#3
FYI
; ,Years ago, there was a study in Europe that showed that people taking Aspirin undergoing intestinal surgery had almost no meta-static cancers.
I have been taking 325 mg of Ecotrin in the MORNING since 1960 because at that time it was known to cut heart attacks & strokes.
i do not know if it would help VDH, but wish i had shared my experience sooner.
🚨 BREAKING NEWS: PUNTLAND FORCES MOVE TO SECURE MOGADISHU AS SECURITY COLLAPSES
Puntland Defense Forces say they are stepping in to help stabilize #Mogadishu, citing widespread disorder and a lack of basic security that has forced them to deploy their own troops to protect… pic.twitter.com/0QoEta2tdF
🚨 BREAKING NEWS: PUNTLAND FORCES MOVE TO SECURE MOGADISHU AS SECURITY COLLAPSES
Puntland Defense Forces say they are stepping in to help stabilize #Mogadishu, citing widespread disorder and a lack of basic security that has forced them to deploy their own troops to protect personnel and maintain order.
“We brought our own forces because there is no reliable security structure on the ground,” a Puntland security official said, pointing to continued instability and lawlessness across Mogadishu.
#ALERT: Al-Shabaab Claims Seizure of Vehicles and Weapons After Clashes Near Barsanguuni
Al-Shabaab has released images purporting to show vehicles and various weapons it claims were seized during an attack carried out on Tuesday in the outskirts of the Barsanguuni area of the… pic.twitter.com/26WL8ewHYR
#ALERT: Al-Shabaab Claims Seizure of Vehicles and Weapons After Clashes Near Barsanguuni
Al-Shabaab has released images purporting to show vehicles and various weapons it claims were seized during an attack carried out on Tuesday in the outskirts of the Barsanguuni area of the Lower Juba region in southern Somalia.
In statements disseminated through its media channels, the militant group claimed that 32 soldiers were killed in the attack. These claims, as well as the authenticity of the images, could not be independently verified.
Le Groupe de soutien à l’islam et aux musulmans (JNIM) annonce avoir pris le contrôle d’un poste militaire de l’armée nigérienne à Kouré, dans la région de Tillabéri.
🔻 Bilan revendiqué : 3 soldats nigériens tués, 1 arme automatique et divers équipements… pic.twitter.com/QGQWfN83R8
The Support Group for Islam and Muslims (JNIM) announces that it has taken control of a Nigerien army military post in Kouré, in the Tillabéri region.
🔻 Claimed toll: 3 Nigerien soldiers killed, 1 automatic weapon and various equipment seized, 2 military vehicles destroyed, during the attack carried out on Friday, February 6, 2026.
🇲🇱 #Mali: Footage shows JNIM militants firing at a damaged Malian Army vehicle after it was destroyed by an IED between Ke-Macina and Markala in central Mali.
These kinds of attacks come as the group faces a turning point in its structure: JNIM leader Saa’d pledged allegiance to… pic.twitter.com/DECdS11KBr
🇲🇱 #Mali: Footage shows JNIM militants firing at a damaged Malian Army vehicle after it was destroyed by an IED between Ke-Macina and Markala in central Mali.
These kinds of attacks come as the group faces a turning point in its structure: JNIM leader Saa’d pledged allegiance to Islamic State in Sahel and defected. He was responsible for an area in eastern Burkina Faso and reportedly joined IS with a number of his men, marking one of the largest mass defections from JNIM to IS-Sahel in years.
#Congo (#DRC) 🇨🇩: Pro-Government militias reportedly surrender to the “March 23 Movement” (#M23) near #Masisi, North #Kivu.
At least one #China-made 🇨🇳 Type 69 RPG Launcher, numerous PKM pattern machine guns and AKM(S) / Type 56-1 rifles were obtained by M23. pic.twitter.com/rfwQVdgzgU
And they were all so proud of themselves for being merry pranksters. Now they can be fools with federal records.
[Reuters] Becky Ringstrom was heading home after following federal immigration officers in her gray Kia SUV in suburban Minneapolis when she was suddenly boxed in by unmarked vehicles. At least a half-dozen masked agents jumped out to arrest her, one knocking on her windshield with a metal object as if threatening to use it to break her window.
After the arrest, captured on bystander video verified by Reuters, the 42-year-old mother of seven
Seven? Doing her bit to forestall the predicted baby bust.
later said she was transported to Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis where an officer gave her a citation charging her under a federal law that criminalizes impeding law enforcement. The official said her name and photo would be added to a government database.
The arrest of Ringstrom became the latest detention of one of thousands of local activists for violating Title 18, Section 111 of the U.S. Code, a catch-all charge for anyone who “forcibly assaults, resists, opposes, impedes, intimidates, or interferes” with a federal officer conducting official duties. The statute can be charged as a felony or misdemeanor. As a felony, it carries up to 20 years in prison, but penalties beyond eight years are reserved for people who use “a deadly or dangerous weapon” or cause an injury.
A Reuters review of federal court records found that the Trump administration has prosecuted at least 655 people under that charge across the U.S. since a series of city-focused immigration crackdowns began last summer. That’s more than double the prosecutions during the same period in 2024-2025, according to a review of publicly available criminal filings in Westlaw, a legal research database owned by Thomson Reuters.
[Fox] The Federal Aviation Administration has grounded all flights to and from El Paso International Airport in Texas for the next 10 days, the agency announced Wednesday, warning that the U.S. government "may use deadly force" against an aircraft in violation, if it is deemed to pose "an imminent security threat."
All flights to and from El Paso are grounded, including commercial, cargo and general aviation. The restriction is effective from February 10 at 11:30 p.m. MST to February 20 at 11:30 p.m. MST. The FAA cited "special security reasons" for the closure, but did not elaborate.
The no-fly restriction applies to airspace over El Paso as well as nearby Santa Teresa, New Mexico.
El Paso airport issued a statement confirming the closure on Wednesday.
"Travelers should contact their airlines to get the most up-to-date flight status information," it said in a statement.
Former FAA safety team member Kyle Bailey told Fox News on Wednesday that a 10-day restriction like this is "unprecedented." He also noted the airport's proximity to the Fort Bliss Army post.
"It's definitely something like a national security event, a high-level VIP," Bailey speculated, "but the interesting thing is that on the Mexican side of the border there is no flight restriction."
"I think it's safe to say that it's something very big, either from a national security standpoint or perhaps testing something — equipment or something going into the air around the vicinity of those bases," he added.
Moved to Home Front: WoT based in update at 1:15 p.m from comments: FAA lifts El Paso flight restriction after US disables Mexican cartel drones that 'breached US airspace'
#3
Tried to pull up the NOTAMs for Biggs Army Airfield at Ft Bliss (BIF) but nothing unusual there - the runways are only 6 miles apart in a straight line
#7
The Dallas Morning News, citing AP & Bloomberg Wire, stated that the NOTAM goes up 17,999 feet.
A quick search of Wikipedia lists the max altitude of the Stinger missile as 15,200 feet. Does a hostile (Iranian or drug cartels) have 1 or more Stingers or some other MANPAD?
#13
They're moving equipment to strike Iran and don't want the mullahs knowing about it. Smart move, shows we're serious about this. They'll flee the country if they know what's good for them. Saddam didn't take the hint and wound up dangling from a noose.
Rememberthis gem: "Saddam Hussein and his sons must leave Iraq within 24 hours or face military conflict.
Several drones operated by the cartels in Mexico breached American Airspace overnight near El Paso, with electronic-warfare measures being utilized by the U.S. Army at Fort Bliss to down the drones, resulting in this morning’s Temporary Flight Restriction (TFR) issued by the… pic.twitter.com/ORGAyNwah1
It would seem several levels of management from several responsible agencies are running at a high pucker factor. Speaks to inexperience and a dread of DEI exposure.
[IsraelTimes] Security agency says members of the network, linked to Hamas and Hezbollah, were told to photograph Israeli settlement, underwent firearms training to prepare for planned attack
The Shin Bet security agency said on Tuesday that it had foiled a West Bank-based terror network that was being directed by figures in 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?... with ties to Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... and Hezbollah.
According to the agency, the network was tasked with photographing an Israeli settlement, and its members underwent firearms training in preparation for carrying out an attack.
Five Paleostinians from the West Bank were indicted in the affair.
In October 2025, the Shin Bet said, a Paleostinian from the West Bank village of Anza, Mohammad Sadka, was detained on suspicion of planning a terror attack.
The Shin Bet said its interrogation of Sadka revealed that he had traveled to Lebanon, where he was recruited by a Lebanese man, Musa Abu Saif, also known as Jibril, for the purpose of recruiting others for the terror network.
After returning to the West Bank from Lebanon, via Jordan, Sadka "recruited additional operatives to carry out attacks, including Mohammad Khalil, a resident of Ramallah, and Mohammad Barahmeh, a resident of Anza, who were also arrested for Shin Bet questioning," the agency said.
The Shin Bet said Sadka remained in contact with figures in Lebanon "through correspondence on social networks and via gaming applications."
At the same time, the Shin Bet said, another terror cell being managed by the same Lebanese figures was also uncovered, and two Paleostinians from the village of Tell, Dia a-Din Hamad and Nasser Asida, were arrested.
The agency said its interrogation revealed that those two Paleostinians were recruited by a Lebanese terror operative going by the name of Mujahid, alongside other Lebanese figures calling themselves Abu Ahmad and Abu Wahid. The Lebanese figures would maintain contact with the Paleostinians on social media, it said.
"As part of their recruitment, the two carried out firearms training in preparation for carrying out an attack, were asked to photograph a community in Samaria [the northern West Bank], and arrangements were made with them for the transfer of funds for the purchase of weapons," the security agency said.
The Shin Bet said that it emerged from its investigations and intelligence-gathering operations that the head of the framework in Lebanon that worked to recruit the two terror cells is Mujahid Dahsha, "a resident of Lebanon with ties to Hamas and Hezbollah operatives."
Violence in the West Bank has soared since the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on Israel triggered the two-year 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... war.
More than 1,000 Paleostinians have been killed in the West Bank by Israeli forces or settlers since the war started, according to the Paleostinia Authority health ministry. The IDF says the vast majority of them were button men killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops or holy warriors carrying out attacks.
During the same period, 65 civilians and Israeli security personnel have been killed in terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank. Another eight members of the security forces were killed in festivities during raids in Paleostinian cities in the West Bank.
The same period has also seen a major surge in attacks by murderous Moslem settlers on Paleostinians and their property across the West Bank. The IDF recorded 867 incidents of nationalistic crime and settler violence in 2025. The total for 2024 was 682 incidents.
One feels for them, truly. But perhaps instead of feeling sorry for themselves they should blame their overenthusiastic Palestinian brothers in both the West Bank and Gaza, who made it impossible for Israel to trust them to resist the hard jihad of the sword.
[IsraelTimes] Some 100,000 people whose permits were revoked after Oct. 7 Hamas attack face dwindling and dangerous options as economic crisis in territory worsens. Israel has since reinstated fewer than 10,000, according to Gisha, an Israeli group advocating for Palestinian freedom of movement.
Israel, which has controlled the West Bank for nearly six decades, says it is under no obligation to allow Palestinians to enter for work and makes such decisions based on security considerations. Thousands of Palestinians are still allowed to work in scores of Jewish settlements across the West Bank.
The World Bank has warned that the West Bank economy is at risk of collapse because of Israel’s restrictions. By the end of last year, unemployment had surged to nearly 30 percent compared with around 12% before the war, according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics.
Wages earned in Israel injected some $4 billion into the Palestinian economy in 2022, according to the Institute for National Security Studies, an Israeli think tank. That’s equivalent to about two-thirds of the Palestinian Authority’s budget that year.
[IsraelTimes] On Tuesday, the IDF said it targeted Hamas operatives in response to an attack on troops in the Rafah area the previous day.
According to Palestinian media, a drone strike on a motorcycle in central Gaza this morning killed three people, including a woman, and a strike on an apartment in Gaza City last night killed two men.
The military said the Hamas operatives it targeted in the strikes “advanced many terror attacks against IDF troops and the State of Israel,” but did not provide any further details.
The army said the strikes came in response to a “blatant violation” of the ceasefire deal on Monday, in which four gunmen emerged from a tunnel in eastern Rafah and opened fire on troops before being killed.
While the IDF statement only mentioned Hamas operatives, the UK-based Arabic outlet Asharq al-Awsat identified one of those killed in the strike as Assem Abu Holi, a “commander of the elite unit in al-Quds Brigades,” the armed wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
The strike also critically wounded another Islamic Jihad operative who was with Abu Holi and killed an elderly male passerby, according to the outlet. Some reports had said three people, including a woman, were killed.
According to Palestinian media, Abu Holi was killed in a strike on a motorized bike traveling on Gaza’s central Salah al-Din Road, at the entrance to the al-Musaddar, east of Deir al-Balah, and inside the Hamas-controlled side of the Gaza ceasefire line.
Al Jazeera published what it said was footage of the strike, filmed from a fixed position, which shows a man on an electric bicycle being targeted as it passes next to another man walking on the sidewalk.
A tanker truck traveling next to the bicycle briefly stops before making a left turn, while a pick-up truck driving behind the bicycle comes to an abrupt stop before the driver gets out to survey the damage.
In early February 2026, IDF forces located and destroyed a weapons depot belonging to the military-terrorist wing of the organization al-Jama’a al-Islamiyya in the Sunni village of Beit Jinn in southern Syria, at the foothills of Mount Hermon, near the Lebanese border. The depot… pic.twitter.com/tNG4s9srjn
In early February 2026, IDF forces located and destroyed a weapons depot belonging to the military-terrorist wing of the organization al-Jama’a al-Islamiyya in the Sunni village of Beit Jinn in southern Syria, at the foothills of Mount Hermon, near the Lebanese border. The depot contained weapons, mines, and communications equipment, and was used to advance terrorist activity against Israel from the southern Syrian arena.
The village of Beit Jinn, located approximately 6 km from the Israeli border, is a known center of terrorist activity for al-Jama’a al-Islamiyya and is geographically relatively close to the Sunni village of Habbariyeh, situated on the opposite side of Mount Hermon in southern Lebanon.
The village of Habbariyeh is also a known hub of the organization’s activity; on the night of 8–9 February, a senior operative was apprehended there by the IDF.
Both villages host military terrorist infrastructure of the organization, which constitutes the Lebanese branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. This military infrastructure operates under Hamas sponsorship and in coordination with Hezbollah. More at the link
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
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🚨 BREAKING NEWS: PUNTLAND FORCES MOVE TO SECURE MOGADISHU AS SECURITY COLLAPSES
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
