30-year-old John M. Grassia III has been identified as one of the three casualties from a Texas helicopter crash that went down near the town of La Grulla on Friday
Grassia was killed alongside New York National Guard soldier Casey Frankoski who was also identified as the second of three crash victims
A third victim, a CBP agent was also killed in the crash with a soldier also injured
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I find it peculiar too, Skid. Don't know why NY'ers, except that maybe CBP asked for support from a reliable blue area.
I mean, did they really drive that JetRanger Kiowa all the way from NY, or did they just "borrow" it from Cavasos Hood.
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[Regnum] On Friday, March 8, soldiers of the Burkina Faso army killed several dozen terrorists as a result of attacks on militant positions in Touka in the north of the country.
Touka is a village in the Kongoussi Department of Bam Province in northern Burkina Faso. It has an official population of 789.
This was reported by the AIB agency, citing sources in the security services.
“This week, the Burkina Faso Armed Forces continued to retake territory and repelled several terrorist attacks. So, on March 8, several dozen terrorists gathered at about 16:00 in Touk, where they planned an attack... Aviation took the initiative, carrying out a missile attack,” the material says.
It is noted that on International Women's Day, the Burkinabe military intensified its offensive operations so that internally displaced persons, most of whom are women, could return to their homes.
As Regnum reported, on March 6, representatives of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger at a meeting of the Council of Chiefs of Staff of the member countries of the Alliance of Sahel States announced the creation of a joint force to combat terrorist groups in the region. Chief of Staff of the Niger Armed Forces Moussa Salau Barmu emphasized that the joint forces will begin to operate in the near future.
Bandits have reportedly kidnapped an unspecified number of Tsangaya students at Gidan Bakuso in Gada local government area of Sokoto state.
According to Daily Trust, the students were kidnapped from their school around 1am on Saturday.
The proprietor of the school, Liman Abubakar, said 15 students were unaccounted so far but "we are still counting."
This incident came barely a day after the forces of Evil stormed a government school in Kaduna State and kidnapped over 270 pupils.
According to Abubakar, the bandidos invaded the town around 1am, shot one person and kidnapped a woman.
"As they were leaving the town, they sighted our students rushing into their rooms and they kidnapped many of them.
"We have so far counted 15 who are missing and we are still searching for more," he said.
Abubakar added that this was not the first time the village was attacked by bandidos.
The member, representing Gada-East Constituency at the state House of Assembly, Kabiru Dauda while confirming the attack, said he received a call from the village around 2am that it was invaded by bandidos.
"I reached out to the local government authorities and security agencies and I am sure they are doing something about it," he said.
It was also gathered that bandidos attacked and killed three persons at Turba village in Isa Local Government Area of the state, including the village head.
A member representing, Isa Constituency, Habibu Modachi who confirmed the incident, believed it was a reprisal after security operatives raided bandidos’ hideouts two days ago.
The front man of the Sokoto State Police Command, ASP Ahmad Rufa’i, said he was not aware of the development but he would contact the Divisional Police Officer of the local government areas.
Tsangaya is one of a number of different kinds of traditional Moslem pedagogical systems in the region, a madrassa, if you will. No doubt taqfiri kidnappers would consider them not nearly pious enough to be spared, or else the school is just deemed another convenient collection point for indiscriminate predators.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The 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 Armed Forces carried out two specific military operations against US ship and warships in the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea.
"The naval forces and the air force of the Yemeni Armed Forces carried out two specific military operations. The first operation targeted the American ship "Propel Fortune" in the Gulf of Aden with a number of suitable naval missiles, while the second operation targeted a number of American war destroyers at the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden with 37 drones, and the two operations successfully achieved their goals," Brigadier General Yahya Sarie said in a statement this morning.
The brigadier general confirmed that the operations came in support of the oppressed Paleostinian people and as part of the response to the American-British aggression against Yemen.
"The Yemeni Armed Forces salute all of our great Yemeni people for their million march demonstrations in the capital, Sana’a, and across governorates and districts, in confirmation of their solid position in support of the Paleostinian people," the statement read.
The Yemeni armed forces will persist in upholding their military operations in the Red and Arab Seas until the aggression stops and the siege 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 is lifted, the brigadier general stressed.
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US and Coalition Defeat Houthi Attack in Red Sea Area
Following further engagements through the morning, U.S. and Coalition forces downed a total of at least 28 uncrewed aerial vehicles between 4:00 a.m. and 8:20 a.m. (Sanaa time) on Mar. 9. No U.S. or Coalition Navy vessels… pic.twitter.com/nKmrTu5xVv
That’s right. You Muslim-splain to world and see whether that gets you more attention.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, a member of the Supreme Political Council, described the Pentagon’s announcement of building a seaport 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... as "throwing dust in the eyes of the world."
He confirmed that it is an attempt to showcase a humanitarian facade that the Americans have trampled on since the first day of the Gaza blockade.
Al-Houthi explained in a post on the "X" that the Rafah crossing does not need new construction, and aid is piling up in front of it. All that is required is a directive to allow the entry of those aids, emphasizing that the residents of Gaza only need the removal of obstacles that prevent aid from reaching them.
He also considered that the talk about building a seaport for Gaza is nothing more than an attempt by the United States to feign humanity. However, Switzerland makes more than cheese... he deemed it lacking credibility due to its policies supporting the Israeli enemy and its ongoing crimes against the residents of Gaza.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] New military reinforcements have arrived in the city of Aden, which is under the control of the Saudi-led coalition in southern 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... This comes in light of the escalating tensions between factions funded by 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... and the UAE in Aden and the rest of the southern regions under the control of the coalition.
Informed sources confirmed that more than 43 Saudi military vehicles arrived on Thursday in Ahwar area of Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... province and were on their way to Aden.
The military vehicles belonging to the Saudi-backed factions in Aden, "Dera al-Watan," were coming from the al-Wadiah crossing and are the second since February 25, according to the sources
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[IsraelTimes] Palestine Action calls its vandalism at Cambridge U. a protest against 1917 declaration that help pave way for Israel, saying it marked start of ‘ethnic cleansing in Palestine’
A pro-Paleostinian, anti-Israel UK protest group on Friday said one of its activists had "ruined" a portrait on display of Arthur Balfour, the British politician whose declaration helped lead to Israel’s creation.
Police confirmed officers had received an online report of criminal damage to a painting at the University of Cambridge’s Trinity College, in eastern England.
Paleostine Action, which describes itself as a direct-action network of groups and individuals, said it was responsible for damaging the 1914 painting of the statesman.
It posted video footage online of the activist spraying the artwork with red paint from a canister and then slashing the surface of the framed painting multiple times.
Charge ‘em for the insured value of the thing plus the cost to restore it plus the cost for security to protect it going forward. If they don’t have the money, charge their parents and whichever rich Progressives are funding the group.
The group said the targeted artwork was a portrait of Balfour — the UK’s foreign secretary in the early 20th century — by Hungarian-born artist Philip de Laszlo.
"Paleostine Action spray and slash a historic painting of Lord Balfour in Trinity College, University of Cambridge," it wrote on X, alongside the 11-second video of the vandalism.
The post accused Balfour of beginning "the ethnic cleansing of Paleostine by promising the land away — which the British never had the right to do."
The Balfour Declaration was a 67-word letter in 1917 from Britannia’s then-foreign secretary to Lionel Rothschild, a prominent British Zionist, supporting the creation of a Jewish homeland in Paleostine.
The document is credited with eventually helping to spur the creation of Israel in 1948 under a United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... plan to partition British Mandate Paleostine between the Jews and the Arabs. The plan was accepted by the Jews and rejected by the Arabs, with several Arab nations invading the nascent Israel. Tens of thousands of Paleostinians were displaced in the subsequent war.
Trinity College said it "regrets the damage caused to a portrait of Arthur James Balfour during public opening hours."
"The police have been informed," it added, noting "support" was being made available to any member of the college community impacted.
Cambridgeshire Police said officers were "attending the scene to secure evidence and progress the investigation," a statement added, noting that no arrests had been made.
Paleostine Action has been involved in large-scale pro-Paleostinian, anti-Israel protests in London over recent months, in response to the ongoing Israel-Hamas ...always the voice of sweet reason... war.
The demonstrations have been heavily criticized by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s ruling Conservatives, and others, for being intimidating to Jewish people and encouraging antisemitism.
Members of Paleostine Action sprayed a building in central London on a march route with red paint during at least one protest in October.
They have also staged other "direct action" stunts at the sites of UK companies that the group claims are complicit in providing finance and military parts to Israel.
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The funny thing that, if these little sh*ts knew any history, they'd know that Lord Balfour was an ardent anti-semite (he wanted to break [an imaginary] alliance between Turkey and Elders of Zion).
“This is a clear act of retaliation and an attempt to silence me,” Shai Davidai tweets.
It is unclear what the investigation is specifically about.
A video of the Columbia Business School assistant professor denouncing university president Minouche Shafik’s “cowardice” for allowing the proliferation of “pro-terror student organizations” on campus and telling parents that students were not safe went viral in October.
New lawsuit against MIT accuses university of allowing antisemitism on campus
[IsraelTimes] Two Jewish students filed a federal lawsuit today against the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), accusing the university of allowing antisemitism on campus that has resulted in them being intimidated, harassed and assaulted.
The lawsuit mirrors similar legal actions filed since the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, including at Columbia University, New York University, Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania.
In the MIT lawsuit, the students and a nonprofit that fights antisemitism, StandWithUs Center for Legal Justice accuse the university of approving antisemitic activities on campus and tolerating discrimination and harassment against Jewish students and faculty.
Over the past week, the IDF says the Kfir Brigade’s Netzah Yehuda Battalion carried out an operation in northern 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... ’s Beit Hanoun.
The battalion, made up of ultra-Orthodox and religious troops, was placed under the Gaza Division’s Northern Brigade for the operation.
It is the first time the unit, normally deployed to the West Bank, is operating in Gaza.
According to the IDF, the soldiers located and destroyed Hamas ...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... anti-tank missile launching positions, observation posts, and tunnel shafts, and killed several button men in Beit Hanoun.
In December, the IDF said it had completed dismantling Hamas’s Beit Hanoun Battalion, but was continuing to battle smaller cells in the area.
[An Nahar] Israeli military officials have denied a Lebanese report that claimed that Israel would launch a major attack 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... if no diplomatic deal was reached by March 15, Israel’s Channel 13 reported.
"There’s no date for going to war in Lebanon," an unnamed source was quoted as saying.
Israeli army chief Herzi Halevi meanwhile instructed Brig. Gen. Moshe Chico Tamir to "prepare several possible plans for a ground operation in Lebanon," Channel 13 said.
The channel pointed out that "Tamir had great experience in the northern sector when he was in his last position as deputy commander of the Northern Corps of the Israeli army."
"Tamir will develop a number of incursion plans of different scopes, including limited entry, which aims to push Hezbollah to withdraw eight to 10 kilometers off the border," the channel said.
Hezbollah has targeted Israeli positions across the border almost daily since an October 7 attack by its Paleostinian ally Hamas ...a regional Iranian catspaw,... triggered war with Israel. Israeli forces have responded with strikes against Hezbollah positions as well as targeted operations against bigwigs.
The border festivities since October have killed at least 303 people in Lebanon, mostly Hezbollah fighters but including 50 civilians. On the Israeli side, 10 soldiers and seven civilians have been killed according to the Israeli army.
Israel has also threatened to use bigger force against Hezbollah to secure the return of around 80,000 Israelis displaced from northern Israel.
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"Tamir will develop a number of incursion plans of different scopes, including limited entry, which aims to push Hezbollah to withdraw eight to 10 kilometers off the border," the channel said.
Push Hexbollah north of the Litani River and then make the region between the present Israel-Lebanon border and the Litani a demilitarized zone subject to Israeli patrolling.
[An Nahar] Israeli warplanes on Saturday bombed a house in the southern town of Majdal Zoun, totally destroying it, prompting emergency crews and paramedics to head to the area, the National News Agency said.
Earlier on Saturday, an Israeli drone fired a missile at an empty house in the southern border town of Blida, NNA said.
Hezbollah meanwhile said it fired a heavy-caliber Burkan rocket at the al-Baghdadi Israeli military post, achieving a "direct hit."
Israeli warplanes had overnight targeted the outskirts of Naqoura as well as the nearby al-Labbouneh mountain.
Hezbollah has targeted Israeli positions across the border almost daily since an October 7 attack by its Paleostinian ally Hamas ...a regional Iranian catspaw,... triggered war with Israel. Israeli forces have responded with strikes against Hezbollah positions as well as targeted operations against bigwigs.
The border festivities since October have killed at least 303 people 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... , mostly Hezbollah fighters but including 50 civilians. On the Israeli side, 10 soldiers and seven civilians have been killed according to the Israeli army.
Yesterday we had a report that 18 were killed,16 maimed, and 50+ missing in an ISIS ambush while hunting truffles somewhere in the Deir ez-Zor desert. Today we have a landmine location, but no mention of ISIS.
[Regnum] A mine explosion in the Syrian province of Deir ez-Zor killed six mushroom pickers heading into the desert to collect truffles, radio station Sham FM reported.
“Six people were killed and two were injured as a result of a mine planted by armed groups in the area of the village of Haribsha,” reporters said.
According to the radio station, a car with civilians ran into a mine. It is noted that mushroom pickers in Syria regularly die due to mines.
As Regnum reported, on April 9, 2023, six civilians were killed in a mine explosion planted by militants in the Syrian province of Deir ez-Zor. Residents were collecting truffles, which grow in dry desert areas in Syria. Terrorist groups continue to operate in the desert areas of northern and northeastern Syria.
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
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...always the voice of sweet reason...
...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
...a regional Iranian catspaw,...
