[IsraelTimes] The Defense Ministry body responsible for facilitating the delivery of humanitarian aid into Gaza says it helped deliver eight empty trucks that will be added to the World Food Programme to bolster the delivery of aid throughout the Strip.
Six of the trucks are for aid and two of the trucks are for fuel.
Israel is working to bolster WFP’s capacity after passing legislation aimed at effectively dismantling the UN’s relief agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA at the end of January over its ties to Hamas.
“Since the outbreak of war, [COGAT’s] efforts have enabled 63 empty trucks into the Gaza Strip for international organizations,” COGAT says in a statement.
[IsraelTimes] Army says government backs decision to strengthen Palestinians, despite opposition from some ministers; Jewish terrorism numbers down over past year, but incidents still serious
The Israel Defense Forces supports strengthening the Paleostinian Authority so it can more effectively combat terrorism in the West Bank, military officials said on Thursday, as the PA appears to step up efforts against Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... and Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... Officials said the IDF was backing efforts to increase coordination and cooperation with the PA on the orders of the government rather than as its own initiative, despite statements from some government ministers who have urged the weakening of the PA.
The comment comes as PA security forces have been carrying out an operation against terror groups in the northern West Bank city of Jenin, including killing and detaining members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, seizing weapons, and neutralizing bombs.
The crackdown came after terror operatives stole two PA vehicles and paraded them through Jenin last week.
The PA has a relatively strong presence in southern and central West Bank cities, where it has managed to maintain public order. But in the northern part of the territory, especially the refugee camps in the Jenin, Nablus and Tulkarem areas, the PA has struggled to exercise authority against the terror groups there.
Military officials said the PA gained some fortitude this week when its members entered Jenin and an adjacent refugee camp.
The army hopes to encourage the PA to continue carrying out such operations. Officials said the army will do what it can to ensure the PA is strong enough to successfully operate against terror, which would also benefit the IDF, but did not provide details about what steps were being taken to bolster the Paleostinian force.
Officials declined to say if the military supports increasing supplies of arms and equipment to the PA security forces, which must be approved by Israel.
While hard-right elements of the government have long criticized the transfer of weapons to the PA, Israel’s security establishment maintains a different approach, viewing PA President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....> and his security forces as an important ally in combating terror in the West Bank, and generally does support the transfer of arms and equipment to it.
As the PA faces a legitimacy crisis over its failure to deliver Paleostinian statehood or even hold elections, its popularity has waned significantly, particularly in the northern West Bank where rivals have taken up weapons and challenged its authority.
In the past, the PA would not enter the northern West Bank cities and refugee camps after the IDF had recently operated there, arguing that the military’s raids hamper its legitimacy further, and insists that Israel let it deal with the problem on its own.
There reached a point where for months at a time the military would not carry out operations inside the refugee camps, giving the PA space to operate there instead. But the decision ended up enabling terror groups to gain significant power in the refugee camps, the Israeli military officials said.
Now, the IDF and PA have been operating in the refugee camps within a few days of each other, according to military officials.
The military also supports the potential increase in permits for West Bank Paleostinians to work in settlements and inside Israel, after they were nearly all revoked following the October 7, 2023, onslaught, officials said Tuesday.
Currently, some 10,000 West Bank Paleostinians have work permits, and the vast majority of them are working inside settlements or industrial zones in the West Bank.
The military sees the work permits as a significant method of easing the pressure on the economically depressed territory.
DECREASE IN JEWISH AND PALESTINIAN TERRORISM
Also on Thursday, the IDF said it had identified a decrease in the number of incidents of Jewish terrorism against Paleostinians in the West Bank this past year compared to the previous year.
Still, some of the incidents of "nationalistic crime" — attacks by settlers against Paleostinians — this year have been some of the most grave in recent memory, according to military officials.
Throughout 2024, the IDF and Shin Bet recorded 663 incidents of "nationalistic crime," compared to 1,045 last year. In 2022, the military recorded 947 incidents, and in 2021, 446.
This year, there were several cases of Israeli settlers killing Paleostinians in the West Bank, including during attacks by mobs on Paleostinian villages.
The IDF has similarly recorded a decrease in the number of Paleostinian terror attacks carried out against Israelis in the West Bank and in Israel, including knifings, shootings, and car-rammings.
In 2024, the military counted 254 terror attacks, compared to 847 in the year prior. In 2022, it recorded 342, and in 2021, just 91.
There has also been a major decrease in the amount of stone-throwing and Molotov cocktail attacks by Paleostinians, with the IDF recording 1,188 such incidents this year compared to 3,256 last year, 3,779 in 2022, and 8,633 in 2021.
The IDF said it had killed at least 787 Paleostinian terror operatives in the West Bank since the October 7, 2023, onslaught. Some 70% of them were armed with a gun, according to the military.
In all, some 820 Paleostinians were killed in the West Bank during that time, with 4% of them being civilians who were not button men or rioters who clashed with troops, or turbans carrying out attacks, the IDF said.
Over 100 Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s were carried out by the IDF in the West Bank since October 7, 2023, mostly with drones and helicopters. Five were carried out by fighter jets.
Per year, the IDF said it killed 479 terror operatives in the West Bank in 2024 and 504 in 2023. In 2022, the military said it killed 155 terror operatives, and in 2021, troops killed 77.
The IDF said it had also detained 2,868 wanted Paleostinians this year and another 3,026 in 2023. In total since October 7, 2023, the IDF said over 6,000 wanted Paleostinians were detained, including 2,350 members of Hamas.
Also in the past year, 37 Israelis were killed in terror attacks carried out in the West Bank or by West Bank Paleostinians inside Israel, according to the IDF’s data. In 2023, the military recorded 41 deaths in Paleostinian terror attacks, 32 in 2022, and just 3 in 2021.
The IDF said it has captured some 1,042 weapons in the West Bank in the past year, including those being smuggled into the territory from the border with Jordan. In 2023, a similar number of weapons, 1,065, were captured. According to the military, since October 7, 2023, 1,499 weapons were seized.
In 2022 the IDF recorded 970 captured weapons, and before that in 2021, just 458.
[IsraelTimes] After igniting fears that fall of Assad will usher in Islamist regime, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham chief denies forcing woman to don veil and says ‘it’s my personal freedom’
Ahmed al-Sharaa, the new de facto leader of Syria, defended telling a woman to cover her hair before being photographed with him after viral video of the incident ignited fears that post-Assad Syria could be veering toward a fundamentalist Islamic regime.
"I did not force her. But it’s my personal freedom. I want photos taken for me the way that suits me," al-Sharaa, who has recently stopped using his nom de guerre Abu Muhammad al-Julani, told the BBC in an interview.
The rebel chief has received backlash from both liberals and conservative Islamists upon asking the woman, Lea Kheirallah, that she cover her hair while he toured Damascus’s Messeh area on December 10. Kheirallah complied, pulling her hood over her head.
The incident raised fears among liberal media outlets that al-Sharaa could seek to institute strict dress codes in Syria just as his group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... — a former al-Qaeda affiliate — did upon seizing control of the Idlib province in 2017. Those restrictions, however, were softened in recent years following public criticism.
La Belle France 24’s Arabic channel published a headline asking whether Syria was headed toward "Islamic rule." According to the BBC, one Syrian journalist said, "We replaced one dictator with a reactionary dictator," and social media commentators wrote that "ultra-extremists" may be rising to power and that al-Sharaa "forced a free woman" to cover her hair.
Meanwhile,
...back at the palazzo, Count Guido stepped from behind the suit of armor, rapier in hand. Ciccolini snarled and reached for his own weapon... conservative Islamists criticized al-Sharaa on Telegram for being photographed at all with a woman, which is considered by some to be immodest in Islam. According to the BBC, most of the critics appear to be from the Idlib region and include holy mans and influential commentators, some of them previously members of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.
Some critics called al-Sharaa’s behavior "indulgent" and that he was seeking "vain public attention" and "too busy taking selfies with young ladies" instead of addressing demands to release prisoners held in his organization’s jails in Idlib.
For her part, Kheirallah said al-Sharaa’s request did not bother her, adding that he asked in a "gentle and fatherly way."
"It was his right to appear in a manner befitting his principles. He didn’t ask the women around him to cover their hair, but if they wanted to be photographed with him, the same standard applied even for the American journalist who interviewed him," Kheirallah wrote in an Instagram post.
Nevertheless, a photograph published by the Syrian Arab News Agency showed al-Sharaa posing with a German foreign ministry delegation that included a woman whose hair was uncovered.
Seeking a contrast to his past as an al-Qaeda commander, al-Sharaa has portrayed himself as a moderate since toppling the Assad family’s 50-year rule on December 8. He has insisted that the rights of all Syrians will be protected and that he is committed to the 1974 ceasefire agreement with Israel.
The Islamist leader told foreign journalists that his nascent government intends to overhaul Syria’s constitution and institutions, but said it will take time, and that the country is not yet ready for elections due to remaining disorder, some 13 years after civil war broke out amid the so-called Arab Spring in 2011.
[IsraelTimes] Army says soldiers shot suspect in leg after spotting ‘threat that required action to remove’; incident comes day after Maariya residents said troops blocked them from their fields
Israeli troops maimed one person after opening fire Friday on demonstrators in southern Syria, with the military saying the soldiers did so to remove "a threat."
According to the local Daraa 24 outlet, residents of towns in the Yarmouk River basin gathered near a former Syrian army post close to the village of Maariya to protest against the IDF presence in Syria.
The outlet said the soldiers opened fire in the air to stop the demonstrators from approaching, and one person was hit directly and maimed.
The Israel Defense Forces later confirmed the incident. It said soldiers who were calling on suspects to move back amid the demonstration "identified a threat that required action to remove," without elaborating.
The troops acted according to the open-fire procedures, and shot one of the protesters in the leg, according to the IDF.
"We emphasize that the IDF does not intervene in the events taking place in Syria," the military said, adding that it will "continue to act to protect the State of Israel and its citizens."
Maariya, on the western edge of Syria’s southern Daraa province, is near the Israeli Golan Heights, but outside of a buffer zone in the Golan established by a 1974 ceasefire agreement between Syria and Israel.
Friday’s incident came a day after villagers alleged that the troops stationed in the abandoned army base were preventing local farmers from accessing their fields.
Israeli troops entered the buffer zone — a roughly 400-square-kilometer (154-square-mile) demilitarized zone separating Israel from Syria — shortly after Syrian dictator Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators... was toppled on December 8, saying it was a temporary move designed to ensure security for Israeli communities near the border amid the chaos of regime change. The IDF has also acknowledged operating in some areas just beyond the buffer zone.
Israeli allies have said they understand Israel’s need to secure the border, although many have cautioned against remaining in the territory long term, and La Belle France, the UN and others have called for Israeli troops to pull back.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told troops during a visit to the area this week that they will have to remain in place there "until another arrangement can be found that guarantees Israel’s security," indicating it was likely they would stay through 2025.
[IsraelTimes] Lawsuit alleges State Dept. discriminated against Palestinian-Americans by ‘abandoning’ them in Gaza, not making same effort US has made in Lebanon, Afghanistan and other war zones
Nine Palestinian Americans sued the United States government on Thursday, alleging that it had failed to rescue them or members of their families who were trapped in Gaza after the Hamas invasion of Israel on October 7 2023, and Israel’s ensuing war against Hamas.
The lawsuit accuses the State Department of discriminating against Americans of Palestinian origin by abandoning them in a war zone and not making the same effort that it would to promptly evacuate and protect Americans of different origins in similar situations.
It was the second case against the US government this week after Palestinian families sued the US State Department on Tuesday over Washington’s support for Israel’s military.
A US State Department spokesperson said the department does not comment on pending litigation, while adding the safety and security of American citizens around the world is a “top priority.”
Thursday’s lawsuit was announced by advocacy group, Council on American Islamic Relations, and attorney Maria Kari, and was filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
The suit alleges the plaintiffs’ rights to equal protection under the US Constitution has been violated by depriving them “of the normal and typical evacuation efforts the federal government extends to Americans who are not Palestinians.”
It mentions comparable instances of the US government evacuating its citizens from conflict zones such as in Afghanistan, Lebanon and Sudan, and names President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin as defendants.
The State Department spokesperson said the US has evacuated Americans from unsafe areas around the world, including Gaza.
[IsraelTimes] An indictment has been filed at the Jerusalem District Court against an Israeli resident of Jerusalem who was arrested last month for carrying out espionage missions on behalf of Iran, prosecutors say.
Erdler Israel Amoyal, 23, is charged with handing information to the enemy and having contact with a foreign agent. Prosecutors ask the court to order him arrested until the end of legal proceedings against him, and to confiscate the vehicle, phones and devices used to carry out the alleged offenses.
Amoyal’s arrest, the latest in a series of plots involving citizens allegedly recruited by Iran that security agencies say have been foiled in recent months, was revealed on Tuesday by the Shin Bet security agency and Israel Police.
He was allegedly in contact with an Iranian agent for several months and carried out various surveillance and vandalism tasks in exchange for payment in the form of cryptocurrency, worth some NIS 7,900 ($2,200). He is also accused of searching the internet for bomb-making instructions and proposing a terror attack targeting Jerusalem’s light rail system.
[IsraelTimes] Hebrew media reports that an East Jerusalem man has been arrested on suspicion of stabbing and seriously wounding a 74-year-old woman in her home, an incident police are said to be probing as a suspected terror attack.
The woman was found seriously injured, with bruises and stab wounds, in her apartment in central Jerusalem, according to an Israel Police statement yesterday. The Shin Bet security service is involved in the investigation, multiple reports have said.
The Ynet news site reports that the suspect likely broke into the apartment on Koresh Street. The victim’s condition has improved and she is now defined as moderately injured.
[IsraelTimes] Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... suggests that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... may intervene in northern Syria to eliminate what he claims are threats to its security posed by Syrian Kurdish groups.
Even as he mulls an invasion, Erdogan also claims the US and Western powers have a "responsibility to stop Israel" from operating in Syrian territory.
Unlike Turkey, whose proxies control large swathes of northern Syria, the IDF only entered a buffer zone this month between Syria and the Israeli-annexed side of the Golan Heights, saying it is doing so temporarily, until a new regime is put in place that can guarantee the upholding of the 1974 disengagement agreement that formed the demilitarized zone.
Erdogan’s statement to a group of journalists also comes amid reports of fighting between Ottoman Turkish-backed fighters and the US-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northern Syria, near the border town of Kobani and the Tishrin dam on the Euphrates River.
"We will show that the time has come to neutralize the terrorist organizations present in Syria," Erdogan says, according to a transcript of his remarks. "We will do this to prevent any further threats coming from the south of our borders."
Turkey considers the SDF a terrorist organization because its main component is a group aligned with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, which is banned in Turkey. Earlier this week, the SDF said US-led mediation efforts failed to reach a permanent truce in Syria’s north.
"The end of the road for the terrorist organizations is near," Erdogan says. "There is no room for murderous Moslems in the future of the region. The shelf life of the PKK terrorist organization and its extensions has run out."
Erdogan says that by securing the border area in Syria, Turkey would also prevent the PKK from recruiting fighters.
The Ottoman Turkish leader, meanwhile, welcomes the fact that many countries are establishing contact with Syria’s new leaders, saying it is "a sign of trust" in the new administration. He says Turkey will assist the country to establish new "state structures."
Erdogan adds that Ottoman Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan will travel to Syria soon.
[IsraelTimes] Rights group previously accused Israel of war crimes in Lebanon and Gaza as well
Human rights group Amnesty International on Friday condemned Lebanese terror group Hezbollah for firing salvos of unguided rockets at civilian areas of Israel during the latest conflict.
"Hezbollah’s reckless use of unguided rocket salvos has killed and maimed civilians, and destroyed and damaged civilian homes in Israel," said Amnesty’s Secretary General Agnes Callamard.
"The use of these inherently inaccurate weapons in or near populated civilian areas amounts to prima facie violations of international humanitarian law," she said.
"Direct attacks on civilians and civilian objects and indiscriminate attacks that kill and injure civilians must be investigated as war crimes."
Amnesty said it had documented three Hezbollah rocket attacks on Israeli towns and cities that killed eight civilians and maimed at least 16 others following the escalation of the conflict in late September.
In footage of the attacks, it said it had identified the use of unguided multiple launch rocket systems that violate the bedrock principle of distinction under international humanitarian law.
At the time, Hezbollah announced a series of rocket barrages targeting Israeli population centers in response to Israeli air strikes on Lebanese towns and villages.
Amnesty already released the findings of its investigation into Israeli actions during the war. It said it had documented unlawful Israeli air strikes that killed 49 civilians, which must be investigated as war crimes. It has also accused Israel of committing "genocide" against Paleostinians in its military campaign against the Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... terror group 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... , a charge Israel and allies have strongly rejected.
A fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah took effect on November 27.
Despite the truce, Israeli air strikes have killed more than 20 people in Leb ...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. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration.... since November 27, according to an AFP tally based on health ministry figures. Both Israel and Hezbollah accuse each other of repeatedly violating the ceasefire.
Since Hezbollah first started attacking Israel in October 2023, the war has killed more than 4,000 people in Lebanon, according to health ministry figures.
On the Israeli side, the conflict has killed 30 soldiers and 47 civilians.
[IsraelTimes] IDF says interception attempts failed; sirens send millions rushing to shelters throughout central Israel in the middle of the night, in second Houthi attack in as many days
A missile fired by Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... ’s Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... s went kaboom! in a public park in south Tel Aviv overnight Friday after attempts to intercept it failed.
Medics said 16 people were lightly injured by shattered glass, including a three-year-old girl, while 14 were bruised while rushing to shelters. Footage from the park showed a crater where the missile had impacted.
The missile launch caused sirens to sound throughout central Israel at 3:44 a.m., sending millions rushing to shelters from their beds.
It was the second time in as many days that a Houthi missile sparked sirens in the country’s center in the middle of the night.
The military confirmed that a missile originating in Yemen impacted in Tel Aviv, saying "attempted interceptions did not succeed." It said details of the event were being looked into.
Videos on social media showed the moment of impact and the failed interceptions.
A video showed the impact site in the park in Tel Aviv.
Footage also showed went kaboom! windows and debris in several surrounding apartments, apparently as a result of the shockwave.
On Thursday, a drone was intercepted off the Tel Aviv coast and on Monday a missile triggered sirens across the country.
The latest missile attack from Yemen came only two days after the last one, and after the Israeli Air Force carried out a major strike on the country.
Early on Thursday morning, a Houthi projectile was partially intercepted outside Israeli airspace by air defenses. However,
some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... the warhead didn’t explode in the air and crashed into an empty school building in the city of Ramat Gan, causing severe damage but no injuries.
[IsraelTimes] Two friends of dead attacker sentenced to 16 years in prison for complicity in murder; father of schoolgirl whose lies sparked killing sentenced to 13 years
La Belle France’s anti-terrorism court on Friday convicted eight people of involvement in the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty outside his school near Gay Paree four years ago, a horrific death that shocked the country.
Paty, 47, was killed by an Islamic bully boy outside his school on Oct. 16, 2020, days after showing his class cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad during a debate on free expression. The assailant, an 18-year-old Russian of Chechen origin, was shot to death by police.
That would be Abdoullakh Anzorov, 26, the vicious petty criminal from Chechnya whose asylum request had just been renewed for another decade when he cut off the head of local teacher, just because he was asked. Among his many personal connections was known wolf Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoab, the Iranian-Frenchman who a year ago geared up with knife and hammer to attack tourists near the Eiffel Tower in a classic case of Sudden Jihad Syndrome. Both miscreants swore fealty to ISIS before heading out for their grisly work, though only Mr. Anzorov sent a video of the event to a dear friend in Idlib — Hayat Tahrir al Sham/al Nusra territory. The Moslem colonists who aided and abetted Mr. Anzorov’s project didn’t bother — just being Muslim was good enough for them…
Those who have been on trial on terrorism charges at a special court in Gay Paree since the end of November were accused, in some cases, of providing assistance to the perpetrator and, in others, of organizing a hate campaign online before the murder took place.
The 540-seat courtroom was packed for the verdict, which marked the final chapter of the Paty trial. Heavy surveillance was in place, with more than 50 coppers guarding the proceedings.
Seated in the front row was Paty’s 9-year-old son, accompanied by family members. As the lead judge, Franck Zientara, delivered sentences one after the other, emotions in the room ran high. Families of the accused reacted with gasps, cries, shouts, and ironic clapping, prompting the judge to pause multiple times and call for silence.
"They lied about my brother," shouted one relative. Another woman, sobbing, exclaimed, "They took my baby from me," before being escorted out by coppers.
The seven-judge panel met or went above most of the terms requested by prosecutors, citing "the exceptional gravity of the facts."
Naïm Boudaoud, 22,
…he spells his name in the French style, so is probably Moroccan or at least Francophone North African, too …
and Azim Epsirkhanov, 23,
… Chechnyan …
friends of the attacker, were convicted of complicity in murder and sentenced to 16 years in prison each. Neither can be paroled for two-thirds of their term, about 10 years. Boudaoud was accused of driving the attacker to the school, while Epsirkhanov helped him procure weapons.
Brahim Chnina, 52,
…Moroccan, may or may not have a half sister who emigrated to ISIS in Syria in 2014, but definitely has connected friends...
the Moslem father of the schoolgirl whose lies sparked the events leading to Paty’s death, was sentenced to 13 years for association with a terrorist enterprise. Prosecutors had sought 10 years for him.
Abdelhakim Sefrioui,
…65, Franco-Moroccan, founded the Cheikh Yassine Collective in 2004, which was dissolved a few days after Paty’s killing…
a Moslem preacher, was given 15 years for organizing a hate campaign online against Paty.
The shocking death of the 47-year-old teacher left an indelible mark on La Belle France, with several schools now named after him.
The trial had begun in late November. The defendants were accused of assisting a perpetrator or organizing a hate campaign online in the lead-up to the murder.
At the time of the attack, there were protests in many Moslem countries and calls online for violence targeting La Belle France and the satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo ...Pix/Hebdo2.pngA lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe... . The newspaper had republished its caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad a few weeks before Paty’s death to mark the opening of the trial over deadly 2015 attacks on its newsroom by Islamic bully boys.
The cartoon images deeply offended many Moslems, who saw them as sacrilegious. But the fallout from Paty’s killing reinforced the French state’s commitment to freedom of expression and its firm attachment to secularism in public life.
Chnina’s daughter, who was 13 at the time, claimed that she had been excluded from Paty’s class when he showed the caricatures on Oct. 5, 2020.
Chnina sent a series of messages to his contacts denouncing Paty, saying that "this sick man" needed to be fired, along with the address of the school in the Gay Paree suburb of Conflans Saint-Honorine. In reality, Chnina’s daughter had lied to him and had never attended the lesson in question.
Paty was teaching a class mandated by the National Education Ministry on freedom of expression. He discussed the caricatures in this context, saying students who did not wish to see them could temporarily leave the classroom.
An online campaign against Paty snowballed, and 11 days after the lesson, Anzorov attacked the teacher with a knife as he walked home, and displayed the teacher’s head in a post on social media. Police later fatally shot Anzorov as he advanced toward them, armed.
Chnina’s daughter was tried last year in a juvenile court and given an 18-month suspended sentence. Four other students at Paty’s school were found guilty of involvement and given suspended sentences; a fifth, who pointed out Paty to Anzorov in exchange for money, was given a 6-month term with an electronic bracelet.
Sefrioui, the preacher on trial, had presented himself as a spokesperson for Imams of La Belle France although he had been dismissed from that role. He had filmed a video in front of the school with the father of the student. He referred to the teacher as a "thug" multiple times and sought to pressure the school administration via social media.
Some of the defendants expressed regrets and claimed their innocence on the eve of the verdict. They did not convince Paty’s family.
"It’s something that really shocks the family," lawyer Virginie Le Roy said ahead of the verdicts. "You get the feeling that those in the box are absolutely unwilling to admit any responsibility whatsoever."
"Apologies are pointless, they won’t bring Samuel back, but explanations are precious to us," Le Roy said. "We haven’t had many explanations of the facts."
[IsraelTimes] Mohammad Reza Nouri indicted for multiple terrorism- and murder-related offenses over killing of Stephen Troell; suspect being held in Iraq, where he has already been convicted
An Iranian officer blamed for the 2022 killing of an American in Iraq has been charged in New York with federal murder and terrorism crimes, authorities announced on Friday.
Federal authorities in New York City said Mohammad Reza Nouri, a captain in Iran’s paramilitary Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, has been charged in Manhattan federal court with multiple terrorism and murder-related charges that carry a potential penalty of life in prison. At least one charge carries the potential for a death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... Nouri, 36, is in jug in Iraq, where he already has been convicted by an Iraqi court for his role in Stephen Troell’s killing, authorities said.
Troell, a native of Tennessee, was killed in his car by unknown assailants as he pulled up to the street where he lived with his family in Baghdad’s central Karrada district. He worked for Global English Institute, a language school in Baghdad’s Harthiya neighborhood, which operated under the auspices of Texas-based non-governmental organization Millennium Relief and Development Services.
It was a rare killing of a foreigner in Iraq, where security conditions have improved in recent years.
Acting US Attorney Edward Y. Kim said in a release that Nouri orchestrated the killing of Troell in Baghdad, Iraq, in November 2022.
"Nouri is alleged to have gathered intelligence on Troell’s daily routine and whereabouts, procured weapons and vehicles, and provided safe harbor to the operatives who carried out the sinister plot to brutally attack Troell in front of his wife," Kim said.
The prosecutor said the "Iranian regime is actively targeting US citizens, such as Troell, living in countries around the world for kidnapping and execution both to repress and silence dissidents critical of the regime and to take vengeance" for the death of Qassem Soleimani , an Iranian military leader killed by an American drone aircraft strike in January 2020.
In court papers, the US government asserted that Nouri celebrated the killing with a coconspirator on the day of the attack and left Iraq for 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... the night of the killing. It said shortly before leaving Baghdad, Nouri visited a religious site associated with mourning for Soleimani’s death.
US Attorney General Merrick Garland said in the release that the Justice Department "will not tolerate hard boyz and authoritarian regimes targeting and murdering Americans anywhere in the world."
REPORT: Biden made military families of troops k*lled in Afghanistan wait three hours while he "napped" on Air Force One on the tarmac, according to the Daily Mail.
According to family members who spoke to the outlet, Biden "couldn’t pull it together."
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Just imagine if Trump had done that. Impeachment #3
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That was a long time ago. Seems like the press should have said something at the time. Sort of makes you wonder why he was checking his watch.
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The big mystery about drones being seen all over New Jersey, seems to have been solved: Photos make clear at least some of the drones are PteroDynamics XP-4 trans-wing drones, being developed for the U.S. Navy. Others are nuclear detection drones.
The XP-4 is being readied for work picking-up and dropping-off packages to a moving ship, even in high seas and high winds.
As its name implies, it is a trans-wing design, meaning it can switch from an aircraft-type winged flight, to a Quad-copter-type design for Vertical Take Off and Landings (VTOL).
Officially, it has a one-hour flight time, but that could have easily been upgraded.
It is about 13 feet wide by 6 feet long; closely matching the descriptions provided by so many witnesses.
Very VERY many of the "sightings" and "reports" about these drones show them traveling almost directly up the New Jersey coastline, and, wouldn't you know it, right where the most reports are coming from, and perfectly along the flight path is, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, Home of the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD).
This also explains why drones are appearing every night in much the same area, and sticking around so long; they have a base they can go to to swap batteries all night.
Other- "Strange-Looking" Drones
Not all of the drones being seen are close in description to the XP-4. It seems that other types of drones are also being tested; specifically running nighttime missions between NAWCAD Lakehurst, and a U.S. Navy ships offshore.
One of the types of drones also being flown over NJ and NY are American-made HPGe nuclear-detector drones. They can detect Gamma Rays from miles away.
Gamma Rays are a dangerous form of radiation that can penetrate the bodies of living organisms and harm those organisms to varying degrees, depending upon the intensity of the gamma Rays and the duration of exposure.
These HPGe Drones were originally designed to inspect nuclear facilities but that's **NOT** what these drones are for. These drones are for sweeping a large area, in a grid pattern, to find a POTENTIAL Dirty Bomb or POTENTIAL other nuclear device, POTENTIALLY being smuggled-in to detonate in a terrorist attack.
Many witnesses have commented that the Drones they see appear to be sweeping over an area in "grid pattern" as if they're looking for something specific. The reason they are operating in a Grid pattern is not only to practice looking for something, but also because the drones are programmed to operate in a "Mesh Network" operating in the 200GHz communications band. 200GHz is very directional and requires bulky "horn" antennas to function.
It turns out the United States Department of Defense bought...are you ready for this..."Hundreds of thousands" of these drones!
They can be programmed to "swarm" a city.
Back in 2009-2010, the Dept. of Defense (DoD) needed a response to the threat of Dirty Bombs, being smuggled-in by ISIS, to a U.S. Port City. DoD has been stocking-up on these drones since about 2010.
The drones look weird because the nuclear detection gear requires a large and heavy Cryo-Cooler to be mounted beneath it, for the Gamma Radiation detectors, and as mentioned above, the giant "horn" antennas to communicate on mm-wave frequencies that cannot be jammed.
Here's the dicey part: These drones are being used, right now inside Ukraine! That is the first time these devices have been deployed in a Combat Zone.
Sources are now telling me what the purposes of these drone flights are:
First, the Navy is testing how the public will react (PsyOp).
Second, they are testing their ability to sweep a densely populated large area in a grid pattern without communication disruption or loss of drone control.
They are very reluctant to even send the drones into Manhattan because of the very real potential of losing communication with the drone amidst the towering skyscrapers, and enormous electromagnetic interference from all the electronic gizmos and gadgets operating in that area.
So why all the "hush hush?"
They are , in fact, U.S. Government Drones and they don't want to talk about it.
It seems some folks in the U.S. government have forgotten that they work for us...the people of the United States, whose hard work, ingenuity, and heavy tax burden, make their entire existence possible!
Other sources told me the government is, in fact, looking for a "Dirty Bomb" that perpetrators are allegedly trying to sneak into New York City to detonate as part of a terrorist attack. He mentioned Christmas and New Year's Eve (Times Square) as possible targets. I have **NOT** been able to corroborate that ONE source's claim.
ALL of the bridges and tunnels in-to and out-of New York City are equipped with radiation detectors.
Further, the NYPD, years ago, gave most of their 38,000 police officers, belt-worn radiation detectors, about the size of a belt-worn pocket pager, that would beep and vibrate if they detected radiation nearby. I do not know if NYPD still deploys such devices, but they did, at one time in the past.
Thus, it seems to me, to be virtually impossible for a terrorist to sneak such a device into New York City. But "virtually" impossible is also not "impossible."
Finally, there is a THIRD source who told me "There are drones with flight lights that are all over the news now, but there are other objects, referred-to as "Orbs." They are glowing balls that fly through the air, and NO ONE knows what they are, what' they're doing, or who/where they're from. He went on to tell me "All the Drones you see with flight lights are out looking for the "Orbs" that glow, so see what they are, where they are, and who is operating them. The glowing "orbs" are the UFO's."
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No matter what the real story is, we can assume that the Feds are either the villains or some of the villains.
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it is a trans-wing design, meaning it can switch from an aircraft-type winged flight, to a Quad-copter-type design for Vertical Take Off and Landings (VTOL).
I appreciate the design honestly.
It isn't unusual for this location to have 40mph wind with 60+mph gusts, but don't need a catapult to launch and can land wherever. Put a targeting system on there for air units.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] On Friday, the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government released its final report on its findings about what it calls the 'Biden-Harris Administration's weaponized federal government.'
According to the subcommittee lead by hard-right Republican Congressman Jim Jordan of Ohio, the investigation found numerous instances where the government was weaponized against Americans. "hard right". Nice editorializing "Journolism"
The report highlighted a series of findings as the subcommittee carried out its work during the 118th Congress.
It argues that there is a 'two-tiered system of government' and accuses the Biden administration of making that system 'more stark.'
The subcommittee wrote that its mission has been to 'protect and strengthen the fundamental rights of the American people.'
'By investigating, uncovering, and documenting executive branch misconduct, the Select Subcommittee has taken important steps to ensure that the federal government no longer works against the American people,' it claimed.
The report said that the work is 'not complete,' but a 'necessary first step.'
It states that during the Biden Administration, multiple agencies including the White House engaged in a 'vast censorship campaign against so-called mis-, dis-, or malinformation.'
It lays out its findings that the federal government and law enforcement coordinated with academics, nonprofits, and other private entities to censor speech online.
One of the examples it gave was Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg writing a letter in August to the subcommittee where he said the Biden administration including the White House repeatedly pressured his team to censor certain COVID-19 content.
Zuckerberg wrote it was ultimately Meta's decision on whether to take content down, but he wrote that he believed the government pressure was wrong.
The subcommittee also investigated what it called the weaponization of federal law-enforcement resources.
The report said many FBI whistleblowers disclosed examples of 'waste, fraud, and abuse at the FBI' to the subcommittee.
'When these whistleblowers came forward, the Bureau brutally retaliated against many of them for breaking ranks—suspending them without pay, preventing them for seeking outside employment, and even purging suspected disloyal employees,' the report read.
The report is broken up into four parts and totals 17,000 pages start to finish including its findings through appendix including hearing lists and transcripts.
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Doesn’t really impact consumers. Comparable jobs are available in Fast Food. Probably screws over whoever owns the commercial real estate and some folks at corporate. Same with Big Lots.
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[Breitbart] Nonagenarian communist dictator of Cuba Raúl Castro appeared visibly upset at a recent Communist Party meeting, slamming his fist on a table in frustration at his officials’ incompetence, Cuban-focused outlets reported on Thursday.
Castro – who in reality continues to be the true dictator of Cuba since 2016 following the death of his brother, murderous dictator Fidel Castro – “retired” from politics in 2021, installing Miguel Díaz-Canel as the figurehead “president” of Cuba. The “retired” nonagenarian dictator was then “elected” to occupy a seat in the National Assembly in the regime’s sham March 2023 election.
Videos circulating on social media show Castro, 93, participating alongside other lawmakers in a new legislative session of the communist parliament centered around finding “solutions” to the problems caused by more than six decades of disastrous communist policies, which have pushed Cuba to the brink of complete ruin.
In the videos, the visibly upset dictator slammed a table that was in front of him as he ordered his regime underlings, with “hand high and standing, and fists clenched, to face the problems with depth.”
Cuban outlets reported on Thursday that Castro has increased his number of public appearances after rumors circulated in recent months that his health was waning or that he had died. Thursday’s reports suggest that Castro’s increased participation in official events alongside other members of his regime’s top brass seeks to send a “message of continuity and stability” as Cuba’s Communist Party undergoes a grave crisis.
In addition to his participation at the Cuban parliament, Castro reportedly attended other public events throughout the week, including a meeting with the “Cuban Five,” a group of spies who infiltrated the Cuban exile community in the United States and are widely considered responsible for providing information to the Castro regime that led to its killing of four Americans in 1996.
The meeting between the Cuban dictator and the communist spies occurred as the Castro regime celebrated the tenth anniversary of the return of the spies to Cuba within the framework of the “Cuban Thaw,” a series of policies enacted by former U.S. President Barack Obama granting significant concessions to the Cuban communists.
During his participation at the communist parliamentary sessions, Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero stated that it is “shameful” that Cuba — a sugarcane powerhouse before communism ruined its flagship industry — now has to import sugar. He did not, however, attribute any responsibility for the decline of Cuba’s sugarcane industry to the disastrous policies of the Castro regime.
“The army general [Raul Castro] told us that it would be a shame to have to import sugar, and we are going through that shame,” Marrero said, admitting difficulties in the current harvest season due to persisting “structural problems,” which hinder any possibility of immediate recovery.
“It is true that the lack of electricity and fuel has a very big impact on the process. However, a group of indications have been given to straighten out this harvest and maximize the results,” he continued.
According to Cuban state media, the communist lawmakers will wrap up the week-long parliamentary sessions on Friday before the Castro regime holds a “march of the combatant people” in front of the U.S. embassy in Havana in the afternoon to demand the United States end its “embargo” on Cuba and Cuba’s removal from the United States’ list of States Sponsors of Terrorism.
While the nonagenarian communist dictator is reportedly slated to participate in Friday’s parliamentary session, it remains unclear at press time if he will participate in his regime’s anti-U.S. rally.
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In reality, Trump is going to rejuvenate the US energy sector which will slam Venezuela’s economy which will cut off their dollar faucet to Cuba. They are going down. A similar impact on Iran will shut down the activities of their proxies.
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[FoxNews] A decision from President Biden on the commutation of death row inmates could come by Christmas.
The decision actually coming from a self-selected, anonymous group of Biden aides, appointed secretaries of this and that, senior federal bureaucrats, Dr. Jill, and possibly Hunter Biden — at this point we have no way of knowing.
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Only his Hunter pardon will be remembered unless he does some stuff like a Liz Cheney pardon.
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I'm waiting for him to pardon all the illegals. Of course not thinking through possible ramifications, like Trump preemptively pardoning every citizen for what their ancestors may or may not have done and thus kill the race racket.
[FoxNews] An Alabama woman has successfully received a gene-edited pig kidney transplant at NYU Langone Health.
This was the seventh pig organ transplant completed by NYU Langone surgeons.
Towana Looney, 53, miraculously walked out of the hospital just a few days following the procedure.
In an NYU Langone press conference, Looney expressed feeling "overjoyed" and "blessed to have received this gift – a second chance at life."
"I want to give courage to those out there on dialysis," she said.
Dr. Marc Siegel, Fox News senior medical analyst and NYU Langone clinical professor of medicine, joined "America Reports" on Wednesday to share how this should bring hope for the future of transplant medicine.
"We have a great shortage of body organs," he said. "And even if we get people to donate, we’re still going to have a big shortage … so we’ve got to do something."
"We can bio-engineer them, or we can use them from other species, [which is] called xenotransplant."
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A 'free' service offered by many US insurance policies. In reality the toll-free number for roadside assistance goes to a call center. Regional providers are subscribers to the insurance referral service.
A roadside assistance provider may at anytime decline the tow offering.
During a cold spell in Denver I found no service would drive the 50 miles to the airport and back for just a jump. There was too much billable work in town. I hired a taxi from arrivals to take me to the long term parking, with extra $$s for a jump using my own cables. /rant
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The company that provides that service to insurance companies in the US has NO equipment. Once you call in they start calling tow companies near you and asking if they will take the job for way below market rates. If the company accepts the job, you will go to the end of the line and stay there until their regular clients are serviced.
I waited hours for a tow that never came and finally limped by truck home.
So the president has full blown dementia, the vice president has been hiding from the world after losing her election over a month ago, and Donald Trump will take over in a few weeks. Who decided to send the team, and how valid is any of this?
[CNN] The United States has removed the long-standing $10 million bounty on the de-facto leader of Syria following a high-level US delegation meeting with the former jihadist Friday.
Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Barbara Leaf, one of three US officials who sat down with Ahmad al-Sharaa in Damascus, described the “policy decision” as one aligned with the need to work on “critical issues” such as combating terrorism.
Al-Sharaa “committed to this,” Leaf said, “and so based on our discussion, I told him we would not be pursuing the Rewards for Justice reward offer that has been in effect for some years.” Al-Sharaa is the leader of the US-designated terrorist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS).
The meeting al-Sharaa, formerly called Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, underscored the urgency of US efforts to engage with Syria’s interim government to ensure the country does not see a resurgence of ISIS which US officials have warned will seek to regroup in the wake of the stunning collapse of the Syrian regime.
The international community has also rushed to endorse a set of principles meant to guide the transition to a new Syrian government that it is inclusive and respectful of human rights, which would mark a sharp departure from Assad’s brutal rule.
Also a sharp departure from how Abu Mohammad al-Jolani reportedly ran things over in his not-so-little enclave before Al Nusra burst out in their blitzkrieg conquest.
Leaf said al-Sharaa “came across as pragmatic” and described their meeting in Damascus as “quite good, very productive, detailed.” Another source familiar with the meeting said it lasted just under two hours.
Because someone who has been a jihadi since 2003 is going to take the words of an unbeliever female seriously. Ms Leaf, who claims expertise in Arab and Islamic politics, ought to know that.
“It was good first meeting,” Leaf said, noting they “ranged over a wide set of issues, domestic and external.”
“We’ve been hearing this for some time, some very pragmatic and moderate statements on various issues, from women’s rights to protection of, you know, equal rights for all communities, etc.,” she said.
Taqqiyah.
“We will judge by deeds, not just by words. Deeds are the critical thing,” Leaf said.
Leaf, Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs Roger Carstens and NEA Senior Adviser Daniel Rubinstein were the first US officials to travel to Syria following the collapse of the Syrian government less than two weeks ago.
The US had been in direct contact with HTS on these matters and had received a commitment to help find Tice, an American journalist detained in Syria more than a decade ago. The US also hopes to find more information about the fate of other Americans who disappeared, like Majd Kamalmaz.
Carstens said Friday the US has focused its search for Austin Tice on “six facilities that we believe have a high possibility of having had Austin Tice at one point or another.” They have received “additional information … which lead us to add maybe one or two or three more facilities to that initial number.”
However, due to “limited resources,” their focus has been on the initial half dozen, Carstens said, suggesting that the FBI should be on the ground more to help with the search.
“Since State cannot be on the ground, nor can the FBI for an extended amount of time right now, we’ve been working with our partners, allies, NGOs and even members of the media to take a look at these facilities and give us a sense of what they’re seeing, what they’re finding,” he said in response to a question from CNN during a virtual press briefing.
“As time goes on, in the coming days, weeks and months, it’ll be our duty, our responsibility, to go to the first six sites and search them thoroughly, in addition to knowing that our partners and allies and friends have already searched them, to really fine-tune the evidence gathering in a way that only the FBI can do,” he said.
“Additionally, we want to keep fanning that search out to the remaining facilities, and it could end up being like 20 or 30 or 40 prison sites as time goes on,” Carstens said, noting that the US will do that with “the interim authorities, who to this point have been very helpful in these searches.”
"American officials did not appear to remove HTS from the U.S. list of foreign terrorist organization but did agree to stop offering incentives for Sharaa’s capture following a meeting between the jihadi chief and a delegation of senior State Department officials on Friday."
[GEO.TV] Civil Defence spokesman Mahmoud Basal told Al Jazeera Arabic that more than 50 people had been killed in Israeli raids since dawn on Thursday.
Moreover, he condemned strikes on displaced civilians in schools being used as shelters.
Hamas gunnies, Hamas officers, human shields willing and unwilling — that adds up to 100% with nothing left over.
Death toll from pair of Gaza strikes climbs to 25, medics
[IsraelTimes] Israeli airstrikes killed at least 25 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip today, medics say, including at least eight in an apartment in the Nuseirat refugee camp and at least ten in the town of Jabalia.
The IDF has not immediately commented on either strike but has long said it only targets terrorists and that Hamas hides among civilians.
“There are 10 martyrs … all targeted by an airstrike on their home in Jabalia al-Nazla, southwest of Jabalia. All of the martyrs are from the same family, including seven children, the oldest aged six,” civil defense agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal tells AFP.
Bassal says the strike injured 15 other people.
The Israeli military when contacted by AFP did not offer an immediate response.
The IDF says it doesn’t target civilians and that Hamas hides and fights among them.
Hamas death tolls don’t differentiate between civilians and combatants.
Three tunnels were scanned and later destroyed by the elite Yahalom unit and other combat engineers, amid an ongoing operation against the Palestinian terror group in the area led by the Kfir Infantry Brigade.
Brief but very satisfying video of the destruction at the link.
The military says that in one of the tunnels troops located IDF equipment that was stolen by Hamas terrorists during its onslaught of October 7, 2023, along with weapons and maps of the Israeli border communities.
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[DM] Far-right influencer Nick Fuentes has shared footage of an armed man trying to gain entry to his home in what he has called an attempt on his life.
The 26-year-old posted clips on his X profile concerning the incident that he says unfolded near his home in Berwyn, Illinois, late on Wednesday evening.
The clips shared show a masked individual outside his home with a crossbow and handgun who, at one point, shouts 'Yo Nick.'
Other footage shows the man trying a side door at the property and scouting around the backyard of the home, the address of which was shared online last month.
Fuentes' account lines up with local police who say they attended the same street and shot and killed an individual, who they identified as John Lyons.
Berwyn Police Department said that they responded to reports of a man with a gun who forced his way into a separate home where he shot and killed two dogs.
He then ran into a nearby yard where he refused police commands to stop, before opening fire on cops who shot and killed him.
Officers say he was the suspect in the fatal shooting of three people in Mahomet, about 120 miles southwest of Chicago before then traveling to Berwyn.
Posting on X, Fuentes said: 'Last night an armed killer made an attempt on my life at my home, which was recently doxed on this platform.
'The gunman carried a pistol, crossbow, and incendiary devices. I believe he intended to kill me. He is now dead. I am okay!'
Fuentes also said that he would now be moving house due to the incident and that he would have 24 hour security to protect himself.
Berwyn is a somewhat wealthy neighborhood with the poor Cicero on the east side and the lower middle class neighborhood and Chicago's largest zoo on the west. Also, its an awful traffic zone. Midway air port is south of it and I-55
He has also asked his followers to contribute to the cost of the private security, which he claims runs $13,000 a week, and to rebuild his studio.
He would only accept donations in cryptocurrency, saying that he was banned from banking services.
Fuentes said he had been livestreaming adding that: 'Doxing is not a game. This nihilistic lynch mob behavior must end before anyone else is killed.'
DailyMail.com approached local police to confirm if Fuentes was indeed the target and if the man in the clips was the same involved in the shooting. They said they had no additional information in the case.
They said in an initial press release that Lyons was gunned down by officers after disobeying orders to stop while in the yard of a property.
His neighbors told the Chicago Sun Times that they heard yelling outside of their window late on Wednesday night.
Bianca, who didn't want her last name used, said: 'It was like hearing a movie. All I heard was police calling 'John', and yelling 'Put your f****** hands up.'
Another neighbor known as Matt, who also didn't want his second name used, said he spoke with Fuentes who told him the shooter was trying to kill him.
Bianca added that she believes Fuentes was the target of the gunman, adding: '[His] address gets doxed and then this guy ends up here.
'I don’t think it was a coincidence that someone who killed three people down south ended up here. This guy is from miles away, why is he here?'
This incident wouldn't be the first time Fuentes had been confronted at his own home after his personal information was leaked online.
The Berwyn Police Department responded to the address last month after Marla Rose, 57, appeared at his residence following a controversial social media post.
Fuentes has posted on his X page after President-elect Donald Trump won the election saying: 'Your body, my choice', sparking widespread fury.
Some social media users responded by sharing images of his house, captioned, 'Your house, our choice.'
Footage captured by Rose and widely circulated online appears to Fuentes open the door and spray her with what she claims was pepper spray.
Rose claims that that he pepper-sprayed her, pushed her onto the concrete outside his home and broke her phone.
According to a police report filed the next day, Rose showed no visible physical injuries but had 'watery' eyes.
He was later arrested for battery, and proudly shared his mugshot to his social media pages.
Fuentes, his lawyer and Rose all appeared for a brief hearing via Zoom before the Fourth District courthouse in Maywood on Thursday, according to the Sun Times.
The judge in the case ordered the pair to not have any contact with each other while the case was pending, and set a status hearing for January 16.
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Faith in God has been titrated out of our society. The result is that we live in solution with the highest concentration of random sociopaths since Vikings were marauding. Controversial loudmouths will suffer the highest impact.
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....then how has the View panel survived so far?
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[NYPost] Trump’s commerce pick Howard Lutnick set to buy Bret Baier’s $29M DC château in a potential record-breaking deal
Howard Lutnick, CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald and President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for commerce secretary, is nearing a deal to purchase Fox News anchor Bret Baier’s opulent Washington, DC mansion.
The French-style estate, located in the upscale Foxhall neighborhood, was listed for $31.9 million last year and recently reduced to $28.99 million.
While the final sale price has not been disclosed, real estate experts say it could surpass the DC area’s current residential record of $24 million, set by a Georgetown home in 2007, according to the Wall Street Journal, which first reported on the transaction.
The town of Natick, MA voted to adopt a new policy to protect illegals ahead of Trump’s presidency. The policy bans town officials from using any funds, resources, or personnel to identify illegals and bars town officials from enforcing immigration law. pic.twitter.com/RDyVnQ1fTq
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Next, any stray illegals should be herded to the 'sanctuary' zones. It's what you wanted, right?
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Once the deportation starts the illegals will herd themselves to the places that have announced these policies. Natick and the other magnet sites will be overwhelmed and complain. It’s like trying to guess the plot of a Threes Company episode.
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Now they take action. [DM] A grieving Uvalde father was tackled by police and pinned to the floor as he was escorted out of a court hearing on the 2022 school shooting.
Brett Cross and his wife Nikki were at the courthouse on Thursday to attend the hearing of former Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Police Chief Pete Arredondo and former UCISD officer Adrian Gonzales, who are accused of child endangerment for their response to the Robb Elementary shooting.
Footage of the incident shows Cross telling officers to 'get the f**k off him' as they lead him out of the courthouse and then pin him to the ground.
His wife then tries to intervene and gets surrounded by cops before she falls backward as four officers continue holding Cross down.
Cross is eventually seen back on his feet, continuing to argue with the cops.
He was the legal guardian of Uziyah 'Uzi' Garcia, one of the 19 children killed in the massacre in Texas.
'We weren't even allowed to make it into the courtroom. My wife and I were assaulted by the sheriff's dept,' Cross later said on X.
'We are currently at the doctors, having our wounds tended to.'
During Thursday's hearing, the judge refused to throw out criminal charges accusing the former Uvalde schools police chief of putting children at risk during the slow response to the school shooting, while a lawyer for his co-defendant said they want to move the upcoming trial out of the small town where the massacre occurred.
Judge Sid Harle rejected Pete Arredondo’s claim that was he improperly charged and that only the shooter was responsible for putting the victims in danger. Nineteen children and two teachers were killed in the shooting on May 24, 2022.
Harle also set an October 20, 2025, trial date. An attorney for Arredondo’s co-defendant, former Uvalde schools police officer Adrian Gonzales, said he will ask for the trial to be moved out of Uvalde because his client cannot get a fair trial there. Uvalde County is mostly rural with fewer than 25,000 residents about 85 miles west of San Antonio.
'Everybody knows everybody,' in Uvalde, Gonzales attorney Nico LaHood said.
Both former officers attended the hearing.
Nearly 400 law enforcement agents rushed to the school but waited more than 70 minutes to confront and kill the gunman in a fourth-grade classroom. Arredondo and Gonzales are the only two officers facing charges — a fact that has raised complaints from some victims’ families.
Both men have pleaded not guilty to multiple counts of abandoning or endangering a child, each of which carry punishment of up to two years in jail. Gonzales has not asked the judge to dismiss his charges.
A federal investigation of the shooting identified Arredondo as the incident commander in charge, although he has argued that state police should have set up a command post outside the school and taken control.
Gonzales was among the first officers to arrive on the scene. He was accused of abandoning his training and not confronting the shooter, even after hearing gunshots as he stood in a hallway.
Arredondo has said he was scapegoated for the halting police response. The indictment alleges he did not follow his active shooter training and made critical decisions that slowed the police response while the gunman was “hunting” his victims.
It alleges that instead of confronting the gunman immediately, Arredondo caused delays by telling officers to evacuate a hallway to wait for a SWAT team, evacuating students from other areas of the building first, and trying to negotiate with the shooter while victims inside the classroom were wounded and dying.
Arredondo’s attorneys say the danger that day was not caused by him, but by the shooter. They argued Arredondo was blamed for trying to save the lives of the other children in the building, and have warned that prosecuting him would open many future law enforcement actions to similar charges.
'Arredondo did nothing to put those children in the path of a gunman,' said Arredondo attorney Matthew Hefti.
Uvalde County prosecutors told the judge Arredondo acted recklessly.
The massacre at Robb Elementary was one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history, and the law enforcement response has been widely condemned as a massive failure.
Nearly 150 Border Patrol agents, 91 state police officers, as well and school and city police rushed to the campus. While terrified students and teachers called 911 from inside classrooms, dozens of officers stood in the hallway trying to figure out what to do. More than an hour later, a team of officers breached the classroom and killed the gunman.
Within days of the shooting, the focus of the slow response turned on Arredondo, who was described by other responding agencies as the incident commander in charge.
Multiple federal and state investigations have laid bare cascading problems in law enforcement training, communication, leadership and technology, and questioned whether officers prioritized their own lives over those of children and teachers. Several victims or their families have filed multiple state and federal lawsuits
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"The police are not there to stop disorder. They're there to maintain disorder."-Richard J. Dailey, Mayor of Chicago, 1968
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As a long time supporter of the Police, it seems that all too many have been infected with the tyrannical virus, they care way more for the establishment elite than the people.
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It used to be that small city and town police forces could languish under poor leadership without real consequences. Now every town is potentially on the front lines.
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Arredondo caused delays by telling officers to evacuate a hallway to wait for a SWAT team, evacuating students from other areas of the building first, and trying to negotiate with the shooter while victims inside the classroom were wounded and dying.
What was learned (and subsequently unlearned) at Columbine was to attack immediately, do not delay. The police action in Nashville shut down the potential for greater violence.
[IsraelTimes] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will reportedly avoid traveling to Poland for next month’s events marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp, fearing he may be arrested.
The major event is planned for International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27 and is expected to be attended by dozens of leaders and heads of state, including Britannia’s King Chuck ...King of England, Scotland, Ireland -- at least part of it -- Wales, Gibraltar, the Falkland Islands, and places like that. The first King Chuck had his head chopped off, the second one was Good Time Charlie. The third once wanted to be a tampon and thinks we'll all be extinct within the next seven years... According to Polish outlet Rzeczpospolita, Israeli authorities haven’t contacted their Polish counterparts about attending the event, and officials in Warsaw believe the reason is related to Poland’s stance that it will adhere to the ICC’s arrest warrant for Netanyahu over possible war crimes in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... war.
The report also says President Isaac Herzog does not plan to attend the event.
[IsraelTimes] The US Central Command says its forces conducted an airstrike earlier today that killed ISIS leader Abu Yusif in the Deir Ezzor province in eastern Syria.
One other ISIS operative was also killed in the strike, COGAT says.
“As stated before, the United States — working with allies and partners in the region — will not allow ISIS to take advantage of the current situation in Syria and reconstitute. ISIS has the intent to break out of detention the over 8,000 ISIS operatives currently being held in facilities in Syria. We will aggressively target these leaders and operatives, including those trying to conduct operations external to Syria,” says CENTCOM Commander Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla.
The strike was conducted in Deir ez-Zor province, “in an area formerly controlled by the Syrian regime and Russians,” US Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a statement.
ISIS leader Abu Yusif (aka Mahmud) and another member of the group were killed.
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[IsraelTimes] Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli criticizes Pope Francis for suggesting the international community should study whether Israel’s military offensive in Gaza constitutes a “genocide” of the Palestinian people.
In an open letter addressed to the pontiff and published by several news outlets, Chikli says the pope’s remarks — made in excerpts published last month from a forthcoming book — amount to a “trivialization” of the term genocide.
“As a people who lost six million of its sons and daughters in the Holocaust, we are particularly sensitive to the trivialization of the term ‘genocide’ — a trivialization that comes dangerously close to Holocaust denial,” Chikli writes.
Chikli, who ends the letter by calling Francis “a dear friend of the Jewish people,” asks the pope “to clarify your position regarding the new accusation of genocide against the Jewish state.”
The Vatican does not immediately respond to a request for comment on the letter.
Israel says accusations of genocide in Gaza are baseless and that it is solely hunting down Hamas terrorists and other Palestinian armed groups following the October 7, 2023, cross-border onslaught in Israel.
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[Regnum] Having terminated the military cooperation agreement with France, the Chadian authorities demanded that its troops leave the country by January 31, 2025. This was reported by radio RFI.
It is noted that those close to the French government reported that Paris had received orders to withdraw troops on December 19. Initially, it was proposed to extend the withdrawal of troops until March, but this schedule was rejected as too protracted.
The military in France explained that it is impossible to withdraw a thousand soldiers and a large amount of equipment in seven weeks.
France believes that the Chadian government is using “harsh pressure tactics” and intends to persuade officials to make a constructive decision.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, France is rapidly losing its position on the African continent. This process is expressed both in the reduction of the deployment points and capabilities of the French army, and in the diplomatic relations of Paris with the former colonies.
On November 28, 2024, Chad's government spokesman and foreign minister, Abderaman Koulamalla, announced that the country was asking for the end of the French military presence on its territory. Now, about 1,000 French troops serving in Chad must go home and the military bases will be closed.
[GEO.TV] Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appears to be on a course to lose power early next year after a major political ally announced plans to topple his minority Liberal government, leading to an election.
Jagmeet Singh,
…leftwing Sikh separatist/pro-Khalistan activist, so strongly anti-India — part of the diversity that dear Justin considers Canada's strength…
leader of the New Democratic Party (NDP), revealed on Friday that he intends to file a formal no-confidence motion when parliament resumes on January 27 following its winter recess. Singh's party has been crucial in supporting Trudeau's administration since the last election.
If all the opposition parties back the motion, Trudeau will be out of office after more than nine years as prime minister and an election will take place.
A string of polls over the last 18 months show the Liberals, suffering from voter fatigue and anger over high prices and a housing crisis, would be badly defeated by the official opposition right-of-centre Conservatives.
The New Democrats, who like the Liberals aim to attract the support of centre-left voters, complain Trudeau is too beholden to big business.
"No matter who is leading the Liberal Party, this government's time is up. We will put forward a clear motion of non-confidence in the next sitting of the House of Commons," said Singh.
[GEO.TV] Pakistain reported another wild polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set. Currently the disease is only found in Pakistain and Afghanistain... virus type 1 (WPV1) case in Sindh's district of Jacobabad, taking the country's total number of cases to 64, the health authorities reported on Wednesday.
The new case reported in the district is the fourth case of the year, taking Sindh's tally to 18.
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa's poliovirus cases also stands at 18 with 26 children affected in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... . Islamabad and 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
.... have reported one case each so far this year.
The Pakistain Polio Eradication Programme explained that polio is a ''paralysing'' disease with ''no cure'' and ''the completion of the routine vaccination for all children under the age of five'' just provides them ''high immunity against this terrible disease''.
Pakistain has taken strict measures to administer polio vaccines as the last countrywide vaccination campaign of the year kicked off on Monday with an aim to administer vaccine against the crippling disease to about 44,000,000 children across the country.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday announced the launch of the anti-polio drive by administering drops to children in Islamabad.
Around 400,000 polio workers across 143 districts of the country will visit every household to administer polio drops to the children below five years, as per Prime Minister's Focal Person on Polio Eradication Ayesha Raza Farooq.
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[GEO.TV] A leading Israeli newspaper, citing unnamed soldiers serving 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... , described indiscriminate killings of Paleostinian civilians in the territory's Netzarim Corridor, prompting a firm rejection Friday from the military.
Haaretz, quoted soldiers, career officers and reservists who said commanders were given unprecedented authority to operate in Gaza.
Oh, Ha’aretz, which proudly describes itself as the New York Times of Israel — frissons and all. Possibly they reported the truth, but if so it’s incomplete and from a certain perspective.
Soldiers meanwhile stated they received questionable orders to open fire on "anyone who enters" Netzarim.
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Experience shows that asking them nicely doesn't work.
[AyPee] The money that Mexican migrants send home to their relatives grew by 7.6% in 2023, to reach a record $63.3 billion for the year, Mexico’s central bank said Thursday.
The money transfers, known as remittances, have been booming since the coronavirus pandemic, but the rate of growth continued to cool somewhat in 2023.
In 2022, remittances grew by 13.4%, totaling about $58.9 billion for the year as a whole. In 2021, remittances grew by an astounding 27.1%, totaling about $51.6 billion for that year.
Observers have said the slower growth may be due to a combination of factors like slower economic growth in the United States — where most Mexican migrants work — higher inflation and a stronger Mexican peso.
Remittances now surpass almost all other sources of the country’s foreign income, including tourism, oil exports and most manufacturing exports.
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Have long agreed with the idea present in #1.
Apply a tax on any such international MoneyGram transactions. Force traceability to collect the same taxes US Citizens forced to pre-pay. Also track the $$$$ back to employers to see if E-Verify is being followed.
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We stand on the brink of necessary change. The impact is going to hit institutions that try to maintain the status quo will be swept away. Trump has won. Trudeau will fall in January. The Mexico of today will not be the Mexico of 2028. It’s going to be a mess for them.
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[Regnum] On Friday, December 20, the Second Western District Military Court sentenced in absentia to 15 years in prison a militant of the Azov battalion (a terrorist organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) Ivan Pilipchuk.
Pilipchuk was found guilty of preparing a terrorist attack at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport, TASS reports.
“Based on the totality of the crimes, by partial addition of the sentences, Ivan Ivanovich Pilipchuk is finally sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment, with the first 5 years to be served in prison, and the remaining term to be served in a strict regime penal colony,” the text of the verdict reads.
Pilipchuk will serve his sentence after his extradition to Russia.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on August 22, the Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested Pilipchuk in absentia on charges of preparing a terrorist attack. He is accused of committing crimes under Part 1 of Article 30, Part 3 of Article 30 ("Preparation for a crime"), Part 2 of Article 205 ("Commission of a terrorist attack by a group of persons by prior conspiracy"), Part 3 of Article 223.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Illegal manufacture of explosives"). The Azov militant was put on the wanted list.
In July, the court sentenced two other defendants in the case to 22 and 15 years in prison. Mikhail Darii and Ilya Kovylkov were found guilty of preparing a terrorist attack on the Central Gas Station at Sheremetyevo Airport on orders from the SBU, attempting to join a terrorist organization, and promoting terrorism among young people.
The investigation established that the suspects intended to blow up fuel tanks at the central filling station in Sheremetyevo to destabilize the situation in the country and were engaged in terrorist propaganda in the Telegram messenger. It also turned out that they acted on the instructions of the Ukrainian special services, the curators of Darius and Kovylkov promised to pay them a cash reward of $3 thousand.
[Breitbart] A Texas elementary school teacher was arrested after he allegedly dropped a baggie of methamphetamine in the hallway outside of a classroom, officials said.
Daniel Anthony Gonzalez, a 38-year-old special education teacher at Mary Hull Elementary School in San Antonio, was taken into custody on December 6 on felony drug possession and child endangerment charges, KSAT reported.
Gonzalez, who had been working within the Northside Independent School District (NISD) since 2012, was reported to police by school staff after a matchbox containing a suspicious substance was discovered on the floor.
After reviewing surveillance footage, a police report obtained by KSAT stated that it was determined that the matchbox fell out of Gonzalez’s pocket as he pulled out a key to open a classroom.
Police said the contents of the matchbox included a straw and a baggie with a white crystal substance that later tested positive for meth.
“Staff acted quickly to turn in the unidentified item and NISD Police acted swiftly to determine what the item was and its origin,” an NISD spokesperson said in a statement to the local outlet.
Gonzalez was arrested while he was still working on the campus and booked into Bexar County Jail before being released on bond the next day, jail records obtained by the outlet revealed.
Despite initially being placed on administrative leave after his arrest, the disgraced teacher submitted his own resignation effective December 20.
Concerned parents of Mary Hull Elementary School told KSAT that they were only informed of the arrest and accusations recently, despite it taking place weeks ago.
“That is actually my son’s teacher,” mother Chelsy Leal said. “He is the one who takes care of my son.”
“Special needs children need extra care, so if he’s drugged out trying to take care of my kid, how is that safe for my kid?” she continued, before adding that the school district needs to “notify parents as soon as that happens, not weeks later like this now.”
Another disgruntled parent, Stephanie Rodriguez, said she was surprised to learn of the news online instead of directly from the school.
“I was in shock because I found out over the internet and not having a direct phone call,” she said.
[IsraelTimes] The Syria TV network has aired footage of what it says are “warehouses and weapons stores belonging to Hezbollah forces in the city of Al-Qusayr.”
Al-Qusayr had been a stronghold of the Lebanese terror group since it helped Bashar al-Assad’s forces retake it in 2013 as part of the civil war.
It was abandoned by Hezbollah amid the lightning advance of rebel forces earlier this month as they took control of the country.
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[Regnum] Ukrainian troops attacked the city of Rylsk in the Kursk region with missiles, as a result of which civilians were injured and social facilities were damaged. The head of the Rylsk district, Andrei Belousov, told RIA Novosti on December 20.
According to him, the city was subjected to massive missile attacks, with approximately 15 hits recorded.
"Yes, there are victims. We don't know exactly how many yet. Social facilities..." Belousov said.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on November 26, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on attacks by Ukraine on the territory of the Kursk region using American ATACMS operational-tactical missiles, which were carried out twice in three days. As a result, Russian servicemen were injured.
Later that day, the Defense Ministry released footage from the Kursk-Vostochny airfield, which was attacked by ATACMS missiles. It showed fragments of missile bodies with their numbers and other data lying on the runway and in other parts of the airfield. On November 27, the Main Military Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia reported the deaths of two people as a result of the missile strike.
[IsraelTimes] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells the Wall Street Journal that he was woken up by his staff at 6:29 a.m. on October 7, which was the minute that Hamas’s onslaught of southern Israel began.
“On October 7, they woke me up at 6:29 in the morning,” Netanyahu recalls during the interview.
Netanyahu’s office has apparently made an effort to present the premier as having been responding to the attack from the moment it began.
Tzachi Braverman, Netanyahu’s chief of staff, allegedly altered the office’s official minutes from that day to state that the premier received the first update from his military secretary at the time, Maj. Gen. Avi Gil, at 6:29 a.m. and not 6:40 a.m. when he actually got the call.
Braverman is being investigated for forgery and fraud over the incident.
The Journal story appears to go to great lengths to tell Netanyahu’s account, stating that Israeli security officials knew something was awry for hours but didn’t update the prime minister.
Netanyahu and his aides have sought to lay primary responsibility for the October 7 onslaught on the feet of the security establishment.
Also in the WSJ interview, Netanyahu reiterates his stance against a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, saying he will only agree to a temporary pause in order to resume fighting and ensure that Hamas is completely dismantled.
His opponents have warned that this would leave the majority of the 100 remaining hostages in Gaza indefinitely.
Hamas has also long asserted that it won’t agree to release hostages unless it has guarantees that the first phase of the ceasefire being negotiated will subsequently transition to the second and third stages during which a permanent cessation of hostilities will be agreed upon.
Netanyahu has also refused to allow a role for the Palestinian Authority in the post-war management of Gaza in what Israel’s security establishment has warned robs Jerusalem of a viable alternative to Hamas’s rule and all but ensures that the IDF will continue fighting the terror group for the foreseeable future as vacuums temporarily created by military operations are re-filled by Hamas shortly thereafter.
A man who is in the country illegally was arrested for s*xally abusing a child in North Carolina. He also reportedly tried enticing a child to send nude photos.
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Offer 10 years in prison, with a Physical Castration, then deportation. All costs charged back, or deducted from, the US foreign assistance to his home country.
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Just like the car-Jihadi thing in Germany change will only come when the public decides it has had enough and holds government officials accountable.
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Actually, things won't change in any of these cases until we start hanging the guilty. In public. For a month. THEN we hang the lawmakers that complain about the action.
Things don't change until there are consequences for bad behavior. Too many criminals get away with their crimes. Deporting a criminal that would sell death (fentanyl) or rape small children only transfers the problem elsewhere, and allows it to happen again.
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BREAKING: A judge rules that MN Democrat Curtis Johnson "did not meet the residency requirements and is not eligible to serve as the representative for Minnesota House District 40B."
The case has huge implications for the tied 67-67 Minnesota House.
"Curtis Johnson is enjoined from taking the oath of office and from acting as a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives for House District 40B," the judge wrote.
The judge’s decision comes as the Minnesota House of Representatives is tied at 67-67.
Johnson’s Republican opponent, Paul Wikstrum, filed a lawsuit arguing Johnson did not meet the residency requirements.
During an evidentiary hearing, Wikstrum proved Johnson lived in his home outside of district 40B, not in the apartment he was renting.
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If we are going to follow the law, why is Omar’s brother still in the US? Maybe Homan will take care of him.
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🚨 BREAKING: US president-elect Donald Trump informed European allies that he will continue military support for Ukraine during his presidency and wants the allies to raise NATO defense spending to 5% of GDP, with a near term target of 3.5%. https://t.co/mNVp7p43Qv
[GEO.TV] US city of Oregon has requested its residents to stop sticking googly eyes on the city's art pieces such as statues and murals.
"While the googly eyes placed on the various art pieces around town might give you a chuckle, it costs money to remove them with care to not damage the art," a Facebook post made by the city read as quoted by Sky News.
''While we don't condone the wreaths, leis and Santa hats, let's stay away from adhesives, graffiti and all things that can damage the art,'' the city of Bend added.
However,
alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... residents of the city have no intention to refrain from their antics as one replied on Facebook that, "It would cost $0 to leave them on'' as several thought the googly eyes were a good addition to the artworks.
"My daughter and I went past the flaming chicken today and shared the biggest laugh," a woman wrote as she used a nickname for the ''Phoenix Rising'' sculpture in Bend.
"We love the googly eyes. This town is getting to be so stuffy. Let's have fun!,'' another wrote indicating that the people have no intention to stop now.
Whereas, several others said the city should focus on much more important issues instead of spending time and money on removing the googly eyes which were giving the people something to cheer about.
The council has spent $1,500 on removing the googly eyes from seven of the eight sculptures in the city, according to Bend's communications director, Rene Mitchell.
Mitchell further stated that they have started treating some of the art pieces, which are made of bronze and steel. As for the Phoenix Rising sculpture, it may even need to be repainted.
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In nearly every little bureaucrats is a tiny tyrant trying to get out. The eyes, they're a feature not a bug. Go with the flow. It hurts no one except art snobs.
BREAKING: Woman in Pennsylvania is charged for registering dead and even nonexistent (!!!) people to vote. She’s employed by New PA Project, an org Democrats started in 2021. pic.twitter.com/dA5O7SACws
A Delaware County woman is accused of trying to fraudulently register four people — including her dead father and a person who died inside her home -- to vote in the 2024 presidential election.
Jennifer Hill, 38, of Collingdale, Pennsylvania, was arrested on Thursday, Dec. 19, and charged with forgery, tampering with public record/information, applying for registration knowing individual is not entitled to registration, and other related offenses.
Investigators said Hill worked for the New Pennsylvania Project, a voting rights organization focused on voter registration, civic education and mobilization throughout the state. Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer said Hill was a canvasser for the organization and worked on registering people to vote.
Through an app — provided by the Pennsylvania Department of State — Hill tried to register 310 people to vote between April 2024 and September 2024, according to Sherlocks. Stollsteimer said 181 of those people were successfully registered while 129 were not successfully registered.
Stollsteimer said the state requires information — including a driver’s license and the last four digits of a social security number — during the registration process. Names that the state can’t verify are sent to the election office and then contacted through a Help America Vote Act (HAVA) letter which requests more information for verification.
Investigators noticed multiple names sent by Hill through the app that were variations of the same name with different addresses and emails, according to Stollsteimer. This led to an investigation in which officials determined Hill tried to fraudulently register at least four people, including her dead father, her grandmother, an unidentified person and a person who died in her home in 2011.
"She knows that because she was the person who called the police to come when he died in her house," Stollsteimer said.
Stollsteimer said Hill successfully registered one of the four through the state system.
"She did register a fraudulent person and my understanding is this is sort of a gap in the system where by putting in no date of birth and no social security number, it goes through and became a verified voter registration," Stollsteimer said. "She did not take any further step. That fictitious person did not vote in the 2024 election. But that shows you how we still have gaps in our system that we need to have the legislature address."
Hill was taken into custody and arraigned on Thursday, Dec. 19. She is being held in the Delaware County Prison after failing to post bail. Online court records don’t list legal representation who could speak on her behalf.
While Hill is in jug, Stollsteimer said the investigation is not over and they’re still looking into the names she tried to register.
"We don’t know from the other 129 that were non-verifiable, how many of those were made up names," Stollsteimer said. "The Pennsylvania Department of State, I believe, needs to take a look at all of the ones that were submitted by this individual and frankly, I think they should look at all of the ones that were submitted by this organization. It could be just one bad canvasser, but they should take a look and make sure that all of those people are legitimate registrations."
Stollsteimer also said the case highlights "gaps in our system" that the Pennsylvania legislature should address.
"I think the Department of State in Harrisburg needs to take a look at every single registration that she submitted to make sure that they are not fraudulent," Stollsteimer said. "And I think our legislature needs to look at the law again and see if there are gaps that need to be filled."
NBC10 reached out to the New Pennsylvania Project for comment. Kadia Kenner, CEO of the New Pennsylvania Project, confirmed Hill was a former staffer with the group. She wrote the following statement in response to the allegations.
To be clear, NPPEF DOES NOT provide financial incentives or bonuses for voter registration application collection. Our employees have no quota to meet, and hourly wages paid to part-time canvassing employees remain the same no matter the number of voter registration applications collected.
Earlier this year, the Pennsylvania Department of State informed the New PA Project Education Fund (NPPEF) about potential issues regarding attempted voter registration by one of our former canvassers working in Delaware County.
Immediately upon being notified of the potential issues, we suspended the staff member pending investigation. An internal investigation was launched, and the organization paused our voter registration programs in several regions pending the outcome of our investigation.
Today’s announcement is proof that the multiple layers of internal and external quality control operate with integrity at both the New PA Project Education Fund, the Department of State, and local law enforcement. Due to the hard work of many individuals to prevent disruptive actions by bad actors, our voting rolls and elections are secure, and no fraudulent ballots were cast.
In addition to Hill, Stollsteimer also announced election fraud charges against Philip Moss, an 84-year-old man accused of voting in person in Florida while also completing a mail-in ballot to vote in Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
"One of the principles in our democracy is one person, one vote," Stollsteimer said. "Mr. Moss seemed to think he was entitled to two."
Stollsteimer said Moss will be taken to Delaware County where he’ll face misdemeanor charges.
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"She did register a fraudulent person and my understanding is this is sort of a gap in the system where by putting in no date of birth and no social security number, it goes through and became a verified voter registration,"
"Gaps" of this nature are usually called "backdoors."
They really shouldn't p**s down people's backs and tell them it's raining.
[NYPOST] The Obama Doctrine is as dead as Yahya Sinwar. And the world is better off in both cases.
While the massacre of Oct. 7, 2023, was one of the most traumatic events in modern Jewish history, it's obvious now that it was a massive, perhaps existential blunder by 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... as well as a stunning defeat for its allies both in the Middle East and Washington.
Oct. 7 transformed the Middle East in ways that seemed impossible only a few years ago.
Hamas ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... , perhaps the most immediate threat to both Jewish and Arab lives in the region, is largely eradicated. Hezbollah, the theocratic militia that's kept Leb ...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects.... in a state of turmoil and war for decades, is reeling.
Indeed, it was Israel’s success against the latter that helped send Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... , a real-world genocidal dictator, into Russian exile.
Most of all, events have left Iran, which spent decades building its proxies throughout the Middle East, impotent.
It’s no surprise that on their way out, Barack Obama How much damage could he do in four years?... Eight, then... ’s cronies in the Biden administration approved another $10 billion in sanctions relief for the mullahs by waiving restricted payment transfers from the Iraqi government.
These are the same people who had attempted to lift Hamas and propped up its benefactors in Iran with planeloads of treasure.
And the same people who did everything possible to handcuff Israel in its war against Hamas and Hezbollah.
Not only had the White House threatened to withhold aid if the Israeli military went into Rafah to eliminate Hamas battalions cowering behind women and kiddies, when Israel pulled off its ingenious pager operation, wounding and killing hundreds of Hezbollah operatives, our uncannily misguided Secretary of State Antony Blinken ...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm... warned that "all parties" should "avoid escalating conflict," treating our close allies and Islamists — in this case a group that once murdered 220 Marines in Beirut — as equals.
Fortunately, Israel ignored President Biden and eliminated His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The late, lamented satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...> , who was involved in those murders, and decimated much of Hezbollah’s capacity to wage war.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, far more risk-averse and far less hawkish than his critics maintain, was compelled by the popular will to settle all family business after Oct. 7.
The conventional wisdom has been that Israel, a small nation, is impelled to finish wars quickly or risk an economic crash. That was surely the case in the conventional wars of the past.
The Jewish state proved it could engage in a prolonged conflict, striking one decisive victory after the next.
Conventional wisdom also said that Israel would be unable to effectively strike deep within Iran.
Yet after the Islamic regime launched 500 ballistic missiles and drones in its direction, Israel slipped 100 jets into the Iranian territory and calmly engaged in precision strikes — a warning that it could mete out far more devastation if it felt like it. And perhaps it will in the future.
On Oct. 8, Israelis woke up to a gruesome massacre and perhaps the most devastating security failure in their country’s history — behind only the Yom Kippur War.
This month they woke up to the news that Israel was annihilating the Syrian air force, its armaments and perhaps its chemical weapons
...have not been used since WWI except for in Iraq, by the late, unlamented Saddam Hussein and in Syria, but really, honest, not by the Syrian government. And in Germany in WWII, but that was against civilians. Lots of them, just one of many reasons Hitler's also late and unlamented... storehouses, ensuring that no advanced weaponry falls into the hands of jihadis.
Power and strength, rather than capitulation and mollification, work in the Middle East. And the world is a better place today because of Israel’s victories.
It’s not outlandish to believe that Iranians might now be more open to making a genuine deal with President-elect Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... , rather than risking implosion.
What would be best for the world, of course, is if the US exerted its economic pressure and precipitated the fall of the mullahs in Iran, a country that has no real geopolitical reason to be at war with Israel or the West.
Though there’s a chance for peace in the region, we should not be pollyannaish.
The Ottoman Turkish government would like to set up its own proxy state in Syria, though the Arabs tend to detest the Turks.
And the Turks, of course, detest the Kurds, who are being ethnically cleansed as we speak. (No college campus protests for a Kurdish state, alas.)
And, of course, the Christians and Alawites are now in danger from Islamists.
Or, in other words, the Middle East is still the Middle East.
Whatever happens, though, the Middle East has been forever transformed by Oct. 7.
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[BehindTheBlack] Back in August 2021, I reported the horrible blacklisting of Tara Gustilo, a biracial physician from the Philippines, who had been demoted and experienced a $150K cut in salary at the Hennepin Healthcare system in Minnesota simply because she had posted criticisms of the racist Black Lives Matter movement as well as the critical race theory policies, now known as Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), that Hennepin was pushing.
In addition to filing a discrimination complaint with the federal government, Gustilo sued, represented by the Minnesota-based Upper Midwest Law Center (UMLC). You can read her lawsuit here [pdf].
That lawsuit however had been dismissed by a lower court. Last week however the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals threw out that decision, reinstating the lawsuit.
The court’s decision can be read here. The court specifically noted that Gustilo’s right to free speech appeared to have been violated, and that fact must be considered by a jury.
The facts of the case seem to me pretty clear. Before she expressed her opinions about BLM and critical race theory, Gustilo had routinely gotten positive job reviews. Moreover, because she was biracial, she had been celebrated as an example of Hennepin’s dedication to promoting diversity. Once she spoke out, however, the company immediately moved to take away her position as chair of one department while cutting her pay, explicitly telling her that it did so because of her opinions. That action was further prompted by a wave of anger and madness among some fellow employees, whom during this time of panic had somehow lost the ability to tolerate other opinions.
What made the action even more personally galling was that the person chosen to replace her at the department asked her for advice on how to run the department, specifically because of her “continued high performance and patient satisfaction.”
[FOXNEWS] President-elect Trump filed an amicus brief late Thursday in support of a legal effort by Texas and Missouri to "immediately" stop the Biden administration's sale of border wall materials, saying the action is "possibly criminal."
Texas and Missouri filed a motion earlier this week in a district court in the southern district of Texas to hold a status conference to determine if the government is in breach of the court's permanent injunction from earlier this year. That injunction barred the Biden administration from using funds obligated for wall construction for anything other than that purpose.
"The Court should issue an order directing the Defendants to immediately stop any ongoing sale of border-barrier materials to private parties pending the Court's review of Defendant's conduct, and the Court should swiftly conduct a searching examination of the Government's conduct, by formal discovery if necessary, to examine the Government's compliance with the law, the Constitution, and the Court's injunction," Trump's amicus brief states.
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Almost everything Biden does is possibly criminal.
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Everything his government fucks have done the last 4 years has been possibly criminal
[Regnum] A car driving into a crowd of people at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, was caught on video. Local authorities called the incident a terrorist attack.
According to preliminary data, the car was driven by a native of Syria. This information is being verified.
According to eyewitnesses, the car was moving deliberately towards people.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, the incident occurred on the evening of December 20. According to the T-online portal, at least 11 people died at the scene, and about 60 were injured. Later, information appeared that two cars drove into the crowd. The drivers were quickly detained. The circumstances of the tragedy are being established. The authorities called the incident a terrorist attack.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The perpetrator of the deadly Christmas market massacre that has left at least two dead and nearly 70 injured is an anti-Islam doctor who arrived in Germany in 2006 as a refugee from Saudi Arabia, MailOnline can reveal.
The attack, carried out by 50-year-old psychologist Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, saw him ram into a massive crowd at a Christmas market in Magdeburg on December 20 with a dark BMW.
Footage taken in the minutes after the crash, which happened at around 7pm, showed al-Abdulmohsen get arrested at gunpoint by German police.
MailOnline can reveal that al-Abdulmohsen, a specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy from the Saudi Arabian city of Hofuf, moved to Germany in 2006 and lives in Bernburg. He has been recognised as a refugee since 2016.
Previous media reports suggest he had worked to help ex-Muslims, particularly women, to flee Saudi Arabia after turning their backs on the religion.
Analysis of his social media reveals tweets in support of Germany's anti-immigration party AfD, while he has also made comments supporting Elon Musk, far-right thug Tommy Robinson and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
Ok. What does that have to do with him accelerating his car into the crowd at a Christmas market in a rented car?
No official motive for the attack has been identified by police.
Authorities in Magdeburg say two people are dead, including a toddler, while 68 people were injured in the rampage, 15 of them seriously.
In videos posted hours before the attack, he claimed that German authorities were opening his mail and stealing items including a USB stick.
'I consider the Germans, as citizens, responsible for the persecution I am facing' he said in one video.
'Currently in this country, the nation that is actively criminally chasing Islam critics is the German nation', he said in another.
A search of his name and details of his work revealed he was interviewed by the Frankfurter Rundschau, a regional newspaper, in 2019
'He came to Germany as a visiting doctor during his specialist training as a psychotherapist and later applied for asylum here because he had been threatened with death for turning away from Islam. The 44-year-old is recognized as a political refugee', the newspaper wrote of him five years ago.
In the Frankfurter Rundschau interview, he described his work with the wearesaudis.net website, a group dedicated to providing information on 'escape routes' for people living in Saudi Arabia, particularly women.
He said in the 2019 interview: 'Nine out of ten people from Saudi Arabia who ask me about the asylum system are women.
'Other asylum activists report similar figures. This may be because for Saudi Arabian women, asylum is the only path to justice. Even if a woman is not oppressed, her fate depends on her male guardian.
'There are women who say that they have good husbands who do not oppress them, but they wonder what will happen if the man dies.
'If the new man beats her, she will not get any help. A woman is only protected if she has powerful men in her family.'
Just five days before carrying out the attack, Al-Abdulmohsen gave an interview with the right-wing RAIR Foundation in which he said: 'If a Syrian citizen applies for asylum in Germany, the chance to be granted asylum is 99.8%… While if a Saudi citizen applies for asylum in Germany, that chance is only 70%, and I know personally that many of those rejected are ex-Muslims.
'Germany is welcoming Syrians—including many Islamists—while simultaneously rejecting Saudi apostates, people who are genuinely fleeing Sharia-based death sentences.'
Since news of the attack spread around the world, RAIR said in a statement: 'If these reports are accurate, it appears we and other media outlets were misled regarding his true intentions.
'We are actively seeking more information and will provide updates as they become available.'
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The Saudis are reporting that they considered ole Taleb a fugitive, not a "refugee." The Saudis requested that he be extradited back to SA, but the German Govt refused stating that they were concerned for the future mass murderers safety... ALL of Taleb's witting accomplices in the German Government that resulted in this atrocity need to be charged as well.
The perpetrator of the deadly Christmas market massacre that has left at least five dead wrote that 'slaughtering German citizens indiscriminately' may be a 'path to justice' just months before the horrifying attack.
It has since emerged that just months before the horrific massacre, al-Abdulmohsen, a specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy from the Saudi Arabian city of Hofuf, made a harrowing tweet about 'slaughtering German citizens indiscriminately'.
Al-Abdulmohsen described himself as a former Muslim and shared dozens of tweets and retweets daily focusing on anti-Islam themes, criticizing the religion and congratulating Muslims who left the faith.
He also accused German authorities of failing to do enough to combat what he said was the 'Islamism of Europe'.
The doctor also appeared in a 2019 interview with the BBC World Service, where he spoke about his work in helping asylum seekers to 'escape' from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf region.
He wrote on August 21: 'Is there a path to justice in Germany without bombing a German embassy or slaughtering German citizens indiscriminately? I have been looking for this peaceful way since January 2019 and I have not found it. If anyone knows it, please guide me.'
In videos posted hours before the attack, he claimed that German authorities were opening his mail and stealing items including a USB stick.
'I consider the Germans, as citizens, responsible for the persecution I am facing' he said in one video.
'Currently in this country, the nation that is actively criminally chasing Islam critics is the German nation', he said in another.
A search of his name and details of his work revealed he was interviewed by the Frankfurter Rundschau, a regional newspaper, in 2019
'He came to Germany as a visiting doctor during his specialist training as a psychotherapist and later applied for asylum here because he had been threatened with death for turning away from Islam. The 44-year-old is recognized as a political refugee', the newspaper wrote of him five years ago.
In the Frankfurter Rundschau interview, he described his work with the wearesaudis.net website, a group dedicated to providing information on 'escape routes' for people living in Saudi Arabia, particularly women.
His plight to help asylum seekers settle in Europe was also documented in a 2019 interview with the BBC World Service, in which it was revealed he was forced to leave his home country due to his atheism.
'If I have time, I spend, you know, totally helping Saudi asylum seekers between 10 to 16 hours a day, if I have time', he told the broadcaster at the time.
He also explained how most people who approached him for help through his website were Muslim women seeking to escape their strict families.
Just five days before carrying out the attack, Al-Abdulmohsen gave an interview with the right-wing RAIR Foundation in which he said: 'If a Syrian citizen applies for asylum in Germany, the chance to be granted asylum is 99.8%…
'While if a Saudi citizen applies for asylum in Germany, that chance is only 70%, and I know personally that many of those rejected are ex-Muslims.
'Germany is welcoming Syrians—including many Islamists—while simultaneously rejecting Saudi apostates, people who are genuinely fleeing Sharia-based death sentences.'
Since news of the attack spread around the world, RAIR said in a statement: 'If these reports are accurate, it appears we and other media outlets were misled regarding his true intentions. We are actively seeking more information and will provide updates as they become available.'
In 2013 he was sentenced by a German court for 'disturbing the public peace by threatening to commit crimes', according to Der Spiegel.
Three years later, he applied for asylum in Germany and his application was approved within four months.
The motive for the attack remains unclear but the suspect's dissatisfaction with Germany's treatment of Saudi refugees may have played a role, the prosecutor in Magdeburg told a press conference today.
Elsewhere, it has also been reported that the Saudi suspect, who is considered to hold 'Islamophobic' views, may have taken drugs before the attack, having given a positive drug wipe following his arrest.
The 50-year-old also made a series of harrowing social media posts months before Friday's attack, including one where he vowed 'revenge will come soon, even if it costs me my life'.
The initial death toll from the horrific attack on Friday evening had stood at two, but this has since risen to five.
Bild, another local news site, reported that 41 others were gravely injured, 86 people are receiving hospital treatment for serious injuries, while another 78 sustained minor injuries.
Police were not immediately available to comment on casualties. Local officials had initially said at least two people were killed and had warned that the toll could rise.
Police were seen removing five large cardboard boxes containing evidence from the suspect's flat yesterday afternoon.
The alleged killer was said to have lived on the ground floor of a smart apartment building in Bernburg some 30miles away from the scene.
Several forensic officers were seen working inside the property for much of the day before removing the items in an unmarked police van.
Local residents said the police had arrived at the address at around 10pm on Friday night just hours after the deadly attack.
The suspect was believed to have lived in the apartment, where his name appears on the mailbox and doorbell, for several years.
Other neighbours said they had not known the suspect who was said to have kept himself to himself and his blinds drawn most of the time.
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[Regnum] The Gam Express vessel sent a distress signal in the Kerch Strait, the press service of the Southern Transport Prosecutor's Office reported on December 20.
“The safety of navigation is being monitored in connection with the distress signal sent by the Gam Express vessel in the Kerch Strait,” the department noted on its Telegram channel.
The Novorossiysk Transport Prosecutor's Office has been entrusted with control. The Russian Trade Union of Seafarers, whose report is cited by TASS, reported that there are sailors from Syria and Egypt on board the ship.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on December 15, the tankers Volgoneft 212 and Volgoneft 239, which were transporting fuel oil, sank in the Kerch Strait during a storm. As a result of the emergency, a partial leak of petroleum products occurred.
On December 17, it became known that another tanker with fuel oil, Volgoneft 109, located near the port of Kavkaz in the Kerch Strait, sent a distress signal. The Marine Rescue Service clarified that the crew of this vessel is safe.
It was specified that the tanker captain reported damage to the cargo tank. The rescue vessel escorted the Volgoneft 109 to a safe anchorage.
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[NewsFront] 23:59 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 12/20/2024 to 00:00 12/21/2024.
A total of 17 cases of armed attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces were recorded by the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC over the past 24 hours.
There were reports of five civilians being injured.
DAMAGED:
Administrative buildings,
Five residential buildings,
One bus and an ambulance,
one civil infrastructure facility.
15 artillery attacks in the Gorlovka direction,
one artillery attack in the Donetsk direction,
One artillery attack in the Krasnoarmeysk direction.
A total of 52 units of various ammunition were fired.
23:20 The right bank of the Kherson region is not controlled by the Russian Federation, under powerful fire processing of enemy positions! The destruction of equipment and personnel of militants is underway.
20:14 Scorpios-328 are working FPV drones and airdrops on Ukrainian Armed Forces positions in the Kherson direction.
19:48 Ixovody GV "North" continue to destroy enemy armored vehicles with Lancet loitering munitions. This time, reconnaissance UAVs discovered two T-64s in the area of the settlements of Nikolaevka and Pogrebki in the Kursk region. Both tanks were destroyed along with the crew.
19:28 Enemy tank stopped –video
Attack drone crews of the West group of forces destroyed a T-72 tank of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Khar'kov region.
18:44 According to preliminary data, six people died in Rylsk, including one child.
18:27 The VOSTOK group has completed clearing the village of Novy Komar –DIVGEN.
Video footage from the village of Novy Komar, where the Vostok group, joint actions of the 40th Separate Naval Infantry Brigade's riflemen, motorized riflemen and tank crews of the 36th Army on December 19 completely completed clearing the streets of the village of the enemy.
In addition, with each passing day, as a result of the penetration of the troops of the "Vostok" group into the depths of the enemy's defense, the settlement of Velikaya Novosyolka and its garrison are increasingly surrounded. The main crossings have been destroyed by aviation, artillery and UAVs are taking control of the roads.
17:55 A criminal case has been opened on the fact of a terrorist attack committed by Ukrainian military personnel in the Kursk region, reported Investigator.
Today, the Ukrainian Armed Forces, using remote means of fire destruction, launched a missile strike on the city of Rylsk in the Kursk region, where civilians were located. The militants chose civilian objects as targets. According to preliminary data, there are dead and injured, the exact number is being established.
17:47 Missile threat declared in Kalanchak MO
Emergency services have been put on high alert, the governor of the Kherson region reported.
17:11 Russian flag in Novopustynka –video.
16:40 The exchange of bodies of dead servicemen took place between Russia and Ukraine.
The exchange took place on the border with Ukraine in the Gomel region, in Belarus, reports war correspondent Alexander Kots.
Russia gave 503 bodies to Ukraine and returned the bodies of forty-two of our heroes to their homeland.
16:16 Armed Forces of Ukraine fired upon Rylsk, Kursk region, preliminary, by six ATACMS missiles, there are wounded.
15:42 Two civilians were wounded as a result of an attack by Ukrainian UAVs in the Belgorod region, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov reported.
14:24 Operational situation in the area of Velikaya (Bolshaya) Novosyolka reports war correspondent Yuri Kotenok:
In the Velikonovoselkovsky direction, units of the 5th Army continue to advance southwest of Velikaya Novosyolka in the direction of the Gulyaipole-Velikaya Novosyolka road, attacking the fortified area north of Novodarovka and in the direction of Novosyolka, as well as in the direction of Neskuchnoye and Vremyevka, forming a pocket to the south, in the area of Storozhyevoye.
Velikaya Novosyolka is under constant fire control. Units of the Russian Armed Forces are identifying and destroying the enemy in the village (urban settlement).
To the north of it, our assault forces have taken full control of Novy Komar and are expanding the zone of control of the territory to the north in the direction of Novoocheretovatoye, from where the enemy is trying to counterattack, and to the west to the Mokrye Yaly River.
Our units are also attacking in the direction of Razdolnoye - Bogatyr. The Ukrainian Armed Forces, having brought up reserves, are putting up fierce resistance here, trying to prevent our advance to the north.
14:12 At 13:40 Moscow time, a Ukrainian fixed-wing UAV was destroyed over the territory of the Belgorod region, the Ministry of Defense reported.
13:57 According to preliminary data, high-ranking officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and Ukrainian special services were killed in the attack on the SBU headquarters in Kyiv, stated RIA Novosti in the pro-Russian underground.
13:18 Air raid siren has been declared throughout Ukraine.
13:13 There is an air raid alarm again in Kyiv.
13:05 RIA Novosti: The Ministry of Defense showed a video from Novopustynka in the DPR, over which the Russian tricolor was raised after liberation.
13:03 Russia responds to attacks on its territory, as Putin said, stated Dmitry Peskov.
12:27 Other important statements from the Russian Ministry of Defense on the progress of the SVO:
— Russian air defense shot down a MiG-29 aircraft and 519 Ukrainian drones in a week;
— 59 Ukrainian servicemen surrendered on the contact line;
— The Russian Armed Forces liberated 10 settlements in the DPR;
— Russian troops carried out 24 group strikes with high-precision weapons and drones, destroying energy facilities that supplied the Ukrainian Armed Forces;
— The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost over 3,610 servicemen in the area of responsibility of the “West” group in a week;
— The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 440 fighters and six field ammunition depots in a week due to the actions of the Dnepr group;
— Up to 1,250 people and one Leopard were lost by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in a week in the area of responsibility of the Eastern Group;
— The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more than 2,365 people in a week as a result of the actions of the “South” group;
— The losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the zone of the “Center” group of forces over the week amounted to more than 2,945 soldiers, two tanks and 15 combat armored vehicles were destroyed.
12:17 Official: Russian Armed Forces liberated Novopustynovka and Uspenovka in the DPR, the Ministry of Defense reported.
12:01 Consequences of the Russian Armed Forces strike on the SBU command post at 75 Antonovycha (former Gorky Street) in Kyiv –photo.
11:58 The Russian Armed Forces have advanced in the Kursk region near the village of Kruglen'koye, as confirmed by the enemy map Deep State.
The Ukrainian monitoring resource also writes about the advancement towards Malaya Loknya in the north of the Ukrainian Armed Forces bridgehead.
11:55 War correspondent Kitty:
Red Army direction.
Our units are conducting offensive operations on Mirolyubovka, Sukhaya Balka, in Dachenskoye, Lysovka, in the direction of Zeleny from Novy Trud, along the railway to Chunishino, from Shevchenko in the direction of Zverevo, in Peschanoye, in the direction of Volkovo, reached Solyonoye, advanced in Novovasilyevka.
On the entire section of the LBS south of Dmitrov and Krasnoarmeysk, there is strong pressure from our troops with the goal of finally capturing the outer line of defense of the agglomeration and reaching directly to the outskirts of Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk) and Dmitrov (Mirnograd).
In addition, there is a systematic envelopment of Krasnoarmeysk from the southwest. The countermeasures taken by the enemy are not able to stop the advance of the RF Armed Forces. The enemy's defense is "cracking at the seams."
South of Novotroitskoye, our assaults entered Novoyelenovka from the north and east, and are also fighting on the outskirts of Ukrainka.
North of Kurakhovo, the enemy reports strong pressure in the direction of Slavyanka, Petrovpavlovka, Andreyevka from the side of Krasnoye (Sontsovka) and Starye Terny.
In addition, our units are conducting assault operations in Shevchenko, advancing in the direction of Dachnoye from the direction of Starye Terny.
West of Kurakhovo our assaults reached the southwestern outskirts of Ulakly and took the Gulyaipole-Kurakhovo road under fire control. South of Zelenovka the plantings in the fields came under our control.
In Kurakhovo, the fighting moved to the western part of the city (the industrial zone area, thermal power plant).
South of Dachnoye and Kurakhovo, fighting continues for the defensive positions of the Ukrops in the fields and on the right bank of the Sukhie Yaly River (Yantarnoye and to the east).
11:31 Frames show yesterday's attack on the industrial zone of Kramatorsk, from where the enemy launched HIMARS missiles at the Rostov region.
11:26 In Khar'kov, the Russian Armed Forces liquidated enemy temporary deployment point
In the north-eastern part of Khar'kov, a temporary deployment point for one of the enemy’s armed units was destroyed.
The number of militants eliminated was more than 15 people. The number of wounded has not been established.
The site of the impact was immediately cordoned off by security forces, and three fire trucks and eight ambulances arrived.
11:10 Ministry of Defense Russia:
On December 18, 2024, a missile strike was launched from the territory of Ukraine against the Kamensky Combine enterprise in the Rostov region using six American-made ATACMS operational-tactical missiles and four Storm Shadow air-launched cruise missiles.
In response to the actions of the Kyiv regime, supported by Western curators, this morning a group strike with long-range precision weapons was carried out on the SBU command post, the Kyiv design bureau "Luch", which designs and manufactures the "Neptune" missile systems, ground-based cruise missiles MLRS "Vilkha", as well as the position of the "Patriot" anti-aircraft missile system.
The strike targets have been achieved. All objects have been hit.
10:47 In Donetsk worked air defense system
Falling fragments were heard in the Kalininsky district of the city. According to preliminary information, there were no civilian casualties.
In the epicenter, the glazing of several apartment buildings was damaged, local TG channels report.
10:22 Residential development in Kurakhovo is under the control of Russian forces, the final countdown has begun for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. This is stated by Vladimir Rogov.
10:18 On the night of December 20, the Russian Armed Forces launched a massive air strike at military targets on the territory of Ukraine.
At least four powerful explosions thundered in Kyiv, there is a “very bright glow” in the city, eyewitnesses write on local Telegram channels
Following the explosions in Kyiv, a fire has been observed in the area of the military plant "Artem", local TG channels report.
[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] The House passed a government spending bill Friday evening to avoid a government shutdown set to ensue at midnight, but now the clock is ticking for the Senate and President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing... The continuing resolution (CR) that was passed by the House extends government funding until March and provides over $100 billion dollars in relief funds to hurricane ...as in blow me down!... victims, farmers and more.
However,
a hangover is the wrath of grapes... the Senate must now vote to approve the bill and President Joe Biden must sign it into law to avoid a lapse in federal spending set to occur just after midnight Friday.
Both are expected to approve the CR, though if they don't do it quickly enough federal funding may run out and the government could, at least momentarily, enter into a partial shutdown.
The 118-page bill passed with bipartisan support in the House, 366 - 34, after Republican Speaker Mike Johnson negotiated with his Democratic counterpart Hakeem Jeffries over the details in multiple conversations on Friday.
The 11th-hour passing of the GOP spending deal late Friday came after President-elect Donald Trump ...The cad! Twice caught beating wimmin!... and billionaire Elon Musk demanded Johnson capitulate to their policy priorities during his negotiations.
Johnson originally proposed a 1,547-page CR, but that was quickly derided by many in the GOP and most notably by Musk, who used the bully pulpit of his X app and his 200 million followers, to ridicule Johnson's plan until the speaker went back to the drawing boards.
After deliberating with Trump's team Johnson then produced a 116-page bill backed by the president-elect and Musk. But that went down in flames with a 174 to 235 vote on Thursday after nearly every Democrat and 38 House Republicans voted against it.
#3
Don't kid your self about this funding bill. The Farm Bill is essentially for Food Stamps. The 2024-25 budget began 10/1/24 and runs to 9/30/25, why are they out of money for Food Stamps you ask? Try 25 million newcomers on for size.
If Trump wants to get rid of them cut off their money/food. The R's should have started their relocation now.
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But Kay Granger (R-Tx) didn’t vote on the bill or anything since the summer. Turns out that she has been in an elder memory facility in Texas since then. Biden and Mitch are not alone. You would figure there would be a facility in DC with a shuttle bus.
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Like I said, the farm aspect of it is not Josiah and Edith trying to keep the homestead.
Food stamps, including allowances for booze mixers junk food, then helping Tyson build a cricket flour factory, and the Juan Deere PR campaign. Allllll the way down there at the bottom Josiah gets a liiiitle bit of kickback from the fleecing he gets every step of production. Unless of course his generational field gets declared a wetland by the EPA.
[SDUT] This Bitch set up the SD County Sanctuary Vote. Now she won't fulfill her just reinstalled term. Cowardice and backlash? Vargas, who has been open about facing harassment and threats, cited 'personal safety and security reasons.' Her departure will leave the Board of Supervisors again short one member.
Chair Nora Vargas is unexpectedly stepping down from the San Diego County Board of Supervisors, she said Friday — a stunning departure that appeared to come as a shock to other county officials and staff, including some in her own office.
Her decision marks the second time in less than two years that the five-member board has faced the surprise loss of a supervisor, along with the loss of its Democratic majority and the prospect of a monthslong impasse on partisan policy issues.
In a statement, Vargas announced her decision to conclude her tenure at the end of her current term, on Jan. 6.
“Due to personal safety and security reasons, I will not take the oath of office for a second term,” Vargas said.
“It has been my honor to serve in public office during unprecedented times, including the past four years on the San Diego County Board of Supervisors,” she continued. “My priority has always been our community, ensuring that everyone can be seen, heard and have a chance to thrive.”
Her office declined to give any further comment or details.
Vargas was re-elected to the board just last month to serve another four-year term. She had spent the last two years serving as chair, and previously was vice chair for two years.
Vargas and her two newly re-elected colleagues were set to be sworn in on Jan. 6. Instead, that will be her last day in office.
The board’s next meeting is scheduled for the following morning, where its remaining four members are likely to discuss next steps. They have the option of appointing a replacement, calling a special election or both.
The board has not yet indicated how it intends to fill the upcoming vacancy. The cost and timeline for a special election vary based on factors including the jurisdiction, the number of registered voters and whether in-person voting is involved.
The county will determine the process in accordance with the county charter and board policy, and will keep serving district residents in the meantime, said spokesperson Tammy Glenn.
Supervisor Terra Lawson-Remer, the board’s current vice chair, said in a statement that the board’s work and the county’s “new direction” would continue.
“I greatly appreciate Chair Vargas’ service to the county and our community, and I hope she finds resolution to the challenges with which she is grappling,” she said.
When Vargas was first elected to the Board of Supervisors in 2020, she became the first Latina elected to it; early last year, she became its first Latina chair.
Her unexpected decision comes just a year and a half after her former colleague Nathan Fletcher resigned from the board following sexual misconduct allegations.
In announcing her departure, Vargas named as some of her proudest accomplishments “spearheading disaster response and recovery efforts, navigating the complexities of the pandemic, and driving systemic change so that our government serves all members of our community, not just a select few.”
“I’ve worked tirelessly to address the inequalities that have plagued our community for far too long. I’m proud of the progress we’ve made together,” Vargas said. “As a ‘guerrera’ at my core, I remain committed to continuing the fight for equity, justice, and human rights — just in a different capacity.”
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[IsraelTimes] A magistrate court judge in Virginia has ordered that Abdullah Ezzeldin Taha Mohamed Hassan, an 18-year-old Egyptian national suspected of trying to carry out a mass-casualty attack targeting the Israeli Consulate in New York, be remanded pending the trial against him.
Hassan is currently in deportation proceedings, authorities said at a recent detention hearing for the George Mason University student.
GMU announced Thursday that Hassan had been banned from campus.
At the recent hearing, an FBI agent testified that a bureau asset reached out to Hassan who urged the informant to carry out an attack targeting the Israeli consulate, Politico reports.
The pair “discussed online weapons, tactics, getaway and specifically targeting the [consulate’s] lobby, the FBI agent testified, according to Politico.
Hassan urged the informant to livestream the attack this past Tuesday. When the day arrived, Hassan logged onto the livestream feed and both he and the informant said, “See you in heaven in the afterlife,” according to the FBI agent’s testimony.
Moments later, FBI agents burst through Hassan’s door finding him with his computer open and the livestream still running.
Prosecutors also noted during the hearing that Hassan was interviewed by the FBI in 2022 over statements he made online supporting ISIS and Al Qaeda.
Hassan ran several social media accounts that supported ISIS, al-Qaeda and Hamas, and advocated for violence against Jews, the FBI said in the complaint filed in a federal court in Virginia.
[Breitbart] A number of international media reports have exposed an operation called “Alabuga Start” that lures young African women to work at a Russian drone factory and then effectively enslaves them – but African governments have done little to protect their citizens from exploitation.
Alabuga Start is a program ostensibly intended to bring promising young people from the Third World to the Alabuga Special Economic Zone (SEZ). A sister program called Alabuga Polytechnic is aimed at recruiting Russian students.
The Alabuga SEZ was established in the Republic of Tartarstan in July 2006. The program was intended to lure science and industry to the SEZ by offering extensive infrastructure, abundant electric power, tax breaks, and customs benefits. Every company that builds a facility in the SEZ enjoys a ten-year “tax holiday,” and residents of the zone pay relatively low income taxes for their first ten years.
As investigations from various media outlets have revealed, recruits are not told that the major current purpose of the Alabuga SEZ is cranking out Iranian-designed Shahed-136 suicide drones to aid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions against the zone in April 2024, along with a dozen other entities and individuals, for “facilitating and financing the clandestine sale of Iranian unmanned aerial vehicles.”
In October, the Associated Press (AP) published an expose on Russia’s efforts to lure African women to its drone factory with free plane tickets, cash bonuses, and offers of a prestigious high-tech work-study program.
In truth, young African women who accepted the offer found themselves toiling in Russian munitions plants, working long hours under prison-like surveillance, all promises of high wages and cash bonuses forgotten. Even worse, the unskilled African recruits were required to use hazardous materials without proper safety equipment, leaving some with painful symptoms of exposure.
One victim described the Alabuga Start program as a “trap.”
“The company is all about making drones. Nothing else. I regret and I curse the day I started making all those things,” the woman told the AP.
“Factory management apparently tries to discourage the African women from leaving, and although some reportedly have left or found work elsewhere in Russia, AP was unable to verify that independently,” the report added.
Another grim detail was that Russia apparently prefers to lure young women to its Alabuga drone sweatshop because they are “easier to control,” while young African men are “too aggressive and dangerous.”
Leaked documents described the assembly lines as racially “segregated” and used “derogatory” language to discuss the African recruits.
A subsequent AP report said Alabuga, which now furnishes about 75 percent of Russia’s new drones, has begun producing “a particularly deadly variant of the Shahed unmanned aircraft armed with thermobaric warheads.” These “vacuum bomb” drones are accompanied by swarms of decoys to distract Ukrainian air defenses.
A week after the first AP report on the Alabuga trap, social media platforms YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok began shutting down accounts that were allegedly geared toward recruiting young foreign women to work in Russia’s drone factories. Some of those accounts had over a hundred thousand followers, or over a million “likes” for their posts, which were often promoted by professional social media influencers.
According to the AP, the Alabuga Start social media campaign used “slickly edited videos with upbeat music that show African women smiling while cleaning floors, wearing hard hats while directing cranes, and donning protective equipment to apply paint or chemicals.”
Some videos depicted African women cavorting happily among Tartarstan’s cultural sites and tourist attractions. One of them showed a happy African girl serving a handsome young Russian man in a restaurant, and then becoming his pregnant wife. Absolutely none of these recruiting videos informed viewers that the women were expected to perform hard labor at Russian drone factories.
Another investigation conducted by the Institute for Science and International Study in July said that some recruits were told they would be making drones, but they were falsely led to believe they would be assembling sophisticated M5 civilian drones, not Iran’s crude but effective Shahed-136 flying bombs. In a final bitter twist, a fair number of those M5 drones ended up being used for reconnaissance by the Russian invaders in Ukraine.
“Twenty-seven countries are documented to have sent nationals to Alabuga through Alabuga Start. It is unknown whether any countries have withdrawn their participation, but they should do so immediately,” the Institute said in July.
“If they continue to send workers, these countries directly support a U.S. and EU sanctioned entity and support Russia’s military efforts, thus risk getting sanctioned themselves,” the report warned.
Voice of America News (VOA) reported on Wednesday that “African countries have largely failed to intervene or give an official response” to the Alabuga Start investigations. In fact, some African governments “even appear to be building ties with the Russian entity behind the program.”
David Albright of the Institute for Science and International Security told VOA that African recruiters for Alabuga Start were originally “oblivious” to what the program was actually doing, but it now seems very difficult to believe they don’t know they are drawing young women into a trap.
“It’s been a very deceptive program in the sense that the applicants didn’t know they’d be working in essentially a U.S.- [and] European-sanctioned company making drones that are being used to devastating effect against Ukrainian civil targets, energy targets, electrical plants,” Albright noted.
“And so, in that sense, they’re complicit in a crime, an international crime, given that the war against Ukraine is illegal. They’re getting involved in making drones that are being used against civilian targets, not just military targets,” he said.
Despite this growing awareness of the true nature of the program, Alabuga representatives recently signed memorandums of cooperation with local entities in Sierra Leone, Zambia, and Madagascar. Nigeria and Uganda have been touting admission to Alabuga Start on government websites for at least a year. VOA found documents from government ministries in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Bangladesh encouraging young citizens to apply for the Russian program.
VOA reported that it “reached out to authorities of Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, South Sudan, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia and Nigeria,” but none of its phone calls or emails were answered.
[PJMEDIA] In an epic exchange on CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... , Senior Political Commentator Scott Jennings delivered a brutal reality check to Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) and the Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... , cutting through their rhetoric with precision. The moment came after Jayapal launched into a tirade blaming Elon Musk and Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... for the looming government shutdown.
''We already had a bill,'' she said. ''We negotiated it. Mike Johnson agreed to it. And because, as you said, Elon Musk, a billionaire, tweeted about it — President Musk tweeted about it — these Republicans tried to go around their own caucus, all the work that's been done, and they are in charge of shutting down the government. Now, that is what's going to happen tomorrow night at midnight if we don't come to a deal.''
Jayapall also accused Trump of ceding control to Musk, saying, ''I mean, this is a real crisis in my mind for Donald Trump: who's the president right now— and who's going to be the president come — come the New Year?'' She even posed the bizarre question, ''Are we now negotiating with Elon Musk? Is Mike Johnson not the speaker anymore?''
She continued, ''I mean, this is abdicating all of the responsibilities of elected officials, whether it's the Republican speaker or the Republican president-to-be and giving it to an unelected guy. So I am shocked at the speed with which Donald Trump seems to have conceded his power to Elon Musk.''
Jennings, however, didn't let this hyperbole slide.
When host Erin Burnett asked him for his response, Jennings zeroed in on Jayapal's slip of the tongue. ''She let the mask slip right at the end. She said, 'Who's the president right now?''' he noted.
Jennings went on to cite a recent Wall Street Journal expos revealing that Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity.... hasn't actually been in charge over the past four years, and that unelected staffers and cabinet members have basically been running the government.
"Joe Biden, who we rarely hear from, The Wall Street Journal reported today has been diminished for the last four years, and we've had unelected people running around running the federal government, apparently."
Jennings didn't stop there. He turned Jayapal's criticism of Trump and Musk back on the Democrats, pointing out their glaring hypocrisy. ''If that is what they're worried about, if they're worried about people who aren't Donald Trump, you know, running the government or having influence, I wonder where they've been the last four years,'' he quipped.
Jayapal's attempt to frame Musk as some unelected villain harming ''working-class Americans'' fell hard and flat in the face of Jennings' unflinching assessment. He highlighted the real issue that Democrats would rather avoid: their own president's lack of leadership. ''The current president, a Democrat, is AWOL and apparently not able to execute the duties of the office,'' Jennings noted.
[X] Current Dem (unanimous) talking points.
NEW: Scott Jennings hilariously mocks CNN panelist when she can’t decide whether Trump’s a dictator or merely a puppet for Elon Musk.
Wait till you hear her answer at the end.
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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Elon Musk is far more the press as defined in the First Amendment than anything in the legacy media. All he did was allow the People to petition the government for redress of grievance (ie ripping off the taxpayers).
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[EngMilRu] From 14 to 20 December 2024, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out 24 group strikes by precision weaponry and attack unmanned aerial vehicles, which hit energy facilities that were used to support the AFU, infrastructure of military airfields, UAV workshops and depots, a military echelon at an offloading site, as well as temporary deployment areas of Ukrainian troops and foreign mercenaries.
Over the past week, units of the Sever Group of Forces continued to eliminate AFU formations on the territory of Kursk region.
Aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, and artillery inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of two tank brigades, one heavy mechanised brigade, seven mechanised brigades, three air assault brigades, two assault battalions of the AFU, one naval infantry brigade, and five territorial defence brigades.
In Kharkov direction, Russian troops hit units of one mechanised brigade, one motorised infantry brigade, one air assault brigade of the AFU, two territorial defence brigades, one border detachment of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine.
Over the past week, the enemy losses were over 2,675 troops, nine tanks, 73 armoured fighting vehicles, including one Bradley infantry fighting vehicle and one U.S.-made Stryker armoured personnel carrier, 68 motor vehicles, two Croatian-made RAK-SA-12 MLRS launchers, and 26 field artillery guns.
The Zapad Group of Forces' units improved the situation along the front line, defeated military personnel and hardware of five mechanised brigades, one infantry brigade, one jaeger brigade, one assault brigade, one airmobile brigade, one airborne brigade of the AFU, three territorial defence brigades, and one national guard brigade. In addition, 18 counter-attacks of AFU assault detachments were repelled.
The AFU losses were more than 3,610 troops, two tanks, two infantry fighting vehicles, six armoured personnel carriers, including one U.S.-made M-113 and one Polish-made Rosomak armoured personnel carriers and four other armoured fighting vehicles, 34 motor vehicles, and 57 field artillery guns, including eight Western-made 155mm ones.
Four electronic warfare stations and counter-battery radars and six ammunition depots were eliminated.
As a result of decisive actions, units of the Yug Group of Forces liberated Annovka, Vesely Gai, Yelizavetovka, Trudovoye, and Uspenovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
Russian troops hit units of six mechanised brigades, one motorised infantry brigade, one infantry brigade, two airmobile brigades, one assault brigade, one air assault brigade, one mountain assault brigade of the AFU, one naval infantry brigade, and three territorial defence brigades.
Over the past week, the AFU losses were more than 2,365 troops, one tank, five armoured personnel carriers, including one U.S.-made Stryker and three U.S.-made M-113 armoured personnel carriers, 12 other armoured fighting vehicles, 20 motor vehicles, 17 field artillery guns, including seven Western-made ones, four electronic warfare stations and counter-battery radars, and five ammunition depots.
The Tsentr Group of Forces' units continued advancing into the depth of the enemy's defences and liberated Novopustynka, Pushkino, and Starye Terny (Donetsk People's Republic).
Russian troops engaged units of one heavy mechanised brigade, six mechanised brigades, one motorised infantry brigade, one infantry brigade, one jaeger brigade, two assault brigades, two assault battalions of the AFU, one naval infantry brigade, two territorial defence brigades, and two national guard brigades. In addition, 67 counter-attacks of the enemy were repelled.
The AFU losses were more than 2,945 troops, two tanks, 15 armoured fighting vehicles, including three U.S.-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicles and two U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carriers, 23 motor vehicles, and 43 field artillery guns.
As a result of active operations, units of the Vostok Group of Forces liberated Zelenovka and Novy Komar (Donetsk People's Republic).
Russian troops hit formations of two mechanised brigades, one mountain assault brigade of the AFU, three territorial defence brigades, and two national guard brigades. In addition, 16 counter-attacks launched by AFU assault detachments were repelled.
The AFU losses were up to 1,215 troops, two tanks, including one German-made Leopard tank, two infantry fighting vehicles, 11 other armoured fighting vehicles, 22 motor vehicles, and 20 field artillery guns, including six self-propelled artillery systems and NATO-made 155mm howitzers.
The Dnepr Group of Forces' units engaged manpower and hardware of one heavy mechanised brigade, two mechanised brigades, one infantry brigade, one air assault brigade, one mountain assault brigade of the AFU, three territorial defence brigades, and one national guard brigade.
The AFU losses were up to 440 troops, 20 motor vehicles, 16 field artillery guns, including three U.S.-made 155mm M-777 howitzers.
In addition, one HIMARS MLRS combat vehicle and four U.S.-made Patriot SAM system launchers, five electronic warfare stations, and six field ammunition depots were eliminated.
Air defence units shot down one Ukrainian Air Force's MiG-29 aircraft, six U.S.-made ATACMS operational-tactical missiles, three UK-made Storm Shadow air-based cruise missiles, one Neptune long-range guided missile, four French-made Hammer guided aerial bombs, 18 U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles, and 519 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.
Over the past week, 59 Ukrainian servicemen surrendered on the line of contact.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 650 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 38,152 unmanned aerial vehicles, 590 anti-aircraft missile systems, 19,933 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,504 MLRS combat vehicles, 19,874 field artillery guns and mortars, and 29,384 units of support military vehicles have been neutralised.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the operation to neutralise an enemy group, which broke into the territory of Kursk region.
In the course of offensive operations, units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted losses on formations of one heavy mechanised brigade, five mechanised brigades, three air assault brigades, one naval infantry brigade, and four territorial defence brigades of the AFU near Aleksandriya, Gornal, Kurilovka, Lebedevka, Leonidovo, Martynovka, Mirny, Nikolayevo-Daryino, Pogrebki, Russkoye Porechnoye, Sverdlikovo, Cherkasskaya Konopelka, and Yuzhny. Four counter-attacks of the enemy's assault detachments were repelled.
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation and artillery inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the enemy near Guyevo, Maryevka, Mikhaylovka, Nikolskoye, Novaya Sorochina, Rubanshchina, Cherkasskoye Porechnoye as well as Basovka, Belovody, Vodolagi, Zhuravka, Obody, and Khoten in Sumy region.
The AFU losses were more than 340 troops, three tanks, one armoured personnel carrier, 13 armoured fighting vehicles, four motor vehicles, and one electronic warfare station.
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the AFU losses amounted to more than 42,440 troops, 248 tanks, 187 infantry fighting vehicles, 128 armoured personnel carriers, 1,301 armoured fighting vehicles, 1,158 motor vehicles, 323 artillery guns, 42 MLRS launchers, including 11 of HIMARS and six of MLRS made by the USA, 13 anti-aircraft missile launchers, seven transport-loading vehicles, 76 EW stations, 13 counter-battery warfare radars, four air defence radars, 27 units of engineering and other materiel, including 13 counterobstacle vehicles, one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, six armoured recovery vehicles, and one command post vehicle.
The operation to neutralise the AFU units is in progress.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title
[Korrespondent] 18.29 Russian sabotage and reconnaissance groups tried to advance in the direction of Kherson on Friday morning. The enemy fired about a thousand shells at the city. This was reported by the head of the Kherson OVA, Alexander Prokudin.
17.43 The Defense Procurement Agency of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine has signed a contract with the German defense concern Rheinmetall. The ammunition deliveries are planned for the first half of 2025. They are suitable for most 155-mm guns with which the Ukrainian Armed Forces are armed.
16.52 Since the beginning of the day, the total number of combat clashes along the front line has increased to 146. Most of the assaults were recorded in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported in a report as of 16:00.
16:25 In Konstantinovka, Donetsk region, a 75-year-old woman died after an enemy hit a multi-story building; her body was recovered from under the rubble.
16.20 Explosions were heard in Rylsk, Kursk region, Russian Federation. Russian authorities reported an alleged Ukrainian ATACMS missile attack. Five dead and 26 injured reported.
14.27 The administration of US President Joe Biden will announce its latest aid package to Kiev in the coming days under the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI). This is the remaining $1.2 billion for the purchase of new weapons for the needs of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Reuters reported, citing sources.
14:13 As a result of Russian missile attacks on December 20, the building housing the embassies of Albania, Argentina, Palestine, North Macedonia, Portugal and Montenegro was damaged in Kiev. This was reported by the representative of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Georgiy Tykhyi during a briefing on Friday, December 20.
12:45 Ukraine has already received its sixth IRIS-T SLM air defense system from Germany. This was stated by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at a briefing after the European Council meeting. The Ukrainian military received new Gepard systems along with the necessary ammunition.
11:05 An explosion occurred on board an An-72 military transport aircraft at the Russian Ostafyevo airfield in the Moscow region. This was reported by the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
10:40 On Friday night and in the morning, Russia attacked Ukraine with Iskander-M ballistic missiles, Shahed-type attack drones and other types of drones. Most of the targets were destroyed by air defense, the Ukrainian Air Force reported .
9:57 ISW believes that Russian dictator Vladimir Putin views the Oreshnik ballistic missile as part of a non-nuclear deterrent. In his mind, this should prompt the West to make decisions that benefit Russia, against the backdrop of previous unsuccessful rhetoric on nuclear weapons.
9:45 The number of casualties as a result of the morning missile strike on Kiev has increased. One person is known to have died. This was reported by the mayor of Kiev, Vitali Klitschko.
8:59 The Russian Armed Forces launched a combined missile attack on Kiev at around 07:00 on the morning of December 20. A total of eight missiles were fired.
8:46 In the morning of December 20, the Russians launched a missile attack on Kiev. Falling debris is recorded in several areas of the capital.
8:27 Kherson and its suburbs were subjected to unprecedented shelling by the Russian army. In addition, sabotage and reconnaissance groups (DRG) broke through in the direction of the regional center. There are dead and many wounded among the city residents.
7:25 Russian occupiers captured Trudovoye and Uspenovka, occupying the last piece of the notorious "Uspenovka pocket". However, not all Ukrainian soldiers managed to get out of it. This was reported by the DeepState project.
05:47 Kherson is under massive artillery shelling. Local authorities have called on residents not to go outside.
02:25 Russians have launched a missile strike on Kryvyi Rih for the second night in a row. This time, the missile destroyed a two-story building, injuring five people. Surrounding houses and a hospital were also damaged.
[IsraelTimes] Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan told his visiting German counterpart Annalena Baerbock that it is essential for Kurdish militant groups including the PKK and YPG to lay down arms and dissolve, Turkish foreign ministry officials said.
Ankara considers the YPG, which has fought for years in Syria alongside US troops, to be an extension of the PKK, which fights against the Turkish state and is banned as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the EU and the United States.
Turkish forces and their Syrian allies have clashed with a YPG-led alliance in Syria since the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad this month.
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[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] Sears has closed its final store in Washington, leaving it operating in only four states across the US.
The department store, which was once the largest in the country, closed an outlet in the Southcenter Mall in Tukwila, Washington, on December 15.
In the weeks leading up to its closure, the store, which had been there for three decades, hosted discount sales for shoppers.
Its closure means that Sears only has eight stores remaining across Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, Florida, Massachusetts and Texas.
Locals expressed their sadness at the store closing its doors.
'It's a landmark, it's something you grew up with, it's something you could trust,' Barbie Talamante, a former Sears staffer, told the Seattle NPR station KUOW-FM.
'As a little kid you'd go into a Sears store, your parents would buy the washers, dryers, paint, draperies, whatever.'
Talamante had worked at Sears for more than 10 years, and this is the second store she has had to see close down. I can't understand it. For years Sears prospered by mailing out a catalog showcasing its products to its customers. They could order COD or go to the nearby Sears store. That was before the internet, so it was kind of like Amazon without the www... Uhhh... Never mind.
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Sears was the place, for what, 75+ years?
It failed to see the Metro decay around it.
It failed to see the growth of Wally World in the suburbs, all until it was too late.
Add to it, the stupid move of purchasing K-Mart locations and then selling the CRAFTSMAN brand name.
What does Sears now have to offer, that many other store chains provide for less?
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But for one monumentally shortsighted, stupid decision, Sears should have been Amazon. This one will be taught in business schools for decades to come.
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They had a catalog, they had product numbers, they had pictures. It was a analog version of what Amazon became. Suits content with shuffling rather than innovating.
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‘Taught in Business schools’…. The requirement of Wallstreet to be Profitable, Predictable and sustainable handcuffs public traded corporations from taking significant transformative risks to win in the Market Place in the future. see Sears, Kodak (who invented the digital camera), Blockbuster Video…. The list is long.
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You are dead on.
They were there doing it before Amazon.
Like millions of others, I ordered from the Sears Catalog many times, over my 40 years of using them.
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It's the curse of the centralized management system. Where they bring together all the management of an organization in one place, so it can be 'supervised'. Most groups succeed in spite of leadership, not because of it.
It's the "skyscraper curse", where a company gets a big building, and then dies. They get a big facility, with lots of space to grow. them they start filling the space, cause people gonna build their little kingdoms.
Then the whole business gets arteriosclorosis.
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They get a big facility, with lots of space to grow. them they start filling the space, cause people gonna build their little kingdoms.
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The government picked Amazon as a winner. I thought Sears was already gone. Can’t believe they are still afloat in California. There merchandise must be too unattractive to steal.
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What does Sears now have to offer, that many other store chains provide for less?
I miss the free walk-in-the-door replacement/no questions asked for broken Craftsman tools. Colorado mountain cold makes some brittle.
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I have some Craftsman tools that I inherited both from my dad and my father-in-law. They're antiques now but they still work great. Then they outsourced all that manufacturing to China. But they lost me long before then. The catalog might have been great when people didn't have as many choices as they do now. But I could always find better clothes and appliances elsewhere.
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#4 add...Xerox and their Palo Alto Research Center who developed the CRT automated word processor that Apple ripped off. Xerox management didn't know what they had.
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Name me the latest tech innovation coming from Apple.Woz left, Jobs died, and the company is just a cash cow to be milked with decade old innovation.
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There's a Supreme Court decision from long ago that decreed that Sears/Penny's did NOT have to remit sales tax to the various states for catalog orders. I've never understood fully why online companies didn't fight harder to declare that decision means THEIR orders don't require state-by-state sales tax collection.
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...because Amazon became big enough that they could handle it and accepting it helps kill off potential start up competitors. Technically, you are correct as it is interstate commerce and thus purely the jurisdiction of the federal government. The states didn't pressure Congress on the issue because they rightly feared Congress would keep the booty for themselves so they went the judicial fiat route.
[FOXNEWS] Former Cook County Prosecutor Kim Foxx is no longer authorized to practice law in Illinois after she failed to keep her license current.
Oh. My. God. That Soros really can pick them.
According to the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission (ARCD), Foxx is "unauthorized to practice law as [the] attorney has not demonstrated required MCLE [Minimum Continuing Legal Education] compliance."
Her license to practice law was suspended on Dec. 1.
The liberal prosecutor told WGN-TV that the suspension was a "holy manal error," saying that she had "more than enough credits."
The date of the suspension came after Foxx's successor, Eileen O'Neill Burke, began her role as Cook County's top cop.
O'Neill Burke as elected last month after Foxx decided not to run for reelection. She promised tougher prosecution against criminals.
"No disrespect to the last state's attorney, I just think there's going to be a different philosophy," DuPage County State's Attorney Robert Berlin told Fox 32 reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... . "When you prosecute crime and hold criminals responsible, it's effective."
Foxx became the state's attorney for Cook County, Illinois, in 2016 and has frequently been under heavy criticism over her lax enforcement policies, including her handling of the Jussie Smollett
...Cable TV actor whose primary talents seemed to be being black and homosexual. In a bid for national attention, he paid a pair of Nigerian brothers to rough him up a little so he could claim that two large, white, MAGA hat-wearing men had shouted This is MAGA country! while thumping him at 2:30am on a bitter cold night in Chicago and throwing bleach on him, presumably to lighten him up. The story quickly unraveled, and he became a laughingstock and the poster boy for pretend victimization and attention whoredom... case.
The prosecutor set off widespread objections after she dropped charges against Smollett, a Black and gay actor who had concocted an elaborate "hate crime" hoax in which he claimed two White individuals attacked him in the streets of Chicago while yelling, "This is MAGA country," tying a rope around his neck and dousing him in bleach.
Foxx entered office with significant support from billionaire George Soros ...either Ernst Stavro Blofeld or Auric Goldfinger come true. Maybe both.... , who contributed $400,000 to her 2016 campaign. He also donated $2 million to a fund supporting Foxx in the 2020 election.
[NYPOST] Federal agents nabbed a migrant Tren de Aragua gang crew holed up in a Bronx apartment — after tracking one of their ankle monitors to the hideout, sources told The Post.
The Dec. 5 raid at an apartment building on the edge of Crotona Park, conducted by a federal task force made up of Homeland Security Investigations and the NYPD, landed seven alleged gangbangers in handcuffs, including a troublesome 28-year-old Venezuela
...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south... n national who was wearing a court-ordered monitoring device that led the feds to the crew.
"Better late than never," quipped a law enforcement source who wondered why Jarwin Valero-Calderon was free despite at least three busts, a Nassau County conviction and a federal deportation order.
"This is what actual supervised release looks like?" the source asked. "The thing about ankle monitors is you have to actually monitor them to be effective."
The raid was nonetheless a significant blow against TdA, the violent mostly peaceful gang that snuck into the US with a wave of migrants colonists seeking asylum since 2022 — and gained a foothold in New York.
Law enforcement officials said the gang has recruited inside tax-funded migrant shelters and runs violent mostly peaceful theft and robbery crews while peddling drugs, guns and women in the five boroughs.
"What we’re seeing is this evolution of Tren de Aragua, where they’ve gone into these sanctuary cities," said former Denver ICE chief John Fabbricatore. "They’ve started to solidify themselves and then they throw tentacles out to multiple other locations where they think that they can continue to make money.
"I think people are finally starting to realize how bad the situation has gotten."
According to law enforcement sources, most of the gang members busted inside the Bronx apartment were sought on multiple warrants after crossing the US border with Mexico — then disappearing.
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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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