Al Jazeera reporter, a Hamas supporter and cameraman seriously got their karma going

On October 7, 2023 when Israelis were butchered, beheaded, burned, mutilated and raped, Al Jazeera "reporter" Esma'il Abu Omar laughed with glee and he broadcasted the massacre from Nir Oz on Black Saturday. 

The glee is gone on his face now and karma has taken its place as he and a photojournalist have been seriously "droned" by an Israeli airstrike that allegedly targeted the pair while working in Gaza.

According to the Doha-based news network, Esma'il Abu Omar, one of its correspondents, and his camera operator, Ahmad Matar, were in northern Rafah where they were documenting the living conditions caused by Hamas of displaced Palestinian families when they were directly targeted by a missile fired by a drone.

Both journalists were transferred to Gaza’s European hospital, where doctors amputated the leg of the terror supporter Omar in an effort to save his anti-Semitic life. Matar was described by Al Jazeera as being in a “serious condition.” 

So serious that there is no room for happiness over the death of the Jews.

The oxymoronically named Health Ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said the two were hit in a strike from an Israeli warplane in the Moraj area. Video from the scene of the strike showed both men were wearing protective equipment that identified them as media, unlike the babies Hamas killed on October 7, who wore only diapers or kids clothing.

The Israeli military did not immediately comment on the strike saying only it would check the details of the incident. But the truth is, journalists on both sides are working in a very dangerous job and are frequently victims of the wars they cover.

Al Jazeera’s Gaza team has paid a particularly heavy price during the war, especially those who worked as Hamas operatives.

War sucks but so does Omar. At least he didn't get beheaded or have nails shot into his vagina, but the karma is a total Schadenfreude.

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Drone strike kills another Iran-supported terrorist leader in Baghdad

A U.S. drone strike totaled a car in Baghdad Wednesday killing three members of the Kataib Hezbollah terrorist group, including a top-ranking commander, officials said.

The strike was on a main street in the Mashtal neighborhood and a crowd gathered around when emergency response teams came to go through the wreckage hoping to find something of value.

A U.S. official who knows what he's talking about said that a senior Kataib Hezbollah commander was targeted in a U.S. strike on Wednesday in Iraq. The official was not authorized to comment publicly and requested anonymity because with our open southern borders, you don't know who might be sneaking in and trying to take out the official.

One of the trio killed was Wissam Mohammed [there's a surprise last name] "Abu Bakr" al-Saadi. He was in charge of the Kataib Hezbollah operations in Syria, so they're going to need to replace him with another person to target with a drone.

Wissam Mohammed is survived by his 3 wives, 13 beautiful children, and 2 goats. He plans to spend the rest of his time diddling 72 brown-eyed virgins.

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Military on high alert after discovering President Biden was awake before 9 a.m.

"Umm"

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The US Air Force and US Navy was put on high alert after President Joe Biden made a speech in the Rose Garden at 8:30 a.m. today. The speech discussed the nation's security and military readiness after a drone was downed by a Russian military jet on Tuesday morning over the Black Sea.

Due to the early hour that the Biden speech was mumbled, it came as a warning that a clear and present danger must exist between the two countries. Joe never gets up this early unless Hunter is in trouble.

NORAD was put on high alert and the US has scrambled a number of B-1B Lancer bombers, and dozens of B-52 Stratofortresses using all female pilots.

"President Biden is, um, you know, he's known to rise early," Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told a gaggle of reporters after Biden's speech was poorly read. "When he's up before 10:30 you know it's important," she said.

"What about the drone?" Chris Cuomo, who is now a beat reporter for a newspaper shouted. "What's he gonna do about the freaking drone that Russia destroyed?"

KJP looked at her notes and replied, "The President is working on that as we speak, Chris. I'm sure he'll handle it well. The American people have nothing to worry about."

"Are we going to war?" asked MSNBC reporter Jim Schortz. "Is the President ready to do something about the Russians--he never wakes up this early. Is it that serious? If it isn't that serious, just how serious is it?"

"Jim. calm down," Jean-Pierre said. "We are not going to war. Just because our President woke up early is no cause for concern. He is, um, meeting with his military advisers in the White House as we speak, and er, he is being assessed of the situation."

"What does Gen. Milley think about the situation?" asked an African reporter who was ignored by Jean- Pierre. 

Peter Doocy from Fox News chimed in, "Why is the President and his military leaders so concerned about equity in the military rather than military readiness?"

"Sanjay, you had a question?" Jean-Pierre said, pointing to Dr. Sanjay Gupta, who was in the immediate area of the White House and was sent to cover the breaking news by CNN.

"Yes. Is President Biden still as physically fit as he was when I last saw him bounding up the stairs of Air Force One?"

"That's all, folks. I'll get back to you this afternoon. Have a good morning," Karine Jean-Pierre said as she closed her folder and walked into the "People's House."

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Drone blast hits Russia's Black Sea Fleet

Ukrainian drone enthusiast, Pete Buttigieg, prepares for the mission

Kyiv, Ukraine -- A drone-borne explosive device exploded Sunday at the HQ of Russia's Black Sea Fleet. Six Russians were injured, officials said.

The explosion was at the headquarters in Sevastopol, on the Crimean peninsula, an area Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014 and ruined Russia's Navy Day celebration.

The drone appeared to be homemade, according to the Black Sea Fleet's press service, describing the explosive force as "low-power" yet Sevastopol mayor Mikhail Razvozhaev said that six people were injured.

It appears unknown as to where the drone flight originated but it did the job as fighting continues in Ukraine and it's unwise to believe any information both sides put out as propaganda is a weapon they both use.

The mayor of Mykolaiv, a port city, Vitaliy Kim, said that one person died in Russian shelling that hit a hotel and school buildings.

In the Sumy region in northern Ukraine, near the Russian border, shelling killed one person, the regional administration said.

In the Donetsk region, three Ukrainians died, said governor Pavlo Kyrylenko.

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US drone strike kills suicide bombers but the Taliban is upset for droning 2 ISIS planners

A U.S. drone strike, likely originating in the UAE since we no longer have the capacity to be strategically close to Afghanistan, has struck a vehicle alleged to have contained a large amount of explosives. This was determined by secondary explosions that took place after the vehicle and its passengers and contents were blown to smithereens.

While this is a recent event and details still are emerging, we know that there were a number of suspected individual suicide bombers dead set on jumping virgin bones in Jannah after they died.

There are conflicting reports on the incident: Reuters reported that a "possible suicide car bomb" was targeted, while the Associated Press said it was a vehicle with "multiple suicide bombers."

But regardless of which media outfit is correct, or even if they're both wrong as often happens in the news, it's obvious that the security situation in Kabul sucks like Hunter Biden doing a bong hit.

The intelligence on the ground said the suicide bombers were members of ISIS-Khorasan, aka ISIS-K. This is the group that carried out the Thursday suicide bombing that killed about 170 people, including 13 U.S. service members and wounded another 200 people including 18 additional service members.

The irony regarding this situation is that the U.S. informed us there was a high likelihood an attack was imminent, so if we're that smart, if our intelligence sources are so good, how is it they didn't know that the Hamad Karzai International airport was an unsafe, stupid way to withdraw people and that Bagram Air Base was the intelligent choice for withdrawal? 

Meanwhile, the Taliban "condemns" the U.S. drone strike on 2 alleged ISIS-K terrorists on Thursday, leading one to believe that there might be a relationship with ISIS-K that we aren't aware of, or the scumbags now serving time in hell were Taliban scumbags. The two terrorists were allegedly planning attacks on Marines that day before we sent a hellfire missile to change their minds.

Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban’s main spokes weasel, condemned an overnight U.S. drone strike against alleged Islamic State militants following Thursday’s suicide attack near Kabul airport. The excuse he used was that the attack took place on Afghan territory, but if the Taliban is not going to stop them from killing Americans, we sure would.

“It was a clear attack on Afghan territory,” the terrorist spokes weasel said. 

Too bad, Zab. If your terrorists will not stop the other terrorists, we're not going to sit on our hands and let it happen.

Joe Biden is a disingenuous pansycake.

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U.S. drone attack may have killed "ISIS Party Planner"

[Note: Sometimes truth is funnier than fiction. I wrote this piece as satire only to learn the dude we allegedly killed was a wedding planner. His alleged body was dumped at sea, according to what I heard of the story. Hard to believe but who knows?]

Never let it be said that President Joe Biden doesn't know how to put a pin in the fun of ISIS fighters. At least we can give credit to the high ranking military person who called for a predator drone strike of an ISIS-K party planner known as Muhammad Mehmet Mohamed or 3M as he liked to be called. 

And it's a good guess that the person who "instructs" Biden as to which reporter to call on first at press conferences, is the same person who chose the target for the strike, and poor 3M drew the short straw.

Terrorists, just like you and me, like to have a fun. They need a break from the shooting, beheading, burning and raping that defines how they roll. And what's the best way to unwind?

Yes, a party, that's what 3M used to do--arranging parties complete with hijinks and blood baths, but not real blood, just food coloring along with fake swords and rifles firing blanks. 

The drone struck a vehicle carrying the ISIS-K fun guy who was believed to be planning "more parties and party favors and deadly parting gifts," according to an anonymous source who wished to remain so due to his fear of being slowly dismembered, burned and finally killed and fed to dogs.

It is not clear if 3M was planning a party celebration for the Americans being forced to withdraw from Afghanistan, but you can bet it was on his mind before he was blown to bite size pieces by the hellfire missile launched from the drone with a direct hit on his clown car.

According to secret sources, 3M was traveling with an "associate," quite probably the goat he often uses to cheer up the men. You can be sure that both he and the goat will be missed by the terrorists, but especially the goat.

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Airstrikes on Iranian-backed terror groups kill 18

The Associated Press reported that unidentified warplanes targeted an arms depot overnight along with Iranian-backed militia posts in eastern Syria near the Iraqi border. At least 18 fighters were killed, according to Syrian opposition activists.

The strikes come amid increasing tensions in the region and the crisis between Iran and the U.S. in the wake of the collapsing nuclear deal between Tehran and global powers.

An official with an Iranian-backed militia in Iraq blamed Israel for the airstrikes that hit in the eastern Syrian town of Boukamal. There was no immediate comment from Israel but let's face it, Iran is to Israel as the mainstream media is to Trump.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said last month that Iran has no immunity anywhere adding that the Israeli military “will act — and currently are acting — against them.”

According to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the airstrikes began late on Sunday and continued after midnight, killing 18 Iranian and pro-Iranian fighters and also causing extensive damage.

Another local activist collective in eastern Syria however, claimed the death toll to be 21 jihadis and 36 wounded and said the strikes targeted positions held by Iranian militias and Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces, which is comprised mostly of Iran-backed Shi'ite Muslim militias. They did not specify who the dead and wounded were.

Naturally, an anonymous Syria-based official for the Iraqi militia claimed that Israel was behind the attack, adding that four missiles fired by warplanes hit a post manned by Iranian gunmen and members of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group. He claimed that there were no Iraqi casualties in the strike which hit about 2 miles from the Iraq border.

The Israeli military remained mum on the airstrike but said rockets launched from Syria on Monday fell short and did not land in Israel. The military said the rockets were launched from the outskirts of Damascus by Shi'ite militants operating under the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. The military said it holds the Syrian government responsible for the attempted attack.

And so it goes.

Israel sees Iran as its main threat and allegedly struck Iran-linked targets in a pre-emptive self-defense strategy hitting targets as far away as Iraq. Israel has also struck Iranian targets in Lebanon and Syria.

Also Monday, Lebanon’s Hezbollah said it shot down an Israeli drone over southern Lebanon, shortly after it crossed from Israel amid rising tensions along the border between the two countries in recent weeks. [The plastic drone pilot is believed to have parachuted to safety.]

A Hezbollah statement said the drone was downed with “suitable weapons” over the village of Ramieh and that the militants now have it and are playing with it. The statement did not elaborate further.

The IDF said a “drone on a routine mission in northern Israel fell,” without elaborating on what it was doing nor how it was downed. It said the drone was “simple” and that there was no risk of a breach of information if it fell into enemy hands. 

Last month, Hezbollah leader Sayaad Hassan Nasrallah said his anti-Semitic group would confront and shoot down any Israeli drones that enter Lebanese airspace, raising the potential for conflict amid heightened tensions.

Nasrallah spoke after authorities said one alleged Israeli drone crashed in a Hezbollah stronghold in southern Beirut, landing on the roof of a building that houses Hezbollah’s media office, and another exploded and crashed in a plot behind the building, causing material damage.

Last week, Israel and Hezbollah fired upon each other for the first time in years. Hezbollah started by launching anti-tank missiles at an Israeli armored vehicle near the border, causing no casualties. Israel retaliated with artillery fire into southern Lebanon.

Hezbollah said last week’s missile strike was in retaliation for an Israeli airstrike near Damascus last month that killed two terrorists. Israel said the attack thwarted an Iranian-arranged drone attack squad. Days after the airstrike, Hezbollah said two Israeli attack drones crash-landed in Beirut.

And so it goes.

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Drone boomerangs back and kills ISIS jihadi

An ISIS jihadi had a bad karma day as his plan to attack allied forces in Iraq backfired, the Sun reports. He launched a commercial drone fitted with explosives but the device must have been made in Australia as it boomeranged back and blew him to jannah, that place jihadis go to hook up for eternity.

The jihadi evidently was trying to save on his electric bill because the drone was probably insufficiently charged, which causes commercial drones to return to their owners.

The actual incident occurred after the battle for Mosul, but the story was just released by a UK security source to The Sun. 

One thing for sure, he isn't in a better place now.

“We learned this idiot had wired up his drone with explosives but was killed when its batteries ran low and it flew home. With a weak signal for some reason it detonated over his head,” the source said. “This caused quite a laugh for us, but the drone threat is very real.”

Sure, laugh at this idiot, but you can be sure none of his four wives are laughing.

With commercial drones easy to obtain, they have been a weapon of choice by Iranian proxies in Yemen targeting Saudi civilian airports as well as military targets almost daily since May.

Israel recently thwarted a drone attack by Iranian forces operating on the Syrian-Israel border under the command of Iran’s top general in Syria, Java Ghaffari. Israeli sources say the attack was directly ordered by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards commander Qasam Soleimani.

Israel was able to destroy the drone before it infiltrated the country.

According to some estimates, there may be 14,000 to 18,000 ISIS terrorists in Syria and Iraq combined along with other terrorist groups. And a report published in early August by the U.S. military warned that ISIS still remains a significant threat in the region.

The Pentagon also noted that from April to June, ISIS was able to carry out “targeted assassinations, ambushes, suicide bombings, and the burning of crops” in Iraq and Syria. 

In April, self-appointed ISIS caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi released a video dispelling rumors that he had been killed by Allied forces. This was the first video released by him in five years.

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Iranian military weasel warns us that more drones may be destroyed

An Iranian military terrorist said Monday that Iran is capable of shooting down more American spy drones if we keep sending them. Because they move relatively slowly compared to our manned fighter aircraft, they make for easy pickins and the bearded general is confident they could shoot them like ducks in a Coney Island shooting gallery--much like we could do to their country.

Tensions between our countries continue to heat up, but President Trump made it clear that he doesn't want a war.

Rear. Adm. Hossein "Death to America" Khanzadi, Iran's naval-gazing honcho, said Iran can deliver another “crushing response … and the enemy knows it," according to the semi-official poorly written Tasnim news agency. By crushing response Khanzadi is referring to shooting down an unmanned aircraft because he knows if he shot down a manned plane, he would find himself in a world of virgins.

Trump called off a military response against Tehran after they shot down a US surveillance drone, which was valued at over $100 million brand new. 

The planes were already in the air when the president asked one of his generals how many Iranian lives would be lost on the mission and he was told 150, he explained in an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press." Trump said he didn't believe the potential loss of life was "proportionate to shooting down an unmanned drone," which is a ridiculous way of looking at conflict. When you want to stop a schoolyard bully from punching you on the arm, you punch him in the face, not on his arm. 

Iran claimed that the drone was flying over its airspace at the time of the shooting. Washington insisted that the drone was over international waters. Iran lies as a way of life, so who are you going to believe?

Instead of a military strike, the president noted that his administration plans to ratchet up the already hefty sanctions on Iran. Trump is prepared to announce new sanctions on the country on Monday.

Trump expressed his willingness to open talks with Iranian officials without any preconditions – saying that he doesn’t want a war with the Islamic Republic, but if it comes down to an armed conflict it will be “obliteration like you've never seen before.”

He really has a tremendous way with words.

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Leader of ISIS affiliate joins the Smithereens with Lotsa Virgins

The top cheese of an ISIS affiliate in Afghanistan has paid the ultimate price: he has been blown up by a drone into little bite-size pieces and has joined the "fightin' Smithereens with Lotsa Virgins," officials told Fox News on Sunday.

Abu Sayeed Orakzai was the ISIS-K leader [a group often referred to laughingly by US Special Forces as "Not-so Special K"] and was responsible for a number f recent bombings that killed hundreds of civilians, most of whom didn't have an axe to grind with Islam.

The deputy spokesman for Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani made the announcement of Orakzai's departure on the "Jannah Express." Lt. Col. Martin O'Donnell, U.S. Forces-Afghanistan, passed the announcement on to the media.

"I would also add that the United States unrelentingly continues its counterterrorism efforts agains ISIS-K, Al-Qaeda, and other regional and international terrorist groups," O'Donnell said in a statement.

The drones were launched in the Nangarhar province, close to the border with Pakistan. Ten additional ISIS scumwafers were also sent to Jannah for less beautiful virgins due to their lower ranking the 'Not-so Special K.'

Orakzai is no less than the third [the 'h' is silent] ISIS-K leader/loser killed in the past two years. Since declaring the land bordering Iraq and Syria a caliphate in 2014, ISIS has lost about 90 percent of it.

Orakzai's death comes just days after an audio recording of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi resurfaced, and in which he congratulated his loyal Muslims on the Islamic occasion of Eid al-Adha, a Muslim holiday. He made reference to the recent quarrel the U.S. has with Turkey over the detention of pastor Andrew Brunson.

"Yo, did anyone see Orakzai?"

Al-Baghdadi has a bounty of $25 million on his head, but his whereabouts continues to elude his captors. His last public appearance [and possibly his last shower] was in 2014 in Mosul, Iraq. His last known audio recording was released Sept. 28, 2017, and was not sponsored by Oscar Meyer Bacon.

Next weekend, Lt. Gen. Scott Miller will be the new U.S. commander in Afghanistan. He was the former head of Joint Special Operations Command which oversees Delta Force, SEAL Team 6, and 75th Ranger Regiment, so he knows a thing or two about killing bad guys.

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Israel shoots down Iranian drone in its territory, but an F-16 is downed

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Jerusalem -- Israel shot down an Iranian drone in the most serious engagement in Syria since fighting began in 2011. Once the drone was destroyed Saturday, Israel struck Iranian targets deep in Syria and, unfortunately for the good guys, an Israeli F-16 was downed.

Iran has established a military presence in Syria which Israel cannot accept and this latest engagement might be a predictor of more to come in spite of Israel issuing strong warnings.

A meeting was just held near the Syrian border by the Israeli Cabinet to highlight the new threats, which it clearly attributes to Iran's growing confidence due, in part, to the success of Bashar "The Chin" Assad in the Syrian civil war due to Iran's support.

Israel rightly labeled the drone infiltration a "severe and irregular violation of Israeli sovereignty" and told Iran they would be held accountable for its meddling. This raises the strong possibility that a larger military confrontation looms on the horizon as the religion of Islam calls for the annihilation of the Jews and eventually the Christians.

Israel's chief military spokesman, Brig. Gen. Ronen Manelis said in a statement: 

"This is a serious Iranian attack on Israeli territory. Iran is dragging the region into an adventure in which it doesn't know how it will end. Whoever is responsible for this incident is the one who will pay the price."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman convened top military leaders in Tel Aviv for emergency consultations which went through the Jewish Sabbath to discuss strategic next steps.

Bibi said he spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin and vowed serious retaliation.

"Iran seeks to use Syrian territory to attack Israel for its professed goal of destroying Israel," Netanyahu said. "Israel holds Iran and its Syrian host responsible for today's aggression. We will continue to do whatever is necessary to protect our sovereignty and our security."

Israel also appealed to the UN Security Council to denounce Iran's aggression and "put an immediate end to Iranian provocations," but the Organization of Islamic Cooperation [the 57 UN nation members] is to Israel as the scorpion is to the frog. 

It's all about the religious obligation of Islam to destroy Israel and the Jews. And there are some really stupid 'useful idiots' who are secular Jews who support the BDS movement.

Go figure.

Israel wouldn't confirm if the F-16 was shot down by enemy fire, which would make it the first such downing of an Israeli military aircraft since 1982 during the first Lebanon war.

Israel has grave concerns that Iran could use Syrian territory to stage attacks or create a land passage from Iran to Lebanon that would help ease the transfer of weapons to Hezbollah--Lebanon's Iranian-supported political party and militant group religiously sworn to Israel's destruction.

Since 2012, Israel has struck weapons convoys destined for Hezbollah about 100 times, but overall, it has largely stayed out of the conflict.

Israel is a country so small and surrounded by Islamic countries that hate them, that every man and woman who are able-bodied, serve in the military.

If that was the case in the United States, there probably wouldn't be anyone taking a knee during the national anthem.


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ISIS hacker of "kill list" got himself killed

Ah the irony . . . it's beautiful.

The honcho of a notorious ISIS hacking group that distributed the so-called 'kill lists,' must have put his own name on the list accidentally because, well, he met with an accident when a U.S. drone strike turned him into chop meat. 

Osed Agha was head of United Cyber Caliphate (UCC) a hacking group of ISIS when out of the sky came a mighty drone with its own 'kill list' that had Osed's name on it, and badahbing! problem solved. 

The drone strike happened in Raqqa, the Islamic State's wannabe caliphate. Initially, his fellow scumcrumpets were skeptical of his death but the group's Telegram channel posted a video on Thursday saying "Our leader Osed Agha has been killed by a U.S. airstrike."

This has not yet been confirmed by the White House but President Trump has been busy undoing the mess he was handed.

"For all you do, this one's for you"

The UCC frequently posts 'kill lists' with names and addresses of Americans that don't pray 5 times a day facing Mecca. Much of the data comes from publicly available databases, but there's disagreement as to the danger it poses rather than it simply being a way to scare unarmed Americans.

Funeral arrangement for Agha will be posted online. The family requests that all donations be made in the form of firearms and unused Korans.

A video message also urges Islamic extremists to continue Agha's 'work' and displays a U.S. flag followed by an explosion and the word "soon." Many of us see that as ISIS's wishful attempt at victory similar to Hillary Clinton's wishful website of her having won the election.


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We got the drone back from China

China has returned the underwater drone that they "ripped" out of the water in plain sight of our US Navy vessel in the South China Sea near the Philippines. 

This is considered by many,  an act of war. The taking of this underwater vehicle in international waters has triggered a diplomatic protest and speculation over whether it would strengthen Donald Trump's hand as he is apparently ready to take a tougher line with China.

China's defense ministry said the drone was given back to the U.S. on Tuesday. "After friendly consultations between Chinese and U.S. sides, the handover work for the U.S. underwater drone was smoothly completed in relevant waters in the South China Sea at midday," the ministry said, but declined to give specifics when contacted by Reuters.

The Pentagon said the drone was handed over to the guided missile destroyer USS Mustin near where it was "unlawfully seized." They called on China to comply with international law and refrain from a repeat performance.

President-elect Donald Trump said that China should keep the drone. Perhaps he believes they've put a virus in the electronics. Perhaps he was just being Donald Trump.

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China expected to return our drone: Trump tells them where to put it

China snatched our underwater glider right out from under our noses and now they are expected to return it Tuesday. Let's hope there are no scratches or dents--I don't know if it's insured.

The transfer will take place in the area of the South China Sea where China originally stolen it from us: in the "vicinity" of the Scarborough Shoal (which brings to mind a song).

A U.S. Navy warship, probably a badass guided-missile destroyer, will be present to accept the unclassified drone which is used to map the sea floor and collect ocean data.

As far as we know, the drone may have never left the Chinese vessel, the Dalang III.

The seizure of the drone by the Chinese prompted a formal objection from the US last week, using harsh words designed to make the Chinese fall to their knees and beg forgiveness, but they didn't get the memo.

President-elect Trump (and now officially) said the Chinese should keep the drone. His reasoning has yet to be determined by his detractors.




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Priebus: Trump OK if CIA & FBI agree on hacking by Russia

According to Reince Priebus, President-elect Donald Trump will accept that Russia is behind the hacking of Democrats' email accounts during the 2016 presidential election if a consensus is agreed upon by leaders of the intelligence community; specifically the FBI and CIA. Priebus is the incoming White House Chief of Staff.

"I think he would accept the conclusion if they would get together, put out a report and show the American people they are on the same page," Priebus told "Fox News Sunday."

Hillary Clinton's campaign was obviously hurt by the leakage of the terrible things said as revealed in the Podesta emails. While the Clinton campaign never denied the authenticity of the emails, they were livid over the way they were obtained, which was via a Russian hacking into Podesta's system after he opened a link that he shouldn't have opened.

Silly Podesta.

But Clinton's people are trying to convince us that because it was a Russian hack, what was found in those emails shouldn't matter.

Clinton's logic is: if a murdered took video of someone stealing your car, that shouldn't lead you to conclude that the person who stole your car is really a car thief.

The real reason the Clinton campaign is pushing the Russian involvement in the leaks is their way to delegitimize Trump's election victory, according to his campaign.

"There's no evidence that shows the outcome of the elections was changed by a couple of dozen John Podesta emails," Priebus said, adding that the intelligence community is "almost there" on a consensus regarding the Russian involvement.

Personally, I'm more concerned about Trump suggesting that China keep our underwater glider.

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Trump on seized drone: "Let 'em keep it"

This is where Donald Trump makes me crazy. He says things that are outrageous for the sake of sounding outrageous--at least that's what seems to be his motivation.

Trump tweeted on Saturday that the US should let China keep the US Navy's unmanned underwater drone that it seized in the South China Sea.

"We should tell China that we don't want the drone they stole back.-let them keep it!"

This tweet went out soon after our military said that an understanding was reached between the US and China for the underwater glider's return.

This is where Trump gets me exasperated. Why would he say such a thing other than to sound outrageous? And what does sounding outrageous accomplish for him?

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China claims they seized the glider to ensure safe navigation of passing ships. They said that they will return the glider back to the US.

The US has called the incident an "unlawful seizure," and some have even called it an act of war, but that seems to be an exaggeration.

When it first happened, Trump tweeted, "China steals United States Navy research drone in international waters-rips it out of water and takes it to China in unpresidented act." 

This is why Trump should not tweet without Spell Check. 

He soon after corrected the spelling of "unprecedented," but before every grammar cop in the West got on his case. 

So tell us, Mr. Trump, what will allowing China to keep the glider accomplish? Really.




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Trump invents a new word and accuses China of theft

As previously blogged, the Chinese Navy has literally stolen one of our underwater drones in the international waters of the South China Sea. President-elect Donald Trump weighed in on the situation Saturday.

He spoke of the seizure of the drone with a tweet that accused the Chinese of stealing it and ripping "it out of water." In the tweet, he creatively made up a new word in the English language: 'unpresidented.' No, he did not mean 'unprecedented,' he meant exactly what he created, 'unpresidented,' suggesting that never before had any president, nor president-elect have to deal with such blatant theft from another country.

Mr. Trump is asking that all Americans, everywhere, refuse to eat at Chinese restaurants until the drone is returned, and a heart-felt apology delivered by the Chinese government with a promise not to do it again.

China steals United States Navy research drone in international waters - rips it out of water and takes it to China in unpresidented act.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 17, 2016

The tweet was sent at around 7:30 a.m. Saturday. Due to pressure from his staff, he was forced to correct 'unpresidented' to 'unprecedented' in spite of his intention to create a new word in the English language.

Some see this latest outrage by the Chinese as one of the most significant disputes between our two countries. Others see it as yet another example of the impotence of a lame duck who the Chinese see as a Peking duck ready to hang in the window of a Mulberry Street restaurant window.



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China steals our underwater drone as we scratch our butts and look on

A Chinese Navy vessel stole one of our underwater research drones while a U.S. crew watched them do it. This all took place in a South China Sea area that is being contested by the Chinese and the Philippines.

The incident occurred around noon Thursday local time and happened about 40 miles west of the Philippines and 150 miles from Scarborough Shoal after the Chinese vessel had been shadowing the USNS Bowditch,  a US Navy-owned research ship, which deployed the Slocum Glider drone.

The ship is operated by Military Sealift Command, with a contracted civilian crew composed of mariners and scientists.

"This is an act of war against the United States," said Gordon Chang, an analyst an author of "The Coming Collapse of China," told Fox News. He called it an act of war because US military equipment was stolen.

The American crew watched the Chinese take the underwater drone from a short distance away--the Chinese vessel was about a quarter mile from the impotent Americans who kept their hands in their pockets as they looked in the opposite direction and whistling a tune. The US ship tried calling the Chinese vessel but they got a 'busy signal'.

The drone's cost is around $150,000 which, in Obama terms, is 'chump change.' He spends more than that on vacation, just for golf and ice cream.

Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook responded angrily: "We call upon China to return our [unmanned underwater vehicle] immediately, and to comply with all of its obligations under international law."

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest had no comments at the time it happened; he simply wet his pants and went back inside the building.

The State Department lodged a formal protest called a demarche, which the US Ambassador in Beijing delivered to the Chinese government Friday.

Chinese Embassy officials said they had no comment on the matter but we know that the incident is just China's way of flipping an 'inscrutable bird' at Barack Obama.

The United States is eagerly awaiting a response from President Obama or Secretary of State John Kerry, along with James Taylor on guitar and vocal. 

Best guess is that once Trump is sworn in, China and Russia are going to test him.

So don't blow it, Donald.


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216 virgins "standing by"

A U.S.-led coalition drone strike in Raqqa, Syria, destroyed the hopes and dreams of three Islamic State jihadists this month, two of whom helped plan the November 2015 terror attacks in Paris, the Pentagon announced on Tuesday.

The third turd killed on December 4th was part of a botched suicide attack plot that targeted Europe last year. A Belgium court convicted him in absentia, meaning he lost his voting rights and may not have been eligible for healthcare benefits, but a more "stringent" punishment was meted out by the drone.

There are 216 brown-eyed virgins in Paradise awaiting further duties.

Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook told reporters "The three were working together to plot and facilitate attacks against Western targets at the time of the strike." He said the fighters were part of a terror network led by Boubaker Al-Hakim, who was killed last month in a coalition airstrike.

Over the past two years, the coalition killed 50 thousand ISIS scumcrumpets, according to a military official.

The dead Paris attack planners were Salah Gourmat and Sammy Djedou. The third jihadist was Walid Hamman. 

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And the beat drones on

Iran's Revolutionary Guard (aka Shi'ite jihadists) unveiled a new attack drone that curiously looks a lot like the one they captured from us about five years ago. Like ours, this drone is capable of carrying bombs, their state media claims.

They named the drone the "Saegheh" or Thunderbolt, after a roller coaster ride at Iran's Revolutionary Guard Amusement Park. It is merely one of the latest military achievements by the Revolutionary Guard. The other achievement is the "Muhammad Slicer-Dicer," a sword so sharp it can behead an infidel before you can say, "Put your dolls away, Ayisha, and come here to Poppa."

"This long-range drone is capable of hitting four targets with smart precision-guided bombs with high accuracy," Amir Ali Hajizadeh said. He is the head of the aerospace arm of the Revolutionary Guard and hates America almost as much as he hates Israel and her Jews.

The secret's in the wood

The big question now is, just which four targets would Iran pick to attack with the Saegheh? The U.S. and Israel go without saying, but the other two are anybody's guess. I'd say Iraq and and the Syrian rebels, or maybe  

The semi-literate Tasnim news agency said the drone is a lot like the RQ-170 Sentinel spy drone used by the U.S. The RQ-170 is also a lot like the LSMFT-451 and the THDQ-990, both of which are so classified, I had to make up the model designations.

Military officials did not demonstrate the drone in action because, like Donald Trump's plan to destroy ISIS, it's a secret.

Iran bragged that in 2011 it shot down the RQ-170 drone used by our CIA, and it broadcasted video of the recovered unmanned craft. It also bragged about capturing 3 American ScanEagle drones. And last year they claimed to have successfully tested a replica of the RQ-170.

On Saturday, Tasnim published photos of what they claimed was a U.S.-made MQ-1C drone, similar to the top secret LSMFT-451 but has more fire capability. Of course, Iran refused to say when and how the drone was captured, citing Donald Trump's strategy on ISIS once again.


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