Hamas issues 10-day ultimatum to Daesh-linked group leader to surrender over ties to Israel

from PressTV

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has given Yasser Jihad Abu Shabab, leader of a Daesh-linked group, 10 days to surrender to authorities, waning he will be tried in absentia if he fails to comply.

Abu Shabab faces charges of treason, armed rebellion, and forming an armed gang.

Palestinian and international reports have described the group as a "militia" cooperating with Israeli forces, particularly in areas of Israeli military control east of Rafah near the Karam Abu Salem crossing.

Hamas’ armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, has slammed Abu Shabab for leading a network of collaborators recruited by Israel to sow chaos in the Gaza Strip.

This marks the first such public move by Hamas since Israel began its genocidal war on Gaza 21 months ago.

The Revolutionary Court, part of Gaza’s military judiciary, emphasized the severity of the charges and urged the public to report his whereabouts.

Local sources say Abu Shabab is hiding near eastern Rafah. This follows Israeli prime minister Netanyahu’s recent admission of arming militants in Gaza to counter Hamas...

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Israel supplying weapons to 'criminal gangs' in Gaza: Ex-defense min.

from Daily Sabah

Former Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman claimed Thursday that Israel has been arming criminal gangs in Gaza, revealing that Tel Aviv transferred assault rifles and light weapons into the war-torn enclave.

He said the weapons were transferred to the gangs upon orders of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

"In my opinion, the Cabinet hasn’t approved the transfer of weapons, but the head of the General Security Service (Shin Bet) was aware,” he added.

"We are talking about what is equivalent to ISIS (Daesh) in Gaza. No one guarantees that these weapons will not be directed at Israel. We have no means of monitoring or tracking,” Lieberman said.

According to KAN, Netanyahu’s office did not deny arming groups in Gaza.

"Israel is working to defeat Hamas through various means, based on the recommendations of all the heads of the security establishment,” the office said in its response to KAN...

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The ISIS Crisis Returns: We Need Justification to Attack Syrians Again so... ISIS Truck

by Scott Creighton

 

Can't make this shit up. Just can't even with a screaming duck in the yard or whatever it is.

'Since the start of the year, ISIS fighters have killed around 753 people during 491 recorded operations in Syria, according to a report published by the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) on 29 December.  “ISIS continues executing almost-daily military operations and counter-attacks in areas controlled by Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Syrian desert, while ISIS cells are still able to exploit opportunities to create a security vacuum and carry out assassinations, which clearly indicates that the ‘Islamic State’ is still alive and kicking,” the SOHR report states.' Cradle Dec 31 2024

So France and the U.S. started bombing in Syria two days ago. Bombing 'ISIS' they claim.

' France carried out missile strikes last weekend in Syria, targeting ISIS sites in the country, French Armed Forces Minister Sebastien Lecornu said on Tuesday.  “On Sunday, French air forces carried out targeted strikes against Islamic State sites based on Syrian territory,” Lecornu wrote on social media platform X. The French airstrike followed a similar military strike by the United States in Syria, which the US said had killed two ISIS operatives.' al Arabia Dec 31 2024

But it's not ISIS who have been killing and raping in Syria this past year, it's our terrorists, HTS. And it's not ISIS we and the French are bombing... its Syrians who want their country back and al Qaeda out:

PKK elements in Syria must leave country: FM Fidan

(Oh look. Someone else understands what 'ISIS' actually is. Good. I thought I was the only one)

from Daily Sabah

Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said the PKK terrorist group's members in the YPG must leave Syria as the country tries to form a new, unified administration, which he said needs to be inclusive and tolerant.

"Elimination of YPG is Türkiye's strategic goal," Fidan told a live broadcast on NTV channel Friday. He highlighted that the PKK's Syrian offshoots have no place in the country's future while noting that the safety of the Kurdish population must be ensured.

"Syria now has a national ruling government," Fidan said, adding that the new administration would not recognize the YPG or others.

"They will take their land and sovereignty back," he added.

YPG, the Syrian offshoot of the PKK, a terrorist group that has waged a bloody terror campaign in Türkiye since 1984 and has killed at least 40,000 people.

Washington backs the PKK/YPG under the guise of a fight against the Daesh terrorist group....

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Syrian army preemptive strikes foil terrorist onslaught in Aleppo

from PressTV

The Syrian army has reportedly thwarted large-scale terrorist operations in Aleppo province through a preemptive strike. 

Four major terrorist operations, which were set to begin from the town of Anadan,12 kilometers northwest of Aleppo, were foiled before they could start, Al-Mayadeen reported on Friday. 

Intense clashes are still ongoing in the area between the Syrian armed forces and terrorist groups, mainly Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly known as the Nusra Front, according to the report. 

Reports on Friday said fierce battles are ongoing in western Aleppo. Syrian state media said artillery shelling killed four civilians at student housing in Aleppo.

"Four civilians were killed after terrorist organizations shelled the university dorms in Aleppo," the official news agency SANA said.

The Syrian army launched intensified missile attacks on terrorist positions that stretch from villages in western Aleppo to Mount Zawiya south of Idlib, according to the report.

Late on Thursday, the television network reported that four large-scale attacks launched from the city of Anadan, north of Aleppo, were foiled...

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Russia: US, UK spreading chaos in Syria through terrorist groups

(In the U.S. this is called unconventional warfare or irregular warfare. It's when our Special Operations teams, State Department, NED or anyone else hires proxy armies to terrorize the population of a targeted nation. It's what we do. We hire terrorists to kill civilians.) 

'The purpose of this document is to provide a pocket reference of Unconventional Warfare (UW) doctrine, concepts, academic inquiry, and suggested supplementary reading for military leaders and planners. Joint Publication (JP) 3-05.1 defines UW as: Activities conducted to enable a resistance movement or insurgency to coerce, disrupt or overthrow a government or occupying power by operating through or with an underground, auxiliary, and guerrilla force in a denied area.' USASOC Guide to Unconventional Warfare (PDF)

from PressTV

Russia says the major US-led Western powers continue their hostile practices towards Syria by backing anti-Damascus militants and Takfiri terrorist groups across the Arab country. 

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova in remarks on Thursday in Moscow blamed the United States, Britain and some other Western countries for spreading chaos through terrorist groups across Syria. 

The support by the Western regimes for terrorist groups operating across Syria was no secret anymore and has fully been exposed, she said. 

“Attempts to target the Syrian state, its sovereignty and independence have been ongoing for years by regimes hostile to international peace and security in general, and they have chosen Syria and are still clinging to it as a target for their ongoing and continuous aggression,” Zakharova was quoted as saying. 

She also reiterated that Russia’s supportive stance towards Syria and its people has been the basis for ensuring security and stability in the West Asia region. 

The remarks come after  Syrian and Russian jets bombed militant hideouts to push back foreign-backed Takfiri terrorists and anti-Damascus militants in the northwestern region. 

The Syrian army said it was cooperating with Russia and "friendly forces" to regain ground and restore the situation to what it was...

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Jason the Ditz at AntiWar Pushes DoD 'ISIS-K' Propaganda for a Living

 by Scott Creighton

Jason Ditz over at fake antiwar outlet 'AntiWar' (was better under Justin Raimondo but not perfect) is pushing State Department, NED and DoD propaganda about a bombing that just took place in Afghanistan.

He claims in an article that 'ISIS-K' bombed a facility outside of Kabul and have been carrying out various attacks in the nation because... get this... the radically pro-Islamic organization doesn't like how the radically pro-Islamic Taliban run the country.

Stop laughing. Please. I can't concentrate.

'On Monday, a suicide bombing was carried out on the southern outskirts of the Afghan capital city of Kabul. The attack killed at least six people and wounded 13 others, according to Afghan police.

The strike was in the Qala Bakhtiar neighborhood. ISIS-K, the local ISIS affiliate which US officials repeatedly claimed was totally destroyed during the Afghan War, has taken credit for the attack, and put the total number of deaths much higher at “more than 45” killed.

ISIS said that the strike was meant to “avenge Muslims held in Taliban prisons.” Though violence in Afghanistan is generally down since the end of the US-led occupation, ISIS-K remains an active force in the country, carrying out attacks of opportunity as they are able.' Jason The Ditz AntiWar

Let's see.

Facebook designates Grayzone journalist Kit Klarenberg a ‘dangerous individual’

from The Greyzone

The notoriously intelligence-friendly social media network appears to have imposed a ban on posting a recent report by Kit Klarenberg, and is automatically restricting users who re-publish his work.

Multiple Facebook users have reported being banned, or having their posts censored, after sharing an investigation by The Grayzone’s Kit Klarenberg into CIA and MI6 involvement in the creation of ISIS. Readers who post links to the piece on the social network find themselves frozen out of their accounts, on the apparent grounds that Facebook has classified Klarenberg as a “dangerous individual.”

“I just shared this article from @Kit Klarenberg on Facebook and the post was immediately deleted,” wrote Ricky Hale, the founder of popular independent left-wing outlet Council Estate Media.

In a Substack article published April 5, Hale wrote that “the page was hit with restrictions and I was told I had shared a post from a dangerous individual or organisation.”

Hale was only able to regain control of his Facebook page, which boasts over 44,000 fans, by removing administrative privileges from the user who shared it — which happens to be himself.

Other restrictions imposed due to sharing Klarenberg’s work have not been lifted, and may well never be...

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America Confessed to Crocus Terrorist Attack by Claiming it was ISIS-K. We Are ISIS

by Scott Creighton

The Islamic State – Khorasan Province (ISIS–K) is being blamed by complicit Western media as the ones behind the attack at the Crocus City Hall concert Friday which, so far, has taken the lives of 143 people.

ISIS-K has been around since 2015 and has a long history of carrying out terrorist attacks (mainly but not exclusively) against civilians (soft targets) as well as now serving as our 'stay-behind army' in Afghanistan after our withdrawal from that country and the take over by the Taliban. 

Notice what the NYT write-up says at the end, that they conduct terrorist actions in order to undermine Afghani confidence in Taliban in hopes of a regime change. Sounds kinda like what we want doesn't it?

This Is Not ISIS - Rossiya Segodnya Editor-in-Chief on Moscow Concert Hall Attack

from Sputnik News

Ukraine and the West have resorted to false flag operations to persuade everyone that ISIS* was behind the terror attack in the Crocus City Hall concert venue near Moscow, said Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of Sputnik's parent media group Rossiya Segodnya.

The head of the media group stressed that the names and faces of the perpetrators are already known to authorities and that the terrorists gave everything away during interrogation.

 

“It immediately became obvious why US media were claiming in unison that it was ISIS," she said.

Simonyan explained that the perpetrators were chosen to carry out the attack in a manner that would allow the West to persuade the international community that ISIS was behind the attack.

 

“Basic sleight of hand. The level of a railway thimble-rigger," she added." It has nothing to do with ISIS. It's Ukrainians."

She added that the enthusiasm displayed by Western media when they tried to persuade everyone that ISIS was responsible even before arrests were made gave them away completely.

 

“This is not ISIS. This is a well-coordinated team of several other, also widely known, abbreviations," Simonyan concluded.

 

The shooting occurred on Friday evening in the Crocus City Hall concert venue just outside Moscow and was followed by a massive fire, claiming at least 143 lives...

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US aggression aimed to revive Daesh in Syria, Iraq: Syrian Defense Ministry

 (Once again our military is used in support of our proxy army, ISIS, in Syria and Iraq. We have been supporting these terrorists, keeping the Syrian army from destroying them, for years. Imagine that, our troops being forced to fight on the side of ISIS.)

 from Press TV

The Syrian Defense Ministry has blasted deadly strikes by the US occupation forces against a number of sites in Iraq and Syria, saying Washington’s assault is aimed at reviving the Daesh terrorist group in the two neighboring countries.

Syria’s state news agency SANA cited the ministry as making the remark in a statement on Saturday, hours after the US Central Command (CENTCOM) said its forces had struck more than 85 targets “with numerous aircraft” during overnight raids on localities in Iraq and Syria.

The Syrian state media reported that the US aggression targeted positions in Syria’s eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr and the city of al-Bukamal near the Iraqi border, falling short of providing details on the extent of damage and the exact number of casualties.

“The American occupation forces launched, at dawn today, a blatant air aggression against a number of sites and towns in the eastern region of Syria and near the Syrian-Iraqi borders, which led to the martyrdom of a number of civilians and soldiers, the wounding of others, and the infliction of great damage on public and private property,” the statement said.

The ministry stressed that the targeted sites were located in the same area where the Syrian army forces are fighting the remnants of Daesh, which bespeaks Washington’s attempts to deter Damascus from fighting terrorism and to “revive” the terrorist group.

“The area targeted by the American attacks in eastern Syria is the same area where the Syrian Arab Army is fighting the remnants of the terrorist organization Daesh, and this confirms that the United States and its military forces are involved and allied with this organization, and are working to revive it as a field arm for it, whether in Syria or elsewhere in Iraq by all dirty means,” the statement said...

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Suddenly The Middle East is On Fire but it's BRICS Not Gaza Causing It

With recent events in Syria, Iran and Iraq suddenly looking like the Middle East is catching fire, we have to look way deeper than Gaza to understand why and figure out just how much is really at stake.

Several soldiers injured in drone strike on US-occupied base in eastern Syria: Report

from Press TV

Several US service members have been reportedly injured in a drone operation against a military base in Syria’s eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr as anti-US sentiments continue to rise in the region amid Washington's support for Israel's war on Gaza. 

Several sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the Arabic-language service of Russia’s Sputnik news agency that the strike against the facility at the al-Omar oil field on Thursday night resulted in casualties and infrastructural damage.

They added that US military helicopters could be seen taking off from the base and heading northwards to transport the injured to other bases and field hospitals belonging to the US military.

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella group of anti-terror fighters, in a statement published on its Telegram channel claimed responsibility for the drone strike on the US military base.

The group noted that the airstrike was carried out in retaliation for US support of Israel’s bloody war against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip...

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Daesh claims responsibility for terrorist bombings in Kerman

from Press TV

 

(photo by me)

Daesh has claimed responsibility for two explosions that killed at least 84 people and wounded scores at a memorial for top anti-terror commander Gen. Qassem Soleimani in the southeastern Iranian city of Kerman.

In a statement posted on its affiliate Telegram channels, the terrorist group said two members had detonated their explosive belts in the crowd which had gathered at a cemetery for the anniversary of the US assassination of Gen. Soleimani.

Earlier, an unnamed source told the official news agency IRNA that the first explosion at the cemetery in Kerman, Gen. Soleimani's hometown, "was the result of a suicide bomber's action".

"The suicide bomber in the first incident was a man who was completely dismembered as a result of the explosion and the identification of the suicide bomber is under investigation," it said.

"The cause of the second blast was most likely the same," the source told IRNA...

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One Trick Pony: How Our Government Works Today (archive)

(archived from June 9, 2015)

by Scott Creighton

By Deception, thou shall make fascism. One Party mandate

One manufactured crisis psyop after another. That’s how our government works these days.

President Obama signed into law the U.S.A. Freedom Act on June the 2nd. On June the 1st and most of Tuesday, June 2nd, certain provisions of the Patriot Act had been allowed to sunset, to expire. Those were controversial sections of the law which provided legal cover for things like collecting mass amounts of personal data from everyone, the “lone wolf” provision and roving wiretaps.

Democracy Promotion: Enemy in Mexico as 'ISIS' Attacks in Pakistan

The more things change...

State of the Unconventional and Irregular Wars Report – Exposing the Deep State Machinations of our Irregular Wars (archive)

(archived from January 19, 2015)

by Scott Creighton

Leading into tomorrow’s State of the Union Address, in which President Peace Prize will lay out his agenda for the coming year (including his feigned attempt to push a new “rich tax” with a republican controlled House and Senate… heh heh), I thought it might be good to give the people a bit of an update on all of that “CHANGE” we got in 2008.

Specifically, I thought it would be good to give a bit of a rundown of the ongoing Endless Global War OF Terror in all it’s many facets with what I call the State of Unconventional and Irregular Wars Report.

Peter Kassig Was Part of Gen. McChrystal’s “Killing Machine” in Iraq from 2006-2007 (archive)

(archived from November 17, 2014)

by Scott Creighton

Peter Kassig, whatever else he was, was no “humanitarian” and in all likelihood, he was operating a front NGO out of Turkey helping train and supply Barack Obama’s regime change destabilization campaign of death-squads in Syria from late 2012 to Oct. 2013. That conclusion is based on the fact that he was indeed a special forces Ranger with the 75th Ranger Regiment in Iraq from mid-2006 to 2007.

“(in 2006) Kassig then became a U.S. Army Ranger, with an army special operations unit, 1st Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment. His service including training in Fort Benning, Georgia, and a fourteen-month deployment to Iraq, from June 2006 to September 2007, when he received a medical discharge ” Wiki bio

What were the 75th Ranger Regiment doing in Iraq during that time? It’s called the Salvador Option and it’s basically the same thing we are doing now: training and aiding pro-government death-squads in Iraq in order to quell an uprising against our puppet regime, to make them “obey and submit” to our occupation.

Demonizing Turkey: What Disinfo Assets Like “Tony Cartalucci” Aren’t Telling You (archive)

(archived from November 30, 2014)

by Scott Creighton

Suddenly the “ISIS™  Crisis” psyop has turned on Turkey and more specifically, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The claim is that Turkey is supplying “ISIS” in Syria and allowing “ISIS” fighters to cross their border into the neighboring country.

The whole “ISIS™” in Syria story is so convoluted and stupid, it demands a bit of an explanation. The story goes like this:

“ISIS™” Beheads SANTA! (warning: image is extremely graphic. Do not share or “ISIS™” WINS!)(archive)

(archived from December 25, 2014)

by Rambo Bubba Butch Creighton

In what is perhaps the most disturbing investigative article I have ever had to write (the previous one had to be ‘ISIS Juggling Babies!‘) 

It has come to my attention that Santa ended his route last night in Syria when he attempted to bring some toys for the little Syrian boys and girls but instead, got carjacked at the border by the dreaded “ISIS™” and has ended up being used by them in this latest despicable act of propaganda.

Apparently the British “ISIS™” guy said something about “Ho this, capitalist swine!” and lopped off Santa’s head with his dreaded plastic knife!