Second in Command ISIS Scumcrumpet Got His Goats

President Donald Trump announces the top ISIS terrorist member responsible for killing 13 American troops during the Afghanistan withdrawal is in U.S. custody? Wait, no. Scratch that. The latest update is even better: the savage is dead and has gone to meet his farm animals.

The President announced late Friday that U.S. and Nigerian forces carried out an operation that killed a global ISIS leader and first class scumcrumpet. He identified the terrorist as Abu-Bilal al-Minuki, whom he described as ISIS’s second-in-command globally.

"Tonight, at my direction, brave American forces and the Armed Forces of Nigeria flawlessly executed a meticulously planned and very complex mission to eliminate the most active terrorist in the world from the battlefield," Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.

"Abu-Bilal al-Minuki, second in command of ISIS globally, thought he could hide in Africa, but little did he know we had sources who kept us informed on what he was doing," Trump continued. "He will no longer terrorize the people of Africa, or help plan operations to target Americans."

Trump also thanked the Nigerian government for its cooperation in the mission."With his removal, ISIS’s global operation is greatly diminished," he added.

In a Saturday morning X post, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth confirmed U.S. forces, in coordination with the Armed Forces of Nigeria, killed al-Minuki and other ISIS leaders and provided more details about al-Minuki's role within ISIS.

"Abu-Bilal al-Minuki was the senior ISIS General Directorate of Provinces Emir — the number two for ISIS globally — responsible for overseeing the planning of attacks, directing hostage-taking and managing financial operations," Hegseth wrote. "The removal of him and other ISIS personnel makes Americans safer by further degrading ISIS’s ability to plan and carry out attacks that threaten the U.S. homeland, American citizens, and innocent civilians."

"Operations like last night’s demonstrate the exceptional lethality, patience and skill of U.S. forces, amplified alongside willing and capable partners, to address shared threats," Hegseth wrote. "This should serve as a reminder that we will hunt down those who wish to harm Americans or innocent Christians, wherever they are."

U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth leaves a state banquet hosted by Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People on May 14, 2026, in Beijing, China. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Hegseth said U.S. Africa Command carried out the "precise operation to remove this terrorist" at Trump's direction and in conjunction with Nigeria's president.

The secretary reiterated how Trump in November "declared to the world that we will help protect Christians in Nigeria and instructed the Department of War to prepare for action.""So, for months, we hunted this top ISIS leader in Nigeria who was killing Christians, and we killed him — and his entire posse," Hegseth wrote.

The announcement comes after U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said it carried out multiple strikes against more than 30 ISIS targets in Syria in February as part of a joint military effort to "sustain relentless military pressure on remnants from the terrorist network."

CENTCOM said U.S. forces struck ISIS infrastructure and weapons-storage targets using fixed-wing, rotary-wing and unmanned aircraft.

The U.S. military carried out ten strikes against more than 30 ISIS targets in Syria following a December ambush that killed U.S. troops. (CENTCOM)

Trump told reporters on Jan. 27 that he had a "great conversation" with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa.

"All of the things having to do with Syria in that area are working out very, very well," he said at the time. "So, we are very happy about it."

CENTCOM announced in February that more than 50 ISIS terrorists had been killed or captured and more than 100 ISIS infrastructure targets struck during two months of targeted operations in Syria.

The U.S. launched Operation Hawkeye Strike in response to an ISIS ambush that killed two U.S. service members and an American interpreter Dec. 13, 2025, in Palmyra, Syria.

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ISIS inspired to attack NYC Jewish Center, a Pakistani national enters surprising plea

A Pakistani national charged with plotting an ISIS-inspired terrorist attack on a Jewish center in New York City pleaded guilty on Wednesday, federal prosecutors said.

Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, a 21-year-old Pakistani citizen living in Canada, pleaded guilty to one count of attempting to commit acts of terrorism transcending national boundaries. The charge carries a maximum penalty of life in prison.

Khan was arrested while attempting to illegally enter the United States through the northern border. He planned to inflict significant casualties, according to the Department of Justice. “Khan planned a mass shooting at a Jewish center in New York City, timed to coincide with the anniversary of the October 7th Hamas attacks, with the explicit goal of killing as many Jews as possible,” Assistant Attorney General for National Security John A. Eisenberg said.

Khan considered Brooklyn’s large Jewish population as the “perfect” venue for his attack, authorities said, and claimed his plan could have resulted in the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil since September 11.

“Muhammad Shahzeb Khan intended to come to New York City and carry out an ISIS-inspired act of terror against our city’s Jewish community,” NYPD Commissioner Jessica S. Tisch said. “The NYPD, in close coordination with our federal partners, was able to stop this dangerous plot before it could become a devastating attack.”

Investigators began tracking Khan in November 2023 after he posted ISIS propaganda videos on social media and openly expressed support for the terror group, according to authorities. Prosecutors said Khan began plotting terrorist attacks in the United States, sharing specific details with two individuals he didn’t know were undercover law enforcement officers. During those exchanges, Khan told an undercover officer he had a U.S.-based associate and planned to use AR-style assault rifles in an unidentified city to “target Israeli Jewish chabads,” prosecutors said.

About a year later, authorities say Khan shifted his focus to a Jewish religious center in Brooklyn, hoping to carry out his attack around the first anniversary of the Hamas-led October 7 terror attacks against Israel.

On social media, Khan encouraged what he believed were co-conspirators to acquire AR-style rifles and hunting knives to “slit their throats.”

A month before the planned attack, Khan attempted to cross the U.S.-Canada border with the help of a human smuggler. Authorities arrested Khan near Ormstown, Canada, approximately 12 miles from the border.

Khan is set to be sentenced on August 12.

This case is a stark reminder of the persistent threat posed by Islamist extremism, even in its apparently foiled manifestations. A young man, radicalized through the familiar channels of online propaganda, crossed borders and oceans in his mind, if not yet fully in body, to pursue the murder of Jews in the very heart of a great American city. The target was not random. It was chosen with precision, timed with malice to mark the anniversary of the October 7 massacre, and animated by the explicit desire to kill as many Jews as possible. That such hatred finds fertile ground among certain communities, and that it can travel so easily across continents, should trouble anyone who still believes that integration and modernity have tamed the older, darker impulses of religious totalitarianism. The authorities acted swiftly and effectively here. Yet the plot itself reveals once again how the ideology of jihad, with its insatiable appetite for Jewish blood, continues to seek new theaters in the West, undeterred by distance, law, or the decency of the societies it seeks to wound.

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Old Dominion University shooter ID'd as likely jihadist

I posted about a reported shooter at Old Dominion University, here, that wounded two people and ended the shooter's life. We now know the identity of the shooter and yes, his first name begins with the letter "M."

The shooter, Mahamed Jalloh, was previously convicted of supporting ISIL [who the kids often refer to as ISIS].

Mohamed Bailor Jalloh was arrested back in 2016, per the Department of Justice press release, for "attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)." 

According to the complaint, Jalloh is alleged to have attempted to provide services by assisting in the procurement of weapons to be used in what he believed was going to be an attack on U.S. soil committed in the name of ISIL. In addition, the complaint alleges that Jalloh attempted to provide material support to ISIL by providing money to assist in the facilitation of individuals seeking to join ISIL.

This guy, a naturalized citizen from Sierra Leone, reportedly made multiple trips overseas trying to link up with ISIL directly. He ended up pleading guilty and getting slapped with an 11-year sentence in 2017.

Fast-forward, and under the Biden administration, he walks free in 2024.These are all excellent questions. Why wasn't he deported after serving time for trying to arm up for a domestic terror attack in the name of a foreign terrorist group? Why was this would-be jihadist released back into American society?

We do not have to live like this.

Meanwhile, Democrats continue to keep the Department of Homeland Security shut down in a push to defund the agency and abolish ICE, because apparently, securing the homeland and deporting threats like this is just too mean-spirited for the progressive playbook.

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Compromised News Network blasted over 'bizarre' post about teens charged with throwing bombs at NYC protest

CNN deleted a post about an ISIS-inspired attack in New York and admitted it didn't meet their standards. Classic mainstream media malpractice, especially when they get caught misrepresenting the truth.

Emir Balat and Ibrahim Kayumi were walked out of the 19th precinct in Manhattan on March 9, 2026, after their arrest for tossing an explosive device while allegedly yelling "Allahu akbar" into a protest crowd outside Mayor Zohran Mamdani's home where people were protesting "Stop the Islamic Takeover of New York," and "Stop New York City Public Muslim Prayer."

The fake news network is getting hammered on social media for a now-deleted Tuesday post on X that described the two suspects as "Pennsylvania teenagers" who were charged with hurling bombs at a protest near Gracie Mansion on Saturday. They conveniently left out the part when they yelled and what their motives were. 

The CNN post read: "Two Pennsylvania teenagers crossed into New York City Saturday morning for what could’ve been a normal day enjoying the city during abnormally warm weather. But in less than an hour, their lives would drastically change as the pair would be arrested for throwing homemade bombs during an anti-Muslim protest outside of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s home. Here's what we know so far."

So it was just a couple of kids out to enjoy a normal day in the Big Apple and maybe show a little concern about a group of Islamophobic protesters who just don't care about allowing the 'Religion of Peace' to do their thing,

These weren't just some kids out to enjoy the day. 

The suspects, 18-year-old Emir Balat of Langhorne and 19-year-old Ibrahim Kayumi of Newtown, came from Bucks County to Manhattan. Police say they ignited and threw improvised explosive devices into the crowd outside the mayor's residence, hoping to kill as many people as possible. Federal prosecutors hit them with charges of material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, ISIS, and use of a weapon of mass destruction.

CNN yanked the post and issued this explanation on X: "A post regarding the two individuals arrested for throwing homemade bombs outside of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s home failed to reflect the gravity of the incident thereby breaching the editorial standards we require for all our reporting. It has therefore been deleted."

They also failed to explain how these sweet teens were inspired by ISIS, the terrorist organization that beheads and burns people alive if they're considered to be infidels.

Even CNN media analyst Brian Stelter called it out in his newsletter Tuesday morning: "The story itself was solid. But the tweet was outrageous, and quickly addressed by CNN management." He added that the outlet was "rightly criticized" for the post.

Social media lit up over the bizarre framing, which somehow avoided words like "terror" or "terrorist" entirely."This is the weirdest framing," Examiner columnist Tim Carney posted on X. "The major left-leaning outlets hate this story, but know they cannot ignore it, so they go to bizarre contortions."

Deputy editor of Jewish News U.K. Daniel Sugarman pointed out that the post would have been "extremely strange" even right after the attack, but "given everything we now know about these [two] people and their motives, is journalistic malpractice."

Gee, CNN being accused of journalistic malpractice--what will they say next?

But CNN wasn't the only outlet. 

ABC News referred to the ISIS-inspired man as an 'activist' who threw a homemade bomb towards police. And Libs of TikTok posted this: 

"Wow. ISIS-inspired perpetrators commit a literal terrorist act, and this is what CNN comes up with?" media watchdog group HonestReporting asked. "Oh, those poor ‘Pennsylvania teenagers,’ whose lives have ‘drastically changed’ because they made the conscious decision to throw bombs. When will the media stop employing narrative storytelling to infantilize perpetrators of ideologically motivated crimes?"

"Who writes this garbage?" Rep. Eli Crane, (R-AZ), wrote on X. "They are radical Islamic terrorists."

Journalist Scot Bertram had some brutal fun rewriting it to mimic 9/11: "Nineteen men arrived at East Coast airports Tuesday morning for what could’ve been a normal day enjoying a cross-country flight. But in less than an hour, their lives would drastically change."

RedState writer Bonchie nailed it: CNN was doing "everything they can to make these Islamists [seem] like misguided victims."

"I don’t really understand this framing by CNN," News2Share editor-in-chief Ford Fischer wrote. "Couldn’t anybody who does something life-changing have ‘a normal day’ if they don’t do the thing?"

And Barstool Sports content creator Jack Mac summed up the absurdity: "Man you just gotta hate when two teenagers, who could’ve been enjoying the warm weather, have their life drastically changed because they accidentally brought a home made bomb that would’ve killed multiple people. Oops! I did some terrorism! Can’t believe my life has changed!"This is peak legacy media: soft-pedal radical Islamic terrorism, paint the perps as sympathetic kids whose big day got ruined, then delete and issue a half-hearted mea culpa when the backlash hits. The double standards never stop.

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Another ISIS-Inspired Terror Plot Thwarted in North Carolina—And It's a Close Call

Federal authorities announced Friday that they've stopped a chilling ISIS-inspired terrorist attack planned for a grocery store and fast food restaurant in Mint Hill, North Carolina—a quiet Charlotte suburb that could have turned into a bloodbath.

The suspect? 18-year-old U.S. citizen Christian Sturdivant, who allegedly plotted to slaughter innocent Americans with "knives and hammers" after getting radicalized online. He even dreamed of becoming a "martyr" in the process. "He was preparing for Jihad."

“He was preparing for Jihad and innocent people were going to die,” U.S. Attorney Russ Ferguson for the Western District of North Carolina bluntly stated at Friday's press conference.“He was targeting Jews, Christians and LGBTQ individuals,” Ferguson added.

Sturdivant, who slung burgers at a local Burger King, first popped up on law enforcement's radar back in January 2022, when he was just 14 years old. He was chatting on social media with an overseas ISIS operative who told him to dress in black, knock on doors, and hammer people to death. His family intervened and stopped him then, per FBI Special Agent in Charge James Barnacle. 

The kid got psychological help, which it didn't, and no charges were filed. 

The FBI was assured Sturdivant "no longer had access to social media." Turns out, that was a lie, they discovered the truth on December 18.

Fast forward: Sturdivant dives into ISIS websites, posts TikToks, pledges allegiance to the terror group to what he thought was an ISIS member (actually an NYPD undercover), and tells them he plans to "do jihad soon."

He then chats with an undercover FBI agent posing as an ISIS operative, spilling detailed plans for the attacks and even begging for guns.

Agents raid his home, find hammers and knives stashed under his bed, despite his family hiding them earlier, plus notes outlining the carnage.

Arrested on New Year's Eve as he's released from a medical facility, Sturdivant faces charges of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization.

"Without the swift action of the FBI, joint terrorism task force, New York City police department, the Mint Hill Police Department and our partners at the United States attorney’s office for the western district North Carolina, we could be announcing national tragedy. Instead, a terrorist attack was thwarted," Barnacle said.

This foiled plot hits just one year after Shamsud-Din Jabbar mowed down New Year's revelers on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, flying an ISIS flag, killing 14 and wounding dozens more—before placing dud bombs and getting taken out by police.

Another reminder that the ISIS threat isn't going anywhere, even as these radicals try to strike on our soil. Good on law enforcement for shutting this one down before the body count started.

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Texas Man Arrested for Allegedly Trying to Arm ISIS With Bomb Materials – And the Feds Nailed Him Cold

Look, in an era where the threats from radical Islamic terrorism never really went away, despite what some politicians tried to tell us, it's refreshing to see federal law enforcement actually doing their job and stopping a plot before it turns into another bloody headline.

A 21-year-old from Midlothian, Texas, named John Michael Garza Jr., got himself arrested on December 22 after he allegedly handed over bomb-making components, cash, and detailed instructions to undercover agents he thought were his ISIS "brothers." Federal authorities dropped the hammer, charging him with attempting to provide material support to the terrorist group.

The whole thing started back in mid-October 2025 when an undercover NYPD employee spotted Garza's social media account liking and sharing pro-ISIS garbage. Turns out, the guy was following extremist accounts and diving headfirst into their content. 

When the undercover reached out, Garza proudly described himself as a 21-year-old Mexican-American living in Texas.

Over the next two months, he allegedly sent official ISIS propaganda, including videos of suicide bombings and bomb-making tutorials, plus small crypto transfers he believed would buy guns and fund operations.

The sting peaked when Garza met an undercover FBI agent, handed over explosive precursors, and explained how to mix them into a shrapnel bomb, even suggesting nails to maximize the carnage. One example of the ISIS media he shared: a photo of a masked individual and another man in a gated area.

The evidence laid out in the complaint is damning: Crypto transfers to fund what he thought were ISIS weapons and missions and sharing official ISIS videos of bombings and bomb-building guides.

Physically delivering bomb components and shrapnel instructions on December 22.Garza appeared in court on December 23, with a detention hearing set for December 30 in the Northern District of Texas. If convicted, he's looking at up to 20 years in federal prison. 

"This case is a testament to the incredible work of our federal agents, who work tirelessly to save American lives," said Attorney General Pamela Bondi. "ISIS's poisonous ideology must be ripped out root and stem, anyone who tries to commit violence on ISIS's behalf will be found, arrested, and prosecuted. You cannot hide from us."

"[Monday's] announcement underscores the FBI's commitment to combatting terrorism and demonstrates our continuous work to disrupt and thwart terrorist plots against the American public," said FBI Director Kash Patel. "Let this serve as a warning to those who plan to conduct attacks against the United States on behalf of terrorist organizations, you will be brought to justice."

"The increasing threats of harm and destruction in our country made by those aligned with violent ideologies must be stopped," said U.S. Attorney Ryan Raybould for the Northern District of Texas. "An alleged ISIS sympathizer has been federally charged with an international terrorism. This operation is but one example highlighting the necessity of vigilant observation and swift action to halt what could have been a devastating outcome. Together with our law enforcement partners, we will continue to take prompt action against those attempting to carry out alleged terrorist missions."

"The FBI worked alongside our law enforcement partners to quickly arrest an individual who intended to provide bomb-making materials to a foreign terrorist organization," said Special Agent in Charge R. Joseph Rothrock of FBI Dallas. "Protecting the Homeland is a top priority for the FBI. This arrest demonstrates our commitment to safeguarding our communities from terrorism."

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"[Monday's] charges illustrate that the threats of terrorism and extremist violence against our nation are still very real," said Commissioner Jessica S. Tisch of the New York Police Department (NYPD). "The NYPD remains committed to identifying, disrupting, and dismantling these networks at their source, before they can reach their murderous ends. And any person who puts American lives at risk will face justice and be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law. I want to thank our undercover investigators in the NYPD, as well as our law enforcement partners in the FBI and the U.S. Attorney's Office, for their exceptional work on this case."

This is exactly the kind of proactive work that keeps ISIS wannabes from turning their sick fantasies into reality. In a sane world, we'd see more of this and less hand-wringing about "root causes." The ideology is the problem, and ripping it out, as Bondi put it, is the only solution.

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ISIS Remnants Just Ambushed and Killed American Troops in Syria

A year after the Assad regime finally collapsed Syria is still a mess. The new government under President Ahmed al-Sharaa (his ISIS name being Abu Mohammad al-Julani) is trying to get its act together, but pockets of chaos remain, especially where these Islamist holdouts like ISIS are lurking, for some reason. And unfortunately, that instability just claimed American lives.

[Al-Sharaa became President of Syria in January 2025 after a period leading to the rebel offensive that overthrew Bashar al-Assad's regime in December 2024.]

Two U.S. Army soldiers and a civilian interpreter were killed in an ambush in the central Syrian town of Palmyra over the weekend, with three others wounded. The Pentagon confirmed it, and it's a grim reminder that our counter-terrorism mission there isn't over yet, and al Sharaa is a terrorist who cannot be trusted.

"Today in Palmyra, Syria, two United States Army soldiers and one civilian U.S. interpreter were killed, and three were wounded," Chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell wrote on X. "The attack occurred as the soldiers were conducting a key leader engagement. Their mission was in support of ongoing counter-ISIS/counter-terrorism operations in the region," he added, noting that "The soldiers’ names, as well as identifying information about their units, are being withheld until 24 hours after the next of kin notification."

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth praised the response and sent a clear message to any jihadist scum thinking about targeting Americans. "The savage who perpetrated this attack was killed by partner forces."

"Let it be known, if you target Americans — anywhere in the world — you will spend the rest of your brief, anxious life knowing the United States will hunt you, find you, and ruthlessly kill you," Hegseth also posted on X.

The attack occurred in an area where Sharaa's government doesn't have full control, and early signs point to ISIS as the culprits, what a shocker--these rats never go away. The Pentagon is investigating, and the wounded were sent via MEDEVAC to the al-Tanf base near the Iraq-Jordan border.

This comes as U.S. forces are drawing down to about 1,500 troops as of mid-year, with plans to drop to a few hundred by year's end. We've closed or handed over some of our eight bases that were keeping tabs on ISIS since we went in back in 2014 to stop their caliphate nonsense.

Meanwhile, "The United States, CIA and military forces are reportedly deeply involved in securing and stabilizing the situation in Syria," as Dan Diker from the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs told Fox News Digital.

And just this week, Syrians were celebrating in Damascus streets marking the one-year anniversary of Assad's ouster—that lightning rebel offensive that ended half a century of his family's brutal rule. It's a new chapter, but as this attack shows, the threats aren't gone. Former U.S. Ambassador Robert Ford has been warning about the challenges ahead for the new government.

Our troops are still out there doing the dirty work to keep ISIS down. This ambush is a gut punch, but Hegseth's warning is spot on: mess with Americans, and you'll regret it—briefly.

Will it? We shall see.

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The Mask Slips: Ahmed al-Sharaa’s Regime and the Return of Syrian Duplicity

One need hardly be surprised. The same Syrian president who, only weeks ago, was being feted in certain Western quarters as a moderate, tolerant reformer (Ahmed al-Sharaa, once known by his nom de guerre Abu Mohammad al-Jolani) has now been credibly linked to direct attacks on Israeli soldiers and, even more grimly, to the organized persecution of Syria's ancient Druze minority.

According to a report by Israel’s public broadcaster KAN, citing informed sources, it was none other than "Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa's general intelligence" that orchestrated Thursday night's ambush of an IDF arrest raid in southern Syria, as well as earlier assaults on Druze communities in the country's east. The very same regime operatives who opened fire on Israeli reservists as they withdrew from Beit Jinn, wounding six, are said to be the identical group that has been terrorizing the Druze in Khader.

Let us be clear about what happened. In the early hours of Friday, soldiers of the IDF's 55th Reserve Paratroop Brigade entered the Syrian town of Beit Jinn to detain two brothers affiliated with the terrorist organization Al-Jama'a al-Islamiya. These men had planted roadside bombs and had participated in launching a high-altitude missile toward Israel. The arrests themselves were textbook: the brothers were taken quietly from their beds. It was only as the Israelis withdrew that regime-linked gunmen opened fire, triggering a fierce exchange in which several terrorists were killed and six Israeli reservists wounded (one of them the brigade commander who had raced forward to extract his trapped men). Syrian media, with their customary regard for truth, promptly claimed thirteen "civilians" had been slaughtered.

All of this, we are now told, was directed by the intelligence apparatus of the man who assured the world he had broken with jihadism.

One struggles to recall a more rapid unmasking. Barely had the champagne corks stopped popping in Washington and certain European salons (where al-Sharaa was hailed as the acceptable face of the Syrian opposition) than his regime began doing precisely what the Assad apparatus did for decades: using proxy militias to bleed Israel while simultaneously waging low-intensity genocide against religious minorities inconveniently parked along the new ruler's path to absolute power.

The Druze of southern Syria, who have already endured years of siege and starvation at the hands of Islamist factions, now find themselves targeted by the very government in Damascus itself. Syrian Druze who have spoken to The Jerusalem Post have been unequivocal: Israel's buffer zone, so noisily condemned by Damascus as a "violation of Syrian sovereignty," is the only thing that currently allows humanitarian aid to reach their villages and prevents their complete annihilation.

Yet the al-Sharaa government continues to denounce the zone, even as his own militias fire on the soldiers who keep it functioning. The cynicism is breathtaking.

Meanwhile, reports multiply that Hezbollah, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad are quietly rebuilding their infrastructure inside Syria with the new regime's tacit blessing. The old Iranian playbook (use Syrian territory as a forward base against Israel) has evidently been dusted off and handed to the new management.

Western governments that rushed to embrace al-Sharaa as a bulwark against ISIS and a potential partner for peace would do well to study the photographs emerging from Damascus: crowds waving portraits of a man whose intelligence service now shoots Israeli soldiers in the back and drives the Druze toward extinction. Those images tell a simpler and truer story than any number of carefully stage-managed interviews.

The lesson, as ever, is that jihadist movements do not moderate; they merely learn to smile for the cameras while reloading. Israel, having learned that lesson the hard way across decades of betrayal, will continue to do what it must: arrest terrorists in their beds, return fire when ambushed, and maintain the thin buffer that stands between Syria’s minorities and the abyss.The rest of the world is free to keep pretending that the new boss in Damascus is fundamentally different from the old boss he replaced. The Druze, and the wounded paratroopers of the 55th Brigade, know better.

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Habba: DOJ moved ‘swiftly and decisively’ stopping a ISIS-linked Halloween terror plot targeting Jews

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In the grim annals of our age, where the West's complacency towards its own undoing has become a kind of collective delusion, comes yet another tale of thwarted barbarism, foiled, mercifully, not by some grand awakening of societal resolve, but by the quiet vigilance of those still willing to do the unglamorous work of keeping the wolves from the door. 

The Department of Justice, in a rare display of what might once have been called competence, has dismantled an ISIS-inspired network that stretched like a malignant tumor from the rust-belt suburbs of Detroit to the smug shores of New Jersey. And the target was not some abstract symbol of imperial hubris, but the everyday Jews of a quiet American neighborhood, alongside the usual litany of "infidel" outposts: LGBTQ bars and the like. 

Halloween, that peculiar pagan romp turned corporate confection, was to have been their stage for slaughter.

The plot, as federal prosecutors lay it bare, was a squalid affair of encrypted whispers and adolescent zealotry. It was a "sprawling federal investigation," as the Justice Department termed it, and turned into a cabal of young men who mistook jihad for a video game. At its heart lay the "pumpkin" scheme: a mass shooting scripted for October 31st, code-named with the banality of a child's prank but armed with the lethality of AR-15s, shotguns, handguns, and a stockpile of 1,680 rounds. 

Ayob Asamil Nasser, alongside brothers Mohmed Ali and Majed Mahmoud, stand accused in a 93-page indictment from Michigan's Eastern District of conspiring to funnel material support to the Islamic State. They trained at local ranges, swapped ISIS propaganda like contraband trading cards, and eyed Ferndale's gay haunts and a Jewish community center with the cold calculus of butchers. Raids on that fateful All Hallows' Eve yielded tactical vests, GoPro cameras for their snuff-film fantasies, and magazines from a U-Haul unit that might otherwise have hauled pumpkins.

Across state lines, the tendrils extended to Tomas Jimenez-Guzel, 19, of Montclair, New Jersey, and Saed Mirreh, 19, of Kent, Washington, nabbed this week in a New Jersey indictment that knits their fates to the Michigan cell. Selfies exchanged in their fevered group chats, faces blurred in a nod to operational hygiene, show Jimenez-Guzel beneath an ISIS flag and Mirreh in jihadi drag, as if auditioning for a caliphate cosplay. 

They face charges of conspiring to aid a foreign terrorist outfit, with Jimenez-Guzel additionally tagged for attempting flight: arrested at Newark Liberty International as he angled for Turkey en route to Syria's meat grinder. Court papers, cited by the Associated Press, note how their travel frenzy accelerated post the Michigan busts, "picked up speed," as if this were a mere change in itinerary rather than a sprint from the law.

U.S. Attorney Alina Habba, presiding over the New Jersey front, cut through the fog with a statement that, in saner times, would scarcely merit remark. The defendants, she said, "had pledged themselves to ISIS" and were in "frequent communication with the Michigan cell." On Friday, she added: "We will continue to move swiftly and decisively whenever terrorism or hate threatens our communities. The threat of terrorism is real when Americans are threatened. We respond fast, focused and together." 

Words that land like a slap to the multicultural pieties that have long insisted such threats are but phantasms of Islamophobia. In Detroit, her counterpart Jerome F. Gorgon Jr. vowed persistence: "We will not stop. We will follow the tentacles where they lead." And FBI Special Agent Jennifer Runyan echoed the resolve: her team will "continue to investigate, arrest and disrupt all attempts or plots to do harm … to defend the homeland." Habba hailed the cross-jurisdictional tango as "a model of coordination against extremist threats."

The digital spoor of their conspiracy unfurls in the annals of a WhatsApp group dubbed "Muslimeen"—a forum for sharing beheading clips, plotting firearms drills, and syncing the "pumpkin" countdown. Prosecutors see it as one hydra-headed organism: some cells primed for homegrown carnage, others for the foreign lure of the caliphate's corpse. The Michigan trio cools its heels in Detroit custody; Jimenez-Guzel and Mirreh have shuffled through Newark and Seattle courtrooms. Juveniles may lurk under sealed dockets, their youth no shield against the presumptive innocence that cloaks them all—for now. A criminal complaint, after all, is but an allegation; guilt awaits the gavel's fall.

One pauses, amid this inventory of intercepted malice, to ponder the fragility of the veil we have drawn over such realities. These were not grizzled operatives smuggled across porous frontiers, but homegrown recruits, radicalized in the cradle of American liberty, their grievances nursed on the same screens that peddle TikTok dances and flat-earth follies. The Jewish center in suburban Detroit was no accident of selection; it was a deliberate echo of ancient hatreds, repackaged for the hashtag era. And yet, how swiftly the story will fade—eclipsed by the next outrage or apology tour, as our elites tut-tut about root causes that dare not speak their name. The threat endures, not in distant deserts, but in the encrypted chats of the disaffected, where the West's own hesitations furnish the accelerant. Until we confront that truth without flinching, the Habba doctrine—swift, decisive, unapologetic—remains our slender bulwark against the gathering storm.

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U.S. Troops Smoke Senior ISIS Bigwig in Syria Raid

ATMEH, Syria — Before the sun even thought about rising Wednesday, U.S. forces swooped into northwestern Syria and sent a top-tier Islamic State honcho to meet his maker, a U.S. official spilled to Reuters.

This marks the second time since Bashar al-Assad got the boot in December that U.S. troops have stormed northern Syria. The new Islamist-led crew running the show has sworn to keep ISIS from clawing back, and they're cozy with the U.S.-led coalition still pounding the terror group.

The official, keeping it low-key and anonymous, said the raid took out a heavy-hitting ISIS member who was in the running to be the group's top dog in Syria.

"No U.S. troops were killed or injured in the raid," the official added, cool as you like. A Syrian security source and Syria's state-run Al-Ikhbariya said the target bit the dust while trying to make a break for it.

Another Syrian source dropped that the guy was Iraqi, hitched to a French woman. No word yet on what happened to her.

The Pentagon's lips were sealed, no comment for now. The op kicked off around 2 a.m. (1100 GMT), according to Syrian security folks and locals in Atmeh, Idlib province. Helicopters and drones buzzed overhead, providing cover, while local Syrian forces locked down the neighborhood. U.S. troops, though, handled the dirty work, a second security source confirmed.

Abdelqader al-Sheikh, a local who was up late with his kid, heard some racket in the yard next door. "I called out, 'Who are you?' and they started speaking to me in English, telling me to put my hands up," Sheikh told Reuters.

He said the armed crew posted up on nearby rooftops for two hours, and he caught someone close by barking Arabic with an Iraqi accent.

Back in July, the Pentagon bragged about a raid in Aleppo province that dusted a senior ISIS leader and his two grown sons, both tied to the group.

Idlib's been a rat's nest for ISIS big shots for years. U.S. forces took out ISIS head honcho Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in Barisha, Idlib, back in 2019, and his successor, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Quraishi, got the same treatment in Atmeh in 2022.

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Trump takes out nuke facilities, Dems want to take out Trump: but Obama did what?

As soon as President Donald Trump does something strong that the left doesn't agree with, the Democrat idiots in office want to impeach him. Meanwhile, former President Barack Hussein Obama pretty much had carte blanche when it came for the US to use its military might and the left was totally okay with it. So something tells me Democrats are some of the worst hypocrites in the history of mankind. 

Hyperbole? I don't think so.

As president, Obama authorized a number of military actions and counterterrorism operations. I have listed an overview of key attacks and ops he ordered when he was busy dividing the nation racially.

First, Obama dramatically expanded the use of drone strikes against suspected terrorists, mainly targeting al-Qaeda, the Taliban and eventually ISIS affiliates.

Secondly, he ordered literally hundreds of targeted strikes against militants in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, killing key al-Qaeda and Taliban people such as Baitullah Mehsud, in 2009. Conservative estimates believe 2,500 to 4,000 people were killed, including civilians.

Thirdly, in Yemen, strikes were launched targeting al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), which include the 2011 elimination of Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen and AQAP honcho.

Next, in Somalia, drones struck al-Shabaab scumcrumpets, and operations increased after the 2011 famine and piracy threats. Of course, these strikes were controversial because they involved civilian casualties.

Operation Neptune Spear, aka the Bin Laden Raid, went down on May 2, 2011 and was ordered by Obama. The U.S. Navy SEAL Team Six raided Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, resulting in bin Laden's death and a huge success in the fight against Islamic terrorism.

Then Obama, in 2011, authorized U.S. participation in NATO-led airstrikes to enforce a UN-mandated no-fly zone during the Libyan Civil War. Operation Odyssey Dawn targeted Muammar Gaddafi's forces in order to protect civilians. This eventually led to Gaddafi's overthrow. The U.S. conducted airstrikes along with logistical support.

Operation Observant Compass, between 2011 to 2017, sent about 100 U.S. military advisors to assist African troops in fighting the Lord's Resistance Army [LRA] in Central Africa. The main target was their leader, Joseph Kony, and while no direct combat was authorized, U.S. forces provided intelligence and support.

Between 2014 and 2017, the Obama administration conducted a military campaign against ISIS. In Operation Inherent Resolve [2014] the U.S. conducted airstrikes in Syria and Iraq, targeting ISIS strongholds, and also to protect Yazidis in Sinjar [where I throw a quarter into whenever I use bad language] and our personnel in Erbil. We also conducted a special operation in 2015 in Syria that killed ISIS leader Abu Sayyaf. By 2017, we flew thousands of airstrikes and significantly weakened ISIS's control.

Going back to 2009, Obama ordered an additional 30,000 boots on the ground to Afghanistan to fight the Taliban. Our presence at that time was around 100,000. 

Now let us be clear; I supported Obama's moves against terrorism and their leaders. But there is that double standard when it comes to President Trump. 

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Obama's ordered strikes had a significant number of civilian casualties and even sparked debate among human rights groups. Trump's ordered attack on nuclear sites did not result in civilian casualties and was not a declaration of war, like AOC and her idiot friends accuse Trump of unconstitutionally circumventing Congress.

Obama's actions were significantly closer to war than Trump's by a country mile, but he was the untouchable Obama.

Hypocrisy much?

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2 teenage ISIS punks indicted for planning terrorist attack on Lod synagogue

Two teenage dirtbags, 16 and 17, one an Israeli citizen and the other a Palestinian Authority punk, got nailed for scheming a bloodbath at a Lod synagogue. These ISIS-worshipping losers were indicted for plotting to unleash hell as card-carrying members of the Islamic State.

The Israeli kid, a real piece of work, started cozying up to ISIS before August 2024, sliding into their DMs on social media like some wannabe jihadi groupie, begging to join the club.

He didn’t just flirt with the idea—he went full fanatic, swearing allegiance to ISIS and its head honcho in a video he sent to the group, probably thinking he was auditioning for their next propaganda flick.

Being an Israeli citizen gave this creep a golden ticket to move freely, and ISIS, always eager to exploit a useful idiot, told him to hit the Lod synagogue during Shabbat services—prime time for maximum body count.

This genius snapped a detailed photo of the target and sent it to his ISIS pen pal in Hebron. Together, they started cooking up their sick plan.

First, they figured they’d go in guns blazing on Shabbat morning, but apparently, sourcing their own heat was too much hassle. So, they switched gears: stab the security guard with a poisoned knife—real classy—snag his gun, and then mow down worshippers with his rifle. Subtlety ain’t their thing.

The Israeli teen linked up with his Hebron sidekick, roped him into ISIS, and made him swear loyalty to the cause, like some twisted initiation ritual. The mission? Hit that synagogue hard.

Meanwhile, in a separate but equally messed-up case, Israeli cops nabbed another 17-year-old from the Arab-Israeli town of Jisr az-Zarqa in late March. This clown was also deep in the ISIS fanboy swamp, allegedly planning terror attacks up north.

In a joint statement released on Sunday, the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) and Israel Police said they grabbed this kid on March 2. Investigators found he’d been pledging allegiance to ISIS—multiple times, including to its current boss—like he was trying to win a loyalty punch card.

He was plotting to bomb the Menashe region in Haifa, and when they searched his stuff, they found a DIY guide to building explosives. Shocker.

The Haifa District Prosecutor’s Office slapped him with charges for backing a terror group and planning attacks. They’re pushing to keep him locked up until his trial wraps, probably because letting him roam free sounds like a spectacularly bad idea.

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Shin Bet foil ISIS terror plot

Well, folks, it looks like the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) and Israel Police have been busy keeping the bad guys at bay. In a move that’s sure to make ISIS fans cry into their hummus, they’ve nabbed an Arab-Israeli teen who was cooking up some nasty bombing plans targeting Jews in northern Israel.

 
According to the World Israel News Staff, this 17-year-old punk from Jisr az-Zarqa got himself arrested on March 2 for being a little too cozy with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Apparently, this kid wasn’t just a casual fan—he swore allegiance to ISIS and its current caliph multiple times, like some twisted loyalty pledge drive.

 
The Shin Bet and police say this junior jihadi was plotting terror attacks in the Menashe region of the Haifa district. And when they nabbed him, they found a handy-dandy bomb-making manual in his possession—because nothing says "teen rebellion" like DIY explosives, right? 

The Haifa District Prosecutor’s Office has slapped him with an indictment for his ISIS ties and terror plotting, and they’re asking to keep him locked up until the trial wraps. Good call, I’d say.

A senior Shin Bet official chimed in, noting, “This case joins a series of arrests of Israeli citizens who planned to carry out terrorist activities in Israel.” He then added, “[T]he trend involving Israeli citizens in terrorism and espionage is extremely serious, and the security system will act harshly against those involved.” 

Translation: Don’t mess with the Shin Bet, folks—they’re as serious as cancer.

Meanwhile, a police official spoke about the arrest, saying the arrest “of the minor who planned to carry out an attack is the result of accurate intelligence and a rapid response by the security forces. Anyone who chooses the path of terrorism will be caught, arrested, and brought to justice.” Boom! That’s the sound of law enforcement dropping the hammer on wannabe terrorists.

So, another day, another thwarted attack. Kudos to the Shin Bet and Israel Police for keeping the streets safe while this ISIS fanboy learns the hard way that bomb plots don’t end with a gold star and a participation trophy. 

Stay frosty, Israel!

Am Yisrael Chai!

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Top ISIS leader killed in Iraq: Trump says 'his miserable life was terminated'

ISIS terrorist holds Columbia University's new flag

He died like a cat, a little pussy cat, if you think about it. 

Top Islamic State head Abdallah Maki Mosleh al-Rifai aka "Abu Khadija" was killed in a Iraq by members of their national intelligence service and U.S.-led coalition forces, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammad Shia al-Sudani said. He depicted al-Rifai as "one of the most dangerous terrorists in Iraq and the world." Whereas President Donald Trump depicted him in private as something akin to a little frightened cat, Brain Flushings has learned.

Trump smiled as he explained that Rifia's "miserable life was terminated." He wrote on Friday night that "[T]oday the fugitive leader of ISIS in Iraq was killed. He was relentlessly hunted down by our intrepid warfighters. His miserable life was terminated, along with other members of ISIS, in coordination with the Iraqi Government and the Kurdish Regional Government."

"PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH!" President Trump added.

U.S. Central Command issued a statement saying that its forces, in cooperation with Iraqi Intelligence and security forces, conducted an airstrike in Al Anbar Province, Iraq, that killed the "Global ISIS #2 leader, Chief of Global Operations and the Delegated Committee Emir – Abdallah Makki Muslih al-Rifai, alias 'Abu Khadijah,' and one other ISIS operative."

"As the Emir of ISIS’ most senior decision-making body, Abu Khadijah maintained responsibility for operations, logistics, and planning conducted by ISIS globally, and directs a significant portion of finance for the group’s global organization," CENTCOM said.

He has been relieved of all responsibility and is now on his way down under to meet his reward.

After the strike, U.S. and Iraqi forces went to the location of the strike and found the remains of both ISIS scumwafers who were each wearing designer "suicide vests" that had not detonated. They also had multiple weapons but did not get to use them.

Al-Rifai was so shredded from the airstrike that it took DNA samples to identify him. This was made possible by having collected his DNA sample in a previous raid where he evidently "got out of Dodge" so quickly that he left some of it behind, possibly in the form of bodily fluid or waste.

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"Abu Khadijah was one of the most important ISIS members in the entire global ISIS organization. We will continue to kill terrorists and dismantle their organizations that threaten our homeland and U.S., allied and partner personnel in the region and beyond," Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla, commander at CENTCOM, said in a statement.

He leaves behind 4 goats, 3 wives, 6 chickens and a lucky pair of sex slaves.

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Trump orders airstrikes on ISIS leaders: "Don't" is now "We will find you and kill you"

So, President Trump, the man who loves to tweet more than a bird loves to chirp, decided to drop some bombs on ISIS leaders in Somalia. And where were these terrorists hiding? In caves, of course! Because apparently, Al-Qaeda's cave decor was all the rage this season.

Trump, not one to miss a chance to toot his own horn, took to his favorite soapbox, Truth Social, to talk about how these airstrikes are like, totally dismantling ISIS's little hide-and-seek game in Africa. He's all about that aggressive counterterrorism life, folks.

He's out there, tweeting up a storm, making it crystal clear that under his watch, America isn't just sitting back sipping tea while terrorists play hide and seek. No, sir! We're on the offense, hunting them down like it's open season on cave-dwellers.

You gotta admit, Trump's administration is not letting these threats hide in the shadows. They're out there, making sure the world knows, "Hey, you mess with us, we'll find you, even if you're in a cave in Somalia!" Now, that's what I call making terrorism great... wait, no, that's not right. Making America safe again by not letting terrorists have a peaceful night's sleep.

 
“Our initial assessment is that multiple operatives were killed in the airstrikes, and no civilians were harmed. This action further degrades ISIS’s ability to plot and conduct terrorist attacks threatening U.S. citizens, our partners, and innocent civilians and sends a clear signal that the United States always stands ready to find and eliminate terrorists who threaten the United States and our allies, even as we conduct robust border-protection and many other operations under President Trump’s leadership,” a statement read.

Trump confirmed that the strikes killed the terrorists without harming civilians. It was a totally beautiful strike, a perfect strike, a strike like you've never seen before.

“These killers, who we found hiding in caves, threatened the United States and our Allies,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “The strikes destroyed the caves they live in and killed many terrorists without, in any way, harming civilians.”

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the strikes by U.S. Africa Command were directed by the president and coordinated with the Somalian government.

“Our initial assessment is that multiple operatives were killed in the airstrikes, and no civilians were harmed,” Hegseth said in a statement.

U.S. military officials have frequently expressed concerns regarding ISIS cells in Somalia, cautioning that the terrorist group's leadership, now established in northern Somalia, has increasingly been orchestrating these cells with new tactics. These include 

"Guidance on kidnapping Westerners for ransom."

"Improving military strategies,"

"Evasion of drone surveillance,"

"Constructing small quadcopters."

Trump has critiqued former alleged President Joe Biden stating that he and his "cronies wouldn’t act quickly enough to get the job done." Part of Trump's message included a stark warning to ISIS and other terrorist groups:

"WE WILL FIND YOU, AND WE WILL KILL YOU!"

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President Trump sends warning message to terrorists after ordering strike on ISIS

Muslim terrorists in Africa have been served with a warning by President Trump: FAFO. 

Trump said on Saturday that he ordered the strike on Islamic terrorists that killed "many" of the scumwafers.

“This morning I ordered precision Military air strikes on the Senior ISIS Attack Planner and other terrorists he recruited and led in Somalia,” the President said in a statement. “These killers, who we found hiding in caves, threatened the United States and our Allies.”

“The strikes destroyed the caves they live in, and killed many terrorists without, in any way, harming civilians,” Trump continued. “Our Military has targeted this ISIS Attack Planner for years, but Biden and his cronies wouldn’t act quickly enough to get the job done. I did!”

“The message to ISIS and all others who would attack Americans is that ‘WE WILL FIND YOU, AND WE WILL KILL YOU!'” Trump concluded, alluding to the notion that they would die like dogs.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said in a statement that the strike was carried out in the Golis mountains in coordination with the Federal Government of Somalia.

“Our initial assessment is that multiple operatives were killed in the airstrikes and no civilians were harmed,” the statement said. “This action further degrades ISIS’s ability to plot and conduct terrorist attacks threatening U.S. citizens, our partners, and innocent civilians and sends a clear signal that the United States always stands ready to find and eliminate terrorists who threaten the United States and our allies, even as we conduct robust border-protection and many other operations under President Trump’s leadership.”

Beware ye terrorists wherever ye are--Trump is out to get ye.

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National Security Advisor Waltz says US will support additional military ops in Gaza

President-elect Donald Trump’s National Security Advisor Mike Waltz said the US would support additional military operations in Gaza if necessary. He made it clear that Hamas must be destroyed, echoing the rhetoric of Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth.

Waltz spoke with Fox News,”We’ve made it very clear to the Israelis, and I want the people of Israel to hear me on this: If they need to go back in, we’re with them,” he said. “If Hamas doesn’t live up to the terms of this agreement, we are with them.”

Waltz praised the hostage release deal currently being finalized and gave the credit for the agreement to Donald Trump. 

I disagree with the hostage deal as Hamas sees it as a victory, and I see it as a pause in the ongoing attempt for Hamas and their ilk to commit total genocide of the Jews, not only in Israel, but across the globe as Hitler had attempted to do.

“Hamas is not going to continue as a military entity and it’s certainly not going to govern Gaza,” Waltz said.

Waltz reported that he heard that about 25 of the initial 33 hostages slated for release in the first phase are alive. 

“I’m convinced they all would have died if President Trump didn’t come in and say ‘get them out,’” Waltz said.

Waltz discussed the “Trump Effect” and the President-elect’s threat that there would be “Hell to pay” if the hostages were not released before his inauguration on January 20th.

The problem is, the deal sucks, but it shows how Jews respect life and will jump through hoops to get the hostages returned to Israel, dead and alive.

“Hamas knew… they had no choice and they believed President Trump when he said there would be all hell to pay, and any deal that was on the table would just get worse once he was in office.”

“Hamas cannot have a role. ISIS doesn’t have a role. Al Qaeda doesn’t have a role,”Waltz said on a podcast. “It astounds me that people try to put them in some kind of special category. These are hostage-taking, murderous, rapist torturers that never should ever have any role in governing.”

“We shouldn’t subject the Palestinian people to that either,” he affirmed. “We’ll never get to a better future; we’ll never get to a truly stable region if we don’t carve up this cancer.”

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