NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT SUNDAY NIGHT-MONDAY MORNING 1/20/2019-1/21/2019
(THIS IS PUBLISHED AT 3AM MONDAY EASTERN US TIME 1/21/2019)
Good Morning.....
Israel on the attack in Syria, first a mid-day strike on a southeastern Damascus airport which Syria rebuffed with its air defense missiles. That strike coincided with the arrival of an Iranian airliner.
Syrian missiles were fired at Israel's Golan Heights during Sunday afternoon in retaliation.
Then overnight a two wave Israeli attack on Syrian air defenses and what Israel says are Iranian targets in the country.
The Israel Defense Forces say around 10 targets were hit.
The Russian RIA News Agency says four Syrian soldiers were killed. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reporting 11 dead.
More at this Breaking News link.....HERE
The Israel Defense Forces say around 10 targets were hit.
The Russian RIA News Agency says four Syrian soldiers were killed. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reporting 11 dead.
More at this Breaking News link.....HERE
The next installment of Qatari Arab cash is on its way to Gaza. Israel is allowing the cash flow into Gaza hoping to quell Palestinian riots at the border and attacks on Israeli territory.
Qatari envoy Mohammed Al-Amadi told Reuters that the third installment will arrive in the next few days.
Its 15 million dollars, just like the first two shipments were.
Israeli politics and a Likud Party member Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely challenging one of the leaders of the "New Right" Party Education Minister Naftali Bennett.
The issue is an appearance at a Jerusalem junior high school by "Breaking The Silence", a group critical of what it sees as excesses by Israel's military in dealing with Palestinians.
Hotovely said groups besmirching Israel's military are not permitted in educational institutions by law.
But the group will not speak to students. They will speak to a parents meeting Sunday January 27th at 8pm.
The "New Right" party leaders Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked have been critical of the Likud Party Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over Gaza policy which includes allowing the Qatari money to be shipped into the territory to pacify violence instead of using military means.
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meeting Monday with Ukraine's president Petro Poroshenko at his residence in Jerusalem.
The womens marches of Yellow Vests in France Sunday. Marches held in Paris, Toulouse and Bordeaux.
Some of the vests read "Angry Moms". Others were wearing the caps of the female symbol of the French Revolution Marianne.
One protester in Bordeaux said:
"The government wants to make us look like thugs, but today we are mothers, grandmothers, we are the daughters, the sisters of all citizens......our anger is legitimate"
Another protester said:
"I find that women are particularly affected in France by unemployment, low wages. I call on my parents to get clothes for my children"
One of the many tipping points for protest in France was the high price of gasoline because of climate change taxes.
In the African nation of Zimbabwe last week widespread street demonstrations against the high price of fuel said to be the highest in all of Africa led to a government crackdown using live ammunition with at least 12 killed, many others injured.
Arrests totaling in the hundreds were reported.
The internet was shut down in the country as well for lengthy periods with permanent blockages of social media sites.
The government promising an even tougher crackdown this week.
Meanwhile two key African leaders are endorsing the shady presidential election in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Presidents Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa and Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya are congratulating Felix Tshisekedi as the winter of the presidential election.
The Constitutional Court in the Congo ruled in the middle of the night early Sunday that a challenge by another candidate who apparently won the election based on the reports of some 40-thousand election observers organized by the Roman Catholic Church was not credible.
Martin Fayulu, the opposition candidate declared the loser, is urging his supporters to take to the streets in non-violent protests.
In northern Syria over the weekend Russian air attacks on jihadist targets in Idlib. The early Sunday morning attacks were pre-emptive in nature designed to prevent the HTS forces, formerly Al-Qaeda in Syria, from launching rockets at the city of Aleppo.
Syrian military units have beefed up their presence in the area in recent weeks prompting speculation about possible ground attacks against the jihadists.
Meanwhile two key African leaders are endorsing the shady presidential election in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Presidents Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa and Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya are congratulating Felix Tshisekedi as the winter of the presidential election.
The Constitutional Court in the Congo ruled in the middle of the night early Sunday that a challenge by another candidate who apparently won the election based on the reports of some 40-thousand election observers organized by the Roman Catholic Church was not credible.
Martin Fayulu, the opposition candidate declared the loser, is urging his supporters to take to the streets in non-violent protests.
In northern Syria over the weekend Russian air attacks on jihadist targets in Idlib. The early Sunday morning attacks were pre-emptive in nature designed to prevent the HTS forces, formerly Al-Qaeda in Syria, from launching rockets at the city of Aleppo.
Syrian military units have beefed up their presence in the area in recent weeks prompting speculation about possible ground attacks against the jihadists.
The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaking with US President Donald Trump Sunday saying Turkey is ready to take over security in the city of Manbij in Syria following the suicide bomb attack that killed four Americans last week.
Erdogan saying the attack was an attempt to undermine Trump's plan to pull US forces out of Syria.
The death toll continues to rise from Friday's gasoline pipeline explosion in Mexico with 85 now reported dead.
The disaster in a town 75 miles north of Mexico City occurred after thieves broke into the pipeline and a crowd of hundreds showed up to transfer the gasoline into portable containers. Suddenly there was an explosion and fireball.
58 are reported hospitalized with three children being treated at a burn unit in Texas.
"In the context of everything that was going on (which the media hasn't shown) the parents and mentors of these boys should be proud, not ashamed of their kids' behavior. It is my honor to represent them."
That's part of a statement from Congressman Tom Massie of Kentucky defending the Covington Catholic High School students who were depicted as racists in viral videos circulated online Saturday.
The students, some of whom were wearing "Make America Great Again" hats, were getting ready to leave the March for Life protest at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC Friday when they were engulfed in a sea of counter protesters seeking to disrupt the event.
One of the students, Nick Sandmann, has released a lengthy statement to counter the "outright lies" circulating about him.
China's economic growth slowed in the fourth quarter ending in December with GDP up at a rate of 6.4 percent, down from 6.5 percent.
The world's second largest economy is growing at its slowest rate in the last decade.
And that's the way it really is on this early morning, Monday January 21st, 2019.
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