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-Land of the Free
After video of armed Venezuelan gang shared by local official goes viral, Colorado city takes action
[Foxnews] Aurora, Colorado Mayor Mike Coffman announced on Friday that the city is starting the process of clearing the apartment buildings where transnational armed gang Tren de Aragua has taken over.

In a statement posted to Facebook, Coffman shared "the Aurora City Attorney's Office is preparing court documents to request an emergency court order to clear the apartment buildings where Venezuelan gang activity has been occurring by declaring the properties a ‘Criminal Nuisance.’"

"This will require a municipal judge to issue the order with the goal of getting these properties back under the control of the property owners. In the meantime, the law enforcement task force set up to disrupt and arrest Venezuelan gang members in these buildings will continue its operation. I strongly believe that the best course of action is to shut these building[s] down and make sure that this never happens again," concluded Coffman.

One has already been picked up. In an email to Fox News Digital, Aurora Police Department confirmed that Tren de Aragua leader "Cookie Monster" is currently in custody in relation to a shooting on July 28.

Fox 31 reports that the men seen in the video that has gone viral are armed members of the Tren de Aragua gang, according to Department of Homeland Security sources.

Alleged Venezuelan gang members armed and dangerous in Colorado apartment complexVideo

The move to apprehend the armed Venezuelan gang members comes after a blitz of national media attention on the city of Aurora thanks to the efforts of Council Member Danielle Jurinsky.

After assisting residents Cindy and Edward Romero on Wednesday, they were able to share a video which has since gone viral online and on the air.

Jurinsky was soon featured on the Ingraham Angle telling the Romeros' story, and Cindy Romero joined America Reports on Friday to bring attention to the problem.

It is unclear when exactly the armed gang members will be apprehended and the buildings will be cleared.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/31/2024 03:16 || Comments || Link || [11137 views] Top|| File under: Narcos

#1  So the illegals have no rights to arms/weapons. However, in gun grabbing Colorado, they're more concerned about citizen than the invaders.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/31/2024 14:25 Comments || Top||


Bangladesh
BNP leaders and activists have been accused of taking over various businesses
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 08/31/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11128 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistain Proxies


Britain
Britain 'deeply concerned' by Israel's operation in occupied West Bank
That’s nice. Feel better after your little eruption, Sir Keir? Tell you what: when Britain can afford to put actual sailors on actual, sea-going ships, then we’ll call you.
The British government said on Friday it was "deeply concerned" by Israel's ongoing operation in the occupied West Bank, warning that risk of instability was serious and that there was an urgent need for de-escalation.

"We continue to call on Israeli authorities to exercise restraint, adhere to international law, and clamp down on the actions of those who seek to inflame tensions," a spokesperson for Britain's Foreign Office said in a statement.
Posted by: Fred || 08/31/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11131 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Israel is deeply concerned by UK government's oppression of British Isles indigenous population.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 08/31/2024 2:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Yes, Britain needs to shut the fuck up with this high morality line. Their moral authority is gone.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/31/2024 11:09 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
How Venezuela's Socialists Unleashed the Tren de Aragua, America's Fastest Growing Gang Threat
[Breitbart] The Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan transnational crime syndicate now terrorizing several U.S. cities, established a firm criminal presence after socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro emptied Venezuela’s prisons in late 2023.

In recent years, the Tren de Aragua spread its presence across several Latin American countries such as Colombia, Chile, and Peru before reaching the United States, with several of its members passing through the U.S. southern border. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) began tracking Tren de Aragua encounters at the border as early as March 2023.

The gang, which originally began in 2012 as a local trade union in the eponymous state of Aragua, evolved into a full-fledged crime syndicate over the past decade under the auspices of the Maduro regime, with which it is believed to maintain deep ties. Tren de Aragua’s extensive list of crimes are believed to range from theft, homicide, extortion, contraband, and kidnapping to drug, human, and arms trafficking.

The gang achieved its dramatic expansion notably in part due to the Venezuelan socialists’ prison policies, which granted the country’s main gangs full internal control of the inmate facilities, ruling them under a pseudo-fiefdom system locally known as the Pranato (“Pranate”).

The Maduro regime’s lenient prison policies, together with the Pranate system — which features its own extensive lexicon based on the language of the pran, or “thug” — effectively allowed gang leaders to orchestrate criminal activities from within prisons. The gangs rampantly engaging in extortion, kidnappings, and robberies, among other crimes, with apparent impunity, while the Venezuelan National Guard safeguards the gang-controlled prisons from outside attack.

Under the Tren de Aragua’s Pranate of the Tocorón prison, located in Aragua, the gang’s founder and leader Héctor “The Child” Guerrero oversaw the group’s criminal activities and its international expansion across Latin America, which reportedly began in 2018.

Guerrero, as the prison’s pran, also oversaw Tocorón’s internal transformation, turning it into the main headquarters of the gang with “amenities” including its own zoo, baseball field, bars, a casino, a nightclub, a bank, a pool, playgrounds, and its own cryptocurrency farm.

The gang’s international expansion is believed to have started in places such as the Colombian town of La Parada, where the gang engaged in the extortion, smuggling, and sexual trafficking of Venezuelan migrants fleeing from socialism in what is now considered to be the worst migrant crisis in the Western Hemisphere.

In September, the Maduro regime “raided” Tocorón and “dismantled” the gang after years of apparent indifference towards Tren de Aragua and its extensive criminal activities. The “raid” concluded with Tocorón emptied of its inmates as part of a broader “security” initiative known as the Cacique Guaicaipuro Liberation Operation that resulted in other prisons, such as the Tocuyito prison — at the time Venezuela’s most populated prison — also emptied of its inmates.

Experts believe that the Maduro regime negotiated with Guerrero before the “raid,” allowing him and his top brass to safely escape through a series of tunnels that connected the inmate center with the nearby Lake Valencia. Gang members had frequently used the tunnels to freely come and go from the prison at their leisure. Guerrero’s whereabouts remain unknown at press time.

Authorities from the Cook County Sheriff’s Office in Chicago, Illinois, reportedly confirmed the presence of Tren de Aragua’s gang members in the city since at least October 2023 — weeks after the “raid” of Tocorón.

In the months following the “raid,” other U.S. cities began reporting criminal acts linked to the gang. U.S. authorities have confirmed the active presence of Tren de Aragua in other cities such as Miami, New York, Dallas, and Atlanta. According to internal documentation from the Department of Homeland Security, Tren de Aragua has given the “green light” to its members to attack U.S. law enforcement officers.

The city of Aurora, Colorado, which neighbors sanctuary city Denver, also reported the presence of the gang in its territory, taking over entire apartment complexes. The Aurora police department announced last week the creation of a joint task force with both Colorado’s state patrol and the state’s Bureau of Investigation to address the growing threat of Tren de Aragua in the state.

In May, law enforcement authorities in Louisiana dismantled a sex trafficking network linked to Tren de Aragua that arranged for its victims to be smuggled into the United States after teaching them how to request asylum at the southern border. The sex trafficking gang then forced the victims into prostitution to pay for the “debt” accrued from smuggling them into the United States.

The Maduro regime’s official “stance” on the Tren de Aragua appears to vary depending on what suits them at a specific moment. Several of the rogue socialist regime’s members, such as Foreign Minister Yvan Gil and Attorney General Tarek William Saab repeatedly insisted throughout the year that Tren de Aragua “does not exist” and is part of an alleged international smear campaign to hurt the rogue regime’s image.

Last week, Gil claimed that Tren de Aragua — which according to him does not exist — is allegedly working with the Venezuelan opposition to stage a coup against dictator Nicolás Maduro following his fraudulent presidential “reelection” in July.

Reports published in April indicated that the Maduro regime employed the gang to hunt down Venezuelan dissidents in foreign countries. Venezuelan dissident Ronald Ojeda was abducted from his residence in Santiago, Chile, in late February by individuals linked to the Tren de Aragua. Ojeda’s body was found buried inside a suitcase under a concrete structure ten days after his abduction.

In April, Argentine Security Minister Patricia Bullrich denounced Tren de Aragua as a state-sponsored terrorist group, asserting that its criminal actions as “not autonomous” from that of the socialist Maduro regime.

“The Tren de Aragua does not strike in just any way. The Tren de Aragua strikes with a procedure, with a matrix of operation, with a logic that always does exactly the same thing,” Bullrich explained at the time. “It settles in a certain place. It comes with a group in general of Venezuelan nationality.”

“Consequently, it is important to analyze whether it is an organization that is autonomous from the state or not autonomous from the state. I tend to think that it is not autonomous from the state,” she continued.

The Tocorón and Tocuyito prisons emptied by the Venezuelan socialists last year will soon serve as the Maduro regime’s new “re-education centers” for anti-socialists. The refurbishing is part of the Maduro regime’s ongoing brutal crackdown following the July 28 sham presidential election, which Maduro fraudulently insists he “won.”

The arrival of dissidents to the two prisons reportedly started this week — including groups of minors that the Maduro regime has detained through the ongoing dissident crackdown.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/31/2024 08:55 || Comments || Link || [11133 views] Top|| File under: Narcos

#1  Not a gang. A foreign terrorist group. Treat it as such.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/31/2024 10:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Something, something, Venezuela's violent crime rate lowest in 10 years?

By the way, worth reminding, this is Madura's work too. A Kamala Harris endorsed Madura.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/31/2024 11:00 Comments || Top||

#3  I see training opportunities for Seal Team 6...

(Posse comit-who?)
Posted by: Mercutio || 08/31/2024 11:26 Comments || Top||

#4  Jared Polis says it's all in our imagination.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 08/31/2024 11:46 Comments || Top||

#5  Well, it won't be when they realize the last thing democrats want on the news is a direct action or the closing of I-70/Colfax/South Entrance to Denver International by armed illegal gangster terrorists and ask for ever increasing payments of Danegold or else.

Because with a wishy washy statement like that they will smell the fear.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/31/2024 12:43 Comments || Top||

#6  #4 DB: Like Oblahblah making love to a man every day in his mind
Posted by: Frank G || 08/31/2024 13:22 Comments || Top||

#7  I see training opportunities for Seal Team 6...

Indeed. Posse Commitatus applies to the Army. Enacted to prohibit a repeat of the Army being used as police in the South in the aftermath of the Civil War. It doesn't apply to the Navy unless they can find a judge to 'opinion' that it does.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/31/2024 14:23 Comments || Top||

#8  why the creation of a joint task force? Why not just call in ICE?
Waiting so long and allowing these guys to get so well established they had to ignore many signs of crime.
Those in charge not paying attention....
Posted by: Jan || 08/31/2024 17:11 Comments || Top||

#9  This is Venezuela declaring war on the USA
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 08/31/2024 22:11 Comments || Top||

#10  The Maduro regime’s lenient prison policies...
Not a place where the US should be throwing stones.

This is Venezuela declaring war on the USA
Nah, it's just globalization. Globalization is flow. All sorts of flows - goods, money, people. And crime. Noting personal, it's just business.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/31/2024 22:27 Comments || Top||


Europe
EU foreign policy chief admits he lacks votes for sanctioning Israeli ministers
[IsraelTimes] Borrell says ‘the process has been launched,’ but doesn’t have unanimity needed for bloc-wide designation of Smotrich, Ben Gvir; member states can still act individually

Posted by: trailing wife || 08/31/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11128 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  To me Borrell is just as much a terrorist as Ismail Haniyeh.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 08/31/2024 2:14 Comments || Top||

#2  ^Of course, my opinion doesn't count. Russian opinion re Joselito, on the other hand ...
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 08/31/2024 2:25 Comments || Top||


AfD set to be 1st far-right party since WWII to win majority in German state parliament
[IsraelTimes] Faction predicted to come first in at least 1 of 2 elections in eastern states Sunday, upping pressure on Scholz’s federal coalition over economy, immigration, support for Ukraine
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/31/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11137 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Polls see the AfD at 30%+, possibly a plurality but far from a majority in a proportional representation system.

In Thuringia Scholz' party and the Greens are allies of the anti-Ukraine and pro-Russian Communist Party of East Germany.

In Saxonia they are the allies of the ant-Ukraine and
pro-Russian Christian Democrat state premier Kretschmer.

Since the Corbynization of the AfD the only substantial policy dispute is Green climate grift, which the AfD still opposes.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 08/31/2024 6:49 Comments || Top||


#3  "But, teacher... if fascism's blue,
Then what about Red you-know-who?"
[the Democrat ass
at the head of the class
bucks and kicks that kid dead]
Fact-check: True!
Posted by: Pancho Poodle8452 || 08/31/2024 17:48 Comments || Top||


Germany Again Deporting Afghan Criminals
[Epoch Times] Germany resumed flying convicted Afghan criminals to their home country on Friday, as Berlin reversed its policy on deportations to the Taliban-run nation. Der Spiegel reported that a flight from Leipzig to Kabul took off on Friday morning with 28 convicted criminals aboard after months of secret negotiations mediated by Qatar.

Government spokesperson Steffen Hebestreit described the deportees as convicted criminals, but as yet hasn’t clarified their offenses.

Olaf Scholz’s coalition government came under pressure to take a tougher stance on migration following an ISIS-linked mass stabbing at a "Festival of Diversity" in Solingen a week ago, which left three people dead and eight others wounded, and an Afghan man knifing a German policeman to death in Mannheim in June.

There has also been debate over immigration ahead of regional elections taking place on Sunday in Saxony and Thuringia.

The anti-immigration Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) party is expected to do well in those eastern regions, with Scholz’s coalition government braced for substantial losses.

A strong showing for AfD would give the right-wing party a huge boost a year before the next national election.

In a bid to curb losses at those elections, Scholz’s government has announced tighter asylum and residency laws and procedures, including lowering the threshold for "severe deportation," when the deportee has committed a crime involving a weapon or dangerous tool.
Geo TV adds:
"These were Afghan nationals, all of whom were convicted offenders who had no right to stay in Germany and against whom deportation orders had been issued," government front man Steffen Hebestreit said in a statement.

A chartered 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...
Airways flight bound for Kabul took off from Leipzig airport just before 0500 GMT with 28 Afghans on board, Der Spiegel magazine said, citing security sources.

The operation was the result of two months of "secret negotiations" in which Qatar acted as the go-between between Berlin and the Taliban authorities, Spiegel reported.

Hebestreit said Germany had "asked key regional partners for support in order to facilitate the deportations", without giving more details.

Germany completely stopped deportations to Afghanistan and closed its embassy in Kabul following the Taliban administration taking power in 2021.

Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said Thursday that Germany would resume expulsions to Syria and Afghanistan "very soon", as part of a package of measures to tighten security and asylum policies.
Posted by: Bobby || 08/31/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11128 views] Top|| File under: Taliban/IEA

#1  We've gotta protect our phony baloney jobs!
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/31/2024 6:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Let us not forget that average, normal law-abiding Afghans' attitudes are hostile and evil by Western standards..

These people did nothing wrong, both subjectively and according to the legal and ethical consensus in the Islamic world.

Islam teaches them that everything and everyone in defeated enemy nations is theirs. They acted accordingly.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 08/31/2024 8:15 Comments || Top||


Germany Vows ''Knife Control'' After ISIS Refugee Slashes Throats at Diversity Festival
That’ll fix the problem, fer shure. Who’s up for Kaffee und Kuchen?”
[GATESTONEINSTITUTE] After laying a white rose at the site of the Diversity Festival slashing that left three dead and eight maimed, Chancellor Olaf Scholz promised rapid action would be taken against knives.

Right now, people in Germany can carry knives up to 4.7 inches long. The law will be modified so that they can only carry knives up to 2.4 inches long. No one appears to have considered the possibility that Moslem hard boyz on the way to killing as many infidels as possible might violate the law and carry a concealed knife of 4 inches or longer. Such thoughts are unthinkable.

There were 13,844 "knife crime" incidents in Germany in 2023, which the authorities are blaming on the existence of knives and not the perpetrators, who are reportedly mostly young Moslem men.

But locating the source of the problem is probably "not a very helpful insight," In the UK, people sharing such insights are being locked up even as Islamic hard boyz are being freed.
Posted by: Fred || 08/31/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11136 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Blaming car manufactures for DUI deaths.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/31/2024 6:42 Comments || Top||

#2  Next up spatula control, and (goes for Eric Idle voice) "poin-ted sticks".
Posted by: ed in texas || 08/31/2024 8:29 Comments || Top||

#3  Who’s up for Kaffee und Kuchen?

Forks are dangerous weapons...
Posted by: European Conservative || 08/31/2024 9:44 Comments || Top||

#4  Prob ban shaving next...
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/31/2024 10:04 Comments || Top||

#5  Of course they do. Of course.

Fantasia Theory. See, at the voice of the meuzzin knives just self animate and do naughty things. Much easier than the government telling the good people to get fucked.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/31/2024 10:08 Comments || Top||

#6  muslims (adherents to sharia) do not belong in any civilized country. deport them.
Posted by: irish rage boy || 08/31/2024 11:39 Comments || Top||

#7  Dear peasant, don't step on an Orc
["Or, heaven forfend, feed one pork!"]
And be sure none are scorched
By an infidel torch
As you're gently retrieving your fork.
Posted by: Pancho Poodle8452 || 08/31/2024 18:19 Comments || Top||

#8  "But Officer, it's not a knife. It's a tactical spork."
Posted by: SteveS || 08/31/2024 18:53 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Harris campaign hires Egyptian American lawyer from Michigan to lead Arab outreach
Jobs for friends? It doesn’t sound like the lady is going to make any difference on the political side.
[IsraelTimes] Ex-Homeland Security staffer Brenda Abdelall joins new Muslim outreach leader, as VP aims to win back voters in heavily Arab swing state angered by Biden’s support for Israel amid Gaza war

Kamala Harris
Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's' former mistress
’s campaign for US president has hired an Egyptian American lawyer and former Department of Homeland Security official to help lead outreach to Arab American voters who hold sway in some states that could help decide the November 5 election, the campaign said on Wednesday.

Brenda Abdelall would be tasked with shoring up support from a community frustrated with US support for Israel’s war 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...
. Vice President Harris, a Democrat, has already hired Afghan American lawyer Nasrina Bargzie for outreach to Moslem Americans.

Harris is in a tight race with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...
. Votes from Moslem and Arab Americans could help decide the outcome in battleground states like Michigan, which has seen street protests over the Israel-Hamas
..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
war.

US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. The man who made Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter look competent, if only by comparison....
won a large share of the Arab and Moslem vote in 2020, but his support for Israel despite the high corpse count in Gaza has frustrated many community members. They launched an "uncommitted" campaign against him in the Democratic nominating contests.

Michigan, where Harris is due to visit next week, is home to one of the largest Moslem and Arab American populations in the United States. More than 100,000 voters in the state’s primary cast their ballot "uncommitted" instead of for Biden, who later stepped aside as candidate on July 21.

Some activists say they hold Harris responsible for the Biden administration’s Israel policy and the crisis in Gaza.

Following last week’s Democratic convention, pro-Paleostinian activists said Harris had failed to demonstrate any break from the status quo.

While pro-Paleostinian voices are not expected to vote for Trump and have indicated no support for the Republican, some activists have launched a campaign called "Abandon Harris" and have urged their supporters to back third-party candidates.

Abdelall, Harris’s pick for Arab American outreach, most recently served as senior counselor to the Department of Homeland Security’s secretary. She joined the agency in January 2021, shortly after Trump left office, to be chief of staff for the department’s civil rights office.

Abdelall, who grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, previously ran a food blog and website focused on Middle Eastern cuisine. She has taught Middle Eastern cooking classes at a culinary school in northern Virginia.

Posted by: trailing wife || 08/31/2024 2024-08-31 01:22 || Comments || Link || [11132 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Wanna see some schnauzers? Check https://www.cbp.gov/medialibrary/assets/images/27307
Posted by: Sligum Hupomoling9524 || 08/31/2024 8:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Shameless, hijabless slut must be slaughtered.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 08/31/2024 10:38 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Seized Hamas documents show terror group inflated its support rates, IDF says
[IsraelTimes] Actual support for Hamas, Sinwar and Oct. 7 said to be far lower than published; army says influential Palestinian polling firm uninvolved in scam; lead pollster doubts claims

The Israel Defense Forces released Hamas
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
documents on Thursday that it said showed Hamas had secretly falsified its levels of public support in polls conducted by the Ramallah-based Paleostinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PCPSR).

The IDF said the documents do not prove that PCPSR was cooperating with Hamas, but rather that the terror group was conducting clandestine actions to fraudulently influence the results of the polls.

PCPSR, which is based in the West Bank city of Ramallah, is run by prominent Paleostinian pollster Khalil Shikaki.

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, the firm uses Gazook data collectors to conduct surveys in residential areas and shelters for displaced Paleostinians, and it is thought that Hamas was able to take advantage of this to manipulate the results later sent back to Shikaki.

The alleged Hamas security apparatus documents (English translated version), which the military said were found in Gaza, showed the results of a PCPSR poll from March 2024, with both the alleged original data and the falsified numbers.

One document, under "corrected result" — the figure that was published — gave Hamas’s approval rating in Gaza as 62 percent, compared with what was termed the "actual result" of 31.9% support; Hamas Gaza chief Yahya Sinwar’s "corrected" approval rating as 52%, up from 22.1% "actual" support; and there was a 71% "corrected" approval rating for the October 7 onslaught, up from an "actual" 30.7%.

"The survey results have been revised according to the practices followed in previous surveys, and the results have been sent by the source to the center in Ramallah," read the document.

"Note: The attached actual survey results are confidential and intended for limited distribution," it added.

According to the IDF, the documents it recovered in Gaza "prove an extensive effort by the terror organization to falsify the results of [the PCPSR] polls, to create a false representation of the Gazook public’s support for the terror organization, especially after the massacre [in Israel] on October 7.

"These documents are part of a systematic process, the purpose of which is to disguise the collapse of the organization, and the collapse of public support for it," the IDF claimed.

The military said the documents "emphasize the importance that the Hamas terror organization sees in the results of the polls, to falsify Paleostinian support and to influence the Paleostinian public and Arab and international public opinion."

Prominent Paleostinian pollster Khalil Shikaki, who runs the polling firm, said it was "highly unlikely" that Hamas falsified the results of the polls conducted in Gaza.

"Our Gaza team worked with us for more than 20 years. But we will investigate all claims as part of a commitment to ensure full quality control," Shikaki told The Times of Israel.

Shikaki maintained that the IDF claim was part of a "battle over narratives" between the military and the terror group. "The center doesn’t involve itself in politics, which is how I view this: The army against Hamas in the battle over narratives," he said.

The documents shared by the IDF said the falsified poll results were shown "as-is on Al Jazeera" after Hamas reached out to "Brother Tamer al-Misshal," a Doha-based Paleostinian host for the channel.

Alongside the inflation of Hamas’s approval rating, the documents showed an occasional downgrading in support for Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....>
, head of the terror group’s secularist rival Fatah, which rules the West Bank.

In a poll question on who Gazooks would vote for in a potential election between Abbas and Hamas’s then-chief 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...
, the documents gave Abbas a 22% "corrected result" — down from a 25.8% "actual result" — and Haniyeh 48% of the "corrected vote," up from an "actual" 21.3%.

In other areas of the survey, however, support for Abbas was revised modestly upward. Thus, when respondents were asked who would rule Gaza after the war, "PA led by Abbas" received a "corrected" 19%, up from an "actual" 18.2%, according to the documents the army released. Hamas, meanwhile, got a "corrected" 52%, up from an "actual" 36.8%, while the IDF received a "corrected" 1%, down from an "actual" 11.5%.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/31/2024 2024-08-31 00:29 || Comments || Link || [11131 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Israel says US shipments of arms and equipment during war exceed 50,000 tons
[IsraelTimes] Biden administration’s material support for IDF continuing despite some calls to end military aid.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/31/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11126 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Report: Jordan concerned IDF West Bank ops will drive Palestinians across border
[IsraelTimes] Locals describe scenes of destruction in Tulkarem refugee camp; Hamas accuses PA of arresting operatives in Nablus; UK ‘deeply concerned’ by wide-scale operation..
BLUF: Those who deeply deserve consequences are concerned they’re going to get them.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/31/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11128 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, Jordan was founded by the Brits as a state for "Palestinian" Arabs.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 08/31/2024 2:16 Comments || Top||

#2  OK Grom, if we're going to be accurate, it was founded as located on both banks of the Jordan River, and as such was originally named Transjordan.
I'm of the 'that was then and this is now' school, but history is what was.
Posted by: ed in texas || 08/31/2024 8:26 Comments || Top||

#3  israel should be from the river-to-the-sea. it should be open to anyone who doesn't subscribe to sharia law and pays taxes.
Posted by: irish rage boy || 08/31/2024 11:36 Comments || Top||

#4  #2 It's called transJordania because it was supposed (according to League of Nation) to be on the other side of Jordan. The west bank, according to the partition approved by United Nation, was supposed to go to "Palestinian" Arabs. And captured by Jordan by military force. (funny, nobody protested the "occupation" then). Finally, if they didn't attack Israel in 1967, they would still have it.

Well, as I've pointed in an earlier post, Israel fought Arabs with one brain lobe tied behind our back. This is changing now. So, don't expect the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan to exist 20 years from now.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 08/31/2024 11:53 Comments || Top||

#5  Perfidious Albion always in the mix.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 08/31/2024 14:06 Comments || Top||

#6  Say it isn't so.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/31/2024 14:15 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Gas leak in an Iranian Revolutionary Guard center kills 2 and injures 10
[IsraelTimes] Authorities do not specify whether injuries at site in Isfahan province were caused by asphyxiation from gas or an explosion

A gas leak caused the death of two people and injured 10 others at an Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard center, Iranian state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
reported Thursday.

The leak occurred Wednesday night at a workshop belonging to the Guard in Isfahan province, and the injured people were transferred to a hospital for treatment, it said.

The Isfahan Provincial Guard identified the dead as Capt. Mojtaba Nazari and Lt. Col. Mokhtar Morshedi, the report said.

The Guard’s statement did not say if the two senior officers died from being asphyxiated by gas, or if the gas leak caused a kaboom. It did not say how the people were maimed or give other details.

A number of deadly explosions at Revolutionary Guard facilities have occurred in recent years. The most notable came in 2011, when a blast at a missile base near Tehran killed 17 people including Commander Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam, who led the paramilitary force’s missile program. Initially, authorities described the blast as an accident, though a former prisoner later said the Guard interrogated him on suspicion that Israel caused the earth-shattering kaboom.

Iran’s central Isfahan province has been of interest to Israel because many of Iran’s nuclear facilities are located there. The underground Natanz nuclear facility, located in the province, is the country’s main uranium enrichment facility. There, centrifuges rapidly spin uranium hexafluoride gas to enrich uranium.

Iran sees Israel as a prime suspect in launching a series of attacks on Iran, including an April 2021 assault on its underground Natanz nuclear facility that damaged its centrifuges. In 2020, Iran blamed Israel for a sophisticated attack that killed its top military nuclear scientist.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/31/2024 2024-08-31 01:18 || Comments || Link || [11134 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  ...Insh'OSHA.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 08/31/2024 6:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Hey, Mahmoud. This pipe is making a hissing noise. Sniff it and see what it smells like.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 08/31/2024 11:45 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ "Sure thing, Boss. Hey, you gotta light? I'm dying for a cigarette!"
Posted by: SteveS || 08/31/2024 14:30 Comments || Top||

#4  Der Juden mastered increasing the rate of corrosion a a distance?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 08/31/2024 15:50 Comments || Top||

#5  Der Juden mastered increasing the rate of corrosion a a distance?

The Juice *are* rumored to control the weather. Once upon a time, the Earth had no oxygen. Maybe when the Great Oxidation Event occurred a couple billion years ago, it was not cyanobacteria but the Juice who were responsible. Tricksy as hobbits they are! (the Juice, not the cyanobacteria)
Posted by: SteveS || 08/31/2024 16:20 Comments || Top||

#6  The Juice *are* rumored to control the weather

Under a subcontract from Halliburton, I heard. I talk to people.
Posted by: Frank G || 08/31/2024 17:03 Comments || Top||


Fadlallah says Israel hasn''t shown any pic to prove Glilot not hit
[NAHARNET] Hezbollah politician Hassan Fadlallah on Friday said that Israel ''thought that it targeted key weapons with a harsh and painful strike before realizing that it bombed its shadow.''

Fadlallah was referring to Israel's claim that it waged a preemptive strike to foil Hezbollah's retaliation to Fouad Shukur's killing, an allegation that was dismissed by Hezbollah chief Sayyed
...Arabic term meaning your/his lordship. Groveling in His Exalted Presence is encouraged...
His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...>
, who said that Israel staged its Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s half an hour before his group launched over 300 rockets and several drones into Israel.
…the claimed number keeps getting bigger and bigger, oddly enough…
''The enemy's prime minister (Benjamin) Netanyahu retracted his remarks and said that they bombed short-range rockets, because they found out that they had fallen into a trap and deception practiced against them by the resistance,'' Fadlallah said.
Did he say that aloud, or just in His Eminence’s eminent head?
''They believed that they had information and the resistance, one way or another, carried out measures that foiled what they called a preemptive strike,'' the MP added.

''When the enemy wants to refute something, it brings journalists and publishes pictures, except for this strike (on the Glilot intelligence base near Tel Aviv), when it took measures and prevented any camera from entering a certain diameter. To date, it has not published any picture, even taken from afar, for the facilities to prove that they have not been targeted,'' Fadlallah went on to say.

He added: ''According to the resistance's verified information, a number of its drones accurately reached the selected targets — and the enemy kept that under wraps because it does not want to acknowledge the resistance's achievement and because it is incapable of targeting 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...
with a broad war.''

''It remained mum to suggest that nothing has happened and to avoid being asked for responses by its society,'' Fadlallah said.
Posted by: Fred || 08/31/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11129 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah



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