[IsraelTimes] In talks for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, Arab mediators made the proposal to now-slain terror chief, who rejected the idea, Wall Street Journal says
Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... leader Yahya Sinwar, killed by IDF troops last week, was at one stage offered the chance to leave the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip in exchange for allowing Egypt to negotiate on the terror group’s behalf for a hostage deal, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
"I’m not under siege, I’m on Paleostinian soil," Sinwar reportedly told Arab mediators in response to the proposal, soon after the start of the war sparked by the October 7, 2023, massacre, which he orchestrated.
According to the report, as the war went on, Sinwar accepted that he was likely to be killed and according to mediators, suggested that the terror group choose a leadership council to govern and manage the transition after his death.
According to the report, based on interviews with Israeli, US, Hamas and Arab officials, Siwnar repeatedly told Hamas negotiators in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... to not agree to a ceasefire deal, saying in one message that high civilian deaths in Gaza would put international pressure on Israel. Sinwar was said to be holding out in the hope that the fighting in Gaza would trigger a regional war against Israel.
As Israel closed in on Sinwar, destroying the Gaza tunnel infrastructure where he was hiding, he was forced to spend more time on the surface, which increased the chances of him being killed.
In a message to prepare for his possible death, Sinwar warned that Israel would offer concessions if he was killed but that Hamas should not give in.
The report said that under a previous government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, attempts were made to kill Sinwar and his military chief Muhammad Deif, but Israeli officials believed that the terror leaders were deterred. Netanyahu’s successor (and predecessor) Naftali Bennett proposed assassinating Sinwar on at least two occasions before his government collapsed, according to the report.
Sinwar, who was seen as a major obstacle to a hostage deal, was killed last Wednesday in an encounter with IDF troops operating in southern Gaza’s Rafah. Israel says Deif was assassinated in July.
Sinwar’s death has sparked hopes of a renewed opportunity to revitalize the long-stalled negotiations for the release of the 101 remaining hostages held by Hamas and for an end to the fighting between Israel and the Paleostinian terror group that has reduced much of the enclave to rubble over the past 12 months.
Officials in Egypt are hoping that Sinwar’s death will provide new impetus to stalled negotiations for a ceasefire, including changing Israel’s "uncompromising position" on Gaza after the war ends, the Saudi-based al-Arabiya network reported Monday.
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is due to visit Israel on Tuesday and then Egypt the day after. al-Arabiya reported that talks in Cairo will focus on establishing an international force to oversee the administration of Gaza and the strategic border between the enclave and Egypt, the so-called Philadelphi Corridor. Israel has insisted on maintaining some control over the corridor, saying it needs to prevent weapons smuggling into Gaza.
[ToloNews] The Islamic Emirate reported conducting operations against the hideouts of those responsible for recent attacks in the provinces of Ghor, Bamyan, and Kabul.
Zabihullah Mujahid, the spokesperson for the Islamic Emirate, said that in two separate operations in Ghor and Kunar province ... Kunar is Haqqani country..... s, four members of this group were killed.
Mujahid said that these individuals, under the leadership of ISIS Khorasan based in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... , were behind all recent attacks in the country.
According to Mujahid, the deadly incident in the area between Daikundi and Ghor was also carried out by these individuals.
The spokesperson for the Islamic Emirate further said: "These were the same individuals who, a short time ago, martyred and injured several of our fellow citizens between Ghor and Daikundi provinces. They were being pursued by the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. In the past two days, our forces managed to arrest ten of them and also discovered their hideout. In a special operation yesterday, the leader of this crime, along with one of his accomplices, was killed."
Mujahid also mentioned that during this operation, a quantity of weapons, ammunition, including hand grenades, and kabooms were seized.
Regarding the group's centers, the spokesperson for the Islamic Emirate said: "The Islamic Emirate is determined to punish anyone who threatens the security of the people and takes action against them, as soon as possible."
"The ISIS project has external dimensions, not internal ones, and it does not relate to the people of Afghanistan. We fought for our freedom and against occupation, but we were never terrorists," Yousuf Amin Zazai, a military affairs expert, told TOLOnews.
Earlier, in the month of Sunbula (solar calendar), unknown individuals opened fire on civilians in the area between Daikundi and Ghor, resulting in the death or injury of twenty people.
It is not clear to me whether this is repeating the previous story (see Related article at the bottom of the post) or if this is a new event. So I give it to you for your decision, dear Reader.
[KhaamaPress] The human rights organization “Halvash” has reported that a landmine explosion and gunfire targeted a group of Afghan migrants at the Kalgan border in Iran.
According to the organization’s report on Monday, October 21, a group of at least 150 Afghan migrants was attacked by Iranian border forces on the evening of Thursday, October 17, in eastern Iran.
The report states that the group of migrants, attempting to enter Iran from the Kalgan border in Saravan illegally, was first hit by a landmine explosion, followed by gunfire from Iranian forces. Over 260 migrants were killed, injured, or went missing as a result of the attack.
Halvah has stated that it is working to gather more precise information about the incident, while Khaama Press has also been unable to obtain further details.
A few days prior to this shooting, a similar report from eastern Iran was published, and several independent media outlets confirmed its accuracy based on eyewitness accounts.
The recent escalation of violence at the Iran-Afghanistan border has raised concerns about the safety and treatment of Afghan migrants.
Amid ongoing border violence, both Iran and Pakistan have been forcibly deporting Afghan refugees, exacerbating the dire humanitarian crisis in the region.
These deportations come at a time when Afghanistan is already struggling with extreme poverty, conflict, and political instability.
Human rights organizations have raised concerns about the treatment of Afghan refugees, citing numerous reports of harassment, torture, and violations of basic rights by both Iranian and Pakistani authorities.
The lack of proper protection and support for these refugees in host countries has left them vulnerable, with many facing dangerous conditions upon their forced return to Afghanistan. The international community is increasingly calling for immediate action to address these violations and provide protection to the displaced Afghan population.
The Obama Biden-Harris administration is looking for an excuse to cut Israel off.
[IsraelTimes] State Dept. checking whether Force 100, tasked with guarding terror suspects at Sde Teiman base, violated human rights — if so, future aid would violate US’s ‘Leahy Law’
The US State Department is investigating an Israeli military unit charged with guarding Paleostinian terror detainees, on suspicions that the unit has committed human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. violations, according to a Monday report by Axios.
If the State Department concludes that the allegations are true, and that Israel has not adequately addressed the violations, the US is obligated under American law to cease providing military aid to the unit and prevent it from participating in exercises with US troops.
Several soldiers in the IDF’s Force 100 unit are already facing charges in Israel of sexually assaulting a Paleostinian detainee at the Sde Teiman detention facility.
The July arrests of the soldiers accused of participating in the alleged assault prompted riots, including break-ins, at the Sde Teiman base where the soldiers were arrested, as well as the Beit Lid base, where the soldiers were then taken and held.
Protesters also disrupted a High Court of Justice hearing regarding petitions against the treatment of Paleostinian terror detainees at the Sde Teiman facility.
Prominent activists, including politicians, some of whom are part of the government, participated in the riots.
Sde Teiman has been used to house terror operatives who allegedly participated in Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... ’s October 7 attack last year, as well as Paleostinian suspects detained over the course of the subsequent war 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 a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... The facility has faced serious allegations of human rights violations, and Israel has transferred almost all of those initially held there to other facilities. The High Court declined, however, to order the detention center closed, as several rights group petitioned it to.
If the US State Department finds Force 100 responsible for human rights violations, the unit could be blacklisted under the 1997 "Leahy Law," which forbids the US providing military aid to foreign security, military, or police units that have violated human rights.
The US Embassy in Jerusalem contacted the Israeli Foreign Ministry last week, with a list of questions about the unit and its alleged crimes, Axios reported, citing two senior Israeli officials.
A similar set of questions about the unit was sent several months ago, the report said, citing a US official.
The questioning was "part of a consultation process we started with the Israelis about this unit as part of our Leahy Law agreement," the US official said. The embassy reportedly confirmed that this was the context for the American inquiry.
Israel and the US have a memorandum of understanding requiring the US to coordinate such reviews with their Israeli counterparts, Axios noted in its report Monday, citing another American official.
The White House, pressed for comment on Monday, declined to address the report, saying only that the US has "processes in place to assess and look at things" when serious allegations are levied toward countries with a US security relationship.
In April, the US said it had determined five units of Israel’s security forces had committed human rights violations — all before the outbreak of war with Hamas’s attack last October — but declined to sanction any of them, saying four of those units had addressed their problems.
The State Department confirmed in the spring that it was investigating the ultra-Orthodox Netzah Yehuda Battalion — presumably the fifth unit referred to — over alleged human rights violations in the West Bank, but said in August that the concerns were "effectively remediated," and did not impose sanctions.
Ah, the French. Such masters of diplomacy, steeped in the subtlest of diplomatic language and merde.
[IsraelTimes] French official says Paris supports Israel, but can’t allow weapons used in Gaza or Lebanon to be promoted while president pushes for ceasefire; Israel blasts move as ‘a disgrace’
Amid anger over French President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to ban Israeli firms from exhibiting at a major naval arms show, an official in the Élysée Palace denied on Monday that Israeli companies were being boycotted.
"There was never any intention to prohibit Israeli companies from participating — allowing access, visiting, holding meetings — in trade exhibitions in La Belle France," said the French official. "Israeli companies interested in this will of course be able to enter the Euronaval exhibition. There is nothing in the French government’s position that can be interpreted as a boycott of Israeli companies in Euronaval."
The official asserted that La Belle France’s support for Israel and its right to defend itself "has always been unequivocal and without exception."
"However,
we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... " explained the official, "while French diplomacy is clearly calling for 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 a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... and Leb ...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... — the only way to curb the escalation and achieve peace and stability in the region — it would be inconsistent to allow any promotion of weapons used in Gaza and Lebanon, which cause unacceptable damage to the civilian population."
The official said, "We made it clear to the Israeli authorities that the participation of the companies setting up booths must reflect this balance, which is in line with La Belle France’s position. Also, companies whose equipment is not used for offensive operations in Gaza and Lebanon will of course be able to set up booths at the exhibition."
Euronaval, the organizer of the November 4-7 event, said in a statement last week that the French government had informed it that Israeli delegations were not allowed to exhibit stands or show equipment, but could attend the trade show. The decision affected seven firms, it said.
Foreign Minister Israel Katz said Sunday that his ministry would take "legal and diplomatic measures" against Macron’s decision.
An Israeli official told The Times of Israel that Jerusalem will take the issue to French courts, where they will claim illegal discrimination by Macron, who has grown increasingly critical of Israel’s offensives in Gaza and Lebanon.
Writing on X in French and Hebrew, Katz said the "anti-democratic" boycott is unacceptable coming from an ally, and called on La Belle France and the West to support Israel, "the only state on the front lines" against the "Iranian axis of evil and radical Islam."
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant also ripped into the decision, writing on X that Macron’s actions were "a disgrace" and that La Belle France had adopted "a hostile policy toward the Jewish people."
La Belle France had previously barred Israeli firms from participating in the Eurosatory military trade show, which took place in Gay Paree in June, as Macron was urging a ceasefire in Gaza.
The French president has provoked outrage in Jerusalem over his call for an arms embargo on Israel earlier this month, saying it was the only way to end the fighting in Gaza and in Lebanon, a former French colony where Gay Paree still wields great influence.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had blasted Macron’s statement, calling it "a disgrace," and "anti-democratic."
[IsraelTimes] Opposition leader Yair Lapid meets with European Union Ambassador to Israel Dimiter Tzantchev and tells him that an arms embargo on Israel that is being pushed by some EU nations is “unforgivable.”
Lapid tells Tzantchev that “an arms embargo on Israel at a time when we are fighting against terror organizations is unacceptable and unforgivable.”
“We have here a democratic country fighting against terrible antisemitic terror organizations and we need to fight them and defeat them, you can’t put an arms embargo on Israel under these conditions,” a statement from his office quotes Lapid as saying.
Several EU nations led by Spain and Ireland have called for an arms embargo on Israel.
Lapid also urges the EU to work with Israel to craft a deal that would see the hostages seized by Hamas returned.
Journalist says ‘ashamed to be French’ after Macron’s criticism of Israel
French journalist Philippe Val lambastes his leader’s criticism of Israel amid the war in Gaza and Lebanon.
Israel’s Channel 12 airs a recent segment on Europe 1 Radio in which Val invites listeners to imagine if France had been under extended attack by enemies, displacing large segments of the population.
“Imagine under what mental strain France and its people would be if we were in Israel’s place,” he says.
“The demands from Israel are too high,” he said. “It is asked to live under the threat of terrorism, unretrained antisemitism and boundless barbarism but to maintain a good image.”
As for French President Emmanuel Macron’s criticism of the war’s conduct and his call to stop supplying offensive weapons to the Jewish state, Val says: “For the first time in a long time I was ashamed to be French. I wanted to tell Israelis I’m sorry. Do not mistakenly think all French think like the president that represents us. Believe us, the vast majority of the French stands by you.”
[FoxNews] Seven suspects from Jerusalem arrested while photographing scientist’s home as part of alleged assassination plot
An Iranian plot to assassinate a "senior Israeli scientist and a mayor of a major Israeli city" has been busted, with seven suspects from Jerusalem being taken into custody, officials say.
The individuals from Jerusalem’s Beit Safafa neighborhood – who also were tasked with bombing a police car and throwing a grenade at a house -- were promised a $53,000 payment for their efforts, according to a joint statement from Israel’s internal security service, Shin Bet, and the Israeli Police.
"These individuals, under Iranian direction, planned to assassinate a senior Israeli scientist and a mayor of a major Israeli city," the statement said.
"An investigation revealed an Iranian intelligence network aiming to recruit Israeli citizens for missions in Israel," it added. "A 23-year-old suspect from Jerusalem was in contact with a foreign agent, recruiting others for tasks like graffiti spraying, vehicle arson in Ein Kerem, and intelligence gathering."
Israeli officials say the suspects were arrested near the scientist’s home after photographing it in exchange for around $132, as part of the leadup to the assassination attempt.
"Searches revealed 50,000 shekels, a fake police license plate, and numerous credit cards," the officials added, noting that "charges for serious security offenses" are expected to be filed.
A senior Shin Bet official said "Scientists, mayors, security officials, and other prominent Israelis are targets for Iranian agents" and that the investigation "underscores Iran’s efforts to recruit Israeli citizens for terrorism."
The arrests come after Israeli security agencies on Monday said they had uncovered and stopped an Iranian spy ring operating out of northern Israel.
Those seven suspects, residents of Haifa and other areas across northern Israel, are suspected of gathering intelligence on Israeli military bases, including air force and naval installations, as well as Israel’s infamous Iron Dome defense system.
The accused are also suspected of relaying information to Iranian intelligence on Israel’s critical energy infrastructure, including its largest power station in Hadera – a tactic that could suggest Iran may look to utilize a strategy long held by its top ally Russia, which has frequently targeted Ukraine's energy systems.
According to Shin Bet, the spy network provided Iranian intelligence agents with critical information using sophisticated equipment to photograph sensitive locations in exchange for hundreds of thousands of dollars, some made using cryptocurrency, reported Israeli news agency TPS.
The leader of the ring, a 23-year-old named Rami Alian, was recruited by an Iranian agent. None of the suspects had a criminal or security-related record.
The cell was active for some two years. They were given various missions for which they were paid thousands of shekels, including graffiti demanding the release of hostages in Gaza and vandalism in Jerusalem, and also tasked with photographing various locations.
At one point they were told to hurl a grenade at an Israeli security serviceman, though this was not carried out.
Alian was given a photo and address of the nuclear scientist and told he would be paid NIS 200,000 ($53,000) if he succeeded. Authorities say he began preparations for the act, but the cell was arrested before it could move forward.
According to Channel 12 news, Alian told investigators he was aware he was working for Iranians and wanted to harm national security, citing the war in Gaza.
[France24] The newly formed French government plans to adopt another, tougher immigration bill next year, and leading the charge is hardline Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau. It is the latest in a series of moves under French President Emmanuel Macron to tackle immigration, a favourite talking point of the far right.
All just proposals, so far, but they trend in the right direction.
Shortly after Bruno Retailleau took over as interior minister he made it clear he had a “law-and-order” agenda, vowing among other things to crack down on illegal immigration.
“The French people want more order order in the streets, order at the borders,” he said upon taking up his new role in late September after more than two months of political impasse in France.
Retailleau has denounced “mass immigration”, suggesting that France could be overwhelmed by migratory flows in a rhetorical shift that echoes the long-time refrains of the far right.
While immigration has seen a steady rise in France over the past decade, it pales in comparison to rates seen in other European nations. Some 5.8 million immigrants lived in France at the start of 2013, equal to 8.8 percent of the population, according to official statistics.
By 2023, France was home to 7 million immigrants, or some 10.7 percent of the population. In comparison, immigrants made up around 19 percent of the population in Germany, 16 percent in Spain and 14 percent in the United Kingdom in 2022, according to official and OECD statistics.
The issue was catapulted to the forefront once again in the wake of the grisly rape and murder of a 19-year-old student known only as Philippine in September. The main suspect was a young Moroccan man previously convicted of rape who had been ordered to leave France.
After having served a five-year sentence, he was released in September on the condition that he regularly report to the authorities after Moroccan authorities failed to deliver the travel documents necessary to expel him.
In response to this “abominable crime”, Retailleau called for laws making it easier to deport foreigners convicted of criminal acts.
"It is up to us, as public leaders, to refuse to accept the inevitable and to develop our legal arsenal to protect the French," he said.
"If we have to change the rules, let's change them."
The French parliament had already adopted a tougher immigration law that was backed by the far right back in December, prompting the left to once again accuse Macron’s government of caving to extremes. France’s highest court later struck down parts of the law, deeming them unconstitutional.
Other EU governments are also cracking down on migration, with Germany tightening its borders for a six-month period starting in September and Italy controversially transferring migrants intercepted in the Mediterranean to processing centres in Albania.
Retailleau’s proposals range from restricting access to medical care to expanding the use of detention centres while also pressuring origin and transit countries to accept more migrants.
RE-WRITING THE RULE BOOK
A 2012 plan that came into effect under former interior minister Manuel Valls allowed for up to 30,000 undocumented migrants to be legalised every year. Individuals can request asylum based on family links (a process known as chain migration) or based on their status as a “temporary worker”.
Retailleau plans to replace the law with a new, more restrictive one. Being granted legal status would be attributed more slowly, he said, and “based on the reality of a job and the possibility of integration”.
Retailleau has also made clear he wants to extend the maximum period that immigrants can remain in detention centres from the current 90-day limit. He has proposed increasing this period to 210 days for the perpetrators of sexual crimes “in line with the rules for terrorists”, he says.
PAST THE POINT OF NO RETURN
The Philippine case has sparked a new round of debate over expulsions, notably when a prior criminal conviction is at question. The “obligation to leave French territory” (OQTF) is a judicial order for a foreign national to leave France either immediately or within 30 days. Today only 7 percent of OQTFs are executed, mainly because origin countries are often reluctant.
Retailleau has floated offering visas and development aid in exchange, or threatening to impose tariffs, to pressure countries to take back their nationals. The interior minister also wants transit countries to be more willing to take back people who cannot be returned to their country of origin, for example Afghanistan.
He promised to nominate a special envoy in the weeks to come who would oversee concluding migration agreements with transit countries.
ACCESS DENIED
Among one of the most controversial measures proposed by Retailleau is reducing State Medical Aid (AME), which provides free healthcare to undocumented migrants.
“France is one of the European countries that gives the most advantages and I don’t want France to be a singular case, or for it to be the most attractive country in Europe for a certain number of social services, or access to healthcare,” he said.
A similar proposal last year prompted medical workers to vow to disobey the new rules, pledging to “continue to treat undocumented patients free of charge and based on their needs, in accordance with the Hippocratic Oath”.
The proposal has led to divisions even within the government.
“There is no way we can touch State Medical Aid. AME also insures the health of the French by limiting certain contagions,” warned Health Minister Geneviève Darrieussecq.
[IsraelTimes] Blinken arrives in Israel as US looks to renew ceasefire talks, temper strike on Iran
Top US diplomat meets with Netanyahu, will see other Israeli leaders on his 11th visit since Oct. 7 2023; will then head to Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE (some say SOS, others POS)
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"A schoolboy in short trousers sitting in a chair too high for him." Yaakov Kedmi comparing Blinken to Kissinger.
Apparently, Facebook doesn’t want you to know that VP Kamala Harris’s signature $42 billion effort to extend internet service to millions of Americans has connected 0 people to date.
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Elon Musk is linking them up in Carolina. You gave every American a converter to get digital tv, you can give every American a Starlink base to connect to the internet. Oh, that's right, Elon isn't among the graft parties you reward and actually delivers a product.
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Trump really should have hit this hard in their debate on 10 September. It is not as important as the border issue but it is such an egregious failure that it would have been significant.
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Actually, I don't think much of the $42B has been expended yet. As I understand the program, this is mostly reimbursement financing with some expenditures upon contract agreement but most expenditure after construction and inspection. I may be wrong.
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Pete's using that for the EV charging station build.
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Every fourth year a member of teachers colleges faculty to include the Dean must be on sabbatical to instruct in the public school system as a class room teacher with schools that have the lowest academic ratings. Let theory meet reality.
[FoxNews] Sex trafficking believe tied to Venezuelan gang, Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw says
Two illegal immigrants have been arrested in Palm Beach County, Florida, in connection to the sex trafficking of a 15-year-old girl from New York City, authorities said Monday.
Detectives began working the case after receiving an anonymous tip about a teen runaway, missing since Sept. 12, who was believed to be the victim of a sex trafficking operation, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office said during a news conference.
Investigators used commercial sex ads to track down the minor and begin communication as a ruse to recover the minor. Detectives found the minor at a Motel 6 in Riviera Beach. She indicated that two individuals who both played a role in the sex trafficking were two to three doors down.
Investigators said the victim was recruited in New York City and trafficked down to Florida to perform sex acts for money. Officials said she was forced to perform sex acts at least 10 times.
Yenire Karolina Pache Coleiton, a 33-year-old Colombian national, and Enyerbert Blanco, a previously deported 27-year-old Venezuelan national, were both arrested in connection to sex trafficking the teen.
"How can he be out on bond for attempted murder out of New York, he gets arrested in Miami for drug trafficking, and he’s out walking around?" Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said of Blanco. "That’s unconscionable."
Bradshaw said the sex trafficking is believed to have ties to a Venezuelan gang, though officials are still investigating.
"Obviously, whatever this vetting system is at the border ain’t working," the sheriff said. "The border’s not closed, illegals are still coming in. This is the fourth time we’ve had something here in Palm Beach County involving crimes committed by illegals."
Bradshaw said the three previous cases involved illegal immigrants who abducted and sexually assaulted an elderly woman, an illegal immigrant from Guatemala who molested a 10-year-old, and illegal immigrants from Venezuela who sexually assaulted a 12-year-old.
"The families are angry because they shouldn’t be here to do this," the sheriff said.
Bradshaw said Coleiton and Blanco would not be released under his watch.
"I can tell you one thing, folks," he said. "That female and this guy here that were involved in this, their butts are staying in my jail. They’re not coming out."
Coleiton and Blanco were both placed on an ICE detainer and given no bond.
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"How can he be out on bond for attempted murder out of New York, he gets arrested in Miami for drug trafficking, and he’s out walking around?" Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said of Blanco. "That’s unconscionable."
[FoxNews] Supreme Court rejected Cohen's appeal without comment
The Supreme Court dismissed ex-lawyer Michael Cohen’s appeal to revive a lawsuit against former President Donald Trump on Monday, shutting down Cohen's accusations for the last time.
Cohen had claimed his 2020 imprisonment was retaliation by Trump's administration for publishing a book critical of the former president. The lawsuit had sought monetary damages from Trump, former U.S. Attorney General William Barr, federal prison officials and the federal government.
"Michael Cohen has exhausted every avenue of his pathetic attempt to drag my client into court time and time again. As expected, the Supreme Court has correctly denied Michael Cohen's petition and he must finally abandon his frivolous and desperate claims," Trump attorney Alina Habba told Fox News Digital in a statement.
Cohen had served three years behind bars for several federal crimes relating to his work for Trump, including lying to Congress. He was released on home confinement during the pandemic, but was sent back to prison after refusing to sign an agreement limiting his postings on social media and contacts with the press.
Two courts ruled against Cohen's initial claim, based on a narrow reading of the Supreme Court's ruling in the 1971 case Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents, which provides citizens the limited legal right to sue federal officials who violate their constitutional rights.
The Supreme Court did not elaborate on its decision to reject Cohen's appeal.
[AFRICANEWS] According to residents in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... 's north Kivu region, Fighting erupted early Sunday between M23 rebels
…the M23 rebels are more formally known as the March 23 Movement, and sometimes as the Congolese Revolutionary Army. Founded in 2012 as a Rwandan Tutsi sock puppet, which no doubt seemed a good idea at the time, in less than a year the Congolese army defeated them, and then Rwanda publicly stepped back in response to international pressure. M23 started acting up again in late 2022, again at Rwandan instigation...
and government-allied militia, leaving more than a dozen civilians maimed.
M23 then claimed they had seized the town of Kalembe.
The fighting marks the end to an Angola-mediated ceasefire deal between the Congolese army and the M23, a group allegedly supported by Rwanda, that was agreed in August.
But peace discussions between Kinshasa and Rwandan authorities have since ground to a halt; fresh discussions are to be held in the coming days.
Rwanda deems the Hutu Death Eater group, FDLR, in eastern DRC a to be a danger to its frontier.
The M23 rebels, mainly composed of Tutsi fighters, have taken swathes of territory in eastern DRC after their offensive began 3 years ago.
Millions have been forced from their homes as a result of the fighting;
The violence has also triggered a humanitarian crisis, with the north Kivu region hit particularly hard. According to the Norwegian Refugee Council, 13.7 million children are in need of humanitarian assistance.
[IsraelTimes] The US has concluded that the Paleostinian Authority has met the requirements laid out by Israel for Jerusalem to extend indemnification needed to allow Israeli banks to continue conducting transactions with Paleostinian banks, according to a US official familiar with the matter.
These would be the same PA banks involved in PA government Pay For Slay payments to those attacking Israelis in the West Bank and Israel proper? Yes, O Biden-Harris administration, let us reward that kind of behaviour bigly.
The recognition from the US is aimed at pushing the Israeli government to extend the corresponding banking agreement with the Paleostinians for at least another year in order to avert an economic crisis in the West Bank.
The agreement is set to expire on October 31, after Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich agreed to extend it for only three months over the summer, despite US pressure for a much longer period. As the deadline approaches, the US has grown increasingly worried that Smotrich wouldn’t extend it further.
In recent months, Smotrich’s office informed the PA Finance Ministry and the Biden administration that Israel would be willing to further extend the corresponding banking agreement if the PA conducted a risk assessment of its financial system and if a similar review by the Middle East and North Africa Financial Action Task Force was scheduled.
The Treasury Department notes in a readout on a rare phone call held earlier today between US Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo and PA Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa that the PA has met both of those requirements.
Adeyemo noted the PA’s progress on the issue, including completing key milestones for assessing risks within its jurisdiction and bolstering effective compliance with international standards, the US readout says.
"They discussed the importance of the correspondent banking relationships between Israeli and Paleostinian banks to the security and economic stability of the region," the readout notes.
Adeyemo "stressed the importance of preventing Lions of Islam and violent mostly peaceful holy warriors" from raising, using, and moving funds in the West Bank, the Treasury readout adds, apparently referring to US sanctions against settler holy warriors.
[IsraelTimes] Hebrew media reports say that one of the two people killed in a strike on a car in Damascus was responsible for transferring arms from Iran to Hezbollah.
The unsourced reports do not name him, but say that he is the third person to be killed holding that position. "Next!" Syria blames Israel for Damascus strike, says 2 killed
[IsraelTimes] Syria’s defense ministry says two civilians were killed in an Israeli strike that targeted a vehicle earlier in the day.
“At approximately 17:05 pm (1417 GMT), the Israeli enemy launched an air strike targeting a civilian car in the residential neighborhood of Mazzeh in Damascus, killing two civilians and injuring three,” the ministry says in a statement.
[Garowe] An elite officer attached to the Special Forces team of the Somali police was killed on Sunday under unclear circumstances in the capital, Mogadishu, officials said, adding that investigations have been opened to establish the motive of the murder.
Hanad Ahmed Muse, an officer attached to the Ottoman Turkish-trained Haramcad Police Unit was found dead in his home in the Moalim Noor neighbourhood in Dharkenley District, Mogadishu where he was staying until his death.
Neighbours and eyewitnesses said the officer was shot by government soldiers, though the motive behind the killing remains unclear. The government’s security agencies have not released an official statement regarding the incident.
Cases of coppers and their counterparts from the army killing each other are common in Somalia, but the government has intensified its crackdown on those found culpable of misuse of firearms.
Cases of coppers and their counterparts from the army killing each other are common in Somalia, but the government has intensified its crackdown on those found culpable of misuse of firearms. Many officers have been convicted of the offence.
Due to strict actions taken against those misusing firearms, there has been a substantial decrease in cases involving government forces not only in Mogadishu but also across the country. The military has been sentencing offenders.
However,
we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... this latest incident has raised concerns about internal security within the government ranks. The government of Somalia is trying to realign its security sectors to meet the basic international standards as recommended by the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... Elsewhere, residents of Mogadishu reported hearing several explosions on Sunday, initially thought to be blasts; however, they were later identified as tests of heavy weapons conducted by the National Intelligence and Security Agency.
The country received a cache of weapons from Egypt which will be used in the fight against al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... krazed killers. Egypt is set to take over the management of the new mission dubbed 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... Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM) from January 2025.
[ShabelleMedia] The National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) successfully apprehended three al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... snuffies in Mogadishu, preventing a potential terror attack in the capital.
The operation led to the seizure of weapons along with two rickshaws and a cycle of violence used by the snuffies belonging to the al-Qaeda-linked holy warrior group, al-Shabaab.
According to the NISA statement, the snuffies were planning to carry out violent mostly peaceful activities in Mogadishu, aiming to destabilize the city. The timely intervention by NISA not only neutralized the immediate threat but also provided law enforcement with valuable intelligence on al-Shabaab’s operations within urban areas.
Valuable intelligence is always a good thing…
This operation underscores Somalia’s ongoing efforts to combat terrorism, particularly from al-Shabaab, which has been a significant security challenge for years. The capture of these holy warriors, along with their equipment, is seen as a critical blow to the terrorist group’s activities in the region.
Authorities have not released the identities of the arrested individuals but confirmed that the weapons and vehicles seized will be further analyzed for forensic evidence to potentially identify more cells or planned attacks.
The incident highlights the persistent security issues in Somalia, where al-Shabaab continues to pose a threat despite military and intelligence efforts by both local forces and international partners. NISA’s actions are part of a broader strategy to enhance security and protect civilian lives against the backdrop of frequent terrorist threats.
[ShabelleMedia] The United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... [UN] High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has successfully supported the repatriation of 157 Somali nationals from Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... , where they faced dire conditions.
The group, consisting of men, women, and children, departed from Aden, southern Yemen in a boat, marking a significant operation to aid vulnerable populations.
Somalia’s Embassy in Yemen, with logistical support from UNHCR, organized the return to help those who were stranded and enduring severe hardships.
The repatriation effort underscores the ongoing challenges faced by refugees and asylum seekers in Yemen, a country grappling with prolonged conflict and humanitarian crises.
The returnees had been living under difficult circumstances, with limited access to basic necessities and healthcare, compounded by Yemen’s political instability and economic downturn.
The operation not only alleviates their immediate plight but also reflects a broader commitment to international refugee protection and repatriation.
UNHCR officials have stated that the organization continues to monitor the situation of Somalis in Yemen, ensuring that those who wish to return home can do so safely and voluntarily.
This repatriation is part of a series of efforts aimed at helping the most vulnerable reintegrate into their home communities with the necessary support.
The journey back to Somalia represents hope for these individuals to rebuild their lives, although challenges in Somalia itself, including security and economic issues, remain significant.
The UNHCR and other humanitarian organizations are expected to provide further assistance upon their return to facilitate their reintegration.
[Rudaw] US-based Moslemholy man Muhammed Fethullah Gülen >... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world. Gülen and Erdogan used to be really good friends, but only one of them could be sultan, and Gülen lost...> , who was accused of orchestrating the attempted coup against the Ottoman Turkish government of President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... in 2016, died on Monday, sources close to the holy man announced.
"Dear Friends, Our teacher passed away on October 20, 2024, at 21:20 [US time] in the hospital where he had been receiving treatment for a while," read a post on X from Herkul Nagme, a website dedicated to publishing updates on Gulen’s life and his videos where he addresses his followers.
"His doctors will make a statement about the hospital process in the coming hours," it added
He was 83 years old.
Gulen and his transnational Hizemt [Service] movement, have been accused by Erdogan and the Ottoman Turkish government of orchestrating the 2016 failed coup attempt in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... that killed more than 240 people. His movement was declared a terrorist organization just two months before the incident and a countrywide crackdown ensued to capture his followers.
"Fethullah Gulen, the traitor and enemy of religion, who spent his entire life plotting against the Republic of Turkey, has died," Ottoman Turkish state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
TRT said on X.
Gulen moved to Pennsylvania in 1999, and has been residing there since then despite calls by Erdogan to return to Turkey in 2013.
In 2000, Gulen was tried in absentia and was charged with attempting to embed his supporters into civil service and important governmental positions to overthrow the government.
The charges were reversed in 2008 under the rule of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and then-prime minister Erdogan, who enjoyed good relations with the holy man until an abrupt end in 2013 after a corruption scandal involving Erdogan’s closest circles pitted the two men against one another. The Ottoman Turkish president accused Gulen of creating a "parallel state" within Turkey.
Erdogan’s consolidation of power has been denounced by Gulen, who has referred to the Ottoman Turkish president as a "dictator" and encouraged the US and European governments to do more to restore political freedoms in Turkey.
Gulen was stripped of his Ottoman Turkish nationality in 2017.
Gulen’s Hizmet movement has focused on establishing schools across the globe, claiming to increase the quality of education. The movement established its first schools in central Asia and later spread globally.
The movement established the first schools in the Kurdistan Region in 1994 in Erbil, and three years later in Sulaimani. The schools teach English, Kurdish, Arabic, and Ottoman Turkish languages.
Gulen’s followers claim the founding of the schools is in line with the vision of Kurdish Islamic scholar Said Nursi and his teachings, who had a vision of establishing schools to spread Islamic teachings.
Gulen was a one-time ally of Erdogan but they fell out spectacularly, and Erdogan held him responsible for the 2016 attempted coup in which rogue soldiers commandeered warplanes, tanks and helicopters. Some 250 people were killed in the bid to seize power.
Gulen, who had lived in self-imposed exile in the US since 1999, denied involvement in the putsch.
According to its followers, Gulen’s movement — known as “Hizmet” which means “service” in Turkish — seeks to spread a moderate brand of Islam that promotes Western-style education, free markets and interfaith communication.
Since the failed coup, his movement has been systematically dismantled in Turkey and its influence has declined internationally.
Known to his supporters as Hodjaefendi, or respected teacher, Gulen was born in a village in the eastern Turkish province of Erzurum in 1941. The son of an imam, or Islamic preacher, he studied the Quran from infancy.
In 1959, Gulen was appointed as a mosque imam in the northwestern city of Edirne and began to come to prominence as a preacher in the 1960s in the western province of Izmir, where he set up student dormitories and would go to tea houses to preach.
These student houses marked the start of an informal network that would spread over the following decades through education, business, media and state institutions, giving his supporters extensive influence.
This influence also spread beyond Turkey’s borders to the Turkic republics of Central Asia, the Balkans, Africa and the West through a network of schools.
FORMER ERDOGAN ALLY
Gulen had been a close ally of Erdogan and his AK Party, but growing tensions in their relationship exploded in December 2013 when corruption investigations targeting ministers and officials close to Erdogan came to light.
Prosecutors and police from Gulen’s Hizmet movement were widely believed to be behind the investigations, and an arrest warrant was issued for Gulen in 2014, with his movement designated as a terrorist group two years later.
Soon after the 2016 coup, Erdogan described Gulen’s network as traitorsh and “like a cancer,” vowing to root them out wherever they are. Hundreds of schools, companies, media outlets and associations linked to him were shut down and assets seized.
Gulen condemned the coup attempt “in the strongest terms.”
“As someone who suffered under multiple military coups during the past five decades, it is especially insulting to be accused of having any link to such an attempt,” he said in a statement.
In a crackdown after the failed putsch, which the government said targeted Gulen’s followers, at least 77,000 people were arrested and 150,000 state workers including teachers, judges, and soldiers suspended under emergency rule.
Companies and media outlets regarded as linked to Gulen were seized by the state or closed down. The Turkish government said its actions were justified by the gravity of the threat posed to the state by the coup.
Gulen also became an isolated figure within Turkey, reviled by Erdogan’s supporters and shunned by the opposition which saw his network as having conspired over decades to undermine the secular foundations of the republic.
Ankara has long sought to have him extradited from the US.
Speaking in his gated compound in Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains, Gulen said in a 2017 Reuters interview that he had no plans to flee the US to avoid extradition. Even then, he appeared frail, walking with a shuffle and keeping his longtime doctor close at hand.
Gulen had traveled to the US for medical treatment, but remained there as he faced a criminal investigation in Turkey.
[IsraelTimes] The Israeli military apologizes for a strike that killed three Lebanese soldiers in southern Leb ...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... yesterday, saying it is not battling the country’s military and its soldiers believed they were targeting a vehicle belonging to the Hezbollah terror group.
The IDF says it struck a truck that had entered an area where it had previously targeted a Hezbollah truck transporting a launcher and missiles.
The military says IDF troops were not aware that the second truck belonged to the Lebanese army, adding it is "not operating against the Lebanese Army and apologizes for these unwanted circumstances."
The Lebanese troops were killed on a road connecting the border village of Ain Ebel to the nearby town of Hanin. The deaths brought the number of Lebanese troop casualties to eight, since all-out war erupted between Israel and Hezbollah last month.
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For one, the paychecks say Army of Lebanon, and the paymaster is Saudi Arabia; for the other, the paychecks say Hezbollah, and the paymaster is Iran. For the first the troops are probably 50% or more Hezbollah, for the other the troops are 100% Hezbollah.
[IsraelTimes] US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Too old and senile to be prosecuted, not too old and senile to set national policy... has signaled "tacit approval and explicit support for Israel’s unlawful military aggression against Iran," Iran’s mission to 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... says, citing remarks by Biden in Germany last week.
"The United States will bear full responsibility for its role in instigating, inciting and enabling any acts of aggression by Israel against the Islamic Theocratic Republic of 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... ... as well as for the catastrophic consequences on regional and international peace and security," Iran’s UN mission says in a letter to the UN Security Council.
Biden, on a visit to Berlin, also told news hounds he has an understanding of how and when Israel will respond to the missile attacks by Iran. He declined to elaborate.
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A Known Wolf Whore: The Pentagon has reportedly named Chief of Staff of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations, Ariane Tabatabai, as the prime suspect for an alleged leak of classified documents, Sky News Arabia reported on Tuesday, citing a senior Pentagon official.
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Ariane Tabatabai is the chief of staff of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations. She is also an officer in US Naval Intelligence. She has access to all naval movements and all special forces operations in the world, and specifically in the Middle East. pic.twitter.com/zsbXPkcLLf
"The Biden administration’s now-suspended Iran envoy Robert Malley helped to fund, support, and direct an Iranian intelligence operation designed to influence the United States and allied governments, according to a trove of purloined Iranian government emails. The emails, which were reported on by veteran Wall Street Journal correspondent Jay Solomon, writing in Semafor, and by Iran International, the London-based émigré opposition outlet which is the most widely read independent news source inside Iran, were published last week after being extensively verified over a period of several months by the two outlets. They showed that Malley had helped to infiltrate an Iranian agent of influence named Ariane Tabatabai into some of the most sensitive positions in the U.S. government—first at the State Department and now the Pentagon, where she has been serving as chief of staff for the assistant secretary of defense for special operations, Christopher Maier."
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If Trump wins, a significant number of senior political appointee and SES pro-Iranian players in the IC/DoD universe are going to be very nervous. Not just about keeping their job but rather, about avoiding prosecution and their future in the classified workplace.
I strongly suspect they know that those institutions have a number of genuine patriots still in place, along with a fair number of "ambidextrous" careerist players who have mastered the defense of their respective rice bowls over the years. Many of both groups have kept "insurance policies" and alibi documents over the past 4 years (or longer). As the cleansing begins at Langley, Nebraska Avenue, Meade and the "E" Ring, I expect the emergence of all sorts of surprises that would never see the light of day if Kamala is installed. Many of those surprises will involve Iran and what was done to support it.
Wiki cite: "THE COUNTERINTELLIGENCE POLYGRAPH
A Counterintelligence Polygraph asks the candidate questions limited to those necessary to determine whether the examinee ever had any involvement with or knowledge of espionage/sabotage against the United States, unauthorized contact with representatives of a foreign government, or unauthorized disclosure of classified material. A Counterintelligence Polygraph is the most common polygraph. Within the Department of Defense (DoD), polygraph examinations used to determine initial eligibility for special assignment or special access are limited to counterintelligence questions.
The DoD CI exam questions cover:
Espionage
Sabotage
Terrorist Activities
Deliberate damage of U.S. Government Information Systems
Intentional compromise of U.S. Government Classified Information Secret contact with a foreign national or representative"
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Pentagon denies senior staffer investigated for document leak Press secretary says Ariane Tabatabai is 'not a subject of interest' in the ongoing investigation into how classified documents on Israel's planned attack on Iran, appeared online; says Pentagon is in contact with Israel regarding details of the investigation
Makes sense, she would (did?) inform Iran - not leak to American press.
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Makes sense, she would (did?) inform Iran - not leak to American press.
Good point. Someone in her office, perhaps? My initial guess was an uber-woke intern somewhere fighting for Paleostinian Justice rather than doing their damn job.
[NAHARNET] Israel gave the U.S. a document last week with its conditions for a diplomatic solution to end the war in Leb ...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... and allow displaced civilians from both sides of the border to return to their homes, two U.S. officials and two Israeli officials told U.S. news portal Axios.
The Israeli Prime Minister's Office gave the paper to the White House ahead of President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass.... 's envoy Amos Hochstein's visit to Beirut on Monday to discuss a diplomatic solution to the conflict, Israeli officials said.
The U.S. and Israeli officials told Axios Israeli Minister for Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer, who is a confidant of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, sent the document to Hochstein on Thursday.
Israeli officials said the paper came out of discussions Dermer had with the Israeli Ministry of Defense and the Israeli army about the principles Israel demands be part of any diplomatic solution to end the war with Hezbollah.
One Israeli demand is that the Israeli army be allowed to engage in "active enforcement" to make sure Hezbollah doesn't rearm and rebuild its military infrastructure in the areas of southern Lebanon that are close to the border, an Israeli official said.
The official added that Israel also demands its air force have freedom of operation in Lebanese air space.
These two demands contradict U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701, which states that the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) and the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) enforce a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.
"We are talking about 1701 with increased enforcement. Our main message is that if the Lebanese army and UNIFIL do more, the IDF (Israeli army) will do less and the other way around," the Israeli official told Axios.
A U.S. official said it is highly unlikely Lebanon and the international community would agree to these conditions, which would dramatically undermine Lebanon's illusory sovereignty.
Hochstein arrived in Beirut on Monday and met with acting prime minister Najib Mikati, speaker of parliament Nabih Knobby Berri
...perennial Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, head of the Amal Shiite party aligned with Hezbollah, a not very subtle sock puppet of the Medes and Persians... and other Lebanese officials and discuss the Israeli demands.
Berri told al-Arabiya on Sunday that Hochstein's visit is "the last chance before the U.S. elections to reach a solution" to the war in Lebanon.
He stressed there is consensus in Lebanon about U.N. Resolution 1701 and made clear he refuses to amend it in any way, which is effectively what Israel is reportedly demanding.
Hochstein is pushing for a wide-ranging deployment of the Lebanese armed forces in southern Lebanon as part of every diplomatic solution that ends the war in Lebanon, U.S. and Israeli officials say.
In recent years, the Lebanese Army had very limited forces in the area.
Hochstein wants to have at least 8,000 Lebanese troops deployed in southern Lebanon, the officials said.
The U.S. envoy also wants to upgrade UNIFIL's mandate so it would be able to help the Lebanese Army prevent armed individuals or groups who are not under the control of the Lebanese government from being deployed near the border with Israel.
U.S. officials say that since the 2006 war, UNIFIL barely enforced resolution 1701 and didn't prevent Hezbollah from building wide-ranging military infrastructure in southern Lebanon in violation of the resolution.
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[EngMilRu] The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
Units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted fire damage on units of AFU 57th Motorised Infantry Brigade, 92nd Air Assault Brigade, 112th and 113th Territorial Defence brigades close to Malye Prokhody, Verkhnyaya Pisarevka, Volchansk, and Artelnoye (Kharkov region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 55 troops, two motor vehicles, and one 122mm D-30 howitzer.
The Zapad Group of Forces' units improved the tactical situation and delivered strikes at manpower and hardware of AFU 3rd Tank Brigade, 14th, 28th, 44th, 60th Mechanised brigades, 3rd Assault Brigade, 116th Territorial Defence Brigade, and 1st National Guard Brigade near Petropavlovka, Kupyansk, Novoosinovo, Kruglyakovka, Novoplatonovka (Kharkov region), Nadiya (Lugansk People's Republic) and Torskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 350 troops, two motor vehicles, one 155mm M777 howitzer, and one U.S.-made 105mm M-119 gun. Three ammunition depots were eliminated.
The Yug Group of Forces' units improved the situation along the front line and defeated the units of AFU 24th, 30th, 54th, 93rd Mechanised brigades, 56th Motorised Infantry Brigade, 143rd Infantry Brigade, 46th Airmobile Brigade, and 49th Air Assault Brigade near Serebryanka, Seversk, Verkhnekamenskoye, Ivano-Daryevka, Minkovka, Stupochki, Predtechino, and Kurakhovo (Donetsk People's Republic).
Two counter-attacks launched by units of AFU 81st Airmobile Brigade were repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to up to 720 troops, three motor vehicles, one Polish-made 155mm Krab self-propelled artillery system, and one UK-made 155mm FH-70 howitzer.
The Tsentr Group of Forces' units continued to advance into the depths of the enemy's defence, inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of AFU 32nd, 41st, 53rd Mechanised brigades, 59th Motorised Infantry Brigade, 25th Airborne Brigade, 95th Air Assault Brigade, 101st Territorial Defence Brigade, 12th and 15th National Guard brigades close to Dzerzhinsk, Shcherbinovka, Nikolayevka, Selidovo, Tsukurino, and Kurakhovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
Fourteen counter-attacks launched by assault detachments of AFU 23rd, 47th, 100th Mechanised brigades, 68th Jaeger Brigade, 78th Air Assault Regiments, 49th and 425th assault battalions, and 37th Naval Infantry Brigade were repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to more than 430 troops, two pickup trucks, one 152mm Msta-B howitzer, two 152mm D-20 guns, one 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, one 122mm D-30 howitzer, one 100mm Rapira anti-tank gun, two U.S.-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, one U.S.-made M1117 armoured personnel carrier, and one U.S.-made 105mm M-119 gun.
The Vostok Group of Forces' units took more advantageous lines, inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of AFU 72nd Mechanised Brigade, 110th, 117th, 127th Territorial Defence brigades, and 21st National Guard Brigade near Dobrovolye, Shakhtyorskoye, and Rovnopol (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 90 troops, two motor vehicles, one 155mm Bogdana self-propelled artillery system, and one Polish-made 155mm Krab self-propelled artillery system.
The Dnepr Group of Forces' units hit AFU 31st, 117th Mechanised brigades, 141st Infantry Brigade, 128th Mountain Assault Brigade, and 121st, 124th Territorial Defence brigades close to Malaya Tokmachka, Orekhov, Lobkovoye (Zaporozhye region), Ivanovka, and Antonovka (Kherson region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 55 troops, two motor vehicles, and one 122mm D-30 howitzer. One field ammunition depot was destroyed.
Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack unmanned aerial vehicles, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have engaged Ukrainian energy facilities, which provided support for the actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as the infrastructure of military airfields, production workshops and depots for the storage of attack UAVs, a temporary deployment area for foreign mercenaries as well as clusters of enemy manpower and military hardware in 127 areas.
Air defence systems shot down three U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles and 52 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 646 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 34,018 unmanned aerial vehicles, 582 anti-aircraft missile systems, 18,743 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,478 MLRS combat vehicles, 16,480 field artillery guns and mortars, and 27,443 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 Kursk region.
Units of the Sever Group of Forces continue offensive actions and inflicted losses on formations of AFU 17th Tank Brigade, 21st, 22nd, 41st, and 115th Mechanised brigades, 80th, 95th Air Assault brigades, 36th Naval Infantry Brigade, 112th, 129th Territorial Defence brigades, 1st and 17th National Guard brigades close to Kolmakov, Nizhniy Klin, Novoivanovka, Novy Put, Plyokhovo, Cherkasskaya Konopelka and Cherkasskoye Porechnoye.
One counteattack launched by an assault detachment of AFU 82nd Air Assault Brigade was repelled close to Novoivanovka. The AFU losses amounted to up to 15 troops killed and wounded, destroyed one tank and two armoured fighting vehicles.
Army Aviation and artillery inflicted losses on clusters of manpower and hardware of AFU 17th Tank Brigade, 21st, 22nd, 41st, 47th, 61st, 115th Mechanised brigades, 80th, 82nd, 95th Air Assault brigades as well as 112th and 129th Territorial Defence brigades close to Agronom, Aleksandriya, Volfino, Gogolevka, Guyevo, Daryino, Kremyanoye, Kruglenkoye, Lebedevka, Leonidovo, Martynovka, Mikhaylovka, Nikolsky, Novoivanovka, Novy Put, Oleshnya, and Sverdlikovo.
Operational-Tactical Aviation and Missile Troops launched strikes at clusters in Sumy region and reserves of AFU 17th Tank Brigade, 21st, 22nd, 61st Mechanised brigades, 82nd, 95th Air Assault brigades, 101st and 103rd Territorial Defence brigades close to Basovka, Vesyolovka, Zhuravka, Katerinovka, Novenkoye, Rogoznoye, and Khodino.
Over 260 troops, 16 armoured vehicles, including two tanks, one infantry fighting vehicle, and 13 armoured fighting vehicles, six field artillery guns, four motor vehicles, and two electronic warfare stations were neutralised during the day.
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the enemy has lost more than 25,420 servicemen, 169 tanks, 84 infantry fighting vehicles, 103 armoured personnel carriers, 977 armoured fighting vehicles, 664 motor vehicles, 216 artillery guns, 38 multiple rocket launchers, including nine of HIMARS and six of MLRS made by the U.S., nine anti-aircraft missile launchers, five transport and loading vehicles, 52 EW stations, 11 counter-battery warfare radars, three air defence radars, 22 pieces of engineering and other equipment, including 13 counterobstacle vehicles, one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, and three armoured recovery vehicles.
The operation to neutralise the AFU units is in progress.
[ZH] Can you even imagine if he was a white republican?
Democrat Atlantic City mayor Mayor Marty Small Sr. and his wife, La'Quetta Small have been charged with physically harming their daughter on "multiple occasions" last winter, according to a new report from Philly Voice.
The pair are facing charges of child endangerment, assault and terroristic threats, the report says.
Attorneys for the mayor and his wife call the charges "headline-grabbing" due to his "high profile status", though to be fair, prior to this report...we'd never heard of him.
Attorney Ed Jacobs said: "We are confident that fair-minded jurors will quickly see that parenting struggles are not criminal events, and will agree on the innocence of both Marty and La’Quetta."
Atlantic County prosecutors accused Small of beating his 16-year-old daughter with a broomstick, slamming her down stairs, and punching her during family disputes in December and January. His wife is accused of punching their daughter, dragging her by the hair, hitting her with a belt, and striking her face.
The incidents allegedly arose from conflicts over the girl's boyfriend, who provided prosecutors with photos, videos, and evidence of the abuse and resulting bruises.
Gov. Phil Murphy said through a spokesperson that Small should "consider whether he can continue effectively serving the people of Atlantic City as Mayor."
The Philly Voice report says that after prosecutors searched the Smalls' home in March, Mayor Marty Small held a press conference - of course suggesting the investigation might have "political and racial motivations".
Constance Days-Chapman, Small’s former campaign manager and principal of Atlantic City High School, is charged with failing to report child abuse and obstructing justice.
She allegedly did not notify child protection authorities after the Smalls' daughter disclosed the abuse to her. Days-Chapman pleaded not guilty at her arraignment last week.
If only Smalls had the same commitment to discipline with cleaning up Atlantic City...
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Atlantic County prosecutors accused Small of beating his 16-year-old daughter with a broomstick, slamming her down stairs, and punching her during family disputes in December and January. His wife is accused of punching their daughter, dragging her by the hair, hitting her with a belt, and striking her face.
[IsraelTimes] Caretaker Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati says "there have been no contacts with Hezbollah since the middle of last month," in an interview with the Saudi-owned Al Arabiya TV channel.
Mikati raised the ire of 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... when he accused Tehran last week of "blatant interference in Lebanese affairs and an attempt to establish an unacceptable guardianship over Leb ...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... ," after Iran’s speaker of parliament said the country was willing to take part in negotiations over the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry front man denies that charge, and says that Tehran "has never had any intention or [has initiated any] action that could be suspected of interfering in Lebanon’s internal affairs."
[IsraelTimes] Israel has sent a message to Hezbollah that should the terror group attempt to target Israeli leaders again, the IDF will raze Beirut’s southern Dahiyeh district to the ground, Hezbollah’s stronghold in the Lebanese capital, according to unnamed sources quoted by the Saudi al-Hadath news channel.
The message, reportedly conveyed through a third party, comes after Hezbollah launched a drone to target Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s private residence in the coastal city of Caesarea on Saturday.
The prime minister and his wife were not at home at the time of the attack and that there were no injuries in the incident, the PMO said.
Al-Hadath notes that this was not Hezbollah’s first attempt to target an Israeli political figure, as it tried at least twice in the past.
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[Regnum] In Sevastopol, Captain 1st Rank Nikolai Mikhailenko, who died in Syria while performing special tasks, was seen off on his final journey, the city's governor Mikhail Razvozhaev reported on October 21.
Mikhailenko was born in Chernigov into a military family, dreamed of a military career since childhood and after finishing school entered the Sevastopol Nakhimov School, Razvozhaev said on his Telegram channel.
After graduating from the school, Mikhailenko served in the Navy, successfully advancing up the career ladder, and in recent years taught at his native school, the governor noted.
"While teaching, Nikolai Nikolaevich did not sit in classrooms. He took advantage of every opportunity to visit places where new tactical methods were used in practice, and where weapons and military equipment were tested," the governor of Sevastopol said.
According to his fellow servicemen, Mikhailenko was a true comrade in arms, he skillfully trained and educated young cadets, Razvozhaev noted. The hero will be remembered in Sevastopol, he added.
[Rudaw] Iraqi security forces on Monday arrested four "terrorism" suspects in operations across separate provinces, the army said, adding that the operations were carried out in cooperation with Kurdish forces.
"The Counter-Terrorism service carried out a series of operations that resulted in the arrest of four bully boyz in different areas of the country," Iraq’s Security Media Cell said in a statement.
Two suspects were arrested in the Kurdistan Region’s Sulaimani province in cooperation with Kurdish security forces (Asayish), the cell said, and the others were arrested in Salahaddin and Kirkuk provinces.
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That certainly will help with the homeless problem./sarc
Illinois has a constitutional problem as the government has to keep pension payments even if they're beyond the means of the local community to fund said programs. In simple terms, the prols exist and work for the bureaucracy.
[IsraelTimes] More than a dozen Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s were said to hit Beirut’s southern suburbs on Monday night and in the early hours of Tuesday morning after the Israel Defense Forces accused Hezbollah of storing millions of dollars in a bunker underneath one of Leb ...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... ’s largest hospitals amid a years-long financial crisis.
The strikes were launched after the IDF’s Arabic-language front man Lt. Col. Avichay Adraee instructed residents of several buildings in Beirut’s southern suburbs to evacuate the area, warning that they were "located near facilities and interests belonging to Hezbollah."
The military said earlier on Monday that it would continue striking Hezbollah targets with a focus on their financial infrastructure, after IDF front man Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said that Israel estimated there to be roughly "half a billion dollars in dollar bills and gold" in a bunker underneath the al-Sahel Hospital in the southern Beirut suburb known as Dahiyeh, where Hezbollah is largely based.
He warned that the Israeli Air Force was monitoring the compound, but stressed that Israel would not launch a strike on the hospital itself, as it is at war with Hezbollah, and not with the Lebanese people.
The hospital nevertheless said that it was evacuating its patients to a safer location, and director Fadi Alameh denied the allegations. No, no! Certainly not! made by the IDF and invited the Lebanese army to visit the site.
Alameh told the local al-Jadeed TV that the hospital, which has been in the area for 42 years, has underground rooms for surgery and has no ties to Hezbollah or any political group.
Following the calls to evacuate, residents of Beirut reported several loud explosions in the Dahiyeh area, and Lebanese media reported that at least 13 Israeli airstrikes had been launched in the Hezbollah bastion.
The Lebanese health ministry said that a preliminary toll showed that four people, including a child, were killed in the airstrikes near the country’s biggest public hospital, and 24 others were maimed.
The number provided by the health ministry does not differentiate between combatants and civilians.
The strike caused "significant damage to the hospital," the health ministry said, including to the entrance, "which is still operating and receives a large number of patients."
The health ministry also denied the IDF’s assertion that Hezbollah was storing half a billion dollars under the hospital.
Lebanon’s National News Agency reported at least three Israeli strikes on the Ouzai district of south Beirut. While most districts of Beirut’s southern suburbs had been emptied for almost a month in light of the escalation between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group, the densely packed residential area of Ouzai was still filled with people because it had never been targeted before.
Additional strikes were also reported in Haret Hreik, just south of Ouzai, and Hadath.
’NO ROOM FOR ESCAPE’
Hezbollah-affiliated rescuers told AFP they were looking for survivors amid the devastation in Ouzai, adding that the evacuation order, then the strike, caused "panic among residents" who "started to run in the streets."
"They did not leave any room for people to escape. The strike came closely after the warning," one said.
A Lebanese security official told AFP that the country’s national airline had to switch landing strips after Israeli strikes near Beirut’s only international airport hit close to the main runway.
"Middle East Airlines switched the runway it was using because the main runway is close to the site of the Ouzai strike," the official said, requesting anonymity to discuss sensitive matters.
AFPTV footage showed plumes of smoke rising from Beirut’s southern suburbs, with AFP correspondents also hearing several loud bangs before the strikes.
The footage also showed two strikes that caused a huge fire, with black smoke surrounding dissipating orange flames.
The strikes came as the IDF continued to hammer an array of Hezbollah positions across Lebanon, including strikes against some 300 targets in the previous 24 hours.
In particular, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi said on Monday that more than two dozen targets belonging to Hezbollah-linked financial firm al-Qard al-Hassan had been hit.
Al-Qard al-Hassan is a financial firm, officially registered as a charity, that has been offering customers credit in exchange for gold deposits on an interest-free basis since the 1980s. Israel charges that Hezbollah is making money from Lebanon civilians through AQAH.
The firm is used mainly by Moslem Shiite communities battling a years-long financial crisis that has locked Lebanese out of their bank deposits.
The United States has long sanctioned the association, accusing Hezbollah of using it as a cover to mask its financial activities and gain access to the international financial system.
Al-Qard al-Hassan says it has more than 30 branches nationwide, mainly in Hezbollah bastions including Beirut’s southern suburbs, but also in central Beirut and in other major cities such as Sidon and Tyre.
The attacks on northern Israel since October 2023 have resulted in the deaths of 29 civilians. In addition, 43 IDF soldiers and reservists have died in cross-border skirmishes and in the ensuing ground operation launched in southern Lebanon in late September.
Two soldiers have been killed in a drone attack from Iraq, and there have also been several attacks from Syria, without any injuries.
The IDF estimates that around 2,000 Hezbollah operatives have been killed in the conflict. Around 100 members of other terror groups, along with hundreds of civilians, have also been reported killed in Lebanon.
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IDF confirms: Body of Nasrallah's successor found in Beirut Hezbollah leader's successor, Hashem Safieddine, was eliminated in a strike in the Dahieh suburb of Beirut about three weeks ago, along with the intelligence chief of Hezbollah.
"The left’s ideas have failed and failed spectacularly, and all they have left is cheating.” Elizabeth Nickson.
Of course, there’s no “pandemic” this time to cover for the trip that the Party of Chaos wants to lay on the country, no excuse for gross and glaring ballot fuckery, for the days of anxious uncertainty following an election. Everybody and his uncle expect a gigantic tantrum to follow November 6 if Mr. Trump somehow overcomes the tide of bogus harvested votes, illegal alien votes, phantom overseas votes, voting machine swapped votes, lost-and-found votes, last-minute rafts of votes, and other products of the Marc Elias election sabotage machine.
I am not so sure that the tantrum will materialize. Despite the orgy of Orwellian language inversions you have been subjected to in recent years, and the bending of reality it induced, you will know a real insurrection if you see it. You already know the real reason the Democratic Party went insane: its crime spree against the citizens of this land was so obvious and outrageous that a thousand Beltway bureaucrats are now going crazy in fear of prosecution. The tantrum everyone expects them to provoke would be a real insurrection and they are liable to find themselves in even deeper trouble for resorting to it.
[Breitbart] The once strong partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI, hailed as the “best bromance in tech,” is beginning to show cracks as financial pressures and differing priorities strain the relationship between the two companies.
The New York Times reports that the partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI, the maker of the popular ChatGPT AI chatbot, has long been considered one of the most significant collaborations in the tech industry. However, recent developments suggest that the relationship between the two companies is not as rock-solid as it once appeared.
According to interviews with 19 people familiar with the relationship between Microsoft and OpenAI, the partnership has been strained by financial pressure on OpenAI, concern about its stability, and disagreements between employees of the two companies. The tension is particularly notable given the fact that Microsoft has invested heavily in OpenAI, pumping $13 billion into the start-up over the past five years.
One of the key points of contention between the two companies revolves around OpenAI’s need for more computing power and financial support. Last fall, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman asked Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella if the tech giant would invest billions more in the start-up. While Nadella was initially willing to continue supporting OpenAI, he reconsidered after Altman was briefly ousted by OpenAI’s board of directors in November.
As OpenAI continued to request more money and computing power from Microsoft, the tech giant remained hesitant to increase its investment. This reluctance has put OpenAI in a difficult position, as the company expects to lose $5 billion this year and relies heavily on Microsoft’s cloud computing systems to develop its AI technologies.
In response to Microsoft’s hesitancy, OpenAI has sought to renegotiate its deal with the tech giant, pushing for lower costs and the ability to purchase computing power from other companies. In June, Microsoft agreed to an exception in the contract, allowing OpenAI to sign a roughly $10 billion computing deal with Oracle. OpenAI has also sought to broaden its investor base, securing strategic investments from companies like Nvidia and MGX, a tech investment firm controlled by the United Arab Emirates.
But they somehow can’t manage to notice that the armed gangs are Hamasniks shearing the entering sheep, and therefore discontinuing shipments would be the wiser course.
[IsraelTimes] Armed gangs have been preventing trucks of humanitarian aid from entering Gaza through the Kerem Shalom Crossing, White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby says.
“There are plenty of trucks that are waiting to get in there, and they’re not able to because of these armed gangs and criminal groups that are stopping them, so we all have to take a turn here and see what we can do to reduce that pressure down at Kerem Shalom so that that aid can get in,” Kirby says during a press briefing.
He notes that Israel has allowed 120 trucks of aid into Gaza after barring aid from reaching the several hundred thousand people still in the area for two weeks.
“More needs to be done. But we have seen an uptick over the last few days,” Kirby says.
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But they somehow can’t manage to notice that the armed gangs are Hamasniks shearing the entering sheep, and therefore discontinuing shipments would be the wiser course.
Just in: A 50-year-old from Shelby County, Ala. was arrested for allegedly making and sharing child s—x abuse content of a victim younger than 12.
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Nasreddin's ass passes at lunch
A madrasa for something to munch.
"Lo, this beast has no shame!
Claims the taste is the same
For one sad little grape or a bunch."
"Hey, shaddup already! Who ya gonna believe, kids, me or my lying donkey? Candy for everybody! New books all around! Who's yer daddy?"
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Sorry. A contemptible piece of punch-pulling, too, picking on the poor beloved Hodja when it's perfectly obvious who I really had in mind. I blame... Chabon! Finally reading YPU, just about frantic because I can't share it with my spooky uncle.
It’s good to see the Russian military arrest and try soldiers for what used to be an expected wartime perk.
[Korrespondent] The pre-trial investigation is still ongoing.
The occupiers illegally detained the woman, allegedly suspecting her of collaborating with the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The victim was brutally beaten and sexually assaulted.
Three Russian servicemen aged 28, 30 and 37 have been declared suspects in violating the laws and customs of war. This was reported by the Main Directorate of the National Police in the Chernihiv region.
According to law enforcement officials, three residents of the Republic of Tyva (RF) illegally detained a woman in the village of Yagodnoye in the Chernihiv region in early March 2022, allegedly suspecting her of collaborating with the Armed Forces of Ukraine. They took her to a house where they brutally beat her and committed sexual violence.
Later, not satisfied with the above, the invaders transferred the woman to the "death cellar" in the school in the village of Yagodnoye. There they drove out of one of the rooms all the civilians inside and repeated their criminal actions against the victim.
The pre-trial investigation continues.
Let us recall that in the temporarily occupied Starobelsk region, a Russian soldier raped and killed two girls.
It was also reported that the Russian occupier who committed sexual violence against a woman during the temporary occupation of the right-bank part of the Kherson region was declared a suspect.
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The Russian military, as with the Soviet military, and as with the Imperial Russian military always have regarded acts of war committed against the civilian population as acts that shame the uniform, and have always been treated as crimes, not perquisites.
How they are dealt with will depend on the tactical commander at the time of the commission of the crime, and could include non judicial punishment (Article 15, Captain's mast, etc), through the stripping of ranks and rewards, to exile, to imprisonment, to execution (drumheads).
The main difference is how news of the alleged crime is handled. Russians prefer to handle their judicial matters discretely. They prefer to let the detractors squawk as criminal matters are quietly closed and they move on to the business of victory.
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I dunno but, from what I've heard, Red Army soldiers had themselves quite a party when they finally got to Berlin. When Stalin told them "Berlin is yours", he meant it in more ways than one. I'd hate to have them doing the same in Ukraine. There's enough bad blood between those people as it is.
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The point is soldiers from either side ain't s'posed to be using military means against civilians
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Surprising when they emptied out prisons to feed the carnage on the front line? Given how much they waste in burning up Ukie ammo with cannon fodder, what would the line dog think that the 'authorities' would do to them that was worse?
[IsraelTimes] IDF says it has destroyed some 70% of Hezbollah's rocket arsenal, killed 2,000 terrorists
The IDF says it has defeated Hezbollah’s forces in every area that Israeli troops have so far operated in southern Lebanon.
According to the military’s latest estimates, more than 1,200 Hezbollah members have been killed amid the ground offensive. In all, since October 2023, over 2,000 members of the terror group have been killed, the IDF says.
Among the dead Hezbollah members are seven brigade-level commanders, 21 battalion-level commanders, and two dozen company commanders, according to the IDF.
The military says it sees Hezbollah struggling to bring in reinforcements to counter the IDF’s five divisions operating against it in southern Lebanon, and that the amount of weapons the army has seized is affecting the terror group’s ability to carry out attacks.
In terms of rocket capabilities, the IDF estimates that Hezbollah maintains about 30% of what it initially had before the war, which is still thousands of rockets.
But due to the elimination of Hezbollah’s leadership, including numerous field commanders, the IDF says Hezbollah is struggling to carry out massive rocket fire that the terror group had initially planned.
The IDF still aims to wrap up its operations in southern Lebanon within a few weeks. Once the threat of a Hezbollah invasion is removed from the border area, residents of the north will be able to return to their homes.
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Did that have half a billion dollars in cash and gold, too? Not sure the below is the same site, but it certainly is possible…
So it’s true. #Israel did strike #Hezbollah cash and gold reserves. Locals mined gold pieces out of the rubble. This is becoming surreal! https://t.co/cvsIO03vwJ
[IsraelTimes] Up to 1,000 women and kiddies needing medical care will shortly be evacuated from Gazoo to Europe, the head of the World Health Organization’s Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... branch says.
Israel "is committed to 1,000 more medical evacuations within the next months to the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... ," Hans Kluge says in an interview with AFP, adding that the evacuations would be facilitated by the WHO and the European countries involved.
He says the evacuations will be facilitated by the WHO — the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... ’ health agency — and the European countries involved.
The WHO Europe has already facilitated 600 medical evacuations from Gaza to seven European countries since the latest war began there in October 2023.
Out of the control of the Biden-Harris administration perhaps. But the IDF’s perspective is necessarily a bit different.
[IsraelTimes] US envoy Amos Hochstein holds talks with Lebanese officials in Beirut on conditions for a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, saying that the conflict has “escalated out of control.”
He says that it was “not enough” for both sides to commit to UN resolution 1701, which ended the last round of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006 and which calls for southern Lebanon to be free of any troops or weapons other than those of the Lebanese state.
Hochstein says that neither Hezbollah nor Israel had adequately implemented the resolution, and that while it would be the basis for the end to current hostilities, the US was seeking to determine what more needed to be done to make sure it was implemented “fairly, accurately and transparently.”
“We are working with the government of Lebanon, the state of Lebanon, as well as the government of Israel to get to a formula that brings an end to this conflict once and for all,” he says.
After what he called a “very constructive” meeting with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, a close ally of Hezbollah who has been engaging in diplomatic efforts to end the conflict, Hochstein says:
“The United States wants to end this conflict absolutely as soon as possible. That is what President [Joe] Biden wants, that is what we all are working towards.”
[IsraelTimes] US special envoy Amos Hochstein says in Beirut that Lebanon and Israel just committing to UN Resolution 1701 is not enough and that the United States is working to devise a formula to end the conflict once and for all.
“Tying Lebanon’s future to other conflicts in the region was not and is not in the interest of the Lebanese people,” Hochstein says after meeting with Lebanon’s parliament speaker Nabih Berri, a Hezbollah ally, adding that the United States wants to end the conflict “as soon as possible.”
UN Resolution 1701, which ended the last round of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006, calls for southern Lebanon to be free of any troops or weapons other than those of the Lebanese state.
The resolution has gone largely unenforced since it was passed in 2006, allowing Hezbollah to build up a formidable arms cache and defensive capabilities, with neither UNIFIL peacekeepers nor the LAF willing to challenge the Iran-backed terror group.
Israel has repeatedly portrayed its offensive in southern Lebanon as essentially stepping in and doing UNIFIL’s job for it.
[NY Post] House of Mouse better get their sh*t in order. Quit the DEI and LGBTQ+
The Walt Disney Company said it aims to pick a successor to CEO Bob Iger by early 2026 as it named former Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman its next chairman of the board.
Disney said finding a CEO to succeed Iger is a "top priority" for Gorman, who joined the board earlier this year and is currently the head of its succession committee. In a Monday statement it said Gorman will succeed Mark Parker, a former CEO of Nike, as chairman on Jan. 2.
The Mouse House’s initial aim was for Disney to pick a successor to Iger sometime in 2025, but the company decided to push back the date in order to do its due diligence in vetting candidates, according to reports.
Gorman, who drew widespread praise for his handling of his own succession at Morgan Stanley, joined Disney’s board less than a year ago and was picked to head the succession planning committee in August. He will step down as executive chairman of Morgan Stanley on Dec. 31.
Morgan Stanley saw an orderly transition from Gorman to current boss Ted Pick. Since the start of the year, the company’s stock has gained nearly 30%.
"The Disney board has benefited tremendously from James Gorman’s expertise and guidance, and we are lucky to have him as our next chairman — particularly as the board continues to move forward with the succession process," Iger said in a statement.
Disney’s history with succession planning for Iger has been chaotic at best. The longtime CEO had reportedly positioned at least three possible executives to take the reins, only to extend his own contract. Finally, he tapped Bob Chapek in early 2020, just prior to the onset of the coronavirus pandemic.
Chapek’s tenure was marred by brutal corporate infighting — much of it stemming from Iger undermining him, according to reports. He was fired by Disney’s board in November 2022.
Parker, who is also executive chairman of apparel giant Nike, will step down after a nine-year stint on the board "to focus on other areas" of his work, according to a statement from Disney.
He is expected to devote more of his time to matters related to Nike, which recently tapped Elliott Hill to take over as CEO in place of John Donahoe.
"I’m extremely grateful to Mark Parker for his many years of board service and leadership, which have been so valuable to this company and its shareholders, and to me as CEO," Iger said.
Disney said its board discussed succession planning at each of its regularly scheduled meetings in fiscal 2024 and continues to review internal candidates and external candidates.
Topping the list of internal candidates is Disney Entertainment co-Chairman Dana Walden, a creative TV executive in the mold of Iger with a string of commercial and critical successes and strong talent relationships.
Others include Disney Experiences Chairman Josh D’ Amaro — an executive with Iger-like charisma whose portfolio includes the company’s most significant revenue engine, its theme parks — and ESPN Chairman Jimmy Pitaro, the likable executive who is guiding the sports network’s digital transition.
Disney Entertainment Co-Chairman Alan Bergman, a Disney veteran who oversees film production and streaming, also may be in the running.
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[IsraelTimes] The financial institution is the latest target of IDF airstrikes as Israel seeks to degrade the terror group’s ability to fund its war on the Jewish state
Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s targeted branches of an association accused of financing the Hezbollah terror group late Sunday and early Monday, as Israel appeared to expand its campaign against the Iran-backed group in an effort to degrade its ability to fund operations.
At least 11 strikes were reported in Beirut’s southern suburbs, with more attacks in southern Leb ...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... and the northeastern Beqaa Valley region, all Hezbollah strongholds, as panicked civilians tried to reach shelter.
Most of the strikes targeted branches of al-Qard al-Hassan, seen as one of the group’s main sources of cash.
Here are some details about al-Qard al-Hassan (AQAH):
— Founded in 1983, al-Qard al-Hassan describes itself as a charitable organization, which provides loans to people according to Islamic principles that forbid interest. It has more than 30 branches across Lebanon, including 15 in densely populated parts of central Beirut and its suburbs. It operates under a license granted by the Lebanese government.
— Many people from Hezbollah’s Shiite constituency have borrowed from al-Qard al-Hassan, taking hard currency loans against the value of jewelry — for example — repayable over several years on flexible terms. Its role expanded as Lebanon sank into a deep financial crisis beginning in 2019, freezing ordinary Lebanese out of their savings. Hezbollah encouraged Lebanese from all sects and political factions to use AQAH.
— The United States Department of the Treasury, which sanctioned AQAH in 2007, has said that Hezbollah uses al-Qard al-Hassan as a cover to manage "financial activities and gain access to the international financial system." "While AQAH purports to serve the Lebanese people, in practice it illicitly moves funds through shell accounts and controllers, exposing Lebanese financial institutions to possible sanctions," it said in a later statement sanctioning individuals linked to it in 2021.
— Hezbollah’s slain terror chief His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The late, lamented satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...> , who was killed in an Israeli airstrike on September 27, spoke about AQAH many times. In 2020, after al-Qard al-Hassan was hacked and names of its clients were published, Nasrallah said the aim was to scare away its users in a bid to make the institution collapse. He urged Hezbollah supporters to respond by depositing any funds they had at home with al-Qard al-Hassan. He described it as an organization supported and protected by Hezbollah.
– Al-Qard Al-Hassan is estimated to have hundreds of thousands of clients, according to two regional financial sources.
[JustTheNews] House Judiciary Committee Jim Jordan on Monday released the transcript of closed-door testimony from Nathan Wade, the special prosecutor hired by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to help manage her office's Donald Trump ...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania... election interference case before coming under scrutiny for his romantic-financial relationship with Willis.
Wade testified that Willis was planning to prosecute Trump and began discussing a search committee to find a special prosecutor to investigate the former president prior to assuming office in January 2021.
The former special prosecutor was also confronted with his own records showing that he met with White House officials, for eight hours on one occasion, though he told Sherlocks he could not recall the details of the meetings.
Wade served on that search committee, which was instated on day one of Willis’ term in January 2021. After an unsuccessful search, Wade was ultimately invited to assume the role himself, which he claimed he reluctantly accepted.
"And so the search committee, you said that began when DA Willis took office on January 1, 2021. Is that correct?" Sherlocks asked.
"Yes," Wade replied.
"And was there outreach to you to be part of the search committee prior to January 1, 2021?"
"Absolutely," he confirmed, saying the outreach began "Sometime after the election, but prior to her taking office."
The transcript of Wade's deposition Tuesday was released by Jordan's committee a week after the interview. The GOP-led committee subpoenaed Wade as part of an investigation into his relationship with Willis. Last year, Willis indicted Trump and 18 codefendants in Georgia over their alleged efforts to challenge the 2020 election results in the state.
Wade resigned from the case in March after a Georgia judge made his stepping aside a condition of allowing Willis to remain on the case after evidence of an improper financial and romantic relationship emerged between them.
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I don’t see any downside for Wade unless he lies under oath. I assume that the romantic and professional relationships with Fani are done.
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His memory sucks: "I don't recall" something like 57 times, including whether he met WH Aides in the WH or somewhere else. You should be able to remember going to the White F'n House
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I assume that the romantic and professional relationships with Fani are done.
The original, American strains of Black Hebrew Israelites range from hard-working mystics to viciously racist sovereign citizen types who carry guns, don’t pay taxes, and move into houses they claim to own by right of being the aboriginal population. The branch that moved to Israel in 1969 has evolved into something much better. May the memory of this young man’s sacrifice be a blessing on his people and all Israel.
[IsraelTimes] Elishai Young, 19, who fell in Gaza, had not yet completed the 18 months of active duty needed for him, his mother, and his special needs brother to obtain Israeli citizenship
The death on Saturday in the northern Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip of Sgt. Elishai Young, 19, from Dimona, in southern Israel, reopens the decades-long campaign for state recognition of the non-Jewish Hebrew Israelites Community to which he belonged.
Young, of 401st Armored Brigade’s 52nd Battalion, was buried on Monday at the Dimona Military cemetery in the presence of IDF soldiers, and family and friends.
The Hebrew Israelites Community, which has around 2,500 members (down from 3,000 just a few years ago due to people leaving the country), believes it is descended from an ancient Israelite tribe.
It was founded in 1966 by an Afro-American, Ben Carter, a reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... steelworker who renamed himself Ben Ammi Ben-Israel and claimed to be God’s representative on earth. The Dimona community put down roots in 1969.
In 2013, then-Minister of Interior Gideon Sa’ar decided that those who completed more than 18 months of military service would receive citizenship, along with their immediate family.
Young, his mother, brother, and late father were given permanent residency some years ago. But the soldier fell before completing those 18 months.
Asked whether citizenship would nevertheless be considered given the circumstances, an IDF spokesperson referred The Times of Israel to the Interior Ministry and the Population and Immigration Authority. As of press time, the latter had not yet given an answer.
Ashriel Moore, one of the community’s spokespeople, told The Times of Israel that Young’s father died several years ago, leaving his mother to care for him and an older brother who has special needs. "His mother is having a hard time," Moore went on. "Elishai helped with the older son. She didn’t want him to go into a combat role. She said she only had Elishai to help."
Moore said that the community observed three days of mourning, with people visiting a mourning tent and providing food and support for the family.
The community participates fully in local life and campaigns on behalf of Israel. Children attend local state schools; most eligible youngsters serve in the IDF.
The community does not subscribe to any particular religion, observes Shabbat and Jewish Holy Days mentioned in the Old Testament, circumcises its male children eight days after birth, and requires women to observe the biblical laws of purification.
It is not recognized as Jewish by Israel’s religious authorities.
In 2003, then-Interior Minister Avraham Poraz offered permanent residency to community members who had temporary resident status and had been in Israel for over a decade.
In 2010, some community members began to receive full Israeli citizenship.
But in 2021, the Interior Ministry’s Population and Immigration Authority ordered 51 individuals without status to leave the country within 60 days. All had entered Israel from the US as tourists and had remained illegally once their permitted three-month stay was up.
Moore, who is coordinating a campaign to stop the deportations, noted that some of those ordered to leave were born in Israel (where birth does not confer citizenship). Others had Israeli-born children. Those not eligible for US citizenship or who had given it up were stateless and had nowhere to go, he went on.
Five individuals have since left Israel. In February 2023, a court in Beersheba, in southern Israel, ordered the Interior Ministry to solve the problem.
Since then, however, the group’s lawyers, who are trying to secure permanent residency for the group, have been playing ping-pong with a court in Jerusalem, the Interior Ministry, and the Population and Immigration Authority.
"They keep asking for more documents," Moore said. "For example, they ask people born and raised here who have never been to the US to submit a US police report [showing no criminal record]. "
"We can’t produce all the documents being requested. We’re waiting to hear when there will be another court hearing. We remain in limbo. Slowly but surely, people are leaving. I think that’s part of the strategy. It’s like a war of attrition."
He went on, "We’re trying to schedule another court date, but the ministry continues to kick the can down the road, asking for more time, saying they can’t appear in court because their lawyers are on IDF reserve duty. It’s a lot of nonsense."
’AN INSEPARABLE PART OF US’
At Young’s funeral, a former deputy commander of the 401st brigade, Zafrir Har Shoshanim, praised him for his bravery and commitment, and noted that Young’s battalion commander was still fighting for his life, having been injured during the same incident just meters away.
"You fought like lions," said Har Shoshanim. "You were proud of your family, your community," he said of Young. "You helped your brother [with special needs]. You had a high level of commitment and insisted on being at the front. Your commanders knew they could depend on you. You were reliable, organized, willing to do anything from the smallest thing to the biggest. You were a special character. Also a man of music. Music was your life. You are an inseparable part of us."
Before collapsing in tears, Young’s mother, Shiria, a widow, recalled how Young would call and promise, "Mom, don’t worry, I’m coming home."
Friends and relatives spoke about a young man who tried to be the best in everything he did, including his studies, who insisted on going into an IDF combat unit; a man who was devoted to music, and could often be seen wearing earphones.
Benny Biton, Dimona’s Mayor, called on the government to grant citizenship to those in the community who don’t yet have it, particularly following Young’s death.
"100 percent of this community serves in the IDF," the mayor said at the funeral, "and we’ve been living with them for nearly 50 years."
Two Israeli soldiers were killed during fighting in the northern Gaza Strip earlier today, the IDF announces.
They are named as Staff Sgt. Ofir Berkovich, 20, from Modi’in, and Sgt. Elishai Young, 19, from Dimona.
Both served with the 401st Armored Brigade’s 52nd Battalion.
Their deaths bring Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip to 357. The number includes a police officer killed in a hostage rescue mission and a Defense Ministry contractor.
The military also announces that an officer with the 188th Armored Brigade’s 53rd Battalion was seriously maimed earlier today by an explosive-laden drone in southern Leb ...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
[Jpost] A former United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) soldier, under the alias Michael, testified that UNIFIL was "totally subject to Hezbollah" when he worked in Lebanon 10 years ago in an interview with Danish news site B.T. on Sunday.
UNSTO, founded in 1948, is the first peacekeeping mission the United Nations ever created; with the mission of "monitor[ing] ceasefires, supervise[ing] armistice agreements, prevent[ing] isolated incidents from escalating and assist[ing] other UN peacekeeping operations in the region to fulfil their respective mandates.
The soldier had been tasked with observing and reporting violations of UN Security Council Resolution 1701 of 2006, which called for southern Lebanon to be without Hezbollah.
Despite the organization’s mission, Michael reported, "We were totally subject to Hezbollah. We clearly had limited freedom of movement. For example, we never operated after dark for fear of Hezbollah. So they had free time in the evening and night hours."
Michael also reported that UNIFIL and UNTSO workers had their access to cities in southern Lebanon restricted by Hezbollah, who would stop them when they tried to enter certain areas.
"They simply blocked the road. They were not visibly armed but aggressive, and it was quite clear that they were members of Hezbollah - we knew very well who decided things, especially in the Shiite cities," said Michael. "They didn't want us to see what they were doing."
Despite their obligations, Michael testified that workers would simply observe from a distance when suspicious persons photographed the Israeli border.
"When we patrolled the Blue Line, we often saw 'civilians' very close to the Israeli military installations taking pictures," he said. "When that happened, we withdrew and observed from a distance — we were simply instructed to do so." When I served as reservist on the Lebanese border, we were told that UNIFIL acts as Hezbollah observers, reporting our movements to the terrorists.
...Michael’s interview came in tandem with an Israel Hayom report that Hezbollah terrorists captured by the IDF testified that Hezbollah paid money to UNIFIL personnel to use their bases for operations - a claim UNIFIL denied to the Jerusalem Post.
🚨ABSOLUTELY EPIC!! 🇮🇱🇱🇧 The Israel Defense Forces declassifies information telling the people of Lebanon **exactly** where they can go get 100s of millions of dollars in stored Hezbollah gold & cash.. 'go get it!' 😂 pic.twitter.com/xJRBHNwYE9
[Jpost] The IDF reveals the economic blow that landed in Beirut.
IDF Spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari revealed on Monday night that the former Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah's bunker in Dahieh in southern Beirut was located underneath a hospital - which held gold and half a billion dollars in cash.
One of his bunkers was located beneath the Al-Sahel Hospital and was used as Nasrallah's emergency bunker, according to the IDF. The hospital has been evacuated following Israeli claims a Hezbollah cash bunker is located beneath it, hospital director Fadi Alameh told Reuters on Monday. Hagari said that Israel will not strike the hospital.
Alameh denied the allegation and called on the Lebanese army to visit the site.
An N12 report said that it serves as Hezbollah's central money warehouse, where the vast majority of the organization's money stolen from Lebanese citizens and used for terrorism is hidden.
The IDF revealed a graphic photo and a video simulation of the structure. "This bunker is deliberately placed under the hospital and on both sides of it," Hagari continued. "You can see the buildings under which the entrance shafts to the bunker are located.
"This money could and still can go to rebuilding the state of Lebanon. This money had been intended to go exclusively to arming the terrorist organization Hezbollah and had no other destination."
He said that IAF aircraft are monitoring the compound "and will continue to do so.
CALLING ON LEBANESE TO TAKE A STAND
"We call on the citizens of Lebanon, the Lebanese government, and international institutions - do not allow Hezbollah to keep terrorist funds under a hospital. Even in the coming hours, we will continue to attack Hezbollah targets throughout Lebanon, including in Beirut in Dahieh.
"Our war is not against the citizens of Lebanon - but against a murderous terrorist organization which continues to arm itself and align itself with the interests of the Islamic Republic regime. We will continue to work to create security that will allow the return of our residents of the north to their homes."
Hagari also revealed that the IDF eliminated in Syria a senior member of the terrorist organization's financial system, Ynet reported.
The "Qard al-Hasan" bank, which was founded in the 1980s as a charity, has developed into a powerful financial institution that currently serves over 200,000 people and manages most of Hezbollah's economic activity, Maariv reported.
Oh dear. And so many Lebanese have been impoverished by the war Hezbollah started…
To all the journalists in Beirut, including those who participated in the press tour in the Al-Sahel Hospital, these are the entry instructions to Nasrallah’s bunker we exposed yesterday:
According to intelligence information, one of the entrances to the bunker, containing more…
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There will be riots as Lebanese descend on the bunkers to take the cash. There will probably be bloodshed as people fight over the cash. There will be a few deaths. These deaths will be blamed on Israel, of course.
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New remake of Kelly’s Heroes in the works for Steven Spielberg
[IsraelTimes] Two Hamas ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... sources say the Paleostinian terror group is moving toward appointing a Doha-based ruling committee rather than a single successor to its chief Yahya Sinwar, who was killed by Israeli troops last week.
"The Hamas leadership’s approach is not to appoint a successor to the late chief, the martyr Yahya Sinwar, until their next elections" scheduled for March "if conditions permit," a well-informed source from the group tells AFP.
A five-member committee that was formed in August following the liquidation of political chief Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... in Tehran "will take over the leadership of the group," the source adds.
The committee was formed to facilitate decision-making given the difficulty of communicating with Sinwar 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 a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... before his death.
Sinwar was named the Gaza chief of the holy warrior group in 2017, before rising to become the overall leader of Hamas after Haniyeh was assassinated in July.
The source says the committee is made up of representatives of West Bank, Gaza and the Paleostinian diaspora, namely Khalil al-Hayya for Gaza, Zaher Jabarin for the West Bank and Khaled Meshaal for Paleostinians abroad.
It also includes the head of Hamas’s Shura advisory council Mohammed Darwish and the secretary of the political bureau, who is never identified for security reasons.
All current members of the committee are based in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... According to the source, the committee is tasked with "governing the movement during the war and exceptional circumstances, as well as its future plans."
He added that it is authorized to "make strategic decisions".
Another source from the group says that the Hamas leadership discussed a proposal that was made "internally" to appoint a political chief without announcing their name.
But, the source adds, the leaders preferred to rule through the committee.
Sinwar was killed by Israeli troops in southern Gaza on Wednesday, more than a year into the devastating war in the territory sparked by Hamas’s October 7 attack that he orchestrated. The attack killed some 1,200 people and took another 251 hostages.
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[Regnum] Footage has emerged of the moment a cargo plane crashed in Sudan, which may have had Russians on board. The corresponding video was published by Izvestia.
The footage shows the plane apparently being shot at. Later in the video, you can see the wreckage of the burning plane lying on the ground.
According to preliminary data, the plane was en route to the UAE, and among the crew members were citizens of Russia and Kyrgyzstan, the report said. The number of victims and casualties was not specified.
As reported earlier, on October 21, the Russian embassy in Sudan reported that it was checking with local authorities the information about the crashed cargo plane, which may have had Russians on board as crew members. The situation is complicated by the fact that the crash zone is located in Darfur, which is engulfed in fighting, diplomats noted.
Earlier, Regnum news agency reported that nine people, including four soldiers, were killed in the crash of a civilian transport plane at Port Sudan airport. The military statement specified that the plane crashed due to a "technical malfunction" during takeoff.
The Rapid Reaction Forces (RRF) participating in the Sudanese conflict may have mistaken a downed Il-76 cargo plane, which was believed to be carrying Russian citizens, for a military aircraft. This was reported on October 21 by the Sudan War Monitor portal.
According to him, one of the RSF commanders claimed that they shot down an "Egyptian Antonov" with the help of missiles. At the same time, the RSF commander Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo had previously accused Egypt of allegedly using its aircraft in the conflict. Cairo rejected this claim.
The portal noted that in fact an Il-76 was shot down. One of the crew members was found to have an ID in the name of Viktor Granov (chief engineer of the Airline Transport Incorporation FZC, a company linked to Kyrgyzstan and based in the UAE). Another crew member was found to have a Russian passport. However, no surviving crew members were reported; most of the plane burned.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on October 21 at about 03:00 Moscow time, an Il-76 cargo plane, whose crew included Russians, was shot down by members of the Rapid Reaction Forces fighting the Sudanese government. The crash site was in Darfur, which was engulfed in fighting. Everyone on board the cargo plane died. The Il-76 was transporting engineering aid from the UAE to the Republic of Chad. The aircraft was sent to provide assistance to another UAE plane, which was damaged during landing in West Kordofan in early October. This plane's engines were also damaged.
The passport of Anton S., a 33-year-old native of Tuymazy in the Republic of Bashkortostan, was found at the crash site of the Il-76 plane shot down in Sudan. Another Russian, Viktor Granov, was flying with him. They were flying to repair the UAE plane. On board the downed Il-76 were spare parts and tools for the planned repairs.
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[REGNUM] The Russian Armed Forces are successfully advancing in a number of directions in Donbas. Combat operations continue in the Pokrovsk direction, in the area of Ugledar and Chasov Yar. At the same time, the heaviest battles, as in previous weeks, unfolded on the section of the front west of Donetsk.
As a result of the offensive in the Kurakhovo area, Russian troops took control of the village of Maksimilyanovka in the DPR. The advancing units of the "South" group raised the Russian flag over the settlement. Information about the advance of troops in this area was confirmed by the Russian Defense Ministry.
The assault on Maksimilianivka lasted for several weeks and was accompanied by fierce battles in the village's buildings. According to information from the field, the Ukrainian Armed Forces units were ordered to hold each individual house as long as possible, delaying the Russian army's advance as much as possible. But as soon as the garrison began to face complete encirclement, the Ukrainian troops retreated in the direction of Kurakhovo.
Earlier, Russian troops also occupied the settlement of Ostrovskoye on the shore of the Kurakhovskoye Reservoir. This led to a partial disruption of Ukrainian Armed Forces communications between the settlements of Gornyak and Kurakhovo.
According to local reports, northeast of Kurakhovo, Russian troops have also managed to liberate the settlement of Zoryanoye. Further north, Zhelannoye Vtoroy has also come under the control of the Russian army, Ukrainian sources report. At the same time, Russian troops have reached the outskirts of the settlement of Kurakhovo itself, which may soon allow them to begin an assault on the settlement.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces will most likely try to hold the settlement, but will be forced to retreat, predicts the Spanish publication El Pais. Servicemen of the 46th Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces told the publication's journalists that the battles for Kurakhovo will probably begin in the near future, but they do not count on success. Earlier, Ukrainian troops retreated from Ugledar and other large settlements in the area.
“We will probably soon see that Kurakhovo will suffer the same fate,” Yevgeny Churbanov, deputy commander of the 46th Brigade’s reconnaissance battalion, told El Pais.
Ukrainian soldiers complain about the obvious superiority of the Russian army, the lack of weapons and supply problems. The soldiers in the Kurakhovo area often refuse to carry out orders, fearing losses.
The situation north of the Kurakhovskoye Reservoir, in the area of the village of Selidovo, is not the best for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The village is de facto semi-encircled: from the south, Russian troops are moving from the Tsukurino area, from the north - from the Novogrodovka area. Russian troops are also advancing on the city from the east, from the area of the village of Mikhailovka, an informed source told IA Regnum.
"The fighting has already spread to the settlement itself. We have successes on the outskirts, we managed to get a foothold here and there. For now, their forces in Selidovo still have a road to Pokrovsk, they are not surrounded. But the road is under fire, as we advance, we will cut it off, so they will have to retreat from Selidovo as well. For now, they are holding on and resisting," the source told the publication.
The liberation of Selidovo will allow the main Ukrainian defense node in this area, the city of Pokrovsk, to be bypassed from the south and the enemy group's supply routes to be consistently cut off. Russian troops are currently 10 kilometers from the city, but are so far refraining from a frontal assault.
ADVANCE TO THE NORTH
South of Kurakhovo, Russian troops are also continuing to build on the success achieved after the liberation of Ugledar. Having captured the commanding heights, the attacking units are advancing in the direction of Bogoyavlenka.
Russian troops are also advancing in the Zolotaya Niva area and are gradually pushing back the enemy in the village of Katerinovka. The settlement is divided into approximately two parts. The Russian Armed Forces have managed to establish full control over the Maryinka-Ugledar highway.
According to information from the field, as a result of the actions of Russian artillery and aviation, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have developed a critical supply situation - the bridge over the Solodka River, which connects Katerynivka with Kurakhovo, has been destroyed. In the current situation, Kurakhovo may be surrounded in the near future, sources of the Regnum news agency believe.
"After Ugledar, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have been unable to organize defense in this area; they are clinging to individual settlements, but are constantly retreating to the north. We, in turn, are pressing. Now the main burden of the fighting has fallen on the Katerinovka-Antonovka areas. The enemy is clinging to these areas and has not retreated yet," the agency's source said.
At the same time, the formations of the 72nd Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces practically do not launch counterattacks, since they had previously suffered heavy losses during the retreat from Ugledar.
CHASOV YAR ON THE EVE OF ENCIRCLEMENT
The Russian army's offensive also continues in the former Artemovsk direction - in the area of the city of Chasov Yar. The Russian Armed Forces have crossed the Seversky Donets-Donbass canal and have begun a gradual encirclement of the city from the south.
Ukrainian sources acknowledge the advance of the Russian army in the areas of Kalinovka and Grigoryevka. These are bridgeheads created behind the Seversky Donets-Donbass canal. According to unconfirmed information from the field, the Block-9 mine has come under the control of the Russian army.
The advance of the Russian army was also confirmed by the military observer of the German publication Bild Julian Röpke. According to him, Russian troops broke through the defense of the Ukrainian Armed Forces south of Chasov Yar and advanced 2.5 kilometers to the west along the southern outskirts of the city.
Advancement in this area allows, on the one hand, to cut off communication between Chasovy Yar and Konstantinovka, on the other hand, breaking through the enemy's line of defense allows an assault on the city to begin from the southern direction. Ukrainian sources complain that the Ukrainian Armed Forces units in this area have been seriously weakened in recent months and have proven unable to repel a powerful offensive by the Russian army, supported from the air.
The liberation of Chasov Yar, in turn, opens the way for an offensive on Konstantinovka and the Slavyansk-Kramatorsk agglomeration - the last major defensive node of the Ukrainian army in the northern part of Donbass.
DISAPPOINTING FORECASTS FOR KYIV
The widespread successes of the Russian army and the retreat of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the foreseeable future create a threat of a complete collapse of the Ukrainian front. This is the conclusion reached by Western and Ukrainian observers.
According to the Ukrainian publication Ua War Infographics, in August-September 2024, Russian troops occupied 5.5 times more territory than in the whole of 2023. Among the reasons for the failures of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, researchers cite a lack of weapons, the refusal of Western allies to give permission to strike on Russian territory, as well as changes in the tactics of Russian troops.
The withdrawal of Ukrainian troops in a number of areas may also indicate the depletion of human reserves that had been accumulating throughout the spring and summer of 2023. It was assumed that these forces would be involved in a new “counteroffensive” by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, but in the end the forces were scattered across the entire front, failing to change the situation in Kyiv’s favor.
In recent weeks, Ukraine has seen another wave of harsh forced mobilization — with the goal of replenishing the losses it has suffered. But these recruits, firstly, lack the proper training and motivation, which makes them extremely weak soldiers, and secondly, they may simply not make it in time for the decisive battles in Donbas.
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[NewsFront] 23:57 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 10/21/2024 to 00:00 10/22/2024.
A total of 28 cases of armed attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces were recorded by the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC over the past 24 hours.
There were reports of four civilians being injured.
DAMAGED:
Four cars,
Four residential buildings,
Two civil infrastructure facilities.
A total of 28 artillery attacks in the Gorlovka direction.
A total of 81 units of various ammunition were fired.
21:48 Information about assault in n.p. Selidovo as of 21:00.
"We rushed along the E-50 highway to the fork. The pincers are tightening at an unimaginable speed. The enemy has less than a day left to try to leave the city, although with this trend, even less," the report says.
19:15 Artillerymen destroyed UAV control point of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kakhovka direction
During another flight over the right bank of the Dnieper, the operator discovered how the enemy UAV crew prepared for launch, the coordinates were immediately transmitted to the 122mm D-30 howitzer crew. The target was destroyed with precision fire.
19:13 Footage of defeat of the Ukrainian Armed Forces UAV with a precise hit from a sniper rifle with confirmation of the downing of the so-called "Baba Yaga".
18:16 Statements of representatives of the North, West, South, Center, East and Dnepr groups on the progress of the special military operation (as of October 21, 2024)
17:17 220mm BM-27 "Hurricane" of the Pacific Fleet Marine Corps demolishes Ukrainian Armed Forces positions in the South Donetsk direction
The Uragan multiple launch rocket systems of the Vostok group of forces struck the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Aerial reconnaissance recorded the destruction of the targets in real time.
16:10 Russian drone operators are tracking and destroying Ukrainian militants in the Kursk region.
16:09 With the support of Solntsepek: TOS-1A crew cleared the way for our assault troops in the Avdeevka direction
Reconnaissance using unmanned aerial vehicles discovered a concentration of enemy manpower in fortified positions located along the route of the motorized riflemen of the Center group of forces.
The TOS-1A Solntsepek crew arrived at the firing position and fired a salvo of 220mm rockets at the specified coordinates.
15:13 According to preliminary information, the Russian Army, developing its offensive, reached the eastern administrative border of Kurakhovo.
15:03 In Selydove, the situation for the Ukrainian Armed Forces also continues to deteriorate consistently. As of 13:00 Moscow time, there is an advance to the northeast of the city. The enemy also reports a serious increase in losses during the rotation/sanitary evacuation phase.
14:06 Ka-52m crew tore off rotation of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the border area of the Kursk region.
14:02 Operational data is coming in that our troops have broken through the Nazi defenses in Gornyak and reached Repina Street from the east, fighting in the central part of the city.
13:09 Speed: is the Key: Armored Group of Russian Paratroopers destroyed a group of Ukrainian nationalists at a stronghold.
The paratroopers constantly carry out daring raids and get very close to the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces both during the day and at night.
The assault groups of the unit then moved forward to capture the strong point, which the armored group had worked on. They completed the destruction of the enemy, occupied the strong point, cleared it of Ukrainian infantry, and handed it over to the fortification units.
12:14 The main points from the new briefing of the Russian Ministry of Defense:
– The Russian Armed Forces struck a temporary deployment point for foreign mercenaries in Ukraine;
– Russian air defense forces destroyed three HIMARS MLRS projectiles and 52 Ukrainian drones in one day;
– The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 350 soldiers and three warehouses in the area of responsibility of the “West” group in one day;
– The “Center” group defeated nine brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in one day, repelled 14 counterattacks, and the enemy lost up to 430 soldiers;
– The “East” group of forces occupied more advantageous positions; the enemy lost up to 90 servicemen.
11:33 Russian Armed Forces successfully advance in Chasov Yar
By data of "Come and see", the Russian army continues to successfully advance in Chasov Yar.
“In Chasov Yar, our troops were able to penetrate the enemy’s defenses,” a Russian soldier told the channel.
According to him, the Russian Armed Forces are also successfully enveloping the Ukrainian Armed Forces positions to the south of the settlement. The situation for the Ukrainian Armed Forces in this direction continues to deteriorate.
10:20 In the village of Zoryanoye liberated by the 110th Motorized Rifle Brigade soared Russian flag
Thanks to successful reconnaissance and lightning-fast actions of the fighters of the heroic 110th Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Russian Armed Forces, part of the group of troops operating in the Kurakhovsky direction, it was possible to force the Volchya River and take full control of the settlement of Zoryanoye, where the Russian flag now proudly flies. The complete collapse of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in this direction is inevitable - it is only a matter of time.
Successful advance and clearing of territories continues, which will further expand the possibilities for attack and blocking of the Ukrainian Armed Forces units in the Kurakhovsky direction. The soldiers of the 110th Motorized Rifle Brigade are determined to continue liberating our land from the enemy.
09:13 Artillerymen of the North group of forces are destroying the enemy.
Crews of self-propelled howitzers 122mm 2S1 "Gvozdika" at any time of day and in any weather conditions are applied to precision strikes on exposed military facilities, positions, fortifications, armored vehicles and manpower of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
08:16 During the past night, an attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack using an aircraft-type UAV against targets on the territory of the Russian Federation was thwarted.
Air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 18 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles: 11 UAVs over the territory of the Rostov region, 4 over the territory of the Bryansk region, two over the territory of the Kursk region, and one over the territory of the Oryol region.
08:14 Crews of 1523mm self-propelled howitzers "Msta-S" destroyed an armored vehicles and manpower of the Ukrainian Armed Forces
Using unmanned aerial vehicles, reconnaissance forces of the Zapad group of forces identified camouflaged armored vehicles and shelters with Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel in a forest belt.
The coordinates of the targets were transmitted to the artillery command post for further destruction. The artillery crews destroyed all identified targets using 152mm Msta-S self-propelled howitzers.
08:00 Military signalmen of the "Center" group of troopsperformcombat missions in the Krasnoarmeysk direction.
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[REGNUM] Prominent Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen has died in the United States at the age of 83. Can Erdogan breathe a sigh of relief?
Purely symbolically, one can say that the main enemy of the Turkish president is gone. At the same time, since 2016, the influence of the Gulenists in Turkey has been significantly undermined.
Gulen and Erdogan started out as ideological allies.
Both supported Islam, criticized Ataturk's secularism, aimed to introduce an Islamic model of society, and both were victims of the secular model and its iron fist in the form of the military.
Gülen followed the religious path from childhood, consciously. At the age of 10, he became a professional reader of the Koran, then a teacher of the Koran. The country's spiritual administration sent him on the hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca. - Ed.) as an official.
In the 1970s, Gülen created his own movement, Hizmet, which translates from Turkish as “service.” He preached service to society and the state, called for interreligious dialogue, and exalted the role of education (“school before mosque”). These ideas became the harbinger of the creation of hundreds of schools and lyceums in Turkey, the CIS, and other countries.
Politically, Gülen advocated a more modern Islam, rejected extremes and radicalism. He believed that Islam was not in conflict with democracy, and supported Turkey's European integration. His teachings welcomed dialogue between Islamic movements.
By 1980, Gülen had become one of the most influential Muslim preachers in Turkey.
If he tried to establish an Islamic model through the creation of horizontal connections, education and cultivation of the future elite (teachers, judges, politicians, etc.) in his schools, Erdogan waged an active political struggle. First under the leadership of the founder of political Islam in Turkey, Necmetdin Erbakan, thanks to whom he became mayor of Istanbul in 1994. Then, after another military coup and the ban on the Welfare Party, he founded his own Justice and Development Party (AKP).
With it, Erdogan won the parliamentary elections in 2002 and began to gradually transform the secular republic into an Islamic one. This is where he needed strong allies from the Hizmet organization.
Gulen, who had been in the United States for medical treatment since 1999, supported the AKP. Gulenists saw Erdogan as a force capable of implementing their views.
During Erdogan's premiership, Hizmet strengthened its position. Lyceums and schools were established both inside and outside the country. By spreading the Turkish language, Islam and the positive image of the Ottoman Empire, they strengthened Turkey's soft power and, accordingly, benefited the AKP's foreign policy.
The second motivation for the alliance was the fight against the remnants of the Ataturk era - secular bureaucrats and generals. The former irritated Erdogan by limiting Islam in the country, the latter - by constant military coups, as a result of which Erbakan and Erdogan himself suffered.
By not interfering with and even helping Gulenists take up positions in the military, judicial and educational systems, the Turkish prime minister tried to weaken the secular elite. Erdogan did not hide his support for Gulen, calling him nothing less than "hodja" (mentor, teacher).
The Gülenists paid handsomely for such sympathy. They voted for the AKP in elections. The Gülen-controlled rating media (Zaman, Cihan, Samanyolu) extolled Erdogan and denounced the opposition. In 2008, as part of the Ergenekon affair, Erdogan carried out a purge of the Armed Forces and security agencies. The Gülenists welcomed these measures.
As Erdogan began to triumph over his secular opponents, competition emerged between yesterday's allies.
Erdogan headed the government, his party controlled the parliament, but Gulen influenced the youth, society, had a number of major media outlets at his disposal, including the Zaman newspaper, controlled financial flows through the same schools and the large bank Bank Asya. There was an official state, but in parallel to it there was also a Gulen state with people in all spheres of society - from mosque parishioners to diplomats.
As the Eastern proverb says: "You can't cook two sheep's heads in one pot." The prime minister began to fear the excessive influence of the Gulenists and decided to rein them in.
The beginnings of the conflict appeared back in 2010.
Then Erdogan sent the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza, eight Turkish sailors were killed when the ship was stormed by an Israeli coast guard unit. Gulen called the operation an adventure that led to a rupture in strategic relations with Israel.
Three years later, the prime minister encroached on the “sacred.” He proposed closing the private schools of the “djemaat” (as members of the “Hizmet” movement were called, in other words, the “Muslim community.” — Ed.). The Turkish newspaper Taraf published an article under the headline “A plan to finish off Gulen.” It cites an excerpt from a 2004 document of the Turkish National Security Council, which outlines the goal of cleansing state structures of the “djemaat.”
Gulen did not remain in debt.
In December 2013, thanks in large part to the media under his control, a corruption scandal was provoked. The Gulenists had a dossier on almost every official in Turkey.
As part of Operation Big Bribe, the Financial Crime Department conducted searches in the homes of the sons of Foreign Minister Muammer Güler, Economy Minister Zafer Çağlayan and Urban Development Minister Erdoğan Bayraktar. The named ministers, as well as the Minister for European Integration Egemen Bagış, were accused of corruption. Moreover, $4.5 million in cash was found during the search at the head of the largest bank, Halk Bankası, Suleyman Aslan.
Erdogan had to change the government, which was a huge blow to his reputation. Critics thought that Erdogan's more than 10-year premiership was coming to an end. Six months before that, the biggest protests since his rise to power had died down in Gezi Park, where Gulen also criticized the actions of the prime minister and the police.
But it was the events of 2014 that really got Erdogan mad and showed him that Gulen was an enemy. That was where he got to the quick.
Not just ministers, but also the prime minister's son, Necmeddin Bilal, began to be accused of corruption. Turkish newspapers published photos of Bilal's meeting with a certain Saudi businessman, Yasin al-Qadi. Allegedly, under the cover of the prime minister's security, they negotiated the sale of a plot of land in a prestigious area of Istanbul, the price of which could reach a billion dollars.
An even more scandalous piece of material has leaked online via Gülen-controlled media: an audio recording of a conversation between the Turkish prime minister and his son, in which they discuss what to do with $30 million. A voice resembling Bilal asks whether Erdogan wants to keep some of it for himself, to which the other person replies: “Better not over the phone.”
Erdogan accused police and prosecutors of a plot orchestrated by " dark forces from abroad."
Turkey began to close down schools sponsored by Gulenists. Already in December 2014, an Istanbul court issued an arrest warrant for their leader. The arrest documents were forwarded to Interpol, but it did not reciprocate.
The conflict, which had gained momentum, reached its peak in 2016.
Two months before the July coup attempt, Erdogan shut down two major Gülen media outlets, the Cihan news agency and the Zaman newspaper. Then came July 15, the day the attempt to overthrow Erdogan arrived.
He placed all responsibility for this on Fethullah Gulen and his people. For his part, the preacher denied his guilt and said that Erdogan himself had faked the coup in order to deal with his opponents.
Be that as it may, the facts indicate the following.
During the uprising, 250 people were killed and more than 2,000 were wounded in a confrontation between supporters of the Turkish president and the putschists. As part of the “purge,” Erdogan’s government arrested more than 200,000 people, convicted 50,000 and fired about 140,000 civil servants.
The Hizmet movement was declared a terrorist organization and has since been known in Turkey as FETÖ. The prosecutor's office has requested two life sentences and 1,900 years in prison for Gülen.
In 2017, the preacher was stripped of his Turkish citizenship. Until his death, Erdogan had been trying to get the US to extradite Gulen, but the Americans refused. Since the coup, the Turkish president has been accusing Gulenists of all mortal sins, and their traces are found in almost every crime.
For example, in 2016, Erdogan admitted that Gulenists were connected to the pilots who shot down a Russian bomber in Syria. They were also accused of organizing an assassination attempt on the Russian ambassador to Ankara, Andrei Karlov.
Gulen's death may make Erdogan both sad and happy at the same time.
Who knows how the political fate of the Turkish president would have turned out if not for the founder of Hizmet?
Erdogan owes his success partly to the Gulenists, and the latter have much to thank the former prime minister for. However, the events of 2013-2014 and 2016 made Gulen an eternal enemy of the 70-year-old Turkish president. So even if he remembers the bright periods of their friendship, hatred probably outweighs nostalgia. One powerful enemy less.
However, it is too early for Erdogan to relax.
Gülen's power was not only in his name, but also in his movement. It is not difficult to kill a person, but it is much more difficult to kill an idea. Gülen's ideas are followed secretly and openly by millions of people in Turkey and beyond.
And besides, even if the Gülenists are weakened, it cannot be ruled out that they could form an alliance with those who now pose a great danger to the extension of the president’s power: the Republican People’s Party and the Kurds.
And if you add foreign funding to this – the Democrats in the US, for example, are not giving up their attempts to overthrow Erdogan,
…the Democrats, really? I had no idea…
who has declared war on Zionism – then the result could be quite unpredictable.
It is not for nothing that the head of the Turkish Foreign Ministry and former intelligence director Hakan Fidan said that “ the leader of this dark organization is dead,” but his death “ will not lead to complacency,” since FETÖ is an organization that “ recruits youth.”
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[KavkazUzel] During the week from October 14 to October 20, 2024, there were no reports of casualties or wounded in the ongoing armed conflict in the North Caucasus. These are the results of the " Caucasian Knot " calculations, based on its own materials and information from other open sources.
As the "Caucasian Knot" reported, three people were killed in an armed conflict in the North Caucasus during the week from October 7 to 13 : a policeman and two civilians. According to security forces, the target of the attack could have been Adam Khamkhoev, an employee of the Center for Combating Extremism, who was in the car with the dead but was not injured. Sounds like an organized crime hit to me... ARRESTS
Four residents of Ingushetia were detained for storing ammunition and an explosive device, TASS reported on October 19, citing the press service of the Russian Interior Ministry's Ingushetia Department. The Investigative Department of the Russian FSB Directorate for Ingushetia opened criminal cases under the article on illegal trafficking of explosives or explosive devices (part 1 and part 3 of article 222.1 of the Russian Criminal Code).
HISTORY OF THE CONFLICT
19 years ago, on October 13-14, 2005, an armed attack took place on the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, Nalchik. The number of militants who attacked the city was at least 250 people. As a result of the attack, 35 security personnel and 15 civilians were killed, 129 security personnel and 66 civilians were wounded. As a result of the fighting in the city, 95 militants were killed.
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[LB] The number of clashes since the beginning of the day has increased to 67.
by Ivanna Kapustyanska
The defense forces of Ukraine are holding back the offensive of the Russian occupiers. Terrorists continue to destroy Ukrainian cities and villages with rocket, air and artillery strikes. At this time, the number of combat clashes has increased to 67, according to the summary of the General Staff.
Ukrainian defenders are taking the necessary measures to prevent the enemy from advancing deep into our territory.
Today, the communities of Boyaro-Lezhachi, Krasnopillya, Basivka, Mezenivka, Novenke, and Myropyllya of the Sumy Region were affected by the fire of enemy artillery, mortars, and multiple rocket systems; Mykhalchyna Sloboda and Polissia of Chernihiv region. In addition, the Russians carried out airstrikes with anti-aircraft missiles in Khotyn, Basivka, Richok, Bilopyll and Krasnopill districts of the Sumy region.
In the Kharkiv direction, the enemy twice stormed the positions of our units in the Vovchansk and Lyptsi districts.
In the Kupian direction, the Russian occupiers twice attacked the Defense Forces in the Lozova and Vyshnevo areas. One battle is still going on.
On the Lymanskyi direction, the invading army launched seven attacks on Ukrainian positions in the vicinity of Grekivka, Novomykhailivka, Petropavlivka, and Terni during the day. Six battles have ended, one more is ongoing. Ukrainian soldiers steadfastly hold the defense and inflict losses on the enemy.
The occupying forces continue to look for weak points in our defense near Verkhnyokamyanskyi and Pereiznyi in the Siverskyi direction. Since the beginning of the day, two futile enemy assaults have taken place here.
In the Kramatorsk direction, since the beginning of the day, the occupiers' aircraft attacked Pazeno, Maisky and Chasovoy Yar with anti-aircraft missiles and anti-aircraft missiles.
In the Toretsk direction, the aggressor once tried to penetrate our defenses in the Toretsk area. In the same city, the occupiers struck with anti-aircraft guns.
In the Pokrovsky direction, the Russian invaders made 27 attempts to dislodge our defenders from their occupied positions in the areas of Sukhoi Balka, Vozdvizhenka, Myrolyubivka, Promenya, Lysivka, Krutoy Yar, Selidovoy and Mykhailivka. The defense forces restrained the onslaught and repelled 18 enemy attacks, nine clashes are still ongoing.
In the Kurakhiv direction, the enemy army attacked 15 times in the direction of the settlements of Hirnyk, Novodmytrivka, Maksimilianivka, Georgiivka, Dalnye, Katerynivka, and Antonivka. Seven attempts by the occupiers to advance have already been repulsed.
In the Vremivsk direction, eight enemy attacks took place near Bogoyavlenka, Novoukrainka, and Zoloty. Three fights are still going on.
In the Orihiv direction, the occupation forces once stormed the positions of the Defense Forces near Malaya Tokmachka.
There are no significant changes in the rest of the directions.
The operation is ongoing in the Kursk region. Russian aviation continues to attack Russian cities and villages. Since the beginning of the day, Russian planes have carried out 22 strikes with 32 anti-aircraft missiles on their own territory.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 20:37 The United States is preparing a new aid package for Ukraine - financing the production of Ukrainian drones in the amount of $800 million, Zelensky said. He also said that during a meeting with US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, he discussed the implementation of the "victory plan" and specific steps that can implement its points.
19:24 In Zaporozhye, three people have already died and 16 were wounded as a result of today's Russian attack, said the head of the OVA, Ivan Fedorov.
18:58 In Donetsk Oblast, as a result of today's shelling of the Pokrovsky district, at least three people were killed and two were wounded, reported the head of the OVA Vadim Filashkin. In particular, in Mirnohrad, two were killed and one was wounded, in Kurakhovo - one killed and one was wounded.
17:50 Kyiv held secret talks with Moscow in 2022, Defense Minister Rustem Umerov told The Washington Post. According to him, during the talks, the parties reached an agreement on a humanitarian corridor, which allowed about 400,000 people to be evacuated from Russian-occupied Ukrainian territories. An exchange of prisoners of war, political prisoners, and wounded soldiers was also agreed upon. In addition, the negotiations resulted in a "grain agreement," which Russia subsequently violated.
17:43 The Pentagon reported that the new $400 million military aid package for Ukraine will include, in particular, M113 armored personnel carriers, HIMARS shells, 155-mm and 105-mm artillery shells, mortar systems and shells for them, Javelin and AT-4 anti-tank missiles, satellite communications equipment, small arms and ammunition, and logistics support.
17:29 Zelensky reported that he met with US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin in Kiev - they discussed the most important defense priorities, in particular air defense, preparation for the winter period and the expansion of the use of long-range weapons against Russian military facilities.
17:07 Russian soldiers shot two captured Ukrainian soldiers near Selidovo in the Pokrovsky district of Donetsk region, the prosecutor's office reported. The Russians, who stormed a forest plantation near the city of Selidovo, put the unarmed prisoners of war face down and held them in this position, pressing them to the ground with their feet. After some time, they shot the Ukrainians point-blank with automatic weapons.
16:18 Zelensky reported that he held a meeting with Defense Minister Rustem Umerov, Commander-in-Chief Alexander Syrsky and Chief of the General Staff Anatoly Bargilevich, and discussed, first of all, the situation at the front, provision of weapons and equipment, and staffing of brigades.
Syrsky reported in detail on the situation in all directions and separately on the Kursk operation, where the Defense Forces, according to Zelensky, "are maintaining their positions and not allowing the enemy to expand the war on our land."
"Instead of a buffer zone on the territory of Ukraine, which the Russians planned, we created a buffer zone near our border on Russian territory. But the special emphasis is on replenishing the exchange fund for Ukraine in order to free our people from Russian captivity. It was thanks to the Kursk operation that we managed to free a significant number of our people," Zelensky emphasized.
15:27 In Zaporozhye, two people have already been killed and 15 wounded as a result of enemy shelling, reported the head of the OVA, Ivan Fedorov.
15:05 US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, during a meeting with Zelensky in Kyiv, announced the provision of a new military aid package to Ukraine worth $400 million.
14:32 In Zaporizhia, the body of a person killed in a Russian strike was pulled out from under the rubble, said OVA head Ivan Fedorov. Fourteen people were injured.
14:09 Trump said he warned Putin about "hitting Moscow" over Ukraine: "I said, Vladimir, if you go after Ukraine, I'm going to hit you so hard you won't even believe it. I'm going to hit you in the middle of fricking Moscow." According to Trump, the Kremlin leader then responded: "No way." Trump did not specify when or under what circumstances this conversation took place.
14:01 The Ukrainian Navy took part in the largest NATO exercise on the use of unmanned systems in maritime operations - REPMUS 24 - for the first time. According to the Ministry of Defense, with the help of the DELTA combat system, the Ukrainian military coordinated the work of more than 50 unmanned vehicles of various types - underwater, sea, land and air. During the exercise, DELTA was also able to connect and receive data on the location of the German "robotic dog" Robotics-L.
13:30 The number of victims as a result of the Russian strike on Zaporizhia has risen to 14, reported the head of the OVA Ivan Fedorov.
13:24 Five people injured in the Russian attack sought medical attention in Krivoy Rog, said the head of the Dnipropetrovsk OVA, Serhiy Lysak.
12:52 The number of those wounded as a result of the Russian strike on Zaporozhye has risen to nine, reported the head of the OVA Ivan Fedorov.
12:48 The IAEA has been funding research by Russian scientists in Crimea since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion, even though it officially recognizes the peninsula as Ukrainian, Radio Liberty has learned. In response to a request from journalists, the agency said that it continues to view Crimea as part of Ukraine, and that the scientific projects it supported were "exclusively technical in nature."
In addition, according to the publication, a training session organized with IAEA funds is starting in Moscow this week, several participants of which arrived from the temporarily occupied Donetsk after their candidacies were approved by the agency secretariat. In the internal IAEA documents, their country of residence is indicated as Russia.
12:25 Russians have launched another missile strike on Krivoy Rog - a cultural site was damaged, according to preliminary information, no one was hurt, said the head of the Dnipropetrovsk OVA, Serhiy Lysak.
12:06 The number of people injured as a result of today's enemy strike on Zaporizhia has grown to seven, more than 30 houses have been damaged, said the head of the OVA Ivan Fedorov. The State Emergency Service added that as a result of the strike, a two-story building of a kindergarten was partially destroyed.
11:29 Of the 3,767 Ukrainian citizens who were returned from Russian captivity, almost all needed long-term treatment and rehabilitation, Zelensky said. "Russia illegally holds thousands more of our people and continues the forced displacement of children. Torture, humiliation and hunger - this is what our Ukrainian people are going through in Russian prisons and camps," the president emphasized.
11:14 In the Komaritsky district of the Bryansk region, Russians detained 18 servicemen from the DPRK who fled from their positions in the Kursk region. Now they may be used in assault operations against the Defense Forces, Ukrainian media write, citing sources in the special services.
10:46 Russia has struck a residential area in Zaporizhia, at least five people were injured, said OVA head Ivan Fedorov.
10:17 Air defense destroyed 59 out of 116 enemy UAVs (Shahed and unspecified types) in Odessa, Mykolaiv, Kherson, Vinnytsia, Khmelnytskyi, Zhytomyr, Kyiv, Sumy, Kirovohrad, Cherkasy, Chernihiv and Poltava regions at night, the Air Force reported. In addition, 45 drones were lost, up to ten remain in Ukrainian airspace. Several hits on civilian infrastructure were recorded.
In addition, during today's night attack, Russia used one Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missile, one Kh-35 guided air-launched missile and one Kh-31P guided air-launched missile.
10:03 In the Kiev region, in the village of Glevakha, a five-story building was damaged as a result of falling debris, the State Emergency Service reported. 43 residents of the building were evacuated, there were no casualties.
09:51 The Russian army attacked Kherson at night, two people were injured, OVA reported. Another person was injured in Berislav - a local resident was hit by an enemy drone. Over the previous day, two people were injured in the region as a result of Russian shelling.
09:42 In Donetsk region on October 20 as a result of Russian shelling three people were wounded - in Novoselidovka, Kurakhovo and Ilyinka, reported the head of the OVA Vadim Filashkin.
09:40 Dmitry Golenkov, a pilot of the 52nd Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment of the Russian Aerospace Forces based at the Shaikovka airfield, has been killed in the Bryansk region. According to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, Golenkov served as chief of staff of the Russian aviation squadron. According to intelligence, he was involved in missile strikes on Ukrainian civilian targets, in particular, the Amstor shopping center in Kremenchuk, Poltava region, on June 27, 2022. The attack killed 22 people and injured dozens. Golenkov was also responsible for a missile strike on a residential building in Dnepr on January 14, 2023, which killed 46 people, including six children. Golenkov's body was found with multiple head injuries, likely inflicted with a hammer.
09:36 US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin confirmed his visit to Kiev: "I returned to Ukraine for the fourth time as Secretary of Defense, demonstrating that the United States, together with the international community, continues to support Ukraine."
09:22 Syrsky reported that he held a working meeting on issues of improving the training of military personnel, in particular, he heard a report on a pilot project that is already being implemented and provides for an increase in the duration of basic general military training from one to 1.5 months. "In December, I will make a decision on a new model of basic general military training. In the future, if the operational situation allows, I do not rule out the next stage of increasing the duration of basic training," the commander-in-chief noted.
He also called the Airborne Assault Troops "a true flagship of personnel training." According to Syrsky, new approaches to training used in the Airborne Assault Troops should also be used in other components of the Defense Forces. The Commander-in-Chief also instructed to increase the staffing of instructor positions in training centers: everyone who trains the military must have relevant combat experience.
09:04 In the evening and at night, the enemy attacked the Odessa region with missiles and attack drones, said the head of the OVA Oleg Kiper. As a result of the missile attack on the port infrastructure, a fire broke out, which was quickly extinguished, no one was hurt.
08:53 Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin arrived in Kiev on an unannounced visit, The Wall Street Journal reports.
08:31 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of October 21:
personnel - about 680,230 (+1,710) people,
tanks - 9071 (+24),
combat armored vehicles - 18,175 (+64),
artillery systems - 19,589 (+24),
MLRS - 1232 (+0),
air defense systems - 979 (+1),
aircraft - 369 (+0),
helicopters - 329 (+0),
Operational-tactical level UAVs - 17,333 (+46),
cruise missiles - 2624 (+0),
ships/boats - 28 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 27,034 (+47),
special equipment - 3479 (+3).
08:26 On the evening of October 20, the enemy shelled the Osnovyansky and Kievsky districts of Kharkiv with KABs, 12 people were injured, reported the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. As a result of the attack, 11 residential buildings, eight non-residential buildings, a gas station, and cars were damaged. In addition, the day before, the Russians shelled the village of Novoplatonovka in the Izyumsky district, killing two people.
07:45 At night, Russians attacked critical infrastructure in the Romensky district of Sumy Oblast - as a result of the attack, several settlements were de-energized, OVA reported. The day before, one person died in the region as a result of Russian shelling - in the Shalyginskaya community.
07:38 Late in the evening of October 20, Russians launched a missile attack on Krivoy Rog, wounding four people, including a 12-year-old child, said the head of the Dnipropetrovsk OVA, Serhiy Lysak. A hotel, five multi-story buildings, a cultural facility, a bank, and two stores were damaged.
05:49 Russia attacked Kiev with drones, all of them were neutralized, said the head of the Kyiv State Air Defense Forces Sergey Popko. Falling debris was recorded in the Dniprovsky, Goloseevsky and Solomensky districts of the city, in the latter one person was injured. One apartment building and one one-story residential building were damaged.
02:05 The UN Security Council will meet on October 21 to discuss the situation in Ukraine, including support for Russia from the DPRK, Iran and China, the organization's website reports. The meeting will be held at the request of the United States and Slovenia, which had previously consulted with the Ukrainian permanent mission. The Security Council members are also expected to discuss Zelensky's "victory plan." The meeting will begin at 15:00 Eastern Time (22:00 Kyiv time).
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... the personification of Somali state failure...
... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
...46th president of the U.S. Too old and senile to be prosecuted, not too old and senile to set national policy...
...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania...
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
