NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT WEDNESDAY 2/27/2019
(MORE UPDATES, EDITING ETC. UNTIL 815 AM EASTERN US TIME)
(BREAKING NEWS: PAKISTAN IS SAYING IT SHOT DOWN TWO INDIAN JETS IN ITS AIRSPACE IN KASHMIR TODAY. PAKISTAN SAYS IT BOMBED OPEN GROUND BUT DID NOT BOMB SIX MILITARY TARGETS IT IDENTIFIED IN THE REGION.
PAKISTANI PRIME MINISTER IMRAM KHAN SAYS "WE SHOT DOWN TWO OF THEIR MIGS. THE PILOTS ARE WITH US".
KHAN HAS ASKED FOR DIALOGUE WITH INDIA.
REUTERS IS NOW REPORTING THAT PAKISTAN IS CLARIFYING TO SAY ONLY ONE INDIAN PILOT IS IN CUSTODY.
PAKISTANI PRIME MINISTER IMRAM KHAN SAYS "WE SHOT DOWN TWO OF THEIR MIGS. THE PILOTS ARE WITH US".
KHAN HAS ASKED FOR DIALOGUE WITH INDIA.
REUTERS IS NOW REPORTING THAT PAKISTAN IS CLARIFYING TO SAY ONLY ONE INDIAN PILOT IS IN CUSTODY.
INDIA DENIED THIS REPORT AT FIRST BUT CLOSED OFF AIRSPACE IN THE KASHMIR REGION TO CIVILIAN AIR TRAFFIC WITH A LIFTING OF RESTRICTIONS REPORTED AT 415 AM EASTERN TIME US.
PAKISTAN RELEASED A VIDEO SHOWING A CAPTURED PILOT BLINDFOLDED WITH BLOOD ON HIS FACE IDENTIFYING HIMSELF AS 'WING COMMANDER ABHI NANDAN'.
INDIA THEN ANNOUNCED A PLANE AND PILOT MISSING AND THAT A PAKISTANI PLANE WAS SHOT DOWN IN AIR TO AIR COMBAT. A PAKISTANI F-16 WAS REPORTED CRASHED.
PAKISTAN RELEASED A VIDEO SHOWING A CAPTURED PILOT BLINDFOLDED WITH BLOOD ON HIS FACE IDENTIFYING HIMSELF AS 'WING COMMANDER ABHI NANDAN'.
INDIA THEN ANNOUNCED A PLANE AND PILOT MISSING AND THAT A PAKISTANI PLANE WAS SHOT DOWN IN AIR TO AIR COMBAT. A PAKISTANI F-16 WAS REPORTED CRASHED.
AIR FLIGHTS BETWEEN INDIA AND PAKISTAN REPORTED SHUT DOWN. AIRLINE PILOTS BEING ADVISED TO AVOID PAKISTANI AIRSPACE IN GENERAL.
PAKISTAN HAS STOPPED FLIGHTS FROM FIVE AIRPORTS INCLUDING LAHORE AND ISLAMABAD.
PAKISTAN HAS STOPPED FLIGHTS FROM FIVE AIRPORTS INCLUDING LAHORE AND ISLAMABAD.
NDTV FROM INDIA REPORTING THAT AN INDIAN HELICOPTER CRASHED IN KASHMIR TODAY.
THIS HAPPENS 24 HOURS AFTER INDIA STRUCK A TERRORIST TRAINING CAMP IN THE PAKISTANI PART OF KASHMIR IN RETALIATION FOR THE SUICIDE ATTACK THAT KILLED 46 INDIAN SOLIDERS ON A BUS)
A Saudi Arabian man, accused of the hit and run killing of a 15-year old in Oregon, is unlikely to face justice in the US.
Abdulrahman Sameer Noorah was bailed out of jail in Oregon and surrendered his passport, but was apparently spirited out of the United States with Saudi government help.
The Department of Homeland Security and US Marshals Service say he left his southeast Portland neighborhood in a black SUV and used a fake passport and private plane to flee the countr
The Department of Homeland Security and US Marshals Service say he left his southeast Portland neighborhood in a black SUV and used a fake passport and private plane to flee the countr
"The United States and Saudi Arabia do not have a bilateral extradition treaty, and Saudi Arabia does not extradite its nationals to the United States. Therefore, the law enforcement options available are limited."
Taylor conveyed condolences in her letter to the family of the 15-year old, Fallon Smart, killed in the 2016 hit and run crash.
Cases similar to this one involving Saudi nationals have occurred in at least eight US states and Canada.
More on this story from "OregonLive".....LINK
"We will not give Iran a base near our border"
That's the message Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he's conveying to Russian President Vladimir Putin today.
Netanyahu making the Iranian presence in Syria the main issue saying:
"We are acting against it, we are attacking its bases and we will continue to act against it"
His trip to Moscow comes at the new Russian air defense system S-300 is becoming operational in Syria. Russia giving it to Syria after a Russian reconaissance plane was shot down last September during an Israeli attack killing Russian crew members.
The two set to meet last week but Israeli politics and the need for the controversial unification of the Jewish Home and Otzma Yehudi parties came first.
One of the leaders of the New Right Party in Israel, Naftali Bennett, says:
"Everyone is planning over our heads the 'Deal of the Century' for the establishment of Palestine after the elections"
He wants the details of President Trump's plan revealed before Israel's April 9th elections.
Challenging the President directly Bennett asks:
"President Trump, let my people know!"
Bennett has said in the past that some 85 to 90 percent of the "West Bank" territories of Judea and Samaria are slated to be a Palestinian state under the "Deal of the Century" plan.
President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and other officials involved touring Arab countries this week working on financial details of the plan with nations like Saudi Arabia and Oman.
Venezuela the topic at the UN Security Council Tuesday with the US Representative on Venezuela veteran diplomat Elliot Abrams saying the US will seek a council vote to allow humanitarian aid into the country and free elections.
Abrams says the Nicolas Maduro government has resorted to using armed gangs and criminals released from jail to control the country's borders. Those groups have prevented food and medicine from entering Venezuela. Maduro's Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza says the US is behind a "well-orchestrated operation"
Russia's UN representative said the US is behind "regime change" and Abrams countered saying that Russia is occupying territory of Georgia and Ukraine.
Venezuela's Interim President Juan Guaido is preparing to return to the country even though there is concern for his safety.
The Battle of Brexit with Prime Minister Theresa May saying there will be no votes on delaying Brexit or scuttling "No-Deal" Brexit until her proposal gets another vote next month.
That from May's latest statement to MP's in the House of Commons Tuesday.
She is claiming the House of Commons will get a vote by March 12th but opposition forces including Brexit advocates from the United Kingdom Independence Party and "Mr. Brexit" Nigel Farage see her involved in a stalling action on Brexit as the March 29th Brexit deadline approaches.
May then intends to have votes on "No Deal" followed by a vote to delay Brexit after March 12th.
Farage says the end game is likely to be a delaying of Brexit.
"Goodbye you creep"
was the shout from a woman in a Melbourne, Australia courtroom today as Cardinal George Pell was taken to prison.
Pell's bail revoked after his conviction on child sex offenses.
He will be sentenced March 13th.
And President Trump and Kim Jong-un beginning their summit in Vietnam with dinner tonight.
The President pledging to push for North Korean denuclearization.
Trump saying ahead of his meeting that North Korea has the potential to be a more prosperous nation like Vietnam.
The House controlled by Democrats voting 245-182 to rescind President Trump's emergency declaration to create a barrier on the nation's southern border.
The Senate could take up the matter next with some Republicans saying they will side with the Democrats.
If legislation makes it past the Senate and on to the President his veto is expected.
President Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen, who pled guilty in Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller's investigation to lying to Congress among other things, testifying in Congress this week.
Yesterday's closed testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee being followed up by today's public testimony to a House committee.
Cohen's testimony leaked to the media and he is saying President Trump is a "racist, con man and liar".
President Trump tweeting that Cohen has been disbarred for lying and fraud unrelated to him and that Cohen is lying to reduce his prison time.
From Nigeria, the results of the presidential election show incumbent Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari the winner over his main opponent, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.
The margin of victory is said to be nearly four million votes, 15.2 million to 11.3 million.
But Mr. Abubakar's political party rejected the result.
At least 25 are dead after fire erupted at the Ramses Station, the main train station in Cairo. A train exploded when it hit a platform at the station.
A report from Iran's state news agency today that President Hassan Rouhani has rejected Monday's resignation of Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif. It is likely that Zarif will return to work according to a report by the Associated Press.
And that's the way it really is on this Wednesday morning Feburary 27th, 2019.
And President Trump and Kim Jong-un beginning their summit in Vietnam with dinner tonight.
The President pledging to push for North Korean denuclearization.
Trump saying ahead of his meeting that North Korea has the potential to be a more prosperous nation like Vietnam.
The House controlled by Democrats voting 245-182 to rescind President Trump's emergency declaration to create a barrier on the nation's southern border.
The Senate could take up the matter next with some Republicans saying they will side with the Democrats.
If legislation makes it past the Senate and on to the President his veto is expected.
President Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen, who pled guilty in Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller's investigation to lying to Congress among other things, testifying in Congress this week.
Yesterday's closed testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee being followed up by today's public testimony to a House committee.
Cohen's testimony leaked to the media and he is saying President Trump is a "racist, con man and liar".
President Trump tweeting that Cohen has been disbarred for lying and fraud unrelated to him and that Cohen is lying to reduce his prison time.
From Nigeria, the results of the presidential election show incumbent Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari the winner over his main opponent, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.
The margin of victory is said to be nearly four million votes, 15.2 million to 11.3 million.
But Mr. Abubakar's political party rejected the result.
At least 25 are dead after fire erupted at the Ramses Station, the main train station in Cairo. A train exploded when it hit a platform at the station.
A report from Iran's state news agency today that President Hassan Rouhani has rejected Monday's resignation of Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif. It is likely that Zarif will return to work according to a report by the Associated Press.
And that's the way it really is on this Wednesday morning Feburary 27th, 2019.
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