NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT THURSDAY 5/30-FRIDAY 5/31/2019
(WORK IN PROGRESS, MORE EDITING, UPDATES, ADDITIONS ETC. THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING)
The suspect in last Friday's parcel bombing in Lyon, France has confessed to police that he pledged allegiance to the Islamic State.
The 24 year old Algerian student being held in custody along with three others in connection with the blast that injured 13 people. The other three are his parents and and another student he lived with.
A terrorist attack in the Old City of Jerusalem Friday morning. Two male victims with a 16-year old stabbed in serious condition and a 50 year old hospitalized in critical condition. Police quickly shot the 19-year old Palestinian attacker dead.
Wikileaks expressing:
"grave concern"
about the health of its founder Julian Assange, who's been transferred to the medical ward of a British prison.
His last year in the Ecuadorian Embassy found him in virtual solitary confinement under restrictions pushed by the United States government pressuring Ecuador to revoke the asylum given to him there.
Wikileaks says his health continued to deteriorate after British police arrested him following revocation of his asylum with dramatic weight loss.
More on the story from Wikileaks Twitter page...…WIKILEAKS TWITTER JULIAN ASSANGE HEALTH WORSENS
Stymied by Congress and the courts in his efforts to control migration across the nation's southern border, President Trump announcing plans for tariffs on Mexico Thursday evening.
The President says he will implement incrementally increasing tariffs on Mexican products in the months ahead aimed at getting Mexico to do more to stem the flow of migrants headed for the United States.
In a tweet the President said he wants to get the flow of illegal immigrants coming from Mexico to:
The Saudi Al-Arabiya news channel reports that the Libyan National Army has video footage of Turkish military trainers assisting the Government of National Accord forces. The LNA is backed by Saudi Arabia's close ally the United Arab Emirates in its efforts to defeat the United Nations recognized government (GNA) in Tripoli.
The video, said to have been on the phone of a captured GNA soldier, shows people speaking Turkish and a man telling GNA fighters how to operate Turkish armored vehicles.
Meanwhile, an investigative report by Qatar's Al-Jazeera channel, points to cargo planes from a United Arab Emirates-Kazakhstan company supplying the war effort of the Libyan National Army.
More from "Al Arabiya" in English.....LINK
And also the "Al-Jazeera" story...LINK
In Paris a prosecutor says he expects some police officers to be in court for attacking Yellow Vests protesters "by the end of the year".
Prosecutor Remy Heitz says his office is working on eight cases involving police attacking protesters.
There have been 174 investigations of police conduct nationwide since the Yellow Vests protests began in France more than six months ago.
57 of them are in hands of prosecutors now.
So far no indictments against police for their conduct during the Yellow Vests protests.
Saudi King Salman said Iran is a threat to stability in the Persian Gulf and the world. Salman speaking at a special emergency summit of Persian Gulf nations called after the recent incidents involving four oil tankers, two of them Saudi, in the Gulf of Oman.
Iran is said to be behind the damage to the ships.
And that's the way it really is on this Friday morning May 31st, 2019.
Stymied by Congress and the courts in his efforts to control migration across the nation's southern border, President Trump announcing plans for tariffs on Mexico Thursday evening.
The President says he will implement incrementally increasing tariffs on Mexican products in the months ahead aimed at getting Mexico to do more to stem the flow of migrants headed for the United States.
In a tweet the President said he wants to get the flow of illegal immigrants coming from Mexico to:
"STOP"
The governor of Louisiana, Democrat John Bel Edwards, signing Pro-Life legislation Thursday.
The "Heartbeat Bill" designates the detection of a heartbeat in the unborn child as grounds to prohibit abortion.
This is the latest Pro-Life legislation at state level in the US to cause outrage from those who are Pro-Choice in regards to abortion.
More from the BBC and their spin of the story.....LINK
Pro-government sources in Syria say a cease fire between the Syrian government and jihadist opposition forces in the northwest fell apart quickly Thursday evening forcing Russian and Syrian aircraft to launch heavy airstrikes on Al-Qaeda followers and their opposition allies.
Pro-government sources in Syria say a cease fire between the Syrian government and jihadist opposition forces in the northwest fell apart quickly Thursday evening forcing Russian and Syrian aircraft to launch heavy airstrikes on Al-Qaeda followers and their opposition allies.
The Saudi Al-Arabiya news channel reports that the Libyan National Army has video footage of Turkish military trainers assisting the Government of National Accord forces. The LNA is backed by Saudi Arabia's close ally the United Arab Emirates in its efforts to defeat the United Nations recognized government (GNA) in Tripoli.
The video, said to have been on the phone of a captured GNA soldier, shows people speaking Turkish and a man telling GNA fighters how to operate Turkish armored vehicles.
Meanwhile, an investigative report by Qatar's Al-Jazeera channel, points to cargo planes from a United Arab Emirates-Kazakhstan company supplying the war effort of the Libyan National Army.
More from "Al Arabiya" in English.....LINK
And also the "Al-Jazeera" story...LINK
In Paris a prosecutor says he expects some police officers to be in court for attacking Yellow Vests protesters "by the end of the year".
Prosecutor Remy Heitz says his office is working on eight cases involving police attacking protesters.
There have been 174 investigations of police conduct nationwide since the Yellow Vests protests began in France more than six months ago.
57 of them are in hands of prosecutors now.
So far no indictments against police for their conduct during the Yellow Vests protests.
Saudi King Salman said Iran is a threat to stability in the Persian Gulf and the world. Salman speaking at a special emergency summit of Persian Gulf nations called after the recent incidents involving four oil tankers, two of them Saudi, in the Gulf of Oman.
Iran is said to be behind the damage to the ships.
And that's the way it really is on this Friday morning May 31st, 2019.
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