Dearborn Rally Features Late Hezbollah Leader’s Threatening Gesture, Quote Targeting U.S. Troops

A recent rally in Dearborn, Michigan, featured late Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s infamous hand gesture and threat to American troops, echoing an infamous speech where he mocked U.S. forces and warned they would return home “horizontally” in coffins.

Earlier this month, a rally titled “Stand with Lebanon” was held outside the Dearborn Police Department in Michigan. Among the signs carried by protesters, one prominently displayed the distinctive hand gesture of the late Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, accompanied by the misspelled words, “You will be return horizontaly [sic]

The placard referenced a notorious speech Nasrallah gave in Lebanon, during which he threatened U.S. military forces stationed in the Middle East.

In that 2020 televised address following the assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani by a U.S. drone strike, the Lebanese terror leader warned that American soldiers deployed in the region would meet violent ends, stating they would return “in a horizontal position” — a reference to them being shipped back in coffins.

Harris is still trying to appeal to both the anti-semitic, anti-Israel voters and the pro-Israel ones. Can’t work.

Arab American PAC rejects both Trump and Harris over their support for Israel.
By Kanishka Singh
October 14, 2024. Reuters.
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NBC News website.
Last month, Mohammed Hassan, a longtime city councilor in Hamtramck, Michigan, the only Muslim-majority city in the country, got a call from someone with Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign asking him what they needed to do to win back disaffected Michigan Muslims.

“I shouted at them. I shouted, really, I said, ‘You guys are not doing anything! You’re doing nothing! You need to do much much more,’” Hassan said. “I made a big noise.”

That message, which Hassan was hardly the only one delivering, appears to have finally gotten through to the Harris campaign, which has in the past two weeks dramatically ramped up efforts to win back a group of voters that could be critical in Michigan and other battleground states.

But Harris faces ongoing challenges in finding Muslim and Arab community leaders willing to publicly embrace her and risk blowback from their own constituents angered by the continued U.S. support for Israel’s war in Gaza and Southern Lebanon.

Most Muslims have been reliable Democratic voters in recent years. But supporting Harris now can invite bitter and personal reproach from some parts of the community.

“They’re traumatized. They’re being threatened. They’re being cursed, spit on, saying that ‘you’re traitors. How could you support a genocidal candidate?’” Osama Siblani, the publisher of the Dearborn, Michigan-based Arab American News, said of Harris endorsers.

Dearborn, with its large Palestinian and Lebanese American communities, has been the epicenter of the blowback....
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/arab-muslim-leaders-risk-blowback-endorsing-harris-rcna172824

We have a domestic terrorist problem.

Unless they have another 9/11 up their sleeves, it’s only so much lunatic back talk.

Having grown weary of hearing Tren de Aragua was more dangerous than other gangs without hearing why that is something we have to believe because they said so, I started looking into them and why they are so dangerous.

It's quite a trail so if you might want to start at the bottom and work back

#5 The Gang Connection

https://dialogo-americas.com/articles/fear-grows-over-iranian-and-hezbollah-threat-in-latin-america/ May 24, 2024

“According to different investigations, Hezbollah’s ties in the region include important gangs such as the First Capital Command in Brazil and the Los Zetas and Sinaloa cartels in Mexico,” reported Argentine daily La Nación on April 21. “The central activity of the Shiite group in the region, experts agree, is financial, by facilitating mechanisms to launder money for narcotrafficking and organized crime organizations, mainly to sustain their operations in the Middle East.”

Amid heightened tensions between Iran and Israel, experts do not rule out a new attack in Buenos Aires like those Iran and Hezbollah carried out in the past. In fact, Argentina’s Federal Chamber of Criminal Cassation ruled that Iran and Hezbollah were behind the 1994 bombing of the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA), which left 85 people dead and injured some 300…

https://gordoninstitute.fiu.edu/news-events/the-policy-spotlight/2024/paraguays-security-challenges-and-the-government-response.html

…The access that Paraguay affords to the Brazilian and Argentine markets through Mercosur has transformed Ciudad del Este, which borders both neighbors, into not only a hub for manufacturing and trade, but also a center of the illicit economy and a base of operations for the islamic extremist organization Hezbollah. The demand for guns by the large number of violent gangs in neighboring Brazil, has transformed the country into a center of firearms trafficking for t[h]e region…

...Brazil’s powerful First Capital Command (PCC) has established a significant presence in Paraguay, largely through the cocaine trade, although its principal Brazilian rival the Red Command (CV),[8] and the smaller group “Bullet in the Face” (Bala na cara)[9] have established a presence as well. Homegrown Paraguayan criminal organizations, most notably the Rotella clan, which expanded from a base in microtrafficking[10] to an estimated size of 1,000 persons,[11] have compete with their Brazilian rivals over drug route.

Each of the groups have established a significant presence and influence in Paraguay’s prisons. The PCC notably expanded its presence from 2010, with over 500 members of the PCC in Paraguayan penitentiaries.[12] The groups have periodically had violent clashes within Paraguayan prisons, illustrating the limited reach of state control there, including violent incidents in San Pedro prision in 2019, and in Misiones in 2020… [13]

From From https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/media/1958

…As the Muslim community in the TBA grew, so did its need for educational, cultural, and religious institutions catering to the local Arab and Muslim communities. One such institution, the Profeta Mahoma mosque in Ciudad del Este, was reportedly built by a prominent member of the local Arab community, Mohammad Yousef Abdallah, who had been living in the city since July 1980. According to Argentine intelligence officials, Abdallah was one of the first Hezbollah members to settle in the TBA, though they did not know it at the time.6 Only four years later, in April 1984, would the Argentine Federal Police see the first indications of a Hezbollah network in the TBA.7 By mid-2000, experts would put the estimated number of Hezbollah operatives living and working in the TBA at several hundred.8 The number of supporters or sympathizers who are neither trained operatives nor official group members, but still provide services or support (out of a more general affinity or to improve the lot of their families back home in Lebanon), is believed to be much larger…

…But Hezbollah will work with criminals in other contexts and in other regions as well. In November 2014, Brazilian police reports revealed that Hezbollah helped a Brazilian prison gang, the First Capital Command (PCC), obtain weapons in exchange for the protection of prisoners of Lebanese origin detained in Brazil.75 The same reports indicated that Lebanese traffickers tied to Hezbollah reportedly helped sell C4 explosives that the PCC allegedly stole in Paraguay…76

#6 https://invisibles.info/en/train-aragua-venezuela-explainer/

Eight countries.

El Tren de Aragua has a presence in more than half of Venezuela’s states and its activities have already expanded through cells in at least eight Latin American countries.

Authorities in Peru, for example, have identified members of the organization operating since at least 2018. In Brazil, members of the mega-gang have been found operating in conjunction with the First Capital Command, the country’s largest criminal organization, and one of the largest in Latin America. There is more. The Tren controls the border crossing between Táchira and Norte de Santander in Colombia, and has expanded into the country’s capital. There are also indications that they operate on the Colombia-Ecuador border as well as the border shared by Chile and Bolivia. In October 2023, US authorities announced the arrest of an alleged member of the Tren de Aragua in the United States...

So there’s my version of what the Tren de Aragua are doing in our country and who they are aligned with even if some will call it misrepresentation. If you doubt https://invisibles.info/en/ credibility, take a few minutes and read their work.

If you want to read the previous 4 sections they're at https://www.bucksafa11.org/2024/10/16/gang-notes/

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