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  • Paul Whelan 'Extremely Concerned About Being Left Behind' Again

    12/28/2023 3:36:11 PM PST · by Navy Patriot · 12 replies
    Newsmax ^ | December 28, 2023 | Nicole Wells
    American Paul Whelan said he is "extremely concerned about being left behind" in Russia again, as the Biden administration looks to cut a deal with the Kremlin to release U.S. detainees. In one of several phone calls over the Christmas holiday, Whelan told WTOP that the Russians are "adamant" about doing "one-for-one exchanges," which he worries will result in Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich's release and not his own. "At this point, the five-year mark, I'm extremely concerned about being left behind a third time," Whelan said. "I'm concerned that the Biden administration will work out a deal for...
  • Biden Frees Venezuela’s ‘Financial Brain’, Granting Narco-Socialists a Major Win

    12/20/2023 8:59:40 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 18 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 12/20/2023 | CHRISTIAN K. CARUZO
    President Joe Biden greenlit the release of Colombian businessman Alex Saab, accused of acting as Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro’s top money launderer, on Wednesday. Saab’s release is allegedly the result of a prisoner swap with the rogue socialist regime that will also allow for the release of unjustly detained Americans in Venezuela, the Associated Press reported. Saab, 51, is a close personal ally of Maduro and is widely considered the socialist dictator’s financial brain. American law enforcement authorities arrested Saab in Cape Verde in 2020 after the Department of Justice indicted him in 2019 on charges of laundering $350...
  • Trust Hamas?-"Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it."

    12/01/2023 4:27:33 AM PST · by SJackson · 13 replies
    Frontpagemagazine ^ | December 1, 2023 | Allen West
    “Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.” — George SantayanaThere are many who have been advocating for and praising the so-called “ceasefire” agreement between Israel and the Islamic terrorist organization Hamas. I know that the families of those held hostage want to have their loved ones released back to them, especially the elderly and little children. How utterly savage and barbaric, but that is to be expected from a terrorist organization whose existence is dedicated to the extermination and eradication of the Jewish people and their homeland . . . a continuation of Adolf Hitler’s final...
  • Eisenbud's Odyssey: The scorpion & the frog (2011 prediction on the release of 1000 Hamas terrorists)

    10/21/2023 8:17:48 PM PDT · by 11th_VA · 8 replies
    The Jerusalem Post ^ | OCTOBER 28, 2011 | By DANIEL K. EISENBUD
    (2011 editorial) I have always been fascinated by the timeless parable of the scorpion and the frog. It’s a short yet powerful warning about the often immutable nature of certain beings. In this case, the deadly and incontrovertible nature of evil. As the story goes, a scorpion asks a frog to carry it across a body of water, since the scorpion cannot swim. The frog then rightly asserts that doing so would put its life at great risk, as the scorpion is known to lethally sting other creatures, sometimes without provocation. To counter the frog’s argument, the scorpion insists that...
  • Hamas Wants to Trade CAIR Leader in Federal Prison for U.S. Hostages

    10/19/2023 3:30:56 AM PDT · by Chad C. Mulligan · 12 replies
    Sultan Knish ^ | 18 Oct 09:05 AM | Daniel Greenfield
    There are an estimated 14 American hostages being held in Gaza. (This number may rise or fall as Hamas continues to release videos of the hostages and Israel continues identifying bodies, some of which have been charred beyond recognition, by using DNA samples from family members.) As of this time, there are 20 Americans missing and bodies are being tested. *snip* But the Biden administration has currently ruled out sending rescue forces, instead it is using Hamas allies, Qatar and Turkey, to conduct negotiations with the Islamic terrorist organization. While Israel has refused to trade hostages for terrorists, Biden may...
  • Hamas says it will release all civilian hostages in an hour if Israeli bombing stops

    10/17/2023 11:34:12 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 64 replies
    NBC News ^ | Oct. 17, 2023, 1:23 PM CDT | Richard Engel and Natalie Kainz
    A senior Hamas official told NBC News' Richard Engel that the group is willing to immediately release all civilian hostages — foreign and Israeli — if Israel stops its airstrikes on Gaza. The Hamas official said the hostages could be released within the hour as long as Israel meets its terms. He claimed that there is no safe place to release the hostages now. In exchange for the release of Israeli soldiers held hostage, the Hamas official said Israel must release all Palestinians held in Israeli jails. The Hamas official also claimed that the U.S. and Israel are already aware...
  • Israel says Hamas' leader Yaha Sinwar is their BIN LADEN and that IDF won't stop hunting him until he's dead, as US sends second aircraft carrier to Eastern Med to deter Iran from attacking

    10/14/2023 7:08:38 PM PDT · by libh8er · 33 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 10.14.2023 | Harriet Alexander
    Israeli troops on Saturday were hunting a Hamas commander described as Palestine's Osama bin Laden, vowing to find him wherever he was hiding and insisting his days were numbered. Yahya Sinwar, 60, is the current head of Hamas in the Gaza Strip. He has been arrested by Israel multiple times and spent 24 years in Israeli prisons: he was freed in 2011, as part of a prisoner swap in exchange for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. Sinwar is being held responsible for the murder of 1,300 Israelis in the October 7 attack. The U.S. death toll rose to 29 on Saturday,...
  • US Strategic Command Hosts Former Iranian Official Who Bragged About Efforts To Assassinate US Leaders

    08/31/2023 5:04:04 PM PDT · by nuconvert · 9 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | Aug. 29, 2023
    Hussein Mousavian headlined STRATCOM's Deterrence Symposium U.S. military leaders earlier this month hosted a former top Iranian official who came under fire last year for bragging about the hardline regime’s efforts to assassinate American leaders. U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM) tapped Hussein Mousavian, a former member of Iran’s nuclear negotiating team who works as a Middle East security and nuclear policy specialist at Princeton University, to headline its 2023 Deterrence Symposium, a high-level powwow that brought the former Iranian official shoulder-to-shoulder with America’s top military brass. Mousavian’s appearance at the mid-August gathering, which came to light on Monday after STRATCOM posted...
  • Iran's Oil Mafia (pro-regime Iranian lobby in U.S.)

    04/16/2007 5:08:26 AM PDT · by nuconvert · 9 replies · 552+ views
    Frontpagemagazine.com ^ | April 16, 2007 | Hassan Daioleslam
    Iran's Oil Mafia April 16, 2007 Frontpagemagazine.com Hassan Daioleslam Robert William (Bob) Ney is a current federal prisoner and a former Ohio Congressman from 1995 until November 3, 2006. Ney pled guilty to charges of conspiracy and making false statements in relation to the Jack Abramoff lobbying and bribery scandal. Ney reportedly received bribes from Abramoff, other lobbyists, and two foreign businessmen - a felon and an arms dealer - in exchange for using his position to advance their interests. Conspicuously missing from this dossier of disservice to the country was Ney’s assistance in the creation of a Washington-based lobbying...
  • Americans fly out of Iran after $6 billion prisoner swap deal with US

    09/18/2023 12:58:30 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 27 replies
    Euronews ^ | 18/09/2023
    Some experts believe the deal signifies an easing of tensions between Tehran and Washington. Five American prisoners held in Iran flew out of Tehran on Monday officials said, as part of a deal that saw nearly $6 billion in Iranian assets unfrozen. Despite the deal, tensions are almost certain to remain high between the US and Iran, which are locked in various disputes, including over Tehran’s nuclear program. Iran says the program is peaceful, but it now enriches uranium closer than ever to weapons-grade levels. The planned exchange has unfolded amid a major American military buildup in the Persian Gulf,...
  • US makes deal with Iran to swap five American prisoners for $6billion in frozen funds

    09/11/2023 1:43:00 PM PDT · by DFG · 51 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | 09/11/2023 | AP
    The Biden administration has made a deal with Iran to release $6 billion in frozen funds in exchange for the release of five American prisoners. The agreement issuing a blanket waiver for international banks to transfer sanctioned Iranian money from South Korea to Qatar without fear of U.S. sanctions includes the release of five Iranian citizens held in the U.S. The Iranian-Americans include businessmen Siamak Namazi, 51, and Emad Shargi, 58, along with environmentalist Morad Tahbaz, 67. Secretary of State Antony Blinken signed off on the deal late last week, but Congress was not notified of the decision until Monday,...
  • NEW: Biden Unfreezes $6 Billion in Iranian Assets in Deal to Free Five American Hostages

    08/10/2023 6:24:27 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 31 replies
    Red State ^ | 08/10/2023 | Mike Miller
    After it was reported on Thursday that Iran had transferred five Iranian Americans from prison to house arrest, it became clear that a deal between the Biden administration and the radical Islamist state had been reached — which would include billions of dollars of frozen Iranian assets in exchange for the Americans.This again raises the question — which we’ll tackle later in the article: Should the United States pay ransom to rogue states and others for the release of captured Americans?Anyway, sure enough, the United States and Iran have reached an agreement in which the Islamist regime will free the...
  • Vlad the impaler: Putin may have had affair with ex-spy Chapman (Where's Lyudmila?)

    05/11/2012 9:17:08 PM PDT · by Libloather · 17 replies
    NY Post ^ | 4/24/12 | ANDY SOLTIS
    Vlad the impaler: Putin may have had affair with ex-spy ChapmanBy ANDY SOLTIS Last Updated: 7:14 AM, April 24, 2012 Vladimir Putin may have had an affair with sexy former spy Anna Chapman — which might have knocked the Russian president’s wife of 29 years out of the spotlight, Kremlin watchers say. Putin, 59, is an ever-present figure in the Russian media but has been shown just twice with his 54-year-old wife, Lyudmila, in the last two years. Ex-Manhattanite Chapman, 30, who was booted to Moscow in a 2010 spy swap, soon emerged as a key player...
  • EXCLUSIVE | Interview with Viktor Bout | New level of escalation between US & Russia

    01/25/2023 8:03:48 AM PST · by BusterDog · 6 replies
    YouTube ^ | 01/25/23
    On episode 20 of the show we are joined by Viktor Bout, a man whose life story is quite worthy of a film adaptation. A polyglot, entrepreneur, graduate of the Soviet Military Institute of Foreign Languages. In the West Viktor is portrayed as the “lord of war” and the “merchant of death”. A Russian businessman, a case against whom was fabricated by the American intelligence services on the basis of a provocation they carried out against him in Thailand in 2008. After extradition to the United States, Bout was sentenced to 25 years in a maximum security prison. He was...
  • ‘Merchant Of Death’ Visits Occupied Ukraine; WNBA Reveals Brittney Griner Was Paid Full Salary While Locked Up

    12/20/2022 9:26:58 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 20 replies
    Nation and State ^ | 12/20/2022 | Tyler Durden
    In what appears a further attempt to embarrass the United States, capitalizing on the fact that a notorious arms dealer and convicted terrorist nicknamed the 'Merchant of Death' was traded from US custody for a WNBA player caught in a Moscow airport merely with cannabis cartridges, Viktor Bout has made a highly publicized visit to occupied Ukraine. Russian state media confirmed that Bout visited the Russian-controlled city of Luhansk in the Donbas over the weekend, delivering a message that the area "would soon be peaceful, and people would live without fear for their future," as cited in RIA Novosti.Viktor Bout...
  • Oh, So That's Why Biden Took the Deal to Get a WNBA Star Out of Russia: They took the deal because this notorious arms dealer would be released from prison soon anyway.

    12/13/2022 8:49:17 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 21 replies
    Townhall ^ | 12/13/2022 | Matt Vespa
    As we’ve noted here, when it comes to The Art of the Deal, Biden doesn’t have it, which was painfully exposed when he pulled the trigger on a bad deal to get back WNBA star Brittney Griner who has been detained in Russia for months. In February, Griner was jailed on drug charges, with vape charges containing cannabis oil on her person. It was for medicinal purposes, but it’s illegal in Russia. A months-long legal circus carried allegations that the Biden White House either didn’t know or care that an American was being detained overseas. It also didn’t help that...
  • Trump Reveals on Truth Social that He Rejected Russia's Previous Offer to Swap 'Merchant of Death'

    12/12/2022 9:13:52 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 17 replies
    Townhall ^ | 12/12/2022 | Spencer Brown
    As more information trickles out about how President Joe Biden agreed to swap Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout for WNBA player Brittney Griner, former President Donald Trump revealed that Russia had tried to get him to release Bout in a proposed prisoner exchange that Trump rejected over his objections to freeing the "Merchant of Death." In a post on Truth Social, Trump said "I turned down a deal with Russia for a one on one swap of the so-called Merchant of Death for Paul Whelan," the former U.S. Marine who was arrested by Russian authorities in 2018 and charged with...
  • Arms Dealer Viktor Bout Mocks U.S. on Russian TV and Shows How Bad the Griner Swap Truly Was

    12/11/2022 8:22:37 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 14 replies
    Red State ^ | 12/11/2022 | Nick Arama
    The reactions to the lopsided Brittney Griner/Viktor Bout swap are still coming in.Here’s Derek Maltz, former DEA Special Operations Director, talking with Fox News, describing the effort they made to put Bout in jail, what a danger he was to the world, and that he was convicted on serious terrorism charges. He notes that even the Obama administration got how serious this was and Joe Biden was the Vice President at the time, so he had to know what a danger Bout was to the world. “Putin has just established a new tool,” Maltz said, and others will “take advantage...
  • International arms dealer Victor Bout has given his first interview after being released from US custody

    12/10/2022 6:37:05 PM PST · by Macho MAGA Man · 34 replies
    Jack Posobiec on Twitter ^ | December 10, 2022 | Jack Posobiec
    Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 @JackPosobiec International arms dealer Victor Bout has given his first interview after being released from US custody From RT 4:31 PM · Dec 10, 2022
  • The MAGA faithful who refuse to celebrate Brittney Griner's release ( NBC News Opinion Piece )

    12/10/2022 6:31:52 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 67 replies
    NBC NEWS THINK OPINION ^ | 12/10/2022 | Tiffany Drayton
    Conservatives are obsessed with a patriotism litmus test rigged against Black Americans.Brittney Griner’s release from a Russian penal colony Thursday as part of a prisoner swap for Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout was met with widespread celebration. Griner was sentenced to nine years in prison after vape canisters and cannabis oil were discovered in her luggage at the airport. President Joe Biden’s announcement that Griner was safely on a plane bound for the U.S. means the gay WNBA star will miraculously make it home to her wife and family in time for the holidays. But perhaps not surprisingly, the...