During his inaugural address to the Labour Party conference as the Prime Minister on Tuesday, Sir Keir Starmer for the “return of the sausages” being held in Gaza before hastily correcting himself to “hostages.” The gaffe is dominating coverage of the speech, which lasted over an hour and was supposed to set the agenda for his government, elected with a large legislative majority but a small share of the popular vote on July 4.
“I call again for restraint and de-escalation at the border between Lebanon and Israel. I call again for all parties to pull back from the brink. I call again or an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, the return of the sausages,” he said.
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[ShabelleMedia] A military fat merchantman said to be from Egypt docked at Mogadishu’s port on Sunday, delivering what officials describe as the largest shipment of heavy artillery and anti-tank weapons to Somalia since the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... lifted its arms embargo in December 2023.
This significant military aid, part of a broader defense pact between Egypt and Somalia, underscores Cairo’s deepening military engagement in the Horn of Africa amidst escalating regional tensions.
The shipment, which included field guns and armored personnel carriers, was offloaded under tight security, with the port temporarily closed to commercial traffic to facilitate the transfer. This move follows a series of high-level diplomatic exchanges, culminating in a defense agreement aimed at enhancing Somalia’s defense capabilities against internal threats like al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... and potentially positioning Egypt strategically against the backdrop of its disputes with Æthiopia, particularly over the Grand Æthiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).
Egypt’s military aid to Somalia is not only a response to Somalia’s need for military hardware to combat insurgency but also reflects Cairo’s strategic interests in countering Æthiopia’s influence in the region. Æthiopia, which has been a key player in Somalia’s security landscape, has expressed concerns over the military buildup, viewing it as a potential destabilizing factor in the Horn of Africa.
Somalia’s Defense Minister, in a statement, emphasized the country’s sovereign right to determine its alliances, suggesting that the military aid from Egypt is part of Somalia’s broader strategy to independently secure its national interests. This comes at a time when Somalia has been navigating complex regional dynamics, including disputes over Æthiopia’s agreement 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.... , which has raised alarms in Mogadishu over territorial integrity.
The deployment of Egyptian military personnel and equipment to Somalia, as observed in recent weeks, signals a significant shift in the regional power dynamics. While Egypt aims to bolster its strategic position, potentially as a counterbalance to Æthiopia’s regional maneuvers, the move has raised eyebrows among regional analysts who fear an escalation in tensions.
Æthiopia, through its diplomatic channels, has indicated that it will not stand by while external actors, like Egypt, potentially destabilize the region. The Æthiopian government has highlighted its historical role in Somalia’s stability, particularly in combating terrorism, and warned against actions that could lead to conflict.
This development marks a pivotal moment in the geopolitics of the Horn of Africa, where historical rivalries, resource conflicts, and security concerns intersect. The influx of Egyptian military aid into Somalia could either stabilize the region by strengthening Somalia’s fight against al-Shabaab or exacerbate existing tensions, depending on how regional actors perceive and react to this strategic shift.
As of now, the international community, including the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... , is closely monitoring the situation, advocating for dialogue and de-escalation to prevent any unintended consequences from this military aid transfer.
[GOOBJOOG NEWS] The Banadir regional court Monday delivered its ruling against four al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... Sympathizers believed to be involved in financing the group.
In his ruling, the court’s judge Salah Ali Mohamud sentenced Hassan Osman Aden to 13 years in prison and ordered him to pay a fine 20,000 dollars. He was found guilty of aiding transfer of funds to the terrorist group al-Shabaab in collusion with his wife, ex-wife and daughter.
Three women, Fadumo Hassan Osman, Amina Abudllahi Abbabur and Hasna Aweys Khasim were sentenced to serve two years jail terms each.
According to the prosecution, Hassan instructed his three co-accused to open ten bank accounts which were then used to funnel $12.6 million over a four-year period.
In his earlier defence, Hassan told the court he only had $25 only in his bank account. He further said the bank accounts held by his wife, ex-wife and daughter were opened on his instructions.
[ShabelleMedia] The Somali National Army, specifically the 9th Battalion of the 60th Division, launched a military operation early this morning targeting krazed killer positions on the outskirts of Hudur, the capital of the Bakool region.
The operation centered around Kederar-Adde, located approximately 30 kilometers northwest of Hudur.
Military officials have reported that the mission successfully inflicted significant casualties on al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... murderous Moslems. According to these sources, the operation included a brief but intense skirmish, leading to the army seizing control of a key al-Shabaab base in the area.
Tensions remain high following the operation, with reports of continued military and krazed killer activities within the Hudur district. The local population remains on edge as the situation unfolds.
[Rudaw] Iraqi security forces on Saturday announced the arrest of nine suspected members of the 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) in Salahaddin province amid a countrywide spike in anti-ISIS operations, state media reported.
"The intelligence agency’s detachments specialized in combating terrorism in Salahaddin Iraqi security forces on Saturday announced the arrest of nine suspected members of the Islamic State (ISIS) in Salahaddin province amid a countrywide spike in anti-ISIS operations, state media reported.
"The intelligence agency’s detachments specialized in combating terrorism in Salahaddin were able to arrest nine wanted suspects through separate operations and high-level efforts and planning," state media said, citing a statement from Iraq’s Federal Intelligence and Investigation Agency.
They were arrested in accordance with Article Four of the Counter-Terrorism Law of 2005, which says that anyone found guilty of committing a terror offense is given a death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... , with life imprisonment given to those who assist or hide those convicted of terrorism.
"Upon investigation, they explicitly confessed to belonging to the remnants of the terrorist ISIS gangs and to carrying out many terrorist attacks in Salahaddin province," the statement added.
On Friday, three ISIS suspects were arrested by Iraqi intelligence forces in the capital Baghdad.
[Rudaw] At least one member of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) was killed when the Kurdish-led group clashed with fighters supported by Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... in Deir ez-Zor province, a UK-based conflict monitor reported on Sunday.
An SDF patrol was hit by Iran-backed forces in the town of Suwaydan with rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) and machine guns, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).
One member of the SDF was killed and another was injured, according to SOHR.
The SDF, as the partnered ground force of the US-led international coalition against the 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), controls northeast Syria (Rojava).
Control of Deir ez-Zor province, which borders Iraq, is now split between the SDF and the Iran-backed Syrian regime. It is also home to many of the country’s key oilfields, such as Omar and Conoco, which the global coalition helps the SDF to control.
The areas under the control of the Syrian regime and those under the control of the SDF are separated by the banks of the Euphrates River. The area is characterized by frequent smuggling operations, due to the difference in price of goods on either side.
Pro-regime fighters frequently clash with the SDF in the strategic province.
Clashes broke out between the SDF and pro-regime forces in Deir ez-Zor on Friday, SOHR reported without providing information on casualties.
[Rudaw] At least two people were killed and three others injured during festivities between Kurdish-backed forces and Ankara-aligned factions in northern Syria’s Aleppo province, a war monitor reported on Monday.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that two Kurdish fighters were killed after being maimed in an "infiltration operation" on the Marea-Harbel axis in northern Aleppo during festivities with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... -backed factions.
Three Ottoman Turkish-backed fighters were also injured.
The pro-Kurdish Afrin Liberation Forces (HRE) are active in the area and carry out operations against Ottoman Turkish-backed factions in control of parts of northern Aleppo province.
Afrin is a Kurdish city that was taken over by Turkey and Ottoman Turkish-backed Syrian rebels in a military operation against Kurdish fighters of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) in 2018. Most of the Kurdish population fled and Ottoman Turkish authorities resettled Arabs displaced from elsewhere in Syria into their vacated homes.
The festivities come amid a recent increase in tensions in the area, with Kurdish forces increasingly clashing with Ottoman Turkish-backed rebels of the Syrian National Army (SNA) and other factions.
Last week, SOHR said that at least seven members of the Ottoman Turkish-backed Faylaq al-Sham militia group were maimed after a military vehicle was targeted with a rocket-propelled grenade, allegedly coming from the areas under the influence of Kurdish forces and the Syrian regime in northern Aleppo countryside.
Kurds have accused Turkey of taking advantage of recent festivities between some Arab tribes and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the eastern province of Deir ez-Zor, using it as an opportunity to attack Kurdish-led forces in Manbij and other areas. Manbij is located at a key crossroads in northern Syria.
Turkey considers the People’s Protection Units (YPG) in Syria, the backbone of the US-backed SDF, as an offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), an gang fighting for Kurdish rights in Turkey and designated a terrorist organization by Ankara.
[Rudaw] Three people were killed and five others were rescued after a migrant boat capsized off the coast of Greece’s Samos Island, police said on Monday, with 25 others feared to be missing.
"Three bodies were pulled from the water and five people were rescued and are safe," a police official told AFP.
Peshraw Abdullah, a representative of the Returning Migrants’ Association in Greece told Rudaw that the migrant boat came from western The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... and sank near the west coast of Samos islands.
The three victims are females, Abdullah said, a woman and two girls aged 10 and 12 years old.
The Hellenic Coastguard has started search and rescue operations to find the missing individuals.
Tens of thousands of people, including some from Iraq and the Kurdistan Region, take on perilous routes toward Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... on a yearly basis in hopes of escaping endless crises, including the lack of employment, political instability, and corruption.
Abdullah said that he suspects that some of the migrants colonists on board are from the Kurdistan Region.
Around 20,000 people from Iraq and the Kurdistan Region migrated out of the country in 2023, with at least nine of them losing their lives on the dangerous and illegal smuggling routes, according to the Lutka Foundation for Refugees and Displaced Affairs.
[Rudaw] Iraqi counterterrorism forces said on Monday they cooperated with Kurdish forces (Asayish) to arrest two "terrorists" in Sulaimani.
The Iraqi Counter Terrorism Service (ICTS) announced the arrests of "two turbans in Sulaimani province" in a statement.
The operation was carried out "in coordination and cooperation" with Kurdish security forces based in Sulaimani, according to the ICTS.
The statement provided no further details.
Iraqi and Kurdish security forces have carried out numerous joint raids against the 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) in recent years, primarily in Sulaimani.
The Iraqi Security Media Cell announced in late July that they had arrested 21 ISIS suspects in cooperation with Asayish forces in Sulaimani province.
[IsraelTimes] The missile fired by Hezbollah toward the Tel Aviv area was intercepted by the David’s Sling defense system, Hebrew-language media reports.
The projectile triggered sirens in the coastal city as well as multiple other towns in central Israel.
[IsraelTimes] Lebanese authorities say 6 killed and 15 wounded in strike, some 560 killed since conflict spiked; IDF reservist moderately hurt by shrapnel
Intense cross-border fighting between Israel and Hezbollah continued on Tuesday, including an Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in the Lebanese capital, as the terror group fired some 300 rockets at northern Israel, setting off sirens in cities including Haifa, Safed, Nazareth, and Yokne’am as well as across the Galilee.
The target of the strike in the Dahiyeh suburb of Beirut was the head of Hezbollah’s rocket and missile division Ibrahim Qubaisi. The Israel Defense Forces said he had been killed in the attack, alongside at least two other top commanders in the terror group. Hezbollah confirmed his death hours later, releasing a statement saying Qubaisi was "martyred on the road to Jerusalem," its term for operatives killed in Israeli strikes. Qubaisi commanded Hezbollah’s various rocket and missile units, including its precision-guided missile unit, according to the military.
"Over the years and during the war, he was responsible for the launches at the Israeli home front. Qubaisi was a central source of of knowledge in the field of missiles, and was close to the senior military leadership of Hezbollah," the IDF said.
He joined Hezbollah in the 1980s, and served in several other significant roles, including a senior position in the terror group’s operations division and as the head of the Badr regional division, the IDF said. It added that Qubaisi also planned Hezbollah’s kidnapping attack in Mount Dov in 2000, in which IDF soldiers Staff Sgt. Benyamin Avraham, Staff Sgt. Adi Avitan, and Staff Sgt. Omar Sawaid were killed and kidnapped. Their bodies were returned in a prisoner exchange in 2004.
The IDF released footage of the strike.
The strike in the Dahiyeh suburb, a known Hezbollah stronghold, was the fifth Israeli attack on Beirut amid the war. At least six people were killed in the strike and 15 were maimed, according to Lebanese health officials. "An Israeli strike targeted two floors in a residential building in the Ghobeiri area," a Lebanese security source told AFP.
Hezbollah did not immediately comment on the attack.
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi said Tuesday morning following a military assessment that Israel will be further escalating its actions against Hezbollah.
"Hezbollah must not be given a break. [We must] keep working with all our might," he said in remarks provided by the IDF. "We will accelerate the offensive operations today and bolster all the arrays. The situation requires continued intensive action on all fronts."
Meanwhile,
...back at the abandoned silver mine, there was another explosion... Hezbollah continued to fire barrages of rockets deep into northern Israel, while the IDF responded with strikes on hundreds of the Iran-backed group’s sites, including residential buildings where the military said Hezbollah was hiding rockets and missiles ready for launch at Israel.
As explosions rocked both Israel and 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... , a dismayed international community responded with calls for de-escalation in what the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... ’s top diplomat said was close to all-out war, after almost a year of fighting that began with Hezbollah attacks in solidarity with Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... after the latter terror group’s devastating October 7 attack on Israel.
The Lebanese health ministry raised the corpse count in the IDF’s extensive airstrikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon since Monday to some 560. Another 1,835 were maimed, the ministry said. The figures do not differentiate between members of the terror group and civilians.
In Israel, an IDF reservist was moderately maimed by shrapnel during a rocket barrage at the Mount Carmel area, south of Haifa. The Magen David Adom ambulance service said it treated the 25-year-old at the scene near the Elyakim Junction and took him to a hospital. In another attack on areas east of Haifa, shrapnel from an intercepted rocket lightly maimed a 58-year-old woman, medics said. She too was taken to a hospital. Several other people have been lightly injured during the rocket attacks from falling shrapnel or as they rushed to bomb shelters after sirens went off.
Throughout the morning Hezbollah rockets fell in the Galilee Panhandle, areas east and south of Haifa, the Jezreel Valley, the Lower Galilee, and the cities of Afula and Nazareth. A barrage of 50 rockets also pounded the northern border town of Kiryat Shmona and surrounding areas. Municipal warehouses were among the locations hit in Kiryat Shmona, local authorities said. At least one building caught fire, sending thick black smoke into the air.
Dashboard footage showed the moment a rocket fired from Lebanon hit a road between Tamra and Kabul in northern Israel. There were no injuries reported.
Magen David Adom said paramedics treated a number of people hurt while running for shelter or who were suffering from severe anxiety caused by rocket sirens in communities across the north. MDA also said that one of its ambulances in the Jezreel Valley was damaged by shrapnel during a rocket attack in the early morning hours.
Police said interceptors and unspecified weaponry impacted in several areas of Nazareth and the surrounding area, causing damage.
In the afternoon, a home was damaged by a rocket in the northern town of Rosh Pina, but no injuries were caused.
As of Tuesday evening, the IDF said that some 300 rockets had been fired at northern Israel throughout the day.
IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said in an evening presser that Hezbollah planned to launch more rockets on Tuesday. "We are foiling, striking, and disrupting its attacks," he said.
"I won’t go into detail about the data on the Hezbollah capabilities [that the IDF has destroyed]. We have [this data], learning it. I will not detail it, to not endanger our intelligence and not to give the enemy clarity," Hagari said.
"While this achievement is important... Hezbollah still has more capabilities of different kinds. Our job is to take care of each of them, but first of all, we are focusing on its strategic capabilities that pose a greater risk to the Israeli home front," he added.
Hezbollah grabbed credit for the rocket attacks, claiming they were fired at several military bases and airfields. It also claimed an attack on the northern town of Gesher Haziv. It said launches had targeted a military supplies factory 60 kilometers (37 miles) into Israel with the "Fadi" series of rockets and that it also targeted the Megiddo airfield three separate times overnight. The airfield is mainly used for civilian purposes.
IDF HITS BACK
The IDF said it carried out several waves of strikes on Tuesday, targeting Hezbollah sites in the Beqaa Valley and in the south of the country. According to the military, the strikes targeted buildings where Hezbollah stored weapons, command rooms, and other infrastructure. It said that secondary blasts can be seen in footage following the strikes, "which indicate that many weapons were stored in the buildings."
On a Rooters live feed of the southern Lebanese city of Tyre, what appeared to be at least two rockets could be seen launching into the air erratically after a strike on a building.
The IDF said it was continuing to strike Hezbollah targets in an effort to destroy the terror group’s capabilities. It noted that it had bombed the Hezbollah cell that fired rockets at the Afula area overnight, destroying the launchers.
A senior Israeli Air Force officer said the airstrikes carried out over the past day against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon were the most extensive the IAF has carried out in its history. More than 1,600 Hezbollah sites, mostly homes where weapons were stored, were struck in southern Lebanon and the Beqaa Valley within a day, according to the IDF.
The senior IAF officer said the widespread airstrikes were "changing the operational situation in the north, changing the reality." He said Hezbollah had two main capabilities that it built up over decades: the elite Radwan Force and its arsenal of rockets, missiles, and drones. The top leadership of the Radwan Force, tasked with invading Israel, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Friday. Hezbollah’s rocket and drone capabilities have been targeted across Lebanon in the past day.
The official said the IAF is working to strike "all of their rocket capabilities, all of them" and that it is "very determined" to do so.
Hezbollah still has rocket capabilities, but they have been harmed significantly in the recent strikes, the official said.
The official said the IAF has worked to prevent civilian harm in the widespread strikes, and that mitigating harm to civilians is a significant part of its offensive plans. The IDF issued warnings to civilians to leave homes where Hezbollah had stored weapons, hours before launching the strikes.
The official said Hezbollah has endangered Lebanese civilians twofold: first by placing the weapons in their homes, and second by telling civilians to ignore the IDF’s evacuation calls, he says. The IDF has also assessed that many Hezbollah operatives are among the dead reported in Lebanon.
On Tuesday, the military issued new warnings to Lebanese civilians in villages where Hezbollah has stored munitions in homes, after similar warnings the previous day, saying that airstrikes against the terror group would continue.
"If you are near or in Hezbollah buildings or those used by it to store weapons, you must move away from those buildings at least one kilometer away or outside the village, immediately," Col. Avichay Adraee, the IDF’s Arabic-language front man, said on X.
"Anyone who is around Hezbollah elements is putting themselves in danger," he added.
Photos and videos on social media showed south and east Lebanon residents continuing to flee the fighting amid a mass exodus over the past few days. Images showed gridlocked traffic in a number of areas.
Some 500 people have crossed from Lebanon to war-torn Syria, a Syrian security official told AFP.
"Around 500 people crossed the border through the Qusayr and Dabousiya crossings between 4 pm (1300 GMT) and midnight" Monday, the security official told AFP, requesting anonymity to discuss sensitive matters.
In Israel, the IDF Home Front Command changed its instructions for a number of communities, and schools were closed in some towns. There were to be no in-person educational activities in the Megido area, Yokne’am Illit, Daliyat al-Karmel, and Isfiya. The Home Front Command had already canceled schools in communities from Haifa northwards.
The IDF said it targeted some 1,600 Hezbollah sites in Lebanon on Monday, largely striking homes where the terror group stored munitions. The military has said the munitions included cruise missiles, short-range heavy rockets, medium-range rockets, and explosive drones. Notably, the IDF has not yet said it has destroyed Hezbollah’s long-range rockets and precision-guided missiles.
According to official IDF assessments from before the war began last October, Hezbollah had over 200,000 rockets, mortars, and missiles. The numbers include 400 long-range rockets, hundreds of precision-guided missiles, 4,800 medium-range rockets, 65,000 short-range rockets, and 140,000 mortars.
Also according to the assessments, Hezbollah has hundreds of explosive-laden drones, around 100 anti-ship missiles, and at least 17 anti-aircraft systems.
Hezbollah has already launched over 8,000 rockets and hundreds of drones at northern Israel amid the fighting in the past 11 months.
Israel has vowed to push Hezbollah back from the border so its displaced citizens can return to their homes, saying it preferred to do so diplomatically but was willing to use force. Hezbollah has said it will keep up its attacks until there is a ceasefire 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... , but that appears increasingly elusive as the war against Hamas nears its anniversary.
They are among more than 1,500 Hezbollah targets hit in some 200 different areas of Lebanon, the military says. Most of the strikes have targeted homes where Hezbollah had stored munitions, according to the IDF.
Over 250 fighter jets have participated in the strikes, dropping some 2,000 munitions, the military adds.
The four are named as sheikhs Abdul Minam Mahna, Amin Saad, Muhammad Salah and Ali Abu Raya. Al Arabiya describes all of them collectively as “Hezbollah commanders.”
Canadian Arabic-language news website Sada Online eulogizes both Saad and Abu Raya and reports that they had served as imams in Canada. The former was reportedly the head of the Islamic Center of Hamilton, Ontario, between 2000 and 2006, while no details are provided on the latter, other than that he served the Canadian Shiite community for “many years.”
Israel’s Alma Research Center, which focuses on Lebanon and the northern front, reported in 2022 that a Hezbollah member named Ali Abu Raya was an officer in the Latin American department of Hezbollah’s foreign service. It is not clear if it is the same Hezbollah cleric who was killed yesterday.
Various unverified reports refer to Abdul Minam Mahna with the honorific title of “ayatollah,” indicating a high-ranking Shiite cleric.
[IsraelTimes] The Iran-backed Islamic Resistance in Iraq claims responsibility for launching two drones that set off sirens in the Golan Heights overnight.
[IsraelTimes] Syrian officials say that they activated air defenses amid an alleged Israeli strike on the port city of Tartus.
The officials tell Rooters that they shot down several Israeli missiles.
Syria frequently claims to have intercepted Israeli strikes, but most analysts doubt their ability to do so.
There is no comment from the IDF, which rarely comments on strikes in Syria.
The report comes as Israel has launched widespread strikes against Hezbollah in neighboring 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... Syria is a major thoroughfare for Iranian arms being sent to Hezbollah.
The Biden administration: always standing at Israel’s back.
[IsraelTimes] The US has reportedly warned Israel not to target the sovereign infrastructure of Lebanon as it tackles Hezbollah across the border.
Two days ago, US officials told their Israeli counterparts that they support the IDF’s actions targeting Hezbollah while warning that the US “red line” was that Israel not “knowingly and deliberately” do anything that leads to all-out war, Channel 12 reports.
Now, it says, the US has “sharpened” that message and is telling Israel “under no circumstances” to harm the infrastructure and/or assets of the sovereign state of Lebanon. The US has told Israel to “distinguish as far as possible” between Hezbollah and Lebanon, the report says.
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^The point is, TW, if it wasn't intercepted - it'd hit a civilian target. But, to Arab (or leftist) mind - intention trumps results. (that's why they get along so well).
[FoxNews] Chris Oliver tells 'Fox & Friends First' he saw 'hardly any' crossings when Trump was in office
Chris Oliver's property in Fort Covington, New York has become an unintended gateway for a stream of illegal immigrants crossing the Canadian border into the United States, leaving him dismayed and wondering if the problem will ever be resolved.
He told "Fox & Friends First" he "absolutely" blames "border czar" Kamala Harris and President Biden for the issue.
"You have no control over it. You don't know who these people are. Not everybody is a good person," Oliver said on Wednesday.
Video footage captured the scene: dozens of migrants crossing his property.
"They've got 13,000 in the last six months… I feel they've caught 50%. That's probably a good reading. It's hard to say how many people actually have come across," he said, elaborating on the urgency of the crisis.
"They had a guy up in Ormstown not too far away from us, get arrested. He was planning an ISIS-style attack in New York City. That was just recently. That same night, I still had people come across my cameras. That should be stopped."
With most attention focused on the massive influx of migrants crossing the southern border, northern border crossers rarely see the national spotlight.
Yet, under the Biden-Harris administration, northern border encounters have climbed over 100,000 each year since 2022, with the number gradually inching closer to 200,000, according to CBP data.
The most staggering jump in numbers came between 2021 (at 19,661) and 2022 (at 109,535).
[NBC] Ellison accepted a plea deal on charges of conspiracy and financial fraud in December 2022, a month after FTX spiraled into bankruptcy.
Caroline Ellison, whose testimony helped convict her former boss and ex-boyfriend, disgraced cryptocurrency mogul Sam Bankman-Fried, was sentenced Tuesday to two years in prison for fraud and conspiracy.
U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan sentenced Ellison in New York City to 24 months and ordered her to forfeit $11 billion for her involvement in the collapse of Bankman-Fried's crypto exchange company, FTX. She had faced a maximum sentence of about 110 years.
Ellison, 29, accepted a plea deal on charges of conspiracy and financial fraud in December 2022, a month after FTX spiraled into bankruptcy. She testified against Bankman-Fried for nearly three days at his trial in November....
Lawyers for Ellison had asked that she be sentenced to time served and supervised release, citing her cooperation. In a court document filed this month, her lawyers said she made a swift return to the U.S. in 2022 from FTX’s headquarters in the Bahamas and voluntarily cooperated with the U.S. attorney’s office....
But Kaplan, describing FTX's collapse as possibly the greatest financial fraud uncovered in U.S. history, said he could not agree to a "literal get-out-of-jail-free card" for the defendant.
He ordered her to surrender to authorities on or after Nov. 7.
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Judging by the respective girlfriend pics, Diddy had more fun.
Made that joke the other day that Diddy was Hillary! favorite living rapper, until he isn't. Couple hours later Diddy was placed on 'suicide watch', so there is that.
[JustTheNews] Key lawmaker says interviews prove Pentagon wrongly allowed optics to overwhelm security concerns in lead-up to fateful day. The Pentagon's top brass did not comply with Trump's orders because of political concerns and "optics."
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Interestingly, there is some sportsball player who has a pet alligator and PETA is on his ass, "How would you like to have your mouth shut, put in a room, and never let out?"
[The Federalist] "America’s national health is not good," opened the Republican senator from Wisconsin, "even though America’s health care system spent $4.5 trillion dollars in 2022, or over $13,000 per person."
To put those numbers in perspective, American health care spending was just 5 percent of GDP when John F. Kennedy was president. That number soared to more than 17 percent in 2022, just a year before Kennedy’s nephew Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would launch his own White House run.
"If America fails," Kennedy said at the Monday panel, "the chief reason will be because we let our country get sicker, more depressed, fatter, more infertile at an increasing rate while crippling our national security, bankrupting our national budget with health care costs."
"Every major pillar of the U.S. health care system as a statement of economic fact," Kennedy added, "makes money when Americans get sick."
[NYPOST] Shots were fired at Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign office in Arizona, police said — just over a week after a second assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump. Was Jussie Smollett in the area at the time?
Damage from several bullets, fired sometime after midnight on Monday, was discovered at the Democratic National Committee campaign office near Southern Avenue and Priest Drive in Tempe, the Tempe Police Department told The Post.
''No one was inside the office during the overnight hours, but this raises concerns about the safety of those who work in that building, as well as those nearby,'' said Public Information Officer Sgt. Ryan Cook.
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I count 108 former State Department employee squishes in this group. I'm surprised it's not higher. Another surprise, the large percentage of female signatures.
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/\ From Mark Hollingsworth's fantastic book 'Agents of Influence' page 7.
*Underline emphasis added.
"Putin had created a neo-KGB state and he articulated this reality six months after become president, when he was asked questions about a former KGB officer, 'There is no such thing as a former KGB man' he replied."
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Self-identified traitors list....at the very least, make sure they all lose whatever clearances they hold, at best, fly them to Ukraine, attach mines to them and air drop them across the front.
[GEO.TV] The Kremlin warned on Tuesday that Israeli strikes on Lebanon had the potential to completely destabilise the Middle East and widen the conflict there. But Hezbollah strikes on Israel don't. Q.E.D.
When asked about the Israeli strikes, Press Secretary of President of Russia Dmitry Peskov told reporters on a conference call: "This is an event that is potentially extremely dangerous when it comes to the expansion of the conflict, to the complete destabilisation of the region. Of course, this is of extreme concern to us."
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middle east stable? it will remain unstable so long as israel permits 'gaza' and 'west-bank' to exist. they practice a religion that denies a jew to exist.
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[Korrespondent] 15:13 The International Committee of the Red Cross visited prisoners of war captured in the Kursk region, Russian media reported, citing a representative of the organization. "We were able to visit prisoners captured in connection with the events in the Kursk region. They were also able to send messages to their families through us," the organization reported. The ICRC does not comment on the number, location, or names of these people. September 23
11:34 Publics write that a new breakthrough in the Kursk region occurred in the area of the village of Medvezhye about a week ago.
11:30 Zelensky's victory plan, which he will present this week during his visit to the United States, contains a clause on continuing the Ukrainian Armed Forces' operation in the Kursk region, The Times writes.
11:19 The Ukrainian Armed Forces have broken through another section of the border with Russia, the press service of the 95th separate Polesie airborne assault brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported. This is already the second successful operation to break through the Russian border since the beginning of the operation in the Kursk region. The paratroopers showed a video that shows the development of passages in engineering barriers, the entry of airborne assault units into enemy territory and the first battles in the border zone, where the airborne assault tankers destroyed an enemy stronghold. The brigade did not specify the details of the operation.
September 22
21:18 Zelensky said in an interview with The New Yorker that the Kursk operation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces slowed down the Russians and forced them to transfer some of their forces to Kursk - about 40 thousand soldiers. Already now, Ukrainian fighters in the east say that they are attacked less often, the president added. "I am not saying that this is a resounding success or that this will lead to the end of the war or the end of Putin. This showed our partners what we are capable of," Zelensky explained.
He stressed that the Ukrainian side continues to supply food and water to people in the territories controlled by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Zelensky also added that these people can freely leave, but do not do so. "We showed the Russians a very important truth: that the Russian Federation did not come to their aid, but left them to survive. They should know who they put in power," Zelensky noted.
September 20
23:53 The Ukrainian Armed Forces' operation in the Kursk region took Kiev's Western allies and many members of the Ukrainian elite by surprise, as very few people were involved in the planning. However, documents seized from Russian military personnel indicate that the Russian command foresaw the possibility of such an operation several months before the Ukrainian Armed Forces' offensive. For more details, see the article The Russian Federation knew, but couldn't do anything about it.
11:59 Russians are accommodating refugees from Sudzha in the Kursk region in Mariupol, said the mayor's adviser Petr Andryushchenko. According to him, Russian refugees are staying in temporary accommodation centers set up by the United Russia party. The "authorities" of the occupiers have chosen stolen Ukrainian property in the Primorsky district of Mariupol, not far from the sea, as a place for the refugees to stay.
11:10 The Guardian writes that Moscow knew about the preparation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces operation in the Kursk region, but failed to prepare. At the end of August, the publication's journalists met with a Ukrainian special forces group, which seized documents from abandoned Russian positions and returned to Ukraine. Most of the documents came from units of the 488th Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment of Russia. The entry from January 4 spoke of the "potential for a breakthrough on the state border" of Ukrainian armed groups, after which there were several more warnings.
[BBC] Some 1,685 "seriously ill" inmates have been released from one of the most notorious prisons in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the latest move to tackle overcrowding.
The release began at Makala Prison in the capital, Kinshasa, on Sunday.
It was there, at the beginning of this month, that 129 prisoners died in an attempted jailbreak. Some were shot dead by security forces while others were killed in a crush, officials said. So that opened up some beds spots on the floor
The government pledged to speed up its plans to decongest the prison, where conditions have been described as "true hell".
Mutamba said that those who needed medical attention would be treated while others would be sent home on buses provided by the government, the AP news agency reports.
The minister had already ordered the release of hundreds of others from Makala as he tries to get the prison population down. He has also banned the transfer of new inmates to the prison.
With a population of at least 14 million people , Kinshasa has two jails. In addition to Makala, the military prison of N’dole has an official capacity of 500.
Emmanuel Adu Cole, head of the Bill Clinton Foundation for Peace, a local NGO that focuses on prison conditions, welcomed the release, but added that more needed to be done to address the problems inside.
The jail, which was built in the 1950s, has a capacity for 1,500 inmates, but before this month's attempted jailbreak it was holding at least 12,000 people, according to various estimates.
One former inmate told the BBC that conditions inside were "true hell".
“Makala is not a prison, but a detention centre resembling a concentration camp, where people are sent to die,” Stanis Bujakera said. Not fast enough, apparently
Videos that he secretly filmed inside showed how tightly packed everyone was, as well as the inadequacy of the daily rations.
The authorities have long acknowledged the overcrowding problem.
Some officials have blamed magistrates for sending suspects to prison. In 2020, it was estimated that only 6% of the prisoners were actually serving sentences - the rest were stuck in DR Congo's legal system where cases can drag on for years.
[ManhattanInstitute] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This report estimates the lifetime fiscal impact of immigrants, of various ages and educational attainment, to the United States. It offers a methodological upgrade over similar analyses and estimates and evaluates the fiscal impact of various proposed immigration reforms.
A clear picture of the fiscal cost of immigrants is particularly important, given the ongoing border crisis. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the border surge will number 8.7 million unlawful immigrants between 2021 and 2026. The original analysis in this report finds that the border crisis will cost an estimated $1.15 trillion over the lifetime of the new unlawful immigrants—a cost larger than the entire U.S. defense budget and almost equal to the cost of Social Security in 2023.
Looking at immigrants more broadly, this report shows that the average new immigrant (lawful or unlawful) has a positive fiscal impact and reduces the federal budget deficit by over $10,000 during his lifetime. For comparison, the average native-born citizen is expected to cost over $250,000 to the federal government. Despite the average immigrant reducing the budget deficit, immigrants without a college education and all those who immigrate to the U.S. after age 55 are universally a net fiscal burden by up to $400,000. The large positive fiscal impact of young and college-educated immigrants pulls up the overall average. Each immigrant under the age of 35 with a graduate degree reduces the budget deficit by over $1 million in net present value during his lifetime.
Therefore, for policymakers considering the fiscal impact of immigrants to the U.S., the characteristics of people seeking entry into the country are crucial. Certain immigrants are fiscally beneficial; others are fiscally detrimental.
This report quantifies the fiscal impact of common immigration reform proposals:
Mass deportations would significantly reduce the national debt over the long run, but a policy of selective legalization, coupled with mass deportations, would be even more fiscally beneficial, reducing the debt by about $1.9 trillion.
Given the education, age, and earnings of H-1B visa recipients, doubling the number of H-1B visas for just one year would reduce the budget deficit by $70 billion over the long run—and by another $70 billion each year thereafter.
The most beneficial immigration policy change would be to exempt STEM graduate degree holders from green-card caps, increasing immigration by some 15,000 people per year and reducing the visa backlog; this would reduce the deficit by $150 billion in the first year and $25 billion each year thereafter.
Eliminating refugee resettlement and permanent immigration by parents of U.S. citizens would reduce the debt by a combined $40 billion in net present value every year.
Congress could upskill the existing immigration flow by eliminating the diversity visa category and increasing the visas available to the top employment-based categories, and requiring immigrants to have earned a high school diploma to be eligible for a family visa, reducing the national debt by over $60 billion per year.
By enacting a selectionist immigration policy—which requires securing the border from unlawful immigration, reducing low-skilled immigration, and expanding high-skilled immigration—the U.S. could reduce future federal debt by trillions of dollars over the long run. This report proposes a legislative package that provides over $2 trillion in net present value during the first year and over $200 billion each subsequent year, without accounting for the additional productivity growth resulting from high-skilled immigration. Furthermore, under these reforms, the annual number of immigrants who are new permanent residents decreases by about 15% after a temporary legalization program and a partial clearing of the employment-based visa backlog. Over the long term, annual legal immigration decreases under this plan from approximately 1 million in FY 2019 to approximately 860,000.
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[NewsFront] 23:59 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 09/24/2024 to 00:00 09/25/2024.
A total of 53 cases of armed attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces were recorded by the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC over the past 24 hours.
Information was received about the injury of nine civilians, including a teenage girl born in 2009. An employee of the Russian Emergencies Ministry was killed, and three more employees were injured.
DAMAGED:
Six residential buildings,
Two civil infrastructure facilities.
A total of 14 artillery attacks in the Donetsk direction,
A total of 39 artillery attacks in the Gorlovka direction.
A total of 154 units of various ammunition were fired.
23:52 Ugledar under powerful attack by the Russian Armed Forces – video.
23:14 Explosions in Kherson.
The destruction of infrastructure and military facilities in the temporarily occupied city continues.
22:58 The central part of the Yuzhnodonbasskaya No. 3 mine has come under the control of the Russian Armed Forces. Russian assault groups have entered the eastern part of Ugledar. The rest of the city is being hit by MLRS strikes.
21:00 Drone operators of the Dnepr group destroy enemy manpower, equipment and fortifications in the Orekhov direction
19:44 Some of the first shots of Russian stormtroopers filmed in Ugledar, the assault on the city continues.
19:38 Alaudinov stated that the enemy in the Kursk direction has already lost 12 previously captured settlements and suffered heavy losses.
According to him, the task of stopping the enemy and inflicting damage on him has been accomplished; the Ukrainian Armed Forces do not have the resources to advance.
18:52 T-80BV tank crews destroyed observation posts and manpower of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Donetsk direction.
Tankers of the "Southern" group of troops destroy identified dugouts, armored vehicles and enemy manpower on the front line.
18:28 Servicemen of the 81st Separate Airmobile Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are arbitrarily leaving their positions in the part of the DPR occupied by Kiev, a representative of the Russian security agency reported.
According to him, the reasons were the commanders' disregard for the paratroopers, the lack of grenades and ammunition for small arms, as well as a chronic shortage of food and long periods of being on the front lines without rotation.
18:14 The Russian Armed Forces are fighting in Ugledar. According to information from "Come and See", the Russian army has entered Ugledar and is fighting directly in the city.
“Russian units on the eastern outskirts of Ugledar,” notes “Come and See.”
In parallel, the route to Bogoyavlenka is under fire control. The situation for the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Ugledar direction is becoming critical.
18:07 Russian paratroopers captured a stronghold of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in one of the areas in the border area of the Kursk region. UAV operators accompanied the parachute units from the air.
17:44 UAV operators from the 80th Separate Reconnaissance Battalion "Sparta" successfully "hunt" for enemy transport - video.
17:32 The Russian Armed Forces advanced towards the settlement of Torskoye in the Svatovsky direction.
17:11 The Zhuravka gully in the Svatovsko-Kremnoye direction has come under the control of the Russian Armed Forces, the Divanny General Staff reported
16:55 Russian military destroyed two Ukrainian T-64 tanks on LPR territory. One combat vehicle was hit by a Lancet, the second by artillery fire.
16:49 Massive artillery preparation by the Russian Armed Forces before the assault on Ugledar, a key city in the South Donetsk direction – video.
16:35 The crew of the Su-34 carried out a strike on a concentration of personnel and military equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the border area of the Kursk region.
15:54 Explosions were heard for the third time in 10 minutes in Khar'kov in eastern Ukraine, the Ukrainian publication "Obshchestvennoye" reported, without providing details.
15:52 The only accessible route from Ugledar has been cut off by Russian troops; there are no more escape routes for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
15:25 Explosions in Khar'kov.
14:56 The Russian Armed Forces have taken a key stronghold west of Ugledar, cutting off the route to Kurakhovo, the Divanny General Staff reported
14:50 Russian troops destroyed a self-propelled howitzer Bogdana of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Sumy Oblast with a strike from a Lancet kamikaze drone.
14:45 Kursk border area, the front is becoming more active - Russian units have been actively "displacing" the enemy in the Vol'fino area since early morning.
14:36 Explosions are heard in Kherson occupied by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
14:01 Russian troops entered the eastern districts of Ugledar, the publication "Strana" reported, citing militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Servicemen of the Ukrainian army note that the Russian Armed Forces are achieving success, taking advantage of the exhaustion of the enemy army. The situation on the flanks of Ugledar is also not in favor of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
13:57 Servicemen of the Southern group of forces destroyed the Baba Yaga drone using small arms in the Seversky direction.
12:51 In the Kursk region, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have been pushed back from the village of Borki to the west, the Russian Armed Forces are moving on a broad front towards Plekhovo, Donetsk Stringer reported.
12:05 The Russian Armed Forces are developing an offensive on Mirnohrad - they have entered Nikolaevka, southeast of the city.
11:57 Servicemen of the 18th Army continue to destroy military facilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the right bank of the Kherson region.
As a result of the Russian strike, a warehouse of enemy material and technical resources was successfully destroyed, as well as a temporary deployment point of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, in the area of ??the settlement of Sadovoe.
10:48 Destruction of a temporary deployment point of the Ukrainian Armed Forces by an airstrike using an ODAB-1500 in the Kupyansk area. The enemy lost up to 40 militants and up to five units of military equipment.
10:40 The Archangel of Spetsnaz reports on the situation in the area of Chasov Yar:
"The fighting continues in the private sector, the airborne units are managing to gain a foothold. The advance of paratroopers in urban areas is hampered by the high level of destruction of the city and the activity of enemy UAVs.
At night, Baba Yaga is very active, trying to disrupt logistics, and FPV operators of the 98th Airborne Division of the Airborne Forces successfully hit these agrodrones.
The enemy has concentrated its forces on holding the line along the Seversky Donets-Donbass canal, preventing our troops from breaking through the canal itself and from the settlement of Kalinovka. The Russian Armed Forces' aviation is actively working."
10:00 The Ukrainian Armed Forces are massively leaving their positions in the Kursk region, said Alaudinov.
"Their situation was very difficult. The units that were in our direction were greatly reduced, there was a lot of burned equipment," he said on air at Soloviev Live.
09:55 Enemy reports: "Russian Armed Forces have entered the outskirts of Ugledar. The situation on the flanks around the city is difficult."
09:22 BMP-3 crews and 120mm 2B16 Nona-K towed gun crews of the West group of forces destroyed dugouts, trenches and infantry of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
08:16 Russian naval infantry destroyed a group of eight scouts from the 41st Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk Region, a representative of the Russian security forces reported
08:14 Russian attack aircraft blew up MaxxPro of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Toretsk direction by setting up a mine ambush, security forces reported
08:06 Footage of the capture of a Ukrainian Armed Forces stronghold in the border area of the Kursk region.
08:00 During combat operations in the Kursk region, marines seize weapons from Ukrainian militants and then use them against the enemy.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces are mostly found to have foreign weapons. The fighters showed an American automatic belt-fed MK-19 mounted grenade launcher, a 12-gauge Akdal MKA 1919 smoothbore semi-automatic magazine-fed shotgun, a Turkish-made RDS-40 multi-shot grenade launcher, and a double-barreled shotgun from the Italian arms company Fabarm.
[10News/Scripps Media] F*ck them and the ACLU. Roast in hell, POS. Typical MSM/Scripps Media whining
A Missouri man was executed Tuesday for breaking into a woman’s home and killing her, despite calls by her family and the prosecutor’s office that put him on death row to let him serve out the rest of his life in prison.
Marcellus Williams, 55, was convicted in the 1998 killing of Lisha Gayle, who was repeatedly stabbed during the burglary of her suburban St. Louis home.
Williams’ hopes of having his sentence commuted to life in prison suffered dual setbacks Monday when, almost simultaneously, Republican Gov. Mike Parson denied him clemency and the Missouri Supreme Court declined to grant him a stay of execution. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene Tuesday.
Williams was put to death despite questions his attorneys raised over jury selection at his trial and the handling of evidence in the case. His clemency petition focused heavily on how Gayle’s relatives wanted Williams’ sentence commuted to life without the possibility of parole.
"The family defines closure as Marcellus being allowed to live," the petition stated. "Marcellus’ execution is not necessary.
Last month, Gayle’s relatives gave their blessings to an agreement between the St. Louis County prosecuting attorney’s office and Williams’ attorneys to commute the sentence to life in prison. But acting on an appeal from Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s Office, the state Supreme Court nullified the agreement.
Williams was among death row inmates in five states who were scheduled to be put to death in the span of a week — an unusually high number that defies a yearslong decline in the use and support of the death penalty in the U.S. The first was carried out Friday in South Carolina. Texas was also slated to execute a prisoner on Tuesday evening.
Gayle, 42, was a social worker and former St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter. Prosecutors at Williams’ trial said he broke into her home on Aug. 11, 1998, heard the shower running and found a large butcher knife. Gayle was stabbed 43 times when she came downstairs. Her purse and her husband’s laptop were stolen.
Authorities said Williams stole a jacket to conceal blood on his shirt. His girlfriend asked him why he would wear a jacket on a hot day. She said she later saw the purse and laptop in his car and that Williams sold the computer a day or two later.
Prosecutors also cited testimony from Henry Cole, who shared a cell with Williams in 1999 while Williams was jailed on unrelated charges. Cole told prosecutors that Williams confessed to the killing and provided details about it.
Williams’ attorneys responded that the girlfriend and Cole were both convicted of felonies and wanted a $10,000 reward. They said that fingerprints, a bloody shoeprint, hair and other evidence at the crime scene didn’t match Williams’.
A crime scene investigator had testified the killer wore gloves.
Tuesday marked the third time Williams had faced execution. He was less than a week away from lethal injection in January 2015 when the state Supreme Court called it off, allowing time for his attorneys to pursue additional DNA testing.
Williams was hours from being executed in August 2017 when then-Gov. Eric Greitens, a Republican, granted a stay. Greitens appointed a panel of retired judges to examine the case. But that panel never reached a conclusion.
Questions about DNA evidence also led St. Louis Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell to request a hearing challenging Williams’ guilt. But days before the Aug. 21 hearing, new testing showed that DNA on the knife belonged to members of the prosecutor’s office who handled it without gloves after the original crime lab tests.
Without DNA evidence pointing to any alternative suspect, Midwest Innocence Project attorneys reached a compromise with the prosecutor’s office: Williams would enter a new, no-contest plea to first-degree murder in exchange for a new sentence of life in prison without parole. A no-contest plea isn’t an admission of guilt but is treated as such for the purpose of sentencing.
Judge Bruce Hilton signed off, as did Gayle’s family. But Bailey appealed, and the state Supreme Court blocked the agreement and ordered Hilton to proceed with an evidentiary hearing, which took place last month.
Hilton ruled on Sept. 12 that the first-degree murder conviction and death sentence would stand, noting that Williams’ arguments all had been previously rejected. That decision was upheld Monday by the state Supreme Court.
Attorneys for Williams, who was Black, also challenged the fairness of his trial, particularly the fact that only one of the 12 jurors was Black. Tricia Bushnell of the Midwest Innocence Project said the prosecutor in the case, Keith Larner, removed six of seven Black prospective jurors.
Larner testified at the August hearing that he struck one potential Black juror partly because he looked too much like Williams — a statement that Williams’ attorneys asserted showed improper racial bias.
Larner contended that the jury selection process was fair.
Williams was the third Missouri inmate put to death this year and the 100th since the state resumed use of the death penalty in 1989.
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Cuts down on recidivism and saves taxpayer money - what's not to like?
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[Korrespondent] Ukrainian Armed Forces Contain Russian Attacks in Eastern and Southern Ukraine.
Russian aggressors carried out 25 assaults in the Pokrovsk and Kurakhovsk directions. The Ukrainian Armed Forces have already repelled most of the attacks.
Since the beginning of the current day, 83 combat clashes have occurred on the front in eight directions. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in a report as of 16:00 on Tuesday, September 24.
Thus, in the Kharkov direction, the enemy is trying to storm the area of Volchansk. The Russians also attacked residential areas of Kharkov with UABs.
In the Kupyansk direction, the Russians attacked seven times in the areas of Andreyevka, Lozovaya and Stelmakhovka. Two clashes are still ongoing.
In the Liman direction, the invading army carried out 15 attacks during the day near the settlements of Druzhelyubovka, Grekovka, Cherneshchina, Nevskoye, Torskoye and Novosadovo. Ten battles have ended, five more are ongoing.
In the Kramatorsk direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces repelled nine attacks by Russian invaders near Minkovka, Kalinovka, Belaya Gora and Stupochki. Five enemy assaults are still ongoing.
In the Toretsk direction, the aggressor tried seven times to penetrate the defense of our troops in the areas of Toretsk and Shcherbinovka. Five combat clashes are still ongoing.
In the Pokrovsky direction, the invaders made 15 attempts to push our defenders from their positions in the areas of Vozdvizhenka, Novotoretskaya, Novogrodovka, Krasny Yar, Marinovka and Nikolaevka. The defense forces repelled 13 enemy attacks, two combat clashes are still ongoing.
In the Kurakhovsky direction, the enemy attacked 12 times towards the settlements of Tsukurino, Zhelannoye Vtoroy, Georgievka, Dalneye and Konstantinovka. Nine assaults have already been repelled.
In the Vremivsky direction, four enemy attacks are currently ongoing in the direction of Pavlovka, Vodyane and Ugledar.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces are also conducting an operation in the Kursk region of Russia. "The enemy's aviation continues to destroy its own villages and cities. Since the beginning of the day, Russian aircraft have carried out six strikes with nine UABMs on their own territory," the General Staff reported.
Earlier on Tuesday, it became known that the Russians had begun to bypass the city of Vuhledar in the Donetsk region from the flanks. This became possible after they completely destroyed the city as a stronghold thanks to the massive use of aviation.
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[ALTAIRUSIDEA] Military leaders of the North-East Military District. 20 names of 2024.
Colonel General Kuzovlev
He did not ask for the position and, according to purely statistical indicators, had no significant defeats. Having managed to command two districts at once in six months and eventually becoming the commander of the Moscow Military District, he did not spend a single day in the newly opened headquarters on Kosmodamianskaya Embankment, for which he immediately came to the attention of the Staroarbat officials, becoming the object of personal hostility.
Kuzovlev was among the first to promptly form and send personnel to stop the breakthrough in the Kursk direction. And although Kursk was and remains the area of responsibility of the Group of Forces "North", the commander of the Moscow Military District did not fail to extend a helping hand to his comrade at the front. On September 11, 2024, Andrei Belousov flew to the command post of the Group of Forces "West". The Minister of Defense tried to feel out the environment and understand what mood reigned in the headquarters of the group, for which he took Yevgeny Nikiforov with him. The inspection not only did not reveal any violations, but was also completely satisfied with the work of the group.
Today, the forces of the Group of Forces "West" are destroying the enemy's echeloned defense on the approaches to Kupyansk and have already reached the Oskol River, and revenge for the events of the fall of 2022 will become the main challenge for Sergei Kuzovlev himself.
Colonel General Anashkin
The command highly appreciated his merits as commander of the 8th Army. Having become the chief of staff of the district in January 2024, just two months later Gennady Anashkin was appointed commander of the Southern Military District and awarded the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" 2nd degree with swords.
The "South" group of forces has significantly increased its forces today: back in July, enemy sources wrote about the accumulation of reserves in the Zaporizhzhya direction. All year Anashkin has been increasing the combat and numerical strength of the artillery brigades of the district at the expense of barrel artillery, largely due to friendly relations with his neighbor in the operational direction and concurrently deputy commander of the Joint Forces (s) Mikhail Teplinsky.
Despite the ongoing positional battles in the area, the OGV(s) command believes that it is the “South” group that will win the strategic initiative in 2025, but Anashkin himself strives to remain out of the limelight and does not use his apparatus resources for PR campaigns, believing that a good commander is an inconspicuous commander.
New York City, Sept. 24 — Pro-Hezbollah and pro-Hamas rioters shut down the streets of Manhattan at their latest direct action. Video by @L2FTV: pic.twitter.com/jkTUZPc50x
This will continue there until the prosecutors are required to try, convict, and jail their pet Jew-hating terrorists. Until then, enjoy the situation you enthusiastically voted for, guys.
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Pro-Hezbollah and pro-Hamasrioters supporting Genocidal Terrorists shut down the streets of Manhattan.
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Remind me again where Mexico destroys seized narcotics and the location of their evidence warehouse complex? On the west coast of the US for example, it is "Covanta Stanislaus Inc., a subsidiary of Covanta Holding Corporation, specializing in waste-to-energy and environmental services. The company primarily provides narcotics and evidence destruction services to federal agencies through its facility in Crows Landing, California. Covanta Stanislaus leverages its specialized waste-to-energy incineration capabilities to safely and compliantly dispose of seized contraband materials, supporting law enforcement and border security operations." Rather than risk ground transport of multi-millions of seized narcotics each month, DEA loads narcotics for destruction into their own secure transport vehicles and flies them via C-130 directly into the airfield for offloading at the incineration site.
As a fun piece of obscura, consider the name Crows Landing, California, (a name derived from the US Navy use of the airfield to train enlisted pilots during WWII, and the Eagle in the enlisted sleeve rank insignia, hence "crows").
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] ICE’s Boston office would have had nobody to arrest had the border not been wide open and unvetted miscreants of all sorts not been shipped in.
NEW: In a multi day operation on Nantucket Island, ICE’s Boston office announces they arrested four illegal aliens who are charged with raping or sexually assaulting Nantucket children or residents - all of whom were released from local custody despite the serious charges.
Of note, exercise is harmful for patients with long COVID who have ME/CFS or postexertional malaise110,163 and should not be used as a treatment164,165,166; one study of people with long COVID noted that physical activity worsened the condition of 75% of patients, and less than 1% saw improvement109.
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That exercise contraindicated thingy really, really upsets cardiologists and physical therapists, who will argue that they’re supervising it and really it’s not much harder than slow stretching, honest. Also all your friends who want you to be fit again like you used to be. Also you, because exercise used to feel so very good back when it wasn’t forbidden…
Interesting article, Besoeker. Definitely unrelated, but I’ll save the link for review when I’m not supposed to be sleeping, and for sharing with Mr. Wife.
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They all look like they wouldn't have done such a thing back home knowing the locals would have zip tied them to a lamp post and be slowly murdered.
But here, hey let the freak flag fly, just get released with boodle.
Authorities in Massachusetts are moving the dozens of migrants who arrived earlier this week in Martha's Vineyard to Cape Cod.
The office for Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker announced Friday that the state's emergency management agency relocated the migrants to Joint Base Cape Cod. There, the state will provide shelter, food and other essential services, Baker said.
Baker also plans to activate 125 members of the state National Guard to assist.
Looks like Nantucket residents don't belong to the same club as Martha's Vineyard residents.
So generous with other peoples’ money. Because why not add another straw to the camel’s back?
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] US President Joe Biden is set to announce the donation of one million mpox vaccine doses and at least $500 million to African countries to support their response to the outbreak today.
Biden will make the announcement in New York, where he is attending the United Nations General Assembly, and call on other countries to follow suit, according to a senior administration official.
In August, the World Health Organization declared mpox a global public health emergency for the second time in two years, following an outbreak of the viral infection in Democratic Republic of Congo that has spread to neighboring countries and beyond, including India, raising alarm.
'It wouldn't be a huge surprise if there were a case in the United States, either,' the official said, noting that recent cuts in pandemic support by Congress may hamper a domestic response.
'We're really squeezing right now to be able to respond effectively in this moment. And I think anticipating potentially additional cuts in the future will make it more and more difficult for us to have a robust response to these types of outbreaks.'
Mpox can spread through close contact. Usually mild, it is fatal in rare cases. It causes flu-like symptoms and pus-filled lesions on the body.
The outbreak in Congo began with the spread of an endemic strain, known as clade I. But a new variant, clade Ib, appears to spread more easily through routine close contact, including sexual contact.
The expectation is that the US-donated doses will be of the Bavarian Nordic vaccine known as Jynneos in the United States, and many will come from a stockpile in the United States.
The one million doses is in addition to the 60,000 previously donated shots.
The US official said the administration expects Gavi, a public-private alliance which co-funds vaccine purchases for low-income countries, to distribute the donated vaccines.
'We feel really strongly that Gavi is the multilateral institution that is best positioned to procure and equitably distribute vaccines,' the official said.
Last week, Gavi said it will buy 500,000 doses of Bavarian Nordic's vaccine, its first purchase to help battle the outbreak.
The Biden administration is also pushing for more vaccines to be manufactured in low and middle-income countries, and is working with Brazil to identify how the Group of 20 club of nations can support the mpox response.
There is not currently a manufacturer in Africa that is able to make the complex drug substance needed to make the vaccine, the US official said.
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I believe that President Joe Biden is fully incapacitated from dementia. His wife had to chair his cabinet meeting. Joe could not remember the world leaders he was to introduce on stage. Joe began yelling at his staff while on stage demanding they tell him who the world leaders were around him he was introducing. Very soon he will not be able recognize anyone around him.
How much does anyone suppose a monkeypox vax costs after including mark up for government purchase? 50 bucks Brandon? So they just throwing $1billion at Congo because local rich orgy center? Creating a sort of Bangkok-on-Africa?
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It sounded like Joe was personally donating money. Not the Biden way.
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Yes it did, and that is the Daily Mail Way.
If i wore a cynic's hat, I'd say that there was a failure to sell the Monkeypoxalypse to land so spend a bunch of other peoples' money to buy up the shortfall, add a tagline of $500million to funnel to those local NGOs, and buy a headline for cover which looks magnanimous.
Say....sure sounds a lot like using US$ to buy foreign press to influence US elections.
[ZeroHedge] An alarming battle between rival factions of the Sinaloa drug cartel has unfolded in northwestern Mexico, near the Biden-Harris administration's open southern border. The risk of spillover continues to increase as US Border Patrol agents recently discovered a weapons cache of shoulder-fired rocket launchers and improvised explosive devices just across from the Arizona border.
"4 RPGs and 8 IEDs along with a large amount of ammo discovered in a scout site in Mexico just across the Arizona border which butts up against the Ajo area of operation within the Tucson Sector," NewsNation's border correspondent Ali Bradley wrote on X on Monday afternoon.
Bradley said, "Border Patrol agents are being warned of the "drastic escalation" in weaponry being used on the south side of the border—According to an internal alert obtained through sources."
"The fighting within the Sinaloa cartel, spilling over the border with multiple instances of armed men showing up to the southern border in the same area fleeing into the US for safety," she added.
The eruption in violence near the border is infighting within the Sinaloa cartel, between groups known as the "Mayos" and the "Chapos". This first began when authorities arrested Joaquín Guzmán López and Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada in July.
A tsunami of violence has since been reported, with President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador blaming Zambada's arrest on the US.
Last Friday, US Ambassador Ken Salazar rejected AMLO's claim, saying, "What is being seen in Sinaloa is not the fault of the United States," adding the US cannot be held responsible for "the massacres that we see in different places."
What's clear is that cartels are quickly becoming militarized while the Biden-Harris team prided themselves with open southern borders. Meanwhile, Venezuelan prison gangs are running amok in the US, and a new bombshell hearing on Capitol Hill last week revealed Biden-Harris covered up the sharp rise in encounters with suspected terrorists on the border.
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"...the Ajo area of operation within the Tucson Sector." Just south of Bisbee, a tourist attraction. A favorite crossing site for more than three decades.
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[Yahoo] A man who killed 10 people at a Colorado supermarket has been found guilty of murder in the 2021 attack, becoming the latest person to fail in an attempt to be acquitted by reason of insanity.
Jurors found Ahmad Alissa
...more fully Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, the ISIS-curious, Trump-hating, untreated paranoid schizophrenic known wolf whose aggressive, infidel-hating Syrian refugee family did not bother to stop him from getting guns and running amok in a Jewish grocery store just before Passover. Mr. Al Issa would have preferred to shoot up a Trump rally the previous year, but the Covid shutdown meant the scheduled rallies were cancelled. Last we heard, he was deemed incompetent to stand trial, but in the meantime he appears to have become competent enough…
guilty on Monday. As a result, instead of remaining in a state hospital for psychiatric treatment, he was sentenced to life in prison.
How about the application of sentences that are a deterrent, like a realistically applied Death Penalty?
A speedy appeals process requiring all appeals to be filed within 3 years and if the appeals fail the application of the death sentence within the next 2 years.
With a total of 5 years, for the whole process.
Instead of the current system that allows any Liberal Lawyer to milk the system for 20 to 30 years.
Then apply the death sentence in the same way the murderer did to his victim(s).
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[Regnum] The Taliban movement (the organization is under UN sanctions for terrorist activities) has banned male citizens of Afghanistan from wearing jeans and fashionable haircuts, the American newspaper The Washington Post (WP) reports.
It is noted that the prohibitive measures came into force at the end of August. According to the newspaper, the ban is aimed at preventing the imitation of "non-Muslims" in behavior. Along with this, men were banned from cutting their beards shorter than a fist and wearing jeans.
The newspaper also notes that the bans came as an "unexpected surprise" to men in Afghanistan.
Then they’re fools. Totalitarians gotta total.
"If men had shown themselves, we could have found ourselves in a different situation now. Now everyone is growing beards because we don't want to be interrogated, humiliated," the newspaper quotes the resident as saying.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, in 2022, the Taliban banned men and women from visiting restaurants and parks together in the Afghan city of Herat. Thus, men and women are allowed to visit public parks only on different days. Women are recommended to go there on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, the rest of the week are intended for men.
[PJMedia] The origin of the rocketry term Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly (RUD) is shrouded in mystery but it's just the funny engineer's way of saying the rocket blew up. What you've been witnessing in southern Lebanon these last several days is the Rapid Scheduled Disassembly of the Hezbollah terrorist organization, involving thousands of explosions instead of just one big one.
The RSD got started last week with Israel's three-part virtual decapitation of Hezbollah's organization. That is, if "decapitation" is the correct word when exploding pagers removed Hezbollah bits a bit further down than their large heads. That was followed up, as I'm sure you know, the next day by exploding walkie-talkies. When Hezbollah's remaining leadership began to meet in person to overcome their crippled comms, the Israeli Air Force bombed the meetings.
Now that Hezbollah is disorganized, almost leaderless, and deathly afraid to communicate with one another, Israel is going after its terrorist infrastructure — aided by some of the highest tech in service.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel is "destroying thousands of missiles and rockets aimed at Israeli cities and Israeli citizens."
"If the terror group’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, insists on continuing to launch rockets and drones at Israel to demonstrate solidarity with Hamas — a decision that has cost his organization and Lebanese citizens dearly — Israel’s current attacks will prove advantageous in the event of a ground invasion of Lebanon," Lazar Berman wrote on Monday.
..."This is what happens when you f*** with the people of Einstein and Oppenheimer: you make science & technology your enemy," one X user replied. "Not a wise move these days."
"What Israel has been doing in the north for 10 months now is attriting Hezbollah, surveilling it, building detailed centimeter-level 3D lidar maps of every inch of its heartlands," author Saul Sadka posted in an X thread one month ago (!!!), eerily accurate in predicting what would follow in September. "Humans and AI have analyzed every olive tree, every field, and every mosque to identify weapon storage locations."
...If you want to do the deep dive, read Sadka's full thread, starting here.
Imagine spending two decades slowly and ruthlessly building up your missile arsenal, only to find that those damn Jews know where everything is and can target it with pinpoint precision. Israel underestimated Hamas' stupidity. But, as we finding out, not Hezbollah's. And the part nobody talk about is:
Hezbollah lorded it over Lebanon for 20 years. The other Lebanese don't like it very much - but their militias are no match for Hezbollah. Until now. If the IDF - in addition to destroying Hezbollah terrorist threat - inflicts sufficient damage on Hezbollah’s military power, there will be a reckoning - Arab style.
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[EngMilRu] The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
In Liptsy and Volchansk directions, units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted losses on formations of the 57th Motorised Infantry Brigade of the AFU, 36th Naval Infantry Brigade, and 113th Territorial Defence Brigade near Liptsy, Volchansk, and Volchanskye Khutora (Kharkov region).
One counterattack launched by an assault detachment of the Kraken nationalist formation was repelled. The AFU losses amounted to up to 65 troops, three motor vehicles, and one 122mm D-30 howitzer.
Units of the Zapad Group of Forces improved the tactical situation and inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the 43rd, 44th, 66th Mechanised brigades, 3rd Assault Brigade of the AFU, and 114th Territorial Defence Brigade near Kupyansk, Zagoruykovka, Kolesnikovka, Lozovaya, Novoyegorovka (Kharkov region), Makeyevka, Nevskoye (Lugansk People's Republic), and Torskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
Four counterattacks launched by assault detachments of the 14th, 63rd mechanised brigades of the AFU, and 1st National Guard Brigade were repelled. The AFU losses amounted to up to 420 troops, one Kozak armoured fighting vehicle, three pickup trucks, one U.S.-made 155mm M-198 howitzer, one 152mm 2S3 Akatsiya self-propelled artillery system, one 152mm D-20 gun, one 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, one 122mm D-30 howitzer, and one UK-made 105mm L-119 gun. Four AFU field ammunition depots were destroyed.
Units of the Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and positions as well as inflicted losses on formations of the 24th, 28th, 30th, 54th, 93rd Mechanised brigades, 56th Motorised Infantry Brigade, 5th Assault Brigade, 25th Airborne Brigade of the AFU, 116th Territorial Defence Brigade, and the Lyut Assault Brigade of the National Police of Ukraine near Kramatorsk, Seversk, Verkhnekamenskoye, Kalinino, Stupochki, Predtechino, Belaya Gora, Maksimilyanovka, and Katerinovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 810 troops, one armoured personnel carrier, one armoured fighting vehicle, 15 motor vehicles, one Polish-made 155mm Krab self-propelled artillery system, one U.S.-made 155mm M-777 howitzer, two UK-made 155mm FH-70 howitzers, one 152mm D-20 gun, two 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery systems, one 122mm D-30 howitzer, two 105mm guns, namely, one UK-made L-119 and one U.S.-made M-119. One electronic warfare station and four field ammunition depots were destroyed.
Units of the Tsentr Group of Forces continued advancing to the depth of the enemy's defences and inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the 67th, 100th Mechanised brigades, 142nd, 144th, 152nd Infantry brigades, 95th Air Assault Brigade, 55th Artillery Brigade, 78th Air Assault Regiment of the AFU, 109th, 118th, 119th Territorial Defence brigades, and 14th National Guard Brigade near Dzerzhinsk, Nelepovka, Rozovka, Krasnoarmeysk, Dimitrov, Grodovka, Ukrainsk, Gornyak, and Kurakhovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
Ten counterattacks launched by assault detachments of the 53rd, 150th, 151st Mechanised brigades, 68th Jaeger Brigade of the AFU, 3rd, 12th, 15th National Guard brigades, and the Omega Special Operations Detachment were repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to up to 555 troops, one U.S.-made M-113 armoured personnel carrier, one Turkish-made Kirpi armoured fighting vehicle, five pickup trucks, one 152mm Msta-B howitzer, one 152mm D-20 gun, and three 122mm D-30 howitzers.
Units of the Vostok Group of Forces improved the tactical situation along the front line and inflicted losses on formations of the 33rd Mechanised Brigade, 58th Motorised Infantry Brigade of the AFU, 116th, 127th Territorial Defence brigades, and 21st National Guard Brigade near Dobrovolye, Ugledar, Zolotaya Niva, Shakhtyorskoye, Rovnopol (Donetsk People's Republic), and Temirovka (Zaporozhye region).
One counterattack launched by an assault detachment of the AFU 72nd Mechanised Brigade was repelled. The AFU losses amounted to up to 130 troops, five motor vehicles, and one Polish-made Krab self-propelled artillery system.
Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the 128th Mountain Assault Brigade of the AFU, 35th Naval Infantry Brigade, 103rd, 108th, and 123rd Territorial Defence brigades near Malaya Tokmachka, Nesteryanka (Zaporozhye region), Zaporozhye, Tokaryovka (Kherson region), and Kherson.
The AFU losses amounted to up to 50 troops, four motor vehicles, one 152mm 2S3 Akatsiya self-propelled artillery system, one 152mm Msta-B howitzer, and one 152mm D-20 gun. One Anklav-N electronic warfare station and one field ammunition depot were destroyed.
Operational-Tactical Aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, and Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces delivered strikes at a defen?e industry enterprise of Ukraine, which produced and serviced gas turbine engines for AFU combat aircraft, as well as the power facilities that ensured their operation, infrastructure of a military airfield, two UAV production workshops and one UAV assembly point, one POL depot, as well as engaged AFU manpower and hardware clusters in 149 areas.
Air defence units shot down two U.S.-made HARM anti-radiation missiles and three HIMARS MLRS projectiles as well as 63 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 646 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 32,187 unmanned aerial vehicles, 579 anti-aircraft missile systems, 18,343 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,458 MLRS combat vehicles, 15,150 field artillery guns and mortars, and 26,436 units of support military vehicles have been neutralised.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the operation to neutralise an enemy group, which broke into the territory of the Russian Federation.
Units of the Sever Group of Forces continued offensive actions and inflicted losses on formations of the 21st, 22nd, 41st, 115th Mechanised Brigade, 17th Tank Brigade, 95th Air Assault Brigade, 36th Naval Infantry Brigade, 1st National Guard Brigade, and 129th Territorial Defence Brigade of the AFU near Lyubimovka, Daryino, Novy Put, Nikolayevo-Daryino, and Plekhovo.
Over the past 24 hours, units of the Sever Group of Forces repelled two enemy attacks in the direction of Malaya Loknya and Obukhovka. As a result, the AFU losses amounted to up to 20 troops killed and wounded; two motor vehicles were destroyed; four AFU servicemen were taken prisoner.
With support of Army Aviation and artillery fire, five AFU attempts to break through the border of the Russian Federation in the direction of Medvezhye and Novy Put were foiled. The AFU losses amounted to up to 40 troops killed and wounded, one infantry fighting vehicle, three armoured fighting vehicles, and one motor vehicle.
Army Aviation and artillery strikes inflicted losses on manpower and hardware clusters of the 21st, 22nd, 41st, 61st, 115th Mechanised brigades, 17th Tank Brigade, 80th, 95th Air Assault brigades, 36th Naval Infantry Brigade, 1st National Guard Brigade, 112th, and 129th Territorial Defence brigades near Bogdanovka, Guyevo, Ivashkovsky, Zazulevka, Kurilovka, Kolmakov, Lyubimovka, Makhovka, Martynovka, Mikhaylovka, Malaya Loknya, Malaya Obukhovka, Medvezhye, Novaya Sorochina, Novy Put, Novoivanovka, Pravda, Plekhovo, Russkoye Porechnoye, Tolsty Lug, Cherkasskaya Konopelka, and Yuzhny.
Operational-Tactical Aviation and Missile Troops delivered strikes in Sumy region at concentration areas and reserves of the 21st, 41st Mechanised brigades, 17th Tank Brigade, 95th Air Assault Brigade, 1st National Guard Brigade, 1004th Security and Service Brigade, 103rd, and 129th Territorial Defence brigades near Belopolye, Bruski, Bunyakino, Vorozhba, Volkovka, Kazachye, Kislaya Dubina, Malushino, Mazeyevka, Novaya Sloboda, Pavlovka, Partizanskoye, Rechki, Svoboda, Shalygino, and Ugroyedy.
Over the past 24 hours, the AFU losses amounted to more than 360 troops and 13 units of hardware, including one infantry fighting vehicle and 12 armoured fighting vehicles, as well as four artillery guns, two MLRS launchers, three electronic warfare stations, and 11 motor vehicles. Four AFU servicemen were taken prisoner.
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost more than 16,700 troops, 127 tanks, 61 infantry fighting vehicles, 95 armoured personnel carriers, 809 armoured fighting vehicles, 508 motor vehicles, 136 artillery guns, 31 MLRS launchers, including eight of HIMARS and six of MLRS made by the USA, eight SAM launchers, five transport-loading vehicles, 35 electronic warfare stations and eight counter-battery radars, two air defence radars, 18 engineering vehicles, including 11 counterobstacle vehicles and one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, as well as one armoured recovery vehicle.
The operation to neutralise the AFU units is in progress.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 21:42 Germany is preparing a four-party meeting of the leaders of the US, UK, France and Germany, where issues of aid to Ukraine will be discussed mainly, writes Spiegel. The expected date of the meeting is from October 10 to 12.
21:37 Bloomberg writes that some of Ukraine's allies are planning to talk to Putin ahead of the G20 summit in Brazil. According to the agency, this discussion is due to the lack of signs that the Kremlin is ready to back down in the war against Ukraine. Western allies are trying to reduce hopes that the United States will approve Ukraine's request to use long-range missiles to strike Russian territory to avoid the risk of escalation of the conflict.
20:36 The number of injured in Kharkov has grown to 34 people, including a 17-year-old teenager. Three people were killed, the prosecutor's office reported. As a result of a direct hit by an aerial bomb on a nine-story residential building in the Kievsky district, one person remains missing, the search and rescue operation continues.
20:18 Zelensky will meet with Biden twice in two days, said the press secretary of the Ukrainian president, Serhiy Nikiforov: "Tomorrow the president will meet with the US president, a short meeting on the sidelines of the UN, and a large meeting will be held the day after tomorrow, on the 26th. These are the events from which we expect the greatest results. But for now, yes, we are participating in the meeting of the UN General Assembly, holding bilateral meetings with our partners, members of the delegation are holding bilateral meetings."
18:53 Ukrainian OSINT project DeepState reports that the Russian army has occupied Ukrainsk in the Pokrovsky district of Donetsk region, and has also advanced near Prechistovka, Selidovo, Nevelskoye, in Zhelanny Pervy and Nevsky.
18:42 The number of casualties as a result of today's shelling of Kharkov has increased to 31, three people were killed, reported the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. In addition, the enemy struck a civilian bakery with a FAB-500 aerial bomb - one person was killed, eight were injured.
18:11 Biden said during his speech at the UN General Assembly that we must not get tired of Ukraine: "Now the world must decide whether we will continue to support Ukraine in gaining its freedom, whether we will step back and allow Ukraine to be destroyed. We must not get tired, we must not look away, we must support Ukraine until it gets a just and lasting peace."
18:00 The United States will announce a new military aid package for Ukraine worth $375 million tomorrow, Voice of America reports. According to the publication's sources, the package will include, in particular, air-to-ground missiles for the F-16, which will allow the aircraft to "operate far from the front line."
17:54 The death toll from today's Russian strikes on Kharkiv has risen to 28, with three people killed. There may be people under the rubble, and the search and rescue operation is ongoing, said OVA chief Oleg Sinegubov. The enemy launched at least five guided bomb strikes on the city, hitting a nine-story building, a civilian enterprise, and an open area. According to law enforcement, the enemy struck a residential building with a FAB-500 bomb.
17:33 Russians hit a passenger car with an FPV drone in the Kutsurubskaya community of the Nikolaev region, two people were injured, said the head of the OVA Vitaly Kim.
17:26 The US believes that Ukraine has not provided "convincing arguments" for permission to strike deep into Russia with American weapons, The Washington Post writes, citing sources. According to US officials, Ukraine would be better off focusing on destroying targets in Crimea, while strikes against Russia "are not worth the risk of escalation."
17:12 On Romanian territory, opposite the Ukrainian city of Izmail, the wreckage of a Russian "shahed" was again found, the country's Defense Ministry reported. The wreckage was sent for further examination. The department once again condemned Russia's shelling of Ukrainian civilian infrastructure and emphasized that this contradicts international law.
16:39 In Kharkov, there are already three dead and at least 15 injured, the rubble is being cleared, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
16:27 On the night of September 23, in the city of Kamensk-Shakhtinsky in the Rostov region, air defense shot down two unidentified missiles (presumably Ukrainian Neptuns) that attacked the Kamensky plant, one of the largest chemical plants in southern Russia, which, among other things, produces fuel for rocket engines. According to the opposition Russian publication Astra, when one of the shot down missiles fell on the territory of the plant, a gas supply pipe was damaged, and grass nearby caught fire, there were no casualties. The plant had already been attacked by drones in April 2024.
16:16 GUR units have completely liberated the territory of the Volchansk Aggregate Plant and destroyed Russians in all the buildings of the enterprise, intelligence reports. The operation was carried out by special groups of the GUR Stugna, Paragon, RDK, Yunger, BDK, Terror. The fighters of the GUR MOU carried out a systematic clearing of the plant buildings, constantly engaging in contact battles with the enemy in densely built-up areas. In some cases, Ukrainian special forces engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy.
The department emphasized that the Russians turned the aggregate plant into their propaganda "fortress", using the most motivated and professional units in its defense, including fighters from the 45th Special Forces Brigade of the Airborne Forces. During the operation, Ukrainian fighters also managed to take prisoners. The territory of the aggregate plant was transferred under the control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine after all 30 buildings of the facility were cleared.
16:09 Russians have struck Kharkiv with KABs, at least five people have been wounded, and there are people under the rubble. One of the hits was recorded on a multi-story building, OVA chief Oleg Sinegubov reported.
15:25 Zelensky said in an interview with ABC News that Russia used Chinese satellites and photographed Ukrainian nuclear facilities: "And in our experience, if Russia photographs certain objects, then there is a threat of strikes on nuclear facilities." The president also believes that Western allies such as France, Britain, Italy and Germany will allow Ukraine to strike deep into Russia, but a decision from the United States is needed.
15:13 The International Committee of the Red Cross visited prisoners of war captured in the Kursk region, Russian media reported, citing a representative of the organization. "We were able to visit prisoners captured in connection with the events in the Kursk region. They were also able to send messages to their families through us," the organization reported. The ICRC does not comment on the number, location, or names of these people.
14:52 German defense concern Rheinmetall presented a new air defense system and promised to transfer ten such systems to Ukraine. We are talking about the Skyranger 35 anti-aircraft system on the Leopard 1 chassis. It is equipped with a 35-mm Oerlikon KDG automatic cannon and is designed to protect against drones and cruise missiles. The system uses modern ammunition with programmable detonation, which significantly increases the effectiveness of hitting air targets. These systems should complement the Gepard self-propelled guns.
14:01 Peskov said that the war in Ukraine will end as soon as the goals set by Russia are achieved "one way or another": "You know that any war ends in peace one way or another. But for us, achieving our goals is absolutely the only alternative. As soon as these goals are achieved one way or another, the special military operation will be completed."
13:48 In Myrnohrad, Pokrovsky district, Donetsk region, as a result of a Russian attack, one person was injured, 11 five-story apartment buildings, a dormitory and an outpatient clinic were seriously damaged, said the head of the city military administration, Yuriy Tretyak. He added that there is no water, gas and some electricity in Myrnohrad. About 1,600 people remain in the city, no children among them.
13:22 Inviting Ukraine to NATO is part of Zelensky's "victory plan," said the head of the Presidential Office Andriy Yermak. He also added that the plan consists of a military and diplomatic part. "Air defense systems, drones, electronic warfare systems, long-range systems, and artillery shells are on our priority list," the head of the OP noted.
13:15 Russian troops destroyed Vuhledar in Donetsk Oblast with KABs, which allowed them to advance on the flanks of the Ukrainian defense, said Andriy Kovalenko, head of the Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council. According to him, this city was previously easy to defend, since it is located at a height. "But with the active arrival of KABs at the front, the enemy managed to destroy it and move to the flank. Unfortunately, KABs and aviation are the only thing that allows the enemy infantry to move," Kovalenko noted.
13:08 Russians dropped two guided bombs on Konstantinovka in Donetsk Oblast - one person was killed, two were wounded, reported OVA head Vadim Filashkin. Two infrastructure facilities were damaged.
12:43 The Cabinet of Ministers allocated UAH 71.8 million for the centralized printing of 900 thousand summonses by the end of 2024, Ukrainska Pravda reports with reference to the government order of September 24. According to the explanatory note of the Ministry of Economy, it is planned to print 300 thousand summonses per month.
12:17 The number of victims as a result of enemy attacks in Zaporizhia has increased to nine, one person has died, reported the head of the OVA Ivan Fedorov.
11:24 A Russian A-50 airborne early warning aircraft was shot down by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in February 2024 using a Soviet S-200 air defense system, not a Patriot, The Times reports. According to the publication, the first launch took place in the fall of 2023, but the missiles failed to hit the target due to a change in the A-50's flight path. Then, in January, the aircraft was shot down for the first time by a Patriot battery over the Sea of Azov. Then the Kremlin realized the vulnerability of its A-50s and withdrew them from the Sea of Azov beyond the reach of the Patriot. However, they could still be reached by the S-200, and in February, the GUR managed to hit a second A-50 with a Soviet S-200 170 km from the front line in the Krasnodar Territory.
11:13 The Russian army has begun using Chinese armored vehicles in the war in Ukraine, reports Bild military observer Julian Repke. He confirmed the authenticity of the photo of Chinese Hushi ZFB-05 armored vehicles that appeared in Russian z-publics. "China denies that it supplied this vehicle. However, there are many African intermediaries that Russia could have used," Repke admits.
11:09 The Netherlands has announced a new support package for Ukraine in the amount of 209.5 million euros, which will be used to restore critical infrastructure. Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp said that Ukrainians are preparing for one of the most difficult winters, and in order for "Ukraine to endure, it needs energy."
10:41 The SBU reported that it had detained a traitor-military man in Kharkiv who had been targeting Russian missiles at his brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and was preparing to flee to the Russian Federation. The traitor was a recently mobilized 45-year-old resident of the city, who was remotely recruited by Russian military intelligence in August. The offender is currently in custody without the right to post bail, and faces life imprisonment with confiscation of property.
09:56 In Donetsk Oblast, two people were killed as a result of Russian shelling on September 23 - in Kramatorsk and Udachny. Another 18 people in the region were injured in the past 24 hours, reported OVA head Vadim Filashkin.
09:34 The Russian army shelled the village of Osinovo in the Kupyansky district of the Kharkiv region, one person was wounded, reported the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
09:20 In the morning, Russians dropped explosives from a drone on a local resident in Ponyatovka, Kherson region, he was wounded, OVA reported. Over the past 24 hours, 13 people were wounded in the region as a result of Russian shelling.
08:58 Ukrainian military writes in Telegram channels that Russian troops have broken through the flank in Ugledar, Donetsk region. According to them, small assault groups of the enemy have penetrated the eastern outskirts of the city. At the moment, the Russians have not yet consolidated their positions, but the situation is difficult.
08:26 Air defense destroyed 66 out of 81 Shahed-type attack UAVs at night, another 13 enemy drones were lost in several regions of Ukraine, the Air Force reported. In addition, during the night attack, Russia used one Iskander-M ballistic missile, two Kh-59/69 guided air missiles and one missile of an unspecified type. The main direction of the attack was the north and center of Ukraine. Air defense forces operated in the Kiev, Zhitomir, Cherkasy, Vinnytsia, Kirovohrad, Poltava, Sumy and Nikolaev regions.
08:17 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of September 24:
personnel - about 645,150 (+1400) people,
tanks - 8800 (+16),
combat armored vehicles - 17,292 (+40),
artillery systems - 18,475 (+61),
MLRS - 1198 (+1),
air defense systems - 952 (+3),
aircraft - 369 (+0),
helicopters - 328 (+0),
Operational-tactical level UAVs - 15,764 (+65),
cruise missiles - 2595 (+0),
ships/boats - 28 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 25,175 (+73),
special equipment - 3155 (+10).
07:55 At night, the enemy attacked Poltava region with drones, air defense was in operation. Debris damaged energy infrastructure, as a result of which 20 settlements were left without electricity, reported the head of the OVA Filipp Pronin.
07:31 At night, Russians struck Zaporizhia - one person was killed, six were wounded, including two teenagers aged 13 and 15, said the head of the OVA Ivan Fedorov. The enemy struck a critical infrastructure facility and a residential area.
06:19 Trump, commenting on Zelensky's arrival in the United States, again called him "the best salesman in history": "I see Zelensky here. I think Zelensky is the best salesman in history: every time he comes to the country, he leaves with $60 billion." He added that Zelensky allegedly "really wants" Kamala Harris to win the election. "If I win this election, the first thing I'm going to do is call Zelensky and President Putin and say: you have to make a deal, this is crazy," Trump said once again.
04:23 Zelensky told ABC News that the war with Russia will end faster than many people think: "I think we are closer to peace than people think. We are closer to the end of the war." At the same time, he called on allies to increase support for the Ukrainian army and provide permission for long-range strikes. "The plan for victory is to strengthen Ukraine. That is why we ask our friends, our allies to strengthen us. This is very important," Zelensky said. According to him, only from a "strong position" will Ukraine be able to force Putin to end the war.
The president also spoke at the Future Summit at the UN headquarters, where he said, in particular, that Russia and its allies are trying to undermine global unity. On the sidelines of the General Assembly, Zelensky met with a bipartisan delegation from the US Congress, with whom he discussed a plan for victory, and also held a number of bilateral meetings, including with the prime ministers of India and Japan.
[NY Post] A retired upstate New York county judge and former prosecutor allegedly shot himself to death Tuesday morning as FBI agents moved in to arrest him on corruption charges, according to reports.
Stewart Rosenwasser, who has been embroiled in a sordid federal bribery scandal, allegedly opened fire on the agents as they approached his Orange County home before his death by apparent suicide shortly after 9:30 am, the Albany Times-Union reported Tuesday.
Sources told The Post that an indictment naming Rosenwasser was handed down this week.
"As this is an ongoing matter, we have no further details to provide," the statement said.
Rosenwasser was accused of pocketing $63,000 in bribes from Mout’z Soudani, who was the victim in an embezzlement case he prosecuted in 2022, the outlet said.
The feds allege Rosenwasser accepted the bribes to investigate and prosecute two relatives of Soudani who were involved in the $1.9 million embezzlement case — and later pleaded guilty to grand larceny.
The two — nephew Martin Soudani and his sister Eman Soudani — filed a $22.5 million lawsuit to have the convictions overturned, claiming the case was tainted by the bribes.
In court filings in the lawsuit reviewed by the Times-Union, the alleged bribery scheme "may present the most blatant example of prosecutorial corruption and fraud in the annals of New York case law."
In an email to The Post on Tuesday, Rosenwasser’s son, Jason, asked for privacy for the family but cast doubt on reports that his dad committed suicide.
"The only thing I feel compelled to point out is that the local news headlines are reporting that my father fatally shot himself while also reporting in the same article that the FBI field office issued a statement calling it an agent involved shooting," he wrote.
The scandal, which saw the feds raid his home in July, forced him to resign from the DA’s Office.
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"may present the most blatant example of prosecutorial corruption and fraud in the annals of New York case law."
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$63k is well below the standard tip of 10%, $190k, and so not only a blight on the vocation in New York, but in serious union wage and conduct violations.
Of course we can't ask him now if it was Diddy Freakout tips or not.
[NYPOST] Under Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Gave an airbase and billions in military hardware to the Taliban and called it an extraordinary success... and Kamala Harris What can be, unburdened by what has been , federal spending and debt are at the highest levels in US history outside of wars and recessions. Here's how public-held debt has compared to the Gross Domestic Product dating back to 1790. This year debt will hit 100% of GDP, a level seen only once before, at the end of WWII. NY Post composite
The presidential campaign season is once again turning politicians into pandering game show hosts, promising voters huge tax cuts and spending expansions with no regard to the debt crisis these policies will accelerate.
Budget deficits are set to exceed $2 trillion this year — despite relative peace and prosperity — and then surge to $4 trillion within a decade under current policies.
For the first time since the end of World War II, the federal debt will top 100% of the gross domestic product.
The impending completion of the Biden-Harris administration brings an opportunity to assess their role in these rising deficits.
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris surely inherited an economic and fiscal mess. President Trump had already signed legislation and executive orders adding $4 trillion to 10-year deficits before the bipartisan pandemic response added $4 trillion more.
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One of the top leaders of #Hezbollah was eliminated by #Israel, now the chain of command is left with Hassan Nasrallah only who fled to Karbala in #Iraq for a safe haven under the protection of the top ranking Shiite religious authority there. . pic.twitter.com/9iOYIsdY5y
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as near as I can make out, Nasrallah hasn't been anywhere near Karbala since 1991
he uses Karbala as a metaphor in some of his sermons as that is where Husayn ibn Ali (revered by the Shia) died in battle with caliph Yazid (who is followed by the Sunni).
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Summary: victims of the Oct 7 atrocity are suing UNRWA; the USA is siding with UNRWA
[NYSun] While the Department of Justice has been working overtime to pierce President Trump’s immunity, Attorney General Garland’s lawyers are busy seeking to establish immunity for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency from a lawsuit by the victims of the massacre of Jews on October 7.
That stunning stand is emerging in filings in federal court in the Southern District of New York, where Hamas’s victims are seeking some quantum of justice. The suit, brought this summer by 101 victims of Palestinian Arab terror, seeks a billion dollars from UNRWA and its leaders, including the current commissioner-general, Philippe Lazarrini.
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Fine, they can have immunity from civil prosecution but as they are war criminals under the Geneva conventions and as illegal combatants and their supporters, may be summarily executed at leisure.
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[Regnum] The American nuclear aircraft carrier Harry Truman left the base in Norfolk, Virginia, and headed to the Middle East at the head of a strike group, according to a press release from the US Navy.
"The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman departed Norfolk Naval Station Sept. 23 for a scheduled deployment," the command said in a statement.
It is specified that the ship is heading to the Red Sea against the backdrop of the return from the region of the "Dwight Eisenhower", which has been in the Middle East since 2023.
The Harry Truman will be accompanied by two destroyers and a guided missile cruiser. An Italian Navy frigate is also expected to join the strike group. There's usually a sub attached as well
Earlier, Regnum news agency reported that the American aircraft carrier Dwight Eisenhower, which is in the Red Sea to counter attacks by Yemeni Houthis, will leave the region.
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin decided not to extend its mission for the third time. Then journalists from the USNI News portal suggested that the ship would be replaced by another aircraft carrier, the Harry Truman.
On June 2, Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saria reported that Yemen's Ansar Allah movement had struck the USS Dwight Eisenhower and a US destroyer. The Houthis used naval forces, missile units and drones to do so.
The US Navy refueling tanker USNS Big Horn was damaged after colliding with an unidentified object in the Arabian Sea, Business Insider reported on September 24.
No one was hurt in the incident, and the vessel was towed to the nearest port in Oman. It is noted that the tanker collided with a "stationary" object.
"A US Navy fuel ship deployed to the Middle East was damaged on Monday, apparently after crashing into something," a source familiar with the matter told the publication.
According to him, the tanker-refueler plays an important role in the US operations in the region.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, earlier on September 24 it was reported that the American nuclear aircraft carrier Harry Truman left the base in Norfolk, Virginia, and headed to the Middle East at the head of a strike group. The ship is heading to the Red Sea against the backdrop of the return from the region of the Dwight Eisenhower, which has been in the Middle East since 2023. Harry Truman will be accompanied by two destroyers and a missile cruiser.
On June 2, Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saria said Yemen's Ansar Allah movement had struck the USS Dwight Eisenhower and a US destroyer. The Houthis used naval forces, missile units and drones.
Read that again: The Russians transported marooned American astronauts back to earth safely.
Boeing’s people should be mortified, and NASA should hang their head with shame that they did not ensure there would be back-up transportation. All credit and thanks to Roscosmos for generously providing transport to their American colleague despite the political difficulties back on Earth.
[NASA] The Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft is seen as it lands in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan with Expedition 71 NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub and Oleg Kononenko, Monday, Sept. 23. Dyson is returning to Earth after logging 184 days in space as a member of Expeditions 70-71 aboard the International Space Station and Chub and Kononenko return after having spent the last 374 days in space.
The Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft is seen as it lands in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan with Expedition 71 NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub and Oleg Kononenko, Monday, Sept. 23. Dyson is returning to Earth after logging 184 days in space as a member of Expeditions 70-71 aboard the International Space Station and Chub and Kononenko return after having spent the last 374 days in space.
NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson completed a six-month research mission aboard the International Space Station on Monday, returning to Earth with Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub.
The trio departed the space station aboard the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft at 4:36 a.m. EDT Monday, Sept. 23, making a safe, parachute-assisted landing at 7:59 a.m. (4:59 p.m. Kazakhstan time), southeast of the remote town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.
While aboard the orbiting laboratory, Dyson conducted multiple scientific and technology activities including the operation of a 3D bioprinter to print cardiac tissue samples, which could advance technology for creating replacement organs and tissues for transplants on Earth. Dyson also participated in the crystallization of model proteins to evaluate the performance of hardware that could be used for pharmaceutical production and ran a program that used student-designed software to control the station’s free-flying robots, inspiring the next generation of innovators.
Dyson launched on March 23 and arrived at the station March 25 alongside Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy and spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus. Novitskiy and Vasilevskaya were aboard the station for 12 days before returning home with NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara on April 6.
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Embedded comments are in ignorance: Dyson went up on the Soyuz, and was always scheduled to return on it. This was a normal rotation involving a routine seat swap between NASA and Roscosmos.
Bobby submitted the same story, commenting Last week, we had several hundred bees relocated from a valve box in our front flower bed. We gave the honey to the bee-movers.
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Oh I dunno, I think all the other 11 hives are surviving just fine (with new queens), with many more hive well established, elsewhere.
That's the thing about swarming behaviors, bees will leave their hives and establish a new hive somewhere else (typically in tree hollows or some other hollow places like walls, etc.) especially when the queen die.
Cleaning the old hive is essential for getting a new queen to stay in the hive box.
Your local state university is an excellent resource on bee keeping, moving hives from the wild back into the boxes and so on.
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Way back in 1971 a buddy and I were cutting pine trees for lumber when we cut down one with a honeybee hive. I didn't realize how fast we could run. We came back later and got most of the honey. Best I ever had. It was a sweet reward for all the bee stings.
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Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
Part 2 is below.
[ColonelCassad] Many people wonder what to expect from the autumn campaign of the Russian Armed Forces. In the first part, we will analyze the situation in the vicinity of Gornyak. After the fall of Ukrainsk, the situation for the Ukrainian Armed Forces here is not the best.
The central defense node here is, of course, Gornyak, which is also located on a hill. Of course, the Ukrainian Armed Forces will try to cling to it as long as possible, but there are several BUTs.
Let's analyze the main supply routes for the Ukrainian Armed Forces garrison in Gornyak and the surrounding villages:
1. The Selidovo-Tsukurino road (red arrow approximate advance of the Russian Armed Forces) according to information from both our and enemy sources has already come under the control of the Russian military. It is also worth noting that the Selidovo-Kurakhovo railway line passes through Tsukurino, which, in the current configuration of the front, also cannot be used for supplies.
2. The second road, Kurakhovo-Ostroe-Kurakhovka, also came under the control of the Russian Armed Forces yesterday (the red arrow points to the colony beyond Ostroe, which, according to both Ukrainian and our sources, was liberated by Russian troops) and cannot be used to supply the garrison in Gornyak.
3. There is also a third route, namely the Berestki-Ilyinka-Gornyak road, but most of this road is a dirt road, which even before the arrival of the muddy season has limited capacity, and with the arrival of full-fledged autumn in the DPR, it will not be suitable as the main artery for supplying the multi-thousand-strong garrison of Gornyak and the surrounding villages.
4. At the moment, of course, there is also the Berestki-Novoselidovka-Gornyak road, but it is no longer safe to use it due to the proximity of Russian forces in the Ukrainsk area, drones and remote mining.
5. Finally, the fifth supply option, namely Kurakhovo-Ilyinka-Gornyak, has both a problem with the road surface (see point 3), and the road across the Volchya River can simply be destroyed at any moment. According to objective control from the Ukrainian side, the dam locks have already been disabled. Probably, at the right moment, the road surface will also be disabled in order to block the supply channel.
6. The sixth option, let's say, "Krynochny", is supply via motorboats or across fields. Yes, it is certainly possible and, moreover, the Ukrainian Armed Forces will actively use it, but it is suitable for supplying a small group of troops (~up to a thousand people), without armored vehicles and artillery (even mortars), since each of the options (by water and by field) has serious limitations on the transported weight and volume. Therefore, in this case, problems will arise even with replenishing the ammunition for small arms.
WHY DID THIS HAPPEN?
First, these are certainly the competent actions of the Russian Armed Forces, which during the August offensive distributed all their forces, rather than trying to hammer in one direction. Yes, this certainly led to our forces leaving Selidovo (if they were there at all), but it allowed us to liberate Ukrainsk and the surrounding area.
Second, this is the unwillingness of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to give up a hopeless pocket near Nevelskoye, concentrating their forces at Zhelanny Vtoroye and missing the offensive at Ukrainsk and Ostroye. The Ukrainian forces were so reluctant to either retreat or allow a cauldron to be created, abandoning their forces at Nevelskoye, that this led to the emergence of much more global problems in this direction.
CONCLUSIONS:
Due to the cut main supply roads, the Ukrainian Armed Forces already have supply problems in the Gornyak area, and as the Russian forces advance, the situation will become even more dramatic. Therefore, this direction can be called one of the most promising for "cleansing" in the autumn campaign. The Russian Armed Forces competently cut off the main supply roads of the Ukrainian group of forces. At the same time, the Ukrainian Armed Forces were defending the pocket near Nevelskoye with all their might, which missed the more dangerous directions for them.
(c) "Orc from Mordor"
More from Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin: Autumn campaign of the RF Armed Forces. Part two.
The second in order, but not in significance for the Russian Army is the Ugledar direction. Ugledar has long been a "bone in the throat" for our General Staff, because without it, it hampers any offensive operations in the district. Let's figure out why Ugledar was a real "fortress" for Ukraine.
First of all, its location. Ugledar is located at heights from which the entire district is visible for several kilometers, so any movements of the Russian Army in the district were known to the enemy in advance. In addition, the landscape itself adds complexity. These are mainly fields with small forest belts, in which it is difficult to hide both personnel and any equipment, so it was extremely problematic to bypass Ugledar.
The second reason is the legacy of the USSR. Ugledar consists mainly of multi-story buildings (except for a small area of "dachas" to the southeast of the city), in addition, near the city there is a large number of various industrial buildings (mines, warehouses, production facilities), which the Armed Forces of Ukraine skillfully turned into virtually impregnable strongholds, which are also problematic to "bomb", our ancestors built to glory.
The third reason is that between Ugledar and Pavlovka there is a river, which restricts movement and does not allow "with force" to transfer equipment and personnel. Well, do not forget that bombing Ugledar is a thankless task, the Armed Forces of Ukraine do not pay attention to losses and continue to sit even in ruins.
Several attempts were made to storm Ugledar head-on, both at the beginning of the SVO and much later. But each time the RF Armed Forces suffered defeat in the battle for the "fortress". So what has changed now?
The main difference of the current situation is the classic tactics of the Russian Armed Forces to encircle the city "in pincers" and cut off the enemy's communications. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are currently using two roads to supply the garrison:
1. Bogoyavlenka-Ugledar (marked in blue from the west) is currently unsafe to use. According to various sources, it is 1 to 2 km from the forward positions of our troops. This allows using both FPV and classic methods of destruction, such as ATGMs and armored vehicles.
2. Bogoyavlenka-Vodyanoye-Ugledar (marked in blue from the east). This road is essentially a country road in a field. It is less than 1 km from the forward positions of the Russian Armed Forces, which, coupled with the poor road surface, makes this road VERY dangerous.
Based on the above, all supplies for the Ugledar garrison (very battered due to constant shelling and the "pulling" of forces to Selidovo and Pokrovsk) hang on two roads, which are impossible to use safely. Yes, of course, it is possible to supply through the fields, but firstly, it is dangerous, drones and ATGMs have not been cancelled, and secondly, it is impossible to supply a huge enemy group in this way.
The Konstantinovka-Ugledar highway (red arrow from the east) is controlled by the Russian Armed Forces. Moreover, for us it is a real "artery" that will allow us to pull up armored vehicles to Ugledar, because without it the assault is impossible. BMPs and tanks will help both cover the infantry offensive and suppress the main firing points. Together with the liberation of the western outskirts of Pavlovka, the transition of the Ugledar dachas under our control and the offensive from the west, this time the Russian Armed Forces have every chance of driving the enemy out of Ugledar.
CONCLUSION:
The success of the Russian Armed Forces in the Ugledar direction is influenced by many factors, starting from the successful cutting of the enemy's supply channels, and the transition of the Konstantinovka-Ugledar transport artery (by the way, Konstantinovka is also under our control). The withdrawal of part of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to Selidovo and Pokrovsk and the sending of select units of "hijackers" in their place, which do not have the same training as the 72nd OMBR, are also having an effect, which allowed the front to be pushed through in the Vodyanoye area.
Well, the imminent onset of thaw also plays a hand. In this case, the transfer of supplies to Ugledar across the fields will be completely impossible, and the garrison will need to be supplied with ammunition, provisions, and fuel. And if the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Ugledar are currently sitting "on a starvation diet," then, most likely, the trickle of supplies will soon stop altogether, leaving the enemy fighters with an empty ammunition, without food or fuel.
By the evening of September 24, the situation of the Ugledar garrison continued to systematically deteriorate.
The Ukrainian perspective, courtesy of korrespondent.net The environment of Ugledar. The significance of the city. Ugledar is of great strategic importance, it is located on a hill and at the junction of two fronts - the Eastern in the Donetsk region and the Southern in the Zaporizhzhya region.
There is a new problem area on the front, analysts call the situation around Ugledar in Donetsk Oblast critical. The Russian army is trying to encircle the city and at the same time destroying the settlement with artillery and KABs, analysts from the DeepState project reported on September 24. The defense against Russian troops in Ugledar is being held by servicemen of the 72nd separate mechanized brigade named after the Black Zaporozhians.
PROBLEMS IN DEFENSE
DeepState said that while “political discussions about restrictions and permits continue,” the occupiers “are simply destroying entire cities and villages with aerial bombs from planes that should have been destroyed, but there is nothing to destroy them with.”
The head of the Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD) Andrey Kovalenko noted that thanks to the use of KABs and aviation, the Russian army managed to advance to the flank of the Ukrainian troops defending Ugledar.
"Ugledar. Previously, this city was easy to defend, it is on high ground. But with the active arrival of KABs to the front, the enemy managed to destroy it and move to the flank. Unfortunately, KABs and aviation are the only thing that allows the enemy infantry to move," he wrote.
The 72nd Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which has been defending Vuhledar for two years, is exhausted and risks being surrounded, and there is no help or replacement for it, notes Forbes analyst David Ax.
"The Ukrainian armed forces are simultaneously advancing on Kursk and defending themselves in the east and south. They are greatly stretched. And the 14 new brigades that the army is forming are experiencing an acute shortage of modern equipment," the expert writes.
STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE
Ugledar is of great strategic importance. It is located on a hill and at the junction of two fronts - the Eastern in Donetsk Oblast and the Southern in Zaporizhia Oblast.
18 km to the east of the city there are railway lines along which the Russian army can transport troops and equipment along the Donetsk-Volnovakha line and further south.
However, as long as Ugledar remains under the control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, their barrel artillery is capable of delivering targeted strikes on this important highway.
Russian troops have been trying to take Ugledar since the very beginning of their invasion of Ukraine.
In the fall of 2022, they managed to take the village of Pavlovka to the south, but all subsequent attempts to attack the city ended in failure. From February 2023 to June 2024, the Russian army carried out at least four major offensive operations there - unsuccessfully and with huge losses.
But now the slow advance of Russian troops in other areas of Donbass is beginning to have an effect, and it is becoming increasingly difficult for the Ukrainian Armed Forces to defend their stretching flanks.
After the fall of Novomikhaylovka in April, Russian units began to bypass Ugledar from the northeast. Feeling successful, they increased pressure from the south and southwest as well.
"The refusal to rotate the 72nd Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade forced the leadership to introduce auxiliary reserves of the TRO forces, which were unable to cope with the enemy's onslaught," DeepState notes. "As luck would have it, the defense of the 58th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade in Prechistovka had also collapsed earlier. Due to the unplanned departure to "better lines," the enemy is enveloping the right flank of the Ugledar group."
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin.
[ColonelCassad] An interesting detail in the biography of Ryan Routh, who recruited mercenaries for Ukraine (Routh himself recruited more than 70 people for the war, of course with the knowledge of American intelligence services) and made an unsuccessful assassination attempt on Trump.
During a search of the home of the son of the "fighter for Ukraine", large amounts of child pornography were found.
The mass media associated with the Democrats continue to try to present Routh as a crazy loner, while it has already been established that Routh had been in the FBI's sights for many years, which considered him a "criminal who owns a firearm".
The United States has extensive experience using such characters to assassinate unwanted politicians, including in their own country.
And then they are all declared "lone lunatics".
More from regnum.ru Son of Ukraine supporter who tried to kill Trump found with child porn
Oran Root, the son of Ryan Routh, who was arrested on suspicion of a second assassination attempt on former White House chief and US presidential candidate Donald Trump, was taken into custody on federal charges of possessing child pornography. This was reported by the American television channel ABC News.
It is noted that this case has no relation to the investigation against his father. According to the TV channel, the porn was discovered after checking the man's SD card.
“A check of the SD card revealed that it contained hundreds of files of child pornography,” the TV channel quotes the lawsuit as saying.
Oran Routh is due to appear in court on September 24.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, the assassination attempt on Trump took place on September 15 in West Palm Beach, Florida. Near the Trump International Golf Club, where the former president was playing, Routh opened fire with an AK-47, the barrel of which he stuck through the fence of the golf club.
He missed Trump. After the assassination attempt, the former US president said that he was fine and that he would "never give up."
Ruta was detained and taken into custody. It turned out that he had been to Kiev and participated in the recruitment of mercenaries for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. In turn, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene pointed out Routh's participation in a video in support of the Ukrainian national formation "Azov".
In turn, the press secretary of the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov, noted that the second assassination attempt on Trump should be a reason for the US intelligence services to think about the fact that they are playing with fire by supporting Ukraine.
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[Regnum] The Southern District Military Court has sentenced Nazhmudin Dudiyev (included in the register of terrorists and extremists of Rosfinmonitoring) and Ibragim Donashev (included in the register of terrorists and extremists of Rosfinmonitoring), accused in the case of the terrorist attack in Chechnya in 2005. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to a representative of the court.
“The court sentenced Dudiyev to 24 years in a strict regime prison with deprivation of his military rank, and Donashev to 25 years in a strict regime prison with deprivation of his military rank,” the agency’s source said.
According to the investigation, in July 2005, Dudiev and Donashev, as part of the gang of Supyan Arsanukaev and Viskhan Zaitov, took part in the kidnapping and murder of a man, whose body was then used in a terrorist attack in the village of Znamenskoye in the Nadterechny District of Chechnya.
According to the information from the republican Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, the gang members parked a car filled with explosives near residential buildings. It also contained the body of a kidnapped man, who was dressed in a Russian military uniform. One of the accused fired at the car to attract attention. After the start of investigative and operational activities, an explosive device was detonated. As a result of the incident, 15 people were killed, and another 36 were injured to varying degrees. Law enforcement officers were among the dead and injured.
kavkaz-uzel.eu adds: Dudiev and Donashev were previously sentenced by the court to prison terms of 18 to 19 years.
Recall that Dudiev and Donashev were previously sentenced by the court to prison terms of 18 to 19 years. They were taken into custody in late November 2018 on charges of banditry, participation in an armed mutiny, and an attempt on the life of a serviceman during an attack in Chechnya in 2000.
On the night of March 1, 2000, fighters of the 6th parachute landing company of the 104th regiment of the 76th Pskov airborne division entered into battle with a detachment of field commanders Shamil Basayev
…Shamil Salmanovich Basayev, also known by his kunya "Abu Idris" and Emir Abdullah Shamil Abu-Idris (1965-2006). Basayev was a Chechen warlord in the post-Soviet Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, which after his death became the Al Qaeda-linked Caucasus Emirate. In 2015 most of the hard boys changed their allegiance to the local Islamic State affiliate, Vilayat Kavkaz, whereupon a majority chose to escape the Spetsnaz hunting them by making hijra to the caliphate in Syria. Some of his projects were the 2004 Beslan school siege and the 2002 Moscow theater hostage crisis...
and Khattab near the Chechen village of Ulus-Kert . 84 of the 90 Russian servicemen were killed, including 13 officers. Another four were wounded. The militants' losses amounted to 370 people.
Tangentially related from kavkav-uzel.eu The Museum of Abkhazia closed the exhibition with Basayev's portrait to visitors
The Russian embassy in Sukhum was outraged by a portrait of Shamil Basayev, which was displayed at an exhibition in the State Museum of Abkhazia, with the caption: "Hero of Abkhazia." The museum promised to rectify the situation and closed access to the exhibition.
Representatives of the Russian embassy stated that they considered the display of the portrait of the terrorist unacceptable and contacted the museum. The site's management promised to "correct the situation as soon as possible," the agency reported, citing embassy representatives.
As of 17:40, the websites and Telegram channels of the State Museum of Abkhazia and the Russian Embassy in Abkhazia did not contain any information about the exhibition where Basayev’s portrait was presented or its closure.
The information that the State Museum of Abkhazia has a portrait of Basayev and a photo from the exhibition was published on September 22 by the Telegram channel Hard Blog. "How Basayev performed in Abkhazia is no longer important. He has tarnished himself so much that none of his past merits can serve as an excuse for the Abkhaz side. When Heroes of the Soviet Union committed crimes, they were stripped of their titles and condemned without much thought about their past merits," the blogger wrote in a message.
Shamil Basayev was a field commander during the First Chechen War and the leader of the storming of Grozny (August 1996), the organizer of terrorist attacks and the hostage-taking in Budyonnovsk in Stavropol Krai (1995), the Dubrovka Theater Center in Moscow (2002), the school in Beslan (2004, North Ossetia), the leader of the militant invasion of Dagestan (1999), which marked the beginning of the Second Chechen War, and the attack on Nalchik (October 2005, Kabardino-Balkaria). He was killed on July 10, 2006.
Since August 1992, he took an active part in military operations in Abkhazia. He was the commander of the Gagra front and deputy minister of defense of Abkhazia. He commanded a detachment of Chechen volunteers.
In January 1993, at a joint meeting of the Presidential Council and the parliament of the Confederation of Peoples of the Caucasus, Shamil Basayev was appointed commander of the expeditionary corps of the CPC in Abkhazia. He was charged with the duties of "coordinating, uniting, directing in the right direction and controlling the incoming flow of volunteers."
In 1996, Basayev reported that during 1992-1994 he traveled three times with his "Abkhaz battalion" to the camps of the Afghan mujahideen, where he learned the tactics of guerrilla warfare. Already in 1994, the "Abkhaz battalion" and Basayev entered into military operations in Chechnya, according to the biographical information about Shamil Basayev prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".
"Kavkazsky Uzel" also wrote that relations between Abkhazia and Russia have become complicated recently. On September 4, the head of the Abkhazian Foreign Ministry announced that Russia would suspend social payments from September 1, which concern Abkhazian teachers, doctors and security forces.
Russia suspended payments because the Abkhazian authorities are not fulfilling agreements, including on investments and the so-called apartment bill, said Russian State Duma deputies Konstantin Zatulin and Alexey Chepa. The suspension of social payments to Abkhazia is related to the failure to maintain a balance of obligations between the two countries, but did not worsen relations, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
Russia's suspension of funding for Abkhazian public sector employees has not yet affected their salary payments, political analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" said on September 11. Among the reasons for this decision, they highlighted Sukhum's refusal to adopt laws important for Moscow and the failure of the Abkhazian side to fulfill its obligations under economic agreements.
The cessation of payments (we are talking about approximately 150 million rubles per year) will affect doctors, social workers and teachers, since the military, security forces and pensioners are financed under a separate agreement, emphasized Natalia Smyr, chairperson of the "Amtaa" foundation.
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[Regnum] Archival documents about the bloody crimes of the Poles in the village of Skopov in March 1945 were made public by the Federal Security Service (FSB).
According to the agreement signed in Lublin on September 9, 1944, “On the evacuation of the Ukrainian population from the territory of Poland and Polish citizens from the territory of the Ukrainian SSR,” voluntary resettlement was implied; in reality, the process turned out to be deportation.
The Home Army was officially disbanded in January 1945, many of its members joined the ranks of the civil militia, the Polish Army and the local administration. The struggle of part of the White Polish underground resulted in robberies, murders and violence against peaceful Belarusians and Ukrainians living in Poland and in the border regions of Belarus and Ukraine.
"One of the bloody crimes was committed by Polish thugs in early spring 1945. On March 6, 1945, a detachment of the so-called "People's Guard" attacked the village of Skopov, located 27 km west of Przemysl, " the FSB Public Relations Center clarified.
About 200 Ukrainians died then, including women, children and priests. The killings continued for two weeks.
The FSB has declassified letters from engineer Nikolai Demyanchik to Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Alexy and Metropolitan of Kyiv and Galicia John about the murder of his family and other residents of the village of Skopov. On February 27, 1945, people applied for resettlement to the Ukrainian SSR (the territory of the village was to become part of Poland). Upon returning from Przemysl, where Demyanchik went to speed up the move, he learned of an attack on his house by a detachment (about 30 people) of Polish police soldiers and civilians, who killed all his relatives.
In his letters, Demyanchik asked the hierarchs to support his request “to conduct an investigation into the Skopovsky case and to punish the guilty.”
As reported by the Regnum news agency, the FSB regularly publishes archival documents on the events of the Great Patriotic War. In April, the agency declassified crimes committed by the Nazis in the Smolensk region during the Great Patriotic War, including materials on the execution of Poles and the falsification of the "Katyn case" by the Third Reich's special services.
On October 4, 2023, the FSB declassified an archive on the collaboration of Poles with the Germans in the Stalag-1A concentration camp. According to the documents, Poles in the Nazi concentration camp earned the right to occupy the best places from the Germans. They were appointed to manage sections - the canteen, the bathhouse, the warehouse. By currying favor, the Poles received good positions.
A test, when the pot met the kettle,
Of totalitarian mettle!
First up was the pot:
"Um... today all I've got
Are tall tales of a teacup to peddle."
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[Regnum] September 2024 was the warmest in Moscow in the nearly 150-year history of observations, Deputy Head of the Roshydromet Situation Center Yuri Varakin reported on September 24 at the V Northern Forum on Sustainable Development, which is taking place in Yakutsk.
It’s been warming in Moscow since the end of the Little Ice Age? Astonishing. Or not, as the case may be. How do current temperatures there compare to the Medieval Warm Period?
He specified that the climate station at VDNKh has been operating for about 150 years.
"September has broken a record. Even though today is the 24th, believe me, it will be the warmest in terms of average monthly temperature in Moscow in almost 150 years," he said.
The day before, the scientific director of the Russian Hydrometeorological Center, Roman Vilfand, reported that the velvet season will last longer than usual and will not end before mid-October in the south of European Russia.
According to Tatyana Pozdnyakova, a leading specialist at the Meteonovosti news agency, September in Moscow could be the driest in history. Not a drop of rain fell in Moscow during the first half of the month, she noted.
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[REGNUM] This story began in the spring, when Russian fighters in the Luhansk direction got their hands on blankets that could make them “invisible” – protect them from the (almost) all-seeing eye of thermal imagers.
The blankets for the front were made by volunteers from villages in the Lipetsk region. Local residents sewed and put camouflage nets on them themselves, thanks to which the soldiers became indistinguishable from stone or wood for the "teplaks". People themselves went out and tested the blankets in the field. And these were not programmers or various techies, but teachers, librarians and pensioners.
The soldiers appreciated the blankets, but there was a problem: the size was 1.6 by 2.1 meters, making them uncomfortable to run in. They decided to improve the product: they cut out the blankets and sewed suits for themselves. The news of the wonderful new product spread quickly. Now, at different points on the front, one after another, sewing workshops or even entire workshops are appearing where Russian soldiers create “thermal imaging suits.”
At first, they sewed by hand, but volunteers joined in and got hold of not only sewing machines, but also materials — expensive fabrics from which camouflage blankets are sewn. The editor-in-chief of the Regnum news agency, Marina Akhmedova, announced a fundraiser for one of the workshops in her Telegram channel. 768 thousand rubles were collected, three sewing machines were purchased for the fighters, and blankets from Lipetsk volunteers were delivered. Now, in their free time, the attack aircraft and UAV operators sew suits for themselves and the fighters.
Volunteer Margarita visited the workshop and brought the fighters everything they needed. The workshop, she said, was set up by the military in the LPR in close proximity to the combat line. Tankers suffering from leg and back problems after injuries and strains are sent here. Here they sew "costumes": they cut out the throat, sew on the hood, make holes for the legs, arm guards and pieces of leg protection - like the mittens of horsemen. On the upper part of the body, something like a poncho is obtained, Margarita explains to IA Regnum - the arms are covered, but free.
"I arrived and was greeted very warmly. I got there just at the moment when two fighters were sitting sewing. Then another man came in with some chopsticks. They said that none of them had studied or knew how to sew before. But they had to and learned," says Margarita.
The man with the sticks is the senior man in the shop. He is 67 years old, serves under contract - he signed it because his son is at the front. The man said that he was "not fit" for service - his knees could not withstand the loads at the training ground, he is unlikely to be physically useful, but now he manages the sewing shop.
Other craftsmen also admit that they had never done sewing or handicrafts before. The young soldier, with whom Margarita also spoke, is a tanker after the hospital, who still has to undergo treatment. But the guy could not sit idle.
"Someone sews, others organize the process. One man told me: I am a regular officer, a sailor. I was a sailor for seven years, and now they told me: I need to sew. Well, if I'm going to sew, then sew!" the volunteer recalls.
The fact that fighters in the conditions of modern technological warfare need fundamentally new means of protection has been discussed for a long time. If in the 20th century the means of camouflage invented during the Anglo-Boer War were still used, now they are often meaningless.
Margarita explained to IA Regnum how the blankets and suits work, the fabrics for which she brought to the LPR.
"Maviks" and other expensive equipment are equipped with night vision devices, which, depending on the mode, glow red or white when they notice a person. Due to the fact that two shiny protective films are sewn into these covers, a cushion is formed between the layers that does not release heat: that is, the heat source is simply hidden, accordingly, the person becomes invisible to the thermal imager," the volunteer notes.
She clarifies that bedspreads and suits come in different varieties: the fabric from the material that women in the Lipetsk region use costs nine thousand rubles for 250 meters, while others cost nine thousand for just 50 meters.
"We chose these films because they are multifunctional. In addition to the fact that it protects from the "heat", it can be used as a camping mat, and in a hole to hide from the rain, not to freeze. It also plays the role of a stretcher, can withstand up to 150 kilograms," said Margarita.
The masters the volunteer visited shocked her to the depths of her soul.
"When I saw how they sewed there, I was simply amazed. They said: bring us fabrics, we will sew everything from your bedspreads.
"We have huge volumes now, of course. I decided to go and take them myself, to see everything with my own eyes. Because there are cases when you come in and the soldiers have camouflage nets hanging instead of wallpaper! My heart bleeds: aunties, women try, weave around the clock, and they hung it up like this, not for its intended purpose," the interlocutor of IA Regnum shared her impressions.
Margarita has been helping the front for two years now: she started with making dugout candles together with her high school-age son. The woman lives in the Lipetsk region, and her work takes her to different villages and regional centers in the region. It is much easier to organize volunteer activities there than in the city: you don’t need to rent expensive premises, there are village clubs and community centers, and in them there are teams ready to help. And in the village, “everyone knows each other, everything is somehow simpler,” the volunteer admits.
Now she carefully plans all her trips. When going around villages, she delivers two or three bags of blanks - cut ribbons for weaving camouflage nets, leaves them, and on the way back picks up the finished products.
Previously, Margarita was not able to get out to Donbass very often, but in the last couple of months she has been there every weekend.
"Literally last week I said to myself: that's it, I won't go this weekend, I need to take a breather, " says the volunteer. "But then the guys sent me photos of themselves sitting at the cars, asked me to bring them some material. I thought: what if I go next week? Are they just going to sit and look at these cars for a week? And so I went."
[GatewayPundit] U.S. Capitol Hit by Large-Scale Dark Web Cyber Attack, Passwords Leaked Through Staffers Signing Up for “Adult Websites” and “Dating Apps”
Arrogant idiots, all.
Over 3,000 congressional staffers’ personal information has been leaked across the dark web in a wide-scale cyberattack on the Capitol.
Switzerland based security firm Proton, disovered 1,800 passwords used by staffers at the Capitol are avaible on the dark web.
In an investigation, Proton along with the the United States based firm Constella Intelligence, revealed 1 in 5 congressional staffers had personal information exposed on teh dark web.
In the report, Proton shared, the leaks made their way to the dark web through several sorces such as adult websites, social media and dating apps.
In a statement to The Washington Times, Proton stated, “Many of these leaks likely occurred because staffers used their official email addresses to sign up for various services, including high-risk sites such as dating and adult websites, which were later compromised in data breaches.”
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In the private sector said miscreants would be escorted to HR and then out the door. No one gets fired in government other than elected officials and even then we await "the box" from the janitor's closet.
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And why isn't adult content to the government assets NOT being blocked? IT is incompetent or told not to block it? Given who is in charge now it could be a huge dose of both options.
[Bee] SAINT PAUL, MN — Facing new allegations of inappropriate ties to the Chinese Communist Party in the middle of the home stretch of the presidential election, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz offered a swift and stern rebuttal in perfect Mandarin Chinese.
Members of Congress have sounded the alarm over Walz's history with China, launching an investigation to determine if any laws were broken. Walz has maintained a staunch position that he is guilty of no wrongdoing.
"共产主义是最好的! 好好好!" a defiant Walz told reporters on the campaign trail when asked to comment on his alleged ties to China. "And I mean that. There is absolutely no truth to any of these scurrilous accusations. These Republicans will apparently stop at nothing to try to connect me to the great and powerful Chinese Communist Party, which is led by the honorable and wise President Xi Jinping."
New Poll Shows Kamala With Huge Lead Among Deranged Assassin Demographic
Walz said that any and all dealings he has had with China over the years were entirely legal. "It's a bunch of ridiculous lies," he said. "Just because I've taken multiple trips to China, stayed at the presidential mansion, and went on a couple of spa dates with Xi, everyone thinks I'm some type of undercover Chinese asset. Well, to that, all I have to say is, ’伟大的中国共产党万岁, 统治世界!'"
At publishing time, the Minnesota governor headed off to prepare for his upcoming vice presidential debate with J.D. Vance and denied rumors that he answered to the nickname "The Great Walz of China" in the corridors of the Minnesota State Capitol.
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[NYPOST] The embattled head of New York City schools is expected to step down as Mayor Eric Adams ...Hizonner da Mare of Noo Yawk. As a Manchurian candidate, Hizonner was all in favor of law and order and that kind of stuff. Once in office, a bunch of his friends found cushy jobs with the city, the windows kept getting broken, and Soros-funded DA Alvin Bragg remained right where he was. Most people comfort themselves with the thought that he's not Bill di Blasio but that's pretty small comfort with kids who actually go to school getting bumped off while standing in front of them. But he's a Dem, so the rubes will vote for him next election too, so he's what they deserve... ' administration contends with a leadership shakeup in the face of swirling federal investigations.
David Banks will retire from his post as the schools chancellor by the end of this year, sources said.
The chancellor had met with Adams in Gracie Mansion and informed the mayor of his plans to retire, sources said and according to his retirement letter obtained by The Post.
#8
Intentional. "See? [rattles chains] We told y'all that none of those extreme right wing white supremacist Christofascist misogynist dinosaurs would vote for a proud Black progressive suck-up of color!"
Mother SLAMS school staff for registering her 17-year-old daughter to vote and telling her that Black people will be “doomed” if Trump wins the election pic.twitter.com/oULhczqnc3
[GEO.TV] Lebanon's Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib criticised Biden's address as "not strong, not promising" and said the US was the only country "that can really make a difference in the Middle East and with regard to Lebanon." Washington is Israel's longtime ally and biggest arms supplier.
The United States "is the key ... to our salvation," he told an event in New York City hosted by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Here's a suggestion: Surrender now, disband Hezbollah, execute all members above the rank of cannon fodder, expel all Paleostinians, expel all Persian colonists.
Do all that, and then we’ll talk about stopping the fighting.
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The United States the Great Satan "is the key ... to our salvation,"
I started saying "Even the idiots in DC won't swallow this", but stopped when I got to DC.
29 Give[a] unto the Lord, O you mighty ones,
Give unto the Lord glory and strength.
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[b]Give unto the Lord the glory [c]due to His name;
Worship the Lord in the [d]beauty of holiness.
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The voice of the Lord is over the waters;
The God of glory thunders;
The Lord is over many waters.
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The voice of the Lord is powerful;
The voice of the Lord is full of majesty.
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The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars,
Yes, the Lord splinters the cedars of Lebanon.
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He makes them also skip like a calf,
Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild ox.
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The voice of the Lord [e]divides the flames of fire.
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The voice of the Lord shakes the wilderness;
The Lord shakes the Wilderness of Kadesh.
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The voice of the Lord makes the deer give birth,
And strips the forests bare;
And in His temple everyone says, “Glory!”
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The Lord sat enthroned at the Flood,
And the Lord sits as King forever.
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The Lord will give strength to His people;
The Lord will bless His people with peace.
[GEO.TV] Israel's defence minister accused UN Secretary-General António Guterres ...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years... of failing to prevent Hezbollah attacks on Israel after the UN chief said 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... was becoming a "nightmare" like 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... following Israeli air strikes.
"Mr Secretary General, the nightmare you speak of, is in fact a reality," Yoav Gallant said in a response to Guterres on X, adding "the reality is that Hezbollah has taken Lebanon hostage, and the UN is neither acknowledging their actions, nor fulfilling its fundamental obligation -- preventing Hezbollah attacks and demanding the implementation of Resolution 1701".
It came after Guterres told the UN General Assembly in New York: "Gaza is a non-stop nightmare that threatens to take the entire region with it. Look no further than Lebanon".
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[GEO.TV] Israeli military strikes across 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 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... Strip killed at least 22 Paleostinians on Tuesday, medics said, as Israeli forces battled Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... in Rafah, near the border with Egypt.
The violence in Gaza came as fighting intensified between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah across Israel's border with 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... - a parallel conflict that had stoked fears of an all-out war in the Middle East.
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It's like feral hogs control program you have in USA.
[NYPOST] Ryan Wesley Routh was charged Tuesday with the attempted liquidation of Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... after the alleged gunman staked out the former president's Florida golf course earlier this month.
Routh, 58, was indicted on the new federal charge of attempted liquidation of a major presidential candidate after he was previously slapped with weapons charges, the US Attorney's Office said Tuesday.
The high-profile case was assigned to Trump-appointed US District Judge Aileen Cannon, CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... reported.
Cannon tossed a separate federal criminal case against Trump in July that was brought by special prosecutor Jack Smith over allegations the ex-commander in chief illegally kept classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago mansion.
The latest charge was brought against Routh one day after prosecutors released a letter penned by the accused would-be assassin in which he allegedly admitted he was going to try to kill Trump.
I read somewhere — no link, sorry — that Mr. Routh’s cell phone showed that he’d actually been waiting for President Trump to appear at the golf course for something like a week. So it wasn’t that he happened to get lucky on that day, but that he knew the president frequently golfed at the course across from Mar-a-Lago whenever he had the chance, and kept going back until he showed up.
The son of the man suspected in the assassination attempt in Florida of former President Donald Trump has been arrested on federal charges of possessing child sexual abuse images. Oran Routh was arrested this week after authorities searched his Greensboro, North Carolina, home. pic.twitter.com/5IdPc4Zkmc
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Great mugshot. Totally sane and healthy, yessirree
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This is an interesting plot twist. Weirdness running in the family, or something more sinister?
Planting evidence on someone's computer is not unpossible and can be as easy as sending an email with an attachment. In this case, the Feebs allegedly found an SD card with the forbidden content.
A suspicious person might wonder if this was a play to get some influence over Dad and keep him from spilling the beans.
[IsraelTimes] Officials say Islamic Revolutionary Guard breached major Swedish text messaging company, sent out 15,000 messages aiming to ‘destabilize’ country
Swedish authorities 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... on Tuesday of being responsible for thousands of text messages that were sent to people in the Scandinavian country calling for Dire Revenge over the burnings of Islam’s holy book in 2023.
Officials in Stockholm claimed that Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guards carried out "a data breach" and managed to send "some 15,000 text messages in Swedish" over the string of public burnings of the Koran.
Senior prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist said that a preliminary investigation, carried out by Sweden’s SAPO domestic security agency, showed that "it was the Iranian state via the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, IRGC, that carried out a data breach at a Swedish company that runs a major SMS service."
The Swedish company was not named. There was no immediate comment from Iranian authorities on the accusations from Sweden.
In August 2023, Swedish media reported that a large number of people in Sweden had received text messages in Swedish calling for Dire Revenge against people who were burning the Koran. Ljungqvist said the sender of the messages was "a group calling itself the Anzu team."
Swedish broadcaster SVT published a photo of a text message saying that "those who desecrated the Koran must have their work covered in ashes" and calling Swedes "demons."
The protests were held under the freedom of speech act, which is protected under the Swedish constitution. The rallies were approved by police. However,
there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... the incidents left Sweden torn between its commitment to free speech and its respect for religious minorities.
In a separate statement, SAPO’s operational manager Fredrik Hallström said the text messages’ intent was to also "paint the image of Sweden as an Islamophobic country and create division in society."
He accused "foreign powers" of seeking to "exploit vulnerabilities" and said they were "now acting more and more aggressively, and this is a development that is likely to escalate." He did not name any specific country.
Meanwhile,
...back at the pound, the little lost dog had finished eating the rat terrier... Sweden’s justice minister, Gunnar Strömmer, told Swedish news agency TT "that a state actor, in this case Iran, according to [SAPO’s) assessment is behind an action that aims to destabilize Sweden or increase polarization in our country, is of course very serious."
There is no law in Sweden specifically prohibiting the burning or desecration of the Koran or other religious texts. Like many Western countries, Sweden doesn’t have any blasphemy ...the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence to a deity, or sacred objects, or toward something considered sacred or inviolable. Some religions consider it to be a crime. In Pakistain you can commit blasphemy by looking cross-eyed at a Koran... laws.
"Since the actors are acting for a foreign power, in this case Iran, we make the assessment that the conditions for prosecution abroad or extradition to Sweden are lacking for the persons suspected of being behind the breach, "Ljungqvist said.
Ljungqvist, who is with Sweden’s top prosecution authority, said that although the preliminary investigation has been closed, it "does not mean that the suspected hackers have been completely written off," and that the probe could be reopened.
In August last year, SAPO raised its threat level to four on a scale of five after a series of protests that included 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 had made the country a "prioritized target."
Relations between Sweden and several Middle Eastern countries were strained by the protests which were concentrated over the summer of 2023. Iraqi protesters stormed the Swedish embassy in Baghdad twice in July of that year, starting fires within the compound on the second occasion. The Swedish government condemned the desecrations while noting the country’s constitutionally protected freedom of speech and assembly laws.
Sweden and Iran’s relations in particular have also been strained in recent years, with one of the main sticking points being Sweden’s arrest and conviction of Hamid Noury. Noury, an Iranian former prisons official, was arrested at Stockholm airport in November 2019 and sentenced to life in prison in July 2022 for his role in mass killings in Iranian jails in 1988. In June, the countries announced a prisoner swap in which Noury was released in Sweden in exchange for a European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... diplomat and a second Swede. The two Swedes were EU diplomat Johan Floderus and Saeed Azizi, a Swedish national arrested in Iran in November 2023.
Floderus had meanwhile been held in Iran since April 2022, accused of espionage, for which he risked a death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... .
In May, SAPO also said that Iran was recruiting Swedish criminal gang members, some of them children, as proxies to commit "acts of violence" against Israeli and other interests in Sweden.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Leonid Tsukanov
[REGNUM] For several days in a row, an intense exchange of attacks between Israel and Lebanese Hezbollah has continued, the largest in the past two decades.
In the first hours of the Israeli operation, dubbed "Arrows of the North," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on the Lebanese population to immediately leave the border area and "not interfere with justice."
Soon enough, the Internet was flooded with footage of multi-kilometer traffic jams - civilians in southern Lebanon were trying to leave the escalation zone, often under Israeli bombardment. Other footage was also distributed - for example, of the hasty evacuation to bomb shelters of the population of Haifa, Israel, where they had already become unaccustomed to rocket attacks from Lebanon.
Both sides have seriously raised the stakes with the intention of forcing the opponent to “throw in the white flag” at any cost. Moreover, both Israel and Hezbollah are absolutely certain that the enemy is about to waver, and that victory over it will be quick and final.
However, recent events increasingly indicate the opposite.
SECOND GAZA
The current actions of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) differ little from its offensive tactics in the Gaza Strip. In an effort to bleed Hezbollah dry, Israeli forces are practically non-stop ironing out Lebanon with all available means. In the last 24 hours alone, Israel has attacked more than a thousand targets in Lebanon, not limiting the geography of the raids to the border zone.
The Israelis claim that the initiative is entirely on their side. Thanks to intensive combined strikes, they allegedly managed to destroy up to half of Hezbollah's arsenal, as well as "tie up operational control" of the movement's rank-and-file fighters.
According to information released by the IDF, several dozen high-ranking Hezbollah commanders were killed or seriously wounded in the raids, including officers from the elite Radwan special forces unit and close associates of the movement's Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah.
It should be noted that Israel explains its actions against Lebanon by security considerations and the “desire to protect not only its own, but also the Lebanese civilian population,” who “found themselves hostages” of Iranian proxies.
At the same time, the notorious “pager attack,” which resulted in almost 4,000 Lebanese casualties (most of them civilians)
…the civilian thing is a lie that the Russians have repeated before. But then Hezbollah is a client of Russia’s client Iran, so Russia waxes sentimental…
and which just a week ago the Israelis themselves called a “brilliant operation by the intelligence services,” is gradually being covered up.
Thus, Israeli President Isaac Herzog publicly stated that Israel was not involved in the pager explosions in Lebanon, and that the terrorist attack against Hezbollah commanders could have been carried out by the movement’s “numerous ill-wishers.” Most likely, Herzog tried to tone down the overly bellicose rhetoric of Prime Minister Netanyahu, who threatened new retaliation against all those who support Hezbollah, even indirectly.
The president of Israel is a ceremonial figurehead, functionally an elected king hauled out to kiss babies and meet other powerless ceremonial kings. Before he was president he was a leader in various iterations of the Labour party. Naturally, he doesn’t like Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu.
BEFORE THE THROW
The ultimate goal of Israel's intimidation campaign is not difficult to determine: Tel Aviv is trying to provoke panic and discontent among the Lebanese toward Hezbollah.
At this point, in terms of power and influence in the Lebanese government, anyone not aligned with Hezbollah is a Non-Playing Character. Given that the NPCs have been fleeing Lebanon’s cities for the countryside, and even crossing into Syria, I’d say that panic and discontent have been accomplished.
It is precisely popular pressure, according to the plan of the Israeli General Staff, that should force the movement's fighters to retreat beyond the Litani River, which the Israelis promptly declared the "northern border" of their country.
This will provide the IDF with the opportunity to freely enter southern Lebanon and stop the shelling of northern Israel (by creating a “security zone” in the border area), which has not stopped for almost a year.
For Netanyahu, who has still not been able to “pick the keys” to the sympathies of northern refugees, whose number has already exceeded 100 thousand people, such a scenario seems advantageous.
However, the Israeli leadership does not rule out a more complex option, which would involve a protracted struggle with Hezbollah.
A full-scale offensive into southern Lebanon is fraught with risks. The cost of error, given previous failed Lebanese campaigns, seems too high.
The IDF seems more interested in shaping the battlefield by continuing to destroy Hezbollah’s arms caches and kill its leadership from the air, now that their communications have been thoroughly destroyed.
And among the IDF command staff there are plenty of those who personally participated in the Lebanese campaigns and are trying in every way to dissuade Netanyahu from another attempt at revenge. In addition, the country's leadership is constantly under pressure from the public, dissatisfied with the prospects of opening a "second front."
Bibi was their Donald Trump even before Trump came along. The Never-Bibi crowd can never agree that he’s right even if he is doing exactly what they would do were they in power.
In light of this, the Israeli military is looking for unconventional options to break out of the strategic impasse.
Among other things, Israel can use the Golan Heights (Syria) it has occupied
…not occupied — absorbed. Israel will never give the heights back to Syria, and when he was president Donald Trump formally recognized it…
for an offensive, where the IDF has previously promptly removed several large minefields. A thrust across the Golan Heights will allow the Israeli army not only to seize the operational initiative, but also to bypass Hezbollah's well-fortified defensive nodes in southern Lebanon, taking a bridgehead with fewer losses.
An interesting thought…
In this sense, the Israeli General Staff is taking into account the mistakes of the failed Lebanese campaign of 2006.
However, a strong pretext is needed to develop an offensive, and Tel Aviv hopes to provoke Hezbollah into a serious response.
This would allow the remaining “moral restrictions” on the operation to be lifted and to invade Lebanon without regard for US opinion.
HOW WILL HEZBOLLAH RESPOND?
Despite Israel's air superiority, Hezbollah still holds its own and even tries to respond to Israeli actions in proportion.
The first step was to increase the depth and frequency of the strikes. Over the past 24 hours, the movement has launched at least 200 rockets and kamikaze drones, some of which have managed to penetrate Israel's missile defense system. As a result, not only the northern border region has come under attack, but also calmer cities such as Haifa.
And although the damage caused by Hezbollah is nothing compared to that caused by the Israelis, the media effect of the attacks is very high. Especially since the movement, apparently, managed to hit the Haifa explosives factory, as well as the infrastructure of the Megiddo military airport.
Hitting is not the same as damaging. Was there significant damage?
Moreover, Hezbollah is trying its best to show that it is not defending itself, but the people of Lebanon – these theses have been voiced by the movement’s leaders during the last few appeals to supporters.
Not bothering to appeal ti non-supporters?
The appeal to a “common cause” is intended not only to calm ordinary Lebanese, but also to legitimize the change in the vector of Hezbollah’s operations to make them more offensive. The movement is determined not only to draw off some of the Israeli forces, but also, if necessary, to “grind” them down.
It should be noted that in some cases Hezbollah deliberately shows weakness in order to accelerate the IDF's shift in focus from the Gaza Strip to northern Israel.
Going for the Pyrrhic defeat defence, are they?
Given that most Hamas battalions maintain a relatively high level of combat readiness
…you keep telling yourselves that…
even after a year of operations in Gaza, even a slight weakening of Israeli attention to the enclave would be enough to regroup and strike at the depleted IDF contingent.
And given that Israeli society perceives the operation in Gaza as “close to completion,” any abrupt change in the balance of power is guaranteed to have the effect of a bomb exploding.
Be that as it may, both Israel and Hezbollah, in their pursuit of “final victory,” are missing an important detail: their direct clash will not be limited to local disputes, no matter how much the parties try to convince their supporters of this.
On the contrary, given the high stakes that have been placed over the past year, the conflict risks spreading to the entire Middle East and drawing into the confrontation even those powers that have tried with all their might to maintain neutrality or reconcile their opponents.
The Arabs have tried that before. Israel would beat them even if they were reduced to fighting with rocks and sticks.
However, neither side is yet willing to give in, as the confidence that the enemy is about to waver only grows stronger in the heat of the fight.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Artemy Sharapov
[REGNUM] The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched a "preemptive" offensive against the Lebanon-based Shiite organization Hezbollah. The "preemptive strikes" began on the morning of September 23.
"We are striking at the military infrastructure that Hezbollah has been building for the past 20 years," said IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevy, adding that the Israeli military is preparing for the next stages of the conflict, which Halevy promised to talk about later.
In turn, Hezbollah representatives announced rocket attacks on an Israeli industrial complex in northern Haifa. The attack on the night of September 24 was called a response to the pager explosions that occurred in Beirut. In addition, the Shiite movement attacked Megiddo airport in northern Israel with rockets three times overnight.
At the same time, Hezbollah began to strike Israeli territory on September 21, using an arsenal of long-range missiles. The targets of the attacks were military facilities of the Israeli IDF. According to the group's statement, Fadi-1 and Fadi-2 missiles were used for the shelling. Most likely, these munitions were delivered to Lebanon from Syria, military expert and author of the ImpNavigator blog Yuri Lyamin told Regnum news agency.
"In fact, no one hid the fact that Syria supplies these rocket munitions to Hezbollah. They were first used back in 2006, during the Second Lebanon War. Moreover, during the civil war in Syria, government troops practically did not use them, so everything that was produced on Syrian territory went to Lebanon in case of a new war with Israel," the expert noted.
The weapons are supplied by Iran. Syria transfers them to Hezbollah because they’re next door, and they try very hard to conceal the transfers from Israel. Sometimes they succeed.
The 220 mm Fadi-1 is designed to hit targets at a distance of up to 70 kilometers, the mass of the missile's warhead is 83 kilograms. The Fadi-2 class missiles have a caliber of 302 mm, carry a warhead weighing over 100 (according to some sources - over 150 kilograms) and are designed to strike at a distance of up to 100 kilometers.
According to Israeli intelligence, the Fadi class missiles are a modification of the Kheibar-1 missiles, developed in Syria in the early 2000s based on the Chinese WS-1 missiles.
Israel has repeatedly tried to stop the supply of missiles from Syria, striking Syrian military enterprises. In early September, the Israeli Air Force attacked a military facility near the city of Masyaf in the Syrian province of Hama. Presumably, Fadi missiles were being manufactured at this facility.
However, Israel is not able to completely stop the supply of ammunition from Syria, Yuri Lyamin is sure.
"The length of the border between Syria and Lebanon is hundreds of kilometers. Moreover, it passes through hard-to-reach mountain ranges. Israel manages to cover and destroy something, but Syria itself is large, there are places to hide missiles, there are many supply routes," the expert believes.
At the same time, a supply route for more sophisticated missiles passes through Syria, heading to Lebanon from Iran, Hezbollah's main ally.
TARGETS FOR STRIKES
The current escalation between Hezbollah and Israel began in October 2023. The Lebanese group shelled Israeli territory in support of the Gaza Strip and the Palestinian group Hamas.
At first, Hezbollah limited itself to shelling Israeli territory with “salvos” of unguided rockets, which were destroyed on approach by the Iron Dome missile defense system. This exchange of pleasantries generally suits both sides, since, on the one hand, it allows for the appearance of support for the “Palestinian resistance,” and on the other, it does not escalate the conflict to a new level, since the shelling does not lead to casualties among the civilian population.
At the same time, the shelling also has a strategic goal - to exhaust, if possible, the stocks of Israeli air defense/missile defense missiles. And it is quite possible that this was the task set by the group's command at an early stage of the conflict, military expert Alexander Mikhailovsky said in a commentary for the Regnum news agency.
"Along the demarcation line - since there is no de facto border between Israel and Lebanon - there are probably hundreds of launchers of calibers from 80 to 122 mm hidden. They are buried in the ground, hidden in caves, camouflaged. It is quite difficult to find them. At the same time, the launch of 50-100 missiles, fired according to the principle of "whoever God sends", allows, for example, to cover the launch of a drone, which will then work on a specific target," the expert explains.
In the summer of 2024, Hezbollah showed footage taken by reconnaissance drones that had penetrated the Iron Dome. The drones captured, among other things, the Israeli Navy base in Haifa, as well as a number of military installations in the northern regions of the country. They later became the target of large-caliber missile strikes. But it is difficult to assess the damage caused by the shelling.
"Israeli intelligence services keep any data on rocket attacks on military targets secret, and Hezbollah likes to exaggerate its successes. So, most likely, they are causing damage to the said targets, but limited. However, this could be a test run, and the main strikes are still ahead," Mikhailovsky believes.
Arab media outlets have made a similar assessment, predicting more extensive strikes on Israel and hinting at the use of ballistic missiles capable of reaching central Israel.
MODERN ARSENAL
Israeli intelligence agencies have repeatedly stated that Hezbollah has a large number of different types of missiles. According to the Alma Research Center, the movement has about 5,000 long- and medium-range missiles capable of hitting targets at a distance of 200 kilometers, 65,000 short-range missiles (the range of destruction is from 45 to 200 kilometers) and about 145,000 artillery and small-caliber rocket munitions with a range of up to 20 kilometers.
For obvious reasons, Hezbollah officials have not disclosed the size of their arsenals. However, the movement's media outlets occasionally publish footage of individual types of weapons.
One of the photos published online from Hezbollah warehouses showed Mushak-200 missiles with a 600-kilogram warhead and a range of up to 200 kilometers. Presumably, these missiles are a copy of the Iranian Zelzal-2 missiles.
"Iran has never hidden the fact that it supplies weapons to Hezbollah. Israel has attempted to destroy arms shipments on the supply route through Syria, for example at Syrian Air Force air bases. But here, again, it is physically impossible to intercept all the supplies, the territories are too large," notes Yuri Lyamin.
The name of the missile refers to the Quran's sura "Earthquake", which describes the events of the End of the World. In other words, the name is a very specific warning to a potential enemy.
Theoretically, Hezbollah may also have Zelzal-3 missiles with a range of up to 250 kilometers. And Israel Hayoum suggests that Hezbollah has Fateh-100 missiles, also known as M-600, with a range of up to 300 kilometers.
In other words, Hezbollah is capable of striking most of Israel's territory, so the IDF command's concern about the "threat from the north" is well founded.
ISRAEL TRIES TO CREATE A 'BUFFER ZONE'
Traditionally, the main areas of Hezbollah activity are considered to be the territories of southern Lebanon, as well as part of Beirut and its suburbs, where representatives of the Shiite Muslim community live.
Unable to disrupt the supply of missiles, the Israeli army plans to eliminate Hezbollah's infrastructure and the movement's main bases.
Earlier, the IDF command repeatedly stated that the goal of the operation in Lebanon should be the creation of a "buffer zone" - a territory stretching 20-30 kilometers along the border between Lebanon and Israel. This is where most of Hezbollah's military facilities, underground shelters and missile arsenals are located.
In this way, Israeli troops plan to secure the northern regions of the country from the threat of rocket attacks. But whether this will be successful is a big question.
Police in Malaysia have rescued 572 children following an investigation into an Islamic charity group that allegedly operated a child s—x abuse ring. 59 of the recovered children are under five years old. Read: https://t.co/tugPu64LGA
On Monday, Malaysian police announced that officers rescued an additional 187 children after conducting raids at various locations across the country associated with an Islamic business organization currently under investigation for alleged child sex abuse crimes.
The children were rescued from welfare homes linked to Global Ikhwan Services and Business (GISB Holdings). At least 572 children under the age of 18 have been rescued since the case began earlier this month, National police chief Razarudin Husain said, as per AP News.
Of the 187 children who were recently rescued, 59 of them were under the age of 5, police said. Online videos obtained by authorities showed physical assaults on the children, including a young boy being caned and another child getting stepped on. Police arrested 156 additional suspects during the most recent operation, Husain said.
While living at these GISB properties, according to police, children were reportedly sodomized, instructed to sexually assault one another, denied medical care, and burned with hot metal spoons as a form of punishment. Medical screenings revealed that at least 13 children were sodomized, and 172 children sustained long-term emotional and physical injuries.
According to the police, the victims are primarily children of GISB employees who have been confined to their homes since they were infants. They are believed to have been indoctrinated from a young age to be loyal to the Islamic group.
The GISB is dedicated to promoting an Islamic lifestyle in Malaysia and abroad. The group owns mini-markets, pharmacies, restaurants, bakeries, and other enterprises. Its origins can be traced back to the Al Arqam Islamic sect, which was declared heretical and prohibited by the government in 1994.
Al Aqram is a puritanical cult along Gulenist lines — self-sufficiency, hard work, education, building a Moslem utopian community — with the usual semi-worship of the charismatic founder, Ashaari Muhammad. The heresy was setting up the founder as another prophet like Mohammed. GISB is said to have millions of dollars of asset, despite being banned.
Police detained members of GISB's senior management, including CEO Narsirudding Mohamad Ali, two of his wives, and two of his children, last week. Additionally, certain relatives of Ashaari Mohamad, who served as the executive director of Al Arqam prior to his passing in 2010, were apprehended, as per the network.
The police chief stated that an estimated 10,000 employees and officials of GISB were believed to be practicing the Al Arqam teachings, and indicated that Islamic authorities have launched an investigation.
Police have conducted raids at 280 locations across the country associated with GISB; however, the majority of these locations were vacated. In 59 of the locations, police confiscated Islamic literature and materials that contained deviant teachings. Husain stated that authorities have suspended 138 bank accounts associated with GISB, which have a total value of approximately $452,000, as well as 14 properties, as part of an investigation into money laundering. Numerous individuals have been charged with sexually assaulting minors, police said.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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[NBC] Ellison accepted a plea deal on charges of conspiracy and financial fraud in December 2022, a month after FTX spiraled into bankruptcy.
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