[NYPOST] The US is now experiencing its greatest overall rates of death in more than a century — and it’s being fueled by a sharp rise in drug overdoses.
Experts from Florida Atlantic University analyzed trends in US drug overdose deaths, and discovered that the rates of those deaths spiked 4.4 times from 1999 to 2020.
In 1999, there were 6.9 overdose deaths per 100,000 deaths. That number jumped to 30 overdose deaths per 100,000 — more than quadrupling — by 2020.
"Death is inevitable, but premature death is not," Dr. Charles H. Hennekens of the FAU Schmidt College of Medicine said in a news release.
"Public health authorities should ... treat patients who have drug use disorders in the same way as patients who have a serious chronic disease to avoid premature death," Hennekens added.
The researchers point to a 1986 World Health Organization statement that pain treatment is a universal right. Following that, pain treatment guidelines for diseases like cancer were developed to include the use of opioids.
And soon thereafter, OxyContin — oxycodone hydrochloride, a highly addictive opioid — was approved for the management of pain, paving the way for widespread prescription and abuse of opioids.
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I refuse to apologize for having zero empathy for people with self destructive tendencies.
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Between abortion and ODs, I'm not sure how the left keeps its voting numbers up. Oh, wait...
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One cops perspective:
I'm probably in the minority, but I believe the approved use of Narcan by first responders, and now over the counter to anyone, just increases the use of opioids.
"It's fine, if I OD, someone will save me with Narcan"
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Yes. Soon we will have lawsuits because you don't carry Narcan. And lawsuits because you did and it didn't work. And because you did and it did work.
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[8am] Local sources in Takhar province have reported that Taliban ...Arabic for students... intelligence has assassinated a commander of the Local Uprising in this region.
According to these sources, Taliban intelligence carried out the killing of a Local Uprising commander named Hayatullah using gunfire on Tuesday, September 12th.
Hayatullah held the position of commander among the residents of Moghol-Qeshlaq village in Badam Darah, located in the city of Taliqan.
As per the sources, it remains unclear why Taliban intelligence targeted and killed this specific commander.
Because they noticed him?
This incident comes shortly after the Taliban’s liquidation of a former government soldier in Parwan province just yesterday.
[8am] Local sources in Bamiyan ...a place in Afghanistan that used to have some historically interesting statues of the Buddha carved into a mountainside. Then the holy men showed up and now all they have is some big holes... province report that the Taliban ...Arabic for students... have imprisoned two residents of this province due to their refusal to give their land to the nomads (Kuchi)
...pastoral nomads belonging primarily to the Ghilji Pashtuns, who have been granted free passage and land use rights since the Pashtun kings ruled Afghanistan. About 2.5 million of them follow the traditional migration route up and down Afghanistan, contesting land ownership along the way, all strong supporters of their fellow Pashtuns, the Taliban...
living in the area.
Sources informed the Hasht-e Subh Daily on Tuesday, 12 September, that Abdullah Sarhadi, the Taliban governor of Bamiyan province, has imprisoned two individuals from the Pashta-e Gharghari village because they did not hand over their land to the Kuchi nomads.
These individuals are identified as Ewaz Danish and Mohammad Gholami.
According to sources, two days ago, Abdullah Sarhadi contacted Ewaz Danish and Mohammad Ghulami and requested that they come to the Bamyan center. However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... when these two individuals arrived at the center yesterday, the Taliban governor instructed them to confess in writing that they would hand over their land to the Kuchi nomads.
Sources say that after rejecting this demand, these two individuals were detained and taken into custody.
Sources also add that previously, the Taliban had threatened and insulted these two individuals along with four of their close associates.
This comes after last year when the Taliban’s Conflict Resolution Commission had warned the residents of Rashk to hand over their lands to the Kuchi nomads and leave the region themselves.
With the resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan, festivities have occasionally erupted between Kuchi nomads and local residents in various provinces, especially Ghazni, Daikundi, Maidan Wardak, and Bamiyan.
In some cases, the Taliban have forced people to pay hefty fines as compensation to the Kuchi nomads.
TALIBAN WELCOME NEW CHINESE AMBASSADOR – Taliban officials put on quite a show welcoming the newly appointed Ambassador, Zhao Sheng, in Kabul. Statements from the various Taliban leaders in attendance indicated they believed the Ambassador’s appointment was a sign that eventual recognition could be forthcoming. China’s Foreign Ministry appeared to downplay the event and released a statement that highlighted that its Ambassador was arriving on a normally scheduled rotation.
MOSCOW FORMAT SUMMIT ON AFGHANISTAN SET FOR 29 SEP – Russia announced that the body intends to meet in Kazan (Russia) and that Taliban representatives will be invited. There is an unconfirmed rumor that representatives of the former regime and possibly from the Resistance may also be invited to the event.
US ENVOY REITERATES CONDITIONS TALIBAN MUST RECTIFY BEFORE RECOGNITION COULD BE DISCUSSED – Thomas West, the US special representative for Afghanistan spoke at an event on Tuesday and spelled out the main problems barring any normalization of relations with the de facto regime. West emphasized that the US is not leading the group that will ultimately decide if the Taliban is recognized or not. The conditions have not changed and basically boil down to not providing a safe haven for terrorism, forming an inclusive government, and repealing the policies regarding women.
EMBATTLED BRITISH MP RESIGNS COMMITTEE POSITION OVER CONTROVERSIAL AFGHANISTAN COMMENTS – MP Tobias Ellwood announced he was resigning his chairmanship of the Defence Committee in the House of Commons. Ellwood came under fire for comments he made in a video he posted in July which lauded the Taliban’s ‘transformation’ of the country. Political insiders in London say his resignation was made to preempt a plan to oust him forcibly from the position today.
TORKHAM GATE CLOSED FOR 8TH DAY – Some locals claimed the impasse may be an economic ploy on the part of Pakistan to reduce the value of agricultural products. Whether this claim has any merit is up for debate but the financial losses for the transport and agricultural sector are mounting. Taliban officials with the Department of Information and Culture of Nangarhar said they expect the border to reopen soon.
NEXT 24 HOURS
ALL EYES ON IRAN – Protests and demonstrations are expected as the anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini approaches (16 September). Tehran has been rounding up protestors, students, journalists, and professors over the last four weeks. Many observers say that anti-regime groups have spent the year planning for mass demonstrations against the regime and are anticipating fierce opposition from police, military, and paramilitary forces. Iranian forces have dispatched additional troops to guard power distribution infrastructure and other critical assets in anticipation of civil disobedience. It is not clear when potential protests could begin but international aid organizations, foreign businesses, and diplomatic posts are urging their employees to exercise caution and be prepared to stay home in the event trouble breaks out. At-risk Afghans in Iran are urged to stockpile food and water if at all possible and to charge their communications devices.
TTP COMMANDER REPORTEDLY KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN – Badshah Khan, a senior Commander of the TTP and a confidant of the leader of the TTP was killed in an IED blast in Paktia Province, Afghanistan yesterday. Few details are known about the incident but Khan has long been wanted in Pakistan for several terrorist attacks targeting police and military forces. A source in Kabul said the Taliban are concerned that Pakistan may be behind the assassination and that it signals that more cross-border actions could be in the offing. In addition, the source said that some in the Ministry of the Interior are concerned that TTP loyalists in Afghanistan may read the assassination as a sign the Taliban was ‘offering up’ TTP targets to appease Islamabad. The source said that either proposition puts Kabul/Kandahar in a difficult position.
TORKHAM SAGA DRAGS ON – The Torkham border crossing has now been closed for a week and commercial traffic is being turned back on the Pakistani side. Many trucks laden with durable goods remain backed up in the hopes the crossing will reopen. It is not clear if negotiations are continuing between Islamabad and Kabul. Nor is it clear how much longer the impasse will continue.
WOMEN ACTIVISTS IN GERMANY END HUNGER STRIKE – Several Afghan women who had launched a 12-day hunger strike to protest the Taliban regime’s policies regarding women have announced they had concluded the strike. The group intends to continue resisting the regime through other methods. The women decided to quit the campaign after friends, family, and supporters requested they do so.
SETTLEMENT NEAR IN CASE ABOUT AFGHAN ASYLUM SEEKERS IN THE US – A US District Judge in Northern California could approve a massive settlement that will affect approximately 20,000 asylum seekers from Afghanistan who came to the US under the auspices of the Operation Allies Welcome program. Once approved, the settlement will force the US Department of Homeland Security and the US Citizenship and Immigration Service to adjudicate applications that have been languishing over a scheduled period. More information about the deal can be found HERE.
CONFLICT TRACKER
Paktia: The senior TTP commander, Badshah Khan, was killed in an IED blast in an undisclosed location within Paktia province yesterday. No group has claimed credit for the assassination.
[Garowe] Multi-agency security teams led by the Kenya Defense Forces [KDF] destroyed a suspected al-Shabaab ...... the personification of Somali state failure... Improvised Explosive Devices [IEDs] base in Northeastern Kenya, security forces reported, in the middle of the ongoing surveillance along the porous Kenya-Somalia border.
Acting on intelligence from locals, the multi-agency security forces raided the base on Tuesday along Harbole-Fafi route in Garissa County, before destroying it completely. The base was used in assembling IEDs which are used by the al-Shabaab across the expansive arid region.
The team displayed equipment used to make the explosives that are commonly used in attacks targeting security forces and innocent civilians. The al-Shabaab has intensified attacks in Northeastern Kenya and Lamu, prompting emergency responses by the Kenya Defense Forces teams.
The team killed 4 al-Shabaab members while some escaped with injuries and recovered IED-making materials, ammunition, and medicines, photos displayed showed. The Death Eaters use medicines to treat those who are critically injured while fighting with security forces.
Al-Shabaab has been targeting Mandera, Wajir, Garissa, and Lamu counties in their cowardly attacks but the KDF has intensified surveillance along the Kenya-Somalia border in recent weeks. At Lamu, security teams have been dispatched to pursue the Death Eaters in the dense Boni Forest.
It is along Boni Forest where KDF and multi-agency security teams have suffered immense losses in recent weeks, including last week's explosion which targeted KDF personnel on duty. At least 14 KDF soldiers were critically injured when an IED targeted their vehicle, the military said.
On Wednesday, Interior Minister Kithure Kindiki visited Lamu where he held various meetings with security agencies who are taking part in the operation against al-Shabaab. The al-Shabaab Death Eaters are under pressure in Somalia, forcing a number of them to try and shift base to Kenya.
[AlAhram] At least 40 non-combatants were killed in an air raid on war-torn Sudan ...... 's western region of Darfur Wednesday, according to a medical source, as army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan headed to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... "Forty civilians have been killed in an air strike that hit two markets and a number of the city's neighbourhoods," the medical source told AFP from a hospital in Nyala, the capital of South Darfur. The source asked for anonymity out of security concerns.
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A Burhan revenge attack on Nyala, for AFP attack on Omdurman. The genie is out of the bottle. The Sudan created by the British occupation is in it death throe.
UPDATE: Al Shabab says it has killed 19 soldiers and wounded 27 more in today's explosion in Mogadishu's Dayniile as local officials said five soldiers and a civilian woman were only injured in the attack. https://t.co/9x00oHRZiFpic.twitter.com/teCGu5gdOA
[GoobjoogNews] An Explosive Device planted by the al-shabaab forces of Evil blew up a key water well at El-Garas town in Galgaduud region early Wednesday.
According to the official government statement, the earth-shattering kaboom injured one person who was fetching water from the well at the time of the incident.
The incident at the key water source for locals in the town came after they were expelled from the area by the Somali National Army a week ago.
Army officials said the forces of Evil planted the bombs at key infrastructures in the area — posing great danger to the local population adding that the Somali National Army officers had initiated an operation to clear the bombs in the region.
The SNA forces have intensified their offensive against the forces of Evil in many parts of the country — liberating several areas previously occupied by the al-Qaeda linked terrorist group.
The Federal Government has maintained that it will not relent until the entire country is liberated and peace and stability is restored for the Somali people.
Local authorities in El-Garas town have started repairing the damaged well and provide immediate relief for the affected residents who were depending on the facility for water supply.
Somali military forces and their foreign partners have reportedly killed over 30 al-Shabab militants in an operation near Wabho and El-Garas towns in Galgadud region. pic.twitter.com/h203WoxzbA
#AlShabaab finance chief and several other militants killed in an operation conducted by the #SomaliNationalArmy forces in Bay region; The operation targeted in several areas including Adegeow Garar, and Warta Dollar, where the terrorists were extorting money from locals pic.twitter.com/rBjQbkKub1
[IsraelTimes] The Italian Red Thingy says more than 5,000 people in more than 100 migrant boats arrived on the island of Lampedusa in one day, with smugglers in north Africa taking advantage of calm seas to set off.
At least one baby died near shore as a boat capsized, state radio said.
Dozens of new arrivals crouched on the rocky jetties of Lampedusa’s port, while others sheltered in the shade of a nearby camping ground as the island’s lone migrant welcome center, which has a capacity of around 400, overflowed with more than 6,000 people.
"Days ago there were more than 4,000 people and we were talking about a record, today we are talking about a record of landings," the Red Thingy’ national director Rosario Valastro says in a social media post.
The Red Thingy is urging the Italian government to quickly transfer the migrants colonists to the mainland, saying their personnel had managed to keep the situation under control but that the disembarkation from more than 100 boats was pushing the limit.
Medical personnel were focusing attention on the most fragile, but the group is warning that maintaining adequate humanitarian conditions was dependent on keeping the numbers below a critical threshold.
So far this year, more than 115,000 people have arrived by boat, nearly double the 63,000 in the same period last year or the 41,000 in 2021, according to interior ministry statistics.
[OneIndia] An Army Colonel commanding a battalion, a Major of a unit and a Deputy Superintendent of Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... Police were killed in a shootout with Lions of Islam in the higher reaches of Kokorenag area in the south of the valley, officials said here on Wednesday.
Colonel Manpreet Singh, Commanding Officer of 19 Rashtriya Rifles, Major Ashish Dhonack, and Deputy Superintendent Humayun Bhat were critically injured in the shootout with Lions of Islam that ensued in the Garol area of Anantnag district in the morning hours of Wednesday.
The officers gave up the ghost during the treatment, the officials said. Bhat, father of a two-month-old daughter and son of retired Inspector General of Jammu and Kashmir Police Ghulam Hasan Bhat, died due to heavy blood loss, they added.
The banned Resistance® Front, believed to be a shadow group of Pakistain-based Lashker-e-Taiba, has grabbed credit for the attack. Officials believe that it is the same set of Lions of Islam who had carried out the attack on army personnel on August 4 killing three jawans in the higher reaches of the Halan forest area of Kulgam district. The operation against the Lions of Islam began on Tuesday evening in Garol area but was called off during the night.
This morning, the hunt for the Lions of Islam resumed after information started trickling that they were spotted at a hideout, the officials said. Colonel Singh, leading his team from the front, attacked the terrorists. However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... he was critically injured in the bullets fired by the terrorists.
Singh, who belonged to 12th Sikh LI, was a recipient of Sena medal. Dhonack belonged to 15th Sikh LI. Dhonack and Bhat were also hit by bullets resulting in critical injuries, the officials said. Senior army and coppers, GoC 15 Corps Lt General Rajiv Ghai and including DGP Dilbag Singh rushed to the spot to assess the situation.
Earlier Jammu and Kashmir Police had posted on social media handle that an "encounter has started in #Kokernag area of #Anantnag. Officers from Army and JKP injured. Details shall follow". Kashmir-based XV corps also gave details that "based on specific intelligence on presence of Lions of Islam a Joint Operation was launched by #IndianArmy & @JmuKmrPolice on the intervening night of 12-13 Sep in Area Garol, Anantnag.
"Contact established and firefight ensued. Two Army personnel and one J&K Police personnel injured. Operation in progress." In the evening, Director General of Police Dilbag Singh, Additional Director General of Police (Kashmir) Vijay Kumar along with other senior officers paid floral tributes to the slain DySP. The attack comes a day after an Army personnel and Kent, a six-year-old female Labrador of the Army's dog unit, were killed and three security personnel injured in the shootout in South of Pir Panjal at Rajouri in Jammu region.
Two bad boyz were potted in an encounter in the remote Narla village. Former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir Omar Abdullah offered his condolences. "Terrible terrible news from J&K. An army colonel, a major and a J&K Police DYSP gave the ultimate sacrifice in an encounter in Kokernag area of South Kashmir today. DySP Humayan Bhat, Major Ashish Dhonack, and Colonel Manpreet Singh laid down their lives in an encounter with terrorists. May their souls rest in peace & may their loved ones find strength at this difficult time," he posted on X. PDP president Mehbooba Mufti while offering condolences to the bereaved families said there was no place for such acts of violence. People's Conference chairman Sajad Gani Lone also condoled the death of the bravehearts. Paying tributes to the three fallen officers, BJP leader Altaf Thakur said the security forces are committee to root out terror from Jammu and Kashmir.
[GreaterKashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... ] A terrorist and a soldier were on Tuesday killed and three security personnel maimed in an ongoing encounter in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said.
The encounter broke out earlier today after joint parties of the army and Special Operations Group of Jammu and Kashmir launched a search operation in the Narla area of the frontier district.
An official said that the firefight was on in the area. He said so far one terrorist was killed in the encounter. An army soldier who was injured in the encounter succumbed, he said.
Three other security personnel, including a cop, were maimed in the shootout. They were shifted to a hospital for treatment.
[Ynet] During Operation Guardian of the Walls in May 2021, a group of Jews assaulted and stabbed an Israeli Arab; they were sentenced to prison and ordered to compensate their victim 200,000 shekels
Jerusalem Magistrate Court sentenced on Wednesday Noam Elimelech, 22, and Naftali Elmakais, 31, to 11 years in prison and Yosef Ben Ami, 23, to four years for assaulting and stabbing a 24-year-old Arab Israeli man during Operation Guardian of the Walls in 2021. Elimelech and Elmakais were convicted of a terror attack months earlier for the same assault.
During Operation Guardian of the Walls in May 2021, the three men and an additional minor went to Jerusalem’s Machane Yehuda market after some of them participated in a protest in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah where they reportedly yelled “death to Arabs” and “revenge.” After noticing the victim, they asked him a question in Hebrew. When it became clear he was an Arab, they assaulted him and Elimelech stabbed him repeatedly.
The verdict concluded that “he was chosen to be the victim solely due to his Arab identity. He was helpless as he hopelessly tried to defend himself. For about 30 seconds, the four did to him as they pleased, left him destitute, soaked in his own blood with stab wounds and internal injuries, which required the victim to be hospitalized to treat his serious condition.
"Their objective was to terrorize another ethnic group and to release their fury pertinent to the violent acts of that time. This attack will leave the victim with unhealable scars. The victim is an engineering student and he worked close to the crime scene. Due to the mental effect on him because of the attack, he has ceased to study and work,” according to the verdict.
Elimelech apologized and claimed that he was once a victim of a terror attack.
During his verdict, Judge Eli Abarbanel said that this attack exhibits the gravest of intentions and terrorist crimes. In addition to the prison sentence, the judge also ordered Elmakais and Elimelech to each compensate the victim 100,000 shekels.
[IsraelTimes] IDF says Paleostinian bomb meant to target troops near security fence went kaboom! prematurely, as Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, appears to return to regular provocations on frontier
At least six Paleostinians were killed Wednesday afternoon after an bomb they attempted to detonate on the Israeli border during a riot blew up prematurely, the military and health officials in 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 an iron fist by Hamaswith 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 said.
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I guess a new generation of bomb-makers is growing up. The unsuccessful will blow themself up. The successful will become much respected muhandeses (engineers) and will be, eventually, killed by IDF. Then a new generation will start.
This is, I imagine, not connected to the Taliban’s latest venture.
[BenarNews] In coordination with Thai and Malaysian authorities, Indonesian police have uncovered a major syndicate trafficking crystal meth across Southeast Asia, a bigwig in Jakarta said Wednesday.
Between 2020 and 2023 police confiscated drugs and laundered assets valued at U.S. $683 million (10.4 trillion rupiah) from operations against the syndicate, which is led by Indonesian runawayFredy Pratama. Wahyu Widada, chief of the Indonesian national police’s criminal investigation agency, said Sherlocks believe that Fredy was last seen in Thailand.
"This is an organized and structured organization. Fredy has arranged who does what ... there are operational, financial, document-making, money-carrying sections and so on," Wahyu said.
Investigators discovered the ring’s operation after analyzing 408 drug cases from 2020 to 2023 that involved 10.2 tons of methamphetamine linked to Fredy’s group, according to Wahyu, who said drugs were distributed in Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia.
More than 800 people in Indonesia had been arrested in 408 drug cases linked to Fredy’s ring since 2020, including 39 since May, he said. The total value of drugs and assets seized in Indonesia and Thailand, including cash, buildings and land is estimated at $683 million, he said.
Indonesia has some of the world’s harshest anti-narcotics laws, with courts often imposing the death penalty for drug trafficking. The last time the government carried out executions was in July 2016, when four men convicted of drug offenses were put to death by firing squad.
Methamphetamine, a powerful stimulant that affects the central nervous system, is the most prevalent and problematic synthetic drug in East and Southeast Asia, according to a 2022 report by the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
Record amounts of methamphetamine continued to be seized in Southeast Asia, especially in the Lower Mekong subregion, where organized crime groups have diversified their manufacturing locations and methods, the report said.
Methamphetamine use has increased in the region over the past decade and has been identified as the primary drug of concern in all reporting countries in the region, according to UNODC.
On Wednesday, Indonesian police said they were working with their counterparts in Thailand to locate Fredy.
Mukti Juharsa, the director of narcotics crime at the Indonesian police’s criminal investigation agency, said while Fredy was known to have run the network from Thailand, recent reports had him leaving that country.
"We checked the travel data because there is a possibility that he used a fake identity or changed his face," Mukti said, adding that Fredy has been on Interpol’s wanted list since.
"We continue to cooperate with the police and immigration of Thailand because he has already issued a red notice."
In Thailand, police Lt. Gen. Sarayuth Wanapokai, commander of the narcotics suppression bureau, said he did not have knowledge about the report from Indonesia. Malaysian police did not immediately respond to BenarNews requests for comment.
In January, Thai police announced they had seized 1.1 metric tons of methamphetamine from northern, central and southern Thailand in less than a week. Authorities said a tip about the drug activities had led to the arrests of 10 people.
[IsraelTimes] Two Syrian soldiers killed, six maimed in initial attack on Tartus; second strike in Hama area causes ’material losses’
The Israeli Air Force allegedly carried out Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s against targets in northern Syria on Wednesday night, hours after the Israeli military was reported to have targeted nearby air defense systems.
Syria’s official news agency SANA, citing a military source, said the IAF fighter jets launched missiles from over northern Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... toward the Syrian city of Hama.
The state-run media outlet said that there were "material losses " as a result of the strikes against targets in the Hama area.
Earlier Wednesday, the Israeli military allegedly carried out rare daylight strikes against targets near the coastal Syrian city of Tartus — some 80 kilometers west of Hama — killing two soldiers.
SANA, citing a military source, said, "The Israeli enemy" launched missiles from the direction of the Mediterranean Sea, targeting a number of air defense sites in the Tartus area.
The report did not specify if the attack was carried out by warplanes or naval vessels.
Aside from the two soldiers killed, six others were maimed and there were "material losses" in the initial strike, the source said.
The first strike appeared to be a suppression of enemy air defenses, or SEAD, mission, aimed at paving the way for Israeli fighter jets to strike targets without needing to evade Syrian air defenses.
In recent years, numerous Syrian soldiers serving in air defense units have been killed or maimed in airstrikes attributed to Israel.
While Israel’s military does not, as a rule, comment on specific strikes in Syria, it has admitted to conducting hundreds of sorties against Iran-backed groups attempting to gain a foothold in the country, over the last decade.
The Israeli military says it attacks arms shipments believed to be bound for those groups, chief among them Lebanon’s Hezbollah. Additionally, airstrikes attributed to Israel have repeatedly targeted Syrian air defense systems.
The last alleged Israeli sortie over Syria was carried out on August 28, when fighter jets reportedly carried out strikes against Aleppo International Airport, putting it out of service for two days.
Hebrew media, relying on an unverified claim by Britannia-based watchdog Syria Observatory for Human Rights, report that three Hezbollah members were killed.
[IsraelTimes] Intensified festivities in Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... ’s largest Paleostinian refugee camp have left at least five people dead and more than a dozen maimed, Lebanese state media and security officials say. Scores of civilians have been forced to flee to safer areas.
The latest deaths bring to 11 the number of people killed since the fighting erupted again in Ein el-Hilweh camp, near the southern port city of Sidon on September 7, despite multiple cease-fire agreements.
Stray bullets hit residential areas outside the camp, including several that struck a fire engine as firefighters were battling a blaze near an army post, the state-run National News Agency says. The blaze was not related to the camp fighting.
The fighting broke out last week after nearly a month of calm in Ein el-Hilweh between Paleostinian 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.... ’ Fatah group and members of murderous Moslem Islamic factions.
Fatah and other allied factions had intended to crack down on suspects accused of killing a senior Fatah military official in the camp in late July.
NNA reports that among the five killed on Wednesday were three Fatah members. It says 15 people were also maimed in the festivities.
A top official with the Paleostinian murderous Moslem group Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",, Moussa Abu Marzouk, arrived in Beirut on Tuesday to push for an end to festivities with no success.
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.
[NYPOST] The US is now experiencing its greatest overall rates of death in more than a century — and it’s being fueled by a sharp rise in drug overdoses.
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[IsraelTimes] The Italian .jpg "Kashmir")
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
