[NYPost] The murder of a US Border Patrol agent near the Canadian border appears to be linked to a radical leftist trans turban cult accused of killings across the country.
Around a week before the Jan. 20 attack, federal law enforcement had been surveilling German national Felix "Ophelia" Bauckholt and University of Washington student Teresa "Milo" Consuelo Youngblut.
Staff at a Lyndonville, Vermont motel alerted authorities about seeing the duo with a firearm and black tactical clothing.
When law enforcement visited them, the pair claimed to be looking at property in the area and promptly checked out of the motel on Jan. 14, according to court documents.
Then, on Inauguration Day, Border Patrol agent David Maland stopped their car in Coventry, Vermont.
Youngblut allegedly shot at Maland, who was killed, and border agents returned fire, killing Bauckholt. Youngblut is in jug.
Authorities now say the guns used by Youngblut and Bauckholt are owned by a person of interest in other murders — and connected to a mysterious cult of transgender "geniuses" who follow a trans leader named Jack LaSota, also known by the alias "Ziz."
Bauckholt was a biological male who identified as trans and used feminine pronouns. He was an award-winning youth math genius from Freiburg, Germany, who later graduated from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.
Around 2021, he was hired as a quantitative trader at Tower Research Capital in New York. It is believed Baukholt was in the US on an H-1B visa. The Department of Justice says he was armed in the car and tried to aim his firearm before being rubbed out.
Youngblut, who is accused of firing the surprise shots that killed Air Force veteran Maland, was injured by returning fire.
Youngblut is a biological female who identifies as trans and lists having neo-pronouns as "xe/xem/xyrs" on social media. Youngblut was a University of Washington student studying computer science.
Youngblut graduated from the prestigious and woke north Seattle private institution Lakeside School, where Bill Gates also attended.
Youngblut’s family had reported her missing to Seattle Police in May 2024. Her family said she was in a controlling relationship and cut off contact, according to the police report. Her social media account on BlueSky shows she followed some Antifa ...the armed wing of the Democratic Party... -aligned far-left accounts.
In November 2024, Youngblut filed a marriage application with a 22-year-old fellow Lakeside alumnus named Maximilian Bentley Snyder.
Last week, Snyder, an "any pronouns" computer science whiz from a wealthy Seattle family, was arrested in Vallejo, Calif., for the murder of an elderly key witness set to testify in an upcoming attempted murder trial against alleged members of the trans hard boy group.
The arrest has revealed previously hidden close associations between Youngblut, Bauckholt and a cult linked now to four killings.
THE ZIZ CULT
Authorities are investigating the connection between murders across the country to the "Zizians" — a cult of highly-educated trans vegan "rationalists."
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Somebody should get the rights to this.Movie of the week material for sure. Get in before Netflix. Gratuitous violence, gay sex. It will be on Disney before you know it!
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Like that tranny dude who ambushed that older man with his car, drove back over him, got out, and kissed him while stabbing him to death. That isn't random, old man was targeted.
[JustTheNews] A local sheriff's office in New York is facing heat from federal agents after an illegal migrant was released from the facility despite having a federal deportation order.
Jesus Romero-Hernandez, 27, on Tuesday pled guilty to third-degree assault charges in Tompkins County. He was released by the local sheriff's office even though he had a federal arrest warrant, according to the Justice Department.
Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove said that Romero-Hernandez was caught by federal agents Thursday and slammed the county sheriff's office for not keeping him in custody.
“The Tompkins County Sheriff’s Office in Ithaca, NY, a self-described sanctuary city, appears to have failed to honor a valid federal arrest warrant for a criminal alien with an assault conviction,” Bove said.
County Sheriff Derek Osborne could potentially face prosecution for allowing the release of Romero-Hernandez, according to The New York Times.
Federal officials said that Romero-Hernandez was deported in the past but returned to the U.S. at some point.
"We will use every tool at our disposal to prevent sanctuary city policies from impeding and obstructing lawful federal operations designed to make America safe again and end the national crisis arising from four years of failed immigration policy," Bove said.
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A warning shot.
And a bit of battlespace preparation. We're not deporting innocent families that accidentally walked across the border. We're tossing out bad guys with assault charges who were tossed out once before for doing gawd-knows-what. Make Sheriff & Co declare why they want to keep criminals in the local community.
[IsraelTimes] Abbas Araghchi’s office says he’ll ‘hail victory of Palestinian people’ over Israel with ‘legendary resistance’ during Gaza war
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi was visiting Qatar on Thursday to meet leaders of Tehran-backed Palestinian terror group Hamas, a ministry statement said.
The ministry said he would meet senior Hamas officials “to hail the victory of the Palestinian people through 16 months of legendary resistance” in the Gaza Strip.
Araghchi also met Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani as part of talks with “Qatari officials on current developments in the region,” the Iranian foreign ministry said.
[UT Paywalled, sorry] The Mexican government has not formally agreed to it, and the U.S. has offered little clarity on details
When the Trump-era "Remain in Mexico" policy was enacted the first time around in 2019, Tijuana became a place of waiting.
Migrant shelters were at capacity as asylum seekers from around the world settled in for the duration of their immigration court cases unfolding in the U.S., stretching for months or more than a year. Their housing was so tenuous that the U.S. immigration court had difficulty notifying migrants of upcoming hearings. Finding an attorney to represent them from across the border was tough.
And robbers and kidnappers found the waiting migrants to be easy targets.
In an executive order signed on his first day in office, President Donald Trump reinstated the program, known officially as Migrant Protection Protocols, or MPP. However, the Mexican government has not formally agreed to it, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and other agencies have offered little clarity on how the policy would work a second time around.
The Mexican government previously went along with receiving non-Mexican asylum seekers under former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s administration
When the program was first implemented, it was criticized by human rights groups for putting asylum seekers in danger and leaving many without proper legal representation. At one point, the San Diego immigration court system was overwhelmed by the number of additional cases.
Former President Joe Biden, who once called the policy "inhumane," tried to wind down the policy, but the plan was challenged in court. In December 2021, the Biden administration had to reinstate the program amid litigation brought by Texas and Missouri. Later, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the policy could end.
It is estimated that under the policy nearly 70,000 people were sent back to Mexico between 2019 and 2021 to await their cases, according to a report from the nonpartisan organization American Immigration Council. The San Ysidro-Tijuana port of entry was the first along the border to implement it.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Monday that there are ongoing conversations with the U.S. on a number of immigration matters.
When asked Tuesday by the press about Mexico agreeing to receive U.S. planes with deportees from other countries, Sheinbaum said that "more than agreements, there is coordination" with the U.S., which she said has been the case for a long time. Under previous agreements, Mexico has accepted people from certain countries.
’EXPECTING THE WORST’
Those who aid migrants at the border recall the challenges that arose the first time the Remain in Mexico policy was in place and are bracing for its return.
"It created a very difficult and complex situation for people who had to find shelter and a place to continue waiting," said Adriana Jasso, program coordinator with the American Friends Service Committee in San Diego. "(This second time) there are still aspects that are not clear."
The number of migrant encounters at the U.S. border is at its lowest level in years, due to the Biden administration’s executive action to restrict asylum, as well as Mexico’s crackdown on immigration.
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[Regnum] The chairman of the International Islamic Mission, Shafig Pshikhachev, called on Russian Muslims to resist international Islamic terrorism, the organization’s press service reported on Thursday, January 30.
Always a good idea, resisting terrorism of any sort. Real or taqqiya?
In connection with the rise to power of radical groups in the Middle East, the threat of terrorism is growing, Pshikhachev noted in his address. They are trying to destabilize and intimidate Russian society, he said.
"Terrorists, as before, are trying to involve Muslims in their misanthropic ideology, hiding behind the great spiritual and moral values that our religion, Islam, has. They distort our bright values and use them to set Russian citizens against each other on religious and ethnic grounds," Pshikhachev wrote.
Muslims, like representatives of other traditional religions of Russia, are aware of their responsibility for the stability of the state, the need to defend their values and their homeland, the head of the organization noted. The people of Russia are a single whole, he emphasized.
“I call on Muslims in Russia to show our characteristic prudence and responsibility, to take care of their loved ones and not to succumb to provocations, and to report all cases to the authorized bodies,” added Pshikhachev.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, in December 2024, the FSB reported that members of the radical Islamist group Vilayat Khorasan
…ISIS In Afghanistan/Indian subcontinent…
(a terrorist organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) who were preparing a terrorist attack near a police station had been eliminated in Moscow. The attackers purchased a car and placed gas cylinders in it, after which they began to assemble a homemade explosive device. When detained, they resisted and were neutralized.
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When detained, they resisted and were neutralized.
See, journalistic integrity.
'Killed them where they stood'.
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The Canadian response to all this is a bit puzzling. Trump told them to get control of their border and clean up the drug trafficking otherwise, it's tariffs.
Managing your border, controlling the drug trade - this is basic nation state stuff, but Canada acted like any 15 year old when told to clean up their room: "You're not the boss of me! I'll put tariffs on you! So, there!" Big-time diplomacy, eh?
/disclaimer: I'm so old I remember when Canada was a sensible country. The western provinces don't seem to be affected, so perhaps it is the Frenchness, it's driven them mad.
[IsraelTimes] The Norwegian government says that it will contribute $24 million to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, the same day that Israel banned the group from operating on Israeli territory. $24 million won't even last past the first three transfers
“Gaza is in ruins, and UNRWA’s help is more necessary than ever,” Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide says in a statement. “It is extremely dramatic for Palestine that Israeli laws come into force that in practice can prevent UNRWA from working.”
Yes, it is. So Norway’s money will have to go to support Palestinians sequestered in refugee camps around the Middle East, but not in Israel or the Palestinian territories.
Starting Thursday, UNRWA is banned from operating on Israeli soil and contact between it and Israeli officials is forbidden. Israel’s Supreme Court rejected a challenge to the ban late Wednesday.
Israeli officials have repeatedly accused UNRWA of being a cover for terror groups and undermining the country’s security. The hostility intensified in the wake of Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, with accusations that a number of UNRWA employees participated in the assault.
[Rudaw] Iraq on Thursday repatriated an additional 360 nationals from the notorious al-Hol camp in northeast Syria (Rojava) as part of efforts to return all Iraqis held in the camp, said the Kurdish security forces (Asayish).
Asayish said in a statement that, in coordination with the Iraqi government and the Kurdish administration in Rojava, it "facilitated the departure of 83 Iraqi families from the camp to al-Jadaa camp in Iraq. These families included 360 individuals."
Most repatriated individuals are temporarily housed in al-Jada camp in Iraq’s northern Nineveh province, to be prepared for reintegration into their communities.
"This measure comes as part of ongoing efforts to reduce the burden on al-Hol camp and return displaced persons to their original areas in coordination with Iraqi authorities. The operation was carried out smoothly and safely, with security and logistics teams overseeing the families' arrival at their new destination," it added.
On Wednesday, Ali Abbas, the spokesperson of the Iraqi migration and displaced ministry, told Rudaw that 11,529 people had been repatriated to al-Hol camp, all of which were sent to Jada camp.
Iraqis and Syrians make up the majority of the 40,000 ISIS-linked people held at the camp, which has been branded a breeding ground for terrorism.
The repatriation of ISIS-linked citizens has sparked opposition in Iraq, with tribes unwilling to accept people associated with the group that committed heinous human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... abuses and war crimes from 2014 to 2017, when they controlled vast swathes of the country.
Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria have repeatedly called on the international community to repatriate their nationals from the camps, but their calls have largely gone unanswered as most countries are unwilling to bring back their citizens due to security concerns.
[Rudaw] Several Kurds are learning barbering at a small barbershop in Ranya, Sulaimani, in preparation for their migration to Europe.
Young Kurds are still risking their lives to get to Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... through perilous means.
They have realized that without skills or knowing the language, they will face significant challenges in European countries.
Darian Dler, a 20-year-old resident of Ranya, recently became a barber at the barbershop in the town center.
He plans to depart soon, joining many others who are leaving for Europe to escape unemployment and financial struggles in the Kurdistan Region.
"You can live with it, but you cannot build a future with it. There are people who learned barbering here, migrated to Europe, stayed there for a couple of years, secured a future, and returned," he told Rudaw.
In the first half of 2024, around 3,000 undocumented Iraqis arrived in the UK, making them the seventh-largest nationality crossing the English Channel by boat. From July 2023 to June 2024, 26 Iraqis were deported from the UK, while 193 returned voluntarily, according to figures published by InfoMigrants.
Abubakir Ali is the Head of the Association of Returned Migrants.
"We receive tens of phone calls from people saying they want to return. But because they have run out of money, they are waiting for one of the international organizations to provide financial assistance for migrants colonists to return to their home countries including the Kurdistan Region. But the amount of money has drastically decreased. That is why they are waiting to return via these organizations as many regret going abroad after realizing that Europe isn’t the paradise they imagined," he said.
[IsraelTimes] A senior Hamas official says the group will continue to govern the Gaza Strip until a Palestinian alternative is found, underscoring its survival after 15 months of devastating war.
Speaking to The Associated Press in Cairo on Thursday, Taher Nounou says the 12-day-old ceasefire between Israel and Hamas means that “practically, we can say that the war is over.”
But, he says, the end must be confirmed by reaching an agreement on the truce’s second phase, which would see the return of remaining living hostages and a complete Israeli military withdrawal from Gaza.
Nounou says the group is determined to make the second phase of its ceasefire with Israel a success, but holds out the possibility that Israel could break off talks and resume fighting in Gaza.
Negotiations between Israel and Hamas over the ceasefire’s second phase are due to begin by Monday, but the two sides remain far apart.
“We’re determined — along with the Egyptian and Qatari mediators — to make this stage a success,” he says.
Asked if Hamas believes it won the war, Nounou says, “The Palestinian people were not defeated… The enemy did not achieve its goals.”
Israel had sought to eliminate Hamas’s ability to govern or constitute a military threat, and to recover its hostages.
Nounou says Hamas agreed to an Egyptian proposal that it hand over the running of Gaza to a “community support committee” made up of independent technocrats. It also accepts the creation of a national consensus government that would govern both the West Bank and Gaza Strip, he says, while claiming that both ideas were rejected by Fatah, which dominates the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority.
“Until one of the two options is adopted, there will be no vacuum. The current [Hamas-led] administration will bear its responsibility towards our people. And this is what is happening right now,” he said.
Nounou is a member of Hamas’ political bureau and media adviser to the group’s leader in Gaza, Khalil al-Hayya. Both men are based in Doha, Qatar.
[IsraelTimes] Hebrew media reports purport to offer insight into how some hostages were treated in Gaza, apparently based on testimony of recently released female troops, the last of whom were freed earlier today.
According to Channel 12 news, Liri Albag, who was freed on Saturday, tried to scuttle her planned release due to the fact that Agam Berger was not being let go as well. Eventually Albag’s captors “relented” and told her they were taking her to film a propaganda video. Instead, they took her to the Red Cross for release. Berger was freed earlier today.
The channel reports that Albag and Berger also refused their captors’ orders to move into the tunnels, and were instead held above ground, though conditions were still very poor. The two were forced to cook for their captors, but not allowed to eat the food, and were moved to different locales at least 10 times.
The reports, which are also carried by Ynet and elsewhere, indicate that experiences varied, with some having had sporadic access to radio and television, and others completely cut off. While many hostages were held in pairs or groups, others, like Arbel Yehoud, who was released today, were held by themselves. Showers could be a once-per-month affair, and even when allowed to rinse off, hostages were only allowed to use freezing water.
Some hostages reportedly attempted to fast on Yom Kippur and avoid eating bread during Passover.
The hostage that is a source of the information says Gazans they met seemed okay, and sometimes even pleased, with the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, but did regret and mourn the loss of previous Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, according to the reports. Both Sinwar and Haniyeh were killed by Israel.
[IsraelTimes] Military investigation into Hamas attack that killed 72 in border city reportedly uncovers how bureaucratic red tape left team with only pistols to fight well-armed terrorist horde
A military probe of the events in the southern city of Sderot, where 72 people were killed during the Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... -led October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, found that red tape had tied up the municipal security team’s assault rifles at an out-of-town army base, leaving members with just pistols to fight against dozens of well-armed terrorists, the Ynet news site reported Thursday.
The Israel Defense Forces is in the process of a series of investigations into failures that enabled Hamas to lead thousands of bully boyz on a devastating invasion of southern Israel in which they killed 1,200 people and took 251 hostages.
One of those investigations dealt with Sderot, a border city where Hamas bully boyz riding pickup trucks were able to roam through the streets, slaughtering over 50 civilians, and killing 20 coppers in a major battle at the city’s cop shoppe.
According to the report, the IDF found that on the day of the attack, there were 22 members of the city’s security defense squad present. The squad, armed by the IDF, is operated by the municipality’s security department, and its civilian chief, the community security coordinator, is the go-between with the military.
In 2022, the then-chief left the role and handed back all the squad’s rifles, for which he was responsible, to the IDF’s 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 a rusty 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... Division headquarters. His replacement, Ronen Gabay, was only installed months later.
The return of the rifles was caught up in bureaucracy as the new security squad chief took over, during which time there was no one who could sign off on the return of the rifles.
In addition, the army conditioned the return of the rifles on all the squad members having an approved method for safely locking them in their homes, and because that was not in place, the rearming never went ahead, the report said.
The situation was unknown to Mayor Alon Davidi, who reportedly was not aware that his city’s security team was left without automatic weapons.
Davidi only found out about the paltry weapons on the day of the attack. Furthermore, the probe found that security team members were not given proper training by the IDF, as required.
As a result, squad members were left with just their pistols to engage the heavily armed and overwhelming numbers of terrorists.
The probe also found that many coppers gathered at the station but did not spread out across the city, apparently due to a lack of information on what was happening around them, and a focus on the station where there was a raging battle with button men.
Among other key incidents in the city on October 7, bully boyz massacred 13 elderly people who were on their way to an outing at a Dead Sea resort. The party had set off on a minibus but it had a flat tire and halted at a bus stop. As the group was waiting, Hamas launched its invasion, which came under cover of a barrage of thousands of rockets fired across Israel.
There was a small public bomb shelter at the bus stop but it was fitted with a smart lock which was supposed to automatically open during a rocket attack. However,
today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... the system apparently did not work, leaving the retirees stuck outside.
Minutes later, Hamas bully boyz riding pickup trucks arrived and rubbed out all 13 people in the group. Gruesome images of the elderly Israelis lying dead outside the shelter were some of the first to be shared on social media on the morning of the massacre.
The IDF said in a statement to Ynet on Thursday, "On October 7 the IDF failed in its mission."
"The IDF is investigating the events of October 7 and what happened before that, including the battles in Sderot. When the probe is completed it will be presented with full transparency to the bereaved families, to the residents, and afterward to the public."
In its own response to Ynet, Sderot municipality noted that the security squad is operated by the IDF "and is subordinate to it."
The IDF, it said, "is required to ensure that all its members have weapons ,which unfortunately did not happen on the morning of October 7."
As for the murders at the public shelter, city hall said it would not comment as the matter was in litigation. Eight families of those 13 elderly bus victims filed a lawsuit for NIS 12 million ($3,345,470) against the municipality and Motorola alleging that there their loved ones were unable to enter the shelter due to the locking system failure, and were therefore vulnerable to the terrorists.
Many of the issues have since been resolved and Sderot now has a robust, well-funded security team, Ynet reported.
However,
today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... amid tensions between Gabay and the new head of the municipal security department, Erez Gaz, the mayor dismissed Gabay and the city is in the process of finding someone to take his place.
The Sderot probe was among a number by the IDF set to be completed in the coming weeks.
At the end of December, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi instructed the military to complete its various probes by the end of January. Defense Minister Israel Katz had told Halevi that he would freeze the promotions of senior officers in the IDF until he was presented with the conclusions on the investigations, issuing a January 31 deadline.
Last week, Halevi and the head of the IDF Southern Command said they would both be resigning from the military over their roles in the failures that led to the Hamas onslaught.
While the government has refused to appoint a state commission of inquiry and has opposed any probes that could include looking at political failures surrounding the devastating surprise attack, its lead-up, and its aftermath, the army has conducted internal investigations to learn what went wrong.
[IsraelTimes] UG Solutions private contractors working alongside Egyptian security personnel to carry out inspections at checkpoint where Netzarim Corridor intersects with Salah al-Din Street
A small US security firm is hiring nearly 100 US special forces veterans to help run a checkpoint 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 a rusty 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... during the Israel-Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... ceasefire, according to a company spokesperson and a recruitment email seen by Rooters, introducing armed American contractors into the heart of one of the world’s most violent mostly peaceful conflict zones.
UG Solutions — a low-profile company founded in 2023 and based in Davidson, North Carolina — is offering a daily rate starting at $1,100 with a $10,000 advance to veterans it hires, the email said. They will staff the checkpoint at a key intersection in Gaza’s interior, said the spokesperson, who confirmed the authenticity of the email. Speaking on the condition of anonymity, the spokesperson said some people had been recruited and were already at the checkpoint, at the intersection of the Netzarim Corridor dividing northern and southern Gaza and Salah al-Din Street, which separates the east and west of the enclave.
The spokesperson did not say how many contractors were already in Gaza.
UG Solutions’ role in the ceasefire deal has been reported, but the email disclosed previously unknown details including the aim of recruiting 96 veterans exclusively with US special operations forces backgrounds, the pay and the types of weapons they will carry.
Rooters reported on January 7 that Emirati officials had suggested the use of private contractors as part of a post-war peacekeeping force in Gaza, and that the idea had caused concern among Western nations. The deployment of armed US contractors in Gaza, where Hamas remains a potent force after 14 months of war sparked by its October 7, 2023, invasion and massacre in southern Israel, is unprecedented and poses the risk that Americans could be drawn into fighting as President Donald Trump ...So far he's been unkillable, and they've tried.... ’s administration seeks to keep the Hamas-Israel conflict from reigniting.
Among the risks facing the Americans are shootouts with Islamist gunnies or Paleostinians angry over Washington’s support for Israel’s Gaza offensive.
"Of course, there is a threat they will face," said Avi Melamed, a former Israeli intelligence official.
The document said the contractors will be armed with M4 rifles, which are used by the Israeli and US militaries, and Glock pistols. The rules of engagement governing when UG Solutions personnel can open fire have been finalized, the spokesperson said, but he declined to disclose them.
"We have the right to defend ourselves," he said. He declined to discuss how the company won the contract.
EGYPT’S ROLE
Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel on Tuesday told news hounds, without naming UG Solutions or the United States, that Israel had demanded that the deal include the use of a private security firm, working with "an Egyptian security company or forces" to help maintain security and humanitarian aid flows in Gaza.
But, she said, it remained to be seen if the arrangement "actually works."
During earlier rounds of failed ceasefire negotiations, Israel had demanded to staff the checkpoint with its own troops.
Witnesses in Gaza have in recent days described Egyptian security personnel at the checkpoint using scanners to look for weapons concealed in vehicles.
An Egyptian source said the Egyptians at the checkpoint were special forces trained in recent months including on counter-terrorism.
A Paleostinian official close to the talks confirmed US contractors would also be at the checkpoint.
However,
man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... the official said the US contractors would be deployed away from residents passing through and they must not deal with the local population.
The UG Solutions email said its primary mission was "internal vehicle checkpoint management and vehicle inspection."
"We’re only focused on vehicles," said the spokesperson.
The Prime Minister’s Office declined to provide any further comment on the security arrangements. The US State Department, Egypt’s foreign office and Hamas did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
US use of private security firms has in the past led to disaster. In 2007, contractors for the now-defunct Blackwater firm rubbed out 14 civilians in Baghdad’s Al Nisour Square, igniting a diplomatic crisis and outraging Iraqis. Four Blackwater personnel were convicted in a US court and pardoned by Trump in his first term.
Insurgents in Fallujah, ... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperity or a really nice place to raise your kids... Iraq, in 2004 killed four Americans working for Blackwater and hung two of their bodies from a bridge, prompting a massive US military response.
The UG Solutions’ hires will work with US-based Safe Reach Solutions, which does logistics and planning, according to the spokesperson and another source familiar with the contract.
Each hire will be provided with $500,000 in accidental death and dismemberment insurance, and the daily rate for former US special forces medics rises to $1,250, the email said.
A separate source familiar with the deal said Israel and unnamed "Arab countries" that worked on the agreement are funding the consortium. The US government had no direct involvement in the decision to include a security company in the ceasefire deal or in the awarding of the contract, the source said.
’VICTORY NARRATIVE’
Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, a fellow at the Atlantic Council think tank who grew up in Gaza, downplayed the danger for the Americans because their role in the return of displaced Paleostinian civilians bolsters Hamas’ claim of victory over Israel.
"Even Hamas, for all its horrendous rhetoric and actions, understands that it is this very American presence ... that feeds its victory narrative," he said.
That is one perspective, certainly. Another is that sooner or later Gazans cannot resist the temptation to run amok.
Gaza has been devastated by the past 15 months of war between Israel and the Hamas terror group, which began the conflict with its October 2023 attack on Israel
On January 19, the first 42-day phase of a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas came into effect, mediated by Egypt, 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... and the US. Since then, tens of thousands of displaced civilians have streamed on foot and in vehicles through the checkpoint north toward Gaza City, much of it churned to rubble.
WHO-G?
Several people in the private security industry told Rooters that they had not heard of UG Solutions.
The only company official listed in Virginia state incorporation records is Jameson Govani, who didn’t respond to phone messages. He is described as a US Special Forces veteran.
A US private security business source briefed on the UG Solutions contract, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered... , said it seemed hazardous to deploy Americans in Gaza and that he feared combat could break out "really fast." It was unclear what would happen if the Americans were attacked or captured, or which nation’s law would govern the contractor’s actions.
The email does not say who would rescue them. The UG spokesperson said the document was outdated and that quick reaction forces would be available. He didn’t provide further details.
"We are well equipped to guard our own safety," he said.
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I agree, q. Especially given that Hamas is the Muslim Brotherhood in the Palestinian Territories, so their definition of infidel includes insufficiently pious and submissive Moslems.
[IsraelTimes] Terror group also confirms deaths of other commanders in war; ICC expected to cancel arrest warrant it issued for Deif in November
Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... front man Abu Obeida confirmed in a video statement Thursday that Muhammad Deif, the once-elusive commander of the terror group’s military wing, had been killed in an Israeli strike over the summer.
The terror group’s announcement came more than six months after Deif’s killing in a July 13 Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... , with Hamas previously denying he had been killed.
Abu Obeida in his video statement also confirmed the deaths during the war of Marwan Issa, the deputy commander of Hamas’s military wing; Ghazi Abu Tama’a, head of combat support; Raad Thabet, the military wing chief of staff; Rafa’a Salameh, commander of the Khan Younis Brigade; Ayman Nofal, commander of the Central 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 a rusty 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... Brigade; and Ahmed Ghandour, commander of the Northern Gaza Brigade.
Hamas had previously only announced the deaths of Nofal and Ghandour.
Israel targeted Deif and Salameh in an airstrike on a Hamas compound, killing dozens in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis. The IDF confirmed Salameh’s death a day later, and Deif’s on August 1.
Until the July strike, Deif had survived seven Israeli attempts on his life over the years, some of which had maimed him.
According to a November report, Hamas was initially unable to confirm Deif’s death, partly due to the state of his badly disfigured remains. At the time, unnamed Hamas sources told the London-based, Saudi-owned Asharq al-Awsat paper that the group accepted that Deif had been killed, but Thursday’s statement marked the first time the organization officially acknowledged it.
The sources also told the paper at the time that two people had been arrested on suspicion of leading the IDF to Deif, including the slain military chief’s courier, who according to some reports had tipped the army off.
Despite the IDF announcing that it had killed Deif in August, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for him on November 21 along with warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant.
The ICC listed the charges against Deif as crimes against humanity of murder, extermination, torture and sexual violence as well as war crimes of murder, cruel treatment, torture, hostage-taking, outrages upon personal dignity and sexual violence.
As of Thursday evening, the ICC had not yet canceled the warrant. It previously dropped charges against Hamas leaders 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 continued as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintained a separate PM in the West Bank. Zapped during the 2023-24 war, to eveyone's satisfaction... and Yahya Sinwar after they were killed by Israel.
Netanyahu and Gallant were both charged with war crimes of starvation as a method of warfare and intentionally targeting a civilian population, and crimes against humanity of murder, persecution and other inhumane acts during the war in Gaza.
Deif, along with Hamas’s Gaza leader Sinwar, was an architect of Hamas’s October 7 massacre in southern Israel, when thousands of forces of Evil broke through the border and killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, while taking 251 people hostage to Gaza. He had topped Israel’s most-wanted list since 1995 for his involvement in the planning and execution of a large number of terror attacks, including many bus bombings in the 1990s and early 2000s.
Born as Muhammad Masri in 1965 in Khan Younis, the terror leader became known as Muhammad Deif after joining Hamas during the First Intifada, or Paleostinian uprising, which began in 1987.
He was arrested by Israel in 1989 and spent about 16 months in detention.
Rising up the Hamas ranks, Deif developed the group’s network of tunnels and its bomb-making expertise. He was held personally responsible by Israel for the deaths of dozens of Israelis in suicide kabooms in the 1990s.
The last known attempt to eliminate Deif before the successful one in July, according to the military, occurred in May 2021, when Israel and Gazook terror groups fought in an 11-day flare-up known as Operation Guardian of the Walls.
Prior to 2021, Israel had tried to kill Deif during the 2014 war in Gaza, but narrowly missed, instead killing his immediate family members.
Other liquidation attempts took place in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2006.
[IsraelTimes] Trump’s Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff has reportedly promised Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the US will postpone the process of rebuilding northern Gaza until security plans are agreed upon to ensure the security of Israeli communities near the border with the Strip.
Al-Araby Al Jadeed cites an American plan, to be funded by the US and Gulf countries, to prevent a reoccurrence of the Hamas terror group’s brutal October 7, 2023, massacre in southern Israel that sparked over 15 months of fighting in Gaza.
The report claims that Washington wants to delay reconstruction in northern Gaza to make the area uninhabitable in the long term and to promote US President Donald Trump’s recent proposal that Jordan, Egypt and other Arab nations increase the number of Palestinian refugees they are accepting from the Strip to “just clean out” the war-torn area.
Israel began to allow Palestinians to return to northern Gaza this week, under a hostage-ceasefire deal with the Iran-backed terror group that came into effect last week.
Reconstruction of northern Gaza is set to begin in the final stage of the three-phase accord.
[IsraelTimes] There is “almost nothing left” of Gaza and rebuilding the war-ravaged enclave could take 10 to 15 years, US President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff tells Axios as he wraps up a trip to the region.
“People are moving north to get back to their homes and see what happened and turn around and leave…there is no water and no electricity. It is stunning just how much damage occurred there,” Witkoff tells the news website after visiting Gaza.
His assessment comes days after Trump floated the idea that some Arab nations should get involved with and build “housing at a different location where [Gazans] can maybe live in peace for a change,” an idea flatly rejected by the Arab and Muslim world.
Witkoff tells Axios he has not discussed the idea of moving Palestinians from Gaza with Trump.
A UN damage assessment released this month showed that clearing over 50 million tons of rubble left in the aftermath of Israel’s bombardment could take 21 years and cost up to $1.2 billion.
“There has been this perception we can get to a solid plan for Gaza in five years. But it’s impossible. This is a 10 to 15-year rebuilding plan,” Witkoff says.
“There is nothing left standing. Many unexploded ordnances. It is not safe to walk there. It is very dangerous. I wouldn’t have known this without going there and inspecting,” he adds.
President Trump is a subject matter expert on site clearing and large-scale construction; though his projects for the past four decades have been seriously upscale, his father’s were aimed at a middle class clientele, I understand. And Bibi Netanyahu’s studies in architecture and management at MIT were aimed toward alleviating Israel’s ongoing acute housing shortage, what is nowadays an advanced degree in city planning. Between the two of them, they actually know exactly what needs to be done to make Gaza livable again, and would have great fun getting it done.
[IsraelTimes] Drone strike targeted Muhammad Abu Aseed four months ago; development was kept secret until last of seven female soldier hostages returned to Israel
Hamas ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... terrorist Muhammad Abu Aseed, who was filmed kidnapping Israeli surveillance soldier Naama Levy on October 7, 2023, was eliminated in a dronezap some four months ago, the Israel Defense Forces said Thursday.
News of Abu Aseed’s targeting was not permitted for publication until the return of all seven surveillance soldiers kidnapped by the terror group during the October 7 onslaught.
Video footage of the abduction showed Aseed dragging a bound and bleeding Levy by her hair from the back of a jeep 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 a rusty 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... minutes after she was taken from Israel, waving a gun as he howled in celebration before pulling her back into the vehicle.
The image of Levy being pushed into a jeep was one of the most horrific images from October 7, 2023, when the Paleostinian terror group Hamas led thousands of Death Eaters to invade Israel, killing some 1,200 people and abducting 251 to Gaza.
In December 2023, her mother published a heartfelt plea for her daughter’s release, referencing the infamous video.
"You have seen the video of my daughter Naama Levy," Ayelet Levy Shachar wrote on the Free Press website. "Everyone has. You have seen her dragged by her long brown hair from the back of a Jeep at gunpoint, somewhere in Gaza, her gray sweatpants covered in blood.
"You may have perhaps noticed that her ankles are cut, that she’s barefoot and limping. She is seriously injured. She is frightened. And I, her mother, am helpless in these moments of horror."
Levy was released by Hamas last week, along with Karina Ariev, Daniella Gilboa, and Liri Albag. Agam Berger was released Thursday morning as well, as part of a complex, three-phase ceasefire deal that halted 15 months of fighting as Israel responded to the Hamas attack.
Levy, Albag, Ariev, and Gilboa, gathered to watch a live video of Berger being set free.
Berger was slated to be brought to the same hospital where they are being treated, to be reunited after they were separated a week ago.
One of the kidnapped surveillance soldiers, Ori Megidish, was rescued alive in October 2023, and the body of a second one, Noa Marciano, was recovered after she was murdered in captivity in November 2023.
In her first message to the public since her release, Levy said Wednesday "After 477 days, I’m at home at last."
"I am safe and protected, surrounded by family and friends, and feeling better by the day," she wrote on Instagram.
Speaking about her time in captivity, Levy said that for the first 50 days after being kidnapped by Paleostinian Death Eaters on October 7, 2023, she was mostly kept alone.
"After that, I stayed with my friends" — four fellow IDF lookout soldiers kidnapped with her, three of whom were released with her, as well as other female hostages — "who gave me strength and hope," she added. "We gave strength to each other until the release day and also after it."
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Now the seat of my pants is all bloody.
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
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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...the armed wing of the Democratic Party...
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
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..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
