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  • Former Senior Adviser to Barack Obama Arrested for Heinous Crimes, Media Silent

    04/22/2024 8:05:04 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 28 replies
    PJ Media ^ | 04/22/2024 | Matt Margolis
    A former senior policy adviser to President Barack Obama has been arrested and accused of child sex crimes in Great Britain. According to court documents, Rahamim 'Rami' Shy, a 46-year-old resident of New Jersey, stands accused of arranging a child sex offense, in addition to charges of possessing indecent images of children, according to a report from The Daily Mail. Shy, a US citizen, who lives in New Jersey, worked for the White House under president Barack Obama and secretary of state Hillary Clinton, was arrested in late February by Bedfordshire Police. He was charged the following day and appeared...
  • Secretary of State Rubio Exposes Biden Lie about Taliban Hostages, Threatens ‘BIG Bounty’

    01/27/2025 8:57:50 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 7 replies
    Headline USA ^ | 01/26/2025 | Julianna Frieman
    U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio exposed the Biden administration’s apparent lie about the Taliban holding more American hostages than originally believed, escalating his rhetoric against Afghanistan’s terrorist leaders on Saturday. Rubio responded to reports that the Taliban could have additional Americans detained in Afghanistan by threatening a “BIG bounty” on those responsible for the heinous act. “Just hearing the Taliban is holding more American hostages than has been reported,” Rubio wrote on X. Trump’s top diplomat followed up his bombshell reveal by saying, “If this is true, we will have to immediately place a VERY BIG bounty on their...
  • U.S. Considers “Very Big” Bounties on Taliban Leaders After Marco Rubio Learns of More American Hostages

    01/26/2025 6:11:40 AM PST · by Enterprise · 49 replies
    https://thelibertydaily.com ^ | Jan. 26, 2025 | Publius
    Secretary of State Marco Rubio has hinted at the possibility of the U.S. government offering substantial rewards for information leading to the capture of top Taliban leaders. This statement comes amid reports that the Taliban might be holding more American hostages than previously known.Rubio mentioned on the social media platform X that if these reports are verified, the U.S. might introduce bounties potentially larger than those once offered for Osama bin Laden. “Just hearing the Taliban is holding more American hostages than has been reported,” Rubio stated. “If this is true, we will have to immediately place a VERY BIG...
  • Virginia Church Disrupts Pre-Attack Surveillance: Are Churches Being Targeted?

    01/18/2025 6:59:33 AM PST · by Perseverando · 30 replies
    Christian Warrior Training ^ | January 17, 2025 | Keith Graves
    On January 15, 2025, three men entered two churches in Fairfax, Virginia, and began taking photos and videos of the properties. One of the men asked questions about the churches’ security systems, specifically whether their cameras could live-stream and if they were monitored continuously. When challenged by staff, the group left in a Lexus SUV. Their behavior, consistent with reconnaissance tactics often used to plan attacks, raised significant concerns among church leaders and law enforcement. This incident is not isolated. Just days earlier, a similar situation unfolded in Southern California, where individuals displayed nearly identical behavior, including taking photos and...
  • CNN Found Liable For Defaming Security Consultant In Story On Afghan Evacuations; Jury Awards $5 Million In Damages

    01/17/2025 9:52:19 AM PST · by george76 · 25 replies
    A Florida jury found CNN liable for defaming a security consultant featured in a 2021 report on the exorbitant fees being demanded on the black market to evacuate Afghans during the chaotic U.S. withdrawal. The jury also awarded $5 million in damages. CNN also was found liable for punitive damages, with an amount to be determined in the next phase of the trial. Zachary Young, a Navy veteran, sued the network following a report in 2021, claiming that the segment made it appear as though he was involved in illicit activities. The jury awarded $4 million in damages related to...
  • Your Tax Dollars Are Going To The Taliban

    01/07/2025 6:35:14 AM PST · by Mr. Mojo · 32 replies
    The Daily Caller ^ | September 12, 2024 | Rep. Tim Burchett
    It is common knowledge that the Afghanistan withdrawal was a complete disaster, but lots of people do not know that the Biden administration has been sending cash to the Taliban every week since then. When the United States withdrew from Afghanistan, our troops were ordered to leave behind $7 billion worth of military equipment which ended up in the hands of the Taliban. According to the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), the Taliban also likely gained access to approximately $57.6 million in funds that the United States had provided to the former Afghan government. But that was just...
  • 'Without honor': Marine vet raises red flag about key Trump defense nominee

    01/03/2025 1:14:37 AM PST · by 7thson · 43 replies
    MSN ^ | January 2, 2025 | Brad Reed
    Author and Marine veteran Philip Klay on Thursday expressed concern about the role that Trump Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth played in lobbying him to pardon war criminals during his first term in office. Writing in the New York Times, Klay highlights Hegseth's efforts on behalf of 1st Lt. Clint Lorance, a convicted war criminal whom Trump pardoned in 2019.
  • ...Travesty of Justice: The Shocking Prosecution of Lt. Clint Lorance (trunc)

    04/08/2019 5:09:27 PM PDT · by Twotone · 21 replies
    Chicago Tribune ^ | April 5, 2019 | Community Contributor
    On the morning of July 2, 2012, in the most dangerous warzone in the world, Lieutenant Clint Lorance took command of his small band of American paratroopers at the spearhead of the American War in Afghanistan. Intelligence reports that morning warned of a Taliban ambush against Lorance's platoon. Fifteen minutes into their patrol, three military-age Afghan males crowded on a motorcycle and sped aggressively down a Taliban-controlled dirt road toward Lorance's men. Three weeks earlier, outside the massive American Kandahar Airfield, Taliban terrorists struck by motorcycle, riding into a crowded area, detonating body-bombs and killing twenty-two people. Sixty-three days before...
  • The UN passed a total of ZERO resolutions against Afghanistan this year.

    12/29/2024 5:18:07 PM PST · by george76 · 9 replies
    X ^ | Dec 29, 2024 | Eyal Yakoby
    The Taliban has decreed that Afghan women are forbidden to: Go to high school or university. Work in the civil service. Attend a protest. Go abroad. Drive a car. Travel alone. Ride in a taxi. Speak in public. Speak loudly inside your house. Sing. Read the Quran aloud in public. Speak to a male doctor. Play sport. Go to the gym. Go to the park. Wear bright clothes. Wear high heels. Look at men they don’t know. Show their faces in public. Own a smartphone. ... Some pictures of the golden age in Afghanistan. ... Ivy League campuses and the...
  • ICC fails Afghan women. Filmmakers step in

    12/02/2024 11:42:39 PM PST · by Eleutheria5 · 5 replies
    Arutz Sheva ^ | 3/12/24 | Prof. Phyllis Chesler
    I’ve just watched the film Bread and Roses, co-produced by actress Jennifer Lawrence and Nobel Laureate Malala Yousefzai, and directed by Sahra Mani. If only American women were half as brave as the on-camera real-life women activists in Kabul! We see them willing to risk being beaten, arrested, tortured, and even murdered by the Taliban because they’ve dared to demonstrate for “Work, Bread, and Education.” Wearing hijab, but naked-faced, identifiable, these heroes march, chant, hold placards aloft, scrawl their demands on walls and even on the snow, meet secretly — and continue to do so even as the Taliban death-threatens,...
  • Russia Tells U.S. to Help Rebuild Afghanistan Under Taliban Rule

    11/27/2024 10:31:42 AM PST · by marcusmaximus · 30 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 11/26/2024 | John Hayward
    Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday that the United States should pay for the reconstruction of Afghanistan, which is now ruled by the fanatical Islamists of the Taliban as a human rights nightmare. “We discussed further cooperation across all areas. This includes economic issues, as well as detailed discussions on transportation. We addressed everything related to trade and discussed a major energy deal, all of which have promising prospects,” Shoigu said after a meeting with Taliban leaders in Kabul. “The topic of the United States was also raised, as it continues to plunder everything and everyone with...
  • A [Russian] bill to exclude organizations from the list of terrorists has been submitted to the Duma [Taliban]

    11/26/2024 7:43:45 AM PST · by Timber Rattler · 18 replies
    Vedomosti (Russia State Media) ^ | November 26, 2024 | Daria Snegova
    A bill has been submitted to the State Duma that prescribes a mechanism for excluding organizations, including foreign and international ones, from the list of terrorist ones. The package of documents has been published in the Duma database. In the explanatory note, the authors of the initiative indicate that Russian legislation has a mechanism for judicial prohibition of the activities of such organizations and their inclusion in a single federal list. (snip) On October 7, Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said that Russia is working to exclude the Afghan Taliban group(the organization is recognized as terrorist and banned in the...
  • Russian National Security Secretary Visits Kabul for Talks with Taliban Officials

    11/26/2024 7:01:11 AM PST · by USA-FRANCE · 36 replies
    KABUL, AFGHANISTAN – Sergei Shoigu, Secretary of the Russian National Security Council, has arrived in Kabul at the head of a high-level delegation for talks with senior Taliban officials. This marks the highest-ranking Russian delegation to visit Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover.
  • Malala: I never imagined women's rights would be lost so easily. ( Afghanistan )

    11/18/2024 10:49:10 AM PST · by george76 · 13 replies
    BBC News ^ | 11/18/2024 | Amber Sandhu & Kulsum Hafeji
    A bullet failed to silence her, now Malala Yousafzai is lending her voice to the women of Afghanistan. In just a few years since the Taliban retook control of the country, women's rights have been eroded to the point where even singing is banned. ... The speed of change in Afghanistan, if not the brutality, has surprised Malala, who since that near-fatal shooting in 2012 has campaigned for equality. "I never imagined that the rights of women would be compromised so easily," .. "A lot of girls are finding themselves in a very hopeless, depressing situation where they do not...
  • Thanks a bunch, America. Love, women everywhere. (Hurl Alert)

    11/11/2024 4:40:13 PM PST · by Ennis85 · 79 replies
    Irish Times ^ | November 8th 2024 | Justine McCarthy
    Thanks a bunch, America. You’ve left no room for doubt that, yet again, your presidential preference is for anybody but a woman. Yup, even if the man is a galumphing sexual predator who boasts about assaulting women and has vowed to “protect” women “whether the women like it or not”. Yup, even if the woman is cleverer, younger, more energetic, more articulate and comfortable enough in her own skin not to plaster it with orange tan. The manosphere rules, OK. Nothing changes. Not really. Not ever. In the post-Roe v Wade age of JD Vance’s “cat ladies”, as it became...
  • Taliban Terrorists to Discuss Fighting Climate Change at U.N. Conference

    11/11/2024 11:29:17 AM PST · by artichokegrower · 29 replies
    Breitbart ^ | November 11, 2024 | Francis Martel
    Representatives of the Taliban terrorist organization ruling Afghanistan landed in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Monday to attend COP29, the annual United Nations climate alarmism summit, where environmentalists are agitating to secure up to $1 trillion in “climate finance.”
  • Brace Yourselves: The World’s Already Getting Better, and Trump Isn’t Even Sworn In Yet!

    11/09/2024 3:44:15 PM PST · by Starman417 · 3 replies
    Flopping Aces ^ | 11-09-24 | Jeff Childers
    There’s simply too much winning to report in a single post! The “Trump Effect” is real: the world is already improving in eager anticipating of Trump taking office. So here is a stream of quick headlines for you, one after another. Get ready. First, the Democrats are busy little spiders, spinning the web of a blame narrative, which is keeping them from causing much other trouble. This morning’s New York Times lead op-ed: Some legacy. The gist seemed to be, Biden told everybody democracy was in peril, but he didn’t act like democracy was in peril by stepping aside sooner....
  • How the Taliban Are Silencing Women in Afghanistan

    10/04/2024 8:28:36 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 49 replies
    Interviews from Riz Khan Show This week’s Riz Khan Show starts with Afghanistan, which recently marked three years under Taliban rule after the US and its Western allies pulled troops out of the country as the Afghan government’s army crumbled. It was a chaotic departure which sparked desperate scenes at Kabul airport as thousands of Afghans fled what they feared would be persecution by the Taliban. Millions more joined the exodus abroad, while a further 3 million people remain displaced internally. Most of these are women. Well, despite initial promises of fair treatment by the Taliban rulers, the erosion of...
  • Divorced Afghan child brides forced to return to former husbands under Taliban rule

    10/02/2024 10:01:41 AM PDT · by george76 · 28 replies
    Jerusalem Post ^ | SEPTEMBER 29, 2024
    Bibi Nazdana .. the Taliban is invalidating divorces granted by the Afghan court - forcing divorced child brides to return to their previous marital status.. The Taliban is attempting to force divorced child brides to return to their adult former husbands, despite the girls having been granted divorce by the Afghan government.. citing the case of Bibi Nazdana. Nazdana, who has now fled Afghanistan with her brother, spent two years pursuing a divorce which the Taliban claimed is invalid based on the terror group’s interpretation of Sharia law. Her case is reportedly one of tens of thousands. At seven years...
  • Suspicions of Russian Bounties Were Bolstered by Data on Financial Transfers

    06/30/2020 10:42:11 PM PDT · by upchuck · 32 replies
    NYT ^ | June 30, 2020 | Charlie Savage, Mujib Mashal, Rukmini Callimachi, Eric Schmitt and Adam Goldman
    Analysts have used other evidence to conclude that the transfers were most likely part of an effort to offer payments to Taliban-linked militants to kill American and coalition troops in Afghanistan. American officials intercepted electronic data showing large financial transfers from a bank account controlled by Russia’s military intelligence agency to a Taliban-linked account, evidence that supported their conclusion that Russia covertly offered bounties for killing U.S. and coalition troops in Afghanistan, according to three officials familiar with the intelligence. Though the United States has accused Russia of providing general support to the Taliban before, analysts concluded from other intelligence...