[Australian Financial Review] The tropical island in the Philippines where Bondi terrorists trained
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[New York Times] Bondi Suspects Were in Southern Philippines, Where ISIS Is Active
Both articles quote Rommel Banlaoi from the Philippines, who was recently smeared by Ray Powell, of SeaLight, and Reuters.
Updated: The War of Ideas in the Indo-Pacific (Rommel Banlaoi)
Read More »AFP reprint: At least 6 killed, scores injured in Pakistan suicide bombing
At least six people including Pakistani paramilitary troops were killed and scores injured on Saturday, in a bombing claimed by separatists in volatile southwestern Balochistan province, officials said.
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The BLA is also behind a surge in attacks in the region targeting Chinese workers.
Much of the violence is directed against Chinese infrastructure projects in Pakistan to connect China’s Xinjiang region with the Arabian Sea to reach markets in the Middle East, Europe, Africa and beyond.
Of course, AP makes no mention of Chinese workers being targeted.
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Read More »No, They Were Not Hungarian Pagers
But the fact is that the whole pager situation was a skillfully arranged smear campaign led by Mossad and the CIA against their own partner. These devices were indeed manufactured by Taiwanese Gold Apollo, which has a very high proportion of American top management. They were filled with explosives under careful control of the CIA and in April a large batch of devices was sent to Lebanon – at the same time that a delegation of the Knesset suddenly arrived in Taipei. However, the payments for the deal were made using the Hungarian BAC firm. The company does not have but a single employee, which confirms that it could not have produced the pagers.
All of this is a ploy for the media in order to shift the blame away from Taiwan and onto Viktor Orban, who is already very much demonized in Western discourse. The worst thing is that it is extremely efficient, because most of the world began to believe that it was Hungary that sent pagers to Lebanon and thus entered into direct confrontation with the Arab world. Orban’s representative instantly responded to the allegations, saying that BAC Consulting was “a trading-intermediary company, which has no manufacturing or other site of operation in Hungary”. Additionally, the CEO of the company 49-year-old Cristiana Barsony-Arcidiacono added that she was “just the intermediate”.
The story seems to have died down a bit now, but the mystery of the pagers remains. Will there be an independent investigation to determine their manufacturer? Most likely not, since all the evidence leads to the US, Israeli and Taiwanese intelligence services. This mystery will go down in history just like the events associated with the blowing up of Nordstream pipelines, as well as the so-called “massacre in Bucha”. No investigation, no evidence, no verdict.
Previously:
[2011] Golden Apollo held the FBI’s heart with a walkie-talkie
Latest Lebanon Pager Terrorist Attack Predictable, Preventable
China says two citizens killed, one injured in Pakistan ‘terrorist attack’
In August, the BLA launched coordinated attacks in the province, in which more than 70 people were killed. It has claimed attacks in Balochistan, including the killing of seven barbers in Gwadar in May and the April killings of several people abducted from a highway.
The BLA specifically targets Chinese interests – in particular the strategic port of Gwadar on the Arabian Sea – accusing Beijing of helping Islamabad to exploit the province.
In March this year, five Chinese engineers and a Pakistani national were killed in an attack near the China-backed Dasu hydropower project. Nine Chinese engineers were killed in a similar attack near Dasu in 2021.
The BLA has also attacked Beijing’s consulate in Karachi.
The Port Qasim project involves the construction of two power plants near Karachi and is funded by China.
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Pakistan is due to host the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in two weeks.
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The second round of exploding devices were linked to ICOM, a Japanese manufacturer that supplies the Pentagon.
Company Behind Walkie-Talkie Devices Transformed into Bombs Supplies the U.S. Military
Previously:
[2011] Golden Apollo held the FBI’s heart with a walkie-talkie
Latest Lebanon Pager Terrorist Attack Predictable, Preventable
Russian pipeline monopoly operator Transneft said on Wednesday that there was an attempt at a “terrorist attack” on a filling station of the Druzhba oil pipeline in Russia’s Bryansk region bordering Ukraine.
Russia Reports Attempted “Terrorist Attack” On Druzhba Oil Pipeline
Join us, as we take a deeper dive into the Nord Stream Pipeline sabotage story, and identify the diving team, their equipment, as well as those parties who benefitted from what many are calling ‘an act of war’ against European infrastructure.
Secret Team: The Nord Stream Pipeline Sabotage Revisited
Video via Kim Iversen
A prominent Russian military blogger and war correspondent was killed in an explosion in St. Petersburg on Sunday.
Prominent Russian Military Journalist Killed in St. Petersburg Blast
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War correspondent under International Humanitarian Law:
War correspondents are protected by the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their additional protocols. In general, journalists are considered civilians so they have all rights related to the civilians in a conflict.
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