[KhaamaPress] Relations between Pakistain and the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... have reached a "point of no return" and are likely to deteriorate further despite regional mediation efforts, according to Pakistain’s Express Tribune, as military festivities and diplomatic tensions continue to escalate between Islamabad and Kabul.
In a report by Pak journalist Kamran Yousaf, the newspaper cited a senior Pak official involved in Afghanistan policy as saying Islamabad believes relations with the Taliban administration have entered a phase that will be increasingly difficult to reverse. "I think we have reached a point of no return," the official said, warning that tensions are expected to intensify rather than improve.
The report says The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... and Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... recently launched diplomatic efforts to reduce tensions between Pakistain and the Taliban. As part of those efforts, the head of Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization visited both Kabul and Islamabad in mid-September to encourage dialogue between the two sides.
According to the report, the mediation efforts suffered a setback after a deadly attack on coppers in Kohat a day after the diplomatic meetings. Pak authorities said one of the suicide kaboomers was an Afghan national and argued the attack reinforced their concerns about bad boy groups operating from Afghaniustan territory.
Pakistain has repeatedly accused the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) and affiliated bad boy groups of using safe havens inside Afghanistan to launch attacks across the border. The Taliban administration has denied those allegations, insisting it does not allow Afghaniustan territory to be used against neighboring countries.
The newspaper also reported that Pakistain responded by launching air and dronezaps on around 10 locations inside Afghanistan, including sites in Kandahar that it said were linked to bad boy infrastructure and drone launch facilities. Taliban officials, meanwhile, claimed they responded by sending drones toward Pakistain, while Pak authorities said the drones were intercepted before causing significant damage.
Express Tribune further reported that Turkey’s intelligence chief had hoped to meet Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada in Kandahar during the mediation mission. Instead, Akhundzada reportedly sent a representative from his office, a move that Pak and Ottoman Turkish sources described as a diplomatic setback.
The report says some Pak officials believe the worsening relationship could reshape regional perceptions that Islamabad continues to support the Taliban. One unnamed official warned that if the current trajectory continues and pressure from anti-Taliban groups increases, a weakening of the Taliban’s authority in parts of Afghanistan "should not come as a surprise."
The report comes as festivities have intensified along the Afghanistan-Pakistain border, with local sources reporting exchanges of heavy weapons fire between both sides forces in parts of Paktia, Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. and Pakistain’s Kurram district over the weekend.
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[GaroweOnline] Somalia’s domestic revenue from customs duties has fallen by about 40% as disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz affected trade and increased import costs, term-ended President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said in a speech to the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... General Assembly.
Mohamud said Somalia’s heavy reliance on goods imported from the Middle East had left the country particularly vulnerable to disruptions in the strategic waterway, through which a significant share of global energy and trade flows.
"The disruption has also resulted in approximately a 40% decline in our customs-based domestic revenue," Hassan told the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday.
He said customs revenue was an important source of funding for economic reforms, growth and efforts to reduce poverty. The president did not specify the period covered by the 40% estimate or provide detailed figures showing customs revenue before and after the reported decline.
The president also said disruptions around the Strait of Hormuz had pushed up the prices of food and fuel in Somalia, as well as inflation, transport costs and insurance premiums for goods shipped to the country.
"Ensuring free and fair navigation through that waterway is critical to protecting vulnerable economies such as Somalia," he said.
The president’s latest estimate follows figures previously presented by the Somali government on the impact of the Hormuz disruptions on the country’s import-dependent economy.
A report submitted by Somalia’s national statistics agency to the Cabinet in May said the volume of goods entering the country had fallen by nearly 40% during the disruptions. The government also reported that food prices had increased by 10%, while health-care costs rose by 14%, with some other goods recording even sharper increases.
The Cabinet subsequently directed relevant government agencies to take measures to ease the economic pressure on the population.
Somalia imports a large share of its food, fuel and other essential goods, leaving households and businesses exposed to higher shipping costs and disruptions to global supply chains.
The impact has extended beyond consumer prices to government finances. Customs duties collected on goods entering Somalia through ports and other entry points are an important component of federal domestic revenue and help finance government operations and public services.
A decline in imports can reduce customs collections at a time when higher transport and insurance costs are also increasing the prices paid by consumers.
Hassan said his government was continuing efforts to increase domestic revenue despite external economic pressures. He told the General Assembly that Somalia had strengthened public financial management and budget transparency while expanding the financial system and working to improve the investment climate.
The president said Somalia’s economy was expected to record real growth of 3.1% this year despite significant pressures from the global economy. He did not provide further details on how the disruption in the Strait of Hormuz was incorporated into that growth projection.
[IsraelTimes] Foreign secretary tells delighted Labour party confab that government approach to Israel has ‘mobilized international community,’ calls Gaza a ‘stain on conscience of the world’
British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband on Monday called the suffering imposed on Palestinians by Israel’s government “a stain on the conscience of the world” as he denounced “ethnic cleansing” in the West Bank, and “war crimes in Gaza.”
Received with standing applause at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool, Miliband said that the government headed by new Prime Minister Andy Burnham has reset its approach to Israel and the Palestinians.
“We call out ethnic cleansing by the settler terrorists in the West Bank,” he said, referring to violence by extremist settlers against Palestinians in the territory. “We call out the evidence of war crimes in Gaza. We call out Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine.”
His remarks came amid a deterioration in relations between Israel and the UK, after Miliband announced earlier this month that Britain would ban all dealings with West Bank settlements, along with sweeping sanctions and a range of other punitive measures. Canada, France and other nations announced similar measures.
At the conference, Miliband stressed that the UK would ban trade with Israeli settlements: “We will disrupt the supply lines of British finance, British construction and British services for illegal settlements.”
He said that London’s decision to sanction Israelis living over the Green Line “mobilized the international community, country after country.”
Miliband also recalled that his own grandmother was given “shelter and sanctuary by Israel” after World War II, saying the “bonds of solidarity between the British people and those who yearn for peace in Israel and Palestine are too strong to be broken.”
‘We call out ethnic cleansing by the settler terrorists in the West Bank.’
The UK’s top diplomat condemned “Hamas’s murderous attack on October 7,” and said his Labour Party “will always recognize the threats Israel faces and stand emphatically against those who seek its destruction.”
At the same time, he said, Hamas’s invasion of Israel in 2023 “cannot justify the suffering the Netanyahu government has inflicted in Gaza and the West Bank. This suffering is a stain on the conscience of the world.”
He also talked tough against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
“We will stand up to prevent a nuclear Iran through economic sanctions,” said Miliband. “We will act against the proxies of Iran. And we will continue to isolate Iran so that they reopen the Strait of Hormuz.”
Israel’s government reacted with fury to the UK settlement ban move and announced a series of retaliatory measures, including the closure of the British consulate in Jerusalem, which serves Palestinians. Other measures ordered by Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar included the expulsion of UK representatives from an international Gaza support center and the termination of British activities to train Palestinian Authority security forces.
The West Bank has seen near-daily incidents of settler violence and harassment in recent months. Arrests are rare, and critics have accused the government of condoning or even encouraging the attacks.
Israel’s right-wing government has also overseen a major expansion of settlements and settler outposts across the West Bank, in many areas displacing Palestinians.
Opponents of Israel have accused it of committing genocide in the Gaza war, which was sparked by Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack. Israel rejects the charge and insists it seeks to minimize civilian fatalities. It points to Hamas using Gaza’s population as human shields, and fighting from civilian areas including homes, hospitals, schools, and mosques.
[RedState] A person can get pretty jaded in the news business, particularly where dealing with lax justice systems is concerned. But now and then something comes across that jolts one nonetheless; something so outrageous that you have to read it two or three times to make sure you aren't missing something.
This is one of those cases: Last week, we saw and reported on the arrests of five would-be terrorists who were allegedly plotting a scheme to attack the British Royal Air Force (RAF) base at Fairford with explosives. They were caught, thanks to a sharp-eyed citizen, and their plans thwarted. And, one would think that once locked up, people accused of a crime on this scale would stay locked up pending trial, right?
Right?
No. The Fairford Five are out on bail.
A point strongly suggesting the Fairford Five are not native Englishmen.
[KhaamaPress] The United Kingdom is set to launch a new legal refugee resettlement route that will prioritize vulnerable Afghan women and girls, Paleostinian refugees, and people with disabilities, marking a significant shift in its asylum policy after the suspension of key resettlement pathways over the past two years.
Better than military age males, yes.
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is expected to announce the scheme at the Labour Party conference, saying it is designed to restore safe and legal pathways for the most vulnerable refugees while maintaining tighter controls on irregular migration across the English Channel. The new route will reopen the UK Resettlement Scheme, which stopped accepting new referrals in late 2024.
Under the proposal, refugees admitted through the program will receive a faster path to permanent settlement than asylum seekers who arrive through unauthorized routes, including small boats crossing the Channel. The Home Office expects the first phase to admit hundreds of refugees, with annual caps and the possibility of expanding the program to low thousands if irregular migration declines.
The Home Office says around one-quarter of the first group of arrivals are expected to be Afghan women and girls and Paleostinian refugees. Candidates will be identified by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) before undergoing British security and criminal background checks prior to travel.
Government officials said the program will prioritize women and girls facing persecution, people with disabilities, and others in urgent need of protection. Immediate family members may be resettled together under the scheme, although extended family reunification will not be included.
The announcement comes as Britannia continues broader reforms to its asylum system. Earlier this year, Mahmood introduced measures allowing refugee status to be reviewed every 30 months for up to 20 years and expanded policies aimed at reducing irregular migration while introducing new community sponsorship and refugee work pathways.
The government says new community sponsorship applications will open in October, allowing charities, universities, and local organizations to sponsor refugees directly. A separate employer-sponsored refugee work route is expected to begin in 2027 as part of wider immigration reforms.
Migration experts and refugee organizations welcomed the creation of an additional legal route but questioned whether the program’s limited size would significantly reduce dangerous Channel crossings.
Madeleine Sumption, director of the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford, said the scheme is primarily a humanitarian measure rather than a migration-control strategy. She argued there is little evidence that relatively small resettlement programs alone reduce unauthorized migration across the Channel.
Britannia has previously operated dedicated Afghan resettlement pathways, including the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS), which prioritizes women and girls at risk, human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... defenders, journalists, judges, and others vulnerable under Taliban ...the once and current oppressors of Afghanistan... rule.
The new resettlement initiative is expected to face criticism from right-wing political parties, particularly over annual quotas, welfare costs, and security screening, even as the government argues the scheme combines humanitarian protection with tighter border controls.
[IsraelTimes] Dutch citizens on El Al flight tell ToI checks were limited but unusual and ‘intimidating’; Israel warns travelers of ‘invasive’ checks from Dutch customs, which says nationality not grounds for selection
Dutch airport authorities are confiscating goods from Israeli settlements they come across in routine customs searches of passengers arriving from Tel Aviv, travelers have told The Times of Israel, while stressing that there is no blanket search under a new ban on such products.
A widely cited account claimed that all Israeli passengers were being checked, but passengers on an El Al flight subjected last Wednesday to customs checks at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport offered a more limited picture of the new procedures in place.
The new ban on settlement goods has a maximum punishment of six years in jail. Israel escalated a diplomatic dispute with the Netherlands over the move, which formally came into effect last Tuesday.
On Monday, the Foreign Ministry warned Israelis traveling to the Netherlands that they could face "lengthy, invasive baggage inspections," while stressing that reports of recent checks were still "being examined, including the scope of the inspections and the manner in which the order is being implemented in practice."
A viral report on the checks appeared in an opinion piece in the right-leaning Dutch outlet NieuwRechts, in which a passenger on El Al flight LY339 last week said all passengers arriving from Tel Aviv were forced to go through customs inspections, and suggested this was due to the new settlement sanctions.
The account was widely repeated in Israeli media and later cited by US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, who called the Dutch restrictions "insane."
The reported incident drew outsize attention as it followed a series of recent European measures targeting settlements, indicating new restrictions had begun to have practical implications for travelers from Israel.
Other reports have emerged from passengers claiming that Israelis and only Israelis were selected and taken to a separate area in the red customs area and their suitcases checked. Not all suitcases were opened, but it was only Israelis who were sent for these checks, according to these reports.
But two passengers from the same El Al flight last Wednesday who spoke to The Times of Israel over the phone on Monday described a more limited incident, saying it did not appear to reflect a new blanket checking policy tied to the ban.
NO EXTRA CHECKS
Max Worms, a Dutch passenger from Oosterhout who was among those checked, said that customs officers called a group of about 15 passengers arriving from Tel Aviv to undergo screening after baggage claim, though he could not say how many others, if any, were subsequently inspected.
Worms said his luggage passed through an X-ray machine and was not opened, that nothing was confiscated, that officials never mentioned settlement products, and that the inspection lasted around 15 minutes total. He described the check as unusual, but not obviously related to the ban, though he said it was conducted in an "intimidating" manner.
Margriet, a Dutch citizen who has lived and worked in Israel for a decade and requested not to be fully identified, said she was not stopped at all, despite arriving from Tel Aviv.
"There was no check at all... it was like always. It was not different," she said, adding that other passengers arriving from Tel Aviv in recent days with whom she had been in touch said they were not inspected either.
He described the check as unusual, but not obviously related to the ban, though he said it was conducted in an "intimidating" manner.
Margriet said a friend working in Dutch border control told her that officers had not been instructed to conduct extra checks on Israeli travelers since the ban came into effect. Rather, she said, if customs officers chose to inspect luggage and encountered goods covered by the new ban, they were required to enforce it.
An official Dutch Customs notice published the day before the ban took effect said officers could inspect travelers’ baggage to enforce the measure, but stressed that baggage was selected based on "objective information and risks," and that a traveler’s origin, nationality, religion or appearance were not grounds for inspection.
The policy bars goods obtained or manufactured wholly or partly in Israeli settlements in the West Bank, as well as East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, and applies not only to commercial imports but also to goods carried by private travelers as souvenirs or gifts, while excluding products originating within Israel’s internationally recognized borders, according to the official notice.
The list applies to Druze as well as Jewish towns on the Golan Heights, according to the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... list of settlements linked to the Dutch customs announcement.
On Sunday, after the ban came into effect, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar revoked the credentials of Dutch diplomats serving in Ramallah, saying Israel would not ignore measures "intended to harm it."
Dutch Foreign Minister Tom Berendsen said Monday that the Netherlands regrets Israel’s "unnecessary decision," and that his country’s decision to suspend imports from the West Bank was "not directed against Israel."
The Hell it isn’t. Either stop lying or lie better.
Sa’ar’s move followed an earlier Israeli response in August, when Dutch representatives were expelled from the US-led 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 a rusty 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... coordination center in Kiryat Gat over what Sa’ar described as a series of anti-Israel steps, including the planned ban on settlement goods.
"The Israeli government views this measure with gravity and has taken retaliatory steps," the ministry said in its Monday statement, adding that it and the Israeli embassy in The Hague "are monitoring developments and will update the public accordingly."
Schiphol has meanwhile erected a sign warning travelers that the new rules apply to goods in personal luggage, according to a photograph taken by Margriet at the airport.
"I was in shock" upon seeing the sign, she said. "It was like, okay, this is our new welcome now."
[IsraelTimes] Israel’s Ambassador Zvi Aviner Vapni expects to be summoned for a reprimand by the Dutch Foreign Ministry in the coming days, The Times of Israel has learned.
He has not yet been summoned, contrary to recent reports suggesting the reprimand already took place.
The anticipated dressing-down would take place after Israel announced it is withdrawing diplomatic privileges from Dutch diplomats in Ramallah, a response to The Netherlands implementing a ban on bringing products from West Bank settlements and the Golan into the country.
Among the settlement goods Dutch authorities are looking for at the airport, they are checking for tahini, halva, dates, date syrup, olive oil, and wines from the West Bank or Golan Heights, Channel 12 reports.
[IsraelTimes] The student, who is banned from Maastricht University buildings while the investigation continues, is part of a group of Palestinians granted scholarships to study in the Netherlands
Maastricht University in the Netherlands has suspended a Paleostinian student following a controversy that erupted after he posted a video on social media that showed himself watching footage of the October 7, 2023, onslaught led by the Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... terror organization.
In the video, the student points at an individual on the screen, mentions the October 7 attack and says, "This is me," apparently claiming he was one of the terrorists.
The Dutch national news agency ANP reported that the student has since deleted the post, but it has been shared widely on social media and elicited outrage and criticism.
The establishment’s independent newspaper Observant reported Sunday that the student has been temporarily barred from university buildings and may not attend classes or take exams.
The Hamas-led invasion of southern Israel on October 7, 2023, killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians. The ensuing war between Israel and Hamas has killed over 73,400 people 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 a rusty 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... , according to the Hamas-run health ministry in the enclave, which does not differentiate between combatants and civilians.
University spokesperson Koen Augustijn told Observant that the suspension was not a "punishment," but rather a "measure to first take the time to determine what happened and what should be done. It is also a result of all the unrest that has arisen from the reporting and reactions on social media. It is important for his own safety and that of our students and staff."
He added that the student "was extremely shocked" when informed about the suspension.
In a reaction on social media, Geert Wilders, the hard-right politician who leads the Freedom Party, decried the suspension as inadequate. "Out of the country with that Hamas scum!" he wrote.
Translated from Dutch
A Palestinian student at Maastricht University, here since July, posts on his public Instagram a video in which he implies he was involved in the October 7 massacre: "7th of October... this is me." If that is indeed true and this is not mere bravado from the gentleman, then we are deeply concerned about the level of security screening that preceded this exchange. But even if it turns out to be bravado after all: do we as the Netherlands really want to welcome foreign students who actively glorify terrorism?
Wilders, a fierce critic of Islam, tagged the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science and called for the minister to be "prosecuted for incompetence."
The university notes on its website that in September of last year, it granted scholarships to five students from Gaza.
The university wrote then: "The awarding of the scholarships is in line with UM’s global engagement policy, which aims, among other things, to offer international students the opportunity to study at UM, particularly those for whom this is not a given, for example because of the situation in their homeland."
"We hope that they, like all new students, will be able to begin their studies in peace."
According to reporting by Observant, more than 40 Paleostinians came recently to the Netherlands to study or conduct research at educational institutions.
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[Regnum] Sweden and Norway continue to struggle with migrant crime. Recent months have seen a number of high-profile events, from the rape conviction of an Eritrean rapper to the rise of extremist online platforms where Scandinavian youth are being taught negative things.
At the same time, the authorities, out of habit, try to blame the platforms' activities on "Moscow's machinations," thereby distancing themselves from finding real solutions to the problem.
DON'T MESS WITH RAPPERS
Far from the most serious, but certainly the most high-profile crime this year in Sweden was committed by 29-year-old Asmer Tsigabu, the son of Eritrean and Ethiopian parents. He is widely known in the country by his nickname, Asme.
He is a popular rapper who grew up in a migrant neighborhood in Gothenburg and formed the duo Aden x Asme with a friend. In 2020, they won the "Group of the Year" award. Asme later launched a solo career, and his albums are extremely popular among local youth, including one that won the city's top Grammis award.
Tsigabu has never been known for his exemplary character; by this year, he had accumulated several convictions: for customs violations, petty drug smuggling, and drunk driving.
All common in the rapper culture.
And on April 30th, having become completely brazen, he committed rape. It all began at a Grammis Awards party. There, the rapper met his future victim, who worked at his record label.
Asme offered to go to his room at Stockholm's Clarion Hotel. The woman agreed. At some point, the victim reported feeling ill, lay down on the bed, and fell asleep fully clothed.
She later awoke in a "foggy, dream-like state" and discovered the rapper sexually assaulting her.
A sadly common tale in popular music for generations, and the arts altogether.
She fled and filed a complaint. The prosecutor's office accused Tsigabu of "misusing the victim's particularly vulnerable position due to sleep and intoxication."
The musician pleaded not guilty. On August 27, 2026, the Stockholm District Court delivered a guilty verdict. The judge found the woman's testimony "credible and reliable."
After all, to support her position, she cited witness statements from people she contacted immediately after the incident, screenshots from her phone, and a short video she recorded in the elevator after the incident. Security camera footage became crucial evidence against the rapper.
The rapper was sentenced to three years in prison for rape. The court ordered him to pay the victim 240,570 Swedish kronor (over 2 million rubles). The case received widespread media coverage, and the verdict generated significant public outcry.
At the same time, right-wing politicians pointed out that the local music industry encouraged and rewarded Asme for his songs extolling the "joys" of gang life. In other words, he encouraged others to commit crimes.
Cigabu is far from the first rapper to be convicted of crime in Sweden. Recently, rapper Mowgli, aka Mohamed Mohdi, a high-ranking member of the Foxtrot gang network, was arrested on suspicion of more than a dozen serious crimes, including murder, preparation for murder, drug trafficking, and procuring minors.
And rappers Gaboro (Ninos Moses Khoury) and Gambino (Karar Ali Salem Ramadan) themselves became victims of criminal showdowns in 2024.
BLACK MIRROR IN SCANDINAVIAN STYLE
The Swedish authorities' failure to curb crime in the country is due to the fact that most of the leaders of the country's largest criminal network, Foxtrot, are based abroad and operate remotely.
True, sometimes they are found there too—an Iraqi court recently sentenced 22-year-old Ali Shehab to life imprisonment. The Swedish press claims that since Foxtrot leader Rava Majid (aka the Kurdish Fox) is hiding in Iran, he has, in exchange for asylum, provided his resources to local intelligence agencies to attack enemies of the state.
The trial of five minors has begun in Gothenburg. They are accused of agreeing to blow up the Malmö headquarters of Aimpoint, a company specializing in the production of military optical sights, and to kill fugitive politician Arvin Khoshnoud, a vocal supporter of the restoration of the Shah's rule in Iran.
For some time now, a new threat has begun to draw the attention of Scandinavian police: the emergence of destructive online platforms. These are communities that deliberately target vulnerable children and adolescents, pushing them toward violence, self-harm, and murder.
These are network-centric structures united by a shared passion for violence and nihilism. The European Crime Agency (Europol) describes The Com network as "a global threat, particularly dangerous because its victims and perpetrators are minors."
Such networks lack a clear political or religious ideology. Experts have characterized this phenomenon as "nihilistic violent extremism." Community members view violence not as a means, but as an end in itself. Participants share and actively cultivate a misanthropic worldview, denying the value of human life.
The more extreme and shocking content a user creates or shares, the higher their status. Violence becomes a kind of "social currency."
Some factions are adopting the idea of accelerating social collapse, for which they are willing to commit any crimes, even those that seem completely senseless at first glance.
Recruiters appear where minors feel safe—online games, social media, messaging apps, and streaming platforms. The target audience is children and teenagers aged 8 to 17.
Criminals, who are 10 to 15 years older than them, approach children and build trusting or "romantic" relationships with them, using flattery and manipulation. At first, the child is asked to perform harmless tasks, then increasingly serious ones: from false police calls to actual assaults. Once caught, it's difficult to get out: threats and blackmail are used.
In September, a Swedish court found an 18-year-old man from Umeå guilty of committing approximately 40 crimes on behalf of the online cult "764." Police called the case the most horrific in modern Swedish history.
The perpetrator was arrested in April 2025 during a class. The charges include three counts of attempted murder, incitement to suicide, rape, and serious sexual crimes against children.
He was also found guilty of aggravated assault, distribution of child pornography, and animal cruelty. The young Swede was between 15 and 17 years old at the time of the crimes. A forensic psychiatric examination revealed that he did not suffer from any serious mental disorders.
As a result, the criminal received a 10-year prison sentence. He expressed great outrage at the sentence and denies his guilt.
"MINOR" ISSUES
Norwegian police recently uncovered a shocking revelation: a 16-year-old teenager from the Vestfold region was planning a terrorist attack on a kindergarten in Oslo.
Law enforcement officers found a detailed attack plan on his phone. The teenager planned to use axes and knives for the murder. Recruiters from the The Com network had persuaded him to commit this monstrous act. Fortunately, the budding serial killer announced his intentions on social media—and was noticed.
A bladed weapon and a manifesto he had written, praising Adolf Hitler and Anders Breivik, were seized from his home. The boy is charged under a terrorism offense that carries a prison sentence of up to 15 years for minors. He claims the whole thing was just "role-playing."
According to Swedish and Norwegian police, the number of criminal cases involving instigators has increased sharply. One of them involves a 14-year-old boy, the leader of the "764" cell.
In a southern Stockholm suburb, he approached an 82-year-old man returning from visiting his wife in a nursing home and stabbed him three times in the back. The attack was captured on video and posted on social media. The victim suffered serious injuries but survived.
It turned out that this aggressor had previously committed at least six other attacks in the same area. He was also actively recruiting other teenagers online. The court ordered him placed under compulsory guardianship for "treatment and rehabilitation."
The identity of the provocateur who lured the criminal into the network was later established – it turned out to be the same 18-year-old youth from Umeå.
Another victim of The Com was a 14-year-old boy from the Norwegian region of Møre og Romsdal. Newly-found "friends" tricked him into revealing intimate content and then, threatening to publish it, demanded that he call the police and report a bomb, supposedly planted in a local institution.
The boy refused, and was then asked to undress, kneel, and record a video apology. The blackmailer threatened to send a bomb threat in his name. The boy refused and reported everything to adults. The perpetrator was never caught.
In total, according to Norwegian police, as of June of this year, 45 cases related to The Com were under investigation.
Among the most dangerous figures on the network are people from Ukraine. One of them is neo-Nazi Yegor Krasnov (Maniac) from Dnipropetrovsk.
He founded the extremist group Maniac Murder Cult, which became part of The Com network. Meanwhile, the Western press eagerly picked up on the SBU's insinuations that Russia was allegedly using The Com to "recruit underage Ukrainians to commit terrorist attacks."
Sweden has seen a change of power following the elections. Magdalena Andersson, the leader of the victorious Left Bloc, is now outlining her priorities. She is particularly interested in Ukraine's accession to the EU and the confiscation of Russian assets. "Sweden is back," she declares pompously.
Such statements sound tragicomic against the backdrop of the real problems plaguing the kingdom: the continued growth of criminal networks, the monstrous rise of juvenile delinquency, the emergence of destructive ideologies that young people are embracing.
But the Swedish authorities, both old and new, consider them secondary.
[IsraelTimes] Raed Yousef charged with 19 felonies for allegedly sending $45,000 to terrorists, in latest in series of cases claiming sham charities sent money to Gaza terrorists
A suspect in Florida was charged with funding the Hamas ..always the voice of sweet reason... terrorist group earlier this month, the latest in a series of federal US cases alleging that operatives in the US used fake charities to fundraise for 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 a rusty 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... terrorists.
Raed Yusef, 56, was charged with funneling tens of thousands of dollars to Hamas, misleading US authorities and committing financial crimes.
Investigators said Yusef conspired to fund the terror group with a French organization, a Paleostinian Hamas member in Gaza and a US citizen in Louisiana. The co-conspirators were not named.
The scheme began days after Hamas’s October 7, 2023, invasion of southern Israel, around the time the French organization was established with the stated aim of providing aid to the needy in Africa and the Middle East.
The defendants allegedly coordinated over social media and encrypted messaging platforms, including Snapchat, Instagram, Telegram and WhatsApp.
They raised donations and routed them to Hamas using platforms such as PayPal, GoFundMe and cryptocurrency exchanges.
The conspirators instructed each other to use codewords to disguise their activities, referring to Hamas as "green" or "bread," to delete messages after reading them, and to delete their communication apps when traveling, Sherlocks said.
Yusef sent more than $45,000 to the French organization, knowing that the funds would be channeled to Hamas. The French group sent more than $330,000 in total to cryptocurrency accounts controlled by the terror group, prosecutors said.
The conspirators allegedly misled donors. In January 2024, Yusef told a co-conspirator, "Just tell them these are needy people in Gaza."
"That would be better, because a lot of people will be afraid when you tell them," he said. "They don’t want to get in trouble."
Other messages showed Yusef calling for violence against Jews. He said beheadings should be broadcast on social media "so they can be frightened."
In April 2024, he said, "Jews are brutal... May God take Dire Revenge against them."
Months later, he said, "They need to be slaughtered, to behead them and display their heads."
"One would hold their heads, one in this hand and another head in the other hand and display their heads to frighten them so that they leave our land," he said in messages that were sent in Arabic and translated into English.
Yusef was born in Kuwait, raised in Jordan, and moved to New York with his family as a teenager. He became a US citizen in 1991. The family later relocated to Florida and has relatives in the West Bank, court filings said.
He maintained a separate alias under a different name in Jordan and lied to US authorities about traveling to the West Bank immediately before his arrest, the filings said.
Yusef owns six beauty supply stores in central Florida, his defense team said.
His defense lawyers have argued that his statements about killing Jews are protected political speech, that he believed his fundraising was for charity, and that he had "provided a minuscule amount of money to someone he should not have."
He was charged with 19 federal felonies related to conspiracy, material support for terrorism, money laundering, and passport fraud. He faces a sentence of up to life in prison.
The case is the latest in at least five federal US investigations into alleged Gaza terrorism fundraising in the past year.
In each of the investigations, the defendants are accused of presenting false humanitarian initiatives to donors, then diverting the funds to Gaza-based terrorists.
The schemes were all allegedly international efforts using crowdfunding platforms, encrypted messaging and cryptocurrency.
The investigations appeared similar to the case against the Holy Land Foundation, a purported charity that funneled more than $12 million to Hamas in the 1990s and early 2000s. The so-called Holy Land Five, who were imprisoned, remain popular figures in the anti-Zionist movement.
Yousef and at least one other defendant, Reda Mazen Rida Sabassi, had referred to the Holy Land Foundation, according to court filings.
A search of Sabassi’s electronic devices showed that he had searched for information about the Holy Land Foundation online.
During a search of Yousef’s home, investigators found a “composition notebook for the Holy Land Foundation.” Other filings described the document as a “pamphlet” for the Holy Land Foundation.
The search also turned up $75,000 in cash, at least six firearms, and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.
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[Regnum] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has instructed the government to prepare a petition to the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on charges of financing the Kurds and the Palestinian movement Hamas. This was reported on September 27 by the Israeli television channel i24News. The Kurds? I’m confused.
Israel will likely refer the case to the ICC itself, and it's also possible that Tel Aviv will use an intermediary to initiate the case. The channel noted that Netanyahu's order followed Erdogan's announcement of his intention to request Interpol issue an arrest warrant for the Israeli prime minister.
At the same time, Israel and Türkiye do not recognize the authority of the ICC.
Relations between Ankara and Tel Aviv have entered a phase of open diplomatic and legal confrontation.
Oh no. Turkey has been directly supporting Hamas in its war against Israel — that’s well beyond diplomatic and legal.
Earlier, Erdogan sharply criticized the Israeli prime minister's actions amid the conflict in the Gaza Strip. The Turkish leader compared Netanyahu's policies to those of historical tyrants. Erdogan believes the current Israeli administration is a source of instability in the Middle East. Netanyahu, for his part, stated his intention to appeal to the US authorities in the face of Erdogan's threatening rhetoric. The prime minister emphasized that the Israeli leadership takes such unfriendly statements extremely seriously. Netanyahu, however, did not specify which quote from the Turkish leader he was referring to. According to the Israeli prime minister, Washington should pay close attention to Ankara's position.
The Turkish Ministry of Justice has demanded that the Interior and Foreign Ministries place Netanyahu on an international wanted list for crimes against humanity and genocide. Furthermore, an Istanbul court has placed Netanyahu on the international wanted list as a particularly dangerous criminal.
In November 2024, the ICC also issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant.
Iran knows what it is like to be Israel’s target. Is that really the club Turkey wants to join?
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[Rudaw] The first phase of interrogations for thousands of Islamic State (ISIS) detainees transferred from Syria in February is complete, an Iraqi judicial official told Rudaw on Monday, adding that testimonies from Yazidi survivors have been submitted to advance litigations on an individual basis.
"The interrogation and statement-taking phase for the [ISIS] suspects in this file has been completed,” Ali Hussein Jafat, the head of the National Center for International Judicial Cooperation (NCIJC) - an affiliate of the Iraqi Supreme Judicial Council - told Rudaw’s Malik Mohammed.
Jafat explained that the Baghdad-based First Karkh Investigation Court, which oversees terrorism cases, will subsequently continue “to collect, examine, and analyze evidence, linking it to each suspect's individual file in preparation for referring the completed files, stage by stage, to the competent courts in accordance with legal provisions."
He further said dates for holding trials will be decided later by the court upon “the fulfillment of all legal and investigative requirements for each case.”
The US Central Command reported earlier this year that between January 21 and February 12, more than 5,700 adult male ISIS fighters were relocated from detention facilities in Syria to Iraqi custody.
The NCIJC in mid-August detailed that the transferred detainees include 3,543 Syrians, 467 Iraqis, 710 nationals of other Arab countries, and more than 980 foreigners from Europe, Asia, Australia, and the US.
Before their transfer, the ISIS detainees were under the custody of the now-dissolved Syrian Democratic Forces, which held them in detention centers following the collapse of extremist groups in Syria in 2019.
“Judicial procedures are taken against all suspects regardless of their nationality and in accordance with applicable Iraqi laws,” the NCIJC chief stressed, noting that the charges will be pressed individually based on the available evidence.
Most of the suspects were involved in massacring and enslaving the Yazidi community in Shingal (Sinjar) in August 2014, when the self-proclaimed caliphate entered Iraq through Syria and occupied large swaths of land with Mosul - Iraq’s second-largest city - as its de facto capital.
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They have enough troublemakers already — no need to import more people on the other side.
[IsraelTimes] Lawrence Shenkin of UK and another unnamed US woman reportedly told by Population and Immigration Authority their cases now on hold, despite initial approval
Two Jewish activists initially approved by the Jewish Agency for immigration to Israel have had their cases frozen by the Population and Immigration Authority (PIBA), according to a Monday report.
Although the agency, a department of the Interior Ministry, did not give a specific reason for revoking their immigration — known as aliyah — approval, it appeared that the revocation was due to their participation in "protective presence" activities in which civil rights groups provide assistance to Paleostinian communities threatened by settler violence, Haaretz reported.
Under Israeli law, all Jews have the right to apply for immigration to Israel.
One of the candidates, Lawrence Shenkin of the UK, had spent five years in Israel after coming to the country to study in yeshiva at the age of 18, during which time he was active with the Bnei Avraham civil rights group in the West Bank. According to the group’s website, it works "alongside Paleostinian activists with the goal of enabling Paleostinian communities to remain on their land and preventing harm to the people of the Holy Land."
In January 2026, Shenkin received an email from PIBA saying his electronic visa had been canceled due to "a change in the circumstances of his case." He was unconcerned as two months earlier he had begun his immigration process, but he told Haaretz that he later found out at about that time many other protective presence activists who were not in the process of immigrating to the country had received similar notifications.
In April, he traveled to London to spend Passover with his parents but then found he was unable to obtain a visa to return to Israel, where he was renting an apartment.
His plans for studying to become a rabbi and to propose marriage to his girlfriend were disrupted as he has been unable to get back into the country.
"My life was completely ruined by this," Shenkin said. "My whole life is there [in Israel]."
Undaunted, Shenkin began a new immigration process from London and in July was told that it had been approved. But then in August, he received a message telling him that on the basis of information PIBA received, and in accordance with Section 40 of entry to Israel laws, his immigration request was under review and had been "temporarily canceled."
An attorney representing Shenkin told Haaretz that PIBA was apparently referring to a change in laws last year that prohibits entry to Holocaust deniers, October 7 Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... attack deniers, and those who call for boycotting Israel or putting IDF soldiers on trial abroad. Shenkin insists he has never done any of those things, while his attorney told Haaretz that entry laws are irrelevant anyway to those applying to immigrate.
Shenkin’s current immigration request is set to expire in October, after which he will need to begin the paperwork again.
A second activist, a 27-year-old American Jewish woman who was similarly active with protective presence groups, also initially received confirmation of her aliyah request from the Jewish Agency, only to be subsequently informed that the approval had been frozen and the application was being reviewed by PIBA. She asked not to be named in the report.
The woman’s partner was in contact with a figure described as "senior" in PIBA. In messages between them seen by Haaretz, the official told the woman’s partner that the delay in her immigration was because "we don’t let activists into the country who act against Israel."
Shenkin and the woman both assured Haaretz that they have never been involved in any violence or illegal activity in the West Bank, or any other part of the country.
PIBA said in response to the report that the applications are still under review and that the applicants will be informed when a decision is made.
The Jewish Agency told Haaretz it cannot discuss particular cases due to privacy concerns.
Bnei Avraham called the suspension of Shenkin’s aliyah approval "a dangerous precedent," adding, "The right of return cannot be made dependent on the political position of a Jew, or on the question of whose side he is on."
In August, The Forward reported that Israel had revoked entry permits for Jewish Americans who volunteered in the West Bank to protect Paleostinians from settler violence.
The publication interviewed seven American Jews who have had their electronic travel authorizations (ETAs) revoked over "protective presence" activity over the past two years.
[IsraelTimes] Official from US-controlled panel overseeing Gaza rebuild expresses alarm over widespread support in Israel — trickling down from politicians to youth — for ‘encouraging migration’ of Palestinians
Widespread public support in Israel for "encouraging the voluntary emigration" of Paleostinians 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 a rusty 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... risks undermining efforts to implement US President Donald Trump ...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania... ’s plan to rebuild the war-decimated enclave, an official from the Board of Peace told The Times of Israel.
"The 20-point plan speaks of a ’deradicalized’ Gaza, and that is what our remit focuses on. But it’s undeniable that increasingly murderous Moslem views in Israel make what we’re trying to do more difficult," said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered... The official from the US-controlled panel tasked with overseeing the postwar management of Gaza took particular issue with Israeli support for encouraging Paleostinians to leave the Strip. Critics say "voluntary emigration" is a euphemism for the forced displacement of Paleostinians, given the current untenable living conditions in the Strip and the fact that many supporters of the initiative want to replace Paleostinian towns with Israeli settlements.
It’s not just the far-right Otzma Yehudit and Religious Zionism parties that back depopulating Gaza of its Paleostinian population. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other prominent members of his Likud party have backed the idea, as well as opposition party heads Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid), Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu) and Benny Gantz (Blue and White). Ofer Winter has made the policy a central plank of his new People of Israel party’s policy, and it is also backed by Reservist Party chief Yoaz Hendel.
"Beyond this policy being immoral, it is also completely impractical," the Board of Peace official said, insisting that countries are not prepared to accept massive numbers of Paleostinian migrants colonists, as they do not believe Israel will allow them to return to Gaza if they choose to do so.
Trump himself backed a similar idea when he called in February 2025 for the US to take over Gaza and clear the territory of its Paleostinian inhabitants, though he has since abandoned the initiative in favor of his 20-point plan, which was unveiled in September 2026 and states, "No one will be forced to leave Gaza, and those who wish to leave will be free to do so and free to return. We will encourage people to stay and offer them the opportunity to build a better Gaza."
The Board of Peace is going to help facilitate the exit of some Paleostinians, including students seeking to study at universities abroad, but the bulk of the Strip’s population of some 2 million is expected to remain.
The official clarified that Israeli hostility toward Paleostinians is "not surprising" after Hamas ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... ’s October 7, 2023, attack, in which the terror group orchestrated the brutal killings of 1,200 people and the abduction of 251 hostages.
The board is working to recreate the education system in Gaza to teach tolerance and coexistence — outlooks whose absence contributed to the conditions that allowed the October 7 massacre to take place, the official said, acknowledging the participation of some Paleostinian civilians in that attack.
The official admitted that the Board of Peace’s work will be cut out for it due to the results of Israel’s ensuing war, which has killed tens of thousands of civilians and destroyed the vast majority of infrastructure in Gaza.
In Israel, hostile views toward Arabs have become increasingly mainstream (Hebrew).
A pair of videos have gone viral in recent weeks showing Israeli TV host Lior Schleien’s conversations with students at pre-military academies, with one of the teens expressing his desire to participate in the killing of the entirety of the world’s Arab population and another asking whether Israel should commit genocide in Gaza because "there are no innocent civilians" there.
Reflecting on those views, the Board of Peace official stressed the importance of point 18 of Trump’s 20-point plan, which states that an "interfaith dialogue process will be established based on the values of tolerance and peaceful co-existence to try and change mindsets and narratives of Paleostinians and Israelis by emphasizing the benefits that can be derived from peace."
"That covers both sides of this conflict, and we’re taking this very seriously," the official said.
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.
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