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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

IDF launches ‘targeted operation’ in central Gaza’s Nuseirat after heavy bombardment

2024-04-12

[IsraelTimes] Military: Strikes on dozens of targets based on intelligence of ’terror infrastructure’ in area largely passed over by soldiers until now; troops also find several rocket launchers

The IDF said Thursday it launched a "targeted operation" against Hamas
Hamas

...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
in the central 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 overnight, pushing into an area on the outskirts of the Nuseirat refugee camp largely left untouched by troops until now.

Heavy ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s and artillery shelling pounded parts of the camp before troops moved into the area, which sits adjacent to the lone corridor where Israeli soldiers remain in Gaza.

Paleostinians said a strike on a residential building killed at least five people, and other apartment towers were also struck.

The Israel Defense Forces said the air force and artillery troops carried out strikes against dozens of Hamas targets, including tunnel infrastructure. The navy also carried out artillery strikes near the coast to support ground troops, the IDF said.

The operation followed intelligence indicating "the presence of terror infrastructure and many ~~bandidos~~ gunnies in the area," the army said.

Soldiers engaged with armed fighters during the night, including a gunman who emerged from a tunnel and was hit with an airstrike, according to the IDF. Troops also located several rocket launchers in the area.

Hamas-linked media reported heavy fighting in the area was continuing Thursday.

There were also reports of airstrikes in other parts of the Strip, particularly the south, with the Paleostinian Maan News Agency reporting that 122 people were killed in Gaza over the previous 24 hours.

Israel has not previously operated on the ground in Nuseirat, though last month Hamas’s third-in-command, Marwan Issa, was killed in an airstrike in the area.

The operation occurred as Israel has appeared to dial back the use of ground troops and shift from a wide-scale offensive to pinpoint operations. This was in line with US demands for changes to the way fighting is taking place amid international concern over the deaths of civilians in the Strip and claims of near-famine conditions.

Just one brigade — comprising several thousand troops — remains in the Strip, where it is holding an east-west corridor that essentially splits the enclave into two.

At the height of the IDF’s offensive against Hamas, it had multiple divisions — with roughly 30,000-40,000 troops — in the Strip.

Israeli officials have said that 18 of Hamas’s 24 original battalions in the Gaza Strip have been dismantled, meaning they do not function as an organized military unit, although smaller cells still exist.

#IDF activity in northern Nuseirat
In continuation of the report here 👆 The Palestinians reported last night about intensive attacks by the IDF in the north of Nuseirat in the center of the #Gaza Strip (marked with a red line).
According to these reports, (1/4) pic.twitter.com/KQ5gnWhFQ0
— AbuAliEnglish (@AbuAliEnglishB1) April 11, 2024

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Hamas sentences 7 Gazans to death by hanging for ‘collaboration’ with Israel

2023-08-07

[IsraelTimes] Defendants accused of providing information about terror group members in return for cash, other benefits

A military court in 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 Hamaswith 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 on Sunday sentenced seven people to death by hanging for "collaboration" with Israel, the coastal enclave’s Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",-run interior ministry said.

The court also sentenced seven others to "life imprisonment with hard labor," which in Gaza amounts to 25 years, the ministry said in a statement.

Regarding those sentenced to death, the court said they had provided information to Israel on terror groups in Gaza — including names, phone numbers, addresses and weapons caches — in return for money, the Maan News agency reported. One of the defendants was allegedly given a permit to work in Israel in return for information he provided.

The terror group Hamas controls Gaza, and the military court there has regularly issued death sentence

...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
s for people found guilty of "collaboration" with Israel.

Under Paleostinian law, a death sentence requires the approval of the president of the Paleostinian Authority, which is headquartered in the West Bank.

But since Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip in 2007 it has repeatedly ignored this, and last September executed two Paleostinians for "collaboration" with Israel as well as three others for murder.

In April, two people were sentenced to death and four others were given life sentences on the same charges of collaborating with Israel.

At least 17 death sentences were issued in 2022 in the Gaza Strip.

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Iraq

Iraq busts captagon lab in Muthanna

2023-07-17

[Rudaw] Iraqi security forces on Sunday carried out what has been labeled as the country’s first seizure of a captagon laboratory in Muthanna province, the interior ministry announced, as Baghdad tries to combat the rapid spread of narcotics.

The laboratory was seized in a joint operation between the Rapid Response Force and the General Directorate of Narcotics Control. At least 27.5 kilograms of captagon pills were confiscated.

"Today, and maybe for the first time, a laboratory where captagon is produced was seized," Saad Maan, spokesperson for Iraq's Interior Ministry, said on Sunday, lauding the efforts of the anti-narcotics directorate.

Captagon is an amphetamine-type stimulant which has been spreading across the Middle East, with Syria as the main supplier and Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
the primary consumer.

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani last week ordered the establishment of rehabilitation centers in all Iraqi provinces, excluding the Kurdistan Region, as part of his cabinet’s commitment to combat growing drug trade and use as seriously as the country fights terrorism.

"God willing, Iraq’s war on drugs will be a victorious war. The same way we achieved victory against terrorism, we will undoubtedly achieve victory against drugs and drug lords," Maan said.

Around 15,000 people were arrested on drug-related charges in Iraq in 2022 and more than 400 kilograms of narcotics were confiscated, according to the General Directorate of Narcotics Control in Iraq’s Ministry of Interior. Around 250,000 captagon pills were seized from a school under renovation in Anbar province in late June.

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China-Japan-Koreas

China: The World's First Technate – Part 1

2022-11-29

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Totalitarianism is a form of government that attempts to assert total control over the lives of its citizens. It is characterized by strong central rule that attempts to control and direct all aspects of individual life through coercion and repression. It does not permit individual freedom. Traditional social institutions and organizations are discouraged and suppressed, making people more willing to be merged into a single unified movement. Totalitarian states typically pursue a special goal to the exclusion of all others, with all resources directed toward its attainment, regardless of the cost.

That "special" goal is sustainable development and no cost, either financial or humanitarian, is too great to tackle the alleged "climate crisis." In reality, climate change is simply the excuse for sustainable development and it is through the global policy commitment to "Sustainable Development Goals" (SDGs) that technocracy is being installed.

A technocratic society is called a Technate and the world’s first Technate has emerged in China. In this two part exploration we will look at how this system was constructed, who was behind it and why technocracy is now being foisted upon all of us.

These articles are drawn largely from my 2021 publication Pseudopandemic. It is free to subscribers to my blog.

GLOBAL TECHNOCRATIC GOVERNANCE
In order for global technocracy to be rolled-out, authority needs to be centrally controlled at the global level. Governments, intergovernmental organisations and multinational corporations have collaborated to form a global public-private partnership (G3P) for this purpose.

Throughout the 20th and 21st century the G3P network has sought to construct global governance. In turn, global governance enables the worldwide distribution of the technocracy that governments then convert into national policy commitments. Many components of global technocratic governance have already been established.

The World Heath Organisation (WHO) delivers global governance of public health; global access to technological development is meted out through the World Intellectual Property Organization; the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) works to coordinate economic policies between nation-states and global trade is monitored and controlled through the trade agreements overseen by the World Trade Organisation.

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Iraq

ISIS unable to operate in large groups in Iraq: official

2022-01-29

[Rudaw] Members of the Islamic State

...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) group in Iraq are unable to traverse in large groups and must rely on moving individually, an official from Iraq's Security Media Cell told state media on Thursday.

"Military operations have been continuing since last Sunday in various locations, starting with Diyala, Salahaddin, and Samarra, and today we began in northern Muqdadiyah in Diyala," said Major General Saad Maan, head of the Security Media Cell, describing areas in which ISIS remains a threat.

Maan said these operations were being conducted by teams from the Iraqi army, the Ministry of Interior, and the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF or Hashd al-Shaabi).

"These operations succeeded in achieving their goals, reinforced by the presence of security leaders on the ground, and have so far resulted in the killings of a number of terrorists, the destruction of ISIS hideouts, and the strengthening of fortifications in the areas of operations," he added.

Maan also noted that the war on ISIS has transitioned into a guerilla war, with small skirmishes here and there. He claimed that the size of ISIS remnants are being blown out of proportion.

"They [ISIS] are trying to establish a presence in the areas of Khanukah, Mutaibija, and Jallab in Salahaddin, Qarachogh and southern Makhmour in Nineveh, Wadi al-Shay and Zghitun in Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
and Hawi al-Azim in Diyala," noted the general.

Last Friday, a deadly ISIS attack on an Iraqi base in Hawi al-Azim, Diyala killed 11 soldiers. It is the deadliest ISIS attack on the Iraqi army in 2022 thus far.

Touching on the situation in Syria, where ISIS Death Eaters detained in al-Sina'a prison in Hasaka attempted a large-scale prison break, Maan reassured that there is adequate security at the Iraq-Syria border. He says the area has been reenforced and the utilization of drones has contributed greatly to thwarting any potential threats.

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Iraq

Kirkuk police come under attack by members of the Turkmen Front

2021-05-07

[Rudaw] The head of Iraq’s Security Media Cell on Thursday said the rule of law should prevail following what he describes as an attack on police by members of the Turkmen Front

...the Iraqi Turkmen Front is the political wing of Iraq’s Turkmen independence movement, formally founded as a confederation of Iraq’s Turkmen political parties in 1995, and functionally a Turkish sock puppet. They claim northern Iraq, particularly Kirkuk province, as their native land of Turkmeneli, an effort frustrated by the refusal of both the Kurdistan government and the Iraqi government to allow them to form local militias. They have three seats in Iraq’s parliament, which no doubt makes them feel better but isn’t enough to get their concerns a hearing...

in Kirkuk the night before.

Videos circulating on social media appear to show several people, who were later declared to be members of the Turkmen Front, fighting with police at a checkpoint in Kirkuk governorate on Wednesday night. Saad Maan, the Head of Iraq’s Security Media Cell, on Thursday said orders were issued to arrest the perpetrators.

"The orders were issued to implement the law and arrest the people who assaulted the emergency patrol and refer them to the judiciary in order to receive a fair penalty," Iraq’s Security Media Cell said on their Telegram channel on Thursday.

The arrest warrant was issued "based on what circulated on social media from a video clip showing the attack of a member of the Turkmen Front in Kirkuk against a rescue patrol carrying out its duties and tasks in the governorate," the statement added.

General security is deteriorating in Kirkuk. Previously under Kurdish control, the province and its oilfields fell back under federal government control after the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) failed independence referendum in 2017.

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Britain

‘Reparationist' Calls for Creation of ‘Pan-African Superstate' at Extinction Rebellion Rally

2020-09-06

[Breitbart] A self-described "African reparationist" called for the creation of a pan-African superstate at an Extinction Rebellion climate alarmist protest in London.

In a Breitbart London exclusive video, Esther Stanford-Xosei spoke before the crowd of mostly white leftist activists on Tuesday, calling for the creation of a pan-African superstate which she referred to as "Maatubuntuman".

"We are called upon to not only repair ourselves but to ensure that our repair process catalyses the repair process of all humanity and that is why, as an African reparationist, we talk about in the Stop the Maangamizi Campaign: ’Stop the Maangamizi [a Swahili term for Holocaust], build Maatubuntuman’ which is our pan-African superstate," Stanford-Xosei explained.

"But we know that, that superstate, that nation that we have been dispossessed of, which is why we experience racism today, anti-black racism, and Afro-phobic racism. But that nation cannot survive outside of a world of global justice, which we refer to as Ubuntudunia," the activist said.

Stanford-Xosei gave her speech in front of several members of the Red Rebel Brigade, a performance artist group that is a mainstay of Extinction Rebellion protests. With their dystopian red outfits, they claim to symbolise "the common blood we share with all species".

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Iraq

Interior Ministry says perpetrators who appeared in video while torturing Iraqi protester arrested

2020-08-03

[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Interior Ministry Spokesperson Maj. Gen. Saad Maan says perpetrators who appeared in video while torturing Iraqi protester arrested. Efforts ongoing to arrest the rest#BaghdadPost #Iraq #FreeIraq #IraqProtests pic.twitter.com/gspp8VsX8P
— The Baghdad Post (@BaghdadPostPlus) August 2, 2020

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Iraq

Iraq says all evidence points to 'malicious hands' in protests

2019-10-08

No doubt. Just not the malicious hands they’re pretending they believe them to be.

[PRESSTV] Iraqi officials say there are "malicious hands" behind the killing of both protesters and security forces during the recent spate of unrest in Baghdad and some other cities.

Interior Ministry front man Saad Maan confirmed for the first time on Sunday that 104 people had been killed, including eight security officers, and more than 6,000 maimed in the protests.

Maan said the ministry was working with other government institutions to find out who was behind the killings. According to medical sources, the majority of protesters killed were struck by bullets.

The protests began last Tuesday, with demonstrators calling for better living conditions. The rallies soon turned into riots as some protesters started vandalizing public properties and attempted to enter the Green Zone in the capital Baghdad -- which houses government offices and foreign diplomatic missions.

On Saturday night, armed elements and violent rioters attempted to take over local TV stations in Baghdad after the government removed a days-long curfew.

Maan said protesters burned 51 public buildings and eight political party headquarters but Iraqi security forces did not confront them.

Faleh Al Fayyad: #Iraq also knows who supported malign infiltrators pic.twitter.com/TZPOjNyNF4
— Press TV (@PressTV) October 7, 2019

US, #Saudi, #Israel seeking to hijack #Iraqprotests: Analyst https://t.co/eXNq3heEz5 pic.twitter.com/tZ1PrZ97WN
— Press TV (@PressTV) October 7, 2019

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Iraq

Iraqi authorities to probe attacks on media outlets, including one on Al Arabiya

2019-10-07

[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iraqi authorities say they are opening an investigation into recent attacks on several media outlets in Iraq, including one by unidentified masked button men on Al Arabiya’s bureau in Baghdad.

"There was an attack on several media outlets on Saturday, including Dajla, NRT, and Al Arabiya, and today as well on al-Forat television network, as well as on al-Nahar newspaper late last night," Iraqi Interior Ministry front man Major General Saad Maan said during a joint presser on Sunday alongside spokespersons from the Joint Operations Command and the ministries of defense and health.

"Investigations are ongoing right now on the attacks on media channels over the past two days. When there is a security issue in the country, there are some who try and take advantage of the situation and try to settle scores. Because of that, we are urging everyone to stay within the legal frameworks and cooperate with security forces," Maan added.

On Saturday, masked button men in black cars stormed the offices of Al Arabiya, assaulted four employees and smashed equipment before fleeing.

According to Majid Hamid, Al Arabiya’s correspondent in Baghdad, the attack took place at 10 pm on Saturday when masked button men arriving in three black cars forced themselves into the bureau.

"The masked button men and were wearing military gear. They assaulted four of our colleagues who were present in the building. They suffered bruises and one of our colleagues broke his hand as a result of the attack," Hamid told Al Arabiya English.

Hamid then said that security forces at a nearby checkpoint failed to intervene to stop the attack.

"Members of the federal police declined assistance to us during the attack," the correspondent said, adding that the Al Arabiya office had received threats in recent days.

The attack came after the station had received threats for several days.

Al Arabiya’s correspondent said the masked button men then destroyed several CCTV cameras and hard drives containing recordings of the surveillance system. However,
if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning...
the masked button men failed to destroy one hard drive which Al Arabiya then broadcast showing footage of the attack a day later.

Gunmen also attacked the offices of Iraq’s private Dajla and NRT news channels. Both of those privately-owned stations have been covering the daily protests.

An official at NRT said her station is so damaged that they won't be able to broadcast any time soon, according to an News Agency that Dare Not be Named report. The attackers, Sawra Abdul-Wahab told AP, stole $250,000, laptop computers and mobile phones.

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Iraq

104 people died and 6107 wounded during violent protests in #Baghdad and elsewhere

2019-10-07

[PUBLISH.TWITTER] Toll update: #Iraq’s Interior Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Saad Maan said on Sunday that 104 people died and 6107 wounded during violent protests in #Baghdad and elsewhere.

— Hamdi (@HamdiAlkhshali) October 6, 2019

Iraqi News adds:

The Iraqi Interior Ministry front man said on Sunday that the corpse count from anti-government protests in Iraq rose to 104, including eight security members.

"As many as 104 people, including eight security members, were killed and at least 6,000 others injured in ongoing protests in Iraq," Maj. Gen. Saad Maan told a presser.

The front man noted that protesters also set fire to 51 public facilities and eight partisan headquarters in the mass protests, which entered their sixth day.

He added that a probe was launched to identify whoever targets the innocent demonstrators.

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Iraq

Iraqi police arrest two Islamic State militants in Mosul

2019-10-01

Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) ‐ The Iraqi Interior Ministry announced on Monday that its forces arrested two members of the Islamic State

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