Iraqi accused of coordinating 20 terror attacks in Europe, faces trial in New York

Mohammad al-Saadi allegedly coordinated jihadi attacks against Jewish targets for pro-Iranian group Ashab al-Yamin since March.

An Iraqi terrorist dirtbag accused of orchestrating nearly 20 attacks across Europe and plotting more on Jewish institutions here in the United States has finally been hauled into New York to face federal terrorism charges. This came after what the FBI called a major international operation to drag his sorry carcass in.

Since early March, Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Saadi and his merry band of jihadist associates allegedly planned and coordinated 18 attacks in the name of Ashab al-Yamin. That is a pro-Iranian Islamist outfit that loves taking credit for hitting Jewish schools, synagogues, and charities across Europe, along with American, Israeli, and Iranian opposition targets.

"The FBI’s successful FTOC (foreign transfer of custody) of Mohammad Al-Saadi, another high-value target responsible for mass global terrorism, is just the latest success in this administration’s historic work to bring terrorists to justice," FBI Director Kash Patel said in a statement. "This was a righteous mission executed brilliantly by our agents, investigators, CIRG tactical units, and interagency partners who delivered yet again."

"We are greatly appreciative of the work of our allies around the world — especially Ambassador Tom Barrack, who led this joint sequenced operation and has been instrumental in bringing this successful mission home to the United States," he added.

On March 9, Al-Saadi allegedly posted a message on his Telegram account with the logo of Ashab al-Yamin, calling on warriors of Islam to engage in jihad, the FBI said.

Al-Saadi has posted Ashab al-Yamin-branded propaganda videos claiming responsibility for the attacks, including video recordings from attacks against Jewish places or persons in Belgium, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, according to federal prosecutors.

The feds moved once they learned this clown was planning to bring Ashab al-Yamin’s brand of fun to the United States. He allegedly directed others to coordinate terrorist attacks here against synagogues and other Jewish institutions across the country.

Al-Saadi has also allegedly publicly threatened President Donald Trump and his family, authorities said.

He was expected to appear in a New York federal courtroom on Friday on six terrorism charges, including conspiring to provide material support to terrorist groups.

FBI Director Kash Patel called the arrest a "righteous mission" and said the operation marked another major victory in the administration’s effort to bring global terrorists to justice.

Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Saadi was arrested and will face terrorism charges in the United States. Al-Saadi allegedly planned attacks across Europe aimed at U.S. and Israeli interests.

Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Saadi was taken to New York where he will face terrorism charges.

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James Talarico just got "Trumped" bigly

President Trump just delivered a masterclass in political savagery, torching Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico and his parade of bizarre beliefs on gender, Christianity, and, of all things, meat.

Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One on Friday, Trump was asked if he planned to endorse in the upcoming Texas Republican Senate primary runoff on May 26. While he held off on picking sides for now, the president made one thing crystal clear: whoever emerges from the GOP side is going to steamroll this guy.

“I do believe either one of them will easily win this race,” Trump said.

Then came the hammer.

“I think the Democrats have a weird, a weird candidate,” Trump continued. “Six genders, a real hit on Jesus. I mean, this guy is bad news with his mask from relatively recently, and he's a vegan. He's a vegan. All of a sudden he's not a vegan. He was a vegan. Now all of a sudden he's not. Texas doesn't like vegans.”

Trump wasn’t done. He called Talarico “a pathetic candidate, especially for Texas.”And you have to admit, it’s hard to argue with that assessment.

Talarico has been catching absolute hell ever since he clinched the Democratic nomination. Between his greatest hits on gender ideology and his weirdly hostile posture toward Christianity, voters are left wondering if this guy belongs on the campaign trail or in a padded room.

Back in a 2021 Texas House hearing on transgender athletes in sports, Talarico dropped this gem: “modern science obviously recognizes that there are many more than two biological sexes” and that “in fact, there are six.” He even trotted out differing X and Y chromosome patterns as proof of his so-called “six really common biological sexes.”

Classic. In the world of the modern left, basic biology is apparently up for debate, but don’t you dare question their feelings. Texas voters aren’t buying it, and Trump just made sure the entire country knows exactly how ridiculous this candidate is.

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UAE tried to coordinate with Qatar and Saudi Arabia to strike Iran during recent war - report

The United Arab Emirates attempted to persuade its neighboring Gulf states, including Saudi Arabia and Qatar, to coordinate a military response to Iran’s barrage of missiles, rockets and drones during the recent war. When those neighbors declined, Abu Dhabi’s leadership was left frustrated, sources familiar with the matter have told Bloomberg.

UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, widely known as MBZ, made several phone calls to fellow leaders, among them Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, in the immediate aftermath of the joint Israeli and American strikes on Iran that began on 28 February. Convinced of the strategic necessity for a unified retaliatory posture to deter Tehran, MBZ reached out in the expectation that shared peril might at last produce shared resolve.

Yet his neighbors demurred. This, they insisted, was not their war. 

The refusal has only deepened the strains already visible between the UAE and Saudi Arabia. The Trump administration, for its part, was fully aware of the Emirati proposal and lent its own weight to the effort to bring Riyadh and Doha into the fold.

MBZ sought to frame the moment in historical terms for his Gulf Cooperation Council counterparts. The GCC itself, he reminded them, had been founded in 1981 precisely in response to the threats unleashed by Iran’s Islamic Revolution of 1979. The argument carried the logic of self-preservation. It did not carry the day.

These revelations offer one plausible explanation for the UAE’s subsequent conduct: its withdrawal from OPEC and OPEC+ at the end of April, and its increasingly close alignment with Israel. Left without the collective shield it had sought, the Emirates acted alone. Despite the absence of Gulf support, Abu Dhabi carried out limited strikes against Iranian targets in both March and April.

Iran, for its part, repaid the region with ferocity. The UAE endured the most intense barrage of the entire conflict, with Tehran dispatching nearly 3,000 drones and hundreds of missiles toward Emirati territory before any truce took hold. Last week, Iranian forces struck the key oil port of Fujairah, hard by the Strait of Hormuz.

Saudi Arabia, having declined coordination with its neighbor, eventually struck Iran on its own terms in March. Riyadh then pivoted, assisting Pakistan’s mediation efforts between Washington and Tehran. Qatar, meanwhile, briefly contemplated retaliation after Iran targeted the vast liquefied natural gas facility at Ras Laffan, but chose instead the safer ground of de-escalation. Bahrain and Kuwait, ever aligned with Saudi caution, likewise kept their distance. Oman, bound by longstanding ties to Tehran, was never expected to join such an enterprise.

Emirati and Saudi spokespeople have not responded to requests for comment. What remains is the portrait of a region divided even in the face of a common adversary, where the clearest strategic thinking has come from the smallest and most exposed player. The UAE, at least, appears to have drawn its conclusions from the episode. Whether its neighbours will eventually be forced to do the same is the question that now hangs over the Gulf.

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Pramila Jayapal Whines About Death Threats After Her Little Communist Vacation to Cuba

Chennai, India-born Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) fresh off a taxpayer-funded jaunt to the socialist paradise of Cuba, is now playing the victim card harder than a socialist plays the "inequality" card.

Apparently, receiving death threats for "doing her job," which in her case seems to involve cozying up to a brutal dictatorship, has her clutching her pearls and calling everyone mean. Jayapal, who went to the island with fellow progressive Rep. Jonathan Jackson (D-IL) back in April, met with Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, top regime officials, some hand-picked "dissidents," and various foreign ambassadors. She then came back and blubbered about the "crisis beyond imagination" that U.S. sanctions are supposedly causing. 

"It's ridiculous," she sniffed to Fox News Digital. Yeah, lady, it is ridiculous, but not for the reasons you think.

Jayapal insists these meetings with ambassadors are just "part of our job." You know, the same job where she apparently thinks the United States should engage in "true diplomatic negotiations" with a communist hellhole instead of, I don't know, maintaining pressure on a regime that loves teaming up with Iran, Hezbollah, and every other anti-American dumpster diver on the planet.

She's now working on legislation to fight what she dramatically calls the "cruel collective punishment" of U.S. fuel restrictions. Because in progressive land, expecting a dictatorship to stop starving and oppressing its own people is somehow collective punishment. The embargo that's been around longer than most TikTok communists have been alive? Totally ineffective, according to her. Never mind that it might have something to do with the fact that communism has a 100% failure rate everywhere it's been tried.

The White House didn't exactly roll out the red carpet for her Havana holiday, calling it "shameful" and accusing her of a bad case of Trump Derangement Syndrome. A spokesperson nailed it: Democrats are the "America Last" party, the ones happy to sip cocktails with terrorists while undermining the U.S. to prop up a failed communist relic.

Naturally, Jayapal spent her Seattle briefing painting heartbreaking pictures of NICU babies and empty shelves, because if there's one thing Democrats excel at, it's selective humanitarian concern. Funny how that compassion never seems to extend to the Cuban people rotting in prisons for daring to speak against the regime, or the waves of desperate migrants fleeing the socialist utopia she wants to go easier on.

Questions about the Logan Act, that dusty old law about unauthorized negotiations with foreign governments, have been floated, but don't hold your breath. Laws are for little people, not globe-trotting progressive lawmakers who think they're Secretary of State.

Jayapal has long pushed to lift the embargo, take Cuba off the State Sponsor of Terrorism list, and generally treat a repressive dictatorship like it's just misunderstood. She's criticized the Cuban government before, sure, but actions speak louder than the occasional performative scold. Right now, her actions scream "useful idiot."

The backlash was predictable, and the death threats are inexcusable. But maybe, just maybe, if you didn't keep running interference for America's enemies, fewer people would be inclined to lose their minds about it. Just a thought from the cheap seats.

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NYC Mayor Mamdani's budget cuts come as no surprise

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New York City socialist and anti-Zionist Mayor Zohran "Smiley" Mamdani claimed he will close the city's budget deficit without cutting services. Just like his 'free buses' claim  before he got elected, this too was a lie.

 Mamdani "closed" the deficit by holding back the city's pension payments while taking a bailout from Albany. This wasn't 'taxing the rich,' it was taking the money from hard working New Yorkers. 

His cuts to veterans' services, however, was the most disgusting of all, including events like parades. We veterans called it a "slap in the face," and it shows where the guy's priorities lie: to the Communist agenda.

We're talking a planned cut of a million dollars from veteran services and events like a ticker-tape parade for former military men and women, that we learned about on Wednesday.

If comrade Mamdani's budget goes through, it would be reduced by about $7.6 million in fiscal year 2026 adopted budget to $6.6 million in his 2027 budget he disclosed Tuesday, a reduction of more than 13%, according to city records.

Service-disabled Marine Corps veteran Osbert Orduna referred to the move “a slap in the face” to veterans, especially those living with visible and invisible wounds of war.

This makes perfect sense, of course. Democrats and socialists like Mamdani hate America, and they certainly despise the men and women who sacrificed to protect our nation and the world. In fact, many of them seem to be rooting for Iran to win the war with us.

"There will be endless billions for progressive nonprofits to 'organize' on behalf of the DSA and for useless pet projects and leftist special interests, but our veterans get less in the annual budget than we spend to build a single public toilet. It's a disgrace," Paladino wrote. "My district has the largest number of veterans per capita in the entire city, and my district office hosts the first and only veteran resource center in New York. I meet these men and women every day and my office tries to do everything we can for them, but we're already operating on a shoestring and it's heartbreaking to think we're going to have even less to offer them."

Bronx borough president Vanessa L. Gibson said they will be advocating for a restoration of these funds in the final budget.

"It’s insulting to cut any resources and programs from our veterans and military families for their service and sacrifice to this Nation. I hope this can be reversed," Gibson wrote on X.

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Illegal alien learns his fate for sending child porn on Facebook

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A Mexican national living in the United States illegally was sentenced to more than 10 years in prison for distributing and receiving child pornography on Facebook, the Justice Department announced.

Adolfo Raul Vasquez-Santana, 32, of Southaven, Mississippi, was sentenced to 121 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for using Facebook Messenger to send and receive child sexual abuse material. The court also ordered him to pay $14,000 in penalties.

Local police began investigating after receiving a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Homeland Security Investigations, a division of ICE, pursued federal charges after determining that Vasquez-Santana was living in the United States illegally.

ICE placed an immigration detainer on Vasquez-Santana, and he is expected to face deportation after completing his prison sentence, according to authorities.

“HSI is committed to protecting children from predators who use technology to exploit them. When we received information about Vasquez-Santana, our agents acted quickly to investigate, arrest, and bring this individual to justice. We remain vigilant against child predators and will continue to pursue these offenders wherever they operate,” Matt Wright, acting Special Agent in Charge for HSI New Orleans, said.

“Our partners at Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) will ensure that once the defendant completes his federal sentence, he is removed from the United States and unable to pose further risk to our communities,” he added.

The case was prosecuted as part of Operation Take Back America, a nationwide initiative that the Justice Department says “marshals the full resources of the Department of Justice to repel the invasion of illegal immigration” and “achieve the total elimination of cartels and transnational criminal organizations.”

Authorities said the case was also pursued under Project Safe Childhood, a national initiative established to fight sexual exploitation of children.

“Child pornography is a plague,” U.S. Attorney Leary said. “Children are victimized not only through the production of obscene material, but through its continual distribution. Somehow, this debauchery has gained a foothold in our society. We need the public’s help. Please, when you see something troubling, let law enforcement know – we will respond.”

Another illegal alien off our streets and on his way out for good after doing his time. Good work by HSI and ICE. 

Deport them all.

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Billionaire Dem Donor Who Turned on the Party After Swalwell Allegations Gets Arrested

The billionaire timeshare kingpin who suddenly ditched former Rep. Eric Swalwell and booted him from his California mansion over sexual misconduct allegations was arrested Tuesday. 

Stephen Cloobeck, the founder of Diamond Resorts International, turned himself in to the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department in West Hollywood. He faces a felony charge of attempting to prevent or dissuade a victim or witness from testifying, the California Post reported.

Details on exactly what went down remain fuzzy. He posted $300,000 bail and walked out, per jail records. Fox News Digital asked the sheriff's department and Cloobeck himself for comment. 

"These charges are false, and we look forward to our day in court," a spokesperson for Cloobeck told the newspaper.

Cloobeck, a former gubernatorial candidate, had been backing Swalwell's run for California governor until the sexual assault claims surfaced. That was enough for him to bail on his old pal and the entire Democratic Party.

"I am no longer supporting Eric. F---ing tell everyone I’m a libertarian. F--- you, Democratic Party. I’m a libertarian now," Cloobeck told the Post at the time.

"I am now a Republican," he added to Fox 11 LA.

Swalwell has denied the claims against him in a video filmed inside Cloobeck's home. At the time, Cloobeck, who briefly ran for governor before dropping out and endorsing his former friend, said he kicked Swalwell out of his Beverly Hills mansion, stating that Swalwell "busted the trust" between them.

"I am no longer associated with a man that takes advantage of women," Cloobeck told reporters. "I support women’s rights."

Even in the clown world of California politics, this one has some extra layers of delicious irony. A big-money Dem donor finally sees the light, flips the bird to the party, and now finds himself in legal hot water. Hollywood could not script this stuff any better.

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His girlfriend refused abortion so he held her down and forced abortion drugs into her

Hassan Abbas, a 32-year-old scumcrumpet, could face up to five years in prison after pleading no contest to four felonies: disrupting public services, unlawful distribution of an abortion-inducing drug, identity fraud, and deception to obtain a dangerous drug, according to Lucas County Prosecuting Attorney Julia R. Bates.

According to the Ohio Bar Association, “By entering a no contest plea, he does not accept guilt but acknowledges that facts laid out by prosecution in charging documents are true,” Samira Asma-Sadeque reported for People Magazine.

The State Medical Board of Ohio issued a summary suspension in November 2025. The board said there was “clear and convincing evidence” that his continued practice presents a danger of immediate and serious harm to the public.

The baby died after Abbas, on December 18, allegedly crushed the abortion pills into a powder, according to prosecutors.

Online court records show Abbas was indicted on Dec. 4, 2025, a year after he allegedly carried out the attack, which, according to the prosecutor’s statement, was days in the making, according to Asma-Sadeque’s story.

The notice from the State Medical Board of Ohio reports that the now-former resident surgeon in Toledo, Ohio, was separated from his wife in 2024 when he began sleeping with a woman identified only as “patient 1.”

On December 7th, 2024, when the victim told Abbas she was pregnant, he wanted her to have an abortion which she resisted. Asma-Sadeque explains that around Dec. 11, 2024, Abbas used his former wife’s details, such as her name, birthdate and driver’s license number, to order two abortion drugs online: one 200 mg mifepristone pill and 12 200 mcg misoprostol pills.

Prosecuting Attorney Bates’s press release then explains what happened next:

A week later, on Dec. 18, 2024, Abbas invited the victim to his home in Holland, Ohio. The investigation showed Abbas crushed the abortion pills into a powder. While the victim slept, Abbas, knowing the victim believed she was pregnant and did not want to terminate the pregnancy, climbed on top of her, held her down against her will and shoved the crushed pills into her mouth. 

The victim was able to break free from Abbas and attempted to call 911. Abbas forcefully took the victim’s phone from her hand and hung up the call. The victim later left Abbas’s residence and went to a hospital for treatment. Abbas later left his home and disposed of the remaining abortion medication by throwing it out of the window of his moving vehicle, which made it unavailable for investigative purposes or trial.

“We expect doctors to uphold the highest standards of integrity and professionalism and not abuse another person in such an unacceptable way,” Bates added. “Doctors hold positions of trust and respect in the community, and this conduct represented a serious abuse of that trust. The conclusion of this case will likely never alleviate the trauma experienced by the victim and others who have heard about this case.”

Sentencing is set for June 24, 2026. The judge could impose a sentence of up to 60 months in prison and a fine of up to $15,000.

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