Yesterday ICE complained, today we hear from the court.
[NYPOST] An undocumented Democrat has been indicted in the "heinous" Jan. 6 killing and sexual assault of a 92-year-old "cat lady" in Queens, prosecutors announced.
Reeaz Khan, 21, was hit with seven charges in the Richmond Hill attack on Maria Fuentes, including second-degree murder, first-degree manslaughter, first-degree attempted rape, first-degree sexual abuse and tampering with physical evidence.
"The defendant is accused of pouncing on the 92-year-old woman from behind, throwing her to the ground and then sexually assaulting her before he ran from the scene," Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said in a statement.
"The victim was discovered hours later barely conscious, incoherent and naked from the waist down," Katz said. "The defendant has been apprehended and will be prosecuted for his alleged heinous actions."
The attack took place on Liberty Avenue and 127th Street in Richmond Hill, just a block from Fuentes’ home, prosecutors said.
He later claimed he found Fuentes passed out and tried to help her, but his pants fell down and his genitals came in contact with hers.
Khan is an undocumented Democrat from Guyana who was free despite a deportation order from federal immigration officials for prior assault and weapons convictions.
...which was what had ICE up in arms,
Fuentas’ neighbors told The Post she was a noted cat lover who often fed local kitties and was known in the area as "cat lady."
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Has DeBlasio yet insisted that he be released without bail?
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Feed him to her cats.....
Back in my ink stained wretch youth, an elderly lady died in a downtown apartment and her cats had to improvise in the absence of anyone to pour out the kitty kibble. Coroner said it was nasty...
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Some news aggregator or another has an article on whether Fluffy would eat you when you crump.. Main take away was they'll stop once you start to liquefy.....
[KhaamaPress] John Sopko, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) told US Congress on Wednesday that US officials have ’routinely lied’ to the public with exaggerating reports on the Afghan war. Sopko was summoned by the US Congress to talk about the ’Afghanpapers’ recently published by America’s Washington Post.
"There’s an odor of mendacity throughout the Afghanistan issue. . . mendacity and hubris," Sopko said in testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee. "The problem is there is a disincentive, really, to tell the truth. We have created an incentive to almost require people to lie."
Have y’all lied to President Trump?
As an example, he said that US officials have lied in the past about the number of Afghan children enrolled in schools ‐ a key marker of progress touted by the B.O. regime ‐ even though they "knew the data was bad."
Ah yes, the previous president.
Sopko cited a 2014 agency newsletter, where the then-USAID administrator stated: "Today, 3 million girls and 5 million boys are enrolled in school‐compared to just 900,000 when the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... ruled Afghanistan," he said.
The US sent personnel into Afghanistan who did not know the difference between al-Qaeda and Taliban and who lacked any substantive knowledge of Afghan society, Sopko said.
The key is that they learned what they needed to know once they arrived, and passed their learnings on to those who followed — that’s the American way of war.
He also said that the abuses committed by coalition-aligned warlords drove many Afghans into the arms of the resurgent Taliban.
And the abuses of the other-aligned warlords — where did they drive the remaining Afghans?
"For all the lives and treasure the US and coalition partners have expended in Afghanistan, and for Afghans themselves who have suffered the most from decades of violence, the very least we can do is to learn from our successes and failures," he said.
A safe statement...
"Oversight is mission-critical to any successful reconstruction and development program in Afghanistan," he added.
He said that in the future, "we need to recognize vital importance of addressing corruption from outset. This means taking into account the amount of assistance the host country can absorb and ensuring that agencies can more effectively monitor assistance."
Yes, along with recognizing that Third World cultures are corrupt — that’s why they aren’t First World.
"While honesty and transparency are always important, when government agencies overstate the positive and overlook flaws in their methodologies or accountability mechanisms, it has real public policy implications," he said.
On peace, Spoko said: "We know that a stronger Afghan economy is necessary to last peace and stability, and, without it, US reconstruction efforts are largely unsustainable."
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"There’s an odor of mendacity throughout the Afghanistan issue. . . mendacity and hubris,"
Does mendacity smell different than hubris? And is the stench better or worse than Gwennie Paltrow's poozle candle? One could be forgiven for thinking the US govt was filled with drama queens.
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Germany & Japan are nations with history & culture. You didn't build nations there - you just changed their directions.
Plus, we sat on them for a while to make sure they got the idea - something we didn't do in tribal Iraq. Not that I'm saying we should have...
The fundamental question here is what to do about regions like Afghanistan, places that might be referred to, for a number of reasons, as 'shitholes'. If you are one of those people who read "The End of History" and believed it, then turning them into western-style democracies is the way to go. Hint: it isn't.
Globalization is all about flow - flows of goods, money, people, diseases and culture. And jihadis. I'm personally willing to let people stew in their own cultural juices for however long. (By the way, how's that Islamic Revolution going for you, Iranian dudes?) But once it starts getting exported, it becomes everyone's problem.
Nuking them from orbit would provide at least a short-term solution and maybe an example for the next guys, but I can see why some might object to this sort of thing. Short of encasing them in a giant transparent bubble, I'm not sure what to do.
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Shoulda cut off the head but left the Ba'athists in power. Re Afgh, maybe a few punitive strikes but not wise to put a massive forward presence there. Avoid land wars in Asia.
[KhaamaPress] Losing its dominant position as Afghanistan’s largest and the most important trade partner over the decades, some traders in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa state of Pakistain on Wednesday opposed the proposal to allow Afghan traders to import goods from India via the Wagah-Attari border.
According to some Pak businessmen, the approval of any such trade agreement is contrary to the Pakistain-Afghanistan Transit Trade Agreement. It does not only create and an uncompetitive environment for the Pak made products in the Afghan markets but also negatively affects local industries.
Shahid Hussain, Acting President of Sarhad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI), said, "the proposal is not feasible because the mutual ATTA was a bilateral, not a trilateral as per the WTO rules." Doing so will further escalate trade relations between the two nations he added.
Mr. Hussain and other Pak trade expert’s great concern is that that if Indian products are allowed to enter Afghanistan via Wagah border, then local industries will be damaged despite the fact the Pakistain products can compete in the market.
Wahga is a village and union council (UC 181) located in the Wahga Zone of Lahore, Punjab, Pakistain. The town is famous for the Wagah border ceremony and also serves as a goods transit terminal and a railway station between Pakistain and India.
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[ToloNews] Following reports that the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... ’s big shotship had agreed to a 7-day reduction of violence in Afghanistan, Salam Rahimi, the state minister for peace affairs, on Thursday rejected the alleged Taliban position, calling it "unacceptable" for the Afghan government, and insisted that the bully boy group must agree to a ceasefire before engaging in intra-Afghan talks.
Rahimi said no tangible result was achieved from the US efforts for the Afghan grinding of the peace processor over the past one year.
Rahimi made the remarks on Thursday in an event organized by the Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies (AISS) titled "Political Settlement and Post-Conflict Order in Afghanistan People’s Views."
Rahimi also stated that the Afghan government has finalized the peace negotiations team to meet with the Taliban.
"We are completely ready-- preparatory work has been done and our delegation is ready," said Rahimi.
"On the issue of reduction in violence, I must say that no one supports this," said Rahimi.
WHAT DOES "REDUCTION IN VIOLENCE" MEAN?
"When there is a reduction in operations--either in air or on land, this means 'reduction in violence,'" said Tamim Asey, the former deputy minister of defense.
REGIONAL APPROACH TOWARDS AFGHAN PEACE:
The statements come hours after Pakistain's Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Wormtongue Qureshi ...a Pak political shape-changer. He is undistinguished except for his habit of periodically needing to have his lips reattached... in a video message said that Afghanistan and Pakistain "need stability," and "good progress" has been made as the Taliban shows "they are ready for a reduction in violence."
Qureshi said that negotiations have continued between the US and Taliban, and Pakistain wants progress toward peace as both countries "have a need for peace."
Pakistain has played its role, he said, and he "hopes that the entire region will seek peace."
India’s chief of defense staff, General Bipin Rawat, on Thursday said that he supported a negotiated peace deal between the US and Taliban in Afghanistan.
"I think the negotiations must last until peace and it should not be temporary measure to find an exit," he said, adding that "today the Afghan defense forces need support, they need technology, they need air support."
Gen. Rawat, who was speaking along with other world leaders at the Raisina dialogue, organized by India's influential think tank the Observer Research Foundation (ORF), said that terrorism was going to stay in the world as long as states were going to use it against other states.
On Thursday, the News Agency that Dare Not be Named also reported that the Taliban gave he US Envoy Zalmay Khalilzad a document that outlines their offer for a "temporary ceasefire" in Afghanistan that would last between "seven and 10 days."
"It is expected that the proposal for the reduction of violence has been handed over to the US delegations, and the decision will be made about the date to sign the peace agreement," said Khalilullah Safai, head of Pugwash in Afghanistan.
INTRA-AFGHAN TALKS WITHIN TWO WEEKS, ANY PEACE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE US AND THE TALIBAN
Sources familiar with the US-Taliban talks in Doha have said that the US delegation will travel to Kabul once they receive the proposal for reduction in violence from the Taliban.
In Kabul, the US delegation will hold talks with the Afghan politicians.
#Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday that his country is sending troops to #Libya in support of the internationally recognized government in #Tripoli. pic.twitter.com/ipRhdDKZoc
4) legislative and presidential General election to be held. 5) All military facilities to be handed over to the Armed forces. 6) The respect of the legislative authority of the democratically elected parliament. 7) talks to be Libyan-Libyan with respect to national sovereignty. pic.twitter.com/EiiifPu89d
Commander in chief of the Libyan National Army Counselor Saleh: We will not enable the #Turks to control our country and we will force them to surrender and raise their hands on #Tripoli. #Libya#HoRpic.twitter.com/K5mVY1xzKK
#Egypt, #Italy and #Greece: #Erdogan's announcement today regarding sending #Turkish forces to #Libya two days before the Berlin conference will affect negatively and warn of the danger of this step in violation of international resolutions.
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Erdogan is also aligned with Russia, Lex, as Mr. Putin vigorously stirs various pots. That's why the Kurds are struggling in Syria, and why President Trump has not more actively defended them.
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Point taken, TW, and agree it's complicated.
Though I still have yet to hear anyone articulate clearly what our national interest is (if any) in Syria.
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We’re supporting the Kurdish anti-ISIS anvil in Iraq, Lex, though President Obama originally supported the Muslim Brotherhood-linked moderate Muslim jihadis attempting to overthrow that dreadful Assad,
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... envoy for 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... , Martin Griffiths, said on Thursday that "Yemen appears to be on its way out of crisis," saying that peace could be achieved in the country this year.
In his statement during an open briefing at the UN Security Council, Griffiths urged all Yemeni sides to engage in the political process to move forward, saying that de-escalation in Yemen could only be achieved through a political process.
Griffiths expressed his concern over the restrictions on the movement of UN missions in the Yemeni port city of Hodeidah, calling for the release of prisoners in Yemen and the activation of the prisoners’ release committee.
He stressed that the "Riyadh Agreement" and efforts by Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... played a major role in improving the security situation in Yemen.
Britannia’s UN Ambassador Karen Pierce expressed support for the "Riyadh Agreement" to achieve security in Yemen.
Last November, a power-sharing agreement was signed between Yemen’s government and the Southern Transitional Council (STC) br in the capital Riyadh.
Last Tuesday, the coalition backing the Yemeni legitimate government announced the start of implementing the second phase of the "Riyadh Agreement," pointing to its supervision of the release of 38 detainees from both sides, following the events in Aden.
Kyriakos Mitsotakis I want to be clear: Greece will never accept a political solution to Libya that does not require the cancellation of the illegal Turkey-Libyan #GNA memorandum. We will veto before the matter reaches the Summit. We will veto at the level of Foreign Ministers. pic.twitter.com/wpQoxcI6Sk
Credibility GONE.
[Daily Caller] The Army Times appointed as its top editor a 28-year-old feminist from Brooklyn who has repeatedly tweeted that she hates President Donald Trump and worked as a spokeswoman for a New York councilman who describes himself as a "moderate Democrat."
After interning for several Democrats, graduating Hofstra University in 2014, and contemplating art school, Sarah Sicard wrote for a marijuana publication called the "Bluntness," served as communications director for a New York city council member, and worked in corporate PR, according to her resume and online bios.
As of Jan. 10, she occupies the top editorial position of the Army Times, which has been published since 1940 and is one of the preeminent publications for military men and veterans.
That's a jarring contrast with the audience that pays for subscriptions.
"Exit polling in the 2016 presidential election saw military members and veterans vote nearly two-to-one in favor of Republican candidates," according to the Military Times, the Army Times' parent publication.
"Does anyone else feel like Donald Trump's endorsement of anything makes the rest of us immediate hate that thing?" Sicard tweeted in May 2019.
"Okay I hate @realDonaldTrump" she tweeted in September 2018.
"I mean, I hate Trump," she tweeted in May 2017.
In January 2019, she tweeted she had lost followers because of "all my callouts of @POTUS."
That same month, she said, "I only say this as someone who doesnt want to see Dems lose. Not to hate on EW, but I don't know if another white woman is the right choice to rouse minority support, and she's definitely not going to take back the Rust Belt. I want the party to bet on a person who can do both."
The now-military editor warned in May 2019 that "on one hand we have a possible war with Iran, and on the other hand we have a possible war against people with uteruses."
In 2018, she was communications director for New York City Councilman Robert Holden, according to her resume. Holden is a lifelong registered Democrat who got permission to appear on the ballot as a Republican after losing the Democratic primary in 2017. He describes himself as a moderate Democrat.
From October 2015 to October 2017, she wrote for Task & Purpose, a military publication. Before that, she served as press intern for New York Democrats Rep. Louise Slaughter and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the resume stated.
Sicard repeatedly gave credence to the thin allegations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, saying in September 2018, "We'll probably never know the exact details of 30 years ago conclusively. Doesn't mean Brett Kavanaugh is innocent. Lack of evidence means he won't be convicted in court, but the hearing proved him guilty of deep partisanship, which should preclude him from serving."
"[M]y feet are dying because I've been standing for two hours while live-tweeting because my reserved seat was stolen by a man in comfy shoes who is not even paying attention to this panel and no I’m not bitter about gendered shoes why would you ask that?" she said in September 2019.
"Remember when Republicans were the party of Lincoln?" she said in August 2017.
A job ad for editor of the Army Times reads, "One of Sightline's brands, the Army Times, is hiring for an editor to help lead the largest independently owned newsroom focused solely on the U.S. military."
"You'll manage a team of experienced reporters and oversee a steady stream of breaking news online as well as long-form cover stories for our bi-weekly magazines, which for years have been the top-selling publications at military installations," it reads.
Sicard did not return a request for comment.
Andrew Tilghman, executive editor of the Military Times, told the Daily Caller News Foundation:
The Army Times and Military Times have been the trusted, independent and nonpartisan source of news about service members and their families. Sarah Sicard came to role of Army Times editor with extensive knowledge about the military based on years of reporting and writing about the military ... we will continue to ensure there is no political agenda whatsoever in our independent coverage of the military community.
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Remember when I said some time back that radical Indian Hindus are big fans of Chinese policies in Xinjiang?
Well, looks like former Indian Army chief is among those radical people. He's arguing for Chinese-style reeducation camps for Muslim kids in India https://t.co/tbpHNZFL8m
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Need to control the Mosques. Without that its all futile.
Put your trusted guys in charge of every mosque and have them emphasize the peaceful bits of the Koran. Put down those that preach the violent bits. That's what we should have done after 9/11 to combat Wahhabi poison.
[YNet]- The interim head of the UN agency that aids Palestinian refugees accused the United States on Thursday of lobbying foreign parliaments to stop donations to the organization, to which Washington cut off funding in 2018.
Christian Saunders says Israel was seeking to replace United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) services for Palestinians, mandated by the UN General Assembly, in East Jerusalem with those of its own.
Saunders says the United States was "advocating against funding UNRWA in the European parliaments and elsewhere." So nice to have a decent man in White House
“Yes, of course you have freedom of speech, Mr. President. Just as long as you don’t say anything.”
[Rudaw] Protesters in Iraq are refusing to participate in demonstrations supporting the expulsion of US forces, citing their necessity for Iraq’s safety.
Sajad, 26, has been camped in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square since late October.
Iraqis have been protesting in central and southern parts of Iraq for more than 100 days, demanding real changes in the country and threatening to topple the political class that has held power since 2005.
He expressed doubt over the popularity of protests calling for the withdrawal of US troops, a topic which has been hotly discussed following a recent rise in US-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 a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... tensions.
"I think 75% of the protesters in Iraq, including me, won’t participate in the demonstration to expel US troops," Sajad told Rudaw English on Thursday.
"The Iranian-backed militias, such as Kataib Hezbollah, al-Nujaba, and Asaib Ahl al-Haq have to be expelled to Iran before expelling the American troops," he added.
Iraq’s influential Shiite holy manMoqtada Tater al-Sadr ...hereditary Iraqi holy man and leader of a political movement in Iraq. He spends most of his time in Iran, safely out of the line of fire, where he's learning to be an ayatollah. Formerly an Iranian catspaw, though lately he's gagged over some of their more outlandish antics... on Tuesday called on his supporters and Iraqi protesters to conduct large-scale demonstrations against the presence of American troops on January 24.
Sadr’s call follows a non-binding resolution passed by the Iraqi parliament asking the Iraqi government to end the presence of the US-led Global Coalition against 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) forces.
"[The] US troops presence in Iraq is very important for our protection," Sajad added. "If the US troops {are] expelled now, we as protesters will be the biggest losers, as Iranian-backed militias will kill all of us in days."
As of December, more than 511 protesters and members of security forces have been killed and around 17,000 more maimed since protests began on October 1, according to Human Rights Watch.
Omer, 28, a protester from Nasiriya, in southern Iraq's Dhi Qar province has also decided not to participate in the scheduled demonstrations.
"I won’t participate in the demonstration to expel the US troops in Iraq because I think it will affect our main protests and demands," Omer told Rudaw English on Thursday.
"If this protest happens it will negatively affect our peaceful demands and will weaken our movement," he added, fearing that festivities will erupt if Sadr’s rallies reach Tahrir Square.
In a Thursday tweet, Sadr called for demonstrations to continue, saying that popular protests and calls for the expulsion of the US troops from Iraq have "the same aim."
Abdul-Rahman, 31, a protester from Karbala takes a different approach, deciding to participate in the demonstrations to protest both the US and Iranian presence in his country.
"I will go to the protests and participate, but I will chant for the expulsion of US troops and the Iranian-backed militias from Iraq," Abdul-Rahman said.
Foreign influence in Iraq has been a key point of anger for protesters, who have torched Iranian consulates on various occasions.
Iraq is currently playing battlefield to skyrocketing US-Iran tensions, with the US conducting Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on Iranian and Iran-backed targets in Iraq in response to a spate of rocket attacks against bases hosting US forces in the country, and Iraqi bases hosts US troops are being targeted frequently.
The US and Iran are at loggerheads over a number of issues, including Iranian adventurism through its Shiite proxies across the region. However, a woman is only as old as she admits... Tehran and Washington have both signaled that they do not want further military confrontation in Iraq and in the region in general.
The PFLP’s Abu Ali Mustapha Brigades; “Wadi al-Barq missiles are waiting for the signal.” This statement relates to a recent video threatening #Israel w/ retaliation if one of their fighters, Ahmed Zahran, dies in an Israeli prison where he is currently on a hunger strike. #Gazapic.twitter.com/x6IXd0Yo45
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Al-Barq: Perhaps this is relevant: November 2013 an Israeli Court: decided to extend Barq’s detention in light of “the grave risk presented by the petitioner, someone with knowledge and experience with nonconventional weapons, which would be priceless to terror groups, along with connections to senior al-Qaeda members.”
Barq traveled to Pakistan in 1997 to learn microbiology. According to court documents, he underwent military training in 1998; in 2001, he was recruited by al-Qaeda’s Ayman al-Zawahiri...
One of the balloon units responsible for the IED launches is affiliated w/ PIJ.They've publicly claimed responsibility for the attacks. The group calls themselves the martyr E'yad abdel Aal after a PIJ fighter killed in the conflict that ensued days after the '18 Khan Yunis raid. pic.twitter.com/vEalDcyxFh
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.
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
Ref #2: 'Big Daddy'.... Mound Church and Cemetery near Willow Hill, Illinois. 
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...hereditary Iraqi holy man and leader of a political movement in Iraq. He spends most of his time in Iran, safely out of the line of fire, where he's learning to be an ayatollah. Formerly an Iranian catspaw, though lately he's gagged over some of their more outlandish antics...
