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Europe
Recent violence and arson in Paris is reportedly being carried out largely by foreigners
[X] The traditional Moslem colonists’ car-b-que?


Posted by: Fred || 05/09/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [102 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  St. Bartholomew's Day is 24 August. Just saying.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/09/2025 7:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Foreigners? Why, are they not assimilated into French culture? We were assured they would just fit right in.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/09/2025 19:17 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
Anti-Israel mob descends on Brooklyn College in NYC as agitators brawl with police, get tased
Photos and video at the link. Kudos to the NYPD for their handling of the spoilt, vicious idiots — and the hope that there is plenty of information for the FBI, Homeland Security, and the State Department to act on..
[FoxNews] Brooklyn College told Fox News that the agitators were removed after they violated school policy

Chaos and wild brawls broke out at a New York City university on Thursday evening after pro-Palestinian activists tried setting up an encampment on college grounds.

New York Police Department (NYPD) officers were dispatched to Brooklyn College after anti-Israel agitators refused to take down their tents. Videos show activists, many of whom were wearing keffiyehs, yelling and swearing as police officers attempted to get the unruly crowd under control.

In an emotionally charged portion of the video, police pulled back a man's shirt and tased him as he screamed.

An officer urged a woman to take her child away from the scene.

Another clip shows police officers restraining protesters on the ground as demonstrators scream and attempt to intervene.

"The cops are out of control," a woman is heard saying.
She is clearly projecting. Or in blunt Anglo-Saxon, she’s a lying liar who lies.
Brooklyn College told Fox News that the protesters "erected tents on the Brooklyn College quad in violation of college policy."

"After multiple warnings to take the tents down and disperse, members of CUNY Public Safety and NYPD removed the tents and dispersed the crowd," the statement added.

"The safety of our campus community will always be paramount, and Brooklyn College respects the right to protest while also adhering to strict rules meant to ensure the safe operation of our University and prohibit individuals from impeding access to educational facilities."
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/09/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [121 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies

#1  Tasing? Okay I guess, but it puts the police in a precarious position. Tasers (usually) are single shot and have to be reloaded. Maybe rubber bullets (they hit hard) but not bean bags; single shot again. Riot batons maybe.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 05/09/2025 4:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Riot batons maybe

Hickory shampoo to the keffiyeh
Posted by: Frank G || 05/09/2025 6:05 Comments || Top||

#3  Active Denial Systems
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/09/2025 9:06 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Pakistan Loses Over 50 Drones In A Night After India's Missile Strikes Destroys 9 Terror Bases, BSF Thwarts Pak X-Border Infiltration Attempt
[OneIndia] The Pakistain Army has lost over 50 drones in a night after trying to attack Indian territory across different locations on Thursday night, ANI reported, citing sources.

INDIA GIVES BEFITTING REPLY
After Indian attacked nine terrorist infrastructure in Pakistain and the PoK on Wednesday, Pakistain launched a large-scale counter-drone operation along the Line of Control (LoC) and International Borders (IB) on Wednesday night.

The Indian Army Air Defence units responded swiftly and targeted the drones in areas including Udhampur, Samba, Jammu, Akhnoor, Nagrota, and Pathankot, the report added.

"Yesterday night, when Pakistain made failed attempt
...Curses! Foiled again!...
s to send swarm drones all across various places along the Line of Control (LoC) and International Borders (IB), over 50 drones were successfully neutralised during a large-scale counter-drone operation conducted by Indian Army Air Defence units in the areas of Udhampur, Samba, Jammu, Akhnoor, Nagrota, and Pathankot areas," the news agency cited sources.

With the help of several air defence systems, the Army destroyed the drones shot by Pakistain.

"The engagement involved extensive use of L-70 guns, Zu-23mm, Schilka systems, and other advanced counter-UAS equipment, demonstrating the Army's robust capability to counter aerial threats," sources added.

Additional Directorate General of Public Information, IHQ of MoD (Army), said in a statement that the Pakistain Armed Forces launched multiple attacks using drones and other munitions along entire Western Border on the intervening night. The Pakistain troops also resorted to numerous cease fire violations (CFVs) along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
The drone attacks were effectively repulsed and befitting reply was given to the CFVs.

However,
if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well...
no casualities from the Indian side is reported.

Meanwhile,
...back at the fist fight, Jake ducked another roundhouse, then parried with his left, then with his right, finally with his chin...
reports claim that an F-16 supersonic fighter jet of the Pakistain Air Force was shot down by an Indian surface-to-air missile defence system. However,
if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well...
India is yet to confirm it.

J&K: BSF Thwarts Cross-Border Terror Bid, Inflicts Heavy Damage On Pakistan Post
[OneIndia] The Border Security Force (BSF) thwarted a significant infiltration attempt from Pakistain along the International Border in Jammu and Kashmir
's Samba district during the intervening night of May 8 and 9, 2025. In the operation, at least seven bad boyz were potted by Indian forces.

According to BSF sources, the infiltration was being facilitated from the Pakistain Post Dhandhar, which was heavily targeted and sustained extensive damage during the action. A thermal imaging clip released by the BSF captured the destruction of the Pak post involved in aiding the infiltration attempt.

"A major infiltration bid was foiled on the night of May 8-9, 2025, at the International Boundary in Samba, Jammu and Kashmir, with seven bandidos gunnies neutralized and the Pakistain Post Dhandhar severely damaged," a BSF official confirmed.

A BSF official revealed that seven bad boyz were potted and the Pakistain Post Dhandhar was seriously damaged on the night of May 8-9, 2025, near the International Boundary in Samba, Jammu and Kashmir, after a significant infiltration attempt was thwarted.

The operation takes place while tensions along the western border are rising due to numerous drone incursions and ceasefire violations. In order to stop terrorist elements from trying to exploit the already unstable situation, the BSF is still on high alert.

Pakistan military says it shot down 25 Israeli-made drones launched by India
[IsraelTimes] One drone hits military target near the eastern city of Lahore, causing damage and wounding soldiers; debris from others said being recovered.

Posted by: trailing wife || 05/09/2025 2025-05-09 04:44 || Comments || Link || [151 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


#2  Dassault shares drop after reports of Pakistan shooting down India's Rafale jets
Apparently unconfirmed
Posted by: Matt || 05/09/2025 10:36 Comments || Top||

#3  So we're gonna have a drone war? I guess that's better than nukes.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/09/2025 12:03 Comments || Top||

#4  I’ve read about missiles and drones being used by India but sending aircraft into Pak airspace is another issue. I can’t find anything that is clear on this point. There’s reports that indicate India has lost aircraft due to air to air combat as well as from ground based air defense systems, but the reports aren’t conclusive in any way.
Posted by: Remoteman || 05/09/2025 12:30 Comments || Top||


Pakistan In State Of Emergency As India HAMMERS Islamists
[YouTube - Mahyar Tousi]
Posted by: 3dc || 05/09/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [152 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  India's Defense Budget Outgrows Pakistan's

Posted by: Skidmark || 05/09/2025 9:01 Comments || Top||



Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IDF says over 150 targets struck across Gaza in the past 3 days
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says it struck over 150 targets in the Gaza Strip in the past 72 hours, including cells of terror operatives, buildings used by terror groups, and other infrastructure.

The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza reported nearly 200 dead in the past three days. The figures have not been verified and do not differentiate between civilians and combatants.

A drone strike yesterday in central Gaza’s Deir al-Balah killed a Hamas commander, identified by the IDF as Nasser Juma. The military says he was a veteran member of Hamas’s rocket production unit.

IDF, Shin Bet say Gaza City strike killed Hamas terrorist involved in kidnapping Yaffa Adar
[IsraelTimes] The IDF and Shin Bet announce that a Hamas terrorist involved in the kidnapping of Yaffa Adar, 85, during the October 7, 2023, onslaught was killed in an airstrike in Gaza City yesterday.

The terrorist is identified as Mohammed Rasmi Marzouk Baraka, a member of Hamas’s intelligence division.

Baraka can be seen in infamous footage showing the abduction of Adar from Kibbutz Nir Oz. Adar was released from captivity in November 2023.

The second terrorist in the car, Asim Hatab, was reportedly killed several months following Adar’s abduction, though the military has not confirmed this.

The military does not say where in Gaza City the strike took place yesterday.

Hamas authorities reported yesterday that a strike on a former school in the neighborhood of Tuffah in Gaza City killed at least 15, and another strike near a market in the city killed a further 33. The figures have not been verified and do not differentiate between civilians and combatants.

The IDF says Hamas “systematically violates international law, while cynically using civilian infrastructure for terror activity.”

Online footage said to show Hamas shooting, beating Gazans accused of stealing food
[IsraelTimes] Footage from the Gaza Strip circulating on social media shows armed men shooting and beating bound individuals.

Users claim that these are Hamas members targeting those suspected of stealing food.

A Palestinian website recently reported that Hamas has reestablished a unit that previously operated in Gaza to enforce order, in light of increasing theft due to the food shortage in the Strip.



Posted by: trailing wife || 05/09/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [115 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Security forces say Palestinian gunman killed by troops in Nablus
[IsraelTimes] A wanted Palestinian gunman was killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank city of Nablus a short while ago, the IDF, police, and Shin Bet say.

Undercover Border Police officers entered Nablus to detain a member of the former Lion’s Den terror group,
…established by local members of various terror groups, including Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, led by one Ibrahim Nabulsi, a wanted Palestinian gunman who was killed almost immediately in an Israeli raid in Nablus. In our archives as Lions Den and Lion’s Den, because at Rantburg apostrophes matter.…
who was allegedly planning attacks.

According to police, the officers covertly reached the area where the suspect was and identified him as armed. The officers opened fire, killing the wanted man.

A handgun and cash were found on his body, and a tactical vest was found in his car, police say.

Another wanted Palestinian was detained by the forces in the area and handed over to the Shin Bet for questioning, the statement says.

During the operation, troops opened fire on Palestinians hurling explosives and shooting at the forces. No Israeli forces were hurt, the statement adds.

Security forces arrest suspect in yesterday’s West Bank shooting attack

[IsraelTimes] Overnight, Israeli security forces say they detained a Palestinian suspected of carrying out yesterday’s shooting attack near the Reihan checkpoint in the northern West Bank that seriously wounded two reservists.

Officers of the police’s elite Gideonim unit (Unit 33), alongside IDF troops, surrounded a home in the nearby village of Barta’a, following intelligence on the suspect’s whereabouts provided by the Shin Bet.

The suspect turned himself in to the officers, the police, IDF, and Shin Bet say in a joint statement.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/09/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [44 views] Top|| File under:


Israel shutters UNRWA schools in East Jerusalem, in line with ban on aid agency
[IsraelTimes] Police close six schools serving 550 students in Shuafat camp and other neighborhoods; Palestinian Authority condemns ‘violation of children’s right to education’

Israeli police shut down six schools operated by UNRWA in the Shuafat refugee camp and other neighborhoods of East Jerusalem on Thursday, as they implemented a law prohibiting the UN’s Paleostinian aid agency from operating in the capital because of its ties to terror organizations, including Hamas
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
The closures followed a police notice issued to the schools last month and marked the official enforcement of a law banning United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
Relief and Works Agency operations within Israel’s sovereign territory, which came into effect in January. The law does not apply to the West Bank or 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.

An AFP photographer at the scene reported that a closure notice in Hebrew was left at the entrance of at least one of the schools, and UNRWA said at least one of its staff members was detained.

"From May 8, 2025, it will be prohibited to operate educational institutions, or employ teachers, teaching staff or any other staff, and it will be forbidden to accommodate students or allow the entry of students into this institution," the closure order read.

Israel has long had a combative relationship with UNRWA, which it argues has perpetuated the Paleostinian refugee crisis by allowing the status to be passed down through generations. Frustration with UNRWA in Jerusalem has picked up over the past decade as Israel has found the Gaza-ruling Hamas terror group embedded within the agency’s infrastructure.

That anger peaked following Hamas’s October 7, 2023, onslaught, in which a number of UNRWA staffers were found to have participated. Israel has gone on to claim that 10 percent of the UN agency’s staff have ties to Hamas — a charge the agency has denied.

UNRWA’s director in the West Bank, Roland Friedrich, told AFP that "heavily armed" forces surrounded three UNRWA schools in East Jerusalem’s Shuafat camp at 9 a.m. on Thursday.

Friedrich added that 550 pupils aged six to 15 were present when the closure was enforced, calling the event "a traumatizing experience for young children who are at immediate risk of losing their access to education."

Friedrich said that police were being deployed at three separate schools in other parts of East Jerusalem.

The Paleostinian Authority condemned the move in a statement to AFP, calling it a "violation of children’s right to education."

UNRWA is the main provider of education and health care to Paleostinians across East Jerusalem. Israel claims all of Jerusalem as its capital, though the United Nations considers its annexation of the city’s eastern sector illegal.

The Education Ministry says it will place the students in other Jerusalem schools. But parents, teachers, and administrators caution that closing the main schools in East Jerusalem will force their children to go through crowded and dangerous checkpoints daily, and some do not have the correct permits to pass through.

In a previous statement to The News Agency that Dare Not be Named, the Education Ministry said it was closing the schools because they were operating without a license. UNRWA administrators pledged to keep the schools open for as long as possible.

According to the Jerusalem Municipality, approximately 900 students were enrolled in UNRWA-run schools in the city. Since the law’s passage, the municipality has worked to provide alternative placements for these students in other schools across East Jerusalem.

In addition, a new educational center is being planned in the Shuafat refugee camp that will include several schools operating under the supervision of Israel’s Education Ministry.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/09/2025 2025-05-09 05:06 || Comments || Link || [50 views] Top|| File under: PLO


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
IDF: Jets target ‘significant underground’ Hezbollah site in south Lebanon
[IsraelTimes] Israeli Air Force fighter jets carried out a wave of Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s in southern Leb
...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects....
on Thursday, targeting a "significant underground" Hezbollah facility, the military said.

According to the Israel Defense Forces, the site near the Beaufort Castle, southeast of Nabatieh, was used by the Lebanese terror group to manage rocket fire and defense systems.

At the site, the IDF said it struck "terrorists, weapons, and tunnel shafts." Lebanese media reported that some 20 strikes were carried out in the area.

The IDF later released footage showing the airstrikes on the underground site. The video also showed a dronezap on a Hezbollah operative in the area of the facility, according to the military.

"This site is part of a significant underground project that, due to IDF strikes, has been rendered inoperable," the army said.

The IDF added that the facility and the activities carried out there "constitute a blatant violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon."
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/09/2025 2025-05-09 04:56 || Comments || Link || [59 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah



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  IDF says over 150 targets struck across Gaza in the past 3 days
Thu 2025-05-08
  ‘Precise Operation' ‐ Marco Rubio Announces Daring Rescue of Venezuela Regime Hostages
Wed 2025-05-07
  India opens ''Operation Sindoor'' against Pakistan
Tue 2025-05-06
  Explosions all over Iran. No airplanes or drones involved.
Mon 2025-05-05
  Yemen’s Houthis report around 10 overnight US strikes in Sanaa and surrounding area
Sun 2025-05-04
  Boko Haram kidnaps 50 loggers in Nigeria
Sat 2025-05-03
  20 major airstrikes were carried out in Syria by the Israeli Air Force
Fri 2025-05-02
  Violence continues between armed gangs in Syria, 56 or 70 dead thus far
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  RAF Typhoons pound Iran-backed Houthis' drone-building facilities with airstrikes in Yemen
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  L.A. Drops Charges for Hamas Rioters, Charges 2 Jews Instead
Tue 2025-04-29
  Iran blames negligence for port blast that killed 70
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  Fighting Erupts Among ISIS Militants in Somalia’s Bari Region
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  Self-proclaimed Hamas operative in US Air Force indicted over pipe bomb plot
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  Abu Mohammed al-Jolani wants Syria to recognise Israel
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