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UAE tanker unaccounted for after entering Iranian waters; feared siezed
AP July 17, 2019
[Ed. – I’m not so sure the UAE even owns this ship. Looks like a paper ownership and ship-management structure – and one that’s awfully similar to what the Iranians use to evade sanctions. The UAE seems quite blase about it. I’m thinking this could be Iran’s ship, which for some reason is being pulled off the line in a weird little ruse. Could have something to do with whatever was the last cargo loaded.]
https://libertyunyielding.com/2019/07/17/uae-tanker-unaccounted-for-after-entering-iranian-waters-feared-siezed/
US fears Iran seized UAE-based tanker in Strait of Hormuz
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A small oil tanker from the United Arab Emirates traveling through the Strait of Hormuz entered Iranian waters and turned off its tracker three days ago, leading the U.S. to suspect Iran seized the vessel amid heightened tensions in the region.
Iranian state media quoted its Foreign Ministry spokesman early Wednesday as saying the Islamic Republic had aided a foreign oil tanker with a malfunction, but the report didn’t explain further. Oil tankers previously have been targeted in the wider region amid tensions between the U.S. and Iran over its unraveling nuclear deal with world powers.
https://www.apnews.com/14bcf671b33b40baa297676bf436ed23
Remember J.E. use to make her living analyzing things like this so pay attention to her when she says the UAE may not own the ship and that this may have something to do with its last cargo.
Man – with mental health problems – arrested with gas cans inside the Cathedral in Sées – northern France
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9es_Cathedral
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FRANCE – Un homme interpellé avec des bidons d’essence dans la cathédrale de Sées
Un homme souffrant de problèmes psychologiques a été interpellé la semaine dernière alors qu’il venait d’entrer dans la cathédrale de Sées, muni de bidons d’essence. Il a été hospitalisé d’office.
Un homme d’une trentaine d’années a été interpellé, lundi 8 juillet vers 19 h, alors qu’il venait d’entrer dans la cathédrale de Sées avec des bidons d’essence. Ce sont des fidèles qui l’ont appréhendé avant qu’il ne soit remis aux gendarmes appelés par ces témoins.
L’homme, qui souffre de problèmes psychologiques, a été conduit au centre psychothérapique de l’Orne dans le cadre d’une mesure d’hospitalisation d’office. Aucune poursuite judiciaire n’a donc été déclenchée à son encontre.
https://www.ouest-france.fr/normandie/sees-61500/sees-interpelle-avec-des-bidons-d-essence-dans-la-cathedrale-6448578
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NJ professor mentally unfit for trial in cathedral arson plot
NEW YORK — The New Jersey college philosophy teacher charged with plotting to burn down St. Patrick’s Cathedral is not mentally fit for trial, state prosecutors said Thursday.
Judge Neil Ross of Manhattan Supreme Court said he plans to commit Marc Lamparello to a mental health facility for rehabilitation.
The results of Lamparello’s court-ordered psychiatric evaluation will postpone his case indefinitely.
The Hasbrouck Heights man was arrested in April after police said he took gas cans and lighters into the landmark church.
The incident happened days after flames ravaged the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris — a blaze investigators say could have been caused by a malfunctioning electrical system or a smoldering cigarette.
Lamparello had booked a flight to Rome for the day after his arrest and a hotel just 20 minutes from the Vatican.
Police in Newark had arrested Lamparello two nights before the St. Patrick’s incident after he allegedly refused to leave the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart at closing time after a late Mass.
Prosecutors have said Lamparello, who has taught at Lehman College in New York City and Seton Hall University, spent a considerable amount of time surveilling St. Patrick’s.
Upon entering the cathedral, he was stopped by a church employee who told police he saw gasoline spill out of one of the canisters Lamparello was holding.
When confronted by police, Lamparello said that his vehicle had run out of gas and that he was “taking a short cut through the church,” according to a court document.
Lamparello has pleaded not guilty to attempted arson and reckless endangerment.
His defense attorney, Chris DiLorenzo, has attributed the St. Patrick’s incident to a psychotic episode. He said Lamparello, 37, has undergone mental health treatment for years.
Lamparello is expected back in court next week to learn the details of his commitment.
https://nj1015.com/nj-professor-mentally-unfit-for-trial-in-cathedral-arson-plot/
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Psychiatric Hospital Allah Akbar
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Today’s Liberals Have Shut Down Free Speech JUST Like the Slaveholding South — But Worse
America generally has a great tradition of political debate. But today’s leftists have wholly destroyed that American tradition and created a state of fascist thought control. Indeed, liberals have followed the very same path as the slaveholding south in this respect. Sadly, today’s liberals are even worse than the pre-Civil War slave powers ever were.
The U.S.A. was founded on an incredibly high-minded series of debates that took years to wind through the 13 colonies. The founders pursued ideals of freedom, liberty, and God-given rights that few other nations ever took heart to debate. There was much back and forth from a “Farmer in Virginia” to “Publius in Philadelphia.” There were federalists and anti-federalists, and constitutionalists and “internal improvers,” who fought great rhetorical battles.
After all, along with freedom of religion, the idea of free political speech was America’s founding principle. The founders understood that political debate must be free and unfettered. They came from — or were descended from — a people whose political debate was quashed by the monarchy. And, as more people arrived from places like Ireland, Italy, and Germany, they, too, understood the genius of America’s system wrapped up in the idea of free political speech. Free speech was the air that gave Americans life.
https://godfatherpolitics.com/todays-liberals-have-shut-down-free-speech-just-like-the-slaveholding-south-but-worse/
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Germany: Nest of Middle Eastern Spies
by Soeren Kern
July 17, 2019 at 5:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14551/germany-middle-eastern-spies
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Foreign intelligence services, especially those from Turkey, Syria and Iran, have increased their activities in Germany during the past 12 months, according to Germany’s BfV domestic intelligence agency. The foreign intelligence services are not only pursuing dissidents among the large diasporas in Germany, they are also targeting Jewish and Israeli interests in the country.
At the same time, Hezbollah, Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood appear to be operating with impunity in Germany, while, according to the BfV, the number of Salafists in the country has tripled in recent years and now exceeds 11,000. Overall, the BfV estimates that Germany is home to more than 26,000 Islamists, an unknown number of whom pose an immediate threat of attack.
The new figures are included the latest annual report of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz, BfV), and were presented by Interior Minister Horst Seehofer and BfV President Thomas Haldenwang in Berlin on June 27.
Argentina: Latin America’s New Leader in Counterterrorism
by Joseph M. Humire
July 17, 2019 at 4:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14550/argentina-counterterrorism-hezbollah
This week we honor the 85 victims of the largest Islamist terrorist attack in Latin America’s history: the bombing the Asociación Mutual Isrealita Argentina (AMIA) on July 18, 1994. Twenty-five years have passed since the morning when a Renault van packed with 300 kilograms of explosives detonated in front of the AMIA building in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It took more than a decade — until 2006 — for the Argentine government to formally charge the Islamic Republic of Iran and its terror-proxy, Hezbollah, for carrying out the attack. Now, 13 years after that, Argentine President Mauricio Macri is taking a historic step and preparing to officially designate Hezbollah as a foreign terrorist organization in Argentina, the first designation of its kind in Latin America.
The significance of this executive action in Argentina cannot be understated. President Macri and his national security team have done what was once seen as politically impossible in Latin America — to designate Hezbollah as a terrorist organization — and make it politically possible.
The designation is just one of a series of actions that the Macri administration has been quietly working on during the past six months to add new tools to combat the convergence of international terrorism with transnational organized crime. This project includes a national registry, known as the Registro Nacional de Personas y Organizaciones Sospechosas de Terrorismo or RENAPOST in its Spanish acronym, of individuals and organizations suspected of having ties to terrorism. Apart from this registry, a joint declaration is expected to be announced: the relaunch of the Tripartite Command of the Tri-Border Area, previously known as the 3+1 Group, between Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and the United States (the “+1”).
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Seven Niger Tuareg leaders killed by Islamic State since April (thedefensepost, Jul 17, 2019)
https://thedefensepost.com/2019/07/17/niger-islamic-state-kills-7-tuareg-leaders/
“Islamic State insurgents have killed seven leaders of the Tuareg ethnic group in southwestern Niger in less than three months, as part of a strategy to create a political void in the region, officials said on Tuesday, July 16.
Three traditional Tuareg chiefs and four senior Tuareg officials have been killed since late April by Islamic State in the Greater Sahara in the volatile region of Niger on the Mali border, they said.
Arrisal Amdagh, a Tuareg chief in the rural district of Inates, was shot dead at his home in late April, and his son Almoubacher Ag Alamjadi, who succeeded him, was killed on Monday, a Niger security source said.
Their deaths were confirmed to AFP by Defence Minister Kalla Moutari on Tuesday.
Four senior members of the tribe were killed by a roadside bomb as they were heading to the father’s funeral, their relatives said last month.
In a separate incident in June, a traditional Tuareg leader in Bankilare district was kidnapped and killed, a local source said.
“The ISGS strategy is to kill traditional chiefs in the border areas,” a security source told AFP. “It’s a way of voiding the area of an effective state presence, enabling you to move in and impose your law.”
One of the world’s poorest countries, Niger lies in the heart of the fragile Sahel region.
Niger faces insurgency on two fronts: the southeastern Diffa region near Lake Chad is increasingly frequently hit by Nigeria-based Islamic State West Africa Province insurgents, while militants based in Mali, including al-Qaeda-affiliated fighters, are active in the west of the country and the wider Sahel.
Attacks carried out by ISIS-affiliated militants in the Sahel have previously been attributed to Islamic State in the Greater Sahara but since May, Islamic State has attributed insurgent activities in the Mali-Burkina Faso-Niger tri-border area to ISWAP, rather than ISGS.
On July 1, 18 Nigerien soldiers were killed when insurgents attacked an army camp near Inates, according to the defense ministry. Islamic State later said fighters from its West Africa Province affiliate carried out the raid.
In June, 18 Islamic State militants were killed in during the joint Operation Aconit by French and Nigerien troops near Tongo Tongo to the east. The 13-day Operation Aconit also involved a joint Mali-France commando operation that killed 20 ‘terrorists’ in Mali’s Menaka area.
The recent unrest in the Sahel began in Mali in 2012 with a Tuareg separatist uprising that was exploited by Islamist extremists linked to al-Qaeda who took key cities in the desert north.
France began its Operation Serval military intervention in its former colony early the next year, driving jihadists from the towns, but the militant groups morphed into more nimble formations operating in rural areas, and the insurgency has gradually spread to central and southern regions of Mali, and across the borders into neighboring Burkina Faso and Niger.
The French mission evolved in August 2014 into the current 4,500-strong Operation Barkhane, which has a mandate for counter-terrorism operations across the Sahel, and other nations including the United Kingdom and Estonia have deployed troops and aircraft to the mission. Troops deployed to Barkhane work alongside other international operations, including the roughly 14,000-strong U.N. MINUSMA mission in Mali, and the regional G5 Sahel joint counter-terrorism force that aims to train and deploy up to 5,000 personnel from the five members.
Last week, the European Union said is to give €138 million ($155 million) more to support the G5 Sahel Joint Force, comprised of Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger.
On July 5, Niger’s President Mahamadou Issoufou again called for called for sustainable U.N. funding for the force under Chapter VII of the U.N. Charter, noting that “Niger will use its position as a non-permanent member of the Security Council, from 2020, to promote this position.”
Many Security Council members have called called for “predictable” U.N. funding for the Joint Force, but the United States has opposed this, opting instead for bilateral assistance.
Niger hosts an estimated 800 U.S. troops, the largest American deployment in Africa. The U.S. is building a large and controversial drone base known as Niger Base 201 in the northern city of Agadez, and Niger recently gave the Americans permission to arm their drones.
Issoufou also proposed “an international coalition of countries to fight terrorism in the Sahel, just as there was a coalition against Daesh in the Middle East,” if Chapter VII funding cannot be agreed.”
Nigeria Army Opens Fire on Sheikh Zakzaky’s Supporters, Kills One (tasnimnews, Jul 17, 2019)
https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2019/07/17/2056009/nigeria-army-opens-fire-on-sheikh-zakzaky-s-supporters-kills-one
“At least one person was killed and several others sustained injuries when Nigerian army opened fire on protesters demanding the release of top Muslim cleric Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky, who has been held for four years on trumped-up allegations…”
Egyptian parliament approves more NGO restrictions (memo, Jul 17, 2019)
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190717-egyptian-parliament-approves-more-ngo-restrictions/
“The Egyptian parliament approved amendments to the controversial NGO law on Monday which place extra restrictions on the work of civil society groups, local and international media have reported. According to the parliamentary website, “The House of Representatives finally approved a number of important draft laws… including the bill regulating civil society’s work.”
President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi said in November that the law, which includes harsh penalties and restrictions, needs to be more balanced. Nevertheless, the new law still prohibits foreign organisations from using their headquarters for “unauthorised activities”.
NGOs are also prevented from transferring or receiving funds from people or entities, except those previously disclosed, without official approval.
The new amendments have eliminated the possible penalty to a prison sentence for officials deemed to be breaking the law. Instead, reported Reuters, fines between 200,000 and 1 million Egyptian pounds ($12,070-$60,350) will be imposed…”
Hungary should move children from ‘prison-like’ transit zones: U.N. (reuters, Jul 17, 2019)
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-migrants-hungary/hungary-should-move-children-from-prison-like-transit-zones-u-n-idUSKCN1UC292
“A senior U.N. human rights official urged Hungary on Wednesday to move asylum-seeking families held in “prison-like” transit zones on the Serbian border to other facilities in Hungary that he said are almost empty.
Migrants arriving at the European Union’s southern border from Serbia have been held at special holding camps called transit zones while their asylum requests are pending, a practice that has already drawn criticism from the United Nations.
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, Felipe Gonzalez Morales, said that last week there were 280 people in two such facilities on Hungary’s southern border with Serbia, 60% of them children.
Presenting the first findings of a report on the treatment of migrants, he told a news conference that children should not be detained based on their migratory status.
The report had found “very restrictive” conditions for people being held there, he said, adding he had visited a number of other facilities where children could be accommodated with their families, which he said were almost empty.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban leads a nationalist government with a strongly anti-immigrant platform, an issue that has dominated his agenda since 2015, when hundreds of thousands of migrants marched through Hungary en route to western Europe.
Gonzalez Morales said the fact that asylum-seekers were still held in the “prison-like environment” of transit zones, with barbed-wire defenses even on the roofs of sections holding children, might be seen as an attempt to intimidate people there.
“I am afraid that all people held there regardless of age acts as a sort of deterrent,” he said, adding that the fact that people could leave the zones toward Serbia “does not prevent me from saying these are places of detention”.
Gonzalez Morales said Orban’s government, which provided the monitor unimpeded access to facilities it wanted to visit, did not consider transit zones places of detention and did not provide a reason why children with families were held in there.
He also called on Hungary to repeal a declaration of a state of emergency due to mass immigration as the conditions of its application were no longer in place. In any case, no such regulation should override human rights, he said.
“If in reality there is no mass influx of immigration the security situation cannot be considered the same as four years ago,” he said, adding the position that a crisis could resurface was not a sufficient reason to keep renewing the measure.
Reiterating Orban’s view, a foreign ministry spokesman said that migration remained an unresolved problem and the government had no intention of dismantling the fence on Hungary’s southern border or softening its stance on immigration.”
Kuwait clamps down on the Muslim Brotherhood (ahram, Jul 17, 2019)
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/338121/Egypt/Politics-/Kuwait-clamps-down-on-the-Muslim-Brotherhood.aspx
Spain Arrests Moroccan National for ‘Promoting Terrorism’ (mwn, Jul 17, 2019)
https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2019/07/278442/spain-moroccan-nations-promoting-terrorism/
“A Spanish judge at the National Court sentenced, on Monday July 15, Moroccan national Allal El Mourabit to prison for allegedly “glorifying terrorism.”
The judge sentenced the Moroccan national after considering evidence concerning charges of promoting terrorism.
The arrest took place at 7.A.m on Saturday in north west of Pamplona in Spain. Security services apprehended the suspect driving a truck which was searched for evidence. Security services suspect that the Moroccan national was encouraging terrorist attacks online using several internet profiles.
The suspect had previously been incarcerated on charges of “spreading terror propaganda messages through social networks.”
Spanish police, according to the news outlet, have no evidence that the suspect was planning “an impending attack.”
The news outlet added that the Moroccan national was arrested in December 2016 while he was driving a truck. Authorities suspected that he would use the vehicle to commit an attack. When searched, the vehicle was found to contain extremist literature and information about terror attacks…”
142 migrant departures stopped from Tunisia, NGO (ansamed, Jul 17, 2019)
http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/generalnews/2019/07/17/142-migrant-departures-stopped-from-tunisia-ngo_c62edcb5-303a-4ee0-8a35-ecf7fe1795f5.html
“A total of 594 undocumented Tunisian migrants arrived in Italy in the first six months of 2019. Tunisien pour les Droits Economiques et Sociaux (FTDES) noted the figure in its report on irregular immigration in the first six months of the year, presented on Wednesday in the North African capital. Of them, 72% were men, 11% women, 13% unaccompanied minors and 4% children. The figure is a sharp reduction from the 3,002 who arrived in Italy in the same period of 2018.
In the first six months of 2019, 142 departures were stopped that would have carried 1,266 people via sea towards Europe. In the same period of 2018, 292 were stopped with a total of 2,659 people.
The number of Tunisians who died at sea in the same period was 423 and the number of those repatriated from Italy in 2018 was 2,323. On the basis of a calculation between those arriving and those departing, the NGO said that there had been an increase in those that went missing and died at sea during the crossing in recent years.
It said that one out of every seven migrants trying to cross died or went missing during the attempt in 2019, compared with one out of every 18 in 2018, one out of evert 41 in 2017, one out of every 40 I 2016 and one out of every 53 in 2015.”
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