The Navy has fired the top three leaders who were aboard the attack submarine USS Connecticut when it struck an uncharted sea mountain in the Pacific Ocean in early October.
The commander of the Navy’s Seventh Fleet relieved the commanding officer of the submarine, Cmdr. Cameron Aljilani, the executive officer, Lt. Cmdr. Patrick Cashin, and the top enlisted sailor, Master Chief Sonar Technician Cory Rodgers, “due to loss of confidence,” according to a Navy statement.
At the time of the incident, the submarine was transiting through an area of the South China Sea, according to a U.S. official. Though the vessel struck an uncharted sea mountain, Vice Adm. Karl Thomas, commander of Seventh Fleet, determined the incident could have been prevented.

After urging from the Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce, Facebook has removed an anti-Israel game from its platforms in which players’ primary objective was to kill Israeli soldiers and take control of the world’s only Jewish state.
The game, named Fursan Al-Aqsa, or The Knights of Al-Aqsa – developed by Nidal Nim, Brazilian of Palestinian heritage – addressed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a violent Palestinian perspective, and raised concern in the Jewish community before being pulled by Facebook.
Besides for the game itself, Nim’s website serves to legitimate terror and inspire children to murder Jews to become “martyrs.”