NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY 3/19-3/20/2019
(EDITING, UPDATES, ADDITIONS ETC. POSSIBLE UNTIL 8 AM EASTERN TIME US)
(LATE UPDATE BELOW ON TOMMY ROBINSON CASE MOVED BACK AGAIN)
(LATE UPDATE BELOW ON TOMMY ROBINSON CASE MOVED BACK AGAIN)
Police in the Netherlands holding the prime suspect in Monday's attack on a train in Utrecht on suspicion of:
"manslaughter with terrorist intent"
Two others also arrested and under investigation.
Three dead, five wounded in the attack.
Police now saying:
"We assume a terror motive"
Dutch political leader Geert Wilders of the Party of Freedom tweeting Tuesday with a link to a police twitter feed the message:
"So Islamic Terror"
The man arrested as the prime suspect in the attack born in Turkey and the day before the attack a raging speech from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan featuring video from the New Zealand mosque attacks made by the man accused.
Brenton Tarrant advocating murder of Turks in Europe and writing anti-Turkish messaging on the firearm he used.
New Zealand's Prime Minister telling an audience at high school affected by last weeks mass murder attacks on mosques that there are:
"loopholes"
in that country's firearms laws.
Jacinda Ardern setting the stage for new restrictions on firearms ownership in New Zealand likely to be revealed to the public during the Friday-Saturday newsdump period.
Ardern also calling for a world wide fight against the "ideology" of the mass murderer, described as "right-wing" and "racist" in the media.
Ardern also calling for a world wide fight against the "ideology" of the mass murderer, described as "right-wing" and "racist" in the media.
Two terrorists were reported killed in Nablus as Israeli soldiers secured Joseph's Tomb for worshipers to enter. They were throwing explosives at Israeli soliders. The incident happening during the overnight hours in Israel.
After 11 exchanges of gunfire, a terrorist who killed two Israelis and injured another is dead. Israeli security forces tracked him down after a 48 hour manhunt near Ramallah, the seat of the Palestinian Authority government.
Israeli politics, the New Right Party warning about a recording of Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz talking about participation in a government led by current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after the April 9th election.
Party leaders current Education Minister Naftali Bennett and the current Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked saying:
"As we said a while ago, a moment after the elections, Gantz will crawl into Netanyahu's government of the silver platter of US President Donald Trump's "deal of the century".
A plea deal offer for New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft in the Florida prostitution case. Its called a deferred prosecution agreement that would include dropping the charges against him. Kraft would not have a criminal record and not go to jail.
But Kraft would have to admit that he would have been found guilty if the case had gone to trial. Kraft would have to do 100 hours of community service, be tested for sexually transmitted disease and compete education about prostitution.
The kind of deal being offered to him by Florida authorities is the kind usually given to first time offenders who have no criminal record as is the case with Kraft.
The "Battle of Brexit" with Prime Minister Theresa May apparently trying to extend the March 29th deadline for Brexit to happen. The BBC quoting a source claiming it could be as long as two years early Wednesday.
BUT LATE WORD IS THAT UNDER INTENSE PRESSURE FROM WITHIN THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY SHE WILL PROPOSE A DELAY UNTIL JUNE 30TH.
That two year delay notion being used to coerce and intimidate opponents of her Brexit plan into supporting it.
She is formalizing her request in writing to the EU leadership. The Prime Minister unable to get Parliament to agree to her Brexit plan.
May meeting the European Union leaders at a summit starting Thursday,
The law in the UK as it stands now is departure from the EU on March 29th at 11pm UK time with or without a deal.
US reaction to the situation.
National Security Adviser John Bolton telling Sky News that President Trump wants a solution that allows for US-British trade deals to resume as they existed in the past.
Stronger words from the President's son.
Donald Trump Jr. writing in the "Daily Telegraph" that Prime Minister May ignored his father's advice on how to negotiate with the EU, he noted that Pro-Brexit leaders see her as deliberately sabotaging Brexit and he wrote:
"With the deadline fast approaching, it appears that democracy in the UK is all but dead"
That brings us to the matter of Tommy Robinson. He was set to be back in court Friday accused of "contempt of court" again for live video streaming outside a child sex abuse trial involving Muslim defendants.
Last May a local judge in Leeds summarily tried him and sent him to a harrowing ordeal in prison where he lost 40 pounds not able to eat food prepared by prisoners in a large Muslim population prison.
Robinson won release on appeal after spending more than two months there.
Tommy Robinson has put out a video and sent an email in the last 24 hours with late word that his case is moved back to early May so the threat of going back to jail still hangs over Tommy.
Tommy reminding everyone of a massive Brexit protest set for the March 29th day of the deadline outside Parliament in London.
A ban on discussing the case in advance is in force.
And more from the UK this story about the activities of the "hate crimes" police.
United Kingdom Independence Party leader Gerard Batten linked to this Twitter post and you can read the post and the thread accompanying it for yourselves.....LINK
In France the crackdown on Yellow Vests protesters coming in the aftermath of the anarchist infiltration and violence in Paris last weekend.
Protests now banned on the Champs-Elysees in Paris and at two other key locations in the cities of Bordeaux and Toulouse.
Late word that the mayor of Nice in the south of France is planning to ban Yellow Vests protests this coming weekend.
A new police chief in Paris coming from Bordeaux where he defended his officers after they beat and bloodied a member of the National Assembly (Parliament) in France.
Loic Prudhomme was attacked after a Yellow Vests protest in Bordeaux the other week by the police.
New harsh police tactics expected for the Yellow Vests protests this Saturday following the violence from the anarchists dressed in black.
Media in France saying the new tactics are based on the assumption that people will get injured by them.
Italy's Deputy Prime Minister-Interior Minister Matteo Salvini trying to crack down on migrants entering the country, but he was outmaneuvered in the end,
Salvini told the Sky TG 24 news channel Tuesday that 49 migrants will given comfort but "they will not set foot in Italy".
But the migrants came ashore on the Italian island of Lampedusa Tuesday night following the intervention of prosecutors in Sicily. Their decision to seize the migrant ship forced it to the shores of the island.
The US Treasury Department announcing sanctions Tuesday against Venezuela's government gold mining company.
President Trump said "all options" remain on the table in regards to Venezuela. His comment to reporters Tuesday at the White House as he met Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro. Brazil a country that neighbors Venezuela.
The President plans to meet leaders of Caribbean nations near Venezuela Friday at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
But the migrants came ashore on the Italian island of Lampedusa Tuesday night following the intervention of prosecutors in Sicily. Their decision to seize the migrant ship forced it to the shores of the island.
The US Treasury Department announcing sanctions Tuesday against Venezuela's government gold mining company.
President Trump said "all options" remain on the table in regards to Venezuela. His comment to reporters Tuesday at the White House as he met Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro. Brazil a country that neighbors Venezuela.
The President plans to meet leaders of Caribbean nations near Venezuela Friday at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
US Venezuela Representative Elliot Abrams in Italy Tuesday meeting Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov.
Their Rome meeting offered the two sides a chance to exchange views on the situation in Venezuela. The US backing Interim President Juan Guaido and Russia supporting the government of Nicolas Maduro.
After the talks officials from both countries said they remain divided on Venezuela.
He's been president of his country since the early 1990's but 78-year old Nursultan Nazarbyev resigned Tuesday a President of Kazakhstan. Nazarbyev said he's doing so to make room fpr a new generation of leaders. But he will still maintain much influence at head of the governing party in the former Soviet republic.
And back to the Netherlands to note that voting in provincial elections underway Wednesday March 20th. Provincial officials elected will pick the new Senate of the Netherlands on May 27th. Prime Minister Mark Rutte's VVD Party expected to lose seats but other parties including Geert Wilders PVV (Party of Freedom) struggling in the face of the new political party.
The FvD (Forum for Democracy) has views in opposition to the European Union and mass immigration into the country and it is led by a man named Thierry Baudet, described as photogenic in media reports.
The elections coming on the heels of what very much appears to be a terrorist attack Monday by a Turkish born man in Utrecht.
And that's the way it really as we come into this Wednesday morning March 20th, 2019.
After the talks officials from both countries said they remain divided on Venezuela.
He's been president of his country since the early 1990's but 78-year old Nursultan Nazarbyev resigned Tuesday a President of Kazakhstan. Nazarbyev said he's doing so to make room fpr a new generation of leaders. But he will still maintain much influence at head of the governing party in the former Soviet republic.
And back to the Netherlands to note that voting in provincial elections underway Wednesday March 20th. Provincial officials elected will pick the new Senate of the Netherlands on May 27th. Prime Minister Mark Rutte's VVD Party expected to lose seats but other parties including Geert Wilders PVV (Party of Freedom) struggling in the face of the new political party.
The FvD (Forum for Democracy) has views in opposition to the European Union and mass immigration into the country and it is led by a man named Thierry Baudet, described as photogenic in media reports.
The elections coming on the heels of what very much appears to be a terrorist attack Monday by a Turkish born man in Utrecht.
And that's the way it really as we come into this Wednesday morning March 20th, 2019.
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