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Born 1922 as Virginia Leslie Gettman in Lincoln, Nebraska, American actress Leslie Brooks started work as a photographic model. At the beginning of her showbiz career she appeared as Lorraine Gettman.
As Leslie Brooks, she began appearing in movie bit roles for Columbia in 1941, and started landing more sizable parts in such movies as Nine Girls (1944), Cover Girl (1944), and the lead in the film noir classic Blonde Ice (1948).
Brooks retired from films in 1949, but returned to make one last film in 1971. She died in 2011 at the age of 88 in Sherman Oaks, California.
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Leslie Brooks and Penny Edwards
Brooks (July 13, 1922 – July 1, 2011), born Virginia Leslie Gettman, was an American film actress. Edwards,born 1929 Broadway dancer who moved to Hollywood to make 68 motion pictures ranging from Westerns to comedies and appeared in more than 500 television episodes.
[ShabelleMedia] Britannia’s maritime watchdog said another ship had been hijacked off the coast of Somalia on Friday, raising fears that Somali pirates are back again, around ten. years after they created chaos in international shipping.
The small commercial ship was captured by an gang near the Eyl district on the coast of Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... , according to the British Maritime Trade Agency, which quoted the officials of the company that owns the ship.
The agency did not provide any further details about the identity of the kidnappers but said that an investigation is underway.
The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... Navy said that a merchant ship carrying the flag of Malta was hijacked in the Gulf of Adam last week and headed for the same area off the coast of Somalia.
The ship Ruen had 18 crew members on board when it was hijacked near Socotra Island in 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... , which is about 240 km from Somalia.
One of the crew members was evacuated to an Indian Navy vessel for medical treatment, the EU Navy said.
There has been an increase in the kidnapping of Somali pirates, as the European Union forces said that the hijackers of the Ruen ship’s demands are still unknown.
It is the first hijacking that took place on the shores of Somalia since 2017, and it is coming at a time when the Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... s in Yemen are also hijacking fat merchantmen passing through the Red Sea.
[Garowe] The Somali National Army (SNA) has liberated the strategic town of Masagawa in central Somalia, marking a major milestone in the fight against the group which has been causing havoc in different parts of the country.
Masagawa is in Galgaduud, the central part of the country, and at one point, the national army suffered immense losses on the battlefield, triggering a massive walkout from the military. The government has massively invested in dislodging the Lions of Islam from central regions.
Elsewhere, dozens of Alshabaab Lions of Islam were killed in an operation conducted by the Somalia National Army backed by local forces near Caad, Mudug region. In the process, many bases were destroyed as forces pursued fleeing remnants.
"The National Armed Forces and local forces attacked al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... Death Eaters’ fortifications near Caad, leaving scores of them dead. The forces are advancing towards Caad, pursuing the fleeing remnants," the state media reported on Wednesday.
This comes when the Somali National Army takes over security responsibilities in several parts of the country due to the ongoing withdrawal of 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... Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) which has handed over some bases.
Somalia had the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... lifting the arms embargo, further giving the country a chance to procure sophisticated weapons that can be used to restore sanity in the country. The US Army has also been working hard to help the country secure some bases.
[Garowe] Militants linked to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... militia group have burned at least 10 civilians to death in an attack on a southwestern town of Uganda, police said Tuesday.
The button men from the Allied Democratic Forces ...established in the early 1990s through an agreement between portions of Uganda’s Salaf Tabliq Islamic sect and the National Army for the Liberation of Uganda (NALU), who said they had been sidelined by Museveni’s policies. At the time, the rebels staged deadly attacks in Ugandan villages and the capital, including a 1998 attack in which 80 students were massacred. A Ugandan military operation later forced the ADF into eastern Congo. The ADF has since established ties with the Islamic State group. The ADF has received funding from the Government of Sudan, which has also provided supplies and training. The ADF may also have received funding from the illegal mining and logging industries of the DRC.... (ADF), one of the deadliest militias in the strife-torn east of 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... (DRC), crossed the border to attack a trading center in Kamwenge, police said.
"Preliminary findings reveal that 10 assailants armed with SMG rifles attacked and fatally burned to death 10 people," regional police front man Vincent Twesige said, referring to submachine guns.
The attackers also torched a cycle of violence and looted a store, he said.
Twesige said the Ugandan army had been deployed to pursue the holy warriors, which the Islamic State group has called its local offshoot.
The attack at around 2 am on Tuesday came days after Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni ...President-for-Life of Uganda. He assumed office in 1985. His primary virtue is being prefereable to both his predecessors, Idi Amin and Milton Obote... said at least 200 ADF rebels had been killed in September by air strikes in DR Congo led by Uganda.
The ADF is historically a Ugandan rebel coalition whose biggest group comprises Moslems opposed to Museveni.
Established in Eastern DRC in 1995, the group became the deadliest of scores of outlawed forces in the deeply troubled region.
It has been blamed for massacres, kidnappings, and looting, with a corpse count estimated in the thousands.
In June, ADF militia members killed 42 people including 37 students in a high school in Western Uganda near the border with DRC.
It was one of the deadliest attacks in Uganda since 2010 when a double attack in Kampala killed 76 people in a raid claimed by the Somali-based Islamist group Al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... Since April 2019, some ADF attacks in Eastern DRC have been claimed by the Islamic State group (IS), which calls the group the Islamic State Central Africa Province.
In a report published in June, UN experts said the Islamic State group has provided financial support to the ADF since at least 2019.
The United States last year placed the ADF on its list of "terrorist" organizations linked to IS.
[ShabelleMedia] Somali government has reported that a senior al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... commander involved in the hard boy group’s attacks in Somalia and Kenya was killed in a U.S. Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... Sunday near the city of Jilib.
The government said the operation that led to the killing of Maalim Ayman was the result of collaboration between the Somali Armed Forces and U.S. military.
"His killing is a thorn removed from the Somali people," said a statement issued Thursday by the Ministry of Information.
The U.S. military command in Africa, AFRICOM, confirmed that the strike near Jilib killed one al-Shabaab hard boy and said there were no civilian casualties.
"This is another step to defeat the terrorist group that undermines Somalia’s peace and development," AFRICOM said in a statement without identifying the dear departed hard boy by name.
"U.S. Africa Command will continue to assess the results of the operation and will provide additional information as appropriate. Specific details about the units involved and assets used will not be released in order to ensure operational security," the statement said.
Al-Shabaab has not commented on the reported killing.
Earlier this year, the U.S. State Department’s Rewards for Justice program offered a reward of up to $10 million
...goodness, that’s an awful lot of the green stuff...
"for information leading to the arrest or conviction in any country of Maalim Ayman or any individual who committed, attempted or conspired to commit, or aided or abetted in the commission of the January 5, 2020, terrorist attack on U.S. and Kenyan personnel at the Manda Bay Airfield in Kenya."
The U.S. accused Ayman of being responsible for preparing the Manda Bay Airfield attack, which killed a U.S. soldier and two U.S. Defense Department contractors. It maimed two other U.S. service members and a third Defense contractor.
The Manda Bay Airfield is part of a Kenyan Defense Forces military base used by U.S. armed forces to provide training and counterterrorism support to East African partners, respond to crises and protect U.S. interests in the region, according to the State Department.
The U.S. identified Ayman as the leader of Jaish Ayman, an al-Shabaab unit that conducts terrorist attacks and operations in Kenya and Somalia. Jaish Ayman (Army of Ayman) includes foreign murderous Moslems recruited by al-Shabaab largely from East Africa.
Al-Shabaab grabbed credit for the Manda Bay attack and published purported video of the group’s emir, Ahmed Umar Abu Ubaidah, personally meeting the attackers before the operation.
The al-Shabaab video claimed the attackers included a 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... i, an Æthiopian, a Tanzanian and Somalis.
Al-Shabaab identified Manda Bay attackers: Moulana Faruq Moulana, Ahmed al-Muhajir, Cmdr (Yemen), Abubakar al-Muhajir (Tanzania), Ali Muhammad Ali, Qudama al-Muhajir (Æthiopia), and Abdulwali Muhammad Ibrahim "Moallim Omar" & Adam Iman Yusuf, Abdulkareem (both Somalis).
Ayman is the second al-Shabaab commander connected to the Manda Bay attack who has been killed in a U.S. strike. In March 2020, the U.S. reported an operation that it said had killed Bashir Qoorgaab, who was linked to the planning of the operation.
A U.S. airstrike in May injured the head of al-Shabaab’s external operations, Osman Mohammed Abdi, known as Moallim Osman.
While announcing the progress, General Ibrahim Sheikh Muhydin said the Middle Jubba attack on 17th December killed the militant, who has been on the run for three years.
Throughout his hideout, Moalim Ayman had a $10 million bounty on his head, with the US and Somali forces activating search across the country. The attack in coastal Kenya was mostly organized by several foreigners, some of whom are on the run in Somalia.
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[KavkazUzel] A court in Strasbourg sentenced a native of Chechnya to 15 months in prison, finding him guilty of promoting terrorism due to videos and songs of the Islamic State* published on TikTok.
A 19-year-old Russian of Chechen origin was convicted in Strasbourg for promoting terrorism on the social network TikTok.
The young man was arrested this week and immediately appeared in court. According to investigators, for several months he broadcast videos and war songs of the Islamic State* on TikTok, including a video glorifying the terrorist attacks that occurred in Paris and Brussels, the French publication Le Figaro writes on December 22.
In court, the man admitted that he broadcast the relevant videos, but denied religious radicalization. It is noted that his channel had about a thousand subscribers as of November, but already in December their number doubled.
The court found the young man guilty of promoting terrorism and sentenced him to 15 months in prison.
Earlier, the "Caucasian Knot" wrote that in early December a 16-year-old native of Chechnya was arrested in Germany and accused of preparing a terrorist attack together with his acquaintance of Afghan origin.
A court in France in early November sentenced Abdul Hakim Anaev, a native of Chechnya, to 10 years in prison. He was found guilty of inciting the terrorist attack of Khamzat Azimov, who attacked passers-by with a knife in Paris, killing one and injuring four others.
On October 13, a teacher was killed at a school in Arras, France, and two other people were stabbed in the attack. French media named the attacker as 20-year-old Mohamad Mogushkov, a native of Chechnya, whose family came to France from Ingushetia. On October 19, French media reported that Mogushkov was placed under arrest and refused to communicate with investigators; his younger brother and cousin were arrested. Also, according to them, Mogushkov’s father was deported from France for involvement in terrorism and lives in Georgia.
On October 16, the French Interior Ministry announced that about 60 people, including people from the North Caucasus republics, would be expelled from France after an attack on a school in the city of Arras, the Interior Ministry said. On October 20, French media reported the detention of a 15-year-old native of Chechnya who was standing with a knife near a synagogue in Strasbourg. In his phone, law enforcement officers found threats to open fire at the lyceum with a Kalashnikov assault rifle, and in his browser history - a search for prices for such weapons.
[Rudaw] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... ’s Interior Ministry on Friday announced the capture of 304 suspected members of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS).
The arrests were made in a large operation conducted with the coordination of Turkey’s intelligence and counterterrorism forces that took place simultaneously in 32 provinces, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said on X.
The 304 people detained are accused of links with ISIS and some allegedly were operating inside Turkey.
Istanbul province saw the largest number of suspects with 86 people detained, followed by the capital Ankara with 39, and the western province of Izmir with 20.
Turkey is a member of the Global Coalition against ISIS, but has been accused of financially and militarily supporting the terror group, according to a report from a former United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... advisor. Ankara denies the claim.
In November 2022, Syria’s representative to the UN accused Turkey of sponsoring murderous Moslem organizations, such as ISIS, inside Syria’s borders.
[Rudaw] Ottoman Turkish defense ministry on Wednesday announced that it carried out Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s against 14 alleged positions of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the Kurdistan Region’s mountainous areas.
The ministry said in a statement its air forces struck 14 PKK targets in Gara, Khakurk and Qandil mountains, claiming that "numerous" members of the Kurdish gang were "neutralized" - a term The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... uses to denote adversaries captured, maimed, or killed.
The airstrikes were carried out at 7pm local time, according to the statement.
ANF, a media outlet linked to the PKK, reported that Turkey hit a village in Duhok province’s Amedi town Wednesday noon, causing damage to the orchards of the villagers. It did not report any casualties.
The PKK has not commented on Turkey’s latest airstrikes.
Turkey has recently upped its attacks against the PKK in the Kurdistan Region. It has also intensified its targeting of Kurdish fighters in northern Syria due to their alleged ties with the PKK.
Kurdish civilians and rights organizations have criticized Turkey’s military campaign as civilian lives and property are frequently caught in the crossfire.
[Rudaw] One person was arrested in Kirkuk on the charge of glorifying former dictator Saddam Hussein while celebrating provincial elections earlier this week, the Iraqi National Security Service announced on Friday. In a separate case, ten people were sentenced to jail time for links with the outlawed Baathist party.
Video of a group of men chanting slogans praising Hussein near the Kirkuk governor’s office earlier this week went viral on social media, drawing the ire of many. In the footage, one of the men is seen showing his mobile phone to others, with the former dictator’s photo on the screen. They were celebrating the results of Monday’s provincial elections.
The man with the mobile phone was arrested for "glorifying the tyrant and raising his photo along with a group of other people," the Iraqi National Security Service said in a statement.
"In the same regard, the Kirkuk Criminal Court issued a five-year prison sentence for ten members of a network that our detachments in Kirkuk Governorate arrested earlier. They belong to the banned Baath Party and are working to promote it on social media platforms. Through the course of the investigation, they admitted their membership in the banned party," read the statement.
[Rudaw] The Iraqi government repatriated over 600 people affiliated with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) from northeast Syria (Rojava) late on Thursday and arrested 17 of them, an informed source told Rudaw on Friday.
A member of the Iraqi parliament’s migration and immigrants colonists committee told Rudaw English that 169 families with suspected ISIS ties were returned from Rojava’s notorious al-Hol camp at 11:30 pm on Thursday. The group consisted of 620 men, women and kiddies.
Iraqi intelligence was informed that 17 wanted runaways were included in the group and arrested them before their arrival at al-Jadaa Center for Community Rehabilitation in Nineveh province, said the politician, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
One of the suspects is accused of involvement in the 2014 Speicher massacre committed by ISIS.
The informed source told Rudaw English that it is possible the group arrested is the same referred to in an Iraqi security force statement earlier in the day.
The Joint Operations Command said on Friday that it arrested 18 people on warrants that had been issued in 2015. "One of them is implicated in the Speicher massacre, participating in the killing of hundreds of Iraqi citizens," read the statement, adding that the suspect had been hiding in a neighboring country using a fake name and forged documents, but gave no further detail.
The Camp Speicher Massacre is one of the most brutal crimes carried out by ISIS in Iraq. On June 12, 2014, around 1,700 Shiite cadets undergoing training at Camp Speicher in Tikrit ...birthplace of Saddam Hussein... were executed by ISIS faceless myrmidons who had initially promised them safety.
The politician said that the 16 other people were arrested for alleged links with ISIS.
Hawar News Agency (ANHA), a media outlet affiliated to Rojava authorities, also reported the new repatriation of Iraqis from al-Hol, putting the number of families at 173 and the total number of people at 659.
Last month, Iraq repatriated 192 families, consisting of a total of 780 individuals, from Rojava and placed them in the al-Jadaa Center for Community Rehabilitation in Nineveh province.
Al-Hol camp houses 45,355 people, mostly women and kiddies. This includes 21,633 Syrians and 17,022 Iraqis, according to the latest figures from the US-led global coalition against ISIS.
With the latest group, Iraq has repatriated 1,728 families, numbering 7,607 individuals, from Syria, according to data Radaw has obtained from Iraqi authorities.
The repatriation of ISIS-linked citizens has sparked opposition in Iraq, with tribes unwilling to accept and welcome people associated with the terror group that committed atrocious human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... abuses and war crimes from 2014 to 2017, when they controlled vast swathes of the country.
Iraq has also brought home men accused of fighting for ISIS. Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein told American officials in June that Baghdad had returned around 3,000 ISIS-affiliated Iraqi fighters who were tossed into the calaboose in Rojava. Most have been put on trial. The fighters had been arrested by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
[Rudaw] The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) on Friday carried out an attack on Ottoman Turkish troops in the Kurdistan Region, killing three and injuring four others, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... ’s defense ministry announced.
The ministry also said that it launched a retaliatory attack against the group in the area, "neutralizing" four PKK fighters. Turkey uses the term "neutralize" to denote adversaries captured, maimed, or killed.
The PKK has not immediately commented on the attack.
Turkey has recently increased its attacks on the PKK in the Kurdistan Region. It has also intensified its targeting Kurdish fighters in northern Syria due to their alleged ties with the PKK.
Kurdish civilians and rights organizations have criticized Turkey’s military campaign as civilian lives and property are frequently caught in the crossfire.
The Ottoman Turkish defense ministry on Wednesday announced that it carried out Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s against 14 alleged positions of the PKK in the Kurdistan Region’s mountainous areas.
[Jpost] An IDF soldier holds in the air what looks like a large model airplane attached to a giant string. He pulls it back, bending backward so the model airplane is tilted slightly upward toward the sky. Then he releases the plane and it flies off, its propeller making only a slight noise.
The model airplane is actually an unmanned aerial system, a drone.
We are standing in a field near Gaza. The sound of artillery and other weapons can be heard in the distance. The war in Gaza is in its third month. Several soldiers are walking around. There are other drones to be launched. These types of drones are called Skylarks in English and they are made by Elbit Systems.
These small unmanned aircraft can be easily stowed in a car, several at a time. They can be built [assembled] anywhere. They have two cameras — one for daytime electro-optics and another infrared one for nighttime. The soldiers describe the Skylark as a relatively simple machine but with a lot of complex systems behind it. This represents one level in the use of unmanned systems, such as various types of drones, being used over Gaza.
The IDF calls the unit that flies these drones Sky Rider. "Sky Rider teams join infantry forces, including special forces and reconnaissance battalions, and assist them in maneuvering safely by acting as their ’eyes in the sky.’ The teams are trained to fly UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) that give the forces an aerial overview of their surroundings. Both male and female soldiers serve in the unit and complete identical training," the IDF said about the unit in October.
...Israel uses a plethora of drones, from the larger Herons made by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) to the Elbit Hermes 450, known as the Zik. Israel uses larger drones to carry out airstrikes, which have become more common in the last year, including in the West Bank and now in Gaza.
ISRAEL ALSO uses new, smaller types of drones, called loitering munitions, that carry a warhead and fly into targets. These are called Maoz in Hebrew and are used in Gaza. The Skylark is something in between types like the swarming Thor drones or the various quadcopters and the larger drones that are more like aircraft. The Skylark is meant for battalion-level operations.
Skylarks are used to collect intelligence, soaring over the battlefield from where they can see in front of infantry or tanks. This can help the artillery, or what are called fire brigade units, to coordinate fire against targets. Israel has a fire brigade, the 282nd, that is linked to the 36th Division, but backs up other units in Gaza as well. The Sky Rider Unit is actually part of the 215th Artillery, which has M109 howitzers and has been supporting the 162nd Division operations in northern Gaza.
...One example of how the Sky Rider Unit helps save lives and protect forces in Gaza came early on in the fighting inside Gaza.
A unit of Golani, an infantry brigade that uses Namer armored personnel carriers, was inside Gaza fighting terrorists. "We were up in the air and collecting intelligence and keeping them [the soldiers] safe and watching them, and then all of a sudden we saw them being targeted by anti-tank missiles," recounts Romi. There was also small arms fire used by terrorists targeting the troops. The enemy was trying to overwhelm and ambush the armored vehicles with soldiers in them.
"As their only eyes, we could help them and tell them where they [the terrorists] are coming from and where to shoot," she explains. This is important because soldiers inside an APC [armored personnel carrier] can’t easily get out of the vehicle under fire. The Sky Riders helped direct artillery to strike precisely and close to the Golani troops and their vehicles.
"This was a mission that my team really felt [embodied] our whole purpose...We prevented a battalion from being killed."
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[IsraelTimes] Kibbutz Nir Oz announces that 73-year-old resident Gadi Haggai, kidnapped on October 7, is dead.
It does not say how it received the information, but adds that Haggai’s body remains in the hands of Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... terrorists. Haggai was a father of four and grandfather of seven.
His wife Judith remains captive and is believed to have been maimed during the attacks.
The two were out on a morning walk in the kibbutz fields when the October 7 attacks began. According to the Hostages and Missing Families Forum, before they were taken, Judith had time to notify friends by phone that the two were shot and that Gadi was seriously maimed.
[IsraelTimes] The Islamic Resistance® in Iraq, a coalition of Iran-backed militias, claims to have struck a "vital target" in the Mediterranean Sea several days ago.
A source in the group tells Al Jazeera that the target was the Karish gas rig off Israel’s northern coast.
The claims from the Islamic Resistance® in Iraq — which cannot be verified — come after the IDF announced it downed a drone last week over the sea near Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... as it approached Israeli airspace.
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Iran has threatened to close the Strait of Gibraltar and the Mediterranean Sea unless Israel stops bombing Gaza, as the US warned Tehran was “deeply involved” in attacks on shipping.
The IDF says it has expanded its ground operations in the central Gaza Strip, with the 99th Division carrying out an operation in areas south of Gaza City.
According to the IDF, the 99th Division maneuvered into new areas of central Gaza, to establish “operational control”… pic.twitter.com/gVBX8Z3auh
...to establish “operational control” between Gaza City and the so-called central camps, the refugee camps of central Gaza.
It says that during the operation, the division’s 179th Reserve Armored Brigade and 646th Reserve Paratroopers Brigade killed members of Hamas’s Nuseirat battalion and destroyed the terror group’s infrastructure, including tunnels and weapon depots.
Amid the operation, it says an airstrike was carried out against a Hamas cell firing RPGs at troops from a municipal building.
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The IDF's elite Yahalom combat engineering unit and the 401st Armored Brigade have demolished the major Hamas tunnel network hidden under Gaza City’s Palestine Square, where the terror group's top officials hid on October 7. pic.twitter.com/USy0jwzhn8
[Free Press] On October 7, Hamas terrorists stormed into the home of Hadar and Itay Berdichevsky in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, one of the Israeli communities along the Gaza border. Hadar and Itay—both 30 years old—were butchered in their own home.
Miraculously, their 10-month-old twins survived. The babies were found—rescued by the IDF—14 hours later, crying in their cots. Their parents’ bodies lie in pools of blood around them.
Today on Honestly, we’re talking with the twins’ aunt and uncle, Maya and Dvir Rosenfeld, who are now helping raise their orphaned twin nephews. Maya and Dvir also survived the massacre on Kfar Aza that day. They hid in their safe room for more than 24 hours with their own baby boy—holding their hands over his mouth to keep him quiet—as they heard the terrible sounds of their neighborhood being turned into a slaughterhouse around them.
Maya and Dvir flew to L.A. last week to share their family’s story. They’re doing this—even in the midst of mourning the loss of family, even while trying to recover from this unspeakable terror and tragedy—because they cannot understand how there are people who either don’t know, don’t believe, or simply don’t care about what happened that day. Or about the over 100 remaining hostages in Gaza.
There are so many stories from October 7 that need to be told. We’ve told some of them on this show. And still, we’ve barely scratched the surface of what happened that day, of the thousands upon thousands of stories—individual, human stories of horror and tragedy—each one deserving of being shared with the world.
This one today represents a little light in a sea of darkness. These innocent babies—who will not remember the terror of October 7—represent both senseless tragedy and unbelievable bravery. Both pain and hope. Both ultimate despair and miracle beyond belief. Both death. . . and life.
Our full conversation is available on Honestly (click here to listen) or as a video, which we are embedding below. And underneath that is an edited excerpt. —BW
New: The IDF has reported the first confirmed case of a Hamas suicide bomber in Gaza. A 60-year-old man detonated an explosive device strapped to his body near a unit from the 401st Division, close to the Indonesian hospital compound. The assailant was killed in the explosion, no… https://t.co/J385fHz5VC
The IDF has begun to call on residents of central Gaza's Bureij to evacuate south, and head for shelters in Deir al-Balah, as the ground offensive expands. pic.twitter.com/9fpj81OgUD
Lt. Col. Avichay Adraee, the IDF’s Arabic-language front man, publishes a map of the zones that need to be evacuated alongside the announcement.
He also says that Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... ’s main north-south highway, Salah ad-Din, in the areas northeast of Khan Younis, still remains a "battle zone." He says the IDF will facilitate the movement of civilians via a bypass route along the coast.
Additionally, Adraee says the IDF will make "tactical pauses in military activities" in the western neighborhoods of Rafah in southern Gaza, between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., for "humanitarian purposes."
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The IDF reveals that it has uncovered another large Hamas tunnel network in the southern part of Gaza City, publishing footage showing a dog from the Oketz canine unit scanning the underground passages. pic.twitter.com/GClOITrFOy
[NY Post] An Iranian leader threatened on Saturday to close off the Mediterranean Sea in retaliation for the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip, local media outlets said.
Israel and the West "shall soon await the closure of the Mediterranean Sea, [the Strait of] Gibraltar and other waterways," Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Naqdi of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards warned.
The potential closure would be revenge for the United States and its allies for supporting "crimes" in the Gaza Strip as part of Israel’s retaliatory war in wake of Hamas’ Oct. 7 terror attack, the military commander said.
Iran backs Hamas, as well as Lebanon’s Hezbollah and the Houthi rebels from Yemen, but has no direct access to the Mediterranean itself — making it unclear exactly how the Guards plan to close off the vast sea.
Naqdi, however, referred to "the birth of new powers of resistance and the closure of other waterways."
Over the past month, Iran has played a major role in the Houthi attacks on Israeli and ally-linked merchant vessels in the Red Sea, which have prompted some shipping companies to pause operations or alter their routes.
Earlier this week, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced a new partnership aimed at combating the attacks.
"The recent escalation in reckless Houthi attacks originating from Yemen threatens the free flow of commerce, endangers innocent mariners and violates international law," Austin said in a statement from Bahrain.
On Friday, the White House confirmed that Iran was "deeply involved" in planning the Houthi attacks.
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making it unclear exactly how ...
Well, blowing the Suez would be simple enough.
Nuking the Strait of Gibraltar to form a 10 mile ridge against the Atlantic tides would be a little more problematic.
[Rudaw] The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced on Friday the arrest of a four-person spy network accused of involvement in the killing of a commander and two members of a female force in September.
"The military operations units affiliated with the Syrian Democratic Forces have captured a spy network consisting of four mercenaries working for the Ottoman Turkish occupation intelligence," read the SDF’s statement.
The alleged spies confessed to acting on orders from Ottoman Turkish intelligence in an operation that led to the death of the three members of the Women’s Protection Units (YPJ).
Sharvin Sardar, a commander in the YPJ, was killed along with Candan Cudi and Nucan Ocalan in a Ottoman Turkishdronezap on their vehicle near Manbij city on September 15.
The SDF said it will publish the confessions of the alleged spies at a later date.
The YPJ is the all-women wing of the People’s Protection Units (YPG), which is the backbone of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). The SDF is the main ally of the coalition against ISIS on the ground in northeast Syria (Rojava).
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... considers the YPJ and YPG to be Syrian offshoots of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and has carried out three military operations against the Kurdish forces in northern Syria since 2016, invading key towns near the border such as Afrin, Sari Kani (Ras al-Ain) and Gire Spi (Tal Abyad).
#UPDATE: Lebanese Hezbollah is now at 117 fighters officially confirmed killed in battles and strikes by Israeli forces in southern Lebanon since October 7th
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
...established in the early 1990s through an agreement between portions of Uganda’s Salaf Tabliq Islamic sect and the National Army for the Liberation of Uganda (NALU), who said they had been sidelined by Museveni’s policies. At the time, the rebels staged deadly attacks in Ugandan villages and the capital, including a 1998 attack in which 80 students were massacred. A Ugandan military operation later forced the ADF into eastern Congo. The ADF has since established ties with the Islamic State group. The ADF has received funding from the Government of Sudan, which has also provided supplies and training. The ADF may also have received funding from the illegal mining and logging industries of the DRC....
...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka 
President-for-Life of Uganda. He assumed office in 1985. His primary virtue is being prefereable to both his predecessors, Idi Amin and Milton Obote...
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...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
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...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
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...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
