[Breitbart] Swanton Sector Border Patrol agents rescued three Mexican migrants who illegally crossed the Canadian border into New York on December 9, according to information received this week from CBP officials. The migrants all suffered injury from exposure to the wintery conditions and were taken to a hospital for treatment.
Swanton Sector Cheif Patrol Agent Robert Garcia posted photos on social media showing agents rescuing a group of migrants who became lost in the woods after crossing into New York from Canada. The agents, along with Churubusco Fire Department crews and other supporting agencies, carried out a search and rescue operation leading to the discovery of the injured migrants.
Responding to an inquiry from Breitbart Texas, CBP officials reported on December 28 that Swanton Sector agents assigned to the Champlain Station responded to a 911 call in Churubusco, New York, at about 5 a.m. on December 9. The search crews found three migrants suffering from cold weather injuries in the dense forest area. Rescue crews transported the migrants to the Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital for treatment, officials stated.
Breitbart later learned the three migrants were identified as Mexican nationals. After being treated at the hospital, agents released the migrants with a notice to appear before an immigration court at some point in the future. Officials did not disclose the final destination plans for the migrants.
During the first two months of FY24, which began on October 1, Swanton Sector agents apprehended 1,850 migrants. According to the November Nationwide Encounters report from CBP, this is more than the entire FY21 and FY22 combined.
During FY23, Swanton Sector agents apprehended nearly 7,000 migrants. More than 50 percent of those (3,436) were Mexican nationals crossing from Canada into northeastern New York, Vermont, and New Hampshire.
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Ironic. Churubusco, NY, is a tiny hamlet named to honor local US Army veterans who defeated Santa Anna's Army in the Mexican-American War at Churubusco, MX.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A police officer has died in the line of duty after being shot in Oakland as woke district attorney faces recall over the city's rampant violent theft.
The officer responding to a burglary in progress was fatally shot early Friday in the Jack London Square area of Oakland.
The Oakland Police Officers' Association reported that the officer was 'ambushed and shot,' marking the 54th Oakland police officer killed in the line of duty.
Oakland Police Department's interim chief, Darren Allison, expressed the profound sacrifice of the profession, noting that the fallen officer, a four-year veteran, was part of an overnight burglary operation.
'The dangers and demands of this profession are real and come with significant sacrifice,' said Darren Allison, interim chief for the Oakland Police Department in a news conference Friday. 'Sadly, today one of our officers paid the ultimate sacrifice.
Violent crime is running rampant across the Dem-led Californian city, with business owners now comparing the area to a 'battleground' akin to wartime Vietnam.
Last month, Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price was facing a recall as a result. Hundreds of locals have started a group, named Save Alameda for Everyone, in a bid to oust Price from her position because of her soft-on-crime approach.
Restaurants in Oakland have been losing thousands a week as diners have their cars and jewelry robbed mid meal - with locals now avoiding the city's downtown area.
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Jack London square was once an oasis of sanity in a city gone mad. You could take the ferry to San Francisco from the dock, or have a good meal or enjoy a drink there. Sad. But Oakland is now a ...... (fill in the blank)
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^ Not just Oakland - the entire East Bay to include Richmond, Emeryville, Berkeley and and all points south to San Jose. A massive, festering sh!thole.
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[Garowe] Security officers in Mandera are pursuing at least 20 suspected al-Shabaab ... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all ofwhich have enough problems without them... forces of Evil who attacked a police camp in the area before fleeing.
The heavily armed forces of Evil are said to have approached the Quick Response Unit (QRU) camp of the Administration Police from the northwest in the Friday morning incident.
They fired toward the camp within proximity of 100 meters before they were repulsed, police say.
"Officers who were alert responded swiftly and engaged them for 15 minutes," a report reads in part.
There were, however, no reported injuries or fatalities during the shootout.
"No injuries on our side and all officers accounted while on the enemy side pending confirmation during clearance at first light. Currently situation under control," it further states.
The latest incident comes in the wake of a series of attacks majorly targeting police camps in the area by the same group.
In August, officers foiled an attempted raid at Elram camp manned by officers from the Anti-stock Theft Unit (ASTU).
The forces of Evil are said to have fired explosives at the camp prompting officers to respond.
"The attack was well repulsed, the explosives that were fired by the militias-one rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) landed inside the camp and the other outside causing a fire inside and outside the camp," police said.
The increase in the terror attacks in the country, particularly in the Northeastern region, came after the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) made an incursion into Somalia in 2011.
This has forced the government to beef up security across the border and deploy specialized units which include the General Service Unit (GSU), Special Operation Group (SOG), and QRU including the Special Forces of KDF.
[IsraelNationalNews] At least 140 people have been killed and 300 injured in what has been described as a massacre against Christians in the African country of Nigeria over the Christmas weekend, Amnesty International confirmed.
The killings occurred in about 20 villages and communities in the Plateau state of north-central Nigeria between December 23-25.
According to some local reports, the death toll may be as high as 200. Plateau Governor Caleb Mutfwang called the attacks "Senseless and unprovoked."
"I am yet to take stock of [the deaths in] Barkin Ladi," Mutfwan said, "It has been a very terrifying Christmas for us here in Plateau."
The attacks appear to be part of a longstanding conflict between Fulani Muslim herdsmen and Christian farming communities. The herdsmen accuse the farmers of taking over their grazing land and began raiding farming villages in 2014. Thousands of people have been killed in the conflict over the last decade.
Residents have reported that security forces took at least 12 hours to respond to calls for help.
[BBC] The US Navy has destroyed Houthi "small boats" whose crew attempted to board a container ship in the Red Sea.
Four vessels from Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen fired upon the Maersk Hangzhou and got within metres of the ship, the US military said.
Helicopters from nearby US warships responded to a distress call - and, after being fired upon, sank three boats "in self-defence".
The crews were killed and the fourth boat fled the area.
Houthi forces have been attacking ships in the Red Sea since November, launching more than 100 drone and missile attacks on vessels passing through the vital shipping lane.
The Iranian-backed Yemeni rebel group has previously claimed its attacks are directed at vessels linked to Israel, in response to the war in Gaza.
The commercial ship attacked, the Maersk Hangzhou, is registered to Singapore and operated and owned by a Danish firm, US Central Command (Centcom) said.
Maersk, one of the largest shipping companies in the world, says it has paused sailings through the Red Sea for 48 hours.
The firm had only resumed using the route a few days ago, after the US and its allies launched a mission to protect ships in the area.
Previously, its ships had diverted on a much longer route around the Cape of Good Hope because of the recent attacks on shipping.
The four Houthi boats attacked at around 06:30 Yemeni time (03:30 GMT) with mounted weapons and small arms, getting to within 20m (66ft) of the container ship, which the crew "attempted to board". The ships crew issued a distress call and a security team returned fire, Centcom said.
Helicopters from the nearby USS Eisenhower aircraft carrier and USS Gravely destroyer responded to the call for help and were shot at while "in the process of issuing verbal calls to the small boats".
The helicopters "returned fire in self-defence, sinking three of the four small boats, and killing the crews", Centcom said. It added that the fourth boat "fled the area" and no damage had been recorded to US personnel or equipment.
It was the second attack on the Maersk Hangzhou in 24 hours, after it was targeted with missiles on Saturday.
The anti-ship missiles were fired from Houthi-controlled areas and the destroyers Gravely and Laboon responded on Saturday, according to a previous Centcom statement.
A US Navy admiral told the AP news agency the missile attack was the first successful strike since a global patrol was launched on 18 December.
Centcom said while the ships were responding to the distress call, two anti-ship missiles were fired from Houthi-controlled areas at the pair of US navy vessels.
The USS Gravely destroyed the inbound ballistic missiles, Centcom said, adding it was the twenty-third "illegal attack by the Houthis on international shipping" since 19 November.
Centcom added the Maersk Hangzhou was "reportedly seaworthy and there are no reported injuries" on board.
Separately, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) organisation reported an incident in the Red Sea about 55 nautical miles (101km) to the south-west of the Yemeni port of Hodeidah.
The organisation said an unidentified ship had reported "a loud bang accompanied by a flash on the port bow of the vessel", and several explosions.
No damage was recorded and all members of the crew were reported unhurt, with the vessel escaping the area to a nearby port, the statement said.
At least 10 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... rebels were killed today and two maimed when US forces struck their boats in the southern Red Sea, two sources at 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... ’s Hodeida port say.
The US military earlier said it had destroyed several small boats operated by the Iran-backed Houthis after the rebels attacked and tried to board a container ship.
One source at the rebel-controlled port says the maimed were rescued following the strike. The other source, also speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... , says there are four other survivors.
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FWIW, irish rage sir, me first official act as President, should I be elected by write-in, will be to appoint you Satrap of Chahbahar! /haysbert (holiday survival strategy inexplicably involved catching up with Polyperils of Pauline)
[IsraelTimes] The US Central Command says the Maersk Hangzhou container ship reported being struck by a missile while sailing through the Red Sea, seemingly the first successful attack since the launch of an international coalition to patrol the key waterway 10 days ago.
An American warship, the USS Gravely, shot down two more ballistic missiles while responding to a distress call along with the USS Labboon, the military says.
The missiles were fired from a part of 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... controlled by the Iran-backed 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... rebel group, which has carried out nearly two dozen attacks on merchant vessels in a bid to choke traffic traversing the key Bab al Mandeb strait connecting the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean.
According to CentCom, there were no injuries on the Maersk container ship, and the ship remains seaworthy and able to continue its journey.
According to publicly available data, the Singapore-flagged, Denmark-owned ship was sailing from Singapore to Port Said Egypt.
The strike comes a day after Denmark joined the international coalition set up to patrol the Red Sea and thwart such attacks.
Maersk, among the world’s largest shippers, recently said it was resuming its more efficient Red Sea routes in apparent reaction to the force being set up, after weeks of sending marine traffic around Africa’s Cape of Good Hope to avoid Houthi attacks.
Speaking before the attack was announced, US Navy Vice Admiral Brad Cooper told the News Agency that Dare Not be Named that since Operation Prosperity Guardian was announced, 1,200 merchant ships had traveled through the Red Sea region, and none had been hit by drone or missile strikes.
There are five warships from the United States, La Belle France, and the United Kingdom patrolling the waters of the southern Red Sea and the western Gulf of Aden, says Cooper, who heads the 5th Fleet. Since the operation started, the ships have shot down a total of 17 drones and four anti-ship ballistic missiles, he says.
The Houthis have threatened to attack any vessel they believe is either going to or coming from Israel, in retaliation for Israel’s military campaign in Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... That has escalated to apparently any vessel, with container ships and oil tankers flagged to countries such as Norway and Liberia being attacked or drawing missile fire.
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AS PER ABC NEWS"---The small boats, originating from Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen, fired crew served and small arms weapons at the MAERSK HANGZHOU, getting to within 20 meters of the vessel, and attempted to board the vessel," Central Command said.------ Sally Forth did you see the dude that looked undead commanding his units to fire crew from onshore with giant rubber band guns like rail guns onto container ships? GOOD LUCK WAFJ! Crying for the stolen trout fishing boats! SOOOOOOOOOOOOO WORTH IT! Will model deer hunting now after New Stupid Order and shoot all trees and bushes and rocks and uneven terrain first than have the sons of gun build me a remote control BB GUN that is 88 and a half caliber at 1 trillion times the cost and build a private army and hunt them in TIM BUCK 2 hear the big trophy deer have 2 heads ! We would have beaten and hung our game master when we were small children if it was this lame and stupid!
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[IsraelTimes] 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... ’s 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... rebels show no signs of ending their "reckless" attacks on fat merchantmen in the Red Sea, the top commander of US naval forces in the Middle East says today, even as more nations join the international maritime mission to protect vessels in the vital waterway and trade traffic begins to pick up.
Since Operation Prosperity Guardian was announced just over 10 days ago, 1,200 merchant ships have traveled through the Red Sea region, and none has been hit by drone or missile strikes, Vice Adm. Brad Cooper says in an News Agency that Dare Not be Named interview. He says additional countries are expected to sign on. Denmark was the latest, announcing yesterday it plans to send a frigate to the mission that US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced during a visit to Bahrain, where the Navy’s 5th Fleet is based, saying that "this is an international challenge that demands collective action."
"I expect in the coming weeks we’re going to get additional countries," Cooper says, noting Denmark’s recent announcement.
Cooper says the coalition is in direct communication with fat merchantmen to provide guidance on "maneuvering and the best practices to avoid being attacked," and working closely with the shipping industry to coordinate security.
An international task force had been set up in April 2022 to improve maritime security in the region. But Cooper says Operation Prosperity Guardian has more ships and a persistent presence to assist vessels.
Since the operation started, the Houthis have stepped up their use of anti-ship ballistic missiles, Cooper says. "We are clear-eyed that the Houthi reckless attacks will likely continue," he says.
The Houthis threatened to attack any vessel they believe is either going to or coming from Israel. That has escalated to apparently any vessel, with container ships and oil tankers flagged to countries such as Norway and Liberia being attacked or drawing missile fire.
The shipping company Maersk had announced earlier that it had decided to re-route its ships that have been paused for days outside the strait and Red Sea, and send them around Africa instead. Maersk announced December 25 that it was going to resume sending ships through the strait, citing the operation. Cooper said another shipping company had also resumed using the route.
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[KavkazUzel] The defense convinced the court in Malgobek to release from custody Leila Gatagazheva, a native of Ingushetia, accused of having ties with Islamic State militants* in Syria.
As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, on November 29, the Malgobek City Court extended until December 31 the arrest of a native of Ingushetia, Leila Gatagazheva, accused of collaborating with militants in Syria.
On June 18, the Ministry of Internal Affairs announced that Leila Gatagazheva had been extradited from Iraq. She is accused of working for Islamic State militants in Syria. She has already served five years in an Iraqi prison on a similar charge, said the defense, which is seeking to have the criminal case dismissed.
The Malgobek City Court changed the preventive measure for Leila Gatagazheva and sent her under house arrest, the Memorial Human Rights Protection Center reports today on its website.
The meeting took place on December 29, at which a representative of the investigation insisted on extending the arrest. He explained that, once free, Gatagazheva could hide and put pressure on witnesses.
In turn, lawyer Ramina Labazanova said that her client does not have not only a foreign passport, but also an ordinary civil passport, and asked the investigator to explain on what these fears are based. “The investigator was unable to do this. And when asked by Judge Ferdovs Batyrova how the investigation established Gatagazheva’s identity, he replied that using the birth certificate,” Memorial reported.
The judge changed the preventive measure and assigned Gatagazheva house arrest for a period of two months. “Hearing the court ruling, Gatagazheva burst into tears. For the first time in the last six and a half years, she will spend the night outside of a cell,” the publication says.
Leila Gatagazheva, born in 2001, is a mother of two children, she is accused of aiding terrorist activities (Part 2 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and participation in an illegal armed formation on the territory of Syria (Part 2 of Article 208 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), the publication notes.
Let us recall that earlier Gatagazheva’s lawyer reported that in 2019 a criminal case was opened against her client under the article on organizing the activities of a terrorist organization and participating in its activities (Part 2 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). In 2020, Gatagazheva was put on the wanted list. In 2022, another criminal case was opened against her under the article on participation in an illegal armed formation on the territory of a foreign state (Part 2 of Article 208 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The charges were brought in absentia. In June 2023, Gatagazheva was released from an Iraqi prison and was extradited to Russia.
In 2014, Gatagazheva’s mother with four children, her brother and his family left for Syria from Ingushetia. There, Leila was forcibly married when she was 13 years old. In 2017, her husband was killed, she was left at the age of 16 with two children and a paralyzed mother-in-law. Gatagazheva surrendered to the Iraqi authorities. Her mother-in-law, sentenced to 15 years, died in prison, Leila herself was sentenced to five years in prison, her children lived with her in prison.
https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/395798
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[IsraelTimes] Ottoman Turkish authorities detain 189 people in 37 provinces suspected of ties 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.... group, Ottoman Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya says on social media platform X.
Authorities have ramped up operations against Islamic State and Kurdish holy warriors in recent weeks, after Kurdish holy warriors detonated a bomb near government buildings in Ankara on October 1.
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Turkey detains 189 people with suspected Islamic State ties
All of whom, by some strange coincidence, happen to be Kurds?
[IsraelTimes] A Hamas ...a regional Iranian catspaw,... armed wing commander who was a right-hand man to Hamas’s chief bomb-maker decades ago was killed in an Israeli strike in Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... , according to the Paleostinian Shehab news outlet, which is considered close to the terror group.
According to Shehab, Abdul Fattah Amin Maali was a close associate to Yahya Ayyash, one of the founders of the al-Qassam Brigades, the terror group’s armed wing.
Nicknamed the Engineer, Ayyash was known for both developing Hamas’s use of suicide kabooms and building many of the explosives used in attacks that took the lives of dozens of Israelis in the early and mid-1990s.
He was assassinated by the Shin Bet in January 1996.
Shehab says Maali was deported to Gaza after his release from prison, and had been an al-Qassam commander himself.
Before October 7, the crowds screaming for Bibi to be defenestrated measured in hundreds of thousands, not mere hundreds.
[IsraelTimes] Amid a somber atmosphere, hundreds of people turn up to a protest at Tel Aviv’s Habima Square to demand immediate elections and “a better Israel” in the words of one speaker.
A central exhibition at Habima Square commemorates the victims of the October 7 atrocities and states, “Not in vain, we promise.”
Protestors demanding the return of all the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza hold up banners urging the government not to abandon those who were not freed in the hostage deal last month.
Close by, a protest is held demanding an end to the war against Hamas and Israel’s military control over the West Bank.
“This is our life with Netanyahu in power. Catastrophe after catastrophe after catastrophe,” chant demonstrators.
Go sit on the sidelines and watch while those who disagree win the war, and then the election.
[IsraelTimes] Rotem Telem, a Tel Aviv resident, says she came to the protest at Habima Square out of a profound sense of "despair and fear" over the situation in the country, specifically the ongoing deaths of Israelis soldiers and Paleostinian civilians in Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... amid the war against Hamas ...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... "People on both sides are dying for no purpose. I’m afraid they’re telling us we’re winning a war which we lost on October 7," says Telem despondently.
"We can’t win this war. You can’t change paradigms with war. Children dying is not a policy," she continues.
Telem says she wants immediate elections to be held and insists that holding an election campaign despite the ongoing war is possible, but says she doesn’t actually support any of the likely candidates.
"Gantz isn’t a solution, Lapid is too right-wing, but they would at least be able to renew the proper functioning of government departments which have been gutted by Netanyahu, and restore the state so we can continue onwards," she says.
[IsraelTimes] Netanyahu: War against Hamas will last many more months, Gaza-Egypt border must be ‘in our hands’ to ensure demilitarization; warns Hezbollah, and Iran, against escalating in north
[IsraelTimes] IDF troops have encountered vast quantities of weapons manufactured by China being used in Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... , Channel 12 news reports.
The report, which is unsourced, says Israel’s politicianship has been shown examples of the weaponry involved.
It says "nobody thinks" the weapons have been delivered on Chinese ships. But the quantities of weaponry involved indicate that they have been brought to Gaza in an organized supply process, rather than by ad hoc smuggling, the report says.
[NY Post] Followup on previous reports
Israeli officials have ordered new investigations into reports of digging noises under an Israeli town near the West Bank this week.
Residents of Bat Hefer have reported hearing digging noises beneath their homes, which lies just across the border from the West Bank city of Tulkarem.
Officials have conducted three previous checks and found no evidence of tunneling, but the city council has now ordered an additional two checks, according to the Times of Israel.
One Bat Hefer resident recorded the noises and played them on a public broadcast, according to Israeli media.
Citizens across the country remain in a heightened state of tension as they fear another attack similar to Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre.
"We take the reports very seriously, and are working overtime to check the issue in a comprehensive and professional manner, using various methods. So far, three checks have been carried out and two more checks will be carried out in the coming days. So far, there have been no findings to indicate digging," The Emek Hefer Regional Council told Israeli media.
Residents of the town say they remain afraid as they see Hezbollah launching missiles and rockets across Israel’s northern border.
"The situation is really not good," resident Gadi Ohayon stated on Israeli radio. "We live in a constant state of insecurity, the settlement is targeted with direct and indirect fire almost every day. We can show you pictures of shells from our yards."
[IsraelTimes] Paleostinian residents report heavy air and artillery fire; IDF says it killed dozens of terror operatives in strikes and shootouts, raided Hamas ...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... intelligence HQ in Khan Younis.
Israeli tanks pushed deeper into districts in central and southern 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... Friday overnight and Saturday under heavy air and artillery fire, pressing forward with the ground campaign in Israel’s war against Hamas terrorists.
Fighting late on Friday and early Saturday was focused in al-Bureij, Nuseirat, and Maghazi in central Gaza, and Khan Younis in the southern part of the Strip, backed by intensive air strikes.
A Hamas health official alleged the strikes had killed 100 Paleostinians and injured 150 in the central Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours. The terror group does not differentiate in its reports between civilians and combatants.
The Israel Defense Forces on Saturday announced the death of a soldier killed during fighting in the Gaza Strip over the weekend, and another who succumbed to his wounds from earlier fighting, bringing the toll of slain troops since the start of the ground offensive in late October against Hamas to 170.
The IDF said troops of the 7th Armored Brigade had advanced further in southern Gaza, while raiding Hamas sites in Khan Younis, including the headquarters of the terror group’s intelligence division in the city.
The intelligence headquarters was responsible for all of Hamas’s intelligence activity in the Khan Younis area, the IDF said, adding that it also located a command center belonging to the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... terror group in the same complex.
According to the IDF, the troops recovered "very valuable" intelligence materials from the sites.
In central Gaza’s al-Bureij camp, the IDF detailed the operations of the 188th Armored Brigade, including an incident in which troops battled Hamas button men hiding in a school that was being used as a shelter for Paleostinian civilians.
On Thursday, the 188th Brigade received intelligence of dozens of Hamas operatives hiding in a school where civilians were sheltering.
"The gunnies took advantage of the presence of civilians in the school area in order to fire RPGs and small arms at the forces, while hiding behind women and kiddies," the IDF said, adding that the troops raided the school, capturing the operatives who were holed up inside and killing others near the complex.
In other operations in al-Bureij, the IDF says the 188th Brigade has encountered many more Hamas button men who attacked forces from civilian sites.
The brigade has also located and destroyed three rocket launchers and nine tunnel shafts, the IDF said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Senate, Tremulus continued with his speech against Varius and his cohorts, watching as his colleagues dropped off to sleep one by one... troops of the Givati Brigade raided several more Hamas sites in southern Gaza, killing operatives in the process with sniper fire and tank shelling, the IDF said.
It said that the Givati troops also directed several Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on Hamas button men in the area, along with other infrastructure belonging to the terror group.
Before the troops maneuvered deeper into Khan Younis, the IDF said the 98th Division and Air Force carried out some 50 strikes on targets in the area, including tunnels and other infrastructure used by Hamas to attack troops.
Paleostinians reported fierce Israeli tank fire and aerial bombing in Khan Younis in southern Gaza overnight. Planes also carried out a series of air strikes on the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza, according to medics and Paleostinian journalists.
INTENSIVE BATTLES
Israeli forces have been pounding Khan Younis in preparation for an anticipated further advance into the main southern city, swaths of which they captured in early December.
Earlier, the IDF said that troops killed dozens of gunnies on Friday in a series of strikes and battles across the Strip.
Multiple battles occurred in Gaza City, where troops from the 14th Reserve Armored Brigade eliminated dozens of gunnies with air force support, the IDF said on Saturday morning. Forces on the ground helped to direct air force strikes as navy vessels provided additional firepower from the sea, it said.
The update came amid reports in Hebrew media, which the IDF has not confirmed, of a decrease in the intensity of the fighting in Gaza in recent days. Egyptian and 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... i mediators have been trying to secure a framework for a new ceasefire, though the sides do not appear to be close to an agreement.
The IDF said troops in Gaza City identified four cells of button men Friday, leading to aerial strikes that killed 15 button men within the space of three hours. Additional button men were killed in shootouts with the troops, according to the IDF, which characterized the battles as "intensive."
North of Gaza City, in Beit Lahiya, reservists of the 551st Brigade demolished two buildings that the IDF said were used by Hamas. The troops found large amounts of military equipment in the buildings, including explosives and weapons.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Senate, Tremulus continued with his speech against Varius and his cohorts, watching as his colleagues dropped off to sleep one by one... soldiers of the Border Defense Corps’ 414th Combat Intelligence Collection unit identified a detachment of button men in Shejaiya in the northern Gaza Strip, with one toting an RPG launcher. An aircraft eliminated them in a strike that troops on the ground helped direct.
On Friday, the IDF said that its troops had demolished a hideout apartment belonging to Hamas’s Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar in northern Gaza along with a large tunnel system underneath it.
Sinwar has been accused of overseeing the preparations and planning for the October 7 onslaught, during which thousands of Hamas-led gunnies poured into Israel from the land, air and sea, brutally killing more than 1,200 people and seizing some 240 hostages.
GAZANS ’EXHAUSTED’
They weren’t exhausted on October 6th...
The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza said Friday that at least 21,507 people have been killed in the Paleostinian territory since war with Israel broke out nearly 12 weeks ago, including 187 fatalities over the past 24 hours. A statement from the ministry added that 55,915 people had been maimed in Gaza during the fighting.
Figures issued by Hamas cannot be independently verified and include both civilians and terror operatives killed in Gaza, including as a consequence of terror groups’ own rocket misfires.
Israel says it is making an effort to avoid harm to civilians while fighting a terror group embedded within the civilian population. It has long accused Gaza-based terror groups of using Paleostinians in the Strip as human shields, operating from sites, including schools and hospitals, which are supposed to be protected.
According to IDF assessments, some 8,500 terror operatives have been killed in Gaza since the start of the war.
The Wall Street Journal reported that around half of Gaza’s buildings had been damaged or destroyed in the war, a figure that also accounts for almost 70 percent of homes. The report cited analysis of satellite photography of the Strip and other remote sensing methods.
The paper noted buildings hit include factories, houses of prayer, schools, shopping malls and hotels. Israel has said many schools, mosques and other buildings have been hit after being used for military purposes and as bases of operation by Gaza terror groups.
WSJ added that only eight of Gaza’s 36 hospitals can accept patients, and that most basic infrastructure including water, electricity and communications is demolished.
"The word ’Gaza’ is going to go down in history along with Dresden and other famous cities that have been bombed," Robert Pape, a political scientist at the University of 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... who has written about the history of aerial bombing, told the paper.
Eighty-one trucks carrying humanitarian aid entered Gaza through Israel’s Kerem Shalom and Egypt’s Rafah crossings Friday, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said.
Kerem Shalom had been closed for three days due to what OCHA said were security incidents, including an IDF dronezap, the seizure of aid by desperate locals and unannounced and uncoordinated prisoner and casualty transfers.
US news outlet Axios and Israeli website Ynet, both citing unnamed Israeli officials, reported that Qatari mediators had told Israel that Hamas was prepared to resume talks on new hostage releases in exchange for a ceasefire.
And a pony. Qatar should be ashamed even to bring the proposal to Israel.
A Hamas delegation was in Cairo on Friday to discuss an Egyptian plan proposing renewable ceasefires, AFP reported.
Publicly, Hamas has said it will not consider any ceasefire before Israel announces an end to the Gaza campaign, a non-starter for Jerusalem.
The IDF details the operations of the 188th Armored Brigade in central Gaza’s al-Bureij camp, including an incident in which troops battled Hamas gunmen hiding in a school being used as a shelter for Palestinian civilians.
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An Israeli poster in Conservative Treehouse named David posts daily in the Open Thread. The map is his posting today about the current IDF positions and ops.
"Arrows=Battles. Gray=Conquered. Yellow=Not conquered. Green=Humanitarian zone."
[IsraelTimes] Reservist seriously hurt, taken to hospital for treatment; attack takes place near site of similar assault Friday, where 5 soldiers were hurt
An Israeli soldier was seriously maimed in a car-ramming attack at a army position in the southern West Bank, the military and medics said Saturday.
The Israel Defense Forces said the attack took place near the al-Fawwar refugee camp south of Hebron, not far from the site of a car-ramming attack Friday in which five soldiers were maimed.
It said troops "neutralized" the assailant in the attack, and later confirmed that a reservist of the 7018th Battalion was seriously maimed in the attack. He was taken to Soroka Medical Center for further treatment.
In Friday’s attack, near Adorayim Junction, one soldier was listed at death's door, while the other four were light-to-moderately hurt, according to the IDF. All five were taken to hospitals in Israel for treatment. Troops operating in the area shot and killed the assailant, identified as Amr Abd al-Fattah Abu Hussein by the Paleostinian Authority Health Ministry.
Earlier this week, two people were maimed in a stabbing attack at a checkpoint between Jerusalem and the Gush Etzion settlement bloc in the West Bank. The Magen David Adom ambulance service said Thursday its medics treated a woman, later identified as a Border Police officer in her 20s, and a 25-year-old civilian security guard, at the Mazmuria checkpoint near the southern Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Homa. Health officials said both were hospitalized and were in light-to-moderate condition.
The alleged assailant, a 24-year-old East Jerusalem resident, was rubbed out by security forces at the scene, police said in a statement.
According to a Times of Israel news hound who witnessed the attack, the assailant got out of a car and attacked officers guarding the checkpoint, before being shot by those he’d stabbed.
80% of the launches fired by Hezbollah at Israel yesterday fell inside Lebanon. Not only does Hezbollah continue to violate @UN SC Resolution 1701, the terrorist organization also actively puts Lebanese lives at risk. pic.twitter.com/rGiVtjzKXk
Do we know what the Hezbullies are launching? Those giant bottle rockets you could make in high school shop class, unguided artillery rockets, or scudly missiles with some sort of guidance however Iranian?
Looking at the map, all the misses have about the same range. Maybe y'all should get closer to your intended victims. Of course, that will expose you to counter-battery fire, air strikes, and drone zaps but nobody ever said hating the Juice was easy.
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says it carried out "widespread" strikes on Hezbollah sites in Kfarkela in southern 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... According to the IDF, the strikes were carried in two waves on a series of sites belonging to the terror group this morning and afternoon.
The IDF says Kfarkela is a Hezbollah stronghold, where the terror group "uses the infrastructure in the area for terror purposes, exploiting the civilian population and using it as a human shield for its operations."
According to the IDF, many rocket and missile attacks against Israel have been carried out from the village.
The IDF also hit targets in Bint Jbeil and Marwahin in southern Lebanon, footage released by the army shows
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[RIA] The American base at the Koniko gas field in the province of Deir ez-Zor in eastern Syria came under rocket fire, a local source told RIA Novosti.
“The American base at the Koniko field in Deir ez-Zor came under rocket fire,” the agency’s source said.
According to the source, more than ten missiles were fired at the base.
That’d be the work of Iranian sockpuppets, probably the so-called Islamic Resistance in Iraq, which is really just Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces, formally subordinate to the Iraqi government but actually paid by and under orders of Iran. They were originally stood up to fight ISIS, but taking potshots at American bases is more fun and considerably less risky.
The US military has 24 military bases and four points in Syria. They have come under repeated attacks using drones and missiles. The US attacks are blamed on groups linked to Iran, and their intensification is attributed to the conflict in the Gaza Strip.
The US military illegally controls areas in eastern and northeastern Syria in the provinces of Deir ez-Zor, al-Hasakah and Raqqa , where Syria's largest oil and gas fields are located. Official Damascus has repeatedly called the presence of American troops on its territory occupation and state piracy for the purpose of blatant oil theft.
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U.S.-backed forces capture big gas field in Syria's Deir al-Zor - by Suleiman Al-Khalidi
September 23, 2017
AMMAN (Reuters) - U.S.-backed forces said on Saturday they had seized a major natural gas field in Syria's Deir al-Zor province from Islamic State militants in rapid advances since the start of an operation earlier this month to capture areas east of the Euphrates river. Commander Ahmed Abu Khawla told Reuters that the Conoco gas field was the first of its kind taken by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)...
[IsraelTimes] Airstrikes target convoy, weapons depot in Boukamal after pro-Iran militia attack on US military base in Erbil; US denies it conducted defensive strikes; Aleppo hit in alleged Israeli strike
Three early Saturday morning Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in eastern Syria near a strategic border crossing with Iraq killed four Hezbollah bandidosbully boyz and two other Iran-backed krazed killers, Iraqi militia groups said. Hezbollah, a Lebanese terror group and an Iranian proxy, on Saturday confirmed the deaths of four of its members, saying they were killed "on the road to Jerusalem," without elaborating further. The strikes targeted an eight-truck convoy, destroying at least four trucks, said sources who have contacts with Syrian and Iraqi border officials. The officials said three buildings used by one of the Iranian-backed militia groups were also targeted.
A US military official said the US did not conduct any defensive strikes overnight.
“Wudn’t us!”
The strikes on the border region of Boukamal came hours after an umbrella group of Iran-backed Iraqi murderous Moslems — known as the Islamic Resistance® in Iraq — claimed an attack on a US military base in the city of Erbil in northern Iraq.
The Islamic Resistance® in Iraq, a loose formation of gangs affiliated with the Hashed al-Shaabi (also known as Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces or PMF), itself a coalition of former paramilitary forces integrated into Iraq’s regular armed forces, has claimed over a hundred attacks on US positions in Iraq and eastern Syria since the onset of the Israel-Hamas ...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... war on October 7, when Hamas-led bandidosbully boyz rampaged through southern communities massacring some 1,200 people and kidnapping 240 people to the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip.
The group of militias has also claimed attacks on Israel, including on Thursday when an apparent explosive-laden drone believed to have been launched from Syria crashed in the southern Golan Heights. The unmanned aerial vehicle crashed near the moshav of Eliad in northern Israel, causing no injuries but some damage to a number of structures.
Also Saturday, Syrian media outlets reported an alleged Israeli airstrike in the Aleppo area in northern Syria in the afternoon.mSyria’s state-run SANA news agency, citing a military source, said "material losses" were caused by the alleged Israeli airstrike on Aleppo. Images circulating on social media show large plumes of smoke in the area.
The pro-government Sham FM radio said air defenses engaged the strike over Aleppo International Airport.
Earlier Saturday, the Israeli army did confirm strikes in Syria after two rockets fired from the country fell in the Golan Heights.
"Following the report regarding sirens sounding in northern Israel, a short while ago two launches that were identified crossing from Syria fell in an open area," the army said Friday. "The IDF is striking the sources of fire."
The army also said it struck "terror infrastructure" belonging to Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, including a launch site used by the terror group, following a number of cross-border attacks earlier Friday.
In Saturday’s strikes in eastern Syria, the Iraqi militias said the two other fatalities were Syrian. Another two were maimed, they added.
However, the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... a local commander with Hashed al-Shaabi denied that any of the groups’ fighters deployed near the Syrian borders had been killed or maimed.
The UK-based opposition war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the krazed killers’ convoy targeted had arrived from Iraq to Syria as well as a location where a militia affiliated with Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard was training. It added that the strikes killed nine people, three Syrians and six people from other nationalities. The organization, run by a single person, has regularly been accused by Syrian war analysts of false and inaccurate reporting.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pond, the enormous newt was trying to decide if Gloria was edible... an activist collective that covers news in the area, Deir Ezzor 24, said the airstrikes hit two krazed killer posts and a weapons warehouse that it says was recently stocked with rocket launchers and munitions.
Fighters allied with Iran, including Hezbollah, now hold sway in vast areas in eastern, southern and northwestern Syria and in several suburbs around the capital.
A tally by US military officials has counted over 100 attacks against its troops in Iraq and Syria since October 17. Most of the attacks have been claimed by the Islamic Resistance® in Iraq. Washington has warned that it will respond against Iran-backed militia positions following the surge of attacks over the past two months.
US President Joe Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. We get to suffer the consequences... last week ordered the US military to carry out strikes on Iranian-backed Iraqi groups following a rocket attack that maimed three US troops.
The spike in tension has put Baghdad in a delicate situation. Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... i has tried to ease the strain between the krazed killer groups that helped him reach power and the US where Iraq’s foreign reserves are housed.
The Boukamal region in Deir el-Zour, Syria, along the Iraqi border, has been a strategic area for Iran-backed murderous Moslems after it was taken back from the hard boyIslamic 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.... group in 2019. US coalition forces have conducted strikes targeting convoys there prior to recent tensions.
[IsraelTimes] The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claims 23 pro-Iran fighters were killed Saturday in eastern Syria, saying “Israel” likely carried out the attack.
The monitor says five Syrians, four from Lebanon’s Hezbollah group, six Iraqis and eight Iranians, were killed in at least nine pre-dawn air strikes near the Iraqi border.
It reports the strikes targeted military positions in Albu Kamal and its surroundings in Deir Ezzor province, adding that a weapons shipment from Iraq and an ammunition warehouse were also hit.
The Observatory, which says it relies on sources inside Syria, has been accused in the past of inflating or inventing casualty numbers. Funding for the monitor, run by a single person in Britain, is unclear.
The Observatory also claims that four foreign fighters were killed in strikes on Aleppo’s international airport. The attack was widely attributed to Israel.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all ofwhich have enough problems without them...
[IsraelNationalNews] At least 140 people have been killed and 300 injured in what has been described as a massacre against Christians in the African country of Nigeria over the Christmas weekend, Amnesty International confirmed.
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
...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 
...a regional Iranian catspaw,...
...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
[NY Post] 
...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...
...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
