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Death Squad" mercenary stops for lunch in El Salvador. "I bought him a beer and took three shots before he went ballistic', 1980. This photo was taken by Derek Hudson, a well-known British photographer. Here's what he said about the incident and photo : "I came across this guy during the civil war in El Salvador in the 1980s. He was one of a gang of mercenaries known as the Death Squad. We were in a rural backwater called Suchitoto, which at the time could best be described as a one-donkey town, and he was sitting in the local cafe having eaten his lunch, his revolver casually placed in front of him. I bought him a beer and, as he raised the bottle, managed to get three shots in before he went ballistic. He was swearing and called his friends with rifles over and pushed me about. I don't know what would have happened if they'd realized I'd shot off some frames already. I realized I'd taken a big risk, but I didn't think about i...

The most HEROIC fortress in Russian history (PHOTOS) The defense of the Brest Fortress became one of the most glorious pages in the history of the Red Army. However, it was only years later that the rest of the Soviet Union learnt about it. The Brest Fortress on the western border of Soviet Belorussia was the first to receive the blow of the German Army on June 22, 1941. It also became the first unpleasant surprise for the enemy, who realized that their invasion of the USSR would not be a walk in the park. The fortress was built by the Russian Empire in the mid-19th century and by the start of World War II was already obsolete. Located at the confluence of the rivers Western Bug and Mukhavets, it consisted of a citadel sitting on an island and several forts, which in the 1930s were used mainly as barracks and warehouses. During the Soviet-Polish war of 1919-1921, the fortress was captured by Poland and was used, among other things, as a prison. On September 2, 1939, on the ...

HAMAS ANIMALS AND THEIR SHOP OF FEMALE VICTIM HORRORS At the United Nations in New York, Israeli army reservist Shari  Mendes spoke about the horrors of receiving and preparing for burial the  bodies of female victims, some IDF soldiers, from the October 7 terror  attack. “These’ women arrived [at the IDF’s Shura base]  with their eyes open, their mouths grimacing, their fists clenched,”  Mendes said, The Jerusalem Post reported. One woman’s arm had been broken in so many  spots the rabbinical unit Mendes works with couldn’t place it properly  in the shroud; other female soldiers “were shot in the crotch, intimate  parts, vagina, or shot in the breast,” she said. One survivor recounted how she watched a  terrorist rape a woman, then cut off her breasts and play with them; one  female victim arrived at the base with her legs cut off; others, with  heads cut off; one “with a large kitchen knife still embedded in the  neck,” Mende...

A crazy story reported by the Israeli journalist Avishai Grinzaig: On Friday in Khan Yunis, in the sector of one of the battalions in the 4th Brigade of the IDF. Before a force from the battalion raided a certain point, they put a drone into the air after a suspicious figure was identified. In the drone they saw an elderly woman handcuffed to a bed. After dispelling the suspicion of a deception incident by Hamas. The force went up to the apartment together with an Arabic-speaking investigator of the brigade. They found a 75-year-old woman bound by her own hands and in very poor health. The hands are very swollen, enlarge the picture and you will see. And the old woman was completely dehydrated. While the doctor treated her, the division's investigator asked her questions. And she told them: her family fled from Khan Yunis to the south. Two Hamas operatives in IDF uniforms arrived, forcibly tied her to the bed and told her to say that the IDF did it. She lay like that tied to the be...