[PUBLISH.TWITTER] Follow up to this story from two days ago.
The FBI arrested a Seattle woman accused of shooting a Border Patrol agent to death on Monday.
Teresa Youngblut, 21, had been under "periodic surveillance" before the killing and was found in possession of black tactical gear, ammunition, and weapons, according to an FBI… pic.twitter.com/ZTU5dMXjZw
She has been charged in the death of Border Patrol agent David Maland, 44. The incident occurred in Vermont.
According to the FBI, Maland initiated an immigration traffic stop, pulling over Youngblut, who immediately exited the vehicle and opened fire, killing Maland.
A German national, identified as Felix Baukholt, was a passenger in the vehicle. He reached for his gun, but was shot in a shootout involving other officers before he could open fire, per court documents.
An investigation into Youngblut and Baukholt was initiated after a hotel employee reported to police that they had been carrying firearms while wearing black tactical gear outside the property, according to the affidavit.
The pair was then placed under "periodic surveillance."
Two hours before the shooting, investigators observed Baukholt exit a Walmart with two packages of aluminum foil. He was then seen wrapping unidentifiable objects while in the passenger seat of the vehicle.
The FBI conducted a search of the car after the shootout and found cellphones wrapped in foil, a ballistic helming, night-vision goggles, ammunition, and respirators.
Additionally, a package of shooting range targets, radios, and travel and lodging information were also recovered.
According to social media, Youngblut is a computer science student at the University of Washington.
Red State has key details missing from the above odd tale:
Bauckholt's still live LinkedIn profile says he worked in the New York office of Tower Research Capital, the high frequency trading firm. Tower Research didn't respond to a request to comment on Bauckholt's recent employment status, but the alleged expiry of his visa suggests he may no longer have been working there.
Tower Research Capital is a high frequency market maker and prop trading firm that operates high speed trading strategies. US government data suggests that two people at Tower Research have had H1B visas renewed this year: a head of data on a base salary of $350k and a quant trader on a base salary of $165k. It has 1,200 employees in total.
Bauckholt's LinkedIn profile says he joined Tower in October 2021 after two years at Radix Trading. He also completed a Jane Street internship in 2018. Jane Street interns now earn around $20k a month.
Bauckholt graduated from Canada's university of Waterloo with a bachelor's in mathematics. In 2014 and 2015 he appears to have won gold and bronze prizes respectively in the International Mathematics Olympiad.
What drew attention was that they acted strange, and "they appeared to be dressed in all-black tactical style clothing with protective equipment, with the woman, later identified as Youngblut, carrying an apparent firearm in an exposed-carry holster."
Based on that encounter, Vermont State Police and Homeland Security Investigations personnel tried to initiate a “consensual conversation,” but neither wanted to go along with that ploy. They told the police they were in the area looking for land to buy.
The encounter was sufficiently out of the ordinary to draw surveillance because on Sunday, January 19, they were spotted walking in Newport, VT, and Youngblut was packing.
This is how the shootout unfolded.
"On January 20, 2025, at approximately 3:00 pm, an on-duty, uniformed United States Border Patrol (USBP) Agent initiated a stop of a blue 2015 Toyota Prius Hatchback with [a] North Carolina license plate... to conduct an immigration inspection as it was driving southbound on Interstate 91 in Coventry, Vermont," read an FBI criminal complaint obtained by Fox News.
"The registered owner of the vehicle, Felix Baukholt, a citizen of Germany, appeared to have an expired visa in a Department of Homeland Security database. Youngblut was driving the Prius, and Baukholt was the lone passenger in the Prius," it continued.
"Between approximately 3:00 pm and 3:15 pm, agents reported gunshots at the scene," the affidavit said. "Supervisory Border Patrol Agent Cameron Thompson was notified of the incident and responded to the scene of the stop, arriving at approximately 3:35 pm. He spoke with two of the Border Patrol Agents involved in the incident. They described that both Baukholt and Youngblut possessed firearms and that Youngblut drew and fired a handgun toward at least one of the uniformed Border Patrol Agents without warning when outside the driver's side of the Prius."
"Baukholt then attempted to draw a firearm. At least one Border Patrol Agent fired at Youngblut and Baukholt with his service weapon," the affidavit also said. "The exchange of gunfire resulted in Border Patrol Agent Maland, Youngblut, and Baukholt all sustaining gunshot wounds. Baukholt was declared deceased at the scene as a result of his injuries."
Maland also died after being taken to a local hospital for emergency care, while Youngblut is currently receiving care at a facility in New Hampshire, according to the affidavit.
The "immigration stop" took place while the vehicle was headed away from the Canadian border, so it is starting to look like a pretext as several Border Patrol agents were involved.
According to the affidavit, agents had secured a .40-caliber Glock 23 “on or near” Youngblut after the shootout, while a .380-caliber M&P Shield firearm was secured “on or near Baukholt after the incident.”
The affidavit said the evidence is “consistent with Youngblut having fired the .40-caliber Glock 23 at least twice from the driver’s side of the Prius, one or more Border Patrol Agents returning fire with at least seven 9-millimeter shots, and then agents clearing the Glock 23 40-caliber and M&P Shield .380-caliber pistols, resulting in the described casings and cartridges being on the ground.”
The inventory from the affidavit indicates that Youngblut fired at least two times, but there is no evidence that Baulkholt fired.
What does it all mean?
It seems that Youngblut was the leader of the two. She had the real gun, and she initiated the firefight. I'm sure her being from Washington is not related, but when you hear "all-black tactical style clothing with protective equipment" in connection with that state, it is hard not to think of Antifa. How did Baulkholt get sucked into the plot? The guy was a math genius earning a boatload of money until it seems he got fired and his visa was suspended.
If one were looking for a plausible scenario, it would be that the pair planned some sort of one-way mission against the Border Patrol station to make an anti-Trump statement, but your guess is as good as mine.
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Between that and Red State’s suggestion that this was meant to be an Antifa action, SteveS, one really wonders what plan the Border Patrolmen interrupted.
#3
This will just be the beginning for the Canadian border. I recommend deploying the 10th Mountain there instead of to the Mexican border. Just give the Marines the Southern border. They sing songs about invading Mexico. It is their jam.
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NEW: Intense fighting erupted near the al-Jili oil refinery, north of Khartoum, as Sudan’s army advanced on the strategic facility in a multipronged offensive against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
Nigerian army has killed a top commander of a bandit network and 31 bandits in a military operation in the violence-ridden northwest region.
In a statement, the country's Defence Headquarters (DHQ) said the army killed bandit leader Bello Turji's second-in-command, Aminu Kanawa,… pic.twitter.com/wNWdt4dQjZ
… Aminu Kanawa, and 31 terrorists and wounded some of Turji's close allies, including his younger brother, in the Fansan Yamma operation.
Bello Turji is known for carrying out numerous attacks and killing civilians and security forces in the north-western parts of the country, particularly in Zamfara and Sokoto states.
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The USA, as defender of the rules-based international order, has the responsibility to defend borders, including Taiwan, South Korea, NATO, Ukraine and especially Israel.
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^ Defense Sect'y Hegseth: "Hit what you shoot at"?
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It's a border war. We'd better face reality.
It's been a border war for decades. It's just that Trump is the first president who doesn't pretend otherwise.
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The USA, as defender of the rules-based international order, has the responsibility to defend borders, including Taiwan, South Korea, NATO, Ukraine and especially Israel.
By whose authority? Our own? Might makes right? You know damn well that people in other countries hate us for just that attitude.
We've tried being the world's cop. You take a cop on the beat in any American city or town and that cop is getting paid. He might not be happy with his salary but at least he gets something for his service. America has never been paid for the services we have attempted to provide. We're the ones who always pay in the form of blood and treasure. Then the people we try to help end up hating us and kicking us in the shins. We've meddled in the affairs of all kinds of countries all over the world and it usually only makes things worse, creates even bigger problems. We need to let other people worry about their problems and start taking care of our own.
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From the Halls of Montezuma…
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And they are praying the cartels shoot at them. Would be short, bloody and a very bad ending for cartel members.
[X] The Trump administration has commenced deportation flights, utilizing military aircraft to transport individuals who have entered the United States illegally back to their home countries. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed the start of these operations, which include using Air Force C-17 and C-130 planes stationed in Texas and California to facilitate the deportations. This move is part of a broader policy to enforce immigration laws, targeting those who have been detained by Customs and Border Protection.
Deported with just the clothes on their backs, and greeted by the policia.
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Surprise!!!!!
Mexico refusing to allow deportation flights to land.
I guess they don't care about their people, just the needed $$$$$ they send back home. Needed Money that supports Mexico's economy and rich.
BTW: Mexico's Elite and various Officials must be having a fit.
Trump securing the borders has caused a major disruption of the Cartels Drug flow.
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About that Mexico flight: Hot Air has an update that the State Department claims it’s merely a paperwork issue. Mexico accepted four flights last week, after all.
[IsrelTimes] Hamas confirms Qutaiba al-Shalabi and Mohammed Nazal carried out attack; defense minister says Gaza lessons being applied in West Bank amid major Jenin operation
Two Paleostinian button men killed by troops near the West Bank city of Jenin on Wednesday night were among the perpetrators of a deadly terror shooting attack in the village of al-Funduq earlier this month, the Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet security service said Thursday morning.
Their elimination came amid an ongoing major counterterrorism raid in the Jenin refugee camp.
The Paleostinian terror group Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... took responsibility for the January 6 attack and also said that Qutaiba al-Shalabi and Mohammed Nazal, who were slain in the Wadi Burqin area, carried out the shooting that killed three Israelis.
The IDF said that troops of the Duvdevan commando unit, Shin Bet agents, and other soldiers surrounded a building in Wadi Burqin where the button men were holed up, and carried out a tactic known as "pressure cooker," which involves escalating the volume of fire against a building to flush suspects out.
After an exchange of fire that lasted some four hours, two button men behind the al-Funduq shooting were killed. One IDF soldier was moderately hurt, the military said.
While Hamas claimed the two button men as its members, the IDF and Shin Bet said they were members of the allied 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.
The IDF added that several suspects who assisted in carrying out the deadly terror shooting were also detained amid an ongoing raid in the Jenin area.
At least three button men carried out the January shooting in al-Funduq, killing off-duty police officer Master Sgt. Elad Yaakov Winkelstein and civilians Rachel Cohen and Aliza Raiz.
The Shin Bet was investigating whether one of the suspects detained at the scene of the exchange of fire in Wadi Burqin was the third gunman in the al-Funduq shooting, or if the perpetrator was still on the lam.
Separately, Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Wednesday that forces were applying lessons learned in the war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... as the operation continued in Jenin, which the military said was aimed at countering Iranian-backed terror groups in the volatile West Bank city.
A senior IDF officer in the West Bank division told news hounds on Thursday that Operation Iron Wall was launched to neutralize the so-called Jenin Battalion, made up of operatives affiliated with terror groups such as Hamas and Paleostinian Islamic Jihad.
Previous raids on Jenin in the past year did not specify such a goal, the officer said.
Operation Iron Wall is the third major IDF incursion in less than two years into Jenin, a longtime major stronghold of terror groups including Hamas and Islamic Jihad, which said its forces were fighting Israeli troops.
Hundreds of troops, including several special forces units, Border Police officers and other IDF units, backed by drones and helicopters, have been operating in the Jenin camp since Tuesday morning. The officer said troops were scanning homes, capturing weapons, and eliminating terror operatives.
As the raid began, Paleostinian Authority security forces pulled out of the Jenin refugee camp after having conducted a weeks-long operation to try to reassert control over the area from terror groups.
According to Paleostinian media and Israel’s Kan public broadcaster, PA forces were still operating in and around the city of Jenin itself, and detaining terror operatives fleeing the army’s action.
Residents reported constant gunfire and explosions and Paleostinian Authority health services reported at least 10 people killed on Tuesday. The senior IDF officer said Thursday that in all, 13 Paleostinian button men had been killed in the raid so far.
Katz said the Jenin raid marked a shift in the military’s security plan in the West Bank and was "the first lesson from the method of repeated raids in Gaza."
"We will not allow the arms of the Iranian regime and radical Sunni Islam to endanger the lives of settlers and establish a terrorist front east of the state of Israel," he said in a statement.
Israel’s campaign in Gaza is a response to the October 7, 2023, invasion by thousands of forces of Evil led by Hamas that killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians. Terrorists also kidnapped 251 people who were taken as hostages to Gaza. The war has left much of the coastal enclave in ruins after 15 months of bombardment.
The Jenin operation began two days after the launch of a ceasefire deal in Gaza that will see some of the hostages held by forces of Evil in Gaza released after 15 months of captivity. Israel will also free nearly a thousand Paleostinian security prisoners held in Israel, and its troops have pulled back from their positions in many areas of the enclave.
The military has said that terrorists’ increasing use of roadside kabooms and other improvised bombs was a particular focus of the Jenin operation, which included armored bulldozers tearing up roads in the refugee camp adjacent to the city.
The IDF said Wednesday it instructed Paleostinians at a hospital in Jenin to remain inside the medical center for several hours as troops cleared suspected improvised bombs planted in the area by terror operatives.
"Following concerns of IEDs on roads near the Jenin hospital, security forces operated in the area overnight to neutralize the IEDs," the military said in response to a query.
"As a result, those staying at the hospital were asked to remain inside it to maintain their safety. After the forces’ activity in the area, exit from the hospital was made possible through organized and safe routes," the IDF said.
The IDF said troops did not enter the hospital and were not surrounding other medical centers in Jenin.
As the operation continued, some 2,000 Paleostinians left their homes in the camp, a crowded township for descendants of Paleostinians who fled or were driven from their homes in the 1948 war around Israel’s creation. "Thank God, we were at home, we went out and asked an ambulance to take us out," said a woman who gave her name as Um Mohammad.
CHECKPOINT CHOKES
Before the raid, roadblocks and checkpoints had been thrown up across the West Bank.
The security cabinet ordered the IDF to establish dozens of additional checkpoints throughout the West Bank during the implementation of the Gaza ceasefire, which has led to mass traffic jams for Paleostinians throughout the territory, the Haaretz newspaper reported Wednesday.
The move requires the army to stop and search every single Paleostinian vehicle passing through the checkpoints and was directed due to fears of potential unrest, given the release of Paleostinian security prisoners, including murderers, as part of the Gaza hostage deal. However,
there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... Haaretz reported, the checkpoints could themselves spark unrest in the territory, with Paleostinians now often unable to enter and exit their villages.
One resident of the Ramallah area told Haaretz that she waited for three hours in traffic in order to get home and was unable to pick up her children from school.
"There was never a situation like this — not even at the beginning of the war," she said.
Another resident of a village outside Ramallah claimed it now takes eight hours to return home from the city.
"What’s the reason for this? We don’t know. It’s a pressure cooker. It’s unbelievable. Going from Ramallah to the village is like going from one country to another," he told Haaretz.
According to the Paleostinian Authority, there are currently 900 checkpoints throughout the West Bank.
[IsraelTimes] Man allegedly was in contact with terror group’s handler abroad who has recruited others in the past, met with operatives in Jenin, took photos in Jenin holding a gun
A resident of East Jerusalem was arrested last month on suspicion of having been in contact with members of Hezbollah and various other terror groups, the Israel Police and Shin Bet said in a joint statement Thursday.
The suspect, a 32-year-old from the predominantly Paleostinian neighborhood of Issawiya, was arrested on December 25 and handed to the Shin Bet for questioning.
He was not named in the statement.
It was the latest in a series of cases where Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... or its Lebanese proxy terror group Hezbollah have worked to recruit Israeli residents for espionage or to carry out attacks.
Over the course of the investigation, the police and Shin Bet said the suspect revealed that he had been in frequent contact with Hezbollah operatives over several years, and was part of an online Hezbollah-affiliated group calling itself the "Resistance® Axis."
Among those he contacted was a Hezbollah operative abroad who had previously recruited other East Jerusalem residents to assist the terror group, the security bodies said, adding that several of the operative’s past recruitees have been apprehended and indicted by Israel in recent months.
Though the statement did not name the Hezbollah contact abroad, described as female, a previous similar case identified a woman using the name "Dania."
The suspect was in contact with some of the recruited operatives in East Jerusalem and shared with them information about "sensitive sites" that he had photographed, the statement said.
The suspect has also visited Jenin, in the West Bank, to meet with terror operatives from other groups. The statement added that while there, the suspect posed for photographs alongside weapons belonging to the groups.
An indictment is expected to be filed against him in the near future, it added.
[IsraelTimes] Palestinian reports say Hamas executed six Gazans in Rafah accused of spying for Israel, shot 17 people in the feet for raising prices
Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... operatives reportedly executed several alleged "collaborators" 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 on Thursday, and a video shared by the popular online media channel Gaza Now showed Hamas button men firing at the men lying on the ground.
Gaza Now, which boasts 1.7 million followers on Telegram, published a video showing more than a dozen Hamas operatives, many of them in uniform, opening fire on three men.
The video was captioned "The moment of punishing the agents of the Zionist occupation who caused the killing of thousands of our Paleostinian people in Gaza."
The graphic video could not immediately be verified.
It came after Paleostinian reports were cited by the Kan public broadcaster Thursday that the terror group had executed six Paleostinians in southern Gaza’s Rafah on suspicion of spying for Israel, and that 17 other Paleostinians, among them merchants, were shot in the feet for allegedly raising prices.
Hamas did not issue an official confirmation of the reports, but the terror group’s police chief told 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... i network Al Jazeera that the group will "beat with an iron fist anyone who does harm to security and order in Gaza."
Hamas has regularly issued death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... s for people it says were found guilty of "collaboration" with Israel, executing dozens of Paleostinians in recent years.
Under Paleostinian law, a death sentence requires the approval of the president of the Paleostinian Authority which is headquartered in the West Bank, but Hamas ignores this.
The terror group, which remains the only civil authority in Gaza, has moved to reassert control across the territory since a ceasefire with Israel went into effect last Sunday, after more than fifteen months of war sparked by the terror group’s October 7, 2023 cross-border onslaught in Israel, when thousands of bully boyz killed some 1,200 people and took 251 hostages.
[IsraelTimes] Several vessels receive ‘radio challenges,’ which British military unit reports are likely linked to ongoing naval exercises that the Guards launched after Israeli strikes
A warning went out to seafarers in the Persian Gulf on Friday over what appeared to be attempts by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to compel ships to enter Iranian waters, probably explained by the paramilitary’s ongoing naval exercises.
A notice from the British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations says that there have been "several incidents involving VHF radio challenges to vessels."
"It is assessed that these are most likely part of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ large-scale exercise, Great Prophet XVIII," UKMTO said.
Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... has been engaged in an extraordinary two-month-long military exercise across the country after being twice hit by Israel in retaliation for two separate ballistic missile attacks launched by Tehran
Naval units from the IRGC were indeed conducting operations in the Gulf’s Strait of Hormuz on Friday as part of the exercise, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.
Earlier, the UKMTO reported an incident involving a vessel 86 nautical miles northeast of Ras Tanura, 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 rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start... . The ship, which was approached by a small military craft flashing a green laser and urged to enter Iranian territorial waters, proceeded to its next port of call.
The Red Sea and Gulf of Aden Joint Maritime Information Center, part of a 46-nation naval partnership, said on Friday it had investigated and found there was a possible connection between the incident reported by UKMTO and the Great Prophet 19 exercise.
While Iran has a history of harassing and impounding vessels, it hasn’t directly launched many such attacks recently. Instead, the Iran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... rebels have been attacking ships since November 2023.
Iranian media has reported a likely IRGC exercise in the Persian Gulf coming this weekend as well.
[IsraelTimes] Netanyahu declares Lebanon ‘has not fully enforced’ terms of November deal, which calls for Lebanese army to deploy south of Litani River as Israel withdraws, Hezbollah pulls north
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday that Israel will not complete its full withdrawal from southern Leb ...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. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration.... by the 60-day deadline set under the ceasefire deal with the Hezbollah terror group.
Under the terms of the November 27 truce agreement that ended the fighting started by Hezbollah, the Israel Defense Forces is required to cede all of its positions in southern Lebanon to the Lebanese Armed Forces by January 26. At the same time, Hezbollah is required to retreat north of the Litani River, some 30 kilometers (18 miles) from the border with Israel.
In the first public confirmation of such a delay, following weeks of speculation, Netanyahu’s office declared in a statement that "the IDF’s withdrawal process is conditional," citing what he said are Lebanon’s and Hezbollah’s obligations under the agreement, though the Iran-backed terrorist organization is not a party to the deal signed between Jerusalem and Beirut.
Netanyahu said that since Lebanon "has not yet fully enforced" its obligations under the ceasefire, "the phased withdrawal process will continue, in full coordination with the United States." The original 60-day deadline was slated for Sunday, January 26.
The prime minister said that the terms of the deal were worded "with the understanding that the withdrawal process may continue beyond 60 days."
The deal’s text says that the withdrawal process "should not exceed 60 days."
In recent weeks, however, Israel assessed that the Lebanese army has deployed too slowly across the region, delaying the IDF’s withdrawal as a result. Israeli soldiers are continuing to find Hezbollah weapons caches in areas covered by the truce, and army officials have reportedly said that Lebanon’s army is in some locations helping Hezbollah.
The Haaretz daily similarly reported Thursday that the US and La Belle France were discussing the requested extension with Israeli and Lebanese officials. The source assessed that La Belle France saw no issue with granting the extension, so long as the other parties were in agreement.
Despite a Hebrew media report suggesting otherwise, the Trump administration on Friday called for a "short, temporary extension" to the 60-day deadline, backing Israel’s stance.
"President Trump is committed to ensuring Israeli citizens can safely return to their homes in northern Israel, while also supporting President Aoun and the new Lebanese government," White House National Security Council spokesperson Brian Hughes said in a statement. "All parties share the goal of ensuring Hezbollah does not have the ability to threaten the Lebanese people or their neighbors. To achieve these goals, a short, temporary ceasefire extension is urgently needed."
"We are pleased that the IDF has started the withdrawal from the central regions, and we continue to work closely with our regional partners to finalize the extension," he added.
The IDF is currently deployed to several villages in southern Lebanon, mostly in the eastern sector. The Lebanese Armed Forces have deployed to villages in the western sector in recent weeks as the IDF has withdrawn.
The Israeli military is preparing for the possibility of renewed hostilities with Hezbollah. The Iran-backed terror group warned Thursday that it would not accept the IDF staying in southern Lebanon beyond the 60-day limit.
Hours after Netanyahu’s announcement Friday, the IDF said that in recent days it carried out strikes in southern Lebanon to "remove threats," and troops have also demolished Hezbollah weapon depots and observation posts.
"The IDF is continuing to operate in accordance with the ceasefire understandings between Israel and Lebanon," the military said. "The IDF remains deployed in southern Lebanon, continues to monitor Hezbollah’s attempts to return to southern Lebanon, and will operate against any threat posed to IDF troops and the State of Israel."
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I have a question. The Shahid drones weren't kamikaze's? You expected them back?
(Personally, if I lauched a drone with a 15lb warhead, I would be happy if it didn't come back. Safer that way.)
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And as to underwater kamikazes, they've been around for a good while now.
Everybody else calls them torpedos.
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Boat - or ship- explodes before contact. Yet another Iran fake weapon.
Syria's Ministry of Communications reports remnants of the Assad regime disrupted internet in Damascus and its countryside by cutting two fiber optic lines.
Services were quickly restored, and citizens are urged to report any sabotage attempts.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
..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 rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...
...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. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration....
