FBI Arranges Fake Terror Plot as Midterms Approach

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By Kurt Nimmo

 October 09, 2026

Somali teenager provided with weapons for attack on Mall of America.

It is October Surprise season, time to roll out the phony terror plots ahead of the midterm elections.

The FBI is accomplished at the practice, having cooked up a number of fabricated terror incidents in the wake of September 11, 2001. The latest episode unfolded on October 7, a week into October Surprise season.

Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud, an 18-yer old American of Somali descent, was charged in an alleged plot targeting the Mall of America. Prosecutors say Mohamud planned an Oct. 24 attack on the Hmong Arts Celebration at the mall, according to Donald Trump’s favorite propaganda outlet, Fox News.

Federal officials said Mohamud targeted the mall because it is owned by a Jewish family and also planned to target a Hmong festival there, Fox reported. The Hmong people are an ethnic group believed to have originated in the Yangtze River Basin in southern China. What the Hmong have to do with Jews and Islamic terrorism is not explained.

The FBI groomed Mohamud, as it has groomed dozens of other supposed Islamic terrorists. The FBI used a “confidential human source” to exchange “hundreds of bi-directional messages through multiple social media and encrypted messaging applications” with the target. The FBI said Mohamud allegedly “expressed his desire to travel to Somalia” to join al-Shabaab and “fight on its behalf and/or commit a mass casualty attack” in Minnesota.

It is documented that the FBI manufactures terror plots. “Critics say the FBI is running a sting operation across America, targeting—to a large extent—the Muslim community by luring people into fake terror plots,” writes Paul Harris for The Guardian.

FBI bureaux send informants to trawl through Muslim communities, hang out in mosques and community centers, and talk of radical Islam in order to identify possible targets sympathetic to such ideals… FBI entrapment is a widespread tactic. Within days of the 9/11 terror attacks, FBI director Robert Mueller issued a memo on a new policy of “forward leaning—preventative—prosecution.”

“Mohamud allegedly sought martyrdom in carrying out his plans to murder innocent civilians,” the FBI declared. In order to make this appear authentic, the agency provided the mark with a Norinco AK-47, four magazines, 200 rounds of ammunition, and also a Mac-90 Sporter rifle with 7.62×39-caliber ammunition.

CBS News, founded by David Ellison, the son of Oracle’s Larry Ellison, a “Zionaire” who has donated millions of dollars to the IDF, reported:

Authorities allege Mohamud “knowingly received a firearm and ammunition” with reasonable cause to believe they would be used to commit a felony and a federal crime of terrorism, including providing or conspiring to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization.

The “designated foreign terrorist organization” is said to be Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen, aka al-Shabaab, a Wahhabi-Salafi Jihadist militant organization in Somalia. “Al Shabaab is all about Business, not Islam,” a former senior al-Shabaab commander explained in 2015.

Kenya Intelligence Services consider the terrorist group as a proxy force for Arab economic interests in the Horn of Africa and the wider East African region in general. Al-Shabaab emerged from the Islamic Courts Union (ICU), a coalition of Sharia courts that secured control over much of southern Somalia, including the capital, Mogadishu, in 2006.

“Washington and its imperialist partners have been adamant about maintaining control over the Horn of Africa, the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean basin regions,” writes Abayomi Azikiwe. “This concern has been manifested in the repeated interference and interventions into the internal affairs of Somalia.”

After World War II, Somalia became a focal point for oil and natural gas exploration. The East African nation’s strategic location on the Indian Ocean, near the Gulf of Aden—one of the world’s most lucrative shipping lanes—further enhances the country’s significance. The United States is dedicated to preserving its strategic dominance throughout the Horn of Africa, the Gulf of Aden, and the Indian Ocean basin territories.

Throughout the East African littoral, spanning from Somalia southward across Kenya, Tanzania, and Mozambique, substantial offshore reserves of natural gas and petroleum have been identified. As a result, multinational corporations and international financial institutions are interested in asserting control over the opportunities presented by the extraction and commercialization of energy resources.

Recall General Wesley Clark, a retired 4-star US Army general, telling Amy Goodman of Democracy Now in 2007 that he saw a Pentagon memo describing how the US would take out not only Somalia, but also Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Sudan, and Iran. Somalia is rich in uranium, iron ore, copper, natural gas, salt, gypsum, bauxite, and oil.

Trump has focused his Islamophobic rhetoric on Somali immigrants in Minnesota, calling them “garbage” and demanding the president of Somalia take them back, including American citizen and Minnesota representative Ilhan Omar.

“We could go one way or the other, and we’re going to go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country,” Trump said last December.

In January, a Department of Homeland Security official said the Trump administration had decided to terminate Somalia’s Temporary Protected Status program.

“Country conditions in Somalia have improved to the point that it no longer meets the law’s requirement for Temporary Protected Status,” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said in a statement.

In fact, conditions continue to worsen, as many Somalis face drought, hunger, displacement, insecurity, and reduced humanitarian aid. The UN projects that about 7.7 million people—nearly half the population—will need humanitarian aid and protection, while the EU estimates 6.5 million face high levels of hunger and more than 1.8 million children are affected by acute malnutrition.

The United States has been actively conducting airstrikes in Somalia, primarily targeting al-Shabaab. The operations have raised serious concerns regarding compliance with international humanitarian law, especially regarding civilian casualties. Amnesty International has documented cases where strikes have unlawfully killed civilians.

“The number of US strikes in Somalia surged after March 30, 2017, when President Trump signed an Executive Order declaring southern Somalia an “area of active hostilities,” Amnesty reported.

The United States has quietly escalated its forever war in Somalia. Since February 1, 2025, the Trump administration has launched nearly four times the number of air and drone strikes against the country’s two main terrorist groups, al-Shabaab and ISIS-Somalia, than the Biden administration did in its entire four years in office.

The “forever war” produced a broad diaspora of displaced Somalis. Many found refuge in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Scandinavia, Italy, the Netherlands, Australia, and other regions, while most stay within neighboring African countries.

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Via https://www.globalresearch.ca/fbi-arranges-fake-terror-plot-midterms-approach/5943192

Russia Plague Mystery: Separating Fact From Social Media Hype

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Independent Medical Alliance
8 Oct 2026

IMA’s Dr. Ryan Cole says Russia’s suspected plague death is unconfirmed and not an outbreak. After COVID, Americans should demand evidence before fear.

IMA Head of Medical and Scientific Affairs Dr. Ryan Cole joined The National News Desk to separate fact from fiction in reports of a suspected plague death in Russia. A young woman who worked at a plague research laboratory in Siberia died after developing severe pneumonia, but testing has not confirmed plague. Dr. Cole explains that the story first spread through a Telegram channel, and that 90% of the roughly 200 people placed under observation have already been released. One death, he notes, does not make an outbreak.

Dr. Cole also takes on social media posts linking the case to an experimental mRNA plague vaccine, which he points out has only been studied in animal models. He explains that pneumonic plague rarely spreads from person to person, is treatable with antibiotics when caught early, and circulates on every continent except Australia among rodents and fleas most people rarely encounter. Looking back at COVID, when conclusions were drawn before the evidence was in, he urges Americans to demand evidence before believing a viral headline.

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Jan Jeffcoat: A laboratory worker in Russia has died after developing severe pneumonia, and nearly 200 people were reportedly placed under medical observation. Headlines quickly turned to pneumonic plague, but Russia has not confirmed that diagnosis, and the World Health Organization says it still does not have a full picture. Now social media is connecting this developing story to research on experimental plague vaccines, but again, no evidence has established a connection between it and the Russian death. So when the facts are thin, fear fills the gaps. And after COVID, Americans of course have every right to demand transparency without letting speculation do the reporting. So joining us right now to break it all down and tell us what we do know is Dr. Ryan Cole, Head of Medical and Scientific Affairs at the Independent Medical Alliance. Good morning to you, Dr. Cole. Let’s just do this right away. Let’s separate fact from fiction. What do we know about this death in Russia? What remains unconfirmed, and why does transparency matter so much here?

Dr. Ryan Cole: Well, obviously there was a tragic death in a young woman, and our hearts go out to her family. However, it was not plague from what we understand so far. I think it’s important to realize it’s already flu and cold and low vitamin D season in the part of Siberia where she lives. Yes, she worked in a plague laboratory. However, all the tests have not confirmed that it was plague, and those laboratories have very strict procedures. If there’s any lab accident, they’re already in protective gear, and they would be placed on prophylactic antibiotics right away. So the media is running with a story without any evidence.

Jan Jeffcoat: So how did this come about? Was there some type of a report that came out? And why aren’t we getting more transparency, do you think?

Dr. Ryan Cole: Well, it did come out on a social media Telegram channel from a supposed political figure in an adjoining province. So there’s basically a lot of running with a story without a lot of evidence. I think the Russians have been reasonably forward with the information they’ve provided so far. Yes, they isolated 200 people, 90% of whom have been released already, just out of precaution. But there’s no evidence that it’s spread. It’s not an outbreak when one person passes. So there’s a lot of verbiage and hype and wording on social media without any evidence to back it.

Jan Jeffcoat: And if it was pneumonic plague, how would it spread, how is it treated, and does a quarantine automatically mean the public is facing a broader outbreak?

Dr. Ryan Cole: No. It’s very difficult to spread from one person to another. Just rare cases have been reported, even with droplets. One would have to be exposed to heavy amounts of rodents and fleas. This is a research laboratory that’s been around for almost 100 years. It’s in a plague area, but it’s a treatable disease when caught early. Once it gets to the pneumonia phase, you have to treat with antibiotics right away. Otherwise it can be fatal, but it’s not readily spread person to person.

Jan Jeffcoat: And people are also seeing posts about an experimental mRNA plague vaccine and assuming it must be connected to this case. So what does the research actually show, what does it not show, and why is that distinction so critical here?

Dr. Ryan Cole: Great question. Yeah, it is in development, but it’s only in animal models so far, not approved for humans. Would I ever take an mRNA vaccine? Never. There’s just too many risks to it. Look, plague exists on every continent except for Australia, and there are outbreaks every year. About 2,000 people a year get plague. The majority of deaths have actually been in the Congo and in Madagascar, 98% of the 400 deaths. So it’s very, very rare. It’s ubiquitous in the environment, and it’s something we don’t worry about because we’re not generally exposed to those rodents and fleas that carry it. It’s even in the region where I live.

Jan Jeffcoat: Which is the Northwest.

Dr. Ryan Cole: Yeah, yeah, it is.

Jan Jeffcoat: So you’re saying we should be watchful, not fearful. So after the failures of COVID, what should Americans rightly demand from health authorities, and what questions should they ask before believing a viral headline?

Dr. Ryan Cole: Well, we were certainly allowed to ask questions at first, but conclusions were drawn before evidence was present. So what we must demand is evidence. And so don’t live in fear. Try to keep yourself healthy. This is just more hype about something that’s most likely not going to affect you, and probably distracting from more important things in your life.

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Via https://imahealth.substack.com/p/russia-plague-mystery-separating

RFK Jr. Announces New Clinic For People Injured By Vaccines

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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other officials have opened a new clinic to treat patients with vaccine injuries and announced other new developments on Oct. 8 that they say will change how the government handles reports of health problems following vaccination.

The new National Institutes of Health (NIH) clinic is located on the agency’s campus in Bethesda, Maryland. It was opened on Oct. 5, officials disclosed on Thursday. Reporters were not invited to the opening.

The Make America Healthy Again Commission, led by Kennedy, recommended in 2025 starting a new vaccine injury research program at the NIH as part of an effort to investigate vaccine injuries with better data collection and analysis.

The clinic is “dedicated to developing the science of preventing vaccine injuries, making vaccines safer, and most important of all, listening to the voices of people who have suffered vaccine injury, so that we can learn from them and learn from their experience to make vaccines safer,” Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, the NIH’s director, said in an Oct. 8 video statement.

NIH doctors and researchers will use the clinic to evaluate patients, identify potential causes of health problems, and try to figure out the best treatments, the Department of Health and Human Services, which Kennedy leads and is the NIH’s parent agency, said in a statement.

Some NIH researchers studied patients with alleged or confirmed COVID-19 vaccine injuries during the pandemic, but received pushback from NIH leadership. Patients said they were later abandoned by the researchers.

Kennedy, who attended the opening of the clinic, said in a video he posted on Thursday that parents of children who suffered injuries from vaccines, and other individuals with vaccine injuries, “have been marginalized, vilified, demonized, and gaslighted, and they have not received the medical attention they need, and we have not done the studies that need to be done to understand who’s vulnerable to those kind of injuries.”

That’s changing with the Trump administration, he added later.

“I think it was the first time in years that the vaccine-injured have been heard by the health authorities,” Brianne Dressen, who was injured by the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, treated at the NIH in 2021, and co-founded a group called React19 representing people hurt by vaccines, told The Epoch Times.

“It is definitely a step in the right direction,” added Dressen, who attended the opening.

Other Developments

Health officials also announced three other related developments on Thursday.

Kennedy has said that vaccine surveillance systems the government utilizes, including the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), don’t work well. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, another agency under Kennedy’s purview, in August solicited bids for a contract to overhaul VAERS, and on Sept. 28 awarded a new contract.

Another move, officials said, will be requiring electronic health records moving forward to include vaccine-related health issues, “so that this information can follow patients across the health care system” and inform health care professionals who are caring for the patients.

Finally, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, another health agency division, is proposing reimbursing doctors for time they spend submitting reports to VAERS.

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Via https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/rfk-jr-announces-new-clinic-people-injured-vaccines

Democratic lawmaker asks Congress to cut short its recess, end US war against Iran

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US Representative Ro Khanna of California

Press TV

2026/10/09

A US Democratic lawmaker has demanded that Congress cut short its recess and return to Washington to vote on ending the American war of aggression against Iran, as fuel prices at home continue to climb.

“I’m demanding that Congress return to Washington and vote to end the war,” Representative Ro Khanna wrote on X.

In a post on X late Thursday, Representative Ro Khanna of California wrote: “The war in Iran continues and Congress is on vacation until November. Gas prices are well over $4. Diesel prices are over $6. I’m demanding that Congress return to Washington and vote to end the war.”

Khanna has repeatedly described the US-Israeli offensive, launched without congressional authorization in late February, as illegal and unstrategic.

Earlier, he said that if Democrats regain the House in the November midterms, ending the war would be among their first priorities.

In a September post, he listed five measures Democrats would pursue in January: raising the minimum wage, passing paid family leave, ending the war in Iran, holding a vote on Medicare for All, and taxing billionaires.

The House has already approved war-powers resolutions aimed at halting the operation on multiple occasions, most recently on 16 September by a 220-204 vote, with seven Republicans joining Democrats. None of the measures has reached the president’s desk.

Representative Seth Moulton of Massachusetts, a combat veteran who advanced the latest resolution, said the war “has not only failed, but backfired,” adding: “Remember when Donald Trump said that this war would last just a few weeks?”

Representative Gregory Meeks of New York, the ranking Democrat on the Foreign Affairs Committee, stated during floor debate: “This Congress has not authorized a war with Iran, and yet this administration has kept our troops in harm’s way without a declaration of war, without an authorization from Congress and without any plan for how to win or end the war.”

Even some Republicans have voiced unease over the domestic costs.

Iowa Representative Zach Nunn, who voted for the September resolution, said “sustained combat operations now require congressional authorization” and that he would “not support another open-ended war.”

Senator Maria Cantwell of Washington, after a failed Senate effort to force an end to hostilities, said: “The costs of President Trump’s unnecessary war with Iran continue to mount, and the American people want it to end. We have lost valuable lives, and the conflict is compounding the burden of high gas and grocery prices at home.”

Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland earlier told colleagues: “We should take a stand today and end this war, and we should finally start putting the interests of the American people ahead of costly and unnecessary conflicts.”

The US-Israeli strikes constitute an unlawful act of aggression, and Iran retains the right to defend its territory and sovereignty.

Despite months of bombardment, Iranian officials say the country’s defensive capabilities and energy exports have not been neutralized, while American households face elevated fuel and food costs that lawmakers themselves now cite as a reason to stop the war.

The midterm elections on November 3 will decide all House seats and roughly one-third of the Senate, offering voters a direct verdict on the administration’s handling of the conflict.

Via https://www.presstv.co.uk/Detail/2026/10/09/777927/Democratic-lawmaker-asks-Congress-to-cut-short-its-recess,-end-US-war-against-Iran

NYC mayor demands end to ICE operations after agents shoot man with child in car

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Protesters gather near the shooting scene where a man accompanying his 5-year-old son was targeted by ICE agents in the Bronx borough of New York on October 8, 2026. (Photo by AFP)

Press TV

2026/10/09

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has demanded an immediate end to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations in the city after federal agents shot a man in the Bronx while a five-year-old child was inside his vehicle.

Mamdani issued a statement on Thursday evening, calling the shooting “unconscionable” and saying he had contacted President Donald Trump to demand an immediate end to all ICE enforcement operations in New York City.

“This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation,” Mamdani said. “I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.”

The shooting occurred around 4 pm on Thursday in the Marble Hill neighborhood. Mamdani said several details remained unclear but condemned ICE for endangering families on a crowded street shortly after school had ended.

The mayor said ICE agents surrounded the man’s vehicle while wearing construction vests and masks that concealed their faces, making it difficult to identify them as federal officers.

“We know that ICE is rotten to its core,” he said, stating that the agency was operating with impunity and spreading “chaos and terror”.

Mamdani said he had spent two hours speaking with Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin in an unsuccessful attempt to secure the injured man’s release. He said ICE agents subsequently removed the man in an unmarked vehicle.

Anti-ICE demonstrators gathered outside NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital, where the injured man was receiving treatment, the New York Post reported.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul joined mounting criticism of federal immigration agents following the shooting, condemning “a pattern of violence by ICE and demanding immediate answers from federal authorities.” Hochul, said she had also spoken with Trump over the incident.

“New Yorkers have witnessed far too many acts of violence by a rogue federal agency and untrained agents that operate with impunity,” Hochul said. “Federal authorities need to provide answers, and they must do so immediately.”

The man shot by ICE was identified as 28-year-old Oscar Belgal, a Dominican Republic national. He was in his car with a five-year-old boy, believed by police to be his son, when federal agents opened fire.

New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said a plainclothes ICE agent approached the driver’s-side window with his gun drawn, while another stood near the vehicle’s headlight. The car then moved forward. Evidence collected at the scene showed that at least one ICE agent fired seven rounds, Tisch said, striking Belgal in the neck below his left ear.

Federal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officers had been involved in at least 30 shootings during Trump’s second administration, including several fatal incidents, a CBS News analysis found.

In January, federal agents shot and killed two US citizens, Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti, in Minneapolis amid an intensified immigration crackdown. Last month, an ICE officer shot and wounded Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez, a Venezuelan DoorDash delivery driver, in Austin, Texas.

Via https://www.presstv.co.uk/Detail/2026/10/09/777954/Mayor-Mamdani-Urges-Trump-Order-ICE-New-York-Exit–

Secret CIA report warns Israel on brink of civil war, political collapse

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People gather to stage protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government as they gather at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, Israel on June 6, 2026. [Gideon Markowicz - Anadolu Agency]

People gather to stage protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government as they gather at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, Israel on June 6, 2026. [Gideon Markowicz – Anadolu Agency]

Middle East Monitor
Oct 6, 2026

US sources said a secret assessment by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) warned that Israel risks sliding into civil war or political collapse amid growing political, economic and social divisions after years of wars in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran.

According to two sources who spoke to the US-based Drop Site News, the report was prepared in August under the title “Fracture From Within” by experts from the CIA’s Red Cell, a unit that conducts forward-looking assessments and analysis outside traditional frameworks.

The assessment appears to focus only on Jewish citizens in Israel and does not take into account Arab citizens, who make up about 20 per cent of the country’s population. The CIA did not respond to a request for comment.

CIA experts pointed to a volatile mix of pressures converging ahead of Israel’s 27th October election, including an economic crisis and increased military spending; the return of heavily armed veterans from prolonged fighting, many of whom are suffering from severe psychological trauma; growing anger over exemptions from military service for ultra-Orthodox men; rising settler violence in the occupied West Bank; and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s struggle to retain power, which the report said is fuelling a constitutional crisis.

The CIA’s Red Cells are tasked with producing analysis and ideas that challenge prevailing assumptions and expose groupthink or blind spots within the intelligence agency.

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Via https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20261006-secret-cia-report-warns-israel-is-on-brink-of-civil-war-political-collapse/

Trump administration bars OSCE international election observers

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2026/10/08

The Trump administration has barred OSCE election observers from the upcoming US midterm elections.

For the first time in more than two decades, the administration of US President Donald Trump has declined to invite international election observers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) to monitor the upcoming midterm elections, drawing criticism from election experts and human rights groups.

The decision means OSCE observers will be absent from the US midterm elections — scheduled to be held in November — for the first time since 2002.

The move comes as Democrats and election-integrity experts have expressed worries about potential election meddling, particularly after the Justice Department announced plans to deploy its own poll monitors.

The OSCE has already described the decision “regrettable,” stressing that it “is not in line” with existing US commitments to other participating countries, which have agreed to invite election observers.

Human rights organizations have warned the move fuels fears of serious human rights concerns around the upcoming elections.

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, also alerted that the decision by the White House “risks undermining public trust in America’s safe and secure election system.”

“The Trump administration’s decision not to invite international observers to the United States is deeply antithetical to the spirit of freedom, democracy and transparency that defines our elections,” she stressed.

Shaheen added that the US should hold “itself to the same standards that we would expect of any other democracy.”

This is while a State Department spokesperson defended the decision, saying the OSCE “should focus its limited resources on elections where it can have the greatest impact.”

The OSCE has monitored every US federal election since 2002, including the 2018 midterms during Trump’s first term and the 2024 election, which it deemed “well-run” with candidates campaigning “freely across the country.”

Its observers typically visit polling stations and report on how elections are conducted, without interfering or having enforcement powers.

“Refusing election observers is usually something that countries in a position of weakness do, when they know that they have corrupt or unfair elections,” said Dan Baer, a former US ambassador to the OSCE during the administration of former American president Barak Obama.

“It’s very strange for the United States, which has been historically a standard setter in free and fair elections, to refuse observers,” he noted.

Trump has been campaigning across the country for Republican candidates as the party seeks to maintain its political advantage.

Republicans in some traditionally conservative areas have also faced signs of weakening support, while some members of the party have sought to distance themselves from Trump on issues such as immigration.

With the midterm elections approaching, the extent to which Trump’s declining approval translates into voting behavior could have significant consequences for the balance of power in Washington.

Via https://www.presstv.co.uk/Detail/2026/10/08/777868/US-Trump-OSCE-observers-midterms-Democrats-Shaheen-Baer

Pakistani jets strike Yemen as Turkiye deploys hundreds of troops to support Saudi war

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The Cradle

OCT 8, 2026

Turkish media reports that Syrian army fighters have also been deployed to back Saudi Arabia’s proxies inside Yemen

Pakistani fighter jets have been attacking Ansarallah-led Yemeni army forces following the activation this week of a defense pact between Riyadh, Islamabad, and Ankara, reports on 7 and 8 October said.

“Pakistan Air Force fighter jets were being used in strikes” this week against the Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF), a senior Pakistani military official told the New York Times (NYT) on Wednesday.

Pakistani military spokesman Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry told CNN that Islamabad’s forces are in the kingdom. “The forces of Pakistan are already there. That I can share with you,” he said.

At least 8,000 Pakistani troops have been deployed to Saudi Arabia this year as part of the defense pact, as well as fighter jets, Reuters reporting from earlier this year had already confirmed.

The New Arab cited experts as saying this week that “Pakistan could concentrate on territorial defense and military support inside Saudi Arabia, while Turkey provides capabilities including surveillance, air defense and drones.”

According to the Turkiye Gazetesi, more than 200 military personnel, along with significant quantities of Turkish electronic warfare systems and ground- and air-defense missiles, have been transferred to Saudi Arabia since the Mecca pact was formed.

Turkish defense systems are reportedly being used extensively against Ansarallah and enhance the Saudi-backed Yemeni army’s combat capabilities.

The Turkish report also says hundreds of Syrian army fighters have been deployed to the Saudi-backed side in Yemen.

Meanwhile, it claims the “Shia front has become active,” and that fighters from Lebanon, Iraq, and Iran have been entering Yemen to join the Ansarallah-led side.

The report coincides with a heavy Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) retaliatory campaign of missile and drone strikes against Saudi Arabia’s military and energy sites.

Aramco infrastructure, including refineries and storage sites, as well as military bases and sites inside the kingdom that are used to attack Yemen, have been repeatedly targeted in recent days.

Heavy clashes inside Yemen are ongoing as well, as Ansarallah-led forces clash with the kingdom’s proxies in a bid to expel the Saudi-led coalition from the country.

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Via https://thecradle.co/articles/pakistani-jets-strike-yemen-as-turkiye-deploys-hundreds-of-troops-to-support-saudi-war-report

Iran transfers $200m to Hezbollah to support displaced Lebanese families

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The Cradle
OCT 8, 2026

Washington refuted the report and claimed Tehran ‘does not have money’ to support its allies in the Axis of Resistance

Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah has received $200 million from Iran to help alleviate the suffering of displaced civilians uprooted from their homes by Israel’s brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing in Lebanon, Reuters reported exclusively on 7 October.

“Hezbollah has received $200 million from Iran to help Lebanese displaced by [Israel’s war] … Hezbollah received the cash last month despite a tightening US economic chokehold on Iran and increasing difficulties in getting funds to Tehran’s [allies],” sources said.

“Intermediaries ​who moved the money charged a 20 percent fee, reflecting the risks of dealing with [Hezbollah],” they added.

This is reportedly four times the normal fee.

Reuters, citing what it said was a “Hezbollah official,” said that “an amount had been secured and a plan for distributing it would be announced in the coming days.”

The Iranian Foreign Ministry, Iran’s UN mission, and the Lebanese state did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Washington refuted the report. The money is “not there,” a State Department spokesman said.

Hezbollah is “trying to save face with fake stories about cash influxes from Iran,” the spokesman went on to claim.

“The US will continue to strangle Hezbollah’s finances through sanctions while supporting the ability of Lebanon’s legitimate government to rebuild the south.”

Iran is “running out of money and ways to move money” and “does not have money to fund its campaign of terror,” said a Treasury spokesperson.

Washington has continued to impose sanctions on both Hezbollah and the Islamic Republic.

Hezbollah’s leader Naim Qassem had said last month that the resistance would soon help provide housing to displaced civilians using “available resources and donations.”

Israel’s brutal war on Lebanon has resulted in the killing of thousands, the displacement of hundreds of thousands, and the destruction of entire villages along the border.

Tel Aviv has vowed to continue its occupation, ethnic cleansing, and destruction of civilian infrastructure – and openly threatens to prevent the displaced from returning to their towns.

Reconstruction funds from regional countries have been contingent on Hezbollah’s disarmament, which the resistance movement rejects.

In June this year, the Lebanese government agreed to an unconstitutional framework agreement during direct talks with Israel, brokered by Washington and carried out in violation of Lebanon’s laws.

The deal stipulates that Hezbollah must surrender its arms before occupation forces withdraw. Hezbollah, its allies, and other segments of Lebanese society have rejected it.

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Via https://thecradle.co/articles/iran-transfers-200m-to-hezbollah-to-support-displaced-lebanese-families-report

Huckabee aide suppressed, doctored US cables to whitewash Israeli crimes

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The Cradle

OCT 8, 2026

Reports on slain Palestinian US citizens and rampant settler violence were buried or rewritten to praise Netanyahu instead

A senior aide to US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has been blocking and rewriting embassy reports to Washington to whitewash Israeli crimes in the occupied West Bank and Gaza, the New York Times reported on 8 October.

David Milstein, who joined the US embassy in Jerusalem in April 2025 and serves as a de facto chief of staff to Huckabee, oversees much of the mission’s work on the West Bank and Gaza.

According to a dozen people who deal with him in Jerusalem and Washington, he has used that role to repeatedly suppress or doctor cables on illegal Israeli settlement expansion, settler attacks, the killings of Palestinian US citizens, and deadly aid distribution in Gaza.

Among the reports Milstein buried was a March embassy review of the killings of nine Palestinian US citizens by Israeli settlers and soldiers in the West Bank over four years. The latest, 19-year-old Nasrallah Abu Siyam, was shot dead by a settler in February as he tried to stop the theft of his village’s livestock.

The review was compiled after 30 members of Congress, led by Senator Chris Van Hollen, pressed Secretary of State Marco Rubio for answers. It found that most investigations had gone nowhere, some had been closed, and not one person had been charged.

Rather than send it, Milstein pushed for a reply assuring lawmakers that Israel was handling the cases properly. The State Department letter that reached Van Hollen on 4 May withheld the findings, pointing instead to the embassy’s wartime focus on security cooperation with Israel.

“If you don’t get accountability, you endanger more American citizens,” Van Hollen said.

In the summer of 2025, Palestinians seeking food were being shot dead en masse at the sites of the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a US-Israeli scheme that turned aid distribution into a death trap and killed at least 1,400 aid seekers.

As the killing went on, embassy diplomats warned Washington that the operation risked further mass casualties; however, Milstein rewrote the cable to hail it as a success, erasing the dead from the record entirely.

In April – after senior Israeli commanders warned that surging Israeli settler attacks across the occupied West Bank could spark a new Palestinian uprising – Milstein blocked staff reports relaying the warning, and Washington instead received a cable under his name crediting Netanyahu with cracking down on the violence.

In February, when Israel revoked long-standing legal barriers to Israeli land purchases in the occupied West Bank, a move condemned internationally as fast-tracking annexation, the embassy told Washington the policy served settlers’ “humanitarian needs,” without explaining further.

Milstein also reportedly subjected colleagues to loyalty tests, demanding to know whether they were “pro-Israel” or “pro-Hamas,” four officials said, leaving staff afraid to speak.

Under his watch, some stopped writing reports altogether rather than see them censored, and cables on Palestinian affairs dwindled from several a week to a handful a month.

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