[Breitbart] A previously deported illegal alien has died after he opened fire on Charleston County, South Carolina, sheriff deputies during a police chase this month.
On Feb. 11, illegal alien Floriberto Perez-Nieto of Mexico was sought by the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office as the main suspect in a shooting the day before. When deputies located Perez-Nieto, they attempted to pull him over, but the illegal alien tried to evade arrest and opened fire — shooting a deputy in the chest.
The deputy was wearing a bulletproof vest and did not sustain any injuries. As a result of Perez-Nieto’s opening fire on deputies, they returned fire, and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
“This criminal illegal alien illegally obtained a firearm and nearly killed a law enforcement officer,” the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement. “Thankfully, the officer’s body armor saved his life. There could have been quite a different tragic outcome for this officer and his family.”
DHS officials confirmed on Thursday that Perez-Nieto had previously been arrested after he had crossed the southern border as an unknown got-away. In February 2019, Perez-Nieto was deported from the United States to his native Mexico.
Sometime after this deportation, Perez-Nieto illegally crossed the border again, a felony.
Mali 🇲🇱 Les russes ont subi une nouvelle défaite dans la zone de Kidal. Ce 18 février 2025, une patrouille mixte des #FAMa mercenaires Russes accompagnée d'éclaireurs locaux (milice), a heurté un engin explosif improvisé #EEI entre Aguelhok et Anafif. pic.twitter.com/Fu9CdFBMCj
Mali 🇲🇱 The Russians suffered another defeat in the Kidal area.
On February 18, 2025, a joint patrol of FAMa and Russian mercenaries, accompanied by local scouts (militia), struck an improvised explosive device IED between Aguelhok and Anafif.
🟥▪️Niger : Un mort et 2 blessés dans une attaque à l’EEI dans la région de Tillabéri
Un véhicule militaire nigérien a sauté mardi sur un engin explosif improvisé (EEI) sur l’axe Bankilaré-Wanzarbé, dans la région de Tillabéri, faisant un (1) mort et deux (2) blessés graves… pic.twitter.com/4JnqimSMon
🟥▪️Niger: One dead and 2 injured in an IED attack in the Tillabéri region
A Nigerien military vehicle struck an improvised explosive device (IED) on Tuesday on the Bankilaré-Wanzarbé axis, in the Tillabéri region, resulting in one (1) death and two (2) seriously injured among the soldiers, security sources told us on Thursday.
The incident occurred on February 17, 2026, while the vehicle was on mission in this border area with Mali, regularly targeted by armed groups affiliated with the Islamic State organization. The wounded were evacuated to a military medical facility, according to the same sources.
Mali 🇲🇱 | Le 18/02, vers 13h, un convoi composé de FAMa, de mercenaires russes 🇷🇺 de l'Africa Corp et d'éclaireurs touaregs du GATIA a été la cible de deux attaques du FLA (Front de Libération de l'Azawad) et du JNIM proche d'Aguelhok (Kidal)
Russian mercenaries 🇷🇺 from the Africa Corps, and Tuareg scouts from the GATIA was the target of two attacks by the FLA (Azawad Liberation Front) and JNIM near Aguelhok (Kidal)
🔹 The FLA claims to have attacked the convoy using two FPV drones, while JNIM claims that the convoy's vehicles hit an IED they had planted.
🔴 According to initial reports, at least 6 GATIA members were killed by the explosions.
🔵 Damage is visible on 3 convoy vehicles that were abandoned on site (📷 in thumbnail).
⚠️ During the attack, due to operator mishandling, the drone exploded, killing two FLA members including Mohamed Ag Intalla (📷 in thumbnail) and Alizahid Ag Mahmoud, and injuring two others.
ℹ️ Mohamed Ag Intalla is the son of Al-Ghabass Ag Intalla, FLA commander who led the Tinzaouaten attack that cost the lives of nearly 80 Russian mercenaries 🇷🇺 from Wagner (former name of the Africa Corps).
🚨🇧🇫Au Burkina Faso, une série d’attaques coordonnées a fait plus de 180 morts le week-end dernier. Plusieurs villes du nord et de l’Est ont été frappées simultanément, tandis que près de 80 soldats auraient été tués lors de l’assaut contre une base militaire à Titao, selon des… pic.twitter.com/z33mWGHVIm
🚨🇧🇫In Burkina Faso, a series of coordinated attacks has left more than 180 dead over the past weekend.
Several cities in the north and east were struck simultaneously, while nearly 80 soldiers are said to have been killed during an assault on a military base in Titao, according to documents reviewed by Reuters.
The military junta led by Ibrahim Traoré has, at this stage, made no official statement on these attacks.
Yobe: Troops Disperse Terrorists, Arrest Five Suspected Arms Smugglers
By: Zagazola Makama
Troops of Operation Hadin Kai have disrupted a suspected terrorist gathering and arrested five suspected arms smugglers during separate operations in Yobe State.
Yobe: Troops Disperse Terrorists, Arrest Five Suspected Arms Smugglers
By Zagazola Makama
Troops of Operation Hadin Kai have disrupted a suspected terrorist gathering and arrested five suspected arms smugglers during separate operations in Yobe State.
Security sources said that at about 6:21 p.m. on Feb. 17, troops conducted a fire mission following credible intelligence that terrorists were converging in large numbers on motorcycles at Mangari, about 10.6 kilometres from the location of the 135 Special Forces Battalion in Buratai.
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[Regnum] The Federal Security Service published a video from Penal Colony No. 7 in Zabaykalsky Krai, where a secret terrorist cell was busted, on February 19.
Security forces conducted a search of the penal colony and seized literature promoting the activities of an international terrorist organization.
Security forces also filmed footage of the arrest of the cell's organizers in Russian regions.
Svetlana Petrenko, official representative of the Russian Investigative Committee, clarified that the cell was created by individuals previously convicted of serious and especially serious crimes.
"At the request of the investigators, the court ordered pretrial detention for five suspects. Two of the defendants are currently serving their sentences in penal colonies in the Trans-Baikal Territory," Petrenko said.
The illegal activities of seven members of a terrorist cell were stopped in Correctional Colony No. 7 in Zabaikalsky Krai. The cell was created in the interests of an international terrorist organization banned in Russia to recruit prisoners and raise money.
In Transbaikalia, Dagestan, the Volgograd region, and Kuban, FSB officers detained the cell's organizers and main participants.
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[Regnum] Danish authorities have detained the Iranian-flagged container ship Nora, which was anchored in Danish waters. Reuters reported this on Thursday, February 19.
The vessel was detained on suspicion of improper registration. It previously sailed under the Comoros flag, but the authorities of that country informed the Danish side that the container ship was not listed in their registry.
"The vessel is detained until the flag state proves to the Danish Maritime Authority that it is registered and... certified," the agency quoted the Danish Maritime Authority as saying.
Danish authorities also intend to conduct their own inspection on board as soon as weather conditions permit. The agency also noted that the Nora shares the same International Maritime Organization (IMOR) number as the container ship CERUS, which is on the US Treasury Department's sanctions list.
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[FoxNews] Meridian Police Chief Tracy Basterrechea says suspect staged accelerant in vegetation before driving emergency vehicle into DHS building
State and federal authorities are investigating after a suspect allegedly stole an ambulance, loaded up staged gas cans and plowed the emergency vehicle into a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) office in Idaho — in what investigators believe was an attempted arson attack.
Just after 11 p.m. Wednesday, an ambulance was stolen from a bay at St. Luke's West hospital.
The suspect then drove the ambulance directly into the North Portico building, which houses DHS offices, Basterrechea said.
Investigators believe the suspect poured an accelerant inside and around the outside of the ambulance.
However, the suspect was unable to ignite the accelerant before being scared off by responding agencies, according to Basterrechea.
"We want to emphasize that this was a serious criminal act," Basterrechea said. "The theft and destruction of an emergency vehicle not only created a risk to responding personnel, but it also temporarily removed a critical medical resource from the community."
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Don't mess with my Idaho. The perp was lucky not to get a "leadecillin" injection from a citizen. We are a concealed carry state. Many patients (including me) visit that complex and hospital next door.
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Sounds like it could be Antifa, as anticipated:
MPD says the suspect was wearing a black shirt, tan pants, and a medical-style mask when they crashed the ambulance into the Portico North building at around 25 mph. Before retrieving gasoline that was staged in the bushes between St. Luke's and Portico.#Idahonews#newsupdatepic.twitter.com/ZFgNxvxb2b
[FoxBusinessNews] Federal prosecutors say the San Jose residents used their tech company positions to steal confidential information and obstruct justice
Three Silicon Valley engineers were arrested and charged with stealing trade secrets from Google and other U.S. technology firms and transferring sensitive data to unauthorized locations, including Iran, federal prosecutors announced Thursday.
Samaneh Ghandali, 41, Soroor Ghandali, 32, and Mohammadjavad Khosravi, also known as Mohammad Khosravi, 40, all of San Jose, were arrested Thursday, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ).
A federal grand jury indicted the engineers on charges of conspiracy to commit trade secret theft, theft and attempted theft of trade secrets, and obstruction of justice.
"We have enhanced safeguards to protect our confidential information and immediately alerted law enforcement after discovering this incident," Google spokesperson José Castañeda said in a statement to FOX Business. "Today’s indictments are an important step towards accountability and we'll continue working to ensure our trade secrets remain secure."
The defendants gained employment at technology companies focused on mobile computer processors, according to the indictment unsealed Thursday.
According to prosecutors, sisters Samaneh Ghandali and Soroor Ghandali worked at Google before moving to another technology company identified as "Company 3," headquartered in Santa Clara, California. Khosravi, who is married to Samaneh Ghandali, worked at a separate company identified in the indictment as Company 2, headquartered in San Diego.
The DOJ alleges the defendants used their positions to access confidential and sensitive information as part of a scheme to steal trade secrets.
The defendants "exfiltrated confidential and sensitive documents, including trade secrets related to processor security and cryptography and other technologies, from Google and other technology companies to unauthorized third-party and personal locations, including to work devices associated with each other’s employers, and to Iran."
"As alleged, the defendants exploited their positions to steal confidential trade secrets from their employers," United States Attorney Craig H. Missakian said in a statement. "Our office will continue to lead the way in protecting American innovation and we will vigorously prosecute individuals who steal sensitive advanced technologies for improper gain or to benefit countries that wish us ill."
The indictment alleges that while working at Google, Samaneh Ghandali transferred hundreds of files, including company trade secrets, to a third-party communications platform. Soroor Ghandali is also accused of transferring Google trade secret files while employed at the company.
Prosecutors allege the defendants attempted to conceal their actions by submitting "false, signed affidavits to victim technology companies about the conduct and the stolen trade secrets, destroying exfiltrated files and other records from electronic devices, and concealing the methods of exfiltration to avoid detection by the victim technology companies."
According to a Google spokesperson, the company discovered the alleged theft through routine security monitoring and referred the case to law enforcement after conducting its own internal investigation.
Google said it maintains robust security measures to protect its confidential information and intellectual property, including limiting employee access to sensitive data, requiring device authentication before network access, and mandating two-factor authentication for work accounts.
Additionally, Google logs employee activity on its network, including file transfers to third-party platforms such as Telegram. The company began blocking uploads to Telegram from corporate laptops last year.
The indictment states that Google took "numerous measures to safeguard its confidential technology, information, and trade secrets."
Prosecutors said Google secured its physical space and restricted access to its buildings, along with its computer systems and network.
According to the indictment, Samaneh Ghandali is an Iranian national who became a U.S. citizen around 2018,
…soon to lose that…
Mohammadjavad Khosravi is an Iranian national who became a U.S. legal permanent resident around 2019,
…soon to lose that…
and Soroor Ghandali was in the United States on a nonimmigrant student visa.
..having lost the key exam, unofficial though it was. Though California will no doubt fight to maintain their right to vote.
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[IsraelTimes] IDF troops captured two wanted Palestinians suspected of involvement in terror activities in the Nablus area of the northern West Bank earlier today, the military says.
In two separate villages near Nablus, the IDF says soldiers of the Duvdevan commando unit nabbed a Palestinian affiliated with the former Lion’s Den terror group and another Palestinian involved in building explosive devices.
During the arrest of the Lion’s Den member, the military says the commandos captured weapons, including a handgun.
[IsraelTimes] Police say they arrested two Palestinian men on suspicion of online incitement during separate raids overnight in the southern West Bank.
During the arrests, officers put up leaflets near the homes of both suspects, warning residents that Israeli intelligence agents surveil Palestinian social media activity.
“Even during the month of Ramadan, Israeli intelligence forces monitor what you do on the internet,” the leaflet reads. “You have been warned.”
In a raid on Beit Ummar, a village north of Hebron, police nabbed a 26-year-old man who allegedly affiliated with Hamas and encouraged attacks against Israelis on the Telegram messaging app, confiscating his electronic devices and transferring him to interrogation.
The same night in al-Khader, south of Bethlehem, officers arrested a 20-year-old on similar suspicions, seizing his laptop, police say. He was also brought in for questioning by police.
Incitement to nationalist violence is a terrorism offense under Israeli law and those convicted often face prison time.
Most of Beit Ummar falls within Area B of the West Bank, meaning the Palestinian Authority exercises civil authority over village residents, while Israel maintains security control. Most of Al-Khader is located in Area C, under full Israeli control.
[IsraelTimes] A kilometer-long Hamas tunnel in northern Gaza’s Beit Hanoun was recently demolished by combat engineers, the military says.
According to the IDF, the tunnel featured several rooms where Hamas operatives would hide out. Inside, the army says troops found several explosive devices.
The tunnel was located on the Israeli side of the Gaza ceasefire line during mop-up operations of the Gaza Division’s Northern Brigade. It was then razed by the elite Yahalom combat engineering unit.
The military believes that at least 60% of Hamas’s estimated 550-650 kilometers (350-400 miles) tunnel network across the Strip is still intact.
[IsraelTimes] An attempt to smuggle three assault rifles into Israel from Egypt using a drone was foiled yesterday, the Israel Defense Forces says.
The IDF says the drone was spotted crossing the border by soldiers monitoring surveillance cameras and the Israeli Air Force’s air traffic control array.
Troops of the Paran Regional Brigade then downed the drone, which was found to be ferrying three assault rifles, the military says.
The weapons were handed over to the police for further investigation, the IDF adds.
🚨 WATCH: Israeli special forces arrested 2 wanted terror suspects near Shechem in northern Judea and Samaria.
Duvdevan, guided by Shin Bet intel, detained a Lions’ Den member and a suspect building explosives. A handgun and ammo were seized. pic.twitter.com/2XBP7jV8pH
It’s been a while since we heard about the Lion’s Den crowd, who draw fighters from all the local jihadi and socialist/communist terror groups in what appears to be an entirely ad hoc manner. Established in 2022 by local members of various terror groups, including Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, led by one Ibrahim Nabulsi, a wanted Palestinian gunman who was killed almost immediately in an Israeli raid in Nablus. In our archives as Lions Den and Lion’s Den, because apostrophes matter.…
[IsraelTimes] Tourists Lindsay and Craig Foreman, both in their 50s, have been held since January 2025; UK blasts ‘appalling and totally unjustifiable’ sentences
A British couple detained in Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... since January 2025 have been sentenced to 10 years in jail for espionage, their family announced on Thursday, prompting condemnation from the UK government.
Lindsay and Craig Foreman, both in their 50s, were arrested while traveling through the country on an around-the-world cycle of violence journey,
…with somehow not the slightest inkling that beyond the borders of the West they have no rights or protections whatsoever….
according to relatives, and have consistently denied Tehran’s spying claims.
Their family says the sentences follow a court appearance last October that lasted just three hours and in which they were not allowed to present any defense.
"They have consistently denied the allegations. No, no! Certainly not! We have seen no evidence to support the charge of espionage," their son Joe Bennett said in a statement revealing the jail terms.
"We are deeply concerned about their welfare and about the lack of transparency in the judicial process."
British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper hit out at the sentences, calling them "completely appalling and totally unjustifiable."
'IT'S HELL ON EARTH'
British couple Lindsay & Craig Foreman, who were detained in Iran whilst on a motorcycling trip, accused of espionage, have been sentenced to 10 years in jail.
"We will pursue this case relentlessly with the Iranian government until we see Craig and Lindsay Foreman safely returned to the UK and reunited with their family," she said in a statement.
"In the meantime, their welfare is our priority and we will continue to provide consular assistance to them and their families," Cooper added.
The couple were first detained as they passed through Kerman, in central Iran, while on the round-the-world cycle of violence trip.
Tehran has insisted they are spies, with Iran’s judiciary front man Asghar Jahangir last year alleging that the Foremans entered Iran "posing as tourists" and gathered information before their arrest.
Lindsay Foreman is currently being held in the women’s section of Evin Prison in Tehran, while Craig is in its political wing.
The prison has long been criticized by international human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... organizations for its dire conditions and treatment of prisoners.
Their family has raised concerns about conditions, including cramped cells and a lack of food, as well as a lack of legal representation, and urged the British government to secure their freedom.
Bennett has said the couple was "caught in the middle" of geopolitical tensions between Tehran and other Western countries, most notably the United States, as well as "very difficult" UK-Iran relations.
Yes. Which is why it’s a really, really dumb idea to go wandering around there, just because it’s pretty and historic, and of course terribly inexpensive in the usual Third World way — not to mention that bit between here and there that has to be got through somehow.
He and other relatives have been campaigning publicly on the case ever since their arrests.
They marked the one-year anniversary of the detentions by handing in a petition to Downing Street signed by tens of thousands of people urging the British government to do more to free them.
Iranian threats facing US Navy vessels near the strait of Hormuz -
The Shahid Soleimani-class catamaran missile corvettes of Iran's IRGC Navy pose a serious asymmetric threat to US Navy vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. These high-speed (up to 32 knots) ~ 65m platforms carry… pic.twitter.com/ygoASU05Lq
The Shahid Soleimani-class catamaran missile corvettes of Iran's IRGC Navy pose a serious asymmetric threat to US Navy vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. These high-speed (up to 32 knots) ~ 65m platforms carry vertical launchers for long-range anti-ship cruise missiles.
The IRGC claims the Soleimani-class catamarans even have stealth capability. They extend strike reach beyond the chokepoint, support swarm boats, enable hit-and-run tactics in confined waters, potentially disrupting naval operations or commercial shipping in this critical chokepoint.
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Those are not a problem. While they are fast, they aren’t faster than a missile and smaller ships generally only have point AA defense. Drones and Boghammers will be the problems.
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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.
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
