🇮🇹 🇨🇳 🇱🇾 Italian authorities seize Chinese drones bound for Libya
🔶️ Labelled as parts for wind turbines, the Wing Loong unmanned aircraft were reportedly due to be loaded on a ship bound for Benghazi in Libya and delivered to General Khalifa Haftar, the strongman running the east of the country.
🔶️ Italy intercepted the drones after a tip off from the US, which is increasingly alarmed by Haftar’s growing ties to Russia as Moscow continues pouring weapons and troops through the port of Tobruk to support its military presence in Africa.
🔶️ He was backed in his campaign by the UAE, which allegedly operated Wing Loong drones over western Libya and was accused of using one to fire a missile at a Tripoli military academy, killing 26 cadets.
🔶️ “The academy attack was a disaster for the UAE, with such loss of young life, and it stands to reason it took a step back at that point,” said Alia Brahimi, an academic with the Atlantic Council.
🔶️ “It is also likely that either they or the Chinese are training Libyans to fly the drones, meaning Haftar will have personnel to use them as he tries to buy more,” she said.
🔶️ “The plan was to sell millions of drums of crude oil to China without anyone knowing about it,” said a Canadian official at the time of arrests.
🔶️ “If oil is being used to buy drones by Haftar it means the natural resources of Libyans are being diverted to buy weapons that could then be used to kill them,” said Brahimi.
https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/italian-authorities-seize-chinese-drones-bound-for-libya-xpqqxvxqg
https://archive.ph/ONLbJ
🔶️ Labelled as parts for wind turbines, the Wing Loong unmanned aircraft were reportedly due to be loaded on a ship bound for Benghazi in Libya and delivered to General Khalifa Haftar, the strongman running the east of the country.
🔶️ Italy intercepted the drones after a tip off from the US, which is increasingly alarmed by Haftar’s growing ties to Russia as Moscow continues pouring weapons and troops through the port of Tobruk to support its military presence in Africa.
🔶️ He was backed in his campaign by the UAE, which allegedly operated Wing Loong drones over western Libya and was accused of using one to fire a missile at a Tripoli military academy, killing 26 cadets.
🔶️ “The academy attack was a disaster for the UAE, with such loss of young life, and it stands to reason it took a step back at that point,” said Alia Brahimi, an academic with the Atlantic Council.
🔶️ “It is also likely that either they or the Chinese are training Libyans to fly the drones, meaning Haftar will have personnel to use them as he tries to buy more,” she said.
🔶️ “The plan was to sell millions of drums of crude oil to China without anyone knowing about it,” said a Canadian official at the time of arrests.
🔶️ “If oil is being used to buy drones by Haftar it means the natural resources of Libyans are being diverted to buy weapons that could then be used to kill them,” said Brahimi.
https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/italian-authorities-seize-chinese-drones-bound-for-libya-xpqqxvxqg
https://archive.ph/ONLbJ
Thetimes
Italian authorities seize Chinese drones bound for Libya
Containers of Wing Loong UAVs were impounded in southern Italy after a tip off from the US
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🛰 🏴 🏴 Both Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State operate Starlink. Nothing new, ISWAP and ISGS have been using it frequently thanks to proliferation. 📎 Paweł Wójcik
🛰 🇲🇱 🇲🇱 Tuareg separatists using Starlink to stay connected to the internet, as they move around the vast Sahara deserts of northern Mali.
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🔦🏴 — Islamic State official media publishes its statistics for the first half of 2024
📈 788 attacks, 3749 killed/injured, among them 51 officers/commanders/leaders
➡️ 788 attacks divided into :
➡️ 385 clashes
➡️ 161 IEDs/parked car & motorcycle bombs
➡️ 59 ambushes
➡️ 51 assassinations
➡️ 11 surprise assaults/car bombs driven by a soldier
➡️ 121 other types of attacks/operations
🔥 Material damage and spoils :
➡️ 202 vehicles damaged/destroyed:
➡️ 91 4x4 vehicles
➡️ 59 armored vehicles
➡️ 52 other types of vehicles
➡️ 25 vehicles seized
➡️ 1440 houses & shops burned/damaged
➡️ 3 helicopters/drones shot down
➡️ 47 military bases/churches burned/damaged
➡️ 53 prisoners arrested
🥇 🇨🇩 Congo: 135 attacks, 762 killed/injured
🥈 🇳🇬 Nigeria: 232 attacks, 609 killed/injured
🥉 🇷🇺 Russia: 1 attack, 500 killed/injured
🇸🇾🇺🇸🇸🇾 🇮🇷🇷🇺🇱🇧 Syria: 156 attacks, 393 killed/injured
🇮🇷 Iran: 1 attack, 303 killed/injured
🇳🇪 Niger: 39 attacks, 224 killed/injured
🇲🇱 Mali: 24 attacks, 180 killed/injured
🇵🇰 Pakistan: 19 attacks, 142 killed/injured
🇦🇫 Afghanistan: 12 attacks, 138 killed/injured
🇲🇿 🇷🇼 Mozambique: 68 attacks, 137 killed/injured
🇸🇴 Somalia: 14 attacks, 128 killed/injured
🇮🇶 Iraq: 53 attacks, 96 killed/injured
🇧🇫 Burkina Faso: 10 attacks, 62 killed/injured
🇨🇲 Cameroon: 14 attacks, 40 killed/injured
🇵🇭 Philippines: 9 attacks, 33 killed/injured
🇹🇷 Türkiye: 1 attack, 2 killed/injured
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🔶️ Within the past day the RSF have seized control of Mazmoum and Wad an-Nail near the Blue Nile State border. They also crossed the Blue Nile and captured Suki and Dinder City, threatening an advance back north along the Dinder and Blue Nile Rivers, which could result in the full encirclement of Sennar City.
🔶️ Elsewhere in the state, SAF troops have put up little resistance, if any. Many SAF troops were already deployed to the frontline, closer to Al Jazira State, and the units in the rear areas were not prepared for combat. After smashing through the SAF frontline at Jebel Moya last week and winning the battle for Sinja over the weekend, the RSF advanced unchecked.
🔶️ The renegade paramilitary’s rapid advance for the first time puts them within reach of Sudan’s eastern border with Ethiopia. It also means that soon they will likely control parts of the Rahad Game Reserve and Dinder National Park, posing a risk to the wildlife which could be poached by combatants for food or sport.
🔶️ This is the first major RSF territorial gain since December 2023, when they seized most of Al Jazira State in a similarly rapid offensive. In the months that followed, the RSF perpetrated abuses throughout the state, including looting, rapes, mass arrests, attacks on medical personnel, widespread theft of cars and mobile phones, and forced recruitment.
🔶️ In terms of military geography, the RSF’s advance into Sennar creates major problems for the Sudan Armed Forces. SAF can no longer resupply or reinforce the 4th Infantry Division in Damazin, the 10th Infantry Division in Abu Jubeiha, or the 18th Infantry Division in Kosti. Effectively, vast swathes of SAF-controlled territory in south-central Sudan are cut off from the country’s east and north and its de facto capital at Port Sudan.
🔶️ Sennar lies outside of the conflict zones that were affected during the country’s previous civil wars. The last time the state was invaded was in 1899 by Anglo-Egyptian troops under the British general Herbert Kitchener, during the final stage of the Anglo-Mahdist War.
https://sudanwarmonitor.com/p/map-sennar-offensive
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🇺🇳 🇵🇸 🇮🇱 The UN said Israeli authorities blocked more than half of the 115 planned humanitarian aid deliveries to northern Gaza in June
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israel-impedes-more-than-half-of-planned-aid-to-northern-gaza-in-june-un/3263259
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israel-impedes-more-than-half-of-planned-aid-to-northern-gaza-in-june-un/3263259
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Israel impedes more than half of planned aid to northern Gaza in June: UN
Humanitarian workers warn 'unexploded ordinance continues to pose significant risk to lives of people all across Gaza,' says spokesman
🇵🇸 🇮🇱 💥 The rubbled road in Tulkarem, Palestine is the work of IDF combat engineers—they tear up the paved roads when they go into rough West Bank areas, ostensibly to neutralize IEDs.
🔶️ To anyone with GWOT experience, this will seem very backwards—the US spent millions *paving* roads for counter-IED purposes, b/c it’s much harder to plant IEDs in paved roads than in gravel roads, let alone rubbled ones.
🔶️ By destroying these paved roads, the IDF is getting rid of one IED crop, but making it easier to plant the next—and harder to detect it.
🔶️ US forces in the most thoroughly AQI-controlled sectors of Iraq in 2005-7—Ramadi, Baquba, Dora, Ameriya—faced insurgents who, like Hamas, had the time and freedom to dig giant IEDs deep into paved urban roads.
🔶️ The US response was not widespread destruction of paved urban roads.
📎 Wesley Morgan
🔶️ To anyone with GWOT experience, this will seem very backwards—the US spent millions *paving* roads for counter-IED purposes, b/c it’s much harder to plant IEDs in paved roads than in gravel roads, let alone rubbled ones.
🔶️ By destroying these paved roads, the IDF is getting rid of one IED crop, but making it easier to plant the next—and harder to detect it.
🔶️ US forces in the most thoroughly AQI-controlled sectors of Iraq in 2005-7—Ramadi, Baquba, Dora, Ameriya—faced insurgents who, like Hamas, had the time and freedom to dig giant IEDs deep into paved urban roads.
🔶️ The US response was not widespread destruction of paved urban roads.
📎 Wesley Morgan
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🇵🇸 🇮🇱 🇮🇱 Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir on reports of detention camps where Israeli soldiers have tortured, raped Palestinians:
🔶️ “Everything published about the abominable conditions was true. I have already proposed a much simpler solution, of enacting the death penalty.”
Full statement: https://t.me/medmannews/5054
📎 Clash Report
🔶️ “Everything published about the abominable conditions was true. I have already proposed a much simpler solution, of enacting the death penalty.”
Full statement: https://t.me/medmannews/5054
📎 Clash Report
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🇵🇸 ❌️ 🇮🇱 Hamas released footage of an Israeli tank being disabled in Rafah today, where two fighters run across a wide open road, plant explosives, and then escape before the blast.
📎 Séamus Malekafzali
Al-Qassam Brigades mujahideen targeting enemy soldiers and vehicles on the fighting fronts in the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
📎 Séamus Malekafzali
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🇺🇸 📊 For the first time in Gallup’s polling history, over 50% of Americans identify as Independent.
🔶️ Just 25% say Republican and 23% say Democrat.
🔶️ Asked of independents, 48% lean Republican, 45% lean Democrat
https://news.gallup.com/poll/15370/party-affiliation.aspx
📎 American Values
🔶️ Just 25% say Republican and 23% say Democrat.
🔶️ Asked of independents, 48% lean Republican, 45% lean Democrat
https://news.gallup.com/poll/15370/party-affiliation.aspx
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Named and confirmed Ukrainian KIA now 50,813 since 2022. Total is thus likely more than 100,000 KIA minimum. Another 50,000 plus are confirmed amputees. For a country of just 31M (current maximum population under Ukrainian government control) with a TFR below 1.3 this is absolutely unsustainable. Situation in Russia also grim. Russia is estimated to have taken at least 80,000 military KIA plus 25,000 PMC KIA but has more than four times the population. Russian TFR currently around 1.4.
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🔦🏴 ❌ 🇧🇫 🇲🇱 🇳🇪 — Jamaat Nusratal Islam wa Muslimeen (JNIM - Al Qaeda affiliate) official media released an infographic of their operations between 19th and 29th June from their zones of influence in 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso, 🇲🇱 Mali and 🇳🇪 Niger, the operations add up to 22 with almost 100 killed and injured among government forces.
Summary of the 10 days of 19th 29th June 2024.
➡️ 95 killed and injured
➡️ 4 ambushes
➡️ 5 raids
➡️ 8 destroyed military vehicles
🛍 War spoils :
➡️ 2 new sites under their control
➡️ 1 captured soldier
➡️ 44 motorcycles
➡️ 7 vehicles
➡️ 111 rifles
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Summary of the 10 days of 19th 29th June 2024.
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🔦🇵🇰 ❌ 🇸🇴 — Al-Shabaab released info about 5 operations conducted in a span of 12 hours in 5 different locations in Somalia where at least 49 soldiers of the Somali government and allies were killed.
📍 The operations were conducted in Jaal Agaas, Bolomrir, Boralo, Beledwain and Derkinli.
☄️ The 5 operations were composed of 2 raids, 1 ambush, 1 attack behind from behind the enemy and 1 'martyrdom' bomb attack.
☄️ 1 military vehicle was destroyed and at least 49 soldiers were killed in total.
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🇵🇸 🇮🇱 🇮🇱 Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir on reports of detention camps where Israeli soldiers have tortured, raped Palestinians: 🔶️ “Everything published about the abominable conditions was true. I have already proposed a much simpler…
🇺🇸 🇮🇱 🇵🇸 "(Itamar Ben-Gvir) just gave all the state department all of the ammunition they need to say fuck Israel."
📎 Intel Schizo
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🇺🇸 🇮🇱 🇵🇸 Peter Zeihan compares Israeli Orthodox Jews to drug peddling pedophile welfare hogs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv-bcPE4PxQ
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No More Military Exemption for Israeli Ultra-Orthodox || Peter Zeihan
The Israeli Supreme Court just ruled that the ultra-Orthodox community will no longer get exemption from military service. This addresses a number of long-standing issues, but it could spell trouble for Netanyahu's political career.
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🇵🇸 🇮🇱 🇮🇱 These demographic pyramids reflect the Israeli government’s best (public) understanding of the changing profile of its population. The two fastest-growing segments are Palestinian-identifying Muslim Arabs in Gaza and the West Bank, and the ultra-Orthodox Jewish Israelis. Not only do these two groups have starkly different ideas about what the future of disputed territories look like, they have increasingly little common ground with what one might call the more secular, moderate core of Israeli society at large.
📎 Peter Zeihan
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