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Abdel Hakim Jahjooh	Abdel Hakim Jahjooh	Hamas	Middle East	Palestinian	At Large	Tough Guy	20030405
		Troops surrounded the house of Abdel Hakim Jahjooh, a member of Hamas.
Abdelatif Hakimi	Abdelatif Hakimi	Taliban	Israel-Palestine-Jordan				20051012	Link
Abdelkader Hakimi	Abdelkader Hakimi	Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group	Africa North				20051201	Link
Abdul Hakim Latifi	Abdul Hakim Latifi	Taliban	Afghanistan	Afghan	At Large		20040105
		Taliban spokesman
Abdul Hakim Mohamed Al Kumin	Abdul Hakim Mohamed Al Kumin	al-Qaeda	Southeast Asia				20031126
Abdul Hakim Murad	Abdul Hakim Murad	al-Qaeda	Terror Networks				20040317
Abdul Hakim al Hashim Murad	Abdul Hakim al Hashim Murad	al-Qaeda	Terror Networks				20021111
Abdul Latif Hakimi	Abdul Latif Hakimi	Taliban	Afghanistan/South Asia	Afghan	At Large	Mouthpiece	20050812
Abu Haris Abdul Hakim	Abu Haris Abdul Hakim	al-Qaeda	Terror Networks				20030622
Abul Hakim Murad	Abul Hakim Murad	Jemaah Islamiah	Southeast Asia				20030906
Adel Abdu Al-Hakim	Adel Abdu Al-Hakim	al-Qaeda	Home Front: WoT				20050811
Ben Abdul Hakim	Ben Abdul Hakim	al-Qaeda	India-Pakistan				20031210
Haji Latif Hakimi	Haji Latif Hakimi	Taliban	Afghanistan/South Asia				20040525	Link
Hakim Ziem	Hakim Ziem	al-Qaeda in Britain	Europe	Algerian	In Jug		20021225
		Seven men, all from Algeria, were charged in Edinburgh with preparing a terrorist attack, officials said. The seven, who were arrested six days ago in Edinburgh and London, were charged under Section 57 of the Terrorism Act 2000, which deals with possession of articles "in circumstances which give rise to a reasonable suspicion" that they could be used for a terrorist attack.
Latifullah Hakimi	Latifullah Hakimi	Taliban	Afghanistan/South Asia				20040608	Link
Litfullah Hakimi	Litfullah Hakimi	Taliban	Afghanistan/South Asia				20040430	Link
Mullah Abdul Hakim	Mullah Abdul Hakim	Taliban	Afghanistan/South Asia	Afghan			20030826
Mullah Latif Hakimi	Mullah Latif Hakimi	Taliban	Afghanistan/South Asia				20050707
Samir Hakim	Samir Hakim	Abu Sayyaf	Southeast Asia	Filipino			20030625
Shah Hakim Zain	Shah Hakim Zain	Kaspadu	Africa: North				20040218
Umar Abd al-Hakim	Umar Abd al-Hakim	Jaish-e-Mohammed	Afghanistan-Pak-India				20051104	Link

Israel-Palestine-Jordan

West Bank cousins handed life in prison for deadly 2024 terror spree in Ra’anana

2025-04-09

[IsraelTimes] Ahmed Zidat, 25, and Mahmoud Zidat, 44, jailed for life plus 60 years after killing Edna Bluestein, 70, and injuring 17 others in ramming and stabbing attack across multiple locations

The Lod District Court on Tuesday sentenced two perpetrators of a 2024 car-ramming and stabbing attack, in which they killed an elderly woman, to life imprisonment plus 60 additional years.

Cousins Ahmed Zidat, 25, and Mahmoud Zidat, 44, were convicted of repeatedly ramming vehicles into pedestrians across several locations throughout Ra’anana on January 15, 2024. The terror attack killed 79-year-old Edna Bluestein and injured at least 17 others.

The perpetrators, from the southern West Bank town of Bani Naim, had been working in the Ra’anana industrial zone without proper documentation. The two pleaded guilty and were convicted in July 2024 on terror charges including aggravated murder, attempted murder, causing injury and other offenses.

According to an indictment filed by prosecutors in February 2024, both identified with the Hamas
Hamas

..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
terror group and had planned other terror attacks in the past. They carried out their rampage using three cars in separate parts of the city.

Ahmed rammed into one pedestrian at high speed, exited his wrecked vehicle, then hijacked another car to run into two other pedestrians. He again got out of the car and began stabbing one of his victims.

Mahmoud, meanwhile, spotted a crowded bus stop and rammed his car into those waiting there, running over 18 people, including Bluestein.

One of them told the Shin Bet that "when 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...
started," they "decided to carry out an attack and become deaders... Initially, we intended to stab Jews, but then we decided to run over as many Jews as possible," Channel 12 reported last year.

Dozens of terrorist attacks have been carried out in Israel since Hamas’s October 7, 2023, massacre, which saw thousands of snuffies burst across the border from the Gaza Strip by land, air and sea, killing some 1,200 people and seizing 251 hostages of all ages. In response to the deadliest attack in the country’s history, Israel vowed to eliminate Hamas from the Gaza Strip, where the terror group has ruled since 2007, and return the hostages.

Since then, 51 people, including 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 with terror operatives in the West Bank.

Troops have arrested some 6,000 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 2,350 said to be affiliated with Hamas.

According to the Paleostinian Authority health ministry, more than 900 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed in that time. The IDF says the vast majority of them were button men killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops, or snuffies carrying out attacks.

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Iraq

Iraq arrests 5 Baath officials for cleric’s murder, oppressing Kurds

2025-02-01

[Rudaw] The Iraqi National Security Service (INSS) on Friday announced the arrests of five people accused of involvement in the liquidation of Shiite holy man Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr and oppressing Kurds during the reign of the Baath regime decades ago.

"Through a series of precise intelligence operations, the National Security Agency managed to arrest five of the most notorious criminals from the followers of the former regime who had recorded pages of terror and mass killing," INSS spokesperson Arshad al-Hakim said during a presser.

He said the arrests of the "criminal gang" were "carried out in accordance with the provisions of the Dissolved Ba'ath Party Prohibition Law and with high-level coordination with all relevant authorities and the judicial institution."

One of the suspects, Sadoun Sabri Jamil, was a senior commander under the Baath regime. The accusations against him include the killing of Sadr and his sister "with his personal weapon" and mass executions of members of opposition parties.

Haitham Abdul Aziz Faiq, another of the men arrested, was also a top commander. He is accused of supervising the killings of Sadr and his sister as well as members of the Dawa Party.

Sadr is the father-in-law of the influential Shiite holy man Moqtada Tater al-Sadr
...hereditary Iraqi holy man and leader of a political movement in Iraq. He had his hereditary rival al-Khoei assassinated shortly after the holy rival's appearance out of exile in 2003. Formerly an Iranian catspaw, lately he gagged over some of their more outlandish antics, then went back to catspawry when the check cleared...
. He was a popular holy man and critic of the Baathist regime. He was executed in 1980.

The third suspect is Khairallah Hammadi Abd, a former major general. He was allegedly involved in the suppression of Fayli Kurds in Baghdad in 1974 and forcibly displacing regime opponents.

Shaker Yahya is accused of taking part in the executions of Kurdish detainees in Baghdad in 1984 and of preventing people from holding ceremonies to mourn Sadr.

The final suspect was identified as Nimat Mohammed Suhail. His crimes included "leading arrest and torture campaigns targeting more than 40 university students in Sulaimani and other universities, involvement in the arrest of three opponents in Sulaimani," according to the INSS spokesperson.

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-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...
i commended the security forces on the operation.

"The National Security Service members, along with the other state security teams, continue to demonstrate their unwavering dedication to upholding the rule of law and ensuring that justice prevails, leaving no room for impunity," he said in a statement.

"With the recent achievement of justice through the apprehension of key figures from the criminal repressive apparatus of the Saddam-era Ba’athist regime - those responsible for the killing of the martyr Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr, may he rest in peace, his sister, and a group of deaders from Sayyed
Sayyed

...Arabic term meaning your/his lordship. Groveling in His Exalted Presence is encouraged...
al-Hakim family, along with thousands of innocent Iraqis whose lives were lost in the darkness of prisons - we reaffirm our steadfast commitment to the relentless pursuit of criminals, no matter how long they evade justice," he added.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

3 Palestinians killed amid Jenin clashes between PA forces, terror groups in W. Bank

2025-01-04

[IsraelTimes] PA says ‘lawless individuals’ responsible for death of 44-year-old and his son, which took place in different location from where security forces are operating

A Paleostinian man and his son were killed in Jenin, local medical officials said on Friday, as a month-long standoff between Paleostinian Authority security forces and terrorist groups in the northern West Bank city continued.

A front man for the PA security forces confirmed that Mahmoud al-Hajj was killed along with his son Qassem, while his daughter was injured "in an incident" in the Jenin refugee camp — a crowded quarter that houses descendants of Paleostinians who fled or were driven out in the Israeli War of Independence in 1948.

"The area where the incident took place is outside the scope of the operational area where the security forces are active within the camp," the front man said, accusing "lawless individuals" of carrying out the killings.

Wisam Bakr, director of the Jenin government hospital, confirmed to AFP that Hajj’s body and his injured daughter had been brought to his facility, while Qassem’s body was transported to another hospital in Jenin.

Bakr did not disclose details about the circumstances of their deaths.

The PA health ministry in Ramallah and the Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy also did not respond to AFP’s requests for comment.

Separately, a security forces officer died in what PA officials said was an accident, bringing to six the total number of PA forces to have died in the Jenin operation, which began on December 5. There were no further details.

At least eight Paleostinians have been killed in Jenin over the past month, one of them a member of the armed Jenin Brigades, which includes members of terrorist organizations such as Hamas
Hamas

..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
and the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
Later Friday, the Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy said Israeli forces raided the nearby Balata refugee camp,

…near Nablus…

wounding seven people with gunfire in the latest violence to hit the territory. Two of the injured were at death's door with chest wounds.

The Israeli military said it is checking reports regarding the raid.

Paleostinian security forces moved into Jenin last month in an operation officials say is aimed at suppressing gangs of "outlaws" who have built up a power base in the city and its adjacent refugee camp.

The operation has deepened splits among Paleostinians in the West Bank, where the PA enjoys little popular support but where many fear being dragged into a 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...
-style conflict with Israel if the terror groups strengthen their hold.

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-Lurid Crime Tales-

US court acquits Afghan citizen Haroon Hakimi

2024-12-23

[KhaamaPress] Haroon Hakimi, an Afghan citizen accused of sexual assault, was officially declared innocent by a court in Virginia, USA.

The trial took place on Friday, December 20, in the state of Virginia, where a 12-member jury found Hakimi not guilty of the sexual assault charges brought against him.

Hakimi had been accused of sexual assault by a 27-year-old woman residing in Virginia in late February last year.

During the trial, the accusations could not be substantiated, and the court dismissed all charges filed against Hakimi.

Following his acquittal, Hakimi told the Etilaat Roz newspaper, "The accusation of sexual assault against me was a blatant lie. I’m glad the court recognized my innocence."

He also announced his intention to file a defamation lawsuit against the woman who accused him, seeking to restore his reputation in the courts of Virginia.

It is noteworthy that Haroon Hakimi previously served as the Deputy Minister of Information and Culture in the former Afghanistan government.

Hakimi’s case underscores the importance of due process and the judicial system’s role in determining the truth. His acquittal highlights the significance of safeguarding individual rights and ensuring justice in sensitive cases.

Here’s a local news report following the original complaint back in March:

Woodbridge man charged with raping woman he recently met: police
[FOX5DC] A Woodbridge man has been charged with raping a woman he recently met, according to police.

At 4:49 p.m. on March 8, officers responded to investigate a sexual assault that reportedly occurred in the 12200 block of Granada Way in Woodbridge earlier that day.

Police say the victim, a 27-year-old woman, reported that she had recently met 33-year-old Mohd Haroon Hakimi and while at his home on Granada Way, Hakimi raped her.

She eventually was able to leave the home and contacted the police.

Hakimi was arrested and charged on March 9. His bond status and first court appearance date are not known at this time.

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Great White North

Afghan Man Charged in Wife’s Murder in Canada: Domestic Violence Under Scrutiny

2024-11-25

[KhaamaPress] A quiet neighborhood in Oshawa was shaken on Sunday, November 17, 2024, when 48-year-old Parween Adel was fatally stabbed in her home. Her husband, Hakim Adel, 41, has been charged with second-degree murder. This marks the fourth intimate partner-related homicide in Durham Region this year.

Police responded to the couple’s residence on Eulalie Avenue after a 911 call just after midnight. Officers found Parween with traumatic injuries. Despite emergency efforts and transport to a Toronto-area trauma center, she was pronounced dead.
He's dead, Jim!
Hakim was arrested at the scene without resistance. Their 5-year-old twin daughters and an elderly family member were in the home during the incident but were unharmed.

Neighbors described the family as active in the community but revealed a history of tension. Aaren Gillis, a neighbor, said Parween had expressed plans to leave her husband and had been offered temporary refuge by neighbors. Another neighbor, Ron Mohr, recalled seeing emergency responders attempting to resuscitate Parween and expressed disbelief, describing Hakim as "quiet and reserved."

A source close to the family, speaking to Khaama Press anonymously, shared that the couple had a prolonged history of conflict. The source mentioned that Hakim had been pressuring to sell their paid-off home, possibly due to financial difficulties. However,
today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday...
the exact reasons remain unclear. Parween opposed the sale, which added further strain to their already troubled relationship.

Several posts on Hakim’s Facebook profile reference marital conflicts, many focusing on the dynamics between husbands and wives. In one video, a Sunni Moslem scholar discusses the importance of women being obedient to their husbands and suggests that such behavior would earn them divine favor.

In the wake of the tragedy, a GoFundMe campaign titled "Support for Parween’s Daughters: A Future Beyond Tragedy" has raised over 68,000 CAD to support the young twins left without parents.

This tragic incident underscores a concerning trend in Canada. In 2023, police-reported family violence increased by 3%, with 139,020 victims, while intimate partner violence rose by 1%, totaling 123,319 victims. Notably, the rate of family violence against children and youth reached its highest recorded level, with 362 victims per 100,000 population. These statistics highlight the urgent need for enhanced support systems and preventive measures to address and mitigate domestic violence across the country.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Secret Iranian missile storage site exposed by anti-regime group amid mounting regional tensions

2024-10-25

[FoxNews] 'Decades of appeasement have emboldened this dictatorship,' Iranian dissident says.

A leading Iranian dissident group, the People’s Mojahedin of Iran (MEK), has provided Fox News Digital with information about a secret site where the Islamic Republic of Iran allegedly stores and prepares the missiles it uses against foes, sells to allies and provides to its proxies.

Located in a mountainous region outside of Eshtehard City, northwest of Tehran in Alborz province, the camp, known as the Shahid (Martyr) Soltani Garrison, is heavily guarded and surrounded by two rows of barbed wire. It has purportedly seen increased activity in the latter part of 2024, with the MEK noting that "more than ten trailers carrying missile parts" passed into the camp in July.

Among the weapons stored at the site are the Shahab-3, Qiam, Fateh and Fath series ballistic missiles, the MEK said.

Iran expert, Behnam Ben Taleblu, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said after its "layered attack" on Israel in April, which involved about 300 drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles, the Islamic Regime "got rid of the low- and slow-flying" assets and "doubled down on ballistic" weapons. Iran launched more than 180 ballistic missiles into Israeli airspace on Oct. 1.

Taleblu noted that Iran utilized the same liquid-propellant systems from its April attack, the Emad and Ghadr ballistic missiles, which are evolutions of the Shahab-3. He said the October attack also involved the solid-propellant Kheibar Shekan and reportedly even the hypersonic Fattah-1 ballistic missile. An Israel Defense Forces spokesperson also confirmed to Fox News Digital that Iran’s recent attacks included Fattah-1 and Fattah-2 hypersonic ballistic missiles.

During the larger Oct. 1 attack on Israel, two U.S. destroyers intercepted about a dozen Iranian missiles. Neither the Pentagon nor the Defense Intelligence Agency responded to Fox News Digital’s questions about whether American assets have been targeted by the varieties of Iranian ballistic missiles said to be housed at the Eshtehard site, or whether the U.S. has intercepted any of these missiles in the region.

To protect Israel from further Iranian ballistic missile strikes, the U.S. sent its Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system to Tel Aviv, along with a cadre of 100 U.S. soldiers to operate the system. Taleblu says THAAD will "function as a critical patch in Israel’s existing, already very well-layered air-missile defenses," though with just 48 interceptors, Taleblu says THAAD’s long-term suitability is "debatable."

Meow…

It is unknown whether ballistic missiles targeting Israel were stored or prepared at the Shahid Soltani Garrison. It is also unknown whether the short-range ballistic missiles Iran provided to Russia, for which Iran was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury and State departments, were held at the location.

The MEK provided satellite imagery showing two distinct sections of the Shahid Soltani Garrison. Above-ground storage sites "were established at least 15 years ago" and include a segment of one-floor warehouses and one three-floor warehouse that offer a combined 6,500 square meters of storage space. Around 10 buildings in another segment of the garrison offer up an additional 3,000 square meters of space. Underground tunnels constructed on the site between 2017 and 2021 offer more storage locations.

According to the report, the Al-Ghadir Missile Command, an element of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Aerospace Force, is responsible for the camp. IRGC Brig. Gen. Partovi was the last known commander of the site. The MEK stated that Col. Mohammad Reza Hakimzadeh and Col. Barati of the Eshtehard Corps of the IRGC are responsible for administrative affairs related to the camp.

In 2010, the Al-Ghadir Missile Command was sanctioned by the U.S. as well as by the EU. Commanders within Al-Ghadir Missile Command, including Mahmoud Bagheri Kazemabad and Mohammad Agha Jafari, have also been subject to U.S. sanctions.

Ballistic missiles of likely and certain Iranian origin have previously targeted U.S. forces. Iran-backed militias fired an unknown close-range ballistic missile at Al Asad Air Base on Nov. 21, 2023, resulting in eight injuries and damage to infrastructure.

On Jan. 8, 2020, Iran launched 27 theater ballistic missiles toward Al Asad Air Base. Of these, 11 Fateh and Qiam missiles landed inside the U.S. base, according to a medical study of the attack’s effects. The missiles’ impact resulted in around 35 cases of traumatic brain injury or concussion.

Taleblu noted that countering Iran’s ballistic missile program will require several lines of effort. On the economic and political end of the spectrum, they are taking on Iran’s trade with China, going after Iran’s domestic and foreign supply chain "for the whole ballistic life cycle" and exposing the rotating array of individuals involved with the ballistic missile program to travel bans and sanctions. In tandem with covert or kinetic operations, the aforementioned efforts "can really handcuff this missile program," Taleblu explained.

Taleblu said the importance of maintaining advanced missile defense systems in order to deter Iranian weapons, hardening U.S. bases,and ensuring "the elements of deterrence by punishment are not only present, but are understood and are credible."

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

IDF Special Forces 'Mista'arvim' went undercover today in Nablus and eliminated four Palestinian terrorists, including Commander Issam al-Salaj

2024-10-10

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The IDF Special Forces “Mista’arvim” went undercover today in Nablus and eliminated four Palestinian terrorists, including Commander Issam al-Salaj.

Heroes. pic.twitter.com/a6TuAbjRFS
— Vivid.🇮🇱 (@VividProwess) October 9, 2024

The Four Terrorists with the Balata Battalion of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, including its Commander Issam al-Salaj, who were Eliminated earlier by the Israeli Special Forces Operation in the City of Nablus. pic.twitter.com/mxfvKc2YSt
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) October 9, 2024

[IsraelTimes] Local Al-Aqsa Martyr’s Brigade leader, who reportedly survived June 2023 raid, killed in daylight shooting; Israel said to believe armed suspects were planning terror attack

Undercover Israeli forces opened fire on a car in the West Bank city of Nablus, killing five terror suspects, authorities said Wednesday.

Among those killed in the broad daylight shooting near central Nablus was the long-sought leader of the al-Aqsa Martyr’s Brigade terror group in the nearby Balata refugee camp, according to police. He was named in reports as Issam al-Salaj.

The Israel Police said commandos from the Yamam counter-terror unit had been operating in Nablus when they opened fire on the terror suspects.

"The Yamam forces eliminated five armed bully boyz who posed a threat to their lives," police said.

According to police, the unit had been in Nablus as part of an arrest operation targeting terror suspects, backed by the Israel Defense Forces, Shin Bet security service and Border Police force.

No Israeli forces were maimed, police said.

The Paleostinian health ministry said four men were killed in the raid and a fifth person was hospitalized with bullet shrapnel wounds. His condition was not given.

Footage of the shooting shared on social media appeared to show a small group of undercover officers with automatic rifles opening fire on a car at close range while standing on a busy street, after apparently emerging from another car with Paleostinian plates. Several onlookers could be seen watching the killings.

An unnamed security source quoted by the Kan public broadcaster said the occupants of the car had been high-ranking terror operatives who were planning an attack.

Police did not identify the other wanted Paleostinians, but said they had been "involved in carrying out and planning terror operations against civilians and the IDF."

Salaj had reportedly been the target of a failed June 2023 raid in Nablus, managing to escape with only injuries after a firefight with Israeli forces who had surrounded his home. A Paleostinian teen with mental disabilities was killed during the standoff.

Nablus and the adjacent Balata camp have been one of the several flashpoints in the northern West Bank where Israel has intensified efforts against Paleostinian terror groups.

The raids have largely targeted Hamas
Hamas

..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
, Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
and allied groups, but have also sought to clamp down on the al-Aqsa Martyr’s Brigades, which is linked to Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....>
’s Fatah party.

The shooting came hours after a terrorist stabbed several people in the Israeli city of Hadera, wounding six, in the second major terror attack this week following a deadly shooting in Beersheba on Sunday. In both instances, the perpetrators were Israeli citizens.

According to the PA, more than 716 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed by Israeli troops since October 7, 2023, when the IDF stepped up anti-terror operations.

The IDF says the vast majority of them were button men killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops or bully boyz carrying out attacks.

Troops have also arrested some 5,250 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 2,050 affiliated with Hamas.

IDF says Palestinian suspect tried to grab gun from soldier while being treated yesterday

[IsraelTimes] The IDF says a Palestinian suspect was shot yesterday after resisting arrest at the Tarqumiyah crossing from the West Bank into Israel, and that while being treated, he tried to grab a firearm from a soldier. According to the army, IDF forces spotted a suspect at the Tarqumiyah crossing, in the South Hebron hills, and tried to detain him. The man resisted arrest and was shot in the leg as a result.

“While receiving medical treatment due to the shooting, the terrorist tried to grab a gun from the military force that was accompanying him,” but was prevented from so doing, the IDF says.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Oct. 7 Anniversary: Hamas Leader Wants ‘New Fronts’ of Jihad

2024-10-09

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Leader of #Hamas Abroad Khaled Mashal on Anniversary of October 7 Attack: Our Losses Are Tactical Whereas Our Enemy’s Losses Are Strategic; Jihad with Money Is No Longer Enough, Muslims Should Wage Jihad with Weapons pic.twitter.com/zzuJ8E6FZ8
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) October 7, 2024

[PJMedia] To all those delusional individuals who still think that Hamas
Hamas

..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
and its Gazook supporters will ever agree to peaceful arbitration, think again. In characteristic form, a Hamas leader just called for an expansion of Jihad at the international level.

Hamas, with the financial incentivizing of the Paleostinian Authority and the support of the majority of Gazooks, plans to wage terrorism on Israel until it is completely wiped off the map. Oct. 7, as horrific and deadly as it was, presents a preview of what Hamas would like to do to all Israelis. As the latest refutation of idiotic Westerners’ claims that giving Paleostinians more land and money will make them stop fighting, Memri reported that a Hamas leader has ambitious plans for expanding jihad ("holy war" in Islam) on the international level as the "duty of Jihad."

Khaled Mashal,

…also in our archives spelt Khaled Mashaal …

leader of Hamas abroad, delivered an Oct. 7, 2024, address aired on the Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
i state media al-Jazeera Network. Memri provided a translation, and as usual Hamas is entirely open about its genocidal goals. Mashal said, "Our losses are tactical, whereas our enemy's losses are strategic. This is a fact. Our losses are tactical — pain and death, which is martyrdom." Moslems refer to eliminated faceless myrmidons as deaders.

"We are suffering, but it is all for the sake of Allah," bragged Mashal. "Today, we are making tremendous and painful sacrifices, but they will lead to great horizons, inshallah." Islamic holy texts encourage the killing of non-Moslems, especially Jews. "The enemy is losing its strategic path, and is accelerating its certain annihilation. It has lost on all levels. In addition, all Moslem and non-Moslem nations, throughout history, had to pay steep prices," Mashal added.

This is an interesting point, because Islam has been spreading for centuries by weaponizing war, rape, torture, and terrorism. In fact, Oct. 7 is the anniversary of the 1571 Battle of Lepanto, a great victory for Christian forces against invading Moslems, now commemorated in the Catholic Church as the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary (to whom the Christians prayed). Thanks to Lepanto’s fighters, Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
was saved. Islam has been the same for over a thousand years; always trying to take over Christian and Jewish nations by violence.

Mashal eagerly declared, "The resistance axis has joined us, and we are thankful for that, but today, the rest of the forces of our nation need to do two things: They should open new fronts for the resistance. This is the duty of Jihad. The second thing is that we need to open new political and legal fronts. We should persecute this entity on the international level." So much for the pro-Hamas United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
’ assertions that if Israel would give Gazooks much of their land, including Jerusalem, peace would prevail.

And as for the "two-state solution," so touted by the Biden-Harris administration and others, that was tried. Jordan was arbitrarily created as an Arab state out of land that rightfully should belong to Israel, and Jordanians promptly launched war on Israel in 1948. Giving Arabs the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip also just provided yet another base for terrorist operations. As a different Hamas leader said last year, the faceless myrmidons are prepared to commit the Oct. 7 atrocities "again and again" to annihilate Israel.

Mashal said, "Jihad by money is great, but it is no longer enough. We want Jihad with weapons and the [sacrifice] of lives. We should open additional fronts. The enemy is fighting us everywhere, and we should fight it the way it fights us." When faceless myrmidons state genocidal goals, believe them.

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Mashaal claims Hamas will rise ‘like a phoenix’ despite Gaza battlefield loses

2024-10-08

Posted for its amusement value.

[IsraelTimes] Speaking from Qatar, senior terror leader warns of ‘ticking time bomb’ in Mideast ‘as long as the occupation exists’; Hamas military spox hails ‘successful’ Oct. 7 attack, ‘humiliating defeat’ of IDF

Hamas
Hamas

..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
leader Khaled Mashaal said the Paleostinian terror group would rise "like a phoenix" from the ashes despite heavy losses during a year of war with Israel, and that it continues to recruit fighters and manufacture weapons.

One year after the devastating Hamas attack that triggered the war, the Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
-based Mashaal framed the conflict with Israel as part of a broader narrative spanning 76 years, dating back to what Paleostinians call the "Nakba" or "catastrophe," of the Jewish state’s founding in 1948.

"Paleostinian history is made of cycles," Mashaal, 68, a senior Hamas figure under overall leader Yahya Sinwar, told Rooters in an interview.

"We go through phases where we lose deaders (victims) and we lose part of our military capabilities, but then the Paleostinian spirit rises again, like the phoenix, thanks to God."

Mashaal, who survived an Israeli liquidation attempt in 1997 after he was injected with poison and was overall Hamas leader from 1996-2017, said the Islamist terror group was still able to mount ambushes against Israeli troops.

Hamas also fired four missiles at central Israel on Monday morning, the anniversary of the October 7 atrocities, in which Paleostinian forces of Evil killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and seized 251 hostages.

"We lost part of our ammunition and weapons, but Hamas is still recruiting young men and continues to manufacture a significant portion of its ammunition and weapons," said Mashaal, without providing details.

Oh? Do go on.

Mashaal remains influential in Hamas because he has played a crucial role in its leadership for almost three decades, and is widely seen now as its diplomatic face. His comments appear intended as a signal that the terrorist group will fight on whatever its losses, Middle East analysts said.

"Overall I would say (Hamas is) alive and kicking still and ... will probably come back at some point 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...
," said Joost R. Hiltermann, Middle East and North Africa Program Director of the International Crisis Group. He said Israel had not spelled out a plan for Gaza when the war ends, and this could allow Hamas to re-establish itself although perhaps not with such strength or in the same form.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office declined comment on Mashaal’s remarks.

"As long as the occupation exists, the region remains a ticking time bomb," Mashaal warned.

Also Monday, the front man of the Hamas’s military wing, known only as Abu Obeida, gave a speech praising the attack the terror group carried out one year ago, and the unity of the fronts opened by Iran-backed proxy organizations across the Middle East against Israel over the past 12 months. He further called for "military, financial and logistical support" as well as media campaigns against Israel.

And was he standing in front of a cheering crowd in the fresh air and sunshine when he spoke, or was he hiding in a dank hole in the ground somewhere, surrounded by 10/7 hostages and praying that the Israelis weren’t already on their way with their robots and their dogs?

Abu Obeida also discussed the hostages still in Gaza, and said that it would be "unreasonable" for Hamas to kill them, but that dozens of them may be held in captivity for a long time and may never be returned.

That also is unreasonable. They have to be fed for no return, if they aren’t traded for something, and they’re only useful as human shields until suddenly they aren’t.

"The fate of the hostages is tied to the actions of their government," Abu Obeida said. "The longer [the military operation in Gaza] persists, the greater the risk to the hostages."

Abu Obeida boasted that October 7 was "the most professional and successful commando operation in the modern era,"

…not at all professional, no — and given what Gaza looks like now, and the number of dead and maimed Hamasniks, not any kind of success, either…

and added that it inflicted a "humiliating defeat" on the IDF. He made the baseless allegation that it was a "preemptive strike" to avert a major operation planned by Israel against Hamas in Gaza.

It rather looks like Israel pulled off a major operation against Hamas thereafter. You’re batting a perfect goose egg, bro.

The front man claimed that October 7 was a response to alleged Israeli violations at the Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem, the expansion of settlements, abuses against Paleostinian security prisoners, and the blockade of the Gaza Strip.

And yet Israel has even tighter control of the Temple Mount/Al Aqsa, there are many more Palestinian security prisoners, and the blockade of Gaza is even tighter. Your win is looking awfully Pyrrhic.

He addressed Hezbollah, saying: "We are confident in your steadfastness and courage in inflicting heavy losses on the forces of the Zionist enemy, as the martyr His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
...The late, lamented satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...>
promised."

Forty-one thousand dead Gazans vs a couple hundred dead Israelis. I know y’all want to die for your god but this level of lopsided suggests your god doesn’t like you at all.

The terror leader also mentioned Maher al-Jazi, the Jordanian citizen who carried out a shooting attack at the Allenby Bridge Crossing on September 8 in which three Israeli citizens were killed, saying that he opened an "authentic Jordanian front" in addition to the existing ones.

One example does not a front make.

Abu Obeida lashed at the US for supporting Israel, and claimed that Islamist terror operatives in the Gaza Strip, from Hamas and other factions, "persist in their steadfastness and their heroic fighting in every inch of the Strip."

True….

Commenting on the recent killing of Hamas and Hezbollah leaders, Abu Obeida said that "the policy of liquidations of our leaders is a good outcome, a sign of victory for us, and a source of regret and disappointment for the aggressors."

I’m pretty sure Israel doesn’t regret those deaths one bit.

"A leader is succeeded by 10, and a fighter by a thousand," he added. "This land produces resistance fighters as it produces olives."

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West Bank: Commander of the Nablus Battalion of the Islamic Jihad, Abdel Hakim Shahin, no longer requires oxygen

2024-10-02

[X] Israel’s relentless, near-nightly raids since — and before — 10/7 is the reason why the West Bank did not rise up in revolt simultaneous with either the Hamas massacre or the Hezbollah as their Iranian paymasters had planned. Sucks for them.

Successfully Eliminated by the IDF: Commander of the Nablus Battalion of the Islamic Jihad, Abdel Hakim Shahin.

Good riddance. Hell awaits. pic.twitter.com/Jwp5vjDZE6
— Vivid.🇮🇱 (@VividProwess) October 1, 2024

Four soldiers injured, one seriously in Nablus firefight

[IsraelTimes] 3 other members of Duvdevan unit moderately hurt during battle, gunman killed ; terror operative slain amid series of raids across West Bank, 6 suspects arrested

A commando was seriously wounded during clashes in the West Bank overnight, the Israel Defense Forces said Tuesday, and three other troops in the Duvdevan unit were moderately hurt in a firefight in the Balata refugee camp adjacent to Nablus in the northern West Bank.

Troops had been attempting to make an arrest at a building in the camp as part of an operation that began Sunday night, when they were fired on from inside. One gunman was killed and another wounded, according to the IDF.

Forces found IEDs, a pistol, ammunition, and weapons parts in civilian buildings in the area, including a cafe and stores, the statement said.

Elsewhere, the army said, troops killed a Palestinian accused by Israel of planning and carrying out attacks on troops in the area. A statement from the army said Abed Shaheen had recently attempted to put together a cell to attack soldiers near Nablus. During the operation security forces seized weapons used by the gunman, the statement said. The Palestinian Authority health ministry confirmed Shaheen’s death and said he was 33.

Six suspects were arrested during overnight raids in the northern West Bank town of Silwad, the army said.

Troops also operated in the towns of Dayr Ibzi’ and Kafr Ni’ma and two guns were found in the town of Bani Naim, the IDF said.

The Israeli military intensified its near-daily raids across the West Bank in the aftermath of Hamas’s October 7 attack, in operations aimed at dismantling Palestinian terror groups including Hamas.

Since October 7, troops have arrested some 5,250 wanted Palestinians across the West Bank, including more than 2,050 affiliated with Hamas.

According to the Palestinian Authority health ministry, more than 716 West Bank Palestinians have been killed in that time. The IDF says the vast majority of them were gunmen killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops or terrorists carrying out attacks.

During the same period, 33 people, including Israeli security personnel, have been killed in terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank. Another six members of the security forces were killed in clashes with terror operatives in the West Bank.

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Court slaps travel ban on 14 ex-ministers, lawmakers

2024-08-30

[NEWAGEBD] The Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Court on Thursday imposed an international travel ban on 14 former ministers and politicians of the ousted Awami League government in connection with allegations of amassing illegal wealth.

Judge Mohammed Ash Shams Joglul Hossain passed the order following a petition submitted by Anti-Corruption Commission deputy director Abu Hena Ashiqur Rahman, said ACC public prosecutor Mahamud Hossain Jahangir.

'Following the order, they cannot leave the country unless the restriction is lifted, he added.

The graft suspects are trying to flee the country, the ACC in its petition said, adding that travel bans are needed to prevent them from leaving the country for the sake of a fair probe.

Former health minister Zahid Maleque, former social welfare minister Dipu Moni, former education minister Mohibul Hassan Chowdhoury, former food minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder, former industries minister Narul Majid Mahmud Humayun, former state minister for industries Kamal Ahmed Mojumder, former shipping minister Shajahan Khan, former food minister Kamrul Islam, former politicians Mohammad Salim Uddin (Nogaon-3), Mamunur Rashid Kiron (Noakhali-3), Kujendra Lal Tripura (Khagrachari), Kazim uddin Ahmed (Mymensing-11), Noor E Alam Chowdhury (Madaripur-1), and Ziaur Rahman (Chapainawabganj-2).

ACC officials said that there were various corruption allegations against the 14 former ministers and politicians, including amassing illegal wealth and money laundering charges.

The Anti-Corruption Commission, meanwhile, on Thursday decided to conduct inquiries against a minister and a politician of the ousted Awami League government over allegations of amassing illegal wealth.

They are former railway minister Zillul Hakim and former politician Tanveer Imam [Sirajganj-4].

The decision was taken in a meeting of the ACC at its office, said ACC deputy director for public relations Aktarul Islam.

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Lines of Departure 2-2: The Choice isn’t Trump or Harris

2024-08-30

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Copyright © 2024, Thomas P. Kratman

No, no; the choice is between Trump and a closed oligarchy that does NOT have your interests in mind. In short, whatever you want to do, you _cannot_ vote Harris. Oh, yes, you can cast your vote beside her name, but she is not the front runner; she is a front, just as her putative boss, Joe Biden, was.

Go back to the year 2020, the year when, under cover of COVID, Joe Biden ran for the presidency from his basement. Why did he do that? Fear of COVID? That was the claim, of course, but the movers and shakers of the country, especially the democratic ones, did a very impressive job of demonstrating that COVID was just not that impressive. Sure, during the George Floyd riots, they might sic the police on people sitting on their front porches, shooting those same people with paintballs. But for themselves? Please; it was party city throughout the pandemic for anyone well connected enough. And for the rioters? They were pretty much hands off.

So much for COVID.

Flash forward to the Trump-Biden debate. There it became fairly obvious that the sitting president was...mostly not there anymore. I write this not with contempt but with a degree of sympathy; that fate awaits most of us, with time. More importantly, is there any reason to believe he was fully there when his handlers kept him locked in the basement during the 2020 campaign? There really isn’t. Moreover, the people who would swear that he was are the very same people who were telling us that he was sharp as a tack right up until the debate and for some time after; their word is worthless.

And then we have the pattern of conduct, the misguidance and mismanagement from the Afghanistan withdrawal debacle through the collapse of our southern border. It is not just hard, it is impossible, to identify a single thing that has gone well for the United States in between. Especially has the economy been a disaster, and not one that the smoke and mirrors of the Democratic Party and their lapdogs of the press has been very successful in hiding. That pattern is consistent and consistently horrifying. That pattern says very strongly that the Joe Biden of the debate was the same man who stayed in his basement in 2020.

He's been this way all along.

Then, too, we have the palace coup that drove Biden from the 2024 race. Obviously, he did not decide that for himself, either.

Even so, even if Biden was incapable of doing much of anything on his own, or was not allowed to, decisions still were being made, to include decisions to do nothing, to include the decision to force him from the campaign. Who was making those decisions?

We don’t really know. Obama is a likely member of the junta — and, yes, clearly, it is a junta — as are the Clintons, both the rapist and Felonia von Pantsuit. I would suggest that the thirty-five or so members of the House and the five senators who publicly called on Biden to step aside are not members of the junta, but that those who likely gave them their marching orders, Schumer and Pelosi — who is never out of office even when out of office, are. Hakim Jeffries may well be. Garland probably is a member. Kagan may represent the left wing of the Supreme Court. Perhaps there are a few others.

Speaking of Kagan and the legal system, do but note that the supporters of the junta are the same people who will talk about the rule of law even as they prostitute the law to wage lawfare against anyone — Trump and the J6 protesters, principally — who tries to supercede them and return the country to an actual republic.

It is, by the way, unclear and I think rather unlikely that Kamala Harris is a member of that junta, any more than Joe Biden was. This, quite despite her holding views that are not easily distinguished from, say, Marx or Engles....or Lenin...or Mao...or perhaps — we cannot say for sure and when we are sure it will also be too late — Pol Pot or Stalin.

Soros? No, I don’t think so. He’s pretty distasteful from all perspectives. Now does the junta consult with him? Regularly, I am sure.

But the names don’t matter and will probably never be known for certain. The only name we’ll be allowed to see is that of Kamala Harris, the frontwoman for the junta that has been telling Joe Biden what to do for more than four years. And which will be telling Kamala Harris what to do for another four to eight, if they’re allowed to.

Just think of it, Franklin Delano Roosevelt had a bit over three terms; Obama and the junta may have as many as five. Hell, they may have an infinite number, if they succeed in destroying the Republic.

"Bu’, bu’, bu’, muh democracy!"

I have some bad news for you, the people moaning about the loss of democracy are the same people who decided to simply install as their nominee a woman who is thoroughly disliked, even within their party, whose previous run for the nomination was a disaster, who has had, in other words, not a single vote cast for her this year, and a paltry few in 2020. In short, let me suggest to you a more modern, more accurate definition of democracy in 21st century America:

Democracy, n. The unlimited and uninterrupted rule of the junta that looks after the interests of the vile and already filthy rich kleptocrats, corrupt bureaucrats, quasi-literate journalists, drooling pedophiles, academic lunatics, soulless and stupid entertainers, and other assorted human garbage on the inside of the Democratic Party.

If that’s the definition of "democracy," and it now is, and that is what you want, wouldn’t you be happier in, say, China or perhaps North Korea?

But to finish with the same point we started with, which should be much clearer now, it is impossible to actually vote for Harris. The most you can do is vote for a junta, and, indeed, a junta that bears close resemblance to the Politburo that ran the Soviet Union or the one that is now running China, an oligarchy the members of which loathe actual democracy and don’t really hide that they do.

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