#improvised explosive devices (IEDs)

[shalom-iamcominghome]

The feminine jewish name trifecta: Chana, Chava, Chaya

[stealingpotatoes]

Between ezra and sabine, which is the more bad influence to jacen ? Or would it be a wild card and have ahsoka as the bad influence ?

on one hand i wanna say "ezra's a responsible teacher now and sabine's a responsible clan leader!!! they're both great influences!" but on the other, much more prevalant hand, i wanna say that they're both terrible and sabine teaches jacen how to make paint IEDs and ezra enlists jacen in the best/worst force pranks the galaxy's ever seen

[mineaction]

Enable states to assess and strengthen national capacities against improvised explosive devices.

Explosive hazards have profound effects on communities and development. The UNIDIR C-IED tool enables states to assess and strengthen national capacities against improvised explosive devices.Together, we can protect our communities and build peace.

[vaas]

i dont think charon is very dextrous. like he can move around good but he cant pick locks or do calligraphy. anyway this is cassie when charon tries to pick a lock and ends up breaking it and they have to blow the hinges off

[thoughtportal]

This is a developing news story and may be updated as more information is obtained. If you value such information, please support this Substack.

On Dec. 1, a woman immolated herself with a Palestinian flag outside the Israeli consulate in Atlanta.

Now, according to the Atlanta Fire Rescue Department, the woman — referred to in their report as “Jane Doe” — is alive and “in stable condition” at Grady Memorial Hospital, where she has been since the immolation.

After repeated requests for her name, the department stated to this reporter in an email that it “does not disclose the identities of victims”. Repeated inquiries to Grady, which is a public hospital, went unanswered. The hospital houses the Walter L. Ingram Burn Center.

“Jane Doe” is 27.

When asked if they had made any comment to tell the public that she was still alive this entire time, the official at Atlanta Fire Rescue Department said they “shared the last updated with local media via email on 12/21/23. The release stated: ‘The victim remains hospitalized in critical condition. The security guard, who attempted to assist the burn victim, has been released from the hospital.’” Several internet searches on that quote produce no results. This would also indicate that "Jane Doe" went from critical to stable condition without public notice. 

Aaron Bushnell immolated himself at the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, explaining “I will no longer be complicit in genocide” and shouting “Free Palestine!” repeatedly as he burned alive. So, his case — unlike many other self-immolations including Gregory Levey, Raymond Moules, Timothy T. Brown, Malachi Ritscher and others — has received some attention. Thus, “Jane Doe” being ignored fits with the usual pattern. Bushnell is the exception — probably because he livestreamed it. See “Ignoring Immolators Lulls the Society to Sleep.”

As Bushnell was burning himself alive, an officer pointed a gun at him, barking orders as if he constituted a threat. A security guard, Michael Harris, sustained injuries working to rescue “Jane Doe” — but there were similarities, where she was actually viewed as a potential threat.

At one point, the police report for “Jane Doe” refers to it as being a case of “arson”.

Much of the media coverage and general discussion of her self-immolation in December focused on if she had done damage. The Atlanta Police Chief said: “We believe this building remains safe, and we do not see any threat here.” The Israeli government released a statement: “It is tragic to see the hate and incitement toward Israel expressed in such a horrific way.”

Police records indicate that they obtained a search warrant and entered an apartment they believed to be associated with “Jane Doe” — initially using a drone:

The drone was able to relay information as to the layout and the belongings inside. After it was deemed "safe" entry was made with bomb technicians. While clearing the apartment no improvised explosive devices were located.

The police report also noted:

During the search a Quran was found in the bedroom along with a [sic] Arabic dictionary and a Hebrew dictionary. The bedroom bookshelf contained books related to fiction and fantasy. A "Drug use for grown ups" book was on the bookshelf as well. Two journals were seized from the bedroom. A thumbdrive was seized from the bedroom as well. A laptop computer was seized from the kitchen counter. A copy of the search warrant was left in the living room of the apartment. The front door [of] the apartment was secured before law enforcement left the premises.

When pressed for more information in compliance with an Open Records Request under Georgia law, Atlanta Fire Rescue Department claimed: “There is an ongoing and active investigation for the incident in question, which is why the only releasable information has been shared via the incident report. Investigative documentation is not available for release until the investigation is closed.”

[rhk111sblog]

Here are some more “extra” Pictures from the Asian Defense and Security (ADAS) Event last Year of 2022 that I haven’t released to the Public yet. As always, I will be putting better Resolution Versions of these Pictures on Wikimedia Commons later after this Posting

A Full-Scale Mock Up (FSMU) of the Hero-30 Tactical, Manpack Loitering Munition System at the 2022 Asia Defense And Security (ADAS) Event at the World Trade Center (WTC) in Pasay. What's nice about this is that it can be carried and launched like a typical man-portable Canister Missile.

The Canister and Munition weighs 7.8 kg, the Munition has an Endurance of 30 minutes, range of 15 km and a Warhead of 0.5 kg. It is made by the Israeli Company “UVision Air Limited”.

Here’s the Link to its Brochure at UVision Air Limited Website: https://uvisionuav.com/loitering-munitions/hero-30/

A Brochure of the NMS 4x4 Tactical Light Armored Vehicle at the 2022 Asia Defense And Security (ADAS) Event at the World Trade Center (WTC) in Pasay. As we can see from the Brochure, it is being offered to the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) by the Turkish Company “Nurol Makina”.

It comes in all sorts of Variants, has a Modular and Scalable Armor System, and also has protection from Improvised Explosive Devices (IED).

Here is the Link to its Page at the Nurol Makina Website: https://www.nurolmakina.com.tr/en/products/nms-4x4

A Brochure of the Shaldag Mark V Fast Patrol Craft at the 2022 Asia Defense And Security (ADAS) Event at the World Trade Center (WTC) in Pasay. This Vessel of course forms the Basis of the Fast Attack Interdiction Craft – Missile (FAIC-M) of the Philippine Navy (PN) of which have now been partly delivered. It is made by the Company, “Israel Shipyards Limited”

Here is the Link to its Page at the Israel Shipyards Ltd Website: https://www.israel-shipyards.com/naval-002.asp

A Full Scale Mock Up (FSMU) of the Diwata 2 Microsatellite at the 2022 Asia Defense And Security (ADAS) Event at the World Trade Center (WTC) in Pasay. The Diwata 2 is the Philippines’ second Microsatellite and was made by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) with the help of Japan.

The Satellite was launched in 2018 in Japan and is still in orbit and being used as of now. It is equipped with high-resolution Cameras, and it Mission includes Environmental Monitoring and Post-Disaster Assessment.

Here is the Link to its Page at the STAMINA4Space Website: https://stamina4space.upd.edu.ph/diwata-2/

[disarmamentawarenessday]

2nd Meeting, 25th Annual Conference of Amended Protocol II (CCW).

Agenda Item 10 – Improvised Explosive Devices (IED)

The IED Coordinators will report on the work carried out on Improvised Explosive Devices in the framework of the Group of Experts and present the proposed mandate on IEDs for 2024.

As there are currently no subsidiary organs under Amended Protocol II, there should be no need for action under this agenda item.

The Estimated Costs of the 2024 Group of Experts of the High Contracting Parties to Amended Protocol II (CCW/AP.II/CONF.25/3) and the Estimated Costs of the 26th Conference of the High Contracting Parties to Amended Protocol II (CCW/AP.II/CONF.25/4) will be presented.

Any other matters may be considered by High Contracting Parties under this agenda item.

The final document of the 25th Annual Conference will be proposed for consideration and adoption by the High Contracting Parties.

Agenda Item 11 - Report(s) of any subsidiary organ(s)Agenda item 12 - Adoption of the cost estimates for 2024Agenda item 13 - Other mattersAgenda item 14 - Consideration and adoption of the final document

Informal Indicative Schedule of the 25th Annual Conference of Amended Protocol II

The 25th Annual Conference of Amended Protocol II of the CCW will take place on 14 November 2023, in Room XIX of the Palais des Nations , in Geneva, Switzerland.

2nd Meeting, 25th Annual Conference of Amended Protocol II (CCW)

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The Cranberries - Zombie 1994

"Zombie" is a protest song by Irish alternative rockband the Cranberries. It was written by the lead singer, Dolores O'Riordan, about the young victims of a bombing in Warrington, England, during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. The song was released on 19 September 1994 as the lead single from the Cranberries' second studio album, No Need to Argue. While the record label feared releasing a too controversial and politically charged song as a single, "Zombie" reached number 1 on the charts of Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, and Iceland, and spent nine consecutive weeks at number 1 on the French SNEP Top 100. It reached number 2 on the Ö3 Austria Top 40, where it stayed for eight weeks. The song did not chart on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart as it wasn't released as a single there, but it reached number 1 on the US Billboard Alternative Airplay chart. Listeners of the Australian radio station Triple J voted it number 1 on the 1994 Triple J Hottest 100 chart, and it won the Best Song Award at the 1995 MTV Europe Music Awards.

The Troubles were a conflict in Northern Ireland from the late 1960s to 1998. The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), an Irish republican paramilitary organisation, waged an armed campaign to end British rule in Northern Ireland and unite the region with the Republic of Ireland. Republican and Unionist paramilitaries killed more than 3,500 people, many from thousands of bomb attacks. One of the bombings happened on 30 March 1993, as two IRA improvised explosive devices hidden in litter bins were detonated in a shopping street in Warrington, England. Two people; Johnathan Ball, aged 3, and Tim Parry, aged 12, were killed in the attack. 56 people were injured. Ball died at the scene of the bombing as a result of his shrapnel-inflicted injuries, and five days later, Parry lost his life in a hospital as a result of head injuries. O'Riordan decided to write a song that reflected upon the event and the children's deaths after visiting the town: "We were on a tour bus and I was near the location where it happened, so it really struck me hard – I remember being devastated about the innocent children being pulled into that kind of thing. So I suppose that's why I was saying, 'It's not me' – that even though I'm Irish it wasn't me, I didn't do it. Because being Irish, it was quite hard, especially in the UK when there was so much tension." The song was re-popularised in 2023 after it was played after Ireland games at the 2023 Rugby World Cup. It was picked up by fans of the Irish team, with videos of fans singing the song in chorus accumulating hundreds of thousands of views on social media. This offended other Irishmen, who identified it as an "anti-IRA" anthem, and said that that the lyrics failed to consider their experience during the Troubles.

The music video, directed by Samuel Bayer, was filmed in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in the heart of the Troubles with real footage, and in Dublin. To record video footage of murals, children and British Army soldiers on patrol, he had a false pretext, with a cover story about making a documentary about the peace-keeping efforts in Ireland. Bayer stated that a shot in the video where an SA80 rifle is pointed directly at the camera is a suspicious British soldier asking him to leave, and that the IRA were keeping a close look at the shoot, given "the British Army come in with fake film crews, getting people on camera.” While "Zombie" received heavy rotation on MTV Europe and was A-listed on Germany's VIVA, the music video was banned by the BBC because of its "violent images", and by the RTÉ, Ireland's national broadcaster. Instead, both the BBC and the RTÉ opted to broadcast an edited version focusing on footage of the band in a live performance, a version that the Cranberries essentially disowned. Despite their efforts to maintain the original video "out of view from the public", some of the initial footage prevailed, with scenes of children holding guns. In March 2003, on the eve of the outbreak of the Iraq War, the British Government and the Independent Television Commission issued a statement saying ITC's Programme Code would temporarily remove from broadcast songs and music videos featuring "sensitive material", including "Zombie". Numerous media groups complied with the decision to avoid "offending public feeling", along with MTV Europe. Since it violated the ITC guidelines, "Zombie" was placed on a blacklist of songs, targeting its official music video. The censorship was lifted once the war had ended. In April 2020, it became the first song by an Irish group to surpass one billion views on Youtube.

"Zombie" received a total of 91% yes votes!

[thejewishlink]

Iran’s ‘Knowledge Bombs’: Reverse-Engineering IEDs in Judea and Samaria

By Yaakov Lappin • 3 September, 2023   Jerusalem, 3 September, 2023 (TPS) — The use of bombs by terrorist factions in Judea and Samaria based on reverse-engineered Iranian improvised explosive devices (IEDs) is becoming a growing menace. A year and a half ago, Tehran took the strategic decision to significantly step up attacks on Israel using proxies and partners located within and around the���

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Typical outputs (called 'electropherograms') are shown in figure 4.56 for the type of IED used in the 2002 Bali bombing.

"Chemistry" 2e - Blackman, A., Bottle, S., Schmid, S., Mocerino, M., Wille, U.

[wildlifeday]

UNMAS Iraq received help from New Zealand to support the Government and the National Mine Action Operators.

The threat from explosive ordnance contamination across Iraq, including improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in the areas liberated from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) as well as legacy mines and other explosive remnants of war (ERW) from previous conflict over the past four decades, continues to endanger the lives of Iraqi people. Explosive ordnance also hinders the safe return of displaced communities and prevents productive use of land for housing and livelihood activities.

[natalieironside]

I love it when ppl who listen to a lot of country do the whole "rap music is bad because of Crime and Drug" thing cuz listen Brantleigh not 5 minutes ago you and me was joyously singing along to Steve Earle talking about defending his weed farm from the cops by blowing them up with improvised explosive devices so I think u might just be racist

[mineaction]

Strengthening Shared Understanding on the Impact of the ATT in Addressing Risks of Diversion in Arms Transfers: A Compendium of Key Resources and Tools.

During 2020–22, the Consortium produced three Issue Briefs and launched a new Counter-Diversion Assessment Tool. This body of research aims at contributing to tackling diversion risks associated with poorly regulated arms transfers at the national, regional and multilateral levels and at informing the development of good policies and practices within the framework of the ATT and other relevant instruments. The Compendium presents key recommendations, resources and tools from the 4 publications mentioned above. It aims at providing a light overview of this work and an introduction to some of its key themes and findings.

[zvaigzdelasas]

[BBC is UK State Media]

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has funded politically-motivated assassinations in Yemen, a BBC investigation has found, exacerbating a conflict involving the Yemeni government and warring factions which has recently returned to the international spotlight following attacks on ships in the Red Sea.

Counter-terrorism training provided by American mercenaries to Emirati officers in Yemen has been used to train locals who can work under a lower profile - sparking a major uptick in political assassinations, a whistleblower told BBC Arabic Investigations.

The BBC has also found that despite the American mercenaries' stated aim to eliminate the jihadist groups al-Qaeda and Islamic State (IS) in southern Yemen, in fact the UAE has gone on to recruit former al-Qaeda members for a security force it has created on the ground in Yemen to fight the Houthi rebel movement and other armed factions.

The UAE government has denied the allegations in our investigation - that it had assassinated those without links to terrorism - saying they were "false and without merit".

These are largely between the two parts of the "real" "legitimate" "internationally recognized" coalition govt of Yemen you've been scolded so much about over the last month btw [22 Jan 24]

Continued after the cut

The killing spree in Yemen - more than 100 assassinations in a three-year period - is just one element of an ongoing bitter internecine conflict pitting several international powers against each other in the Middle East's poorest country.[...]

In 2015, the US and the UK supported a coalition of mostly Arab states led by Saudi Arabia - with the UAE as a key partner - to fight back. The coalition invaded Yemen with the aim of reinstating the exiled Yemeni government and fighting terrorism. The UAE was given charge of security in the south, and became the US's key ally on counter-terrorism in the region - al-Qaeda had long been a presence in the south and was now gaining territory.[...]

Under international law, any killing of civilians without due process would be counted as extra-judicial.

The majority of those assassinated were members of Islah - the Yemeni branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. It [...] has never been classified by the US as a terror organisation, but is banned in several Arab countries - including the UAE where its political activism and support for elections is seen by the country's royal family as a threat to their rule.

Leaked drone footage of the first assassination mission gave me a starting point from which to investigate these mysterious killings. It was dated December 2015 and was traced to members of a private US security company called Spear Operations Group.[...]

Isaac Gilmore, a former US Navy Seal who later became chief operating officer of Spear, was one of several Americans who say they were hired to carry out assassinations in Yemen by the UAE.

He refused to talk about anyone who was on the "kill list" provided to Spear by the UAE - other than the target of their first mission: Ansaf Mayo, a Yemeni MP who is the leader of Islah in the southern port city of Aden, the government's temporary capital since 2015.[...]

Mr Gilmore, and another Spear employee in Yemen at the time - Dale Comstock - told me that the mission they conducted ended in 2016. But the assassinations in southern Yemen continued. In fact they became more frequent, according to investigators from the human rights group Reprieve.

They investigated 160 killings carried out in Yemen between 2015 and 2018. They said the majority happened from 2016 and only 23 of the 160 people killed had links to terrorism. All the killings had been carried out using the same tactics that Spear had employed - the detonation of an improvised explosive device (IED) as a distraction, followed by a targeted shooting. The most recent political assassination in Yemen, according to Yemeni human rights lawyer Huda al-Sarari, happened just last month - of an imam killed in Lahj by the same method.[...]

Mr Gilmore, Mr Comstock, and two other mercenaries from Spear who asked not to be named, said that Spear had been involved in training Emirati officers in the UAE military base in Aden. A journalist who asked to remain anonymous also told us he had seen footage of such training.

As the mercenaries' profile had made them conspicuous in Aden and vulnerable to exposure, their brief had been changed to training Emirati officers, "who in turn trained local Yemenis to do the targeting", the Yemeni military officer told me.

Through the course of the investigation, we also spoke to more than a dozen other Yemeni sources who said this had been the case. They included two men who said they had carried out assassinations which were not terror-related, after being trained to do so by Emirati soldiers - and one man who said he had been offered release from a UAE prison in exchange for the assassination of a senior Yemeni political figure, a mission he did not accept.

Getting Yemenis to conduct the assassinations meant it was harder for the killings to be traced back to the UAE.

By 2017, the UAE had helped build a paramilitary force, part of the Emirati-funded Southern Transitional Council (STC), a security organisation that runs a network of armed groups across southern Yemen.

The force operated in southern Yemen independently of the Yemeni government, and would only take orders from the UAE. The fighters were not just trained to fight on active front lines. One particular unit, the elite Counter Terrorism Unit, was trained to conduct assassinations, our whistleblower told us.

The whistleblower sent a document with 11 names of former al-Qaeda members now working in the STC, some of whose identities we were able to verify ourselves.

During our investigation we also came across the name Nasser al-Shiba. Once a high-ranking al-Qaeda operative, he was jailed for terrorism but later released. A Yemeni government minister we spoke to told us al-Shiba was a known suspect in the attack on the US warship USS Cole, which killed 17 American sailors in October 2000. Multiple sources told us that he is now the commander of one of the STC military units. Lawyer Huda al-Sarari has been investigating human rights abuses committed by these UAE-backed forces on the ground. As a result of her work, she would frequently receive death threats. But it was her 18-year-old son Mohsen who paid the ultimate price.

He was shot in the chest in March 2019 while on a trip to a local petrol station, and died a month later.[...]

A subsequent investigation by Aden's public prosecutor found that Mohsen was killed by a member of the UAE-backed Counter Terrorism Unit, but the authorities have never pursued a prosecution.

Members of the prosecutor's office - who we cannot name for safety reasons - told us that the widespread assassinations have created a climate of fear that means even they are too afraid to pursue justice in cases involving forces backed by the UAE.

Reprieve has received a leaked UAE document that shows Spear was still being paid in 2020, though it is not clear in what capacity.

[this-is-where-i-hide-my-bullshit]

I got called crazy for thinking Gun is criticizing the us military but C'MON

Uniform, government, I.E.D (improvised explosive device, used in WAR), "if I'm old enough die for your mistakes" the us tries to recruit kids as SOON as they graduate high school, "vacation underneath the sun" going to the middle east.

Like. Are we listening to the same song???

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Archimedes Sting, 2025. Archimedes Defense and Up.Fi have collaborated to create a military version of Tesla's Cybertruck. Three different versions are planned including one with an AMP Drive G125TM aviation-derived 800V genset capable running on a variety of fuels and charging the Cybertruck up to 125 kW. There will be a Baja version, the Sting Protector that comes with amour plating and the Sting APC that has additional protection against IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices) as well as mine protection.