An Iranian-backed terrorist was arrested before he could ‘wreak havoc’ on America by attacking multiple Jewish sites.
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A commander of an Iranian-backed militia has been charged with plotting to attack Jewish sites in the United States, including a synagogue in New York, and carrying out attacks in Europe as part of a broader campaign of retaliation by Iran since the war began in February.
A criminal complaint unsealed on Friday accused the commander, Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Saadi, of planning at least 20 attacks in Europe and Canada since late February. Mr. al-Saadi was detained in Turkey sometime recently and handed over to U.S. authorities, Mr. al-Saadi’s lawyer said in federal court in Manhattan on Friday.
Mr. al-Saadi, according to the complaint, is a commander of Kataib Hezbollah, an Iraqi militia that is a proxy for Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp and has helped Tehran project power across the region, including through attacks on American forces and diplomatic targets.
The complaint says that Mr. al-Saadi planned to kill Americans and Jews in Los Angeles and that he had started planning an attack on a synagogue in New York City. As a leader of Kataib Hezbollah, Mr. al-Saadi worked with Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, the head of Iran’s security machinery, according to the complaint. The U.S. military killed Mr. Suleimani in a strike in 2020.
Mr. al-Saadi is one of the highest level figures tied to Iran known to have been arrested by the United States since the war began. For years, and during the current conflict, the United States and Israel have focused on killing Iranian officials.
His case appears to involve the kind of retaliatory act of terrorism that U.S. officials have long both anticipated and feared.
The Justice Department on Friday announced it will seek the death penalty against the man who gunned down the young Jewish couple in DC last year.
Last May 30-year-old Elias Rodriguez, of Chicago, Illinois, was arrested after gunning down two Israeli Embassy staff members outside of a Jewish museum in DC.
The soon-to-be-engaged couple, Yaron Lischinsky, 30, and Sarah Milgram, 26, were killed as they left an American Jewish Committee event at the Capital Jewish Museum.
Rodriguez shouted “Free, free Palestine!” as he was taken into custody, according to law enforcement.
Last summer, Jeanine Pirro announced a DC grand jury returned a nine-count indictment against Rodriguez:
“Count one, murder of a foreign official under 18: USC 1116 for the murder of 30-year-old Yaron Lischinsky a foreign official employed by the government of Israel.”
“Counts two and three are hate crimes resulting in death. Under 18: USC 249, where the defendant crossed state lines willfully caused bodily injury to Yaron Lashinsky and Sarah Milgram because of actual as well as perceived national origin, which resulted in both of their deaths.”
“Counts 4 and 5, the discharge of a firearms during a crime of violence causing the death of a person through the use of a firearms. The defendant knowingly used, carried, and discharged charged a firearms in relation to a crime of violence, and with malice of forththought, he did unlawfully kill Yaron and Sarah with a firearms.”
“Counts 6 and 7, first-degree murder while armed. The defendant, Rodriguez, with deliberate and premeditated malice, killed Yaron and Sarah by shooting each with a firearms, thereby causing injuries from which each died.”
“Counts 8 and 9, assault with intent to kill while armed, while armed with a firearm, he assaulted CS and AT, those are initials with intent to kill a person.”
On Friday, Pirro announced her office is seeking the death penalty against Elias Rodriguez.
“Let me be clear: anyone who commits acts of political violence in the nation’s capital will face the full force of the law,” Pirro said.
Michigan Democrat Congressional candidate Shelby Campbell, the young Millennial with a nose ring who is running for the state’s 13th district, called herself a ‘c*nt’ and flashed a crotch shot in her latest stunt.
Recall that Shelby Campbell created a firestorm after she posted a grotesque video mocking Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
“Hey MAGA, how bad does it hurt that Jimmy Kimmel is back, but you can’t get our person back?” a smirking Campbell said, referring to Charlie Kirk.
“Hi Michiganders, specifically Detrioters…..Do you guys care that Charlie Kirk passed away?” the 32-year old said.
“Yeah. I didn’t think so,” she said.
“Because my district is primarily Black people, and Charlie Kirk said awful things about Black people,” she said.
Campbell flipped off the camera as she ended her video.
In another video, which has since been deleted, Campbell disparaged our troops.
“Quit thanking the troops for sacrificing their lives,” she said.
Now she’s posting crotch shots and calling herself a “c*nt.”
“I am a c*nt. Great!” Campbell said in a since-deleted TikTok video.
Quebec Premier François Legault said back in October 2024: “There is something very disturbing in this case. It is this attempt by a group of teachers to introduce Islamist religious concepts into a public school. In Quebec, we decided a long time ago to remove religion from public schools. We will never accept going back.”
In today’s far-left Canada, it’s astounding that these teachers had their licenses revoked. One would have expected their Islamic curriculum to become mandatory in all Canadian schools.
“All 11 teachers accused of creating toxic climate at Montreal school have their licences revoked,” by Cassandra Yanez-Leyton, CBC News, May 12, 2026:
All 11 teachers who were suspended in 2024 after being accused of fostering a toxic climate at a Montreal elementary school have had their licences revoked, according to the office of Quebec’s education minister.
Confirmation of the 11 licences being revoked came on the same day the Education Ministry made public a final report into the situation at Bedford elementary school.
The revocation of the licences is the latest development in a saga that reignited the debate around secularism in the province and raised concerns about religious indoctrination in Quebec schools.
Reporting by 98.5 FM’s Valérie Lebeuf followed by a government report released in June 2024 showed the teachers at the school — which is located in the city’s Côte-des-Neiges neighbourhood — weren’t teaching subjects such as sex education or science and technology comprehensively….
The Bedford controversy motivated the Coalition Avenir Québec government to strengthen its secularism policies. This ultimately led to the government extending the religious symbols ban to all school staff who interact with students as well as daycare workers and establishing limits on public prayer.
In a brief statement to CBC News, the office for the education minister said the decision to revoke the 11 licences was made because of the findings of the 2024 investigation.
Bedford under watch Bedford elementary school was placed under watch in the fall of 2024, a few months after the ministry’s investigation.
Reporting from 98.5 FM painted the picture of two groups — one mainly composed of people of North African origin — clashing with each other.
The ministry’s investigation specified, however, that the situation was not as clear-cut, and that there were teachers of North African origin in both groups….
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Ratcliffe met with officials of the ailing communist Castro regime in Havana on Thursday.
Details of the visit have not been publicly disclosed at press time. An unnamed CIA source claimed to the Associated Press that Director Ratcliffe visited Cuba “to personally deliver President Donald Trump’s message that the United States is prepared to seriously engage on economic and security issues, but only if Cuba makes fundamental changes.”
CBS News reports that Ratcliffe met with Interior Minister Lázaro Álvarez Casas, the head of Cuban intelligence services, and Raúl Guillermo “The Crab” Rodríguez Castro, the grandson of Cuba’s nonagenarian communist dictator Raúl Castro.
CBS News, citing an unnamed CIA source, reported that Ratcliffe and the Cuban officials “‘discussed intelligence cooperation, economic stability, and security issues,’ all against the backdrop that Cuba can no longer be a safe haven for adversaries in the Western Hemisphere.”
Ratcliffe reportedly told the communist regime representatives that the Trump administration was offering “a genuine opportunity for collaboration and a chance to stabilize Cuba’s struggling economy,” CBS said. Such an offer from the United States, the source pointed out, would “not remain open indefinitely” and, if necessary, the U.S. would enforce “red lines.”
The CIA published photos of Director Ratcliffe’s Thursday visit to Havana.
President Trump has insisted over the past months that the United States would no longer tolerate the national security threat posed by the Cuban regime and has hinted at a friendly “takeover” of the island nation. Cuban regime officials have confirmed that they met with U.S. government representatives in Cuba in recent months. This month, President Trump increased pressure on the authoritarian communist regime by imposing sanctions on GAESA, the Cuban military’s mega-conglomerate that allows the communist regime to fund its repression of the Cuban people. GAESA exerts control over as much as 40 percent of the entire Cuban economy.
“Cuba is asking for help, and we are going to talk!!! In the meantime, I’m off to China! President DJT,” President Trump wrote on a Truth Social post before departing to China.
The Castro regime, which for decades has accused the United States of plotting against the ruling communists through the CIA, claimed that it authorized Ratcliffe’s visit at the request of the U.S. government. The regime published a statement in Granma, the official newspaper of the Communist Party, saying that the encounter occurred against a backdrop of “complex bilateral relations.” According to the Cuban regime, the communist representatives provided information to Ratcliffe’s delegation that allegedly demonstrates that Cuba “does not pose a threat to U.S. national security” and that, thus, there is “no reason” to have the country included on the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism (SST). In reality, Cuba is on the SST list due to its deep ties and extensive track record of supporting international terrorist organizations such as Hamas and Hezbollah.
The Cuban regime’s statement read in part:
During the meeting, it was confirmed that there is consistency and coherence between our country’s historic position and the actions of the Cuban government and its competent authorities in unequivocally confronting and condemning terrorism in all its forms and manifestations.
Once again, it was made clear that the island does not harbor, support, finance, or permit terrorist or extremist organizations; nor are there any foreign military or intelligence bases on its territory, and it has never supported any hostile activity against the U.S. nor will it allow actions against another nation to be carried out from Cuba.
The authoritarian Cuban regime — which in 67 years has pushed the country to the brink of complete ruin — has found itself in an extremely complex situation throughout 2026.
Speaking to NBC News on Thursday during President Trump’s official visit to China, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio emphasized that it is in America’s interest for Cuba to become a prosperous nation instead of a failed state 90 miles away. He pointed out that because of the Castro regime Cubans are successful everywhere in the world except in one place: Cuba.
“We want Cubans not to have to leave that island in order to be successful. But they can’t because the current model they have is – it’s not just – it’s broken. It doesn’t work and it’ll never change as long as the people that are there now are running it,” Sec. Rubio said. “They are closed-minded, unfortunately. I hope I’m wrong. I would love for them to come to their senses and say okay, we recognize this really has to change and it has to change big. But right now, they don’t seem to be indicating that. They seem to be digging in.”
This week, Sec. Rubio confirmed that the Castro regime rejected a $100-million U.S. humanitarian assistance package for the Cuban people to be delivered with the assistance of the Catholic Church. The U.S. State Department reiterated the offer, as the humanitarian aid package would provide significant assistance to the Cuban people. On Thursday, Cuban figurehead “President” Miguel Díaz-Canel claimed on social media that the Castro regime is willing to accept the help and that it would find “no obstacle nor ingratitude” from Cuba.
Díaz-Canel’s statements echo similar remarks issued by Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla on Thursday, who claimed that Wednesday marked the “first time” that the U.S. had offered the aid package. Both Cuban officials availed themselves of their respective social media posts to once again demand the end of the U.S. “embargo” on the Cuban regime.
In what could be the early stages of a Democratic civil war (please please please), Gov. Abigail Spanberger and Attorney General Jay Jones are now openly at each other’s throats over a single veto—and the party’s union paymasters are furious.
Ain't it fun?
Spanberger quietly killed legislation that would have handed public-sector unions the power to collectively bargain for teachers, police officers, firefighters, and state workers. The bill would have forced automatic dues deductions, locked in sweetheart contracts, and jacked up salaries, pensions, and benefits across the board—costs that ultimately land on Virginia taxpayers already groaning under high property taxes and stagnant services.
Oh, don't give her too much credit; she didn't veto it because she knows this sort of legislation would destroy Virginia's economy.
No, no, she did this because the amendment she added (that would have pushed the law out until after she was out of office) was rejected. And, she knows it doesn't matter what she does now because it's not like she can run again in 2029. Never forget, it's all about her.
Would you look at that? He put out a statement... hopefully he ran it through spellcheck.
Of course he is.
He has never cared about being Attorney General; he's always wanted to be governor. In his warped, unhinged little mind, this is how he gets the job.
And THAT'S ultimately the real problem with Democrats, especially in Virginia.
Homeschooling only looks more appealing as the education system continues to leave children with some of the worst excuses for teachers.
One of those is Ibijoke Idowu, who teaches special education at Rising Star Elementary in South Beacon Hill for Seattle Public Schools in Washington state.
In December 2025, Idowu was placed on leave following allegations that she abused an autistic child in her classroom. A complaint was filed with the district after the third-grader’s parents saw bruises the size of an adult’s fingertips in October and December.
The child’s parents also alleged his therapist witnessed Idowu throw a marker at him, hitting him in the face.
Since those incidents, The Seattle Times reported that according to his father, the child has been emotionally distressed, not sleeping well, and has been avoiding school.
“Alleged physical abuse of a third-grade student with autism, including leaving fingertip-sized bruises and throwing a marker at the student’s head, causing injury to face and glasses. Additional allegations include grabbing students by the arm, causing pain.”
The organization puts the case severity as high, and the Seattle Police have been notified with the investigation ongoing.
If those claims weren’t bad enough, Idowu is also a leftist, having previously worked as an organizer for Black Lives Matter.
Apparently, none of this has kept her from holding office, as she’s been elected president of the Seattle Teachers Union ,with the New York Post reporting that the election results were certified Friday.
The criteria to run for office includes paying union dues and being employed by the school system.
Given that Idowu is on leave but still employed, she was an eligible candidate, but who in their right mind would vote for this woman?
From a practical perspective, she is relatively inexperienced.
Her teaching career began in 2021, but she is also a special education teacher. Why would her fellow teachers — she now represents 6,000 SPS employees — put her in this job?
Per the New York Post, as the race last week was winding down, Idowu commented on how she’d like to be seen as a candidate.
“I am not afraid to be a line stepper when it’s necessary and when it protects others,” she said.
“You can’t be afraid, and the thing is, sometimes you even have to be the bad guy. You have to ruffle feathers. But that is a part of, like, leadership, and sometimes you have to advocate for this group, and it bothers this group. But you know what? That’s for this group to deal with. And you figure out why the advocacy for this group is bothering you, because that’s something you have to deal with. That’s not for me to deal with.”
Her dystopian collectivism in handling individuals on a group basis is a topic of discussion in itself, but the comments about being “a line stepper” or “the bad guy” lack self-awareness. She should have given pause in consideration of the accusations, but her rebuttal now would likely be that those statements won her the race.
Idowu’s story is another advertisement for homeschooling.
You can teach your children, or you can leave them with allegedly abusive left-wing ideologues whose colleagues are too incompetent to keep her away from office.
