[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] Authorities rescued two teen girls during a sex trafficking operation in Danbury, Connecticut, on Tuesday night, according to police. Five men were taken into custody on a variety of sex crime charges. The raid occurred at what authorities described as a brothel.
Oswaldo Ordonez-Ortega, 39, has been charged with sex trafficking, while the other four men are accused of paying to have sex with underage girls. The two victims, both aged 15, have not been publicly identified. One of the victims was from Queens, New York, while the other recently arrived in the United States from Venezuela
...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south... and had been reported missing out of Manhattan, according to police.
The News-Times reported that Ordonez-Ortega used an intermediary device to contact the two teen girls and convince them to travel to the Danbury residence on Chappelle Street. After the girls arrived at the residence, they were advertised as underage hookers, police said. An unidentified woman connected the two victims to Ordonez-Ortega.
Court documents state that one of the girls, identified as Juvenile 1, told police that she had been to the Chappelle Street residence on three occasions. Ordonez-Ortega facilitated the transport from New York to Connecticut via Uber. Her most recent trip was on Monday and she had sexual intercourse with seven different men. The men allegedly paid Ordonez-Ortega based on the amount of time they spent with her, per court filings obtained by the paper.
The other victim, identified as Juvenile 2 in court documents, told authorities that she had been at the residence for at least a few days. Shortly before police busted the operation, an "unknown male" offered money to have Juvenile 2 perform sexual acts on him. Authorities discovered a man zipping up his pants in a bedroom with the victim during the raid.
The two teen girls, who were both wearing lingerie, did not know each other before they were rescued. The victims were transported to a Danbury Hospital for evaluation, police said.
During the raid, Danbury Police said that officers located Ordonez-Ortega and several other men inside the Chappelle Street apartment. Bryan Vasquez-Salinas, 26, of Danbury, Edwin Ramiro Quilli-Tacuri, 40, of Danbury, and Stalin D. Vasquez, 25, of Bethel, were apprehended inside the residence. Prior to entering the residence, authorities were conducting surveillance at the property and apprehended Marco A. Robles, 40, of Brookfield, who police said exited a basement and got into a vehicle.
Robles, Quilli-Tacuri, and Vasquez-Salinas have been charged with sexual assault, risk of injury to a child, and commercial sex abuse of a minor, while Vasquez has been charged with conspiracy to commit commercial sex abuse of a minor, WTNH reported.
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Did the cops arrest them for prostitution like they did in the UK?
[Garowe] Security forces in Somalia confirmed the death of a senior Al-Shabaab leader along with 50 fighters, in an operation spearheaded by local forces with support from international partners in the fragile Middle Shabelle.
Through a press release, security forces in central regions are said to have conducted an airstrike within Damasha and Shabeelow areas, where the leader of Al-Shabaab's combat vehicles was also killed.
According to reports, the leader, identified as Mansoor Tima-Weeyne, who masterminded the preparation and use of combat vehicles for terrorist attacks, was the leader killed in the airstrike. The airstrikes are part of aerial surveillance operations conducted by the international partners.
Further, reports indicate that Tima-Weeyne had recently arrived from the Bulo Fulay area and was driving a repaired vehicle used by the group for its attacks. His death was described as a major 'win' in the fight against violent extremism in Somalia.
The press statement, in addition, states that the three combat vehicles equipped with heavy machine guns were also destroyed. More than 50 militants were killed, further reducing the capacity of the group to respond to military operations.
While describing the operation as a 'blow' to the group, the military command said the airstrike was carefully planned to avoid any damage to civilians. Both the Somali National Army and the international partners are undertaking operations in central and southern regions.
On Tuesday, the militants targeted the Qahira Hotel on the outskirts of Beledweyne, leaving at least 11 people including traditional elders dead. The siege was ended later on Wednesday following assistance from the Djibouti Defence Forces serving in the African Union Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia.
[Garowe] Puntland Counter-Terrorism Forces killed the head of drone operations for the remnants of the Islamic State group in Somalia during a military operation in the Calmiskaad Mountains on Thursday, regional authorities said.
The offensive targeted militant strongholds in the areas of Lugta Huraanhur and Togga Raq-raq, where forces also seized military supplies and captured command posts used by the terrorists.
The operation marks a significant blow to the ISIS faction in Somalia, which has faced intensified pressure from Puntland’s counter-terrorism units in recent months.
Authorities did not release the identity of the slain drone commander but confirmed the seizure of equipment and infrastructure critical to the group’s operations in the rugged mountain region.
According to reports, the commander is a foreign national who was killed during an operation around the Lugta-Huraanhur and Togga Raq-raq areas of the Al Miskaad mountains in the Bari region, which has been the battlefield for the last two months.
Officials did not disclose whether additional ISIS fighters were eliminated in the operation but noted that Puntland forces had expanded their control in the area, prompting the militants to retreat. Puntland forces have killed more than 200 ISIS militants throughout the operation.
[Garowe] The Somali National Army (SNA) staged a successful attack against the al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... holy warriors, military officials said, noting the significance of the destruction of the base used by the group to launch attacks against security forces and innocent civilians.
According to officials, the military destroyed the base at Biyo Cadle, a rural area near El Buur district in central Somalia’s Galgaduud region. This comes amid an ongoing intensive crackdown against the hard boyz who are predominant in central and southern regions.
The heavily fortified base is used by the hard boyz to wage ground attacks against civilians within the vicinity of the village, officials said. The officers said the operation was in response to increased al-Shabaab activities within the region.
Multiple casualties were reported but the exact figure was not immediately disclosed by the officers. However,
by candlelight every wench is handsome... there are reports that several hard boyz were killed during the operation with weapons seized in the process.
With support from the US Africa Command and 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... Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia, the local forces have managed to make huge strides by liberating several strategic towns within the country.
The raid in the ministry base came hours before Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... forces in the north also managed to kill the ISIS commander responsible for directing drone attacks using explosive-laden unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
[ShabelleMedia] Somali Defense Minister, Abdulkadir Mohamed Nur, announced that more than 150 Al-Shabaab militants were killed in airstrikes carried out in southern Somalia over the past 48 hours.
The strikes targeted areas where the militants had been hiding.
Nur urged the public to avoid areas under Al-Shabaab control, warning that military operations would continue to target the group.
“The airstrikes were successful, and over 150 Al-Shabaab members lost their lives in the operation,” the minister said. “We continue to urge civilians to stay away from areas where the enemy is present. They are being targeted.”
The announcement comes as Al-Shabaab has stepped up its attacks in the central and southern regions of Somalia, attempting to regain control of territories previously lost to Somali and allied forces.
Wandering awfully far from their home on the Afghan-Pakistan border….
[KhaamaPress] Spanish police have arrested 11 Pakistani nationals suspected of being members of the banned militant group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in a coordinated counter-terrorism operation in Barcelona.
Spanish authorities have arrested 11 Pakistani nationals suspected of being members of the banned militant group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). The arrests were made in Barcelona through a joint operation conducted by the National Police, Mossos d’Esquadra, and the Italian Polizia di Stato.
The suspects are accused of promoting extremist activities, including violent acts such as beheadings, through encrypted communication channels, the Jerusalem post reported on Monday, March 10.
According to the news agency, the investigations reveal the group had a hierarchical structure and primarily operated through instant messaging platforms. These platforms were allegedly used to spread extremist ideology, recruit members, and identify potential targets across Europe. Authorities have indicated that the arrested individuals had strong ties to the TTP, often referred to as the “Pakistani Taliban.”
According to the Spanish National Police, this operation is part of a broader counter-terrorism effort that has led to 30 arrests in Spain over the past three years. In this latest phase, ten suspects were detained in Barcelona and its surrounding areas, while another was taken into custody in Italy. Reports suggest that one of the key communication networks was managed by women, who played an active role in radicalization and target selection.
Meanwhile, in Pakistan, the TTP has intensified its attacks on security personnel, particularly in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Pakistani officials claim that the surge in terrorist activities is linked to the presence of TTP sanctuaries in neighboring Afghanistan. They have accused the Afghan Taliban of providing shelter and strategic support to the militant group.
However, the Afghan Taliban have repeatedly denied these allegations, insisting that they do not harbor or support TTP militants. Despite Pakistan’s concerns and diplomatic efforts, cross-border security tensions continue to escalate, raising fears of further instability in the region.
[IsraelTimes] A Palestinian student protester at New York’s Columbia University has been arrested, and another whose visa was revoked “self-deported,” the US Department of Homeland Security said on Friday.
The department said Friday that Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian from the West Bank, was arrested by Newark, New Jersey, immigration officers for overstaying an expired student visa. Her visa expired in January 2022 due to “lack of attendance,” the statement said, adding that Kordia was arrested after partaking in “pro-Hamas protests” at Columbia in April 2024. Around that time, activists took over a campus building and held an unauthorized protest encampment.
Professional protester? Who was paying her?
The other student, Ranjani Srinivasan, from India, had her visa revoked on March 5 for “supporting Hamas and terrorist activities,” the Department of Homeland Security said. Srinivasan was a doctoral student in urban planning at Columbia on a student visa. She used a US Customs and Border Protection app to “self-deport” on Tuesday, the department said.
A Columbia University doctoral student who expressed support for the "anticolonial liberation movement in Palestine" used the Trump administration’s revamped "CBP Home" app to self-deport to Canada about a week after Secretary of State Marco Rubio revoked her student visa, the Department of Homeland Security announced Friday.
Ranjani Srinivasan, an Indian national and doctoral candidate in Urban Planning at Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation was "involved in activities supporting Hammas [sic], a terrorist organization," according to the DHS announcement. The department shared footage from Tuesday of Srinivasan using the "CBP Home" app, the Trump administration’s newly transformed version of the Biden-era "CBP One" app that aims to streamline the self-deportation of illegal immigrants.
[IsraelTimes] Turkish police detained five suspects today on charges of espionage for the Iranian intelligence service, local media reports.
Officers carried out operations in Turkey’s largest city Istanbul as well as in Antalya and Mersin in the south, and detained five people, the DHA news agency reports.
The suspects allegedly collected information about military bases and key regions in Turkey and abroad before passing it on to the Iranian intelligence service, the report says.
There was no immediate information about the nationality of the suspects.
[GEO.TV] A blast tore through a mosque on Friday in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa's South Wazoo district, leaving at least four people injured including district emir of Jamaat Ulema Islam-Fazl (JUI-F), police said.
Abdullah Nadeem, a leader of the JUI-F, was believed to be the target of the blast and had been hospitalised with serious injures, said DPO Asif Bahadur, a district police chief in South Waziristan.
He added that two children were among the injured. It was not immediately clear who was behind the earth-shattering kaboom.
Attacks have been escalating in Pakistain's border regions with Afghanistan in recent months.
Last month, a jacket wallah killed six worshippers Maulana Hamidul Haq Haqqani — son of Maulana Samiul Haq ...the Godfather of the Taliban, late leader of his own faction of the JUI in Pakistain. Known as Mullah Sandwich for his habit of having two young boys at a time. Now beyond all cares and woe, done in by his secretary in a lovers' quarrel... and chief of his own faction of the Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...Assembly of Islamic Clergy, or JUI, is a Pak Deobandi (Hanafi) political party. There are two main branches, one led by Maulana Fazlur Rahman, and one that was led by Maulana Samiul Haq. Fazl is active in Pak politix and Sami spent more time running his madrassah until his secretary rubbed him out in a jealous rage. Both branches sponsor branches of the Taliban, though with plausible deniability... (JUI-S) during Friday prayer at the Darul Uloom Haqqani in Nowshera district.
This week in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... , bandidosmurderous Moslems hijacked a train and held passengers hostage in a day-long standoff with security forces, leaving at least 26 hostages and four security personnel dead.
Last month, a suicide bomber killed six worshippers Maulana Hamidul Haq Haqqani — son of Maulana Samiul Haq and chief of his own faction of the Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-S) during Friday prayer at the Darul Uloom Haqqani in Nowshera district.
[Rudaw] Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani on Friday announced the killing of senior Islamic State (ISIS) leader Abdullah Makki Muslih al-Rafiei, "one of the most dangerous terrorists in Iraq and the world,” in an operation carried out with the support of the United States-led global coalition.
Iraqi intelligence, with the support of the global coalition, "was able to kill the terrorist Abdullah Makki Muslih al-Rafiei, known as Abu Khadija, who holds the position of so-called deputy caliph and who holds the position of the so-called governor of Iraq and Syria,” Sudani said on X.
He did not reveal where or when the operation took place.
Sudani said that Rafiei also held other positions within the extremist group and was "one of the most dangerous terrorists in Iraq and the world."
The United States in 2023 named Rafiei a Specially Designated Global Terrorist as an ISIS leader.
Iraq’s Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein issued a stark warning on Sunday about the growing threat posed by ISIS, saying it poses an increasing danger to Iraq, Jordan, and Syria.
[Rudaw] The Kurdistan Region Security Council (KRSC) said on Friday that it played a key role in killing senior Islamic State (ISIS) leader Abdullah Makki Muslih al-Rafiei, and slammed Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani for failing to credit them.
Rafiei was killed "after several years of investigation and relying on information from the Kurdistan Region Security Council, in coordination with the coalition and later with Iraqi federal forces," the KRSC said.
Sudani had announced earlier in the day that Iraqi intelligence, with the support of the United States-led global coalition against ISIS, carried out an operation targeting Rafiei, aka Abu Khadija. He did not reveal where and when the operation took place.
The KRSC criticized Sudani for failing to credit the Kurdish forces.
"This oversight is not a good indication for the future of cooperation between the regional and federal institutions," the KRSC warned.
"The institutions affiliated with the Kurdistan Region Security Council have played an influential role in confronting the threat of terrorists in this region and will continue to effectively perform this duty. It would be better for the federal government to create a more favorable environment for cooperation and coordination for the sake of maintaining peace and stability throughout Iraq," it added.
Hours later, the Iraqi Special Operations Forces published the details of the operation, stating that it took place in Anbar province on Thursday. It also acknowledged the role of the KRSC in the operation.
Erbil and Baghdad have coordinated in many anti-ISIS operations in the past.
US President Donald Trump ...They hit him with slander, they impeached him twice. Nancy Pelosi tore up his State of the Union address on national TV. They stole an election and put his adherents in jail. They vilified him. They couldn't crucify him, so they shot him. Still, they can't keep him down... reacted to the news on his social media platform Truth Social, saying al-Rifai's ''miserable life was terminated.''
''Today the runaway leader of ISIS in Iraq was killed,'' Trump wrote Friday night. ''He was relentlessly hunted down by our intrepid warfighters. His miserable life was terminated, along with another member of ISIS, in coordination with the Iraqi Government and the Kurdish Regional Government.''
''PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH!'' the president added.
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[Rudaw] Iraqi security forces on Wednesday formed a committee to pursue assailants of Syrian refugees after videos circulated of a group attacking Syrians in the country.
A video circulated on Tuesday of an Iraqi Shiite militia calling itself the "Ya Ali Popular Formations" attacking Syrian refugees in Iraq against the backdrop of the violence in western Syria.
Yet another Shiite group doing the work of IRGC paymasters? Except those fleeing Syria would be Shiite, Alawite, Kurd, of Christian, so why would Iraqi Shiites go after them?
"A security team has been formed to arrest those who attack Syrian citizens working in Iraq and commit violence and inappropriate acts against them," Sabah al-Numan, spokesperson for Iraq’s Joint Operations Command, told Rudaw.
Numan said the team was formed under the directive of Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... i, who on Wednesday condemned the attacks.
"We strongly condemn this criminal act, which violates all human and moral values and constitutes a blatant infringement on human dignity and rights — regardless of nationality or affiliation," Sudani’s office cited Numan as saying.
The attacks drew the condemnation of Damascus. "We condemn the attacks on Syrians in Iraq, as these acts constitute a violation of human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... and international law," the Syrian foreign ministry said in a statement.
It called on Baghdad to pursue the perpetrators and hold them accountable.
On Wednesday, Iraqi interior ministry spokesperson Miqdad Miri said that security agencies and intelligence departments recorded several incidents by foreign nationals that incited sectarian hate and violence.
"These actions are rejected, and those on Iraqi soil must respect the law and traditions of its people, and anyone who crosses the line will be handed over to the law," Miri stressed.
Several Syrian refugees in Iraq have been arrested over the past week for allegedly supporting "extremist organizations."
Loyalists of ousted Syrian dictator Assad on Thursday launched an attack on security forces affiliated with the new Syrian leadership in regions to the west of Syria.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights on Monday reported that around 1,500 people, mostly Alawites, have been killed in the violence by government or government-affiliated forces.
[IsraelTimes] Thousands crowded into Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square on Thursday night for the Purim eve reading of the Book of Esther, which tells the story of the biblical heroine Queen Esther saving the Jewish people from extermination in what is now modern-day Iran, as they connected the plight of the Jews in the ancient city of Shushan to that of the hostages, held in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip by Iran-backed terrorists.
Nearby, hundreds of protesters gathered to support the families of the hostages on the sixth day of their encampment outside the IDF’s headquarters, where they are attempting to put pressure on those in charge to clinch a deal for the release of the remaining 59 hostages.
The Purim gathering at Hostages Square, which included Israelis from different communities, sectors and denominations, also called for parties to agree to a comprehensive deal to return the remaining hostages held in the Gaza Strip in one fell swoop, according to a statement from the Hostages and Missing Families Forum, the main non-government organization representing families of hostages.
The event was dedicated to the 59 hostages still in captivity, 58 of whom were among the 251 people kidnapped during the Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... -led onslaught in southern Israel on October 7, 2023. The Gaza terror group is also holding the body of fallen IDF soldier Lt. Hadar Goldin, who was killed during fighting in the Strip in 2014.
A complex three-phase ceasefire brought more than a year of fighting to a halt in January, and saw dozens of hostages released in small batches in exchange for Israel releasing thousands of Paleostinian security prisoners. But the truce stalled after the first stage and hostage families have demanded the government reach a deal that sees all those still held captive freed together in a single move.
Taking up the cry for a comprehensive deal, hundreds of protesters joined the families of the hostages at their encampment on Tel Aviv’s Begin Road, close to the IDF headquarters, where for the past six nights they have been calling for the release of the hostages.
Banging drums and holding larger-than-life cutouts of the hostages’ faces, the protesters descended onto the busy Tel Aviv street, temporarily blocking traffic as they did.
"All of them! All of them, all of them, all of them!" the protesters chanted. "Why are they still in Gaza?!"
Far-right elements of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition oppose extending the ceasefire deal beyond its first phase, which ended late last month, insisting instead that the war continue until the total destruction of Hamas. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who has asserted that leaving Hamas in Gaza is a major security threat to the country, has threatened to pull his Religious Zionism party from the government, removing its parliamentary majority, if his demand to continue fighting is not met.
The US-mediated hostage deal stalled at the end of its first phase in late February amid mutual accusations of violations by Israel and Hamas.
In an attempt to get the process back on track, US special envoy Steve Witkoff was said on Thursday to have presented Israel and Hamas with a new outline to extend the ceasefire by several weeks in exchange for the release of five living and 10 dead hostages.
The reports drew concern from the families of the hostages, who said the deal, if agreed upon, would leave many of their loved ones in captivity for a "long and undetermined length of time."
[GEO.TV] The United States and Israel have reached out and talked with three East African governments about the forced displacement of Palestinians from Gaza to Sudan, Somalia and its breakaway region of Somaliland, according to Al Jazeera.
Officials from Sudan rejected overtures from the US while officials from Somalia and Somaliland told The Associated Press that they do not know about any contacts.
Officials say approaches also made to breakaway region of Somaliland; Sudanese, Somali and Somaliland officials says proposal rejected.
The US and Israel have reached out to officials of three East African governments to discuss using their territories as potential destinations for resettling Paleostinians uprooted from the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip under US President Donald Trump ...They hit him with slander, they impeached him twice. Nancy Pelosi tore up his State of the Union address on national TV. They stole an election and put his adherents in jail. They vilified him. They couldn't crucify him, so they shot him. Still, they can't keep him down... ’s proposed postwar plan, American and Israeli officials said.
The contacts with Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... , Somalia and the breakaway Somali region known as Somaliland ...Republic of Somaliland is an unrecognised sovereign state in the Horn of Africa, recognised internationally as a de jure part of Somalia. It is located in the southern coast of the Gulf of Aden with approximately 5.7 million residents as of 2021. The capital and largest city is Hargeisa. The government regards itself as the successor state to British Somaliland, which united from 1960 to 1991 with the Trust Territory of Somaliland (the former Italian Somaliland) to form the Somali Republic. Under the Siad Barre regime, Somaliadestroyed ninety percent of Hargeisa Per international law, once you're in, you gotta stay in, no matter how bad it smells.... reflect the determination by the US and Israel to press ahead with a plan that has been widely condemned but has also jolted new energy into planning for Gaza’s future.
Officials from Sudan and Somalia said they had rejected overtures from the US, while officials Somaliland told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that they were not aware of any contacts.
Somalia rejects any proposal that would undermine the Paleostinian people’s right to live peacefully on their ancestral land, its foreign minister said on Friday.
Ahmed Moalim Fiqi told Rooters that Somalia also rejected any plan that would involve the use of its territory for the resettlement of other populations.
Abdirahman Dahir Adan, Somaliland’s foreign minister, told Rooters that "there are no talks with anyone regarding Paleostinians."
Because all three places are poor, and in some cases wracked by violence, the proposal also casts doubt on Trump’s stated goal of resettling Gaza’s Paleostinians in a "beautiful area" where they would enjoy a higher standard of living than in the Strip.
Trump proposed the plan after a US, Egyptian and Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... i-mediated ceasefire halted 15 months of war in the Gaza Strip that began on October 7, 2023, when the Paleostinian terror group Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... led 5,000 attackers to invade southern Israel, killing 1,200 people and abducting hundreds, mostly civilians.
The war caused widespread devastation to Gaza, raising the need for a comprehensive rehabilitation plan that Israel has demanded include a new administration to replace Hamas’s rule. In the meantime, the complex three-phase ceasefire, which included the release of hostages, has stalled after its first stage amid mutual accusations of violations by Israel and Hamas, though so far fighting has not resumed.
Under Trump’s plan, Gaza’s more than 2 million people would be permanently sent elsewhere. He has proposed that the US would take ownership of the territory, oversee a lengthy cleanup process and develop it as a real estate project.
The idea of a mass transfer of Paleostinians was once considered a fantasy of Israel’s ultranationalist fringe. But since Trump presented the idea at a White House meeting last month, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has hailed it as a "bold vision." His allies, including Defense Minister Israel Katz, have touted the formation of a government-backed body to encourage and facilitate voluntary migration out of the Strip.
Paleostinians in Gaza have rejected Trump’s proposal and dismissed Israeli claims that the departures would be voluntary. Arab nations have expressed vehement opposition and offered an alternative reconstruction plan that would leave the Paleostinians in place.
Speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss a secret diplomatic initiative, US and Israeli officials confirmed the contacts with Somalia and Somaliland, while the Americans confirmed Sudan as well. They said it was unclear how much progress the efforts made or at what level the discussions took place.
Separate outreach from the US and Israel to the three potential destinations began last month, days after Trump floated the Gaza plan alongside Netanyahu, according to the US officials, who said that Israel was taking the lead in the discussions.
Israel and the US have a variety of incentives — financial, diplomatic and security — to offer these potential partners. It is a formula that Trump used five years ago when he brokered the Abraham Accords, a series of mutually beneficial diplomatic accords between Israel and four Arab countries.
The White House declined to comment on the outreach efforts. The offices of Netanyahu and Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, a Netanyahu confidant who has been leading Israel’s postwar planning, also had no comment.
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, a longtime advocate of what he calls "voluntary" emigration of Paleostinians, said this week that Israel is working to identify countries to take in Paleostinians.
He also said Israel is preparing a "very large emigration department" within its Defense Ministry.
Here is a closer look at the places the officials say have been approached.
SUDAN
The North African country was among the four Abraham Accord nations that agreed to normalize diplomatic relations with Israel in 2020.
As part of the deal, the US removed Sudan from its list of state supporters of terrorism, a move that gave the country access to international loans and global legitimacy. But relations with Israel never took off as Sudan plunged into civil war between government forces and the RSF paramilitary group.
The conflict has been marked by atrocities, including ethnically motivated killing and rape, according to the UN and rights groups. The International Criminal Court is investigating alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity, and then-US president Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. We get to suffer the consequences... ’s administration in January said the RSF and its proxies were committing genocide.
The US and Israel would be hard-pressed to persuade Paleostinians to leave Gaza, particularly to such a troubled country. But they could offer incentives to the Khartoum government, including debt relief, weapons, technology and diplomatic support.
Two Sudanese officials, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered... to discuss a sensitive diplomatic matter, confirmed that the Trump administration has approached the military-led government about accepting Paleostinians. One of them said the contacts began even before Trump’s inauguration with offers of military assistance against the RSF, assistance with postwar reconstruction and other incentives. Both officials said the Sudanese government rejected the idea.
"This suggestion was immediately rebuffed," said one official. "No one opened this matter again."
Military chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan told an Arab leaders’ summit last week in Cairo that his country "categorically rejects" any plan that aims to transfer "the brotherly Paleostinians from their land under whatever justification or name."
SOMALILAND
Somaliland, a territory of over 3 million people in the Horn of Africa, seceded from Somalia over 30 years ago, but it is not internationally recognized as an independent state. Somalia considers Somaliland part of its territory.
Somaliland’s new president, Abdirahman Mohammed Abdullahi, has made international recognition a priority.
An American official involved in the efforts confirmed that the US was "having a quiet conversation with Somaliland about a range of areas where they can be helpful to the US in exchange for recognition."
The possibility of US recognition could provide an incentive for Abdullahi to back away from the territory’s solidarity with the Paleostinians.
The United Arab Emirates, another Abraham Accord country that has developed strong ties with Israel, once had a military base in Somaliland and maintains commercial interests there, including a port. The territory’s strategic location, in the Gulf of Aden waterway near Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... , home to the Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... rebel group, could also make it a valuable ally.
Over the years, Somaliland has been lauded for its relatively stable political environment, contrasting sharply with Somalia’s ongoing struggles amid deadly attacks by al-Qaeda-linked hard boy group al-Shabaab ... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa... . Since 1991, Somaliland has maintained its own government, currency and security structures. Still, it has one of the lowest income levels in the world.
Somaliland’s Foreign Minister Abdirahman Dahir Adan told Rooters it was not participating in any talks with anyone about the resettlement of Paleostinians.
"I haven’t received such a proposal, and there are no talks with anyone regarding Paleostinians," he said.
SOMALIA
Somalia has been a vocal supporter of the Paleostinians, often hosting peaceful protests on its streets in support of them. The country joined the recent Arab summit that rejected Trump’s plan and seems like an unlikely destination for Paleostinians, even if they did agree to move.
Sambu Chepkorir, a lawyer and conflict researcher in Nairobi, Kenya, said it is difficult to understand why Somalia would want to host Paleostinians given the country’s strong support for Paleostinian self-rule.
"The realignments keep changing, and so maybe there is a hidden agenda in why Somalia," Chepkorir said.
A Somali official, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered... because he was not authorized to talk to the media, said the country had not been approached about taking in Paleostinians from Gaza and there had been no discussions about it.
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[GEO.TV] Hamas said on Friday it received a proposal from mediators to restart Gaza ceasefire negotiations and had agreed to it.
Hamas also said that it agreed to release Edan Alexander, an Israeli American hostage, and will release the bodies of four other hostages.
''The movement affirms its complete readiness to begin negotiations and reach a comprehensive agreement on the issues of the [ceasefire's] second phase, calling for the occupation to fully implement its obligations,'' a statement said as quoted by Al Jazeera.
Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... announced on Friday it had agreed to release hostage soldier Edan Alexander — a dual US-Israeli citizen —and the bodies of four other slain captives who are dual US nationals. In response, the Prime Minister’s Office blasted the terror group for rejecting a wider proposal by US special envoy Steve Witkoff that it said Israel had accepted, and accused Hamas of engaging in psychological warfare.
The Witkoff outline, which Israel says was proposed by the US envoy, would reportedly see 10 living hostages released immediately, a ceasefire through the end of Passover, and the release of all the other hostages if an agreement is reached on ending the war.
"While Israel has accepted the Witkoff proposal," the Prime Minister’s Office said, "Hamas remains firm in its refusal and has not budged one millimeter."
The PMO accused Hamas of engaging in "manipulation and psychological warfare."
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will convene top aides and senior ministers on Saturday night to hear a briefing from Israel’s negotiators, his office said, and to decide on the next steps.
According to the PMO, negotiators who have spent the past week in Doha conducting mediated talks with Hamas were to be brought home later Friday.
Alexander is a soldier who was stationed near the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip on the morning of October 7, 2023, when he was taken captive by Hamas-led gunnies during their brutal onslaught in southern Israel.
He was born in Tel Aviv, grew up in Tenafly, New Jersey, and joined Golani as a lone soldier after graduating from high school in 2022. He is believed to be the only living hostage with American citizenship still held in Gaza.
A gaunt-looking Alexander appeared in a Hamas propaganda video released in November, in which he called on the Israeli government to bring him home.
In the second half of the video, Alexander speaks in English and calls on the incoming Trump administration to work for his release.
In its official statement, Hamas did not provide the names of the four slain dual US nationals or when they would be released. According to Israeli authorities, Hamas is holding the bodies of dual US citizens Judith Weinstein and her husband Gadi Haggai, Omer Neutra, and Itay Chen.
The terror group said it "affirms its complete readiness to initiate negotiations and reach a comprehensive agreement on the issues of the second phase while calling for the occupation (Israel) to fully implement its obligations."
The Hamas move appeared aimed at driving a wedge between Israel and the US.
The Hamas statement indicated that the terror group had accepted an ostensible proposal that was discussed during direct talks with US hostage envoy Adam Boehler, held in recent weeks.
Those talks infuriated Jerusalem, which wasn’t fully kept in the loop, didn’t like that Boehler was discussing Israeli concessions without its knowledge, and feared it would lead Washington to abandon the remaining Israeli hostages after such a deal was reached.
But Boehler’s remit is specifically to try and free American hostages worldwide and his effort was approved by US Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff when the main track of negotiations was stuck due to Israel’s refusal to begin substantive negotiations on the current deal’s second phase. That phase provides for the release of what are believed to be the final 24 living hostages, the freeing of large numbers of Paleostinian gunnies and detainees, a full IDF withdrawal from Gaza and a permanent ceasefire. The deal, which went into effect on January 19, required that those talks begin on the 16th day.
There had not appeared to have been a breakthrough in Boehler’s direct talks — which broke off after Israel learned about them and leaked their existence to the media, according to two US officials — and talks had returned to their original channel led by Witkoff with mediating from 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 Egypt in Doha. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio ...The diminutive 13-year-old Republican U.S. Senator from Florida, Secretary of State in the second Trump administration... on Monday described Boehler’s direct contacts with Hamas as a "one-off situation" that had not borne fruit.
Hamas’s decision to suddenly agree to release Alexander and the four slain dual US-Israeli hostages pointed to an attempt to divide the US and Israel by daring Jerusalem to deny an opportunity to free Americans.
Channel 12 noted Friday afternoon that Israel took a decision in principle at the start of the war not to favor hostages with dual nationalities over those without in its negotiations for the release of captives.
FAMILIES URGE MINISTERS NOT TO WASTE TIME
The Hostages and Missing Families Forum slammed the PMO statement, stating that the issue of the hostages was more urgent and could not wait until after Shabbat for Netanyahu to meet ministers.
Yeah, yeah. Look to the needs of the whole nation, not just your Bibi-hating selves.
Netanyahu had reportedly initially scheduled a security consultation for Friday afternoon, before his office announced that ministers would meet after Shabbat.
"Twenty-four hours in captivity is 24 hours in hell, torture and abuse, those are 24 hours of danger of death and disappearance," the statement said, citing the principle of Pikuah Nefesh in Jewish law, which allows the laws of the sabbath to be broken to save lives.
In an earlier statement, the forum said it welcomed any opportunity to bring hostages home. Addressing Netanyahu, it said it was "deeply horrified" by the chance that hostages may remain in captivity for another extended period and urged him to end the war in exchange for a deal to release them all.
"If the Hamas announcement is true and gets underway, the return of those hostages should be the opening to an agreement that will bring everyone back in immediately in a single stage," the forum said.
"Otherwise, it is selectivity that separates Zionism from its values and continues the abandonment of October 7 on the basis of a foreign passport. If Israel insists on stopping in the middle [of the deal] and leaves its citizens behind — the entire Jewish people will know that they must issue their child a foreign passport, or they will be abandoned," it said.
During ongoing ceasefire talks in Doha this week, Witkoff reportedly proposed to extend the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip by several weeks in exchange for Hamas releasing five living and 10 dead hostages.
His proposal would reportedly maintain the current ceasefire until the end of both Ramadan and Passover, in exchange for the release of additional hostages, according to an Axios report on Thursday. At the same time, Israel would also be required to resume the flow of humanitarian aid into the war-torn Paleostinian enclave.
Hebrew media outlets reported later Thursday that the US proposal would see the ceasefire extended for a further 42-50 days.
Israel gave "a positive response" to Witkoff’s latest proposal, the Axios report said, while Qatar and Egypt were still awaiting Hamas’s response after delivering the details of the outline to the terror group on Wednesday night.
According to a Channel 12 report on Friday, Israel has demanded that eight living hostages be freed. Hamas, for its part, reportedly demanded that the US guarantee that there will be discussions on phase two of the current deal.
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[GEO.TV] An Israeli airstrike on the Zeitoun neighbourhood in the southern part of Gaza City killed four people, medics said on Friday, according to Al Jazeera.
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Supermen? No.
Morally superior as a nation to those who’ve been trying and failing to erase Jews from the face of the earth for nearly a century — not to mention militarily and culturally vastly superior? Absolutely.
[GEO.TV] The Paleostinians said Friday a 21-year-old man was killed by Israel fire near Nablus in the north of the occupied West Bank, as Israel's military said stone-throwers were targeted.
"Omar Abdelhakim Daoud, 21, was martyred by fire from occupation forces in the village of Salem east of Nablus," a Paleostinian health ministry statement said.
An Israeli military spokesperson told AFP "several terrorists" had thrown stones at Israeli soldiers operating in the area, and that a hit was claimed when they opened fire.
Daoud is the latest to die in an Israeli military operation begun on January 21 targeting gangs in the northern West Bank.
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Protests erupt across northeast Syria as activists reject the new constitutional declaration, calling for decentralization and minority rights. Will the new government address these concerns? #Syria#Qamishli#Kurdistanhttps://t.co/7d5DtW5Xza
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) March 14, 2025
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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.
... the personification of Somali state failure...
...the 
[Rudaw] Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani on Friday announced the killing of senior Islamic State (ISIS) leader Abdullah Makki Muslih al-Rafiei, "one of the most dangerous terrorists in Iraq and the world,” in an operation carried out with the support of the United States-led global coalition. 
...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
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..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
