Forty? I’m impressed. But will they be allowed to keep them in lock-up until they’re convicted and sent back whence they came?
[NYPOST] Sword-wielding MS-13 thugs who have been terrorizing Long Islanders for years have been rounded up as part of a sweeping Nassau County crackdown of nearly 40 of the notorious gang's street soldiers — on attempted murder, weapons and illicit drug charges.
Included in the massive bust were five college-aged thugs — accused of being part of the deadly MS-13's Hempstead Locos Salvatruchas branch — who were allegedly responsible for a machete and knife attack that wounded six during a soccer game in broad daylight at the town's Kennedy Memorial Park last October.
The attack was so gruesome that one victim needed his gallbladder removed and his diaphragm and liver surgically repaired, authorities said.
The victims ranged in age between 20 and 51.
''We are removing dangerous criminals and gang members from our communities and will continue to fight to keep Nassau County the safest county in America,'' Republican Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman told The Post.
Purported El Salvadorian sect leader Ellias Wilfredo Serrano Bonilla, 21, was brought up on eight counts of attempted murder and a laundry list of weapons, robbery and assault charges over the brazen assault on the pitch.
Bonilla, who calls East Meadow home, is believed to have entered the US illegally sometime prior to 2016, and was previously arrested in Nassau on first-degree assault and gang assault charges in early 2020, according to authorities.
Accomplices in the attack, Edras Daniel Velasquez Giron, 19, Jeffrey Bladimir Valladares Archaga, 20, Pedro Martinez Velasquez, 18, and Kelvin Martinez, 19, are all facing charges related to the harrowing incident.
Giron and Archaga, who are both from Honduras, also crossed the US border illegally during Joe Biden's term in the White House, according to Nassau officials.
Last December, Bonilla, Velasquez and Martinez, along with two others — 24-year-old Kennet Contreras and 18-year-old Edwin Patzan Piri — used machetes and white pipes to allegedly attack a pair of people parked outside a Uniondale laundromat.
''MS-13 has a long and violent history in New York, particularly on Long Island, where its members have terrorized communities for decades,'' Nassau District Attorney Anne Donnelly, a Republican, said in announcing the charges on Monday.
Short sentences for both parents — not for attempted murder, darn it. Hopefully they’ll be stripped of citizenship or Green Card status, whatever they have, and sent back to Iraq when they’ve served their time.
[NYPOST] A Moslem teenager who was nearly strangled by her Iraqi parents in an apparent ''honor killing'' plot blasted them as monsters as they were sentenced in Washington on Monday over the horrific, caught-on-camera ordeal.
The teen, only identified as Fatima, lashed out at her parents — Ihsan and Zahraa Ali — in an Evergreen State court after they were previously accused of trying to kill their daughter, then 17, outside Timberline High School last October, KING 5 reported.
''You think I'm a disgusting human being, well, I think you're a disgusting monster,'' the teen told her father as she delivered an emotional victim impact statement ahead of the sentencing.
''How can you call yourself a father? You tried to kill me, my dad tried to kill me with his own hands, do you have no love for me?
''My mom saw me almost pass away right in front of her own eyes and didn't help me at all, didn't see if I was OK — didn't even try to be there for me,'' Fatima added as she addressed her mother.
The girl's parents were both acquitted of attempted murder charges earlier this month over the savage Oct. 18, 2024, attack.
Instead, her father was found guilty of assault and unlawful imprisonment, while her mom was only found guilty of violating a court order.
The judge imposed the maximum sentences for the charges they ended up being convicted of: 20 months for the father and just under one year for the mother.
During the trial, prosecutors said the girl had run away from home on the day of the attack because she had been abused and feared her parents were going to take her to their native Iraq.
The daughter told cops that her ''father had recently been threatening her with honor killing for refusing an arranged marriage with an older man in another county,'' court papers stated.
After she sought help from her school, the girl's enraged parents showed up and attacked her.
Multiple students frantically tried to intervene as the teen's father was caught on camera putting the girl into a headlock until she passed out.
During the sentencing, Judge Christine Schaller said Fatima would likely have died if it weren't for the bystanders.
''Your behavior was reprehensible and nothing defends what you did,'' the judge told the father.
''You were not going to let her go, you were not going to let her breathe because nobody else was going to control the situation — you were going to maintain control.''
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Ghassan Hani Al-Salut, a Hamas commander involved in holding Israeli hostages freed last February, was eliminated in an airstrike in Deir al-Balah. @Philipp27960841pic.twitter.com/GjCSV3p2gC
A Hamas terrorist who took part in the kidnapping of former hostage Yarden Bibas during the October 7, 2023, onslaught was killed in an Israeli airstrike earlier this month, the Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet announced Tuesday.
The strike on August 10 in Gaza killed Jihad Kamal Salem Najjar, who the military and Shin Bet said invaded Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7 and abducted Yarden Bibas.
“A small part of my closure happened today,” Bibas reacted in a statement, thanking the security forces. “Thanks to you, he will be unable to hurt anyone else.”
He added that he was still waiting for further closure in the form of the return of his friends, twins David and Ariel Cunio, who are still held captive, as well as the other 48 hostages still held by terrorists, of whom 28 have been declared dead.
Bibas was released on February 1 of this year as part of the second ceasefire deal with Hamas.
His wife, Shiri, and their two young sons, Ariel, 4, and Kfir, 10 months, were abducted by the Mujahideen Brigades terror group and murdered in captivity. The bodies of Shiri, Ariel and Kfir were returned under the same deal earlier this year. An Israeli autopsy determined that they had been murdered by their Hamas guards weeks after their abduction.
Since his return, Bibas has lobbied Israeli and American leaders to act to return the remaining captives.
He has said he met then-Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar while in captivity in Gaza, after which he was allowed to remain with his best friend, David Cunio, for two weeks before they were separated.
Palestinian sources claim senior Hamas leader Mahmoud Al-Zahar escaped Gaza via tunnels to Egypt before Israel’s takeover of Rafah. He is reportedly under strict house arrest in Arish, held in secrecy by Egyptian security forces.
[NYPOST] Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... has agreed to a cease-fire proposal calling for the terror group to free more than half of the remaining hostages 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... , including 10 living captives, in exchange for a 60-day truce, Egyptian mediators said.
Senior Hamas official Basem Naim confirmed the group's approval of the proposal on Tuesday, which is nearly identical to the one put forward by Washington earlier this year.
The deal would see 10 living hostages and the bodies of 18 others released in waves through the 60-day cease-fire, similar to the other exchanges that have taken place throughout the war.
Israeli officials say Hamas continues to hold 50 hostages after 683 days in captivity, only 20 of whom are believed to still be alive. Israeli-Americans Itay Chen, 19, and Omer Neutra, 22, are among the dead.
In exchange for the living hostages, Israel would agree to free 150 Paleostinian prisoners serving life sentences, as well as 50 others who were sentenced to more than 15 years in jail.
Israel would also return the bodies of 10 Paleostinian snuffies for each dead hostage, according to the terms of the deal.
The cease-fire deal also calls for more aid to flow into the Gaza Strip through the involvement of the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... and International Committee of the Red Thingy.
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Israel’s prime ministers office on Hamas ceasefire response: “Israel insists on the release of all 50 hostages.”
Iranian state media says an “unexpected incident” has disrupted the water distribution system, leaving large parts of Khorramabad, a city of 370,000, without drinking water for now.
They have no water electricity, no water but they keep talking about how tough they… pic.twitter.com/raY1jdpe6Y
[Rudaw] Suspected 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) members on Tuesday attacked a checkpoint of the Kurdish-led internal security forces (Asayish) in eastern Syria’s Deir ez-Zor province, a war monitor said, and no casualties were reported.
"Armed ISIS cells riding cycle of violences attacked a checkpoint manned by the Asayish in the town of al-Sahba in the eastern Deir ez-Zor countryside with machine guns," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britannia-based war monitor.
The festivities resulted in no casualties.
It was the 157th ISIS attack against Kurdish-led security forces since the beginning of the year, according to the Observatory. The attacks have killed 45 Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) members and 8 ISIS bully boys.
ISIS has intensified its attacks against Kurdish-led forces in north and east Syria, with the turbans seeking to exploit a security vacuum sparked by increased instability following the fall of Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators... ’s regime.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
...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 
