[Townhall] The Department of Justice (DOJ) sent out an alarming announcement on Wednesday, revealing that "Man Arrested for Explosives Threats and Attack on Energy Facility." What the subject line leaves out, however, is that he's a Jordanian citizen and that he looks to have been motivated by anti-Israel views. The defendant, Hashem Younis Hashem Hnaihen, is being charged "with four counts of threatening to use explosives and one count of destruction of an energy facility."
Hnaihen is described as a 43-year-old "Jordanian citizen residing in Orlando, Florida." He was also ordered "detained pending trial," according to a blurb from Thursday, complete with pictures of the incidents mentioned.
The blurb also referenced statements from top DOJ officials, including Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray. A common theme of such statements focused on how Hnaihen was motivated by his anti-Israel beliefs:
"We allege that the defendant threatened to carry out hate-fueled mass violence in our country, motivated in part by a desire to target businesses for their perceived support of Israel," said Attorney General Merrick B. Garland. "Such acts and threats of violence, whether they are targeting the places that Americans frequent every day or our country’s critical infrastructure, are extremely dangerous and will not be tolerated by the Justice Department."
"Under the guise of expressing his beliefs, the defendant allegedly attacked a power facility and threatened local businesses, causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages," said FBI Director Christopher Wray. "Violence and destruction of property to threaten and intimidate others will never be tolerated. The FBI and our partners will work together to pursue and hold accountable those who resort to violence."
"Targeting and attacking businesses for perceived beliefs is unacceptable," said U.S. Attorney Roger Handberg for the Middle District of Florida. "The U.S. Attorney’s Office will continue to work with our law enforcement partners to investigate and federally prosecute those who make violent mostly peaceful or hate-based threats and who seek to act on these threats."
The attacks began in June 2024 and "escalated." According to court documents, Hnaihen is said to have sent letters to the U.S. government making a list of political demands.
As the blurb also explained:
According to court documents, beginning around June 2024, Hnaihen targeted and attacked businesses in the Orlando area for their perceived support for Israel. Wearing a mask, under the cover of night, Hnaihen smashed the glass front doors of businesses and left behind "Warning Letters."
In his letters, which were addressed to the United States government, Hnaihen laid out a series of political demands, culminating in a threat to "destroy or explode everything here in whole America. Especially the companies and factories that support the racist state of Israel."
Hnaihen’s attacks escalated. At the end of June, as law enforcement worked to identify the masked attacker, Hnaihen broke into a solar power generation facility in Wedgefield, Florida, and spent hours systematically destroying solar panel arrays. He smashed panels, cut wires, and targeted critical electronic equipment. Hnaihen left behind two more copies of his threatening demand letter. Hnaihen is believed to have caused more than $700,000 in damage.
Following a multiagency effort, law enforcement identified Hnaihen and arrested him on July 11, shortly after another "Warning Letter" threatening to "destroy or explode everything" was discovered at an industrial propane gas distribution depot in Orlando.
If convicted, Hnaihen "faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison for each threat offense and a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison for the destruction of an energy facility offense," and could thus face the rest of his life in prison.
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"The attacks began in June 2024 and "escalated." According to court documents, [he] sent letters to the U.S. government making a list of political demands." The usual DOS/FBI brag on an easy pick.
Security forces have killed seven terrorists and wounded five others during an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in the Kurram district of Khyber Pakhtunkwa with the determination to eliminate the menace of terrorism, the military's media wing said on Thursday.
"On August 15, 2024, security forces conducted an intelligence-based operation in Kurram district on the reported presence of Khwarij," the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement.
"During the conduct of the operation, own troops effectively engaged the Khwarij's location, as a result of which, seven Khwarij of Fitna Al Khawarij were sent to hell, while five of them got injured."
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[GEO.TV] In connection with the Field General Court Martial (FGCM) proceedings of Lieutenant General (retd) Faiz Hamid, three more retired officers have been taken into military custody, the army’s media wing said on Thursday.
The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) added that the retired officers were arrested for their actions prejudicial to military discipline.
"Further investigations of certain retired officers and their accomplices for fomenting instability at the behest of and in collusion with vested political interests are continuing," it also said.
Moreover, sources told Geo News that two of the officers in the military custody were of brigadier rank and one was of colonel rank.
The two retired brigadiers have been identified as Ghaffar and Naeem while the retired colonel’s name is Asim, they said, adding that they worked as messengers between a political party and the ex-spymaster.
The two brigadiers, alleged of facilitation, hailed from Chakwal, the sources further said.
MORE ARRESTS TO FOLLOW
Addressing a presser in Islamabad today, Information Minister Attaullah Tarar hinted at more arrests after three more servicemen were taken into custody
"No one can be allowed to put the country's security at stake," he said.
The minister went on to say that Lt Gen (retd) Faiz's actions were guided by PTI founder's "wish" and the former prime minister was "leading them all".
"All of it was being done at the behest of PTI founder. All of them are those people who damaged the country conniving with the anarchic group," he said, adding that accountability was needed for whatever this group had done.
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[IsraelTimes] Hamas, repeating claim that guard killed hostage, says captor acted against its ‘ethics’; it publishes propaganda image of Ofir Tzarfati, a hostage whose body IDF recovered 8 months ago
The Israel Defense Forces said Thursday that more than 50 tunnels discovered along the Philadelphi Corridor, along the Egypt-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 an 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... border area, have been demolished by combat engineers over the past week. The military did not detail how many of the tunnels crossed into Egypt. Tunnels along the Philadelphi Corridor are believed to be used by Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... for smuggling arms into the Strip.
IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari saod Thursday that the military has killed more than 17,000 terror operatives in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the war.
He said in a presser that the IDF’s "significant fighting" and achievements had harmed Hamas’s ability to regroup and recover. "We are determined to continue this," he said.
In an update on Thursday morning, the military said dozens of button men had been killed over the past day and sites belonging to Hamas and other terror groups were destroyed in operations.
More than 30 Hamas sites, including booby-trapped buildings, tunnels, and weapon depots, were targeted in Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s across Gaza, according to the military.
The IDF said that in southern Gaza’s Rafah, troops killed more than 20 terror operatives by directing airstrikes.
Further north, in Khan Younis, troops with the 98th Division directed strikes against several Hamas operatives at a weapons depot. In another strike in Khan Younis, a Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... operative responsible for rocket launches was killed, the IDF said.
The IDF on Thursday issued a new evacuation order for Paleostinians in the Khan Younis area in the southern Gaza Strip, following recent rocket attacks on Israel. Col. Avichay Adraee, the IDF’s Arabic-language front man, published a list of the zones that needed to be evacuated. The announcement called for Paleostinians in the Khan Younis suburb of al-Qarara to evacuate to the Israeli-designated humanitarian zone.
Meanwhile,
...back at the wrecked scow, a single surviver held tightly to the smashed prow... in the Netzarim Corridor of central Gaza, the IDF said that several cells of button men were killed, and a weapons depot was destroyed in strikes during operations over the past day.
On Thursday morning, one rocket was fired from Gaza at the border community of Kissufim. The IDF said the rocket struck an open area, causing no injuries.
HAMAS PROPAGANDA IMAGE OF HOSTAGE
Meanwhile the military wing of Hamas on Thursday said that a guard it claims rubbed out a hostage under his charge in the Strip had acted out of vengeance and against the terror group’s protocols.
The Israel Defense Forces has not been able to confirm or deny the claims made by Hamas earlier this week that its guards rubbed out a hostage and seriously maimed two other female captives.
Hudhaifa Kahlout — known by the nom de guerre Abu Obeida — the front man for the Al Qassam Brigades, provided an update on Hamas’s investigation into the alleged killing. He said in a series of messages on Telegram that the terror group’s investigation found that the guard "acted in Dire Revenge, contrary to instructions, after receiving news of the martyrdom of his two children in one of the enemy’s massacres."
"We stress that the incident does not represent our ethics," Abu Obeida said, adding that the protocols for guarding prisoners would be "tightened."
It was the first time Hamas has acknowledged its guards killed hostages. The terror group has attributed previous deaths of hostages to Israeli strikes. Israel has generally dismissed Hamas’s statements on the deaths of hostages as deplorable psychological warfare.
Alongside Abu Obeida’s statement, Hamas also published a propaganda image showing the body of an Israeli hostage, alongside the text "An unfortunate incident" and "Your brutality has become an imminent danger to your prisoners." It was unclear whether Hamas was claiming the hostage in the photo was the one executed by the guard, or a separate case.
The IDF in a statement said that the remains of the hostage in the photo had been returned in a special operation last year. "This is a hostage who was murdered and his body was returned in an IDF and Shin Bet operation at the end of November," the military said, adding that the family of the hostage had been updated by IDF representatives.
The hostage was later identified as Ofir Tzarfati, his mother confirmed in a statement issued by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum.
Tzarfati, 27, was shot and maimed as he was kidnapped from the Supernova music festival on October 7. On November 27, the IDF declared that he was confirmed dead, and on December 1, the military announced it had recovered his body from Gaza and he was laid to rest in Kiryat Ata.
The terror group kidnapped 251 people during its thousands-strong rampage through southern Israel on October 7, which left nearly 1,200 people dead.
It is believed that 111 of the hostages kidnapped by Hamas on October 7 remain in Gaza, including the bodies of 39 confirmed dead by the IDF. The terror group is also holding two Israeli civilians who entered the Strip in 2014 and 2015, as well as the bodies of two IDF soldiers who were killed in 2014.
At the beginning of the war, Abu Obeida threatened to execute Israeli hostages and release footage of the killings.
[NYPOST] The Israeli military has touted that their forces have killed more than 17,000 Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... operatives in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip since the war began, with US officials saying the Jewish state has achieved ''the vast majority'' of its goals against the terrorists.
IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said about 56% of Hamas' estimated 30,000 forces have been wiped out since Israel waged war following the Oct. 7 massacre.
Hagari said the blow has greatly affected Hamas' ability to regroup and recover as small battalions have continued to resurface across Gaza after months of intense fighting.
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a few more months needed
then a lot of vigilance
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There is exactly zero benefit in stopping this before it's through. None of the people that hate you will suddenly approve if you pull back, and everyone else just looks away and says, "get it over with."
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[GEO.TV] An Israeli air strike on a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank killed two Palestinians on Thursday as Jewish worshippers visited a nearby disputed holy site, Palestinian sources and Israeli army said.
"Two men, aged 18 and 20, were killed and seven people were wounded, one of them seriously, in Balata" refugee camp in Nablus, the Palestinian health ministry said in a statement.
Two Paleostinian button men were killed in an Israeli dronezap in the West Bank’s Balata refugee camp near Nablus early Thursday morning. The Israel Defense Forces said troops had been carrying out a counterterrorism operation in the area, returning fire and hitting button men who threw explosives at them.
Amid the operation, it said a dronezap was carried out against two armed Paleostinians. The slain men were named by Paleostinian health officials as Ahmad Sheikh Khalil, 20, and Wael Mashah, 18. Mashah had been tossed in the slammer anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not by Israel previously, being freed in November amid a hostage deal with Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... , in which Israel released Paleostinian terror convicts and detainees, mostly from the West Bank, in exchange for Israeli civilians kidnapped by the terror group on October 7.
It was the second time this week that a Paleostinian terrorist freed in the November deal was killed by Israel. On Monday, Hamas commander Tariq Daoud, who had been released in the hostage deal, shot up an Israeli man and two Paleostinians in the West Bank city of Qalqilya, before being killed by an IDF brigade commander.
Also overnight, the IDF said troops and Border Police officers secured the entry of Jewish worshipers to Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus. Before the war, busloads of Orthodox Jews visited Joseph’s Tomb under IDF protection on a near-monthly basis. The IDF has recently returned to carrying out the coordinated visits, although less frequently. The IDF bars Israeli citizens from entering Paleostinian cities without authorization and protection, and some criticize the monthly incursions as an unnecessary provocation that places Israeli soldiers at risk. The shrine, regarded by some as the final resting place of the biblical patriarch Joseph, is located inside Area A of the West Bank, which is officially under complete Paleostinian Authority control, though the Israeli military regularly enters despite Paleostinian opposition.
The dronezap near Nablus came hours after another five Paleostinian button men were killed by Israeli fire in the West Bank.
According to the IDF, troops on Wednesday entered the West Bank city of Tubas, the nearby town of Tamun and the Far’a refugee camp to detain wanted Paleostinians and dismantle local terror groups in the area. The towns are located on the edge of the northern Jordan Valley, some 15 kilometers (9 miles) northeast of Nablus.
In Tubas, an bomb planted on a road went kaboom! by a light armored vehicle, wounding four troops. Two were listed in moderate condition and the other two were lightly hurt, the IDF said. Also in Tubas, the army said a senior wanted member of a terror group in the area was killed in an exchange of fire with troops. Other armed Paleostinians were maimed by Israeli forces in the festivities.
Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch clutched at his leg. Son of a Breech! he exclaimed with feeling...... in Tamun, a dronezap was carried out against a group of Paleostinian button men, killing four of them, according to the IDF.
In the past 10 months, the IDF has carried out more than 60 Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in the West Bank, using drones, attack helicopters, and fighter jets.
Since October 7, troops have arrested some 4,850 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 1,960 affiliated with Hamas.
According to the Paleostinian Authority health ministry, more than 630 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed in that time. The IDF says the vast majority of them were button men killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops or Death Eaters carrying out attacks.
During the same period, 26 people, including Israeli security personnel, have been killed in terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank. Another five members of the security forces were killed in festivities with terror operatives in the West Bank.
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[GEO.TV] The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society has said that Israeli authorities have released about 45 prisoners who were taken into custody from the occupied West Bank.
The NGO said that some of the released prisoners had completed their sentences, while others were administrative detainees who were held without charge or trial.
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[GEO.TV] Lebanon’s health ministry said Israeli strikes killed two people in the country’s south on Wednesday, with Hezbollah announcing the deaths of two of its fighters, the latest cross-border violence amid fears of a full-blown regional war.
The Lebanese health ministry said in a statement that an "Israeli enemy" strike on the southern town of Marjayoun killed one person and wounded nine others, revising downwards a previous death toll of three.
The official National News Agency said an "enemy drone targeted a car" in the town square, a usually busy area home to shops.
The health ministry also said one person was killed and another wounded in an Israeli strike in south Lebanon’s Blida village.
The Israeli military said in a statement that its air force had "struck Hezbollah military structures" including in the Blida area.
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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
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..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
