[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] … from the Donald Trump assassination attempt and reveals if anyone was fired since the former president was shot.
Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe continued to reveal failures Friday from the day former President Donald Trump was nearly assassinated while speaking at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Rowe also revealed that nobody has been fired yet over Trump's near-death experience.
The acting director explained that Secret Service officials had no radio communications with local police and weren't aware Thomas Matthew Crooks had a gun aimed at the ex-president before he opened fire.
Rowe confirmed that 'there was somebody who did, in fact radio out that they had seen the individual with a weapon.'
'What I can tell you is that piece of information, that vital piece of information, and by no fault of anyone, it was a very stressful situation, it did not make it over,' Rowe said.
Actually, it is the fault of the Secret Service team manager, because it is always the manager’s job — whatever the actual job title — to ensure that the team ha everything it needs to get the job done. Ditto for the communications coordinator who reports to the team manager. Ditto again for each of the team members who need to be able to communicate to the local team. And ultimately it is the job of Mr. Rowe, as Number 2 in the organization, to make sure that all the teams know what they need and have what they need. Lots of people at fault, and they all need to go back through all the training they have been given from the day they were hired, to see what else they do not know that they should. At no pay, of course — you only get paid for learning that stuff once. Or they can refuse to work for several years without pay, and be fired for the combination of incompetence and insubordination. Or they can be prosecuted for deliberately endangering the body they were supposed to guard. Freedom of choice…
Local and state law enforcement officers aren't on the same radio network as Secret Service agents.
Trump's Secret Service detail, Rowe said, was 'operating under the assumption' from the last bit of information that they received.
'That there was an issue that the locals were working at the three o'clock,' he said, using a clock as a directional cue. 'That's a bit of information that we had. Not anything about a weapon.'
In fact, more details about the threat were being shared, when the gunshots rang out.
'So the former president's detail - they had an advanced person on the ground who was responsible for the site,' Rowe said. 'The radio transmission goes out about locals working an issue at the 3 o'clock.'
'The member of that detail called their Pittsburgh Field Office counterpart. "Hey, what do you know about this?" In the midst - right in the middle of that phone conversation, the shots begin firing,' Rowe said.
The former president is a fan of holding large outdoor rallies, but Rowe suggested that busy radio chatter - from people making medical emergency requests due to the heat - could have played a role clogging up the airwaves at a vital time.
Rowe said that about 100 calls had been made for support ahead of the shooting.
'It was a very hot day that day,' Rowe explained. 'There were a lot of - not only EMS type of calls to address people but, there were people that needed some other type of law enforcement assistance.'
'This happens. Candidly happens a lot at outdoor rallies where, especially on hot days,' the acting director continued.
'So there was a lot of traffic, radio traffic on the local net about, "Hey, I need an EMT here." So there were a lot of people that were needing assistance,' Rowe said.
Rowe said it was now 'plainly obvious' that the Secret Service didn't have the information they needed, but refused to assign blame.
'It just so happened that there was a sense of urgency, that there might have been radio traffic that we missed,' he said. 'We have to do a better job at that.'
During the press conference, which ran under an hour, Rowe revealed that he would 'provide some type of statement that people are being held accountable' when asked if the American public would be informed about firings over the assassination attempt.
He also said that all the main principals - Trump, President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance and whomever Harris chooses for her VP would all get Secret Service sniper teams at their events going forward.
Rowe was also asked about an allegation from a whisteblower that he 'personally directed' cuts to the agency's Counter Surveillance Division, the unit tasked with evaluating event sites in advance.
'I've become aware of this. We got a congressional letter on it. What I can tell you is that the Counter Surveillance Division, they do a fantastic job,' Rowe said.
He said that he was aware of the allegations that he had denied requests to utilize them.
'The Counter Surveillance Division has been out there supporting the former president at some very high-profile events. They continue to provide that support and they're out there providing support right now,' Rowe said.
Adequate support? Or once again will the Secret Service look like the Keystone Cops?
When asked to clarify if he cut CSD resources he responded, 'I did not, no.'
Then who did? Someone signed off for that decision.
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The acting director explained that Secret Service officials had no radio communications with local police and weren't aware Thomas Matthew Crooks had a gun aimed at the ex-president before he opened fire. Local and state law enforcement officers aren't on the same radio network as Secret Service agents. Trump's Secret Service detail, Rowe said, was 'operating under the assumption' from the last bit of information that they received.
(1.) The Secret Service should have had at least ONE person with capability to monitor multiple radio frquencies.
(2.) Secret Service should have provided senior Local Law Enforcement with the capability to 'break into Secret Service frequency' in an emergency. A "ROLLING THUNDER" type of NET Alert could have saved lives.
(3.) Rowe sites "hot weather" as a potential cause for communicatons breakdown. This is total bullshi*.
(4.) Rowe mentions or references no specific site communications plan. Rowe fails to disclose the actual number of trained Sercret Service peronnel on-site vs other agency fillers.
(5.) Rowe and the (yet unknown) on-site Secret Service supervisor are total amateurs. Other agency (B and C team) fillers in black suits and ear buds just doesn't cut it.
"If you fail to plan - then you plan to fail."
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Stochastic terrorismis targeted political violence that has been instigated by hostile public rhetoric which is directed at a group or an individual. Unlike incitement to terrorism, stochastic terrorism is accomplished by using indirect, vague, or coded language that allows the instigator to plausibly disclaim responsibility for the resulting violence.[1] A key element is the use of social media and other distributed forms of communications where the person who carries out the violence has no direct connection to the users of violent rhetoric.
In the current case, they added a bunch of morons as his security detail.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Terrorists from the alliance of armed separatist groups CSP-DPA
…the latest name of the Azawad (Tuareg) separatists…
Mali were trained in Ukraine. This was written by the French newspaper Le Monde.
CSP-DPA spokesman Mohamed Elmauloud Ramadan said the militants have ties to Ukrainians, French, Americans and others.
“Members of the CSP-DPA went to Ukraine to undergo training there,” Ramadan admitted, adding that the Ukrainian Armed Forces, among other things, trained them to handle kamikaze drones.
As reported by Regnum, fierce battles with terrorists continue in Mali - combat aircraft have responded by striking the location of a Tuareg group and foreign mercenaries in Tinhavatin. It is preliminarily known that at least 40 militants have been eliminated and up to 70 more wounded.
On July 28, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Mali reported that the army was launching massive strikes against terrorist and smuggler concentrations.
The bodies of the dead Wagner Group fighters, as well as those captured during the clashes with the Tuaregs, must be returned to Russia, Dmitry Rogozin, a member of the Federation Council from the Zaporozhye region, called on July 29.
[Breitbart] Forty-eight members of the Republican Senate caucus signed a letter Friday to President Joe Biden demanding that he end a “partial arms embargo” against Israel, given the threats the U.S. ally is facing from Iran-backed terrorists.
The letter, whose lead signatories are Sens. Tom Cotton (R-AR) and James Risch (R-ID), demands that Biden lift an arms embargo that he openly admitted he had imposed on the Jewish state in a shocking May interview with CNN.
The only Senator not to sign the letter was Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), who opposes most forms of foreign aid to anyone.
According to Middle East expert Michael Doran of the Hudson Institute, the embargo consists of three forms: large bombs that have been deliberately withheld; shipments that have been approved by Congress but which the Biden administration is withholding by not informing Congress that they are ready to be shipped; and arms transactions that the Biden administration is blocking between the State of Israel and private arms manufacturers in the U.S.
Biden hopes to use the partial arms embargo to prevent Israel from moving from defense to offense against terrorists.
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" ... large bombs that have been deliberately withheld;" Bunker busters?
The bomb measures 20.5 feet in length and 31.5 inches in diameter, equipped with a GPS guidance system to enhance its accuracy. It carries approximately 5,300 pounds of explosives and can breach up to 200 feet of earth or 60 feet of concrete before detonation, according to official specifications.
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^The kind of bombs IDF NEEDS to pull Hezbollah's teeth (their 150000 barrage rockets).
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Army aircraft with 10 PAX size, this isn't taking stuff/people out. Flight seems likely to have originated out of Europe given the shown flight path. Since an Army bird, perhaps this cast of characters might be the PAX list. Left hand column in particular?
Druze Arabs brining supplies to thank IDF soldiers fighting on their behalf. Very nice camaraderie between the Jewish and Druze cultures in Israel. pic.twitter.com/yLE1XNLwKz
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You Jooz must've hatched a new plot,
For the Druze are not quite where they ought,
So a new 1 & 2
Now top Iosif's todo:
Move the Druze, and have Grom purged and shot.
[IsraelTimes] An Israeli strike that killed seven charity workers traveling in a Gaza aid convoy was the result of “serious failures” such as “mistaken identification,” Australia says a government probe found.
Australian national Lalzawmi “Zomi” Frankcom was among a group of seven World Central Kitchen staff killed in April when their aid convoy was mistakenly hit by an Israeli airstrike.
They’re still going on about that?! I suppost any excuse will do, for some people, even though in this case the victims not only did everything wrong, but they had known Hamas gunnies along as minders while they stole the supplies WCKhad intended for the needy.
The Israel Defense Forces has called the incident a grave mistake which should not have occurred. Was it too hot on the rooftop that day?
Did the roving patrols get lost?
Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong says Australia will push for full accountability for those responsible, including criminal charges if appropriate.
“The Military Advocate General of Israel is still to decide on further action,” she says in a statement.
“Our expectation remains that there be transparency about the Military Advocate General’s process and decision.”
[IsraelTimes] Israel advanced last year the highest number of settlements in the West Bank since the Oslo Accords of the 1990s, according to a report from the European Union’s representative office in the Palestinian territories.
Plans for 12,349 housing units moved towards approval in the West Bank, the EU office says, warning of the impact on a potential two-state solution.
Another 18,333 units moved forward in the planning process in East Jerusalem, the EU office says.
The total — 30,682 units in both the West Bank and East Jerusalem — is the highest since 2012, it adds.
The report comes at a time of heightened tensions in the West Bank and East Jerusalem over the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip, which has been raging since the Hamas terror group’s October 7 massacre in southern Israel.
“The EU has repeatedly called on Israel not to proceed with plans under its settlement policy and to halt all settlement activities,” the EU office says.
“It remains the EU’s firm position that settlements are illegal under international law… Israel’s decision to advance plans for the approval and construction of new settlement units in 2023 further undermines the prospects of a viable two-state solution.”
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Nobody "specializes" in arms transport except Victor Bout's serial flags of convenience airlines of West Africa. That's like calling CRAF carriers (Atlas, Kalitta, ex-Evergreen) specialists. This is a story because someone wants it to be a story.
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[IsraelTimes] UK daily says Israel planned to kill Hamas chief at Raisi’s funeral 2 months ago but decided on planting bombs in Tehran guesthouse; Iran said to arrest dozens over assassination
The Mossad spy agency enlisted agents from within the Revolutionary Guards to plant explosives in the Tehran guesthouse where Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh was staying, according to a Saturday article in The Telegraph and amid reports authorities in Tehran were carrying out a series of arrests in connection with the killing.
The Telegraph report appeared to corroborate a New York Times article that said the Palestinian terror chief was not killed in an aerial strike as Iran has claimed.
Israel has not commented on Haniyeh’s death since the explosion early Wednesday morning, though Iran and its proxies in the region, including Hamas, have vowed revenge on the Jewish state.
The Telegraph cited two Iranian officials as saying that the initial plan was to assassinate Haniyeh when he was in Tehran in May for the funeral of the late Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi, who was killed in a helicopter crash. That operation was reportedly called off due to the large number of people in the building and the seemingly high possibility of failure.
Instead, according to the British daily, the agents went ahead and planted explosives in three different rooms at the compound, and later left Iran. The sources quoted in the report said surveillance footage shows them moving discretely from room to room. They reportedly detonated the bombs from abroad.
“They are now certain that Mossad hired agents from the Ansar al-Mahdi security unit,” an official in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps told the newspaper, referring to a unit tasked with protecting senior officials.
Another IRGC official was quoted as saying: “It is a humiliation for Iran and a huge security breach.” The IRGC runs the guesthouse in an upscale neighborhood of Tehran where Haniyeh and other dignitaries were staying.
“It’s still a question for everyone how this happened, I can’t understand it. There must be something higher in the hierarchy that no one knows about,” the official added, noting that a team was working on a spin that would paint the attack as a lesser security breach.
Both Iranian and Hamas officials have claimed that Haniyeh was killed by a missile fired from the air, even launched from outside the country. But asked about the killing on Thursday, IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said the Israeli military did not carry out any other airstrike overnight between Tuesday and Wednesday aside from the assassination of Hezbollah military chief Fuad Shukr in Beirut.
“We struck on Tuesday night in Lebanon and killed Fuad Shukr in an accurate aerial strike. I want to emphasize, there was no other aerial strike, not a missile and not an Israeli drone, in the entire Middle East that night, and I won’t comment further,” Hagari said during a press conference.
Earlier on Thursday, The New York Times had reported that the explosion that killed Haniyeh and his bodyguard was set off by a sophisticated, remote-controlled bomb smuggled about two months ago into his room at the Tehran guesthouse, which lines up with Raisi’s funeral in May.
The official also told The Telegraph that addressing the security breach was more important to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei than seeking revenge, though he reportedly ordered a direct strike on Israel hours after the explosion.
The New York Times reported early Saturday morning that Iran had arrested at least two dozen people over suspected connection to Haniyeh’s death, citing two Iranians familiar with the investigation.
Those arrested were said to include senior Iranian intelligence officers, military officials, and staff at the IRGC-run guesthouse.
Sounds fair. And it looks like they didn’t get even a little bit close to our guys, all codenamed “Mahmoud”.
The Revolutionary Guards Corps’ specialized intelligence unit for espionage has taken over the investigation and was hunting down suspects that it hopes will lead it to members of the assassin team that planned, aided and carried out the killing, two Iranian officials told the Times.
The Telegraph report also suggested that the killing was purposely timed to coincide with the swearing-in ceremony of new Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, which Haniyeh was in Tehran to attend, to besmirch the new premier’s reputation.
“No intact brain can accept that this happened by accident, especially on Mr. Pezeshkian’s first day in office,” a source close to Pezeshkian was quoted as saying. “He may have to go to war with Israel within his first few days in office, and it’s all because of the IRGC.”
Israel pledged to target Hamas leaders over the Iran-backed terror group’s devastating October 7 massacre, which saw thousands of terrorists murder some 1,200 people and seize 251 hostages, mostly civilians, many amid acts of brutality and sexual assault.
Iran and its allies are widely expected to respond militarily to the killings blamed on Israel, though experts have said the retaliation would be measured to avoid a wider conflagration.
The IDF said on Thursday evening that it was on “high alert” and ready to handle any threat, as the country braced for a response to the terror leaders’ assassinations.
The United States, which Iranian and Hamas officials have accused of having approved the Tehran hit, has stressed its commitment to defending Israel against possible ballistic missile and drone attacks from Iran. The Pentagon said on Friday that the US was moving a fighter jet squadron to the Middle East and maintaining an aircraft carrier in the region, both to help defend Israel from possible attacks by Iran and its proxies and to safeguard US troops.
In April, a US-led coalition intercepted dozens of missiles and drones fired by Iran against Israel and helped down nearly all of them.
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I love the bomb planted months ahead of time story. But it has a lot of moving parts. A precision missile or drone strike on Hanny's particular room in the building is more believable.
But the Iranians do seem to be freaking out and Mahmoud the Weasel ain't talking.
A News Anchor with Iranian Channel 3: "In coming hours, the World will witness Extraordinary Scenes and Very Important Developments." pic.twitter.com/r5vQsxcGo1
Talk is easy, guys. Y’all have all those missiles — over 150,000 in Hezbollah hands alone — but you keep waiting for the perfect moment to shoot them off.
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IRGC is revealed ias secret Mithraist organization?
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