June 2012: Christian missionaries are apparently stealing Israeli government materials in their attempts to disseminate their propanganda both in Israel and abroad. The city of Kfar Saba recently discovered that a missionary event being held in Australia distributed an invitation upon which the Kfar Saba municipal crest fraudulently appeared, together with the symbols of the three messianic churches organizing the event.
Kfar Saba clarified that it never gave any missionary organization permission to use its symbol, nor does it have any connection to the event in question. “This involves the illegal use of the city’s logo,” a spokeswoman stated. “The municipality views this with the utmost gravity and will take all legal means at its disposal.” The source of the misappropriation of the city’s symbol was apparently a local missionary who attended the event in Australia, according to the Yad L’Achim anti-missionary organization.

A similar theft of government identity for use in dissemination of missionary materials took place recently in Israel. Yad L’Achim recently sent an urgent letter to Israel’s Water Authority after it learned that one of the authority’s employees was distributing missionary booklets in official government envelopes identifying the sender as “The State of Israel.” “Recently, booklets claiming to offer information on ‘A Better Life’ have been distributed around the country,” Yad L’Achim stated. “We are talking about a mystical missionary cult that originated in Turkey and draws from strange religions whose members seek to enlist more people into its ranks. The booklet was distributed by Mr. …, one of your employees, via the Water Authority. You are being used to distribute this material, with which you clearly have no connection, but which causes serious damage.”

The response from the Water Authority was quick in coming. “In light of your letter, the director of the authority ordered a hearing for the worker. It was made clear to him that he violated the rules of service in the public sector and that significant disciplinary measures would be considered against him. The Water Authority will do everything in its power to ensure that such events do not repeat themselves.” Yad L’Achim commented that “once again it has been proven that the missionaries won’t desist from any means to entrap innocent Jews and get them to leave their religion” and stated that it would continue to act to torpedo the deceptive actions of missionaries, using all the legitimate means at its disposal.

August 18, 2011: Christians make up more than a third of the 53,700 Iraqis resettled in the United States since 2007, according to State Department statistics. US Federal officials busted a drug trafficking ring involving Mexico’s most powerful cartel and members of an Iraqi immigrant community in the U.S. who were caught selling illegal drugs, assault rifles, grenades and homemade explosives.

Authorities seized 18 pounds of methamphetamine, narcotics, cocaine and other drugs; more than 3,500 pounds of marijuana; $630,000 in cash; four IEDs; and more than 30 guns, including assault rifles.

About 60 people from the Iraqi community were arrested after a six-month investigation carried out by the Drug Enforcement Administration and police in the city of El Cajon, a working-class city east of San Diego. Many of the suspects are Iraqi Chaldean Christians who fled their homeland amid threats from al-Qaida and other extremists. Police stated at least some of those arrested are suspected of being affiliated with the Chaldean Organized Crime Syndicate, an Iraqi gang based in Detroit.

About half of the 60 arrested face federal charges and half face state charges. Some are also illegal immigrants but officials declined to say whether they will be deported. Officials believe the weapons and explosives were meant to be sold locally and there were no indications the group was supplying Mexico’s most violent cartel with weapons for use in that country’s drug war, which has claimed at least 35,000 lives.

Authorities stated the suspects were working out of an Iraqi social club in El Cajon and shipping drugs supplied by Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa cartel to Detroit, home to the largest Chaldean population in the United States, according to the federal indictment. El Cajon has the second largest Chaldean population.

Officials were tipped off after neighbours and even some of the club members’ spouses complained for years about the establishment’s criminal activity, which has included attempted murder, sales of meth and marijuana, gambling and illegal firearms sales. In April, a DEA undercover operative was shown a hand grenade by one of the Iraqis and was told additional grenades were available from a Mexican military source.

William R. Sherman, acting special agent in charge in the DEA’s San Diego division, stated the ring was going to sell a portion of the 3,500 pounds of marijuana, believed to belong to the Sinaloa cartel led by Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, who has become one of the world’s richest and most-wanted men since he escaped from a Mexican prison 10 years ago.

Officials state the Chaldean syndicate has historical ties to the Sinaloa cartel but they state they did not know the origins of those ties. Over the past two decades, Mexican smugglers helped many of the Chaldeans reach the United States. The descendants of the ancient inhabitants of Mesopotamia what is now Iraq, fled their homeland to escape persecution for their Christianity. Hundreds passed through Tijuana on their way to California.

Four indictments were unsealed charging nine people with federal narcotics and weapons trafficking charges and the unlawful possession of various firearms and explosives. One of the suspects, Nofel Noel Suleyman, was also charged with engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, which carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 20 years in prison.

The club had armed guards at high-stakes card games and its managers were aware of the criminal activity, demanding a cut of the money, according to authorities. The establishment’s troubles go back to 1998 when police seized illegal slot machines. Four years ago, authorities identified it as a hot spot for Iraqi drug deals and two years later started investigating it for selling weapons and explosives.

Sinaloa has grown bloodier and more powerful in recent years, controlling cocaine trafficking on the Mexican border with California, while expanding eastward to the corridor between Sonora and Arizona and waging a fierce battle for Chihuahua state bordering Texas. That war made the border city of Ciudad Juarez one of the world’s most dangerous cities.

In October 2010, Mexico made its largest marijuana bust of 134 tons in Tijuana and stated markings on the packages linked the haul to El Chapo, showing that he was also running drugs smoothly through a city once controlled by his archrivals, the Arrellano Felix gang.

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May 11, 2011: Belgian woman Michelle Martin was granted parole after 15 years in jail and was to go to a Catholic convent in France. Martin who helped her husband Marc Dutroux abuse and kill young girls won’t be allowed to live in France.

Martin was sentenced to 30 years for her role in the death of two 8 year olds held by her then-husband Marc Dutroux in the 1990s. Dutroux was sentenced to life for abducting, imprisoning and raping six girls. He was found guilty of murdering two and two others starved to death.

French Justice Minister Michel Mercier stated France won’t monitor her Belgian parole conditions. She’ll remain in jail until another solution is found. Mercier stated no formal request from Belgium had been received and he wouldn’t approve one if it came.

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