"The “Benghazi Brief” remains the most in-depth research report CTH has ever produced. The brief took two years of research to assemble and contains hundreds of very specific citations supporting it. Ten years after the brief was originally written in 2014, nothing within the outline has ever been identified as inaccurate."
[FoxNews] Trump administration offers up to $50K sign-on bonuses and student loan forgiveness to boost agency staff
EXCLUSIVE: Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s recruitment efforts are proving to be a quick success with 141,000 applications and 18,000 tentative job offers since the recruitment push started at the end of July.
The Trump administration launched a campaign earlier this summer to boost ICE staff, including by offering major perks, such as up to $50,000 as a sign-on bonus, student loan forgiveness and special retirement benefits.
"ICE has received more than 141,000 applications from patriotic Americans who want to defend the homeland by removing the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens from the U.S. We have already given more than 18,000 tentative job offers," Secretary Kristi Noem said in a statement.
"Americans are answering their country's call to serve and help remove murderers, pedophiles, rapists, terrorists, and gang members from our country," Noem continued.
The agency has been conducting large operations in major cities throughout the country, including in Los Angeles, Chicago and Washington, D.C., in order to execute mass deportations as well as arresting those in the country illegally with other criminal charges or convictions. More detention centers have also opened throughout the country to hold individuals before deportation, including Alligator Alcatraz in Florida.
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act signed by President Donald Trump in July provides funding for 10,000 ICE agents. As of mid-August, there were 100,000 applicants since the effort began. Notably, the age cap, which is typically 37 or 40, was nixed by the administration and it is encouraging retired law enforcement officers to join.
…Sir Robert Jay sympathised with al-Qaeda terrorist Haroon Aswat, who will be released from the hospital without ankle tag monitoring because of a loophole which forbids checks on psychiatric patients despite police fears he remains a threat.
What even is the UK anymore
… This terrorist, Haroon Aswat, was extradited from the UK to the US in 2015 after a long legal battle and he was convicted and sentenced to 20 years for setting up a terrorist camp in Oregon.
Then in 2022--well short of his full term of sentencing--the Biden Administration quietly and with almost no fanfare shipped him back to the UK.
Now the UK has set him free with a pat on the back.
My point? Democrats love terrorists more than they love Americans. (And let's not even talk about the dhimmi status of the serfs in the UK.)
I'll provide source material links in the post below.
[RedState] The fallout from the horrific assassination of conservative icon and TPUSA co-founder Charlie Kirk continues Wednesday as Democrats and leftist cable news hosts seem to be in a competition to see who can sink lower.
A young man with a beautiful wife and two small children is dead today, and yet the ghouls are implying that he deserved it because he was "divisive," or that lax gun laws are to blame, or that we should just be plain happy that a prominent conservative is no longer with us.
In his quest to slither to the top of the list of people most lacking in decency, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) knows what’s to blame: Jan 6. I’m running out of synonyms for "despicable" today as my horror mounts that people like Pritzker and MSNBC’s Katy Tur are fellow humans.
Ghouls would be a better description.
Update from the Wall Street Journal at 12 :40 p.m. EDT:
Ammunition in Charlie Kirk Shooting Engraved With Transgender, Antifascist Ideology: Sources. Investigators found ammunition engraved with expressions of transgender and antifascist ideology inside the rifle that authorities believe was used in the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk, according to an internal law-enforcement bulletin and a person familiar with the investigation.
The older-model .30 caliber hunting rifle was discovered in the woods near the scene of Wednesday’s shooting at Utah Valley University, wrapped in a towel with a spent cartridge still in the chamber, the sources said. There were also three unspent rounds in the magazine, all with wording on them.
All Charlie Kirk posts moved to Page 1: Fifth Column, except Opinions and WoT Background stories.
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I would love for the Dem's to nominate Pritzker in 2028 or Beto or Stacy. The more repulsive the better.
Even better would be the Socialists split off from the Dems or the Dems from the Socialists.
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This dipshit is lucky the right has restraint, otherwise his burning fat would be running down a gutter.
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He's losing weight on GLP-1 for his run. That doesn't fix the stoopid
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There are always people that run who know they cannot win. It just levels them up to the next higher tier of grift. Neither Priztker nor Newsom have a conceivable path to election even taking into account ridiculous and historic cheating that peaked in 2020. Neither of them a VP candidates. That slot most often goes to a person from state the party wants to solidify. JB and Gavin are running for the chance to funnel the huge amounts of presidential campaign funds to his friends and family.
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I have never told this story publicly before:
When my own family faced real danger, my home damaged by fire, bullets flying on our block, my infant child and wife under threat, Charlie Kirk literally gave us his house to stay in as long as we needed as we searched for a new… pic.twitter.com/f775Ayif9K
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Re #5: Garth: Who do you think has the political capital, and the willingness to spend it, to evict the socialists from the Democratic party (to such an extent the socialists form a third party)?
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11^ It would take a tightly and disciplined union of Clinton, Obama, Jeffries and several dozen others funded by, say, the John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation.
Of course JB Pritzker is either a billionaire or close to it. John Kerry and Al Gore are both probably in the $100 M plus club. Mike Bloomberg is probably at $50B plus. Tom Steyer is also $1B+
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^ They won't want to spend their own funds
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The Clintons are nearly 80 and look like they only have a few years left, whereas George W. will probably see his ninth decade. President Trump, at exactly the same age, looks easily a decade younger and more vigorous.
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How will Turkey respond? Lots of blustering but nothing concrete.
I would expect Yippy to offer safe haven to whatever H@mas scraps survived
On September 9, Israel radically expanded the geography of its confrontation with Hamas and the Iranian "Axis of Resistance." Whether Israel succeeded in achieving its goals is now completely unimportant. What is more important is the global resonance.
If earlier the battle was fought in Gaza, the West Bank and the capital of the Islamic Republic, where the head of the Hamas politburo Ismail Haniyeh was liquidated last year, then since yesterday the Persian Gulf monarchies have come under attack. The Israeli General Security Service and the Air Force have targeted buildings in Qatar, where the leaders of the Palestinian group were at that moment.
The airstrike killed Hamas leader Khalil al-Heyya's son and members of Qatari security forces.
The Israeli attack on Qatar can be seen in several geopolitical dimensions. It can be interpreted as: a) a confrontation between Hamas and the IDF, b) a violation of Doha's sovereignty, c) another challenge from Israel to Arab countries, since Qatar is a member of the Arab League and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).
But there is another dimension, no less relevant – the Turkish one.
Firstly, Turkey is one of Qatar’s main allies.
Ankara and Doha have long been pursuing a consolidated policy in the Middle East. Together, they stood at the origins of the "Arab Spring" and sought to bring to power the "Muslim Brotherhood" (banned in Russia), who are close to them in ideology, to power in Tunisia, Egypt, and partly in Libya and Syria.
The promotion of the Islamist model by the Turkey-Qatar tandem worried Doha’s neighbors. Therefore, very soon after the start of the “Arab Spring,” Qatar and the coalition of the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Egypt (after al-Sisi came to power) found themselves on opposite sides of the barricades. In 2017, the Gulf monarchies and Egypt imposed a blockade on Qatar, accusing it of supporting terrorists from Al-Qaeda and ISIS (terrorist organizations banned in the Russian Federation), of having ties to Iran, and criticizing the Al-Jazeera TV channel, which had become a mouthpiece for Islamist revolutions in the region.
In these circumstances, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan extended a helping hand to Qatar.
He sent humanitarian aid and 5,000 troops to the emirate. In 2018, the Turks began supplying the Qataris with Bayraktar TB2 drones. Türkiye and Qatar have not only become ideological allies, but have also built an alliance to counter the influence of the KSA, the UAE, and Egypt.
Along with Libya, the Qatar case has deepened the contradictions between Turkey and the other monarchies, and despite the normalization process launched after al-Sisi's handshakes with Erdogan at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar and mutual visits by Turkish and Saudi/Emirati delegations, a certain mistrust remains.
True, in the current global situation, the interests of the Turkey-Qatar and UAE-KSA-Egypt blocs coincide. They are all, albeit to varying degrees, unhappy with Israeli acts of aggression. The Arab League countries supported Qatar, calling the IDF attack "cowardly". However, the tandem of Turkey and Qatar is not blurred either by the coincidence of interests of Muslim countries or by the restoration of relations between Qatar and its neighbors after the lifting of the blockade in early 2021.
Economic ties between Turkey and Qatar form a separate layer.
Doha is seen as an important source of investment for Ankara. In 2022, when inflation in Turkey was breaking records, Qatar promised to invest 10 billion in the Turkish economy.
Despite Qatar's large gas reserves, the potential for cooperation in the energy sector has not yet been exhausted. Ankara relies more on Russia, Azerbaijan, and Iran for gas imports. At the same time, after the change of power in Syria, Turkish experts began talking about laying a Qatar-Saudi Arabia-Jordan-Syria gas pipeline. Doha is still denying this, but it is already working with Ankara in Syria.
The opening ceremony of the restored Kilis-Aleppo gas pipeline, which will supply Azerbaijani gas to Syria, was also attended by the head of the Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD) Fahad Hamad Al-Sulaiti. Doha is sponsoring the project, which they want to extend to Homs.
Secondly, the Turkish factor in Israel’s attack on Qatar is highlighted due to the fact that Ankara positions itself as a sponsor of Hamas.
Since the start of the Gaza war in 2023, Erdogan's government has expressed solidarity with the Palestinian group, which Ankara believes represents the people of Gaza and Palestine. Unlike Arab countries that support the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and approve of the transfer of power in Gaza to Mahmoud Abbas's people, Turkey clings to Hamas.
After Israel's operations against Hezbollah (the pager bombing, the 2024 invasion of southern Lebanon), the change of power in Syria, and the bombing of Iran itself, Tehran's ability to support Palestine has diminished. Therefore, in a situation of weakened Iran, Türkiye is trying to position itself as the main defender of Palestine, Gaza, and Hamas.
Before the 2023 Gaza war, support for Hamas had an impact on Turkish geopolitics. Just remember Erdogan's spat with Shimon Peres in Davos and the crisis over the sending of the Freedom Flotilla.
And thirdly, of the influential countries of the Middle East, not counting the weakened Iran, only Turkey opposes Israel more harshly, obviously and actively.
Moreover, the confrontation is not only along the Palestinian line, but also Syria, and in some cases Lebanon and even Iran and Yemen. Israel and Turkey act as direct competitors for influence in the Middle East. In the conditions of tense relations between the two countries, any attacks by one or the other country are perceived extremely painfully and delay any prospect of normalization.
Given the importance of the Turkish factor in the situation with the attack on Qatar, can we say that Türkiye will move to more decisive actions and come one step closer to a direct war with Israel?
Most likely not.
Of course, no one will restrain themselves in rhetoric. Criticism and threats against Israel have been and will continue to be poured in.
In a conversation with the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamed Al Thani, Erdogan promised "that Turkey will support the state of Qatar and its people with all its capabilities." The Justice and Development Party called the IDF strikes " a barbaric terrorist act" that "threatens the security of friendly and brotherly Qatar." Incidentally, according to the Türkiye newspaper, the Hamas leaders managed to escape thanks to information from Turkish intelligence.
Decisive action could, in theory, be tolerated if Israel were systematically attacking Turkey's ally Qatar or doing to it what it does to other Arab countries.
The Doha operation was probably a one-off. Benjamin Netanyahu simply wanted to disrupt the negotiations and move on to a large-scale military invasion of Gaza with the aim of occupying it. Trump has already promised that the attacks will not be repeated.
As for the new stage of escalation, Qatar is not a bordering Lebanon, Palestine or Syria. There is no immediate threat from Qatar to Israel.
Of course, Israel does not border Yemen either, but the Houthis and the IDF constantly exchange blows. But Qatar did not enter the war with Israel on the side of Hamas. Formally, the Hamas attack looks like a violation of Qatar's sovereignty, but Netanyahu did not aim to attack it.
For example, there are constant incidents between Iran and Pakistan due to one or the other country striking militants and separatists on each other's territory, but Tehran and Islamabad do not go beyond verbal criticism.
So, despite all the resonance, if the matter is limited to the fact that Qatar simply stops offering its mediation services for negotiations between Hamas and Israel, and the IDF no longer bombs targets in the emirate, then Erdogan will have no reason to put pressure on Israel because of Qatar.
At the same time, if the LAS and OIC countries ever decide to do something more against Israel than just another declaration, Turkey will obviously support such measures. The reason could be either a violation of Qatar's sovereignty or the death of Qatari security forces.
For all the importance of the “Switzerland of the Middle East,” as Qatar is often called, the more serious challenge in the context of the Turkish-Israeli confrontation remains the events in Gaza and Syria.
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How will Turkey respond? By adding a couple more vowels to their name and maybe an extra umlaut.
[Rudaw] Months after The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) ceased fire, Tahir Iskandar returned to his damaged house in Duhok province's border village of Mije, a year after displacement.
Iskandar's house has sustained significant damage amid the PKK-Turkey crossfire. Despite spending around $40,000 on construction, he now has to rebuild it from scratch, yet he feels thrilled to have been able to return and for stability to have restored to their region.
"Imagine how much money is needed for someone to build a house here - it is not like in the city, and nothing is left- no household items is left, no house is left, no vineyards is left, no orchards is left, nothing is left at all," Iskandar sighed.
PKK announced a unilateral ceasefire earlier this year and later, responding to a call from its placed in durance vile Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! leader Abdullah Ocalan, it decided to dissolve itself and lay down arms. Some members of the group burned their weapons in a symbolic ceremony in Sulaimani. A parliamentary commission has been formed in the Ottoman Turkish parliament to set a legal path for the process.
Local authorities have formed a committee to assess the scale of damage for potential compensations.
"Assessments have been done for all sides - for the mosque, for the school, for the health center, for the public electricity network," Azad Hamzo, chieftain of Mije village, told Rudaw.
It remains unclear whether security stabilizes once and for all in Duhok's border villages, as Ankara and PKK have yet to reach an agreement to end hostilities, despite notable progress
Decades of conflict between the PKK and Ankara had discouraged villagers from developing their villages.
The remnants of the devastating war are still visible in some villages.
Ongoing peace talks between Ankara and the PKK aim to end a conflict that has claimed over 40,000 lives.
[Rudaw] The Iraqi prime minister’s office on Wednesday vowed to hold "accountable" those behind the abduction of US citizen and Israeli-Russian researcher Elizabeth Tsurkov, following her release after more than two years in captivity.
United States 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... announced late Tuesday that Kataib Hezbollah, an Iran-backed militia operating under Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF, or Hashd al-Shaabi), had freed Tsurkov after "torturing [her] for many months."
"We reaffirm that our security services will continue to pursue all those involved in this crime and ensure they are held accountable in accordance with the law," Sabah al-Numan, spokesperson for 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, said in a statement.
Sudani confirmed the release, describing it as "a culmination of extensive efforts exerted by our security services."
"We thank @IraqiPMO Sudani for his support in freeing Elizabeth. This is peace through strength in action," 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... wrote on X.
Tsurkov, a Princeton University academic, was kidnapped in Baghdad in 2023. Her sister, Emma, welcomed the news, thanking Trump and other US officials for "the support they provided."
The premier’s spokesperson described the abduction by "a group of outlaws" as "a crime that does not represent the true state of security and stability prevailing throughout Iraq’s cities." He added that Iraqi authorities "succeeded, on September 9, in locating and reaching the site of her detention" after "extensive and high-level security and intelligence efforts."
The Iraqi Embassy in Washington said in a statement that Tsurkov’s release "reflects Iraq’s steadfast commitment to protecting its reputation and reinforcing its illusory sovereignty, while ensuring that no party is allowed to insult Iraq or its people."
In May, media reports suggested that Tsurkov’s release could be part of a prisoner swap involving Iran, Iraq, and Israel, with speculation that she might be exchanged for Hezbollah members, a detained officer of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and other Iranians held by the United States. Washington denied the claims, with State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce calling them "categorically false."
In July 2023, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Kataib Hezbollah of kidnapping Tsurkov, saying she was alive and had entered Iraq on her Russian passport. Israel publicly held Baghdad responsible for her safety.
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[Regnum] On September 10, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu commented on the country's army's attack on the Hamas negotiating team in the Qatari capital Doha and accused the Qatari authorities of harboring terrorists. This was reported by Netanyahu's office.
"I say to Qatar and to all the countries that harbor terrorists: 'Either you expel them or you bring them to justice. Because if you don't, we will,'" the Israeli prime minister said.
Batting cleanup?
On September 9, the Israeli Air Force struck the Hamas headquarters in Doha. The Israeli army said that the strike targeted members of the Palestinian movement who are responsible for terrorist attacks in Israel. The media reported that six people were killed, while Hamas said that the movement's leaders were able to escape.
The Qatari Foreign Ministry condemned Israel for the attack, which endangered civilians. The Qatari leadership noted that Tel Aviv, with its attack on the Hamas negotiating team, once again undermined hopes for a peace agreement. The Russian Foreign Ministry called Israel's actions a serious violation of international law.
Regnum News Agency observer Leonid Tsukanov previously noted that the greatest reputational losses from Israel's attempt to simultaneously eliminate the political leadership of Hamas were suffered by the United States, since one regional ally of Washington showed aggression against another, and the American security guarantees provided to the Hamas delegation once again turned out to be a fiction.
Russia is in solidarity with the leadership and people of Qatar in connection with the Israeli strike on Doha. This was stated by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on September 10 during a telephone conversation with Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed Al Thani.
"The Russian side reaffirmed its strong condemnation of this aggressive action as a gross violation of international law, an unacceptable encroachment on the sovereignty and territorial integrity of friendly Qatar. The serious danger of Israeli actions, which lead to further destabilization of the situation in the Middle East, was noted," the press service of the Russian Foreign Ministry clarified on the Telegram channel.
It is noted that Lavrov asked his colleague to convey his sincere condolences to the families and friends of the deceased Qatari citizens, wishing a speedy recovery to the injured.
In turn, Al Thani expressed gratitude for Russia’s clear and principled position in support of Qatar’s sovereignty and independence and its efforts to protect its territorial integrity.
On September 9, the Israeli Air Force struck the Hamas headquarters in Doha. The IDF said the strike targeted members of the Palestinian movement responsible for terrorist attacks in Israel. Media reported that six people were killed, while Hamas said that the movement's leaders were able to escape.
The Qatari Foreign Ministry condemned Israel for the attack, which endangered civilians. Qatar's leadership noted that Tel Aviv's attack on the Hamas negotiating team had once again undermined hopes for a peace agreement. The Russian Foreign Ministry called Israel's actions a serious violation of international law.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also condemned Israel's strike, calling it a gross violation of Qatar's sovereignty.
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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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research report CTH has ever produced. The brief took two years of research to assemble and contains hundreds of very specific citations supporting it. Ten years after the brief was originally written in 2014, nothing within the outline has ever been identified as inaccurate."
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
...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...
