Footage from the attempted ISWAP infiltration night attack. Troops responded with rocket artillery that can strike enemy positions at ranges of up to 22 km, disrupting the assault before it could gain momentum.
“In 2013, I went to Anambra State as an official of the APC to witness the bye-election for governorship.
Your next guest, Peter Obi, as governor, got me arrested and detained for 48 hours in my hotel room” — Nasir El-Rufai
I repeat, there is nothing Peter Obi preaches today that he did not do the exact opposite of when he was Governor of Anambra State.
🇮🇷 Iranian State TV:
“The anti-Iranian U.S. Senator, Lindsey Graham, died after seeing he could not overthrow the Iranian nation.
He was gay and unmarried, leaving behind no offspring to pollute the world.”
Iranian missiles RAVAGE US BASES across ME & Gulf as SATELLITE IMAGES reveal DAMAGE beyond official US assessments
Drone hangars, storage facilities & air bases HIT across Jordan, Qatar & Bahrain
Former UN base in Kuwait — claimed by Iran to have housed US HIMARS — also ON FIRE
Wow
🇯🇴 Prince Hassan Air Base in Jordan appears to have suffered major damage from Iranian strikes
Today’s satellite imagery shows a destroyed hangar and major ground disturbances across the apron, likely where US drones were housed. It also appears the runway was directly hit.
This man stole a country from his own father and spent the next 18 years buying the West with gas money.
- He deposed his own dad in a palace coup and left him in exile for nearly a decade
- He founded the news network that aired Osama bin Laden's tapes
- He built America's largest military base in the Middle East and charges no rent for it
- He bought Harrods, the Shard, Canary Wharf, Paris Saint-Germain and 17% of Volkswagen
- He won the 2022 World Cup for a country with no football history
Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani died this morning at 74.
Here's how bought the world:
In June 1995, he waited for his father to leave the country, then took the throne. The coup was bloodless. His father spent nearly a decade in exile.
Qatar is about one third the size of Belgium, and its population was barely two million, most of them foreign workers.
But it was sitting on one of the LARGEST natural gas reserves on Earth.
He bet everything on liquefied natural gas. Qatar became the world's biggest LNG exporter and one of the richest countries alive per person.
Then he hit the problem every commodity business hits:
Gas is gas, anyone with a tanker can sell it, and a tiny country with no army and that much money is a snack for its neighbours.
So he bought two things nobody else in the Gulf thought to buy...
The first was the world's attention.
In 1996 he issued a decree and Al Jazeera was born. Within a few years it was the most influential news network in the Arab world.
He owned the loudest microphone in the region and never had to speak into it himself.
The second was the American military.
In 1996, Qatar spent over a billion dollars building an air base at Al Udeid, outside Doha. It got the longest runway in the Gulf and shelters for nearly a hundred aircraft.
Qatar's air force only had about a dozen fighter jets.
In 1999 he reportedly told US officials he wanted 10,000 American servicemen stationed there permanently.
Then 9/11 happened, and they came.
The genius part:
Al Udeid is now the forward headquarters of US Central Command and the largest American base in the Middle East, with roughly 10,000 troops.
Qatar charges no rent.
He built the asset before the customer existed, handed it over free, and bought the one thing cash cannot: The US military parked permanently between his gas and everyone who wanted it.
The network broadcasting bin Laden and the runway flying America's war sat in the same tiny country, paid for by the same man.
Then he went shopping...
He set up the Qatar Investment Authority in 2005:
- Harrods
- The Shard
- Canary Wharf, London's largest property owner, bought with Brookfield for 2.6 billion pounds
- 17% of Volkswagen
- Paris Saint-Germain
All his.
In 2017 the Telegraph ran the headline "Qataris own more of London than the Queen."
Then 2008 arrived. Barclays needed billions or the British government was going to own it. Qatar wrote the cheque and its stake climbed to 12.7%. Barclays was later charged over how it disclosed that Qatari money.
In 2010, FIFA handed the 2022 World Cup to a desert country with NO football history. Corruption allegations shadowed the bid for over a decade, and the treatment of the migrant workers who built it drew brutal criticism.
Yet he walked into the opening match in 2022 and the stadium gave him a standing ovation.
Every other Gulf state was selling the same molecule at the same price. Hamad spent his money on a newsroom, a runway, a football club and half of London.
A country of two million now brokers hostage deals and hosts American presidents.
He built all of it in 18 years, and he took the throne from his own father to start.
Truly an unmatched legacy.
3 US SOLDIERS KILLED in Iran STRIKES on Kuwait
Massive BLACK SMOKE rises after American ‘ATACMS MISSILE system’ HIT by ‘3 BALLISTIC MISSILES’
Kuwait confirms ‘MATERIAL DAMAGE’ from barrage
🇺🇸🇺🇦‼️🚨 GRAHAM WAS JUST VISITING DRONE FACTORIES IN UKRAINE!
Russia attacked drone factories in Ukraine!
Lindsey Graham “dies suddenly”
I have to ask, did Russia kill Graham in Ukraine and they cover it up?
ببالغ الحزن والأسى، ننعى وفاة صاحب السمو الأمير الوالد الشيخ حمد بن خليفة آل ثاني.
خالص التعازي إلى حضرة صاحب السمو الشيخ تميم بن حمد آل ثاني، وأسرة آل ثاني الكريمة، والشعب القطري الشقيق.
رحم الله الفقيد، وألهم الجميع الصبر والسلوان.
LET'S SPEAK THE TRUTH AGAIN
The rescue of 44 captives in Oyo State was not a miracle. It was the result of community cooperation. Residents refused to shield the abductors, provided intelligence, and trusted the military. That made the operation possible.
Northerners are now demanding the same success in their regions and they deserve it. But here is the hard truth:
In many parts of the North, military operations have been stalled not by lack of capacity, but by individuals protecting the k!dn@pp£rs for personal gain. Informants leak intelligence. Local leaders shield cr!m!nals. Communities turn a blind eye.
You cannot demand a successful rescue when you are feeding the k!dn@pp£rs' networks.
The Oyo rescue happened because the community refused to cooperate with the abductors. The military had actionable intelligence, local support, and a clear target. That is the formula.
If Northern communities want the same outcome, they must give the same cooperation.
♦️ STOP PROTECTING KIDNAPPERS.
♦️ PROVIDE CREDIBLE INTELLIGENCE.
♦️ REFUSE TO HARBOUR CRIMINALS.
♦️ TRUST THE SECURITY FORCES.
The President has given a directive to rescue every captive. But the military cannot rescue people it cannot find. And it cannot find them without community support.
The ball is now in the court of our Northern leaders and communities.
COOPERATE. OR CONTINUE TO WATCH YOUR CHILDREN REMAIN IN CAPTIVITY.
The choice is yours.
Anyone who mourns the death of Lindsey Graham should do the exact same for every single one of the tens of thousands of Gazan children who were massacred over the last 2 years.
They were massacred by the genocidal military that Lindsey Graham helped fund.
He was one of those who constantly encouraged and incited Netanyahu and Trump to commit crimes against Iranian nation. He is complicit in the blood of every innocent child in the school of Minab. How will he face his God?
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