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-Great Cultural Revolution

Fury as top military schools are caught in secret underground plots to usurp Trump's orders

2025-05-25

Those students are unfortunately a sunk cost. But the new cohort coming in will be inspired by the idea of stripping the work to its essence — making war, not “love” — and the teaching staff will be forced to accept the change or likewise give way.

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Top military schools have faced a swift backlash after using underground means to discuss books and topics banned by the Trump administration.

Cadets and staff at the US Naval Academy have been creating non-governmental emails to chat about the banned ideas, including the likes of critical race theory.

The president has cracked down on what made up the curriculum at the school, with faculty saying they run their research through an AI tool screen their findings.

Words that are flagged include 'barrier', 'Black', 'allyship', 'cultural differences' and 'The Gulf of Mexico'.

Professors have been told to teach that 'America and its founding documents remains the most powerful force for good in human history' after a memo Pete Hegseth.

One unnamed professor told the Washington Post: 'We at the Naval Academy are here to prepare young officers to command.

'They need to know what we have learned from our study of politics and history and literature and languages.

'We are failing them and we are failing in our jobs if we suppress some things we know are true and we parrot other things we know are false.'

They also said that students are feeling conflicted about the possibility of being deployed under the current White House. One professor said they had advised cadets to serve until they receive an order that they feel might be illegal. He told them if that point comes to 'reject it rather than compromise yourself'.

Graham Parsons, a former professor of philosophy at West Point Military Academy, left his position earlier this month in protest over the changes to the curriculum. He said that the entire US armed forces have been left up in arms over Trump's reversal of DEI initiatives and social justice programs. Parsons told the outlet: 'It's a feeling of real whiplash. We used to raise the possibility in the military and beyond, there are still real structural problems with racism and sexism. That would not fly now.'

He stood down from his post after writing a scathing opinion piece for The New York Times. In it, he said: 'I cannot tolerate these changes, which prevent me from doing my job responsibly. I am ashamed to be associated with the academy in its current form.'

Trump was at West Point Academy on Saturday to give a commencement speech in which he vowed to ditch DEI programs and support for transgender service people. He said: 'We´re getting rid of distractions and we're focusing our military on its core mission: crushing America's adversaries, killing America's enemies and defending our great American flag like it has never been defended before.

He later said that 'the job of the U.S. armed forces is not to host drag shows or transform foreign cultures,' a reference to drag shows on military bases that President Joe Biden's administration halted after Republican criticism.

Trump said the cadets were graduating at a 'defining moment' in Army history as he accused political leaders in the past of sending soldiers into 'nation-building crusades to nations that wanted nothing to do with us.'

He said he was clearing the military of transgender ideas, 'critical race theory' and types of training he called divisive and political.

Past administrations, he said, 'subjected the armed forces to all manner of social projects and political causes while leaving our borders undefended and depleting our arsenals to fight other countries wars.'

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Fifth Column

Who Are the Shadowy Figures Defending Mahmoud Khalil?

2025-03-22

[CityJournal] The accused Hamas sympathizer is shrouded in mystery—and so are his supporters.

As it unfurls, the saga of Mahmoud Khalil—the Columbia agitator picked up by immigration enforcement last week—looks less like a complicated immigration-law dispute and more like something out of a John le Carré novel.

But inspect the details, and Khalil’s case gives us a glimpse a well-established network linking American universities, international progressive NGOs, and government agencies. This network places ideologues like Khalil in positions of power and influence and promoting radical policies that challenge both the will of American voters and our national-security interests.

As always in such shady tales, the simplest questions are the hardest to answer. To start: Who, exactly, is Mahmoud Khalil? According to the Guardian, he was born in Syria in 1995 to Palestinian refugees, then fled at 18 to settle in Lebanon. After his detention, however, the U.S. government reported that he was a citizen of Algeria. How did he end up there?

His professional history is equally convoluted. The Guardian claims he worked for various international NGOs, then landed a job with Britain’s Foreign Office, where he helped administer the prestigious Chevening Scholarship program. (The Telegraph, to make an intricate story even more complicated, reported that Khalil worked for the embassy, not the Foreign Office per se). Then it was on to the UN, where Khalil interned for UNRWA—the organization’s agency for Arab Palestinian refugees that, as a recent lawsuit claims, is a major source of staffing and funding for Hamas. How did a Syrian refugee end up in these positions?

Maybe the influencers who gave him these jobs are the same ones who leapt to his defense. Immediately after his arrest, Khalil’s case was taken on by no fewer than 19 lawyers.

Heading Khalil’s legal defense team is Ramzi Kassem, professor of law at the City University of New York, with a panoply of connections. Himself a Syrian immigrant, Kassem is a fellow of the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, which helped fund his legal education at Columbia University. At CUNY, Kassem founded Creating Law Enforcement Accountability and Responsibility (CLEAR), which, among other areas of interest, focused on challenging the Trump administration’s treatment of Muslims on the No Fly List. CLEAR has received major gifts from George Soros’s Open Society Foundations and Jeff Bezos’s former wife, MacKenzie Scott.

Kassem’s previous clients include a few members of al Qaida, including Ahmed al-Darbi, a terrorist convicted in 2017 for bombing a French oil tanker, as well as another close associate of Osama Bin Laden’s. In 2022, the Biden administration nevertheless tapped Kassem to serve as a senior policy advisor.

How did Khalil’s predicament come to Kassem’s attention? It’s worth noting that while still a student at Columbia, Kassem was himself a leader of anti-Israeli agitation.

So was another of Khalil’s lawyers, CLEAR’s Shezza Abboushi Dallal. In a recently surfaced video of an online training of anti-Israel activists, Dallal acknowledges that statements in support of Hamas may implicate a non-citizen’s legal status—the very assertion that she and Khalil’s other lawyers are now denying—and advises her charges to remain silent rather than frame themselves.

There’s nothing inherently nefarious about hardworking and talented people, immigrants or native-born, ending up in positions of power and influence. Nor is it novel for NGOs with deep pockets to promote their worldview and their people. But the Khalil case points at a concerted, long-term effort to capture American institutions, change them from within, and push policies and ideas that lie far outside the social consensus and, arguably, the boundaries permissible by law.

Ramzi Kassem is typical. He is committed to a long list of radical causes, from defanging law enforcement to defending America’s sworn enemies. Nonetheless, he has enjoyed heavy support from progressive philanthropists, accreditation from America’s finest schools, and eventually made his way to Washington to help reshape policy.

Similarly, it is troubling that those who argue, against all available evidence, that Mahmoud Khalil is a martyr on the altar of free speech—rather than someone who violated the terms of his residency by advocating for a terror group—enjoy near-universal access to and support from our finest academic institutions, our best-endowed philanthropies, and our best-placed legal or political elites. Telling foreign nationals to refrain from espousing support for a terror group to evade legal trouble exceeds the bounds of advocacy; it approximates aiding and abetting people in skirting our immigration laws.

If nothing else, the Khalil case demonstrates yet again that for America’s progressive elites, power, not principle, is the currency that counts, and that the system they’ve designed ensures that their power is preserved in perpetuity, defending even those fellow travelers who work to undermine our national-security interests. The only way to regain control of the institutions that these hostile activists have commandeered is to know their playbook and use the law to curb their influence. Shadowy activists subverting the will of the American people and then seeking protection from a bubble of big-money NGOs and ideologically aligned government officials isn’t a safeguard protecting our democracy; it’s a clear and direct threat to our national security and interests.

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India-Pakistan

Six killed as gunmen spray car with bullets in Punjab's Gujrat: police

2025-03-03

[GEO.TV] In a tragic incident, at least six people were killed after unidentified assailants on a motorcycle opened fire at a vehicle in Punjab's Gujrat city on Sunday.

Police said that the incident took place in Miana Chak Dinga — a town in the city — where attackers fled after killing six people travelling on the vehicle. They added that the incident was the result of personal enmity.

Rescue teams rushed to the scene and shifted bodies to the hospital.

The slain persons were aged between 26 to 35 years. The deceased were identified as Zahid Nazim, 30, Mubashir, 26, Zunair, 30, Javed Iqbal, 33, Rukhsar, 35, and a 26-year-old unidentified man.

Contingents of the police force cordoned off the whole area and commenced a search operation to arrest the culprits.

A Punjab Police spokesperson said that the inspector general took notice of the firing incident and sought a report from the regional police officer (RPO). The Punjab IG ordered the immediate arrest of the responsible.

Casualties in firing incidents due to personal enmity and tribal violence are not uncommon in Pakistan, given the authorities' failure to maintain law and order, as well as flawed prosecution resulting in the release of culprits in such cases.

In January, a municipal department employee was shot dead at the Kahkashan Building on one of the busiest streets in Karachi, Tariq Road.

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Home Front: WoT

9/11 terrorists to be spared death penalty after judge shoots down Pentagon''s bid to nix plea deals

2025-01-01

[NYPOST] Plea deals for three murderous Moslems behind the 9/11 attacks are back in play after Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin lost his bid to nix the disturbing agreements that would spare them the death penalty

A military appeals court on Monday night ruled against Austin's order this summer nullifying plea deals reached with Khalid Sheikh Mohammad

...Mastermind of the 9/11 attacks. He was captured in Faisalabad, Pakistain in 2002 and interned at Guantanamo...
, Walid bin Attash and Mustafa al-Hawsawi.

The terrorists' defense attorneys argued that the secretary did not have the authority to overturn the agreements after they were already approved by the top authority of the Guantanamo Bay courts in July.

They further claimed that Austin's order was unlawful interference in the case.

The move clears the way for Mohammad, the criminal mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, and his co-conspirators to plead guilty in a hearing next week.

However,
Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried...
Austin retains the ability to appeal the decision. Reps for the Pentagon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Prosecutors offered the deal to bring about an end to the pretrial court proceedings that have dragged on for more than a decade.

The decision comes after a lower court in November ruled that Austin's order came too late — and that the act was beyond his scope of authority.

''We agree with the military judge that the secretary did not have authority to revoke respondents' existing PTAs because the respondents had started performance of the PTAs,'' the three-judge panel said.

The agreements were originally signed by Pentagon official Susan K. Escallier, whom Austin appointed to be in charge of military commissions.

While the initial blow of the plea deals shook many 9/11 victims' loved ones and survivors, some have told The Post that the on-off nature of their status has put them through an emotional roller coaster.

Courtesy of badanov, Regnum adds:

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

According to the publication, on December 30, the military appeals court overturned the order of US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, who in August canceled a pre-trial deal between the prosecution and three terrorists - Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Walid bin Attash and Mustafa al-Hawsawi - to plead guilty in exchange for a life sentence.

The case of conspiracy with the hijackers has been in the pre-trial stage since 2012.

The defendants are suspected of helping the terrorists who carried out the attacks on the Twin Towers in New York on September 11, 2001.

As reported by the Regnum news agency, the two towers of the World Trade Center collapsed after terrorists flew two hijacked passenger planes into them. As a result, over 2.6 thousand people died.

A previously unknown video of the destruction of the World Trade Center towers on September 11 has emerged. The footage was published by Japanese photographer Kei Sugimoto.

In September 2023, two more victims of the terrorist attacks were identified. The total number of identified victims of the terrorist attacks is 1,649 people. Another 1,104 victims remain unidentified. The names of the identified victims, a man and a woman, are kept secret at the request of their relatives. The victims were identified through DNA analysis of their remains.

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Home Front: WoT

Military judge reinstates plea deals for 9/11 mastermind KSM, two other terrorists in shock ruling

2024-11-07

[NY Post] A military judge ruled Wednesday that plea deals sparing accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two other terrorists the death penalty must remain in effect.

The stunning move comes three months after Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin revoked the shocking plea deals handed out to Mohammed and two alleged accomplices by the Office of Military Commissions in July.

The order, issued by Air Force Col. and Judge Matthew McCall in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was first reported by the Associated Press and has not yet been posted publicly.

Family members of the victims of the heinous terror attack, which killed nearly 3,000, were outraged by the judge’s ruling.

"I am livid that this judge overturned the decision and is allowing these defendants to take a plea deal," retired police officer, Jimmy Smith, whose wife Moira was killed on Sept. 11, 2001, told The Post.

"They committed the highest crime in this country and they should receive the worst punishment which in this case is the death penalty," Smith argued. "Also I don’t believe in coincidences, they waited to release this decision until after the election. They overturned it before to help the Democrats in the election."

Dan D’Allara, twin brother of NYPD officer John D’Allara who was killed on 9/11, told The Post that President-elect Donald Trump should use his executive powers to ensure Mohammed and his accomplices are put to death.

"The first Executive Order President Trump should sign is an Executive Order of Execution for the 5 admitted 9/11 plotters", D’Allara said. "They are cowards and they killed a lot of innocent people that day and are continuing to kill people going forward."

New York City Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Hendry described Wednesday’s ruling as "shameful" and called for an immediate fix.

"This is yet another shameful twist in a case that has seen far too many," Hendry said. "The cycle of revicitimizating our hero 9/11 families needs to end. Our government needs to find a way to fix this immediately."

"Justice cannot wait any longer," he added.

The pre-trial agreements pertaining to Mohammed — the accused principal architect of the al Qaeda attacks — and two alleged co-conspirators, Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin Attash and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi, spare the men the death penalty in exchange for guilty pleas in the government’s long-running effort to prosecute the alleged terrorists.

The trio has been held at the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay since 2003.

The deals initially offered by the Office of Military Commissions in July sparked a furor among family members of 9/11 victims and survivors of the attacks, with many slamming them as a miscarriage of justice and preferring that the alleged 9/11 co-conspirators face trial.

Austin, 70, subsequently announced that he had relieved the official responsible for signing off on the widely criticized plea agreements from authority and would instead assert his own authority in the matter.

"There’s not a day that goes by when I don’t think of 9/11 and the Americans that were murdered that day; also those who died trying to save lives and the troops and their families who gave so much for this country in the years following that,"

Austin told reporters of his decision. "I’m deeply mindful of my duty to all those whose lives were lost or changed forever on 9/11, and I fully understand that no measure of justice can ever make up for their loss."

"So this wasn’t a decision that I took lightly, but I have long believed that the families of the victims, our servicemembers, and the American public deserve the opportunity to see military commissions — commission trials carried out in this case," he added.

Lawyers for the alleged terrorists slammed the defense secretary’s move as "corrupt," arguing that they were "years" in the making and made in "good faith."

"We have had an unprecedented act by a government official to pull back what was a valid agreement," Walter Ruiz, a lawyer for al Hawsawi, said during a hearing in Guantanamo Bay, according to CNN.

"For us, it raises very serious questions about continuing to engage in a system that seems so obviously corrupt and rigged," he added.

Kathy Vigiano, a retired police officer and widow of Detective Joseph Vigiano, who died on 9/11, told The Post that while she can’t fathom that the alleged terrorists are not going to put to death, she now hopes they are at least locked up for life.

"It’s unbelievable to me that these terrorist won’t get death," Vigiano said. "I can only hope that they get life without the possibility of parole."

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Navy SEAL who killed Osama Bin Laden issues stern warning to Biden and his successor after Israel eliminated Hamas leader

2024-10-18

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A Navy SEAL involved in the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden claims Israel is 'showing us how to win wars' by taking out Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.

Retired Senior Chief Petty Officer Rob O'Neill said Israel's strategy of targeting leaders of the terrorist group was the right one.

Israel said Sinwar was killed on Thursday when he was cornered in a building in Gaza by Israeli soldiers who spotted Hamas soldiers inside. After an exchange of fire, a tank shell was said to have hit the structure and collapsed it.

Graphic images then circulated online purporting to show the body of the Hamas leader with Israeli soldiers surrounding it.

'What Israel is doing right now is they're showing us how to win a war. They're taking out the top leaders. They're going to keep doing it,' O'Neill told Newsmax.

'And they're proving to everyone, including like, even right now, our president will say, 'Well, now he's dead, we can work on a cease-fire.

'You don't don't let someone start a war and then whine about a cease-fire... Israel 'did a great job, and I couldn't be more proud.'

O'Neill said killing Sinwar 'takes away a lot of [Hamas'] abilities' and was a big morale boost for Israel a year after the terrorist group's massacre on October 7, 2023.

'This is huge for them. And I love that they were able to do it with soldiers. So the last thing that Yahya saw was probably the Israeli flag,' he said.

O'Neill said Iran was still the biggest enemy, but that 'our supposed ally in Qatar' needed to round up the Hamas leaders hiding on its soil and give them to Israel.

The former special forces operative felt the same way about the 9/11 plotters, telling DailyMail.com in August they should have been executed years ago. O'Neill added he would have carried out the death penalty himself and criticized the plea deal that spared their lives.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed - the architect of the 2001 plot that killed almost 3,000 people - and two accomplices Walid Bin Attash and Mustafa al-Hawsawi accepted life sentences to avoid a lengthy criminal trial and the death penalty.

O'Neill said the agreement was a slap in the face for the families of the 2,657 American victims who waited 23 years for justice. Family members of the victims reacted with fury as news of the plea deal emerged, on a day when more evidence of Saudi Arabia's complicity in 9/11 was revealed in a New York courtroom.

Montana native O'Neill and members of SEAL Team Six stormed Bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on May 2, 2011, and cornered him. He claims he shot the most wanted man in the world in the head, ending a global manhunt that had consumed the West for years. He came forward in 2014 and named himself as the man who fired the kill shots.

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Europe

Osama bin Laden's son deported from France, barred from returning

2024-10-09

[GEO.TV] A son of Al Qaeda founder the late Osama bin Laden
...... who is now beyond all cares and woe......
has been barred from returning to La Belle France, where he lived for years painting landscapes in a Normandy village, after allegedly posting comments on social media deemed to have glorified terrorism.

Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau said he had signed an order banning Omar Bin Laden from La Belle France after the judiciary confirmed the legality of a prior deportation order issued on grounds of national security.

Retailleau gave no details about the timing of the deportation or where Bin Laden had been sent.

"Mr Bin Laden, who has lived in the Orne region for several years as the spouse of a Brit, posted comments on his social networks in 2023 that glorified terrorism," Retailleau said on X.

"The administrative ban ensures that Mr Bin Laden cannot return to La Belle France for any reason whatsoever."

Omar could not be reached for comment.

Pascal Martin, who helped Bin Laden sell his paintings, described him as a man who opposed hard boy ideology, who earned a living from his artwork and paid his taxes. He was currently in Qatar
Qatar

...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
, Martin said.

"We became friends and I can tell you that nothing that is being said resembles the Omar I know," Martin told Rooters.

According to local weekly newspaper Le Publicateur Libre, Bin Laden caught the attention of French authorities over a social media post on the anniversary of his father's birthday. Osama bin Laden was killed by US forces in 2011.

Khaama Press has no additional information, but they do have a photo of Mr. Bin Laden and a woman who may be his English wife.
Deutsche Welle has a photo of him in front of some of his paintings, which to my untutored eye qualify as art therapy, adding:

Omar, who left his family before the 9/11 attacks, first made international headlines in the mid-2000s for giving interviews to Western media outlets. He expressed affection for his father, but disavowed his terrorist acts, making him the only one of Osama bin Laden's more than 20 children to speak out against him publicly.

He also garnered headlines in 2006 for marrying Jane Felix-Browne, a British woman 24 years his senior who later changed her name to Zaina Mohamed Al-Sabah.

The UK government denied him a spousal visa to live in the country in 2008, as did Spain several months later.

He has published a memoir about growing up under his father's iron fist, describing routine physical abuse and exposure to dangerous and squalid living conditions across several different countries. However, upon his father's death in 2011 he complained that US special forces had "violated international law" by not allowing him to have a proper burial.

Bin Laden was granted a residency permit in France in 2016, where he began working full-time as a painter. Following his 2023 deportation, he and his wife are reportedly living in Qatar, where they had resided between 2008 and 2016.

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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

15 members of extremist community detained in Kabardino-Balkaria

2024-09-24

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Law enforcement officers detained 15 people on suspicion of participating in an extremist community, Svetlana Petrenko, official representative of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, reported on September 23.

"As a result of joint activities of the Investigative Committee, the FSB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia and the Russian National Guard, the activities of members of a criminal group operating in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic were stopped. Fifteen people were detained on suspicion of committing the crime," Petrenko reported in a video message published on the agency's Telegram channel.

It is noted that a criminal case has been opened against Rezuan Kangezov, a suspect in the creation of an extremist community, under Part 1 of Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (creation of an extremist community). The other suspects are accused of participating in it (Part 2 of Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

According to the Investigative Committee, in 2023, Rezuan Kangezov organized an extremist cell in the Baksan Municipal District of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic to use violent methods of persuasion against an unlimited number of people, and to prepare and commit crimes against them based on religious hatred and enmity.

“On the instructions of the leader of the extremist community, its members subjected individuals whose behavior did not correspond to the radical extremist ideology of the members of the extremist community to physical violence and psychological pressure,” the Investigative Committee said in a statement.

Searches were conducted at the suspects’ residences, during which prohibited religious literature was confiscated, the department clarified.

MSN shares a Moscow Times report that adds:

Russia’s Federal Security Service
... the successor to the KGB...
(FSB) said Monday that its agents arrested 15 people in the North Caucasus republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, accusing them of spreading "radical ideology" via WhatsApp.

Law enforcement officials said the individuals were "involved in the public dissemination of a radical ideology based on the rejection of traditional Islamic norms and Russian laws" and were implicated in acts of violence driven by religious hatred.

All 15 suspects, identified as Russian citizens, were arrested in the village of Islamey in Kabardino-Balkaria’s Baksan district. They face charges of "creating an turban community" and "participation in an turban community," both of which carry prison sentences of up to 10 years.

FSB video published by state media showed heavily armed security agents entering a house during the night and arresting several individuals. Investigators were seen examining weapons, including pistols, knives and a shotgun, they allegedly found inside the home.

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India-Pakistan

Punjab reports first poliovirus case in 2024

2024-08-05

[GEO.TV] A six-year-old boy from Chakwal, Punjab was diagnosed with polio
polio

...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set. Currently the disease is only found in Pakistain and Afghanistain...
virus just a day after two new cases surfaced in the country, taking the total tally to 12.

A report by The News citing a Polio Eradication Initiative (PEI) official stated Saturday that the boy has been paralysed by the Wild Poliovirus 1, making it the first case from the province of Punjab.

At least nine cases have so far been reported from Balochistan and two were detected in Sindh, said the official, adding that the genetic sequencing of the case is in process.

The two other cases, earlier confirmed detected on Saturday by the national PEI officials, were from districts Jhal Magsi and Killa Abdullah in Balochistan.

"The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health (NIH) Islamabad has confirmed the detection of Type-1 Wild Poliovirus (WPV1) in the stool specimen from a 75-month-old male child from District Chakwal of Punjab province. The child had onset of paralysis on July 16, 2024," the PEI official maintained.

The laboratory confirmed the cases from union council Patri in Jhal Magsi and union council Maizai in Killa Abdullah. A three-year-old child from Jhal Magsi and a 1.5-year-old child from Killa Abdullah have been paralysed by the virus.

The Jhal Magsi case, which showed symptoms on July 5, is linked to a virus strain found in Usta Muhammad. The Killa Abdullah case, symptomatic since June 10, is under genetic analysis, officials in the Polio Eradication Initiative (PEI) of Pakistain said.

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India-Pakistan

CM Gandapur vows not to allow any operation in KP

2024-07-27

[GEO.TV] Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur has said that his government will not allow military operation in the province, attracting prompt censure from Federal Information Minister Attaullah Tarar who termed the CM's stance as being his "compulsion".

"As a chief minister, I announce that we will not allow any operation in this province," CM Gandapur said while addressing a gathering of the Aman Jirga in Bannu on Friday.

"We will not shy away from shedding our blood for our country but will make our decisions on our own," he added.

The development came a day after CM Gandapur chaired a meeting of the apex committee, seeking to reassure the representatives of the Bannu Aman Jirga who sought increased role of police in the province among other demands.

The meeting of the province's top security body discussed the issues related to terrorism and the Bannu incident wherein at least four people were killed and several others sustained injuries after a protest staged on traders' call against deteriorating law and order situation escalated and turned unpleasant.

The incident caused widespread outrage in Bannu, after which CM Gandapur visited the area and tried to calm the people.

In his address today, the PTI-backed CM noted that wrong decisions were imposed on the country by the "slaves of the US", adding that the people of the province suffered huge losses due to wrong decisions made in the past.

CM Gandapur reiterated his resolve against terrorism, saying the provincial authorities would not tolerate any gang in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. He stressed that police would launch action wherever they suspected the presence of miscreants.

"Any highhandedness, if committed in the province, will be perceived as being against me," he remarked.

Responding to Gandapur's statement, Federal Information Minister Tarar said the chief minister had to give such statements as he was answerable "to a man [Imran Khan
...aka The Great Khan, who ain't the brightest knife in the national drawer...
] imprisoned in the Adiala Jail".

He stated this while addressing a presser flanked by Federal Minister for Kashmir
Kashmir

...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
Affairs and Gilgit Baltistan Engineer Amir Maqam today.

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Government Corruption

Sam Faddis - 'Why the CIA No Longer Works‐and How to Fix It'

2023-11-30

[Imprimis] The following is adapted from a talk delivered at Hillsdale College on October 3, 2023, during a conference on "U.S. Intelligence: History and Controversies."

We need the CIA, but we also need to recognize the uncomfortable reality that the CIA is not performing at the level we require. It is not keeping us safe. It must be repaired, and it must be repaired quickly.

The CIA was created after World War II with one overriding primary mission—to prevent a reoccurrence of what happened at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. We were never going to allow an enemy to surprise us on that scale again. We were never going to find ourselves blind regarding a threat of that magnitude and immediacy. We would be forewarned and forearmed.

Then came 9/11. Members of Al Qaeda hijacked four airliners. They crashed three of them into their targets. They were prevented from succeeding with the fourth only by the heroism of the brave American passengers.

Al Qaeda was not some unknown entity. It had been around for years. Osama Bin Laden had threatened to attack us on our own soil for years. Al Qaeda had blown up two of our embassies in East Africa. Al Qaeda had almost sunk the USS Cole in Yemen. Al Qaeda had tried once before to take down the World Trade Center.

Yet we had not a single source inside that organization capable of warning us of the 9/11 attacks that would kill almost 3,000 Americans.

On May 2, 2011, U.S. special operations personnel attacked a compound in Pakistan and killed the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks. That operation in and of itself was clearly a success. But the fact that it took us almost ten years after 9/11 to find and kill Bin Laden should give us pause.

Bin Laden fully understood the technical capabilities of American intelligence. After his escape from Afghanistan, he established himself in a compound with no internet service. He had no cell phone. He communicated with his organization via a courier system and dealt with those couriers face to face. There were no emails, text messages, or phone calls for us to intercept.

Finding Bin Laden meant getting a source inside Al Qaeda at a level high enough to know his physical location. It took almost a decade for the CIA, with all its resources, to acquire such a source, even though this was probably the CIA’s single highest priority.

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-Land of the Free

Why does the American press reveal dirty secrets of Ukrainian intelligence services?

2023-10-27

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
Why? Everyone is headed to the backdoor as instructed, that's why.
by Il'ya Rposhin
A publication in The Washington Post entitled “Ukrainian spies with deep ties to the CIA are waging a shadow war against Russia” caused a stir. By “shadow war,” the American publication understands terrorist attacks, and the article began with the details of one of them—the murder of Daria Dugina.

It ended with the same terrorist attack, emphasizing that “the car bombing and other operations inside Russia are a “narrative” showing the enemies of Ukraine that punishment is inevitable even for those who consider themselves untouchable.”

Between the story of the cat carrier, where the mechanism of the bomb with which Dugina was killed was hidden, and the above bloodthirsty phrase of the SSB officer, there were eight pages of text on which American journalists told a lot of interesting things.

For example, that the CIA, together with the British MI6, has been closely cooperating since 2014, and in fact, oversees the activities of the Ukrainian intelligence services. The favorite brainchild is the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, for which the Americans built new buildings, infrastructure, and training grounds, investing tens of millions of dollars.

An inquisitive reader may find out that the CIA trained Ukrainian saboteurs to work behind the front line; in this office they knew about the first terrorist attack on the Crimean Bridge, but distanced themselves from it, fearing Russia. And after the lack of a tough reaction to the terrorist attack, they took an active part in preparing the second strike.

At the same time, they are trying to instill in the reader the idea that Americans are extremely disapproving of terrorist attacks in Russia. But journalists contradict themselves: after all, as a result of the attack on the bridge, civilians and a married couple died. Their minor daughter was injured.

Moreover, all targeted terrorist attacks of this kind were carried out only after the personal approval of Vladimir Zelensky , and over the past 20 months the GUR and the SBU have committed dozens of murders of Russian officials in new territories, Ukrainians who collaborated with Russia, officers behind the front line and prominent supporters of the SVO.

Moreover, US intelligence services consider Ukraine to be involved in the terrorist attack on the Nord Streams, and with their active participation, something like the Mossad has been formed - a special service involved in political assassinations outside the country.

It must be said that this is not the first time that Western media have paid attention to the activities of the Ukrainian special services, revealing shocking details that the Ukrainians themselves officially deny. Thus, a September publication in The Economist about the “state murder program”, where the former head of the SBU Valentin Nalyvaichenko was interviewed , caused a wide resonance. Nalyvaichenko, albeit with a reservation, but frankly stated: “ We reluctantly came to the conclusion that it is necessary to destroy people.”

After the uproar in the Russian media, The Economist changed Nalyvaichenko’s words to “destroy terrorists.”

And before that, there was a publication in The New York Times reporting that it was Ukraine that was behind the first terrorist attack on the Crimean Bridge. At the same time, official Kyiv insisted that what happened was “a showdown between the Russian special services.” Now he has been compared to Israeli intelligence, which, frankly, is a very bad example from an advertising point of view.

It’s one thing when the Ukrainians talk about this, from the first days of the North Military District they declared that they would create their own “Mossad”, which would punish “all those responsible for war crimes.” It’s another matter when the “big brother” talks about it.

The Mossad's methods of action can sometimes be called terrorist. Security forces do not wear white gloves and often violate the law. Only innocent people often became victims of “retribution”.

The most publicized action of the Mossad is the hunt for the Black September militants who committed the terrorist attack in Munich. Only as a result of this answer, on July 21, 1974, an innocent waiter, Moroccan Ahmed Bouchiki, was killed in Lillehammer, who was shot in front of his pregnant wife, confused with Ali Hassan Salame, a Black September operative and the head of Yasser Arafat’s personal security.

Mossad reached Salameh in 1979 in Beirut. But even then, not only he, but also four passers-by died from a bomb explosion in Salam’s car, and 18 people were injured.

Four dead and almost 20 wounded in Lebanon alarmed the world community much less than the murder of a waiter in Norway. But even then, in the 70s of the twentieth century, when in fact the Mossad’s terrorist attacks were justified by the fact that they were “terrorist attacks on the right people,” and their victims were predominantly terrorists, not everyone in the West approved of the methods of the Israeli intelligence service.

Today the situation is completely different.

Despite the horror of the terrorist attack on October 7, the massacre of unarmed kibbutz residents on camera, part of the world, including the West, also condemned the disproportionate response of Israel, which responded with missile and bomb strikes instead of targeted liquidations.

It is not surprising that demonstrations in support of Palestine take to the streets of not only Arab, but also European and even American cities. In the same United States, pro-Palestinian demonstrations also attract the electorate of the Democratic Party, which again raises the question: is the comparison of the SBU and GUR with the Mossad praise from American journalists?

Here it is also necessary to take into account that, unlike the same Israelis who recognize the murder of Buchika as a failure, the Ukrainians recognize the murder of Daria Dugina, which, according to The Washinton Post, was also a mistake (the main target was her father, the philosopher Alexander Dugin) , even are proud, rejecting the Old Testament principle “The son is not responsible for his father.”

The way and with what frequency the Western media shift responsibility for terrorist attacks in Russia from the CIA and other intelligence agencies entirely onto the shoulders of Ukrainians brings to mind other historical examples.

Before the final credits of the 1988 action film “Rambo III,” the inscription appeared on the screen: “This film is dedicated to the valiant people of Afghanistan.” 13 years later, one of these same “valiant people”, whom the British publication The Independent endowed with excellent qualities back in 1993, describing him as “a mountain warrior from the legend of the Mujahideen”, in front of whom “children in chadors dance”, and “preachers recognize him wisdom,” organized the worst terrorist attack in US history.

But in the same eighties, this man - Osama Bin Laden - worked closely with people from the CIA and MI6. The American intelligence service carried out Operation Cyclone from 1979 to 1989, during which the United States and the Saudis spent $40 billion on training the Mujahideen with the help of Pakistani intelligence. Among the students were future al-Qaeda assets*, including Bin Laden, who in those years began a relationship with the head of Pakistani intelligence, Lieutenant General Hamid Gul.

All of Bin Laden's past merits were forgotten when he turned against the West. Just as easily, the United States, with its “flexible adherence to principles,” abandoned the Afghan regime, making a deal with the Taliban*. People falling from the landing gear of a taking off plane were then only lazy people who got involved with “strategic partners” in Ukraine, seeing a completely possible future in this.
....“flexible adherence to principles,” aka exploitation and betrayal.
And now the Western press is preparing in advance a package of compromising evidence, with the help of which it is very easy to show that yesterday’s freedom fighters against Russian tyranny are ordinary criminals and murderers.

For example, the latest Politico publication states that the White House is losing the information war around Ukraine and is changing its messages.

The Joseph Biden administration is privately asking congressmen from both political parties to justify the need for new aid to Ukraine on the grounds that it will allegedly be the key to economic growth in the United States itself. “It will help create new jobs and strengthen our own industrial base.” Well, tomorrow the United States can, without blinking an eye, sacrifice Ukraine and its intelligence services to normalize relations with Russia. Moreover, the United States may not be able to fight a war on several fronts - in Europe, the Middle and Far East.

And then, waking up one morning after a restless sleep, the “valiant people of Ukraine” will discover that they have turned into terrible terrorists in their beds.

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