https://twitter.com/Kyruer/status/1208693228939235329
#Syria #Idlib
#US warplane/drone targeted a vehicle with an R9X missile between al-Dana and Turmanin.
All people on board were killed.
>US warplane/drone targeted a vehicle with an R9X missile
It was a Jordanian Hurras Al Din commander,he used to work for HTS as a judge in East Ghouta https://twitter.com/WithinSyriaBlog/status/1208705732172013569
>Jordanian Hurras Al Din commander
https://twitter.com/WithinSyriaBlog/status/1208732960171741185
"The court run by this criminal cut my friend's body in eastern Ghouta into ten pieces in late 2013, his parents were so horrified that they refused to acknowledge this was their sons body. Today, this terrorist was cut into 10000 pieces. This is what Karma looks like."
https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/missile-anti-missile-homing-overlay-experiment-hoe
Lockheed built this unflown antiballistic missile (ABM) test vehicle for the U.S. Army's Homing Overlay Experiment (HOE). The HOE vehicle was designed to destroy a missile by physically impacting it - a concept known as "hit-to-kill." After separating from the booster, the vehicle would use its onboard sensors to identify and lock-on to the incoming missile and would use other components to direct it to impact. On the last of four HOE tests, a vehicle intercepted an incoming dummy warhead in the first successful demonstration of hit-to-kill technology in June 1984. The United States is now using much smaller hit-to-kill vehicles in deployed ABMs. Lockheed built this HOE test vehicle, and the U.S. Army transferred it to NASM in 1986.
awesome
>targeted with an R9X missile
>targeted with an R9X missile
An international coalition aircraft targets a car in the town of Termanin in the northern Idlib countryside, no information about who was inside.
Bohemian Rhapsody
https://medium.com/@SpeakerPelosi/madam-speaker-a-behind-the-scenes-look-at-the-u-s-speaker-of-the-house-dec-14-dec-20-2019-12964e175700
Madam Speaker: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the U.S. Speaker of the House (Dec 14 — Dec 20, 2019)
This week, to mark the 75th anniversary of the #BattleoftheBulge our bipartisan Congressional delegation traveled to Belgium and Luxembourg to honor our WWII American heroes. Back in D.C., the House passed articles of impeachment against the President of the United States. The Speaker also signed multiple bills #ForThePeople including, the FUTURE Act to permanently fund HBCUs and Minority-Serving Institutions, the bipartisan appropriations bills to fund our government for the year 2020 and the National Defense Authorization Act. On Friday, in the spirit of respecting our Constitution and in conclusion of the year, Speaker Pelosi invited President Trump to deliver the State of the Union address on Tuesday, February 4, 2020.
https://twitter.com/tobiaschneider/status/835940261276565505
Kiev is a wonderful time of year
< video of the choppers landing … soldiers loading boxes … flying back out.
Note how every single chopper lands hidden behind a tree, relative to the cameraman.
'cameraman'
ayylmao the MOSdicks are back!
You might be retarded.
https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2019/12/19/world/europe/19reuters-italy-crime-mafia.html
More Than 300 People Arrested in Huge Italian Mob Swoop
By Reuters
Dec. 19, 2019
ROME — Police have arrested 334 people in one of the largest anti-mob operations ever seen in Italy, highlighting the growing reach of the 'Ndrangheta mafia, prosecutors said on Thursday.
The 'Ndrangheta is based in the southern region of Calabria, the toe of Italy's boot, and has surpassed Sicily's more famous Cosa Nostra to become the most powerful mafia group in the country – and one of the largest crime gangs in the world.
Police said they seized hundreds of suspects in early morning swoops around the country, with some arrests also carried out in Germany, Switzerland and Bulgaria.
Amongst the possible charges facing those detained were mafia conspiracy, murder, extortion, loan sharking, corporate fraud and money laundering.
"Politicians were involved, as well as lawyers, accountants, public officials, court clerks. All people who had jobs and did not need to put themselves at the service of the 'Ndrangheta," said prosecutor Nicola Gratteri, who led the investigation.
"The mobsters are not in a position to carry out sophisticated money laundering. To do that they need professionals," he added.
Gratteri said it was the largest haul of suspected mobsters in Italy since a massive anti-mafia swoop in Sicily in 1984 which led to the so-called Palermo maxi-trial when more than 450 members of Cosa Nostra were tried.
The Palermo trial marked a turning point in the battle against the Sicilian crime gang, and their influence has waned dramatically over the past three decades, allowing 'Ndrangheta to surge to prominence.
Italian investigators say the group, which is made up of dozens of smaller clans that all answer nominally to senior leaders in Calabria, is now Europe's top cocaine broker.
Amongst those arrested on Thursday was a former lawmaker from Silvio Berlusconi's center-right Forza Italia (Go Italy!) party, the center-left mayor of a Calabrian coastal town and a senior official in the Carabinieri police.
"This has inflicted a very hard blow on the 'Ndrangheta," said Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese.
Investigators say that while the 'Ndrangheta is still centered on Calabria, one of the poorest regions in Europe, it has successfully managed to infiltrate the wealthy north.
The head of the Valle D'Aosta region, which borders France and Switzerland, resigned last week after being placed under investigation for alleged vote-rigging linked to 'Ndrangheta at 2018 local elections. He has denied the accusation.
Merry Christmas Tulsi!
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-italy-crime-mafia/more-than-300-people-arrested-in-huge-italian-mob-swoop-idUSKBN1YN28L
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-exploration-boeing/bulls-eye-landing-in-new-mexico-for-boeings-starliner-astronaut-capsule-idUSKBN1YQ03X
'Bull's-eye' landing in New Mexico for Boeing's Starliner astronaut capsule
The landing at 7:58 a.m. ET (1258 GMT) in the White Sands desert capped a turbulent 48 hours for Boeing’s botched milestone test of an astronaut capsule that is designed to help NASA regain its human spaceflight capabilities.
“We hit the bull’s-eye,” a Boeing spokesman said on a livestream of the landing.
The landing will yield the mission’s most valuable test data after failing to meet its core objective of docking to the space station.
After Starliner’s touchdown, teams of engineers in trucks raced to inspect the vehicle, whose six airbags cushioned its impact on the desert surface as planned, a live video feed showed.
The spacecraft was in an apparently stable condition after landing, according to images posted by officials from the U.S. space agency NASA.
The CST-100 Starliner’s debut launch to orbit was a milestone test for Boeing. The company is vying with SpaceX, the privately held rocket company of billionaire high-tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, to revive NASA’s human spaceflight capabilities. SpaceX carried out a successful unmanned flight of its Crew Dragon capsule to the space station in March.
The Starliner capsule was successfully launched from Florida on Friday, but an automated timer error prevented it from attaining the right orbit to meet and dock with the space station.
That failure came as Boeing sought an engineering and public relations victory in a year that has seen corporate crisis over the grounding of its 737 MAX jetliner following two fatal crashes of the aircraft. The company’s shares dropped 1.6% on Friday.