[Hot Air] Roughly a year ago, the federal government established a fund intended to aid the civilian population of Afghanistan following Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from the country and the subsequent takeover by the Taliban. More than $3.5 billion was placed in the fund, transferred from frozen assets previously controlled by the Afghan government. It seemed like a productive and charitable way to handle the money at the time. But now, more than a year later, a government watchdog group has discovered that none of the money has been distributed to aid the people of Afghanistan and there are no safeguards in place to prevent the Taliban from taking the money for themselves. To put it mildly, this is no way to run an airline.
[IsraelTimes] 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... ’s Iran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...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 legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. 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 They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... rebels on Saturday released a video simulating an assault by the Iran-backed rebel group on an Israeli community, similar to the October 7 Hamas ...a regional Iranian catspaw,... -led attacks on southern Israeli communities, in which holy warriors massacred hundreds of civilians.
In the propaganda clip, Houthi commandos entered a mock town of three home-like tents. They then entered one of the tents, shooting at a poster of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before ripping it down and stomping on it.
Also inside were a pair of men dressed in ultra-Orthodox garb, apparently as a caricature of Jews. The two raised their hands and were taken by the soldiers before they eventually blew up the mockup.
There did not appear to be any purpose to the exercise beyond public relations, with Israel located some 1,700 kilometers (1,056 miles) away from the Yemeni border.
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[ColonelCassad] An interesting overview of the background to the current criminal uprising in Ecuador, which they still cannot suppress.
[IsraelTimes] Hamas ...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... runs a network in Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... that is commanded from Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... , Israel says as its intelligence agencies release new details on 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... -based terror organization’s attempts to attack Israeli targets abroad.
Most of the Lebanon-based commanders, including Saleh al-Arouri and Khalil Kharaz, were killed in recent Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s attributed to Israel, as it fights Hamas in the Gaza Strip and beyond.
The Hamas cells in Denmark, Germany and Holland, were arrested in December on suspicion of plotting to attack Jewish targets in Europe.
According to a statement released Saturday by the Prime Minister’s Office, the Mossad and Shin Bet intelligence agencies, together with foreign partners, have been able to build a "comprehensive and in-depth" picture of Hamas efforts to carry out attacks in Europe.
Israel has uncovered "details on theaters of operation, terror targets, and those involved in carrying out attacks — from Hamas commanders in Lebanon until the last of the attackers in the operational infrastructure," the statement says.
The network was planning to attack Israel’s embassy in Sweden, buy UAVs, and utilize criminal organizations in Europe to support attacks, according to the Prime Minister’s Office.
Related: Organization chart of Hamas in Europe can be seen here.
White House employees and staff from more than two dozen federal agencies are set to strike on Tuesday
The anonymous internal cabal calls itself 'Feds United for Peace'
The walk out will mark 100 days of Israel's siege on Gaza, which has killed upwards of 23,000 people, mostly civilians
It comes amid growing internal resentment toward the Biden administration's handling of the Middle East crisis
I think them walking off the job is a brilliant idea. It will identify those stupid enough to think their opinion matters to their employers, and will reduce the amount of harmful work being done by this administration.
The walk out is a drastic departure from how top federal employees have shown their disapproval toward White House policy in the past, which was typically reserved to media leaks or public resignations over policy.
But the organizers, who have remained anonymous, say they are intent on changing direction from within, and they expect 'easily hundreds' of staffers to join their efforts on Tuesday.
They say they have commitments from people inside 22 federal agencies for the strike, including from the Executive Office of the President, the National Security Agency, Homeland Security, Defense Department, and the FDA.
The Biden administration has so far sent upwards of $14 billion to Israel alongside significant military support.
[LegalInsurrection] Democrat Amanda Basse accused of sharing gross anti-Israel graphics, including one strongly suggesting Jews “weaponized their religion” to “ethnically cleanse Palestinians” in Gaza. Republican town leader calls on Basse to resign: “How can she continue to serve if this is how she feels about Jewish people in Barrington?”
[IsraelTimes] With former president stepping down amid controversies over antisemitism on campus and allegations of plagiarism, a new avalanche of hate speech has been unleashed
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A search of the internet reveals there was no trans march in Tokyo in 2023, though there was one in 2022. So the tweet lies.
Please check your sources better before posting vicious nonsense, Butch Spump3316. We already know the Queer movement has latched onto Jew-hate as a major way to ally themselves with the far left, instead of sticking to promoting their own special kind of love.
[OneIndia] ISIS (Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... ) had set its eyes on several places in Gujarat ...where rioting seems to be a traditional pastime... to carry out serial kabooms, Mohammad Shahnawaz Alam, a terror suspect associated in the Pune ISIS module case, has informed the NIA.
Reports in the Hindi media claim that he has made big revelations during the investigation that key locations that they wanted to target were: Ahmedabad, Gandhi Nagar, Surat, and Vadodara.
Shahnawaz Alam has confessed that they wanted to carry out blasts at Gujarat's BJP headquarters, RSS headquarters, Vishwa Hindu Gay Pareehad headquarters, High Court, District Court, universities, temples, mosques, Jewish places of worship, railway stations, and crowded markets.
Using rented bikes and scooters, they surveyed areas like Bohra Mosque, Dargah, Mazar of Ahmedabad, Dargah, and Sabarmati Ashram and recorded the places through their camera.
Alam has reportedly told the investigation agency that, acting on the instructions of his handler Abu SLearned Elders of Islamn, and in collaboration with his associates Rizwan Ali and Imran, the group aimed to target Ahmedabad, Vadodara, and Surat. The motive behind these attacks, as revealed by Alam, was to retaliate against the Godhra riots in Gujarat, the home state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, according to reports.
The snuffies arrived in Ahmedabad in January 2023, where they extensively documented various sites, including railway stations, cinema halls, universities, VIP and VVIP routes, politicians' houses, crowded markets, mosques, and historic landmarks like Sabarmati Ashram.
Then they moved to Gandhinagar, surveying the RSS office, VHP office, BJP office, Gujarat High Court, and District Sessions Court. Thereafter, they proceeded to Vadodara, conducting surveillance on the District Court, Civil Court, and Railway Station, the reports added.
Subsequently, the snuffies headed to Surat, capturing pictures of the Jewish Center and conducting reconnaissance at prominent temples, including Heera Bazaar, District Court, and the ISKCON Temple.
Upon returning to Mumbai, the snuffies compiled a comprehensive presentation, including photographs and videos of potential targets, which was forwarded to Abu SLearned Elders of Islamn. Notably, dozens of bomb-making photographs were discovered on Shahnawaz Alam's mobile phone.
Shahnawaz, also known as Shafi Ujjama, was a runaway listed on the NIA's most wanted. A reward of Rs 3 lakh was offered for his capture. In October, he and two accomplices were apprehended during joint operations conducted by the NIA, Delhi Police, and Pune Police.
Shahnawaz was a key figure in the Pune ISIS module case and had previously escaped police custody in Pune. Following his escape, he had been hiding in Delhi until his arrest.
A trained engineer, Shahnawaz first came to attention when two individuals, initially apprehended for cycle of violence theft in Pune, disclosed his involvement. Initially dismissed as common thieves, further interrogation revealed their ties to ISIS as part of a sleeper cell. Subsequently, the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad.
Predictable follow up to this story from yesterday.
[IsraelTimes] A Hamas ...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... official thanks Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... for sending medicine to 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 "in light of the many risks that threaten the lives of Paleostinians."
"Some medicine will be used to treat Israeli prisoners," Osama Hamdan, a Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... -based Hamas leader, tells a news conference in Beirut.
Israel had announced yesterday that it had made an arrangement with Qatar that will allow the delivery of medicines to hostages held in Gaza by Hamas, the Paleostinian terror group that rules the Strip.
Hamdan says the priority is the citizens of Gaza.
"First, we believe our people are more deserving and in need of medicine, and secondly, there are security issues this presents."
Time to do 'the Houti'?
[WallStreetPR - FoxNews] Top Iran experts in the U.S. and in Israel are warning President Biden that his administration’s strategy of de-escalation and containment targeting the world’s worst state-sponsor of terrorism – the Islamic Republic of Iran – has failed and America needs to reestablish deterrence against Tehran as fears of the regime obtaining a nuclear device grow.
Alarming reports about Iran moving at an astonishingly fast pace to possess a nuclear weapon have emerged since last month.
In December, Reuters reported that a confidential IAEA report released to member states said it had “increased its production of highly enriched uranium, reversing a previous output reduction from mid-2023.” Reuters also said in its report “that Iran is enriching to up to 60%, close to the roughly 90% that is weapons grade, at its Pilot Fuel Enrichment Plant (PFEP) in its sprawling Natanz complex and at its Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant (FFEP), which is dug into a mountain.”
In a report titled “How quickly could Iran make nuclear weapons today?” published earlier this month by David Albright, a physicist and founder and president of the Institute for Science and International Security, stated, “The long pole in the tent of building nuclear weapons is essentially complete. Iran can quickly make enough weapon-grade uranium for many nuclear weapons, something it could not do in 2003.” Albright said Iran had a “crash nuclear weapons program” up until 2003, which it then changed to a “more dispersed nuclear weapons effort.”
In his report, Albright, a former U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq, wrote, “Today, it would need only about a week to produce enough for its first nuclear weapon. It could have enough weapon-grade uranium for six weapons in one month, and after five months of producing weapon-grade uranium, it could have enough for 12.”
Asked by Fox News Digital about Iran’s nuclear ambitions, a State Department spokesperson said, “As the President and the Secretary have made clear, the United States will ensure one way or another that Iran will never obtain a nuclear weapon. We continue to use a variety of tools in pursuit of that goal, and all options remain on the table. As the Secretary has said, we always prefer diplomacy to achieve that goal, but given Iran’s nuclear escalations and its failure to cooperate with the IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency], unfortunately we are far away from anything like that right now.”
Gabriel Noronha, a former U.S. Department State adviser on Iran, told Fox News Digital, “Biden’s hope has been to bribe Iran not to advance its nuclear program through economic concessions and non-enforcement of sanctions. Iran advanced its nuclear program anyway and pocketed the extra revenue from oil sales to increase funding to its terror proxies. We have had zero wins on the Iran file in the past three years, but seen their strength return from their weakened state during the policy of maximum pressure.”
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Giving/releasing billions as a tactic to convince some of the most ardent, dishonest, violent, anti-western people in the world to behave, this is the genius "strategy" Bullsh*t. This the paper-thin cover story for being utterly corrupted and compromised by Iranian assets embedded in the demokrat firmament for decades.
[Ynet] Despite Hezbollah trying to distance itself from healthcare workers killed by IDF fire in southern Lebanon, mourners raise terror group's flags at funerals
The funerals of two Lebanese medics, who were killed in IDF strikes, were held on Friday in southern Lebanon. The images that came from the funerals may strengthen the claim that the slain "medics" are members of Hezbollah.
At both funerals, the yellow flags of Hezbollah were displayed and the speeches that were given were similar in their wording to the speeches given at the funerals of Hezbollah members who were killed during the war.
Hezbollah attempted to obscure the identity of the two medics, Ali Mahmoud al-Sheikh Ali and Sajd Ramzi Qassem, on Thursday evening by reporting at the time that they were two medical personnel from the Islamic Health Organization.
The organization was founded by Hezbollah in 1984 and deals with health services, medicine and psychological counseling. The photos of the two were published on the pages of the terrorist organization on social media, but Hezbollah insignia was absent from the photos.
Additionally, IDF Arabic Spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Avichay Adraee posted on Thursday evening the invitation that was distributed for the funeral of one of the medics. Adraee presented two versions of the invitation and claimed that it was first posted bearing the symbol of Hezbollah, and then it was deleted and an invitation to the funeral was distributed with the symbol of the Islamic Health Organization.
Adraee wrote in Arabic, "What is Hezbollah trying to hide about the 'civilians' who were allegedly killed while staying at a medical center in southern Lebanon? What is Hezbollah trying to hide about their identity or the role of this medical center?"
At the funerals held on Friday, the organizational affiliation of the two seemed apparently clear. At the funeral of Sajd Ramzi Qasem, which took place in the town of Ayta al-Shab, the Hezbollah symbol was added to his photos. At the funeral of Ali Mahmoud al-Sheikh Ali, which took place in the town of Rashaf, residents could be seen waving the picture of the slain medic alongside Hezbollah flags.
This serves as a reminder of the appreciation that Hezbollah operatives in southern Lebanon are given in various institutions, including schools, and even when those killed and presented as innocent civilians. More often than not, it may be that terrorist operatives have assimilated into the civilian population.
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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
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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
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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.
[Hot Air] Roughly a year ago, the federal government established a fund intended to aid the civilian population of Afghanistan following Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from the country and the subsequent takeover by the Taliban. More than $3.5 billion was placed in the fund, transferred from frozen assets previously controlled by the Afghan government. It seemed like a productive and charitable way to handle the money at the time. But now, more than a year later, a government watchdog group has discovered that none of the money has been distributed to aid the people of Afghanistan and there are no safeguards in place to prevent the Taliban from taking the money for themselves. To put it mildly, this is no way to run an airline.
...a regional Iranian catspaw,...
...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
