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-Lurid Crime Tales-
ICE Seattle arrests illegal immigrant high school teacher wanted in Brazil for theft
[X] Doing a job Americans didn't want?
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Posted by: Fred || 07/23/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants


Children drugged in human trafficking sex ring uncovered in Bibb County, Alabama in an underground bunker of horror
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Posted by: Fred || 07/23/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under: Human Trafficking


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Illegal immigrants are now 'going on STRIKE' to protest ICE raids
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Posted by: Fred || 07/23/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants


Africa Subsaharan
DR Congo: CODECO militiamen reportedly killed at least 21 in attacks on Zaire armed group positions in Nizi and Lopa
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CODECO is a loose association of ethno-religious Lendu militia groups in the DRC. The name is an abbreviation of Cooperative for Development of the Congo, or slightly less expansively the Congo Economic Development Cooperative. Started as an agricultural cooperative, it evolved into a rebel movement by the end of the 20th century. The religious side contains mystical elements of animism, Christianity, and worship of their founder, who died in 2020.

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Posted by: Fred || 07/23/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:


DR Congo: AFC/M23 reportedly captured new positions in Masisi following renewed clashes despite a preliminary agreement reached in Doha
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Posted by: Fred || 07/23/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [18 views] Top|| File under: M23


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
No casualties in armed terrorist attacks in the North Caucasus during the week from July 14 to 20
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] During the week from July 14 to July 20, 2025, no casualties were recorded in armed and terrorist attacks in the North Caucasus. Two people were injured. These are the results of the "Kavkaz-Uzel" calculations, based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

As the "Kavkaz-Uzel" wrote, from July 7 to July 13, 2025, no casualties were recorded in armed and terrorist attacks in the North Caucasus.

INJURIES IN THE SHOOTOUT
Two people were wounded in a shootout between Ingush religious figures. The incident occurred late in the evening on July 13. It was caused by a conflict on social networks. The two victims received several gunshot wounds and were hospitalized in the intensive care unit. Both 42-year-old wounded belong to the same Ingush teip
…clan…
of the Yevloyevs. One of them is the security guard of the imam of the mosque of the Nasyr-Korst district of Nazran, Khamzat Chumakov.

ARRESTS AND SENTENCES UNDER TERRORISM ARTICLES
On July 18, two 15-year-old residents of North Ossetia were taken into custody, accused of undergoing terrorist training and preparing an attack on security forces using an explosive device. According to the FSB, the teenagers were detained in Mozdok, and components for homemade explosives were found during a search. 

On July 20, the FSB and the Investigative Committee published a video of the arrest of two teenagers. In the video recording made during the search, a security officer lists the items found in the house: "Gasoline, hydrogen peroxide, a coffee grinder... bolts, washers, wires...".

In another fragment, made in the courtyard of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for North Ossetia, the confiscated items are also laid out in front of him, but different ones: a wristwatch and several sets of different military uniforms with caps and shoes are visible there. One of the detainees answers the question of why he collected the confiscated items. "To make a bomb," the teenager says quietly, and the Investigative Committee officer repeats his words. 

In the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don, where the case of six Nalchik residents accused of creating a terrorist cell is being heard, the expert examination of the defendants' phones has been conducted. Kazbek Emkuzhev's phone is not among them, and the accused Aslan Makoyev has stated that the examined text of the correspondence has been falsified. Earlier, the lawyer called Emkuzhev's case fabricated.


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Posted by: badanov || 07/23/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Devout Moslems


Europe
Cruise ship carrying Israelis heads to Cyprus after anti-Israel protest prevents docking in Greece – report
[IsraelTimes] A cruise ship carrying hundreds of Israelis was reportedly unable to dock in Greece due to an anti-Israel protest and has continued instead to Cyprus.

According to Hebrew media reports citing passengers on board the ship, the cruise company, Mano Maritime, decided not to attempt to dock at the Greek island of Syros due to the large anti-Israel protest and will travel instead to Limassol, Cyprus.

There was no immediate confirmation from the cruise company. Earlier, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said he spoke with his Greek counterpart about the issue and requested intervention in the docking of the ship.
Hundreds of Israeli cruise passengers are stuck aboard their ship at the Greek island of Syros, due to a large anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian protest taking place at the docks, according to multiple reports in Hebrew media.

Passengers aboard the “Crown Iris” cruise ship, which is operated by Israeli shipping giant Mano Maritime, were set to disembark on the Aegean island for six hours, but due to the protest, they are not being allowed to exit the ship.

One Israeli passenger tells the Kan broadcaster that when one of the Israelis on the ship saw the protest, “we raised Israeli flags and some of us started singing.”

“Inside the ship, we feel safe, but the children are a little stressed,” says the unnamed passenger.

Channel 12 reports that the protest was organized by a group of the island’s residents, who posted on social media that they “raise their fists in solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza.”

“It is unacceptable that tourists from Israel continue to be welcomed here while the Palestinians are suffering in the Strip,” they said.

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Posted by: trailing wife || 07/23/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [19 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Fifth Column
Mahmoud Khalil has just been DETAINED by ICE as he was in the midst of media appearances today
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He was definitely making the rounds before his arrest:
Mahmoud Khalil Repeatedly Refused to Condemn Hamas on CNN
Helping the DoJ make their case against him.
[Mediaite] Mahmoud Khalil,
…30, the Damascus-born Palestinian (with dual Algerian citizenship through his mother, whose family were revolutionaries back home) got a Masters in Paleo Protest from Columbia, applying his training as Apartheid Divest’s frontman supporting Hamas since 10/8/2023, which overlapped his unadmitted work as an UNWRA political affairs officer — that last supporting the government’s accusation of immigration fraud, while the pro-Hamas activism is accounted as supporting a listed terror organization. He is represented by 19 activist attorneys, including the ACLU. The case is now wending its way up to the US Supreme Court. Mr. Khalil worked his way through college in Beirut as an MI-6 vetted local staffer at the British embassy, which is how he met his future wife — hijabi Leb-American dentist Noor Abdalla, suggesting either Muslim Brotherhood or Hezbollah connections. No doubt it was for her sake he went to Columbia instead of Oxford…
the Columbia University graduate student controversially detained by ICE earlier this year before he was released on the order of a federal judge, repeatedly refused to condemn Hamas during an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown on Tuesday.

After blaming his battles with the Trump administration over his legal status in the country on the “weaponization of anti-Semitism,” Brown asked: “Do you specifically condemn Hamas, a designated terrorist organization in the United States, not just for their actions on October 7?”

“I condemn the killing of all Pal-, of all civilians, full stop,” replied Khalil. “And, but what I don’t want to get into is-”

“But do you condemn Hamas, specifically?” repeated Brown.

“No, I am very clear with condemning all civilians. I’m very straight in my position in that part. But it’s disingenuous to ask about condemning Hamas while Palestinians are the ones being starved now by Israel. It’s not condemning October 6, where 260 Palestinians were killed by Israel before October 7. So I hate this selective outrage of condemnation because this is not, this wouldn’t lead to a constructive conversation. And this is also, like what we want to deal with is the root causes of why that happened. And it’s no way anyone can justify the killing of civilians,” answered Khalil.

The anchor and activist continued:

BROWN: Just to be clear, Mahmoud, we did ask about-, you know we’ve talked at length about your views, of course, on the Palestinians. But it is fair to ask you about whether you condemn Hamas because the Trump administration has claimed that you are a Hamas sympathizer. So it’s very important to actually ask that question in this broad conversation.

KHALIL: Yeah, I simply asked and protested the war in Palestine. That’s what I did. That’s my duty as a Palestinian, as a human being right now, is to ask for the stop of the killing in my home country. And that’s consistent with who I am. I’m a firm believer in international law and human rights. And all my values come from that point. It’s just like, to me, it’s always, as I said, disingenuous and absurd to ask such questions when literally 62,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel. That’s why I wouldn’t really engage much into such questions on condemnation or not. Because selective condemnations is not, wouldn’t get us anywhere. It’s just like hypocrite, to be honest.
The New York Post adds:
Khalil was arrested by federal immigration authorities on March 8 and spent 104 days at a Louisiana detention center as the Trump administration fought to deport the Syrian-born permanent resident.

The administration said Khalil engaged in activities “aligned to Hamas.”

Khalil, who is now suing the federal government for $20 million over what he claims was false imprisonment and a smear campaign to label him as an antisemite, drew fresh backlash after the interview – with the Department of Homeland Security blasting him as a “terrorist sympathizer.”

“Mahmoud Khalil refused to condemn Hamas because he IS a terrorist sympathizer not because DHS ‘painted’ him as one,” DHS wrote in a fiery post on X, arguing that the green card holder “branded” himself as an antisemite “through his own hateful behavior and rhetoric.”

“The Trump Administration acted well within its statutory and constitutional authority to detain Khalil, as it does with any alien who advocates for violence, glorifies and supports terrorists, harasses Jews, and damages property.”

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Posted by: Fred || 07/23/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [27 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Northern Israel man indicted on terror charges for posts supporting ISIS and Hamas, possessing several guns
[IsraelTimes] State prosecutors indict a 65-year-old resident of Tuba-Zangariyye today on terror charges, accusing him of incitement over his alleged social media posts supporting several terrorist groups.

The defendant was arrested June 29 after police received a report about his Facebook posts, in which he allegedly published content in support of Hamas, ISIS and al-Qaeda, says law enforcement.

Police raided the man’s home to find an ISIS flag in his room, alongside several guns with magazines, machetes and walkie-talkies.

The suspect quoted Hamas spokesman Abu Obeida directly, police say, in one Facebook post which read: “The Islamic nation will not rise, and will have no standing among the nations until this holy land is cleansed of the occupiers’ impurity.”

He is indicted at the Kiryat Shmona Magistrate’s Court on charges of incitement to terrorism, identification with a terrorist organization and possession of illegal weapons.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 07/23/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [19 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
IDF arrests suspected weapons dealers in southern Syria, says military
[IsraelTimes] IDF troops detained several weapons dealers during an overnight raid in southern Syria, the military says.

Troops of the 210th “Bashan” Regional Division and members of the Military Intelligence Directorate’s Unit 504 arrested and questioned the suspected dealers, “following intelligence indications regarding several suspects who had transferred various types of weaponry,” the IDF says.

The military says troops also seized several weapons in the area.

The IDF has been deployed to nine posts inside southern Syria since the fall of the Assad regime in December, mostly within a UN-patrolled buffer zone on the border between the countries.

Troops have been operating in areas up to around 15 kilometers deep into Syria, aiming to capture weapons that Israel says could pose a threat to the country if they fall into the hands of “hostile forces.”
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Israeli drone strikes vehicle in Lebanese village of Tibnin, southern Lebanon
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Posted by: Fred || 07/23/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah



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