[Garowe] A new Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in Somalia left several al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... fighters dead, reports indicate, just hours after the group killed several foreign soldiers in one of the training camps in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia.
Military sources told Garowe Online that the new airstrike was activated in Jamame township within Lower Jubba, killing at least 20 fighters who have been conducting terror activities in the Horn of Africa nation, particularly in southern regions.
This is the fifth airstrike this year in Somalia with the US military increasing intensity in the fight against al-Shabaab, a group that has been pushing for the ouster of the UN-backed federal government of Somalia for the last 17 years.
Along with the Somali National Army (SNA), the US Army usually gives aerial surveillance and support in operations against the al-Shabaab Death Eaters, who have been suffering losses following spirited operations in recent months across the country.
The airstrike, even though it hasn't been confirmed by the US Africa Command, comes just after four United Arab Emirates soldiers and another one from Bahrain were killed by Alshabab in General Gordon's military training base within Somalia.
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Anybody have an idea on the cost per KIA for the never-ending Al-Shaboob Somalia practice range? Given all that has gone on there since we restarted the Whack-A-Mole circus, can anyone name a success metric besides KIA from an endless replacement pool?
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[Regnum] The United States has launched another strike on Yemen. The target of the American attack was an anti-ship cruise missile of the Houthis' Ansar Allah movement, US Central Command (CENTCOM) said.
“On February 13, at approximately 2:35 p.m. Sanaa time, CENTCOM forces, in self-defense, successfully struck a mobile anti-ship cruise missile in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen that was ready to be launched against shipping in the Red Sea,” the US military said.
Earlier, on February 12, it became known that the Yemeni Houthis from the Ansar Allah movement attacked the American ship Star Iris in the Red Sea.
The Star Iris turns out to be Greek-owned, carrying corn from Brazil — in South America — to Iran. So one can understand how the Houthis and the Regnum reporters became confused on the issue.
Before this, on February 6, members of the Ansar Allah movement fired six anti-ship missiles at two commercial ships in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.
It was noted that three missiles, one of which was shot down by an American destroyer, were fired towards the Greek cargo ship MV Star Nasia flying the flag of the Marshall Islands. As a result of the attack, the ship received minor damage.
As Regnum reported, on the night of January 11-12, the United States and Britain, as part of an international coalition, began a military operation in Yemen. They used cruise missiles for attacks. Washington and London said the attack was in response to Houthi attacks on ships off the Yemeni coast.
On February 3, the United States, with the support of Britain, Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands and New Zealand, attacked 36 targets in 13 locations in Yemen.
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Maybe somebody on Diego Garcia was awake, and we waited until the offload into the "rusty skiff" happened to avoid mentioning names or places of origin? The eternal Puppet Show game of pretend it's not the Iranians goes on.
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"Indigenously produced cruise missiles" was always a stupid lie. Why we don't pancake Houthi sites historic homelands as a message is stupid. Remove Iranian influence back to the 6th century. Occupy Char Steaks Bahar or whatever
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [KavkazUzel] A court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Sochi resident Bekzodbek Saidov to eight and a half years, having found him guilty of transferring money to the terrorist organization Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.
The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced a resident of Sochi, finding him guilty of financing terrorism.
According to the prosecution, Sochi resident Bekzodbek Saidov twice - in December 2021 and July 2022 - transferred money to the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group, which is fighting in Syria. He transferred money from his bank account, according to a message published on the court’s Telegram channel.
Saidov was charged with committing a crime under Part 1.1 of Article 205.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (financing of terrorism). He was found guilty and sentenced to eight years and six months in prison, to be served in a maximum security colony, and the first three years in prison. The verdict did not enter into legal force.
The "Caucasian Knot" does not yet have any comments from Saidov regarding the verdict.
Earlier, the "Caucasian Knot" wrote that on February 9, a resident of Crimea, Murat Kadyrov, was sentenced to 11 years in a maximum security colony, who was found guilty of transferring 8,000 rubles to a terrorist organization.
[SDUT] SAN DIEGO — This is the second defendant to be sentenced in the prosecution of 11 people in connection with a Jan. 9, 2021, “Patriot March” protest organized by Trump supporters in Pacific Beach
A man who was among a group of self-described anti-fascists charged in connection with a Pacific Beach protest that broke out into brawls was sentenced Tuesday to two years in state prison.
Jesse Merel Cannon, 33, is the second defendant to be sentenced in the prosecution of 11 people in connection with violence that erupted at a "Patriot March" protest Jan. 9, 2021, organized by supporters of former President Donald Trump.
Of the 11 originally charged, three defendants are set to go to trial next month. The remaining defendants have either been sentenced or pleaded guilty and await sentencing, which is expected to happen this summer.
On Tuesday, Cannon was sentenced to two years in prison on conspiracy and assault charges in connection with the protest.
He was also sentenced to a consecutive three-year prison term for an unrelated assault with a deadly weapon case. Prosecutors declined to comment on the specifics of that case but said it occurred later.
Attorneys representing other defendants in the case have alleged that prosecutors have ignored violent acts committed by pro-Trump members at the protest.
The District Attorney’s Office has said in prior public statements that "video evidence analysis shows that overwhelmingly the violence in this incident was perpetrated by the Antifa affiliates and was not a mutual fray with both sides crossing out of lawful First Amendment expression into riot and violence."
Curtis Briggs, who represents one of the people set to go to trial next month, alleged that District Attorney Summer Stephan’s office showed bias by prosecuting only anti-fascists and last year sought to disqualify her office from prosecuting the case. San Diego Superior Court Judge Daniel Goldstein, who will preside over the trial, denied the request last fall.
[GEO.TV] Protests are ongoing across three provinces in Pakistain — Sindh, 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 Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
The PTI, JUI-F, PTI, and other political parties are staging protests in different cities against the results of the general elections 2024.
In Quetta, workers of National Party, Hazara ...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets... Democratic Party ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... and Balochistan National Party demonstrated outside the district returning officer's office, while roads across the bucolic provincial capital, Chaman, Killa Saifullah, Loralai and Pishin were blocked due to the ongoing protests.
As a result, land communication of Balochistan with Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa was cut off.
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, the gondola was dangling by a single thread of rope.
Jack! Cynthia cried. I just realized I'm afraid of heights! I don't even like high heels!... PPP continued its sit-in in Naseerabad against the alleged polls rigging for the sixth day.
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[Regnum] The US military used a missile with built-in blades during a strike in Iraq that killed one of the commanders of the Shiite group Kataib Hezbollah, Abu Baqir al-Saadi. The Wall Street Journal reported this on February 14, citing Pentagon representatives.
“No fair using technology we don’t have, you h8ters!”
According to the publication, the United States launched a strike with an R9X missile, which was developed by the Pentagon and the CIA to eliminate leaders of various groups.
It is noted that the R9X is a modification of the Hellfire missile and does not have an exploding warhead. Damage is caused by six blades that are ejected from the body the moment they make contact with the target.
As Regnum reported, on February 7, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) reported on the social network X that the US military struck a target in Iraq, killing the commander of the Kataib Hezbollah group. It was alleged that he was responsible for directly planning and participating in attacks against US forces in the region.
Kataib Hezbollah later confirmed the death of one of its leaders. They clarified that Abu Bakir al-Saadi, who was responsible for the air system in the battalions, died.
[IsraelTimes] The 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... terror group’s al-Quds Brigade takes responsibility for opening fire at Meirav, an Israeli kibbutz abutting the northern West Bank near Beit She’an.
There were no injuries in the attack, which occurred as kids were heading home from school, a kibbutz spokesperson says, according to Ynet. One home may have been hit by bullets, according to the report.
[IsraelTimes] IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi says troops are still operating in north 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... and are seeing Hamas ...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... activity in that part of the enclave.
Responding to a question by The Times of Israel at his presser on when Paleostinian civilians could return to northern Gaza, after they were evacuated at the beginning of the ground offensive, Halevi says the IDF is still operating there against Hamas.
"It is true that at the beginning of the war, there were about 15,000 Hamas turbans there. Today it is much less, the vast majority were killed, injured, and their infrastructure destroyed," Halevi says.
But he warns that there is still Hamas activity in northern Gaza. "We see nearly every day, terror activity that occurs in the northern part of the Strip," he says.
"From time to time rockets are launched from there, and from time to time, our forces are attacked. We don’t want to create a situation in which the residents of the Gaza Strip mix with the enemy, thus creating danger to their lives. That is why we are still isolating the north of the Strip to prevent danger to the citizens of Gaza," he says.
"They will return to it when it is safe to return there, when acts of terror are not carried out there," Halevi says, adding that "we are not just waiting for it to stop, we are the ones working to stop these terror acts. We are attacking the enemy there. We will continue to do it."
[GEO.TV] Three Palestinians have been arrested by the Israeli military during raids on the city of Qalqilya in the occupied West Bank, according to Wafa news agency.
A man has also been arrested in the town of Ni’lin, west of Ramallah, according to local media.
On the other hand, the Israeli military has also raided Ramallah and stationed their vehicles in the vicinity of the Palestine Medical Complex, Wafa also reports.
[IsraelTimes] A Paleostinian driver who appeared to attempt to run over pedestrians in the West Bank has been shot and arrested by Israeli soldiers, the military says. The IDF says a knife was also found in the man’s car, and it describes the incident as a terror attack.
Surveillance camera footage shows a silver Skoda Superb accelerating dangerously near a bus station at the Gush Etzion Junction, before fleeing.
The IDF says troops launched a pursuit after the car, opening fire at it. Eventually the driver was stopped near the settlement of Elazar, and a knife was found in his car. Medics say he was maimed by the gunfire, and has been taken to a hospital for medical treatment.
[GEO.TV] Al Jazeera correspondents have confirmed a series of strikes across 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... , with significant impact observed in the southern part of the Strip, where more than half of the population seeks shelter.
The center of Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, experienced artillery shelling, while Israeli warplanes conducted multiple raids on the southern neighborhoods of Gaza City.
The intensification of strikes raises concerns about the safety and well-being of the population in these areas, as tensions escalate in the region.
[IsraelTimes] Al Jazeera says two of its journalists have been maimed in an Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... near Rafah in the Gazoo Strip, with one having to undergo an amputation.
The pan-Arab broadcaster, funded by Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... , reports the strike and identifies the maimed as cameraman Ahmad Matar and news hound Ismail Abu Omar.
The IDF has no immediate comment. According to unconfirmed Hebrew media reports, Abu Omar filmed from inside Kibbutz Nir Oz during Hamas ...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... ’s October 7 onslaught.
Al Jazeera quotes Dr. Muhammad al-Astal at the European Hospital in Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip as saying that Abu Omar had his right foot amputated after suffering severe wounds, including shrapnel to his chest and head. The channel said doctors were trying to stop the bleeding and save his left leg. Leave the leg. Amputate the head
Technically they did. At the knee.
Al Jazeera quotes Dr. Muhammad al-Astal at the European Hospital in Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip as saying that Abu Omar had his right foot amputated after suffering severe wounds, including shrapnel to his chest and head. The channel said doctors were trying to stop the bleeding and save his left leg.
Ismail Abu Omar, an Al Jazeera reporter who was wounded in an Israeli airstrike near southern Gaza’s Rafah yesterday, is also a Hamas commander, according to the IDF.
Lt. Col. Avichay Adraee, the IDF’s Arabic-language spokesman, says that Abu Omar, in addition to working for the Qatari-owned station, serves as a deputy company commander in Hamas’s East Khan Younis Battalion.
On the morning of October 7, Abu Omar infiltrated into Israel and filmed from inside Kibbutz Nir Oz during Hamas’s onslaught.
In the strike yesterday, Al Jazeera cameraman Ahmad Matar was also wounded.
The IDF earlier this week revealed that another Al Jazeera journalist is a Hamas commander, and last month, two Al Jazeera journalists killed in an Israeli airstrike in Rafah were later accused by the IDF of being members of Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror groups.
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Technically a phase of "rocket science," but not difficult math to take shipped container dimensions and work backwards to what size of missile could be fired from it and from that deduce range and payload numbers.
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In the dim past I recall the Soviets exploring the same for train and truck containers as a targeting dilemma for the west. Is Russia selling old IRBM tech from the good old days?
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I recall the Soviets exploring the same for train and truck containers as a targeting dilemma for the west
That was a defensive maneuver to hide them. This is an offensive play. The nice thing about a missile in a shipping container is not the range or payload. It is the fact that it looks like a shipping container. Get close enough to the eastern US to lob an airburst EMP weapon over a city and you win that round.
[Ynet] The escalation in the north on Wednesday, which culminated with the rocket barrage on the Northern Command base in Safed that claimed the life of Staff Sergeant Omer Sarah Banjo and injured eight others, comes a day after reports of progress in negotiations to end the war in the north. While the barrages also continue into cities that have not yet been evacuated, Like Safed, Chief of Staff Herzi Halevy issued a threat, and told the commanders at the Lebanese border: "We are focusing on being ready for war in the north."
In response to the barrage, the Chief of Staff and the commander of the Northern Command approved a series of airstrikes targeting Hezbollah. Following the shooting, a situation assessment was held this evening at the northern border, where the Chief of Staff held a dialogue with the commanders, telling them: "We are not ending this without returning the residents to Metula and all The communities in the north, at a very high level of security."
The peak of the wave of attacks in southern Lebanon came this evening with the reports of four deaths in a significant Israeli attack. The Qatari newspaper "Al-Arabi Al-Jadid" reported on injuries and extensive damage in an attack on a house, and on the closure of institutions in the town tomorrow following the attacks in the area. Later, the Lebanese "Al-Akhbar" newspaper reported that four people were killed in the attack, including a mother and her daughter. A security source in Lebanon told the Saudi newspaper that the house that was attacked belongs to a family that has no connection to Hezbollah.
In an unusual move, Hezbollah did not claim responsibility today, but they did announce the deaths of three of their members: Hassan Ali Najam, Ibrahim Ali al-Dabaq, and Ibrahim Hussein al-Mastrah. The organization has reported a total of 196 deaths among its activists since the beginning of the war.
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[GEO.TV] Following an earlier report on the Israeli attack in Adashit, the National News Agency revealed that 10 individuals were maimed and swiftly transported to nearby hospitals in Nabatieh, Al Jazeera reported.
The Lebanese Civil Defense had initially reported one fatality, identified as Hezbollah fighter Hassan Ali Najm, a confirmation reiterated by Hezbollah.
The strike caused extensive damage to commercial establishments, shops, homes, and cars, according to the NNA. Additionally, Hezbollah announced the death of another fighter, Ibrahim Ali al-Dabaq, known as "Ruhullah," from Kunine in southern Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... , attributing it to wounds sustained several days ago.
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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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[KavkazUzel] A court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced
[SDUT] SAN DIEGO — This is the second defendant to be sentenced in the prosecution of 11 people in connection with a Jan. 9, 2021, “Patriot March” protest organized by Trump supporters in Pacific Beach
...every time you hear the phrase 
[IsraelTimes] The 
...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
[GEO.TV] The Israeli military is carrying out arrests across the occupied West Bank with four people detained, the Wafa news agency reported.
...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
