[SUDANTRIBUNE] The Sudanese army said it shot down seven drones on Friday that were targeting the Debba area in the Northern state.
In recent months, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have carried out a series of drone attacks targeting power stations in several states, including the Merowe Dam and Merowe power plants in the Northern State, the al-Shouk power plant in the state of Gadaref, the Um Dabakir power plant in the White Nile State, and a power plant in northern Omdurman.
The executive director of the Debba locality in the Northern State said in a press statement that ''the army's anti-aircraft systems and jamming equipment in the locality were able to shoot down seven drones launched by the RSF without any casualties.''
He strongly condemned the RSF's targeting of the area and declared the readiness and vigilance of the armed forces and other security services to confront any emergency.
Eyewitnesses reported that since about 2:00 AM on Friday, the RSF launched a swarm of drones towards the town of Debba, about 350 kilometres (217 miles) north of Khartoum, all of which were shot down by the army.
The witnesses said that the falling drones caused loud explosions, which caused panic and fear among the citizens.
The target of the attack on Debba remains unclear. While the power plant is a possibility, Debba's strategic location on the route to El Fasher, the North Darfur capital, suggests other potential objectives.
[SUDANTRIBUNE] Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... 's army said on Friday it had regained control of Abu Quta, a town in the far northwest of Al Jazirah state, which borders Khartoum and White Nile states.
The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) had held Abu Quta since December 2023. The town is about 65 kilometres (40 miles) from RSF positions in Jebel Aulia, southwest of Khartoum, and about 40 kilometres from al-Qutaina in White Nile state, also under RSF control.
''Our forces have completed today the clearing of the Abu Quta area and areas east of the Nile and Kafouri from the remnants of the terrorist militia of the Daglo family,'' army front man Brigadier General Nabil Abdallah said in a brief press statement.
Earlier on Friday, local resistance committees in Abu Quta reported fighting near the town's entrance, saying the army had advanced to within three kilometres before festivities moved to the south-eastern entrance.
The army's recapture of Abu Quta is part of a broader military operation to pressure the RSF in the capital, Khartoum. Fierce battles are being fought on the outskirts and within the city itself.
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Noora Shalash, who previously worked as the director of government affairs for CAIR’s Kentucky branch, was confronted by an individual in an office building after allegedly harassing a "visibly Jewish man." After being grilled for her alleged conduct, Shalash then went on an antisemitic diatribe.
"F—k the Jew. F—k the Zionist," Shalash said.
Shalash then said that she "loves Jesus" and claimed Jews "dishonor the Virgin Mary and call her a ’whore.'" She also called the man recording the video a "b—ch" and swiped her hand at his cellphone. A security guard intervened and physically pulled Shalash away while she appeared to continue attempting to assault the man.
"This is what Jews have to deal with in New York City," the man said.
The video, which was obtained and posted on X/Twitter by the watchdog group StopAntisemitism, quickly went viral on social media, gaining nearly 600,000 views within 16 hours.
CAIR National responded to the viral incident, claiming that Shalash had not been employed by the organization for five years and currently has "no other role at our civil rights group."
"We condemn and reject the antisemitic comments in the video, just as we condemn and reject the anti-Paleostinian racism and anti-Moslem hate," the organization added. *Wink Wink*
A picture circulated on social media showing CAIR identifying Shalash as a bigwig as of October 2020.
CAIR has long been a controversial organization. In the 2000s, the organization was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing case. Politico noted in 2010 that "US District Court Judge Jorge Solis found that the government presented ’ample evidence to establish the association'" of CAIR with the Paleostinian terrorist group Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... According to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), "some of CAIR’s current leadership had early connections with organizations that are or were affiliated with Hamas." CAIR has disputed the accuracy of the ADL’s claim and asserted that it "unequivocally condemn[s] all acts of terrorism, whether carried out by al-Qa’ida, the Real IRA, FARC, Hamas, ETA, or any other group designated by the US Department of State as a ’Foreign Terrorist Organization.'"
CAIR leaders have also found themselves embroiled in further controversy since Hamas’s massacre across southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
The head of CAIR, for example, said he was "happy" to witness Hamas’s rampage of rape, murder, and kidnapping of Israelis in what was the largest single-day slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust.
"The people of 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... only decided to break the siege — the walls of the concentration camp — on Oct. 7," CAIR co-founder and executive director Nihad Awad said in a speech during the American Moslems for Paleostine convention in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... last November. "And yes, I was happy to see people breaking the siege and throwing down the shackles of their own land, and walk free into their land, which they were not allowed to walk in.
Two commenters on the Instapundit post on the subject claimed to know/know about the Shalash family of Lexington, Kentucky. Bottom line, they are an immigrant clan of violent criminals, the kind who'll pull an AK-47 on a schoolboy who annoyed one of the youngsters of the family. Wanting evidence (of course!), I did a search, and discovered two articles about men with the same name and antecedents, so presumably relatives. The first, a report from the sixth federal appeals court, informs us that the FBI agrees with the Instapunditeers — one of the family appealed his federal conviction for stealing and trafficking in stolen baby formula on the basis that “…eight weeks prior to his trial, CBSNews reported that the FBI had traced money from baby formula traffickers to terrorist groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah…” and “…FBI Director Robert Mueller [told a reporter] that sales of black market baby formula have been used to fund terrorist organizations.”
A local newspaper informs us that a man with the same name, so presumably also a relative, a former imam for the Islamic Center of Lexington, went to jail for conspiring to a murder-for-hire of a third man who owed him money.
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Any bets CAIR tires to hold a press event and the following overused responses will be used: "an unfortunate incident", "not representative of", and "has take steps" and "no longer with us"?
At least it's out there in full view.
Now, any Politian, Hollywood type or local public face associating with, supporting or has supported CAIR in the past will be quickly associated with the GENOCIDAL / RACISM activities demonstrated by this group over the years.
Bell said building security called the cops, who responded and cuffed the woman.
She was taken to Bellevue Hospital for evaluation, law-enforcement sources said.
The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating the incident and conferring with Manhattan prosecutors on possible charges, including assault, sources said.
There’s a photo of her being taken away by an NYPD officer with her hands cuffed behind her back.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli soldiers, cops and Shin Bet agents continued the large-scale counterterrorism operation in the northern West Bank overnight, the IDF says in a statement.
The forces discovered and destroyed a bomb manufacturing lab along with several explosive devices.
They also arrested two terror suspects and took them for questioning, in addition to locating and seizing weapons and money used for terror activities, the statement says.
[IsrelTimes] The Shin Bet says in a statement that it foiled a planned Palestinian terror bombing of a bus in Jerusalem late last year.
During November and December 2024, Shin Bet agents and IDF soldiers arrested five operatives of a Ramallah-based terrorist cell, composed of Fatah and Hamas members, who planned to carry out the attack against the backdrop of the Gaza war.
During the operation, the Shin Bet confiscated an explosive device manufactured by the cell members which they planned to detonate remotely within Israel, as well as a Carlo submachine gun.
The five arrested are Ahmad Jassar Ali, Mundhir Sheikh Qassem, Bashir Awad, Omar Subah and Ali Shweiki.
The security agency says some members of the terrorist cell carried out a number of failed shooting attacks against IDF forces during the past year, all of which ended without casualties.
Indictments have recently been filed, charging the five men with membership in an illegal organization, shooting at a person, preparatory actions to kill, weapons possession, and attempting to manufacture weapons.
[IsraelTimes] Troops have been deployed to several points in Gaza, under the terms of the hostage-ceasefire deal with Hamas, to strengthen the layer of defense for Western Negev communities, the IDF says in a statement.
The IDF’s 99th, 143rd and 162nd Divisions also conducted several situational assessments in the field ahead of tomorrow’s hostage release, the military adds.
Under the terms of the ceasefire, Israel is to gradually withdraw from Gaza and free many hundreds of Palestinian security prisoners in return for the release of some of the hostages.
Israeli warplanes launch airstrikes on Hezbollah-linked sites along the Lebanon-Syria border. The IDF says the strikes were intelligence-based and aimed at preventing rearmament. #Lebanon#Syria#Israel#Hezbollahhttps://t.co/KvLU8nmzhH
Israeli fighter jets conducted a series of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s early Friday targeting military sites along the Leb ...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel... -Syria border, marking the second such attack since the recent ceasefire agreement.
According to Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency (NNA), Israeli warplanes struck positions in the eastern mountain range of Lebanon near the Syrian border. The attack was preceded by intense aerial surveillance, with Israeli jets flying at low altitude over Rashaya and Western Bekaa, and at higher altitude over Hermel and Northern Bekaa.
ISRAELI MILITARY JUSTIFICATION
The Israeli military spokesperson for Arabic media, Avichay Adraee, confirmed on X (formerly Twitter) that the airstrikes were intelligence-based operations against two Hezbollah-linked military sites inside Lebanese territory.
"The Israeli Air Force targeted Hezbollah weapons storage facilities to prevent rearmament and repositioning. We will continue to eliminate any threats against Israel," Adraee stated.
TARGETED AREAS
Lebanese sources, including Sputnik Arabic, reported that the strikes hit multiple locations, including:
Houmine
Sreej
Nabi Sheet
Jaroud Brital
A security source told Sputnik that the attack specifically targeted Hezbollah arms depots and infrastructure.
CEASEFIRE VIOLATIONS?
This marks the second Israeli attack on Bekaa Valley targets since the ceasefire agreement. While Israel claims the strikes are defensive, Hezbollah and Lebanese officials have yet to issue a formal response.
With tensions rising in the region, it remains to be seen whether these strikes will trigger further escalation between Israel and Hezbollah.
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[IsraelTimes] Keith Siegel was made to lie down at all times for the last two months of captivity; Romi Gonen, so deprived of food, no longer recognized feeling of hunger upon her release
For the final two months of his captivity 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... , American-Israeli Keith Siegel was forced to lie down at all times in a cramped room. For most of his ordeal, there was little electricity or running water, which made hygiene impossible, he said.
When he returned to Israel last week, gaunt and pale, the first words to his family, according to his brother, Lee Siegel, were: "I’m back, I’m home."
Then, he asked, "What can I do to help bring the other hostages home?"
Hostages are returning after 15 months in captivity as part of a deal between Israel and the Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... terror group, and with their freedom, the first details of their ordeals are emerging.
Their accounts, told mostly through relatives, are shining a light on what the roughly 75 captives who remain in Gaza are facing and are driving families of the released captives to keep up their public campaign until everyone is free.
"My family and I traveled the globe, knocking on every door, sharing our story with anyone who would listen," Siegel’s wife, Aviva, a former hostage, told news hounds after the release of her husband.
"We must not rest. We must not turn away," she said, adding that the "hostages remaining in Gaza deserve better."
After 15 months of devastating war sparked by Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack — when some 3,000 forces of Evil invaded southern Israel, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages — Hamas and Israel agreed to a three-stage deal last month for the release of the hostages, the freeing of thousands of Paleostinian security prisoners, and a stop to fighting in the Gaza Strip.
The families of the hostages and their supporters have waged a tireless campaign in Israel and abroad to keep public attention on their loved ones and secure their release.
Their commitment to securing the release of all the remaining hostages is made all the more difficult because extension of the ceasefire is not guaranteed and relies on renewed negotiations between Israel and Hamas to carry the deal into its second stage, when more hostages are expected to be freed, along with more Paleostinian security prisoners.
Siegel, 65, originally from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, was taken captive along with Aviva from Kibbutz Kfar Aza, one of the communities hardest hit in Hamas’s attack. She was released during a previous hostage-ceasefire deal in November 2023.
Lee Siegel, 73, said his brother told the family he was moved frequently and that for about six months, he was kept alone, separate from other hostages. Beyond what his captors told him, he had very little exposure to the outside world, other than hearing rare snippets of radio or TV reports.
For long periods, he was required to stay silent, he told his family.
Siegel drew on his meditation practice to help him stay grounded, his brother said. He would keep track of time by saying the date and the day of the week every day.
Siegel would have imagined conversations with each family member, according to his brother. If his captors allowed him to speak aloud, he would whisper these; otherwise, he would have the conversations silently in his head. He would say, "Aviva, I love you," or to his daughter, "Gal, I dreamed of you, I saw you."
Even as he has started sharing some of his experiences with the family, Lee Siegel said they can’t begin to comprehend his ordeal. His brother is also grappling with the challenges of catching up on everything he missed, the seismic changes in Israel, as well as personal family news: the death of their mother, the birth of great nieces and nephews.
"It’s a human being who was taken for 484 days, suffering the worst things we can appreciate," Lee Siegel said.
Romi Gonen, 24, who was released on the first day of the recent ceasefire, will need a complex surgery and lengthy physical therapy for an untreated hand wound she suffered during the Hamas attack, according to her mother, Meirav Leshem Gonen.
While doctors said Gonen’s condition was stable when she returned, her mother said her skin was gray after being kept out of sunlight for nearly her entire captivity.
Leshem Gonen said her daughter lost 10 kilograms (22 pounds), a fifth of her body weight, and was often deprived of food by her captors, even when they had food to share.
When she was freed, Gonen had lost the ability to recognize hunger and didn’t want to eat at all, her mother said, adding that it was more than two weeks before she finally asked for something specific to eat.
Gonen has spoken very little to her family about what she went through, except to share humorous stories, trying to inject a bit of levity into a horrific situation because that’s the kind of person she is, her mother said.
"I ask everybody to take action to make sure the ceasefire will continue for the hostages to get out," said Leshem Gonen, who has been a prominent voice for the hostages’ freedom and has continued the campaign for those still in captivity.
Lee Siegel said his family is taking some time to themselves before returning to the demonstrations, overseas travel and media interviews for the remaining hostages’ release.
For now, the family is concentrating on the small things: just being able to embrace Siegel.
"It will take time for him to regroup physically and emotionally, but he’s strong, and he’s resilient," Lee Siegel said.
"Actually, I think he provides us with more strength than we can provide for him."
[IsraelTimes] A Hezbollah field commander was killed in southern Lebanon this morning when an explosive device intended for a terror attack detonated, according to the Israeli military. "I preheated the oven for a potroast"
"You took out the bomb first, right? Aiiieeeee!"
The IDF’s Arabic-language spokesman Lt. Col. Avichay Adraee says in a post on X that the explosion killed the Hezbollah commander, Abbas Haidar, along with his family, in the Tyre area.
“I remind the Lebanese people that Hezbollah weaponry is a double-edged sword and risks, first and foremost, the Lebanese population and even the Hezbollah environment itself. Stay away from Hezbollah weapons!”
Creep, EMS Artifact, creep,
Deep into the deepest of sleep...
[smoking ghost of Magritte
grinds his teeth in defeat,
growls, "Ce n'était pas une kaboume pipe!"]
Protests erupt in Damascus as residents demand the trial of Fadi Saqr, a former National Defense Forces commander. Demonstrators in al-Tadamon neighborhood reject his return and call for accountability. #Damascus#Justice#Syriahttps://t.co/vMAVWlxirr
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel...
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
