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@ron_jost The US is a little baby compared to Europe, and it even acts like a little baby when it doesn't get what it wants. The way you talk about NATO, you never did that. You fought with them in Afg.. For every 2 US soldiers killed, 1 NATO soldier died and 20+ Afghan soldiers died. 2/

This is a very noteworthy evolution in attribution and mobilization under counterterrorism law: “It makes no legal difference if the current leader of Hezbollah himself, Naim Qassem, called this man and told him to attack Temple Israel or whether he simply heeded Hezbollah’s call to kill Jews and in his words burn their world,” US Attorney Jerome Gorgon stated at the FBI Detroit field office press conference. Justice is aggressively pushing the operational boundary between bespoke tasking and autonomous execution of a terrorist organization's standing call to violence, treating ideological alignment combined with operational planning as functionally equivalent to a direct command. This is public prosecutorial signaling rather than a clean shift in established legal doctrine. FBI described Ghazali's intent, target selection, and intensive consumption of propaganda, [fbi.gov/contact-us/fie…]. However, investigators confirmed they found no accomplices and could not verify Ghazali as an official Hezbollah member or direct coordination with the FTO. Because this shows ideological mobilization rather than evidence of handler control, it appears Gorgon is staking out the government’s most aggressive interpretive posture for this specific fact pattern yet. This is a fundamentally more aggressive posture than the standard ISIS playbook, and is effectively a first of its kind public formulation. In most ISIS prosecutions, even “inspired” actors were still tied, however thinly, to some recognizable form of attempted support, whether through pledges of allegiance, outreach to operatives or intermediaries, efforts to obtain guidance, or other acts prosecutors could characterize as services rendered to the organization. In the 2026 New Year’s Eve case out of North Carolina, for example, DOJ alleged that the defendant pledged allegiance to ISIS, consumed and distributed ISIS propaganda, and planned attacks in its support, but the charging language still rested on “attempting to provide material support” rather than publicly collapsing independent action into “direction and control” as such, [justice.gov/opa/pr/fbi-dis…]. In the Gracie Mansion case, DOJ likewise framed the defendants as “inspired by ISIS” while alleging they attempted to detonate IEDs during a protest, again using the attempt-to-support formulation rather than publicly asserting that ideological uptake alone rendered them legally equivalent to directly tasked operatives, [justice.gov/opa/pr/two-isi…]. Earlier cases such as the Idaho church-attack plot, where DOJ emphasized that the defendant swore an oath of loyalty to ISIS and planned an attack in its name, gave prosecutors a stronger factual hook than mere propaganda consumption alone, [justice.gov/archives/opa/p…]. The Temple Israel case appears to stand out. The FBI emphasized propaganda consumption, target research, intent, and preattack recordings, but investigators have not yet found accomplices and cannot verify Hezbollah membership or direct coordination. Yet Gorgon still publicly said there was “no legal difference” between a direct order from Naim Qassem and simply heeding Hezbollah’s public call. So while this is not the first case in which DOJ charged a self-authorized FTO aligned actor under a material support theory, this appears to be a first of its kind public articulation of the theory that ideological mobilization plus operationalization may itself be enough to function as the equivalent of direction and control. This is a notable signal the DOJ is moving aggressively to confront stochastic violence at the level of attribution theory.

Thank you @KidRock. @USArmy pilots suspension LIFTED. No punishment. No investigation. Carry on, patriots. 🇺🇸

@BillMelugin_ @monnakll CBP One App was rolled out in Oct of 2020. So Trump created the app.