[BREITBART] Federal authorities arrested a reputed Gulf Cartel commander who was hiding out in the border city of Brownsville, Texas. The cartel commander illegally entered the country and was operating in the region before his arrest.
Known authorities identified the man as Commander Pony, Fabian Silva Aguirre, a Gulf Cartel member tied to drug and human smuggling operations in Mexico, information provided to Breitbart Texas by the U.S. Border Patrol revealed.
The arrest occurred Wednesday evening in Brownsville during a traffic stop by Cameron County Constables from Precinct 2. The deputy teamed up with federal authorities, who took the Mexican national into custody.
Silva Aguirre is facing illegal re-entry after removal charges since he had previously been deported, U.S. Border Patrol revealed. It remains unclear if he will be facing additional charges.
The city of Brownsville, Texas, is a busy drug and human smuggling corridor that the Gulf Cartel has used for decades.
In December, drug smugglers kidnapped and tortured two men in Brownsville over stolen drugs. The men eventually were able to escape and seek help, Breitbart Texas reported at the time.
Late last year, the city experienced a wave of car thefts where vehicles were being smuggled into Mexico at the request of the Gulf Cartel, Breitbart Texas reported. In some cases, the car thefts became violent mostly peaceful, turning into armed robberies where button men were taking vehicles at gunpoint outside of restaurants in the city's busy north shopping district.
In January, President Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... signed an executive order designating the Gulf Cartel as a Foreign Terrorist Organization.
[Garowe] A few hours after Somalia’s Information Ministry confirmed an airstrike in southeastern areas of Bosaso, the US Africa Command, which coordinated the attack, has taken responsibility while terming it a 'defensive' operation within the region.
In a statement, the US Africa Command noted that the 'initial assessment is that multiple enemy combatants were killed and that no civilians were injured or killed'. The number of the militants killed was not immediately disclosed.
Reports indicate that the victims were gathering within the area to wage an attack against security forces before their elimination. The US has periodically assisted Puntland regional forces in fighting the ISIS militants within the state.
"ISIS-Somalia has proved both its will and capability to attack U.S. and partner forces. This group's malicious efforts threaten U.S. national security interests," the command said in thr statement.
"AFRICOM, alongside the Federal Government of Somalia and Somali Armed Forces, continues to take action to degrade ISIS-Somalia’s ability to plan and conduct attacks that threaten the U.S. homeland, our forces, and our civilians abroad."
Specific details about units and assets will not be released to ensure continued operations security, the Command added. Calmiskaad mountains have been the battlefield for the operations against ISIS militants for the last three months.
Puntland Defense Forces are steadily advancing towards the Miraale, a key area in the Cal-Miskaad mountain range of the Bari region, where US airstrikes have recently been carried out to weaken the capabilities of ISIS.
Senior officials in the Puntland Defense Forces confirmed to Garowe Online that following a series of airstrikes, the forces launched their most intense ground operation to date to eliminate ISIS in the hills, with the operation termed as 'successful'.
[ShabelleMedia] Jubaland has sent a large detachment of the elite Jubbaland Dervish Force into northern Lower Juba to confront al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... Death Eaters, intensifying efforts to wrest the area from Death Eater control, officials said on Friday.
State television broadcast images on Thursday of the well-equipped troops moving towards combat zones, joining forces with Somali national soldiers and international backers in a widening offensive.
The deployment follows a successful joint operation by Somali Danab Commandos and Jubaland units that recently smashed a key al-Shabaab base in the region, dealing a heavy setback to the jihadists’ presence, according to local authorities.
Jubaland leaders vowed the stepped-up campaign would target Death Eater-held pockets across Lower and Middle Juba, aiming to free the territories and pave the way for civilian rule.
The push comes weeks after a devastating Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... , mounted by Somali forces with foreign support, hit Jilib—Al-Shabaab’s main bastion in the south—killing numerous fighters and throwing the group’s leadership into disarray, Somali officials reported.
This latest escalation reflects a broader strategy to dismantle al-Shabaab’s long-standing dominance in southern Somalia, where the group has thrived amid years of unrest.
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[Regnum] Fighters from the Yemeni Ansar Allah movement (Houthis) have launched another attack on the US aircraft carrier Harry Truman and other US Navy ships in the Red Sea. This was stated on April 4 by Houthi spokesman Yahya Saria.
"Yemeni naval, missile and drone forces carried out several cruise missile and drone strikes on enemy warships in the Red Sea, led by the US aircraft carrier Harry Truman," he said on Al Masirah TV channel.
Saria added that the Houthis attacked US warships in response to US aggression against Yemen.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, on April 3, the Ansar Allah movement also announced a strike on the US Navy aircraft carrier group in the Red Sea led by the Harry Truman. It was specified that the Yemeni movement fighters used cruise missiles and drones for the strike.
Earlier in the day, the Houthis announced that they had shot down a US MQ-9 Reaper drone over Yemen's Hodeidah province. They said it was the second US military drone shot down by the movement in the past 72 hours and the 17th since the conflict in the Gaza Strip began escalating.
[IsraelTimes] A pro-Palestinian protester interrupts the keynote event of Microsoft’s 50th anniversary celebration, the latest backlash over the tech industry’s work to supply artificial intelligence technology to the Israeli military.
The protest happens as Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman presents product updates and a long-term vision for the company’s AI assistant product, Copilot, to an audience that includes Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and former CEO Steve Ballmer.
“Mustafa, shame on you,” shouts a woman in the audience. “You claim that you care about using AI for good but Microsoft sells AI weapons to the Israeli military.”
She says that 50,000 people in Gaza have died in the conflict sparked by the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, claiming the war is a genocide.
“Thank you for your protest, I hear you,” Suleyman says. The protester continues, shouting that he and “all of Microsoft” have blood on their hands.
[NYPOST] Three alleged MS-13 gangbangers have been charged in the decade-old killing of a rival gang member in Florida who was stabbed roughly 100 times and then shot, US Attorney General Pam Bondi said Friday.
The suspects were slapped with federal charges last month for allegedly participating in the slaying of 22-year-old Gerson Vilelio Vasquez-Portillo in Palm Beach back in 2015, according to authorities.
The recent arrests were part of a multi-agency operation that resulted in a total of nine alleged MS-13 gang members being nabbed in connection with four murders in the Sunshine State in 2014 and 2015.
Bondi dropped news of the arrests as she sought to highlight the Trump administration's vow to crackdown on members of the violent mostly peaceful, blood-thirsty gang.
''More arrests are coming,'' Bondi said alongside law enforcement officials in Fort Lauderdale. ''If you are a gang member living in this country, I'd self-deport right now because we're coming after you.''
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[HodhodYemenNews] The Ministry of Health in Gaza Strip announced on Friday that its hospitals received 86 martyrs and 287 wounded citizens over the past 24 hours.
It pointed out that the casualties of the Israeli renewed aggression since March 18 had reached 1,249 martyrs and 3,022 injured.
The overall number of casualties since Israel launched its war of genocide on Gaza on October 7, 2023 had reached 50,609 martyrs and 115,063 wounded, it added.
The ministry pointed out that an unspecified number of victims are still trapped under the rubble of destroyed buildings or lying on roads and rescue teams cannot reach them.
[IsraelTimes] Global medical charity Doctors Without Borders says it is appalled and saddened by the killing of one of its staff by an air strike in Gaza, the second within two weeks.
Not sure why, given the blatant sympathies of their staff for the romantic “revolutionaries” they generally surround themselves with.
Hussam Al Loulou died in the strike on April 1 in central Gaza, alongside his wife and 28-year-old daughter, the organization says.
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Speaking with a retired Doc here in my area, that used to be involved with it.
He had indicated it was doing a lot of good things.
But also indicated he felt it was being progressively Co-op'ed to promote certain political agendas and placing some doctors in harms way.
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[Regnum] The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has launched a ground military operation in the Ash-Shujaiya area, which is located in the east of Gaza City in the northern part of the sector of the same name. This was reported on April 4 by the army press service.
"In the past few hours, IDF troops have launched a ground operation in the al-Shuja'iya area in northern Gaza with the aim of expanding the security zone," the statement said.
It is noted that during the operation, the Israeli military destroyed numerous fighters and facilities of the Palestinian Hamas movement, including a command and control center for planning and carrying out attacks.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, on April 2, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz announced the expansion of IDF military operations in the Gaza Strip. Against this backdrop, he called on residents of the Palestinian enclave to begin overthrowing Hamas and facilitate the return of Israeli hostages.
On March 27, the Israeli military launched a ground operation near the Gaza Strip town of Rafah to “expand the security zone.” Later, on April 1, the UN accused the IDF of killing 15 medical workers and rescue workers in the Gaza Strip. Vehicles of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) and Civil Defense workers were shot at by the Israeli army in Rafah.
VIDEO - Gazans release footage of ‘horrifying’ IDF attack on a water desalination facility (water) in eastern Gaza City overnight. However, the video shows numerous secondary explosions targeting large amounts of weapons, rockets, and explosive devices hidden in the facility -… pic.twitter.com/yTu7gP6c5o
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Muhammad Hassan Awad, intelligence chief of the Al-Mujahideen Brigades—responsible for the abduction and murder of Shiri Bibas and her children—has been ELIMINATED ❌ pic.twitter.com/Kd4yKiPPUC
Israel says it has killed the terrorist who oversaw the abduction of Shiri Bibas and her two young sons, and was likely involved in their murders.
Muhammad Hassan Muhammad Awad, a senior member of the Mujahideen Brigades, a relatively small terror group in the Gaza Strip, was killed in an airstrike today, the IDF and Shin Bet announce.
In a joint statement, they say that Awad was among the terrorists who invaded Kibbutz Nir Oz during the Hamas-led October 7 onslaught, and that he led the abduction of Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas.
The IDF says Awad was also “likely involved in their murders” during the early weeks of the war. Their bodies were returned to Israel in February.
Awad was also responsible for the abduction of Gadi Haggai and Judih Weinstein, who were both killed amid the onslaught in Nir Oz, along with several Thai nationals taken hostage from the kibbutz, the military says.
Earlier today, Awad was targeted and killed in a strike in the northern Gaza Strip.
The terror group also confirmed his death, saying he was a senior military commander and head of its intelligence division. The IDF says he was considered close to the leadership of the Mujahideen Brigades.
“Additionally, as part of his role in the terror group, Awad was engaged in recruiting terror operatives in [the West Bank] and Israel [proper], through which they advanced and carried out attacks against Israelis,” the military says.
During the war, the IDF says the Mujahideen Brigades, which is allied with Hamas, carried out several attacks on Israeli forces in Gaza and against Israel.
Saeed Ahmad Abed Khudari was the head of the Al Wefaq Co. currency exchange company, which had been designated as a terror organization by the Defense Ministry for its involvement in transferring money to Hamas.
“Khudari has been involved in numerous financial transfers to Hamas’s military wing over the years and especially throughout a war,” the IDF says.
The military says his involvement in funneling funds to Hamas increased following the killing of his brother, Hamed Khudari, in 2019. His brother had also served as a money man for Hamas, according to the military.
Khudari’s elimination yesterday is “a significant blow to the terror organization’s ability to rearm and reestablish itself,” the IDF adds.
Mohammed Saleh al-Bardawil “played a central role in Hamas’s propaganda apparatus, systematically spreading false information and leveraging media as a tool for psychological terror and to promote the murderous narrative of the Hamas terrorist organization,” the military says.
Bardawil also worked as a broadcaster with the Hamas-run Al-Aqsa Radio.
The IDF says that “while he was referred to as a well-known journalist in Gaza, he was an integral part of Hamas’s incitement and terror infrastructure.”
“Bardawil took an active part in producing the cynical propaganda videos distributed by the terrorist organization Hamas, in which the abducted Israelis were filmed during their captivity in Gaza,” the IDF adds.
According to Palestinian media, Bardawil was killed on Monday in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis, alongside his wife and three children.
[IsraelTimes] Syrian source tells Reuters that T-4 airfield ‘is totally unusable now’; Turkish FM says Ankara not seeking conflict with Jerusalem over Syria as it plans defense pact with Damascus
Turkey scoped out at least three airbases in Syria where it could deploy forces as part of a planned joint defense pact before Israel hit the sites with airstrikes this week, four people familiar with the matter said.
The bombardment signals the risks of a deepening rift between two powerful regional militaries over Syria, where Islamist rebels have installed a new government after toppling former leader Bashar al-Assad in December.
The Israeli strikes on the three sites Turkey was assessing, including a heavy barrage on Wednesday night, came despite Ankara’s efforts to reassure Washington that a deeper military presence in Syria was not intended to threaten Israel.
The Islamists replacing Assad have alarmed Israel, which is wary of an Islamist presence on its border and has lobbied the United States to curb Turkey’s growing influence in the country.
Ankara, a longtime backer of opposition to Assad, is positioning to play a major role in the remade Syria, including with a possible joint defense pact that could see new Turkish bases in central Syria and use of Syria’s airspace.
In preparation, Turkish military teams in recent weeks visited the T-4 and Palmyra airbases in Syria’s Homs province and the main airport in Hama province, according to a regional intelligence official, two Syrian military sources and another Syrian source familiar with the matter.
The sources spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the visits, which have not been previously reported.
Turkish teams evaluated the state of the runways, hangars and other infrastructure at the bases, the regional intelligence official said.
Another planned visit to T-4 and Palmyra on March 25 was cancelled after Israel struck both bases just hours beforehand, according to the regional intelligence official and the two Syrian military sources.
Strikes at T-4 “destroyed the runway, tower, hangars and the planes that were grounded. It was a tough message that Israel won’t accept the expanded Turkish presence,” said the intelligence official, who reviewed photographs of the damage.
“T-4 is totally unusable now,” said a fourth Syrian source, who is close to Turkey.
When asked about the visits, a Turkish defense ministry official said: “Reports and posts regarding developments in Syria — whether real or alleged — that do not originate from official authorities should not be taken into consideration, as they lack credibility and may be misleading.”
A spokesperson for Syria’s defense ministry declined to comment.
Turkey’s foreign ministry on Thursday called Israel “the greatest threat to regional security.” On Friday, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan told Reuters Turkey wanted no confrontation with Israel in Syria.
“We don’t want to see any confrontation with Israel in Syria because Syria belongs to Syrians,” Fidan said.
A “senior Israeli official” meanwhile said Friday “we are not looking for conflict with Turkey. and we hope they’re not looking for a fight with us.”
“At the same time, we don’t want Turkey establishing itself on our borders,” said the official while briefing reporters during Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s trip to Hungary.
“Establishing military bases, naval and air bases under Turkish protection is something we want to prevent,” added the official.
“There are red lines.”
HEAVY STRIKES
In the four months since Assad was toppled, Israel has seized ground in southwest Syria, made overtures to the Druze minority, and struck much of the Syrian military’s heavy weapons and equipment. Wednesday’s strikes were some of the most intense yet.
Syria’s foreign ministry said Israel struck five separate areas within a 30-minute window, resulting in the near-total destruction of the Hama base and wounding dozens of civilians and soldiers.
Israel said it hit the T-4 airbase and other military capabilities at airbases in Hama and Homs provinces, as well as military infrastructure in the Damascus area.
Defense Minister Israel Katz called the airstrikes a warning that “we will not allow the security of the State of Israel to be harmed.” Foreign Minister Gideon Saar accused Ankara of seeking a “Turkish protectorate” in Syria.
Noa Lazimi, a specialist in Middle East politics at Bar-Ilan University, said Israel was concerned that Turkey could establish Russian anti-aircraft systems and drones at T-4.
“The base would enable Turkey to establish air superiority in this area, and this poses a serious concern for Israel because it undermines its operational freedom in the region,” she said.
Turkey has tried to reassure the US that it wants to work towards a stable Syria.
Foreign Minister Fidan told US officials in Washington last month that Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa would not pose a threat to neighbors, according to ba senior regional diplomat close to Turkey and a source in Washington briefed on the meetings.
Fidan and other Turkish officials had earlier told Sharaa that Ankara was carefully calibrating its moves towards a defense pact so as not to irk Washington, one of the Syrian military sources said.
“Turkey, not Israel, would pay the highest price among regional states were there to be failure or destabilization in Syria, including with refugees and security,” an official in Turkey’s ruling AK Party told Reuters.
Soner Cagaptay, director of the Turkish Research Program at the Washington Institute think tank, said Turkey and Israel were on an “ideological collision course” but could avoid military escalation through mediation with Washington.
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[HodhodYemenNews] The Islamic Resistance® Movement, Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... , released a statement on Friday morning the martyrdom of al-Qassam commander Hassan Farhat (Abu Yasser), his son Hamza, and his daughter Jinan, who were killed in an Israeli raid on their home in Saida, southern Leb ...The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else?... .
The al-Qassam Brigades, the armed faction of Hamas, also expressed their sorrow for the deaders in their statement.
The Brigades declared that the "cowardly policy of liquidations" targeting their members, both inside and outside Paleostine, will not prevent them from continuing their path of resistance.
"Israel" launched an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... on a residential neighborhood in Saida, South Lebanon overnight Thursday, killing the three deaders and causing panic among civilians.
According to media reports, Hamas leader Hassan Farhat was the target in Sidon. He was in an apartment on Dalaa Street in the city’s center when it was bombed by an Israeli drone.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
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..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
