[FoxNews] U.S. Indo-Pacific Command says 3 defense contractors also involved in fatal crash
A U.S. military service member and three defense contractors died Thursday in the Philippines after their surveillance flight crashed, officials say.
U.S. Indo-Pacific Command said the aircraft contracted by the Department of Defense went down in the southern province of Maguindanao del Sur
…in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Moslem Mindanao. Between resentful remnants of the the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF — get your snickers out, dear Reader, then we’ll go on) and ISIS-linked Daulah Islamiyah, successor to the infamous Maute Group, the region remains a hotbed of Islamic militancy…
"The incident occurred during a routine mission in support of U.S.-Philippine security cooperation activities," U.S. Indo-Pacific Command said in a statement to Fox News.
"We can confirm no survivors of the crash. There were four personnel on board, including one U.S. military service member and three defense contractors," it added.
The aircraft involved in the crash was a U.S. Marine Corps Beechcraft King Air 350, a senior U.S. defense official told Fox News.
The cause of the crash remains under investigation. The names of those involved are being withheld pending next of kin notification.
Windy Beaty, a provincial disaster-mitigation officer, told the Associated Press that she received reports that residents saw smoke coming from the plane and heard an explosion before the aircraft plummeted to the ground about half a mile from a cluster of farmhouses.
A water buffalo on the ground was also killed as a result of the plane crash, local officials said.
U.S. forces have been deployed in a Philippine military camp in the country's south for decades to help provide advice and training to Filipino forces battling Muslim militants, the AP reported.
The region is the homeland of minority Muslims in the largely Roman Catholic nation.
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[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] 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... has transferred dozens of people from the eastern Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... i province of Mahrah to train in camps in the al-Abr border area within the so-called ''Dera al-Watan'' factions.
Sources reported that the young men were suddenly summoned and transferred to training in the Shehn area, which led to a breakdown in communication between them and their families.
Reports indicate that the recruits were transferred to the factions' training camp in al-Abr amid local rejection of the establishment of these factions.
Through the formation of ''Dera al-Watan,'' Saudi Arabia seeks to protect an oil pipeline that it plans to pass through Mahrah to reach the port of Nashton on the Arabian Sea, despite opposition from local tribes since 2017.
I’d bet a good deal that this is mostly another case of Iran’s agents paying the uncaring greedy for these acts.
[IsraelTimes] Twelve people arrested by counterterror task force don’t share antisemitic ideology expressed in their crimes, cops say, as Australia passes new, bipartisan hate crime laws
Nearly 200 more have been charged since October 2023 in the state of New South Wales — where Sydney is located — with crimes linked to antisemitism, police say.
A wave of antisemitic attacks has roiled Australia, with a dozen arrests for vandalizing or setting homes, schools, and synagogues on fire since October and hundreds more charged in just over a year with crimes targeting Jews.
The attacks in areas where Jewish people live have provoked an outpouring of condemnation — and a fraught and complicated debate about who’s to blame. But in a rare moment of unity, Australia’s federal politicians on Thursday advanced hate crime laws almost unanimously.
"We want people who are engaged in antisemitic activities to be caught, to be charged and to be put in the clink," Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told news hounds.
"This is a time of national crisis," opposition leader Peter Dutton said.
Jewish organizations and hate researchers have recorded drastic spikes in hate-fueled incidents against Jews since the October 7, 2023, Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... attack on Israel — when some 3,000 Lions of Islam invaded the Jewish state, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages — that triggered the subsequent war 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.
Antisemitic episodes in the two biggest cities, Sydney and Melbourne — home to 85% of Australia’s Jewish population — have drawn the highest profile because they are severe, unusual and public.
Since November they’ve included:
A trailer filled with explosives used in the mining industry and a list of Jewish targets discovered on Sydney’s outskirts;
Firebombing of a Melbourne synagogue, with one person hurt. Defacement of another with Nazi symbols and pro-Palestine graffiti;
A Jewish childcare center set on fire;
Jewish schools in Sydney and Melbourne daubed with white supremacist graffiti;
Three Jewish businesses torched;
The former home of a prominent Jewish leader sprayed with graffiti;
Cars defaced and windows smashed in areas where Jews live.
Counter-terrorism officials have arrested 12 people in connection with those crimes. Nearly 200 more have been charged since October 2023 in the state of New South Wales — where Sydney is located — with crimes linked to antisemitism, police say.
WHO’S COMMITTING THE CRIMES?
Investigators are examining whether criminals for hire were paid by foreign actors to carry out the recent attacks, leaders of the task force said in January. They did not specify what foreign interests they believed were responsible.
Days later, officials said the 12 arrested by the task force don’t share the antisemitic ideology expressed by their crimes, underscoring suggestions that the acts were orchestrated abroad.
The revelations were strange — but not unprecedented, analysts said.
"It’s not completely new, the connection between ideological groups and criminal groups," said Matteo Vergani, a researcher of hate and extremism with Deakin University. "What’s new is that it usually happens in relation to larger scale terrorist attacks. So that is surprising."
WHAT’S BEHIND THE RISE?
Lawmakers in speeches this week said the October 7 attacks by color:gray;' title='Hamas'>Hamas ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... provoked an outburst of antisemitism at levels Australia had not registered before.
In tense public debates echoing those in the United States and elsewhere, right-leaning politicians and some Jewish leaders — among them Peter Wertheim from the Executive Council of Australian Jewry — have accused pro-Paleostinian and anti-Israel demonstrators, particularly "progressives" and university students, he said, of fueling the crimes.
Demonstrators use opposition to Israel to target Jews and give antisemitism "a new social license," he said.
WHAT’S THE GOVERNMENT’S RESPONSE?
Albanese’s center-left government on Thursday approved measures in the House of Representatives that will create new and bolstered hate crime offenses protecting a raft of characteristics, including race, religion and gender.
Amendments from the opposition include the imposition of mandatory prison terms for terrorism offenses — which the prime minister had rejected before —- and for displaying hate symbols.
The bill passed 117 votes to 13. It’s expected the Senate will pass it into law.
Other initiatives since last January include:
Imposing sanctions on Terrorgram, an online white supremacist terrorism financing network;
Criminalizing Nazi salutes;
Making doxing — the sharing of personal information online — illegal after a list of Australian Jews was published on the internet in 2024;
Appointing national envoys to address Islamophobia and antisemitism;
Some states have passed their own laws; New South Wales also revealed proposed hate crime measures Thursday.
WHAT’S DIFFERENT IN AUSTRALIA?
By all measures, anti-Jewish hate has spiked across the US, Europe and the United Kingdom since the October 2023 Hamas attack — even though many leaders have denounced the surge — prompting tens of thousands of Jews to leave Europe, according to some figures.
However, Australia’s situation had distinctive factors, analysts said. One was the claim that the primary agitators could be based abroad.
Another was the shock of such hate in a country far from the Middle East where a small community of Jews — fewer than 120,000 people, or about 0.5% of the population — has lived relatively peacefully, said Wertheim.
Australia’s restrictive gun laws might have led the perpetrators to commit vandalism crimes, Vergani said. Semiautomatic rifles were outlawed in Australia after a gun massacre in 1996.
But the episodes have also driven a fraught political climate ahead of a national election due by May 17.
WHY ARE POLITICIANS DEBATING IT?
Antisemitic attacks have led national news and prompted daily questions for Albanese — and claims of inaction from his main political opponent, conservative Liberal party leader Dutton.
Meanwhile, Dutton’s detractors have lambasted him for politicizing the crimes — a charge he has rejected — and for urging a freeze on visas for Palestinians fleeing the war.
Vergani said Jewish people tell him they have not experienced such hatred in Australia before.
“They’ve never in their lives had this continuous feeling that something bigger could happen,” he said.
[GEO.TV] A Pakistain Army soldier embraced martyrdom and 12 bad boyz were potted in an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa's North Wazoo district, the military's media wing said on Thursday.
A statement from the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said: ''On February 5-6, security forces conducted an intelligence-based operation in general area Hassan Khel, North Waziristan District on the reported presence of khwarij."
Last summer the government of Pakistan declared the Tehrik-e-Pakistan (TTP) as "Fitna al-Khawarij,” functionally rebellious heretics, and then banned them. This had exactly the non-effect one would expect.
'During the conduct of the operation, own troops effectively engaged the khwarij location and resultantly 12 khwarij were sent to hell,'' the ISPR added.
However,
a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... during the exchange of fire, Lance Naik Muhammad Ibrahim, 34, a resident of District Hangu ''fought gallantly'' and was martyred.
"Weapons and ammunition were also recovered from the killed khwarij, who remained actively involved in numerous terrorist activities against the security forces as well as murder of innocent civilians."
Sanitisation operations were being conducted to eliminate any other terrorists, the military's media wing added.
"Security forces of Pakistain are determined to wipe out the menace of terrorism from the country and such sacrifices of our brave soldiers further strengthen our resolve,'' it concluded.
The operation is part of a sustained counter-terrorism effort as the country witnessed a surge in violent mostly peaceful attacks since the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021, particularly in the bordering provinces of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... The country witnessed a sharp increase in terror attacks in January 2025, surging by 42% compared to the previous month, according to data released by the Pakistain Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS), a think tank.
The data revealed that at least 74 krazed killer attacks were recorded nationwide, resulting in 91 fatalities, including 35 security personnel, 20 civilians, and 36 krazed killers. Another 117 individuals sustained injuries, including 53 security forces personnel, 54 civilians, and 10 krazed killers.
KP remained the worst-affected province, followed by Balochistan. In KP's settled districts, forces of Evil carried out 27 attacks, resulting in 19 fatalities, including 11 security personnel, six civilians, and two krazed killers.
[GulfNews] Aircraft used for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance went down in a rice field
A US Marine and three defence contractors were killed when their aircraft crashed in Maguindanao, southern Philippines, on Thursday, according to the US Indo-Pacific Command and a defense official.
The aircraft, a Beech King Air 300 contracted by the US military, was conducting an intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) mission in support of the Philippine government when it went down around 2 pm local time in a rice field in Ampatuan town, the website military.com reported.
NO SURVIVORS
In a statement, the Indo-Pacific Command confirmed:
No survivors were found.
The cause of the crash is under investigation.
The identities of the deceased are being withheld until families are notified.
A provincial disaster officer told the Associated Press that no civilians were harmed at the crash site, which has been secured by troops.
The aircraft, however, killed a water buffalo when it hit the ground.
CNN, citing publicly available data, reported that the aircraft is registered to Metrea Special Aerospace ISR, Inc..
Metrea’s website shows a Beechcraft King Air 350 – the type of aircraft that crashed – and advertises “integrated, turnkey Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (AISR) solutions to our defense partners.”
The Beechcraft crash occurred just a day after newly-appointed US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth held his first call with Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr.
According to an official readout, the two leaders discussed strengthening deterrence in the South China Sea and enhancing the Philippine military’s capabilities.
US MILITARY PRESENCE
The US military frequently operates in the Indo-Pacific as part of efforts to counter Chinese influence and train partner forces.
In the southern Philippines, US forces have long assisted in training Filipino troops battling communist rebels and militants.
The Indo-Pacific Command, one of six US combatant commands, oversees US military operations in the Asia-Pacific, working to protect US territories, allies, and strategic interests.
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I know the article doesn't say how it came down, but could you imagine losing power knowing you can't make it anywhere safe to land, doing everything right to glide down as soft as possible in a soft flat rice field, only to have a fucking water buffalo hidden in the field.
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Think about it from the water buffalo's point of view. You are standing there in the paddy minding your own buffalo business. You are munching leaves, maybe eyeing the lady water buffalos and suddenly, literally out of the blue, *WHAM*. It's enough to make you rethink your entire philosophical world view.
Calls to mind the Smite Button cartoon we discussed the other day.
[NAHARNET] The Lebanese Army has seized a Hezbollah truck loaded with weapons in the Iqlim al-Kharoub region near Sidon, media reports said Tuesday.
The weapons, including detonators and grenades, were taken from a warehouse in Wardaniyeh after it was targeted by an Israeli strike.
The drivers of the truck left it and bravely ran away when they noticed they had been followed by an Israeli drone, the reports said.
A ceasefire deal reached in late November gave Israel and Hezbollah 60 days to remove their forces from southern Leb ...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?... and for the Lebanese army to move in and secure the area.
Israel says Hezbollah and the Lebanese army haven't met their obligations, while Lebanon accuses the Israeli army of hindering the Lebanese military from taking over.
The 60-day deadline expired at the end of January. Israel said the agreement is progressing but, in some sectors, "it has been delayed and will take slightly longer."
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[NAHARNET] Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...> has named Hezbollah leader Sheikh Naim Qassem ... the Grand Vizier of the Hezbullies... as his "representative" in 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.... , Iranian media reported Wednesday.
"The leader of the revolution in a decree introduced Sheikh Naim Qassem, secretary general of Hezbollah, as his representative in Lebanon," Tasnim news agency said.
Tasnim carried a copy of the official decree which said Qassem will represent Khamenei in handling "non-litigious matters" and "managing religious affairs" in Lebanon.
The news agency recalled that Qassem's predecessor Sayyed ...Arabic term meaning your/his lordship. Groveling in His Exalted Presence is encouraged... His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The late, lamented satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...> -- who was killed in an Israeli air strike on Beirut's southern suburbs in September 27 -- had held the same title.
Hezbollah is part of the "axis of resistance", an alliance of Iran-backed gangs opposed to Israel and its U.S. ally.
Khamenei, who has the final say in all matters of state in Iran, has representatives in all of Iran's provinces with a mandate to collect religious funds and perform other duties.
Qassem was named Hezbollah leader in October after heir apparent Sayyed Hashem Safieddine was killed in an Israeli strike shortly after Nasrallah's death.
Hezbollah is to hold a public funeral for both Nasrallah and Safieddine on February 23. It had put off public commemorations for safety reasons until after a fragile ceasefire with Israel took hold on November 27.
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[NAHARNET] Paleostinian refugees in Leb ...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.... , many of whom in exile since 1948, believe that U.S. President Donald Trump ...They hit him with slander, they impeached him twice. Nancy Pelosi tore up his State of the Union address on national TV. They stole an election and put his adherents in jail. They vilified him. They couldn't crucify him, so they shot him. Still, they can't keep him down... 's proposal for 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... is doomed to fail, an activist said.
Suheil NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... ur, who heads an aid group in the Mar Elias camp in Beirut, said that neither the Paleostinians themselves nor the neighboring countries that Trump suggested might absorb them will accept the population transfer plan.
He said that even U.S. allies like Egypt or Jordan refuse to be threatened to absorb the Paleostinians from Gaza.
Fathi Kallab, a member of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Paleostine ... a breakaway faction of the Pöpular Frönt för the Liberation of Paleostine. The are regarded as the most intellectual of Paleostinian fedayeen groups, smoking cheap cigarettes and drawing heavily on Marxist-Leninist theory to explain their crappy lives. They can occasionally be seen strutting through the streets of Paleostine, dressed up like soldiers and lugging firearms, though they seldom manage to hit anything and then usually by accident. This may be because of their habit of wearing black masks that cut off most of their vision. That would also explain their habit of occasionally walking into walls, which is a well-known attribute of those immersed in true understanding of the dialectic... , a leftist political faction, said that the displacement of residents under humanitarian pretexts is ''considered a war crime punishable by law, as recognized by multiple international organizations.''
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[NAHARNET] The toppling of former Syrian President Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs... , who had strong ties to 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... and Hezbollah, has crippled Hezbollah's ability to bounce back by cutting off a vital weapons-smuggling route through Syria.
Syria's new president and Leb ...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects.... 's caretaker Prime Minister met last month in Damascus and discussed the relations between the two countries. In the meeting, Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa vowed that Syria will no longer allow the smuggling of weapons and money to Hezbollah, a local media report said.
The report, published Thursday in al-Akhbar, said al-Sharaa criticized Hezbollah and Iran for intervening in Syria's civil war. Hezbollah sent thousands of fighters to bolster Assad's forces when the civil war broke out in 2011. Assad had long played a strategic role in Iran's "axis of resistance", particularly in facilitating the supply of weapons to Hezbollah in neighboring Lebanon.
Al-Sharaa told Lebanese PM Najib Mikati that Hezbollah and Iran must "reconsider their policies in the region," al-Akhbar said.
Apart from the weapons-smuggling, Mikati and al-Sharaa discussed the land border demarcation between the two countries, the fate of thousands of missing Lebanese who disappeared at the hands of Assad's troops, and the repatriation of Syrian refugees in Lebanon to Syria.
The new Syrian President demanded patience from Mikati for the demarcation and the repatriation of Syrians. He said all prisons have been emptied from prisoners and warned the Lebanese PM against "Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group's attempts" to form cells in north Lebanon.
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[NAHARNET] Armed festivities erupted Thursday in the Syrian-Lebanese border region between the Zoaiter and Jaafar Lebanese clans and fighters from Syria's Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... , which consist the core of Syria's new Islamist-led authorities, media reports said.
''The Lebanese clans seized military equipment, killing two HTS members and capturing two others in the Syrian border town of Hawik, which has been historically inhabited by Lebanese residents,'' the reports said.
A shell meanwhile landed on the outskirts of the Lebanese border town of al-Qasr, wounding one person, reportedly a Lebanese Army soldier.
''Following festivities for more than two hours between HTS members and the clans, HTS forces entered the Syrian town of Hawik and Lebanese residents left the town for Lebanese territory, amid the blowing up of some houses at the hands of the HTS,'' reports said.
Fierce festivities were also reported in the Syrian area of Jirmash on Leb ...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.... 's border, also between the area's clans and Syria's new authorities.
The Lebanese Army meanwhile sent major reinforcements to the border area to prevent the entry of button men into Lebanese territory.
According to VDL radio (93.3) , light-, medium- and heavy-caliber weapons were used in the festivities.
Annahar newspaper for its part said that ''the Lebanese town of Hawik which overlaps with the Syrian border has come under fierce shelling from Syria's new administration from the neighboring town of Heet.''
''Mortar shells and 23mm anti-aircraft guns were used, as a number of residents sought to confront its efforts to erect checkpoints in the area to reinforce its authority and halt smuggling,'' the daily said.
A bigwig from the new Syrian administration meanwhile told Annahar that ''military reinforcements arrived yesterday, Wednesday in the area with the aim of securing the border and closing illegal crossings.''
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Using Shaheen drones and heavy weapons | Military Operations Administration attacks positions of gunmen close to Hez*bollah near Syria-Lebanon border#SOHRhttps://t.co/vr6uUMEKo1
11th explosion of its kind in two months | IED explodes near military headquarters of Turkish-backed faction in Manbij city#SOHRhttps://t.co/ZH3vN392Vy
Military escalation in east Aleppo countryside in nearly two months | Turkish forces and their proxies ki*ll 55 civilians, including 11 women and children#SOHRhttps://t.co/qas5KNH6hX
Indiscriminate gunfire | Two civilians ki*lled by members of Military Operations Administration chasing suspects in Latakia#SOHRhttps://t.co/nKCVVtTtFL
Lebanese social media accounts have shared footage showing the moment Israeli airstrikes struck Hassan Nasrallah’s bunker in Beirut’s southern suburbs. Reports claim the strike killed Nasrallah along with other senior Hezbollah commanders.@ariel_oseranpic.twitter.com/qk1E2gCkaa
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[FoxNews] U.S. Indo-Pacific Command says 3 defense contractors also involved in fatal crash
...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 braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...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?...
...Arabic term meaning 
...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....
Democratic Front for the Liberation of Paleostine
...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects....
...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....
