into the plot by undercover U.S. law enforcement agents who posed as supporters of the Islamic State group.
She said Bridges was a vulnerable target who was seeking a sense of community after becoming isolated from his family and suffering from depression.
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Bureau is looking for a few wins, even if they have to script them themselves.
Despite U.S. Officials claiming that a decision had not yet been made regarding the Deployment of a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) Battery to Israel, a U.S. Air Force C-5 “Galaxy” Strategic Airlifter from Portsmouth arrived earlier today at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in… pic.twitter.com/lHUSv7jlp7
#5
if the IDF can wipe out most of the missile batteries in Iran with their upcoming attack, this could make the Iran response a lot easier to deal with.
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....operating under Israeli orders.
Maybe since the Milley era, but the existent law is that American forces always remain under American chain of command and we coordinate with allies.
#7
Note it went to Jordan, i.e.: Not under Israeli command
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What this means is we have US troops in Israel,
As Frank G points out — in Jordan, where they hate Israel even more because they need that peace treaty. The IDF wanted one of their own that they could properly coordinate with their own defenses — Arrows and David’s Sling and such — instead of the operators having to wait for requests for orders to go up the command chain, then come back down while the generals parse politics.
This is a typical slap from the Biden-Harris administration.
#10
How come they never sent this THAAD thing to their beloved Ukrainians?
An interesting question. One possible answer is THAAD shoots down ballistic missiles in their terminal phase and not much of Rus vs Ukr involves ballistic missiles. Lots of cruise missiles of various flavors, but those are fish of a different color.
#11
#10: Russia has been shooting lots of medium range ballistic missiles every day at the Ukraine... lots...
They are also hunting civilians in the Kearson area for grins and giggles with their UAVS and posting the videos all over Russia.
#12
Neocons at State Victoria Nuland, Clintons wanted war with Russia because…..? Reasons
So nuland plotted a coup in Ukraine, leading eventually to puppet Zelensky who they used to provoke Russia to action by killing Russian speakers, threatening nukes on the border and threatening to join NATO which excluded Russia
Result of proxy war with Russia? Ukraine destroyed, a generation of ukrainian youth slaughtered
Great result Toria Nuland, Kagans et al, you showed them!
Now we have the US for… ? Reasons… want war with Iran.
Israel has been badly attacked by the Muslim Brotherhood…. Who are Sunnis living in Qatar and Turkey, and who have infiltrated every western country through muslim migration
But we are going to war with shia Iran…
Is Israel going to end up pulverised like Ukraine, because some ambitious twat on the make at State wants to make an “impact”…. Or because Russia geopolitical influence?
Or because US election coming with uncertain result so US State dept wants to do everything quick in case Trump puts an end to their little games?
I don’t like Iran either, but also I don’t like targets being changed from the guilty party Muslim Brotherhood
We should have bombed Qatar by now and forced Egypt and Jordan to take ALL the Arab Muslims of Gaza, and be resettling that land with Israelis now.
That is not happening, instead we have… attack iIran?
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Anon1, since about 1980 Iran has been at war with the Big Satan — America — and the Little Satan — Israel. They’ve been murdering Jews around the world almost as long. Just one example is the bombing of the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires in 1994 that killed 85 and wounded over 300, directed by the IRGC and carried out by Hezbollah. Read about it here and in the Rantburg archives, though what we have records of is thehunt for the perpetrators and the connivance of Argentina’s political class in not noticing who dunnit until their faces were rubbed in it.
Iran has had sleeper agents in America for about the same length of time — we regularly have stories here when one is arrested.
Israel also regularly arrests Palestinians hired by Iran to cause trouble, and blocks internet attacks by Iranian black hats.
It’s not Victoria Nuland and that lot trying to stir up trouble, but Iran itself. The Mullahs are apparently convinced that if they start something, Allah himself will be forced to step in on their side.
*shrug* The Shiites, egged on by Iran, attack Israel. The Sunnis, egged on by Hamas/the Muslim Brotherhood, attack Israel. And the secular Arabs, originally egged on by their own culture and the Soviet Union, attack Israel. And each sometimes hooks up with one of the others for extra oomph when attacking Israel.
In other words, they are ALL guilty. And right now Iran and its proxies are the ones very actively attacking Israel. Yes, Hamas is Muslim Brotherhood — Sunni Arabs — but they are on Iran’s payroll just as much as the Shiite Arabs of Hezbollah. And also as much as the Houthis, also Shiite Arabs in Yemen.
Iran deserves to be hit so hard the rubble bounces. So will Qatar eventually, though Israel will not be doing anything directly there so long as America has their largest military base in the Middle East there — US Central Command has their forward headquarters at Al-Udeid Air Base plus over 10,000 troops, last I heard.
It still makes no sense to me, to use this war on Hamas to settle old scores with Iran
Sleeper cells are the faukt of migration
No migration = no sleeper cells
Let’s fix the actual problem and shut the borders of Western nations to Muslims. No muslim migration means we don’t have this issue.
The andweris not war with Iran IMHO it is shutting the borders and expanding Israeli territory over West Bank and gaza from the river to the sea with the arab muslims resettled in Jordan, Egypt and Iraq, permanently
And kill all the hamas leadership in qatar with missile strikes just like beirut, and if the Qataris do not like it, too bad there is a huge army base there
Why can’t we try that instead
We can always go to war with Iran later if they make a nasty vicious attack like Hamas did
But why cannot we just solve one problem properly first instead of starting a side issue?
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I suspect we are living a re-balancing of focal points of global power over a drown-out period. Weakening of traditional power bases to be turned or replaced. The Ukr war is an example of the former, simply encouraging the behaviour of the MIC ripples across Europe post migra-invasion. Oct 7 shows the latter with the potential outcome of Iran as the ME power. While we were disracted by the GWOT, someone(s) had a generation to set wheels in motion. And are we distracted now, to the machinations being planned we because we are looking at teh shiny?
#16
Israel’s score with Iran is right this minute — every day they do something more to try to destroy Israel because they object to Jews ruling themselves.
America’s score with Iran should be right this minute, because Iran has been working full tilt to refine enough uranium to make a lot of nuclear bombs that they intend to use on Israel, Saudi Arabia, and America in order to establish the Shiite Moslem caliphate they’ve been working toward since they overthrew the Shah in the late 1970s. Donald Trump got that. President Obama thought it was just peachy that Iran developed nukes, because he thought of Iran as civilized Persians, just as he thought of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt as “moderate Moslems”. He assumed that Moslem rule over the world was inevitable, and better that the moderate Moslems take over than Al Qaeda or ISIS… not realizing that in the end it would be no different whatsoever. President Biden’s goal was to finish what Obama had started — in all things including this — and as future president Kamala Harris does not think at all.
Many of the sleeper agents came here decades ago, legally or not, and got American citizenship. This problem long precedes Noe Biden opening wide the border.
Part of Hamas’s leadership is in Qatar. At the moment even more is in Istanbul, where President Erdogan cherishes them to his bosom.
[IsraelTimes] 5 arrested as activists block Tel Aviv highway, light tires to form message: ‘Sorry we were taken hostage’; Families Forum and others arrange prayer services at Hostages Square
Once again all the photos are cropped in close up to give no indication of crowd size. The tweeted video shows at most two or three dozen.
As Israeli Jews marked Yom Kippur, activists for the release of the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza held multiple protests over the weekend that were centered around the day’s focus of apologizing for sins, asking the captives for forgiveness and charging that the government doesn’t deserve forgiveness for failing to return the abductees.
The Hostages and Missing Families Forum also arranged prayer services dedicated to the hostages at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv at the beginning of Yom Kippur on Friday evening and the end of the holiday on Saturday evening. The services were organized in partnership with the Orot Shaul yeshiva in Tel Aviv and the Tzohar rabbinical organization.
The solemn fast day of Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year, is traditionally considered a day of atonement and repentance as God decides whether to forgive or punish people’s sins of the past year.
On Saturday evening, protesters blocked Tel Aviv’s Ayalon Highway and lit tires on fire to form the words, “Sorry we were taken hostage.”
Police said they arrested five demonstrators, adding that the road had been reopened after officers cleared the protesters.
[Jpost] Two soldiers were wounded during combat, a combat officer from the Military Engineering School, and a reservist from Battalion 9203.
The Israel Air Force and IDF conducted several interceptions and strikes following alerts in the Galilee and Ashkelon areas, the IDF reported throughout Yom Kippur.
At around 10 a.m. on Saturday, a rocket launched from Leb ...an Iranian satrapy until recently 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... toward the Central Galilee was successfully intercepted, as were multiple rockets, also launched from Lebanon, toward the Upper Galilee, an hour later, the IDF said.
Hezbollah finds themselves in a use it or lose it situation, I think, even if they don’t want to shoot off enough all at once to trigger Israel to get really, really serious in their direction. Hamas ditto.
The IDF noted that shortly after 12 p.m. on Saturday, they identified approximately 30 more rockets crossing from Lebanon toward the Galilee, some of which they intercepted; however, they reported some hits. Two more rockets, intercepted almost an hour later, crossed from Lebanon.
Close to 5 p.m., around 16 more launches from Lebanon were detected in the Upper Galilee; some were intercepted, and impacts were reported in the area. Finally, the IDF reported that two rockets launched from the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with 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... Strip toward Ashkelon fell in open areas without causing any harm.
Furthermore, the Israel Air Force intercepted two drones launched from Lebanon that did not enter Israeli airspace.Alerts sounded in all incidents. When the alerts sounded on Saturday, Israeli media reported that 12 people sustained minor injuries while heading to a protected area, while the blast wave from a rocket falling in the Western Galilee lightly injured three others.
In response to the attacks during the solemn fast day, the IDF targeted approximately 280 terror targets in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, including tunnels, weapon storage facilities, and rocket launch sites aimed at Israel.
IDF ELIMINATES TERRORISTS, DESTROYS TERROR SITES IN LEBANON, GAZA
Additionally, the IDF eliminated around 50 Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon while uncovering weapons and other equipment belonging to the terrorist organization.
In Gaza, IDF forces neutralized over 200 terrorists. In Jabalya, more than 20 bully boyz were eliminated through a combination of tank fire, close combat, and Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s by the 162nd Division. In the central Gaza Strip, the 252nd Division eliminated several terrorist groups involved in anti-tank attacks, while in Rafah, the IDF’s Gaza Division forces took out additional bully boyz who were targeting IDF soldiers.
During these operations, the IAF destroyed rocket and missile launchers in southern Lebanon and hit an underground Hezbollah site near the Syria-Lebanon border. Targets included underground terrorist facilities, weapon storage, command centers, terrorist cells, and military sites linked to Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... in Gaza.
Two soldiers were maimed during combat in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, the IDF reported on Saturday evening. An officer from the Military Engineering School was severely maimed during combat in southern Gaza earlier on Saturday. A reservist from Battalion 9203, part of the Alexandroni Brigade, sustained severe injuries during combat in southern Lebanon in a separate incident on Saturday.
Both soldiers have been evacuated to a hospital for medical treatment, and their families have been notified.
[IsraelTimes] Drone strikes retirement home in coastal town, no injuries; IDF orders more south Lebanon villages evacuated, faces rising world criticism for hitting UN position amid fighting
Hezbollah continued to launch rockets and drones into Israel throughout Yom Kippur over the weekend, with a Herzliya retirement home hit by a UAV on Friday, causing damage but no casualties.
At the same time, Israeli forces continued their operations in southern Leb ...an Iranian satrapy until recently 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... , ordering more villages evacuated as they worked to root out and destroy Hezbollah infrastructure.
Dozens of rockets were launched at Israel on Friday and Saturday, activating sirens in Haifa, Safed and numerous northern towns.
On Friday evening sirens sounded in Herzliya and a retirement home was hit in a drone attack from Lebanon. There were no injuries.
The military said two drones were tracked from the moment they crossed the border, and fighter jets managed to down one of them. It did not explain why the second drone was not downed en route, and stated only that it was "investigating the incident." Footage posted to social media showed a drone flying low over buildings in the city.
Rocket attacks targeting northern Israel continued into Saturday, with no reports of damage or casualties.
Meanwhile on Saturday, the Israeli military ordered residents of 22 more southern Lebanese villages to evacuate to areas north of the Awali River, according to a statement. It also warned residents of south Lebanon "not to return" to their homes as troops fight Hezbollah in the area.
Israeli forces continue to "target Hezbollah posts in or near your villages," the military’s Arabic front man Avichay Adraee said on X. "For your own protection, do not return to your homes until further notice. Do not go south; anyone who goes south may put his life at risk."
In a separate post, Adraee reiterated an earlier call for health workers and medical teams in southern Lebanon to avoid using ambulances, saying they are being used by Hezbollah fighters.
"We call on medical teams to avoid contact with Hezbollah members and not to cooperate with them," he said. "The IDF affirms that the necessary actions will be taken against any vehicle transporting armed individuals, regardless of its type."
Israel also continued to face criticism over the weekend for an attack that hit UN peacekeeping positions in south Lebanon. The IDF has said its forces fired at a threat near a UNIFIL position and acknowledged that a "hit" was responsible for wounding two people. It said "soldiers operating in southern Lebanon identified an immediate threat against them. The soldiers responded with fire toward the threat." An initial probe indicated that during the incident, a UNIFIL post located approximately 50 meters (yards) from the source of the threat was hit.
US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. This Is A Man That Does Not Seem Demented... said Israel "absolutely, positively" must stop firing at UN positions. US special envoy to Lebanon Amos Hochstein told Lebanese media Friday that the incident was "unacceptable." La Belle France, Italia and Spain also condemned the injuries and said such incidents were "unjustifiable" and should "immediately come to an end."
As Israel continued to press its campaign against Hezbollah, the terror group said Friday its priority was "to defeat the enemy and force them to stop the aggression" but that it was open to any efforts to stop "the aggression."
"Tel Aviv is only the start, Israel has only seen so little," the head of the terror group’s media office Mohammad Afif said.
Hochstein said Friday that the US was working "non-stop" toward a ceasefire in Lebanon. As Israel continues to target Hezbollah leadership and weapons stockpiles in Beirut, Hochstein said bombing in Beirut "needs to stop."
"We don’t like this campaign of bombings in densely populated Beirut," Hochstein said.
Israel’s bombing campaign in Beirut in recent weeks has eliminated the majority of Hezbollah’s leadership. Observers have noted that secondary explosions following many strikes on targets in the city appeared to confirm they were loaded with weaponry.
The Hezbollah front man, Afif, denied that there were weapons stored in Beirut’s southern suburbs. He also claimed the massive secondary explosions were caused by Israeli-timed bombs to make it seem so. He promised residents of the neighborhood and those displaced from southern Lebanon and Bekaa that they would return soon.
Friday saw a 27-year-old foreign worker from Thailand killed and another worker was maimed when unwent kaboom! ordnance blew up in an orchard by the northern community of Kibbutz Yir’on in the Upper Galilee. Security officials were still investigating but said they believed the cause was a munition previously fired by Hezbollah. It was not clear whether the blast was caused by one of the victims handling or interacting with the weaponry in some way.
In Lebanon, Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s continued to target Hezbollah commanders, rocket launchers and other terror targets.
The IDF sent another brigade into southern Lebanon on Friday amid ground operations near the border, and said in a statement that the unit had already destroyed Hezbollah tunnels, defensive positions and other enemy infrastructure.
[IsraelTimes] The Israeli military says that Hezbollah fired about 320 projectiles from Lebanon into Israel over Yom Kippur, Judaism’s holiest day which ended at nightfall.
“Throughout the weekend of Yom Kippur, approximately 320 projectiles that were fired by the Hezbollah terrorist organization crossed from Lebanon into Israel,” the military says in a statement.
[IsraelTimes] Two hospitals in the Bekaa Valley, a stronghold area of Hezbollah, sustained damage from Israeli strikes today, the hospitals say. There were no casualties, they add.
The Israeli military said today that Hezbollah was using ambulances to transport fighters and weapons and that it would take any necessary action.
[Rudaw] The US military announced on Saturday it conducted Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s against 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) camps in Syria the day prior, adding that the strikes caused no civilian casualties.
US forces "conducted a series of airstrikes against multiple known ISIS camps in Syria in the early morning of Oct. 11," Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a statement on X.
"The strikes will disrupt the ability of ISIS to plan, organize, and conduct attacks against the United States, its allies and partners, and civilians throughout the region," the statement said.
According to CENTCOM’s assessments, there were no civilian casualties. No details were provided on the precise location of the strikes.
Around 900 American troops in Syria are part of an international coalition supporting the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) against ISIS in the country.
Last month, the US military announced two airstrikes killed 37 ISIS and al-Qaeda affiliate Hurras al-Din members and leaders in Syria.
Days prior, a "large-scale" US airstrike on an ISIS training camp in central Syria killed "at least 28 ISIS operatives, including at least four big shots," according to CENTCOM.
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[Garowe] An investigation into the tragic drowning of two Navy SEALs off the coast of Somalia has concluded that the incident was preventable, citing inadequate training and unclear guidance on flotation equipment. Chief Special Warfare Operator Christopher Chambers and Naval Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Nathan Ingram 
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... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
...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 
...hereditary prime minister of the Great White North...
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
...an Iranian satrapy until recently 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...
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