[SUDANTRIBUNE] Concerns are mounting in Kadugli, the capital of South Kordofan State, over the potential for violent mostly peaceful tribal confrontations following the liquidations of two prominent Arab tribal leaders.
On May 1, button men fatally shot tribal leader Hamdan Ali al-Boulad outside his home in the Klimo neighbourhood. The assailants escaped to an unknown location.
Al-Boulad, the emir of the Rawwaqa branch of the Hawazma tribe, was also the head of the South Kordofan Farmers’ Union and a leader of the National Umma Party in the state.
Just days later, on May 7, Suleiman Sanad Suleiman al-Shein, the son of the Emir of the al-Dulmba branch of the Hawazma tribe, was similarly bumped off inside his home in the al-Zindiyah neighbourhood.
A prominent community leader in South Kordofan, who wished to remain anonymous for security reasons, accused the Military Intelligence of the 14th Infantry Division of orchestrating the attacks to incite tribal warfare in Kadugli. This, he warned, could mirror the violent mostly peacefulfestivities of 2020, which resulted in the deaths of dozens from the Nuba and Arab tribes.
"Targeting civil leaders in their homes is intended to provoke their communities into seeking Dire Revenge, potentially leading to a total collapse of security," he told the Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... Tribune. He called on local security and police forces to swiftly apprehend the perpetrators and disclose the findings of their investigations to uncover the motives behind these targeted liquidations.
The liquidations have triggered widespread anger and warnings about the potential for escalating violence in Kadugli. Tribal Death Eaters have begun to mobilize around the villages surrounding the city, raising fears of further conflict.
In response, Brigadier General Moataz Ahmed Kidero, Director of the South Kordofan State Police, announced at a presser on Wednesday that suspects in al-Boulad’s killing had been arrested. He also vowed to capture those responsible for the liquidation of al-Shein.
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[Garowe] Police in Jubaland state have arrested four suspected pirates along Somalia’s coastline, following an intensive search mounted in the region, as cases of piracy continue to skyrocket in the Horn of Africa nation, which is struggling with instability.
The pirates, officials said, were planning to attack ships in Somalia waters within Kismayo ...a port city in the southern Lower Juba province of Somalia, at the extreme southern end of the country (always assuming Somalia can be called a country). It is the commercial capital of the autonomous Jubaland region.... , the regional administrative capital of Jubaland state. Jubaland has recently shown signs of stabilization, after military operations executed by multinational operations within the country.
The operation was carried out approximately 70 km south of the coastal town of Kismayo, the interim capital of Jubbaland State. Two suspects managed to escape during the operation, and a search mission has been mounted.
Major Sadiq Mohamud, the commander of Jubaland police, said the region has obtained the list of people suspected to be funding piracy in the country. Those found culpable could be subjected to hangman, or the firing squad in the country.
He added that the arrested men planned to hijack ships and boats carrying goods in Jubbaland areas. The Jubaland state is one of the newest federal states which has also been handling the al-Shabaab ... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa... menace, a group that is dominant in the country.
Recently, the Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... Maritime Police Force (PMPF) seized illegal weapons and dismantled a network of suspected pirates operating from the coastal district of Eyl, known as a strategic base for launching attacks on international shipping, officials said.
The pirates have been spending much time along Somalia’s coastline in Puntland and have since managed to hijack many vessels, including the MV Abdullah a Bangladeshi-flagged fat merchantman released by Somali pirates last month following weeks of negotiations and a $5 million ransom payment.
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has intensified calls for the stabilization of the country, but cases of piracy have caused concerns among several stakeholders, who are directly involved in helping the country to stabilize. Somalia has been trying to find space for development for the last three decades.
[Garowe] At least 23 civilians have been killed by suspected Ottoman Turkish drones in Somalia, the Amnesty International has reported, calling for immediate investigations into what it terms as 'crimes against humanity', which meet the threshold of war crimes.
According to the report, the two separate Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s claimed the lives of 23 people, with the first one being executed on 18th March 2024, leaving 14 children dead, 5 women and 4 men. The airstrike also left 17 people injured and all come from the marginalized Gorgaarte clan.
The rights group says the airstrike hit Jaffey farm, about three kilometres west of Bagdad village in the Lower Shabelle region, between 8 pm and 8.30 pm. Victims and other residents told Amnesty International that the dronezaps followed heavy ground fighting that started earlier that day between the gang al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... and Somali security forces close to the villages of Jambaluul and Bagdad.
And now, Amnesty International wants the governments of Somalia and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... to immediately investigate the incident, according to Tigere Chagutah, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for East and Southern Africa.
"The Somali and Ottoman Turkish governments must investigate these deadly strikes as a war crime, and put an end to reckless attacks on civilians," said Tigere Chagutah, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for East and Southern Africa.
"In Somalia, civilians have borne the brunt of suffering in war far too often. These horrific deaths must not be overlooked. The devastated survivors and their families deserve truth, justice and reparations."
Besides interviewing 12 people over the incident, Amnesty International also involved researchers, who reviewed satellite imagery and medical reports, analyzed photos of victims and weapons fragments, and geolocated videos from the scene of the attacks and of Ottoman Turkish drone operations at Mogadishu International Airport.
Investigators confirmed that this particular airstrike was conducted with MAM-L glide bombs, which are dropped from TB-2 drones. Both are manufactured by Turkiye. Attacks that fail to differentiate between military objectives and civilian objects are indiscriminate and may amount to war crimes.
Multiple sources told Amnesty International that al-Shabaab fighters were present in Bagdad during festivities on 18 March. An initial dronezap hit a mosque in the eastern side of Bagdad at around 7.30 pm, destroying the building and damaging nearby houses, the group says.
Following that attack, eyewitnesses said many civilians fled to the Jaffey farm to seek refuge. The first strike on the farm killed and injured several civilians. A second attack, approximately 30 minutes later, killed and injured more civilians who had arrived from the neighbouring villages of Alifow and Gaalgube to rescue survivors following the first strike.
A day later, Somalia’s Ministry of Information reported that security forces had killed over 30 al-Shabaab hard boyz in the villages of Bagdad and Baldooska in coordination with "international partners".
The statement added: "The operation was launched in response to intelligence reports indicating that al-Shabaab fighters were gathering in these areas and planning an assault against the Somali people... 15 al-Shabaab members were killed in an airstrike in Bagdad."
It is unclear whether Ottoman Turkish or Somali forces were in control of the TB-2 drone at the time of the strikes on the Jaffey farm. One source in the Somali government told Amnesty International that members of the National Intelligence and Security Agency fly the TB-2s during combat operations against al-Shabaab.
However,
a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... in 2022, the UN Panel of Experts for Somalia reported that, according to the Ottoman Turkish government, Turkiye did not transfer the drones to Somalia in violation of the UN arms embargo, but rather operated the drones themselves "in the fight against terrorism".
Also in 2022, Ahmed Malim Fiqi, Somalia’s then Interior Minister who is now Foreign Minister, was reported to have said that while Ottoman Turkish forces operate the drones, Somali commanders provide the targets.
Turkey is a major security and development partner of Somalia and has been training the elite GorGor troops, who have been helping the country effectively tackle al-Shabaab. The government of Somalia has also signed a defence deal with Turkey, which expressly gives Ankara authority to oversee Somalia's waters.
[Garowe] Somalia-based al-Shabaab ...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... turbans have mourned one of the senior officers with was killed by the Somali National Army (SNA) during a recent operation in southern parts of the country, in what they termed as a "huge" setback to "our" mission.
The group confirmed the demise of the traditional elder who was killed by government forces in Garasweyne, Bakool region of Southwest state on May 7. The government of Somalia confirmed the death in a separate presser as reported by state media.
Abdullahi Mohammed Yare alias "Malaaq Qori" acted as the traditional elder of one of the local clans and has supported the group with recruitment, collection of zakat, and opening of madrasas, according to reports from the region.
On Thursday, state media published an interview with a government commander who said he led the operation that killed Malaaq Qori. His death was described as a 'major' win in the fight against al-Shabaab murderous Moslems.
Al-Shabaab shadow Governors for Bakool, Sheikh Osman Abu Abdirahman and Galgudud Abdullahi Abu Khalid, were among al-Shabaab Officials who eulogized Malaaq Qori, terming him a 'strong pillar to our mission'.
The al-Shabaab turbans have suffered immense losses in recent weeks, following the activation of military campaigns across the country. For the last two years, at least 3,000 turbans have been killed in the operations across the country.
According to the UN Security Council, al-Shabaab collects close to $120 million annually from extortion, with unnamed foreign sources also contributing to the kitty. Of this amount, at least $24 million goes to the purchase of weapons.
Besides military operations against al-Shabaab, the government is targeting those financing the group. Last year, close to 250 bank accounts associated with the group and 70 mobile money transfer firms were blocked, minimizing the group's sources of revenue.
To further scuttle al-Shabaab, the government has also closed down social media sites and websites propagating the group's agenda. The group's influence has significantly nosedived in different parts of the country.
[Garowe] Authorities in Kenya are holding at least 24 Æthiopians, who were being ferried to the country illegally, but the smugglers would later abandon them in thickets in the Eastern part of the East African nation.
According to the local media, the 24 Æthiopians were left stranded in a bush within Isiolo County and have since been taken to a holding cell awaiting their prosecution. Yearly, hundreds of illegal immigrants colonists cross over to Kenya from Æthiopia.
They are said to have sought help in a local cop shoppe in the Merti area after their suspected smugglers left them on Sunday, the BBC reports. The smugglers were reportedly avoiding roadblocks along the Isiolo-Nairobi Highway, which connects the two countries.
The immigrants colonists told police they were in transit to South Africa after crossing the Kenya-Æthiopia border. The foreigners are in police custody waiting to be arraigned for being in the country illegally. Police said they were pursuing the smugglers.
Kenya is a common transit route for Æthiopian migrants colonists attempting to enter South Africa. Once they arrive in Nairobi, they are kept in concentration camps before being ferried to Tanzania, Mozambique, and later to the Republic of South Africa.
A few years ago, hundreds of dead bodies were discovered in Mozambique in a trailer they were traveling in, with autopsy indicating they died of suffocation. Reports indicated most of those who died were from Æthiopia and were heading to South Africa.
Cases of human trafficking and illegal immigration are common within the Kenyan border, with most of those involved said to be looking for greener pastures. South Africa, one of Africa's giant economies, is one of the most preferred destinations.
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[ShabelleMedia] In a series of successful operations against the Al-Shabaab terrorist group, the Southwest state forces of Somalia have achieved notable victories, capturing 12 Al-Shabaab members and eliminating key figures within the organization.
These operations mark a significant step forward in the ongoing counterinsurgency efforts in Somalia. According to Somali state media, a government operation conducted in Somalia’s Bay region on May 5, 2024, resulted in the elimination of two Al-Shabaab fighters, identified as Abdullahi Aliyow and Najib Abdisalan.
These individuals were responsible for tax collection for the group, a critical source of funding for their activities. This operation demonstrates the government’s commitment to dismantling the financial infrastructure of Al-Shabaab, a crucial aspect of weakening the group’s operational capabilities.
In a separate operation carried out in villages located outside the Baydhabo town, the Southwest state’s spy agency unveiled several Al-Shabaab operatives. These individuals were part of a larger network involved in terrorist activities, including planned assassinations, direct assaults, nighttime bombings, and extortion.
Twelve individuals were detained in this operation, highlighting the effectiveness of intelligence-led operations in combating terrorism.
These successes come amid ongoing efforts by the Somali government and its international partners to combat Al-Shabaab. The Somali National Army, African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) troops, and local militia have been working together to push back against the militant group. These efforts have resulted in the recapture of key strategic towns and the elimination of a significant number of Al-Shabaab fighters.
The second phase of operations against Al-Shabaab, which kicked off in southwest and Jubaland states, has seen the participation of soldiers from neighboring Kenya, Djibouti, and Ethiopia, in addition to Somali forces.
Somalia's spy agency; the National Intelligence Security Agency (NISA) has paraded 12 suspected Al-Shabaab militants as the fight against the group garnered momentum across the Horn of Africa nation, which is battling with instability.
The suspected militants were rounded by security forces in Baidoa, the regional administrative capital of Southwest state, following intensive search mounted by local troops. Southwest is a major terror hotbed in Somalia.
According to NISA, the 12 individuals were arrested following a coordinated crackdown by national security forces in Baidoa city and its surroundings were extorting money from members of the public in the region.
The suspects, NISA added, will be charged in the military court in line with traditions set by security operatives in Somalia. Besides extortion, they are accused of killing members of the public along with endangering the lives of security teams.
Security and intelligence officers from the southern state of Somalia are continuing with operations in the region to ensure security is maintained. The second phase of operations against Al-Shabaab is set to be launched in Southwest and Jubaland states.
For the last two years, security teams have intensified operations against Al-Shabaab in central regions, killing at least 3,000 Al-Shabaab militants. In the process, hundreds of Al-Shabaab militants have also surrendered to security teams.
The second phase of operations was delayed due to logistical challenges but the government announced possible resumption in the coming months. The Somali National Army is expected to assume security responsibilities from foreign troops by the end of this year.
Already, about 5,000 African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) soldiers have left the country. By June this year, 5,000 more are set to leave as the African Union gears towards implementation of the Somali Transition Plan.
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[Regnum] The armed forces of the Shiite movement Ansar Allah (Houthis) ruling in northern Yemen attacked three Israeli ships in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean.The military representative of the Houthis, Yahya Saria, announced this on May 9 on the Yemeni TV channel Al Masirah.
“The Yemeni Armed Forces carried out an operation involving naval forces, unmanned air forces and missile forces, hitting two Israeli vessels in the Gulf of Aden - MSC DEGO and MSC GINA. The attack was carried out with the help of several ballistic missiles and drones, and the hit was accurate,” Saria said.
In addition, according to him, Yemen's missile forces carried out two operations against the MSC Vittoria, first in the Indian Ocean and then in the Arabian Sea.
Sounds like they missed…
Yahya Saria added that the Yemeni Armed Forces are monitoring the development of the situation in the Gaza Strip and are increasing the level of their military operations in order to defeat the oppressors of the Palestinian people.
As Regnum reported earlier, Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saria said that the Ansar Allah movement intends to attack ships associated with Israel or going to its ports everywhere, including in the Mediterranean Sea, if Israel launches an operation in Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip.
The Houthis also intend, in the event of such a development of the situation, to introduce “comprehensive sanctions” against all ships of companies related to supply and entry into Israeli ports, and will also prevent the passage of all ships of these companies through the area under their control, he added.
On May 7, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced the start of a military operation in Rafah.
In addition, the IDF reported taking control of the border crossing on the Gaza Strip border with Egypt. The passage of residents and humanitarian aid through the border checkpoint has been stopped.
On the night of May 6-7, it became known that the head of the Politburo of the radical Palestinian movement Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, said that he was waiting for Israel to respond to the plan proposed by Egypt and Qatar for a ceasefire, withdrawal of troops and lifting the blockade. This was announced by Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian after a conversation with Haniyeh.
At the same time, according to local media, Israel continued to strike Rafah, which is a humanitarian corridor.
[GEO.TV] Climate activist Greta "Pippi" Thunberg ...an autistic sixteen year old Swedish expert on climate change, though I guess she's older now... Born in 2003, she is now fully adult under American law, much too old to be an enfant terrible...
joined thousands of pro-Paleostinian demonstrators in Eurovision 2024 host city Malmo on Thursday to protest Israel's participation in the song contest ahead of this year's second semi-final.
Some 100,000 visitors have gathered in the southern Swedish city for the annual kitsch-fest, which is taking place amid protests and boycotts over the Israeli military campaign in Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
"Young people are leading the way and showing the world how we should react to this," Thunberg, 21, said, wrapped in a keffiyeh, the traditional scarf that has become a symbol of Paleostinian resistance.
We should always rely on what youth has to say. Experience and learning count for nothing. People are born wise, and as we get older we get dumber.That's why a twenty-year-old makes less sense than a six-year-old.
[IsraelTimes] Israel jumps up in the odds after accidental leaked results appear to show 40% of votes in Italy going to Golan; Belgian broadcaster interrupts show with anti-Israel message.
While a mass anti-Israel protest was held earlier Thursday in the southern Swedish city — as well as a much smaller pro-Israel gathering — Golan’s performance went off undisturbed.
Within the arena, a smattering of boos could be heard as she was on stage, as well as loud cheers, but the European Broadcasting Union employs anti-boo technology to prevent any such noises making it to the live broadcast. The Kan public broadcaster said that Golan practiced singing while being booed in order to prepare for her performance.
In her only comments on stage after completing the song on Thursday night, Golan simply exclaimed "thank you so much!"
The Italian public broadcaster appeared to accidentally reveal live on air the results of its country’s televote, handing Israel a whopping 39% of the votes, way ahead of the second vote-getter, Netherlands, which got just 7%. The vote distribution in the semifinals is not meant to be released until after the final, and the percentages are not generally published. The EBU did not respond to a request for comment.
At a presser for those who advanced to the finals, held shortly after the show, Golan said that she felt "overwhelmed with emotions — it’s truly such an honor to be here on stage, performing and showing our voice and representing us with pride and making it to the finals."
Golan was asked by a Polish journalist, Szymon Stellmaszyk, if she felt that she should not have attended the contest since it would bring "risk and danger" to the other contestants. A visibly taken-aback Golan was told by the host of the presser that she did not need to answer, but she responded that "I think we’re all here for one reason and one reason only. And the EBU is taking all safety precautions to make this a safe and united place for everyone."
The Israeli singer has been accompanied by a heavy security presence throughout the competition, and has skipped almost all events in Malmo aside from the live shows and dress rehearsals, in light of a wide range of threats made against Israel’s participation. She’s pretty much been in semi-solitary confinement in her room except when travelling to and from the performance space, according to reports.
Ahead of the contest, a major anti-Israel rally was held in the city center, with an estimated 12,000 attendees, according to police. Local Swedish media reported that at least nine people were arrested at the protest, and police used pepper spray to disperse crowds. A much smaller pro-Israel gathering was held while almost entirely surrounded by police.
Alongside Israel, Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... , the Netherlands, Latvia, Estonia, Greece, Armenia, Georgia, Austria and Norway also qualified for the grand final on Thursday, and 26 total countries will be competing for the title on Saturday evening. That show is also expected to be accompanied by another major anti-Israel protest in the city.
The start of the broadcast of the show in Belgium on Thursday was interrupted by an on-screen anti-Israel message which was endorsed by a trade union within VRT, the country’s Dutch-language public broadcaster. The on-screen message said it "condemns the violations of human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... by the State of Israel" and accused it of "destroying press freedom," while adding the hashtags and #CeaseFireNow #StopGenocideNow."
Earlier in the day on Thursday, former Finnish Eurovision competitor Käärijä filmed a short video dancing with Golan, and then disavowed the clip after it circulated online.
[IsraelTimes] Demonstrators call for prestigious Massachusetts university to ’cut ties to a state that is currently enacting a genocide,’ as encampment protests continue at numerous US campuses
Police detained several people Thursday at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology after demonstrators blocked a parking garage in their ongoing protest movement against Israel amid the war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... against Hamas Tensions have ratcheted up in standoffs with protesters on campuses across the United States and increasingly in Europe. Some colleges cracked down immediately, while others have tolerated the demonstrations, which have included instances of antisemitism and harassment of Jewish students. Some have begun to lose patience and call in the police over concerns about disruptions to campus life and safety.
In Boston, the US city most identified with higher education, students have set up encampments on at least five campuses, including MIT, Northeastern University and Harvard University.
At MIT, protesters have been asking administrators to end all research contracts with Israel’s Defense Ministry, which they estimate total $11 million since 2015. On Thursday, the school issued an alert just before 2 p.m. saying protesters were blocking the entrance to a campus parking garage and spilling onto a nearby street.
About two hours later, authorities split protesters up and pushed them away from the garage. At least three people were detained. Protesters walked away continuing to chant "Free Paleostine." The crowd dispersed, and the garage was reopened by 5 p.m., the school said.
MIT officials said later Thursday that fewer than 10 people were arrested by MIT police during the incident and the Stata Garage and Vassar Street are now open. Cambridge Police were also on hand to help clear the garage entrance, officials said.
Hannah Didehbani, an MIT student and one of the leaders of the protest, said the decision to block the garage was part of a larger effort to bring attention to what she described as MIT’s complicity with the Israeli military, which has been fighting against Hamas in Gaza since the terror group’s October 7 onslaught that started the war. Didehbani said she had been issued a suspension and an eviction notice by the school but said MIT cannot suspend the larger student movement.
"They’d much rather do those things than cut ties to a state that is currently enacting a genocide," she said.
The anti-Israel campus protests began nearly three weeks ago at Columbia University in New York City. It has since swept college campuses nationwide, with more than 2,500 people arrested.
[NYPOST] A progressive nonprofit that has been shelling out cash to anti-Israel protest groups is being sued by Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation for fraud and withholding more than $33 million in donations, a bombshell lawsuit claims.
Tides Foundation, which has managed hundreds of millions in donations for progressive groups since it was founded in 1976, has "refused to honor its promises and continues to commandeer BLMGNF’s donations," according to the 285-page lawsuit filed in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Superior Court, Los Angeles County, on Monday.
Instead, Tides doled out an undisclosed amount of donations to a radical BLM breakaway group run by anti-police activist Melina Abdullah — who lost a "frivolous" lawsuit against BLMGNF — according to court papers and an attorney for BLMGNF.
Tides, a Los Angeles- and the Socialist paradise of San Francisco
...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... -based nonprofit, acts as a fiscal sponsor — essentially, a clearinghouse that collects donations for groups that may not have 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status.
In addition to BLMGNF and other BLM groups, it manages donations for pro-Paleostinian groups that have supported anti-Israel protests across the country.
Billionaire George Soros
...either Ernst Stavro Blofeld or Auric Goldfinger come true... and his son Alex Soros have funneled nearly $14 million from their Open Society Foundations to Tides, which sponsors activist groups including the pro-Paleostinian Adalah Justice Project and others fueling campus protests.
"Tides has engaged in deceptive business practices and has operated in a quasi-banking capacity without appropriate regulatory oversight of licenses," the BLMGNF lawsuit says. "Tides operates with a level of autonomy and minimal regulatory scrutiny that is starkly at odds with the regulatory framework imposed on traditional financial institutions."
According to the lawsuit, Tides has more than $1.4 billion in assets and allegedly acts as a bank — only without banking regulations.
BLMGNF, the national organization of the civil rights movement founded in 2017, took in tens of millions in donations after the death of Saint George Floyd ...The patron saint of Minneapolis... in 2020.
At the time, the group did not have tax-exempt status from the IRS ...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies... , and approached the Tides Foundation to help it manage the flood of cash.
Tides, which takes a percentage of donations to manage a group’s funds, gave verbal assurances that it would return the collected money once BLMGNF received tax-exempt status, the lawsuit claims.
In the meantime, it managed donations in a "collective action fund" that would be accessible to BLMGNF, according to the lawsuit.
BLMGNF ended its relationship with Tides in 2022, and Tides has refused to hand over the cash, totaling some $33 million, the complaint says.
Instead, Tides, which takes between 3% and 9% of the donations it processes, has sent part of the funds to other BLM groups without the permission of BLMGNF, the lawsuit says.
On June 9, 2022, a Tides official said Tides had transferred $7.4 million from the collective fund back to BLMGNF.
Instead, it sent part of the cash — $4.75 million — to an unaffiliated BLM chapter in Oklahoma City, the lawsuit says.
"It is unclear why such a large amount would have been granted to a single city’s BLM chapter," the lawsuit says.
In a statement to The Post Wednesday, a spokeswoman for Tides Foundation called the allegations in the complaint "completely false."
"Resources in the Black Lives Matter [collective action fund] were never intended to be granted to large, well-funded national organizations like Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, and were always intended to be granted to local Black Lives Matter chapters," the Tides statement says. "BLMGNF’s lawsuit seeks to circumvent the intent of the Fund’s donors and deprive grassroots Black Lives Matter chapters critical resources, for its own benefit."
While Tides’ website mentions that it offers "grant management," an attorney for BLMGNF said in a statement to The Post that Tides was not authorized to dole out donations earmarked for BLMGNF to offshoot groups or local chapters.
Tides said it had granted $12.6 million from the Support Fund to groups, including BLM Grassroots, a breakaway group helmed by activist Melina Abdullah.
She tried to collect $10 million from BLMGNF in a "frivolous lawsuit" for her breakaway BLM Grassroots. Abdullah — who is running as independent candidate Cornel West’s running mate in the US presidential election — lost the lawsuit last year and was ordered to pay more than $700,000 in BLMGNF legal fees and costs.
An attorney for BLMGNF cited a June ruling by a Los Angeles Superior Court judge who dismissed BLM Grassroots’ claims to any of BLMGNF’s donations.
"This lawsuit against the Tides Foundation is not just about financial discrepancies but the principle of rightful ownership and transparency that should govern partnerships in social justice funding," attorney Byron McLain said Wednesday.
In a statement to The Post, BLMGNF said it "never expected to become victims of... unscrupulous business practices" in social justice philanthropy.
"There is an expectation for Black Lives Matter to challenge systems, break barriers and uphold the truth, no matter how uncomfortable," the statement said. "Today, that extends into non-profit operations as we call out Tides Foundation and other so-called ’fiscal sponsors’ who exploit their role."
BLMGNF has had its own issues with finances, after raking in $90 million in donations for 2020 alone.
Patrisse Cullors, the group’s co-founder, then went on a multimillion-dollar home-buying spree, purchasing two homes in Los Angeles and a property in the Atlanta suburbs with an airplane hangar and runway, as first revealed by The Post.
Cullors denied that she used donations to buy the properties.
She resigned from BLMGNF a month later, in May 2021.
Cullors also signed off on a $6 million Los Angeles mansion, to be used as an office for BLMGNF, and an $8 million property in Toronto for the group’s Canadian chapter.
[Rudaw] Amnesty International on Tuesday slammed Iraqi authorities for an "alarming lack of transparency" over the execution of 11 prisoners on the same day for "terrorism" charges, condemning the trials for lacking due process and falling short of international standards.
AI doesn’t like executions — they’re so judgmental and final, donchaknow, and thus unfair to terrorists and evildoers of all sorts.
Iraqi authorities on Monday executed 11 inmates in southern Dhi Qar province’s Nasiriyah central prison on charges of "terrorism", security sources told AFP news agency. It is the latest round of executions after 11 others were executed in the same prison on similar charges last month.
"There is an alarming lack of transparency surrounding these executions both in terms of actual numbers of executions taking place as well as the process of guaranteeing the rights of the men being put to death," Razaw Salihy, Iraq Researcher at Amnesty, told Rudaw English.
The men in Nasiriya central prison, known as al-Hout, were hanged for their alleged affiliation to with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS). At least 150 inmates in the facility are facing execution on terrorism-related charges, pending ratification from Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rashid.
"Iraq’s justice system has been plagued by human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... violations. Courts have condemned thousands to death in unfair trials, based on torture tainted evidence and on vaguely worded laws," Salihy said, worrying that the execution rate is set to rise "given the enormous number on death row" if the Iraqi president continues the ratifications.
"Amnesty International stresses to the Iraqi authorities that any executions carried out after trials that don't meet international human rights standards may amount to arbitrary deprivation of life," she added.
Since the rise of ISIS in 2014, thousands of people have been detained across Iraq for suspected links to terrorist groups, including ISIS, while hundreds have been executed. The United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... has criticized Iraq’s trials of ISIS suspects, saying proceedings have not met fair trial standards and raising concerns about allegations of torture.
Amnesty has routinely called on Iraqi authorities to halt all executions and abolish the death penalty .
Iraq has often been criticized for poor prison conditions and harsh treatment of detainees and suspects.
While access to data on executions in the country is limited, UN experts in January said they were "deeply concerned about the secretive nature of the implementation of the death penalty in Iraq," after 13 men were executed on the same day in late December.
More than 8,000 are purportedly on death row in Iraq, and authorities have been repeatedly criticized for carrying out hasty trials.
[IsraelTimes] Inspectors confiscate broadcasting gear from blacklisted network; Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi vows ’Israel won’t let Hamas broadcast from here’
The Communications Ministry said Thursday that its inspectors raided the Nazareth offices of Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... i broadcaster Al Jazeera, in accordance with the recent government decision to halt the channel’s operations in the country.
Inspectors accompanied by police confiscated equipment designed for live broadcasts last used on Wednesday, including a camera, a TVU transceiver, a tripod and an audio kit, the ministry said in its statement.
"Israel won’t let Hamas broadcast from here," Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi posted on X, reiterating Israel’s accusation that the Qatari network serves as a propaganda mouthpiece for the terror group.
On Sunday, the government voted unanimously to authorize Karhi to shut down Al Jazeera for 45 days, in accordance with a law passed by the Knesset in April allowing the temporary closure of foreign media outlets deemed to be harming national security.
Immediately after the cabinet decision, Karhi signed four orders instructing Israel’s television and internet providers to halt access to Al Jazeera, as well as instructions to close the network’s offices in Israel and to confiscate the channel’s broadcast equipment.
"Al Jazeera’s journalists have harmed Israeli security and incited against IDF soldiers," said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a joint blurb issued together with Karhi’s office following the government decision.
The temporary law passed in April allows foreign media networks to be shuttered for a 45-day period, which can then be renewed.
The law itself was passed as a temporary law and will expire on July 31 or earlier, if the declaration of an emergency situation is lifted by the government.
The law gives the prime minister and the communications minister the authority to order the temporary closure of foreign networks operating in Israel and confiscate their equipment if it is believed that they are "doing actual harm to state security."
It is the communications minister that is empowered to issue such orders, but only after receiving the approval of the prime minister and the security cabinet, and after a professional position paper has been presented to the prime minister and the communications minister by the security services detailing the "factual foundations" of allegations that the channel is causing damage to Israel’s national security.
Free stuff is always considerably more expensive than it looks.
[GEO.TV] Hamas ...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... has called for a halt to airdrops of aids as parachute failure led to crashing of aid pallet into a ware, leaving two more Paleostinians dead, Al Jazeera reported.
Residents had gathered there to collect relief supplies. A total of 21 people have been killed due to airdrops of aid going wrong, according to the Hamas authorities.
"We reiterate that airdrops pose a real danger to the lives of citizens and do not provide a real solution to alleviate the food crisis plaguing northern Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... ," Salama Marouf, head of the Government Media Office in Gaza, said in a statement.
She called for the land crossings to reopen so humanitarian aid could be delivered to northern Gaza, where food shortages are at their worst.
[GEO.TV] The Israeli forces have attacked middle and western parts of Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... ’s southern city of Rafah, expanding its military aggressing in the besieged enclave amid calls of ceasefire by the international community.
"What we have been experiencing is mass destruction, lethal force being used on the ground against not only the eastern areas but also ... in the middle and western parts [of Rafah]," Al Jazeera reported.
"Bombardment there continued without any kind of let up."
[IsraelTimes] Army says troops also clearing Gaza City suburb of Hamas infrastructure; Israel says crossings open to humanitarian aid trucks, but UN claims none entered Strip in past 24 hours
Amid the Israel Defense Forces’ ongoing operation in the eastern part of Rafah in the southern Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip, some 50 button men have been killed by troops, while some 150,000 Paleostinians have evacuated the area so far, according to estimates by the military on Thursday.
Another 10 tunnel shafts have been found in the Rafah operation, launched late Monday, and they were being prepared for demolition.
In one incident Thursday, three soldiers were moderately maimed as a result of a blast in a booby-trapped tunnel shaft in the Rafah area, the military said. The troops were taken to a hospital for treatment.
The IDF currently does not plan to expand the evacuation order to other areas of Rafah, as the ongoing operation remains relatively limited in scope amid hostage negotiations with Hamas The IDF also launched a new pinpoint raid in Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighborhood early Thursday. The operation was being carried out by the 99th Division and aims at "the continued dismantling of terror infrastructure and eliminating Death Eaters in the area," the military said.
Troops of the Nahal, Yiftah, and Carmeli brigades entered the suburb to clear it of Hamas infrastructure.
Prior to their entry, the Israeli Air Force struck some 25 sites in the area, including buildings used by terror groups, attack tunnels, observation posts, sniper positions and other infrastructure, the IDF said.
The military first operated in Zeitoun at the start of Israel’s ground offensive in Gaza last year, weeks after Hamas’s brutal October 7 attacks sparked the war, and launched another two-week-long raid in the neighborhood in late February.
The latest raid came after the IDF identified Hamas regrouping in the area.
Meanwhile, the IDF and Shin Bet security agency announced on Wednesday that the commander of Hamas’s naval forces in Gaza City, Ahmed Ali, was killed in a recent Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... According to the military, Ali was involved in managing various projects for Hamas’s naval forces and advancing attacks against Israel and troops amid the ongoing war, most recently in central Gaza’s Netzarim Corridor.
In southern Gaza, the IDF said that Israel had reopened the Kerem Shalom Crossing after days of closure, with COGAT, the Israeli Defense Ministry body responsible for civilian affairs in the Paleostinian territories, sharing a video on social media on Thursday showing trucks filled with humanitarian aid crossing into the Strip.
However,
a woman is only as old as she admits... the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... claimed no humanitarian aid had arrived in Gaza by Thursday and that there was no one to receive the trucks on the other side of the crossing, after workers fled on Tuesday when the IDF took over the Paleostinian side of the Rafah Crossing with Egypt.
That IDF operation early Tuesday led to the closure of the Rafah Crossing — one of the main paths for aid into Gaza. The nearby Kerem Shalom Crossing was shuttered after a Hamas rocket attack from Rafah on Sunday killed four IDF soldiers and maimed 10 others stationed nearby. Another IDF soldier was lightly maimed in a rocket barrage fired by Hamas from Rafah at Kerem Shalom on Wednesday.
With the seizure of the Rafah Crossing, Israel now controls all of Gaza’s crossings for the first time since it withdrew troops and settlers from the territory nearly two decades ago. The crossing has been a vital conduit for entry of food, medicine and other humanitarian supplies for Gaza’s population of 2.3 million since the start of the war and is the only place where people can enter and exit, while Kerem Shalom is Gaza’s main cargo terminal.
"The Hamas terrorist organization continues to deliberately endanger Gazook civilians and carry out attacks from within civilian areas to attempt to attack Israeli civilians and IDF troops," the IDF said in a statement on Wednesday.
"Moreover, the terrorist organization continues to carry out launches from populated zones in the area of Rafah toward the Kerem Shalom Crossing to attack IDF troops, as well as [harm] the functioning of the crossing," the military added.
The Tuesday operation did not appear to be the start of the full-scale invasion of Rafah that Israel has repeatedly said is necessary to destroy Hamas’s military and governance capabilities and free 128 hostages kidnapped on October 7 believed to remain in Gaza.
Aid officials warn that the prolonged closure of the two crossings could cause the collapse of aid operations, worsening the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, where the UN says a "full-blown famine" is already underway in the north.
The UN World Food Program deputy executive director, Carl Skau, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that the agency had lost access to its Gaza food warehouse in Rafah, which he said was "communicated as a no-go zone."
The US in recent days completed construction of a new off-shore aid pier that will be used to shuttle large amounts of aid into Gaza.
A vessel carrying aid to the pier set sail from the Cypriot port of Larnaca on Thursday morning, marine tracking websites showed.
American officials have said the United States-flagged Sagamore will be used to offload supplies onto a floating pier built to expedite aid into the enclave.
On the Israeli side of the border, activists from a right-wing organization that opposes aid to Gaza while hostages are still held there said on Thursday morning that they had continued their attempts to block trucks on their way to Gaza overnight and in the early morning hours. The group, which has drawn international anger, said that some 500 people, including relatives of hostages, blocked trucks near Eilat and delayed them for a few hours overnight Wednesday. On Thursday morning, activists from the group blocked trucks near Mitzpe Ramon.
"We’re shifting gear. We want the hostages home. No aid passes until the last hostage returns," the group said in a statement.
Israeli authorities — facing intense international pressure to facilitate aid — have been dispersing the crowds and ensuring that the shipments eventually reach their destination.
The war in Gaza erupted after Hamas’s October 7 attacks, which saw some 3,000 Death Eaters burst across the border into Israel by land, air and sea, killing some 1,200 people and seizing 252 hostages, mostly civilians, many amid acts of brutality and sexual assault.
The ensuing war has killed over 34,800 Paleostinians, according to Gaza health officials, though data issued by the Hamas-run authorities cannot be independently verified, and is believed to include both civilians and Hamas members killed in Gaza, including as a consequence of terror groups’ own rocket misfires.
The IDF says it has killed over 13,000 operatives in Gaza, in addition to some 1,000 Death Eaters inside Israel on October 7, while 267 soldiers have been killed during the ground offensive against Hamas and amid operations along the Gaza border.
The IDF says it has wrapped up a two-week-long raid in Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighborhood, during which troops of the 401st Armored Brigade and additional forces of the 162nd Division destroyed Hamas and Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... sites and killed more than 100 operatives.
Some 35 sites were located and destroyed during the operation, including weapon depots and manufacturing sites, tunnel infrastructure, rocket launching sites with hundreds of launchers, and a site belonging to the commander of the Gaza City Brigade, Izz ad-Din Haddad, according to the IDF.
Using drones, the IDF says the 401st Brigade identified and captured dozens of Hamas operatives, who, following interrogations, provided intelligence information. Some of the Hamas button men were hiding among the civilian population in Zeitoun, according to the IDF.
The brigade killed at least 113 Hamas operatives in Zeitoun over the past two weeks, the IDF says, those that troops were able to identify with the naked eye or using drones. The Hamas button men are operating in Zeitoun without a "military framework," and in relatively small cells, according to the IDF, after the military says it dismantled the terror group’s battalions in the area in the early stages of the ground offensive.
Troops came under gunfire, RPG fire and bombs amid the operations, with at least four soldiers being killed and several more maimed. According to the IDF, most of the attacks on troops in Zeitoun occurred during the day, rather than at night.
In one incident, the IDF says a Hamas cell fired anti-tank missiles from a close range at troops. An Israeli Air Force drone spotted and struck the cell, killing several of the operatives, while others were spotted fleeing in an ambulance, the IDF says.
In another incident, the brigade called in an airstrike against a building from which a Hamas sniper was shooting at troops.
The raid in Zeitoun was the 401st Brigade’s fourth operation in Gaza, previously battling Hamas in Beit Lahiya, then in the Daraj and Tuffah neighborhoods of Gaza City, before a raid in the Rimal and Shati neighborhoods. The IDF will soon decide where to send the brigade for its next mission.
[Rudaw] A member of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) was killed in an ambush by Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) holy warriors in Syria’s eastern Deir ez-Zor province, a war monitor reported.
"A member of the Syrian Democratic Forces was killed after being ambushed by Islamic State members while riding a cycle of violence ... in the western countryside of Deir ez-Zor," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a Britannia-based war monitor.
The monitor added that the ISIS holy warriors fled after the ambush.
ISIS attacks in Syria, particularly in the vast expanses of its eastern and northern desert where the group is active amid a security vacuum, have been on the rise in recent months, sparking fears of a possible resurgence. While the group was declared territorially defeated in 2017 and 2019 respectively, it still continues to pose serious security risks through hit-and-run attacks, bombings, and abductions, especially across the vast expanses of the Syrian desert as well as several Iraqi provinces.
The Kurdish-led and US-backed SDF, who control northeast Syria (Rojava), fought the lion’s share of the battle against ISIS and arrested thousands of the terror group’s fighters along with their wives and children when they crushed ISIS territorially and took the group’s last stronghold in Syria in 2019.
In late March, the SDF warned that ISIS still poses a threat to the world and the region as its defeat "requires dismantling its ideological breeding ground,"
"ISIS is still trying to recruit new terrorist elements, attempting to radicalize them into its ranks," said the SDF, calling on the international community to "collaborate effectively" with its forces.
[Rudaw] A series of Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on Thursday targeted a "building" in the Syrian capital Damascus, state media reported. A war monitor said the strikes targeted a pro-Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Sturmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Fuhrer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... Iraqi militia base in the city.
"At around 3:20 am today, the Israeli enemy launched airstrikes from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting a building in the Damascus countryside," Syria’s state-owned SANA news agency said citing a military source, adding that air defenses intercepted the missiles.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a Britannia-based war monitor, reported that the strikes targeted "a base and cultural center" of the Iran-backed Iraqi militia Harakat al-Nujaba, which comprises the 12th brigade of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF, or Hashd al-Shaabi).
The strikes inflicted material damage, and were carried out in the Sayyida Zeinab area in southern Damascus — a stronghold for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its affiliated militias.
It is the latest amid increased hostilities against the backdrop of the Israel-Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... war with Israel on the cusp of launching its long-threatened ground offensive in Rafah, south of Gaza along the border with Egypt.
Last week, an Israeli strike on Damascus injured eight Syrian army soldiers. It was the first on the city since a deadly strike on the consular annex section of the Iranian embassy on April 1, which Tehran blamed on Israel.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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