NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT FRIDAY 4/12-SATURDAY 4/13/2019 NEWSDUMP EDITION

(WORK IN PROGRESS, MORE STORIES ADDING, EDITING, UPDATES ETC. THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING)


At the top of the Newsdump this morning.

An Israeli airstrike in Syria overnight.

The Syrian state news agency says six members of the Syrian military wounded and some buildings hit.

Weeks ago launchers for the S-300 air defense system were shown by an Israeli satellite company, ISI, to have become operational in the area.

The air strike launched from Lebanese airspace.

More on this story from "Southfront" at the link...….SOUTHFRONT-ISRAELI AIRSTRIKE SYRIA


North Korea's ruler Kim Jong-un says he's open to a third summit meeting with President Donald Trump.

The state media reported on a speech where Kim said that a "fair" and "mutually acceptable" agreement was needed between the US and North Korea.

Kim added that in spite of demands he considered unreasonable at the recent summit in Vietnam, he has a good personal rapport with Trump.

President Trump got some good news about the border situation Friday.   A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overturning a federal district judge's ruling that suspended a rule to send asylum seekers back to Mexico while their cases are considered in the United States.

While for now the asylum seekers can be sent back to Mexico, the court asked for written arguments from lawyers on both sides.   The three judges will issue a more permanent ruling later.

A product recall Friday from the toy maker Fisher-Price.

Nearly five million Rock 'n Play sleepers for babies.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission put out word on its website that 30 infants had died in the sleeper model since its release some 10 years ago.

These tweets from the Party of Brexit's leader Friday.   United Kingdom Independence Party leader Gerard Batten offered up this assessment of the situation:

"Farage's party is just a vehicle for him.   It is not a real political party.  Its only purpose is to re-elect him.   His party is a Tory/Establishment safety valve..."

"......The MSM will promote the Brexit Party because it is a Tory/Establishment safety valve...."

Its was a big mainstream media story Friday as Nigel Farage launched his "Brexit Party" with a strong appeal and the strong involvement of people usually associated with the Conservative Party.

They are opposed to Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit policy and see  itas a betrayal of the Leave vote in the 2016 referendum.

The first official Brexit Party campaign rally in Birmingham Saturday.

In the Julian Assange matter more than 70 MP's in the UK signing a letter urging Home Secretary Sajid Javid to extradite Assange to Sweden instead of the United States.

The argue that Javid needs to "stand with the victims of sexual violence".

In Sweden Assange has been accused of rape and he was initially arrested in the UK because of that.

But when Assange was out on bail he fled to the Ecuadorian embassy fearing extradition to the United States.

The International Criminal Court has decided not to probe any war crimes committed by US military forces in Afghanistan.

An ICC lawyer-investigator recently had their US visa revoked by the State Department,


Week 22 of the Yellow Vests protests in France Saturday and in spite of restrictions in city centers and shopping areas, nationwide demonstrations planned from Strasbourg in the east to Lyon in the south and of course a procession in Paris gets underway at 12 Noon.

Breaking News post at the link......HERE

More than 100 arrests Friday in Algeria as police attacked protesters with water cannon and tear gas.

Protesters want the new president Abdelkader Bensalah out saying his is part of the ruling elite associated with the former president.

In Sudan Friday the head of the military council that replaced President Omar al-Bashir stepping down as crowds in the streets objected to the military taking control for two years before allowing a civilian government saying the old regime's leaders were still in charge.

Defense Minister Lt. Gen. Awad Ibn Auf named Lt. General Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Burhan as his successor.

The "Wall Street Journal" reporting that Saudi Arabia pledged to give the eastern Libyan leader General Khalifa Haftar millions of dollars days before Haftar launched his offensive against Tripoli.

Thousands fleeing their homes in the southern suburbs of Tripoli, Libya Friday amidst gunfire and explosions.

The Libyan National Army forces of the east fighting the Government of National Accord forces around the former international airport, no longer used.

Reuters reports 75 killed in the fighting according to the United Nations including 17 civilians with 323 wounded.

Twenty are dead and 30 wounded in a terrorist attack on an open market in Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province.   A bomb was hidden in a bag of potatoes.

Pakistani Prime Minister Imram Khan condemned the attack and ordered an investigation.

The Muslim island nation of Brunei has responded to concern from the United Nations about the implementation of Sharia law in the country including stoning to death for homosexuality and adultery.

Brunei's Foreign Minister Erywan Yusof says the strict Islamic code is about prevention, not punishment.

Yusof contends that the threshold for evidence will be high and  insists the punishments will be rare.

More on this story from the BBC......BBC-BRUNEI SHARIA LAW

A man in an electric wheelchair set himself on fire in front of the White House Friday afternoon.

A Secret Service tweet said:

"A male subject operating an electronic wheelchair-type scooter lit his outer jacket on fire while sitting along Pennsylvania Ave. outside the North Fence Line..."

The man taken to a local hospital and treated for first degree burns.  CNN told by a Secret Service spokesperson that the man is believed to have mental health issues and was not a threat to the President.

And that's the way it really is on this Newsdump Saturday morning, April 13th, 2019.