[ALPHANEWS.ORG] "Since Minnesota became the first state to offer Medicaid coverage for Housing Stabilization Services, dozens of new companies have been created and enrolled in the program. These companies, and the individuals who run them, have taken advantage of the housing crisis and the drug addiction crisis in Minnesota to prey on individuals who need help getting back on their feet as they recover from drug addiction," the warrant says.
"These companies and individuals do so by contacting Medicaid-eligible people in halfway houses and residential drug treatment facilities and offering to help them find stable housing. After registering these people to receive housing stabilization services, the companies fraudulently claim to provide dozens of Program service hours to their new ’clients.’ In reality, client after client has reported that they received little or no actual services or assistance from these companies. But the companies engaged in this scheme have received millions of dollars in Medicaid funds for housing stabilization services they did not actually provide," it continues. The search warrant was executed at several businesses Wednesday morning, including one in the Griggs Midway Building: Brilliant Minds Services LLC, located in Suite 120.
Records indicate that Brilliant Minds Services is owned by Khalid Dayib and Mustafa Ali. Before April 2025, it was owned by Dayib, Ali, and a third partner, Moktar Hassan Aden.
Records also indicate that Brilliant Minds received more than $2.2 million in funds for providing HHS services between September 2022 and April 2025—claiming to have provided services to 340 individuals, the warrant says.
That’s a healthy chunk of money to divide three ways. Did it all go for personal expenses, or did some of it flow in more interesting directions, whether political or jihad? Inquiring minds want to follow the money.
Yet, at least more than a dozen times, Brilliant Minds Services and another organization, Leo Human Services, received HSS payments on the same date—for the same recipient, according to the warrant.
The investigation into the billing and payments of these two providers indicated that ''such billing was duplicative and not allowable,'' the warrant says.
The investigation also revealed that people who supposedly received services from Brilliant Minds actually never did and had little interaction with them, according to the warrant.
In one case that was detailed in the warrant, Brilliant Minds ''fraudulently received about $2,000'' for services they claimed to provide to one individual. That individual said that ''she never received any HSS services from Brilliant''—except for ''one occasion when a person named Mohammed Mohammed'' came to her residence ''to drop off a vacuum.''
BREAKING: The 18-year-old arrested for hitting 2 Connecticut State Troopers, both now hospitalized—is Joel Alexander Caica Nishve an illegal alien from Ecuador who was released into the U.S. under the Biden administration in 2023.
[IsraelTimes] No reports of injuries from attack by Iran-backed rebels, which set off sirens in several communities near the Dead Sea
A ballistic missile launched Wednesday evening by the Iran-backed 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 in 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... at southern Israel was intercepted by air defenses, the military said.
There were no reports of impacts or injuries. Sirens had sounded in several communities near the Dead Sea.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
Since March 18, when the IDF resumed its offensive against Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... 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... Strip, the Houthis in Yemen have launched 61 ballistic missiles and at least 15 drones at Israel. Several of the missiles have fallen short.
The rebel group has also repeatedly fired projectiles at maritime traffic through the Gulf of Aden, targeting ships they accuse of having links to Israel, claiming solidarity with Paleostinians in Gaza.
In response, Israel has carried out several strikes on Houthi-linked targets in Yemen, including attacks on the port city of Hodeida earlier in July.
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Good. The less the Houthis have, the less trouble they can make.
[APNEWS] Fighters allied to 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 exiled government claimed Wednesday they had seized 750 tons of Iranian-supplied missiles and weaponry bound for the country'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... rebels, the latest interdiction of arms in the country's decadelong war allegedly tied to Tehran.
For years, the U.S. Navy and other Western naval forces have seized Iranian arms being sent to the Houthis, who have held Yemen's capital since 2014 and have been attacking ships in the Red Sea over the Israel-Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... war.
The seizure announced Wednesday, however, marked the first major interdiction conducted by the National Resistance® Force, a group of fighters allied to Tariq Saleh, a nephew of Yemen's late strongman leader former President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it. He was eventually tossed from office and the Hadi goverment installed. When the Houthis rebeled he and his multiple son thought he could claw back to power. Then he saw the way the land actually lay and struck out on his own, briefly, until the Houthis caught him at a checkpoint and murdered him. It was all very sad.... The Houthis and 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... did not immediately acknowledge the seizure, which the National Resistance® Force said happened in late June.
A short video package released by the force appeared to show anti-ship missiles, the same kinds used in the Houthis' recent attacks that sank two ships in the Red Sea, killing at least four people as others remain missing.
The footage also appeared to show Iranian-made Type 358 anti-aircraft missiles. The Houthis claim they downed 26 U.S. MQ-9 drones over the past decade of the Yemen war, likely with those missiles. The majority of those losses having been acknowledged by the U.S. military.
The footage also appeared to show drone components, warheads and other weapons. The force said it would release a detailed statement in the coming hours.
Iran denies arming the rebels, though Tehran-manufactured weaponry has been found on the battlefield and in sea shipments heading to Yemen for the Shiite Houthi rebels despite a United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... arms embargo.
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited [KavkazUzel] The Stavropol Regional Court sentenced seven residents of Dagestan to 14 to 15 years in a maximum security prison. Their defense promised to appeal the verdict. The total number of people convicted for the pogrom at Makhachkala airport in 2023 reached 129.
As reported by the "Caucasian Knot", earlier, colleagues of one of those convicted today, Mikail Razakov, recorded a video message in the special operation zone in Ukraine to the head of Dagestan, Sergei Melikov, in which they asked for help in transferring Razakov to house arrest due to his deteriorating health.
On October 29, 2023, mass riots occurred at Makhachkala airport due to a report of the arrival of a plane with passengers from Israel. More than 20 people were injured in the riots. What happened at Uytash airport and how the investigation is going is described in the "Caucasian Knot" report " Case of the pogrom at Makhachkala airport.”
On July 16, the Stavropol Regional Court announced the verdict for seven defendants: Mikail Razakov, Jamal Ibavoov, Bashir Magomedov, Ilyas Nasuyev, Kamil Ibragimkhalilov, Ruslan Murtazaliev and Arslan Magomedov. They were found guilty of mass riots accompanied by violence and destruction of property, failure to comply with transport safety requirements and an attempt on the life of a law enforcement officer. All of them were sentenced to terms of 14 to 15 years, the first three years of which will be served in prison, and the rest of the period in a maximum security penal colony. "In addition, each of them was given an additional punishment in the form of restriction of freedom for a period of two years," the regional prosecutor's office said in a statement on its website.
"The verdict has just been announced, and we have not yet received the text. As soon as we receive the text, we will definitely file an appeal, and if that fails, a cassation appeal," the lawyer of one of the defendants told a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent on condition of anonymity.
The lawyer noted that previously all motions of the defense to appoint situational and video technical examinations were rejected. "Also, many witnesses on the prosecution list were not questioned. During the questioning of the victims and witnesses who appeared, it became clear that the crowd was not homogeneous. There was a part of ordinary citizens, and there were more aggressive, instigating ones. The victims were not at the place where my client was, except for one, who received (an injury) before, according to the billing data, my client arrived there," the interlocutor emphasized.
Moreover, according to the defense, the defendants’ presence in the checkpoint area itself did not pose a threat to transport security.
[REDSTATE] The U.S. Department of Homeland Security deported several illegal immigrants, including those convicted of serious crimes like murder and child rape, to a tiny land-locked nation in southern Africa.
DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin announced the move in an X post late Tuesday.
"A safe third country deportation flight to Eswatini in Southern Africa has landed— This flight took individuals so uniquely barbaric that their home countries refused to take them back," she wrote. "These depraved monsters have been terrorizing American communities, but thanks to [President Trump] (and) [DHS Secretary Kristi Noem], they are off of American soil."
Have fun in *checks notes* Eswatini, gentleman. Be sure to send a postcard when you get there.
What makes these individuals "uniquely barbaric"? Fox News National Correspondent Bill Melugin reports that some of the individuals aboard the deportation flight were "egregious criminal illegal aliens, including three convicted murderers and a convicted child rapist."
The five highlighted individuals hail from the nations of Cuba, Jamaica, Laos, Vietnam and Yemen.
Now, they can enjoy the high crime rate, insular governance, and underdeveloped infrastructure of Eswatini, all of which contribute to limited contact with the outside world.
[GEO.TV] As many as three suspected Lions of Islam were killed in a late-night operation by the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa police in Bannu, officials said on Thursday.
A spokesperson for the provincial anti-terror police said the eliminated Lions of Islam were affiliated with the proscribed Gul Bahadur and Zarar groups.
They were identified as Mudassir, Turab, and Mohammad Hussain, the spokesperson added, saying all three, who were from Bannu, were wanted by the police for acts of terrorism.
After the successful raid, the CTD recovered explosives, automatic weapons, including a Kalashnikov and a pistol, as well as a cycle of violence used by the suspects.
The CTD action came nearly ten days after another three Lions of Islam affiliated with the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... Pakistain (TTP) were killed in a late-night operation in Lakki Marwat.
The CTD said that four hand grenades, multiple Kalashnikov rifles, dozens of rounds of ammunition, and two mobile phones were found in the aftermath of the operation carried out in Sarai Naurang area, near the Bhutani Canal.
The Lions of Islam were wanted for multiple attacks on police and other law enforcement personnel, the spokesperson added.
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[GEO.TV] Indian-sponsored snuffies martyred an army major 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... 's Awaran district, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Wednesday.
In a statement, the military's media wing said that the incident occurred as the security forces conducted an intelligence-based operation in the district, on the reported "presence of snuffies belonging to Indian proxy, Fitna al-Hindustan."
"During the conduct of operation, own troops effectively engaged the terrorist location and resultantly, three Indian sponsored snuffies were sent to hell," it added.
However,
you can observe a lot just by watching... during the intense fire exchange, Major Syed Rabnawaz Tariq, 34, a resident of Muzafarabad, "a brave officer who was leading his troops from the front, fought gallantly and paid the ultimate sacrifice".
In response, a sanitisation operation was launched to eliminate any other snuffies found in the area.
"...the security forces of Pakistain are determined to wipe out the menace of Indian-sponsored terrorism from the country, and such sacrifices of our brave men further strengthen our resolve."
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[GEO.TV] At least three people were killed and seven others sustained injuries after person or persons unknown opened gunfire on a passenger coach travelling from 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... to Quetta near a checkpost 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... 's Kalat, police said on Wednesday.
This is the second such attack in less than a week in the restive province, which has witnessed a deadly year with scores of fatalities due to terrorist attacks.
The attack occurred when the bus approached Nemargh Cross near Kalat district. The assailants, who were waiting on top of nearby mountains, first opened fire and then hurled hand grenades at the vehicle.
The vehicles that run on this route carry approximately 40 to 50 passengers. However,
Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... the exact number of passengers on board the targeted bus remains unknown.
Speaking to Geo News, Balochistan government spokesperson, Shahid Rind noted that security agencies, district authorities, and rescue teams reached the scene immediately. The maimed were transferred to the Qalat DHQ Hospital, where an emergency has been declared.
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[GEO.TV] Israel launched powerful Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in Damascus on Wednesday, blowing up part of the defence ministry and hitting near the presidential palace as it vowed to destroy government forces attacking Druze in southern Syria and demanded they withdraw.
The attacks marked a significant Israeli escalation against the administration of interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa and came despite his warming ties with the United States and his administration's evolving security contacts with Israel.
Describing Syria's new rulers as barely disguised bully boys, Israel has said it won't let them move forces into southern Syria and vowed to shield the area's Druze community from attack, encouraged by calls from Israel's own Druze minority.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio ...The diminutive 13-year-old Republican U.S. Senator from Florida, Secretary of State in the second Trump administration... described the situation as "complicated" but said it looked like a "misunderstanding". He said he thought progress towards de-escalation would be made within hours.
Scores of people have been killed this week in violence in and around the predominantly Druze city of Sweida, pitting fighters from the Druze minority against government security forces and members of Bedouin tribes.
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The Druze number around 1.2 million people, with the majority living in Syria (about 700,000), followed by Lebanon (approximately 300,000), and around 150,000 in Israel.
They are an offshoot of Islam but hold beliefs that set them apart: they do not recognize Muhammad as a… pic.twitter.com/UypHohJ3Oj
— Brother Rachid الأخ رشيد (@BrotherRasheed) July 16, 2025
… do not recognize Muhammad as a prophet, and they believe that Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah was God incarnate who disappeared and will return. Because of these beliefs, many Muslims consider the Druze to be kuffar (unbelievers) who should be eliminated.
The Druze faith originated in Egypt but quickly came under threat, forcing its followers to flee and settle in the mountains of Syria, Lebanon, and later Israel. Even today, they face the threat of extinction, as radical groups continue to view them as infidels who must either convert—or be killed.
More, courtesy of Grom the Affective:
Israel warns Syria, reinforces military presence on border as 248 Druze in Sweida confirmed killed
[Ynet] Israel has issued another warning to the Syrian regime and reinforced its military presence along the northern border as tensions continue to escalate over the deadly crackdown on Druze civilians in Syria’s Sweida province. Speak to me again about the new moderate (USDOS beloved) Syrian regime. According to the latest figures, 248 Druze have been killed since the outbreak of violence, which peaked when forces loyal to President Ahmad al-Sharaa (also known as Abu Mohammad al-Julani) entered Sweida — marking their first presence there since the fall of the Assad regime.
Starting Tuesday, the IDF deployed reinforcements to the Syrian border, including a company of Golani infantry cadets, three Border Police companies, and military police units. The move is aimed at addressing potential border protests like the one seen Monday in Majdal Shams, and not counterterrorism scenarios. The IDF requested additional police reinforcements for the area but has not yet received them.
Northern Command expects more demonstrations and attempts to breach the border fence by Druze citizens from northern Israel. The army has updated protocols following a widely circulated video showing soldiers passively observing as dozens of Druze from Israel breached the fence and crossed toward the Syrian village of Khader to reach family members. Nobody in the IDF is going to use force on Druze - most of whom are IDF veterans. Overnight reports indicated renewed attacks in Sweida. In response, Defense Minister Israel Katz warned that Israel will escalate its military action if Syrian forces do not withdraw.
"The Syrian regime must leave the Druze in Sweida alone and pull back its forces," he said. "As we’ve made clear, Israel will not abandon the Druze in Syria and will enforce the demilitarization policy we’ve adopted. The IDF will continue striking regime forces until they retreat from the area and will soon raise the level of its responses if the message is not understood."
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio ...The diminutive 13-year-old Republican U.S. Senator from Florida, Secretary of State in the second Trump administration... said Wednesday that Washington hoped within hours to ease tensions in Syria, as the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... and regional powers called on Israel to cease its strikes on government targets and regime loyalists clashing with Syrian Druze.
"In the next few hours, we hope to see some real progress to end what you’ve been seeing over the last couple of hours," Rubio told news hounds in the Oval Office as US President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... nodded.
Trump and Israel have sought to normalize relations agreements between Israel and the regime of interim Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, head of the former al-Qaeda affiliate that toppled long-time Syrian leader Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Horror of Homs... in December.
The violence in Sweida, a majority-Druze city in Syria’s south, appeared to throw a wrench in the normalization efforts, as the IDF struck targets including the Syrian army headquarters and presidential palace in what Israel said was a warning to leave the Druze alone.
"We’ve been engaged with them all morning long and all night long — with both sides — and we think we’re on our way toward a real deescalation and then hopefully get back on track and helping Syria build the country and arriving at a situation in the Middle East that is far more stable," he said.
US State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce said that the United States was asking Syrian government forces to pull out of the flashpoint area.
According to a US official cited by the Axios news site, the Trump administration asked Israel on Wednesday to halt its strikes and engage in dialogue with Damascus. It was the second such request in as many days, with Monday’s apparently having fallen on deaf ears.
However,
by candlelight every wench is handsome... Bruce declined to comment on whether the United States wanted Israel to stop its strikes.
Syrian government forces entered Sweida on Tuesday with the stated aim of overseeing a ceasefire agreed on with Druze community leaders after festivities with local Bedouin tribes left more than 100 people dead.
However,
by candlelight every wench is handsome... witnesses reported that the government forces joined with the Bedouins in attacking Druze fighters and civilians in a bloody rampage through the city.
In total, there were some 350 dead as of early Thursday, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a London-based war monitor.
In total, there were some 350 dead as of early Thursday, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a London-based war monitor.
Amid the violence, the IDF said it struck over 160 targets in Syria, mostly in the area of Sweida, including government tanks and machine guns headed there. The military also said it was bolstering forces in the Golan Heights, on the Syrian border, in preparation for days of potential conflict.
Meanwhile,
...back at the railroad tracks, Little Nell tried to kick her bound feet and scream post the snotty handkerchief Scarface Al had stuff into her mouth... hundreds of Druze rushed across the border from Israel on Wednesday, vowing to protect their community in Syria. The IDF said the number of Israeli civilians in Syria was roughly 1,000 and that troops were working to bring them back.
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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...The diminutive 13-year-old Republican U.S. Senator from Florida, Secretary of State in the second Trump administration...
