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Turkey asks NATO to provide air support for the operation in Idlib
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Breaking = Ilhan Omar DID marry her brother reveals Somali community leader

Ilhan Omar told friends years ago that the man who went on to become her second husband was in fact her brother, DailyMail.com can confirm
Abdihakim Osman is the first person to go on record to speak of how Omar said she wanted to get her brother papers so he could stay in the United States
It has long been rumored that Omar and Ahmed Elmi are siblings, but because of a lack of paperwork in war-torn Somalia, proof has never been uncovered
Osman said: 'She said she needed to get papers for her brother to go to school. We all thought she was just getting papers to allow him to stay in this country'
Omar was married to her second husband Elmi in 2009 by a Christian minister - although she is Muslim
She was first married to Ahmed Hirsi in 2002 in a Muslim ceremony, before they split in 2008 - but she later had another child with Hirsi while legally wed to Elmi
Osman said: 'When [Hirsi] and Ilhan got married, a lot of people were invited. It was a big Islamic wedding uniting two large clans in the community'
He added: 'When she married Elmi, no one even knew about it... No one knew there had been a wedding until the media turned up the certificate years later'
'Squad' congresswoman Ilhan Omar told friends years ago that the man who went on to become her second husband was in fact her brother, DailyMail.com can confirm.

And now for the first time one of those friends has come forward to reveal exactly how Omar and Ahmed Elmi scandalized the Somali community in Minneapolis.

Abdihakim Osman is the first person to go on record to speak of how Omar said she wanted to get her brother papers so he could stay in the United States, at a time when she was married to her first husband Ahmed Hirsi.

But hardly anyone realized that meant marrying him.

'No one knew there had been a wedding until the media turned up the marriage certificate years later,' Osman, 40, exclusively told DailyMail.com.

Osman's revelations are sure to renew calls for an investigation into the Minnesota freshman representative who has repeatedly refused to answer questions on her marriage to Elmi.

She originally said the idea that the spouses were also siblings were 'baseless, absurd rumors', accusing journalists of Islamophobia, but has since stayed quiet.
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/20/2020 14:23 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Maybe it doesn't count in the eyes of Allan if she married her brother in a Christian ceremony.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/20/2020 15:29 Comments || Top||

#2  @IlhanMN Better round up that "Squad" of yours girl, the water's about to get real rough! 🤣😅😂 https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/ilhan-omar-accused-of-marrying-brother-by-old-friend
Posted by: Lampedusa Shusock1369 || 02/20/2020 16:07 Comments || Top||

#3  First of the Squat to squat... in prison?
Posted by: Lex || 02/20/2020 16:10 Comments || Top||

#4  Yea, sure.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/20/2020 16:14 Comments || Top||

#5  One good thing about Ill Ham, I guess.

When she says "I love you like a brother", it doesn't necessarily rule out sex.

Assuming one would want it.
Posted by: charger || 02/20/2020 16:31 Comments || Top||

#6  She was first married to Ahmed Hirsi in 2002 in a Muslim ceremony, before they split in 2008 - but she later had another child with Hirsi while legally wed to Elmi

The poor kid is going to be awfully confused. "What do you mean my father is also my uncle?"
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/20/2020 16:53 Comments || Top||

#7  No fucking shit. This has been common knowledge with Twin City Muzzies AND the local fraud news for years!
Posted by: Woodrow || 02/20/2020 17:56 Comments || Top||

#8  snopes still says it is unproven as of today

also nothing about this in today's Star Tribune
Posted by: lord garth || 02/20/2020 18:59 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
Durham Expands Probe Into Special Counsel's Activities – Interviews Several FBI Investigators Who Worked on Mueller's Team


According to investigative reporter Paul Sperry. Robert Mueller was appointed as special counsel in May of 2017 and had 40 FBI agents, intel analysts, and others working for him to investigate the ’Trump-Russia collusion.’ Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani referred to the FBI agents working for Mueller as "stormtroopers."
Filed under, not holding my breath
Posted by: Woodrow || 02/20/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  AG Barr has one chance to do it right, or it's all over and the Deep State wins. The clock is ticking.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 02/20/2020 1:24 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Roger Stone Is Sentenced In D.C. Courtroom
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/20/2020 15:55 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Maxine Waters: Americans ‘Where Are You?’ — ‘I Don’t Hear Enough Voices’ Resisting
[BREITBART] Representative The Ageless and Downright Brilliant Comrade Maxine Impeach 45! Waters
...U.S. Representative for California's 43rd congressional district, serving since 1991, a total of 28.22100 years. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the most senior of the twelve black women currently serving in the United States Congress, and a member and former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. Before becoming a member of Congress she served in the California Assembly, to which she was first elected back when Disco was in flower, in 1976, which would make it 43.21895 years. She has been a politician for virtually all her adult life. If she was a little brighter she'd be a Communist...
(D-CA) said Tuesday on MSNBC that not enough Americans are resisting and speaking out against President Donald Trump
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
Waters said, "The American people should be focused on Barr. We should be joining with all of those federal prosecuting attorneys that have decided he should step down, that he should resign. We should be supporting them and backing them up. I’m anxious to see what the federal judges who have decided they can’t wait until the yearly association meeting, that they should pay attention to what is going on now and review what has happened. I’m anxious to see what they’re going to come out with."


She continued, "But the American public should get behind this if they care anything about our democracy. You know, for all of those people who say that they, you know, honor the flag and that they are in support of our democracy being strengthened, for all of those people who say that‐where are you? Can’t they see what is happening? We’re in a constitutional crisis in this country, with a president who is running amok. He is out of control. We have got to make sure that he’s not reelected. We have to speak up, we have to resist. I don’t hear enough voices."

She added, "It is not only the sycophants around him, it’s the average American who gets up every day, who is taking care of their families, who is thinking somebody else will see to it that this president is not re-elected. But, no, it has to be all of us out there working and working very hard. We have a constitutional crisis and we’ve got to deal with it. This is what democracy is all about, when you see a president out of control, when you see those who have been elected to office, who are not acting responsibly and they’re endangering our democracy, you have to speak out against them. You have to work against them. You have got to make sure that they’re not reelected ever again."
Posted by: Fred || 02/20/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Pipe down, you lying, corrupt simian. If there were any real justice those prosecutors would have indicted you years ago.
Posted by: Lex || 02/20/2020 0:25 Comments || Top||

#2  I would guess the average American who reads up on things would be horrified by the idea of 10 years in prison for committing no crime. If the FBI visits anyone, they can, sooner or later, nail you with a process crime if that is their desire. "Oh, your favorite color is red? We have an email showing you told your ex-wife it was blue ...". Two years in jail.
Posted by: Beau || 02/20/2020 2:38 Comments || Top||

#3  When a federal law enforcement asks you anything, repeat after me:

“I invoke my right to remain silent. Please stop asking me questions. I want my lawyer.”

“Uh, I was just asking you if there’s a coffee shop around here.”

“I invoke my right to remain silent. Please stop asking me questions. I want my lawyer.”
Kurt Schlichter
Posted by: Frank G || 02/20/2020 5:49 Comments || Top||

#4  She is saying we need to resist her? I'm in!
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/20/2020 9:26 Comments || Top||

#5  All this time she thought she was a leader but she finally turned around and saw that nobody was following.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/20/2020 11:15 Comments || Top||

#6  Pull your head out of your a$$ and you can hear the resistance when America re-elects Trump
Posted by: Airandee || 02/20/2020 11:42 Comments || Top||

#7  That's why it's called the Silent Majority, Muddy.
Posted by: Mercutio || 02/20/2020 13:45 Comments || Top||


Greeted in L.A. by jeers and cheers, Trump slams city leaders
[LATIMES] Two weeks before Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,’s primary election, Donald Trump
...the Nailer of NAFTA...
landed in the blue state Tuesday for the fourth time in his presidency to meet with organizers of the 2028 Olympic Games before attending a fundraising dinner in Beverly Hills.

He used the occasion to again slam the city’s politicianship for failing to slow the homelessness epidemic.

During a briefing on preparations for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, the president said that if L.A. doesn’t "clean it up fast," he will intervene.

"If they can’t do it themselves, we’re going to do it," Trump said. "The federal government is going to take it over, we’re going to do it."
Posted by: Fred || 02/20/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Gee, I wonder how such a shitty city as LA could win the Olympic Game$$$$ ...
Posted by: Lex || 02/20/2020 0:21 Comments || Top||

#2  I remember the 1984 LA Olympics went pretty good.
Of course that was 36 years ago and a lot has changed since then.
The 1992 LA riots started turning things the wrong direction.
Posted by: boomerc || 02/20/2020 4:41 Comments || Top||

#3  John and Ken on LA's KFI radio speculated that Trump would move the homeless to FEMA camps on federal property outside the city.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/20/2020 11:21 Comments || Top||

#4  Gee, I wonder how such a shitty city as LA could win the Olympic Game$$$$ ...

Ask Mitt.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/20/2020 11:38 Comments || Top||

#5  California used to be a red state. Who knows, if election fraud is prevented, it might be red again.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/20/2020 16:57 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Trump forces out top Pentagon policy chief who warned against withholding aid from the Ukraine, as President's impeachment revenge continues
[MAIL] President Trump has ousted the Pentagon's top policy official who had certified last year that Ukraine had made enough anti-corruption progress to justify the Trump administration's release of congressionally authorized aid to Kyiv in its conflict against Russian-backed separatists.

John Rood resigned Wednesday, saying he was leaving at Trump's request.

The Trump administration's delay in releasing the aid to Ukraine was central to the president's impeachment by the House on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/20/2020 00:26 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hit the road, John.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/20/2020 2:05 Comments || Top||

#2  I think a majority of Americans would vote to stop sending money to places like Ukraine in a fraction of a second.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/20/2020 9:46 Comments || Top||

#3  This is what draining the swamp looks like.
Posted by: Iblis || 02/20/2020 10:51 Comments || Top||

#4  Its not revenge. It's cutting the cancer out of this country.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 02/20/2020 12:40 Comments || Top||

#5  Revenge is a dish, best served cold.
Posted by: Lt. Worf || 02/20/2020 12:57 Comments || Top||


San Francisco sheriff, mayor say they won't help federal agents deport illegal immigrants
[FOX] San Francisco's newly minted sheriff said his officers won't help federal authorities deport undocumented immigrants despite increasing pressure from the Trump administration to crack down on people living illegally in U.S. sanctuary cities.

Paul Miyamoto, California's first Asian American sheriff, said going after undocumented immigrants seeking solace is not a priority.

"Our department is not involved in immigration enforcement," he told KTVU2. "We feel that it is a federal matter, and our realm of interest is public safety, and you can't really have a safe community if the community members are afraid to come to us to report crimes."

He added that he's not aware of the city ever turning someone in custody over to federal authorities and that he's not starting now.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/20/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Federal government shouldn't help them collect tax.

Or connect interstate highways
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 02/20/2020 5:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Hey, Xi, wanna swap Hong Kong for San Francisco?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/20/2020 11:11 Comments || Top||

#3  Waiting for the Big One by flashing your middle index finger may not be the best route to take. I'm sure no one will hold up recovery monies with procedural delays in Congress. I'm sure Sacramento can cover you rather than Washington. What's another couple hundred billion in debt to them anyway.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/20/2020 16:33 Comments || Top||



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  Turkey asks NATO to provide air support for the operation in Idlib
Wed 2020-02-19
  Ashraf Ghani declared winner of Afghan presidential poll, Abdullah rejects results
Tue 2020-02-18
  LNA claims to destroy Turkish arms ship in Tripoli harbor.
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  24 Killed In Brutal Terror Attack On Burkina Faso Church; Local Pastor Targeted
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  Switzerland Thwarts Major Islamic State Terror Attack
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  Six Cartel Kidnappers Busted with Mexican Border City Victim in Trunk
Fri 2020-02-14
  US navy ship seizes 150 Iranian-manufactured anti-tank guided missiles after boarding a vessel in the Arabian Sea
Thu 2020-02-13
  Hafiz Saeed sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison for terror financing
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  Sudan will hand over Omar al-Bashir to the International Criminal Court
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  Russians bomb a joint Turkish & Jihadi column
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  Multiple US troops killed during shootout in eastern Afghanistan
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  Khalid Haqqani and Qari Saifullah banged in Kabul
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  Syria says its troops enter the strategic city of Saraqib in Idlib and begins ‘combing’ its neighborhoods
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