[ZeroHedge] The White House announced that a Honduran national in the U.S. illegally has been indicted for allegedly stealing over 40 firearms from a Tennessee gun store, according to Breitbart and a DOJ press release. The guns, still bearing price tags, were found in his car.
“Under President Trump, criminals like this are being hunted down and taken off our streets,” the White House said on X.
The DOJ wrote in a press release: "Carlos Alberto Diaz-Chavez, 21, a citizen of Honduras without legal status in the United States, has been charged by criminal complaint with being an Alien in possession of a firearm, possession of a machinegun, possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, announced Acting United States Attorney Robert E. McGuire for the Middle District of Tennessee."
Acting U.S. Attorney Robert E. McGuire added: “We will not hesitate to keep our community safe from those who would illegally possess dangerous firearms, deal deadly narcotics, and who put our first responders at risk by their actions.”
According to the press release, on February 17, 2025, a Williamson County deputy attempted to stop a silver Toyota Camry on I-65 for failing to yield to an emergency vehicle. The car fled, prompting a chase that ended when deputies deployed spike strips and the vehicle crashed into a guardrail near Spring Hill.
Three individuals fled on foot. One, Diaz-Chavez, was caught carrying a backpack containing a machine gun, methamphetamine, and drug paraphernalia. Two more guns were found in the car. He later admitted to being in the U.S. illegally since 2019 and said he used the firearms to protect himself while dealing narcotics in Nashville.
Diaz-Chavez faces multiple federal charges carrying up to 20 years in prison and fines up to $1 million.
The case, led by the ATF and local law enforcement, is part of Operation Take Back America, a DOJ effort to combat illegal immigration, cartels, and violent crime.
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The Afghan online news service, Khaama Press, reports that the United States has re-assumed control of Bagram Air Base in eastern Afghanistan, to the north of Kabul, at the request of the Taliban Government;
Seriously? I have no information, but that makes no sense…
with several C-17s arriving last week at the base, carrying military vehicles, equipment and senior intelligence officials, including the Deputy Director of the CIA, Michael Ellis.
The redeployment of American service members to Afghanistan following their withdrawal in 2021 has yet to be confirmed by U.S. or Taliban officials, though flight trackers did manage to confirm the arrival of several U.S. Air Force C-17 military transport aircraft last week at Bagram. Though this move likely makes no sense to some, Bagram Air Base and Afghanistan as a whole remains an extremely strategic location for staging future military operations in a war against both Iran and China. According to some reports, an official announcement of the U.S. military re-assuming control of Bagram is expected to come in April, possibly as early as this week.
[HodhodYemen ...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... news] In support of the oppressed Paleostinian people and their resistance, and in response to the ongoing genocidal war against the people in 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... , the UAV force of the Yemeni Armed Forces carried out a military operation targeting an Israeli military target in the occupied area of Jaffa (Tel Aviv) using a "Yaffa" drone, according to a statement announced by the military front man General Yahya Sare’e.
"In response to the ongoing US aggression against our country and the crimes against our people, our armed forces continue to target enemy warships in the Red Sea carrying out the aggression against our country," Sare’e’s statement added.
The naval forces and the air force carried out a joint military operation, targeting two US destroyers with several cruise missiles and drones.
"The crimes committed against our people and the targeting of civilian objects in several governorates confirm the enemy’s failure to achieve its goals," he maintained.
[IsraelTimes] A drone launched at Israel “from the east” was intercepted by the Israeli Air Force Monday evening, the military said.
According to the IDF, the drone was shot down before crossing into Israel, and therefore no sirens sounded, “according to protocol.”
The Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen quickly took responsibility for the attack, saying they launched a drone at Israel, claiming to have had their sights on a “military target” in the Tel Aviv area
The Houthis also claimed to have targeted two US destroyers in the Red Sea with several missiles and drones.
During US President Donald Trump’s Oval Office meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu Monday, Trump said the United States military campaign against the Houthis in Yemen has been “very successful militarily.”
“We’ve really damaged them,” he said, adding that “it’s every night, night after night, and we’ve gotten many of their leaders and their experts.”
“It’s been a bad three weeks for the Houthis,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth added, “and it’s about to get worse.”
He said the US has destroyed underground facilities, weapons manufacturing sites, bunkers, troops, and air defense assets.
“We are not going to relent,” said Hegseth, “and it’s only going to be more unrelenting until the Houthis declare they will stop shooting at our ships.”
He added that the US has been “very clear” to the Iranians that they must stop providing support for the Houthis.
Since March 18, when the IDF resumed its offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the Houthis in Yemen have launched at least 10 ballistic missiles at Israel, resuming a campaign of bombardment they began in support of Gaza.
The missiles have all been intercepted by the air defenses, but they set off sirens that send millions of Israelis scrambling to shelters at all hours of the day and night. On Friday night, the IDF intercepted a drone that the Houthis later said was aimed at the Tel Aviv region.
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"Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus" translates to "Mountains will be in labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be born." This phrase comes from Horace's Satires (Book 1, Satire 8). IIRC, a phrase used by Winston Churchill to ridicule the actual introduction of the V-1 'Vengeance Weapon' after weeks of Nazi hyperbole.
[HodhodYemenNews] At least four non-combatants were killed, and 23 others have been injured, including women and kiddies, in a preliminary toll of the US aggression targeting a house in the Shaab al-Hafa area in the Shu’ub district, northeast of the 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... i capital, Sana’a...
At least four non-combatants were killed, and 25 others have been injured, including women and kiddies, in a preliminary toll of the US aggression targeting a house in the Shaab al-Hafa area in the Shu’ub district, northeast of the Yemeni capital, Sana’a, the Health Ministry reported on Sunday.
In a statement, the ministry reiterated its condemnation of the continued targeting of civilians and civilian objects by the US enemy, calling it "a full-fledged war crime that violates all international norms and laws."
It held the United States, the international community, and international organizations responsible for the deliberate targeting of civilian facilities and citizens.
[IsraelTimes] Saudi-based news site al-Hadath reports that US airstrikes in Yemen have killed Houthi intelligence chief Abdul Nasser Al-Kamali.
On Telegram, a spokesperson for the Iran-backed rebel group says US warplanes carried out eleven strikes in the rebel-held capital of Sa’ana and its surrounding areas overnight.
Nine more airstrikes are reported in the neighboring region of Mar’ib, deeper inside the Yemeni interior.
There is no confirmation of the report on Kamali’s killing.
There is also no comment on the reports from the US Central Command, which has offered few details about its operations against the Houthis since they were launched on March 15.
On Monday, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the military was set to step up its campaign against the group, speaking during a White House meeting between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump.
“We are not going to relent, and it’s only going to be more unrelenting until the Houthis declare they will stop shooting at our ships,” ” Hegseth said.
Belarus Customs intercepted over 500 kg of explosives hidden in a vehicle attempting to cross into Russia, arresting the suspect.https://t.co/2ABwX9DP1k
Belarusian customs authorities have announced the seizure of over 500 kilograms of explosives bound for Russia and the arrest of a suspect.
In an official statement, Belarusian customs confirmed that their officers successfully intercepted 580 kilograms of powerful explosives intended for Russia. The materials were hidden in a vehicle driven by a 41-year-old man who was attempting to cross from Poland into Belarus.
The authorities revealed that the suspect, whose identity remains undisclosed, was attempting to transport the explosives via land routes into Russia. During routine border checks, customs officers became suspicious of the cargo and, after inspection, discovered a significant amount of industrial-grade explosives of foreign manufacture.
The suspect was arrested and handed over to judicial authorities. Investigations are ongoing to determine the origin of the explosives and the intended destination of the shipment.
With rising security tensions in Eastern Europe, border surveillance, especially along routes between Belarus, Poland, and Russia, has intensified. In recent years, Belarus and Russia have enhanced their security cooperation to combat weapons, drug trafficking, and military equipment smuggling.
This incident could heighten security concerns regarding suspicious activities along Eastern European borders, particularly in the context of ongoing geopolitical crises in the region.
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industrial-grade explosives of foreign manufacture
Not home built, good.
The molecular markers should identify their source.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The British Army, Royal Navy, and the Office for Nuclear Security have been hit with cyberattacks by an alliance of pro-Russian and pro-Palestinian hackers, it has emerged.
The simultaneous attacks targeting the agencies' websites were carried out last month, hacker Mr Hamza claimed on the Holy League coalition's Telegram Channel.
'Our message is clear: this is just a warning … and worse is yet to come,' the pro-Palestine hacker, who is believed to be based in Morocco, posted.
The Holy League coalition is comprised of roughly 90 'hacktivist' groups that are unified by their despisal for western values and have vowed to 'wage cyberware' against Ukraine, Israel and their allies.
The coalition reportedly includes hackers trained by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and groups who work alongside Russian intelligence.
Britain has become a bigger target after having taken a more prominent leadership role in support of Ukrainian troops over the last months, analysts told The Times.
GCHQ recently issued a warning about the 'stark increase' in threats from state-aligned hacktivists looking to target Britain's critical infrastructure systems.
The majority of attacks are rudimentary distributed denial of service (DDoS) strikes that overwhelm a website or online server with traffic to make it inaccessible.
Experts note that DDoS attacks are relatively 'low impact', typically lasting just a few minutes, but can cause significant disruption to a website's services and interfere with its defences, making it easier to hack into the site.
The alliance is reportedly launching weekly cyberattacks against the UK's state agencies, armed forces, infrastructure operators, councils and security services, including the MI6 website which was allegedly targeted in March.
National Highways, the North East Combined Authority and several local councils were attacked by Holy League member NoName057(16) in January after Britain and Ukraine signed a 100-year partnership.
The alliance also launched a wave of attacks targeting the UK in December last year as retaliation for Ukraine's use of British Storm Shadow missiles, according to the Times.
The Holy League was created last summer by Abu Omar, a cybercriminal and leader of the Cyber Islamic Resistance.
In an interview with Kremlin-backed state media last November, Omar revealed that he works with partners from Russia, Belarus, Morocco, Egypt and Algeria, as well as with 'my brothers in the Middle East'.
He also claimed that the Cyber Islamic Resistance had been trained by an IRGC militia group in Iraq called the Badr Organisation.
Omar told the outlet that he wants the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza to 'end with the destruction of the 'Evil Empire', including Ukraine, Israel and NATO'.
The Holy League has claimed responsibility for several attacks targeting intelligence services across Europe. The group supports its claims by providing evidence from 'check host' links that demonstrates how long a site was down for.
Members of the Cyber Army of Russian Reborn (Carr), which is believed to working for the Russian military intelligence agency's cyberwarfare unit, are understood to be part of the Holy League.
Carr members Yuliya Pankratova and Denis Degtyarenko, both Russian nationals, were sanctioned by the US government in July 2024 after they allegedly hacked into water facilities in the US and Poland. The pair also allegedly disrupted operations at a facility in France.
Carr and a hacker known as NoName057(16), whom Ukrainian intelligence have identified as Pankratova's husband Artem, attacked the M6 toll road in Britain on December 6 last year.
A UK Government spokesperson said in a statement to The Times that it does not 'routinely comment on cyberactivity claimed by online groups'.
'The government is committed to using all of its levers to disrupt cyberthreats and to keep the public safe,' the statement added. MailOnline has approached authorities for comment.
Turkey has denied reports claiming it is preparing to deploy hundreds of mercenaries from the private military firm SADAT to Somalia. The denial follows allegations that President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud had requested 3,000 fighters to counter militants near Mogadishu. pic.twitter.com/N2O6VP3fcx
[IsraelTimes] Thousands of people are protesting in Hostages Square in Tel Aviv as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with US President Donald Trump in Washington.
The demonstrators are calling on the government to reach a deal to bring home all the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza.
“How can you sleep at night when you are abandoning them?” asks former hostage Ilana Gritzewsky.
“The State of Israel has to put forward an initiative on the table to return all the hostages in one go, not in stages, not in groups,” she says. “We want everybody now.”
Protesters are also demonstrating against Netanyahu and his government.
Now, Hamas and Iran see political pressure being applied by the Israeli voting citizens. Thereby placing the Israeli officials in a weaken dealing position.
The protesters may have actually screwed up the whole process and allowing Hamas to demand GREATER Prisoner releases ratios, thus strengthening the Terrorist depleted numbers with new revenge seeking recruits.
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Not Soros, Cured Romantic. There are other Progressive Rich Guys who’ve been investing in changing Israel to their personal vision. The man who owns the Kind snack company is a big one — he’s been involved since the turn of the millennium.
[IsraelTimes] IDF says Hassan Eslaiah, who took pictures of Nir Oz invasion and burning tank for AP, is a Hamas operative; attack on Khan Younis press tent reportedly kills other reporter
A photographer who entered Israel with invading Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... -led murderous Moslems on October 7 was targeted in an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... on a tent near a hospital in southern 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... , Israel said Monday, accusing the man of being a member of the terror group operating under journalistic cover.
Hassan Eslaiah was maimed in the strike outside Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, according to Alam24, the Paleostinian news agency he heads. Another journalist, Paleostine Today news hound Helmy al-Faqawi, was killed in the strike, according to the hospital, and at least five others were reported injured.
According to the Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet security service, Eslaiah was a member of Hamas’s Khan Younis Brigade and was operating "under the guise of a journalist and owner of a press company."
Eslaiah, whose freelance photography was distributed around the world for the News Agency that Dare Not be Named, entered Israel during the October 7, 2023, massacre, photographing Gazooks, some of them armed, as they stormed Kibbutz Nir Oz, where a quarter of the population was slaughtered or kidnapped, including the elderly and children as young as nine months old.
He also took a picture of Gazooks atop a burning tank next to the destroyed Gaza border fence. A video from the scene posted to social media but since deleted showed him next to the tank, though no press credentials could be seen on him.
"During the massacre, he documented and uploaded footage of looting, arson, and murder to social media," the IDF said in a statement announcing the strike Monday.
Both the AP and CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... said in November 2023 that they had severed their relationship with Eslaiah after a pro-Israel watchdog raised questions about their work with the photographer and other journalists who entered Israel during the massacre.
His pictures from that day were removed from the News Agency that Dare Not be Named’s distribution feed, though others remain.
The agency has denied that Eslaiah and other Gazook journalists it worked with who entered Israel during the attack had any advance knowledge of the attack.
The report by the Honest Reporting monitoring group had also raised questions about Eslaiah’s relationship with Hamas, reproducing a since-deleted photo posted by him in 2020 showing the terror group’s chief, Yahya Sinwar, embracing him and kissing his cheek.
According to Paleostinian reports, the tent that was struck by Israel in the early morning strike was used by Gazook journalists as a makeshift press center.
In the hours following our expose, new material is still coming to light concerning Gazook freelance journalist Hassan Eslaiah whom both AP & CNN used on Oct. 7.
Footage showed people trying to douse flames in the tent following strike.
Rooters was able to verify the video from the position, layout and design of nearby buildings and tents. The date could be verified by media reports and corroborating videos.
One widely shared but unverified video appeared to show a journalist in flames as others tried to rescue him.
The military said it took steps to mitigate harm to civilians in the strike.
The Paleostinian Journalists Syndicate claimed that Faqawi was the 210th journalist killed by Israel since it began attacking Hamas in Gaza following the October 7 attack, in which Hamas-led murderous Moslems invaded southern Israel, killing some 1,200 people and kidnapping 251 more; 59 hostages remain in Gaza, over half of whom are believed to have been killed.
Israel has repeatedly alleged that journalists killed in strikes were actually terror operatives who posed as news hounds; it maintains that Hamas uses hospitals, schools, shelters and aid infrastructure as cover for terror activities.
The Paleostinian Authority condemned Faqawi’s death as an act of "extra-judicial killing" aimed at scaring off news hounds and stopping media coverage.
Hamas-controlled health authorities in the Strip claimed at least 20 Gazooks were killed in Israeli strikes since Sunday night. The figure could not be confirmed.
In central Gaza’s Deir al-Balah, al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital reported that eight people were killed in strikes Monday.
There was no Israeli comment on the attacks, which came after the IDF warned civilians in the area to flee following the launch of 10 rockets from there into southern Israel, in the largest such barrage since fighting resumed last month following a two-month ceasefire that saw 33 hostages released.
A 30-year-old man was lightly injured by shrapnel in the attack, which also caused property damage in the southern city of Ashkelon.
Defense Minister Israel Katz said he had ordered the IDF to expand its renewed offensive against Hamas following the attack.
The IDF has stepped up its offensive in Gaza in recent days, saying it is ratcheting up pressure on Hamas to release the hostages and cede power.
The enclave’s Hamas-run health ministry, which does not differentiate between civilians and combatants in its unverified figures, has said that more than 1,000 Paleostinians have been killed since Israel resumed its offensive on March 18.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli troops could be seen clearing ground and building watch towers in parts of Gaza they have seized in recent days in a renewed offensive that the United Nations says has already captured or depopulated two-thirds of the enclave.
The army has issued repeated evacuation warnings to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in southern, central and northern areas since it resumed operations in Gaza on March 18, forcing them into a diminishing space limited by the sea.
Zakia Sami, 60, a mother of six from Gaza City, says she could see tanks occupying the high ground as she fled her home after the army ordered the family out of the eastern suburb of Shejaiya.
Israel announced plans last week to seize a “security zone” around the edges of the Gaza Strip, a month after a ceasefire expired. It has not said what its long-term plan is for the recaptured territory.
Residents said there were increasing signs the military was digging in for an extended stay, building watchtowers in Shejaiya in the north and around the former Israeli settlement of Morag, between the cities of Khan Younis and Rafah in the south.
Footage circulating on social media showed a large crane protected by machine guns and security cameras near Morag as well as earthmoving equipment at work near Shejaiya.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel was establishing a corridor bisecting Gaza in the Morag area.
[IsraelTimes] Israel says Muhammad Adnan Mansour was responsible for ‘numerous’ attacks on Upper Galilee; Lebanese president says terror group must be part of disarmament talks
An Israeli strike in southern Leb ...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... killed a Hezbollah commander responsible for several rocket attacks on northern Israel, the military said Monday.
The strike was the latest Israel Defense Forces raid on figures alleged by Jerusalem to be operatives or commanders in the Iran-backed terror group, as both Israel and Hezbollah accuse each other of violating a fragile truce in place since last year.
Lebanon’s health ministry confirmed that one person was killed in an Israeli strike on the town of Taybeh, which sits some 2.5 kilometers (1.5 miles) from the border.
The IDF said it targeted Muhammad Adnan Mansour in a dronezap, publishing footage from the air of a large explosion at the entrance to what appeared to be a two-story industrial building.
Lebanon’s official National News Agency said the strike hit "in front of a cycle of violence repair shop" in the town, in the Marjayoun district.
According to Israel, Mansour headed Hezbollah’s rocket unit in the Taybeh area.
"During the war, Muhammad directed and carried out numerous projectile attacks toward the Upper Galilee area," the IDF said.
On Sunday, hundreds of Hezbollah supporters gathered in Taybeh for a mass funeral for over a dozen of the group’s fighters killed in the war with Israel.
Also Sunday, the IDF said it carried out an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in southern Lebanon targeting Hezbollah operatives who were trying to rebuild "terror infrastructure."
Lebanon’s health ministry confirmed that two people operating a bulldozer were killed in the strike on the town of Zibqin in the country’s south.
"We are continuing the campaign to strengthen the defenses, while showing initiative and offensive action," IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir said at an assessment Sunday on the Lebanon border.
NNA also reported Israeli strikes on prefabricated homes in southern Lebanon’s Naqoura area on Sunday.
The truce deal agreed to in late November is based on a UN Security Council resolution that says Lebanese troops and UN peacekeepers should be the only forces in southern Lebanon, and calls for the disarmament of all non-state groups, chiefly Hezbollah, which has used the area as a base to launch attacks against Israel under Iran’s sponsorship.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said on Monday that the issue needed to be resolved "through communication and dialogue because in the end, Hezbollah is a Lebanese component."
He urged Washington to pressure Israel to withdraw from the five border points, saying the ongoing troop presence "complicates the situation."
[IsraelTimes] Lebanese state media says an Israeli strike in Lebanon’s south killed two people, hours after the Israeli military said it killed a Hezbollah leader in an earlier strike.
“Two Syrians were killed on a motorcycle and one citizen was injured in an enemy strike on the Dardara road,” in Lebanon’s southern Marjayoun district, the official National News Agency says.
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.
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
