[RedState] This whole story reeks. I'm glad they didn't charge him
No charges will be filed against a Special Forces soldier based at Fort Liberty, North Carolina, who shot and killed a Chechen man who was on his property doing survey work for a utility subcontractor, the Moore County (NC) Sheriff's Office announced Tuesday, citing the North Carolina Castle Doctrine.
As RedState reported in late May, Ramzan Daraev was spotted taking photographs of the soldier's home around 8:15 PM on Friday, May 3, and reportedly became aggressive toward the soldier when approached. When law enforcement authorities arrived at the home in the Carthage area they found Daraev's body approximately 250 yards from the roadway, along a powerline on the property.
At the time of the initial report, there were several red flags in the information reported by the Sheriff's Office:
Daraev was not in possession of any utility equipment, utility clothing, or identification.
The only identifying document found was Daraev's international driver's license, which was on his car and not on his person.
Daraev was working at dusk on a Friday night, without notifying the homeowner of his presence.
There are additional red flags and interesting bits of information in the (long) press release from MCSO:
Daraev was first spotted by the soldier/homeowner's wife, who reported that he was taking pictures near their residence while she was outside with their children.
The homeowner, unarmed, approached Daraev to ask what he was doing, then asked him to leave.
Darev became aggressive, refused to leave, and said he was a Chechen who'd fought in Ukraine for the Russian military.
Two calls were made from the home to 911; approximately 20 minutes elapsed between the time of the first call and the shooting.
After the first 911 call the homeowner went inside his home to get a handgun for safety, then went back outside to keep an eye on Daraev until law enforcement arrived.
After the second 911 call (13 minutes after the first) Daraev lunged at the homeowner several times, and the homeowner fired multiple shots at Daraev.
Whether on his person or in his vehicle, the only items Daraev had with him were his international drivers license and his cell phone.
Daraev was wearing black shorts, a burgundy t-shirt, and flip flops at the time he died.
Daraev was driving his personal vehicle, a Chevrolet Spark.
Daraev entered the United States through the southern border in December, 2022.
Daraev had an encounter with a patrol deputy about two hours before he was shot, but as Daraev wasn't doing anything illegal he was not detained.
Investigators (including federal and military agencies) have not been able to access Daraev's phone.
Daraev was working with Cable Warriors, a subcontractor of Utilities One, as part of Brightspeed's fiberoptic project in Moore County.
Among the digital evidence: electrical infrastructure maps related to the utility expansion provided to employees from a Russian cloud server.
Business records obtained by RedState reveal that Cable Warriors was incorporated in late 2022 in New Jersey by Silvia Midari, whose prior job history includes a stint as a cashier at the Pantry Store and Arnold's Restaurant on Cape Cod. While Midari lists her title as "Business Development Specialist" on LinkedIn, incorporation documents show her as the CEO and sole shareholder.
Midari's LinkedIn profile also reveals a six-year gap between her employment in Eastern Europe with a translation company immediately prior to her relocation to New Jersey and the founding of Cable Warriors.
Utilities One, the main contractor, is also tied to Eastern Europe. Fox News' Jennifer Griffin reported in May:
Utilities One [is] a foreign-registered New Jersey-based company founded in 2016 by a young CEO from Moldova, who founded the firm three years after moving to the U.S. and working as a dishwasher and selling ice in Alaska. The company was incorporated on December 20th, 2023.
The company's vice president of fulfillment and infrastructure is from Russia as well.
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Reeks right down to the 'utility' company (Cable Warriors) the Chechen worked for, Frank.
That group is a very interesting 'mix' using Russian Cloud Servers for their data.
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It would be interesting to see how many others from Ft. Bragg lived in the area, especially those from the area of Smoke Bomb Hill. Background folders on family of Special Operators in your database is always useful when contemplating future interrogations, dangles and conversions. Chechen links to possible FSB collectors seems an interesting avenue of inquiry...
[NY Post] Cleaning out the stables Columbia University president Minouche Shafik has resigned from the elite institution, according to a report.
Shafik is stepping away after just one year at the helm, which was marked by constant — and sometimes destructive — anti-Israel protests, the Free Beacon reported.
The embattled president had been facing mounting calls to resign for months over her handling of the protests, which broke out following Hamas’ Oct. 7 invasion of Israel.
She was accused of “gross negligence” while testifying before Congress after refusing to say whether the phrase “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” should be considered antisemitic.
Critics claimed Shafik was not sufficiently cracking down on campus protests until the tent encampments took over the Ivy League school’s lawn in the weeks leading up to graduation.
Hundreds of students were arrested on trespassing charges for refusing to pack up, but the demonstrations escalated when a destructive mob illegally took over the Hamilton Hall academic building in April.
Shafik’s resignation comes just one week after three university deans resigned from Columbia following the exposure of their “very troubling” text chain that disparaged Israeli and Jewish students’ fears of rising anti-Semitism on campus.
Susan Chang-Kim, Matthew Patashnick and Cristen Kromm messaged vomit emojis and accused Jewish students of asserting “privilege” during a panel discussion the month prior about antisemitism on campus stoked by Israel’s war against Hamas.
Shafik’s departure comes just three weeks before the start of the fall semester.
[Geo.TV] A report published in US-based news publication Politico has claimed that the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
...Crown Prince and modernizer of Saudi Arabia as of 2016. The Turks hate him, so he must be all right, despite the occasional brutal murder of Qatar-owned journalists... (MBS) is at risk of liquidation because of his push for normalisation of ties with Israel.
The report said the Saudi crown prince told members of US Congress that he was putting his life in danger by pursuing a grand bargain with the US and Israel that includes normalising Saudi-Israeli ties.
According to Politico, MBS, referencing the slain Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat — who was assassinated after making a peace deal with Israel — questioned, "What did the US do to protect him?"
He also opened up about the threats he is facing in explaining why any such deal should include a true path to a Paleostinian state, especially as 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... war has now intensified Arab fury against Israel.
The report said the discussion with MBS was revealed to Politico's correspondent by a former US official briefed on the conversations and two other people with knowledge of them.
Despite the risks, the crown prince is willing to pursue the mega-deal with the US and Israel, viewing it as crucial to his country's future, according to the report.
However,
you can observe a lot just by watching... the report adds that the Israeli government has been unwilling to incorporate a credible path to a Paleostinian state in the agreement.
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I think it's a matter of who has the will. The Muslims have the will to use violence and intimidation to achieve their goals. The Germans don't seem to have the will to defend themselves. They don't even recognize the threat.
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I'm curious about what the GayGB's Kommisar has to say about this.
[NationalReview] A Los Angeles federal district court ordered the University of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, Los Angeles, to stop allowing and assisting in self-described pro-Paleostinian activists' creation of what amount to Jew-free zones on campus, holding that the university may not offer classes if Jewish students are prohibited from participating in the programming.
Those who occupied encampments on the university's property disallowed Jews from passing through the quad unless they would disavow Israel and, by extension, their Jewish faith. UCLA's position had been that the encampments preventing Jewish students from accessing certain areas of campus were not its responsibility.
Despite that contention, the university erected metal barriers around the encampment and directed Jewish students to leave, according to a lawsuit.
''In the year 2024, in the United States of America, in the State of California, Jewish students were excluded from portions of the UCLA campus because they refused to denounce their faith,'' Judge Mark C. Scarsi wrote on Tuesday. ''This fact is so unimaginable and so abhorrent to our constitutional guarantee of freedom that it bears repeating, Jewish students were excluded from portions of the UCLA campus because they refused to denounce their faith. UCLA does not dispute this. Instead, UCLA claims that it has no responsibility to protect the religious freedom of its Jewish students because the exclusion was engineered by third-party protesters. But under constitutional principles, UCLA may not allow services to some students when UCLA knows that other students are excluded on religious grounds, regardless of who engineered the exclusion.''
While many lawsuits filed against universities have dealt with civil-rights issues, Scarsi's UCLA ruling mentions the Free Exercise Clause of the First
''Here, UCLA made available certain of its programs, activities, and campus areas when certain students, including Plaintiffs, were excluded because of their genuinely held religious beliefs,'' Scarsi wrote. He added that the plaintiffs had ''put forward a colorable claim that UCLA's acts violated their Free Exercise Clause rights.''
Scarsi noted in his ruling that the encampment on Royce Quad, which began on April 25, blocked access to several major campus buildings, including classrooms and a library.
Organizers of the encampment established checkpoints at which those who opposed the continued existence of Israel were given wristbands and allowed entry. Those who did not support the destruction of the Jewish state could not pass through.
Given that support for Israel’s existence is a core tenet of Jewish religious belief, the practice amounted to prohibiting Jews from entering campus buildings.
One plaintiff, a Jewish UCLA student, told the court he was unable to access the library "because he understood that traversing the encampment, which blocked entrance to the library, carried a risk of violence." Another said she "decided not to traverse Royce Quad because of her knowledge that she would have to disavow her religious beliefs to do so."
UCLA argued that the plaintiffs lacked standing because they could not demonstrate a likelihood that this would happen again. Scarsi, addressing that claim, wrote that it is "well settled that evidence of past instances of enforcement is important in a standing inquiry." He also noted that, despite the university’s creation of a campus safety office, the fact that students violated UCLA’s protest rules three more times since the school changed policies is evidence enough that it may happen again.
The university’s administrators, Scarsi wrote, "are prohibited from offering any ordinarily available programs, activities, or campus areas to students if Defendants know the ordinarily available programs, activities, and campus areas are not fully and equally accessible to Jewish students."
Becket Fund president Mark Rienzi, whose organization filed the suit alongside Clement & Murphy PLLC, said in a statement that the ruling — which represents the first injunction against an American university over an encampment — is a step toward ensuring Jews, like all Americans, have their constitutional rights protected.
"Shame on UCLA for letting antisemitic thugs terrorize Jews on campus," Rienzi said. "Today’s ruling says that UCLA’s policy of helping antisemitic activists target Jews is not just morally wrong but a gross constitutional violation. UCLA should stop fighting the Constitution and start protecting Jews on campus."
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Looks like the taxpayers of CA are going to have to fund another very expensive program. Like listening to radical environmentalists and not clear the undergrowth and brush from around power lines. The cleanup is always far more costly.
[GEO.TV] Iran is not considering sending representatives to the upcoming talks in Qatar for a ceasefire in Gaza.
Iran’s mission to the UN told the AP in a statement: “We have not engaged in the indirect cease-fire negotiations between Hamas and the regime, facilitated by Egypt, Qatar, and the US, and hold no intention for involvement in such negotiations.”
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Iran will be represented in these talks by USA.
[hodhodyemennews] The American ''CBS'' channel, citing a Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... representative in 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... , reported that the Paleostinian movement would not participate in the talks scheduled for Thursday regarding a ceasefire 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 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... .
Ahmed Abdel Hadi, Hamas' representative in Lebanon, confirmed to CBS News that the movement's delegation would not attend the resumption of ceasefire negotiations with Israel on Thursday.
Abdel Hadi pointed out that Hamas has not received assurances that ''Israel'' would commit to negotiating based on a previous proposal dating back to July 2.
''We are not against negotiations, and we were flexible in the previous rounds, but Netanyahu and his government rejected the July 2 proposal, imposed new conditions, and assassinated the head of our movement,'' Abdul Hadi said, in reference to the liquidation of Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... , Head of the Hamas political bureau, in Tehran late last month.
Abdul Hadi added, ''Therefore, we will not participate in the August 15 talks, and we will return to the starting point.''
He explained that Hamas is ready to meet with mediators after Thursday's talks in 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... if the occupation provides a ''serious response,'' according to a diplomat familiar with the talks.
Abdul Hadi said, ''We are serious about reaching an agreement because our responsibility towards our people is to stop the massacres and famine war committed by the occupation against our people.''
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I always say Qatar is where the Jiahidis have their liaison offices.
So if Hamas is not attending Peace Talks, and Iran is not attending Peace Talks, who the hell are the israelis negotiating with in Qatar?
[JPost] Denial: of course. Likelihood: High The report first originated from a Fox News article, citing a report in the Kuwaiti newspaper Al Jarida.
This article has since been revised. Comments on revisions are at the bottom of the report.
The US National Security Council denied reports on Wednesday that a high-ranking American security delegation, mediated by Oman, secretly traveled to Tehran to share information in an effort to appease Iran.
The report first originated from a Fox News article, which has since been taken down, citing a report in the Kuwaiti newspaper Al Jarida, which allegedly spoke to an unnamed source in Iran's Supreme National Security Council.
"This is categorically false," a US National Security Council spokesperson told The Jerusalem Post. "Harumph!"
Fox News reported that the delegation allegedly sought to deliver messages to Tehran in order to de-escalate the tensions in the region between Iran and Israel.
According to the report, this delegation was sent to convey to Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei that the Biden-Harris administration was "kept in the dark" by Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the assassinations of Hamas's Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah's Fuad Shukr. Israel took responsibility for the assassination of Shukr but has yet to comment on the death of Haniyeh in Tehran.
Allegations behind the death of Hamas leader Haniyeh
Haniyeh was killed by an explosive device that was smuggled into his guesthouse in Tehran, the New York Times reported, and the Jerusalem Post independently confirmed. The bomb was hidden in June and utilized remote technology.
Fox News also reported on the recent development, noting that the American delegation was speculated to arrive in Iran through Turkey, landing at the Payam-e-Khorram Airport in Karaj last Thursday and engaging in a two-hour meeting with Iranian officials before returning to Turkey.
Allegedly, the American delegation presented a list with the names of ten Mossad agents within Iran whom the Americans believed were involved in the assassination, directly or indirectly.
The original version of this article included that the original Al Jarida report said that the Americans would have reportedly done this as a "good faith" initiative in response to Israel's strikes, which were carried out without American coordination. This article has been edited since.
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Wrong question. Right question: why would Mossad share sensitive info with DC boys?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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