[IsraelTimes] Lifshitz, among Nir Oz’s founders, defended expelled Bedouins, reported on infamous massacres of Palestinians by Israel-backed militias, and drove sick Gazans to Israeli hospitals
Oded Lifshitz, the hostage whose body was returned on Thursday to Israel, was a veteran journalist, long-time defender of Paleostinian rights, and a founder of the kibbutz where he lived and was kidnapped.
He was taken hostage, aged 83, from his home in Kibbutz Nir Oz by Paleostinian snuffies during Hamas ..always the voice of sweet reason... ’s October 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel alongside his wife Yocheved Lifshitz, 85.
They were among 251 people taken hostage that day, after thousands of Hamas-led snuffies invaded southern Israel from 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 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... Strip, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and sparking the subsequent war.
Yocheved Lifshitz was released 16 days later, for what Hamas called "humanitarian reasons."
Interviewed on Israel’s Kan public broadcaster on Wednesday, she said her husband had "fought for the Paleostinians his whole life — they betrayed him and took him to hell."
In a long career with the now defunct, left-leaning newspaper al-Hamishmar, which was associated with the kibbutz movement, he defended Paleostinian rights and advocated for peace.
In 1972, he defended Bedouins who were expelled from the Sinai Peninsula by Israeli authorities.
A decade later, during the Lebanese civil war and Israel’s invasion of Leb ...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. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration.... , he was one of the first journalists to report on the Sabra and Shatila massacres in which Israeli-backed Christian militias killed between 800 and 2,000 Paleostinians in Beirut refugee camps.
More recently, Lifshitz, an Arabic speaker, had been actively involved for years with Road for Recovery, an organization that helps Paleostinians receive medical treatment in Israel.
According to his family, he would drive weekly to the Erez crossing on the Gaza Strip border to pick up sick Paleostinians and transport them to Israeli hospitals.
In his free time, the father of four, grandfather, and great-grandfather played the piano and looked after his garden, where he planted cacti, according to Kibbutz Nir Oz. Lifshitz was among the community’s founders in 1955.
Yizhar Lifshitz, Oded’s son, told Channel 12 on Thursday that the family had feared for the elderly hostage’s life for a long time before receiving final confirmation on Thursday upon his body’s return.
"Members of our community are still inside [Gaza], some of them dead, some of them chained and starved. We have to return all of them now," Yizhar added.
According to the National Institute of Forensic Medicine, who identified the hostage’s remains on Thursday, Lifshitz was slain in captivity more than a year ago. He was held by the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... terror group.
In a radio interview, the hostage’s son said, "We knew from someone who was released from captivity in the first deal [in November 2023] that she was with him for two weeks, in an apartment in [the southern Gaza city of] Khan Younis, through Day 20 of the war.
"We know he was sick, and that he was shot in his arm when he was holding the handle of the safe room [on October 7]," Yizhar added, referring to the reinforced room in Israeli homes that is meant to keep occupants safe from rocket attacks. "He was not in a good state."
His grandson, Dekel, told Channel 12 that the family believes he died several weeks after being taken hostage and that his grandfather, who suffered from high blood pressure and needed daily medication, may have succumbed to the harsh conditions of his captivity and lack of treatment.
[NY Post] The hammer falls
The commanding officer of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier that slammed into a ship near Egypt last week was yanked from the position "due to a loss of confidence in his ability," the Navy said Thursday.
Capt. Dave Snowden was "relieved" of his job at the helm of the USS Harry S. Truman and temporarily reassigned following the wild crash in the Mediterranean Sea on Feb. 12, according to the military branch.
"The U.S. Navy holds commanding officers to the highest standard and takes action to hold them accountable when those standards are not met," the Navy said in a statement.
Snowden was replaced by Capt. Christopher Hill, and temporarily assigned to Naval Air Forces Atlantic.
No injuries were reported during the crash, which unfolded near Port Said at 11:46 p.m.
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I read somewhere that the Navy had gone to an ecologically clean paint or something politically correct, and it just doesn’t wear nearly as well as the stuff they used to use. I imagine they’ll be switching back under the new priorities.
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One of the by products of "optimized manning", i.e. cutting down on extra personel, is that you don't have extra bodies around to do extra maintenance.
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Regarding paint and appearances: Was in an outfit where the skipper mandated complete repainting of our aircraft every ‘corrosion inspection,’ but gave no time to address said corrosion. And the standard Navy dark green (part of squadron insignia) wasn’t good enough for him; did an ‘open purchase’ of 50 gallons of a Peterbilt green.
Pretty airplanes, from 25 feet, up close they were ate up.
Yeah we failed post cruise corrosion inspection.
The spokesperson for the Islamic Emirate stated that Pakistan is unable to tolerate Afghanistan's recent advancements. He added that Pakistan is attempting to launch international propaganda against… pic.twitter.com/lqTqDY4TWk
…international propaganda against Afghanistan and is trying to create obstacles to hinder its progress.
Reports suggest that Pakistan is particularly upset over projects like Qosh Tepa and other similar initiatives, as well as the new economic corridors such as Chabahar.
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Wow! That's A first!
I've never seen a news segment where the anchor doesn't say a word while the guest is speaking!
[Garowe] Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... , a federal state in northeastern Somalia, banned undocumented foreigners from entering its territory on Thursday after its troops killed dozens of foreign ISIS fighters in an ongoing military operation in the al-Miskaad mountains of Bari region.
Puntland security forces reported heavy losses among the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... bad boys, many identified as non-Somali combatants, in the offensive targeting holy warrior strongholds in the rugged al-Miskaad area. Officials said the operation has ramped up in recent weeks.
According to a statement from the Puntland administration, President Said Abdullahi Deni ordered the Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Security, and Immigration Agency to enforce the ban. The measure aims to bolster border security and curb infiltration by foreign bad boys.
In recent days, thousands of Æthiopians were detained in major cities, with most deported back to their country, the statement added. Further details on enforcement plans were not immediately available.
Puntland forces are pressing their campaign in al-Miskaad to dismantle ISIS networks, with officials vowing to sustain pressure on the group. The operation underscores the enduring threat from holy warrior factions in Somalia, including ISIS and al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... .
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[Jfeed] Saudi Arabia's Grand Mufti, Abdul Aziz Al-Sheikh, emphasized that the violence and terror witnessed in Gaza are entirely contrary to the teachings of Islam, stating, "What we saw today in Gaza is a disgrace to Islam, an act of blasphemy against Allah, and a sin that does not represent the followers of the Prophet, peace be upon him, or the honorable religion of Islam." [I think he was referring to the dancing and singing around the caskets of the murdered hostages - not to the fact that they were murdered, but I'm not sure]
One hopes he was not actually condemning Hamas posting videos of their actions on the internet that brought Islam into ill repute, rather than either the murders of a mother and her small children and an old Israeli Jew who spent his days driving the sick of Gaza to and from Israeli hospitals or the singing and dancing with glee around the caskets of the murdered marked Arrested on 10/7/2023. The Grand Mufti spoke before Israeli forensic scientists discovered that the corpse in mother Shira Biba’s designated casket was not her, but rather a Gazan of unknown provenance. Someone in Hamas got a little too clever, because Israel announced repeatedly that they had a team prepping to do forensic identification and examination of the bodies. It will be interesting to discover why this happened.
The Saudi Grand Mufti is not the only Big Turban to be appalled:
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The Grand Mufti of Dubai, Ahmed al-Haddad, reportedly stated after watching the scenes of dead Israeli babies being paraded in coffins in Gaza:
‘Hamas has brought shame to Islam on a level never seen before.’
The United Nations human rights chief said on Thursday that the parading of the bodies of hostages in Gaza before they were handed over to Israel is abhorrent.
“The parading of bodies in the manner seen this morning is abhorrent and cruel, and flies in the face of international law,” said the office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. “We urge that all returns are conducted in privacy, and with respect and care.”
In the statement, UN rights chief Volker Turk added that “under international law, any handover of the remains of deceased must comply with the prohibition of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, ensuring respect for the dignity of the deceased and their families.”
Hamas said that it returned on Thursday the bodies of hostages Shiri Bibas and her two young redheaded boys, Kfir and Ariel, as well as that of Oded Lifshitz, who was kidnapped at age 83.
Three are true. One was an additional cruelty of a deliberate lie.
Before they were handed to the Red Cross, the coffins were placed on a stage, with armed Hamas gunmen wearing black and camouflage uniforms surrounding the area, and cruel psychological propaganda adorning the stage, including plaques on the coffins declaring the dates of their “arrest” and slogans blaming Israel for their deaths.
In a statement about its role in the handover on Thursday, the International Committee of the Red Cross said the operation should have been done “privately” but stopped short of blaming Hamas.
The ICRC, which has itself faced criticism for its position of neutrality, said that it took part in the return of “the remains of those who should have been reunited with their loved ones in life, not in death.”
The Red Cross said its role was “to fulfill a vital humanitarian duty to allow families to mourn with dignity.” The statement added that “these operations should be done privately out of the utmost respect for the deceased and for those left grieving. We have been unequivocal: every release — whether of the living or the deceased — must be conducted with dignity and privacy.”
The day before the handover, the ICRC issued a statement saying that “any degrading treatment during release operations is unacceptable.”
But they sat there and accepted it anyway. So actually it’s quite acceptable to the International Committee of the Red Cross.
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on Thursday condemned Hamas’s “limitless terror” after the handover.
“Four coffins, presented on stage — images that are unbearable,” she wrote in a message on X. “Until the very end, the families of the hostages are exposed to Hamas’s limitless terror. My thoughts are with them. Hopefully they are soon able to mourn their loved ones and bury them with dignity.”
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There's been almost no general media coverage of what the Grand Mufti is alleged to have said. All I was able to find was this same source, and some mentions on X.
There were 2 comments to the source article asking for a citation or a source of this news.
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This is an old Muslim practice. The Emir regrets "bandits" attacks on infidel neighbors, denies any responsibility, and promised to punish the guilty.
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the classical position
That’s aspirational, Procopius2k. Historically and even during the recent ISIS and Boko Haram expansions there were so many captives that they were treated as disposable rather than reusable.
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When the Mexican government couldn't/wouldn't stop Apache raiding in the southwest, the Army did cross the border in pursuit. As the cartels have been formally designated a terrorist organization, the are consider a belligerent. It's Mexico's responsibility to shut it down and if it can't, the US can take what ever action is necessary to do it.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is concerned about protecting the cartels from our military and Mexico's sovereignty. That's rich. She said little about U.S. sovereignty.
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Mexico, which has long rejected such a move by the U.S. to designate cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, was not consulted about the decision
No shit as you are in bed with the cartels Mexico. We are coming.
[KhaamaPress] Reports indicate that a group of migrants colonists, including Afghan citizens who had been deported from the United States, were transferred from a hotel in Panama’s capital to a center in the Darién jungle.
A local newspaper reported on Wednesday, February 19, that 170 out of 299 migrants colonists who had been staying in the hotel were moved to Darién.
Rooters also published a report citing Susana Sabalza, a lawyer for one migrant family in Panama, who confirmed the transfer of deported migrants colonists to Metti, a city in the Darién region.
Darién is a jungle area in southern Panama that has become a key passage for migrants colonists traveling to the United States in recent years.
Panamanian President José Raúl announced on Thursday, February 20, that 119 refugees, including Afghan, Pak, Chinese, and Uzbek citizens, had been deported from the United States.
He also mentioned the deportation of 360 additional "illegal" migrants colonists from the U.S. to Panama, following an executive order from President Donald Trump ...Never got invited to a P.Diddy party... aimed at preventing taxpayer money from supporting illegal immigration.
According to Panama’s Minister of Security, more than half of the migrants colonists recently deported from the U.S. have agreed to return voluntarily to their home countries, mainly in Asia and the Middle East.
This move highlights the ongoing global issue of migration and the impact of stringent immigration policies. As governments like the U.S. and Panama tighten their immigration controls, the fate of these deported migrants colonists continues to raise humanitarian concerns.
[IsraelTimes] Court says Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, jailed in 1982 for murdering US and Israeli diplomats, hasn’t shown proof he’s compensated his victims’ families, amid repeated refusals to pay
A French court on Thursday postponed a much-awaited decision on freeing pro-Paleostinian Lebanese terrorist Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, jugged anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not 40 years ago for the 1982 killings of an Israeli and US diplomat.
The Gay Paree appeals court, which had been scheduled to deliver its verdict on Thursday, said it needed more time and would now revisit the case on June 19.
Abdallah, 73, was sentenced to life in prison for his involvement in the murders of US military attaché Charles Robert Ray and Israeli diplomat Yacov Barsimantov.
The United States, a civil party to the case, has consistently opposed his release but Lebanese authorities have repeatedly said he should be freed from jail.
In November, a French court ordered his release conditional on Abdallah, first detained in 1984 and convicted in 1987 over the murders, leaving La Belle France.
But La Belle France’s anti-terror prosecutors, arguing that he had not changed his political views, appealed the decision which was consequently suspended.
One of La Belle France’s longest-serving inmates, Abdallah has never expressed regret for his actions, claiming he was a "fighter" and not a "criminal"
Wounded in 1978 during Israel’s invasion of Leb ...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. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration.... , he joined the Marxist-Leninist PFLP, which carried out a string of plane hijackings in the 1960s and 1970s. It is banned as a terror group by the US and EU.
Then, in the late 1970s, Abdallah, a Christian, founded his terror group, the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Factions (LARF). It made contact with other extreme-left outfits, including Italia’s Red Brigades and the German Red Army Faction (RAF).
The appeals court said Thursday the delay was prompted by the unresolved question of whether Abdallah had proof that he had paid compensation to the plaintiffs, something he has consistently refused to do.
His lawyer, Jean-Louis Chalanset, called the court’s motive "judicial pettiness."
He said imprisoned members of other krazed killer groups active in the 1970s and 80s — including "political prisoners" belonging to French group Action Directe, or Corsican and Basque Lions of Islam — had all been set free.
He added the court’s stance risked creating a "de facto life imprisonment."
Abdallah is one of the longest-serving prisoners in La Belle France- most convicts serving life sentences are freed after less than 30 years.
Several hundred people demonstrated on Thursday in Toulouse ...lies on the banks of the River Garonne, half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The Toulouse metropolitan area is the fourth-largest in La Belle France... , around 100 kilometers (65 miles) from Abdallah’s prison, demanding his release.
Police, however, banned any such protests in the Gay Paree region, saying they feared a disturbance to public order because of "a tense social and international context."
Abdallah still enjoys some support from public figures in La Belle France, including left-wing deputies and Nobel prize-winning author Annie Ernaux, but has mostly been forgotten by the general public.
[KhaamaPress] Media outlets reports have revealed that a Pak man used a fake Afghanistan passport to deceive Irish immigration authorities, obtain asylum, and fraudulently claim social welfare benefits amounting to 43,000 euros.
A court in Ireland stated that Faisal Akbar, a 60-year-old resident of Benburb Street, Dublin 7, used a fake Afghanistan passport to apply for social welfare benefits, receiving a total of 43,715 euros in his bank account until 2019.
Irish police said Akbar arrived in Ireland in 2008, falsely claiming to be an Afghan citizen and successfully obtaining international protection (asylum). He presented the fake Afghanistan passport to the social welfare office in 2013 and continued to receive funds until 2019. However,
a woman is only as old as she admits... when he requested a name change on his bank account, the bank reported the matter to the police, exposing the fraud.
Faisal Akbar was charged in January this year with 12 counts of theft and illegal use of two forged documents, including the Afghanistan passport.
The Irish court noted that the man revealed his true identity after more than a decade in Ireland, not out of remorse, but because his family would not have been notified of his death otherwise.
The prosecution suggested that if the defendant pleaded guilty, the case could be handled in a district court. However,
a woman is only as old as she admits... the judge rejected this suggestion, ordering that the case be sent to a higher court due to the need for more severe penalties.
Faisal Akbar was granted bail until April and is expected to appear in court again.
This case highlights the potential for fraudulent activity within immigration and social welfare systems and raises concerns over the effectiveness of identification verification procedures in preventing such crimes. The legal process is expected to hold Akbar accountable for his actions.
[Rudaw] Germany is home to millions of Moslems, but they are a diverse group. Some are influenced by their religious backgrounds, while others are more focused on voting for parties that promise better living conditions for immigrants colonists in the upcoming parliamentary elections.
Germans will go to the polls on Sunday.
Inside the Brotherhood Mosque in Gelsenkirchen, Imam Ibrahim speaks in Arabic and German about the importance of participating in the election for the future of their religion in this country. The mosque is fundamentally Kurdish, but Arabs regularly come to pray alongside Kurds. Imam Ibrahim himself was born to a German mother and a Paleostinian father. He believes voting is a right and Moslems should not be indifferent to it.
"It is like history repeating itself. Our situation is like 1933 before [Adolf] Hitler ...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days, sometimes every few hour if it's an election year, as a politician somebody doesn't like... came to power. The situation is nearly the same from a political perspective, and the media topics they discuss are almost identical. The only difference is that in the past, it was against Jews, now it's against Moslems," he told Rudaw on Monday.
Riyadh Bakr is a young Syrian who has been in Germany for ten years. He is waiting for the Islamic Association in Dusseldorf to decide which political party is suitable for Moslems so he can vote accordingly.
"There is not an ideal political party that meets all Moslem demands. We are in a Western country with its own laws, but we try our best to support the party that aligns with our goals and implements our objectives to a large extent," he said.
Along with the harsh rhetoric against immigrants colonists from Germany's right-wing parties, Moslems are sometimes directly and indirectly implicated. Moslems, like any other component of this country, believe the election results will affect their religious freedom in Germany.
Rawa Qaradaghi, a Kurdish-Moslem voter, said the upcoming election in Germany is "very important," adding that "For people like us who are not fully German, it is very important to go vote so we can have some power here in Germany."
Herish Hamakhan has been in Germany for 30 years. He has participated in most elections and even goes to vote wearing Kurdish clothes with his children.
The Social Democratic Party (SPD), the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), and the Greens "are all the parties that are at the forefront, truly at the front of the stage. There are other smaller parties too, but honestly, until now, although people don't usually share their voting preferences, I might vote for CDU perhaps," Hamakhan told Rudaw.
After Christians, Moslems are the second-largest population group in Germany, numbering over five million people.
[Rudaw] Serdar Yuksel, the prominent Kurdish member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), is running for the federal parliamentary elections after 14 years of serving in the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament.
"It is important for Kurds... to have representatives in the German parliament, so that Kurdish demands, especially from Kurdistan and northern Iraq, can be heard and the bridge we have built over the past 15 years can now be represented in Berlin," he told Rudaw on Monday.
Germans will go to the polls on Sunday.
The parents of the 51-year-old Yuksel are from Kurdish areas in southeast The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... . His family migrated to Germany in 1964, and he was born in Essen. He has been a member of the Social Democratic Party for 36 years. For this election, he campaigns tirelessly because he believes democracy is in danger.
He said his party "works to strengthen democracy," adding that "democracy in Germany has not been this endangered in the 75 years since the establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany."
He warned against a potential win by far-right parties and called on people to go to the polls.
"We have a far-right holy warrior and fascist ...anybody you disagree with, damn them... party that wants to destroy democracy here. This must be taken very, very seriously. In other countries, people take to the streets and sacrifice their lives to live in a democratic society and vote. But we see that many people unfortunately stay at home. I call on all Kurds to exercise their rights, go vote, and not leave this democracy to the enemies of democracy," he said.
Yuksel highlighted three key goals for his electoral campaign: preserving the right to dual citizenship for asylum-seekers, keeping borders open for refugees fleeing violence and instability, and facilitating the legal migration process for skilled individuals.
Serdar has been a parliamentarian for North Rhine-Westphalia since 2010 and has won the trust of voters in Germany's largest state in four consecutive elections, representing the voices of immigrant communities, particularly the Kurdish diaspora.
[NIUS.de] When the guard comes, Munich terrorist Farhad Noori wants his cell to be cleaned – to clean it of Christians.
Who was Farhad Noori, the Munich attacker? At first, the 24-year-old Afghan who drove a Mini Cooper into a Verdi rally last Thursday, killing two people and injuring 37, puzzled investigators. But initial impressions that security circles were able to gain from Noori's statements during interrogations and his behavior in Munich prison paint a picture of a radical Muslim who shows no remorse and exhibits signs of religious delusion. NIUS learned this exclusively from Bavarian police circles who had insight into his detention in Munich prison.
According to them, Noori, who is said to have been born in Kabul on January 9, 2001, is said to have made fundamentalist-religious references to prison staff in dialogues over the past few days. For example, when a doctor came to examine Noori's mental state, the bodybuilder is said to have repeated several times that "only Allah decides about him." This is another reason why he refuses to go to the doctor. If he were to die, it would be “Allah’s decision” – and he would not feel any fear because he would be resurrected and return to this world anyway.
After the crime, the senior public prosecutor, Gabriele Tilmann, announced that she would dare to "speak of an Islamist motivation for the crime." The 24-year-old, whom the Federal Prosecutor General now accuses of attempted murder in 39 cases, is said to have prayed after the crime and shouted "Allahu Akbar." During questioning, Noori also gave insights into his motives, "which I would summarize as religious motivation," said Tilmann. Research by NIUS also concluded that, in addition to pictures of Noori posing in the gym or in designer clothing, he repeatedly used Islamic references on social media, including the tauhid finger, Kaaba emojis, and sermons that at least showed an interest in pious Islamic content.
However, Noori's behavior in the Munich prison can hardly be described as pious in the literal sense: According to police sources, the Afghan is said to have behaved "impudently" at times - and showed no signs of remorse or scruples. In contact with investigators on site, the Afghan is said to have repeatedly displayed "aggressive behavior" and a "loud, demanding tone." Noori is also said to have repeatedly changed language and started speaking in Urdu.
When food was supposed to be brought to him through the food hatch, an attempt at communication is said to have failed immediately because Noori repeatedly interrupted and aggressively interrupted staff. Within a few days, the attacker is said to have also triggered the emergency call several times, even though he had been made aware that it was only intended for emergencies. On one occasion, the Afghan is said to have instructed a guard that he "had to throw away his garbage immediately"; this was "his will."
The senior public prosecutor, Gabriele Tilmann, spoke on Friday of an Islamist motive for the crime - in the meantime, the Federal Prosecutor General has taken over the investigation.
But there is more: Noori is said to have explicitly asked prison staff to clean his cell, "because the Jesuits who had been housed before him had soiled everything." According to police sources, it seems likely that by "Jesuits" he meant Christians in the sense of the German majority society. When food was brought to his cell, he refused to accept it, "because it was not halal and had been soiled by the prison." Everything he really needed came from Allah, he said, "because Allah sits next to him when he prays." The act the accused is accused of was also ordered by Allah. The attempts at communication paint a picture of a radically religious and simultaneously delusional perpetrator, according to the source.
This matches a click counter that Noori is said to have had with him when he committed the crime last Thursday. Welt had reported exclusively on the object. Investigators are said to have puzzled over the meaning of the click counter, the report said, perhaps the gadget was intended to record the number of people hit or killed. According to NIUS information, however, it seems more likely that the analog counter is more of an indication of Noori's Islamist worldview. For example, devout Muslims in the Near and Middle East are said to carry such click counters with them again and again in order to count their prayers to Allah. A New York Times article from 2022 is entitled: "Some Muslims Are Using Digital Rings to Track Their Praises to God". It seems likely that the mysterious click counter was more of an expression of Noori's connection to Allah - than a kind of body counter.
Noori is said to have had such a hand counter with him at the time of the crime.
The Afghan came to Germany in 2016. His asylum application was rejected, but due to the situation in Afghanistan, Noori could never be deported - and was therefore granted a temporary residence permit. In 2021, he was also granted a so-called "lane change". This allows rejected asylum seekers who are considered well integrated to receive a residence permit. Last weekend, Der Spiegel revealed that he had lied about his escape story. A judge at the Munich Administrative Court had concluded that Noori's statements were "not credible" because they seemed "lacking in detail and unrealistic". There were also "inconsistencies" in his statements. A serious threat in Afghanistan was therefore "unlikely".
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"to have explicitly asked prison staff to clean his cell"
It doesn't work this way in Stadelheim prison, as others have found out. And if you don't like the food, you are not required to eat it.
As for the garbage to be taken out: I think the general population of the prison will be delighted to take care of it. Child killers are especially "popular" here.
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He asked to have the power, heat, and plumbing turned off.
[YouTube] In a new undercover video, a Department of Education official has revealed to Project Veritas that the department is operating as a rogue "sanctuary program" for illegal immigrants, misusing federal tax dollars in a way that would enrage Congress if the truth came out. As Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) begins its audit, this official revealed to Project Veritas that employees are also evading oversight and hiding secrets on encrypted messaging apps.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered his agency to work up a plan by Monday to slash 8 percent from the budget in each of the next five years – or $50 billion.
The cuts are styled after the actions of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which has been reviewing a slew of federal government spending under the leadership of Elon Musk.
The billionaire Tesla and SpaceX boss has already completely dismantled USAID and has put FEMA under notice that they could be the next aid agency to go. He also has cut billions in spending on programs that do not align with President Donald Trump's priorities to crack down on illegal immigration and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs.
The new Pentagon memo outlines a way forward to bring the DoD into compliance with Trump's executive orders after DOGE staffers were on site earlier this week collecting a list of those employees in their probationary periods.
DOGE is overseeing the Trump administration's order to fire thousands of the Pentagon's probation workers, which it started to carry out earlier this week.
The new cuts are entirely separate from the firings.
The target will be to scale back military programs created under President Joe Biden's administration that focused on climate change and energy policies among other 'woke' programs, Pentagon spokesman Robert Salesses said in a statement. NOT Mission-Critical
Other areas considered to be unnecessary spending will be cut, like DEI military practices and policies.
But Trump's plans for a so-called 'Iron Dome for America' would still forge forward as he seeks to create a missile defense system. Some of the money that is saved from cuts to other areas could be used towards replicating Israel's Iron Dome on a larger scale for the U.S.
Hegseth has stressed the importance of the U.S. reviving 'the warrior ethos' to the military.
'The time for preparation is over,' Hegseth wrote in his memo to the Defense Department. 'We must act urgently to revive the warrior ethos, rebuild our military, and reestablish deterrence.'
The former Fox News host continued: 'Our budget will resource the fighting force we need, cease unnecessary defense spending, reject excessive bureaucracy, and drive actionable reform including progress on the audit.'
Salesses said in a statement on the review of the Pentagon budget that the audit will help 'ensure we are making the best use of the taxpayers' dollars.'
He continued: 'The Department will develop a list of potential offsets that could be used to fund these priorities, as well as to refocus the Department on its core mission of deterring and winning wars.'
'The offsets are targeted at 8 percent of the Biden Administration's FY26 budget, totaling around $50 billion, which will then be spent on programs aligned with President Trump's priorities,' Salesses concluded.
The audit comes as Trump vows to also target the Pentagon amid a slew of cuts at other agencies, including canceling billions of contracts at the Department of Education and National Institutes of Health.
#1
The biggest cuts are only found in cutting world wide commitments of American armed forces. Quit sticking your fingers into everything. If you are going to do something, f* "proportional response". Make sure everyone knows they don't want something similar to happen to them.
[IsraelTimes] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made several new demands in talks on the second phase of the current ceasefire and hostage deal, Channel 13 news reports.
The network says that as a precondition for the permanent end to the war, Netanyahu is demanding that the Hamas leadership be exiled abroad, that Gaza be demilitarized, and that Israel maintain security control over the Strip.
[IsraelTimes] Mohammed Abu Warda, responsible for series of suicide bombings, vows to continue ‘resistance’ at Khan Younis ceremony; had reportedly been slated to be deported to Egypt
A Paleostinian terrorist responsible for killing dozens of Israelis who was released from prison just days ago was seen in media footage at the Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... handover of bodies of four slain hostages Thursday.
Mohammed Abu Warda, a former commander in Hamas’s armed wing, was serving 48 life sentences in Israel for criminal masterminding multiple terror attacks that killed 45 people, including a 1996 bombing on a Jerusalem bus that left 24 dead.
He was released by Israel on February 8 along with other terror convicts as part of the ongoing hostage-ceasefire deal with the Hamas terror group.
According to Hebrew media, Abu Warda was the prisoner with the highest number life sentences to be released so far during the truce. He served 23 years.
Though he was reportedly slated to be deported to Egypt, Abu Warda was seen Thursday morning at a Khan Younis stage where the terror group held a ceremony marking the transfer of what is said were the bodies of four Israeli hostages: Shiri Bibas, her two young children Ariel and Kfir, and octogenarian peace activist Oded Lifshitz, all of whom were kidnapped alive by holy warriors on October 7, 2023.
He was seated in the front row alongside other Hamas dignitaries, apparently as a guest of honor. Abu Warda’s presence at the ceremony was first reported in Israel by the Kan public broadcaster.
Speaking to a news hound, Abu Warda vowed that Hamas’s "resistance" would continue "until we reach liberation of [Jerusalem] and all our lands."
Under the terms of the first stage of the ceasefire agreement, Israel is freeing some 2,000 Paleostinians in prison for security offenses, including hundreds serving life sentences, in exchange for the release of 25 living hostages and eight bodies.
Abu Warda was freed in the third round of the deal, in exchange for the release of hostages Gadi Mozes, Agam Berger, and Arbel Yehoud.
According to the Kan broadcaster, Egypt refused to grant entry to Abu Warda and 19 other released security prisoners and has demanded that other prisoners it has already taken in be deported elsewhere before it will accept new prisoners.
Hamas claims initial agreements have been received from Algeria, Indonesia, Malaysia and 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... to accept released Paleostinian prisoners, but this has not yet been implemented, Kan reported.
Abu Warda was arrested by the Paleostinian Authority in 2002 in connection to bombings he organized for Hamas and had been in Israeli prisons until his release earlier this month.
When he was charged in 2004, the Israeli judges called the case "one of the most serious indictments ever filed in the State of Israel."
Throughout the ceasefire, Hamas has staged public ceremonies when releasing hostages in an attempt to bolster its claims of remaining in power 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... , after being pounded by Israel’s military for some 15 months in response to the October 7, 2023, massacre in southern Israel.
During the Khan Younis ceremony Thursday, Hamas displayed four black coffins on stage surrounded by banners, including a large one depicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a vampire.
Thousands of people, including large numbers of masked and armed members of terror groups, looked on as the coffins were loaded onto Red Thingy vehicles before being driven to Israeli forces.
Inside the coffins were thought to be the bodies of Shiri Bibas, her small children Ariel, 4 at the time, and Kfir, just 9 months old, and Lifshitz, all kidnapped from their Nir Oz homes.
After receiving the coffins inside Gaza, the IDF held a small military ceremony, led by IDF Chief Rabbi Brig. Gen. Eyal Karim, who read psalms as the coffins were draped in Israeli flags.
Israelis, many somberly waving flags, lined roads as a convoy of vehicles brought the bodies to a forensic institute in Tel Aviv for identification.
[TWZ] US Air Force F-16s are expanding their ability to engage enemy drones with low-cost guided rockets.
New pictures show U.S. Air Force F-16C Viper fighters on patrol in and around the Middle East with loadouts that include two seven-shot 70mm rocket pods, and both on the same pylon, rather than just one as has been seen previously. The same images also show an F-16C armed with a mix of AIM-120 AMRAAM and AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missiles and sporting a drone kill marking. TWZ first reported last month that Air Force Vipers have been using laser-guided 70mm Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System II (APKWS II) rockets, originally designed as air-to-ground munitions, as a lower-cost way to down Houthi drones.
The U.S. Air Forces Central (AFCENT), the service’s top command for operations in the Middle East, released two sets of pictures of F-16s flying in the region earlier today. The photographs were all taken earlier this month.
The image sets show pairs of F-16Cs flying together and, in both cases, one of the Vipers has a pair of seven-round 70mm rocket pods on a single pylon under its right wing with the help of a triple ejector rack (TER), as seen below. Each of the rocket-armed jets also are seen carrying two AIM-9X Sidewinders, two AIM-120s, a LITENING targeting pod, a HARM Targeting System (HTS) pod, and two drop tanks. As noted, pictures AFCENT has previously released have shown F-16s with one rocket pod instead of two, but otherwise similar load-outs. A version of the single rocket pod loadout has also been observed on Vipers forward-deployed in Japan.
The other Vipers seen in the new pictures are armed with four Sidewinders each – a mixture of AIM-9M and AIM-9X variants – and two AIM-120s, as well as the same array of pods and drop tanks. One of these jets also has a drone kill marking, as well as six others that are silhouettes of a revolver, on the left side of the fuselage right under the forward end of the cockpit canopy. What the revolvers signify is unknown, but they might reflect the destruction of targets with the jet’s 20mm M61 Vulcan cannon, a six-barrel Gatling-type design. This particular aircraft also has three large rows of badly worn air-to-ground mission marks.
Other U.S. military combat jets, as well as American and other foreign warships, have previously emerged with drone and missile kill markings in relation to operations against the Houthis in and around the Red Sea. A Navy EA-18G Growler electronic warfare jet also now has a silhouette of a Hind attack helicopter painted on its fuselage after blowing one up on the ground in Yemen with an AGM-88E Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile (AARGM), which TWZ was first to confirm.
The appearance of F-16s in the Middle East with larger rocket loads is not surprising. As TWZ highlighted in January in our first report on the use of APKWS II in the air-to-air role, even a single seven-shot pod of the laser-guided rockets dramatically increases the Viper’s total magazine depth. As seen again in the newly released pictures, an F-16 with a more typical air-to-air loadout carries just six missiles.
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
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
..always the voice of sweet reason...
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
[Jfeed] Saudi Arabia's Grand Mufti, Abdul Aziz Al-Sheikh, emphasized that the violence and terror witnessed in Gaza are entirely contrary to the teachings of Islam, stating, "What we saw today in Gaza is a disgrace to Islam, an act of blasphemy against Allah, and a sin that does not represent the followers of the Prophet, peace be upon him, or the honorable religion of Islam."
...Never got invited to a P.Diddy party...
...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. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration....
...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days, sometimes every few hour if it's an election year, as a politician somebody doesn't like...
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
