Sooner than later, the political faction that illegally seized power in DC by its Organized Voter Fraud will instruct the DOJ/_ _ _ to get inventive and try something to stem the flow.
Like charging the TX Gov. with interstate trafficking, Rico Act, or something found in the Immigration and Nationality Act (I.N.A.), at Section 274 (a) (1) (A) (ii).
But the question then becomes.
Can the Biden Puppet Run Admin be charged with
8 U.S. Code § 1324 also. Since it is transports and dumps massive amounts of illegals in certain states/cities for political reasons?
[ANNAHAR] The U.S. Justice Department has said it is seeking possession of a 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... n cargo jet that has been grounded in Argentina ...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita... since early June because it was previously owned by an Iranian airline that allegedly has ties to terror groups.
The request to Argentina was revealed a day after an Argentine judge allowed 12 of the 19 crewmembers of the plane to leave the country as authorities continue to investigate possible terror ties of those traveling in the Boeing 747. Federal Judge Federico Villena said late Monday that the remaining four Iranians and three Venezuelans must stay.
The U.S. request sent to Argentina on Tuesday followed the unsealing of a warrant in federal court in the District of Columbia that was issued last month and that argues the U.S-made plane should be forfeited because of violations of U.S. export control laws.
The plane, according to the Justice Department, was transferred from Iranian airline Mahan Air — which officials have alleged provides support for Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force — to Emtrasur, a subsidiary of Venezuela's state-owned Consorcio Venezolano de Industrias Aeronáuticas y Servicios Aéreos, or CONVIASA. CONVIASA is under U.S. sanctions.
By transferring the airplane to the Venezuelan firm in October without prior U.S. government authorization, Mahan Air violated a 2008 order issued by the Department of Commerce that has since been periodically renewed, the U.S. says. The Justice Department says Emtrasur subsequently re-exported the plane between Caracas, Tehran and Moscow -- also without U.S. government approval.
"The Department of Justice will not tolerate transactions that violate our sanctions and export laws," Matthew Olsen, the head of the Justice Department's national security division, said in a statement. "Working with our partners across the globe, we will give no quarter to governments and state-sponsored entities looking to evade our sanctions and export control regimes in service of their malign activities."
The moves marked the latest development in the saga of the mysterious plane, which landed June 6 at Ezeiza International Airport outside Buenos Aires and was grounded two days later.
The case has raised attention in several South American countries as well as the United States and Israel amid allegations that the plane was a cover for Iranian intelligence operations in the region. Iran ...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... and Venezuela vehemently deny those claims.
The issue has caught the attention of members of U.S. Congress. On July 26, a dozen U.S. Republican senators wrote a letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland ...Attorney General of the U.S., who classifies indignant parents as domestic terrorists. The is the respected legal scholar Obama nominated for the Supreme Court... accusing the Justice Department of failing to assist Argentine authorities in its investigation of the Venezuelan plane.
Rep. Darrell Issa, a Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Republican, pressed Olsen about it at a hearing last week and lamented that in his view Iran was not receiving the scrutiny it deserved. Olsen said he was aware of the case but added: "This is an ongoing matter. I can't talk about the specifics."
The U.S. Commerce Department took its own action Tuesday, announcing it had suspended for 180 days the export privileges of Emtrasur.
The Israeli government has praised Argentina for grounding the plane and contends at least some the Iranian crew members "were involved directly in the trafficking of weapons to Syria and the terrorist organization Hezbollah of Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity™, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade... Among those who will continue to be prohibited from leaving Argentina is the Iranian pilot of the plane, Gholamreza Ghasemi.
Ghasemi is a former commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guard and is a shareholder and board member of Iran's Qeshm Fars Air, which the U.S. Treasury Department has said is controlled by Mahan Air and provides material support to the Quds Force.
The other crew members required to remain in Argentina are Abdolbaset Mohammadim, Mohammad Khosraviaragh and Saeid Vali Zadeh of Iran and Mario Arraga, Víctor Pérez Gómez and José García Contreras of Venezuela.
"What is being investigated is whether, under the appearance of legal activity, they are financing terrorism operations (specifically with Hezbollah) or whether they are part of a plan that has ties with" Hezbollah, the judge wrote.
Villena emphasized that connections with Iran's Revolutionary Guard are not under investigation because Argentina does not consider it to be a terrorist organization.
Mahan Air has denied any ties to the aircraft and Venezuela has demanded that Argentine authorities release the plane.
Yet Argentine authorities who searched the plane found a Mahan Air flight log documenting the aircraft's flights after the transfer to Emtrasur, including a flight to Tehran in April, the Justice Department said.
The plane was carrying cargo for several Argentine auto parts companies that it loaded in Mexico before stopping in Caracas and arriving in Argentina.
The plane is also under investigation in Paraguay, where the plane landed in May and spent three days in Ciudad del Este, near the border with Argentina, where it loaded cigarettes to transport to Aruba, according to Paraguayan authorities.
There are suspicions the plane's cargo was "a facade" that hid the real reason for its time in Paraguay, says René Fernández, a former prosecutor who leads Paraguay's National Anticorruption Secretariat.
Villena said the plane's stopover in Paraguay was "at least striking" and added that further investigation was needed.
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[IsraelTimes] In video shared by Ottoman Turkish media, suspected Iranian agents seen following and filming potential Israeli targets in airports, shopping centers and hotels across Istanbul
Security footage released by Ottoman Turkish media on Wednesday purported to show how alleged Iranian operatives scouted potential Israeli targets in Istanbul last month, as Iran ...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... attempted to carry out an attack against citizens of the Jewish state.
The footage, reportedly obtained from security sources, showed several men trailing Israeli tourists and filming them. The suspects were captured by cameras following Israelis in airports, shopping centers and hotels.
The footage was obtained after police scanned hundreds of hours of security footage from Istanbul, reports said.
Ottoman Turkish authorities identified several Iranian citizens who had recently entered the country, often with fake passports, and exhibited suspicious activity, like switching vehicles routinely.
"We are talking about an event on a scale we had not seen before," a Ottoman Turkish source told Israel’s Channel 12 on Wednesday.
On June 23, Ottoman Turkish police arrested five Iranian nationals accused of plotting attacks against Israeli targets in Istanbul. The news of the bust came weeks after Israel ordered its citizens in Istanbul to leave immediately, warning of an imminent Iranian attack plot targeting Israelis in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... Among those who were being targeted for kidnapping were a former Israeli diplomat and his wife, Hebrew media reported, citing Ottoman Turkish outlets. The diplomat’s name was not published.
A month later, local reports indicated that Turkey had foiled another Iranian attempt to target Israelis in Istanbul, saying three men were detained. They were caught on July 14 while carrying a rifle, two pistols, silencers and ammunition, reports said. The men reportedly tried to target Israeli tourists staying at a hotel near Istanbul’s Taksim Square, in exchange for $35,000.
The next day, the Ottoman Turkish Sabah daily newspaper published a video showing a man photographing areas inside the hotel.
In this case, four cell members were arrested at the "last minute," the report said.
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DUBAI, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Top Iranian and U.S. officials will resume talks in Vienna this week on reviving the 2015 nuclear pact, officials from both countries said on Wednesday, though they played down chances of a breakthrough and placed the onus on each other to compromise... Why this farce, you may ask. Analysts say neither side wants to be blamed for collapse of the negotiations. US doesn't want to admit Iran is going nuke. Iran doesn't want to be blamed for going nuke.
And Israel is quietly preparing to do what needs to be done in defiance of America protecting Iran.
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#1
In Blazing Saddles the Mel Brooks character as Governor LePetomain and the phoney-baloney jobs classic...
#2
When the Biden team and England-France-Germany stop negotiating, they’ll have to admit it’s too late to matter ... and that the negotiators were complicit in Iran’s accomplishment.
[ANNAHAR] United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... experts and top NGOs urged the U.N. Human Rights Council on Wednesday to launch an international investigation into the deadly Beirut port blast, on the eve of its two-year anniversary.
The August 4, 2020 mega-blast killed more than 200 people and destroyed swathes of the Lebanese capital, after a stockpile of haphazardly stored ammonium nitrate fertilizer caught fire at the port.
Relatives of blast victims have pressed for justice and accountability for two years but the local probe has been paused since December due to political pressure.
"This tragedy marked one of the largest non-nuclear blasts in recent memory, yet the world has done nothing to find out why it happened," the six U.N. experts said.
"On the second anniversary of the blast, we are disheartened that people in Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...In 2020 Hezbollah blew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate facility exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that. And it ain't never coming to trial... still await justice, and we call for an international investigation to be initiated without delay."
The blast shocked a population already reeling from an unprecedented economic crisis, and is widely blamed on the negligence and mismanagement of Lebanese authorities.
The lead investigator, Judge Tarek Bitar, who was chasing after some of Lebanon's top brass, has been barred from proceeding after politicians he summoned for questioning filed a series of lawsuits against him.
The victims' families have appealed to the international community to set up an independent investigation under the Human Rights Council in Geneva.
They hope such an inquiry would give them the answers that Lebanese authorities have failed to provide, said the experts, who do not speak for the U.N. but report their findings to it.
The explosion and its aftermath have brought into focus systemic problems of negligent governance and widespread corruption, the experts said.
The next Human Rights Council session starts on September 13.
The Council "should pass a resolution... to create an impartial fact-finding mission into the Beirut port explosion," said 11 local and international NGOs, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesia Amnesty International.
"It is now, more than ever, clear that the domestic investigation cannot deliver justice," the NGOs said in a joint statement.
Lawmakers of the Lebanese Forces A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb... party also pressed the U.N. on Wednesday to launch an international probe.
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Dramatic Israeli warning: Beirut's Dahiya district will be wiped out entirely in case of Hezbollah attack on Israeli gas rig, minister Avigdor Lieberman says (via journalist @AnnaBarskiy). City's southern suburbs are a key terror stronghold.
[ANNAHAR] A Lebanese archbishop who carried more than $460,000 from Israel to Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...The land area formerly occupied by the state of Lebanon, before that Phoenicia... is at the center of the latest sectarian showdown in crisis-hit Lebanon, and the case could even spill over into presidential politics.
The situation has ramped up discord between two powerful political camps: the Shiite MoslemHezbollah and the Maronite Church.
The clergyman was briefly detained last month by Lebanese border agents who confiscated 20 suitcases stuffed with cash and medicine, arguing he violated Lebanon's strict laws against normalization with Israel.
Hezbollah's opponents say the Iran-backed group has sway over Lebanese institutions and security agencies, and have used them to target the Maronite Church. The archbishop, Moussa al-Hajj, is a senior member of the Maronite Church, whose patriarch has become increasingly critical of Hezbollah and its growing influence in Lebanon.
Much of the Christian community saw the archbishop's detention as an attack on the church.
In a sermon late last month, Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi denounced the legal proceedings against al-Hajj as a fabrication, arguing that the money was for charity. He demanded that the charges be dropped and that the military judge who presides over the case resign.
Al-Rahi was met with a standing ovation and protesters gathered the following week at his summer residence to rally in support of the church.
Underlying the dispute are decades of hostile relations between Israel and Lebanon. The two countries have formally been at war since Israel's founding in 1948, and Lebanon has tough anti-normalization laws on the books. The border remains closed, though several top Lebanese Christian officials have permission to cross on occasion to visit their flock in Israel, the Paleostinian territories and Jordan.
On July 20, Lebanese border agents held al-Hajj for eight hours after he returned from Israel with 20 suitcases of medicine and cash. al-Hajj said he was delivering money and assistance from Lebanese Christians in northern Israel to their relatives in the cash-strapped country. The agents confiscated the money, the medicine, al-Hajj's cellphone and passport.
Hezbollah officials saw al-Hajj's act as normalization with Israel and accused him of delivering money from Lebanese affiliated with a militia that once fought alongside Israel.
Thousands of Lebanese moved to Israel after it ended an 18-year occupation of parts of southern Lebanon in 2000. Many of those who fled to Israel were linked to the main pro-Israeli militia in the region, the South Lebanon Army, which collapsed after Israeli troops withdrew.
The case could have wider political implications.
The country for months has been without a fully functional government and is expected to hold presidential elections before the end of October.
Under Lebanon's sectarian power-sharing system, its president must always be a Maronite. Incumbent President Michel Aoun ...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... is an ally of Hezbollah, but the Maronite patriarch's increasingly vocal criticism of Hezbollah suggests there is no guarantee the next president will continue an alliance with the group.
Lebanon's parliament once had a clear majority for Hezbollah and its allies but since elections in May it now stands neck and neck with some of its staunchest opponents, most notably the Christian Lebanese Forces A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb... party.
Most Christian members of parliament and politicians of other sects who oppose Hezbollah rallied to back the archbishop and the Maronite church.
"We agree with everything they have said, whether it's their calls for removing the judge, or the selectivity in how the archbishop was treated," said Elias Hankash, a Christian politician of the Kataeb Party. "They (Hezbollah officials) shouldn't just take out their anger on a religious official to send their message to the patriarch."
Imad Salamey, a political science professor at the Lebanese American University in Beirut, said much is at stake for Hezbollah.
"We're coming to a presidential election and following that we have to form a new government, and set a government policy to negotiate with the IMF (International Monetary Fund," he said. "I think Hezbollah wants to send all kinds of messages at the moment, and is determined to show it continues to be the major player among all."
Hezbollah's leadership didn't comment. Its leader Sayyed His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... in a recent interview denied the group's influence in security agencies and the judiciary. "In Lebanon there are laws, and the security agencies take action towards any collaborator or possible collaborator," he said.
The head of Hezbollah's block in parliament Mohammad Raad was more explicit, saying the archbishop's delivery of money and medicine was normalization, which he called a "national betrayal and a crime."
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[ANNAHAR] Lebanese Forces A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb... chief Samir Geagea ...Geagea was imprisoned by the Syrians and their puppets for 11 years in a dungeon in the third basement level of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense. He was released after the Cedar Revolution in 2005... said Wednesday that the next President should be sovereign and reformist, refusing a President from the March 8 Alliance or a consensual President.
"We will oppose with all our strength the election of a President from the March 8 Alliance," Geagea said in a presser as he accused the so-called Axis of Defiance of being the root cause of the crisis.
He considered that mismanagement, corruption and the dominance of Hezbollah on the country's strategic decisions are the main factors that contributed to the current crisis.
"Hezbollah has allied with the most corrupted parties to secure an internal cover for its illegal presence," Geagea said, slamming both Hezbollah and the Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... .
He added that if a President backed by the Axis of Defiance gets elected, Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...In 2006 unknown persons blew up Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the car he was traveling in, the road he was traveling on, and a few innocent bystanders of no account whatsoever. The person or persons unknow weren't Hezbollah, you can bet on that. Really. Even though there was an international tribunal that said it was them... will be isolated and will lose all investments and international and Arab support.
Geagea also refused "a consensual President" that would "extend the hell we are living in to six more years."
He concluded his speech by urging all the opposition MPs to coordinate in order to agree on a President's name.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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...In 2020 Hezbollah blew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate facility exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that. And it ain't never coming to trial...
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...In 2006 unknown persons blew up Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the car he was traveling in, the road he was traveling on, and a few innocent bystanders of no account whatsoever. The person or persons unknow weren't Hezbollah, you can bet on that. Really. Even though there was an international tribunal that said it was them...
