[FoxNews] Adam Abdihakeem Adam, 18, faces felony assault charges after allegedly shooting 2 teenagers outside the high school
A Minnesota homecoming celebration shattered by gunfire has become the latest flashpoint over crime and bail after the accused shooter was released from jail just two days after his arrest.
Adam Abdihakeem Adam, 18, posted bond and was released Saturday evening, according to Hennepin County jail records reviewed by Fox News Digital.
Police say he shot two teenagers outside Eden Prairie High School during its Oct. 2 homecoming football game, prompting the evacuation of the stadium.
His release drew criticism from President Donald Trump’s Rapid Response 47 account, which highlighted police statements linking the shooting to rival Somali gangs.
The shooting injured an 18-year-old and a 17-year-old and launched a multi-agency hunt for those involved, according to Eden Prairie police.
Investigators allege the violence began after two cars entered a parking lot and a fight involving about 10 people broke out. The driver of one car got out, opened fire on the victims and fled, according to charging documents cited by affiliate FOX 9 Minneapolis.
Authorities identified that driver as Adam, who allegedly was driving his brother’s car. Investigators tracked his phone with the vehicle before, during and after the shooting, the outlet reported. He then allegedly abandoned the phone and changed his number.
A search of his St. Louis Park home turned up clothing matching what the shooter wore in surveillance video, according to the charges cited by FOX 9.
Police caught up with Adam Oct. 8 near Highway 55 and Penn Avenue in Minneapolis, taking him into custody without incident.
The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office credited detectives with its Auto Theft Task Force and West Metro Drug Task Force, along with St. Louis Park and Hopkins officers, with safely boxing in the vehicle.
"I’m incredibly proud of our officers and investigators who have worked nonstop alongside our law enforcement partners to identify those responsible and hold them accountable," Eden Prairie Police Chief Matt Sackett said after the arrest.
The case has intensified concerns about Somali gang-related violence across the metro area, prompting regional public safety agencies to meet under the coordination of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. Police leaders said they are sharing intelligence and coordinating investigations to prevent further shootings.
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Michele Tafoya pointed to the homecoming shooting and other recent violence while warning last week that Minnesotans increasingly feel under threat.
It will be interesting to see whether this is another autistic kid doing it for pay and praise, like the Israeli lad now in prison, a jihadi keyboard warrior, or an otherwise ordinary citizen.
[Jpost] The incident followed a similar bomb threat at a Lakewood, New Jersey, Orthodox synagogue earlier in the week, the Anti-Defamation League's New York and New Jersey office said.
Two Jewish schools in Brooklyn were evacuated on Friday after receiving phoned-in bomb threats minutes apart, according to the New York Police Department.
According to police reports cited by local news outlets Patch and News 12 Brooklyn, the first threatening phone call was received at the Yeshivah of Flatbush Joel Braverman High School at approximately 9:54 a.m. Six minutes later, a similar call was placed to the United Talmudical Academy in Williamsburg. Emergency Service Units and K-9 detection teams responded to both schools, ordering evacuations and conducting thorough building searches.
Video footage circulating on social media captured young children being escorted out of the school buildings and marshaled along the street by staff amid the emergency response.
The NYPD stated that no explosives or hazardous materials were found, and both threats were ultimately deemed unfounded. No injuries were reported, and the investigation into the origin of the calls remains ongoing.
YESHIVA WARNS PARENTS ABOUT SCHOOL LOCKDOWN
In a letter sent to parents during the incident, the administration at the Yeshivah of Flatbush wrote that the school was placed in a full lockdown and subsequently evacuated "out of an abundance of caution, and in accordance with our established security protocols and the guidance of the NYPD." The administration added, "Please be assured that the safety and well-being of our students and staff remain our absolute highest priority."
The Anti-Defamation League's New York and New Jersey office posted on X that "We are aware of two reported bomb threats at Orthodox Jewish schools in Brooklyn, NY today," adding that the incident followed a similar bomb threat at a Lakewood, New Jersey, Orthodox synagogue earlier in the week. "Jews must be able to pray and go to school without fearing for their safety," the ADL stated.
If that were so, American Jews would not be paying over a billion dollars annually to harden their buildings and hire security.
[BNE] Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and the United Arab Emirates have announced plans to jointly develop a railway route through Afghanistan that will be instrumental in connecting Central Asia with seaports in Pakistan.
Details of the Central Asia-South Asia (CASA) rail corridor, which will run from Kazakhstan to Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan, were on September 30 provided by the office of Kazakhstan’s Prime Minister Oljas Bektenov.
The transport ministries of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and the UAE Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure signed a CASA memorandum of understanding on cooperation.
The entirety of Central Asia is landlocked. Its lack of a coastline remains a headache for traders who would dearly like to have unhindered access to the oceanic ports of both Pakistan and Iran – though conflict that has beset Afghanistan for decades and is presently frustrating trade transit plans reliant on access to Iran has kept that ambition out of reach.
The CASA project planners will be banking on the Taliban regime that rules Afghanistan providing sufficient stability to enable the financing, construction and operation of their railway and will be hoping that the military clashes between Afghanistan and Pakistan that have been seen this year can be resolved to all parties’ satisfaction.
Under the memorandum, the investment partners will carry out technical and economic studies and analytical assessments, while examining the feasibility of developing the railway infrastructure and related facilities needed for the route.
The three countries also plan to establish a working group to address the project’s technical, economic and financial aspects and determine potential mechanisms for its implementation.
“Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan possess developed railway infrastructure and significant transit potential. The UAE has international experience in transport infrastructure, logistics and the implementation of large-scale investment projects,” a press release from Bektenov’s office said.
The parties reiterated that a combination of their respective infrastructure, transit and investment capabilities could support the practical development of the CASA project.
In July last year, IntelliNews reported on plans for a Trans-Afghan Railway running from Uzbekistan, which would also open a route through to Pakistan’s seaports, on the Arabian Sea opening out to the Indian Ocean.
On October 1, IntelliNews Pro reported that Kazakhstan's trade with Afghanistan jumped 2.4-fold to $581.1mn in January-July, as a Kazakh-built rail section opened in Herat Province. Kazakhstan Today reported the trade boost on September 29.
The third section of the Khaf (Iran)-Herat city railway has been opened. Kazakhstan's Integra Construction KZ was the contractor. The 43-km (26.7-mile) stretch is part of a 191-km line connecting the Iranian rail network to western Afghanistan, Kursiv reported on September 30.
The line gives landlocked Afghanistan a gateway via which cargo can flow to and from Iran’s seaports.
[RFI] The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is warning of the displacement crisis in the Sahel: Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger now have nearly 4 million displaced persons and refugees, almost twice as many as in 2020, the year of the first military coup in Bamako.
by David Baché
In Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, "security incidents have almost doubled since 2020, weakening the state's presence [...] and increasing risks for both displaced people and host communities," said Abdouraouf Gnon-Konde, UNHCR's director for West and Central Africa, on Friday, October 9.
The military officers who seized power in Mali in 2020, Burkina Faso in 2022, and Niger in 2023, and who together created the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) to combat jihadist and separatist groups operating within their borders, claim that the security of the population is their priority. They also regularly boast about the "strengthening" of their armies and the victories they claim to have achieved against "terrorists" —thus justifying their continued hold on power without elections. However, the violence perpetrated by "terrorist" armed groups, as well as by national armies and their auxiliaries, has continued to escalate, forcing more and more civilians to flee.
The UNHCR notes that the number of people fleeing violence in these three countries has almost doubled since 2020, now reaching nearly 4 million. Among them, more than 818,000 are refugees and asylum seekers. The others are internally displaced persons.
The UN agency cites, in particular, the case of Koro, in the Bandiagara region of Mali, which last July hosted 86,000 refugees arriving in successive waves from Burkina Faso, "placing increasing pressure on already limited land and water resources, overwhelmed health services, and limited livelihoods."
The UNHCR reports that several hundred thousand people have also sought refuge in coastal countries, notably Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, and Togo. This situation is all the more alarming given the lack of international aid funding: in September, the UNHCR had only 27% of the nearly €3 million needed to carry out its activities in the Sahel.
[Jpost] Speaking to The Post, Asaf Rajuan called for an investigation into flight attendants he suspects may have assisted the hijacker, citing alleged attempts to interfere with the attacker’s restraints.
Eleven days after helping to overpower the co-pilot accused of trying to crash a flydubai flight bound for Israel, passenger Asaf Rajuan
… sometimes Assaf Rajuan (Insurance), Yaniv Hayun, also spelt Yaniv Hayoun, the plumber who dragged out the copilot/jihadi Hamam al Hamami, then prevented Flight 1073 from nosediving after pilot Smit Machchhar was attacked. The other three Israeli passengers who helped subdue the co-pilot were Daniel Schlichter (59, in real estate), Zvika Manes (banking CEO), and Tal Samuel, while Russian-Israeli dentist Shota Musaev stabilized the pilot captain…
wants two flight attendants who were on board to be investigated. He has also called for the two additional pilots who were traveling and who landed the aircraft in Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start... to be questioned.
Speaking to The Jerusalem Post on Sunday, Rajuan said he suspected the attendants had assisted the attacker. He described confrontations with passengers, objections to filming and exchanges between the two men that left him afraid the danger had continued after the co-pilot was restrained.
The September 30 flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv diverted to Tabuk, Saudi Arabia, after the co-pilot attacked the captain with an aircraft emergency axe.
His allegations remain unsubstantiated. The UAE’s account on Friday credited a flight attendant with helping subdue the attacker. It said the co-pilot had confessed to acting alone, while making clear that Sherlocks were still checking for accomplices and other connections.
Rajuan wants Israel involved in establishing what happened. In our conversation, he kept returning to the crew’s behavior and the difficulty of knowing whom to trust while the aircraft was still airborne.
He had been returning from Phuket, Thailand, with his wife and their two daughters, approaching 12 and 14. He was seated in 7D when a woman ran down the aisle shouting that someone had a knife. He looked toward his family and saw them thrown into the air.
He thought he was watching his daughters die.
He ran toward the front. The captain’s resistance had already weakened the attacker, Rajuan said, making it easier for passengers to overpower him. He suffered a small head wound and emerged covered in blood, much of which, he said, was not his own.
THE SUSPICIONS ABOUT THE ATTENDANTS
Rajuan made his most specific accusation in an interview with N12’s Ulpan Shishi, broadcast Friday. He alleged that one attendant began loosening the attacker’s restraints after passengers had subdued him. Several passengers noticed and challenged the man, he said.
He also described an attendant approaching the maimed captain with a tablet while the captain was receiving medical treatment. Rajuan said passengers intervened because they could not understand why someone would try to give him a pill in that condition.
"I have no proof," he said when asked whether the attendants had cooperated with the attacker.
In the interview with the Post, Rajuan described grabbing, pulling at clothing, and repeated confrontations with the attendants. One asked whether he was a police officer. He remembered their physical strength and their determination to stop passengers filming. He feared someone would produce another weapon.
There was uncertainty even about where the aircraft was heading. Passengers checked GPS locations and offered competing answers: Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia. Rajuan wondered whether they were still being hijacked.
"I became paranoid," he said.
He acknowledged that he had begun suspecting everyone. Yet he wanted Sherlocks to examine the specific encounters he and other passengers remembered, including the attendants’ interactions with those guarding the attacker. He described an atmosphere of mutual fear and pressure that persisted after the immediate struggle had ended.
THE PILOTS WHO TOOK OVER
Rajuan also wanted to know what had become of the two additional pilots. He said he had looked for their public accounts and had not found them. On N12, he recalled last seeing the pilot who saved the aircraft as he disembarked.
Their presence aboard Flight FZ1073 has an explanation we reported on September 30.
There were four pilots: the captain who was attacked, his co-pilot, and a second flydubai cockpit crew traveling in the passenger cabin. The additional captain and co-pilot were available to operate the return flight from Israel.
A person familiar with the arrangement told the Post that possible regional diversions could add hours to the flight and leave the operating crew beyond its permitted working hours. The additional pilots had been assigned as a staffing precaution, without advance warning of an attack.
When I interviewed Tal, an Israeli businessman aboard the flight, at Tel Aviv’s Carlton hotel on October 1, he described having to get those men forward while other passengers fought the attacker.
"I had to shake them to get them to move to the front and take control of the plane," he said.
Tal recalled an interval when the cockpit was empty. One pilot eventually took control; the other, he said, took longer to recover from the shock. We have not independently established the duration of that interval or the precise sequence inside the cockpit.
The UAE’s account described the relief captain noticing unusual movements of the cockpit door, entering with an access code and helping passengers and a flight attendant overpower the attacker. He and his co-pilot then restored control and landed in Tabuk.
It did not address Tal’s account of their initial hesitation or the empty cockpit.
The relief pilots have spoken to Sherlocks: prosecutors said they had taken statements from both men. The statement did not name them.
Our interviews have reconstructed the emergency from the passenger cabin: people fighting at the front, an injured captain being treated, two other pilots being urged toward the controls. Rajuan wants the men who eventually flew the aircraft to give their own account, including what they saw of the attendants’ conduct.
"I hope that Israel will investigate it as it should be," he said. "Because it’s something that needs answers."
[NYPost] WASHINGTON — President Trump warned that the US may join Saudi Arabia in its upcoming retaliatory attacks against the Houthis after the Iran-backed terror group carried out the deadliest attack on Riyadh and has threatened even more attacks on civilian enclaves.
A Houthi spokesperson warned over the weekend that airports have become “a theatre of operations for our forces” and urged “everyone to take our warnings seriously,” while accusing the Saudis of bearing “responsibility for any failed interceptions.”
Until now, Trump had seemingly refrained from attacking the Yemen-based terror group due to a sense that the Houthis have adhered to their end of a May cease-fire in which it committed to not attack vessels in the Red Sea and a broader desire to stay out of a messy conflict that predated the Iran war.
“We may. We’re going to look at it,” Trump told reporters on Saturday when asked about joining the attacks against the Houthis.
“We just found out about the recent attack, so we’ll make a decision. We move very quickly,” he said.
“I think it’s terrible,” Trump added at another point Saturday. “The Saudis are good fighters, but I think the attack was a terrible thing. We have communication with the Houthis, and we’ll see what happens. But what they did was very bad.”
Joining the Saudi retaliation against the Houthis after the bloody attack on King Khalid International Airport has the potential to significantly widen the ongoing conflict in the Middle East over Iran and its proxies.
The Houthi attack on Saturday killed 12, including one American, a Palestinian, an Egyptian, a Jordanian, a Syrian, a Sudanese, and two Bangladeshi nationals. It injured over 300 people,
Saturday’s attack had drawn widespread international condemnation of the Houthis.
“The United States strongly condemns the recent attacks on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by the terrorist Houthis,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Saturday.
“These reprehensible attacks demonstrate a blatant disregard for innocent civilian life. They must stop now,” Rubio added. “We stand with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and its people and extend our condolences to the victims and their families.”
Tensions between the Houthis and Saudi Arabia, a country of 35 million people, have been escalating rapidly over recent weeks, with Riyadh allegedly intercepting a drone from the terror group near the Islamic holy city of Mecca last month, outraging the Muslim world.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has reportedly been pushing Trump to take military action against the Houthis, as the US did between March and May of this year.
[The Jerusalem Post] One incident highlighted in the investigation involved a poultry farmer in northern Israel who discovered that the language settings on a camera overlooking his chicken coop had changed to Arabic
Internet-connected security cameras and webcams around the world are increasingly being hacked and turned into military intelligence tools, allowing countries including Israel, Iran, Russia, and Ukraine to monitor troop movements, track targets, and assess attacks, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.
The growing threat has emerged across multiple conflicts, including those involving Israel and Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today 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. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and Russia and Ukraine, as governments and hackers exploit vulnerabilities in devices originally intended to protect homes, businesses, and public spaces.
According to the report, an estimated 1.2 billion internet-connected cameras operate worldwide, creating an enormous network of potential intelligence-gathering devices. Many are inadequately secured, making them attractive targets for cyber operations.
One incident highlighted in the investigation involved a poultry farmer in northern Israel who discovered that the language settings on a camera overlooking his chicken coop had unexpectedly changed to Arabic during the US-Israeli military campaign against Iran earlier this year.
The farmer contacted the Israel National Cyber Directorate, which determined that hackers had compromised the Chinese-made device. The camera's position provided a view of Israeli security activity near the Lebanese border, giving the intruders potential access to military intelligence rather than simply images of the farm.
The directorate subsequently helped the farmer improve the camera's security and change its viewing angle to prevent the surveillance of military operations, according to the WSJ.
CIVILIAN SURVEILLANCE BECOMES MILITARY INTELLIGENCE
The incident illustrates a growing challenge for military and civilian cybersecurity authorities: Cameras installed for routine security purposes can become intelligence assets when hostile actors access them.
In Israel, the threat has already prompted warnings from the National Cyber Directorate about the vulnerability of residential and commercial surveillance equipment.
During the June 2025 Israel-Iran war, the directorate urged homeowners and businesses to secure their cameras, warning that hostile actors could exploit compromised devices to gather intelligence and identify security vulnerabilities.
The agency identified weak passwords, outdated software, and cameras directly exposed to the internet as common security weaknesses.
Israel National Cyber Directorate chief Yossi Karadi subsequently revealed that Iran had infiltrated parking and road cameras during the June conflict to monitor the movements of prominent Israelis.
Speaking at a cybersecurity conference in December 2025, Karadi said Iranian hackers had sought to track Israeli figures for potential attacks.
He also disclosed that Iranian operatives had accessed a street camera overlooking the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot shortly before an Iranian ballistic missile struck the institute during the conflict.
The incident demonstrated how compromised surveillance systems could potentially contribute to both intelligence collection and the assessment of military strikes.
In March 2026, Karadi again warned about Iranian efforts to compromise Israeli surveillance cameras, describing the devices as a valuable intelligence-gathering resource. He said the directorate had blocked 50 camera-hacking attempts that could have enabled broader network intrusions.
ISRAEL ALSO EXPLOITED IRANIAN SURVEILLANCE NETWORKS
The intelligence value of compromised cameras works both ways.
Israel reportedly infiltrated Tehran's traffic camera network to monitor senior Iranian officials and collect information used in planning military operations against the Islamic Theocratic Republic.
According to a Financial Times investigation published in March, Israeli intelligence agencies used hacked traffic cameras and artificial intelligence to establish patterns of movement among senior Iranian figures ahead of the operation that killed then-supreme leader Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...> The reported operation demonstrated the potential military value of combining widely available surveillance infrastructure with advanced data-processing capabilities.
Rather than relying exclusively on satellites, reconnaissance aircraft, or intelligence operatives, security services can potentially exploit networks that already monitor streets, intersections, and buildings.
Iranian officials have publicly acknowledged concerns about foreign access to the country's surveillance infrastructure.
In November 2025, Gholamreza Jalali, then head of Iran's Passive Defense Organization, alleged that Israel and the US were exploiting Tehran's surveillance systems for intelligence operations.
Jalali claimed that foreign code had been discovered in Iranian systems that redirected camera footage to external servers. The allegations were not independently verified.
RUSSIA, UKRAINE EXPLOIT THE SAME VULNERABILITIES
The WSJ investigation also described how Russia and Ukraine have used compromised surveillance systems to obtain battlefield intelligence.
According to the report, both sides have exploited cameras to monitor military activity and improve their understanding of enemy positions and operations.
The same vulnerabilities extend beyond active battlefields. Russian-linked cyber actors have reportedly targeted surveillance cameras in European countries to monitor military movements.
The widespread availability of internet-connected cameras creates opportunities for intelligence collection far from conventional military installations.
Artificial intelligence can increase the usefulness of compromised video networks by helping operators process large amounts of footage, identify relevant activity, and recognize patterns that would otherwise require extensive manual monitoring.
SECURITY WARNINGS FOR CAMERA OWNERS
Cybersecurity specialists warn that many connected cameras are installed without adequate safeguards or ongoing technical maintenance.
Unlike computers and smartphones, which often receive regular security attention, cameras may operate for years with outdated firmware, weak login credentials, or insufficient protection against unauthorized access.
The growing number of cameras connected to private and commercial networks also creates potential entry points for attacks extending beyond the devices themselves.
Israeli cyber authorities have recommended replacing default passwords with strong, unique credentials, enabling two-factor authentication where available, installing security updates, and monitoring devices for unauthorized access.
The risks are especially high near military facilities, transportation routes, government installations, and other sensitive locations, where a seemingly ordinary camera may capture operationally valuable information.
As warfare increasingly combines conventional military operations with cyberattacks and digital intelligence collection, the WSJ investigation underscores how civilian surveillance infrastructure has become another contested element of modern conflict.
WARSAW, Oct 12 (Reuters) - A major police operation was underway in Poland on Monday to ensure security in schools after three recent stabbing attacks, as Prime Minister Donald Tusk vowed to confront what he described as a growing trend of youth violence.
Authorities have dismissed rumours that the attacks were linked to an online challenge or organised group, but Tusk told a crisis meeting on Sunday that the glorification of violence in some corners of the internet was having a damaging effect on young people.
"We have observed a rise in the fascination with violence, both in Poland and worldwide... we are witnessing a grim trend of violence," he said, adding that content promoting Nazi ideology and a "cult of strength", as well as violent computer games, were major factors.
That sounds like Rohan Rane’s CVLT philosophy.
Interior Minister Marcin Kierwinski said late on Sunday that more than 20,000 police officers would be deployed to schools on Monday.
"A clear message is required: there will be no tolerance for any attacks on Polish children, nor for the descent of public life into anarchy," he told state news channel TVP Info.
Police said on Monday that they had inspected 80,000 educational institutions and detained 135 people since Friday.
In one incident, police said a boy created a model of his school in the Roblox game and simulated attacks on students. He was found to possess a firearm, ammunition and knives.
The latest attack occurred on Saturday, when three people were injured at a further education college in Warsaw, Poland's third stabbing attack at an educational institution in four days.
On Thursday, a 15-year-old former pupil wearing a helmet-mounted camera killed a caretaker and injured two teachers at a primary school in Leszczydol-Nowiny, northeast of Warsaw. On Wednesday, a 19-year-old wounded 10 people including himself at a school in Ostroleka, north of the capital.
Desensitization and Violent Video Games: Mechanisms and Evidence Desensitization, the reduction of cognitive, emotional, and/or behavioral responses to a stimulus, is an automatic and unconscious phenomenon often experienced in everyday life. Exposure to violent media, especially violent video games, may cause desensitization to real-life violence. Desensitization to violence blocks empathy which is needed to trigger the moral reasoning process that triggers prosocial responding. Representative research was reviewed to examine links between exposure to violent video games and desensitization to violence in children and adolescents. It was concluded that exposure to violent video games increases the risk of desensitization to violence, which in turn may increase aggression and decrease prosocial behavior. Parents should be counseled to discuss the differences between real and screen violence, to encourage nonviolent problem-solving, and to provide empathy-building experiences for their children.
Not legally binding, but at least they uttered the right words
[Jpost] The resolution stresses the Parliament’s opposition to legitimizing networks that seek to undermine established civil institutions.
The European Parliament has adopted a resolution calling for a coordinated European approach to addressing "Islamist entryism and Moslem Brüderbund networks" and for the Moslem Brüderbund to be added to the EU terror list.
Resolution P10_TA(2026)0342 was adopted on Thursday with 381 votes in favor, 167 against and 15 abstentions.
The resolution refers to Islamist entryism as an "unacceptable form of covert and malicious interference aimed at weakening democratic institutions, the rule of law and the neutrality of public institutions."
It condemns Islamic entryism for "spearheading efforts to roll back women’s rights and gender equality, sexual health and reproductive rights, LGBTIQ+ rights, equality between women and men, freedom of conscience, freedom of expression, public order and social cohesion."
The resolution then stresses the Parliament’s opposition to legitimizing networks that seek to undermine established civil institutions.
Calls for a common European approach to identifying Islamist entryism
The text calls on EU Member States to develop a common European approach to identifying signs of Islamist entryism, including what it describes as the use of "doublespeak" in religious and political discourse. It also calls on the Council to include entities and individuals linked to the Moslem Brüderbund on the EU list of terrorist organizations.
The text also calls for greater scrutiny of European funding and stronger safeguards to prevent EU financial resources from reaching individuals or organizations that may threaten democratic institutions and fundamental freedoms. It specifically singles out 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... and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... for increased scrutiny over foreign funding.
Massad Boulos, Trump's Senior Advisor for Arab and African Affairs, welcomed the resolution's adoption.
He wrote on X/Twitter that the United States is taking decisive action against Moslem Brüderbund chapters involved in terrorism and destabilizing activities, and that it encourages "continued cooperation with our European partners to combat terrorism, disrupt violent mostly peaceful Death Eater networks, and protect our shared security."
[Jpost] Behind the protest’s preparation and framing is the London-based Global Alliance for Palestine (GAFP), a coalition of about 200 organizations focused on Palestine advocacy.
Pro-Paleostinian protests across the world last week were coordinated in advance by an international alliance that prepared campaign slogans, media messaging and protest tactics, including calls to shut down city squares, encircle government buildings and blockade corporate hubs, The Jerusalem Post's review of campaign documents found.
This was first reported on by Fox News Digital, which found that "long before the first demonstrators gathered, the messages for the protest's 'communications framing' and transnational action plan had already been written, the banners designed, the tactics circulated and the media strategy laid out."
Behind the protest preparation and framing is a London-based coalition called Global Alliance for Paleostine (GAFP), an international alliance of around 200 organizations that are focused on Paleostine advocacy.
Ahead of the week of October 7, which marked the third anniversary of the Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... attacks, GAFP released press statements and media toolkits encouraging pro-Paleostine movements, student groups, trade unions, and civil society organizations worldwide to unite under the banner ’End the Genocide, Defend the Land’.
GAFP was behind the Global Day of Action on October 10, as well as a direct legislative pressure campaign asking parliamentarians to demand immediate arms embargoes, emergency debates, suspended trade agreements, and binding human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... sanctions against Israel.
In the toolkit for October 10 protests, viewed by the Post, GAFP called for protesters to "shut down city squares, encircle government buildings, and blockade complicit corporate hubs."
Rather than a symbolic march, GAFP said the purpose of the global day of action was to interrupt business-as-usual.
Among the other suggested protest actions were walk-outs, sit-ins, and blockades.
GROUPS ENCOURAGED TO USE LANGUAGE 'IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE'
In a GAFP concept paper for the Global Alliance for Paleostine, organizers share guidelines for 'Communications Framing' and 'Core Messages' about Israel. The document encourages groups to use language that is "disciplined, credible, urgent and impossible to ignore."
GAFP also published a list of slogans such as "From Every Street, One Demand: End Genocide, End Occupation" and "Israel Kills. The Media Justifies."
The Post identified 181 organizations in the coalition, with the organizations being spread out across the world.
Among the most high-profile participating organizations are CodePink, the Freedom Flotilla, and regional BDS chapters.
Israel's Foreign Ministry called out the "prewritten accusations, coordinated slogans," and "orchestrated disruptions."
"A calculated effort to hijack headlines, dominate the narrative and demonize Israel. The hatred is loud. The coordination is documented," it said.
While many of the hundreds of protests across the world may have appeared to be independent and unconnected, the understanding of GAFP's campaign indicates that this may not have been the case.
[Times of IS] Israel’s government unveiled on Sunday a program that will provide approximately 20,000 opportunities for IDF reserve soldiers to purchase discounted apartments or land over the next two years, as officials seek to expand benefits for those who have served during the country’s ongoing wars.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Construction and Housing Minister Chaim Katz and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced the "From Reserve Duty to a Key" program, which will make about 16,000 apartments available through the government’s Target Price program and roughly 4,000 plots for ground-level construction during 2026 and 2027.
Successful applicants could receive discounts of more than NIS 500,000 ($167,000) on a new home, the government said.
#عاجل | جيش الدفاع يكشف توثيقات لمخربين مسلحين داخل مستشفى كمال عدوان الذي لا يزال يُستخدم مركزًا رئيسيًا لنشاط حركة حماس الإرهابية*
⭕️ يُستخدم مستشفى كمال عدوان، الواقع في منطقة جباليا شمال قطاع غزة، حاليًا كعيادة طبية تقدم خدماتها خلال ساعات النهار، وفي الوقت نفسه تواصل حركة حماس الإرهابية استخدام المستشفى ومحيطه مركزًا رئيسيًا لنشاطها.
⭕️ يكشف جيش الدفاع الآن، استنادًا إلى معلومات استخباراتية وتوثيقات، كيف يواصل مخربو حركة حماس الإرهابية استخدام المستشفى ومحيطه للدفع بمخططات إرهابية وفي محاولات لإعادة بناء قدرات الحركة، مستغلين وجود المرضى والطواقم الطبية والمدنيين كدروع بشرية، في انتهاك للقانون الدولي.
⭕️ وكما كُشف سابقًا، استخدمت حركتا حماس والجهاد الإسلامي الإرهابيتان المستشفى ومحيطه على مدار السنوات الأخيرة للدفع بمخططات إرهابية ضد مواطني دولة إسرائيل وقوات جيش الدفاع، وذلك من خلال استغلال منشأة طبية، ورغم الدعوات المتكررة من جانب دولة إسرائيل وجيش الدفاع إلى الامتناع عن استخدام المنشآت الطبية لأغراض عسكرية.
⭕️ في شهر ديسمبر 2024، نفذت قوات جيش الدفاع نشاطًا عملياتيًا في محيط المستشفى، وعثرت على معدات عسكرية ووسائل قتالية عديدة، واعتقلت أكثر من 240 مخربًا من حركتي حماس والجهاد الإسلامي الإرهابيتين، إلى جانب عناصر أخرى يُشتبه في كونها من المخربين.
— Lieutenant Colonel Ella Waweya | إيلا واوية (@CaptainElla1) October 11, 2026
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#BREAKING | The IDF Reveals Documentation of Armed Terrorists Inside Kamal Adwan Hospital, Which Continues to Be Used as a Primary Center for Hamas Terrorist Activity*
⭕️ Kamal Adwan Hospital, located in the Jabalia area north of the Gaza Strip, is currently used as a medical clinic providing services during daylight hours, while at the same time, the Hamas terrorist organization continues to use the hospital and its surroundings as a primary center for its activities.
⭕️ The IDF now reveals, based on intelligence information and documentation, how Hamas terrorist operatives continue to use the hospital and its surroundings to advance terrorist plans and in attempts to rebuild the organization's capabilities, exploiting the presence of patients, medical teams, and civilians as human shields, in violation of international law.
⭕️ And as previously revealed, the Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorist organizations have used the hospital and its surroundings over the past years to advance terrorist plans against the citizens of the State of Israel and IDF forces, by exploiting a medical facility, despite repeated calls from the State of Israel and the IDF to refrain from using medical facilities for military purposes.
⭕️ In December 2024, IDF forces conducted an operational activity in the hospital's surroundings, where they found military equipment and numerous combat means, and arrested more than 240 operatives from the Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorist organizations, alongside other elements suspected of being terrorists.
[BB] Maj. Gen. Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, the powerful body overseeing the Islamic Republic’s national security and defense policies, delivered the warning as Tehran sought concessions from President Donald Trump’s administration despite an ongoing U.S. naval blockade and mounting economic pressure.
Speaking to Iranian state broadcaster Press TV, Rezaei put the value of American-linked technology infrastructure in the region at more than $2 trillion and warned that those assets could become targets in another war.
“The pulse of the American economy in this region runs through our part of the world,” he said, warning that previously excluded infrastructure, including undersea cables and artificial intelligence facilities, would be targeted if fighting resumed.
The threat goes beyond earlier Iranian demands to impose fees on undersea communications cables passing through the Strait of Hormuz, raising the prospect of attacks on infrastructure supporting international communications, financial transactions, and technology services throughout the region.
Rezaei’s remarks came as Tehran pressed Washington to accept seven conditions for reopening the strategic waterway and resuming negotiations, including lifting the American naval blockade and restrictions on Iranian oil sales.
The Iranian official asserted that Washington had accepted some of Tehran’s demands but did not identify which ones, and the Trump administration has not publicly acknowledged agreeing to any of the conditions.
“We are not in the process of responding to the Americans. They have responded to us, and we consider their response inadequate,” Rezaei said.
He also insisted that Iran would not return to its previous negotiating framework, while maintaining that Tehran had not abandoned diplomacy.
Trump had already rejected Tehran’s earlier proposal, which sought American concessions in exchange for reopening Hormuz, telling reporters, “I reject their proposal.”
The president has nevertheless kept diplomatic channels open, describing recent exchanges with Tehran as “productive discussions” while maintaining the blockade and refusing to retreat from his demand that Iran be prevented from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
Trump also said last week that he did not intend to launch new attacks against Iran before the November midterm elections, although he has repeatedly left open the possibility of renewed military action if negotiations fail.
“We’re going to win,” Trump said during earlier remarks on the negotiations. “As far as I’m concerned, it’s going to be one way or the other. And it’s going to go pretty quickly.”
The administration’s objections extend beyond Tehran’s demands over Hormuz to its refusal to make the nuclear concessions Washington considers essential to any broader agreement.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz dismissed Iran’s earlier proposal as a “garbage deal,” emphasizing that Trump would not accept an agreement allowing the regime to continue pursuing nuclear weapons.
Vice President JD Vance similarly said last week that Tehran must meaningfully reduce its uranium-enrichment capabilities to secure an agreement.
Iranian officials, however, have continued rejecting those demands.
Mohammad Eslami, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, said Thursday that Tehran would neither relinquish its asserted right to enrich uranium nor surrender its existing enriched uranium stockpile.
Asked whether Iran would abandon enrichment, Eslami responded, “Under no circumstances.”
Meanwhile, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday that the administration’s campaign to cripple Iran’s economy had moved beyond maximum pressure to “absolute isolation,” as Washington seeks to cut off the regime’s remaining sources of revenue and access to international financial markets.
Through Operation Economic Outcast, the Treasury Department has targeted Iran’s oil exports, shadow-fleet shipping network, and sanctions-evasion operations while tightening restrictions on the regime’s access to overseas assets.
Bessent pointed to the halt in new Iranian crude shipments, the collapse of the rial, and dwindling foreign currency reserves as evidence of the mounting pressure on Tehran, describing an economy increasingly unable to sustain normal activity.
The Treasury secretary suggested that continued economic isolation could ultimately force a breakthrough, comparing the uncertainty surrounding Iran’s future to the sudden collapse of the Berlin Wall.
“I don’t know how this ends. You never know how this ends. The Berlin Wall just came down one day,” he said.
Washington’s economic offensive is backed by a U.S. naval blockade that has sharply curtailed Iranian oil exports while allowing shipments from neighboring Gulf producers to continue.
On Saturday, U.S. Central Command announced that an American fighter jet disabled the Panama-flagged cargo vessel M/V Ocean Molica, also known as Arika Sun, after it ignored repeated warnings and attempted to breach the blockade following its departure from an Iranian port.
The precision strike disabled the vessel’s propulsion system without injuring its crew.
Since the blockade resumed in July, CENTCOM has turned back 135 vessels, disabled four commercial ships, and destroyed ten tankers linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ shadow fleet.
Despite the blockade, Rezaei insisted Tehran would retain authority over the Strait of Hormuz, including the ability to impose charges related to shipping security, insurance, and environmental protection — conditions Washington has repeatedly rejected.
Iranian forces have also threatened vessels using routes they consider unauthorized, amid additional attacks on commercial shipping through the waterway.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) attributed several recent tanker incidents to vessels encountering naval mines, although those accounts have not been independently confirmed.
Iran’s threats have also extended to American military forces as additional U.S. assets move toward the region.
On Sunday, an IRGC spokesman posted an image depicting a missile system targeting an American aircraft carrier, accompanied by the message: “We are waiting.”
The warning came amid reports of further American military deployments and continued preparations for possible operations against Iran, despite Trump’s decision to hold off on new strikes before the midterm elections.
For now, Washington is maintaining its blockade and tightening economic pressure while leaving open the possibility of a negotiated settlement, with Trump making clear that the confrontation will ultimately be resolved “one way or the other.”
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The Iranians had a "training exercise" over the weekend where they operated several of their allegedly non-existent aircraft and test fired 30 ballistic missiles. Interestingly, the US / Israel also conducted a joint training exercise over the weekend in Iraqi airspace (no clue re overfly permits). The US officially left Iraq last week. I've found articles on this in Greek, Urdu and Russian but nothing in English yet. I'll post something whenever I find it. Kinda frustrating that Telegram is censored in the US.
#6
meh, go ahead. I doubt it will have the effect you think it will since you already blew your "nuclear" option all over the place and it wasn't that effective either.
[FoxNews] Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei claimed Oct. 8 that U.S. and Israeli strikes had failed to undermine Iran's domestic security forces, praising police personnel for resisting attacks launched in February under Operations Epic Fury and Roaring Lion.
Khamenei's remarks on X also came as the U.S. Army released a new battlefield identification guide to help American troops recognize members of Iran's conventional military, known as the Artesh, whose ground forces were estimated by the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security in June at 350,000 personnel.
"The criminal US-Zionist enemy's desperate efforts and malicious attacks on the pillars of social order and security, which are unparalleled throughout history, have not caused the courageous personnel of the Police Force to waver even a fraction in their mission," Khamenei wrote in a statement.
Khamenei specifically praised Iran's Law Enforcement Command, known as FARAJA, accusing the United States and Israel of targeting the institution responsible for maintaining domestic order.
"The focus and persistence of the criminal US-Zionist enemy in striking at the Police Force at its various levels, from its highest command levels down to those who are on the frontline, has only served to underscore the paramount importance of this institution more than ever," he wrote.
Iran's security apparatus comprises three principal branches: the Artesh, responsible primarily for conventional territorial defense; the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), tasked with protecting the Islamic Republic and projecting military power; and FARAJA, responsible for domestic law enforcement and internal security.
FARAJA, commanded by Brig. Gen. Ahmadreza Radan, is responsible for maintaining public order, enforcing the country's laws and responding to civil unrest.
According to Iran Human Rights Monitor, the force has evolved into a powerful internal security institution involved in suppressing anti-government demonstrations, monitoring political activity and enforcing the regime's ideological restrictions.
Radan has also been sanctioned by the United States for his role in human rights abuses.
The Treasury Department designated him in September 2010, citing his responsibility for beatings, killings and arbitrary arrests of protesters following Iran's disputed 2009 presidential election.
Khamenei also called for strengthening FARAJA on Oct. 8 through additional personnel, equipment and technology, including the use of artificial intelligence for data analysis.
His remarks come as the U.S. Army's Training and Transformation Command published a "Know the Threat" recognition guide Sept. 24, highlighted by Defense News on Oct. 9.
The guide shows an Iranian special forces soldier and identifies weapons American troops could encounter, including AKM rifles, Iranian-made Masaf-2 rifles, German-designed G3 rifles, MG3 machine guns and RPG-7 rocket-propelled grenade launchers.
The Artesh, Iran's regular military, is separate from the IRGC and its affiliated Basij militia. Its forces operate across four branches: the Ground Forces, Navy, Air Force and Air Defense Force.
A June assessment by the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security estimated the Artesh's Ground Forces at approximately 350,000 personnel, including 220,000 conscripts.
The report found that the Artesh had suffered severe losses across its air, naval and air defense components during the opening phase of the U.S.-Israeli military campaign, while its ground forces remained structurally intact because there had been no ground invasion.
The Artesh is commanded by Maj. Gen. Amir Hatami, a former Iranian defense minister who assumed command in June 2025.
Aside from Khamenei, Hatami issued his own warning Oct. 6, claiming Iran's adversaries faced "historic confusion" after failing to halt military production during the conflict.
Hatami also claimed that Iranian defense production continued despite American and Israeli attacks, saying the country's military production lines had continued operating during the conflict.
The extent of Iran's military recovery remains unclear. The Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security assessed in June that the country's conventional air, naval and air defense forces had suffered severe damage during the conflict.
President Donald Trump, meanwhile, said Oct. 8 that Washington would not resume military strikes against Iran before the Nov. 3 midterm elections, citing "productive discussions" between the two countries.
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