For those interested in firearms, here’s a weird but fascinating video about the reliability of the AK-47 and how you can get it to work if parts and bits are missing. …I’m not sure about the stick thing, haha. But if you look carefully, the stick has rubber bands attached….
About the Alawite, Assads, Ba’athism, HTS, Sharaa, Islamists, Shia-ism, Heretics, Syria… The Middle East…
The cracks are beginning to show in Sharaa’s and HTS-dominated Syria with Alawite tensions. It suprises me that so many with an interest in counterterrorism, terrorism, especially how it relates to the Middle East (and geopolitics), and Islamist ideologies and movements, there appears to be so little interest in the…
Looking Back: A news item reposted on Egypt’s only Jewish Community’s website written by yours truly
See the original posting found on Bassatine News, in what was or is the only Jewish newsletter reporting directly from Egypt: http://bassatine.net/stayput.php I’m not sure if what the number of Egyptian Jews are today. Below is the text of the article: WE’RE STAYING PUT Egypt’s dwindling Jewish community is fighting…

Lebanon Finally Elects a New President, a Veteran of the Battle of Elimination, and a Coincidence
“Under the National Pact, the President and the Commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces are always selected from the Maronite community.” Other than the analysis contained herein, here’s a little bit of background and personal experience that connects to Aoun: I find it interesting that Joseph Aoun served during the Elimination…
Never Bring a Knife to a Gunfight. Chad’s “disordered and incomprehensible” Coup Attempt
Foreign Minister Abderaman Koulamallah seen in a video apparently recorded at the presidential palace in N’Djamena. Photo from Facebook and BBC News. This is almost Monty Python-ish. Curious. It almost sounds like some cult group like attack with knives and no guns, like a suicide mission. Nineteen dead, less the…
My Uncle’s First Time in Combat in the Mozambique Colonial War, Soldier of Fortune Magazine
Below is a scanned copy of an old amusing article I wrote for Soldier of Fortune’s magazine’s ‘I Was There’ page called ‘First Chill’ about my uncle’s first experience in combat in Mozambique during the Colonial War. The story is written in the first person. When it was published, there…
Stuck In A Dirt Road, A Canadian, An Afrikaner Farmer and The Battle of Paardeberg
Story originally posted on LinkedIn on May 3, 2022: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/royce-de-melo-39172813_southafrica-canada-battleofpaardeberg-activity-6927366621711745026-7Ker?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop An out-of-the-way trip to visit an almost forgotten battle site where Canadians fought in South Africa and won, which was a key historical moment in Canadian history that helped forge a Canadian identity, revealed more than expected and also had…
If Trudeau Had Not Resigned, Might That Have Been Better?
At this point, with the present Canadian political and social environment, with the situation and context as it is, maybe this narcissistic ’14-year-old juvenile girl’– as Dr. Jordan Peterson has referred to him– Justin Trudeau should have stayed on and led the Liberals into the next election; that maybe would…

The Importance of Iconography in Counterterrorism.
Are There Clever False Flags and a Grand Deception by the Taliban and AQ Pretending to be ISIS as LinkedIn post says? Today I saw a posting on LinkedIn that seemed topsy turvy in its conclusion. See LI posting and the video here: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alimaisamnazary_for-over-three-and-a-half-years-the-national-activity-7281367007713808386-aF9k?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop In it, the poster wrote: “The…
Video – ‘Debunking the Gaza Death Toll’
For decades Hamas (and Hezbollah) have a common MO, i.e. they like to forge casualty numbers, to the point where they have staged dead people by using living people pretending to be dead. For many of those who know and are aware, if these lies, deceptions and disinformation serves the…