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Corsets were the rage then. The body conformed to area restrictions, and as I recall, there was less back trouble. Today, women snidely report that their spines were crushed. A ring or eyeglasses make the same indentations in different areas.
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Tight lacing to create a wasp waist was the mark of the fashionable leisure class female at the time. Working class women did not lace tightly, nor did the sporty female, as it definitely got in the way of aerobic exercise. Yes, corsets do support the back, and helped support the weight of fashionable gowns, but beyond shaping the torso they provided the bracing structure undergirding bosom support in the long centuries before the invention of the brassiere.
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[FoxNews] Two Americans from California are dead after being found shot in a pickup truck in Mexico, officials said.
Authorities located Gloria Ambriz, 50, and Rafael Cardona, 53, while responding to a report of a shooting in Angamacutiro in the western state of Michoacán on Wednesday night, according to Fox News affiliate, KTTV, citing the state attorney general's office.
The couple, who were on vacation visiting family, was traveling in a black 2016 Ford Platinum pickup truck when gunmen opened fire near an intersection.
Ambriz was pronounced dead on the scene, while Cardona succumbed to his injuries shortly after being transported to a hospital in Puruándiro, officials said.
Michoacán is listed as a "do not travel" spot in Mexico, according to the U.S. State Department.
Investigators have recovered ballistic evidence from the scene, which is being analyzed as part of the ongoing investigation.
The attorney general's office has assembled a team of prosecutors, police, and forensic experts to determine the motive and identify those responsible for the killings.
The unexpected deaths of the two Californian visitors add to safety concerns in Mexico.
Michoacán is listed as a "do not travel" spot in Mexico, according to the U.S. State Department.
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Or American citizens of Mexican descent who went back to visit family around the holidays and were in the wrong place at the wrong time/mistaken for someone else.
[GEO.TV] At least five migrants colonists drowned after their wooden boat capsized off Greece's southern island of Gavdos, the coastguard said on Saturday, and witnesses said many were still missing as search operations continued.
So far 39 men — most of them from Pakistain — have been rescued by cargo vessels sailing in the area. They have been transferred to the island of Crete, the coastguard said, adding that the number of those missing had not yet been confirmed.
Coastguard boats, merchant vessels, an Italian frigate and naval aircraft have been searching the area since Greek authorities were alerted about the incident on Friday night.
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[Regnum] Four people, including law enforcement officers, were killed in a shooting in the suburbs of Dunkirk, France. This was reported by the BFMTV channel.
"Four people were killed in a shooting in Longs-Plage, near Dunkirk, on Saturday, December 14," the TV channel reported.
According to preliminary information, two security agents and two migrants were killed in the shooting in different places. It is noted that a man who confessed to these murders surrendered to the police. In addition, the man confessed to another murder in the commune of Vormue.
Law enforcement agencies are currently conducting an investigation.
Not sure why Regnum conflated that report of a jihadi attack in France with this one in Israel, but anyway:
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on December 12, a 12-year-old child and three adults were injured in a terrorist attack with shooting at a passenger bus near Jerusalem. It was specified that the terrorist opened fire on a passenger bus on Highway 60 near Beit Jala. Medics and paramedics are working at the scene of the attack, the victims are being sent to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital
On October 6, a man attacked people in the Israeli city of Be'er Sheva in several places - near the central bus station and in a cafe. He shot at passers-by and stabbed them. As a result, nine people were injured. In addition, a 25-year-old woman died as a result of the shooting.
MSN’s report from Sky News adds context fortheFrench attack:Not sure why Regnum conflated that report of a jihadi attack in France with this one in Israel, but anyway
Shocked and bruised, a survivor of a shooting at a migrant camp near Dunkirk on Saturday has told Sky News how he saw his friends murdered by "the angel of death".
Two migrants and two security guards were shot dead by a 22-year-old French gunman at a migrant camp in Loon-Plage, with one other victim targeted in a nearby town, according to local media.
The two migrants had just returned from the coast after being rescued in the middle of the English Channel after a failed attempt to reach Britain.
Matin, a 25-year-old Kurdish migrant, said that "a guy came with a shotgun and showered us with bullets". Shotgun bullets? Tell us more!
When we asked if anything had provoked the attack, he said he did not know any reason. "The gunman came and, all of sudden, drew a shotgun.
"Initially, we thought he would fire in the air and then he loaded the gun and aimed at us. We saw Azrael [the Islamic Angel of Death].
"We saw death with our own eyes. It was God's will that we survived. In one day, we saw death twice."
The two men, named Hamid and Hadi, were walking along with their two friends, Rashad and Matin. All four, aged around 25, were Kurds who had spent around a month living in camps near the northern French coast.
Sky News spoke to Matin by telephone after he gave evidence to the French police, describing a green car used by the killer, who he described as a white French man wearing glasses.
"He fired around 15 bullets; Hamid was hit in the head and Hadi was also hit. Rashad was shot at twice, but he wasn't hit. We managed to hide."
Matin said the four men had previously spent eight hours at sea trying to get to Britain on a dinghy that was palpably unsuitable. The boat set off with 85 people on board before, he said, the police took 50 people off.
"We reached international waters," said Matin, "then our dinghy fell apart and we almost drowned. After five minutes in the water, thank God the police reached us - we had no life jackets.
"They pulled us out of the water, we were soaking wet. We got back to the land and went to collect clothes [from a charity] as our clothes were wet. We were dying of cold.
"We were close to the camp when this man turns up and gets out of the car. He fired at us. Me and Rashad were not hit. Hamid was hit in the head and Hadi in his stomach.
"I have to talk to their families, but I don't know what to say. Hamid had sold his house to get to Europe. Me, I feel hollow inside now.
"I have seen death twice in a day and it's too much. I don't know what to do."
An incomplete list of things I came across while looking for other things. Two weeks worth, because I was distracted by the HTS blitzkrieg conquest of Syria, now apparently settling down to the usual Middle Eastern caliphate.
UCLA student files petition against Cultural Affairs Commissioner who allegedly warned against hiring 'zionists'
A student at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has filed a petition against a student government official for discrimination against Jews in hiring.
'PSA ... lots of zionists are applying — please do your research when you look at applicants and I will also share a doc of no hire list during retreat,' the petition alleges that the official wrote.
New ADL study exposes SYSTEMIC job discrimination against Jewish applicants, students
The study found that on average, Israeli-Americans must complete 39 percent more job applications than Western Europeans in order to receive an equal number of responses.
ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt stated that ‘this is groundbreaking evidence of serious antisemitic discrimination in the labor market.’
Menachem Rosensaft, a pro-Israel law professor at Cornell University, condemned the school’s course on Gaza for its “inflamingly biased pseudo-scholarship” in an op-ed Wednesday.
The op-ed follows similar criticism from the university president, who faced backlash from a faculty committee accusing him of violating academic freedom in response.
“My principal objection to this course is not that it has a decidedly and unabashedly pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel bent,” Rosensaft wrote in The Cornell Daily Sun.
“What I find most problematic and unacceptable about it is that it is firmly rooted in shoddy, selectively and inflamingly biased pseudo-scholarship,” he wrote.
Rosensaft stated that when he first learned of Professor Eric Cheyfitz’s course, titled “Gaza, Indigeneity, Resistance,” he told Interim President Mike Kotlikoff that it would “promote and inflame political divisiveness at Cornell and encourage antisemitic manifestations against Israeli and Jewish students.”
Cornell University’s Jewish interim president is facing growing blowback from higher education groups over emails published by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency last month, in which he raised objections to an upcoming class on Gaza.
Michael Kotlikoff’s remarks, which JTA reported on November 11, were a violation of academic freedom, say representatives of the American Association of University Professors and the Middle East Studies Association. The episode is the latest instance of campus scrutiny over Israel shifting from protests to the classroom, more than a year removed from the October 7, 2023, Hamas onslaught that launched the war in Gaza.
In the email, Kotlikoff expressed his objections to a new course entitled “Gaza, Indigeneity, Resistance,” scheduled to be taught next term by Jewish professor Eric Cheyfitz, a pro-Palestinian activist who teaches in the school’s American Indian and Indigenous Studies program. Writing to a different Jewish professor, Kotlikoff said he was “extremely disappointed” with “the course’s apparent lack of openness and objectivity,” and promised to work with other departments to offer alternative courses on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The email, which Kotlikoff says was never meant to be publicized, has prompted anger over the past week as the story gained traction in the Cornell Daily Sun, the student newspaper.
While the Ivy League institution denounced the publication, the hate-fueled group Students for Justice in Palestine openly handed out its inaugural edition of “The Columbia Intifada.”
The group printed 1,000 copies of the rag, which contains about a half-dozen articles with titles including “Zionist Peace Means Palestinian Blood,” “The Myth of the Two-State Solution” and a handy “Guide to Wheatpasting” — a method of vandalizing public surfaces with propaganda fliers or other messaging.
Allowing such a publication to take root on campus is “outrageous,” said New York Congressman Mike Lawler, who represents voters in Rockland, Westchester, Putnam and Dutchess counties.
“If Columbia cannot protect Jewish students on their campus, they should lose federal funding and have their tax-exempt status revoked,” the rep wrote in a post on X.
“And for those students here on a visa engaged in an “intifada” against American students of the Jewish faith? Deport them,” he raged.
Columbia itself denounced the newspaper’s publication, including its unauthorized association with the school by name. The university suspended the group last November for repeatedly violating school policies, including with its “threatening rhetoric and intimidation.”
“Using the Columbia name for a publication that glorifies violence and makes individuals in our community feel targeted in any way is a breach of our values,” a school representative said in a statement to The Post on Friday.
Columbia’s anti-Israel student alliance booted from Instagram
[IsraelTimes] Columbia University Apartheid Divest removed from social media platform after post calling Barnard College trustees ‘enemies,’ ‘murderers,’ and ‘violently genocidal zionists’
“Academic freedom and free speech are not the exact same thing.…Academic freedom is about classroom teaching and research. You can’t propagandize in class, or you shouldn’t. There’s a power imbalance.”
“Protest is constant at Columbia, but the level of protest we were seeing last year was by far the highest I’ve ever seen in my 21 years at Columbia. Most of the causes that sweep through the university are on the left, and this one is too. But in most cases, these stakeholder groups that I mentioned are pretty much on the same side of the issue — everybody’s against climate change or supported the post-George Floyd wave and things like that. In the case of [the Israel-Palestinian conflict], significant stakeholders or subgroups within the stakeholder groups 100% passionately disagree about the question at hand. That’s uncharacteristic of most of these university protest waves.”
“This is the third time that I — and now my family — have been the target of these [Ku Klux] Klan-like tactics,” Acker writes on Facebook.
Acker has become a primary target of pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel student activists at the University of Michigan who have sought unsuccessfully to convince their school to cut all ties with Israel. Earlier this year, Acker’s law firm was targeted by anti-Israel vandals. Police have yet to make an arrest in that case.
Jewish Columbia student Jonathan Lederer, 22, says he and his twin brother went to the anti-Israel protest on 116th and Broadway on Monday to document the event and “show our voice.” They stayed across the street from the anti-Israel demonstrators and were wearing Israeli flags and kippahs.
A group of around five protesters wearing keffiyehs harassed the pair, calling them “Nazis” and saying “You like killing babies,” says Lederer, a junior studying computer science. One of the demonstrators tore a flag from Lederer’s hands. Lederer sought to retrieve the flag, at which point one of the protesters punched Lederer in the right side of his face, causing pain but no significant injuries.
The NYPD tells The Times of Israel that the police’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating the incident and releases a photo of the suspect.
Lederer caught the incident on video, although his camera was pointed away from the assailant when he threw the punch. The attacker was wearing a mask at the time, but had exposed his face earlier in the event.
It’s unclear if the alleged assailant was a student. The demonstration was organized by student organizations and led by Within Our Lifetime, a hardline activist group in the city that has worked with Columbia student protesters. Posts announcing the protest included violent imagery and prompted school officials to tighten security at Barnard, Columbia’s women’s college.
Lederer says university officials including a top dean have reached out to him, but calls on the school to take more action against the student groups. Lederer says he was also assaulted at a protest on campus in April.
Columbia University Apartheid Divest, a coalition of dozens of student groups, was suspended after posting plans for a protest targeting university trustees that included an image of a figure holding a Molotov cocktail.
That protest targeted Barnard College, the women’s college associated with Columbia. Barnard condemned “inflammatory posts with violent imagery” and stepped up security measures on campus in response.
Meta, Instagram’s parent company, did not respond to a request for comment on the suspension at the time.
Instagram is the student group’s main platform for organizing and advertising its events. The account has more than 47,000 followers.
A Columbia spokeswoman told the Free Beacon that "promoting violence" is "antithetical to our values."
"As we have said repeatedly, promoting violence or those who support violence and harm is antithetical to our values. We remain committed to our core mission of teaching, creating and advancing knowledge," the spokeswoman said.
When George Mason University suspended the campus Students for Justice in Palestine group, and subsequently assisted in a police raid of its leaders’ home, it violated students’ free speech rights and targeted them for “activism,” according to supporters.
But in reality, it appears to have stemmed from concerns about items at the home of two sister leaders of the group.
Jena and Noor Chanaa had their family home raided by the FBI following allegations they were responsible for pro-Palestinian vandalism on campus in late August. Both sisters have been given four-year suspensions from campus. (The featured image is not necessarily one of the two students but is from the GMU Coalition for Palestine Instagram page).
The Washington Free Beacon reported more on the November raid on Monday. The Free Beacon reported, based on a review of documents and interviews, that the police “found firearms—modern weapons, not antiques—as well as scores of ammunition and foreign passports.”
It reported further:
They also found pro-terror materials, including Hamas and Hezbollah flags and signs that read “death to America” and “death to Jews,” according to court documents and sources familiar.
Police seized the weapons under Virginia’s red flag law, arguing that Mohammad Chanaa, the students’ brother and a George Mason alumnus, was “linked to destruction of property in connection with a large group of people with like-minded rhetoric” and posed a danger to others given his possession of “terroristic” materials.
The exact details are available for perusal at the link. We care about the externalities here.
[IsraelTimes] At weekly rally, hostage’s mom vows to be PM’s ‘worst nightmare’ if son not returned. As optimism rises on possibility of Gaza deal, report says Netanyahu most determined to reach agreement since November 2023 release, but gaps remain between sides
Thousands of protesters rallied in Tel Aviv and other locations Saturday night against the government and for a 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... hostage release deal, as several news reports cited progress toward a potential deal, and as a television network said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was the most determined he had been in over a year to reach an agreement to free remaining captives.
They used to get 200,000-500,000. This is just the irreducible remnant, paid cadres and unpaid enthusiasts, for whom protesting is their weekly scheduled activity.
Some 2,000 people rallied outside the Israel Defense Forces headquarters on Tel Aviv’s Begin Road, as the Hostages and Missing Families Families Forum held its more staid weekly rally a block away at so-called Hostages Square. Both were preceded by an anti-government group rally at the Begin-Kaplan Junction, known by activists as Democracy Square.
The first phase of any deal would likely see the release of only some of the hostages — those defined as humanitarian cases including women, children, sick and older people — as Israel agrees to halt its campaign in Gaza for a limited time. Young men like Zangauker would only be up for release at a later stage, if the sides move toward a more permanent ceasefire.
Saturday’s Channel 12 report said a key dispute between sides in the negotiations was the number of hostages to be freed in a first phase, with Israel determined to release as many as possible.
The disagreement being that Hamas does not want to give up their hostage-human shields. Despite claims to the contrary, they have not yet revealed who among the hostages is living, and who has died or been killed. Possibly — given that at least some of the hostages were handed out like war booty to those not Hamas — they don’t actually know in many cases who is holding them and what their status is. When was the last time we heard about mothers and babies among the hostages?
Although Israel has reportedly agreed to a temporary withdrawal from the Philadelphi Corridor along the Egypt-Gaza border, Jerusalem did not confirm or deny the change in position to Channel 12. Netanyahu previously asserted troops must remain in the area to prevent Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... from smuggling in weapons to rearm, while Hamas has demanded a full withdrawal of Israeli soldiers from the Strip. Security officials have argued Israel could withdraw and retake the corridor at a later time if necessary.
Channel 12 also said mediators were pressing Israel to agree to an all-encompassing deal that would bring the war to an end, rather than a phased agreement.
Ahead of the Saturday night rallies, the brother of hostage Itzik Elgarat urged US President-elect Donald Trump ...So far he's been unkillable, and they've tried.... to press Netanyahu to agree to a deal.
"We believe in your strength to quickly bring about a deal. Don’t let up on Netanyahu, demand a comprehensive deal from him that will return everyone and end the war," Danny Elgarat said alongside other hostage families during their weekly press appearance outside the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv.
The US President-elect’s special envoy for hostage affairs Adam Boehler is set to visit Israel next week for the first time since he was chosen for the role, an Israeli official told the Axios news site Saturday.
Down the road, hundreds of people attended the Hostage Families Forum’s weekly rally at Hostages Square.
The Forum has said any deal needs to bring back all the hostages at once instead of a phased deal that only releases some.
Ahead of that protest, some 1,000 anti-government protesters crammed into the Begin-Kaplan Junction, also known as Democracy Square. Stages were set up there, with speakers perorating against the government in tandem, each with their own take on how it was threatening democracy.
On one stage, set up by a group registering volunteers to engage in non-violent mostly peaceful civil disobedience against the government, a speaker said those signing up would be instructed at a moment’s notice on a location where they were to sit and disrupt traffic, possibly for days on end. He estimated that would come if the government ousts Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara or Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar.
A growing number of coalition politicians and cabinet ministers have called for Baharav-Miara’s ouster due to frustration with her refusal to defend various controversial and unprecedented measures the government seeks to advance, but which she has determined would be against the law.
Netanyahu’s office denied reports last month that he was planning to fire the Shin Bet’s Bar.
Weekly protests also took place in Jerusalem, Haifa, Beersheba and other cities and intersections around the country.
Outside the President’s Residence in Jerusalem, Maayan Sherman, the mother of fallen IDF soldier Ron Sherman whose remains were recovered in January, called on President Isaac Herzog "to not stand on the side and act for the release of hostages now."
According to the Ynet news site, former retired IAF Brig. Gen. Amir Haskel and leading protest figure was arrested in Jerusalem. Police said they arrested a total of four people at the rally in Jerusalem, two for disrupting public order, and two others for trying to prevent police from carrying out one of the arrests.
The Ynet news site reported hundreds of anti-government protesters marching in support of the hostages and against government attempts to revive judicial overhaul legislation in Rehovot, while 1,000 protesters blocked the Karkur Junction in northern Israel.
Meanwhile,
...back at the fist fight, Jake ducked another roundhouse, then parried with his left, then with his right, finally with his chin... Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi discussed the efforts to reach a deal with visiting US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and US Middle East envoy Brett McGurk, his office said Saturday. This comes a day after Sullivan told Channel 12 news that regional developments, including the shock collapse of the Assad regime, the ceasefire with 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... and Israel’s killing of Hamas leaders, presented an opportunity for a deal to free the 100 captives held in Gaza.
[IsraelTimes] Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi discusses efforts to reach a hostage-ceasefire deal in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, Sissi’s office says.
The officials who met Sissi in Cairo include US national security adviser Jake Sullivan and US Middle East envoy Brett McGurk, it says.
The statement comes as Hezbollah-affiliated newspaper Al-Akhbar quotes an unnamed Egyptian official as saying that Israel has objected to some of the names of Palestinian security prisoners requests for release in exchange for hostages kidnapped on October 7, 2023, including popular Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti.
Barghouti is serving five life sentences in an Israeli prison for his part in planning three terror attacks that killed five Israelis during the Second Intifada.
“Israel has a vision of alternative lists of Palestinian prisoners, including people who were recently arrested, which could delay the drafting of the agreement,” the Egyptian source is quoted as saying.
The source adds that Israel has requested that some of the Palestinian security prisoners be sent abroad instead of to the West Bank or Gaza, “which may be accepted by the mediators as a compromise to end this new obstacle.”
Keeping busy among themselves instead of going after Israel. I can only imagine how frustrated the Mad Mullahs must be, over in Iran. Their Axis of Evil just hasn’t worked out even a little bit. And after it all looked so beautifully threatening before Hamas ruined everything by bursting out prematurely on 10/7/2023. Clearly Allah doesn’t love any of them best anymore.
[IsraelTimes] Amid larger crackdown against terror groups in West Bank, PA general says his forces ‘thwarted a disaster’ by stopping car bombing aimed at Palestinian civilians and PA forces
Paleostinian Authority 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 Saturday morning, sparking festivities in the West Bank city, Paleostinian media reported.
Gunshots and explosions could be heard in the city and PA forces set up checkpoints around the city, that has been a hotebed for terror groups in recent years.
The Paleostinian Islamic Jihad commander was named in the reports as Yazid Jaysa, who is said to have been wanted by both the PA and Israel. There was no immediate confirmation from Islamic Jihad.
The operation was part of a larger PA crack down against terror groups in Jenin, which the PA says is to restore security and stability to the area and comes as Ramallah appears to be trying to signal that it could play a significant role in managing a post-war 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.
Brigadier General Anwar Rajab of the PA’s security forces confirmed the reports, and told the official Paleostinian news agency Wafa that his forces "thwarted a disaster in Jenin camp, by containing a booby-trapped vehicle prepared by outlaws."
Rajab said that the vehicle "was supposed to be detonated among citizens and security personnel, as part of a cowardly criminal act that reflects an ISIS approach alien to our Paleostinian values and morals and contradicts the course of our national struggle."
Rajab added that a previous boom-mobile had detonated in recent days injuring a number of civilians and members of the security services.
Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... condemned the PA for the Jenin operation and its allied group Islamic Jihad called for a day of protests.
On Monday, during another PA operation in Jenin, Paleostinian security forces killed a 19-year-old Paleostinian man named Rahbi Shalabi. The PA initially blamed his death on "lawbreakers," but said on Thursday that after an investigation into his death, the PA "bears full responsibility" for the incident.
Last week, gunnies seized two official PA vehicles and paraded through the Jenin refugee camp waving flags of the Islamic Jihad group, which is allied with Hamas. There were then shootouts in the area.
The festivities between local terror operatives and PA forces have added to the already soaring violence in the West Bank, with Israeli military raids and settler attacks increasing since the October 7, 2023, Hamas massacre in southern Israel triggered the ongoing war.
Since then, Israeli troops have arrested some 5,250 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 2,050 affiliated with Hamas.
According to the PA health ministry, more than 716 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 forces of Evil carrying out attacks.
During the same period, 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 terror operatives in the West Bank.
[GEO.TV] The Israeli army has given an illegal ultimatum to Paleostinians in southeastern Jabalia in northern besieged 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... to flee areas in preparation for another assault.
Army's spokesperson Avichay Adraee said the ultimatum is for an attack planned by Israel against what he said is an area where rockets were fired from toward Israel, reported TRT World.
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[GEO.TV] Just a day after Israel killed dozens of Paleostinians in strikes on Nuseirat camp, several others were killed in Israel's continued offensive in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with 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.
Dawn raids on Saturday killed four members of the Saadallah family in their home in Jabalia, two people in a school northeast of Gaza City and one person sheltering in a tent south of Khan Younis, Paleostinian news agency Wafa said.
Four members of the Saadallah family were killed in their home in Jabalia in dawn raids, according to Paleostinian news agency Wafa.
Two individuals were killed at a school northeast of Gaza City, and another person lost his life as he was sheltering in a tent south of Khan Younis, said the news agency.
Later that day, an Israeli strike on al-Majida Wasila School in the northern al-Rimal neighbourhood of Gaza City resulted in seven deaths, according to Wafa. Additionally, a drone attack at Jalaa Junction northwest of Gaza City killed one woman and injured several others. Another civilian was killed in an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... west of al-Nuseirat camp.
Moreover, five citizens were maimed in a drone attack on the al-Mawasi area west of Rafah city.
[IsraelTimes] Rocket launchers were placed 50 meters from aid sites, army says; terror cell targeted at former Gaza City school, with Palestinian medics reporting 7 dead
Rockets fired by 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... murderous Moslems at southern Israel Friday night were launched from locations near humanitarian aid warehouses, the Israel Defense Forces said Saturday.
According to the IDF, the launchers used to fire the two projectiles toward Ashkelon were positioned some 50 meters from depots used by international aid organizations operating in Gaza.
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 in the attack.
Paleostinian 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... took responsibility for the rocket fire, which has become a relative rarity after 14 months of war, sparked by the devastating Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... -led invasion of southern Israel on October 7, 2023. Israel’s aerial and ground operations have greatly depleted the arsenals of Hamas and other Gaza-based terror factions.
Overnight, Israeli fighter jets launched Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in the area, targeting weapons depots and terror operatives, the military said.
A video released by the IDF on December 14, 2024, shows airstrikes on terror operatives in Gaza near a rocket launching site used in an attack a day prior.
The IDF issued evacuation warnings to civilians in the area before launching the strikes south of Jabalia, in the Strip’s north.
Also on Saturday, the IDF said that it carried out a dronezap against a cell of terror operatives while they were preparing to carry out an attack against troops in Gaza and Israel "in the immediate timeframe."
The military said the operatives were targeted while they were gathered at a former school in Gaza City. It added that it took steps to mitigate harm to civilians in the strike at the Yaffa boys school, which was being used to shelter displaced Paleostinians.
Emergency services in Gaza reported that at least seven were killed and 12 maimed as a result of the airstrike. The dead include a woman and her baby, according to medics.
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BREAKING NEWS:Hamas leader has just died after being hit by an Israeli airstrike in central Gaza. Rest In Pieces, Emad Ali Abd al-Rahman al-Jaro. pic.twitter.com/BPj7H2zyIv
[IsraelTimes] Army airs video showing Hamas abusing inmates at Gaza City prison, compares treatment to that by Syria’s Assad regime; rocket fired from central Gaza lands in open area in south
An Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in the Israeli-designated humanitarian zone in the central 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 on Saturday killed the mayor of Deir al-Balah, who is accused of being a member of the military wing of the Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... terror group.
In a joint statement following the strike, the Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet said that Diab Emad Ali Abd al-Rahman al-Jaro had "actively participated in the operations of Hamas’s government in the Deir al-Balah area, maintained continuous contact with officials in Hamas’s military wing, and provided them with combat assistance against IDF troops."
In his role, he was the mayor of Deir al-Balah, the head of the Hamas-run Emergency Committee in central Gaza, and was responsible for Hamas’s political activity in the area, as well as for various government offices, the military said.
Al-Jaro was targeted while at the Deir al-Balah municipality building, located within the humanitarian zone. The IDF said that the building was being used by Hamas operatives to plan and carry out attacks against troops in Gaza and against Israel.
The IDF said it had taken steps to mitigate harm to civilians in the strike, including using precision munitions and aerial surveillance. Paleostinian media reported at least 11 dead in the strike.
"Hamas continues to abuse civilian and humanitarian infrastructure for its terrorist activities, in violation of international law," the military said.
Some 1.9 million of Gaza’s 2.3 million residents are estimated to be living in the enclave’s humanitarian zone, according to a July assessment by the IDF. The zone is located in the al-Mawasi area on the southern Strip’s coast, the western neighborhoods of Khan Younis and the central Deir al-Balah. Its size has changed multiple times amid evolving IDF operations against Hamas, but as of late August, it was just over 46 square kilometers (17.7 square miles), or nearly 13 percent of the total size of the Gaza Strip.
Also on Saturday, the IDF said that it carried out a dronezap against a cell of terror operatives while they were preparing to carry out an attack against troops in Gaza and Israel "in the immediate timeframe."
The military said the operatives were targeted while they were gathered at a former school in Gaza City. It added that it took steps to mitigate harm to civilians in the strike at the Yaffa boys school, which was being used to shelter displaced Paleostinians. Emergency services in Gaza reported that at least seven were killed, including a woman and her baby, and 12 were maimed as a result of the airstrike.
Rocket sirens were activated inside Israel, meanwhile, after a rocket launched from the central Gaza Strip struck an open area in the south of the country. Sirens sounded in the border communities of Nirim and Ein Hashlosha amid the attack, which did not result in any injuries. The rocket fire was the second such incident in two days, after the Paleostinian 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 fired two projectiles toward Ashkelon on Friday.
FOOTAGE SHOWS HAMAS TORTURE OF PALESTINIAN PRISONERS
On Saturday evening, the IDF released new security camera footage that it said was recovered at a Hamas prison in Gaza City’s upscale Rimal neighborhood, in which members of the Paleostinian terror group’s internal security forces can be seen abusing prisoners.
In the video, the Hamas operatives can be seen escorting a blindfolded prisoner on his knees into the facility, before throwing him down a set of stairs and violent mostly peacefully beating him.
The clip separately shows a prisoner lying on the ground in a small cell not much larger than his body. The military said that he was being held in a suffocating room while in solitary confinement.
Comparing Hamas’s treatment of prisoners to the actions of the regime of toppled Syrian president Bashir al-Assad, the military said in a statement that Hamas "attempts to distance itself from the Assad regime and the atrocities exposed in Syrian prisons, but the footage and previous revelations about Hamas’s torture investigations leave no room for doubt — Hamas is equally ruthless."
"The cruelty of Hamas prison guards exposed in this footage can no longer be hidden or denied. These harrowing videos are a stark reminder of the merciless abuse, oppression, and human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... violations inflicted on Gaza’s residents by the Hamas regime."
The IDF has previously published CCTV footage that it says depicts the torture of Paleostinian civilians at the hands of Hamas operatives, and in 2022, both the UN Watch Lobby and Human Rights Watch found that human rights activists, women, LGBTQ people and political opponents in Gaza and the West Bank were regularly subject to brutal punishment.
Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip stands at 386. The toll includes a police officer killed in a hostage rescue mission and a Defense Ministry civilian contractor.
The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 44,000 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far, though the toll cannot be verified and does not differentiate between civilians and fighters. Israel says it has killed some 18,000 combatants in battle as of November and another 1,000 bully boyz inside Israel on October 7, 2023, or in the following few days.
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[IsraelTimes] No immediate confirmation from Israel, which is trying to stop Assad’s strategic weapons from falling into hostile hands; Syria protests to UN against IDF presence in buffer zone
Israel launched a series of strikes early Saturday targeting military sites in Damascus and its countryside, including rocket depots buried deep under a mountain, a Syrian war monitor said, in the latest such raids since rebels brought down Bashir al-Assad almost a week ago.
Earlier in the week Israel launched a major operation to destroy the Syrian military’s strategic military capabilities, including 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... , missiles, air defenses, air force and navy, in a bid to prevent them from falling into the hands of hostile elements.
The early Saturday strikes appeared to be aimed at completing the effort.
There was no immediate comment from the IDF, though earlier in the week it said it had so far destroyed some 80% of Syrian capabilities and would continue to act.
"Israeli strikes destroyed a scientific institute" and other related military facilities in Barzeh, in northern Damascus, and targeted a "military airport" in the capital’s countryside, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said.
Strikes also targeted "Scud ballistic missile warehouses" and launchers in the Qalamun area, as well as "rockets, depots and tunnels under the mountain," according to the Britannia-based Observatory, which has a network of sources inside Syria.
The Observatory said several rounds of strikes targeted "military sites of the former regime forces, as part of destroying what is left of the future Syrian army’s capabilities."
SOHR, run by a single person, has regularly been accused by Syrian war analysts of false reporting and inflating casualty numbers as well as inventing them wholesale.
Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on Friday targeted "a missile base at the top of Damascus’s Mount Qasioun," the group said, as well as an airport in southern Sweida province and "defense and research labs in Masyaf," in Hama province.
Israel feared that following the collapse of the Assad regime, the former Syrian army’s weapons could fall into the hands of hostile forces in the country, as well as the Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Israel said its airstrikes would carry on for days, but told the UN Security Council that it was not intervening in Syria’s conflict. It said it had taken "limited and temporary measures" solely to protect its security.
Meanwhile,
...back at the wrecked scow, a single surviver held tightly to the smashed prow... Syria’s representative at the UN called on the Security Council to take action to compel Israel to immediately stop its attacks on Syrian territory and withdraw from the buffer zone.
In identical letters to the council and Guterres obtained Friday by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named, Syria’s UN Ambassador Koussay Aldahhak said he was acting "on instructions from my government" in making the demands.
It appeared to be the first letter to the UN from Syria’s new interim government. However,
those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... Aldahhak represented Assad and the letters were filed with the symbol of the former regime. The letters were dated December 9, days after rebels ousted president Assad and ended his family’s more than 50-year authoritarian rule of Syria.
"At a time when the Syrian Arab Republic is witnessing a new phase in its history in which its people aspire to establish a state of freedom, equality and the rule of law and to achieve their hopes for prosperity and stability, the Israeli occupation army has penetrated additional areas of Syrian territory in Mount Hermon and Quneitra Governorate," ambassador Aldahhak wrote.
Israel controls and annexed the Golan Heights that it captured from Syria during the 1967 Six Day War. The Disengagement Agreement of 1974 between Israel and Syria established a demilitarized buffer zone between the two countries, monitored by a UN peacekeeping force known as UNDOF.
In a letter to the Security Council circulated Friday which was also written on December 9, Israel’s UN Ambassador Danny Danon said his country had taken "limited and temporary measures," deploying troops temporarily in the separation area "to prevent gangs from threatening Israeli territory."
[IsraelTimes] Israel has launched more than 60 strikes on Syrian territory in few hours, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claims.
Israel fired 61 missiles at Syrian military sites in less than five hours Saturday evening, it reports, maintaining a campaign which started after rebel forces toppled president Bashar al-Assad nearly a week ago.
Jerusalem says the campaign is needed to prevent the Assad regime’s extensive military arsenal from falling to jihadist rulers who could use them against Israel or to arm Hezbollah in Lebanon.
SOHR, run by a single person, has regularly been accused by Syrian war analysts of false reporting and inflating casualty numbers as well as inventing them wholesale.
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.COM.LB] The Israeli enemy kept up its attacks on 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 new violations of the ceasefire that followed 66-day epic fighting against the Zionist entity. Saturday's attacks saw a dronezap as well as detonation of houses in a southern border town.
Al-Manar correspondent reported that a Lebanese citizen was martyred in an Israeli dronezap that targeted his car on al-Khardali road near the river of al-Khardali.
The strike took place at the main road that links the southern cities of Nabatiyeh and Marjeyoun and is used by Lebanese civilians,'' al-Manar's Ali Shoeib reported in a video that showed behind him the targeted vehicle bursting into flames.
Meanwhile in the border town of Kfar Kila, the National News Agency (NNA) correspondent said: ''The enemy continues its shelling, booby-trapping and bombing operations, and carried out a bombing a short while ago in the town of Kfar Kila, where a violent mostly peaceful explosion was heard and columns of smoke rose densely.''
Explosions and gunfire were also heard in Mais al-Jabal border town, our correspondent reported.
On the other hand, contact was lost with the Lebanese citizen Abdo Abdel Al in the southern border town of al-Majidiya, with Lebanese media reporting he was kidnapped by Israeli occupation forces.
''This afternoon, a pickup truck carrying three people crossed the barbed wire fence towards the al-Majidiya plain and took Abdo Abdel Aal to the occupied Paleostinian territories,'' NNA reported.
Elsewhere in Beirut and its suburb, the NNA reported further breach by the Israeli enemy reconnaissance aircraft which were spotted flying over the capital and its southern suburb, Dahiyeh, over low altitude.
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Not that Turkey’s President Erdogan cares if a bunch of Arabs and Kurds and other riffraff are killed by a the water surge, should the dam break.
[Rudaw] The manager of a Euphrates River dam that has come under days of attacks in northern Syria has warned that millions of people will be impacted should the structure fail.
"There was a blackout at Tishreen Dam. The dam is out of service now. Cables fell and the gates were closed, leading to the closure of the dam. The staff tried to use the generators but soon they ran out of diesel. Water is flowing into the dam now," Ali Demir told Rudaw English on Thursday.
Tishreen Dam sits on the Euphrates River in northern Syria, upstream from scores of towns and villages as well as urban centres like Raqqa. It provides electricity to much of northeast Syria (Rojava).
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), with the help of American troops, took control of the dam from 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.... (ISIS) in 2015.
It has recently come under attack by the Ankara-backed Syrian National Army (SNA), who are part of a broader coalition of militia groups who joined forces against the now-collapsed regime of Bahsar al-Assad.
The dam is now out of service and Demir warned that they may not be able to hold back a rush of water that would pose a threat to the people living downstream, which includes neighboring Iraq.
Tishreen holds two million cubic meters of water. Roughly 90 kilometers downstream is Tabqa Dam.
If Tishreen bursts, "this water will then reach Tabqa, which already has 14 million cubic meters of water... I do not think Tabqa Dam will be able to hold this water, so it could cause a disaster in Iraq... The dam is in terrible condition. The impact will not be limited to structural damage, but could cause great damage in Iraq," said Demir.
The Rojava Information Center said on Thursday that the attacks have damaged turbines and caused leakages, adding that "Maintenance teams are currently unable to enter the dam to reconnect cables and operate the dewatering pumps needed to prevent flooding and equipment damage."
An informed source from Iraq’s Haditha Dam, which is the first facility holding Euphrates water once it enters the country, told Rudaw English on the condition of anonymity on Friday that there will be no danger to Iraq even if Tishreen Dam collapses.
"Tabqa Dam is also capable of withholding the water that comes from Tishreen Dam," the source said. "There is no problem at all."
However,
a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... the NES Forum, a non-governmental organization operating in Kurdish-held areas of Syria, on Tuesday made an urgent call to "all parties to the conflict to immediately cease hostile exchanges in the vicinity of the critical Tishreen Dam in Northeast Syria."
"Damages sustained to the infrastructure itself could lead to the loss of lives and livelihoods of up to one million people in the downstream subdistricts should the dam collapse," it added.
According to the forum, the immediate risks include "flooding, loss of life, damage to agricultural lands as well as properties, including downstream Tabqa dam."
Even if the dam holds, its power generation is offline.
Yasumasa Kimura, United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... Children’s Fund representative to Syria, told CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... on Friday that the lack of electricity for a nearby water treatment facility could cause a "complete water cut" to more than three million people in Aleppo - the most populated province in the country.
ONGOING CLASHES
SNA attacks on Tishreen Dam intensified after the Lions of Islam took control of nearby Manbij city from the SDF a few days ago.
Demir has been warning against a potential threat to the region for days.
"We do not know how to prevent the flow of water into the dam. Five staff members have been stuck there for a week, without access to food or water. They are terrified and in a terrible condition," he said, adding that they are doing their best to prevent a "disaster."
He shared with Rudaw English voice recordings of the staff desperately pleading for help.
The SDF said in a statement on Friday that its forces had been resisting SNA attacks for three days at the dam, but that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... has provided the Lions of Islam with aerial support.
"Despite the heavy air cover aimed at hindering our resistance, our fighters employed modern warfare tactics, ambushed the remnants of the mercenaries, and inflicted heavy losses on them, including the deaths of many of their leaders and the destruction of their tanks and vehicles," the Kurdish-led force said.
The SDF said that they have so far repelled all SNA attacks, however, Ottoman Turkish state media claimed that their militia allies had control of the dam on Friday. The Rojava Information Centre said there were no festivities on Friday.
Demir told Rudaw English late on Friday that the dam remains under the control of the SDF. He said the dam is nearly at capacity and they are trying to use pumps to prevent it overflowing.
Another one? How is it that Syria was poor, with all the drug profits?
[Regnum] A large laboratory for the production of the drug Captagon and huge stockpiles of the produced prohibited substance were discovered in the Syrian city of Douma, which is located in the northeastern suburbs of Damascus. This was reported on December 13 by the American newspaper The New York Times.
"Syrian rebels said on Friday they had discovered huge stockpiles of an illegal amphetamine called Captagon in a warehouse in Damascus," the publication said.
It is specified that thousands of drug tablets with a logo in the form of a double crescent or the inscription Lexus were found in the laboratory. According to the author of the publication, representatives of the Syrian opposition who discovered the laboratory burned some of the produced tablets and threw the rest into the sewer.
Captagon is also called the "poor man's cocaine" or the "jihad drug."
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on December 6, the actress of Russian TV series and model from Russian rap artists' videos was detained along with an accomplice with a hundred packages of narcotic substances. She hid the packages of the substance in a large bra.
On December 2, the Moscow Regional Court sentenced Stanislav Moiseyev, the founder of the online drug-selling platform Hydra, to life imprisonment and a fine of 4 million rubles. His 15 accomplices were also sentenced to imprisonment for terms ranging from eight to 23 years and fined a total of 16 million rubles.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
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..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
...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...
