| To: Les H who wrote (43577) | 9/17/2024 12:02:30 PM | | From: Les H | | | | Pagers explode across Lebanon in attack targeting Hezbollah members
At least 8 dead and 2,800 injured in pager explosions, says Lebanese health minister
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"The affected pagers were from a new shipment that the group received in recent days, people familiar with the matter said. A Hezbollah official said hundreds of fighters had such devices, speculating that malware may have caused the devices to heat up and explode. The official said some people felt the pagers heat up and disposed of them before they burst."
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| To: Les H who wrote (43578) | 9/17/2024 12:08:23 PM | | From: Les H | | | | Russia to boost size of army by 180,000 troops to 1.5 million
By Christian Edwards and Anna Chernova, CNN
Published 11:42 AM EDT, Mon September 16, 2024
The increase would take the overall number of Russian military personnel to nearly 2.4 million, including 1.5 million troops, according to the decree published by the Kremlin Monday. The new staffing will come into effect in December, it said.
Since 2022, Putin has ordered two previous expansions in the number of combat troops, in addition to a mobilization of military reservists and conscripts.
In August 2022, Putin ordered an increase of 137,000 troops by the start of the new year, which put the military’s staffing at just over 2 million personnel, including 1.15 million troops.
The next month, after a sudden and successful Ukrainian offensive that liberated most of the eastern Kharkiv region, Putin ordered the immediate “partial mobilization” of Russian citizens. The mobilization meant citizens with military experience were subject to conscription and that military reservists could be called up.
The mobilization prompted hundreds of thousands to flee the country – many to neighboring Georgia and other formerly communist countries near Russia’s border – and sparked angry demonstrations, particularly in Russia’s ethnic minority regions that have borne the brunt of previous recruitment drives.
The mobilization was suspended in November 2023 after officials said the target of recruiting 300,000 personnel had been met.
Then in December, Putin ordered another official expansion of 170,000 troops, bringing the total to 1.32 million.
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| To: Les H who wrote (43581) | 9/18/2024 8:14:09 AM | | From: Les H | | | | Pager Blasts Humiliated Hezbollah, but They Won't Win Any Wars for Israel
Hezbollah's weakness was exposed by the simultaneous attack on thousands of pagers and its leaders were humiliated – allegedly by Israel. Such things do not usually go unanswered in the Middle East ¦ Meanwhile, negotiations between Netanyahu and Sa'ar have been put on ice and it's possible that the prime minister has already reaped the political dividend without even without realizing it
It appears that someone succeeded in penetrating Hezbollah's secret communications network and took advantage of a window of opportunity to install remote-controlled explosive devices into the communications gear that was distributed to members.
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There are still old photos of NSA employees swapping out parts in computers and communications equipment at the package delivery offices. The packages of pagers were probably intercepted en route to Lebanon.
Also:
The decision to carry out the Israeli-attributed pager attack was "imposed" on Israel following an intelligence breach that involved two Hezbollah operatives who discovered that the devices had been tampered with, high-level regional intelligence sources told Al-Monitor on Wednesday. |
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| To: Les H who wrote (43582) | 9/18/2024 8:24:08 AM | | From: Les H | | | | Ukraine working with Al Qaeda in Idlib
A group of 250 Ukrainian military experts has arrived in Syria’s northern Idlib governorate to train extremist militants in the use and manufacture of drones, a source told Sputnik on 17 September.
“There is confirmed information that the number of Ukrainian military experts who arrived in Idlib has reached about 250, they have been distributed to industrial workshops and several sites in the city of Idlib and the countryside of Jisr al-Shughur, to manufacture drones,” the source said.
“The Ukrainian military is training militants affiliated with the Turkistan Islamic Party under the command of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham for the use of drones, and technologies to develop them with regard to the ability to increase flight speeds, photography and targeting,” it added.
The source goes on to say that hundreds of drones “were shipped to Idlib in batches as spare parts and [under the guise] of commercial civilian goods.”
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| From: tntpal | 9/18/2024 8:39:32 AM | | | | | | Ukrainian drone attack triggers huge blasts at Russian ammo depot
The explosions were so intense that they were picked up by NASA satellites and earthquake monitors.
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| To: Les H who wrote (43583) | 9/18/2024 11:58:49 AM | | From: Les H | | | | Saudi Arabia reopens embassy in Syria, completing reconciliation with Assad regime
September 10, 2024 at 8:21 pm
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After an absence of more than 10 years during the war against Syria in which they funded Al Nusra Front (aka HTS aka Jabhat Nusra aka Al Qaeda in Syria) and other groups. It remains to be seen. |
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