[PJMedia] Law enforcement has accused the notorious Venezuelan migrant gang Tren de Aragua (TdA) of recruiting illegal adolescent minors to commit crimes in New York City's Times Square.
The New York Post reported that the foreign gang is using these little thugs, some as young as 11 years old, to commit terrifying crimes against tourists and residents right in the heart of the city.
About two dozen of these young alien criminals have formed the rat-like gang, which is operating out of Manhattan shelters funded by city taxpayers to pull off their armed robberies in Times Square. The gang of illegal alien minors calls themselves the “Los Diablos de la 42,” which in Spanish translates to “Little Devils of 42nd Street.”
The 21 or so gang members have allegedly committed over 50 different crimes, despite police not arresting or charging even one member, said the NYPD. Since arriving in New York, TdA has escalated its activities from purse snatchings to blatantly committing gunpoint robberies against locals and tourists alike, due to the effective lack of response from the authorities.
“They kind of had a graduation of sorts, and a progression where originally it started as snatches and then went to strong-armed robberies, and then started brandishing knives in a pack format,” explained Detective Bureau Assistant Chief Jason Savino.
“You have individuals that are brazen,” Savino said, “We know they have access to guns, evident by the fact that they’ve done gunpoint robberies and they’ve been brazen enough to showcase pistols in and around their social media."
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“This is the first formulated group that we found where this group of about 20 individuals that, in pack format, hang out every day, they post on social media, they boast about their crew,” he added.
“You see little pockets in and around Times Square and in and around the shelters," he continued. "But as far as a true threshold, it’s been limited to shelters.”
The juvenile thugs are controlled by an older gangster, who recruits younger gang members to carry out robberies and has them bring back the stolen property.
Savino told the Post that members of the gang are getting away with their crimes and avoiding jail time because of their juvenile status and lenient New York State bail laws.
“It’s a product of bail reform,” Savino said. “We tried to try some in criminal court, somewhat unsuccessfully.”
TdA has taken advantage of the Biden Administration's open-border policies to illegally enter the country and criminally infest city centers across the country. The Venezuelan criminal gang gained notoriety nationwide when it seized and violently occupied residential properties on American soil.
Meanwhile, authorities in New York are beginning to worry that a gang war could break out between TdA and the established New York-based gang, the Latin Kings. The Latin Kings have had a longstanding rivalry with the newcomers after a member of the gang allegedly shot and killed a TdA member.
The NYPD said that the likelihood of an all-out gang war is now dangerously close, as the Venezuelan gang builds up its presence in the city.
[Garowe] The Somali National Security and Intelligence Agency (NISA), in coordination with international allies, conducted a significant military operation in the Middle Shabelle and Galgadud regions, resulting in the death of 40 al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... murderous Moslems, including senior figure Moalim Aarow, known for orchestrating several attacks. The operation, which spanned 24 hours, also left 29 snuffies maimed.
The offensive targeted key al-Shabaab hideouts in the Yaaqle area of Middle Shabelle and various rural locales in Galgadud, effectively disrupting the murderous Moslems' activities and destroying essential military supplies. NISA's statement highlighted that these actions have severely curtailed al-Shabaab's mobility within these strategic regions.
This military engagement follows closely on the heels of another successful operation by Somali forces in Qeycad, southern Mudug region, where 30 al-Shabaab fighters were killed, further demonstrating the government's intensified efforts against the Islamist group.
Somali officials noted that these operations were launched based on precise intelligence regarding al-Shabaab's movements, indicating a proactive approach to countering the insurgency with support from international partners.
The operations underline Somalia's ongoing efforts to combat al-Shabaab, aiming to diminish the group's influence and operational capabilities within the country.
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in coordination with international allies operations were launched based on precise intelligence a proactive approach with support from international partners
[IsraelTimes] Celtic fans defaced bleachers with ‘Fuck Hersh’ graffiti after losing 7-1 to Borussia Dortmund; an Israeli player left the team in March because of anti-Israel sentiment
Fans of a prominent Scottish soccer club vandalized the bleachers of their German hosts’ stadium three weeks ago, cursing Hersh Goldberg-Polin, an Israeli-American hostage who was executed by Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... 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... , Channel 12 news reported.
Posts on social media showed the railing at Borussia Dortmund’s Signal Iduna Park defaced with graffiti reading "Fuck Hersh" after Celtic’s 7-1 loss in the UEFA Champions League. The graffiti was likely a reaction to the overwhelming solidarity exhibited by German soccer fans with Israeli hostages in general and with Goldberg-Polin in particular, who was a fan of the Hapoel Jerusalem soccer team.
German club SV Werder Bremen commemorated Goldberg-Polin with a large banner in September after his body was recovered from Gaza alongside five other hostages. In July, while Goldberg-Polin was still alive in captivity, the team displayed a banner of him outside their stadium that read "Let Hersh Free."
Bayern Munich hosted hostage families at a game in November, and FC St. Pauli hosted former hostage Liam Or in March after he was released from captivity during a temporary truce in November.
Celtic fans are known for their anti-Israel sentiment, even though several Israeli players have played for the team in recent years. In March, Israeli forward Liel Abada left the team because of pressure from compatriots to cease playing for fans who regularly displayed banners reading "Free Paleostine" and "Victory to the resistance." While Celtic fans regularly use symbols of Paleostinian nationalism when cheering on their team, the fans of their rival, Rangers FC, often respond by waving Israeli flags.
Goldberg-Polin was kidnapped by forces of Evil from the Nova music festival near the Gaza border on October 7, 2023 ; terrorist fire left him without an arm. He was executed in captivity alongside five other hostages in August. Their bodies were found a few days later by Israeli forces, which led to an intensification of mass protests calling for a deal to release the remaining hostages.
Finishing off the weekend with fresh air, sunshine, and viciousness as the Jew-haters upgrade from Hamas to Hamas plus Hezbollah in an attitude of general support of Iran terror proxies.
[IsraelTimes] London police kept anti-Israel demonstrators from clashing with counterprotesters yesterday at Trafalgar Square, The Daily Mail reports.
The pro-Israel counterprotesters unveiled a banner reading “Hezbollah like Hamas is also a Terrorist Organization,” while one of them called the other side “terrorist supporters” and chanted “Hamas are terrorists” with a megaphone, the report says.
One of the anti-Israel activists responded by using a siren on his megaphone to muffle the counterprotest. London Metropolitan Police officers stood between the groups to prevent any incidents, The Daily Mail says.
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[KavkazUzel] The court sentenced Rostov Region resident Ramil Yakubov to 10 years and six months in prison, finding him guilty of financing the terrorist organization Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.
According to investigators, in 2022, Rostov Region resident Ramil Yakubov contacted his brother, who lives abroad and is involved in the activities of the terrorist organization Hayat Tahrir al-Sham. His brother told him that it needed funding. Yakubov then received the details from his brother, then passed them on to his son and wife and told them to transfer the money to an electronic wallet.
The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don found Ramil Yakubov guilty of financing terrorism and sentenced him to 10 years and six months of imprisonment in a maximum security penal colony, Bloknot Rostov-on-Don reported tonight, citing the court's press service.
There were no comments from representatives of Ramil Yakubov.
"Kavkazsky Uzel" also wrote that on February 14 it became known that a court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Sochi resident Bekzodbek Saidov to eight and a half years, finding him guilty of transferring money to the terrorist organization Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.
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[IsraelTimes] Polish police are investigating antisemitic signs that were spotted among banners that pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel students hung outside a Krakow university building that they have occupied for over six months, local media reported Thursday.
The Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper said the signs, including one reading “Jews to the gas,” were spotted Monday morning on a wall outside the Collegium Broscianum, which houses the sociology and philosophy departments of the Jagiellonian University, Poland’s oldest university, which has a long history of antisemitism.
A university spokesman apologized for the incident, saying the institution swiftly removed the signs and alerted the local police, who confirmed investigating the “incitement to hatred on national grounds.”
Academy for Palestine, the student group occupying the building, denied putting up the signs, calling them a “provocation,” the news outlet reported.
Citing a police spokesperson, Dziennik Polski reported that the anti-Israel encampment at the university’s Collegium Broscanium had cleared the premises on Tuesday per an agreement reached with university authorities on September 30.
In return, the university said it will try to avoid cooperating with research that could be used to develop Israel’s military, and will assess further cooperation with Israeli academia.
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Very violent "protests" in Berlin today. Several police officers were brutally attacked (from behind).
There's are four-letter-word for these Keffiyeh thugs:
RAUS!
And yes, release the dogs.
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I wanna see a return of the German police that all the anti-nuke protestors complained about in the 80's. The ones that after their protest got broken up, decided to hold an anti-police brutality protest and in the words of the news anchor, "The West German police went out to break some heads."
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[Regnum] A woman and three men were injured in an attack by a knife-wielding assailant in northwestern Germany. This was reported on October 19 by the Peiner Allgemeine Zeitung (PAZ) newspaper.
The incident occurred on the evening of October 19 in the town of Fahlstedt in the federal state of Lower Saxony. It is specified that a woman aged 78 and three men aged 18, 66 and 73 were injured. All four received serious injuries of varying severity and required urgent hospitalization. Several ambulances and a rescue helicopter arrived at the scene.
The police officers who arrived at the scene detained the suspect, a 32-year-old man, who offered no resistance. He was taken to the police station. The man's motives for the act remain unknown; he had not previously come to the attention of law enforcement agencies and has no criminal record.
Earlier, Regnum reported that in Germany at the end of August, a high-profile attack by a Syrian citizen armed with a knife on people during a festival in Solingen took place. As a result of the attack, three people were killed and eight were injured. The incident sparked serious debates in society on the topic of migration and the tightening of migration policy.
All four people had swept the walkway on Grünen Allee with a broom or were in their front gardens when they were suddenly attacked indiscriminately by the Vallstedter (32) with a knife. Both the perpetrator and the victims are Germans. All those involved - victims and alleged perpetrators - live in the same house, as police spokesman Malte Jansen confirmed.
"They knew each other, but it was not an act of relationship," says a family member of one of the victims.
The 32-year-old was questioned at the Peiner police station. Jansen says: "After initial interrogations, there are indications that the suspect could have a mental illness.
So possibly nuts versus Sudden Jihad Syndrome — or possibly both. Let us together await enlightenment.
The investigation into the background is ongoing.” The Vallstedter was presented to a judge at the competent Braunschweig district court on Sunday to decide whether he will be in pre-trial detention. At the request of the Braunschweig Public Prosecutor's Office, the suspect was subsequently detained and taken to a prison.
According to the police spokesman, the 32-year-old "was not conspicuous before and had no criminal record".
Local mayor Hans-Jürgen Mintel did not know the alleged perpetrator either. Therefore, he could not say whether the 32-year-old, who is said to have committed the crime, has psychological problems. He only knows that the alleged perpetrator lived very withdrawn. "I once had a beer with one of the victims," he then pushes.
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Transliteration is always tricky, and also depends on the intricacies of the accent being translated from and the level of fine discrimination of the ear of the transcriber. Which explains why it used to be spelt Peking and is now spelt Beijing, among an infinite number of examples.
[Breitbart] According to a source within CBP, flights carrying 153 mostly Special Interest Aliens (SIA) from San Diego, California, arrived in Laredo, Texas. Most will be processed and released to non-government charity shelters across the Lone Star state. The source said the migrants flown into Texas on Immigration and Customs Enforcement aircraft will be released to a local Catholic Charities shelter in Laredo once processed.
The migrants will likely be moved to the city of San Antonio’s Migrant Resource Center, where many will stay at the FEMA-reimbursed shelter while shelter staff members make commercial air travel arrangements for them. Once the arrangements are completed, the source says the group of mostly Special Interest Aliens will likely fly to other parts of the United States.
The source says the ICE flight manifests showed 90 Special Interest Aliens arrived at a processing center in Laredo last week. The SIAs on the flight included 51 migrants from Turkey, 20 from China, nine from Jordan, four from Egypt, two from Uzbekistan, two from Bangladesh, and one each from Somalia and Pakistan. The flight also carried 35 Vietnamese nationals, 12 Indian nationals, two Nepalese citizens, and one each from Cameroon, Jamaica, and Costa Rica, countries not considered Special Interest Countries by the Department of Justice.
The source, not authorized to speak to the media, told Breitbart Texas the migrant processing is an arduously slow task due to the language barriers that require the use of telephonic interpreters. The source says there has been a surge in Special Interest Aliens encountered at several locations across the southwest border. As reported by Breitbart Texas, the small border city of Eagle Pass, Texas, a mere 120 miles north of Laredo, has recently seen an increase in the arrest of migrants from countries on the DOJ list of Special Interest Countries.
According to the source, many of the migrants received from California were single adult males and females. The source also said it is concerning that Texas is already experiencing more special interest migrants.
“We hope that this is Kamala Harris’ last gift to the Border Patrol in Texas, but I fear there will be more to come between now and November,” the source emphasized.
Many of the migrants considered Special Interest Aliens are crossing the border illegally and hail from countries subject to travel warnings by the U.S. State Department due to terrorism. Regardless, the source says, “Most will be released shortly unless we uncover significant intelligence indicating they pose a threat to the United States. That is unlikely.”
According to the source, the migrants flown to Texas from California who are not considered Special Interest Aliens will also likely be released. For some, the lack of strong diplomatic relations with their home countries under the Biden-Harris administration will make a return of the migrants difficult, if not impossible. Complicating the matter for migrants who can be returned is the lack of necessary resources to conduct the removals.
“When you spend your time flying migrants on ICE aircraft inside the United States and not back to their home country, you just don’t have the ICE air platforms available to remove them to countries that will accept the returns,” the source lamented.
An exclusive Breitbart Texas report revealed that more than 61,000 Special Interest Aliens were encountered by the Border Patrol in fiscal year 2023. The number of migrants from Special Interest countries climbed by more than 140 percent from the previous fiscal year, when more than 25,500 were encountered along the southwest border. More than 86,000 Special Interest Aliens have illegally entered the United States in the previous two years.
According to a 2019 DHS fact sheet, the term “Significant Interest Alien” is defined as follows:
Generally, an SIA is a non-U.S. person who, based on an analysis of travel patterns, potentially poses a national security risk to the United States or its interests. Often such individuals or groups are employing travel patterns known or evaluated to possibly have a nexus to terrorism. DHS analysis includes an examination of travel patterns, points of origin, and/or travel segments that are tied to current assessments of national and international threat environments.
This does not mean that all SIAs are “terrorists,” but rather that the travel and behavior of such individuals indicates a possible nexus to nefarious activity (including terrorism) and, at a minimum, provides indicators that necessitate heightened screening and further investigation. The term SIA does not indicate any specific derogatory information about the individual – and DHS has never indicated that the SIA designation means more than that.
[Breitbart] As a new surge at the border in the small town of Eagle Pass begins to grow, U.S. Customs and Border Protection detention buses are delivering migrants daily in larger numbers to a non-government shelter. Breitbart Texas drone footage shows one bus delivering nearly 50 migrants to the Mission Border Hope shelter on Friday. The group of migrants consisted of several family units and single adult migrants.
The shelter is currently housed in a new location, a 20,000-square-foot building that received up to 1,000 migrants or more from CBP daily during its peak operation in September and December of 2023. According to a source within CBP who is familiar with the daily migrant releases and operation of the shelter, more than 250,000 migrants have been released to the shelter during its operation.
The United Methodist Church operates the shelter using Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funds to provide food, shelter, and transportation away from the border for the migrants. According to the U.S. Department of Treasury, more than $13 million of FEMA Shelter and Services program funds have been obligated for use by the Mission Border Hope shelter in Eagle Pass under the Biden-Harris administration.
As reported by Breitbart Texas, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has bused more than 100,000 migrants from this shelter and others in Texas border cities to Washington D.C., New York City, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia. On Friday, some migrants were being picked up by private vehicles outside the shelter while others were loaded on commercial conveyances for transportation to another shelter located in San Antonio, Texas. The network of federally funded shelters operates to move the migrants to other cities across the United States.
FEMA’s shelter and services program obligated more than $1 billion in federal funds in Fiscal Years 2023 and 2024 to reimburse the network of shelters across the United States for expenses related to migrants released at the southwest border.
As election day nears, the source within CBP, not authorized to speak to the media, says a noticeable increase in migrants, including Special Interest Aliens and unaccompanied migrant children, has appeared in the small border town in recent weeks. As reported by Breitbart Texas, a resurgence of large single migrant groups crossing into Eagle Pass occurred in late September.
In the previous seven days, nearly 160 unaccompanied migrant children were sent across the border into Eagle Pass by their parents or other family members. The unaccompanied migrant children, most between the ages of 5-17, hailed from several Central and South American countries, according to the source within Customs and Border Protection. On Wednesday, Texas Department of Public Safety Highway Patrol troopers interdicted 57 unaccompanied migrant children in a single group of more than two hundred migrants fording the river.
As reported by Breitbart Texas, the large groups crossing almost daily into the small Texas border town have included dozens of Special Interest Aliens from across the globe. The groups crossing into the city have been found to contain migrants from Iran, Egypt, Turkey, and several Western African countries.
The CBP source says the migrant increases are likely to continue and are expected to rise as the election grows closer.
“We are seeing an increase in the Special Interest Aliens and unaccompanied children,” the source stated. “These are demographics we have no way of returning. Absent any derogatory information discovered during processing, they will be released.” the source says.
According to CBP, nearly 250,000 migrant apprehensions have occurred in the Del Rio Sector of the Border Patrol. According to the source, almost 80 percent of all apprehensions within the sector occur within the city of Eagle Pass.
[GEO.TV] Gunmen in Indian Illegally Occupied Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... (IIOJK) raked a construction site work camp with bullets, killing seven people and wounding several others, Indian media reported Monday.
The attack on Sunday is one of the worst this year targeting civilians.
The contested territory's chief minister, Omar Abdullah, called the attack late Sunday "dastardly and cowardly", while India's interior minister Amit Shah vowed those responsible would face the "harshest" response.
Attackers targeted workers from outside the Himalayan region, who were reported to be building a tunnel connecting IIOJK with the far northern Ladakh region, AFP reported.
Among the seven killed was a doctor, the Press Trust of India (PTI) news agency reported on Monday, adding several others were maimed.
Abdullah, who was sworn in as the region's chief minister on Wednesday after its first local elections for a decade, said he strongly condemned the attack on "non-local labourers".
Soon after the attack, Abdullah confirmed two people had been killed but had warned there were also "a number of injured labourers, both local and non-local".
Shah called the killings "a despicable act of cowardice", in a statement.
"Those involved in this heinous act will not be spared, and will face the harshest response from our security forces," Shah said.
The attack took place Gagangir in Sonamarg region, where Nitin Gadkari, India's minister of roads said the "innocent labourers" had been working on a "vital infrastructure project".
Gunmen fired automatic weapons at the camp from forested hills around, Indian newspapers reported.
Nine Indian Hindu pilgrims were killed and dozens more maimed in June when a gunman opened fire on a bus carrying them from a shrine in Reasi district.
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[GEO.TV] Two fresh cases of the wild polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set. Currently the disease is only found in Pakistain and Afghanistain... virus type-1 (WPV1) have been confirmed in Sindh, raising the total number of countrywide cases to 39 so far in 2024, said the National Emergency Operations Centre (EOC).
The emergence of the new cases shows the extent of deterioration with regards to the poliovirus crisis in Pakistain.
Polio Eradication Initiative (PEI) officials, on Sunday, told The News that the two new victims are kids — a boy from Mirpurkhas and a girl from Sanghar. Both are the first known instances of the disease in their respective areas this year.
According to the PEI officials in Islamabad, Sindh is experiencing an increase in virus transmission, particularly after multiple environmental samples from Mirpurkhas tested positive for WPV1 earlier this year. After Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... recorded 20 cases, Sindh has now confirmed 12, while five have been diagnosed in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and one each in Punjab ...1. Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2. A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3. A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots
.... and Islamabad.
At least three children have also died due to the disease this year in Pakistain, according to National EOC sources. These victims belonged to Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... and Balochistan.
The EOC sources said the child, Abdullah, who died of poliovirus hailed from Karachi's Bin Qasim Town in the Malir district. While the other two children belonged to Balochistan's Killa Saifullah and Quetta.
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[Rudaw] At least four 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, including a big shot, were killed in an Iraqi Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... on Sunday, the army said, as Baghdad continues to pursue jihadist remnants across the country.
"The Air Falcons carried out a painful strike on a detachment using F-16 aircraft, killing 4 terrorists, including the so-called commander of the Salahaddin sector named al-Bazi," the army’s Security Media Cell said in a statement.
The strike also destroyed "weapons, ammunition, boom belts, communications devices, and various logistic materials," according to the statement.
It is the latest strike in territories disputed between the federal Iraqi government and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) as efforts to rid the country of ISIS cells continue, in areas where a security vacuum allows them to operate.
[IsraelTimes] Seven Israelis have been arrested on suspicion of spying for Iran, having carried out hundreds of tasks for Tehran, prosecutors say.
The suspects are all Jewish residents of Haifa and the north and include a soldier who deserted the military, as well as two minors. The adult suspects are named as Azis Nisanov, Alexander Sadykov, Vyacheslav Gushchin, Yevgeny Yoffe and Yigal Nissan.
The suspects are accused of photographing and collecting information on IDF bases and facilities, including the Kirya defense headquarters in Tel Aviv and the Nevatim and Ramat David air bases, as well as Iron Dome battery sites.
The Nevatim base was targeted in both Iranian missile attacks this year, and Ramat David has been targeted by Hezbollah.
The suspects are also accused of receiving maps of strategic sites from their handlers, including of the Golani base hit in a deadly drone strike earlier this month.
Prosecutors say police and Shin Bet investigators found that the suspects carried out a series of different tasks for Iranian intelligence agencies, and were in contact with Iranian agents.
In return for their actions, the suspects were paid hundreds of thousands of dollars, some of it in cryptocurrency, investigators say.
According to prosecutors, some of the suspects have spied for Iran for two years, and all of them have carried out espionage activities since the start of the war.
The State Attorney’s Office says it is one of the most serious cases that has been investigated in recent years.
Prosecutors say they intend to file an indictment against the seven suspects for security offenses on Friday, and will request that they are held in detention until the conclusion of legal proceedings.
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[IsraelTimes] The commander of the IDF’s 401st Armored Brigade, Col. Ehsan Daqsa, was killed during fighting in the northern Gaza Strip earlier today, the military announces.
According to an initial IDF probe, Daqsa’s tank and another tank were hit by explosive devices during operations in Jabaliya.
Daqsa is one of the most senior officers to have been killed in the fighting in Gaza.
Another officer was seriously wounded in the same incident.
Daqsa, 41, was from the Druze town of Daliyat al-Karmel. He took command of the 401st Brigade in June. Daqsa also was decorated with a citation from the head of the Northern Command for his involvement in the Battle of Ayta ash-Shab in 2006.
[IsraelTimes] Daliyat al-Karmel mayor Rafik Halabi says his Druze town is “wearing black” after the death of Col. Ehsan Daqsa, the commander of the IDF’s 401st Armored Brigade.
“With sorrow, pain, and much grief, Daliyat al-Karmel, the IDF, the Druze community and the State of Israel say goodbye to one of its heroes,” Halabi writes in a post on X.
“A hero, a brave, humble fighter who became a legend, who fought since the beginning of the war.”
[IsraelTimes] More than 65 Hezbollah operatives were killed in Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon in the past day, the IDF says in a morning update.
According to the military, the IAF struck dozens of Hezbollah targets as four divisions continue to operate on the ground against the terror group.
Dozens of gunmen were also killed during operations in the Gaza Strip in the past day, the IDF says.
In all, the IAF struck some 175 targets belonging to Hamas and Hezbollah, in Gaza and Lebanon respectively, in the previous 24 hours, according to the military.
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says soldiers arrested four armed Palestinian suspects in the area of the Nabi Musa holy site near the West Bank city of Jericho.
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says it foiled an attempt to smuggle weapons into Israel from Egypt on Saturday, using a drone.
Soldiers monitoring surveillance cameras spotted a drone that crossed over the border and the IDF dispatched troops of the Caracal Battalion to the scene.
The soldiers opened fire at the drone, knocking it down, the IDF says. The drone was found to be ferrying eight handguns and magazines, the military adds.
[GEO.TV] A total of 87 people were killed or missing under the rubble after an Israeli attack on Saturday on northern Gaza's town of Beit Lahiya, the Palestinian health ministry said in a statement on Sunday.
More than 40 others were injured, it added.
The Israeli military said they were checking the report.
[IsraelTimes] Military says it hit terror target using precision munitions, denounces Palestinian reports that 73 killed as Hamas propaganda
An Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in the 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 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... city of Beit Lahiya on Saturday night hit a Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... target using precision munitions, the military said, rejecting Paleostinian reports that as many as 73 people were killed.
In a statement on the overnight strike, the military said: "The numbers published by the Gaza information office — which acts as a communications arm of Hamas — are exaggerated."
Those numbers "do not line up with the information available to the IDF, the precision munitions used, and the precise damage done to a terror target, of the Hamas terror organization," it said.
The IDF called on the media to "be careful with the information published by Hamas officials," noting that "this is an active combat zone."
"The IDF operates in a precise and targeted manner and does everything it can to avoid attacking uninvolved civilians," the statement concluded.
The statement — which did not provide further information about the strike — was referring to claims by the enclave’s civil defense agency front man that "civil defense crews recovered 73 deaders and a large number of maimed as a result of the Israeli air force targeting a residential area."
The IDF, meanwhile, said it continued to operate in northern, central and southern parts of Gaza.
"The troops eliminated dozens of gunnies during close-quarter encounters on the ground and aerial strikes" across Gaza, it said.
WAFA, the Paleostinian Authority news agency, said Israeli strikes Sunday killed seven people — including a child — in Beit Lahiya, two people near Gaza City and four people near Rafah, in the Strip’s south. The army did not specifically comment on those reports.
Israel has been at war with the Hamas terror group in Gaza since October 7, 2023, when thousands of Hamas-led gunnies invaded southern Israel, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages.
The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 42,000 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far, though the toll cannot be verified and does not differentiate between civilians and fighters. Israel said it had killed some 17,000 combatants in battle as of August, in addition to 1,000 gunnies killed inside Israel on October 7.
Israel has said it seeks to minimize civilian fatalities and stresses that Hamas uses Gaza’s civilians as human shields, fighting from civilian areas including homes, hospitals, schools, and mosques.
Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip stands at 357.
[IsraelTimes] Lebanese civilians in Hezbollah strongholds told to seek shelter as Israel strikes Al-Qard Al-Hassan, an unlicensed bank accused of helping terror group move money
Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s targeted branches of an association accused of financing the Hezbollah terror group late Sunday and early Monday, Lebanese state media reported, as Israel appeared to expand its campaign against the Iran-backed group and degrade its ability to fund operations.
At least 11 strikes were reported in Beirut’s southern suburbs, with more attacks tallied in southern Leb ...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. 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. 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? It is the 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 Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... and the northeastern Beqaa Valley region, all Hezbollah strongholds, as panicked civilians tried to reach shelter.
Most of the strikes targeted branches of al-Qard al-Hassan, an unlicensed gray-market bank seen as one of the group’s main sources of cash.
Israel said earlier in the evening that it was launching a campaign against Hezbollah’s funding networks, warning civilians to get away from any al-Qard al-Hassan facility.
"We will strike many sites in the coming hours, and more sites overnight. In the coming days, we will reveal how 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 Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... finances Hezbollah’s terror activity using civilian institutions and associations as a cover," IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said Sunday night, shortly before the sorties began.
Hundreds of Beirut residents fled their homes as explosions echoed across the Lebanese capital, including near Beirut’s international airport, which sits adjacent to the southern Beirut suburb known as Dahiyeh where Hezbollah is largely based.
Rooters witnesses saw dense plumes of black smoke billowing in the air after at least 10 blasts. Eyewitnesses, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said a building located in the Chiyah neighborhood in the southern suburbs of Beirut was reduced to rubble and the few people in the area had fled ahead of the earth-shattering kaboom, resulting in no casualties.
An unverified video online appeared to show a multi-story building collapse following a strike on it.
Panicked crowds clogged the streets and caused traffic jams in some parts of Beirut as they tried to get to neighborhoods thought to be safer, witnesses said.
Al-Qard al-Hassan, which is sanctioned by the US Treasury Department, has more than 30 branches across Lebanon, including 15 in densely populated parts of central Beirut and its suburbs.
There was no immediate statement from al-Qard al-Hassan, Hezbollah or the Lebanese government.
Asked by journalists whether the branches could be considered military targets, a senior Israeli intelligence official said: "The purpose of this strike is to target the ability of Hezbollah economic function both during the war but also afterwards to rebuild and to rearm ...on the day after."
The strikes came after Israel said it had hit dozens of targets during air raids on Lebanon earlier Sunday, as Hezbollah claimed numerous rocket strikes over the border and festivities with Israeli ground troops.
Around 200 rockets were fired at Israel over the course of Sunday, causing damage but no casualties, the Israel Defense Forces said.
Israel was also targeted by drones apparently fired from Iraq on Sunday and early Monday. The IDF said it downed one drone "from the east" over Syria. A second drone, claimed by Iran-backed militias in Iraq, was shot down after crossing into Israel and triggering warnings in a pair of northern Jordan Valley settlements in the West Bank.
About 70 projectiles were fired from Lebanon into Israel Sunday within a matter of minutes, the military said, adding it had intercepted some of them.
In many cases, rocket impacts sparked fires, including a large blaze near Rosh Pina, in the Safed area.
Hezbollah also claimed an attack against Haifa. AFPTV images showed puffs of smoke in the sky above the port of Haifa as air defenses intercepted rockets and a siren wailed.
The Israel Fire and Rescue Service reported that fragments from an interceptor missile fell on a residential building in the western part of Haifa, causing some damage to the two-story property but no injuries.
In southern Lebanon, 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... peacekeeping force, UNIFIL, said an Israeli "army bulldozer deliberately had demolished an observation tower and perimeter fence of a UN position." The Blue Helmets have repeatedly alleged targeting by Israeli troops, a charge rejected by Israel, which says the peacekeepers should evacuate to avoid being caught in the crossfire.
In a visit to northern Israel on Sunday, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant told troops of the IDF’s 98th Division that the military was stepping up strikes on Hezbollah in Lebanon, destroying places the group "planned to use as launchpads for attacks against Israel."
Earlier Sunday, the Israeli military said it hit the "command center of Hezbollah’s intelligence headquarters" and underground weapons facility in south Beirut. The IDF said Sunday its strikes in southern Lebanon killed more than 65 Hezbollah operatives, including a number of prominent figures.
On Saturday night the military had similarly reported striking weapons stores and a "Hezbollah intelligence headquarters" in the area.
Hezbollah meanwhile claimed it had downed an Israeli Hermes 450 drone Sunday, without saying where. There was no comment from the IDF.
After suffering nearly a year of cross-border attacks, Israel launched a major offensive against Hezbollah in September with catastrophic consequences for the group, decimating its leadership and crippling much of its capabilities. The offensive is aimed at creating conditions that will allow tens of thousands of residents of northern Israel to safely return home, after Hezbollah began launching cross-border attacks on October 8, 2023 in support of the 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... -based Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... terror group.
The attacks on northern Israel over the last year have resulted in the deaths of 29 civilians. In addition, 43 IDF soldiers and reservists have died in cross-border skirmishes and in the ensuing ground operation launched in southern Lebanon in late September.
Two soldiers have been killed in a drone attack from Iraq, and there have also been several attacks from Syria, without any injuries.
Since its beginning last month, the Israel-Hezbollah war has killed at least 1,470 people in Lebanon, according to an AFP tally of Lebanese health ministry figures. Many of them are thought to be Hezbollah operatives.
Hezbollah has named 516 members who have been killed by Israel during the ongoing skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon but some also in Syria. Another 94 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier, and dozens of civilians have also been killed. These numbers have not been consistently updated since Israel began the campaign in September, but the IDF estimates that more than 1,500 Hezbollah operatives have been killed in the conflict.
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UNIFIL denies Hezbollah terrorists paid members to use their bases Earlier Monday, Israel Hayom reported that Hezbollah terrorists who were captured by the IDF in southern Lebanon testified in their investigations that Hezbollah paid money to UNIFIL personnel to use their bases for operations.
[GEO.TV] The military claims that it killed three "key" officials of the Lebanese group in the strike on the Hezbollah intelligence headquarters in southern Beirut, Al Jazeera reported.
The army also said an underground weapons workshop in the capital was hit. The army listed the alleged senior Hezbollah members killed as Elhag Abbas Salameh, Racha Abbas Icha, and Ahmed Ali Hasin.
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SOS (some might call him POS) Blinken is on his way to the area today to pretend to be involved in getting hostages released
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[NAHARNET] Israel's Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said on Sunday that the military was stepping up its strikes targeting Hezbollah in southern Leb ...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. 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. 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? It is the 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 Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... near the Israeli border.
"Not only are we defeating the enemy, but we are destroying them in all the villages along the border, in the places that Hezbollah planned to use as launchpads for attacks against Israel," Gallant told troops during a visit to the border.
The Israeli military presence in the border area was "overwhelming the terrorists," he said.
Gallant's comments came after Lebanese official media reported 14 Israeli strikes within minutes on the border village of Khiam, and as Israel kept hammering Hezbollah targets elsewhere in Lebanon.
The defense minister said the intense military action in Lebanon since late September could eventually allow Israelis displaced by the violence to return home.
"Our goal is to completely clean the area (of Hezbollah) so that Israel's northern communities may return to their homes and rebuild their lives," Gallant said.
He also said that Hezbollah prisoners captured by Israeli forces "have informed us of the great fear felt" among group members, adding that "Hezbollah is collapsing."
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant tells IDF troops that Hezbollah operatives captured and interrogated by Israel are “terrified” and that the Iran-backed terror group is “collapsing.”
“The prisoners tell us what’s happening, that they’re terrified because they know that they don’t have what it takes to deal with what’s happening. Not in terms of strength, combat ability, precision or determination,” he tells troops of the IDF’s 98th Division.
“This whole great formation they call Hezbollah is collapsing.”
The IDF last week published footage of an alleged member of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan forces being interrogated about the terror group’s plans in southern Lebanon and the current state of its operations.
“We are moving from a situation of defeating the enemy village by village, to destruction — blowing up the tunnels and the ammunition depots, and dismantling Hezbollah,” he tells troops.
“The result is that in every place that Hezbollah was waiting and preparing to raid [Israeli] border town, there are IDF soldiers.”
“Our goal is to completely clean this area so that residents can return to their homes and their lives,” he says, referring to Israel’s recently added war goal of returning tens of thousands of northern residents who have been displaced since Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack, when Hezbollah began attacking northern Israel on a near-daily basis the day after.
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[NAHARNET] The Lebanese Army said three soldiers were killed in an Israeli strike on Sunday on their vehicle in southern Leb ...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. 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. 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? It is the 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 Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... . There was no immediate comment on that from the Israeli military, which said it struck more than 100 Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon in the past day and continued ground operations there.
Lebanon's army has largely kept to the sidelines in the war. The military is a respected institution in Lebanon, but isn't powerful enough to impose its will on Hezbollah or defend the country from an Israeli invasion.
Israel's military said Hezbollah fired more than 170 rockets into Israel on Sunday. Israel's Magen David Adom rescue service said three people were slightly injured from a fire sparked by a rocket attack on the northern city of Safed.
Israel has increased strikes on southern neighborhoods of Beirut known as the Dahieh, a crowded residential area where Hezbollah has a strong presence. It is also home to many civilians unaffiliated with the holy warrior group.
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[NAHARNET] Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s were targeting Beirut's southern suburbs on Sunday night, after the Israeli army warned that it would target Hezbollah's al-Qard al-Hassan financial institution in Haret Hreik, Shiyyah, Ghobeiri, Choueifat, Tahwitat al-Ghadir and Burj al-Barajneh.
The Israeli army also warned that it would strike neighborhoods in Baalbek, Hermel and Haret al-Fikani in the Bekaa.
Israel's military had earlier announced that it would attack a "large number of targets" linked to al-Qard al-Hassan.
The registered nonprofit NGO is sanctioned by both the U.S. and Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat Frational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start... and provides financial services but is also used by ordinary Lebanese.
Israel's announcement came a day after U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin called civilian casualties in Leb ...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. 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. 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? It is the 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 Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... "far too high" in the Israel-Hezbollah war, and urged Israel to scale back some strikes, especially in and around Beirut.
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I love the final paragraph from your link, Skidmark:
The campaign against financial institutions appears to be a fourth stage of the war. In the first stage, lasting about 11 months, the IDF simply returned fire, or targeted weapons depots and isolated Hezbollah commanders. In the second stage, the IDF attacked the full senior hierarchy of Hezbollah, including in Beirut. In the third stage, which began in late September, the IDF launched a ground operation. In the fourth stage, it is attacking Hezbollah’s money sources.
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[PJMedia] Law enforcement has accused the notorious Venezuelan migrant gang 
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...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. 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. 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? It is the 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 Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. 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. 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? It is the 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 Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat Frational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...
