The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have attacked the main still-functioning hospital in al-Fashir, in #Sudan’s North Darfur state, killing nine people and injuring 20, according to a local health official and activists.https://t.co/X4Sur5bmZf
[TELEGRAFI] On Friday morning, Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... fighters entered the village of Pambula in Kwamdi, Nigeria, and machetes killed dozens of people.
Members of Boko Haram on Friday morning entered the village of Pambula Kwamdi in northeastern Nigeria and killed dozens of people with machetes.
The Adamawa County Chairman on Monday in a statement to AFP informed the public about this crime.
"The attackers entered the village without warning while the inhabitants were sleeping and killed them with a machete", Ularamu said.
The details of this crime managed to become public only a few days later because the jihadists destroyed all mobile phone operators.
The Boko Haram attack took place in the Nigerian state for which the government earlier announced that it had been freed from members of this terrorist organization.
It is suspected that the jihadists have taken advantage of the fact that the Nigerian army is concentrated in Borno State, where Boko Haram is based.
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[PJMedia] One thing you can say about Jack Molloy: he loves his mom. Molloy, a Pittsburgh resident who is now facing up to eight years in prison on terror-related charges, told his mother about his "master plan," and now that plan is part of the reason why he has come to the attention of the feds. Mama Molloy wrote to her boy: "Your master plan was to join Hezbollah and kill Jews?" The earnest young man answered: "Yes." It is not an extraneous detail that Jack Danaher Molloy converted to Islam in Feb. 2024.
It's easy to see what attracted Molloy to The Religion of Peace. JNS reported Tuesday that the mama’s boy, "who is a former active duty member of the U.S. military and who converted to Islam in or around February 2024, used an email address on his PayPal that included the phrase ’glassofjuice88.’" The Justice Department explained that "’glassofjuice’ is a homophone for ’gas the Jews,’ and the number ’88’ is a reference to a white supremacist numerical code for ’Heil Hitler ...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days, sometimes every few hour if it's an election year, as a politician somebody doesn't like... .’ ’H’ is the eighth letter of the alphabet, so 88 = ’HH’ = ’Heil Hitler.’"
Hating Jews and killing them seemed to be central to Molloy’s worldview. "I have a very fierce hatred of these Zionists," he said, "and I need to fight." Killing Jews was a longstanding obsession of his: "I have thought about this every moment of every day since I was 18, for 7 years now."
Molloy also "supported and idolized violence and wanted to kill Jews, as evidenced by multiple images and videos on his electronic devices and the names he chose as his monikers for his social media and email accounts." Those accounts "included variations of the phrase ’k*ke killer’ and ’gas the Jews.’"
After he converted to Islam, Molloy gave the impression that his Jew hatred was all in the family. "I grew up in a military family, so my mind is always obsessed with military," he explained, adding that "to me, I am continuing the fight my great grandmother fought against the Zionists, but now Islamically."
His great-grandmother fought against the Zionists? Molloy, a dual citizen of Ireland and the United States, is 24 years old. Was his great-grandmother among the small number of Irish citizens who fought alongside the National Socialist Germans during World War II?
In any case, in his attempt to follow in her footsteps "Islamically," Molloy made his way to 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 August and then to Syria in October. On both occasions, he was trying to join Hezbollah, but the trips didn’t work out as he had hoped. The DoJ’s complaint says that the earnest new convert "was told by multiple individuals that the time was not right and that he needed to take other steps before he could join the foreign terrorist organization."
Molloy himself explained on Snapchat that he had attended a Hezbollah funeral in Lebanon in September and said that "the gate guards even though they were different ones from last week, knew of me, they knew that I’m Irish, that I’m Shia, and somehow they knew that I want in with Hezbollah. They were entertaining the idea of me being Hezb. I fully expect to be taken off the streets at any moment for questioning and vetting.’"
Yet "an unnamed person" responded to Molloy: "You’re going to have to wait, because I think it’s going to take more than a couple of months, and things are not very safe. There are a lot of divisions you can apply for, but right now they are not recruiting, they’re not accepting anyone and due to the high number of Mossad agents, and moles, appearing inside sadly, so it’s gonna take a while. For sure, you can, but it’s gonna take a while especially after the circumstances are over."
Molloy also told his mom about what he planned to do, and she doesn’t seem to have offered any objection to his desire to kill Jews. She did take issue with a new plan he hatched to go to Russia and fight against Ukraine, saying it would simply be "a one-year job." This idea, his doting mother said, demonstrated "unstable thinking." The young man told her, however, that the die was cast: "I’ve already spoken to recruitment."
Molloy didn’t make it to Russia. Nor did he join Hezbollah. In late October, according to the complaint, Molloy told feds at Pittsburgh International Airport that "he had no current or future plans to become involved with Hezbollah" and wasn’t planning to meet anyone in Syria. The DoJ explained: "These statements and representations were false because Molloy knew at that time that he did have current and future plans to become involved with Hezbollah." He had "traveled to Syria in furtherance of his attempts to join Hezbollah, and while in Syria, set up a meeting with an individual there." And so now he is looking at eight years of hard time.
[IsraelTimes] Paleostinian media reports that PA security forces killed a commander of 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 Jenin Brigade early this morning, sparking festivities in the West Bank city.
The Paleostinian Islamic Jihad commander is named in the reports as Yazid Jaysa, who is said to have been wanted by both the PA and Israel.
The PA says it has been operating against terror groups in Jenin for the past week to restore security and stability to the area.
The raids come amid high tensions in the West Bank after the PA arrested several terror operatives earlier this month, adding to already soaring violence in the area since Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... ’s October 7, 2023, massacre triggered the ongoing war.
🚨BREAKING: The Palestinian security forces have initiated a large-scale operation in the Jenin refugee camp, north of the West Bank, aiming to eliminate Hamas and Islamic Jihad armed militias.
Last week, these militias set fire to the Jenin Governmental Hospital and detonated a… pic.twitter.com/qG7f2yqzKR
[IsraelTimes] The military releases an overnight statement saying an Israeli aircraft struck a cell of operatives in Gaza while “on their way to carry out terror [attack] plans against our forces in the Strip and toward Israeli territory in the immediate future.”
An IDF statement says the targeted operatives were at a school in Gaza City when struck, adding that “many measures were taken to reduce the chance of harm” to non-combatants.
The statement also accuses Palestinian terror groups of violating international law by operating in civilian facilities and using civilian shields, without specifying which factions the targeted operatives belonged to.
[IsraelTimes] Fighting between Israel and terror operatives continued Friday in Gaza, where two rockets were launched in the evening at southern Israel.
The military said air defenses intercepted the two projectiles, which triggered sirens in Ashkelon and surrounding towns near the Gaza border.
There were no reports of injuries or damage.
Palestinian Islamic Jihad took responsibility for the rocket fire, which has become a relative rarity after the 14 months of war that were sparked by the devastating Hamas-led invasion of southern Israel on October 7, 2023, with IDF aerial and ground operations having greatly depleted the arsenals of Hamas and other Gaza-based terror factions.
Late Friday, the Israel Defense Forces issued an evacuation warning for Palestinians in the area of the launch site, south of Jabalia in northern Gaza.
“Terror organizations are once again firing rockets from this area, which has been warned several times in the past,” Col. Avichay Adraee, the IDF’s Arabic-language spokesman said, publishing a map of the zones that are to be evacuated.
Civilians in the area were called on to move to shelters in central Gaza City.
[IsraelTimes] Attack on Al Khiam also injured one, says Lebanese health ministry; troops find Hezbollah arms in scan of south Lebanon; Amnesty: 4 Israeli strikes in Lebanon could be war crimes
Lebanon accused Israel on Thursday of killing one person in an airstrike on the border village of Al Khiam, from which the Israel Defense Forces recently withdrew as part of the ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah.
The accusation came as the Israeli military said troops had located Hezbollah arms in southern Lebanon.
In a statement, Lebanon’s health ministry said that “the Israeli enemy strike on the town of Al Khiam killed one person and injured another.”
Israel had said earlier that it was targeting Hezbollah operatives violating the late November ceasefire agreement, which gives the IDF 60 days to withdraw from Lebanon.
On Wednesday, the IDF confirmed it had withdrawn from Al Khaim — the first border town Israel ceded since the ceasefire — and the Lebanese army said it had deployed there in coordination with the international peacekeeping force UNIFIL.
Meanwhile, the IDF said Friday that troops operating in southern Lebanon amid the ceasefire were still finding Hezbollah weaponry, with soldiers of the 769th “Hiram” Regional Brigade capturing anti-tank missiles, assault rifles, RPGs, mortars, and other weapons and equipment during a scan of the area.
The soldiers also located an anti-tank missile launch site previously used by Hezbollah to attack Israeli border towns, the military added.
AMNESTY ACCUSES IDF OF VIOLATING LAWS OF WAR IN LEBANON
If Israel does it, to a certain kind of mind it must be a prosecutable war crime.
Amnesty International, which has accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza, said Thursday that four Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon “must be investigated as war crimes.”
The strikes, carried out between September and October, were said to have killed at least 49 civilians. Amnesty said its report on the strikes was part of an ongoing investigation into violations of the laws of war in Lebanon.
[IsraelTimes] Military says strikes intended to allow aid convoy to reach civilians; IDF also orders evacuation of Gaza City neighborhood after Hamas launched rockets from there on Wednesday
The Israel Defense Forces said it carried out strikes on two groups of turbans trying to loot humanitarian aid 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... on Thursday morning. Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... officials said 13 people were killed in the strikes.
"All of the turbans who were eliminated were Hamas turbans who planned to violent mostly peacefully take control of humanitarian aid trucks and transfer them to the Hamas terrorist organization," the IDF said in a statement. "The strike was intended to allow the humanitarian aid to reach the residents of the Gaza Strip safely."
"We emphasize that the IDF did not attack humanitarian aid trucks and that the aid truck transit route remained open and active," the military said.
The statement said the Hamas members aimed to hijack the aid "in support of continuing terrorist activity."
The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza said that 13 Paleostinians were killed in the pair of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s. The 13 were among the 58 Paleostinians that the ministry reported were killed in Israeli strikes across the Strip on Thursday, a dozen of whom it described as guards securing aid trucks from reaching civilians. The Hamas figures cannot be verified and do not differentiate between terror operatives and civilians.
According to a report in Rooters, citing sources close to Hamas, "many of those killed" in the strikes had links to the terror group.
Also on Thursday, the IDF and Shin Bet announced that, earlier this week, an airstrike in Gaza eliminated a top commander in Hamas’s weapons manufacturing division. According to the military, the strike against a Hamas commander center embedded within the al-Hurriya school in Gaza City, killed the commander, Ammar Daloul, and several other operatives including one who participated in the October 7 onslaught.
Daloul served as a department head in Hamas’s manufacturing division and a company commander in the terror group’s Zeitoun Battalion, according to the IDF.
The military said the strike also killed Hamas turbans Jihad Yassin, a company commander in the Zeitoun Battalion; Yahya Masoud Muhammad Ashqar, who infiltrated Israeli territory and participated in the October 7 massacre; Kamal Saber Salim Arafat; Muhammad Akram Aaraj; Loay Farid Faiz Hussein Ali, a platoon commander; Imad Aouni Ibrahim Rayan; and Raed Samir Masoud Harazayn, a member of Hamas’s internal security forces.
Later on Thursday, the IDF issued an evacuation warning to several neighborhoods in Gaza City, following rocket fire from the area at Israeli troops operating in the Strip.
"Terror organizations are once again firing rockets from this area. The specified area has been warned several times in the past," Col. Avichay Adraee, the IDF’s Arabic-language front man said, publishing a map of the zones that are to be evacuated. Civilians in the area were called to move to shelters in the center of Gaza City.
Some 1.9 million Paleostinians of the 2.3 million Gazook population are residing in the Israeli-designated "humanitarian zone," according to IDF assessments. 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 percent of the total size of the Gaza Strip.
[IsraelTimes] IDF troops operating in southern Lebanon amid the ceasefire continue to find Hezbollah weaponry, the military says.
The IDF says soldiers of the 769th “Hiram” Regional Brigade captured anti-tank missiles, assault rifles, RPGs, mortars, and other weapons and equipment during scans of southern Lebanon.
The soldiers also located an anti-tank missile launch site previously used by Hezbollah to attack Israeli border towns, the military adds.
[IsraelTimes] Israel reportedly carried out more strikes on missile warehouses and airports in Syria near the capital Damascus overnight, according to Arab media reports.
Earlier this week, military sources said the Israeli Air Force had carried out over 300 airstrikes on Syrian military targets since the collapse of the Assad regime, amid a wave of operations to take out advanced weapons and other capabilities lest they fall into hostile hands.
The latest series of 17 strikes targeted Iranian-made strategic tunnel complexes believed to be designed for storing and launching ballistic missiles, according to Jordan-based al-Ghad TV.
🔴 Israeli Air-Force carried out 17 airstrikes in the Qalamoun region near Damascus, targeting missile warehouses and Nasiriyah Airport. Several strikes aimed to destroy Iranian-built strategic tunnel complexes, intended for storing and launching ballistic missiles in the future. pic.twitter.com/AUYWwJK2kV
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However, al-Julani added, the new regime will not hesitate to use force against those who attempt to prevent it from implementing Sharia Law. "The jihad is obligatory for this reason," he stressed.
So it'll continue to be just another Arab country deserving of shelling.
[IsraelTimes] In the early days of 2013, an American man, dressed in ragged clothing, dodged between houses in the streets of Damascus’ upscale Mazzeh neighborhood looking for a civilian to take him to safety after more than five months of captivity in the concrete cells of a local prison.
The man, journalist Austin Tice, was taken captive during a reporting trip to Syria in August 2012. A former Marine, he had managed to slip out of his cell, one current and three former US officials and a person with knowledge of the event told Reuters. All were granted anonymity to speak freely about sensitive US intelligence.
Tice is now the focus of a massive manhunt following the ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad this week after 13 years of civil war. Rebels, led by the militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, have since released thousands of people from prisons in Damascus where Assad held political opponents, ordinary civilians and foreigners.
The American has not yet been found. There are no credible hints of his whereabouts but also no clear evidence that he is dead, a US official said.
US officials say that Tice’s 2013 escape from prison, where he was believed to have been held by a pro-government militia, is the strongest evidence the US government has to suggest that forces loyal to Assad held Tice. This has over the years allowed American officials to pressure the Assad government directly about the matter.
Russia is preparing to evacuate its military bases in Syria.
Aircraft has been seen loading equipment at Khmeimim Air Base and according to the German Defense Ministry a Russian Mediterranean convoy has left the port of Tartus. pic.twitter.com/N9T6pH7UsY
[IsraelTimes] Islamist-led fighters vow to destroy the vast quantities of captagon, the lucrative trade in which helped keep the now-deposed strongman in power amid Syria’s civil war
The dramatic collapse of Bashir al-Assad’s Syrian regime has thrown light into the dark corners of his rule, including the industrial-scale export of the banned drug captagon.
Victorious Islamist-led fighters have seized military bases and distribution hubs for the amphetamine-type stimulant, which has flooded the black market across the Middle East.
Led by the 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) group, the rebels say they found a vast haul of drugs and vowed to destroy them.
On Wednesday, HTS fighters allowed AFP journalists into a warehouse at a quarry on the outskirts of Damascus, where captagon pills were concealed inside electrical components for export.
"After we entered and did a sweep, and we found that this is a factory for Maher al-Assad and his partner Amer Khiti," said black-masked fighter Abu Malek al-Shami.
HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES
Maher al-Assad was a military commander and the deposed strongman’s brother, now presumed on the run. He is widely accused of being the power behind the lucrative captagon trade.
Syrian politician Khiti was placed under sanction in 2023 by the British government, which said he "controls multiple businesses in Syria which facilitate the production and smuggling of drugs."
In a cavernous garage beneath the warehouse and loading bays, thousands of dusty beige captagon pills were packed into the copper coils of brand new household voltage stabilizers.
"We found a large number of devices that were stuffed with packages of captagon pills meant to be smuggled out of the country. It’s a huge quantity. It’s impossible to tell," Shami said.
Above, in the warehouse, crates of cardboard boxes stood ready to allow the traffickers to disguise their cargo as pallet-loads of standard goods, alongside sacks and sacks of caustic soda.
Caustic soda, or sodium hydroxide, is a key ingredient in the production of methamphetamine, another stimulant.
Assad fell at the weekend to a lightning HTS offensive, but the revenue from selling captagon propped up Assad’s government throughout Syria’s 13 years of civil war.
Captagon turned Syria into the world’s largest narco state. It became by far Syria’s biggest export, dwarfing all its legal exports put together, according to estimates drawn from official data by AFP during a 2022 investigation.
Experts — like the author of a July report from the Carnegie Middle East Center — also believe that Assad used the threat of drug-fueled unrest to put pressure on Arab governments.
Captagon fuelled an epidemic of drug abuse in wealthy Gulf states, even as Assad sought ways to end his diplomatic isolation among his peers, wrote Carnegie scholar Hesham Alghannam.
’HUGE AMOUNT, BROTHER’
Assad, he wrote, "leveraged captagon trafficking as a means of exerting pressure on the Gulf states, notably 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... , to reintegrate Syria into the Arab world," which it did in 2023 when it rejoined the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... bloc.
The caustic soda at the warehouse, in the Damascus suburbs, was supplied from Saudi Arabia, according to labelling on the sacks.
The warehouse haul was massive, but smaller and still impressive stashes of captagon have also turned up in military facilities associated with units under Maher Assad’s command.
Journalists from AFP this week found a bonfire of captagon pills on the grounds of the Mazzeh air base, now in the hands of HTS fighters who descended on the capital Damascus from the north.
Behind the smoldering heap, in a ransacked air force building, more captagon lay alongside other illicit exports, including off-brand Viagra impotence remedies and poorly-forged $100 bills.
"As we entered the area we found a huge quantity of captagon. So we destroyed it and burned it. It’s a huge amount, brother," said an HTS fighter using the nom de guerre "Khattab."
"We destroyed and burned it because it’s harmful to people. It harms nature and people and humans."
Khattab also stressed that HTS, which has formed a transitional government to replace the collapsed administration, does not want to harm its neighbors by exporting the drug — a trade worth billions of dollars.
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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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days, sometimes every few hour if it's an election year, as a politician somebody doesn't like...
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
...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...
