Wearing or having worn the uniform is no guarantee of morality. Just of being really well trained to solve problems.
[Breitbart] A former U.S. marine who ran a drug-smuggling organization that worked with several Mexican drug cartels will now spend 16 years in prison. The former Marine conspired to smuggle at least 10 tons of cocaine into the US each month.
This week, 50-year-old Angel Dominguez Ramirez Jr., a former U.S. Marine, went before a U.S. District Court judge in San Diego who sentenced him to 16 years in prison for his role as the leader of a drug-smuggling group that trafficked tons of cocaine from South America into Mexico. Ten tons of drug shipments eventually made their way into the U.S. on a monthly basis. Dominguez had previously pleaded guilty to drug trafficking and money laundering charges last fall. Mexican authorities arrested him in Mexico and after two years in a Mexican prison, they extradited him to the U.S. in 2016.
The smuggling group worked with several Mexican drug cartels, including organizations that are at war with each other like the Sinaloa Cartel and Cartel Jalisco New Generation. Dominguez got into the drug business after being unable to find work after being medically discharged from the U.S. Marines following a car crash where his two daughters died. Court documents revealed that he spent six months in a hospital and was left with permanent damage from the crash.
According to federal prosecutors, Dominguez ran a drug organization called “El Seguimiento 39,” also known as “The Company.” The group would transport and supply drugs from South America to Mexico which would then make their way into the United States.
Dominguez built his organization through key alliances with most of Mexico’s drug cartels — including the Sinaloa Cartel, the Beltran Leyva Cartel, Cartel Jalisco New Generation, the Gulf Cartel, and Los Zetas. Court documents also point to Dominguez having access to top Mexican police officials at the federal level. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California, authorities estimated that the organization smuggled approximately ten tons of cocaine into the U.S monthly and would send back to Mexico about $10 million dollars per month in proceeds.
What odds the gentleman was connected to the gangs before he joined up? Some do that in order to bring back the skills they were taught, like taking a few years off from the job to get an MBA.
"Dominguez got into the drug business after being unable to find work after being medically discharged from the U.S. Marines following a car crash where his two daughters died. Court documents revealed that he spent six months in a hospital and was left with permanent damage from the crash."
[Garowe] Three coppers were maimed on Sunday when the vehicle they were traveling in ran over an improvised bomb in Garissa, a county in northeast Kenya that borders Somalia.
The police said the officers were among a team that was escorting Ijara Member of Parliament aspirant Ibrahim Abbas' convoy to Hulugho when they came under attack.
"The driver and other officers sustained serious injuries," the police said in a report.
Police blamed al-Shabaab ...... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa... murderous Moslems for the attack, the second to hit Lower Garissa region in a week.
On June 1, button men believed to be members of al-Shabaab Lions of Islam attacked and injured a security agent along the Bura-Garissa road.
Al-Shabaab Lions of Islam have been attacking places in the region, especially in Mandera and Garissa counties, killing and injuring security personnel and civilians.
[AlAhram] At least 20 people have been killed in a new massacre in DR Congo's eastern province of Ituri, a respected monitor said on Monday, adding that the notorious ADF militia were suspected. The attack took place overnight in the village of Bwanasura in Irumu territory, the Kivu Security Tracker (KST) said on Twitter.
David Beiza, head of the Red Thingy in Irumu, said volunteers from his organization "have counted 36 bodies" at the site of the massacre.
Ituri and neighbouring North Kivu province are struggling with attacks by gangs, many of them a legacy of wars in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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[HODHODYEMENNEWS] A Yemeni doctor was tortured to death inside a prison run by the Saudi-led coalition forces in Hadhramaut province, eastern Yemen,
Huda al-Sarari, head of Organization Defense for Rights and Freedoms said that the security faction in the district of Al-Qatn stormed al-Shabibi Medical Center on Thursday and began beating Dr. Saeed al-Dharawi before transferring him to the police station.
The security forces continued to torture him until he died, Al-Sarari added.
Al-Dharawi is one case of dozens of violations in the prisons of pro-coalition factions in Aden, Hadhramaut, Taiz, Marib and the west coast.
[HODHODYEMENNNEWS] A female child was killed and several members of her family were injured in Bayda province, central of Yemen, on Saturday as Saudi-led coalition forces continued to break the UN-brokered humanitarian truce.
Local residents said that the Eman Faisal al-Hamiqani was killed after a mortar shell fired by security belt forces stationed in Yafa’a district of Lahj province targeted her family’s house in al- Zaher district of Bayda.
On Saturday, a Yemeni military source revealed that coalition forces had committed 106 breaches in the past 24 hours, bringing the number of volitions since the truce began on April 2, to 6,427.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS] At least two children were injured on Monday, as a result of the explosion of a cluster bomb left behind by the Saudi-led coalition forces in Sana’a province .
The Executive Center for Mine Action reported that two children were injured while grazing sheep, and a number of livestock died as a result of the explosion of the cluster bomb in the Bani Bariq village of Nihem district, east of Sana’a.
As a result of the indiscriminate and excessive use of cluster bombs by the US-Saudi aggression during the past years, the impact of these bombs continues to lead to casualties among civilians, especially children.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] More large than huge, but whatevs.
The caravan now is 11,000 strong and on Monday departed Tapachula on the Mexico-Guatemala border and the group is expected to swell up to 15,000
Many of the migrants come from Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua, three countries whose authoritarian rulers have been left out of this week's summit
On Monday Mexican President Manuel Lopez Obrador confirmed that he would not attend the gathering in protest because leaders from Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela had not been invited
The caravan is making its way northward as the Biden administration is fighting in court to end Title 42
#WATCH | Punjab: A group of people gathers at the entrance to the Golden Temple in Amritsar, raises pro-Khalistan slogans and carries posters of Khalistani separatist Jarnail Bhindranwale. pic.twitter.com/zTu9ro7934
Iraqi security forces fended off an ISIS attack on a security checkpoint on the outskirts of Baqubah, Diyala's capital city, a source revealed on Monday.
The source told Shafaq News Agency that a group of ISIS militants attacked a checkpoint near the village of al-Hashimiyyat, east of the Habhab sub-district, on Saturday evening.
"A surveillance thermographic camera was destroyed," the source added, "a security force rushed to the site and proceeded with combing the area."
Iraqi security forces reportedly shut down an Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle (UAV) near al-Rusafa prison, downtown Iraq's capital city Baghdad, on Monday.
A source told Shafaq News Agency that the Security Cordone Force of the Iraqi Ministry of Interior detected and downed a quadcopter flying over the Iraqi Correction Department.
"The UAV was left in custody for forensic investigations," the source said, "it was not loaded with explosives."
The spokesman for the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, Yahya Rasool, announced arresting, in cooperation with the security agencies in the Kurdistan Region, prominent terrorists.
Rasool said in a statement today that as a result of a series of meetings and discussions between the Counter-Terrorism service and the Region's security agencies, as well as reaching the highest levels of coordination, the forces managed to arrest a number of ISIS leaders.
He added that these leaders are the terrorist nicknamed "Abu Muhammad", arrested in Saladin. He was in charge of the file of the dead and arrestees in the Tigris sector.
In addition, the assistant of the Military Emir of al-Falahat-Fallujah sector, the terrorist nicknamed "Abu Aya", was arrested in Erbil, while terrorist "Abu Fahd" who participated in attacks against the security forces, north of Babel, was arrested al-Sulaymaniyah in cooperation with the Asayish forces.
Six reported ISIS leaders across numerous Iraqi provinces were arrested as a result of joint efforts between the federal and regional security forces, a statement from the Iraqi counter-terrorism service (CTS) read.
One of the suspects detained ranks "at the top of the names" in the wanted list for terrorism and "occupies a very important position" in the jihadist organization, according to the statement. The suspect was arrested in Erbil.
Iraqi intelligence forces on Sunday arrested 14 alleged ISIS bandidosmurderous Moslems across several districts in Baghdad, including "prominent leaders," state media reported.
On Wednesday, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces handed over 50 ISIS members to Iraq, the second time this year since another identical handover took place in January.
In its propaganda magazine on Thursday, ISIS claimed to have conducted 13 attacks in Iraq from May 26 to June 1, killing and injuring 14 people.
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An explosive device planted on the vehicle of Kurdish-Iranian politician, Akbar Almaz, blew up today, Monday, a security source reported.
The source told Shafaq News agency that the explosion took place near Sitaqan area, Erbil, where there is an office for the Iranian struggle movement.
For its part, the Kurdistan Region's counter-terrorism department said that the person who was targeted in the explosion is a member of the movement, noting that investigations are ongoing to uncover the circumstances of the incident.
Akbar Sinjabi, member of the organization of Iranian Kurdistan Struggle (Sazmani Khabat), was inside the car when the suspected bomb was believed to have detonated. Sinjabi is also a former member of the People's Mujahedin of Iran ...The nation is 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... (MKO).
"God willing, he will be fine," Shorsh Haji, a senior member of Sazmani Khabat, told Rudaw’s Bahroz Faraidun in front of Erbil’s Western emergency hospital.
The impact reportedly maimed parts of Sinjabi’s left leg, which he is undergoing treatment for. No other casualties have been reported from the incident.
As of Monday afternoon, exact details of the presumed attack remain unclear, and no parties have assumed responsibility,
Members of Iranian Kurdish opposition parties have been targeted in the Kurdistan Region in the past, with the parties accusing Iran of the killings.
In August, Mousa Babakhani, a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDP-I), was found dead in a hotel room in Erbil displaying signs of torture.
Qadir Qadiri, a senior commander of the KDP-I, was found dead in March 2018 in Hartal village, Ranya district, near Sulaimani’s border with Iran. He had been shot 21 times.
Sazmani Khabat is a combatant political organization, one of many groups in the region, and has been fighting to achieve the increased rights of Iranian Kurds for the last 38 years.
[IsraelTimes] Party says officers must be held to account after senior member of Islamic Movement detained; police say he and his relatives fomented unrest.
The Ra’am party on Sunday night accused police of assaulting a top religious figure in the Islamic Movement,
... the Muslim Brotherhood’s tentacle in Israel. The Southern Branch goes in for politics — it’s Ra’am party is part of the Bennett government — while the Northern Branch is the militant arm, particularly fond of harassing Jews who dared thinking they control the Temple Mount. It’s sounds like this sheikh is a Northern Brancher working up to his return to prison for cause...
after video showed cops manhandling Sheikh Muhammad Hassan Salamah in Jerusalem’s Old City.
MK Walid Taha said cops physically abused Salamah after he told them not to smoke at the entrance to the Temple Mount, the compound that houses the al-Aqsa Mosque.
It’s not his to control, but theirs.
In a joint statement, Ra’am and the Islamic Movement it represents condemned "the lowly and cowardly attack by cops against Sheikh Salamah and his family" and demanded that officers involved in the incident face charges.
Police alleged that the sheikh and his family had "disturbed the peace," shouting at cops and stirring unrest. They asserted that officers attempted to "maintain the calm" but that Salamah’s relatives became increasingly rowdy and violent mostly peaceful, leading to their brief detainment.
Ra’am’s relationship with the coalition has remained fragile over events in Jerusalem and the Temple Mount in particular, where the month of Ramadan saw repeated festivities between police and Moslems.
The party froze its membership in the coalition in April over the violence, but returned to the fold in May, saying it would give the government another chance to come through for its constituents.
Sheikh Salamah had been one of the top voices calling for the party to quit the government entirely.
[IsraelTimes] Iran ...The nation is 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... still believed to be planning attacks in country, a popular destination for Israelis, who are also still advised not to travel to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... Thai security forces have thwarted several recent Iranian attempts to harm Western and Israeli targets in the southeast Asian country, according to a Monday report.
The news comes as Iran has reportedly been trying to retaliate for several high-profile liquidations and mysterious deaths in the Islamic Theocratic Republic in recent months, including of a senior IRGC official and a top scientist.
According to Channel 12, security forces in Thailand were successful in preventing an Iranian agent from establishing a terror cell in the country and potentially carrying out attacks against Israelis.
The suspect, the report said, was eventually arrested last year in Indonesia while carrying a fake Bulgarian passport. Nonetheless, Thai security forces remain on high alert.
While that attempt failed, Iran is still believed to be planning attacks against Israelis in Thailand and elsewhere. Earlier Monday, local media reported that the Royal Thai Police had issued a "secret order" to coppers nationwide to be on the lookout for "Iranian spies."
Thai reports cited a police source as saying that Thai security agencies were closely monitoring the movement of Iranian nationals who are believed to be operating as spies in the country. Thailand is a popular tourist destination for Israelis, in particular among fresh veterans of the Israel Defense Forces who often take off for several months.
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Member of Turkish-backed Hamza faction was seriously wounded in clashes with gunmen from al-Mawali tribe in the city of #Afrin, north of #Aleppo. #SNAhttps://t.co/PpwATuSsjs
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I think it was the libertarian candidate that year who couldn't place Aleppo, then the media smugly but incorrectly tried to set him straight. Failing grades all around for ME geography.
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It was indeed the Libertarian. Gary Johnson — see here. A bit of a tempest in a teapot — he understood the issues Aleppo represented, he just didn’t have it mentally tagged with the name of the city.
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Thanks for the 2016 'What is Aleppo' piece TW. Johnson obviously wasn't coached on the questions beforehand. What his geopolitical background lacked, his common sense more than made up for:
“Aleppo is in Syria – it’s the epicenter of the refugee crisis,” Barnicle said.
[Johnson] “OK. Got it. With regard to Syria, I do think it is a mess,” the Libertarian nominee said. Johnson pivoted to arguing against military interventions in foreign countries, and said that the refugee crisis “is the result of regime change that we end up supporting, and, inevitably, these regimes have led to a less safe world.”
Excellent gaffe recovery by Johnson. Unfortunately the 'gaffe' was remembered, his entirely accurate comment on "regime change" politics appears to have been lost forever.
Paradoxically, we now must endure the daily gaffes of a president, who attempts to recovery with an endless stream of untruths.
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There was a time when every educated man who knew his Shakespeare could recall Othello's last words:
"Set you down this
And say besides thatin Aleppo once, Where a malignant and a turbanned Turk
Beat a Venetian and traduced the state,
I took by th' throat the circumcised dog
And smote him—thus!"
Turkish forces bombed several villages near the frontlines in the northern and western countryside of #Manbij, north of Aleppo. #SDF#ISIShttps://t.co/NoDEXXLXVg
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] Syrian air defense (air defense) systems repel a missile attack in the sky over the Syrian capital Damascus, the state television channel Al-Ikhbariya reported on June 6.
According to journalists, explosions are heard in the city.
As REGNUM reported, on June 2, the SANA news agency disseminated information that a battle had taken place in the Syrian province between a unit of the Syrian army and a group of terrorists. The servicemen managed to repel the attack of the militants, and they retreated.
Not the Israeli air force for once? What kind of missiles in the sky would militants have?
Update at 2:40 a.m. ET:
[IsraelTimes] Reports say sites hit in al-Kiswah, a suburb believed to hold Iranian bases; state media says air defenses intercept most of the missiles, but damage still caused
Israeli fighter jets launched a series of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on an area south of the Syrian capital Damascus on Monday night, causing damage to several sites, Syria’s official state media reported.
A Twitter account tracking Israeli military activity in Syria claimed the strikes targeted sites in the suburb of al-Kiswah, south of Damascus and near the Damascus International Airport, southeast of the city. The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also said the strikes targeted al-Kiswah. The claims could not immediately be independently verified.
The al-Kiswah area has been bombed by Israel in the past for allegedly containing Iranian military bases.
An attractive nuisance, those things are. The Israelis can’t resist.
Heavy explosions were heard over both the Syrian capital and northern Israel, according to local reports.
The state-run broadcaster, SANA, said most of the missiles — launched from over the Golan Heights — were intercepted. It did not immediately elaborate on the damage caused to the sites that were hit.
The Syrian military claims to shoot down incoming missiles after nearly every alleged Israeli strike, an assertion Israeli military officials and civilian defense analysts largely dismiss as empty boasts.
There was no immediate comment from the Israel Defense Forces, which does not normally comment on individual strikes.
Israel has carried out hundreds of sorties over Syria in the last decade, mostly to stymie attempts by Iranian forces to transfer weapons or establish a foothold.
Israeli strikes have continued in Syrian airspace, which is largely controlled by Russia, even as ties with Moscow have deteriorated in recent weeks. Israel has found itself at odds with Russia as it has increasingly supported Ukraine, while seeking to maintain freedom of movement in Syria’s skies.
The last strike in Syria attributed to Israel was on May 21, when three Syrian soldiers were killed in a surface-to-surface missile strike near Damascus.
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.
...... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa...
[AlAhram] At least 20 people have been killed in a new massacre in DR Congo's eastern province of 
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