[Guardian] Political instability and fuel shortages caused by rebel group is driving Mali to brink of becoming Islamist republic
Armed groups of JNIM fighters have blocked key routes used by fuel tankers, disrupting supply lines to the capital Bamako and other regions across Mali.
The al-Qaida-linked jihadist group Jama’at Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM) is gradually converging on Mali’s capital, Bamako, with increasing attacks in recent weeks, including on army-backed convoys.
Should the city fall, the west African country would be on its way to becoming an Islamist republic with strict interpretations of sharia law.
That would fulfil a jihadist mandate following in the steps of Taliban-ruled Afghanistan or Syria, where the former rebel Ahmed al-Sharaa, previously known by his nom de guerre, Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, is now head of state. In areas under its control, JNIM is already enforcing dress codes and punishments via courts that, as Human Rights Watch noted in a 2024 report, did not adhere to fair trial standards.
…had launched a major security operation against them and asked for backup from the army and state. He later frequently criticized Sheinbaum for doing nothing against organized crime.
He was viewed as someone who could challenge Sheinbaum in the next preidential election in 2030 (they were both from the same Morena Party).
He was shot dead yesterday evening while celebrating the Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos) with his young son and wife.
Mexicans are outraged by the murder and the cartel violence. They will now take to the streets to protest on November 15th.
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[Regnum] An explosion at a Waldo's store in Hermosillo, Mexico, killed 22 people. Universal reported this on November 1
“Twelve people were injured and 22 died, including four minors,” the publication noted.
According to the publication, a fire broke out in the building after the explosion, and emergency services quickly arrived at the scene. The preliminary cause of the incident is believed to be the possible involvement of a car parked outside the store, but the exact circumstances are still being investigated.
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[Regnum] A Syrian citizen planning a terrorist attack has been detained in Berlin, Bild reported on November 2.
According to the publication, a Syrian citizen named Abdallah R. was detained by special police forces in the Neukölln district the day before. Given the high level of danger posed by the perpetrator, officers from the State Security Service and the Special Operations Command (SEK) participated in the operation.
Bomb-making materials were seized during the operation. Authorities believe Abdallah R. intended to carry out a terrorist attack specifically in Berlin, although the specific target has not been disclosed. The perpetrator reportedly changed addresses at least three times while living in the German capital.
On Sunday, the suspect is scheduled to be brought to court to determine whether he will be remanded in custody.
German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said that the Syrian had been in Germany since 2023.
Equipment suitable for making a bomb was seized following a search by special police units of three Berlin residential addresses linked to the suspect, officials said.
According to prosecutors, the man shared propaganda on 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.... " terrorist organization on social media. The material included jihadi songs, along with a call for them to be disseminated.
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[Breitbart] Federal authorities charged two Alabama residents with trafficking hundreds of firearms after uncovering what officials are calling the largest weapons seizure at the Southwest border—more than 500 guns allegedly bound for a Mexican drug cartel, hidden in false-walled trailers intercepted at the Juarez-Lincoln Port of Entry in Laredo, Texas. Authorities allege the pair intended to smuggle the weapons into Mexico on behalf of a Mexican drug cartel.
Emilio Ramirez Cortes, 48, a Mexican citizen who legally resides in the United States, and his son, Edgar Emilio Ramirez Diaz, are accused of attempting to smuggle weapons to Mexico on October 23. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers arrested the pair after discovering the guns, magazines, and ammunition hidden within the walls of a trailer the duo was pulling as they attempted to make a border crossing into Mexico.
According to the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas, the pair made their initial appearances in Laredo federal court. They will remain in custody pending a detention hearing.
Both are charged with smuggling firearms, ammunition, magazines, and other firearm accessories, as well as trafficking weapons.
Attorney General Pam Bondi commented on the arrest, saying, “Disrupting the illegal flow of weapons into Mexico is a key part of our whole-of-government approach to dismantling the cartels. This significant seizure represents our commitment to protecting Americans from brutal cartel violence.”
According to court documents, on Oct. 23, two vehicles appeared to be driving in tandem while approaching the Juarez-Lincoln Port of Entry in Laredo. The charges contained in the criminal complaint allege Ramirez Diaz was driving a Chevrolet Tahoe with Alabama license plates, followed by his father in a Chevrolet Silverado with Mexican license plates. Both vehicles were allegedly hauling enclosed white box utility trailers.
The criminal complaint alleges authorities found false walls in both trailers. An inspection of the trailers resulted in the discovery of more than 300 rifles and pistols, as well as various caliber ammunition and magazines. In a Friday social media post on X, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem indicated the total amount of firearms discovered was more than 500, calling the find “the largest weapons seizure at the Southwest land border.”
According to court records, the men were smuggling the weapons and related items in exchange for payment and had done so on multiple occasions.
So there will be bank accounts and properties to seize as ill-gotten gains, to help pay for the cost of the operation? Super.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives agents, along with U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, conducted the investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorney Brandon Scott Bowling is prosecuting the case.
According to the Department of Justice, this case is part of Operation Take Back America. This nationwide initiative marshals the full resources of the Department of Justice to repel the invasion of illegal immigration, achieve the total elimination of cartels and transnational criminal organizations, and protect communities from the perpetrators of violent crime.
ICE Director Tom Homan says Trump is deploying 10,000 new agents to ramp up deportations.
“We’re gonna blow this historic number [of deportations] out of the water next year!” “We gotta look for that 10.5 million illegal aliens that came across… in addition to 15 million… pic.twitter.com/LkVaW6pBDE
[IsraelTimes] Prosecutors file charges against a 14-year-old and accuse him of spying for al-Qaeda, after he was arrested last month in the West Bank while visiting his mother’s family.
The minor, whose name is barred from publication, is charged today in the Tel Aviv Juvenile District Court with maintaining contact with a foreign agent and providing intelligence to benefit the enemy.
The defendant, an Arab Israeli teen from Jaffa, has been diagnosed with autism and is developmentally challenged, according to his lawyer.
The boy had allegedly been active in an al-Qaeda group chat called “Cyber and Armed Jihad Movement” on the Signal messaging app, run by an agent for the terror group. He filmed two buildings formerly used as military facilities and provided the agent with their coordinates, prosecutors say. He supposedly planned to photograph a large police station in Tel Aviv, but never followed through with that.
In the group chat, he allegedly expressed his desire to assassinate Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and carry out a suicide attack against Israelis. He attempted to join Hamas and began to experiment with constructing homemade explosives, prosecutors add.
The boy’s mother has insisted on his innocence and urged that he be released from detention and undergo a psychiatric evaluation. He is being held in the Russian Compound, a detention facility in Jerusalem, where he has been subjected to beatings from guards and inmates, according to his lawyer.
[IsraelTimes] Police say they detained a man who threatened to carry out a terror attack in Ramle and shot his dog, after it bit one of the officers arresting him this morning.
The suspect, a resident of Ramle in his 20s, was arrested alongside another man who tried to attack police after they arrived at the suspect’s home. Police will bring the two men to court and request an extension on their remand, law enforcement says.
A photo shared by police shows the suspect during a TikTok livestream, his face obscured with a balaclava, during which he reportedly threatened to carry out the attack.
[IsraelTimes] Man is accused of sending photos of tourist sites to Iranian agents, who also allegedly asked for info on crime families and IDF soldiers
Prosecutors filed charges Sunday morning against a suspected spy for 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... who allegedly took photos of Dead Sea hotels and passed them to his handlers, law enforcement announced, in the latest in a string of such cases.
Tiberias resident Yosef Ein-Eli, 23, was suspected of maintaining contact with Iranian agents since late 2024, for whom he spied in exchange for digital payments.
The Israel Police and the Shin Bet announced his arrest in early October, though his identity was kept under wraps at the time.
While working at a hotel near the Dead Sea, Ein-Eli allegedly passed information to his handlers about his place of work and other hotels in the area, as well as tourist sites in southern Israel.
He was also asked to gather intelligence on National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, various crime families in Israel and unspecified IDF soldiers. However,
alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... he is not known to have carried out these tasks.
His handlers also tried, without success, to convince him to throw a grenade at a house, set cars on fire and take photos in army bases.
Ein-Eli was arrested in September and was investigated by the Shin Bet and the police’s Lahav 433 major crimes unit. He was indicted Sunday in the Beersheba District Court, police said.
The indictment is the latest in a series of dozens of Iranian espionage cases exposed over the past two years, as authorities intensify efforts to crack down on spies recruited online by Iranian agents.
Prosecutors filed charges last month against IDF reservist Maor Kringel, 27, and his associate Tal Amram, accusing them of spying for Iran over the course of months. Kringel had been on reserve duty for part of the time of his alleged contact with Iranian agents. At one point, his handler suggested he assassinate his commanding officer for NIS 100,000 ($30,000), but the accused did not follow through, the indictment noted.
The growing number of Iranian agents even prompted Israel to open up a new wing for them in Haifa’s Damon prison.
[X] Trapped in their tunnels is precisely as it should be. Let them surrender and give up their arms, as Israel requires.
About 200 Hamas fighters remain trapped in tunnels under Rafah and Khan Younis, in zones recently hit by clashes with the IDF. According to Al-Arabiya, talks are underway with mediators to arrange their safe passage. pic.twitter.com/i0qN7SQgbr
The operative had approached troops “in a way that posed an immediate threat,” the military says, adding that shortly after he was identified, the Israeli Air Force struck him “to remove the threat.”
Palestinian media also reports that one person was killed in the strike, which took place in Gaza City’s eastern Shejaiya neighborhood.
Netanyahu says Hamas’s “attempts to deceive us, the US, and the world” are pathetic.
“They will not succeed, and we will gradually bring back all our hostages,” he continues. “This is our commitment.”
He stresses that protecting IDF forces in Gaza is a top priority.
“My directive is unequivocal,” says Netanyahu. “If there is any attempt to harm our soldiers, we strike those who attack and their networks — in defense of our troops.”
“We report to our American friends, but we do not seek their permission,” he insists, after growing criticism that crucial decisions on the future of Gaza are being made by the White House. “I hear statements that are simply untrue. We retain full security responsibility and will not relinquish it.”
Netanyahu promises that Hamas will be disarmed, and that Gaza will be demilitarized. “It is an understanding I share with President Trump, and we are acting according to a clear framework. If it cannot be achieved one way, it will be achieved another way — and everyone knows what that other way is, and who will carry it out.”
Turning to Lebanon, Netanyahu says that Hezbollah is looking to rearm.
“We expect the Lebanese government to uphold its commitments, namely to disarm Hezbollah,” Netanyahu says. “But it is clear that we will exercise our right to self-defense as stipulated in the ceasefire terms. We will not allow Lebanon to become a renewed front against us, and we will act as necessary.”
Netanyahu also pledges that Israel “will do whatever is necessary to eliminate” the Houthi threat from Yemen.
The meeting is attended by billionaire philanthropist Sylvan Adams, who pledged $100 million to renovate and expand Soroka Hospital in Beersheba, which was damaged by an Iranian missile.
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[X] So Hamas has acted every day since they took control of Gaza from the Palestinian Authority two decades ago. This particular act is nothing special.
Disturbing account emerging from Gaza:
Hamas gunmen seized a 16-year-old boy, beat him savagely, and shattered both his legs. Hours later, they returned to his parents’ home to apologize, saying it was all a “mistake”, he wasn’t even their target. pic.twitter.com/mfZwHWKMQE
Israeli reportedly struck an area in the area of Nabatieh in southern Lebanon.
The town had a heavy Hezbollah presence during and served as a stronghold for the organization during the heavy fighting between Hezbollah and Israel last year. pic.twitter.com/tArjvNIHhK
The IDF confirmed Sunday morning that it had killed four members of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force in an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in 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?... on Saturday night. A fifth Hezbollah officer was killed Friday.
Under the November 27 ceasefire deal, which followed over a year of hostilities, Hezbollah was required to vacate southern Lebanon and be replaced by the Lebanese military. Israel, which invaded Lebanon late September last year, was also required to withdraw, but regularly strikes what it says are Hezbollah targets breaching the ceasefire, and maintains a troop presence in five strategic locations.
On Sunday, Egypt stated its support for Beirut’s position, with Egyptian Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouly saying in a joint presser in Beirut with his Lebanese counterpart Nawaf Salam that "we reject any Israeli presence on Lebanese territory, and we support you in taking the necessary steps to stabilize the current situation in Lebanon."
Netanyahu’s comments came after Defense Minister Israel Katz accused Lebanese President Joseph Aoun of "dragging his feet" on the matter.
However,
you can observe a lot just by watching... Lebanese army sources told Rooters last week they had blown up so many Hezbollah arms caches that they had run out of explosives and they expect to complete their sweep of the country’s south by the end of the year.
’ISRAEL HAS BEEN OUR ENEMY FOR DECADES’ Meanwhile,
...back at the palazzo, Count Guido had escaped from his bonds and overwhelmed his guard using the bludgeon the faithful Filomena had smuggled to him in the loaf of bread... hundreds of people gathered in Nabatieh in southern Lebanon for the funeral of five recently slain Hezbollah members.
Four of the slain operatives, who were killed by the IDF on Saturday, were members of the elite Radwan unit, and the fifth, who was killed on Friday, was a Hezbollah logistics officer working to reestablish Hezbollah’s infrastructure in south Lebanon, according to the IDF.
The men’s coffins were draped in Hezbollah’s flag while mourners threw petals and chanted "death to Israel, death to America." Hezbollah members in military garb were present, swearing loyalty to His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The late, lamented satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...> , the group’s leader who was killed by Israel in September 2024, and to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...> Some held pictures of relatives killed by Israel, according to an AFP correspondent.
"This is a price the south is paying on a daily basis," Rana Hamed, the mother of one the five men killed, told AFP. "We know that Israel has been our enemy for decades."
[Rudaw] Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Saturday said they "dismantled" an 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) cell, in a "precise" security operation in coordination with international coalition forces in Raqqa province, capturing five holy warriors.
"As part of our ongoing national mission to protect the regions of North and East Syria from the threat of terrorism, our military operations teams (TOL) and Commando Forces, with direct support from the International Coalition, carried out a precise and high-level operation at dawn today targeting a hideout of an ISIS terrorist cell in the town of Tal al-Saman, north of Raqqa," the SDF said in a statement.
The SDF said the operation resulted in the capture of "five ISIS terrorists, including three big shots involved in planning and carrying out terrorist attacks against our military points and institutions of the Autonomous Administration."
It detailed that these individuals were "actively working to spread chaos and destabilize the region."
The coordinated operation "followed extensive intelligence monitoring of the cell’s movements, communications, and preparations to launch new attacks against our forces and civil institutions."
ISIS was declared territorially defeated in Syria in 2019, but the group has sought to regain ground by taking advantage of the instability that followed the fall of longtime dictator Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad The Scourge of Hama... in December.
The SDF has carried out several recent operations against the jihadists in Raqqa, the city ISIS had named as the capital of its so-called caliphate.
In October, the Kurdish-led force said they captured a "dangerous" ISIS commander in Raqqa province, reportedly responsible for overseeing the distribution of weapons and coordinating activity among the group’s sleeper cells.
In mid-September, the SDF said it had detained another ISIS operative in Raqqa, allegedly involved in manufacturing improvised bombs (IEDs) using TNT. The force seized 180 blocks of explosives and related materials.
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.
...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 
...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 
...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?...
...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 
