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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it destroyed two Hezbollah tunnels in the southern Lebanon town of Qanater on Tuesday, targeting what it described as a significant underground network used to support attacks against Israel. 

Troops from the 36th Division carried out the operation, located and entered the tunnel system based on what the military described as “precise intelligence.” The tunnels were positioned about 10 kilometers from Israel’s northern communities and extended a combined length of roughly 2 kilometers. 

Underground infrastructure had been built over the course of about a decade, reaching depths of approximately 25 meters. According to the military, the project was constructed with “direct guidance” from Iran and was “funded by the Iranian terror regime and as part of Hezbollah’s plan to conquer the Galilee.” 

Inside the tunnels, soldiers found weapons stockpiles, living quarters, water tanks and equipment designed to support prolonged underground activity. The military said the network was intended, among other purposes, to facilitate the movement of operatives into Israeli towns in the north.
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The demolition of the tunnels involved large, controlled explosions. The Geological Survey of Israel said the blasts were detected by its seismic monitoring system due to their intensity, though no earthquake sirens were activated.

I can't get over the reaction from many on the left to what happened over the weekend. CNN even published a story yesterday about the sudden outburst of people claiming Cole Allen's attack was "staged."

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Some of the best-known journalists in the country were gathered in the Hilton ballroom on Saturday night and immediately got to work establishing the facts of what had happened.

But immediately — before anything was known about the suspect and his motives — the word “staged” started to emerge as a trend across social media platforms...

Former cable news host Keith Olbermann, a prolific anti-Trump voice on social media, posted to his almost one million followers on X late Sunday night, “I’m not saying it was STAGED… YOU’RE saying it was staged! You have DOUBTS? Just because Trump has lied to you every day about every thing for a decade? Just because his people are filth? Shame, cynic!”

The Washington Post estimated that 20% of left-wing influencers were arguing the assassination attempt was staged in the hours after it happened. What's interesting about this is that Cole Allen himself believed in the same kind of conspiracy theories. Are review of his social media posts shows him echoing a lot of mainstream liberal attacks against Donald Trump, but also he specifically believed that the previous attack in Butler, PA was staged.

Dr. David M. Morens, a former top adviser to Dr. Anthony Fauci, was arrested and charged Tuesday with conspiracy and destruction of federal records in one of the first cases to allege a cover-up in the COVID-19 pandemic.
The charges -- brought by the FBI, Justice Department and the U.S. Health and Human Services inspector general -- allege the former senior scientific adviser at the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which Fauci led for 38 years, committed conspiracy against the United States; destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in federal investigations; concealment, removal or mutilation of records; and aiding and abetting.

Morens, 78, of Chester, Md., served as a senior advisor in NIAID's Office of the Director from 2006 through 2022, the year Fauci retired.

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The filing of the charges was immediately praised by two powerful investigative chairmen in Congress who had alleged Morens was destroying records and using private email to keep information about the coronavirus and its origins from Congress.

"More than two years ago, my PSI staff discovered and made public emails in which Dr. David Morens bragged to colleagues about his efforts to avoid transparency by destroying federal records and using his personal email to communicate on 'sensitive issues,'" said Wisconsin GOP Sen. Ron Johnson, chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.