"The sitar, by Allah? Hashish?
Aussie hippies in thrall to Rajneesh?
Dancing lads on a leash?
Pashto rap? I mean, preach!
I might hate music too."
-- Paul McCreesh
The Sudanese army said on Monday it had fully secured Sinjah, the capital of Sennar state, and reopened the main highway linking it to the city of Sennar, marking a significant victory in its fight against the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).https://t.co/VBDibyfrEGpic.twitter.com/97cEe2ty4j
[IsraelTimes] Emirati Interior Ministry says the men, arrested on Sunday, are from Uzbekistan; trio, reported to have likely been extradited from Turkey, may face death penalty
The United Arab Emirates on Monday published the names and photographs of three suspects it is holding in the murder of Rabbi Zvi Kogan, a UAE-based Chabad emissary whose body was found early Sunday.
Israel has called the murder an antisemitic terror attack. Chabad said Sunday that Kogan had been "murdered by terrorists."
All three men are Uzbek nationals, according to the UAE Interior Ministry — Olimpi Toirovich, 28; Makhmudjon Abdurakhim, 28; and Azizbek Kamlovich, 33.
The images showed the men handcuffed and blindfolded, dressed in blue prison uniforms.
The ministry described the three as "the perpetrators of the murder of the Moldovan citizen." Kogan held dual Israeli-Moldovan citizenship.
The suspects could face capital punishment, according to several Hebrew media reports.
Kogan, 28, who worked in the UAE for the Orthodox Jewish group Chabad, which seeks to support Jewish life for thousands of Jewish visitors and residents in the Gulf Arab state, vanished in Dubai, where he ran a kosher grocery store, on Thursday.
A plane carrying his body landed at Ben Gurion airport on Monday evening, a spokeswoman for the Israel Airports Authority told AFP.
Kogan’s funeral was set to take place at 11 p.m. Monday at the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, following a procession from Kfar Chabad in central Israel, set to depart at 8 p.m.
His body was found in the Emirati city of Al Ain, which borders Oman, around 150 kilometers (93 miles) from Abu Dhabi, Israeli authorities announced early Sunday.
The Ynet news site reported early Sunday that Kogan’s car was found abandoned in Al Ain. It added, without citing sources, that there were signs of a struggle in the vehicle.
Officials suspect a number of Uzbek citizens recruited by 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 JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... assaulted the rabbi and later fled to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... , that report said.
The three suspects were not arrested in the UAE, a Channel 12 report said Monday. The operation to find and arrest them spread across several countries, according to the report.
Ynet reported Monday that they were likely extradited from Turkey to the UAE, without Israeli involvement.
The UAE on Monday stressed "the determination of the competent security authorities to quickly take the necessary measures to uncover the details of the incident, its circumstances and motives, and to harness their human and professional capabilities, expertise and technical capabilities that led to the arrest of the perpetrators."
The Emirati Interior Ministry had announced on Sunday the arrests of three people involved in the killing of Kogan.
[DHAKATRIBUNE] A case has been filed alleging that on Monday, 7,000-8,000 students from Dr Mahbubur Rahman Molla College and other colleges assembled, forming a violent mostly peaceful mob with deadly weapons and vandalizing public property.
On Monday, the case's First Information Report (FIR) was submitted to the court.
Dhaka's Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Ziadur Rahman, accepted it and instructed a report to be submitted by December 24.
Sub-Inspector Anup Das of the General Registration (GR) branch at Sutrapur cop shoppe confirmed the information.
Students allegedly stole a loaded magazine from a government firearm (pistol), damaged a government APC (Armored Personnel Carrier), and attacked coppers, threatening their lives and creating terror through subversive actions.
The case also mentions damage to police vehicles, including an APC and cycle of violences, totalling a loss of Tk270,000.
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In Italy, 45% of sexuaI vioIence in 2023 was committed by immigrants who make up 8% of the population. Truly terrifying data. pic.twitter.com/ZQMtdsWbZ9
[IsraelTimes] Second Cup Cafe closes two locations owned by Mai Abdullhadi, who was filmed chanting ‘Final Solution’ at a Montreal protest; coffee chain says ‘zero tolerance for hate speech’
A popular Canadian coffee chain announced on Saturday that it had severed its business relationship with a franchise owner who was filmed giving a Nazi salute and calling for the "Final Solution" during an anti-Israel protest in Montreal, Canada.
The protester in question was later identified as Mai Abdullhadi, the owner of two franchises of Second Cup Cafe located at Montreal’s Jewish General Hospital.
Abdullhadi was filmed giving a Nazi salute and chanting, "Final Solution is coming your way, the Final Solution," at an anti-Israel protest on Thursday, as part of a wave of pro-Paleostinian demonstrations that took place in the Canadian city over the weekend.
The company said in a statement that it was closing those locations and terminating the owner’s contract.
It will continue paying staff and plans to reopen under new management, according to the CBC public broadcaster.
"Second Cup has zero tolerance for hate speech," the company’s statement said. "This franchisee’s actions are not only a breach of our franchise agreement, but they also violate the values of inclusion and community we stand for at Second Cup."
The wave of protests in Montreal kicked off in opposition to the hosting of a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... conference in the city’s downtown, as activists protested the Western military alliance due to members’ perceived support for Israel.
According to Canadian media reports, demonstrators smashed windows, burned vehicles, attacked coppers, set off smoke bombs and fireworks, and even burned an effigy of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during the protest.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his government would not tolerate antisemitism after a violent pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel demonstration in Montreal at which protesters burned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in effigy.
The Canadian prime minister was one of several officials to condemn the protest, which opposed a NATO conference on Friday night and after which three protesters were arrested.
It was one of a series of anti-Israel actions in recent days that have led to fallout in the Quebec metropolis, from the shuttering of a cafe in the city’s Jewish General Hospital to the cancelation of an Israeli-made film at a local festival.
The demonstrators, many of whom came from student groups, protested the Western military alliance due to members’ support for Israel in its multi-front war, which began when Palestinian terror group Hamas launched a shock attack that killed 1.200 people and saw 251 seized and taken to Gaza on October 7, 2023. A day later, Lebanon-based terror group Hezbollah started launching drones and missiles at Israel.
Attendees could be seen waving Palestinian, Lebanese and Iranian flags as well as one with the hammer and sickle, a communist symbol. Some protesters held a banner reading “intifada” in Arabic, a reference to violent Palestinian uprisings against Israel in which hundreds of people were murdered in bombings and stabbings in the 80s, 90s and early 2000s.
Elsewhere in Montreal, RIDM, a documentary film festival, canceled the screenings of an Israeli filmmaker’s movie due to pro-Palestinian protests. The film by Israeli-Canadian Danae Elon, “Rule of Stone,” takes a critical lens on Israeli policy. According to a description on the festival website, the film focuses on Jerusalem stone, which is used as the facade for buildings in the Israeli capital. It examines “the erasure of Palestinian history and the gradual exclusion of its people,” and “reveals the contrasts and often invisible violence of its buildings and architecture.”
But the festival has announced that two screenings scheduled for later this week have been canceled. The statement said Elon had withdrawn the film following “consultations by RIDM with all concerned parties,” and that the festival would be changing its submission criteria.
“Danae Elon is an Israeli-Canadian filmmaker whose films have been accompanied by RIDM, and we recognize her personal commitment to criticizing and questioning the state of Israel,” the festival’s statement said. “However, the film’s inclusion in our programming has disrupted our relationships with important partners, including members of the community actively supporting the Palestinian people.”
The festival is the second Canadian cultural event this month to draw pro-Palestinian protest. Last week, the Giller Prize, a prestigious literary award, was given amid a boycott by authors protesting its sponsors’ ties to Israel.
In Toronto over the weekend, a small pro-Palestinian protest featured, according to critics who shared photos on social media, a demonstrator dressed as Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in the moments before an Israeli soldier killed him and someone holding a sign reading “Free flights to Amsterdam,” an apparent allusion to the attacks on Israeli soccer fans that took place there earlier this month. A Jewish political pundit was reportedly arrested after he refused police instructions to leave the scene.
[IsraelTimes] A recent airstrike in the southern Gaza Strip killed a Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist who participated in the October 7 onslaught, the IDF says.
The PIJ operative is named as Basel Kamel Salim Nabahin.
Earlier today, the IDF said the commander of the rocket unit in Hamas's East Jabalia Battalion was killed in a separate airstrike in the northern Gaza Strip, in an operation that also took out a terrorist who participated in the October 7 onslaught.
[IsraelTimes] Palestinian reports say one of the dead was a teenager; military says they threw explosives at soldiers, who opened fire
Two Paleostinians, one of them a teenager, were rubbed out by Israeli forces in the northern West Bank town of Ya’bad on Sunday night, the Paleostinian Authority reported.
The Israel Defense Forces said the pair had attacked soldiers with explosives.
The PA health ministry identified them as Mohammad Rabi’ Jamal Hamarsheh, 13, and Ahmad Mahmoud Zaid, 20, though the WAFA news agency reported that Hamarsheh was 16.
Clashes erupted when the IDF entered Ya’bad, west of Jenin. According to eyewitnesses and medics, both Paleostinians were shot multiple times in the upper body.
The IDF said soldiers spotted that the pair were carrying explosives, which they hurled at security forces, the Ynet outlet reported. Soldiers then opened fire, killing Hamarsheh and Zaid.
The incident came after last week the IDF carried out a two-day operation against terror activities in the Jenin area during which it said soldiers killed nine Paleostinian button men.
Several suspects were arrested and bomb-making labs were destroyed, the IDF said at the time.
Since October 7, 2023, when the Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... terror group attacked Israel, starting the ongoing war 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... , troops have arrested some 5,250 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 2,050 affiliated with Hamas.
According to the Paleostinian Authority’s health ministry, more than 718 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed in that time. The IDF says the vast majority of them were button men killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops, or faceless myrmidons killed while carrying out attacks.
During the same period, 41 people, including Israeli security personnel, have been killed in terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank. Another six members of the security forces were killed in festivities with terror operatives in the West Bank.
Hezbollah rocket impacts have been reported in the city of Nahariya, located in northwestern Israel. Emergency medical teams are responding to reports of potential injuries at one of the impact sites. pic.twitter.com/lmLNAu6JgN
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says it carried out a series of airstrikes across Lebanon against command rooms and other sites belonging to Hezbollah’s executive council, which oversees the terror group’s financial and administrative affairs.
In the past few hours, Israeli fighter jets struck 25 sites belonging to the Hezbollah executive council, in southern Lebanon’s Nabatieh, the northeastern city of Baalbek, the Beqaa Valley, Beirut’s southern suburbs, and the outskirts of the Lebanese capital, according to the military.
The IDF says the sites included command and control centers and intelligence-gathering centers, where members of the executive council were gathered.
The command centers were responsible for forming assessments for Hezbollah, for the terror group to “make operational and additional decisions,” according to the military.
The strikes “damaged the capabilities of the executive council to direct and assist Hezbollah terrorists in their attempts to carry out terror plots against the Israeli home front and IDF forces, as well as Hezbollah’s command and control, rehabilitation and information gathering capabilities,” the IDF says.
The executive council, according to the IDF, is tasked with “the restoration of [Hezbollah’s] military capabilities on the day after the war, and is a central support for the organization’s military activity.”
The former head of the executive council, Hashem Safieddine, who was due to replace Hassan Nasrallah as the leader of the terror group after his assassination, was killed in an airstrike last month.
NYT: A cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hezbollah has been finalized, with Iran’s leader, Khamenei, granting Hezbollah approval to proceed. pic.twitter.com/HqL5yR8tRc
Official claims threat of US action at UN played into Jerusalem’s decision-making, and asserts that ministers will get in line behind cessation of hostilities, even if reluctantly
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will convene the high-level security cabinet in Tel Aviv on Tuesday evening to approve a 60-day ceasefire with the Hezbollah terror group in Lebanon after more than a year of war, an Israeli official told The Times of Israel on Monday.
At the same time, the official stressed that Israel was accepting a cessation of hostilities, not an end to the war on Hezbollah.
“We don’t know how long it will last,” the official said of the ceasefire. “It could be a month, it could be a year.”
A hudna is only supposed to last long enough for the Muslim party to the agreement to rest, refresh, and refurbish its fighters — then they must recommence the jihad. So that’s how long it will last, unless Hezbollah’s gunnies jump thr gun, like Hamasniks are wont to do.
Lebanese sources told Reuters on Monday that US President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron were expected to announce a ceasefire imminently.
In Washington, White House national security spokesperson John Kirby said, “We’re close,” but “nothing is done until everything is done.”
Since October 8, 2023, Hezbollah-led forces have attacked Israeli communities and military posts along the border on a near-daily basis, with the group saying it is doing so to support Gaza amid the war there.
Some 60,000 residents were evacuated from northern towns on the Lebanon border shortly after Hamas’s October 7 onslaught, in light of fears that Hezbollah would carry out a similar attack, and due to increasing rocket fire by the terror group. Israel has been trying to enable the residents’ return, including through an ongoing ground operation.
Israel’s freedom to act in Lebanon after the ceasefire is guaranteed by a letter between it and the US, said the official. The Israel Defense Forces will be able to operate not only against those trying to attack Israel, but also against Hezbollah’s attempts to build up its military power.
“We will act,” the official promised.
Israel decided it had no choice but to accept a ceasefire, in part out of a fear that the US administration could punish Israel with a United Nations Security Council resolution in its final weeks, the official asserted.
Israel is also missing capabilities it needs from the US, including 134 D9 bulldozers, said the official.
Meanwhile, a Lebanese official said that Beirut had been told by Washington that an accord could be announced “within hours.”
Israeli officials said earlier that a deal to end the war was getting closer, though some issues remained, while two senior Lebanese officials voiced guarded optimism, even as Israeli strikes pounded Lebanon a day after Hezbollah fired over 250 rockets and missiles into Israel.
According to Channel 12 news, “something drastic” would have to happen for the ceasefire to fall apart before Tuesday’s meeting.
Netanyahu will hold a smaller meeting of close aides on Tuesday morning, including Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer and Defense Minister Israel Katz, the outlet reported.
Lebanon’s deputy speaker of parliament Elias Bou Saab said on Monday that there are “no serious obstacles” left to beginning the implementation of the US-proposed truce.
He said one sticking point on who will monitor the ceasefire was resolved in the last 24 hours by agreeing to set up a five-country committee, including France, and chaired by the United States.
Israel had been insisting that France not be part of the agreement or be a member of the international committee that will monitor a deal’s implementation, due to its perceived hostility toward Israel in recent months, under President Emanuel Macron. Macron recently repeatedly called for an arms embargo on Israel, characterizing it as the path toward ending the war, sparking a diplomatic crisis.
Once France indicated on Friday that it would not be committing to the arrest of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in the wake of arrest warrants issued against him by the International Criminal Court — only that it “takes note” of the decision — Israel was willing to accept French involvement.
Despite the moves toward a halt to the fighting, both Israel and Hezbollah continued mutual exchanges of fire on Monday.
The IDF Home Front Command issued new restrictions in several areas of northern Israel on Monday evening, given fears that Hezbollah would ramp up rocket attacks before the ceasefire comes into effect.
If the efforts to achieve a ceasefire collapse, said Channel 12, the IDF has plans for an expansion of its operation in Lebanon.
Earlier Monday, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir told Netanyahu to reject the proposal for a ceasefire, calling it “a grave mistake,” though, unlike in the past, he did not threaten to bring down the government if it were approved.
In a post on X, the ultranationalist Otzma Yehudit party leader warned that accepting the ceasefire deal would mean missing out on a “historic” opportunity to destroy the Iran-backed terror group.
He urged Netanyahu to “listen to the commanders fighting in the field… precisely now, when Hezbollah is beaten and longs for a ceasefire, it is forbidden to stop.”
Ben Gvir has been categorically opposed to any deal that would see a cessation of hostilities, even temporarily, in both Gaza and Lebanon, and has threatened more than once to pull his party from the coalition in the event that Israel signs a truce agreement.
The ceasefire would ultimately be approved, said the Israeli official speaking to The Times of Israel: “There are ministers who speak to their base, and we take it into consideration. But Ben Gvir understands the importance. It’s in Israel’s interest.”
The official also argued that a ceasefire would help reach a successful end to the war in Gaza against Hamas.
“What Hamas wanted was support from Hezbollah and others. Once you cut the connection, you have the ability to reach a deal. It’s a strategic achievement,” said the official. “Hamas is alone.”
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[NAHARNET] Hezbollah fighters and Israeli troops engaged in fierce festivities Saturday at the key south Leb ...an Iranian satrapy until recently 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... town of Khiam and in the coastal Bayada area several kilometers north of the border.
The official National News Agency (NNA) reported intense air and artillery bombardment of Khiam, about six kilometers (nearly four miles) from the frontier.
Israel was "attempting to control the town" as it was "a strategic gateway for a rapid ground incursion," the NNA said.
It said Israeli troops had dynamited houses and were "trying to surround (Khiam) from all sides using extensive air and ground cover."
Over the past two days, Hezbollah said its fighters had attacked Israeli troops about 20 times in and around the large town.
On September 23, Israel launched an intense air campaign in Lebanon, mainly targeting Hezbollah bastions in the south and east and in south Beirut.
A week later it sent ground troops across the border.
The NNA said Saturday that on the south coast, "the areas of Bayada and Wadi Hamoul are witnessing violent mostly peacefulfestivities," and also reported air strikes and shelling.
It said Israeli troops tried to penetrate the area in order to encircle the town of Naqoura via Bayada -- "a strategic location" on the coast between Naqoura and Tyre, 20 kilometers from the border.
Israeli tanks have been operating east of Khiam for more than three weeks, with the NNA reporting on Tuesday that the tanks had moved north of the town.
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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
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...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 
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
...an Iranian satrapy until recently 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...
