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from Haaretz.com
Exactly three decades ago, the Israeli public - sheltered in safe rooms and donning gas masks - entered a new type of war. Forty-three Scud missiles and 77 fatalities (mostly from heart attacks) later, Israel would never be the same again
On January 18, 1991, Israelis were awakened at 2 A.M. to the familiar wail of emergency sirens. Within seconds, this sound was replaced by another, unfamiliar one in the Tel Aviv region and the Haifa Bay area: the landing of eight surface-to-surface Soviet Scud missiles. They were launched from west Iraq and landed at four sites in Israel: on Haifa’s outskirts, and in northern and southern Tel Aviv.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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from Sputnik
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED, Broadcasting & Media Production Company out of Moscow, Russia
'It Will Destroy The Party': Rand Paul Warns Republicans Will Leave if GOP Senators Back Impeachment
On Wednesday, the House of Representatives voted to impeach US President Donald Trump by 232-197, with 10 Republicans joining the Democrats in support of the outgoing president's second impeachment for “incitement of insurrection.” Now the question is whether the Senate will convict Trump when the impeachment reaches the upper house. On Friday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) warned fellow Senators of the possibility that roughly one third of Republican voters would leave the Republican Party if they convict President Donald Trump of "incitement of insurrection". The remarks came in an interview on Fox News’s Ingraham Angle in which Paul, who previously criticized the deadly 6 January US Capitol riot and voted against objections to the 2020 presidential election, claimed that "impeachment is a wrongheaded, partisan notion."
On 6 January a mass protest occurred in Washington as the certification of the Electoral College vote was being held. Trump's supporters violently stormed the Capitol and interrupted a joint-session of Congress, causing 5 deaths. The FBI is probing the alleged foreign “trail” in the 6 January riot, NBC News reported on Saturday, citing FBI officials. According to sources, the bureau is attempting to examine whether the rioters were funded by foreign governments, organisations or individuals.
Earlier in the day, Iranian media reported that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) had launched long-range ballistic missiles as part of its annual military drills, striking maritime targets 1,000 miles downrange. Long-range missiles launched by Iran landed some 100 miles away from the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz strike group and around 20 miles from an unspecified commercial vessel, Fox News claimed, citing sources. Anonymous US officials reportedly told the outlet that at least two rockets exploded when they hit the waters of the Indian Ocean, "sending shards of debris in all directions".
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