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Libya: Armed clashes reported in Najila between militia forces and Dbeibah's defense units
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Human Smuggling Illegal Alien Gets 10 Years in Prison, [$4500.00 fine] for Smuggling Illegal Aliens into U.S.
[Breitbart] In exchange for a plea of guilty, a federal judge in San Antonio sentenced a Honduran illegal alien to ten years in prison for his role in leading a human smuggling organization that brought nearly 3,000 migrants colonists into the United States without authorization. The judge also fined the Honduran national $4,500.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas charged Enil Edil Mejia-Zuniga, a 34-year-old Honduran national, with smuggling thousands of illegal aliens into the U.S. for financial gain. Officials say the defendant and his co-conspirators made millions of dollars by smuggling nearly 3,000 illegal aliens into the United States. The smuggling incidents took place between November 2020 and March 2023.

"The Mejia-Zuniga alien smuggling organization (ASO) smuggled aliens from Afghanistan, 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...
, Egypt, India, Pakistain, and Colombia, through Eagle Pass, Texas," prosecutors stated.
That’s quite a list. How many of them will turn out to be connected to one or another jihad organization? How many, once here, chose instead the pleasurable jihad of rape or the small scale jihad of terrorizing the unbelievers with violence and crime?
"Aliens primarily contracted with a Pak smuggler based in Brazil to be transported to the United States. In turn, the Brazilian-based smuggler worked with Mejia-Zuniga, who was based in San Antonio, Texas, to facilitate the travel of the aliens from South America to the United States. Mejia-Zuniga directed operations of the ASO and paid drivers, armed ’coyotes,’ and stash house operators."

Officials say the organization charged between $6,500 and $12,000 per person to bring them illegally into the United States. Mejia-Zuniga admitted to being paid $30,000 for every ten illegal aliens he smuggled through Mexico to the Rio Grande and an additional $30,000 for every ten that made it to San Antonio.


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Posted by: Skidmark || 07/18/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [47 views] Top|| File under: Human Trafficking


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Libya: Armed clashes reported in Najila between militia forces and Dbeibah's defense units
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Posted by: Fred || 07/18/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [38 views] Top|| File under:


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Bedouin teacher, IDF soldier latest to be charged with spying for Iran
[IsraelTimes] Prosecutors say Tahani Abu Samhan filmed jets taking off during Israel’s war last month with Iran; soldier allegedly filmed rocket interceptions, photographed missile impact sites

Prosecutors charged two Israeli citizens, a Bedouin teacher and an IDF soldier, with spying for Iran, the police and Shin Bet said in joint statements on Thursday in the latest of a string of cases of Tehran tempting Israelis into performing tasks for payment.

According to law enforcement, 33-year-old Tahani Abu Samhan, from the Bedouin village of Abu Queider in the Negev, had been in contact with an Iranian agent for a year, including amid Israel’s recent war against the Islamic Theocratic Republic.

She allegedly filmed fighter jets taking off from the southern Nevatim airbase during the war at the behest of her handler, then passed the videos along to the agent.

State prosecutors said Abu Samhan was fully aware the person she was in contact with was an Iranian operative, noting that she had used a separate phone to communicate with the agent.

Similar to others accused of spying for Iran, Abu Samhan’s handler paid her, according to i24 News. She was reportedly compensated in cash, unlike the majority of recruits who receive payment in cryptocurrency. It is unclear how the money was transferred to her.

Police said she was charged in the Beersheba District Court with the offenses of maintaining contact with a foreign agent and passing intelligence to the enemy. Prosecutors requested that the court order her to be detained until the end of legal proceedings against her.

In a separate statement, the Shin Bet and police announced that an IDF soldier was also charged with spying on behalf of 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 Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
in return for financial compensation.

After being detained recently and following an investigation led by the Shin Bet, the police’s Lahav 433 major crimes unit and the Military Police, military prosecutors filed an indictment against the soldier on Thursday.

The joint statement said the soldier "knowingly maintained contact with Iranian elements and carried out tasks for them, including transferring footage of interceptions and filming rocket impact sites in Israel."

The Shin Bet noted that the information the soldier provided to Iran was not classified and did not come to the soldier as part of his role in the IDF.

The agency added that the incident was "especially grave" because the Israeli soldier "maintained contact with the enemy."

Military prosecutors charged the soldier with contacting a foreign agent and transmitting information to the enemy.

A military court ordered that the soldier remain held until July 22, though his remand is expected to be extended further amid the trial.

Over the past two years, Iran has ramped up its efforts to recruit Israelis as spies in exchange for money.

In most cases, Israelis are recruited by Iranian handlers online and begin by carrying out small, innocuous tasks that gradually grow into more serious offenses, like intelligence gathering and even liquidation plots.

According to the Israel Police, at least 47 suspects involved in 27 separate cases have been arrested since October 7, 2023. Charges have been filed against 40 of them, according to a security official.

The only conviction so far has been of an Israeli businessman who was likely targeted rather than recruited randomly, as many of the others appear to have been.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 07/18/2025 2025-07-18 01:41 || Comments || Link || [29 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Israeli strikes hamstrung Syrian search for chemical weapons, government adviser claims
No doubt.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli airstrikes on Damascus have hampered Syria’s efforts to find and destroy chemical weapons stockpiled during the rule of toppled ruler Bashar al-Assad, a government adviser says.

A planned visit by inspectors from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has already had to be postponed, adviser Ibrahim Olabi says.

The OPCW will hold an urgent meeting on Tuesday next week to discuss the situation and impact of the Israeli attacks, adds Olabi.

The OPCW does not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The Syrian defense ministry, which was hit in a powerful strike yesterday, provided the institutional infrastructure needed to organize and secure visits from OPCW inspectors, Olabi says.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 07/18/2025 2025-07-18 03:00 || Comments || Link || [35 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria/HTS

#1  Syria has a government?
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