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-War on Police-
Former Cop Derek Chauvin Makes Deal to Serve 'George Floyd' Sentence in Federal Prison
[PJMEDIA] Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has worked out a deal to serve his sentence in the May 2020 death of St. George Floyd
...the patron saint of Minneapolis, a sterling example for our children and indeed for us all. St. George was martyed by the Devil's agents in blue while standing on a street corner preaching tolerance and racial justice or something like that...
in federal prison. Chauvin and his attorney worked out a deal to plead guilty to violating Floyd’s federal civil rights so he could serve out his term in a "safer and nicer" facility than the typical state prison.

Chauvin and his attorney have been angling to get him transferred to a federal facility since his state trial. The jury found Chauvin guilty of murder, for which he may have been paroled earlier. But now with the ability to serve in a federal lockup, he will serve a longer sentence of 20-25 years when a federal judge sentences him.

The good news for Chauvin is that he might live to tell about it when or if he gets out.

Inmates usually aren’t too happy with cops in any prison, but especially state prisons, and especially the guy doing time for George Floyd’s death.

Chauvin is appealing his conviction.

George Floyd’s death in police custody sparked the "summer of love" riots all over the country. Minneapolis riots saw arson, looting, and millions in damage and scores of people hurt.

Floyd, a drug-addled, quasi-homeless drifter, was high on fentanyl and meth when cops responded to a shopkeeper’s complaint about Floyd and his friends circulating forged $20 bills.

As he was urged out of his car, Floyd began to insist that he couldn’t breathe. He continued those protestations as he asked to lay on the pavement. When he wouldn’t stop resisting arrest, Chauvin held him down with his knee on his back, shoulder, and neck.

Floyd died, and the case sparked international outrage.

Three other coppers await trial in state court for aiding and abetting Chauvin in killing Floyd.
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Afghanistan
Islamic Emirate Announces Rules for Women’s Covering
Raising the temperature under the cooking pot full of frogs, as predicted.
[ToloNews] The Islamic Emirate announced new rules regarding women’s covering or hijab on Saturday, saying it will be implemented in two steps -- encouragement and punishment — and defining the types of dress that women will need to wear when stepping out of home.

The plan was confirmed by Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada, the supreme leader of the Islamic Emirate.

"If a woman doesn't wear a hijab, first, her house will be located and her guardian will be advised and warned. Next, if the hijab is not considered, her guardian will be summoned. If repeated, her guardian (father, brother or husband) will be imprisoned for three days. If repeated again, her guardian will be sent to court for further punishment, the plan reads," said Akif Mahajar, a front man for the Ministry of Vice and virtue.

A statement from the Vice and Virtue Ministry of the Islamic Emirate reads that hijab is an obligation in Islam and that any dress that covers the body can be considered as hijab given that it is not "thin and tight."

When it comes to the type of the covering or hijab that women will need to wear, the statement says that burka is the best type of hijab/covering "as it is part of Afghan culture and it has been used for ages." It adds that another preferred type of hijab is a long black veil and dress that "should not be thin or tight."

The statement, called "the descriptive and accomplishable plan on legitimate hijab," also instructs women not to step out of home unless it is necessary, calling it one of the best ways of observing hijab.

The plan was announced by the Ministry of Vice and Virtue on Saturday at a presser in Kabul.

The rules were published in a two-page statement and were approved by a seven-member team whose names and signatures are on the second page.

The plan, according to the statement, will be implemented through encouragement and punishment. The statement says that the benefits of wearing hijab need to be introduced to the people by media and mosques. Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch cautiously raised his hat over the edge of the horse trough on the end of a stick......
it says that messages about hijab should be written on banners in markets and other public places to encourage the people.

According to the new plan, if a woman doesn't wear a hijab, first, her house will be located and her guardian will be advised and warned.

Next, if the hijab is not considered, her guardian will be summoned. If repeated, her guardian (father, brother or husband) will be imprisoned for three days. If repeated again, her guardian will be sent to court for further punishment, the plan reads.

The statement also said that female public employees will be fired if they don't wear hijab.

Male public employees will be suspended from their jobs if female members of their families do not wear hijab.

The acting Minister of Vice and Virtue, Khalid Hanafi said: "This plan will be implemented and put into practice."

The Islamic Emirate’s front man, Zabiullah Mujahid, said they have paid sacrifices over the past two decades to implement Shariah law.

"The current world or the Western world wants to interfere so that we do not implement Sharia although our nation is Moslem," he said.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/08/2022 00:35 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Taliban/IEA

#1  Not a peep from the feminazi establishment in the West. Oh, some time back, movie actress Kate Beckinsale said she thought a burqua could be "very liberating" for women.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/08/2022 8:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Those things aren’t cheap: Amazon carries a little number put out by the Afghan Widowed Women’s Association Kabul for $75 plus shipping. Plus the reviews really need to be read.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/08/2022 11:24 Comments || Top||


Meth production is exploding in Afghanistan; illicit drug will be exported to the U.S.
[LibertyUnyielding] Methamphetamine production is exploding in Afghanistan. It may soon become the world’s biggest source of meth, the way Afghanistan is already the world’s biggest source of opium. Meth is Afghanistan’s fastest-growing industry. The Washington Post says Afghanistan has a natural advantage in producing illicit methamphetamines, thanks to a native plant, ephedra, that can be used to make cheap meth:

Afghanistan’s fastest-growing drug industry operates from desert outposts in plain view....Wholesalers like Abdulwadood work openly here, moving dozens of kilos of methamphetamine every week. In the middle of his crowded shop, he casually tosses a half-kilo bag of long glassy shards onto the carpet. Its street value in Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
is tens of thousands of dollars. Abdulwadood will sell it for about $250.

"Every year, sales and production just increase and increase," he said...Behind him the rest of his stock was piled in a corner. He expected to sell the roughly 20 kilos of shisha — the Afghan term for meth — in just a few days.

For decades, the country has been a global hub for opium production, estimated to supply 80 percent of the world’s opiate users. Now its meth industry is growing at breakneck speed, stoking fears among Western experts and officials that, under the Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
, Afghanistan could become a major supplier as demand rises globally.

Hundreds of meth labs have appeared in Afghanistan over the past six years, according to independent experts, former government officials and drug traders. And more are being built each month as the country’s economic crisis forces Afghans to find new sources of income. The vast majority of meth produced is for export, but an increasing number of Afghans are turning to it as their drug of choice.

The sudden boom in meth production came after narcos discovered a potential bonanza in a native plant called ephedra — known here as oman — which grows wild and is a natural source of the drug’s key ingredient....Cooking meth with harvested ephedra in Afghanistan — while labor-intensive and dangerous — costs a fraction of the price as making the same drug with ephedra extracted from pharmaceuticals, the process used to produce the vast majority of the world’s meth.

There’s not much the U.S. can do about this even if Afghanistan supplies lots of black-market meth to U.S. meth users and addicts. Afghanistan’s Taliban government is very well armed, thanks to the Biden administration, the same old faces in slightly different places, the same old ideas, the same old graft
...the pack of self-imagined masterminds of strategy and intrigue at the service of the Biden Crime Family and a grateful nation...
leaving behind $7 billion in weapons when the U.S. left Afghanistan. As a result, Afghanistan has "one of the most well-armed military forces in the region," especially compared to neighboring countries in Central Asia, despite being much poorer. Emboldened by how quickly it toppled Afghanistan’s former U.S.-backed government, the Taliban predicted last year that "Islamic law will come not to just Afghanistan, but all over the world....Jihad will not end until the last day."

In its abrupt and disorganized departure from Afghanistan, the Biden administration left behind billions of dollars worth of military equipment that was seized by the Taliban. For example, Julian Röpcke reports that the Taliban "not only seized" around "a hundred U.S. humvees" and armored personnel carriers in the city of Kunduz, but also valuable drones. "Billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars going to Islamist krazed killers, thanks to the administration’s hasty withdrawal....Now every Taliban fighter gets his own Ford, Toyota, humvee" or armored personnel carrier.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/08/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Taliban/IEA

#1 
An the Liberals, Socialists, and Democrats have Opened the Borders, hamstrung I.C.E. and ridiculed Morals and Religion to help the Cartels accomplish their goals.
Posted by: Clolump Sloluger1900 || 05/08/2022 7:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Why would they send it here when the cartels make a shit ton of it in Mexico. I'm sure shipping has went up for them too.
Posted by: Chris || 05/08/2022 8:20 Comments || Top||

#3  The next gen technicals are going to be off the hook.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/08/2022 8:24 Comments || Top||

#4 
#2⏫
Could also ask the same question to CCP supplying its addictive pharmaceuticals that being snuck in also. Also didn't the CCP announce it was going to be build a few pharmaceutical factories and etc. businesses in Afghanistain recently?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/08/2022 14:35 Comments || Top||


Female Teachers Called Back to Nimroz Schools
Let us hope that the wobbly verb tenses in this article are merely the result of imperfect language skills, and not an indicator of promises made with no intention of being kept.
[ToloNews] The Nimroz education department said that female teachers who lost their jobs following the fall of the previous government will be reinstated.

According to the officials of the education department of Nimroz, the teachers will be employed at schools in need.

"Soon the reappointment of 196 teachers may occur," said Mawlawi Yar Mohammad Haqyar, the director of the Nimroz education department.

Meanwhile,
...back at the desert island, Bert was realizing to his horror that he'd had only one bottle for one message, and he'd forgotten to include a return address...
teachers who lost their jobs praised the Ministry of Education's decision.

Lima is one of the female teachers who has been living at home since the fall of the previous government.

She says she has been away from teaching for eight months and she called on local officials in Nimroz to provide work opportunities for her and other teachers.

"The Islamic Emirate has provided the opportunity for us to return to our duty without an exam. I am very happy and I ask the teachers who have left to come back," said Lima, the teacher.

Teachers and school officials in Nimroz said they are facing a shortage of female teachers.

"I ask our colleagues who were not on duty to join us and come to their duties," said Ziba Siddiqui, the teacher.

"Our students from the first to the sixth grade are present, they come every day and the teachers are present. "There is no problem," said Shahla Ahmadzai, head of Esteqlal girls' school.

The remarks come as official numbers from the Nimroz Education Department indicate that about 200 teachers in the province have lost their jobs following the fall of the previous government.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/08/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Taliban/IEA


Arabia
Riyadh to invest millions in Israeli tech via Jared Kushner’s new fund — report
[IsraelTimes] Reported plan will serve as the first public instance of Saudi Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
directly investing in Israel; two companies said to have already been selected.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/08/2022 01:36 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia


Europe
Germany Intends to Restrict the Number of Afghan Refugees Admitted Into the Country
[KhaamaPress] The German Ministry of Interior intends to impose quotas on the number of Afghan refugees admitted to the country.

According to the German news magazine Der Spiegel, the Ministry intends to admit no more than 5,000 Afghans annually, per the reports by SchengenVisaInfo.com.

According to the magazine, the German authorities are considering such a plan for relocating Afghans to Germany in order to keep the program functionally viable.

Nonetheless, according to Info Moslem colonists Migrants, the idea of restricting the number of Afghan nationals admitted to Germany each year has not been well-received. According to the aforementioned, such an idea had been subjected to criticism. As per a Green Party member of the Bundestag, organizations have assisted approximately 3,000 people and have reported tens of thousands of people who are still at risk.

Since Taliban
...Arabic for students...
’s takeover of power, many as 18,800 Afghans have managed to enter Germany, according to the German Ministry of Interior. However,
man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them...
according to Info Moslem colonists Migrants, over 10,000 people who have been granted admission by German authorities remain in Afghanistan.

Previously, it was noted that German authorities are replacing existing Afghan refugees from shelters to find space for those arriving from Ukraine.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/08/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1 
Read somewhere that only about 1 in 4 German Citizen are of German Ancestry/Blood.

At the rate of Middle Eastern and African Illegal Migration into Germany. Is it really a German Germany now?

Eg: Wiki-The United Nations Population Fund lists Germany as host to the 3rd-highest number of international migrants worldwide, behind the United States and Saudi Arabia.

Yes the USA is still #1 at something.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/08/2022 7:46 Comments || Top||

#2  little to late for that tactic.
Posted by: Chris || 05/08/2022 13:19 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
The revolt plan
[Twitter]
Follow this thread all the way to the end.




Note this bit of the thread:

Posted by: 3dc || 05/08/2022 00:15 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  What does overturn mean? The Mississippi law allows abortion up to a specific week (a couple weeks longer than what is allowed in Europe iirc). Roe set the first trimester.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/08/2022 7:04 Comments || Top||

#2 
Given the 2020 Coup, the moral oddities in charge. and clear dictatorial control of the DOJ and other investigative agencies. What if, Biden's puppet masters announced a National Emergency and suspension of Constitutional Rights, Freedoms?

They have already instituted:
* Gun Control,
* Ammo Control,
* Fuel/Energy Distribution Control,
* Environmental Control,
* Military Control,
* Media Narrative Control,
* Food Supply Controls and limitations,
* Business Operational Control,
* Eliminated Deficit spending Controls,
* Taken control of the Medical Field,
* Control the switch for Racial Warfare,
* Control and allow a Political Paramilitary,
* Setup alternative voting methods to allow continued political control.
* and setup processes to divide America against itself.

Given the partial list above, it seems we are overdue in using Constitutional processes and legal methods to flush the DC Swamp that has reached too deep and control too much of our daily lives.

But what are those legal process/methods to flush the DC Swamp and keep it from returning?


Posted by: An American NoBody || 05/08/2022 7:25 Comments || Top||

#3  Yawn. The left was sure Trump would do this. Now they are likely to do it themselves.

Another day in the life...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/08/2022 7:27 Comments || Top||

#4  Gun control? Gun control laws have loosened in recent years in half the states, with more queued up in various state legislatures, and according to the Washington Examiner, we are nearing three full years of monthly sales of more than 1 million guns — and FBI background checks show near the one million mark for the representative month of April every year since 2013.

As for media narrqtive control, it’s there if one relies exclusively on the mainstream media, but how many still do?

And given those two facts alone, announcing a national emergency will be ineffective. A great many bridges were burnt by the Covid shutdown, it seems to me.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/08/2022 9:52 Comments || Top||

#5  IMO we need to divide. No gop or dem. Just 'us' and 'them'. The rot has gotten so deep that divorce is necessay.
Posted by: irish rage boy || 05/08/2022 10:06 Comments || Top||

#6  a twitter "unroll" that works on some browsers
Posted by: 3dc || 05/08/2022 11:17 Comments || Top||

#7  Announcing a national emergency would have little influence - but that's of little concern to the regime. All they require is for the proper levers of govt to be thrown in order to give them cover to do what it is they intend to do. They will be leveraging our own deference to the US Constitution against us even as they crush the last remaining vestiges of the Republic.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 05/08/2022 12:13 Comments || Top||


Great White North
Controversy in Canada over resident's alleged Palestinian terrorism ties
[Jpost] Khalid Barakat, who resides in Vancouver, has been named by Israeli intelligence services as a leader of PFLP, and is connected to the PFLP affiliated NGO Samidoun.

The status of a man living in Canada alleged to be a senior member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine terrorist organization has become the topic of concern for the Canadian Jewish community and the subject of debate in the Canadian Senate after an exposé by The National Post.

Khalid Barakat, who resides in Vancouver, has been named by Israeli intelligence services as a leader of the PFLP, the Post’s Terry Glavin reported. Barakat has also been described as such by Paleostinian news outlets, and at times, on the PFLP website. Supporters assert that he is a maligned Paleostinian rights activist.

DEBATE IN CANADA'S SENATE
"Khalid Barakat has been barred from the United States, he has been barred from Germany, yet the Trudeau government still allows this individual to remain in Canada, despite a Canadian law that forbids any individual with connections to terrorist organizations from entering our country or receiving Canadian Citizenship," said Sen. Leo Housakos in a debate with Sen. Marc Gold, the representative of the government in the Senate. "Why does your government allow him to remain in the country?"

Housakos, a member of the opposition Conservative Party, said, "I’m aware of this individual, you’re aware of this individual, I think it is high time that we make the government aware of the inherent dangers of this individual. Bnai Brith Canada has been raising this issue with your government for some time. They’ve provided intelligence about Barakat’s whereabouts in Canada as well as his involvement with this designated terrorist organization. While in Canada, Barakat has published articles in which he calls for targeted terrorist attacks to be carried out against Israel and other Zionist targets beyond the Middle East."

CONNECTION TO SAMIDOUN
The National Post also highlighted Barakat’s connection to the NGO Samidoun Paleostinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, which is listed by Israel as an affiliate of the PFLP. Despite the ostensible connections to the PFLP, Samidoun is a registered not-for-profit corporation in Canada. Barakat’s wife is listed as one of Samidoun’s Canadian directors, Glavin reported, but Samidoun insisted that Barakat was not a member.

Following the exposé, Samidoun released a statement saying it "condemns in the strongest terms the smear campaign targeting Paleostinian Canadian leftist writer and community organizer Khaled Barakat as well as the work of Samidoun, by the right-wing National Post, intentionally forwarding the agenda of pro-Israel lobby organizations in Canada."

The Center for Israel and Jewish Affairs said in a statement, "The links between the PFLP, a listed terrorist entity in Canada, and Samidoun are clear. We reiterate our calls for Public Safety Canada to list Samidoun as a terrorist entity."

Mostyn said, "Samidoun also needs to be decertified as a corporation immediately, and it should never have been certified in the first place."

Glavin reported that Samidoun’s partner organization in La Belle France, the Collectif Paleostine Vaincra, was disbanded by government decree.

A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE
Samidoun was affiliated with the April 25 rally in Toronto in which protesters cheered breaking news of rocket attacks on Israel and praised the deadly terrorism wave that recently gripped the Jewish state. Speakers expressed a desire to destroy the state and claimed that Jews had no connection to the Temple Mount.

The PFLP is a Marxist Paleostinian terrorist organization founded in 1967. Notable members include Rasmea Odeh and Leila Khaled. In October, several NGOs besides Samidoun were listed as affiliates of the organization. The National Post noted that a 2014 PFLP terrorist attack in Jerusalem killed a Toronto-born rabbi, Howie Rothman.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/08/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: PFLP


Home Front: WoT
U.S. Congress Probes Biden Admin over Biometric Data Left in Afghanistan
[KhaamaPress] The United States Congress probes President Biden administration, the same old faces in slightly different places, the same old ideas, the same old graft
...the pack of self-imagined masterminds of strategy and intrigue at the service of the Biden Crime Family and a grateful nation...
following a disclosure about biometric data abandoned during a hasty troops withdrawal from Afghanistan, which is reported being used by the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
government to target American allies still in the country, according to reports.

United States republican congress members believe the Islamic Emirate is using the data to target former security forces and local Afghan allies of US and NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
forces stranded in Afghanistan, according to a report by the Washington Free Beacon.

While the Ministry of Interior Affairs denied such reports on left biometric data, at least eight republican members of the senate committee — let by Sen. Marsha Blackburn — are demanding the State and Defense Departments to turn over any information related to the evacuation of US troops in Afghanistan.

"The Taliban is using this personal information to increase assassinations, torture, and forced disappearances of Afghans who helped the United States," the senators wrote, according to a copy of the letter obtained exclusively by the Washington Free Beacon.

"These systems, which were abandoned when the US military withdrew from Afghanistan, contained iris scans, fingerprints, photographs, occupational data, home addresses, and names of relatives," the letter read.

In addition to leaving behind $7 billion worth of military hardware, the Afghan Ministry of Interior Affairs confirmed is has access to the "sensitive data, including biometric data," the United States abandoned while the country was collapsing last August.

But the ministry repeatedly denied reports suggesting these data are being used by the Taliban ruler to target those who supported the United States’ 20-year war in Afghanistan.

"We have denied this claim many times—that the Islamic Emirate targets or threatens the former security forces through this. We deny it," said Abul Nafay Takor, a front man for the Ministry of Interior, as TOLOnew reported.

Meanwhile,
...back at the shouting match, the spittle had reached unprecedented levels...
local military veterans express concern over reports that depicts direct threats to their lives, saying the government is responsible for protecting secret information, as is responsible to not let such "secret" data leak outside the country.

"The biometric system should not be provided to the neighboring countries or others," said Hekmatullah Hekmat, a military veteran. "The government is responsible for maintaining the secret and important national data."

"This can cause risks for the Afghanistan security system even for their (Islamic Emirate) government because if some of the groups under their command stand against them, they could use the data against the Taliban," said Asadullah Nadim, another military veteran.

The probe against Bidon Administration comes weeks after Human Rights Watch released a report detailing the Taliban is using abandoned biometric data to eradicate local armies who have worked and fought alongside the United States troops in past two decades.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/08/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Taliban/IEA


India-Pakistan
Pakistan ‘rules out’ refugee status for Afghans
[Dawn] Paki­stan has ruled out refugee status for Afghan asylum-seekers but is facilitating their stay and onward journeys to destinations in the West, the Voice of America (VOA) broadcasting service reported on Saturday.

Another VOA report said that the United States was giving Ukraine 16 Mi-17 helicopters that were meant for Afghanistan.

Pak officials said that since the Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
takeover, more than 100,000 urban Afghans have arrived in the country on valid visas.

"They are largely vulnerable Afghans seeking to move to the US and other Western countries under refugee resettlement programmes," the report added.

It quoted Pakistain’s ambassador to Kabul Mansoor Ahmed Khan as saying that every day the mission was issuing 700 to 1,000 multiple entry visas to Afghans. "We are issuing visas to Afghans more liberally than any other neighbouring country or any other country in the world. We are doing so to help address Afghans’ humanitarian concerns," Mr Khan said.

"But if they (Afghans) want their status to be converted into a refugee status, that will not happen nor will we allow it," he said. "We simply don’t want an increase in refugees."

Many asylum-seekers said they would prefer to stay in Islamabad while waiting for their visas for destinations in the West, instead of returning to Afghanistan.

The other VOA report pointed out that the US Department of Defence (DOD) notified Congress in January that it intended to give the Ukrainian government five of the Russian-built helicopters, which had been undergoing maintenance at a Ukrainian facility.

"Ukraine accepted these excess defence articles on March 11," the Special Inspector Gen­eral for Afghanistan Re­construction (SIG­AR) noted in its quarterly report submitted to US politicians this week. SIGAR is a US government agency charged with monitoring Afghan events.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iranian who allegedly confessed to plotting hit on Israeli says he was coerced
[IsraelTimes] After reports Mossad interrogated IRGC member inside Iran, Mansour Rasouli says he was tortured into saying he was involved in liquidation plot, but that none of it was true

An Iranian man has denied reports he was involved in an attempt to assassinate an Israeli diplomat in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
and two other individuals, saying he was tortured and forced into a false confession.

Earlier this month several Hebrew media outlets reported that Israel’s Mossad spy agency detained and questioned Mansour Rasouli, a member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, in Iranian territory.

On Saturday new video footage emerged purportedly showing Rasouli confessing during an interrogation at his home in Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites....
that he was sent to target the Israeli diplomat working at the consulate in Istanbul, as well as an American general stationed in Germany and a journalist in La Belle France.

Channel 13 news said the video had come from Mossad itself, though it did not cite a source for this claim.

Meanwhile,
...back at the game, the Babe headed for second base. He almost made it. Then Sheila slapped him....
a video aired by the London-based Iran International, an Iranian opposition news outlet, showed Rasouli denying the confession was true, asserting that it had been coerced from him by kidnappers.

"Criminals kidnapped me...they put a bag over my head and took me to an unknown location," he said in the video.

"They told me they’d kill me and my family and tortured me severely. They told me I had to say everything they told me — that I was an emissary of the Revolutionary Guards and that I was sent to kill people in Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
and Turkey.

"I deny it all of course."

Last week an audio recording said to be of Rasouli, 52, was broadcast by Israeli television networks, along with his picture. "We will assassinate these three for the Islamic Theocratic Republic. They insisted this would be carried out," a man’s voice was heard saying in the recording.

The TV reports provided no source for the audio recording.

Channel 12 news added, without citing a source, that the Shin Bet security agency — which generally operates only within Israel and the Paleostinian territories — also participated in the detention in Iran.

Rasouli was released after the interrogation, the reports said. "I made a mistake, from here on out I won’t take any move regarding this, I swear," he was said to add.

In February, it was reported that Mossad helped foil 12 plots to carry out terror attacks on Israelis in Turkey over the past two years, most of the plots linked to the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
jihadist group.

Last year, Ottoman Turkish intelligence reportedly thwarted an Iranian plan to assassinate an Israeli-Ottoman Turkish businessman who lives in Istanbul and owns an engineering company specializing in aerospace technology.

The planned hit was to be a retaliation for the killing of Iranian nuclear chief Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in 2020, widely attributed to the Mossad, the reports said, as well as a means to hinder warming relations between Ankara and Jerusalem.
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