… That's one expensive storage unit - each bag weighing 30-50 pounds of pure profit that never made it to market.
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Now what? The police put the goods up for sale?
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First California legalized selling weed and then made the rules and regulations so difficult to adhere to that it does not pay to to even attempt to comply.
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They legalized it because they want the tax revenue because they are greedy bastards. If you don't pay they tax they will bust you. It's all about graft.
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Khalil Haqqani, the Minister of Refugees in the Taliban-led government of Afghanistan (the organization is under UN sanctions for terrorist activities), was killed in an explosion in the building of the department he heads in Kabul. This was reported on December 12 by the Afghan news portal Tolo news, citing sources. How exciting! Who dunnit?
“Sources close to the Taliban have confirmed the killing of the Minister of Refugees, Khalil Haqqani,” the portal’s Telegram channel says.
It is noted that several more people died as a result of the explosion.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, in April 2023, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said that the Afghan authorities are pursuing a policy that helps strengthen security not only in the country but also in the region. According to him, there are no threats to Central Asian countries from Afghanistan.
What about from the jihadi groups they eagerly host, like Al Qaeda and Taliban Tehrik-i Pakistan (TTP)?
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on November 28 that Russia expects to develop relations with Afghanistan and the current Afghan leadership. The head of state added that complex processes are currently taking place in that country.
Russia has been saying so since shortly after the American-led Coalition pulled out. They haven’t yet done so, though, for some reason.
Local questions:
[KhaamaPress] Khalil-ur-Rehman Haqqani’s assassination occurred in one of his most secure locations, with trusted Zadran tribesmen guarding him.
The attack raises suspicions of possible internal involvement or security breaches within his circle.
However, Zabihullah Mujahid, the spokesperson for the Taliban government, stated in a message that Khalil ur-Rahman Haqqani, the Taliban Refugees Minister, was killed in an attack by “Khawarij” (referred to ISIS).
Khawarij (Kharijites) is an ancient Arabic Moslem term for heretics, often used to describe Wahhabis and hence Al Qaeda and ISIS-linked jihadis.
The ISIS-Khorasan branch, as an active terrorist group in Afghanistan, has repeatedly claimed responsibility for attacks against high-ranking Taliban figures. The assassination of Mullah Dawood Muzammil, the Taliban governor of Balkh, and the killing of Nisar Ahmad Ahmadi, the Taliban deputy governor of Badakhshan, are examples of such actions.
Regarding Khalil ur-Rahman Haqqani, although it is said that the Haqqani network maintains good relations with ISIS members, it is not unlikely that ISIS could have carried out this attack.
Mujahid, referring to the U.S. offer of a $5 million reward for Haqqani’s capture, mentioned that Haqqani was a prominent member of a large jihadist family, and the enemies of Islam had placed a bounty on his head.
He further remarked, “Today, he was martyred by the Khawarij, who claim to be Muslims while declaring other Muslims as apostates.”
The Taliban spokesperson emphasized that such cowardly acts would not weaken the resolve of Muslims nor help the conspirators achieve their evil goals against their Islamic system. Instead, he argued, such actions only darken the faces of the enemies of Islam and expose their malicious intentions.
At present, no group has claimed responsibility for Haqqani’s assassination, although the Taliban often refers to the terrorist group ISIS as the “Khawarij.”
However, it can be speculated that the assassination of Khalil-ur-Rehman Haqqani took place in one of the most secure locations under his supervision. His security detail consisted of trusted Zadran tribesmen, including all of his personal guards.
The high security measures at the ministry suggest that the attack was likely carried out by someone from his inner circle or with their cooperation, as breaching such security would be difficult otherwise.
This attack underscores the ongoing violence and instability in Afghanistan, despite the Taliban’s claims of controlling the country. The continued targeting of key figures within the Taliban government reflects the ongoing internal and external challenges the regime faces, particularly from extremist factions that reject its authority.
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[Regnum] The Aleksandrovsky District Court of Stavropol Krai sentenced seven participants in the riots at the Makhachkala airport to terms ranging from eight to nine years in prison. This was reported on December 11 by the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation.
It was established that on October 29 of last year, Zhanmirza Aliyev, Ali Amirkhanov, Alimurat Babatov, Zapir Batyrbekov, Ramazan Karnayev, Ismail Salmakhanov, and Makhach Tuchuyev participated in mass riots at the Uytash airport out of hatred for Israelis and ignored the demands of law enforcement officers.
During the riots, airport property worth over 24 million rubles was destroyed and damaged, the blocking of the airport's operations led to flight delays and cancellations. 23 government officials were injured due to the actions of the demonstrators.
"They were found guilty under Part 2 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Participation in mass riots accompanied by violence, pogroms, destruction of property"), Part 3 of Article 263.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Failure to comply with requirements for maintaining transport safety at transport infrastructure facilities and vehicles by a group of persons by conspiracy"). One of them was also convicted under Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Use of violence against a government official")," the prosecutor's office website states.
The court, taking into account the nature and degree of public danger of the crimes, sentenced the defendants to imprisonment for terms ranging from 8 to 9 years in a general regime penal colony.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on October 30, 2023, that the riots at Makhachkala airport were organized by Western intelligence agents. The head of state added that they were organized through social networks, including from Ukraine.
Three more participants in the riots at the Makhachkala airport have been sentenced. This was reported on Wednesday, December 11, by the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office.
“During the examination of the case, it was established that on October 29, 2023, Temirlan Alyukov, Abdul Abdulayev, and Isa Iraziev at Uytash Airport, on the basis of national and religious hatred and enmity towards Israeli citizens, refusing to comply with the legal demands of law enforcement officers, took part in mass riots accompanied by violence and destruction of property,” the department said in a statement.
The defendants were sentenced to imprisonment for a term of eight years to eight years and two months in a general regime penal colony.
[IsraelTimes] Hasna A. traveled to Syria in 2015 and married Islamic State fighter, made Yazidi woman do household chores and take care of son, was arrested upon repatriation in 2022
A Dutch court Wednesday sentenced a woman to 10 years in prison for keeping a woman from the Yazidi minority as a slave after joining 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.... group in Syria.
The court in The Hague convicted the 33-year-old from Hengelo in eastern Netherlands, identified as Hasna A, for "enslavement, membership of a terrorist organization, promoting terrorist crimes, and endangering her young son."
She traveled to Syria in 2015 with her son, aged four at the time, the court said. She married an IS fighter and had children with him.
Between May to October 2015, she lived with another IS fighter, who kept a Yazidi woman as a slave.
Hasna A. made the Yazidi woman do household chores for her and look after her son, the court ruled.
In 2014, Islamic State swept across swathes of Iraq, carrying out horrific violence against the Kurdish-speaking Yazidis, whose non-Moslem faith the holy warriors considered heretical. The jihadists massacred thousands of men and kidnapped thousands of women and girls as sex slaves.
Hasna A enslaved the Yazidi woman knowing that her actions contributed to the "widespread and systematic attack on the Yazidi community," the court said.
"The court holds this against the suspect very seriously. Crimes against humanity such as these are among the most serious international crimes there are," judges said.
According to public broadcaster NOS, Hasna A was repatriated in November 2022 to the Netherlands from a Syrian prison camp with 11 other Dutch women and their 28 children.
The women were arrested upon arrival in the Netherlands.
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How much of this shit can the Germans take and what will they do when they've had enough? Sooner or later they will react and I'm betting it will be bad.
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I would also argue that it would be better if the government took some positive steps in the right direction now instead of waiting until it becomes another holocaust.
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Can I join in on the chant? I'm a foreigner
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a mostly foreign crowd chants, 'F*ck you, Germany.'
Well, if that's the attitude, there must be some surplus North Sea Ferries which could be remote piloted and assist them to New Syria.
[IsraelTimes] The UN’s Human Rights Office issues a statement condemning the Paleostinian Authority after its security forces rubbed out a 19-year-old in the northern West Bank’s Jenin Refugee Camp earlier this week.
The PA says it has been operating against terror groups in Jenin for the past week and initially sought to distance itself from the incident before footage of the shooting was posted on social media, showing PA troops opening fire at the apparently unarmed Rebhi Shalabi, killing him and injuring his 15-year-old cousin.
The incident sparked renewed protests against the PA in Jenin.
The Paleostinian branch of the UN’s Human Rights Office issues a statement calling on the PA to investigate the conduct of its security forces and hold those responsible for rights violations accountable.
The UN office says the PA’s ongoing operations in the Jenin camp have "disrupted access to education and healthcare," highlighting the security forces’ takeover of a hospital in the northern West Bank city.
The UN statement makes no mention of the activity in the northern West Bank by various terror groups that the PA has been trying to combat at Israel’s behest in order to restore security and stability to the area.
[IsraelTimes] The Israel Defense Forces confirms that a drone launched from Yemen was intercepted over the Red Sea, near Israel’s southernmost city of Eilat.
The drone did not enter Israeli airspace, the military adds.
Separately, the IDF says suspected drone infiltration sirens in southern Israel this morning were apparently false alarms.
According to the military, the alerts were activated based on the projected path of a suspected drone. But the military adds that it may have been a “false identification,” meaning not a threat.
There are no reports of injuries or damage in the incident, which the IDF says is over.
Earlier today, another drone from Yemen was shot down over southern Israel, near the border with Egypt.
[IsraelTimes] Nearby Jerusalem hospital declares death of 10-year-old after he’s critically hurt in attack; other 3 victims treated for moderate and light wounds; IDF scouring area for gunman
A young boy was fatally shot and several people maimed in a terror attack targeting a Jerusalem-bound bus in the West Bank late Wednesday night.
The 10-year-old child was brought at death's door to Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem in nearby Jerusalem, where doctors declared his death early Thursday following intensive efforts to save him. He was later named as Yehoshua Aharon Tuvia Simha of the Beitar Illit settlement — where the bus had departed from.
Three others were hurt in the shooting: a woman who suffered moderate wounds and two other people who were lightly hurt.
The bus was shot up by the gunman at a junction by the Paleostinian town of al-Khader, the Israel Defense Forces said, before proceeding with the maimed to the Tunnels Checkpoint.
The terrorist remains on the lam. The IDF announced troops were setting up roadblocks while encircling Bethlehem as part of the manhunt.
A video clip filmed shortly after the shooting showed passengers fleeing the bus after it arrived at the checkpoint, as security forces there rushed toward the vehicle amid the sound of gunfire. It was not clear from the footage where all the shots emanated from.
The attack came after three Israelis were lightly injured by gunfire the previous night while visiting Joseph’s Tomb in the Paleostinian city of Nablus without coordinating with the military, and also followed a car-ramming attack in the southern West Bank over the weekend in which a soldier was seriously maimed.
Violence has risen sharply in the West Bank since 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... war started on October 7, 2023, when thousands of Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... -led Death Eaters stormed southern Israel to kill some 1,200 people and take 251 hostages.
Since then, 42 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 operatives in the West Bank amid a major counterterrorism offensive that has been accompanied by sharp restrictions on Paleostinian movement.
Israeli troops have arrested some 5,250 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank as part of the post-October 7 military operations, including more than 2,050 affiliated with Hamas.
According to the Paleostinian Authority health ministry, some 800 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed in the same span of time. The IDF says the vast majority of them were button men killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops or Death Eaters carrying out attacks.
[IsraelTimes] Two missiles intercepted, rest fall in open areas; IDF issues evacuation orders for launch site areas; Hamas authorities say dozens killed in Israeli strikes
Four rockets were fired from 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 at Israel on Wednesday, causing no damage and prompting the military to issue evacuation orders to Gazooks in the area from which they were launched.
Pairs of rockets from Gaza were fired in two volleys, the first pair hitting open areas and the second intercepted by air defense systems, the Israel Defense Forces said.
After 14 months of war that began when Paleostinian terror group Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... led a massive attack on southern Israel — which included a barrage of thousands of rockets at many other areas of the country — rocket fire from Gaza has become a rarity. Airstrikes and IDF troops, operating on the ground in Gaza, have greatly depleted Hamas’s arsenal. The last rocket fired from the coastal enclave was over a week ago on December 2.
Following the rocket attack, the IDF issued evacuation orders for specific areas in the Maghazi refugee camp in Gaza. The IDF’s Arabic language account on social media platform X published details and a list of blocks to be evacuated.
It urged residents to head toward a humanitarian-designated zone near the Mediterranean coast.
"Terrorist organizations are once again firing rockets from your area," the post read. "This particular area has been warned several times before. For your own safety, you must evacuate this area immediately and move to the humanitarian zone."
The IDF has laid out a safe zone for non-combatants to stay in during the fighting.
Evacuation orders usually come before Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on the areas.
Meanwhile,
...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth had turned a paler shade of blue. Star-A-Star had struck again... Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip overnight and during the day killed at least 33 Paleostinians, most of them in an airstrike on a house in Beit Lahiya in the north of the enclave, according to medics in the Hamas-controlled Strip.
The Beit Lahiya strike killed at least 22 people, including women and kiddies, Hamas-run health officials said, without differentiating between fighters and non-combatants. Relatives listed the names of the dead on social media.
More than 30 people were living in the multi-story building before it was struck, and several family members remained missing as rescue operations continued through the morning, the Paleostinian WAFA news agency said.
The military said it was checking the report.
Israel has said it seeks to minimize civilian fatalities and stresses that Hamas uses Gaza’s civilians as human shields, fighting from civilian areas including homes, hospitals, schools and mosques.
In nearby Beit Hanoun, where the IDF has operated since October, medics said an Israeli airstrike killed and maimed several people, without giving an exact toll. Rescue workers said several people were trapped under rubble.
Earlier on Wednesday, at least seven Paleostinians were killed and several others maimed in an Israeli airstrike on a house in the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza, medics told Rooters.
The Paleostinian Civil Emergency Service and medics said four other people were killed in separate Israeli airstrikes on two houses in Gaza City.
Israeli forces have been operating in Beit Hanoun, Beit Lahiya and the nearby Jabalia refugee camp since October 5, fighting Hamas members waging attacks from those areas and preventing them from regrouping the Israeli military says.
Earlier this week, three Israeli soldiers were killed in a Hamas attack in Jabalia. The next day the IDF said an airstrike killed 10 Hamas members involved in the attack.
Paleostinian officials and residents accuse Israel of depopulating the areas on the northern edge of the enclave to create a buffer zone, something Israel denies.
The war began on October 7, 2023, when Hamas led a devastating cross-border attack on Israel that killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians. The thousands of forces of Evil who burst into the country also kidnapped 251 people who were taken as hostages.
The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza said Wednesday that at least 44,805 people have been killed in the fighting, though the toll cannot be verified and does not differentiate between civilians and fighters.
Some 1.9 million Paleostinians of the 2.3 million Gazook population are residing in the Israeli-designated "humanitarian zone," according to IDF assessments in July.
The zone is located in the al-Mawasi area on the southern Strip’s coast, western neighborhoods of Khan Younis, and central Gaza’s Deir al-Balah.
The size of the zone has changed multiple times, amid evolving IDF operations against the Hamas terror group. As of late August, the zone is just over 46 square kilometers (17.7 square miles), or nearly 13% of the total size of the Gaza Strip.
[IsraelTimes] Change enters effect Wednesday evening, with most restrictions already gone, as the truce with Hezbollah broadly holding; IDF statement does not mention developments in Syria
The IDF Home Front Command lifted restrictions in the northern Golan Heights Wednesday evening, following a security assessment.
The permitted activity level in the area was increased from partial to full.
The decision — which came into effect at 6 p.m. — came several weeks into a shaky ceasefire with the Hezbollah terror group in 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... , and was a relatively minor change, with most activity already permitted.
Restrictions in the area were first eased following the start of the ceasefire, which came into effect in late November.
The truce has broadly held, though Israel has targeted some Hezbollah operatives and sites, asserting its right to respond to violations by the terror group.
Hezbollah began firing into Israel one day after Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... ’s October 7, 2023, onslaught in southern Israel, in support of its fellow Iran-backed terror group, drawing Israeli reprisals and leading to the displacement of some 60,000 residents of northern Israel.
Fighting intensified in late September, with Israel killing much of Hezbollah’s leadership and launching a limited ground incursion on October 1.
According to the ceasefire, Israeli forces are set to withdraw from southern Lebanon, granting control to the Lebanese military, with American oversight, as Hezbollah leaves southern Lebanon as well.
The adjustment of guidelines Wednesday also came amid ongoing Israeli military operations in neighboring Syria, following the sudden fall of the Bashir al-Assad regime there on Sunday, but the announcement did not make mention of those developments.
Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s have destroyed most of the deposed regime’s strategic assets, Israel said, and troops have seized temporary control of a buffer zone along the countries’ border.
[IsraelTimes] IDF troops captured several Syrian tanks during operations in southern Syria in recent days, the military says.
Four IDF brigade-level task forces under the 210th Bashan Regional Division are currently operating inside Syria, in the buffer zone between the countries and some cases slightly east of it.
The 474th Golan Regional Brigade captured the tanks during their scans of the buffer zone area. According to the IDF, the tanks were not in recent use.
Meanwhile, the IDF says the 810th “Mountains” Regional Brigade completed an operation on the Syrian side of Mount Hermon, during which the troops located and seized a cache of weapons at a former Syrian army post.
The final two brigades, the Paratroopers and Commando are carrying out defensive operations in the buffer zone area, the military adds.
[IsraelTimes] Lebanese army says it’s deploying in town in coordination with UNIFIL following Israeli exit; 5 reported killed in Israeli drone strikes in country’s south
The IDF on Wednesday confirmed that it had withdrawn its troops from the town of Khiam in southern 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... in accordance with the ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah.
The Israeli military said it still remains deployed in other areas of southern Lebanon, and will continue to operate against any threats.
The Lebanese army said earlier in the day that it began to deploy troops to Khiam following the IDF withdrawal, in coordination with UNIFIL. It also warned Lebanese civilians not to approach the area as it conducts scans of the town for unwent kaboom! ordnances.
The IDF has until late January to withdraw from all areas of southern Lebanon under the ceasefire deal.
The ceasefire deal came into effect on November 27. Both sides have accused the other of repeated violations. Under the terms of the agreement, the Lebanese army is to deploy in the south alongside UN peacekeepers as the Israeli army withdraws over a period of 60 days.
Hezbollah is required to withdraw its forces north of the Litani river, about 30 kilometers (20 miles) from the border, and dismantle its military infrastructure in the south.
The Lebanese army said "units deployed in five positions around the town of Khiam" in coordination with UN peacekeepers and "within the framework of the first phase of deployment in the area, at the same time as the Israeli enemy withdrawal."
"The deployment will be completed in the next phase, while specialized units" will survey the town to "remove unwent kaboom! ordnance," it added.
US Central Command, known by its initials CENTCOM, later announced that the top American military officer in the Middle East visited Beirut on Wednesday to monitor the withdrawal.
Army General Michael Kurilla, CENTCOM’s commander, visited the monitoring headquarters in Beirut for the ceasefire and met with the commander of Lebanon’s armed forces, General Joseph Aoun, CENTCOM said in a post on X.
Kurilla was there to monitor "the ongoing first Israeli Defense Forces withdrawal and Lebanese Armed Forces replacement in Al Khiam, Lebanon, as part of the agreement," CENTCOM said.
"This is an important first step in the implementation of a lasting cessation of hostilities and lays the foundation for continued progress," Kurilla said.
Earlier Wednesday, UN peacekeepers entered Khiam "to inspect the road and verify the Israeli enemy army’s withdrawal," Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said.
The NNA said the peacekeepers found the body of a man "in the vicinity of his house" in the border town.
The news agency reported that ambassadors from the United States, La Belle France, Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat Frational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start... , 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... and Egypt held a meeting Wednesday with parliament speaker Nabih Knobby Berri
...perennial Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, head of the Amal Shiite party aligned with Hezbollah, a not very subtle sock puppet of the Medes and Persians... , a Hezbollah ally who has scheduled a parliament session in January for politicians to elect a president.
Crisis-hit Lebanon has been without a head of state for more than two years amid deadlock between pro- and anti-Hezbollah blocs in parliament.
Envoys from the five countries who met with Berri have been working for months to facilitate the process.
Meanwhile,
...back at the cheese factory, there was only one thought in the mouse's mind: I can do this! I can do this! Then the trap sprung... Lebanon’s health ministry said Israeli strikes killed five people in the south on Wednesday. There was no comment from the IDF, which has said it will respond forcefully to any Hezbollah violations of the truce.
"An Israeli enemy dronezap on the town of Ainata killed one person and maimed another," the health ministry said. An "Israeli strike on the town of Bint Jbeil killed three people," while a third "on Beit Lif killed one person," it added.
Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati visited Madrid on Wednesday, meeting with his Spanish counterpart and discussing the terms of the ceasefire deal.
The priority is for this agreement to become a "permanent ceasefire" and "pave the way for the full application" of United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... Security Council Resolution 1701, which stipulates that southern Lebanon must be free of arms that do not belong to the Lebanese state, a Spanish government statement read.
Adopted in August 2006, the resolution was key to ending the month-long war between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006 and paving the way for long-term stability along the border.
"We confirm Lebanon’s commitment" to this resolution, Mikati wrote on social network X, stressing the need for Israel to "respect the ceasefire decision and withdraw from the cities of southern Lebanon."
[IsraelTimes] Pentagon welcomes remarks by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham leader, but stresses ‘actions have to meet words as well’; US defense chief urges ‘close consultation’ with Israel on Syria
Syrian rebel leader Ahmad al-Sharaa, better known as Abu Mohammed al-Golani, told Rooters Wednesday that the jihadist group he leads, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... (HTS), is working with international organizations to secure possible sites where chemical weapons
...have not been used since WWI except for in Iraq, by the late, unlamented Saddam Hussein and in Syria, but really, honest, not by the Syrian government. And in Germany in WWII, but that was against civilians. Lots of them, just one of many reasons Hitler's also late and unlamented... may be located.
Whatever’s left after the IDF finally finishes ongoing bombing runs, anyway
HTS, which is rooted in al-Qaeda’s Syria branch but has in recent years sought to moderate its image, had already said that it will not use those weapons under any circumstances.
Shaara said in a written statement shared exclusively with Rooters by his office that the group is now working to "dissolve the security forces of the previous regime and close the notorious prison," where the government of toppled dictator Bashir al-Assad is estimated to have held tens of thousands of detainees.
He reiterated that he will form a government of technocrats. The current transitional government is set to rule until March 2025, according to a statement by his group.
The Pentagon, in response, said the US welcomes his comments about securing potential chemical weapons sites, but cautioned that "actions have to meet words as well."
Golani’s comments came as Israel has carried out massive strikes targeting the Assad regime’s military assets, including chemical weapons sites, amid fears that former Syrian army weaponry could fall into the hands of hostile forces in the country, as well as the Iran-backed Hezbollah in 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... A monitor of the Syrian civil war reported fresh Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on Wednesday that targeted Assad-linked sites in the coastal provinces of Latakia and Tartus.
"Israeli warplanes launched air strikes" targeting "military sites" including "the Latakia port" as well as warehouses in neighboring Tartus province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, adding that "Israeli warplanes continue to destroy what remains of Syria’s military arsenal for the fourth consecutive day since the fall of the former regime."
Good job, Israel!
Meanwhile,
...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck slipped the habañero into the roasted jalapeño... US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told Israeli counterpart Israel Katz during a phone call Wednesday that it was important for the United States and Israel to be in close consultation over events unfolding in Syria, the Pentagon said.
Uh huh. Sure.
Austin told Katz that Washington was monitoring developments in Syria and that it backed a peaceful, inclusive political transition, according to the Pentagon. He added that the US would continue its mission to prevent 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.... murderous Moslem group from reestablishing a safe haven in Syria.
"Secretary Austin emphasized the importance of close consultation between the United States and Israel on events in Syria," the Pentagon said.
The Pentagon also said that Austin discussed with Katz attempts to secure Israeli hostages 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... and urged Israel to improve the humanitarian situation in the Paleostinian enclave where Israel’s military is fighting against Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... , whose terror attack on October 7, 2023, sparked the ongoing war.
Clash Report EXCLUSIVE in Syria: Russian forces attempted to destroy the Rastan Bridge to halt revolutionary advances, but failed.
This failure proved costly for the Assad regime, as revolutionaries used the bridge to press forward, ultimately toppling the regime. pic.twitter.com/VGCctAn1be
It’ll definitely add to the peacetime ambiance when the local rats, followed rapidly by the local cats, are running around unstoppably on speed…
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the local rats, followed rapidly by the local cats, are running around unstoppably on speed…
We've seen this movie. It starts with the rats and quickly spreads its way up the food chain. First the cats, then the Haitians. That's when the cannibalism starts.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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.
...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 
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat Frational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
