[ShabelleMedia] Heavy fighting ... as opposed to the more usual name-calling or slapsy... between Somali troops and al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... took place in the Aboodin area of the Lower Jubba region amid an intensified military offensive.
The battle on Friday afternoon killed more than 70 al-Shabaab members and maimed dozens of others, according to a statement issued by the government on Saturday.
The allied forces from the Somali government and local Jubaland soldiers attacked a gathering of the al-Shabaab group leaders. The dead include senior commanders.
"More than 70 Death Eaters and leaders were killed in the war," said a statement, adding that the US military provided air support to the ground operation in al-Shabaab strongholds.
The ongoing army operations in the Jubaland state are aimed at chasing the al-Shabaab group, which controls the entire Middle Jubba region and other areas in the regional state.
[ShabelleMedia] A suspected dronezap in central Somalia targeted a gathering by Al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... bad boys, the state media reported, citing unnamed military sources.
Diverging accounts of the incident emerged, with state broadcaster reporting that the Somali army backed by the US forces struck the al-Shabaab bases near Caad and Cadaley.
The two areas are situated in the southern Mudug region under Somalia’s Galmudug ...a semiautonomous region in central Somalia, bordering Puntland on the north. Galmudug is not trying to obtain international recognition as a separate nation, but rather considers itself autonomous within the larger Somali federalism, for what that's worth... state.
r The government of Somalia has confirmed the death of at least 10 Al-Shabaab fighters in Somalia, the second airstrike in as many days by the US army which has heightened the fight against the group within the Horn of Africa nation.
At the border of Middle and Lower Jubba on Wednesday, officials said, an airstrike was initiated in the region by the US army in support of the Somali National Army (SNA) which has been coordinating a crackdown against the group in central and southern regions.
The airstrike, state media reports, disrupted a key Al-Shabaab meeting that was going on, killing another senior leader in the process. Both the US army and the government of Somalia are yet to reveal the name of the leader killed.
"Somali Army and US Air Force kill 10 Al-Shabab militants in joint operation near Lower/Middle Jubba border. The strike, second this week, disrupted a meeting and eliminated a key leader of the terrorist group," read the statement.
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Clandestine Kenyan team paid and assisted by the CIA to take down terror suspects since 2004.
• A covert Kenyan paramilitary team armed and trained by the US and supported by UK intelligence is behind renditions and controversial killings of terror suspects.
• MI6 plays a key role in identifying, tracking and fixing the location of targets, as well in decisions determining their fate: kill or capture
Describing the CIA liaison’s hands-on approach to the RRT, another former Kenyan commando explained, “They will spearhead everything. They will do an operation plan, share that with you, [then] they will come take you down, sit you through it.” After the operation, he added, “they debrief you and then they’re gone.”
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by Namir Shabibi and DECLASSIFIED UK
News 21 September 2020
[AFRICANEWS] Twenty people, including 19 civilians, were killed in western Burundi, the government announced on Saturday, in an attack claimed by the RED-Tabara rebel group, which in turn claimed to have killed ten members of the security forces.
The attack was carried out on Friday evening in the locality of Vugizo, some twenty kilometers from the economic capital Bujumbura and bordering the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the country where the rear base of the RED-Tabara movement (Resistance for the Rule of Law in Burundi), the main armed group fighting the regime led by Evariste Ndayishimiye, is located.
In a statement, the government claims that this "cowardly attack" deliberately targeted civilians, killing a total of 20 people, including "12 children, including five under the age of five; three women, two of whom were pregnant; and five men, including one of the police officers who intervened to rescue the civilians".
Nine others were injured and hospitalized, the government added, condemning a "despicable and barbaric terrorist act".
The RED-Tabara group claimed that its "fighters (...) based in Burundi attacked the Vugizo border post" and asserted that "9 soldiers and 1 policeman were killed", in a message on "X" (ex-Twitter).
Two military and security sources told AFP that the attack had targeted a "military position".
"Civilians were caught in the crossfire and killed, then the attackers retreated into the DRC," a senior army officer, who requested anonymity, told AFP, confirming a death toll of 20.
This was the second action in less than two weeks by these rebels on Burundian soil, where they had not been active since attacks in September 2021, one of which targeted Bujumbura airport.
On December 11, they reported clashes with soldiers in north-western Burundi.
"The RED-Tabara movement promises to continue its operations throughout the country", they wrote on "X".
Since late 2021, their fighting had been concentrated in the DRC's South Kivu province, where Burundian forces had been sent to hunt them down, according to Congolese and Burundian sources.
The authorities in Kinshasa and Gitega have always denied this presence.
In a report published in July, the NGO Initiative pour les droits humains au Burundi (IDHB) claimed that hundreds of Burundian soldiers and militiamen had been secretly sent to the eastern DRC as early as December 2021.
A thousand soldiers have also been officially deployed to North Kivu as part of an East African Community (EAC) force to be deployed from November 2022. They withdrew on December 11, after the mission of this regional force was not renewed.
Created in 2011 and with an estimated strength of between 500 and 800 men, RED-Tabara is accused of being responsible for most of the deadly attacks and ambushes in Burundi since 2015.
[IsraelTimes] The US military says a warship was targeted with four UAVs fired from Yemen, and says a tanker was hit by a suicide drone, with another nearly missing a second vessel.
No injuries are reported in any of the incidents.
In a statement, the US Central Command says the USS Laboon "shot down four unmanned aerial drones originating from Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen that were inbound to" the frigate.
[IsraelTimes] The ship, identified as the Liberian-flagged Chem Pluto, sustains damage but none of its mostly-Indian crew are hurt; Jerusalem believes Iran behind drone strike on high seas
A dronezap damaged a ship off the coast of India on Saturday but caused no casualties, two maritime agencies said, with one reporting the merchant vessel was linked to Israel.
Jerusalem believes Tehran was directly behind the attack, according to Hebrew media Saturday.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the strike, which comes amid a flurry of drone and missile attacks by 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... ’s Iran-backed 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... s on a vital shipping lane in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.
The Houthis have launched more than 100 drone and missile attacks, targeting 10 merchant vessels in the Red Sea, the Pentagon said Friday, in solidarity with Paleostinians in Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with 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... , where Israel is battling the Hamas ...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... terror group following its October 7 massacre in Israel, when holy warriors killed 1,200 people, a majority civilians, and took some 240 hostages.
The assault Saturday caused a fire on board, said the British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations, or UKMTO.
Ambrey, a maritime security firm, said the "Liberia-flagged chemical/products tanker... was Israel-affiliated"
...whatever that means...
and had been on its way from Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... to India.
The incident on the chemical product tanker occurred 120 miles (200 kilometers) southwest of the Indian port of Veraval,
Veraval is on the Arabian Sea in Gujarat, facing the northeastern tip of Oman.
said Ambrey. It gave no further details about the vessel’s alleged Israeli links.
Ambrey said the drone attack struck the stern and caused a fire onboard that was later extinguished without any casualties among the crew. The firm said the vessel suffered some structural damage and some water was taken onboard.
The Indian news agency ANI identified the tanker as MV Chem Pluto carrying crude oil from Saudi Arabia. Citing Indian defense sources, ANI said the tanker had around 20 Indian nationals on board. Multiple shipping sites describe Chem Pluto as being owned by a Japan-based firm.
Israel’s Kan 11 broadcaster reported that it is the first attack on an allegedly Israeli-linked vessel on the high seas. Israeli officials believe the striking drone was launched directly from Iran, Channel 12 reported.
As the attack occurred near Veraval, it is unlikely to have been carried out from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen, according to the report.
The Indian navy said it responded to a request for assistance shortly after the attack.
"Indian Navy had dispatched an aircraft, which arrived overhead the MV (merchant vessel)," a statement from the navy said. "Safety of the crew and ship was ascertained. A warship has also been dispatched to provide any assistance as required."
@WSJ is confirming @spectatorindex 's information that at least one of the drone attacks today against commercial shipping was launched directly from Iran.https://t.co/gTEUpZrXAJ
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Lest we forget. The [ICJ] court did state that "the actions of the United States of America against Iranian oil platforms on 19 October 1987 (Operation Nimble Archer) and 18 April 1988 (Operation Praying Mantis) cannot be justified as measures necessary to protect the essential security interests of the United States of America." The Court ruled that it "...cannot however uphold the submission of the Islamic Republic of Iran that those actions constitute a breach of the obligations of the United States of America under Article X, paragraph 1, of that Treaty, regarding freedom of commerce between the territories of the parties, and that, accordingly, the claim of the Islamic Republic of Iran for reparation also cannot be upheld;"
[AlJazeera] Cologne police chief says sniffer dogs will search building following indications of attack planned for New Year’s Eve.
German police have searched a cathedral in the western city of Cologne amid warnings of a possible attack planned for New Year’s Eve.
Cologne police chief Michael Esser said on Saturday that Cologne Cathedral would be closed and sniffer dogs would be brought in to search the building after the evening mass service.
“Even though the information relates to New Year’s Eve, we are from this evening doing everything we can to ensure the safety of visitors of the cathedral on Christmas Eve,” Esser said in a statement.
Visitors on Sunday will have to undergo security checks before entering the cathedral.
German newspaper Bild reported that authorities in Germany, Austria and Spain have all received indications that an Islamist group was plotting attacks in Europe, with targets possibly including Christmas masses in Cologne, Vienna and Madrid.
On Saturday, special forces in Vienna and Germany arrested a number of suspects, Bild also reported.
Al Jazeera could not independently confirm the arrests.
Austrian police said in a statement they were boosting security for churches and Christmas markets due to the heightened state of alert.
“Given that terrorist actors throughout Europe are calling for attacks on Christian events, especially around December 24, the security authorities have taken the corresponding protection measures in public spaces,” the police said in a statement.
Earlier this month, Spain’s Interior Ministry announced it would ramp up security measures for the Christmas holiday period.
According to the Bild, several suspects were arrested in the Ottakring district of Vienna, while another was arrested in Saarland, Germany.
The arrested suspects are Tajiks allegedly affiliated with the Islamic State in Khorasan Province, the branch of ISIS in south-central Asia, according to the report.
Vienna’s St. Stephen’s Cathedral is "said to be particularly at risk," to the extent that the Vienna police are guarding the venerable structure with submachine guns and implementing controls on who can get into the building. They explained: "These precautionary measures serve to maintain the general safety of the people in Austria. There will be increased police precautions over the Christmas holidays. Civilian and uniformed emergency services with special equipment and long weapons are deployed. Police attention is focused primarily on churches and religious events, especially church services and Christmas markets. The measures are taken depending on necessity and can also include access controls if necessary. Visitors to events and church services are asked to bring a photo ID and to allow more time than usual." When the Europeans finally do get sick of this shit, (hopefully before they are outbred) islamist blood will run in rivers
The arrests come after multiple terror attacks across Europe in the wake of the October 7th Hamas terror attack on Israel, with Islamist jihadis killing multiple people in Belgium and France. Earlier this month, the European Union warned that because of the war between Israel and Hamas, there was a “huge risk” of Islamist terror attacks in Europe during the Christmas holiday season.
Other Tajik members of the “Islamic State in Khorasan Province” terror group were arrested in Germany and the Netherlands over the Summer over an alleged plot to carry out a major terror attack. The seven-member group had reportedly smuggled into Germany after posing as refugees from Ukraine with fake documents.
Migrant colonist given four months' jail under new law for grabbing woman's bum
12 May
[TheLocal.de] On Wednesday the jury in Bautzen, Saxony, convicted a 27-year-old Libyan to a four-month custodial sentence without probation for grabbing a 34-year-old woman’s buttocks three times against her will on a public street.
“It may be the first conviction Germany-wide under the new regulation,” said Judge Dirk Hertle.
Paragraph 184i was implemented in the criminal code after the incidents in front of Cologne Cathedral on New Year’s Eve 2015, when hundreds of women reported that young men from North Africa sexually assaulted or robbed them. The new paragraph became law in November 2016 and two weeks later, the crime in Bautzen took place, said Hertle.
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[KavkazUzel] A court in London sentenced Magomed-Husein Dovtaev, a native of Chechnya, to three years and six months in prison, finding him guilty of collecting information for a subsequent attack on employees of the Iranian opposition television channel Iran International.
As the "Caucasian Knot" reported, on December 21 it became known that a court in London placed under arrest a native of Chechnya, Magomed-Husein Dovtaev, finding him guilty of attempting to collect information for a subsequent attack on employees of the Iranian opposition TV channel Iran International. Dovtaev told the court that he was framed.
On December 22, the Central Criminal Court in London sentenced 31-year-old native of Chechnya Magomed-Husein Dovtaev to imprisonment for a term of three years and six months, finding him guilty of attempting to collect information for a subsequent attack on employees of the opposition TV channel Iran International on instructions from Iranian intelligence services, reported 22 December TASS.
Let us remind you that according to the investigation, Dovtaev filmed the building in which the studio of the Iran International TV channel is located; the investigation believes that the video could then be used to bypass the building’s security system. A native of Chechnya attracted the attention of security and was detained.
In court, he explained that he filmed the building because he liked it. He also said that he arrived in the UK on December 11 and from the airport, at the request of his friend, went to the building where the Iran International studio was located. After Dovtaev’s arrest, the television channel moved its studio to another building for security reasons.
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[Regnum] In eastern France, police detained five people suspected of preparing a terrorist attack. The newspaper L'Est Républicain writes about this with reference to the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office (PNAT).
It is noted that the detainees were placed in custody. They are suspected of “creating a criminal terrorist group with the aim of preparing one or more crimes.”
According to the publication, the arrests took place simultaneously in three communes of the Meurthe-et-Moselle department.
The investigation is being conducted by the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office.
Earlier, IA Regnum reported that a young Frenchman, detained with a knife near a lyceum in the capital region of France, was sentenced to six months in prison by the court. A 24-year-old man was detained on the evening of October 13 near the Condorcet Lyceum in the commune of Lima in the department of Yvelines. The police officer suggested that the man was stalking the lyceum students.
The man was detained amid a murder in northern France, where on the same day, October 13, an unknown person with a bladed weapon attacked the Gambette Lyceum, killing a teacher and injuring several people. The attacker is about 20 years old, a former student of the school, and he was detained.
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[Regnum] The Turkish army conducted military operations in northern Iraq against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), banned in the country. The Turkish Ministry of Defense said on December 23 that the decision was made after the death of 12 Turkish soldiers.
The Turkish Defense Ministry's page on social network X states that the military has begun conducting "sudden air operations against identified targets."
According to preliminary information, 13 terrorists were neutralized as a result of the clash.
As Regnum reported , the conflict between the Turkish authorities and the Kurds has been going on since 1921. The Kurds are fighting for existence and the creation of autonomy within Turkey. The PKK has been fighting for the rights of the Kurds since 1978. The party was recognized as terrorist and banned both in Turkey itself and in the USA, EU and a number of other countries.
The PKK started out as yet another Soviet-supported national liberation movement, so Russia has a sentimental attachment.
In December 2023, the Turkish Ministry of Defense responded to joint US exercises with representatives of the Kurdistan Workers' Party in Syria. Washington was called upon to behave as an ally if they want to have the support and trust of Ankara, and also to stop collaborating with terrorists.
[IsraelTimes] Army says it intentionally caused dozens of button men to flee into building used as command center, then called in an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... ; rockets target south for first time in nearly 48 hours
The Israel Defense Forces gave out information Saturday on its ongoing war against Hamas ...a regional Iranian catspaw,... 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 Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip, detailing shootouts and strikes on terror operatives as well as arrests.
Hamas, too, reported heavy shelling in several cities in the territory, hours after world powers in a UN Security Council vote demanded more aid be allowed into the Paleostinian territory.
During ground operations in the southern part of Gaza City, the IDF said troops of the Yiftah Reserve Brigade carried out an ambush against Hamas, leading to dozens of terror operatives being killed.
The IDF said the troops opened fire in a deceptive manner to cause dozens of button men to flee into a building used as a command center. The building was then struck by a fighter jet.
Also in the southern Gaza City area, the IDF said Yiftah Brigade snipers killed several Hamas button men who were preparing to attack troops. Other buildings identified by the brigade as being used by Hamas in the area were struck by aircraft, the IDF added.
In an unspecified area of Gaza City, the IDF said troops of the 14th Reserve Armored Brigade identified a group of Hamas button men and called in an airstrike. In the Shati camp area of Gaza City, it said the 14th Brigade identified a further three Hamas button men who had shot up them. The brigade called in an airstrike to kill the three operatives.
The incidents in Gaza City indicate that while the IDF has operational control over the area, it is still battling smaller Hamas cells.
Meanwhile, ...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout Montefiore's foot was still stuck and the hound had completely soaked his uniform with slobber... in central Gaza, the army said the 179th Reserve Armored Brigade found a cache of weapons in a children’s daycare center, including mortars, RPGs and other explosives.
Clouds of gray and black smoke rose over the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis after strikes in the morning.
The Hamas-controlled health ministry reported that 18 people had been killed in a strike on a house in Nuseirat camp in central Gaza, and said other targets were hit up and down the coastal Strip.
Also Saturday, the IDF and Shin Bet said more than 200 Hamas and 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... terror operatives had been captured in the Gaza Strip over the past week, and taken for questioning.
The joint statement said hundreds of suspects were detained in the Strip over the past week, of whom more than 200 were brought to Israel to be interrogated by the Shin Bet and Military Intelligence Directorate’s Unit 504.
It said some of the captured Hamas and Islamic Jihad operatives were hiding within the civilian population before surrendering to troops.
So far since the beginning of the ground offensive, more than 700 terror operatives have been captured and brought to Israel, the IDF said.
Early Saturday afternoon, rockets were launched from the Gaza Strip at southern Israel after a lull of nearly 48 hours.
The attack set off sirens in the largely evacuated border community of Kfar Aza. There were no reports of injuries or damage. Locals reported seeing four interceptor missiles downing the incoming projectiles.
The rate of rocket fire from Gaza has slowed significantly in recent weeks, as the IDF expands its ground offensive against Hamas.
Later Saturday, the IDF announced the deaths of five soldiers killed during fighting in the Gaza Strip over the weekend, bringing the toll of slain troops in the ground offensive against Hamas to 144.
They were named as Staff Sgt. Nir Rafael Kananian, 20, of the Givati Brigade’s reconnaissance unit, from Beit Keshet; Staff Sgt. Birhanu Kassie, 20, of the Givati Brigade’s reconnaissance unit, from Beit Shemesh; Master Sgt. (res.) Shay Termin, 26, of the 55th Reserve Paratroopers Brigade’s 6623rd Battalion, from Rosh Pina; Warrant Officer (res.) Alexander Shpits, 41, of the 55th Reserve Paratroopers Brigade’s 6623rd Battalion, from Karmiel and Cpt. Oshri Moshe Butzhak, 22, a team commander in the Nahal Brigade’s reconnaissance unit, from Haifa.
Kananian, Kassie, Termin, and Shpits were killed on Friday in southern Gaza, while Butzhak was killed Saturday in the Strip’s north.
Another five soldiers of the Givati Brigade’s reconnaissance unit were seriously maimed in the battle in which Kananian and Kassie were killed, the IDF added
[NY Post] "Smoke em if you got em"
The Israeli military assassinated the Hamas official in charge of supplying the terrorist group with weapons, the country’s military officials announced.
An Israeli fighter jet in the southern Gaza city of Rafah conducted an air strike Friday killing Hassan Atrash,
...referred to elsewhere as Hassan al-Atrash, but not in the Rantburg archives in either form...
who was responsible for supplying and producing weapons for Hamas’ military arm, the Israel Defense Forces said Saturday.
Atrash also was involved with smuggling weapons from various countries into the Gaza Strip, as well as the West Bank, according to Israeli officials.
The IDF on Saturday shared video of the strike, which showed a car cruising past pedestrians on a street as a cross-hair outlined the vehicle. Suddenly, a bright light blankets the screen, with smoke rising from the street afterward.
Palestinian media reported the air strike Friday killed at least three people, according to The Times of Israel.
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The IDF says fighter jets hit a Hezbollah military headquarters in Lebanon in response to attacks on northern today, including one that left a soldier moderately wounded.
The IDF also says it carried out artillery shelling at a number of areas near the border today, presumably…
[An Nahar] Lebanon has been warned that the Israeli Mossad intends to assassinate Palestinian officials in Lebanon, topped by Hamas senior leaders Saleh al-Arouri and Osama Hamdan and Islamic Jihad chief Ziad al-Nakhalah, diplomatic sources said.
“The threats are high and require extraordinary measures,” the sources told ad-Diyar newspaper in remarks published Friday, saying that French intelligence chief Bernard Emie had warned -- without mentioning names -- of such a scenario during his latest visit to Beirut.
“French President Emmanuel Macron relieved Emie of his duties and replaced him with Nicolas Lerner hours ago, which is a suspicious timing that indicates that Emie might have paid the price of these leaks,” ad-Diyar added.
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French intelligence chief Bernard Emie had warned ... French President Emmanuel Macron relieved Emie of his duties and replaced him with Nicolas Lerner
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During a visit to Beirut last week, Emmanuel Macron's emissary Jean-Yves Le Drian... called for stabilizing the situation in southern Lebanon...
The latest French figure to enter the scene, with the same objective in mind, is Bernard Émié, head of the Directorate-General for External Security (DGSE) and former ambassador to Lebanon. A few days ago, the head of foreign intelligence held meetings with several officials during a visit kept away from the media. He held talks with Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berry, Hezbollah, troop leader Joseph Aoun and the acting director of General Security, Elias Baissari.
Emie, who was on his way out,likely let the cat out of the bag. But who reported on Emie? The CIA is my guess.
[An Nahar] The head of Hezbollah’s executive council, Sayyed Hashem Safieddine, has stressed that his party is “not the resistance that awaits the Americans and Israelis to decide its fate.”
“We are the ones who decide the fate of the South, the border and the future of this country at the level of confronting the enemy, whom we will not allow to attack Gaza undeterred,” Safieddine said.
“Had we bowed to the threats of the Americans, the Western nations and the Zionists, we would have given them a chance to swoop on us without warning on a certain night and they would have been able to surprise us at any given moment,” the senior Hezbollah official added.
The head of Hezbollah’s executive council, Sayyed Hashem Safieddine, has stressed that his party is “not the resistance that awaits the Americans and Israelis to decide its fate.”
“We are the ones who decide the fate of the South, the border and the future of this country at the level of confronting the enemy, whom we will not allow to attack Gaza undeterred,” Safieddine said.
“Had we bowed to the threats of the Americans, the Western nations and the Zionists, we would have given them a chance to swoop on us without warning on a certain night and they would have been able to surprise us at any given moment,” the senior Hezbollah official added.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
... the personification of Somali state failure...
... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
[AlJazeera] Cologne police chief says sniffer dogs will search building following indications of attack planned for New Year’s Eve.
...a regional Iranian catspaw,...
[An Nahar] The head of 
