[Breitbart] President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) top officials are shaping up a program that would more easily allow young adult border crossers and illegal aliens to live freely in the United States, Breitbart News has learned.
The Biden administration is currently seeking bids for a DHS contract that will ensure border crossers and illegal aliens ages 18 to 19 years old — who officials say “pose a low flight risk” — are hardly monitored by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency after their release into the U.S. interior.
Whereas existing DHS programs have stricter compliance guidelines, the new program would allow border crossers and illegal aliens to be monitored by “community-based services” and would not require participants to be monitored by GPS tracking.
“This program will not include GPS or other monitoring technology,” an ICE release on the program states.
Instead, the program will only require that most border crossers and illegal aliens check in monthly with ICE agents via telephone. The program would also “develop and maintain a network of age-appropriate and culturally sensitive community resources” for border crossers and illegal aliens.
Sources close to Breitbart News said the Biden-linked federal contractor Endeavors is almost certain to score the contract to carry out key provisions of the program. Endeavors won a $530 million contract with DHS last year after hiring a former Biden administration official.
Endeavors is funded by a number of corporate-backed organizations like the Bob Woodruff Foundation, United Way, and the Hispanic Federation — all of which have ties to multinational corporations and the nation’s biggest banks.
The federal contractor also takes taxpayer money through a variety of contracts with the federal government, the state of Texas, and local governments in North Carolina.
The program would be the latest measure initiated by the Biden administration to briefly detain border crossers and illegal aliens before quickly releasing them into the U.S. interior — often by buses or commercial domestic flights.
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What's the over-under on some large percentage of these miserable children being caught up in $ex trafficking by our depraved elites -- CNN producers, Biden family members, Congresscritters, Klingons / various & sundry Deep Staters etc?
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Aside from being illegal, what's the purpose for bringing these young people into the U.S.? My also thoughts turn dark as is voiced by Merrick Ferret.
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Seriously, all the elements of the Epstein-Ghislaine playbook are in place:
1. Find young foreign girls in trouble who are seeking to come to the US
2. Separate them from their parents
3. Promise them a glittering new life in America
4. Take them under your wing and pay for & arrange air transport -- no reservation record, no name, not even a manifest -- and lodge them in a "safe" house in an unknown location controlled by the stranger
5. Keep the above incl the location completely secret: no papers, no notification of kin or even authorities
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Slavers. Import thousands of young foreign women and men, and make them entirely dependant on their 'hosts'. Little difference from the old slave ships plying the west coast of Africa - only you don't have pay the chief for the slaves and one here - you don't even have to provide food and housing.
[Breitbart] A new section of border fence is expected to go up locally as the result of a partnership between the State and the Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas. The new section, constructed by the Texas Military Department, will be located south of Eagle Pass on tribal lands.
On Tuesday, officials with the Texas Military Department and the Department of Public Safety Highway Patrol met with members of the Kickapoo Traditional Tribe to discuss the border fence project. The exact scope of the project was not revealed. A Texas Department of Public Safety official says the project is part of Operation Lone Star.
“The border crisis has impacted the tribal reservation significantly. The tribal council has for the first time allowed a government to construct security fencing on the reservation,” Captain Joel Betancourt said.
The Kickapoo Traditional Tribe’s reservation is located eight miles south of Eagle Pass. The reservation is located on the banks of the Rio Grande. There, the tribe operates the Kickapoo Lucky Eagle Casino. The tribe also operates a pecan orchard and owns ranches in Texas and Mexico.
According to a source with the Border Patrol in the area, the tribe has always been a strong proponent of border security. The source says the tribe has allowed Border Patrol to place surveillance equipment and offer security assistance on their lands.
The source says the tribe is sympathetic to the economic plight of migrants crossing in the area but also recognizes the need for security to safeguard residents living on the reservation. In 2001, the Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas allowed the installation of two remote surveillance towers to monitor what was then one of the busiest border crossing points for narcotics and migrants in the area.
As reported by Breitbart Texas, Governor Greg Abbott ordered the construction of more than two miles of border wall in Eagle Pass. Operation Lone Star has moved 10,000 National Guard troops and hundreds of Highway Patrol Troopers as well.
[Breitbart] San Francisco’s government is allowing Honduran drug dealers to prey on Americans, a homeless drug addict told Micheal Shellenberg, the author of a book about the city government’s support for drug addiction.
“I’ve talked to the cops here [saying] ‘I’m literally 10 feet away from the drug dealers talking [while] to you guys, why don’t you guys arrest them right now?”‘said James, a coherent addict from Texas. He continued:
And they’re like “Arrest them for what?” And I’m like, “Dude, what the f…?” [They respond] “San Francisco is a sanctuary city. [If] we arrest the Hondurans, we put them in jail [and] they’re out two days later.”
The video comes amid news that President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has sharply reduced the deportation of illegal migrants, and as the federal government is expanding subsidies for progressive groups which may provide “harm reduction” crack pipes and syringes to addicts instead of helping them break away from addiction.
Nellie Bowles, a former New York Times reporter, wrote about the city’s encouragement of drug addiction:
Over the past two years, more than 1,360 people have died from drug overdoses in San Francisco. That is more than double the number who have died from Covid.
[….]
The people in charge of homelessness and addiction want to bully people into giving up public streets and parks. They want to take your tax money and let your suffering neighbors die gentle, stoned deaths while they watch and call it justice.
Shellenberg is the author of San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities, which covers the government-backed drug distribution network on his website:
Right now, in the heart of downtown San Francisco, “the bullshit” the mayor spoke about is worsening by the day. The city is running a supervised drug consumption site in United Nations Plaza—just blocks away from city hall and the opera house—in flagrant violation of state and federal law. (Two weeks ago, my colleagues and I broke the story. The San Francisco Chronicle confirmed our reporting.) There, city-funded service providers supervise people smoking fentanyl and meth they buy from drug dealers across the street.
The police do nothing. Indeed, the mayor, through the Department of Emergency Management and the Department of Public Health, is running the site.
[…]
The city is carrying out a bizarre medical experiment whereby addicts are given everything they need to maintain their addiction—cash, hot meals, shelter—in exchange for . . . almost nothing. Voters have found themselves in the strange position of paying for fentanyl, meth and crack use on public property.
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Over the past two years, more than 1,360 people have died from drug overdoses in San Francisco. That is more than double the number who have died from Covid.
So the logical response to the former is to create an open-air city-backed shooting gallery-cum-tent city facing City Hall while forcing pointless masks and failed pseudo-vaccines to address the latter. Riiiight.
The city is carrying out a bizarre medical experiment
Funny that the gummint seems to be carrying out lots of bizarre medical experiments these days...
...whereby addicts are given everything they need to maintain their addiction—cash, hot meals, shelter—in exchange for . . . almost nothing. Voters have found themselves in the strange position of paying for fentanyl, meth and crack use on public property.
Makes perfect sense. Addicts and Degenerates = God's Children. Citizens = The Class Enemy
'Every cop is a criminal / And all the sinners, saints'
[Breitbart] During a portion of an interview with NBC aired on Thursday’s edition of “NBC Nightly News,” President Joe Biden dismissed the accounts in an Army report that the administration wasn’t prepared for the withdrawal from Afghanistan but denied he was told that administration officials were prepared and knew it was time to leave.
Host Lester Holt asked, “I have to draw your attention to that Army report, an investigative report that’s come out about the lead-up to the withdrawal from Afghanistan. It interviewed many military officials and officers who said the administration ignored the handwriting on the wall, another described trying to get folks in the embassy ready to evacuate and encountering people who were in — essentially in denial of the situation. Does any of that ring true to you?”
Biden responded, “No, no. That’s not what I was told.”
Holt then asked, “That you were told that the U.S. administration officials were prepared, they knew it was time to get out?”
Biden answered, “No. What I was told — no one told me that — look, there was no good time to get out.”
He also stated, “But if we had not gotten out, they acknowledged that we would have had to put a hell of a lot more troops back in. It wasn’t just 2,000, 4,000. We would have had to significantly increase the number of troops, and we’re back in this war of attrition. And there was no way we were ever going to unite Ukraine — I mean, excuse me, Iraq — Afghanistan, no way that was going to happen. And so, this was a much wiser thing to do.”
Holt then asked, “I just want to clarify, are you rejecting the conclusions or the accounts that are in this Army report?”
Biden responded, “Yes, I am.” He added, “I’m rejecting them.”
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Hey Magoo: You lying sack of shit. You TOLD the Afghan PM in a direct phone call that the Taliban were on the brink of overthrowing his government. You knew that. Stop lying, you disgraceful decrepit perverted man-whore
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Cause he's a plant, and "it's what plants want..."
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Hey Magoo: You lying sack of shit. You TOLD the Afghan PM in a direct phone call that the Taliban were on the brink of overthrowing his government.
At least 50% probability that memory is lost in the brain rot, Merrick. It doesn’t change the gentleman’s general categorization as a lying sack of shit, but his memory of knowing that particular thing may no longer exist.
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its 2022. The left loses control of both the house and senate. In Jan 2023 the house files impeachment charges and the senate concurs. Roberts capitulates and biden is removed. Harriss either resigns or is impeached. McCarthy becomes pres. People start going to jail or leaving the country. Leavers have their citizenship revoked. Hoo-fng-ray!!
[DW] US President Joe The Big Guy Biden signed an executive order unfreezing billions in Afghan funds in US banks. The frozen Afghan central bank assets will be split between humanitarian aid and the victims of the September 11 attacks.
US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant. Just look at the competent way he dumped Afghanistan... signed an executive order on Friday unfreezing $7 billion (€6.15 billion) in assets in the United States belonging to Afghanistan's central bank.
The White House is freeing up the funds for humanitarian aid to Afghanistan and for compensation to the victims of the attacks of September 11, 2001. The latter will remain in the US as lawsuits brought by the September 11 victims make their way through the courts.
Biden's executive order requires US financial institutions to transfer any Afghan central bank assets that they hold into a new consolidated account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
WHY IS THE US UNFREEZING AFGHAN ASSETS NOW?
Last month, a US judge gave the White House until Friday to draft a plan for how it wished to handle the billions in Afghan assets frozen in the United States.
Members of Congress and 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... had called on the administration to free up the funds to address Afghanistan's extreme economic crisis.
Ahead of Friday's announcement, one US government source told Rooters news agency that the Afghan funds would be released for "the benefit of the Afghan people and for Afghanistan's future."
WHY WERE THE AFGHAN CENTRAL BANK'S ASSETS FROZEN?
Afghanistan's central bank holdings in the US were frozen in August after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... . The Taliban's rapid takeover of Afghanistan came after the chaotic US and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... withdrawal from the country after nearly 20 years.
Almost 80% of the national budget for Afghanistan prior to the Taliban takeover came from the international community. With that funding absent, the country's economy nosedived.
HOW WILL THE MONEY BE SPENT?
The US government has faced mounting pressure from the international community to free up the funds for humanitarian purposes in a way that does not recognize the Islamic bad boy group.
The funds that will remain in the US will be earmarked for compensation to the victims of the September 11 attacks and their families.
The Taliban asserts the money that belonged to the Afghan government is now theirs as they claim to have taken over responsibility for the government.
In addition to US holdings, Afghanistan also holds an additional $2 billion in reserves. Most of that is held in countries including Germany, Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... , the UAE and the UK.
The September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks carried out by al-Qaeda killed nearly 3,000 Americans, mostly at the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in northern Virginia near Washington.
The Taliban hosted the terror group and its leader, the late Osama bin Laden ...... who is now beyond all cares and woe...... , at the time of the attacks. The US killed bin Laden in Pakistain in 2011.
Some soldiers in the Nigerian Army have lamented the death of their colleague who was killed by Boko Haram/Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists during a clash with troops of the 149 Task Force Battalion in Gubio, Borno State.
The 149 Task Force Battalion in conjunction with the Civilian Joint Task Force on Thursday killed an unspecified number of insurgents but the soldier also lost his life.
According to the soldiers, the victim, Murtala, was one of the soldiers who ought to have been promoted and redeployed away from the bush but for the politics in the Nigerian Army.
One of the soldiers said, "Murtala, the soldier that was killed by Boko Haram, was one of the soldiers who were taken from depot to the battlefield since 2017 without a unit. By now, he should have been redeployed, at least by 2021, he ought to have left this place.
"Imagine, he had spent 5 years plus in this bush, but the army said that was not enough, that he should remain in the field till he died. This is simply unfair."
Another soldier retorted, “Let Nigerian Army generals come and stay in this bush for one week, I'm not talking about Maiduguri town. After five years in the horrible bush, the army refused to transfer this soldier and also refused to promote him for his hard work.
"Murtala was one of those soldiers the Nigerian Army refused to promote despite being due for a new rank. What the Nigerian Army did was to send fake signals that all North-East soldiers who didn't get promoted should be promoted but till now, nothing has been done about that. I feel so bad about his death. This man is one of coolest soldiers in 149BN Gubio."
There have been allegations of corruption in the Nigerian Army which are said to be responsible for the issue – soldiers overstaying in the North-East.
According to some soldiers, the Nigerian Army is the epitome of deep-seated corruption, affecting the prosecution of the North-East anti-terrorism war.
In January, the Nigerian Army released the names of over 2, 000 soldiers who were to be redeployed and some soldiers alleged that they were not rotated to other areas over their refusal to give bribes.
Speaking with SaharaReporters at the time, some soldiers alleged that there was misconduct in the Nigerian Army as some of the soldiers, who had come at a later time, including those mobilised to the area in 2019, still made the list of overstayed soldiers while some of those who had been mobilised since 2016 could not find their names on the list.
They claimed that some of the commanders refused to submit their names for rotation because of their "refusal to pay money."
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[KavkazUzel] An 18-year-old resident of the Kirovsky district of the Stavropol Territory, who intended to blow up one of Novopavlovsk's infrastructure facilities, was charged with preparing a terrorist attack, investigators reported today.
The Directorate of the Sledkom of Russia for the Stavropol Territory reported on the start of an investigation into a criminal case against an 18-year-old resident of the Kirov District about the preparation of a terrorist attack.
According to the investigation, the young man, being a supporter of an extremist organization, planned to blow up "one of the Novopavlovsk infrastructure facilities" from January to April 2021.
The investigation suggested that in the spring of 2021 he prepared a place for laying an explosive, and also acquired a TNT bomb, but he could not carry out his plans in connection with the arrest in connection with the case of organizing the activities of an extremist organization, the Stavropol TFR department reported today.
In March 2021, a young man recorded an audio message in which he took an oath of allegiance to an extremist organization banned in Russia and distributed it in one of the Internet messengers,
...sounds like ISIS or one of the Al Qaeda branches...
and then tried to recruit residents of the district to participate in the activities of the organization, but was refused.
The criminal cases against the young man have been merged into one proceeding. He is under arrest on charges of preparing for a terrorist attack. illegal acquisition and possession of explosive devices, recruitment and participation in the activities of banned religious organizations, according to a statement on the agency's website.
The "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that in April 2021, a cell of the organization “At-Takfir wal-Hijra"
...also known as Jama'at al-Muslimin, a takfiri spinoff of the Muslim Brotherhood that’s been around since 1971. The original home of Ayman Al-Zawahiri and his Al Qaeda buddies...
was uncovered in the Stavropol Territory. Then, 16 suspects were detained, and on July 21 and 22, 2021, eight more of her supporters were detained.
[DW] Muskan Khan, a college student in Karnataka state, told DW that she is not afraid of the Hindu right-wing activists who want to enforce a veil ban in educational institutes. The row has now spread across the country.
Huge protests have erupted across Karnataka state following the government's decision to ban hijabs, or headscarves, in schools and colleges.
After six students were banned from entering a college in Karnataka's coastal Udupi district for wearing hijabs on January 1, the debate over the rights of Moslem women, pluralism and secularism has gripped the entire country.
Amid escalating communal tensions and sporadic violence, authorities have closed all high schools and colleges in the southern state for three days.
The Karnataka state is governed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which many Moslems accuse of deviating from the country's secular ideology.
The state's High Court is hearing two petitions on the issue and will decide whether to keep the ban or discard it. One of the petitions argues that it is a citizen's fundamental right to choose the attire, and that is guaranteed by the country's constitution.
The other petition challenges the legality of the government's decision to enforce a dress code in educational institutes.
School uniforms are an inheritance from Britain, which is why fancy private schools in America have them, too. The whole point is to dictate what the students wear.
DW contacted several ruling party officials, who said they didn't want to comment as the matter is now in court.
The hijab row, however, was echoed in the national Parliament, with opposition parties staging a walkout.
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi, who is a politician from Karnataka, told news hounds that "all students must follow the dress code prescribed by schools and their administration."
AN UNLIKELY 'HERO'
The issue became more prominent when a video of a college student became viral on social media. It showed Muskan Khan, a second-year student of Mandya College, being heckled by Hindu right-wing activists. They were purportedly supporting the dress code in the college. Khan, a Moslem girl clad in a burqa (face veil), confronted them and shouted "Allah Akbar" (God is great in Arabic). She refused to remove her veil.
Not secular on the Muslim side, then, but the soft jihad of the law.
Khan is now being hailed by many Indian Moslems as a "hero" who stood for the rights of minorities.
Not minorities in general, though. Just soft-jihading Moslems who probably, when investigated, will turn out to have connections to others involved with the hard jihad of the sword.
"They were not allowing me to enter college because I was wearing the burqa. They started shouting Jai Shri Rama (Hail Lord Rama), so I started yelling Allah Akbar," Muskan told DW over the phone from Mandya.
"All I want to do is study, and these people are stopping us. But I am not afraid," she added.
'OBJECTIFICATION OF WOMEN'
Supporters of the ban argue that it is the right of college authorities to decide what kind of attire the students are allowed to wear. But many Moslems, and India's secular sections, counter it by saying that it is every individual's basic right to exercise religious beliefs.
"The hijab is a part of cultural and religious identity of the Moslem women. It is like mangal sutra (necklace) for Hindus, the cross for Christians, and turbans for Sikhs," T N Prathapan, a politician from the opposition Congress party, told DW.
Prathapan said the constitutional rights of all citizens must be protected.
Meanwhile, ...back at the hanging, Butch continued with his last words, trying not to repeat himself too often...... Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai ...a Pashtun blogger and advocate for girls' education from Mingora, in Swat. She is esteemed as an ambassador of international good will, even though she can't go home lest some fellow in a turban shoots her in the head again... called on Indian authorities to take measures to "stop the marginalization of Moslem women."
"Refusing to let girls go to school in their hijabs is horrifying. The objectification of women persists, for wearing less or more," Yousafzai tweeted.
A bold choice for a young woman who was shot in the head for not being a proper Moslem maiden.
POLITICAL MILEAGE
Some experts say the BJP is deliberately igniting the issue for political gains.
"What to eat and what to wear is a fundamental right. The BJP is trying to impose its choices on people. This is nothing but majoritarian politics at play," Nawab Malik of the Nationalist Congress Party told DW.
Activists say attacks on Moslems, who number about 200 million of India's 1.4 billion population, have increased since Modi took power in 2014.
Communal tensions are also on the rise in Karnataka, a state ruled by the BJP. According to the Karnataka Communal Harmony Forum, the state's coastal districts witnessed over 120 communal incidents last year, the highest number in the last four years.
A recent report by the joint initiative of the United Christians Forum, the Association for Protection of Civil Rights and United Against Hate revealed that at least 305 incidents of violence against Christians took place nationwide in the first nine months of 2021. This includes at least 32 incidents in Karnataka alone.
Cynthia Stephen, a social policy researcher in Karnataka, said the BJP "could have nipped the issue in the bud" much earlier.
Kavita Krishnan, of the All India Women's Progressive Association, told DW that the headscarf issue could easily be used as a justification for mob attacks on Moslems.
"Hijab is only the latest pretext to target Moslem women. It came after Hindu supremacists held multiple online auctions of Moslem women and made speeches calling for their sexual and reproductive enslavement," Krishnan said.
[Rudaw] When Barzan awoke to the sound of screams in the early hours of the morning of August 3, 2014, the 13-year-old ran to feed his doves for a final time before fleeing his home, never to return. As 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) turbans attacked Shingal, he was captured along with around 6,000 members of his Yazidi community, whereupon he was taken into captivity and forced to fight for the so-called caliphate for the remainder of his blighted childhood.
Vian, also a young boy at his time of capture, became a close friend when they met in captivity. Together, the two supported each other through horrific training, frontline military conflict as ISIS child soldiers and, four years later, their escape in 2018 with the help of smugglers.
"We were forced to do everything they said," Vian recounts in a short documentary film released on Friday by Amnesia Amnesty International and Fat Rat Films, depicting the unbreakable brotherhood that developed between Vian and Barzan, who survived their horrific captivity under ISIS and now, like other Yazidi survivors, deserve reparations and support to help rebuild their lives.
In one particularly moving scene, the two can be seen comforting each other about the separation from their families - and the pain of missing their deceased mothers, sisters, and fathers, killed by ISIS turbans in their ethno-religious genocide. Between 2014 and 2017, ISIS committed war crimes, crimes against humanity, and what the UN has called a genocide against the Yazidi community.
Over seven years since ISIS launched their brutal attack, the young men now live in a camp in the Kurdistan Region where the documentary was filmed last year, and where their future is unclear. Support is lacking and they - like so many others - say they struggle to see a future in Iraq.
Speaking in a panel discussion to accompany the launch of the film, Vian and Barzan said they feel they have no rights in Iraq, and had not heard of the 2021 Survivors Law, intended to support ISIS survivors in Iraq.
Sherri Kraham Talabany, president of the Kurdistan Region’s SEED Foundation, urged the Iraqi government to urgently implement the Yazidi Survivors Law, telling the panel that, "Former child soldiers, some of whom are now adults, remain critically underserved."
"Children are still returning [from captivity]... this is very much an ongoing issue," she said, adding that SEED has worked with children who had been separated from their mothers by ISIS when they were as young as three and four-years old.
Sareta Ashraph, an international criminal barrister focused on ISIS crimes against the Yazidis and whose work culminated in the UN's decision of genocide, also shared her thoughts on the documentary.
ISIS’ targeting of young boys for recruitment and forcibly killing their male relatives was a particularly cruel experience, she stressed. Those over the age of seven years were removed entirely from their families, Ashraph said, meaning that they were not only new recruits to the so-called caliphate, but also the victims of an erasure and an attack on their Yazidi identity.
Many were forced to convert to Islam. "Outwardly we were acting like them [ISIS], inside though we were holding on to our religion," Vian says in the film.
Mirza Dinnayi, from Air Bridge Iraq, described in the panel how ISIS systematically indoctrinated young boys; around 1,000 of whom have been released, he said, and at least 1,000 currently remain in captivity.
To date, 3,000 of the kidnapped remain unaccounted for.
Often when we think of this figure, we think of enslaved women - but a large proportion are former Yazidi child soldiers.
Statistics provided by the Yazidi Rescue Office, approved by the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... , estimate that the number of people left in the hands of ISIS is 2,763: 1,293 women and 1,470 men; many of whom were children at the time of capture.
"Former child soldiers are routinely stigmatized, which means their harrowing experiences are frequently kept in the shadows," Nicolette Waldman, Researcher on Children and Armed Conflict on Amnesty’s Crisis Response team said. "By bravely sharing their own stories so openly, Vian and Barzan have helped shine a light on the struggles that remain for Yazidi former child soldiers today."
"The Iraqi authorities, their international partners, and the United Nations must ensure that Yazidi former child soldiers have full access to the reparations and assistance to which they are entitled under Iraq’s Yazidi Survivors Law (2021)," she added.
Funded by the Iraqi government, the estimated cost of implementing the law remains unclear but, Waldman told Rudaw English, it is entirely achievable. The beneficiaries of the law are in the thousands, rather than tens of thousands.
"They must also work together to establish a National Action Plan mandating that all current and former child soldiers in Iraq, including Yazidi boys and young men, are reintegrated into society and provided with coordinated, specialized and long-term support." Waldman said.
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"Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, nor shall children be put to death because of their fathers. Each one shall be put to death for his own sin."
[IsraelTimes] Leader of coalition’s Islamist party says he’s focused on bringing people together rather than being judgmental, prefers objective terms to describe ills decried by rights groups.
Ra’am party head Mansour Abbas said Thursday he would not use the word "apartheid" to describe relations between Jews and Arabs within the country.
Amnesia Amnesty International last week joined two other well-known human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... groups in saying that Israel’s policies toward the Paleostinians within its borders and in the West Bank and 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 an iron fist by Hamaswith 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... amount= to apartheid. Israel rejects those allegations as antisemitic, saying that, among other things, they ignore the rights and freedoms enjoyed by its Arab citizens.
"I would not call it apartheid," Abbas said in response to a question at an online event organized by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a DC-based think tank. He noted that he was in a governing coalition with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and could join the cabinet if he wanted to.
"I prefer to describe the reality in objective ways," he added, according to the English translation of his remarks, which he delivered in Hebrew. "If there is discrimination in a certain field, then we will say that there is discrimination in that specific field."
He did not say whether he thinks the apartheid term applies to the West Bank, where more than 2.5 million Paleostinians live under Israeli military rule alongside nearly 500,000 Jewish settlers with Israeli citizenship. Israel captured the territory from its Jordanian occupiers in the 1967 Mideast war, and the Paleostinians want it to form the main part of their future state.
Abbas’s Islamist Ra’am party made history in June by becoming the first major Arab party to sit in a governing coalition, which includes parties from across the political spectrum.
He has steered the faction toward a more pragmatic approach than Arab parties have traditionally taken, working with the government to secure gains for the Arab community.
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U.S. military officials say there could have been more civilian casualties than initially thought in the raid that killed the top Islamic State leader in Syria last week, but they believe any such deaths were caused by the militant's suicide bomb and were not at the hands of American forces.
Laying out a chronology of the raid by special operations forces, officials also said they cannot be certain that Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi detonated the bomb that killed him and his family at his home in the sleepy village of Atmeh near the Turkish border.
But they said it was set off by him or someone else on the third floor of the building where he lived. Previously the Pentagon and President Joe Biden had said al-Qurayshi blew up himself, his wife and two children. The military officials said Thursday they believe the upper floor was rigged to explode and that it's most likely al-Qurayshi did it, not one of his family members.
They also said it's possible that others — perhaps additional wives he had — could have been with him and killed in that blast. They said the blast threw "multiple bodies" from the building and buried them in the rubble, and while they know al-Qurayshi and his family died, they can't rule out the possibility that other bodies were hidden in the collapse and not seen by the troops.
Speaking to a small group of reporters, two senior military officials involved in the planning or execution of the operation provided the most details to date on the Feb. 2 raid, pushing back against claims by residents and activist groups that the U.S. operation killed as many as 13 people, including civilians. They spoke on condition of anonymity as a condition for providing the briefing.
The Biden administration and the Pentagon have come under sharp criticism recently for failing to provide evidence for a number of national security claims, including proof of their efforts to avoid civilian casualties in operations such as the Syria raid and their account of a suicide bombing in Afghanistan in August. Read the rest at the link
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Explaining the lack of video of the house explosion, the officials said the team was watching the building and overhead surveillance was focused on the surrounding area to detect any potential threats to the force. They said there is also no body-cam video.
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Kinda like the monthly job totals and covid cases, the numbers keep getting revised. Of course, you only do this when your previous lies are about to be exposed.
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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