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Al-Qassam Brigades Spokesman Abu Ubaidah brags up details of Al-Aqsa Toofan
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10/13/2023

susanhayward1941
Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Huge number of Israeli 2,000 lbs Mk84 bombs with JDAM guidance kits ready to be installed on fighter hets in an IAF airbase
Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IDF says it has carried out strikes
against about 3,600 targets across the Gaza Strip
Israel-Palestine-Jordan
A Palestinian doctor holds the body of
a baby who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza
Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IDF clearing Sufa Army Base from Hamas forces
Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israel to fully evacuate southern city Sderot
Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Former Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal calls for day of jihad on Friday the 13th, and tells Muslims to 'take to the streets' in protest against Israel

Posted by: Fred || 10/13/2023 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Is that something in your eye or am I glad to see you?
Posted by: Frodo || 10/13/2023 9:23 Comments || Top||

#2  I like the way that you’ve added location to the collected headlines in the Bloid, Fred. Very useful and efficient. Thank you!
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/13/2023 9:48 Comments || Top||

#3  I keep trying to make it better. Sometimes it works.
Posted by: Fred || 10/13/2023 18:07 Comments || Top||

#4  Agreed. I like it
Posted by: Frank G || 10/13/2023 22:59 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Ethiopian security forces arrest Boko Haram, al-Shabab linked suspects
[ShabelleMedia] Æthiopian security forces have arrested a number of Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
and al-Shabaab
...... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa...
terror groups linked suspects, local officials said Saturday.

The Sidama Region Peace and Security Bureau said in a press statement that the suspects were caught red-handed while planning to carry out terror attacks in various parts of Æthiopia in coordination with transnational terror groups and armed rebel outfits.

The statement disclosed the terror suspects were detained in a joint operation carried out by the Sidama Region security task force, the Æthiopia National Defense Force and the Æthiopia National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS).

The statement didn’t detail the exact number of the detained terror suspects. It didn’t specify the type of terror attacks either or the terror targets the suspects are accused of planning to strike.

The statement, however, showed photos of at least three terror suspects and high-tech communication equipment they’re accused of using to secretly communicate with each other.

Al-Shabaab is a murderous Moslem Islamic rebel group mainly operating in conflict-wracked Somalia but it has also been implicated in terrorist attacks in several other East African countries.

Boko Haram is a murderous Moslem Islamic rebel group originating from Nigeria but it has also been implicated in terror attacks in several West and Central African countries.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/13/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram (ISIS)

#1  Sidama is the smallest of the Ethiopian provinces but home to world's greatest coffee bean, the sidamo.
Posted by: Jerens Black9355 || 10/13/2023 8:33 Comments || Top||


Al-Shabaab loses more grounds in Somalia
[Garowe] al-Shabaab
... the personification of Somali state failure...
continued to lose more ground in Somalia following the military offensive against them, with the government of Somalia expressing confidence that the group will be vanquished completely once the operations against them are fully optimized.

At least 20 Death Eaters were killed on Monday in central Somalia, authorities said, noting that the operation targeted the Mudug area which is prone to al-Shabaab attacks. International partners participated in the onslaught, officials added.

In a statement, the Ministry of Information confirmed that the military targeted the Death Eaters in Shabellow forest which has been a major hideout for the al-Shabaab. It is in this forest that al-Shabaab hides vehicles used in carrying jacket wallahs.

"The joint forces' aim was to destroy battle wagons used by the terrorists, military consignment, food, medicine and disable their network, which was completely destroyed," the ministry said in a statement issued in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia.

For the last week, the ministry added, over 100 al-Shabaab Death Eaters have been killed, the highest figure within such a short period. The military with the help of the US Africa Command and the African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
Transition Mission in Somalia [ATMIS] has been pursuing the Death Eaters in central regions.

The success comes days after the African Union supported Somalia's quest for a technical pause of ATMIS withdrawal from the country. The peacekeepers were set to withdraw 3,000 more soldiers in September in compliance with the Somali Transition Plan, but the plan has since been halted.

Authorities in Somalia believe the country will be ready in the next three months to take over from ATMIS in some of the Forward Operating Bases where the peacekeepers are set to leave.



Posted by: trailing wife || 10/13/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


Soldiers killed along Kenya-Somalia border
[Garowe] At least three members of the Somali National Army [SNA] were killed on Saturday along the Kenya-Somalia border in Beled-Hawo, in the latest assault waged by the al-Shabaab
...... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa...
Death Eaters, who have been fighting to topple the fragile UN-backed federal government of Somalia.

The soldiers were killed in a roadside explosion planted by al-Shabaab, just as they heightened surveillance along the mostly non-existent border. The town is located in the Gedo region of Somalia, which the Kenya Defense Forces use as the buffer zone.

According to witnesses, the soldiers were traveling in their vehicle before it ran over an IED, leading to massive injuries. At least 10 others were critically injured and have since been rushed to Mandera County Hospital across the border for treatment, sources said.

The incident comes just as the Somali National Army [SNA], the African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
Transition Mission in Somalia [ATMIS], and the US Africa Command prepare for the second phase of a crackdown against the al-Shabaab, mainly targeting Jubaland and Southwest states.

In July, Kenya suspended plans to re-open the border with Somalia following the resurgence of al-Shabaab activities in the East African nation, with the Mandera-Bula Hawo border affected. The Border Point One connects Kenya and Somalia and has been closed for almost a decade.

The Kenya Defense Forces is mainly stationed in Jubaland state which has been for a long time used as buffer zone in the fight against al-Shabaab. KDF works closely with Jubaland Regional Forces who are vital in degrading the gunnies in western Somalia.

KDF will take part in the second phase of operations against al-Shabaab and to safeguard locals along the border, at least 14 Forward Operating Bases have been erected, and in the future, most of the troops serving in ATMIS will retreat to the bases to guard the border.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/13/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [23 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


Europe
French police uses heavy force on pro-Palestinian protesters
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

And courtesy of 3dc:
Hamas & Police clash in Popeyes Chicken
[Twitter]
Posted by: Fred || 10/13/2023 2023-10-13 00:23 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Give 'em a whiff of grapeshot!
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/13/2023 2:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Grom the Reflective I'd give them more than a whiff
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 10/13/2023 8:29 Comments || Top||


#4  #2 You think you're better general than Napoleon?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/13/2023 9:05 Comments || Top||

#5  "Heavy force"?? hardly.
Posted by: Gromble Dribble4342 || 10/13/2023 10:54 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Sam Faddis - Hezbollah Is Already Here
[And Magazine] Hezbollah has launched rocket and mortar attacks on Israel. There are unconfirmed reports of Hezbollah fighters crossing into Israel from Lebanon. The United States has warned Hezbollah to stay out of the fighting between Israel and Hamas, and Hezbollah has responded by saying it considers the United States as much of an enemy as Israel. We have sent a carrier battle group to the area in preparation for possible air strikes against Hezbollah if they intervene.

Is anyone focused on the possibility that Hezbollah may start a war with the United States right here not in the Middle East?

Hezbollah is a massive organization with huge resources. It has a longstanding presence in Latin America and has carried out numerous terrorist attacks there. The only thing separating us from Hezbollah’s Latin American networks is our now largely fictitious border.

That is to say nothing.

Hezbollah has a longstanding relationship with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. It has fighters on the ground right now in Syria, Yemen, and Iraq. Sixty-one nations worldwide have designated Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. It may well be the largest, most lethal group on the planet. Hezbollah’s External Security Organization (ESO), otherwise known as "Unit 910" or the alias "Islamic Jihad Organization" is active in multiple countries in Latin America. Its criminal component sometimes called the Business Affairs Component (BAC), is involved in massive money-laundering schemes throughout Central and South America.

About the Author: After Faddis retired from the CIA, he published And Magazine, a news and conspiracy newsletter.[1] He is a political operative and former US Senate Candidate in Maryland, now organizing statewide coalitions in Pennsylvania to spread disinformation about 2020 election conspiracies.[8] Faddis organizes a coalition of self described Patriot groups in Pennsylvania.[7] WIKI

WIKI Definition of a thinker, analyst, and writer - Conspiracy Theorist.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/13/2023 06:56 || Comments || Link || [24 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah

#1  The AMAL was the threat when in Beirut in 82 - 83. (Beirut Bombing USMC Barracks Oct 83). It morphed into Hezbelloh in the mid 80s. Totally sponsored by Iran…. And Quaseem Solemani as head of the IGRC Quds Force in Iran constantly directed them until Trump took him out. Nasrallah has been their leader since about 1992.

They don't much care for us.

Posted by: Besoeker || 10/13/2023 7:10 Comments || Top||

#2  We have reports here from time to time of Hezbollah members being arrested. Mostly they’re sleeper agents who came here ten to twenty years ago and are collecting information while their cover careers thrive.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/13/2023 10:41 Comments || Top||

#3  They can try to come play in Texas...my neighbors who are mostly transplants from elsewhere have gone FULL Texan...they seem quite eager for someone to make trouble.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 10/13/2023 11:20 Comments || Top||

#4  Imported by Hussein Obama.
Posted by: Captain Splat8849 || 10/13/2023 14:40 Comments || Top||

#5  [Griff Jenkins on X] FOX News has confirmed in addition to 2 Lebanese men, CBP apprehended an Egyptian man in his 40s in Eagle Pass yesterday…

In the RGV Sector, since Monday, CBP officials there have apprehended 19 Iranians and 17 Syrians… all SIAs receiving extensive scrutiny
Posted by: Enver Dingle4916 || 10/13/2023 16:43 Comments || Top||

#6  LOL, my foreign transplant neighbors weren't imported by Obama. They are the sort of immigrants that we want, motivated, hard working and very proud to be AMERICANS. They came here the hard way and the right way.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 10/13/2023 17:04 Comments || Top||

#7  The Biden administration is allowing over 10,000+ illegal crossings a day – mostly adult males from 150+ countries, including these latest numbers from CBP:
• Syria: 538
• Yemen: 139
• Iran: 659
• Iraq: 123
• Afghanistan: 6,386
• Lebanon: 164
• Egypt: 3,153
• Pakistan: 1,613
• Mauritania: 15,594
• Uzbekistan: 13,624
• Turkey: 30,830
ME men are also stockpiling burner phones and propane tanks in Florida. Not if, but when.
Posted by: Kofi de Medici4898 || 10/13/2023 22:41 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Watch: Israel's Army Rescues 250 Hostages, Kills More Than 60 Terrorists In Hamas Bunker
[firstpost.com] The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) on Friday released footage showing an elite unit called the Flotilla 13 carrying out a rescue operation for over 250 hostages around the Gaza security fence.

More than 60 Hamas terrorists were killed and 26 were apprehended—including Muhammad Abu A’ali the Deputy Commander of the Hamas Southern Naval Division.

In the video, Israeli soldiers can be seen going inside the buildings where the hostages have been held and firing shots at the terrorists. A soldier can also be seen throwing a grenade at the outpost.

(More at link)
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 10/13/2023 13:45 || Comments || Link || [21 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  250 hostages???

I thought the total unaccounted for and presumed hostages was about 150.
Posted by: lord garth || 10/13/2023 15:18 Comments || Top||

#2  ^This is from the second day.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/13/2023 15:22 Comments || Top||

#3  This one is an IDF base just north of Gaza.

Apparently the solders there were a bit too compliance and as a result were caught by surprise.

Sad that one of the solders taking a dump at the time, was shot, you could say he was shot shitless...

Too soon?

Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 10/13/2023 20:11 Comments || Top||


Huge number of Israeli 2,000 lbs Mk84 bombs with JDAM guidance kits ready to be installed on fighter jets in an IAF airbase
[TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 10/13/2023 2023-10-13 00:45 || Comments || Link || [22 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  They came to Israel like Einsatzgruppen into Warsaw Ghetto. Now they are getting Allied Airforces to Dresden.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/13/2023 2:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Arclight
Posted by: Ululating Platypus || 10/13/2023 6:07 Comments || Top||

#3  So what's it look like exploding?

"The Mark 84 is capable of forming a crater 50 feet (15.2 m) wide and 36 ft (11.0 m) deep. It can penetrate up to 15 inches (381.0 mm) of metal or 11 ft (3.4 m) of concrete, depending on the height from which it is dropped, and causes lethal fragmentation to a radius of 400 yards (365.8 m)."

Posted by: Skidmark || 10/13/2023 12:39 Comments || Top||

#4  Built more than a few 84s in my time, but mostly did 82s and the occasional M117 750 pounder. Keep in mind though that what you see in that picture is likely about 36 hours worth of ammo.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 10/13/2023 13:19 Comments || Top||

#5  Too bad Rockeye (Mk 83) has been outlawed.
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 10/13/2023 13:45 Comments || Top||


IDF says it has carried out strikes against about 3,600 targets across the Gaza Strip
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 10/13/2023 2023-10-13 00:40 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  How about a 10-20 kiloton tac nuke into central Gaza? Wouldn't that be a contained little blast with manageable radiation spill out?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 10/13/2023 3:07 Comments || Top||

#2  The prob;em with that Dron, is that once nuke is used, everybodyelse will start using nukes!

best ti use MOABs and FABs instead.

Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 10/13/2023 9:26 Comments || Top||

#3  #1 Nukes are for Iran.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/13/2023 9:30 Comments || Top||

#4  The stratefgy in Gaza is adequate



Hit the road Jack ...
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/13/2023 9:32 Comments || Top||

#5  But, dron, if you want a target for nuke - have I got one for you.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/13/2023 9:43 Comments || Top||

#6  What a cook that would be, Grom.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 10/13/2023 12:10 Comments || Top||


Al-Qassam Brigades Spokesman Abu Ubaidah brags up details of Al-Aqsa Toofan
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

...After the start of the operation, we launched 3500 rockets at places around 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 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...
and 1000 rockets at places occupied in 1948.

We made comprehensive plans, we trained 3000 fighters for the operation and 1500 fighters were on standby for support operations.

We herald victory for the Islamic Ummah. We say to the enemy, if you dare to enter Gaza by land, we will crush your army.

Over the past year, we have deceived Israel from an intelligence point of view.

We managed to conceal our intentions, our training and our steps before the operation.

My fellow prisoners should not worry, what we have will free them.
That's an absolutely stunning mask. So Islamic!
Posted by: Fred || 10/13/2023 2023-10-13 00:38 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


A Palestinian doctor holds the body of a baby who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza
[TWITTER] But the poor little thing's head is still attached. That's gotta count for something.
Posted by: Fred || 10/13/2023 2023-10-13 00:32 || Comments || Link || [20 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  What Crime Did He Commit?!

It case it's not usual Palliwood (isn't it - where are signs of violence?) he won't grow up to murder our babies.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/13/2023 2:29 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: ACA JOE || 10/13/2023 3:47 Comments || Top||

#3  where are signs of violence?

It doesn’t look quite real, somehow.

Also one, not forty. If killed, it was not intentionally as part of a massacre spree with extra torture.for funsies.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/13/2023 4:12 Comments || Top||

#4 
UPFRONT,
SORRY FOR MY LONG WINDED RANT.

IF this even actually happen, and it is not the usual Palestinian/Iranian staged Media photo-op to deflect from their own well documented long list of atrocities, worthy of World Court & executions.

Aren't they themselves are the only ones responsible.....IF it even did happen? Because, isn't this really just another example of the HAMAS/PLO terrorist tactical plan of using residential areas as their staging grounds for attacks and rocket launching? Thus placing Palestinian civilians in harms way for deflective photo-ops? Knowing Israel (like any country) will act to eliminate more launches and Israeli civilian deaths murders?

When you boil it down. Israel did not start this latest or other Terrorist invasions to mass murder civilians.The PLO/HAMAS/IRAN/etc. did so in some sick twisted remembrance of a war they started and also lost some 50 years ago.

BTW: Closely look at the photo of the supposedly dead baby. Do you see any marks on it or any indication of injury? How about a picture of a dozens of deliberately murdered & beheaded Israeli babies to compare it with?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/13/2023 5:35 Comments || Top||

#5  Let's not forget the image of that jovial prankster attempting (badly) to decapitate the Asian guest worker with a garden hoe.
Posted by: Cesare || 10/13/2023 6:08 Comments || Top||

#6  Watch: IDF destroys Hamas drone launch sites on Gaza roofs

Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/13/2023 6:33 Comments || Top||

#7  The democrats in the USA love to campaign atop the bodies of the dead. They just do it rhetorically.

But they do it. And their voters respond to it every time.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/13/2023 7:29 Comments || Top||

#8  You know after a while we didn't care about dead German and Japanese babies either. When your leadership decided to throw away the civilized approach to war, you inherit the consequences.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/13/2023 7:33 Comments || Top||

#9  Not there just yet. Please continue the bombing.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/13/2023 7:36 Comments || Top||

#10  When your leadership decided to throw away the civilized approach to war

What is that?
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/13/2023 8:00 Comments || Top||

#11  ^ A quick death.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/13/2023 8:22 Comments || Top||

#12  #10 that was what the Geneva and Hague Conventions were about. A 19th Century attempt at reducing some of the collateral consequences of war.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/13/2023 8:33 Comments || Top||

#13  ^Not to be confused with daily output from UN experts.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/13/2023 8:35 Comments || Top||


#15  #14 Betcha he has Hamas videos - butchery of Israelis - on his smart phone.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/13/2023 9:07 Comments || Top||

#16  Looks like one of those practice dolls for choking, CPR.

Pretty clean scrubs there, doc. Where's your stethoscope?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/13/2023 10:36 Comments || Top||

#17  Sure he's crying? Looks like he's sweating? He having a heart attack?

-keeps scroll-

Mr. El-Bursh having snacks and smoking the hookah. Makes sense now.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/13/2023 10:44 Comments || Top||

#18  Where's the green helmut?
Posted by: Snerenter Thromogum9494 || 10/13/2023 10:46 Comments || Top||

#19  Where is the rest of the baby's body?
Posted by: Gromble Dribble4342 || 10/13/2023 10:52 Comments || Top||

#20 
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 10/13/2023 11:00 Comments || Top||

#21  We should forgive our enemies.

Right after they are killed...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/13/2023 11:24 Comments || Top||

#22  That BBC reporter is Palestinian first, reporter second. And I think we need re-evaluate who we consider reporters.

If you are reporting from within a war zone and have a bias, if you never deliver blistering scathing unflattering news about your people and side, you are not an unbiased journalist - you are a Propogandist Provocateur.

If you choose the pen or microphone as your weapon, beware the man who has chosen the gun.
Posted by: mossomo || 10/13/2023 12:45 Comments || Top||

#23  If you choose the pen or microphone as your weapon, beware the man who has chosen the gun.

Well said.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/13/2023 12:49 Comments || Top||

#24  ^ Especially when the pen or microphone is employed in the pursuit of evil.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 10/13/2023 15:25 Comments || Top||


IDF clearing Sufa Army Base from Hamas forces
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 10/13/2023 2023-10-13 00:28 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  From the Facebook page of Shai Levy

I want to meet you a hero from my kibbutz, Nirim. Rep. Amit Levi, a police officer who was on vacation.

When the terrorist attack started, Amit was free at his home and ran with his wife and five children to the security emergency room. When he heard the shooting, he put on an identification hat and took his M-16, he went out of the security room to the living room of the house to protect the house. Pretty quickly he realized that the army wouldn't arrive on time. We didn't understand then how far he won't come.

Amit left his wife and children at home, locked in the security room and organized a combat squad with two members of the readiness class, Michael Vestas. After organizing, they went to the Kibbutz fence, where they encountered three terrorists. They killed two terrorists and the third one escaped. And then they were heavily shot and retreated towards the homes.

They found a high position and from there they conducted fighting and surveillance as much as they could against more than 20 terrorists who were insanely armed. When the army arrived, Amit joined them. Assistant and commander as well. At this point he continues to function calmly as he begins to receive the names of police officers he knows who were killed, his family is still trapped and he continues.

When the purification of houses and rescuing families began to a focus point in the club, Amit did not run to his home.

He stayed with a class on readiness and the army to rescue families by house order. The evening is approaching, here I am already rescued and joined a colleague, I saw his function. The army was in shock, so he took command of the soldiers as well, and started managing them and the rescue. The only time that stopped, really for a minute, was when they rescued his family from his home.

He continues to get more names of friends and killed police officers. Amit is going on. He organized defense of the club to which the families were rescued, and then managed a list of who still needed to be rescued. Organize rescue squads of armed people on Clubkers.

He didn't stop until he was sure that the last of the inhabitants was rescued and the house was clean of terrorists. Next step, they moved everyone to the playgrounds which are sheltered buildings where we spent the night. I was there with Amit's wife and children. He wasn't in there. Because he stayed out with the forces and responded to terrorists' identities. It's like this until the morning.

That's how it was the next day. At five in the afternoon we left the kibbutz in a safe convoy to Eilat. Anit is not coming with us and his family to Eilat. He stayed with three other people to protect the kibbutz and assist the army forces there. Until now he's been there. And if that's not enough, then he takes care of the pets that are left behind, and every evening he gives us an organized report about the animals all home, what they ate, drank and how they are doing. The function of this man and officer as I saw with my own eyes was amazing. Thanks to this a lot of people stayed alive.

Hope it gets to the israel police so they can give him a decoration.

Posted by: badanov || 10/13/2023 10:02 Comments || Top||

#2  Thanks badanov.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/13/2023 10:14 Comments || Top||

#3  Kol Hakavod. A sheepdog, for sure.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/13/2023 10:54 Comments || Top||


Israel to fully evacuate southern city Sderot
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Posted by: Fred || 10/13/2023 2023-10-13 00:28 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


#2  ^ "Can you swim?"
Posted by: Frank G || 10/13/2023 8:06 Comments || Top||

#3  Not all are stupid.

Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/13/2023 8:09 Comments || Top||


Former Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal calls for day of jihad on Friday the 13th, and tells Muslims to 'take to the streets' in protest against Israel
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A former Hamas chief has called for protests to take place across the Muslim world on Friday in support of the Palestinians, and for the peoples of neighboring countries to join the fight against Israel.

'[We must] head to the squares and streets of the Arab and Islamic world on Friday,' said Khaled Meshaal, who currently heads Hamas's diaspora office.

Meshaal, who is based in Qatar, said the governments and peoples of Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Egypt have a bigger duty to support the Palestinians.

Meshaal's call for a Friday 13th uprising was reiterated by Hamas itself, according to the Israeli-run, Washington DC-based Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).

MEMRI said that Hamas urged its supporters in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel to rise up in what he called 'the Al-Aqsa Flood' - echoing what the the secretive Palestinian mastermind Mohammed Deif calls the attack he launched on Saturday against Israel.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/13/2023 00:24 || Comments || Link || [19 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  That's a huge opportunity for all countries suffering from Muslim colonization.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/13/2023 3:09 Comments || Top||

#2  Vive La France
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/13/2023 4:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Vienna, Berlin authorities ban pro-Palestine protest
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/13/2023 4:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Man yells 'Allahu akbar' before stabbing 3 people at high school in French town of Arras.

A teacher was murdered and two other people seriously wounded in a stabbing attack in the French town of Arras today (Friday), local media reported.

Not even a Jewish school
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/13/2023 6:37 Comments || Top||

#5  Not even a Jewish school

They don't care as long as it is an infidel. Hell, they will even take a fellow muslim if they looked at the Koran funny.

Typical death cult.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/13/2023 10:43 Comments || Top||

#6  Not even a Jewish school

He graduated from that school three years ago, according to a link from Skidmark in comments elsewhere on Rantburg He and his brother are Chechen refugees and known ISIS supporters.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/13/2023 11:22 Comments || Top||


IDF airstrike in Gaza today.
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Posted by: Fred || 10/13/2023 2023-10-13 00:22 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Israel orders EVACUATION of 1.1M people from Northern Gaza within 24 hours, UN says
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Israel has ordered more than one million people to evacuate northern Gaza within 24 hours ahead of a feared Israeli ground offensive aimed at eradicating Hamas.

The order this morning sent panic through civilians and aid workers already struggling under Israeli airstrikes and a blockade, while the United Nations called such an evacuation 'impossible' that would turn an tragedy into calamity.

It comes as Hamas claimed at least 13 Israeli and foreign hostages held in northern Gaza have been killed in Israeli air strikes in the past 24 hours.

'Thirteen prisoners... including foreigners' were killed in five locations targeted by Israeli fighter jets, Hamas's armed wing said Friday.
In other words, Hamas is using kidnapped foreigners and Israelis as human shields to protect key military locations — strictly forbidden by the Geneva Conventions, to which Hamas is not a signatory.
Israel's military sent one evacuation order directly on Friday morning, telling the 1.1 million people living north of an area called Wadi Gaza to move south. This would mean the entire population of Gaza City and its surroundings fleeing their homes.

Israel has killed more than 1,530 people in Gaza with airstrikes and cut off food, water and electricity since Hamas terrorists killed more than 1,300 in Israel.

Israel's directive, which comes seven days after Hamas attacked Israel from Gaza, charged that Hamas terrorists were hiding in tunnels under the city.

Meanwhile, a Hamas official called the evacuation order 'fake propaganda', urged Palestinians to stay in their homes and not to 'fall for it'.

The UN said it received a separate directive from the Israeli military shortly before midnight, giving all 1.1 million civilians of northern Gaza 24 hours to flee south.

It said the broad evacuation warning it received for all of Gaza's north also applies to all UN staff and to the hundreds of thousands who have taken shelter in UN schools and other facilities since Israel launched round-the-clock airstrikes.
The article also has maps, photos and video showing some of what happened last Saturday.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/13/2023 00:20 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  I've a question. Anybody in EUrope who protests the inflow of colonists refugees is branded racist and worse. But Egypt refuses to provide temporary (since they all are eager to return to Palestine and to the fight) shelter to fellow Arabs, and it's perfectly OK?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/13/2023 3:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Why would you assume EUrope is a shining beacon of rightfulness?
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/13/2023 8:06 Comments || Top||

#3  ^I would assume consistency.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/13/2023 8:10 Comments || Top||

#4  ^^Meaning Egypt should be told (privately) "If you fire on Gazan refugees, we use it as an excuse to cut all support. Go ask Vlad for handout! No? Ask Xi."
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/13/2023 8:13 Comments || Top||

#5  p.s. EU has this big row re funds for PA. Why not solve it by announcing that the funds will go to Gazan Refugees in Egypt (after checking that they're actually there, of course). Would the current objectors keep objecting?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/13/2023 8:58 Comments || Top||

#6  Did Ariel Sharon think that palestinians owning land would make them peaceable? Take it back.
Posted by: irsh rage boy || 10/13/2023 9:32 Comments || Top||

#7  1.1 million is just a few months of volume through the Southern border. And I am sure they can all fit into Harvard yard and live off the endowment.
Posted by: Airandee || 10/13/2023 10:26 Comments || Top||


IDF says Hamed Sinwar, brother of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, was killed in an Israeli airstrike
Another one bites the dust. And on his first entry in the Rantburg archives, too.
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Posted by: Fred || 10/13/2023 2023-10-13 00:15 || Comments || Link || [18 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Report from the streets of Gaza, city blocks to the horizon in ruins
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] Are they still ululating there?
Posted by: Fred || 10/13/2023 2023-10-13 00:13 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Shoddy construction will tell.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/13/2023 2:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Reducing carbon emissions from appliances and autos. AOC would be proud
Posted by: Frank G || 10/13/2023 8:05 Comments || Top||

#3  As they are so oft to say, To the sea, baby!
Posted by: mossomo || 10/13/2023 12:54 Comments || Top||

#4  Think this is what the people of Gaza voted for.
Posted by: Tom || 10/13/2023 13:37 Comments || Top||

#5  Perhaps a touch too much fly ash in the mix.
Posted by: SteveS || 10/13/2023 13:43 Comments || Top||

#6  Alaska Paul in heaven nods agreement
Posted by: Frank G || 10/13/2023 14:27 Comments || Top||

#7  I don't know that voting has had much to do with anything there for years. "One man, one vote, one time."
Posted by: james || 10/13/2023 15:25 Comments || Top||

#8  FAFO. "There is no medicine for regret."--old proverb
Posted by: magpie || 10/13/2023 18:01 Comments || Top||


BBC team, while reporting from Gaza, encounters dozens of their friends and neighbors among the injured and deceased
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Posted by: Fred || 10/13/2023 2023-10-13 00:07 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Stage one: they celebrate their murders - puting the evidence on all the social networks.
Stage two: they play at being poor victims of the Zionist war machine on all the social networks.

But, for their surprise, stage three - enlightened humanity interferes on their behalf - delays.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/13/2023 2:48 Comments || Top||

#2  All power to the zionist war machine! ✊
Posted by: Dron66046 || 10/13/2023 2:58 Comments || Top||

#3  How odd that the BBC team has so very many friends when they are supposed to be practicing balanced distance for proper perspective.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/13/2023 4:15 Comments || Top||

#4  "BBC team encounters dozens of their friends and neighbors among the injured and deceased"

So why should anyone expect impartial by this BBC reporting team?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/13/2023 5:38 Comments || Top||

#5  /\ "BBC team encounters dozens of their friends and neighbors among the injured and deceased"

I knew you would !

Posted by: Besoeker || 10/13/2023 7:27 Comments || Top||

#6  "Know them by the company they keep..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/13/2023 7:34 Comments || Top||

#7  Of course he does. Looks like he's sweating and having a heart attack.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/13/2023 10:46 Comments || Top||

#8  When feeling sorry for the innocent civilians (TM) killed by the Hamas eradication project, please remember that they voted Hamas into power in Gaza.
The only possible shifting of blame is if Dominion handled the election. Also, how long after a terrorist hides his weapons does he/she/it become a "civilian"?
Posted by: Mercutio || 10/13/2023 12:34 Comments || Top||

#9  Right after 9/11 some imam (spit) said there are no civilians in jihad.

So, I say we have to accept that.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/13/2023 12:48 Comments || Top||


Reports: Some of the Hamas Terrorists Had Israeli Work Permits and Their Victims Recognized Them
[Townhall] The attacks of the kibbutzim along 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 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...
border might be some of the most brutal in recent memory, with echoes of the Rwandan Genocide in how methodical Hamas
...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
was in going door-to-door, murdering, and raping innocent Israelis on October 7. A massive rocket barrage preceded the air, land, and sea assault Hamas executed, thanks to Iranian assistance—allowing at least 1,000 Hamas hard boyz to breach multiple border points, some of whom paraglided into Israel.

As Israelis took cover in bomb shelters, Hamas hard boyz butchered them. The campaign of slaughter and mayhem continued for hours, as Israel was caught unprepared at the outset of this invasion in what is arguably the worst intelligence failure since the Yom Kippur War. Israel has since formed a unity government, mobilized hundreds of thousands of reservists, and has preparations for a ground assault aimed at wiping out Hamas.

As Israeli forces mobilize, the media is seeing first-hand the brutality of Hamas, with babies being found decapitated, whole families wiped out, and countless others burned alive. There are no words to describe the carnage. Not since the Holocaust have this many Jewish people been killed in a single day. These monsters have kidnapped children.

Another development is that some hard boyz knew the layout across the border since some had work permits. Members of the kibbutzim recognized them:

Babies had their heads chopped off, some set on fire in their cribs. This fight is now a war against absolute evil. And that evil resides in Gaza and must be rooted out.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/13/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


#2  The argument was made, if you give these people work permits, they will turn around and kill you.

The woke folks thought economic opportunity would trump the reptilian brain of where these people function.
Posted by: mossomo || 10/13/2023 12:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Yet the West Bank seems pretty chill right now. Or am I wrong?
Posted by: ruprecht || 10/13/2023 17:42 Comments || Top||


The Miscalculation of Hamas
[Newsbreak] Hamas
...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
came at dawn and murdered with abandon. It had the element of surprise. Israel was unprepared . This was unprecedented. Israel’s security barrier breached; Israeli communities and military bases overrun; territory conquered; and horrific casualties inflicted. Yet the consequences of its actions may ultimately spell Hamas’ demise. Did its leaders not game this scenario? The answer, likely, is that they did and miscalculated. By misreading Israel, the United States, and, possibly, their very own paymasters in Iran, they may have lit a fire that will now engulf them.

But first things first. From Hamas’ point of view, the attack was an unmitigated success, probably more than expected. The operation, carefully planned for months, was kept a tight secret. Israeli intelligence appears to have completely missed the clues. More importantly: Hamas went where no other terror group had ventured before. It conquered, albeit briefly, Israeli territory, rampaged for hours, challenged only by scant Israeli security presence, slaughtered hundreds, and herded survivors back to Gaza. In Israel, the shock will reverberate for a long time.

Here, too, this was a game changer. Hamas, like Hezbollah and the PLO in the past, previously used Israeli hostages (dead or alive) as leverage. But this time, Hamas — coached, funded, and armed by its Iranian paymasters — had a more grandiose plan: not just to fundamentally alter the dynamics of its conflict with Israel, but to set the region on fire. It hopes to open new fronts that have not materialized yet. Hezbollah has not launched a full assault on Israel’s north. The West Bank has not joined in. Israel’s Arab population has not taken to the streets, like it did in the first weeks of the Second Intifadah, 23 years ago, though recent echoes of those clashes make it a possible scenario. All that could still change. It is a high-stakes game that could cripple Israel with mass casualties and loss of territory.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/13/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Israel releases images of babies murdered and burned by Hamas
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Israel today released harrowing images of tiny babies who were murdered and burned by Hamas
...always the voice of sweet reason...
faceless myrmidons amid their ruthless attacks this weekend that saw hundreds of Israeli civilians including pregnant women killed in their homes.

One appalling image shows the small body of a baby, who couldn't be more than 12 months old, lying on a now bloodied white body bag that is too large for it. The little child's baby grow dotted with flowers is covered in blood after the rampaging faceless myrmidons unleashed horrors that defy belief.

Another two photographs released by Israel show the blackened and charred bodies of two babies who were murdered by the Hamas button men when they stormed their homes in southern Israel. Their bodies are so disfigured it's impossible to make out where their arms and legs would have been.

MailOnline has chosen to publish heavily blurred versions of these images to show the horrors that Hamas faceless myrmidons unleashed on hundreds of Israelis after they stormed over the border from 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 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...
on Saturday.

It comes as apparently verified photographs of other babies beheaded by the ruthless faceless myrmidons in the Kfar Aza kibbutz just a mile away from the border were 'confirmed' by journalists at the Jerusalem Post.

The Kfar Aza kibbutz was one of the first Israeli settlements to be targeted on Saturday morning by Hamas. It was here that the terrorists, wielding assault rifles and grenades, ruthlessly rubbed out screaming families as they begged for their lives before setting fire to their homes.

A rescue team who visited the kibbutz, where the smell of rotting bodies still hangs in the air, told how they saw a pregnant lady lying on the floor of the first house they walked into. When they turned her over, they saw that her unborn baby had been sliced from her womb.

'We saw a pregnant lady lying on the floor, and then we turn her around and see that the stomach is cut open, wide open,' Yossi Landau, an aid worker at the NGO Zaka, told i24News, his voice cracking with emotion.

'The unborn baby, still connected with umbilical cord, was stabbed with a knife. And the mother was shot in the head. And you use your imagination, trying to figure out what came first.'
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/13/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [22 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


#2  Wanna bet, two weeks from now it'll another "Zionist Lie" to all the right-thinking people?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/12/2023 16:31 Comments || Top||

#3  two weeks from now it'll another "Zionist Lie" to all the right-thinking people

If you mean the left and "progressives".... then yes. Already starting too.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/13/2023 0:12 Comments || Top||


#5  two weeks from now it'll another "Zionist Lie" to all the right-thinking people?

If I was the Marketing Dept for Barbarians Inc, I'd have my people whipping up some lame, obviously faked pix to prove to the world what liars the Juice are. They're tricksy as Hobbits, as we all know!
Posted by: SteveS || 10/13/2023 13:26 Comments || Top||

#6  whipping up some lame, obviously faked pix

They're already at it.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/13/2023 14:19 Comments || Top||


A 'Wonderful' New Fatwa Permits Killing Israelis Wherever They May Be
[MEMRI.ORG] Dr. Mahmoud al-Shajrawi of the Paleostine Scholars Association in the Diaspora said on an October 9, 2023 show on al-Quds al-Youm TV (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...
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 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...
) that his organization issued a "wonderful" fatwa stating that it is permissible to kill Israelis wherever they may be, whether it is in the West Bank, within Israel's 1948 border, or in the Arab countries that have normalized relations with Israel.
Posted by: Fred || 10/13/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Islamic Jihad

#1  That's something new?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/13/2023 4:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Dr. Mahmoud al-Shajrawi of the Paleostine Scholars Association animals that issued the Jewish Death Fatwa. Should be captured/arrested and brought to a televised trial for mass murder.

BTW: I wonder how many in the Paleostine Scholars Association were IVY League educated?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/13/2023 5:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Photo by Omar Ashtawy\ apaimages
Members of the Palestine Scholars Association attend a meeting in Gaza city on August 30, 2023. The CEDAW research project looks at the approaches of the CEDAW Committee, States parties, and NGOs in addressing family laws in Muslim contexts. Photo by Omar Ashtawy\ COPYRIGHT: [The photo appears at the Palestine Scholars Assn. site.]
Posted by: Jerens Black9355 || 10/13/2023 8:09 Comments || Top||

#4  New?

"...that it was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman who should be slain in Battle was sure to go to Paradise."
Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja, the Tripolitan ambassador to Britain to Thomas Jefferson, London 1786
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 10/13/2023 11:52 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
ISIS claims responsibility for 2 operations in Syria’s Deir ez-Zor
[NPASyria] The Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) claimed, on Monday, its responsibility for two operations against the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Internal Security Forces of North and East Syria (Asayish) in the countryside of Deir ez-Zor Governorate, eastern Syria.

ISIS holy warriors targeted an investigator and a member of the Asayish in the village of Abriha, in al-Busayrah district, eastern Deir ez-Zor, the ISIS-run Amaq news agency said in a statement.

The targeting resulted in the killing of the Asayish investigator and member, according to the source.

In another statement, the Amaq news agency said that ISIS holy warriors targeted a military vehicle belonging to the SDF with machineguns on the road between the villages of Hawi al-Hisan and Meheimideh, resulting in the injury of an SDF fighter who was inside the vehicle.

A military source from the Asayish confirmed that both incidents have occurred.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/13/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [18 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Iranian military reinforcements enter Syria from Iraq
[NPASyria] At dawn on Thursday, Iranian reinforcements reached military posts of Iran-backed militias in Deir ez-Zor, eastern Syria, coming from Iraq.

The Iranian reinforcements come after an unidentified aircraft bombed on October 9 a military post of Quds Force, affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The attack, which took place on the outskirts of the village of al-Heri in the countryside of Abu Kamal, southeast of Deir ez-Zor city, killed hard boyz and damaged logistics warehouses.

A military source in the Quds Force said that the pro-Iranian militias brought in more than eight cargo vehicles through the Sikek border crossing coming from Iraqi territory.

He added to North Press that the convoy included logistical materials and ammunition, in addition to two vehicles carrying military personnel in civilian clothes.

The vehicles entered military posts of Quds Force in Abu Kamal, and transported hard boyz coming from Iraqi territory to a military post next to al-Shifaa Hospital in the town of al- Mayadin in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor.

Unidentified aircrafts target Iran’s IRGC posts in Syria’s Deir ez-Zor
Oct 10, 2023
[NPASyria] Unidentified aircrafts targeted on Monday at midnight several headquarters and posts of the Iranian-backed militias on the Syrian-Iraqi border and the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, eastern Syria.

A military source within the Iranian-backed Liwa al-Quds militia said an unknown aircrafts launched Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s on the Sikek border crossing between Syria and Iraq controlled by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

The source told North Press another airstrike targeted the headquarters of the IRGC and a military post of the Liwa al-Quds on the outskirts of the village of al-Heri in the countryside of Abu Kamal.

The aircrafts also conducted at least five airstrikes in the town of al-Qaim in Iraq on the Syrian-Iraqi border, the source added.

Iran’s IRGC transfers militants, weapons outside Syria’s Deir ez-Zor
Oct 7, 2023
[NPASyria] Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) transferred on Friday its militants and weapons from headquarters to outside of Deir ez-Zor Governorate, eastern Syria, using vehicles of the Syrian government forces.

A military source within the IRGC in Deir ez-Zor said five vehicles of the Division 17 affiliated with the government forces transferred non-Syrian IRGC militants, weapons and ammunition from its headquarters in the eastern and western countryside of Deir ez-Zor.

The source, who preferred to remain unnamed for security reasons, added that the IRGC evacuated a military post near al-Hamdan airbase in the countryside of Abu Kamal, a post in the al-Tamo Street in the city of al-Mayadin, eastern Deir ez-Zor, and transferred a number of militants from the several posts in the village of al-Masrab in western countryside of Deir ez-Zor.

The source noted that the destination is probably Damascus or Palmyra as the vehicles headed towards the Palmyra-Damascus international road. They also used the vehicles of the government forces for fear of being shelled.

The source however did not know the reason for the transfer of the militants, weapons and ammunition.

Early on Oct. 3, unidentified aircrafts launched intensive airstrikes on locations of Iranian-backed militias in Deir ez-Zor, leaving behind human casualties, according to a source in the IRGC.

From time to time posts and headquarters of Iranian-backed militias in Deir ez-Zor undergo shelling. Meanwhile Syrian state-run media outlets reported that Israel was responsible of the airstrikes in Deir ez-Zor.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/13/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  And here I thought that US military controls Iraq.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/13/2023 2:19 Comments || Top||


Israeli airstrikes target Damascus, Aleppo international airports
[NPASyria] Israeli forces targeted, on Thursday, Damascus and Aleppo international airports before the visit of the Iranian Foreign Minister Hussein Amir Abdullahian, as stated by Syrian government-affiliated media.

Two days earlier, Israeli media reported that Syrian forces launched rocket shells towards Israel. Shortly afterward, the Israeli army announced that its forces retaliated with artillery and mortar shells directed at Syria.

A security source in Aleppo informed North Press that Aleppo airport’s runway was targeted, causing only material damages with no reports of injuries so far.

Media reported that both Damascus and Aleppo airports are temporarily out of service.

Al-Watan newspaper, affiliated with the Syrian government, mentioned that the Iranian Foreign Minister will arrive in Damascus on Friday to discuss the latest developments.

Other sources claimed that Abdullahian, was en route to Damascus during the Israeli attack, and the Iranian plane carrying the foreign minister changed its course back towards the Iraqi airport.

Israel shells Syrian government posts in south Syria in response to attacks
Oct 11, 2023
Israeli Army said on Tuesday their forces launched artillery and mortar shells towards Syria after several projectiles were reportedly launched from Syrian territories on Israel.

Axios reported citing Emirati sources as saying the United Arab Emirates (UAE) warned the Syrian government not to be involved in the war between Israel and Hamas
...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
or permit attacks to be launched from Syrian territories.

Rooters reported the army said its soldiers fired "towards the source of the launch in Syria" without providing any details. The Syrian government did not comment on the incident or report casualties or damages.

Activists from Daraa Governorate, southern Syria, said posts of the Syrian government forces in Qunaitra Governorate, southern Syria, were subjected to Israeli shelling.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights stated that "Paleostinian factions working with Hezbollah fired mortar shells towards the Golan Heights, and Israel responded by shelling Syrian regime positions in Quneitra and the countryside of Daraa."

Posted by: trailing wife || 10/13/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria

#1  How can Israel recover from this military blunder
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/13/2023 10:20 Comments || Top||


Syria reports Israeli strikes on Damascus and Aleppo airports
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The Israeli army attacked the airports of Damascus and Aleppo in Syria, both airports were put out of action, the local publication Al-Watan reported on October 12.
Snip. Duplicate information.
Posted by: badanov || 10/13/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


Terror Networks
ISIS reveals toll of attacks in Syria, Iraq, Africa, Asia
Oct 7, 2023
[NPASyria] Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) revealed on Friday the toll of the attacks it claims to have conducted in the past week in Syria, Iraq and several regions in Asia and Africa.

Al-Naba, an online newspaper linked to the group, reported that ISIS bully boyz conducted two attack in Syria in areas held by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the governorates of Raqqa and Aleppo in the past week, killing and wounding eight individuals.

The newspaper said the group’s bully boyz attacked the Iraqi army in the governorates of Diyala and Saladin, "killing two people and destroying a military vehicle."

In western Africa, the group killed four people in three attacks.

In east Asia, they carried out two attacks killing and injuring four people, according to the newspaper.

In Mozambique, they conducted six attacks, killing and injuring 15 people.

In Khorasan, the group carried out one attack killing one person.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/13/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [19 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State



Who's in the News
24[untagged]
20Hamas
4Govt of Iran
3al-Shabaab (AQ)
3Govt of Syria
2Sublime Porte
2Migrants/Illegal Immigrants
2Islamic State
1[untagged]
1Boko Haram (ISIS)
1Devout Moslems
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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.
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Wed 2023-10-11
  Israeli Soldiers Find Dead Babies After Palestinian Hamas Attack
Tue 2023-10-10
  Death toll rises to 1,560 as Netanyahu orders to starve Gaza
Mon 2023-10-09
  Israel has officially declared a state of war
Sun 2023-10-08
  20 Israeli policemen executed in Sderot
Sat 2023-10-07
  IDF declares 'ready for war,' after rockets slam Israel, killing one
Fri 2023-10-06
  In western Syria, 80 people were killed in a UAV attack on a military college
Thu 2023-10-05
  DHS Sec. Mayorkas declares 'acute and immediate need to construct physical barriers' to prevent illegal border crossings
Wed 2023-10-04
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Tue 2023-10-03
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Mon 2023-10-02
  Footage showing Malian Air Force Bayraktar TB2 UCAV strike on a gathering of local militants
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Fri 2023-09-29
  Leb military court sentences IS group official to 160 years in prison


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