No Plan B for Iran Talks | Israel’s “Cyber-Dome” | Wagner Group as a Foreign Terrorist Organization, and more

The memo, circulated to Meta moderators on June 25, describes Jane’s Revenge as “a far-left extremist group that has claimed responsibility on its website for an attack against an anti-abortion group’s office in Madison, Wisconsin in May 2022. The group is responsible for multiple arson and vandalism attacks on pro-life institutions.

US Solider Pleads Guilty to Plotting Rampage with Neo-Nazi Occultists  (Josh Russell, Courthouse News Service)
The Counter Extremism Project says the Order of Nine Angles is full of neo-Nazi-Satanists whose nihilistic ideology “supports violent jihadist terrorism, in line with its accelerationist philosophy to support the destruction of the current world order.” Facing possible life imprisonment on eight counts., the 24-year-old Army private from Louisville, Kentucky, was set to go to a jury trial after the Fourth of July holiday weekend. Melzer had pleaded not guilty in 2020 but changed his tune Friday afternoon, offering guilty pleas on three counts in connection with leaking his Army unit’s overseas location to an occultist fascist group that has deep ties to neo-Nazism, with the intention to facilitate a “mass-casualty” attack against his comrades.

Al Qaeda Leader Reappears to Revive Islamist Jihadi Ideology  (Romany Shaker, National Interest)
Despite the emergence of the November 2020 rumors about Ayman al-Zawahiri’s death, the elderly Egyptian leader of Al Qaeda (Qa’idat al-Jihad in Arabic) has recently reappeared in several videos released by Al Qaeda’s official media arm, As-Sahab Media, after having tactfully remained out of sight for an extended period of time. Before these videos had emerged, there was predictive conjecture naming Sayf Al-’Adl, a senior Al Qaeda official believed to have been imprisoned or under house arrest in Iran, as al-Zawahiri’s “soon-to-be” successor. The head leader’s reappearance not only provides recent proof of life but more significantly, also indicates his intent to revive the group’s Islamist jihadi ideology and promote anti-Western propaganda. His reappearance also underscores how the Al Qaeda leader capitalizes on the new freedom granted to him by his long-time allies, the Afghan Taliban, to resurface and provide critical ideological guidance to jihadis around the world from South Asia to North Africa. Throughout 2019 and 2020, the top ideologue and operations chief of Al Qaeda tactfully refrained from appearing to comment on trending global issues, causing many to conclude he had died and talk about Al Qaeda after al-Zawahiri. The timing of al-Zawahiri’s repeated reappearance is extremely significant and alarming; as it follows the botched August 30, 2021, U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan which handed the country over to Al Qaeda’s allies: the Afghan Taliban.

Chad Wolf, the Illegal Secretary  (Sarah Jeong, The Verge)
Kristjen Nielsen’s tenure as the head of the Department of Homeland Security was perhaps best known for the family separation policy at the border. The recordings of crying toddlers, the children wrapped in silver foil blankets, the detention conditions likened to “cages” — this was her legacy. Nielsen was reviled by almost everyone from the center and leftwards. Ironically, President Trump himself disliked her, in part for not being tough enough on immigration, and would eventually force her out. 
Nielsen would be the last legal secretary of homeland security in the Trump administration. What would follow would be a chaotic parade involving governance by tweet, a thicket of laws and regulations, incorrectly amended paperwork, and a strangely hilarious internal legal memo referencing a @DHSgov tweet as though it held some kind of binding authority. Seven months later, Nielsen’s eventual successor, Chad Wolf, would take her place. 

Israel Plans “Cyber-Dome” to Defeat Digital Attacks from Iran and Others  (Simon Sharwood, The Register)
Already has ‘Iron Dome’ – does it need another hero?

Three Arrests after Police Action Against Religious Extremist Propaganda in Germany  (Interpol)
The three individuals are suspected members of the so-called ‘Caliphate State’, a banned radical Islamist organization.

It’s Time to Designate Wagner Group as a Foreign Terrorist Organization  (James Petrila and Phil Wasielewski, Lawfare)
The United States needs to designate the Russian private military company as a Foreign Terrorist Organization to limit its violent activities not only in Ukraine, but also throughout Africa and the Middle East.

In Iran Nuclear Talks, the US Has No Good Plan ‘B’  (Daniel Depetris, Defense One)
Sanctions haven’t worked. Tehran is drawing closer to a Bomb. It’s time to get serious about negotiating.