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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Illegal Alien From Guatemala Being Harbored Under Democract Washington State Sanctuary Law, Slaughters Two Women
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Posted by: Fred || 09/19/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1792 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  God, I so hate these people.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 09/19/2025 4:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Cultural incompatibility, why can it not be acknowledged ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/19/2025 5:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Several of the countries in Central America have been in political and social upheaval for decades. The end result has been the gestation of two generations of male sociopaths who hunt women. There is also a high rate of alcoholism in that kettle of chaos. The [Obama]/Biden regime invited, bankrolled and facilitated the illegal immigration of these sociopaths. They are now hunting our women in our streets and drunkenly careening about our highways. Thanks Mayorkas.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/19/2025 6:31 Comments || Top||

#4  Until some politician or bureaucrat faces consequences (pick one), this shows no sign of stopping.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 09/19/2025 6:33 Comments || Top||

#5  Still haven't figured out that the hard core Demoncrats believe in human sacrifice to Baal?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/19/2025 8:07 Comments || Top||

#6  Doodah has it right. If justice prevailed we could start with Obama and work our way down to the state level.
Posted by: alanc || 09/19/2025 9:07 Comments || Top||

#7 
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 09/19/2025 15:48 Comments || Top||

#8  Charge the State officials responsible as accessories to murder.
Posted by: Gerthudion Bucket9415 || 09/19/2025 20:49 Comments || Top||


-Obits-
Four service members [160th] were aboard military helicopter that crashed near Joint Base Lewis-McChord: Army
[FoxNews] Officials lost contact with aircraft near Joint Base Lewis-McChord Wednesday night

The U.S. Army Special Operations Command Public Affairs office told Fox News Digital the "aviation mishap" happened around 9 p.m. local time and four service members assigned to the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne) were on board the MH-60 Black Hawk.

The crash happened in the Summit Lake area, according to a Facebook post from the Thurston County Sheriff's Office.

"We have been advised that the military lost contact with a helicopter in the area, and we are working closely with JBLM to deploy any resources needed to assist," the post said.

The conditions of the service members are unclear, as of Thursday night.

The cause of the crash is under investigation, according to the Army.

The base is about 10 miles south of Tacoma under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Army Joint Base Headquarters.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/19/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1776 views] Top|| File under:


Africa Subsaharan
Islamic State - West Africa Province (ISWAP) attacked Nigerian Army camp in Goneri, Yobe State.
Posted by: badanov || 09/19/2025 05:10 || Comments || Link || [1771 views] Top|| File under:


Fifth Column
Federal police officers arrested Chandler Patey outside the Portland ICE facility
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/19/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1779 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Great. Hang him for sedition.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/19/2025 0:37 Comments || Top||

#2  /\ THIS! Totally agree.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 09/19/2025 4:57 Comments || Top||

#3  Who paid the rent ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/19/2025 5:48 Comments || Top||

#4  As a Co-conspirator.
He might see some real jail time, IF it were NOT handled by the Federal Ninth Circuit Court system.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/19/2025 6:46 Comments || Top||

#5  Technically, the defendant should be charged and tried in their home district or the district where the crime took place, but the Dems and RINOs blew all that up for the J6 trials, so let’s drop all the ANTIFA cases in Florida or Texas.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/19/2025 7:18 Comments || Top||


Arkansas leftist Kerri Rollo, who destroyed a Charlie Kirk memorial in front of the Bentonville courthouse, has not only lost her job but has also been evicted
Posted by: Fred || 09/19/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1766 views] Top|| File under: Nut Jobs

#1  Don’t worry, there are enough hard left dems to help her get her happy meals until all this blow over!
Posted by: Phoper Johnson4269 || 09/19/2025 6:53 Comments || Top||

#2  She can die in the street for all I care at this point. Enjoy Karma.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 09/19/2025 8:48 Comments || Top||

#3  Freedom of speech isn't freedom from consequences. Being a douche bag just means you get thrown out with the rest of the garbage.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 09/19/2025 9:00 Comments || Top||

#4  Let them whine about "muh tyranny"
Ignore them.
Destroy them completely, they're going to yell about it but nobody cares.
Posted by: Elmomoter Mussolini9149 || 09/19/2025 14:25 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Coast Guard seizes over 5K lbs of cocaine and apprehends nearly 60 suspected narco-terrorists as part of its Operation Pacific Viper
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/19/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1802 views] Top|| File under: Narcos

#1  My solution preference.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/19/2025 5:57 Comments || Top||

#2  Demand sure must be pretty high for that stuff.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 09/19/2025 7:00 Comments || Top||

#3  Coast Guard seizes cocaine, suspected narco-terrorists in Pacific Viper raid

Video footage shared with Fox News Digital depicts the Coast Guard cutter Seneca, which is part of Operation Pacific Viper, completing a drug interdiction Sept. 10 northeast of the Galápagos Islands, which resulted in the seizure of 5,500 pounds of cocaine from a low-profile vessel.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/19/2025 8:25 Comments || Top||

#4  Demand sure must be pretty high for that stuff.

Maps reveal the states where drug overdoses are surging... despite nationwide rate dropping
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/19/2025 9:30 Comments || Top||

#5  Demand sure must be pretty high for that stuff.

Americans love their booger sugar and that is what makes the cartels rich.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/19/2025 10:52 Comments || Top||

#6  From Skidmark's link:

However, experts have also suggested the fentanyl crisis in the US has been so catastrophic that it is running out of people to kill, naturally causing overdose deaths to decrease.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/19/2025 13:49 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Four IDF soldiers killed in roadside bomb attack in southern Gaza’s Rafah
[IsraelTimes] Casualties named as Maj. Omri Chai Ben Moshe, 26, Lt. Eran Shelem, 23, Lt. Eitan Avner Ben Itzhak, 22, and Lt. Ron Arieli, 20, bringing ground op death toll to 469

Four IDF soldiers were killed and three others were wounded in a roadside bomb attack in southern Gaza’s Rafah on Thursday morning, the military announced hours later.

The slain soldiers were named by the IDF as Maj. Omri Chai Ben Moshe, 26, from Tzafria; Lt. Eran Shelem, 23, from Ramat Yohanan; Lt. Eitan Avner Ben Itzhak, 22, from Har Bracha; and Lt. Ron Arieli, 20, from Hadera.

Their deaths on Thursday brought Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip to 469. The toll includes two police officers and three Defense Ministry civilian contractors.

All four of the slain soldiers served with the Bahad 1 officers’ school’s Dekel Battalion. Ben Moshe was a company commander, while the other three troops were cadets and posthumously promoted to lieutenant.

Before joining the officers’ course, Ben Moshe was a company commander in the Paratroopers Brigade; Shelem was a soldier in the elite Sayeret Matkal unit; Ben Itzhak served in the Commando Brigade; and Arieli served in the Golani Brigade.

According to an initial IDF probe, the incident took place during operations in Rafah’s Jenina neighborhood at around 9:30 a.m., as a D9 armored bulldozer was clearing a route while two Humvees drove behind it.

One of the Humvees then moved to the side of the road, where it was hit by an explosive device. The blast killed the four soldiers and wounded three others, including one seriously and two moderately.

The military was still investigating what type of explosive was used, how it was activated, and when it was placed there.

Images circulating on social media on Thursday showed the aftermath of the deadly roadside bomb attack and the heavily damaged IDF Humvee.

While Rafah has been largely cleared of Hamas operatives and terror infrastructure, the IDF believes there are several dozen operatives still there, mostly in the Jenina area. Earlier Thursday, before the attack, different troops of the Bahad 1 school had three engagements with terror operatives, according to the army.

Laie Defrin said that IDF forces “are still operating in the Jenina neighborhood and destroying terror infrastructure.”

Defrin added that there are “still underground infrastructures in the area that have yet to be destroyed, and our forces are working to do so.”

The four casualties announced on Thursday were the first Israeli fatalities in Gaza since four soldiers were killed 10 days ago in a Hamas attack on the outskirts of Gaza City.

Since then, the IDF launched a major ground offensive in Gaza City at the beginning of the week, moving ahead with a plan to conquer the city in the Strip’s north after weeks of preparation.

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir said Tuesday that “our aim is to deepen the blows to Hamas until its defeat.”

He asserted that Hamas had been dealt severe blows: “We have defeated the main part of its military power, and now we are deepening the achievements that will allow us to bring the end of the war closer.”

The war began when Hamas-led terrorists invaded southern Israel on October 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking 251 hostages to Gaza. Terror groups are still holding 47 of them captive in Gaza, including the bodies of at least 25 confirmed dead by Israeli authorities.

The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 65,000 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far, though the toll cannot be verified and does not differentiate between civilians and fighters.

Israel says it had killed over 22,000 combatants in battle as of August and another 1,600 terrorists inside Israel during the October 7 onslaught. Israel says it seeks to minimize civilian fatalities and stresses that Hamas uses Gaza’s civilians as human shields, fighting from civilian areas, including homes, hospitals, schools, and mosques.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/19/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1774 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Two soldiers killed by knifeman driving Gaza-bound aid truck at West Bank-Jordan crossing
[IsraelTimes] Assailant shot dead at scene, but troops scan area for additional suspects; security sources says attack will temporarily interrupt Gaza aid deliveries from Jordan

Two Israeli soldiers were killed in a shooting and stabbing attack near Allenby Crossing between the West Bank and Jordan on Thursday. The assailant was a Jordanian who had been driving a humanitarian aid truck headed for the Gaza Strip.

The perpetrator arrived at Allenby Crossing from the Jordanian side at around 3 p.m., driving a truck transporting humanitarian aid intended for the Gaza Strip. Upon his arrival, he opened fire at soldiers at the crossing with a handgun, before the truck could be inspected, a preliminary military investigation found.

He then got out of the truck and, after his gun apparently jammed, stabbed the two soldiers repeatedly until security guards at the crossing opened fire at him, killing him.

The slain soldiers were named as: Lt. Col. (res.) Yitzhak Harosh, 68, a reservist in the Civil Administration, from Jerusalem, and Sgt. Oran Hershko, 20, a liaison officer with foreign forces in the IDF’s Tevel international cooperation unit, from Tel Mond.

The Israel Defense Forces confirmed that security forces had “neutralized the terrorist” at the scene of the attack, adding that troops were carrying out scans in the area for additional suspects and briefly encircled the nearby West Bank town of Jericho. The IDF lifted its partial closure on the city after an hour.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry confirmed that the attacker was a citizen of Jordan, and blamed the assault on Jordanian incitement.

“Israel facilitates humanitarian aid to Gaza, and the terrorists exploit it to murder Israelis,” wrote the Foreign Ministry.

“A Jordanian who was supposed to drive a humanitarian aid truck to Gaza, murdered two Israelis at the Allenby border crossing,” the ministry wrote on X, using uncharacteristically pugnacious language. “This is yet another result of the vile incitement in Jordan. This is the result of the echoing of Hamas’s campaign of lies.”

Across the border, Jordanian government spokesman Mohammad al-Momani said Jordan was monitoring reports of a security incident at the Allenby Crossing.

In a statement later on Thursday evening, the Jordanian Foreign Ministry announced that the country’s security services had launched an investigation into “the shooting incident” on the Israeli side of the order crossing.

The foreign ministry said Jordan “condemned and rejected” the attack “as a violation of international law, Jordan’s interests, and its ability to deliver humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.

Sharing more details about the assailant, the statement named him as Abd al-Mutalib al-Qaisi, a 57-year-old who had started working as a truck driver distributing aid to Gaza just three months ago.

No terror group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.

According to Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, since the beginning of the war in Gaza in October 2023, nearly 10,000 trucks of aid, or over 144,000 tons, have been transferred to the Gaza Strip from Jordan using land crossings with Israel and the West Bank. The total represents some 7% of all aid deliveries.

An Israeli security source told Kan news that the deadly attack would likely interfere with Gaza aid delivery schedules, as the Israeli side of Allenby Crossing, as well as the route from the crossing to the Gaza border, would be closed for an unspecified period of time.

The IDF confirmed as much, saying on Thursday evening that it was recommending to the country’s political leadership to temporarily halt the transport of Gaza-bound aid through the Allenby Crossing.

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir issued the recommendation following consultations with COGAT chief Maj. Gen. Ghassan Alian and Central Command chief Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth, the military said.

The aid coming through the border crossing should be halted until an investigation is completed and the inspection procedures for Jordanian drivers are updated, they recommended.

Aid will continue entering the Gaza Strip via other routes, a military official said, amid the rapidly expanding Israeli offensive in Gaza City, which has left tens of thousands of Palestinians fleeing to the south of the Strip.

The Allenby Bridge Crossing is the West Bank’s sole crossing with Jordan.

In September 2024, three Israeli men, Yohanan Shchori, Yuri Birnbaum, and Adrian Marcelo Podzamczer, were killed in a terrorist shooting at the Allenby Crossing, carried out by a Jordanian truck driver.

The following month, in October 2024, two Israelis were wounded in a shooting near the Dead Sea carried out by terror operatives who had infiltrated from Jordan.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/19/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1774 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  I still think a two-state solution could work... as long as the states were on different planets.
Posted by: SteveS || 09/19/2025 13:32 Comments || Top||


Surveillance camera footage shows the moment an explosive drone struck a hotel in Israel's southernmost city of Eilat
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Posted by: Fred || 09/19/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1779 views] Top|| File under: Houthis



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