[PostMillennial] A man arrested in connection to the beating of a Jewish man in Midtown Manhattan was released on bail Thursday, telling prosecutors on Sunday that he would "do it again."
Waseem Awawdeh, 23, was held on $10,000 bail after being accused of beating Joseph Borgen, 29, with crutches, as well as punching, kicking, and pepper-spraying the man, the New York Post reports.
Awawdeh, according to a prosecutor at his Sunday arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court, had reportedly told one of his jailers that "if I could do it again, I would do it again."
Prosecutors say the attack on Borgen, who was walking near Broadway and West 49th Street on his way to a pro-Israel demonstration in Midtown, was unprovoked.
Friends of Awawdeh told the New York Post that he was the one that was attacked first. "They picked somebody that was weak, that was on crutches," one stated.
Awawdeh is facing charges of assault as a hate crime, gang assault, menacing, aggravated harassment as a hate crime and criminal possession of a weapon, police state. Borgen was walking down the street, sporting a kippa at the time, when a man started running after him.
"I turned around to try to figure out what was going on," Borgen said, "and the next thing I knew I was surrounded by a whole crowd of people who proceeded to physically attack me, beat me, kick me, punch me, hit me with crutches, hit me with flag poles."
"I have a concussion," Borgen told the New York Post. "I had an X-ray on my wrist. It’s not broken, but it’s messed up. Every time I move it, it’s in pain, probably sprained. I have bruises all over my body. I have a black eye. My face is banged up. I’m just sore all over my body. They were kicking me in my ribs, my stomach."
Awawdeh's attorney April White-Small of New York County Defenders said that he is enrolled in college and not considered a flight risk. The NYPD has released photos of the four other men wanted in connection to Thursday's attack.
[FoxNews] Texas authorities seized more than a dozen firearms and over 3,500 rounds of ammunition following the pursuit of a suspect who was believed to be heading to Mexico.
The short chase began around 7:30 p.m. Friday after a Texas Highway Patrol trooper attempted to stop a vehicle traveling in Hidalgo County, located on the border with Mexico, for a traffic violation, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) said in a press release.
The trooper eventually stopped the vehicle near the city of La Joya and discovered 16 firearms and 3,520 rounds of ammunition inside.
The firearms seized included high-powered fully automatic rifles, shotguns, handguns and a .50 caliber rifle, the DPS said.
The driver was arrested and is facing weapons charges. The DPS said he was believed to be headed to Mexico.
"Everyday (sic), the @TxDPS is on the frontline to secure our border," Gov. Greg Abbott tweeted Saturday in response to the seizure.
Fox News national correspondent Bill Melugin reported that a DPS official said the uinidentified suspect was a Mexican national.
Fox News reached out to the DPS for more details but did not immediately hear back.
The arrest occurred during Operation Lone Star, which was set up earlier this year in response to a surge in migrants and cartel smuggling across the Texas border.
"Thanks to @GovAbbott’s leadership, DPS continues its presence, including air, ground, marine and tactical security assets, along the border to combat the smuggling of people, weapons and drugs into Texas," the DPS tweeted.
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Anytime you're in possession of anything illegal it's best to drive in strict obedience of all traffic laws, make sure all of your tail lights, headlights, signal lights and muffler are working, license plates are properly mounted, insurance is paid and the car isn't spewing exhaust in violation of smog laws.
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[FoxNews] Fox News Flight Team captured a group of about 40 migrants rushing the southern border into La Joya, Texas on Sunday in an exclusive video.
A single border agent was seen chasing the group of mostly men on foot, some scaling fences and stumbling over narrow streams to escape detainment. Another agent chased the group in his vehicle but was widely outnumbered.
About 15 to 20 of the migrants were taken into custody as the other half assumedly managed to flee. Two migrants on the run appeared to be handcuffed together, giving off the impression of being in custody prior to the chase.
A separate group of 53 migrants decided to turn themselves in to border patrol on Sunday instead of running. The migrants reportedly came from areas of Romania, Venezuela, Guatemala and Honduras.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott told Fox News resources are being sent down to the border to provide aid for overwhelmed border agents. The governor expressed his ongoing concern for the looming drug crisis on "Sunday Morning Futures."
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[ToloNews] Fighting has reached the centers of both Baghlan province in the north and Laghman ...Afghan province with a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.
After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men... province in the east. A district center in Laghman and some outposts fell to the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... in the last few days. The festivities in the two provinces have intensified after the three-day ceasefire on May 13 to May 15.
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[KhaamaPress] Head of religious scholars’ council, Mawlawi Saifullah Safi was murdered in the Sayed-Khel district of Parwan province.
Safi was murdered close to a school called Saif-ur-Raman Shaheed high school in the district, a provincial official told the media.
Security officials so far did not comment on the incident.
No group including the Taliban ...Arabic for students... grabbed credit for the attack.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Senate, Tremulus continued with his speech against Varius and his cohorts, watching as his colleagues dropped off to sleep one by one... reports indicate four members of one family were victims of manslaughter in Khanabad district.
The incident happened when unidentified button men attacked a residential house in Kunduz’s Khanabad district on Saturday night.
Hayatullah Amiri the district governor of Khanabad told media that unknown button men attacked a house killing four members of one family and wounding two others.
The incident occurred in the Bandar-e-Bukhari area of Khanabad district, a woman is also among the killed victims, perpetrators on the lam.
The motive behind the attack is still unknown, and an investigation is underway in relations to this matter.
In addition, two NDS personnel in Mohammad Agha district of Pashtun-infested Logar province were killed in a assassination by unidentified gunnies at around 11:00 am local time, local officials told media.
[Garowe] The Somali National Army [SNA] continued with an onslaught against the al-Shabaab ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... forces of Evil on Saturday, this time targeting the Hiraan region in Central Somalia, where the forces of Evil have been controlling with impunity.
On Saturday morning, state media said, at least six al-Shabaab forces of Evil were killed and several injured during an operation near Bula Burte town in Hiraan, with those injured now firmly in the custody of the military, which will interrogate them once they recuperate.
Hussein Hassan Jodah, SNA Commander in the area told Somali National News Agency that the forces destroyed bases for the terrorist turban group of al-Shabaab in the area during the operation which lasted several hours.
"SNA forces killed 6 al-Shabaab terrorist forces of Evil and injured several others and destroyed its bases near Bula burte town early on Saturday morning, we are still pursuing the operation against them," Jodah said, adding that the operation was still active.
He did not comment on whether there were casualties on SNA forces so far. However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... fatalities or injuries on the military side are usually a closely guarded secret, and only top commanders are allowed to issue such statements.
But al-Shabaab forces of Evil said they attacked SNA and Djiboutian forces’ bases in Bula burte and Jalalaksi towns in the same region with mortar shells mid-last night. The operation by the Somali forces comes hours after the attack from al-Shabaab turbans.
During the holy month of Ramadan, the attacks by al-Shabaab had significantly reduced in Somalia, but in recent weeks, the group seems to have activated its raids across the country. It mostly targets security forces and senior government officials.
The al-Shabaab raids continue even as the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Mission Forces plan an imminent exit from Somalia upon full implementation of the Somali Transition Plan [STP]. It's expected that by December, the SNA forces will take over security responsibilities in Somalia.
Although al-Shabaab still controls large swathes of rural central and southern Somalia, the group has been significantly degraded by the allied military teams. Several towns and villages have been liberated from the al-Shabaab turbans.
A gun battle erupted on Sunday between #Myanmar security forces and an alliance of armed ethnic groups opposed to February’s coup, at a town on the border with #China, Myanmar media said.https://t.co/owg8xlWz4E
— Alghadeer English (@alghadeertv_eng) May 23, 2021
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Reuters: Members of a People's Defence Force, set up since the coup, told the Irrawaddy news service they had killed at least 13 members of the security forces when they overran a police station near the town of Mobye. They told other media that even more died in a later clash 20 km (13 miles) to the south.
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^ The assault on the police post was in Mobye, and the gunfight with an assortment of border dwelling rebels was in Muse, east-Burma, which the Chinese claim falls in Yunnan province.
[NPASYRIA] Militants of the armed opposition groups targeted positions of the Syrian government forces which resulted in the killing and wounding a number of the latter.
The al-Fateh al-Mubin Operations Room targeted the government forces in Shahshabo Mountain, south of Idlib with heavy artillery shells, a military source said.
The targeting resulted in the killing of five members of the government forces and the injury of several others, the source added.
Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Count Guido had escaped from his bonds and overwhelmed his guard using the bludgeon the faithful Filomena had smuggled to him in the loaf of bread... the government forces continue to shell positions of the gangs in Feleifel and al-Fatira villages in addition to Kafr Oweid town, south of Idlib.
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[NPASYRIA] On Saturday, heads of electoral centers in the western countryside of Suwayda, southern Syria, collected the ID cards of the residents to vote in the elections for the Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... , three days before the start of the elections.
The presidential elections are scheduled to take place on May 26, amid a great economic and living deterioration in the areas held by the Syrian government.
Mahmoud al-Sabe’, (a pseudonym), a resident of the western countryside of Suwayda, said that a number of the heads of the polling centers in the western countryside of Suwayda, collected dozens of ID cards of the residents to vote for Bashir al-Assad.
"They visited the houses in more than 30 villages and towns in the western countryside to collect the largest number of ID cards," he told North Press.
The government appoints the heads of polling centers from the members and secretaries of the Baath Party in the region.
Although local and international bodies agree that the election is shame and that the results are previously determined in favor of the current president, but his loyalists are active during the election campaign within the framework of laws and outside of it.
During the past few months, Suwayda and Daraa governorates witnessed statements of rejection of the election and threats by opposition groups to the supervisors of the voting centers in the region.
Recently, the head of the Judicial Subcommittee for Presidential Elections, Farid Akwan, stated that the number of electoral centers in the governorate reached 356 polling centers distributed over the villages and towns of Suwayda.
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The city of #Hama, central #Syria, has witnessed intensive deployment of the Syrian security forces following the destruction of a photo of Syrian President Bashar #Assad by unidentified individuals.https://t.co/ywseP99vBU
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) May 23, 2021
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Assad's pop not too popular there -20,000 or so murdered.
The de-escalation zones in northwest #Syria witnessed the continuation of mutual bombardment between opposition groups and the Syrian government forces in the #Idlib and #Aleppo countryside.https://t.co/J7JbX5BL5X
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) May 23, 2021
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A shell fired by pro-Turkish opposition groups caused a fire in a wheat field in the town of al-Shuyukh Fawqani, west of #Syria's #Kobani.https://t.co/POcvicvqqh
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) May 23, 2021
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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.
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...... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
