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t risk, and several CIA officials are now on leave as the probe widens. The scheme worked because of the system, not in spite of it. The secrecy walls built to hide operations from China and Russia hid the fraud from the CIA itself. A man with a fake résumé ran a fake doomsday program inside the most paranoid institution in America, and for years nobody noticed... Source: Washington Post t.me/RussianBaZa ✍🏼 CITIZEN JOURNALISM From @RussianBaZa Forwarded via Marduk by @RealDeVilla22 @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

BREAKING: The CIA officer caught with $40 million in gold bars allegedly invented an entire fake top-secret spy program to steal the money. As if this story couldn't get and wilder: - David Rush allegedly built a sham "special access program," the blackest box in U.S. intelligence, so secret even top-clearance officials couldn't look inside without authorization. - The fake program posed as "continuity of government" work, the doomsday planning that keeps Washington running after a nuclear war. - He allegedly read in two colleagues as unwitting accomplices and used a made-up government contract to funnel millions, persuading a defense contractor to buy huge amounts of gold. - The FBI raid on his home seized 303 gold bars worth roughly $40 million, $2 million in cash, and 35 luxury watches. - Investigators say he lied about his college degrees, faked being a Navy pilot, and still sailed through the CIA's notoriously brutal vetting. - A judge ordered him held as a fligh

North Korean state media published a new report on Kim Jong Un inspecting a local defense plant and its fulfillment of ballistic missile production plans for the first half of 2026. The current scale of Hwasong-11 ballistic missile production is huge. ️ @Alsaa_plus_EN ✍🏼 CITIZEN JOURNALISM From @Alsaa_plus_EN Forwarded via Marduk by @RealDeVilla22 @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

️ — Cuba's government have begun distributing weapons to civilian volunteers and urging the public to prepare for a potential imminent foreign invasion, according to Versión Final. ✍🏼 CITIZEN JOURNALISM From @tabzlive Forwarded via Marduk by @RealDeVilla22 @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

BREAKING! Multiple people shot near a street festival in Toledo, Ohio, on Saturday evening. Police found several victims at the scene — all taken to hospital. The suspect remains at large. @DDGeopolitics | Socials | Donate | Advertising ✍🏼 CITIZEN JOURNALISM From @americafirst_1st Forwarded via Marduk by @RealDeVilla22 @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

/ Iran’s crude oil exports hit their lowest level since 2020. @AlHaqNews ✍🏼 CITIZEN JOURNALISM From @AlHaqNews Forwarded via Marduk by @RealDeVilla22 @TheBabylonTimes

— / NEW: The total number of Israeli soldiers killed in Lebanon since the ceasefire is now 18 @Middle_East_Spectator ✍🏼 CITIZEN JOURNALISM From @Middle_East_Spectator Forwarded via Marduk by @RealDeVilla22 @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

BREAKING: Top U.S. officials have to use burner phones as the Pentagon classifies Israeli spies in the White House as a hostile foreign power. @GeneralMCNews ✍🏼 CITIZEN JOURNALISM From @americafirst_1st Forwarded via Marduk by @RealDeVilla22 @TheBabylonTimes

Hebrew sources: A captain from the elite Egoz unit in the occupation army was killed, succumbing to wounds he sustained from Hezbollah fire in southern Lebanon last Thursday. ✍🏼 CITIZEN JOURNALISM From @me_observer_TG Forwarded via Marduk by @RealDeVilla22 @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

Urgent| The killing of a second occupation soldier in clashes with Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon ✍🏼 CITIZEN JOURNALISM From @me_observer_TG Forwarded via Marduk by @RealDeVilla22 @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

- The Israeli Defence Force's statement on the strike that hit a Lebanese Army Vehicle. They claim the vehicle was misidentified as a Hezbollah vehicle as it was in a combat zone: "- Earlier today (Saturday), the Israel Defense Forces identified a vehicle moving suspiciously toward the troops near the village of Tebnine in southern Lebanon. - The vehicle was traveling in an active combat zone that had been evacuated, and an alert was received regarding gunfire directed at Israel Defense Forces troops in the area. Available information with the Israel Defense Forces also indicates that Hezbollah is operating extensively in this area. - Following the identification of the vehicle, and based on the warning information and the danger it posed to the troops, it was targeted, with initial examination results revealing that two officers and a soldier from the Lebanese Army were inside the vehicle. The incident remains under investigation. - It is noted that movement in a combat zone requires coordination with the Israel Defense Forces. - The Israel Defense Forces is investigating the incident and will draw the necessary lessons according to the results. We emphasize that Israel Defense Forces troops operate against the terrorist Hezbollah and not against the Lebanese Army." - Israeli Defence Force. ✍🏼 CITIZEN JOURNALISM From @rnintel Forwarded via Marduk by @RealDeVilla22 @TheBabylonTimes

️- "Joseph Aoun, strongly condemned the Israeli attack that targeted a patrol of the Lebanese Army on the Khardali-Nabatieh road this morning, which resulted in the martyrdom of two officers and a soldier who joined the caravan of those who preceded them among the military and civilian martyrs, children, women, ambulance and rescue personnel, and media workers, watering the dear land of the South with their pure blood. President Aoun considered this attack to constitute a flagrant violation of Lebanese sovereignty and of international laws and norms, coming in the context of ongoing escalation that threatens stability and security in the South despite the efforts Lebanon is exerting in the Washington negotiations to put an end to the ongoing Israeli attacks without deterrent. President Aoun called on the international community to assume its responsibilities and put an end to these repeated attacks, and to ensure respect for the relevant international resolutions, in a manner that preserves Lebanon's security and stability." - Joseph Aoun, Lebanese President. ✍🏼 CITIZEN JOURNALISM From @rnintel Forwarded via Marduk by @RealDeVilla22 @TheBabylonTimes

UPDATE | The victims of the Israeli strike on a military vehicle traveling along the Khardali–Nabatieh road in southern Lebanon have been identified as Brigadier General Wissam Sabra, Captain Elie Khoury, and Conscript Hussein Ghazzal. ✍🏼 CITIZEN JOURNALISM From @thecradlemedia Forwarded via Marduk by @RealDeVilla22 @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

️ — NEW: The Pentagon has raised Israel’s counterintelligence threat rating to its highest level amid concerns that Israeli intelligence is intensifying efforts to gather information on the Trump administration’s internal discussions and decision-making regarding conflicts in the Middle East, NBC News reports. ️ A recent Defense Intelligence Agency assessment rated Israel’s human espionage and technical intelligence-gathering capabilities as being at a “critical level” and cited several incidents that heightened concern. ️ While intelligence sharing between the two countries remains unaffected, officials said U.S. personnel are expected to take additional precautions when traveling to Israel or meeting Israeli counterparts. ✍🏼 CITIZEN JOURNALISM From @tabzlive Forwarded via Marduk by @RealDeVilla22 @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

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The US Central Command publishes footage of strikes targeting Iranian coastal surveillance radar sites in Joruk and Qeshm Island. @WarSaWitness ✍🏼 CITIZEN JOURNALISM From @WarSaWitness Forwarded via Marduk by @RealDeVilla22 @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

Smoke is currently rising from the impact of an Iranian projectile at the headquarters of the US Navy's Fifth Fleet in Manama, Bahrain. ✍🏼 CITIZEN JOURNALISM From @me_observer_TG Forwarded via Marduk by @RealDeVilla22 @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

— Iranian Haydari missiles in the skies of normalized Bahrain. @TPOnow ✍🏼 CITIZEN JOURNALISM From @TPOnow Forwarded via Marduk by @RealDeVilla22 @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

️ — NEW: U.S. Central Command: Moments ago, CENTCOM forces shot down four Iranian one-way attack drones that were launched toward the Strait of Hormuz. The attack drones posed an immediate threat to regional maritime traffic. U.S. forces subsequently struck Iranian coastal surveillance radar sites in Goruk and on Qeshm Island to defend against further attacks. ✍🏼 CITIZEN JOURNALISM From @tabzlive Forwarded via Marduk by @RealDeVilla22 @TheBabylonTimes | Forum