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Arabia
Second phase of the war in Yemen will begin this week with nearly 40,000 new Yemeni fighters
Good luck guys, truly.


Translated Text:

I believe the second phase of the war in Yemen will begin this week, as preparations have been completed to deploy nearly 40,000 new Yemeni fighters to the battlefields. They have been trained to the highest combat training standards. Some of them arrived in Lahj Governorate yesterday, while the rest have been distributed among the other fronts.

Four phases of the war remain, and the process of deploying more brigades to the fronts will continue. More armored vehicles, advanced weapons, and drones will also be deployed. Each phase has its own military tactics, and the promise, with God’s help, is to reach Sana’a and Jabal Maran.

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Britain
Haniyeh's ex-bodyguard convicted of knife attack in UK, wanted in Germany over Hamas terror plot
[Jpost] Mohammed Al-Fatah, son of senior Hamas official Bassem Naim, was convicted in Britain while facing German allegations of plotting terrorist attacks against Israeli and Jewish targets.

Mohammed Al-Fatah, 40, the son of senior Hamas
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
official Bassem Naim and a former bodyguard of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh
...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continued as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintained a separate PM in the West Bank. Zapped during the 2023-24 war, to eveyone's satisfaction...
, according to media reports, was convicted on Friday at Birmingham Crown Court in the UK of wounding an enforcement officer with a bladed weapon, possessing two knives, and causing criminal damage.

Al-Fatah is also wanted in Germany on suspicion of playing a central role in a Hamas plot to carry out terrorist attacks against Israelis and Jews in Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
around the second anniversary of the October 7 attack.

Also known as Mohammed Naim, Al-Fatah was born in Germany and raised in the Gaza Strip. He arrived in the UK in 2014, was granted political asylum in 2015, and became a British citizen in 2020.
He was born in Germany. Why did he get asylum in England instead of Germany?
British media reports have identified him as a former member of Haniyeh's security detail. His identity was protected by a court-imposed reporting restriction throughout the trial, but the order was lifted on Friday following his conviction.

The incident occurred on October 14, 2025, when enforcement officer Kevin Becknall arrived at al-Fatah's home in Birmingham's Kings Heath neighborhood to collect more than £2,250 in unpaid parking fines incurred by his wife.
"Do you know who I am?!?"
FORMER HAMAS OFFICIAL ARRESTED IN UK FOR KNIFE ATTACK
A confrontation broke out inside the house, after which al-Fatah went outside armed with two large kitchen knives and half a brick.

Footage shown in court captured him chasing Becknall's vehicle, swinging the knives toward the window, and smashing the glass. Becknall suffered a head injury, with blood running down his neck and back, and required hospital treatment.

Al-Fatah argued that he had acted in self-defense, citing traumatic experiences in Gaza and Egypt. He told the court that he had been shot twice in the past and had learned of his brother's death in Gaza the day before the incident.

A psychiatrist who testified during the trial said al-Fatah suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder.

The jury rejected his self-defense claim and convicted him by a majority of 10 to two. However,
death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate...
he was acquitted of the more serious charge of wounding with intent.

Judge George Lubega ordered him to remain in jug and scheduled his sentencing for January 11, 2027.

GERMAN PROSECUTORS ACCUSE AL-FATAH OF CENTRAL ROLE IN HAMAS TERROR PLOT
Al-Fatah is also implicated in a separate, more serious terrorism case in Germany.

In an official statement issued in September, announcing charges against seven other suspects, German federal prosecutors alleged that al-Fatah, identified in German court documents as "Mohammed A.," had played a particularly prominent role in the Hamas network and had connections to the organization's leadership.

According to prosecutors, al-Fatah met twice in Berlin with another member of the network during the summer of 2025 and received five handguns and ammunition. He then transported the weapons to Austria, where he stored them in Vienna as part of preparations for attacks targeting Israeli representatives, Jews, and people associated with Israel in Germany and Austria.

An investigation published by the Austrian newspaper Der Standard on October 1, 2026, based on materials from the German investigation, identified two potential targets in Vienna: the Jewish Museum and the Austrian-Israeli Society.

German prosecutors said that by the time members of the network were arrested on October 1, 2025, the group had accumulated an automatic rifle, 13 functioning handguns, and more than 700 rounds of ammunition.

One of the most serious allegations was that al-Fatah had recorded a video in advance claiming responsibility on behalf of Hamas for the planned attack, even before it had taken place.

According to reports in Germany and Britannia, he appeared in the recording wearing a mask.

Britannia's The Guardian reported that the plot was foiled after Israel's Mosssd
...sees all, knows all, gets 'em all in the end...
provided intelligence to German security services.

Al-Fatah was arrested in the UK in November 2025 under a German arrest warrant. He is now expected to face extradition proceedings to Germany after serving whatever sentence is imposed on him in Britannia.

BRITISH JURY UNAWARE OF ALLEGED HAMAS CONNECTIONS
One of the most unusual aspects of the Birmingham trial was that jurors were never told about al-Fatah's suspected Hamas connections, his alleged position within the organization, or the German prosecution's allegations that he had helped plan terrorist attacks against Jews.

The judge also instructed jurors to consider al-Fatah a person of previous good character because he had no prior criminal convictions in Britannia.

However,
a lie repeated often enough remains a lie...
at the time of the attack, al-Fatah was already under surveillance by a British counterterrorism unit. He had previously been arrested and released on bail on suspicion of an offense related to supporting Hamas.

That investigation was later closed without charges being filed.

The case has also raised questions in Britannia about how al-Fatah was granted political asylum and subsequently obtained British citizenship.

According to The Times, the British Home Office is reviewing his naturalization file to determine whether he provided false information or concealed relevant details during the application process.

In response to the case, the Home Office said there was no place in British society for those who resort to violence or seek to facilitate terrorist attacks against innocent people.

It also emphasized that Hamas is a proscribed terrorist organization in the UK and that the government condemns anyone who chooses to support its activities or further its objectives.



Posted by: trailing wife || 11/14/2026 2026-11-14 02:30 || Comments || Link || [32 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Europe
Ukraine slams Russia with nearly 1,200 drones in one of its biggest aerial attacks
[NYP] KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine fired almost 1,200 drones at Russian targets overnight in one of its biggest aerial attacks since Moscow’s full-scale invasion nearly five years ago.

Meanwhile, U.S. and Russian negotiators raised the stakes in talks to stop the fighting by including for discussion wider European security arrangements that have been in place since the end of the Cold War.

That change, long sought by Moscow, has alarmed European leaders and placed a question mark on NATO’s future role.

“Russia wants to talk about questions of European security architecture. We don’t need to talk about that. There is one,” German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said, referring to the NATO military alliance.

After two days of talks with Russian and Ukrainian delegations in Abu Dhabi this week, U.S. envoys went in person to brief Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who was meeting with European leaders in Dublin, Ireland.

More talks are planned as negotiators seek a breakthrough in peace efforts, according to U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, who is also President Trump’s son-in-law.

Kushner said Russia has agreed to include Europe in upcoming talks, after Moscow’s long insistence that the continent’s governments should be excluded because they supported Ukraine.

Europe’s presence at the negotiating table will allow negotiators “to address the broader postwar European security arrangements alongside the territorial issues between Ukraine and Russia,” Kushner said on X.

As European leaders scrambled to find an envoy to the talks, they were also wary of Russian maneuvering, as well as Trump’s praise for Putin and his administration’s sharp criticism of Europe.

The EU’s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, said Europe must insist on a cease-fire before taking the negotiations further — the opposite of what Putin demands.

“If we start to talk about what Russia is asking regarding the security architecture, we actually walk into the traps that Russia is setting us,” she said in Dublin.

Luxembourg Prime Minister Luc Frieden insisted that Europe must take its fate into its own hands. “We cannot let neither the Americans nor the Russians decide about our future,” Frieden said.

Moscow is aiming “to dismantle NATO, and the post-Cold War European security architecture,” the Institute for the Study of War said in an assessment Thursday.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov reaffirmed that Russia is open for contacts with the Europeans.

“Once we understand (Europe’s) true intentions and their readiness to facilitate the peace process, then it will be possible to make a decision on holding a dialogue regarding a settlement in Ukraine in an expanded format,” he said.
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French Author Houellebecq Indicted over Comments on Muslims, Great Replacement
[Breitbart] Top-selling French author Michel Houellebecq has been indicted for inciting discrimination or hatred following complaints from leftist and Muslim activist groups who filed complaints about his questioning of the ability of France to integrate a large number of Muslims and for asserting that the "Great Replacement" is a reality.

According to French paper of record Le Figaro, a judge in Nanterre decided to indict Houellebecq on Tuesday with "complicity in inciting discrimination, hatred, or violence against a group of people based on their origin or their membership or non-membership of a particular ethnic group, nation, race, or religion."

The paper reported that the Submission author is facing prosecution over comments he made in a 2022 interview with French phliosopher Michel Onfray in his Front Populaire magazine.

During the interview, Houellebecq suggested that areas which come under "Islamist control" in France will see violent uprisings from the native population, potentially including attacks on Muslim places of worship and cafes attended by Muslims, in what he described as "a Bataclan in reverse", referencing the jihadist mass shooting at a Paris concert hall in 2015 that left 90 people dead and hundreds more injured.

I suspect Houellebecq and Camus have it about right. "Denial is not just a river in Egypt."
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/14/2026 01:53 || Comments || Link || [72 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Amazon - In Renaud Camus on Remigration: The Bourne Speech, Camus argues that mass immigration into Europe is a form of colonization, which he calls "the Great Replacement", and that only remigration, meaning the organized return of immigrants, can preserve European nations and civilization. He criticizes the legal and political systems that protect this demographic shift, calling them part of a broader ideology he terms "Global Replacism", driven by elites, international finance, and ideological conformity. Camus compares the current situation to historical occupations, and calls for a peaceful but determined decolonial resistance, based on civil disobedience and national renewal.

He was denied entry to the United Kingdom to deliver this speech at the "Big Remigration Conference" on April 26, 2025, organized by the Homeland Party.
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Kosovo Raises Concern Over Nine Missing Somali Delegation Members Amid Visa Scandal
Remember back in the day, when it was a few talented individuals escaping from Communist tyranny? Nowadays it’s completely the opposite.
[KhaamaPress] Kosovo has formally demanded an explanation from the Somali government over the whereabouts and safety of nine members of an official Somali delegation who disappeared from their accommodation in Pristina after arriving in the country for a visit in late October.

In a diplomatic letter dated October 30, 2026, Kosovo's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Diaspora expressed serious concern over the circumstances surrounding the nine individuals, saying their whereabouts, condition and possible departure from the country remained unconfirmed.

The two-page diplomatic communication, issued as a Note Verbale under reference number 4868-561/26, was addressed to Somalia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.

According to the letter, the Somali delegation arrived in Kosovo on October 25, 2026, at 7:45 p.m. aboard a Ottoman Turkish Airlines flight. It was led by Said Mohammed Mohamud, Somalia's State Minister for Public Works, Housing and Reconstruction, and Fartuun Abdikadir Farah, Deputy Minister of Ports, accompanied by other representatives and delegation members.

Kosovo said that, according to information recorded by its State Protocol, nine accompanying members were the subject of the clarification request.

The ministry said that on October 28, while preparations were underway for the delegation's scheduled programme and transfer to the airport, State Protocol was informed that the nine individuals had checked out of their accommodation at Dua Village on the evening of October 27 at approximately 7:10 p.m.

They reportedly left without notifying the authorities responsible for accompanying them during their stay.

Kosovo said preliminary information indicated that the nine had departed the accommodation independently and might have travelled to another location outside the country. However,
it's easy to be generous with someone else's money...
it stressed that this did not constitute confirmation of their whereabouts or establish whether they had actually left Kosovo.

The diplomatic letter further revealed that Kosovo's State Protocol had attempted to obtain clarification through representatives of the delegation but had received no concrete information about the nine individuals' whereabouts by the time the communication was prepared.

The ministry confirmed that State Minister Said Mohammed Mohamud left Kosovo on October 28, while Deputy Minister Fartuun Abdikadir Farah departed later that same day.

However,
there's more than one way to skin a cat...
the nine accompanying members did not report to the VIP Terminal at Pristina International Airport, where they were expected to depart in accordance with the planned itinerary.

Kosovo said it had no confirmation regarding their whereabouts, residence status or possible departure from its territory.

The ministry formally requested that the Somali government clarify the circumstances surrounding their disappearance and provide information about their current location and safety.

It also asked Mogadishu to ensure that Kosovo's competent authorities and State Protocol are notified of any changes to the delegation's travel arrangements, including the stay and departure plans of its members.

The incident has reportedly triggered political repercussions in Somalia, with two federal ministers said to have been removed from office over allegations that they facilitated the travel arrangements for the nine individuals in exchange for money.

The allegations suggest that the young people were presented as babus government employees and included in the official delegation to obtain travel visas. However,
there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly...
the diplomatic letter does not mention payments, visa sales or the alleged involvement of Somali ministers.

Sources familiar with the case have also claimed that the nine individuals subsequently travelled to other countries and sought asylum. Their destinations and current immigration status have not been independently established.

The Kosovo communication does not confirm that the nine sought asylum or that they entered another country. Instead, it documents the failure to establish their whereabouts after they left their accommodation in Pristina.

The case has raised questions about the management of official foreign delegations, the selection of accompanying personnel and possible irregularities in government-sponsored international travel.

The letter establishes the nine members' departure from Dua Village at approximately 7:10 p.m. on October 27, the failure to appear at the airport on October 28, and Kosovo's lack of confirmation about their whereabouts.
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The Grand Turk
PKK says it evacuated over 10 positions near Turkish border
[Rudaw] The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) said Friday that it has evacuated more than 10 military positions near Turkey’s border over the past two months and no longer maintains forces near Turkish military bases as part of its efforts to advance the ongoing peace process with Ankara. The group accused Turkey’s ruling party of failing to take sufficient steps to move the process forward.

In a statement, the PKK leadership said more than 10 caves used as combat positions near the Turkish border had been evacuated, while sleeper cells previously based in major Turkish cities had relocated to the Medya Defense Areas, the PKK's stronghold in the Kurdistan Region.

“We no longer have a single military force stationed near Turkey’s borders or the military positions where the Turkish army is deployed,” the statement said, as reported by the PKK-affiliated ANF news agency.

The group argued that the Turkish state and military could no longer claim it posed a military threat, stressing that the cessation of hostilities had been ensured not only through a voluntary decision but also through the withdrawal of its forces from areas near Turkish military positions.

The PKK announced the withdrawal of all its fighters from Turkish territory in October, following the passage of legislation in the Turkish parliament granting amnesty to some PKK fighters and paving the way for the release of thousands of Kurds jailed over alleged PKK ties.

More at the link
Posted by: badanov || 11/14/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [38 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Iraq
Iraq turns to trucks to export oil in overland Syrian route revival
[Reuters] Outside a depot near Basra, hundreds of ‌tanker trucks queue to load Iraqi crude oil bound for the Syrian port of Baniyas via an overland desert route which had been largely unused for decades.

Iraq, OPEC's second-largest producer, has been working to find alternative export routes for its oil since the Strait of Hormuz, its ​usual outlet, was disrupted by the Iran war.

Despite higher transportation costs, the overland route has also regained appeal because ​of an end to years of conflict in Syria, two people close to the matter ⁠told Reuters.

Although Iraq exports most of its crude from Gulf terminals, the Syrian route has become a small but strategically ​significant alternative for moving cargoes of heavy crude.

Since last month, Qatari energy group UCC Holding has been shipping Iraqi crude oil ​by truck to Baniyas, said Bassem Abdul Karim, director general of state-run Basra Oil Company (BOC).

UCC began shipping 120,000 to 150,000 barrels per day (bpd) under a contract with state oil marketer SOMO, with cargo volumes depending on truck availability, Abdul Karim added.

UCC and SOMO did not respond to requests ​for comment.

The crude is being trucked to the Mediterranean port of Baniyas from Iraq's southern oilfields for export to international ​markets, Abdul Karim added.

UCC already has a fleet of 6,000 trucks which it is expanding to 10,000 for the route, and it currently ‌has around ⁠10,000 drivers, said a person familiar with the deal, adding that about 150,000 barrels are unloaded per day.

"We load crude oil at the Tuba storage facility and transport it to Baniyas, Syria. The round trip, including the return journey to Tuba, takes up to five days," said Ishaq Mohammed, one of the tanker drivers.

Since the deal took effect on October 26, UCC has ​loaded about 1.6 million barrels, ​said Luay Jawad, manager ⁠of the Tuba storage facility near Iraq's southern oil city of Basra.

UCC plans to load between 5 million and 14 million barrels of heavy crude over three months from October 14 ​at a discount of $38 per barrel, a document reviewed by Reuters showed.

Volumes are unlikely to ​rise above that ⁠level in the near future because of bottlenecks in truck supply and other constraints, the person familiar with the situation said.

The oil is loaded onto ships in Baniyas for delivery to Mediterranean refineries in Greece, Italy and Turkey, among others, the person added.

UCC is ⁠entitled to ​about $12 per barrel to cover trucking and related transportation costs through Syria ​under the deal.

Iraq produced nearly 4.5 million bpd in October, about half a million barrels more than a month earlier, according to secondary sources cited by ​OPEC in its latest monthly report.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/14/2026 00:29 || Comments || Link || [61 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq

#1  We've seen this movie before.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Kerem Shalom crossing: trucks loaded with food, medicine, clothing, tents, and equipment needed for the winter


Translated Text:

From the heart of the Kerem Shalom crossing… I came to see the truth with my own eyes, not to settle for what is being said!

Today I visited the Kerem Shalom crossing to see for myself the reality of humanitarian aid entering the Gaza Strip, amid the claims circulating in the media.

What I saw before me was dozens, even hundreds, of trucks loaded with food, medicine, clothing, tents, and equipment needed for the winter.

During my visit, I spoke with a number of truck drivers transporting goods to the crossing in preparation for their entry into the Strip. Interestingly, some of them told me, unprompted, that they had arrived at the crossing two or three times this week alone!

One driver told me: "From what I saw this week, large quantities of goods arrived at the crossing, of all kinds, including food and basic necessities!"

These are accounts I heard firsthand, and these are observations I documented on the ground.

But the most important question remains: What happens to the aid after it enters the Gaza Strip? And how does it reach the families who need it?

Getting aid in is a responsibility, and ensuring it reaches those who need it is a responsibility too. The people of Gaza have a right to answers

Posted by: badanov || 11/14/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [32 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Baluch armed coalition ranks grow as new faction joins to fight Tehran
[Rudaw] Ansar al-Furqan, a Baluch gang, said Wednesday it had merged with the armed coalition Popular Fighters Front, joining the ranks of other armed factions already fighting Tehran in the country's southeast.

"Ansar al-Furqan of 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 Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
announces its merger into the Popular Fighters Front," the group’s spokesperson, Molavi Nasrallah Baluch, said in a statement carried by Baluch rights organization Halvash.

The Popular Fighters Front was established in December 2025 as a coalition of Baluch groups, including Jaish al-Adl, the most prominent of the factions. Jaish al-Adl has carried out repeated attacks on Iranian security forces in the restive southeastern Sistan-Baluchestan province. The coalition seeks greater political and economic rights for the Baluch population of the province.

The merger comes amid an uptick in attacks against Iranian security forces and figures associated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in the Sistan-Balucestan province and as Iran grapples with increasing economic pressure from the United States.

Nasrallah described unity as necessary for the groups to succeed against Tehran. "The key to the success of fighting groups lies in uniting their ranks and hearts," his statement read.

The spokesperson the decision was intended to help people in Iran, particularly Baluchestan, overcome what the organization described as oppression by the Islamic Theocratic Republic.

Popular Fighters Front spokesperson Mahmoud Baluch announced the agreement in a video address on Wednesday. He credited mediation by trusted figures in the province and efforts by leaders of both groups with bringing the sides together.

In its written announcement, the front said absorbing Ansar al-Furqan would strengthen its forces in the field. It also called for cooperation with other opponents of Tehran across Iran. Neither announcement explained who would command the merged forces or how their units would be organized.

Iranian Kurdish opposition parties maintain a similar coalition that they founded in February , days before the US-Israeli strikes against Iran. The Coalition of Political Forces of Iranian Kurdistan has called for greater political and economic rights for Iran’s minority groups.

Ansar al-Furqan was itself formed through a merger. In December 2013, two Baluch armed factions, Harakat Ansar Iran and Hizbul Furqan, merged to establish the organization.

The Popular Fighters Front’s founding members included the PADA Baluch movement, Harakat Nasr Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
and the Mohammad Rasulullah gang, alongside Jaish al-Adl. Its founding manifesto outlines plans for political and media activities as well as armed action.

The coalition has since fought Iranian forces in Sistan-Baluchestan. In September, festivities broke out in Saravan county between its fighters and security personnel. IRGC-affiliated Tasnim said Brigadier General Hossein Zarifi, who commanded the Shahid Sajjad Operational Base, and its intelligence chief Ahmad Herat
...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
i Zera’ati, were killed.

Bordering Pakistain and Afghanistan, Sistan-Baluchestan is among Iran’s poorest provinces. Its predominantly Sunni Baluch population has long complained of discrimination and a lack of economic opportunities.
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Iran Deploys Fatemiyoun Fighters Near Afghanistan-Pakistan Border, France 24 Reports
[KhaamaPress] La Belle France 24 has traced the presence of Afghan Fatemiyoun fighters in southeastern Iran, reporting their deployment in Sistan and Baluchestan province near the borders with Afghanistan and Pakistain.

In an investigative report published on Thursday, November 12, La Belle France 24 said it tracked the fighters from Syria to 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 Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
using online martyrdom announcements, social media footage and geographical analysis. The investigation found evidence suggesting that members of the Iran-backed militia have been incorporated into the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and deployed at military facilities and border areas.

According to the report, an important clue emerged in March 2026, during the military campaign by the United States and Israel against Iran. At the time, IRGC-affiliated media outlets and social media accounts published announcements commemorating personnel killed in Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s on military installations. La Belle France 24 identified several individuals whose identities and funeral photographs linked them to the Fatemiyoun Division.

The investigation also examined videos circulated on Iranian social media in September. A September 29 video published by the Baluch human rights
...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...
organization Haalvsh showed at least 13 gunnies identified by the group as Fatemiyoun fighters patrolling a mountainous area. La Belle France 24 used satellite imagery to locate the footage near Mount Kala Pade, approximately 80 kilometres west of Zahedan.

A separate video published on September 21 showed gunnies undergoing weapons training near Gosht, a town in Sistan and Baluchestan. However,
some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves...
La Belle France 24 said it could not independently verify the identities of the individuals in that footage.

The investigation further identified two separate incidents in which Fatemiyoun-affiliated channels acknowledged the deaths of their members in the province. Ahmad Yaghoubi was reportedly killed in a roadside kaboom on October 2, while Mohammadreza Rahimi died in an armed clash on October 13. Both were later buried in other Iranian provinces, with funeral photographs and videos published by affiliated media.

The findings follow earlier reports by Haalvsh of attacks against Fatemiyoun members in the region. In October, the organization reported that more than 20 fighters had been killed or maimed in festivities in Taftan County.

La Belle France 24 cited Iranian expert Mahdi Nakhl Ahmadi as saying that the IRGC had initially sought to deploy Fatemiyoun fighters in Afghanistan and Pakistain, but proposals were rejected by both countries. The militia members were subsequently accommodated in several towns in Sistan and Baluchestan, initially undertaking civilian projects before increasingly assuming military responsibilities, including patrols and checkpoint duties.

The exact number of Fatemiyoun fighters deployed in the province remains unknown. The investigation also noted that an gang, the People’s Fighters Front, has grabbed credit for attacks against the militia, although La Belle France 24 said it could not independently verify additional casualty claims.

The Fatemiyoun Division is a predominantly Afghan Shia militia established with Iranian support. Its members fought alongside forces supporting former Syrian President Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor. If he'd stuck with it he'd have had a good practice by now...
during Syria’s civil war.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/14/2026 2026-11-14 01:20 || Comments || Link || [28 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies



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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.
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