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Homeland Security Task Force Operation Results in Charges for 26 Gang Members in Massachusetts with RICO Violations Related to Five Murders, Drug Trafficking, and Firearm Offenses
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Africa Horn
The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) violently interrogated me, detained me in darkness for weeks, and tried to force me to rape

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“The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) violently interrogated me, detained me in darkness for weeks, and tried to force me to rape a male cellmate at gunpoint.”

On 9 June, on behalf of twelve Sudanese victims, Legal Action Worldwide (LAW) and The African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) filed a landmark criminal complaint with Kenya’s Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) in Nairobi, Kenya.

More at the link
Posted by: badanov || 06/11/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1800 views] Top|| File under:


Africa North
Tuareg rebels from the Azawad Liberation Front (FLA) are said to have used Libya as a rear base in the context of retaking Kidal

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Mali 🇲🇱 - Libya 🇱🇾 | Tuareg rebels from the Azawad Liberation Front (FLA) are said to have used Libya as a rear base in the context of retaking Kidal.

🔴 According to a report from the news site « Africa Intelligence », the FLA is said to have exploited the Fezzan region (southern Libya), near the city of Ubari, as a logistics base and starting point for launching its offensive on April 25.

🔶 This presumed axis would extend from southern Libya 🇱🇾 via Niger 🇳🇪 to northern Mali 🇲🇱 (📸) and would pass through the famous « Salvador Pass », a major strategic crossroads in northern Niger, used by terrorist groups and arms and drug traffickers.

🔸 It would enable the transit of military equipment, fuel, and fighters, who would return to Libyan territory at the end of operations.

ℹ️ This route being controlled by armed groups operating in Niger, it would have forced the Tuareg rebels to obtain their passage authorization to conduct their operations in Mali.
Posted by: badanov || 06/11/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1780 views] Top|| File under:


Britain
Belfast Day 3, Part 2: Mass Migration Might Be a National Security Risk After All, Admits UK Government Terrorism Expert
See Day 3, Part 1 here.
[Breitbart] President Donald Trump was right to suggest that there is a national security risk posed by open borders, the British government’s top terrorism expert has belatedly admitted in the wake of yet another gruesome, alleged migrant-versus-native outrage that triggered riots.

Senior lawyer Jonathan Hall, who has been the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation since 2019 and is the Independent Reviewer of State Threats Legislation under the National Security Act 2023, has demonstrated his remarkable perspicacity by noting that mass migration carries a security risk and a potential threat to “the health of the nation”.

Responding to the alleged “attempted beheading” of a man in Belfast on Monday night, the arrest of a Sudanese asylum seeker suspect by police, and the protests-cum-riots that have followed, watchdog boss Hall said that in the past the British government’s idea of security threats were generally focussed on home-grown terror, but that the “extraordinarily destabilising” influence of migrant crime should force a rethink.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/11/2026 05:08 || Comments || Link || [1788 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants


#2 
Too Late
The population data of a few years ago showed their #'s were even then about +/- 16% of the UK's total national population.

From the Islamic's view and position.
Why fight an enemy, when they invite you in?
When your enemy practices abortion, birth control and open homosexuality.
Then all you have to do is migrate in, as a welcome guest, set up your culturally closed off communities areas and out breed them.

Plus you get to live off their taxpayers provided socialistic welfare system, and monthly £,£££.

Just sit back and take control by out growing their numbers 3 or 4 generations.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 06/11/2026 5:56 Comments || Top||

#3  Reconquesta

"And for those folks who pish-tosh any sort of threat from the British “subjects” — this is Northern-bloody-Ireland. The time and area where the locals refined the “Vehicle-Borne Improved Explosive Device” to the point a popular cocktail was named after the practice.

This is the area where there are more SLRs, Sterlings, and Browning Hi-Powers buried around that little island than any three countries in Africa.

Hell, the Irish made the AR-18 famous."


link at Insta.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/11/2026 10:57 Comments || Top||

#4  The L1A1 is my personal fav.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/11/2026 11:47 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
US feds charge anti-Zionist network with criminal campaign against U of Michigan
[IsraelTimes] US federal authorities on Wednesday announced indictments against eight anti-Israel activists for allegedly threatening Jews, University of Michigan leaders and law enforcement after the start of the war in 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...
The suspects "orchestrated detailed plans to threaten University of Michigan leaders, law enforcement and businesses with coordinated criminal acts" due to the targets’ perceived support for Israel, the indictment said.

The campaign began on October 20, 2023 — two weeks after the Hamas
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
onslaught in southern Israel that slaughtered 1,200 people, mostly civilians, but before Israel’s counter-offensive on the ground in Gaza began.

The defendants posted demands for the University of Michigan leadership calling for divestment from Israel and any businesses connected to Israel. They also demanded "investigations" and that the university issue a statement calling Israel’s counter-offensive a "genocidal ethnic cleansing."

The suspects were all associated with the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, either as students, former students, or employees.

When the university did not adhere to the demands, the suspects prepared "autonomous actions," such as occupying campus buildings, vandalism, disrupting university events and posting threats online.

The defendants joined a "Gaza solidarity encampment" at the university, and, from the encampment, issued a statement saying, "We look to our deaders and freedom fighters for guidance... the student intifada will never be silenced."

After the university shut down the encampment, the defendants turned to individual targets.

The suspects held meetings to identify targets and searched online for information on those targets, such as personal addresses, photos, social connections, business ownership and other personal details, prosecutors said.

The defendants allegedly surveilled their targets, carried out counter-surveillance against police, discussed how to evade law enforcement, bought and distributed supplies, mapped out attack routes and coordinated on encrypted platforms.

The defendants discussed using poison, bombs and "psychological torture" against the targets and their families.

In one message, in May 2024, two of the defendants agreed to "kill," "torment," and "terrorize" their opponents and their families.

One of the suspects said a target’s "entire family" was on his "hit list," that people "gotta die," and another said the alleged conspirators should "get" the children of two targets.

A defendant who was a medical student, Ahmet Korkaya, said, "I’m gonna be the dirtiest fucking doctor ever. I’m gonna be [the victim’s] doctor. Poison her ass slowly." Korkaya also said he would "drive my car into" one person’s homes.

"We need people following [the victim]. Get into that house, then burn it down," said another suspect, Paige Feyock.

The prosecutors said that those charged had vandalized homes and businesses on the first anniversary of the Hamas attack. The vandalism included red inverted triangles, a symbol Hamas uses to mark its targets in propaganda videos, red handprints that are associated with the lynching of two Israelis in Ramallah in 2000, the word "intifada," and "Free Paleostine."

During the vandalism spree, the defendants left notes with demands and threats, glued doors shut, broke windows and hurled glass jars filled with butyric acid, used as a "stink bomb," into homes.

After the attacks, the defendants allegedly took photographs of their work and posted the images online with warnings and threats, such as "You cannot hide."

One of the online accounts used to spread the demands and share images of vandalism belonged to the anti-Zionist Jewish Voice for Peace branch at the university, along with other anti-Zionist student groups and the murderous Moslem outfit Unity of Fields. Some of the online campaign was coordinated with University of Michigan student groups.

Two of the suspects — Zainab Hakim, 23, and Feyock, 26, were charged with witness intimidation. The pair planned to confront a University of Michigan student who they believed was providing information to Sherlocks.

Feyock said the student "has to be neutralized" and vowed to "strip search" the student for a recording device. One of the messages said the victim "is going to get you fucked up. We have to do something about it."

Feyock and Hakim confronted the student at a coffee shop in August 2024, later saying the victim "knows not to talk."

Two other defendants, Matthew Sepulveda, 23, and Hongru Zou, 22, allegedly threw two glass jars with a "blue substance" and compost through the window of a University of Michigan provost, and sprayed graffiti on the home.

In March 2024, Sepulveda and other unnamed suspects trespassed at the Jewish Federation of bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit
... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang...
, confronted staff members about the federation’s "shameful" connections to a university regent, and told the staff, "I’ll be back... we’re going to come back with lots of people."

Several of the defendants discussed or researched security for Jews or houses of worship.

On October 7, 2024, four of the defendants vandalized the Jewish Federation of Detroit with inverted red triangles, painted over its surveillance cameras, and wrote in graffiti, "Fuck Israel," "Free Paleostine" and "Intifada."

Other targets included the university’s president, chief investment officer, and members of its board of regents and their businesses, and a police officer.

The other defendants were Amatullah Aliasgar Hakim, 21, Mariam Muhammed Odeh, 24, and Colin Hunter Weger, 24.

Six of the defendants are from Michigan, one is from Wisconsin, and another is from Illinois.

Court filings showed that the defendants were indicted in May but that the indictment was kept under seal due to concerns the suspects would flee, destroy evidence, or intimidate witnesses before they were arrested.

The court unsealed the indictment on Wednesday, after all the defendants were arrested.

The charges included conspiracy to transmit a threat, conspiracy to tamper with a witness and destruction of property to prevent seizure.

After the indictment was announced, anti-Zionist groups, including the campus branch of Jewish Voice for Peace, issued statements of support for the defendants, including a call for a rally at the federal court building.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/11/2026 2026-06-11 02:25 || Comments || Link || [1824 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Feds.
Not the FBI.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/11/2026 12:31 Comments || Top||

#2  The Justice Department, I’m sure. Lawyers do indictments, the FBI makes arrests.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/11/2026 16:37 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Undisclosed Small Centrifuge Facility at Fordow Support Site?

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Undisclosed Small Centrifuge Facility at Fordow Support Site?

We recently learned from a trusted colleague about reporting about enrichment related reconstruction activities at the Fordow enrichment site, information we were unable to confirm. This led us to look more broadly at the site, which includes the well-known underground enrichment plant (bombed by the United States in June 2025) and the less-known above-ground support area north of the underground site (see first image below).

As of mid-May 2026, available satellite imagery does not provide evidence of renewed access to, or reconstruction activity at, the underground Fordow enrichment plant itself. However, Iran appears to have recently increased passive defense measures at the site (see second image below). Perhaps, there is some secret human intelligence-based information showing secret activity immune from satellite surveillance, but if it is occurring, it may be small-scale activity, perhaps tied to recovering HEU still inside the plant, which is reported to be about 80 kgs, or two significant quantities.

While we did not find any concerning activity at the main site, we did identify something worrisome at the support site. This site was barely damaged in attacks during either 2025 or 2026 attacks. Our results are described in a report we published on Monday on our website, titled "Recent Activity at the Fordow Enrichment Plant and its Associated Support Site."

We were drawn to a lightly damaged building next to and connected to the Vacuum Technology Center, which several years ago we could determine was involved in manufacturing difficult-to-make equipment needed to operate centrifuge cascades. (See images below of the attacked but lightly damaged building) The activities at this building were not secret.

Open-source information suggests that it may house a relatively small hall containing up to two-cascades of gas centrifuges, installed for stable isotope enrichment, which Iran was pursuing under the JCPOA in cooperation with Russia. However, if Iran installed the centrifuges, as planned, and did not use them for stable isotope separation, they would be usable for uranium enrichment.

More at the link
Posted by: badanov || 06/11/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1797 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Reaper Count Since 28 February is Only 28 (thought it was higher)
Posted by: Dopey Photch2701 || 06/11/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1767 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran



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Thu 2026-06-11
  Homeland Security Task Force Operation Results in Charges for 26 Gang Members in Massachusetts with RICO Violations Related to Five Murders, Drug Trafficking, and Firearm Offenses
Wed 2026-06-10
  Surface-to-air missiles intercepted suspected one-way attack drones launched by the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen over Eilat
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  Iran Fired 24 Missiles, All Either Shot Down Or Hit Open Areas, Idf Says
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  Iran fires missiles at Israel for first time in two months; Trump tells Netanyahu not to retaliate UPDATE: Israel hits back
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  Democrat Senator has been funding left-wing group behind anti-ICE protests, mass unrest strategy
Sat 2026-06-06
  IDF kills Hezbollah chief engineer; 3 troops hurt in Lebanon clashes
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  Secret Signal chats reveal how anti-ICE agitators coordinated Newark riots
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  California tech CEO arrested for allegedly supplying equipment to Iranian nuclear programs: DOJ
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  Unsuccessful Congolese government offensive against Rwandan-backed M23 rebels in eastern DRC, US govt sanctions M23 and FDLR commanders
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  The Nigerian Army conducted raids into several suspected Islamic State - Sahel Province (ISSP)
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  The jewel of Paris: Champs-Elysee area trashed by gleeful migrant gangs, more than 416 arrested in post-championship celebration
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  UAE struck Iran dozens of times during war and amid truce, including with Israel -- WSJ
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  Iran-backed militia leader killed in car bombing in Iraq
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