DuatDweller on 15/3/2026 at 23:57
Michigan synagogue attacker's brother was Hezbollah commander, IDF says
Well that explains so much...
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gj1135x7ro)
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A brother of the man accused of attacking a Michigan synagogue on Thursday had been a Hezbollah commander who was killed in an air strike last week, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) says.
Police say Ayman Muhammad Ghazali died after driving a car full of explosives into the Temple Israel synagogue. Members of his family, including two brothers, had reportedly been killed in an Israeli strike on Lebanon in March.
The IDF said his brother Ibrahim Muhammad Ghazali had managed weapons operations for the Badr Unit in Hezbollah, a political and military group in Lebanon.
The BBC has not independently confirmed the brother's identity and has contacted the US Department of Homeland Security and FBI.
Israel's military said in its post on X on Sunday that Ibrahim Muhammad Ghazali was a "Hezbollah terrorist" who commanded a unit responsible for "launching hundreds of rockets toward Israeli civilians throughout the war".
He was "eliminated" in an Israeli Air Force strike on a Hezbollah military structure last week, the IDF said.
CBS News, the BBC's US partner, said that a freelance journalist working for it in Lebanon was told by sources that both brothers killed in the strike were members of a Hezbollah rocket unit in southern Lebanon.
Hezbollah has strong backing from Iran, and is considered a terrorist organisation by Israel and many other nations, including the UK and US.
Police have not yet identified a motive for the attack on Temple Israel by Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, a 41-year-old naturalised US citizen who came from Lebanon in 2011 and resided in Dearborn Heights.
He had recently suffered "devastating and personal losses overseas", said Dearborn Heights Mayor Mo Baydoun, who added that it was "not an excuse" for the attack.
On Friday, the FBI said Ghazali died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound during a gunfight with police.
Harvester on 16/3/2026 at 09:05
Trump is trying to drag the rest of NATO into a war that they started and threatening that the alliance is in danger if other countries do not send warships to free the strait of Hormuz. We're facing a global energy and oil crisis so I don't know what we should do, I don't feel we owe Trump anything and I would love for us to tell him to fuck off, but we need both oil and natural gas and for NATO to keep existing. But is it even a good idea to try to open the strait of Hormuz by force, or is it a better idea for the US and Israel to cease the bombing and see if Iran reopens the strait themselves and this conflict will end?
Also: Trump didn't need UK ships because the UK was too late in sending them, but now they do need them and the ships of other countries? And Trump was angry at some European countries like Hungary for importing Russian oil, but now they give Russia a pass to export oil again? Also brilliant to turn down the help of the country who is currently most experienced in the world in air defense with drones, Ukraine. All in all, truly a strategic genius at work here.
Starker on 16/3/2026 at 09:39
US stopping the war does not mean Iran will stop. At the very least, Iran will want security guarantees they would not be attacked again, which is an impossible ask. This war will have to play itself out one way or another.
Right now, the US is sending marines to the area, possibly so that they can take control of the Kharg island. Let's hope Iran does not yet have fiber-optic drones that can reach the island or it might get very ugly.
In related news, Ukraine's anti-drone technology continues to be in high demand:
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https://time.com/article/2026/03/15/iran-war-ukraine-drones/)
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Iran's ally, Russia, has used the Shaheds to attack Ukrainian cities for years. Out of necessity, Ukraine has developed an array of cheap Interceptors and jamming equipment to bring them down.
Ukraine's expertise in this area has given Zelensky a diplomatic boost at a time when he is under pressure on the battlefield, and when the U.S. has been pressing him to accept unfavorable ceasefire terms with Russia.
In remarks released on Sunday, Zelensky said U.S. military contractors and President Trump himself had expressed an interest in purchasing Ukraine's drone defense technology.
"We received a message from them, and directly from the president as well, that they are interested," Zelensky told reporters in Kyiv. "We did not sign the document with President Trump. I do not have an answer as to why. Perhaps it will happen later, but I am not sure."
Zelensky added that more than 10 European and Middle Eastern countries had already reached out to Ukraine, “requesting our support for their defensive capabilities”. Ukraine has dispatched military experts to the Gulf to advise on drone defense and discuss the sale of equipment.
Israeli officials have also shown interest in Ukraine's interceptor drone technology. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has requested talks with Volodymyr Zelensky about potential cooperation on drone defenses, The Kyiv Independent reported.
Zelensky said that Ukraine is open to longer-term deals giving partners access to its expertise and technologies for defending against Iranian drones, and that Kyiv wants both money and technology in return for offering assistance to nations confronting the threat.
“For us today, both the technology and funding are important,” Zelensky told reporters.
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Trump claims Washington does not currently require Ukrainian help to defend against Iranian drones, even as Ukrainian officials say the U.S. has explored potential cooperation on the technology.
“We don't need their help in drone defense,” Trump told Fox News in an interview on Friday. “We know more about drones than anybody. We have the best drones in the world, actually.”
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heywood on 16/3/2026 at 10:21
I think Iran is also trying to coerce other countries in the region to flip sides. The main reason why other countries are allied with the US is for protection against Iran. If the US can't protect them, they may re-think the alliance.
Trump has a lot of nerve asking NATO for help, and I'm not sure who is able to. In order to be effective for escort missions, a warship needs to be able to intercept drones targeting nearby ships and not just protect itself.
SD on 16/3/2026 at 17:37
Thousands of American Jews lost relatives in the October 7th attack, and they were ordinary people, not terrorist scum who deserved to die.
Number of mosques attacked in reprisal: 0
Starker on 16/3/2026 at 22:25
I mean, you see Israeli soldiers murdering children in cold blood, though, and stand around watching them die for nearly an hour as the ambulances wait helplessly.
Maybe there's some difference in the regimes under which they live?
mikjames on 16/3/2026 at 23:14
It's weird huh? Almost like taking over land and enslaving populations leads to terrorism... who could have predicted such an obvious outcome...
Not you pal... not you :cheeky:
DuatDweller on 17/3/2026 at 00:13
Listen "smart" guy I have one thing clear this pro attack Israel thing in the US is not the Americans, its the emigrants of middle east origin, since they have pending business with them.
This includes even Syrian and Pakistanis (not to mention Afghans) in short anyone on the Muslim train of thought is included.
As for my IQ is way higher than you know, sometimes though emotional IQ might be superior to cold numeric IQs so just you know the difference between pushing numbers and relate to humans, and on that when it comes to relate to humans your score is very low, even when this answer it comes from a schizophrenic with isolationism inherent to his mental illness.
So shove it.
demagogue on 17/3/2026 at 01:14
Quote Posted by SD
Number of mosques attacked in reprisal: 0
Do you even try to be objective?
Edit: Needless to say any party that targets a place of worship, synagogue or mosque, is, if in an armed conflict, committing a war crime or crime against humanity if widespread and systematic (which is what "9 out of 10" means) or if outside an armed conflict, terrorism or a hate crime. There's no defending the hate crime of attacking a synagogue or people at a synagogue.
If you're talking about attacks on mosques in Western countries, when Gaza is being reduced to rubble and 1160 mosques have already been obliterated, there's not the same motivation to attack the 1161st overseas. Also Jewish communities outside of Israel are not jumping in unison chanting "wipe out the seed of Amalek" and supporting politicians talking openly about forced mass expulsion of Palestinians (another crime against humanity), although many are fundraising for those that are, evidently not wanting to see that part of it, although one has to really filter one's news consumption not to see it, I think.
I haven't looked into the demographic attacking synagogues, what their upbringing and direct support structure looks like that incubated their criminal motivation, but obviously there's a fundamental failure there and it's a problem that needs to urgently be addressed.
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edit2: In the grand scheme, what's happening right now is that the US has started a ridiculous war in Iran that is terrible in basically every respect, and I think it's important to keep one's focus on what's most urgent to attend to, and ending this war and its fall out heads the list.
PigLick on 17/3/2026 at 04:45
demographic attacking synagogues
dema - gogue?
I knew it!
