[FoxNews] Kristi Noem will reportedly join President Donald Trump and 12 Latin American leaders at his resort in Florida for a "Shield of the Americas" summit Saturday after her ouster as the Secretary of Homeland Security and appointment by President Donald Trump to be special envoy for the new coalition of nations.
On Thursday, Trump announced Noem would be exiting her role as Homeland Security secretary and would be appointed a Special Envoy for the "Shield of the Americas," a summit for which will be held at the president's resort in Doral, Florida, on Saturday. The new coalition of 13 countries has been formed to advance strategies that will tackle mass illegal immigration, narco-terrorist gangs and cartels.
"After years of neglect, President Trump established the ‘Donroe Doctrine’ to restore American preeminence in the Western Hemisphere. His efforts have been a tremendous success – our southern border is secure, Latin American countries are working with us to defeat the cartels, and illegitimate dictator Nicolas Maduro is facing justice for his crimes in the Southern District of New York – ushering in historic economic cooperation with Venezuela," said White House spokesperson Anna Kelly ahead of the summit.
"The President has successfully strengthened our relationships in our own backyard to make the entire region safer and more stable, and this weekend’s ‘Shield of the Americas’ Summit will encapsulate all of his work to Make America, and our partners, Strong Again," she continued.
Noem confirmed Friday, speaking from Nashville, that she will be at the summit, according to the Associated Press. Noem reportedly added that the president will announce "a big agreement" detailing "how we’re going to go after cartels and drug trafficking in the entire Western Hemisphere."
On Friday, Hegseth led a strategic conference in Doral with representatives of 17 different Caribbean, Central American and South American countries throughout the Western Hemisphere. During the conference, they signed a joint security declaration, reaffirming their commitment to peace and sovereignty in the region. According to a source familiar with the plans for the summit, the president plans to celebrate this achievement with attendees.
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I wonder how long it's been the plan to move Noem to special envoy? Are all the stories about Noem being in disfavor with the President more made up crap by reporters?
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^ It's called "booking" in wrestling, and the person in charge of it for a promotion is known as The Booker. It's how you work out angles, cards, and out-of-the-ring drama in advance; sometimes very far in advance. All with the goal of keeping the fans engaged and entertained. Not every angle works out, so a great Booker has to constantly adapt.
Trump definitely knows all about booking, and future historians may look back on him as the greatest Booker of all time. America is his ring, other countries are behind stage, and we are his audience.
Bilan des opérations militaires – Février 2026 | Pays de l’AES
🔹 Au cours du mois de février 2026, les armées du Mali, du Niger et du Burkina Faso — membres de l’Alliance des États du Sahel — ont régulièrement diffusé des bilans de leurs opérations antiterroristes, via leurs… pic.twitter.com/LhqTzAyzjV
Military Operations Report – February 2026 | AES Countries
🔹 During the month of February 2026, the armies of Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso — members of the Alliance of Sahel States — regularly released reports on their counterterrorism operations via their communication networks.
🇲🇱 Report from Mali:
According to the Malian Armed Forces, a dozen airstrikes were carried out during the month.
The army claims to have neutralized more than a hundred individuals presented as terrorists or suspects, and destroyed several vehicles, motorcycles, and logistical equipment. Weapons, ammunition, and communication devices were also reportedly seized.
🇳🇪 Report from Niger:
The Nigerien Armed Forces announced this month: 163 terrorists neutralized, 99 suspects apprehended, and 20 IEDs defused.
Equipment was also reportedly seized (weapons, sticks of dynamite, rolls of detonating cord, fuel cans).
At the beginning of the month, the Nigerien army also reported the deaths of 3 FDS members and 7 others wounded during an attack.
🇧🇫 Report from Burkina Faso:
Without publishing precise figures, the Burkinabè army reported more than fifteen operations and clashes during the month of February, indicating the neutralization of several terrorists and criminals.
It notably claims to have neutralized more than a hundred fighters during a counterattack conducted in Titao.
⚠️ The figures provided come exclusively from the official communications of the armies concerned and remain, at this stage, difficult to verify independently.
[IsraelTimes] Across from a vigil attended by 100, some 300-400 revelers waving Israeli, UK, and pre-regime Iranian flags celebrate killing of Islamic Republic’s leader
Dozens of people gathered in Manchester on Wednesday night to attend a candlelit vigil for ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...> , the Iranian supreme leader killed by Israel on Saturday at the start of the ongoing US-Israel attack on Iran, prompting a significantly larger counter-protest celebrating his death to take place nearby.
Around 100 people were estimated by local media to have attended the vigil in the center of the British city for the late Iranian leader, whose 36-year rule over the Islamic Theocratic Republic was marked by his hatred of the West — particularly the United States and Israel — and his regime’s brutal treatment of the Iranian public.
By contrast, local media estimated that between 300 and 400 people, including Iranians and members of the local Jewish community, gathered for a counter-protest across the street, with heavy police presence separating the two events.
The vigil for Khamenei was promoted by the Friends of the Islamic Centre of Manchester, local media reported, although it was not clear whether the group was directly responsible for organizing the event, as posters attributed it to only "the Moslem Community."
The Telegraph newspaper reported that the Ahlul-Bayt Islamic Society at Manchester University was also heavily involved in the vigil, and had promoted it as an event "honoring the Ayatollah."
In images from the vigil, black-and-white photographs of Khamenei could be seen propped against walls and laid out on a table draped in black, alongside electric candles and white flowers.
A large sign on the table read "You can kill a man, but you can’t kill an ideology," and another declared, "We stand with the Revolution," referring to the 1979 Islamic Revolution that established theocratic rule in Iran.
Many of the attendees carried placards and photos of Khamenei, as well as Iranian and Paleostinian flags. One person was seen burning a photo of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, echoing scenes from the counter-protest across the street, where photos of Khamenei were being sent up in flames.
While local media described the mood at the candlelit vigil as "somber," the scenes from across the street were cheerful and celebratory. There, people danced in circles to Persian music while waving the pre-1979 Iranian flag with the Lion and Sun emblem in the center. Israel’s Star of David flag and the British Union Jack fluttered among the crowd as well.
Some of the counter-protesters held posters of US President Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons... , and The Independent reported that at one point, the disco song "YMCA" by the Village People was blasted through the speakers, apparently in a nod to the US president, who regularly plays the upbeat tune at his rallies.
Pictures of Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of the last shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who was ousted in 1979, also featured prominently among the revelers, and video footage showed a group of protesters chanting "King Reza Pahlavi! King Reza Pahlavi!" to the beat of thumping music.
The Manchester Evening News reported that due to the heavy police presence on the street, the two events passed largely without incident, with the exception of "a few scuffles" toward the end of the night as the groups dispersed.
In an update on Thursday morning, the Greater Manchester Police said "last night’s vigil and planned protest concluded peacefully, with no significant disruption and no arrests."
"The event concluded at 10 p.m., and both groups dispersed safely while following police instructions," it added. "There were a small number of isolated incidents."
In Manchester, England, Moslems make up 22.3% of the city's population, one of the fastest-growing demographics in the Greater Manchester area.
And the area might ring a bell with y'all if you had a chance to read my VIP post from last Friday, on the local by-election that was just held in Greater Manchester's Gorton and Denton constituency. The Moslem vote was hugely influential - and courted assiduously - by the Green Party candidate who tripped the light fantastic to Paleostinian death anthems on city streets to garner voters. She triumphed over the Reform candidate, and they both left the unpopular Labour candidate trailing badly behind them.
This was a Parliamentary seat that had been in Labour's hands for almost a century.
It was considered an embarrassing rout for Keir Starmer and one more nail in his career's coffin.
The Reform candidate noted that extrapolated data from the documented allegations of what's known as 'family voting' (where a couple enters a voting booth and the husband instructs the wife whom to vote for), prevalent in majority Moslem British communities, nearly met the margin of victory for the Green Party over him, and the word 'fraud' is being used.
All across the British Isles, the Islamic community is in a state of mourning, And this area, naturally, would be beside itself at the much-deserved whacking the Ayatollah Khamenei just received, pieces be upon him.
Everyone was planning some sort of remembrance ceremony or vigil for the vile, murderous old bastich.
Mosques across UK hold tearful vigils for dead Ayatollah who 'had British blood on his hands'
A number of mosques across the UK have held vigils for the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...> - despite the brutal former ruler being described as having "British blood on his hands".
At the Islamic Centre of England in north London, candlelit photographs of the 86-year-old were placed outside, with one member of the congregation heard on video shouting: "We will obey you Khamenei."
The ICE was recently named in a letter by a group of Labour MPs sent to security minister Dan Jarvis, who raised alarm over several organizations they believe are promoting the Iranian regime’s agenda on British soil.
The centre has been under Charity Commission investigation since 2022 over claims it operates as an extension of the Iranian state, which it denies.
Greater Manchester was no different. They had a tasteful, silent candlelight ceremony planned for tonight at their local mosque. Nothing too flashy - he was one of those austere holy mans, after all.
But something so phenomenal happened tonight instead.
So joyously, jubilantly uplifting, and totally the opposite of every hate-filled Moslem counter protest ever.
Iranians, accompanied by hundreds of locals, have gathered in the streets outside the Manchester mosque, where Khamenei mourners had gathered...
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
[KavkazUzel] FSB officers accused a resident of the village of Usemikent in the Kayakent District of making public calls for terrorism and extremism. The case was opened after a lecture by the preacher was published online.
According to investigators, in 2018, the suspect posted audio materials of a lecture by a preacher of an international terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation on the social network VKontakte, accessible to the general public.
According to investigators, the lecture contains calls for violence and armed struggle, and also justifies terrorist activity, the press service of the FSB Directorate for Dagestan reported.
The criminal case is being investigated under articles on public calls for terrorism and public calls for extremist activity.
"Currently, measures are being taken to establish all the circumstances of the crime and the persons involved," the press service clarified.
Investigators did not specify in the report which preacher was being referred to or the specific topic of his lectures. The name of the banned terrorist organization was also not provided.
[FoxNews] Brawl erupts when man tried tearing down Khamenei poster in Washington Square Park
Chaos erupted in Washington Square Park in Manhattan as a vigil mourning the death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei descended into violence Friday, with video capturing a man being pummeled to the ground while attempting to tear down a poster of the late Iranian leader.
Video showed a man attempting to pull down a poster of the dictator — killed last week in an Israeli airstrike — when a man wearing a SpongeBob sweatshirt punched him in the face, sending him to the ground.
Others began fighting, prompting New York City Police Department (NYPD) intervention.
As the brawl unfolded, the crowd could be heard shouting profanity.
Multiple people were captured on video being detained by police.
The vigil featured a makeshift memorial table covered with Palestinian keffiyeh scarves, candles and photos of Khamenei, with an observer describing the scene as the "People’s Republic of New York."
Meanwhile, nearby counter-protesters waved Iranian, American and Israeli flags while chanting "U.S.A."
In a flyer announcing the event, organizers called Khamenei's death an "assassination by U.S. government forces."
Saturday's downtown Tehran strike that killed Khamenei and other regime leaders was carried out by the Israeli military.
U.S. officials have denied any involvement.
"Throughout his life, Khamenei defended the dignity of the Iranian people and stood firmly against zionism [sic] and the criminal American regime," organizers wrote on the flyer. "Since the Islamic Revolution in 1979 overthrew the U.S.-backed puppet government, the Iranian people have resisted Western domination and the exploitation of their land, labor, and resources.
"In that time, Iran severed all ties with the zionist [sic] regime and was the first country to host a Palestinian embassy on its soil, all while materially supporting Palestinian resistance and national liberation movements across the world."
Among Khamenei's supporters were a group of counter-protesters who slammed the vigil while holding American flags and pre-1979 Islamic Revolution Iranian Lion and Sun flags.
"We're here to show everyone that Iranians don't like the regime," a man at the vigil told Fox News contributor Nicole Parker on "Hannity."
"My family is in Iran, but all of them are fighting against the regime," another woman told Parker. "They're happy about this, they want this war — this war is not about [the] Iranian people, this war is against the Islamic Republic."
[PJMedia] Mosques in Manassas, Va., and Dearborn, Mich., held memorials honoring the "martyr" — i.e., eliminated terrorist leader of 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... Ayatollah Khamenei — and one of the mosques reportedly has multiple ties to prominent Democrat politicians.
The Dearborn imam blamed Israel for the Trump administration’s decision to launch Operation Epic Fury, which Trump himself emphatically denied — saying the Iranian terrorist regime simply threatened and attacked Americans one too many times.
As a reminder, Ayatollah Khamenei spent almost four decades leading a regime that was the worst state sponsor of terrorism in the world. In recent years, he increased religious persecution, helped orchestrate the worst day of massacre of Jews since the Holocaust (Oct. 7), and stepped up politically motivated executions. This year, Khamenei oversaw a bloody crackdown on anti-regime protesters within his nation that left over 30,000 Persians dead. This is the man whom some American Moslems wanted to honor and mourn.
Fox News explained:
Located in Manassas, Virginia, and Dearborn Heights, Michigan, the mosques both publicly advertised events eulogizing the slain leader. In a flyer for the "Potluck Iftar" honoring Khamenei, which is a ceremony where Muslims break their Ramadan fast, the Manassass Mosque, which has faced questions over alleged ties to Iran, referred to Khamenei as "our leader." Meanwhile, at the Islamic House of Wisdom (IHW) in Dearborn Heights, which has also faced scrutiny over its ties to Iran, the center's Imam Mohammad Ali Elahi called the U.S. military offensive "evil" and argued that it was based on false-pretenses.
The Dearborn imam ranted irrationally and inaccurately, “You promised that America First, and now we ended up to have [Israeli Prime Minister] Netanyahu first.”
He furiously, mendaciously, and ominously raved, “Now we realize that all their talk about nuclear [unintelligible] was a joke, it didn't even exist. From the beginning talking about regime change, we want to change, because we don't like it. So, starting an illegal – illegal war – and then go and bomb the house of the leader of the country. Where is justification for this? Where is their reason for this, at all?”
The justification would be the half a century of Iranian regime Jihad against America. Apparently this imam wants us to ignore the fact that Khamenei regularly affirmed “death to America” was his policy. Or perhaps the imam simply supported that policy and so sees no issue with it. The imam certainly claimed that highly dubious reports of the U.S.-Israeli strike deliberately wrecking a Tehran school were true.
From Fox again:
Both the Manassas Mosque and the IWH were listed in a July 2023 letter that Congressional Republicans sent to former Attorney General Merrick Garland and former Director of National Intelligence during the Biden administration, Avril Haines. The letter called out a network of U.S.-based mosques throughout the country that have received financial funding from the Alavi Foundation, which lawmakers said "is a large foundation that has been in litigation for years because of allegations it operates on behalf of the Iranian regime, a state sponsor of terrorism," or have other close ties to the Iranian regime.
The GOP letter accused, “The Imam of IHW, Mohammad Ali Elahi, served as the head of ‘political ideology’ for the Iranian Navy in the 1980s, according to a publicly available Central Intelligence Agency report. He personally claims to be ‘friends’ with three former Iranian Presidents, and since moving to the US, he has had seemingly non-stop contact with senior regime officials.” But he also seemingly has ties to Democrats like John Kerry and Kamala Harris.
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I think what the world needs now, is Pedro Pascal's opinion on the matter.
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^ I had no idea he was ghey. I thought those were smile lines
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Not sure why the death of s sociopathic Islamic dictator would make people so emotional. It’s not like anyone’s family may have been a victim of coercion or assassination. Let’s try to get along.
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[EconomicTimesInfra] The Lloyd’s of London market is engaging with the U.S. government’s International Development Finance Corporation over a plan to provide political risk insurance and guarantees for maritime trade in the Gulf, Lloyd’s market officials said on Thursday."
"Political Risk Insurance guarantees" can include provisions to cover losses incurred owing to acts of war.
LoL wants the USN to be there to:
1. Protect the tankers; while
2. Conducting drone bird dogging and removal exercises.
While the oil shipping companies:
1. Receive insurance coverage to the degree necessary ("ka-CHING") to facilitate movement through the Strait of Hormuz; which:
2. Are Captained and Crewed by very well-paid personnel.
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...By the end of March 5th Iranian ballistic missile attacks had diminished by 90 percent, drone attacks were down by 83 percent....During the first week of air operations against Iranian security forces the IRGC has lost about 15 percent of its personnel to desertion, with some of those men leaving with their weapons and joining the armed rebel groups forming inside Iran. Another one percent of IRGC men have been killed and few percent more wounded....IRGC\Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which normally consists of about 120,000 members. The volunteer Basij militia has up to half a million armed members and the Iranian army, navy and air force comprise about 400,000 active duty personnel.
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StrategyPage has been forecasting Russian impending collapse for about a year now; so he may be optimistically biased
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Don't know if it lends credence to his claims, but the numbers he quotes for IRGC and Bas(en)ji jive with other estimates I've seen.
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...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...
...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...>
...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 
