NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT SUNDAY-MONDAY 3/17-3/18/2019
(ADDITIONS, EDITING UPDATES ETC. POSSIBLE UNTIL 545 AM EASTERN US TIME)
At the top of the news word that 1-thousand US military will remain in Syria after the "withdrawal" announced by President Trump.
Information put out by government officials into the media weeks ago spoke of 200, later 400 US military staying on with other nations providing troops.
But the new word is that 1,000 members of the US armed forces will remain in Syria. That would be down from the 2,000 there at the end of last year.
Turkey is being blamed for the decision because it won't give guarantees regarding military action against Kurdish separatists in Syria who envision a nation that includes part of Turkey. The Turks consider armed Kurdish forces allied with the US in Syria to be terrorists.
This information being reported by "The Wall Street Journal".
In Syria also a fourth Russian SU-25 attack aircraft spotted at a northern Syria airbase by an Israeli company, ISI. This adds to the other three reinforcing aircraft spotted at the base earlier.
Expectations are of more air attacks in Idlib aimed at the jihadist forces there led by the HTS group, formerly Al-Qaeda in Syria.
Top French government officials meeting Sunday over the Yellow Vests protests. At a Saturday night meeting President Emmanuel Macron blamed all protesters in Paris for the actions of a few thousand black uniformed anarchists who infiltrated the larger group of Yellow Vests estimated to be 10-thousand by the government.
Macron called for "strong actions"
32,200 protesters nationwide rallying peacefully across the country on Saturday if we go by the government's figures, 230-thousand or so if we go by the Yellow Vests numbers.
Premier Edouard Philippe, Interior Minister Christophe Castaner, and Secretary of State for the Interior Laurent Nunez met following Macron's call for tough actions.
What they choose to do remains to be seen but Premier Philippe set to meet President Macron in Paris at 6:30 am Eastern US time Monday morning.
On Tuesday the Interior Minister will meet the Mayor of Paris to discuss the vandalism and looting that engulfed the center of the city on Saturday.
From Israel a stunning ruling from the Supreme Court Sunday removing the leader of the Strong Israel ("Otzma Yehudit") Party from the ballot for the April 9th election. While the court allowed controversial Arab candidates on the ballot Michael Ben-Ari was ordered off,
Strong Israel was running as part of a larger coalition of parties on the "Right" in Israel to create a strong party that would give Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party a strong coalition partner after the election. Netanyahu was personally involved in the talks that combined Strong Israel with the other parties.
Strong Israel has been denounced as "extremist" and "advocating terrorism" against Arabs-Muslims by the Left.
Michael Ben-Ari said in response to his removal from the ballot:
In response to the court ruling, Strong Israel has published a list of demands. They want one member of their party to receive a cabinet position after the election and another member of their party moved to a higher more electable position on the ballot for the election. They also want a member of their party to be put on a constitutional committee of the parliament involved in judicial selections in Israel.
One Israeli soldier is dead, a second soldier and a rabbi injured, in a terrorist attack in Samaria, commonly called the "West Bank", Sunday.
At the top of the news word that 1-thousand US military will remain in Syria after the "withdrawal" announced by President Trump.
Information put out by government officials into the media weeks ago spoke of 200, later 400 US military staying on with other nations providing troops.
But the new word is that 1,000 members of the US armed forces will remain in Syria. That would be down from the 2,000 there at the end of last year.
Turkey is being blamed for the decision because it won't give guarantees regarding military action against Kurdish separatists in Syria who envision a nation that includes part of Turkey. The Turks consider armed Kurdish forces allied with the US in Syria to be terrorists.
This information being reported by "The Wall Street Journal".
In Syria also a fourth Russian SU-25 attack aircraft spotted at a northern Syria airbase by an Israeli company, ISI. This adds to the other three reinforcing aircraft spotted at the base earlier.
Expectations are of more air attacks in Idlib aimed at the jihadist forces there led by the HTS group, formerly Al-Qaeda in Syria.
Top French government officials meeting Sunday over the Yellow Vests protests. At a Saturday night meeting President Emmanuel Macron blamed all protesters in Paris for the actions of a few thousand black uniformed anarchists who infiltrated the larger group of Yellow Vests estimated to be 10-thousand by the government.
Macron called for "strong actions"
32,200 protesters nationwide rallying peacefully across the country on Saturday if we go by the government's figures, 230-thousand or so if we go by the Yellow Vests numbers.
Premier Edouard Philippe, Interior Minister Christophe Castaner, and Secretary of State for the Interior Laurent Nunez met following Macron's call for tough actions.
What they choose to do remains to be seen but Premier Philippe set to meet President Macron in Paris at 6:30 am Eastern US time Monday morning.
On Tuesday the Interior Minister will meet the Mayor of Paris to discuss the vandalism and looting that engulfed the center of the city on Saturday.
From Israel a stunning ruling from the Supreme Court Sunday removing the leader of the Strong Israel ("Otzma Yehudit") Party from the ballot for the April 9th election. While the court allowed controversial Arab candidates on the ballot Michael Ben-Ari was ordered off,
Strong Israel was running as part of a larger coalition of parties on the "Right" in Israel to create a strong party that would give Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party a strong coalition partner after the election. Netanyahu was personally involved in the talks that combined Strong Israel with the other parties.
Strong Israel has been denounced as "extremist" and "advocating terrorism" against Arabs-Muslims by the Left.
Michael Ben-Ari said in response to his removal from the ballot:
"I'm holding my head high. There's a legal junta here who took the law into their own hands"
In response to the court ruling, Strong Israel has published a list of demands. They want one member of their party to receive a cabinet position after the election and another member of their party moved to a higher more electable position on the ballot for the election. They also want a member of their party to be put on a constitutional committee of the parliament involved in judicial selections in Israel.
One Israeli soldier is dead, a second soldier and a rabbi injured, in a terrorist attack in Samaria, commonly called the "West Bank", Sunday.
The Israeli sergeant was approached by an attacker who stabbed him to death, took his firearm, then shot him.
Israeli security forces operated overnight mapping out the terrorist's home for possible demolition but they still have not taken the attacker into custody.
To New Zealand where the cabinet of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Labor Party leader, has agreed in principle to gun law changes.
The details will be revealed by next Monday March 25th.
Ardern says the "reforms" will:
"make our community safer"
Her move comes after the mass murder attack at two mosques in Christchurch last Friday that killed 50 people and injured nearly that many.
Ardern's government is a coalition and the Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters of the populist New Zealand First Party has changed his position from opposing tighter restrictions on firearms following the attacks.
Ardern's government is a coalition and the Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters of the populist New Zealand First Party has changed his position from opposing tighter restrictions on firearms following the attacks.
Police in the Australian state of New South Wales searched two homes near the hometown of the man charged Monday morning.
The "New Zealand Herald" says that Brenton Tarrant has fired his lawyer and may defend himself when he faces a court appearance next month.
The judge admitted that Tommy Robinson did nothing wrong, yet she's making him pay.
Judge Karen Walden-Smith in Peterborough, England ordering him to pay 38-thousand dollars to the police as she ruled against his lawsuit aimed at Cambridgeshire Police.
The police ordered Robinson to leave a pub while he was watching soccer on an outing with his family. They then followed him in the streets outside to a train station. Police who testified at trial said Robinson posed no threat.
And she delivered a slap at Robinson claiming he:
"is not as well known as he or his supporters might think"
Judge Smith went after one of Robinson's supporters ordering Canadian reporter Ezra Levant of "Rebel Media" not to comment on the trial last week.
The bigger challenge for Tommy Robinson is this week. He's facing trial again Friday at the Royal Courts of Justice in London.
Tommy Robinson being tried again for "contempt of court" over his video streaming outside a child sex abuse trial involving Muslim defendants in Leeds, England last May 25th.
Robinson was tried summarily that day and sent to prison for 13 months. He won his appeal just over two months later, but not after being in a prison with a large Muslim population, held in solitary for his own safety, unable to eat food out of fear it was poisoned.
Robinson lost 40 pounds during his ordeal.
Ezra Levant spoke with Tommy Robinson via Skype Friday. The interview starts at 59:30 in the video link......EZRA LEVANT FRIDAY 3/15/2019 59:30
In Philadelphia police conducting an investigation into whether child weddings are taking place at a mosque. Search warrants executed last Friday at the mosque and the home of a mosque leader.
A girl posted a Facebook video two weeks ago about being married to a man when she was 14 years old in 2016 who then proceeded to sexually assault her younger sister, then 10 years old.
The man involved is in jail right now and the girls are in the custody of child welfare authorities.
In Philadelphia police conducting an investigation into whether child weddings are taking place at a mosque. Search warrants executed last Friday at the mosque and the home of a mosque leader.
A girl posted a Facebook video two weeks ago about being married to a man when she was 14 years old in 2016 who then proceeded to sexually assault her younger sister, then 10 years old.
The man involved is in jail right now and the girls are in the custody of child welfare authorities.
Poisoning with a radioactive substance suspected in the death of a Moroccan model who testified against Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
The criminal investigation now underway after the death of Imane Fadil in Milan earlier this month.
She was hospitalized for a month after complaining of stomach pains, saying she had been poisoned.
The woman had testified as a key witness in 2012 involving a case where Berlusconi was accused of paying for sex with an underage prostitute.
Berlusconi was convicted, then he was acquitted on appeal.
"I would urge all pro-Brexit MP's across the House of Commons to hold their nerve this week and do the right thing by rejecting the deal. Obey the law. Respect the electorate. Restore faith in politics."
From the Prime Minister herself, writing in the pro-Conservative Party pro-Establishment "Sunday Telegraph" words like this:
"honorable compromise"
and this regarding failure by her party's MP's to back her Brexit deal:
"we will not leave the EU for many months, if ever"
A key member of her cabinet, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond told the BBC Sunday that it is:
"physically impossible"
for Mrs. May's deal to be implemented by the March 29th deadline.
Hammond also said her Brexit plan, called "Brexit In Name Only" and a "sellout to the EU" by opponents, will not be brought up for the third vote unless enough MP's can be convinced to support it.
Mass protests in Serbia over the weekend against President Aleksandar Vucic who is a nationalistic politician friendly to Russia.
Protesters stormed the state television building in Belgrade Saturday night and tried to form a blockade at the presidential palace on Sunday.
Tear gas was used by police Sunday with demonstrators demanding that Vucic resign and Vucic saying "I am not afraid".
Back here at home Bunkerville Standoff prisoner Greg Burleson is now at the Coleman One Federal Prison in Wildwood, Florida. He was transferred from the Allenwood Federal Prison in Pennsylvania through a federal prison transit center in Oklahoma City.
Burleson got a 68 year and three month sentence in July 2017 after a rigged trial process where exculpatory evidence proving his innocence was withheld.
That evidence with videos of federal law enforcement attacking members of the Bundy family and federal records showing snipers were deployed around Bundy Ranch in April 2014. Reports of the attacks and snipers caused hundreds of Americans to show up in the Bundy Ranch exercising their First and Second Amendment rights in defense of Cliven Bundy and his family.
And with reminders than CNN, FOX NEWS CHANNEL AND MSNBC DISTRACT FROM THE REAL NEWS that's the way it really is as we enter Monday morning, March 18th, 2019.
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