Presented as straight news, but I fear the Daily Mail is becoming more than a bit hysterical on the subject. Note the excessive use of adjectives, dear Reader.
[Daily Mail, where Americ gets its news] Clutching assault rifles, and surrounded by Humvee armoured cars and state police, a group of National Guardsmen in full combat gear stand menacingly next to a gate under a 20ft-high reinforced steel fence.
Given the endless strife along America's southern frontier a few hundred yards away, it's not an unexpected sight in this rough-and-ready border town.
But these troops are not facing Mexico. Instead, they're staring back towards the Texan town of Eagle Pass — and the rest of America.
The photo used to illustrate this extraordinary reportage shows the National Guardsmen facing the river, not toward the town...
For this particular display of military muscle isn't meant to send a signal to the hordes of asylum seekers pouring into the country week after week. Instead, it's to stop the federal law-enforcement agents of the Biden administration from coming anywhere near.
Or from being ordered to approach. The Border Patrol union recently announced they have no intention of facing off with the Texans.
In an extraordinary development that illustrates both the ferocious political polarisation of the U.S. and the growing rancour surrounding America's immigration crisis, an armed stand-off between the Texas National Guard and the U.S. Border Patrol has developed in this proudly independent corner of the country.
The remarkable scenes that the Mail witnessed stem from a highly provocative decision this month by Texas's Republican Governor, Greg Abbott, to order armed troops and police to take control of Eagle Pass's 47-acre Shelby Park — a critical entry point for undocumented migrants — and freeze out the Border Patrol. Since Biden was elected, Abbott has lambasted the Democrats for doing much to encourage the migration crisis.
During his election campaign, the President vowed to 'restore [America's] moral standing in the world and our historic role as a safe haven for refugees and asylum seekers': music to the ears of Left-wing voters and, fatally, would-be immigrants, too.
Rather than sneak into the U.S. and go into hiding, most migrants know that the first thing they need to do is find a Border Patrolman and request asylum.
They will then be swiftly processed and released into the care of a non-governmental organisation. They can legally remain and work in the U.S. until their application is decided — a process that often takes years.
About ten years for the most recent arrivals, I’ve read, during which time they are promised they will be unvetted, unsupervised, but financially supported, no matter who they are. It wasn’t anything like this until the Biden administration opened the southern border to all who choose to come.
As the floodgates opened, Eagle Pass, a small town with a population of just 28,000 people, became a focal point for the migrant influx. In the week before Christmas alone, the local Border Patrol apprehended more than 22,000 undocumented migrants, most from Latin America. Many were held in a field in Shelby Park, overwhelming local police, fire and ambulance services. The already cash-strapped town lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in income when one of the two economically crucial bridges into Mexico was closed to free up more border agents.
A few months earlier, Abbott had ordered a 1,000-ft string of buoys, separated by serrated metal plates akin to circular saw blades and supporting a submerged mesh net, to be installed near Eagle Pass in the Rio Grande, the river that marks the border between Texas and Mexico. The move sparked outrage from the Mexican government and human rights groups.
Then, just over two weeks ago, Abbott took what many regarded as the nuclear option and decided to enforce his views down the barrel of a gun. National Guardsmen occupied Shelby Park overnight and — against the wishes of the town, which owns the park — started strengthening fortifications against both migrants and federal agents.
Announcing that it was taking over the park indefinitely both to stop asylum seekers entering and to block 'organisations that perpetuate illegal immigrant crossings', the Texas Military Department left little doubt that it meant the hapless agencies of the Biden administration. As commander-in-chief of the 18,000-strong Texas Army National Guard — and, in emergencies, of its state police — Abbott has been able to flood the park's 2.5-mile stretch along the river with manpower and hardware such as searchlights and cameras. He has barred entry by Border Patrol officers despite the federal agency being tasked with policing the border. It once used the park as a key migrant holding area.
The park has been closed to everyone else except, bizarrely, members of its golf course, who are still allowed to play.
More than 150 years ago, a dispute over slavery between southern states and the federal government eventually turned into the horrific American Civil War, which lasted for four years and saw at least 620,000 soldiers killed. In that conflict, Texas sided with the confederate rebels against Washington. And although the current stand-off has yet to boil over into violence, some say Abbott — who shares those Civil War confederates' obsession with states' rights — is playing with fire.
Last week, the Mail gained permission to enter the park and was given a guided tour by the Texas National Guard, which showed off its fearsome river defences. A wall of shipping containers is already in place but the concertina wire on top of them is easily overcome by migrants, I was told. So guardsmen are now replacing this with three rows of even more wicked-looking razor wire. The work continued apace despite a Supreme Court ruling only the previous day that Border Patrol agents could cut the wire down on the grounds it endangers safety and hampers efforts to rescue migrants struggling in the river.
Meanwhile, National Guard and state police in dinghies and fan-driven air boats — reinforced by Florida police units lent by Governor Ron DeSantis, of one mind with Abbott on immigration — are patrolling the Rio Grande. They and their colleagues on shore provide a less-than-affable welcome to asylum seekers.
Although state police currently arrest adults for trespass — families are spared as the children cannot be arrested — they still have to hand them to Border Patrol agents.
However, Abbott has just passed controversial legislation making illegally crossing the border a state crime punishable by up to six months in jail. The law allows a judge to drop the charges if a migrant agrees to return to Mexico.
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Not that I'm not grateful to Skidmark for scouring the Mail. Feels like getting clippings of comics from Einstein, and me an illiterate.
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It is now pot luck for migrants who do try to cross as to whether they run into federal Border Patrol or the Texas units, who wear similar uniforms and ride around in similar boats
I don't know which way to go with that photo caption...
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It's a passive deterrent, readily circumvented.
You know what is not a passive deterrent, readily circumvented? Autonomous robot dogs with fricken' machine guns on their heads. Sic 'em, Fido!
[SUDANTRIBUNE] The United States Department of State has announced a reward of up to $5 million for information leading to the arrest of 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... ’s former Minister of State for the Interior, Ahmad Mohammad Harun, who is accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur.
The State Department’s designation of Harun under the War Crimes Rewards Program is a significant step towards bringing him to justice for his alleged crimes. The program has a proven track record of success, having helped to bring over 20 war criminals to justice.
Harun, who has been wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) since 2007, is accused of mobilizing, funding, and arming the Janjaweed militia, a notorious group responsible for widespread atrocities in Darfur.
The former regime in Sudan had refused to cooperate with the ICC and refused to hand over Harun and other indicted officials. However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... after the fall of Omar al-Bashir ...Former President-for-Life of Sudan He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself head cheese. He fell out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Hee was overthrown by popular consent in 2019. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it... ’s regime, Harun was arrested and tossed in the clink Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
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Calling him a minister denote Christian. Ge was a Muslim cleric.
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You missed this key bit in the first paragraph of the article, 49 Pan:
...former Minister of State for the Interior, Ahmad Mohammad Harun,
[AFRICANEWS] Nigerian authorities have issued a wanted notice for former beauty queen Aderinoye Queen Christmas, also known as Queen Oluwadamilola Aderinoye, in connection with alleged drug trafficking. Remember that name. If you can.
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) revealed that the ex-beauty queen eluded capture during a recent raid on her residence in Lagos. "Dis is what my royal heels look like, coppers!"
"Whoa! Lovely heels!"
"Dainty feet!"
"Good turn o' speed!"
According to the NDLEA statement, the raid was prompted by "credible" intelligence suggesting Aderinoye's involvement in illicit substances. "What's 'credible' about it?"
"Did you get a whiff of her as she flew by?"
The search, witnessed by estate officials, uncovered 606 grams of Canadian Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis, along with an electronic weighing scale and substantial quantities of drug packaging materials. "'Canadian Loud'? Really?"
"Hits you with a bang!"
Aderinoye, who held the title of Miss Commonwealth Nigeria Culture 2015/2016 and founded the Queen Christmas Foundation, has not yet responded to the allegations. "Except maybe for a muted 'ho-ho-ho!'" Meanwhile, ...back at the gunfight, another bullet hole appeared in Butch's hat...... another suspect arriving from Brazil was apprehended at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport last week for ingesting 60 large wraps of cocaine, as reported by the agency. I once ate sixty strawberries. The last thirty or so were a pretty tight fit.
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[Regnum] Yemen's Houthi movement Ansar Allah launched a missile attack on the US Navy ship USS Lewis B. Puller in the Gulf of Aden. This was stated by the military representative of the movement, Yahya Saria.
“The Yemeni navy fired an anti-ship missile at the US ship Lewis B. Puller on Sunday while it was in the Gulf of Aden,” Saria said on Al-Masirah TV.
As Regnum reported, on January 25, the military representative of the Houthi organization, Yahya Saria, announced the start of a military operation by the Yemeni Ansar Allah movement against US Navy ships in the Gulf of Aden and the Bab al-Mandeb Strait. He clarified that a day earlier, in these waters, the group collided with several American military vessels that were providing protection to two commercial ships. According to a spokesman for the movement, the missiles that the Houthis launched towards the enemy were able to reach their targets, and the operation lasted about two hours.
On the night of January 12, the United States and Britain launched missile attacks on Ansar Allah installations in Yemen in response to attacks on their ships in the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden and the Bab al-Mandeb Strait. At the same time, Washington and London continued to attack targets on Yemeni territory.
The Pentagon said that since the beginning of the military operation, the US military has destroyed or damaged more than 25 launchers and over 20 missiles in Yemen, and also attacked UAV base areas, coastal radars and aerial reconnaissance assets on Yemeni territory.
US retaliation against Iran has been delayed. If the US didn't want to escalate they would have hit the proxies by now . Seems like Biden has finally made the right decision to take on Iran terrorists . This is a better option even if it leads to WWIII. pic.twitter.com/cX8YddRC6X
[IsraelTimes] 59-year-old suspect left threatening voicemails for two synagogues and a Jewish organization, faces sentence of up to 10 years.
A little long in the tooth to argue he’s just young and dumb.
A Massachusetts man was arrested Monday for allegedly threatening to kill members of the state’s Jewish community and a bomb local synagogues, the US attorney’s office in Boston said.
John Reardon, 59, of Millis, Massachusetts, allegedly called Congregation Agudas Achim in Attleboro, Massachusetts, on Jan. 25 and left a voicemail making several threats to kill congregants and bomb the synagogue, including that "if you can kill the Paleostinians, we can kill you," federal authorities said. Ten minutes later, he allegedly made a call to another local synagogue and a Jewish organization.
Reardon, who had been in the custody of the Bristol County Sheriff’s Office, has been charged with one count of using a facility of interstate commerce to threaten a person or place with harm via an explosive.
Reardon was scheduled to appear in US District Court in Boston Monday afternoon. If convicted, he faces a sentence of up to 10 years in prison, three years of supervised release and a fine of up to $250,000.
A number could not be found for Reardon and it wasn’t immediately clear if he has an attorney.
"The allegations here about the series of threats Mr. Reardon made against the Jewish community are deeply disturbing and reflect the increasing torrent of antisemitism across our country and right here in Massachusetts," Acting United States Attorney Joshua S. Levy said in a statement. "The numbers do not lie — incidents of antisemitism and Islamophobia ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do... are spiking."
Jodi Cohen, special agent in charge of the FBI, Boston Division, accused Reardon of "using his words as a weapon, leaving a threatening message to frighten members" of Congregation Agudas Achim.
"No one should have to fear becoming the victim of physical violence at the hands of an angry stranger," Cohen said.
Since the Hamas ...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... attack on Israel on October 7 and Israel’s subsequent military offensive 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... , there has been a sharp rise in incidents of harassment, antisemitic hate crimes, and claims of bias against Jewish and Moslem communities.
Investigators said within 10 minutes of leaving the voicemail at the Congregation Agudas Achim, Reardon called another synagogue and a Jewish-affiliated organization.
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The POS will serve time and be right at home with the anti-Semitic, white supremacist prison gangs. Unless of the Federal Judge was appointed by Obama.
SARCASM SWITCH ON
Something is wrong here....
Because according to the constant Main Stream Media reports, it is the Southerners are the racist bigots, not liberal Yankee northerner's 🤔
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A little long in the tooth to argue he’s just young and dumb.
He should debate Tony Gutieres.
Tony:"Gazan civilians are untouchable regardless of (their goverment) Hamas does."
John: "if you can kill the Paleostinians, we can kill you,"
[GEO.TV] Israeli forces have killed dozens of Paleostinian button men throughout 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 in the past 24 hours, including four who were spotted preparing to ambush troops near al-Amal hospital in southern Khan Younis, the military claimed on Monday.
Reuters reported that Israel launched a new assault on Gaza’s main northern city, weeks after pulling back from it.
Residents told Reuters that air strikes on neighborhoods across Gaza City killed and wounded many people. While tanks shelled the eastern areas of the city, naval boats fired shells and gun rounds at the beachfront areas in the west, they said.
Israel said late last year that it had largely completed operations in northern Gaza. The push back into Gaza City, where residents reported fierce gun battles near the main Al-Shifa hospital, indicated that the war was not going to plan, Reuters claimed.
Among those killed were two Hamas Palestinian journalists, Essam El-lulu and Hussein Attalah, along with several members of their families, health officials and the journalist union told Reuters.
The IDF also advanced in its operations in Khan Younis, with troops from the 98th Division raiding the offices of a number of senior Hamas officials in the southern Gaza city, including the terror group’s chief Yahya Sinwar, the military said.
The military said that troops had “raided hundreds of terrorist infrastructures,” including a military intelligence building, and a major rocket-producing factory.
The 98th division also discovered a Hamas underground tunnel beneath a cemetery in the heart of Khan Younis, the military said.
Soldiers found explosives in the tunnel and also killed terrorists who were inside it, according to the IDF. The military said the tunnel included an office used by the commander of the eastern battalion of Hamas’s Khan Younis Brigade to direct its activities on October 7.
The Yahalom unit later destroyed the tunnel, which was equipped with multiple rooms, running water and sliding doors, the IDF said.
Military officials were quoted in Hebrew media saying they assess that Hamas chiefs are “perpetually on the move” in the tunnel networks of southern Gaza, “apparently surrounded by hostages.”
IDF Spokesman Daniel Hagari said Monday night that 2,000 Hamas fighters have been killed during the IDF’s operations in Khan Younis, and that two of Hamas’s four battalions, in the east of the city, are no longer functional. Troops are now tackling the other two battalions, in the west of Khan Younis.
He said IDF troops operating inside the tunnels have “captured terrorists who took part in the October 7 slaughter.”
GALLANT: HALF HAMAS FIGHTERS DEAD OR WOUNDED
Visiting IDF reservists on Monday, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant claimed at least half of Hamas’s fighters in Gaza have been killed or wounded.
“We’re in a long war, but in the end, we will break Hamas,” Gallant said. “Terrorists remain, and we are fighting against pockets of resistance… It will take months, not one day.”
“On the other hand, they don’t have supplies, they don’t have ammunition and they don’t have reinforcements,” he continued. “It’s hard for them to take care of themselves, of their wounded, and other things. We have killed already a quarter of the Hamas terrorists at least, and the same number are wounded.”
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"Seriously hurt" = still alive. "Killed" = rigor mortis.
[IsraelTimes] In West Bank, stabbing attack foiled, teen attacker rubbed out; two Paleostinians said killed in festivities with troops during arrest raids
A soldier was seriously maimed in a terror attack in Haifa on Monday when a man rammed into him with his vehicle outside a military base in the city, police and medics said. The attacker then exited the vehicle and ran toward the entrance of the naval base, waving an axe, before he was rubbed out by an Israel Defense Force officer at the scene, the army said.
Magen David Adom medics said they arrived at the scene and found the victim, 20, conscious but at death's door with extensive wounds to his lower limbs. He was given emergency treatment and taken to Haifa’s nearby Rambam Medical Center.
Rambam deputy director-general Dr. Avi Weissman said the victim was sedated and intubated in the trauma room, suffering from injuries to his extremities, and will undergo a series of surgeries.
In response to the attack, the entrances and roads leading to the hospital were blocked off to non-rescue vehicles for a period, but are now being opened up.
The identity of the assailant was not immediately clear, but the Ynet news site said he was carrying an ID document that identified him as a resident of the northern Arab town of Tamra. Police were seeking to verify his identity, the report said.
Pictures on social media showed troops with guns drawn standing near a man lying in the street with a hatchet next to him. Other footage showed a car with its front smashed next to the outer wall of what appeared to be the military facility.
The attack came at the same time as soldiers foiled a stabbing attack outside the West Bank village of Tekoa, which lies near a settlement of the same name. The IDF said the attacker tried to stab soldiers at a guard post, who opened fire and killed him. No soldiers were maimed. Hebrew media reports said the assailant was a teen.
Also in the West Bank on Monday, the official Paleostinian news outlet WAFA reported that a Paleostinian man died after suffering a head injury during festivities with troops in Dura, near Hebron.
There was no immediate comment from the military on the incident, but the IDF acknowledged that it killed a wanted Paleostinian gunman during an attempt to arrest him in the northern West Bank town of Yamun earlier in the day.
As the elite Duvdevan unit attempted to arrest the wanted man, he shot up the soldiers, whereupon they returned fire, killing him, the IDF said.
According to the IDF, 19 other wanted Paleostinians were detained in overnight raids across the West Bank.
During a raid in the Jenin camp in the northern West Bank, the IDF said, engineering vehicles uncovered bombs hidden under the roads, and troops detained two terror suspects. The IDF said troops also returned fire at button men who opened fire and hurled explosives at the forces in Jenin.
The army also carried out raids in the Nablus area, including in the city itself and the nearby Askar and Balata camps.
Since October 7, troops have arrested more than 2,960 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 1,350 affiliated with Hamas ...a regional Iranian catspaw,... . According to the Paleostinian Authority health ministry, more than 300 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed in that time.
Police say the suspect in an alleged terror attack outside a Haifa naval base as an Israeli citizen born in 1996.
The suspect is named as Wassim Abu al-Hoga from the northern Israeli city of Tamra.
Al-Hoga has a criminal record for transporting people in Israel illegally, presumably Palestinians, police say in a statement.
The statement refers to the incident, in which the suspect rammed his vehicle into a soldier before attempting to attack others with an axe, as a terror attack.
The condition of al-Hoga, who was shot during the apparent attack, is not given.
The soldier injured in the attack is in moderate-to-serious condition, police say.
[GEO.TV] In response to Israel’s "massacres against civilians", Hamas ...a regional Iranian catspaw,... ’s military wing, the Qassam Brigades, said it targeted Tel Aviv. ... to kill a bunch of Jews.
Earlier warnings of incoming rockets have sounded in Tel Aviv and other major cities across central Israel for the first time in weeks, sending residents running for shelter, Al Jazeera reported.
Hamas launched a barrage of rockets at central Israel on Monday for the first time in over a month, damaging several cars but not causing any injuries.
Seven of the 11 rockets were shot down by the Iron Dome missile defense system, with the remainder landing in open areas, after triggering sirens in Tel Aviv, as well as in surrounding cities, including Rishon Lezion, Holon and Bat Yam.
It was the first such rocket attack since early December, demonstrating that Hamas’s arsenal has not been completely depleted, after nearly four months of fighting.
The terror group claimed responsibility for the barrage, saying it was fired to avenge the ongoing deaths in Gaza. Hebrew media reported that the rockets were fired from the Khan Younis area. The IDF has been operating in large parts of the southern Gaza city.
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IIUC, IDF forces were close enough to the launch sites to be able to ID the launchers and destroy them within 10 minutes of the launch barrage.
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[Regnum] US military personnel were unable to repel a drone attack on a military base in the Middle East because they confused an enemy drone with their own, The Wall Street Journal reported on January 29, citing high-ranking sources.
The drone that attacked the base was approaching it at the same time as the American drone was returning, the report said.
“The return of the US drone led to some confusion about whether the approaching drone was friendly or hostile,” the authors noted.
As Regnum reported earlier, as a result of a drone attack on the US military base “Tower 22”, located on the border of Syria and Jordan, three soldiers were killed and another 34 people were injured. According to the American command, the base was attacked by a kamikaze drone launched from Syrian territory.
The Islamic Resistance in Iraq movement, which had previously attacked a number of US Army targets in Iraq and Syria, claimed responsibility for the attack on Tower 22. The group's statement emphasized that the attack was a response to Washington's support for Israel's actions in the Gaza Strip.
US President Joseph Biden said Iran-backed groups were responsible for the attack and vowed to respond to the attack. Former head of state Donald Trump, in turn, criticized Biden for the catastrophic events in the Middle East for the United States. A number of American politicians have called on Biden to strike directly at Iran.
The United States, after the first death of its military personnel in recent years as a result of attacks on bases in the Middle East, is trying to “calibrate” its response in such a way as to show strength, but not lead to a full-scale war with Iran and its allies, expert and author noted in an interview with IA Regnum a number of publications on the situation in the Middle East Yuri Lyamin.
[Regnum] The United States of America evacuated eight of its troops from Jordan for medical care after an attack on an American military base, CNN reported on Sunday, January 28.
According to the source, after a drone attack on a US military base in northeast Jordan, near the border with Syria, which killed three soldiers, eight soldiers were evacuated.
According to a statement from US Central Command (CENTCOM), the number of US military personnel injured in an attack on a military base in Jordan has increased to 34. The department noted that the number of casualties may change as military personnel continue to seek medical assistance.
As Regnum reported, US Senator from South Carolina Lindsey Graham, after another strike on one of the American military bases in the Middle East on January 28, called on the Joe Biden administration to take action and strike the territory of Iran, which, according to Graham, allegedly supports the Yemeni Houthis. According to the congressman, otherwise the US military will continue to be attacked, since the efforts of Pentagon head Lloyd Austin to protect military personnel have failed.
[Regnum] The number of people injured in a drone attack on one of the US military bases in the Middle East has increased to 34 people. The Qatari TV channel Al Jazeera reported this on January 29the Central Command of the US Armed Forces (CENTCOM) confirmed the information.
“The number of people wounded as a result of an attack on our forces in Jordan has increased to 34 people,” the TV channel clarifies. According to CENTCOM, Washington is actively working to identify the armed group involved in the attack on American troops.
In addition, CENTCOM reported that eight soldiers wounded during the attack required immediate evacuation from Jordan to receive more qualified medical care. The condition of these eight victims was described as stable. The remaining victims undergo a full medical examination to clarify the diagnosis and prescribe subsequent treatment for full recovery.
At the same time, the Pentagon did not rule out that the number of wounded may increase, as military personnel continue to seek help if their condition worsens.
Earlier, Regnum news agency reported that, as Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin said, the United States will not tolerate attacks on its bases and military personnel in the Middle East and intends to respond to these actions.
An overnight drone attack on a US base in northeastern Jordan killed three US troops and injured at least 25 others. CNN noted that since the beginning of the escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the Gaza Strip, this is the first time American troops have died in the Middle East as a result of an attack.
US President Joseph Biden, in a written statement, blamed the strike on “pro-Iranian groups” in Syria and Iraq. According to the head of the White House, the attack was “committed by Iran-backed radical armed groups. As Biden emphasized, all those responsible will be brought to justice.
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The drone that attacked the base was approaching it at the same time as the American drone was returning, the report said.
Piggybacking, a pretty good strategy. I wonder where they picked that up. Might we hear something about the precise targting of a troop sleeping area ?
Any local nationals employed on the base by chance ?
Never learn. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was picked up on primitive radar but ignored because the people responsible confused it with a due in flight of B-17s from the States.
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Remembering the mistakes of Khobar Towers, USS Cole, etc.... someone needs to look at ROE (Rules of Engagement) for the Jordan-based site itself and whatever ADA/THAAD/SHORAD overwatch systems were provided as well as on-site situational awareness.
Ever since the Iranians captured intact one of our early RQ-170 drones by duping it has been apparent they are highly skilled in signals combat.
We only have one report of arrests in Isfahan at that time. See here. A number of other arrests of what were claimed to be Mossad-instigated attacks on military infrastructure over the next year — apparently anti-revolutionary Iranian-Kurdish groups, like Komola, exiled to bases in Iraq, happily lend themselves to sinister Mossad plots (or clever ones, depending on one’s perspective).
[IsraelTimes] Tehran claims defendants were sent to Africa for training, crossed over from Iraqi Kurdistan to bomb military site in Isfahan, in operation overseen by spy chief David Barnea
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... executed four men at dawn on Monday after they were convicted of collaborating with the country’s arch-foe Israel on a plan to sabotage an Iranian defense site, according to the judiciary.
The four defendants, identified as Mohammad Faramarzi, Mohsen Mazloum, Wafa Azarbar, Pejman Fatehi, were arrested in July 2022 and accused of plotting to carry out an operation against an Iranian Defense Ministry center in the central province of Isfahan after illegally crossing into the country from Iraq’s Kurdistan, according to the judiciary’s Mizan Online website.
"The death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... of four members of a group affiliated with the Zionist spy organization, who were arrested... for plotting a bombing operation in Isfahan, was carried out this morning," Mizan Online reported.
According to Iran, the men had been recruited by Mossad, Israel’s intelligence service, "about a year and a half before the operation."
They were sent to African countries for "training courses in the military centers" where Mossad officers were present, the judiciary added.
According to a report by state-run news outlet ISNA, the plot, which involved 16 different bombs, had been personally overseen by Mossad head David Barnea.
The men were sentenced to death in September 2023.
In August 2023, Iran claimed to have foiled a "very complex" Mossad-initiated project to "sabotage" its ballistic missile industry. A few months earlier, in February, Teheran accused Israel of being responsible for a drone attack on a military site in Isfahan.
Iran and Israel are longtime foes and are currently locked in a row over Iran’s nuclear program. Israel accuses Iran of backing terrorist attacks against it, while Iran says Israel has carried out a number of killings of Iranian officials and scientists. Israel does not confirm nor deny such actions.
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[Regnum] As a result of airstrikes carried out by the Israeli Air Force on a number of positions south of the Syrian capital Damascus, several civilians were killed, the Syrian Defense Ministry announced on January 29.
It is noted that on January 29, Israel committed “air aggression from the occupied Syrian Golan Heights,” striking a number of points south of Damascus.
“As a result, several civilians were killed and injured, and some property damage was caused,” the statement said.
As Regnum reported, on January 20, the Al Hadath TV channel, citing medical sources in Damascus, reported that at least ten civilians were killed when the Israeli Air Force struck a residential area in the west of the Syrian capital Damascus. It was noted that the attack hit one of the houses on Mezze Avenue, which is located near the Iranian Embassy.
On January 2, the Syrian Ministry of Defense announced an Israeli air strike on Damascus. The defense department then clarified that the strikes were carried out early in the morning from the Golan Heights on “a number of positions in the suburbs of Damascus”, causing material damage.
Iranian media describes site as an IRGC military advisory facility on outskirts of Syrian capital; war monitor puts toll at seven; no comment from IDF
Syrian state media said on Monday that "a number of Iranian advisers" were killed in an alleged Israeli attack south of the capital, in a rare acknowledgment by Damascus of Iranian casualties in strikes on Syrian territory attributed to Israel.
It also said non-combatants were killed but did not give a figure for either set of fatalities. Iran’s ambassador to Syria had earlier said there were no Iranian casualties in the strike.
The pro-government Dama Post said the strike hit the area of Sayida Zeinab without providing further details.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britannia-based opposition-linked war monitor, put the corpse count at seven; however, its figures have sometimes proved unreliable.
"Israeli strikes targeted a base belonging to Hezbollah and Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, killing seven people" including pro-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... fighters, said Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the SOHR, raising an earlier toll of six.
According to SOHR, among those killed were four Syrians, one of whom was the bodyguard of a member of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard. It did not give the nationalities of the others and noted that it was unclear whether civilians were among the dead.
A source in Iran’s regional alliance also told Rooters that the strike hit a location used by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps. The semi-official Tasnim news agency described the site as an Iranian military advisory center in Syria.
An official with one of the Iranian-backed groups, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... because he was not authorized to discuss military activities, told the News Agency that Dare Not be Named that two Syrian citizens were killed in Monday’s strike. No Hezbollah members were hurt, the official said.
An Israeli military spokesperson declined to comment on the earth-shattering kabooms. The IDF rarely comments on alleged strikes in Syria.
The strike is the third in two months blamed on Israel and targeting Iranian infrastructure and officers in Damascus.
On January 20 an alleged Israeli strike on Damascus killed the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ intelligence chief for Syria and his deputy as well as two other Guards members.
In December, senior IRGC officer Brig. Gen. Razi Mousavi was killed in an alleged Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in Damascus, drawing Iranian threats of retaliatory action.
Recent weeks have also seen several alleged sorties carried out against sites in Syria as part of Israel’s ongoing efforts to prevent Iran from supplying arms to its proxy Hezbollah, which has stepped up attacks on northern Israel over the past several months amid the ongoing war in Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with 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... .
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[Regnum] Shiite detachments, which are part of the Islamic Resistance of Iraq movement, fired at a US military base in al-Shaddadi in southern Syria. Al Jazeera TV channel reports this
It is noted that several missiles were fired at an American base in the Syrian province of Hasakah.
At the same time, the Tasnim agency reports that the Israeli Air Force attacked a suburb of the Syrian city of Seyida Zeinab. According to the publication, the headquarters of Iranian advisers Al-Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is located there. Previously, Israel launched three missile attacks on a military facility. In addition, the Israeli military attacked a Shiite camp in the Aqraba area near Damascus, Tasnim added.
Local media also reported explosions that were heard in the Syrian capital. The capital's Sham FM radio informed about the work of Syria's air defense systems.
As Regnum reported, on the same day the SAR Ministry of Defense announced that as a result of airstrikes carried out by the Israeli Air Force on a number of positions south of the Syrian capital of Damascus, several civilians were killed.
The department then noted that on January 29, Israel committed “air aggression from the occupied Syrian Golan Heights,” striking a number of points south of Damascus.
Earlier, on January 20, the Al Hadath television channel, citing medical sources in Damascus, reported that at least ten civilians were killed when the Israeli Air Force struck a residential area in the west of the Syrian capital Damascus. It was noted that the attack hit one of the houses on Mezze Avenue, which is located near the Iranian Embassy.
Prior to this, on January 2, the Syrian Ministry of Defense announced an air strike on Damascus by Israel. The defense department then clarified that the strikes were carried out early in the morning from the Golan Heights on “a number of positions in the suburbs of Damascus”, causing material damage.
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