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Until this week, when I clicked on an article or comment, it turned blue, meaning 'already been read'. So I keep repeating. Maybe no one else noticed.
I did/do love Mrs. Peel, too.
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[NYP] A former Army Colonel from Florida was sentenced to two years in prison Tuesday for trying to woo a woman he met online by sending her secret classified battle plans.
That he met online?? Had he at least proved that she was female before committing this profound stupidity? How about if she was a honey trap?
Retired combat vet Kevin Charles Luke, 62,
…no images of him turned up in a quick internet search…
was working as a high-level civilian contractor with “top secret” clearance at US military headquarters in Tampa in October 2024, when he texted a photo of plans for a Middle East attack to his new fling, according to court documents.
“Sent to my boss earlier,” he wrote in the text, which included a photo of an email on his work computer at Central Command at MacDill Air Force Base. “Gives you a peek at what I do for a living.”
It wasn’t clear which attack his email referenced — but it was sent days before the Central Command headquarters launched airstrikes in Yemen, directed at Houthis, an Islamic fundamentalist military force.
Retired combat vet Kevin Charles Luke, 62, was working as a high-level civilian contractor with “top secret” at Central Command at MacDill Air Force Base when he sent the text.
The image showed a classified email message with details about the date of the operation, the number of targets and battle plans, court papers state. How much time did David Petraeus get?
#6
...Rank may hath its privilege, but it does not always confer brains.
Mike
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#7
The dog lost his tail to a fast moving B&O freight train. In an attempt to retrieve his tail, he lost his head to an oncoming Illinois Central passenger.
#13
Something which strikes me about the O'keefe busts, and this, and Swalwell etc., is how confident they are with their Bawds and Johns, like going to a sports event or theater, maybe not an everyday thing but when it is, it is well practiced and expected, and the surprise when it is a sting and the power foreplay bragging, if you will, isn't covered under the hooker's confidentiality clause.
#14
Truly, swksvolFF. If I recall correctly, in one recording of such a date, the gentleman target explained to his date (I don’t recall if the date was male or female) that the group had just been warned to be careful about who they told things because James O’Keefe was thought to have taken an interest. And then the target spilled more beans. I continue to be flabbergasted.
It’s like today’s retired Army colonel who sent his girlfriend a screenshot of The Plans so she could understand what he did all day.
[SudanTribune] The Sudanese army on Tuesday said it had destroyed drones and air defence systems belonging to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), amid allegations of foreign involvement in the ongoing conflict.
The United Arab Emirates has faced accusations of providing drones to the RSF, which have been used to target civilian and military sites within areas controlled by the military.
Media reports had previously indicated that the RSF had installed advanced air defence systems at Nyala airport and around the city of El Fasher before their fall. These systems were also deployed across large parts of the Kordofan region, where they contributed to the downing of several Sudanese army aircraft.
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L’État islamique au Sahel (ISSP- EI-SAHEL) a annoncé ce mercredi 11 Février 2026 d'avoir mené une attaque contre des éléments du JNIM (Groupe de soutien à l’islam et aux musulmans) dans le nord du Burkina Faso.
The Islamic State in the Sahel (ISSP- EI-SAHEL) announced this Wednesday, February 11, 2026, that it had carried out an attack against elements of JNIM (Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims) in northern Burkina Faso.
According to the statement, the operation targeted positions located in the villages of Djika and Bilehout, in the Arbinda area, on Monday, February 9, 2026.
The group claims that the attack resulted in the death of at least 18 #JNIM fighters and the flight of the others, as well as the seizure of 17 rifles and 6 motorcycles.
OPERATION IGBO IDANU I: TROOPS DEAL STRATEGIC BLOW TO TERRORIST NETWORK, OVERRUN KEY CAMP AND RECOVER ARMS
Troops of 12 Brigade, Nigerian Army, have recorded a major operational success under Operation IGBO IDANU I, dealing a decisive strategic blow to a notorious terrorist… pic.twitter.com/2jq4ynJwD2
OPERATION IGBO IDANU I: TROOPS DEAL STRATEGIC BLOW TO TERRORIST NETWORK, OVERRUN KEY CAMP AND RECOVER ARMS
Troops of 12 Brigade, Nigerian Army, have recorded a major operational success under Operation IGBO IDANU I, dealing a decisive strategic blow to a notorious terrorist network linked to Kachalla Ibrahim and Shu’aibu in Kogi State.
Advancing through dense forest, difficult terrain, and multiple riverine obstacles, the troops displayed exceptional resilience, professionalism and tactical discipline. Despite severe movement constraints caused by fallen trees and marshy ground, the force pressed forward with determination, highlighting the unflinching resolve of the Nigerian Army to dismantle terrorist strongholds and restore lasting security in the area.
Unknown armed hoodlums have abducted five persons, including one man and four women, from a residence in Unguwan Nasarawa, Alkaleri Local Government Area of Bauchi State.
Unknown armed hoodlums have abducted five persons, including one man and four women, from a residence in Unguwan Nasarawa, Alkaleri Local Government Area of Bauchi State.
Sources said that the incident occurred in the early hours of Feb. 11 at about 2:30 a.m., when sporadic gunfire was heard in the Mansur axis of Alkaleri.
TROOPS OF OPHK ELIMINATES 16 ISWAP TERRORISTS, RESCUES VICTIMS, RECOVERS ARMS CACHE IN BORNO
Troops of the joint task force (north east) Operation Hadin Kai have eliminated 16 terrorists, recovered over twenty bicycles, a large cache of logistic items, weapons, and other… pic.twitter.com/L9zzoERHCC
TROOPS OF OPHK ELIMINATES 16 ISWAP TERRORISTS, RESCUES VICTIMS, RECOVERS ARMS CACHE IN BORNO
Troops of the joint task force (north east) Operation Hadin Kai have eliminated 16 terrorists, recovered over twenty bicycles, a large cache of logistic items, weapons, and other supplies critical to terrorist operations.
A statement by the media information officer headquarters joint task force (north east) operation hadin kai lieutenant colonel Sani Uba indicates that the troops engaged and repelled ISWAP attack and launched a follow-on counter-offensive.
This decisive action has significantly degraded terrorist capabilities, disrupted their logistics, and reaffirmed Operation Hadin Kai’s unwavering commitment to dismantling terrorist networks across the north east region.
President Herzog, whose job is utterly ceremonial, thought he was invited to commemorate the Bondi Beach massacre and reset interactions because he isn’t Bibi. It turns out he was invited so they could beat him like a red-headed stepchild. Details about insults and anti-Israel protests at the link. Australian volunteer Zomi Frankcom was in a World Central Kitchen convoy providing cover for its Hamas escorts, not that PM Albanese cares.
[IsraelTimes] In Canberra, the Israeli president calls for ‘a new beginning’ in strained ties between the countries, and protests continue against his visit.
[IsraelTimes] If you dared to hope that the massacre on Bondi Beach would give the country’s anti-Israel activists pause, forget about it. As they are showing, theirs is a deadly antisemitic agenda
It’s not remotely surprising that President Isaac Herzog’s visit to Australia is being met with protests by "pro-Paleostinian" activists falsely alleging Israeli genocide 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 a rusty 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... After all, "pro-Paleostinian" activists in Australia, and pretty much everywhere else on the planet, have been demonstrating against Israel’s resort to war from almost immediately after Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... invaded southern Israel from a Jew-free Gaza Strip, massacred some 1,200 people amid unspeakable brutality, kidnapped 251 to Gaza, and vowed to keep on killing Israelis until the world’s only Jewish-majority state is destroyed.
These are not demonstrations regarding Israel’s prosecution of the war, or focused on the pro-annexation policies of a hawkish Israeli government, by activists genuinely concerned for the well-being of non-terrorist Paleostinians and noncombatants in any and all conflict zones.
Rather, these are concerted protests transparently designed to demonize and delegitimize Israel and Israel alone, in its entirety and its essence — to render Israel a pariah state with which no decent country should interact in any field, to deny it not only the right to defend itself but the weaponry and practical capacity to defend itself, and thus to aid Hamas, Hezbollah and the Iranian regime in their declared mission to wipe us out.
So the demonstrations against Herzog’s visit are anything but surprising. But they are particularly revealing, horrifying and despicable.
Twenty-seven months of orchestrated global activism have relentlessly spread a narrative in which the Jewish state, uniquely, can do no right, and calculatedly created a bedrock of empathy and support for regimes, terrorist groups, and individuals who seek to murder and maim Israelis and Jews wherever we are found.
And in that deliberately created climate of murderous hostility, in Sydney, Australia, on December 14, 2025, father and son Islamic holy warriors Sajid and Naveed Akram massacred 15 people at a Hanukkah party on Bondi Beach.
This was not a case of direct cause and effect. Naveed had links to a pro-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.... network in Australia dating back to 2019.
But you might have wanted to believe that the deadly and terribly predictable turn of events in Australia would have given the country’s "pro-Paleostinian" activists pause.
Fellow Australians were bumped off on the beach for being Jewish. Now, the president of the nation-state of the Jewish people is visiting to try to bring the devastated Jewish community a little solace and comfort. And the protests are targeting him?
You might have wanted to hope that, if there were to be demonstrations to coincide with Herzog’s visit, they would have been held to demand that the Australian government take more effective measures to protect the Australian Jewish community, that it take more effective measures to tackle the ongoing stream of antisemitic attacks, that it take more effective measures to prevent the dissemination of hate materials online.
In truth, you would not have expected anything of the kind. We all know better than to be so naive. But that’s what should have been happening on Herzog’s visit.
For that matter, those "pro-Paleostinian" activists who purport to care for innocent lives, in the Middle East and beyond, should also have been out on the streets demonstrating on behalf of the people of Iran, who have been risking their lives — and losing them in the thousands if not the tens of thousands — to try to bring down their repressive, misogynistic, warmongering Islamic death cult leadership.
These were innocent people ruthlessly massacred by their own oppressive government, to widespread international indifference.
But, of course, in Australia as pretty much everywhere else on the planet, the "pro-Paleostinian" activists are not actually "pro" freedom for Paleostinians, or Iranians or anybody else, nor "pro" the right to live peaceably, in safety, under humane leadership.
They claim to be opposing ostensible genocide by the Jewish state. In fact, they are seeking to enable the destruction of the Jewish state, and championing the mass murder of Jews — even, if not especially, as it has been unfolding in their own country.
[IsraelTimes] A Hamas sniper behind several deadly attacks on troops in the Gaza Strip during the war was killed in an airstrike in Gaza City on Monday, the military announces.
The Monday strike came in response to an attack by gunmen on troops in southern Gaza’s Rafah the previous day.
According to the IDF, the strike in Gaza City killed Ahmad Hassan, the head of the sniper unit in Hamas’s Beit Hanoun Battalion.
Hassan was behind numerous attacks on troops in northern Gaza, and was recently identified as working to advance new attacks, the military says.
The IDF says Hassan was involved in a roadside bomb attack in Beit Hanoun on July 7, 2025, in which five troops were killed — Sgt. First Class (res.) Benyamin Asulin, Staff Sgt. Noam Aharon Musgadian, Staff Sgt. Meir Shimon Amar, Sgt. Moshe Nissim Frech, and Staff Sgt. Moshe Shmuel Noll — and 14 were wounded.
Hassan was also involved in an ambush on April 19, 2025, in which Warrant Officer G’haleb Sliman Alnasasra was killed and five troops were wounded, as well as a sniper attack on April 24, 2025, in which Master Sgt. (res.) Asaf Cafri was killed and three troops were wounded, according to the IDF.
The military issues footage of the strike.
Another strike was carried out yesterday in central Gaza, with the IDF saying it also came in response to a “blatant violation” of the ceasefire deal on Sunday, in which four gunmen emerged from a tunnel in eastern Rafah and opened fire on troops before being killed.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli troops detained several Palestinians affiliated with the Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror groups during an extensive raid in the West Bank earlier today, the army says.
The IDF says troops of the Egoz commando unit and other forces operated overnight and this morning in 12 Palestinian villages in the Jenin area and captured “a number of terrorists affiliated with the Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist organization.”
The troops also seized tens of thousands of shekels worth of cash that was allegedly used for terror, and questioned dozens of suspects, including those suspected of assisting Palestinians to illegally enter Israel, the IDF says.
The army says that overnight, elsewhere in the West Bank, troops detained another 23 wanted Palestinians and seized several weapons.
[IsraelTimes] Police recently nabbed a 50-year-old man who planned to carry out a ramming-stabbing attack at Hizma checkpoint in East Jerusalem, law enforcement announces.
While the suspect was on his way to the checkpoint earlier this month, he crashed his car into a pole on the side of the highway. Cops dispatched to the scene of the accident searched his vehicle and found several knives and army fatigues affiliated with a terror group, police say.
The suspect, a Palestinian from Qalandiya in the West Bank, allegedly was driving a car with a forged Israeli license plate.
He was interrogated on suspicion of attempted murder, conspiracy to commit a terrorist act, and vehicle forgery, and he will be indicted in the near future, police say.
A day later, police detectives raided the suspect’s home and arrested his 21-year-old son, who was found to be in possession of a Hamas flag and headbands bearing the terror group’s insignia.
The son also remains in police custody, though police have not announced plans to file charges against him.
Remember when Hamas played these games to accustom Israel not to react to apparent threats? Then 10/7 happened.
[IsraelTimes] Army says Israelis face no threat from ‘unarmed civilians in sovereign Egyptian territory,’ following most recent spotting of trucks near border
The IDF on Wednesday dispatched troops and aircraft to the border with Egypt — near the Israeli border community of Shlomit — after several white pickup trucks approached the area from the Egyptian side.
Military sources said the Israel Defense Forces contacted the Egyptian military to come and disperse the gathering, which had spooked Israeli civilians living in the area, as white pickup trucks have come to be associated with Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, when the terror group employed the vehicles as it broke through the border.
Wednesday was not the first time that pickup trucks have been spotted on the Egyptian side of the border in recent days, though the military has said there is no threat to Israeli residents.
Military officials told the local Eshkol Regional Council that “these are not unusual events and there is no security threat to residents.” However, the council told residents that it has “requested the involvement of the military and government authorities to act to move the gatherings away from the border and to increase vigilance in the area.”
The army stressed that those gathered on the Egyptian border were “unarmed civilians in sovereign Egyptian territory.”
“The IDF is monitoring developments in the border area and is preparing accordingly based on operational needs and security assessments,” the military added.
The recent truck sightings have occurred amid intensified IDF efforts to crack down on weapons smuggling across the border, including deploying a helicopter gunship for the first time ever to intercept a pair of drones in December.
[IsraelTimes] In separate strike, military says, it killed sniper commander behind several deadly attacks on troops; both strikes come in response to Hamas violations of ceasefire
A Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... terrorist behind a deadly 2004 double suicide kaboom and a sniper commander in the terror group who committed several fatal attacks on IDF troops 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 a rusty 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 during the war were killed in recent Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s, the military announced on Wednesday.
The Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet security agency said that Basel Himouni, a prominent Hamas member from the West Bank city of Hebron, was targeted on February 4 as part of a series of Israeli airstrikes against terror operatives in response to an attack by button men on troops in the Strip’s north. One reservist officer was seriously maimed in the attack in northern Gaza.
In August 2004, Himouni dispatched two jacket wallahs to carry out simultaneous attacks on two buses in Beersheba.
The attacks killed 16 Israeli civilians and maimed over 100.
Himouni was captured in October 2004 and sentenced to prison, but was released and exiled to Gaza in a 2011 deal in which Israel exchanged 1,027 terror convicts for captive IDF soldier Gilad Shalit.
The military and Shin Bet said that after his release from Israeli custody, Himouni "returned to recruiting attackers and directing terrorist activity."
"As part of his role in Hamas, during the war, he was involved in manufacturing and planting bombs to harm our forces," the joint statement added.
Separately on Wednesday, the IDF said that a dronezap targeting a residential apartment in Gaza City’s al-Nasr neighborhood earlier in the week killed Ahmad Hassan, the commander of the sniper unit in Hamas’s Beit Hanoun Battalion.
Monday’s strike, which Paleostinian media reported had killed two men — both members of Hamas’s military wing — came in response to an attack by button men on troops in southern Gaza’s Rafah a day prior.
Hassan was behind numerous attacks on troops in northern Gaza, and had been recently identified as working to advance new attacks, the military said.
The IDF said that Hassan was involved in a roadside kaboom in Beit Hanoun on July 7, 2025, in which five troops were killed — Sgt. First Class (res.) Benyamin Asulin, Staff Sgt. Noam Aharon Musgadian, Staff Sgt. Meir Shimon Amar, Sgt. Moshe Nissim Frech, and Staff Sgt. Moshe Shmuel Noll — and 14 were maimed.
Hassan was also involved in an ambush on April 19, 2025, in which Warrant Officer G’haleb Sliman Alnasasra was killed, and five troops were maimed, as well as a sniper attack on April 24, 2025, in which Master Sgt. (res.) Asaf Cafri was killed and two troops were maimed, according to the IDF.
The Gaza City strike was one of two airstrikes that took place in response to the incident in Rafah. The second reportedly killed a member of Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... in the Strip’s center. The IDF did not immediately provide further details on the second strike.
The IDF said the Rafah attack, during which four button men emerged from a tunnel and opened fire on troops before being killed, was a "blatant violation of the ceasefire" between Israel and Hamas, and it viewed the incident "gravely."
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[NYP] A former Army Colonel from Florida was sentenced to two years in prison Tuesday for trying to woo a woman he met online by sending her secret classified battle plans.
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
