pouty, connected Pakistani-American who trained with Hamas before studying human rights law at Fordham. Her self-proclaimed best friend, successful Washington, DC lawyer Salmah Rizvi, previously worked for President Obama as an intelligence analyst....
33, along with Colinford Mattis, 35, pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges punishable by no more than five years imprisonment in June
Federal prosecutors agreed to recommend a prison sentence of 18 to 24 months in return for the plea
Rahman is now pushing to have that sentence converted into time served after spending 28 days in a federal jail in Brooklyn before posting $250,000 in bail
Court documents say that Rahman's lawyers said on September 9 that Rahman was drinking vodka 'on an empty stomach' and was 'quite drunk'
That wasn't Rahman's only excuse, according to attorneys. They added that she was suffering 'early trauma' from living as Muslim in post-9/11 New York City
#5
Well, what she did was completely ineffective, BUT... sometimes I wish my lawyer was that proactive... the car title mess would be cleaned up by now.
#8
Wow, all that law school work on torts, fancy latin phrases and contracts and the excuse for a felony is 28 days served and vodka on an empty stomach?
I bet she is actually counting on that whole other demokrat trifecta to serve her up the "oppressed persons" version of woke justice: Muslim, female, POC with bonus points for Hamas and Magic Kenyan Connections!
#10
I'm not even on reddit, tw. And I have no intention of being my best for anyone. But yes, I shall refrain from speaking my mind on certain subjects for Fred's sake, thank you.
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[REGNUM] Russia expressed concern over the lack of progress in talks to extend the truce between the parties to the conflict in Yemen. The Embassy of the Russian Federation announced this on Twitter .
âWe call on the parties to the conflict to intensify communication with the UN Special Representative in order to agree on an extension of the truce,â the message says.
Thatâll work precisely as well as everyone elseâs calls for same. To whit, not at all â especially as they are merely âRomanâ dhimmis, not even Sunni Muslims.
Recall that in Yemen, an armed conflict has been going on for eight years, the participants of which are the Houthis (local Muslims) and the so-called anti-terrorist coalition led by Saudi Arabia.
[10 News] Extradite Eric "Chinless" Holder
A U.S. judge on Friday dismissed Mexicoâs $10 billion lawsuit seeking to hold U.S. gun manufacturers responsible for facilitating the trafficking of a deadly flood of weapons across the U.S.-Mexico border to drug cartels.
The decision by Chief Judge F. Dennis Saylor in federal court in Boston is a victory for Smith & Wesson Brands Inc, Sturm, Ruger & Co and others accused of undermining Mexicoâs strict gun laws by designing, marketing and selling military-style assault weapons that cartels could use.
Saylor said federal law "unequivocally" bars lawsuits seeking to hold gun manufacturers responsible when people use guns for their intended purpose. He said the law contained several narrow exceptions, but none applied.
"While the court has considerable sympathy for the people of Mexico, and none whatsoever for those who traffic guns to Mexican criminal organizations, it is duty-bound to follow the law," Saylor wrote in a 44-page decision.
Mexicoâs foreign ministry and lawyers for the country did not immediately respond to requests for comment. A lawyer for Smith & Wesson declined to comment. Lawyers for Sturm, Ruger did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
In its August 2021 complaint, Mexico estimated that 2.2% of the nearly 40 million guns made annually in the United States are smuggled into Mexico, including as many as 597,000 guns made by the defendants.
Mexico said the smuggling has been a key factor in its ranking third worldwide in the number of gun-related deaths. It also claimed to suffer many other harms, including declining investment and economic activity and a need to spend more on law enforcement and public safety.
But the judge said Mexico could not overcome a provision in a U.S. law, the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, that shields gun makers from lawsuits over "the harm solely caused by the criminal or unlawful misuse of firearm products ... by others when the product functioned as designed and intended."
Other defendants included Barrett Firearms Manufacturing Inc, Beretta USA Corp, Coltâs Manufacturing Co and Glock Inc.
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[Rudaw] President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important... on Saturday warned The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... would not ratify the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... membership bids of Sweden and Finland until the two Nordic countries "kept" promises they had made to Ankara.
"Until the promises made to our country are kept, we will maintain our principled position," Erdogan said in a speech to parliament in Ankara.
"We are closely following whether the promises made by Sweden and Finland are kept or not, and of course, the final decision will be up to our great parliament," he added.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February saw the two Nordic countries abandon decades of military non-alignment and in May apply to join NATO.
Although the Nordic countries hoped for a speedy entry, Turkey delayed the process by objecting to their membership.
Erdogan has accused both countries of being havens for Kurdish krazed killers, specifically highlighting the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), and for promoting "terrorism".
A deal was then struck between the three countries in June, which included provisions on extraditions and sharing of information, clearing the way for NATO to formally invite the two nations to join the alliance.
So far, 28 out of 30 NATO members have ratified Finland and Sweden's membership.
Only Hungary and Turkey have yet to send the membership bids to their parliaments for ratification.
In an apparently significant concession to Ankara, Sweden on Friday announced they had re-authorised exports of war materials to Turkey.
Ankara had requested the lifting of the restrictions, which were introduced in 2019 following a Ottoman Turkish offensive in northeastern Syria.
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I'll give you Turkey and a roll of 90mph tape for Sweden and Finland, and never look back.
Dump these troublesome bastids and be done with them.
[IsraelTimes] Baquer Namazi, 85 and Siamak Namazi, 50, released by Iranian authorities in âcritical first stepsâ hailed by family lawyer who vows to keep fighting until both are back in US
The United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... said Saturday that an Iranian-American blocked from leaving Iran ...The nation is noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence... can now depart and that his son was released from detention.
The United States has been pressing for the release of these two men and two other Americans amid efforts to revive the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and major western powers.
After an appeal from UN Secretary-General AntĂłnio Guterres ...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years... , Baquer Namazi, 85, "has been permitted to leave Iran for medical treatment abroad," and his son Siamak Namazi, 50, has been released from detention, UN front man Stephan Dujarric said.
Baquer Namazi is a former UNICEF official who was detained in February 2016 when he went to Iran to press for the release of his son Siamak, who had been arrested in October of the previous year.
Both were convicted of espionage in October 2016 and sentenced to ten years in prison.
The father was released on medical leave in 2018 and had been serving his sentence under house arrest.
The Namazisâ lawyer Jared Genser confirmed the news of the release and said the younger Namazi is now at home with his parents in Tehran for the first time in seven years.
"While these are critical first steps, we will not rest until the Namazis can all return to the United States and their long nightmare has finally come to an end," Genser said in a statement.
In June of this year, the younger Namazi published a column in The New York Times
... which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... in which he called on President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. A latter-day version of Romulus Augustulus, only more friendly to the barbarians at the gates... to strike a prisoner swap deal with Iran, even though talks on reviving the nuclear deal were at an impasse.
The other two Americans held in Iran that Washington wants released are environmentalist Morad Tahbaz, 66, and businessman Emad Sharqi, 57.
The drive to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal resumed in late November of last year, after talks were suspended in June as Iran elected ultraconservative President Ebrahim Raisi.
The 2015 deal â agreed by Iran, the United States, China, Russia, Britannia, La Belle France and Germany â offered Tehran sanctions relief in exchange for curbs on its nuclear program.
But the United States unilaterally withdrew in 2018 under then-president Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... and reimposed biting economic sanctions, prompting Tehran to begin rolling back on its commitments.
Turkish-backed #SNA factions arrest 75 civilians, including 5 women, and chopped down about 20.000 trees during September in #Afrin in the northern countryside of #Aleppo. https://t.co/R9atZ9Orxs
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) October 1, 2022
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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.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
[10 News] 
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important...
...The nation is noted for 
