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13-year-old New Mexico compound victim says children were 'trained to wage jihad'


RT
Sun, 02 Sep 2018 11:53 UTC
Jany Leveille Siraj Ibn Wahhaj New Mexico jihad compound
© Tom Clark / Reuters
Defendant Jany Leveille (L to R) sits next to her defense lawyer, defendant Siraj Ibn Wahhaj and his defense lawyer
The chief suspect in the case of the New Mexico compound, where 11 children were kept in slum-like conditions, sought to build an army of child recruits to carry out jihad, according to an FBI interview with one of the victims.

Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, 37, who was arrested by the FBI and charged with child abuse resulting in the death of his three-year-old son Abdul Ghani, dreamt of turning the children into an army by training them for a religious war against non-believers.

That's according to an FBI interview with a 13-year-old boy who was among the 11 children Wahhaj and his associates kept in wretched conditions for months at a desert compound in Amalia, New Mexico. The interview is included in the agency's affidavit in support of the criminal complaint filed against five adults with hardline Islamist views, and cited by Reuters.

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Arrow Down

Shadowban: Facebook claims 'employee error' caused PragerU's 99.9999% drop in reach

Lucas Nolan
Breitbart
Fri, 31 Aug 2018 13:59 UTC
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© AFP
PragerU's recent Facebook shadowbanning was reportedly due to a single "employee error" - this employee has been sent for guideline re-education but is still employed by the company.

Breitbart News spoke with PragerU recently following their issues with Facebook, the conservative non-profit found that many recent posts from their page were suffering from a 99.9999 percent drop in engagement based on Facebook's own dashboard. The Social Media Masters of the Universe also pulled down two PragerU videos, which it labeled "hate speech."

Since then, Facebook has apologized to PragerU, stating that the removal of videos was an error. A Facebook spokesperson said in a statement: "The videos in question were mistakenly removed. While we continue to research what caused this error, we have restored the content because it does not break our Community Standards and apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused."

Comment: The internet giants have been manipulating what we see and hear for years and are increasingly getting exposed as tools in the Deep State's information war:

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Green Light

The Alex Salmond Show: The Case For And Against Renationalizing Britain's rail network


RT UK
Thu, 30 Aug 2018 21:11 UTC
british rail
This week's Alex Salmond Show explores the case for and against renationalization of Britain's rail service, as millions of passengers become increasingly more disgruntled with price hikes and poor service.

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Handcuffs

FBI arrests New Mexico Muslim compound members on new charges

Andrew Hay
Reuters
Sat, 01 Sep 2018 18:27 UTC
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© Eddie Moore/Pool via REUTERS
Defendant Jany Leveille (L to R) sits next to her defense lawyer Kelly Golightley, defendant Siraj Ibn Wahhaj and his defense lawyer Tom Clark at hearing in Taos County District Court in Taos County, New Mexico, U.S., August 29, 2018.
Five residents of a New Mexico compound were arrested on Friday by the FBI for violating firearms and conspiracy laws in what one of their lawyers described as a "bad development" for the group, who are accused of planning anti-government attacks.

Jany Leveille, 35; Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, 40; Hujrah Wahhaj, 37; Subhanah Wahhaj, 35; and Lucas Morton, 40, were charged in criminal complaints filed in U.S. District Court in New Mexico, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said in a statement.

The arrests and charges came two days after two judges dismissed child abuse charges against the five defendants on procedural grounds and allowed three to be released from jail in Taos.

The FBI said it arrested the defendants "without incident" in Taos.

Marie Legrand Miller, defense attorney for Hujrah Wahhaj, called the arrests "a very quick and peaceful turn-in."

Tom Clark, Ibn Wahhaj's lawyer, said the arrests were not a huge surprise as the FBI had been "involved from the beginning."

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Fire

Eight injured and 1,800 evacuated in Bavaria refinery explosion


RT
Sat, 01 Sep 2018 17:07 UTC
refinery explosion
© Social Media / Reuters
Around 400 firefighters were deployed to battle a large fire ravaging a petroleum plant in Bavaria, while the locals were asked to keep doors and windows shut to avoid heavy smoke.

A total of eight people were injured by the blast that rocked the Bayernoil refinery on Saturday in the town of Vohburg an der Donau in Bavaria, southeast Germany, local media reported. The large explosion occurred at around 5:30am, waking residents and setting off car alarms in the nearby towns. Locals situated several kilometers from the blast could see thick smoke clouds coming from the burning plant.
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Airplane

18 people injured, including 3 children, as passenger plane overshoots runway & catches fire in Sochi - UPDATE


RT
Sat, 01 Sep 2018 08:30 UTC
Screenshot
© Ren-TV
Screenshot
A passenger plane from Moscow has made a rough landing in Sochi, hitting a fence, losing a wing and catching fire.

It took the Utair-operated Boeing 737, arriving from Moscow, two attempts to land in Sochi, southern Russia, with strong wind and rain the likely cause of the failed first attempt. When the crew managed to land the plane, it overshot the runway and hit a fence.

After crashing through the fence, the plane plunged into a riverbed. The impact destroyed a wheel stand and one of the wings, and caused the left engine to catch fire, an Utair spokesman told RIA Novosti.

Comment: Update 23:15 CET

Passengers have told how they miraculously survived when a Russian Boeing 737 slid off a runway in Sochi, crashing into a river and catching fire on both wings.
"We crashed, but it's OK, I guess," a man can be heard calmly saying in a short clip recorded minutes after the airliner crashed into a river in the southern Russian city of Sochi. The video shows flames blazing in the night, and some people can be heard shouting at the background.



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Music

Indian & Pakistani army soldiers join together for Bollywood dance party


RT
Sat, 01 Sep 2018 16:27 UTC
Army troops
© APB News / YouTube
Indian and Pakistani army soldiers were filmed dancing together to Bollywood and Punjabi songs following joint military anti-terrorism drills in Russia.

The dance party took place at an anti-terrorism drill hosted by Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and held in Russian town of Chebarkul. The rare camaraderie between both armies was captured by India-based New Delhi Television Limited (NDTV).

"The soldiers of all participating countries were attending a function arranged by the Indian Army on the second-last day of the exercises, where they celebrated together by dancing," reports Pakistani newspaper, the Express Tribune.
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Sheriff

Another wellness check gone wrong: LA police kill former ER actress having a seizure

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Sat, 01 Sep 2018 16:58 UTC
Vanessa Marquez
All too often in this country, police are called out to check on the health of an individual who may be physically or mentally troubled. And, all too often, instead of providing that person with help, police show up and hurt, arrest, or even kill them. This process is known as a welfare check and a former actress from the hit show "ER" just became the latest victim to receive this 'help.'

Vanessa Marquez, 49, hadn't harmed anyone when police showed up at her South apartment on Thursday. The landlord had simply become concerned that she may have fallen ill and wasn't taking care of herself, so he called police for help. Sadly, this help came in the form of government issued bullets.

Adding to the disturbing nature of this call for help was the fact that according to Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Lt. Joe Mendoza, when police arrived at the apartment of Marquez on Thursday afternoon, she was having a seizure.

"It appeared that the female was gravely disabled," Mendoza said.
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Water

Detroit schools shut off water supply after tests reveal dangerous levels of lead

John Vibes
The Free Thought Project
Sat, 01 Sep 2018 16:46 UTC
contaminated water
This week, Detroit Public Schools announced that they will be shutting off drinking water for all 106 schools in the district, after more than half of them tested for dangerous levels of lead and copper.

Superintendent Nikolai Vitti told parents in an email this Tuesday that his office began testing all of the schools his spring, and found that 16 out of 24 of the first schools tested had levels that were far too high for safe consumption.

"Although we have no evidence that there are elevated levels of copper or lead in our other schools (over 50) where we are awaiting test results, out of an abundance of caution and concern for the safety of our students and employees, I am turning off all drinking water in our schools until a deeper and broader analysis can be conducted to determine the long-term solutions for all schools," the email stated.

The city's water and sewage department said that they will be providing water for the students until the municipal water supplies are suitable for consumption.

Comment: Flint just the tip of the iceberg: Lead contamination widespread and severe in low-income communities

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Heart - Black

2 US tourists confirmed stabbed in busy Amsterdam station as police consider terrorist motive


RT
Sat, 01 Sep 2018 13:36 UTC
Central station in Amsterdam
© Yves Herman / Reuters
Central station in Amsterdam.
Two people injured in Friday's knife attack at Amsterdam's Central Railway Station were American tourists, the US ambassador has confirmed. Authorities say that no motives for the attack have been ruled out - including terrorism.

US Ambassador Pete Hoekstra said on Saturday that the American government has already "been in touch with them and their families."

The suspected attacker was shot and wounded by police. It is understood that suspect, who was later identified as an Afghan citizen with a German residency permit, did not know the two Americans.
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