NEW: "I'm directing Sec of State Mike Pompeo to notify the @UN Security Council that the #UnitedStates intends to restore virtually all of previously suspended United Nations sanction on #Iran" per @POTUS "It's a snapback. Not uncommon"
"If and when I win the election, within the 1st month, #Iran will come to us and they are going to be asking for a deal so quickly cause they are doing very poorly" predicts @POTUS
Calls #JCPOA "a short-term" deal where US got "nothing"
"Mark it down" says @POTUS "#Iran will never have a nuclear weapon"
"When the #UnitedStates entered into the #IranDeal it was clear that the United States would also have the right to restore the UN sanctions that would prevent #Iran from developing a nuclear weapon" per @POTUS
"Here at home through Operation Legend we are confronting the wave of crime in Democrat-run American cities that's absolutely shocking" says @POTUS "They're a mess because they don't get it"
#QAnon-"I don't know much about the movement other than I understand they like me very much, which I appreciate" per @POTUS
"I have heard that it is gaining in popularity...I've heard that these are people who just love our country" &don't like seeing protests like in #Portland
"I haven't heard that" says @POTUS when told by reporter that some #QAnon supporters see him as secretly saving the world from a Satanic cult of pedophiles & cannibals
"Is that supposed to be a good thing or a bad thing?"
"If I can help save the world from problems I'm willing to do it" adds @POTUS "And we are, actually. We're saving th world from a radical left philosophy that will destroy this country and when this country is gone, the rest of the world would follow"
Some background on the @FBI's views regarding #QAnon
"We're largely out of #Iraq. We're down to a very few soldiers" per @POTUS asked about mtg w/#Iraq PM Thursday "We're getting out of these endless wars, these ridiculous endless wars"
"It's very sticky getting out" he adds
"A lot of times, we makes deals, they don't have ten cents, these countries" per @POTUS about deal with #UAE for #F35s
"They have the money" he says, praising the fighter jets as "totally stealth - can't see it"
Also, research by @AmarAmarasingam & @_MAArgentino published by @CTCWP: "QAnon is arguably no longer simply a fringe conspiracy theory but an ideology that has demonstrated its capacity to radicalize to violence individuals at an alarming speed" ctc.usma.edu/the-qanon-cons…
Some have noted a similarity between some of what President Trump said- "...when this country is gone, the rest of the world would follow..." -and a #QAnon post from 2018: "If America falls, the world falls"
"Some Q drops are fairly generic in their language and, because there are so many of them, could sound like some things that Trump says" @AmarAmarasingam tells me "But that’s not important"
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"What’s important is that Trump is not openly & clearly disavowing what should be a fairly easy belief system & community to disavow" @AmarAmarasingam adds "And this bizarre reluctance is only feeding the confidence of this community that they are on to something"
ISIS-Somalia has dug in - operating out of Buur Dhexaad, described by the UN sanctions monitoring team as "a strategic base secured by natural caves and defensive structures safe from aerial and ground offensives"
ISIS-Somalia leader Abdul Qadir Mumin has also sought to limit unnecessary exposure while focusing on boosting the affiliate's finances thru increased extortion campaigns, per the UN report
Some of that money has been poured into advanced weaponry and drones
ISIS-Somalia has "employed unmanned aerial vehicles for reconnaissance and limited explosive deployment" per the UN. with an aim at "building suicide unmanned aerial vehicles"
NEW: "Growing confidence" that the global leader of ISIS is Abdul Qadir Mumin, also the head of ISIS-Somalia, per new UN sanctions monitoring team report
"But doubts continued to be expressed by other Member States"
If Somalia's Mumin is ISIS leader Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, "it may signify a deliberate pivot towards a more decentralized operational structure, further from the core conflict zone" per the UN report
Of the 9 regional offices set up by ISIS, only 2 remain active in Africa:
- the al-Karrar office in Somalia, which serves as a key financial hub
- the al-Furqan office in Nigeria
HAPPENING NOW: Senate Intelligence Committee confirmation hearing for Tulsi Gabbard to serve as US Director of National Intelligence
"It’s fair to say Ms. Gabbard’s nomination has generated a bit more interest and attention than do most nominees before this committee" per Senate Committee Chairman, Tom Cotton
"But I want to stress that Ms. Gabbard has been and will be treated with the exact same respect, consideration, and professionalism that we have extended to every other nominee" per Cotton
NEW: US intelligence agencies pushing back vs claims health ailments linked to Havana Syndrome were caused by a foreign adversary
"The intelligence does not link a foreign actor to these events. Indeed, it points away from their involvement" per a US intelligence official
"5 elements of the intelligence community continue to assess that it's very unlikely of foreign actors responsible" per the US intelligence official
BUT 2 intelligence agencies have reevaluated - "shift from unlikely w/low confidence to roughly even chance with low confidence"
The US intelligence official, briefing reporters on the condition of anonymity, describe the shift in view about the possible involvement of foreign adversaries as "subtle" - "They have a low confidence in their judgments"
NEW: Islamic State-Somalia getting boost from an "influx of foreign fighters"
A just-issued UN sanctions monitoring team report warns the foreign fighters "have expanded and enhanced the group’s capabilities against al-Shabaab"
Influx of foreign fighters to IS-Somalia " has coincided with the re-emergence of the Al-Karrar office as a
key administrative and financial hub for [ISIS] globally" per the UN report
IS-Somalia being led by "a cadre of former al-Shabaab
militants based in the Bari region of Puntland" per UN report
Abdirahman Fahiye Isse Mohamud is the emir of IS-Somalia, per report, "responsible for [ISIS] operations in Somalia"
NEW: Senate Democrats ask @DeptofDefense @TheJusticeDept to look at Elon Musk's reported contact w/Russian officials - "determine whether this behavior should force a review of Mr. Musk’s
continued involvement in SpaceX’s varying contracts" w/the US government
"Communications between Russian government officials and any individual with a security
clearance have the potential to put our security at risk" per @SenatorShaheen @SenJackReed
"We urge you to take appropriate action immediately"
Musk's alleged contacts with Russian officials was first reported by @WSJ, which cited current and former U.S., European and Russian officials