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-Lurid Crime Tales-
MS-13 Associate And Illegal Alien Pays To Have Sex With Trafficked 14-Year-Old Girl, Blackmails Her With Compromising Video
[DAILYCALLER] A suspect associated with the MS-13 gang will be tried for allegedly paying for sex with a 14-year-old girl, then blackmailing her with video of the encounter.

Felix Silva-Zuniga, 52, has been scheduled to be tried in Montgomery County Circuit Court for allegedly paying the gang leaders $100 to allow him to have sex with a 14-year-old girl, recording a video of the act, and then blackmailing her into continued sexual relations using the footage.

52yo Felix Silva-Zuniga allegedly used that video to blackmail the teen for more sex.

It happened inside of a home near Wheaton High School.

The girl was reportedly a human trafficking victim of the "Pinos Locos" clique of the MS-13 gang in Wheaton, MD. Investigators obtained information from a high ranking MS-13 member that she was a waitress at Lilly’s Restaurant, where her job was to "conduct cocaine and marijuana sales, and serve alcohol to customers."

When the teen told the gang she wanted to quit her job, authorities said the MS-13 members took her to a house on Valley View Avenue in Kensington and beat her with a baseball bat.

An affidavit filed in the case quotes a source who said they saw the girl after she was beaten and she had discolored arms and legs. According to the affidavit, the girl was then pimped by the gang to men willing to pay $100 to have sex with her.

The victim recalled walking with MS-13 members one night to Umberto’s Night Club, a couple of blocks away from Lilly’s Restaurant, and being coerced by gang member Willian Benavides-Pena to flirt with an older man only then known as "Felix." Benavides-Pena reportedly told her, "I know you don’t want to do it, but I need this, this man has a lot of money and I need you to do me a favor."

The victim got into a taxi with Felix, and they were later dropped off at a home along Bluhill Road near Wheaton High School. Once inside, Felix led her to the basement of the house where he told her to "just get comfortable." Despite her informing him that she was only 14 years old, Felix allegedly proceeded to have sexual intercourse with her.

Afterward, Felix reportedly told the girl that he had recorded the sexual act and that he would make it public if she did not agree to continue meeting with him regularly. The victim finally confided in Montgomery County Police after they had incarcerated
You have the right to remain silent...
a local group of MS-13 members in 2017, agreeing to cooperate in a law enforcement agenda to root out MS-13 from the suburbs of Washington D.C. (RELATED: U.S. Border Agents Arrest MS-13 Gang Member ’Intending On Filing For Asylum In The United States)

In July of 2018, Police sought to interview the man known as Felix, but when they arrived at the Bluhill Road address given by the female victim, they were told that he had moved out four months earlier. Later the same day, police spotted Felix at a Home Depot in Aspen Hill where he reportedly loitered frequently. Police arrested the 52-year-old, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed was in the U.S illegally. His trial is set to begin Monday, Jan. 13, 2019.
Posted by: Fred || 01/13/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under: Human Trafficking

#1  Castration followed by deportation is in order
Posted by: Warthog || 01/13/2019 7:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Routine Anesthetic Subcutanious Chip implantation, deportation, and monitoring.

If the image reappears within U.S. borders, the host is destroyed. The chip is then recovered and made ready for the next host.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/13/2019 7:58 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Afghanistan stops illegal extraction of natural resources in 584 sites
Is the government of Afghanistan really starting to take control of the hinterlands beyond Kabul?
[KhaamaPress] The Ministry of Mines and Petroleum of Afghanistan has stopped the illegal extraction of natural resources in 584 sites across the country, the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum of Afghanistan (MOMP) said Saturday.

According to a statement released by MOMP, the Committee to Protect the Mines has identified and stopped illegal extraction in 584 sites.

The statement further added that the Committee to Protect the Mines has been established as per the presidential decree in the light of the enforced Mines Law and is led by the Ministry of Mines and Directorate of the National Security Council, consisting of permanent and temporary members of the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum, Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Defense, and National Directorate of Security
...the Afghan national intel agency...
The main purpose of the formation of the committee is to protect and preserve the natural resources prevent illegal extraction of the mines, legalization of mines, creation of jobs, and reduction of poverty, the statement said, adding that the latest report of the committee indicates that illegal extraction works have been stopped in 584 sites.

The committee has also managed to obtain written commitments from 312 individuals who were busy in illegal extraction of mines and encourage them to sign formal contracts, the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum said.

The statement by the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum also added that the ministry considers the protection and legal extraction of mines as its top priorities to boost economy and create jobs and has been emphasizing to halt illegal extraction works.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/13/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Africa Horn
Regional powers stick with Bashir as Sudan protests mount
[PULSE.NG] As angry protests pile pressure on Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir
Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it.
to step down, key powers are standing by his regime to ensure stability in a strife-torn region, analysts say.

Demonstrations that erupted in the provinces last month after the government tripled the price of bread have escalated into nationwide protests that analysts say pose the biggest challenge to Bashir since he took power in an Islamist-backed coup in 1989.
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Posted by: Fred || 01/13/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Sudan


Somali Soldier Given Death Sentence For Murdering Civilian
[RADIOSHABELLE] Somali military court has sentenced an army officer to the death penalty
after he was found guilty of intentionally killing a civilian identified as Dayah Iman Hassan on 21st October last year near Seybiyano locality in Hodan district, Mogadishu on Saturday.

The judge of the court, col. Hassan Ali Nuur Shute said the decision of the court was based on the evidence provided by the witnesses before the court and thus the accused was sentenced to death.

"After seeing the medical report that proved the main cause of the dear departed death and the evidence provided by five witnesses who were on aboard the vehicle of the accused, the court has sentenced Mohammed Abdullahi Mohammed to death for killing the late Dayah Iman Hassan, " said the judge.

The court also said that the convicted person can apply for an appeal if he is not satisfied with the verdict.

The dear departed Dayah Iman Hassan graduated from Plasma university in Mogadishu before his death.

Posted by: Fred || 01/13/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Somali Sends 300 Soldiers To Turkey For Training
I suppose semi-competent would be an improvement. What a pity Turkey’s best military men are all in jail for one reason or another...
[RADIOSHABELLE] Somali government sent off 300 soldiers to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor....
on Saturday for further training, as part of its efforts to reform the country’s National Army which is battling Al-Shabaab
... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
On Friday, Military officials have arrived in Mogadishu after taking a refresher course in Turkey.

One hundred officials from Somali National Army completed a six-month course on Human rights preservation and code of conduct in Turkey.

The officials who returned to the country were received at the airport by Somali Minister for Defense, Hassan Mohammed Ali and other officials.

Mr Ali who spoke to the media at the airport has lauded Turkey’s efforts to help Somalia build Somali military through training and mentorship.

SNA was established in 12th April in 1960 after Somalia attained its full independence.

Under former president, Mohammed Siyad Barre’s rule, Somalia once possessed a formidable military in the continent.

The army which disintegrated when the government was ousted and the country descended into civil war in the 1990s was re-established during the former transitional Somali governments.

Posted by: Fred || 01/13/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Africa North
Rada appeals to public for information on wanted terror suspects
[Libya Herald] The Rada Special Deterrence Force (SDF) has appealed to the Libyan public for information on a number of terror suspects.

On Monday, Rada published a number of photos and names of individuals it is seeking and called on the public to help it with any information.

It said that as a part of security cooperation and ensuring the safety of the country and ridding it of terrorist organizations it appealed to the general public to share the data it published on wanted suspects.

Rada said that the appeal for information from the general public came as a result of investigations and the questioning of some of those jugged
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
in terrorism cases.

These have reveaed some facts and names of persons that are involved in bombings and the dispatch of jacket wallahs to target some civilian and military institutions in Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
and other cities of Libya.

These included the al-Fuqha checkpoint, the Misrata court complex, the High NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
nal Electoral Commission, the National Oil Corporation Tripoli headquarters and lastly the attack on the Libyan Foreign Ministry headquarters in Tripoli.

Rada reported that most of the movements of these suspected elements are on the outskirts of the cty of Sebha (al-Qardah, al-Thanawiya, Abdulkafi district, al-Taouri, Goda and surrounding farms as well as the Um al-Hares area with some elements of Isis).

The suspected elements move between checkpoints with forged personal papers as well as the disguise in the occasional attire of women, Rada explained.

Rada is aligned to the Faiez Serraj Presidency Council and Government of National. It is led by Abdelrauf Kara who follows the Salafi/Madkhali interpretation of Islam, a more conservative strain from the traditional Malaki/Sufi practiced in Libya.

Posted by: Fred || 01/13/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


UN Secretary-General urges Libya to seize prisons’ control from militias
[LIBYANEXPRESS] UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is urging the Libyan government to bring all prisons under its control and free from the grip of militias, some of whom run migrant-smuggling networks.

Guterres said in a report to the Security Council released Thursday, January 10, that torture and arbitrary detention is widespread in Libya.

About 6,400 detainees are held in 26 official prisons but "thousands of others" are being held in facilities with little government control or "directly run by gangs," said the report.

"I remain deeply concerned about widespread human rights
...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...
violations and abuses committed in the context of detention and the prolonged arbitrary detention of thousands of men, women and kiddies without due process," wrote Guterres.

The government must protect detainees against torture and "all prisons must be under effective government control and free of any influence or interference of gangs," he added.

Guterres also reported that an increase in the number of migrants colonists and refugees who were detained over the past 6 months was a result of more interceptions at sea and the closure of sea routes to migrants colonists.

About 5,300 refugees and migrants colonists have been detained in Libya of whom 3,700 were in need of international protection, he said.

In all, there are over 669,000 migrants colonists in Libya, of whom women and kiddies make up 21 percent, according to the report.

Posted by: Fred || 01/13/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Africa Subsaharan
We’ve curtailed herdsmen/farmers crisis in Adamawa, Taraba — 23 Brigade Commander
[PULSE.NG] The Brigade Commander, 23 Brigade, Yola, Brig. Gen. Bello Muhammad, said his command had succeeded in curtailing festivities between herdsmen and farmers in Adamawa and Taraba states.

Muhammad said this on Saturday in Yola at the annual West African Social Activities (WASA) organized by the command.

"The brigade has successfully curtailed the crisis between the herdsmen and farmers in Adamawa and Taraba states through the conduct of Ex Ayem Akpatuma.

"Similarly, the brigade successfully checkmated the activities of cattle rustling through the conduct of operation Kwanan daji and synergy with cattle dealers association.

"We have equally intensified patrols to checkmate the activities of remnants of Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
which had led to arrest of some of their kingpins.

"We have equally conducted joint operations with other security agencies to clear the mini Sambisa in Girei Local Government Area which has yielded positive result for the peace we are enjoying today," Muhammad said.

The commander, who lauded the Chief of Army Staff for providing the Brigade the enabling environment through welfare and prompt payment of troops operational allowances, reiterated their commitment to duty and better performance in 2019.

He said the command would enhance the barracks this year by constructing a guest house, children amusement park and second water project.

Highlights of the occasion, attended by Gov. Muhammadu Bindow of Adamawa, were the inauguration of new classroom blocks for the Command Children School and the laying of foundation stone for skills acquisition centre and soldiers’ transit accommodation.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that awards were also presented to officers and soldiers who distinguished themselves in the command.

Posted by: Fred || 01/13/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Fulani Herdsmen (Boko Haram)


The Grand Turk
Turkey grants PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan 1st prison visit in 2 years
[Rudaw] Abdullah Ocalan, the placed in durance vile
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
founder and ideological godfather of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), was granted his first visitor in more than two years, it emerged Saturday.

Mohammed Ocalan was allowed to visit his brother on Saturday at the remote Imrali Island prison in the Marmara Sea, where he has been incarcerated since 1999.

News of the visit was confirmed by his nephew Omar Ocalan and Parvin Buldan, chair of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor....
’s pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP), which has previously mediated between the PKK and the Ottoman Turkish state.

Mohammed Ocalan said his brother is in good health.

The Ottoman Turkish state ruled in September 2016 that Ocalan would no longer be allowed to receive visitors ‐ including family members.

His lawyers have not been allowed to meet the PKK leader since July 2011. This is despite 768 requests to see their client.

Ocalan founded the PKK in the 1980s, leading an armed uprising against the Ottoman Turkish state to achieve greater Kurdish political and cultural rights. Ottoman Turkish spies captured him in Nairobi with CIA assistance.

His struggle is underpinned by the leftist ideology of democratic confederalism, which calls for greater federal devolution of power. His ideas have influenced Kurdish opposition groups in Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

It is unclear why the Ottoman Turkish state has chosen now to allow the family visit, as its rhetoric against the PKK has become increasingly threatening and its cross-border operations in northern Syria and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq have intensified.

US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
announced in December the imminent withdrawal of the 2,000 US troops stationed in northern Syria, where they have been supporting the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the fight against ISIS.

The Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), which makes up the backbone of the SDF, fears Turkey will attack them once US forces withdraw.

Ankara has repeatedly said it intends to march east of the Euphrates River and crush the YPG, which it views as an extension of the PKK.

Turkey has also continued to launch Arclight airstrikes and shell areas of the northern Kurdistan Region of Iraq and demanded the governments of Erbil and Baghdad force the PKK to withdraw from its mountain hideouts in Qandil.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/13/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Home Front: WoT
US judge says California man jailed for attending terrorist camp in Pakistan was wrongfully convicted
[DAWN] A federal magistrate on Friday recommended overturning the controversial 2006 conviction of a Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, man accused of attending a terrorist training camp in Pakistain and plotting an attack in the United States.

Hamid Hayat,
...did he spend time at an Al Qaeda training camp or did the site in the Northwest Frontier Province belong to the Pakistani army? Did he confess or was his testimony unfairly nudged by the FBI? And what ever happened to his father, Umer Hayat?
now 36, who was then a young cherry-picker from Lodi, has served about half his 24-year sentence.

But US Magistrate Judge Deborah Barnes said he likely never would have been convicted were it not for the inexperience of his defense attorney, who failed to call alibi witnesses.

"A reasonably competent attorney would have done more to investigate Hayat's alibi," Barnes said in a 116-page opinion.

Her recommendation that the conviction be vacated now goes to US District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr.

He presided over Hayat's original trial, conviction and sentencing and previously rejected a defense motion over whether Hayat was properly represented at trial. Either side can appeal Burrell's eventual decision.

Barnes heard new testimony from witnesses who said Hayat, who was born in California, never had time to receive terror training while visiting relatives and getting married in his ancestral village in Pakistain.

Barnes also found that Hayat's defense attorney, Wazhma Mojaddidi, should have put on evidence from an expert on false confessions who could have countered prosecutors' claim that Hayat confessed.

Mojaddidi, an immigration and family law attorney who was trying her first criminal case, said she "passionately represented Hamid Hayat as a young attorney and worked with a great team of lawyers and Sherlocks in his defense."

She said in a statement that she always has believed he is innocent and is elated by Barnes' recommendation.

Prosecutors are reviewing the magistrate's recommendation, US Attorney McGregor Scott said.

"It has consistently been our position that Mr Hayat received effective representation at trial and that his conviction by a jury, subsequently affirmed by the Ninth Circuit, is completely valid," he said in a statement.

One of the three appellate judges dissented when the court upheld Hayat's conviction in 2013, saying jurors erred in convicting Hayat based on predictions of what he might have done.

Hayat's attorneys said Barnes' opinion goes beyond finding that his conviction should be overturned.

"The judge found the testimony of the alibi witnesses sufficiently credible to conclude that Hamid would likely not have been convicted if the jury had heard these witnesses," they said in a statement. "That is effectively a finding of actual innocence."
This article starring:
Hamid Hayat
Posted by: Fred || 01/13/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  did he spend time at an Al Qaeda training camp or did the site in the Northwest Frontier Province belong to the Pakistani army?

The two are not mutually exclusive.
Posted by: Phush Poodle1018 || 01/13/2019 11:28 Comments || Top||


California Friday Sermon: Imam Ammar Shahin Cites Antisemitic Hadith, Prays for Annihilation of Jews, and Calls to Liberate Al-Aqsa Mosque from Their 'Filth'
One day this mosque or this imam will show up on Page 1: WoT, and then a search of our archives will throw up this article. Separately, the MEMRItv home page now has a section on peace and normalization with Israel. The times, they are a-changing.
[MEMRI] On July 21, 2017 the Egyptian-born American preacher Ammar Shahin delivered a Friday sermon at the Islamic Center of Davis, northern California, where he serves as Imam. In it he cited an antisemitic hadith, according to which the Muslims would fight the Jews on Judgment Day, and prayed to Allah to "liberate the Al-Aqsa Mosque from the filth of the Jews" and to "annihilate them down to the very last one," not sparing any of them. "Oh Allah, make this happen by our hands. Let us play a part in this," he prayed in the sermon, which was posted on the Davis Masjid YouTube channel. Imam Shahin, who had earned a B.A. in Islamic studies in Egypt, traveled in 1999 to the U.S., where he obtained a degree in computer engineering. He is listed as an instructor of the Zidni Islamic Institute, a California-based organization that teaches Sunni Islam in the West.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/13/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Davis is a suburb of Sacramento. Home of U of Calif at Davis.

No doubt he was taken out of context.
Posted by: lord garth || 01/13/2019 10:38 Comments || Top||

#2  So how come that building is still standing?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 01/13/2019 21:39 Comments || Top||

#3  "White dove of Islam, land in Davis
To preach coexistence and save us
From those too myopic
Or Islamophobic
To favor this brave rara avis!"

BP: The usual reasons? Omnipresent vid surv and the awfulness of imprisonment?
Posted by: Wheque Ebbump1520 || 01/13/2019 22:08 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Iran and Iraq hail energy cooperation as US reins in sanction waivers
[Rudaw] Iraq’s oil minister Thamer al-Ghadhban and his Iranian counterpart Bijan Namdar Zangeneh met on Saturday to discuss Iranian gas imports for Iraq’s power stations. However,
a hangover is the wrath of grapes...
the US has signaled the sanction waivers it granted to some of Iran’s energy customers will soon expire.

During a presser following their meeting, Ghadhban stressed the importance of Iran and Iraq’s relationship and efforts at "expanding the horizons of bilateral cooperation in economic fields."

For his part, Iranian Oil Minister Zangeneh said "the discussions were useful and fruitful, and included many topics of common interest, including cooperation in the oil and energy sectors."

"The two sides agreed in principle on bilateral cooperation in the development of some small border fields shared between the two countries after technical studies," he added.

This is thanks to 90-day exemption granted to Iraq on December 21 to continue payments for Iranian electricity and gas imports.
Energy cooperation has continued between Iran and Iraq despite US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
’s resumption of sanctions against Tehran’s economy and threats against nations who do business with Iran.

This is thanks to 90-day exemption granted to Iraq on December 21 to continue payments for Iranian electricity and gas imports. Without the imports, Iraq’s already defective electricity network would see rolling blackouts.

Power outages last summer led to serious unrest in Iraq’s southern province of Basra. US diplomatic staff were forced to evacuate and Iran’s consulate was torched.

Officials in Iraq have reiterated their country is not party to the US sanctions on Iran, but have not explicitly declared Baghdad’s non-compliance.

Last week, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said his country’s oil sales are continuing as expected, noting that the United States would not be able to prevent them from exporting oil and gas and their products.

Trump announced the US withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal in May last year. This was followed by fresh rounds of economic sanctions on August 6 and November 5.

On Saturday, US special representative for Iran Brian Hook said there would be no further waivers for states deeply dependent on Iranian oil ‐ including China, India, Japan and South Korea.
That will certainly make life interesting for all involved.
"We are not looking to grant any waivers or exemptions to the import of Iranian crude," Hook told an industry conference in Abu Dhabi, according to Rooters.

"Iran is now increasingly feeling the economic isolation that our sanctions are imposing ... We do want to deny the regime revenues. Eighty percent of Iran’s revenues come from oil exports and this is (the) number one state sponsor of terrorism ... We want to deny this regime the money it needs," he added.

As a close economic and political ally of both the US and Iran, Iraq finds itself in an awkward position. It is unclear whether a special dispensation will continue for Baghdad, or whether Washington will again tighten the screws on Tehran.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/13/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas offers $1 million for identities of Israeli special ops in November raid
[IsraelTimes] Paleostinian terror group airs what it says is video footage surrounding operation that went awry two months ago, says 15 special forces involved; Israel imposes partial censorship.
Video can be seen at the lnk.

Posted by: trailing wife || 01/13/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  You sure it wasn't mossad who'll then "deal" with the tattle tales?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 01/13/2019 22:13 Comments || Top||


Olde Tyme Religion
The former ‘First Lady of ISIS’ now loves Reform Jews, plans to visit Jerusalem
[IsraelTimes] Tania Joya was married for 12 years to the leading American in Islamic State. Today she lives in Texas, has renounced Islam and is soon to speak in a temple about de-radicalization.

Less than six years ago, the British-born Moslem Tania Joya
...in our archives as Joya Choudhury Tania, which took us up to her move to America...
was living in Syria with her husband, an American-born convert to Islam who was becoming an increasingly influential figure in the circles of Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
. Next week, she will be giving a talk about "countering the forces of violent extremism" at Temple Shalom, a Reform synagogue in Dallas, Texas.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/13/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  since she is now an apostate from Islam, she is a target of any Moslem who decides to carry out the death sentence for apostasy

I hope her synagogue has congregants who carry.

Posted by: lord garth || 01/13/2019 10:43 Comments || Top||

#2  According to their website, lord garth, they had a veterans shabbat in November, which bodes well for their attitude to such things. Also, it is Texas.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/13/2019 11:04 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
White House Sought Options to Strike Iran
Obama Deep State gets the vapors
[WSJ via Drudge] State and Pentagon officials were rattled by the request

President Trump's National Security Council asked the Pentagon to provide the White House with military options to strike Iran last year, generating concern at the Pentagon and State Department, current and former U.S. officials said.

The request, which hasn't been previously reported, came after militants fired three mortars into Baghdad's sprawling diplomatic quarter, home to the U.S. Embassy, on a warm night in early September. The shells‐launched by a group aligned with Iran‐landed in an open lot and harmed no one.

But they triggered unusual alarm in Washington, where Mr. Trump's national security team led by John Bolton conducted a series of meetings to discuss a forceful American response, including what many saw as the unusual request for options to strike Iran.

"It definitely rattled people," a former senior U.S. administration official said of the request. "People were shocked. It was mind-boggling how cavalier they were about hitting Iran."
Perhaps you should find another field of work
The Pentagon complied with the National Security Council's request to develop options for striking Iran, the officials said. But it isn't clear if the proposals were provided to the White House, whether Mr. Trump knew of the request or whether serious plans for a U.S. strike against Iran took shape at that time.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, here visiting the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad this month, joined forces with national security adviser John Bolton to develop a more aggressive policy aimed at weakening the government in Tehran.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, here visiting the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad this month, joined forces with national security adviser John Bolton to develop a more aggressive policy aimed at weakening the government in Tehran.

Garrett Marquis, a spokesman for the National Security Council, said the body "coordinates policy and provides the president with options to anticipate and respond to a variety of threats."

"We continue to review the status of our personnel following attempted attacks on our embassy in Baghdad and our Basra consulate, and we will consider a full range of options to preserve their safety and our interests," he said.
Posted by: Frank G || 01/13/2019 13:51 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  They don't mind hitting Iraq, Libya, Syria or a whole bunch of other countries. What's so special about Iran?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/13/2019 14:31 Comments || Top||

#2  Obama bombed Iran with pallets of Ben Franklins newly printed and shrink wrapped.
Posted by: Airandee || 01/13/2019 17:31 Comments || Top||


Terror Networks
ISIS wives: The lost women of war
[Ynet] They left the West to join their husbands in Syria, only to lose them in battle and then face death by hanging; for the foreign women wed to Islamist jihadists, their countries have abandoned them to a judgment that is quick and often lethal.

Ten minutes‐that’s the length of the average trial of a woman who is suspected of being the wife of an Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
fighter. These lightning trials have been going on in Iraq and northern Syria in the past few months. The women are brought in from detention camps, and each gets her 10 minutes in front of three judges.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 01/13/2019 00:15 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Gene pool clean-up at it's finest...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/13/2019 8:06 Comments || Top||

#2  What's that I kept hearing about...agency for women or something like that.

How about some of the Hollywood Ho' contingent go "rescue" these sisters?
Posted by: AlanC || 01/13/2019 9:37 Comments || Top||

#3  My sympathy meter is broken. They chose poorly
Posted by: Frank G || 01/13/2019 10:07 Comments || Top||

#4  "Suwaidi said that she picked up a rifle... "

That makes her a combatant, not a "wife" of one.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 01/13/2019 10:52 Comments || Top||

#5  Share the fate of all of history's failed conquerors.
Posted by: Phush Poodle1018 || 01/13/2019 11:19 Comments || Top||

#6  Send them, and the bill, to Qatar.
Posted by: magpie || 01/13/2019 15:48 Comments || Top||

#7  Zero fucks good given
Posted by: Regular joe || 01/13/2019 19:18 Comments || Top||

#8  my givadam has been breached, and unusable
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 01/13/2019 22:23 Comments || Top||



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