And other times — almost all of the time — the Taliban work with and protect Al Qaeda, at least, out of a shared world view, mutually supporting goals, and two generations of intermarriage at all levels. I need to see Secretary of State Rubio’s full statement in context before believing that this conveys his meaning and intent.
[ToloNews] US Secretary of State Marco Rubio ...The diminutive 13-year-old Republican U.S. Senator from Florida, Secretary of State in the second Trump administration... said that the Islamic Emirate has, in some instances, cooperated with Washington in eliminating ISIS and al-Qaeda.
In an interview with an American media outlet, he said that a lack of control over these groups in Afghanistan gives them the opportunity to expand their activities.
Marco Rubio stated: "I think any time you have governing spaces that are contested, that you don’t have a government that has full control of every part of the territory, it creates the opportunity for these groups."
The US Secretary of State also stressed that America's concerns are not limited to Afghanistan, and mentioned Syria as another security threat.
"In my opinion, this is a baseless claim because, over the past three and a half years, the current government has proven its authority in Afghanistan and has not lost control over even a small portion of its territory. They should clarify which part of the country is outside the government’s control," said Moeen Gul Samkanai, a political analyst.
"These are just media statements. So far, they have not provided any global proof, nor does such proof exist, to suggest that Afghanistan poses a threat to the world or its neighboring countries," said Hewad Zazi, another political analyst.
Meanwhile,
...back at the comedy club, Boogie was cracking himself up, but nobody else seemed to be getting the non-stop jokes... in a recent statement, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Interior told TOLOnews that ISIS has been suppressed in Afghanistan and that there are no concerns regarding threats from this group.
“So I think returning us to that, now you can have a framework by which you analyze not just diplomacy but foreign aid and who we would line up with and the return of pragmatism. And that’s not an abandonment of our principles. I’m not a fan or a giddy supporter of some horrifying human rights violator somewhere in the world. By the same token, diplomacy has always required us and foreign policy has always required us to work in the national interest, sometimes in cooperation with people who we wouldn’t invite over for dinner or people who we wouldn’t necessarily ever want to be led by. And so that’s a balance, but it’s the sort of pragmatic and mature balance we have to have in foreign policy. “
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"By the same token, diplomacy has always required us and foreign policy has always required us to work in the national interest, sometimes in cooperation with people who we wouldn’t invite over for dinner or people who slaughtered 3000 Americans and attacked the US NCA in a war crime committed on US soil we wouldn’t necessarily ever want to be led by."
"We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them. "
George W. Bush, September 11th 2001
"These demands are not open to negotiation or discussion. The Taliban must act, and act immediately. They will hand over the terrorists, or they will share in their fate."
George W. Bush, Statement To Joint Session Of Congress September 20th 2001
Qatar harbors terrorists and the West doesn't hold Qatari leadership accountable in any way.
The Taliban did not hand over anyone. They are in power and in possession of a huge arms cache courtesy of the US and NATO's scary Article 5.
During the 20 years of Western presence the West has paid danegeld and imported elements of the Afghan's alien tyranny into Western politics and culture, including specifically Afghan but nonetheless especially revolting practices like Bacha-Bazi / Teen Drag Queens, reversing Stalin's statement that "Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach."
[VOAAFRICA] The United States has firmly rejected allegations that the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID, is funding Boko Haram and other terrorist groups in Nigeria. This followed an allegation made by a US congressman, Scott Perry, that USAID has been funding Boko haram and other international terrorist organizations. Our reporter in Abuja, Nigeria has more
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Come on, man! We are not funding terrorist groups. We are funding the groups that fund terrorist groups. Do you think we are such amateurs that we would not use cut-outs?
Besides, this is humanitarian aid which, because money is fungible, means the Bozos can save their cash for durable goods like guns and bullets.
[IsraelTimes] British broadcaster says ‘Gaza: How To Survive A War Zone’ to be unavailable until ‘due diligence’ is conducted; narrator’s links to Hamas not disclosed
The BBC on Friday removed a documentary about 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... war from its online streaming service after it emerged that the child who is a central figure in the film is the son of a Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... deputy minister, a fact that was at no time disclosed in the movie.
"Gaza: How To Survive a War Zone" is narrated by Abdullah al-Yazouri, a 14-year-old boy. The Telegraph reported earlier this week that the teen’s father is Ayman al-Yazouri, deputy minister of agriculture in the Strip’s Hamas government.
"’Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone’ features important stories we think should be told — those of the experiences of children in Gaza," the BBC said in a statement.
"There have been continuing questions raised about the program and in light of these, we are conducting further due diligence with the production company," it said. "The program will not be available on iPlayer while this is taking place."
After the narrator’s Hamas connections were revealed, the British network initially said the film would remain available to view with "some details" added. The broadcaster later succumbed to widespread criticism and removed the film.
Former BBC One controller Danny Cohen led the criticism of the program, questioning whether the BBC paid Hamas members during the filming, the Guardian reported.
"[The] documentary fails the most basic of program standards," Cohen said on Friday, according to the Guardian. "Links to the terrorist group Hamas were not disclosed"
"It appears that children have been manipulated by terrorists," he added.
The younger al-Yazouri’s Hamas connections were initially revealed on X by journalist David Collier.
The Guardian quoted Collier describing al-Yazouri "as the child of Hamas royalty."
The elder al-Yazouri’s LinkedIn profile says he has been deputy agriculture minister in Gaza since July 2021 and before that worked as an assistant to the deputy minister in Gaza’s education ministry. Hamas controls all government institutions in Gaza.
After Collier revealed the film’s Hamas connections, a letter signed by 45 prominent Jewish journalists and members of the media calling for the program to be taken down was published.
"Given the serious nature of these concerns, the BBC should immediately postpone any broadcast repeats of the program, remove it from iPlayer and take down any social media clips of the program until an independent investigation is carried out and its findings published with full transparency for license-fee payers," the letter said.
The International Centre of Justice for Paleostinians, a pro-Paleostinian NGO, condemned the criticism of the documentary, saying that despite Ayman al-Yazouri being "a civil servant in Gaza’s Agriculture Ministry," that "does not negate Abdullah’s lived experience as a child in Gaza nor does it invalidate his testimony."
The Guardian reported that British Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said she would inquire into how the documentary was sourced, adding: "These things are difficult and I do want to acknowledge that the BBC take more care than most broadcasters ... They’ve been attacked for being too pro-Gaza, they’ve been attacked for being anti-Gaza."
The UK public broadcaster has been criticized for its refusal to describe Hamas as terrorists, even though the group’s military wing is proscribed by the United Kingdom as such, and even after the widespread documentation of its systematic targeting of civilians on October 7, 2023.
The October 7 massacre saw Hamas-led Lions of Islam kill some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnap 251.
The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 48,000 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far, though the toll cannot be verified and does not differentiate between civilians and fighters. Israel says it has killed some 20,000 combatants in battle as of January and another 1,000 Lions of Islam inside Israel on October 7.
Israel has said it seeks to minimize civilian fatalities and stresses that Hamas uses Gaza’s civilians as human shields, fighting from civilian areas including homes, hospitals, schools and mosques.
[JustTheNews] ICE officials on Thursday said the 177 migrants colonists are being returned to Venezuela
...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south... , which is part of the administration's arrangements with the Colombian, Venezuelan and El Salvadoran governments to take in people deported by the U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers on Thursday transported over 100 illegal Venezuelan migrants colonists from its Guantanamo Bay detention center, in Cuba, to Honduras for deportation.
President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... signed an executive order last month to have the departments of Defense and Homeland Security expand Guantanamo Bay to hold thousands of illegal immigrants colonists coming from the U.S. Former President George W. Bush's administration established the center after the Sep. 11, 2001, terror attacks to detain terror suspects.
The Trump administration previously stated that the location would be a transitional place for criminal illegal immigrants colonists who were in the process of being deported, in order to get them off the U.S. mainland faster.
ICE officials on Thursday said the migrants colonists are being returned to Venezuela, which is part of the administration's arrangements with the Colombian, Venezuelan and El Salvadoran governments to take in people deported by the U.S.
"ICE Air Operations transported 177 Venezuelan illegal aliens from Guantanamo Bay to Honduras today for pickup by the Venezuelan government, which returned them to their home country," ICE wrote on X, confirming reports of transfers.
The deportations come a week after two Venezuelan flights took another 190 illegal migrants colonists directly from the United States back to their homeland.
The administration has put an emphasis on deporting illegal migrants colonists who have committed crimes or have exhausted all legal appeals for remaining in the U.S. This includes nearly 1.5 million migrants colonists who had final removal orders as of Nov. 24, including more than 22,000 Venezuelans, according to the News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
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Listening to NPR drive-time yesterday (All Trump - All the Time!), the little voices were going on about the poor Venezuelan illegals that were being sent to Gitmo where they were no doubt destined to suffer various fates worse than death.
By the end of the piece, the newsies admitted all but one of the exportees were already back in Venezuela, but it was still awful and horrible and stuff.
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^ Masochist much? I listen to talk radio (mostly
conservatives), except for Hannity. Can't stand him
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^ But Comrade Frank, it is a Citizen's duty to hold the proper opinions. Without daily guidance from National People's Radio, the People would be left to think for themselves.
I listen to NPR to know what the Message of the Day is, what story they are pushing now. Think of it as gathering intelligence, like reading the Daily Mail but more shrill, and with "Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me" instead of celebrity T&A.
It could be masochism, as I'm starting to enjoy the hysteria and weeping. Best taken in small doses though. There is only so much whining a man can stand.
Afghans are keeping a close eye on this new situation.
[KhaamaPress] The first flight carrying deported migrants colonists from the United States landed in Costa Rica on Thursday, as part of an agreement between the Costa Rican government and the administration of Donald Trump ...So far he's been unkillable, and they've tried.... . Among the migrants colonists on board, there were nine Afghan citizens.
According to Rooters, the first group of deported migrants colonists arrived in Costa Rica on Thursday. The flight carried 135 migrants colonists from various countries, as a result of the agreement between the Costa Rican government and the Trump administration.
Costa Rican immigration authorities have stated that of the 135 migrants colonists, nine are Afghan citizens. Upon landing in Costa Rica, the migrants colonists underwent initial screenings, and the authorities will decide on their residency status.
Upon resuming his presidency, Donald Trump imposed strict immigration policies, including plans to deport migrants colonists from the United States.
Recently, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristjen Neilsen, announced a multi-million dollar advertising campaign against undocumented immigrants colonists. In a warning message posted on X, she urged undocumented migrants colonists to "leave the U.S. immediately."
Costa Rica is one of the countries that, as part of its agreement with Washington, accepts some of these migrants colonists. This measure is part of broader U.S. policies aimed at controlling the influx of migration into the country.
It is also noteworthy that the U.S. government deported several Afghan and Iranian citizens on a flight to Panama. Additionally, the U.S. has announced that some undocumented criminal migrants colonists have been transferred to Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba.
These deportation efforts are part of a larger strategy by the U.S. to curb illegal immigration. The move reflects a continued commitment to the harsh immigration policies under the Trump administration, with countries like Costa Rica playing a key role in hosting deported migrants colonists as part of the broader migration control initiatives.
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Have to wonder how a relatively weak country is going to deal with these mokes once they get their footing and start acting out. May be planting tumors in our own neighborhood.
Direct Translation via Google Traslate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] Investigators have completed their investigation into the case of Magomed Kagirov, who is accused of involvement in the attack on a church and synagogue in Derbent.
As reported by the "Caucasian Knot", on June 23, 2024, on the Day of the Holy Trinity, which is one of the main Christian holidays, militants attacked synagogues and Orthodox churches in Derbent and Makhachkala. According to the investigation, the group included 11 people, Magomed Kagirov was supposed to join the militants, but then he did not participate in the terrorist attacks.
The Investigative Committee has completed its investigation into the case of Magomed Kagirov, who is accused of involvement in the attack on a church and synagogue in Derbent. "The parties are now familiarizing themselves with the materials of the criminal case," TASS quoted an employee of the department as saying today.
An employee of Moscow's Basmanny Court clarified that Kagirov's arrest has been extended until May 23.
Let us recall that as a result of the terrorist attacks in Makhachkala and Derbent, at least 22 people were killed and 46 were injured. Investigators believe that the group was created by the son of the head of the Sergokalinsky district, Magomed Omarov. "Kavkazsky Uzel" has prepared reports "The Main Thing About the Participants in the Attacks in Makhachkala and Derbent" and "Attacks on a Church, Synagogues, and Security Forces in Dagestan".
All for the greater glory of ISIS (Bees piss upon them).
Veterans of the special services interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" earlier stated that the militant attacks could have been prevented if the security forces had guarded religious sites more carefully and paid more attention to preventive work, but the security of religious sites in the republic was strengthened only the day after the militant attacks.
[IsraelTimes] Case filed by three former hostages against US nonprofit says member of terror group who held them claimed to be working with ‘allies’ at universities and in the media
A Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... member who held Israelis hostage 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... told the captives that the terror group was coordinating with "allies" on college campuses and in the media, according to a lawsuit filed in US court on Friday.
The lawsuit was filed by former hostages Almog Meir Jan, Andrey Kozlov and Shlomi Ziv. All three were taken from the Nova music festival in southern Israel during Hamas’s October 7, 2023, invasion of Israel.
They were held in Gaza by Abdallah Aljamal, according to the lawsuit and the IDF. Aljamal was a writer for the Paleostine Chronicle, a news outlet run by the People Media Project, a US-based, tax-exempt nonprofit that is the focus of the lawsuit.
The hostages were rescued after 246 days in captivity in an IDF operation in June that also extracted hostage Noa Argamani, who was held separately nearby. Aljamal, his wife Fatima and his father Ahmad Aljamal were all killed during the hostage rescue mission. The family’s children survived.
Jan initially filed the lawsuit last year. The judge in the case filed a motion to dismiss the case last month, saying there was insufficient evidence to prove the defendants were aware that Aljamal was a Hamas operative. The judge allowed Jan to refile an amended complaint, however. The new complaint was filed on Friday, adding Kozlov and Ziv as plaintiffs. The lawsuit, backed by the National Jewish Advocacy Center, was filed in a federal court in Washington State, where the People Media Project is based.
The case argues that the Paleostine Chronicle provided Aljamal with a platform to "disseminate Hamas propaganda," providing material support to a US-designated terrorist organization, in violation of international law.
According to the amended complaint, Ziv said Aljamal "repeatedly expressed his hatred for the State of Israel and the United States," and told the hostages that "Hamas was in contact and actively coordinating with its affiliates in the media and on college campuses."
Aljamal told the hostages that "Hamas was going to ensure that the United States, as well as Jews and Israelis, are hated everywhere and that Hamas in Gaza was coordinating with its allies, including its allies in the media and on college campuses, to foment hatred against Israel and Jews," the complaint said.
There were no further details about the cooperation between the terror group and campus protesters or the media.
The Paleostine Chronicle was reporting about US campus protests around the same time, and in August 2024, published an article about Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal urging university students to protest.
Aljamal was previously a spokesperson for the Hamas-run labor ministry in Gaza. He was open about his affiliation with the terror group, appearing publicly in Arabic media as a spokesperson and posting Hamas graphics and photos of his son wearing a Hamas headband on social media. He began writing for the Paleostine Chronicle in 2019 while still serving as a spokesperson for Hamas’s labor ministry, according to the lawsuit.
Aljamal appears to have had foreknowledge of the Hamas attack. On October 7, at 5:43 a.m., immediately before the invasion, he posted a message on TikTok that said, "O God, guide us.. O God, grant us the victory that you promised.. O God, acceptance, acceptance, acceptance.. Your victory, O God," followed by a heart emoji.
Later in the day, Aljamal praised the attack on Facebook.
He began writing for the Paleostine Chronicle more frequently after the attack, sometimes publishing multiple articles per day, while he was holding the Israelis hostage and communicating with the outlet’s staff in the US.
His social media activity, personal correspondence with the defendants, and public position with Hamas meant that the defendants were aware of his connections to the terror group, the lawsuit argues.
Defendant Ramzy Baroud, the editor-in-chief of the Paleostine Chronicle and head of the People Media Project, and Aljamal are from the same town in Gaza and in 2017, co-authored an article for Al Jazeera.
Immediately after the hostage rescue, the Paleostine Chronicle changed Aljamal’s description on its website from "correspondent" to "contributor," then later described him as a "freelance contributor" writing on "a voluntary basis." It also eulogized him in an article after his death, calling him a "well-known journalist murdered in Gaza," and denied that he had been holding the hostages.
The hostages were aware that Aljamal was communicating with terror groups, recording footage and writing about their own captivity, the complaint said. All three were "terrorized" during their captivity, subjected to arbitrary punishment, physical threats, and physical and psychological abuse, the lawsuit said.
The outlet’s tax-exempt status means US taxpayers were subsidizing Hamas propaganda published to a US audience, the lawsuit argues, adding that the salary he was paid also helped him imprison the hostages.
The Paleostine Chronicle and lawyers for the defendants did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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In a totalitarian system where ideological deviation carries the death penalty any living journalist is a regime operative because otherwise he'd be silent and alive or silent because he'd be dead.
[IsraelTimes] Hadi Matar has no reaction to the verdict except to mutter ‘Free Palestine’ as he is lead out of court; still faces Federal terrorism charges
A New Jersey man was convicted Friday of attempted murder for stabbing author Salman Rushdie multiple times on a New York lecture stage in 2022.
Jurors, who deliberated for less than two hours, also found Hadi Matar, 27,
...Lebanese-American reared un-Islamicly in New Jersey by a single mother. He went to Hezbollahstan a few years ago to visit his dad and came back primed for Shiite jihad. Despite failing to kill Mr. Rushdie, the government of Iran has awarded the misceant a full quarter acre of farmland to show their appreciation…
guilty of assault for wounding a man who was on stage with Rushdie at the time.
Matar ran onto the stage at the Chautauqua Institution where Rushdie was about to speak on Aug. 12, 2022, and stabbed him more than a dozen times before a live audience. The attack left the 77-year-old prizewinning novelist blind in one eye.
Rushdie was the key witness during seven days of testimony, describing in graphic detail his life-threatening injuries and long and painful recovery.
Matar, sitting at the defense table, looked down but had no obvious reaction when the jury delivered the verdict. As he was led out of the courtroom in handcuffs, he quietly uttered, "Free Paleostine," echoing comments he has frequently made while entering and leaving the trial.
The judge set sentencing for April 23. Matar could receive up to 25 years in prison.
His public defender, Nathaniel Barone, said Matar was disappointed but also well-prepared for the verdict.
District Attorney Jason Schmidt played a slow-motion video of the attack for the jury Friday during his closing argument, pointing out the assailant as he emerged from the audience, walked up a staircase to the stage and broke into a run toward Rushdie.
"I want you to look at the unprovoked nature of this attack," Schmidt said. "I want you to look at the targeted nature of the attack. There were a lot of people around that day but there was only one person who was targeted."
Assistant public defender Andrew Brautigan told the jury that prosecutors have not proved that Matar intended to kill Rushdie. The distinction is important for an attempted-murder conviction.
"You will agree something bad happened to Mr. Rushdie, but you don’t know what Mr. Matar’s conscious objective was," Brautigan said. "The testimony you have heard doesn’t establish anything more than a chaotic noisy outburst that occurred that injured Mr. Rushdie."
Matar had with him knives, not a gun or bomb, his attorneys have said previously. In response to testimony that the injuries were life-threatening, they noted that Rushdie’s heart and lungs were uninjured.
Schmidt said while it’s not possible to read Matar’s mind, "It’s foreseeable that if you’re going to stab someone 10 or 15 times about the face and neck, it’s going to result in a fatality."
Rushdie, 77, was the key witness during testimony that began last week. The Booker Prize-winning author told jurors he thought he was dying when a masked stranger ran onto the stage and stabbed and slashed at him until being tackled by bystanders. Rushdie showed jurors his now-blinded right eye, usually hidden behind a darkened eyeglass lens.
Schmidt reminded jurors about the testimony of a trauma surgeon, who said Rushdie’s injuries would have been fatal without quick treatment.
He also slowed down the video showing Matar approaching the seated Rushdie from behind and reaching around him to stab at his torso with a knife. Rushdie raises his arms and rises from his seat, walking and stumbling for a few steps with Matar hanging on, swinging and stabbing until they both fall and are surrounded by onlookers who rush in to separate them.
Rushdie is seen flailing on the ground, waving a hand covered in bright red blood. Schmidt freezes on a frame showing Rushdie, his face also bloodied, as he’s surrounded by people.
"We’ve shown you intent," Schmidt said.
The recordings also picked up the gasps and screams from audience members who had been seated to hear Rushdie speak with City of Asylum Pittsburgh founder Henry Reese about keeping writers safe. Reese suffered a gash to his forehead, leading to the assault charge against Matar.
From the witness stand, institution staff, and others who were present on the day of the attack pointed to Matar as the assailant.
Stabbed and slashed more than a dozen times in the head, throat, torso, thigh, and hand, Rushdie spent 17 days at a Pennsylvania hospital and more than three weeks at a New York City rehabilitation center. He detailed his long and painful recovery in his 2024 memoir, "Knife."
Throughout the trial, Matar often took notes with a pen and sometimes laughed or smiled with his defense team during breaks in testimony. His lawyers declined to call any witnesses of their own and Matar did not testify in his defense.
Public Defender Nathaniel Barone said Matar likely would have faced a lesser charge of assault were it not for Rushdie’s celebrity.
"We think that it became an attempted murder because of the notoriety of the alleged victim in the case," Barone told news hounds after testimony concluded Thursday. "That’s been it from the very beginning. It’s been nothing more, nothing less. And it’s for publicity purposes. It’s for self-interest purposes."
A separate federal indictment alleges that Matar, of Fairview, New Jersey, was motivated to attack Rushdie by a 2006 speech in which the leader of the terror group Hezbollah endorsed a decades-old fatwa, or edict, calling for Rushdie’s death. Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued the fatwa in 1989 after the publication of the novel "The Satanic Verses," which some Moslems consider blasphemous.
Rushdie spent years in hiding. But after Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... announced that it would not enforce the decree, he had traveled freely over the past quarter century.
A trial on the federal terrorism-related charges will be scheduled in US District Court in Buffalo.
[Rudaw] Following the exhumation process and identification, the remains of 32 Yazidi victims of 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.... (ISIS) will be returned to Shingal (Sinjar) on Friday for burial.
"After their arrival on Friday, a religious ceremony will be organized to honor the remains on Saturday. Official death certificates will be handed over to their families. On Sunday, a funeral will be held to bury them," Kheiri Ali, director of the Shingal-based Petricor Organization for Human Rights, told Rudaw on Thursday.
Nineteen of the victims are from Kojo village while the rest come from Qne and Snune villages, he said.
ISIS murderous Moslems seized control of Shingal in August 2014 and committed genocide. In the space of a few weeks, an estimated more than 5,000 people were killed, mainly men and older women. As of February 2025, 93 mass graves have been identified, 58 of which have been uncovered and more than 700 remains have been retrieved. The identity of 242 victims were previously verified through DNA tests. There are yet 500 remains in Baghdad whose identities need to be confirmed before returning them to Shingal for burial.
Although the excavation of the mass graves started in 2019 after announcing total military victory over ISIS, the process has been slow as there are 35 more graves that need to be exhumed. Ali said that identification of the remains has been slow because of difficulties getting DNA samples from the many Yazidis who fled Iraq during or after ISIS atrocities, as well as the large numbers of remains that the forensic department is handling after exhuming other mass graves, including those associated with Saddam Hussein’s genocidal Anfal campaign against the Kurds.
[IsraelTimes] Announcement comes after Hamas finally hands over body overnight, and day after her 2 young sons were determined to have been murdered by terrorists in Strip
Kibbutz Nir Oz said earlier Saturday morning that resident Shiri Bibas was murdered while held captive in Gaza, after Hamas handed over her body overnight and it was brought to Israel for identification.
“With pain and deep sorrow, Kibbutz Nir Oz announces the murder of Shiri Bibas, may her memory be a blessing, who was kidnapped from her home,” said a statement from the community, which was one of most devastated by the Hamas-led terror onslaught on October 7, 2023.
According to assessments by Israeli officials, Shiri was “brutally” murdered along with her two young boys in November 2023.
The announcement came a day after Hamas handed over remains that it said were Bibas turned out to be a Palestinian woman.
Following Nir Oz’s announcement, the Bibas family put out a statement saying it held out hope that Shiri and her young sons Ariel and Kfir would return alive after being abducted by terrorists during the Hamas attack, having “requested certainty [about their fate] for 16 months, and now there’s no comfort in it.”
“Shiri was a wonderful mother to Ariel and Kfir, a loving partner to Yarden, a dedicated sister and aunt and incredible friend,” the family added, saying details would soon be provided on the funeral and shiva.
“Thanks to everyone for your support and love these 16 months, we wish that Shiri could be here to see it.”
The Red Cross earlier confirmed transferring a body it collected from Hamas in the Gaza Strip to Israeli authorities.
A police convoy then brought the body to the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute in Tel Aviv.
Residents of the southern Eshkol Regional Council, where Nir Oz is located, lined up in the middle of the night in cold and blustery weather along the highway as the convoy passed by, waving Israeli and yellow flags in honor of the hostages.
“Today, after 16 unbearable months, this real painful circle has finally been closed for the family and in the coming days she will return, together with her two small sons, to eternal rest in the soil of Israel,” added the statement from Kibbutz Nir Oz.
The confirmation of Shiri’s death means that three generations of her family were murdered by terrorists — her parents Yossi and Margit Silberman were killed at Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7, 2023, during the attack.
The Hamas terror group was supposed to return Shiri Bibas on Thursday along with her young sons Ariel and Kfir, and fellow Kibbutz Nir Oz resident Oded Lifshitz. The remains of Ariel, Kfir and Lifshitz were later positively identified, with forensic evidence determining all three were killed over a year ago.
The fourth body sent by Hamas, however, was later found to not be Shiri Bibas or any other hostage but the Palestinian woman from Gaza.
Hamas later claimed that there had been a mix-up with the bodies during an Israeli airstrike, though the military said evidence clearly showed that Kfir and Ariel were murdered by Palestinian terrorists in November 2023 when they were respectively 10-months and 4-years-old.
“The terrorists did not shoot the two young boys — they killed them with their bare hands. Afterward, they committed horrific acts to cover up these atrocities,” said IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari on Friday.
Hagari added that he spoke on Thursday with the children’s father, recently released hostage Yarden Bibas, who demanded that he tell the world what had happened. Yarden was abducted separately by Hamas terrorists after he left the safe room of their Nir Oz home in an attempt to distract the gunmen and save his sons and wife.
“The entire world must know exactly how the Hamas terrorist organization operates. Ariel and Kfir were murdered, and then on Thursday, their bodies were returned in a cynical and cruel ceremony in Gaza. Shiri Bibas, who was meant to be returned with her children to Israel as part of the agreement, was not returned by Hamas. Hamas lied and violated the agreement,” said Hagari, referring to the ongoing hostage release and ceasefire deal.
Hamas, meanwhile, professed surprise at what it asserted was a mix-up over Shiri’s body, saying it would “examine these allegations very seriously” and announce the results of its investigation.
Hamas called on Israel to return to Gaza the body of the Palestinian woman that it handed over in place of Shiri, which the Ynet news site said Israel return to Gaza would once Bibas was identified.
The terror group then said it remains committed to implementing the current ceasefire-hostage release deal and vowed to uphold “all of our obligations,” claiming that it has no interest in holding on to any bodies of hostages. It also said it would proceed with the release of six live hostages on Saturday, saying it would release hostages Tal Shoham, Omer Shem-Tov, Eliya Cohen, Omer Wenkert, Avera Mengistu and Hisham al-Sayed.
No doubt with more ceremonies intended again to humiliate both prisoners and watchers. Evict them all.
According to Hamas’s past statements, the six are the last of those to be returned under the first phase who are alive.
Al-Sayed and Mengistu have been captive in Gaza for over a decade, after entering the Strip of their own accord. The others were abducted on October 7, 2023.
In return, Israel will release 602 Palestinian security prisoners from jails on Saturday as part of the ongoing hostage release-ceasefire deal with Hamas.
Amani Sarahneh, a spokeswoman for the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club said those slated for release include 445 individuals from Gaza who were arrested after Hamas’s October 7 attack, 60 serving long sentences, 50 serving life sentences and 47 re-arrested after a 2011 exchange for captive IDF soldier Gilad Shalit.
If any of them end up being rearrested, hang them, because they will be proved incapable of reforming. Or shoot them — as long as they are dead, I don’t care.
Hamas is also due to release four more bodies next week, bringing an end to the first phase of the deal.
The second part of the three-stage deal calls for the release of all the remaining hostages, in exchange for a permanent end to the war and the release of more Palestinian security inmates. It is believed that some 24 living hostages would be released in the second phase.
We will soon see how President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu choose to respond to the recovery of these four victims, two of whom are small children. Depending upon the amount of outrage upon seeing the bodies of the Bibas family, there seem to be three choices:
1, Israel continues negotiations for phase two of the ceasefire in hopes of regaining any living hostages;
2, Israel goes through the motions of negotiating for phase two of the ceasefire while simultaneously preparing to attack Gaza and Iran in the coming days or weeks. Israel has just received last week the weapons that they had bought from the United States, but that the Biden administration had refused to release for months. With these new weapons, the military strength of Israel will increase exponentially; or
3, Israel decides that ceasefire negotiations are not helping retrieve any of the remaining hostages but rather are making the entire region more dangerous. As a result, they launch strikes against Gaza and Iran shortly after Saturday's exchange.
Whichever choices are ultimately made, we will all be immersed in pain with the delivery of the dead bodies, especially of the children. We all need to feel emotional pain and sadness for the evils that Hamas has done. And then we need to be conscious of the justifiable anger at Hamas that every compassionate human being feels when this type of evil is recognized.
And in the midst of our anger, we must heed the old advice to pause and count to ten … if only because it helps us aim better.
[IsraelTmes] US President calls killing of child hostages Kfir and Ariel Bibas ‘so barbaric’; says he’s not ‘forcing’ Gaza plan to expel locals to Jordan, Egypt
US President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... said Friday he is "really" fine with any decision Israel makes as to whether to continue to a second stage of 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... hostage deal or return to war in Gaza.
Asked about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s position in an interview with Fox News, Trump said, "He’s actually not torn. I mean, you know where he stands, and he would like to go in, and he’s just so angry, and he should be. If he’s not angry, then there’d be something wrong with him, frankly.
"He is very angry; he’s a very angry man at what happened, especially what happened yesterday with these kids," he said, referring to the return of murdered hostage children Ariel and Kfir Bibas. "It’s so barbaric. You wouldn’t think that would happen in the modern age, but it happened."
Asked on whether Israel would decide between seeking to bring back more hostages in a second phase or resuming the war, and whether he is fine with either choice, Trump answered, "I am. I really am. You know, when you see what’s happening there... you just wonder about the condition of the hostages that they have. One group came in so bad, it looked like it was a concentration camp in Germany."
He added: "Sometimes you have to make a decision... it’s a rough decision."
Sixty-seven of the 251 hostages kidnapped by Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... on October 7 remain in Gaza, including the bodies of at least 35 confirmed dead by the IDF.
’I’M NOT FORCING IT’
Trump was also asked about his post-war plan for the Gaza Strip, which calls for the US to take ownership of the enclave and for the local population to be relocated to Egypt and Jordan, who have rejected the proposal outright.
"Well, we play Jordan and Egypt billions of dollars a year and I was a little surprised they said that, but they did. And I’ll tell you, the way to do it is my plan. I think that’s the plan that really works," Trump said.
"I’m not forcing it. I’m just gonna sit back and recommend it, and then the US would own the site and, you know, no Hamas, and they’d be developed and then you’d start all over again with a clean plate."
"I like my plan I thought my plan was good. You get them out, you move them, you build a beautiful community and a permanent community and then you take the site," Trump said.
"You know it’s a great location. I don’t know why Israel ever gave that up," Trump said, referring to Israel’s 2005 disengagement from Gaza. "I guess they look at us and say ’Why did you give up the Panama Canal?’
"I’ve seen a lot of bad real estate deals, that’s one of them right there."
Arab leaders have been shuffling to construct a counterproposal to Trump’s Gaza plan. According to reports, the Arab plan would see Hamas retreat from Gaza’s political scene.
Hamas has controlled Gaza since 2007, following a civil war that saw the terror group oust the West Bank-based Paleostinian Authority, which is dominated by Hamas’s secularist rival Fatah.
Israel has ruled out accepting any plan that involves the Paleostinian Authority playing a role in the management of the Gaza Strip.
[ZH] On Thursday evening, the Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs published the first-ever in-orbit image captured by Boeing's X-37 spaceplane, which was shared on the DVIDS website.
USAF Public Affairs described the photo, taken by an onboard camera designed to monitor the X-37's "health and safety," as showing Earth in the distant background during a series of "experiments in a highly elliptical orbit in 2024."
"As part of the X-37 B's seventh mission, the vehicle executed a series of first-of-its-kind maneuvers, called aerobraking, to safely change its orbit using minimal fuel," the public affairs office said.
The top-secret spaceplane, built by Boeing and operated by the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office and the Space Force, has spent years in space quietly conducting classified missions. Its real purpose has yet to be revealed.
With each successive top-secret mission, the X-37B spends long and longer time in orbit:
OTV-1: launched on Apr. 22, 2010 and landed on Dec. 3, 2010, spending over 224 days in orbit.
OTV-2: launched on Mar. 5, 2011 and landed on Jun. 16, 2012, spending over 468 days in orbit.
OTV-3: launched on Dec. 11, 2012 and landed on Oct. 17, 2014, spending over 674 days in orbit.
OTV-4: launched on May 20, 2015 and landed on May 7, 2015, spending nearly 718 days in orbit.
OTV-5: launched on Sept. 7, 2017 and landed on Oct. 27, 2019, spending nearly 780 days in orbit.
OTV-6: launched on May 17, 2020 and landed on Nov. 12, 2022, spending over 908 days in orbit.
OTV-7: launched on Dec. 29, 2023 ... still ongoing...
In the age of DOGE, perhaps it's time for the Space Force to provide more color on the spaceplane's objectives to determine if the return on investment for taxpayers is truly justified.
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Divisions of Boeing still work very well. X-37 is an amazing craft and its real purpose is just testing tech. What it is testing... well... let's just say it has been guessed and not talked about by the press. I'll leave the rest to your imagination. No death rays though.
[NAHARNET] Loyalty to Resistance® bloc MP Ali Fayad said the funeral of slain Hezbollah chief Sayyed ...Arabic term meaning your/his lordship. Groveling in His Exalted Presence is encouraged... His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The late, lamented satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...> on Sunday will witness ''a million-person rally that is unprecedented in Lebanese political history.''
''Hundreds of delegations from 65 countries have confirmed their attendance, in addition to hundreds of Lebanese figures and 400 foreign officials,'' Fayad added, in remarks to LBCI television. Good time for a hypersonic low level flyover by the IAF
''I have learned that Speaker Nabih Knobby Berri
...perennial Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, head of the Amal Shiite party aligned with Hezbollah, a not very subtle sock puppet of the Medes and Persians... will attend the funeral and will be representing the president. This occasion is not exclusive to the Shiite sect but rather a national occasion,'' Fayad said.
Hezbollah is preparing for a massive turnout for Nasrallah's funeral on Sunday, an opportunity for a show of strength by the group after a bruising war with Israel.
The country will stop for Sunday's funeral, to be held at 1:00 pm (1100 GMT) at the Camille Chamoun sports stadium on the capital's outskirts.
Hezbollah has announced strict security measures and urged security forces to help manage crowds that are expected to number in the tens of thousands, with people pouring in from Hezbollah strongholds across the country, as well as from abroad.
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[IsraelTimes] Lebanese terror group hoping to put on a show of strength to show it is still relevant in wake of devastating losses it suffered in conflict with Israel
Hundreds of Iraqis and Iranians, including big shots, are heading to Beirut where Leb ...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... ’s Hezbollah will bury its former leader His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The late, lamented satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...> on Sunday nearly five months after he was killed in an Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... , in a mass funeral aimed at showing political strength after the group emerged badly weakened from last year’s war.
Nasrallah was killed on September 27 in an Israeli airstrike as he met commanders in a bunker in Beirut’s southern suburbs, a stunning blow in the early phase of an Israeli offensive that has left the Iran-backed group a shadow of its former self.
Revered by Hezbollah supporters, Nasrallah led the Shi’ite Moslem group through decades of conflict with Israel, overseeing its transformation into a military force with regional sway and becoming one of the most prominent Arab figures in generations.
The funeral in Beirut’s southern suburbs will also honor Hashem Safieddine, who led Hezbollah for one week after Nasrallah’s death before he was also killed by Israel, underlining how deeply Israeli intelligence had penetrated the terror group. He will be buried in the south on Monday.
"The funeral is a launchpad for the next phase. A great funeral that draws hundreds of thousands is a way of telling everyone that Hezbollah still exists, that it is still the main Shi’ite actor in Lebanon," said Mohanad Hage Ali of the Carnegie Middle East Center.
Israel killed thousands of Hezbollah fighters and inflicted huge destruction in Beirut’s southern suburbs and other areas of Lebanon where Hezbollah embedded its forces. The impact on Hezbollah was compounded by the ousting of its ally Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Terror of Aleppo ... in Syria, severing the supply route to Iran.
Its weakened stature has been reflected in Lebanon’s post-war politics, with the group unable to impose its will in the formation of a new government and language legitimizing its arsenal omitted from the new cabinet’s policy statement.
Sheikh Sadeq al-Nabulsi, a holy man close to Hezbollah, said adversaries in Lebanon and abroad believed the group had been defeated, but the funeral would be a message that this was not the case. It would be a "battle to prove Hezbollah’s existence."
The ceremony will be held at Lebanon’s biggest sports arena, the Camille Chamoun Sports City Stadium, on the outskirts of the Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs.
Nasrallah will then be buried at a dedicated site nearby.
Nasrallah’s death was a huge blow to Iran, whose Revolutionary Guards established Hezbollah in 1982. It was also a blow to allied Shi’ite militias across the region, which also held him in high regard.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi will attend, an Iranian official said. An Iraqi delegation, including senior Shi’ite politicians and militia commanders, will fly to Beirut for the funeral on a presidential plane, two Iraqi politicians said. Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... ’s Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... s will send a senior delegation led by the Grand Mufti, Houthi-affiliated Al Masirah TV reported.
Iraqi Airways has added flights to Beirut to cope with extra demand from Iraqis who want to travel to Beirut for the funeral, a spokesperson for the Iraqi transportation ministry said.
Supporters venerate him for opposing Israel and defying the United States. To his foes, he was head of a terrorist organization and a proxy for Iran’s Shi’ite Islamist theocracy in its tussle for influence in the Middle East.
After he was killed, Nasrallah was buried temporarily next to his son, Hadi, who died fighting for Hezbollah in 1997.
His official funeral was scheduled to allow time for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from south Lebanon under the terms of a US-backed ceasefire, which ended last year’s war.
Though Israel has largely withdrawn from the south, its troops continue to hold five hilltop positions in the area.
The conflict spiraled after Hezbollah started firing rockets into Israel in support of its Paleostinian ally Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... at the start of 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... war, on October 8, 2023, a day after the Hamas onslaught that killed some 1,200 people and took 251 hostages.
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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...The diminutive 13-year-old Republican U.S. Senator from Florida, Secretary of State in the second Trump administration...
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
...So far he's been unkillable, and they've tried....
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
...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 
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
...Arabic term meaning 
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
