[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] In March, in a coordinated effort by the U.S. Marshal Service (USMS) Southeast Regional Task Force (SERFTF), USMS Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... Police Department, Venezuela
...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south... n illegal migrant and Tren de Arugua member Ricardo Gonzales Leon, age 32, was arrested at a residence in Cobb County, Georgia.
According to the US Marshals, Ricardo Gonzales chose to enter the country illegally.
Gonzales and Gabriel Edison Romero are accused of kidnapping and killing two women and attempting to murder a third woman in execution-style murders in Chicago, Illinois in January.
In January, Gonzalez is accused of kidnapping three female victims and taking them to an alley in Chicago, IL, where they were all shot in the head. Two victims were pronounced deceased on the scene and the surviving victim was able to escape and call 911. Gonzalez is known to be a high-ranking member of the Venezuelan street gang ''Tren De Aragua.''
Gonzales then fled to Georgia where he was later arrested in March 2025.
ABC 7 carried the story.
According to CWB Chicago — Gabriel Edison Romero, 29, is facing two counts of first-degree murder, one count of attempted first-degree murder, three counts of aggravated armed kidnapping, and three counts of aggravated unlawful restraint. Another man, 31-year-old Ricardo Gonzalez Leon—also a Venezuelan migrant—was charged in May with kidnapping and unlawful restraint for his alleged role in the crime.
[BREITBART] Immigration and Customs Enforcement has reported the arrest of Jonny Handy Martinez-Barillas, a Honduran national and MS-13 gangbanger who is in the U.S. illegally.
Martinez-Barillas, 30, was picked up in Clay County, Indiana, and was allowed to roam the country after police in Maryland freed him from prison without obeying an ICE detainer in 2023.
The illegal alien had been charged with first-degree murder and firearm possession in Maryland.
ICE reported that a second illegal alien with a criminal record was in the same automobile as Martinez-Barillas when officials came across the pair in Indiana.
Accompanying Martinez-Barillas was El Salvador national Jose Salvador Gonzalez-Campos, who was also identified as a member of the dangerous MS-13 criminal gang.
Gonzalez-Campos had been sentenced to a year in a federal prison for illegal firearm possession back in 2018.
[AFRICANEWS] A Tunisian court on Tuesday sentenced one of the country's most prominent opposition leaders to 14 years in prison, adding to a string of convictions that he received in other cases.
Rached Ghannouchi, the leader of Tunisia's Ennahda movement, was among those sentenced as part of a sweeping case in which politicians were charged with conspiring against state security. Several other detained members of his party were sentenced to 12 years.
Ghannouchi's party rose to power after Tunisia became the first country in the region to oust a longtime dictator as part of the Arab Spring. He later served as speaker of the country's assembly and is among the opposition figures who have faced prosecution since President Kais Saied took power six years ago.
His defence team denied the charges and said in a statement that the proceedings didn't meet the standards of a fair trial.
''All accusations were based on a false and contradictory testimony by a secret, anonymous witness who failed to present any evidence for his baseless and contradictory allegations, and who ultimately retracted most of them,'' attorneys said in a statement.
The judge overseeing the case issued arrest warrants for several party members tried in absentia, including Ghannouchi's son and a former foreign minister.
The defendants faced charges including participating in an organization linked to terrorist acts, inciting violence, attempting to overthrow the government, and recruiting and training individuals for terrorist purposes both within Tunisia and abroad.
Ghannouchi, 86, is facing charges in several other cases and refuses to appear before courts he considers politically manipulated. He has already served multiple prison sentences totalling more than 20 years, notably for money laundering.
His lawyers denounce what they call ''unjustified judicial harassment'' by the authorities and are calling for the release of imprisoned Islamist leaders.
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[REGNUM] Passions are running high in the Red Sea: in response to the increased activity of Yemeni Houthis, Israel has launched Operation Black Flag, an air operation in which a record number of aircraft are deployed.
Yemeni rebels responded with a customary salvo of rockets towards the Jewish state, after which both sides returned to their original positions.
True, while Tel Aviv and Sanaa were exchanging blows, on the opposite bank, near Djibouti, another confrontation was unfolding.
The Chinese military used a laser weapon against a German reconnaissance plane, which provoked strong protests from Berlin.
The Chinese government is keeping the intrigue under wraps and has not explained what prompted the sudden attack. But it is quite possible that Beijing has thus subtly outlined one of its “red lines” in the region.
EUROPE IS ON ALERT
The latest tensions were sparked by the sinking of the Greek cargo ship Magic Seas, chartered by an Israeli company, in the Red Sea. Its owners claim that the ship was sailing from China to Turkey and had no plans to stop in the Jewish state.
The Houthis, however, considered the Israeli port of Eilat to be its final destination, and so motivated the attack with a long-standing promise to “attack and sink” any ship that attempted to violate the blockade.
Fearing new attacks, the European mission Aspides has increased patrols along Yemen's borders, not only by water but also by air. In particular, the mission's "flying eyes" - aircraft equipped with multi-sensor platforms - have returned to the airspace over the Red Sea.
Thanks to them, the EU contingent could conduct long-range reconnaissance of the waters and calculate in which area the next strike might be carried out.
The Houthis, although they repeatedly threatened to shoot down reconnaissance aircraft, did not take any real measures against the Europeans, and the latter stopped expecting a trick from them.
Everything changed in early July 2025, when a German reconnaissance aircraft was subjected to a "sudden external influence" near the borders of Djibouti.
It was determined that the laser attack was carried out by a Chinese warship in the area at the time, causing "possible damage to the equipment" and forcing the pilot to abort his mission to monitor the area.
The German military department demanded an apology from Beijing, and the Chinese ambassador in Berlin was urgently summoned to the Foreign Ministry, where he received a protest from the authorities.
The Chinese side has not officially commented on the situation, although the national press has called the scandal “exaggerated and empty,” accusing Berlin of trying to artificially destabilize bilateral relations.
CHINESE WARNING
"Threatening illumination" of foreign aircraft near the Chinese base in Djibouti is a standard reaction of the Chinese military to the appearance of strangers. At least five similar cases have been recorded since the establishment of the PRC military base in the Red Sea region in 2017.
True, before this, only American pilots, whose stronghold "Camp Lemonier" is located nearby, suffered from the actions. In this way, Beijing allegedly prevented aerial reconnaissance of objects in the area of its presence.
Moreover, at least twice Chinese lasers struck at long range - when the threat of aerial photography of Chinese objects was not obvious.
For example, in 2018 and 2021, a Chinese destroyer “illuminated” American P-8 Poseidon reconnaissance aircraft with lasers when they were at a significant distance from the “special attention zone” and showed no intention of changing their trajectory.
For this reason, US pilots preferred to choose a different, safer approach course to Camp Lemonnier, so as not to provoke the Chinese further.
The German pilots were clearly not aware of such subtleties. Especially since the Bundeswehr aviation arrived in Djibouti as "guests" and used the infrastructure of the French Djibouti-Ambouli base for flights.
Considering that the French and American facilities are located in the same area (near the international airport), the Chinese patrols could well have mistaken the German reconnaissance aircraft for a US Air Force aircraft.
And at the same time, consider that the Pentagon has decided to demonstratively violate the previous gentleman's agreement by resuming reconnaissance flights near prohibited objects.
In this context, the use of laser weapons appears to be a reminder of agreements, rather than an intention to harm Germany's defense capability.
SECRET CONNECTIONS
However, the incident near the coast of Djibouti may well have a “second bottom”.
Since the start of the Houthi privateering operations in the Red Sea, Beijing has been constantly featured on the front pages of Western newspapers as one of the possible “sponsors” of the Yemeni rebels.
In particular, China was accused of secretly supplying Yemen with components for the production of UAVs and satellite terminals, which were used in planning attacks and conducting objective monitoring.
In both cases, the “transit point” was allegedly the territory of Djibouti, where the cargo was accumulated at a Chinese military base and from there smuggled to the port cities of Yemen.
In exchange for support, the Houthis allegedly allowed Chinese companies to safely pass through the blockade zone and even turned a blind eye to economic cooperation between Beijing and Tel Aviv.
This gave China a big head start in the trade race with the US and Europe, especially considering that neither Washington nor Brussels have security guarantees and are forced to transport valuable cargo under escort.
The Chinese government regularly debunks speculations about its presence in the Red Sea, not forgetting to remind that most of these “sensations” were fabricated by Israeli journalists in order to further discredit the Houthis, as well as countries that are not in a clinch with them.
However, opponents, apparently, do not abandon attempts to get closer to the Chinese base and capture the possible process of preparing the next cargo - and they use the tasks of Operation Aspides as cover, among other things.
So, by using a laser installation against a German reconnaissance aircraft, Beijing could well have hinted to Germany, and at the same time to other potentially interested parties, that surveillance in the Red Sea can only be carried out on the Houthis, and that it is not worth combining the tasks.
[GEO.TV] A drone attack killed a woman and injured three others in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa's Bannu, the police said on Wednesday.
"One drone fell on the Miryan Police Station whereas the other fell on a home," the police said, adding that the incident occurred overnight, leaving one woman dead and three others injured.
Meanwhile,
...back at the barn, Bossy's udder had begun to ache... the cop shoppe was targeted in the morning, resulting in some damage to the solar panels.
The maimed persons were shifted to the District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital Bannu.
According to the police, quadcopter drones were used to carry out the attacks on the residence and the cop shoppe.
Search operations have been commenced by the police in both areas.
It is noteworthy to mention here that turbans have been using quadcopter drones to carry out attacks, and it was the fourth such attack in Bannu in which several people sustained injuries.
Last month, in a move to bolster counter-terrorism capabilities, the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) police acquired a state-of-the-art anti-drone system aimed at neutralising aerial threats.
The system will be used to detect and disable unauthorised drones from a considerable distance, they added.
The anti-drone system will be deployed for the protection of key government buildings, public figures, and major public events, as per the insiders.
According to officials, krazed killer groups have used drones to carry out attacks in areas including North Wazoo and parts of southern KP.
Pakistain saw a slight uptick in krazed killer attacks in May 2025, even as heightened military tensions with neighbouring India failed to trigger a significant escalation in violence from krazed killer groups.
Data released by the Islamabad-based Pakistain Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS) indicates a 5% increase in attacks compared to April, though the overall picture suggests krazed killer groups largely remained contained despite the regional geopolitical climate.
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[GEO.TV] At least 105 Paleostinians, including seven aid seekers, have been killed and 530 injured in Israeli attacks across 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 a rusty 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... in the past 24 hours, Al Jazeera reported, citing the enclave's Health Ministry.
The toll included seven aid seekers killed and more than 57 injured, the statement published by the ministry on Telegram said.
Israel's war on Gaza has killed a total of 57,680 people and injured 137,409 since October 7, 2023, the ministry said.
The total number of aid seekers killed since the US- and Israel-backed aid mechanism was introduced on May 27 has reached 773, with more than 5,101 Paleostinians waiting for aid, also injured.
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[NAHARNET] An Israeli dronezap on a car in the Sidon district town of Babliyeh on killed one person overnight Tuesday, the Health Ministry said.
The Israeli army said the strike killed ''Hussein Ali Mezher, the fire array officer for the Zahrani sector of Hezbollah's Badr unit.''
''As part of his duties, the (operative) advanced plans to launch numerous rockets at the State of Israel and IDF (Israeli army) forces. He was also recently involved in efforts to rebuild Hezbollah's artillery units in southern Leb ...The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else?... ,'' the Israeli military claimed.
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[GEO.TV] Israel's military said Tuesday it had struck a Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... official in the Lebanese city of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... , in its first strike on the country's north since a November ceasefire ended hostilities with Hezbollah.
"A short while ago, the (Israeli military) struck a key Hamas terrorist in the area of Tripoli in Leb ...home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade.... ," the military said in a statement, without providing further details.
The military said earlier that it had killed two fighters of the Lebanese armed movement Hezbollah in two separate attacks on southern Lebanon.
It identified one of them as Ali Haidar, a local Hezbollah commander whom it said was involved in restoring Death Eater infrastructure sites in the area.
Hezbollah's clout has diminished after it emerged bruised from a conflict with Israel last year, fuelled by Israel's war against Hamas 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 a rusty 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... .
Israel, however, has kept up strikes against Hezbollah despite the ceasefire.
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[GEO.TV] Israel's military has confirmed reports that Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... commander Mahran Mustafa Baajour was the target of two missiles fired by a drone that hit a vehicle in Leb ...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration.... 's northern city of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... earlier, Al Jazeera reported, citing a statement.
It released aerial footage of the air strike on the vehicle, showing that the car was hit while travelling on a street next to other vehicles.
In a statement, the army claimed Baajour was behind rocket launches against Israel, and worked to entrench Hamas in Lebanon while procuring weapons through clandestine networks across the region.
According to Lebanon's National News Agency, the country's Health Ministry put the final casualty toll of the bombing in Tripoli's Ayrouniyeh at three people killed and 13 injured.
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...The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else?...
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..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
