[GEO.TV] Jamaat Ahl-e-Hadees Central President Senator Professor Sajid Mir passed away at the age of 86, family sources confirmed on Saturday.
As per the sources, Mir died of a heart attack. The holy man was born on October 2, 1938, in Sialkot and completed his education at the University of the 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
.... , Lahore.
Professor Mir served as a senator continuously from 2003 to 2025, and prior to that, he was also a member of the upper house of the parliament from 1994 to 2000. He was elected to the Senate on a Pakistain Moslem League-Nawaz (PML-N) ticket.
Besides serving as the central president of the Jamaat Ahl-e-Hadees, he also held the post of chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and Technology.
[IsrelTimes] Legal experts accuse police of violating city law barring cooperation with federal immigration authorities by providing arrest record of Leqaa Kordia at anti-Israel rally last year
New York City’s police department provided US federal immigration authorities with an internal record about a Paleostinian woman they arrested at a protest, which the White House is now using as evidence in its bid to deport her, according to court documents obtained by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named. The report — shared by the NYPD in March — includes a summary of information in the department’s files about Leqaa Kordia, a New Jersey resident who was arrested at a protest outside Columbia University last spring. It lists her home address, date of birth and an officer’s two-sentence account of the arrest.
Its distribution to federal authorities offers a glimpse into behind-the-scenes cooperation between the NYPD and the Trump administration, and raises questions about the city’s compliance with sanctuary laws that prohibit police from assisting with immigration enforcement efforts.
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Clearing out low-hanging fruit: foreigners whose legal visas had previously been revoked, though for whatever reason they’d been allowed to stay on afterward.
[IsraelTimes] Iranian students say they have been informally advised by faculty to ‘lay low’ and ‘be invisible’ after Sama Ebrahimi Bajgani and fiancé Alireza Doroudi swept up by immigration officers
Sama Ebrahimi Bajgani and her fiancé, Alireza Doroudi, had just spent an evening celebrating the Persian New Year at the University of Alabama when seven armed immigration officers came to their apartment before dawn and arrested Doroudi.
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Doroudi’s visa was revoked in June 2023, but the embassy didn’t provide a reason and ignored his inquiries, Bajgani said. The university told him he could stay as long as he remained a student but that he would not be allowed to reenter the US if he left, she said.
The University doesn't get to make that call
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The University of Alabama didn’t comment on Doroudi’s case, but said it offers resources to help immigrantscolonists shock troops on campus comply with federal law. It also offers guidance to students whose visas are revoked.
[FoxNews] President Donald Trump ...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election. Then he beat Kamala while dodging bullets... will host a military parade in June to honor military veterans and active-duty service members and commemorate the U.S. Army’s 250th birthday, Fox News Digital has learned.
The parade is scheduled for June 14, the 250th birthday of the United States Army and Trump’s birthday.
The parade will have reenactors, equipment and more from the Revolutionary War, Civil War, Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, Gulf War/Desert Storm and the Global War on Terror (Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria). It will also feature active-duty service members and students at U.S. military academies.
The parade comes after Trump, in January, signed an executive order creating "Task Force 250," which is focused on coordinating the plans and activities celebrating the 250th anniversary of American independence. The 250th anniversary of America's founding is July 4, 2026.
"As one of the first events of the year-long celebration of our 250th anniversary, this commemorative parade will be a fitting tribute to the service, sacrifice and selflessness of the brave men and women who have worn the uniform and devoted their lives to defending the greatest experiment in liberty known to man," Vance told Fox News Digital.
To what end? The last time round President Trump wanted agreements to support removing American forces from Afghanistan. Since then, they have been removed. In the most harum scarum, destructive way possible, leaving behind both Americans and local allies to suffer at the hand of the new Talib caliphate, but gone nonetheless. If President Trump means to rescue them all, what can he offer to bargain with?
[ToloNews] The acting foreign minister said that after Donald Trump ...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election. Then he beat Kamala while dodging bullets... ’s return to power, direct communications with the United States resumed, and he expressed hope that relations between the two countries will improve.
In an interview with Al Jazeera, Amir Khan Muttaqi emphasized that the Islamic Emirate has fulfilled its commitments under the Doha Agreement. However,
we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... he noted that some obligations on the American side—such as removing the Islamic Emirate’s name from the blacklist—have yet to be fulfilled.
He also highlighted the development of relations with regional countries including Russia, Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... , India, and Pakistain, and reiterated the Islamic Emirate’s commitment to a balanced foreign policy.
Muttaqi stated: "We have repeatedly stressed that the United States must adopt a realistic view of the current situation in Afghanistan. There is no security threat, no drug trafficking, and no use of Afghan soil against others. If reality is seen instead of propaganda, there is a good opportunity to improve relations."
Wais Naseri, a political analyst, said: "A de facto relationship—meaning practical ties—has existed with all countries, especially the United States, Russia, India, China, and Pakistain, over the past three years and eight months. However,
we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... a legitimate, state-to-state relationship has not yet been established, mainly due to global conditions and the positions of the US, Russia, India, China, Pakistain, and the UN Security Council."
Muttaqi called Russia’s recent move to remove the Islamic Emirate from its list of banned ...the word banned seems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organizations a "positive step" toward expanding relations, particularly in the trade sector.
He added: "We consider Russia’s recent decision a significant step. Now, more economic cooperation is possible. Afghanistan’s geographic location can also be advantageous for Russia."
Fazl Rahman Oria, another political analyst, commented: "Afghanistan must adopt a balanced and completely neutral foreign policy between Eastern and Western powers, and protect its legitimate national interests accordingly."
Regarding regional ties, Muttaqi said the Islamic Emirate seeks no tension between India and Pakistain and supports direct dialogue for resolving disputes.
He also stated that new opportunities for political, economic, cultural, and trade cooperation have emerged between Kabul and Doha.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] Putin's special representative for Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, said Russia could help the Taliban's anti-terrorist efforts to combat ISIS.
1. Not long ago, the Taliban were officially written off as terrorists, although in fact since 2022. So there are no legal obstacles to such relations.
2. The Taliban have abandoned terrorist practices since 2021 (the last terrorist attacks were committed against the troops of the puppet regime of Ghani in the spring-summer of 2021).
3. The greatest danger to the Taliban is the Afghan wilayat of ISIS (aka wilayat Khorasan, banned in the Russian Federation). At one time, it was nurtured by the Americans, which was confirmed by both the Taliban and former Afghan President Hamid Karzai).
Bloody terrorist attacks organized by ISIS occur quite regularly in Afghanistan. The Taliban are hunting for "black" ones and in most cases do not take prisoners.
4. Russia has repeatedly made it clear that in order to further legalize the Taliban, it needs to strengthen the fight against drug production and the fight against ISIS and Al-Qaeda structures.
For decades the Taliban have partnered with the local narco gangs to produce opium and heroin refined from opium. The Talibs provide protection, while the narco gangs, generally local tribal leaders, provide the local farmers who do the actual work. Al Qaeda and related jihadi groups have also long been given protection by the Taliban, to the point of several generations now intermarrying with the local Talibs. So while there might possibly be strengthening against ISIS-K, there most certainly won’t be against anyone else, continuing the promises and practices of the past two decades — and the more fools the Russians if they really believe otherwise. Let us hope these pious hopes are none other than cynical humbuggery.
5. Thus, the Russian Federation and the Taliban actually have a common enemy in the form of ISIS. In this matter, cooperation between the special services seems possible, since we are interested in the Taliban killing more ISIS members and not having them travel from there to us or to Central Asia.
6. In theory, they can start with an exchange of intelligence and agreements on the mutual extradition of terrorists.
In general, I think there will be a lot of interesting news in the coming year regarding contacts with the Taliban.
[GEO.TV] Hamas ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... released a video purportedly of a hostage held 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... whom Israeli media identified as Maxim Herkin.
The video is undated and edited, however, the man makes references to Israel's Independence Day, which took place last week, and identifies himself as among the 59 hostages in Gaza.
The Paleostinian group has regularly released videos of hostages over the course of the war. Israeli officials have in the past dismissed such videos as propaganda that is designed to put pressure on the government.
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[FoxNews] Claudia Sheinbaum rejects US military assistance amid cartel crisis
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum publicly confirmed she rejected U.S. military assistance from President Donald Trump, who was looking to help the country fight drug trafficking and violent cartels.
Responding to a Wall Street Journal report Friday that detailed the offer, Sheinbaum confirmed "it's true."
Trump reportedly called Sheinbaum and asked, "How can we help you fight drug trafficking?"
She told Trump the country will "never accept" the presence of the U.S. Army in its territory.
"No, President Trump, our territory is inalienable, sovereignty is inalienable," Sheinbaum said. "We can collaborate. We can work together, but with you in your territory and us in ours. We can share information, but we will never accept the presence of the United States Army on our territory."
In a written statement to Fox News Digital Saturday, White House deputy press secretary Anna Kelly highlighted coordinated efforts with Mexico to address border security.
"President Trump has worked with President Sheinbaum to advance border security collaboration with Mexico to the highest levels ever," Kelly wrote. "This robust cooperation and information sharing is delivering tangible results, including the removal of numerous cartel leaders to the U.S. to face justice and creating the most secure border in history."
Since taking office, Trump has continued to use CIA drones to conduct surveillance flights over the country in coordination with the Mexican government.
He has also formally named drug cartels "foreign terrorist" groups.
However, Kelly said Mexico must do more to protect Americans from dangerous foreign terrorist organizations and "the drugs and violence they flood into communities on both sides of the border."
"We will continue exploring ways to enhance our efforts across the region to dismantle these transnational criminal organizations," she wrote. "We will make America safe again."
The Heritage Foundation, a top conservative group, released a report in January detailing how Trump could use the military to confront the border crisis.
It argued that Mexican cartels are continuing to grow, illegal immigration and narcotics smuggling have accelerated and U.S.-Mexico security cooperation has deteriorated.
However, the report noted direct military action against cartels should be a "last resort," preferring joint military action with Mexican coordination, Fox News Digital previously reported.
"In the appropriate context, unilateral U.S. military action may be employed to disrupt cartel activity and prompt cooperation from a resistant Mexican government," the group wrote.
The foundation claimed Mexico was unlikely to change its stance when Sheinbaum was elected despite the escalating threat from cartels.
[GEO.TV] PM Narendra Modi-led Indian government has decided to suspend the exchange of all types of mail and parcels coming from Pakistain via air and land routes.
The move comes after New Delhi banned the import of goods originating from or transiting via Pakistain. The ban is to take effect immediately, as per India's Directorate General of Foreign Trade.
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"Candygram for Mongo"
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[GEO.TV] Pakistain's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Dr Mohammad Faisal reiterated that Pakistain would give a befitting response to any Indian aggression.
In an interview with international media, he strongly rejected India's allegations, terming them baseless and lacking evidence. ''India's accusations are rooted in falsehood and carry no factual weight,'' he added.
Reaffirming Pakistain's stance on the 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.... issue, the High Commissioner said that the region remains a disputed territory and must be resolved in accordance with United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... Security Council resolutions.
Dr Faisal further stated that India has reneged on the commitments it made before the UN Security Council, and stressed that any decision on Kashmir's future must be based on the will of the people.
[GEO.TV] Azad Jammu and 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.... (AJK) Prime Minister Chaudhry Anwar ul Haq has said that India was hatching conspiracies to create unrest in Azad Jammu and Kashmir.
''If India attacks Pakistain, we will respond with full force— India is actively plotting to destabilise Azad Kashmir," he said while addressing the All-Parties Kashmir Conference.
He emphasised that Pakistain's politicianship must demonstrate complete solidarity and stand firmly behind the armed forces in the face of Indian aggression.
He said that there was dire need to avoid discussing things that could create problem for Pakistain internationally. He, however, maintained that it was appropriate time for us as Kashmiris to talk as the stalemate on the issue has been broken for the first time since 2019.
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[GEO.TV] Prime Minister's Adviser Rana Sanaullah said that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was seeking to harm Pakistain and destabilise the region through "aggressive policies and economic sabotage".
Speaking at a ceremony in Faisalabad ...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after... , he said that Modi had urged the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to cancel its agreement with Pakistain.
He also slammed India's unilateral suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty, terming it a clear violation of international agreements.
He said the recent tragic incident in Pahalgam claimed the lives of innocent people and that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had demanded an investigation, but India showed no willingness to cooperate.
"India wants to use the Pahalgam incident as a pretext to intensify oppression in 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.... ,'' Rana said, adding that the level of brutality inflicted upon Kashmiris in just the past few days is unprecedented in the last 75 years.
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[GEO.TV] Federal Minister for Climate Change, Dr Musadik Malik, has accused India of exploiting the Pahalgam incident to divert attention from its internal challenges, particularly its treatment of minorities.
Speaking to a private news channel, he emphasised that Pakistan has consistently called for dialogue and has proposed an independent international investigation into the matter.
He stressed that Pakistan has avoided escalating tensions, focusing instead on promoting peace and regional stability.
''We have not issued threats, and we continue to safeguard our borders while maintaining internal security,'' he asserted.
Dr Malik also accused India of violating the Indus Waters Treaty by failing to share mandatory information and avoiding scheduled meetings between the water commissioners.
''India has made excuses for not attending the commissioners' meetings,'' he noted.
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[IsraelTimes] Activists with pro-Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition say Palau revoked its flag from Conscience shortly before alleged Israeli attack on reportedly Hamas-affiliated vessel
At least three countries are said to have denied entry and threatened to confiscate a reportedly Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... -affiliated Gazoo
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The IHH charity that organizes and backs the Freedom Flotillas, among other interesting ventures, is an Erdogan government project, Snowy Thing. Of course they have opinions on the subject.
[GEO.TV] Israel called on Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... , a key mediator between Israel and Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... , to "stop playing both sides with its double talk and decide if it's on the side of civilisation or if it's on the side of Hamas", the Israeli Prime Minister's office said on Saturday.
''Israel is fighting a just war with just means,'' the Prime Minister's Office said. ''After the October 7 atrocities, Prime Minister Netanyahu defined the War of Redemption as a war between civilisation and barbarism.
''Israel will win this just war with just means,'' it added.
There was no immediate comment from Qatar.
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They don’t understand that they were the J Street of American governments: claiming to love Israel while loathing and working to undermine the existence of everything that misses by even a micron their idea of what it ought to be.
[IsraelTimes] In interviews with Israeli TV program, 9 senior officials from previous US administration speak with unprecedented candor; Hochstein: Saudi deal would have required election or coalition shuffle
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government missed an opportunity to reach a normalization agreement with 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 rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start... last year, a top aide to former US president Joe The Big Guy Biden
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Biden officials vent frustrations in dealing with Netanyahu
I find it ...ironic... that the diplomatic drones whine and moan about other countries not immediately obeying their diktats. Remember the Obama's World Apology Tour stressing how the US had foresworn unilateral posturing (and Obama 2.0's lukewarm recycling of same)?
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Biden will be the last pro-Israel Democratic president. Imagine the s-show if Kamala or one of her more leftist compatriots had been president over the last 2 years.
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[IsraelTimes] Russian-Israeli citizen appears bandaged in second sign of life in past month; Egyptian official tells Hezbollah-aligned outlet that Hamas can’t be forced into ‘further concessions’
Hamas published a propaganda video on Saturday showing signs of life from Maxim Herkin, the second such clip of the hostage put out by the terror group in the past month.
In the latest video, Herkin appeared to be severely bandaged up. Hamas claimed that he was in a tunnel allegedly targeted in an Israeli airstrike.
Most Israeli media do not carry the video clips themselves. The Hostages and Missing Families Forum requested that media outlets not publish the video or stills from it unless Herkin’s family provides approval.
Government hostage point man Gal Hirsch spoke with Herkin’s family after the release of the video. According to Hirsch’s office, the Herkins implored that Israeli news outlets not air the video of their son.
Last week, Hamas published a highly-produced propaganda video showing operatives rescuing a hostage, claimed to be Herkin, from under sand inside a tunnel.
Last month, the terror group published a video showing him and fellow hostage Bar Kupershtein. Both hostages were kidnapped by terrorists from the Nova music festival near Re’im.
Hamas has previously issued similar videos of hostages it is holding, in what Israel says is deplorable psychological warfare.
Herkin and Kupershtein are among the 24 hostages that Israel has said it believes to still be alive of the 59 total hostages that remain in captivity in Gaza, though Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife Sara said this week there are fewer than 24 living captives.
Herkin, a dual Russian-Israeli citizen, was 35 at the time of his abduction, has a three-year-old daughter, and was the primary provider for his mother and 11-year-old brother. He attended the Nova festival by chance, invited by friends at the last minute. It was the first time he had gone to a rave.
In February, Hamas said that Herkin would be prioritized during the second stage of the hostage deal, if it were to be signed, as a gesture to the Russian government. However, the agreement between Israel and Hamas fell apart after its first stage, with Israel renewing the fighting in Gaza in March.
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Meanwhile, an Egyptian official familiar with the negotiations for a hostage release and ceasefire deal in Gaza said on Friday, “There is nothing new to negotiate, and no further concessions to force Hamas to make.”
Speaking to Lebanon’s Al-Akhbar, a news outlet affiliated with Hezbollah, the unnamed official claimed that the real issue was the absence of “an American-Israeli will to end the war.”
The official additionally warned that the Trump administration’s bet that Israel will be able to extract further concessions from Hamas, presumably through military force, is a “mistake.”
The report said that Egypt was backing a proposal that would see all the hostages released at once in exchange for a complete Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and a long-term truce.
However, the outlet said there are also “discussions” for an alternative formula that would see a temporary truce of less than a year, to be implemented in two phases and with American guarantees.
It is unclear who was involved in the talks on the secondary proposal.
According to the report, that plan would include a preliminary Israeli commitment to complete the negotiating process that would eventually lead to the end of the war, with the first phase seeing Hamas handing over more than half of the living hostages and the remains of some of the slain captives.
The outlet did not give further details on the second phase.
Hamas opposes partial or temporary truce proposals, while Netanyahu has rejected plans that would see an end to the war before the complete dismantling of Hamas as a military and governing power.
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.
...1. Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat 
...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat 
..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
...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 rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...
