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Abdurahman Ismael	Abdurahman Ismael	Abu Sayyaf	Southeast Asia				20020621
Hamed Saeed Ismael Mustafa	Hamed Saeed Ismael Mustafa	al-Qaida in Iraq	Iraq-Jordan				20050917	Link
Ismael Abdurahman	Ismael Abdurahman	al-Qaeda in Europe	Britain				20050812
Ismael Binago	Ismael Binago	Abu Sufian	Southeast Asia				20031215
Ismael Idiris	Ismael Idiris	Abu Sayyaf	Southeast Asia				20051116	Link
Ismael Kocabiyik	Ismael Kocabiyik	Eeman Institute	Southeast Asia				20040402
	Ismael Kocabiyik	Jemaah Islamiyah	Southeast Asia				20040402
Ismael Pagiloyen	Ismael Pagiloyen	Moro National Liberation Front	Southeast Asia				20060317	Link
Mahmud Ismael	Mahmud Ismael	Moro Islamic Liberation Front	Southeast Asia				20030807
Mahmud Ismael Barwish	Mahmud Ismael Barwish	Islamic Jihad	Middle East				20030104
Mohammad Ismael	Mohammad Ismael	Tehrik Nifaz Shariah Mohammadi	India-Pakistan				20011102
Sheik Ismael Abu Shanab	Sheik Ismael Abu Shanab	Hamas	Middle East	Palestinian	Deceased	Big Shot	20030808
		Member of Hamas politburo. Hezlizapped.
Sheik Mohamed Ismael	Sheik Mohamed Ismael	Islamic Courts	Africa Horn				20061005	Link

Caribbean-Latin America

Raging Cartel Violence Forces Mexican Universities to Close Doors

2025-05-08

[Breitbart] Universities in western Mexico were forced to close their doors due to the raging cartel violence in Sinaloa, which led to hundreds of murders, hundreds of forced disappearances, arson attacks, and other acts of violence. The schools are forced to offer remote classes despite the many claims made by Mexican government officials that security is improving in the region.

At least there is still a pathway for education there — for those who have internet access and devices, anyway.

This week, El Debate reported that the Sinaloa Autonomous University (UAS) and the Occidental Autonomous University (UAO) announced that they were temporarily closing their doors following a recent spike in violence throughout the state. Both schools claimed in their prepared statements that they were only looking out for the safety of their students and community.

El Debate reported that several local schools in municipalities, such as El Dorado, followed the universities’ example.

The temporary closings follow a series of shootouts and targeted killings between rival factions of the Sinaloa Cartel. While Mexico’s government has been trying to downplay the raging violence in Sinaloa for over a year, residents have lived in fear as cartel violence has spread to levels not seen in that region.

Breitbart Texas reported last year that two main factions known as Los Chapitos and Los Mayos have been waging a fierce turf war since Los Chapitos set up a trap that led to the arrest of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, who is currently awaiting trial in a U.S. Court.

The raging violence led to calls for the resignation of Sinaloa Governor Ruben Rocha Moya, who has repeatedly denied or downplayed the levels of violence in the region. The governor has also been publicly accused of having helped set up the meeting between El Mayo and Los Chapitos — a claim he denied.

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Caribbean-Latin America

Mexican Senator Brands President Sheinbaum as ‘Liar' with Ties to Cartels

2025-05-02

[Breitbart] Mexican Senator Lilly Tellez (PAN-Sonora) blasted President Claudia Sheinbaum, demanding she "stop telling lies." The senator accused her country’s president of having a close association with several lawyers who represent drug cartels during a fiery speech to the Mexican Senate.

The Senator representing the Mexican State of Sonora is routinely critical of President Sheinbaum’s seemingly soft approach to fighting organized crime in Mexico. Maria Lilly Del Carmen Tellez García, professionally known as "Lilly Tellez," is a Mexican politician who was first elected as a senator in 2018 under the Morena Party. In 2019, Tellez left the Morena Party, and in 2020, she joined the National Action Party (PAN). She became an openly vocal critic of the Mexican government, often claiming with receipts that they are in bed with the cartels.

In June 2022, Breitbart Texas reported that the senator lashed out against the ruling party, saying, "How am I going to face off against the senator from Sinaloa, knowing she has all the support of the Gulf Cartel, and El Chapo’s Cartel?"

Tellez added, "How can we face off against you when you have the full support of the cartels, the mafia, knowing full well that once we get out of here we can be attacked by those criminals who are helping you to operate in the elections —this is having bravery and civic responsibility."

Tellez stated that the decision to abandon the Morena Party was made when former President Manuel López Obrador, commonly referred to as AMLO, traveled to Badiraguato, Sinaloa, to shake hands with the mother of convicted drug trafficker Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán in 2020. Before becoming a politician, Tellez was well-known as an investigative journalist for TV Azteca, Mexico’s second-largest mass media company.

As an investigative reporter, Tellez conducted several investigations involving the Arellano-Felix Cartel. She also produced two documentaries denouncing Samuel Del Villar, a government official from Mexico City, as corrupt. On June 22, 2020, her car was shot at eight times by a group of unknown men. She survived the attack without injury. A bullet was discovered to have hit her seat belt buckle and caused the trajectory of the bullet to change course, possibly saving her life. As is often the case in Mexico, no suspects were ever arrested, and the case was closed.

During her speech before the Mexican Senate in February, Tellez offered proof of President Sheinbaum’s associations with "the defenders of organized crime" by pointing to a photo of the president with attorneys who, according to Tellez, admitted on video to being dedicated to "defending organized crime." Tellez further stated that the attorneys pictured with Sheinbaum are owners of the law firm that represents Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada.

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Caribbean-Latin America

Mexico May Request Jailed Cartel Kingpin 'El Mayo' Be Released by U.S.

2025-02-24

[Breitbart] Mexican President Sheinbaum revealed that her government is studying a letter sent by jailed drug lord Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada asking for help as he faces a possible life sentence and even the death penalty for his crimes as one of the supreme leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel. The letter comes just days after Sheinbaum filed a series of proposed changes to the country’s constitution that would impair foreign investigations and actions against drug cartels even though the U.S. government formally designated the Sinaloa Cartel and five other Mexican cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO).

On Friday, President Sheinbaum said that her staff was analyzing a letter Zambada and his attorneys sent to the Mexican Consulate in New York City, where he requested that Mexico’s government help get him repatriated. The drug lord claims he was not arrested but kidnapped and is facing capital punishment. In his letter, the famed kingpin contended that the methods used in his arrest were dangerous to international relations since the same could be done to anyone, including politicians.

During her news conference, Sheinbaum said that her government was concerned about not who made the request but how his detention took place.

The letter further muddies Mexico’s image since, as Breitbart Texas reported this week, Sheinbaum filed a series of proposed changes to the country’s constitution that would impair foreign investigations and actions inside the country unless the government authorized them. The proposed changes would add criminal penalties to foreigners and Mexican nationals participating in those actions and investigations. The filed changes come soon after the U.S. government formally designated the Sinaloa Cartel, Cartel Jalisco New Generation, Los Zetas (CDN), the Gulf Cartel, La Familia Michoacana, and Guerreros Unidos as FTOs.

As Breitbart Texas reported, the arrest of Zambada took place when he was lured to a meeting by his godson Joaquin Guzman Lopez, only to be kidnapped and placed on a U.S.-bound plane into the waiting hands of federal agents. In the aftermath of the arrest, Mexico started a treason investigation over the drug lord’s kidnapping and arrest. The arrest set off a fierce turf war as Zambada’s son and his allies have been fighting against the Guzman Lopez brothers and their allies, who are known as Los Chapitos. The group got its name from being led by the four sons of jailed kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera, who is currently in a U.S. prison serving a life term.

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Caribbean-Latin America

Mexican troops kill 19 suspected cartel members, suffer no casualties: officials

2024-10-25

[FoxNews] 17 rifles, 4 machine guns seized at Sinaloa scene

Mexican army troops have killed 19 suspected drug cartel gunmen in a shootout and suffered no casualties, the Defense Department said.

The ruling Morena party has criticized past administrations for lopsided death tolls in which many suspects but no soldiers died, suggesting they constituted executions or rights abuses.

The confrontation occurred Monday in the northern state of Sinaloa, on the outskirts of the state capital, Culiacan. The area has been shaken by infighting between two factions of the Sinaloa cartel since early September.

The department said that before the confrontation, troops detained a top lieutenant of the "Mayitos" faction, loyal to imprisoned drug lord Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada. The army did not give the name of the suspect, who they identified only by nickname "El Max."

The army then said troops were attacked by more than 30 assailants, at least 11 of whom managed to escape and 19 of them were killed when soldiers returned fire. The Defense Department claimed soldiers acted in self-defense and "strict adherence to the rule of law and with full respect for human rights."

It said that 17 rifles — including a .50-caliber sniper rifle — as well as four machine guns were seized at the scene.

The current round of fighting broke out after Zambada claimed he was forced aboard an airplane on July 25 by another drug capo who flew them both to the United States and turned them in to U.S. authorities. The man Zambada claimed had kidnapped him — Joaquín Guzmán López, one of the sons of imprisoned drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzman — is a leader of a rival cartel faction known as the "Chapitos."

The shootout Monday was the most lopsided confrontation since the killing of 22 suspects by soldiers at a grain warehouse in the township of Tlatlaya, in the State of Mexico, in 2014. While some of the 22 died in an initial shootout with an army patrol — in which one soldier was wounded — a human rights investigation determined that at least eight and perhaps as many as a dozen suspects were executed after they surrendered.

Seven soldiers were arrested, freed and then arrested again years later on charges of abuse of authority.

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Caribbean-Latin America

Police find severed heads and bodies in a bag on a highway in Mexico

2024-10-15

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

[Regnum] In the Mexican state of Jalisco, National Guard officers found decapitated human bodies and victims' heads on the highway. This was reported on October 13 by the local prosecutor's office.

It was noted that the five male bodies found on the highway from Lagos de Moreno to San Luis Potosi were wrapped in black plastic bags. Police also found a bag that apparently contained the victims' heads. The ages of the victims have not yet been determined.

Street clashes and vandalism involving cartels and security forces have been ongoing in Jalisco for more than a month, following the arrest in the United States of the son of Mexican drug dealer Joaquin Guzman, nicknamed "Shorty" Joaquin Guzman Lopez, and the co-founder of Mexico's largest drug cartel, 76-year-old Ismael Zambada Garcia.

As reported by Regnum News Agency, in 2023, dozens of bags with human body parts were found in the Mirador del Bosque ravine in the Mexican city of Zapopan. The Jalisco State Prosecutor's Office specified that the find was made during the search for seven young call center workers who had previously gone missing.

In 2022, in the central Mexican city of Irapuato (Guanajuato state), searchers from the Hasta Encontrar organization found 52 bags of human remains.

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Home Front: WoT

US Border Agents Find RPGs & IEDs Near Southern Border Amid ‘Internal Alert’ Of ‘Drastic Escalation’ In Weaponry Used By Cartels

2024-09-25

[ZeroHedge] An alarming battle between rival factions of the Sinaloa drug cartel has unfolded in northwestern Mexico, near the Biden-Harris administration's open southern border. The risk of spillover continues to increase as US Border Patrol agents recently discovered a weapons cache of shoulder-fired rocket launchers and improvised explosive devices just across from the Arizona border.

"4 RPGs and 8 IEDs along with a large amount of ammo discovered in a scout site in Mexico just across the Arizona border which butts up against the Ajo area of operation within the Tucson Sector," NewsNation's border correspondent Ali Bradley wrote on X on Monday afternoon.

Bradley said, "Border Patrol agents are being warned of the "drastic escalation" in weaponry being used on the south side of the border—According to an internal alert obtained through sources."

"The fighting within the Sinaloa cartel, spilling over the border with multiple instances of armed men showing up to the southern border in the same area fleeing into the US for safety," she added.

The eruption in violence near the border is infighting within the Sinaloa cartel, between groups known as the "Mayos" and the "Chapos". This first began when authorities arrested Joaquín Guzmán López and Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada in July.

A tsunami of violence has since been reported, with President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador blaming Zambada's arrest on the US.

Last Friday, US Ambassador Ken Salazar rejected AMLO's claim, saying, "What is being seen in Sinaloa is not the fault of the United States," adding the US cannot be held responsible for "the massacres that we see in different places."

What's clear is that cartels are quickly becoming militarized while the Biden-Harris team prided themselves with open southern borders. Meanwhile, Venezuelan prison gangs are running amok in the US, and a new bombshell hearing on Capitol Hill last week revealed Biden-Harris covered up the sharp rise in encounters with suspected terrorists on the border.

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Caribbean-Latin America

Mexican State Under Siege Amid Sinaloa Cartel Infighting

2024-09-16

[Breitbart] A new wave of intense cartel fighting forced government officials to order the shutdown of school activities as locals locked themselves indoors in the state of Sinaloa. The measures follow several days of fighting as two factions of the Sinaloa Cartel clashed with minimal interference from federal police and military forces.

The Sinaloa Governor Ruben Rocha Moya sent multiple alerts and a video asking the public to remain calm and take precautions. In the video, Rocha Moya claimed that government police and military forces were working to minimize the effect of the cartel battles on the local public.

The violence began this week and followed weeks of tension as a faction loyal to recently captured Sinaloa Cartel boss Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada seeks revenge from the Chapitos faction for the betrayal and arrest of their leader. The Chapitos faction comprises the sons of jailed Sinaloa Cartel kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. It is believed that Los Chapitos blamed El Mayo for their father’s capture.

As Breitbart Texas reported, Joaquin Guzman Lopez allegedly called a secret meeting with El Mayo and some top politicians in late July. It was during that meeting that Guzman and his gunmen kidnapped El Mayo and put him on a plane that landed near El Paso, Texas, where U.S. authorities were waiting for them. Since then, both Guzman and El Mayo have been in U.S. custody awaiting trial.

The capture led to weeks of tension as locals awaited for war to break out between two of Mexico’s most powerful drug families. It is believed that the family of El Mayo had been quietly building up their forces before striking.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

'Iran hints on ground attack targeting Israel'

2024-08-22

Show us what you got, tough guy. Or shut up and sit down.

[GEOTV] Reiterating its resolve to retaliate against Israel over Hamas
Hamas

..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
leader Ismael Haniyeh's killing, Iranian mission to the UN has said that Tehran's response come come in a time and manner that would take the Israelis by surprise, Al Jazeera reported.

"Maybe when their eyes are on the sky and the radar screen, they are surprised from the ground, and maybe a combination of the two," the statement said, adding that Iran's response should not only punish the aggressor for violating its illusory sovereignty but also act as deterrence for others in future.

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Caribbean-Latin America

Mexican Government Starts Treason Investigation Over U.S. Arrest of Top Sinaloa Boss

2024-08-14

[Breitbart] Mexican federal prosecutors announced that they had begun a treason investigation against various individuals who played a role in the controversial U.S. arrest of top Sinaloa Cartel Boss Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada. According to the cartel boss, the arrest came after individuals with the Chapitos faction of the cartel kidnapped him and turned him over to U.S. authorities at an airport near El Paso.

In a prepared statement, Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office announced an investigation into the charges related to treason against the nation, illegal flights, illegal use of flight facilities, kidnapping, and immigration violations.

The investigation comes after several differing versions emerged following the surprise arrest. As Breitbart Texas initially reported, on July 25, a plane landed in a private airport in New Mexico with Zambada and Joaquin Guzman Lopez, the son of El Mayo’s longtime associate El Chapo. The arrest caused much discontent in Mexico, where Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said the following day that his government had not played any role in the incident. The president demanded a full investigation to learn if the U.S. government had violated his country’s illusory sovereignty during the arrest.

A bombshell report by Mexican journalist Juan Cedillo and British journalist Ioan Grillo revealed that Guzman Lopez and others had lured Zambada to a meeting, killed his bodyguards, kidnapped him, and taken him to the U.S. by force as part of an agreement with prosecutors, Breitbart Texas reported. The report also named a Mexican politician who had played a role in brokering the meeting and who has since been murdered.

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-Lurid Crime Tales-

Sinaloa Cartel co-founder ‘El Mayo' taken into US custody

2024-07-26

[FoxNews] Ismael 'El Mayo' Zambada Garcia co-founded the Sinaloa Cartel with Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman

The Mexican drug kingpin Ismael Zambada Garcia, also known as "El Mayo," who co-founded the notorious Sinaloa drug cartel was taken into custody in El Paso, Texas on Thursday, according to the Department of Justice.

Also taken into custody was Juaquin Guzman Lopez, the son of the cartel's other co-founder, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.

"The Justice Department has taken into custody two additional alleged leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel, one of the most violent and powerful drug trafficking organizations in the world," U.S. Attorney General Merick B. Garland said. "Ismael Zambada Garcia, or ‘El Mayo,’ cofounder of the Cartel, and Joaquin Guzman Lopez, a son of its other cofounder, were arrested today in El Paso, Texas."

Were they, perchance, in America illegally?

Zambada Garcia and now-jailed drug lord "El Chapo" founded the Sinaloa Cartel.

A federal law enforcement source told Fox News Joaquin Guzman Lopez surrendered to U.S. authorities, but El Mayo was captured. Guzman Lopez cut a deal with U.S. authorities, and turned on El Mayo, the source explained.

Guzman Lopez got on a private airplane with El Mayo and instead of heading south to Mexico like El Mayo thought, the plane went north to El Paso where the two were taken into custody.

"El Mayo," who the Department of Justice was offering a $15 million reward for information leading to his arrest and conviction, now faces a litany of indictments for crimes related to drug trafficking and organized crime in the United States.

"El Mayo and Guzman Lopez join a growing list of Sinaloa Cartel leaders and associates who the Justice Department is holding accountable in the United States. That includes the Cartel’s other cofounder, Joaquin Guzman Loera, or ‘El Chapo’; another of El Chapo’s sons and an alleged Cartel leader, Ovidio Guzman Lopez; and the Cartel’s alleged lead sicario, Néstor Isidro Pérez Salas, or 'El Nini.'" Garland said.

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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Sinaloa Cartel Moving Fentanyl Labs Closer to Texas Border

2024-04-16

[Breitbart] Mexican authorities report a shift in the production and distribution of fentanyl as the Chapitos faction of the Sinaloa Cartel is moving its operations closer to Texas.

The most recent development comes as Mexico’s federal government began seizing multi-ton shipments of fentanyl precursors in the state of Nuevo Leon. The seizures come as the faction of the Sinaloa Cartel has been moving its laboratories away from Sinaloa into the Monterrey metropolitan area.

In recent days, Mexico’s Navy and the Federal Commission for the Protection of Health Risks (COFEPRIS) reported the seizure of more than 120 tons of various chemical precursors from Sinaloa Cartel companies. The seizures occurred in a series of enforcement actions in the Mexican states of Sinaloa and Nuevo Leon. Officials valued the seized chemicals at 87 million pesos in its current form (approximately 5.5 million USD), Mexico’s El Universal reported.

Breitbart Texas first reported on the arrival of the Sinaloa Cartel to Nuevo Leon in 2021. Since then, the criminal organization quietly continued to spread its influence deeper into the region. The main faction of the cartel operating in Monterrey is the Chapitos faction, which law enforcement sources revealed has been working to set up laboratories in the region.

The Monterrey metropolitan area is one of Mexico’s busiest industrial hubs. It is home to hundreds of industrial parks and manufacturing areas that can easily hide the illegal large-scale production facilities needed to manufacture illicit drugs.

Additionally, Monterrey is just a short drive south of the Texas border, with several key cities and ports of entry available for crossing the drugs, such as Piedras Negras, Coahuila; along with Nuevo Laredo, and Reynosa, Tamaulipas.

Earlier this year, a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel linked to Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada began helping the Metros faction of the Gulf Cartel along with gunmen from Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) and other smaller groups. As Breitbart Texas reported, the Metros faction has been waging a fierce turf war with the Escorpiones faction of the Gulf Cartel for over a year. While government officials tried to downplay the issue, the Metros faction and CJNG have been mentioned in various banners and messages left as part of the ongoing turf war.

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Europe

Young Kurdish man drowned in English Channel

2023-12-17

[Rudaw] At least two people died when a boat carrying over 60 ~~migrants~~ colonists capsized in the English Channel off the coast of La Belle France overnight on Thursday. One of the dead is a young man from the Kurdistan Region.

Rawezh Rauf, 22, was from the Raparin administration in Sulaimani province. His family held a memorial service and called on the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to facilitate the return of his body so that he can be buried in their hometown of Hajiawa.

"We need the government’s assistance to return Rawezh’s body to alleviate the great tragedy we have endured. Help us bury our dear Rawezh at home," Hassan Omar, a relative, told Rudaw’s Abubakir Ismael.

Rawezh and two of his cousins left the Kurdistan Region in the hopes of migrating to Europa
Europa

...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
around two months ago. The cousins were also on the capsized boat, but have been rescued and are receiving treatment in a hospital in La Belle France.

The mass migration of Kurdistan Region youths through illegal smuggling routes has surged in recent years, with a large number of them coming from Raparin. Officials from the administration have blamed a lack of services and job opportunities for the mass exodus.

Bakir Ali, head of the Association of Returned Migrants from Europe, said in December that in the past nine years, more than 34,000 out of the Region’s 153,600 ~~migrants~~ colonists came from Raparin.

Over 3,200 people migrated from Raparin in 2022, and nearly 3,000 more have left since the start of the year, according to Ali. They range in age from 16 years to over 50 and most begin their journeys after obtaining visas for Poland, Hungary, or Bosnia and Herzegovina, he added.

Over 750,000 people have left Iraq since 2015, according to data from the Summit Foundation for Refugee and Displaced Affairs (Lutka), which documented at least 319 migrant deaths during that period. The whereabouts of 326 others remain unknown.

According to data from the Association of Returned Migrants from Europe, more than 550 ~~migrants~~ colonists have either drowned or gone missing over the past nine years, out of which over 150 are from Raparin.

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