Scores 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... fighters have reportedly been killed by Chadian troops during a fresh clash somewhere between Marte and Lokobadu area in Chad.
Zagazola Makama, a counterinsurgency expert and security analyst in the Lake Chad region disclosed this in a post on his X handle on Thursday.
In his post, Zagazola said that the gunnies earlier attacked some local fishermen and seized their boats in the axis of Marte and this was what led to the shootout between them and the Chadian security forces.
He wrote, "The Chadian troops have reportedly clashed with the Boko Haram Buduma gunnies loyal to Abu Ali, during a fighting patrol with several gunnies killed.
"The gunnies had earlier seized boats from fishermen in the axis of Marte and headed toward Lokobadu, but the Chadian troops intercepted them and neutralised several of them, seized logistics, weapons and bombs.
"Those who escaped the onslaught were trailed and neutralised along the southern rim of Lake Chad, near the Chad-Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... -Nigeria border by the Chadian Airforce."
The Boko Haram fighters, backed by the deadlier 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.... West Africa terrorists, appear to be gaining more strongholds from across the Lake Chad region into Nigeria, especially after the death of Chad President Idriss Deby.
In a similar incident, SaharaReporters reported how the Chadian troops killed over 22 Boko Haram fighters who crossed from Nigeria into Chad in May 2021.
A source in the Nigerian Army explained that the gunnies had crossed via Borno into Chad to attack but were repelled by the Chadian troops.
He told SaharaReporters that scores of the bad boyz were potted, but only about 22 of them were captured.
"Boko Haram gunnies crossed from Nigeria border into Chad yesterday evening for an attack, but the Chadian troops killed scores of them. The visible bodies are 22, but tens of bodies were laid on the outskirts of the village," the source had said
[AFRICANEWS] Armed groups that have been controlling Libya's capital for more than a decade have agreed to leave.
The Interior minister who is part of the UN-recognised government made the announced, on Wednesday.
In a presser, Mr Trabelsi said from now on the militia's "place is in their headquarters", adding the Libyan government "will use them only in exceptional circumstances for specific missions".
He said once they had left the capital other cities would follow, noting there "will be no more checkpoints and no more gangs" on roads.
The deal will see at least five gangs quit Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... by the end of the Moslem holy month of Ramadan on 9 April, including one based in an area where 10 people were killed over the weekend.
It comes after a series of deadly festivities in the city in recent months.
The militias with whom the government struck a deal are the General Security Force, the Special Deterrence Force, Brigade 444, Brigade 111 and the Stability Support Authority.
They are not under the direct command of the Libyan government, though. Their operational independence was granted by a special status conveyed on them in 2021 by the government.
The heavily armed and equipped groups who receive public funding would install checkpoints. But they were often involved in fighting each other, including one incident in August which left 55 people killed and nearly 150 injured.
Emergency police, city officers and criminal Sherlocks will replace them, minister Imad Trabelsi said.
Policing vast Libya became even more of a challenge following a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure.... -backed uprising and an operation which plunged the nation into chaos in 2011. The country has since been split between rival administrations, the internationally recognised government in the west, led by interim Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah in Tripoli, and an administration in the east run by military strongman Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all. Actually, he is, but slowly... In mid-February the UN special envoy for Libya called the warring political actors to put aside "their interests" and work to solve the political crisis.
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[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... announced on Thursday the implementation of three military operations against American and British ships, in addition to the bombing of Umm al-Rashrash in southern occupied Paleostine.
The front man for the armed forces, Brigadier General Yahya Sare’e, said in a statement this evening that a number of ballistic missiles and drones were launched at various targets of the Zionist enemy in the Umm al-Rashrash area (Eilat), south of occupied Paleostine, in the first operation.
He pointed out that the second operation carried out by the naval forces targeted the British ship "ISLANDER" in the Gulf of Aden with a number of suitable naval missiles, hitting it directly and causing a fire to break out on it.
As for the third operation, an American destroyer in the Red Sea was targeted with a number of drones, according to the front man.
Brigadier General Sare’e affirmed that the armed forces continue to carry out their religious, moral, and humanitarian duties towards the Paleostinian people and in defense of Yemen in the face of US-British aggression, and that their military operations will not stop unless the Zionist aggression on the Paleostinian people 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 stops and the siege is lifted.
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These assholes need a smiting back to the 7th century. Just do it.
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yemen is a distraction. iran is the enemy. occupy chah-badar.
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[Regnum] The UK Maritime Trade Operations Office (UKMTO) of the country's navy reported an attack on the ship 70 nautical miles (about 130 km - Editor's note) southeast of the port of Aden in Yemen.
“UKMTO has received a report of an incident 70 nautical miles southeast of Aden, Yemen,” the agency said on social media X.
According to UKMTO, the incident is classified as an attack and authorities have launched an investigation into the incident.
No additional information is provided. The agency advised ships to proceed with caution in the area and to report any suspicious activity.
As Regnum reported, on February 20, the military representative of the Yemeni rebel movement Ansar Allah, Yahya Saria, announced a Houthi strike on Israeli and American ships in the Red and Arabian Seas. According to him, Ansar Allah militants used drones and anti-ship missiles for attacks.
Later that day, US Central Command confirmed that the Houthis had struck an American ship flying the Greek flag heading to the port of Aden in Yemen. It was noted that the ship suffered minor damage as a result of the attack and continued to follow its course.
UKMTO on February 19 reported another attack on a ship off the coast of Yemen. According to the department, the captain of the vessel notified about the incident at 21:20 Moscow time.
The Ansar Allah movement (Houthis), which controls the northern part of Yemen, announced a drone attack on an American destroyer in the Red Sea.
Ansar Allah also reported another attack by ballistic missiles and drones on Israeli territory. In addition, the Houthis announced an attack on a British ship located off the coast of Yemen.
“The attack was carried out by sea-based missiles on a British ship in the Gulf of Aden, as a result of which a fire broke out on it,” the statement said.
The Houthis, who control much of Yemen's Red Sea coast, have begun attacking Israeli-linked shipping since the Middle East conflict escalated, causing shipping traffic through the Suez Canal to plummet.
At the same time, the Ansar Allah movement stated that this is how they help the Palestinians, and their actions do not interfere with freedom of navigation in the Red Sea. Arab and Muslim countries have repeatedly warned Washington that unconditional support for Israel's actions in the Gaza Strip will lead to the spread of the conflict throughout the region.
In response, the United States and Great Britain began striking Houthi targets in mid-January. A member of Ansar Allah's supreme political council, Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, called the attacks a terrorist barbarity, a deliberate and unjustified aggression.
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France: 16th-century timber church burned to the ground
WebJul 7, 2023 · This Friday, July 7th, in the village of Drosnay, in the department of Marne, inhabitants were left in shock after the 16th-century, timber-framed church was …
[IsraelTimes] Four foreign nationals were arrested and charged today with transporting suspected Iranian-made weapons on a vessel intercepted by US naval forces in the Arabian Sea last month. Two Navy SEALs died during the mission.
The criminal complaint unsealed Thursday in the US District Court in Richmond alleges that the four defendants — who were all carrying Pak identification cards — were transporting suspected Iranian-made missile components for the type of weapons used by 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... rebel forces in recent attacks.
"The flow of missiles and other advanced weaponry from Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... to Houthi rebel forces in 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... threatens the people and interests of America and our partners in the region," Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said in a news release.
US officials said that Navy Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Christopher J. Chambers was boarding the boat on January 11 and slipped into the gap created by high waves between the vessel and the SEALs’ combatant craft. As Chambers fell, Navy Special Warfare Operator 2nd Class Nathan Gage Ingram jumped in to try to save him, according to US officials familiar with what happened.
"Two Navy SEALs tragically bit the dust in the operation that thwarted the defendants charged today from allegedly smuggling Iranian-made weapons that the Houthis could have used to target American forces and threaten freedom of navigation and a vital artery for commerce," Monaco said.
Attorney General Merrick B. Garland pledged that the Justice Department "will use every legal authority to hold accountable those who facilitate the flow of weapons from Iran to Houthi rebel forces, Hamas ...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... , and other groups that endanger the security of the United States and our allies."
Muhammad Pahlawan is charged with attempting to smuggle advanced missile components, including a warhead he is accused of knowing would be used by the Houthi rebels against commercial and naval vessels in the Red Sea and surrounding waters. He is also charged with providing false information to US Coast Guard officers during the boarding of the vessel.
Pahlawan’s co-defendants — Mohammad Mazhar, Ghufran Ullah and Izhar Muhammad — were also charged with providing false information.
[IsraelTimes] The military announces that teams of reservists it enlisted after October 7 to serve in locales that do not normally have civilian security squads will be largely dismantled at the end of the month.
But an IDF statement says that "in accordance with an operational security assessment and continued dialogue with municipalities on the matter," these security teams will continue serving in Jerusalem, nearby towns and communities along the Green Line "until further notice."
Reservists serving elsewhere will be released from duty on February 29.
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if israel occupied the west bank would that be considered an attack on jordan? what could jordan do? IMO both gaza and west bank should be under israeli authority.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] At least 97 citizens were killed and 132 others were maimed in new Zionist massacres 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 during the past 24 hours, the Paleostinian Ministry of Health said Thursday. "In other news, 97 Assault Weapons and RPGs are available for other 'civilians'"
The ministry stated that the Israeli occupation committed nine massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, killing 97 and injuring 132, during the past 24 hours.
A number of victims are still under rubble and on the roads, and the occupation prevents ambulance and civil defense crews from reaching them, the ministry added.
Thus, the toll of victims from the Israeli aggression has risen to 29,410 deaders and 69,465 injured since the seventh of October, 2023.
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The IDF destroyed the home of former PLO chairman Yasser Arafat in the center of Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip, which had been used as a museum since his death in 2004. Arafat lived there between 1995 and 2001. Gaza was where in 1994 Yasser Arafat returned to the Palestinian territories after 27 years in exile, following the Oslo peace accords with Israel.
Add: Though Arafat was educated in Egypt, a succession of Egyptian leaders wanted nothing to do with him. Gaza would be as close as he would come to visiting his youthful stomping grounds.
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According to some imam right after 9/11 "There are no civilians."
Live it, learn it, love it...
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#2 Born in Egypt. Appointed top Palestinian by Nasser in 1964 - when Palestinian nation was invented. The reason, nephew of Grand Mufti - imported by Brits from Egypt during the mandate era.
[NAHARNET] An Israeli air strike on south 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... killed a woman and a girl on Wednesday, prompting Hezbollah to retaliate with rocket fire.
Hezbollah and Israel have been exchanging near-daily fire across the border since the Israel-Hamas ...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... war broke out on October 7.
Lebanon's state-run National News Agency said that Khadija Salman was killed and her daughter seriously maimed in an Israeli strike on the southern village of Majdal Zoun.
Requesting anonymity, a hospital source confirmed the woman had died and her daughter remained at death's door, adding that a maiden of tender years was also killed.
Rescue workers said several other people were maimed and rushed to hospital.
In the evening, Hezbollah said it fired several Katyusha rockets at the Matzuva kibbutz across the border in Israel "in response to Israeli attacks on villages and civilian homes" including Majdal Zoun.
Hezbollah also grabbed credit for 11 other operations against Israeli military positions on the border.
The cross-border exchanges since October have killed at least 271 people on the Lebanese side, most of them Hezbollah fighters but also including 42 civilians. On the Israeli side, 10 soldiers and six civilians have been killed, according to the Israeli army.
Last week, Hezbollah chief Sayyed His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... vowed that Israel would pay "with blood," after 10 civilians, including seven members of one family, were killed in Lebanon's largest single-day corpse count so far. Five Hezbollah fighters were also killed.
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[An Nahar] At least two Hezbollah fighters were killed and three others maimed in an Israeli dronezap on a residential building in south 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... on Thursday, a security source said.
Hezbollah and Israel have been exchanging near-daily fire across the border since the Israel-Hamas ...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... war broke out on October 7.
An Israeli drone shot two guided missiles at the building in Kfar Rumman, near south Lebanon's Nabatiyeh, the security source said, declining to be identified as they were not authorized to brief the media.
Israeli reports meanwhile said the slain Hezbollah fighters included a commander of the group's elite Radwan force who was responsible for the Shebaa Farms area.
Kfar Rumman lies around 12 kilometers from the Israeli border.
Hezbollah said it later fired dozens of Katyusha rockets at two Israeli military barracks in response to the Kfar Rumman attack.
Hezbollah had claimed a series of attacks on Israeli troops and positions on Thursday, including several which it said were in response to "Israeli attacks on villages and civilian houses."
The violence on the border has sparked fears of another full-blown war between Israel and Hezbollah like that of 2006.
Since October, at least 273 people have been killed on the Lebanese side, most of them Hezbollah fighters but also including 42 civilians, according to an AFP tally.
On the Israeli side, 10 soldiers and six civilians have been killed, according to the Israeli army.
Last week, Hezbollah chief Sayyed His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... vowed that Israel would pay "with blood," after 10 civilians, including seven members of one family, were killed in Lebanon's largest single-day corpse count so far.
On Wednesday, an Israeli strike killed a woman and a girl, prompting retaliatory fire from Hezbollah.
The Hezbollah terror group confirms the death of a second member killed today in an apparent Israeli strike.
He is named as Hisham Abdullah, and was reportedly killed in a strike in the southern Lebanon town of Kfar Remen, along with another operative, Hassan Saleh, whose death was announced earlier.
Abdullah’s death brings the terror group’s official toll since the beginning of the war in the Gaza Strip to 208.
The Kan public broadcaster cites Lebanese reports as saying Saleh was a senior commander in Hezbollah’s elite Radwan force, although the terror group does not refer to him as such in its announcement. Sky News Arabia claims he was a “prominent missile expert.”
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... 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...
...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 
...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all. Actually, he is, but slowly...
...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
