Hi there, !
Sun 07/13/2025 Sat 07/12/2025 Fri 07/11/2025 Thu 07/10/2025 Archives
Rantburg
559534 articles and 1929305 comments are archived on Rantburg.

Today: 60 articles and 59 comments as of 10:30.
Post a news link    Post your own article   
Area: WoT Operations    WoT Background    Non-WoT    Local News    Politix   
ISIS-aligned rebels kill 66 civilians in eastern Congo
Today's Headlines
Headline Comments [Views]
Page 4: Opinion
1 01:01 Grom the Affective [67] 
1 09:41 Jeck Sproing1747 [61] 
Page 1: WoT Operations
0 [27]
4 07:39 Besoeker [83]
2 07:55 Besoeker [73]
3 10:23 trailing wife [64]
0 [60]
1 07:48 Skidmark [65]
0 [44]
3 07:54 Besoeker [63]
0 [28]
0 [32]
0 [32]
2 07:38 Besoeker [50]
1 01:35 Grom the Affective [41]
0 [30]
0 [30]
0 [55]
0 [32]
0 [30]
0 [35]
0 [32]
1 08:26 Skidmark [42]
1 08:32 Skidmark [35]
Page 2: WoT Background
1 10:12 Shegum Whetle4937 [34]
0 [17]
4 09:51 Skidmark [64]
3 10:14 Shegum Whetle4937 [56]
0 [24]
0 [20]
0 [21]
0 [20]
2 06:50 Frank G [43]
0 [25]
0 [19]
1 02:57 Grom the Affective [29]
1 00:55 Grom the Affective [33]
3 07:43 Besoeker [50]
0 [42]
0 [24]
0 [23]
Page 3: Non-WoT
0 [17]
3 10:23 EMS Artifact [30]
0 [8]
0 [9]
0 [5]
1 08:42 Skidmark [17]
0 [9]
0 [8]
0 [18]
7 08:06 Besoeker [124]
3 09:40 Skidmark [69]
4 08:08 Skidmark [86]
Page 5: Russia-Former Soviet Union
0 [5]
0 [20]
0 [15]
1 08:19 Skidmark [23]
Page 6: Politix
0 [28]
1 06:45 Airandee [78]
Home Front: WoT
California: The State of Sleeper Cells
[Townhall] In recent days, a chilling warning came from one of America’s top counterterrorism experts: Iranian sleeper cells may already be embedded inside the United States—hiding in plain sight, waiting to strike. With tensions climbing after the president’s strike on Iran’s nuclear capabilities, that warning has taken on new urgency. The threat isn’t hypothetical. It’s now a likely reality.

And while most states are coordinating with federal law enforcement, tightening security, and staying alert, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, has done the unthinkable:

It’s opted out.

California is the only state in the Union that has withdrawn entirely from the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force—the primary engine for federal, state, and local cooperation in detecting and disrupting terrorism. And they did it proudly, in the name of "civil liberties."

Let’s be blunt: the FBI’s JTTFs have disrupted plots targeting New York, Boston, and cities across the country. They are essential to homeland security. Pulling out of that network—especially now—is the domestic equivalent of turning off radar at Pearl Harbor.

Add to that the fact that California is also a sanctuary state, where local officials are barred from cooperating with ICE or federal immigration authorities. That means someone could cross the border illegally, find refuge in Los Angeles or the Socialist paradise of San Francisco
...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964...
, and never be flagged—no matter how suspicious they may be.

Now layer in this: In the last several months, over 700 Iranian nationals—designated as "special interest aliens"—have crossed our southern border illegally. They’re subject to enhanced vetting for good reason: 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...
has publicly stated that it may activate foreign agents in response to U.S. military action. These are not idle threats. These are strategic assets being put in place.

Let’s remember San Bernardino. In 2015, two radicalized individuals opened fire in a California office building, killing 14 and wounding 22 more. They were American residents. They were radicalized online. And they executed their attack without ever triggering alarm bells—because back then, the systems weren’t integrated enough.

Now, California has gone even further backward. It has intentionally severed those alarm systems.

And here’s the national threat:

If a terrorist cell can establish itself in California—where oversight is limited and federal cooperation is absent—then they are only one plane ride away from New York, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
, or any other high-value target in the country.

California’s refusal to act responsibly doesn’t just endanger Californians. It endangers all of us.

By withdrawing from the Joint Terrorism Task Force, California has handed those blind spots to America’s enemies on a silver platter.

Supporters of the move will argue it’s about protecting civil rights. But the Constitution was never meant to be a suicide pact. Security and liberty are not opposites—they’re partners. And without security, liberty becomes a memory.

Iran has already activated its cyber units. It has already coordinated with proxies like Hezbollah to threaten U.S. and Israeli interests worldwide. Tehran doesn't need to smuggle operatives in via shipping containers—they walk across our border, disappear into sanctuary cities, and remain in the dark, thanks to California’s political theater.

We are not just at risk. We are exposed.

Continued on Page 47
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/13/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [61 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies

#1  We live in 'interesting' times ....
Posted by: Jeck Sproing1747 || 07/13/2025 9:41 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
The Palestinians: It's Complicated
[Townhall] Beneath the monolithic cause are about as many factions as there are people in the phone book.

I had a young professor of Middle Eastern history who was outstanding. Everyone knew that Harvard would not give him tenure, as was their custom in treating junior faculty. But he got me extremely interested in the subject and probably helped contribute to my coming to Israel in 1992.

One of the points that he hammered home was that the same things that supposedly united Arabs were the same things that divided them. For example, language: they all speak Arabic and therefore are united; he then went into the different dialects and the chauvinism that goes with them. He talked about land and then said how there were always disputes between neighbors over who gets that hill or who takes this island. Yasir Arafat could smile with King Hussein, though he tried to have him killed on a dozen occasions. On the one hand the Arabs look monolithic; as we see today, they are often divided and ready to go to war one with another as with the various factions 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...
The same phenomenon exists with the Paleostinians. Those marching in the West talk of "intifada revolution" and "from the river to the sea," etc. Yet, the Paleostinians are often at each other’s throats. Hamas
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
has famously killed many associates of the Paleostinian Authority (PA) and the PA has done the same to its Islamic rival, most recently when it was trying to show its muscle in Jenin and Tulkarm. While they all seem to hate the Jews, the Paleostinian factions oftentimes sincerely hate one another.

As is common in Arab and Bedouin cultures, life revolves around the "hamula" or the extended family There is a town just outside of Jerusalem that is completely composed of two families. There are families who associate with Hamas, while there are those who are with the PA. When Israel ran 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...
and the West Bank, much of its job was coordinating life via the local muftis or family elders. The religious and family leaders usually lay down the law for the people of their area. The same is true for the Druze community in Israel and beyond.

When the U.S. and Israel set up a food distribution system (Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, GHF) in south Gaza recently, a certain Yasser Abu Shabaab appeared. He and his men were the interface between the IDF and Gazooks. The IDF could not be seen around the food distribution centers, but they were needed to secure the approaches so as to protect civilians from Hamas Dire Revenge attacks. As one gets closer to GHF distribution sites where food is given out for free to anyone and not just Hamas associates, that is where Al-Shabaab
... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
comes in. His people protect the areas in south Gaza where Gazooks go to their food. He and his group seem to be armed primarily with AK-47s. They don’t pretend to love Israel and only begrudgingly admit to necessary coordination with the IDF. Abu Shabaab claimed that he was against the October 7th massacre, though I have to admit that I did not look through old newspaper clippings to find if that was true. Right now, Hamas is demanding that Abu Shabaab and his men disarm and report to them. Their response is that they will be the alternative to Hamas when the war is over and the day after actually arrives. Hamas wants Abu Shabaab dead.

Israel has tried to make use of Paleostinian factions in the past. The generally accepted history has Israel setting up Hamas in order to weaken the PLO. One can see how well that turned out. There are now reports of sheikhs from Hebron requesting to join the Abraham Accords as an emirate, with full recognition of Israel as a Jewish state. Hebron historically has had some of the most violent mostly peaceful Jew haters in the region. Is this new move real? Does it have legs? Can one build on it? I can understand the Hebron families wanting to get away from the PA that has provided them with no success during its 30+ years of existence. Can Israel trust the Hebron clans? Can they trust al-Julani and the new Syrian government that also has made Abraham Accords overtures? Right now, Syria and Israel are supposedly debating the fate of the Golan, something that for strategic purposes Israel will not give up very easily.

So what should Israel do? Should it simply assume that all Arab groups, families, and states are dangerous and ultimately unreliable? Should she make short-term arrangements that advance Israeli interests and hopefully convert a part of the Paleostinian population into a non-enemy for some period of time? At what point would Abu Shabaab feel that Israel is out of line in Gaza and train its weapons on Jews instead of Hamas members? Israel and the PA had joint patrols as an outcome of the Oslo Accords. When a fake report came out about Ariel Sharon blowing up the Golden Dome mosque, PA soldiers fired on their IDF counterparts. If Israel makes some type of agreement with the sheikhs in Hebron, could Jews safely visit the areas under their control? It was accepted that if Israel gave the Old City of Jerusalem to the PA during Clinton-era negotiations that nobody would go there if those patrolling were Paleostinian soldiers. Israel ultimately does not want to rule Paleostinian areas, and Bibi Netanyahu said as much this week during his White House visit.

The Israelis made the Oslo Accords, in part, because they were tired of running Paleostinian affairs. The ideal systems as per Netanyahu would have Paleostinians taking care of the mundane business of daily life while all security matters would be in Israeli hands. The Paleostinians in the past have balked at such arrangements and have clamored for independence without showing the seriousness or strength to be an independent state. If Israel runs the Paleostinian areas, it risks its soldiers and representatives; if it turns over the keys to the Paleostinians and grants them police powers, then it risks the guns turning on Jews—as happened with the weapons given to Arafat as part of the Oslo agreements. The question is risk management and how to minimize potential danger to Jews who live in or near Paleostinian areas. There is no perfect solution because many Paleostinians do not want peace and hate Jews more than they want a good life.
Continued on Page 47
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/13/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [67 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Actually, it's really simple: there are no Palestinians. There is just a weapon against the Jewish state created and maintained by Globalist/Islamist alliance.
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 07/13/2025 1:01 Comments || Top||



Who's in the News
21[untagged]
9Hamas
5Migrants/Illegal Immigrants
4Govt of Iran
4al-Shabaab (AQ)
3Govt of Syria/HTS
2Govt of Iran Proxies
1Hezbollah
1Houthis
1Islamic State
1M23
1Nut Jobs
1Sublime Porte
1Taliban/IEA
1[untagged]
1Commies
1Devout Moslems
1Govt of Sudan
1Allied Democratic Forces

Bookmark
E-Mail Me

The Classics
The O Club
Rantburg Store
The Bloids
The Never-ending Story
Thugburg
Gulf War I
The Way We Were
Bio

Merry-Go-Blog











On Sale now!


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.
Click here for more information

Meet the Mods
In no particular order...
Steve White
Seafarious
tu3031
badanov
sherry
ryuge
GolfBravoUSMC
Bright Pebbles
trailing wife
Gloria
Fred
Besoeker
Glenmore
Frank G
3dc
Skidmark

Two weeks of WOT
Sun 2025-07-13
  ISIS-aligned rebels kill 66 civilians in eastern Congo
Sat 2025-07-12
  US appeals court cancels plea deal for 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
Fri 2025-07-11
  Iranian media reports that Iran’s Army Chief of Staff, General Abdulrahim Mousavi, has been assassinated UPDATE: RUMINT, darn it
Fri 2025-07-11
  Iranian media reports that Iran’s Army Chief of Staff, General Abdulrahim Mousavi, has been assassinated
Thu 2025-07-10
  Lebanon strike that killed 3 targeted senior Hamas commander: Israel
Wed 2025-07-09
  Gunmen Hijack 33 Tons of Gold, Silver Concentrate in Truck on Mexican Highway
Tue 2025-07-08
  Leb: 10 hurt in Israeli strikes on South and Bekaa Sunday, 2 airstruck Monday
Mon 2025-07-07
  IDF reports Hamas’s north Gaza naval commander killed in strike on cafe last week as 130 targets hit in 24 hours
Sun 2025-07-06
  Supporters of Palestine Action, banned under UK terror laws, arrested at London protest
Sat 2025-07-05
  210 Boko Haram Members, Families Surrender as Military Tightens Grip in Lake Chad - BarristerNG.com
Fri 2025-07-04
  Hezbollah has agreed to hand over its heavy weapons in Beirut and other areas to the Lebanese government
Thu 2025-07-03
  Another massive Hamas underground terror tunnel in Gaza has been found and destroyed by the IDF, connecting Rafah and Khan Yunis
Wed 2025-07-02
  LA officials charge over 40 anti-ICE protesters who allegedly assaulted officers, horses and threatened child
Tue 2025-07-01
  Fierce Clashes Erupt as U.S.-Trained Special Forces Target Militant Stronghold in Somalia
Mon 2025-06-30
  Terror in Gaza: Hamas offers bounties to kill US and local aid workers, group says
Sun 2025-06-29
  Hamas leader Hakham Muhammad Issa Al-Issa killed in airstrike, IDF says


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.
216.73.216.178
Help keep the Burg running! Paypal:
WoT Operations (23)    WoT Background (17)    Non-WoT (12)    Local News (4)    Politix (2)