BREAKING NOW: This is a look inside the Accenture Tower downtown where hundreds in support of Jews and Palestinians are calling for a ceasefire. They’re expecting thousands to show up. The Israeli Consulate is on the 31st floor. Escalators are blocked. @cbschicagopic.twitter.com/LWwUtz0f61
[AFRICANEWS] The leader of a rebel group in Uganda was charged on Monday with terrorism and murder following the fatal attack on two foreign tourists and their driver by an armed commando in a national park last month.
Abdul Rashid Kyoto, alias Njovu, a leader of the Allied Democratic Forces ...established in the early 1990s through an agreement between portions of Uganda’s Salaf Tabliq Islamic sect and the National Army for the Liberation of Uganda (NALU), who said they had been sidelined by Museveni’s policies. At the time, the rebels staged deadly attacks in Ugandan villages and the capital, including a 1998 attack in which 80 students were massacred. A Ugandan military operation later forced the ADF into eastern Congo. The ADF has since established ties with the Islamic State group. The ADF has received funding from the Government of Sudan, which has also provided supplies and training. The ADF may also have received funding from the illegal mining and logging industries of the DRC.... (ADF) rebel group, had been arrested in early November during a Ugandan army operation against the commando group accused of killing a British and a South African honeymooner and their guide in Queen Elizabeth Park (west) on October 17.
The attack was claimed by 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.... (EI) group, to which the ADF rebels have pledged allegiance. Njovu is also blamed by the authorities for a school massacre in June which left 42 people dead, mainly students.
Abdul Rashid Kyoto has been charged with terrorism, murder, aggravated robbery and membership of a terrorist organization as part of the investigation into the attack in the national park, the public prosecutor's office said in a statement on Monday.
According to the prosecutor's office, Njovu was arrested on Lake Edouard, which lies on the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... (DRC). Two other members of the commando were killed, while "the others managed to escape by boat".
The army had previously indicated that Njovu was the only survivor of the seven-member commando.
Originally Ugandan rebels with a Moslem majority, the ADF made their home in eastern DRC in the 1990s. In 2019, they pledged allegiance to the EI, which claims responsibility for some of their actions and presents them as its "Central African Province" (Iscap in English).
They are accused of having massacred thousands of civilians in the DRC in recent years and of carrying out jihadist attacks on Ugandan soil.
Following the attack on October 17, President Yoweri Museveni ...President-for-Life of Uganda. He assumed office in 1985. His primary virtue is being prefereable to both his predecessors, Idi Amin and Milton Obote... called on the security forces to "annihilate" the ADF rebels. The army subsequently carried out several air raids against its positions in the DRC.
This murder in one of Uganda's most famous parks has sparked fears in the tourism sector, which contributed almost 10% of the country's GDP last year, according to official figures.
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killing a British and a South African honeymooner and their guide in Queen Elizabeth Park
White Lives Matter? (or is it a crime against the state's turist income?
[GEO.TV] Two soldiers were martyred in a shootout with turbans in North Wazoo district's Mir Ali area, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said Monday.
The incident occurred, according to a statement from the military's media wing, on the night between November 12 and 13 November.
The security forces effectively engaged the terrorists' location and resultantly, one terrorist "was sent to hell", the ISPR said.
However, those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... during the intense fire exchange, Sepoy Abdullah, 25, a resident of Mardan, and Sepoy Muhammad Sohail, 19, a resident of Tharparkar embraced martyrdom after fighting bravely.
The forces carried out a sanitisation operation of the area to neutralise any other terrorists, the military's media wing said.
"Security forces of Pakistain are determined to eliminate the menace of terrorism and such sacrifices of our brave soldiers further strengthen our resolve," it added.
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Gilles Devers, the representative of Palestinian victims at the International Criminal Court, has filed a complaint to include Israel's attacks and the crime of genocide in the investigation:
"We see what is happening (in Gaza) and this makes the genocide petition imperative.… pic.twitter.com/3xk2prEEhx
"German Shepherds on steroids."
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Israel has one of the most sophisticated armies in the world, with an arsenal of modern weapons, thousands of armed vehicles and hundreds of thousands of highly trained soldiers.
But among the most valued units in its ranks is a four-legged fighting force which has already helped to eliminate Hamas terrorists, and is being deployed as part of the Israeli Defence Forces' intense ground offensive in Gaza.
The dogs, who are part of the Oketz unit, each have specific jobs, with some trained to sniff out explosives, some to locate hidden threats and tunnel entrances, and others to track down and maul terrorists.
The highly-trained Belgian Malinois have been utilised by Israel's army for years - and now their skills are being deployed on the streets of Gaza and in Hamas's subterranean tunnels.
As the IDF continues to forge a path through the heart of Gaza City in their operation to root out Hamas, MailOnline takes a look at the crack canine division which stands out as one of the most versatile and feared units on the battlefield.
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Daily Mail: The Shocking Moment When Zionist Troops Unleash Terrifying Robot Dogs To Hunt Palestinian Children
Robo-dogs are almost here but currently, bio-dogs have the advantage of a sophisticated sensor suite with associated signal processing, and the ability to operate autonomously when the data link goes down. Plus you can scritch their ears.
[IsraelTimes] The Israel Police says that a stabbing terror attack in Tel Aviv was thwarted on November 2, with officers arresting two teenage Paleostinians who were found to be carrying knives.
Police say the two 14-year-old boys are school students from Umm al-Fahm
...home base of the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement, the militant arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in Israel...
who took a bus to Tel Aviv and planned to carry out the attack against IDF soldiers near the city’s main Savidor train station.
Cops deemed their behavior suspicious and approached them, searching their belongings and finding the knives.
The suspects were then taken for questioning, in collaboration with the Shin Bet security agency, and the case was under a gag order until today, when the pair — still under remand — were arraigned in court on suspicion of attempted murder of a terrorist nature.
[IsraelTimes] The Israel Defense Forces details its efforts to eliminate Hamas ...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... ’s field commanders and disrupt the terror group’s operations against Israeli forces 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 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.
According to the IDF, before October 7, Hamas had some 30,000 fighters in the Gaza Strip, split into five regional brigades, 24 battalions and some 140 companies.
Each Hamas brigade has an anti-tank missile array, sniper and engineering teams, air defenses, and a rocket firing array, the IDF says. Each brigade also has a number of outposts and strongholds in their respective regions.
The IDF says it has focused on killing the commanders of the brigades and battalions, especially those in northern Gaza where the military is carrying out its ground offensive.
According to the IDF, the Hamas battalions in northern Gaza have suffered "significant blows" and many are struggling to carry out large-scale organized attacks, due to their commanders being killed in Israeli operations.
The IDF says Hamas’s Shati Camp and Daraj-Tuffah battalions have been hit the hardest.
The Shati Camp Battalion’s deputy commander, several company commanders and 200 more operatives have been killed in Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s and ground operations. Some of the battalion’s main strongholds have been captured by the IDF, but it is also tasked with the terror group’s main command center under Shifa Hospital, according to the military.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shattered spaceship, Fffflirgoll the Arcturan slithered stealthily toward the control room, where the humans had barricaded themselves... the Daraj-Tuffah Battalion has also suffered heavy losses in IDF operations. The military says it has killed its entire senior command, including the battalion commander, his deputy and several company commanders, along with 260 operatives.
[IsraelTimes] The Israel Defense Forces says it has killed a number of Hamas commanders in airstrikes in the Gaza Strip over the past day.
Among the senior officers is Yakub Ashur, the commander of Hamas’s anti-tank guided missile array in the terror group’s Khan Younis Brigade, the IDF says.
The IDF says Ashur, “as part of his role, took part in leading and directing offenses against IDF forces.”
Separate strikes also killed Hamis Dababash, a veteran member of the terror group and the former head of Hamas’s intelligence division; Tahsin Maslam, the head of the combat support company for Hamas’s special operations in Beit Lahia; Jihad Azam, a Hamas intelligence officer in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City; and Munir Harb, head of information in the Rafah Brigade.
The IDF says Dababash most recently served as the secretary to the head of national relations in Hamas’s political bureau, and was a Hamas representative at the gathering of national and Islamic factions in the Gaza Strip.
It adds that Dababash was also involved in a deadly terror attack against the Gaza Strip settlement of Atzmona in 2002, in which five Israelis were killed.
[IsraelTimes] The Israel Defense Forces releases footage of the Navy’s underwater missions unit — known by its Hebrew acronym YALTAM — recovering weapons left behind by Hamas terrorists in the sea from the October 7 onslaught and other attacks since.
During the October 7 attacks, members of Hamas’s naval forces tried to infiltrate into Israel via the sea. Navy forces managed to kill dozens of them, largely foiling the seaborne attack. There have been other attempts by the terror group to send divers to infiltrate into Israel in recent weeks.
YALTAM scuba forces scanned the seabed in recent days, finding firearms, explosive devices, ammunition and rubber dinghies that were sunk by Navy fire.
The weapons were brought to the coast, where they were destroyed by the Combat Engineering Corps’ elite Yahalom unit, the IDF says.
IDF releases footage of the Navy’s underwater missions unit — known by its Hebrew acronym YALTAM — recovering weapons left behind by Hamas terrorists in the sea from the October 7 onslaught.
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[IsraelTimes] The Israel Defense Forces says that since the beginning of Israel’s ground offensive in the Gaza Strip around two weeks ago, some 4,300 strikes have been carried out.
It says hundreds of anti-tank guided missile launch sites and some 300 tunnel shafts have been struck by ground forces and the Air Force.
Another 3,000 sites containing Hamas infrastructure, including more than 100 booby-trapped buildings and hundreds of command centers were hit, the IDF says.
The IDF publishes new footage showing troops operating in Gaza, as well as the recent strikes.
[IsraelTimes] The number of alerts for rocket and drone attacks — and terrorist infiltrations — has dropped significantly in recent weeks, compared to the barrages launched from the Gaza Strip in the first week of the war.
During the first four hours of Hamas’s onslaught on October 7, more than 3,000 rockets were fired. Since then, another estimated 7,000 rockets have been fired, but at a much slower pace.
According to data from the Home Front Command, 3,523 alerts were activated between October 7 and 14.
The vast majority of the alerts were issued for rocket attacks, though there have been a handful of drone attacks and some suspected infiltration alerts.
In the week of October 15 to 21, the Home Front Command issued 818 alerts; in the week of October 22 to 28, it issued 802 alerts; in the week of October 29 to November 4, it issued 582 alerts.
In the last week, from November 5 to 12, it issued 455 alerts, continuing the downward trend.
The IDF believes Hamas is stockpiling rockets for a long war, but the terror group also has difficulty launching attacks from northern Gaza where the military has gained control of the ground.
Some of the alerts in recent weeks have been activated due to attacks launched from Lebanon, by the Hezbollah terror group and allied Palestinian factions at northern Israel, and missile and drone attacks launched by the Yemen-backed Houthis on Eilat.
[IsraelTimes] The Israel Defense Forces says ground troops continue to find Hamas weaponry and infrastructure during raids in the Gaza Strip, including inside schools, mosques, and the homes of terror operatives.
Troops of the 401st Brigade operating on the outskirts of the al-Shati camp located Hamas infrastructure in Al-Quds University, and a cache of explosives inside the Abu Bakr mosque, the IDF says.
It says that troops seized dozens of weapons, military equipment, and Hamas battle plans.
Troops of the 551st Reserve Brigade meanwhile raided the home of a senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad operative in the Beit Hanoun area, and found a weapons cache, including some in a child’s bedroom.
In another raid in Beit Hanoun, troops found a tunnel shaft, intelligence materials, and weapons, the IDF adds.
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Mike, no,they should say "five hours. AFTER the hostages are in OUR custody."
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Israel should start executing prisoners every day until Hamas surrenders the hostages. They won't, cause they're dead, so Israel can just empty out it's jails.
[IsraelTimes] An image circulating on social media showed troops of the IDF’s Golani Brigade inside Hamas’s parliament building in Gaza City, after capturing the site.
The military also said it had killed a group of gunmen who had fired on troops from another Gaza City hospital, publishing footage of the incident. It announced that it had killed a number of Hamas commanders in airstrikes over the past day, and provided details on its efforts to eliminate field commanders and disrupt the terror group's operations in the Gaza Strip over the past few weeks.
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] At least six people were killed as a result of US strikes on Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) targets in Syria on the night of November 13. Fox News reported thiswith reference to the US Department of Defense.
“At least six Iranian fighters were killed in US attacks on Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps bases in the Middle East on Sunday,” the statement said.
Earlier, Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin said that on November 12, the US Air Force, on the orders of President Joe Biden , carried out two airstrikes against Iranian-backed forces in eastern Syria. According to him, these strikes were a response to the ongoing shelling of American military bases in Iraq and Syria.
As reported by Regnum news agency, on the night of November 13, several unmanned aerial vehicles attacked the US military base Al-Shaddadi, located in the Hasakah province in northeastern Syria. In addition, a facility in the Koniko oil field was subjected to massive rocket fire . In total, at least 15 missiles were fired.
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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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...established in the early 1990s through an agreement between portions of Uganda’s Salaf Tabliq Islamic sect and the National Army for the Liberation of Uganda (NALU), who said they had been sidelined by Museveni’s policies. At the time, the rebels staged deadly attacks in Ugandan villages and the capital, including a 1998 attack in which 80 students were massacred. A Ugandan military operation later forced the ADF into eastern Congo. The ADF has since established ties with the Islamic State group. The ADF has received funding from the Government of Sudan, which has also provided supplies and training. The ADF may also have received funding from the illegal mining and logging industries of the DRC....
...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka 
President-for-Life of Uganda. He assumed office in 1985. His primary virtue is being prefereable to both his predecessors, Idi Amin and Milton Obote...
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...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
[Regnum] At least six people were killed as a result of US strikes on Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) targets in Syria on the night of November 13. Fox News reported thiswith reference to the US Department of Defense.
