Colinford Mattis: African-American, Princeton grad, NYU Law, former corporate law associate at some fancy New York City law firm, who along with his sister is the primary caregiver for his dead mother’s three foster children — the things ya gotta do in Brooklyn to keep the family’s rent controlled apartment!
Urooj Rahman: the pouty, connected Pakistani-American who trained with Hamas before studying human rights law at Fordham. Her self-proclaimed best friend, successful Washington, DC lawyer Salmah Rizvi, previously worked for President Obama as an intelligence analyst.
plead guilty to conspiracy charges punishable by no more than five years imprisonment on Thursday They could have gotten ten years for terrorism, but as connected persons-of-colour they’re getting the kid glove treatment.
Federal prosecutors agreed to recommend a prison sentence of 18 to 24 months in return for today's plea
The pair was arrested amid clashes between protesters and police on May 30, 2020, after they torched an NYPD van with a Molotov cocktail
Surely they will be disbarred, until Jan. 19th, 2025. Then Biden's handlers shove a pile paperwork in front of him to sign. Which will also likely include to pardons for the leaders of other various radical groups.
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Joe’s freedom fest will be sooner than 2025. It will be glorious but ineffective unless they charge all the guilty people beforehand so that he can pardon them.
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We need to start thinning down these gene pools!
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Definitely a creative response. It will be interesting when the primarily male, military age migrants from the “global south” — some of whom speak Spanish — come face to face with the primarily male, military age migrants from the Middle East and points far beyond.
President Biden is preparing to close a deal at the Summit of the Americas next week with Spain and Canada to accept migrants from the western hemisphere
The deal is meant to help the U.S. as it faces hundreds of thousands of migrants illegally entering over the southern border from Mexico
It is also aimed at assisting with labor shortages in Spain
Canada is planning to announce new 'recruitment and promotion' efforts to give jobs to Haitian migrants who tried to cross into the U.S.
The Summit of the Americas is being held in Los Angeles, California next week
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My guess is that the Spanish authorities will take the pick of the litter of whatever has any productive value, and the US will get the leftovers to bleed the Treasury and local social support network. More proof of the utter hate people in Washington have for the country they claim to "serve" .
[FoxNews] Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have begun a campaign to eradicate poppy cultivation, aiming to wipe out the country’s massive production of opium and heroin, even as farmers fear their livelihoods will be ruined at a time of growing poverty. more likely: they will destroy all untaxed and unapproved crops.
On a recent day in Washir district in southern Helmand province, armed Taliban fighters stood guard as a tractor tore up a field of poppies. The field’s owner stood nearby, watching.
The Taliban, who took power in Afghanistan more than nine months ago, issued an edict in early April banning poppy cultivation throughout the country.
Those violating the ban "will be arrested and tried according to Sharia laws in relevant courts," the Taliban deputy interior minister for counter narcotics, Mullah Abdul Haq Akhund, told The Associated Press in Helmand’s provincial capital, Lashkar Gah.
The CIA is gonna be fucking pissed!!! They kept those poppies growing no matter what, even put US Army guards on them! How are we going to get our opioids to hollow out our country now!!
[Garowe] In what seems to be a change of strategy, al-Shabaab ...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... bandidosholy warriors are now targeting peasant farmers in Somalia, forcing hundreds of them to IDP camps, where they are entirely dependent on humanitarian aid.
While visiting Baidoa, the regional administrative capital of Southwest, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said the strategy has left thousands of people homeless, further stressing the country on matters of food distribution.
Farmers who are not giving taxes to the bad boys, the president said, are forced to abandon their fields, seeking refuge in various IDP camps in the country. The Lower Jubba and Lower Shabelle regions are the worst affected.
So the peasants have been driven off the land to suffer, but in the meantime nobody is paying taxes to Al Shabaab, and the land lies fallow. How is this a win for the jihadis?
Accompanying the president was Southwest leader Abdiaziz Lafta-Gareen, who was closely working with the former administration of Mohammed Abdullahi Farmajo, who was accused of mismanaging the country including the al-Shabaab crisis.
Hassan Sheikh was filmed entering an IDP camp, where he held children affected by the crisis. Women and children are the most affected in the conflict, authorities said during the maiden visit.
"People with dignity, honor, free and proud of their environment, have been forced to rely on humanitarian aid for fear of endangering themselves and their children," he said during his tour inside the camps in Baidoa, the interim capital of Southwest regional state.
For Somalia to enjoy peace and stability, Hassan Sheikh noted, the country must rise and jointly fight the bad boys. The bandidosholy warriors control large swathes of rural central and southern Somalia, but efforts to degrade them seem to be on the top gear.
Humanitarian teams from the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... were also part of the presidential visit, in what seemed to be a move to evaluate the effects of the drought, which has also significantly affected farmers in the Horn of Africa nation.
Abdelmoula spoke at the 'ADC' camp for internally displaced people in the Baidoa district of Somalia's South West State. He was accompanying Somalia's Special Envoy for Drought Response, Abdirahman Abdishakur, who was appointed by the Somali president in late May, on his visit to an IDP camp.
"The situation is extremely dire and grim: 7.1 million people will be affected by this drought situation before the end of this year," said the Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia, Adam Abdelmoula.
"Unfortunately, about 1.4 million children are facing acute malnutrition this year, and 330,000 are likely to become severely malnourished," he added.
Al-Shabaab bandidosholy warriors wage small to large-scale sporadic attacks, mainly targeting security forces, innocent civilians, and top government officials. Farmers are major targets in paying taxes to the bad boys, which help the group sustain its operations.
The US has approved the deployment of close to 500 soldiers who will help the country completely defeat al-Shabaab bad boys. The soldiers are expected to report to the country in the coming weeks according to Pentagon officials.
Elsewhere, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud rebuffed claims that Villa Somalia is plotting to kick out Southwest President Abdiaziz Lafta-Gareen. This comes after reports that politicians barred from the race for Lower House seats by Lafta Garen were organizing motions against him.
Lafta-Gareen is a close ally of former President Mohammed Abdullahi Farmajo, who was defeated by Hassan Sheikh Mohamud a fortnight ago. Farmajo is blamed for the current tribulations the country is going through.
[AnNahar] Tunisian President Kais Saied on Thursday sacked 57 judges accused of corruption and other crimes, after passing a new law strengthening his grip on the judiciary.
Saied, who has steadily extended his powers since he sacked the government and suspended parliament last July, issued a decree late on Wednesday allowing himself to unilaterally sack judges for "actions ... that could compromise the judiciary's reputation, independence or functioning".
In the early hours of Thursday, the official gazette published a list of judges who had been dismissed, and who may face prosecution.
The gazette did not list the reasons for their sacking.
But Saied had at an earlier cabinet meeting accused unnamed judges of corruption, stalling "terrorism" cases, sexual harassment, collusion with political parties and obstruction of justice.
In February, he already scrapped an independent judicial watchdog and replaced it with a body under his own control, a move critics decried as his latest blow to democracy in the birthplace of the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011.
Saied had long accused the previous judicial watchdog, whose members were partly elected by parliament, of blocking politically sensitive investigations and being influenced by his nemesis, the Islamist-inspired Ennahdha party.
A former head of the dissolved body is among those who lost their jobs on Thursday, along with a former anti-terror court front man and a former customs chief.
Also on the list are judges involved in a long-running inquiry into the 2013 liquidations of two left-wing politicians, Chokri Belaid and Mohammed Brahmi.
- 'AFFRONT' -
Wednesday's ruling, applicable immediately, goes further than Saied's February decree, which had given him powers to dismiss "any judge failing to perform his professional duties" and had banned judges from going on strike.
Saied now has powers to sack judges "by decree and without any process", the International Commission of Jurists' regional director Said Benarbia warned on Thursday.
He called the move "an affront to the separation of powers and judicial independence".
"Through it, the collapse of the rule of law & the constitutional order is now complete," he tweeted.
Saied has insisted he has no intention of interfering with the judiciary, but rights groups have accused him of placing it under the direct control of the executive.
Saied's power grab on July 25 last year was welcomed by many Tunisians tired of a parliament seen as corrupt and self-serving but political parties and civil society groups have warned that the country is drifting back towards authoritarianism a decade after the fall of dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
Saied has laid out a roadmap to a referendum next month on a new constitution, which has yet to be published, and elections in December.
Tunisians are meanwhile struggling with high unemployment, inflation and food shortages, aggravated by the war in Ukraine.
[IsraelTimes] Authorities in Bavaria say they are releasing all previously unpublished files on the attack at the 1972 Munich Olympics following criticism from relatives of the 11 Israeli athletes and coaches who were killed there.
Joachim Herrmann, the top security official in the southern German state, said Thursday that Bavaria will no longer keep any files under wraps, but conceded that federal authorities might still hold confidential files.
The Paleostinian group Black September
...a Fatah sock puppet launched in 1971 to get retribution from the kingdom of Jordan for violently expelling the PLO after the PLO tried to overthrow the government. Naturally this meant they had to hold hostage and kill Israeli Olympic athletes in Germany, among other unrelated attacks. The group was formally dissolved in 1974, which did not stop Mossad from hunting down the big turbans, while the minions were reassigned elsewhere in the Fatah organization ...
took numerous members of the Israeli team hostage on September 5, 1972, with the goal of forcing the release of prisoners held by Israel
...which also had nothing to do with punishing Jordan...
and two left-wing turbans in West German jails. Eleven Israelis and a West German police officer died during a botched rescue attempt.
Complaints about persistent secrecy surrounding the files had threatened to overshadow a planned memorial event for the 50th anniversary of the attack. Some relatives of those killed have also demanded compensation from Germany, something the government has rejected.
What a load of B.S. The Bavarian state police had no idea what they were doing and just shot it out with the terrorists. To botch means you had some kind of plan that didn't work. There wasn't any plan. Just "shoot and miss".
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The Olympic Massacre happened back when international terrorism was the New Thing and we were progressing from "Take this plane to Cuba" theater where no one got hurt to a form where dead people on TV was the goal. Due to the newness of it all, I'd cut the Bavarians a little slack. Besides, that thing about no plan survives first contact with the enemy...
At Uvalde, on the other hand, they should have been able to flip open a binder and run the play. The school has plans for fires and tornadoes. Not having one for crazy people is negligent.
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/\ What SteveS said. This is 2020 and there are FPS games with scenario editors -- they could have a 3D mockup already to plan things. Of course the "real thing" probably will be modified by humans and "tree gnomes" (the mythical creatures that add imaginary trees to you GPS plotted map route -or- make real terrain features disappear in VR).
[OneIndia] Officials tell OneIndia that Shah will direct the civil administration to take more steps to secure the minority community..
There has been a sustained effort by Pakistain's ISI to keep the Valley on the boil.
The number of assassinations especially of minorities has gone up in the past couple of days.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah will chair a high-level meeting today to discuss the situation in Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... and also take steps to restore normality. Officials tell OneIndia that Shah will direct the civil administration to take more steps to secure the minority community.
The police on the other hand would involve the Station House Officers (SHO) of the local cop shoppes.
This would mean that the SHO would play a bigger role in the security of the civilians in Jammu and Kashmir. This was a strategy that was used in the late 80s and 90s in 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.... and it helped the administration wipe out the Khalistan movement from the state.
The involvement of the SHOs of the local cop shoppes in counter terror operations would be of great help in solving the problem. The SHOs have their ears closer to the ground and this would help a great deal in gathering intelligence, the official cited above said.
Involving the local police at the lowest levels has also helped in eradicating several top gunnies in the Valley. The huge success rate at which the gunnies have been shot full of holes is thanks to the cooperation from the J&K police and the actionable intelligence they provided.
Further the civil administration in J&K would also be more discreet so as to ensure that the innocent civilians are not identified. This would help to ensure that these individuals are not singled out and targeted.
The meetings will be headed by Union Home Minister, Amit Shah and will be attended by National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, J&K Lt. Governor Manoj Sinha, the Intelligence chiefs and the chief secretary and Director General of Police, Jammu and Kashmir.
The prime focus of the meeting tomorrow would be on the assassinations and also on how to secure the minority community. There have been 8 assassinations since May, including one of a bank manager which took place today.
An official tells OneIndia that these assassinations orchestrated by the ISI backed Lashkar-e-Tayiba is clearly aimed at driving fear and ensure that the minorities are driven out of the Union Territory.
The Arabic word for ceasefire is hudna, which is not at all the same honourable thing we have in the West. Let us wish Pakistan’s generals much joy as they make their way through the maze they themselves designed for their targets.
[Dawn] The outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban ...Arabic for students... Pakistain (TTP) formally announced an "indefinite ceasefire" with the government late on Thursday night, following two days of intense talks with a grand tribal jirga in Kabul.
A statement issued by the TTP front man, Muhammad Khurasani, said that substantive progress had been made in talks with the grand jirga of "Pashtun nation, particularly tribal elders and Learned Elders of Islam".
The 57-member government-sponsored jirga left for the Afghan capital on Wednesday to continue negotiations with the TTP, mediated by the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and supervised by Sirajuddin Haqqani ...son of Pashtun warlord Jalaluddin Haqqani, still titular head of the Haqqani Network.... , the acting Afghan interior minister.
A member of the jirga told Dawn there had been heated discussions between the two sides, and the sticking point was the TTP’s demand for the reversal of Fata’s merger with Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
"Overall, talks have been goods which continued till late into the night. We are hopeful", the jirga member said from Kabul.
But sources said there was a deadlock over the merger issue and there was no breakthrough yet.
Earlier, it was reported that both sides had agreed to a request by acting Afghan Prime Minister Mullah Muhammad Hassan Akhund to announce indefinite ceasefire and continue the peace talks to end over two decades of bloody conflict.
Neither side had confirmed or endorsed the ceasefire, which officially ended on May 30.
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[OneIndia] Another reason why the Khalistan forces may not be able to thrive as they would have wished to have is because Pakistain is not in any condition to offer them open support.
The violence in 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 brought back traumatic memories of the 80s about the Khalistan movement. The number of killings, acts of terror and violence in Punjab appear to be on the rise and the current dispensation in the state appears to have no solution for the same.
While officials tell OneIndia that the movement has not been able to thrive as the ISI would have hoped for, there are however very disturbing signs that we have witnessed. Killings, hoisting of Khalistan flags, social media posts by fanatics such as the Sikhs for Justice have been on the rise of late.
Groups such as the Sikhs for Justice (SJF) have managed to gain a lot of traction. For instance on November 21 the SJF during his annual referendum asked Sikhs to vote for creating a separate nation.
Recently Khalistan flags were tied on the main gate of the Himachal Pradesh Assembly.
Former Research and Analysis Wing (RAW ... India's Research and Analysis Wing, Pakistain's equivalent of the Boogie Man... ) officer, Amar Bhushan tells OneIndia that the current political, diplomatic and security scenario in India do not favour a repeat of what the scenario was in the 80s. The BJP practises zero tolerance for secessionist movements.
However India cannot take lightly these incidents and the government will have to maintain a constant vigil on all secessionist groups and then act promptly, Bhushan further adds.
Another reason why the Khalistan forces may not be able to thrive as they would have wished to have is because Pakistain is not in any condition to offer them open support. The Pakistain Army is busy in Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... while the economy is in doldrums. Further the country witnessed plenty of political instability recently and this is another reason why the dispensation in Islamabad is busy elsewhere.
An official however adds that what the security apparatus in India needs to watch out for is the use of local gangsters to spread violence in the state of Punjab. The probe conducted into the Rocket Propelled Grenade Attack on the Punjab Police's Intelligence Headquarters learnt that it was the handiwork of local gangsters who were assigned by the Khalistan elements.
Take the case of the Ludhiana Court blast. It was found during the probe that the local gangsters involved in smuggling were behind the attack. They would smuggle drugs and IEDs at the behest of the ISI and then strike in Punjab, the probe found.
This modus operandi has been going on for long and the Khalistan groups have been outsourcing terror strikes to gangsters in a bid to avoid the heat. The fact that they use a gangster to carry out the attack gives the agencies the impression that the same is done by a small-time Mister Big group and not the ISI backed Khalistan forces.
[AnNahar] The U.S. envoy to the UN said Thursday the sole border crossing to deliver aid into Syria must remain open, amid Russian threats to veto a resolution to protect it.
Syria-ally Russia could block the UN Security Council resolution, which expires on July 10, and observers say it is using it as a bargaining chip in the face of punishing sanctions over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
The Bab al-Hawa crossing near The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... 's Cilvegozu border post in the south has been the only point of entry for UN aid into Syria for the past two years.
The US ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield said Thursday it was imperative the opening stay open.
"We have to extend this border crossing, we have to continue to provide this assistance," said Thomas-Greenfield from a UN logistics center in Reyhanli, near the Turkey-Syria border.
Nearly 10,000 trucks loaded with humanitarian aid passed through the crossing last year bound for the Idlib region, the last rebel bastion in Syria and home to around three million people live.
"We know that the situation is already dire there, that people are suffering now," Thomas-Greenfield said.
"It's going to increase the sufferings, it's going to increase the number of people who will displace and possibly even the number of people who may try to cross the border into Turkey."
She was in Reyhanli to meet with NGO and U.N. agencies' representatives who are working to provide assistance to Syrians.
Dmitry Polyanskiy, Russia's deputy ambassador to the U.N., said on May 20 that Moscow saw no reason to keep the crossing open, saying it violates Syria's illusory sovereignty and territorial integrity.
[IsraelTimes] ’Israel carries out diverse operations, most of which are covert, to prevent Iran ...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979... from attaining nuclear capabilities,’ Gadi Eisenkot says
Iran would have obtained nuclear weapons years ago if not for undercover Israeli operations against the Islamic Theocratic Republic’s nuclear program, the former head of the Israel Defense Forces said Wednesday.
"Israel carries out diverse operations, most of which are covert, to prevent Iran from attaining nuclear capabilities," Gadi Eisenkot declared during a security conference held at Netanya Academic College.
"Without these actions I believe Iran would have already become a nuclear state some 7-10 years ago." He meant "a glowing plain of glass"
The former military chief also said Israel may need more than military might to address future security challenges, citing the situation in Ukraine as an example.
"When I examine the strategic balance, I see a cup half full and a cup half empty," he said, explaining that on the one hand, Israel has built "an impressive and massive security force" that provides Israel with a good reason to be confident.
"But if you look at the events unfolding between Russia and Ukraine, you see a country with very impressive military capabilities facing a very weak army, and you can see what international perception and support can do to a country’s prowess," Eisenkot noted.
The remarks came after the Israeli Air Force simulated a widescale strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities Tuesday night.
The simulated attack was part of the broader exercise that involves nearly all branches of the IDF and is focused on training for fighting on Israel’s northern borders, including against the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group in Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...a formerly French, now an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. ... In light of Iran’s growing nuclear capabilities and continued uncertainty whether the 2015 Iran nuclear deal will be restored amid long-stalled negotiations, the IDF has ramped up its efforts to prepare a credible military threat against Tehran’s nuclear facilities over the past year.
Meanwhile, ...back at the alley, Slats Chumbaloni was staring into a hole that was just .45 inch in diameter and was less than three feet from his heavily sweating face ... Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Tuesday published documents he said showed that Iran had spied on UN’s atomic agency in order to plan a cover-up of its nuclear activities.
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[IsraelTimes] Meeting of national security advisers at White House comes a day after massive Israeli air force drill to simulate striking Iranian nuclear facilities; US denies taking part.
The SCG has met several times since the start of the Biden administration, the same old faces in slightly different places, the same old ideas, the same old graft ...the gang of subgeniuses trying to pass themselves off as the adults in charge of the series of calamities characteristic of the administration of a mentally challenged geriatric case... to coordinate efforts aimed at curbing the various threats posed by Iran. The meeting was attended by foreign policy, defense, and intelligence officials from both governments, the White House said in a statement.
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Translation, ValJar and the Magic Kenyan will tell their Iranian friends anything the Israeli's share with the Puppet Show.
[IsraelTimes] Attack also defaces websites with graphics criticizing the ’anti-human Khomeini,’ ahead of events marking anniversary of Islamic Theocratic Republic founder’s death
Government-run surveillance cameras around Iran’s capital reportedly were "disrupted" Thursday, while an exile group claimed it hacked into over 5,000 cameras around Tehran ahead of commemoration events honoring the founder of the Islamic Theocratic Republic.
The Young Journalists Club, an affiliate of Iranian state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
, acknowledged the disruption on Twitter after the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq claimed it penetrated the cameras, including around the mausoleum of the late Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. The website for Tehran’s municipality also went down, as well as "communication systems" used by the city, the report said.
The semiofficial ISNA news agency later quoted Tehran’s municipality as acknowledging the hack.
The Mujahedeen-e-Khalq released a video clip it claimed showed the municipality website and others defaced with a graphic that criticized the "anti-human Khomeini." It also included an image of Lord High Potentate and Supreme Leader of All He Surveys Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini... with a red "X" over his face, as well as images of MEK leaders Massoud Rajavi and his wife, Maryam Rajavi, while calling for an "uprising until overthrow."
"Down with Khamenei, Raisi, curses on Khomeini," the graphic read.
Massoud Rajavi hasn’t been seen publicly in nearly two decades and is presumed to have died. Maryam Rajavi now runs the MEK. Khomeini, who led Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, died June 3, 1989.
The hack comes after another cyber assault in January that included a graphic calling for the death of the country’s supreme leader, which played on multiple state TV channels.
In October, an assault on Iran’s fuel distribution system paralyzed gas stations nationwide, leading to long lines of angry motorists unable to get subsidized fuel for days. A cyberattack on Iran’s railway system caused chaos and train delays. Another hack leaked footage of abuses at its notorious Evin prison.
Iran, long sanctioned by the West, faces difficulties in getting up-to-date hardware and software, often relying on Chinese-manufactured electronics or older systems. Pirated versions of Windows and other software are common across Iran. That makes it easier for potential hackers to target the country.
The MEK began as a Marxist group opposing the rule of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. It claimed and was suspected in a series of attacks against US officials in Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites.... in the 1970s, something the group now denies.
It supported the 1979 Islamic Revolution, but soon had a falling out with Khomeini and turned against the holy man. It carried out a series of liquidations and bombings targeting the young Islamic Theocratic Republic.
The MEK later fled to Iraq and backed dictator Saddam Hussein during his bloody eight-year war against Iran in the 1980s. That saw many oppose the group in Iran. Although largely based in Albania, to this day the group claims to operate a network inside Iran.
Thursday’s cyber attack comes less than a day after the FBI ...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time... said it thwarted a planned cyberattack on a children’s hospital in Boston that would have been carried out by hackers sponsored by the Iranian government.
[AnNahar] Lebanese forces leader Samir Geagea ...Geagea was imprisoned by the Syrians and their puppets for 11 years in a dungeon in the third basement level of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense. He was released after the Cedar Revolution in 2005... has said that his party will refuse any Prime minister and any President who are allied with Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... He added, in a press interview, that the divisions in Parliament will lead to a big confrontation between Hizbullah and its allies and the LF.
Geagea said that a cooperation with the Oct. 17 MPs is needed. "We all need each other in order to make a change," he affirmed.
LF sources have meanwhile told Kuwaiti newspaper al-Anbaa that people have voted for real change not for "theatrical movements" in the streets, slamming the reformist MPs for not focusing on "the essence of change but rather on the forms."
Observers have warned of protracted deadlocks during consultations to name a new prime minister and in the run-up to an election later this year to replace President Michel Aoun ...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... .
[IsraelTimes] David Albright, who worked for the IAEA in the 1990s, says he believes breakout time is zero but it’s still unclear how long it would take for Tehran to build a nuclear weapon
David Albright, who worked as an inspector for the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in the 1990s, made the comments in an interview published Wednesday with London-based Iran ...The nation is noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence... International, an Iranian opposition news outlet.
In a report published Monday, the IAEA estimated that Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium had grown to more than 18 times the limit agreed on in the troubled 2015 JCPOA.
It "estimated that, as of May 15, 2022, Iran’s total enriched stockpile was 3,809.3 kilograms."
The limit in the JCPOA was set at 300 kilograms (660 pounds) of a specific compound, the equivalent of 202.8 kilograms of uranium. The report also said that Iran was continuing its enrichment of uranium to levels higher than the 3.67 percent limit in the deal.
The stockpile of uranium enriched up to 20% is now estimated to be 238.4 kilograms, up 56.3 kilograms since the last report in March, while the amount enriched to 60% stands at 43.1 kilograms, an increase of 9.9 kilograms.
Enrichment levels of around 90% are required for use in a nuclear weapon.
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If you detonate a weapon, you better have another one ready.
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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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
[FoxNews] Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have begun a campaign to eradicate poppy cultivation, aiming to wipe out the country’s massive production of opium and heroin, even as farmers fear their livelihoods will be ruined at a time of growing poverty.
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