[IsraelTimes] Military serviceman, who was in a relationship with insurrectionist, was incarcerated for 19 months for planned mass shooting, legal document shows
A filing in a case stemming from the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the US Capitol revealed that a US Marine in a relationship with one of the defendants served 19 months in jug for a plot to shoot up a synagogue.
The revelation came in a filing by federal prosecutors arguing against a request by an alleged Death Eater, Riley Williams, to loosen restrictions pending her trial.
Williams, who lives in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, lied about a meeting she had with the former Marine, the prosecutor’s filing said. Williams, who is under house arrest and wears an ankle monitor, is seeking less stringent restrictions, the Patriot-News reported over the weekend.
The June 10 filing by the US Attorney does not name the Marine, who was given a bad-conduct discharge, or when or where he plotted to attack a synagogue. It says only that he "stole his roommates’ truck and attempted to purchase a firearm with the intent of committing a mass shooting at a synagogue."
The man "was sentenced to 19 months in jug and was given a bad-conduct discharge from the US Marines Corps."
Williams, who is among the more prominent defendants because she allegedly stole US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments... ’s laptop, broke conditions of her release by having video meetings with the former Marine, "who is believed to be Williams’ then-boyfriend" and by meeting with him in person in August 2021, the filing said.
At that in-person meeting, the former Marine revealed to Williams "the circumstances of his prior arrest, prosecution, incarceration and discharge from the United States Marine Corps."
Bellingcat, an investigative journalism website, was the first to identify Williams shortly after the insurrection. To do so, the group used a video that showed a woman with a hat emblazoned with occult Nazi symbology dancing until a narrator says "Heil Hitler," at which point she gives the Nazi salute.
A congressional committee investigating the insurrection last week launched public hearings and focused particularly on the role of far-right groups in its organization.
Money being fungible, possibly some part of it will actually be spent as the donors intend.
[ToloNews] The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN said the World Bank contributed $150 million to provide critical livelihood and life-saving assistance to the most vulnerable rural populations in Afghanistan.
The FAO said that it will focus on wheat production, supporting about 2.1 million people.
The Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock welcomed the World Bank’s financial support and said it will help Afghan farmers.
"In normal years, we import 1 to 1.5 million tons of wheat. In the years of drought, we import 2 to 2.5 million tons," said Musbahuddin Mustayeen, a front man for the ministry.
[KhaamaPress] According to The Wall Street Journal, some key Afghan officials and their families spent millions of dollars in the final years of the war on luxurious mansions in the United States and other countries, and when they fled the rising violence in Afghanistan.
Some officials who held senior roles during former President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, ex-president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. When Biden abandoned the country left with a helicopter, four cars, and part of the national treasury... ’s administration, which began in 2014, are now residing in "mansions along Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,’s coast", according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of public records, interviews, and other evidence.
According to data and interviews, many former officials live in the United Arab Emirates, major European cities, and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... After seeking to uncover the officials whereabouts, it was discovered that the majority had migrated overseas, particularly in countries where currently accessible property and company information are limited.
Some former high-ranking government officials who had foreign citizenships and assets, allowed for an easier relocations in their assets outside of Afghanistan, while others spent on new properties and relocated their families abroad as the government collapsed to the Taliban ...Arabic for students... , according to the journal.
ASHRAF GHANI AHMADZAI — FORMER PRESIDENT OF AFGHANISTAN
After escaping to the UAE, President Ghani initially stayed in a suite with his wife at the five-star St. Regis Hotel in Abu Dhabi. His wife then chose a private villa offered by the Emiratis as their permanent residence.
Foreign officials had alleged Ghani of looting government money, so substantial that not all of it could fit in the chopper when he escaped the presidential palace last year.
Given the helicopter’s space and weight limits, the US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction stated in an interim report last week that the allegation is "unlikely to be true."
HAMDULLAH MOHIB — FORMER NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR
Before Kabul fell, former President Ghani’s ally, Hamdullah Mohib, the former National Security Advisor, who left with President Ghani, relocated his family to the Shangri-La Hotel in Abu Dhabi, which was paid for by the UAE government.
According to public documents and Mohib himself, the family then relocated to a four-bedroom property in Florida on a beautiful bay bordered with palm trees.
Despite claiming that he does not own property "anywhere in the world", Mohib claims his mother-in-law owns the house in Florida.
EKLIL HAKIMI — FORMER MINISTER OF FINANCE
According to property and company records in the United States, Eklil Hakimi, the president’s longstanding Minister of Finance, purchased at least ten properties in California, both during his term in office and after departing in 2018.
One of the Hakimi’s property includes a five-bedroom home with a pool in a beach side luxury community, according to California property records. According to a real estate, the aforementioned property is valued $2.5 million.
The ten properties, which are under his wife’s name, Sultana Hakimi, are valued over $10 million at least.
KHALID PAYENDA — FORMER FINANCE MINISTER
Khalid Payenda, Afghanistan’s former finance minister, has two properties around Washington, D.C., one of which was purchased with cash. According to a real estate, they are valued more than $1 million.
In an email to the Journal, he explained that after coming to the United States, he worked as an Uber driver to help manage his finances.
MUSTAFA MASTOOR — FORMER MINISTER OF ECONOMY
According to Dubai records, President Ghani’s Minister of Economy, Mustafa Mastoor, possesses a property in a Dubai Marina. Mustafa Mastoor said that he bought the property before becoming minister, and that he now lives in an apartment in Istanbul that he bought months before Afghanistan collapsed to the Taliban.
ATTA MOHAMMAD NOOR — FORMER GOVERNOR OF BALKH PROVINCE
Atta Mohammad Noor, after the collapse of the government, has relocated to an apartment he has in Dubai’s luxurious place called The Palm, a network of man-made islands styled like a palm tree.
According to a spokesperson for Atta Noor, the property in The Palm is the Noor’s sole property outside of Afghanistan.
ABDUL RASHID DOSTUM — FORMER VICE PRESIDENT
Marshal Abdul Rashid Dostum ...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier... currently resides in Turkey. He recently hosted a gathering at his residence in Turkey where the Afghan political figures established the Supreme Council of National Resistance® for the Salvation of Afghanistan.
He lives in a luxurious house Ankara’s posh Or-An neighborhood. However, some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go... it is not determined as to when he bought the house.
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I'm so tired of people talking about how Dostum is the second coming of Genghis Kahn. He's a phony. People who worship him are losers.
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Most people understand that they are "too delicate for prison." One thing the entire political class of planet Earth has in common is that they are "too delicate for real work, too delicate for poverty."
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Air Force says its transport crew made the right decision to leave Kabul airport amid a chaotic withdrawal last August
The USAF concluded that air crew members acted appropriately and were not at fault for some tragic deaths during the evacuation from Afghanistan last year
Crew exhibited 'sound judgment' in face of an 'unprecedented' security crisis, according to a report compiled by the military branch
Desperate Afghans clung to a military plane as it was taking off and fell to their deaths or were caught in the wheels
Crowds of people had surged onto the runway at the airport in Kabul in a desperate attempt to flee the country
Human remains were discovered in the wheel well of the the C-17 military transport plane after it landed in Qatar
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Delta probably already did and decided the seating would be too comfortable, B.
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...Had My Beloved Service made any other call, the pushback would have been epic. Those kids - and 44 years after hitting the parade ground at Lackland, I can say that - pulled off something that shouldn't have even been imaginable, much less possible. It wasn't their fault that some moron decided to hang on for the ride.
[Dawn] The National Bank of Pakistain (NBP) has won a high-profile terror-financing case in New York’s Federal Court, avoiding a potential bankruptcy.
Media reports and diplomatic sources said the plaintiff, Harold Brown Sr, withdrew the case, dropping all charges against the bank.
NBP officials in New York and Washington, however, were mysteriously silent on this major win.
There was no one in the NBP’s main office in New York, except a receptionist, and the branch office in Washington had no information.
The bank would have faced the grim prospect of going into bankruptcy had the decision gone against it.
The case against NBP was being handled by the International Disputes Unit of the Attorney General’s Office. Earlier this year, the US Federal Reserve Board had announced a $20.4 million penalty against the NBP.
The New York Department of Financial Services also fined the bank $35 million for repeated compliance failures, taking the combined penalties to $55 million.
In his filing, the plaintiff alleged that NBP provided financial support and banking services to several notorious terrorist groups and terrorist fundraisers, among them, Al Qaeda.
The judge dismissed the complaint with leave to "replead" and directed the parties to appear for the initial case management conference on April 2, 2021.
It was apparently after this conference that the plaintiff agreed to withdraw the charges.
Sources told Geo News that a few years back, the NBP was accused of facilitating the transfer of funds that were used to plan and execute an attack on a United States military base in Afghanistan, which killed nine American soldiers.
Had the NBP lost the case, according to sources, it would have been slapped with fines worth billions of dollars, leaving it bankrupt. The AG Office sources also said in that case, Pakistan would have faced serious issues at the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).
The case was handled by the International Disputes Unit of the AG's Office. The team was led by Ahmed Irfan. It was the same team that helped produce positive outcomes in the Karkey, Reko Diq, Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) and Tuwairqi cases.
From February — NBP is a habitual terrorism supporter, it appears:
[WSJ] State-owned financial institution agrees to spell out how it would improve compliance at its New York City branch in settlements with Fed, New York state
The National Bank of Pakistain has agreed to pay $55.4 million and to provide plans for improving compliance at its New York City branch after U.S. regulators found major deficiencies.
The bank agreed to monetary penalties and remediation plans in settlements with the U.S. Federal Reserve and the New York State Department of Financial Services. The settlements were announced Thursday.
Both regulators previously took action against the bank over persistent compliance deficiencies at the New York branch. The Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... -based, state-owned financial institution, founded in 1949, is the only Pak bank with a presence in New York.
In a settlement from 2016, the bank agreed to address significant shortcomings the regulators identified, but ultimately failed to do so, the regulators said.
Senior management at the bank was "unwilling or unable to promote a culture of compliance," the New York regulator said.
The bank failed to provide sufficient resources for compliance and to adequately supervise its New York branch, allowing problems to get steadily worse, the New York regulator said. The state enforcer also noted deficiencies in the bank’s program meant to ensure compliance with U.S. sanctions.
The bank will be required to create a plan to improve its anti-money-laundering program as well as its suspicious-activity monitoring and customer due-diligence requirements.
The New York regulator said it gave substantial weight to the bank’s cooperation and efforts to improve its compliance.
The National Bank of Pakistain didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
The Financial Action Task Force, a Gay Paree-based organization that sets anti-money-laundering standards, has for several years kept Pakistain on a "grey list" of countries identified as having deficiencies in their anti-money-laundering and counter-terror-financing regimes. The list comprises countries that are deemed deficient but that are working with FATF to improve.
[SHAFAQ] The residents of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... who witnessed their city being overrun by ISIS are not strangers to conspiracy theories that continue to crop up even eight years later.
According to eyewitnesses, the military and security forces in the city collapsed on June 10, 2014, leaving the city to ISIS for three years, during which they suffered unspeakable violence and destruction.
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[An Nahar] Hussein al-Sheikh, a senior Paleostinian official increasingly seen as a successor to the 86-year-old 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.... , says relations with Israel have gotten so bad that Paleostinian leaders cannot go on with business as usual.
But even if they are serious this time around, they have few options. And they appear unlikely to do anything that undermines their own limited power in parts of the occupied West Bank, which largely stems from their willingness to cooperate with Israel.
In an exclusive interview with The News Agency that Dare Not be Named, al-Sheikh defended the Paleostinian leadership in the West Bank, saying it was doing the best it could under the difficult circumstances of Israel's 55-year-old military occupation. As the point man in charge of dealing with Israel, he said there is no choice but to cooperate to meet the basic needs of Paleostinians.
"I am not a representative for Israel in the Paleostinian territories," he said. "We undertake the coordination because this is the prelude to a political solution for ending the occupation."
Al-Sheikh saw his profile rise further last month after Abbas named him the secretary-general of the Paleostine Liberation Organization. The appointment has generated speculation that al-Sheikh is being groomed for the top job — as well as criticism that the autocratic Abbas, who has not held a nationwide election since 2006, is once again ignoring the wishes of his people.
Al-Sheikh, 61, declined to say whether he wants to succeed Abbas. He said the next president should be chosen through elections, but that they could only be held if Israel allows voting in all of east Jerusalem, effectively giving it a veto over any alternative leadership.
"The Paleostinian president cannot be appointed, or come to power by force, or come because of some regional or international interest, or arrive on an Israeli tank," he said.
Al-Sheikh recited a familiar litany of complaints: Israel's government is beholden to right-wing nationalists, its prime minister opposed to Paleostinian statehood. Settlements are expanding, Paleostinians are being forcibly relocated, and the U.S. and Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... seem powerless to stop it.
"The Paleostinian leadership is on the verge of making major and difficult decisions," al-Sheikh said, when asked about Abbas' threat to cut security ties or even withdraw recognition of Israel, a cornerstone of the Oslo grinding of the peace processor in the 1990s. "We have no partner in Israel. They don't want a two-state solution. They don't want to negotiate."
But the Israelis meet with al-Sheikh all the time.
As head of the Paleostinian body that coordinates Israeli permits — and a close aide to Abbas — he meets with senior Israeli officials more often than any other Paleostinian.
Israeli officials view him as "a very, very positive player in the Paleostinian arena," said Michael Milshtein, an Israeli expert on Paleostinian affairs who used to advise COGAT, the military body in charge of civilian affairs in the West Bank.
"Because of his close relations with Israel, he can achieve a lot of positive things for the Paleostinian people," including permits and development projects, he said. But most Paleostinians "cannot really accept this kind of image of a Paleostinian leader who actually is the one who serves Israel's interest."
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
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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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trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments...
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
[SHAFAQ] The residents of 
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
