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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Remember that Terror Compound in New Mexico?
The latest on the denizens of the Amalia, NM jihadi compound.
[KRQE] Six years after the FBI uncovered a terrorist plot at a compound in northern New Mexico, the five people responsible now know their fate.

“Finally, to be able to put this to bed, to give some finality in sentence and some justice, it feels great.” That’s New Mexico’s U.S. Attorney Alexander Uballez satisfied with Wednesday’s sentencing of five people connected to a terrorist plot in northern New Mexico.

“The horrifying events that played out in graphic detail during this three-week trial, radical ideologies to violent extremist beliefs, the banality of everyday life centered around the corpse of a dead child in a fortified compound in rural New Mexico,” Uballez said.

Siraj Wahhaj,
...also known as Siraj Ibn Wahhaj and Sirraj Ibn Wahhaj. Siraj [Jr.] is the son of Siraj Wahhaj [Sr.], a Brooklyn imam whose mother welcomed him into the world as Jeffrey Kearse. Siraj Sr. was an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and a character witness in the trial of convicted terror plotter Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman (“the blind sheikh”), and is connected to the several branches of the Moslem Brotherhood in America. He mentored pussy hat leader Linda Sarsour....
his sisters Hujrah and Subhanah, and Subhanah’s husband Lucas Morton were sentenced to life in prison.

The ring leader of the group, Jany Leveille, took a plea deal. She was sentenced to 15 years in prison. “She took responsibility, she took it early and she took it fully, and here in the United States Justice System we value folks who redeem themselves by taking responsibility for the terrible things that they did,” Uballez said.

It all started after a federal raid uncovered a terrorist training ground in Taos County back in 2018. Documents state the group was plotting and training children to carry out attacks on FBI agents and government institutions. The feds found the five adults and 11 malnourished children on the property. A property that authorities say was heavily militarized. “The sentencing imposed today sent a clear message, the FBI takes its mission of protecting the American public seriously,” Ruben Morales with the FBI said.

The feds claimed the group kidnapped Siraj Wahhaj’s three-year-old son from his mother in Georgia and took him to the property where he was subjected to exorcism rituals. Authorities believe they were planning to use the child as a prop in their plot to kill those who did not convert and follow Leveille. That child later died in 2017. “The heart of this case is a senseless death of three-year-old Abdul Ghani, as a father myself, I offer my deepest condolences,” Uballez said.

Documents state Leveille covered up the death and convinced the group the boy would be resurrected. She was found to have acute schizophrenia that led to hallucinations and says she heard voices that made her believe she was a prophet. Leveille spoke Wednesday in court apologizing for her part and to her co-defendants saying ‘this wouldn’t have happened if I wasn’t sick.’

“While today’s sentencing can not take away the pain or fill the void of the innocent child who was kidnapped and subsequently lost his life, I sincerely hope there’s some comfort in knowing those who committed these terrible crimes have been brought to justice,” Morales said.

A federal jury convicted Wahhaj and Morton on terrorism charges. The two sisters, Hujrah and Subhanah, are also facing kidnapping charges, including kidnapping resulting in death. Leveille pled guilty to conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists and being in possession of a firearm while unlawfully in the United States. Once her sentence is complete, she will be deported back to Haiti because she was in the country illegally.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/08/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [43 views] Top|| File under: Muslim Brotherhood


-Land of the Free
Navy SEAL veteran Morgan Luttrell pins immigration failures on Biden
[Daily Mail, where America gets it news] Former Navy SEAL Rep. Morgan Luttrell (pictured) is pushing a new border security bill to ensure accountability on the number of terrorists and cartel members entering the U.S. The proposed law will require U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to publish monthly 'operational statistics' reports on the number of 'foreign terrorist organizations' and cartel criminals coming into America.

The reports would specifically inform Congress on the activities of suspected terrorists and cartel members apprehended by CBP, Luttrell said. Since the start of fiscal year 2021, there have been 294 illegal migrants on the terrorist watchlist apprehended at the southern border. And that doesn't include the unknown number of those who evaded arrest.

'Due to the Biden administration's failed policies, dangerous cartels are controlling our borders and profiting from extensive human and drug trafficking,' Luttrell, R-Texas, exclusively told DailyMail.com. 'Combatting these deadly cartels starts with knowing exactly who is exploiting our border and coming into our communities.'

Data on individuals affiliated with cartel organizations, whether they have made attempts to enter the U.S., and whether those migrants were released into the U.S. would also be made available to Congress under this report. Luttrell has introduced a number of bills the Congress to address cartel influence along the U.S.-Mexico border. In February he introduced a bill to enable National Guardsman to use lethal force against armed invaders.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/08/2024 09:10 || Comments || Link || [41 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  Is Morgan the brother of Marcus?
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/08/2024 18:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Yes
Posted by: Frank G || 03/08/2024 19:45 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger create joint forces to fight terrorism
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The authorities of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have created a joint force to combat terrorist groups in the African Sahel region, radio station RFI reported on March 6.

Representatives of the countries announced this decision at a meeting of the Council of Chiefs of Staff of the countries that are members of the Alliance of Sahel States (ASS) in Niamey (Niger). The Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of this country, General Moussa Salau Barmu, noted that the joint forces will begin to operate in the near future.

As Regnum reported, on September 16, 2023, Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger announced the creation of the Alliance of Sahel States. This association appeared to organize collective security in the region.

At the end of January, all three countries jointly decided to withdraw from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) as quickly as possible. The authorities of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger explained this step by saying that the organization is allegedly under the influence of foreign powers.

In addition, they believe that ECOWAS has become a threat to the countries belonging to this economic association.
Posted by: badanov || 03/08/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [56 views] Top|| File under:


Britain
Jewish fan club criticizes Arsenal over anti-Israel rally outside London stadium
Jew hate is fashionable again.
[IsraelTimes] Some Jewish supporters of Arsenal are criticizing the English soccer team after a number of supporters decided to turn away from a match over the weekend, as they "felt unsafe" due to an anti-Israel demonstration held by pro-Paleostinian protesters outside the squad’s Emirates Stadium in London.

According to The Guardian, around 20 fans are believed to have chosen not to attend the Women’s Super League game on Sunday between Arsenal and Tottenham after they saw the protest, which was organized by the pro-BDS group Football for Paleostine, and feel the team put them at risk by not having security curb the rally.

The British newspaper quotes one fan who felt "betrayed" by Arsenal upon seeing the protest.

The Jewish Gooners fan club tells the daily "a number" of its members and their relatives "felt unsafe" and "decided to return home without seeing a ball being kicked." The report says demonstrators distributed pamphlets, slapped up stickers — including one that said "Anti-Zionist" — and tried to interact with fans as they arrived.

"Despite the various assurances from the club in the run-up to the game, it seems that on this occasion it was not possible to ensure an inclusive environment for all football fans," adds the group, which was formed last year to combat antisemitism.

Arsenal said in response that the protest was in a public area and therefore could not be restricted.

"The safety of all supporters attending our matches is our top priority. Prior to Sunday’s fixture, we worked with the Metropolitan Police to ensure there was a plan in place to keep the impact of any demonstration to a minimum," it said. "Instances where prohibited items were identified inside the stadium were dealt with swiftly by our stewards."
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/08/2024 2024-03-08 00:20 || Comments || Link || [36 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  The Jewish Gooners fan club
Gooner
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/08/2024 12:35 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Patrushev: 16 terrorist attacks were prevented in the North Caucasus in 2023
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Moscow, March 7, 2024, 13:49 - IA Regnum. In the North Caucasus in 2023, 21 terrorist crimes were prevented, including 16 terrorist attacks. Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev stated this at a retreat on national security issues in Ingushetia on March 7.

“Twenty-one terrorist crimes were prevented, of which 16 were terrorist attacks,” he said.

As the Secretary of the Security Council clarified, the number of extremist crimes in the North Caucasus decreased by a third over the year, almost 4.5 hundred people were convicted for them, and in total in 2023, the activities of 149 groups - supporters of international terrorist organizations - were suppressed in the district.

As Regnum reported on March 7, FSB officers liquidated a Belarusian citizen in Karelia who was preparing a terrorist attack. Security forces prevented a terrorist attack planned by the Ukrainian special services with the participation of a recruited Belarusian. The FSB established that an agent of the Ukrainian special services was collecting information about transport infrastructure and regional authorities. He was going to blow up one of the buildings in Olonets. During arrest, he resisted.

In September 2023, Deputy Secretary of the Russian Security Council Yuri Kokov stated that with the beginning of the North Military District, Kiev switched to large-scale terrorist activities. The number of terrorist attacks in Russia has increased sharply. Thus, according to his data, since February 2022, 143 terrorist crimes have been committed on Russian territory, including 131 terrorist attacks. At the same time, through the efforts of special services and law enforcement agencies, 256 terrorist crimes were prevented, of which 144 were terrorist attacks.

Posted by: badanov || 03/08/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [36 views] Top|| File under:


Cyber
U.S. indicts Iranian hacker for cyber attacks, offers $10 million reward for capture
[LawEnforcementToday]... indictment against Alireza Shafie Nasab, a 39-year-old Iranian national........ Alireza Shafie Nasab participated in a cyber campaign using spear phishing and other hacking techniques to infect more than 200,000 victim devices, many of which contained sensitive or classified defense information
Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/08/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [27 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies


The Grand Turk
Turkish Red Crescent shipping 3,000 tons of aid to Gaza, largest package yet
[IsraelTimes] Agency says shipload of food, medicine and equipment sent to Sinai port will be delivered via 200 trucks through Rafah crossing, with the ship to make another journey in 2 weeks

The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
’s Kizilay (Red Islamic Thingy) is sending its biggest aid shipment yet to 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 an 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...
via Egypt, with a ship carrying some 3,000 tons of food, medicine and equipment leaving for the Egyptian port of al-Arish on Thursday.

Turkey, which has harshly criticized Israel for its military offensive in Gaza and backed measures to have it tried for genocide at the World Court, has repeatedly called for a ceasefire and warned of the consequences if calm cannot be achieved by the Moslem holy month of Ramadan, starting on Sunday.

"This aid, which will be delivered to Gaza with the support and cooperation of the Egyptian Red Islamic Thingy, will keep the hopes of Paleostinians alive on the eve of Ramadan," Turkey’s ambassador to Cairo, Salih Mutlu Sen, said on social media platform X.

Kizilay head Fatma Meric Yilmaz told broadcaster, CNN
...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for...
Turk, that the ship would make two trips to Egypt to deliver the aid, largely collected through donations.

It will then be transported in around 200 trucks to the border town of Rafah in Gaza, where more than one million people have taken refuge, she added. The aid includes flour, hygiene products, ready-to-eat meals, ambulances and portable kitchens.

"We have almost enough aid collected to fill the second ship too," she said. "Once the ship returns here, we will fill it up again and the ship will then go again around the 26th [of March] near the middle of Ramadan."

Unlike its Western allies and some Gulf nations, NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure....
member Turkey does not view Hamas
...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
, which runs Gaza, as a terrorist organization.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/08/2024 2024-03-08 00:05 || Comments || Link || [36 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Hürriyet: Türkiye will conduct ground operation against Kurds in northern Iraq
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Ankara, March 7, 2024, 11:30 - IA Regnum. The Turkish military will carry out a major ground operation against the Kurds in northern Iraq in the coming months, Hürriyet newspaper reported on March 7.

Columnist Abdulkadir Selvi recalled the words of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said after a government meeting, that Ankara is going to close a circle that will protect the country's borders with Iraq. Erdogan expressed hope that Turkey will finally resolve the issue regarding the Iraqi borders in the summer.

According to Selvi, the Turkish authorities decided to conduct a large-scale ground operation and establish a safe line in the area of ​​​​the base territories before entering the plain.

“The line covering the Garinsky district has been defined as the border of the safe zone,” he said.

The length of the border between Turkey and Iraq is 378 km. Ankara expects that as a result of the operation it will be completely closed to the Kurds, including the Gara region famous for its caves. The Turkish military will take permanent control of the Garinsky region.

“Thus, a safe line 378 km long and 40 km deep will be established on our Iraqi border, as in Syria,” the author of the article said.

He added that the central government of Iraq and Erbil (the de facto capital of Iraqi Kurdistan) will provide Ankara with intelligence support and take action against the Kurdistan Workers' Party in Sulaymaniyah and Sinjar.

As Regnum reported, at the end of last year, the Turkish Armed Forces conducted a military operation against the Kurdistan Workers' Party in northern Iraq. The reason for the hostilities was the death of six Turkish soldiers. According to the Turkish Ministry of Defense, the soldiers were killed as a result of an attack by PKK militants.

In Turkey, the PKK is a terrorist organization. The organization's bases are located in Iraqi Kurdistan. Türkiye periodically conducts both air and ground operations here. The armed conflict with the PKK army began in Turkey in 1984 and, after a truce, resumed in 2015.

Posted by: badanov || 03/08/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [57 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Turks better adhere to UN's "Laws of War", or else!
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 03/08/2024 2:15 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
ADL honors Jared Kushner at annual summit, despite pushback from some groups
[IsraelTimes] At the opening of its annual conference on fighting antisemitism on Wednesday, the Anti-Defamation League’s CEO defended the decision to honor Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and whatever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
’s son-in-law and former senior adviser, Jared Kushner.

Jonathan Greenblatt, the ADL’s chief, presented Kushner with an award recognizing his Middle East diplomacy. It came less than a day after Trump won a string of overwhelming primary victories, essentially guaranteeing him the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/08/2024 2024-03-08 00:31 || Comments || Link || [37 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He should have told the ADL to host some of their buddies from Hamas instead. The ADL is just trying to cover themselves with a veneer of balance to hide the Leftist organization it has become.
Posted by: EMS Artifact || 03/08/2024 9:43 Comments || Top||


Democrat Schiff repeatedly heckled by pro-Palestinian protesters at victory rally
He did work hard to create the response he is now getting, poor man.
[IsraelTimes] A victory speech by Democrat Adam Schiff
...Showboating U.S. Representative for California's 28th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Schiff has served in Congress since 2001. He currently serves as the chairman of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. In a manner reminiscent of Joe McCarthy, on March 22, 2017, in a interview with Chuck Todd on MSNBC Schiff claimed there was “more than circumstantial evidence now” that Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russia." Todd followed up by asking if he had seen direct evidence of collusion and Schiff responded that there was "evidence that is not circumstantial and is very much worthy of investigation"...
following Tuesday’s primary win in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, is seemingly cut short as raucous protesters repeatedly interrupt him with shouts of "Free Paleostine," "Ceasefire now" and "Let 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 an 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...
live."

Some protesters were removed, but many were spread throughout the crowd, forcing Schiff to first try and speak above the bellowing before appearing to hurry his remarks, pausing several times.

Some reports suggest Schiff had been forced to cut his speech short by the protest.

Schiff, a Jewish congressman who has been outspoken in support of Israel’s right to defend itself, changed directions Tuesday and endorsed the Biden administration’s call for a Gaza ceasefire as part of a broader agreement that would include the release of hostages.

"My position is the same as the administration," Schiff says.

Schiff will face off against former baseball star Steve Garvey for the US Senate seat long held by the late Dianne Feinstein
...Dem Senator-for-Life from Caliphornica. She has been a politician since about the time she was weaned. Feinstein was the author of the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban, and tried it a second time in 2012. Feinstein has chaired the Select Committee on Intelligence since 2009. At age 80, Feinstein is the oldest currently serving United States Senator....
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/08/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [34 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  AIPAC is one of the .org s that has donated to Schiff.
Posted by: lord garth || 03/08/2024 8:41 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
US quietly approved over 100 arms sales to Israel since October 7
[IsraelTimes] The United States has approved and delivered on more than 100 arms sales to Israel since October 7, US officials recently told Congress in a classified briefing, according to a Washington Post report citing unnamed officials.

According to the report, the sales included thousands of precision-guided munitions, small-diameter bombs and other weapons. They did not need to first be approved by Congress as the cost of each sale fell below the minimum amount that would require them to be considered, according to the report.

Speaking to the Washington Post, former Biden administration official Jeremy Konyndyk said that the "extraordinary number of sales over the course of a pretty short amount of time" suggests that Israel would not be able to maintain its operation against Hamas
...a regional Iranian catspaw,...
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 an 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...
"without this level of US support." Konyndyk is the current president of Refugees International and has called on the US to use weapons sales to pressure Israel to cease fire in Gaza.

State Department front man Matt Miller tells the Washington Post that the Biden administration has "followed the procedures Congress itself has specified to keep members well-informed and regularly briefs members even when formal notification is not a legal requirement."

US officials have "engaged Congress" on arms deliveries to Israel "more than 200 times" since October, Miller says.

The report says a senior State Department official declined to provide the total number of all US weapons transferred to Israel, or their costs, since October 7, but says they include new sales and "active" Foreign Military Sales or FMSs

"These are items that are typical for any modern military, including one that is as sophisticated as Israel’s," the official says.

Biden reportedly mulling moves to keep Israel from using American weapons in Rafah

[IsraelTimes] The US is apparently considering taking steps to prevent Israel from using American arms on a planned offensive in the southern Gazan city of Rafah, the Washington Post says.
Trial balloon planted with a friendly editorialist by someone in the administration, since we know poor President Biden isn’t capable of mulling anymore.
Columnist David Ignatius writes that US President Joe Biden and other officials “haven’t made any decision about imposing “conditionality” on U.S. weapons. But the very fact that officials seem to be debating this extreme step shows the administration’s growing concern about the crisis in Gaza.”

“If Israel launches an offensive in Rafah without adequately protecting the displaced civilian population, it may precipitate an unprecedented crisis in U.S.-Israel relations, even involving arms supplies,” former US ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk is quoted saying.

The column also says that the US appears to have backed off hopes for a diplomatic initiative pairing Saudi normalization with a pathway to a Palestinian state.

Ignatius, sometimes seen as a cipher for administration thinking, telegraphs deep White House frustrations with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“Behind the growing tension with Netanyahu is Biden’s feeling that Israel hasn’t been listening to U.S. warnings and advice, and that the U.S.-Israeli relationship has been a one-way street,” he writes. “The administration feels it supports Israeli interests, at considerable political cost at home and abroad, while Netanyahu isn’t responsive to American requests. Israel argues that any space between U.S. and Israeli policy only benefits Hamas. But Israel doesn’t make compromises to narrow that gap.”

White House said to ask for list of upcoming arms sales to Israel

[IsraelTimes] The White House is seeking information about upcoming arms transfers to Israel, Axios reports, but US officials cited by the news outlet insist the move is unconnected to recent murmurs suggesting the administration could rethink weapons sales to Israel.

The report, quoting four US officials, says US President Joe Biden requested that the State Department and Pentagon provide lists of arms set to be shipped to Israel or up for approval.

However, officials describe the move as routine and deny it signals any intention to cut or slow down military. One official says the request was made so the White House can check the transfers against a list provided by Jerusalem of weapons being prioritized by Israel.

“The source added the White House wanted the list in order to help the State Department in prioritizing specific arms transfers and to see if there are any issues that demand White House ‘deconfliction.'”

Nonetheless, the timing of the request, the first such ask since October 7 according to Axios, raises eyebrows. Earlier Thursday, The Washington Post reported that US officials had informed Congress that over 100 arms shipments were sent to Israel in five months of war, and another report in the paper suggested that the administration was mulling slapping restrictions on military aid to ensure its weapons are not used in an Israeli offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah.

Axios also reports that Israel’s cabinet will in the coming days discuss signed assurances sought by Washington regarding the use of arms sold by the US, which could imperil weapons transfers if not provided by March 25.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/08/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [33 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  US quietly approved over 100 arms sales to Israel since October 7

Bureaucracy working around a sitting POTUS, doesn't have to be bad. Somebody in USA still wants to win WOT.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 03/08/2024 3:56 Comments || Top||

#2  ^^^My thoughts exactly. I'm glad we're doing a few things right.
Posted by: Tom || 03/08/2024 8:41 Comments || Top||

#3  Good work by someone.
Posted by: EMS Artifact || 03/08/2024 9:45 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Accountability court suspends arrest warrants of Hasan, Hussain Nawaz
[GEO.TV] An accountability court on Thursday suspended the arrest warrants of Hasan Nawaz and Hussain Nawaz — sons of Pakistain Moslem League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif
...served two three non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts...
— in the al-Azizia, Flagship and Avenfield cases.

The decision was announced by accountability court judge Nasir Javed Rana in a verdict he reserved earlier today.

The warrants have been suspended till March 14, as per the verdict.

The warrants of the brothers were issued seven years ago when the court had declared them absconders.

In today's hearing, both brothers were represented in the case by their lawyer Qazi Misbah, while National Accountability Bureau (NAB) prosecutors Sardar Muzaffar, Usman Masood and Sohail Arif also appeared in the court.

The plea seeking suspension of the warrants were filed as both brothers are planning to return to Pakistain on March 12.

Their lawyer, Misbah, revealed the development during the hearing of the Toshakhana reference filed against Nawaz, Pakistain Peoples Party's (PPP) Co-Chairman Asif Ali Ten Percent Zardari
...former president of Pakistain, husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, who has been singularly lacking in curiosity about who done her in...
and former prime minister Yusuf Raza Gilani
... Pakistain's former prime minister, whose occasional feats of mental gymnastics can be awe-inspiring ...
wherein the politicians are accused of having kept various vehicles in violation of the Toshakhana rules.

Misbah, while presenting his arguments, said that both brothers were declared absconders in the case, while perpetual warrants were also issued against them.

He told the court that all the other accused were acquitted in these three references. The lawyer added that both Hasan and Hussain want to return to Pakistain this month and request the court to suspend their perpetual warrants.

"There were five accused in the Avenfield [reference], three were convicted by the accountability court. Islamabad High Court acquitted three accused," he maintained.

Posted by: Fred || 03/08/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [63 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


International-UN-NGOs
Spain to give UNRWA extra 20 million euros, says foreign minister
[IsraelTimes] Spain will send the United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
’ Paleostinian refugee agency UNRWA an additional 20 million euros ($21.9 million) in aid, Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares says.

This will be on top of the 3.5 million euros ($3.8 million) the country has already pledged in February.

Spain was not among the donor countries that have frozen funding to the UN agency amid evidence and documentation provided by Israel that some of its staff participated directly in the Hamas
...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
October 7 massacre and others have ties to terror operatives.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/08/2024 2024-03-08 01:27 || Comments || Link || [30 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


#2 
Posted by: Fat Bob Untervehr8471 || 03/08/2024 10:01 Comments || Top||

#3  #2 Grom Jr asked me why am I smilling while watching this picture. I told him "Because if they dared they'd come over and kill all of us - but they're afraid!".
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 03/08/2024 10:17 Comments || Top||

#4  Why would Israel allow UNRWA within its borders?

Kick UNRWA out of Israel and keep them out!
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 03/08/2024 10:19 Comments || Top||

#5  US, UK, France call for UN Security Council session on Hamas sex crimes
Israeli officials believe UN chief Guterres won't call council meeting, will try to appeal to member states with authority to present Patten report and issue condemnation of Hamas instead
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 03/08/2024 10:22 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Report: Shin Bet debunks idea that Gazan workers spied en masse for Hamas pre-Oct. 7
[IsraelTimes] After probing 16% of workforce, agency finds there was no concerted effort to provide intel to terror group; for months, some media outlets claimed laborers aided the terrorists.

After a monthslong investigation, the Shin Bet security service concluded that there was no broad effort by Paleostinians who entered Israel from 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 an 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...
for work prior to the October 7 massacre to provide Hamas
...always the voice of sweet reason...
with intelligence information that would assist with the assault, Hebrew media reported on Wednesday.

The revelation came after media outlets for months repeated the claim, which was also reported by The Washington Post, that some laborers had aided Hamas in its plans for the attack.

According to a Channel 12 report on Wednesday, the Shin Bet has investigated some 3,000 Gazooks who had permits to work in Israel to assess if they had provided the terror group with information about the communities it was planning on attacking and has concluded that no such concerted effort was made.
Did Shin Bet investigate the many from Gaza who were working without permits? Or consider the possibility that only a few key Gaza civilians working in key locations were brought in on the fiendish plot?
The report noted that the Shin Bet did not completely rule out the possibility that some individual laborers had cooperated with the terror group.
Good to know.
"There’s no concern that the people who were investigated passed information to Hamas as a result of their work in Israel," Channel 12 quoted the Shin Bet as saying. There was no immediate confirmation of the report from the agency, which rarely responds to inquiries.

According to COGAT, the Defense Ministry body that coordinates activity in Paleostinian areas, 18,500 Gazooks had permits to work in Israel, meaning that the Shin Bet investigation examined roughly 16 percent of the legal workforce.

An unknown number of laborers in Israel on October 7 were put into detention centers after their work permits were revoked following Hamas’s brutal incursion. Many were returned to Gaza in November.

Israel had been slowly increasing the number of Gazooks with work permits in the months leading up to October 7 as it hoped to provide economic incentives for residents of the Strip to maintain the peace, a strategy that was shattered by the October 7 onslaught. In November, Israel’s security cabinet said in a statement: "There will be no more Paleostinian workers from Gaza."
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/08/2024 2024-03-08 00:21 || Comments || Link || [33 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Covering their ass.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 03/08/2024 3:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Are these the guys that blew off the activity reports from the border watchers?
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/08/2024 6:52 Comments || Top||

#3  the Shin Bet security service concluded that there was no broad effort by Paleostinians who entered Israel from Gazoo

No broad effort, eh? This sounds like a lawyerly denial. Does it mean there was narrow, focused effort or a specific group of Paleos? 16% seems like a rather small sample. If we do the math, the suspect population is 18,750. How many people do you need to scout for small, but effective attack.

Also, who is this message meant for? The Israeli public, the UN and associated Hamasniks? Possibly Shin Bet not wanting to alert the perps, or possibly just CYAing. I find it strange that Shin Bet is saying anything at all.
Posted by: SteveS || 03/08/2024 8:28 Comments || Top||

#4  Shin Bet taking a page from the FBI.
Posted by: Itsoktobewhite || 03/08/2024 8:41 Comments || Top||

#5  Just like there was no 'widespread' election fraud.
Posted by: illeagle || 03/08/2024 9:50 Comments || Top||

#6  Agree w/ Steve
Posted by: mossomo || 03/08/2024 12:32 Comments || Top||

#7  "No broad 9/11 effort;" only 17 crazed Soudi jihadis.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/08/2024 12:54 Comments || Top||

#8  Just need 1 livestreamer per area of interest. Even Blamtifa knew that four years ago.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/08/2024 13:21 Comments || Top||


US military carries out new airdrop of aid into Gaza, its third since Saturday; Gaza has received 25 airdrops since 10/7
[IsraelTimes] The US military said it carried out its third airdrop of aid into 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 an 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...
today, dropping more than 38,000 meals amid an unfolding humanitarian crisis in the war-torn coastal enclave.

The Israeli offensive in Gaza, triggered by Hamas
...always the voice of sweet reason...
’s October 7 massacre, has displaced most of the enclave’s 2.3 million people and led to critical shortages of food, water and medicine.

In a statement, the US military says the aid was dropped by US and Jordanian C-130 aircraft in northern Gaza.

Aid dropped by air is an expensive and insufficient alternative to aid that is trucked in, given the scale of the humanitarian crisis, US officials say.

US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Gave an airbase and billions in military hardware to the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
and called it an "extraordinary success"...
’s administration is pressing for greater access by land and also exploring a maritime option.

Israel says 750 aid packages airdropped into Gaza so far

[IsraelTimes] The Defense Ministry says 25 airdrop missions have been deployed over Gaza to parachute aid into the Strip since fighting began on October 7.

According to COGAT, 750 containers of relief have been dropped into the enclave by the US, UAE, Egypt, Jordan and La Belle France. Most of the drops have been in northern 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 an 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...
, where it has been hardest to deliver aid.

On Tuesday, Jordan said 43 planes had flown aid missions over the Strip, 28 of them deployed by Amman.

"We will continue working with partners to ensure humanitarian aid reaches civilians in Gaza,” COGAT says
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/08/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [52 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  But no aids for the Israel victims?
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 03/08/2024 10:51 Comments || Top||

#2  Gaza hospital medic confirms US aid airdrop killed five
A medic at Gaza’s largest hospital says a humanitarian airdrop in the north of the Palestinian territory killed five people and wounded 10.

The casualties were taken to Gaza City’s Al-Shifa hospital after the parachutes holding the aid didn’t open properly, causing some of the packages to land on civilians at high speeds, the emergency room’s head nurse, Mohammed al-Sheikh, tells AFP.

So Aaron Bushnell WAS right - Americans ARE killing Gazans!!!
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 03/08/2024 11:09 Comments || Top||

#3  Don't run. You'll just die tired hungry...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/08/2024 11:40 Comments || Top||

#4  "Gravity kills!"
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/08/2024 13:12 Comments || Top||


#6  anything dropped on gaza should explode.
Posted by: irish rage boy || 03/08/2024 17:21 Comments || Top||


Probe claims Israel shelled journalists in October, may have fired machine gun at them
[IsraelTimes] An Israeli tank crew killed a Rooters news hound in Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
in October by firing two shells at a clearly identified group of journalists and then "likely" opened fire on them with a heavy machine gun in an attack that lasted 1 minute and 45 seconds, an organization says.

A report by the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research, or TNO, which was contracted by Rooters to analyze evidence from the October 13 attack that killed visual journalist Issam Abdallah, finds that a tank 1.34 kilometers (0.8 miles) away in Israel fired two 120 mm rounds at the news hounds.

The first shell killed Abdallah, 37, and severely maimed Agence La Belle France-Presse photographer Christina Assi, 28.

TNO says audio picked up by an Al Jazeera video camera at the scene showed the news hounds also came under fire from 0.50 caliber rounds of the type used by the Browning machine guns that can be mounted on Israel’s Merkava tanks.

"It is considered a likely scenario that a Merkava tank, after firing two tank rounds, also used its machine gun against the location of the journalists," TNO’s report says. "The latter cannot be concluded with certainty as the direction and exact distance of [the machine gun] fire could not be established."

Rooters cannot independently determine if the Israeli tank crew knew it was firing on journalists, nor whether it also shot at them with a machine gun and, if so, why.

Neither of the two surviving Rooters news hounds or another AFP journalist at the scene remembered the machine gun fire. All said they were in shock at the time.

The Israel Defense Forces does not respond to requests for comment about any aspect of the attack on journalists.

Asked to comment on TNO’s preliminary findings in December, the IDF said: "We don’t target journalists."

A day after a Rooters investigation into the incident was published, it said the incident took place in an active combat zone.
They weren’t embedded with the IDF, so were they embedded with Hamas or wandering throguh a firefight after having been admitted to Gaza by Hamas? And how many of them were also on the Hamas payroll?
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/08/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [32 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1 
Posted by: Angealing B. Hayes4677 || 03/08/2024 5:31 Comments || Top||

#2  Neither of the two surviving Rooters news hounds or another AFP journalist at the scene remembered the machine gun fire. All said they were in shock at the time.

Soiled undies was the more pressing concern at that moment.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/08/2024 5:43 Comments || Top||

#3  Good.

No matter how much you think you hate the media, you don't hate them nearly enough.
Posted by: Fat Bob Untervehr8471 || 03/08/2024 5:47 Comments || Top||

#4  These those cameras they use which purposefully look and are wielded like man portable anti tank missile launchers?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/08/2024 13:24 Comments || Top||

#5  If you embed with Hamas then expect to get shelled and shot at.
Posted by: Black Charlie McGurque1103 || 03/08/2024 14:37 Comments || Top||


Ex-CIA chief Petraeus: 'To defeat Hamas, Israel must get Gaza running again'
Teaching your grandmother to suck eggs, dear boy.
[Jerusalem Post] Ex-CIA chief David Petraeus on Thursday said that for Israel to beat Hamas, it must not only take apart its remaining battalions in Rafah but also must get Gaza running again for Palestinian civilians.
Isn’t that the job of the Palestinian civilians?
Speaking at the INSS Conference in Tel Aviv, Petraeus said, "Only by getting Gaza running again for Palestinian civilians, whether in stable food distribution, with hospitals properly running, and eventually with a general return of civil society, will Israel truly be able to end Hamas’s source of support."

The former CIA chief stated Israel cannot "stop until Hamas has been destroyed and cannot be reconstituted."
Some bits of truth found hidden in the baloney.
In addition, he said Israel must get Gazans back to their homes, demonstrate to people that aid is being given in a stable way, "that hospitals are functioning, that construction will return," and that society goes back to functioning...Then you need to implement a plan that keeps them from being able to reconstitute."

Despite his support for completely destroying Hamas, he said that Israel must eventually come to terms with a two-state solution with the Palestinians.
Let them prove themselves with limited self rule before getting more ambitious.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/08/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [52 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Drop dead, moron.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 03/08/2024 2:08 Comments || Top||

#2  Chutzpah. Yes, that's the word, chutzpah.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/08/2024 4:18 Comments || Top||

#3  Isn't Hamas running already?
Posted by: European Conservative || 03/08/2024 5:32 Comments || Top||

#4  Does Petraeus want Israel to open up a tunnel business based in a hospital?
Posted by: Airandee || 03/08/2024 6:26 Comments || Top||

#5  Israel cannot "stop until Hamas has been destroyed and cannot be reconstituted."

So COIN this time means $$?
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/08/2024 7:01 Comments || Top||

#6  What he means is the "revolving door" for even the most violent criminals we have in blue cities in the US now.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/08/2024 8:07 Comments || Top||

#7  All of Gaza will be evacuated and its population voluntarily resettled in other countries. Europe and the US both have generous programs for refugees.
Posted by: Fat Bob Untervehr8471 || 03/08/2024 8:21 Comments || Top||

#8  Then you need to implement a plan that keeps them from being able to reconstitute.

Seems more like a first step rather than the last. Unless you are willing to do this all over again, which I suspect the Israelis are not.
Posted by: SteveS || 03/08/2024 9:17 Comments || Top||

#9  bullshyte. peace for israel means no gaza, no west-bank
Posted by: irish rage boy || 03/08/2024 10:16 Comments || Top||

#10  Wait... Gaza was running before? News to me.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/08/2024 11:04 Comments || Top||

#11  Petraeus said, "Only by getting Gaza running again for Palestinian civilians, and eventually with a general return of civil society, will Israel truly be able to end Hamas’s source of support."

Much of Hama's support comes through Iran. A chunk of that money came from the USA. How stupid is that? We should get our own house in order, namely illegal immigration, the economy, corruption, inflation, debt, and large government.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/08/2024 23:08 Comments || Top||


Netanyahu says Israel will push on with Gaza offensive, including in Rafah
[GEO.TV] Israel will push on with its offensive against Hamas
...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
, including into the southern 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 an 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...
city of Rafah, despite growing international pressure to stop, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday.

"There is international pressure and it's growing, but particularly when the international pressure rises, we must close ranks, we need to stand together against the attempts to stop the war," he said.

Addressing a graduation ceremony at a training school for Israeli army officers, Netanyahu also said Israel must push back against a "calculated attempt" to blame it for Hamas' crimes.

He added that Israel would operate throughout Gaza, "including Rafah, the last Hamas stronghold".

"Whoever tells us not to act in Rafah is telling us to lose the war and that will not happen," Netanyahu said.
Posted by: Fred || 03/08/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [29 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Biden to have US military build a port in Gaza
[FoxNews] US military will lead emergency mission to establish a port in the Mediterranean on the Gaza coast.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/08/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [46 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And when (no ifs) Hamas attacks them? What then?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 03/08/2024 2:16 Comments || Top||

#2  "Turkish Red Crescent shipping 3,000 tons of aid to Gaza"
What could go wrong?
Since Turkey hates Israel more than it hates the Kurds!
Posted by: boomerc || 03/08/2024 2:52 Comments || Top||

#3  A costly mistake.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/08/2024 4:00 Comments || Top||

#4  Putin continues taking Ukrainian territory almost daily, Hamas allies have killed their first civilians via the Houthis, election fraud in California is flagrant in favor of Schiff, Biden sounded like Hitler in the SOTU speech, Satan is dancing in the streets...
Posted by: Angealing B. Hayes4677 || 03/08/2024 4:54 Comments || Top||

#5  /\ Not discussed during the State of the Union. Please Consult AP for details and the facts.

(sarc off)

AP - Fact Focus: Claims Biden administration is secretly flying migrants into the country are unfounded
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/08/2024 5:10 Comments || Top||

#6  ^
"But migrants are not being flown into the U.S. randomly. Under a Biden policy in effect since January 2023, up to 30,000 people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela can enter the country monthly if they apply online with a financial sponsor and arrive at a specified airport, paying their own way. Biden exercised his “parole” authority, which, under a 1952 law, allows him to admit people “only on a case-by-case basis for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit.”"
Posted by: Frank G || 03/08/2024 7:05 Comments || Top||


#8  ^It's a good thing Joe Biden has no influence on USA foreign policy.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 03/08/2024 8:27 Comments || Top||

#9  Grom makes a good point. There are abundant risks in this.
Posted by: lord garth || 03/08/2024 8:44 Comments || Top||


#11  Fuuuuck..then it is a beachhead.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/08/2024 17:34 Comments || Top||

#12  Having a port for large ships makes it easier to deliver weapons, ammunition, fuel.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 03/08/2024 17:55 Comments || Top||

#13  Put a bunch of blue helmet there and also provides a safe area of operation.

Then more blue helmets to protect them by patrolling, pushing that safe area.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/08/2024 18:08 Comments || Top||

#14  What could go wrong, other than everything?
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 03/08/2024 18:54 Comments || Top||

#15  Set up them the bomb.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/08/2024 18:57 Comments || Top||

#16  Watch there be, basically, sub pens.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/08/2024 19:51 Comments || Top||

#17  Screw the idea of building a port in Gaza.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/08/2024 23:11 Comments || Top||

#18 
Posted by: AMERICAN ANTI ZIONIST LEAGUE. || 03/08/2024 23:35 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
US slams Iran for ‘stonewalling’ IAEA probe into unexplained uranium traces
[IsraelTimes] Washington says it will seek a ’comprehensive report’ on Tehran’s nuclear activities if it won’t cooperate with UN watchdog, then may ’take appropriate action’

The United States on Thursday threatened future action against 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 Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
at the UN nuclear watchdog if Tehran keeps "stonewalling" the watchdog by denying it the cooperation and answers it seeks on issues including long-unexplained uranium traces.

At a quarterly meeting of the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency’s 35-nation Board of Governors, Washington again told Iran to cooperate with IAEA inspectors who for years have been seeking explanations from Tehran on the origin of uranium particles at undeclared sites.

The US has stopped short, for now, of seeking a resolution against Iran, however. Diplomats have cited the US presidential election in November as a reason Washington has been reluctant to do that. Tehran bristles at such resolutions and often responds by stepping up its activities.

"We believe we have come to the point that we and the broader international community must consider anew how to respond to Iran’s continued stonewalling," the United States said in a statement to the board meeting. "We cannot allow Iran’s current pattern of behavior to continue."

It is now more than a year since the last board resolution against Iran, which ordered it to cooperate urgently with the investigation into the particles. Tehran dismissed the resolution as "political" and "anti-Iranian" even though only China and Russia opposed it.

The US and its three top European allies — Britannia, La Belle France, and Germany — again opted against seeking a resolution against Iran at this week’s meeting but Washington said that if Iran did not provide the necessary cooperation soon, it would act.

"It is our strongly held view that Iran’s continuing lack of credible cooperation provides grounds for pursuing further Board of Governors action, including the possibility of additional resolutions and consideration of whether Iran is once again in noncompliance with its safeguards obligations," it said.

In 2018 then-president Donald Trump
...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election...
pulled the US out of a 2015 deal under which major powers lifted sanctions against Iran in exchange for restrictions on its nuclear activities. After sanctions were re-imposed, Iran expanded those activities far beyond the deal’s limits.

It is now enriching uranium to up to 60 percent purity, close to the roughly 90% of weapons-grade and far above the deal’s cap of 3.67%. Western powers say there is no credible civil explanation for enriching to that level and the IAEA says no country has done so without producing a nuclear bomb.

Iran says its aims are entirely peaceful and it has the right to enrich to high levels for civil purposes.

The United States said Iran should provide the IAEA with cooperation including access "for the purposes of collecting environmental samples... and it must begin to do so now."

If it did not, it would ask IAEA chief Rafael Grossi to provide a "comprehensive report" on Iran’s nuclear activities more wide-ranging than his regular quarterly ones, it said.

"Then, based on the content of that report, we will take appropriate action in support of the IAEA and the global nuclear nonproliferation regime," it added.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/08/2024 2024-03-08 00:05 || Comments || Link || [32 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


IDF said to deny Lebanese report on March 15 war ultimatum
[IsraelTimes] Military officials deny a Lebanese report that Israel has placed a March 15 deadline on a diplomatic deal to end fighting in the north before escalating the conflict with the Hezbollah terror group into a full-blown war, Channel 13 reports.

"There’s no date for going to war in Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
," an unnamed source is quoted saying.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/08/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [34 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah

#1  No date yet... but it seems like an eventuality. Better sooner than later.
Posted by: mossomo || 03/08/2024 12:44 Comments || Top||

#2  "I will count to three" - Cohen the Barbarian.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 03/08/2024 12:48 Comments || Top||



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