[WASHINGTONTIMES] An MS-13 member who goes by the gang name "Animal" received a 40-year prison sentence this week for a conspiracy that included the murder of a 15-year-old boy, the U.S. attorney’s office in Massachusetts said Tuesday.
The nickname, which the prosecutors highlighted in the headline of a blurb, is particularly telling, coming just a week after President Trump called members of the violent, immigrant-fueled MS-13 gang "animals."
Joel Martinez, 23, admitted he murdered the 15-year-old as part of his initiation as a "homeboy" in Mara Salvatrucha, the gang’s full name.
"I stabbed the culero three times," Mr. Martinez said, according to prosecutors. "He stared at me and he asked me if I was going to, if I was going to stab him. I told him, ’Yes, the Mara rules you.’"
Culero is a derogatory MS-13 members use for a rival gang. Killing a rival gang member was a requirement for achieving full status in MS-13 in Massachusetts, the FBI says.
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Remember his victim got the death sentence. Isn't it great to live in a society so rich it can warehouse hundreds of thousands of sociopaths for their lifetime. Signal your virtue!
[Khaama Press] The Global Witness organization has reported that the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria Khurasan (ISIS-K) is extracting Talc from the deposits/mines in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province of Afghanistan.
According to a new report by the Global Witness, citing unnamed sources, the group has brought in foreign engineers from Pakistain and Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and installed heavy machinery at the mining sites in Nangarhar province.
The sources have also added that phones are banned and locals are searched and monitored by the groups near the mines.
The report also adds that the majority of talc extracted from Nangarhar mines are smuggled across to Pakistain at the Torkham border where it can eventually be shipped out to other markets.
Nick Donovan, a campaign director at Global Witness, has said "The vast majority of minerals from krazed killer-controlled mines in Nangarhar openly goes through government-held territory on the main roads to Pakistain."
"It is all but certain that individuals and companies in China, Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... and the U.S. are effectively, if inadvertently, funding krazed killer groups," Donovan added.
Qadeer Khan Mutfi, a front man for the ministry of mines and petroleum of Afghanistan quoted in the report said the government has shut down at least a hundred illegal mines in the past year.
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That's gotta be a lotta talc!
Although talcum powder and soapstone are two of the more visible uses of talc, they account for a very small fraction of talc consumption. Its hidden uses are far more common. Talc's unique properties make it an important ingredient for making ceramics, paint, paper, roofing materials, plastics, rubber, insecticides, and many other products. The Mineral Talc
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[Khaama Press] The inspectors-general of Pentagon, State Department, and US Agency for International Development, have presented their new findings regarding the developments achieved in Afghanistan as part of President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s new strategy for South Asia.
The latest findings were reportedly presented in a report to the US Congress as the inspectors-general have cited little progress in the fight against Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... They have also added that the situation in Afghanistan continues to tank despite 17 years of war as the Taliban and other holy warrior and terrorist groups continue to their devastating and deadly attacks.
The inspectors-general have specifically pointed towards the recent deadly attacks in Kabul which left hundreds of people dead, stating that "The Taliban continued to hold territory and launched devastating terrorist attacks in Kabul and across the country."
In regards to the predictions to force the Taliban to negotiations table through use of force, the report by the US inspectors-general state that "there was little publicly available evidence that the actions to increase pressure on the Taliban were having a significant impact."
The inspectors-general have also added in their report that found no "significant" gains in territory by U.S. and Afghan forces, despite the White House strategy’s goal to increase the territory under government control to 80 percent from 64 percent through intensified air strikes and ground operations.
According to the report, the new strategy and White House efforts to force Pakistain to act against holy warrior sanctuaries have also not yielded positive results despite pressures and suspension of billions of aid.
The inspectors-general have also casted doubt regarding the upcoming parliamentary and districts councils election, stating that "Given that the Taliban views the Afghan government as a U.S. puppet, it is unclear how U.S.-supported elections would increase the legitimacy of the Afghan government in the eyes of the Taliban and would pressure the bully boyz to reconcile."
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Believe it was in the 70's that it suffered the same fate as Iran did, just earlier due to Coup's and Russian meddling.
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"There is no progress. There is only change." --Liszendir, a character in M.A. Foster's The Warriors of Dawn(1975).
And for Afghanistan, and Pakistan, it seems to be a cycle like kids on a beach with one kid building a sand castle and the others kicking it down.
[IsraelTimes] New TV show, 'Shalom,' barred from channel after controversy erupts over personalities who said they would work with Jewish state for financial reward.
The stifled, who dare not say publically that they would rather just get on with life,
[AlAhram] An Egyptian military court sentenced on Tuesday Egyptian journalist and researcher Ismail Alexandrani to ten years in prison for spreading false news and joining a banned group.
Alexandrani, a prominent journalist and an expert on hard boy groups in the North Sinai, was incarcerated You have the right to remain silent... after arriving at Hurghada airport from Germany in December 2015.
He was referred to a military trial for a number of charges including spreading false news and joining a banned group, in reference to the Moslem Brüderbund.
A dreadful charge, of course, but it seems a tad unlikely given his interst in Ansar Bayt al Maqdis/ISIS in the Sinai.
This is a first degree military court ruling that can be appealed within 60 days of its ratification.
...and possibly five years from now the final ruling after the final appeal will be handed down, Mr. Alexandrani having languished in orison the entire time. The Times of Israel adds:
Alexandrani had been in pretrial detention for two and a half years since his arrest in the Red Sea resort of Hurghada after he returned from a work trip in Berlin.
An expert on jihadist movements in North Sinai, where security forces are fighting an insurgency led by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group, Alexandrani had been to Germany to deliver lectures on the political situation in Egypt, his wife Khadija Gaafar had said at the time.
Alexandrani was also known for his anti-regime writings and for criticising the military’s role in politics, and was a contributor to publications including the French online magazine Orient XXI, which confirmed his sentencing on Twitter.
Co-defendant Walid Mohareb was also sentenced to 10 years in prison in the same trial, which included 18 others who were being tried in absentia, Abdel Aal said.
[DAWN] Hundreds of girls have refused to return to their school in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... because of security fears following a mass kidnapping by Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... turbans, parents and teachers said on Tuesday.
Terrorists stormed the Government Girls Technical College in Dapchi on February 19, seizing 111 schoolgirls in a carbon copy of the abduction in Chibok in 2014 that caused global outrage.
All but six of the Dapchi girls were returned to the school just over a month later. Five died in captivity while the only Christian among them is still being held.
The school re-opened on April 30 but one teacher, who asked not to be identified for fear of official sanctions, said most pupils have stayed away because they were still afraid.
"We have a total student population of 989, and out of that number only 314 have resumed after we reopened. Of the 314 that returned, 299 are writing their final examinations and will be leaving school in July," he said.
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Ancient history, yes, but anything that makes life more difficult for Hizb’allah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in the New World is a good thing.
[IsraelTimes] After returning from Jerusalem, President Juan Carlos Varela says he is reopening investigation into crash which killed 21 people, most of them Jewish businessmen
A 1994 plane crash in Panama which killed 21 people was a "terrorist attack," President Juan Carlos Varela said Monday, citing Israeli intelligence reports.
"I have ordered the reopening of the case after intelligence reports" indicated the incident "was a terrorist attack," Varela told news hounds.
Varela has just returned from Israel where he held talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week.
According to the president, the attack was "confirmed by Israeli intelligence".
Most of the 21 people killed were Jewish businessmen operating in Panama’s Colon Free Trade Zone.
The crash happened on July 19, 1994 when the plane went kaboom! shortly after taking off from the Enrique Jimenez airport in the Caribbean province of Colon.
The cause of the crash was never clarified.
One of the hypotheses considered at the time was that a Lebanese jacket wallah had detonated an explosive with the aim of killing Jews.
"We are going to have meetings with Panamanian and international authorities to formally request the reopening of the case and to know those responsible for this terrorist attack, where deplorably many Panamanians coming from the Colon free zone bit the dust," Varela said.
The kaboom happened a day after a bomb destroyed the offices of a Jewish center in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires, killing 85 people.
[IsraelTimes] Two-month journey will see vessels stopping at European ports for activities in support of Paleostinian 'March of Return'
Another road trip for Israel’s frogmen, and after that we’ll see.
A new flotilla of ships intent on breaking Israel’s 10-year blockade of the Gazoo Strip was due to set sail on Tuesday from the Danish port of Copenhagen.
The two-month journey will see the ships stopping off at several European ports to take part in activities supporting the Paleostinians’ so-called "March of Return."
It is under the "March of Return" banner that more than 100 Paleostinians have been killed in violent festivities with Israeli security forces along the border fence since March 30 ‐ most of them members of the Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, terror group, according to the group itself.
The flotilla has been planned by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, an umbrella of organizations aiming to end the closure.
The ships will carry names such as "Return" (al-Awda), "Freedom," and "Paleostine."
Among those on board will be Prof. Ismail Nazari, chairman of Malaysia’s boycott Israel campaign; Charlie Andreason of Sweden, who spent time in Israeli detention for his role on the Marianne, a Swedish-flagged trawler leading a flotilla of boats in June 2015; Spanish Jewish activist Zohar Shamir Chamberlain; and Heather Milton-Lightening, an activist for indigenous Canadians.
Two years ago, 13 women, including Nobel Peace Prize winner Mairead Maguire of Northern Ireland, were detained and then deported after their sailboat, "Women’s Boat to Gazoo," was stopped around 35 nautical miles off the coast of Gazoo on its way to break the blockade.
The most notorious flotilla sailed in 2010 and involved the Ottoman Turkish flag-bearing Mavi Marmara, the biggest ship in a six-vessel convoy.
IDF commandos who boarded the ship were violently attacked by those on board. Nine Ottoman Turkish citizens, including one with American citizenship, were killed in the ensuing melee, and a tenth died of his wounds years later. A number of Israeli soldiers were maimed in the raid.
[Israel.Times] Knaan Al S. was filmed lashing Arab Israeli man he mistook for a Jew, leading to outcry and massive 'wear a kippa' support rallies
A Syrian man living in Berlin was charged with assault after he attacked an Arab Israeli man wearing a kippa.
The alleged attacker, a Syrian Paleostinian living in Germany since 2015, was identified as Knaan Al S, due to German privacy laws, according to The News Agency that Dare Not be Named. He was charged on Friday with causing bodily harm and slander. He turned himself in two days after the April 17 attack.
During the attack, the assailant lashed the man with his belt and repeated the Arabic word for Jew, "Yahudi." The victim, Adam Armouch, an Arab Israeli, filmed the attack on his cellphone. He was accompanied by a 24-year-old man also wearing a kippa who reported being accosted verbally by three men.
Armoush, 21, who is not Jewish, told the Deutsche Welle news agency that he had grown up in an Arab-Christian family in Haifa, Israel, and said he put on the kippa as an experiment to see "how bad it is to walk Berlin’s streets as a Jew today."
The attack took place in the trendy Prenzlauer Berg neighborhood, which is popular among many Israelis living in Berlin. It is also home to an Orthodox Jewish community centered around the Lauder Yeshivas Beis Zion and the synagogue Kahal Adass Jisroel Berlin.
The attack led thousands of Jews and non-Jews alike to don kippot and participate in "Wear a Kippa" rallies in Berlin and other German cities to protest anti-Semitism.
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So funny that a device which prevents sunburn for male pattern baldness 'sufferers' should become a religious icon that creates confrontational violence.
Makes as much sense as fighting over face bags or MAGA hats.
Good luck, guys. Seriously, we really hope this will work.
[AnNahar] Shocking images of masked button men opening fire in Marseille and a brutal daylight murder underlined the problem of urban violence in La Belle France Tuesday as President Emmanuel Macron announces a strategy to tackle the issue.
One person was injured on Monday when black-clad men carrying Kalashnikov machine guns opened fire in a notorious area known for drug-dealing in Marseille at around 5:00 pm (1500 GMT).
Footage of the incident in the crime-ridden Busserine public housing estate, which was broadcast on French television, showed a carload of men dressed like commandos openly brandishing their weapons.
"According to a witness, one person was kidnapped and put in a car by people who had gun sex several times," Marseille prosecutor Xavier Tarabeux told news hounds.
The brazen display of muscle was thought to be linked to a local pie fight for control of the drug trade in the sprawling industrial city, where tit-for-tat murders between rival gangs are common.
Elsewhere in La Belle France, police in the southern city of Pau are still investigating the murder of a 32-year-old man in another poverty-ridden, high-immigration area, who was beaten to death by a gang of teenagers.
Terrified witnesses, some of them picnicking with children early on Friday evening, have helped identify three suspects who are thought to have taken part in what Le Gay Pareeien newspaper described as a "horrifying lynching."
The incidents came as Macron prepares to unveil a long-awaited strategy for tackling the entrenched social problems which are concentrated in many ghettoized areas of the country's towns and cities.
The 40-year-old leader has faced criticism from many associations and leftist politicians for failing to put the problems of the poorest areas of La Belle France at the heart of his agenda since his election in May 2017.
A host of local officials from such areas, where immigrants colonists have concentrated over decades, have warned about the problems of crime, poverty and Islamism blighting the lives of local families.
Many of the jihadists inspired by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group that have struck La Belle France since 2015 have hailed from marginalized, often high-rise areas known as "les banlieues" where public housing is concentrated.
- Not 'top-down' -
Presidential aides have said Macron will avoid announcing a new strategy based on huge increases in public spending.
"The aim is not to reinvent grand projects" that are "top-down", an aide told news hounds last week.
Macron is likely instead to insist on his government's record of investing in schools in poor areas, creating a new community police service for crime-hit zones, and economic reforms which he believes will generate more jobs.
He is also expected to back new efforts to tackle discrimination that sees many young people from poor areas, particularly those with African or Arab-sounding names, struggle to find jobs.
Also over the weekend, a 41-year-old man was stabbed to death in a shop after a row in a gang-plagued area of Seine-Saint-Denis northeast of Gay Paree. Ten people have been incarcerated Please don't kill me!
[BREITBART] Every year more than one thousand underage Dutch girls are groomed and then blackmailed into sex slavery by young pimps with migrant backgrounds, an investigation has revealed.
With gifts, drink, and drugs, so-called ’loverboys’ will seduce a girl into agreeing to become his sex partner before taking pictures or video footage of the encounter which will then be used as leverage to force her into prostitution, Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad reports.
"These men are mostly Moroccans, Turks, Caribbeans, and Roma. The lion’s share of them have a migrant background," said Gideon van Aartsen from Watch Nederland, an initiative which coordinates with the nation’s police on efforts to fight child sexual exploitation (CSE).
...and the rest are the sons of colonists, right?
He told the newspaper that selling sex with schoolgirls is a "lucrative trade" that can earn "up to 800 euros a day on a girl" for ’loverboys’, most of whom are part of larger networks that are also involved in trafficking illegal drugs and weapons.
Annually around 1,400 Dutch minors fall victim to ’loverboys’ ‐ a term used in the country to refer to young men who lure underage teens into relationships then force them into the sex industry ‐ according to police human trafficking experts Marijke van Overveld and Esmee Huijps.
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"These men are mostly Moroccans, Turks, Caribbeans, and Roma. The lion’s share of them have a migrant background," said Gideon van Aartsen from Watch Nederland, an initiative which coordinates with the nation’s police on efforts to fight child sexual exploitation (CSE).
There's a key here to begin training girls as young as 9 to avoid these creeps, with school assemblies, etc., and it's PC! It's Caribbeans.
It's not PC to mention muslims, and the Roma, aka gypsies (they're slippery, and can slip into your camp at night without the snap of a twig underfoot) - not a good idea to bring this up in the Netherlands.
What could go wrong? They can only be licensed to operate in France.
Pooh. Germany, Norway, Sweden and Belgium are queueing up to take graduates, too.
[VoiceofEurope] Due to an acute shortage of professional truck drivers the German trucking association has launched a new project to train asylum seekers for the job, Austria’s tabloid Wochenblick reports.
The project, which is named "The drive into your new future" intends to make it easier for asylum seekers to become truck drivers.
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Turkey's embattled lira on Wednesday lost over three percent in value to hit new historic lows against the US dollar, but there was no word from the central bank of any emergency action to buttress the currency.
Following sharp losses on Tuesday, the lira continued to underperform all other emerging market currencies, after suffering a hammering in Asian trade overnight when Japanese investors sold Turkish assets.
It lost 3.3 percent against the dollar to trade at 4.82, only slightly paring losses after earlier for the first time ever testing the 5.0 ceiling by hitting 4.92 lira to the dollar.
Over the last month alone, the lira has lost over 18 percent in value against the dollar as fears grow over the health of the Turkish economy which is dogged by double-digit inflation despite high growth.
Its performance has been even worse than the Argentine peso which has also suffered severe turbulence over the last month.
The sharp fall in the currency's value has come at a hugely sensitive time as Turkey heads to June 24 presidential and parliamentary elections where President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is seeking a new mandate and a thumping parliamentary majority.
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Turkey's central bank raised the short term rate from 13.5% to 16.5% a few hours ago. This has stabilized the Turkish Lira --- for now.
This will hold it for a while but they have some basic problems e.g., inflation above 10% for the past 18 months, budget deficit, growth in external debt,
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In which the Trudeau government continues to demonstrate its innate moral superiority to those vicious, Trump-electing Americans.
[Reuters] Canada is rejecting more refugee claims from people who crossed its border illegally as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government seeks to dissuade, block and turn back thousands more, according to new data obtained by Reuters.
Forty percent of such border crossers whose claims were finalized in the first three months of this year were granted refugee status, down from 53 percent for all of 2017, according to data provided by Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board. There were no claims finalized in the first three months of 2017.
The Immigration and Refugee Board said on Tuesday it has received no directives or guidance on how to deal with these border crossers.
The wave of border crossings started up in January 2017 and ramped up over the summer as many Haitian immigrants in the United States who were at risk of losing their temporary legal status streamed into Canada on expectations they could find a safe haven. In the months since, thousands of Nigerians have made the same crossing.
More than 27,000 asylum seekers have walked across the Canada-U.S. border since President Donald Trump took office, some of whom have told Reuters they left the United States because of Trump’s policies and anti-immigrant rhetoric.
The influx has strained Canada’s backlogged system for assisting people seeking refugee status, leaving aid agencies scrambling to meet growing demand for housing and social services.
Trudeau’s government has sought to stem the influx by amending a U.S.-Canadian border pact that turns back asylum seekers at border crossings, but allows immigrants who enter the country outside of an official border crossing to apply for refugee status.
Canada sent its immigration and refugee minister to Nigeria, asking the Nigerian government to help discourage its citizens from crossing into Canada, and asking the United States to deny visas to people who might then go to Canada.
Immigration and Refugee Board data shows that while only a small number of border-crosser claims have been processed, acceptance rates are down for all groups seeking refugee status. The success rate is especially low for Haitians and Nigerians, with overall acceptance rates of 9 percent and 33.5 percent, respectively.
[FoxNews] The son of a Boston police captain, Alexander Ciccolo was arrested July 4, 2015 in Adams, Mass., and accused of plotting a terrorist attack on a college campus to support the Islamic State group. He pleaded guilty Monday in federal court in Springfield, Mass.
The son of a police captain who was one of the first responders at the scene of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing pleaded guilty Monday to plotting an ISIS-style attack.
...the estranged son of Boston police Captain Robert Ciccolo, he had a long history of mental illness and was on probation for a drinking conviction...
faces 20 years in prison for plotting to use guns and homemade bombs to attack a college campus to support the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group. Sentencing has been scheduled for September.
Ciccolo was tossed in the slammer Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! in July 2015 after he received four guns he ordered from a person who was cooperating with the FBI, as Fox News previously reported. Boston police Capt. Robert Ciccolo tipped off authorities after his son said he wanted to join the Islamic State group.
Ciccolo, 25, initially was charged only with being a felon in possession of a firearm and stabbing a nurse in the head with a pen after he was brought to jail. But he later was indicted on attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and attempting to use weapons of mass destruction.
Ciccolo, who went by the name Ali Al Amriki, pleaded guilty to all charges. His plea came a month before he was set to go on trial.
His lawyer did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.
Prosecutors said Ciccolo told the person cooperating with authorities that he planned to commit acts of terrorism to support ISIS, including attacking an unidentified university using assault rifles and homemade bombs similar to the pressure cooker bombs used in the deadly 2013 Boston Marathon attack. The bombing at the marathon finish line killed three people and maimed more than 260 others.
Ciccolo was seen buying a pressure cooker shortly before his arrest, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors say agents found partially made Molotov cocktails in Ciccolo’s apartment after he was arrested. Investigators said posts on Ciccolo’s Facebook page included a photo of a dead American soldier that said "Thank you Islamic State!"
Federal authorities said Ciccolo’s case is a reminder that ’homegrown’ radicalization remains a threat and that citizens must speak up when they become aware of a potential threat.
"Any material support of a terrorist organization threatens our national security, and had Mr. Ciccolo’s efforts to advance his agenda not been thwarted by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, countless lives could have been lost in a lethal terrorist attack," Harold Shaw, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Boston field office, said in a statement.
Ciccolo’s mother, Shelley MacInnes, told New England Public Radio last year that her son was "very compassionate" and "would not hurt a fly." He converted to Islam a few years ago, MacInnes said.
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has given another signal of an imminent alliance with Shia populist holy manMoqtada Tater al-Sadr ... the Iranian catspaw holy man who was 22 years old in 2003 and was nearing 40 in 2010. He spends most of his time in Iran, safely out of the line of fire, where he's learning to be an ayatollah... , pointing to matching viewpoints regarding the formation of the next Iraqi government.
Speaking during his weekly press briefing in Baghdad, Abasi said his recent meeting with Sadr witnessed "concurrence in relation to the next period".
According to Abadi, "there is an almost complete matching of viewpoints with the Saeroon list for the formation of a strong technocrat government".
Abadi was received by Sadr on Saturday in Baghdad, where both exchanged views on the formation of the government after the end of parliamentary elections on 12th of this month.
The Iraqi elections commission said last Saturday that Sadr’s list came first, followed by al-Fatah, an alliance of former leaders of the Iran-backed Popular Mobilization Forces, and third came Abadi’s al-Nasr list.
Sadr and Abadi, during their electoral campaigns, have been touting a government transcending sectarian considerations and free from foreign interventions.
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Subtle European diplomacy: “Nice country ya got there — be a shame if something happened to it.”
[IsraelTimes] 'Don't disparage Europe,' senior source reportedly says as tensions simmer between Jerusalem and EU
As Jerusalem basked in tight-knit ties with Washington, a senior European official was said on Tuesday to have recently warned Israel not to "disparage" the EU, adding that US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s legacy could be scaled back just as quickly as that of his predecessor Barack Obama They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them... "Trump won’t be president forever," Hadashot TV on Tuesday quoted the unnamed official as saying during a recent visit to Israel.
"Just like nobody imagined that the Obama legacy would be erased so quickly, it can happen to the other side," the source added.
"You shouldn’t disparage Europe. Look at the numbers: We are still your biggest trade partners. You don’t understand that we are under immense public pressure against Israel," the bigwig added.
Israel and the EU have lately been at loggerheads over the IDF’s handling of mass protests and riots on the Gazoo border, as well as over Trump’s decision to unilaterally withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal ‐ as Prime Minister Benjamin had urged if it couldn’t be "fixed" ‐ with Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... calling for the accord to remain in place. Israel has also hailed the US relocation of its embassy to Jerusalem last week, a move Europe has rejected.
On Monday and Tuesday, the Foreign Ministry reprimanded the Slovenian, Spanish, and Belgian ambassadors over their countries’ votes on Friday in favor of a UN Human Rights Council-led investigation into the IDF over the deaths on the Gazoo border. The bid was supported by 29 countries, with 14 abstaining and just two ‐ the United States and Australia ‐ voting against the probe.
Separately, Netanyahu has also fiercely condemned the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... for its policies on Israel, including in hot mic comments last year that saw him lash European Union leaders for their "crazy" treatment of the Jewish state.
Earlier Tuesday, Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan also slammed the EU, saying the bloc shouldn’t "get involved in internal Israeli matters," after it called for an investigation of alleged police brutality at a demonstration in Haifa.
"Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East, doesn’t need any moral warning calls from a biased and obsessive entity like the European Union," said Erdan. He also called the EU hypocritical and accused it of helping those who seek to boycott Israel.
Erdan was responding to a call by the European Union for an inquiry into an alleged assault of Jafar Farah, director of the NGO Mossawa, the Advocacy Center for Arab Citizens in Israel, which is part-funded by the EU.
Farah was jugged Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! with 20 other people during a Gazoo Strip solidarity rally on Friday in Haifa, which has since sparked accusations of police violence against protesters. He claimed a police officer kicked his leg, breaking his knee, while he was held in a detention facility on Friday night.
The officer denied he used any physical force against Farah.
The EU involvement came after Joint (Arab) List party MK Youssef Jabareen met Monday evening with EU Ambassador to Israel Emanuele Giaufret to draw his attention to the matter, Hadashot news reported.
In a statement, the EU said it was important "to conduct a swift investigation into circumstances surrounding events last week in Haifa which appeared to result in serious injury of Jafar Farah."
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No, Trump won't be president forever. At some point Nikki Haley will take over, and then we'll be seeing billboards with Trump's face and the caption "Miss me yet?"
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Whereas, Brussel bureaucrats last longer than styrofoam cups and Twinkies (oh, also cockroaches).
Bummer. Funds will have to be found elsewhere to cover the cost of repairs..
[IsraelTimes] The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... on Tuesday denied a report No, no! Certainly not! by an Israeli news outlet that claimed the the international body planned to fund the repair of the Kerem Shalom Crossing into the Gazoo Strip, which was repeatedly damaged by Paleostinian rioters in recent weeks.
On Friday, the Ynet news site reported that the EU said it had agreed to donate 30 million Euros ($35 million) to fix the destroyed parts of the facility, which serves as the sole crossing for goods and humanitarian aid into Gazoo from Israel.
An EU spokesperson said no such offer had been made. Israel’s military liaison to the Paleostinians also denied that the European body planned to donate the funds, saying "the report on the subject was incorrect."
The source of the error in the Ynet article was not immediately clear. The information was not attributed to a specific source.
Last week, the Defense Ministry said it believed it had partially repaired the damage to the fuel terminal, but would only know for certain after the weekend.
On Tuesday, the military liaison said the repairs to the diesel pipeline had held and that on Monday "786,020 liters of diesel fuel were transferred into the Gazoo Strip via the Kerem Shalom crossing."
According to the liaison’s office, "this provides a solution for all of the needs of the Gazoo Strip at this time."
[PRESSTV] Israel’s parliament (Knesset) has reportedly discussed a bill that explores ways through which the Tel Aviv regime can help the Kurds establish an independent state supportive of the regime within Syria, Iraq and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... , where anti-Israel sentiments run high.
The official Israeli radio reported on Monday that the proposal had been submitted to the legislature by two right-wing parties, Likud and Yisrael Beiteinu.
The radio also quoted politician Yoav Kish as saying that in light of recent regional developments, recognizing an independent Kurdish state, which would support the regime in Tel Aviv, would be in Israel's interests.
"There is a Kurdish minority in Turkey, Syria, and Iraq. All these countries are hostile to Israel, and certainly adding Iran, which also affects the region. That is why we need to strengthen the Kurds and lead a process that ultimately leads to the establishment of an independent Kurdish state that supports Israel," he said.
"There is a reason that Israel was the first to publicly congratulate moves toward Kurdish independence in northern Iraq," Kish added.
Kurdistan held a referendum on secession from Iraq in September 2017 in defiance of strong criticisms from the entire international community, particularly Iraq’s neighbors, Iran and Turkey.
Israel became the only entity to support the Kurdish plebiscite.
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[PRESSTV] Iran’s envoy to the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... has said that Israel's killing of scores of Paleostinian protesters on May 14 was a pre-planned measure.
Gholamali Khoshroo made the remarks on Tuesday while addressing the UN Security Council Open Debate on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict.
He added the Israel committed the crime with complete impunity granted to it by Washington.
"The Israeli army committed yet another war crime in Gazoo, killing more than 60 and injuring thousands more unarmed Paleostinian civilians in a single day. Given the circumstances, there is no doubt that these vicious attacks and killings were planned and deliberate," he said.
"These criminal acts took place with total impunity extended to the Israeli regime by the United States in this Council, the same country that later tried to prevent the appointment of a Commission of Inquiry in the Human Rights Council," he added.
Khoshroo added the US later attempted to shield Israel by blocking the Human Rights Council from appointing a commission aimed at probing its actions.
Israeli forces killed at least 62 Paleostinians during protests near the Gazoo fence on the eve of the 70th anniversary of the Nakba Day (Day of Catastrophe), which coincided with Washington’s embassy relocation from Tel Aviv to occupied Jerusalem al-Quds.
More than 2,700 Paleostinians were also maimed as the Israeli forces used snipers, Arclight airstrikes, tank fire and tear gas to target the demonstrators.
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We plan everything. Wanna hear how many plans we have for "neutralizing" Iran?
[AlAhram] The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on five Iranians it said had provided Yemen's Houthis with expertise and weaponry that were then used to launch missiles at cities and oil infrastructure in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... In a statement, the U.S. Treasury named the individuals as Mehdi Azarpisheh, Mohammad Jafari, Mahmud Kazemabad, Javad Shir Amin, and Sayyed Mohammad Tehrani. It said the first four individuals had worked with the Houthis through Iran's Revolutionary Guards, while Tehrani had helped with the financing of the Revolutionary Guard.
The fresh sanctions, part of President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... 's pledge to economically suffocate Iran in hopes of hampering the country's development of nuclear weapons, come one day after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the United States would soon crack down on Iran's support for the Houthis. Yemen's government has been pitched against the Iran-aligned Houthi ...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 Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. 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 ... movement since 2015 in a war driving the country to the verge of famine
[Ynet] Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and other members of the Gulf Cooperation Council, placed 10 leaders of Leb's Hezbollah on their terrorism lists on Wednesday, including His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... and his deputy Naim Qassem ... the Grand Vizier of the Hezbullies... , Saudi state news agency SPA said.
The Gulf states also targeted four of the movement's committees, and ordered the individuals' assets and bank accounts frozen, it said.
The move followed the US Treasury which said on Wednesday imposed additional sanctions on Leb's Hezbollah leadership, targeting its top two officials, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and Naim Qassem.
[Rudaw] DEIR EZ-ZOR, Syria ‐ In Syria’s eastern oil-rich Deir ez-Zor province, where ISIS is putting up a last stand in the middle Euphrates River valley area on the border with Iraq, forces from the SDF and those loyal to the regime in Damascus compete for territory.
"All the oilfields are here. This place is very rich, which is why they want this area. They wouldn’t come here if there was no oil here because they don’t care about the people," SDF commander Abu Arab told Rudaw.
The centre of Deir ez-Zor is controlled by Syrian government forces. The surrounding areas that are home to oilfields are under the control of the SDF.
ISIS snuffies still have access to several routes where they can cross back and forth between Iraq and Syria.
It is a dangerous area.
The SDF have formed a special force of 250 local Arabs to protect the oil fields and newly liberated areas.
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[BREITBART] Iranians will punch U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in the mouth if he makes any attempt to tighten sanctions on the Islamic Theocratic Republic, a senior Revolutionary Guards commander said on Tuesday.
"The people of Iran should stand united in the face of this and they will deliver a strong punch to the mouth of the American Secretary of State and anyone who backs them," said Ismail Kowsari, the deputy commander of the Tehran-based Sarollah Revolutionary Guards, according to the Iranian Labour News Agency (ILNA).
"Who are you and America to tell us to limit the range of ballistic missiles?" Kowsari said, according to ILNA. "History has shown that with the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki America is the top criminal with regard to missiles," he added
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I notice they don't say anything about punching Mattis in the mouth,,,,
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[WASHINGTONTIMES] An MS-13 member who goes by the gang name "Animal" received a 40-year prison sentence this week for a conspiracy that included the murder of a 15-year-old boy, the U.S. attorney’s office in Massachusetts said Tuesday.
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[IsraelTimes] Two-month journey will see vessels stopping at European ports for activities in support of Paleostinian 'March of Return'
[VoiceofEurope] Due to an acute shortage of professional truck drivers the German trucking association has launched a new project to train asylum seekers for the job, Austria’s tabloid Wochenblick reports.
Turkey's embattled lira on Wednesday lost over three percent in value to hit new historic lows against the US dollar, but there was no word from the central bank of any emergency action to buttress the currency.
[FoxNews] The son of a Boston police captain, Alexander Ciccolo was arrested July 4, 2015 in Adams, Mass., and accused of plotting a terrorist attack on a college campus to support the Islamic State group. He pleaded guilty Monday in federal court in Springfield, Mass. 
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