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January 07, 2022

The Night the CIA Bombed a Chinese Embassy in Belgrade

Jonathan Barber
7JAN2022

It was close to midnight and Vlada, a Serbian engineer, was speeding towards his apartment in Belgrade. He had taken his 20-year-old son out that evening but bombs had started to fall across the Yugoslav capital. The power grid was down and he wanted to get home. Nato, the world's most powerful military alliance, had been pummelling Yugoslavia from the skies since late March to try to bring a halt to atrocities committed by President Slobodan Milosevic's forces against ethnic Albanians in the province of Kosovo. It was now 7 May 1999 and the US-dominated air campaign was only growing more intense.

Vlada's family had spent many nights in recent weeks huddled with others in the basement of their apartment building as air raid sirens blared outside, praying that an errant missile wouldn't strike their homes. They were lucky, some thought, to live just next to the Chinese embassy - an important diplomatic mission. Being there would surely protect them. But as Vlada and his son approached the glass doors of their building in the dark, US B-2 stealth warplanes were in the skies above Belgrade. They were locked-on to the precise co-ordinates of a target selected and cleared by the CIA. All Vlada heard at first was the whoosh of an incoming missile. There was no time to move. The doors shattered, spraying glass at them. "The force of the first bomb lifted us off the ground and we fell… Then one after the other [more bombs landed] - bam, bam, bam. All the shutters on the block were ripped off by the blast, it broke all the windows." They were terrified but uninjured. All five bombs had hit the embassy, 100 metres away. The US and Nato were already facing scrutiny over mounting civilian casualties in a bombing campaign conducted without UN authorisation and fiercely opposed by China and Russia. They had now attacked a symbol of Chinese sovereignty in the heart of the Balkans.

Across town, Shen Hong, a well-connected Chinese businessman, was getting word that the embassy had been hit. He refused to believe it. Just a few days earlier, his father had phoned from Shanghai and joked that his son should park his new Mercedes at the diplomatic compound to keep it safe. "I called a policeman who I knew and he said, 'Yes, Shen, it's really hit'. He said come right away, so then I knew it was real, it was true." He arrived to a scene of chaos. The embassy was burning; workers covered in blood and dust were climbing out of windows to escape. Politicians close to Milosevic - who had been charged two weeks earlier with crimes against humanity by an international tribunal - were already arriving to denounce the bombing as the latest example of NATO barbarity. "We could not go inside. There was a lot of smoke, there wasn't any electricity and we couldn't see anything. It was horrible," said Shen. He spotted the cultural attaché, a man he knew, who had knotted together curtains to get out of a first-floor window. "We didn't see that he was injured and he didn't notice it either. It was only when I shook his hand that I realized my hands were covered in blood. I told him 'you're injured, you're injured!' - but when he saw this he passed out."

The next day Shen would learn that two close friends - newlywed journalists Xu Xinghu, 31, and Zhu Ying, 27 - had been killed by a bomb that hit the sleeping quarters of the embassy. Their bodies were found under a collapsed wall. The pair had worked for the Guangming (Enlightenment) Daily - a communist party newspaper. Xu, a language graduate who spoke fluent Serbian, had chronicled life in Belgrade during the bombings in a series of special reports called "Living Under Gunfire". Zhu Ying worked as an art editor in the paper's advertising department. Her mother collapsed with grief and was sent to hospital when she learned of her daughter's death so Zhu's father travelled alone to Belgrade to see the body. A third journalist, 48-year-old Shao Yunhuan, of the Xinhua news agency, also died. Her husband, Cao Rongfei, was blinded. The embassy's military attaché, who is believed to have run an intelligence cell from the building, was sent back to China in a coma. In total, three people were killed and at least 20 injured. For Shen, this was an act of war. The next day he led a protest through the streets of Belgrade carrying a sign reading "NATO: Nazi American Terrorist Organization". It was a sign of what was to come.

Within hours of the bombing, two competing narratives began to emerge. They would harden over the coming months and form the basis of how the incident - which continues to linger over the US-China relationship - remains debated today. The bombing fueled speculation, and there was no shortage of unanswered questions and missing pieces that were put together by some to imply a grand conspiracy. Intrigue continued to hang over the incident and, months afterwards, two respected European newspapers suggested the strikes were by design. But, as former NATO officials point out, in 20 years no clear evidence has come to light proving what almost all of China believes and America strenuously denies: that it was deliberate. In those first hours after the bombs fell, the US and NATO wasted no time to announce that it was an accident. China's representative at the UN, meanwhile, denounced a "crime of war" and a "barbarian act".

In Brussels, Jamie Shea - the British NATO spokesman who became the public face of the war - was woken up in the middle of the night and told he would have to face the world's press in the morning. The information available in those early hours was thin but he would give one of the first explanations of what had happened, along with an apology. The warplanes, he said from the briefing podium, had "struck the wrong building". "It's like a train accident or a car crash - you know what has happened but what you don't know is why it has happened," he says 20 years later. "That took a lot longer to establish… But it was clear right from the get-go, that targeting a foreign embassy was not part of the NATO plan." It would take more than a month for the US to give Beijing a full explanation: that a series of basic errors had led to five GPS-guided bombs striking China's embassy - including one that hurtled through the roof of the ambassador's residence next to the main building but didn't explode, likely sparing his life. The real target, officials said, was the headquarters of the Yugoslav Federal Directorate for Supply and Procurement (FDSP) - a state agency that imported and exported defense equipment. The grey office building is still there today - hundreds of meters down the road from the embassy site. NATO had initially hoped the bombing campaign would only last a few days until Milosevic gave up, pulled his forces out of Kosovo and allowed peacekeepers in. But by the time the embassy was hit it had stretched to more than six weeks. In the rush to find hundreds of new targets to sustain the aerial assault, the CIA, which was not normally involved in target-picking, had decided the FDSP should be struck. But America's premier intelligence agency said it had used a bad map. "In simple terms, one of our planes attacked the wrong target because the bombing instructions were based on an outdated map," US defense secretary William Cohen said two days after the bombing. He was referring to a US government map that apparently did not show the correct location of the Chinese embassy nor the FDSP. All US intelligence officers had was an address for the FDSP - 2 Bulevar Umetnosti - and a basic military navigation technique was used to approximate its co-ordinates. The technique used was so imprecise, CIA chief George Tenet later said, that it should never have been used to pick out a target for aerial bombing. To compound the initial error, Tenet said, intelligence and military databases used to cross-check targets did not have the embassy's new location listed, despite the fact that many US diplomats had actually been inside the building. Had anyone on the ground visited the site to be bombed they would have found a gated compound, a five-story building with a green-tiled oriental sloped roof, a bronze plaque announcing the embassy's presence and a large, bright red Chinese flag fluttering more than 10 meters in the air.

The crux of the CIA's explanation was hard for many to believe: the world's most advanced military had bombed a fellow UN Security Council member and one of the most vocal opponents of the NATO air campaign because of a mapping error. China was having none of it. The story, it said, was "not convincing". "The Chinese government and people cannot accept the conclusion that the bombing was a mistake," the foreign minister told a US envoy sent to Beijing in June 1999 to explain what had happened.

But why would the US intentionally attack China?

It wasn't long after the Sun rose on the morning of Saturday, 8 May 1999, that David Rank, a US diplomat, got out of bed in Beijing. He turned on the television and switched to CNN. The American news network was carrying live pictures of the smoldering Chinese embassy in pitch-dark Belgrade. By that afternoon, thousands of irate Chinese protesters would be gathered outside. But Rank, at that stage, was fairly calm. He rang his boss, the head of the political section: "I said, you know, Jim, this is the damndest thing."
The diplomat rushed from his residence to the embassy down the road, where US officials were trying to figure out what had happened. Something had clearly gone wrong but this must have been, had to have been, a tragic mistake. "It was so patently obvious that it was a sort of fog of war accident… At that point I didn't think that down the road this was going to be a major problem. Obviously, it was a major problem, but not the sort of convulsive incident that it turned out to be," said Rank. But in the next hours, the shape of how the Chinese government and people would respond started to become clear. Rank began receiving calls from liberal Chinese friends who were outraged at the bombing. American journalists got similar calls from Chinese contacts with pro-US views, expressing shock and a sense of betrayal. Chinese state media was already laying out a clear narrative - the US had breached international law by bombing a Chinese diplomatic outpost. "The language that I heard from lots and lots of Chinese, it was identical. It was the same almost word-for-word lines of real anger," said Rank.

By that afternoon thousands of students were streaming onto the streets of Beijing. They gathered outside the embassy and things quickly turned violent. "They were pulling up the paving stones. Beijing sidewalks aren't paved, they have big tiles and they were pulling those up and smashing them and throwing them over the walls." Many of those bits of concrete were crashing through the windows of a building where more than a dozen embassy staff, including US Ambassador James Sasser, had hunkered down. Embassy cars were being defaced and attacked.

The message was clear: the bombing was intentional and, as one slogan went, "the blood of Chinese must be repaid". The protests would continue the next day, with even more people - some reports said 100,000 - storming the diplomatic district, and pelting stones, paint, eggs and concrete at the British and American embassies. "We feel like we're hostages," Bill Palmer, an embassy spokesman trapped in one of the buildings, said at the time.
Demonstrations of this scale had not been seen in tightly-controlled China in the decade since students led a pro-democracy uprising in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989. This time the anger was directed away from the Communist Party but, with the 10th anniversary of the crackdown on students in Tiananmen approaching, the government had to strike a balance between giving vent to public anger and remaining in control. In a rare TV address Vice-President Hu Jintao endorsed the protests but also warned they had to remain "in accordance with the law". The uproar was not isolated to Beijing. Crowds also took to the streets of Shanghai and other cities that weekend. In central Chengdu, the US consul's residence was set alight.
Weiping Qin, a then 19-year-old student leader at the maritime college in southern Guangzhou city, said demonstrators were not informed that NATO had already apologized for what it said was an accident. "The government was hiding this important message. They didn't tell us - so young people, everybody, felt angry. We just wanted to go in the streets and protest against the United States." He said that initially students at his college were told they had to stay in their dormitories. But 24 hours after the bombing, the university leadership told him that they needed 30,000 students in the streets around the US consulate - 500 of whom would come from the maritime college. The fired-up students drew lots to choose who could attend. They were loaded onto buses and given statements to read that echoed the stilted official language being broadcast by state media. "They gave us long sentences. But in the street, to speak out in long sentences is very hard." He decided to yell slogans about the evils of NATO and the US instead. "We were just young people and we just felt angry. Our emotions came out like a wave," said Qin, who now lives in the US and criticizes the Chinese government in YouTube videos. David Rank agreed that the anger was genuine. "I think it would really sell the Chinese people short to say this was manufactured by the system," he said. "There was real outrage."

Since the early 1990s, China had embarked on a concerted campaign to instill nationalism and "patriotic education" in its people. The narrative pushed in school textbooks, university classrooms and the media was that China - home to a great and benevolent civilization - had been subjugated and humiliated at the hands of Western powers. The Belgrade embassy bombing fit the story. "The anger that ordinary Chinese felt I think can only be understood in that historical context, being socialized to resent the West," said Peter Gries, a professor of Chinese politics at Manchester University and an expert on Chinese nationalism.

For Liu Mingfu - a retired People's Liberation Army colonel known for his hardline views of the US - the embassy bombing was part of a series of events that proved the US was engaged in a "new Cold War against China". "It was totally intentional. It was a purposeful, planned bombing, rather than an accident," he said. In 1994, China was allowed entry into the WTO and I believe this incident was the main reason.

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The first family and its associates took in more than $10 million from firms run by Chinese and Romanian nationals through various deals struck by first son Hunter Biden.

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The Washington Post independently reported last year that Hunter and James Biden earned $4.8 million in total through their entities connected to CEFC China Energy.

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Eugene Yu and Konnech’s connection to the Chinese Communist Party has now been proven and well documented.

Among the plethora of products that Konnech offers, such as scheduling systems for elementary schools in the U.S. — is an app for overseas absentee voting for the U.S. military, called AbVote. Given Konnech’s recent data leaks, does this mean that any U.S. military service members abroad who download the AbVote app to their phones could potentially be having their personal data syphoned off of their phones and over to the Chinese government?

Furthermore, another service offered by Konnech, is the programming of top secret military mobilization orders and missions.

It is extremely disturbing to learn that a CCP connected software company could be providing the U.S. military with their top secret missions and mobilization orders— especially when the CEO of the CCP linked company has been known to leak sensitive data to the Chinese Communist Party. It is unknown whether this military function offered by Konnech is actively in use right now, but Konnech does currently hold defense contracts with the U.S. government in Michigan.

Moreover, the absentee voting product created by Konnech, AbVote, which is used by the U.S. military, was recently acquired by a company called Votem. Eugene Yu currently sits on the board of Votem.

Astonishingly, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) made Votem a founding partner in the DHS Security Council on Elections.

One might think that the Department of Homeland Security would have a much more rigorous vetting process than to make one of the founding partners of such an important and sensitive role — a company which has a board member that runs elections for the Chinese Communist Party — and leaks election data to the Chinese government.

This council, known as the “Election Infrastructure Subsector Coordinating Council Charter“ (EISCC), aka SCC, is an organization which describes itself as responsible for serving “as the primary liaison between the election subsector and federal, state, and local agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), concerning private election subsector security and emergency preparedness issues.”

The EICC is also tasked to facilitate the “sharing of information and intelligence about physical and cyber threats, vulnerabilities, incidents, and potential protective measures.”

Knowing what we know now about Eugene Yu, it really begs the question: why would a company with a CCP linked board member be appointed by the DHS to such a critical role in election security? Could this perhaps be a conflict of interest?

Additionally, in 2010, Konnech secured a 5.4 million dollar contract with the The Department of Defense (DoD).

According to a 2010 article, the DoD initially “declined to release the dollar amounts of the contract awards granted… citing two exceptions to federal acquisition regulations, one of which applies as long as a single contract is not expected to exceed $100,000.” However, documents show that the contract well exceeded that amount to the tune of $5,400,000.

In the 2010 article, it states that “Konnech President Eugene Yu declined to release the figure that company will be paid to deliver blank ballots for Nevada, Montana and New Jersey.” The DoD contract suggests Konnech was contracted to deliver “online marking of a precinct specific absentee ballot (including federal, State, and local elections)”.

We now know that Konnech leaked sensitive election related data to China, allegedly containing the personal identifying information of 1.8 million poll workers, locations of voting machines, building schematics etc. However, this is only one instance that we know of. Could there have been other such instances of similarly astonishing national security breaches? We now know that the Konnech employed coders in China were given “superadministration” access to the company’s election systems, which were used by “thousands of election offices across North America”. What other sensitive data might they have gained access to? Chinese government internet law would have made whatever data they may have accessed into the property of the Chinese Communist Party.

Why would such a company with ties to the CCP, be given defense contracts with the U.S. government? Were Konnech’s coders in China given “superadministration” access to that information as well? If so, wouldn’t that mean that, due to Chinese government’s internet law, the military data accessed by Konnech is now property of the Chinese Communist Party? Does Konnech currently provide their programming services of military mobilization orders for the U.S. Armed Forces? If so, do Chinese coders have “superadministration” access to this information as well? Due to the Chinese government’s internet laws, wouldn’t that top secret information also be in the possession of the Chinese Communist Party?

These are astonishing prospects to consider and the potential national security risks are sobering, to say the least.

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Jihad in America Masked as Transgender Rights

The communist and Islamic Movements inside the United States are preparing for significant violence in the immediate future. The groups and leaders involved are making preparations and calling for targeted violence against Christian Patriots while government officials give the green light for violent action.

Like the violence in Minnesota following the death of George Floyd in the spring of 2020, which was predicted and briefed, violence will again be launched in the immediate future by the primary enemies of liberty in the United States – the communist Movement, the Islamic Movement, their collaborators, and their Financiers.

The lead elements will likely be activated under the auspices of the transgender agenda, but will have the full force of the entire communist-jihadi cabal behind it.

This violence may begin as early as the Memorial Day weekend timeframe.

During the last wave of significant violence across the United States (spring 2020), the enemies’ ground soldiers focused on destroying property in numerous communities. When that violence kicked off, pallets of water, milk, and bricks were prepositioned in nearly 2 dozen cities within approximatley 72 hours.

My assessment is that during this next wave of violence, the enemies’ focus will be on targeted assassinations and larger scale killings. Our adversaries may also move to bring the entire Republic down if it feels it can achieve that goal and the right moment of opportunity presents itself.

Previously, they targeted property. Now they are targeting people.

Targets will likely include Christian Patriots, especially leaders of Patriot causes in communities.

Background

The communist and Islamic Movements operate primarily in the non-violent realm, but use violence to advance their strategic efforts.

To understand how these Movements operate, American citizens should see enemy actions through the lens of the Political Warfare model of warfighting. In doing so, one will be able to clearly see what the enemy is doing, and how to predict enemy future actions.

Their objective is simple – Control of the State and Power. All lines of efforts support this end.

It should be remembered these hostile Movements would not be able to achieve their objectives inside the United States without the direct support of republican leadership. The republicans are the non-barking dog, which is the most important part of a thief’s plan.

Purpose of This Report

The purpose of this report is to: (1) Give readers foundational information on the current situation; (2) Detail some of the key indicators of the impending attacks; (3) Teach citizens and law enforcement how to identify those who are and will be behind this violence; and (4) recommend a few courses of action.

Foundation for This Assessment

communist Movement The communist movement in the United States has been present and active since 1918, and now has thousands of organizations operating domestically, some of which communicate directly with hostile foreign communist powers such as China, Cuba, Venezuela, and others.
Islamic Movement The Islamic Movement in the United States has been present since the early 1960’s, and was primarily established by the Muslim Brotherhood. Per evidence in the largest terrorism trials in U.S. history, all of the prominent Islamic organizations in the United States today are a part of an identifiable hostile and coordinated effort whose objectives are the same as Al Qaeda, ISIS, Hizbollah, Hamas, and hundreds of other terrorist organizations – the establishment of an Islamic State under Islamic Law (sharia).
Both of these Movements have published doctrine, strategic plans, lines of operation to support the strategy, thousands of organizations across America, significant deception and counter-intelligence operations developed inside the United States, are well funded, and coordinate extremely well among their own entities and with each other.
Penetration of the U.S. System: Communists and jihadis served and continue to serve in senior positions of authority and influence inside the federal government, revealing either an inability to properly conduct vetting or a witting and criminal/treasonous intent. Examples include: Former FBI Director James Comey who self-identified as a communist; Current Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland who is a communist; Al Qaeda Financier Abdurahman Alamoudi who served as President Clinton’s advisor for 8 years; Mohmed Magid who was recently appointed by President Biden to serve as a Commissioner on the U.S. Commission for International Religious Freedom who is a senior Muslim Brotherhood/Jihadi leader.
Additionally: (1) 23 former U.S. Senators and Representatives currently work for a lobbying firm representing communist Chinese intelligence and military organizations; (2) Over 65 Members of the House of Representatives are communists or work closely with and support domestic and foreign communist organizations and leaders; and (3) The current FBI Director, Christopher Wray spoke at the recent World Economic Forum conference held in Davos, Switzerland.
The number of individuals illegally entering the United States has been higher than at any other time in U.S. history. The numbers of terrorists and other nefarious individuals is also extremely high, including individuals on the Terror Watch List. These people constitute a growing body able to support an enemy army inside U.S. borders.
Numerous reports and testimonies from the FBI, DEA, and other federal agencies and leaders reveal significant Al Qaeda, Islamic State, and Hizbollah cells inside the United States.
The primary means by which this enemy cabal – communist Movement, Islamic Movement, collaborators, and financiers – advances most rapidly and insinuates itself into local communities is through INTERFAITH OUTREACH efforts. The U.S. Interfaith Outreach programs are controlled by the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood – primarily ISNA, IIIT, and Hamas doing business as CAIR. Interfaith Outreach was initiated by the U.S. communist Movement front organization Industrial Areas Foundation, created by Saul Alinsky who authored Rules for Radicals.
The universal response when presented with factual information about these threats is: (1) Federal agents as well as state and local police state they were unaware of the significant communist and jihadi/Islamic networks across the United States and how these networks support violent operations; and (2) they believe understanding these networks and how they operate is “critical” to protecting local communities.
President Biden and U.S. Attorney General Garland have identified Constitutionally-minded Patriots as the greatest threat to the Republic. Specifically, Mr. Biden stated “White Supremacists” – whom he linked to the MAGA movement – are a “Lethal Threat” which allows him to bring the full authority of the federal government to bear on them. Mr. Biden then stated the “MAGA crowd” is the greatest political threat to America in its history. See the video here.
The FBI’s list of Intelligence Indicators for “Militant Violent Extremism” include quotes from Thomas Jefferson, quotes from the Bill of Rights, flying the Betsy Ross flag, flying the Gadsen Flag, flying the Gonzales Battle flag, and similar such actions. See video of Senator Ted Cruz questioning FBI Director Wray about these matters here.
The FBI Richmond Field Office targeted faithful Catholic Christians as a matter of investigative priority, and the FBI inserted Undercover agents/assets inside Catholic Churches where no reasonable suspicion or probable cause exists. The FBI did so based on their belief “white supremacy finds a home” where Catholics practice traditional Latin Mass.
DHS and FBI actively pursue Christian Patriots while significant identifiable networks of violent Chinese communists (eg BLM) and terrorists (MB Network, Hizbollah network, et al) remain intact.
Governors, State Attorneys General, mayors and others acting under their official capacities within the authority of the state, openly support leaders and organizations seeking to violently overthrow the United States, materially support terrorism, and replace the Constitutional Republic with totalitarian communist regime or a Caliphate under barbaric sharia. Example: Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is a jihadi who openly raises money for the designated Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) Hamas doing business as CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations). Ellison publicly promotes the communist and violent Antifa and their efforts on the ground, even in his home state.
Many national Christian and Patriot organizations have been penetrated by jihadis and communists and now act as controlled opposition.
Assessments are the United States has no functioning counter-intelligence (CI) capability, rendering it significantly exposed to the intense CI operations set against it by numerous hostile nations, and these active Movements.
Currently, there are no active national investigative efforts or otherwise to thwart the communist and Islamic Movements’ strategic and operational plans.
The adversaries know there is a growing understanding among the American Patriot community of who they are and what they are up to, so there is a level of “its now or never” mentality on their side, especially among the communists.

Key Attack Indicators

Many of the same indicator seen before the violence in Minnesota began – Spring 2020 – are being seen today in real time. The groups and leaders involved are making preparations and calling for violence while government leaders give them the green light for violent action.

Despite the fact many of the recent school shootings and mass killings have been done by left-wing/communist individuals, including those who identify as homosexual or transgender, the response by the government has been to target Christian Patriots who, according to the government, “may” respond to these acts by targeting trans-people despite the fact no evidence exists to support such a claim.
Some state authorities have put into policy and/or law the forcible sterilization and physical mutilation of minor children without consent of parents and in direct contradiction of the parents will. Parents who intercede to protect their children may be arrested by the government.
President Joe Biden declared March 31, 2023 “National Transgender Day.”
Trans groups called for “Trans Vengeance” to begin on April 1st, and are calling for the killing of Christians. (See Photos 1-3 below)
Communist groups across the U.S. stand in solidarity with the Trans movement, which are calling for violence, specifically the killing of Christians. (See Photos 4-5 below)
The Adalah Justice Project, a pro-jihadi group being significantly funded by the Tides Foundation, is promoting the Trans Justice Funding Project.
In key hubs for the communist-Islamic Movements, like Minneapolis, communist groups like the Socialist Rifle Association (MN SRA) advocate violence. (See photo 6)
Fortune 500 companies are supporting this Trans campaign in spite of the violence being advocated.
Traditional U.S. media actively supports these hostile operations and propels narratives to advance these efforts.
Preliminary operations in Tennessee and Chicago have begun with violence. These may be unrelated to coming violence, but assessments of the violence on the streets of Chicago and in the Tennessee legislature may be indicators the center of the coming violence may be Tennessee or Chicago.
Green-lighting Violence: Chicago’s Mayor-Elect Brandon Johnson condoned the recent violence in Chicago. In an interview, Johnson stated, “What I’m saying is you can’t condone the looting that corporations continue to do every single day when they take tax dollars from Black, Brown, White folks all over the city of Chicago so that they can turn a profit.” Illinois State Senator Robert Peters called the riots “A mass protest against poverty and segregation.” Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot stated, “The vast majority of young people came downtown because it was great weather and an opportunity to enjoy the city…there are few that came with different intentions and they have it out and they will be dealt with, but I’m not going to use your language, which I think is wrong, to say it was mayhem.” This language is very similar to the language spoken which green-lighted violence in 2020.
Green-lighting Violence: Minnesota’s Lieutenant Governor publicly signaled permission from the authority of her office to the communist/trans Movement to kill when she wore a shirt which read “Protect Trans Kids” with a huge knife across the chest, and then put that photo out on social media. (See photo 7)
Green-lighting Violence: On April 14, 2023, Vice President Kamala Harris spoke at the NAN (National Action Network) conference. In her speech, Harris belittled and attacked police, identified citizens who support Constitutional liberties as “extremists,” supported the recent violence in the Tennessee Capital building, and incorrectly identified the American form of government as a “democracy.” In other words, “If you commit violence, we are with you.”
The Islamic Movement is intensifying its Interfaith operations in order to subdue as much of the Christian population, and is having significant success. They have one of their senior operatives, Mohamed Magid at a senior position inside the Commission for International Religious Freedom, and many other Hamas terrorists in suits sit in positions of influence in the White House, Congress, and other key components of the government.
The U.S. Islamic Movement, led primarily by the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood, has been physically fortifying mosques and the buildings of major Islamic organization with the direct help of DHS, FEMA, U.S. tax payer dollars, and the significant amount of money muslims are raising organically to reinforce ground floor walls, put in protective windows, and the like.
Mosques and other Islamic organizations are also arming their people, conducting firearms training, and posting heavily armed jihadis inside mosques on a regular basis. In some cases, local police are assisting them with security operations.

Jihadi Organizations

The most active jihadi organizations in U.S. communities include: Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and its subsidiaries – e.g. “Islamic Society of ….”; North American Islamic Trust (NAIT) which acts as the “bank” for the Muslim Brotherhood and owns many properties across the United States; Muslim Students Association (MSA) which is a hub for jihadi recruitment and propaganda has chapters on nearly every major college and university campus in the United States, as well as some chapters in high schools and junior high schools; Muslim American Society (MAS), Hamas doing business as the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR); Islamic Associations, e.g. Islamic Association of Raleigh (NC); Islamic relief organizations such as Islamic Relief USA, ICNA Relief, Helping Hand, and others; Mosques/Masjids/Islamic Centers affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, Hizbollah/Iran, or the Dar ul Uloom Movement; Islamic trade organizations including Muslim Brotherhood orgs such as Islamic Medical Association of North America, Association of Muslim Scientists and Engineers, Association of Muslim Social Scientists; and others.

Begin by mapping out local jihadi organizations using www.guidestar.org, which is a non-profit organization which collects IRS forms 990 and catalogues them on their site. Use search terms such as “Islam, Islamic, Muslim, Mosque, Masjid, Islamic Center, Sharia, Jihad, Mohammad (various spellings), and other similar terms. You can search Guidestar by state and city.
Next, use Salatomatic.com and put the name of your city or the closest city in the search bar. Extend the search out to at least 20 miles. Results will be both listed and mapped out.
Review websites of the abovementioned hostile organizations above to see if they have offices in your area. Use a search engine and search the name of the organization and your town to see if they are doing business in your area.
Map out MSA’s on local colleges, universities, and high schools in your area.
Check online county property records for any property owned by NAIT (North American Islamic Trust). I recommend using “North American” as the search term.
Research Interfaith Outreach efforts in your community and identify the organizations and individuals leading them, and those supporting them.
Research any activity by the Sunrise Movement in your area.
Research jihadi attacks or reported attacks which were thwarted in your area.
Investigate BLM, Antifa, and DSA chapters in your area. Find the name of the local leaders. In some cases, jihadis will be chapter leaders for these communist groups. That is important information to know.

Communist Organizations

The difference between the Islamic jihadi organizations and the communist organizations is the Islamic organizations want to be found. Some of the communist organizations are not as well catalogued, and this is why knowing the names of the key communist organizations is critical.

John Guandolo, UTT 4/26/2023

Recommendations:

Review the list of non-Islamic organizations working in the Interfaith Outreach movement in your area and you will find communists.
Review the list of non-Islamic organizations working with the Sunrise Movement in your area.
Research chapters for Communist Party USA (CPUSA), Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), BLM, Antifa, The Green Party, ActBlue, La Raza, Liberation Front, RevCom (Revolutionary Communist Party), and any groups which oppose enforcing immigration laws, all of which are likely communist or tied to the U.S. communist Movement.
Research labor unions in your area and their support for anti-liberty and anti-American efforts in your area.
Research organizations funded by George Soros which may be operating in your area. A partial but extensive list of organizations can be found here.

Once this research is complete, get together with like-minded Patriots, local officials willing to help, and others wanting to defend your community, and come up with a plan to address as much of the dangers as quickly as they can be handled. Begin with elements of the communist Movement and go for low hanging fruit first. The purpose is to disrupt what the adversaries are doing on the way to flushing them out of the commiunity.

Recommended Courses of Action:

Patriots should identify hostile organizations in their community and use all Constitutional means to flush them out, and/or render them ineffective. [Note: You are limited only by your training, experience, and creativity here]
Communities should form security plans for neighborhoods, schools, and critical infrastructure, such as power and water treatment plants and the like, and prepare for the long term loss of access to power, water, food, and fuel.
It is recommended citizens utilize the recommendations found in Insurrection & Violence: A Citizen’s Guide as a primary resource for preparations. Click here for an electronic copy at the Unconstrained Analytics website.
Patriot leaders should consider increased individual security measures for themselves and their families.
Individuals should prepare themselves physically, mentally, and spiritually for the potential rough waters ahead. Attitude is everything and real faith gives great hope, joy, and strength.

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