[NEWARAB] The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have encircled and besieged El Fasher in North Darfur in recent weeks, but fears of an all-out assault on the city have not yet materialised.
El Fasher remains the last capital city in Darfur's five states where the 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. The country is currently enjoying a civil war between the army and the Rapid Support Forces, which used to be part of the army but then they got another ambitious general and you can guess the rest... ese Armed Forces (SAF) maintain a garrison following their 13-month-long war against the RSF.
A defeat for the SAF and former Darfur rebel groups fighting alongside it would formalise the loss of the army's control over approximately one-third of the nation's territory.
Residents of the city are living in a state of heightened fear as armed festivities would devastate civilian life, infrastructure, and private property.
"The main roads leading into and out of the city to Chad, Khartoum, and Mellit have all been besieged by the RSF and because of that foodstuffs are in short supply and have become too expensive to afford," Mousa Abdelghani, a political observer from El Fasher, told The New Arab.
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One of the reasons we invented civilization was so we would not have decomposing corpses, human or otherwise, in our water supply.
In one of those amusing bits of synchronicity our universe is famous for, NPR ran a long piece yesterday on how Mexico City is out of water.
The report went into some detail about how back in the Aztec days, when the city was known as Tenochtitlan, it was an island city surrounded by water (and probably malaria, but let's not go there). With lots of canals and channels to supply the city, it all sounded quite green and lovely.
Then the Spaniards, bastards that they are, showed in the 1500s and drained the land to make the place more European. Cut to the present day when the city is not just running low but flat out rationing water. In some areas, water is only available for a few hours a day. Cue a plaintive interview with a woman about undrinkable, muddy tap water and we are out.
Mexico gained independence from Spain in 1821, in case you were wondering.
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[KavkazUzel] The court sentenced Maykop resident Farhad Akhmadov to 17 years in prison, finding him guilty of recruitment into the ranks of the Islamic State*.
The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced local resident Farhad Akhmadov.
According to the investigation, in 2023, Akhmadov, being a supporter of the Islamic State*, promoted its activities, held conversations with a number of people, for whom he posted photographs, videos and audio files about this terrorist organization in a group chat. He also corresponded with them, inclining them to terrorist activities, the press service of the Southern District Military Court wrote on May 7 in its Telegram channel.
In addition, according to the investigation, he involved one person in committing a terrorist act by setting fire to a car belonging to a police officer. This happened in Maykop. However, he was unable to accomplish his plan, as he was detained by security forces.
Akhmadov was charged under Part 3 of Article 30 (attempted murder), paragraph "a" of Part 2 of Article 205 (committing a terrorist attack by an organized group by prior conspiracy), Part 1.1 of Article 205.1 (assistance in terrorist activities) and Part 2 of Article 205.5 (participation in activities of a terrorist organization).
The court found him guilty and sentenced him to 17 years in prison, with the first three years to be served in prison and the rest in a maximum security colony.
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[Regnum] Journalist and writer Nadezhda Kevorkova was arrested in the case of justifying terrorism, the Telegram channel “Courts of General Jurisdiction of the City of Moscow” reported on May 7.
“The court granted the request of the investigating authorities to select a preventive measure in the form of detention for a period of 2 months, that is, until July 6, 2024,” the authors indicated.
Kevorkova was charged with committing crimes under Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Public calls for terrorist activities, public justification of terrorism or propaganda of terrorism”).
As Regnum reported, on the morning of May 6, searches were carried out in Kevorkova’s apartment. During the search, they found posters with the inscriptions “they are not terrorists” and “a better rally.” Then the journalist was taken to the Investigative Committee. According to Izvestia, Kevorkova was on friendly terms with terrorists, including the coordinator and founder of radical Islamic foundations Israil Akhmednabiev, known as Abu Umar Sasitlinsky
…a Dagestani preacher and founder of the Mukhadzhirun Islamic Foundation (Living Heart), which raised funds for ISIS...
(listed by Rosfinmonitoring as terrorists and extremists), and other persons associated with the activities of terrorist organizations.
In addition, the journalist on her social networks justified the attack on Nalchik in 2005,
…an raid by Caucasian Front jihadis (subsequently Al Qaeda-linked Caucasian Emirate, then ISIS-linked on Russian Vilayat Kavkaz) on Russian security forces that left 320 casualties including 125 civilians…
as well as the activities of the Taliban movement (a terrorist organization whose activities are prohibited in the Russian Federation). Kevorkova did not admit her guilt.
[NEWARAB] Dutch police arrested around 125 pro-Gazoo
Islamic 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. In October of 2023 Gazooks belonging to Hamas invaded Israel, killed over a thousand people, raped a bunch of women. Then they bitched and moaned about genocide when their butts handed to them in the entirely justified retaliation. protesters and broke up an encampment at the University of Amsterdam early on Tuesday as student protests in solidarity with Paleostinians swept college campuses in Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... and North America.
Police said the crackdown was "necessary to restore order" at the Netherlands' elite university, which follows a wave of campus protests in the US last month.
Videos from the protest in Amsterdam show police using a mechanical digger to destroy barricades, while officers holding batons and shields moved in to disperse protesters.
Some officers beat protesters and pulled down tents after activists refused to follow police orders to leave the site.
"The protest in this form created a very unsafe situation, partly due to the barricades that prevented emergency services from entering the site," police said in a statement.
A spokesperson for the university also said that while they were able to support the protest during the day, they could not allow students to stay overnight.
Scores of protesters started the encampment on Monday, calling for universities in Amsterdam to cut off academic ties with Israel.
Hezbollah attacked Tuesday northern Israel with suicide drones.
The group said its drones targeted soldiers in the Yiftah barracks, inflicting casualties, while other drones hit an Iron Dome platform in the Ramot Naftali barracks, damaging it.
Israeli media had earlier reported several "suspicious aerial targets" believed to be explosive-laden drones launched by Hezbollah.
The Israeli army claimed its air defenses downed one drone while another struck an area near Yiftah, causing a fire, and others caused minor damage at unspecified locations and open areas.
Israeli tanks meanwhile shelled the outskirts of Kfarshouba as Hezbollah targeted a post in the occupied Shebaa Farms, surveillance equipment in the occupied Kfarshouba Hills and soldiers in the al-Raheb post facing Ayta al-Shaab and in the Ramot Naftali barracks.
Israeli warplanes had carried out Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on Jabal al-Rihan and Iqlim al-Toffah 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... .
Earlier on Tuesday, the Israeli army said that two soldiers were killed in a Hezbollah Monday attack on a post near Metula in northern Israel.
[NEWARAB] On Tuesday morning, the Israeli army took full control of the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gazoo
Islamic 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. In October of 2023 Gazooks belonging to Hamas invaded Israel, killed over a thousand people, raped a bunch of women. Then they bitched and moaned about genocide when their butts handed to them in the entirely justified retaliation. Strip after a night of heavy bombardment of the city.
The Gaza-based General Authority for Crossings and Borders said in a press statement sent to The New Arab that the Israeli army tanks stormed the crossing in the early morning, and Israeli soldiers raised the Israeli flag at one of the entrances to the crossing.
Paleostinian sources and local eyewitnesses reported that the Israeli army launched dozens of air and ground attacks on the eastern areas of the city of Rafah, leaving dozens injured or killed.
"At least 20 Paleostinians were killed during the Israeli attacks, while dozens of others were maimed and transferred to the field and local hospitals in the city," a medical source in Rafah told TNA.
Avichai Adraee, the spokesperson of the Israeli army, claimed in a press statement that "the military forces achieved operational control over the Gaza side of the Rafah crossing after receiving intelligence information indicating that the crossing was being used for terrorist purposes by saboteurs as it put it."
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[GEO.TV] In a bid to restore peace in war-torn Gazoo
Islamic 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. In October of 2023 Gazooks belonging to Hamas invaded Israel, killed over a thousand people, raped a bunch of women. Then they bitched and moaned about genocide when their butts handed to them in the entirely justified retaliation. , ceasefire talks in Cairo between delegates from Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of late nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... , Hamas ...a regional Iranian catspaw,... , Egypt and the US are currently under way, Egyptian state-linked media outlet al-Qahera News reported.
"The Qatari and US delegation continue their discussions with the Egyptian delegation and that of Hamas," the outlet reported, citing a "bigwig".
That’s all very nice, but who will bell the absent Israeli cat?
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Martyrdom is one of the exciting possibilities when one is a human shield.
[GEO.TV] At least 23 Paleostinians, including six women and five children, were killed in overnight strikes in Rafah by the Israeli occupation forces, according to hospital records cited by Rooters news agency.
One man in Rafah, Mohammed Abu Amra, lost five close relatives in an attack that flattened his house.
"We did nothing ... we don't have Hamas ...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... ," said Abu Amra, whose wife, two brothers, sister, and niece were all killed. "We found fire devouring us. The house was turned upside down."
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”Never again,” President Biden said at the Holocaust Day commemoration. Apparently never means something different to him.
[NYPOST] Biden administration officials are holding up shipments of precision bombs to Israel to send a message about the Jewish state’s ongoing war against Hamas ...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... in the Gazoo
Islamic 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. In October of 2023 Gazooks belonging to Hamas invaded Israel, killed over a thousand people, raped a bunch of women. Then they bitched and moaned about genocide when their butts handed to them in the entirely justified retaliation. Strip. Use of dumb bombs, naturally, will increase civilian casualties.
While the White House has not formally scrapped the planned sale of the Boeing-made munitions, it has yet to formally approve the transaction, Politico reported Tuesday.
US officials tiptoed around the report, with a series of spokespeople refusing to deny it.
"Our commitment to Israel’s security remains ironclad. We don’t, as a matter of course, talk about individual shipments one way or the other," National Security Council front man John Kirby told news hounds.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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. The country is currently enjoying a civil war between the army and the Rapid Support Forces, which used to be part of the army but then they got another ambitious general and you can guess the rest...
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
...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...
...a regional Iranian catspaw,...
...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
