[SUDANTRIBUNE] The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has strongly condemned the looting of food supplies from its premises in Gezira State.
Yes, one can see why they might be upset.
Last weekend’s incident, the agency said in a statement extended to 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... Tribune, occurred after elements of Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) broke into its warehouse and office, following their takeover of Wad Medani.
The warehouse reportedly contained enough stocks to feed nearly 1.5 million severely food insecure people for one month in Gezira State, where a new offensive has forced more than 300,000 people to again run for their lives.
"Sudanese people who are already desperate and fleeing the fighting have now been robbed of the critical assistance they need. This is intolerable and must stop," said Michael Dunford, WFP Regional Director for Eastern Africa.
He added, "In areas under their control, the Rapid Support Forces must guarantee the protection of humanitarian assistance, staff and premises".
The WFP warehouse, WFP noted, contained more than 2,500 metric tons of life-saving food, including pulses, sorghum, vegetable oil and nutrition supplements.
The specialized nutritious foods were intended to prevent and support malnutrition treatment for more than 20,000 children and pregnant and breastfeeding women through WFP-supported health centers, the agency said.
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[SUDANTRIBUNE] al-Jazirah University, a renowned Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... ese institution of higher learning, has been ransacked and robbed by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in a series of violations that have plagued Gezira State since the RSF seized control on December 18th.
The Madani City Resistance® Committees, a coalition of neighbourhood groups that played a pivotal role in the revolution against the former regime, issued a statement condemning the RSF’s actions, stating that the paramilitary force, in its ongoing campaign to dismantle the state’s infrastructure, had targeted Gezira University.
The statement detailed the extent of the damage, revealing that the RSF had broken into and looted the university administration offices, academic affairs departments, student affairs divisions, and all relevant deanships. The statement also accused the RSF of ransacking the university’s savings bank and branches, its farm, and the International Hall (Al-Razi).
Furthermore, the statement documented the looting of professors’ homes in the Nashishiba neighbourhood, Hantoub, and Abu Haraz areas, as well as the outright destruction of institutions affiliated with the university in Wad Medani that served the community.
The resistance committees squarely placed the blame for the looting and destruction at the doorstep of the RSF, despite denials from the force’s commander.
Earlier reports from residents of Madani and neighbouring towns corroborated the RSF’s involvement in the looting of their homes and the intimidation they faced.
Residents recounted how RSF commanders, when approached to prevent further violations, had demanded the recruitment of young men in exchange for their protection.
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[Regnum] The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) said several merchant ships in the southern Red Sea reported ballistic missiles launched in their direction by the Ansar Allah (Houthi) movement that rules northern Yemen.
“The Iranian-backed Houthis fired two anti-ship ballistic missiles from areas they control in Yemen into the southern Red Sea,” the command said in a statement on its social media page.
It is noted that several commercial vessels in the area reported ballistic missiles falling nearby, but none reported any damage.
It is clarified that this is the 24th attack on merchant ships in the southern Red Sea since November 19.
As Regnum reported, in early December 2023, the Houthis attacked the American warship USS Carney in the Red Sea with missiles and drones. According to UK-based maritime security company Ambrey, the cargo ship was damaged in a drone strike off the northern Yemeni port of Hodeidah.
In the Red Sea on December 30, 2023, missiles were fired from Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen in an attempt to attack the Singapore-flagged container ship MAERSK Hangzhou, owned by Denmark.
Following the incident, the Danish shipping company Maersk suspended ship movements in the Red Sea indefinitely. When it becomes appropriate, the ships will change the route and continue around the Cape of Good Hope, the company assured.
Three explosions occurred on a container ship flying the flag of Malta near the Yemeni port of Mocha, Reuters reported on January 2, citing the British company Ambrey.
“A Maltese-flagged container ship reported three explosions on its port stern 15 miles (24 kilometers) southwest of Yemen’s Mocha,” the agency said.
According to the publication, the captain of the container ship requested the arrival of a warship. After the incident, a nearby vessel announced that it had seen a small boat nearby.
The British company said three missiles were fired at the ship from the Yemeni province of Taiz.
As Regnum reported, in early December 2023, the Houthis attacked the American warship USS Carney with missiles and drones in the Red Sea. According to UK-based maritime security company Ambrey, the cargo ship was damaged in a drone strike off the northern Yemeni port of Hodeidah.
On December 30, 2023, missiles were fired from Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen in the Red Sea in an attempt to attack the Singapore-flagged container ship MAERSK Hangzhou, owned by Denmark.
Following the incident, the Danish shipping company Maersk suspended ship movements in the Red Sea indefinitely. When it becomes appropriate, the ships will change the route and continue around the Cape of Good Hope, the company assured.
The Houthis attacked the Tage ship of the French carrier CMA CGM, which was heading to Palestine, said Ansar Allah military spokesman Yahya Saria.
“The Yemeni navy conducted a targeted operation against the CMA CGM Tage ship, which was heading to one of the ports of occupied Palestine,” Saria said on Al Masirah TV.
According to him, the movement attacked the cargo ship because the ship's crew "refused to respond to warnings from the Yemeni Navy."
A representative of the movement assured that militants will continue to attack ships heading to Israel, adding that attempts at counteraction by the United States will not be left unanswered.
As Regnum reported, in early December 2023, the Houthis attacked the American warship USS Carney in the Red Sea with missiles and drones. According to UK-based maritime security company Ambrey, the cargo ship was damaged in a drone strike off the northern Yemeni port of Hodeidah.
On December 30, 2023, missiles were fired from Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen in the Red Sea in an attempt to attack the Singapore-flagged container ship MAERSK Hangzhou, owned by Denmark.
Following the incident, the Danish shipping company Maersk suspended ship movements in the Red Sea indefinitely. When it becomes appropriate, the ships will change the route and continue around the Cape of Good Hope, the company assured.
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They are being warned by their good friend Rossiya
A serious warning or pro forma so they can say they did so?
The leadership of the Ansar Allah movement should stop any actions that could pose a threat to commercial ships in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, Russia's permanent representative to the organization Vasily Nebenzya said at a UN Security Council meeting.
According to him, the state of affairs in the Red Sea raises serious concerns in Moscow The trade routes passing through it are extremely important for international trade and the stability of the world economy, the permanent representative emphasized.
“Free and safe navigation in the region is the key to sustainable supplies of not only commercial, but also humanitarian cargo. We categorically condemn attacks on civilian ships, which jeopardize not only the freedom and safety of navigation, but also the lives and health of seafarers,” Nebenzya said.
He also called on the leadership of the Ansar Allah movement to exercise restraint and demonstrate responsible behavior."
“We demand the immediate release of the Galaxy Leader and its crew,” the diplomat said.
Meanwhile, Nebenzya said that what is happening in the region has become a direct projection of the violence in Gaza, with escalation observed in other occupied Palestinian territories, as well as on the Israel - Lebanon border.
“It is no secret that in the Middle East region they are extremely disappointed that all this time, the US, covering up Israel’s actions, is holding the remaining members of the Security Council hostage and does not allow the adoption of a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire.
By repeatedly using the veto for this purpose, Washington undermines all efforts on providing humanitarian assistance to the Palestinians and both Security Council products adopted during this time - resolutions 2712 and 2720 - essentially remain unimplemented,” the permanent representative continued.
In addition, he questioned the legitimacy of the US coalition's actions in the Red Sea.
“Our tasks today are not only to confirm the collective signal of Ansar Allah agreed on December 1 about the inadmissibility of their actions, but also to cool down the “hot heads” in Washington, for whom another conflict in the Middle East is just part of their own geopolitical game,” Nebenzya concluded.
In mid-November, the Ansar Allah movement, which rules northern Yemen, warned of its intention to attack any Israeli-linked ships in the Red Sea and called on other countries to recall their crews. After this, some shipping companies decided to suspend transportation through the Suez Canal, and energy companies BP and Equinor stopped tanker transportation of petroleum products through the Red Sea.
The United States, in turn, announced a joint operation with ten other countries to protect shipping in the Red Sea. In response to this, Ansar Allah threatened that they reserve the right to attack the ships of the countries participating in this coalition.
On November 19, the tanker Galaxy Leader with 22 crew members, 17 of whom were Filipinos, was also captured. Ansar Allah said the ship is flagged in the Bahamas and operated by a Japanese company, but its owner is a prominent Israeli businessman who supplies cars to his country.
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several commercial vessels in the area reported ballistic missiles falling nearby
Same question...multiple versions of "it came from over there", can't/haven't been used to determine a launch point?
So, mobile launchers?
No drones loitering?
Just noise makers from New Years?
[SD UT] The fragmentation grenades thrown outside the Casa Blanca entertainment center in eastern Tijuana, where Mexican regional singer and narco corridos star Larry Hernández was to perform, did not detonate.
A New Year’s Eve concert featuring Mexican narco corridos vocal star Larry Hernández was canceled after three grenades were thrown outside the venue, Mexican authorities confirmed Tuesday. Narco corridos, which translates as "drug ballads," are songs about Mexican drug cartels that often portray the cartels in a positive light and glorify their actions.
On Sunday, people in a vehicle threw what appeared to be fragmentation grenades outside the Casa Blanca entertainment center in eastern Tijuana, authorities said.
The devices did not detonate, and the Mexican army arrived on site to remove them, said Fernando Sánchez, Tijuana’s secretary of security and citizen protection. No arrests have been made, he said.
Billboards advertising Hernández’s concert could still be seen outside the venue on Tuesday afternoon. A message alerting ticket-holders about refunds was posted at the venue’s box office, where people were showing up to ask for their money back.
Evaristo Cabrales, a Tijuana resident, said he and his group arrived to the concert Sunday to find the commotion. "We saw a bunch of police and they didn’t let us in, so we had to leave," Cabrales said.
One of Hernández’s best-known releases is his 2009 breakthrough album, "16 Narco Corridos." In 2015, he released "16 Narco Corridos Vol. 2." The Los Angeles-born singer grew up in Pueblos Unidos-Estacion Opispo in Culiacán, a city in the state of Sinaloa, which was the home base of Mexican drug cartel leader Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán. Guzmán is now serving a life sentence in a Colorado prison.
Hernández’s concert is the latest in a series canceled last year in Tijuana. Peso Pluma and Fuerza Regida canceled their shows in October at the Caliente Stadium after banners with alleged threats signed with the initials of a drug cartel were found in the city.
Baja California Gov. Marina del Pilar Ávila said that so far there is no indication of a direct threat either to Hernández or to the concert venue, and the case is under investigation.
"Unfortunately because of the events that just happened at the place where I was going to perform tonight, it is impossible to do so," Hernández said in a video posted on his Facebook account. "These are things that are out of one’s control, so I apologize and send you a hug."
In November, the Tijuana City Council unanimously approved a municipal code to ban narco corridos from being played in public.
The regulation imposes a sanction of up to 1 million pesos — around $60,000 — on anyone who "broadcasts, exhibits, displays, shows, performs or reproduces music, videos, images or any other similar that promotes the culture of violence or advocates crime or the perpetrators of illicit acts in the presentation of public shows or entertainment."
"If they come to sing other types of music, they are welcome," Caballero said at the time in a Facebook Live video prior to the city council meeting.
Sánchez noted Tuesday that the concerts that have been canceled in Tijuana share a similarity of being by performers who sometimes sing music that glorifies crime.
"In Tijuana there were more than 300 concerts throughout the year where absolutely nothing happened," he added.
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Three frag grenades and *none* of them detonated? Sounds like user error. Or someone has been buying their ordnance on eBay.
Rather amusing that "drug ballads" are an actual musical genre in Mexico. Even more so that the Tijuana City Council has banned their performance in public. *That* will fix the problem for sure!
Houthis or Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula piling on, or perhaps Iran’s IRGC is getting overly clever...
[IsraelTimes] Suspects linked to suspicious package from Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... , as security forces said to be on high alert due to Maccabi games in Argentine capital.
Argentinian federal police arrested three men at the Jorge Newbery Airport in downtown Buenos Aires on Tuesday for suspected links to terrorist activities. According to Clarin, an Argentine newspaper, security personnel detained the three after receiving intelligence about Syrian and Lebanese nationals entering Argentina ...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita... and the shipment of a parcel from Yemen whose contents are unclear. Clarin reported that the parcel, weighing some 35 kilograms, was sent to the home where the three suspects intended to stay.
The newspaper added that Argentine security forces were alarmed by the information, due to the fact that the Pan American Maccabi games are currently being held in Buenos Aires.
The games, which are held every four years, are hosting some 4,200 Jewish athletes from 22 countries.
This year, the games took on special significance in light of the Hamas ...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... ’s brutal October 7 onslaught, which saw some 3,000 snuffies invade Israel to kill nearly 1,200 people, mainly civilians, and take over 240 people hostage, while weaponizing sexual violence on a mass scale.
Recently elected Argentine President Javier Milei, a right-wing, pro-Israel firebrand ...firebrands are noted more for audio volume and the quantity of spittle generated than for any actual logic in their arguments... who has publicly mulled conversion to Judaism, spoke at the Pan-American games’ opening ceremony on December 28, saluting the athletes in Hebrew while reaffirming his "unalterable commitment to the State of Israel and to the Jewish people in their fight against Islamic terrorism, for peace and freedom."
About 10,000 people attended the ceremony, including the US and Israeli ambassadors to Argentina, as well as local dignitaries.
Over the past few decades, the Jewish community in Argentina, which numbers some 200,000, has been the target of multiple terror plots, often with Iranian involvement. In 1994, a boom-mobileexploded at a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, killing over 80 people and injuring more than 300. In 2006, Argentine authorities charged Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and its Lebanese proxy Hezbollah with the bombing, which remains the deadliest terrorist attack in Argentine history.
Federal prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who was Jewish, investigated the attacks, and was said to have found evidence that the Iranian involvement was covered up by Argentinian authorities at the time, including Christina Fernandez de Kirchner, who went on to serve as president of Argentina from 2007 to 2015.
On the eve of a scheduled appearance before the Argentine congress to discuss the allegations, Nisman was found dead in his home. His death was later determined to be a homicide. The left-wing Kirchner, a polarizing character in the Argentinian Jewish community who made some antisemitic comments during her time in office, was charged with treason in 2017 for her role in the alleged cover-up. The charges against her were dropped in 2021.
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[KavkazUzel] Six people served administrative arrest, three were fined and one was sentenced to compulsory labor for calls published on WhatsApp* to go to a rally in support of detained rioters at Makhachkala airport, follows from the decisions of three district courts.
As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, the Supreme Court of Dagestan received a total of 143 complaints about arrest in a criminal case regarding mass riots in Makhachkala. Three people are also accused of using violence against a law enforcement officer, and one is accused of encroaching on the life of a security officer.
For most of those accused in criminal cases of participation in mass riots at the Makhachkala airport, the arrest period has been extended until the end of March, while almost no investigative actions are being carried out, and a number of those arrested are prohibited from visiting, lawyers said.
On October 29, 2023, mass riots occurred at Makhachkala airport due to reports of the arrival of a plane with passengers from Israel. More than 20 people were injured, including nine police officers. What happened at Uytash airport and how the investigation is proceeding is described in the Caucasian Knot report “ The Case of the Pogrom at Makhachkala Airport.”
District courts in Dagestan have considered at least ten administrative cases for posting information about rallies in support of arrested participants in anti-Semitic riots at the Makhachkala airport, Kavkaz.Realii reported today**.
A court in the Nogai district fined Soltanbek Jalalov under an article on violating the procedure for holding unauthorized actions for a status in the WhatsApp messenger* calling for a protest rally on November 5 in support of those detained for participating in the riots at the Makhachkala airport. The court fined him 10 thousand rubles.
The court in the Kizlyar district imposed the same fine on Rashid Tazhdinov for her status in the messenger with a call to go to a protest, noting the presence of three children as a mitigating circumstance. Magomed Magomedov from the same area, who also has three dependent children, was sentenced to 20 hours of compulsory labor for a similar act.
Another resident of the area, Dzhamilkhan Bagaudinov, was also found guilty of an administrative offense, but the decision was not published in full on the court’s website, and the punishment imposed was not indicated, as follows from the case files on the court’s website.
The Tarumovsky District Court sentenced Bulat Mugalov to two days of arrest for his call to go to the Makhachkala administration in support of those detained at the airport. In court, Mugalov explained that he considered the rally to be coordinated. Zamir Omarov, who reposted the entry to a local group that consisted of 829 people, received three days of arrest, Magomed Khalitov and Amirkhan Magomedov received a similar sentence. Idris Huseynov, whose publication with the same status was viewed by 20 people, received two days of arrest, as follows from the case files on the court’s website.
The brothers Magomed and Musa Saddulaev were also arrested, the publication claims.
[IsraelTimes] Slow-moving cars, some flying Palestinian flag and featuring text such as ‘f*ck Israel’ and ‘long live the resistance [Hamas],’ converge at JFK.
Access to a busy terminal at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport was restricted Monday as anti-Israel protesters converged on the US airport for the second time in a week.
Videos posted online showed heavy traffic and a slow-moving line of cars, some flying Paleostinian flags and featuring text on the windows such as "intifada," "f*ck Israel," "long live the resistance [Hamas ...always the voice of sweet reason... ]," according to footage from the convoy.
For Israelis, intifada, literally meaning "uprising" in Arabic, conjures traumatic memories of a mass wave of terror attacks in the early 2000s. The period saw suicide kabooms and other terror attacks in Israel that killed hundreds of civilians.
"Stop the genocide" was also displayed on the cars, a refrain of the anti-Israel protesters that is in reference to the ongoing war triggered by Paleostinian terror group Hamas on October 7 when thousands of turbans invaded Israel and killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took another 240 as hostages 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.
Police at the airport directed a line of cars around a checkpoint. Protesters also had planned to arrive at the airport in Queens, New York, by public transportation.
The New Year’s Day action was the latest in a series of protests around the nation calling for a ceasefire since the Israel-Hamas war broke out.
Last Wednesday, activists brought traffic to a standstill on an expressway leading up to JFK for about 20 minutes. Protesters shut down a major thoroughfare leading to the Los Angeles International Airport on the same day. Dozens were arrested that day.
On Monday afternoon, entry into JFK’s Terminal 4 was temporarily restricted to ticketed passengers, employees and people with what authorities consider a valid reason to be there, such as passenger pickups, according to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the region’s airports.
Similarly, AirTrain access was temporarily restricted to ticketed passengers and employees.
"The Port Authority, in coordination with our local, state, and federal partners, has deployed safety and security measures to help ensure an uninterrupted travel experience at JFK," port authority spokesperson Seth Stein said in an email.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey didn’t report any arrests.
City officials had warned people flying out of JFK on Monday, a busy travel day, to get to the airport early because of the protests.
Police said the caravan of cars was later headed to protest outside LaGuardia Airport, also in Queens.
Anti-Israel and pro-Paleostinian protests have broken out in cities and universities across the United States since the Israel-Hamas war erupted on October 7.
The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry claims more than 20,000 people have been killed in the Strip during the war, though this figure cannot be verified and does not differentiate between combatants and civilians. Israel says it has killed some 8,500 Hamas operatives.
In New York, pro-Paleostinian organizers have responded to the growing corpse count in Gaza with escalating actions aimed at disrupting some of the city’s best-known events, including the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and the annual tree-lighting ceremony at Rockefeller Center.
At a news conference last week, New York City Mayor Eric Adams ...Hizonner da Mare of Noo Yawk. As a Manchurian candidate, Hizonner was all in favor of law and order and that kind of stuff. Once in office, a few of his friends found cushy jobs with the city, the windows kept getting broken, and Soros-funded DA Alvin Bragg remained right where he was. Most people comfort themselves with the thought that he's not Bill di Blasio but that's pretty small comfort with kids who actually go to school getting bumped off while standing in front of them. But he's a Dem, so the rubes will vote for him next election too, so he's what they deserve... criticized some of the protest organizers’ tactics and suggested police may need to ramp up their response.
"I don’t believe that people should be able to just take over our streets and march in our streets," he said. "I don’t believe people should be able to take over our bridges. I just don’t believe you can run a city this complex where people can just do whatever they want."
I couldn't make this up if I tried. The mob is chanting "Yemen Yemen Make Us Proud."
These people are protesting FOR the Houthis - a group of inept Iranian-backed pirates whose emblem reads: “Death to America, death to Israel, damnation to the Jews, victory to Islam.” pic.twitter.com/vylwBtaOmM
Its amazing how this Socialist Democrat Regime, tolerates Hate Speak, Racism, and Violent Protests, looting, abusive public disorder and more. If its meets their agenda goals. Despite violating the equal justice, Rule of Law, the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights .
While slapping others in solitary confinement without a trial for years for just peacefully protesting their illegal take over. Again Despite violating the Rule of Law, the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
#8
so happy to see the constitution being protected by all those past and present who signed such an oath. looks like the military,industrial complex was just too much of a lucre draw for so many...
Follow-up to this story from yesterday.
[YouTube] An imam has died after being shot outside his mosque in Newark early Wednesday morning, law enforcement sources said.
According to the NBC News report at the link, Imam Hassan Sharif had also been a TSA security officer at Liberty Newark Airport for fifteen years. The mosque was established in 1958 as Mosque #25 by the Nation of Islam.
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More likely a former student pissed off at being used in the usual fashion by the 'imam'. Expect this to get memory holed when the shooter isn't a white male of any stripe.
[GEO.TV] Former member of National Assembly and National Democratic Movement (NDM) leader Mohsin Dawar's convoy came under a gun attack by faceless myrmidons in Tappi village North Wazoo on Wednesday.
North Waziristan District Police Officer (DPO) Rohan Zaib confirmed to Geo News about the attack but noted that the politician remained safe due to the law enforcers deployed for his security.
He said that the security personnel accompanying Dawar fired back at the assailants, which forced them to flee from the scene.
According to the police, several gunshots were fired at Dawar's convoy but he remained safe because his car was bulletproof.
[Newsmax] The U.S. military has carried out a strike in Baghdad against an Iraqi militia leader
...the Iraqi militias are officially subordinate to the Iraqi army, but really they are owned by Iran...
it blames for attacks against U.S. forces in the country, killing him, a U.S. official said Thursday. Embraced martyrdom, did he?
The U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the strike hit a vehicle in Baghdad. It targeted a leader of Harakat al Nujaba,
... Movement of the Noble, an Iranian-supported Shiite militia which operates in both Iraq and Syria, and presumably has been attacking American bases in both...
the official said, without naming the person.
At least four militia fighters were killed and six others wounded in the drone strike, police and security sources told Reuters.
Police sources and eyewitnesses said at least two rockets struck inside a building used by Iraqi militia group.
A local commander and one of his aides were killed in the strike, said police and the group's spokesperson. The death toll later rose to four after one fighter died of his wounds. Health sources confirmed the toll.
The spokesperson and two Iraqi militia commanders threatened to retaliate against the U.S. for the attack. Of COURSE they did
"We will retaliate and make the Americans regret carrying out this aggression," said Abu Aqeel al-Moussawi, a local Iraqi militia commander.
Police and militia sources said rockets targeted a vehicle inside the Nujaba'a headquarters killing a local commander of the group and one of his aides. Two other members of the group were killed in the strike.
Video footage published by pro-militia websites showed a destroyed vehicle in flames and claimed it was targeted during the strike.
Reuters could not independently verify the authenticity of the footages.
Iraqi security forces were deployed in the area and a security team has reached the site for initial investigation, said two security sources.
Last month, the United States carried out retaliatory air strikes in Iraq after a drone attack by Iran-aligned militants that left one U.S. service member in critical condition and wounded two others.
The U.S. military has already come under attack at least 100 times in Iraq and Syria since the Israel-Hamas war began in October, usually with a mix of rockets and one-way attack drones.
The United States has 900 troops in Syria and 2,500 in Iraq on a mission it says aims to advise and assist local forces trying to prevent a resurgence of Islamic State, which in 2014 seized large swaths of both countries before being defeated.
[TWITTER] Are they dead, bombed to Hell in a bloody mist? No they are not, because Israel warned them in time to get out of the way, and they were smart enough to listen and clever enough to avoid Hamas goons trying to keep them in place as human shields. Really, they have nothing to complain about. Still, this would go much more quickly if each of them were to call the IDF with a piece of actionable intelligence about Hamas supplies and men in the tunnels...
📍#Gaza almost 90% of #Gaza population have been forcibly displaced & lack everything
High risk of communicable disease outbreaks, many cases of meningitis, skin rashes, chickenpox & other diseases recorded -alarming rates of respiratory infections & diarrhea in children under 5 pic.twitter.com/oykr8SWkIR
[Ynet] The explosion that killed Senior Hamas member Saleh al-Arouri on Tuesday, also killed Samir Fendi
...other spellings Samir Fandi and Samir Effendi ...
and Azam Al-Aqra,
...alternate spelling Azzam Al-Aqraa ...
high ranking members of the Hamas military wing.
Fendi was in effect the commander of the Lebanese Hamas military wing. The 54-year old, had been a member of the Islamist terror group for 30 years. According to the The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, acted as the conduit to the Houthi rebels in Yemen.
...Al-Aqra had been a hi-ranking member of the Hamas-Syria command and was implicated in the planning of a foiled suicide attack in Jerusalem in 2011. He was behind several terror strikes around the world in including in China, Syria and Turkey.
[Regnum] The number of victims of a terrorist attack near a cemetery in Iran where Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) General Qasem Soleimani is buried has risen to 211 people. The television and radio corporation IRIB reported this on January 3.
“The number of victims of the terrorist attack in Kerman has reached 211 people,” the report says.
Previously it was reported that 103 were killed and 142 were injured.
As Regnum reported, two explosions occurred in the Iranian city of Kerman during a mourning ceremony on the anniversary of the death of Soleimani.
Authorities called the incident a terrorist attack. The explosions were carried out remotely; the bombs were placed in bags that were lying near the mausoleum building.
Soleimani was killed on January 3, 2020, as a result of an airstrike by American forces near Baghdad airport. The Pentagon said the strike was carried out on the personal orders of then-US President Donald Trump.
Trump later noted that US authorities consider it acceptable to eliminate the country's opponents and that the CIA has organized many such killings in the past. Iran responded to the killing of Soleimani by attacking American military bases in Iraq.
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 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...
[SD UT] The fragmentation grenades thrown outside the Casa Blanca entertainment center in eastern 
...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
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[Newsmax] The U.S. military has carried out a strike in Baghdad against an Iraqi militia leader
