War & Terrorism

2020-05-30

Garneau says still no black boxes from Iran in January shootdown of airliner

IRWeasel International, Misfortune & Tragedy, Politics, War & Terrorism 0

Article Link: https://torontosun.com/news/national/garneau-says-still-no-black-boxes-from-iran-in-january-shootdown-of-airliner/wcm/afea8bcb-707b-49a1-b4da-f48ae8fda7ee

Discussion posted by: IRWeasel

OTTAWA — Canada and four other countries are still trying to pressure Iran to release the flight recorders from its Jan. 8 shootdown of a Ukrainian passenger plane, Transport Minister Marc Garneau said Friday. On March 11, Garneau was at the Montreal meeting of the International Civil Aviation Organization when Iran’s representative promised his government would surrender the so-called black boxes to Ukrainian authorities by March 25.

2020-05-28

Army builds new 18.6-mile-range tank-killing weapon

IRWeasel International, Science & Technology, War & Terrorism 0

Article Link: https://www.foxnews.com/tech/army-builds-new-18-6-mile-range-tank-killing-weapon

Discussion posted by: IRWeasel

What if a Russian armored vehicle column were approaching for attack, maneuvering between mountains about 15km (16.84 miles) away as they came forward? At the same time, the U.S. Army sees the approaching force with surveillance drones but has no armed air support. Large rockets like the Army’s Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System, a GPS guided weapon able to hit targets out to 70km (43.5 miles), might cause too large of an explosion given that the enemy force is moving through populated urban areas. A smaller, long-range armor-penetrating weapon might be needed — a tank killer with more range than a TOW (Tube-launched, Optically Tracked, Wire Guided) or Javelin missile.

2020-05-28

Israel thwarted attack on water systems: cyber chief

Arye ben-Shaoul International, Politics, War & Terrorism 0

Article Link: https://www.dw.com/en/israel-thwarted-attack-on-water-systems-cyber-chief/a-53596796

Discussion posted by: Arye ben-Shaoul

Israel successfully thwarted a major cyber attack against its water systems last month, widely thought to have been the work of its nemesis Iran, Israel’s national cyber chief announced on Thursday. The assault was a “synchronized and organized” attempt at disrupting key national infrastructure, cyber chief Yigal Unna said in a video address to CyberechLive Asia, a digital international cyber conference. “If the bad guys had succeeded in their plot, we would now be facing, in the middle of the coronacrisis, very big damage to the civilian population and a lack of water and even worse than that,” he added. If Israel’s National Cyber Directorate had not detected the attack in real time, chemicals could have been mixed into the country’s water source in the wrong proportions, causing a “harmful and disastrous” outcome, Unna said.

2020-05-27

Military helicopter wreckage, remains located in Mediterranean

IRWeasel Canada, Misfortune & Tragedy, War & Terrorism 0

Article Link: https://torontosun.com/news/national/military-helicopter-wreckage-remains-located-in-mediterranean/wcm/0e6c5a86-294e-4af9-85fa-a58fae84954a

Discussion posted by: IRWeasel

OTTAWA — The Canadian Armed Forces has located the remains of some of the military members who died last month when the helicopter they were in crashed in the Mediterranean. A Canadian search and recovery team working with the United States Navy discovered the remains early Wednesday morning, not far from where they also located a large piece of the helicopter’s fuselage, the military said in a written statement.

2020-05-27

Ayatollah Khamenei and the Unhinged Mind of a Religious Zealot

Arye ben-Shaoul International, Opinion, Politics, Religion, War & Terrorism 0

Article Link: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/05/ayatollah-khamenei-and-unhinged-mind-religious-ari-lieberman/

Discussion posted by: Arye ben-Shaoul

Iranian authorities organized and orchestrated anti-Israel demonstrations in commemoration of Quds Day. The hateful rallies came with all the expected banalities including the requisite burning of Israeli and American flags and effigies. The demonstrations were accompanied by the usual over-the-top rhetoric by Iran’s so-called Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who likened Zionism to a “virus,” and Israel to a “cancerous tumor,” that must be destroyed and whose destruction is imminent. In a twitter rant, the mercurial supreme mullah leader called for a “final solution” to Israel’s existence, invoking Nazi-like genocidal language and promised that “Palestine [would] be free.”

2020-05-27

Is China taking advantage of COVID-19 to pursue South China Sea ambitions?

Arye ben-Shaoul International, Politics, War & Terrorism 0

Article Link: https://www.dw.com/en/is-china-taking-advantage-of-covid-19-to-pursue-south-china-sea-ambitions/a-53573918

Discussion posted by: Arye ben-Shaoul

With much of the world preoccupied with the coronavirus pandemic, China has continued to push its military objectives in the South China Sea. However, the US, Australia and Vietnam are not idly standing by… The activities of the Asian powerhouse in the region, however, did not slip by the eyes of Washington, which went on to accuse Beijing of “exploiting” its neighboring countries as they are “distracted” with the pandemic. “We call on the PRC [People’s Republic of China] to remain focused on supporting international efforts to combat the global pandemic and to stop exploiting the distraction or vulnerability of other states to expand its unlawful claims in the South China Sea,” the US Department of State said in a statement in early April.

2020-05-26

Afghanistan to free 900 Taliban, urges ceasefire extension

CA Member International, Religion, War & Terrorism 0

Article Link: https://calgarysun.com/news/world/afghanistan-to-free-900-taliban-urges-ceasefire-extension/wcm/7f87247c-7338-4ce8-8959-29db73ff3bf9

Discussion posted by: TheRage

KABUL — The Afghan government urged the Taliban to extend a three-day ceasefire set to end on Tuesday night, while announcing it would free 900 members of the insurgent group in the biggest such release yet.The release is part of a prisoner swap under a deal struck by the Taliban and the United States in Doha in February, as a precursor to peace talks between the Islamist militants and an inclusive Afghan delegation aiming to end a two-decade-old war. Fighting between the Taliban and Afghan forces had intensified before the ceasefire, and the government said it would resume an offensive against the militant group in the wake of its deadly attacks nationwide this month. So far, the government has released just 1,000 prisoners and the Taliban 105

2020-05-22

FBI says attack on Texas naval base ‘terrorism-related’

Arye ben-Shaoul International, War & Terrorism 0

Article Link: https://www.dw.com/en/fbi-says-attack-on-texas-naval-base-terrorism-related/a-53528980

Discussion posted by: Arye ben-Shaoul

The FBI confirmed early on Friday that a shooting the day before at a US naval base in Texas was likely “terrorism-related,” though officials did not elaborate further. The attack at the station in the city of Corpus Christi left a sailor wounded and the gunman dead. At around 6.15 a.m local time (1100 UTC) on Thursday, the assailant, later identified as Adam Alsahli of Corpus Christi, attempted to gain access to the base by opening fire on the sailor who was guarding the security gate. However, though injured, she was able to roll over and push the button that deployed the gate’s security barrier, denying him access.

2020-05-21

Khamenei explains ‘final solution’ poster: I want Israel destroyed, not all Jews

Arye ben-Shaoul International, Politics, War & Terrorism 0

Article Link: https://www.timesofisrael.com/khamenei-explains-final-solution-poster-i-favor-destroying-israel-not-jews/

Discussion posted by: Arye ben-Shaoul

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday said he seeks Israel’s destruction but not the annihilation of all Jews, after Israeli and American leaders accused him of encouraging genocide. He said Iran would support any nation or group that fights against Israel. Khamenei was commenting on a poster published on his website that used the words “final solution” in calling for Israel’s destruction, a term usually associated with Nazi Germany’s efforts to eliminate all Jews during the Holocaust.

2020-05-19

CNN, willing accomplice to CAIR

Arye ben-Shaoul International, Religion, War & Terrorism 0

Article Link: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/05/cnn-willing-accomplice-cair-joe-kaufman-0/

Discussion posted by: Arye ben-Shaoul

Wilfredo Amr Ruiz is a representative for the Florida office of the Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). As such, he is involved with a group that has foundational and financial ties to the terrorist organization Hamas. So why would a news network like CNN wish to provide him and his group with a platform to speak? Regardless of the reason, it should not have taken place and it should never again take place any time in the future. CAIR was established in June 1994 as an integral part of the US chapter of the Palestine Committee, a now-defunct Hamas support network headed by then-global leader of Hamas, Mousa Abu Marzook. CAIR is the only member of US Palestine Committee (under its original name) to still be in existence.

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