The Wire - November 11, 2024

this is the wire for 2300 zillu November 11th 2024 precedences routine information cut off as 2200 bottom line up front commercial aircraft engaged by Small Arms in Haiti protests erupt in Spain following inadequate Disaster Recovery efforts beginning with international events in Spain over the past few days citizens throughout Valencia have demonstrated and protested in response to the poor Administration and management of emergency resources in the wake of the severe flooding that swept through the region two weeks ago since the crisis struck hundreds of casualties have been reported and widespread destruction of the city has made recovery efforts challenging more recently citizens have expressed frustration with the lack of significant resources dedicated to recovery efforts citizens are concerned that the government is not doing all it can to recover from this crisis prompting protests in Germany a man was arrested in elmshorn following an investigation of his alleged plans to conduct an attack at a Christmas Market later this year the man a juvenile of Turkish Heritage was allegedly planning to conduct a vehicle ramming attack later this year analyst comment very few details have been provided regarding this alleged plot so far possibly indicating an investigation is continuing threats specifically to Christmas markets and Germany have been substantial over the past few years with vioc ramming attacks being a very high priority to defend against in Haiti this morning Spirit Airlines flight ink 951 from Fort Lauderdale to PTO Prince was forced to divert to the Dominican Republic duee to successful surface to air fire or Sapphire which struck the aircraft as it attempted to land initial reports indicate that at least one round possibly several penetrated the passenger cabin one flight attendant was wounded in the attack sustaining a minor grazing gunshot wound in the Middle East US centcom released a statement this evening confirming multiple air strikes being conducted within Syria to Target likely Iranian proxy groups in response to multiple attacks on us Personnel yesterday analyst comments for this wire in Haiti the Small Arms attack on a commercial aircraft is by no means surprising as the conflict throughout the nation has continued the international airport in Portal Prince is legendary as a typical approach in departure profile carries aircraft directly over some of the most infamous slums in the world various gangs control most of the territory to the west of the airport and aircraft on short Final Approach to the airport have been at extreme risk for very successful Small Arms attacks for years up until recently the Warlords and gangs controlling this key TR have forbade their foot soldiers from shooting at commercial aircraft largely to protect the tourism industry aircraft not coming into Haiti hurts the economy which trickles down to financial impacts for the gangs influencing the country now that the government of Haiti has collapsed and tourism is off the menu with gangs running the nation totally the Primitive form of stability offered by the gangs in the past has now descended into more infighting more conflict and less discipline one incident is a case study however due to the potential severity of this situation car should be taken for any air travel into or out of Haiti either the incident was a one-off lack of discipline which if true has likely already been taken care of or it is an indicator of a much larger Trend that may be developing until more data is obtained no reliable prediction can be made as to whether or not this will continue however finding volunteers willing to become the second data point will likely be challenging this concludes the wire for 2300 zillu November 11th 2024