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The FBI on Friday morning raided the home of a high-ranking DEA official under Barack Obama and charged him for conspiring to launder millions of dollars for a Mexican drug cartel. The Feds charged former DEA Deputy Chief of the Office of Financial Operations Paul Campo and friend Robert Sensi for conspiring to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. Paul Campo and Robert Sensi were charged with narcoterrorism, terrorism, narcotics distribution, and money laundering charges. Campo and Sensi were arrested on Thursday afternoon in New York, according to the DOJ. Campo and Sensi agreed to launder $12 million...

A German court has ruled that Kuwait’s national airline didn’t have to transport an Israeli citizen because the carrier would face legal repercussions at home if it did. The Frankfurt state court noted in its verdict Thursday that Kuwait Airways is not allowed to close contracts with Israelis under Kuwaiti law because of the Middle Eastern country’s boycott of Israel. […] An Israeli citizen sued the airline after he booked a flight from Frankfurt to Bangkok with a stop-over in Kuwait City. …

Excuse me but I'm rather angry this morning. The pictures from the Middle East are deeply disturbing. The children of Qana, Lebanon, look very much like my own children - beautiful deep brown eyes and brown curls, smiling for the cameras. Now, several dozen of those children are dead. We have failed the children of the Middle East. We've failed them because we could have stopped this two decades ago. We didn't have to forget. It's not just the children of Qana who have died as a result of Hezbullah's crimes. Plenty of Americans have died too over the past...