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Dutch newspaper report - Over 1,000 underage girls forced into sex slavery by migrant traffickers

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© Mimi Chakarova
In the Netherlands, almost 1,400 underage girls are blackmailed into sex slavery every year by migrant traffickers who are utilizing social media and revenge porn, according to a new report.

Today's sex traffickers are no longer "wasting time" on luring young girls with expensive gifts and hollow words of promise, instead, they are utilizing social media to gain the affection of a vulnerable teen and eventually blackmail her with sordid footage of their tryst. That is, according to a report by the Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad.

Traffickers use social media to gain the trust of their victims, allowing them to continue to work, according to Floor 't Sas, a GZ psychologist based in Amsterdam. Then, young girls - especially those coming from an unstable home environment, but not always - can be lured by promises of parties, drinks or drugs.

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Pirates

Teens found guilty in plotting Columbine-copycat massacre at Yorkshire school

Leeds Crown Court
© Andrew Mccaren/Global Look PressThe boys' trial was carried out at Leeds Crown Court
Two teenage boys with a "very real interest in violence" and obsessed with the Columbine school massacre, have been found guilty of planning a similar-style attack on a North Yorkshire school.

Detective Superintendent Martin Snowden, head of Counter Terrorism Policing North East, told the court that the boys, both 15 but 14 at the time of their arrest, had shown a "very real interest in violence" and a "desire to act out their fascinations."

He said: "Disturbingly, they had gone beyond the fantasy and had begun to take very real steps towards making it a reality." Both boys were found guilty of conspiracy to murder.

During the three week trial at Leeds Crown Court, the jury heard that the boys were "fascinated" by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who killed 13 people and themselves at Columbine High School in Colorado in 1999, and it was this "hero worship" that inspired them to plot.

Vader

Al-Sadr's adviser says US forces still seen as occupying Iraq

US Marines
© AFP 2018 / SSGT JASON D. BECKSTAND / USMCA picture released by the US Marines shows Marines 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment (3/2) and Iraqi Special Forces patrolling a street in the city of Karabilah, near Iraq's northwestern border with Syria
The US military presence in Iraq is still regarded as occupation of Iraqi territory, as there is no more reason for its presence after defeat of Daesh, said Muqtada al-Sadr's senior adviser.

Talking in an interview to PressTV, Diyaa Assadi, a senior adviser to the leading Iraqi political leader, said that the US is "still being seen as an occupying country."

He said that US forces will be dealt with as an occupying force until their full withdrawal from the country.

Comment: See also: The return of the king(maker) - Muqtada Al-Sadr wins Iraqi election


Light Saber

Sources say rank-and-file FBI agents want to be subpoened by Congress so they can reveal Bureau's dirt

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© Federal Bureau of Investigation
Many agents in the FBI want Congress to subpoena them so they can reveal problems caused by former FBI Director James Comey and former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, three people in direct contact with active field agents tell TheDC.

"There are agents all over this country who love the bureau and are sickened by [James] Comey's behavior and [Andrew] McCabe and [Eric] Holder and [Loretta] Lynch and the thugs like [John] Brennan -- who despise the fact that the bureau was used as a tool of political intelligence by the Obama administration thugs," former federal prosecutor Joe DiGenova told The Daily Caller Tuesday. "They are just waiting for a chance to come forward and testify."

Ahead of the release of the Department of Justice (DOJ) inspector general report on how the FBI handled the Clinton email investigation, TheDC spoke with DiGenova, a former Trump official who maintained contact with rank and file FBI agents and a counter-intelligence consultant who conducted an interview with an active special agent of the FBI's Washington Field Office (WFO).

Comment: "This place is actually worse than I thought", new FBI director Wray admits


Arrow Down

Man arrested after beating dog with baseball bat because it ate his hamburger

Gregory Ostiguy
© Dartmouth Police
A city man struck a dog in the head with a baseball bat because the canine ate his Whopper sandwich, a prosecutor said Monday.

Gregory Ostiguy, 50, described by his lawyer as a former Marine who suffers from PTSD, had worked all day Friday and was upset the dog ate his food, prosecutor Christine Letsche said Monday at the suspect's arraignment in New Bedford District Court.

Witnesses called Dartmouth police and reported seeing Ostiguy striking a dog with a baseball bat about 6:50 p.m. Friday in the area of Merrymount Drive and Slocum Road, she said. Witnesses also said they saw Ostiguy hitting and yelling at the dog through the passenger window.

Police responded and found the dog in the front passenger seat of a Jeep parked on Colonial Way in a harness and "shaking," she said. The dog was removed from the vehicle and was taken by police to the Anchor Animal Hospital in Dartmouth for treatment.

Alarm Clock

Giraffe dies after getting neck trapped in railing at Atlanta zoo

Zuberi
© Zoo Atlanta
An 8-year-old male giraffe at Zoo Atlanta has died in a freak accident after getting his neck trapped in a railing, the Georgia park announced Tuesday.

Zuberi died Monday in the zoo's behind-the-scenes giraffe complex, an area "very familiar" to the reticulated giraffe and his herd, according to a press release.

Despite being watched by members of his care team just moments before, Zuberi's neck became stuck "in a small space in a metal railing."

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Info

Syrian army discovers large network of tunnels, tunnel excavator and equipment for manufacturing mortar rounds in southern Damascus

Tunnel excavator weapons ammunition
© SANA
Authorities discovered a tunnel excavator and equipment for manufacturing mortar rounds in the towns of Babila, Beit Sahem and Babila.

SANA's reporter said that during the sweeping operations of the three towns which were cleared of terrorism recently, a tunnel excavator and equipment used in manufacturing mortar shells were uncovered.

Large amount of IEDs, shells and bombs were among the seized, in addition to hand grenades, magazines, rocket-propelled grenades, mufflers and explosive fills for suicide belts.

Comment: The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) uncovered a large network of tunnels that belonged to the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) in the southern suburbs of Damascus.
The Syrian military uncovered this network of tunnels after clearing the area around the Islamic State's former headquarters inside the Yarmouk Camp District.


It will take several weeks for the Syrian Army to clear the Yarmouk Camp and Hajar Al-Aswad, as the Islamic State planted several IEDs around these suburbs before leaving for eastern Syria.



Star of David

Israel detains Palestinian teen Mohammad Tamimi who is still recovering from life-threatening brain injury

Mohammad Tamimi
© Bilal TamimiMohammad has been slowly recovering from a life-threatening injury he sustained five months ago, when Israeli forces shot him in the face with a rubber-coated steel bullet at close range during a protest of Donald Trump’s decision to move the US embassy to Jerusalem.
As Mohammad Tamimi, 15, walked to the market near his home in the occupied West Bank village of Nabi Saleh Sunday morning, he passed by a new white Hyundai.

Two men he assumed to be Palestinians were standing outside the parked car, speaking fluent Arabic on their phones. Two more were sitting inside the car, which had a green license plate (vehicles belonging to Israeli citizens have yellow plates).

Mohammad did not think much about this scene.

When he got close the men jumped Mohammed. One bent the youth's right arm behind his back and covered his mouth. Then two men threw Mohammad into the car and drove out of the village.

Fadel Tamimi, Mohammad's father, only learned of this when Mohammad was released later that night at around 11 p.m.

Comment: Calculated dehumanization: The lives of Palestinian children in Israel


Star of David

Brazen psychopathy: Israel announces plans for 2,500 homes in illegally occupied W. Bank just days after murdering dozens of Gazans

illegal settler Israel west bank
© Ronen Zvulun / Reuters
Israel says it plans to build 2,500 new settler homes in the West Bank in violation of a 2016 UNSC resolution. It comes just days after the IDF killed dozens of Palestinians protesting the Israeli occupation.

Israel's Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Thursday that he was finalizing plans for the construction of new homes in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank.

Writing on Twitter, Lieberman said he would seek approval for the project next week, expressing hope that the regional planning board - the High Planning Council in Judea and Samaria - would designate 1,400 of the housing units for immediate construction.

Comment: In a proper world Israel would be a pariah state, unfit for the company of civilized nations. It will never happen though, so long as the US protects it because is under the boot of the Israeli Lobby.


Black Magic

Superstitions keep Ebola victims from seeking medical care complicating efforts to contain deadly virus

Hospital Congo Ebola
© REUTERS/Kenny KatombeResidents arrive at the Wangata Reference Hospital in Mbandaka, Democratic Republic of Congo May 20, 2018.
Health workers fighting Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo have run into an invisible but powerful hurdle - a belief system that deems the disease to be a curse or the result of evil spirits.

Some people are refusing medical care and turn instead to preachers and prayers to chase away the threat, they say.

The pastor of an evangelical church last Wednesday died several days after he "prayed" for an Ebola victim who went to him for help, a doctor said.

"Some sick people believe that the Ebola epidemic comes from sorcery - they refuse to be treated and prefer to pray," said Julie Lobali, a nurse on the front line against the DRC's ninth Ebola outbreak.

She is working in a hospital in Mbandaka, a port city on the Congo River in northwest DRC where the first urban case was reported last Thursday. Since the outbreak was declared in the remote area of Bikoro on May 8, 51 cases of Ebola have been reported with 27 deaths.

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