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Breaking: DNI Tulsi Gabbard is resigning effective June 30th due to her husbands' bone cancer diagnosis
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Gabbard, as DNI, began a transformational effort to reshape the Intelligence Community— reducing the agency in size and saving taxpayers more than $700 million per year, dismantling DEI programs in the IC and more.
Gabbard, as of this month, declassified more than half a million pages of government records, including those related to the Trump-Russia investigation, the JFK and RFK assassinations and more.
Freedom fighters of the @AfgFreedomAFF launched coordinated rocket strikes on a Taliban-controlled base near Kabul Military Airport on Wednesday night. The base was reportedly being used to… pic.twitter.com/04dZ9u3LKh
Freedom fighters of the AFF launched coordinated rocket strikes on a Taliban-controlled base near Kabul Military Airport on Wednesday night. The base was reportedly being used to store military equipment and train Taliban forces. The attack triggered a large fire, although the number of casualties remains unknown.
The Front stated that the operation was part of its broader ongoing activities across the country and claimed that none of its fighters were harmed during the attack. AFF appears to be an Iranian backed group
🇲🇽 #Mexico - 🇳🇬 #Nigeria: The NDLEA (Nigeria’s equivalent of the DEA) has uncovered the largest clandestine methamphetamine laboratory ever discovered in the country, hidden deep inside the Abidagba forest in Ogun State.
🇲🇽 #Mexico - 🇳🇬 #Nigeria: The NDLEA (Nigeria’s equivalent of the DEA) has uncovered the largest clandestine methamphetamine laboratory ever discovered in the country, hidden deep inside the Abidagba forest in Ogun State.
Authorities arrested 10 suspects, including three Mexican nationals brought into the country as expert meth "cooks" linked to Mexican cartels.
Diversification, perhaps. Do the Mexican drug cartels anticipate things will get a little too hot back home?
This comes in the context of a growing trend of Mexican cartels expanding drug-production operations into parts of Africa through the use of foreign chemists and technical specialists.
[IsraelTimes] Viviana Fein allegedly failed to preserve evidence at apartment of Alberto Nisman, who was found shot hours before testimony on president’s cover-up of Iran’s role in 1994 massacre
The former prosecutor who led the investigation into a mysterious 2015 death that unnerved Argentina ...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita... ’s Jewish community has been charged with concealing evidence in the case.
Viviana Fein was indicted on May 12 on charges of "aggravated concealment" over her handling of the investigation into the death of Alberto Nisman, a special prosecutor appointed to investigate the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people.
On January 18, 2015, Nisman was found dead in his Buenos Aires apartment with a bullet hole above his right ear, having been shot at point-blank range. His body was discovered hours before he was scheduled to present evidence before Argentinian politicians, accusing then-president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and other bigwigs of allegedly covering up Iran’s role in the AMIA attack.
At the time, Fein declared Nisman’s death a suicide, but in May 2016, she slightly amended her view, saying that he may have been forced to kill himself. Then, in 2017, forensic Sherlocks issued a report stating that Nisman was assassinated. Jewish institutions have also maintained that he was murdered.
Under the Argentine Penal Code, aggravated concealment applies to a person who did not participate in a crime, but who later helped perpetrators cover their tracks. In the indictment against Fein, Judge Julián Ercolini said the former prosecutor failed to properly preserve the scene of the crime at Nisman’s apartment, and let dozens of people enter and exit the apartment without proper controls, potentially contaminating evidence and compromising the investigation.
The controversy surrounding the handling of the original scene of the crime has persisted for years. Judicial investigations and expert reports described the apartment as chaotic in the hours after Nisman’s death, with allegations that evidence may have been mishandled or destroyed.
Fein, who could face up to three years in prison if found guilty, has denied any wrongdoing. A week before Fein’s indictment, her attorney, Lucio Simonetti, demanded the charges be dropped, stating that in the case of a cover-up, "there must necessarily be a connection between the perpetrator of the underlying crime and the person covering it up, since it is absurd to assume that someone would cover up for a complete stranger."
Simonetti added that the indictment "says nothing about any prior relationship existing between my client and the individuals who allegedly took part in the supposed murder of Natalio Alberto Nisman."
The prosecution comes as Argentina’s government takes a newly aggressive stance against 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... and Hezbollah, which are widely understood to have planned the bombing.
Since Javier Milei, a conservative supporter of Israel, was elected in 2023, the country has officially declared Iran and Hezbollah responsible for the AMIA attack and another attack two years earlier on the Israeli embassy; designated Iran’s Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization; and decided to pursue a trial in absentia for suspects in the AMIA case.
[IsraelTimes] Prosecutors say Ali S. was arrested in Denmark in June for plots against Josef Schuster, as well as two Jewish grocers and pro-Israel politician; alleged accomplice is in custody
A man arrested last year has been charged with espionage and attempted participation in murder after an Iranian intelligence agency tasked him with gathering information on the head of Germany’s main Jewish group and three others with a view to carrying out attacks, German prosecutors said Thursday.
The suspect, a Danish national identified only as Ali S. in line with German privacy rules, was arrested last June in Denmark. An alleged accomplice, an Afghan national identified as Tawab M., also was arrested there in November. Federal prosecutors said they filed an indictment against the pair at the Hamburg state court on May 7.
Ali S. was charged with working as an agent for an intelligence service, acting as a secret agent for purposes of sabotage and attempted participation in murder and arson. Tawab M. was charged with attempted participation in murder.
Prosecutors alleged that Ali S. worked for the intelligence service of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard and was in close contact with the Guard’s expeditionary Quds Force.
They said that, at the beginning of 2025, he was tasked with gathering information on the head of Germany’s Central Council of Jews, Josef Schuster, and on the head of the German-Israeli Society, prominent former German lawmaker Volker Beck, as well as two Jewish grocers in Berlin whom they didn’t identify.
“All this served for the preparation of assassination and arson attacks in Germany,” prosecutors said in a statement.
Ali S. scouted out various locations in Berlin last year and sought accomplices for attacks, they added. By May 2025, he was in contact with Tawab M., who allegedly said that he was prepared to procure a weapon for an unidentified third person and arrange for him to try to kill Beck.
German newspaper Der Spiegel said Ali S.’s defense attorney vowed to contest the charges against the suspect, while an attorney for Tawab M. declined to comment.
After Ali S. was arrested last year, Iran’s ambassador was summoned to the German Foreign Ministry. The Iranian Embassy at the time rejected what it called “unfounded and dangerous allegations” of an apparent plan for an attack on Jewish facilities.
In a statement Thursday, the German-Israeli Society said Beck, its president, had been warned for six weeks last summer that “an attack could come at any moment.”
The statement quoted Beck as saying that German democracy and Jewish life in the country were under constant threat of attack from Iran and that “this must not go unpunished.”
Following Thursday’s indictment, the Society demanded Berlin expel the Iranian ambassador, freeze assets linked to Iran’s slain Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and levy sanctions on Iran-linked financial institutions.
Diaspora Jewish communities have faced an uptick in attacks since the US and Israel launched war on Iran on February 28 in a bid to destabilize its regime and destroy its ballistic missile and nuclear programs.
Authorities have been probing possible Iran links in several of the attacks. Last week, the US Justice Department announced the arrest of a senior commander of an Iran-backed Iraqi militia for plotting what prosecutors said were close to 20 terror attacks on Jewish targets in the US, Europe and Canada during the Iran war.
[IsraelTimes] Mladenov warns that if ceasefire falls apart, current division of Gaza could become permanent; Palestinians say boy, 13, killed in IDF strike; army says it targeted people approaching Yellow Line
The Board of Peace’s lead envoy for 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... called on the UN Security Council on Thursday "to use every means at its disposal" to press Hamas ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... to disarm, warning that failure to do so could see the enclave’s current division could become permanent.
US President Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... set up the Board of Peace to oversee his ambitious plan to end Israel’s two-year war in Gaza that was sparked by the October 7, 2023, Hamas massacre, and rebuild the shattered territory.
But its implementation has stalled, with Hamas refusing to lay down arms and Israel maintaining troops in a large swathe of Gaza representing around 60% of the 365-square-kilometre (140-square-mile) enclave. Even before the war, the territory was one of the most densely populated places in the world.
"The risk is that the deteriorating status quo becomes permanent — a divided Gaza, Hamas holding military and administrative control over 2 million people across less than half the territory," Nickolay Mladenov, Trump’s Board of Peace envoy for Gaza, told the Security Council in New York.
He said this would lead to another generation of Gazooks living in tents and preclude Israeli security and any viable path to Paleostinian statehood. "This is a version of the future that Israelis, Paleostinians and the region should all fear and all mobilise to avoid," he said.
His report to the New York body said that Hamas’ refusal to hand over weapons and relinquish control was the "principal obstacle" to implementation. He also recognised continuing Israeli ceasefire violations and deadly strikes while acknowledging a funding gap.
"Reconstruction financing will not follow where weapons have not been laid down. No investment, no movement, no horizon," Mladenov told the body, which has recognised the board, although not all major powers have joined.
Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem said Mladenov’s remarks were an "attempt to create justifications for the occupation’s escalation against the people of the Gaza Strip and for tightening the siege imposed on them."
Aid groups say humanitarian supplies into Gaza remain constrained despite guarantees of increased assistance under the ceasefire.
BOY KILLED
Mladenov’s comments come as violence continued in the Strip despite the ceasefire.
The Israel Defense Forces said troops operating in northern Gaza killed a suspect after he crossed the Yellow Line and approached soldiers in a "manner that posed an immediate threat."
According to the military, soldiers of the 14th Reserve Armored Brigade identified the suspect as he was carrying out "suspicious activity" before targeting him.
However,
those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... Hamas-run health officials said that the strike killed a 13-year-old boy.
Medics said the boy was killed and others maimed when an Israeli drone dropped a grenade in the town of Beit Lahiya.
The IDF later said that an inquiry indicated the minor was with the person its troops had struck.
Israel says its post-ceasefire strikes are aimed at preventing attacks or stopping people from approaching its armistice line with Hamas.
EVACUATION WARNINGS
Gaza residents say Israeli forces have in recent days resumed issuing evacuation orders ahead of strikes. Witnesses reported at least three such warnings in the past two days, targeting two homes and a tent encampment.
The orders came at night, forcing dozens of families to flee in the darkness, they said.
On Tuesday, the military ordered displaced families at a tent encampment in the densely populated Mawasi area in Khan Younis to leave before striking a tent, witnesses said. It issued a similar warning in the Bureij camp in northern Gaza before bombing a house, according to witnesses.
Ibrahim Ismail, 60, said that on Wednesday night, the army ordered him and several families to evacuate their four-storey apartment building in central Gaza before bombing it. Nearby homes were also damaged, and two people were maimed, he said.
On Thursday morning, residents of the area rushed to check on their homes, sifting through the wreckage for whatever items and clothes they could save. Others used a bulldozer to clear roads of rubble from houses damaged or destroyed in the Israeli air strike.
"Look. You work for 30 years and, in five minutes, everything is gone. Don’t speak of a ceasefire or truce — it’s all lies. War is war," Ismail said.
Israel’s military did not immediately provide comment on the orders telling people to flee. In the past, it has said that the orders aim to prevent civilian harm when targeting terror groups. It has not said why it might have resumed issuing such orders in Gaza.
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I'd suggest carpet bombing, but I'm overly sensitive
Posted by: Frank G ||
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"Look. You work for 30 years and, in five minutes, everything is gone."
Sometimes, life just be that way. But look on the bright side! You had 30 good years of hating the Juice and looking the other way while your neighbors planned murderous evil. That has to count for something.
🚨 KURDISH SOURCES REPORT REGIME DEPLOYMENTS IN KERMANSHAH
Kurdish sources report that Iranian regime forces are deploying military convoys, heavy weapons, and troops into the streets of Kermanshah amid growing fears of internal collapse.
🚨 KURDISH SOURCES REPORT REGIME DEPLOYMENTS IN KERMANSHAH
Kurdish sources report that Iranian regime forces are deploying military convoys, heavy weapons, and troops into the streets of Kermanshah amid growing fears of internal collapse.
Kermanshah is a major Kurdish city in western Iran near the Iraqi border, a region with a long history of anti-regime unrest and deep resentment toward Tehran.
🚨 IDF COMBAT PHOTOGRAPHER SERIOUSLY WOUNDED IN LEBANON
An IDF Spokesperson Unit combat photographer was seriously injured yesterday by an explosive drone in southern Lebanon while embedded with 401st Brigade forces.
🚨 IDF COMBAT PHOTOGRAPHER SERIOUSLY WOUNDED IN LEBANON
An IDF Spokesperson Unit combat photographer was seriously injured yesterday by an explosive drone in southern Lebanon while embedded with 401st Brigade forces.
She underwent surgery overnight.
Before she was hit, she had been documenting IDF operations alongside maneuvering troops in the area
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 
..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
