[IsraelTimes] 14 alleged accomplices to go on trial next week over their links to shooting rampage in French capital that ushered in wave of Islamist violence.
Fourteen alleged accomplices in the 2015 jihadist attacks on the Charlie Hebdo ...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe... satirical weekly and a Jewish supermarket go on trial next Wednesday more than half-a-decade after days of bloodshed that still shock La Belle France.
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Truly facing justice would mean thy were facing a noose.
Left-wing migrant groups are angry that the new interim @ICEgov director was a refugee from Vietnam whose family fled communism. They’re upset that in his comments, he stressed his family’s long LEGAL process of resettlement. https://t.co/qjxil8F6Ax
Follow up to the excitements of yesterday reported here.
[FoxNews] Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., told "Fox & Friends" he believes he would have been killed if not for the police when he and his wife were surrounded and attacked by a "mob" yelling threats and pushing police upon exiting the White House after President Trump's acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention (RNC) Thursday night.
"It was horrific," the Republican senator -- who had part of his lung removed due to a complication from the 2017 assault by his neighbor -- told host Steve Doocy of the "unhinged" mob that continued to get bigger and bigger.
"They're attempting to push the police over to get to me, so at one point they push a policeman backwards, he stumbles and he's trying to catch his balance and I catch the back of his flak jacket to stabilize him to make sure he's OK because he's our defense," Paul explained. "If he's down, the mob's loose on us."
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He might want take this up with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, excuse me, Mitch McConnell who has told Trump that any dismissals in the Justice Department will be met with refusal to approve any new appointments.
Be sure to thank Paul Ryan for his fine work in running interference for the Deep State as well.
On the plus side, Kevin McCarthy hurdurred and harrumphed on Twitter at Pelosi, so the House Minority Leader is on the case.
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Trump wouldn't be able to inject sanity into the judiciary if it weren't for McConnell.
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To whom does the Washington, DC police belong?
According to the article, Senator was asking for "FBI arrests".
I don't know the intricacies of Congress' relationship to DC law enforcement, but they do effectively control or at least influence the FBI via budget approval and appointment confirmations.
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The DC Police are a function of the City of DC. Local police. One level up, though, the FBI functions as the 'state' police for DC, and for all federal property everywhere. (They usually delegate that out local departmental investigators.)
Srangely enough, this is a political pencil sharpener that the higher ups in the FBI try to avoid, for some reason.
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Where DID all of the Covid panic released prison inmates go?
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Just to muddy the waters further, the US Capitol Police have primary jurisdiction for the Capitol and Supreme Court Grounds (I believe they absorbed the Supreme Court Police a few years back) and the USCP has concurrent jurisdiction and police powers in the entire United States. Selected Members of the House and Senate have plainclothes USCP officers as a security detail, and they have limited investigative, intelligence and forensic capability, often augmented by the FBI, USSS, MPD (DC Police) and other federal agencies like the US Park Police, ATF and DEA. So the USCP could investigate and even provide security for threatened members of the House and Senate if so directed.
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Trailing Wife or other mod: could you please delete this photo: Pix/Putin_Popcorn.jpeg I uploaded it before I knew how to reduce the size. D'avance merci.
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When we’re backstage, as it were, we can delete comments, Clem. Working from the main site, the only option is Spam Cop. It’s not always a judgement.
If the incompetent Mayor of Portland, Ted Wheeler, doesn’t get control of his city and stop the Anarchists, Agitators, Rioters and Looters, causing great danger to innocent people, we will go in and take care of matters the way they should have been taken care of 100 days ago!
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Don't bother. The locals voted for it. Shut down the federal courthouse and move out. When they have had enough, take a slow long time to do anything about their requests for assistance.
Don't play the other guy's game, President Trump.
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/\ Yes, close it down, close the airports and restrict travel, cut them off. Close down the USPS as well. Let them set up their own systems. They are separatists, it's what they want and richly deserve.
Didn't end well the last time either. Have a nice day.
[Jpost] UNIFIL has come under heavy criticism in recent years from both the US and Israel.
The UN Security Council (UNSC) decided on Friday to extend the mandate for a peacekeeping force in southern Leb ...an Iranian colony 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 dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of 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... by another year, but will reduce the number of troops in the region amid US and Israeli criticism over the mission's efficiency.
The council added several demands from the government of Lebanon to allow UNIFIL to operate more efficiently after efforts from Israel and the US to strengthen to force's authority in the face of Hezbollah activity.
These new demands include: an enhanced reporting mechanism to the UN for violent mostly peaceful incidents and violations; a call for the Secretary-General to create a detailed action plan to optimize the force’s effectiveness; and a strong condemnation of attempts to hamper the force’s freedom of movement and of threats posed to UNIFIL troops.
The UN Interim Force in Lebanon, which this year numbered over 11,000 personnel, has acted in southern Lebanon since 1978. As of 2006, it was tasked with monitoring compliance with UN Resolution 1701, which set out the terms of the ceasefire that ended the Second Lebanon war.
"The Security Council decision comes as a last warning for the Government of Lebanon. If Hezbollah continues to turn southern Lebanon into a base for its terrorist activity under UNIFIL’s nose, the Government of Lebanon will be held responsible and will bear full responsibility for any escalation of tensions or the grave consequences of such actions." Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... Gilad Erdan said.
"Israel will not allow terrorist attacks to emanate from Lebanese territory and will respond with force to any such crime. The Government of Lebanon is responsible for what transpires within its territory. In the upcoming months, we will closely watch how UNIFIL’s renewed mandate is implemented and determine whether there is a justification for the force’s presence." Erdan continued.
UNIFIL has come under heavy criticism in recent years from both the US and Israel. The two countries have argued that UNIFIL’s mandate fails to fully empower it to operate as an observer force against Hezbollah.
They are particularly concerned by the mandate’s failure to ensure that UNIFIL can search for terror tunnels that Hezbollah has built along the border to attack Israel.
Israel and the US would like to see the mandate expanded to include, among other things, the ability for UNIFIL to enter homes in southern Lebanon to search for entry ways to tunnels.
Israel in particular has argued that unless UNIFIL is fully empowered, there is little point in maintaining its presence on the border.
The troop ceiling was lowered from 15,000 to 13,000 to meet a key US demand, though one diplomat called that a symbolic change as only 10,500 troops are currently deployed.
The resolution, seen by Rooters, has also been toughened, asking for UNIFIL to have access to tunnels discovered on the Blue Line, and for the Lebanese authorities to investigate them. It condemns efforts to restrict the mission's movements.
[AlAhram] The United States is expected to reduce its troops presence in Iraq by about a third in the coming months, a U.S. official said on Friday, a move that had been expected after President Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... 's administration committed to a reduction recently.
The United States has around 5,200 troops that were deployed in Iraq to fight the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... bully boy group. Officials in the U.S.-led coalition say Iraqi forces are now mostly able to handle the remnants of Islamic State on their own.
The United States and Iraq in June affirmed their commitment to the reduction of U.S. troops in the country in coming months, with no plans by Washington to maintain permanent bases or a permanent military presence.
In 2016 Trump campaigned on ending America's "endless wars," but U.S. troops remain in countries like Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, albeit in smaller numbers.
A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... , said the United States would go down to about 3,500 troops in Iraq in the next two to three months.
The Pentagon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
This month during a meeting with the Iraqi prime minister, President Donald Trump redoubled his promise to withdraw the U.S. troops still in Iraq.
Trump's meeting with the Iraqi leader came amid a new spike in tensions between Washington and Tehran after Washington said it would seek to reinstate all previously suspended U.S. sanctions on 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... at the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... Iraq's parliament had voted earlier this year for the departure of foreign troops from Iraq, and United States and other coalition troops have been leaving as part of a drawdown.
The numbers of troops to be withdrawn was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
[Rudaw] The Iraqi government is trying to remove militia groups from the Yezidi heartland of Shingal and replace them with federal police, the governor of Nineveh said on Thursday, but the militias are holding their ground.
Najim al-Jabouri, governor of Nineveh, told Rudaw on Thursday that Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi and Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein have discussed the problem in "international forums."
"The Iraqi government has taken some measures in this regard," he said, without going into detail.
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It’s that time of year when Sunnis particularly target Shiites.
[AnNahar] Gunshots were fired heavily in the air Friday during the funeral of a 14-year-old teenager killed in Thursday’s sectarian festivities in Khalde.
"During the firing in the air at the funeral, some gunshots were fired at the Chebli Center, the site of yesterday’s clash, as the army sought to contain the situation," the National News Agency said.
NNA said the army was still staging patrols in the area and erecting surveillance checkpoints.
The heavy gunfire erupted as the body of the teenager, Hassan Zaher al-Ghosn, arrived at the al-Arab neighborhood, where leaders of Arab tribes and residents of the area performed a prayer for the dead at the town’s mosque.
The body was later laid to rest at the family’s cemetery in Khalde.
Ghosn and a Syrian man were killed and three members of the Ghosn family were maimed during Thursday night’s festivities between supporters of Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... and Sunni rustics in the area.
The festivities only stopped after the army sent major reinforcements and political contacts were held at the highest levels. The fighting briefly closed the main highway linking Beirut with southern Leb ...an Iranian colony 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 dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of 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... During Ghosn's funeral, anti-Hizbullah slogans were chanted as young men fired their weapons in the air.
The confrontation had reportedly erupted over the hanging of Ashoura
...also spelt Ashura, it’s the tenth day of Muharram, the first month in the Islamic calendar, and marks the day that Husayn ibn Ali, the grandson of the prophet Muhammad, was murdered in the Battle of Karbala. Shiites mark the day with pilgrimages wherein they cut themselves with swords while Sunni jihadis try to massacre them...
A deadly battle between Lebanese Sunnis and Shias overnight prompted warnings of more violence as the country is pushed to breaking point by a financial meltdown and political tensions.
Two people - a 13-year-old Lebanese Sunni boy and a Syrian man - were killed in the Khaldeh area south of the capital in the shootout on Thursday night.
Machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades were used in the fighting which witnesses said lasted four hours.
A Sunni Arab tribe to which the boy belonged accused members of the powerful, Iran-backed Shia group Hezbollah of opening fire. Hezbollah categorically denied having anything to do with the incident.
The Lebanese army, which was heavily deployed in the area on Friday, said the problem spiralled out of a row over a poster put up by Shia to commemorate Ashura, the 7th century martyrdom of Imam Hussein.
The army statement said the problem that erupted was between members of the Arab Khaldeh tribes and residents of the area, without identifying them.
Khamenei's military advisor, Hossein Dehghan, is on shortlist from Rev Guard camp as presidential candidate for June 2021
Not a household name even in Iran, but Dehghan was a militant revolutionary in Lebanon in 70s when Qassem Soleimani was only a construction worker in Kerman pic.twitter.com/agUk0RPtLj
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.
A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., told "Fox & Friends" he believes he would have been killed if not for the police when he and his wife were surrounded and attacked by a "mob" yelling threats and pushing police upon exiting the White House after President Trump's acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention (RNC) Thursday night.
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...an Iranian colony 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 dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of 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...
...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 
