Images sent to me from planet labs show the before and after shot of the bombing of the Hamas negotiation team that took place in Doha, Qatar on September 9th, 2025.
BeforeAfter.
Yesterday, as the Hamas negotiations team was debating a recent proposal from the U.S. delegation when an explosion ripped through the building killing several members of the Hamas negotiations team, made up of senior members of the Palestinian extremist group and a Qatari Security official. Qatari leadership condemned the attack, which took place on their soil. Qatar has long been a financial supporter of Hamas transferring billions of dollars to the group since 2018 with Hamas saying the payments were expressly used for employee payroll and medical care for Palestinians.Those payments are a form of some contention in Israel as Benjamin Netanyahu approved the payments back when he was the primer of the Israeli security cabinet and some in Israel disagreed with the decision. He defended his actions to detractors saying “in coordination with security experts to return calm to (Israeli) villages of the south, but also to prevent a humanitarian disaster (in Gaza).
CCTV footage captured the moment of the Israeli airstrikes earlier against the Qatari capital of Doha. pic.twitter.com/iG7khL3ETs
Video shows the airstrike which targeted the Hamas leadership.
It’s now been over 48 hours since the attack and Qatar has threatened to hold Benjamin Netanyau responsible for the attack. The UN Security Council had postponed a meeting about Israel’s strike on Qatar until tomorrow “at Qatar’s request”, the council’s current president says. UNSC South Korea, the current UN Security Council president added, “so that the Prime Minister of Qatar can take part in the meeting”.
At the U.N. many stood with Qatar, however some questions were raised as to why Qatar has Hamas in their cities in the first place.
Today at the U.N. I asked Qatar: “If you don’t want targeted bombings on terrorists in your capital, why do you harbor terrorists in your capital? Why is your Al Jazeera serving as Hamas' non-stop propaganda arm? Why do you act as mediator by day, and a terror sponsor by night?” https://t.co/xi2EZlC5B7pic.twitter.com/tTghv5JK4U
The US seemed sidelined by the attack, an attack carried out on the soil of a US allied partner in the region. Just days ago US President Donald Trump said that they were close to reaching an agreement in negotiations with Hamas. It seems like the US was only made aware of the planned attack when Israel’s forces were already on route to attack.
“I immediately directed Special Envoy Steve Witkoff to inform the Qataris of the impending attack, which he did, however, unfortunately, too late to stop the attack,” Trump said in a statement.
Steve Cook, a senior fellow at the council for foreign relations wrote in his article ‘ It is unclear how many of Hamas’s leaders were killed in the operation. Hamas maintains that while five of its people plus a Qatari police officer were killed, its senior leadership survived. Those claims have yet to be verified. At the very least, the Israelis have demonstrated a willingness to go anywhere to eliminate Hamas. It is likely that the organization’s surviving leaders will be targeted again in time.’
The attack against Hamas has spread outrage among the Qatari leadership who see themselves as mediators in this conflict and as such it’s highly likely they will cease any of their part in future negotiation. Qatar sees this as a slap on the face after they worked to get a good number of the Israeli hostages that were taken on October 7th 2023, freed.
Cook,in his article put forward Egypt as a possible candidate for future negotiations but called the negotiations a “thankless task ” when “neither the Israeli government nor the Hamas leadership seem interested in a deal”
Rightwing activist, commentator, and founder of Turning Point USA, Charlie Kirk,31, is dead after a yet unknown gunmen shot him in the neck while he was speaking at a campus event sponsored by the Utah chapter of Turning Point USA at the Utah Valley University in central Utah.
Law enforcement initially had a suspect, an older, white, male the looked 50’s. That man was let go and police announced that the suspect was still at large and a danger to public safety.
University spokeswoman, Ellen Treanor said that Kirk was shot about 20 minutes after he started speaking. The gruesome video shows that he had just started speaking answering a question about shootings when the shot rang out and the bullet struck him.
Mrs.Treanor also said that the gunmen had fired at Kirk from the Losee Center, a building more than 100 yards away from the area Kirk was speaking at. Attendees of the event also spotted a man on the rooftops of a building and filmed it. You can’t say for sure but it appears the person is laying down.
After being rushed to the hospital Kirk was listed as being in critical condition but was later declared to be deceased.
As I finished writing this the FBI said they had another suspect in custody. No other info at this time.
In Nepal, anti-corruption protest has raged for the second day in a row. The worst civil unrest in decades is currently taking place in the country as citizens take to the streets to fight corruption government censorship and mass poverty. The scene took a violent turn after Nepal’s government attempted to crack down on the protest by banning social media and YouTube. The internet ban was lifted but not before the situation turned deathly serious.
Image showing thr Nepal parliament è
Nepal’s parliament building in Kathmandu was set on fire by the protesters moments ago. Some of the crowd could be seen with guns in footage released online. The police are simply outmatched by the collective rage of the people, and have been unable to restore order. Fires have also been reported at the nation’s supreme court and special anti-corruption court.
The unrest and violence in Nepal has, so far, left over 20 people dead and over 500 injured, including the wife of former prime minister Jhala Nath Khanal, Rabilaxmi Chitraka, who was burned alive in her home. Other scenes of violence have taken place across the city as the protest continues. The Vice-chairman of the Communist Party (UML), which is also the country’s Finance Minister, Bishnu Prasad Paudel was forced from his car into a river, where he was then forced to strip and beaten with sticks as hundreds watched from the banks.
🇳🇵#Nepal: Footage supposedly showing Nepal's vice-chairman of the Communist Party (UML), which is also the country's Finance Minister, Bishnu Prasad Paudel, being stripped of clothes and thrown into a river while being beaten during today's anti-corruption riots. pic.twitter.com/bsUmfQBEq6
The military has started to respond and have shown little restraint in opening fire on the protesters. No open gun battles have been reported but citizens with long guns have been spotted on videos, with reports indicating some of the weapons may have been seized during the ongoing unrest.
🇳🇵#Nepal: The situation in Nepal has spiraled out of control. The government appears to have lost authority as armed rioters loot and set fire to government buildings.
Reports indicate that many have seized weapons during the current unrest, which resulted in around 400… pic.twitter.com/5a8RQT76sJ
Last night, the Jihadist group, Boko Haram killed more than 70 people in an overnight attack in the village of Darul Jamal on the border of Nigeria and Cameroon in the Borno State.
Dozens of armed men arrived on motorcycles around 8:30pm on Friday night and started firing indiscriminately. Residents say the gunmen went house to house killing the men and leaving the women behind.
The leader of the village, who asked to remain anonymous told Reuters “They went house to house, killing men and leaving women behind. Almost every household is affected,”
He said that they have recovered 70 bodies on Saturday morning but thag more were still missing .
Malam Bukar fled with his wife and three kids, he said “They came shouting, shooting everyone in sight.”
The governor of the Borno state, Babagana Zulum, visited the village on Saturday, the day after the attack and spoke to AFP news agency.
“It’s very sad, this community was resettled some months ago and they went about their normal business,”
He also said
“The numerical strength of the Nigerian army is not enough to contain the situation,”
Zulum added that a newly established force called the Forest Guards was set to bolster security personnel in the embattled region.
Images of Nigerian Forest Guard. Each region is expect to recruit anywhere from 2,000-5,000 to help deal with ongoing security concerns. They will fight poachers and hopefully help deal with the threat of terrorist.
This attack comes as Islamic Jihadist have been making a resurgence in the area with Boko Haram and their rivals, the west African branch of the Islamic State (ISWAP) both stepping up attacks.
“Western education is forbidden” a quick history of Boko Haram.
Map showing the area of activity from Boko Haram.
Boko Haram has existed in Nigeria, in one form or another since the early 90’s. The group calls itself Jama‘atu Ahl as-Sunnah li-Da‘awati wal-Jihad” (JASDJ; Group of the Sunni People for the Calling and Jihad) and “Nigerian Taliban”.
The group looks to overthrow the current goverment in Nigeria and replace it with a regime based on Islamic law. Boko Haram stands for “Western education is forbidden”. Boko being a holdover word for book from the time of English colonialism. In 2009 thr group suffered a major setback when clashes with Nigerian security forces left hundred of their members dead. They have been rebuilding ever since and have become much more dangerous under the leadership of their former second-in-command, Abubakar Shekau who claimed leadership of the group in 2010. Since that time the group has displayed more effective operational terror capabilities, utilizing improvised explosive device (IED), vehicle-borne IED (VBIED), and female suicide attacks against a wide range of targets. In 2011 the group bombed the UN headquarters in Abuja killing over 20.
Abubakar Shekau
In 2014 Boko Haram was carrying out near daily attacks against Christian people or Nigerian goverment forces, schools, the media, politicians and even other Muslims they viewed as collaborators.
Map put together by Ian Ellis Jones over on Twitter shows the ships currently moving into the South American region. Some of the locations are true, as of when the image was posted, others are approximate.
By. Scott Jackson
08/30/2025
A look at the recent increase in U.S. forces already in or heading to the Caribbean.
The U.S. is increasing its presence in the region in an effort, they say, to deal with drug trafficking. This has been a big issue for Washington and is currently causing some tension as the White House called Venezuelan leader Maduro a “Narco-Terrorist” and have made him the main focus of these efforts. Is this a regular drug operation, or something more? For now nobody’s sure.
So far eight ships and a submarine have been deployed to the 4th fleet/Southern Command [SOCOM] AOR. Making this the largest confrontation between Venezuela and the U.S. in years.
For Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, this attention only strengthens his goverment hold on the country. The U.S. feels Maduro’s election back in 2013 and 2024 was due to election interference and say his victory was only assured because of ballot stuffing and other types of election fraud. Currently Washington has a $50 million dollar bounty for his arrest on charges of drug trafficking. Maduro’s response to the threat of the U.S. warships steaming towards southern waters was to declare that Venezuela would respond with the activation of 4.5 million militiamen.
“This week, I will activate a special plan with more than 4.5 million militiamen to ensure coverage of the entire national territory — militias that are prepared, activated and armed,” Maduro announced on state television.
Most believe that this move by Washington is aimed more at a show of force over actual U.S. intervention in the region, but in case it’s not just a well armed navel stroll around the block let’s go over some things.
Who is Nicolás Maduro?
Nicolás Maduro speaking to his supporters about the American forces heading towards Venezuela.
Maduro was born in 1962 and before he was a president he made his money as a bus driver for a long time before rising to become a trade union leader. In 2003 he was elected to the National Assembly and frim there appointed to a number of positions under the then president Hugo Chávez. He served as the president of the National Assembly in 2005-06, and as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2006-2012. From then on he was Vice President under Hugo Chávez until his death in 2013. After Chávez’s death Maduro assumed the role of president and has stayed in the role ever since. Since then, Maduro has managed to stay in office, consolidating power along the way. The elections the country has run show Maduro winning, however claims of election rigging have run rampant.
Since Maduro rise to power Venezuela has been forced to endure widespread authoritarian rule marked by rigged elections, human rights abuse and economic hardship. Maduro’s goverment can be characterized by its mass allegations of corruption, the suppression of critical information and poor leadership. Widespread shortages have plagued the country and inflation of its currency, the Bolivar, has skyrocketed, tripling in the last several years. For a country as resource rich as Venezuela is, having one of the largest oil deposits in the world, these problems are inflicted mostly by the actions and policy of their government.
Demonstrators clash with members of Venezuelan National Guard during a rally demanding a referendum to remove Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro in San Cristobal, Venezuela October 26, 2016. Photo: Carlos Eduardo
What U.S. assets are being sent to Venezuela?
For now it seems that the bulk of the forces being mobilized for this operation -whatever it ultimately ends up lmbeing, are from the USS Navy with some help from the Air Force.
Earlier today radio calls from a USAF RC-135 ‘Rivet Joint’ were recorded as they communicated with the Mcdall tower out in Tampa Fl. The RC-135 was refueling “somewhere over the Caribbean”. This means that the Air Force is doing ELINT missions and gathering data from the region. The Rivet Joint is capable of picking up radar signals from hundreds of miles away as well as other types of electronic surveillance and reconnaissance.
ABATE07 (KC-135) is somewhere over the Caribbean right now fueling a RC-135.
We also have reports of Navy P-8 Poseidon’s out of San Juan patrolling around the Caribbean several days ago. These planes are mostly used for anti-submarine work but can still be used as spotters for surface ships as well.
Venezuela has one submarine that might or might not be operational so I don’t see the ASW assets getting all that much use here.
Ticonderoga-Class launching one of its standard missiles.
On to the ships. So far 9 ships have been ordered to the area. The most recent of the bunch is the Ticonderoga-Class guided missile cruiser USS Lake Erie (CG-70) and the Los Angeles-Class fast attack submarine USS Newport News (SSN-750).
Los Angeles class submarine operating at periscope depth.
Three of the ships are Arleigh Burke-Class guided missile destroyers. USS Gravley (DDG-107), USS Jason Dunham (DDG-109), and USS Sampson (DDG-102). These ships along with the Lake Erie provide the bulk of the firepower. All of the ships listed so far, including the submarine are capable and likely carrying a number of Tomahawk cruise missiles, among others.
Arleigh burke-Class destroyers intercepting targets during an exercise
Last but not least we have the USS Minneapolis-Saint Paul (LCS-21) a Freedom-Class littoral combat ship. These ships were, according to the navy “envisioned to be a networked, agile, stealthy surface combatant capable of defeating anti-access and asymmetrical threats in the littorals.” Littorals refers to an area of the sea close to shore. Basically these ships are comparable to what other navies call corvettes.
Each of the freedom class comes with a hanger for the SH-60 or MH-60 Seahawk, as well as a ramp in the stern for launching smaller boats. These ships are capable of transporting and launching a small assault force with troops and fighting vehicles.
Image shows the USS Minneapolis-Saint Paul.
Next is the USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7) classified as a Wasp-Class amphibious assault ship and landing helicopter dock.
USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7) in the Atlantic sometime in 2008.
This ship carries various aircraft- mostly helicopters, and a lot of Marines as well as their equipment. This ship is essentially a floating marine base of operations capable of transporting them and their equipment into hostile territory and supporting them the AV-8B Harriers until 2027 when most of the assault ships are switching to F-35B’s. I don’t know if the Iwo Jima currently employs harriers or The F-35 currently.
USS Iwo Jima hiding in the fog.Marine Vertical take off F-35B coming in for a landing.
Moving on to the last two ships on our list we have the USS San Antonio (LPD-17) and the USS Fort Lauderdale (LPD-28) both of which are San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock’s. These ships are similar to the Wasp-class in that they are filled with marines and can be used as a launching point for their operations. They have a hanger for helicopters (or Ospreys) but lack the topside deck for planes.
Cut-away view of the San Antonio class. Artist concept of the San Antonio class.
These ships are designed as survivable and stealthy transports for ground forces. As shown in the image above they are also designed around the idea of launching the marines hovercraft to quickly transport massive amounts of marines and their equipment to the shores.
At 12:29PM on January 28th, 2025 a United States Air Force F-35A crashed at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska. Video released of the incident shows that while on a training flight, the pilot, flying with the 354th Fighter Wing, lost control of his jet and was forced to eject while the jet crashes into the ground moments later.
Video of the incident. F-35 tail number 19-5535
The report going over the investigation into this crash came out today and fully explained the cascade of events that caused the crash. The culprit was water that had contaminated the hydraulic fluid for the nose landing gear. This water caused freezing in the hydraulic system and caused the nose gear to not retract properly and left it cantered 17 degrees to the left.The pilot initially on a call with Lockheed Martin engineers and together over the course of an hour efforts were made to fix the nose gear by doing touch and go landings. After the second touch and go landing the struts on both left and right landing gear had ice form around them causing them not to extend after the takeoff. Because of this, the aircraft’s “weight on wheels” sensors showed the aircraft as being on the ground and the plane automatically flipped to on the ground flight controls, while the plane was airborne. The pilot lost control at this point and made the decision to eject as the jet became uncontrollable . The jet crashed to the grounds of Eielson Air Force immediately after the ejection.
The pilot was treated at the time for minor, non life threatening injuries.
On August 17th, Ukraine’s Yefrem Lukatsky a well known AP photojournalist released images showing the production of Ukraines previously unannounced, ground- launched, long ranged cruise missile, the FP-5 ‘Flamingo’. This Ukrainian produced cruise missile could become a strong contender for Ukraine’s most effective long range weapon systems.
The Flamingo is designed and built by Ukrainian defense company Fire Point. According to, the missile has a six meter wingspan and a takeoff weight of 13,000 lbs on takeoff. The payload capacity is 1,150 lbs. Its publicly started range is 1865 miles.
A look at the tail of the missile showing the engine on top of the weapon, much like designs from the 50s-60s
“We came up with it pretty fast. It took less than nine months to develop it from an idea to its first successful tests on the battlefield. I will not tell you about its exact speed, but I can say it’s faster than all the other missiles we currently have,” said Iryna Terekh the company’s CEO while adding adding: “It is completely Ukrainian-made.
The missile is already casing a stir in Russia, the state run agency TASS put out an article last week downplaying the threat posed by this missile. The article also tried to undercut the Ukrainian achievement by saying the missile was from a British design, which the Ukrainian company Fire Point denies. However the impact of the missile is already being felt on the battlefield.
“We watched Russian reaction to our first missions and I can tell you the more successful the mission was, the more Russians tried to choke all publicity around it,”Terekh said.
The missile is already in production making several units a day. The company claims they can make that 200 a day by the end of the year.
With the number Ukraine’s Fire point company is planning to make along with the range this weapons could vastly shift the course of this war, putting a good percentage of Russia industries, both defense and civilian into range of Ukraines new missiles.
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