[PULSE.NG] The "avalanche of evidence" presented against Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman at his New York trial over the past three months shows he is guilty of trafficking tons of drugs to the United States, prosecutors said Wednesday.
In closing arguments, US Attorney Andrea Goldbarg pointed to the evidence presented by her team -- testimony from 56 people, including 14 of Guzman's former employees, as well as dozens of phone calls between the accused drug lord and others, intercepted text messages and letters he wrote from prison.
"We've presented an avalanche of evidence," she told the 12 members of the jury under the watchful eye of 61-year-old Guzman, dressed in a dark suit, and his ex-beauty queen wife Emma Coronel. "All this evidence shows the defendant is guilty of the counts."
The prosecution placed rifles -- including an AK-47 -- a bulletproof vest and a brick of cocaine in front of the jury seized from the cartel.
Guzman faces trafficking, firearms and money laundering charges that could see him placed in durance vile Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! for life in the United States.
Extradited to the United States two years ago, after two spectacular escapes from Mexican prisons, he stands accused of pocketing $14 billion over a quarter-century.
"In the opening arguments, we told you this case was about drugs, money and violence," Goldbarg said.
"Over 25 years, the defendant rose to the ranks to become the principal leader of the Sinaloa cartel. His goal was to distribute as much drugs as possible to the United States, his goal was to make millions of dollars in profits."
The prosecutor recalled testimony heard by the jury last week from Chapo's former hitman Isaias Valdez Rios -- who goes by "Memin" or "Memo" -- who told the court that he saw Guzman kill a member of the rival Arellano Felix cartel.
The victim had been tortured before he arrived at El Chapo's camp on the plane of Ismael "Mayo" Zambada, who led the Sinaloa organization with Guzman.
"He had burns made with an iron on his back, his shirt was stuck to his skin. He had burns made with a car lighter all over his body. His feet were burned," said the 39-year-old Valdez Rios.
According to the hitman, who later became Guzman's secretary and pilot, El Chapo became angry when he saw the condition of the man, so he left him locked in a chicken coop for days and buried him alive.
The ex-hitman also said Guzman had tortured two other members of the Zetas cartel before throwing them in a bonfire.
Guzman's lawyer have presented him as the scapegoat of a corrupt Mexican government and accused his co-defendant -- Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, who is currently on the lam -- as the cartel's true leader.
Prosecutors are set to wrap up closing arguments later Wednesday before the Guzman's attorneys presents theirs -- the defense called only one witness before resting their case in a mere 30 minutes -- and the jury begins deliberating Friday.
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Hopefully, we can get him tossed in the clink before any embarrassing things come out. It's not like hard-nosed investigative journalists are going to follow this up if it makes the Democrats look bad.
Given the amounts of money involved in bribing Mexican officials, it's hard to believe that none of it made it's way across the border to the US.
WASHINGTON (AP) ‐ As the Trump administration pushes for peace in Afghanistan, a new U.S. watchdog report says Afghan security forces are shrinking, gaps in security are growing, and the Taliban are largely holding their own despite a surge in American bombing.
These trends reflect what U.S. military officials call a stalemated war, more than 17 years after U.S. forces invaded following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Gauges of battlefield momentum have changed little over the past year, according to a watchdog agency known as the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction. In a report to Congress on Thursday, it said the Afghan government controls or influences 54 percent of districts, down from 56 percent a year earlier, and the Taliban’s share slipped from 14 percent to 12 percent. Contested territory increased from 30 percent to 34 percent.
The Pentagon insists that military pressure on the Taliban is mounting. Last year the U.S. vastly increased its use of air power in support of Afghan forces. According to U.S. Central Command data, U.S. aircraft dropped 6,823 bombs in the first 11 months of 2018. That compares with 4,361 bombs dropped in all of 2017.
Even so, the Afghan government has been unable to expand its control of the country, and analysts say an outright military victory by either side is beyond reach.
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Or put another way:
With the Foreign Troop Level decreasing the region of Afghanistan returns to its age old nature of being nominally ruled by a warlord whose real power waxes and wanes with the ephemeral alliances of the various clans.
[PULSE.NG] The Central African Republic fell into crisis in 2012 after violence erupted like lava from a volcano from a mainly Moslem rebel insurgency known as the Seleka ...a 'mainly' Moslem rebel force in the Central African Republic that overthrew the govt, imposed a regime of rapine and looting on the country's non-Moslem population, and was then tossed by France. They still exist, getting funding and weapons from somewhere or other, licking their wounds, complaining about the oppression of Moslems, and occasionally raping and looting someone... that sparked the creation of rival Christian militias known as the anti-Balaka.
The new talks, which started last week with senior CAR officials and rebel chiefs in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, came after seven previous rounds failed to reach a lasting agreement.
Talks have focussed since Monday on the demands of the 14 gangs, notably the formation of a unity government and the amnesty proposal for warlords, national television TVCA reported.
CAR authorities have always rejected an amnesty for militia commanders, many of whom face UN sanctions or human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... accusations.
"After a detailed review of a draft peace proposal we realise that the fundamental and key points of our demands have not been taken into account," one anti-Balaka militia representative told AFP.
A representative of the FPRC, the country's largest gang, said that as the talks currently stand, "we will be rejecting the deal and everyone will be going home."
At a news conference in the CAR capital Bangui on Wednesday, the UN mission in the country, MINUSCA, warned of a spike in "fake news on social networks".
MINUSCA front man Uwolowulakana Ikavi cited as an example a report that gangs were calling for President Faustin-Archange Touadera's resignation.
Sudanese authorities say the talks in Khartoum could last up to three weeks.
CAR's crisis deepened in March 2013, after a power-sharing deal with the government collapsed, and the Seleka entered the capital Bangui to force president Francois Bozize, a Christian, from power.
Former colonial ruler La Belle France intervened militarily under a UN mandate, pushing the Seleka from power, and Touadera was elected in February 2016.
But his government controls only a fraction of the state, despite the support of more than 13,000 troops and police in the MINUSCA mission.
Most of CAR is in the hands of militias, who often portray themselves as defenders of their own religious group but fight pie fights over cattle or mineral wealth, including gold, uranium and diamonds.
Thousands of people have been killed and a quarter of the population of 4.5 million have fled their homes because of the violence.
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[PULSE.NG] The Inter-Governmental Action against Money Laundering and Terrorists Financing in West Africa (GIABA), has observed a reduction in Death Eaters financing and money laundering activities among member countries of ECOWAS in 2018.
GIABA is an institution of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) established in 2000 to combat Death Eaters financing and fight against money laundering across West Africa.
GIABAs Information Manager in Nigeria, Mr Timothy Melaye, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)on Wednesday in Lagos thatmore countries had compliedwith the recommendations of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) in 2018.
In 2018, GIABA had again demonstrated its commitment to support countries in West Africa in the fight against money laundering and Death Eaters financing.
ECOWAS member countries did well last year in the fight against money laundering and Death Eaters financing in their countries.
Many of these countries have enacted laws, and today, these countries have different anti-money laundering regimes that are now becoming stronger and stronger.
Though we are awaiting statistics from these engagements, it is no longer an easy task for people to launder money again due to the systems on ground, he said.
Melaye said that GIABA had in 2018 embarked on advocacy visits to raise awareness and support for national authorities in fighting against money laundering and Death Eaters financing in their countries.
GIABAs information manager also said that the organization had also embarked on mutual evaluation of more West African countries, including Senegal ... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees... , Cape Verde and Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... And in the course of carrying out our mutual evaluation, we have discovered the compliance of few more countries.
We have discovered that the movement of money across different countries is now increasingly becoming difficult because of the systems in place.
We have even discovered that people now keep large sums of money in their homes because of the strong systems being put in place by the different countries of ECOWAS, he said.
The Inter-Governmental Action Group against Money Laundering in West Africa (GIABA) is a specialised institution of the Economic Community of West African States responsible for facilitating the adoption and implementation of Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Counter-Financing of Terrorism (CFT) in West Africa.
GIABA was established in 2000 and has its headquarters in Dakar, Senegal. It consists of 17 member states.
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[CPJ] New York, January 30, 2019--At least four journalists were surveilled under Project Raven, a United Arab Emirates (UAE) cybersurveillance and hacking operation, Reuters reported today. The UAE hired former U.S. National Security Agency employees to assist in deploying a surveillance tool called Karma that exploited a vulnerability in the iPhone's messaging application, according to a Reuters investigation based on interviews with nine former Raven operatives. Probably little more than an unfortunate coincidence.
"What we've learned about Project Raven raises significant concerns over the lengths to which the UAE will go in targeting journalists, and the involvement of former U.S. intelligence officials is also disturbing," said CPJ Middle East and North Africa Program Coordinator Sherif Mansour in Washington, D.C. "Emirati officials must stop targeting the press at home and abroad, and the U.S. must make it clear to their allies that hacking journalists' phones is not a legitimate counterterror strategy."
Reuters reported that the operation surveilled Rori Donaghy, a British journalist who has contributed to The Guardian, three U.S. journalists who were not named in the report, as well human rights activists, foreign diplomats, and foreign leaders. When CPJ called the UAE Embassy in Washington, D.C. today for comment, a representative said questions should be submitted via email. The embassy did not immediately reply to the email CPJ sent.
CPJ has previously documented the UAE's tough stance on the critical press, including its aggressive stance toward Qatar-based media, including Al-Jazeera, during a regional diplomatic dispute. Emirati-affiliated militias in Yemen have also attacked and harassed journalists who were critical of UAE action inside the country.
[Reuters] Two weeks after leaving her position as an intelligence analyst for the U.S. National Security Agency in 2014, Lori Stroud was in the Middle East working as a hacker for an Arab monarchy.
She had joined Project Raven, a clandestine team that included more than a dozen former U.S. intelligence operatives recruited to help the United Arab Emirates engage in surveillance of other governments, militants and human rights activists critical of the monarchy.
Stroud and her team, working from a converted mansion in Abu Dhabi known internally as "the Villa," would use methods learned from a decade in the U.S intelligence community to help the UAE hack into the phones and computers of its enemies.
Stroud had been recruited by a Maryland cybersecurity contractor to help the Emiratis launch hacking operations, and for three years, she thrived in the job. But in 2016, the Emiratis moved Project Raven to a UAE cybersecurity firm named DarkMatter. Before long, Stroud and other Americans involved in the effort say they saw the mission cross a red line: targeting fellow Americans for surveillance.
"I am working for a foreign intelligence agency who is targeting U.S. persons," she told Reuters. "I am officially the bad kind of spy." FISA warrants, who needs them ?
[DW] As Venezuela's political crisis deepens, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey's Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First has thrown his support behind President Nicolas Maduro. In recent years, the two leaders have found their interests increasingly intertwined.
When opposition leader Juan Guaido declared himself Venezuela's interim president last week, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey... was one of the few state leaders to call Nicolas Maduro
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[DW] Germany, France and the UK have set up a payment channel with Iran called INSTEX, to help continue trade and circumvent US sanctions. The question is, how will Washington react?
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Badly, I hope. We don't need trade with traitors who put their profits above their/our own safety. NATO is over
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Spiegel can re-work that old Newsweak cover - "We're All R4gheads Now..."
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The EUnochs will sell their own souls to those that would destroy them. Like Commodore Frank sez, NATO is over. There are consequences for behaviors and decisions. The US does not need so-called allies that stab the US in the back. NATO is dead and President should plan accordingly. This situation saddens but does not surprise me.
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AP ~ Years ago (many years ago), the commandant of the NWTC was an Aleut speaker. He was one of the only native level speakers on active duty. Are there any left ?
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There are some still. Yupic and Inupiaq speakers. Probably Athabascan too.
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[IsraelTimes] Belgian prosecutors say they are investigating an apparent attempt to intimidate a lawyer in the trial of a suspect in the 2014 shooting attack at the Brussels Jewish Museum.
The Brussels prosecutor’s office say that a baseball bat and false Kalashnikov assault rifle were left on the lawyer’s desk after a theft at his office yesterday . A laptop computer containing the case file of Mehdi Nemmouche, who stands accused of shooting dead four people at the museum, was stolen from the lawyer’s office.
State broadcaster RTBF names the lawyer as Vincent Lurquin, who was representing a woman at the museum when the attack happened.
Prosecutors say they are investigating the theft and intimidation, described as "threat by symbols."
The trial is scheduled to run until March 1.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Ottoman Turkish National Security Council renewed their call on Wednesday to eliminate the "terrorist groups" along their border.
"The National Security Council renewed (its) call for ending foreign support to terrorist groups and said the fight against all terror outfits will continue ’uninterruptedly,’" The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s state-run Anadolu agency reported.
The National Security Council also called on the U.S. Coalition to end their support for the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and People’s Protection Units (YPG).
Nobody here thought he meant ISIS or Al Nusra, right?
These two aforementioned groups are considered terrorist organizations by the Ottoman Turkish region because they are allied with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
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[CNN] Damon Joseph is accused of planning to attack a Jewish synagogue in Toledo, Ohio.
A man who allegedly had photographs of weapons and pro-ISIS messages on his social media accounts was indicted Tuesday on charges of targeting a Jewish house of worship, federal prosecutors in northern Ohio said.
Authorities have said Damon Joseph,
...at the time of his arrest he entered our files as Damon M. Joseph...
21, of Holland, Ohio, planned to kill worshipers inside a synagogue in Toledo with an assault rifle.
A federal grand jury indictment charges him with attempting to provide material support to ISIS, attempting to commit a hate crime and possessing firearms in furtherance of a crime of violence.
CNN has reached out to an attorney for Joseph, but has not received a response.
Joseph, also known as Abdullah Ali Yusuf, was enjugged Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! after taking possession of two semi-automatic rifles in December, authorities said.
Investigators became aware of Joseph after they noticed pictures of knives and firearms on his social media accounts, court records show. FBI agents posing as members of ISIS began a monthslong conversation with Joseph in which he offered his services in creating propaganda videos, officials said.
In September, agents asked Joseph whether he hated people in America. "Oh yeah, definitely," answered Joseph, according to court records. "The gays the Christians the Catholics the Jews you name it."
Undercover agents later met Joseph in person and were given a shopping list of weapons and ammunition, items he needed to mimic the October Tree of Life shooting in Pittsburgh, where 11 people were killed, US Attorney Justin E. Herdman said in December. On his list was an assault rifle, semi-automatic pistol, at least two magazines and ammunition, authorities said.
By the time Joseph met with undercover agents, they said, he had narrowed his plot to one synagogue and showed one of the agents pictures from inside the structure, saying he wanted to start the killing spree in the sanctuary, records show. Joseph, who allegedly wanted to make sure he killed a rabbi, said he was going to raid the synagogue on the Sabbath so he would cause maximum bloodshed, records show.
In early December, agents sold Joseph two inoperable AR-15s and that is when they took him into custody, records show.
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[Rudaw] A mother and her two children were rescued from ISIS in the group's last shrinking pocket in Syria and returned home to the Kurdistan Region on Wednesday.
"The three persons were rescued from ISIS," Hassan Qaed confirmed to Rudaw. He heads up the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG)’s office rescuing Yezidis.
In the month of January, 27 Yezidis were rescued from ISIS, he added.
His office has documented 6,417 Yezidis ‐ mainly women and kiddies ‐ who were seized by ISIS when the group swept across northern Iraq in 2014.
More than 3,000 are still known to be missing.
Backed by air strikes of the US-led global coalition, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have the bandidosgunnies contained in a small pocket of territory near the Iraqi border. But commanders warn the final fight will be slow, given the number of women and kiddies in the battle area.
And the risk of ISIS will not end with the death of the so-called territorial caliphate. The group still has thousands of fighters across Iraq and Syria and they have the potential to exploit existing societal rifts and security vacuums, US intelligence chief warned on Tuesday.
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[Rudaw] The Hashd al-Shaabi are the biggest threat to the United States in Iraq, the US intelligence chief told the Senate on Tuesday. His comments come as the Iran-backed Popular Mobilization Forces are stepping up their demands for US forces to leave Iraq.
"In Iraq, Iran-supported Popular Mobilization Committee-affiliated Shia militias remain the primary threat to US personnel," Daniel Coats, US director of national intelligence, said in a report to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
The Popular Mobilization Committee is an official entity in the Iraqi state. It is headed by Iraq’s national security advisor and works under the orders of the prime minister, who is commander-in-chief of the armed forces.
It is composed of the pre-dominantly Shiite militias, many of whom are backed by Iran and some of whom have a history of fighting US forces in Iraq.
Coats said the US will monitor the situation closely, watching for signs of Iran using these militias to attack US interests while Washington ramps up pressure on Tehran with its sanctions.
The intelligence chief noted the militias, commonly known as the Hashd al-Shaabi, have tried to force the US to leave Iraq and referred to attacks on US diplomatic facilities last year.
Oh? Possibly not as clever a move as it seemed at the time.
In September, the US shut its consulate in Basra for security reasons after reports of rockets fired in the area.
The Hashd gained ground politically, securing a bloc of seats in last year’s parliamentary election.
Earlier this week, in an interview with News Agency that Dare Not be Named, Qais al-Khazali, head of Asaib Ahl al-Haq, a prominent militia within the Hashd, said he expects the Iraqi parliament will soon hold a vote on requesting the US to leave the country. He also said they won’t hesitate to use force against if Washington insists on staying.
Mr. al-Haq appears to be confusing Pesident Trump with President Obama...
Coats linked the threat from the Shiite militias with the persistent threat from ISIS.
He noted that the "underlying political and economic factors" that led to the rise of ISIS still "persist" in Iraq. And ISIS might rise again, exploiting lingering Sunni grievances in light of institutional weaknesses and divisions in the Iraqi government.
In conjunction with that, the Shiite militias may try to further "entrench" their role in the Iraqi state, and compete with Iraqi security forces for resources using the power they have gained electorally, he argued.
After ISIS swept across Iraq and Syria in 2014 and the Iraqi army collapsed, by spiritual leader of Shiites Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani issued a religious ruling (fatwa) that founded the Hashd al-Shaabi.
They participated in the war against ISIS, alongside official Iraqi security forces. As such, they gained much support among Shiites, though they were not given material support by the US-led global coalition against ISIS.
In Iraq’s 2018 elections, they secured 45 seats, polling second in their Fatih (conquest) alliance and made an entry into the political arena.
The militias have also been formally integrated into the state through official legislation. The Hashd al-Shaabi Commission is tasked with overseeing the militias.
[IsraelTimes] US aid to the Paleostinian security services will end this week at the Paleostinians’ request, an official in the West Bank says, to preempt lawsuits over alleged support for terrorism.
All that unspent money could be used to pay for the wall...
The Paleostinian Authority has demanded the funding stop at the end of January for fear it could expose the PA to costly lawsuits under the US Anti-Terrorism Clarification Act (ATCA), which comes into force on February 1.
Yes, definitely the prudent choice, however harmful to the continued growth of certain private bank accounts.
"The money will be cut off," senior Paleostinian official Saeb Erekat ...negotiated the Oslo Accords with Israel. He has been chief Paleostinian negotiator since 1995. He is currently negotiating with Israel to establish a de jure Paleostinian state... tells AFP in the West Bank city of Ramallah. "We don’t want to receive any money if this will take us to court."
The ATCA legislation passed by Congress last year provides for any government that receives funding to be subject to US counterterrorism laws. The PA faces potential lawsuits from families of American victims of past Paleostinian attacks.
The aid of around $35 million a year was in support of Paleostinian security forces in the West Bank, which cooperate closely with their Israeli counterparts against Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, and other terrorist groups.
[IsraelTimes] The Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Paleostine and Israel (EAPPI), which brings international church members to the West Bank to "experience life under occupation," is pulling its volunteers from Hebron due to security concerns.
In a statement, the EAPPI says the flagship program of the World Council of Churches has "reached a critical point this week as a result of alleged harassment by settlers and by Israeli soldiers."
The announcement comes two days after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would not renew the mandate of an international observer force in Hebron. Netanyahu said the Temporary International Presence in Hebron was biased against the Jewish state, and he would not allow an organization "that acts against us" to continue operations.
[Ynet] Iran's president said on Wednesday the country was facing its toughest economic situation in 40 years, and the United States, not the government, was to blame.
US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... last year pulled out of an international nuclear deal with Iran and re-imposed sanctions.
Workers, including truck drivers, farmers and merchants, have since launched sporadic protests against economic hardships, which have occasionally led to confrontations with security forces.
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It's the strong US dollar, ain't it? Yeah, that's the ticket!
[Ynet] Iran has sent a large batch of mined uranium "yellow cake" for processing ahead of shipment to its main enrichment facility, Iran's state news agency reported on Wednesday in the latest sign of plans to step up its atomic activities.
Yellow cake, or uranium ore, can be further processed into enriched uranium to make fuel for nuclear power plants, Iran's stated aim,
or to provide material for atomic bombs if refined much more, which the West fears may be the Islamic Theocratic Republic's ultimate goal.
U.S.-Iranian tensions have resurged since President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... pulled Washington out of the 2015 nuclear accord, calling it deeply flawed. Under the deal, Iran restricted its enrichment programme to ease concerns it could not be put to developing nuclear weapons and in return won relief from sanctions.
Thirty tons of yellow cake from a production plant in the city of Ardakan in central Iran was sent to a uranium conversion facility in Isfahan on Wednesday, the Islamic Theocratic Republic News Agency (IRNA) reported.
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Scare quotes mine. But it isn’t quite what you think, dear Reader..
[IsraelTimes] Moslem convert describes starvation, bombing, fleeing through minefields with women and kiddies before being captured by Kurds in Syria.
From detention in northern Syria, alleged Irish jihadist Alexandr Bekmirzaev
See? This one took two steps to get onto the path of jihad: first he comverted, then he bcame an Irish citizen. Only then did the idea of joining the caliphate rear its ugly head seductively.
described hunger and fear as missiles pounded down on the last shreds of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group’s "caliphate."
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Sorry, it's the only Nike pic I could find...though it does lend itself to further thought... [TheSun] Thousands of Muslims demand Nike recall ‘offensive’ Air Max trainer with ‘Allah written on the sole’.
A petition to recall the popular trainer from sale has attracted more than 5,000 signatures.
They can probably collect 5,000 signatures to complain that the sky is too blue on a street corner in the right neighbourhood on a Friday afternoon.
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If Fats were as uptight as Allah,
Might the Harlemite stride-meister holler
And subject those extremities
To Mohammedan remedies
If his oversized feet should write, "Waller?"
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
like lava from a volcano
[CPJ] New York, January 30, 2019--At least four journalists were surveilled under Project Raven, a United Arab Emirates (UAE) cybersurveillance and hacking operation, Reuters reported today. The UAE hired former U.S. National Security Agency employees to assist in deploying a surveillance tool called Karma that exploited a vulnerability in the iPhone's messaging application, according to a Reuters investigation based on interviews with nine former Raven operatives.
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
[CNN] Damon Joseph is accused of planning to attack a Jewish synagogue in Toledo, Ohio.
[IsraelTimes] The Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Paleostine and Israel (EAPPI), which brings international church members to the West Bank to "experience life under occupation," is pulling its volunteers from Hebron due to security concerns.
Ynet] Iran's president said on Wednesday the country was facing its toughest economic situation in 40 years, and the United States, not the government, was to blame.
[Ynet] Iran has sent a large batch of mined uranium "yellow cake" for processing ahead of shipment to its main enrichment facility, Iran's state news agency reported on Wednesday in the latest sign of plans to step up its atomic activities.
[TheSun] Thousands of Muslims demand Nike recall ‘offensive’ Air Max trainer with ‘Allah written on the sole’.
