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Breaking News / Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 9/11
« Last post by SVPete on September 11, 2026, 12:03:51 PM »
Israel Blows Up Hezbollah Terror Tunnel Network

https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/09/10/israel-explodes-hezbollah-terror-tunnel-network-n4957102

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Israeli forces have blown up a terrorist tunnel complex close to Israel’s northern border, striking not only at Hezbollah, which built the tunnels, but at the Iranian regime, which backs Hezbollah.

Israel Defense Forces (IDF) posted on X, “DISMANTLED: The underground infrastructure in the Ali al-Taher Ridge area, in the Security Zone, in order to neutralize Hezbollah’s ability to use this infrastructure to plan & carry out terror attacks against Israeli civilians & IDF soldiers.”

The IDF continued, “Dozens of Iranian-made rockets, missiles, UAVs, machine guns, and hundreds of mines & explosive devices, were located inside the underground infrastructure. Additionally, a central command complex belonging to Hezbollah’s ‘Badr’ Unit was located within the infrastructure. It contained command centers, weapon storage rooms, and living quarters that enabled terrorists to manage combat & remain underground for extended periods.”
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The DUmpster / Re: Please remember who got rid of Osama bin Laden
« Last post by CollectivismMustDie on September 11, 2026, 11:55:09 AM »
How about we remember who is yucking it up with his successors, and who wants everyone to vote for them in places like ny and michigan and minnesota, instead.
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The DUmpster / Re: Get off your butts Dems and condemn the attack
« Last post by Tess Anderson on September 11, 2026, 11:55:00 AM »
dumbass Christine again

They are just thrilled to have an attack by a verified Republican.

that's another one of their lies - looks apolitical to me:

https://www.facebook.com/pat.havas.7

and sort of weird - registered Independent, mom is GOP:

https://voterrecords.com/voter/128602068/patrick-havas
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The DUmpster / Re: Please remember who got rid of Osama bin Laden
« Last post by SVPete on September 11, 2026, 11:11:21 AM »
Remember who could have taken out ObL BEFORE 9/11 but didn't?

Remember who almost lost Iraq to ISIS and left completion of the recovery to President Trump?
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The DUmpster / Re: Please remember who got rid of Osama bin Laden
« Last post by DefiantSix on September 11, 2026, 10:08:58 AM »
Seal Team Six got rid of Bin Slapnuts, DUmp'Rat.

And then O'Bummer & Company made sure Seal Team Six didn't survive to talk about it.

Your point, DUmp'Rat???
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The DUmpster / Please remember who got rid of Osama bin Laden
« Last post by CC27 on September 11, 2026, 10:03:17 AM »
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CTyankee (68,757 posts)

Please remember who got rid of Osama bin Laden

That was President Barack Obama. He enlisted the Navy Seals to get the job done, which they did.

Just a thought today...

https://democraticunderground.com/100221498705

You just had to make today political huh
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General Discussion / Re: Democrat treason and sedition
« Last post by SSG Snuggle Bunny on September 11, 2026, 09:44:05 AM »
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.@UCSB BLM communist Muslim academic “Butch” Ware tells comrades at the Marxism Conference to prepare themselves to kill people on the streets to achieve their political goals.


https://x.com/MrAndyNgo/status/2097171064048713982
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General Discussion / Re: No European NATO Navies are Ready to Fight Today’s War at Sea
« Last post by SVPete on September 11, 2026, 09:15:55 AM »
I do not know whether Argentina has rebuilt their navy and air force, but I do not think the UK could respond effectively if Argentina decided to invade the Falklands again. Last I heard, QE and PoW are working through significant "teething" problems. And it's an open question whether the UK has enough operational destroyers to provide escort for a carrier task group.
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General Discussion / No European NATO Navies are Ready to Fight Today’s War at Sea
« Last post by SVPete on September 11, 2026, 08:41:01 AM »
No European NATO Navies are Ready to Fight Today’s War at Sea

https://cdrsalamander.substack.com/p/no-european-nato-navies-are-ready

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We are coming up on three years from the final wakeup call after October 7th, 2023, that conventionally armed ballistic missiles are the premier threat to critical capabilities ashore and at sea.
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At sea, which will be our focus today, we just made it across the finish line in time with the RIM-161 SM-3, which built off the success of the iterative development of the SM-2 for decades.

This work has paid off via the exceptional performance of our Arleigh Burke Class destroyers off Israel, and in defending our fleet from the Red Sea to the Arabian Sea against Iran and her proxies.

With each engagement, our software gets better…the next update to our missiles gets better, and, more importantly, it has yanked the Lotus off the dinner plate of our defense establishment to expand production and inventories.
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Here’s the issue. We’re alone here, and our European allies just don’t seem to get it. Their historical passivity in this area is why a decade and a half ago the U.S.A. deployed inside the NATO framework Aegis Ashore installations—one in Deveselu, Romania and one in Redzikowo, Poland—and the American Arleigh Burke DDG based out of Rota, Spain.

Classic NATO: “The Americans will do it. Let increase aid for foreign NGOs instead.”
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That is a lot of appreciating the problem, fitting-for-but-not-equipped-with kind of thinking, but the fact remains that at this moment and at any time in the near future, no European NATO navy has a capability even approaching the SM-3.

Range and reach. The SM-3’s range is well past 1,000km and more importantly, it can intercept missiles outside the atmosphere—exo-atmospheric.

Nothing else at sea in the West can do this. The closest the Europeans have is the French Aster 30 B1NT, which we can expect the French Navy, Italian Navy, Royal Navy, and Swedish Navy to equip their ships with.

On paper, it is an exceptional capability, but it is much closer in capability to the SM-6.

Both of these can do anti-ballistic missile (ABM) work, but only endo-atmospheric. ...
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As wretchardthecat pointed out on X, I believe, correctly,

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Consider the French Charles de Gaulle. A normal CdG group includes at least one Horizon-class air-defence frigate. It has no SM-3 equivalent. It has no dedicated exo-atmospheric interceptor.

British Queen Elizabeth carriers are organically defenseless against an Iranian antiship attack. Everything depends on Type 45 escort which has the same capability as the French Horizons.

Either ship might withstand a light attack but probably lack the capability to survive against the volume of fire the USN took.

My emphasis.
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Breaking News / Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 9/11
« Last post by SVPete on September 11, 2026, 07:56:04 AM »
The Drug Lord Died. The Hippos Multiplied.

https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2026/09/10/the-drug-lord-died-the-hippos-multiplied-n4956940

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Pablo Escobar has been dead for more than three decades, but one part of his private zoo apparently never got the memo. Four hippos were brought to Hacienda Nápoles in the 1980s, one male and three females.

From Nature.com:

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The introduction of hippos into the wild in Colombia has been marked by their rapid population growth and widespread dispersal on the landscape, high financial costs of management, and conflicting social perspectives on their management and fate. Here we use population projection models to investigate the effectiveness and cost of management options under consideration for controlling introduced hippos.

We estimate there are 91 hippos in the middle Magdalena River basin, Colombia, and the hippo population is growing at an estimated rate of 9.6% per year. At this rate, there will be 230 hippos by 2032 and over 1,000 by 2050.

Escobar died in 1993, but the hippos stayed, and then they got busy.

Colombia now estimates the population has passed 200. Without strong control measures, officials project roughly 500 hippos by 2030 and close to 1,000 by 2035.
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