BRAZIL An armed group entered a bar in the Brazilian northern city of Belem on Sunday and fired at patrons, killing 11 people and leaving one wounded.  SOURCE NEW ZEALAND Police are warning organizers behind an "unlawful" planned protest march across Auckland's Harbour Bridge they will take "appropriate action" to shut it down. SOURCE EGYPT An explosion targeting a tourist bus injured at least 12 people on Sunday, mostly South African tourists, near a new museum being built close to the Giza pyramids in Egypt.  SOURCE INDIA Violent clashes broke out in West Bengal again on Sunday in the final phase of the staggered election that will decide whether Prime Minister Narendra Modi returns for a second term.  SOURCE

Migrants from Terrorist Nations Try to Enter U.S. Via Mexico at Record Rates—300% Hike in Bangladeshis in Texas Alone

DHS Sec. Kirstjen Nielsen “Transnational terrorists in the Western Hemisphere pose an immediate threat to Americans. DHS reports terrorist encounters at the southern border in 2018.”

Migrants from Terrorist Nations Try to Enter U.S. Via Mexico border at Record Rates—300% Hike in Bangladeshis in Texas Alone

Migrants from Terrorist Nations Try to Enter U.S. Via Mexico at Record Rates—300% Hike in Bangladeshis in Texas Alone

Judicial Watch 
Federal agents along the southern border routinely encounter individuals from terrorist nations and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) considers them one of the top threats to the United States, according to a congressional report made public this month. Titled “Stopping Terrorist Travel Through Illicit Pathways to the Homeland,” the document outlines the findings of a lengthy investigation involving Special Interest Aliens (SIA) by the House Homeland Security Committee.

SIA’s are individuals from countries outside the western hemisphere—mostly the Middle East, Asia and Africa—that pose a national security risk to the U.S. In Laredo, Texas alone there was an astounding 300% increase in immigrants from Bangladesh, a south Asian Islamic country well known as a recruiting ground for terrorist groups such as ISIS and Al-Qaeda Indian Subcontinent (AQIS).

Congressional investigators found that the number of SIAs flowing north via Latin America has increased tremendously in the last few years thanks to established Transitional Criminal Organizations (TCO) that facilitate travel along drug and migrant smuggling routes. “On a recent Committee staff delegation trip to Latin America, Panamanian officials communicated to Committee staff that tens of thousands of SIAs have entered Panama since 2014,” the report states. “Colombian officials communicated similar numbers to Committee staff, stating that hundreds of SIAs have entered Colombia each year for the past few years. In both countries, nearly all the SIA migrants were headed to the United States and originated from the Middle East, Asia, and Africa—including Syria, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Somalia, Bangladesh, India, Eritrea, and many others. Additionally, encounters with these special interest individuals resulted in the seizure of tens of thousands of fraudulent documents—including passports and visas—that facilitated travel from their countries of origin through the Americas.”

The report includes several disturbing cases of Islamic terrorists who made it to the U.S. via Mexico. Among them are Mohammad Aldairi, a Jordanian arrested last summer in New York for illegally smuggling SIAs from Yemen across the U.S.-Mexico border into Texas.

Others include Pakistani Sharafat Ali Khan, convicted for smuggling fellow Pakistanis with terrorism ties into the U.S.; Somalian Abdullah Omar Fidse, a member of the al-Shabaab terrorist group; Somalian Ahmed Muhammed Dhakane, a member al-Qaeda linked al-Barakat and Al-Ittihad Al-Islami and Lebanese Mahmoud Yousef Kourani, a fighter, recruiter and fundraiser for Hezbollah.

Kourani paid a Beirut consular officer $3,000 for a Mexican visa and an additional $4,000 to be smuggled across the U.S.- Mexico border, according to information included in the report. Some of the other SIAs also operated smuggling rings through south and central America.

“Latin America and the Caribbean are the major initial entry points to the Western Hemisphere for SIAs,” the House Homeland Security Committee report states. “Many countries in the region continue to face economic and governance challenges, as well as consistently high levels of violent crime. Additionally, many of the countries in the Americas have lenient visa and immigration policies in place, even for individuals from ‘special interest’ countries.

Lastly, the frequency of international flights from ‘special interest’ regions around the world into Latin America and the Caribbean continues to increase. These regional issues create an attractive environment for illicit travel of SIAs and other nefarious actors into the Western Hemisphere with the end goal of reaching the United States.”

Adding to the problem is that Hezbollah is “growing at an alarming rate in Latin America,” according to Committee investigators. “Designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) by the State Department, Hezbollah has been operating in Latin America since the early 1990s when it worked with Iran to carry out the 1994 bombing of a Jewish Community Center in Argentina,” according to the report.

The House investigation found that, as of September 2018, a record 630 Bangladeshi nationals have been arrested trying to enter the U.S. illegally in Laredo, Texas alone. That marks a 300% increase from the previous year. “The routes facilitating the illicit travel of these Bangladeshis are mostly controlled by TCOs and drug cartels, which charge tens of thousands of dollars to smuggle SIAs and other migrants across the U.S.,” the committee writes.

It also confirms what Judicial Watch reported months ago, that the recent migrant caravan has included several SIAs and suspected terrorists. Judicial Watch traveled to the Guatemala-Honduras border back in October and government sources in Guatemala confirmed that SIAs waiting to get smuggled into the U.S. through Central America integrated with poor Hondurans in the caravan. Among them were nationals of Bangladesh, which appears on the Treasury Office of Foreign Asset Control’s Counter Terrorism Designations list.

Texas mall robbery suspects ID'd as Mexican nationals in US illegally

From left to right, top row: Brayan Oliver Melchor, Alberto Rafael Barrera, Miguel Quintanilla-Cardenas, Zepeda Abner Posos. From left to right, bottom row: Javier Leobardo Olvera-Ramirez, Raul Alberto Rangel-Rivera and Jorge Angel Rodriguez Mejia  (McAllen Police Department)

Seven suspects who were arrested in connection with an attempted robbery at a jewelry store in Texas over the weekend have been identified as Mexican nationals that were in the U.S. illegally.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has not determined when the suspects arrived and how long they’ve been here, Fox News has learned, but that is something that they’ll work to determine moving forward.

Once the suspects complete their sentences, they will be turned over to CBP so they can process their immigration and criminal histories accordingly.

The men were arraigned in court on Monday afternoon after they allegedly tried to rob the store at the La Plaza Mall in McAllen on Saturday. Mallgoers initially misconstrued their breaking the glass cases as gunfire, sparking a panic throughout the building.

Zepeda Abner Posos, 24; Alberto Rafael Barrera, 32; Brayan Oliver Melchor, 23; and Javier Leobardo Olvera-Ramirez, 22, were each charged with aggravated robbery and received a $200,000 bond, according to KRGV.

Jorge Angel Rodriguez Mejia, 28; Miguel Quintanilla-Cardenas, 26; and Raul Alberto Rangel-Rivera, 43, were also charged.

The men, five of whom reportedly gave police fake names, each face an extra charge with another $10,000 bond.

Fox News' Madeleine Rivera contributed to this report.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/07/30/texas-mall-robbery-suspects-claim-to-be-mexican-nationals-police-say.html

FBI conference’s keynote speech will cover ‘Radical Left-Wing Gangs’

FILE PICTURE: A right wing militia group attempted to do security for the rally on 12 August 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. The Unite the Right instigated brawls between Antifa and various leftists. (Photo by Shay Horse/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

The largest annual gathering of FBI agents — FBI National Academy Associates — will meet this weekend in Quebec City. A year-and-half ago it was the site of a deadly mass shooting, when six Muslim worshipers were killed at a local mosque by Alexandre Bissonnette. The subsequent investigation found that Bissonnette was obsessed with far-right causes, regularly visiting the Twitter account of Richard Spencer, David Duke and Alex Jones, to name but a few.
You’d think then, that the conference would be a fitting location for the FBI to talk about the growing dangers associated with far-right violence. But it seems the opposite is true.
According to VICE News, the headline speaker for this year’s conference is Dale Yeager, the CEO of Seraph Inc., a private consulting firm for law enforcement, who will use his keynote speech to talk about “Radical Left-Wing Gangs in America”, which focuses on the dangers that groups like antifa pose with “their violent actions against civilians and police agencies in the U.S. and Canada.”
Yeager, who has reportedly spent more than 40 years warning about the dangers of left-wing extremism, does not believe there has been any uptick in white supremacist violence, and that the far-left, which he described as “despis[ing] Western civilization and liberal democracy,” is squarely to blame for the growing political violence in the U.S.
But Yeager’s thesis is completely wrong. Not only are far-right extremists a major threat, but they are specifically dangerous to the very law enforcement communities that Yeager is trying to help.
Far-right extremists are quietly murdering police officers
A March analysis by ThinkProgress showed that, between 2007 and 2017, at least 33 police officers were killed by individuals involved or affiliated with the far-right. They include Neo-Nazi Richard Poplawski, who ambushed and killed three Pittsburgh police officers with an AK-47 in 2009, and Lloyd Barrus, who wounded a Montana deputy sheriff during a high-speed pursuit in 2017 before making a U-turn to head him off.
Incidents such as the Charlottesville attack in 2017, the massacre of nine black worshipers at a South Carolina church in 2015 and numerous other thwarted plots also have the FBI on alert — despite what Yeager might profess.
In May, the agency’s director, Christopher Wray, told the Senate Appropriations Committee that it was pursuing over 1,000 investigations into “domestic terrorists”, including far-right extremists and anti-abortion groups. A 2017 bulletin by the FBI and Homeland Security warned that  “the white supremacist extremist movement would likely continue to pose a lethal threat of violence.”
In April of last year, the Government Accountability Office noted that violence by far-right extremists has exceeded that caused by “radical Islamist violent extremists” in the last 15 years. One individual heavily involved with the militia movement (who asked not to be named), even recently told this reporter that he regarded Nazis and white supremacists as just as much a threat, if not more so, than antifa.
None of that however, seems to matter to Yeager nor, it seems, to Homeland Security chief Kirstjen Nielsen, who echoed Trump’s infamous argument of blaming “both sides” for the violence in Charlottesville last year. “It’s not that one side is right and one side is wrong,” she told NBC News on Thursday. “Anybody that is advocating violence, we need to work to mitigate.”
The FBI stressed that Dale Yeager’s positions are his own and are not those of the FBI or the conference.


Source: https://thinkprogress.org/keynote-speech-at-fbi-conference-will-talk-about-radical-left-wing-gangs-27c2ab00cd91/

Homeland Security Warns of Photography as a Potential Sign of Terrorism

Meet the New Weapon-Detecting Smartphone Case

If you are a gadget lover with a strong disregard for personal privacy, have I got a product for you!

Tech company Royal Holdings is making a mobile phone case that doubles as a weapons detector and so much more...

It supposedly does this via a programmable 3D sensor that's able to infiltrate objects using radio waves. SWORD's antennas relay a signal toward an individual and receive returning signals that are subsequently recorded by an integrated circuit. There's also a facial recognition feature that compares a person's face against a watch list, and would alert any attending security officer. Everything happens through a dedicated app and take a fraction of a second.

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“I’m a Concealed Carrier. Should I Engage an Active Shooter?

With the spate of mass shooting attacks the last couple years, I’ve had a few people ask my thoughts on responding to a mass shooting as an armed citizen. Someone else asked the same question on a forum recently, and I’ve decided to give my opinion.

When someone asks, “If I wind up in a mass shooting, should I go after the shooter?”, my answer is, “You’re the only one who can answer that.” Only you know your level of skill, experience, toughness and willingness to act. If you know you’re not skilled enough, don’t engage. If you’re not experienced enough, stay back. If you know stubbing your toe makes you fold like origami, keep your distance. If you’d like to engage the shooter but are worried about missing your favorite TV show later that evening, chances are you’re better off doing what most armed citizens would do: getting yourself and your family the hell out of the area. That’s not what I would do, but it’s not wrong.

For the sake of this discussion, let’s assume you’re confident in your abilities, you know there’s a big difference between drawing on a convenience store robber armed with a knife versus going pistol against AR-15 in the crowded Pulse Nightclub, but you’re not real clear on what factors are involved with engaging a mass shooter. So I’ll identify a few things I think you should know and consider. My opinion is based on 22 years of police work, a couple trips to war, and some time spent training police officers how to respond to mass shootings. Please read it, decide for yourself if it’s valid, and do what you think is best. The points below aren’t all-inclusive; there are numerous other factors to consider. This is just a brief summary to get you thinking.

https://chrishernandezauthor.com/2016/09/04/im-a-concealed-carrier-should-i-engage-an-active-shooter/

First wave of safety posts installed along Las Vegas Strip

By Michael Scott Davidson Las Vegas Review-Journal
December 20, 2017 - 3:09 pm


Updated December 20, 2017 - 5:24 pm
Clark County on Wednesday finished installing close to 800 steel posts between the street and sidewalks along the Las Vegas Strip to increase pedestrian safety.

The posts, known as bollards, are interconnected by underground steel frames. They can withstand a head-on collision from a 15,000-pound vehicle traveling 50 mph.

The posts were installed at seven locations between Tropicana Avenue and Spring Mountain Road. Next year the county plans to install 7,500 bollards along the Strip between Sahara Avenue and the “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign.

Wednesday marks the two-year anniversary of a woman driving an Oldsmobile sedan onto the sidewalk in front of Paris Las Vegas and Planet Hollywood Resort, killing one person and injuring more than 30 others.

IS Supporter Produces "Christmas Hell" Video Threatening Attacks in West

Jihadist News

 Created: December 3, 2017

After publishing a series of posters threatening attacks in the West, including America, Britain, and France, an Islamic State (IS) supporter produced a video he called "Christas Hell," reiterating the same warnings.

Gun Terror : This Is the Deadliest Year for Mass Shootings in U.S. History

Violence erupted at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas Sunday when a gunman opened fire outside the building and then proceeded inside, killing at least 26 people and wounding at least 20 more.

2017: 112 killed, 531 wounded
Sutherland Springs, TX, Nov. 5
San Francisco, CA, Jun. 14
Kirkersville, OH, May. 12
Fort Lauderdale, FL, Jan. 6

2016: 71 killed, 83 wounded
Kalamazoo County, MI, Feb. 20

2015: 46 killed, 43 wounded
San Bernardino, CA, Dec. 2
Colorado Springs, CO, Nov. 27
Colorado Springs, CO, Oct. 31

2014: 17 killed, 28 wounded
Santa Barbara, CA, May. 23

2013: 31 killed, 13 wounded
Washington, D.C., Sep. 16
Herkimer County, NY, Mar. 13

2012: 67 killed, 68 wounded

2011: 18 killed, 21 wounded

2010: 8 killed, 2 wounded

2009: 38 killed, 37 wounded

2008: 16 killed, 24 wounded

2007: 51 killed, 32 wounded
Salt Lake City, UT, Feb. 12

2006: 18 killed, 7 wounded
Lancaster County, PA, Oct. 2

2005: 16 killed, 9 wounded

2004: 4 killed, 7 wounded


2003: 6 killed, 8 wounded

2001: 4 killed, 4 wounded

2000: 7 killed, 0 wounded

1999: 44 killed, 54 wounded

1998: 13 killed, 36 wounded

1997: 8 killed, 5 wounded

1996: 5 killed, 1 wounded
Fort Lauderdale, FL, Feb. 9

1995: 5 killed, 0 wounded
Corpus Christi, TX, Apr. 3

1994: 4 killed, 23 wounded
Fairchild Air Force Base, WA, Jun. 20

1993: 22 killed, 34 wounded
San Francisco, CA, Jul. 1

1992: 8 killed, 10 wounded
Watkins Glen, NY, Oct. 15

1991: 32 killed, 26 wounded

1990: 8 killed, 6 wounded
Jacksonville, FL, Jun. 18

1989: 13 killed, 41 wounded

1988: 7 killed, 4 wounded

1987: 6 killed, 14 wounded

1986: 14 killed, 6 wounded

1984: 27 killed, 20 wounded

1982: 8 killed, 3 wounded

Las Vegas shooting: At least 50 dead, more than 400 sent to hospitals in massacre

Breaking Coverage of mass shooting on the Las Vegas strip

Gunman opened fire during open-air concert on the Las Vegas strip
A gunman turned a Las Vegas concert into a killing field Sunday night, murdering at least 50 people and sending more than 400 others to hospitals in the deadliest mass shooting in modern United States history.
The suspect, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, was identified as 64-year-old Stephen Paddock, a resident of Mesquite. Police initially sought a woman believed to be Paddock's roommate, Marilou Danley, as "person of interest." Detectives later made contact with her, and "do not believe she is involved with the shooting on the strip."

How to protect your family with an Active Shooter. 

A Navy SEAL sniper gives you a life saving plan
Regardless of your position on gun rights and Muslims in America, the one thing we should all agree on, is that we live in a dangerous world, more so since the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001. Mass shootings continue to rise, as does the threat of terrorism at home and abroad in Europe. If you visit a crowded metropolis your risk increases, especially in a city like New York.