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  • Illegal migrant from Lebanon caught at border admitted he’s a Hezbollah terrorist and hoped ‘to make a bomb’ in US

    03/17/2024 9:38:35 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 47 replies
    Nypost ^ | 03/17/2024 | Jennie Taer
    A Lebanese migrant who was caught sneaking over the border admitted he’s a member of Hezbollah, he hoped to make a bomb, and his destination was New York, The Post can reveal. Basel Bassel Ebbadi, 22, was caught by border patrol on March 9 near El Paso, Texas. While in custody he asked what he was doing in the US, to which he replied: “I’m going to try to make a bomb,” according to a Border Patrol document exclusively obtained by The Post. In a subsequent sworn interview, Ebbadi said he had trained with Hezbollah for seven years and served...
  • Amid deepening tensions, White House weighs how to respond if Israel defies Biden with Rafah invasion

    03/16/2024 9:22:14 AM PDT · by Mr. Mojo · 88 replies
    NBC via Yahoo ^ | March 16, 2024 | Monica Alba, Courtney Kube, Jonathan Allen, Carol E. Lee, Andrea Mitchell, Kelly O'Donnell, etc.
    WASHINGTON — The White House is considering options for how to respond if Israel defies President Joe Biden’s repeated warnings against launching a military invasion of Rafah without a credible plan to protect Palestinian civilians, according to one former and three current U.S. officials. The discussions are taking place amid growing concern in the administration and frustration among congressional Democrats that the president’s pleas will simply be ignored. Israel this week inched closer to initiating an incursion into the southernmost city in the Gaza Strip. The Biden administration set a March 24 deadline for Israel to provide written assurance, followed...
  • Kaine: We Have Questions About Biden’s ‘Legal Rationale’ for Yemen Strikes

    01/28/2024 12:08:41 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 4 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 01/28/2024 | Pam Key
    CBS’s “Face the Nation” that the Senate will press President Joe Biden over multiple airstrikes against Houthis in Yemen without congressional approval. Partial transcript as follows: MARGARET BRENNAN: And we have one of those, a- agencies with us later in the program, though far smaller than the 13,000 employees of the UN. President Biden has talked about these U.S. strikes on the Houthis continuing. I know you have some issue with that.
  • Yemen's Houthis In Russia Discuss "Pressure" On US, Israel To End Gaza War

    01/28/2024 11:11:07 AM PST · by marcusmaximus · 9 replies
    NDTV World ^ | 1/28/2024 | Staff
    A Houthi delegation discussed on Thursday during a rare visit to Moscow "the need to increase efforts to pressure" the United States and Israel to end the Gaza war, a spokesman for the Yemeni rebels said. Houthi spokesman Mohammed Abdel Salam met at the head of a rebel delegation with Deputy Russian Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov to discuss the ongoing conflict in Gaza, he said in a statement on X, formerly Twitter. -snip- Abdel Salam said the meeting with Bogdanov discussed the US and British strikes on the Houthis, affirming that it was more pressing for the United States to...
  • Yemen’s Houthis reported to have a hypersonic missile, possibly raising stakes in Red Sea crisis

    03/15/2024 9:04:01 AM PDT · by hardspunned · 26 replies
    AP ^ | 3/14/24 | Jon Gambrel
    DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels claim to have a new, hypersonic missile in their arsenal, Russia’s state media reported Thursday, potentially raising the stakes in their attacks on shipping in the Red Sea and surrounding waterways against the backdrop of Israel’s war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The report by the state-run RIA Novosti news agency cited an unidentified official but provided no evidence for the claim. It comes as Moscow maintains an aggressively counter-Western foreign policy amid its grinding war on Ukraine.
  • Crew abandon British-registered cargo ship off Yemen after Houthi attack

    02/19/2024 5:28:27 PM PST · by Paul R. · 69 replies
    BBC News ^ | 2/19/2024 | David Gritten & Joshua Cheetham
    The crew of a Belize-flagged, British-registered cargo vessel have abandoned ship off Yemen after it was hit by missiles fired by the Houthi movement.
  • US seizes massive stash of Iranian weapons headed for Houthi rebels in Yemen including hundreds of ballistic missile parts and explosives being shipped over on a rusty skiff in the Arabian Sea

    02/15/2024 11:17:07 AM PST · by knighthawk · 23 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | February 15 2024 | PAUL FARRELL
    US forces operating in the Arabian Sea have seized a massive arsenal of Iranian weapons that were bound for Houthi rebels in Yemen, the latest indication that Tehran plans to prolong the conflict in the region by supplying the terror group. Photos posted online by CENTCOM, the United States command in the Middle East, show a United States Coast Guard ship beside a rusty skiff vessel on January 28. Another photo showed the cache of contraband that was found on board. The weaponry included materials necessary for ballistic missiles, anti tank rockets and explosives as well as communication equipment.
  • Houthis may sabotage western internet cables in Red Sea, Yemen telecoms firms warn

    02/05/2024 12:12:52 PM PST · by dynachrome · 34 replies
    The Guardian ^ | 2-5-24 | Patrick Wintour
    Telecom firms linked to the UN-recognised Yemen government have said they fear Houthi rebels are planning to sabotage a network of submarine cables in the Red Sea critical to the functioning of the western internet and the transmission of financial data. The warning came after a Houthi-linked Telegram channel published a map of the cables running along the bed of the Red Sea. The image was accompanied by a message: “There are maps of international cables connecting all regions of the world through the sea. It seems that Yemen is in a strategic location, as internet lines that connect entire...
  • U.S. and U.K. launch new strikes targeting Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen.

    02/03/2024 1:52:07 PM PST · by janetjanet998 · 30 replies
    U.S. and U.K. launch new strikes targeting Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen. U.S. and U.K. launch new strikes targeting Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen. At least 30 targets hit at 10 locations 2000lb bombs used
  • New blast reported off Yemen after US strikes

    02/01/2024 6:27:07 AM PST · by nuconvert · 6 replies
    MSN/AFP ^ | 1-31-24
    A new explosion was reported off Yemen on Thursday after overnight US strikes targeted 10 attack drones and a ground control station belonging to the Iran-backed Huthi rebels. The explosion, reported by the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations agency, happened near a vessel west of the port city of Hodeida. (excerpt) Early Thursday in Yemen, US forces targeted a "Huthi UAV ground control station and 10 Huthi one-way UAVs" that "presented an imminent threat to merchant vessels and the US Navy ships in the region", a CENTCOM statement said, using an abbreviation for unmanned aerial vehicles or drones.
  • Yemen’s Houthi rebels say they attacked a US warship without evidence. An American official rejects the claim

    01/29/2024 6:01:26 AM PST · by Red Badger · 8 replies
    AP News ^ | Updated 4:25 AM CST, January 29, 2024 | BY JON GAMBRELL
    JERUSALEM (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels said they attacked a U.S. Navy mobile base at sea Monday without offering evidence, something immediately rejected by an American defense official. Houthi military spokesperson Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree claimed the group fired a missile at the USS Lewis B. Puller in the Gulf of Aden. The Puller, which serves as a floating landing base, had been earlier stationed in the Arabian Sea as part of American efforts to curtail Houthi attacks on commercial shipping through the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. Houthi attacks will continue “until the aggression is stopped, and the...
  • Biden Rewards Iran's Murder of 3 U.S. Troops With a Cool $10 Billion

    03/14/2024 9:40:26 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 32 replies
    PJ Media ^ | 03/14/2024 | Stephen Green
    The Biden administration on Wednesday quietly issued yet another sanctions waiver to Iran, giving the terrorist regime access to as much as $10 billion in frozen assets. When Presidentish Joe Biden showed similar largess in September of last year, he promised that the money — "merely" $6 billion that time — could "only be spent on humanitarian purposes." Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said his government would spend the money however they damn well pleased, and then did. It was less than two months ago when three American servicemembers were killed and another three dozen wounded in a drone attack by...
  • Biden Slaps More Sanctions on Israel While Giving $10 Billion Sanctions Waiver to Iran

    03/14/2024 9:11:23 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 30 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 03/14/2024 | JOEL B. POLLAK
    President Joe Biden’s administration slapped more sanctions on Israelis over so-called “extremist settler violence” on Thursday — including on two outposts in the West Bank, marking the first sanctions on Israel relating to a specific area. The sanctions are a virtual gift to the anti-Israel and antisemitic “boycott, divestment, sanctions” (BDS) movement, at a time when Biden is trying to shore up flagging Arab- and Muslim-American support. The news also came on the same day that the Biden Administration sent senior White House officials to meet with Palestinian-Americans in Chicago. The sanctions also came a day after the Biden Administration...
  • Biden Staffer Who Mishandled China, Iran Secrets Retains High-Security Pentagon Job

    02/15/2024 9:17:16 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 33 replies
    Real Clear Investigations ^ | 02/15/2024 | Paul Sperry
    While Special Counsel Robert K. Hur has raised the issue of mental deterioration in explaining why he declined to prosecute 81-year-old Joe Biden for illegal retention and sharing of classified documents, the president chose another rationale to declare himself not culpable: He shifted the blame to the staffers who boxed up his records as he left the vice president’s office in 2017.At a press conference hastily assembled after the report’s release, Biden said he assumed his aides had shipped “all" the documents to the National Archives in College Park, Md. “I wish I had paid more attention to how the...
  • Iran violently clamps down on Christians amid reports of torture, fines and floggings 'No church in the world is growing, secretly, and faster than the Iranian church'

    03/08/2024 7:06:41 AM PST · by SJackson · 12 replies
    Fox News ^ | March 3, 2024 | Benjamin Weinthal
    Iran claims to allow the country’s Christian minority to practice its faith in peace. The reality for many Iranian Christians, however, is plagued by whippings, arrests, imprisonment, surveillance and harassment, according to a February report from the religious freedom NGO Article 18. One shocking finding of the Article 18 40-page study, titled "Faceless Victims: Rights Violations Against Christians in Iran," states, "By the end of 2023, at least 17 of the Christians arrested during the summer had received prison sentences of between three months and five years, or non-custodial punishments such as fines, flogging, and in one case the community-service...
  • Iran surges cyber-enabled influence operations in support of Hamas (Deceptive Taqyyia, sockpuppets too)

    03/06/2024 7:54:16 PM PST · by Milagros · 5 replies
    Microsoft ^ | Feb 7 2024
    Iran surges cyber-enabled influence operations in support of Hamas. 02/07/2024 Iran surges cyber-enabled influence operations in support of Hamas Introduction As the Israel-Hamas war broke out on October 7, 2023, Iran immediately surged support to Hamas with its now well-honed technique of combining targeted hacks with influence operations amplified on social media, what we refer to as cyber-enabled influence operations.1 Iran’s operations were initially reactionary and opportunistic. By late October, nearly all of Iran’s influence and major cyber actors focused on Israel in an increasingly targeted, coordinated, and destructive manner, making for a seemingly boundless “all-hands-on-deck” campaign against Israel. Unlike...
  • Western powers shelve plans to censure Iran at UN nuclear meeting

    03/05/2024 7:08:50 AM PST · by jacknhoo · 12 replies
    AFP via Macau business ^ | March 5, 2024 | AFP
    Western powers will not censure Iran over its lack of cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog at its Board of Governors meeting from Monday for fear of aggravating geopolitical tensions, diplomats said. Last week, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in confidential quarterly reports seen by AFP that Tehran’s cooperation with the agency remained poor on several outstanding nuclear issues. These include expanding its nuclear work, deactivating agency surveillance devices for monitoring Iran’s nuclear programme, and barring senior inspectors. The so-called E3 group — France, Germany and the United Kingdom — initially planned to censure Iran for its lack...
  • Iran 101: Into the mind of the enemy

    02/18/2024 5:46:51 AM PST · by Twotone · 6 replies
    InspirationFromZion.com ^ | February 7, 2024 | Forest Rain
    Eliyahu Yossian is a man on a mission – waking up Israelis to the misconceptions that are endangering the survival of the Jewish State. The path to a secure future necessitates changing the mindset that led to the disaster of October 7th. The same mindset that for the past 30 years has led Israel to “manage the conflict” rather than attain clear and decisive victory over our would-be murderers – although the State is much stronger and better equipped than in her early years. “It all begins”, he explains, “with the way you perceive the world.” Eliyahu Yossian is a...
  • Iran Transported $2.8BN Worth Of Oil In 2023 Under Washington's Nose

    02/17/2024 9:45:06 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 7 replies
    The Cradle ^ | 02/17/2024
    Iran was able to transport $2.8 billion in oil to customers in 2023 using insurance from a US-based company, despite sanctions imposed on Iranian oil sales by the US Treasury, an investigation published by The New York Times (NYT) on Friday has found. The oil was transported aboard 27 tankers, using liability insurance obtained by the New York-based American Club. Tankers are typically required to have liability insurance to enter international ports, meaning the US Treasury could have blocked the sale of this oil by demanding the American Club revoke insurance for the tankers.NYT says the 27 tankers were able...
  • Gallant revealed an envelope of cash Sinwar received from Iran: "Celebrating while the people of Gaza suffer"

    02/08/2024 8:17:26 AM PST · by Conservat1 · 7 replies
    Mako n12 ^ | 8 Feb. 2024
    During a tour he conducted at one of the bases of the Intelligence Division in the center of the country, the Minister of Defense presented an envelope containing $20,000 in cash: "Sinwar takes care of himself first of all, he became a fugitive terrorist"... Nir Dvori | N12| Published 16:58 08.02.24. "Out of millions of dollars - one million goes to Sinwar, out of tens of millions he pockets what he needs. Take for example this envelope that is specially intended for him and his family - cash, twenty thousand dollars," the defense minister revealed. Gallant also emphasized during his...