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IDF rescues Hamas hostage and father of 11 by chance after finding him alone in Gaza tunnel By Olivia Land
Aug. 27, 2024, 8:35 a.m. ET New York Post – An Israeli hostage being held by Hamas was rescued by special forces after they encountered him alone in a tunnel beneath southern Gaza by chance Tuesday, officials and reports said.
Qaid Farhan Alkadi, 52, who was kidnapped by the terror group on Oct. 7, was found in a tunnel in Mahrat during a “complex rescue operation,” according to the IDF.
The elite 13th Fleet found Alkadi – a father of 11 from the Bedouin Arab community – by chance in a room about 25 yards underground, two senior Israeli officials told the New York Times.
He was by himself without guards, the officials said. The Israeli military is still trying to piece together why he was seemingly abandoned by his captors.
The first image of Alkadi post-rescue showed him seated in a hospital gown alongside a grinning relative.
Alkadi’s family was seen running toward him for an emotional reunion at the Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba following the rescue, a video shared by N12 showed.
“I can’t explain this feeling, it’s better even than the arrival of a new baby,” one of Alkadi’s brothers gushed.
“Thank God, we are thankful to everyone and we hope to see him soon healthy. We’re so happy, very happy to get this news.”
Alkadi appeared to be in good health, the IDF said. He is undergoing further tests at the hospital.
The military declined to disclose further details about the rescue, citing concerns for the security of the remaining hostages and the special forces.
Alkadi was taken by Hamas from Mivtahim, near where he worked as a guard at a packing factory in Kibbutz Magen, the Times of Israel reported.
He came from the Bedouin community near Rahat, in southern Israel, the outlet said.
Telegram Founder Pavel Durov Released from Prison in France – Bail Set at €5,000,000 By Jim Hoft
Aug. 28, 2024 5:20 pm – Telegram founder Pavel Durov was released from prison in France on Wednesday evening. Pavel is out on €5,000,000 bail for “speech crimes.”
Durov is scheduled to appear before a French court over allegations that his platform was used for ‘illegal activities.’
The Telegram founder was arrested when he landed in France on Saturday on his way from Azerbaijan.
Video of his release via Gain of Fauci.
On Saturday, the CEO of the popular messaging app Telegram was arrested at Le Bourget airport in France for refusing to comply with the country’s censorship laws.
Pavel Durov, 39, was arrested on the tarmac as he got off his private jet from Azerbaijan.
During a previous interview with Tucker Carlson, Pavel Durov said said the US government secretly attempted to infiltrate Telegram.
[Ed.: So France drained 5 million euros from Pavel’s pocket for following orders from the US State Department. Nice. The big guy didn’t even get his 10%!]
JUST IN: France Officially Indicts Telegram Founder Pavel Durov [VIDEO Mike Benz 5:35] By Jim Hᴏft
Aug. 28, 2024 4:20 pm – Pavel Durov, the CEO and co-founder of the popular news and messaging app Telegram, has been formally charged in France with allegedly facilitating numerous criminal transactions through his platform.
According to French prosecutors, Durov faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a fine of 500,000 euros ($555,750).
The charges levied against him include complicity in the spread of child sexual abuse materials, drug trafficking, money laundering, fraud, and refusal to cooperate with law enforcement.
The Russian-born tech mogul was arrested on the tarmac as he got off his private jet from Azerbaijan on Saturday.
According to a machine translation of a report on TF1, “The Justice considers that the lack of moderation, cooperation with the police and the tools offered by Telegram (disposable number, cryptocurrencies, etc.) makes it complicit in drug trafficking, paedophile offences and fraud.”
Here is the list of charges against Durov published by the Tribunal Judiciaire of Paris:
- Complicity – web-mastering an online platform in order to enable an illegal transaction in organized group,
- Refusal to communicate, at the request of competent authorities, information or documents necessary for carrying out and operating interceptions allowed by law,
- Complicity – possessing pornographic images of minors,
- Complicity – distributing, offering or making available pornographic images of minors, in organized group,
- Complicity – acquiring, transporting, possessing, offering or selling narcotic substances,
- Complicity – offering, selling or making available, without legitimate reason, equipment, tools, programs or data designed for or adapted to get access to and to damage the operation of an automated data processing system,
- Complicity – organized fraud,
- Criminal association with a view to committing a crime or an offense punishable by 5 or more years of imprisonment,
- Laundering of the proceeds derived from organized group’s offences and crimes,
- Providing cryptology services aiming to ensure confidentiality without certified declaration,
- Providing a cryptology tool not solely ensuring authentication or integrity monitoring without prior declaration,
- Importing a cryptology tool ensuring authentication or integrity monitoring without prior declaration.
After being held in custody for four days, Durov was transferred to court to appear before a judge for his initial hearing and “potential indictment” on Wednesday, according to NPR.
NBC News reported:
Pavel Durov, the CEO and co-founder of the news and messaging app Telegram, has been charged in France with enabling numerous criminal transactions, which carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a fine of 500,000 euros ($555,750), according to French prosecutors Wednesday.
It marks one of the few instances in which the CEO of a major internet platform has been charged over alleged criminal failure to moderate what users do on its platform.
In a statement Wednesday, the Paris prosecutor’s office said that Telegram had almost completely failed to respond to its legal requests for user data in prosecuting cybercrime cases.
Prosecutors cited numerous offenses in Wednesday’s statement, including refusal to communicate with authorities and “complicity” in offenses related to child sexual abuse material and drug trafficking,
While Durov awaits trial, his bail is set at 5 million Euros ($5.6 million). He will be forbidden to leave France and will be required to report to the police, the release said.
On Monday, French President Emanuel Macron tweeted out about Durov’s arrest and detention in prison. Macron insists it’s “not politically motivated” and that France really, truly is committed to freedom of expression – if it is approved by the tyrannical government.
Macron wrote:
“I have seen false information regarding France following the arrest of Pavel Durov.
France is deeply committed to freedom of expression and communication, to innovation, and to the spirit of entrepreneurship. It will remain so.
In a state governed by the rule of law, freedoms are upheld within a legal framework, both on social media and in real life, to protect citizens and respect their fundamental rights.
It is up to the judiciary, in full independence, to enforce the law.
The arrest of the president of Telegram on French soil took place as part of an ongoing judicial investigation. It is in no way a political decision. It is up to the judges to rule on the matter.”
Director of the Foundation for Freedom Online Mike Benz claims that the U.S. State Department orchestrated Pavel Durov’s arrest to gain leverage over the billionaire, pressuring him to allow the government to monitor his platform.
In an interview with Tucker Carlson in April, Durov said that the FBI expressed interest in creating a ‘backdoor’ into the Telegram app, ostensibly to spy on users.
WATCH! [Mike Benz]
JUST IN: Supreme Court Blocks Harris-Biden Regime from Stealing Taxpayer Money to Cancel Student Loan Debt By Cristina Laila
Aug. 28, 2024 4:00 pm – The Supreme Court *for the second time in a year* ruled against Kamala and Joe’s plan to use taxpayer money to cancel student loans without Congress.
The Harris-Biden Regime sought to revive its vote-buying gimmick and cancel student loan debt in an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court after the high court already struck down the plan.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday denied the plea seeking to lift the nationwide injunction and said the appeals court will render its decision.
“The application to vacate injunction presented to Justice Kavanaugh and by him referred to the Court is DENIED,” the order said.
NBC News reported:
The Supreme Court on Wednesday rebuffed a Biden administration plea seeking to revive the latest plan to tackle federal student loan debt.
The court in a brief order denied an emergency request filed by the administration seeking to lift a nationwide injunction imposed by an appeals court. There were no noted dissents.
The order said the appeals court that is currently handling the case should “render its decision with appropriate dispatch.”
The Education Department issued a regulation finalizing its Saving on a Valuable Education, or SAVE, plan in July 2023, the month after the Supreme Court ruled the administration lacked authority to implement President Joe Biden’s earlier loan forgiveness program.
Biden has used a series of workarounds to circumvent the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down his student loan bailout program.
Last year the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 against Joe Biden’s student loan relief program so the Department of Education rolled out a workaround forbearance program to cancel $39 billion in student loans by counting non-payments as payments for a period of time.
Only it isn’t your typical forbearance program. Borrowers won’t have to pay back ‘missed’ payments or make up the difference of ‘reduced’ payments. No interest will accrue on any of the missed payments.
In January Biden unilaterally canceled another $5 billion in student loan debt for 74,000 borrowers in his latest vote-buying gimmick.
Joe Biden also announced he would cancel student loans for borrowers who took out less than $12,000 and have been in repayment for 10 years.
The De-Christianization of Spain Under Socialism: A Daily Reality Intensified in Catalonia MAMELA FIALLO FLOR
AGO. 26, 2024 10:00 PM – In Barcelona, the names of saints are being erased from the streets. Hand in hand with the most radical and ideological (and contradictory) feminism, the roles of saintly women have been replaced with the names of local women who were not saints, highlighting their fathers’ last names.
Exalting the Patriarchy They Claim to Fight
Instead of recognizing women for their merit and virtue, the supposed feminist discourse replaced their sanctity with a man’s name. They claim to fight against the patriarchy (which literally means «the rule of the fathers»), but they have only exacerbated it (in its most profound essence, not in the sense their ideology assigns to it, which asserts that the «patriarchy» oppresses women).
In Barcelona, the names of saints are being erased from the streets. Hand in hand with the most radical and ideological (and contradictory) feminism, the roles of saintly women have been replaced with the names of local women who were not saints, highlighting their fathers’ last names.
Exalting the Patriarchy They Claim to Fight
Instead of recognizing women for their merit and virtue, the supposed feminist discourse replaced their sanctity with a man’s name. They claim to fight against the patriarchy (which literally means «the rule of the fathers»), but they have only exacerbated it (in its most profound essence, not in the sense their ideology assigns to it, which asserts that the «patriarchy» oppresses women).
This happened in the Gracia neighborhood of Barcelona. The streets once named after Saint Agatha, Saint Rosa, and Saint Magdalene have now been renamed Agatha Badia i Puig Rodon, Magdalene E. Blanc, and Rosa Puig Rodon.
«Feminism, Equality, and Democratic Memory»
Historically, socialism has been linked to atheism, and now that the socialists are governing in Catalonia, they are demonstrating it. The Barcelona City Council, controlled by the Socialist Party, justifies the decision to change these names, citing an initiative to increase the number of streets named after women. However, the streets already bore women’s names—they simply didn’t want them to be those of saints.
Raquel Gil, Councilor for «Feminism, Equality, and Democratic Memory,» dismissed the official narrative, stating, «Today we decided that women have first and last names beyond beliefs and other issues.»
Against the Erasure of Women
Although they have not protested in this particular case, there is a movement in Spain called «Against the Erasure of Women,» led by feminists who challenge the gender agenda that allows men to declare themselves women.
Moreover, in Spain, thanks to the «Trans Law»—which emerged from the Ministry of Social Rights and Agenda 2030 (yes, that’s its name)—people can legally change their gender without needing to present a medical certificate; their testimony is sufficient.
In the case of the Barcelona City Council, however, it’s evident how feminist lobbying is pushing for more female representation in street names. However, they are erasing the historical names of several streets that honored women—in this case, three saints.
A Step Towards Islamization
In light of the de-Christianization of the streets, European Parliament member Hermann Tertsch warned that it is only a matter of time before the street names are replaced by Islamic names. And not just any Muslim names, but those of terrorists and leaders who were fought against during the Crusades.
In other words, Tertsch predicts that a Catalonia alienated from its history will end up glorifying its historical enemies. After all, the Reconquista took place in 1492 after more than 700 years of fighting against the Islamic advance in the Iberian Peninsula.
[Ed.: “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime” – Lavrentiy Beria, the most ruthless and longest-serving secret police chief in Joseph Stalin’s reign of terror]
Germany: Four Syrian Brothers Arrested over Stabbing of 67-Year-Old Music Teacher by KURT ZINDULKA
23 Aug 2024 – Four Syrian brothers have been arrested after a 67-year-old teacher was nearly killed in a knife attack last month in a suburb of Hamburg, Germany.
The 67-year-old music teacher from Tornesch barely escaped with his life after being stabbed on July 19th in the parking lot outside of an adult education centre in Wedel outside of Hamburg.
The teacher reportedly suffered wounds to his neck and upper body before he escaped his attackers by fleeing inside the school.
Shortly after the attack, police arrested two men in connection with the stabbing, yet they were released due to a lack of evidence.
However, this week, four men, reportedly all brothers from Syria, aged 17, 19, 21, and 21, were arrested by the local homicide squad on suspicion of attempted murder and dangerous bodily harm,” Bild reports.
Public Prosecutor Peter Müller-Rakow said: “After the attack on a lecturer at the music school in Wedel, the public prosecutor’s office applied for arrest warrants against the four now urgent suspects for attempted murder in conjunction with dangerous bodily harm after extensive police investigations.”
Local police have confirmed that the teacher knew his attackers, however, it is currently unclear if they were students of his at the education centre.
The four Syrian brothers have now been remanded in custody and have yet to comment on the attack in front of the magistrate.
The education centre describes itself as “a place of lifelong learning, an education and meeting centre for all citizens, companies, institutions, clubs and associations in our region.”
“With our work, we stand for equal educational opportunities for all,” it’s website states.
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[Ed.: The boys were just proving their loyalty to Allah. It’s a moslem rite passage to kill an infidel. Great for the resume...]
The Crisis in the Armed Forces By Will Thibeau
August 28, 2024 Real Clear Wire
Part I of Identity in the Trenches: The Fatal Impact of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion on U.S. Military Readiness.
In August 2021, the world watched as American forces scrambled to evacuate Afghanistan as the Taliban reclaimed power. The panicked withdrawal reached a tragic climax on August 26, when 13 American service members (and more than 100 Afghan civilians) were killed by a suicide bomber in the Kabul airport, where security was a U.S. responsibility. Four days later, when the last military planes took off from that same airport, hundreds of American citizens were left behind. A month later still, when the secretary of Defense, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the CENTCOM commanding general were called before Congress to account for the failure, they neither offered explanations nor accepted responsibility. The message was clear: Incompetence would be the new norm for the U.S. military — a predictably lethal status quo.
The Afghanistan debacle was dramatic, but it was only one small part of a much larger picture. The United States Armed Forces were once the envy of the world, in large part because we selected the best of the best, and instilled in our fighting men an unshakeable military ethos. Both the ethos and the selection, however, have been in steady decline as the Department of Defense succumbs to a dangerous ideology: that of group quotas, or forced outcome equality for identity groups based on race and sex.
Critics of the current state of affairs in our Armed Forces waste precious breath on disturbing but minor issues like reading lists, drag shows, and TikTok trends. This paper serves as a call for focus and precision on the prevalence of race and sex-based quotas, and the accompanying collapse in professional standards, in the fight to reclaim the integrity of the institution of the military.
Quotas, by one name or another, have been defense policy since 1965 when Secretary Robert McNamara decided to make the Pentagon the leading edge of the effort to adhere to the principles and policies of the Civil Rights Act. This history is important to understand because it clarifies the mission ahead.
The military is often perceived by well-meaning Americans as the last holdout in the progressive march through the institutions. In reality, however, it was among the first American institutions to formally embrace the radical logic of group quotas: that any body must proportionally represent the demographics of the nation, or else enjoy the presumption of wrongdoing and discrimination.
To recover from this institutional overreach, Congress and the executive branch need to commit to a few specific policy changes alongside a bold reorganization of the military personnel process and the structure of the Joint Staff. The policy solutions in this paper do not amount to an exhaustive list of the range of actions to confront DEI, but instead define the minimum necessary action to rebuild the military’s institutional health.
Liberal Media Gloats About Hundreds of Former ‘Republican Aides’ Endorsing Kamala Harris – List is Full of John McCain Interns and Volunteers! By Ben Kew
Aug. 28, 2024 10:45 am – The liberal media has been pushing a story that over 200 former Republican aides have endorsed Kamala Harris over Donald Trump.
However, these so-called aides are not quite the political heavyweights they would like you to believe.
Among those circulating the story is the supposedly neutral political news site The Hill.
In a post that went viral on the X platform, the outlet announced that “more than 200 George W. Bush, John McCain and Mitt Romney aides” had endorsed Harris’s campaign.
In their letter of endorsement, the group said that the prospect of a Trump presidency would be “simply untenable.”
“At home, another four years of Donald Trump’s chaotic leadership, this time focused on advancing the dangerous goals of Project 2025, will hurt real, everyday people and weaken our sacred institutions,” they wrote.
“Abroad, democratic movements will be irreparably jeopardized as Trump and his acolyte JD Vance kowtow to dictators like Vladimir Putin while turning their backs on our allies.”
However, closer inspection of some of the signatories makes a mockery of the entire letter. Among those whose name is attached to the letter include interns who worked on their various campaigns dating back as far as the year 2000.
Perhaps most laughable of all is the inclusion of Frank Gifford Scholley, who was a mere volunteer with John McCain’s unsuccessful presidential campaign in 2000.
Another, by the name of Chelsea Henderson, volunteered with McCain’s 2008 campaign, in which he won the Republican nomination but lost in a landslide to Barack Obama in the general.
Among the other media outlets pushing the laughable story include USA Today, CBS News and even The New York Times.
Meanwhile, Trump is winning endorsements from independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard and the mercurial billionaire Elon Musk.
THE FIX IS IN! MI Dem SOS Benson Makes THREATENING Video Warning Election Officials Not To Question The Next Cheat… If You Don’t Certify The Election Results…”We will come for you!” (VIDEOS) By Patty Mcmurray
Aug. 28, 2024 8:00 am – In 2020, Democrats pulled off what many still believe is the largest election heist in American history. Sadly, Michigan was at the epicenter of the battle. Stunned Americans watched as windows were covered in the massive absentee counting room at the TCF Center in Detroit. This prevented GOP and Independent poll challengers from looking into the room when they were locked out after a top Wayne County election official suggested they take a break and go to lunch while election workers prepared the “military ballots” to be counted.
Hundreds of poll challengers filed affidavits, testifying to the harassment, bullying, and fraud they witnessed at the TCF Center. I was a poll challenger who was able to push my way back into the room before they chained the doors, and I was shocked at the number of ballots I watched being processed after election workers couldn’t find the voters’ names in the poll books. Challenges were ignored, and threats were made by an almost exclusively, if not the entire Democrat Party supervisory team.
When GOP poll challengers left the TCF Center, many of them remarked that they felt like they had just been to war.
The threats against innocent Republicans who were simply trying to do their jobs and protect the sanctity of the vote didn’t stop with election workers and far-left agitators posing as independent poll challengers at the TCF Center. The life of the Republican Wayne County Board of Canvassers Chair Monica Palmer’s teenage daughter was threatened by a New Hampshire woman after a Democrat State Rep. Abraham Aiyash doxxed her daughter during a Zoom call where outsiders could call in and threaten board members who were refusing to certify the vote because the precincts were out of balance, meaning the vote totals on the tabulators didn’t match the number of ballots in the containers where they were stored.
Today, Michigan’s tyrannical SOS, Jocelyn Benson, shared a video on social media where she threatened election officials in local communities. “We will come for you,” if you dare to refuse to certify the election results, she warned.
Trump Reposts Photo With RFK Jr. Captioned “The Strongest Anti-Establishment Ticket in American History” By Jordan Conradson
Aug. 27, 2024 6:40 pm – President Trump on Friday reposted an image of himself and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaking in Glendale, Arizona with the caption, “The strongest anti-establishment ticket in American history.”
The post, which does not mention Trump’s current running mate, JD Vance, seemingly refers to Trump and RFK as a “ticket.” With the recent assassination attempt on Donald Trump and the Kennedy family’s history of assassinations, this may truly be the only team that can end the deep state and expose the CIA.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, RFK Jr. suspended his presidential campaign last week and joined Trump onstage in Glendale, Arizona to announce a historic partnership between two anti-establishment leaders in American politics. During the rally, Trump unveiled a plan to form an expert panel in partnership with RFK to address the alarming rise of chronic diseases in children. RFK also announced that he would partner with President Trump’s administration to fight against big pharma.
The Gateway Pundit reported in January 2024 on the dream team that could be with Trump and RFK Jr. running on the same ticket and winning 60% of the general election vote. It was later reported by the New York Post that a Trump insider revealed the Trump campaign was interested early on in the potential of a Trump/Kennedy ticket. “Anything’s possible. I wouldn’t write it off by any means,” the insider said early on in Kennedy’s bid for the White House.
Trump ally Roger Stone also floated RFK as a potential Trump running mate in a Substack article last year, where he called on President Trump to “consider the drafting of RFK as the Republican vice presidential candidate in a ‘bipartisan’ unity ticket.”
While a Trump/Vance sign is displayed in the photo, the X post from Benny Johnson, shared by Trump on Truth Social, makes no mention of JD Vance. This led some to speculate that Vance could be replaced on the ticket, which has been done before.
A separate post from Johnson is more clear, declaring, “This is the 2024 ticket.”
To many Trump supporters, who do not fall into the category of a traditional Republican voter and have supported Trump since day one, this would be a blessing. They do not see Vance as any different than the plethora of establishment Republicans and Never-Trumpers within the party.
After all, Vance, eight years ago before the 2016 election, described himself as a “Never Trump guy,” called him a “fraud,” called his supporters racists, and declared that he would vote for Hillary Clinton or a third party candidate in 2016. [Emphasis added] In now-deleted tweets, Vance declared his support for Evan McMullin for president in 2016 and lambasted soon-to-be President Trump in October 2016 for “making people I care about,” including Immigrants and Muslims, “afraid.” After Trump was inaugurated, in March 2017, Vance wrote, “In 4 years, I hope people remember that it was those of us who empathized with Trump’s voters who fought him the most aggressively.” He also liked a slew of tweets parroting leftwing talking points against Trump.
The Gateway Pundit previously highlighted some of his vicious rhetoric against President Trump, including calls for both sides to “despise Trump and what he stands for.”
Vance further declared in a 2016 OP-ED for the New York Times that Trump is “unfit for our nation’s highest office.”
Vance went on to write what could be aptly considered a love letter in 2017, titled “Barack Obama and Me. ” In it, he outlined his admiration for Bill Clinton despite his sexually scandalous presidency, how Obama’s life “seemed to embody my sense of the American ideal” and made him an “admirable man,” and then declared before his final departure from the White House, “I’ll miss him, and the example he set.”
The Vice Presidential nominee’s anti-Trump rhetoric was later disavowed while he was vying for Trump’s endorsement in a seven-way primary race for the Senate in 2022. Prior to entering the Senate race, Vance also scrubbed his Twitter feed of past posts attacking Trump.
However, as Trump has repeatedly said over the years, politicians tend to revert to their original stance on a topic.
Still, RFK has his own drawbacks. As Roger Stone notes in his 2023 OP-ED, RFK “has a long record of environmental activism and support for other progressive policies.” In fact, RFK has been so radical on environmentalism that he’s called for imprisonment or other consequences for influential climate skeptics and politicians who deny climate change. While RFK claims these remarks were taken out of context, he has a history of extreme environmental stances, including a permanent ban on natural gas exports.
Time is running out to determine whether or not Vance is another Mike Pence, who began sabotaging President Trump early on in his first term and later betrayed the country on the world stage by cowering and certifying the stolen 2020 election.
Recall Trump’s famous recitation of “The Snake” poem, which partially reads:
“Take me in, oh tender woman
Take me in, for heaven’s sake
Take me in oh tender woman,” sighed the snake…
“I saved you,” cried that woman
“And you’ve bit me even, why?
You know your bite is poisonous and now I’m going to die”
“Oh shut up, silly woman,” said the reptile with a grin
“You knew damn well I was a snake before vou took me in”
[Ed.: JD Vance is the snake! A Pence in the grass!]
IDF rescues Israeli-Bedouin hostage Qaid Farhan Alkadi from Hamas captivity in southern Gaza By YONAH JEREMY BOB
The IDF said they had already gathered some intelligence from Alkadi, both in the field and at Soroka Medical Center.
AUGUST 27, 2024 19:31 Jerusalem Post – The IDF and the Shin Bet on Tuesday early afternoon rescued Israeli-Bedouin hostage Qaid Farhan Alkadi, who was held by Hamas since October 7 from Mivtachim in the South, from a tunnel in Rafah.
The circumstances of his rescue are complex and remain open to interpretation.
The hostage’s name is Qaid Farhan Alkadi, age 52, from Rahat, father of 11 children.
The IDF has updated that it was searching for hostages in the area for a significant period of time.
Further, the IDF has confirmed that when it broke through parts of the tunnel complex into the tunnel room where Alkadi was being kept, which has been reported as being 20 meters deep, he was not being guarded at that moment.
There are different interpretations about whether Alkadi might have been able to escape on his own, given that he was not being guarded, or whether he could not have broken out of the room where he was being held without the IDF finding him.
The operation was led by Division 162, Brigade 401, the Nahal Brigade. Yahalom anti-tunnel special forces, along with the Shayetet 13 naval commandos.
Alkadi is healthy and is undergoing further health checks at Soroka Medical Center.
The IDF said that they had already gathered some intelligence from al-Kaadi both in the field and at Soroka.
IDF Chief Spokesman Daniel Hagari refused to share any details about the battle to free the hostage and how many Hamas forces it confronted, potentially suggesting that there are additional goals which may be achieved on an ongoing basis later Tuesday.
Questioned about whether Alkadi partially succeeded in escaping on his own, though with later aid by the IDF, Hagari did not deny the possibility, but did not confirm it and warned about informational security.
It is the fourth successful operation to rescue live Israeli hostages from Hamas, though there have been several successful operations finding and returning dozens of bodies of hostages killed by Hamas.
He is the eighth live hostage rescued from Gaza, which brings the number of remaining hostages down to 108 from an original round of 250.
Alkadi is the first live hostage to be rescued from a tunnel, with all prior live hostage rescues taking place above ground.
Top brass commends the rescue
Prime Minister Benjamin Benjamin Netanyahu praised the rescue, saying,
“Welcome back home, Qaid Farhan Alkadi. I commend the IDF and the Shin Bet for yet another successful rescue operation. We are tirelessly working to bring all our captives home.”
“We are doing this through two main approaches: negotiation and rescue operations. Both methods require our military presence on the ground and continuous military pressure on Hamas.”
“We will continue to act this way until we bring everyone home,” he concluded.
IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Herzi Halevi said, “We do everything we can to save hostages. The IDF and the Shin Bet showed courage, determination, and taking initiative in a complex operation.”
Likewise, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant praised the success of the operation and said the IDF would continue with such daring operations.
The Big reveal
Transporation Minister Miri Regev also praised the rescue on x, saying, ” I commend the IDF and Shin Bet for the rescue of [Qaid] farhad Alkadi. Welcome home. This is another instance justifying our correct choice to enter Rafah. We will continue to operate until we return all of our hostages.”
‘We will not take lessons in humanity from the UN and will continue to fight and apply unrelenting pressure, military and political, until all of our hostages return,” her post concluded.
The post was controversial and caused a stir in Israeli media, as the location of the operation was kept under wraps by IDF censor and was not cleared for publication.
The post was deleted after more than half an hour.
[Ed.: What kind of name is that for an author of this article: “Yonah Jeremy Bob”, I ask you? If I had a name like that, I’d change it to ‘Tom Dick Harry Suzie Q!]
IDF Rescues Hostage from Hamas Tunnel in Southern Gaza By Margaret Flavin
Aug. 27, 2024 10:45 am – The Israeli military announced Tuesday that special forces have rescued a hostage held by Hamas in a tunnel beneath southern Gaza.
Qaid Farhan Alkadi, 52, was kidnapped by Hamas after the terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians on Oct. 7. Alkadi was found in a tunnel in Mahrat in Southern Gaza during a “complex rescue operation.”
Alkadi (also referred to Al-Kaadi) as was rescued by IDF soldiers from the 13th Fleet Unit, 401st Brigade, as well as Yalam and Shin Bet fighters, the military said.
He is the first hostage to be rescued alive from one of Hamas’ complex web of tunnels. Prior hostages rescued were all recovered from above-ground locations.
The official IDF account on X shared, “It was allowed to be published that in an operation by the IDF and the Shin Bet, the kidnapped Farhan Akadi, 52 years old, was rescued today from Mahrat, who was abducted by the terrorist organization Hamas to the Gaza Strip on October 7.”
“The abductee was rescued by IDF fighters from the 13th Fleet Unit, 401st Brigade, Yalam and Shin Bet fighters, under the command of Division 162, in a complex rescue operation in the southern Gaza Strip.”
Al-Kaadi is healthy and is undergoing further health checks at an unidentified hospital.
It is the fourth successful operation to rescue live Israeli hostages from Hamas, though there have been several successful operations finding and returning dozens of bodies of hostages killed by Hamas.
He is the eighth live hostage rescued from Gaza, which brings the number of remaining hostages down to 108 from an original round of 250.
Al-Kaadi is the first live hostage to be rescued from a tunnel, with all prior live hostage rescues taking place above ground.
According to sources, the extensive web of Hamas’ tunnels under Gaza extends at least “a few dozen miles,” with other experts suggesting they could extend hundreds of miles and rival the underground of a major European city.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-816613
[Ed.: What kind of name is that for an author of this article: “Yonah Jeremy Bob” I ask you? If I had a name like that, I’d change it to ‘Tom Dick Harry Suzie Q!]
IDF Rescues Hostage from Hamas Tunnel in Southern Gaza By Margaret Flavin
Aug. 27, 2024 10:45 am – The Israeli military announced Tuesday that special forces have rescued a hostage held by Hamas in a tunnel beneath southern Gaza.
Qaid Farhan Alkadi, 52, was kidnapped by Hamas after the terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians on Oct. 7. Alkadi was found in a tunnel in Mahrat in Southern Gaza during a “complex rescue operation.”
Alkadi (also referred to Al-Kaadi) as was rescued by IDF soldiers from the 13th Fleet Unit, 401st Brigade, as well as Yalam and Shin Bet fighters, the military said.
He is the first hostage to be rescued alive from one of Hamas’ complex web of tunnels. Prior hostages rescued were all recovered from above-ground locations.
The official IDF account on X shared, “It was allowed to be published that in an operation by the IDF and the Shin Bet, the kidnapped Farhan Akadi, 52 years old, was rescued today from Mahrat, who was abducted by the terrorist organization Hamas to the Gaza Strip on October 7.”
“The abductee was rescued by IDF fighters from the 13th Fleet Unit, 401st Brigade, Yalam and Shin Bet fighters, under the command of Division 162, in a complex rescue operation in the southern Gaza Strip.”
Al-Kaadi is healthy and is undergoing further health checks at an unidentified hospital.
It is the fourth successful operation to rescue live Israeli hostages from Hamas, though there have been several successful operations finding and returning dozens of bodies of hostages killed by Hamas.
He is the eighth live hostage rescued from Gaza, which brings the number of remaining hostages down to 108 from an original round of 250.
Al-Kaadi is the first live hostage to be rescued from a tunnel, with all prior live hostage rescues taking place above ground.
According to sources, the extensive web of Hamas’ tunnels under Gaza extends at least “a few dozen miles,” with other experts suggesting they could extend hundreds of miles and rival the underground of a major European city.
[Ed.: How many countries would have rescued a known Arab! Answer: none. This is a slap in the face of both Suni and Shiite countries, that the hated “Little Satan” Israel would go to such great lengths to free a lowly Beduin. He was (by the way,) working as a security guard in an Israeli factory located very near to where the October 7th music festival was, and was taken captive from there on that day. The videos below show first the IDF flying him home in a helicopter, andd then his hometown celebrating his return home:
Party Time: Rahat celebrates the return of Farhan Qadi, who was abducted from the city during the October 7th massacre:
Millions of Illegals Staged to Vote Brigitte Gabriel
Unless We Act LOCAL
AUG 27, 2024 ACT FOR AMERICA – Last week, we celebrated the efforts of three states—Alabama, Ohio, and Virginia—to actively purge non-citizens from their voter rolls. However, the fight to maintain election integrity is far from over, and the situation is urgent.
A recent conversation between a top election integrity expert in Virginia and state officials revealed gaps in the process to ensure that the 6,000+ non-citizens identified in Virginia are indeed removed from the rolls. This lack of clarity and action underscores local oversight’s crucial and immediate role in safeguarding our elections. The gravity of this situation cannot be overstated.
Retired Colonel John Mills, President of the National Election Integrity Association and a leader of a local Election Integrity Working Group in Virginia, has shown us the impact of grassroots action. By holding local officials accountable, Mills has successfully removed two Recorders who failed in their duties and is now working to confirm that the current Recorder’s office is following through on purging non-citizens. His efforts underscore the power of direct engagement at the local level to ensure that election laws are enforced and voter rolls are clean, empowering citizens like you to make a difference.
When Mills realized that top state officials didn’t have clear answers on whether voter rolls were being properly cleaned up at the local level, he immediately contacted the Recorder. Driven by a commitment to ensure electoral integrity, he decided to “trust but verify” by directly contacting the new Recorder to investigate the situation. His proactive approach sets an example of holding local officials accountable and ensuring that the voter rolls are maintained accurately and transparently.
It’s a stark reminder that even when state leaders identify issues, the execution at the local level is what ultimately determines the integrity of our elections.
If you’re not already engaged with a local group overseeing the maintenance of your voter rolls, we need you. Every citizen has the right to ask their local Recorder for information on how voter roll maintenance is conducted, including non-citizen removal. We cannot afford to assume “somebody” is making an effort, and we should never worry about how the Recorder will react to inquiry because they work for you.
Every citizen has the right to ask the Recorder for information, and by law, the Recorder is required to supply you with answers without a formal FOIA inquiry. An email, phone call, or in-person visit can get the ball rolling.
“People don’t do what you expect, but what you inspect.”
Here’s a list of recommended questions. Be sure to ask when they identified and purged registrants and how many:
- Do you have a process to identify and remove non-citizens from the voter roll? Can you provide the guidelines that govern your office?
- When did you last verify the voter roll of suspected non-citizens with the DHS? Are you aware that you only need to submit a list of names and dates of birth to confirm status promptly in compliance with the SAVE Act?
- How many non-citizens have been identified and removed from the voter roll this year and this month?
- Have you checked to see if any non-citizens have voted in past elections, and how many? What actions were taken?
- Do you compare the voter roll to death records?
- Do you compare the voter roll to a Jury Nullification report to identify non-citizens and ineligible voters?
- Do you compare the voter roll against the US Postal database to identify any voters who have moved out of county or state?
Unless we act locally and hold our officials accountable, millions of illegal votes could still be cast in upcoming elections.
Note: More Americans should seek the critical job of Recorder, which provides DOUBLE the average nationwide income!
Join us in this critical mission. Contact us to get involved in your local election oversight and help us clean up our voter rolls. Your actions will be the difference between a clean election and one tainted by illegal votes.
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WATCH: Former Obama Intern and Democrat Campaign Worker Speaks Out After Attending the DNC as Volunteer By Jim Hᴏft
Aug. 26, 2024 8:45 am
A former Obama intern and lifelong Democrat who voted for Joe Biden in 2020 has taken to social media to blast the Democrat Party in a scathing video that exposes what conservatives have long suspected: the party is out of touch, elitist, and disconnected from the real struggles of everyday Americans.
The woman, who identifies herself as Evan, posted the video on X, where she shared her disillusionment with the Democrat Party after attending the Democratic National Convention (DNC) as a volunteer.
According to her, she left the convention early because “it sickened me.”
Evan, who has dedicated much of her career to working in ‘progressive politics,’ signed up to volunteer at this year’s DNC, expecting to find renewed faith in the Democrat Party. Instead, she found herself more disillusioned than ever before.
“Okay, I’m going to get real in this, and it’s probably going to piss some people off,” Evan begins, setting the tone for her no-holds-barred exposé.
She added:
“I just got back from the DNC, where I signed up to volunteer. When I initially signed up to volunteer, Joe Biden was still the nominee; it wasn’t yet Kamala Harris. I’ve worked in progressive politics for a long time.
I have worked for many different Democratic candidates—Senate candidates, House candidates, and even some Democratic organizations. As the years have gone by, I found myself getting more and more disillusioned with the Democratic Party, although until now, I’ve never said that out loud or anywhere public. I just want to say that by saying this, I’m not necessarily saying that the other party is better. I’m just giving you my experience working with the Democrats.”
Multiple Stabbings By Muslims Across the UK, Dad With Stroller Stabbed in the Neck [VIDEOS] By Pamela Geller
August 25, 2024 – Khuram Sajad, 22, has been charged with five counts of attempted murder and possession of an offensive weapon in Wasall.
In Birmingham, a dad pushing a stroller was stabbed in the neck by a knife attacker last night.
🇬🇧 Birmingham: A man pushing a pram was stabbed in the neck by a knife attacker last night.
The group with the stabber can be heard mocking the victim as he lied on the ground covered in blood.
Three men and a woman have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. pic.twitter.com/1YEOt7tRZm
— VoxPopuli (@vpopulimedia) August 24, 2024
The Regime Strikes Back: Secret Service Rips Away RFK Jr.’s Protection After Endorsing President Trump By Cullen Linebarger
Aug. 25, 2024 2:00 pm – The Biden Regime is striking back against RFK Jr. after he endorsed President Trump.
The New York Post reported Sunday that the RFK Jr. will no longer have Secret Service protection because had suspended his candidacy, despite the fact he remains on the ballot in 40 out of 50 states.
Recall that RFK Jr. on Friday said that he was only withdrawing from the race in 10 swing states, which would decide the election between President Trump and Kamala Harris. He still wants his fans residing in safe red and blue states to continue to vote for him.
Moreover, RFK Jr. will soon join Trump on the campaign trail. Given that two high-profile individuals will appear together across the country, more, not less, Secret Service security is imperative.
This is especially true when one considers the fact Trump came within a centimeter of getting assassinated last month, and another maniac wanted to end the 45th president’s life in Arizona this week. The chances of someone wanting to put a bullet in Kennedy just WENT UP because he endorsed the Democrats’ most loathed man.
Polling also shows that RFK Jr. withdrawing from the swing states significantly boosts Trump’s chances of defeating Harris and returning to the White House.
Make no mistake: this move was not about the Secret Service wanting to save a few dollars. This is about petty vengeance due.
As The Gateway Pundit readers previously reported, Kennedy publicly and privately lobbied for Secret Service protection for MONTHS due to several security scares. He correctly noted that political motivations were behind the delay in receiving it.
Trump stepped forward and demanded the regime correct this injustice. The White House finally acceded to the public outcry and gave him the protection he so richly deserves right after the Trump assassination attempt.
While RFK Jr. did not mention this fact as a key reason for his endorsing Trump, he has consistently thanked Trump for looking out for him.
Now, the Regime is perfectly content with leaving RFK Jr. out to dry despite the inevitable dangers he will surely encounter.
[Ed.: Yet, President Trump persists in entrusting the Secret Service with his life! He should have fired them and hired private security teams made up of Israeli commandos! Why?]
Renowned JFK Expert Reveals Why He Suspects the CIA Was Involved in the JFK Assassination as Trump Vows to Release All the Files on the Incident [VIDEO 1:09:28] By Cullen Linebarger
Aug. 25, 2024 11:20 am – As The Gateway Pundit reported, President Trump announced on stage during his rally in Arizona news that should shake the Deep State to its core: he will be creating a Presidential Commission on Assassination attempts. Under this plan, all of the JFK Files will be released, and the complete story behind what happened in Butler, Pennsylvania, will be revealed.
As the Daily Mail notes, more than 3,000 documents relating to the assassination contain redactions, and experts believe the concealed information will reveal the whole truth behind the JFK assassination.
Now, a renowned expert on the JFK assassination has weighed in with an interesting albeit unsurprising theory about who helped Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly assassinate the 35th President.
Jefferson Morley, who is the editor of the JFK Facts newsletter and has studied the mystery surrounding his assassination for years, told the Washington Post on Saturday he suspects some of Kennedy’s enemies in the CIA might have been working with Oswald.
Morley explained that the documents released so far show that some CIA employees do not believe Oswald acted alone. Moreover, a counterintelligence official tried to “wait out” the Warren Commission’s investigation by denying it information about Oswald.
The fact that federal law states that all JFK assassination records should have been released only raises Morley’s suspicions further.
“This is about the law that says all of the government’s JFK records should be made public by October 2017,” Morley said. “We’re seven years past that blown deadline.”
“Is there a smoking gun in there? You know, this is not about a smoking gun,” he continued.
If it turns out the CIA played a role in JFK’s death, RFK Jr’s haters will be forced to admit he was right after all. For years, this supposed ‘conspiracy theorist’ has told everyone willing to listen that he has personally seen “overwhelming evidence” that the CIA helped kill his uncle only to be mocked by the corporate media.
We all know that the official story behind JFK’s assassination has so many holes you could drive a Mack truck through it.
Last year, a JFK assassination witness broke his silence and blew up the narrative advanced by the Warren Commission that one of the bullets fired at the president’s limousine struck not only Kennedy in the back but also Texas Governor John B. Connally Jr. in the back, chest, wrist, and thigh. This has been called the “magic bullet” theory.
According to Landis, there was nothing “magical” about the bullet. He says that the bullet struck Kennedy in the back but was “undercharged” and popped back out before the President’s body was removed from the limo. It never touched Connally.
Mike Benz: US State Department Is Behind the Arrest of Telegram CEO in France – “I Believe the State Dept., at the Very Least, – Is Participating in this Political Prosecution” (VIDEO) By Jim Hoft
Aug. 25, 2024 10:20 am – On Saturday, the CEO of the popular messaging app Telegram was arrested at Le Bourget airport in France for refusing to comply with the country’s censorship laws.
Pavel Durov, 39, was arrested on the tarmac as he got off his private jet from Azerbaijan.
On Saturday evening Mike Benz, the founder and Executive Director of the Foundation for Freedom Online released a video explaining who he believes is behind this arrest – The US State Department.
Benz is an authority of the Deep State and the US government operations in Europe and abroad.
Mike Benz: I’m here in the airport in Austin, and was just on this space with Mario and Andrew Tate and kim. Com and a bunch of people. I wanted to make a point, but I think they booted me before I could say anything, so I’m just going to make it here. On the news of Pavel’s arrest, the founder of Telegram, this is something that I see going up to the US State Department. Wow, surprise, surprise, that’s my take, but that’s what it is.
One of the things they’re talking about in the space right now is what can be done. The fact is, the House Foreign Affairs Committee could subpoena or could demand as part of its oversight all communications between the US Embassy in Paris, that is the State Department’s branch in France, for their communications with prosecutors or government officials about Havel’s arrest prior to the arrest.
Because I believe the State Department is, at the very least, if not outright pushing, participating in this political prosecution. The State Department has been going after Telegram. Now, they don’t want to shut Telegram down. Let me explain this. Telegram is a double-edged sword for the State Department.
Telegram played a major role in the State Department’s fomenting of the Colour Revolution in Belarus in the summer of 2020. The National Endowment for Democracy, the US State Department, and USAID were all funding the major organisers of the street riots in Belarus and using Telegram as the main channel to organise those street riots because Telegram has such ubiquitous use in Eastern Europe, also in Russia, also in Ukraine. So they loved Telegram as a way to organise, rent a riots, to destabilise Lukashenko’s government.
And I bet that they would do the same if they didn’t. I’m not aware of it just because I haven’t looked into it. But I bet that when Alexei Navalny was deployed against Russia from his right wing flank in organising peaceful protests in Russia. I bet Telegram was used by the State Department as the coordination then because I know that it was in Belarus. Now, on the other hand, the State Department pressured actually astrtufed with tens of millions of dollars, the government of Brazil, to bring Telegram to its knees. Brazil passed a ban, actually made it a crime to access Telegram for several weeks in 2022 until Telegram agreed to the new counter-misinformation laws that were lobbied for by the US State Department’s NGO Soft Power Swarm.
So what they want to do is not kill Telegram like they wanted to kill Wikileaks. They want to control it. And the problem was, is they didn’t have the ability to put sufficient pressure on Pavel to break his will. So he was living in Dubai. Now they have leverage. I believe that’s the purpose of this prosecution, not to establish a legal precedent that every encrypted chat app, its founder, is personally responsible for all illegal conversations or transactions on the platform, but rather to force Telegram to become WhatsApp.
This is what they did to WhatsApp, by the way. Through this regulatory pressure, WhatsApp is owned by Facebook. They broke WhatsApps back. Now, this is why I always say, don’t say anything on WhatsApp that you don’t want put on a Times Square Jumbotron, because the whole thing is fed f*cking central. They broke it.
I watched that happen, by the way. The Atlantic Council played a huge role in that with seven CIA directors on its board and annual funding from the Pentagon, the State Department, and CIA cutouts like the NED. Sorry, I’m just in the airport, so I’m looking around.
They didn’t want to shut down WhatsApp. Whatsapp is used by everybody in Latin America and South America, and half in India. They want to control it, to be able to have their own personnel in place to install and oversee the policies in every country on Earth in order to shape the political outcomes from the inside of every country on Earth to determine their elections. This is what they did to WhatsApp and Telegram in Brazil.
When I say they, I don’t mean the government of Brazil. I mean the US State Department, the US Embassy, the US-funded institutions like the Atlantic Council, the Wilson Centre, the God, there’s a million of them. The National Democratic Institute, the International Republican Institute, the NED. Thousands of these, at least hundreds that I’ve documented, were all capacity-built. Then there’s The whole government programme, SETs, which you’re going to be learning a lot more about in the months ahead. The $150 annual budget and $40 million of it was in Brazil to lobby for these censorship laws. I believe that they thought that they needed leverage against Telegram to finally be able to bring it under their control.
Remember, this is very important in the State Department and the Pentagon’s view for winning the war against Russia via Ukraine, because all the Russians use Telegram chats for the ability to have a backdoor to access.
Here is the video, via Mike Benz.
Tucker Carlson interviews Pavel Durov [VIDEO 8:15] KanekoaTheGreat @KanekoaTheGreat
August 24, 2024 = In 2014, Pavel Durov fled Russia, selling his multi-billion dollar social media company VK after refusing to censor content and share user’s private information with the Russian government.
In 2024, France, an EU and NATO member, arrested Durov for refusing to censor content on Telegram.
What has happened to the West?
: “In 2012, we faced our first issues in Russia. Because I was a big believer in the values of free market, freedoms, freedom of speech, and freedom of assembly. So when the Russian opposition started to use VK to organize large protests in Russia, where almost half a million people would protest in the main square of the city, we were requested to ban these communities on VK by the government, and I refused.”
: “So the government asked you to shut down communication between their opponents?”
: “It was a tool for these protestors to organize themselves. It wasn’t about us siding with one political side or the other. It was about us defending freedom of speech and freedom of assembly, which we believed were the right things. But that didn’t go too well with the government.”
: “When the Russian government asked Pavel Durov to use his social media company to censor its political opponents, he refused. He said he would rather resign and leave the country where he was born than participate in something like that. Such was his commitment to free speech.
Now, you have to compare what Pavel Durov did to what Mark Zuckerberg or Parag Agrawal did, the guy who ran Twitter before
bought it. Both of them collaborated with governments to censor people. And that’s shameful.”
BREAKING: Telegram CEO Arrested by French Authorities for Refusing to Follow Censorship Laws [VIDEO 2:52] By Cassandra Macdonald
Aug. 24, 2024 5:20 pm – Gateway Pundit – The CEO of the popular messaging app Telegram was arrested at Le Bourget airport on Saturday evening for refusing to comply with censorship laws.
Pavel Durov, 39, was arrested on the tarmac as he got off his private jet from Azerbaijan.
According to a machine translation of a report on TF1, “The Justice considers that the lack of moderation, cooperation with the police and the tools offered by Telegram (disposable number, cryptocurrencies, etc.) makes it complicit in drug trafficking, paedophile offences and fraud.”
“Investigators from the ONAF (National Anti-Fraud Office attached to the Customs Directorate) notified him and placed him in police custody. He is expected to be presented to an investigating judge this Saturday evening before a possible indictment on Sunday for a multitude of offences: terrorism, drugs, complicity, fraud, money laundering, concealment, paedophile content…” the report continued.
In an interview with Tucker Carlson in April, Durov said that the FBI expressed interest in creating a ‘backdoor’ into the Telegram app, ostensibly to spy on users.
As Gateway previously reported, this revelation highlights the U.S. government’s purported efforts to undermine Telegram’s promises of privacy and security.
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov arrested at airport near Paris, French media reports
August 24, 2024 / 8:54 PM EDT / CBS/AFP – French police arrested Telegram CEO and founder Pavel Durov on Saturday at an airport near Paris for alleged offences related to the popular messaging app, French media reported.
The French-Russian billionaire, 39, was detained at Le Bourget airport north of the French capital on Saturday evening, one of the officials told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.
French television news outlets TF1 TV and BFM TV also reported the arrest, citing unnamed sources, according to Reuters.
He had just travelled from Baku, in Azerbaijan, another source close to the case told AFP.
Durov was expected to appear in court on Sunday.
Telegram did not immediately respond to a request from Reuters for comment, and the French Interior Ministry and French police had no comment either.
France’s OFMIN, an agency tasked with preventing violence against minors, had issued an arrest warrant for Durov as the coordinating agency in a preliminary investigation into alleged offences including fraud, drug trafficking, cyberbullying, organized crime and promotion of terrorism, one of the sources close to the case told AFP.
Durov is suspected of failing to take action to curb the criminal use of his platform.
“Enough of Telegram’s impunity,” said one of the investigators, adding they were surprised Durov came to Paris knowing he was a wanted man.
Durov started Telegram in 2013 and left Russia in 2014 after he was ousted from VKontakte — a popular social networking site in Russia which he-cofounded — after being pressured by the Kremlin to hand over users’ personal data, which he refused to do.
In a 2016 interview with “60 Minutes,” Durov said he was “horrified” when he learned that Telegram — which was designed to be heavily encrypted so that governments cannot access users’ personal data — was being used by terrorist groups like the Islamic State to communicate.
“I’m personally for the privacy side,” Durov said in that interview when asked whether privacy concerns outweighed security risks. “But one thing that should be clear is that you cannot make just one exception for law enforcement without endangering private communications of hundreds of millions of people because encryption is either secure or not.”
Telegram founder Pavel Durov reportedly arrested in France Anthony Ha
August 24, 2024 4:38 pm PDT – Pavel Durov, founder and CEO of messaging app Telegram, was arrested on Saturday evening while leaving his private jet at France’s Bourget airport, according to French television network TF1.
Reports of Durov’s arrest sparked widespread discussion and speculation on social media, including on Telegram itself, although it seems to be largely based on the same handful of reports in French media. Neither Telegram nor a spokesperson for France’s national anti-fraud office ONAF immediately responded to a request for comment.
According to TF1, Durov faced a warrant in France based on a preliminary police investigation. The French authorities reportedly claim that Telegram’s lack of content moderation and unwillingness to cooperate with law enforcement make Durov an accomplice to the drug trafficking, money laundering, and sharing of child pornography that allegedly occur via the app.
The reported arrest will likely fuel further debate around the extent to which messaging apps should be held responsible (legally and otherwise) for the messages their users share.
Forbes estimates Durov’s net worth at $15.5 billion. Although born in Russia, he left the country in 2014 after resisting government pressure to release data about Ukrainian protest leaders from his previous social network Vkontakte. Durov now lives in Dubai, where Telegram is based, and his plane was reportedly flying in from Azerbaijan.
Durov said last month that Telegram had 950 million active users, with a goal of reaching 1 billion this year. At the same time, the company claims to have around only 30 engineers — a very small team for an app of Telegram’s scale, likely making Durov even more important to the company’s operation.
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Former Hamas Hostage Noa Argamani Provides First Testimony on Her Captivity ‘It’s a Miracle I’m Alive’ [VIDEO 4:55] By Margaret Flavin
Aug. 23, 2024 4:00 pm – In June, The Gateway Pundit reported that hostage Noa Argamani, 26, was rescued after eight months of captivity at the hands of ruthless Hamas terrorists.
Argamani was in attendance at a nature party on October 7th, when Hamas terrorists launched a massive surprise attack on civilians in Israel.
A haunting image of Argamani at the moment of her capture at the party horrified the world as she pleaded with the terrorists while being held on the back of a motorbike, ‘Don’t kill me!’
Recently, Argamani testified for the first time since being rescued about her harrowing experience in Hamas captivity and said it was a “miracle” she was still alive.
On Thursday, she met with Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa and spoke of the horrors she went through.
During the meeting she shared, “Every night, I was falling asleep and thinking, this may be the last night of my life. “Until the moment I was [rescued]… I just did not believe that I’m still surviving.”
She added, “And in this moment that I’m still sitting with you, it’s a miracle that I’m here. It’s a miracle because I survived October 7, and I survived this bombing, and I survived also the rescue.”
Argamani continues to advocate on behalf of hostages who are still being held by the terrorist group.
WATCH: President Trump Announces Presidential Commission on Assassination Attempts If Re-Elected – ALL JFK Files Will Be Released and Truth Behind the Attempt on Trump’s Life Will Be Known By Cullen Linebarger
Aug. 24, 2024 8:15 am – If President Trump wins in November, we will finally know the real truth behind President John F. Kennedy’s assassination and the attempt on his life last month.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Robert F. Kennedy Jr officially endorsed Donald Trump for President in a beautiful speech Friday afternoon. Following the speech, RFK Jr. joined Trump at the 45th President’s rally in Glendale, where he was given an epic welcome.
Trump announced on stage during his rally and broke news that should shake the Deep State to its core: he will be creating a Presidential Commission on Assassination attempts.
Under this plan, all of the JFK Files will be released, and the complete story behind what happened in Butler, Pennsylvania, will be revealed. [Emphasis added]
“I am announcing tonight, upon my election, I will be establishing a new Presidential Commission on assassination attempts, and they will be tasked with releasing all of the documents pertaining to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
And they will also conduct a rigorous review of the attack last month. But I tell you, I have never had more people ask me, ‘Please, sir, release the documents on the Kennedy assassination,’ and we’re going to do that.”
The Gateway Pundit previously reported that President Trump was nearly assassinated last month during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, by a 20-year-old Democrat donor named Thomas Matthew Crooks. Even worse, we have since learned that had DEI-loving former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle provided adequate security to Trump at the rally and allowed the agents to guard the roof Crooks shot from, the incident would have never happened.
We also know that the official story behind JFK’s assassination has so many holes you could drive a Mack truck through it. Last year, a JFK assassination witness broke his silence and blew up the narrative advanced by the Warren Commission is that one of the bullets fired at the president’s limousine struck not only Kennedy in the back but also Texas Governor John B. Connally Jr. in the back, chest, wrist, and thigh. This has been called the “magic bullet” theory.
According to Landis, there was nothing “magical” about the bullet. He says that the bullet struck Kennedy in the back but was “undercharged” and popped back out before the President’s body was removed from the limo. It never touched Connally.
The Trump-Kennedy alliance has the potential to usher in unprecedented transparency in how our corrupt federal government operates. Imagine how many heads would explode if Trump gave RFK Jr. a consequential position in his administration, such as CIA Director.
UPDATE: Killer Shouted “Allahu Akbar” Before Stabbing 9 Innocents and Killing 3 at German Diversity Festival By Jim Hoft
Aug. 24, 2024 11:40 am – According to an earlier report by Cullen Linebarger – A crazed man killed several people who were celebrating the ‘virtues’ of diversity at a major festival in Germany Friday night.
According to Bild, the event occurred around 9:45 P.M. local time at the Festival of Diversity in Solingen, a city around 25km east of Dusseldorf. The attack happened on a central square, the Fronhof.
German Police say there were no less than nine innocent people stabbed during the attack with at least three succumbing to their injuries. Emergency workers were reportedly fighting for the others.
Now there is information that the killer was shouting “Allahu Akbar” as he attacked the nine people.
On Saturday morning a German reporter Tim Rohn wrote that the killer was screaming “Allahu Akbar” during the killing spree.
Exclusive: My @investigativ_de colleague @MartinLutzWELT knows the content of the police report on #Solingen . According to it, one witness said that the perpetrator shouted “Allahu Akbar”. Another said that he knew the perpetrator as a “mosque visitor” from the city. No confirmation yet.
[Ed.: Remember: by the time you hear “Allah Akbar”, it’s already too late!]
HORROR: “Arab-Looking” Man Stabs Several People to Death at “Festival of Diversity” in Germany (VIDEO) By Cullen Linebarger
Aug. 24, 2024 7:00 am – A crazed man killed several people who were celebrating the ‘virtues’ of diversity at a major festival in Germany Friday night.
According to Bild, the event occurred around 9:45 P.M. local time at the Festival of Diversity in Solingen, a city around 25km east of Dusseldorf. The attack happened on a central square, the Fronhof.
German Police say there were no less than nine innocent people stabbed during the attack with at least three succumbing to their injuries. Emergency workers were reportedly fighting for the others.
Below is a video of the massive police and medical response to the horrific attack.
Witnesses told Bild that they saw an “Arab-looking man” flee from the scene of the attack. It is unknown whether the alleged perpetrator is a German citizen.
At this point, there have not been any arrests. The festival was shut down, and armed police guarded the area.
Authorities called on people to leave downtown Solingen until further notice.
A witness to the incident said that he was standing in front of the music stage at the event when he saw a “person fall over just one meter next to me.”
The city’s mayor, Tim Kurzbach, expressed his shock over the incident and mourn the dead in a Facebook post:
“Tonight, we are all in Solingen in shock, fright, and great sadness. We all wanted to celebrate our city anniversary together and now we have to mourn the dead and injured. It breaks my heart that there was an assassination attack on our town. Tears in my eyes when I think of those we have lost. I pray for all those who are still fighting for their lives.
“Also, to all the people who had to witness this, my great sympathies must have been terrible pictures. I thank all the emergency and security forces for their service. I ask that if you believe pray with me and if you don’t, then hope with me.”
“The Festival of Diversity,” which marked Solingen’s 650th anniversary, began on Friday and was scheduled to run through Sunday. Several stages in the streets had been offering several attractions, including live music, cabaret, and acrobatics.
[Ed.: Oh, the irony: ‘Festival of Diversity’ featuring Islam!]
