I just voted in the California primary election. As you know, in California we all get mail-incheat-by-mail ballots. That means the state mails the ballots to our homes regardless of whether or not we are citizens who have legally registered to vote in our districts or even if we're still alive. But, oh well, that's another story. Inside the envelope is the ballot and a return envelope that we can use to either mail the ballot to the Registrar of Voters or drop into a designated drop box. So I fill out my ballot and I'm putting it into the return envelope and I notice when I'm about to lick the glue to seal the return envelope that it says not to forget to sign and date the envelope. So I sign and date it. Then I start thinking (now Abu, you're not supposed to think), "How is this a secret ballot if my signature is on the envelope?"
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Sorry about going off topic but I was just sitting here at my desk, filling out my ballot and it bothered me so I'm taking it out on Rantburg.
But, yes, Doris Day is an American icon, she was a beautiful lady and I enjoy her movies whenever TCM runs them.
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"How is this a secret ballot if my signature is on the envelope?"
The envelope is separated after determining the authenticity of the signature. After determining the Republican party vote line, the ballot is destroyed. /*cynically*
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[Garowe] A Somali military court has heard a case against two Æthiopian nationals accused of having links to the Islamist holy warrior group al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... , judicial officials said.
The suspects, identified by prosecutors as Hamza Ibrahim Ali Abu Irshad and Nasri Abdirahman Ali Abu Safiya, appeared before the First Instance Court of the Somali Armed Forces, where military prosecutors outlined charges related to alleged involvement with the al Qaeda-linked bad boy group.
According to the prosecution, the two men were born in the Æthiopian city of Harar and are fluent Somali speakers. They were arrested during a planned operation conducted by Somali intelligence officers in the southwestern city of Baydhabo, the administrative capital of the Bay region.
Military prosecutors told the court that the charges concern alleged participation in combat activities, holy warrior training, and the circumstances surrounding the suspects' entry into Somalia. They requested that the court impose an appropriate sentence if the accusations are proven, arguing that such a ruling would serve as a deterrent to others seeking to join al-Shabaab.
Defense lawyers rejected the allegations, saying the defendants had not committed the offenses attributed to them and describing the charges as serious but unsubstantiated. The defense urged the court to allow the two men to return to Æthiopia and reunite with their families.
The military court said it is reviewing arguments presented by both the prosecution and defense and will announce a final verdict once its examination of the case is completed.
Somalia has intensified security operations against al-Shabaab in recent years, with authorities frequently bringing suspected members and collaborators before military courts as part of broader efforts to curb the group's insurgency.
[ShabelleMedia] Somalia’s national army has killed two members of the bully boy group al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... , including a senior commander, during a planned military operation in the Hanti Wadaag area of the Lower Shabelle region, the government said on Sunday.
According to a statement issued by Somalia’s Ministry of Defence, troops targeted and killed a commander identified as Abu Cabdalla, who was accused of playing a key role in organizing and directing al-Shabaab activities in Lower Shabelle.
The ministry said the commander had been involved for an extended period in planning and carrying out operations that threatened the security of local communities in the region.
The operation also killed Abu Cabdalla’s personal bodyguard, with security forces successfully completing the mission, the statement added.
Officials described the slain commander as one of the group’s important figures in the area, responsible for coordinating bully boy activities and supporting al-Shabaab’s operations across parts of Lower Shabelle.
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[Regnum] Pirates have seized a tanker loaded with oil products off the northeastern coast of Somalia in the Indian Ocean. This was reported on May 31 by the Somali television channel Dalsan.
It is specified that the vessel was detained by unidentified persons in the waters between the coastal towns of Hafun and Bandarbeila in the Bari region of Puntland province, while it was traveling with cargo from the port city of Berbera in Somaliland to the Somali capital, Mogadishu.
The UK Maritime Trade Office (UKMTO) confirmed the attack on the vessel. According to preliminary reports, the tanker belongs to a Pakistani businessman.
Authorities are not disclosing the exact number of crew members on board the vessel or their nationalities. The circumstances of the tanker's hijacking are being investigated.
Earlier, armed men hijacked an oil tanker off the coast of Yemen. The pirates boarded the vessel, seized it, and sailed it toward the Gulf of Aden, heading for Somalia. Later, thanks to prompt action by the coast guard, the vessel's precise coordinates were determined. Efforts are currently underway to recover it.
[ShabelleMedia] Somali National Army forces carried out planned operations targeting snuffies in parts of the Middle Shabelle region, the military said.
The operations took place in the areas of Jabad Carbeyd and Dabagaab and were conducted by the 195th Battalion of the 19th Brigade, Gorgor Commando Unit, according to a statement.
The army said the mission aimed to strengthen security and prevent what it described as threats posed by snuffies hiding in parts of the region.
Military officials said operations in Middle Shabelle have been intensified in recent days as forces pursue remaining Death Eater fighters and individuals accused of destabilizing peace and security in the area.
The Somali National Army has been conducting a series of coordinated offensives in central and southern Somalia in an effort to weaken armed bad boy networks operating in rural areas.
[KhaamaPress] Two Afghan nationals were killed alongside members of a Pak Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... faction during a military operation in northwestern Pakistain, according to a report by Pak newspaper Dawn.
The report said the bandidossnuffies were killed during security operations conducted on Friday and Saturday in the Dara Adam Khel area of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. The operation targeted fighters linked to the Tariq Gidar faction of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP).
According to the report, the two Afghan nationals killed in the operation were identified as Zainatullah and Qari Longin. Pak security forces have continued operations in the area as part of a broader campaign against holy warrior groups.
Pak authorities have intensified counterterrorism operations in recent months following a series of attacks on security personnel and civilians, particularly in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and neighboring border regions. Officials say holy warrior networks continue to operate in remote areas near the Afghanistan border.
Islamabad has repeatedly accused the Taliban administration in Afghanistan of failing to prevent TTP fighters from using Afghanistan territory to organize and launch attacks inside Pakistain. Taliban officials have consistently rejected the allegations, insisting that Afghanistan soil is not being used against other countries.
Security tensions between Afghanistan and Pakistain have remained high since the Taliban returned to power in Kabul in August 2021. Pakistain says holy warrior violence has increased significantly during that period, while Afghan authorities argue that Pakistain’s security challenges are an internal matter.
The TTP, a separate organization from the Afghan Taliban, has carried out numerous attacks across Pakistain over the past several years. The group seeks to overthrow the Pak state and impose its interpretation of Islamic law, making it one of the country’s most significant security threats.
[Rudaw] A base belonging to the Iranian Kurdish opposition party Komala was targeted by Iranian missiles in Erbil province late Sunday, a senior party official said.
"As Iran’s Islamic Theocratic Republic continues its attacks against Komala, tonight at 22:40, two missiles struck the headquarters of the Kurdistan Toilers Party (Komala) in Alana Valley," Amjad Hussein Panahi said in a Facebook post. The valley is located in Khalidan district of Erbil province.
"Since the start of its war with the United States and Israel, the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... has targeted Komala’s bases and headquarters with more than 81 missiles and drones," he added.
The Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK), another Iranian Kurdish opposition group based in the Kurdistan Region, said earlier on Sunday that one of its bases near Erbil was struck by an Iranian missile.
"PAK has been attacked between 50 and 60 times since the beginning of the [Iran] war," PAK spokesperson Khalil Kani Sanani said, attributing the missile strikes to Iranian forces while noting that drones are launched by Iran-backed gangs in Iraq.
The US and Israel launched a large-scale aerial campaign against Iran in late February, striking thousands of targets across the country during six weeks of hostilities.
In response, Iran carried out thousands of drone and missile strikes across the Middle East, targeting alleged US assets - particularly in Gulf Arab states - while also launching retaliatory attacks against Israel.
The Iranian response also involved factions aligned with the Iran-led "Axis of Resistance®," including gangs in Iraq that claimed numerous attacks on alleged US targets in Iraq and the Kurdistan Region.
Tehran and its allied factions have also intensified attacks on Kurdish dissident groups in the Kurdistan Region.
According to Rudaw tracking through May 21, the Kurdistan Region has endured approximately 857 drone and missile attacks since the outbreak of the Iran war in late February, resulting in at least 20 deaths and nearly 130 injuries.
[FoxNews] Hezbollah has begun unleashing "game changing" waves of "lethal" nighttime drones against Israel, a defense expert warns, with the attacks contributing to casualties, defense breaches and plunging parts of the border region into chaos, according to reports.
Escalating deployments by Hezbollah had also prompted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to convene an emergency security meeting on May 30 following a surprise Hezbollah strike, amid reports of "utter chaos" as Israeli forces scrambled to respond.
"These nighttime drones are the very small Category 1 and Category 2 drones," defense expert and Draganfly CEO Cameron Chell told Fox News Digital.
"They are generally used by squads on the ground to go and conduct tactical lethal missions or surveillance missions right in theater immediately. What they are able to do is use thermal sensors to be able to fly at night and use heat signatures to spot IDF troops," he said.
[IsraelTimes] 30-year-old Palestinian attacker shot dead at scene; MDA says victims are 17 and 15; army says soldier who shot terrorist also provided emergency care for wounded at scene
Two teenage girls were maimed, including one seriously, in a car-ramming terror attack in the West Bank on Sunday evening, with the attacker rubbed out by IDF troops at the scene.
The victims of the attack were a 17-year-old girl, who is at death's door, and a 15-year-old girl, who was moderately injured, according to the Magen David Adom emergency services. An MDA medic told news hounds at the scene that the seriously maimed girl suffered injuries to her lower body, with the other sustaining moderate facial injuries, and that both were taken to a hospital for treatment.
The terrorist, who drove his car into a bus stop at the Gush Etzion Junction, was rubbed out by a soldier during the attack, the army said, adding that troops were enforcing road closures in the area.
The assailant was identified as a 30-year-old Paleostinian from the Hebron area.
Visiting the scene, the IDF West Bank division chief Brig. Gen. Kobi Heller praised the soldier, a sergeant in the Kfir Brigade’s Nahshon Battalion, for his "exceptional performance during the attack, from eliminating the terrorist to treating the maimed afterward," the military said.
According to the army, the sergeant who shot the attacker provided emergency care for the maimed, even placing a tourniquet on the seriously maimed teen.
Violence in the West Bank has surged since Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... ’s October 7, 2023, onslaught in Israel, which sparked the war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... . According to the Paleostinian Authority, over 1,000 Paleostinians in the West Bank have been killed by Israeli forces or settlers since then. The IDF has said that most of those killed were button men, rioters who clashed with troops, or gunnies carrying out attacks.
During the same period, over 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.
Attacks by settler Death Eaters have also risen sharply, with the IDF reportedly telling the government earlier this month that up to 80 percent of incidents that Israeli troops in the West Bank record are Jewish attacks on Paleostinians.
[IsraelTimes] Defense minister hails Israeli flag flying for first time since 2000 over Crusader fortress, a symbol of Israel’s previous wars in Lebanon; Staff Sgt. Michael Tyukin, 21, was an only child who moved to Israel from Ukraine
Israel captured the historic Beaufort Castle and the surrounding strategic ridge as it pushed deeper into Leb ...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel... , the IDF announced on Sunday. The IDF’s advance into Lebanon, in an effort to constrict Hezbollah rocket and drone fire, came as a soldier was killed and four others were lightly maimed in a Hezbollah explosive drone attack a short distance away.
The soldier, Staff Sgt. Michael Tyukin, 21, of the Givati Brigade’s Reconnaissance Unit, was an only child who moved to Israel from Ukraine with his mother in 2020.
Troops took over territory in the Beaufort Ridge and Wadi Saluki stream area and expanded strikes north of the Litani River after the Hezbollah terror group fired multiple rockets and drones at Israel on Saturday afternoon and evening, forcing schools near the border with Lebanon to close on Sunday.
Israel had withdrawn from Beaufort in 2000, when it pulled out of southern Lebanon. The castle is some five kilometers from the border, and its recapture is not the IDF’s deepest advance into Lebanon, with troops operating up to 10 kilometers from the border since 2024.
Footage from Sunday morning showed Israeli and IDF flags flying over the citadel, a strategic medieval Crusader-built fortress with symbolic importance in the history of Israel’s military entanglements in Lebanon. Shelling was audible and smoke rose from the surrounding area.
The fortress, also known as Qalaat al-Shakif, commands sweeping views of the Galilee Panhandle in northern Israel, as well as the Nabatieh area in southern Lebanon, making it a position of considerable strategic value.
Israeli troops captured the castle in one of the first battles of the First Lebanon War in 1982. Golani soldiers — the same brigade that carried out the latest raid — battled Lions of Islam from the Paleostinian Liberation Organization at the site, killing dozens. Six Israeli soldiers were killed in the 1982 battle. The IDF then held the castle area during the 18-year occupation of southern Lebanon in 1982-2000, before troops were withdrawn.
"Forty-four years after the heroic Battle of the Beaufort, and on the memorial day for the Peace for the Galilee War, including the Golani soldiers who fell in the Battle of the Beaufort, IDF soldiers, led by the Golani Brigade, returned to the summit of Beaufort and once again raised the Israeli flag and the Golani flag there," Defense Minister Israel Katz said in a statement.
Speaking later at a memorial ceremony for fallen soldiers of the 1982 First Lebanon War, Katz vowed troops would stay at the castle "as part of the security zone in Lebanon."
Katz said that "the capture of the Beaufort and the expansion of the [ground] maneuver constitute a clear message to our enemies: Whoever threatens the citizens of Israel will lose their strategic assets one after another."
The latest Israel-Hezbollah war began on March 2, when Hezbollah fired rockets into northern Israel two days after the US and Israel attacked its main backer, Iran.
The IDF said it launched a ground operation in the Beaufort Ridge and Wadi Saluki stream area in recent days in order to "destroy [Hezbollah] infrastructure and eliminate terrorists, as part of strengthening operational control in southern Lebanon and removing the direct threat to the Galilee Panhandle and Metula," as well as to "expand the forward defense line."
Soldiers crossed the Litani River’s 90-degree bend, just across from the Israeli border community of Metula, and advanced toward the fortress. The IDF said it expanded its strikes in areas north of the Litani River, and the operation is also "expanding to additional areas at this time."
The Beaufort and Wadi Saluki area is home to "significant" Hezbollah infrastructure, which the IDF said was established with Iranian assistance, "from which Hezbollah Lions of Islam managed the fighting and carried out numerous terror attacks." Hundreds of rockets were fired from the area at Israel and troops in southern Lebanon, according to the military.
"The IDF is operating near Nabatieh, a significant Hezbollah stronghold in southern Lebanon, and is prepared to expand the offensive as required," the military said.
Ahead of the ground offensive, the Israeli Air Force carried out "massive" strikes on Hezbollah infrastructure in the area, including artillery and tank shelling. The IDF said it also struck "commanding terrain, searched for and neutralized military infrastructure in the Litani area, and conducted essential engineering activities to create the conditions required for the offensive operation."
There was no immediate comment from Hezbollah or the Lebanese government on the Israeli push.
Also on Sunday, the IDF reissued a wide-scale evacuation warning for all of southern Lebanon.
"In light of the Hezbollah terror organization’s violation of the ceasefire agreement and its targeting of the Israeli home front, the Israel Defense Forces is compelled to act against it forcefully, particularly in your areas," army front man Col. Avichay Adraee said on X.
"Anyone who is near Hezbollah operatives, its facilities, or its weapons is putting their life at risk. Any building used by Hezbollah for military purposes may become a target," he warned.
The IDF issued this warning numerous times in recent months.
The IDF then said it had launched a wave of strikes on Hezbollah infrastructure sites in Tyre and other areas of southern Lebanon. The military published footage of what it said was a strike on a Hezbollah command center in the Tyre area.
SOLDIER KILLED
The IDF announced that Tyukin, 21, a staff sergeant in the Givati Brigade’s Reconnaissance Unit, was killed when a first-person view drone piloted by the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group struck a position where Givati soldiers were operating at 10:30 p.m. on Saturday. The four other maimed soldiers were taken to a hospital for treatment. Tyukin, a resident of Ashkelon, was the 25th soldier to be killed since Hezbollah began attacking Israel on March 2 in support of Iran, after US-Israeli strikes on the Islamic Theocratic Republic. A civilian contractor has also been killed in southern Lebanon.
The fact that the attack took place at night indicated that the Hezbollah drone may have included a night-vision camera. Hezbollah has previously published footage showing FPV drones with night vision.
Israel has struggled to fend off growing attacks on troops in southern Lebanon and northern Israel by Hezbollah’s first-person view drones, which are largely impervious to jamming technology. The terror group has also fired rockets and other types of UAVs, hitting both military and civilian targets.
Tyukin moved to Israel from Ukraine with his mother in 2020. Since he was an only child, she would have had to have signed a special waiver for him to serve in a combat unit.
Defense Minister Katz issued a statement of condolence to Tyukin’s family. "The late Michael immigrated to Israel from Ukraine with his mother only six years ago. He chose to tie his fate to the fate of the State of Israel, he enlisted in significant combat service and became a symbol of Zionism, devotion, and love of the land."
"I send my heartfelt condolences to his mother, his family, and friends, and pray for the full recovery of the four soldiers who were maimed in the incident. May his memory be a blessing," he added.
Ashkelon Mayor Tomer Glam also issued a statement of condolence, noting that the municipality will be providing support for the bereaved mother, Ekaterina Krylov, who lost her only child.
SIRENS IN THE NORTH, NATURE PARKS CLOSED
Despite the IDF push, Hezbollah kept up its fire on northern Israel, with no injuries reported.
A Hezbollah drone struck an open area in the Western Galilee Sunday morning, the military said. The "suspicious aerial target" triggered sirens in numerous towns along the border. The military said it identified an impact in an open area, and troops were scanning the area.
Two rockets launched by Hezbollah at the Zarit area on the border late Sunday morning were intercepted, the military said. Shortly past noon, two rockets were launched at the Galilee communities Kfar Giladi and Metula, one of which was intercepted while the other struck an open area, according to the military.
Another rocket fired toward Acre was intercepted, while several more hit open areas, the military said. Several rockets fired at the Kiryat Shmona area were also intercepted, while another struck an open area, the military added.
In response to ongoing attacks from Lebanon, the Nature and Parks Authority announced that in accordance with the Home Front Command’s instructions, a number of sites in the north will be closed to tourists.
Additionally, the Home Front Command ordered educational institutions shut in communities along the Lebanon border amid Hezbollah’s rocket and drone barrages, forcing thousands of children to stay home.
[DM] Prep for making another run at them?
President Donald Trump declared that Iran 'really wants to make a deal' early on Monday morning, just hours after the US military launched strikes against Iranian drone facilities.
In a late-night Truth Social post shortly after 1am, Trump insisted diplomacy remained within reach despite the latest exchange of fire, while simultaneously lashing out at critics he said were undermining his negotiating position.
'Iran really wants to make a deal, and it will be a good one for the USA and those that are with us,' Trump wrote.
But the president also took aim at what he called 'Dumocrats' and 'seemingly unpatriotic Republicans,' accusing political opponents of making it harder for him to navigate one of the most dangerous foreign policy crises of his presidency.
'Don't the Dumocrats, and various seemingly unpatriotic Republicans, understand that it is MUCH tougher for me to properly do my job and negotiate, when political hacks keep negatively 'chirping,' at levels never seen before, over and over again, that I should move faster, or move slower, or go to war, or not go to war, or whatever,' Trump wrote.
'Just sit back and relax, it will all work out well in the end - It always does!'
Trump's post comes and amid growing fears that the fragile ceasefire between Washington and Tehran could be unraveling after the latest round of strikes.
They came after the US accused Tehran of shooting down a US drone and threatening ships traveling through regional waters.
US Central Command announced that American fighter aircraft carried out what it described as 'self-defense strikes' against Iranian radar and drone command facilities in southern Iran after a series of what it called aggressive actions by the regime.
The strikes targeted a ground control radar station and command-and-control sites for drones in Goruk and on Qeshm Island, according to CENTCOM.
The military said the operation was triggered by the shooting down of a US MQ-1 drone that was flying over international waters.
'The measured and deliberate strikes occurred on Saturday and Sunday in response to aggressive Iranian actions that included the shootdown of a US MQ-1 drone that was operating over international waters,' CENTCOM said in a statement posted on X.
It added that no US military personnel were harmed.
Iranian media, described the drone as 'hostile', and said it was shot down after it crossed over into Iran's territorial waters.
The two countries had traded strikes last week as well with Iran targeting a US air base after the US military carried out what a Washington official said were strikes targeting an Iranian drone operation near the Strait of Hormuz.
The US strike is now the third time that the ceasefire between Iran and America has been violated since it was agreed in early April.
On the two prior occasions, the truce between Tehran and Washington was able to continue as both countries played down the significance of the exchange of strikes.
Iran has dug out a majority of the entrances to its underground missile bases that were buried by joint US-Israeli strikes during the height of the war, satellite images show.
A recent probe of 18 missile facilities hit during the war shows that at least 50 out of 69 tunnel entrances have been reopened since the cease-fire went into effect in April, CNN reported.
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[Regnum] Israeli authorities are asking the United States for permission to expand airstrikes on Lebanon's capital, Beirut. This was reported on June 1 by The Jerusalem Post (TJP).
Senior Israeli officials have reportedly approached senior US officials for permission for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to expand its operation against the Lebanese Hezbollah movement and strengthen its control over areas in southern Lebanon.
The publication's sources claim that Israel is counting on a positive reaction from the United States, given the lack of serious progress in both the negotiations between Washington and Tehran and the negotiations between Israel and Lebanon.
Earlier, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said the country had requested an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council due to the IDF operation in Lebanon.
On May 31, the IDF, under orders from Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz, captured the Crusader fortress of Beaufort in Lebanon. The minister boasted on social media that the military had captured one of the most important strategic points, thereby sending a signal to the enemy of the imminent loss of territory.
The capture of Beaufort occurred during a ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel, which was declared on April 17 and extended again on May 15 for another 45 days.
Earlier, on May 27, the IDF launched a series of strikes in Lebanon, killing 31 people and injuring 40 others, including children and women.
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.
... the personification of Somali state failure...
... the personification of Somali state failure...
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...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 well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel...
