[ShabelleMedia] The U.S. Embassy in Nairobi has released a security alert regarding potential threats to various locations in Mogadishu, Somalia, including Aden Adde International Airport.
The Embassy has taken immediate action by canceling all movements of U.S. Embassy personnel for Tuesday, April 9, 2024.
The U.S. Department of State’s level-four travel advisory ("do not travel") for Somalia remains in effect due to the presence of several significant safety concerns.
These include crime, terrorism, civil unrest, health issues, kidnapping, and piracy. The U.S. Embassy urges all U.S. citizens in Somalia to remain vigilant and take appropriate precautions.
The Embassy advises U.S. citizens to review their security plans, remain aware of their surroundings, including local events, monitor local news stations for updates, and maintain a high level of vigilance.
It is also recommended that U.S. citizens enroll in the Smart Traveler Enrollment Program (STEP) to receive alerts and make it easier to locate them in an emergency.
The Embassy reminds U.S. citizens that the security environment in Somalia is fluid and can deteriorate without warning. In the event of an emergency, U.S. citizens should contact the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi or the nearest U.S. Embassy or Consulate.
This security alert serves as a reminder of the ongoing risks associated with travel to Somalia and the importance of staying informed and prepared.
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The utterly risible Department of State continues to perpetuate the illusion that Somalia is a "nation" with functioning government and laws because various racial, political and intelligence factions of the US government have self-serving reasons to keep the aid money flowing. In reality the miasma of clan violence there makes even Zimbabwe look good.
[SUDANTRIBUNE] In a brief Eid al-Fitr address to the nation, Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... ese army chief Lt Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan declared a decisive break with the past. He stressed that the pre-war period, encompassing both al-Bashir’s regime and the transitional government, is over. Sudan is on a new path. "To ignorance, brutality, and starvation! Huzzah!"
Al-Burhan stressed that the ongoing conflict, which began in April 2023, will be known as the "Battle of Dignity" and will serve as the foundation for building a new future for Sudan. He delivered a strong message, stating: "There is no turning back. No return to what existed before April 15, 2023, October 25, 2021, or April 2019."
These words can be interpreted as a rejection of several possibilities: a return to al-Bashir’s Islamist regime due to the Islamists’ participation in the war against the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the reinstatement of the pre-coup d’état civilian transitional government, or the Political Framework Agreement aimed at integrating the RSF into the regular army (the cause of the current conflict).
Military leadership has consistently opposed handing power back to civilian forces. Notably, al-Burhan has refused talks with the "Tagadum" coalition regarding ending the war and its aftermath. He has also repeated several times that the RSF leadership will not be reintegrated into power, and only individual fighters may join the army after surrendering weapons and entering designated cantonment sites.
Al-Burhan expressed optimism about the war’s progress, attributing it to the "unity between the army and the people." He proclaimed, "This is the moment — the battle of dignity, the battle for the homeland. A new chapter begins."
He commended the unwavering Sudanese people who have joined the Popular Resistance® forces across the country to "repel aggression and cleanse the land of Sudan from mercenaries and hired guns."
The General pledged unwavering commitment, vowing to "continue on the path of the deaders" until "the last rebel and traitor is expelled from Sudan, and every area tainted by rebellion is purified."
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Whistling past the graveyard. That Gedaref in the Arab heartland has been attacked indicates just more trouble for the Government. Eventually, the Arab and Islamist government may be left with El Obeid, Port Sudan and provinces to the north of Khartoum. As long as the RSF can use its Darfur gold mine to pay for weapons from the United Arab Emirates it will survive. Thus, the old Sudan is dying on the vine. What will emerge is still anyone's guess.
[GEO.TV] UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron ...Empty suit Brit pol, former PM, has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel... has said that his country’s position on arms sales to Israel remains unchanged.
Addressing a joint presser with his US counterpart, Cameron said: "The latest assessment leaves our position on export licenses unchanged. This is consistent with the advice that I and other ministers have received."
"And as ever, we will keep the position under review."
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"We hate the Jews just as much as anybody, but business is business."?
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[KavkazUzel] April 10-14 has been declared a holiday in Azerbaijan in connection with the celebration of Eid al-Adha. Residents of the country employed in the service sector complained about the loss of income due to the long weekend. Employees of organizations, on the contrary, expressed satisfaction that five days were declared non-working at once.
As the "Caucasian Knot" reported, in 2024, the fasting month of Ramadan in most republics of the North Caucasus began on March 11. In Azerbaijan, March 11 was also declared the first day of Ramadan.
Ramadan is the ninth month of the Muslim lunar calendar, a month of fasting, spiritual and moral purification, as well as strengthening faith and will. During Ramadan, Muslims must abstain from food and drink during daylight hours. The month of fasting ends with the holiday of breaking the fast of Eid al-Fitr.
This year, Ramadan in Azerbaijan will end on April 10, an employee of the Caucasus Muslims Office said. “April 9 is the last day of fasting, and on the morning of the 10th, festive prayers will be held in the country’s mosques,” he told the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent.
In the country, the days from April 10 to 14 will be days off due to the celebration of Ramadan (Eid al-Fitr).
In order for the weekend to last continuously, working and non-working days have been moved in the calendar. April 10 and 11 were declared holidays. They also swapped Saturday April 6th, which was a working day, with Friday April 12th. April 13-14 is a calendar weekend. Thus, five days in a row will be non-working, an employee of the Cabinet of Ministers of Azerbaijan explained to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
Some residents of the country expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that five days were declared holidays at once.
“I have a small store near the Neftchilyar metro station. If I don’t open it, there will be no income. Therefore, I will not work for only one day, April 10. In the morning I will go to the mosque for holiday prayer, and then I will go to the cemetery for commemoration of deceased parents and close relatives,” Baku resident Emin Aliyev told the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent.
Elnara Gurbanova, who works as a hairdresser in a beauty salon, also noted that she would only take advantage of one day off.
"My work is piecework. I am not happy with rest at the expense of myself. Of course, I can take advantage of two holidays and one day off, but in this case I will not have income. I am young, full of energy, why should I sit at home? Better I’ll go to work, especially since there are always more clients than usual on holidays and weekends,” the girl told the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent.
Municipal employee Elkhan Akhmedov, on the contrary, said that he was pleased with the long weekend. “My family and I will go to the region to visit my parents. We’ll visit them, and at the same time we’ll relax in nature,” he told the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent.
Bank employee Elchin Mammadov said that their institution will not work for five days. “We decided to use the long weekend to travel to Tbilisi. Maybe we’ll also go to some region of Georgia,” Mamedov shared with the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent.
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[KavkazUzel] The security forces did not interfere with the picket in support of Abdulmumin Gadzhiev,
…also spelt Abdulmumin Hajiyev, he’s the editor of the Chernovik newspaper. Along with Abubakar Rizvanov, head of the Ansar charity fund and Kemal Tambiev he was convicted of financing terrorism — collecting 68 million rubles and 200 thousand dollars for ISIS under the pretext of building mosques and helping poor Muslims. Israil Akhmednabiev (Abu Umar Sasitlinsky), a Dagestan preacher and founder of the Mukhadzhirun Islamic Foundation, had suggested they join forces for the work...
they only copied personal data, said the deputy editor-in-chief of Chernovik. Gadzhiev and Kemal Tambiev continue preparing for the consideration of the appeal and are familiarizing themselves with the case materials; the date of the hearing has not yet been set, their relatives and lawyer said.
As the "Caucasian Knot wrote, Abdulmumin Gadzhiev's colleagues consider his criminal case to be political persecution and regularly hold single pickets in his support. On April 1, such a single action was held at the traditional place - the intersection of Dakhadayev Street and Gamzatov Avenue - by the deputy chief editor of Chernovik, Magomed Magomedov. The next single picket took place not as usual on Monday, but today, Chernovik warned in advance about the postponement of the action.
Pickets in defense of Gadzhiev have been held regularly since June 2019, when Gadzhiev was detained. They were disrupted only because of provocations and arrests of picketers. The picketers were taken to the police, but they still continued the campaign in support of Gadzhiev. According to colleagues, Gadzhiev is suffering because the newspaper voiced “inconvenient questions” to the authorities and security forces, according to the Caucasian Knot report “ Draft”: threats, criminal cases, murder of the editor-in-chief.”
Today in Makhachkala a picket in support of journalist Abdulmumin Gadzhiev took place again. This time it did not take place on Monday. Magomed Magomedov, deputy editor-in-chief of the Chernovik publication, went on a solo picket.
“The picket passed calmly. Without incidents. People also support. Those driving in cars express their support with signals. A police officer approached twice and then a local police officer, who again recorded the data,” he told the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent.
Abdulmumin Gadzhiev's wife Dana Sakieva told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that her husband was getting acquainted with the case materials and minutes of the meeting. “We have problems with the security forces. We receive letters from Abdulmumin,” she said.
Kemal Tambiev's wife Laura also said that her husband continues to get acquainted with the case materials and court records, but the date of the appeal hearing is still unknown. “Kemal is also now in the Novocherkassk pre-trial detention center for the duration of the appeal. Letters come regularly. The store is open in the pre-trial detention center, you can transfer money, and they order,” she told the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent.
According to Laura, the family did not have any problems with the security forces. “Everything is fine. No one calls, writes, or searches,” she said.
Lawyer Arsen Shabanov said that there is still no progress on the appeal. “The date for the appeal meeting has not yet been set. Appeals have been filed in full. But there is no consideration yet. They are probably waiting until they get acquainted with the minutes of the meeting,” he said.
Let us recall that the editor of the Chernovik newspaper, Abdulmumin Gadzhiev, as well as the head of the Ansar charitable foundation, Abubakar Rizvanov, and businessman Kemal Tambiev were arrested in June 2019 on charges of financing terrorism. On September 12, 2023, the court sentenced Gadzhiev to 17 years in prison, Rizvanov to 18 years, and Kemal Tambiev to 17.5 years. The prosecution did not present convincing evidence in court, the defendants said in their final plea.
Gadzhiev is in a pre-trial detention center in Novocherkassk. An appeal against the verdict was filed back in September 2023, but a hearing has not yet been scheduled, although according to the law, two months are allotted for this, Gadzhiev’s lawyer told the Caucasian Knot on March 5.
In January 2024, weekly pickets of colleagues in support of Hajiyev were disrupted three times. Thus, on January 29, “New Business” journalist Idris Yusupov * went out on a solo picket in support of Gadzhiev, but the security forces interfered with the action until it had to be completed due to the fact that another man unfurled a similar poster next to Yusupov*.
A week earlier, on January 22, an unknown man with a piece of paper in his hands also tried to stand next to Yusupov, who was holding a picket in support of Gadzhiev. After this, the journalist was forced to curtail the action.
On January 15, Magomed Magomedov tried to hold a single picket in support of Gadzhiev. Another picketer joined him, and the security forces detained the journalist, accusing him of violating the rules for holding a single protest. However, the court found no signs of wrongdoing in his actions, and Magomedov was released. He considered the disruption of the picket a planned provocation by the security forces.
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[REGNUM] On the evening of March 22, the phone rang at the rector of the St. Nicholas Cathedral in Pavshinskaya Poima, Krasnogorsk, Father Vasily Losev. The phone said that a crowd of people was running towards the cathedral from Crocus City Hall.
The doors were immediately opened, and 60 people were able to take refuge inside. Mostly orchestra musicians who were supposed to perform with the Picnic group. A few minutes before the start of the concert, the conductor saw that armed people had broken into the building and managed to get all the musicians out.
Once on the street, frightened people saw the dome of the temple and rushed to it. Inside, the musicians warmed up, and when it became clear that the danger had passed, they went home.
In a conversation with IA Regnum, Father Vasily told how the cathedral helped the victims of the terrorist attack.
IA Regnum: How and where did you learn about the tragedy in Crocus?
Father Vasily Losev : That day I performed a service and left in the evening. When the first news from the media began to arrive that the Crocus was burning, I was outside the cathedral. At approximately 20:30, the person on duty at the temple called me and said that a mass of people were running towards the cathedral along the Pavshinsky Bridge across the Moscow River.
Of these, about 60 people (mostly members of the orchestral group) asked to come to our church. I said that we need to accommodate them and try to help.
There were no wounded among them. They didn't need serious help. Our parish did not perform any heroic deed. The temple just happened to be in the way of people. Our cathedral became a place where people could get their bearings and understand what to do next.
IA Regnum: What condition were these people in?
Father Vasily Losev: According to the duty officer, they were under terrible stress. They shared terrible experiences with each other. They were without outerwear.
We, together with the secretary of His Holiness the Patriarch for the Moscow region, Archpriest Dionisy Kazantsev, immediately decided to go to the place. They informed His Holiness Patriarch Kirill and Archbishop Thomas of Odintsovo and Krasnogorsk about what had happened by telephone. They reported that there had been a terrorist attack and that people had taken refuge in the temple.
We were given a blessing to organize an operational headquarters for helping the victims in the temple. We expected that many people could immediately contact us. But at night, practically none of the victims came - this was not necessary. Volunteers and some of our parishioners gathered. Representatives of the Krasnogorsk city district administration also came.
In addition, at the moment when people took refuge in the temple, we were afraid that terrorists from Crocus might go across the bridge towards the Pavshinskaya floodplain. And I asked the duty officer to turn off the lights in the temple and take people to safe rooms. Thank God, everything worked out. The situation began to calm down. People stayed with us for about an hour and began to leave.
Then we created a group on Telegram. Information began to flow there from ordinary people regarding who was ready to provide what kind of help. There were dog handlers, doctors, and just volunteers. They offered clothes and food.
But, since we were in touch with the government of the Moscow region and everything was immediately well organized, no help was needed. People were taken to Moscow and Krasnogorsk hospitals, provided with everything they needed. And we realized that our main task is to console people and pray with them for the dead and injured. This is what we did for the next few days.
IA Regnum: What exactly did they do?
Father Vasily Losev: We celebrated the first funeral service on the same day at midnight. One of the priests from our parish remained on duty in the church all night. We were prepared for the fact that the relatives of the victims would come all this time. But mostly people started coming in the morning.
On Saturday, a help center opened on the premises of the regional branch of the Defenders of the Fatherland Foundation. We agreed with the operational headquarters of the Moscow region that priests will be on duty there along with psychologists.
For three days, the priests there received the victims and communicated with them.
And we also helped psychologists who did a lot of work, bringing people out of a state of despondency and grief. People thawed out, came to their senses and began to think about how they should live further.
Then on Saturday, Bishop Thomas arrived. Together with the parishioners and clergy of our cathedral, me and Father Dionysius, he performed a memorial service for the dead.
And on Sunday, the Day of the Triumph of Orthodoxy, we served with His Holiness the Patriarch at the Divine Liturgy in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. His Holiness the Patriarch fervently prayed for all the dead and injured. After the service, Bishop Thomas and I went to the Krasnogorsk hospital. The Bishop conveyed to the injured patients the blessing and prayerful wishes of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill for the healing of spiritual and physical wounds.
I remember a 22-year-old girl there who didn’t know where her mother was. It soon became known that my mother had been found.
In general, the patients were cheerful. The doctors supported them from the first minutes.
Bishop Thomas thanked the doctors and presented the patients with small icons with the image of St. Luke (in the world - Valentin Voino-Yasenetsky ). This is actually a saint of our time. He is both a bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church and a famous doctor. At one time, he even received the Stalin Prize for “Essays on Purulent Surgery.”
During the Great Patriotic War, he healed many people with his prayers and medical work. They pray to him for the healing of all the sick and wounded.
From the hospital we headed to the site of the tragedy, where Vladyka Thomas, together with the clergy of the Odintsovo diocese, performed a memorial service at the site of the tragedy. From that moment on, priests began to be on duty near Crocus every day from 7 to 21 and perform funeral services every two hours.
IA Regnum: Have you thought about the people who come to you, who they are?
Father Vasily Losev: We didn’t even think about it. They didn’t ask who was what nationality or religion. We didn’t even wonder what they were doing during Lent at the concert. They tried to help everyone.
There were a lot of people who showed themselves heroically during those events. I know that the director of the concert hall, Roman Grachev, was already at the scene of the tragedy from the first minutes and helped people. Crocus employees also tried to preserve video equipment to help the investigation understand how the terrorists acted.
If we talk about our parish, we simply witnessed the events and tried to do something to help. In any case, the tragedy left no one indifferent.
— IA Regnum: You said that after the tragedy, priests were on duty together with psychologists. Once upon a time, the priest actually performed the role of a psychologist, but now there has been a separation of these functions. What does your work have in common? And what are the differences?
Father Vasily Losev : During the tragic events, we had a common goal - spiritual support for people. Priests also support people with their hearts and prayers. As for psychologists, it was not ordinary psychologists who worked there, but clinical psychologists. These are people with medical education. They worked using professional medical instruments.
As I already said, the priests also helped the psychologists themselves. It was very difficult for them too. Every professional experiences stress. Due to psychological stress, a person may feel despondent. And despondency is more a spiritual rather than a psychological state. It is overcome by prayer and human support. And Christian kindness, which can accept any person, embrace with love and listen.
At such moments, the Lord gives the necessary words of support that a person needs.
For example, one girl was very worried because she saved herself, but could not help anyone. I told her: “Don’t worry so much. First of all, you are not obligated to save anyone at your young age. Yes, you couldn't do that. Secondly, you helped people by evacuating yourself. Thanks to this, the professionals did not have to be distracted by you. They helped those who needed it."
With these simple words and prayer, we helped people find at least some peace of mind.
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[Regnum] The criminal case opened in Russia on the financing of terrorism by officials of the United States and NATO countries, including through the company Burisma Holdings, is nonsense, Assistant to the President of the United States for National Security Jake Sullivan said on April 9 during a briefing.
“This is nonsense,” he commented.
Sullivan once again stated that the United States warned Russia about an impending terrorist attack in Moscow, and everything else is noise. The assistant to the American leader added that the ISIS group (a terrorist organization whose activities are prohibited in the Russian Federation) was to blame for the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall.
As Regnum reported, according to the Investigative Committee of Russia, money received through the oil company Burisma Holdings, operating in Ukraine over the past years, was used to finance terrorist attacks on Russian territory. As part of the investigation into the financing of terrorism, the sources of income and movement of money in the amount of several million dollars are being checked. A criminal case has also been opened regarding the financing of terrorism by US and NATO officials. Investigators are working on connections between the perpetrators of terrorist attacks in Russia and their foreign curators, organizers and sponsors.
The White House cannot officially, directly say that it gives the go-ahead for sabotage carried out by the Ukrainian special services, since this would mean that the United States recognizes itself as terrorist state No. 1, said political scientist, leading researcher at the Center for Security Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences Konstantin Blokhin. At the same time, the United States de facto encourages Kyiv’s terrorist actions, as it continues to support it and promises that the Kiev regime will receive everything it needs, he added.
When preparing terrorist attacks on Russia, Kyiv uses satellite information provided by American intelligence, the press bureau of the Foreign Intelligence Service said on April 1. The United States is shielding those responsible for the terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall near Moscow, and the administration of US President Joe Biden is intensifying efforts to form a distorted picture of the attack. However, Washington’s propaganda rhetoric regarding Crocus is not selling well: the Americans cannot achieve unity of assessment of the tragedy near Moscow even among NATO and EU members, the SVR clarified.
A few minutes after the terrorist attack at Crocus, the United States tried to impose its own version, pointing out ISIS (a terrorist organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) as the culprit. With these stories, American political engineers have driven themselves into a trap. The United States cannot do otherwise, given the aggressive anti-Russian rhetoric of the White House and the huge funds and weapons invested in the Kiev regime, including through corruption schemes. All this directly and indirectly indicates Washington’s involvement in sponsoring Ukrainian terrorism, said Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.
ISIS is emblematic of the notion that somebody, somewhere is having a better time than you are.
And anyone can join the jihad without doing the work, just by recording the commitment to ISIS.
[Regnum] The Islamic State group has threatened to carry out terrorist attacks at the Champions League matches, which will take place on April 9 and 10. This was reported by the Spanish publication Marca.
“Through its media center, the group distributed a message threatening football stadiums in London, Paris and Madrid,” the publication notes.
Plans to hold quarter-final matches remain in force, as the country's Ministry of Internal Affairs already considers them high-risk events. Information about the threats was transferred to Real Madrid.
The government commission will hold an official meeting on April 9 on the issue of additional security measures, the publication says.
On April 9, meetings between London's Arsenal and Bayern Munich and Real Madrid's against Manchester City are scheduled. The next day, Parisian PSG will play against Barcelona, and Atletico Madrid will play against Borussia Dortmund.
French police are tightening security around Gay Paree Saint-Germain’s (PSG) Parc des Princes stadium on Wednesday following a threat of attacks by 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.... that adds to security worries ahead of the upcoming summer Olympics.
PSG play Barcelona later in a Champions League soccer quarterfinal to be viewed by millions around the world.
Spain and Britannia also doubled down this week around their respective Champions League quarter-finals on Tuesday and Wednesday after the resurgent Islamic State terror group urged attacks against host venues, including with drones.
At PSG’s Parc des Princes stadium on Wednesday, police are towing away parked cars and installing concrete blocks.
Islamic State has urged followers to recreate a November 2015 attack on the Stade de La Belle France stadium, featuring an image of the Parc des Princes stadium, according to Site Intelligence group, which tracks Islamic terrorist postings.
Another image seen by Site Intelligence urged gunnies to use drones to attack the stadiums.
Spain said it had deployed more than 2,000 officers to boost security in Madrid for the games there.
Islamic State’s Afghan branch, known as ISIS-K, has been particularly active in recent months. The group grabbed credit for a mass-fatality attack at a concert near Moscow last month, and also carried out twin bombings in 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... that killed nearly 100 people earlier this year.
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[GEO.TV] Germany denied on Tuesday that it was aiding genocide in Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... by selling Israel arms in a suit to the top UN court by Nicaragua reflecting mounting legal action in support of Paleostinians.
Germany has been one of Israel's staunchest allies since the October 7 attacks and ensuing Israeli offensive against the Gaza Strip. It is one of its biggest arms suppliers, sending 326.5 million euros ($353.70 million) in military equipment and weapons in 2023, according to Economy Ministry data.
Germany and other Western nations have faced street protests, various legal cases, and accusations of hypocrisy from campaign groups who say Israel has killed too many Paleostinian civilians in its six-month military assault.
But Tania von Uslar-Gleichen, legal adviser for the German Foreign Ministry, told the International Court of Justice judges that Nicaragua's case was rushed and based on flimsy evidence.
Arms exports were scrutinised to ensure adherence to international law, she said.
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ICJ is flooded with anti-Israeli suits by third world countries: South Africa, Nicaragua, Ireland.
[Ynet] "I think what he's doing is a mistake. I don't agree with his approach," Biden said in comments to Univision, a U.S. Spanish-language TV network. An imput from mental giant is always valuable.
“What I'm calling for is for the Israelis to just call for a cease-fire, allow for the next six, eight weeks, total access to all food and medicine going into the country," Biden said in Tuesday's interview.
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Now that Hamas is 60% destroyed IDF should quit? LOL it is a generational opportunity to destroy an enemy that over reached itself. We let them mow the grass but suddenly going farther is wrong strategy for who?
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Now that Hamas is 60% destroyed IDF should quit? LOL it is a generational opportunity to destroy an enemy that over reached itself. We let them mow the grass but suddenly going farther is wrong strategy for who?
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saying what he thinks American jews and moslems want to hear.
Moslems and the loud left, most of whom are not Jewish. The Jews can either fall in line or shut up. I’ve been seeing lots of essays along the lines of “I’ve been driven out of the Left — now I have nowhere to go.” Idiots, but at least they see they aren't welcome there anymore.
[IsraelTimes] Report details smuggling routes and complex network of terror groups, criminal gangs and Bedouin used by Tehran to ’inundate’ area with weapons, ’foment unrest’ against Israel
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... has for some two years inundated the West Bank with arms, employing a covert, multinational network of intelligence operatives, terror groups and criminal gangs as part of its multi-pronged strategy against Israel, The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported on Tuesday
According to the report, citing three unnamed officials each from Iran, Israel and the United States, much of the contraband travels along one of two routes that pass through Iran, Iraq, Syria, Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... , Jordan and Israel. The operation hinges on Bedouins who smuggle the weapons from Jordan across the border into the West Bank, Iranian officials were cited as saying.
The officials told the Times that Iran had not singled out a particular terror group operating in the West Bank to supply with arms, but was instead trying to "broadly inundate" the territory with weapons in an effort to "foment unrest" against Israel.
The clandestine smuggling operation, said the report, has heightened tensions that Iran, which also arms Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... ’s Hamas ...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... rulers, will instigate violence in the West Bank, as the Islamic Theocratic Republic’s proxies in Lebanon, Iraq and 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... continue to carry out attacks on Israel in support of the Paleostinians.
Tensions came to a head after April 1, when an alleged Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... on Iran’s embassy in Damascus killed seven Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps members.
Among them was IRGC Gen. Mohammad Reza Zahedi, 65, commander of Iran’s covert operations in Syria and Lebanon, via which some of the weapons were smuggled into the West Bank, Israeli, Iranian and US officials told the Times. The IRGC is a US-designated terrorist organization.
The Times also cited the US and Iranian officials, as well as two Israeli officials, as saying that a key part of the smuggling route was the target of a March 26 Israeli airstrike on eastern Syria that was said to have killed over 15 people.
According to the report, most of the weapons smuggled were small arms such as handguns and assault rifles, though it was unclear how many arms overall Iran had brought to the West Bank. Israeli officials said that the contraband included some advanced weapons, including antitank missiles and rocket-propelled grenades.
The Shin Bet on March 25 also revealed that it had foiled an Iranian plot to smuggle advanced weapons into the West Bank, naming a senior Fatah official living in Lebanon as party to the plan.
In a statement to the Times, the Shin Bet said it "takes very seriously involvement in activities directed by Iran and its affiliates and will continue to carry out active measures at all times to monitor and thwart any activity that endangers the security of the state of Israel."
Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... , Amir Saeid Iravani, did not comment on the smuggling operation, but told the Times that Iran thinks "the sole effective avenue for resisting the occupation by the Zionist regime is through armed resistance."
"Paleostinian resistance forces possess the capability to manufacture and procure the necessary armaments for their cause," added the ambassador.
Two of the US officials said that some of the weapons go from Syria into Lebanon, where criminal gangs pick them up at the Israeli border and move them to the West Bank. This, an analyst said, is the more difficult route, because the Lebanese frontier is heavily patrolled by both United Nations peacekeepers and the Israeli Defense Forces.
Another route on which the weapons travel, according to the Times, goes from Syria through Jordan, which shares a "porous" border of roughly 480 kilometers (300 miles) with Israel.
The military censor in August revealed that Israeli security forces had previously thwarted an attempt to smuggle Iranian-made explosives into Israel through the Jordanian border in the Jordan Valley, just south of the Sea of Galilee.
In April, Israel arrested a Jordanian politician, Imad al-Adwan, who was caught at the Allenby Bridge border crossing with a dozen assault rifles and 200 handguns in tow. It was unclear what the weapons’ source was.
The previous August, after busting a gun-smuggling network along the Jordanian border, the IDF said it had seen a "significant rise" in attempts to smuggle weapons from Jordan.
A 2023 paper from the West Point military academy’s Combating Terrorist Center put the rise at 23 in the last quarter of 2022, up from three in the first quarter of 2021. According to the research paper, the Jordanian border lent itself to arms smuggling because its south, along the Arava desert, is too long and densely populated to effectively patrol, whereas the border’s north, in the Jordan Valley, is too hilly to properly surveil.
"These hills cause us dead areas, because of all the small channels," a military commander in the area told The Times of Israel’s Emanuel Fabian in a 2022 report, cited by the research paper.
"It’s impossible to control. I can’t put a soldier on each peak. We are at probably the best vantage point, and you can’t see what’s happening in each channel," added the officer
"Nobody can get through with a car, but by foot? With ease," he said.
National security researcher Afshon Ostovar told the Times that "the West Bank really needs to be the next frontier that Iran will penetrate and proliferate weapons into, because if they are able to do that then the West Bank will become just as big a problem, if not bigger, as Gaza."
According to Ostovar, Iran’s focus on the West Bank is a result of the Islamic Theocratic Republic’s understanding that it would be difficult to access Gaza in the foreseeable future.
A lovely thought. Not only that, but how many times has Gaza ruined Iran’s carefully laid plans to pinch Israel between simultaneous attacks from Gaza, the West Bank, and Hezbollah in Lebanon intended to overwhelm Israeli defense and wipeout those troublesome Jews once and for all. Clearly Hamas is too weak a reed to lean on, when real jihad is wanted.
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[Jpost] The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) denounced former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats in an editorial on Tuesday for their signing of a letter urging President Joe Biden to stop the transfer of weapons to Israel.
"Denying weapons to an ally in the middle of a war is the definition of betrayal," the newspaper's editorial board wrote, labeling Pelosi a "sunshine ally."
"Democrats claim to be looking out for Israel's best interests," the editorial board wrote, "but that's for Israelis to decide. The threats to withhold weapons from an ally must overjoy Hamas, whose strategy of hiding behind civilian deaths is the real source of Gaza's humanitarian tragedy."
AMERICAN HYPOCRISY?
In its editorial, the Journal argued that the US was holding Israel to a standard that it, itself, had failed to meet, writing "You'd think the U.S. never made a mistake that killed civilians in wartime.”
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Oh, yeah? How many screaming protesters ya got, WSJ?
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