[SUDANTRIBUNE] The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has imposed sanctions on three former Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... ese regime officials for their role in undermining Sudan’s peace, security, and stability.
The designated individuals are Taha Osman Ahmed al-Hussein (Taha), a former State Minister and Presidential Office Director to former Sudanese President Omer al-Bashir, Salah Abdallah Mohammed Salah (Salah Gosh), and Mohammed Etta Elmoula Abbas (Elmoula). Gosh and Elmoula served as directors of the National Intelligence and Security Services under the al-Bashir regime.
The sanctions were imposed in response to the individuals’ efforts to destabilize Sudan and derail its transition to democracy. al-Hussein was involved in coordinating with regional actors to support the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary group accused of human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... abuses. Gosh plotted to overthrow the civilian-led transitional government, while Elmoula worked to restore the al-Bashir regime to power.
"These sanctions are a direct response to the efforts of these individuals to undermine Sudan’s peace and stability," said Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Brian E. Nelson. "The United States will continue to hold accountable those who seek to impede Sudan’s progress toward a democratic future."
For his part, the State Department spokesperson underscored that this action advances U.S. efforts to undermine those fueling the conflict and obstructing the Sudanese people’s aspirations for peace and civilian, democratic rule.
"The United States will continue to use the tools at our disposal to disrupt the ability of the RSF and Sudanese Armed Forces to further prolong this war and to hold accountable those responsible for deepening the conflict or obstructing a return to civilian government."
As a result of the sanctions, all assets and properties of the designated individuals in the United States or under U.S. control are frozen. U.S. persons are prohibited from engaging in transactions with the designated individuals or their affiliates.
[AFRICANEWS] The Malian army claimed on Sunday to have repelled four "terrorist" attacks in four localities in the north of the country, including one in the town of Ménaka, surrounded by Islamic State jihadists.
“The Malian Armed Forces (Fama) successively repelled terrorist attacks against four (military) posts in the localities of Labbezagan, Gossi, Tessalit and Ménaka,” said a press release published Sunday evening.
In Ménaka, an important town in the north-east of Mali close to the Nigerien border, "despite a significant concentration of terrorist fighters determined to do battle with our forces, the Fama inflicted a bloody defeat on them with the neutralization of several dozen terrorists and the arrest of around twenty", assured the Malian army.
The relay antenna of the Orange-Mali telephone operator in the city was damaged during the attack, according to a governorate official, making communications there very difficult.
The collection and verification of information is complicated by the difficulty of accessing remote sites and independent sources in a generally degraded context.
Since 2012, Mali has been plagued by the actions of groups affiliated with Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State organization, violence by proclaimed self-defence groups and banditry. The security crisis is coupled with a profound humanitarian and political crisis.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... i naval forces carried out an operation targeting two Israeli ships near the Bab el-Mandeb Strait in a support operation for 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... , Spokesman for the Yemeni Armed Forces, Brigadier General Yahya Sare’e, said in a statement issued this evening.
"Following the directives of Commander Sayyid Abdul-Malik Badreddin al-Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... , may Allah protect him, and in response to the demands of our great Yemeni people and the calls of the free men of our Arab and Islamic nation to fully support the choices of the Paleostinian people and their valiant resistance: this morning, with the help of Allah the Almighty, the Naval Forces in the Yemeni Armed Forces carried out a targeting operation against two "Israeli" ships at Bab al-Mandab, namely the ship "Unity Explorer" and the ship "Number Nine," where the first ship was targeted with a naval missile and the second with a marine drone," Brigadier General Yahya Sare’e explained.
He affirmed that the operation came after the two ships ignored the warning messages from the Yemeni Naval Forces.
Sare’e continued: "The Yemeni Armed Forces continue to prevent "Israeli" ships from navigating in the Red and Arabian Seas until the "Israeli" aggression against our steadfast brothers in the Gaza Strip stops."
The military front man concluded his statement by saying: "The Yemeni Armed Forces renew their warning to all "Israeli" ships or those associated with "Israelis" that they will become a legitimate target if they violate [the ban], as has been stated in this statement and previous statements issued by the Yemeni Armed Forces."
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Armed clashes have erupted near Ataq Airport, the center of Shabwah province in eastern Yemen, which is controlled by UAE-backed factions.
Local sources in the city reported that confrontations broke out between militants of the “Aal Omar” tribe and the “Hammam” tribe on Sunday evening due to a dispute over a plot of land in “Karsh” Mountain near the Al-Shabaika area, close to the Ataq Airport camp, which is controlled by UAE forces.
The sources indicated that the leaders of the pro-UAE factions, called “Shabwah Defense,” did not interfere to stop the confrontations between the tribesmen, without mentioning any losses among the militants.
The confrontations sparked a state of panic and terror among the people of the city, according to the sources.
This comes as an extension of the security chaos witnessed by the majority of districts in the province since the beginning of 2016.
The armed confrontations between the people of the Shabwah tribes are supported by the pro-UAE leaders coming from Dhalea and Lahj provinces in order to achieve foreign interests in the oil-rich province.
Two BLM rioters were convicted for setting an Atlanta Wendy's on fire at a BLM riot in 2020. As I wrote in my book, the Wendy's area was transformed into an autonomous zone & a child was shot dead. The two were sentenced to a $500 fine & community service.https://t.co/5Sqpjnv5X0
...Rayshard Brooks’ white sidepiece, suggesting he was not quite the wholesome family man he was portrayed...
were both charged with conspiracy to commit arson and two counts of arson.
In addition to Kingston and White, John Wesley Wade, 35, was indicted on the same charges earlier this year in January. All three initially pleaded not guilty and waived their arraignments in March 2022, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The charges stem from a violent BLM riot over the death of Rayshard Brooks, 27, who was killed in a police-involved shooting in June 2020. Brooks had reportedly punched Atlanta police officer, David Brosnan, and stole his taser while under investigation for a DUI in the parking lot of a Wendy's. Brooks aimed the Taser at Officer Brosnan and a second officer, Garrett Rolfe, shot and killed Brooks during the altercation. Brooks allegedly punched Brosnan hard enough to cause a concussion, according to AJC.
As a result, rioters torched the Wendy's in protest of Brooks' death. An autonomous zone was created at the site but was dismantled by police a few days later. Violent demonstrations followed throughout the city over the next few months.
During the time of that autonomous zone, an 8-year-old girl was killed on July 4, 2020 in the Wendy's parking lot. The girl was murdered as she rode in a car with her mother and another adult. A group had fired multiple gunshots at the vehicle, ultimately resulting in the young girl later dying at the hospital.
Officers Rolfe and Brosnan were criminally charged by former Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard
...whose biggest achievement was losing reelection to his subordinate, Fani Willis, who is no better than he...
five days later, the outlet reports. Brosnan was charged with aggravated assault and Rolfe faces felony murder and assault charges. Rolfe was placed on leave following the incident but was reinstated last Spring.
John Wesley Wade, the third suspect that did not take a plea deal, is a prominent Black Lives Matter activist in Atlanta and led several protests in the summer of 2020. In October 2020, Wade was arrested on federal charges over a string of violent demonstrations and was sentenced to five years in federal prison in March 2022.
Wade was among a group of rioters that torched Atlanta police vehicles and set fires to United States Postal Service property during the lead up to the 2020 election. The group left notes that read "Stand By" in an attempt to frame the Proud Boys for the crimes. The phrase was in reference to when former President Donald Trump told the right-wing group to "stand back and stand by" after he was asked to condemn the Proud Boys during the first 2020 presidential debate. Trump later denounced them.
Wade was caught by police after he was ordered to wear a GPS ankle-monitoring device at the time of the attacks when he was released on bond for burning down the Wendy's location in Atlanta, Georgia, where Rayshard Brooks was shot by the Atlanta Police Department.
NO WHERE the sentencing rules is it $500 and litter patrol.
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A person convicted of the offense of arson in the first degree shall be punished by a fine of not more than $50,000.00 or by imprisonment for not less than one nor more than 20 years, or both.
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A person convicted of the offense of arson in the second degree shall be punished by a fine of not more than $25,000.00 or by imprisonment for not less than one nor more than ten years, or both.
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A person convicted of the offense of arson in the third degree shall be punished by a fine not to exceed $10,000.00 or by imprisonment for not less than one nor more than five years, or both.
[IsraelTimes] Wall Street Journal says IDF has yet to decide on whether to go ahead with plan to flood terror group’s subterranean passages and hideaways, with opinions mixed in US
Israel has readied plans to flood Hamas’s system of tunnels under the Gaza Strip with water pumped from the Mediterranean Sea, a move aimed at destroying the terror group’s subterranean network of passages and hideaways and driving its fighters above ground, according to a report Monday.
Quoting US officials, the Wall Street Journal reported that the Israel Defense Forces last month set up five large water pumps near the al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, which are capable of flooding the tunnels within weeks by pumping thousands of cubic meters of water per hour into them.
The officials said Israel alerted the US about the plan last month, but has not yet decided on whether to implement it.
The report noted it was unclear whether the IDF would move to flood the tunnels before all of the hostages that Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups abducted during the October 7 onslaught in southern Israel were freed, due to the apparent risk that would be posed to hostages being held underground.
According to the report, opinions in Biden administration were mixed, with some officials expressing concern about the Israeli plan while others said they back Israel’s efforts to destroy the tunnels and that there isn’t necessarily any American opposition.
Among the concerns cited by the newspaper were potential damage to Gaza’s aquifer and soil, if seawater and hazardous substances in the tunnels seep into them, as well as the possible impact on the foundations of buildings.
“We are not sure how successful pumping will be since nobody knows the details of the tunnels and the ground around them,” a person familiar with the plan told the Wall Street Journal. “It’s impossible to know if that will be effective because we don’t know how seawater will drain in tunnels no one has been in before.”
In 2015, the Egyptian military flooded several smuggling tunnels beneath the Gaza Strip’s southern border.
On Sunday, the IDF announced that soldiers have discovered more than 800 tunnel shafts in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the ground offensive targeting Hamas that began in late October, some 500 of which have already been destroyed.
The military said it has also destroyed hundreds of kilometers of tunnels, in addition to the shafts.
“The shafts were located in civilian areas, and many of them were located near or inside educational institutions, kindergartens, mosques, and playgrounds,” the IDF said, adding that in some of the tunnels soldiers found Hamas weaponry.
Israel has vowed to topple Hamas after the October 7 massacres, in which some 3,000 Palestinian terrorists stormed across the border from Gaza and slaughtered some 1,200 people, mostly civilians massacred amid brutal atrocities, and took around 240 hostages.
During a seven-day truce — which lapsed on Friday after Hamas did not deliver a list of hostages it intended to release and began firing rockets an hour before the truce was due to expire — the terror group released 105 civilian hostages: 81 Israelis, 23 Thai nationals, and one Filipino. It is believed that 136 hostages remain in Gaza.
In return, Israel released 240 Palestinian security prisoners, all women and minors. Additionally, some 200 trucks, including four tankers of fuel and four tankers of cooking gas, entered Gaza each day.
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"Potential damage to Gaza's aquifer and soils."
There was, of course, no danger of this on October 6. And it really is up to the people of Gaza if they want this to be repeated at any time in the future.
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They should play sea shanties over loud speakers during the operation.
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So technically, the razed the city and sowed it with salt.
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says troops, coppers of the Gideonim unit, and Border Police officers killed two Paleostinian button men in the West Bank city of Qalqiliya this morning.
According to a statement, the pair were responsible for several shooting attacks against troops in the area.
It says forces chased after the desperados, during which festivities erupted and the button men were killed.
An assault rifle and pistol were seized, the IDF says.
The Paleostinian Authority health ministry says it was notified of the men’s deaths, indicating their bodies were being held by Israeli authorities.
We regret to announce that all telecom services in Gaza Strip have been lost due to the cut off of main fiber routes. Gaza is blacked out again.#KeepGazaConnected
[IsraelTimes] The Israel Defense Forces announces a new humanitarian corridor in the southern Gaza Strip, as it advances on Khan Younis.
The IDF’s Arabic-language Spokesman, Lt. Col. Avichay Adraee, says on X that Gaza’s main north-south highway, Salah ad-Din, in the areas northeast of Khan Younis is a “battle zone.”
“The fighting and military advance of the IDF in the Khan Younis area does not allow the movement of civilians through the Salah ad-Din axis in the areas north and east of the city,” he says.
He says the IDF will facilitate the movement of civilians via a bypass route to the west of Khan Younis.
“Passage from the Rafah and Khan Younis areas toward Deir al-Balah and the camps of central Gaza will be available through the following routes: al-Rashid coastal road and al-Shuhada Street in Deir al-Balah,” he says.
سكان قطاع #غزة، جيش الدفاع يتصرف بقوة ضد #حماس والمنظمات الإرهابية في قطاع غزة وبشكل خاص في منطقة #خان_يونس.
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القتال والتقدم العسكري لجيش الدفاع في منطقة خان يونس لا يسمحان بتنقل المدنيين عبر محور صلاح الدين في المقاطع الواقعة شمالي وشرقي مدينة… pic.twitter.com/fQOBR6fHsF
[GEO.TV] Dozens of Israeli tanks were seen rolling into the southern part of the Gaza Strip on Monday, Times of Israel reported.
A sharp rise in the Gaza death toll was witnessed as the Israeli military pushed ahead, expanding its ground offensive into the area to dismantle Hamas.
We be mighty Lions of Islam! Fear us for our mightiness!!
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The Islamic Resistance® in Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah 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 dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original 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... "Hezbollah" renewed its military operations on sites and gatherings of Israeli occupation soldiers on the Lebanese-Paleostinian border.
In its statement today, the Resistance® announced targeting Zionist occupation military sites of "Jal al-Alam" and "Birket Risha" with appropriate weapons, achieving direct hits.
Hezbollah fighters also targeted an Israeli infantry force in "Harj Hanita" with appropriate weapons, achieving direct hits.
The Lebanese resistance had previously targeted an Israeli infantry force in the Shtula forest with appropriate weapons, and another infantry force in Karm al-Tuffah east of "Branit" barracks and "Al-Rahib", as well as targeting the Ruwaisat al-Alam site in the Kfar Shuba hills and the occupied Lebanese Shebaa Farms with appropriate weapons
Moreover, the Lebanese resistance fighters grabbed credit for targeting the Israeli site of "Baghdadi" with appropriate weapons, achieving a direct hit.
According to Lebanese media sources, the Lebanese resistance has so far announced ten military operations targeting Israeli military sites and points.
The Islamic Resistance® in Lebanon continues to target the positions of the occupation soldiers and their concentrations along the borderline with occupied Paleostine.
It is noteworthy that the Lebanese resistance launched in the past three days, a dozen military operations on the sites of the occupation soldiers along the borderline with occupied Paleostine, causing direct injuries that left human and material losses, in conjunction with Zionist renewed aggression on 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... last Friday.
Israel responds, hitting a command center, among other targets. Check out the secondaries:
The IDF says fighter jets and drones carried out strikes against a Hezbollah command center and other sites belonging to the terror group in response to the attacks on northern Israel today.
A short while ago, rockets were fired at Mattat, landing in open areas. IDF says it is… pic.twitter.com/AMiu0hg48L
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[Regnum] At least 15 missiles were fired from Iraq at a US base in Syria, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) said.
“On December 3, fifteen 122 mm rockets were fired from Iraq at the US base in Rumeilan in Syria,” CENTCOM’s X social media page said.
It is noted that there were no casualties among base personnel or damage to equipment.
The task force located the location from which the rockets were fired and provided intelligence to Iraqi security forces.
As Regnum reported , earlier a kamikaze drone attacked a US military base located north of the provincial center of Erbil. Responsibility for the attack was claimed by the Shiite movement "Islamic Resistance of Iraq", which previously announced that after the breakdown of the humanitarian truce in the Gaza Strip, militants resumed hostilities against American military bases located in the region.
There are about one thousand American troops in Syria, and another 2.5 thousand people are stationed in Iraq.
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For a backgrounder, check: "The American Wildcatters Who Sought Syrian Oil"
Amidst a global energy shortage, the three men behind Delta Crescent Energy figured that even oil from a war-torn autocracy was worth exploring. That is, until they became caught in a battle between the Pentagon, the State Department, and the president. ...
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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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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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.
...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah 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 dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original 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...
